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PHOENIX -- When Anthony Rizzo was in the National League clubhouse for the All-Star Game this week, he found himself lockered next to the Phillies' Chase Utley.
"I grew up a huge Chase Utley fan," Rizzo said. "Next to him is [Giancarlo] Stanton, next to him is [Andrew] McCutchen. It was a great experience and something I'll never forget. Now, I want to keep working and getting better."View Full Game Coverage
PHOENIX -- When Anthony Rizzo was in the National League clubhouse for the All-Star Game this week, he found himself lockered next to the Phillies' Chase Utley.
"I grew up a huge Chase Utley fan," Rizzo said. "Next to him is [Giancarlo] Stanton, next to him is [Andrew] McCutchen. It was a great experience and something I'll never forget. Now, I want to keep working and getting better."View Full Game Coverage
Rizzo got off to a good start in the second half Friday night, but the rest of the Cubs couldn't keep up.
Fresh from his first All-Star Game appearance, Rizzo smacked a two-run home run in the fourth and a lead-off shot in the sixth for homers Nos. 21 and 22 this season, but it wasn't enough as the Diamondbacks rallied for a 5-4 victory over the Cubs.
"'Riz' had an All-Star night," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said.
Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo home run and Didi Gregorius hit a pair of RBI singles to spark the Diamondbacks' comeback in front of 32,619 at Chase Field.
Rizzo, one of three NL players to reach 20 home runs by the All-Star break, launched his first homer with one out in the fourth and a runner at second, connecting against starter Trevor Cahill. The Cubs then made it 3-0 when Luis Valbuena doubled and scored one out later on Ryan Sweeney's single.
But with one out in the D-backs' fifth, Chicago starter Edwin Jackson gave up four straight singles, including run-scoring hits by Gregorius and pinch-hitter Nick Evans.
Rizzo greeted lefty Eury De La Rosa with home run No. 22 in the sixth as the first baseman notched his sixth career multi-homer game and second this year. He also hit a pair May 31 against the Brewers. Rizzo now sits one home run shy of matching his entire 2013 season total.
"It'd be nice to pass that mark," Rizzo said. "You want to keep having good at-bats and not try to hit home runs, just try to hit the ball hard. Good things tend to happen."
His second home run was his seventh of the season off a lefty.
"I just put two good swings on the ball -- that's it," Rizzo said.
"He's playing well," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Rizzo. "He's hurt us. We made some mistakes against him, and he made us pay."
During the break, Rizzo didn't get any time away from baseball. Instead, he took batting practice for two days and got one at-bat in the All-Star Game.
"I just enjoyed my time, I enjoyed the whole experience," he said. "No one on those teams knows if they will ever play in another All-Star Game. I treated it like it could be [my last one], too. ... Being there is great but the focus is here in Chicago on this team."
Jackson took a completely different approach last week and escaped from baseball.
"I took a vacation, cleared my mind, relaxed, and didn't think about baseball until Wednesday, Thursday," Jackson said. "Baseball was the furthest thing from my mind. Coming into the second half, it was all zeros."
Jackson served up Goldschmidt's solo home run with one out in the sixth, which pulled the D-backs within one at 4-3. He was then lifted and Renteria used four pitchers in the inning, but the D-backs were able to tie the game on Gerardo Parra's sacrifice fly and took the lead on Gregorius' RBI single.
"I thought [Jackson] did his job," Renteria said. "I know he's the guy we seem to pick on, and I thought he did a great job today."
Jackson is targeted because of his large contract and disappointing 2013 season. He finished last year 8-18 with a 4.98 ERA; he did not get a decision on Friday and now is 5-10 with a 5.61 ERA. He wiped the slate clean after the break.
"Whatever happened in the first half is the first half," Jackson said. "There's a lot of baseball left. It's about how you finish. You finish up strong, the first half will be kind of forgotten. You just live in the present."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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Nokia is slowly rolling out it optional Music+ upgrade in a number of markets, the latest being Norway. We've received word that the company has indeed pressed the big green button and Nowegian consumers will be able to upgrade their account within the Nokia Music app on a Lumia Windows Phone.
We'll expect to see Nokia continue to launch the service in other markets across Europe and beyond, especially in areas where access to other music services is either limited or non-existent. As with the other launches, there's a free trial available should you wish to test everything out before parting with your hard-earned cash.
As illustrated in the screenshots above, the service upgrade will set consumers back by 30kr (approximately $4.50). You can download Nokia Music from the Nokia Collection of apps on the Windows Phone Store. Thanks, Ronny, for the tip!

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I have a rescue dog that I took in about a year ago. Ever since I got him I have been battling his skin issue. I've been using head and shoulders dandruff shampoo to combat his dandruff and flaky skin, but he has a hot spot at his throat that is just refusing to heal. I've tried all kinds of things like bathing him, shaving him (he gets too hot and then scratches like crazy), changed foods, put lotions on... He is constantly scratching and biting...every time I look at him I have to tell him to stop.
Vets have experimented on him giving him various meds, but I don't agree with using him as a guinea pig and my pocket book can't handle much more. I have no idea what is wrong with his skin, but I firmly believe it needs to be battled from the inside, I really don't think topical treatments will work. Is there ANYTHING else I can give him beside brewers yeast tablets and olive oil (which has caused him to gain too much weight and I've finally gotten him slimmed down to appropriate weight)? Thanks so much for any advice.
Dear Leila,
Itching is usually a sign of allergies. Allergies are becoming more and more common and troublesome in dogs. I have addressed the treatment of Bailey, a dog with severe allergies in another article in Only Natural Pet's Holistic Healthcare Library. He has seasonal and food allergies and the suggestions for Bailey would apply to your dog as well.
You might also read the article about vaccinations, as well. Over-vaccination can contribute to allergy and immune problems.
Remember that the first and most important thing to address is his diet. He needs to be on the highest quality diet you can provide him. Keep in mind that adding real food to his diet can mean starting a raw food diet or can be as simple as giving him healthy table scraps along with a high quality kibble free of common allergens (such as wheat and chicken) if that's what you can manage.
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We all love home centers for the good stuff they carry and for their low prices. But home centers cater to the lowest common denominator consumer — that is, they carry only the stuff that has a big market.
The result is that many of the finishing products used on furniture and cabinets, products you read about in woodworking magazines or hear about in woodworking classes, are rarely found in these stores. Examples include very fine-grit sandpapers, dyes, glazes, paste wood fillers, spray lacquers and high-performance finishes such as catalyzed lacquer.
So how do you proceed if you have to do your finishing entirely from the products available at home centers?
It's not all that difficult, really. You're just limited in some of the decorative effects you can achieve – decorative effects you're probably not interested in anyway because you're using the natural color and figure of the wood for your decoration.
With the limited choice of finishing products at home centers, you can still get all the following:
• Protection and durability ranging from minimal to the best possible
• A sheen ranging from gloss to dead flat
• Finishes ranging from amber to colorless
• A near-flawless finish resembling sprayed lacquer
• Elimination of blotching from stains
• A glaze substitute
• A pore-filling option
• The ability to block off problems in the wood.
Before proceeding with how to accomplish these objectives, I want to explain how companies producing and marketing finishing materials sell their products (how all companies probably sell their products, for that matter).
Finish companies target specific markets. Within any given category – oil stain, varnish, water-based finish, etc. – all companies' products are very similar, if not identical. But because stores and catalogs carry different brands, and because the marketing can sometimes make you believe some brands are somehow better than others, you may think you're getting inferior products at low-end, mass-consumer home centers when you're not.
For example, a big brand name in home centers is Minwax, while General Finishes and Behlen dominate in woodworking stores and catalogs, and Old Masters is popular in independent paint stores. There are also stores that feature Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Pratt & Lambert, Varathane and many other brands.
In addition, some companies target just contractors, others target cabinet and furniture makers, and still others (an entirely different group of companies) target refinishers.
Within any finish category – oil stain, glaze, varnish, lacquer, etc. – all these companies make essentially the same thing. They all have access to the same raw materials, and the instructions for putting these raw materials together are available to everyone, even to you and me if we want them.
So there's nothing at all inferior about the finishing products available at home centers. There's only a limitation of what's available. From these limited choices, however, you have many possibilities for achieving the results you want.
Protection and Durability
You have control of the amount of protection and durability you get simply by how much you build your finish and by your choice of finish.
Protection means resistance to moisture penetration into the wood – in liquid or vapor (humidity) form. All finishes provide better resistance the thicker they are, so the finishes that harden well and can be built up on the wood are capable of much better protection than finishes such as boiled linseed oil, 100-percent tung oil and blends of one of these oils and varnish, that don't harden.
Among the finishes that harden, oil-based polyurethane varnish provides the best resistance to moisture penetration and also the best durability – that is, the best resistance to being damaged by scratches, heat, solvents, acids and alkalies. Polyurethane is almost as protective and durable as the best of the high-performance finishes used in industry.
Following polyurethane in declining order are alkyd (regular) varnish, polyurethane water-based finish, acrylic water-based finish, lacquer and shellac.
But even fresh shellac is considerably more protective and durable than the finishes that don't harden, as long as you apply several coats. Because shellac loses a lot of hardness and water resistance as it ages in the can, it's best to use it within a year of manufacture. The date of manufacture is stamped on the bottom of the can.
The color you get on the wood is partially contributed by the finish. Finishes differ in how much yellowing or "oranging" they add.
Amber shellac adds the most orange color. You can use this finish on pine, for example, to create the knotty-pine look popular in the 1950s, or recreate the warmth common on oak trim and paneling original to early 20th-century houses.
Boiled linseed oil and 100-percent tung oil have a slight yellow color to begin with, and then they yellow, or rather orange, significantly as they age. You can use either of these finishes under any other finish to achieve this oranging as long as you let the oil cure well first. A week or two in a warm room should be adequate.
Oil-based varnishes, lacquer and clear shellac also have a slight yellow tint, which may darken a little with age. But the finish most significant for color is water-based, both polyurethane and acrylic. These finishes aren't, and don't, yellow at all. They are "water clear."
So you would choose a water-based finish for light woods such as maple or ash, or for white pickled woods, if you don't want them to have a yellow tint. You would probably choose one of the other finishes for darker woods because water-based finishes usually make these woods appear "washed out" unless you apply a stain underneath.


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David Ortiz, Torii Hunter, Corey Koskie and Doug Mientkiewicz were teammates in New Britain in 1997 for the Rock Cats. The fans might have seen something special in each player, might have known each would make it to the major leagues. But no one could have guessed that Ortiz and Mientkiewicz would play on the winning World Series team for the Red Sox in 2004.
Ortiz had an especially interesting 1997 season. His totals: .318 batting average, 32 home runs and 130 RBI covering four levels of baseball.
He started the season in Class A, playing for Fort Myers in the Florida State League. He hit. 331 in 239 at-bats with 13 home runs and 58 RBI. Next up: Eastern League Double A ball in New Britain. He didn't slow down, hitting .322 with 14 home runs and 56 RBI in 258 at-bats. Off to the Triple A Pacific Coast League and Salt Lake City, where he had four homers and 10 RBI in 42 at-bats. Finally, to the major leagues as a September call-up with the Minnesota Twins, where he had a homer and six RBI in 49 at-bats.
Ortiz had a bunch of monster games in New Britain that year, hitting .512 in one 12-game stretch and at one point saying simply, "I just like to swing the bat. I don't like taking pitches."
Still, Ortiz's career didn't really take off until he got to Boston, where he had five straight seasons of 30 or more home runs and 100 or more RBI in 2003-07, including 142 home runs from 2004 to '06.
Koskie led New Britain in home runs that season with 23. He drove in 79 runs in 131 games. Mientkiewicz had 15 homers and 21 stolen bases in 132 games. Hunter had eight homers and 56 RBI in 127 games.
Ortiz and Mientkiewicz were teammates when the Red Sox finally ended the jinx and won the World Series in 2004. Ortiz had 41 homers and 139 RBI. Mientkiewicz, known as a great defensive first baseman, was acquired July 31, 2004, in a four-team deal that involved Nomar Garciaparra leaving Boston. Reliever Keith Foulke fielded a ground ball and flipped to Mientkiewicz for the final out of the Series.
That ball took on a life of its own. Mientkiewicz kept it, Foulke wanted it, as did the Red Sox. It finally ended up in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 2006 after a few twists and turns.


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Found in the 1920 U.S. Census! The Martin and Kari Fjeld Family
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This morning, for the first time in ages, I noticed a little leaf attached to my great grandfather, Ole Martinsen Fjeld (1892-1954), on the Ancestry website. It turns out, the little leaf hinted at an entry for the 1920 U.S. Census. My Fjelds were listed as "Feld" in the 1920 census, which, actually, is a close approximation of how "Fjeld" is correctly pronounced in Norwegian.
Interestingly, they are not enumerated as "Feld," but are indexed by Ancestry as "Feld." In the actual document, the surname is spelled correctly - F-j-e-l-d. At this point I'm just happy they weren't listed as Felt or, worse, Fert (or Fart), as some regional pronunciations of Fjeld can sound, to the untrained ear, as ending with a sound approximating an English r or rt.
Indexes don't always make family research easier.
Members of the Martin Olsen and Kari Knudsdatter (Ruse) Fjeld Family listed in the 1920 Census are:
- Martin Olsen Fjeld
- Kari Knudsdatter Fjeld
- Ole Martinsen Fjeld
- Alma Martinsdatter Fjeld
- Albert Martinsen Fjeld
- Melvin Martinsen Fjeld
- Agnes Martinsdatter Fjeld


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury prepared to start examining evidence and hearing from witnesses in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.
The 14-person panel which by law meets secretly is investigating whether other laws were broken in connection with the August attack in Steubenville in eastern Ohio.
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One of the questions before the grand jury, which begins its work on Tuesday, is likely to be whether adults like coaches or school administrators may have known about the rape allegation but failed to report it.
School superintendent Mike McVey has previously acknowledged that he, other administrators and head football coach Reno Saccoccia were interviewed by investigators in the days leading up to the March trial.
Text messages introduced at trial indicated that Saccoccia may have known about the allegation but didn't report it, which if true would violate Ohio law requiring coaches and others to report suspected abuse.
Investigators on Thursday searched Steubenville High School and the local school board offices.
"We have been from the beginning and are continuing to fully cooperate with the authorities in this investigation," the Steubenville school board said in a statement Thursday.
Investigators also searched Vestige Digital Investigations, a digital forensics storage company in Medina in northeast Ohio. The company's connection to the case was unclear and it denies it's the subject of a criminal investigation.
"In many matters that we are engaged in, the turnover of data to other interested parties is handled through appropriate legal paths, including the issuing of subpoenas or search warrants," the company said late Thursday.
The owners of a home where a photo was taken of the girl being carried by the two boys later convicted of raping her have also been interviewed by investigators.
That home is the same place a 12-minute cellphone video was filmed of a former student laughing and making crude jokes about the victim and the attack as others laughed in the background.
The National Organization of Women have demanded that Attorney General Mike DeWine charge the student seen in the video, Michael Nodianos, with failure to report a crime.
Nodianas' attorney has said his client regrets his actions but didn't have direct knowledge of the attack.
The emergence of the video helped spur allegations of a cover-up and frustration that more people weren't charged in the rape.
DeWine says nothing is off the table for the grand jury, which he announced within hours of the guilty verdict March 17.
"What I promised the Steubenville community was we would get this over as quick as we could, but more importantly, we would do it right," DeWine said last week after announcing the search warrants.
The grand jury will meet three to four days a week and hear from dozens of witnesses, DeWine said.
A judge convicted the teens in March of raping the Weirton, W.Va., girl after the party, once in a moving car, the second time in the basement of a house. The boys were sentenced to one- and two-year terms in the state juvenile detention system.


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A new precedent was set yesterday. For years Christians have been separated by elections, but finally, we share a common ground moral issue: poverty—what is happening to God's most vulnerable children here in America and around the world.
Across the political and theological spectrum, the faith community is putting aside differences and taking up the biblical vocation of protecting the poor and bringing their stories and struggles to light. It's because of this unprecedented unity around those whom Jesus called "the least of these" that the presidential candidates felt they had to respond.
With a unified voice, a broad array of Christian leaders came together to challenge the presidential candidates to directly address the issue of poverty. That's because, as you have heard, the poverty "numbers" reported yesterday by the Census Bureau are not just numbers for us—they are people we know, children that we have come to love, and families we have watched struggle so painfully.
There is a growing consensus, that poverty is Christian issue, and that it has always been—one of our most traditional values issues. There are a lot of issues Christians should care about and a lot of different thoughts on the best ways to express that but when casting a ballot, every Christian should have "the least of these" on their minds.
That is why we stood side by side yesterday at the National Press Club — leaders from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, the National Council of Churches, Black and Hispanic churches, The Salvation Army, Bread for the World, and Sojourners; who asked that the presidential candidates address the economic hardships and hopelessness felt by far too many of our brothers and sisters.
The biblical prophets clearly say that a nation's righteousness is determined by how it treats its poor and vulnerable. And Jesus could not be more clear in Matthew 25: the ways that we treat the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the homeless, the sick, the prisoner — all those left out and left behind—is the way we treat him. How much we love him will be demonstrated in how we treat them. And, we pointed out, that Gospel text is not only addressed to individual followers of Christ but also to the "nations" that will also be held accountable for how they treat the poor. And as we said today, the new numbers on poverty released yesterday by the Census Bureau leave us with a very poor "Matthew 25 scorecard."
Therefore, as the faith leaders said today, we have no choice but to respond when we learn that so many of our brothers and sisters are living in poverty. It makes these presidential candidate videos ones that every Christian should watch before they vote.
We asked the candidates, what will you do to address the highest numbers of people in poverty in America in almost 50 years—numbers that we learned today are still growing? We believe these messages from the presidential candidates should lift the issues of poverty into the national debate into this election season.
We invite members of the press to watch these videos and to question these candidates even further about their visions and policy choices for overcoming poverty. The poverty numbers that came out yesterday require responsible journalists to make the question of poverty an important part of this election year discussion.
After three consecutive years of increases, we now have 46 million people in our country, or 15 percent of the population, living in poverty. While thankfully, there was not a significant increase this year, the data also reveals that income inequality continues to rise.
With the highest poverty numbers in almost 50 years, we intend to hold these candidates accountable in this campaign and after the election for the commitments they both make here today.
There is some good news, many of the social safety net programs in place are doing just what they are intended to do and helping keep families out of poverty. In 2011, Social Security kept 21.4 million people out of poverty, including 14.5 million seniors, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) kept 3.9 million people out of poverty, the Earned Income Tax Credit kept 5.7 million people out of poverty and unemployment insurance another 2.3 million people.
There are many things that will be necessary to reducing and overcoming poverty, as both of these videos suggest. But we need a new national commitment and a new strategy on poverty in America and around the world. We didn't hear that kind of commitment or conversation at either convention and don't hear poverty on the agenda for this election. That ends today with this witness from faith leaders and these presidential videos. The faith community has asked both presidential nominees for a response and they have answered. So it's time now to put poverty on the campaign agenda from our local churches to our public forums to our presidential debates.
So let me introduce these two videos for you to watch and share with this important statement:
The Christian leaders who initiated the "Circle of Protection" asked the two major nominees for president to offer a brief video of how they would seek to overcome poverty as president. The Christian leaders express their thanks to both President Obama and Gov. Romney for their positive responses to this request. The leaders also wish to make clear that this effort in no way offers or implies an endorsement of either candidate or the proposals in their statements. Likewise, the participation of President Obama and Gov. Romney does not offer or imply an endorsement of the positions taken by the Circle of Protection or its members.
So please, go HERE to watch, share, and respond.
Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.
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if Byakuya didn't have his little epiphany, he would of killed Ichigo w/ a Kidou spell, that isn't a 'what if' that's what would of happened. I've also already said it in a previous post, Ichigo could of killed Byakuya a long time ago when he had his sword up to his neck.
really hate repeating stuff...
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The thing is, Byakuya with his enormous pride would never ever give a win to someone when it was possible he could win.
This is my opinion of the situation, I don't think he could overturn the fight with a kido spell in that situation, you think he could. Let's just leave it at that.
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You cant seriously say though that Byakuya used every capability he posess since hes a master of Kido.
Kido wont work on Ichigo, you know there are some very skilled people and very very powerful spells out there ye ?
how does Ichigos speed make him "immume" to kido?
Kidou at that moment when his sword shattered and all probably wouldnt have been much good since he was prety drained, but using it from the start would have made big difference.
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Byakuya without his zanpaktoh has no chance of beating Ichigo. But no chance of winning does not = losing.
With his shunpo techniques and his kido he could run around like a little bitch and wait for Ichigo's hollow form to time out. At that point Ichigo wouldn't have enough offense to win, nor does Byakuya have any offense to speak of, so its a zero sum game.
Anyway, this comes down to what Ukitake said:
There are fights for your pride, and there are fights for your life.
Ichigo has won fights so far against Shinigami captains because they were fights for his life--i.e., his life was threatened if he didn't win. This wasn't the case for either Kenpachi or Byakuya.
If Byakuya was fighting for his life (and didn't give up versus Ichigo), then he'd do hit and run with kido and shunpo (thats what he's built for)...then it becomes a fight of attrition, who wins between him and Ichigo in a theoretical fight? Anyone's guess.
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IMHO in the whole fight, he was making a compromise himself. He didn't want to just sit back and do nothing after all -- he was the head of a noble family, he had to lead by example. But he loved his sister as well. Thus when he 'lost', he didn't continue it, because he had in a way settled his own feelings -- at least he tried to protect the laws of SS, even if he failed. Maybe he could have won if he had continued, but why would he try so hard? You need to remember that rukia is his sister after all.
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Besides, how can we even be sure Ichigo would let the hollowside fight for him aswell, wasnt very keen on letting it continue when he fought him in SS.
Bankai Ichigo would be in trouble if kidou came into play
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From all the kido spells we've seen so far, there arent many that cant affect Ichigo. Why? Because casting an offensive kido spell would need time and Ichigo is pretty quick in his bankai form and because of Ichigo's huge spirit energy, a binding spell or restrinctive spell would be difficult to stop him too.
And as far as i remember we've seen all the captains fighting already... not vs Ichigo but we've seen their powers.
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Kidou seems highly dependent on the caster's power level. Byakuya makes a low level spell like #4 white lighting *extremely* powerful. Also there seems to be an indication that hierro (arrancar steel skin) has very little effect on stopping kidou.
And also you have to consider kidou is not like zanjutsu. There is no physical motion like a sword swing that you can telegraph. It's an instantaneous affect after a high level caster points in a general direction and then skips the incantation. Kind of like the difference between dodging a punch and dodging a BB gun.
Now this isn't much of a manga spoiler, because its not saying much, but I'll throw in this tidbit: Byakuya is a VERY high level caster.
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"what if" ichigo slit bya's throat
"what if" byaku aimed his lightning shot at ichigo's heart or brain, not shoulder
"what if ichigo let Hichigo finish off byaku
"what if" byaku shunpo'd back when iichigo fell and kidou his head (orihime's head too since they bumped into each other)
"what if" we wrote the manga
opps, none of these exist =(
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Yup, that's why i stopped arguing, cuz if they saw the manga(too bad you guys true to the anime have to wait at least 9 months to get to the part i'm talking about) they would see stuff that would sway their opinions like a wind vane in a storm.
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A good episode but can people please stop making baseless arguements on how Ichigo would destroy all captains at once.
We have no way to gauge the apparent 4 strongest captains Yama, Unohana, Ukitake and Shunsui so we can't tell how good they are or what they can do.
Also if Ichigo is fast and somehow he managed to take everybody out (which I doubt) Mayuri could call out his bankai use it's poison and then when he gets hurt turn into liquid and scurry away leaving Ichigo to die.
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French Workers Turn On 'Out of Office'
Provision to Stop Certain Tech Workers From Using Email, Smartphones After Workday Awaits Approval
It seemed too good not to be true: Reports that French labor unions had struck a pact with employers making it illegal to send work-related emails after 6 p.m. spread like wildfire across English-speaking media on Thursday.
"No Email, Please—We're French," one headline crowed. "La bonne vie," read another.
The truth is more complicated, but highlights a conundrum faced by managers far beyond La France: how to run business in a way that keeps productivity high without wearing down the most valuable workers.
The French pact between companies and workers, settled last week and awaiting government approval, amounts to a declaration of principle more than law. It gives certain technology-sector workers the right to stop using work tools such as email and smartphones after logging France's state-mandated maximum 13-hour day.
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The provision covers about 800,000 workers, many engineering consultants or information-technology staff, who aren't covered under the standard French 35-hour workweek and whose pay is calculated on the number of days they work.
Considering its narrow impact, the deal sparked an outsize reaction—reflecting, in part, a growing worry that smartphones have permanently erased the boundaries of the workday.
Email-limiting policies have been enacted in Germany, where the labor ministry recently instructed its supervisors not to send email at night except in cases of emergencies, according to a German newspaper. In 2011, Germany's Volkswagen AG , one of the world's largest auto makers, began cutting off corporate email to its Germany-based employees between 6:15 p.m. and 7 a.m. The restriction currently applies to about 3,500 nonmanagers, and according to a company representative is a "huge success."
And in the U.S., several major banks, including Bank of America Corp. , Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., have implemented rules in recent months encouraging or even requiring junior staffers to take time off on weekends.
"Checking your work email at night is as American as apple pie," says Spencer Rascoff, the chief executive of Zillow Inc., an online real-estate service, yet he tells his employees to log off when appropriate.
Blanket email bans can be effective for those who embrace more traditional working hours, but real change must come from the boss, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, vice president of research and innovation at Hogan Assessment Systems Inc., which creates leadership assessments for companies. "One has to question whether this sort of regulation can relieve people if, in reality, all you have to do is tell the manager to stop contacting people after work," says Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic.
Research from Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project suggests the problem starts at the top: Workers' smartphone use increases as their salaries climb. Another study from the University of Glasgow and U.K.-based Modeuro Consulting showed that executive email habits are viral; when the leadership team at a London-based power company decreased email output, employees followed suit.
Chris Clark, chief executive of IT company Prosperity 24.7 on the English Channel island of Jersey, says his staff knows they need to maintain work-life boundaries.
"I categorically tell my team that there's no point in sending me any emails over the weekend, and I don't want to see any emails from anyone going to and fro," he says.
But as long as promotions go to the workers willing to do company bidding at any hour, policies intended to limit the workday are unlikely to matter, managers and scholars say.
Emails with late-night time stamps are "a badge of honor," says Christopher M. Barnes, a University of Washington management professor who studies fatigue in the workplace. It would be difficult to shake a belief system that equates long work hours and attachment to a smartphone with proof of dedication, he says.
All that availability doesn't necessarily make workers better at their jobs, however. Dr. Barnes recently co-wrote a paper that found any kind of nighttime electronic device leaves workers tired and disengaged the following day.
—Lisa Fleisher, Rachel Feintzeig, Lauren Weber and Melissa Korn contributed to this article.
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Oh Yes,
And check out this cute chair Monte and his friend made for Carter out of duplo legos. I should have posted a picture of just the chair. It was adorable and actually held all of Carter's weight. All 34lbs. of him. For about 2 minutes anyway, and then he tore it all apart.


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In the Pocket with Charlie Batch 2009
The Second Annual In the Pocket with Charlie Batch attracted 532 sports fans to Navarra for a chance to play pool, poker, and ping-pong against their favorite Pittsburgh Steelers players. Batch's vision for the event was to create a "different atmosphere to interact more with the different celebrity players," says Latasha Wilson, executive director of Best of the Batch Foundation. Photography by Megan Wylie.Read More
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Eagles coach Andy Reid said Wednesday he spoke with quarterback Michael Vick about Reid's Monday comments, in which Reid seemed less than definitive about Vick's future as the starter.
Vick "doesn't care about all that," Reid said. Reid emphasized Wednesday that "Michael is the quarterback."
"Well, it was the way it was interpreted," Reid said. "That's not what I had in mind. Derek [Eagles spokesnman Derek Boyko] explained to me how it was interpreted, and so, I've talked to Mike, [and] made sure I mentioned it on my radio show. You guys are very good at what you do, so I [wanted to] make sure we clarify it. Bad semantics there."
The QB later agreed that the remarks didn't bother him; he said his focus is on preparing for the Giants this weekend.
"We spoke about it. But it wasn't anything serious," Vick said. "We have to look forward to this week, we have to get ready for this game."
Vick said his problem with turnovers -- nine in three games -- is "something I know I can get corrected."
Asked if he worried about job security, Vick said "not at all," because, he reiterated, "I know it can be corrected ... That's what I'm focused on."
"We had no trouble with blitz recognition" Sunday at Arizona, Vick said. "Everything is good with our offense. Everything is in sync, everything is intact. We just gotta get better. We eliminate the turnovers and start fast, we can give ourselves a [better] chance to win the games."
Jeremy Maclin (hip) practiced Wednesday and said he expects to play Sunday. DT Fletcher Cox, still bothered by the migraine that hampered him in Arizona, did not practice, though Reid did not mention that possibility when he ran down the injuries before practice. Starting LT King Dunlap (hamstring) sat out. Ditto LB Akeem Jordan, also bothered by a hammy, and LS Jon Dorenbos (high ankle sprain).
Several Eagles said they were happy to hear that the lockout of NFL referees might be ending.
Linebacker Jamar Chaney was asked if, when he saw the controversial ending of the Seahawks-packers game Monday night, he thought the fallout from that mess would end the impasse.
"I was hoping that would end it," Chaneys said. "It's sad that it had to happen to the Packers like that, because one game can keep you out of the playoffs ... It's just good that we can get the refs back to what they do best -- calling games -- and we can get back to what we do best, not worrying about that and just playing ball."
Running back LeSean McCoy said he would like to see a resolution, but until an agreement is announced, "I'm not going to get my hopes up."


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Saturday 10th March, 2012
3:30pm to 4:30pm
10 years ago nearly everyone at SXSW Interactive was known by their own personal site or blog.
What happened? Over time we shifted our creative energies to the emergent "social web", sharecropped our content like so many serfs across Flickr/Twitter/Facebook, and watched while our work was framed with ads (or placed inside them!), sold like so much cattle, or often shut down with permalinks and conversations lost forever: Geocities, Etherpad, Pownce, Vox and others. Never forget.
We've had enough and we're taking it back. Our content, our data, our online identities.
We're rebuilding the Indie Web, this time with conduits to social silos so we can control our creative destinies without abandoning our friends. Join SXSW veteran Tantek as he leads a discussion on a variety of different approaches and learn how you too can get started and join the new Indie Web.
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Dutch police have arrested four more suspects in their investigation into the attack on a volunteer linesman who died a day after players on a youth team assaulted him following a match.
The arrests on Tuesday bring to eight the number of suspects in custody in the case - seven of them teenagers.
Police say in a statement they have arrested three teenagers and a 50-year-old man, the first adult to be detained in the case, all from Amsterdam.
Linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen's death just over a week ago sparked national soul-searching about the rising tide of violence on and around Dutch sports and how to rein it in.
Some 12,000 people attended a silent march Sunday to commemorate Nieuwenhuizen.


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In addition to general College guidelines for academic standing, majors in the Roy H. Park School of Communications must meet the following requirements:
• Majors in B.S. and B.A. programs must complete at least 60 credits outside of Park School communications courses to satisfy their degree requirements (120 credits). B.F.A. majors must complete at least 48 credits outside of Park School communications courses to satisfy their degree requirements (120 credits). The regulations of the New York State Education Department require 60 credits in courses designated as liberal arts (LA) for the B.S., 90 credits for the B.A., and 30 credits for the B.F.A.
• Majors must take all communications courses, whether required or elective, and all outside courses required for the major for a letter grade. The only exceptions are specially designated communications courses, which may be offered on a pass/fail basis, and internships, which are offered only pass/fail. Courses a student has taken pass/fail and passed before becoming a major will be accepted.
• Majors are required to take a minimum of 12 credits each semester. Part-time status requires the approval of the dean and is usually granted only to seniors who lack fewer than 12 credits to meet graduation requirements and to certain adult students enrolled in approved majors.
• Majors are required to make up incomplete grades in communications courses by the end of the following semester, as required by the course instructor. Incompletes will not be given in production courses.
• Students may enroll in only one major within the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
• A few courses offered in the Roy H. Park School of Communications may be taken twice with the permission of the instructor (these are specified in the course descriptions). However, even with the permission of the instructor, if there is not enough space to permit a student's taking the class a second time, preference for registration in the course will be given to students who have not taken the course and need it to stay on track for graduation.
• Total credit for workshop courses in the Park School may not exceed 6 credits, except for B.F.A. majors, who may not take more than 9 credits in workshop courses.
• Auditing laboratory or production courses is permitted only with the written authorization of the department chair and approval of the dean. In programs requiring concentrations, students should elect the concentration before registration for the first semester of their sophomore year. Some courses are available only to students with declared concentrations that require the course. A student may have only one concentration; the concentration most recently declared is the one in force.
• All proposed waiver substitution forms must be submitted to the appropriate department chair before the last day of class of the semester before the student's final semester. Requests submitted after that deadline may not be honored, which may delay the student's graduation.
• Plagiarism -- the use of work other than one's own without proper citation or credit -- is a serious offense. Penalties for plagiarism include failure on the assignment, failure in the course, and/or College academic discipline, which could mean suspension or dismissal from the College. Plagiarism can involve not only written work but also computer programs, photographs, artwork, films, videos, and sound. Students at all unsure about what constitutes plagiarism or how to give credit should see their instructor and consult the Ithaca College student handbook. For further information see also the "Academic Affairs Information" section of this catalog.
Individual departments and programs in the Park School have additional requirements, especially regarding internal and cumulative grade point averages. Students should refer to the department and program requirements for complete information.
Failure to meet any of the academic regulations of the College, school, or individual department or program will result in placement on academic warning, suspension, or dismissal from the Park School, or suspension or dismissal from Ithaca College.
To remain in good academic standing, a student must meet the minimum academic standards for his or her degree program. These standards are listed under each degree program. Students who do not earn the required minimum cumulative GPA and, if appropriate to the degree program, the minimum cumulative GPA for required courses in a major, will be placed on academic warning or suffer program suspension, program dismissal, or dismissal from the College. In the Park School a student need not be on academic warning for one semester before being suspended or dismissed from the program or dismissed from Ithaca College. Students who drop to part-time status (fewer than 12 credit hours in a semester) without written permission from the dean could be placed on academic warning.
The dean's list in the Roy H. Park School of Communications is made up of majors in each class who meet all the following criteria during the semester:
The dean's list, which is awarded each semester, is based on a student's semester GPA rather than the cumulative GPA for all semesters the student has attended Ithaca College.
All students in the Park School are assigned an academic adviser upon entering their academic program. Students are required to meet with their adviser prior to registration for classes. Students are encouraged to meet with their adviser if they are planning to study abroad or in Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. Students completing their junior year are required to meet with their adviser to ensure that all graduation requirements will be met by their anticipated graduation date. Any change in a student's academic plan, such as adding a minor or second major, should first be reviewed with that student's academic adviser. A student may change his or her adviser at any time, with the new adviser's permission, by filling out a form available in the dean's office. Academic advisers teach courses in the student's major department.
Park students have an academic adviser assigned to them at all times. They should contact the dean's office or check their online student information if they are unsure of their academic adviser.


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January 06. 2013 1:06AM
New shopping center planned for Nashua
By KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
NASHUA - An eyesore along the Daniel Webster Highway will soon be revitalized into a single-story shopping center following its recent acquisition by a Massachusetts company.
Linear Retail Properties LLC has acquired two separate parcels at 219 and 285 Daniel Webster Highway, and plans to develop one of the sites this summer.
"Nashua is one of the top destination retail markets in New England. It definitely has a strong market, and there is clearly a tax advantage to relocating in southern New Hampshire," said Aubrey Cannuscio, partner of acquisitions for Linear Retail of Burlington, Mass. "We are already looking at more opportunities on the Daniel Webster Highway for even more small retail shops."
The property at 219 Daniel Webster Highway was previously owned by Cumberland Farms Inc. Linear purchased the parcel for $1.45 million and plans to raze the existing structure and develop a 12,000-square-foot retail property.
"It is just an eyesore now, but there is really a strong demand for this site," said Cannuscio. Although no leases have been signed by potential shop-owners, he said a number of retailers are interested in the future project and its ideal location in the city.
City Planning Director Roger Houston said Thursday that the Cumberland Farms and Exxon gas station have been vacant for several years.
"It is one of the few vacancies in that area," said Houston. "I am happy to see something will finally be going in there."
Although formal plans have not yet been filed at the city's Community Development Office, Cannuscio said the project will be moving forward relatively quickly and be reviewed by the Nashua Planning Board in the next few months. He predicts that between four and seven tenants will likely lease retail property at the new shopping strip, with the average tenant size about 2,000 square feet. Linear Retail already owns two other properties at the Daniel Webster Plaza, so Cannuscio described the adjacent parcel as the "missing puzzle piece" for future development.
Linear Retail's second acquisition at 285 Daniel Webster Highway is the current site of Chili's Bar and Grill, which will remain the popular family restaurant, according to Cannuscio.
The nearly 6,000-square-foot building across from the Pheasant Lane Mall was purchased for $3.75 million. He described the purchase as an investment property that will continue to be leased by Chili's.
"These two purchases represent different ends of the spectrum of the types of properties we seek to purchase," he said in a news release. "One is a single tenant property in a terrific location, and the other is a ground-up development opportunity strategically located next to a much larger center that we already own."
The closings on both of the properties took place in December. Linear Retail now owns four properties in Nashua, with three of them housed along the Daniel Webster Highway and the fourth at Amherst Street Village on Route 101A.
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GENEVA – Peoria and Clinton keep clinging closely to the Cougars, the Midwest League's first club to 31 victories this season.
Counting Thursday's 6-1 home win against Clinton, the Cougars will play their nearest pursuers for the Western Division's first-half title 18 times in 21 games.
That stretch sets up as challenge either way, but takes on added difficulty considering the recent promotions of bullpen stalwarts Nathan Dorris and Zack Godley to Advanced-A Daytona.
At least it should.
Survey a perpetually confident clubhouse and the biggest concern is who has the remote control and which game of cards represents the dealer's choice.
"It's fun getting put in pressure situations and stuff like that, and we're winning, you know," right-handed reliever Tyler Bremer said. "Even if you're not having the best season individually, which maybe some guys aren't, it's still fun because we're winning.
"And at the end of the day, that's what's important. To this team, at least. It's not the personal goals of getting called up or making this team, making an All-Star team or having this ERA, it's just winning ballgames."
Righty Paul Blackburn helped assure the Cougars (31-16) didn't stray from that path in the opener of a six-game homestand against the LumberKings and Chiefs, who now sit a respective six and 3½ games behind Kane County in the standings.
Blackburn cruised through seven scoreless innings, spacing four hits, six strikeouts and one hit batsman.
"Bam, bam bam," Cougars manager Mark Johnson said. "Just attacked the hitters and mixed his off-speed accordingly and really gave us seven ... great innings."
As usual, Blackburn (5-1)worked quickly, taking the ball, firing, then taking the ball again. The approach matched the Cougars' don't-think-twice attitude toward their pitching staff, namely the relief corps.
"We're not worried. We have a lot of arms and our bullpen has been our strength this year and will continue to be," third baseman/catcher Ben Carhart said. "So we're not worried at all in that aspect."
For as surely as they carry themselves, the Cougars realize they're likely in for a fight until the first-half finale June 15 at Beloit.
One LumberKing already took the liberty of making himself at home at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark. Clinton designated hitter Jeff Zimmerman, an Andrew and Northern Illinois product, fielded about 20 ticket requests for friends and family for each game of the series.
He lunched at the St. Charles Portillo's near the team hotel Thursday afternoon, completing the circle of his return to the region.
"Chicago dog, cheeseburger," Zimmerman said before going 0 for 4. "Probably not the healthiest meal, but I had a water with it."
Zimmerman, who saw more of the independent, Crestwood-based Windy City ThunderBolts than the Cougars as a child, recalled playing a couple dreary midweek games here with the Huskies.
This time, the setting brightened considerably weather-wise. As for the game, Clinton (24-21) couldn't quite match the Cougars' persistent and efficent attack. The Cougars were out-hit, 8-7.
Kane County got the only runs it needed in the fourth. Carhart's ground-ball single up the middle scored Jake Hannemann one batter before Carlos Penalver scored on Yasiel Balaguert's double-play groundout.
Balaguert added a solo homer in the eighth, which eventually prompted the ejection of protesting Clinton manager Scott Steinmann, who wasn't certain the ball left the park.
Jose Arias finished the game with two innings of one-run, two strikeout relief. He entered in a non-save situation as Johnson uses a late innings by committee approach. Godley's seven saves still are tied for the league lead even though he hasn't pitched in the MWL since May 5.
"Things happen above us. You have to move guys, and it's always that shuffle up and down," Johnson said. "Whether it's guys coming down or guys going up, it's part of the game and part of the business."
For the season's first seven weeks, winning has followed suit.
Up next
Cougars (RHP Tyler Skulina, 2-1, 3.19 ERA) vs. Clinton (RHP Carlos Missell, 5-2, 3.13 ERA), 6:30 p.m. today, AM-1280
Short memory for Skulina
Righty Tyler Skulina pitched the first 7⅓ innings of the Cougars' eighth all-time no-hitter in his most recent outing Saturday.
He knows he can't afford to have thoughts of the feat too close at hand when he starts against Clinton tonight.
"I mean, it was definitely a good experience, but you've just got to move onto the next one," said Skulina, a fourth-round pick of the parent Cubs in 2013. "You can't really think about that one too much. It was good while it lasted, but I mean, it's onto the next one and trying to get this team a win against a pretty good team with Clinton."
Left-hander Nathan Dorris finished the no-hitter, and since has been promoted to Advanced-A Daytona. Sugar Ray Marimon and Chas Byrne collaborated on the club's most recent no-no before Saturday, defeating Cedar Rapids on May 18, 2011.
Baseball lega-SEA
Another Seager played Fifth Third Bank Ballpark on Thursday night in a ritual that might just be starting to feel like musical lineups for Cougars public address announcer Kevin Sullivan.
Clinton corner infielder Justin Seager, the younger brother of Kyle Seager of the parent Seattle Mariners, became the latest member of the family to pass through Geneva.
A third brother, Corey, is a shortstop in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and visited Fifth Third with the Great Lakes Loons in 2013.
The older Seagers had plenty of positive feedback about Kane County when they filled their younger brother in.
"Nice field. Really nice," Justin Seager said. "It's pretty cool that it's the Cubs [affiliate], too. They get a lot of following around here."
Seager, a native of Kannapolis, N.C., hails from the home of the White Sox Class-A affiliate. Are there lots of Pale Hose enthusiasts in that corner of the Tar Heel State?
"I probably wouldn't guess too many," Seager said.
Caps been crunched
Minor League Baseball on Thursday released the results of its "Clash of the Caps" fan voting for the best cap in the minors.
The Cougars, with their familiar jungle cat head/baseball design finished 88th among 160 hats in the contest. Midwest League brethren Quad Cities (fourth), Fort Wayne (eighth), Burlington (16th), West Michigan (20th) and Wisconsin (23rd) ranked in the top 25.


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Android phones extend your usage by offering you several effective apps and is also easy to manage. Today I am going to give you the list of such few apps that can offer you an easy and best way to make video calls on Android. Video calling will help you to communicate in more effective ways with others. You can simply talk and even held meetings. The only major requirement that we have here is a good internet connection. It also works very well on 3G connection. And if you are having Android then you don't have to look much. The apps that I am going to suggest below are mostly based on free video calling. So let's check them one by one.
Google Hangout:
This one is the best and easiest to use. It just needs your Gmail id to start a hangout. And the people with whom you will communicate should be on Gmail. This app comes pre-installed by default in every Android phone. It just needs your front camera access and a good internet connection. And it will do the job. Below are some features which are worth checking.
- Make call on desktop pc or on mobile or tablet through wifi or 3G.
- You can make a group of 10 people and chat with them together.
- You can sync your hangout data with other devices. This consists of history, chat, media files, etc.
- It is a free app and does not carry any extra charge. You just need a good internet connection for using the same.
- It supports both front and back camera of a android device.
- If you are using Google voice then it is also possible to make call on a mobile or on a landline number.
- It supports other mode of communication like mms, sms, gif, etc.
Viber is only getting popular due to its free voice calling feature. It is a great app for mobile commutation. It gives you video and Voice calling options and it works very well. But as usually you need good internet connectivity for the same. Or else it won't be working properly. It is also a free application.
- You can make free HD calls through Viber on different android devices.
- It is a full fledge chat messenger also. It gives you option to share photos with others; it offers you option to share voice messages; you can share location and also emoticons.
- Compare to hangout, you can make a group of 100 people and communicate with them.
- There is a dedicated sticker market from where you can download them and use it. And also you can arrange the sticker as per your need.
- It also support push notification. There is a desktop version also available.
Skype is another popular app which works in the same way. It is a popular chat client which was first introduced on pc. And now it is also on mobile device. Skype is a kind of advance chat messenger that let you do various things. It also has a feature through which you can call people on the mobile or landline. But for that you have to buy Skype credits.
- It is a free instant messenger and has a great UI. Works cross platform.
- It let you to send and receive multimedia files of any size for free.
- You can just create a free video messaging on the same and chat with others for unlimited time.


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A real fur coat is both a luxury and an investment. Before you purchase one, you should consider the type of coat and the type of fur that will best suit your needs. You should also pay careful attention to the quality of a coat in order to get the most for your money. And also be careful where you get the fur coat from, as many are from sources which skin the animals while they are still alive. This is a fact, so please don't delete this piece of information.
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Innovate Motorsports OT-2 OBD-II Scanner & WiFi Interface Reviews
Reviewed by John R (Pelham, MA) Reviewed for a 2011 Nissan Frontier — 2011-08-04 20:28:29
The OpenTune hardware does exactly what it says. It builds a wireless link to my Ipad Touch. It transfers data accurately and quickly. However, the app for the Ipad is really wanting. It is very basic with no real ability to customize the data being displayed. You are limited to three gauges. It would be great if the gauge window had multiple screen to scroll through with other displays. The MPG function is great, as well as its ability to log fill up data. The dyno function is pretty cool and does give decent hp data, etc. I'm linking about the higher capacity app offered for $49 to get better functions.


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Durango is playing a big role in the upcoming election.
No, no. Not in Tuesdays U.S. election. Were talking about Kenyas national election March 4, and the aspirations of a Fort Lewis College graduate who considers Durango his second home.
While the United States has its problems, Africas politics are even more dysfunctional. But heres a reason for hope:
If Ledama Olekina is elected the first-ever governor of the Kenyan county of Narok, and others who are inclined to bring fairness and economic stability are also voted into power, the country will be in good hands.
A pie-in-the-sky dream, or potential reality? Olekina, a Maasai brought up in a mud hut, hardly hesitated when considering the question.
Do I believe change is coming? Do I believe this world will be a better place?
As a Fort Lewis student he often donned his traditional Maasai clothing. Late last month, sitting in the lobby of the Strater Hotel, the 37-year-old made an impressive figure in a blue shirt and tie and a black suit coat. He was visiting his old stomping grounds of Durango to drum up support for his cause and to present opportunities to local businesses.
Olekina certainly made his mark at the school. And he raised attention when he walked from Durango to Phoenix, then continued the trek from Boston to Chicago. He graduated in 2001 with degrees in political science and journalism.
During his FLC days, Olekina established a nonprofit organization that he says has helped 20,000 Maasai girls get an education. He continues to champion that cause, as well as battling to help the Maasai get back land they have lost and to improve living conditions. He now makes a living by farming with a greenhouse and helping others build them.
Seeing their former students effort to bring morality to Kenyas government is rewarding to his FLC professors.
I think his heart is in absolutely the right place, said Rick Loether, a former psychology department professor who played a key role in bringing Olekina to Fort Lewis in the 1990s.
The money in Kenya needs to flow back to the people, and not to tribal-dominated and political interests, said Loether, who annually brought student research classes to East Africa, where he met Olekina. I think it will if Ledama is elected. ... Hes certainly up against an entrenched system.
Olekina kept busy during his quick stay here last month, speaking to FLC classes, talking at the Strater to the business community and even having lunch with FLC President Dene Kay Thomas.
In front of 25 students in professor Neil McHughs Survey of African History class, Olekina was in his element as he gave a primer on Kenyan political history and the creation of a new constitution, approved by voters in 2010.
The constitution decentralized power. Money now theoretically flows to the 47 counties rather than being distributed wholly by the federal government.
Narok is a county, or state, of 850,000 residents in the southwest part of the country. It includes the famed Maasai Mara Reserve that borders the Serengeti of Tanzania.
At present, the money generated at Maasai Mara does not end up proportionally in Narok, Olekina says. The countys roads, schools and other infrastructure are in dire need of help.
What fuels your passion, one student asked.
I came to America with one purpose to get an education, go back and the change the life of our people.
Kenyan voters in March will pick a new president, as well as governors of all 47 newly created counties, plus national representatives. The last election, in 2007, ended in widespread violence.
Even with its freshly printed constitution, not everyones bullish on Kenya.
It needs young people like us to really make it happen, Olekina said. If we rely on these people who have robbed the country of millions and millions of dollars, and they come singing and dancing with their dollars back to us ... then were not going far.
When youre sitting there listening to him, its easy to catch his enthusiasm, to believe in Olekinas vision of a bright future for Kenya. Right here in Durango, he says, is where he learned how the world works, and that one step can really change the world.
Its all about trying to change peoples life. Thats what Im all about, he said. If I die today, if you ever hear about Ledama, I want you to hear about him as someone who had a big impact on this world.
email@example.com John Peel writes a weekly human-interest column.


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Peasant Soup
The name says peasant but the flavor says delicious. Beans, vegetables and sausage combine to produce a flavorful and aromatic soup.
2 large onions, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
4 carrots, thickly sliced
2 ribs celery, sliced
1 tsp. dried oregano
1⁄4 cup olive oil
5 cups beef or chicken stock
3 cups canned tomatoes with liquid
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 lb. chorizo, sliced
3 cups cooked or drained, canned cannellini beans
6 cups chopped kale
Garlic toasts
Grated Monterey Jack cheese
1. In stockpot, sauté onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and oregano in oil 5 min.
2. Add stock, tomatoes and liquid (breaking up tomatoes), and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 25 min.
3. Add chorizo, beans, and kale; cover and cook 20-25 min. longer, or until vegetables are tender.
4. Ladle soup into ovenproof bowls and place garlic toast on top. Sprinkle with cheese and broil a few minutes until melted.