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This is a fun story out of my "Ozark Animal Oddities" File.
The hunting party composed of C. W. Mullan, O. C. Miller, M. J. O'Keefe and Ira Rodamar, with their dogs and traps are home from Missouri where they chased the wild turkey and deer for a couple of weeks in the Ozarks. With them they brought six fine turkeys and quail innumerable.
They are full of interesting, refreshing hunting tales of sporting life in the mountains and are entertaining their friends today. Although they enjoyed a deer drive, they did not succeed in locating any of the animals, and if their experience had been like that of two sportsmen who followed the same trail the next day, it is well that they didn't. Two men standing on either side of a deer which they discovered fired with the result that one was killed instantly.
Mr. O'Keefe never returns from a hunting trip without a memento of some kind. This time it is a real live 'possum which he chased up a persimmon tree and brought back to show his friends. The night of their arrival home the sportsmen were roused from their slumbers on a Great Western train and were hurriedly summoned to the baggage car where they found the baggage man perched upon a trunk with the 'possum eying him ferociously and at the same time watching the excited dogs which were prowling about the car. After the animal was again caged, and the canines subdued, the cause of the trouble was sought but. The 'possum had clawed off one of the slats of his cage and escaped into the car. One of the dogs woke up and made a lunge for it but the briefness of the chain which held him caused him to swing about and land squarely on the person of the baggage man who was drowsily waiting for the next stop. The man opened his eyes and beheld such a spectacle as would cause anyone to seek a place of safety, which he did and summoned help.
Another interesting thing in connection with the trip is the weaving off of the ends of the dogs' tails.
This was the result of switching them too industriously among the briary underbrush o£ the Ozarks. The dogs down there don't do that way, but these didn't know any better.
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"'Possum Treed Him." Waterloo Daily Courier 8.2490 (25 Nov., 1899) 8. Access Newspaper Archive. Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, AR. 4 May 2010 http://access.newspaperarchive.com.
"'Possum Treed Him." Waterloo Semi Weekly Courier 42.22 (29 Nov., 1898) 6. Access Newspaper Archive. Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, AR. 4 May 2010 http://access.newspaperarchive.com.

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(BRC Investment Management's braintrust: From left to right, Mark
Jaeger, John Riddle and Sharon Ward.)
2012 U.S. Large-Cap Equity SMA Manager of the Year:
BRC Investment Management
Large-Cap Concentrated Equity Portfolio
This is an expanded profile of one of Investment Advisor-Prima Capital's 8th annual Separately Managed Account Managers of the Year. View the complete article with all the winners here.
Read about the process of choosing this year's winners here.
Sure, behavioral economics is a fascinating subject in the abstract; something routinely discussed at conferences and featured in magazine articles. It's even broken through in pop culture as the underlying concept driving Billy Beane, Brad Pitt's character in "Moneyball." But how many advisory and money management firms actually employ Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's prospect theory, mental accounting and the other tenets on a sustainable and repeatable basis in the models they've developed?
Denver-based BRC Investment Management does, and it's a major reason they've taken the U.S. Large-Cap Equity award from Prima for 2012. It's even in their name; BRC stands for Bounded Rationality Concepts, which the firm defines as "a modification of the theory of rational choice that takes into account the cognitive limitations of the decision maker—limitations of both knowledge and computational capacity." In plainer English, it's the reason we're too often our own worst enemy, especially when it comes to investing.
"Our strategy is to monetize irrational behavior," says John Riddle, BRC's managing principal and chief investment officer. "In that respect, Kahneman and prospect theory are very important to us."
So how do they do it?
"We can't produce economic forecasts better than the average of the experts, so we play in a different sandbox," Riddle explains. "We instead concentrate on what we think changes the expectations of investors and institutions by focusing on the behavior of security analysts."
Security analysts are tasked with essentially predicting the unknowable, often far in advance, he says. By the very fact that they are human, they tend to rely on things that make them feel good and validate the calls they've made, which often results in a herd mentality when raising and lowering earnings outlooks. This, according to Riddle, is much easier for his firm to anticipate and capitalize on then the vagaries of the global economy.
"We've developed proprietary models of behavior that include raw data that is publically available," he adds. "Everything we do is in-house; we don't use any outside research services. We rank the beta each night and plug the information into our models."
Riddle, along with Sharon Ward, Mark Jaeger and David DuRie, were "lifted out" of financial services and investment banking firm Duff & Phelps in 2005. BRC typically includes 30 to 35 stocks in the portfolio, "because our clients don't need us to diversify away business risk, they need us to find alpha at understandable and sustainable levels of risk."
The firm looks at the tail of a particular industry universe. It then takes a group of stocks in that tail and turns it over to Ward, Eric Butler and Susan Zeeb on its fundamental team. Using the skills of that fundamental team, it can identify what companies in that tail will behave most consistently with its proprietary models. And there is a valuation play; all else being equal, Riddle says the firm would rather buy companies that are cheap as opposed to expensive.
"We don't make big sector bets," he concludes. "Our success comes from the stock selection effect. We want to take a concentrated risk on things we understand, which is analyst behavior."
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Investors get greedy ... too greedy?September 14, 2012: 12:49 PM ET
Is the Fed really that powerful? One look at CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index says yes.
Early Friday, the index surged to 94! That's a record high for the index, with data available since 2004.
The index has been in 'extreme greed 'territory for the past week, as investors have been betting that central bankers around the world would do something to inject life into the sluggish global economy. And boy have investors been rewarded.
Related: What is the Fear & Greed index?
Last week, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said the central bank was prepared to buy bonds in the secondary market to help preserve the euro and stave off a deepening crisis in Spain and Italy. The result? Borrowing costs in both of those sovereign nations pulled back sharply, with 10-year yields falling to their lowest levels in months.
If that wasn't enough to whet investors' appetites, Thursday's announcement by the Federal Reserve that it planned to buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities (indefinitely) to boost the U.S. economy sent investors on a stock buying binge.
Related: What exactly is the Fed buying?
While investors are cheering the moves, what's the economy showing? The latest inflation numbers rose sharply in August, with gasoline prices showing the biggest jump. While most aren't worried about rampant inflation, it could start to make consumers nervous. The Michigan sentiment index rose to 79.2 in early September -- much stronger than expected. That would suggest consumers (and investors) are willing to step out of the shadows. Or does it?
Consumer confidence tumbled in August, largely over worries about the job market. And those worries have merit. The August jobs report was dismal, showing a sharp slowdown in hiring, while the unemployment rate ticked higher.
So while the euphoria is all fine and good for now, we may actually be setting ourselves up for a hard fall. Consumer sentiment is sitting right around where it was before the last recession started in late 2007. And the Dow Jones industrial average is just 4% shy of its October 2007 high. So investors may want to proceed with caution.
Related: Bill Gross: Get used to stunted returns
When CNNMoney launched the Fear & Greed Index in May, stocks were coming off one of their best quarters in years.
We targeted 7 key market indicators, including volatility, junk bond demand and the number of stocks hitting highs and lows. Six out of the seven indicators are firmly in 'extreme greed', with the exception of market volatility, which tracks the market's other fear gauge, the VIX (VIX), and its 50-day moving average. We combined the 7 indicators into one index that tracks just how much risk investors are willing to stomach, on a scale of 0-100.
With little room left for the Fear & Greed Index to rise, greed could soon give way to fear if the economy doesn't show more signs of life. After all, the Fear & Greed Index was in the single digits as recently as June on worries about the Europe debt crisis. If recent market history has shown us anything, it's that it doesn't take much to spook investors.


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Charles Tillman best-kept secret on loaded Bears' defense
LAKE FOREST, Ill.—When Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings learned late last season that the Pro Bowl in which teammate Charles Tillman made was his first, he had to do a double take.
"You've got guys out there doing about what he's doing and they just get a little more recognition for some reason," Jennings said. "Everyone around here knows Charles Tillman and knows he should have gotten a lot more recognition a long time ago."
Because Tillman makes more impact plays per game than almost any other cornerback in the league without receiving corresponding recognition, it's very easy to make the case that he's the league's most underrated player.
If true, part of the fault goes to Tillman himself. Rather than trumpet his own accomplishments, Tillman defers to teammates or the Bears defensive scheme. He often avoids the media entirely.
Told he had become the Bears all-time defensive touchdown leader (eight) with interception returns for TDs in back-to-back games, Tillman seemed uncomfortable with the attention.
"I wish they wouldn't tell me about stats and stuff like that," he said. "Tell me that when I'm older, on the day I retire, about all the (records) I break. It's cool. It's an honor.
"The Bears go back 200 years, they're so old. With all the players who've come here and what they've done and to be that guy, it's an honor."
Tillman has moved up to a tie for third in team history with 32 interceptions, just six behind Gary Fencik's team record of 38. The ability that has defined his career, though, is a knack for causing fumbles.
"He does it all the time," linebacker Brian Urlacher said. "He doesn't even hit the ball hard. It's like he barely hits it and the ball comes out. He gets the right spot on the ball every time and it pops out."
Since Tillman came into the league in 2003, he leads all defensive backs in forced fumbles with 30. Since the league started keeping forced fumble statistics in 1991, only Tillman (32 INTs, 30 forced fumbles) and Philadelphia's Brian Dawkins (37-36) have made the 30-30 club—30 interceptions and 30 forced fumbles.
"I don't know if there has been anybody ever in this game as good as this guy at how he takes the ball away and his ball skills," defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli said.
It's been suggested in the past that Tillman might have some sort of martial arts training because he has such an ability to find the perfect pressure spots when he applies a punch to the football. That's not the case, though.
"The strip is something that just came natural," Tillman said.
The ability might be natural, but the idea came from his college days at Louisiana-Lafayette when coaches challenged defensive players for failing to knock a ball out during a game against a Wofford offense that seemed to be inviting forced fumbles. Tillman saw their point and began trying it all the time. However, his success sky-rocketed on a grand scale in the NFL.
"Rod Marinelli always says: 'You can't steal second with your foot on first,' " Tillman said. "So one of the things we always try to do in practice and everything ... if anyone has the ball, you try to punch it out."
The Bears have been hoping he can teach this to younger players. He hasn't been as successful at this as at doing it himself.
"No one does it like he does," coach Lovie Smith said.
When it comes to recognizing Tillman's skills with Pro Bowl votes, NFC players might be stingy. Yet their actions reveal something else about their respect for the 10-year veteran.
Green Bay Packers receivers say they usually get some sort of warning from coaches about watching for Tillman's tactics during the week prior to games with the Bears. Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch has made a special effort to retain the ball when Tillman is around, once yelling in Tillman's direction, "I saw you coming a mile away."
As for Tillman's coverage skills, the respect from opponents can be seen in their actions. Jennings is having easily his best year in the NFL so far and it may have a lot to do with Tillman.
Jennings earned NFC Defensive Player of the Month honors after a September when he made four interceptions. He deflected 14 passes through five games and two of those went for interceptions to safety Major Wright. According to statistics compiled by Pro Football Focus, opponents had thrown at Jennings an NFL-high 46 times. With Tillman on the other side, it's easy to see why they'd throw elsewhere.
Another indicator of Tillman's value to the Bears is how they use him against top receivers. Smith clings to his cover-2 scheme like a family heirloom, and likes keeping his cornerbacks on the same side of the field. When the Bears play Detroit on Monday night, Tillman likely will draw wide receiver Calvin Johnson regardless of where Megatron lines up.
At 6-foot-2, Tillman has enjoyed success against Johnson, who's 6-5. Johnson's two 100-yard receiving games against the Bears came in Lions losses. When the Bears blew out Detroit 37-13 at Solider Field last year, Johnson had seven catches. But Matthew Stafford had to target him 19 times to do it. The previous year at Soldier Field, Tillman made an interception and pass deflection while helping hold Johnson to four catches (10 targeted).
Tillman likes to be physical with Johnson and is one of the few cornerbacks who can.
"We like to put 'Peanut' up against the bigger, stronger guys to make it tough on them," Jennings said.
At various times in the past Bears players have hinted that Tillman's lack of notoriety comes from the fact the Bears play so much zone coverage. Players seem to vote for cornerbacks who play mostly man-to-man coverage, the thinking goes.
Yet Tampa Bay's Ronde Barber has made five Pro Bowls while earning All-Pro status three times playing the Tampa-2. The numbers all say Tillman is underrated. Even so, the Bears don't seem too worried about it.
"He went to to the Pro Bowl last year," Smith said. "We don't try to go back in the past too much, just talking about the future. He's being recognized for his play right now, which he should. We're OK with that."
Certainly, Tillman hasn't made an issue of it. In training camp he said he had always figured it would eventually happen.
"I don't think it was a huge thing to him because he knows he's playing good football," Jennings said. "He knows it's all just a popularity contest, anyway."
Still, wouldn't a little more recognition be desirable? After all his name might wind up in the record books.
"If I start thinking about the legacy I'm going to leave behind in this game, it's probably time for me to retire," Tillman said. "For now I'm having fun playing football, I'm having a ball with the team I'm on.
"The guys I play with, we make up an elite defense."


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Recipe from Tracy Knight of Winnsboro, TX
Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 45 min
1 head cauliflower(2lbs), trimmed and separated into 1-in. florets
1 med. onion , coarsley chopped
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed with press
Fresh chives for garnish
1. Rre-heat oven to 450 degrees. In large bowl, toss cauliflower florets, chopped onion, olive oil, and crushed garlic until evenly mixed. Spread cauliflower in 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan or large cookie pan.
2. Roast cauliflower about 35 minutes or until tender and browned, stirring occasionally.
3. To serve, spoon cauliflower into serving bowl; garnish with chives
Yield: makes 4 side-dish serving
Comments: Its and really wonderful dish that my 11 year old made for me for mother's day.
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Avila to began rehab assignment Thursday
DETROIT -- Tigers catcher Alex Avila worked out on the field at Comerica Park and took batting practice for the second consecutive day on Wednesday afternoon. His next step will be to start a Minor League rehab assignment for Triple-A Toledo on Thursday.
Manager Jim Leyland said the team is in wait-and-see mode for how long Avila's rehab assignment will last.
"Personally, I think you don't want to forget that he hasn't played for 10 days," Leyland said. "You're thrilled to death that he's healthy, but you still can't forget that he hasn't had an at-bat in 10 days."
Avila went on the 7-day disabled list for concussion symptoms on Aug. 11, after he was initially cleared by doctors after the original injury on Aug. 8, playing in one game before symptoms resurfaced. Under Major League Baseball rules, Avila's rehab can't last more than five games.
"The No. 1 thing is to get him back here healthy," Leyland said. "But the next thing is to be productive. He hasn't seen any pitching for 10 days now. That's not easy. I'd hate to bring him into New York to face [Matt] Harvey after sitting off for 12 days."
While an official plan hasn't been set, Leyland's suggestion was to have Avila catch seven innings on Thursday and Friday before playing an entire game as the designated hitter for Toledo on Saturday.


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The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman's search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother's death.
The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, "Have you seen Marie?" the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. With full-color illustrations that bring this transformative quest to vivid life, Have You Seen Marie? showcases a beloved author's storytelling magic, in a tale that reminds us how love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.
About the Author
Sandra Cisneros is the author of two highly celebrated novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo. Her awards include National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Other books include the story collection Woman Hollering Creek; two books of poetry; and two books of children's literature. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Cisneros is the founder of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral and Macondo Foundations, which serve creative writers.
Ester Hernández is an internationally acclaimed visual artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in Mexico City. She lives in San Francisco.
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"This picture book for adults explores the ways in which grief lays us low, but also can bring us out to discover the strength of the communities we belong to. When Roz comes to visit Sandra after Sandra's mother passes away, she brings her cat, Marie. Marie, in the way of so many cats, disappears the day she arrives, and Roz is desperate to find her again. The two women make flyers and Sandra reluctantly leaves her home to help Roz canvas the neighborhood, along the way meeting with others who grieve their own losses. With colorful drawings, Hernández brings the community alive, while Cisneros writes her heroine's way through the discovery that there is a way to emerge from sadness into memory. And yes, there is a happy ending." —Kathy Ward, Juneau Empire
"In Have You Seen Marie?, we are invited into a look of the pain Cisneros's experiences upon losing her mother. . . . This loss does not allow her to see tomorrow because she cannot remove herself from the remorse of today. During her grieving process, Cisneros receives company from her friend Roz who brings along her cat, Marie. As the two women are rejoined, they find themselves without Marie. The story takes on a new sense of urgency as the two friends take to the streets to find the missing cat. As the search for Marie ensues, we are introduced to the colorful experience and occupants of San Antonio. Each of these introductions allows us to take part in the environment that exists to remind us that there is life all around us. . . . Cisneros's gift of storytelling and Ester Hernández's illustrations bring to life the story about death, grief, and the desire to move forward. This book is a wonderful gift to share with someone who is experiencing the pain of losing a loved one." —Jasmine Colón, Modern Latina
"Award-winning Cisneros tells the story of her search for a runaway cat that parallels her journey through grief after the death of her mother. . . . This is a charmingly illustrated tale, rich in metaphor, and a solace to anyone who has felt the despair of losing someone dear." —Diane Prokop, Portland Book Review
"Warmly comforting . . . Cisneros has crafted a story that not only explores loss but also the journey back, creating a book that's unique and uplifting. As Rosalind and the narrator search a beloved cat, Marie, they encounter a culturally rich and diverse community—each person with his or her own story and preoccupations, his or her own sadness. Each of these characters seems to understand that the search is about more than finding Marie. . . . Hernández's illustrations are wonderfully detailed and capture the uniqueness of the neighborhood and the spirituality of the journey. . . . Cisneros and Hernández invite the reader to visually enjoy the story, to listen to the music of the words. In the afterword, Cisneros explores how she dealt with the death of her mother, and how the act of creation nourished her as she grieved." —Matt Mendez, El Paso Times
"A magical journey . . . A short, sweet, illustrated story about two friends searching for a lost cat. The women scour an eclectic neighborhood based on Cisneros' own quarter of San Antonio, Texas, encountering a series of characters and small adventures . . . Cisneros has folded powerful themes into this seemingly simple fable: confronting and accepting the loss of a loved one, the importance of community, the presence of spirituality in our lives and the way that imagination and art can illuminate reality. . . . The inhabitants we meet in Cisneros' story are equally eclectic, and many have suffered their own losses. . . . They come to life not only in Cisneros' poetic nuggets of prose, but in Ester Hernández's sweetly realistic color illustrations. The book glows with Cisneros' affection for [her] neighbors. [She] hopes the book will comfort others dealing with loss." —Jordan Levin, The Miami Herald
"Have You Seen Marie? is the size of a lunchbox sandwich, but it offers lasting nourishment. The illustrated fable starts as a search for a friend's missing cat, but quickly becomes a meditation on loss, a way for the main character, also named Sandra, to process her mother's death. As Sandra and her friend Roz search San Antonio for Marie, questioning not just neighbors but also their pets and the neighborhood squirrels, Sandra goes on her own inner quest to make peace with her profound grief. Marie? is an orphan adventure tale for grown-ups with the soothing cadence of a children's picture book. Like the best bedtime stories, it both honors the darkness around us and keeps the darkness at bay. . . . This book will surely be pressed into many bereft hands. Cisneros captures the experience of grief with moving and visceral clarity; lines like 'Every day I woke up and felt like a glove left behind at the bus station' take the reader straight into the heart of loss, while charming descriptions of San Antonio characters and the neighborhoods they inhabit keep us grounded in the world Cisneros knows so well. Hernández's drawings fill in the blanks left by the vibrant but spare text . . . Sandra's neighbors remind her she is part of a community that understands loss, that can support her through loss. This reminder is one of the greatest gifts of the book: We may feel like abandoned gloves in our grief, but when we share our stories with one another, we realize we're in the same lost-and-found box together." —Gayle Brandeis, San Francisco Chronicle
"Cisneros is perhaps best-known for The House on Mango Street, a story about a young Latina who leaves behind her barrio for a chance at a better life and is considered a classic of Chicano literature. . . . Have You Seen Marie? [is] a tale about a woman's search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother's death. It's a fable for grieving grown-ups, [one] she hopes will be medicine for hearts broken from loss. . . . Artist Hernández represented the unique and colorful characters, all based on Cisneros' neighbors. They make up the quirky King William district of San Antonio, Texas, where the story is based." —Cindy Y. Rodriguez, CNN
"In Have You Seen Marie?, the narrator searches for her lost cat in her neighborhood. But she's not just looking for Marie, she's looking a piece of herself. . . . The book's weight comes as the narrator realizes that she also misses her mother, who passed away a few months earlier. Marie provides a unique glimpse into a quirky neighborhood and heartfelt look into grieving." —The Hispanic Reader
"A real-life bedtime story for grownups, a gently soul-stirring meditation on the universality of grief, and the healing power of community and nature. . . . Have You Seen Marie?, filled with Cisneros' poetic words and Hernández's vibrant illustrations, is also a love letter to the quirky neighborhood where Cisneros has lived for 20 years. . . . Charming." —Agnes Torres Al-Shibibi, The Seattle Times
"Cisneros, perhaps best known for The House on Mango Street, is an author whose descriptive, lyrical prose and expressive treatment of the Chicano cultural experience has catapulted [her] to nearly unparalleled fame. Her new release, Have You Seen Marie?—expressively wrought and full of picturesque illustrations of San Antonio and its colorful characters by visual artist Ester Hernández—is at its heart a parable for adults, whose themes of death, mourning, and loss take on new meaning when presented within a simple tale about a cat gone astray. In the process of writing it, [Cisneros] found healing in the aftermath of her own mother's passing." —Nina Terrero, NBC Latino
"Best-selling Cisneros chronicles a search for a runaway cat that turns into a way to work through grief and discover community. . . . The deliberately informal, rough-edged illustrations give a nice sense of Cisneros' multicultural, bohemian neighborhood . . . [T]his warmhearted tale offers comfort to anyone coping with the loss of a loved one." —Kirkus


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Former Roswell resident missing in Texas | News
ROSWELL, Ga -- It has been three days since a former Roswell resident's family has seen her. Leanne Hecht Bearden, 33, left her in-laws home in Garden Ridge, TX last Friday and never returned.
Bearden grew up in Roswell and graduated from Roswell High School. Her disappearance is on the minds of many family and friends who live here, even though she now lives in Colorado.
Bearden and her husband Joshua spent the past two years travelling around the world. After returning to the United States, they stopped and her husband's family home in Garden Ridge. They were planning on returning to their home in Colorado on Tuesday. But those plans may have to be changed. "I knew after three hours that something was really, really wrong," Joshua Bearden said.
He said his wife told him she was going out for a walk last Friday afternoon. She left her in-laws home with about $60 and some credit cards, according to her husband. "She had her credit cards and I'm staying up all night hitting the refresh button just hoping that I'll have a credit card charge," he said.
Leanne's close family from Roswell is in Texas and several family members and friends have spent parts of the past three days searching for her.
Her friends back in Roswell have created a Facebook page, "Our Friend Leanne Hecht Bearden," to share information about the latest news in her disappearance.
Law enforcement officials in Texas have no active searches for her and have no reason to suspect foul play at this point. They say she has been listed as a missing person.
Joshua Bearden said police told him his wife left of her own free will. "She left on her own free will, that's absolutely true, she did," he said. "But what happened after she left the house on her own free will, I don't know."
Leanne Bearden's friends in Roswell said they have been asked by family members not to speak to the media. They have been told the family wants to make sure only accurate information is released about her disappearance.
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Like most promotional material from Fox, the preview screener for the new forensics drama Bones (premiering tonight at 8 p.m. ET) arrived wrapped in gimmicky packaging: in this case, a sealed plastic envelope stamped with fake warnings: "Evidence. Keep Sealed. Do Not Tamper." If only I had listened.
Bones is Fox's version of CSI, but with more thoroughly dead people; unlike the gooey corpses on the CBS franchise, this show's skeletal remains are dry as dust. Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel, older sister of the saucer-eyed actress Zooey) is a brilliant yet gorgeous yet perennially cranky forensic anthropologist who's the author of several bestselling novels about her trade. (The character is based on real-life novelist and anthropologist Kathy Reichs.) Temperance works for the Medico-Legal Anthropology Unit at D.C.'s "Jeffersonian Institution"—a shady-sounding name if I ever heard one.
As the pilot opens, Temperance is just flying in from investigating a mass murder in Guatemala. The chain of custody at the Jeffersonian Institution is apparently somewhat less strict than that of the Fox publicity department, since Temperance totes around a decomposing skull, unwrapped, in her carry-on duffel bag.
Temperance is aided by a gang of techie nerds who enjoy slinging forensics jargon (drowned people are "soakers"; those burned to death are "crispy critters") and bonding over their substandard social skills. This kind of geeked-out backup team has become a staple in TV crime shows: 24 boasts one, as does Numb3rs. Bones' version consists of Temperance's brainy grad-student assistant Zack (Eric Millegan); a bug expert and conspiracy theorist named Jack (T.J. Thyne); and Angela (Michaela Conlin), a lusty computer whiz who's also Temperance's best friend. Angela is responsible for designing the single goofiest piece of faux-scientific technology I've seen on TV: a 3D hologram program that projects not only the revolving image of a reconstructed victim, but the likely scenarios of the killing, onto an ultra-groovy light table in the soaringly modern digs of the Jeffersonian Institution. Why these renderings can't be done on a regular computer screen, or sketched on a cocktail napkin, is never clear, but they look cool as hell.
The driven, brittle Temperance hates to be psychologized, as we're reminded four different times during the pilot. She feels more at home with the dead than the living, as we hear at least twice. "You're a heart person; I'm a brain person," she reminds FBI special agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz, from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). When a young woman's body shows up in Arlington National Cemetery—not buried, but dumped in a pond—only Temperance is able to identify the skeleton as that of a senatorial intern who disappeared two summers ago, Chandra Levy-style. She plunges clumsily into the case by hurling accusations pell-mell, bursting onto premises without search warrants, and generally offending everyone in sight.
The cerebral "squints," as Seeley calls Temperance and her team, may be knee-deep in advanced degrees and bafflingly pointless gizmos, but they lack the street smarts and people skills to solve a crime the old-fashioned way: by knocking on doors, asking tough questions, and figuring out who's lying and why. Temperance and Seeley have a lot of heated exchanges about this while violating each other's personal space in a way that reminds us that they're also the single heterosexual leads in a crime-solving drama and thus must be struggling with Unresolved Sexual Tension. But whatever Temperance's Ph.D. is in, it isn't chemistry—Deschanel and Boreanaz seem about as keen on mating as imported pandas.
Memo to network execs planning an all-forensics programming slate for fall: Watching attractive people poke at skull fragments is not inherently interesting. The peculiar casting magic and grisly sensibility that made the original CSI such a success (one that has never quite been repeated even in the other two versions of that show) can't be invoked just by gathering a bunch of actors around an autopsy table—even one equipped with a neato revolving hologram.


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EnduroCross on MAVTV Tonight
Irvine, CA – Round two of the 2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross series, fueled by Monster Energy and presented by Lucas Oil from Sacramento, California will air on MAVTV this Thursday at 9:00 PM EST. The one hour show produced by the Lucas Oil Production team will showcase the great battle between Mike Brown and Taylor Robert that went down to the wire. Cameron Steele, Jeremy McGrath and Erin Bates also provide great insight to the whole event and catch all of the action, including the large pack of riders that fought hard for the final podium positions.
MAVTV, America's fastest-growing independent cable network, recently announced that DIRECTTV added the network to their lineup. This increased the overall universe for MAVTV to more than 26 million American households. With the transition of SPEEDTV to Fox Sports 1, MAVTV is filling the gap in Motorsports coverage. http://www.mavtv.com/shows/endurocross
2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross, fueled by Monster Energy and presented by Lucas Oil MAVTV Schedule
Round 2 Sacramento - 7/11/13 - 9:00 PM EST
Round 3 Ontario - 11/28/13 - 8:00 PM EST
Round 4 Denver - 12/5/13 - 8:00 PM EST
Round 5 Everett - 12/12/13 - 8:00 PM EST
Round 6 Boise - 12/19/13 - 8:00 PM EST
Round 7 Las Vegas - 12/26/13 PM EST
The GEICO AMA EnduroCross series will take a summer break and resume action on Saturday, September 21st at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. In the meantime, most of the top Expert and Female riders will compete at the X Games Los Angeles event on Sunday, August 4th.For more information, please visit www.EnduroCross.com
2013 X Games Enduro X
Location Date Arena / Additional Information
Foz do Iquacu Brazil April 18, 2013 Foz do Iquacu
Barcelona, Spain May 18, 2013 Barcelona Olympic Stadium
Munich, Germany June 30, 2013 Olympiastadiom
Los Angeles, USA August 4, 2013 Staples Center
2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross, Fueled by Monster Energy Schedule
Location Date Arena / Additional Information
Las Vegas, Nevada May 3, 2013 Orleans Arena (Friday during Supercross weekend)
Sacramento, California June 8, 2013 Sleep Train Arena
Ontario, California September 21, 2013 Citizens Business Bank Arena
Denver, Colorado October 12, 2013 National Western Complex
Everett, Washington October 26, 2013 Comcast Arena
Boise, Idaho November 9, 2013 Idaho Center
Las Vegas, Nevada November 23, 2013 Orleans Arena
http://www.mavtv.com/shows/endurocross for local air dates/times.


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Shares of staffing company Korn/Ferry International (KFY) rose 2.2% in after hours trading, following the staffing company's better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report.
The company said it earning 32 cents a share, one penny ahead of the consensus estimates. Revenues rose 14.9% to $238.6 million, also ahead of the $231.3 million analysts had predicted.
For the first-quarter, Korn/Ferry issued in-line guidance, of EPS between 26 and 32 cents a share.
The shares jumped during the regular trading session ahead of the earnings call, ending up 4.9%. Korn/Ferry is up more than 35% in the past year.


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About .jobs Domain Names
The .jobs top-level domain name (TLD) is an extension that represents employment-related sites. These domain names are a good investment for companies that want to reach the growing number of unemployed or job seeking Internet users. A .jobs domain name directs job seekers directly to your company's employment opportunities.
Who can register .jobs domain names?
Only companies can register .jobs domain names, and .jobs domain names can only be used for company job listings. The .jobs format is: www."yourcompanyname".jobs.
To register a .jobs domain name:
- You must manage HR duties on behalf of your company.
- You must be authorized to purchase "yourcompanyname".jobs on behalf of your company.
- Your company must agree to abide by the .jobs Use Policies.
- Your company must agree to abide by the SHRM Code of Professional Ethics.
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- On our Home page, in the New Domain search field, enter the domain name.
- Select .jobs from the drop-down menu, and then click Go.
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- In the Domain Registration Information section, enter valid domain name contact information, and pay special attention to the following requirements:
- For Company Name — enter your legal Company Name and confirm that it is the legal registrant of the domain name.
- For Your Title — enter your official job title and confirm that you are the Administrative Contact for the .jobs domain name.
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All .jobs domain name applications will be submitted at registration and will be verified by the registry operator, Employ Media. Some form of proof that you have rights to the requested name must be submitted with the application. In most cases your existing URL (yourcompanyname.com) will be sufficient.
You may be contacted by the .jobs Administrative Staff to answer any questions they may have during the verification process. Most applications will be verified within 3 business days but can take as long as 30 days. Upon positive validation, the .jobs registry will notify us when yourcompanyname.jobs has been "created", thereby allowing it to become visible on the Internet.
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.jobs domains can only be used to post information about your company, such as your own job postings, company culture, company information, etc.
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The best U.S. transit systems you never knew existed
Yokota FritzDenver, Colo. Pop. 588,349
Denver's mile-high sprawl is a lot easier to navigate thanks to one of the leading transit systems in the West. An established network of light rail and buses connects the city's grid, all centered at the downtown Union Station. The voter-approved FasTracks plan will extend rail and bus lines into the suburbs, reaching into eight counties. And the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority hopes to run high-speed trains (up to 300 mph) along the oft-choked I-25 and I-70 corridors that traverse the state (though Colorado was among the states that got no love in President Obama's national high-speed rail plan).


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"KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) will continue to supply electricity during Earth Hour tomorrow.
Its president and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh said some TNB consumers had thought that power supply would not be available during Earth Hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.
"We received numerous calls from concerned customers enquiring whether electricity supply would be turned off this Saturday," he said in a statement yesterday.
He said although TNB would not be shutting down operations during Earth Hour, the corporation was nevertheless in support of the event."
When you want it to happen, it doesn't happen. And yet when you don't want it to happen, it happens. Beh.


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Salvation Army still ringing bells, helping poor
ONEIDA -- When it comes to Salvation Army bell ringing in Madison County, everything is "business as usual," said Field Coordinator Forrest Kimball.
"They are out there already, and, there will be more," he said.
Bell ringers are currently set up at Price Chopper in Oneida and other places.
This year, just like past years, the Salvation Army will also be making Christmas baskets for those in need, Kimball said.
"We are very active in Madison County," he said, despite no longer having a corps or a headquarters for activities.
All money raised from their Red Kettle drive will "stay in Madison County to help the folks who need it," Kimball said. "We are thankful for every donation we get."
The Salvation Army will also participate in Share a Caring Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 8 at Nye Automotive in Oneida from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., but donations will be accepted all day during normal business hours.
For years, the event has helped collect toys for families in need during the holiday season, Kimball said.
Share a Caring Christmas will feature a live broadcast by MIX 106, the Oneida Middle School chorus, Fritz's Polka Band, St. Patrick's School chorus, Stockbridge Valley music department, Oneida Suzuki Violin Studio, Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School music department, Chittenango select choir, Chittenango chamber orchestra, Chittenango brass quintet, DeRuyter High School musical groups and singers from Rome elementary schools.
Santa and his reindeer will also make an appearance.
Event attendees are encouraged to bring new or gently-used unwrapped toys to Nye Automotive on state Route 5 in Oneida any time between now and the event. Afterwards, toys will be collected by the Salvation Army and distributed.
Anyone who wishes to volunteer for the Salvation Army as a bell ringer should call Amanda King at 315-280-0869.
Anyone in need of assistance should contact Kimball at 315-877-6079 or call Amy Brodock at 315-363-7011.


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Vessel Speed Reduction for Ocean-going Vessels
page last reviewed September 9, 2014
Welcome to the Vessels Speed Reduction (VSR) webpage. As part of our efforts under the Diesel Risk Reduction Plan, Goods Movement Emissions Reduction Plan, and Assembly Bill 32 - Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Air Resources Board (ARB) staff is evaluating the need to develop an ocean-going vessel (OGV) speed reduction program. Ocean-going vessel speed reductions offer the possibility for significant reductions in emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), oxides of sulfur (SOx), diesel particulate matter (PM) and carbon dioxide (CO2). A VSR program or measure could be an important element in improving air quality along California's coastline communities.
As part of this evaluation, the Air Resources Board contracted with the University of California, Riverside, College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology to study the impacts of VSR on the in-use emissions of ocean-going vessels. Click here to view the abstract from this study in Environmental Science and Technology and final report.
This webpage provides access to documents presented at public meetings and shares information on ARB's activities regarding VSR. If you would like to be notified of news related to VSR, including workshop notices and other information, subscribe to the Vessel Speed Reduction List Serve.


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The Inside Network Job Board: High 5 Games, Machine Zone, Kabam and more
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week's highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: High 5 Games, Machine Zone, Kabam and more.
- Associate Manager, Publisher Development (NYC)
- Campaign Manager – Santa Monica
- Campaign Manager – New York
- Campaign Manager – San Francisco
DoubleDown Interactive
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- Senior DevOps Engineer
- Director of Operations
- Senior C++ Software Engineer
- VP of Game Engineering
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When FBI agents burst into his bedroom on May 8, they found Kamil Mezalka standing in his underwear, clutching a two-handed samurai sword that he had just plunged into the side of his desktop computer. The feds were there to question him about 4,000 images and videos of child pornography they believed were linked to his account; Mezalka was apparently trying to destroy the evidence.
"More commands were given for Mezalka to drop the samurai sword, all of which Mezalka ignored and refused to obey," wrote the FBI Special Agent who led the raid. "Mezalka began to remove the samurai sword from the computer as the law enforcement officers advanced on him in order to secure him and eliminate any potential danger."
The 21-year-old was wrestled to the floor, placed in handcuffs, and taken downstairs to sit on the couch. After Mezalka agreed to speak to the FBI without a lawyer, the agents "provided him clothing" and took him outside to their vehicle for a chat.
Hunting "Wolfcarven"
The FBI had arrived at the house in Palm Coast, Florida thanks to the work of another FBI agent up in the Philadelphia area. On March 15, the Philadelphia agent used a publicly available file-sharing program to browse the files hosted by a user named "Wolfcarven," a user she had recently friended.
Wolfcarven had thousands of files in a shared directory with names that included words like "bedtime rape" and "lolita pedo." After downloading some of the videos and confirming their contents, the Philadelphia agent looked up the IP address used by Wolfcarven, subpoenaed AT&T for the subscriber account information, and found that it resolved to a home in Florida. The agent notified her colleagues in the Jacksonville, Florida FBI office a few days later.
On April 21, local FBI agents put the Palm Coast home under surveillance. They noted that the two-story brick home had a white garage door, a brick driveway, and a concrete fountain in the front yard—in addition to 3 vehicles in the driveway. The FBI queried the Florida Driver and Vehicle Information Database for all residents of the house and learned that a 21-year-old named Kamil Mezalka lived there with his mother and stepfather.
FBI agent Jonathan MacDonald went back to the office to do his research. He learned that, three days after he had staked out the home, local cops had responded to a domestic violence call at the house. The police report from that incident said that Mezalka's stepfather was holding Mezalka's mother "down on a bed in the master bedroom, choking her with his hands." When Mezalka heard his mother calling for help, he "broke into the master bedroom and confronted his stepfather with a samurai sword."
So, when MacDonald went to the judge to request a search warrant, he knew he might be stepping into a volatile situation—and that samurai swords might be involved.
When he arrived at the home on May 8 to execute the warrant, officers knocked on the door and received no response. At that point, they executed a "mechanical breach of the door" and entered the home, shouting out their presence and demanding that occupants make themselves visible.
Mezalka appeared, saw the officers, and went back inside his second-floor bedroom. That's where the officers found him, hands clutching the samurai sword jammed into the side of his desktop computer.
Upon being questioned, Mezalka admitted that he was Wolfcarven and that he was attracted to young girls, but not too young: 13-18, he said. The agents escorted him back inside, arrested him, and then led him over to a forensic examiner who had accompanied them to the house. The examiner had gone through the stabbed computer's hard drive and located hundreds of images.
"I directed Mezalka's attention to the screen displaying the images of child pornography depicting toddler-aged children and I asked Mezalka how those images were on his computer," MacDonald wrote. "Mezalka glanced at the images and invoked his right to counsel."
Creative, yes; effective, no
Read enough search warrant affidavits involving computer crime and you'll eventually come across people who attempt to fold, spindle, and mutilate their data caches before the cops knock down their front doors. Usually this involves secure deletion utilities or hammers, but sometimes data destruction gets creative. One former member of LulzSec even told us that he bought a new laptop and that "everything else that could be incriminating has literally been burned."
But men in their underwear, wielding swords—that's a new one, strange even by the high standards routinely set in these kinds of cases. And it didn't even work.


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The Mustang is a horse of the American Southwest, where also there exist Rancheros who might ride said Mustangs. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is a Mustchero, and as American as apple pie, but does its price make it a must-have-o?
Do you remember the Six Million Dollar Man? In that show, a former astronaut/test pilot humpty-dumptys in a space plane, but unlike the egg of rhyme, he is put back together again with all kinds of cool, not off the shelf parts. The Bionic Man ended up using his new found super powers serving his country as a Cold War secret agent. Unfortunately for those urging for a resurgence in the other side of the cold war, yesterday's rusting hulk of a 1987 Škoda 120 GLS was viewed as beyond rebuilding to a narrow 59% of you, even at $5,999.550 less than the cost of un-jacking up Steve Austin.
As much as yesterday's Czech may have represented why the Soviet Bloc failed, today's candidate revels in all the things that make the west's success great. This ice blue 1965 Mustang first and foremost represents America at its most iconic. Considering that it's not only the most American of cars from one of the most American of companies and also is a pickup, driving this would imbue in you so much American pride it would cause al Qaeda members to spontaneously combust at the mere sight. If the question were asked, how much more American could this custom car be? The answer would be none, none more American.
Not only is this pony now a pickup but the conversion to Ranchero duty seems to have been carried out with the finest of American craftsmanship. The hardtop roof has been brought forward and even the door glass has been reshaped to fit the now close coupled roofline. In back, the bed is fully finished and sided by a pair of chrome gunwall rails to spruce things up. Doing that duty up front are grille-mounted driving lights and chrome caps on the side gills next to each light. Just like America, it's elegant and yet tastefully restrained. Even the lack of a proper dropping tailgate reflects on this nation's greatness because real Americans don't mind going the extra mile.
And you'll be able to go quite a few extra miles in this 'Stang as it sports Ford's remarkable 200-CID straight six. Much like other legendary Americans - Paul Bunyan, the Terminator, and that guy from the TV commercials that wears the suit with all the question marks on it - the seven main six is nearly impossible to kill. And the ad claims it's good for 27 MPG. You remember MPG, right?
Behind the all-American six is Ford's equally time-tested 3-speed auto box, the Cruise-O-Matic. Man, if you're not waving a tiny stars and stripes right now, you might want to check and see if you're still able to fog a mirror. If you are, then consider that this custom Mustang is claimed to have not yet even turned six figures on its clock. Damn, just like America, there's still plenty of life left in it. Plus, Pick up!
Okay, so it's totally amazing and patriotic in a jingoistic way that is traditionally only achieved by F35s firing American flags through the hearts of terrorists, while trailing red white and blue ceremonial smoke, and piloted by guys nicknamed Hero and Rebel, but is it worth $8,500 of American cash?
You decide!
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Xinhai provides optimized solutions for your mine, one-stop service for mineral processing plant, include sample test, mine design, equipment manufacture, etc.read more
Xinhai has provided mineral processing plant services for more than 500 mines in the world. The projects spread more than 20 countries around the world with good benefits and stable operation!
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I normally don't post on weekends, but I found this link at Bye Bye Pie and ended up playing.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Weekend Fun
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Good Morning Bloggerville
A few mornings ago, after The Boy had watered our garden, he ran inside, grabbed my camera, and said he needed to "assuage his inner photographer." He wanted to capture the new crop. I was so amazed by his photog skillz that I thought I would share them.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
We Interrupt My Week for an Allergy Adventures
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Are You Sitting Down?
.....Because I am about to give you something that will simultaneously make you love, and hate, me.
There it is all yeasty and puffy.
Pour half the chocolate mixture....
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Welcome to the Slide Show That Used To Be My Blog
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Decorative Advice
My Whidbey Island Picture Post was supposed to go up this morning....but my good posting-pictures-to-Blogger luck ran out after yesterdays post; the pictures aren't loading quite as quickly today.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Arizona Trip: In Twenty-Five Pictures (or more)
I viewed the sun behind the clouds...
and watched lizards run across hot rocks.
And hung out with good friends.
To keep cool we swam....
...and played in dry ice. (Do not try this at home. These children are professionals.)We hung out with cousins.
I watched friends eat Prancer.....(oh wait!! Not in Arizona. That is a picture for tomorrow's post.)
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Whether or not S&P Global Ratings downgrades Italian debt this week is a coin toss, according to Deutsche Bank AG.
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U.K. Committee Says Google Avoids Tax
Google has aggressively avoided paying corporation tax in Britain and its reputation won't be restored until it begins to pay what is due, a U.K. parliamentary committee said. Ainsley Thomson reports. Photo: AP.
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Et Tu, Austin? Locals Start To Doubt Lance Armstrong
Et Tu, Austin? Locals Start To Doubt Lance Armstrong
New allegations emerged late last week that cycling superstar Lance Armstrong used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Former teammate Tyler Hamilton said on CBS's 60 Minutes that he told a federal grand jury he and Armstrong both doped while riding for the U.S. Postal Team in Tour de France races.
In Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas, the newest accusations are beginning to tear at his reputation as the world's most famous cyclist.
'Shakespearean Tragedy'
Lance Armstrong is Austin's favorite son.
He lives here.
His pricey, stylish bike shop — Mellow Johnny's — is here.
His cancer-fighting foundation is headquartered in Austin, where yellow silicone Livestrong bracelets are nearly as common as tattoos.
And in Central Austin, cyclists pedal down the Lance Armstrong Bikeway.
Steve Godfrey, a 39-year-old cyclist from Louisiana, stops to chat on his way to a delivery, and strokes his push-broom beard pensively. "I would just say it's a difficult situation; he's become such an iconic hero to so many people. It's almost like a 21st century Shakespearean tragedy maybe in a way."
If it turns out that the cyclist doped and lied about it, will it hurt his image in Austin?
"I think it will somewhat," says Sam Burns, a Ph.D. student at the School of Information who works at the University of Texas and commutes to campus on his bike. "He's built up a really positive reputation, one that a lot of people respect both for his athleticism and the cause that he's taken up. And I think that it will be tarnished a bit.
"I think that ultimately people will probably forgive him given the seemingly pervasive use of this kind of stuff, and hopefully cycling will get cleaned up as a result."
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are looking into whether the seven-time Tour de France champion cheated to win his titles.
Hamilton's damaging statements about Armstrong come a year after similar allegations made by Floyd Landis, another ex-teammate. After Landis admitted he — and, he said, Armstrong — used banned substances, Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title.
Armstrong continues to deny the mounting accusations, maintaining that he has passed every one of nearly 500 drug tests.
Sports columnist Kirk Bohls writes about Armstrong's travails for the Austin American-Statesman. Bohls says that with the recent allegations, local opinions about the cycling legend may have reached a tipping point.
"Most of the email and response I've received has been very negative toward Lance Armstrong, and I wonder if some of the tide may have turned against him."
'We're Here To Serve'
The Lance Armstrong Foundation is housed in a modern, architecturally inviting building in East Austin. Since Armstrong started the foundation in 1997, it has raised $400 million and helped nearly 3 million people with cancer.
After the news broke last week, Armstrong tweeted: "For those who think we'll be distracted, think again. We're here to serve."
The foundation's communications director, Katherine McLane, echoed the same line, sidestepping the deepening imbroglio surrounding the chairman.
"What happens in the cycling world happens in the cycling world," she says. "We're a nonprofit organization focused on serving people who are in the fight of their lives. And that's what we do every single day. We don't allow ourselves to be distracted. We don't have that luxury."
Nike, a major donor to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, released a statement earlier this week saying that its relationship with Armstrong remains "as strong as ever" and the company, like the cyclist, does not condone banned drugs.


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Recipe from Brenda Philips of Lindale, Texas
Total Time: 10 min
2 slices of Havarti cheese
2 thin slices of tomato
Three to four leaves of fresh spinach
Miracle whip
Garlic clove
Two slices of whole grain bread (any kind)
1. Prepare bread buy coating slightly with butter so it won't stick to the griddle.
2. Place both slices of bread on griddle until toasted, while one side is getting toasted, smooth the other side with miracle whip and then the other with mustard, ( I like brown spicy, kids like reg mustard)
3. Place a piece of cheese, tomato, and spinach on each slice of bread.
4. Let grill until cheese is slightly melted and fold together.
5. Bust garlic clove, peel, and slice open. Rub on outside of toasted bread.
6. Remove from heat, slice in half and enjoy.
Yield: 1 Sandiwch
Comments: This is a great trick to get your kids to eat veggies.
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It would have been a shame to spend almost a week at JavaOne in Sao Paulo and not visit the local Harley Davidson dealer.
Turns out they have a whole bunch of them. As nice as this chopper looks, I wouldn't ride it on the streets of Sao Paulo longer than 5 minutes. The streets of Sao Paulo are owned by the "moto boys" riding 125 cc bikes.
The term "moto boy" would make a big, bad, leather-n-conchos clad American biker scoff, but these guys are the real deal. In fact, trying to keep up with one would make the average American biker wet his chaps. They're amazing riders. With a high casualty rate, unfortunately. Different Paulistas gave me different numbers, but I heard claims that between one and three moto boys die each day in Sao Paulo. They ride without restraint. No safety margin. Any open space is their road. I've seen more than one of them launch themselves into a collapsing space between trucks, buses, and cars, heard the tires screech, saw a puff of smoke, and a couple of seconds later, saw them pop out two lanes over. It was not an unusual move.
I made a rough count, and about one of eight vehicles on Sao Paulo's freeways is a motorcycle. Ratio might be higher on the side streets, where the lanes between the cars belong to the moto boys. Not more than a few seconds goes by without a small motorcycle wizzing past your car window.
In fact, the moto boys may be the reason Sao Paulo's traffic is better organized than Lima's, whose drivers consider traffic lanes fascist. They spit on them when stopped. Their hatred for them is visceral. And woe to any collaborator who tries to stay within them. I learned to drive in Lima. Everything since has been a cake walk.
The other reason not to ride a Harley in Sao Paulo is the cost. They cost about three times what they cost in the US. Ouch! I did hear (and then see) a Softail Standard roar past me while I was walking around. (Musta been Donald Trump.) I also saw a guy riding a Sportster in a business suit. (Probably the CEO of PetroBras, the Brazilian Oil Company.)
In Sao Paulo, everybody wears helmets, but nobody wears protective gear. Not even gloves or boots. Only the guys on sportbikes wear full leathers. Probably because once they're outside the city limits they page homage to Valentino Rossi's MotoGP career.
Well, it was nice to talk about motorcycles for Christmas. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, or just a Happy Hanging Out during the Holidays.
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Anna Deslions
In all of France there is probably no courtesan more fondly recalled or respected than Anna Deslions who, in 1865, was deemed by the critic Sainte-Beuve to be "as true a queen as Paris has ever known." Deslions, who was known throughout Paris as La Lionne des Boulevards, was the model for the title character in Emile Zola's famous novel Nana.
Unlike her two major rivals, Valresse de la Bigne and Blanche d'Antigny, the beautiful and cultured Deslions never charged for her services, relying instead on the generous gifts that her clients bestowed upon her. This practice made good sense, because in addition to being generous with their cash, quite a few gave her diamond and emerald jewelry, several gave her sable coats, one gave her a cottage in Normandy, and another presented her with an apartment in London.
During Deslions' reign as "queen", the most fashionable restaurant in Paris was the Café des Anglais, an establishment favored by princes, emperors and society idols. Anna found the restaurant much to her taste, and the owner, Maurice Chevreuil, so adored her that he had a private dining room built for her on the second floor.
In addition to a table permanently set for two, the room also contained a large chaise longue and a comfortable canopied bed. Chevreuil, who was a meticulous restaurateur, also kept a list of Deslions' lovers, including the crucial information as to what each of her lovers liked to eat and drink and at what time they had to be awakened to return home to their wives.
The still-famous dish known as Pommes de Terre Anna was named in her honor by Adolphe Dugléré, the most famous chef of the Café des Anglais. Dugléré also concocted several more dishes that he dedicated to Annette, a further homage to Anna who was known by this diminutive only to those with whom she had been intimate and a few close friends. It is said that three kings, twelve emperors, eighteen princes and thirty-four dukes knew the lady as Annette. According to the lists kept by Chevreuil, she was also known as Annette by two princesses and several well known actresses of the day.
Pommes de Terre Anna
Potatoes Anna
2 lb (900 gr) medium size potatoes, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible (but not soaked in water)
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 cup butter
salt and pepper to taste
In a shallow flame-proof casserole heat the oil and 2 Tbsp of the butter. Once the butter is melted, tip the casserole to coat the sides. Remove from the flame before the butter browns and arrange a single layer of potato slices in an overlapping spiral pattern.
Sprinkle over salt and pepper, and dot with butter. Continue building spiral layers. Salt and pepper each layer, and dot each with butter until the casserole is full.
Place the casserole over a medium flame and cook until the potatoes on the bottom layer are browned (about 12 minutes) and then transfer to a hot oven. While the potatoes cook, press them gently with a spatula from time to time, until they are tender when tested with a fork (about 25 minutes). To serve, loosen the edges with the spatula, place a preheated serving plate over the casserole and invert so that the potatoes fall on the platter. (Serves 6)
Omelette Annette
8 eggs
1/2 cup highest quality apricot or peach jam
1 tsp vanilla extract
salt and pepper as needed
4 Tbsp butter
6 Tbsp confectioners' sugar
In a saucepan heat the jam and keep it warm, ready for use.
In 4 separate small bowls, using a dinner fork, beat together 2 eggs, 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract and a pinch each of salt and pepper. In a 9" (23 cm) omelet pan (or similar heavy skillet) melt 1 Tbsp of the butter and make four omelets of 2 eggs each. (Add additional butter to the pan only if it becomes dry). After each omelet is cooked, just before folding, spoon in 2 tbsp of the heated jam.
When the four omelets are done, place them on an oven-proof serving plate, side by side. Sprinkle over the confectioners' sugar, place in a hot oven just until the sugar begins to melt and serve at once. (Serves 4)


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Observations: Seeing in infrared wavelengths
The Universe in infrared wavelengths is only one step removed from the familiar, visible Universe. It is the cooler objects that emit most strongly in the infrared.
A diffuse glow of infrared radiation permeates our Milky Way galaxy. This is generated by dust grains, which are present everywhere and which absorb starlight and then radiate that energy at infrared wavelengths. Our Solar System also contains a population of dust particles, created by evaporating comets and colliding asteroids, that collectively radiates the zodiacal light and is brightest at infrared wavelengths.
At shorter infrared wavelengths, you can see cool stars and other celestial objects. The tiny red dwarf stars and conversely the enormous red giant stars, both have surface temperatures of a few thousand degrees and release a lot of infrared radiation. Newly forming stars, which are found at the centre of dense, dusty cocoons also shine brightly at infrared wavelengths.
Gaseous molecules are readily visible in the infrared. Many of these molecules contain carbon atoms and so are organic molecules, perhaps even the precursors of biological molecules. However, there are so many molecular species in space and so many different ways that they can vibrate and rotate that there is still confusion identifying which infrared features they create.
The infrared is an important wavelength range for studying the distant and therefore early Universe. This is because the Universe is in a state of constant expansion, which stretches every wavelength of light travelling through it (known as the 'red shift'). Much of the visible and ultraviolet light released in the early Universe has now been stretched into the infrared region of the spectrum. Therefore, designing infrared telescopes such as the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is essential, to study the distant young Universe.
Infrared radiation can not easily penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, particularly because it contains many infrared-absorbing molecules. Satellites, such as ESA's Infrared Space Observatory and Herschel, are therefore essential to fully study this region of the spectrum from outside the atmosphere.


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Former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champ Rafael Cavalcante wants to be the next fighter from the defunct promotion's roster to move to the UFC.
"I have a lot of names in my mind that I want to test myself (against)," he today told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
But one is sticking out at the moment, so Cavalcante (11-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) might as well make UFC matchmaker Joe Silva's job easy: He'd like to fight Ryan Bader (15-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC), preferably in May or June.
"I like the way he fights," said Cavalcante, who must wait out a yearlong suspension from the California State Athletic Commission before he's eligible to move forward with his career.
The 32-year-old Brazilian was unsuccessful in appealing a punishment handed down by the regulatory body after he failed a post-fight drug test in his most recent performance. Cavalcante knocked out Mike Kyle in 33 seconds at a Strikeforce event held this past May in San Jose, Calif., and he was flagged one month later when his test detected the steroid stanozolol.
The setback adjusted Cavalcante's Strikeforce record to 4-1. He won the title from Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal in August 2010 and lost it seven months later to Dan Henderson.
Still regarded as one of the top light heavyweights outside the UFC, Cavalcante's stock would jump with a win over Bader, who this past Saturday submitted veteran Vladimir Matyushenko at UFC on FOX 6.
Bader, who won "The Ultimate Fighter 8," climbed the UFC's 205-pound ranks after the show before eventually running into current champ Jon Jones. After Lyoto Machida knocked him out at UFC on FOX 4, Bader recorded the fastest submission in the promotion's light-heavyweight history with a 50-second tap-out of Matyushenko. He earned an extra $50,000 for "Submission of the Night" honors.
Cavalcante said he's already helped out in a camp for training partner Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, who meets Rashad Evans on Saturday at UFC 156. He's also a regular partner of UFC middleweight Anderson Silva and welterweight prospect Erick Silva, who was forced to withdraw from UFC 156 with an injury.
So now, he's planning for a bout of his own, and he wants Bader.
"I think we're going to do an awesome fight," Cavalcante said. "I'll be ready for sure."
For more on the UFC's upcoming schedule, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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The Oracle Application Server is installed on your machine. In Forms Builder, you open the HResource form and connect to the HR database. You also edit your Forms Builder run-time preferences and click Set Default. To test the HResource form module, you click Run Form and receive the error message FRM-10142 (The HTTP listener is not running). What action should you take?
A. Start an OC4J instance.
B. Start the Oracle HTTP Server.
C. Run the batch file STOPINST.BAT.
D. Start the browser before clicking Run Form.
E. Generate the form and move the .fmx file to the Oracle Application Server deployment directory.
Answer: A