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BOYS BASKETBALL: Blue Jays edge New Knoxville
DELPHOS — An almost half-court shot by Delphos St. John's guard Curtis Geise provided a boost of momentum to the Blue Jays heading into the fourth quarter. They went on to defeat the New Knoxville Rangers 50-43 in a Midwest Athletic Conference contest at the Vatican on Friday night.
Delphos turned up the defense in the fourth quarter limiting New Knoxville to only four points, while the Jays scored 10 points for the seven-point victory.
"They are a pretty young team," Delphos head coach Aaron Elwer said. "They are not very deep and we got a little physical and I think we wore them down a little bit.
"That was a big shot at the end of the third quarter by Curt," Elwer said. "He has a knack for doing things like that and that was a good way for us to build momentum going into the fourth quarter."
It wouldn't have been very close going into the fourth quarter if it wasn't for a big third quarter by New Knoxville. Trailing 26-16 at halftime, the Rangers, led by Lucas Leffel, scored the first 10 points of the quarter on three layups by Leffel to tie the game at 26-all with 5:28 left in the third.
"We moved the ball a little better in the third quarter," Rangers head coach Kort Fledderjohann said. "We challenged the kids at halftime to move a little better."
Delphos answered back with a basket by Geise, but New Knoxville scored a basket by Jake Allen and Ben Kuck put the Rangers ahead with a basket for a 30-28 lead with 4:15 left.
With the score tied at 35-35, Allen hit a free throw with 90 seconds left. Delphos regained the lead on a basket by Geise with 28 seconds left. It looked like the Rangers might get the lead after three quarters when Shane Topp nailed a three-pointer with five seconds left, but Geise struck again with a shot just past midcourt at the buzzer for a 40-39 lead going into the fourth quarter.
DSJ dominated the early action.
The Jays used a good start to stay one step ahead of the Rangers grabbing an 8-0 lead, but New Knoxville battled back to close the deficit to 13-11 after the first eight minutes.
"It is nice to be able to get off to a good start," Elwer said. "Tonight was kind of a learning process for us. The kids were excited, but didn't stop playing and battled through adversity in the third quarter."
The Rangers couldn't stay with the Jays in the second quarter as Delphos outscored the Rangers 13-5 to grab a 10-point lead 26-16 at halftime.
"The last three games we have had trouble getting off to a good start," Fledderjohann said. "We really stressed before the game that we can't let it happen again.
"Consistency is what is hurting us right now," Fledderjohann said. "We had five points in the second quarter and four points in the fourth and it is hard to win games like that."
Geise led all scorers with 21 points, while Leffel scored 14 points and Jake Allen had 10 points for the Rangers.
"I think the first half we did a good job on Leffel," Elwer said. "We did a good job of limiting his touches and we forced him to take tough shots."
In the JV game New Knoxville defeated the Jays 44-37.
St. John's (4-3, 2-0) travels to LCC on Sunday at 1 p.m. for the annual all-Catholic Sunday showdown, while New Knoxville (5-2, 1-1) entertains Botkins tonight.


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omni Multi-task (LP, £18.95)label: Trouble In Mind
Atlanta, GA trio Omni charged out of the gate in 2016, stunning everyone within earshot with their debut longplayer, Deluxe; a dizzyingly refreshing amalgam of wiry post-punk jitters & a dash of zen cool. Multi-task is their latest offering & all signs point to the coveted goal of next level. Guitarist Frankie Broyles (ex-Balkans/Deerhunter) & bassist/vocalist Philip Frobos (Carnivores) crafted Deluxes eleven tracks in their practice space with friend & engineer Nathaniel Higgins Nathaniel truly knows us, what we like and what we should sound like says Frobos. They returned to Higgins for Multi-task, recording basic drum tracks at Higgins home studio & overdubbing bass, guitar, vocals & more during two separate trips to a remote cabin in the woods near Vienna, Georgia. It gave a true peace/piece of mind away from the city Frobos says, We could work with no distractions or limitations at our own pace. Multi-task is a more musically adventurous step forward for the band, keeping the frantic, fleet-fingered fingerpicking of Broyles guitar work & Frobos dead-cool delivery while expanding their musical palette & to include whispers of post-Roxy glam & Postcard Records pop. Multi-task balances the bands trademark off-kilter & unconventional jams (Southbound Station, Supermoon) with an elegance not found in many of their contemporaries, songs like Tuxedo Blues & Type, with their underlying seductive sophistication create an aura of romance that many post-punk bands dare not tread. Omni pulls it o with grace & style, still whirring on their minimalist funk-fused agit-pop while creating an album that is awash in the excitement of new love, or fleeting attraction - a journey from that dizzying buzz of first date pheromones found twirling on the dance floor to the cab ride cool-down to home (or wherever.) Mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current). Tracklist: 1. Southbound Station 2. Equestrian 3. Choke 4. Tuxedo Blues 5. After Dinner 6. First Degree 7. Supermoon 8. Date Night 9. Calling Direct 10. Heard My Name 11. Type
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Eyewitness accounts are suggesting that Transit Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Junior, who was shot and nearly killed in Watertown, Massachusetts on April 19 may have been hit by a fellow officer.
According to the Boston Globe, Donohue, who works with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), was hit when police fired on suspected terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was making a getaway in a carjacked sport utility vehicle.
Donohue was reportedly shot during a gunfight in which at least a dozen police officers from four departments exchanged up to 300 rounds of gunfire with Dzhokhar's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Jane Dyson, who lives 140 feet from where the police officer was shot, told the Globe in a written statement that she saw Donohue collapse and fall to the ground near the end of the gunfight as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sped away. She wrote that the officer appeared to be a victim of 'friendly fire.'
'A black SUV appeared, and rapid gun fire was focused on the vehicle,' Dyson wrote, referring to the vehicle Tsarnaev allegedly drove in his escape. 'It appeared to me that an individual at the corner of the street fell to the ground and had probably been hit in the gunfire. I later learned that the individual who had been shot was Officer Richard Donohue,' she wrote.
The ongoing investigation suggests that the two suspects were unarmed when Dyson saw Donohue fall, suggesting that the shot that wounded him came from a fellow police officer. Two other witnesses reportedly support Dyson's account that Donohue appeared to be wounded in the final volley of shots fired at the fleeing suspect.
But none of the witnesses faulted the police. 'I don't second-guess the actions the police took to stop these terrorists,' Dyson concluded. 'The police did a great job.'
'Considering the chaos on those dark streets, where a pair of homicidal terrorists were firing shots and throwing bombs at police, the fact that friendly-fire incidents may have occurred detracts nothing, not one bit , from the valor and heroism of the officers and troopers who caught up to them that night,' state police spokesman David Procopio told the Globe.
The shootout in Watertown, Massachusetts was unusual in that officers from as many as six different agencies all converged on the suspects in the middle of the night, with little time to coordinate efforts.
'It's arguably a wartime situation,' Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum told the Globe. 'Police agencies are not generally prepared for the kind of wartime situation that these officers encountered.'
Donohue and his partner were among the first officers to arrive at the scene just moments after the two Tsarnaev brothers pulled over in the SUV they had allegedly car jacked.
In the ensuing 10 minutes, police officers fired what reports suggest was an unprecedented number of rounds in a single police incident in state history.
The shots reportedly wounded both suspects, but also sprayed the neighborhood. At least a dozen nearby houses were pockmarked with dozens of bullet holes, including a second-floor bedroom where two children slept.
Donohue arrived at Mount Auburn Hospital with almost no blood and no pulse, but doctors say he will probably make a full recovery. In a statement released last week, Donohue said the bullet 'will remain in my leg as it is not obstructing anything or causing any pain.'
Procopio announced this week that the friendly-fire investigation 'will take a good amount of time' because of the existence of 'a great deal of physical and ballistics evidence,' including the need to interview various witnesses.
'It is a complex investigation being conducted very methodically,' Procopio said.


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The judge who called a state trooper racial names such as "Negro trooper" during her October drunken-driving arrest told a state panel Jan. 26 that she had one beer and one mixed drink more than three hours before her blood alcohol level tested at twice the legal limit.
Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield said that she's "committed to continuing this ministry" on the bench, and that her actions will "preserve the integrity and independence of the judiciary," according to a transcript of a closed-door hearing on Jan. 26 at which the Judicial Review Council opted to pursue five misconduct charges against her.
Several of the charges were based on what was termed disparaging, demeaning, or "racially inappropriate" language. She used racial terms such as "n-----" in a video of her booking at Glastonbury police headquarters. She argued with state police Sgt. Dwight Washington — who, like Cofield, is black — and called him "Mr. Negro Washington."
At the Jan. 26 hearing, Cofield's lawyer argued unsuccessfully against the council's release of the video later that day. Cofield apologized for "my unrecognizable conduct," the transcript shows. But she also bemoaned public reaction, including what she called "weapons of misdirection" suggesting "that I am a racist."
The Jan. 26 transcript, obtained via a freedom of information request, previews arguments likely to arise Monday — this time in public — at a hearing by the council at 10 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
The council must decide if Cofield broke the judicial code of conduct and, if so, whether to discipline or suspend her, or refer her to the state Supreme Court for possible removal.
Among Cofield's sworn statements in the 49-page Jan. 26 hearing transcript:
•All she had to drink on Oct. 9 at the Hook & Ladder Restaurant in Hartford was one beer and one "probably very generous" mixed drink. She was with friends, including law enforcement officials. "I felt fine," she testified under oath. "And no one said, 'How do you feel? You don't look well.'" More than three hours later, a urine test showed her blood alcohol level at 0.17 percent, twice the legal limit of 0.08. Her lawyer, Raymond Hassett, said Cofield is "unsure" whether the mixed drink was "the equivalent of multiple drinks."
•"I'm shocked and dismayed by my unrecognizable conduct," which she called "an aberration resulting from imprudent consumption of alcohol. ... I consider myself an infrequent social drinker who failed to practice what I preach that night, which is don't drink and drive. And there's no excuse for my poor judgment."
•"What most hurts me are the weapons of misdirection that claim I am a racist. I think that that, more than anything else, is very painful to me. ... I worked all my life growing up in the segregated South. By the time I realized what segregation was, I was about age 12. I make sure that everyone received equal rights, regardless of ... sexual orientation, gender or race."
The phrase "weapons of misdirection" was used prominently in 2006 at Coretta Scott King's funeral by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader. He said: "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. "But Coretta knew, and we know, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more, but no more for the poor!"
Hassett said that Cofield "adamantly denies any racial animus or abuse of her power."
Cofield was confirmed by legislators in 1991 as the state's first black female judge, after Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. nominated her. Her current term expires on June 6, 2015.
On Oct. 9 about 10:45 p.m., Cofield sideswiped a parked state police car, occupied by a trooper, with her BMW in a construction zone on Route 2 in Glastonbury. She later was accepted into an alcohol education program that can bring dismissal of the charges of DUI and failure to drive in the proper lane.
On the police video:
•Cofield asked Washington: "Do you have a reading on my urine test, Negro trooper?"
•She refused to sign a form and said: "I'm not signing anything, because when it comes down to the bottom line, who's smarter, me or you? We'll figure it out, won't we?"
•"I'm sick of being treated like a freaking Negro from the 'hood," she said. Asked if she had an illness and needed medication, Cofield said, "Negro-itis" and "I need to take anti-Negro, ummm ..."
A police report on the incident says that "Judge Cofield stated that she was the most intelligent person in the room and threatened our careers. ... While speaking on her cellphone, Judge Cofield referred to Sgt. Washington as the 'Head n----- in charge.'"
At the Jan. 26 hearing, Judicial Review Council Chairman Ross Garber asked Cofield if she recalled "telling the police on the night of your arrest that you were coming from the community court?"
"Yeah. I was intoxicated at that point," she said. "I wasn't drinking at community court, believe me. ... I had left the court at 7 and gone to the bar to meet my friends."
•Jon Lender is a reporter on The Courant's investigative desk, with a focus on govern- ment and politics. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com, 860-241-6524, or c/o The Hartford Courant, 285 Broad St., Hartford, CT 06115.


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Enjoy Summer Weather in New England: 'Don't Fry' to Prevent Skin Cancer
Release Date: 05/27/2010
Contact Information: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
(Boston, Mass. – May 27, 2010) – With Memorial Day weekend signaling the unofficial start of New England's long-awaited summer, EPA reminds everyone to protect their skin from too much sun by wearing hats, sunglasses and sunscreen, and seeking shade.
"Even as we all enjoy the good weather this time of year, and we want to enjoy some of New England's splendid natural areas, we remind folks to protect their skin," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "Too much exposure to the sun's UV rays is the main cause of skin cancer. The good news is with simple steps, you can protect yourself and your family from too much sun. Remember to wear a shirt and hat, and use sunscreen and sunglasses."
The number one preventable risk factor for skin cancer is overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, whether from the sun or an artificial light source. To educate the public about how to prevent skin cancer and cataracts, EPA has teamed up with the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to promote sun safety on the Friday before Memorial Day – "Don't Fry Day."
Skin cancer is largely preventable. While the incidence of many other cancers is falling, the incidence of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, continues to rise significantly. Melanoma is now one of the most common cancers among young adults ages 15 to 29. Further, every New England state except for Rhode Island is listed in the top 10 states of the U.S. with the highest incidence of skin cancer. More new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year than new cases of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer combined, with more than one million Americans affected every year.
Protecting your skin from too much sun is easy. Remember to "Slip, Slop, Slap, Wrap, and Seek Shade": Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen (SPF 15+), slap on a wide-brimmed hat, wrap on sunglasses, and seek shade during midday hours.
In conjunction with "Don't Fry Day," schools across the country will be broadcasting the UV Index over their loud speakers, engage in SunWise activities, and hold school-wide sun safety events. The UV Index is a forecast of the next-day's peak UV radiation level for any given location in the U.S., and can be accessed via mobile phones.
More information:
To download the EPA's UV Index application for smartphones, go to: www.epa.gov/enviro/mobile
State-specific Fact Sheets: https://www.epa.gov/sunwise/statefacts.html
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We provide authors an independent way to get published and to find audiences.
We supply book lovers free alternative literary material.
It seems you've happend to have visited Leebre while we're renovating. Well, it's still a secret that we've updated the website to the rewrite! We're still working behind the scenes to fix a bunch of bugs with the site, and the book editor. Once we've fixed up those bugs, we'll send out invites to all our loyal backers.
Until then... let's have this update be a little secret ;)
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Leebre is a not-for-profit website made by folks who like to read and write to democratize e-publishing. All books are released under a Creative Commons license. We love books and the people who write them. We supply book lovers with free alternative novels and short stories, and provide authors an independent way to find audiences and support the causes that they love.
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American Literature – A National Historic Landmark
Thomas Wolfe left an indelible mark on American letters. And his mother's boardinghouse in Asheville, North Carolina, now part of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, has become one of literature's most famous landmarks. Named "Old Kentucky Home" by a previous owner, Wolfe immortalized the rambling Victorian structure as "Dixieland" in his epic autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel. A classic of American literature, Look Homeward, Angel has never gone out of print since its 1929 publication, keeping interest in Wolfe alive and attracting visitors to the setting for this great novel. Continued
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Geneva College has a variety of summer camp offerings, with themes ranging from the arts to sports. Geneva conducts the camps as a way to provide quality recreational and cultural programs to young people in the area.
Musical Theatre Camp is open for students in junior and senior high school and will be held from June 10-21. Classes offered include acting, elocution, vocal techniques, as well as rehearsals for performances of famous musical theatre acts that will take place on June 20 and 21 in the Bagpiper Theatre. The camp is hosted by the Geneva College Henry Mancini Musical Theatre Awards.
The Geneva College men′s basketball program will host a number of Above the Hoop Basketball Camps for boys throughout the summer. Shooting Camp will be June 11-13, Team Camp will be on June 15, Day Camp will be June 24-27 and Overnight Camp will be July 7-10.
The Geneva College women′s basketball program will host two Girls Basketball Camps: Shooting Camp from June 11-13 and Day Camp from June 19-21
The Geneva Soccer Academy is open to boys and girls ages 6-16 and will meet June 24-27 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, June 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. Campers will be divided by age and ability, and instructed on fundamental playing skills, sportsmanship and the Geneva style of quick play. Instruction will be given by Geneva College men′s and women′s coaches, as well as former collegiate players and experienced coaches from the area.
For more information and to register for any of Geneva′s summer camps, visit www.geneva.edu/object/summer_camps.
Geneva College invites students to accept the challenge of an academically excellent, Christ-centered education. Offering nearly 40 undergraduate majors, an Adult Degree Completion Program with fully online and campus-based options, and seven graduate degrees, Geneva has programs that place students at the forefront of higher learning. Adhering to the inerrancy of scripture, the liberal arts core curriculum fosters a breadth of knowledge through the study of humanities, social and natural sciences, and experiential learning.
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Top header (ads with proxy controls elements) on proxied pages should be no more than 25% of an average screen in height.
Proxy software
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- The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Logistics Pipes is an extensive overhaul of the Buildcraft pipe system. It allows for better distribution of items via pipes, more organised stockkeeping and easier automated crafting.
This Logistics Pipes is universal. That means you can use it in singleplayer and multiplayer.
You need Minecraft Forge and BuildCraft to run it, but we also added features to collaborate with a few other mods.
The mod is contributed under the MMPL.
Main contributers
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Current versions
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Patrick Regan
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'How long, O Lord, how long?'
Now poor Tom Dunstan's cold,
Our shop is duller;
Scarce a tale is told,
And our talk has lost its old
Red-republican colour!
Though he was sickly and thin,
'Twas a sight to see his face, —
While, sick of the country's sin,
With bang of the fist, and chin
Thrust out, he argued the case!
He prophesied men should be free!
And the money-bags be bled!
'She's coming, she's coming!' said he;
'Courage, boys! wait and see!
Freedom's ahead!'
All day we sat in the heat,
Like spiders spinning,
Stitching full fine and fleet,
While old Moses on his seat
Sat greasily grinning;
And here Tom said his say,
And prophesied Tyranny's death;
And the tallow burned all day,
And we stitch'd and stitch'd away
In the thick smoke of our breath.
Weary, weary were we,
Our hearts as heavy as lead;
But 'Patience! she's coming!' said he;
'Courage, boys! wait and see!
Freedom's ahead!'
And at night, when we took here
The rest allowed to us,
The Paper came, with the beer,
And Tom read, sharp and clear,
The news out loud to us;
And then, in his witty way,
He threw the jests about:
The cutting things he'd say
Of the wealthy and the gay!
How he turn'd 'em inside out!
And it made our breath more free
To hearken to what he said —
'She's coming! she's coming!' said he;
'Courage, boys! wait and see!
Freedom's ahead!'
But grim Jack Hart, with a sneer,
Would mutter, 'Master!
If Freedom means to appear,
I think she might step here
A little faster!'
Then, 'twas fine to see Tom flame,
And argue, and prove, and preach,
Till Jack was silent for shame, —
Or a fit of coughing came
O' sudden, to spoil Tom's speech.
Ah! Tom had the eyes to see
When Tyranny should be sped:
'She's coming! she's coming!' said he
'Courage, boys! wait and see!
Freedom's ahead!'
But Tom was little and weak,
The hard hours shook him;
Hollower grew his cheek,
And when he began to speak
The coughing took him.
Ere long the cheery sound
Of his chat among us ceased,
And we made a purse, all round,
That he might not starve, at least.
His pain was sorry to see,
Yet there, on his poor sick-bed,
'She's coming, in spite of me!
Courage, and wait!' cried he;
'Freedom's ahead!'
A little before he died,
To see his passion!
'Bring me a Paper!' he cried,
And then to study it tried,
In his old sharp fashion;
And with eyeballs glittering,
His look on me he bent,
And said that savage thing
Of the Lords o' the Parliament.
Then, dying, smiling on me,
'What matter if one be dead?
She s coming at last!' said he;
'Courage boy! wait and see;
Freedom's ahead!'
Ay, now Tom Dunstan's cold,
The shop feels duller;
Scarce a tale is told,
And our talk has lost the old
Red-republican colour.
But we see a figure gray,
And we hear a voice of death,
And the tallow burns all day,
And we stitch and stitch away
In the thick smoke of our breath;
Ay, while in the dark sit we,
Tom seems to call from the dead —
'She's coming! she's coming!' says he;
'Courage, boys! wait and see!
Freedom's ahead!'
How long, O Lord! how long
Must thy Handmaid linger —
She who shall right the wrong,
Make the poor sufferer strong?
Sweet morrow, bring her!
Hasten her over the sea,
O Lord! ere Hope be fled!
Bring her to men and to me! . . .
O Slave, pray still on thy knee,
'FREEDOM's ahead!'
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Very Nice!! Does he have a jet to fly?
CC What kind of recipe did you use for the figure itself (I recognize the helmet as Marauders)
Thanks, no jet.....yet.
Recipe, um, if I remember correctly is:
Head, lower torso- retaliation bobsled Firefly
Left leg, right lower leg- BAT
Right upper leg- that cobra guy with the drone, I think
Upper torso- ROC Breaker
Arms- Red Skull
Hands- no idea
Jacket- IJ Mutt
Scarf- some Marvel figure, female I believe.
Nobody remembers my call sign is in the Club comic... Does this mean potential Con Exclusive? or FSS?
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Night Watch (UK - BD)
Marcus can't decide between light and dark but he knows he likes the movie
Like many a fantasy film, Night Watch begins with a battle. Horses, armour, swords—the lot. The two sides of light and dark 'others' are equally matched and reach a stalemate. Their leaders decide that a truce should be agreed. The light side will form a Night Watch and the dark will form a Day Watch and together they will regain a balance until the 'Great One' comes along and chooses between light and dark.
Jumping ahead to modern day, regular human Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) visits a mystical old woman who he has been told will help him get back together with his wife, who's left him for another man. She reveals that his wife has fallen pregnant and if she carries this baby full term, Anton will never get her back. However, if Anton agrees to live with the sin, the old lady can cause a miscarriage and guarantee that Anton's wife will come back to him. Anton flippantly agrees to the batty old lady's offer and then stuff really gets weird. The old lady starts her process and Anton's world changes. Everything around him begins to go crazy and when a couple of night watch shape shifters burst into the room and prevent the old lady from finishing her spell and its soon revealed that Anton is actually an 'other', with the powers of a seer.
Twelve years later, an alcoholic Anton is now part of the Night Watch and strange happenings are unravelling around him, beginning with a twelve-year-old boy, Yegor, who is hearing psychic calls from a vampire who intends to feed on him but this is just the beginning of something much bigger.
I'd never seen Night Watch before this Blu-ray viewing, despite recording it off the TV a few times and never getting round to actually watching it. I didn't really know anyone who had seen it nor had I read much about it beyond a few glances over reviews since its release in 2004 (or 2005 depending on where you are in the world). It was just one of those movies that passed me by. Watching it for the first time I'm glad I did miss it on initial release, as the Matrix styling probably would have pissed me off. Night Watch would have felt like every other half-assed attempt to fit into that Matrix inspired batch that arrived by the barrel load in the early 2000s and I probably would have been unfairly critical of it because of that.
Watching it now, the first thing that strikes me is just how bold this movie is. Night Watch has a very large vision in a fairly small setting and it's never afraid of restraining itself from going into typical-ville. For the first forty odd minutes Night Watch is a movie that really demands you to keep up. It throws the story at you without explaining anything in any real detail and once we catch up with Anton, twelve years after one of the most abstract introductions in live action fantasy movies ever, everything moves along without letting you in on any of the finer details. This might sound like a complaint, but it really isn't. I actually liked how lived in this all was, how it avoided having a main character in which we are experiencing this all with for the very first time. Anton has been like this for twelve years already, this is his life and we are seeing all the elements of it in full flow. He drinks blood. He only goes out at night. He has a flashlight with a specific bulb for messing up vampires. There are big yellow trucks that come with boosters and can do full flips over people. Seriously the first forty minutes of Night Watch throws the entire workings of this alternative Russia at you by the truck load and it's all handled with enough control for you to still follow what's going on... just about.
Around the midway point, and after Anton has had his ass handed to him by a vampire, we begin to get a little bit more of what we've come to expect from modern fantasy movies—a prophecy. Of course a prophecy is a classic storytelling tool, but since The Phantom Menace trailer where Mace Windu delivers the classic line 'You believe it's this... boy?' it feels as if we have to have that very same scenario in every fantasy film that followed, with the only change being whether the chosen one is a boy or a girl. Seriously I'm so over this stuff in fantasy movies, yet Night Watch manages to make it feel more than that. This prophecy feels valid and important and how it all plays out is pretty inspired stuff. I would also go as far as to say that it's magical. Not in a wraps you up with sparkles and fairy dust magical but the way each event in the unfolding of this prophecy feels like it's something out of a fairytale or a folk story and is actually happening for a mystical reason. The inclusion of a character who's cursed with being unlucky and the vortex of birds around her high rise castle-esq building and how a single bolt from a passing plane could find its way into her cup of tea, all feel perfectly reasonable within this world. Even seeing a very stylish scene that involves an owl turn into a woman without the use of any CGI makes this feel so much more than the tepid Harry Potter franchise or those CGI-a-mungus Narnia movies. There's something more on offer here than just another flashy yet generic fantasy movie, this one wants you to feel something about its characters and the events and I have to say that it totally worked on me.
Looking at the quality of the standard definition on the extra features is my only comparison to what this may look like on DVD, so with that said, this HD release seems to be quite the improvement. I was initially struck by how brightly coloured the movie was. The reds in the mystic old woman's home are warm and bold and the moment they turn to a very cool blue is equally as impressive.
The images of the city streets are also well presented, with lots of detail and the city lights all glow brightly. The night watchers' big yellow truck also looks fantastic with much of the detail within the decorated cabin looking great.
Unfortunately beyond the use of bright colours, everything else does very little to call attention to itself. The transfer holds up in the darker scenes but never really does anything to impress. Everything just becomes quite standard and whilst I'm sure this is still heaps better than the standard definition it certainly goes largely unnoticed in a Blu-ray catalogue.
Once again with the audio, there's nothing really of note here. It's a solid audio mix with some nice touches in places. A few moments really use the 5.1 system in dynamic ways to help enhance the movies more trippy moments, especially when 'the gloom' tries to take over the boy but in general it's a very standard affair that treats the front channels as separate entities to the rears and rarely do they cross over.
There are two sets of commentaries, one audio one text. The audio comes from director Timur Bekmambetov, which is a delight. He seems genuinely surprised that his movie has done so well globally and he offers a lot of detail on the story's history. There are quite a few quiet moments throughout, but when watched with the text commentary by the novelist Segel Lukyanenko, which gives a lot of insight into the original book and how it's different from the film, it makes for quite a nice viewing experience.
There are seven deleted scenes (28:42) with or without the director's commentary. They all vary in quality and worth and seem to include a lot more madcap or trippy moments that they decided against and an alternative ending that attempts to explain a few things a little clearer.
The making of (39:03) seems to be an original making of for Russia. It's quite informative and full of stories about finding the characters and is inter-cut with plenty of clips and on set filming.
'Night Watch Trilogy' is really a little bit of a taster for Day Watch and with a little information on how the trilogy will play out (with a run time of 03:27, the key word here is 'little').
'Characters, Stories,& Subtitles' (05:06) and 'Characters and Themes' (5:15) are EPK style shorts that are glossy and quite similar to one another. Fluff pieces at best really.
Comic Book Still Gallery (08:44) is exactly what it says it is, set to the score from the film. 'Poster Gallery' is a collection of some of the weird-ass designs the movie had from around the globe. Not one really summing up the movie in a single image but well worth checking out for their absurdity.
Night Watch is the first in a planned trilogy, and while I'd imagine that this first chapter won't be everybody's cup of tea, mainly due to the fact that it places a lot of faith in its audience ability to perceive, it really is a great first act. I for one got totally sucked into its unfolding tale, feeling as if I've missed the boat on this franchise and getting the sudden pressing desire to see Day Watch before the last instalment arrives.
The Blu-ray itself seems to be the best the movie has ever looked, if the standard definition clips from the extras is anything to go by anyway. The features cover enough to be acceptable, especially the two commentaries and overall I have to say that I had an unexpectedly great time with Night Watch and all it had to offer.
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Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 6th October 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Russian, DTS-HD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 German, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, Dutch, German, French, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Extras: Commentaries,Making of, Feuterettes, Galleries, Deleted Scenes
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Galina Tyunina, Dmitry Martynov
Genre: Action and Fantasy
Length: 116 minutes
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Schalke were confirmed as winners of Champions League Group B with a draw against Montpellier after Arsenal were beaten 2-1 by Olympiacos.
Both Schalke and the Gunners had already qualified for the knockout stages, but with top spot and a potentially easier draw to play for, the Bundesliga side were in no way inclined to show mercy to Montpellier, who only had pride to play for.
The French Ligue 1 champions were going in search of a consolatory first win in the competition, but it was not to be, as despite two goals in quick succession after the break, neither side could find the final advantage.
Schalke defender Benedikt Howedes saw his opening goal cancelled out in just three minutes by Emanuel Herrera in a frantic start to the second half.
It came after neither side were able to conjure any magic in a first half with few opportunities.
Marco Estrada went close for the home side in only the second minute from an inswinging corner, but Schalke midfielder Julian Draxler made a good clearance to neutralise the early threat.
Estrada again tested the Bundesliga side's defense a few minutes later with another testing ball in but they held firm, with Montpellier striker Souleymane Camara doing little to worry them when his 18-yard header flew over the bar soon after.
Schalke's best chance in the half came five minutes before the break when Tranquillo Barnetta's corner picked out Roman Neustadter in the middle of the area, but the midfielder could only put the ball over the bar.
The second period was a different story, however, with both sides finding the net in quick succession.
First, Howedes put Schalke in front with a close-range header in the 56th minute but the lead was shortlived as Herrera levelled for Montpellier three minutes later. The striker's header was blocked by Christoph Metzelder but he followed up to finish from six yards.
Schalke keeper Timo Hildebrand then saved Remy Cabella's strike as the match went up a gear, but neither side was able to regain the advantage, with Herrera's 89th-minute blocked shot the closest anyone came to snatching the win.


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"DevPhonics" Puts on a Show for the Ladies and Gentlemen of Adult Services
The dedication of Devereux's staff to the individuals they serve transcends the day-to-day interactions and support of the children, youth and adults.
The DevPhonics: (front row, left to right) Katelyn Burns (Human Resources), Dorothy Egan (Treasury), Kathleen Downey (Finance), Rosemarie Berardi (Human Resources), and Justina Vinci (Treasury); (back row, left to right) Rich Gable (Accounts Payable), Joe McDonald (Finance and DevPhonics Leader), and Kathy-Ann Lewis (Treasury). Not pictured: Clarice Baker-Weaver (Administration) and Asli Karasu (Treasury)
For 10 staff members at Devereux's corporate offices in King of Prussia and Villanova, who do not have the pleasure of working directly with our individuals each day, their passion takes the form of song through their singing group, "The DevPhonics."
The DevPhonics was first organized in September of 2010 as a tribute to Devereux's retiring treasurer, Steven Mansh. The group so enjoyed the performance that they decided to continue, performing later that year at a meeting of Devereux's Directors of Finance and at the annual corporate holiday party. Growing in musical confidence, the group reached out to Devereux's centers in southeast Pennsylvania and performed for Pennsylvania Adult Services' Winter Wonderland event as well as the 2012 Devereux Resiliency Conference, a day-long seminar for families of children with special needs organized by Marilyn Benoit, M.D., Devereux's Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer.
The DevPhonics began their 2013 tour with a performance for Pennsylvania Adult Services on Thursday, March 7th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the gymnasium of the Mendelson Center. One hundred individuals and staff from both campus and community programs attended the concert, which included two sets of six songs, with a brief break in between sets. During this break, Rocco, one of the individuals of Adult Services, wowed the crowd with an amazing keyboard performance. The DevPhonics has six more performances scheduled at Pennsylvania centers in the coming months.
Devereux salutes the DevPhonics and all the employees who go above and beyond to bring joy, self-fulfillment and personal accomplishment to the individuals we serve!
One hundred individuals and staff members gathered for the memorable performance.
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If This Is 'Piracy' Then I Support Piracy
from the cut-and-paste? dept
Of course, what I do support is the creation of new and engaging content. What troubles me, is when people try to imply wonderful creative works are somehow not creative because they build on the works of people before them. Of course, that's silly. All kinds of wonderful creative works you enjoy almost certainly come from near direct copies of things that came before. A lovely demonstration of this is seen in this short clip from the documentary RIP: A Remix Manifesto:
And yet, to hear some people talk about these things, none of this is "creative." It's all just "copying." In some cases it's outright "piracy." After all, Kutiman is using the works of others, and doing so entirely without permission. And yet, I have trouble seeing how anyone can legitimately claim that these songs are "piracy" in any real sense of the word. Kutiman is clearly a musician. That he uses a note played by someone else on a YouTube video, and then "plays" it himself, strikes me as no different than playing a keyboard that plays a recorded sounded, or even strumming a guitar. A musician is putting different sounds together to create music. Does it really make a huge difference if that music involves someone making a note from an instrument directly themselves... or by taking the note originally played by someone else and doing something creative and amazing with it?
Is this really the kind of thing that our politicians and copyright defenders mean to outlaw?
I'm not a supporter of copyright infringement or "piracy." But if this is piracy, then I am a supporter of it. Because this is truly creative works, whether or not it's built on the works of others.


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Repo Men (UK - BD)
Our reviewer Marcus thinks Repo Men's transplant didn't take. Time for a recall!!
It's the near future and the Union Corporation are offering the opportunity for all citizens to have artificial organs implanted when their health is in jeopardy. All you need to do is sign a contract and keep up the monthly payments—simple as that. Unfortunately if you go more than ninety days past due, the Union has the right to take their product back and their repo men are more than happy to rip it out of you.
Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) are some of the Union's best repo men and regularly bring in large quantities of recalled organs, but when Remy has an accident things change for him. Ending up with his very own artificial heart, he has a change of morals towards his work and soon his payments slip leaving the Union no option but to repossess, and guess who's coming after him? That's right; it's his best mate and partner Jake.
I'll warn you now this won't be a complete review of the movie because Repo Men is one of those movies that throws a twist at you that you're best not knowing about up front for both good and bad reasons.
Repo Men starts us off in a very realistic future that really will only take a company or two to find the right tech and could totally happen. The imagery is subtly layered with believable tech, from video alarm clocks through to kid's room wall holograms and captures the same sort of near future reality that Children of Men managed to present. The comparisons stop there though because where Children of Men's politics and rules stood up, Repo Men just raises questions. Like how would a law get passed to allow corporations to literally kill people to take the product back? Or why are the implants not remotely turned off? Forcing the customer to come to the Union to sort it out and given the fact that masses of people get killed within the two hour run time, hinting that nearly nobody makes the payments, I couldn't help but question, how the hell does this company even make money?
With that aside, the first half of the movie drew me in anyway. I really liked Jude Law's performance, which isn't something I can usually say. The role came with his likable sense of humour, despite the pretty gruesome job the character has and when the rug get pulled out from beneath Remy, the pacing and believable plot development had me wanting to see what happened next. Though on a side note I have zero clue as to how Remy has such a British accent considering he's been in the U.S. since his school days? Again I'll let it slide as it wasn't that important.
Now here is where I have to get a little vaguer. The story takes a turn at about the half-way point that judging by the commentary from the director and the writers is intended to make you start scratching your head and questions exactly how and indeed why events start to happen how they do. To go any further wouldn't be fair to anyone willing to give the movie a shot but I will say that Repo Men ended up feeling like two different ideas, one of which you are expected to all but disregard for the sake of a twist, which at this stage I'm still not sure is ballsy or a big ol' cop out. Either way the movie goes from being a pretty well-orchestrated look at the possible (albeit extreme) future of medication, with a good lead character and a solid problem for him to solve to something you're either going to go with or call bullshit on.
The 2.35:1 transfer here did a great job at selling a dark dingy future. With a lot of the movie taking place at night, the solid blacks and deep shadows make for a strikingly sharp HD image and with a clean almost grain free transfer the Repo Men disc is instantly impressive
Wide shots really utilise the 1080p, with the aerial city shots feeling alive with street lights and traffic and the close up shots coming packed with detail, especially with the surgical procedures (which is a nice way of saying massacres in the context of the movie). Skin tones and generally speaking most colours all feel natural throughout, though some of the skin textures aren't all that consistent depending on the lighting within the scene.
For a movie that's being promoted as an action romp, it really isn't a constant barrage. It's mostly dialogue and the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track shows off a clear and crisp presentation. When the action does kick in from time to time it's punchy, dynamic and offers up a range of different audio effects.
The soundtrack has a nice ring to it in both the softer jazz numbers and the harder hitting action scenes. There's a good use of the rear speakers with bullets and blood flying around especially in the Oldboy style corridor fight that shows off the sound effects of knives, hacksaws and hammers doing damage very well and despite there not really being a real show off moment for the track, it remains a consistent one.
The commentary with director Miguel Sapochnik and writers Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner feels weirdly sarcastic. They seem to have a lot of fun together running though the making of the movie and the track doesn't really trail off at any point but I'm not too sure I got what the intentions were with the story and its twist, even with this as a companion piece.
The Universal U-Control comes with a fact track that offers up the details of the movie's artificial organs tech specs, such as the prices they'd cost. There's also a picture-in-picture option for fourteen of the twenty chapters giving behind the scenes footage, cast interviews and the usual making of style video segments. There's also the D-Box option, BD-Live and a new feature called Social Blu that allows you to review the disc and features via Facebook and Twitter. I gave it a shot linking it to my Facebook account, but it seemed more adamant to push me through to Twitter (despite the Facebook symbol in the logo) so I gave up. Maybe next time.
There are five deleted scenes (08:38 SD) with optional commentary, 'Inside the Visual Effects' (06:08 HD) that's essentially a VFX show reel with a commentary with the director to explain the details and lastly there's a selection of seven 'Union Commercials' (03:30 SD).
Despite a great first act, Repo Men is a little bit of clunky mess overall and will either test your tolerance for how much you're willing to just accept or impress you with its dedication to its slide of hand style twist. On first viewing I sort of wish it had kept the story as low key and gritty as the first half, which was a whole lot more enjoyable than the second but I can't say I didn't enjoy the entire duration even if I did feel a little conned by the final act, twice in fact.
The disc looks and sounds great but the features do sort of let the package down a bit so this might be a rental as opposed to a blind buy.
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Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 23rd August 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Mater Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD Mater Audio 5.1 Spanish, DTS-HD Mater Audio 5.1 French, Audio Description English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras: Theatrical and Extended Cut, U-Control, BD Live, Social Blu, Feature Commentary with Director Miguel Sapochnik and Writers Eric Garcia and Garret Learner, Inside the Visual Effects, Deleted Scenes, The Union Commercials
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Carice van Houten
Genre: Action and Drama
Length: 111 minutes
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Forget the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, or Beijing's other historic sights. The hottest tourist draw today for Chinese visitors to the capital is the Olympic Green, which boasts key competition venues such as the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium and the "Water Cube" swimming pool.
For weeks, special buses have been leaving an Olympic terminal every few minutes, ferrying Beijingers and tourists for a glimpse of the iconic structures. Thousands more thronged the perimeter fence this weekend, snapping pictures and soaking up the pre-Olympic atmosphere in glorious sunshine.
"I feel very emotional about these Games," said Li Chunfeng, a young nurse, as she prepared to walk around the edge of the green, which is as close as the public can get to the venues. "China has suffered in history, and this is a moment of glory."
While the Chinese government fends off criticism from abroad about its human rights record, its foreign policy, and Beijing's air quality, Chinese people appear overwhelmingly proud and excited about the Olympic Games that open here next Friday.
"This is going to be the biggest festival ever in China," said Qi Jianlan, as she finished taking photos of her husband with the stadium in the far distance. "It's going to be even more 're nao' than the New Year," she added, using the phrase Chinese use to describe their favorite atmosphere – "warm and noisy."
At another level, Ms. Qi hoped, "this will help the world to understand China, and help China become part of the world."
The state drums up support
It would be easy to ascribe the near universal popular enthusiasm to the single-minded importance that the state-run media has laid on the 2008 Olympic Games ever since they were awarded to Beijing seven years ago.
Certainly the steady drumbeat of the official windup to the Games has reached an unbroken roll: For the past month every aspect of life in the capital, from transport to shopping to entertainment, has been subordinated to Olympic needs in a way no other host city has attempted in recent history.
Nor have Chinese newspapers or TV given their public any hint of the criticism that has been leveled at Beijing in the run-up to the Games, as international reporters complain of Internet censorship at Olympic press centers and human rights groups accuse China of betraying Olympic pledges to improve its record.
'It's a big thing for me'
But the people's ardor seems sincere and deeply felt: nearly 80 percent of Chinese nationwide feel the Olympics are important to them personally, and 96 percent believe the Games will be a success, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
"This is the first time in a hundred years that China has hosted the Olympics," said Xu Minghai, a businesswoman from Inner Mongolia stopping over on a business trip to admire the Olympic venues. "It's very exciting because it's a matter of national pride."
"We won't benefit as individuals," added her husband, Li Ruibing. "But if China grows and becomes strong, our children and our grandchildren will enjoy greater hope.
"The history of the last 100 years has been a history of humiliation for the Chinese. Finally we are standing up, so this is a big moment for all Chinese," he said.
It has become common for ordinary Chinese to read such historical meaning into an event that in other cities has usually been simply a grand sporting spectacle and a chance to indulge a little civic pride.
"The Olympics mean much more to China than to previous host countries because they have been stressed as the opportunity to showcase ... the country's achievements," says Fu Yuanyuan, a young PR consultant. "I think it's a milestone."
"It's a big thing for China, so it's a big thing for me," explained Hu Jinan, a businessman from Hubei Province, 500 miles south of Beijing, who had brought his two daughters to the capital to show them the Olympic venues. He rested in the shade Saturday while his girls walked along the fence surrounding the Olympic Green.
Putting up with daily disruptions
Skeptics have raised their voices, but more often in the anonymity of the Internet than on the streets.
As at previous Olympics, some critics are angered by the high costs of the Games: Beijing's are estimated at around $40 billion, in a country where many citizens remain rooted in poverty. They also point out that many of the city's poorest residents have lost their homes, as the government seized land for Olympics-related structures.
Others are bothered by the disruptions to daily life in Beijing that the Games have brought. "The five Olympic rings felt like five nooses, slipping one by one onto his neck," reads a passage in an anonymous satirical short story about current life in China's capital that has proved enormously popular on the Web.
Most Beijing residents, though, seem prepared to put up with security arrangements that would seem oppressive in most capitals, and with draconian traffic regulations, in order to ensure the Games' safety and success.
"Tight security is necessary," says Yao Jiawei, a young journalist. "It keeps foreigners safe, and that's needed to maintain China's international image, and the Olympics are also a test of the government's ability to guarantee ordinary people's safety."
"The policies certainly have an impact on our lives," says an accountant with an IT company who identified herself as Mrs. Wu, complaining about new traffic rules designed to reduce pollution. "But since they are for the Olympics I can put up with them."
Meanwhile, all billboards in the capital have been taken down and replaced with "Beijing 2008" posters; every lamppost on every major thoroughfare is draped with "Beijing 2008" banners, and from every pedestrian bridge hang proclamations of "One World, One Dream," China's Olympic slogan.
Shoppers looking for a souvenir of China's "once in a century event" jammed counters at the Olympic Flagship Store on Wangfujing, a popular pedestrian precinct, Saturday, choosing between plush toys, pens, playing cards, jade pendants, hats, teapots, and a thousand other items, all decorated with the Beijing 2008 logo.
Was the Olympic obsession not a little excessive, one shopper was asked. "Oh no," said Tang Nan, a student who said she had already bought all the Beijing 2008 souvenirs she could afford. "It just shows the Chinese people's enthusiasm.
"I haven't met anyone who isn't excited," she added.


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Brand Essence - Regis is PeopleRegis is not a collection of buildings on a picturesque campus. It's not colleges, programs or offices. Regis is people. When we start to think of Regis as people, any internal divisions we have fall away. The Regis story needs to be told from the voice of Regis people – students, staff, faculty – not the voice of the institution. In that way, we share Regis versus selling it.
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Lionel Messi said it was "terrible" to play at altitude after Argentina's 1-1 draw away to Bolivia on Tuesday in their latest Conmebol World Cup 2014 qualifier.
Marcelo Moreno gifted the hosts the lead midway through the first half, before Ever Banega restored parity shortly before the half-time whistle, and Messi was pleased to see his side get a draw in difficult conditions.
"It is terrible to play here at altitude, so a draw is a good result for us," Messi, who was sick on the sidelines during the match, told reporters in Bolivia.
"Every time you make an effort or play at high pace, you need time to recover.
"Some of the players had a headache and others felt a bit dizzy, but there was nothing wrong with me."
The Barcelona star then looked ahead to the remaining qualification games and stressed that the next two matches will be crucial.
"We now have two big games coming up. We host Colombia and we are travelling to Ecuador. It will be nice matches."
Albiceleste sit atop of the table with 24 points from 11 games, holding a four-point lead over second-placed Ecuador, who have a game in hand.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 21:12 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"USB 3.0 might be one of the big stories here at IDF, but Intel just showed off a glimpse of the future: Light Peak, an optical interconnect for mobile devices that can run as fast as 10Gbps. That's fast enough to do everything from storage to displays to networking, and it can maintain those speeds over 100-meter runs, which is pretty astounding. Intel says the idea is to drastically reduce the number of connectors on mobile devices, which should allow them to get even smaller - but the demo was on a huge Frankenrig, so don't expect to see Light Peak devices shipping any time soon."


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Last Carr Recruits
Hard to believe, but this team still had players recruited by Carr. Kenny Demens, Brandon Moore, and Elliot Mealer are the final holdovers. Seems like decades ago that Carr was the coach; it's hard to believe he recruited those guys.
Edit: So those 3 were the last that made their verbal commitment under Carr.
- Will Campbell commited under Carr, decommitted, then recommitted under Rodriguez.
- JT Floyd was offered by Carr and was supposedly a silent commit to Carr's Michigan.
- Marvin Robinson was offered by Carr
I'm sure Carr had a hand in at least some part of the recruiting process for a handful of other players on the team, but ultimately the players above are the last ones to commit while expecting to play under Carr.


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FC Bayern Munich has made their way towards the Champions League Semi Final this time and they are ready to began the winning battle against the Spanish La Liga gaints Barcelona it would be a little tough game for them but they are ready as they have been settled well with squad Frank Ribery , Arjen Robben , Tomas Mullar all are in good form and looking to get their mark on the winning recession.
FC Barcelona has some injuries problem but now their squad is totally recover and looking ready for the battle of the match . This is a big game for them Lionel Messi who is currently chasing the race for the top scorer is ready to began the battle .
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Xavi , Inesta , Pique , all are looking to get place in the Final once again and this time they have opponents from Germany the record of the Bayern Munich against the FC Barcelona is not very well but history never repeats let see who rules the Semi Final on 23rd April.
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text: The other day, LTD woke up from his nap and announced that he wanted to go for a walk. Now that the little guy is three I figured we could also take the dog along so she could do her business. On days when I stay home with LTD I usually walk the dog alone in the evening after The Mommy comes home. However, it was nice out and I had the wonderpup in the Instant Trainer Leash. Normally, the wonderpup is pretty good puller on walks and she crosses over tripping me up. For these reasons and more I don't take LTD with me on dog walks. The Instant Trainer uses moderate but solid resistance to discourage the dog from pulling. The leash just clips on to the collar and then goes around her back side. The Instant Trainer takes a little practice as the leash comes up the dog's mid section as oppose to traditional leashes that pull from the collar. The wonderpup started walking backwards when the leash wasn't high enough up her back, but with a little work we got it "straightened" out. Of course since I would never use a leash on the boy our walk wasn't as easy as I hoped.


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In a University of Michigan survey, interviewers asked people what they believed would improve their quality of life. The answer given most often was "more money."
In the book "The Day America Told the Truth," surveyors asked, "If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?" The No. 1 response at 64 percent was "greater wealth."
We know from other studies that fewer Americans are "very happy" today than in the 1950s, despite having far more money, bigger homes and more stuff. By 1950, 3,000 shopping malls dotted this country, a number that grew to 45,025 by 2000. Greater affluence has not translated to greater happiness.
Are there any circumstances under which more money will bring happiness? Of course, if you are living in poverty, having more money will make a huge positive different in your quality of life, and yes, you will be happier. But if your basic material needs are met, having more money might be nice, but it's not likely to make you happier.
The problem is that money mystifies us. We can't live with it, yet we can't live without it. We want more of it, even though spending more of it won't necessarily make us any happier and often makes our lives more difficult.
I believe the answer to this predicament is found in understanding human nature. Each of us has three distinct parts, each with its own distinct need for fulfillment: emotional, spiritual and physical.
To ignore any one of these or to attempt to satisfy them inappropriately is to live a life that is confused, needy and forever in search of fulfillment.
EMOTIONAL. Research shows that happiness and contentment in life is strongly affected by the quality of our relationships, especially marital and family relationships.
Based on 10 years of research, the authors of "The Case for Marriage" concluded that all the money in the world cannot take the place of meaningful, personal relationships.
SPIRITUAL. Every person is created with what some have characterized as a "God-shaped hole" in our hearts that only he can fill. If you are attempting to fill your spiritual needs with human relationships or with money, you will be left feeling empty, unsatisfied and unfulfilled. Those things will never "fit," so you will be left with a gaping void that cries out to be filled.
PHYSICAL. Just as we are emotional and spiritual beings, we also have physical needs. This is where money comes in — to fulfill our needs for shelter, food and comfort. I'm the first to admit that I thoroughly enjoy working hard to earn a living and I enjoy spending money like most anybody else. Wealth is good. Financial security is crucial. We should not be opposed to work or money.
Money has its place in our lives and, when used responsibly, can certainly bring a great deal of satisfaction. That kind of satisfaction is much deeper than simple happiness, which comes and goes dependent on how much money we have at any given time. It is the joy and contentment that comes from using money in a personally fulfilling manner. That is what wealth is meant to be.
Mary Hunt is founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 23 books, including her 2012 release, "7 Money Rules for Life."
You can email her at email@example.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630.
To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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Consensus Report
Underground Engineering for Sustainable Urban Development (2013)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
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Humans have long relied on underground space for the placement of physical structures that allow our cities and developed areas to function safely. These include building foundations, underground utilities (e.g., power, gas, communications, waste management), transportation (e.g., roads and highways, subways, freight and passenger rail) and their supporting facilities. However, underground infrastructure is rarely engineered in coordination with other underground or surface infrastructure, or in consideration of how it may contribute to the long-term sustainability of society—considerations that will be increasingly important as populations increase, climate changes, and more demands are placed on underground infrastructure.
Underground engineering can promote sustainability if conducted using a more holistic approach to lifecycle planning, construction, and maintenance, and if the underground is considered part the total above- and below ground urban and natural system. Because urban underground space is a nonrenewable resource, a thorough understanding and tracking of the health of its natural and manmade systems is needed to inform broader urban planning. The lack of coordinated management of and support for research and development in underground engineering undermines US leadership in this field and jeopardizes the ability of city planners to meet sustainability goals. This report offers a new multidisciplinary framework for research, education, and training to prepare a domestic workforce with that capacity.


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Scientology Volunteer Ministers pledge to help build a brighter future for Haiti on country's Flag Day
May 25, 2010
Flag Day in Haiti May 18 took on new significance this year as Haitians and friends from around the world reaffirmed their commitment to rebuild the country from the January 2010 earthquake.
In this spirit, 100 Haitian Scientology Volunteer Ministers, joined by dozens of Volunteer Ministers from abroad, made the hour-long march from the Port-au-Prince suburb of Carrefour to the city of Leogane Tuesday, May 18, waving the Haitian flag with its motto "unity and freedom" and carrying bright yellow banners proclaiming "Something can be done about it"-the motto of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers.
In the village of Mariani on the outskirts of Leogane, Scientology Volunteer Ministers from Canada, Russia, the Ukraine, Mexico, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and the United States joined their Haitian colleagues in the Haitian national anthem while Max Beauvoir, Haiti's main voodoo leader, raised the Haitian flag at the Volunteer Ministers tent where volunteers provide free training and one-on-one help.
Haitian Flag Day marks the day in 1803 when native leaders ripped the white field out of the French "tri-color" flag, forming a symbol of unity in their decade-long fight against French oppression that kept 500,000 enslaved on the island. Eight months later, this became the official flag for the new nation of Haiti.
Despite the passion and determination of the Haitian people, which made Haiti the only nation ever formed of a successful slave revolt, even before the January earthquake Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Some 300,000 Haitian children were orphaned or living without parents. Of 182 nations on Earth Haiti ranked 125th in literacy and 158th in Gross Domestic Product per capita.
These factors and a host of other social issues indicate it was not just an act of nature that devastated Haiti in January. These issues are what the Scientology Volunteer Ministers address in their training.
For example, there is no official building code in Haiti, and the city of Port-au-Prince was doomed to collapse. Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, described it in these terms: "Even a moderate sized event would have toppled these buildings down. This earthquake was a very large event and they had absolutely no chance of standing up."
While Scientology Volunteer Ministers continue to do relief work and construction projects in Haiti hospitals, clinics, orphanages and refugee camps, they are working on a longer-range program to tackle the underlying social issues that brought Haiti to the brink of destruction and ensure the country emerges from this disaster a strong society whose people have the opportunity they deserve.
Scientology Volunteer Ministers have opened 300 Volunteer Ministers groups in Haiti and are training government agencies, community and religious leaders, educators, students and scouts. With so many traumatized, they begin with a seminar called "Assists for Injuries and Illnesses," containing technology developed by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard to handle the emotional and spiritual effects of loss and injury. They follow up with training in study technology to increase literacy and the ability to apply one's education. Then come workshops in the basics of organization, planning, and communication skills, to ensure the people of Haiti have the tools they need.
In developing the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program in 1976, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "It is important to understand bad conditions don't just happen. The cultural decay we see around us isn't haphazard. It was caused. Unless one understands this he won't be able to defend himself or reach out into the society with effectiveness." To learn more about the courses and seminars visit the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website at www.volunteerministers.org/train


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President Obama and congressional candidates are tripping over themselves trying to convince voters that they will have a tax plan to soak the rich, help the middle class and jump-start small business.
They want to entice people to spend what money they have and sway wary investors to shake loose with the $13 trillion currently tucked away waiting for more certain economic and political times.
Visible tax relief is but a small part of the equation for struggling people and employers. It is the hidden taxes imbedded in the family grocery, phone and power bills that are killing us.
Take electricity for example. Ratepayers, you and me, wonder why we are seeing our electricity costs ratcheting up. The power companies get the blame because people only see the increases in their monthly bills. So while the politicians can beat their chest boasting about all of the new requirements they have put in place, they don't tell us how much they cost.
Another case in point: Washington is blessed with an abundance of low cost, greenhouse-free hydroelectric power – but it's not considered renewable in our state. Neither is wind, solar or biomass energy generated outside the Bonneville Power Administration service area. Nor is wood-waste energy generated from pulping liquors.
Even though current law under Initiative 937 mandates utilities to buy and sell more renewable power, lawmakers in Olympia have refused to amend it. So we feel it in our pocketbooks.
On top of that, the Environmental Protection Agency is processing a batch of stiff new regulations on wood-waste generation projects that will not only drive up costs for that renewable energy, but in effect may prevent some from being built. As a result, the same renewable resources the state is encouraging are being tubed by the feds.
The effect is that as our population increases and demand for electricity grows, the law of supply and demand kicks-in. So our power bills keep going up and up!
Case in point: In the early 1970s as a congressional staffer, each summer I was handed a dozen of the most dire Social Security cases and sent back to western Montana. My assignment was to help these people weave through the maze of government regulations so they could qualify for supplemental Social Security payments.
Each person I met with had a stack of unpaid bills, including past due electricity invoices that ranged from $90 to $150 a month. Their total incomes ranged from $325 to $375 a month. Their homes and apartments were poorly insulated which caused their heating bills to spike during winter months.
They were poor, elderly and mostly widows. They stayed home raising their kids, had little formal education and took in wash and ironing to earn some extra money.
The bottom line was they were not making it financially and didn't need more expenses.
Fast forward to 2010. Today, there are thousands of other federal, state and local regulations draining family checkbooks and business bank accounts in the same way. You don't hear the politicians talking about that in their television ads.
The politicians, bureaucrats and activists who cavalierly tell us that we ought to smile and absorb all of these hidden taxes need to sit down with today's seniors and working families – like the kind of folks I met with 40 years ago. They'd get a whole new perspective on how all of these new mandates, confusing regulations, delays in permit processing, and edicts impact people.
Politicians don't have to wait until the political winds are blowing in the right direction to start. They just need to sit down, put themselves in the place of the average American – and listen.
Don Brunell is the president of the Association of Washington Business.


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Walking to class with red tape across her lips last year, college student Betsy Joy was approached by a fellow student who asked what she was doing. She gave him literature describing her participation in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. He confided to her that his girlfriend had recently had an abortion.
"I told him where he could go to find healing," said Ms. Joy, a resident of Lansing, Mich. "It was a very powerful experience."
Tomorrow, young people across the country, in more than 1,000 schools and ministries, will take part in this year's Day of Silent Solidarity, which was founded in 2004 by Bryan Kemper, the founder of Stand True Pro-Life Outreach and the Youth Outreach Director for Priests for Life.
"Sometimes silence is the most powerful statement," said Kemper. "As pro-lifers, we try to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, but once a year, we join our silence to their silent suffering. It's not too late to join us." For more information about the event, or to sign up, go to www.silentday.org.
The Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity is a project of Stand True, the youth outreach of Priests for Life, and is co-sponsored by LifeNews.com, Students for Life of America and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.
Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, challenged people of all ages to get involved with the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity: "Are you willing to give up your voice for a day for those who will never have a voice,'" he asked. "Can you do it for the least of our brothers and sisters?"
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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You saw the grim future of a budget-capped Formula One. Forget that. Let's dream big: all the way to Mach 2. Designer Vincent Montreuil's flying Ferrari concept comes with twin turbos—turbostator engines, that is.
It was bound to happen. After all, where's the real excitement in modern Formula One? With its rev caps, engine development freezes and lack of ground effects, turbochargers and winglets.
Instead of race car standbys carbon fiber and titanium, Montreuil's Ferrari X-Racer is made of pure unobtainium. His renderings are peppered with all sort of crazy specs, including that glowing orifice in the rear, exhaust tube for the twin turbostator engines.
They also come equipped with "Xtrem FireForce". Whatever that is, I bet Kimi Räikkönen would like to have it installed in his underperforming F60 on a hurried schedule.
The human nervous system is perhaps not equipped to deal with race speeds in excess of twice the speed of sound. Still, we can dream. Of gung-ho drivers with genetically modified visual cortices racing across the surface of an alien planet in winged cars. If one assumes correctly from Montreuil's sketches, one such grand prix will be held on the ice planet of Hoth.
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