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Association of Black Cardiologists, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist and TV Personality Shaun Robinson Join Heart Rhythm Society to Increase Awareness of Deadly Epidemic
October 17, 2012
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Lack of awareness and treatment of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) puts African Americans at greater risk of death from the condition, according to a new national survey released today by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). The survey findings uncovered significant perception gaps between healthcare providers and consumers when it comes to understanding the condition, its symptoms, risk factors and treatments. Responsible for more than 350,000 U.S. deaths each year, SCA occurs when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. Approximately 95 percent of SCA cases result in death; however, it is proven most deadly in African Americans.
The new study, conducted by HRS with Ipsos Healthcare, found African Americans are significantly less familiar with sudden cardiac arrest, with only 18 percent able to correctly identify the condition, compared with 24 percent of the general population. More than sixty percent of African Americans with no self-reported prior heart disease who reported experiencing heart disease symptoms do not visit the doctor as a result. In addition, ninety percent of African Americans say their doctor has not talked to them about their risk for SCA. These considerable disparities impact the immediate, life-saving treatments needed to prevent the deadly condition.
To reverse these inequalities and increase the dialogue between patients and physicians, HRS today launched a nationwide public education campaign in partnership with the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) and Shaun Robinson, Emmy-award winning journalist and weekend co-anchor and correspondent for "Access Hollywood." Coined "Arrest the Risk," the initiative is designed to overcome the barriers to proper diagnosis and treatment of SCA through educational resources, an SCA symptom tracker available on ArrestTheRisk.org , as well as a powerful public service announcement featuring Robinson. Additionally, HRS and ABC will conduct specific educational initiatives in cities with a high prevalence of SCA.
"Racial disparities in the prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac arrest result in too many preventable deaths. The first step toward reducing these substantial discrepancies is to treat the underlying causes and manage the various risk factors," said Walter Clair, MD, MPH, FHRS, electrophysiologist, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, Nashville. "However, to bridge the gap, both at-risk consumers and their physicians must better understand the signs and symptoms of SCA, and physicians must translate evidence-based treatment guidelines, including the use of indicated medical devices, into their everyday clinical practice."
Treatment guidelines recommend implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) as the standard of care for patients at risk for SCA, yet half as many African Americans as Caucasians or Hispanics say that ICDs are the best way to treat SCA. Indeed, studies show that the use of these devices and other innovative cardiovascular technologies are less common among African Americans. As a result, a large percentage of high-risk patients are not receiving these treatments, leading to a greater likelihood of death.
The HRS/Ipsos Healthcare study also surveyed 300 physicians (primary care physicians, cardiologists and electrophysiologists) in the U.S. regarding their awareness of SCA as well as their treatment and referral history. Results of the survey showed that many physicians are unaware of the significant deadly impact of SCA. Nearly half of physicians (49 percent) did not identify SCA as the condition that poses the greatest risk to Americans today, even though SCA claims more lives each year than stroke, breast cancer, lung cancer or AIDS. When asked to assess a case study, the majority of PCPs do not identify "at risk" patients, even when three or more risk factors are apparent. In addition, only half of primary care physicians believe ICDs are the standard of care for patients at risk.
"By offering insight into the incidence of the condition, addressing diagnosis and treatment related challenges faced by healthcare professionals and working to ensure the implementation of guideline-based care, we can ensure that all patients – regardless of their race, gender or age – receive access to the best possible cardiac care," said Ola Akinboboye, MD, MPH, MBA, President, ABC. "The Association of Black Cardiologists is proud to partner with HRS to lead this innovative, educational effort that sheds light on the current disparities in care, while also working on practical education to help eliminate these healthcare inequalities."
"Since my grandfather and some other family members have suffered from heart disease, this is a condition that is very personal to me. However, I didn't realize that this family history means I could be at increased risk for sudden cardiac arrest," said Robinson. "Because SCA is so deadly, it is absolutely critical to talk to your doctor because early intervention can literally save your life."


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Obama: Syria debate is diplomacy lesson for Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration's approach to Syria's chemical weapons should show Iran that there's the potential for diplomatic solutions to arms standoffs.
But he says Iran shouldn't assume that his preference for diplomacy means the U.S. won't strike Tehran.
Obama tells ABC's "This Week" that Iranians understand that their pursuit of a nuclear weapon is "a far larger issue for us" than the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Obama says he has exchanged letters with Iran's new president, but the two have not spoken directly.
Obama says he believes Iranian President Hasan Rouhani (hah-SAHN' roh-HAH'-nee) understands the potential for a diplomatic solution to his country's disputed nuclear program but will not "suddenly make it easy."
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Art Seiden, American
American magazine used a steady roster of tradition painterly illustrators for its fiction articles during the 1950's. But for some reason Art Seiden was chosen to illustrate this August 1951 story, The Ornamental Hen. Whatever it was that struck the art editor's fancy to choose Seiden, one could only wish it had struck more often... unfortunately this is the only example I've come across in my stack of American mags.
You can see the back-up piece Seiden did for this article here.
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STEWART AIRPORT — A three-year runway rehabilitation project will get under way next month at Stewart International Airport.
STEWART AIRPORT — A three-year runway rehabilitation project will get under way next month at Stewart International Airport.
Port Authority's board of directors on Wednesday approved a $71.7 million contract with Tutor-Perini/Intercounty Paving Association to do the work.
Port Authority called it its single biggest investment in Stewart since taking on the management of the airport in November 2007.
Spokesman Ron Marsico said it is Port Authority's goal to minimize the project's impact on flights, which currently include nine daily commercial passenger flights.
The contract calls for repaving the 11,817-foot-long main runway 9-27 and 6,004-foot-long runway 6-34. Both are 150 feet wide. In addition, 35-foot shoulders will be added to the shorter runway to match the shoulders on the longer one.
A new high-speed taxiway exit will be added to runway 9-27, and the airfield's electrical system will be upgraded to meet current Federal Aviation Administration standards.
Runway 9-27, which was an approved backup landing site for the now-defunct space shuttle program, was last rehabilitated in 2001. Runway 6-34 was last rehabilitated in 1994.


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Pores are also the openings in which acne (such as blackheads and whiteheads) form. When they become clogged at the surface, acne bacteria starts feeding on the oil inside of them and this leads to inflammation and what we call a "breakout".
What causes clogged pores?
Many external and internal forces are responsible for our clogged pores and, in turn, breakouts. Some of them are preventable with the right skin care routine but many are out of our control.
– Believe it or not, the wrong moisturizer is more likely to cause breakouts and clogged pores then foundations and other make-up. Why? Moisturizers are meant to be absorbed by the skin, through our pores, and can easily clog them. Makeup on the other hand is meant to sit on top of the skin. Although some foundation does get into our pores it is not drawn in to the extent that moisturizer is. However, moisturizers are also necessary in providing moisture to your skin to prevent long-term damage from dryness and can also temporarily reduce pore size by providing sufficient moisture. Other culprits are silica and talc, very fine particles found in face powders, that can burrow into the skin.
– One of the biggest culprits of clogged pores is our own sweat. Our pores are meant to take in moisture as well as flush it out (sweating). If we wear tight clothes or allow the sweat and oils to sit on our skin too long it can restrict our bodies ability to cycle through and the dormant oil will clog our pores.
– Think of your skin as an organ, because it is. Smoke reduces the amount of oxygen, blood, and nutrients to your organs, including your skin, and inhibits its ability to repair itself naturally.
How can you prevent/clear clogged pores?
The first, and most important, step to having clear skin is always removing your makeup and daily moisturizers. Use a cleanser that contains salicylic acid to help dissolve oil and dirt and improve the skins appearance. the residual acid left behind after rinsing will penetrate into the skin to help balance pH.
Now lets talk about enlarged pores. Wearing sunscreen also plays a key role in the minimization of pores and breakouts. Sun damage causes collagen loss making the top layers of skin sag over time and making pores sag and appear enlarged. The suns rays can also lead to permanent sun damage and skin cancer (making pore size the least of your worries). It is wise to use a mineral sunscreen that is less likely to clog pores on its own and does not contain any harmful chemicals.
Lastly, laser resurfacing and hyaluronic acid injections can help rebuild the collagen under the surface to improve pore size and add visible plumping to the skin. However, these options are both invasive and expensive; they can often cause irritation on their own and cannot be performed on all skin types.
Now, some solutions for your clogged pore dilemmas:
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– Avoid using any products with mineral oils if you suffer from acne prone skin. And NO EXTRACTIONS EVER.
Now for some pore shrinking:
Firstly, using circular motions when applying foundation with a brush instantly helps cover up the appearance of enlarged pores.
– Splash your face with cold water: Remember learning that hot air expands and cold air shrinks, the same goes for your skin. When it is hot outside your pores open up to take in the heat but when it is cold out your pores contract to keep in the heat. Splashing cold water on your face warrants this same reaction. Why cold water? Because damp skin allows for skin care products to penetrate the skin more deeply and get to the root cause of the problem.
– Use a toner after washing your face: the astringent quality of a pH balanced toner will cause the skin to swell slightly and reduce the appearance of pores. ZENMED AHA/BHA Complex is formulated to adjust pH and help tighten pores with a non-alcohol astringent formulation. Always follow up with a moisturizer to hold in moisture and the body's essential oils.
– Using products with high Vitamin C like the ZENMED Support Serum and AVT Cream helps build collagen levels from underneath, helping to plump and tone the skin therefore minimizing enlarged pores.
In conclusion, your pore health is vital to the appearance of your face. So it makes sense to treat their health specifically and maintain good pore health. Happy pores = happy skin!
Some ingredients that we recommend for skin health while in-between the uses of our own natural and doctor-formulated ZENMED products are:
– Cucumber and tomato are great natural ingredients that you can use to reduce large pores.
– Bananas, avocados, wheat germ and egg yolk are natural ways to help moisturize dry skin.
– Garlic can help treat acne prone skin


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - Yuri, Rado and Mirek - CZECH UP
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Rado Viker's Czech Up is with Sister Yuri Bulakov and Doctor Mirek Ceslar. Rado is the final patient of the day, and Mirek tells Yuri to bring him in. Rado arrives, on crutches, with a heavily bandaged ankle. He explains that it was injured in a fall, and is told that they will take care of him. Yuri helps Rado to get undressed and to put on a medical gown, and to climb onto the examination chair. Rado is then examined, by Mirek with his stethoscope. With the gown raised up his chest Rado is nicely exposed, with his flaccid cock resting on his balls. Mirek does a full stehoscopic exam, including on Rado's balls. Then he starts to examine the injured ankle, removing the bandange, and testing the ankle, which causes pain to Rado. Then Mirek needs to take Rado's temperature and uses a thermometer on his cock to check it. To check it further he pushes the thermometer into Rado's ass. Yuri, meanwhile, has taken hold of Rado's cock and is gently kissing his face. Rado seems to like that and responds by kissing Yuri, and he cock begins to grow. Yuri begins to suck on Rado's hard cock and Rado turns his head and kisses Mirek. Yuri sucks on Rado's cock, working his mouth all over it, then he kisses him again, leaving the cock available to be sucked by Mirek. Mirek is an expert sucker and Rado's dick is throbbing nicely in his mouth. Then both he and Yuri lick the cock at the same time, as it stands proud. Yuri then pulls his cock out for Rado to suck, while Mirek continues sucking too. Mirek then presents his cock to Rado for sucking, so he has two available to him. As he sucks them Yuri and Mirek kiss each other. Rado really enjoys sucking, and really has a great time swapping between those cocks as the guys get naked for him. But Mirek realises they have a job to do and decides he must examine Rado's ass. He inserts a speculum deep inside for a good view. Rado is moved onto his knees for further inspection, and everything is fine. Rado sits back on the chair, with his cock rock hard and ready for action. Yuri, obligingly, sits his hairy ass down on that cock and begins to ride it. His ass moving up and down on the rigid shaft. Mirek wants to feel that ass too so Yuri moves and bends over to present his ass for Mirek's dick to slide deep inside. As Mirek fucks that ass, deep and hard, Yuri is sucking and wank on Rado's cock, he works it well and then Rado takes over and wanks himself to a massive climax. It shoots all over Yuri's face and he takes the cock in his mouth again to finish it off. Mirek is ready too and pulls out of Yuris ass and shoots his load all over it. Yuri then sits and wanks himself to a very good cumshot too, squirting it up his chest. They all had such a good time that Rado is invited back next week for another Czech Up. What a very good scene, with 3 lovely guys.
Roman Lysacek and Ondra Jeden are two very impressive looking guys. We were keen to introduce them to some guy-guy action. What better way to do it than with a Broke Czech Guys shoot to see how far we could persuade them to go with each other. Roman is reclining on a sofa, rubbing himself usggestively when Ondra arrives and begins to do the same. Ondra then joins Roman on the sofa, and begins to feel him up a bit. As their hands explore each other they start to kiss. Their hands don't stop working and Roman removes Ondra's shirt. He leans forward and kisses a nipple as Ondra encourages him, with a hand running over his back. Ondra then removes Roman's shirt as well, and they kiss some more, as they admire each other's bodies. Roman's hand dips into Ondra's jeans and reveal his hard cock. He takes hold of the cock and wanks it, then Ondra stands and wanks while Roman looks on. Ondra then removes Roman's jeans and we see that he too has a massive erection. Ondra removes his own jeans and he joins Roman on the sofa again. He is very enamoured of Roman's throbbing cock and takes it in hand, moving to place his cock on top of it. When he gets the position right he begins to wank the two cocks together. Then he moves his head down and begins to gently suck on Roman's cock. Roman enjoys the feeling as Ondra sucks his cock and licks up and down the shaft. His hands cup Ondra's head, gently, as his cock is worked on. Roman is keen to show that he can reciprocate and Ondra moves up so that Roman can take his cock in his mouth. He sucks that hard cock whilst wanking himself. His lips closed tightly around Ondra's cock, working back and forth as he looks up, into Ondra's eyes. Then they move into a 69 position and suck each other, with Roman kneeling over the reclining Ondra. Soon they are ready to cum and Ondra kneels with Roman standing over him. Roman shoots a nice creamy load over Ondra's face, and Ondra then dutifully sucks the spent cock. Ondra then stands and dumps his load over Roman's face as well. Roman in turn sucks the cock dry. The guys then kiss each other to bring a beautiful scene to a close. Both guys really pulled out all the stops to give us a great show.
Tomek Kubovy is aged 26 and lives in Kladno. He is a tennis trainer and likes dance, tennis, animals and fitness. Tomek looks very good as he does his interview. Sitting on the sofa, with that handsome face, he begins to feel his body, lifting his tee-shirt. That reveals a very nice chest, with a covering of hair. His hands work over the chest time and again, until he fully removes the tee-shirt. Then Tomek opens the jeans and pushes his hand inside. He works on his cock, inside his jeans and finally opens the fly completely. We see a nice fat cock and big balls. Tomek wanks on the cock, the foreskin working back and forth over the head. As he wanks on his cock Tomek licks his finger to wet the head. He pushes his jeans down so that we have a better view of his rock hard dick, with his legs spread wide apart. His hand continues to rub over his chest as he wanks. Time for some ass, and Tomek flips his legs over to one side, resting on the sofa. His hand spreads the ass so that we can see his tight hole, with his cock trapped between his legs. Tomek is very impressive as he shows that hole and goes further, pushing a finger inside for us. Then he pulls his legs in the air, so the ass is spread naturally and his finger continue to work on his hole. Next Tomek stands and wanks his nice hard cock, with his hips thrusting backwards and fowards as his hand hold that dick. He then reclines on the sofa and starts to wank himself to build up to his cumshot. What a cumshot it is too, with his load squirting all up his chest. Very nice indeed. Tomek then goes for a well earned shower, taking time for a piss, part way through. I do hope he can persuade him to go further.
Jan Mahal is from Novy Jicin. He is 24 years old and is self-employed. Jan enjoys sports, football and jogging in his leisure time. Jan is a very handsome guy. He does his interview in English, with a deep, sexy voice and then he gets on with his show. Sitting on the chair he quickly opens his fly and pulls out a hard cock, followed by the balls. Then he lifts his shirt to show us his abs, and very nice they are too, with a covering of hair. Jan's hands run over his chest and down to his cock. He starts to wank and pulls the shirt up further to show his hairy pec, with nice firm nipples. Removing the shirt shows Jan's body even better as he wanks his cock and pulls on his ballsac. Next Jan stands and pushes his jeans down, so we that that big, hard cock in all its glory. We get a nice long look at that fat cock, hard and ready for action as Jan stands and plays with it. Then he kneels on the chair and removes his shoes and jeans. He shows off his ass, bending over and using his hand to rub over the ass, in the crack and to pull the cheeks apart. He sits on the chair again, back to front, and wanks himself some more before turning the chair and sitting again. This time he lifts his legs and gives us a the best view, yet, of his ass, with its nice tight hole. Jan makes sure we get a great view of that ass before leaning back and wanking himself to a very nice cumshot. Fully spent Jan then moves to the shower to clean up. What a great looking guy, who really knows how to show himself.
Jozef Koranda is 18 years old and lives in Bystrice. He is currently unemployed and likes football and parties. He is a really good looking guy, with a lovely smile. Jozef takes his time getting naked, making sure we see each part of his body in turn. He has a very good build, his chest looking good as he poses. Once his jeans are down we see his cock in its flaccid state, surrounded by silky pubes. It all looks splendid. Jan also shown a lovely ass, the crack covered in more of that ilky hair. He doesn't stint, either, on some great shots of a nice hard cock, before going onto his back and lifting his legs to give us a show of his ass again, this time with the hole fully exposed. This is a really good shoot with Jozef, that portends very well for his erotic video, next week.


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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Thursday, with perennial favorites "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "Sesame Street" and "The Young and the Restless" racking up multiple nods.
CBS led all other networks with 61 nominations, followed by PBS (44) and Nickelodeon (37), while "The Young and the Restless" was the most nominated show, with 26 nods.
The Daytime Emmys will be held June 22 at the Beverly Hilton, and the Daytime Creative Arts Emmys will be held on June 20 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.


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Craig's inauguration details completedBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 11. 2017 8:42PM
MANCHESTER — Mayor-elect Joyce Craig has finalized details for her inauguration as the first woman elected mayor of Manchester next month.
Craig will take the oath of office as mayor of the Queen City on Tuesday, Jan. 2 at the Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm Street in Manchester. The inaugural ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. and will include the swearing in of other city officials, including aldermen, school board members and ward officials. John Clayton, Executive Director of the Manchester Historic Association, will serve as master of ceremonies. The event is free and members of the public are encouraged to attend.
Following the inauguration, Craig will preside over meetings of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Board of School Committee at City Hall, where committee assignments for elected officials are expected to be revealed. The aldermen are also expected to elect a board chair, while school board members elect a vice chair.
Craig also on Monday formally announced the formation of her Inaugural Committee, which is working to organize and plan the inauguration. The committee will be co-chaired by Elizabeth Hitchcock, Paul LeBlanc, Arthur Gatzoulis, and State Rep. Mary Heath, all of Manchester.
Liz Purdy will serve as a senior advisor to the Inaugural Committee. Purdy has run gubernatorial inaugural activities for both Gov. John Lynch and Sen. Maggie Hassan.
The Inaugural Committee will host an Inaugural Ball on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Radisson in Manchester.
Craig has launched a website, www.craiginaugural.com, to inform the public of all inaugural-related activities. The website also offers online ticketing for the inaugural ball.
Craig made history Nov. 7, becoming the first woman elected mayor of the state's largest city, defeating incumbent Mayor Ted Gatsas.


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Industry News: Controversial Robert Jordan Book Debuts at No 1 on NYT List
Last week we spoke about the negative reviews Robert Jordan's posthumous A Memory of Light got on Amazon, solely because of the decision taken by his widow Harriet McDougal's decision to delay release of the e-book until April. McDougal said her decision was made because she didn't want e-book sales to siphon off hardcover sales because she wanted this book, like the others in the Wheel of Time series to hit number 1. Others think she didn't want e-book sales to siphon off hardcover sales because the hardcover costs $34.99 (but is easily available at heavy discounts).
As of the writing of this blog post, there were 272 one-star reviews (out of 715 total reviews). The average review was 3.3 stars out of 5, which is pretty good, considering more than a third of the reviews are the lowest possible.
In other words, it ain't cheatin' if you don't get caught.
And basically, Harriett McDougal got away with it. In spite of the overwhelming number of negative reviews, the book is number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Last week, we talked about how the one-star reviews were widely posted by people who hadn't read the book and how that may or may not be appropriate. This week, it appears that all the one-star reviews did nothing to dampen sales of the book.
Does that mean that on-line reviews don't matter? It is an indication that all the hoopla about fake reviews and one-star reviews by people objecting to something other than the content or physical construction of the book aren't that big a deal?
Sure. If you're Robert Jordan and your books is the finale of a popular series you can get away with it. If you're Stephen King, you can get away with it. Or JK Rowling, or even the estate of Robert B. Parker. Those people transcend the label of writer and are really more of a brand. Last week, when more than half of the reviews for Jordan's book were one-star, it easily survived. You and I probably aren't that lucky.
Then again, you and I probably wouldn't get 272 one-star reviews, either. But for us, ten one-star reviews could be damaging. And for us, publication decisions aren't likely to be made based on our spouse's wishes. Someone at the publisher is more likely to make that decision, making any one-star reviews based on price or availability (or another writer's fake one-star reviews) especially troubling.
For most of us, online reviews count.
Suzanna Crean permalinkJanuary 19, 2013 10:19 am
I see nothing wrong in what she did. A writer or his rep has the right to make a decision about how the book is published…and making money is the name of the game. You sell it where you can make the most.
Wouldn't you do the same thing?
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Granlund's sick OT goal gives Wild win against Avalanche
It was either come home to die or come home to fight.
The Minnesota Wild left little doubt as to which path they'd be taking Monday night at the Xcel Energy Center.
In a desperate and furious Game 3 effort, the Wild threw everything they had at Colorado, legal and otherwise, pulling themselves back from the brink of elimination with 1-0 overtime victory.
They swarmed Colorado from the opening bell until Mikael Granlund won it 5:08 into the extra period, some 46 shots later.
"I was able to get to the net, found and found a hole," said Granlund, who stepped out of the corner, danced through the Colorado zone and scored on a highlight-reel deke. "It was a really big one. It's 2-1 now, we need to enjoy this a little bit and start focusing for the next one. This was a big step for us."
A step in the other direction would have been fatal. Seems a new venue, a new goalie and a new lineup brought them new life.
Instead of trailing 3-0, they're only down 2-1. The series is back on.
"We felt like we let Game 1 slip away," Zach Parise said of giving up the game-tying goal with 13 seconds left. "I wouldn't say we're in control, we're still down 2-1, but 2-1 is a lot better than 3-0 and we feel good about how we played tonight."
Why wouldn't they? The cops didn't out-shoot Bonnie and Clyde any worse than Minnesota peppered Semyon Varlamov.
"They played really well," said Avs coach Patrick Roy, whose club managed just 22 shots of its own. "They played with more urgency than we did. Without a doubt they were more hungry, but let's not forget one thing, we have 11 guys who are in their first playoff run.
"It was their first on the road. Now they know what it is to play on the road. Its' a learning process for us. Now we need to regoup and be ready for Game 4, that's all."
Things took a nasty turn in the second period when Matt Cooke stuck a knee out on Colorado defenceman Tyson Barrie, knocking him out of the game and the series.
"The knee on Tyson Barrie is without a doubt the play of the game," said Roy, adding it's a MCL injury, four to six weeks. "We lost our best offensive defenceman and it could have been a five-minute major and out of the game, plus that would have broken their momentum."
Cooke, who has an arm's length worth of suspensions on his record, got two minutes for kneeing. He has been offered an in-person hearing with the NHL, meaning he will likely be suspended five or more games.
"It's Matt Cooke and it's deliberate knee and he takes down one of our best players," Avs forward Paul Stastny told the Denver Post. "If it's another player who doesn't have a record like him it's different. But someone like him, everyone knows what's going on."
The Wild launched a major offensive in the first period, but all they had to show for it was 22-8 on the shot clock and 0-0 on the scoreboard.
Varlamov was a lifesaver in the Avs net, turning aside more point-blank chances than most goalies see in a week.
"Their goalie was unbelievable," Parise said. "We threw everything at him, we attacked the net, we got point shots and he was great. Luckily we were able to get that one we needed."
That was the scary part for Minnesota. As well as they played, they were still one bad break away from being done.
"I'm a big believer that as long as you're getting chances sooner or later it's going to go in," said Wild captain Mikko Koivu, quick to point out it was a fellow Finn who saved the day. "He was inured the last couple of games of the season and it's not easy to step into a playoff series. So I'm very, very happy for him. A big goal. He's a good kid, on and off the ice."
Darcy Kuemper hadn't started a game since March 29, hadn't won one since March 13 and was up against a goalie who looked like he had 4×6 sheet of plexiglass tied to his back.
With his team one loss away from being dead and buried, potentially down 3-0 in their series with the Colorado Avalanche, he needed to be perfect.
So he was. The 23-year-old goaltender delivered a clutch performance when his team needed it most, posting a 22-save shutout and a 1-0 overtime victory.
"This was a huge game for us, we really needed this one," Kuemper said. "It's a great feeling."
Thrust into the breach when Ilya Bryzgalov stumbled, Kuemper knew he wasn't going to get a lot of breathing room in his first start of the playoffs. Not with Semyon Varlamov playing out of this world at the other end.
"I kind of had the feeling that one goal was probably going to make the difference," he said. "I was just trying to stay sharp, but the way the team played in front of me made it pretty easy."
When the winner came, he could finally exhale.
"What a play," said Kuemper. "Unbelievable goal. It's nice when a pretty one like that wins it."


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Designed for rough ambient conditions for stand alone or grid back up operation. Rated to give a power output of 3.0kW or 4.4kW for 30 min.
Inverters are used with the Sunny Island Remote Control which gives a single point of operation. One Remote Control is required per cluster of up to three inverters and includes integrated MMC/SD memory card reader to enable updates, transferring of parameter settings, for storing error/events lists, or data logging.
In single-phase systems only one SI3.0M-11 or SI4.4M-11 can be used. Three-phase systems can be achieved using a cluster of three SI3.0M-11 or SI4.4M-11 inverters, multi-cluster systems are not possible with these inverters.
For larger single-phase or multi-cluster 3-phase systems please see the Sunny Island 6.0H/8.0H


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One of the most famous fashion photographers gets immortilized with an Uncleyork doll. The Terry Richardson Doll has been released and features the photographer in his usual outfit, of course holding a camera. The packaging could not be more appropriate either. You can get the doll now in two colorways from colette.
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$264K in pot seized in Lee grow house busts
LEE COUNTY - Four people have been arrested after authorities discovered several Lee County grow houses containing a total of more than $250,000 in marijuana.
Arrested were Norges Carballo, 39, Elizabeth Perez, 21, both of Miami; Armin Dominguez, 26, of Hialeah Gardens; and Osmany Portelles, 39, of Cape Coral.
Cape Coral Police detectives and Lee County Sheriff's Office Interdiction investigators executed search warrants on three grow houses in Cape Coral and one in Lehigh Acres.
The effort culminated a two-month-long investigation in Lee County.
On March 18, authorities raided a home at 2427 NE 22nd Ave. in Cape Coral, discovering that all three bedrooms had been converted into cultivation rooms. They seized 40 marijuana plants with a street value of $160,000. Carballo was arrested and charged with one count of trafficking in marijuana.
On Tuesday, investigators executed a search warrant a complex indoor marijuana growing operation at 4318 14th St. W in Lehigh Acres, where they found a total of 24 marijuana plants weighing a total of 22.5 pounds. The pot had a street value of $96,000, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
Additional growing equipment included 1000 watt bulbs, potting soil, fertilizer, fans, and other paraphernalia used to grow pot.
Detectives say the grow house was just feet away from Varsity Lakes Middle School.
Perez and Dominguez were arrested and charged with one count of cultivation of marijuana, one count of possession of over 20 grams of marijuana, and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone.
Also on Tuesday, Cape Coral Police executed two warrants at abandoned homes located at 2002 NW 18th Terrace and 2121 NW 18th Place. Deputies say the same man ran both houses.
Rogelio Prestol lives across the street from one of those Cape Coral homes. He says he rarely saw any action at the house and that it was always dark.
"I wasn't surprised," he said. "Everything is pretty much closed up so you understand that something is happening that they don't want other people to see."
Detectives discovered four pounds of marijuana plants and equipment used to grow marijuana including soil, fertilizer and electrical and lighting equipment.
Police say the power was illegally tapped on both homes, and the electricity was being stolen to power the operation.
Portelles was arrested and charged with two counts of cultivation of marijuana and two counts of possession of equipment to cultivate.
"There are not too many people around here so people choose these kinds of houses to do this type of thing," Prestol said.
In all, detectives seized a total of $264,000 in pot during the investigation.


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A Chicago man was accused of impersonating a Cook County Sheriff's officer on a platform at the Clark and Lake "L" stop after a police officer saw him loitering on the platform as trains went by.
Joshua Perva, 19, of the 4800 block of West Diversey Avenue, was standing on a train platform about 3:45 p.m. Monday, watching trains go by without getting on any of them, county prosecutors said, when a K-9 unit officer approached him and questioned him. Perva allegedly flashed a gold star badge clipped to his pants and said he was a Cook County Sheriff's officer, a police report said.
When the officer asked Perva for identification, Perva allegedly told him he was not a sheriff, but worked for a security firm while getting paid under the table, and that he performed security duties for a nearby dollar store.
A search of Perva revealed a small police scanner, handcuff keys, two keys belonging to the CTA, and a security guard gold star badge with a case, the police report said.
Perva was brought to the Cook County Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon and ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., May 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama leads likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in three key battleground states, NBC-Marist polls indicate.
The polls found in Florida and Virginia, Obama leads Romney by the same margin, 48 percent to 44 percent of registered voters surveyed, NBC reported.
In Ohio, Obama holds a 6-point lead, 48 percent to 42 percent. The results include voters who are unregistered but leaning toward one candidate.
Romney has narrowed the margin since polls taken earlier this year, and Obama fell short of the 50 percent share considered a safe margin for an incumbent president.
Majorities in all three states said they believed the worst of the economic woes had passed but 40 percent or less said they believed the economy would improve in the next year.
Romney held a narrow lead among men in all three states, the polls show, while Obama had double-digit leads among women.
The polls found majorities in the three states -- 58 percent in Virginia, 57 percent in Florida and 55 percent in Ohio -- said they believed the country is on the wrong track.
The three polls were conducted May 17-20 and all have a margin of error of 3 percentage points. The Florida poll is based on responses from 1,078 registered voters; the Ohio poll, 1,103 registered voters; and the Virginia poll, 1,076 registered voters.


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The St. John Fisher College defense held the nation's No. 1 rushing offense to 256 yards below its average, as the Cardinals came away with a 33-6 win at Springfield College on Saturday in a pivotal Empire 8 Conference matchup.
With the win, Fisher improves to 6-1 overall and 4-0 Empire 8 Conference, while Springfield falls to 4-3, 2-3.
Springfield, who entered the game averaging 388 rushing yards per game this season, was held to just 132 yards on 42 attempts and gained just 46 yards through the air.
The Fisher offense used a well-balanced attack to pick up 388 yards (190 rushing/198 passing) on the day and held the ball for over 38 minutes.
The win avenged a 55-49 loss to Springfield in last year's regular-season finale at Fisher. The loss knocked the Cardinals, who were 8-1 going into the game, out of contention for an NCAA Championship bid.
After allowing 56 points to Hobart College four weeks ago, Fisher has won four straight, allowing a total of 26 points in the four victories. This is the sixth time this season Fisher has held its opponents to 10 points or less.
Quarterback Ryan Kramer led the Fisher offense with two rushing touchdowns, while also throwing for two. He completed 14-of-22 passes for 198 yards. He also ran the ball 17 times for 90 yards.
Fisher scored the game's first touchdown on an 18-play, 78-yard drive with Kramer scoring on a one-yard run on a fourth-and-goal with 3:24 left in the first quarter to give his team a 6-0 lead. The drive ate up nearly nine minutes of time.
After forcing Springfield to punt on its next possession, the Cardinals marched 67 yards on seven plays with Kramer connecting with Artie Bigsby from 14 yards out to make it 13-0 with 13:17 left in the second. The touchdown was the first in Bigsby's four-year career.
Fisher pushed its lead to 20-0 less than four minutes later. After Ryan Schmidt caught a 39-yard pass on a third-and-24 play to give the Cardinals first-and-goal from the Springfield 4, Kramer recovered a fumble by running back Cody Miller in the Springfield end zone.
Chad Monheim kicked a 22-yard field goal to make it 23-0 and closed out a first half that was dominated by the Cardinals. Fisher controlled the ball for over 20 minutes in the first half and out-gained the Pride 242-62 over the opening 30 minutes.
Monheim opened the scoring in the second half, booting a 20-yard field goal with just over four minutes left in the third.
Springfield scored its only touchdown of the day on the final play of the third quarter, but the Cardinals remained in control. Fisher kept the ball for more than 11 of the game's final 15 minutes and Schmidt sealed the win, scoring on a 13-yard pass from Kramer with four minutes left in the game.
Schmidt led all Fisher receivers with six receptions for 91 yards. Nathan Nigolian and Bigsby each caught two passes, while Dan Rudy snagged a 25-yard pass to help set up Fisher second touchdown of the day.
Miller finished the day with 73 yards on 26 carries.
Chris Sawyer, who transferred to Fisher after playing at Springfield his freshman year, finished with a team-high seven tackles, including one sack. Dave Vosburgh, Mike Benderski and Mason Judd each finished with tackles, while Mike Belluco was credited with a sack.
Fisher will return to action at 7 p.m. next Saturday and will host Utica College. It will be Fisher's last regular-season home game. The Pioneers are coming off a 20-15 win over Ithaca College today.
Fisher Halts Nation's Top Rushing Attack
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The St. John Fisher College defense held the nation's No. 1 rushing offense to 256 yards below its average, as the Cardinals came away with a 33-6 win at Springfield College on Saturday in a pivotal Empire 8 Conference matchup.


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Take a look at the LSI themed words listed in the yellow Keywords panel. These words are often very closely related to the keyword of the day.
The keywords are listed in order of relevance, the most relevant being listed first. This list can give you an instant overview of a niche,
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and canyoning. And if I was starting a blog about extreme sports then I would check out what crazy stuff the Chinese and Japanese are up to!
The orange Key Phrases panel shows LSI key phrases associated with the daily niche idea. The most relevant phrases are
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I kind of think that if I was starting an extreme sports niche site then I'd sure check to see if ThePerfectWave.net was available as a domain name.
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Resolute about these best wishes for 2014
So we've arrived, hopefully intact, upon a New Year, replete with all the promise and potential natural to newness.
In that vein of thought -- and possibly in vain thought -- here is a non-comprehensive list of wishes for 2014 and all it entails in the game of ball.
So we've arrived, hopefully intact, upon a New Year, replete with all the promise and potential natural to newness.
In that vein of thought -- and possibly in vain thought -- here is a non-comprehensive list of wishes for 2014 and all it entails in the game of ball.
A playoff berth for the Kansas City Royals. Pittsburghians born the year of the Pirates' last pre-2013 postseason appearance reached legal drinking age last year, and they could raise a cold one in honor of the Bucs' win in the Wild Card round. There are 28-year-old Royals fans well past their due date for a similar celebration, and here's hoping this is the year.
Truth is, it had better be the year, because the Royals' massive investment in James Shields, who is a free agent at year's end, pinned the utmost importance upon the here and now. In drafting and development and in recent investment, the Royals have been building for this season for years. And on the heels of an 86-win effort, they could be suitably set up to take the next big step, given the strides made by Eric Hosmer and the additions of Norichika Aoki and Omar Infante. But nobody in the Kansas City front office would complain if Ervin Santana's fractured free-agent market compels him to come back in some capacity.
Hall of Famers in the Hall of Fame. No matter what else happens from here, Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre will all be enshrined in Cooperstown this summer and, with all due respect to the families of Deacon White, Hank O'Day and Jacob Ruppert, that's a far more captivating class than what was rolled out last year.
But at the risk of sounding outrageous, it would be nice to see a few -- well, more than a few -- players get plaques. Living players, as Montgomery Burns would say.
One can only hope the overloaded ballot and the rule that limits voters to 10 choices doesn't cause another clog that nets no newbies. Thankfully, there seems to be enough consensus about Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine to get them in the door. Yet the moral-arbiter assemblage remains strong enough to cloud the candidacies of many others with sure-fire Hall of Fame stats.
My far-fetched wish is that the assumed omniscience among many voters about performance-enhancing drug use will be dropped and players will be judged by their accomplishments within the confines of their era.
My realistic wish is that this stacked ballot will prompt the end next winter of the 10-vote limit, which has done nothing but hinder the process.
Health for Derek Jeter. One of the most prolific careers in baseball lore is nearing its end, one way or another, and you'd have to be a cold-hearted grump (or maybe a Boston Red Sox fan) to wish for it to end anything but gracefully.
The 2013 season was basically non-existent for Jeter, who was limited to just 73 plate appearances. But, obviously and understandably, that didn't stop the Yankees from making a (final?) one-year investment in their storied shortstop. What will they get for that investment? No telling, given the state of his surgically repaired ankle. Hopefully they'll get a full season of availability and productivity from a class act who, like Mariano Rivera before him, deserves to go out -- be it this year or further into the future -- on his own terms.
Health for Bryce Harper. Jeter is probably the most recognizable face of baseball to the casual sports fan. Harper is mesmerizing, tantalizing and polarizing enough to carry that flag one day (and, yes, Mike Trout, between the MVP-worthy performance and Subway ads, among other endeavors, is doing a darn fine job of raising his own profile), but only if Harper's body doesn't betray him along the way.
It betrayed him in 2013, when Harper got up close and personal with a couple of outfield walls and screwed up his knee. Perhaps the all-out method to Harper's pace of play makes injuries unavoidable, but hopefully he'll find a physical formula that works for him as he matures as a Major Leaguer.
A healthy Harper, after all, could lead a loaded Nationals team to the Promised Land. And if he reaches his full potential, he's the kind of kid who can turn a casual baseball fan into a not-so-casual one.
A few more runs, a few more hits, a few less strikeouts. Look, masters of the mound, I've got nothing against you. I appreciate the thrill of a well-pitched tilt as much as anybody.
But in the wake of a 2013 season that saw the fewest average runs per game since 1992, the lowest league-wide batting average since 1972 and the highest strikeout rate in history -- part of a four-season stretch of pitching prominence that harkens back to before baseball lowered the mound to help hitters -- it would be nice to have a little more action on the basepaths and the scoreboard. Would you mind leaving a few up in the zone?
An MVP for Trout. Given the history of the voting, I suppose this wish is tied to AL West contention for the Angels, and that's a tall task as they repair their pitching staff in a daunting division. But it's not out of the question, and Trout has given us every indication that his talent knows no limits.
As I've said before, I think Trout's MVP case was significantly stronger in 2012 than '13, but the bottom line is that he's inserted himself, at an astonishingly young age, onto the list of great players without MVP hardware. One assumes that will change eventually, though Trout will probably need some assistance from his teammates on that one.
Seamless integration of the new replay system. Count me among those skeptical about a challenge system that seems to put the onus on the managers, more than the umps, to enforce the rules. But, no matter its quirks or qualifiers, a more widespread adoption of readily available technology is long overdue.
As demonstrated in an incident in Cleveland last spring, when umpire Angel Hernandez cost the A's a ballgame by improperly assessing video of an Adam Rosales home run, replay won't erase all the realities of human error. Such is life. So while outright seamlessness might be unlikely, let's at least root for a greatly improved sense of fairness.
Resolution to the A's stadium issue. They've waited long enough. And speaking of waiting long enough . . .
A Cubs-Indians World Series. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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As expected, and to no one's surprise, an older grey-haired GM has been the hit of the first day of the NHLs' Free Agent Frenzy. However, it has been Florida's Dale Tallon who has channeled his inner Glen Sather. Then again, the Panthers had to spend like drunken sailors because, if some reports are true, they needed to add at least $18 million in salary to reach the NHL's salary floor.
As the Rangers wait their turn to make their pitch to Brad Richards – and they are not among those suitors who are in Toronto to meet with the free agent today – they still have to be the leading contender. TSN reported that Larry Brooks of the NY Post is saying that the Rangers will have a chance to match, or better, Richards' best offer.
While researching this article, TSN reported that the Rangers have signed Michael Rupp to a three-year contract worth $1.5 million per season – nearly doubling the $850,000 he made last season. While it seems to be a high contract, TSN also reported that as many as 10 teams made offers to the 31-year-old LW.
Rupp was originally a 1998 first round draft pick of the New York Islanders (9th overall). Rupp did sign with the isles and re-entered the draft in 2000 and was New Jersey's third round selection (76th). Rupp played two tours of duty with the Devils, Phoenix and Columbus before playing the last two season with Pittsburgh where he posted similar numbers in 2009/2010 (81-13-6-19-120 PIM) and 2010/2011 (81-9-8-17-124 PIM).
Here is Rupp's Scouting Report from the Toronto Star:
ASSETS: Has excellent size. Often plays as a poor man's version of a power forward. Can play some center, as well as wing, and is also willing to stick up for teammates.
FLAWS: Will go into prolonged scoring slumps, which hurts his ability to see greater ice time. Can take a few too many bad penalties during the season.
CAREER POTENTIAL: Physical winger with some versatility.
Richards and Rupp aside, the Blueshirts have other holes to fill and there are still some UFAs who might be of interest to the Rangers.
If bringing in a first-line center is priority number one, then bringing in a veteran defenseman has to be priority number two – and a couple of blueliners who were bought figure to be at the top of Sather's list.
Sheldon Souray was said to be on the Rangers radar last season and expects to be at the top of the list once he clears waivers and Edmonton completes the buyout. The 34-year-old Souray definitely owns the big point shot and offensive capabilities to serve as the quarterback on the Blueshirts' power play. However, if fans were cringing at the way Bryan McCabe played defense, they might be doing more cringing watching the 6-4/233 Souray play defense.
This was the point i nthe article where I was going to make my pitch for the Rangers to sign former Chicago first round draft pick Cam Barker. However, TSN just reported that Barker signed with the Edmonton Oilers on a one-year/$2.25 million contract.
Whether or not the Rangers sign Souray, there are a couple other blueliners who should be in the Rangers sites as a spare defenseman. As part of full disclosure, I do not believe in having a young player like a Tomas Kundratek or Pavel Valentenko sit on the bench in the NHL. Rather it makes more sense to get regular playing time in the AHL.
The first defenseman has a connection to Coach John Tortorella. 27-year-old Shane O'Brien played 96 games with Tortorella's Tampa Bay Lightning. The 6-3/230 defenseman would bring a much-needed physic al presence on defense and would give them a player who can help Brandon Prust in terms of defending his teammates. On the down side, O'Brien really has no offensive game to speak of and he does have a propensity for taking bad penalties.
The other veteran blueliner is no stranger to Ranger fans. 35-year0-old Jason Strudwick played 125 games with the Blueshirts in two years and change. Like O'Brien, the 6-4/225 d-man doesn't have much offensive upside and both defensemen have troubles with speedy forwards.
On the plus side, Strudwick would bring leadership and veteran experience to a relatively young Ranger defense corps – something that is important given the fact the team does not have a full-time coach dedicated to working with defenseman.
In addition to bringing some depth/help on defense, the Rangers should be in the market for some inexpensive help at forward. One player I really liked has already been scooped up by the Chicago Blackhawks – Andrew Brunette.
The signing of Rupp does change the Rangers landscape, but I still believe there is a forward who would be worth the gamble. In fact, I might have offered Rupp's contract to 26-year-old Anthony Stewart.
The 6-2/235 RW is the older brother of St. Louis blues forward Chris Stewart. The former Florida 2003 first round pick (25th overall) set career highs with Atlanta last season in games (80), goals (14), assists (25) and points (35).
Stewart used his size well and is strong on the forecheck and in the corners and is a player who still has more room to grown into a prototypical power forward.
Like Barker, Stewart needs to find a consistency to his game and he has to play close attention to monitoring his weight and conditioning.
Given that he made just $632,000, he is a candidate to receive a large salary bump from some team looking to reach the salary cap floor. Conversely, the Rangers might be able to bring him in at a reasonable two-year deal worth about $1.25 million per season.
While Tortorella has been quoted as saying the team would sign free agents for the sake of signing free agents, there is one player who might be on the team's wish list – especially if they pass on signing Richards.
With Philadelphia bringing in Jaromir Jagr on a one-year deal at $3.3 million, Maxime Talbot on a five-year/$9 million deal, re-signing Jakub Vorachek, and signing Andreas Lilja, there might not be enough money for them to keep Ville Leino.
The 27-year-old Leino came into his own once he was traded from Detroit to the Flyers in 2010. That season, the 6-1/190 RW was a playoff star scoring 7 goals and 14 assists in 19 games. While he did not live up to the numbers in the 2011 playoffs (11-2-3-5), Leino scored 19 goals and 34 assists in 81 games.
While Leino played RW, he is a lefty shot and might be able to shift over to LW on the first line with Marian Gaborik. Leino is more playmaker than goal scorer and probably could be more of a goal scorer if he shot the puck more, rather than looking to pass first. While he has nice size, he is not a physical player and is not the fastest of skaters.
The Rangers, or any team that signs him, has to decide if Leino's season was a career year or was it merely his best season in a career that better years to come.
Rick Carpiniello of the Journal News posted an interesting tidbit about various reports in reference to Richards' contract. Carpiniello wrote, "Brad Richards will get max money, $12.8M per, for year 1 and 2 of contract, including a huge signing bonus for year 1."
If that is the case, then the Rangers need to move on as quickly as possible. I would take a look at a couple of the players I have mentioned. At that point, the Rangers would be wise to take care of their own free agents and use their remaining salary cap space to bring in a forward via a trade, especially if they can bring someone in on a modified salary dump – which should limit the quality and quantity of players/prospects/draft picks being dealt.


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Thanks so much to everyone who has shared my Pottery Barn post these past few weeks. I am so grateful when people appreciate and laugh at a post enough to share it.
Admittedly when I started having kids I really wasn't too in to it.
I never really said or thought aloud "I can't wait to have a baby." It was more that in theory I knew that I wanted to have a family.
When I decided to try to get pregnant, I was figuring that it would take me forever to get pregnant like so many people who I know, and that by the time I did I would be ready for a baby.
Of course, as luck would have it, I stopped taking the pill and Mr. Gaga kind of just hugged me and I was pregnant.
I was in a state of shock from that point, until basically very recently.
So, I never got into the whole "baby" thing. I never really got obsessed with my baby or baby clothes or baby rooms or any of that.
One of my friends just recently had a baby (8 years after me.) To say that I am over the "baby" stage is putting mildly.
When I went to visit her this weekend I was speechless.
Just to give you a little picture of what we are dealing with, right off the bat there had been a 4 hour photo shoot scheduled when the baby had been home from the hospital for 2 days.
The home is already riddled with photos from said shoot in frames, mugs, collages, magnets, everything you can imagine that can have a photo attached to it.
The baby is 6 weeks old.
Here's an example of one of the photos:
I'm sorry – when my baby was home on Day 2 I was in a complete state of shock. Any spare moment I had was spent putting ice packs on my cooch and rubbing lanolin on my nipples….the thought never once crossed my mind to take off all my jewelry and put it on the baby's toes.
I know that it's very cute to see baby's in strange adult like positions and we all have admired an Anne Geddes calendar or two – but really to put your baby in compromising positions just seems a bit much.
I recently saw this on Pinterest and found it just plain offensive:
What will you say to this child when she grows up, and she demands that you remove it from the wall because she's mortified?
"Mom, I hate that picture can you take it down?"
"No honey, it's so cute! Your father and I thought it was important that we have something to remember you by, so we covered you with paper packaging shred and stuck you in a mailbox and brought you out into the woods! Then we stuck two rotten tennis balls next to you and took a picture! It's precious!"
So after I got over being inundated with photographs, I ventured into the baby's room and more specifically her closet.
Oh wait – be sure to check out the shoes department of the closet.
"Janie – you know this child will never wear any of these shoes." I said in awe of the collection.
"Yes she will! They are sooo cute!" she replied, with such naive cluelessness that I had to just agree and not bother trying to explain that newborn babies don't really need shoes.
That's the thing about new moms – they think they know. They think they are going to be the one mom whose baby wears a different pair of shoes every day until she's 2 months old.
As I was leaving the room I noticed a little basket that was not flashy and not princess-like at all….
"What the hell? You have like 35 baby Louboutins and then you only have 7 books!!!"
My friend just shrugged and laughed.
Suffice it to say – this friend might be featured frequently on this blog….And also suffice it to say- she's going to kill me after she reads this.
Some things I can't resist.


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You can't beat a system you can't understand
Tis the season. No, not the holiday season. 'Tis the flu, cold, and annoying maladies
season. You know what I'm talkin' about. Kids get it in school, pass it around to their friends, then take it home and give it to their families who share it with their neighbors, and eventually it gets around to you when it is least expected. You just wake up one morning paralyzed, unable to draw a breath or exhale without making disgusting wheezing and gurgling sounds. You swear a twoton pachyderm has set up residency on your chest, and it has bad breath. Your teeth feel mushy and your tongue has a crunchy texture that doesn't seem quite right.
Hmmm... it... Exactly what is it? You know, the it that makes us so miserable when we suddenly feel feverish, sore, headachy, congested and out of sorts. What makes us know we have a code in our node? Yeah - that's right. I dot a code in my node, and I feel worse than horrible. Denial is out of the question. I am sick.
It's time to consult the Googlamaniacs and get a few nanoseconds of research on the subject. The straight poop on the common cold is long overdue. Okay. Everybody tense up. Here it is folks . . . the common cold - the truth revealed.
Huh? Rhinoviruses? That's it? We spare no expense to have you Googlamaniacs on staff and the best you can do is rhinoviruses? Say it isn't so. Must be somethin' to it though. They all came up with the same thing.
Let's see, we can do this. I believe "rhin" is a Greek word that means nose, and we all know that a virus is a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat. It is too small to be seen by light microscopy and can multiply only within the living cells of a host. In simpler terms, it's a germ. All right - so I looked it up.
Anyway, if we put them together, we have a nose germ. Makes sense, even through fever induced delirium. I obviously have germs in my nose. However, the "o" puts a different spin on the matter. "Rhino" is a short form of "rhinoceros." Huh? "Rhinoceros!" This is not good. I believe the common cold is caused by a rhinoceros the size of a microscopic germ. Well, no wonder I'm sick. I'm surprised we're not all sick. Anybody with what we have long recognized as a common cold is infested with a herd of possibly thousands of actual mini-rhinoceroses running around inside their respiratory systems. These armor plated mini-monsters are probably doing just obscene things in there. The Center for Disease Control should be called immediately. This could get ugly.
Time to consult the Googlamaniacs again. Okay guys. Cure for the common cold - look it up. The crack research team worked intensely for a tenth of a second and came up with 9,600,000 Web sites addressing the cure for a common cold.
I am sad to say that not one site offered a cure. Apparently, a medicinal cure for the common cold does not exist. It's a virus and it must run its course. So-called patent medicines on the market only offer relief. Everything else is preventative. A Chinese herbalist offered a 24-herb cure that takes seven days to work if a cold is severe. Unfortunately, the side effects could make you sicker than the cold that will go away in seven days anyway. If I want to get through this, I must "stay the course." Hmmm . . . where have I heard that before? Sounds like a tired political strategy that probably won't succeed.
One of the Web sites highly recommended garlic as a deterrent. I'm sure that'll work. If I were a microscopic rhinoceros I wouldn't want to live in anybody's throat that had garlic breath either. If I eat the fresh garlic now, it will probably annoy them, and they'll do their worst just to make me stop. I don't know about these cold pills, though. How can they be effective? Should I try to hit a mini-rhino on the head with one on the way down so it knocks him out and makes me feel a little better until he wakes up? Too bad I can't just shoot him.
This is awful. Every time I blow my nose, moose gather in my front yard. Yesterday, one showed up at my door carrying flowers. Whenever I sneeze, the china in the cabinet rattles. Thoughts of expiring are in the top 10 on my list of desirable options. I was hoping the feverinduced hallucinations would be more interesting, but no such luck. I suppose the common cold is just another part of that system we can't understand.


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April 10. 2013 10:37PM
Art the Osprey returns to NH nest, mate after 5,000-mile flight from Brazil
Special to the Union Leader
Art the osprey (on the right) with his mate at their nest in Bridgewater on Wednesday morning, shortly after he completed his migration from Brazil (LARISSA MULKERN PHOTO)
BRIDGEWATER -- Art the osprey arrived home to his mate and his pole-top nest at the Bridgewater Power Plant at 9:53 a.m. Wednesday.
Signaling his arrival with a sky dance and several calls to the female osprey, Art swooped into his nest for a well-deserved respite after his 5,000-mile, 21-day migration from his winter home in Brazil.
Art is one of three birds outfitted last year with high-tech solar-powered transmitters by osprey expert Iain MacLeod, executive director of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.
"I'm absolutely thrilled," said MacLeod, who had tracked Art since the bird's departure in September and predicted his April 10 return.
Art made good time on the last day of his trip, traveling 270 miles. "What's driven him here is his hormones," MacLeod said.
MacLeod and a group of reporters awaited Art's arrival Wednesday morning. Art's mate called out, and Art returned the call.
He appeared in the sky and dipped and swooped in what MacLeod called a sky dance, a movement to show off to his female and to mark his territory.
"What an arrival," MacLeod said.
The nest is in the middle of an industrial site, surrounded by truck trailers, rumbling bulldozers and piles of wood chips - an unlikely home base for members of a formerly endangered species. The birds were not fazed by the noise, but MacLeod said they would start calling out if people approached the nest.
Art's transmitter allowed researchers to track his migration routes, winter habitats and fishing patterns.
The other two New Hampshire ospreys wearing the transmitters, both juveniles, perished during their travels.
A female, Jill, made it to South America. Her signal was lost, and MacLeod said a larger predator might have killed her.
A male juvenile, Chip, somehow hitched a ride on a trawler headed toward Africa and disappeared.
The two ospreys were originally found in a nest in Tilton, near the outlet stores.
Back in the nest, Art assumed a pose that MacLeod has seen many times before - drooping the wings and turning his back to the female in a submissive posture to assure her that he is friendly and not a threat.
Within 30 minutes, the pair had mated, not in the nest, but in a nearby tree.
MacLeod said over the coming days and weeks, Art will get back into the routine of providing fish for himself, his mate, and, soon, the chicks that may hatch in a few weeks. Once the chicks are born - the female usually lays three eggs and the male will assist with incubation - Art will catch seven to eight fish per day to feed the growing family. The eggs take anywhere from 35 to 40 days to hatch, said MacLeod.
Art weighs in at just under four pounds.
Locally, MacLeod said Art seems to enjoy fishing at Sky Pond and Jackson Pond, but has flown as far as Thornton and over to Little Squam Lake. A pair of eagles who live at Big Squam Lake chased off the ospreys.
Art is named after Arthur "Art" Perron, the Bridgewater Power Plant employee who first noticed the osprey at the site several years back.
"I've been trying to catch him for years," said Perron, explaining that by "catch," he meant tracking. Perron worked with MacLeod and Project OspreyTrack partner Dr. Rob Bierregaard, a distinguished visiting research professor in biology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Art was trapped at his nest using a noose trap on May 29, 2012, and then fitted with a transmitter.
Researchers had been tracking the osprey's movements since 2007, however, and reported that he helped raise single chicks in 2008 and 2009, and two chicks in 2010.
After his mate was banded in 2011, their nest was destroyed in a freak windstorm in June, just after they hatched one chick. A new platform and nest were installed; both adults returned in 2012 and happily accepted their new nest.
MacLeod said there are no plans to equip Art's mate with a tracking device. And in light of the generally unsuccessful migration of juveniles (more than half don't make their maiden journey), MacLeod will outfit several more adult ospreys to participate in Project OspreyTrack this season.
The project is funded by Public Service of New Hampshire, the Jane B. Cook 1983 Charitable Trust and Squam Lakes Natural Science Center's Innovative Project Fund.
Another key partner is Chris Martin of New Hampshire Audubon, who coordinates statewide monitoring and conservation of ospreys and other raptors under contract with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department's Nongame Program.
For more information, photographs and maps on the OspreyTrack program, visit the science center's web site, www.psnh.com/Environment/Osprey-Online.aspx, and Dr. Bierregaard's site showing his many years of osprey satellite tracking in New England, www.bioweb.uncc.edu/bierregaard/migration1.htm.


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To the editor: It was ironic to see the senators from New Hampshire and Maine whining about the job losses at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The job losses are the product of the automatic tax increases and budget cuts which we all knew were coming.
Jeanne (Senator Shaheen), instead of whining about budget and job cuts, why don't you, and your colleagues in the Senate, just all do your jobs; pass a budget, and avoid all this nonsense. You haven't done squat to help the working person and small businesses by sitting idle while federal spending spirals unchecked and out of control.
In the four years you've been in Washington we have not seen a budget. It's time for you do what you are getting paid to do.
Since you obviously have no trouble cashing our paycheck each month, why don't you get off your duff and earn it. If you were working in the private sector, your inaction would have had you fired three and a half years ago.
Andrew Bogacz
To the editor: On Jan. 29 I testified before both the Appropriations and Health and Human Services Committees at the State House. I testified as a volunteer member of the AARP Capitol City Task Force and a senior on a fixed income and urged the committees to reject cuts to the Low Cost Drugs for the Elderly and Disabled Program (DEL).
Many older Mainers are struggling with the rising costs of food, health care and heat for their homes. Maine's DEL program helps pay for prescription drugs for low-income Mainers who are 62 or older and not yet eligible for Medicare. The proposed cuts to the DEL are nothing short of devastating. The state has alternatives. At-risk seniors and the disabled do not.
To suggest that DEL beneficiaries can get their prescription drugs cheaply at national pharmacy chains or through discounts from the pharmaceutical companies themselves is short-sighted. Not every brand-name drug has a generic equivalent for a lower cost, and while it might be possible to get a starter supply of a drug directly from the pharmaceutical company, this is not a sustainable option.
AARP is fighting on the issues that matter to Mainers and their families. We recognize the need for a balanced budget, but eliminating prescription drug coverage for elderly people is not the best way to save money. The state must not balance the budget on the backs of those who have absolutely nothing to give.
Rena Heath
AARP Capitol City Task Force
Hallowell, Maine
To the editor: Regarding HB 110 Requiring persons who record cruelty to livestock to report it.
I personally do not understand how anyone that truly cares about animals can be opposed to this bill. This bill hopes to stop animal cruelty to livestock in its tracks by stating that any person recording cruelty against livestock has a duty to report such activities to law enforcement and submit any unedited photos or videos within 24 hours of taking them.
In the State of NH, local law enforcement are the first people to call if animal cruelty or neglect is suspected. If someone is breaking the law and mistreating an animal I think the person witnessing it has a moral obligation to want any abuse stopped immediately. This is especially true with livestock who are not out and about in the public eye.
Some groups in NH that call themselves animal advocates are opposed to this bill. They want to get more proof of the cruelty and elect not to stop the abuse, sometimes for months. HB 110 is in the best interest of NH livestock and any true animal lover would want immediate intervention if cruelty or neglect were taking place.
Joyce Arivella
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To the editor: Governor Hassan has issued a Proclamation that Feb. 4, 2013 is Cancer Prevention Day in the State of New Hampshire. New Hampshire now joins the ranks of Michigan, Virginia and the US Congress, all recognizing Monday as Cancer Prevention Day. As a physician, I applaud all of the effort focused on finding cures for cancer, but wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all confronted by less cancer in the first place! Healthy lifestyles, a healthy environment, risk reduction and cancer screening are all examples of effective tools in cancer prevention. I would like to thank the Governor and Senator Nancy Stiles for their support in raising awareness of this issue.
State Rep. Tom Sherman
Rockingham District 24
To the editor: A third grader recently told me that guns don't kill people, bullets do. She said the way to reduce gun deaths in our country is not to take people's guns away, but to stop making lethal ammunition. Make the bullets out of Nerf. Lead bullets would get used up. Pretty soon a year would come when fewer Americans, adults and children, would die by guns, ten thousand a year, maybe fewer.
I didn't tell her that other ideas are more likely to work: background checks, buybacks, mandatory insurance, lock-box backpacks, enhanced profiling, license fees, etc.
There will be a lot of good ideas. Details are sure to be tricky. But think how good it would be to do all we can to help Americans, especially kids like her, feel safer. The soft ammo idea came after a lockdown drill that lasted an anxious 35 minutes before a nervous all-clear was announced.
I'd like to see lockdowns go the way of Cold War "Duck and Cover" practice. Getting the lead out of ammunition might not be practical, but I told I thought it was a good idea.
Tony Lee
York, Maine
To the editor: Service in Congress often means making tough choices. When I had the honor to serve New Hampshire's Second Congressional District, I rarely took a vote on a major piece of legislation which left me feeling completely comfortable. More often than not, I had to balance the good to be served against a host of distasteful provisions that seemed to find their way into every major bill to ease their passage.
In a perfect world, in a better functioning system, legislation would be clean and without extraneous provisions or wasteful spending. Congress often seems to operate in its own world, certainly not perfect and often, not quite real. It took far too long for Congress to take up the Hurricane Sandy relief bill which Senator Ayotte voted against.
When it reached the Senate it was laden with spending provisions which could have been brought up some other way. But a vote against the bill meant a vote to deny relief to individual victims, to businesses, to state governments, to a neighboring region of the country buried under an avalanche of misery. Senator Ayotte justified her "no" vote citing wasteful spending.
Fiscal responsibility is important and I agree that it's preferable to separate emergency spending from other spending. But, in this imperfect world and in our imperfect Congress, serving the people wisely, compassionately and well, sometimes requires swallowing one's pride in upholding principal and voting, with your heart, for people.
Paul W. Hodes
To the editor: We are told that the attack on our Second Amendment right to bear arms is for our own good. We are told that our individual rights are actually based in the 'collective' and that sometimes those rights must change 'for the greater good'. We are manipulated with the words that 'we must do something now' to address gun violence if it means that even one life will be saved. We are told that no person outside of the military or police should ever need or own an assault weapon.
Yet, despite all the propaganda Americans are being fed in an attempt to get us to partially give up our Second Amendment rights due to the acts of madmen; despite the fact that cities with the strictest gun control laws have the most murders and violent crime; despite the political theater that we have been subject to by pundits, politicians and the supposedly unbiased news media; we now find out that, according to some elected officials, we are not all equal under the law.
It is bad enough that Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) has proposed a national attack on our gun rights. Recently, it has been revealed that although she wants to take your handguns, rifles and other weapons away from you, she wants to exempt all government officials from her proposed gun ban! If you needed any more evidence that, in our government officials eyes, we are beneath them in stature then this is it. Their message is 'guns are bad for you, but good for us'. Their message is 'we are entitled to protect ourselves and our families with firearms if necessary, but you cannot'.
The message that Senator Feinstein and all who support her bill are sending is that their lives, families and property are valuable and worth defending but yours, however, are not.
The public is being conditioned to give up its own defenses. Now is the time to send these liberal gun-grabbers a message that you will not have your Second Amendment rights attacked, infringed upon, or taken away.
John Allard
To the editor: Do you know what ALEC stands for?
They can change secure state law.
They say they are for education,
And can avoid any taxation.
The country for now has been saved
Future rights could be waived.
What could happen please beware,
The ALEC invasion is unfair.
Big money influence, lobbyist fights
In Wisconsin removed union rights.
Wining and dining by lobbyists
Give state legislators a firm assist.
Giving no thought to fair or right
Only for financial greed do they fight.
The election was won fair and square.
ALEC takeover plans are still there.
Jane Bennett
To the editor: The next meeting of the Association of Portsmouth Taxpayers will be Thursday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m. in the MacLeod Board Room of the Portsmouth Public Library. Please visit our web site at http://www.portsmouthtaxpayers.org
Mark Brighton
Association of
Portsmouth Taxpayers


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Solar panels or photovoltaic panels are devices that convert light from the sun directly into electrical energy. Solar panels comprises of several solar cells that are interconnected with both series and shunt (parallel) configuration. The sun can provides enough energy for all human needs if only it could be well harnessed. Solar power is one of the alternative energy sources that has seen a lot of development in the past two decades.
The principle of operation of solar cells can be explained using Einstein's photoelectric effect theory. But first, it is good to know the physical structure. A solar cell is a semiconductor device that is made up of two or more differently doped layers that form junctions. These junctions respond to various wavelengths of light. Sunlight, or any other light is made up of tiny packets of energy know as photons. The sun produces about 1000 watts per square meter.
When a photon hits the surface of a solar panel, electrons are stripped off and becomes free. This effect causes an electric field to form at the junction which attracts electrons from one junction (n-type side) to the other (p-type side) through an external circuit. The flow of these electrons from the n-type side to the p-type side creates an electric current.
The voltage generated by each solar cell is usually very small and cannot have a practical use. To overcome this, several solar cells are connected together to produce a useful amount of energy. One solar cell can generate a current of about 0.2A at 1.2V giving an output power of 0.24W. A connection of solar cells forms a solar panel. The panels can further be connected to form modules.
In the UK, the new Green Deal is the key to figuring out which improvements will help homes and businesses be more productive. It is also the key to getting qualified for access to solar panel grants and loans in the United Kingdom. To understand this, learn a bit more how the UK Green Deal works.
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In a rare display of bipartisanship at the national level, Oregon's congressional delegation along with Gov. John Kitzhaber have agreed on legislation that would extend federal payments to Oregon's beleaguered timber counties for another five years.
The Secure Rural Schools Act program, known informally as "County Payments," will run out in December if not renewed, as the program technically expired Sept. 30.
Hood River County received around $2 million in the 2010-11 fiscal year. Of that, around $1.4 million went to the county roads fund, around $500,000 went to Hood River County School District and $150,000 to county sheriff search and rescue operations.
The legislation is expected to be introduced in the Senate next week and would authorize the payments for five more years with an annual reduction of 5 percent over the prior year's funding.
As Ben McCarty reports on page A1, "While the money has been dwindling, it still remains a key funding source for the many Oregon counties that have substantial amounts of forest land owned by the federal government within their boundaries."
County Budget Director Sandra Borowy noted that without the payments the 2012-13 county budget for roads "would be a big fat blank line and we would have to start tapping into our reserves."
What's encouraging is that Rep. Greg Walden is on board. As author of the original bill, and a Republican, he appears motivated and equipped to help marshal this current funding request through the many tight squeezes in the federal budget maze.
This is a true case of a group of five public servants seeing a need and coming together to serve it. Any "letter to your congressman" this week might be one of thanks for their collaborative efforts for the program.
Legislators could also use some suggestions on what things state, federal and local authorities might do to forestall putting "county payments" on the brink in the future.
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Recent 'Fugitive of the Week' Michelle Smith captured in Nashua
June 19. 2013 5:52PM
CONCORD — "Fugitive of the Week" Michelle Smith, 25, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force on Tuesday.
The arrest was made after the task force received several tips indicating that she was residing on Blossom Street in Nashua. The task force canvassed Blossom Street, which ultimately led investigators to an apartment where Smith was living, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Smith was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the Hillsborough County Superior Court for a probation violation, stemming from an original conviction and sentence for sales of heroin.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office requested the assistance of the fugitive task force to locate and arrest Smith. As part of this investigation, Smith was featured as the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force's feature known as the "Fugitive of the Week" on June 13.
The "Fugitive of the Week" is published weekly in the New Hampshire Union Leader.
At the time of arrest, Smith and her friend were found to be in possession of the "Fugitive of the Week" newspaper article from the Union Leader.
The arrest was made by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force from the Belknap, Hillsborough and Rockingham County Sheriff's Office, and the Greenfield Police Department, along with deputy U.S. Marshals, according to the release.
Since the inception of the New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force in 2002, more than 5,370 arrests have been made, ranging in seriousness from murder, assault, unregistered sex offenders, probation and parole violations and numerous other serious offenses.