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With the tremendous success of their fourth season of Bad Girls Club, the Oxygen network has now ordered a spinoff to feature three of their current and former Bad Girls searching for love.
Love Games is the title of the new reality dating show that will feature Kendra James from Season 4, Sarah Michaels from Season 3, and Amber Meade aka 'Bounce Up On It' from Season 3.
The dating series will begin with the three ladies being introduced to a group of 13 bachelors. Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too will then follow the men as they compete in a series of challenges and accompany the women on dates, with weekly eliminations. The series will conclude with only one Bad Girl and her beau left standing.
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The three former Bad Girls Club cast members appearing on Love Games — and their bios below –
– Amber, a 27-year-old from Scottsdale, AZ
Season three Bad Girls Club star Amber lived life in the house focused on fun and boy chasing. Her no holds barred approach to life and bubbly energy brings out the party atmosphere no matter where she goes. Amber keeps her dating life spicy with variety — the nice guys bore this spotlight-loving bad girl quickly so she keeps the bad boys close by. This time around, she is searching for the perfect guy to call her own.
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Fresh off of season four of the Bad Girls Club, boy crazy Kendra is looking to tame her intense sexual appetite and get serious about finding "Mr. Right" as opposed to "Mr. Right Now." Kendra loves long-term relationships, but admits it takes a certain kind of guy to handle her. This pretty pageant girl, who is the rule breaking opposite of her perfect and obedient twin sister, is pursuing a degree in political science.
– Sarah, a 25-year-old from Milwaukee, WI
Married by 19 and divorced by 21, Sarah spent season three in the Bad Girls house making up for lost time — indulging in countless nights of drinking and partying. Nowadays, guys have their work cut out for them when trying to catch the eye of Sarah. Between holding down two jobs and college, Sarah doesn't impress easily. Her type of guy exudes confidence but is also honest, fun, outgoing and wants to treat her like a princess. Sarah has grown tired of casual dating and would really like to settle down with someone special.


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Uefa has confirmed the bidding regulations for prospective member associations who wish to elect a host city for the 2020 European Championship.
The European football governing body announced in December that Euro 2020 would be held in 13 cities all over the continent to mark 60 years of the tournament's existence.
And at a meeting between members of its Executive Committee on Thursday, it was agreed that the edition's matches would be split into 12 packages of three group games and one knockout match and one package for the semi-finals and the final.
But while each national association would be entitled to two bids - one for an ordinary package and the other for the last-four stage - there will be a limit of only one venue per country. Additionally, both semi-finals and the final will be played in one stadium.
Stadia yet to be constructed can be admitted into the bidding process, but work must have started by 2016 or its host city could risk losing out.
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Report: Pakistanis stuck in limbo in Afghan prison
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Dozens of Pakistani prisoners held by the U.S. at an Afghan prison have been stuck in limbo for years, a Pakistani legal advocacy group trying to bring attention to their situation said in a report issued Wednesday.
Holding up their return are concerns by U.S. officials that the detainees might return to the battlefield or face inhumane treatment after returning to Pakistan, the group said in its report.
The report was based on interviews with ex-detainees, relatives of current detainees, U.S. officials, Pakistani officials and documents obtained from Freedom of Information requests made by the American Civil Liberties Union.
About 40 of the detainees at the prison are believed to be Pakistani, and most were taken into custody by U.S. forces following the invasion of Afghanistan.
"We found that there is absolute confusion on what needs to be done to bring these people home," Sarah Belal, Justice Project Pakistan's director, told reporters.
The report criticized U.S. and Pakistani authorities for not doing more to accelerate the release of the detainees, and Belal said their status has put them "in a legal black hole."
Some detainees have been cleared for release, but remain trapped in prison, the report said.
"After years of being held by the U.S. government without charge, trial or any real progress on their cases, Pakistani detainees are losing hope," the report said.
It also said detainees do not have independent lawyers, must be represented by U.S. military lawyers and cannot see classified evidence used against them.
Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense department defended the release review process, saying detainees can call witnesses and defend themselves while stressing that no detainees eligible for release can be sent home until guarantees are secured from the governments in their home countries that they won't be mistreated.
All of the detainees being held by the U.S. were detained for "enemy actions" in Afghanistan after the U.S. invaded the country, he said.
He added that all of the detainees are visited by representatives of the International Red Cross and that "the U.S. remains committed to seeing that every detainee held by our forces who can be transferred to a verifiably secure and humane situation is."
Relatives of those still in custody complained about their treatment by the Pakistani government, saying they are viewed with suspicion by Pakistani security forces because they have relatives being held by Americans. Others criticized slow movement by Pakistani authorities to lobby for the detainees' release.
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, a spokesman for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressed that Pakistani officials have been in contact about the detainees' future with U.S. and Afghan officials and with the Red Cross.
"We have consistently emphasized that Pakistani nationals should be released," Chaudhry said.
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Two US software firms are asking the European Commission to take action against Microsoft's new Vista operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Adobe Systems has told EU regulators that Microsoft should be banned from incorporating free competing software for reading and creating electronic documents with Vista, the paper said, quoting people familiar with the situation. Anti-virus software maker Symantec will send officials to Brussels next week to brief journalists about features of Vista that it has told EU regulators will undercut rival makers of computer security software, the paper said.


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Do you think that this outbreak of the swine flu is the next pandemic?
Possibly. Not very much is known yet about how easily the swine influenza that has occurred in individuals in several states is being transmitted from person to person. If this virus is so transmissible that outbreaks of influenza happen in several countries or on several continents, then it would be a pandemic.
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A careful analysis of Planck observations shows that there really is a mysterious haze emanating from the Milky Way's core, mission team members say.
The evidence that our galaxy's central supermassive black hole threw a snit fit a few million years ago has grown much stronger, scientists from the ESA's Planck mission report in a paper recently posted on the arXiv. The team first announced the results several months ago at a conference in Italy, but the new paper presents the details of the researchers' work.The Planck team set out to vet claims that a mysterious microwave haze stretches several thousand light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk. This haze was first discovered in 2004 by Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using observations by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The microwave haze appears to lie right on top of two gargantuan gamma-ray bubbles Finkbeiner and his colleagues found six years later using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Astronomers have proposed various explanations for what created the haze, from the death of dark matter particles to a brief outburst from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, in which two jets of superhot, ionized gas blew giant bubbles in the material surrounding our galaxy. This picture of a black-hole tantrum currently stands as the favored scenario.
But even though the haze looks to match up with the Fermi bubbles, several researchers have questioned its existence. Finkbeiner's team picked the haze out of WMAP data by subtracting maps of known emission from the observations, peeling back layers like the pages in a child's overlay book to reveal the haze's residue. Both the WMAP team and other researchers have argued that this method is problematic; their own attempts to find the so-called haze turned up nothing, leading them to conclude that it's likely an artifact of data processing. Subsequent analyses by Finkbeiner, Greg Dobler (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara), and others have failed to convince the naysayers.
That's where the Planck team stepped in.
"We started this trying to actually take down the claim of WMAP conclusions from Finkbeiner and others, hoping that their analysis was, frankly, circular," says Krzysztof Górski (Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Warsaw University Observatory, Poland). Górski and his colleagues tackled the question in two ways. First, they used the simple, map-subtracting method to look for a haze in Planck's data. But then they tried a more complex, comprehensive approach. Instead of starting with pre-fab templates, they took apart all the satellite's data at the same time, sorting the pieces into different categories — such as "dust" or "cosmic microwave background radiation" — as they went. Then they compared these new maps with the regular templates to confirm what they were seeing. Both methods turned up a bubble-like haze."It's very exciting to see the microwave haze showing up in data from Planck," says Tracy Slatyer (Institute for Advanced Study), who co-discovered the Fermi bubbles. "It's always nice when both a sophisticated method and a simple-to-understand estimate give the same results."
Planck isn't just "a fifth wheel added to the great WMAP result," Górski notes. Unlike with the WMAP analyses, the Planck haze detection is unambiguous, he and his colleagues say. Planck's angular resolution ranges from 5 to 9-ish arcminutes (depending on the frequency observed), which means Planck's observations are roughly twice as fine as WMAP's, says mission team member Charles Lawrence (JPL). That's not mind-boggling compared with optical telescopes, but coupled with the satellite's superb sensitivity the heightened angular resolution gives Planck an unprecedented view of the microwave universe.
The haze's bubble-like nature as seen by Planck and the way the haze balloons out from the galactic center support the idea of a transient blowout event, such as an outburst of black hole activity, Górski and Lawrence say. The recent detection of possible jet-like features by Finkbeiner and Meng Su (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) also points to a more rollicking past for the black hole, although those jets — if they're jets: the signal is too faint to say for sure — probably formed later, shooting up into the bubble cavities carved out by previous activity.
The WMAP team declined to comment on the Planck result until the researchers release their own interpretation of the haze as part of an upcoming bundle of publications. There's no word yet on when that release will be.
Reference: Planck Collaboration. "Planck Intermediate Results. IX. Detection of the Galactic haze with Planck." arXiv.org, posted 27 August 2012.
Related story: C. Carlisle. "Milky Way's Black Hole Once Active." 16 August 2012.


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Wests Tigers coach Jason Taylor has been sacked by the NRL club, effective immediately, with assistant Andrew Webster to serve as interim coach.
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Todd Payten
The club's "big four" of skipper Aaron Woods, James Tedesco, Mitchell Moses and Luke Brooks are reportedly keen to play under North Queensland assistant coach Todd Payten, who mentored them during his time as the Tigers' under 20s coach.
All four are off contract and the club is fighting to retain their biggest stars in the face of poaching raids from rival clubs.
The problem is Payten shares the same manager as the "big four". If they appoint Todd Payten as coach they may as well appoint [manager] Isaac Moses as chairman of the club," said Danny Weider, on Triple M Grill Team.
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Ivan Cleary would be a good fit.
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Doubt remains about Hasler's long-term prospects at the club, particularly if the Bulldogs fail to fire this season.
"A coach like Hasler can build a club from the ground up, create a new culture and reinvigorate the entire club. Channel Nine's Danny Weidler told Triple M Grill Team.
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Geoff Toovey
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'Tooves' is a rugby league man.
The former Manly Sea Eagles coach would bring plenty of passion and mongrel to the club.
Ex-Manly coach Graham Lowe once described him as "uncompromising coach" and young players thrive under his coaching style.
"Don't expect any politics, he's a football man. He's a players' coach," he said.
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Interim coach Andrew Webster will take over from Jason Taylor as an interim coach.
If he can turn this side around, he'll be in with a big shot of formally taking over the reins next season.
Webster returned to Wests Tigers this year after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at the Warriors and also Parramatta.
In 2012 as Head Coach of Balmain SG's Ball (U/18) side he guided the team, featuring current Wests Tigers players Mitchell Moses and Luke Brooks, to an undefeated minor premiership and eventual Grand Final win.
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1.Mother Teresa must have been the one to say that BF was easy cause to me its not either . 2 I started using Fenugreek to help my milk supply for when I go back to work, and it has.
Sometimes my LB wants to stay on the boob all day and i think that he is not getting anything but I come to realize that he is just telling my body that he wants more. Your not the only one struggling so try not to stress cause that can hurt your milk supply and make your baby stressed too (know this from expirence ) I come to try the My body Knows what it is doing and my baby will lead the way !
It wasn't mother Teresa and NO ONE said it's easy. Just natural. And WAY easier when you accept it for what it is. This is the way mother nature intended it. You are supposed to be very close to your babies the 1st year of their life. That's it. Don't fight it. Don't try to make it not so. Accept it.
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Thanks for all the responses.
I do struggle with anxiety, obviously, and it is especially strong when it comes to nursing. There's some pressure when it comes to maintaining my little baby's life. I find that it does paralyze me and make me somewhat of a homebody. I always feel more comfortable at home, as if I have a better chance of ensuring that he's getting enough if I don't have my husband pressuring me to continue on with our errands or whatever. I have seen a therapist before for my anxiety and try to use the tools I learned. Going on medication is not an option for me, as that would mean I would wean. Despite what any website or hotline says, I don't feel comfortable with exposing my child to psychopharmaceuticals. But, I'm not JUST experiencing anxiety because that's just who I am. There have been struggles pretty much all along the way. I started strong. I felt like I knew what I had to do. I hired an IBCLC immediately when I DS wasn't gaining or pooping the first few weeks postpartum. I started seeking advice here on the forums when DS was 2 or 3 days old. I'm not someone who has needlessly worried. I would imagine that many people, even those who are not predisposed to anxiety, would be anxious when they're doing everything they're being told to do and their baby isn't gaining weight or pooping. Things have never been "normal". So, I understand that my anxiety is probably annoying to some of you, but unless you've had similar struggles with your baby gaining weight, I would appreciate you not judging me on how calm and collected I am throughout this journey. It is scary. There is pressure to maintain percentiles. And it is hard managing his intake so he's getting enough for adequate weight gain and overall health. The pressure to feed more solids and to transition to formula is everywhere and when my body isn't performing as it should on its own it's hard to stay strong. That's not just anxiety. That's also wanting to be a good mom. I obvious have stayed strong, as I know I'm giving him the best food there is, but I constantly wonder if that's the right decision.
My husband and I haven't done the deed since June of last year. I was experiencing quite a bit of contractions at 34 weeks so there was some fear (on his end) that he would put me into preterm labor, and due to a history of severe disability due to prematurity on his side of the family, he wanted to abstain. And, since I went past my due date, I was BEGGING him to help get things going by being intimate, and he wanted nothing to do with it. Since DS was born, I've made the decision to not go on the mini pill and am not interested in an IUD. I have advised him on several occasions that he needs to buy condoms. Well, each time I've brought it up, he makes some smart-ass comment about not needing them because we don't have sex anyway. I've made it clear that I wasn't going to bring it up again. When he was ready to stop being a jerk about it, he could buy condoms and we could start up again. A few weeks ago he confessed that he's been dragging his feet about buying condoms because he feels it's just another thing that has to be sacrificed due to breastfeeding. Things obviously need to be improved in that area and I would imagine that as we get closer to the one year mark for DS, things will only get better with DH. Starting last week, his mother will be coming over to watch the kids so DH and I can go out to grab a bite to eat on Wednesday nights.
At the end of December I discovered DS's ULT and PTT. It made a lot of sense because I was on the couch nursing for hours every day after work. DS always fell asleep nursing, and despite pretty much constantly nursing he wasn't gaining weight. From Dec 18-mid January he'd only gained 5oz. so, I immediately called our IBCLC and scheduled an appointment with a pediatric ENT outside of our med group. I think on Jan 23rd DS's ties were clipped. Things got worse before they got better, as the IBCLC that was helping me was awful. Despite everything I'd read here, she advised that DS should have been getting 6oz per feeding, that I should space daytime feedings 3 hours apart, I should limit him to 30 minutes and that I shouldn't worry about how long I went at night without nursing. So, obviously this contradicts everything I read here, but she was the professional. If I was giving her $50-100/ hour, I felt like I should at least try to do what she recommended. Well, I did and my supply went down. Obviously. I voiced my apprehension and doubts to her all along the way and she assured me that most nursing moms could make 6oz every 3 hours. Needless to say, I stopped seeking her help and following her advice. I was actually encouraged to report her to whoever is responsible for certifying IBCLCs by a few IBCLCs on the tongue tie support group FB group. It was recommended that I start on solids a little early due to the weight gain issues, and to start off with a fatty/caloric food, so we started giving DS avocado at about 5.5 months. He now gets two solids per day. So far, he hasn't dropped any of his feedings.
I read here on the forums all the time people claim it's easier to breastfeed that to bottle feed. People discuss not having to carry formula, water and bottles when they're out and about, or worry about buying formula and having clean bottles. People say that it's easier at night because you don't have to get up to make a bottle. It is easier in that respect. Way easier. So, I do agree with those women. I love each of those things. However, I think it would be a lot easier to just get up and go if either 1. Baby was gaining beautifully and supply was not an issue or 2. I was giving him formula. The ease of being portable or not having to get out of bed at night is quickly ruined when your child isn't gaining weight. I have to throw in here, because I know some people are already shaking their head at that comment, that I understand that I'm not breastfeeding to make my life easier. If that was the case I would have quit a long time ago. I know it's for the health of my child… and me. However, I thought I would feel a little freer than I do.
And... about being able to go with the flow. Obviously if you haven't had supply issues or weight gain issues, you aren't going to stress about the various aspects of breastfeeding that are known to combat both of them. That isn't a gift. It's a lack of necessity. I'm not saying breastfeeding is any less of a commitment when you don't worry about those things. But, I am saying that if following your baby's cues leads to weight gain and a healthy supply, is it not obvious that you aren't going to stress as much as a mom who cannot rely on her baby's cues for weight gain and supply?
You all are right when you say that I would regret the decision if I decided to wean. I think I was having a particularly rough day when I made the initial post. It's also reassuring to see that other people feel similarly, even if it isn't that bad.
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In terms of the rest, I DID have a baby that gained easily. But I have been here and been part of my local LLL groups and I have seen PLENTY of small babies with mothers who aren't stressed and fantasizing about how much easier and better things would be if they weren't breastfeeding. Including one of my best friends from this forum who couldn't nurse her preemie for about 6 weeks and who was always small and my sister whose child just Tuned one this month and just moved into 6-9 month clothing because she just tipped the scales at 15lbs.
And in terms of "pressure" to hit or maintain percentiles....from who? Your baby is BIG. He's always been big. You were never in any danger of him falling off the charts. His slip in percentiles in completely normal in terms of where he is. I KNOW that we have discussed that ALL bfeastfed babies slide in percentiles between 6-9months because they get moving.
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And on the sex front. In terms of fighting about condoms and sacrifices HE has to make in terms of breastfeeding, blowjobs. No condoms needed and any bitter your DH is feeling will be IMMEDIATELY rectified. I don't like to talk to much about sex on the public parts of the forum. But you wrote a whole pargrath so it's clear that is weighing on you. And Blowjobs are the quick and easy cure. Which really take very little energy or effort on your part. Try it on your "Wed date". See if he isn't less sour immediately.
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Sometimes your sexual menu has to be more varied than just penis-in-vagina. There's a Relationships and Sexuality subforum for this sort of chatter, if you're not comfortable putting it out there in the more public areas. You know, if you're a shy flower like DJs.mom.
I don't think anyone feels like your anxiety is untethered to reality. That's the big problem with anxiety- it can take your real problems, whatever they are, and magnify them.
You're a great mom, Alilwest. If you switched to formula today you'd still be a great mom.
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Woman assaults clerk with minivan for looking like Casey Anthony
www.wtsp.com – An Oklahoma woman's outrage over the Casey Anthony verdict turned violent for an unsuspecting clerk.
Sammy Blackwell says a crazed woman tried to kill her because she thought Blackwell looked like Anthony.
The incident happened on July 8th, just days after Anthony was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year old daughter, Caylee.
Blackwell was working at the Fiesta Mart in Chouteau, when she says Shireen Nalley came in around 10 P.M. to purchase gas.
A short time later Blackwell finished her shift and walked outside to her car.
She noticed a person staring at her as she began to drive away from the store, and says a vehicle began to follow her on the road.
Blackwell says after a few miles her truck was rammed in the back by a minivan driven by Nalley.
Blackwell pulled into a parking lot where her vehicle was rammed again, flipping over twice and landing on the driver's side.
Police later caught up with Nalley and arrested her.
She was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Nalley told police she was "trying to save the children."
Police say they believe Nalley was severely impaired at the time of the incident.
Blackwell says she is happy to be alive and back home with her daughter, who is also named Caylee.


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How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life
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"Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery."
— Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of Death
"How to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those of us in need of such a resource for our own mourning."
— Eugene Knott, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
"Dr. Sanders' insights are profound and poignant."
— Patricia Geiger, M.D., pediatrician, Boone, North Carolina
"Thank you so much for all that you do for bereaved parents but especially for writing How to Survive the Loss of a Child. I know that it has changed lives. It changed mine!"
— Nancy Ulmer, bereaved parent, Kindermourn, Charlotte, North Carolina
It is only through experiencing grief that bereaved parents ultimately heal. Moving through the phases of grief, the bereaved person works toward restoration. Understanding these phases, knowing what to expect, and learning what they can do to help themselves give parents greater assurance and comfort.
In How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Dr. Sanders, a bereaved parent herself, offers grieving parents practical help and emotional support. This book also helps family members, friends, and caregivers relate to grieving parents and aids them, too, in understanding the process of healing through grief.
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MasterCard's net income rebounded strongly in the fourth quarter as its overseas business continued to expand, the company said Thursday.
The results benefited by comparison to the year-earlier quarter, which was weighed down by a massive legal charge.
Net income in the three months ended Dec. 31 rose to $605 million, or $4.86 per share, from $19 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier.
Net revenue rose 10 percent to $1.90 billion. MasterCard continued to grow by most measures: It processed 20 percent more transactions than a year ago, including 17 percent higher cross-border volumes.
MasterCard is expanding most quickly in Latin America and the region that includes Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Outside the United States, the volume of cash moved in 2012 increased 23.5 percent on a U.S. dollar basis. That compares with growth of 9.7 percent inside the U.S.
The Purchase, N.Y.-based payments network took a charge of nearly $500 million in the year-earlier quarter. The charge covered the cost of a settlement with retailers over the fees they pay on credit card transactions.
For 2012, MasterCard earned $2.76 billion, or $21.94 per share, on revenue of $7.39 billion.
During the quarter, management repurchased 1.3 million shares for $613 million. Repurchasing shares is a way of returning profits to shareholders. It boosts the value of each share that remains in investors' hands.
The quarterly results beat analysts' estimates, sending shares up 4 percent in pre-market trading. Shares rose $18.50 to $534.50 a half-hour before the opening bell.
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We might all be part of a class-action lawsuit against Google
It looks as though there is a line forming to sue Google over its collecting wireless user data with the company's Street View camera vehicles.
As Google's camera cars ambled down streets taking and uploading pictures, they also allegedly scooped up some other data fragments from unencrypted wireless networks. Massachusetts is trying to get all Wi-Fi users in the state as part of a class action suit, while Oregon wants its class to include users in Oregon and Washington state. California, meanwhile, is seeking class-action status for all U.S. residents. Really? I'm suing Google now?
Google had admitted earlier this month that the company has been collecting this data for a couple years, and didn't realize it was doing it. Google claims that code for an early experimental project wound up in the Street View code. Whether you believe Google, I can tell you from experience that version control is the second hardest thing to accomplish in software development. The only thing more difficult is getting programmers to document their code. The more people that work on a project, the harder it is to make sure that the most current version of each and every piece is present before you compile the code. This makes me inclined to believe Google when it says it was unintentional.
Intentional or not, is it actionable? Some attorneys have said that there may not be a case because the data was already publicly accessible. Also, plaintiffs may have to prove that a person's specific data was collected in order to be part of the suit. So I may not be suing Google after all.
Unfortunately, what companies like Google may learn from this is that when you make a mistake, stay quiet. Google made the announcement of the discovery that the company had inadvertently been collecting this data, and as thanks for its honesty, the company gets sued by everyone in the U.S.
I don't really have a good answer here. I just know I need to get my suit dry-cleaned. I want to make a good impression in court in case I end up suing Google.
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My neighbors, despite repeated recommendation, have failed to secure their home WiFi network. They are broadcasting, in effect, all the info on their network. So, as I understand the possible lawsuit, Google is being sued for receiving an intended broadcast signal? Hmmm...can the Dish Network sue me for receiving their signal, even though I'm not a subscriber? That makes no sense. It might make more sense for Google to sue owners of unsecured networks for spamming .
GCN should provide the name(s) of the law firms initiating (or at least participating in the filing of such lawsuits. Such bottom-feeders need to be idnetified and subject to public rebute. If someone can identify and publish what legal actions that groups and individuals can take to make these actions unprofitable for the money-gragging scumbags I am sure that many in addition to myself would eagerly take up the cause.
Intentional or not, I do not think Google did anything wrong. The information was made public, so it was just out there waiting for someone to take it. I think this is just another worthless lawsuit for some lawyers to make some money. The lawyers should be sued for a frivolous lawsuit and defamation of character. Google was doing the right thing, by admitting what happened and now they are punished for it???
Thirty years ago, someone sued one of the early satellite television providers, complaining that they scrambled the signal and made it unusable to non-subscribers. The plaintiff's case, if you can call it that, was: if you don't want me intercepting your signal, keep it out of my backyard. (?)The obvious defense, never stated explicitly, was: we don't care if you intercept our signal, but we're under no obligation to present it in a mode convenient to you.
See http://ping.tm-systems.net/?page_id=664 for a blog entry that examines the impact of a recent (Jan. 28, 2010) court ruling that "the failure to password-protect a wireless network can diminish the extent to which the Fourth Amendment protects computers and information on that network from government searches." While the finding doesn't completely do away with the presumption of privacy for information that is easily overheard by a third party, it is a step in the right direction.
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An introduction to the principles and investigative techniques of Microbial Ecology. Students will study microbial processes in soil, water and in hosts to better understand the distribution and biochemistry of microorganisms in respective habitats. Each student will become familiar with the primary literature, modern laboratory techniques and the instrumentation central to this field of biological inquiry. Laboratory.
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So many books, so little time! Here are a few I'm enjoying:Magnificent Mind at Any Age by Daniel Amen. This is a fascinating book by a psychiatrist who began doing SPECT scans of his patients brains and discovered how many psychological/behavioral problems related to brain function. It's an inspiring book for anyone looking to improve their health and behavior, and besides being motivated to exercise more and stop drinking diet soda (I know, I know), I find myself thinking about dog behavior on every page. Daniel relates multiple cases of people with behavioral problems (fear, depression, anger, impulsivity) that are improved through diet, exercise, supplements and medications that specifically work on areas of the brain related to those problems. Anyone out there see any dogs who are Read More
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The Horch lab uses the cricket model system to examine the molecular neurobiological basis of a number of areas including neuronal regeneration and behavior. Unlike many neuronal systems, the auditory system of the cricket demonstrates robust neuronal growth in response to denervation. Removing one ear induces auditory interneurons to sprout new dendrites, grow abnormally across the mid-line, and form synapses with intact auditory neurons from the opposite ear. Currently, students in my lab are using molecular biology to clone the genes for guidance cues from crickets. We hope to examine the expression of these cues to assess if they might be involved in this regeneration. We are also examining the 3-dimensional characteristics of these regenerated neurons. The lab regularly uses techniques such as dye backfills, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, PCR, and confocal microscopy. We are also attempting to develop a method for transfecting living neurons in crickets.
The Horch lab is currently collaborating with Dr. Ron Hoy's lab at Cornell University. Dr. Hoy is an expert on the neurobiology of insects. Our lab groups meet several times a year, in Ithaca NY and at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. Learn more about work in Dr. Hoy's lab: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/hoy/webpage/hoyhome.html
In addition to the regeneration work, we are interested in how molecules influence behavior. Specifically, we are examining how the neurohormone octopamine influences aggressive interactions between male crickets. In our experiments, we are trying to turn "duds into studs" by giving the losing cricket octopamine prior to fighting the winning cricket.
- Professor Horch on Why Crickets Matter, Bowdoin News (May 1, 2017)
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The Neuroscience department awards its outstanding students with the opportunity to do serious lab research over the Summer. Stipends are available and projects are often co-authored for publication. This Summer has again yielded outstanding original research in the filed. Here are some sample projects:
John Hobbs '15
The effects of hormones on the sexual dimorphic auditory dendritic compensatory regeneration of the Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
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Adam Zhang '14
Quantifying Changes in Semaphorin Expression after Deafferentation in Gryllus Bimaculatus
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Ketura Berry '13
Investigating Sema2a's Causative Role in Cricket Compensatory Growth
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Sarah Solomon
Molecular Characterization of Dendritic Regeneration in Gryllus bimaculatus
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Stephen Mallon
Molecular Characterization of Invertebrate Neural Regeneration
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Suen Wong
Compensatory Regeneration in the Auditory interneuron AN2 of the Cricket Gryllus Bimaculatus
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Laura Welsh
The Role of Octopamine in Male Cricket Aggression
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Immersive Media
Immersive Media create interactive panoramas in video (think Street View with moving images). Or even better just check out the example below,
Once the video has finished buffering drag your mouse around the image to pan the view whilst the video is playing, then pick your jaw back up from your desk.
Immersive video have created a Data Coverage Map of some of their available videos. The map traces the routes that the camera takes in each video and the videos are embedded directly within the Google Map.


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Everything you need to run a Jump Bike Racing campaign or add a racing element to your current campaign. The Jump Bike racing rules are sort of a hybrid between Chases and Dramatic Tasks from SWD core rules. I think they do a good job of making races feel significant and substantial, all the while keeping the rules Fast, Furious, and Fun like you expect from Savage Worlds. On top of that you've got new Occupations, Edges, Gear, sample tracks, a way to generate your own random tracks, and even some NPCs to fill them with. I can't think of single thing that's missing. Good product. 5/5!


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The Democrats pulled out all the theatrical stops tonight. They filled a football stadium, built part of a Greek temple, and put on a fireworks show worthy of the 4th of July.
Barack Obama, for his part, pulled out all the rhetorical stops. His speech was a patchwork of homey sentimentality, Clintonesque laundry lists, and Obama's version of Jesse Jackson's preacher man. If a particular riff that has worked somewhere on the stump didn't fit into one of these slots, it was given its own.
All of these elements have worked for politicians at times and Obama pulls each off better than most. Thus, this may well prove to have been an effective speech. But by no means do I think this was a great, or even an excellent, one.
I was also surprised that it wasn't better targeted towards the two groups Obama must have to win the election — Hillary Clinton-supporting women and independent voters. Obama made only the most perfunctory of nods in Hillary's direction. And what exactly in this speech does Obama think will reel in independents skeptical about his fitness for office and his liberalism? The fact that his mother was from Kansas?
This was an angry speech as these things go, and (like Joe Biden's) a dishonest one. If the McCain campaign wanted to provoke Obama, it succeeded. The political environment may be such that independent voters will have no problem with Obama's stridency, the kind typically associated with VP nominee. But if they are that upset, Obama need not have given a speech.
Here's the blow-by-blow account:
10:03 Obama's intro tape begins. We're told that his mother wanted young Barack to know what being an American means. We're not told that she took him to Indonesia to find out.
10:04 His grandparents grew up in Kansas. That's code for "I'm not a Muslim,†I guess. Otherwise, it's difficult to understand why Obama keeps pointing this out.
10:05 Michelle Obama recalls wondering "Who names their kid Barack Obama.†Does Michelle Obama realize that parents don't confer the surname?
10:07 Barack cleans up for Michelle. If your surname is Obama, you should be "Barry.†This segment is code for "I'm not a Muslim, my parents just messed up."
10:08 The tape is covering Obama's time in the state legislature. No legislative achievements are mentioned, but we learn that when he visited Southern Illinois he recognized the people because they were just like his grandparents. Actually, his grandparents were radicals living in Hawaii, but all ordinary white folk look alike.
10:09 The tape is over. No Indonesia, no Hawaii, no Harvard.
10:10 Obama is on stage now. He's flashing a great smile, and why not?
10:11 Now he's applauding the crowd. I thought only European soccer players did this.
10:13 He plugs Hillary as "an inspiration to my daughters and yours.†This brief, hackneyed, insincere reference is all she rates tonight.
10:14 He plugs Joe Biden. Joe Biden is smiling like he just won the lottery, and why not?
10:16 He begins the substantive part of the speech by going negative on the Bush administration. Obama probably understands that the bloom is off his rose and that the key to victory is to "draft†home behind a wind of discontent.
10:18 Nothing special yet. This is just a generic Democratic attack speech.
10:20 This election, Obama says, is about keeping the American dream alive. Still very vanilla.
10:21 "We love this country too much to let the next four years be just like the last eight.†Still pedestrian. "Eight is enough.†That line was used earlier in the convention. Can I get my money back?
10:22 Now the subject is McCain. Obama praises him for "wearing the uniform of our country with bravery.†His praise of McCain is the most perfunctory I've heard yet at the convention. Obama has managed to make Bill Clinton seem gracious.
10:23 According to Obama, McCain voted with the Bush administration 90 percent of the time. The Dems have spent the entire convention shifting back and forth between 90 percent and 95 percent on this statistic. It's meaningless in any case until a baseline is established by reference to, say, the percentage of time Obama voted with the administration. But it sounds good, or would if the Dems could get their story straight.
10:24 Playing off the 10 percent number, Obama says we shouldn't settle for a 10 percent chance on change. It's nonsense of course, but it's also his first semi-good line of the evening.
10:25 Obama is riffing off of Phil Gramm's lines about a "mental recession†and a "nation of whiners.†I'll need to check the transcript on this, but it sounded to me like Obama phrased this in a way that invites the impression that McCain, not Gramm, uttered these unfortunate lines.
10:26 According to Obama, it's not that John McCain doesn't care what's going on in the country, it's that he doesn't know what's going on. It seems unlikely that a candidate who has been attending town meetings on an almost daily basis for a year and half doesn't know what's going on in the country. Obama is setting a low bar for McCain next week.
10:27 Obama follows up by claiming that McCain believes being wealthy means making $5 million per year or more. I'd like to see Obama's source for this one.
10:29 We're back to grandpa. He marched with General Patton. Maybe that's why he wouldn't give grandma a ride to her job at the bank in Hawaii.
10:30 Grandma, who had the lead role in raising Obama and who he once impugned for racism, is finally getting her due.
10:31 Obama cites ma, grandma, and grandpa to refute McCain's charge that he's a celebrity. But McCain didn't say that ma, grandma, and grandpa were celebrities, he said that Obama was.
10:32 Obama states that, under his vision of the American promise, government "should help us not hurt us.†Can I get my money back?
10:33 Here's the part of the speech when Obama presents "exactly the change†he's going to deliver. He's going to cut taxes for 95 percent of "working families.â€
10:35 With respect to energy, it's all about new sources. He disparages new drilling as a "stop-gap.†Now who is insensitive to what's going on in the country?
10:36 He's working his way, Bill Clinton style, through the liberal domestic laundry list.
10:37 Promises about education.
!0:38 Promises about health care.
10:39 He's going to protect social security. Nothing about how he's going to accomplish that. Are folks noticing how empty most of this is?
10:40 He's going to make sure there's equal pay for equal work. He doesn't mention that this has been the law of the land for virtually his entire lifetime. (The controversy here is over whether you have to complain about violations in a timely manner, as with every other law; the Dems are crusading to relieve plaintiffs of this obligation).
10:41 Obama is going to pay for all of his domestic promises by, you guessed it, closing tax loopholes and streamlining government. He'll cut (unspecified) wasteful programs, don't you see. Can I get my money back?
10:43 Here's the obligatory salute to individual responsibility. This is designed to show that Obama isn't like other Democrats. Never mind that Democrats have been talking up individual responsibility for decades to show they are not like other Democrats. I guess their insincerity is so apparent that no one remembers.
10:44 After almost half an hour, we finally get to foreign policy and national security.
10:45 "We must take out Osama bin Laden if we have him in our sights.†Who said Obama doesn't grasp national security issues?
10:46 He accuses McCain of not being willing to follow bin Laden into the cave where he lives. If Obama loses the election, let's hope he gives McCain the address of that cave.
10:47 Obama is setting a low bar for McCain next week.
10:48 Obama says he's the one who will deter Iran. You remember Iran – that tiny country we don't have to worry about.
10:49 Obama is also the one to deter Russia. You remember Russia – the country Obama was slow to denounce after it attacked Georgia.
10:50 Obama looks forward to debating McCain. . .as soon as he's done turning down opportunities to do so.
10:51 Obama is not going to question McCain's patriotism. That's big of him. But he's just accused McCain of being unwilling to go after bin Laden.
10:52 Obama will stipulate that both he and McCain love America. In fact, "we all put our country first.†Obama is being amazingly defensive here. Then again, McCain spent six years in a Vietnamese prison for his country. Obama spent 20 years being mentored spiritually by the rabid anti-American Jeremiah Wright and is friends with Chicago's first couple of domestic terrorism. In these circumstances, I'd try for that same stipulation.
10:53 He's getting even more defensive now, as he raises the issues of abortions and guns. His tactic is to call for "unity†and "common ground†on the issues where he's weakest. Can we have some common ground on taxes? Like don't raise mine?
10:54 Obama just knows that the Republicans are going to try to make this "big election be about small issues.†Like his fitness for the presidency.
10:55 Now he's recalling the people he claims to have met on the campaign trail. This isn't bad material, but the speech is getting long. Has he kept his audience for the grand finale?
10:59 Here it comes, and naturally it's going to be tied to the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's speech in Washington.
11:00 Obama is in full preacher mode now and he sounds great. He speaks admiringly of King who, unlike Obama tonight, spoke without anger. Yet it was Jeremiah Wright, not King, who brought Obama to Christ.
11:02 The speech is over and the Obama and Biden families have gathered on stage. The scene is quite impressive. Good looking families, awesome fireworks, a massive stadium filled with cheering (and in some cases ecstatic) people. Will it be viewed as too much? We'll see.
11:03 The music in this setting has a creepy, epic quality to it. When do the chariot races start?
11:04 One more bow for the Obama couple and the Biden couple before they ascend to the heavens.
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A journey from carpenter to furniture maker to teacher.
By Robert W. Lang
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Dale Barnard got an early start in woodworking and he paid his dues the old-fashioned way. As a teenager, Dale worked for his father and learned on the job. Apprentices in trim carpentry literally start at the bottom, running baseboard. He had to master that task in closets before he was allowed to work in other rooms.
By the time he graduated high school he was performing finer work, in more visible places, but thought that a career teaching math might be a better choice. A few years later, Dale decided to follow in the family trade, and moved to a rural area in Southeast Indiana.
"When you move to an area like this, you can't be too choosy about the type of work you do," Dale said on a recent visit. "If you want to survive, you need to be willing to do just about anything."
In the early 1980s, Dale and his wife, Mary, purchased 80 acres of wooded land near the small town of Paoli, Ind., moved into a trailer on the property and raised a family while Dale built his shop from salvaged material. In between paying jobs, he worked on his own house, and after a dozen years it was completed; it's a few minutes' walk up the wooded hill from the shop.
Today, the house and shop fit in with the surroundings as if they had always been there, and it seems fitting that Dale's work comes from the heart of a hardwood forest. The scope of his work is as broad as the variety of plants that grow nearby.
There are a lot of small-town carpenters, but it is a field where those with skill, experience and a willingness to produce unusual and high-quality work find themselves being sought out. As Dale's reputation grew, he was attracting clients looking for someone capable of building the best.
Opportunity Knocks
Two important things happened in the early 1990s that enabled Dale to make the leap from small-town carpenter to world-class woodworker. The right client came along at the right time, and Dale launched a web site to market his work beyond the bounds of the Hoosier National Forest.
The client was enamored with the work of California architects Charles and Henry Greene, and could afford to build a house syled after their work. Dale found himself in California, accompanying the clients to look at original examples, then reproducing signature Greene & Greene interior elements, including stairs and cabinets.
Numerous pieces of furniture followed, and Dale absorbed the essence of the originals and found ways to efficiently produce work to that high standard. At heart, he is a problem-solver who can't wrap his head around the idea that there might be something he wouldn't be able to do. When Dale needed stained glass for cabinet doors, he acquired those skills and added them to his repertoire.
Video: Dale Barnard and his work were featured on the HGTV show "Modern Masters."
Web site: At Dale's web site you'll find a class schedule and a gallery of his work.
Article: Dale wrote about his technique for making through-tenons in our June 2010 issue (#183).
Blog: Read about Robert W. Lang's earlier visit to Dale's shop.
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Date and TimeFriday, January 19, 2018
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"Arranged objects: a few good bones" is an exhibition featuring three poets from the Grand Valley Writers Series: Ander Monson, Patricia Clark, and Maggie Smith. Objects can be vehicles of memory and grief as well as recorded language. The poems are engraved, laid on the center table. Viewers have the ability to take rubbings, creating their own objects as a memory of the engraved poems. Images of the poems are on the walls, featuring cut out letters hand arranged. The act of methodically arranging letters, recognizing the physical origins of language, prompts playful composition and embraces the imperfect nature of human creations.
Exhibit sponsored by University Libraries and designed and curated by Morgan Hayden.
More information about the Grand Valley Writers Series: https://www.gvsu.edu/writing/grand-valley-writers-series-12.htm
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Bowled over by Thailand
KOH SAMUI, Thailand — It's a perfect day to swim in the "bowl of gold," aka Mu Ko Ang Thong National Marine Park — an archipelago of 42 islands 30 km northwest of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand.
The sky is sunny and the water couldn't be calmer — ideal conditions for a boat excursion to these lush tropical islands, with their hidden coves, lagoons, deserted beaches and unusual rock formations.
Draw up a list of features for the ultimate day trip in this marine park and it might include the following: Perfect weather, postcard-pretty scenery with varied natural landscapes and a range of activities, none of them overly strenuous. This turns out to be the script for our day-long speedboat tour covering three islands and four beaches, with opportunities to hike, swim, snorkel, kayak and relax, plus some unexpected wildlife encounters.
One such encounter occurs shortly after leaving the dock, when two dolphins appear and frolic alongside us in the waves created by our boat.
An hour later we anchor offshore in the northern reaches of the marine park and snorkel in some of the clearest water I've ever seen, thanks in part to the calm sea and the sun's rays, which penetrate the shallow coral reefs. The many colourful inhabitants of the reef include multi-hued parrot fish and bright yellow angel fish.
On Mae Koh — our next stop — we pull up onto a beach and join a few other visitors climbing some steep stairs that lead to a platform overlooking an emerald-coloured lagoon on one side and views of the gorgeous island chain on the other. After admiring the landscape for a few minutes, we make our way down and out through a series of limestone formations, at one stage climbing through a small natural opening in the rock and later following a wooden path with towering rock walls on either side.
There is no one else on pretty Tham Rang Beach, where we stop for lunch a short time later. A few people discover some well-placed swings strung between two trees and pass the time idly gazing out to sea. A few of our guides prepare some freshly caught squid, and lay out a spread of chicken, noodles, rice and pineapple to energize us for a kayaking excursion not far from where the movie The Beach was filmed.
If there are any cows on Ko Wua Talap (Sleeping Cow Island) our final stop, we don't see them. But there's plenty of wildlife, judging by exhibits at park headquarters, which describe some of the 16 species of mammals, 50 species of birds, 14 species of reptiles and five amphibians to be found in the park. A skeleton of a Bryde's whale is the central display in the visitor centre.
Outside, on a grassy area amid tall palm trees, visitors can find accommodation in one several bungalows or at a campsite. An hour on the island, which is all we have, isn't quite enough time to hike the nearby Pha Jun Jaras Nature Trail, which is rated difficult and takes one to two hours to complete. While it leads to one of the best views of the archipelago, no one seems to mind that we'll miss it, especially when we spot some monkeys at the trail entrance.
The dusky langurs — distinguished by the white rings around their eyes — don't seem to be living up to their reputation. Having just read that the animal, "doesn't like to expose itself to people," I find myself standing beneath a tree with more than a dozen langurs playfully jumping about in the upper branches, not the least bit disturbed by our presence.
One visitor even has his camera trained on a baby langur seated on an overhead branch less than a metre away from his lens. The number of human observers grows as we continue watching the animals' antics until it is time for the boat to leave and we have to say "La gon" — goodbye in Thai.
A perfect day deserves a perfect night, and you can't do better than the stylish W Retreat Koh Samui. Popular with honeymooners and trendsetters, this sprawling property wows visitors with its fashion-shoot-locale-worthy entrance featuring a circular infinity pool with built-in lounging pods. Villas, with comfy pillow-top beds, face the sea and come with outdoor showers and private pools big enough for swimming laps. Craving a midnight treat? Unlimited free ice cream is available 24/7 from freezers stationed near the villas. W's beach is uniquely positioned so you can enjoy both the sunrise, and the consistently spectacular sunsets. You will be tempted to spend the entire day there. For more, check whotels.com/Kohsamui.
For travel information, contact the Tourism Authority of Thailand at tourismthailand.org/us or 416-614-2625. For more on touring Mu Ko Ang Thong National Marine Park by speedboat, see grandseatours.com. Cost is 2,100 baht (about $68). Another trip worth taking is the Samui Island tour, which stops at landmark temples, Buddha statues and natural attractions such as Grandmother and Grandfather rocks.


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Apple is adding a cheaper 8GB iPhone 5C to its smartphone lineup. The new model first appeared on UK carrier O2's site, but has since been added to a number of international Apple Stores including the UK, Australia, and China. In the UK, it's priced at £429, £40 ($66 including sales tax) less than the 16GB model. Should Apple choose to bring the new budget model to the US, the price seems likely to fall somewhere around $499.
An 8GB smartphone for $500. You can buy six Lumia 520s for that - almost one for every day of the week. You have to be utterly void of common sense to buy this phone. Then again, that seems to be the general attitude towards the 5C anyway.
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Forget Falcao, Remember Rodriguez - Colombia's rising star
Colombia's sensational midfielder James Rodriguez struck twice in a 2-0 win over Uruguay in the last 16 on Saturday to move top of the World Cup scorers list and stake a claim for player of the tournament.india Updated: Jun 29, 2014 06:36 IST
Colombia's sensational midfielder James Rodriguez struck twice in a 2-0 win over Uruguay in the last 16 on Saturday to move top of the World Cup scorers list and stake a claim for player of the tournament.
When Colombia arrived in Brazil without injured key forward Radamel Falcao, few would have counted on baby-faced Rodriguez, who has now scored in each of his team's three group games and their knockout match, to successfully replace him.
But he has taken the tournament by storm, netting five times already and winning man-of-the-match awards in his opening two games as Colombia set up a mouth-watering quarter-final against hosts Brazil on Friday.
It seems Rodriguez was made for the biggest stage of all and, with the player turning 23 the day before the World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro, few would now bet against him giving himself the greatest belated birthday present.
Apart from scoring, Rodriguez has also delivered two assists for his team mates as the South Americans are hitting top form at just the right time, thanks largely to him.
On Saturday he stunned fans at the Maracana stadium and millions of television viewers when he thundered in an unstoppable volley to give Colombia the lead while surrounded by five Uruguay players.
He followed that up with a smart close-range finish early in the second half to banish any lingering thoughts about the missing Falcao as Colombia made the last eight for the first time.
The left-footed Monaco midfielder, who is married to Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina's sister, had kicked off his first World Cup in style when he led Colombia to a 3-0 romp over Greece, scoring in the process.
He was again on target in their 2-1 win over Ivory Coast before needing just 45 minutes off the bench to help take Japan apart in their final group game.
After coming on at halftime, with the score at 1-1, he guided his team to a 4-1 win with an electric performance that suggested he has the potential to become one of the world's top players.
He was one step ahead of the Japanese as he set up two goals for Jackson Martinez before capping the performance with his own masterpiece in the final minute.
After cutting his teeth in Europe with Portugal's Porto for three years, he joined wealthy French side AS Monaco in 2013 for 45 million euros ($61.27 million).
After his performances in Brazil so far, Europe's big clubs would no doubt love to add him to their ranks though Monaco have no need to sell the man who could be player of the tournament.
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March 01. 2014 10:52PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Red Sox taking shape
Undoubtedly, there are legitimate questions facing the Red Sox this spring, and they're serious enough that the answers could have a significant say in determining how successful a season this becomes.
There are rookies set to start at shortstop and center field, arguably two of the lineup's most important positions. The opposite is the issue behind the plate, where both their catchers will be 37 years old by opening day. The third baseman twice lost his job last year. And as exhibition games began last week, a number of expected contributors were managing a variety of minor (for the moment, at least) physical restrictions.
But for all that uncertainty, there isn't a whole lot of doubt about what Boston's 25-man roster will look like when they head for Baltimore at the end of this month - save for maybe the last spot on the bench and in the bullpen, or an injury significant enough to require the disabled list.
Xander Bogaerts
Jackie Bradley
may be question marks because of their inexperience,
David Ross
A.J. Pierzynski
might both be advanced in baseball years, and
Will Middlebrooks
might have much to prove against big-league pitching, though given the way
Ben Cherington
has built the Sox' roster, none of them is really facing true competition for his job this spring. And given the way Grapefruit League can be misleading - take Bradley's .097 start that followed his .417 spring last season as a prime example - it'll be weeks or maybe months of consequential baseball before their appointments can really be evaluated.
So as things unfold in Fort Myers, and across Florida, Sox fans may be wise to follow not with April in mind, but rather with an eye on the guys who could become factors in June, July and August. The guys who comprise the organizational depth that becomes important because of the grinding game's natural attrition. The guys who'll start in the minors, as lesser-knowns, but whose ability to step in and stabilize could be important as the season proceeds.
While also projecting the 25-man roster that will break camp four weeks from today, here's a look at who some of those guys could be:
Makes the team:
David Ortiz
Mike Napoli
Dustin Pedroia
Xander Bogaerts
Will Middlebrooks
Jonathan Herrera
Who to watch:
Brock Holt
Garin Cecchini
Deven Marrero
Obtained from Colorado in exchange for
Franklin Morales
, Herrera will be the utility man, while Holt will likely step into that role if an injury dictates that Herrera needs to play every day, though the more exciting offensive prospect is undoubtedly Cecchini. The third baseman split last year between Single- and Double-A, but reached base at a .417 clip over his two-plus pro seasons, and his addition to Boston's 40-man roster makes him an option for the majors at any time. Middlebrooks, obviously, is on alert.
As for Marrero, the team's 2012 first-round pick is farther away than Cecchini, and is likely to begin the year at Portland, but his invite to big-league camp for the second straight season at least gives the shortstop an opportunity to make an impression.
Makes the team:
Pierzynski, Ross.
Who to watch:
Ryan Lavarnway
Dan Butler
Christian Vazquez
Lavarnway's once-prodigious power has seemingly disappeared (he homered four times in 296 plate appearances last year between Boston and Pawtucket), and 18 starts during a season in which Ross missed two months due to concussions suggests
John Farrell
doesn't trust him entirely as a receiver. He's taking grounders at first, and he's still just 26, so perhaps versatility adds value - either for the Sox, or in a trade.
Butler is the forgotten man, given the excitement over Vazquez and
Blake Swihart
behind him in the pipeline, but he's a solid backstop with a knack for getting on base, and if Lavarnway is moved, he'd likely get the first crack if Ross or Pierzynski goes down. Vazquez might be an option, too, given the defensive skill he's already exhibited by age 23.
Makes the team:
Shane Victorino
Jonny Gomes
Daniel Nava
Mike Carp
Who to watch:
Grady Sizemore
Corey Brown
Bryce Brentz
Sizemore is a fascinating addition, but thinking he will compete with Bradley for the full-time job in center is an idea somewhere between premature and crazily optimistic. After he sat both 2012 and '13, the club is cautiously monitoring how his body reacts a day after playing a few innings. And further, even if Sizemore returns to the level he played at in his last two active seasons, it'll likely be worse than what the Sox could expect from Carp - who is able to play first base, and maybe third in an emergency, so there's no sense dealing him just to open a roster spot.
More logical for Sizemore is extended spring training, or, if the experiment fails, a chance could open for Brown, who had cups of coffee with the Nationals each of the past three years while blasting 123 minor-league homers over seven seasons. If the Sox need a right-handed bat, though, Brentz would likely get the call. A .305 OBP in 87 Triple-A games suggest seasoning is needed, but the 2010 first-rounder is likely to see the majors at some point in 2014.
Starting pitching
Makes the team:
Jon Lester
Clay Buchholz
John Lackey
Felix Doubront
Jake Peavy
Who to watch:
Brandon Workman
Allen Webster
Anthony Ranaudo
Matt Barnes
Henry Owens
Ryan Dempster
stepping away, the five-man rotation is settled. But the best part of the spring will be watching the next wave take their turns on the big stage.
Were the Sox a different type of organization, the five up-and-comers listed above could well be slotted as the team's 2015 rotation - and based on the evaluations of each on their climb up the farm system, they might be OK with that. Neither Barnes nor Owens is on the 40-man roster, but it's not inconceivable that all five could make a start this season, and the spring could be a factor in determining who gets the first cracks.
Makes the team:
Koji Uehara
Edward Mujica
Junichi Tazawa
Craig Breslow
Andrew Miller
Burke Badenhop
Chris Capuano
Who to watch:
Drake Britton
Rubby De La Rosa
Alex Wilson
Jose Mijares
Britton and Wilson were both relatively effective in the big leagues last season, while Mijares has 324 games of big-league experience, and De La Rosa has a big arm that simply needs to be harnessed. Any of them could factor in this season, and would have a shot to make the club immediately, if the relief corps weren't so deep and didn't figure to be such a strength. It's balanced, it's experienced, and it's full of options - including those who'll likely begin at Pawtucket.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Excellent lunch at the Canteen downstairs at Merci.
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Bonjour Paris!
Excellent lunch at the Canteen downstairs at Merci.
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What a whirlwind tour already, Carol!ReplyDelete
Jet lag should be a bit easier, only five hours time difference (Europe has not changed to Daylight Savings Time yet), but you act as if there were none at all. Wow!
May Paris be full of macarons and fabulous sights and surprises!
What a fantastic post!! I felt myself visiting Paris!! I can't believe: macarons day?? I woul be crazy!! And that Pierre Herme...stunning!!! Have a marvelous trip!!! Enjoy it!! Beijo!!ReplyDelete
Everything looks lovely, even in the rain! Was hoping to get to NYC tomorrow for Mac Day but not to be...will be seeing Mr Big on Wednesday on Broadway..in the rain! Enjoy yourself!! :)ReplyDelete
I was thinking Vermeer Nikon...ReplyDelete
It's cloudy today and chilly
Of course I left my winter coat at home..
c'est la vie :)
I woke up this morning and the first thing that popped up on my computer was a calendar reminder that today is Macaron Day.ReplyDelete
I have had it on there since your trip last year. Unfortunately with an unavoidable conflict (damn work) I will be there in spirit only. By now you are dashing from one PH to another with Bear by your side to reach the finish line with all of the little shops checked off. You will soon have that precious stash of victory.... more macarons!!
Be safe, be quick, be crafty.... may the force be with you!
Your post always bustle so happily with life, especially in Paris!ReplyDelete
Yay--I do hope you and Rick visit. Hav a blast, Carol: "...and she's off!"ReplyDelete
Oh lucky you...back in Paris. And tomorrow is Macaron Day. Can't wait to see all of your adventures.ReplyDelete
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Love, love LOVE hearing from you.......via Paris Breakfast.......especially while YOU are IN PARIS!!!! And I am sitting at my dining room table with piles of books and detailed lists of Patisseries, Boulangeries, Cafes, Brasseries, Markets, Museums, Shops, Walks, Monuments, and all wonderful things Paris! We leave in 4 weeks to stay in an apartment in the 16th for three whole weeks, and I am READY!!!! I am doing all this prep work now because when we get there I know we will be overcome with the beauty and excitement of Paris.ReplyDelete
Bravo! Sounds like Day 1 was brilliant. Can't wait to hear about what you do tomorrow!ReplyDelete
Your pictures make my soul smile :)ReplyDelete
- Michelle11:19 PM
J'adore your post! I really felt like I was arriving in Paris myself, but goodness! You covered a lot of ground your first day. Special thanks for the Laduree vitrines. It doesn't seem like I'm in Paris until I see those beauties. Not going myself this Spring, but your post is the next best thing. Have a blast and I certainly hope you made the best of Macaron Day. Hurray for Pierre Herme!ReplyDelete
OK I want one of those mugs. It has the Eiffel Tower on it and a paint pallet. Pretty cool.ReplyDelete
I can and can't believe you are there!!!ReplyDelete


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I know I am preaching to the choir when I proclaim that dogs are incredible animals with amazing abilities. So I'm pretty sure I'm in good company when I say that I have a list of dogs' traits that are so extraordinary that it's worth finding ways to demonstrate them to the world. I even have a wish list for videos I'd love to have that show dogs off a bit. Sometimes I acquire the videos I desire, but the list just keeps on growing.
Currently at the top of my wish list is a pair of videos illustrating how quickly dogs can run. The first of the two videos would show a race between my husband, who is a sprinter, and me. I'm a runner, too, but not one blessed with any real speed. He would easily dust me in a race of any distance. The second of the two videos would show a race between my husband and a greyhound, which would be such a rout by the dog that it would make that first race with me look close.
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Over the course of the next several days Cheesehead TV will have a brief position-by-position offseason preview, taking a look at what's in store for the Green Bay Packers in free agency and the NFL Draft..
In oversimplified terms, the Green Bay Packers got solid play from the interior of their offensive line and shaky play from their tackles in 2013.
But to say the tackles were shaky doesn't tell the whole story. In reality, rookie left tackle David Bakhtiari was a steadying force for the Packers after veteran Bryan Bulaga went down in training camp with a torn ACL.
Bakhtiari wasn't perfect, and he's in major need of an offseason spent in an NFL weight room, but the job he did in protecting the quarterback's blind side was very encouraging to say the least.
The right tackle position is another matter. Don Barclay too frequently got beat by pass rushers off the edge this past season, making it clear that he's not the future of the position in Green Bay, although he's still a capable backup. And Marshall Newhouse looked like a fish out of water.
Bakhtiari, Bulaga and Derek Sherrod are still waiting to hear from the coaching staff how they'll be used in 2014, whether it's on the left or right side.
On the interior, the Packers are in good hands. Despite Josh Sitton and T.J. Lang flip-flopping sides in the offseason, both seemed to elevate their level of play this past season with Sitton in particular establishing himself as one of the NFL's best guards.
Both Sitton and Lang are also under contract for the foreseeable future in Green Bay, helping to bring stability along the offensive line.
The biggest question mark is at center, where Evan Dietrich-Smith is set to become a free agent in March.
Dietrich-Smith provided mostly solid play in 2013, allowing the Packers to operate their offense without a hitch, but he also didn't provide Pro Bowl caliber play, and Green Bay isn't likely to pay him at such a level.
Should Dietrich-Smith move on, rookie J.C. Tretter might get first crack at winning the job, but he's hardly a sure thing after missing the majority of the 2013 season with a broken ankle. Greg Van Roten provides depth, but he too was injured this past season.
Long-Range NFL Draft Outlook
Evan Dietrich Smith––Perhaps surprisingly, there's been no indication that Dietrich-Smith and his representatives been in discussion with the Packers on a contract extension, either during the season or now, just weeks before the start of free agency in March.
Should Dietrich-Smith leave, Green Bay would be breaking in their fourth starter at center in four seasons, presenting the organization with an undesirable amount of turnover at the position.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been vocal in his support of Dietrich-Smith, but general manager Ted Thompson is not necessarily one to be swayed by the wishes and whims of his players.
As calculated by Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dietrich-Smith led the team in the subjective negative statistic of "bad runs" with 22 and also gave up 11 1/2 quarterback pressures.
Perhaps the Packers feel they can do better than Dietrich-Smith and perhaps Dietrich-Smith is dead set on testing the open waters of free agency and seeing how much money he can get.
It seems unlikely that the Packers would simply let Dietrich-Smith walk away without making a competitive offer, but it's clear that the organization wants to dictate the price and not the center's camp.
With money needed to potentially extend the contracts of players like Sam Shields, Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb, and maybe even be active in free agency, the Packers could use every penny possible.
Marshall Newhouse––Newhouse did surprisingly well in opening up holes for running back Eddie Lacy, but that doesn't overcome an absolutely putrid season in pass protection, seemingly taking a step backwards in his fourth season in the NFL.
It's highly unlikely the Packers offer Newhouse a contract, even at the NFL minimum, knowing they already have a group of tackles with a ton of potential and the likelihood they add some rookies to the mix in 2014.
If there's some NFL team that happens to shows interest in Newhouse, the Packers would be more than happy at the potential of receiving some sort of compensatory draft pick for his loss.
Long-Range NFL Draft Outlook
With the Packers likely to have nine draft choices by the time compensatory picks are announced, it's inevitable they'll draft an offensive lineman at some point over the course of seven rounds, but it doesn't stick out as a major need.
By virtue of the Packers spending recent first round draft choices on Bulaga and Sherrod, the emergence of Bakhtiari and the continued solid play from Sitton and Lang, there's just not much room for a high-round rookie on the offensive line.
It's possible that could change if Evan Dietrich-Smith departs in free agency and there's a prospect the Packers really like. But this wouldn't be the first year center appeared to be a need for Green Bay. Typically they bypass the top center prospects, instead choosing to develop one.
At some point in the draft, expect the Packers to continue their modus operandi of selecting an athletic college tackle and seeing where he fits into their plans once he arrives in Green Bay. Every starter on the Packers offensive line was a tackle at some point in their college career, most of them on the left side.
Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor of Cheesehead TV's "Pro Football Draft Preview." To contact Brian, email [email protected].
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