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They're down 2-0 in their series and have been outscored 7-2 over the last 80 minutes as the gulf between two teams that went to overtime in Game 1 widened substantially in Game 2.
So it's no surprise how the Minnesota Wild spent Easter Sunday — making promises and plans to resurrect their post-season.
They're not dead yet, but if they lose to the Colorado Avalanche on Monday and fall behind 3-0, it'll take a miracle to avoid another first-round playoff exit.
"Our main focus is Game 3," said winger Matt Cooke, as the Wild returned to Minnesota. "We can't look any further than that. We can't go back. Two losses are two losses. They make the series seven games for a reason. Game 3 is the most important game."
The hope in Minnesota is that a simple change in venue will be enough to change the Wild's fortunes. But right now it looks like the only way that's going to matter is if the Avs forget Nate MacKinnon back in Denver.
On his way to becoming the best 18-year-old playoff performer in NHL history, MacKinnon, with seven points in two games, has become a very serious problem for which Minnesota can't find an answer.
Avs coach Patrick Roy, loathe to single out individuals ahead of the team at playoff time, had no choice in this case.
"I have to admit that as an 18-year-old it's pretty impressive," he said, before the Avs left for the airport in Denver. "Seeing him play with that maturity and that intensity on every shift, this is pretty special."
Roy is loving the way his whole power trio of MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog and Paul Stastny, who have combined for 17 points, are running Minnesota's show.
"The moment we put Paulie and Landie with him in that first game, they started to click. They've been playing really well together and it's fun to watch them, it's very impressive.
"Like it or not, when you're in the playoffs, your best players have to be your best players in order to have a chance to win and these three guys have done a super job."
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Now it's up to the Wild to do something about it. Last change, which would enable head coach Mike Yeo to sic a checking line on MacKinnon, might help.
"It's obviously a possibility that we'll assemble a line to go out there and doing the job against those guys," he said.
"But the way that our lines are assembled, I'm not afraid of anybody playing against anybody if we're on our game."
And, if crowd noise is worth anything, the State of Hockey will do its part to help.
"We should be excited about the opportunity to play in front of our fans," said Yeo, who has no choice but to subscribe to the theory that you're never really behind in a series until you lose a home game.
"Our building is going to be rocking. (The Avs) did what they were supposed to do as a good team, they took care of winning the first two, now we have to go and take care of our business."
The prospect of playing the next two games on the road doesn't bother Colorado in the least. They were 26-11-4 at home this season and an identical 26-11-4 on the road.
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NH Preservation Alliance honors 10 for protecting historic treasuresBy DOUG ALDEN
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May 07. 2013 9:37PM
CONCORD -- THE MILTON TOWN HOUSE Stewardship Committee received one of 10 awards Tuesday from the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, which recognized projects and people throughout the state for work in protecting Granite State historical treasures.
"I'm flabbergasted. It's a big thing for the town of Milton, really," John Katwick, project manager for the restoration of the Milton Town House, said of the award. "It's just tremendous because of the support that we have received."
The structure was built in 1803, when it originally opened as a religious meeting house in the Strafford County community, about 40 miles northeast of Concord.
The building that survived more than 200 years was being used for storage when a committee was formed in 2007 to look into restoring a piece of history dating almost back to the town's incorporation in 1802.
"It's drawn so much attention. It's just a proud thing for the community," Katwick said.
The project included restoring 22 window sashes and the horse rail around the building last year.
Katwick said work may go on another couple of years, but the progress is evident to passers-by on Route 125 near the Maine/New Hampshire state line.
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Also recognized was the Gundalow Company for its work with the Piscataqua, a re-creation of the flat-bottomed sailing ships that transported cargo along inland waterways from the 1600s until the early 1900s.
The Piscataqua itself was an attraction as shipwrights built it using mostly traditional methods and tools on the grounds of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth until the vessel's official launch in 2011.
"We are truly honored to accept this award," said Molly Bolster, executive director of the Gundalow Company.
Bolster said the vessel has made about 300 sails on the Piscataqua River, including taking 65 school groups for a hands-on lesson in the history of shipping and the changes the waterway has undergone over the centuries.
"The response is heartwarming. For many kids, this is their first experience on the river," Bolster said. "From the moment you leave the dock, the world has a different perspective."
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance recognized seven construction projects and three education and advocacy initiatives for the 2013 awards.
"These awards showcase how investment in community landmarks and forward-thinking education and planning projects not only revive irreplaceable landmarks, but also bring people together, support local jobs and advance other community goals," said Paula Cabot, awards committee chairwoman, said in a news release.
Other achievements recognized are:
--North Hampton for the rehabilitation of its town hall. Since the building was declared unsafe in 2004, the building steeple and clock have been repaired, roofing overhauled and the front has been restored to meet the Americans with Disabilities Act's standards. The woodwork was retained, windows restored and the historic front door replicated as part of the project. The town hall is now home to municipal offices, and public meetings are held there.
--The Portsmouth Historical Society for transforming the former city library into the Discover Portsmouth Center. The historical society raised more than $1.3 million to rehabilitate the building and renovate it into a visitors center featuring an exhibit hall, information on Portsmouth's heritage and a museum shop.
--Donna Dunn and the Dunbarton Historical Awareness Committee for restoration of the Dunbarton Cobbler Shop. Dunn's search for a garden shed led her to a small building associated with 26 cobblers known to have worked in Dunbarton. It had been moved to Goffstown in the 1950s and returned to Dunbarton on a flat-bed truck in 2008. The building was meticulously rehabilitated and restored with authentic materials, including a stove, benches and cobblers tools.
--The Squam National Register of Historic Places Committee and Squam Lakes Conservation Society for an initiative to get the watershed recognized by the National Register of Historic Places. The National Parks Service granted a Multiple Documentation Form for individual property owners and districts seeking recognition on the National Register. The project also led to the creation of an archive of Squam documents including photographs, maps and guest logs.
--"Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, New Hampshire," a documentary on the history of the town's 1787 meetinghouse and the town's public outreach campaign to restore it. The documentary includes old photos and stories of the historic structure as well as displays of the tools and craftsmanship dating to its construction in the late 18th century. The film premiered last summer during the 225th birthday celebration for the meetinghouse.
--Newmarket Mills, LLC, for the revitalization of nearly 300,000 square feet of empty mill space. The Newmarket Manufacturing Company started building the mill complex in 1823 along the Lamprey River. The town of Newmarket set out to revitalize the vacant properties through tax relief and zoning changes, leading to a reconstructed Main Street. The crumbling mills were rebuilt or repaired and now include housing units, commercial properties and performing arts and civic space.
--Gilmanton for restoration and stewardship of the Gilmanton Academy. The landmark is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, chartered in 1794 and rebuilt in 1894 after a fire destroyed the original structure. The deteriorating cupola was removed in 2008 and put in storage before community leaders successfully led efforts to restore it and return it to its place atop the town landmark in 2011. The building, currently now home to municipal offices and various activities, has also been weatherized to be more energy efficient.
--The town of Sandwich for stewardship of the Sandwich Town Hall. The 1915 building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was renovated and restored to provide additional records storage space, a sprinkler system, repainting the interior and exterior and adding ADA accessibility to the second floor.

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The pancreatic islets or islets of Langerhans are the regions of the pancreas that contain its endocrine (i.e., hormone-producing) cells. Discovered in 1869 by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans.[2] New studies show that the pancreatic islets constitute approximately 4.5% of the pancreas volume [1] and receive 10-15% of its blood flow.[3] The islets of Langerhans are arranged in density routes throughout the healthy human pancreas.[1]
There are about 3 million islets distributed in the form of density routes throughout the pancreas of a healthy adult human,[1] each of which measures an average of about 0.1 mm (109 µm) in diameter.[1][4]:914 Each is separated from the surrounding pancreatic tissue by a thin fibrous connective tissue capsule which is continuous with the fibrous connective tissue that is interwoven throughout the rest of the pancreas.[4]:914 The combined mass of the islets is 2 grams.[1] Islets of Langerhans can also form super structures called Islet clusters which are composed of small islets that surround large blood vessels.[1] The roundness of islets along the pancreas has also been quantified through the Index of Sphericity method.[1] Thus, the islets closest to the spherical form are mainly found in the pancreas tail whereas the islets farthest from the spherical form are found in the pancreas neck.[1]
Hormones produced in the pancreatic islets are secreted directly into the blood flow by (at least) five types of cells. In rat islets, endocrine cell subsets are distributed as follows:[5]
- Alpha cells producing glucagon (15–20% of total islet cells)
- Beta cells producing insulin and amylin (65–80%)
- Delta cells producing somatostatin (3–10%)
- PP cells (gamma cells) producing pancreatic polypeptide (3–5%)
- Epsilon cells producing ghrelin (<1%)
It has been recognized that the cytoarchitecture of pancreatic islets differs between species.[6][7][8] In particular, while rodent islets are characterized by a predominant proportion of insulin-producing beta cells in the core of the cluster and by scarce alpha, delta and PP cells in the periphery, human islets display alpha and beta cells in close relationship with each other throughout the cluster.[6][8]
Islets can influence each other through paracrine and autocrine communication, and beta cells are coupled electrically to other beta cells (but not to other cell types).[citation needed]
The paracrine feedback system of the pancreatic islets has the following structure:[9]
- Glucose/Insulin: activates beta cells and inhibits alpha cells
- Glycogen/Glucagon: activates alpha cells which activates beta cells and delta cells
- Somatostatin: inhibits alpha cells and beta cells
A large number of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) regulate the secretion of insulin, glucagon and somatostatin from pancreatic islets,[10] and some of these GPCRs are the targets of drugs used to treat type-2 diabetes (ref GLP-1 receptor agonists, DPPIV inhibitors).
Electrical activity
Electrical activity of pancreatic islets has been studied using patch clamp techniques. It has turned out that the behavior of cells in intact islets differs significantly from the behavior of dispersed cells.[11]
Clinical significance
The beta cells of the pancreatic islets secrete insulin, and so play a significant role in diabetes. It is thought that they are destroyed by immune assaults. However, there are also indications that beta cells have not been destroyed but have only become non-functional.
Restoration of metabolic control via the transplantation of pancreatic islets is an appealing approach. This can be achieved by transplantation of the pancreas as vascularized organ or of isolated pancreatic islets (islet cell clusters). Islet transplantation has emerged as a viable option for the treatment of insulin requiring diabetes in the early 1970s with steady progress over the last three decades.[12]
Islet transplantation has the possibility of restoring beta cell function from diabetes, offering an alternative to a complete pancreas transplantation or an artificial pancreas.
Because the beta cells in the pancreatic islets are selectively destroyed by an autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes, clinicians and researchers are actively pursuing islet transplantation as a means of restoring physiological beta cell function in patients with type 1 diabetes.[13][14]
Recent clinical trials have shown that insulin independence and improved metabolic control can be reproducibly obtained after transplantation of cadaveric donor islets into patients with unstable type 1 diabetes.[14]
Islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes currently requires potent immunosuppression to prevent host rejection of donor islets.[15]
An alternative source of beta cells, such insulin-producing cells derived from adult stem cells or progenitor cells would contribute to overcoming the shortage of donor organs for transplantation. The field of regenerative medicine is rapidly evolving and offers great hope for the nearest future. However, type 1 diabetes is the result of the autoimmune destruction of beta cells in the pancreas. Therefore, an effective cure will require a sequential, integrated approach that combines adequate and safe immune interventions with beta cell regenerative approaches.[16]
Another potential source of beta cells may be xenotransplantation. The most likely source for xenogeneic islets for transplantation into human under evaluation is the pig pancreas. Interestingly, human and porcine insulin differ only for one amino acid, and insulin extracted from porcine pancreata has been used for the treatment of patients with diabetes before the development of recombinant human insulin technology. Several studies in small and large animals models have shown that transplantation of islet cells across species is possible. However, several problems need to be overcome for porcine islet transplantation to become a viable clinical option. The immunogenicity of xenogeneic tissues may be different from and even stronger than allogeneic tissues. For instance, Galalpha1-3Galbeta1-4GlcNAc (alpha galactosidase, alpha-Gal) expressed on porcine cells represents a major barrier to xenotransplantation being the target of preformed antibodies present in human blood.
Remarkable progress has been recorded in the development of genetically modified pigs lacking or overexpressing molecules that may improve acceptance of transplanted tissues across into humans. Pigs lacking alpha-Gal or overexpressing human decay accelerating factor (hDAF), amongst others, have been generated to study the impact on transplanted outcome in nonhuman primate models. Another possible antigenic target is the Hanganutziu-Deichter antigen, a sialic acid found in pigs and not humans, which may contribute to immunogenicity of porcine islets. Another limitation is the risk for transmission of zoonotic infections from pigs to humans, particularly from porcine endogenous retro-viruses (PERV). Amongst the approaches proposed to overcome islet xenorejection is immunoisolation of the clusters using encapsulation techniques that may shield them from immune attack. Studies in rodents and large animals have shown great promise that justify cautious optimism for the near future. Nonrandomized, uncontrolled pilot clinical trials are ongoing in subject with insulin-requiring diabetes to test the efficacy of encapsulation techniques to protect xenogeneic islets in the absence of chronic anti-rejection drugs.
Additional images
Mouse islet immunostained for insulin
Mouse islet immunostained for glucagon
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Ionescu-Tirgoviste, Constantin; Gagniuc, Paul A.; Gubceac, Elvira; Mardare, Liliana; Popescu, Irinel; Dima, Simona; Militaru, Manuella (2015-09-29). "A 3D map of the islet routes throughout the healthy human pancreas". Scientific Reports. 5. PMC 4586491 . PMID 26417671. doi:10.1038/srep14634.
- ↑ Langerhans P (1869). "Beitrage zur mikroscopischen anatomie der bauchspeichel druse". Inaugural-dissertation. Berlin: Gustav Lange.
- ↑ Functional Anatomy of the Endocrine Pancreas
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sleisenger, edited by Mark Feldman, Lawrence S. Friedman, Lawrence J. Brandt; consulting editor, Marvin H. (2009). Sleisenger & Fordtran's gastrointestinal and liver disease pathophysiology, diagnosis, management (9th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: MD Consult. ISBN 978-1-4160-6189-2.
- ↑ Elayat AA, el-Naggar MM, Tahir M,Bassam dahrouj (1995). "An immunocytochemical and morphometric study of the rat pancreatic islets". Journal of Anatomy. 186. (Pt 3) (Pt 3): 629–37. PMC 1167020 . PMID 7559135.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Brissova M, Fowler MJ, Nicholson WE, Chu A, Hirshberg B, Harlan DM, Powers AC (2005). "Assessment of human pancreatic islet architecture and composition by laser scanning confocal microscopy". Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 53 (9): 1087–97. PMID 15923354. doi:10.1369/jhc.5C6684.2005.
- ↑ Ichii H, Inverardi L, Pileggi A, Molano RD, Cabrera O, Caicedo A, Messinger S, Kuroda Y, Berggren PO, Ricordi C (2005). "A novel method for the assessment of cellular composition and beta-cell viability in human islet preparations". American Journal of Transplantation. 5 (7): 1635–45. PMID 15943621. doi:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.00913.x.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cabrera O, Berman DM, Kenyon NS, Ricordi C, Berggren PO, Caicedo A (2006). "The unique cytoarchitecture of human pancreatic islets has implications for islet cell function". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103 (7): 2334–9. ISSN 1091-6490. PMC 1413730 . PMID 16461897. doi:10.1073/pnas.0510790103.
- ↑ Wang, Michael B.; Bullock, John; Boyle, Joseph R. (2001). Physiology. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 391. ISBN 0-683-30603-0.
- ↑ "An atlas and functional analysis of G-protein coupled receptors in human islets of Langerhans.Amisten S, Salehi A, Rorsman P, Jones PM, Persaud SJ., Pharmacol Ther. 2013 May 18. PMID 23694765
- ↑ Pérez-Armendariz M, Roy C, Spray DC, Bennett MV (1991). "Biophysical properties of gap junctions between freshly dispersed pairs of mouse pancreatic beta cells". Biophysical Journal. 59 (1): 76–92. PMC 1281120 . PMID 2015391. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(91)82200-7.
- ↑ Piemonti L, Pileggi A (2013). "25 Years of the Ricordi Automated Method for Islet Isolation". CellR4. 1 (1): 8–22.
- ↑ Meloche RM (2007). "Transplantation for the treatment of type 1 diabetes". World Journal of Gastroenterology. 13 (47): 6347–55. PMID 18081223. doi:10.3748/wjg.13.6347.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Hogan A, Pileggi A, Ricordi C (2008). "Transplantation: current developments and future directions; the future of clinical islet transplantation as a cure for diabetes". Frontiers of Bioscience. 13 (13): 1192–205. PMID 17981623. doi:10.2741/2755.
- ↑ Chatenoud L (2008). "Chemical immunosuppression in islet transplantation—friend or foe?". New England Journal of Medicine. 358 (11): 1192–3. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 18337609. doi:10.1056/NEJMcibr0708067.
- ↑ Pileggi A, Cobianchi L, Inverardi L, Ricordi C (2006). "Overcoming the challenges now limiting islet transplantation: a sequential, integrated approach". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1079 (1): 383–98. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 17130583. doi:10.1196/annals.1375.059.
External links
- "The Islets of Langerhans", Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- "Islets"
- Islet Society
- MeSH A03.734.414
- "Pancreas, human – H&E", Blue Histology – Accessory Digestive Glands, School of Anatomy and Human Biology,


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It's not "The Voice" but it is a chance for community members with a desire to use their singing skills to get on stage and perform.
Under the direction of J.J. Rupe, Pratt Community College director of vocal and instrumental music, a community choir is forming as part of the college choir program.
Technically, the community choir is a second section of the PCC choir class that students can take for credit, Rupe said.
It is also another chance for college students who want to participate in choir but have a scheduling conflict with the daytime choir class. It is also a chance for community people to sing in a choir setting outside a church.
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The people who showed up for the first rehearsal on Aug. 26 had a good time and really enjoyed the opportunity to sing.
"The people were really excited," Rupe said. "The response was really positive."
The community choir is not just about singing but performing as well. While the community choir and the college choir will practice separately, they will come together to form a large choir for "A Night on Broadway," the college fall theatre presentation featuring music from a group of selected songs from "Phantom of the Opera," "Les Miserables" and "Aspects of Love."
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BEDFORD - The Books for Breakfast Cafe at the Ross A. Lurgio Middle School often features guest authors, but it isn't often that the guest turns out to be one of the school's faculty.
Science teacher Rob Dubreuil's successful attempt at getting a picture book published earned him a place in the school library Friday morning, meeting with students to read his book and talk about the process of writing it.
"Daniel and the Harmonica" is Dubreuil's first published book, about a young boy who receives a harmonica for his birthday from his grandfather and the magical things that happen with it.
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"It's completely social," she said. "There's nothing academic. You can come, be with friends, be with other kids and just talk about what you're reading."
Dubreuil told students about the process of being published, which included multiple rejection letters, the artistic process and the editing that resulted in the reduction of his story by more than half.
Dubreuil said he learned a lot about the book writing process, and was glad to be able to share his story with his school community.
"It's been great," he said. "It's been a pleasure to share this story, and I've got this great community of people cheering me on."
Dubreuil said the Books for Breakfast Cafe is an institution at the school and that the literacy staff works hard to promote all things reading.
"This is an honor, and I'm glad I can be a part of it," he said.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. strategy for the Arctic region has gotten a lukewarm response from a think tank that says the plan amounts to a "lengthy wish list" with few specifics.
The tepid feedback from the Washington-based Arctic Institute comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads Monday to Sweden for a meeting of foreign ministers focused on Arctic issues.
Syria, Iran and Afghanistan also are on Kerry's agenda for discussion with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, according to the State Department.
The Arctic Institute praised the new White House strategy for at least outlining U.S. priorities in the icy region. Unveiled last week, the blueprint vows to protect American security, safeguard the environment and strengthen ties with foreign nations as the U.S. moves forward in the Arctic.
But the think tank said the strategy is missing examples of many specific projects to be undertaken, and lacks assessments of future U.S. capabilities in the Arctic circle. It also rapped the plan for failing to commit funding plans for the strategy.
The White House last week said it does not expect to receive more funding for the strategy.
"Without a clear budgetary plan, this strategy becomes nothing more than a lengthy wish list," said institute researcher Mihaela David. "Despite a good faith effort at articulating policy priorities and formulating mutually reinforcing objectives, the U.S. Arctic strategy remains as elusive (as) a mirage on the Arctic ice sheet."
Global warming has melted sea ice to levels that have given rise to what experts describe as a kind of gold rush scramble to the Arctic. U.S. officials estimate the Arctic holds 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of undiscovered gas deposits. Until recently, however, the resources that could reap hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues were frozen over and unreachable.
Last year, China joined Russia, Denmark and Canada and the United States in the competition, sending its first icebreaker ship through the Arctic — even though China doesn't abut Arctic territory. China is among 14 governments now are seeking rights to attend meetings of the eight-nation Arctic Council as observers. The council traditionally seeks to address issues and problems facing the Arctic, like climate change and the region's indigenous people. It holds high-level meetings every two years, where it issues non-binding declarations about its future goals and past work.
Because of Alaska's inclusion in the Arctic circle, the U.S. is a member of the Arctic Council, which meets Tuesday and Wednesday in Kiruna, Sweden.
Jyrki Kallio, a China expert at Finnish Institute of International Affairs, downplayed Beijing's interest in the Arctic — but predicted it will rise soon. China is the world's largest energy consumer and an uneasy U.S. ally.
"It is in China's interests now to make investments in the Arctic and prepare for the future," Kallio said. "By doing some little preparation today, it will be ready for things (to) start happening in the Arctic within the next decade."
Associated Press Television News Senior Producer David MacDougall contributed to this report from Helsinki, Finland.
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There's an alternative way to explain what's going on at Chivas USA these days. Jorge Vergara - the businessman, not any sort of soccer connoisseur - is trying to become the center of controversy, a la George Steinbrenner in his heyday, or a modern Donald Trump.
Seriously, it's the only explanation for going down this road once again. Vergara's moves of late with Chivas USA have publicity grab written all over them.
I came to this conclusion while reflecting on the naming of Jose Luis Sanchez Sola as coach of the MLS franchise.
You can make a lot of good arguments for why Chelis, as he's known (get used to it) makes a lot of sense for any MLS club, particularly Chivas USA. He is one of Mexico's most popular coaches, helped repair a flagging Puebla franchise a few years ago, and is insistent on imposing a fun-to-watch, wide open attacking style which could potentially bring fans in droves.
But then Chelis opened his mouth, and - as usual - some controversial things came out.
No sooner was the Mexican asked about coaching in the U.S. than he took a jackhammer to his would-be future home, saying that all MLS teams play alike, and insinuating the the American league still has plenty to learn about good soccer. (Sadly, he backed down on those comments a bit upon arrival in L.A., but we probably won't have to wait long for more.)
Chelis also fell back on the argument that Chivas USA's failures are due to not playing with enough Mexicans, but ignoring history is par for the course in Chivas USA land these days.
All that caused the predictable uproar among the American soccer community - which seems to be growing to hate Chivas USA more and more with each move - and gave the struggling franchise another dose of attention it would never have gotten were it not for all this American soccer bashing.
Bingo - another publicity home run for a previously anonymous franchise.
It seems completely possible that Vergara is aiming to become - for lack of a better word - the troll of MLS: the man and the franchise most hated because of their open disdain for something the rest of the community holds in high esteem - in this case American soccer.
If Goal.com discussion boards are any indication, it's not a bad strategy. There's definitely a place for American soccer hating in American soccer, starting with the growing market of local El Tri fans, who for various and perfectly tenable reasons can't stand the U.S. national team or MLS, and enjoy dividing their time between bashing American soccer and supporting El Tri.
If the rank and file among that group that doesn't support Chivas in Mexico can get over it and get behind this project, Vergara may well be on to something here. He could be on the way to building the first unified soccer hating nation that actually enjoys the sport, based purely on the novel notion that the game is just fine, but American soccer, specifically, sucks.
Chelis, ever the revolutionary, a man who has even dressed in historic Mexican revolutionary gear to roam the sidelines of late, could be an ideal leader for this assault on the American game.
Apart from the perfect Billy Martin to Vergara's Steinbrenner - Chelis has resigned and been fired any number of times in his relatively short career - the coach has what it takes to unite what promises to be a diverse but somewhat ethnocentric group in L.A., instilling an us-against-the-world mentality that can be very useful in sport.
Even the rumored signing of the outspoken and highly entertaining Bofo Bautista, who had retired, fattened and spent his time on reality TV of late, pans out in this light.
Taken as an overall branding exercise, this revamp of Chivas USA finally makes sense to me. So don't write off Vergara so quickly, American soccer fans. Chances are if he executes his plan correctly, the Chivas mastermind and his club could be a thorn in your American soccer loving side for some time to come.
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We live in such strange times, in terms of the basic nuts and bolts of journalism. Take, for example, the recent Time magazine feature story on the moral and ethical storms that are raging all around the evolving field of prenatal tests that help parents discover it their unborn children have Down Syndrome or suffer from some other condition (perhaps their gender is female) that makes them less than perfect and, thus, less worthy of being born.
The online Time site contains a tiny piece of the recent article (full text for subscribers only), which focuses on the life of a Down Syndrome child whose existence is the hook for the story -- 4-year-old Gracie Perkins McLaughlin -- the daughter of Melanie Perkins McLaughlin. This article, as we say here at GetReligion, has its share of religion "ghosts."
However, that same Time site search for Gracie's name also reveals the presence of an online article from late last year that contains much of the information that ran in the dead-tree-pulp version three months later. And that earlier article starts in a way that takes one of the main moral issues linked to this subject and puts it right in the lede:
Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is that she's not pro-life or pro-choice or pro anything -- other than pro-information.
When a distraught pregnant woman phones a Massachusetts hotline for Down syndrome, agonizing over what to do with an unexpected prenatal diagnosis, she will be routed to Perkins McLaughlin, who went through the same awful calculations in 2007.
The article goes on to discuss a wide variety of issues linked to the lives of Down Syndrome children, and the reality of the fact that the lives of so many Down Syndrome children end in abortion. For example, it is highly ironic that modern science is making life much easier for the parents of Down Syndrome babies and making the lives of their children much more fulfilling and well rounded. Yet this trend coexists with the growth of less invasive forms of prenatal tests that make it easier to detect this condition and, if parents choose to do so, to abort these "flawed" unborn children. At some point, will the decreasing number of surviving Down syndrome babies make it hard to justify the financial cost of the programs that make their lives worth living?
If readers want to see this question discussed in openly moral or religious terms, they will need to look elsewhere. That theme is not included in this otherwise gripping Time piece.
But there is one tiny reference that hints at faith content. I would like to let you read this reference in context, but that content is only available to Time subscribers.
However, the EARLIER online version of the story contains a similar passage. Thus, here is the glimpse of this "ghost" in that context:
Perkins McLaughlin says it took her eight hours after her C-section to muster the nerve to go visit her daughter, Gracie, in the neonatal intensive care unit. "There are people out there who feel the test is great," says Perkins McLaughlin. "In some ways, it is great. But it is scary too. Will more people terminate because it's earlier in the pregnancy and why not just try again? I don't know what I would have done if I had found out at 10 weeks."
Gracie is now 3 1/2. In the two years since Perkins McLaughin, now 44, has served as a parent mentor for the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, she's told the dozen or so conflicted pregnant women who have contacted her that Gracie is bright: she started signing at six months and had accumulated 100 signs by age 2, prompting her grandmother to ask, Are you sure she has Down syndrome? She loves music, dancing and her older brother and sister. Perkins McLaughin tells them how Gracie has added perspective to her life, softening her Type-A edges. "She's not going to do quantum physics, but I don't do quantum physics," says Perkins McLaughin. "Gracie has showed me in a profound way that I am not in control of everything. I have a bumper sticker that says, Grace Happens."
Now, I know that "grace" means different things to different people.
However, if you read the whole story -- either version -- it's hard not to wonder if little Gracie is alive, in part, because her mother had a bit of faith that made her open to seeing her daughter's life as a gift. Perhaps this rather obvious question should have been asked.
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OSNews sat down with Ian Seyler, the Founder and Lead Programmer at Return Infinity, the maker and sponsor of Baremetal OS, a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers written entirely in Assembly. Editor's note: We'd love to do similar interviews with the people behind other alternative or hobby OS projects. If there's a project that you'd like to learn more about, let us know.
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RE[2]: Why not in Forth?
by Zbigniew on Sat 4th Jun 2011 17:45 UTC in reply to "RE: Why not in Forth?"
If you mean something "bigger" - try ForthOS ( http://www.forthos.org/ ). The "smaller things" - e.g. for microcontrollers - are obvious (CamelForth, cforth etc.), since Forth "likes to be an OS".
The biggest sense in using Forth is using it "standalone" - I mean: with NO control of any underlying "external" OS.
Oh, I forgot: http://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware - here you are: "easily portable OS or kernel written in Forth; Forth suitable for writing an OS kernel for x86/x86-64 hardware" - everything you requested in just one software package.
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Grown Ups gone wild!
Promoting the sequel to their comedy franchise, which follows the friendships and families of best friends, costars Maya Rudolph, Salma Hayek, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade came together for an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday.
And after participating in possibly the first official "Ellen dog pile," the attention turned to Rudolph's burgeoning belly, with Ellen DeGeneres — who noted the actress often appears on her show while pregnant — asking how many children Rudolph and her partner Paul Thomas Anderson have.
"Like 16, 17 — I don't know!" Rudolph, 40, jokes. "This will be number four. This is like a modern-day version of The Waltons at this point."
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According to Hayek, Rudolph's fans weren't the only ones surprised by the baby news. "I remember last summer Maya said, 'Can you believe I have three children? I'm never doing this again!" she recalls.
But Rudolph — who is "hoping" the baby on the way is born this summer — is quick to clarify that going back on her promise was no fault of her own.
"It's like that light pen thing they do in Men in Black," she says. "Someone just went like that and I was like, 'I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to do this again!'"
Fortunately, with a full plate — Rudolph is also mom to daughters Lucille, 3½, and Pearl, 7, and son Jack, 21 months — the mom-to-be can cross searching for a baby name off her list.
"Maya's naming the baby Grown Ups 3," jokes Sandler, the film's writer and producer.
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Grand jury indicts mother and son for Manchester home invasion among others
July 03. 2014 12:59PM
MANCHESTER — A mother and son were indicted by the June Hillsborough County North Grand Jury on charges related to an April 27 break-in at the 199 Wilson St. apartment of people who told police they were "loosely related" to Melissa Murray, 36, and her son, Tyler, 19, both of 244 Wilson St.
Melissa was indicted on felony burglary for entering the apartment to commit theft; two felonies of first-degree assault for throwing shards of broken glass at one person and slicing the arm of another with a piece of glass. Two misdemeanors of resisting arrest allege she ran from a police officer seeking to question her and struggled with him when he attempted to handcuff her.
Murray's son, Tyler, was indicted on a felony burglary charge, a felony reckless conduct charge that alleges he swung a hammer around during an argument, and a misdemeanor of resisting arrest for hiding under a bed.
Two convicted felons who share the first name of Jason were indicted in connection with a home invasion incident May 27 at 499 Belmont St. in which one of the residents sustained a bullet graze wound to the neck.
Jason Candelario, 25, of 78 Young St., was indicted on felony charges of burglary, robbery, felon in possession of a deadly weapon, armed career criminal and falsifying physical evidence.
Candelario is accused of entering the residence with a firearm and demanding money from one of the residents, and of discarding a black mask on Laurel Street after the incident. A misdemeanor alleges he ran from an officer seeking to arrest him.
Jason Kenyon, 32, of 22 Pinyon Place, Derry, is accused of entering the residence to commit theft, pointing a handgun at a man and demanding money, firing a handgun at a sliding glass door while the man was standing behind it, and firing a handgun at the same man, causing a neck injury. He's also accused of holding a loaded gun to another man's head and telling him to get on the ground. After leaving the Belmont Street address, Kenyon is accused of discarding a black backpack on Laurel Street.
In all, Kenyon was indicted on seven felonies in connection with the May 27 incident on Belmont Street: first-degree assault, burglary, robbery, reckless conduct, criminal threatening, falsifying physical evidence and felon in possession of a deadly weapon.
Among other people indicted by the June grand jury are:
• John Rodriguez, 39, of 3422 Bailey Place, Bronx, N.Y., two felonies for pattern of aggravated felonious sexual assault of a female child, two of aggravated felonious sexual assault and two of felonious sexual assault, between 2010 and February of this year, starting when the child was 10 years old. An additional two charges of felonious sexual assault involve another female child, between September 2012 and September 2013, starting when the child was 13.
• Phat Tay, 24, of 260 Pearl St., two felonies of first-degree assault, for causing life-threatening injuries to a person police believed to be a drug customer, by stabbing a Bedford resident in the hip area and abdomen May 12 in a South Willow Street parking lot. Tay was out on bail. A charge of felon in possession stems from a previous burglary conviction.
• Ralph Blackey, 40, of 73 Young St., felonies of armed robbery and false reports as to explosives. Blackey is accused of calling in a bomb threat at Manchester High School West May 14, so police would be tied up while he robbed Bob's Coins, 278 Kelley St. It was Blackey's bad luck that an off-duty police officer was in the shop at the time.
• John Spaulding, 33, of 731 Somerville St., a felony of falsifying physical evidence and a misdemeanor of theft by unauthorized taking, for allegedly removing a Denver parking boot from his Dodge Dakota without the consent of the City of Manchester. He was indicted in connection with a separate incident, also involving a vehicle, a month later. Blackey was indicted for felony criminal mischief, for allegedly causing significant damage to another man's vehicle by repeatedly striking it with a cinder block May 4.


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Robert R. Goodman 12/11/2012 6:06:27 AMNow!That looks like fun my friend.Excellent capture Jack.Wonderful action!!!! #1503020
Mary K. Robison 12/11/2012 6:15:29 AMBeautiful stop-motion capture, Jack. Nothing beats the smell of salty sea air...except maybe brownies baking. #10460170
Carolyn M. Fletcher 12/11/2012 6:34:35 AMWow, great catch!! ...and definitely brownies baking..LOL #10460216
Monnie Ryan 12/11/2012 6:51:07 AMLove brownies, but the sea air does it for me too, Jack! Well done (as is my Christmas shopping, BTW)! #10460247
Colette M. Metcalf 12/11/2012 8:35:31 AMOh wow! What an amazing capture!!!! #10460392
Tiia Vissak 12/11/2012 9:05:01 AMa cool action image! #10460442
Mike Clime 12/11/2012 10:42:02 AMNice action shot, Jack! Would be fun to try it if younger! #10460587
Lynn M. Whitt 12/11/2012 11:17:38 AMGreat action capture. #10460660
Anita Hogue 12/11/2012 11:35:04 AMFantastic action shot, Jack! #10460695
Craig D. Minton 12/11/2012 11:50:38 AMNice shot of this kite surfer's carving turn. You don't often get this perspective. Gives you the feeling of actually being on the wave. #10460716
Claudia Kuhn 12/11/2012 2:29:42 PMGreat action capture. Ahh, yes, you'll be in the warmer waters doe the winter. Wish I could join you #10460877
Terry Cervi 12/11/2012 4:35:55 PMAll those snowy pics of mine were taken last year, Jack. No snow yet here. But I'm sure the weather's better down south! This is a terrific action shot! #10460958
Avril Young 12/11/2012 7:00:37 PMwonderful action shot, detail and lighting...alas still doing Christmas shopping and baking...
Beautiful Jack! #10461067
Barbara Waldoch 12/12/2012 12:48:32 AMExcellent catch, Jack! #10461244
Nadia Paul 12/12/2012 1:16:06 AMWonderful capture of the action Jack! #10461263
Katherine Kuhn 12/12/2012 8:48:19 AMGreat action capture, Jack! That green water sure looks inviting! #10461724
John Connolly 12/13/2012 12:17:26 PMA nice surfing shot Jack! Love that water color! #10463243
Ujjwal Mukherjee 12/14/2012 6:12:24 AMExcellent action capture!! #10463989
Emile Abbott 1/13/2013 11:59:46 AMFantastic sport action capture. Right on my friend. #10513290
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SS1/3200 hand held . Shot at Juno Beach in North Palm Beach County Florida .
Looking forward to shooting a LOT of this in the next several months .
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I tried to make this work on my kinetic tfr and could not get it to perform. Up for sale vespa malossi 43mm 64cc cylinder kit - 12 pin - ciao head.
This sells for over $135 at treats. All you need is the case gasket. I can throw in three main jets too. pm me if interested. Of coarse I'll sell it for less, still in like new condition.
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I've gone through and updated our Birthday Freebies List to include all the freebies mentioned in the comments over time. Here's the new master list of Birthday Freebies – sign up and enjoy! Plus – if you see any we missed, please let us know in the comments below.
Signing up for various birthday clubs is a great way to stretch your frugal budget. A free meal here & there can really liven up an otherwise dull month of cooking at home…. Here is a huge roundup of Birthday Freebies and deals!
Remember a few things as you get close to your birthday:
- Always check with your location before ordering to make sure they honor the chain's deal.
- Have your I.D. handy
- Check the valid date on coupons. Some coupons and deals are only good ON your birthday, while others are good for the full month or week, or even a few days surrounding your birthday.
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Snow Patrol gear guide - plus remix 'em and win Shure gear
You've only got until Friday 14th December to win €1500 of Shure gear...enter now!
Click to find out how you could win €1500 of Shure gear.
If you haven't got involved in Shure and Snow Patrol's remix competition yet, there's still time...so take some inspiration from the sort of gear the band themselves use and get going!
Snow Patrol and Shure have a long history together: the band's live mics and studio mics have always included a whole range of Shure gear, while their gigs make use of equipment like Shure's wireless systems.
Particular favourites of the band while recording are the Beta 58a for lead vocals, the Beta 52a (pictured) for kick drum, the classic SM57 for snare and toms.
Other key gear used by the band includes:
Paul Wilson (bass)
Gary Lightbody (lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist)
- A range of Fender Telecasters, Gretsch semi-hollow bodied guitars like the Chet Atkins Country Gentleman plus a Gibson SG and Gibson Les Paul.
- As for amps, Lightbody uses all the usual suspects like Marshall and Vox, but less common is his love of Mesa Boogie.
Nathan Connolly (backing vocalist and lead guitarist)
- Nathan's guitars of choice aren't anything particularly noteworthy - just the same classics as bandmate Gary - but his pedals are more interesting, including an Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer, MXR M-133 Micro Amp Boost and plenty of classics from Boss.


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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- SURPRISE, Ariz. – Barry University men's tennis lived to see another day. The No. 1-ranked Buccaneers outlasted No. 5 Hawai'i Pacific, 5-1, Thursday in the NCAA quarterfinals at Surprise Tennis & Racquet Complex.
Barry (27-0) advances to Friday's noon semifinals against No. 6 Concordia (22-2). The match can be followed via LIVE STATS.
"This is a new experience for me – the first time at nationals," Barry junior Venezuelan Leo Vivas said after delivering two key victories in Thursday's win over the Sea Warriors. "Every point I win, every match, every game … it feels so good to give something back to the team. I think we have a great chance of doing great in this tournament."
Vivas did a few things great in knocking the Sea Warriors (19-4) out. First, he and Romain Costamagna battled through an 8-6 No. 3 doubles victory over Max Hertl and Jaume Martinez-Vich to complete the Bucs' pairs sweep. Vivas' charging drop shot winner with both he and Costamagna at the net helped take the air out of HPU in a closely-contested match.
That put the Bucs ahead 3-0 entering singles play.
Vivas' energy carried over in singles as he blistered past Yann Renault, 6-0, in the opening set before winning the second, 6-4, to secure Barry's fourth point at the No. 4 flight.
"Everyone wants it," Vivas said. "Everyone wants to be here. Everyone wants a ring."
Barry's No. 2-ranked Marco Mokrzycki and Fabian Groetsch battled back from an early hole to defeat No. 7 Petr Michnev and Gerald Moretti, 8-6, at No. 1 doubles. Nineteenth-ranked Max Wimmer and Ollie Lemaitre were impressive, playing with marked intensity compared to a day earlier, in an 8-4 No. 2 pairs win over Maxime Halflants and Renault.
After No. 26 Wimmer fell to 15th-ranked Martinez-Vich, 6-2, 6-4, at No. 2 singles, Hawai'i Pacific drew within, 4-1. Wimmer remains tied with assistant coach Thomas Hipp with 67 career singles victories among Barry's all-time leaders. Mokrzycki is one doubles victory shy of matching Hipp's school record of 78 career pairs wins.
Leading by a game throughout most of the first set at No. 5 singles against Halflants, Lemaitre soon found himself down 6-5 and trailing 30-Love -- two points away from dropping the opening set. After hearing chatter from the other side, Lemaitre forced a first-set tiebreaker by winning four straight points and the ensuing game to draw even at 6-all. After winning the tiebreaker, 7-3, Lemaitre ran the table in the second set, 6-0, to seal the match for the Buccaneers.
"I started really fired up, but my opponent was as fired up as me, which made it really tough in the first set," Lemaitre confessed. "I stepped up my game, and won the first set in the tiebreaker. In the second set, I really stepped it up again. I played with more margin, and made the guy run a little bit more."
Now the Buccaneers will try to continue their run with Friday's semifinal match against the New York school.
"Tomorrow's another match," Lemaitre said. "It's probably going to be a tough opening again. But we've got to take matches by matches and hope for the best, and hope everybody comes out as pumped as today and do a great job."


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Series Preview: Mets v. Cubs, May 17 – May 19, 2013
The Cubs welcome the Mets for a weekend series at Wrigley Field, and I've already given you a reason to go to each game.
By way of reminder, the Series Preview hooks you up with what you need to know about every series this year – streaks, broadcast information, pitchers, expected lineups, etc. That way, if you want to check only one place to get a sense about an upcoming series, or to plan ahead, you've got it. There's also some fun stuff, because fun stuff is fun.
We're Going Streaking
The Cubs are on fire, relatively speaking, having won six of nine, and back-to-back series. They are a half game ahead of the Brewers for last place in the NL Central.
The Mets were surprisingly not terrible last year, but after an offseason of change, they stand at 15-23, worse than the Cubs. Before yesterday's win against the Cardinals, the Mets had lost six in a row.
Game Times and Broadcasts
- Friday, May 17 at 1:20 CT on WGN.
- Saturday, May 18 at 12:05 CT on CSN.
- Sunday, May 19 at 1:20 CT on WGN.
Expected Starters and Lineups
These lineups are likely to be pretty close to what actually gets fielded, but you'll want to check each day's Pre-Gamin' post for the actual lineup.
Starters: Edwin Jackson (1-5, 6.02), Scott Feldman (3-3, 2.53), Travis Wood (4-2, 2.03)
- David DeJesus, CF
- Starlin Castro, SS
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B
- Alfonso Soriano, LF
- Nate Schierholtz, RF
- Welington Castillo/Dioner Navarro, C
- Luis Valbuena, 3B
- Darwin Barney, 2B
- Pitcher
Starters: Matt Harvey (4-0, 1.44), Jeremy Hefner (0-4, 4.61), Dillon Gee (2-5, 6.13)
- Jordany Valdespin, RF
- Daniel Murphy, 2B
- David Wright, 3B
- Ike Davis, 1B
- Lucas Duda, LF
- John Buck, C
- Rick Ankiel (for realsies), CF
- Ruben Tejada, SS
- Pitcher
Hot or Not and Whom to Watch
For some reason, my gut told me that David DeJesus, who'd started out cold and then got scorching hot, had gotten cold again. I'm wrong – his line since May 2, the date on which I thought he'd gone cold, is .300/.378/.450. That's not cold at all That's damn good.
Take out his first two starts, and Scott Feldman has a 1.60(!) ERA in 33.2 innings of work with 29 Ks and just 10 walks. Of course, the .186 BABIP against helps, but who's counting?
Matt Harvey is insanely good, as I documented yesterday. If the Cubs score three runs off of him, that will count as rocking him.
David Wright has been David Wright this year, hitting .299/.410/.507.
John Buck has 10 homers, but a .289 OBP.
The Cubs reportedly pursued Shaun Marcum this offseason before ending up with better options. He's thrown just 21.1 innings for the Mets this year, with a 6.75 ERA. The Cubs don't face him this series, but I'm just sayin'.
Series She-View
The Series She-View is one beautiful woman representing the Cubs taking on another (usually) beautiful woman representing the opponent. The Cubs' representative will change as the team's needs change – in other words, if the Cubs are winning, the rep will stay the same. But if the Cubs' performance calls for a change, someone new will step in. The opponent's representative will change from series to series, at my whim. But at least she'll probably be wearing the opponent's colors or have some connection to the team or something like that. It is immature, and the connection to baseball is tenuous at best. These things, I know.
This year, the Series She-View will live over at the Message Board. Here's your She-View for the Mets series.
Caption the Enemy
A new feature for the Series Preview this year – since folks on the Internet can't get enough of cracking wise about pictures, I thought it might be a fun addition to the Series Preview. I'll drop in a picture (hopefully one ripe for captioning), and you'll drop in your clever captions into the comments. Then, if there are good ones, we can meme-ify them for use down the road.
I don't know that I'd want to catch a t-shirt from this guy (photo from M. Barron on Flickr):


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So I've got my first fatbike and done a couple of snow rides and am starting to wonder what chainlube to run. My Fatback's chain seems to have come very well greased, I'm guessing that it is still the packing lube on the chain but seems to be working fairly well (I've never run an FSA chain before, maybe they just throw a lot more lube on it at the factory). I personally will be riding between 5C (41F) down to -10C (14F) in fairly humid snowy conditions, but I'd also like to hear recommendations for colder, drier conditions too.
My current lube collection is pretty wide thanks to trips to IB as well as trail finds. Here's a list;
Boeshield T9 (my fave)
Prolink Gold (heard good things but haven't used due to issues with plastic bashguards)
Pedro's Chainj
Pedro's Icewax
Finishline Krytech
Finishline Crosscountry
White Lightning Epic, and Cleanride.
I'm going to test out what I've got, but any input/experiences from those of you with a few seasons under their belt would be appreciated!


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I have been a regular visitor of this site.
Since 486 has been withdrawn I can't see any new post in this site. That's really hearts. But I observed that still people are keep visiting this site.
I cleared 833 with 90% and 834 with 81%.
I don't think I found even a sigle question on RUP. I don't know much about RUP. I learnt about RUP only what is there in Larman. I didn't read anything separately on RUP. But still saying I didn't get any question from RUP. If you know concepts of OOAD well you can easily pass the exam.
Note that this exam is with UML 2.0. I had a bad time answering questions related to the UML 2.0. That's why my score is got affected badly.
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Yelp YELP, -0.21% shares rose 1.7%. The company has entered a partnership with Yahoo US:YHOO that will fold in Yelp's listings and reviews into Yahoo's search-engine results, according to The Wall Street Journal. Shares of Yahoo are up 1%.
Apple AAPL, +1.52% gained 1.8% as Icahn retreated from his earlier push to have the company buy back $50 billion more of its shares. Icahn said in a letter to Apple shareholders that he is dropping his proposal in light of the $14 billion in stock Apple has repurchased since late January.
Icahn's latest declaration comes after a proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. sided with Apple and rejected the investor's demands, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hasbro Inc. HAS, -0.46% shares bounced back from earlier losses to rise 5.4%. The toy maker reported a 0.4% decline in fourth-quarter profit on Monday that was weaker than expected. Quarterly revenue, which slipped 0.1%, was weighed down by a 16% slide in sales of products for boys.
Invesco Ltd. IVZ, +3.39% shares climbed 4.7%. The investment management firm recently reported fourth-quarter earnings of 58 cents a share, above the 57-cent-a-share forecast by analysts in a FactSet survey.
Hospira Inc. US:HSP shares rose 4.1%. The drug delivery company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Analysts polled by FactSet expect Hospira to earn 50 cents a share in the quarter.
Shares of Loews Corp. L, +0.53% slid 4.3%. The financial company said Monday its fourth-quarter loss widened due to substantial impairment charges stemming from its HighMount Exploration Production LLC business.
General Motors Co. GM, +0.39% shares dropped 3.3%. The U.S. auto maker last week announced fourth-quarter results which fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
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MCD: Are Big Macs losing their appeal in the U.S.? McDonald's Corp. MCD, +0.41% said its U.S. sales fell 3.3% in January, noting challenges that included the "severe winter weather." Global same-store sales rose 1.2% last month, boosted by a 5.4% increase in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa business. McDonald's shares fell 1.2%.
DKS: Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. DKS, -2.03% came off of earlier highs to trade up 2.1%. The athletic-goods retailer said Monday it raised its full-year earnings guidance to a range of $2.68 a share to $2.69 a share. The increase came after Dick's said same-store sales in the fiscal fourth-quarter beat its expectations.
NEM: Newmont Mining Corp. NEM, -0.56% shares rose 3.2% as gold added to its gains from last week. Gold for April delivery US:GCJ4 climbed $10.80, or 0.9%, to $1,273.70 an ounce as Chinese buyers returned to trading following the Lunar New Year holiday.
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"Jen (Sartor) was on fire," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "She and Callie (Kiselich) did a great job of controlling the middle. Brittany (Kessel) gave us some great digs that changed the tempo of the game and gave us the momentum."
The Lady Bucs were hot from the start, as ETSU clipped off eight-straight points to turn an 11-11 game one into a convincing 19-11 lead. ETSU led by as many as 11 points in the frame, while only allowing WCU to get within seven points in the 30-21 win. Sartor connected on six kills in game one, as Jennifer Emerson (
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ETSU continued to control its opponent in the second frame, as Sartor belted another seven kills with Kiselich adding five of her own. The Lady Bucs led by as many as seven, before capturing the 30-24 victory.
Game three was much the same, as the Lady Bucs made quick work of the Catamounts in a 30-18 decision. ETSU hit .274 for the match, while holding WCU to just .084.
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Date: 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT March 11, 2013 Location: Legal Research Center
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Lewis & Clark Law School will welcome William S. Dodge, Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law, as the 2013 Distinguished Spring Global Law Visitor. Professor Dodge will address faculty, students, and attorneys on the theme "International Comity in American Courts." A reception with Professor Dodge will follow the lecture.
Click here to register. Or RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com. This event is free and open to the public. Attendees will be eligible for 1 MCLE credit.
The International Law Society will also be hosting Professor Dodge for a lunch-hour forum in Room 2 at 12:15 on Monday, March 11th. All are welcome. Food will be provided.
Professor Dodge has been at UC Hastings since 1995, and is one of the United States' foremost experts on international law in domestic courts—a status recognized recently through his appointment and service during the 2011-12 academic year as the Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. The American Law Institute recently appointed him one of the reporters for the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law. Over the course of his career Professor Dodge has published a multitude of highly influential articles on topics relating to international law in U.S. courts, international business transactions, and international dispute resolution. In addition, he is co-author (with Detlev Vagts and Harold Koh) of the popular casebook Transnational Business Problems (4th ed. Foundation Press 2008), and a co-editor (with David Sloss and Michael Ramsey) of International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change (Cambridge University Press 2011).
Professor Dodge earned his JD degree from Yale Law School in 1991. After graduation, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court, and practiced at the law firm Arnold & Porter.
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Jose M. Hernandez took some down-to-earth advice from two genuine superstars.
Jose M. Hernandez took some down-to-earth advice from two genuine superstars.
Oprah Winfrey suggested he write a book. Barack Obama counseled him to run for public office.
Hernandez, who grew up working in the fields and orchards of San Joaquin County while dreaming some really big dreams, listened and learned. As he always has.
He tells his compelling story in "Reaching for the Stars," a personal and personable, English-language version of his 2010 autobiography-memoir. It was released on Sept. 4.
"It was more kind of in my bucket list to do anyway," Hernandez said of Winfrey's encouragement. "It was just a reaffirmation that it should be something to do."
Hernandez was prohibited from writing a book here until he left NASA in 2011.
His attempt to become a U.S. representative didn't similarly affirm Hernandez's political vision. He lost to Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, in the Nov. 6 election.
Hernandez hasn't lost sight of that star, though.
"I respect that people have the right to choose who they want to choose," Hernandez said. "But they (politicians) have to be held accountable. Never say never."
That's been Jose Moreno Hernandez's lifelong mantra.
The 50-year-old son of immigrant, campesino parents - Salvador ("my hero") and Julia, consistent focuses of his book and journey - Hernandez spent much of his childhood following the crops between San Joaquin County and Ticuitaco and La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico. Poverty and alienation were constant. Optimism always prevailed.
Born Aug. 7, 1962, in French Camp as the youngest of four siblings, he had to learn English while attending school. For Hernandez, math was magic. English was a mystery.
The 252-page book chronicles his odyssey: avoiding the dangers and temptations of east Stockton's streets; graduating as student-body president from Franklin High School; fulfilling his parents' wishes at University of the Pacific; participating in pioneering research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; applying seven times before being accepted for astronaut training; and getting closer to those stars while orbiting Earth 217 times as a flight engineer on a 14-day Space Shuttle mission in 2009.
He's built his memoir - with an introduction by Emilio Estevez - around reconstructed anecdotes and conversations, establishing a novelistic feel. It took eight months to re-fashion.
"I completely rewrote it," said Hernandez, now a Manteca resident with wife Adelita and five children. "I didn't do a verbatim translation. I retold it in English. It was kind of like writing two books. I'm slightly happier with the English version.
"I started as far back as I could remember, talking about my father's parents. Step by step. Major events. Why they occurred. How they occurred."
He proudly includes "my father's recipe he gave me after watching Apollo 17 (its final mission). Five steps. 'Hey, here's really what you need to do.' And a sixth ingredient: perseverance."
Though he'd never written anything so ambitious - he'd like to try a children's book now - Hernandez didn't seek editing input "until after I wrote everything down. I didn't want to be accused of being self-serving."
His story projects the language of hope, strength, idealism, optimism, persistence and humility.
Hernandez writes of being transfixed by the stars and moon during his family's winter trip to Mexico when "Pepe" (his nickname) was 6: "... That night there was a luna llena, or full moon, which followed me down the highway, never once losing sight of me. I did not take my eyes off my new friend until I finally fell asleep."
He affectionately and gratefully praises San Joaquin County teachers and advisers who recognized his precocity and encouraged him to pursue his education and dreams: "La Se�orita" Young at Fillmore Elementary School; Silvia Bello and Dave Ellis at Fremont Junior High and Franklin High; and Salvador Zendejas at Franklin.
Hernandez's early inspirations were "Star Trek" episodes - he'd hold the black-and-white TV's "rabbit ears" to get decent reception - and Franklin Chang Diaz, a pioneering Costa Rican astronaut. In college, the "Superman II" movie really convinced him he could fly in space.
He expresses fond recollections of growing up in a rented barrio house at 1205 N. East St.; mourns the fate of three teenage friends lost to the streets; and recalls the "constant worry" after being accepted by Pacific's Community Involvement Program, prompting exultation and trepidation. He still was working as a restaurant busboy and on the "graveyard shift" in east-side canneries, driving a 1964 Chevy Impala Super Sport and feeling excluded.
He persevered. After interning there as a student, the 1984 Pacific graduate (he's now on the Board of Regents) worked in research at Lawrence Livermore Lab, helping develop new digital technology that improved the dependability of mammograms.
He earned a master's degree in engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, joined NASA in 2001 in Houston, also working at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
His descriptions of life in space - no matter how technical or rote - still possess a sense of wonder:
"A lot of people ask, 'As a Catholic, you're a scientist and you've been up into space and didn't see God. Are you really a believer?' Yes, I went up there. It was a unique opportunity to have a window to see our Earth and universe.
"It was a solemn moment. All alone with all this beauty. There's no way to have such perfection be a coincidence. There is some higher being we don't understand that created all this."
A down-to-earth guy has provided some poignant insight in "Reaching for the Stars."
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Highest Bridge in the world
The Highest bridge in the world is Bailey bridge. It is located in the Ladakh valley between Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
It is 30 meters (98 ft) long and is at an altitude of 5,602 meters (18,379 ft) above sea level.
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World's largest floating Solar Farm launched in ____________.
China flicked the switch on the world's largest floating solar energy plant. The massive waterborne plant is expected to generate 40 megawatts at one time and could supply electricity for over 15,000 homes. The pioneering project, located in eastern China, is thought to cement China's status as a top producer of solar energy in the world. The plant has been built in Huainan city, Anhui Province, by Sungrow Power Supply, a Chinese company specialised in renewable energy.
The construction of the world's largest optical telescope has started in northern Chile, which is expected to begin operating in 2024. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is being built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and will have a main mirror that is 39m in diameter. The telescope will be positioned on top of Cerro Armazones – a 3046-metre long mountain Chile. It will tackle a wide range of scientific challenges, including probing Earth-like exoplanets for signs of life, studying the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and observing the universe's early stages to explore humans' origins.
India's longest bridge "Dhola-Sadia Bridge" has built over which tributary of the Brahmaputra River ?
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated India's longest bridge "Dhola-Sadia Bridge" in Assam on May 26, 2017. This three lane, 9.15 kilometre bridge has been built over river Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra river. It links Dhola in Assam to Sadia. The bridge will reduce the distance from Rupai on NH- 37 in Assam to Meka-Roing on NH-52 in Arunachal Pradesh by 165 KM. The travel time between the two places will come down from the current six hours to just one hour, a total five hour reduction. This will result in saving of petrol and diesel worth Rs 10 Lakh per day. It will also cater to the strategic requirements of the country in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, besides facilitating numerous hydro power projects coming up in the state.
World's highest railway bridge will be constructed on which river ?
Chenab River in Jammu & Kashmir in next 2 years. Its height is 359 mts i.e 35mts more than the height of Eiffel Tower.
India's first and longest sea ropeway will be built between which places, as announced on 24 April 2017 ?
India's first and longest ropeway to connect Mumbai with the famous Elephanta Island in the Arabian Sea is planned to be constructed by the Mumbai Port Trust, according to the official report.
The 8-km ropeway will begin from Sewri in Mumbai's east coast and end at Raigad district's Elephanta Island, globally renowned for Elephanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The largest flag of India measuring _______ feet was inaugurated on March 5, 2017 on the tallest flag post at the Indo-Pak Attari Border in Amritsar.
India's longest cable-bridge inaugurated by PM Modi in which state ?
PM Modi Inaugurated India's Longest Cable Bridge in Gujarat, a four-lane bridge over the river Narmada in Bharuch. The bridge is 1344 metres long and 22.8 metres wide. It is built by Larsen and Turbo as a part of the Rs. 379 crore project of the National Highway Authority of India.
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Vacant parcels on Holmes Road in Hickory Hill could be headed for a foreclosure sale after a group of borrowers that included Panattoni Development Co. leaders defaulted on multimillion-dollar construction loans, according to two first-run foreclosure notices in The Daily News Thursday, March 22.
Substitute trustee R. Spencer Clift III filed the notices for a planned April 13 sale on behalf of lender Wells Fargo Bank. Each notice covers one of two $4 million loans through Wachovia Bank, which has since merged with Wells Fargo.
The first notice is for about 60 acres at the southwest corner of East Holmes and Malone roads for which the Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2011 appraisal was $1.3 million. Listed borrowers are Mitchell Investments LLC, Rieger-Memphis Oaks Land LLC, Panattoni/Van Valkenburgh Joint Venture and Panattoni-Memphis Oaks Land LLC, joined by Panattoni Investments LLC.
The second notice is for about 26 acres on the south side of East Holmes between Lamar Avenue and Hickory Hill Road appraised at $356,400, with the listed borrowers being Panattoni-Eastpark 5 LLC, Van Valkenburgh-Eastpark 5 LLC, Rieger-Eastpark 5 LLC and Mitchell Investments LLC, joined by Panattoni Investments LLC.
All of the land is zoned industrial.
The terms of both loans state Carl Panattoni, founder, owner and chairman of Panattoni Development, or Whitfield Hamilton, partner in the company's Nashville/Memphis office – or entities controlled by either of them – be a manager or managing member of the first four listed borrowers on each loan.
Panattoni's Nashville/Memphis office is in Nashville.
The full notices are in the foreclosures section of The Daily News print edition and at www.memphisdailynews.com.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
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The Memphis City Council has approved a planned development for warehouse and distribution uses on part of the old Mall of Memphis property. The 113.5 acres is on the northeast corner of Cherry Road and American Way Boulevard.
The council also approved Tuesday, March 20, special use permits for two preschools by Harding Academy of Memphis Inc. The sites are 4.5 acres on Cherry Road at Haverhill Road and 3.4 acres on Macon Road at Cully Road.
A final vote on a zoning ordinance for the India Cultural Center & Temple Inc. campus master plan was delayed for two weeks. So was a vote on a budget amendment to fund renovations at The Liberty Bowl.
And the council approved the reappointment of V. Lynn Evans to the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board. The council is scheduled to vote in two weeks on the appointment of Derwin Sisnett to the utility board.
– Bill Dries
Pinnacle Airlines Corp. CEO Sean Menke and the Memphis-based company's chief operating officer, John Spanjers, are getting base pay raises and new job descriptions as the regional air carrier continues to navigate a restructuring.
The company announced Tuesday, March 20, that Menke's base salary will go from $425,000 annually to $675,000. With the pay raise comes a formal change in Menke's duties to include managing "relationships with employee, creditor and shareholder constituencies during the restructuring initiative" and negotiating "the restructuring of key business relationships."
Menke is also giving up cash awards based on the company's 2012 results that are part of a long-term incentive plan.
Menke announced Pinnacle's restructuring in December, saying the company could not continue to operate in the form it was in when he became CEO in July. He has since said Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization is one option Pinnacle may pursue in the restructuring.
Menke hired a consulting firm and attorneys to renegotiate a number of contract agreements the company has with employees represented by labor unions as well as with global air carriers for which Pinnacle provides connecting regional flights. He said in February the company's future depends on new long-term contract agreements with both sectors.
Spanjers annual base salary goes from $275,000 to $400,000 and he picks up some of the duties of Ted Christie, Pinnacle's chief financial officer, who recently announced his resignation effective at the end of March to work for another air carrier. Menke hired Spanjers in October.
Spanjers, like Menke, will work on the restructuring plan, specifically negotiations with Pinnacle partners and carrying out any new air fleet plans. He will also oversee Pinnacle's IT operations and work with regulatory authorities.
Fred's posted a 14 percent jump in fourth-quarter net income Wednesday, March 21, after the discount-store operator boosted customer traffic, opened 16 new stores and seven pharmacies and recorded a favorable tax adjustment.
For the quarter ended Jan. 28, Fred's earned $9.8 million, or 27 cents per share, up from $8.6 million, or 22 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2010.
Excluding the boost from the tax adjustment, the company posted an adjusted profit of 25 cents per share for the recent quarter.
Revenue rose 2.5 percent to $497.6 million from $485.6 million, largely as a result of the addition of new stores, which also included 24 pharmacies.
Sales at stores open at least a year, however, were flat.
Analysts, on average, expected a profit of 24 cents per share on $498.4 million in revenue, according to a FactSet poll.
For the full year 2011, Fred's earned $33.4 million, or 87 cents per share, up from $29.6 million, or 75 cents per share, in 2010. Revenue rose to $1.88 billion from $1.84 billion.
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Inferno has been awarded two first place awards and two merits from the National Agri-Marketing Association in the organization's Midsouth Best of NAMA competition.
Inferno's categories, client and entries for first place include a single-page ad series for Valley View | K&D Agri Systems for its "The Writing is on the Bin" campaign; and a radio series for Cache River Valley Seed LLC for its Dixie Wheat/MorSoy campaign.
The merit awards include a single-page ad series, logo ad campaign for Valley View Agri; and in the corporate identity category, a Valley View Agri logo.
All of inferno's winning work will advance to the National Best of NAMA competition in April.
– Taylor Shoptaw
Actor George Hamilton will be presented with a star on The Orpheum Theatre's "Sidewalk of Stars" on Thursday, March 22, at noon.
Orpheum president and CEO Pat Halloran will present the star to Hamilton – also an author, producer, host and "La Cage Aux Folles" star.
Installed in 1998, The Orpheum "Sidewalk of Stars" commemorates more than 70 famous entertainers who have performed on The Orpheum stage.
Born in Memphis and raised in Blytheville, Ark., Hamilton moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s. He performed several roles in numerous films but is best known for MGM films in the 1960s, including "Where the Boys Are," a coming-of-age romantic comedy in which Hamilton played a smooth Ivy League type.
"La Cage Aux Folles" starring Hamilton runs at The Orpheum Theatre through Sunday, March 25.
– Sarah Baker
Memphis native Ira Sachs' film "Keep the lights on" has been picked up for North American distribution by Music Box Films.
Memphian Adam Hohenberg is executive producer and his company Alarum Pictures shares a production credit.
The film will have its local premiere at the Indie Memphis Film Festival in November. Release dates have not yet been set.
"Forty Shades of Blue," Hohenberg's previous collaboration with Sachs, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance festival in 2005 and went on to play in theaters worldwide.
– Andy Meek
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