text:
Speaking Montreal: A user's guide:
The UBER-PHONE. Chances are you are lucky enough to have come from a linguistically mixed household (Hello, Justin). Or maybe you grew up in a predominantly French-speaking neighbourhood and went to French school, CEGEP and university. You speak flawless French and English, often in the same sentence. You have no baggage. You have achieved linguistic zen.
The PURIST. You read Le Devoir for pleasure. You have heard of Hubert Reeves, but not Marie-Mai. You speak French with a Brébeuf/Outremont accent. You wouldn't dream of using an English expression when speaking French. You have been known to sprinkle a few French words in conversation when you speak English, but only because you can.
The PLAYER. You are an anglo of a certain age. Grew up in linguistically mixed neighbourhood such as Verdun, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rosemont or the Point. You learned your French playing (or fighting) with the other kids on the street. You wouldn't know a passé composé if you met one in the ruelle. Yours is a colourful, unorthodox linguistic pastiche, grammatically challenged, but your accent is excellent. You know what the guys on L'Anti-chambre are saying, even when they talk super fast.
The CODE BREAKER. You are 40 or younger. The child of immigrants, you were raised in the decades after the passage of Bill 101 and the anti-anglo backlash of the 1980s. You went to French school or French immersion, spoke Italian, Greek or Hindi at home, watched English TV. You work in French, have dated or married a francophone and don't really care or even notice what language you are speaking, drifting effortless and often unconsciously from one language to the other, depending on the topic or whom you are speaking with. All this mixing can mean you get a little muddled with your structure, idioms and metaphors no matter what language you are speaking. And you are cool with that.
The BORROWER. You grew up west of Atwater. Both of your parents are native English-speakers and although you went to French immersion, most of your out-of-school activities were in English and you switched back to English school when you got to CEGEP. You speak and write French well and work in French without any difficulty. Outside the office and on the weekends, you mostly speak English – or so you think. In fact, you toss French words and phrases into your sentences all the time.
The WORDSMITH. No matter how hard you try, your French is fractured, your grammar pitiful and accent painful. Or so you think. In mixed company, you are often too tongue tied to say more than a few words. That doesn't stop you from sucking up vocabulary and spitting it out in a fresh and inventive way that would make all the Office de la langue française inspectors choke on their croque monsieurs. ex. choisey-thing, steppez-pas la.
The STRONG SILENT TYPE. You like to think you have a pretty good idea what francophones are saying most of the time. But you don't get jokes or some cultural references to movies, TV and radio personalities. When you aren't sure which language might be appropriate or what that punchline means, you often find yourself smiling and bobbing your head in silent agreement.


text: Maserati Highlights Ghibli Q4 at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show February 6, 2014 03:00 PM MEDIA INFORMATION Contact: Mark Bilek Director of Communications and Technology Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6082 Cell: (847) 652-0632 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Contact: Jennifer Morand Senior Public Relations and Social Media Manager Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6084 Cell: (630) 391-1986 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO (February 6, 2014) – Maserati highlighted its new sport sedan, the Ghibli S Q4 during the 2014 Chicago Auto Show Media Preview. Jeffrey Ehoodin, public relations manager at Maserati, emphasized Maserati's 100-year-old Italian tradition of luxury is still "alive and well." The new sport sedan offers AWD capability with a 3.0 liter twin turbo V6 engine that can easily accelerate up to 404 horsepower. Although Maserati's competitors are top end of the most powerful brands, Maserati proudly announced that the Ghibli S Q4 is the first Maserati model to be awarded the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety Pick of 2013. "If you like firing up your car every day, not just starting it, you have a new option on the menu – Italian." said Ehoodin. To watch complete coverage of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show Media Preview press conferences, please visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chicago-auto-show-2011. The manufacturer press conferences are also available at www.youtube.com/chicagoautoshow. For more information about the Chicago Auto Show, please visit www.chicagoautoshow.com. ### About the Chicago Auto Show The Chicago Auto Show is the largest on the continent, spanning more than 1 million square feet of production, concept, and exotic vehicle exhibit space. In addition to hosting multiple world and North American vehicle debuts, the Chicago Auto Show's First Look for Charity raises more than $2 million annually for 18 worthy Chicago organizations in a single night. The 2014 public show will be February 8-17. For more information, visit ChicagoAutoShow.com or Facebook.com/ChicagoAutoShow. Media can register for the Chicago Auto Show Media Preview at chicagoautoshow.com/media/. About The Chicago Automobile Trade Association Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization. It is comprised of more than 400 franchised new-car dealers and an additional 150 allied members. The group's dealer members employ nearly 20,000 people in the metropolitan area. The association has produced the Chicago Auto Show since 1935. For more information, visit CATA.info. Back to News

subset: commoncrawl


text:
When facing a difficult situation and not sure what services are available, call Crisis Line. Crisis Line volunteer operators can help with any type of information and referral from food & financial assistance to counseling. Crisis Line also provides Information and Referral through our on-line data-base of providers; willfinduhelp.
Crisis Line provides non-directive, non-judgmental telephone counseling. We are a 24-hour, 7 day a week listening ear.
If you are experiencing thoughts or feelings of suicide, help is just a phone call away. Crisis Line is accrediated through the American Association of Suicidology for the intervention and prevention of suicide.
Everyday, Crisis Line calls elderly, disabled and homebound individuals with a friendly chat to check on their well-being.


text:
Your Search Results
Free Daily Meals, Fitness Subsidies, Remote Work Program, Sabbatical, Golang, Pet Insurance, Family Medical Leave, Paid Sick Days, Group brainstorming sessions, Someone's primary function is managing the company's diversity and inclusion initiatives, 101K-500K amount, 201 - 500 employees, 1-100K amount
0 Companies
Ah shucks, we have no results for your search.
Try using less filters. Here's some helpful links to help too.


text:
Driving east from Occidental to Pinole, Tim Johnson was unsure how he should break the bad news to the students at St. Joseph's School. As a site director for the Caritas Creek environmental education program, based in western Sonoma County, it was one of his many tasks to make on-site visits to the participating Bay Area classes. As with every school he visited, the students would be excited to see him. Tall, boyishly handsome and exuding the sort of benign expression found in kindergarten teachers and Sesame Street characters, Johnson was well-liked by the students at St. Joseph's.
Johnson's popularity, of course, was simply a reflection of the students' love for Caritas. As a heavily enrolled school-year environmental education program for over three decades, Caritas Creek's unique and engaging approach to inspiring early adolescent children has proven to be an inimitable experience for tens of thousands of Bay Area children over the years.
Technically, however, Johnson was no longer employed. Just days earlier, the entire Caritas staff had been collectively terminated by the program director at Catholic Charities/Catholic Youth Organization (CCCYO) when they conflicted over proposed changes to the core tenants of the thriving program.
Against the demands of CCCYO, Johnson figured he would keep his appointments and at least offer some kind of in-person explanation. Greeting him by his nickname, Gus, the St. Joe's eighth graders asked Johnson anxious questions about the troubling rumors they heard on MySpace concerning problems with the Caritas Creek program.
"It was all very emotional, especially for the younger kids, who were asking me why they couldn't go to Caritas anymore," Johnson says. "The teacher at the time told me that she might need to get grief counselors."
As the official rationale of a "staffing problem" first leaked out, numerous parents, teachers and administrators, who have long considered the Caritas staff of college-educated teacher-naturalists one of the program's best assets, deemed the explanation severely insufficient.
"We were very upset about the closure of Caritas at Occidental," says Karen Francis, an eighth-grade language arts teacher at St. Patrick's School in Rodeo, "so my students and I wrote letters to CYO and the San Francisco and Oakland [dioceses] about how we felt."
Matters soon devolved further when CCCYO filed a multimillion dollar federal lawsuit alleging trademark infringement against a few of Johnson's co-workers who sought to relaunch Caritas at a new location. With emotions running high, a heated tug-of-war ensued over the prevailing identity of the camp.
The Spirit Shot
The origin of the 216-acre CYO site in Occidental goes back to the early 1930s, when Father John Silva purchased 12 acres on Salmon Creek and converted it into a wilderness camp for teenage boys. Shortly after World War II, he donated the camp to the Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, who within a few years gave more serious attention to developing facilities for a formal outdoor recreation experience.
Later, in the mid-1950s, CYO purchased an additional 74 acres in the area and began running a more complete program for the Bay Area's schoolchildren.
As a young girl from the Epiphany School in San Francisco's Excelsior district, Paula Pardini's time at CYO's summer camp would become a huge influence on her life's direction. She volunteered as a junior counselor in high school and worked summers at the CYO camp while in college. In the coming years, her experiences with CYO would prove to be a key inspiration for her founding of Caritas Creek.
"CYO was an amazing experience for me growing up," says Pardini. "Nothing moves kids the way the camp environment does."
Now in her 60s, Pardini is upbeat and animated in recollecting her earlier days. With expressive eyes that are as bright as her shiny white hair, she tells of how her CYO experience landed her a job at the more affluent Cloverleaf Ranch camp in Santa Rosa during her mid-20s. There, Pardini would eventually help break the camp's color line by raising funds to bring a group of inner city youths from Oakland to attend, an act that proved significant beyond its more obvious reasons.
"It was the best session the camp ever had, because you had eight kids who embraced everything with enthusiasm and appreciation," Pardini explains. "The year-round director told me, 'This was the spirit shot that this camp needed for years.'"
The unique dynamic of pairing children from vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds was an experience that Pardini kept close as she searched for a Northern California location to establish her own outdoor camp a few years later.
"The idea was to provide children with the opportunity to connect with one another on a common footing," says Mary Gordon, a cofounder of Caritas Creek, "without the trappings of what your history is or how much money you have, and to have them understand how similar they are rather than different."
Settling into the spectacular natural setting of the Mendocino Woodlands, Pardini's young team launched Caritas Creek as a nonprofit organization in the summer of 1975.
"I suggested 'Caritas,' because it is the Latin word for 'God's love,'" says Pardini, "and we combined it with 'Creek,' feeling that it combined the spiritual with the environmental. Caritas is about these connections, with your environment, your contemporaries, your god."
Environmental Serendipity
In addition to its outdoor summer recreation camp, Caritas Creek began to distinguish itself with a unique school-year environmental education program that took a distinctive spiritual approach to engaging its students. Drawing from numerous sources, including her master's degree program at the University of San Francisco's Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership, Pardini generated a vibrant philosophy with a focus that would be summed up as "self, others, nature and spirit."
"In the beginning, we really had to show people what we were trying to do," says Gordon, "but over the years we had developed a unique niche. Today, there are many choices for environmental education, but people continue to come back to us because of the history and the reputation we have built."
Through Pardini's earlier contacts with CYO, Caritas Creek began to rent out the Occidental facility in 1979 to conduct environmental education. By 1984, the two had joined a partnership, with Caritas running the school-year program and CYO providing financial and facility-related backing.
The program was indeed highly multifaceted. Set among the redwoods, the camp would purposefully schedule schools from sharply differing locations—such as San Francisco's affluent Marina district with Oakland's struggling International Boulevard—for a week of its unique curriculum. Recreational activities such as archery, canoeing and ga-ga ball (a more rambunctious though ultimately less sadistic version of dodge ball) were matched with academically oriented nature hikes and scientific study. More spiritually engaging activities proved integral to the program, such as Serendipity, which sought to engage students in matters of community, self-identity and relationship-building by inviting them to share their views and emotions in intimate group conversations led by a teacher-naturalist.
"The activities that are set up for the kids [at Caritas] are well thought-out and have a deeper meaning," says Sonya Simril, principal of St. Leo the Great School in Oakland. "The Serendipity is one of the best aspects of the trip. The kids have the opportunity to sit down in a circle and share something, personal or not, knowing that everyone will respect them."
Although documents prepared for their 2007 court case sketch an ever-teetering relationship between Caritas and the upper management of CYO, the program thrived over the years, garnering stellar assessments from teachers, parents and administrators.
"If school were perfect, all of school would be like Caritas," says Ann Manchester, former superintendent for the Oakland Diocese and the exiting principal of Holy Name School in San Francisco. "The program completely engages kids on all levels and appeals to every kind of learning style. It's a week of total learning, immersion and complete community formation."
As teachers and parents saw their kids return from Caritas with better behavior and positive perspectives, the weeklong camping experience became a core curriculum component for numerous schools from San Jose to Lake County. Most noticeably, the students themselves regarded the trip as a special experience that delved far beyond the usual classroom monotony.
"When we were told in the eighth grade that we were going [to Caritas] again, the reaction of everyone was crazy, and we couldn't stop talking about it until we actually got to camp," says Hannah Kargoll, a former student of St. Joseph's of Notre Dame in Alameda. "The lessons really carried over with us when we got back, because at Caritas, they made a really big point that everything we were doing there could be brought back with us into the world."
Eventually, continuing management conflicts between CYO and Caritas led to Pardini's resignation in 1999. The camp's popularity and high evaluation marks from participating parents and teachers would continue under Pardini's longtime assistant Paul Raia, even as tensions between the partnered organizations heightened.
Programs, Priorities
After CYO completed its merger with Catholic Charities in 2003, it acknowledged the revamping of its winter and summer camps as a defined priority.
In 2005, CCCYO's HIV director Dr. Glenn Motola's promotion to director of programs was initially perceived as an encouraging development by members of Caritas, who were eager to see someone from the head office exhibit an on-the-ground understanding of what the program was and where it needed assistance.
"When Glenn Motola started as director of programs, he came to camp and inflated us about how he loved Caritas and how he thought it should be the flagship of CYO programs," says current Caritas director Erik Oberg. "He really had our support when he first arrived at camp."
The optimism proved short-lived. Caritas staff members assert that Motola's promise of a hands-on presence never manifested, as he instead began to reveal a perspective sharply out of touch with the realities of the program.
"I remember Glen Motola promising us that he would be around a lot and watch activities, but he never did," says Nelson Hernandez, a current teacher-naturalist at Caritas Creek, "so the people who wound up making some really big decisions simply had no real understanding of our program."
Although CCCYO executive director Brian Cahill recognizes the popularity of the CYO-Caritas program, he asserts that it was not fiscally solvent and was falling short in other key areas. Negative feedback from teachers regarding the environmental education program, however small, typically pointed to the same two concerns: cabin supervision and a need for a higher prioritizing of the science content.
"At the time, there were serious parental concerns regarding supervision," says Cahill via email. "[Our current] curriculum is now aligned with the California 4&–8 grade science standards, which was not the case prior to 2007."
While everyone seemed to agree that the use of high school students for cabin supervision needed revamping, the notion of shifting the emphasis away from spiritually engaging activites toward a more explicit academic experience became a lingering point of contention.
"Glen started talking about how we need to shift to a science standards program," says Oberg, "and if we did that, we could charge more. So everything was then leading to an inevitable goal of a science standards program as Motola started critiquing us in crazy ways."
Moving into 2006, matters between Motola and Caritas management deteriorated so badly that a legal document prepared by Caritas for its court case one year later characterizes the time period as the point when the divide between the two organizations "became concrete." The document provides a laundry list of conflicts between Motola and the Caritas management, which ultimately resulted in the resignation of two junior Caritas program directors in the space of about a year. (Motola, who is now the director of the Oak Hill School in Sausalito, declined to comment for this article.)
"The only thing we ever knew was that Paul Raia was struggling with the corporate office," Johnson says, "we never had any tangible evidence that anything was really wrong, because CYO management were never around. Enrollment was doing great and most teachers were willing to book their week again as they were getting on the bus to leave."
While some members of the staff caught wind of rumblings with upper management, such squabbling appeared to be a mainstay since the days when Pardini first formed a partnership with CYO.
"I left for Christmas break without any thoughts in my mind of things not going well," says teacher-naturalist Camilla Guevara. "I knew that CYO was constantly second-guessing the program, but we just thought of Glenn Motola as some guy in the administration who didn't get it. It was his job to get it—but he didn't."
Within a mere few days of returning from break in January, the entire program had fallen to pieces.
Trouble in Paradise
Little more than a week prior to hosting their first class of the 2007 spring semester, Motola called a meeting of the entire Caritas staff on Jan. 17, and presented them with a list of changes to the program that needed to be instituted immediately. Depending on whom you ask, the Caritas senior program director Paul Raia either personally chose to be absent or was prohibited from attending. (Now set to begin as the executive director of the Next Generation nonprofit in Marin, the conditions of Raia's severance package restrict him from commenting for this article.)
Earlier in the month, Motola had received the final report of a camp evaluation he commissioned from the risk-management firm Camp and School Consulting. While the report acknowledges many positive attributes of the program, it ultimately calls for a sizable overhaul of numerous aspects of the camp and the environmental education program. The assessment echoed many of Motola's perspectives, particularly on moving toward a more narrowly defined science-oriented curriculum. The list of changes Motola then presented to the staff heavily reflected the recommendations of the evaluation.
"Outside professional consultants had vital recommendations regarding supervision and best practices, [which] were not received in a positive manner by camp leaders," says Cahill, "and they elected to sever ties."
Among the list of roughly a dozen changes were issues such as the ever-worrisome dilemma of cabin supervision, disciplinary procedures and numerous facility-related matters, issues which the Caritas staff claim that they had expressed a full willingness to support. However, three points in the area of "Curriculum" proved contentious: revisions to the program's "Serendipity" activity, a halt to the mixing of school groups and a restructuring of the week-concluding practice of "Celebration."
It was in these three proposed revisions that the staff saw an effort by CCCYO to revamp the core tenants of Pardini's program and skew it toward a completely new focus that removed the emphasis on connecting with the kids.
"The one change that I just couldn't get behind was the separating of the schools," says Johnson. "Why would you want to separate these kids when the whole point is to bring them together? It's against what CYO says their mission is."
When questioned on Motola's insistence on the segregating of schoolchildren from differing socioeconomic backgrounds, Cahill asserts, "Our camp philosophy is to meet the needs of various groups of kids regardless of socioeconomic background, with specific programming and trained facilitators that meet their distinct, individual needs."
Befuddled by how such core changes were to be implemented in the space of about nine days, the Caritas staff contends that they requested Motola's specific plan on how to proceed.
"We said, 'If you want us to make these changes, how should we do it?'" says current Caritas program director Emily Wood Ordway. "We were willing to hear their ideas. After two hours of discussion, they said we had to vote: 'Yes' you're willing to stay, or 'no' you're not.'"
What ensued is a matter of starkly different recollections. Cahill states that "the former camp leadership was not willing to consider implementing program changes. As a result, the program was temporarily suspended and staff were laid off in order to allow them to receive benefits."
Conversely, the Caritas staff claims that they had brokered a second meeting set to convene two days later in which Motola and other CCCYO staff would return with a tangible plan for implementing the changes in such a short space of time.
"They came back on Friday and they had no proposal at all," says Ordway. "There was no dialogue or choice on the matters. Nothing. Just eviction notices and letters of termination."
Caritas Returns
Shocked and discouraged, many Caritas staff members simply returned to their homes around the country. Some dug in and tried to rally support against CCCYO's decision, while others began looking forward.
"A lot of staff members were from out of state and left right away," says Ordway. "A couple of us stuck around, and I started talking to Erik [Oberg] about doing our own camp."
With the eager support of three schools, the duo successfully spearheaded an effort to run a pilot program for a new camp in nearby Cazadero. Amazingly, they had it up and running with a fully volunteer staff by April.
In late spring, Oberg and Ordway had paired with Gordon and Pardini to launch a new incarnation of Caritas Creek in the fall of 2007 at their new location in Cazadero. Pardini and her new partners mailed out their fall registration forms for environmental education shortly before CCCYO mailed theirs. Unsurprisingly perhaps, both parties claimed to be Caritas Creek.
"Within a week of us sending out our registration, CYO sent out their form for Caritas Creek," Ordway explains. "That was followed by a lot of confusion and disgruntled responses from school administrators who were trying to piece the story together and decide who to trust. The phone calls just started pouring in."
In light of the emerging conflict over who had the legitimate rights to Caritas Creek, Oberg, Ordway, Gordon and Pardini were served with papers informing them that CCCYO was suing them for trademark infringement for $9.6 million, as well as a court injunction to halt any further use of the Caritas name and logo in connection with the Cazadero camp.
"We had no resources and we didn't know what to do," says Ordway. "We were so passionate about the program, but felt that if we could not continue to call it Caritas Creek, it wouldn't work."
However, Pardini's lawyer soon arranged a meeting with Paul Vapnek of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, one of the most renowned lawyers in the field of patent and trademark law at one of San Francisco's oldest firms. Soon, the new upstart incarnation of Caritas Creek had a stellar legal team—pro bono.
"One of the reasons I'm still coming into the office on a regular basis is cases like Paula Pardini's and the other Caritas Creek people," explains Vapnek, "because these were interesting issues and these were people that desperately needed help. And the firm was willing to let me and several of our younger lawyers represent them without charge."
When it came time for the hearing, Caritas entered the courtroom as a community. "We rallied people associated with the camp to show up for the hearing," Ordway says. "On our side of the courtroom we had 44 supporters; on the CYO side of the courtroom they had the executive director [Brian Cahill]."
The judge quickly turned down CCCYO's request for an injunction, and within the week, a settlement was being brokered. Among the details, CCCYO would relinquish any claim to the Caritas name or logo, while the Caritas staff would be required to state on all of the materials that they are not affiliated with CCCYO. It was a stipulation they were all too ready to accept.
Today, both CCCYO and Caritas Creek operate camp programs in close proximity to each other. The former is quick to cite its compliance with California science standards, and points to the 750 children currently enrolled in its summer camp program. Meanwhile, Caritas is presently running a summer camp in King's Canyon near Sequoia National Park.
Yet the most telling postscript to the split is that Caritas Creek has ended up with the lion's share of schools in its environmental education program. Whereas the final 2006 school-year program of CYO-Caritas Creek boasted 88 participating schools, nearly 50 of them had already attended the new incarnation of Caritas in Cazadero, a telling sign as to whether a spiritually oriented program has any staying power with the Bay Area's Catholic school system.
As one teacher remarked, "It's ironic to me that it's a Catholic Youth Organization that wants to focus more on science."


text:
Confirming what we first reported here back in July, former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein–who currently heads up Hewlett-Packard's mobility group, tells the Financial Times that HP has abandoned plans for its Android tablet. Also headed for a dirt nap, the Android smartphone the company was building.
From the FT:
HP is on track to deliver a tablet computer running webOS early next year, as well as a Windows-based tablet that will ship sooner, he said. It has abandoned a project to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android open source operating system and there will be no tablet based on the system, Mr. Rubinstein said.
Seems HP did indeed reconsider its multi-OS strategy in light of the Palm acquisition and concluded that three operating systems was one too many–at least as far as mobile devices are concerned. For printers it's just fine, as a commenter below notes.


text:
Donate by clicking the button to the right or mail a check to:
Windermere Foundation 1151 Fairview Ave N Seattle, WA 98109
Windermere Foundation Mission
For the past 31 years, the Windermere Foundation has donated a portion of the proceeds from every home purchased or sold using a Windermere agent towards supporting low-income and homeless families in our communities. What started in 1989 as a grassroots foundation serving families in need in Washington State, has grown to encompass ten states and has raised over $41 million for programs and organizations that provide shelter, food, children's programs, emergency assistance, and other services to those who need our help most.
Every Transaction Makes a Difference
Every time a Windermere agent sells a home, a portion of the commission goes to the Windermere Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1989. Each year, contributions from Windermere agents, combined with donations from Windermere employees and community members, have allowed the Windermere Foundation to support non-profit agencies dedicated to helping low-income and homeless families. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who donates to the Windermere Foundation, and we feel privileged to be able to give back to the communities where we live and work.
Windermere Foundation Celebrates 30 Years of Giving!
Last year we celebrated the Windermere Foundation's 30th anniversary with a renewed year-long focus on giving back, doing more, and providing service to the communities that have made us who we are. Visit our new Windermere Foundation website to see how it all began, along with highlights from the past 30 years.
Windermere Foundation Application Form and Funding Guidelines
(Please download the form to fill out the application.)
2019 Windermere Foundation Donors and Recipients List


text:
Lady in Sumo Suit Bludgeoned Ex with Smirnoff Ice for Flirting with Man Dressed as a Candy Bar
It was a crime of infinite ridiculousness: Dressed in a sumo wrestling suit, Sandra Talbot assaulted her ex-girlfriend with her own girth and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, vengeance for flirting with a man dressed as giant Snickers bar.
A Dublin court convicted Talbot yesterday. According to the Evening Herald, the assault occurred on Halloween night, 2008. Talbot was dressed as a sumo wrestler, and she ran into ex-girlfriend Adrienne Martin at a gay bar.
During the evening Talbot, who was wearing an inflatable sumo suit, bumped into [Martin]. When she turned around, the accused said to her: "Keep smiling, c**t."
Later, a man dressed as a Snickers bar began waving at her and when she went to wave back, Talbot pushed her arm from behind. When she asked what the problem was, Talbot said: "Your arm's in my way."
The confrontation escalated. Talbot reached into the folds of her inflatable flesh, where she had hidden a bottle of Smirnoff Ice.
"The next thing, I got a blow to the left side of my head beside the temple," Ms Martin said. "My knees went from under me and I went down. She walked away, laughing and sneering at me. I had a massive lump on the side of my head."
Talbot, an aspiring tattoo artist, "was escorted out and had to be asked to partially deflate her costume so she could get out the door."
But how did she carry the the Smirnoff in her suit? This mystery was at the center of Talbot's defense: Her "barrister" argued that she could not have fit the saccharine weapon in her sleeve due to the suit's "air-tight seal." (Please. It's a novelty costume, not a space shuttle's hatch.) But her protestations were not enough: Talbot was found guilty and fined €400.
Bros who ice bros: You have all been outdone by a lesbian Irishlady in a sumo suit. Let this be the final nail in BrosIcingBro's coffin. [Evening Herald, Evening Herald, Image for illustrative purposes only. The above costumed individuals are models and did not bludgeon anyone with a bottle of Smirnoff Ice.]


text:
Venus Williams graduated in fashion design from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and has her own EleVen clothing line which she herself wears on the tennis courts. Let's see what our seven-time Grand Slam champion designed for the 2008 tennis season.
Here's a short note: Venus Williams was switching back and forth with her outfits throughout the year and it gave me a hard time in compiling this retrospection. For example, at the US Open she wore the black dress she later sported at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha. However, I worked a lot to make this retrospection as precise as possible.
At 2008 Roland Garros Venus sported two outfits, and the second one, without sleeves she also wore for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's "Looking for a Hero" campaign.
My favorites are both Stuttgart dresses, because of intensive colors, and the US Open one. The Roland Garros outfits are also very authentic.
Which Venus' design do you favor?
This year Venus Williams was so elegant on court that she even wore high heels! Well, for a magazine photo shoot. Venus and her sister Serena dressed up for the November issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine. I featured those pictures just for fun, and because they are cool. 🙂
You may want to check out our already featured overviews of Ana Ivanovic's 2008 adidas outfits (available even in video form!), as well as those of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko.
Stay tuned! More retrospections to come soon! (photos: Tennis Channel, James Rainsford, pigmediacraft, coockoo, travelpod, monmonch, usatoday, David Nunn, Arijit Basak, WTA Hotties, brtsergio, Black Tennis Pros, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix)


text:
A young Comox girl is among the first 30 British Columbians to re-designate their gender on their birth certificates after new legislation was passed earlier this year allowing the change — but her mission's not over yet.
Harriette Cunningham, 11, was born a boy named Declan, but it wasn't long before she began to understand something wasn't right about the body she was born into.
"She would rebel from getting her hair cut at a young age, and she would gravitate toward things our society would identify as really feminine," said dad Colin Cunningham.
"It was a journey of self-awareness, and at eight or nine she started to figure out where she was headed. She was already there and it was us that had to catch up really quickly."
From there, Cunningham said, it was a crash course of sorts for their family in LGBTQ and gender-identity issues, but at the end of the day, it was about standing by their child.
"As early as kids can figure out who they are, she was pretty steadfast in her identity, and she's really shown us the way through this," Cunningham said of his daughter's path to understanding herself. "She's taught us a huge deal about life in general and ... she's taught us what it means to be true to yourself.
"We weren't prepared for how strong and sure of herself she really is, so that's been a lesson to us, too."
These days, Declan is known as Harriette, after filing paperwork last year to officially change her name. With the support of her family, and especially her grandmother Cathie Dickson, Harriette also embarked on a letter-writing campaign to various levels of government, pushing for legislation that would allow her to change the gender designation on her birth documents.
In May, the provincial government finally passed Bill 17, which allows individuals to re-designate their gender on their birth certificates without having to undergo gender re-assignment surgery first.
And just last week, Harriette received a new birth certificate that lists her gender as female.
"I'm really happy. It matters to me to have me properly represented," she told The Province. "It's not just a piece of paper."
With her new birth certificate in hand, Harriette and her parents have already begun the process of applying for a new passport to match, in advance of travelling to Seattle next month for Gender Odyssey, a conference that examines matters relating to the transgender community.
While her parents, in the past, have been able to explain why Harriette's paperwork doesn't match her physical representation, Harriette cited one experience where a security guard had to ask a manager to double check her passport, drawing the attention of other travellers and leaving Harriette close to tears.
"When they (security guards) saw my old passport, they would ask, 'Well, where's this person?' I would get worried and anxious because I don't think I should have to go through that," Harriette said. "Some people — they don't get it. It definitely would've been a lot easier if there had been no gender on my birth certificate."
Though Harriette now has an accurate birth certificate — and soon will have a new passport — she's still fighting to improve the situation for other gender-variant persons.
"I'm definitely not finished," she said.
In October, the Cunningham family — along with lawyer barbara findlay, who spells her name without capitals — will attend a human-rights tribunal where Harriette will advocate for gender designation to be removed from birth certificates.
"What I'm fighting for, ultimately, is to take gender markings off the passports and birth certificates. So when a child is born, they won't label it," Harriette explained.
"If that had happened for me, it would've been a whole lot easier."


text:
Be a part of a unique online community that connects post production professionals and film academics worldwide.
You'll have access to personalize your news feed, access to Live Post Talks and much more. Contribute to the community by posting interesting post production content.
May 27, 2019, 12:20 pm
Gordon and Azin Samari sit down to discuss the four-part documentary Lorena that recounts the Lorena and John Bobbit saga.
September 25, 2020, 1:32 pm
If you're looking to showcase your video work in style, then check out our top three templates for Premiere Pro to help you create a showreel or demo reel.
September 25, 2020, 1:32 pm
Sound Devices just released a major firmware update for the 8-series mixer/recorder. Besides a long list of improvements and additions, the most notable new feature is SuperSlot support for the Wisycom MCR54 wireless receiver and compressors on all busses. The SD-Remote App also got a v7.00 update with additional features.
September 25, 2020, 1:32 pm
It's commonly noted that for many aspects of art, there are no rules. While you could say the same for editing, there's still a set of practical and theoretical practices that will improve your videos. Today let's look at the practical side and divide your edit into specific stages to maintain an efficient workflow.
September 25, 2020, 1:32 pm
As of Monday, "The Eight Hundred" became the highest-grossing movie of 2020 at the global box office, overtaking "Bad Boys for Life." To date, the Chinese war epic has raked in $425 million and continues to exceed all expectations.
September 25, 2020, 1:31 pm
Back in July, AWN reported that leading media and entertainment creative software company Foundry released Nuke Indie, an accessible version of Nuke Studio for eligible solo artists. Nuke Indie was the latest addition to the Nuke family of products combing industry-leading node-based compositing toolset of NukeX with the conform, editorial and review capabilities in Nuke Studio, making it a powerful and important tool for artists wanting to create high-quality visual effects.
September 25, 2020, 1:31 pm
VFX Legion has announced that CG supervisor, Blake Anderson, has joined the recently launched B.C. division's leadership team; the industry veteran brings a range of skills and experience managing and collaborating with large work-from-home teams of artists on feature films and episodic series. The announcement was made by company founder, James David Hattin.
September 24, 2020, 4:52 pm
Don't miss this VFX Breakdown by Pixomondo about their work on the impressive World War 1 sequence and many more for PERRY MASON...
September 24, 2020, 4:52 pm
In 2013, Jeff Campbell explained the work of Spin VFX on AFTER EARTH. He then worked on many shows including GAME OF THRONES, JOHN WICK, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD and THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES.
September 24, 2020, 12:48 pm
The boffo global box office for "Tenet" is proof of the public appetite for Christopher Nolan's abilities as a filmmaker, but as the film opens in more countries and, gradually, the United States, familiar questions are being raised about the director's idiosyncratic approach to sound, and its impact on how much — or how little — of the film audiences are able to comprehend.
September 24, 2020, 12:48 pm
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explains some different ways to identify the loudest sample in a clip, not just how high the highest peak in a clip is but where it is.
Gordon sits down with documentary editor and producer Kathryn Robson to discuss storytelling and her work on the hit Netflix ...
Gordon sits down to talk to Emmy Nominated editors Kate Sanford & Tim Streeto to discuss their work on the Marvelous Mrs. ...
Gordon sits down with Wade Barnett(Supervising Sound Editor) and David Barbee (Sound Designer) to discuss their work on Amazo ...
Choose what Post News gets sent directly to your E-Mail, daily or weekly.
Get your post news on your favourite Apple device, when you want it where you want it.
Get your post news on your favourite Android device with the AOTG Android App.


text:
Need Help Choosing The Right Words?English Epitaphs | Spanish Epitaphs
Need to save your progress?You can save your current design by adding the headstone to your cart. When you are ready to edit again you can come back, visit the cart, and click the re-edit link.
Single Person Headstone
Companion Headstone ( 2 or more persons )
Please note that all text and imagery on gray stone will be black for better contrast. This change will reflect in the design proof sent to you after the order is placed.
Flower (6)
$0.00 – $1,145.00
Upload Photographs
Step 1. Click "Add Files" and add your photograph(s).
Step 2. Click "Upload Selected Files" and wait for them to upload.
Please keep in mind we will edit your photo into the oval or rectangular shape for you.
Deleting file, please wait...
- Description
- Additional information
Our Traditional engraved headstones are unique and artfully crafted from personal photographs and durable high quality granite. Each headstone is created from your personal photographs and includes original artwork to truly capture the spirit and memory of the deceased.
Each headstone includes:
• A Design from our library
• One high quality granite headstone, with the color of your choice engraved with approved artwork.
• Unlimited text provided it fits within the dimensions of the stone.
• A complete draft of the layout before the actual engraving process begins (with a maximum of 3 draft alterations or revisions ).
• All headstones delivered within 2 to 3 weeks of final draft approval, and full payment is received.
• Excellent customer service.
Additional information
|Headstone Type
Single, Double
Other Size, 20 x 10 x 3, 24 x 12 x 3, 28 x 16 x 3, 36 x 18 x 3
Straight, L.M.P, Bevel
Absolute Black, Bahama Blue, India Gray, India Red
|Photograph #1
No Photograph, 5×7 Rectangle, 5×7 Oval, 3.25 x 4.25 Oval
|Photograph #2
No Photograph, 5×7 Rectangle, 5×7 Oval, 3.25 x 4.25 Oval


text:
Hi all my name is Ray Benedict ,I live in Greensburg ,Pa I have a 1960 NSU Quickly TT moped this is a three speed high tank 50 cc bike .i have restored every part or replaced with original or very nice NOS parts all out of Germany. My main concern is reassembling this bike. When I took the bike apart I did not take pictures,which I have since learned is very important. My question to any of our moped friends is, does anyone of you know or have the NSU machines that might give me some advise on how to tackle this assembly. Every part has been repainted ,rechromed and the aluminum parts polished. Since there were on 23,000 of these bikes produced they are very rare and for sure in the U.S. Any help folks would be greatly appreciated. When finished this will be a beautiful bike. Engine /transmission completely rebuilt in Germany. Again folks my sincere appreciation in advance for any help. Any available manuals that deal with my bike in English would be very much appreciated.
Ray Benedict
107 Raven Dr
Greensburg, pa 15601
Ph 412/554/4646


text:
2 search results
Animation II Lab
In addition to developing advanced knowledge and skills needed for success in the Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communications Career Cluster®, students will be expected to create two-and three-dimensional animations. The instruction also assists students seeking careers in the animation...
- Grade Range: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Postsecondary
Scope and Sequence: Animation II Lab
CTE TEKS - Implemented 2017-2018, adopted in 2015Animation II Lab course scope and sequence within the Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications Career Cluster® summarizes the content to be taught, and one possible order for teaching the units of instruction. A brief description of...
- Resource ID: 19300
- Grade Range: 11, 12


text:
"Glee" fans rejoice; show star Cory Monteith has joined the cast of Jamie Babbit's "Breaking the Girl", a story of manipulative college girls suckering others into killing for them.
John Carpenter is working on his latest film "The Ward", and is now releasing pre-production diaries on his official site.
Kevin Williamson talks "Scream" reboots. As of now, the only real word is "It's going great!", with a few minor details.
In the 'do they really think people will buy that' department, details have been released for the Blu-ray edition of Roland Emmerich's "Godzilla" remake.


text:
The Jelling Dragon - secure shopping basket page.
Click on the total price figure to select the total in your own currency.
To order multiple items change the quantity and click on Recalculate.
Large Parcels - Note that oversize packages (i.e. swords and orders weighing over 2kg/>60cm in length) will be sent as parcels. The following services will be advised:
The estimated total prices in Euros and US$ are based upon today's official exchange rate. The exchange rate that you will actually be charged will depend upon your bank and the payment method selected.
Foreign currencies - The amount that you will actually pay in your own currency will be displayed when you reach the final payment screen. Once you have seen the total amount to pay in your own currency it is then at your discretion if you wish to proceed with your order and complete the payment. Note that the final exchange rate will depend upon the payment method that you select and may not be exactly the same as the one used on this page.


text:
Hi everyone - The Call for Papers for the 5th annual HITB Security
Conference in Amsterdam is now open. #HITB2014AMS takes place at the
Beurs van Berlage from the 27th - 30th of May 2014. The official
conference hotel for the event is the Hilton DoubleTree.
As always we start with 2-days of hands on technical trainings followed
by a 2-day triple track conference. However, 2014 also sees the
introduction of a brand new addition to the HITB line up - the HITB
Haxpo or hacker expo!
With support and backing from iAmsterdam, HITB Haxpo is going to be
unlike anything that's been done before. Think IT security exhibition
meets Makerfaire with a generous touch of HITBSecConf flavor thrown in
for good measure.
What exactly does that mean? Imagine an area dedicated to hackerspaces;
makers with 3D printers, laser cutters and other fabrication goodies
coupled with TOOOL's Lock Picking Village, HITB and Mozilla's
HackWEEKDAY developer hackathon, a hackerspaces challenge featuring LEGO
Mindstorms EV3, our Capture the Flag 'live hacking' competition and
topped off by a 3 day IT exhibition featuring Microsoft and Google as
the main anchors. The best part? Entrance to the 3-day Haxpo is
As 2014 marks our 5th year anniversary of HITB in EU, #HITB2014AMS will
be a very special edition conference with an ALL WOMEN keynote line up:
Opening Keynote (29th May 2014):
Katie Moussouris (Lead, Microsoft Security Response Center)
Kristin Lovejoy (GM, IBM Security Services Division)
Closing Keynote (29th May 2014):
Mischel Kwon (Former Director, US Computer Emergency Response Team)
Opening Keynote (30th May 2014):
Pamela Fusco (Chief Information Security Officer, Apollo Group)
Jennifer Steffens (Chief Executive Officer, IOActive)
Closing Keynote (30th May 2014):
Jaya Baloo (Chief Information Security Officer, KPN Telecom)
We're looking for talks that are highly technical, but most importantly,
material which is new, fresh and hasn't been presented previously.
Submission Deadlines:
Round #1 selection: 1st week January 2014
Round #2 selection: 1st Week of February 2014
CFP submissions will be evaluated in 2 rounds. If all slots are filled
in the first selection round, we will close CFP early so DON'T DELAY
HITB CFP: http://cfp.hackinthebox.org/
Event Website: http://haxpo.nl || http://conference.hitb.org
(Opens 1st Dec)
Each accepted submission will entitle the speaker(s) to
accommodation for 3 nights / 4 days and travel expense reimbursement
up to EUR1200.00 per speaking slot.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Cloud Security
File System Security
3G/4G/WIMAX Security
SS7/GSM/VoIP Security
Security of Medical Devices
Critical Infrastructure Security
Smartphone / MobileSecurity
Smart Card and Physical Security
Network Protocols, Analysis and Attacks
Applications of Cryptographic Techniques
Side Channel Analysis of Hardware Devices
Analysis of Malicious Code / Viruses / Malware
Data Recovery, Forensics and Incident Response
Hardware based attacks and reverse engineering
Windows / Linux / OS X / *NIX Security Vulnerabilities
Next Generation Exploit and Exploit Mitigation Techniques
NFC, WLAN, GPS, HAM Radio, Satellite, RFID and Bluetooth Security
WHITE PAPER: If your presentation is short listed for inclusion into the
conference program, a technical white paper must also be provided for
review (3000 - 5000 words).
Your submissions will be reviewed by The HITB CFP Review Committee:
Charlie Miller (formerly Principal Research Consultant, Accuvant Labs)
Katie Moussouris, Senior Security Strategist, Microsoft
Itzik Kotler, Chief Technology Officer, Security Art
Cesar Cerrudo, Chief Technology Officer, IOActive
Jeremiah Grossman, Founder, Whitehat Security
Andrew Cushman, Senior Director, Microsoft
Saumil Shah, Founder CEO Net-Square
Thanh 'RD' Nguyen, THC, VNSECURITY
Alexander Kornburst, Red Database
Fredric Raynal, QuarksLab
Shreeraj Shah, Founder, BlueInfy
Emmanuel Gadaix, Founder, TSTF
Andrea Barisani, Inverse Path
Philippe Langlois, TSTF
Ed Skoudis, InGuardians
Haroon Meer, Thinkst
Chris Evans, Google
Raoul Chiesa, TSTF/ISECOM
rsnake, SecTheory
Gal Diskin, Intel
Skyper, THC
Note: We do not accept product or vendor related pitches. If you would
like to showcase your company's products or technology at HITB Haxpo
(which also has it's own set of speaking slots), please email
firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Hafez Kamal
Hack in The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd
36th Floor, Menara Maxis
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
50088 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: +603-26157299
Fax: +603-26150088


text:
Cash for (Polluting) Clunkers
Remember the "Cash for Clunkers" program (officially the Car Allowance Rebate System) from the summer of 2009?
Well, the California Air Resources Board is providing a green spin on this, with an enhancement of its Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (EFMP). The objective of EFMP is to scrap out higher-polluting cars and light- and medium-duty trucks.
Featured Content
Said Mary D. Nichols, CARB chairman, "Action taken by the Board today will provide $100-million to directly benefit disadvantaged communities. The funding plan and ARB's amended 'car scrap' program together provide emission reductions for all Californians and financial incentives for those who need it the most."
Low-income residents with polluting vehicles—before they're scrapped, they must complete a Smog Check test—will get incentives to buy a used hybrid or other vehicle that gets at least 35 miles per gallon, or funding for a new or used plug-in hybrid. The incentive is as high as $4,500.
In addition to which, the state of California is adding $116-million to provide rebates to purchases of zero and near-zero emissions cars, and is offering $5,000 for those who get a fuel-cell powered vehicle.
My "Autoline After Hours" colleague John McElroy has long contended that California is pretty much working to create a whole class of cars—zero-emissions vehicles—through funding and legislation. Looks like he has more ammo for his argument.


text:
Hungry Tigers have changed their stripes
Pursuit of title features new manager, and new reliance on speed and defense
LAKELAND, Fla. -- In one pivotally important sense, nothing has changed at Tigers camp.
"Another year," said designated hitter Victor Martinez, "another run at it."
But in another, undeniably accurate sense, the run at "it" -- and "it," of course, is a World Series ring now 30 years in the making for Motown -- is being conducted in a dramatically different way.
It's not just that the Tigers have changed managers (though the difference there was certainly striking when Brad Ausmus conducted a full media session Tuesday morning without lighting up a single Marlboro); it's that they've reinvented themselves -- perhaps drastically -- as a team more reliant and reliable on speed and defense than any time in recent memory.
The Prince Fielder trade set into motion a makeover that will certainly affect the future financials (no small point with Max Scherzer a free agent at season's end and Miguel Cabrera right behind him). More immediately, it continued a roster revamp that essentially began with last summer's swap for Jose Iglesias. Miggy is moving back to first base where he belongs, the agile Ian Kinsler takes over at second, rookie Nick Castellanos is at third, and president and general manager Dave Dombrowski doubled-down on a more fleet-of-foot mindset when he added Rajai Davis to potentially platoon with Andy Dirks in left.
Those changes will be coupled with a literal shift in strategy.
Ausmus added Matt Martin to his staff as a "defensive coordinator," among other responsibilities, and the Tigers figure to be more analytical and tactical in their approach to defensive positioning. Nor does it hurt to have a third-base coach with 11 Gold Gloves and more than 400 steals under his belt (and Omar Vizquel's baserunning instruction at Tuesday's first full-squad workout was particularly well-received).
"I don't know that we'll be shifting to the extent that Tampa Bay does and Houston does," Ausmus said of the defensive strategy. "I know we will do it at times. The game will dictate it and starting pitchers have to be comfortable with it, too. If your pitchers aren't comfortable with it, you might have to make an adjustment.
"But if I feel strongly about it, it's ultimately my choice."
Dombrowski didn't necessarily feel strongly about changing the tenor of the Tigers. Until somehow afforded -- both by science and financial surplus -- a team of nine Mike Trouts with five tools apiece, he knows Major League teams will always have to give up something to get something. And so ranking at or near the bottom in baseball in defensive runs saved and stolen bases, as the Tigers did in 2013, didn't necessarily bother him, given the accompanying production that came from having Cabrera, Fielder, Martinez and Jhonny Peralta in the middle of the order.
Yet offseason strategies are a product of opportunity, and it was no secret the Tigers did not intend for Cabrera to remain at third for the rest of his career. Something had to give eventually, if not immediately, and talks with the Rangers progressed to a point of risk-tolerance that Dombrowski, who has always had a quick trigger finger, was quite comfortable with.
On measure, it's hard to blame him, because -- on paper, at least -- this does appear to be a team more properly suited for October, particularly in the era of offensive suppression in which we currently reside.
"Philosophically, yes," Dombrowski said. "I guess you would say that. But you never know. In the 2011 World Series between St. Louis and Texas, I don't think anybody anticipated it would be a Series in which bullpens were more important than the starting pitchers. Also, last year, we lost the ALCS due to some big home runs -- David Ortiz in Game 2, Mike Napoli in Game 3, Shane Victorino, even though he's not known as a home run guy, in Game 6. But normally, runs are harder to come by. Defense and speed are more important."
Starting pitching is pretty important, too, and the Tigers' tinkering with the rotation -- essentially replacing Doug Fister with Drew Smyly -- is no small plot point.
Dombrowski is the first to acknowledge that he's been "lambasted" in the court of public opinion for that trade, which netted lefty reliever Ian Krol, utility man Steve Lombardozzi and, most importantly, left-handed prospect Robbie Ray, who has made a good first impression in these nascent days of camp.
To Dombrowski, though, the trade fits the formula of a Tigers team taking on a younger look, contending in the present but not forgetting what's at stake in the future. And this is easier said than done in today's marketplace. The markets for Cy Young winners Scherzer and Tampa Bay's David Price, pursued with varying degrees of diligence, simply never materialized because of the premium placed on contractual control.
"Young pitching is a guarded area," Dombrowski said. "They're not moving. People wouldn't even give up their No. 1 Draft choices for some guys. So that just shows you that it's not easy to accomplish. If we were going to trade Doug, we were going to have to get a young starting pitcher close to the big leagues, not somebody sitting there in A-ball and going to Double-A this year. We had about 15 guys identified, and other people wouldn't trade them."
The net result of hawking Fister and Fielder is a Tigers team that's gotten younger at third base and in the fifth starting slot, to say nothing of the youth at shortstop (Iglesias), the setup bridge to Joe Nathan (Bruce Rondon and Krol) and the backup catcher spot (Bryan Holaday).
"You don't want to wake up one day and realize what an old club you've become," Dombrowski said. "We're trying to blend young guys in with that."
So while the basic idea of trying to win a World Series on a club built around three aces in Scherzer, Justin Verlander and Anibal Sanchez and a lethal bat in Cabrera remains the same, there is a fundamental difference on the fringes, from the forward-thinking skipper to a more dependable defense to the stents installed to help unclog the basepaths.
The Tigers are still going for "it." They're just taking a different route.


text:
string(0) ""
Harness Wine High Visibility
Codice articolo: H-HRS-XL-WIV
Easy to wear, comfortable and elegant: that's the Haqihana harness.
Made by artisans from materials produced in Europe, it's the perfect way to guarantee the utmost comfort for your dog without causing pain, rubbing, sense of restriction or other discomfort.
It has five point regulation, all parts are sewn together with secure stitching and the plastic components are rounded off with no sharp edges.
The versions ML, SL, XSL and XXSL have longer straps that run along the dog's torso (back and abdomen) and are intended for long bodied dogs.
Webbing widths vary (15mm, 20mm or 25mm) according to the harness size.
|Washing instructions
|Haqihana harnesses and leashes can be washed by hand or machine washed on a gentle cycle (we suggest placing them in a laundry bag made for delicate items).
Use the same care that you would for washing a wool sweater (mild detergent and cold or lukewarm water).
Hang out in a dry place away from direct sunlight.
Do not tumble-dry.
|The guarantee covers the harnesses and leashes for 5 years from purchase date against all faults, breakage or that which is not considered normal wear and tear. Haqihana reserves the right to verify the correct use of the harnesses and leashes. For example, chewing (of the harnesses or leashes) or failing to follow washing instructions is not considered correct usage. It's fundamental to keep all stamped and dated tags from harnesses as these are needed for your guarantee.
The damaged harness must be returned CLEAN by post to:
Haqihana srl, Via Torino 12 22070 Fenegrò (CO)
Harnessess received soiled and in an unsanitary condition will be rejected.
Please call to advise before sending.
|Haqihana also provides a repair service for a fee in all other cases not covered by warranty where the repair is technically possible.
The damaged harness must be returned CLEAN by post to:
Haqihana srl, Via Torino 12 22070 Fenegrò (CO)
Harnessess received soiled and in an unsanitary condition will be rejected.
The repair charge is €9,50 for each element replaced plus shipping costs.
Please call to advise before shipping.


text: Oakley Glasses offer a clear solution to your visual needs. Founded in 1975 by James Jannard out of his own garage in California, Oakley specialises in producing sports equipment and lifestyle pieces – like its glasses and sunglasses range. After resounding success, the Oakley Group went on to purchase high-end eyewear brand Oliver Peoples, before Oakley itself was purchased under the Luxottica Group for over $2 billion in 2007. Oakley breathes on the principle of innovation. Their sleek glasses range is predominantly designed in-house at Oakley's headquarters, ensuring a personal and thorough finish being achieved, each piece of eyewear therefore being versatile and long-lasting. Jannard's own creation – a material trademarked as 'Unobtainium' – is used on Oakley's eyewear's ear-socks to ensure comfort and grip for the user. Frames are in many models also constructed from carbon and associated alloy metals, again ensuring that the glasses are resistant to damage. After all, glasses should not be specific to tailoring to visual requirements; they should also tailor to robust tasks. Oakley has provided eyewear for the U.S. Olympic Team in 2012 and the brand also donated 35 pieces of eyewear to the Chilean Miners, stranded and saved in 2010. Available for Children, Men and Women; Oakley Glasses will have a pair fit for any user. Providing a quality finish via use of bold and vibrant colours and attention to detail, select your Oakley Glasses preference, with free prescription lenses. Check out Glasses Station's best-selling Oakley's; including the Asian Fit Model in Children's and Plank 2.0 pair available in Unisex.All Oakley Glasses


text:
SB118Ops Mission Logs/Sal Taybrim/Never Mix Your Drinks
|StarBase 118 Ops
"Rixx. A Rodulan crimelord, and a smooth operator in the Orion Syndicate. Notorious for living by the rules of profit and murder. He was supposedly killed when the Syndicate was targeted by Starfleet years ago. But the body was never found, and Rixx was never confirmed as arrested or dead."
Mission Summary
Act I: It's Never a Simple Drink
|Leo Handley-Page takes a sabbatical to look into the bizarre mutations affecting his family and Byzallian friends. Executive officer Lt. Commander Sal Taybrim is relaxing off duty in Keal's Pub with Lt Commander Kaitlyn Falcon and Lieutenant JG Rocko Stevens when they are introduced to Gold Dew - an unusual and expensive new liquor that has the unique property of enhancing any flavor it is paired with. The bartender at the pub says that the liquor is a hot commodity and it's hard for him to get shipments in because so many people are buying it up.
What starts as a simple drink becomes a major conspiracy when the Federation freighter SS Annabelle's Lament explodes just out of the Geneva VI Cargobase killing all 65 passengers and crew onboard. It was carrying a full shipment of Gold Dew, as well as various terraforming chemicals.
Meanwhile, the merchant freighter NGV Fortune's Determination docks at StarBase 118, and immediately sets off an unauthorized lifeform alert. The Fortune's Determination's Captain Darold Tashina denies any knowledge of an illicit passenger while cargo control hunts for a stowaway. They find Zel Rohan, a battered Cardassian/Bajoran drifter hiding in a silk crate. The bedraggled hybrid collapses from dehydration and malnutrition shortly after being uncovered, and is taken to security. The mystery quickly deepens as Starbase crew discover that Zel Rohan was the last person to deliver cargo to the SS Annabelle's Lament before the ship took off on it's delivery route; meeting with the ship at the Miranda VII Spaceport. When Zel wakes, he quickly denies that he had anything to do with the explosion of the Lament - that he merely delivered a load of the valuable alcohol Gold Dew. Security suspects that Zel knows far more than he is letting on, but the hybrid refuses to talk, insisting that he'll be hunted down and shot if he does.
ActII: An Explosive Combination
Solok finding that they are short one corpse - the freighter's first officer a Flaxian named Drin Jerol is mysteriously missing. The mystery deepens when Ambassador Nia Calderan and Diplomat Trel'lis call Drin Larel to inform her that her husband died and she informs them back that her husband has been dead for seven years. She tells them he was killed while gambling at Spaceport Miranda VII, which raises many suspicions for the crew of StarBase 118 Ops.
Science and Engineering teams are finding their own mysteries. After Commander Taybrim meets with Professor Nathanius Strekk to discuss the apparent evils of Gold Dew, he finds that the alcohol can be combined with certain chemicals for an explosive reaction. Turning over this information to the science and engineering teams, they quickly find that Gold Dew could be combined with one of the terraforming fertilizers - calcium trisulfanese - the Annabelle's Lament was carrying to form 'sticky bombs' - a form of plastic explosive that can be detonated by a phaser beam, disruptor blast or energy surge. Further investigation reveals the sabotage was intentional, as the Gold Dew and the calcium trisulfanese would not have been able to freely mix with standard cargo containment (and even if it did the explosion would have been debilitating but not total destruction). Chief Engineer Kellan Joran theorizes that some of the sticky bombs were planted on critical engineering junctions which would activate as soon as the Lament cleared the cargobase and jumped to warp.
Intelligence immediately starts to investigate the evidence found on the Lament, and what they find spells danger for both StarBase 118 and the Trinity sector. A corporation called Emerald Dragon Enterprises has been buying large quantities of both calcium trisulfanese and Gold Dew. Emerald Dragon Enterprises is run by a wealthy Romulan merchant named Lhara Khota. At first glance it appears to be a completely legitimate company, but with deeper digging the crew finds that Khota and Emerald Dragon Enterprises have ties to the Ralaaram Ocala. An immediate plan is put into place to dig out this weapons dealing, before it puts tons of hard to track explosives into the hands of Romulan terrorists. All evidence point to the Miranda VII Spaceport being the site of the next trade.
Lt Commander Falcon decides to head to the brig where Counselor Ashley Yael, Dr Pon Pon and Ensign Lucien Landau are questioning Zel Rohan to little avail when an unexpected power surge rips through the security section and all power fails. Zel immediately mobilizes, but instead of trying to flee he dives for cover as several deadly disruptor shots tear through the darkness and the security guards try to locate the assassin. They are hampered by panic in the civilian section outside of security where an entire zoo full of animals have gotten out of their cages at the exact same time the power surge went off. Finding themselves dealing with an experienced - and well planned - assassin, security forces connect with Lt Commander Falcon and try for a pincer attack. It works, and the assassin - a human named Seth Ralston - is seriously injured and taken to sickbay.
Power is quickly restored and security moves out to do animal containment while Falcon tries to press information out of the shaken Zel Rohan. The two have a history together - before Falcon joined Starfleet both were 'suicide runners' - pilots that specialized in making dangerous runs to deliver profitable cargo, frequently through restricted airspace. After a bit of bantering and gentle threats Zel reveals that Drin Jerol, the first officer of the Annabelle's Lament is not only alive (Zel saw him on the Miranda VII Spaceport several days after the destruction of the Lament) but Zel firmly believes Jerol is actually Nacien Rixx, an ex-Orion Syndicate crimelord, and head of the criminal Jenatris Confederation. It seems Rixx has been putting out assassin's contracts on anyone who had information about the Annabelle's Lament and Zel was the only one to make it off Miranda VII alive.
Falcon leaves after giving Zel concessions to help him recuperate in a far more comfortable arrangement than his former cell before making a beeline for the Ops hub. If Nacien Rixx is involved, the weapons deals need to be stopped quickly.
Falcon: Don't you 'Katie' me! I'm still mad at you. Do you have any idea how many holes James and I had to patch up in Nova's hull while you went merrily prancing off on your way?!
ActIII: Let's Blow This Joint
Richard Matthews, Lieutenant R'raika Voss and the newly posted Ensigns Braylin Winters and Trellis Vondaryan to head with her to the Miranda VII Spaceport. They commandeered the abandoned small craft ISV Valor in plainclothes to pull off a hopefully covert mission.
Meanwhile Engineer Cadfael Peters and Dr. Pon Pon struggled to clear the last of the escaped zoo animals from the Starbase, fending off a groups of enraged wildcats, and sickbay had its own struggles as a wounded Lieutenant Trel'lis was delivered to sickbay after her own investigation into the Jenatris Confederation went horribly awry, and Ambassador Nia Calderan had to make the difficult call on whether or not to spare Seth Ralston's life knowing the assassin suffered brain damage from close range phaser fire and disruptor overload in his attempt to escape or to let him pass away. In the end she ordered Dr. Theran Jos to complete brain surgery and spare Ralston, pending psychiatric incarceration and review.
While the crew at the Ops hub worried about the state of the away team, Lieutenant Peters cut through with a disturbing discovery - someone had planted sticky bombs in the maintenance conduits in Ops. They would have never found them if they hadn't been chasing escaped zoo animals. Ops went on yellow alert, assembling bomb teams led by newly stationed marine Quintus Lucius Raisillius and returning officer Lt. Commander Ian West. Security, including newly arrived Ensign Freya Andersen set out to find out who had planted the bombs, but the undercover agent T'Val showed her hand when she tried to take sickbay hostage. Quick action by the bomb teams and Lieutenant Trel'lis liberated sickbay and saved the station from any undue explosions. Commander West was able to synthesize a material that would render the sticky bombs inert, allowing secondary teams to sweep the station, deactivating any further traces of the sticky bombs.
On Miranda VII Spaceport Commander Falcon's team was successful in busting a major bomb materials deal between the Jenatris Confederation and Emerald Dragon Enterprises, resulting in almost a dozen arrests, including Lhara Khota. They also captured a Flaxian calling himself Drin Jerol; but investigation quickly proved he was Dakra Ledds, an underling of Jerol's who had been set up. The team returned home with all of the impounded cargo and arrested criminals as station security confirmed the end of the bomb threat and returned the last of the wild animals to their cages.
Dramatis Personae
Crew Participating in the Mission
Gallery and Quotes


text:
[In case you forgot how this is done, a quick how-to, or "what to expect" in tonight's return of regular season basketball on TNT.]
5:30 CST – Leave work, gym, wherever you are. Go home.
5:45 CST – Check fridge, freezer, ensure that there are ample amounts of necessary supplies.
6:00 CST – Grab laptop, flip on TV to NBA Tip-Off presented by AutoTrader.com, get comfortable.
6:01 CST – See that Shaquille O'Neal is still employed by TNT, feel momentarily upset.
6:02 CST – See that E.J., Kenny and Charles are still employed by TNT, feel less upset.


text:
- Posts: 87
- Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:31 pm
- Location: Toronto
Peter J. DeCrescenzo wrote:Or, of course, one could use an external audio recorder. But personally, my dislike of using an external recorder (I prefer to have sound data permanently stored "in" my video files) means the above one-time workaround is well worth using.
Since I had a ton of requests regarding audio.
Q: Can I just plug in my mic?
A: Yup, but you dont get stelar audio that way. You need at least a powered mic like the Rode NTG2.
Q: Can I just plug in my NTG2 powered mic?
A: Yup, but having a external field mixer or at least a low noise pre amp like the JuicedLink RA333 Riggy Assist or Micro, would give you a much better signal.
Q Since the BMCC has no VU meters (yet), how do I see what my levels are?
A: You need a outboard monitor anyway, so get one, that has build in VU meters. Even if BM updates the camera with VU meters, they are still on the build in monitor, where they are hard to see under certain lighting conditions.
Q: do I want an external recorder.
A: External recorders do work, but why go through all that extra time and trouble of syncing everything in your NLE, when the BMCC records a superb signal?
In fact it records a better signal (48kHz at 24bit uncompressed) than most, more expensive cameras (typical 44.1kHz at 16bit). All you need is a low noise field mixer or pre-amp.
Users browsing this forum: Adam Langdon, Harold Tomlinson and 27 guests


text:
What the Fiscal Cliff Means for the Markets
The U.S. fiscal-cliff deadline draws ever nearer, and there's still no agreement on a plan to close the budget gap. The WSJ's Jake Lee explains what falling off would mean for markets in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... the ... hours away from the sink or swim moment well got off the fiscal cliff and what is this all mean for a change anything now Asia Markets Editor Jake Lee ... ok Jake a lot of talk a lot of deadlines being extend it out so ... that the markets are basically shrugging off a judging by what's going on display ... in the months before you click them and we haven't had a resolution yet distorted face again ... well they haven't come to some some agreement ... the Mach is like you say ... still rising stay still see a bit of good news out of China ... what's happening in the U S beans so much focus will that the agreement was five hundred billion ... in and ... in tax and spending cuts ... in it just doesn't seem big concern right now who will we see more Pulitzer see an end to the mall heads was uncovered ... that seem stable people might be saying if we didn't see some agreements and the kids to let our markets really looking for any given the fact that neither the deadline is now hours away at it it is possible that that would displace both would like to take the green eyed down to ... the more people are saying is the be some so the ... sums of compromise some walked down agreement on various aspects of these and spending cuts and tax increases but not the whole shebang ... save up ... that we weren't high the market to the very long they'll keep seeing more more agreements will we see Aiden note of that of course what a lot of people are now looking ahead season the next couple months when the skin of the debt ceiling by its forecast to increase that ... will that be more competitions Eva Green on that so a lot of uncertainty ahead which is exactly what Mark Steyn light at the enterprise PC market's rally here at recently in Asia on the act I miss the Wall Street Journal quoted ... have estimated that if policy makers to act it could mean ... that I'm the US economy contracts by about fifty basis points ... said ... the fact that things are going pretty well Allie air I'm you know and a lot people are depending on the growth here in Asia what would it mean if the U S economy actually in in twenty thirteen contract is to be the real tax but how decoupled woke up or that the Asian Connie is with us I think it's so pretty significant the US is the huge liable in an Asian export ... markets is so integrated now has been such a huge rush of money from the U S Europe elsewhere ... in Asia because of all the central bank on loosening ... that if people get another speed will pull money out of Asia ... and that's can be bad news so what happens in the U S Still Madison Fusion outpatient ... alike say this still to come this year still doing well this mode of graying AG Consumers Among ... intra Asia trade what Hastings paid well to what it might mean is that the impact from the US will be some down and now it would be quite as bad as in Petrus open minded acceding WA Reis ... when does raise them back in two thousand eleven and that that's a British Asian market interesting to see preliminary PMI figures coming out of time that that show an increase in manufacturing ... as a twenty make of that is is I mean is tained upon a time that day that alone enough to kind of get us through this period ... well we know that and that things are putting up China's Cnooc second biggest economy woes biggest economy here in Asia saved more money is every mass for the rest of Asia so that's going to be good news would be enough to carry on and take Asia markets higher hard to say what I will say that ... in the last month this summer we've seen the Fusion brownie in that Chinese chance ... the president quite excited by what they've seen Basin economy and also reporting new government that was when you need is in place to stay ... in China of people quite optimistic now from investing pointed it off supplies of dour year when China chance when when negatively at ... say things are looking a bit better than that in mind that for me to see the icing on cake today ... at KNF chorus again hours away and finding out what's going happen with the fiscal cliff thanks Fran much today ... for one that's rated added Avista dot com I'm Deborah con for The Wall Street Journal digital network


text:
This is the age of the young quarterback. Buoyed by the draft class of 2012, we have a surplus of promising young signal-callers. Around The League and "NFL Total Access" will count down the top 10 quarterbacks 25 or under we'd want leading our franchise.
No. 2: Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins
Why he's here
RG3's game is filled with addictive contradictions. He specializes in taking the safe, fundamental throw, but he mixes in explosive plays you can't teach. Everything about his game is fast, from his feet to his decision-making. Yet he shows rare patience for a young player, letting the game come to him. More than any young quarterback, Griffin resembles a veteran because he so rarely makes a mental mistake.
The long runs and longer passes show up on the highlight reels. They are a big part of the package. But Griffin's defining trait as a rookie was the most old-school quarterback habit possible: accuracy. He so rarely misses or goes on cold streaks. Griffin doesn't just find his receivers; he leads them, creating yards after the catch. He hits the perfect shoulder.
In the above video, Griffin put the ball exactly where it had to be on the touchdown to Logan Paulsen, leading him into the end zone. The throw to Josh Morgan was rare in a few ways. Griffin usually doesn't force the ball into that tight a window. If that pass went one foot to the left or right, it would have been an interception. There was about one foot to work with, and Griffin found it.
Another contradiction: Griffin set the NFL on fire while playing in an efficient, conservative offense. The Redskins ran on third and long. They did not throw the ball too much. Griffin led the league in yards per attempt and fewest interceptions per throw, an ideal combination of big plays and careful play.
The Redskins were wildly efficient because Griffin usually made the right choice with where to throw the ball. This happens before the ball is even snapped. So much of what Griffin does is unseen, but of course there are days when Griffin performs feats for everyone to see. (Enter the RG3 Zone.) Thanksgiving was one of those days.
Why he's not higher
Well, only one player could be No. 1. There's not much more Griffin could have done as a rookie given his opportunities. He only averaged 26 throws per game, a tiny number in 2012's pass-wacky NFL. (For comparison, Andrew Luck averaged 39 throws per start.) I'm not holding that against Griffin, but the Redskins didn't ask him to do as much. Even Griffin admitted Thursday that when his injured leg slowed him down late in the year, he was forced to go through his reads more. That's an area of development to work on for Year 2.
Before Griffin's first injury in Week 14 against the Baltimore Ravens, he occasionally made poor decisions as a runner. When Griffin got in trouble, he left the pocket too quickly. His first read wasn't there and he ran, too often failing to avoid taking big hits. There are many examples in the plays to the right where he could have slid or gone out of bounds, but instead he took a beating.
Making smarter decisions as a runner will be an emphasis following Griffin's ACL surgery. The Redskins already were dialing back his exposure as a runner before he was hurt against the Ravens, and that trend should continue. He barely had any run-option or called run plays in the Ravens game; the injury came on a scramble. Griffin already showed, to a degree, what he'll look like without running so much. He still should be effective overall and make better decisions to avoid hits.
Griffin's floor
Griffin was one of the best quarterbacks in the league last season partly because defenses had no answer for Washington's bread-and-butter plays. The Redskins repeatedly ran play action in some form, causing opposing linebackers to step toward the line of scrimmage and allowing Griffin to throw darts to a receiver on a slant entering the vacated area.
It was almost comical to watch the Redskins handle NFL defenses in this manner. The first two plays above were both to tight end Fred Davis, just one minute apart. The next two plays were both to Josh Morgan in succession. The Redskins dressed up these plays with different formations or backfield action, but the principles remained the same. I could have chosen at least four more plays just like them from this game alone.
Defenses will catch up. As Griffin matures, he can't count on as many wide-open receivers as he saw in 2012. That's fine. Griffin was a master at taking what the defense gave him, and Mike Shanahan will find ways to give his quarterback good looks. Griffin is at his career floor. He's a Pro Bowl quarterback who is accurate and makes smart decisions. Those skills never go out of style. His "worst-case scenario" involves more knee injuries and less mobility, and that's just not something you can predict (or is particularly fun to think about).
Griffin's ceiling
Griffin had the best season of any rookie last year and was my choice for Rookie of the Year. He couldn't have done a lot more. I chose Andrew Luck as the No. 1 25-or-under QB whom I'd want leading my franchise for a few reasons, including Griffin's two ACL surgeries. Griffin should bounce back, but there's no reason to ignore that it happened. (If the injury had occurred during the regular season, rather than the playoffs, people would view the injury differently.)
"Griffin's ceiling" feels like a silly section heading because there isn't one at this point. Not after one year. Not after one of the greatest rookie seasons by a quarterback in NFL history. You could make an argument it was the best.
Shanahan loves to puff up his own players, but it wasn't hyperbole when he told NFL.com's Albert Breer that Griffin has a chance to be an all-time great. That's the expectation after the season we just witnessed. Griffin wouldn't have it any other way.


text:
- Big Babies May Face Higher Lifelong A-Fib Risk
- Staying Social Can Boost Healthy 'Gray Matter' in Aging Brains
- Newer Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug May Help Ease Tough-to-Treat Cases
- Reopened Schools in New York City Not Seeing COVID Case Spikes
- Health Highlights: Oct. 19, 2020
- Celebrate Autumn Traditions Without Raising Your COVID Risk
- How to Keep High Blood Pressure at Bay
- Heart Defects Don't Increase Risk of Severe COVID-19
- Chinese COVID Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Trial
- America Sees Daily COVID Cases Pass 60,000 Once Again
For Older Men, Lowered Testosterone May Mean Muscle Loss
FRIDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) — Lowered testosterone levels are associated with the loss of lean muscle mass and lower body strength in older men, a new study finds.
Loss of muscle mass and strength contributes to frailty and is associated with mobility problems, falls and bone fractures, the study's authors say, and men lose more muscle mass and strength than women as they age.
That suggests that levels of sex hormones, particularly testosterone, could influence age-related changes in body composition and physical function, according to researchers led by Dr. Erin LeBlanc, of Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Ore.
Their study included almost 1,200 men aged 65 who had their levels of sex steroids measured and were then followed for an average of 4.5 years. Their body composition was checked using high-tech scans, and their physical abilities were evaluated through exercises that assessed lower extremity power, grip strength, walking speed and the ability to rise from a chair without the use of arms.
"Our study finds that men, aged 65 years and older, with higher testosterone levels lost less muscle mass, especially in their arms and legs, than men this age who had lower testosterone levels," LeBlanc said in an Endocrine Society news release.
"Men who had higher testosterone levels before they lost weight also lost less leg function and could stand up more easily from a chair than men who had lower testosterone levels before they lost weight," she noted.
"The amount of testosterone men have in their bodies may contribute to how much muscle and strength they lose as they get older," LeBlanc concluded.
One expert wasn't surprised by the findings, but added that they are no reason to urge older men towards supplemental testosterone.
The study "confirms that higher blood levels of testosterone in older men is associated with less of the loss of muscle mass that occurs with aging," said Dr. Stuart Weinerman, chief of the division of endocrinology at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y. But he stressed that "this is a prospective epidemiological study, not a controlled trial, so that other variables may be present. For example, patients with low testosterone were more likely to have diabetes."
Weinerman added that "this study should not be interpreted as evidence that hypogonadal men [those with decreased testosterone output] should begin testosterone replacement. The risks and benefits of testosterone replacement can only be studied in larger, randomized controlled trials."
Another expert said testosterone levels may need watching as men age.
"Physicians should be checking testosterone levels in men older than age 65, discussing loss of muscle mass and potential of falls and resulting fractures," said Dr. Spyros Mezitis, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "Further research is needed to define the association of low testosterone levels and decrease in physical function," he added.
The study, funded by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is slated to be published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
More information
The U.S. National Institute on Aging offers tips for health aging.
Source: HealthDay


text:
The Vacaville Cultural Center Library has a Writers' Group that meets the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The group provides an opportunity for local writers discuss their writing projects with one another. The next meeting will be on Thursday, Nov. 8.
The library is located at 1020 Ulatis Drive. For more information, please call 1-866-57-ASKUS or look on the library website at www.solanolibrary.com.
Make it easier to get up-to-date news about books and services at your library. Sign up here.
Get the scoop on all the newest additions to the library's collection and find that next good read!
Want to know what programs are happening at your library? Get a copy of your local branch's calendar of events.
Sign up to sample a book by reading a small portion each day for a week in your email.


text:
B.J. Hoeptner Evans
Manager, Communications
Phone: (719) 228-6800
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
@USA_Volleyball - @USAV Beach – USAV Facebook
CHULA VISTA, Calif. (Sept. 30, 2012) – The U.S. beach volleyball team of Emily Day and Heather Hughes defeated Summer Ross and Morgan Beck in an all-American women's gold medal match on Sunday at the 2012 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit event at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
The USA1 team of Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) beat USA3 team of Ross (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Beck (Coto de Caza, Calif.) 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) in 39 minutes on a hot and breezy day in the community near San Diego, Calif. Day and Hughes finished the tournament at 6-0 in matches and 12-2 in sets. Beck and Ross were 4-1 in matches and 8-3 in sets.
"It was awesome to have a USA-USA final. That was fun," Day said.
"It was fun to battle each other out in the final," Hughes added. "It's always good to play steady and play your best toward the end of the season so I think it's really good timing for us."
Beck and Ross, who recently started playing together, kept the pressure on Day and Hughes, who have played together for two years. But Day and Hughes never trailed and used consistent play in transition to pull out the victory.
"We really steadied out and played a lot more consistent than we have been," Hughes said. "I think it really helps that we know each other really well."
Mexico's Martha Revuelta and Bibi Candelas beat Canada's Jamie Broder and Kristina Valjas for the bronze medal, 2-1 (17-21, 22-20, 15-9).
In the semifinals, Day and Hughes had to battle to defeat Revuelta and Candelas, defeating them 2-1 (24-26, 21-14, 15-8) in 1 hour, 1 minute.
Beck and Ross had an easier time beating Broder and Valjas, 2-0 (21-15, 21-15) in the other semifinal.
Sunday's Results
Semifinals: USA3 d CAN 2-0 (21-15, 21-15), USA1 d MEX 2-1 (24-26, 21-14, 15-8) Bronze medal: MEX d CAN 2-1 (17-21, 22-20, 15-9) Gold medal: USA1 d USA3 2-0 (21-19, 21-17)
Classification 9-13: USA5 d CRC (Forfeit), USA5 d DOM 2-0 (21-11, 21-14), GUA d LCA 2-0 (21-16, 21-9)


text:
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
An ancient British law requires resigning MPs to apply for a paid office of the British Crown in order to officially resign as James Martin Pacelli McGuinness, to give him his full name, said he would be doing earlier this week.Share Tweet43
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has "done what I've done for the black community". Biden then said Trump "pours fuel on every single racist fire" and claimed he "has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn".
You can catch up on the main points here.
Did you stay up to watch the debate, or catch highlights this morning?
If you did, we want to know: Who won last night's US election debate?
Poll Results:
In a much calmer debate than we've seen, Trump may have taken the night on points, but all Biden had to do was not mess up, and he was in the clear.
Writer Fionn Davenport says the government's rushing through of legislation last night condemns survivors of mother and baby homes to 30 more years of darkness.
Rachel O'Neill lives with anxiety and depression and says 'bad actors' using mental health as an excuse to keep gyms open in Level 5 is unforgivable.
Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall says NPHET and the Government are not factoring in human behaviour and our social structures in their attempts to stop Covid-19.
Larry Donnelly: Biden did just fine, so he won the debate
Larry Donnelly
Fionn Davenport: I was born in a mother and baby home - we have a right to our past
Fionn Davenport
TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please note that TheJournal.ie uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy.
News images provided by Press Association and Photocall Ireland unless otherwise stated. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography unless otherwise stated. Wire service provided by Associated Press.
Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.
Sites: TheJournal.ie | Noteworthy | The42 | Fora | Boards.ie | Adverts.ie | Daft.ie