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Raburn homers in return to the field
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Ryan Raburn played the field for the first time since running into an outfield wall and also homered Monday as the Cleveland Indians beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3.
Raburn doubled while driving in three runs. He made a nice play at first base, too, on a low liner by Brayan Pena.
Raburn had been limited to designated hitter duty since crashing into the right-field wall on March 7.
Lonnie Chisenhall found out earlier in the morning that he earned a spot on the Indians' opening day roster. He celebrated with his second homer this spring, connecting off starter Alfredo Simon.
Jay Bruce had two hits, including an RBI double off Indians starter Carlos Carrasco.
Jason Kipnis hit a three-run homer off J.J. Hoover, who is one of the Reds' options for the closer role with Aroldis Chapman recovering from being hit above the eye by a line drive.
Guillen, Wedge join 'Baseball Tonight'
BRISTOL, Conn. -- Former managers Ozzie Guillen and Eric Wedge are in the ESPN lineup this season for "Baseball Tonight."
ESPN also said Monday that perfect-game pitcher Dallas Braden is set to become a studio analyst for the nightly show.
The opinionated Guillen last managed with the Marlins in 2012. He will be part of the ESPN crew throughout the season and work with Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Deportes.
Wedge will be on ESPN television and radio after managing Seattle last year. He is scheduled to make his debut Tuesday on a spring training game telecast.
Braden threw a perfect game for Oakland in 2010, and last pitched in the majors in 2011.
ESPN will take its pregame show "Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown" on the road several times this season, starting at Petco Park on March 30 when the Los Angeles Dodgers visit San Diego.
Woods still unsure about The Masters
WASHINGTON -- Tiger Woods says it's "a little too soon" to know whether his ailing back will be well enough for him to enter The Masters.
Speaking at a news conference Monday to announce that Quicken Loans is the new title sponsor of his golf tournament, Woods said he's been trying to get ready for the Masters on April 10-13 at Augusta National. It's the only major tournament he's never missed.
Woods is off to the worst start of his 18 years on tour, and last week he withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational because of persistent back pain.
Asked whether he'll play the Masters, Woods replied: "For Augusta, it's actually still a little too soon, to be honest with you. That's kind of the frustrating thing about this."
Goodell, NFL union plan to meet on work environment
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will meet on April 8 with the players union to discuss improving the workplace environment.
In the wake of the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal, league representatives have met with some 40 players in the last three months, as well as with the Dolphins and outside organizations, Goodell says Monday at the NFL owners meetings. The league is trying to get "as much input as possible. It's more about people understanding the importance of a proper workplace."
Goodell adds the focus is on medical evaluations of the players involved, including tackle Jonathan Martin, who left the Dolphins in the middle of last season, saying he was harassed by guard Richie Incognito. Martin was traded to the 49ers earlier this month.
Beckham group eyes Port of Miami for MLS home
MIAMI -- An architectural group hired by David Beckham is recommending the Port of Miami as a site for the soccer star's MLS expansion team.
The plan is for a 25,000-seat outdoor stadium with views of the bay and the downtown skyline. The capacity, however, could drop to 21,000 but able to expand to 35,000.
The team begins play in 2016. More than 30 sites have been evaluated, with four sites under "active consideration" -- Port of Miami, Marlins Park, Florida International University and the Miami Intermodal transportation hub near the city's airport.
Architects made clear they prefer the Port of Miami. The expansion team would have to play two seasons in a temporary home, likely FIU or Marlins Park, until the Port of Miami stadium would be ready by 2018.
Silver: Two years of college best for NBA players
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Adam Silver says he's heard the "Bill Gates theory" numerous times from critics over the last month: You shouldn't be required to attend college to become a millionaire.
But the new NBA commissioner steadfastly believes that basketball players should spend at least two years in college before being allowed to enter the draft -- instead of the required one.
Fair or not, he says it's simply best for the league.
Speaking before Monday's Rockets-Bobcats game in Charlotte, Silver says "I think two years is the right balance."
That means if Silver had his way Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins would be staying in school another year. But there's little he can do about that.
An agreement between the league and players association is not imminent.
Lakers' Gasol has vertigo, doubtful for game tonight
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Los Angeles Lakers center Pau Gasol has been diagnosed with vertigo.
Gasol isn't expected to play when the Lakers host the New York Knicks tonight.
The 7-foot Spaniard missed the second half of Los Angeles' victory over Orlando after complaining of dizziness and nausea. He spent the night in a hospital, but the Lakers said an MRI of his head was normal.
Gasol will be re-examined Tuesday, but likely won't play against the Knicks.
Gasol's vertigo is the latest in a staggering list of injuries and ailments for the Lakers (23-46), who are on track for their worst season since moving to California.
Marquette trying to move quickly in new coach search
MADISON, Wis. -- Marquette's interim athletic director says the school is trying to move as quickly as possible to hire a replacement for Buzz Williams.
Bill Cords told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday that the level of interest to replace Williams has been "very rewarding."
Williams was formally introduced Monday as the head coach at Virginia Tech. He left Marquette after six seasons.
Cords, as expected, is not revealing who is on his wish list of candidates and any information about interviews.


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Hi, Linh. I thought at first glance it said "Word Atlas" and I wondered if he was an embodiment of your story on how to learn a language from a dictionary. Linda
I don't think I have ever seen a book of words titled "Word Atlas", but that would doubtless would an inventive nice idea.
It would include idioms from many a language, and treat them comparatively.
A linguistic world tour.
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39 years after the masterpiece film "FANTASTIC PLANET" debuted at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Crucible PUBLICATIONS LLC ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF "PLANET SALV" in collaboration with Éditions Gallimard and Éditions Denoel Publishing. PLANET SALV will captivate fans of the 1973 film FANTASTIC PLANET as the novel brings a new story with new characters back to the "Fantastic Planet!"
An advanced intergalactic alien species….a reclusive & xenophobic alien race….a strange moon with secrets….all return to the "Fantastic Planet."
PLANET SALV by John F. Rychlicki III (working under the pen name Joshua Seraphim) is a science-fiction tale of an advanced species discovering its unique place in the "First Generation Galaxies." The Salvs of "Planet Salv " are an advanced humanoid species capable of extraordinary abilities including telekinesis, telepathy, consciousness transference, Psionics, and transliminality. The Salvs share their world with the Opians, a xenophobic race, less advanced and suspicious of the strange Salvs. Civilizations become at risk when the secrets of a mysterious moon, sacred to both Salvs and Opians are revealed in a stunning twist.
Copyright © 2014 John F. Rychlicki III Crucible Publications
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Page 2 Planet Salv
Chapter 2 Page 10 The Draags after Terr
Chapter 3 Page 11 Lattices of light
Chapter 4 Page 14 The Lost Planet
Chapter 5 Page 17 Seti and Tura
Chapter 6 Page 20 The Luminist Council
Chapter 7 Page 24 Seti's Toola
Chapter 8 Page 29 Salv concupiscent meditation
Chapter 9 Page 38 Kwai and Juuri's mindshift
Chapter 10 Page 45 Forbidding the IDRIS-11
Chapter 11 Page 58 The Time of the Tear
Chapter 12 Page 73 Orbital eclipse
Chapter 13 Page 83 The Fall of the Seven
Chapter 14 Page 100 Landing
Chapter 15 Page 113 Juno Occupation
Chapter 16 Page 120 The Camarilla collusion
Chapter 17 Page 128 Seti's return
Chapter 18 Page 137 Red Vapor
Chapter 19 Page 147 Salvs and Draags
Chapter 20 Page 152 Opian convergence
Chapter 21 Page 159 Fantastic Planet conjunction
Chapter 22 Page 164 Floating Monolith Pyramids
Chapter 23 Page 171 Awakening
Where is Planet Salv? Far beyond the farthest star you can see. Along the innermost Rim of Hoag's Object, an atypical ring galaxy, 600 million light years away in the constellation Serpens; a pale blue star illuminates the stellar expanse…a lone indigo sparkle hangs in the deep void, as the jewel of the First Generation galaxies. Here, asleep for an unknown time, are the Salvs.
Planet Salv was an indigo sparkle in a far corner of the first generation galaxies. Salv's indigo sparkle reflected its blue star off the planet's outer Febula rings, casting a reflective violet glow about the planet's atmosphere at nightfall. Salv had no natural satellite. Salv's sister world, which they called the "Lost Planet" hung low and radiant on the Salv horizon, never changing. The "Lost Planet" never moved. The timeless intruder in the Salvine sky had no natural orbit of its own.
An adult humanoid Salv reached up to a hundred meters high. Deep red and indigo in skin tone, shimmering dusts of light glowed in fantastic displays along the skin. Two lidless large penetrating golden eyes spiraled and reflected the starry cosmos during their chimerical meditations, and concupiscent rites. Salv divi tentacles hung the length of their bodies where auditory lobes would be on many humanoid species. Divis performed the function of sex organs and all sensory perceptions. Salvs chose not engage in vocal speech, communicating clairvoyantly.
Salvs shared their fantastic planet with the Opians. Co-habitation on Planet Salv was a unique situation for both races, each remained aware of the other's respective existence and domain. Opian brains were not as developed biologically on the evolutionary scale as their Salvic cousins. Ranging several meters shorter than the average-sized Salv, Opians were also humanoid bipeds, like Salvs. Opian skin hues ranged from light to darker shades of green. A minority percentage of Opians were light green skinned with blue highlights in contrast to the deep red and violet Salv skin tones.
Opian and Salv societies had an unusual coexistence, each aware of the other's civilization and levels of evolution. Opian society was reclusive and had little contact with the Salvs; their culture was xenophobic yet voyeuristic concerning their Salv cousins. Opians ranged up to several meters shorter than any Salv, both were bipedal, and humanoid, yet the Salvs possessed a sort of fluid glide in their movement due to the low gravity on their planet. Opians sauntered and scurried often quickly and held their upper bodies and head down as if in deference to Salvs they might encounter.
Opians had large lidless red eyes adding to the characteristic of a shy curiosity to Opian facial structure and their gait. Like their Salv cousins, the Opians were hairless and had two shorter divi tentacles hanging a quarter the length of their bodies where auditory lobes would be on many humanoid species. Their shorter divis performed the function of sex organs and all Opian sensory perceptions. Though not as different physically and biologically, Opians spoke vocally and had natural births resulting from sexual intercourse. Artificial biodomes , smaller than Salvic biodomes, served as dwellings for hundreds of tribal affiliated Opians, each further broken down into toolas, or familial units.
Psilocybes glided noisily across the Salvine sky, their long snouts snorting and chirping, at each other, unaware of hungry cephalopods called Peyotoids hovering patiently above. As the Peyotoids devoured their unsuspecting tasty prey, iridescent red Daturyte plants gurgled and chortled while towering psilozoyte plants fluttered and flapped. Sentient plant life swayed raucously while Salvic beasts crawled, floated, and hovered, all emitting sounds that would astonish human ears. Glowing mists floated beneath the indigo Salv horizon.
Millions of light years away, radiant red meditation spheres floated and drifted into the skies of Ygam, the Draag homeworld. It had been nearly a generation since the Era of Sinh, the period of the Masters of Ygam. Tiva was now a fully matured adult Draag. She had come to hypothesize about her and her father's role in the great peace between the Oms and Draags, facilitated by the Council led by her father, Master Sinh and her former domesticated Om, Terr. It was the whirling reality of the Great Zarek that had shifted such a great evolutionary change in Draag civilization, Tiva realized. She never saw Terr again after he left with her info bracelet when she was still a Draag child. Father and Mother had forbidden her to meet with any Om until the relocation of nearly all the Oms to their artificial satellite, Terra. By then Terr had lived out his human lifespan as Tiva matured into an adult Draag.
Tiva was not thinking of the Oms, nor were her meditations on the Oms or the dynamic evolutionary changes in Draag civilization. For several seasons now, Tiva and her compatriot's chimerical melding meditations were vivid, and yet troubling. Tiva sat in meditation with her compatriots, their spirits encased by glowing red spheres. The radiant red spheres rose high above their Uva into the skies of Ygam, drifting towards the Fantastic Planet. For what was about to occur on the Fantastic Planet were strange nuptial rites, and the fate of the First Generation galaxies would change forever.
Night was somnolent blue on the Draag homeworld. A single iridescent Draag mediation sphere rose and hovered…


text: D4 South Bend Tribune ourFAMILIES Tuesday, October 3, 2006 South Bend Tribune Story idea? South Bend 235-6321 Mishawaka 235-6551 Plymouth 936-1224 Niles (269) 687-7006 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK EDITION 50R One safety rule is ingrained in parents: No eating Halloween candy until it's inspected at home. But what parents may be unaware of is that many children have weak street-crossing skills that put them at risk for pedestrian injury or death on Halloween night, research shows. "Many parents overestimate the ability of their children to cross streets by themselves," says Vince Iannelli, a pediatrician in a suburb of Dallas. "Supervise your children on Halloween. Don't just send them out." Pirates and princesses, monsters and goblins can get excited and dart out at midblock or between cars instead of walking across at corners and crosswalks, says Iannelli, creator of the Web site www.keepkidshealthy.com. "It's hard to keep your group together with kids coming in all directions. It can be chaotic," says Iannelli, a father of three. "Some child will always run ahead to see what's at the next house." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pedestrian skills of children are limited by factors related to their size, coordination and developmental stage until about age 12: -Young children may lack the physical ability to rapidly cross the street, and their short stature limits their visibility to drivers. -Children have reduced attention spans, localize sounds poorly and lack sufficient impulse control. -Children do not evaluate potential traffic threats effectively and cannot anticipate driver behavior. To increase trick-or-treaters' visibility to drivers, Iannelli suggests parents add reflective tape to costumes and candy bags, and provide flashlights or glow sticks. Falls are another top Halloween hazard, he says, so be sure your child's costume is short enough to prevent tripping. Also, consider nontoxic makeup instead of masks that can restrict your child's vision. Before Halloween, youngsters need to be coached about what to expect -- not just about the rules of crossing streets, but about what's real and what's not. Not all children like surprises, and they count on their parents and teachers to ease them into a comfort zone. For some children, preparation means getting comfortable with their costumes ahead of time. Last Halloween, pediatrician Iannelli's 2 1/2 -year-old twins were supposed to wear Chubaka outfits. But when it came time to wear the costumes, they wanted no part of them. The best way to let your child have a safe and happy Halloween is to have your own party, suggests Debra Smiley Holtzman, author of "The Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Home Safety" (Sentient Publications, $14.95, 2005). Before you welcome your party guests, inspect your home from the perspective of the youngest person who will attend. Either for a party or trick-or-treaters, be sure to remove all potential tripping hazards from your steps, porch and sidewalk, says Holtzman, a child safety expert on Discovery Health Channel. Martin Belson, a pediatric emergency physician in Atlanta, says parents need to plan for safety regarding costumes, home decoration, trick-or-treating and candy. When shopping for costumes and accessories, buy only those with a label indicating they are flame resistant, says Belson, whose Web site is www.kidemergencies.com. The label "flame resistant" doesn't mean an item won't catch fire, but it indicates it will resist burning and should extinguish quickly once removed from the ignition source. For tips or questions, call our toll-free hot line any time at (800) 827-1092, or e-mail us at email@example.com. PARENT TO PARENT BETSY FLAGLER Directions: Q. My son died recently at the age of 27. At the funeral, half of my ex-husband's family didn't acknowledge me. It's been 20 years since our divorce. I have since remarried and have two more sons. My ex and I are on good terms. My question is if my ex should die, would it be out of place for me to attend his funeral? We do have one remaining son together. He's in his early 20s. A. Your question leaves us wondering what could have happened that people would be so cold-hearted as to shun a mother at her son's funeral. It doesn't have to be old home week -- a sympathetic nod is all that is required. That's something that even the most callous can manufacture. This leaves us to speculate what the reason for their poor ex-etiquette might be -- perhaps you devastated their family member and they've held a grudge, or your ex remarried and relatives have bonded with his new wife (out of respect for her, they thought they should shun you). It could even be as simple as they subscribe to an old-school divorce attitude and just plain didn't know what to do when they saw you again. We sincerely hope it was the last reason, because then they could plead ignorance. Otherwise the reason for their bad ex-etiquette at such a somber time was downright meanness, and that seems sophomoric at best. Based on process of elimination, we'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt -- they temporarily lost their minds and plead ignorance. Let's hope if they are put in a similar situation again, they will use better judgment. That said, if your ex passes away, good ex-etiquette dictates that you would attend the funeral to be of comfort to your son. If your ex has remarried and there's bad blood between you, your place might be to sit at the back of the funeral hall and not call attention to yourself, but be available to your son should he need you. Don't openly shun ex-relatives. Be the bigger person. This means, be open to kind interaction -- a nod, a hug if one is initiated. If saying something in person seems appropriate, do so. If not, before the funeral, a short heartfelt card to his present wife or other ex-relatives expressing your sympathies is not inappropriate. Or, if that seems awkward but you still feel you must send your condolences, do so via your son. Jann Blackstone-Ford and her husband's ex-wife, Sharyl Jupe, authors of "Ex-Etiquette for Parents," are the founders of Bonus Families (www.bonusfamilies.com). EX-ETIQUETTE JANN BLACKSTONE-FORD AND SHARYL JUPE The state motto -- Virginia is for lovers not fighters -- now applies to both dogs and humans. I believe that Virginia's new "Dangerous Dog" legislation is the better alternative to "Breed Bans" adopted by other local governments. Breed bans promote "breedism" which reminds me of racism and sexism because it limits the freedoms of individuals based on their physical appearance. I think Virginia is getting it right because it sanctions the individual, not the group affiliation. Although there are some reasonable exceptions, such as dogs defending their owner's property, in Virginia a dog is now labeled, "dangerous" if it attacks a person, dog or cat. I am delighted to see that the status of cats in our society has also been elevated in this legislation. I support the concept that when a dog is off his property and enters into an unprovoked attack on any civilized, living being, that the dog rightly deserves a criminal record. Virginia requires dogs of any breed exhibiting attack behavior to be registered in a statewide database that I hope evolves into a national registry for criminal canines. This database stores the human and pet information including the dog's picture, breed, and description of the crime. Dr. Rolan Tripp is a veterinarian and animal-behavior consultant. He is the founder of www.AnimalBehavior.Net. ANNIE'S MAILBOX KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR Dear Annie, My husband and I have been married for five years. During that time, my in-laws have never really accepted me. Because of some minor health problems that could make pregnancy difficult, my husband and I adopted a beautiful son from another country. Although it was initially my idea, my husband agreed and loves this child unconditionally. His parents, however, have not and will not. We recently had our son baptized. When my mother-in-law came for the baptism, she walked around our house with her sunglasses on and didn't speak to anyone. Our son tried to hug and touch his grandmother, and she turned and walked away. She told us she could never accept this child into the family. A few weeks later, my in-laws wanted to stop by on their way to a vacation. I told my husband that his father could come, but his mother was not welcome in my house again. My husband's father told him, "Have a nice life," and we haven't heard from them since. It's been almost two months. I feel so bad for my husband, and I know it's my fault. I am the one with the medical problems; I initiated the adoption; I am the one who said my mother- in-law was not welcome. We are currently seeing a counselor who has told us that my husband made the right decision in defending his wife and son. This makes me feel better, but there is still a lot of guilt, and I have a strong desire to fix things. Any suggestions? Daughter Out-law Dear Daughter, Some parents take a long while to accept an adopted grandchild, and you did not give your in-laws enough time to adjust. Face it. You have difficult in-laws. It will take 10 times more effort to win them over than you think you should expend, but it's possible to do, especially since you have your husband's strong support. You can work around your anger and make that effort, or you can cut them out of your lives. Talk to your husband about your options, and then discuss them with your counselor. Dear Annie, My morning bus ride to work has been repeatedly disrupted by two teenage girls who insist on discussing the minutiae of their social life in loud, shrill tones from the moment they hop on the bus until the moment it pulls into the station. I don't exaggerate when I say this is a daily punishment. I finally took it upon myself to firmly, but politely, tell them about the nature of public space and ask them to keep their voices down in the future. Several passengers thanked me for my efforts, and things were marginally quieter for the duration. What should I do if the problem persists? I don't wish to lose my temper in public, but their behavior is intolerable. Elizabeth in Montreal Dear Elizabeth, Register a complaint with the bus driver, and see if some basic rules of decorum can be enforced. If that fails, it's worth investing in a good set of headphones. Dear Annie, I read the letter from "Two Sad, Lonely and Hopeless Parents," who had to continue working past retirement age in order to keep bailing out their son and his family. I only have one question. If the daughter-in-law doesn't work outside the home, why are they paying "more than $200 per week" in day-care expenses? Wouldn't a stay-at-home mom be looking after her own children? Those "sad and lonely" parents should open their eyes and see that they are severely being taken advantage of. Just Wondering Dear Wondering, We noticed that, too, and assumed it was another way of extorting money from Mom and Dad. We hope their eyes are open now.


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Title: Play Fair
Series: The Devil's Share, #3
Author: L.P. Maxa
Genre: Contemporary Rockstar Romance
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Guitarist of the world-famous rock band The Devil's Share, no one would expect Jackson Cole to have a best friend who's a girl, but his relationship with Bryan Lawson is too special to endanger with sex…until a different girl—the waifish nine-year-old who claims he's her father—makes Jacks realize all that truly matters.
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Play Nice (The Devil's Share, #1)
Rock a stadium. Bang a chick. Repeat. As lead singer of The Devil's Share, Dash Conner could get anything or anyone he wanted—until he met Lexi Grant.
For Dash Conner, lead singer of The Devil's Share, everything he wanted was his for the asking. Whiskey. Drugs. Money. Sex. But not Lexi Grant. For the first time since he picked up a guitar, a girl was actually demanding he woo her. For a chance with her, Dash would do that and more.
Lexi Grant was no groupie. Just because the biggest rock star in the world smiled at her didn't mean she had to fall into bed with him—but it was going to be awfully hard to resist that impish smile and those tatted abs. Surely one night of fun wouldn't hurt anyone.
Unless that night ends with a broken condom.
For Lexi and Dash, that's just the beginning. Add an overly affectionate pit bull, a missing guitarist, a house full of sorority girls, a junkie ex-bandmate and an extreme aversion to Jäger, and it's either a recipe for disaster or true love.
Play Dirty (The Devil's Share, #2)
As bassist of the Devil's Share, Smith James revels in being the ultimate bad boy, until he meets a good girl…who likes it dirty.
Smith James doesn't need drugs. He just likes them a whole lot. And as bassist for the Devil's Share, they are easy to come by. So are the women. With a steady supply of both he doesn't have to think too hard about his past. But when a beautiful physician's assistant joins the tour, Smith can't help but want…more.
After watching her high school boyfriend OD, there is no way Dylan Lawson is going to fall for a rock star with a tenuous hold on sobriety, no matter how sexy his New Orleans drawl. She's been hired to do one job: monitor the health of the lead singer's girlfriend and her unborn baby. But once Smith flashes that sweet, vulnerable smile, Dylan can't help but want…more.
And more is what they'll get. Love on tour is never simple, and with a music festival in Smith's hometown, a place he's avoided for years, near his illiterate, abusive, meth-addled father, Smith is one bad night away from a relapse. But with her heart already lost, Dylan is willing to do whatever is necessary to save him—even play a little dirty.
L.P. Maxa lives in Austin Texas with her husband, daughter, 3 rescue dogs, 1 stray cat, and 1 fish that keeps dying and she keeps replacing so her toddler doesn't notice. She loves reading romance novels as much as she loves writing them.
L.P. is new to the writing game, but she has published 4 books in her first year alone. She says that inspiration can come from anywhere; a song lyric, a quote, a weekend with friends. The tiniest things spark amazing stories.


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Greece Denies Entrance to Yury Sivakow
According to RFE/RL
Greece denied entrance to the minister of sport and tourism Yury Sivakow who was to have headed Belarusian delegation at the Olympics in Athens. The reason for this step was the report of the PACE special rapporteur Christos Pourgourides where possible relation of Yury Sivakow to disappearances of well-known people was mentioned.
Anonymous EU official said to RFE/RL that the decision of the Greek authorities was agreed with representatives of all other EU countries and the EU presidency is expected to make an official statement on this step.
We should remind that in 1999 there disappeared the former minister of internal affairs Yury Zakharanka, the former head of the Central Electoral Commission Viktar Hanchar and his friend, businessman Anatol Krasowski and in 2000 – the journalist Zmitser Zavadski.
Among the recommendations in this year's report of the PACE rapporteur Christos Pourgourides there was the proposal to initiate criminal investigation for finding about the possible relation of duty officials of Belarus to the disappearances. Among the suspects there is Mr. Sivakow who was the minister of internal affairs at that time, the present prosecutor general Viktar Sheyman and the vice-colonel of internal affairs Zmitser Pawlichenka.
This decision was commented by the head of the PACE commission on Belarus Yonas Chekuolis:
-- This decision can be a result of the discussions we head at PACE in April, when the situation with the missing public activists in Belarus was discussed. The report of the Cypress deputy Pourourides contained surnames of the persons that could have relation to these disappearances. Sivakow was among them. We are grateful to European states for having paid attention to our conclusion, the conclusion of the Council of Europe.
Aliaksey Znatkevich and Yury Drakakhrust, Radio "Liberty", Prague


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Obsessive Tanaka Watch: Down to Dodgers and Yankees? Watch Out for Cubs?
Still nothing firm from the stateside media on this weekend's "three finalists" report in the hunt for Masahiro Tanaka.
- The Sun-Times' Daryl Van Schouwen hears from an industry source that the price tag on Tanaka could hit $140 million. That figure isn't especially surprising, particularly from an industry source, given that six years and $120 million (plus the $20 million posting fee) is what most sources have been spitballing for a while now. Of course, if Van Schouwen is hearing six years and $140 million on the contract, plus $20 million for posting, that's a significant investment, indeed. The AAV, to the team, of a six-year, $160 million contract is $26.67 million per year. Is that really a reasonable sum for Tanaka? Is it an amount you'd be pissed about the Cubs not matching?
- To be sure, all that was said was a price tag of $140 million. We generally assume six years, since that tends to be the standard deal in these situations, but it's always possible that a team could go to seven or eight years, making a $140 million contract slightly more reasonable. Of course, a seven or eight-year investment in an arm – even a 25-year-old one – is a considerable risk. Throw in the fact that he hasn't been tested in the big leagues (as much as scouts love him) and the heavy workload as he's come up … I start to hem and haw a little bit about what kind of deal makes sense here, particularly when you consider the possible pitching free agent class next year.
- Ken Rosenthal says that the expectation in the industry is that the Yankees or Dodgers will land Tanaka. Buster Olney seems to concur. That's pretty much the expectation here, as well.
- As for the third "finalist" for Tanaka – the Yankees and Dodgers being the other two – the Angels didn't actually meet with Tanaka when he was in Los Angeles, according to Angels' GM Jerry DiPoto. That certainly suggests that they aren't a serious contender for Tanaka, even if wishes they were. Outside of those "finalist" reports, the Angels have not been considered among the top tier – in terms of likelihood – of suitors for Tanaka. Candidly, Tanaka landing with the Angels would surprise me more than Tanaka landing with the Cubs. Again, the Yankees and Dodgers seem most likely.
- It's still unclear whether the Red Sox will be involved. We've heard strong reports on either side of the question, but Boston did not meet with Tanaka in Los Angeles, either. That said, Nick Cafardo reports that the Red Sox have had discussions about Tanaka with agent Casey Close. Can't quite rule them out, I suppose.
- MLB.com pundits take a crack at projecting where Tanaka lands, and the Yankees loom large. Marlon Anderson guesses the Cubs, for whatever tiny bit that's worth.
UPDATE for Jayson Stark (cue the "every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in" line) says: "Brought up the name, 'Tanaka,' to 2 people at owners meetings this morning. They both had the same response: Beware of the Cubs."


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Today is officially the first of summer, and suitably equinoctal it is too - daffs in full fettle and lots of blossom in the hedgerows. For the first forage of the year, I was out gathering alexanders. This was once a potherb, so they say, brought by the Romans and naturalised around the verges and cliffs of England. It's a handsome plant whose stems can be eaten like asparagus, and the young leaves of which add a bit of zing to a spring salad. But I was gathering buds and flowers.
The flowers grow in bracts of creamy greenish white and are very attractive to insects. Under the open flowers you can find furled up against the stem a round ball of the flowers yet to come. These taste a little stronger than the flowers and can be used like capers.
A pinch of partly opened flowers (the buds are about the size of a pinhead) is a nice snack while walking, tasting something like cucumber with mustard seed: a very fresh green taste with a bit of heat to it.
Sprinkle them raw on salad leaves. We like french bread with a slice of goats cheese sprinkled with alexander buds and a little black pepper and grilled- actually the black pepper is slightly redundant, as the buds have enough zing in them. They are also good on hardboiled eggs.
I picked enough to pickle some for later use: bring some cider vinegar to the boil, drop in the buds and leave to cool before storing in a sterilised jar.
An experimental forage - not sure how it will work out - is some buds of balsam poplar. The smell of this tree in spring perhaps the most heavenly countryside scent I know, but it's oddly fugitive. Alan Bennett in his autobiographical writings describes getting a whiff of it while in company with a fellow undergraduate and thinking his companion had the odour of sanctity. He says he took some into Penhaligans, the very posh perfumier, and asking if they had something similar, but no joy.
You get a breath of it around this time of year, but it is hard to tell exactly what part of the tree it comes from. I think it is the brown carapaces of the new buds, which exude a stickiness when in sunlight. Anyway, I gathered a handful of these from a long row of the trees, a slow forage as I only wanted to take a couple from each tree in case it harms them.
Half I have put in a little jar and covered with almond oil and half in a jar with vodka - not to drink, but as a potential transporter for the scent. Last year I experimented with talcum powder but it didn't quite work: we shall see how it goes this time around. It would make an ambrosial perfume, I think, if I could get medium right.
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RDF USA hires two executives
Jennifer Danska, Kevin Shinnick join production companyJennifer Danska has joined RDF USA as senior vp development and current, and Kevin Shinnick has come aboard as vp production.
Additionally, Miranda Wang has been upped to vp business and legal affairs and Andy Lennon to CFO.
Danska will shepherd the creation and development of new and current nonscripted programming for broadcast and cable networks, reporting to Chris Coelen, CEO of RDF Media USA.
Danska comes to RDF from E! Entertainment, where she was vp talent, development and casting. There, she developed and helped launch E!'s "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood," "Candy Girls" and "Taradise." She also brought Kimora Lee Simmons to Style and helped create the net's series "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane."
Shinnick oversees all aspects of RDF USA's West Coast productions and RDF's postproduction facility, reporting to COO Tony Yates. Shinnick, a 14-year production veteran, comes to RDF from Painless Prods., where he was vp production.
RDF USA has been on a hiring spree for the past few months, tapping development execs Claire O'Donohoe and Lauren Gellert and inking a content partnership deal with Omnicom and Full Circle Entertainment, bringing Robert Riesenberg and his team into the company fold.


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Gamertag Radio writes: "When a person enters the world of online gaming today they expect bigotry, cursing, cheating, and generally poor sportsmanship. It is a sad state that online gaming has entered, especially for those of us that were a part of the "glory days". My online experiences all started on PC with services such as T.E.N. (Total Entertainment Network) and MPlayer. I remember playing Quake because it was fun and competitive. The only things I had to worry about were my frames per second and ping; didn't have to stress myself out with hackers or switch boxes. It was a tremendously good experience. [Editor's Note: Those days, how I miss you.]"
I'd say its around the time that the gamers who cared more about specs and brand names than the games themselves took the majority.
when little kids thought swearing was cool. and parents didn't know that they shouldn't be letting their kids play rated m games, to a point
Game since the atari days and it use to be so simple. You either love a game or not. When you buy a game you get a full game.
It was all about fun. Nowdays i am not sure.
It's all fun and games until you come across someone that's Android 17 arrogant, salty losers, people that act like they NEVER had a bad game, hosts that kick you out for winning, or as soon as you join the lobby, and the list goes on.
Many lost their way when they started using tech jargon when in reality they have no idea what it actually means or how its applied to gaming.


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These hand-tooled leather journals have lenth of leather lace to hold them shut. Use them to keep your diary, appointments, poetry, notes, and plans. These make very nice gifts for heralds, bards, and royals who have to make speeches or sing in public and need some place to keep the words. They are also good gifts for vigils and for Wedding and Anniversary Guest Books. How will you use it?
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text: From the author of Tower of Fear (1989), the first hardcover appearance for an established paperback military fantasy series about the Black Company, a sort of extended family of mercenary warriors. This particular adventure is narrated by their standardbearer, Murgen, who has a problem: His awareness keeps jumping into the past, where he is forced to relive the siege of the stone city Stormgard by the evil wizard Shadowspinner and his forces. Within the city, the Black Company is split between the Old Crew--Murgen and friends--and the Nar, cannibals and death-goddess worshippers, whose leader, Mogaba, attempts to betray the Old Crew and claim the leadership of the entire Company. Allied with the Old Crew are the Nyueng Bao, a wandering band of pilgrims and expert sword fighters. In the present, meanwhile, the Black Company and the Nyueng Bao must battle the evil wizard Soulcatcher and her hordes of Strangler assassins--and also try to discover what's making Murgen jump about in time. Some good ideas, and intriguingly structured, but theatrical and with far too little action to attract readers unfamiliar with the series.


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1888 N338-1 S. F. Hess California League "McGinty Steals A Base"
Starting Bid - $2,000, Sold For - $6,463
Graded GOOD 30 by SGC. "1 of 1"! The only N338-1 S. F. Hess California League "McGinty Steals A Base" ever graded by SGC or PSA. This is an incredible rarity! Among the short list of virtually impossible to obtain sample cards, the sepia N338-1 S. F. Hess California League cards have always been at or close to the top. Offered is an amazing two-player example of McGinty ("Steals A Base"). This card exhibits superb photo quality, with extraordinary detail, including advertisements on the outfield wall in the background. Close examination even reveals another player in the background, and with a magnifying glass, most of the lettering of the advertisements on the outfield wall can be easily read. Very clean both front and back, only a heavy vertical crease down the center keeps SGC from grading this exceptional example higher. In addition to being an unusual action scene featuring two players (one of only three in the set), this particular S. F. Hess card is also noteworthy in that it has a very unusual design, with the photograph presented in a "diamond" window. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only card in the set with this unique design. In addition to being the only N338-1 S.F. Hess of this style, it is also the only nineteeth-century card from any set we have ever seen with this design. When Lew Lipset's The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards Volume 1 - 19th Century Cards was published in 1983, he noted that S. F. Hess California League cards "must rate with Four Base Hits as the rarest of the 19th century photographic cards." At that time sixteen cards in the set were known to exist, including eleven different in the Burdick Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Four new additions to the set have been discovered since, including the uniquely designed "McGinty Steals A Base," which was completely unknown in 1983. We believe that only one other example of McGinty is known to exist. The last sample card of any player from this rare set we offered was a PSA 6 example of Levy of the Haverlys, which appeared as Lot #132 in our May 2005 auction and sold for $17,400. (Incredible collecting note: Years ago that card was lost in transit, the loss related to a extremely severe storm, and it presumably no longer exists.) This is a very rare opportunity to acquire an extraordinary and almost impossible to find example of one of nineteenth-century baseball-card collecting's most elusive and prized sample cards. Reserve $2,000. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $6,463
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NOTE: A lot of people have reported problems using a Mac to do the firmware update. We strongly recommend using a Windows PC or a Mac with bootcamp. It is safe and simple. But if you really want to have a go, here are the instructions:
The general process today, before we make it automated, is to; (A) connect the KICK to your computer (B) Delete the old firmware.bin file (C) Copy the new firmware.bin file to the KICK.
However, due to reasons beyond comprehension things are not as simple as A,B,C with Apple computer. We need to B & C manually. Some of you will be familiar with command line on a Mac, for everyone else we tried to make it as clear as possible. The following steps will walk you through the commands to delete and copy the firmware files.
In future, this will all be automated through the app.
- Download the latest Kick firmware (go to riftlabs.com/downloads, save it to your Mac). Open a Finder window and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the firmware file
- Connect the Kick to your Mac (connect the USB cable, Hold the WB+ key while turning on the Kick)
- Open terminal. The easiest way is to click open Spotlight (the magnifying glass in the very top right of your screen) and type Terminal. The app should open
- Type the three following commands (or just copy and paste them in to Terminal)
- Navigate to the KICK with: cd ../../Volumes/KICK/
- Delete the old firmware with: sudo rm firmware.bin
- Copy the new file across with: sudo cp [drag and drop the new firm from Finder to Terminal, it will auto-complete the text for you] .
- (note that "full stop" / "period" at the end after the drag & drop instruction – it's important you type that)
- Eject the Kick, turn it off and on again (press reset if off/on does not work).
Here's a video walkthrough of the above steps. If you have any issues at all, please contact us. Thanks for you patience while we work on making this automated.


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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
A teenage girl is convinced that her home city revolves around her until her family packs up and moves to the suburbs, where she finds herself competing for attention.
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(mbc.net) Suddenly catapulted into the wilderness of a New Jersey suburb, New York City girl Lola feels like her life has come to an end.
Lola's only salvation is the music of her favourite rock band, Sidarthur and her new friend Ella, a fellow Sidarthur fan.
But soon Lola's big-city attitude gets her in trouble, especially when she crosses paths with the school's queen B,Carla.
Keen to knock Carla down, Lola sets out to take the much-desired lead in the school play.
But when Sidarthur announces it is breaking up and playing a sold-out final show, Lola makes it her mission to get a ticket, which Carla already has.
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Directed by: Sara Sugarman
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Several WWE stars took to Twitter to comment on Brock Lesnar's unanimous decision victory over Mark Hunt at UFC 200 tonight. You can check out their comments below starting with Lesnar's SummerSlam opponent, Randy Orton:
Congrats to @BrockLesnar on the #UFC200 win. See you at #SummerSlam. #VipervsBeast— Randy Orton (@RandyOrton) July 10, 2016
Hahahahahaahaahaha even #brock has forsaken USA. FIGHTING FROM CANADA hahahahahaahaahaha— Rusev MACHKA (@RusevBUL) July 10, 2016
Yes! Brock!— John Layfield (@JCLayfield) July 10, 2016
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Loved #BrockLesnar speech after!!!! #UFC200 #TheBeast— Nikki & Brie (@BellaTwins) July 10, 2016
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. @BrockLesnar wins! Congrats Brock not jst because u r an amazing athlete but mostly because u r an amazing human being!! C u @ #Summerslam— Lilian Garcia (@LilianGarcia) July 10, 2016
#UFC200 @BrockLesnar is right. We all need to stick together. Good fight tonight buddy.— Heath Slater (@HeathSlaterOMRB) July 10, 2016
Beast... ????????????#UFC200— Andrade Cien Almas (@AndradeCienWWE) July 10, 2016
Congrats to #TheBeast @ufc ????— Eva Marie (@natalieevamarie) July 10, 2016
Congrats @BrockLesnar! Looking forward to you and Randy at @WWE #SummerSlam! #VipervsBeast— Booker T. Huffman (@BookerT5x) July 10, 2016
Brock is the man. #UFC200— Zack Ryder (@ZackRyder) July 10, 2016


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The Galapagos Islands that so impressed Charles Darwin still inspire awe in the tens of thousands of travellers who visit each year.
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No one knows when Lonesome George was born but his death in the Galapagos in June 2012 made headlines around the world.
George was the last of his kind, "the rarest creature in the world"; the only surviving member of a subspecies of giant tortoise from the goat-ravaged island of La Pinta, who spent the last four decades of his long life at the Charles Darwin Research Centre on Santa Cruz Island.
Lonesome George's story is one of the thousands Juan Manuel Salcedo is passionate to share. Thanks to the work of conservationists such as him, the stories are becoming more positive.
The young naturalist and tour guide was born on the Galapagos and grew up there, exploring the islands in his father's boat, learning first-hand the wonders of the archipelago that so impressed a young naturalist from England 150 years earlier.
Climbing volcanoes, wandering amidst the iguanas and lava lizards, swimming with penguins and sea-turtles and observing the islands' unique birds Salcedo was, he says, "completely hooked with the idea of nature" very early in his life.
"I was very fortunate... (to have) had the chance to wander in Darwin's laboratory" he told me as we sat just back from the beach where Charles Darwin first landed in 1835 during his voyage on The Beagle.
"I'm living a dream. I lived a dream as a child and I live a dream now where I can teach people about the place I love."
The Galapagos, 900 kilometres from the coast of Ecuador, comprise an archipelago of geographically young volcanic islands shaped by their isolation and what Salcedo describes as "a unique ocean current dynamic".
With a permanent population of around 25,000 and strictly controlled migration and tourist numbers, the islands are famous for plants and animals found nowhere else in the world including the endemic species of tortoises, mockingbird and finches that inspired Darwin's ground-breaking theory of evolution and natural selection.
Conservation efforts didn't really begin until 1959 when Ecuador declared the Galapagos a national park and the Charles Darwin Foundation was established. In previous centuries the islands had been raided by pirates and whalers hunting tortoises for meat; in the early 1800s settlers arrived from the mainland and began clearing for crops. Invasive animals including goats, rats, donkeys and pigs took hold.
Tortoise numbers were drastically cut and some subspecies became extinct. However in recent years the population has been boosted by captive breeding programs and, on some islands at least, the eradication of feral animals.
Salcedo cites the example of the island of Espanola where only 14 giant tortoises had survived.
"Those 12 females and 2 males were recovered from the island and taken into captivity to start the captive breeding centre in the 1970s and successfully today there's over 1200 animals living in the wild and we know that the first natural breeding process has happened, " he says.
The National Parks Service has recently embarked on an expensive and ambitious project to rid the Galapagos of rats by dropping more than 20 tonnes of poison on islands uninhabited by people.
Rats eat the eggs and young of birds, tortoises and iguanas.
Salcedo says the project will eventually expand to the populated islands.
"Hopefully by 2015 is the goal, I think, to have the archipelago free of rodents which is quite an achievement for the world."
Despite some conservation successes Salcedo says the future remains challenging. The aim is "to keep the islands as pristine as possible as time goes on".
The Galapagos was declared a World Heritage site in 1978. Between 2007 and 2010 the islands were listed as endangered until Ecuador convinced the UN it was improving efforts to protect biodiversity.
Salcedo would like better education for those people who live on the archipelago but never leave the towns, to help them "to be able to take care of it, to learn from it, to love it and then protect it."
In the meantime he continues to live his dream, sailing, exploring, learning - and sharing with travellers the wonders of his backyard.


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THE Tampa Bay Devil Rays are considering a name change. A change in their won-lost record would do more for them, but they are willing to take small steps, or steps over which they have some control, to change their losers' image.
They will probably not become the Miami Devil Rays of Tampa Bay. Someone else beat them to that marketing idea. They will certainly not become the Tampa Bay Naimolis. There's no reason to dredge up the memories of the elements of the team that turned off their fans in the first place. Vince Naimoli, the original owner, is gone, and Devil Rays fans want to forget him.
Rick Vaughn, the team spokesman, said yesterday that the team would probably change its name, but that he didn't know to what extent -- whether it will be a completely new name, or a slight redaction with the removal of the word Devil.
Matt Silverman, the team president, said last week that focus-group discussions showed that Devil Rays and Devil had developed negative connotations. The truth is that the team, no matter what its name, has created a negative connotation with its overwhelming number of losses and last-place finishes the past eight seasons under Naimoli's ownership.
Whatever name they choose, the Devil Rays have a far more legitimate reason to change their name than the team in Southern California whose combined name over the years would be the Anaheim California Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.Continue reading the main story
The Angels are in court in Santa Ana, Calif., defending their current name against a lawsuit filed by the city of Anaheim. Arte Moreno, the team's geographically challenged owner, changed the name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, seeking to capitalize on the larger Los Angeles market for advertising and sponsorship purposes.
The only apparent reason he tagged Anaheim to the end of the name was that the team's lease at Angel Stadium requires that the city's name be included in the team's name. In defending the lawsuit, the team's lawyers said that the Angels had adhered to the lease's terms by including the city's name.
In reality and in practice, Anaheim has been wiped off the face of the baseball map. The city may as well go back to being part of the Jack Benny trilogy of Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga. The major league Angels didn't exist in Benny's day, and Moreno doesn't want Anaheim to exist in his day.
During his trial testimony last week, Moreno acknowledged that the club sent memos to other clubs asking them to quit referring to Anaheim as part of the team's name. He said it was a mistake.
Saying the name change was all about "the L.A. media market," he noted that people don't refer to the Yankees or the Mets by using the Bronx or Queens; they say New York. Maybe Moreno missed the day his geography teacher taught his classmates that the Bronx and Queens are two of the five boroughs that make up a city called New York.
Anaheim is not a borough of Los Angeles. It's not even a suburb. But Moreno decided it was close enough that he was justified in hijacking part of the Dodgers' name.
Moreno said during his testimony yesterday that he never spoke with the Dodgers' owner, Frank McCourt, about his plan to use the city name that rightfully belonged to McCourt.
So the Dodgers had no say in the matter. Commissioner Bud Selig did, but he said nothing other than O.K. to Moreno.
Selig has declined to discuss the issue, but he evidently felt that the Angels' usurping of the Dodgers' city name would not hurt the Dodgers, and if it helped the Angels generate more revenue, good for them.
But it's bad for baseball.
Moreno doesn't see that view. In much of his time on the witness stand last Friday, he seemed to be treating the case humorously. At one point, an Anaheim lawyer noted Moreno's sarcastic response to a question and reminded him that this was a serious trial. Moreno apparently doesn't think so, and won't think so unless the jury rules for the city and awards it the $100 million it seeks for lost revenue resulting from the name change.
Moreno can argue that Anaheim remains in the team name, but it disappeared from newspapers and television last season. The Associated Press, which is never beholden to anyone but its news-media members, served as Moreno's enabler, calling the team Los Angeles in schedules, pitching summaries, box scores and game reports.
The A.P. adopted the change because Major League Baseball did, and newspapers willingly went along with the change. Many newspapers probably found it easier to ignore the obvious incongruity of a team playing in Anaheim calling itself Los Angeles than making changes manually before the A.P. copy went into the paper.
If Anaheim hoped to promote tourism via the Angels, hoping that people would see the city's name in their local newspapers and think of vacationing there, the Angels' act created a problem. The Angels were no friends of the city they supposedly represent.
This is a matter, of course, for the Orange County jury to decide. The commissioner could also decide it. He needs only to overturn his original decision.Continue reading the main story


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Sorry guys, but your NYE is really going to suck, and AsapSCIENCE has the scientific evidence to show why.
There's no single scientific reason why you're likely to have a bad December 31st, just a bunch of contributing factors... but there's also a glimmer of hope for those of you determined to beat the odds and enjoy yourselves.
First up is the old problem of expectations vs reality: in a 1999 paper, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University interviewed 475 people about their plans for New Year's Eve and how much fun they expected to have.
When following up after the big night, the researchers found that 83 percent of the participants of the study had been disappointed by their NYE celebrations.
"High expectation can lead to disappointment, and... spending time and effort (and perhaps money) [on] an event can increase dissatisfaction," write the researchers. "Explicit efforts to achieve happiness can, at least in some situations, backfire."
In other words, the occasion of New Year's Eve can cause us to get our hopes up too high, especially if we've invested a lot of time and effort in it.
The same study hints at reason number two for having a bad time: we're just trying too hard.
In a separate experiment, participants were played a piece of music – some of the group weren't given any particular instructions while the music played, while others were told to try and enjoy the experience as much as possible.
As it turned out, those told to be happy found it most difficult to be happy. In the words of the study: "Individuals' efforts to pursue happiness may have led to frustration, which undermined their ability to feel the pleasure that they sought".
Next up is the optimism bias, the way our brains are naturally hard-wired to expect the best, no matter what the facts or reality may tell us.
The same bias affects newlyweds, most of whom think their marriage will flourish, even though the rate of divorce in the US hovers somewhere between 40 to 50 percent.
Coming fourth in our tale of NYE woe, there's reflection. As shown in a 2014 study, people approaching a new decade in their lives (about to turn 30, 40, 50 and so on), are prone to making big, life-altering decisions – such as taking up marathon running or visiting a website dealing in extra-marital affairs.
Hitting a big age makes "people audit the meaningfulness of their lives", the researchers explain in their paper, and it's the same when one year ticks over into another: some existential dread can creep in, as well as feelings of regret as we look back.
Number five on the list probably won't be new to you – our old friend alcohol, a staple of many a NYE party, which gradually affects the electrical signals in the limbic part of the brain.
The limbic system controls our emotions, and as the booze interferes with it, we become more prone to mood swings and perhaps amplified feelings of sadness that wouldn't be so strong if we weren't tipsy.
At number six – and don't worry, we're nearly there – is the sheer cost of New Year's Eve. Restaurants and bars will often put up their prices, and we spend more on booze and food – and for a lot of us, spending more cash than we need to isn't a pleasant experience.
In fact, we're happiest when we're spending our money by giving it away, not paying over-the-odds at a bar on NYE.
Interestingly though, even something as apparently minor as whether or not we're spending a round figure can make a difference: a study of Uber surge pricing has shown that more people take a cab at 2.1x the regular rate than 2.0x, because there's something about a round number that rankles.
The final reason you're unlikely to enjoy New Year's Eve is the midnight kiss, at least for those who are single: the added stress of feeling desperate and/or obliged to hook up with someone (and share around 80 million bacteria with them) can make us miserable too.
So, sorry to be a New Year grinch, but the scientific odds are stacked against you as the clock ticks to midnight on December 31.
To stay upbeat, just try to remember that there are 364 other days in the year, so don't force yourself to be happy. And who knows? You might end up having a pretty decent time after all.


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Talking ganja while raising money
The Couples Swept Away Resort in Negril was a buzz of excitement for guests in attendance at the Negril Chamber of Commerce fundraising gala last Saturday night.
The local business group was seeking to raise funds for two major community projects, but also used the opportunity to show support to local and international advocates of the decriminalising of ganja.
The lavish spectacle featured keynote speaker Dr Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), an advocacy group for drug policies "grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights".
According to Nadelmann, who founded the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy institute in 1994, which was later merged with the Drug Policy Foundation to form the DPA, 70 per cent of Americans believe marijuana must be legal for medical purposes, while 53 per cent support the drug being given the same recognition as alcohol. Most Americans are of the view that it should be accessible to adults.
He further challenged the Jamaican authorities to act with greater urgency to reform the policies governing the use of marijuana or risk being left behind by other countries.
"Anyone who would say today that Jamaica cannot move forward with ganja law reform in fear of what the US will do, that's not true anymore," said Nadelmann. "You better start moving, or the world is going to leave Jamaica behind. There is now a bill that is receiving bipartisan support in Kingston, but it seems to me to be moving on what people call ... Jamaica time, but at some point, Jamaica time becomes out of time, but if you want this to happen it's got to happen now."
Others in attendance were Senator Angela Brown Burke, mayor of Kingston and St Andrew, her husband, Paul Burke, general secretary of the People's National Party, and a member of the Cannabis Commercial and Medicinal Research Task Force (CCMRT); Delano Seiveright, CCMRT director and caretaker for the East St Thomas constituency;Wanda James of the Cannabis Global Institute from Colorado, USA, among others.
Proceeds from the gala will fund projects in the entertainment capital, including the establishment of a proper garbage collection system in the entertainment capital, and the refurbishing of the Negril Health Clinic.
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One woman was transported to an Odessa hospital this morning, after the pick-up she was driving collided with a trash-hauling truck on the east side of Pecos.
Emergency crews and local law enforcement officers responded to the wreck, at the intersection of Pine and Third streets, at around 7:30 a.m., according to the police and eyewitness reports.
The police report states that Hector Ramos Valenzuela, 50, was traveling eastbound in a 1995 Mack dump truck owned by Duncan Disposal, in the 1200 block of E. Third St.
At the same time Asuzena Orona, 28, was traveling northbound in the 300 block of Pine in a 1999 Ford F-150 step side pick-up
According to the statement that Valenzuela gave the police, Orona did not seem to see him coming when she came to a complete stop at the intersection, but then proceeded to attempt to turn left onto Third in front of the dump truck.
The driver of the dump truck tried to stop his vehicle and swerve, but struck the left side of Orona's pick-up just in front of the driver's seat in the passenger's compartment. Both ambulance and fire crews were called to the scene, and the Jaws of Life had to be used to remove Orona from the truck.
EMTs transported the woman first to Reeves County Hospital, from where she was later flown by care flight helicopter to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. An exact report on her condition was unavailable early this afternoon.
Police said the speed limit on Third Street where the accident occurred is 40 miles per hour. No citations have been issued yet.
Pecos Police Department officers were busy over the past two Fridays, executing narcotics search warrants in three different areas in the city.
Police said the first incident took place on Feb. 13, with the execution of a narcotics search warrant at 1118 W. Fourth St.
During the search of the residence, paraphernalia commonly used for the storing of marijuana and the smoking of marijuana was found inside the residence, according to Pecos Police Investigator Paul Deishler.
"Also during the search, a substance believed to be cocaine was found on the premises," said Deishler.
Adolfo Prieto, who resides at the residence was placed under arrest for the offense of possession of drug paraphernalia.
This past Friday, police said Juana Mendoza Prieto, who also resides at 1118 W. Fourth, was arrested for the offense of possession of a controlled substance (cocaine).
In another incident last Friday, officers executed a narcotics search warrant at 413 S. Mulberry Street. During the search, a substance believed to be heroin and a substance believed to be cocaine was found inside the residence.
"During the search, officers also found paraphernalia, which is commonly used in the packaging of heroin and with the injecting of heroin," said Deishler.
Officers completed their search of the premises and Don Wesley Barton was placed under arrest for the offense of possession of a controlled substance (heroin) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Criminal charges are pending in reference to the suspected cocaine found inside the residence, according to Deishler.
The third home searched by warrant also took place on Friday, at a home located at 2121 South Alamo Street, Police said during the search of the premises, a substance believed to be cocaine was found inside the residence.
"Also found inside the residence was materials commonly used with the packaging of cocaine," said Deishler.
Officers completed their search of the premises. No arrests have yet been made, but charges are pending at this time for these offenses.
Early voting began Monday at the Reeves County Courthouse and 196 individuals have already cast their ballots by personal appearance by late this morning for the March 9 Democratic primary election.
"Early voting is going really well and we had a great turnout yesterday," said Reeves County Clerk Dianne Florez.
Early voting is being held at the Reeves County Courthouse, and Florez said that they have also received 189 ballots by mail.
"March 1 is the last day to receive an application for a ballot by mail," said Florez, while the last day to vote early at the courthouse is Friday, March 5.
Elections will be held Tuesday, March 9 and all the polling places will be open at that time.
This year's primary election is one of the most crowded ballots ever in Reeves County, with 20 candidates competing in five contested local races.
Five individuals are vying for the position of Reeves County Commissioner Precinct 1 including incumbent Felipe Arredondo, who is seeking a fourth term in office. The four challengers are: Rogelio "Roy" Alvarado, "Chel" Florez, Armando "Mondie" Granado and Robert C. Natividad.
Granado had issued a statement last month stating that he was dropping out of the race, because of a job conflict. However, after looking into the city rules, Granado was allowed to stay in the race.
In the race for Precinct 3 commissioner, two-term incumbent Herman Tarin opted not to run for another four-year term, and nine candidates are seeking to fill that position. They are Abel Baeza, Lisa Lopez Boicourt, Rosendo Galindo, Jimmy Gallego, Saul Herrera, Manuel "Manny" Lopez, Joel Madrid, Joseph Peter Rodriguez and Bailey Wheeless.
Precinct 3 voters will also be casting ballots in a contested race for constable, where incumbent Tomas "Tommy" Martinez is being challenged by Alma Fleenor.
In the only county-wide local election that is contested, Jeffrey P. Baeza will challenge current Reeves County Sheriff Arnulfo "Andy" Gomez, who has been the sheriff for the past 11 years.
All county voters will also be deciding the nomination for 143rd District Attorney, along with voters from Ward and Loving counties. In that race, two-term incumbent Randall Reynolds faces former district attorney Hal Upchurch.
All local candidates in Reeves County have filed to run in the Democratic primary.
Monday night's thunderstorms that dropped about half an inch of rain in the Pecos area is being blamed for starting a tank fire off of the Balmorhea Highway that kept firefighters busy for about an hour.
"It happened at about 9 p.m., at a location across the street from Winkles Trucking," said Town of Pecos City Fire Marshal Jack Brookshire.
Brookshire said that there are some 55 gallon tanks being stored at that location and that every time it rains it causes a chemical reaction that sets the tanks on fire.
"It's something left over from the R&R Battery Recycling," said Brookshire, who added that those items had been abandoned there for some time.
"The emergency management coordinator is working on getting rid of all that stuff," said Brookshire.
"Every time it rains, the metal, when it gets wet, self-ignites," said Brookshire.
One fire truck was sent out to the location and it took firefighters about an hour to contain it. "They had to put it out with sand, because they couldn't use water," said Brookshire. "And they couldn't use wet sand."
The storms that passed through the area were part of a front coming in from the Pacific coast that will continue tonight, with a chance of snow in areas to the north and east of Pecos.
The National Weather Service said there was a chance of rain mixed with
snow this evening in the Pecos area, with temperatures dropping down to near 30. However, temperatures are expected to be back in the mid-50s with clearing skies by Wednesday afternoon, and temperatures are predicted to climb into the mid-60s by Thursday.
Criminal cases handed by the 143rd Judicial District were up about 5 percent last year, according to a report released last week by 143rd District Attorney Randy Reynolds.
The total referred by area law enforcement agencies was almost evenly divided between Reeves and Ward County, with 163 cases coming out of Reeves County and 166 from law enforcement agencies out of Ward County.
Reynolds' office provided a summary of the findings has been provided by their office, but said as with any statistical gathering action, some errors may have occurred.
For the year 2003, the 143rd District handled 493 cases, up from 469 in 2002. That included 366 new cases and 127 probation cases, Reynolds said.
Out of the 366 new cases, 109 were from the Pecos Police Department and 44 from the Monahans Police Department. There were 73 from the Ward County Sheriff's Office, 19 from the Reeves County Sheriff's Office, 21 from the Trans Pecos Narcotics Task Force, three from the West Texas Narcotics Task Force; and 46 from Texas Department of Public Safety, with 32 from Ward County DPS and 14 from Reeves County DPS.
The Trans Pecos Narcotics Task Force is based out of the Reeves County Sheriff's Department office, while the West Texas Narcotics Task Force is based in Odessa, but operates in Ward County.
Of the remaining cases, a total of 51 were referred from other agencies, such as the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Department of Health and Civil Seizure cases. The 127 cases were filed for Motions to Revoke or adjudicate against probationers.
Felony cases were formally filed by Indictment or Information in the District in 2003 and included 158, Reynolds said. Of that 79 defendants were placed on probation for felony offenses in the district and 82 defendants were sentenced to penitentiary time from this district.
High Monday 67. Low this morning 48. Rainfall last 24 hours downtown at KIUN Radio .4 inch. Forecast for tonight: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain mixed with snow in the evening. Lows near 30. North winds 15 to 25 mph. The chance of precipitation is 30 percent. Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs near 55. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Wednesday night: Partly cloudy. Lows near 30. Light and variable winds. Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable winds becoming southeast near 10 mph in the afternoon. Thursday night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to the lower 40s.
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MLS® Residential Statistics for the Montreal Metropolitan Area
ILE-DES-SŒURS, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Oct. 13, 2010) - There were 2,704 sales transactions in the Montréal Metropolitan Area in September 2010, a decrease of 13 per cent compared to September 2009 but a level similar to those registered from September 2003 to 2008, according to the Greater Montréal Real Estate Board's (GMREB) MLS(R) statistics.
"We were coming out of the recession last September and the real estate market was particularly active," said Diane Ménard, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the GMREB. "More than 3,000 transactions took place last September, the highest number of sales ever recorded in a month of September. This year, the market has returned to normal and sales levels are similar to those seen from September 2003 to September 2008," she added.
All property categories registered a decrease in sales in September 2010 compared to September 2009. Single-family home sales decreased by 16 per cent, condominium sales decreased by 9 per cent and plex sales fell by 10 per cent.
Geographically, the North Shore posted the smallest decrease in sales, at 6 per cent. Sales in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges area decreased by 10 per cent, while sales on the Island of Montréal, on the South Shore and in Laval decreased by 14, 19 and 14 per cent, respectively.
As for prices, the median price of single-family homes in the Montréal area reached $252,000 in September 2010, a 3 per cent increase compared to the same month last year. The median price of condominiums increased by 8 per cent to reach $216,000, while that of plexes increased by 9 per cent to reach $379,000.
"As anticipated, the decrease in sales that we experienced in recent months has led to a slow-down in the rate of price increases, particularly for single-family homes," said Ms. Ménard. "This situation can also be explained by a rebalancing of supply and demand, since as at September 30, 2010, the number of active listings increased by 1 per cent in comparison with the same date last year, a first in 13 months. For now, we are still in a seller's market in the Montréal area, but the increase in supply and the decrease in demand suggests that the scale will become balanced in the coming months," she added.
About the Greater Montréal Real Estate Board
The Greater Montréal Real Estate Board is a non-profit organization that brings together most of the real estate brokers who work in the Greater Montréal area. With more than 10,500 members, it is the second largest board in Canada. Its mission is to actively promote and protect its members' professional and business interests in order for them to successfully meet their business objectives and maintain their predominance in the real estate industry.
For September 2010 statistics charts, click here(http://communications.centris.ca/Tableaux/2010/Tableaux_Communiques_CIGM_2010M9_ENG.pdf)
For year-to-date statistics charts, click here(http://communications.centris.ca/Tableaux/2010/Tableaux_Communiques_CIGM_2010M9cum_ENG.pdf)
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