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Schwarzkopf Color Expert Light Caramel Brown 6.68 Hair Dye
The innovative formula, inspired by professional PLEX and BOND revolution, is available in 15 luscious shades. The OmegaPLEX innovation works on the Micro-Bonds, which hold together the hair fibrils inside each hair fibre and provide hair with strength and structure.
During colouring these Micro-Bonds can break leaving hair dry, brittle and prone to damage.
The Color Expert technology Omegaplex reinforces these Micro-Bonds, protecting hair against Up to 90% less breakage during and after colouring. It gives improved hair quality and an exceptional colour result.
Each box of Color Expert contains the 3-step OmegaPLEX professional Anti-Breakage technology:
The Anti-Breakage Serum (N°1) protects the Micro-Bonds during colouring.
After colouring, the Repair Sealer (N°2) deeply repairs the hair fibre, sealing the colour intensity.
After 3 weeks, the Repair Reviver (N°3) reconstructs the hair from within for beautified results.
Hazards and Cautions
- Hair colourants can cause severe allergic reactions. Read and follow instructions. This product is not intended for use on persons under the age of 16. Temporary "black henna" tattoos may increase your risk of allergy.
- Do not colour your hair if:
– you have experienced a reaction to a temporary "black henna" tattoo in the past.
– you have ever experienced any reaction after colouring your hair,
- Contains hydrogen peroxide, phenylenediamines (toluenediamines), resorcinol and ammonia. Do not use to dye eyelashes or eyebrows. Rinse hair well after application. See bottom of pack for full list of ingredients. Conduct an allergy alert test 48 hours before each time you colour (see enclosed leaflet), even if you have already used colouring products before. So remember to buy the product 48 hours in advance. In case of any reaction or when in doubt consult a doctor before using any hair colour product. Avoid contact with eyes. Rinse immediately if product comes into contact with them. Wear suitable gloves. Keep out of reach of children.
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1. Mixing
Snap open the Anti-Breakage Serum, at the marked line. Then, carefully squeeze the entire contents into the Applicator Bottle. Pierce the Color Expert Colour Cream tube with the reverse of the cap and carefully squeeze the entire contents into the Applicator Bottle.
Place the cap back on the Application Bottle and close it securely. Shake the bottle vigorously until all ingredients are mixed into a smooth cream. Then twist off the tip of the cap and immediately start with the application process as follows.
2. Application
Apply the prepared mixture evenly from the roots to the ends of your hair. Then massage the mixture in with your fingertips to ensure all hair is evenly covered. Leave to develop for 30 minutes.
Except for shades 10-2 and 12-0, for the first application, leave the mixture in for 45 minutes.
Apply ⅔ of the mixture throughout the whole regrowth area. Massage the hair gently with your fingertips to ensure all of the regrowth is covered. Leave to develop for 20–30 minutes. Apply the remaining mixture throughout the mid lengths and ends of the hair. Massage well and leave for an additional 5–10 minutes. Except for shades 10-2 and 12-0, we recommend 35 minutes for regrowth areas and an additional 10 minutes for the remaining sections.
3. Rinsing & After Treatment
At the end of the developing time, rinse out thoroughly until the water runs clear. Afterwards, massage the specially developed Repair Sealer into towel-dried hair and leave it for 2 minutes. Rinse thoroughly.
After 3 weeks, apply the Repair Reviver No. 3 into towel-dried hair and leave it in for 1 minute. Rinse thoroughly. Your hair will be left feeling softer and stronger and looking shinier.
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Temporary Capitol House Closure
Monday, July 21 - Final Update: AOC's contractor completed work in the East Grand Staircase on the House side of the Capitol this weekend. The Staircase and connecting corridors are now open.
Monday, July 14 - Update: AOC's contractor plans to begin delivering and installing scaffolding in the East Grand Staircase following the last votes in the House tonight. Once the scaffolding is in place, the contractor will install additional plastic sheeting in the ceiling of the East Grand Staircase. This is necessary for the contractor to resume abatement work. The contractor will then fully clean the stairwell. Air sampling continues throughout the process. The East Grand Staircase will remain closed until abatement work is complete.
Saturday, July 12 - Update: Poly reinforced construction dust control barriers will be installed this weekend within the arched openings at the second and third floor landings of the East Grand Staircase and at the arched opening at the first floor stair entrance. Installation of these barriers allows the AOC to reactivate air conditioning in affected areas and to resume abatement work in the attic space above the staircase. The barrier is expected to be in place approximately two weeks.
July 10, 12:15 p.m. - Update: During overnight construction, there was a potential release of asbestos affecting the House side of the U.S. Capitol. Engineers and certified industrial hygienists have evaluated the scene and determined it was safe to reopen the building around 9 a.m.
July 10, 9:20 a.m. - The House Side of the Capitol has reopened to Members and Staff with certain areas remaining closed, specifically the East Grand Staircase from floors 1 to 3 and room H-324. All other areas of the House Side of the Capitol will return to normal operations, including tours of the Capitol Building.
July 10, 8:20 a.m. - During ongoing asbestos abatement work there was a potential release affecting the House side of the Capitol. Samples have been collected to determine whether there was potential exposure. Architect of the Capitol (AOC) and Unites States Capitol Police (USCP) are investigating and will provide updates when available.

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U.S. prisons and other facilities where residents are forcibly confined must put in place standards to prevent thousands of incidents of sexual abuse.
U.S. prisons and other facilities where residents are forcibly confined must put in place standards to prevent thousands of incidents of sexual abuse every year, the White House and U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Advocates of a 2003 law to eliminate prison rape see sexual assault in U.S. prisons as rampant and grossly overlooked.
"Sexual assault crimes committed within our correctional facilities can have devastating consequences - for individual victims and for communities far beyond our jails and prisons," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
More than 209,400 people were victims of sexual abuse in prisons, jails and juvenile detention facilities in 2008, the Justice Department said.
Holder on Thursday signed a detailed plan for implementation of the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act that directs adult prisons and jails, lockups, community confinement facilities and juvenile facilities to begin screening inmates for risk of being sexually abused or abusive.
It also mandates background checks on prospective employees of these facilities for any history of sexual abuse.
Officials said the rule also applied to confinement centers operated by executive departments and agencies other than the Justice Department, including immigration detention centers.
Other measures include barring juveniles from being housed with adult inmates, a ban on cross-gender pat-down searches, video monitoring and special attention to lesbian, gay, transgender or bisexual inmates vulnerable to abuse.
States which do not come into compliance with the rule, checked by audits every three years, would lose five percent of any Department of Justice grants for their prisons. Facilities would have about two months to come into compliance.


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When America marked the 100th anniversary of the Civil War in 1961, it concentrated on the grand battles and larger-than-life leaders of an epic military struggle.
A half century later, that focus has shifted dramatically, moving from the sweeping forces of history to the individual stories of the men, women and children whose lives were so profoundly and often painfully altered by the irresistible swirl of events playing out around them.
That's why the newest exhibit at the Hampton History Museum explores the impact of the nation's bloodiest and most disruptive war through the experiences of wives, mothers, children and slaves struggling to survive on Virginia's home front rather than the trials of the soldiers and generals on the battlefield.
Though deeply scarred by the deaths of as many as 30,000 men, Virginia's wounds didn't stop there, says Virginia Historical Society exhibit coordinator Andrew Talkov, who turned to the compelling stories of everyday people in an attempt to more fully bring to life the devastating consequences of the conflict in the Old Dominion.
"This is a place where battles broke out on people's front lawns," he explains, describing the immediate and often intimate experiences found in "Surviving War," which conjures up the trials of 1861-65 through nearly 60 rare artifacts and 8 engaging audio-visual interactives.
"So the stories you get are those of people living in a war zone, with not just the loss of fathers and sons but also the destruction of property and a way of life."
Part of a landmark VHS exhibit called "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia," the newly installed show is the companion piece to "Waging War," which appeared at the Hampton museum in 2012.
Like its predecessor, it draws upon a nationally recognized collection of Civil War documents and artifacts, including such icons as a pike commissioned by abolitionist John Brown for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. It also attempts to trace a new path through the much-traveled Civil War landscape of Virginia, not only searching for fresh ways to tell a oft-told story but also showcasing events that were all but ignored in the past.
Among the most prominent is the tale of the fugitive slaves who flocked to Union-held Fort Monroe by the thousands after Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler made the milestone decision to grant them refuge as "contraband of war."
Though his May 1861 order freed no one, it represented the first step toward emancipation and the transformation of the war into a battle of liberation.
"It was a huge moment. It changed the entire nature of what the war was going to be about," Hampton History Museum curator J. Michael Cobb says, pointing to the Colt revolvers that Hampton schoolmaster John B. Cary carried when Butler denied the newly minted Confederate officer's demand that three local slaves be returned.
"And when you look at his pistols, you're seeing something that was not only here at a critical moment in history but which also may be back in Hampton for the first time since the war."
Many other artifacts resonate with meaning, too, but none more than the group of photographs, wedding documents and condolence letters used to illustrate the tragic death of Petersburg Brig. Gen. John Pegram, who was killed 18 days after making his vows in a Richmond church service attended by President Jefferson Davis.
"A fiance of three years, a bride of three weeks — now a widow," lamented his wife, Hetty Cary of Baltimore, who remembered her loss through the lock of hair on view in the exhibit.
"It shows you how things were hurried up by the war," Cobb says, "and how they could change in an instant."
No one knew that better than Richmond resident Elizabeth Munford, whose son's lifeless body was brought home in a cart just hours after he left home to take part in the nearby Battle of Malvern Hill.
More than 150 years later, his frock coat, sash and cap still look as new as they did when he departed.
"It's a vivid story of the impact of the war at home," Cobb says.
"For each person who fell, there were always many more — wives, parents, children — who cared."
Equally instructive are the audio-visual interactives, including one that immerses viewers in the perilous journey of a runaway slave.
Hampered by poverty, illiteracy and the lack of shoes, even the most determined fugitive faced daunting odds, with only 1 in 4 succeeding if they had to make their way across any kind of distance.
"People today don't understand it. But there were good reasons why so few slaves tried to escape," Cobb says.
"Most of them couldn't read. They had no money. They knew nothing of the outside world. So it was a brave thing to leave the homes they knew and risk their lives for something that was rarely successful."
Want to go?
"Surviving War," a collection of artifacts and interactive exhibits drawn from the Virginia Historical Society's "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia."
Where: Hampton History Museum, 120 Old Hampton Lane, Hampton
When: Through April 28
Cost: $5 adults. $4 children 4-12
Info: 575-727-1610; http://www.hamptonhistorymuseum.org
Online: Go to dailypress.com/civilwaratifacts to see a gallery of objects from the show.


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As our ship of state sails away from ill-advised foreign entanglements, her hull battered and holed, her crew war weary, bloodied and ill-paid, the captain scans the distant shore for safe harbor — a place to mend her wounds and bind up shattered sails.
No, racism isn't dead. It isn't even sleeping. It is hiding behind closed doors of houses built with cow's dung. It is just as strong and ugly, and it raises its head to announce things, opinions and people it will not tolerate.
What arrogance to make personal decisions for someone else because their own fragile senses are offended.
A cereal company had the audacity to include a mixed-race couple with a child in their commercial.
The cow's dung house exploded with anger and indignation.
Should we raise taxes and spend huge amounts of money on beefed up security in our schools — NO!
Here's why:
Since 2000 the United States has averaged 2.46 school shootings per year, including shootings where no one, including students, were injured or only the shooter died (suicide).
The chances of any particular K-12 school in the United States experiencing a shooting incident in any given year is approximately 1 in 53,925.
My usual policy regarding Gerald Largen's columns is to ignore them as a waste of time and a danger to healthy brain cells, but when he attacks me or my Roane County Tea Party associates directly, as he did last Friday, I reluctantly wade into his ramblings.
The silver lining in this whole IRS debacle has been the fact that some people who had formerly put complete trust in the righteousness of an all-powerful central government have had their eyes opened to what happens in the real world when real people are given too much power over their fellow citizens.
The conciliatory effects of the presidential oval office meetings with Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have disappeared like fog at sunrise.
A new chill has settled over their relationships as our most vocal war POW/hero accuses President Obama of a failure to lead.
What he is failing to notice is that the president is leading in the opposite direction McCain currently advocates, and away from continual war — not into the Syrian civil war quicksand.
How could entering another proxy war in the Middle East help the United States?
My husband and I have been supporters of the Roane County Animal Shelter for several years, both donating monetarily and adopting three pets from the facility.
The last pet we adopted, about a year ago, was a robust and active Lab-mix puppy.
He is a handful of happiness and love but after a few months we found it difficult to keep him home.
We live in the county and he loved to roam the woods and follow the other dogs through the yard.
I am responding to the individual who questioned the validity of the statements on the Background Check bill that failed in the Senate in my letter that ran May 3. The only mistake that I made was listing the section as 922 when the proper section was 122(t)(4). I have copied the exact wording as it is written. It obviously it does not name Eric Holder in the section of the bill as it needs to apply to whoever the attorney general is at any given time. The following is the exact wording:
On March 29, we suffered a severe fire at our home on Blue Heron Way, Ten Mile. Our family would like to take this opportunity to thank the Roane County and neighboring fire departments, police officers and emergency squads for their experience, compassion and advice.
We would also like to thank the Half Moon Shores community; Blue Springs Marina; Watts Bar Community Service Group; Knoxville Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center; and the various churches, family and friends for their overwhelming support and generosity throughout this terrible experience.
The construction of sidewalks to nowhere (Kingston greenway project) with public tax funds (state gas tax dollars) in a private residential development (Ladd Landing) to help sell building lots was never a good idea.
Now it's gotten worse as the price tag soars — $1.5 million and counting.
Add that to the $2-million Taj Mahal — unneeded new Kingston City Hall — and it's easy to understand why our political ruling class has never seen a tax increase they didn't like.
Copyright © 2018
The Roane County News is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Roane County and Kingston, Tennessee, and the surrounding area.


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When the announcement came late last night that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by the United States, many took to Twitter, the streets, and the airwaves to offer snap judgments, brief thoughts, and celebration. Immortal Technique, instead, took a different route. The always critically thinking, socially conscious rhymer decided to reflect. He reflected on the news and what it meant for this country and the world, and he translated those reflections onto digital paper.
This morning, we saw Tech tweet the following: "I wrote a very long essay about Bin Laden and Afghanistan and our involvement with it, but I doubt any of you really want to read it all. There is no link. It's not posted it's just sitting here. I haven't posted it anywhere yet." We wanted to give a platform for the response of one of hip-hop's most politically aware minds. Tech in turn bestowed us with this potent, lengthy essay that you'll find below.
We encourage you to prove him wrong in doubting that anyone will read his words.
In a world that has been flooded by news, there is usually nothing that rises far above the smoldering lava of sensation—that which consumes all truth and absorbs all lies mixing them into a fiery lake or stew of bubbling nonsense. So much so, that to discover glanced over facts, to question people of importance within government or the machine itself leads to the branding of one as a "conspiracy theorist."
Truthfully, there are many people who lived life with doubt over the facts surrounding 9/11, who felt afraid to express it, probably because they feared being accused of "hating America," of being "with the terrorists," hence sympathizing with the people who were responsible for killing all of those who died on 9/11. You talk to people like this at work, you see them walking by you everyday, you can read their rants on message boards or in chat rooms around the world, insulting people who present their doubts. Some choose to not question anything to fit in, others just figure their opinion is irrelevant and doesn't change anything. After all, there is such thing as human error and no matter how much the government or people in it stand to gain, they could have a made a mistake, by mistake, and not on purpose. Some secrets are best kept secrets in the interest of national security. However, if national security means protecting the abuse of power and the negligence of authority, then it is not the security of a nation that is being protected, but the indulgences of the corrupt.
Of course, the counterpart to this position, which creates the fervor of hatred and disrespectful debate, is the believer of all conspiracy theories and repeater of random information with only websites as sources. The angry person who blows up a postal truck because they think that their tax dollars shouldn't go to excessive spending, or things like bombing people or paying mercenaries triple for what soldiers should be doing. This person is sometimes purposefully placed in that position and given a platform as a deterrent for the people who actually have a truth to be heard and taken seriously. This is what we term an agent provocateur, a mole planted to make the real issues lose credibility mixed in with insanity.
Not all people who doubt the official version of the story are raving lunatics, though. Some have an honest distrust of their own government. Some are veterans of a war like Vietnam who know that the people who run the United States of America are very capable of lying even to the best and bravest of those who risk their lives to defend the dwindling freedoms that we enjoy. Others are youthful minds, seeking to present themselves as different than the bland and overwhelmingly planned out and boring existence that chokes anything original or radical around them.
For the rest of us that are caught in between, it creates a crushing vice. The overflow of information, whether it was naturally evolving or a deliberate blurring mechanism put into place, distorts everything. And so for the sake of logic and truth, and to put the recent events surrounding Osama Bin Laden in perspective, I have decided to address several points about America's tumultuous relationship with him.
1. First Impressions
There are people in this country who, when they speak, give you the impression that we never negotiate with terrorists; that our mission is to overthrow dictatorships; that we help the people gain true freedom; and that we do not torture people… But without lending any weight to conspiracy, there is documented evidence that at Guantanamo Bay, at Bagram Airforce base, and other secret locations we have tortured thousands, many wrongly accused, to obtain information. We have supported many more dictatorships than we could ever possibly overthrow because it was necessary for us to be able to have access to natural resources including their cheap labor. Why else would the clothing manufacturers in Honduras quietly lobby for the coup in 2009 and support it? Because the people who make their clothes might Unionize. Collective bargaining, health standards (not even American ones, but that of the nation they are in), humane conditions, all mean cutting into the profit margin and, in case you haven't noticed, that matters more to corporations than people's lives. Why do you think a dictatorship like Mubarak's or the King of Saudi Arabia's never received the same vitriol and hatred as the democratically elected regime of Hugo Chavez? Because it is not Communism or Socialism or even radical Islam that this country is opposed to. It is any form of government, any regime or any person that stands between the United States and it's interests that should be considered marked for death. (By the United States, I mean the entities—be they corporate or of some other means—that are responsible for our elected officials being in the positions of power they hold.)
Actually, we have always "negotiated with terrorists." Iran Contra. "The Surge," not in troop strength, but also the surge in money we paid armed militias and armed gangs to not fire at American troops. Etc… So it's clear, we only care about one kind of terrorist. Our terrorist. That person or organization is our dog, and our dog alone. When others use such tactics against us, it is evil, unkind and inhumane. But when we use these approaches against enemies who have already been demonized, then we find some gentle complacency over it instead of the anger and betrayal at our American standard of war. For nothing damages the American pride more than to acknowledge that underneath the stars and stripes, we can be just wicked as everyone else in the world.
. He was also featured on several movie soundtracks and video game soundtracks, all the while touring relentlessly and becoming heavily involved in visiting prisons to speak to youth and working with immigrant rights activists and raising tens of thousands of dollars for children's hospitals overseas. He invested his money not in items that are usually associated with fame but rather in large pieces of farmland in Latin America. He created a writing grant program for high school students as well.


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may decide to hold bonds on its $3.1 trillion balance sheet to maturity as part of a review of its strategy for an exit from record monetary easing.
Bernanke told lawmakers in Washington today that he expects to revisit "sometime soon" an exit plan that policy makers outlined in June 2011.
Under that plan, the Fed would cease reinvesting some or all principal payments from its securities, revise its interest- rate outlook, raise the federal funds rate and then start selling housing debt to eliminate it from the central bank's portfolio in three to five years.
"The one thing we could do differently" is "hold some of the securities a little longer," Bernanke said in response to questions from members of the House Financial Services Committee. "We could even let them just run off."
Bernanke is the third policy maker in the last week to voice support for altering the central bank's exit strategy to delay or eliminate asset sales. Governor Jerome Powell said Feb. 22 that the Fed could refrain from sales to avoid causing market disruptions and having the Fed take losses on the securities as interest rates rise.
San Francisco Fed President John Williams told reporters after a Feb. 21 speech in New York that, given the increase in the Fed's balance sheet, the period of time over which it's appropriate to sell assets "probably has lengthened." Telling markets the Fed plans to hold assets for longer would strengthen monetary stimulus and be "beneficial to the economy," he said.
How Long
Bernanke echoed that view today. "One issue is how long to hold the securities and whether to use that as a substitute, an alternative to asset purchases," he said. "That's something worth discussing."
The Fed is purchasing $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage- backed securities a month in an effort to spur the economy and reduce a jobless rate that stood at 7.9 percent in January.
Bernanke said today the central bank's easing policies are helping to improve demand for homes and cars by lowering long- term interest rates.
The Fed chairman said the "basic outline" of the exit strategy policy makers agreed upon he's "pretty confident" would "still be in force."
If the Fed doesn't sell any securities, "it doesn't mean that our balance sheet is going to be large for many years," he said. "It just would be maybe an extra year. That's all it would take to get back down to a more normal size."
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Sakyo Komatsu's 1973 novel Japan Sinks hit a nerve for a whole generation of Japanese people, and spawned two movie versions. (Just as the name suggests, it was a novel in which the tectonic plates under Japan suddenly shift, setting off volcanos, earthquakes and tsunamis, killing millions.)
After the giant earthquake and tsunami earlier this year, Komatsu said he wanted to live longer, to see how Japan evolved after the catastrophe. But sadly, he died this week of pneumonia, aged 80.
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By matching all five white balls but not the Powerball, the Rouses beat odds of 1 in 5.1 million.
Kansas City, Mo. | Two lucky ticket holders — one in Arizona and another in Missouri — are waking up Thursday to new lives as multimillionaires after the largest Powerball jackpot drawing ever.
Powerball officials said two tickets matched all six numbers to win the record $587.5 million jackpot. The numbers drawn for Wednesday night, for the second-highest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, are 5, 16, 22, 23, 29. The Powerball is 6.
Three tickets winning $1 million each were sold in Burlington, Charlotte and Kinston, according to a news release from the N.C. Education Lottery.
The Kinston winners were the first of the three to claim their prize. Christopher Rouse, who lives in Winterville, learned of the big win when he checked the numbers online Thursday morning. He then called his father, Leslie Rouse of Kinston, to share the news.
"I called and asked him what it means if I get five numbers in a row," Christopher said. "He didn't believe me."
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By matching all five white balls but not the Powerball, the Rouses beat odds of 1 in 5.1 million. They purchased their lucky ticket at the Kangaroo Express on U.S. 258 in Kinston.
"This was Chris' first ever Powerball ticket," Leslie said. "I bought tickets and handed him one and told him if we win, then we split it. I can't believe we're here."
The Rouses each claimed a $500,000 prize. After taxes were withheld, they each received a check for $340,000. Christopher said he plans to use his share of the winnings to help his wife pay for college and save for his children's future.
"Being a farmer, I have acquired quite a few bills," Leslie said. "This money will help take a lot off of us. I also have kids in school to take care of. The rest I'm going to invest and put away."
Fourteen other tickets sold in the state matched four numbers plus the Powerball and are worth $10,000 each. There were 269,916 winning tickets totaling $4.8 million in prizes across the state, the state lottery release said.
One of the jackpot-winning tickets was sold at a Trex Mart convenience store in Dearborn, Mo., about 35 miles north of Kansas City, the state lottery commission said in a news release.
Earlier Thursday, Missouri Lottery spokesman Gary Gonder said he was on his way to that store to assist with the expected onslaught of media attention. That store will be awarded $50,000 for selling the winning ticket.
"I guess we'll be able to give out Christmas bonuses," said Trex Mart General Manager Kenny Gilbert. "That's nice, especially at this time of year."
It did not appear Wednesday's big winner had yet come forward.
"If you buy Powerball tickets at this location, please find them and check them closely," said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. "If you find you're holding the winning ticket, be sure you sign the back and put it in a safe place until you can take it to a Missouri Lottery office. You will also want to get some legal and financial advice before you claim."
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Americans went on a ticket-buying spree in the run-up to Wednesday's drawing, the big money enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery to purchase a shot at the second-largest payout in U.S. history.
Tickets sold at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide — about six times the volume from a week ago. That pushed the jackpot even higher, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. The jackpot rolled over 16 consecutive times without a winner.
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neumauer said the jackpot was estimated at $587.5 million by early Thursday, adjusted slightly upward from the $579.9 million estimate at the time of the drawing. The cash payout was $384.7 million.
In a Mega Millions drawing in March, three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot. This remains the largest lottery payout of all time.


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MAPLE, Ontario -- Sign a contract to play professionally for a pittance of what an American player would receive, or simply quit playing baseball altogether.
The options are limited.
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This choice is one that many young baseball players in the Dominican Republic face when they approach the age of 16 years old. It is one not unlike what Toronto Blue Jays stars Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Reyes once weighed. Decision making in the Dominican Republic is left in the hands of young people who are often uneducated on the numerous potential outcomes they might be left with after making the choice, and they are even less familiar with other possibilities.
For Bautista, the biggest missed opportunity for young Dominican players is the added option of pursuing post-secondary education. As a young adult, his life changed when he was given assistance from the Latin Athletes Education Fund, run by Don Odermann. Bautista was allowed his first opportunity to pursue further education while playing baseball at the same time.
"I only got to this point in my life and my career because somebody opened some doors for me, and that's exactly what I'm trying to do for other people," Bautista said. "Now that I've gotten here, and I'm enjoying some success and I have the ability to help others, I feel like it's something that I'm supposed to do."
The Blue Jays outfielder started the Bautista Family Education Fund to continue work similar to that of Odermann, who cannot further his own fund because of health issues. Bautista is trying to implement change in his home country and beyond, and he took a huge step forward on Thursday afternoon with the inaugural Jose Bautista Celebrity Golf Classic, supporting BFEF and the Jays Care Foundation.
"Helping all these kids and opening doors for them and hopefully seeing where they end up in the future is something that's very important, and something that I'm looking forward to," Bautista said. "Allowing these kids to continue their education and at the same time keep playing baseball, which is what they love doing, is going to be great."
Odermann's fund allowed Bautista to further his education at Chipola Junior College, where he was later drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and began the journey that led him to the stage he finds himself on today.
"We would all like to be superstars like Jose," BFEF executive director Fernando Isa said. "But that's why the money and assistance is so necessary. There are many young baseball players who are very talented and are forced to sign a contract to play professionally or just stop playing baseball. But if they can get an education out of baseball, they will be better for it."
Isa knows firsthand that not every talented baseball player will end up with a Major League contract. He, along with four other of the Fund's board members, was also a recipient of assistance from Odermann. Isa attended Chipola before finishing his degree in pharmaceutical sales at the University of Louisville, and he was proud to share the successes of the other board members as well.
Luis Bautista, brother of Jose, attended Chipola before finishing his degree at Florida International University. Rafael Perez went to Chipola and finished his degree in accounting at the University of South Alabama. He is now the director of baseball operations for Major League Baseball in the Dominican Republic. Juan Peralta, now the director of the baseball academy for the Cincinnati Reds in the Dominican Republic, attended Aquinas College before completing his education at Troy State University in business administration and social work. Moises Feliz, who also went to Chipola, graduated from Cumberland University and is now working in the financial industry.
Having six young baseball players place an emphasis on education is a rarity in the Dominican, and Bautista is aiming for that to change.
"The fund has one purpose," Bautista said. "It's trying to allow kids the opportunity to continue their education at the college level while still being student-athletes. We don't give the money to them. We try to match them with colleges and their needs, and [we hope to help] create a good opportunity for them to finish their college education at the same time while they're playing. And whatever the college or university can't afford to help them with, that's where we step in."
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Rangers gear up for Game 3 against Kings in Big Apple
California Chrome had barely crossed the Belmont Park finish line in Triple Crown disappointment on Saturday night when the demands of the notoriously tough New York sports fans switched gears.
A hearty "Let's Go Rangers" chant broke out. Guess who is on the clock now?
It's been 20 years since a hockey game this important has been played in Manhattan, two decades since the Broadway Blueshirts last captured the Stanley Cup. Madison Square Garden has been renovated, Mark Messier is long-since retired but hockey can still captivate this energetic city.
On Sunday afternoon, there was a buzz around the Garden which is draped in a massive Rangers coloured banner hyping the next two dates with the Los Angeles Kings. By puck drop in Monday's crucial Game 3, they'll be the talk of the town.
"I think we're pretty confident to come back here and pretty excited to play in front of our own fans," Rangers forward Derrick Brassard said as his team returned home from the disappointing back-to-back overtime losses in Los Angeles. "Our confidence is still there. I think if we keep playing the same way, we have a great chance to win."
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The Rangers could certainly use a clutch goal here and there and probably some of the closer to clutch goaltending that Henrik Lund-qvist delivered earlier in the post-season. And perhaps most of all, they need to develop a killer instinct in front of their home crowd.
Blowing two-goal leads in Los Angeles was tantalizing in that it proved they could play with the Cup favourites. But, ultimately, the losses had their crushing side as well as opportunity slipped away.
Remember, this in a Rangers team that was booed off the ice early in its second-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, a matchup they eventually came back from a 3-1 deficit to win. That seems like long ago, however, and the home crowed figures to be in a frenzy for games Monday and Wednesday.
"We proved to ourselves we can come back against some really good teams," Brassard said. "I think we showed to ourselves we can play with this games. In both games, they win in overtime. It could go either way.
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Remember this was a team that started the regular season with just three wins in its first 10 games and took some time coming around to the ways of coach Alain Vigneault.
The comeback series win over the Penguins was followed by domination over the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference final.
"It's the biggest game New York has had here in 20 years and I think our fans are as excited as we are," Vigneault said. "People might be disappointed that we're down by two, but it wasn't certainly by lack of effort.
"We played nine periods of hockey and we played some real solid hockey in there. We're against a real good team. We know the challenge. We need to hold serve and take care of our business."
There's a reason the Kings were heavily favoured coming into the series, of course. They survived the Western Conference beating three Cup contenders to do so. The Rangers, meanwhile, got by a so-so Flyers squad, took advantage of a Penguins team in the midst of implosion and easily handled a Canadiens group that may be a year or two away from contending.
While they showed a lot in Games 1 and 2, they now find-themselves in what Vigneault said on Sunday is the closest thing you can have to a must-win game.
"We never quit all season," Brassard said. "We always showed some character. I don't think it's going to be any different for this series. We showed to ourselves that we can play with those guys that we can beat those guys."
Well, not quite. And what promises to be a big Monday night in Manhattan would be a good place to start.
Was it bad luck or bad officiating that conspired against the Rangers in their 5-4 double-overtime loss on Saturday night?
If you are New York coach Alain Vigneault, it might have been a bit of both.
It's clear that Vigneault hasn't let go of Dwight King's controversial goal early in the third period that looked and smelled like goaltender interference and started the Kings' comeback.
"I know they came back from a two-goal deficit, but their third goal you can look at it any way you want," Vigneault said on Sunday. "At the end of the day, that shouldn't have been a goal in my opinion.
"They got three chances in the third, if you count that one. Two of them went in. We were a little bit unlucky."
As you might expect, King wasn't apologizing on Sunday.
"My main focus was trying to get to the front of the net," the 230-pound King said. "When the shot came, the ref made the call and that's the way it stood. You need to get traffic, make it hard on them to see pucks, to stop pucks. That will never change."


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Hawks running to recapture title
Bishop Hendricken saw its streak of 17 consecutive indoor track state championships come to an end last year when Chariho took the title. When the Hawks arrived at the Providence Career & Technical Academy for their season-opening meet on Monday night, they viewed it as the first step to getting back on top.
"Our goal is to recapture that state championship that we lost last year," said assistant coach Dan Brennan. "That is the team goal from day one – to reclaim that state championship. Last year, it was too bad that we lost. We kind of felt like we let it get away. We really want to have a chance to get that back in our hands."
The potential is certainly there. As always, the Hawks have a huge roster that's stacked with both standouts and depth. With Chariho likely not as strong as it was last year – and the Hawks looking stronger – it could be the right recipe for Hendricken.
Optimism starts with the distance corps. While the Hawks had were coming off a cross country state title before last year's indoor season, their top runners were still young and couldn't keep up with Chariho's ability in the distance events.
That should change this year, with a host of cross country mainstays poised for another big season. The group includes seniors Greg Beaudette, Connor Doyle, Alex Doherty and Tyler Henseler, juniors Colin Tierney and Collin Manning and sophomore Michael Potter.
"We're coming off a strong cross country season, and we've got a group of guys we expect a lot out of," Brennan said.
The Hawks will also mix in a strong group of sprinters, led by senior Alex Perreault, who finished third in the 300 at last year's state meet.
"Alex is one of our senior captains and he's one of the top returners in the state in the 300," Brennan said.
Perreault will also run the lead leg on a 4x200 relay team that could emerge as one of the best in the state. Perreault is joined by junior Jack Cute, who's new to the team after playing hockey the last two years. Sophomore standouts Power Kanga and Lee Moses round out that relay squad.
"They're looking very good early on in the season," Brennan said.
Moses will also help the Hawks in the long jump, while Kanga will run in the dash. Sophomore Ben Murphy should contend in the high jump. Beyond that, there's a lot of depth, and more contenders could emerge in various events.
In the throws, a big group of seniors leads the way. Nick DeCiantis finished sixth in the shot put at the state meet last year and should be near the top again. Seniors Joe Vincent and Matt Casbarro lead the charge in the weight throw.
All in all, it adds up to another strong squad. The Hawks hope that this year, when February rolls around, it's enough to get back on top.
"We have a lot of pieces, and I think when we put it together, we can field a real strong team," Brennan said.
Titans pushing for success
For most teams around the state, teams that aren't in the mix for regular-season success and state meet glory, the dual-meet season is about individual performances. The Toll Gate boys have been no different over the years, and they'll still be focused on improvement this season.
But with a strong group of seniors leading the team, the Titans also want to focus on winning.
"We have a lot of seniors this year and they really want to win some meets," said head coach Jon Deming. "Usually, we kind of just use them as qualifiers for the state meet. This year, they kind of wanted to see what they could do."
The Titans went 2-4 in dual meets last year after going 4-4 the year before. With powerhouses Hendricken and East Greenwich still at the top of the division, the Titans still won't be at the head of the class, but they'd like to get back to a solid record.
"I think they should do pretty well," Deming said.
Senior Tom Martella is the team's most versatile performer and should score plenty of points in dual meets. He also represents Toll Gate's best chance for state meet success. Martella was a state meet qualifier in the hurdles last year and will be looking for a return trip.
"We're looking to get Tom to score in the state meet in the 300 and the hurdles," Deming said. "He looked really good in the Injury Fund."
Seniors Curran McMahon and Junior Rivas are also versatile performers who are capable of contributing in several events.
The Titans also should have a solid distance corps. In the fall, the cross country team went 8-4, and its top runners will be looking to build on that. Junior Henry Smithers leads the charge for a group that also includes senior Ben Dinobile and juniors Pat Rocchio, Evan Carley and Brock Massa.
In the throwing events, the Titans don't have any proven standouts, but they're working to fill the events and make improvements as the year goes on.
"Throwing is a work in progress but they're doing well," Deming said. "We've got some seniors now who have been in the program for a while now. We've got it all together now so we'll see what they do."
That'll be the approach all season, for everybody. Whatever happens, the Titans figure to be solid.
"We're more of a junior and senior team," Deming said. "We've got some pretty good state meet guys and then we have some pretty good depth. I think we'll be okay."
Pats building around strengths
Last winter was the beginning of a big few months for the Pilgrim track program.
The Pats had a solid indoor campaign and qualified six individuals and a relay team for states. In the spring, Pilgrim won the 4x100 championship at the outdoor state meet.
As another track season begins, the Pats don't have quite as many top-level performers, and success may not be as easy to come by. But the Pats still have good overall numbers and they still believe in their strengths.
"We lost a lot of seniors so it's a struggle trying to figure everything out and solidify everything," said head coach Mike Daniels. "We have great numbers, but you need the standouts to help the team win. We'll do okay. We may have some state guys. It comes down to sprints and throwing. Those two systems have to really score points."
Two members of that championship 4x100 team – seniors Steve Croft and Derek Daluz – will lead the Pats on the track. Both will be looking to qualify for states in individual events, and they'll also be trying to help Pats develop more strong relay teams.
"Those guys are the forefront of the sprint team this year," Daniels said. "They do a great job."
Daniels is also looking for senior Christian White and sophomore Brandon Paiva to do good things in the sprints and relays.
The throwing team is Pilgrim's other strength. Senior Peter Golish is back after qualifying for states last year and he's joined by a veteran group that includes seniors Kevin Conner, Dylan Gardner and Alex Malm, as well as juniors Dan Johnston and Andrew Swain.
"I rely on my sprint guys and I rely on my throwers," Daniels said. "We have a great throwing team. [Assistant coach] Jay Hudden does a great job with them one-on-one. He's really built those guys up and built up a team. I'm proud of those guys."
The Pats have a few competitors trying out jumping events and their distance corps features cross country standouts Cameron Devine and Sam Eleuterio. Sophomores Aaron Edmonds and Sam Shoepfer are showing potential.
"We don't have a huge distance team," Daniels said. "The guys can run and they'll score points when we need them."
Together, the Pats should have enough to be solid. If they develop some contenders, it'll be even better.
Overall, the goal is improvement.
"We don't have the standouts yet, but we put a mish-mash together and hope they can at least improve," Daniels said. "That's what we focus on. When I sat them all down this year, I said, 'Look, we're not going to do what we did last year . We're missing a lot of guys, we're missing a lot of elements. But can we improve on our times and our throws and our jumps? Yes. So that's really what it comes down to for us. I'm happy with the team itself and I'm excited. We work really hard. Hopefully, these guys can make something happen."
'Canes taking steps forward
Numbers have risen incrementally but steadily for Warwick Vets the past few years, largely because of a host of juniors who have stuck with the program.
While those juniors may be a year away from turning Vets into a seriously competitive team, this season should be another step in the process.
"We've got 13 juniors and they've been here since freshman year," said head coach Keith Randall. "They're kind of building up. I'm hoping if I can get some more freshmen and sophomores, next year will probably be our best shot of having a good, full team. We're definitely getting better."
For now, the goal will be to continue that improvement across the board. The 'Canes have won just a single meet each of the last two years and would like to get a few more this season. Regardless of what happens on that front, it's about having each individual take steps in the right direction.
"My number one goal is individuals, and seeing if they can get better throughout the season," Randall said. "We want to take as many guys to the states as possible. If we can win a couple of meets along the way, that's great, but I'm really more focusing on them progressing and getting better each week throughout the season."
Vets has only three seniors, but all of them will contribute. Nathan Brotman is the team's most consistent weight thrower, while Pat Delsanto throws the weight and can do the long jump and high jump. The other senior is Kyle Waters, a mainstay in the sprints and in relay events.
Leading the big junior class is distance runner Ian Anderson, who's coming off a strong cross country season. He'll be looking to build on it.
"Ian came in third in the class championships in cross country, so we're really looking at him for a big season," Randall said. "He's doing the 3,000 right now and we're hoping he'll even be stronger in the 1,000."
Other top performers include junior Brian Schofield in the weight throw, juniors Kyle and Jeremy Morrissette in sprints and relay events and Jon Nordin in sprints.
Randall is also eager to see how his 4x200 relay team stacks up. That unit has looked good so far.
"Happy with the 4x200 relay team today," Randall said at Monday's season opener. "And we're trying to put together a 4x400 team so we'll see what we can do there."
In every event, improvement will continue to be the refrain. The 'Canes are also hoping to increase their numbers as the year goes on, and in general, keep things moving in the right direction.
"I've got at least two more guys coming in and hopefully a few more will join in," Randall said. "We're getting three and four in most of the events. Hopefully, we'll build and get a few more guys to come out."


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House Speaker Michael Madigan shot down a union coalition's proposal to have a summit on government worker pensions, saying Wednesday that organized labor has had input but "strongly opposed" efforts to fix the state's finances.
Madigan, the state's Democratic Party chairman, called for unions to come to the bargaining table with an "honest proposal that recognizes the state's serious fiscal condition and puts government employees on par with those in the private sector relative to a benefits package."
The union group's leader, Illinois AFL-CIO President Michael Carrigan, said he was "surprised and disappointed" by the Democratic speaker's position and contended residents "want and deserve leaders who work together to solve problems."
Madigan told Carrigan his suggestion of a pension summit in Burr Ridge Feb. 11 "is not timely" and that one could have been called years ago when Illinois "first started to grapple with this complex and controversial topic."
The exchange of testy letters illustrates a growing rift between Illinois Democrats and their friends in labor at a time when the state's pension funds are $96.8 billion in debt. Despite imploring lawmakers to take action, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has seen no legislation hit his desk that would bring about the comprehensive reforms he seeks.
The Madigan-Carrigan confrontation surfaced on a day when the Quinn administration postponed plans to borrow $500 million for construction projects, a move that followed last week's downgrading by Standard & Poor's that ranked Illinois' credit rating at the bottom of all states. Bad ratings generally translate into higher costs for taxpayers.
Earlier this month, lawmakers adjourned a lame-duck session without approving pension reform. Senate President John Cullerton is pushing a plan that would give state workers the choice of accepting lower yearly cost-of-living increases in return for a guarantee of health insurance.
In the House, rank-and-file lawmakers tried to get traction on a plan that would see workers chip in more from their paychecks and rein in automatic cost-of-living increases. Retirees would have not gotten automatic annual inflation bumps until age 67, and cost-of-living increases would have been frozen for several years under the proposal.
Although the House solution was viewed as more comprehensive, Cullerton questioned whether it would hold up in court. Cullerton argues that under the Illinois Constitution, workers must be given a choice when pension changes are made.
The new session, which is scheduled to run through May, sees Democrats with veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate. There also are plenty of new lawmakers who need time to be brought up to speed on the pension problems. Quinn has warned that pension payments are gobbling up more of the budget and forcing cuts to education and social spending. That could pressure lawmakers to find a pension fix to avoid painful cuts.
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Today's Meditation
Paul wrote, "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways."
-1 Corinthians 13:11
When my daughter was five years old, I asked her to wash the dishes. She washed the dishes, tidied up, and summoned me. When I walked into the kitchen, I praised her for doing her work so well. She said, "Now I'm a housewife, right?" We smiled and embraced. I saw that she liked feeling grown up, and I was proud of my daughter.
In a much more significant sense, the Lord is pleased to see how we become mature Christians and good managers of our spiritual gifts, abilities, and resources. Our heavenly Father rejoices when we grow up spiritually and use our gifts more fully. At first we learn how to do lots of things ourselves, providing for our own needs and the needs of our family and supporting our church. Then we give to other people, families, and churches. When we grow in using our gifts and talents, we can bless the people around us, our city, and the whole world.
Seeing children learn responsibility is a joy. So is watching adults mature in every sphere of their lives. And churches growing in bringing people to faith in Christ are a special joy. When we grow, as we are meant to, the Lord looks at us and rejoices.
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Prayer: Thank you, God, for helping us to leave behind our childish ways and to mature as Christians. Help us to bring you joy. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Thought for the Day: The Lord rejoices when we mature spiritually.
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Okay, so you remember the whole Rachel Brown/Dr. Michael Brown thing, right? They're getting a divorce - he's a douche and is allegedly violent; she's been "seeing" Jeff Bagwell for a while now, one apparent reason for Jeff Bagwell's divorce from his wife. Well, today was the first of two days of hearings related to the divorce of the Browns' divorce, relating to their children.
Her relationship with Bagwell came up, where it was acknowledged that they have taken several trips together, intend to move in together at a future (unspecified) date, that they're in love, and one day hope to marry.
Then, almost as a throw-away line at the end of the recap:
She confirmed that she accompanied Bagwell when he recently left a rehabilitation facility where he was being treated for alcohol abuse before he completed the program.
/Slow whistle...
Okay, some updates. And, hey, I know. This sucks. It's not fun to talk about. It wouldn't be fun to talk about with anyone, much less one of the Greatest Astros of All Time. Still, it seems as though Bagwell did not complete the course of treatment in rehab.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Jeff Bagwell apparently went to rehab
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Jeff Bagwell is the best person! He is a great father and was a great husband. Just because he had some issues with alcohol does not mean he is a bad person. Show some respect
- December 2, 2013 at 9:01 PM
I was in treatment with him in atlanta ga from november 2011-march 2012 but he left in january, great guy.. Was there for 45ish days, but seems to have a lot going on and had to leave, great guy and real down to earth
- January 8, 2014 at 10:39 PM
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Hassin recently proposed the "Yes It Can" (YIC) principle to describe the division of labor between conscious and unconscious processes in human cognition. According to this principle, unconscious processes can carry out every fundamental high-level cognitive function that conscious processes can perform. In our commentary, we argue that the author presents an overly idealized review of the literature in support of the YIC principle. Furthermore, we point out that the dissimilar trends observed in social and cognitive psychology, with respect to published evidence of strong unconscious effects, can better be explained by the way how awareness is defined and measured in both research fields. Finally, we show that the experimental paradigm chosen by Hassin to rule out remaining objections against the YIC principle is unsuited to verify the new default notion that all high-level cognitive functions can unfold unconsciously.
In Perspectives on Psychological Science , Hassin has recently proposed a novel principle, the "Yes It Can" (YIC) principle, to describe the division of labor between conscious and unconscious processes in human cognition ( Hassin, 2013 ). In brief, the YIC principle states that "unconscious processes can carry out every fundamental high-level [cognitive] function that conscious processes can perform" (p. 195). According to Hassin, two observations lend a priori plausibility to the YIC principle. First, conscious processing has been shown to be severely capacity-limited ( Baddeley, 2007 ). Second, some theories suggest that conscious awareness as we experience it today might be a relatively recent evolutionary development ( Dennett, 1991 ). Hassin concludes that, therefore, "fundamental cognitive functions are likely to occur outside of conscious awareness" (p. 195).
The author then reviews a wide and diverse range of supporting evidence from cognitive and social psychology, as well as the cognitive neurosciences. The selected studies unanimously show that high-level cognitive functions that were previously thought of as requiring consciousness can indeed occur non-consciously, i.e., without awareness of the relevant stimuli or without awareness of the influence of the relevant stimuli, respectively. In particular, he presents empirical data from four different subsets of cognitive functions, namely cognitive control (e.g., conflict adaptation), goal pursuit (e.g., goal priming), information broadcasting (e.g., semantic priming), and reasoning (e.g., decision making).
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Instagram's growth story has been phenomenal, and it has the potential to take away the social media crown from Facebook itself
Instagram, which started its journey as a mere image sharing platform, is now even challenging its parent Facebook in the social media game.
A report that came out recently states that if Instagram were a standalone app, it would be valued over $100 billion . While this speaks volumes about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision with regards to Instagram early on — it was bought by Facebook for $1 bn in 2012 — it should also ring some alarm bells at Menlo Park. This is because, Instagram is not just driving away users from rival social media platforms such as Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube, but according to a Pew Research Study, Instagram and YouTube are the most popular apps followed by Snapchat, among teens in the US teens. Also, users are spending on an average the same amount of time on Instagram , as they do on Facebook. A large portion of this population is the same that was once hooked on to Facebook.Instagram and YouTube are the most popular apps on an average the same amount of time on Instagram
When Facebook was on this spree of copying most of Snapchat's features, it replicated the 'Stories' feature across all its four major products: WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. But the app which gave the most returns was Instagram , which even surpassed the engagement numbers as compared to Snapchat.the most returns was Instagram
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User acquisition rates on Instagram are unparalleled, not just within the Facebook ecosystem, but across the social media industry. Instagram launched Instagram Stories a little less than 2 years ago. Back then, the Instagram user base was around 500 million users. In two years since,Instagram has managed to garner another 500 million users. None of its contemporaries have managed to acquire half a billion users within two years.
It's no wonder then that Facebook is going aggressive Instagram, and is now pitching it against Google's YouTube as well, with the launch of the IGTV app . With online video viewing habits undergoing a sea change, there hasn't really been a proper rival to YouTube which has been around since 2006. Facebook's multiple attempts at doing video, such as Facebook Live and the more recent Watch, hasn't really been able to cause any dent in YouTube's viewership numbers or the user-loyalty on that platform.
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So has been -11 C here today, which reminded me that I have had winter meeting already three times. So why not have fourth? Time is still open, but if there is enough interest, it's late January or early February. Anyone interested and what are good dates?
Time is 4. of February 2017
Participant list
1. miisalo
2. razoola
3. berry
4. rockstarrunner
5. JP (local)
6. Teemu (local)
7. codise (nesretro)
8. Jupp3 (nesretro)
9. Sosumi (nesretro)
10. Asla (local)
11. Lauri (local)
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Michelle Alton 3/7/2012 3:59:18 AMThis has my vote, without reservation, for Grand Prize. The aspens are magical, but the white-faced black cow, placed as it is, just sends this image so far over the top that it's going to disappear into outer space! #1448018
Carolyn M. Fletcher 3/7/2012 4:08:22 AMLove the cow, just standing there looking cool. Great catch! #10026556
Tammy M. Anderson 3/7/2012 4:09:45 AMGreat timing to catch this lone cow with the fall aspens. Outstanding capture, Ken. #10026563
Jeff Robinson 3/7/2012 4:17:00 AMWhat a great find - Outstanding capture Ken! #10026592
Renee Doyle 3/7/2012 4:19:36 AMOMG .... was just signing out for the night and saw this!!! All I can hear is Linda yelling 'COWS' - LOL!!!!! What a fun trip ..... and what a wonderful capture of this guy coming around the bend in the road! Fabulous Ken!! #10026601
Jack Gaskin 3/7/2012 4:27:54 AMHope you thanked the steer. A wonderful capture but that I'm lost look makes it really work.
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Mary Timman 3/7/2012 4:41:15 AMLove those aspens and the colors, but that poor cow just really looks like he's lost here. #10026666
Joy Rector 3/7/2012 5:00:41 AMwow, love it #10026721
Linda D. Lester 3/7/2012 5:25:27 AM:) made me smile! #10026771
Daniella Puente 3/7/2012 5:35:10 AMSooooo cool! :) #10026784
Stefania Barbier 3/7/2012 11:34:01 AMlove love love this shot Ken! birch trees are so beautiful, and the cow is the icing on the cake! #10027312
John Connolly 3/7/2012 1:28:52 PMWhat a brilliant moment in time you have captured here Ken! A superb scene, but I am wondering how you managed to keep the cow still for 1/4th of a second? #10027433
Linda S. Smith 3/7/2012 2:53:17 PMThis is just a GORGEOUS capture all around Ken! A winner in my book!!! #10027505
Terry Cervi 3/7/2012 4:06:40 PMWhat great timing on this one, Ken!! Gorgeous work too! #10027618
Cynthia M. Wiles 9/30/2015 1:18:54 PM2 things I love, cows and Aspens! Great shot!! #11379782
Harriet Feagin 9/30/2015 6:01:42 PMThis is so wonderful. The photo could be used to start a story in a creative writing class. I love it. Congratulations, Ken. #11379921
Aspen trees along the Ohio Pass Road in the high-country of Colorado, from September a couple of years ago.
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Hiroki Kuroda retired his first 15 batters before Jhonny Peralta singled, and the New York Yankees pressed ahead without injured captain Derek Jeter and were scoreless with the Detroit Tigers after six innings on Sunday in Game 2 of the AL championship series.
Jeter was away getting scans, a day after breaking his left ankle in the 12th inning of the opener, which the Tigers won 6-4 despite closer Jose Valverde allowing two-run homers to Ichiro Suzuki and Raul Ibanez in the ninth. Jeter was replaced at shortstop by Jayson Nix.
Since both LCS became best-of-seven in 1995, 19 of 22 teams with 2-0 leads have gone on to win the pennant. After a day off, the series resumes Tuesday in Detroit with AL MVP Justin Verlander starting for the Tigers and Phil Hughes for New York.
Kuroda, a 37-year-old right-hander pitching on three days' rest for the first time in his big league career, dominated with a mix of fastballs, sliders and splitters. He allowed one hit through six innings, walked none and struck out eight — including seven of his first nine batters.
Anibal Sanchez was nearly as efficient, allowing three hits, striking out five and walking two.
On manager Joe Girardi's 48th birthday, New York's slump at the plate continued.
Robinson Cano, batting second for the first time since September 2010, grounded out in the first, third innings and sixth innings, and is hitless in 25 at-bats.
Alex Rodriguez took a called third strike on a changeup in the second and struck out on a checked swing in the fourth, dropping to 2 for 21 with no RBIs in the postseason, including 0 for 17 with 12 strikeouts against right-handers.
Curtis Granderson fanned twice, falling to 3 for 25 with 13 Ks.
Mark Teixeira doubled with two outs in the first and streaking Raul Ibanez walked. Russell Martin had a soft comebacker that Sanchez gloved behind his back before throwing to first.
Nick Swisher reached with two outs in the second on an infield hit, a liner that second baseman Omar Infante dived for but allowed to squirt out of his glove. Nix flied out to the left-field warning track on a ball Quintin Berry at first misjudged.
Suzuki reached on an error leading off the sixth when Sanchez missed his spinning bouncer and Infante slapped the ball to first too late to retire the speedy runner.
Suzuki advanced to third on Cano's comebacker and Teixeira's grounder to shortstop. Ibanez was intentionally walked, and Peralta made a barehanded pickup of Russell Martin's slow three-hopper to shortstop and threw to first for the inning-ending out.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said before the game that he would not use Valverde to close Sunday but that the right-hander remained his closer.