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K. L. Epperson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 205 diseños de 57 diseñadores freelance.
Logo for a technology and investment firm based in the Southwestern USA. Colors are blacks, greys, oranges and burnt reds, like the hills, rocks and mesas of the Western borderlands. We are looking for a slick Web 2.0 logo with a clean, elegant design.
We're looking for a clean, sophisticated, elegant "Web 2.0" logo design for our company, Black Mesa Consulting. We provide technology consulting, early stage venture consulting and strategic management consulting for companies in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Black Mesa is the highest point in the state of Oklahoma and is in a mountain range that borders all four states.
We want an Adobe Illustrator file and/or a Photoshop file, and any exports (PNG, GIF, JPG) you care to produce. We really prefer Illustrator for this kind of logo. Logo needs to be nicely layered and organized so that it is easy to edit, adjust colors, add taglines, etc.
- More is less. Looking for something evocative and elegant.
- Color theme must match our blacks and burnt reds
- We'll need to add additional text and taglines, but start with "Black Mesa Consulting." We're also going to use "Black Mesa Technology" and "Black Mesa Ventures."
- Shiny, badge-style is good. Raised, slightly 3D might be good.
- Typography needs to be sophisticated to match the logo and theme, but not so crazy that it is hard to match up to a website typography.
- Feel free to go literal, or get figurative.
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- Not looking for a panoramic mesa image and blue skies. One mesa is peferred.
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Lawyer: Snowden still expects visit from father
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden is reported as saying that the fugitive National Security Agency leaker is still awaiting a visit from his father and other relatives.
The state-owned television channel RT released a transcript of its interview with Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, dated Monday, but said it had not yet aired.
Kucherena is quoted saying that he talks to Snowden's father almost every day and the elder Snowden is still planning to come to Russia soon. The lawyer refused to give a date for the visit but said Snowden's mother and grandparents may come, too.
Snowden, who received asylum in Russia on Aug. 1, has not spoken publicly and his whereabouts remain secret. Kucherena said Snowden has guards but is able to go outside and travel around.

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Uncle Sam (US - BD RA)
Gabe wants YOU...to read this review. You know, if you have the time...
Some may ask why 1997's practically straight to video, and generally unloved, Uncle Sam deserves a high definition Blu-ray treatment, while so many other exploitation classics continue languishing on Blue Underground's shelves. It's a valid question, and I have a simple answer—Blue Underground is run by Bill Lustig, who besides rescuing exploitation films from obscurity, has directed many of his own, including Maniac, Vigilante and (wait for it) Uncle Sam. Based on last month's City of the Living Dead and Django Blu-rays alone, I'd say Lustig and Blue Underground have earned a lot of patience. The story follows Sgt. Sam Harper (David Shark Fralick), who is killed by friendly fire during the first Gulf War, and sent home to his family in a giant tin coffin. Sam is rustled from his eternal slumber when a group of teenagers burn an American flag over his grave, and rises to exact right-wing, All American vengeance on draft dodgers, corrupt politicians and tax evaders in the guise of the kindly American mascot Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam is nowhere near an important destination on the great American exploitation movie highway, but it is an interesting little roadside outhouse. The film comes out of a remarkably unfriendly era for war drama, revenge horror, and straight-faced slasher violence. It's anachronistic, but unlike the teeth gnashing horror films of the post-Vietnam era, it just barely recalls modern political climates. There are also so few notable horror films from the era that the film's brand of anachronisms feel more alien. No one working in horror today is trying to pay homage to STV horror from the post-modern Scream era. Had Lustig made the film in the post-9/11 era, or even better, following George Bush Jr.'s second term, Uncle Sam probably would've been better received, or at least noticed upon release. Seen through modern eyes the film's politics, which are pushed to semi-ridiculous heights, seem downright quant. Remember when the first Gulf War seemed like a big deal, friendly fire was still reported by the mainstream media, and anti-war types were protesting the military actions of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton? Seems like a thousand years ago, doesn't it?
Lustig's direction is surprisingly flat, and the script is front loaded with a lot of non-horror, dialogue heavy character establishment. This makes for an extremely slow first act, that resembles something of a made for television, veteran themed movie of the week. There's very little of Lustig's brand of gritty, post-noir horror, or Cohen's brand of sardonic wit, even in the more horror-centric latter acts, which is too bad, because the concept is ripe for both. There's something inherently funny about an Uncle Sam killer who is offended by anti-Americanism, and given the right circumstances this same concept could be genuinely disturbing, as blindly idealistic people are genuinely frightening. Lustig captures some of visual flair once the supernatural elements kick in and manages to pay effective homage to his genre favourites. The first real kill scene starts with a Tenebre inspired crane shot, and moves on to some Bava-worthy smoky atmosphere. Later he tosses an effective Carpenter nod, and starts abstractly backlighting his monster like James Whale.
Like most of Lustig's films, Uncle Sam features a cast of B-movie all-starts, and the recognizable faces all put in some decently hammy performances. There was a bit of a difference in this case in that Bo Hopkins, Isaac Hayes and PJ Soles hadn't been working in the public eye on a regular basis for almost a decade (Tarantino had just tried to revive Robert Forster for Jackie Brown at the time), which places the 'stars' firmly in the nostalgia vein Rob Zombie has repeatedly tapped over the years. The rest of the cast is either entirely adequate in a made for television fashion, or downright bad in an even embarrassing for the type fashion. Performances really haven't ever been the strong point of any of Lustig's films, save of course Maniac, but Uncle Sam features so little else in terms of story or atmosphere the it hard to escape how stilted everyone is. This adds to the unfortunate 'made for television' sheen, as does the misplaced moralistic streak that makes sure Cohen and Lustig, both kings of controversy and moral bankruptcy, explain that Sam is evil and wrong. Even as a self-avowed bleeding heart liberal I'd much prefer a more genuine grindhouse approach to the material, one where the proper text tells us its okay to root for Sam, and audiences are left to delve into the possibility of satire and subtext. In other words, I'd prefer a film that Roger Ebert would rail against before realizing years after the fact he just didn't get the joke.
There's long been a part of me that suspected Bill Lustig set out to separate himself from Anchor Bay with Blue Underground simply to get a widescreen release of Uncle Sam on the market. The film is shot using Lustig's preferred 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and the framing is such that a full frame representation wouldn't do the composition any favours. Being released in the post-grindhouse, pre-DVD '90s Uncle Sam was doomed to full frame VHS representation upon its initial release. I've never actually watched the DVD release, but assume it was a Godsend for fans. This new Blu-ray release must just be the icing on the cake.
Based on the film's relatively recent vintage, and on Lustig's penchant for preserving everyone else's grindhouse trash, I can't say the quality of this 1080p transfer is surprising. The frame is plenty grainy, but the grain is small in size, and very easy to overlook. Sharp edges are occasionally mired by a touch of jagged noise, and the big, deep-set traveling shots feature some minor edge-enhancement. The film is colourful, but the pastel wardrobes and sets are a bit washed out by brighter lighting schemes, seemingly on purpose. The last act, with its lower light, darker backgrounds, and neon key-lights, is the best looking section of the whole film. Colour separation is relatively clean, though some of the brighter reds bleed a bit, which can be a problem when this many American flags are such an integral visual element. Lustig shots most of the film in medium close-ups, with relatively shallow focus, so there isn't an excess of detail in the frame, but things are sharp mostly beyond DVD capabilities.
Blue Underground presents Uncle Sam in DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 audio, and the effect is about what you'd expect from the film, though I have to say I'm a little disappointed based on the studio's past work (especially since they likely had original stereo surround tracks to work from this time around). The centered vocals are all over the place in terms of clarity and volume levels. At first I thought this was just a lowly mixed track, but the sound effects and music, not to mention dialogue that comes from outside the center channel, are all sizably louder, and much more consistent. The centered stuff also features some unfortunate bits of high end distortion. There are a few surprisingly expressive stereo and surround work-outs, mostly stemming from supernatural moments, and including a comic book battle as heard through a child's imagination. The climax features some punchy LFE effects in the form of gunshots, canon fire, and improbably explosions. The music, which is synth based, pretends to be symphonic, but is pretty thin on the track, featuring little LFE support, outside of the brief live act that plays during the party scene.
The extras here appear to match Blue Underground's previous DVD release of Uncle Sam, and begin with two audio commentary tracks. The first track features director William Lustig, writer Larry Cohen, and producer George G. Braunstein. This is a very quiet, slow track, with less actual information than I was expecting. There are some important factoids, but a lot of the discussion revolves around the modern application of the film (during the 2004 recording), and the usual hard luck tales of getting independent films financed. When Cohen speaks up his words the whole track perks up, but Braunstein is almost embarrassing, at one point remarking on how good that 'one black actor is'. The second track features Lustig with and actor Isaac Hayes. This track mostly features Lustig talking to Hayes about the making of the film, and Hayes either politely pretending he knows what Lustig is talking about, or giggling and backing up his statements. When Hayes is on screen his input picks up, and it's clear he actually remembers quite a bit about the production, but overall this is the William Lustig show. Between the two tracks there isn't an excess of overlap, but the second track is definitely the more listenable, buoyant, and informative.
'Fire Stunts' (09:50, SD) is a brief chunk of behind the scenes footage from the climactic explosion and fire stunts. The raw video footage is mixed with footage from the film, and overdubbed commentary from stunt coordinator Spiro Razatos. Turns out that final explosion blew up a bunch windows throughout the surrounding neighborhood. The disc also features a single deleted scene (00:00:50, SD), presented as a series of raw takes, a gag reel, or rather a series of clips that imply pedophilia out of context (00:00:40, SD), the original trailer (00:01:30 HD), and a poster and still gallery.
I'm afraid I didn't really enjoy Bill Lustig's Uncle Sam as a horror film or a satire. Had Larry Cohen's concept been implemented some time in the post-9/11 era the film might have worked politically, and might have been a more genuinely, joyously exploitation feast, complete with hard violence. There are moments of inspired lunacy, and a solid cast, but for the most part Uncle Sam is a pretty dull experience. This Blu-ray release doesn't look or sound perfect, or even as surprisingly impressive as many of Blue Underground's previous releases, but it is an upgrade over the DVD release.
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Films like this make me miss the 90s.
I love Jack Frost, but still this movie awaits my viewing. I remember seeing this on tape at the video store as well.
I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was pretty good, but also pretty boring. Sadly I think I liked Jack Frost more.
that burnt kid in the wheelchair totally looks like the kid from Two & A Half Men...funny. lol
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Release Date: 29th June 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director, Writer and Producer Commentary, Director and Actor Commentary, Fire Stunts, Deleted Scene, Bloopers, Trailer, Stills and Poster Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: William Lustig
Cast: Bo Hopkins, Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, P.J. Soles, William Smith, and Isaac Hayes
Genre: Horror
Length: 90 minutes
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In the wicked world of witchery this season on "American Horror Story," it appears Sarah Paulson is the good witch of the Bayou.
The third volume of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck's anthology horror series has the 38-year-old actress taking up the role of Cordelia Foxx, the headmistress of a school for young witches with the intent of giving them the tools to keep their powers in check. She is also the estranged daughter of Supreme witch Fiona, played by "AHS" first lady Jessica Lange — mommy dearest at its finest.
It's all a somewhat calm antidote — at least for now — to the deranged experiences Paulson faced playing Lana Winters, the reporter-turned-forced-mental patient, while at Briarcliff Manor, the creepy mental institution that lighted up last season's horrors.
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That's not to say the new edition of the FX drama, which premiered last week to 5.5 million viewers (the most-watched telecast for the series), isn't without its moments for the starlet -- from the flared, high-waisted trousers to her ever so endearing greeting to her mama witch. And in Wednesday's episode, she gets frisky with the aid of a few serpents— putting the show's promotional image to shame.
Show Tracker talked to Paulson, who can be seen in the Oscar buzzy historical drama "12 Years a Slave" when it hits theaters on Friday, about — among other things — name-calling with Jessica Lange, getting naked with snakes and a witch power she'd rather not have.
Uh, right away in the first episode you call Ms. Jessica Lange, the great dame of "American Horror Story," the b-word.
She tried to kill my cat! She was literally going to poison him without a thought.
But, seriously, was that an intimidating thing? I mean, it's Jessica Lange. You say it with such force too!
Nooo. Because the truth of the matter is. I've known Jessica since 2005 and have acted with her since then. She is absolutely my acting idol. But I think because I've done this with her now, I'm beyond the point of being afraid of her. I'm always in awe. But the fear has kind of subsided. So I'm able to call her a ... with great confidence because I know she can take it. There's nothing I can throw at her ever that could make her feel destabilized, so knowing that you can kind of let it fly.
Well, let's talk about getting into the character of Cordelia. First, considering how last season played out, was it just a relief to be in nice clothes?
Uh, heck yeah, it is. It's extremely fun to be glamorous. But I'm glamorous in a completely opposite way that Jessica is. It's very buttoned up.
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Her pant selection is truly spectacular.
I know! Everybody loves her pants. I love those pants too, except for the fact that I've been wearing them for enough time — we're shooting an episode right now where everything kind of changes for Cordelia, so my clothes are going to change as well. But whatever it is, it won't put me back into a mental institution garb. That's not going to happen. Although I have to say in its defense, it was awfully roomy and comfortable and you could eat whatever you want and nothing would show. I do miss that part of it. The pants from this season are tight around the waist and I'm like, "oh …, I guess no bagels for breakfast!" And when you're shooting in New Orleans it makes it hard to eat healthy stuff at times.
Does it help to be in New Orleans with a season like this? Does it help set the mood? The first two seasons were shot out here.
Oh gosh, yes. The city adds so much to the story — so much of the story is informed by the setting. And it's easier to do that in a real place than out on a back lot out in Paramount. I do miss the convenience of being home. At the same time, I have a beautiful house that I'm living in. I decided to have an authentic New Orleans experience and just really do it up. So I can complain about being here.
Now let's talk about the witch powers we see on "American Horror Story." There are some really neat ones … and some disturbing ones. We haven't really seen Cordelia get into hers just yet. We know she's dabbles with the potions, but --
I love how everyone online was saying I was smoking weed in the first episode because I breathed in that beaker just before Jessica walks in. I was just drawing the herbs out, I wasn't actually getting high! People were like, "Damn, girl! Getting stoned!" Some people were calling me Walter White. They were like, "oh ... Cordelia has a meth lab!" I thought it was so funny. We will see her powers, but her powers shift. Cordelia truly does undergo a real change in this season. Lana obviously had an enormous evolution from beginning to end. This is a different kind of evolution. This evolution is a little bit more of a slower burn, but when it changes, it's really something.
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But what about the powers the youngin's have? I mean, lady parts causing aneurysms when active? That's no joke!
Lady parts causing aneurysms is a real bummer, isn't it? A real bummer. That's a lot of activity that won't be happening. But, yeah, everyone of them has a power that I would like to have.
Wait. Even the lady parts one?
Except the lady parts one! No, that one I'm like, "you can keep that Taissa [Farmiga]!" I would not mourn the loss of that power. Lucky, Cordelia doesn't have the power to kill people with her vagina. I can let Taissa have that one. It's pretty crazy, but I guess it's kind of exciting? Maybe?
Kinky, for sure. And we saw in Wednesday's episode Cordelia and her struggles to have a baby. And we meet her husband — and, at first, I wondered if he knew about her powers, but we soon learn he does. Are we going to learn more about this couple?
Oh, yes. You are going to learn very much more about this couple. And that promises to be a very interesting part of the story, and that will be revealed around Episode 5.
OK, cause right now I'm wondering if he's a good guy. I don't know if I'm supposed to root for him.
Well, it is "American Horror Story." Anything is possible. But he is my husband and we love each other very much. We'll see where it goes. It will make itself known sooner rather than later.
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You guys certainly provide some steam. There's an epic love scene between Cordelia and her hubby.
I haven't seen it. How is it? I heard it's pretty good.
Uh, I definitely had to minimize the screen because I was watching at work! But, I mean, there are snakes involved. SNAKES.
Sure are. Sure. Are.
Yeah. So, what goes through Sarah Paulson's mind when she reads that in a script? Are you like, "What the hell is going on in Ryan's mind?"
No, I never question that. I always think, thank god for Ryan Murphy for being such a genius and giving me great stuff to do. I never think he's lost his marbles. Not yet. But I do think, "Wow, it must be nice to sit in the writers room and come up with the idea of snakes going up Cordelia's crotch." It's all good and well to read it, but to be the one to write it out must be nice. So much of it was so descriptive. There was like two pages of description for the scene. I was like, "Uh huh, sure man! Go ahead!" And then I thought, "Oh, god, what am I going to have to do with this freaking snake."
Was it CGI? Please tell me it was CGI.
No. No. No, Yvonne. Those were real snakes.
Nooooo! All up in your goods??
Yes, honey. Yes. And I have to say, I was totally terrified about it. And then I fell in love with them. I just kept thinking, "I need a pet snake. Give me a snake. I need to own a snake. I can't believe I've lived my whole life without a snake. Someone, please, please, please, give me a snake." They are incredible creatures.
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Something that can truly be realized only while they're curled around your bare body. How many were there?
What I hope they do is whatever editing they did — because they always do — I really hope for the DVDs of this season, that they'll put how many snakes there actually were when they were shooting. Josh and I had to drink a little bit of tequila because I was so nervous beforehand. And then once we were there, I was like, "This is the greatest day of my life. I want a snake. Give me a snake!"
Did you feel like you were Britney Spears?
Oh my god, Yvonne! I full on did! I totally did. I felt like a bad ass rock star about to sing "Slave 4 U." I was like, "I can do this too, Brit." And I would have never felt that way if it weren't for the show. Truly. The thing about "American Horror Story" is it constantly tests your limits of comfort. But it actually proves to you what you're made of. I never ever would have know that I could have withstood anything last season, and I certainly didn't think I was a person who was capable of being naked with snakes crawling all over my body. We even did extra close up shots of the snakes and I made them put it on my body.
But, really, how do you top a scene like that? What else can this show possible do to top that? I'm actually kind of terrified to think about it. Is there an upcoming scene that you're excited for people to finally see?
Yes, I finally have a scene with Angela Bassett in Episode 3. That was a scene I was really excited to even read.
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Do they band together?
I don't know … I don't know, girl.
You know! How about next season? Jessica keeps saying it will be her last. Have you thought about how much longer you'd want to do it? Do you take it season by season?
Look, I'm really serious, if you see me at 90 still on "American Horror Story," it would have been a good life. I'd be hard pressed to imagine doing another show — I mean, think about it. You get to play one character for 13 episodes and the next year you don't have to come back and wear the same … tired old clothes that you're so sick of. Instead, you get to inhabit another character, another skin. There's just no other place where that happens in serialized television. So, to me, it's like, why would I ever want to go anywhere? As long as Ryan wants me around, I will be here. And even if he doesn't want me around, I'm still going to want to be here! As far as Jessica, I'm like, "Yeah, we'll see!" I mean, it's hard to walk away from the things Ryan brings. From an acting standpoint, she may say that because we're in the middle of this and it can be hard and tiring and thrilling and exhilarating, but we'll see. I don't buy it. But maybe it's cause I don't ever want her to leave.
You should take a cue from Cordelia and say, "Listen, ... , you're staying!"
I'll be like, "listen ... I'm staying and you're staying. Don't mess with me! I have snake friends."
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The Inside Line: Kurt Busch's big break
Philadelphia, PA – A year and a half after his Sprint Cup Series career seemed to be in jeopardy, Kurt Busch has come full circle with him signing a multi-year contract to drive for Stewart-Haas Racing.
SHR announced on Tuesday that it will expand to a four-car team, and Busch will be the driver of the fourth entry. The 35-year-old Busch is teaming with Tony Stewart, Danica Patrick and Kevin Harvick, who is in his last season with Richard Childress Racing.
Busch coming on board with SHR next year might be his biggest career opportunity, and it's certainly going to be a chance for him to return to championship form in NASCAR's top series.
For quite some time, plans have been in the works for SHR co-owners Gene Haas and Stewart to add a fourth team. The racing organization made its debut at the start of the 2009 season, with Stewart and Ryan Newman as its drivers. Patrick drove a part-time Sprint Cup schedule for the team in 2012. She is now a full-time competitor in the series.
SHR announced last month that Harvick was in and Newman out for next season. Now the team has added Busch to its star-studded lineup.
"Tony was slapping me a high five," Busch said. "He says we're tapping into Gene's (Haas) wallet the way I wanted to. Tony is about finding better people and better products to go and utilize so he has a better chance of winning."
This year, Busch is driving the No. 78 Chevrolet for Furniture Row Racing, a single-car team owned by Barney Visser and located in Denver, Colo. Furniture Row is one of a few NASCAR national touring series teams that doesn't have its shop in North Carolina.
Busch has had quite a turnaround this year, following a tumultuous season in 2012. He sat no better than 23rd in points last year, driving for Phoenix Racing in 29 races and then Furniture Row for the last six events. Busch was suspended for the June race at Pocono for violating his probation when he made threatening comments to a reporter from The Sporting News one week earlier in a Nationwide Series event at Dover. Busch had been on probation for an incident that occurred with Newman's team at Darlington.
Over the years, Busch has been in trouble with one team after another. He's had numerous altercations with his team members, fellow competitors and members of the media. In fact, his disorderly behavior has cost him his job twice.
Busch drove for Roush Fenway Racing in his first five years in Cup. But he lost his job at Roush with two races remaining in the 2005 season due to an alcohol-related incident in Phoenix.
He spent his next six years with Penske Racing. But an incident with an ESPN reporter during the 2011 season-finale in Homestead, Fla. led to Busch's dismal from Roger Penske's team.
"It's easy as a 25-year-old to say you know everything, that you can do everything by yourself," he said. "That's what I thought that I could do when I moved from Roush Racing to Penske back in 2006, to bring Roger his first championship. I thought I could wear all the weight on my back. That was not the case. That's when you learn it's about the people, team communication, how it filters through all the channels.
"The Penske thing, the image, all of that, it wasn't your own identity, you were trying to be something else, stepping back and hitting the reset button, heading to Phoenix Racing, finding the true fun and true reason to go to the racetrack, rolling up your sleeves, getting dirty, being there with the guys, to feel that camaraderie, that old school let's work hard and not think about how to publicize things, how to put a twist on it to make it bigger than what it's supposed to be. That was so educational for me with having 10 years of experience in this sport."
Right now, Busch has a chance to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup. He is 12th in the standings, but trails 10th-place Joey Logano by just six points. The series heads to Atlanta this Labor Day weekend and then concludes its regular season on Sept. 7 at Richmond.
No single-car team has been in the Chase before.
"We have to be perfect the next two weeks to make the Chase," Busch said. "I'm as fired up as ever to try to deliver these guys into an area that they never thought was achievable, and at the same time, I have the future in front of me with Stewart-Haas Racing to know when you're starting a team out like this, you have teammates such as Stewart, Harvick and Danica, we're going to be putting all of the cars in the Chase next year. That's the difference of trying one car versus four."
Busch's chances of making the Chase next year will certainly be greater.


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Landlord Tenant (LT) cases without a future calendar date or after 14 days past the last appearance will not be found. Cases prior to 2006 will not be found unless the case has been restored or calendared since 2013. Sealed cases will not be found.
All courthouses are open Monday - Friday from 9:15 AM to 5:00 PM, closed between 1 PM and 2 PM. All business should be commenced by 12:00 PM. in the morning session and 4:00 PM. in the afternoon.
Calendar calls are 9:30 AM unless otherwise noted or directed.
Small Claims and Commercial Claims Court Schedule
Night Court: 6:00PM
1st District / Ronkonkoma: third Wednesday of the month
... Day Court: 9:30AM
2nd District / Lindenhurst: Thursday
3rd District / Huntington Station: Tuesday
4th District / Hauppauge: Wednesday
5th District / Ronkonkoma: Wednesday & Thursday
6th District / Patchogue: Monday
Landlord & Tenant Court Schedule
2nd District / Lindenhurst (Town of Babylon): Tuesday
3rd District / Huntington Station (Town of Huntington): Thursday
4th District / Hauppauge (Town of Smithtown): Tuesday
5th District / Ronkonkoma (Town of Islip): Thursday
6th District / Patchogue (Town of Brookhaven): Wednesday
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2nd District / Lindenhurst (Town of Babylon): Friday
3rd District / Huntington Station (Town of Huntington): Wednesday
4th District / Hauppauge (Town of Smithtown): Tuesday
5th District / Ronkonkoma (Town of Islip): Wednesday
6th District / Patchogue (Town of Brookhaven): Thursday
General Civil Schedule
1st & 5th District / Ronkonkoma: Monday & Tuesday
2nd District / Lindenhurst: Monday
3rd District / Huntington Station: Thursday
4th District / Hauppauge: Tuesday
6th District / Patchogue: Tuesday
Arbitration Schedule
1st & 5th District / Ronkonkoma: Monday - Friday
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March 4, 2007
After winning the first two games against LSU, Tigers' pitching stifled the Bisons' offense throughout much of the game on Sunday, March 4, as the Bisons were defeated 8-4 at Alex Box Stadium.
The Tigers took a 6-0 lead late into the game, only to have the shutout broken up by a four-run Bisons' eighth.
With one out, Justin Sanders walked. Branden Cadavid followed with an infield single. Ben Williams singled to load the bases for Andrew Nickerson, who singled to give the Bisons' their first run of the game. Casey Bond followed with a double down the right-field line for two more Lipscomb runs. An RBI fielder's choice by Allen Bolden capped the scoring for the Bisons.
LSU added two runs in the bottom of the inning to bring the score to 8-4, where it would remain.
Right-hander Matt Schnelly, who started for the Bisons received the loss to lower his record to 2-2. In seven innings, he gave up six runs, four earned, while striking out five.
Bond recorded two RBIs to lead the Bisons on offense with Nickerson contributing two hits and an RBI.
"It was unfortunate that we could not close out the series with a win," Schnelly said. "Overall, it was a great weekend for the Lipscomb baseball program. We have proven that we can compete with bigger name schools such as LSU and Auburn.
"We didn't get the win today, but we can draw confidence from a big series win. Hopefully we can take any momentum we may have gathered into our game against Tennessee on Tuesday."
The Bisons will travel to Knoxville, Tennessee, to take on the University of Tennessee in a single game on Tuesday, March 6. The game is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.


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St. Johns County might have a detoxification center soon, a facility that officials say is long overdue and which would serve the growing number of alcohol- and drug-addicted people here.
"We really believe that people in our community will want to support this," said Patti Greenough, chief executive officer at Epic Behavioral Healthcare, which is leading the effort to bring a detox center to the county in partnership with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
Greenough said St. Johns County has not had a detox center since the 1980s and is the largest county in Florida that doesn't have one.
A center here will help hundreds of people a year who are struggling with alcohol or drug addictions.
It will serve adults and will have 16 beds, 12 of which will be for detoxification and four beds for residential treatment. Detox usually takes five to seven days. Residential treatment would take a minimum of 30 days.
Medical personnel and substance abuse and behavioral health professionals will be on staff as well a licensed mental health counselor.
Tracy Arnold, owner of Genesis Housing, a local transitional housing program for people with mental health and substance abuse issues, said, "It's greatly needed. We support it 100 percent."
When residents leave the program for mental health or detox treatment outside the county, they sometimes don't return. If they don't get detox treatment at all, they often start using again.
"You can't just detox cold turkey from pain medications," she said. "Probably that and crystal meth is the biggest problem St. Johns County has."
EPIC, which provides outpatient treatment for people with addictions, saw a 30 percent increase in the amount of people coming in for treatment over the past year, Greeough said.
Officials from different agencies researched and rated a detox center as the top priority and estimated that 650 people in St. Johns County need treatment at a detox center, but only 20 percent were receiving treatment outside of the county.
"We found, 'Whoa, only about 20 percent we think of the projected need is accessing services,'" Greenough said. "Which means their addition was getting worse, and they were getting sicker."
Karen Tozzi, senior vice president of development and prevention for Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, said her facility treated 35 people from St. Johns County at its detox facility from October through March. Of the people who go through detox there, about 90 percent never return, she said.
People who go into the center are evaluated and prescribed a detoxification specific to their needs and are connected with other resources. Treatment is voluntary.
A detox center provides medical supervision because detox can be dangerous.
"They could die," Tozzi said. "It's that dangerous, especially coming off alcohol and some of these prescription drugs..."
Chris Schmidt, chief operating officer at Flagler Hospital, said a detox center would be an asset to the community.
Flagler Hospital's emergency department deals with intoxicated patients on a regular basis, he said. People who would be best served at a detox center are held and monitored by staff at the hospital. That takes additional resources that could be used for other patients.
Having a detox center will take pressure off the emergency department because people can be taken to the detox center once they have been medically cleared. Flagler Hospital is not set up to take a large number of patients for detoxification.
Greenough said that in its first year, alcohol addiction treatment could make up about 50 percent of the cases. People addicted to other drugs, including pain pills and methamphetamine, could make up the other half.
Estimates are based on addiction statistics from other EPIC programs.
The operating cost for the new detox center is $1.3 million per year. The Florida Legislature recently voted to fund the center's operations.
EPIC is working to raise $1.65 million to buy and renovate a building on U.S. 1 South. Buying an existing building saves money, Greenough said. The deal could close by August. If it goes through, officials hope to open the center by the end of the year.
Officials hope the support from the center will help more families stay together.
Many agencies have endorsed the project, including the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, the St. Johns County School District, the city of St. Augustine and the nonprofit homeless agency Home Again St. Johns.
"This has been touched by a lot of people who want to see this happen," Greenough said.


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First Student in new Doctor of Education Concentration Comes to Class
The first student in Columbia International University's newest Doctor of Education concentration says CIU's "solid match" of a biblical worldview combined with strong content makes the school's Education Program a perfect fit for Christian school educators.
Ann Gallagher, who is enrolled in the new Curriculum and Instructional Leadership concentration, is the director of curriculum at the Christian Academy School System in Louisville, Ky. It serves over 2,700 students on four campuses in Louisville and in nearby New Albany, Ind. The school system is a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), which has had a long relationship with CIU.
Gallagher, who has an undergraduate degree from Penn State and a master's degree from the University of Maryland, says the concentration will give her a broader knowledge base.
"I always feel like I'm missing pieces, that there is something I don't have, and if I have a little more knowledge I'll understand things better," Gallagher said. "But in addition to that, (educators) are so bombarded with research, and most of the research comes from the public sector. How do you take that research - what the world says - and stand that up to a biblical worldview?"
Gallagher says she was first introduced to CIU when professors from the CIU School of Education came to her school system to hold professional development workshops. She appreciated how they approached education from a biblical worldview. She was also impressed with CIU graduates who came to teach in her school system.
Dr. Ron Kroll, director of CIU's Doctor of Education Program, says the Curriculum and Instructional Leadership concentration is designed for curriculum specialists, instructional designers, academic support professionals, and others focused on teaching and learning roles.
"All Doctor of Education programs at CIU integrate foundations in educational leadership and biblical leadership, and are designed for educational practitioners seeking a terminal degree on a schedule that fits with their busy professional and personal lives," Kroll said.
Curriculum and Instructional Leadership is the fourth concentration added to CIU's 66-hour Doctor of Education degree. The other concentrations are Christian School Leadership, Christian Higher Education Leadership, and Leadership in International Theological Education.


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Logitech should have gone with the current defaults: iChat first and foremost (it has the most video chat users than any other protocol), and then they should have had a Skype deal too. These are things that had to be worked on before this presentation today, not awaiting third parties to do the job for them -- many, many months later.
I don't believe that for a minute. First of all, the only people that could possibly be using Facetime are iPhone 4 users, and while sales are strong, just owning an iPhone does not make you a Facetime user, just like owning a mac does not make you an iChat user even though it comes with the program. Heck I own a mac and an iphone 4 and have never used either iChat or Facetime. Logitech Vid has been out for over a year at least and comes with every Logitech webcam. Neither of them are what you might call popular, but I'd pitch them about even in unpopularity.
And iChat having more users than Skype? Ha! Where's the numbers? Skype has over 500 million accounts and over 45 million daily users.
The real WTF is that Facetime doesn't work with iChat.
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All In The Family... Another Trip Down Memory Lane... History and Old Stuff...
Isaac and I traveled a few miles of the Kentucky 400-Mile Sale on Saturday. We bought a few things, including this old Burroughs adding machine. Isaac paid a dollar for it.
The wall plug is missing, so we don't know yet if the machine works. No matter. Isaac likes its old-time appearance. He calls it a "primitive."
Isaac is intrigued by the mechanics. He likes to push down lots of buttons and watch them pop back up when he presses the "E" (at lower right.)
"Better not do that," I warned. "The buttons might jam." I know this from my own experience of playing with a similar adding machine.
I was about 7 years old at the time. It was winter, and my mother was doing the bookkeeping and income tax. She decided to rent an adding machine for a few days, knowing that she'd sleep better if she was sure the numbers were correct.
Mama set up the adding machine on her library table. When I finally got a chance to look at it closely, I decided to see how it worked. You already know what happened next. I pushed keys and more keys until the machine was jammed. I decided to exit quietly and maintain a low profile.
Later, from my bedroom, I heard my parents talking. They had discovered the jammed adding machine, and they were discussing who had done it. They agreed that it had to be me.
Very soon, my dad came to question me about it. He thanked me for my honesty when I confessed. He told me that adding machines were expensive and reminded me that the machine didn't even belong to us. Then he spanked me.
I felt a great burden of guilt, shame and humiliation for what I had done. The story ends happily, though. My dad took the adding machine apart and fixed it, my mother got the income taxes done, and the adding machine was returned in good working order.
I don't think my parents would have ever mentioned that adding machine incident again if I hadn't melted Mama's funny little plastic adding machine the next year.
She had bought it to help figure the income tax. To enter a number, you set a sliding tab to a value between 0 and 9 for each digit. Then you pushed a button for the operation (add or subtract) and cranked the handle to enter the number and print it on a tape. (If I remember right!)
One day my brother and I were alone in the house when we got home from school. I set the adding machine down on the heating stove in the living room when I got done playing with it.
By the time my mother came home and found it, the stove had turned itself on and off a few times. The bottom of the adding machine had a new shape, and the little tabs didn't slide anymore.
I don't remember getting spanked that time. I do remember the fire glinting in my mother's eyes and the smoke boiling out of her ears as she warned me to never, ever, touch another of her adding machines and stay away from the typewriter, too!
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Delhi shamed, India outraged after 5-year-old brutalised
A 5-yr-old girl was raped, battered, had a plastic bottle and candles shoved into her vagina and was left to die in a room in east Delhi by her 25-yr-old neighbour before she was discovered 2 days later, lying in a pool of her own blood. HT reports. PM orders best possible care for girl | Childhood brutalised | Accused arrested in Bihardelhi Updated: Apr 20, 2013 07:56 IST
A five-year-old girl was raped, battered, had a plastic bottle and candles shoved into her vagina and was left to die in a locked room in east Delhi by her 25-year-old neighbour before she was discovered two days later, lying in a pool of her own blood.
When her father went to the police for help, they gave him Rs. 2,000 to hush up the matter.
And when protesters gathered outside the hospital the girl was taken to, a senior police officer thought nothing of slapping a woman demonstrator.
Clearly, nothing has changed in rape capital Delhi, despite the public outrage and government assurances that followed the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus and her subsequent death.
The little girl was playing near her rented house in Dilshad Garden last Sunday evening when she was abducted by Manoj, a tailor who doubles up as a labourer. For the next 72 hours, she was raped and brutalised over and over again in a room right below her own house, as her family searched desperately for her.
She was rescued from her dark prison on Wednesday, after her parents heard her feeble cries and called the police.
She was found starving, bloodied, bound and gagged, with bite marks and bruises on her face and body. At the Swami Dayanand Hospital where she was taken, her frail body underwent surgery the next day for removal of the foreign objects her tormentor had forced inside her.
She is now stable and has been shifted to AIIMS.
Doctors called it one of the worst cases of sexual assault they had witnessed, let alone attempted to treat.
This time too, the police response was shockingly insensitive.
"When we approached them with a complaint on Monday, they told us to go away. 'Look for her around the neighbourhood', they said and refused to register a kidnapping case," the victim's uncle said.
"On Wednesday, after the child was recovered from a locked room below my brother's house, they gave him R2,000 and told him not to make a fuss, get her treated and thank God she was alive," he added.
On Friday, Khajuri Khas ACP BS Ahlawat was caught on camera slapping a woman protester outside Swami Dayanand Hospital. He has been suspended, Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. The Gandhi Nagar SHO and investigating officer have also been suspended.
"The family's statements are being investigated. A departmental enquiry has been ordered," Kumar said, adding: "The accused is not a stranger and the crime did not take place in a public space. Such crimes fall in the non-preventable category."
A case has been registered against Manoj and police teams have been sent to his native village in Bihar's Muzzafarpur.
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Keita wins Mali election after opponent concedes
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's presidency after his opponent conceded defeat late Monday in an election aimed at restoring stability to a country wracked by a rebellion, a coup and an Islamic insurgency.
Soumalia Cisse's concession averts a protracted election fight, allowing Mali to move ahead with establishing a democratically elected government, one of the international community's caveats for unlocking some $4 billion in promised aid.
Keita, who is known by his initials "IBK," had been expected to win the runoff easily, having pulled nearly 40 percent of the vote in the first round. Most of the other candidates from the first round had given their endorsements to Keita, who has had a long career in Malian government.
Cisse paid a visit to Keita's home late Monday along with his wife and family to deliver his concession in person. In an exchange broadcast on the private Malian television station Africable, Cisse told Keita he had come "to congratulate you and wish you all the success you deserve; a success for our country so that you can have the strength to take up the enormous challenges that await you."
"That is a symbol of the new Mali," Keita later told Africable, adding: "I am full of emotion."
Earlier in the day some of Cisse's supporters had raised allegations of ballot stuffing against Keita's party, raising the specter of a legal battle. Cisse's move drew praise from Keita's supporters late Monday.
"It's a democratic act that shows that whatever the circumstances, all Malians are from the same family," said Issouf Traore, 28, who voted for Keita. "This act will serve as a lesson to young Malian politicians but this gesture shows above all else that Soumalia Cisse is going to work together with IBK to restore the state, and bring peace and development."
Keita ran for the presidency in the two previous elections of 2002 and 2007. He also served as foreign minister and National Assembly speaker during his long tenure in Malian government.
During his campaign, he ran on a pledge of restoring honor to the country ravaged by an Islamic insurgency that overtook the northern half of the country until French forces arrived in January to oust them from power.
Many voters said they had chosen Cisse because they thought he could best resolve the crisis in the north, where secular Tuareg separatist rebels still pose a threat to regional stability. Talks with the rebels from the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad are due to begin within 60 days of the formation of Keita's government and many Malians remain wary of negotiating with the group whose rebellion sparked more than a year of chaos in what was once one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
Voter participation in the town of Kidal, the NMLA's stronghold, was a mere 12 percent in the first round, and many there will not pledge allegiance to Mali or its new president regardless of who won.
The first round of presidential voting had featured technical glitches, leaving some voters unclear about where their polling stations were located. However, European Union and African Union electoral observers offered praise for the Malian runoff vote.
"Malians should be congratulated because it seems to me they are regaining control of their democratic destiny, which is in fact nevertheless a tradition that exists in Mali," said Louis Michel, the head of the EU observer mission.
Ibrahima Sangho, president of the Malian electoral monitoring group known as APEM, also said Sunday's second-round vote had gone smoothly.
"We think the winner is the people of Mali who have come out in large numbers to vote to show that the people have the will to pull the country out of crisis," he said. "However, no politician can run Mali as it has been run over the last 20 years. People are going to watch the new president closely and follow him closely over his campaign promises."
The election was critical to unlocking $4 billion in aid promised by international donors to rebuild the country after political chaos sparked a humanitarian crisis. A democratically elected government is one of the conditions set by the international community, and a transitional government has been in place since not long after the March 2012 coup.
In the aftermath of the government's overthrow, separatist Tuareg rebels and later al-Qaida-linked militants seized control of northern Mali's towns. The radical jihadists imposed a harsh interpretation of Islamic law, turning the once-moderate Muslim country into a place where women were whipped for going out in public without veils.
France, Mali's former colonial ruler, launched a military operation in the African country in January after the extremists begin surging southward from their stronghold in the north. The Malian military has been able to regain control over the northern towns of Gao and Timbuktu though its presence remains highly controversial in Kidal.
Nearly 200,000 Malians remain in refugee camps in neighboring Niger, Mauritania and Burkina Faso, and an untold number of others are still living in the southern capital of Bamako instead of returning home to the north.
Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Moustapha Diallo in Bamako, Mali also contributed to this report.
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20 Kids' Books About Color
Colors are a cornerstone of early learning, and these books help to foster kids' enjoyment in the visual world from infancy and through grade school. From Warhol and the design world (Orla Kiely, Alexander Girard, Pantone), to nature (Planting A Rainbow) and classics from Leo Lionni and Eric Carle, there's something for everyone here. Check out these 20 children's books in which color plays a major role:
Little Blue and Little Yellow, Leo Lionni
Pantone Colors, Helen Dardik
Blue Hat, Green Hat, Sandra Boynton
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Color, Ella Doran
Planting a Rainbow, Lois Ehlert
One Red Dot: A Pop-Up Book for Children of All Ages, David A. Carter
My Many Colored Days, Dr. Seuss
Color, Alexander Girard
Lemons Are Not Red, Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Press Here, Herve Tullet
Color Surprises: A Pop-Up Book, Chuck Murphy
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Eric Carle
Colors, Charley Harper
The Mixed-Up Chameleon, Eric Carle
A Day With No Crayons, Elizabeth Rusch
Alice in Wonderland: A BabyLit Colors Primer, Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver
Andy Warhol's Colors, Susan Rubin Susan Goldman Rubin
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Escobar's slam, Giavotella's blast power Royals
SEATTLE -- It's not where the Royals usually look for a power package -- the middle of their infield -- but they'll sure take it.
Second baseman Johnny Giavotella pounded a three-run homer for the winning runs and shortstop Alcides Escobar hammered his first grand slam to get the Royals started in a 9-7 victory over the Seattle Mariners with a Mother's Day crowd of 30,447 at Safeco Field.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- It's not where the Royals usually look for a power package -- the middle of their infield -- but they'll sure take it.
Second baseman Johnny Giavotella pounded a three-run homer for the winning runs and shortstop Alcides Escobar hammered his first grand slam to get the Royals started in a 9-7 victory over the Seattle Mariners with a Mother's Day crowd of 30,447 at Safeco Field.View Full Game Coverage
The sunny Sunday outcome meant the Royals headed home with a record of 4-3 on their trip to San Diego and Seattle.
Giavotella headed for Kansas City not knowing how long he'd be with the club. He had just been called up three days ago to fill in for the aching Omar Infante. But Giavotella knew how he felt when his home run left the park in the seventh inning.
"I was super-excited, super-pumped up," Giavotella said. "I mean, it almost felt like I was walking on clouds running the bases coming home. In the dugout, everybody was just as excited as I was to take the lead."
The Royals went into the seventh inning trailing, 7-5, after their starter, Jeremy Guthrie, faltered in his shortest outing of the season. He didn't get out of the fifth inning and gave up three home runs -- two solo shots by Dustin Ackley and a two-run belt by Kyle Seager.
"Everything I threw got hit hard. I couldn't really determine or figure out what was going on," Guthrie said. "Just every time I threw a pitch, they seemed to put a good swing on it and hit it hard."
Eric Hosmer started the seventh with a double off reliever Danny Farquhar and, after an out, Danny Valencia and Alex Gordon each walked to load the bases. A sacrifice fly scored Hosmer.
Giavotella, in his third game since being recalled from Omaha, smashed the first pitch from Farquhar over the left-field wall for a three-run homer and a 9-7 lead. It was his first big league homer since Sept. 4, 2012.
If Infante is ready to go by Tuesday's homestand opener, Giavotella could be on his way back to Triple-A.
"I know what my role is. It's not the first time I've been up and down," he said. "I've been doing it for a few years now so whatever the team needs me to do -- whether it's go back to Omaha and work on my game, I'm going to do that. Just bite the bullet and make the most of it."
When Guthrie was pulled -- "He just wasn't sharp. They were all over him," manager Ned Yost said -- Kelvin Herrera got the third out of the fifth. Louis Coleman, who would be the winning pitcher, pitched a scoreless sixth before Giavotella's blast.
"Johnny's home run was huge in where it came in," Yost said, "because I had just turned to Pedro [Grifol, hitting coach] and said, 'If we could tie it or take the lead here, we're pretty set up with [Aaron] Crow, [Wade] Davis and Holly [Greg Holland] coming in behind him.' And, boom, it happened. And, boom, it worked out."
Sure did because Crow, Davis and Holland each pitched a scoreless inning. Holland notched his ninth save with a perfect ninth inning.
"The bullpen was fantastic," Yost said.
Escobar's slam came in second inning after the bases were jammed against left-hander Roenis Elias on singles by Valencia and Gordon and the first of five Mariners errors on Lorenzo Cain's hot shot to third. First, though, Giavotella struck out.
"Fastball in," Escobar said. "I was looking to make contact and hit the ball clean. I made good contact and the ball was gone."
The Mariners came storming back against Guthrie with three-run innings in the third and fourth. Seager, just back from a bout with the flu, hit his two-run homer in the fourth and Ackley, who also homered in his last at-bat Saturday night, went deep in both innings.
"They both felt great," Ackley said. "The one yesterday felt great so I'm just going to try to keep it rolling."
James Jones' double and Corey Hart's RBI single finally chased Guthrie in the fifth. The seven runs given up matched his career high.
The Royals' double-digit outburst of hits continued their somewhat mysterious recent penchant for bringing their bats to life only on alternate days.
Starting Wednesday, the Royals had 14 hits (a win), four hits (a loss), 16 hits (a win) and four hits (a loss). Then came Sunday's helping of 12 hits and another victory.
"Hopefully it just keeps improving," said Gordon, who had three of the hits. "We've got an off-day to enjoy this win. It's a big win. And, hopefully, we've got a nice little homestand coming up and we'll get rolling. We just haven't really hit our stride. We play well and then, all of a sudden, we don't play well. We need consistency."
Yost sees the need for that. After all, his Royals can't keep depending on guys like Escobar and Giavotella for their main power source.
"Yeah, you don't really expect your shortstop and second baseman to hit grand slams and three-run homers," Yost said. "But there are a lot of good signs out there. Hoz is really swinging the bat well, Gordy's getting hot, we need to get Billy [Butler] going a little bit."
They've got a nine-game homestand in which to improve their 18-19 record.
"We get back home and we'll go over .500 again," Escobar said determinedly.


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The 23andMe DNA testing kit has arrived.
What's in the kit?
An instruction card - 5 steps of directions about how to collect your saliva sample in the tube that is provided. The instructions tell the user to not eat, drink, smoke or chew gum for 30 minutes before collecting the saliva sample.
A minimum amount of saliva must be collected in the tube to provide a valid sample.
Users are required to register their kit on the 23andMe web site in order to access the results of the DNA testing.
Once the sample is collected, the tube is placed in a biohazard specimen bag, then placed in a prepaid mailer to send to the laboratory.
The instructions indicate that the laboratory analysis will take between two and four weeks to process.
There are rumors that some of my DNA Testing Buddies have photographs (and video!) of them spitting into their tubes. If you think you're going to see a photo of ME doing that - forget it! Check THEIR blogs for the graphic details!
Related links:
Read all of my blog posts about the DNA testing for genealogy project.
Read blog posts about DNA testing for genealogy and from the DNA Testing buddies.


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Joy to the World
What made Frank O'Hara great?
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It is coming on 40 years since Frank O'Hara was struck and killed by a dune buggy on the beach at Fire Island, but his poems still seem fresh, personable, and immediate. They recount a life designed to procure, with stunning efficiency, sex, drinks, chat, and art. His early death, and the hoarseness of many of his last poems, invite the usual stratospherically boring questions about art's connection to self-destructiveness—why must artists make paranoid phone calls to friends and lovers at 3 a.m.? Can't they pay their rent on time? Must they leave their manuscripts in taxicabs? Anyone as excessive as O'Hara was eventually discovers that excess can't be sustained continually—and its loss renders them suddenly, nakedly sorrowful. But that's not why we read O'Hara. We read O'Hara to experience an aesthetically viable joy, an honest joy, without equivalent in American poetry. And Joe LeSueur's Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara is a memoir of continual excess in pursuit of sex, drinks, chat—and above all art.
O'Hara's New York was to joy what Thomas Mann's Venice was to morbidity. The poet came to New York in 1950, just after Harvard and an M.A. at the University of Michigan; his friend LeSueur took a Greyhound bus one-way from Los Angeles, and they met soon after, at a downtown party. They maintained for nine years a relationship—never quite a romance and never quite not—remarkable for its carefully calibrated ambiguity. In the New York they found (or perhaps made) you could fall in love with Alger Hiss' stepson, or with a handsome Reichean therapist who put you up in his apartment in exchange for doing time in his Orgone box. There you might decide to skip a visit to Joseph Cornell in Flatbush because the train ride was too long. Across town at the San Remo bar, perhaps Chester Kallman was carrying on about his death-defying fellatio technique. You made out with the security guard at the U.N. building every midnight, on your way home. You had a cheap, spacious, and elegant apartment (present-day New Yorkers will marvel at the descriptions of these apartments the way Wordsworth marveled at the Alps). Is it nostalgia that makes every marquee seem a little brighter and every drink a little colder, or was there actually once such a place?
Whether or not this world existed, it didn't exist in American poetry and still wouldn't if O'Hara hadn't written it down. His brilliant contemporaries depicted other Americas: Robert Lowell explored the way inwardness and privacy are harrowed by life in what he took to be an empire; Allen Ginsberg detailed the homemade, improvised ceremonies of the counterculture. Both were more bardic and serious than O'Hara, who declares "Khrushchev is coming on the right day!" in a poem that's mostly about the weather and the availability of blueberry blintzes. Unlike his contemporaries, the menace of modern life was lost on O'Hara, whose remarkable poem "Naphtha" begins as follows:
Ah Jean Dubuffet
when you think of him
doing his military service in the Eiffel Tower
as a meteorologist
in 1922
you know how wonderful the 20th Century
can be
Who before O'Hara would have thought to praise the coincidence of art and meteorology? It is easy these days to look at his style—rapid, colloquial, and open—and think that it was inevitable. Or to read his poems, so full of mere stuff—addresses, telephone numbers, train schedules, the names of bars and magazines, the names of his friends and lovers—and to think it looks easy. "If you took poetry as much for granted as you did breathing," writes LeSueur, "it might mean you felt it was essential to your life." But the result of this taking-for-granted of poetry, this flushness of life and art, has often been rather lifeless art. Wasn't this the credo of the Paterian aesthete, the poet turning his exquisite verses in the dim light of his parlor? O'Hara's poetry orders us out of the parlor and into the world, the world that through his eyes seems perpetually new, tender, and quick.
O'Hara must make his critics feel, by nature, a little square and solemn. Perhaps it's defensiveness that leads to such morally censorious performances as Brad Gooch's biography City Poet. O'Hara is also an easy figure to pathologize, like Lowell, but for different reasons: It is hard to think about frenetic joy without wondering about the pain it no doubt masks, especially when that joy is stoked, as O'Hara's was, by liberal doses of bourbon in your morning glass of orange juice. But what's invigorating about LeSueur's new book is how it forgoes the conventional stances of memoir, from the elegiac to the didactic, in favor of a kind of radical fidelity to its remembered world. LeSueur can seem almost woefully stranded in O'Hara-land, among its minor flora. (Who slept with Grace Hartigan? How many times? Was it Joe or JJ who emerged that morning from Frank's bedroom?) But he sends us time and again back upon the naked literality of O'Hara's poems, their disdain for symbol, for metaphor, for all the Sophomore-English-Class ways poems mean. Here is LeSueur on O'Hara's most famous poem, "The Day Lady Died":
Was our train on time that Friday? Probably not: the Long Island Rail Road was only slightly more reliable in 1959 than it was in subsequent years. One thing for sure, our good friend Mike Goldberg had taken the usual precaution of taking a thermos of martinis to the station, because if Frank and I failed to get seats on the parlor car, the only part of the train that served drinks, he knew we'd need a blast the second the 4:19 pulled into East Hampton—not, incidentally, "Easthampton" the way it's spelled in "The Day Lady Died."
O'Hara had no interest in cropping his poems to exclude the messy world adjacent to them, and LeSueur's book further widens that already wide world of ordinary events; the picaresque pursuit of drinks and sex is second, in this book, only to the pursuit of art in all its forms.
Why are "artless" styles like O'Hara's and Lowell's so impossible to imitate? Why are so many American poetic styles so seemingly "artless" and thereby inimitable? And what's a young poet, seeking models, to do? The hundreds of sub- and pseudo-Lowells and almost-O'Haras suggest that the most subversive thing about American poetry is its capacity to annihilate its apprentices, to make apprenticeship itself a really bad idea. Go out and find your own New York full of energy and joy, O'Hara seems to say. To which I would add: Good luck.


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Seasonal Spotlight: Wild Watercress
Small bunches of this peppery green can be found in the aisles of your local market or grocer's. But did you know you can go straight to the source and find watercress in natural springs and streams, too?
Wild watercress (Nasturtium microphyllum) grows near natural water sources like springs and streams. The little green leaves are a highly nutritious food, with antioxidant properties and rich in vitamins B1, B2, B6, C, E, calcium, fiber, iron and potassium. If you're interested in locating some to harvest yourself, keep in mind these tips:
- The time to forage for wild watercress is spring to early summer.
- Seek out colonies in locations that you know are clean. Avoid places that could be contaminated by industrial or agricultural runoff.
- Break off below the leaf instead of pulling out by the roots, leaving the watercress to grow again as a future source for others.
- Wash it well before use.
- Use your wild finds in a cooked preparation to be perfectly safe.
We're more accustomed to watercress in its raw state in salads and as garnish on meat and the like. So, below are a few cooked watercress ideas we gathered together as incentive to get out and find some wild watercress of our own:
Related: What's the Deal with Watercress?
(Images: Six Burner Sue, Mark's Daily Apple, She's in the Kitchen)


text: Yep, we got screwed over. This is such a back-burner issue it seems. Just about everything was fixed except for every audio issue. Why this is....I don't know. But it really pisses me off. Good for you if you're "so happy with your perfect x2," but this phone is NOT the best phone I've ever had, though it is easily the phone with the most lost potential to be such. This is my experience, 100% honest, and I know I'm not alone. These issues include.... Choppiness when multitasking. Keep in mind this only happens when multitasking, to my experience not at all if just letting the phone play. I find the best way to test it is get about halfway through a song then do settings-->applications-->manage applications and see if it happens while the app list is loading. It just doesn't make sense it would only be on half the phones and not the other half. I've had two replacements and they each did the same, some worse than others. While others claim to have nothing. How does that work? Make of this what you will. Randomly stops playing. This would generally only happen when plugged into my car's FM transmitter. No other device does this and the transmitter works fine. Streaming audio players were slow and/or stopped randomly. Speaks for itself. Pandora seems a bit better, but it's still not what Last.fm used to be on my Eris (when the app was free). This problem would happen even if not multitasking. Default music player is mediocre. Admittedly this isn't a problem with the phone really, but in my eyes it just contributes to the evidence that Motorola doesn't care about people who listen to music on their phone. Video lag. Sure this is not music, but there is still lag with sudden movements if recording in HD. Thought I'd mention it. I have tried EVERYTHING. If there was a mod or app you could do to this phone to help, I tried it. Nothing fixed it. Sometimes it seemed lessened, but I think it's just because it's so...random. I simply cannot figure out what causes it. And please spare me any "this is the best phone I've ever had" rants cause I'm fully aware people claim to not have this issue. Be that the case, good for you, God must not hate you. But the 3 x2s I've tried and A LOT of people in tech support forums DO have this issue and it is simply unacceptable to charge people $200 WITH A CONTRACT for something that can't be fixed. Bugs and issues I understand, but this has barely even been acknowledged. It also amazes me how the people at these companies claim to have never heard of this issue (especially when at least two were from me). WTF? Spend 1 minute google searching "x2 audio issues" and you'll find a multitude of complaints. Lastly, sorry if I come off as an ass hole here. I'm really a pretty nice guy. Though I'm not rich, so a purchase like this is a big deal for me. And when the number one thing I use my phone for is the only issue that isn't fixed...can you really blame me for being mad?