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From the breakup of her marriage to falling out with her longtime coach to losing to a drug-cheat at the Olympics, few athletes have overcome as many hurdles as Valerie Adams. In an extract from her new autobiography, Valerie, she tells her side of the story.
I was 13 when I took up throwing. At Southern Cross Campus it's a compulsory part of school athletics. I threw the shot at the school championships and broke the school record by a couple of metres. At the Counties-Manukau championships a couple of weeks later, I broke the record there by two metres. We turned up late, and I threw in bare feet.
I didn't really think too much about it. My first love was basketball.
Then I went to my first secondary schools nationals in Massey Park in 1999. I was shitting myself. I came second to a girl called Monique Taito. I was pretty tall, but she was quite a big girl. That was pretty amazing, and I got a silver medal.
I was only 14 when I had my first trip overseas, to a place called Bydgoszcz in Poland. That was the first time they held a world youth championships, for athletes under 18, and I finished in tenth spot.
I was homesick like you wouldn't believe. I'm a homebody really. I called my mother collect every day on the calling card they used to have back in the day. I'd cry on the phone all the time. But it was also the best experience for me. Mum was pretty proud that I did it after just six months of training.
When my Mum died I was 15, and my coach Kirsten Hellier's house was like a second home to me. She and [Kirsten's husband] Pat took me, a teenager, in and really looked after me.
In 2001 I lived fulltime with them for 12 months. They had a little girl, Mikaela, and when their son Jarrod came along I helped them look after him. He was like my little boy. I was Aunty Val, and it was really nice.
I was reliant on Kirsten when Mum died. I had no parent figure and Kirsten filled that role, and her mother did, too. I had no one really, and they were there for me. That was the great part, the best part, of the relationship. Training together and living together worked when I was younger.
In athletics we grew and learned together. Kirsten was a javelin thrower, a former national champion, who knew the basics of shot put, but didn't know the real detail. While I was learning to throw the shot, she was learning to become a better coach at the shot. We tried this, tried that, tried new and different methods until we found what worked. In a way I was a guinea pig. It was a big learning curve.
The night of the Halberg Awards should have been a happy occasion for me and my husband, Bertrand Vili.
For the first time I was nominated for New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year, and Bertrand and I were together at a function where the biggest names in sport socialise together. I was just hoping nobody would ask too much about the white plaster on Bertrand's hand, a reminder to me of the massive problems that would eventually break our marriage apart.
Just two nights before the Halbergs I wake up and I get a phone call. It's Bertrand; he's had a car accident. My heart is pumping like mad, just about jumping out of my chest. I hop in my little Daihatsu and dash to where he is.
He'd written off the V8 Holden. He'd lost control at a roundabout, smashed a barrier open, and gone into a garden in Howick. He was 399 micrograms per litre of breath, which was one microgram under the alcohol limit. The police were there, and an ambulance had been called.
He had a small cut on his hand so that night was spent at the police station and then at accident and emergency getting the cut attended to.
Problems between me and Kirsten also started in 2006, when I went to have surgery for a shoulder injury.
That was the start of the bigger issues. While I was recovering I was trying to throw, and then it was time for the world champs in 2007.
We were preparing in Cairns, and at the Oceania champs, I screwed something up in my throwing hand. When I released the shot I felt a shooting pain. "Oh shit."
Soon as it was sore, Kirsten said, "I think we should go home." By this stage I had my strength back up to the way it was before the surgery. I felt I was okay. As we were just leaving the track she was already saying, "We should go home." I was crying because it was sore, and I was crying because I felt my career was on the line.
Kirsten was doing the silent treatment, which she was very good at. I don't handle that very well. When you're trying to compete, what you want is for your coach to be positive. Kirsten wanted to have a test-throwing session three days before I was due to compete. As you can imagine it was painful - eye-wateringly painful. I threw and I made 17m. I tried to throw as hard as I could. Kirsten didn't look very happy, but I was trying. She was just nodding, but no words were coming out of her mouth.
The next day I lifted well, so Kirsten was back to being her normal self again, and then we went and competed. As painful as my effing hand was I really tried my hardest to throw. I threw every round, sitting in second place.
When it came to the last round I was nervous, but I was determined to do it. I threw 20.54m to win, and told the journalists, "See that last put, that was for my dad."
Of course, after I won Kirsten was a different person. I was happy that I'd won, I was happy that she was happy.
When I know I've won, there is a wave of emotions: happiness, relief, the lot. I signal to the Chinese officials that I've finished. I high-five the competitors who want to with me, and then I'm running to the stand, across the track and Kirsten is making her way down.
We're so happy because it's like job well done, 10 years from when it all started. You can't contain it. You start jumping round like a hooligan, start waving flags, and a Chinese official is trying to hold me back, pulling on my arm. I quietly pull my arm away, just look at her, and say, "Don't fucking touch me." I say to her, "I've just won the Olympics."
Next night I would go and get my medal, and all of a sudden, just like that, Kirsten had changed. She wouldn't talk to me. I'd hardly see her. We were rooming together at the village, but there was just nothing. When I saw Kirsten I'd say, "How's it going?" She'd hardly reply.
I wished I could think of ways to make it better, to make Kirsten feel better. They had a beauty parlour in the village, so I went out and bought her a voucher for a massage, manicure and pedicure. She was very grateful, and said thank you very much. Later on she told me she was feeling torn over how to divide her time (her husband, Pat, was at the Games, on the Cook Islands coaching staff). That was at the end, and after that chat we were sweet.
When Kirsten told me she didn't see how she could continue to coach me I was devastated.
I think the breaking point was in March 2010 when I lost in Doha, in the world indoor championships. I lost my first title in two years.
I had a small suspicion Kirsten was going to break up with me, but I didn't really buy into it. I still thought we could work our way through it. Maybe I'm naive.
After training when I went home, I thought, "That was a bit weird." But when I left, Kirsten did say, "Okay, see you in Christchurch." I didn't know then that I was going to meet her that afternoon. I rang up my manager, Nick Cowan, and asked him what he thought was going on. Kirsten, I'd find out, wanted to tell me after nationals that she wanted to break it off.
We had a meeting at Waipuna Hotel. Nick came along with my lawyer, Maria. I was very nervous. Everybody walked in with a cold sort of look, and I was much the same. I didn't know what to do.
I did not walk in with my lawyer and manager saying to Kirsten, "You get out of my life." Not at all. At first we all went together into a room. Then Kirsten and I were left alone.
She did almost all the talking. She told me she didn't want anyone else involved, she wanted it to be just me and her. "I think I can't give you anything more to improve on," Kirsten said. "Things are not working out like they used to, and we're both different people now." So she was going to pull out of coaching me.
I'll always be so grateful and thankful for what she's done for me. Kirsten and I started working together when I was 13 years old. Over the next 12 years we trained six days out of seven together, travelled the world and won Olympic, world and Commonwealth titles. At the end she said, "I hope we can still be friends." I didn't give much of an answer. I was upset, and was very quiet.
Later, Kirsten was on TVNZ's Close Up, saying that it was my decision. And I thought, "Shit, this is going to get bitter," and it was. We hardly spoke for ages, although there was the odd text. It feels weird now every time I'm around her. We don't see each other socially at all.
We knew we were on the right track leading into London. All the training and all the hours working on technique were paying off. Everything was going very well.
But then, on Saturday July 21, I injured my back, and it was a bad injury. I was doing a dead lift and tore a muscle in my back, really screwed it. I had to shut down all training for three days. On the Monday I went to Zurich and they gave me three cortisone injections.
On the Sunday I'd said to my coach, Jean Pierre Egger, when we knew I was getting the jabs the next day: "Have faith in me, write the programme as you would normally write it, so we can start on Wednesday." He asked if I was sure, and I said I was.
On Tuesday my stubborn-cow side came out and I went to the gym. On the Wednesday JP said, "I don't know if you'll be able to get through this." I have to admit it wasn't the easiest.
I was getting physio twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day, for the next five or six days.
Thank God my wonderful physio, Lou Johnson, was with us. She knows my back so well, and has got me through similar injuries in the past. We knew from past experience that the injections would heal the back very, very quickly.
Lou was scheduled to go back to London on Tuesday, July 24, but she was able to change her flights and stay to help me.
There were times in the days straight after the injury when I was thinking, "My God, I don't think I'm going to be able to compete at all." But I was able to put those negative thoughts, and that's all they were, random thoughts, aside. I had faith in my ability to recover. I knew it was something that we'd seen in the past, and something we'd got over completely before.
So we were able to get through the hiccup. On Friday, July 27, I had my first throws session, and it was okay, but 10 days after the injury I was back to full throwing sessions, throwing really well, over 21m, and in full swing with the weights. My mental preparation was on track, too.
We kept things quiet about the injury. I wanted to keep it behind closed doors, because we didn't need any outside pressure or speculation.
By the time we flew to London on Thursday, August 2, I was strong and dynamic again.
At 2pm I went online to see what pool I was in for qualifying the next morning. I had about an hour to kill before our last training session.
When I found the lists my name wasn't there. I went through it three, four, five times, but I just wasn't listed. There was no New Zealand flag in among all the other flags beside the athletes' names.
I ran into my coach Jean Pierre's room and said, "I'm not on the start list. What do I do? What do I do?" Of course, I'm in a panic because I don't know why I'm not on the list.
If I wasn't on the start list I'd be sacrificing the last two years of my life being in Switzerland to do what I had to do. For an athlete, nothing could be more serious at an Olympic Games than finding you're not on the start list. That's basically a disqualification.
By a mile it was the hardest lead-up to any competition I've ever been in.
Finally, at seven o'clock my name was there. I should have gone to bed and slept like a log. But my body was strung out. I couldn't get to sleep until midnight, and I was wide awake at 4am.
I went into the first call room at the stadium, which was all good, but when I went through to the second call room, where the formal process really begins, where you get your bib with your number and surname on it, they didn't have my name on the list or my bib printed out.
For 20 minutes I stood there and begged them, "Please, please, check on the internet. I'm on the start list, I swear I'm on the start list, please print me a bib."
Terrible panic, because I still didn't know, just minutes before the final call, whether I was going to be allowed to compete or not.
Eventually, after phone calls, they were prepared to print out my bib so I could throw. I should have been ready, everything focused on going out there, throwing the qualifying distance, packing up and heading back to the village to get into the right space for the final.
But I was a lot more worried about just getting my name on the list.
Then I had to try to regroup and focus on competing. I really had to pull myself together. I think you could see from the qualifying round the mental state I was in by then. I didn't even get past the qualification distance with my first throw.
I didn't feel my usual self. It was like a bad dream, as if the person throwing in that competition wasn't me. Normally, I'm feisty, and I'm out there pushing hard, firing on all cylinders. Instead, I felt like I'd just stepped off the plane into the circle.
I headed back to the village, and tried as hard as I could to get some sleep, but my head was spinning. I badly needed to sleep, but all I could do was lie on my bed for three hours and try.
Heading into the final we prepared as normal. I always try to think positive, to get some positive energy running through the system.
There was no way the situation was completely responsible for the result. Maybe if I was doing it all over again I'd do my own registration - just kidding! You can only do the best you can do on the day. But I was just not as dynamic as I normally would be.
Basically, I felt like shit. I was still able to throw 20.70m, but it just wasn't my competition.
I tried so hard, but I just couldn't control the way I was feeling.
When I went to JP he said to me, "Smile, Val, just try to smile. Smile and enjoy yourself out there." For the life of me I tried, I left my heart out there trying, but it wasn't my day.
I always knew Nadzeya Ostapchuk from Belarus had the potential to throw big, but watching her throw all five throws over 21m was massive.
In the last two months before the Olympics she was throwing some very big throws in Belarus. Anything is possible in the Games, and she just came out and did what she did.
What we'd find out, of course, was that she was cheating when she did those amazing throws.
At 12.30pm came the news that changed everything - changed my emotions, changed my life really.
It was almost unbelievable. My phone rang, and it was Dave Currie, the chef de mission of the New Zealand Olympic team.
He said, "I'm just ringing you up to let you know that the IOC has informed us that you've now won the gold medal. Ostapchuk has been done for drugs."
- Extract reproduced from Valerie by Valerie Adams with Phil Gifford, with the permission of Hachette New Zealand Ltd.
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Post subject: 1922 Formula for Vitality - Body as an air machine
by Arnold Ehret 1922
"V" = "P" - "O" ("V" equals "P" minus "O") is the formula of life -- and yet at the same time you may call it the formula of death.
"V" stands for VITALITY. "P," or call it "X," the unknown quantity in this question, is the POWER that drives the human machinery which keeps you alive, which gives you strength and efficiency, endurance for as yet an unknown length of time without food!
"O" means OBSTRUCTION, encumbrance, foreign matters, toxemias, mucus; in short, all internal impurities which obstruct the circulation, the function of internal organs especially, and the human engine in its entire functioning system.
You can therefore see thru this equation that as soon as "O" becomes greater than "P" the human machine must come to a standstill.
The engineer can figure exactly "E = P - F," meaning that the amount of energy or efficiency "E" he secures from an engine is not equal to the power "P" without first deducting "F," the friction. . . .
The next fact is that its [the lungs'] function is that of a pump by air-pressure, and with an inside circulation of liquids, such as the blood and other saps, and that THE LUNGS ARE THE PUMP AND THE HEART IS THE VALVE - and not the opposite -- as erroneously taught by medical physiology for the past 400 years!
A further fact -- one that has been almost entirely overlooked -- is the automatic, atmospheric outside counter-pressure, which is over 14 pounds to the square inch. Immediately upon, and after each out-breath a vacuum is created in the lung cavity. In other words, the human body animal organism in its entirety, functions automatically, inhaling air-pressure and expelling chemically changed air and outside atmospheric counter-pressure on the vacuums of the body. That is vitality, animal life in the first instance and importance.
That is "P" (power) which keeps you alive -- without air you cannot live five minutes! But the unseen fact, let us say the secret, is that it works simply and automatically thru atmospheric counter-pressure, which is only possible because the "engine" consists of elastic, spongy material with a vital strain power -- with an ability of vibration, expansion and contraction. Those two facts were the unknown secrets concerning the automatic function of "P" as the phenomena of vitality, and the Chemist Hensel has proven thru chemical physiological formulas that this special vital elasticity of the tissues is due to a lime sugar combination. . .
Here, then, is the cause why so many "fasting," "fruit-diet" etc., "cures" fail. THE INEXPERIENCED LAYMAN ALWAYS COMES TO THE DEATH POINT . . .
? First -- Vitality does not depend primarily and directly upon food, but rather from the facts of how far and how much the function of the human engine is obstructed -- "clogged up" by the obstructions of mucus and toxemias.
? Second -- Removing "O" by artificially increasing "P" thru artificial stimulants, shaking and vibrating tissues thru physical treatments is always done at the expense of "V," Vitality.
? Third -- Vital energy, physical and mental efficiency, endurance, superior health by "P," air and water alone, is tremendous, beyond imagination, as soon as "P" works and can work without "O" -- without obstruction and friction in a perfectly clean body.
? Fourth -- The limit of going without food and before solid food becomes necessary under such ideal conditions, is yet unknown.
? Fifth -- The composition of "P," besides air, oxygen and a certain quantity of water-steam, increases -- but only in a clean body -- thru the following other agents from the infinite: ELECTRICITY; OZONE; LIGHT (especially sunlight); ODOR (good smells of fruit and flowers). Further, it is not impossible that under such clean, natural conditions, nitrogen of the air may be assimilated. In the following lesson I teach you a new but true physiology of the body, which is necessary to know in order to understand why and how the MUCUSLESS DIET HEALING SYSTEM functions in its complete perfection, and for this purpose it was first necessary to lift the veil from the secret, FROM THE MYSTERY OF VITALITY.
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David Caso will take home the Gosling's Rum Founder's Trophy for 1st overall in the monohull fleet to be awarded to for the first time this Saturday at the 30th anniversary Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race. The new trophy is a wood tower with brass trim featuring an etching of the western Atlantic with a compass rose over the Bermuda area.
Caso's Cherubini 50 Silhouette from Duxbury MA finished at 19:15:47 on Tuesday and has taken 1st place overall and 1st in Class D in the 30th Anniversary Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race. Kathleen a classic 72‐foot yawl sailed by Jim Feeney finished 1st in Class A and 2nd in Fleet.
Silhouette is a ketch and looks much like a classic Herreshoff design. Herreshoff said that gentlemen don't sail to weather and since the race was a run and a reach, this boat really sailed. They piled on the mizzen, mizzen staysail, main, staysail and jenny or asymmetrical spinnaker. And they hit every puff just right.
Kathleen, a yawl, followed suit and had a battle with Preston Hutchings' Morgan's Ghost and Peter Savage's Venture for first to finish on elapse time. Kathleen sailed non‐spinnaker, and in the reaching conditions that prevailed for most of the race, she powered along at an even pace with Morgan's Ghost. A wind shift in the final hours of the race allowed Morgan's Ghost to fly her chute for 5 hours, gain needed speed and take the honors.
Since the wind died Tuesday, many boats turned on the 'iron genny' and motored to Bermuda for the festivities at The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club. By late Wednesday morning only 22 of 72 boats had finished. It was a slow race for the smaller boats that couldn't finish before the wind dropped out.
In Class A, the fastest group, Kathleen won on corrected time. Venture an Oyster 62 sailed by Peter Savage of Palo Alto California was 2nd and in 3rd was Visions of Johanna a Chuck Paine/Morris Yachts 62 footer double‐handed by Bill Strassberg of Northport Maine and Gram Schwekert of Newport Rhode Island.
In the 2nd fastest group, Class B, 12 of 14 boats finished and 2 withdrew. A Swan 44 MKII Triple Lindy sailed by Joe Mele from New York was first on corrected time. Cetacea, a Hinkley Southwester 51 sailed by Chris Culver was 2nd. The Bermuda entry Babe, a Swan 46, owned by Colin Couper and sailed by a Bermuda Crew including sir John Vereker, the Governor of Bermuda was third. In earlier reports Babe appeared top be 2nd but Cetacea was awarded 90 minutes compensation for stopping enroute to jump‐ start Anjaneya, a fellow competitor blacked out with dead batteries.
Eight boats in Class C finished and five withdrew. Barry Feldman's Baltic 43 Avalon from Newton, MA stands first while the US Naval Academy's McCurdy 44 Swift sailed by Midshipman Mark McClure was second. Ian McCurdy's Selkie another 38‐foot McCurdy, designed by the skipper's father Jim, was third.In Class D all 15 boats finished, Silhoutte was first. Fiona Rois, a Cape Dory 45 owned by Mike Ryan was 2nd and the Beneteau 42 Anjaneya skippered by David Swartz‐Leeper came in third. Fifteen boats started in Class E, 4 withdrew and 2 are still racing. The Valient 42 Cordelia owned by Roy Greenwald was first, Bermuda Oyster, an Oyster 435 skippered by Bermudian Paul Hubbard was 2nd and Chase, a Swan 40 sailed by Peter Stoops was 3rd. At 13:30 Thursday, Lucy was 5 miles out and Nightwind was 30 miles from the finish.
On Friday, sailors enjoyed the traditional Gosling's "Friends and Family" regatta followed by a Gosling's Rum party and prizegiving. The prizegiving for the Marion to Bermuda Race was held Saturday at Government House, followed by a Gala Dinner at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club.


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Some vaccines, such as the inactivated seasonal flu vaccine and the whooping cough vaccine, are recommended during pregnancy to protect the health of you and your baby. An inactivated vaccine does not contain a live version of the virus it is protecting against.
Some vaccines, such as the tetanus vaccine, are perfectly safe to have during pregnancy if necessary.
But it does depend on the type of vaccination. For example, the MMR and yellow fever vaccines have potential risks, and you need to discuss these with your midwife or doctor before deciding whether to have the vaccine.
Vaccines not usually advised in pregnancy (live vaccines)
If a vaccine uses a live version of the virus, such as the MMR vaccine, you'll usually be advised to wait until after your baby is born before you get vaccinated.
This is because there's a potential risk that live vaccines could cause your unborn baby to become infected. But there's no evidence that any live vaccine causes birth defects.
Sometimes, a live vaccine may be used during pregnancy if the risk of infection is greater than the risk of the vaccination. Your midwife, GP or pharmacist can give you more advice about vaccinations during pregnancy.
Live vaccines include:
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Vaccines recommended in pregnancy
During pregnancy, your immune system (the body's natural defence) is weakened to protect the pregnancy. This can mean you're less able to fight off infections. As the baby grows, you may be unable to breathe as deeply, increasing the risk of infections such as pneumonia.
These changes can raise the risk from flu – pregnant women are more likely to get flu complications than women who are not pregnant and are more likely to be admitted to hospital. Having the flu vaccine means you're less likely to get flu.
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Whooping cough is a very serious infection, and young babies are most at risk. Most babies with whooping cough will be admitted to hospital.
When you have the whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy, your body produces antibodies to protect against whooping cough. These antibodies pass to your baby giving them some protection until they're able to have their whooping cough vaccination at 8 weeks old.
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When you're pregnant, it's best to avoid visiting countries or areas where travel vaccinations are required. TravelHealthPro has information and advice about travel vaccinations for different countries.
It may not always be possible to avoid areas that require vaccinations when you're pregnant. If this is the case, talk to a midwife or GP, who can tell you about the risks and benefits of any vaccinations you might need.
If there's a high risk of infection in the area you are travelling to, it's often safer to have a vaccine rather than travel unprotected as most diseases will be more harmful to your baby than a vaccine.
For example, yellow fever is a virus spread by mosquitoes. Most people who get severe yellow fever die from it. The yellow fever vaccine is a live vaccine, but it may be considered necessary to have the vaccination if you're travelling to areas where yellow fever is common because the risks of yellow fever are so high.
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- the Middle East
If possible, avoid travelling in these areas if you are pregnant. However, if you're unable to postpone or cancel your trip, preventative treatment is available. This involves taking antimalarial medicine tablets to reduce your risk of getting malaria.
The antimalarial medicine you take may depend on which country you're travelling to, your stage of pregnancy and whether you have any other pre-existing medical conditions. In some areas certain antimalarial medicines do not work because the malaria parasite has developed resistance to them.
Some antimalarial medicines are known to affect the developing baby. For example, doxycycline can cause the baby's milk teeth to be discoloured if a pregnant woman takes it after the first 12 or 13 weeks of pregnancy.
Other antimalarial medicines have not been studied sufficiently and more research on their use in pregnancy is needed. But the risk of harm to you and your baby from malaria is likely to be much greater than any potential risk from taking antimalarial medicine.
The bumps website has more information about antimalarial medicines and their use in pregnancy, including:
Protecting yourself against malaria
If you're pregnant, make sure you take precautions against being bitten by insects. For example:
- use a mosquito repellent that's specifically recommended for use in pregnancy
- wear a long-sleeved top, full-length trousers and socks to cover up your skin from dusk until dawn
- always sleep under a mosquito net
Find out more about taking antimalarial medicine when pregnant
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Page last reviewed: 04/10/2019
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Simona and Kanaan fail to advance in qualifying
Simona de Silvestro had big hopes for qualifying after closing Saturday morning's practice on top of the leaderboard.
Instead, she was knocked out in the first round at Barber Motorsports Park in a disappointing session for KV Racing Technology. Teammate Tony Kanaan also failed to advance out of the first round Saturday.
De Silvestro said the balance on her Chevrolet changed considerably when her team switched from black Firestone tires to red for the qualifying session and it hampered her run. She wound up 14th.
"I think on the blacks we were really quick, even on the older ones," she said. "Hopefully we can make up some positions. It's really frustrating to be starting more in the back, but I think we can make it happen. We'll work really hard to go to the front."
De Silvestro made the Fast Six during IndyCar's season-opening race at St. Pete two weeks ago and ran inside the top six the entire race. She was third on the final lap but gave up three positions and wound up sixth.
Kanaan, meanwhile, was frustrated after failing to advance out of the first round. He was 19th overall, and felt he was better than where he ended up. He said he was surprised when team co-owner Jimmy Vasser told him to pick up speed.
Kanaan was in the first qualifying, which had a stacked field. The second group wasn't as competitive.
"I'm having a hard time understanding what happened during qualifying," Kanaan said. "My car actually felt good, but when Vasser came on the radio and said I needed another tenth and a half, I thought that I heard something wrong.
"And on top of that the times for group two of quals were way slower than group one, which is very strange. Starting back there will make it a long day tomorrow, but I trust the (hash)11 crew, Chevy and Firestone and we'll move forward during the race."


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Benedict Cumberbatch needed no advice from Leonardo DiCaprio for Quaalude scenes
Benedict Cumberbatch was determined to make his portrayal of Quaalude abuse in Patrick Melrose distinct from Leonardo DiCaprio's famous scenes in The Wolf Of Wall Street.
The Doctor Strange star won the Best Actor prize at the 2019 British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday for his role as the title character in the drug-fuelled TV drama.
In the show, his character becomes incapacitated after taking Quaalude (methaqualone) sedatives, a drug whose effects Leonardo DiCaprio memorably captured in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Benedict told WENN at the post-awards press conference that he didn't compare notes with Leo, and instead based his portrayal on advice from real-life drug users like Edward St Aubyn, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novels on which Patrick Melrose is based.
"We (he and Leo) haven't had a Quaalude down, no," he said, before adding: "I asked people who had a lot of familiarity around every single drug that was involved in the programme making as to how to accurately portray the physicality or psychosis that is involved in taking and being affected by drugs."
The clean-living star said the closest he has got to having real-life experience of substance abuse is getting "a little bit drunk," and so he had to be coached and corrected by recovering addicts when he got his portrayal of drug use wrong.
"I sought out expert help from people who, very willingly, in order to educate people within institutions like the media, the entertainment industry and all walks of life, about the perils of drug abuse and addiction and what addiction really is."
Revealing what he had learned from those in recovery he revealed: "Anyone can be an addict, it's more the person than the material."
As well as Benedict's Best Actor gong, Patrick Melrose also won the BAFTA for Best Mini-Series.


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Around the world, in over 20 countries, more than 250 Carrotmob campaigns have taken place. In a Carrotmob campaign, a group of people offers to spend money to support a business, and in return, the business agrees to take an action that the people care about. Students and teachers have long been organizing Carrotmob campaigns, so we developed a new curriculum that can be used to lead a hands-on course on Carrotmob, giving students real-life lessons on how organized consumer spending can incentivize businesses to improve sustainability.
Teachers: please take it, download it, experiment, and rewrite it. If you create your own lesson plans, we'd be happy to post them on our site, so we can develop a free set of resources for educators.
The first student-run Carrotmob occurred in Bangkok in February 2010. Junior high and high school students of the International School of Bangkok wanted to incentivize the Villa Market to stop using plastic bags. Before the mob, the store was giving out 500,000 plastic bags a year. Plastic bags pollute the environment, poison the food chain, and kill over two hundred thousand birds each year. Students from the school's green club, the Green Panthers, motivated their fellow students and community to create the extremely successful Villa Market Carrotmob, our highest grossing mob to date.
The deal: Bangkok's Villa Market agreed that if more than 500 people made purchases, they would stop using plastic bags. After a successful mob of 1,397 shoppers, and the supermarket posting record sales that day of $19,000, Villa Market officially stopped using plastic bags and now offers reusable cloth bags.
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Students from Prospect Sierra Middle School in El Cerrito, California staged a Carrotmob at Mediterraneo, a local pizza parlor in Emeryville. With the Carrotmob proceeds the business spent over $2000 to upgrade its refrigeration equipment and purchase green packaging products.
The remainder of the funds from the Carrotmob were donated to the Green Schools Initiative. The impact of the Carrotmob not only helped the businesses meet their green goals, but also carried over to the Public Market at large, where it sparked a new composting program for the entire food court. The Emeryville food court now diverts 52 tons of compostable waste from the landfill each year! The student-led campaign was so successful, they won a green award from their local council.
Chan Sau Yee, a second-year student at Temasek Junior College (TJC), spearheaded the initiative with a group of seven schoolmates as part of a service-learning project under the College's leadership program. The group of students mobbed a bubble teashop in central Singapore. With tea sales, Carrotmob T-shirts sales and a grant from a National Youth Council program, about $3,800 was raised. How did Sau Yee and her team manage to convince more than 300 of their schoolmates to take part in the Carrotmob? She said: "We experimented with many novel ideas to attract attention, including hanging carrot-shaped objects made from recycled materials all over campus and planting real carrots. Eventually our publicity efforts paid off, the excitement grew and many students were keen to be part of the Mob." In addition to a successful Carrotmob, the students at TJC raised awareness throughout the school on the importance of going green.
These are just a few examples of Carrotmob student-led change. Students from around the world have been participating in and leading Carrotmobs, making big changes in their communities!
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Skritter (app to help you learn to write Chinese characters)
Skritter is an app for learning Chinese vocabulary, especially handwriting. It offers smooth handwriting input with some corrective feedback, combined with spaced repetition that allows you (or me,... Read more.
Olle Linge – over 6 years
Hanping Chinese - Powerful Offline OCR & Dictionary apps for Android
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro and Hanping Chinese Camera are the two highest rated Android apps on Google's Play Store. The dictionary (both free and paid editions available) gives you the ability... Read more.
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
Chinese Text Analyser (a tool for segmenting and analysing Chinese text)
This Chinese Text Analyser is a tool that helps you find content suited to your current vocabulary level, and makes it easy to identify and learn new words. You can use it to easily see which words... Read more.
Olle Linge – over 6 years
Zizzle (app for learning Chinese characters)
Zizzle is an app that turns Chinese characters into engaging pictures and memorable short stories with funny heroes. For every single Chinese character, Zizzle creates a mnemonic story that employs... Read more.
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
Hanping Cantonese Dictionary
Offline Cantonese dictionary app for Android. Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native... Read more.
hanpingchinese – about 6 years
Ninchanese | Efficient and enjoyable Chinese learning
Ninchanese is a complete way to learn Chinese. Its online course allows you to learn and practice how to read, write, speak and understand Chinese in an enjoyable manner. It combines game mechanics... Read more.
Sarah – over 4 years
Hanping Chinese Popup
The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. Note: For Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher. Whe... Read more.
hanpingchinese – over 5 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro - Android app on Google Play
Pro version gives you: ★ Chinese handwriting recognition built in* ★ Mandarin audio - over 2,000 audio files of a real native Chinese speaker ★ Homescreen Widgets - flip through your favorite wo... Read more.
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
Learn languages online for free with Mondly - Language learning made easy, fun and free
Mondly is a mobile app very similar to Duolingo (which does not support Chinese). Pro: * more or less straight course to take, no distractions * It has several languages besides Chinese. Th... Read more.
stefan-wienert – about 3 years
Langademy (Learn Languages online with native speakers)
Langademy is a language learning social network that connects students with natives from all over the world. Students can practice Chinese, English, French or any other language at Langademy by mak... Read more.
Olle Linge – about 4 years
HiNative | A global platform for your questions
HiNative is a Q&A site where you can ask people all over the world about culture, language, anything. We support over 100 languages. Read more.
Rebecca McKay – over 6 years
Hanping Chinese Camera - Android App on Google Play
Save time doing dictionary lookups! Simply point your camera at some Chinese text to get all the English definitions. And everything works offline. Within just a couple of seconds of launching t... Read more.
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
Hack Chinese - SRS platform for learning Chinese vocabulary online
Hack Chinese is an online tool that aims to solve one of the most pressing challenges faced by Chinese learners: memorizing vocabulary. It caters to non-beginner students who want to reach a high l... Read more.
Dariya – about 1 month
Outlier Linguistics Chinese Character Dictionary and Masterclass
Outlier Linguistics provide a number high-quality resources for learning Chinese characters. All serious students should check out their dictionary, which is by far the easiest way to access reliab... Read more.
Olle Linge – 3 months
Talking Chinese–English–Chinese Phrasebook app from Paiboon Publishing and Word in the Hand
This is a fairly extensive phrasebook with some added extras. It has over 12,000 words, phrases and complete sentences in more than 250 categories. This app is meant for beginners, but works well f... Read more.
Olle Linge – almost 5 years
Chinese Tutor - Flashcards, Dictionary, Speaking Practice
Online Chinese flashcards that adapt to your learning, Chinese speaking practice using voice recognition, and a simple, fast Chinese-English dictionary. Read more.
ChineseTutor – over 6 years


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Hospitalized inmate dies on way back to Allegheny County Jail
Autopsy scheduled in Larry Reitz death investigation
An autopsy is set on an Allegheny County Jail inmate who died after falling and hitting his head in a sheriff's van that was bringing him back to the jail after a prolonged hospital stay.
County sheriff and jail officials haven't said why 46-year-old Larry Reitz, of White Oak, had been hospitalized.
He died after falling about 6:15 p.m. Monday as he stood up to exit the sheriff's van. He was taken back to the hospital where he had stayed for several weeks -- UPMC Mercy -- and was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
County homicide detectives are investigating because Reitz was in custody when he died.
He was jailed pending a preliminary hearing on burglary and threat-related charges on Jan. 28.
The county medical examiner planned a Tuesday autopsy.


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Cruz, boxing's first openly gay fighter, gets title shot
- Cruz came out last year as the first openly gay fighter in boxing
- Saturday%2C Cruz will fight for the vacant WBO version of the 126-pound %2857-kilogram%29 crown
LAS VEGAS -- Saturday's WBO featherweight title fight can be a hallmark moment if Puerto Rico's Orlando Cruz defeats Orlando Salido and becomes the first openly gay boxer to win a title belt.
But ask those in the boxing world, and they'll say it's no big deal.
"For me, it doesn't matter," said Bob Arum, the Top Rank chairman and Hall of Fame promoter who put the fight on the undercard of the Tim Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez main event Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center (HBO pay-per-view, 9p.m. ET). "The only thing that matters to me is if he can throw punches. Anybody who makes an issue, 'Oh, he's gay, he shouldn't fight,' is stupid. A guy's or woman's sexual orientation is his or her own business."
Arum points out today's culture of embracing and supporting Cruz is vastly different from when Arum started his career half a century ago.
"If I put on a fight with (Cruz) then, there would be a thousand protesters saying it should be boycotted because it involved a boxer who had a different sexual orientation," Arum said during Thursday's news conference. "The world has changed, and it has changed for the better. Because it has changed for the better, we can all take pride in what is happening now."
Cruz's fight has created national buzz. He's scheduled for Good Morning America, ABC World News and Nightline, and a noted member of the LGBT community has taken notice.
"Boxing is such a macho sport, and for Orlando Cruz to come out and still be competing is a major step forward for the LGBT community and for society in general," tennis legend and social activist Billie Jean King said in a statement to The Desert Sun.
"Athletes like Orlando are so visible. Anytime a gay athlete allows us to enter a new arena it gives us a chance to educate one more person and step over one more hurdle."
It was anything but easy for Cruz. An Olympian on the Puerto Rican team in 2000, Cruz said he had contemplated coming out ever since he turned pro.
"There had been talk around me for many years about whether I was gay," Cruz said. "I have been waiting for 12 years. I was hesitant to make the announcement because I don't think society was ready for it and I don't think the boxing community was ready for it.
"Boxing is a macho sport, everyone yelling gay slurs all the time: 'Hey faggot! Kick his ass!' I was scared. I was worried about other boxers. I was worried about the fans. I would cry many, many nights thinking about it."
Cruz said he had to see a psychologist to help prepare him to make his announcement. Yet the reaction since he came out more than a year ago has been mostly positive.
"I feel very free and happy having come out," he said. "I am happy with the support all of the people have given me, and I just want to continue to work hard doing the things that I need to do to make history."
His opponent is unfazed by the public's focus on Cruz's sexuality.
"I don't think about it," Salido, from Mexico, said through an interpreter. "I focus on myself. I'm a fighter and I'm a warrior.
"His social life is separate. I don't think of his sexuality. It's just two human beings fighting for a world title."
After the news conference Thursday, when the two boxers posed for pictures, including the faceoff, Salido went to hug Cruz. "It's just a form of saying good luck and a form of respect, that's it," Salido said, and then jokingly threw up his hands. "I shook his hand 10 times already."
Tim Bradley Sr., the father of the WBO welterweight champion, said he looks at Cruz solely as a boxer and is impressed by what he has seen. Bradley's brother Michael, who died this year at 55, was gay.
"You identify who you are, and as a person and as a human, you're not supposed to judge anyone else," Bradley Sr. said. "It doesn't matter what a person is. Different strokes for different strokes.
"I don't judge no one. As long as a person is a great person, good heart and ... very professional inside and outside, it shouldn't matter."
Cruz said he dreamed his whole career of winning a title in Las Vegas. The social significance of a victory is not his main focus.
Salido is a former two-time champ and thinks he can rough up Cruz.
But Cruz is confident of his chances.
"It's my time, it's my moment," Cruz said. "Saturday, I am the new champion featherweight."


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|I honestly chased her all over the house to get one photo of her. This is the best I could do today.
She is a JOY! She's at the point where everyday has new words, or at least new words that I can understand and thus translate for the rest of the world.
Today, the word was "Ruum ruum." This means "car."
Yesterday, the word was "Hannies," which translates to "hands."
I truly love this age.
She still takes two naps a day, which is a total blessing considering I'm trying to get schoolwork done during the day. She has her favorite blanket, which, by the way, is known as a "Didi." She likes fuzzy blankets. My other kids, all but one, were into silky things. She is a thumb sucker, but only when she goes to sleep. If you put her didi on your shoulder, she'll snuggle right into your neck, suck her thumb and be content there for a good long time.
She runs. She loves our dog and tells her to "Mom. Mom," which means "Come. Come." She slaps her thighs as she says this.
She'll walk into the bathroom and say, "Potty. Potty." I've put her on the potty twice, but she really doesn't have a clue what that's all about yet.
I've been thankful for #3's orthodontia and the need for rubberbands that are just the perfect size for pigtails for #7.
Please ("peeze") and "dit-du" (thank you) are big parts of her vocabulary, and it seems that she knows just when to use them. Yay!
She also knows how to open the front door if the deadbolt isn't set.
Yesterday, while we were making cookies--she, #6 and two of #6's bubs--#6 had put a chair in front of the sink so the boys could wash their hands. She climbed on the chair while I was getting ingredients out of the cupboard, reached across the sink (feet leaving the chair), and turned on the water. She then proceeded to wash her hands--thus "hannies, hannies" being yesterday's word of the day. That's what she said as she washed.
Two days ago, she somehow stripped #2's bed down to the mattress, climbed up on it--it's pretty high off the ground, and fell asleep right in the middle of it. We were all pretty surprised. #2 was pretty disappointed that he was going to have to figure out how to move the sleeping girl without waking her up and remake his bed entirely before climbing into it.
She's a character and is just starting to get into EVERYTHING...and away we go!


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NEW YORK-Jan. 4, 2011-Nickelodeon rang in the New Year with a ratings win with the series premiere of House of Anubis (Saturday, Jan. 1, 8 p.m. ET/PT). The hour-long premiere scored the top telecast on broadcast and basic cable with all kid and tween demos in its time period.
The hour-long series premiere bested its closest competitor by double-digits with T9-14 (+21%) and averaged 2.4 million total viewers, a 4.0/846,000 T9-14, 4.4/952,000 K6-11 and 3.5/1.2 million K2-1.
House of Anubis, already an established Nickelodeon hit in Europe, is the first-ever Nickelodeon U.S. live-action show produced in the U.K. Combining mystery, comedy and drama, House of Anubis follows eight students who stumble upon and try to solve a hidden mystery at an English boarding school, while dealing with the highs and lows of their teenage years.
In the series premiere, Nina Martin (Nathalia Ramos) arrives from the U.S. and is excited to be starting at a brand-new school in England. She is assigned to live at Anubis House, an old spooky boarding house named after an Egyptian god, and rumored to be haunted. Nina soon discovers that one of the students, Joy (Klariza Clayton), has mysteriously disappeared from the school. Joy's best friend Patricia (Jade Ramsey) is really worried, especially when a creepy message appears on the bathroom mirror, saying "Help me! Joy." Patricia is suspicious that Nina arrived the same day Joy vanished and starts to blame the "American newbie" for her friend's disappearance.
Following its series premiere, new episodes of House of Anubis will air Monday, Jan. 10 - Friday, Jan. 14 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT).


text: Fircroft Tree Surgery Ltd provides a professional, reliable and competitive tree surgery in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Beds, Bucks and London areas. Our aim is to provide superior quality of work at affordable prices. We have over 20 Years of experience as tree surgeons and offer a wide range of services, for a complete list please click here or follow the link at the top of the page. At Fircroft Tree Surgery Ltd we care for all of our customers, large or small in a personal and friendly manner so for a free quote or for some sound honest advice please don't hesitate to contact us.


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Johnson is a town in Lamoille county, Vermont. It was formed in 1792 in Vt. from Franklin county. The probate and court district for Johnson is Lamoille. For more information, contact the town at 293 Lower Main, P.O. Box 383, Johnson 05656. On the attached map, Johnson is shown as 4 in Lamoille county.
For information about the state of Vermont see Vermont Family History Research.


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Quickly and easily dress up your home―brush and paste not required.
For a flash of style with every pull, line the inside of a drawer with wallpaper cut to fit. Attach with double-stick tape or removable mounting squares so the lining won't shift when you're rummaging for a sock's mate in a pre-coffee morning daze.


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Our friend Trevor Andrusko was in perfect position to see the #52 Boss Mustang of Rehagen Racing fly off a corner at Mid Ohio. This incredible video and photo from the accident shows precisely how important those long rows of spent Michelins truly are.
Most safety technology revolves around the basic physics of force = mass x acceleration. Reduce the acceleration (make the accident longer) and reduce the force. It's how crumple zones work, and it's one reason why tire barriers are everywhere on tracks.
Just watch the beautiful Mustang head straight towards the tires with almost no reduction in speed (brakes fail?). As dramatic as the crash looks, the car is actually shedding momentum as it spins up in the air and around.
No word on the driver's condition, but the damage doesn't appear that great when the car finally comes to a rest.
UPDATE: The driver is apparently in good condition and the accident did occur because of a brake failure, according to a source.
Photo Credit: Trevor Andrusko / MotorSportMedia


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Celebrating 20 years of KIKO
In 2017, KIKO MILANO celebrates twenty years of beauty. The first store opened on September 1, 1997 inside the historical Fiorucci store. The architects Francesco and Alessandro Mendini designed the first KIKO flagship stores. During the past twenty years, KIKO has won over the most discerning beauty addicts worldwide with its endless array of products and shades, satisfying every professional and personal make-up need.
Today, KIKO has over 1,000 stores in 20 countries, a third of which are located in Italy. The brand has a widespread presence in Europe as well as in Turkey, the Middle East, the US, Hong Kong, India and Brazil.
KIKO also offers online shopping in 36 countries via www.kikocosmetics.com
Epitomizing modern Italy, KIKO is art, fashion and design, offering over 1,400 products, including make-up, skincare and beauty accessories, as well as over 1,000 new products offered in limited-edition collections every year.
To celebrate this important birthday, KIKO decided to team up with Vogue Italia, which selected seven international designers to create seven limited-edition capsule collections. The designers, chosen from participants in the Vogue Talents project, will interpret a make-up trend and celebrate the very essence of KIKO and its most important values: colour, creativity, talent and an all-Italian style.
Check out below the collections, designers and the launch dates of these limited-edition products:


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Saudi Arabia reports 8 more deaths from MERS virus
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said Sunday that eight more people have died after contracting a lethal Middle East virus related to SARS as the kingdom grapples with a rising number of infections.
The ministry reported the deaths in a statement on its website late in the evening. It said it had detected a total of 16 cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus over the past 24 hours.
The latest cases bring to 102 the number of people who have died after contracting the disease in Saudi Arabia since September 2012. A total of 339 cases have been recorded to date in the kingdom, which has been the site of the bulk of confirmed infections.
Among the latest dead were a child in the capital, Riyadh, and three people in the western city of Jiddah, which has seen a spike in infections in recent weeks. The ministry also reported confirmed cases in the city of Tabuk, near the border with Jordan.
On Saturday, the ministry reported that a Saudi man died in Riyadh and another in Jiddah.
Egyptian authorities on Saturday said officials there had detected the country's first confirmed infection in a 27-year-old civil engineer who recently returned from Saudi Arabia.
Other Mideast countries that have past reported cases of infection include Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. A small number of cases have been diagnosed in Europe and Asia.
MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which caused some 800 deaths globally in 2003.
There is no vaccine or cure for MERS, though not all those who contract the virus become ill. It is still unclear how it is transmitted.


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Dollar Shave Club Video Also Used to Woo Investors
By making the audacious claim that "our blades are f**king great," startup Dollar Shave Club's video has been a hit with consumers — pulling in more than 600,000 views in two days and netting 5,000 orders. But before that, it went viral with investors as well.
Michael Dubin, the guy in the video and CEO of the fledgling company, says he shot the video in October and used it to woo VCs including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, who collectively put $1 million behind the company. "We develop great content," Dubin says, "and [the video] said, 'This is the tone of voice we're going to come at it with.'"
Dubin's description of Dollar Shave Club as a "content producer" may sound strange given the company's business. Dollar Shave Club came about when Dubin, a former digital marketing director at Sports Illustrated, met up with Mark Levine at a holiday party in December 2010. Levine knew how to get cheap razors online and suggested that he and Dubin sell them.
It was Dubin who came up with a subscription model — the company charges on a monthly basis, starting at $3 for a standard two-blade razor. Dubin argued that there was an audience for such an offering. "We were able to show people that you can get cheap razors at Kmart, but people don't want to be seen at Kmart and don't want to deal with a parking lot," Dubin says.
But how to get consumers' attention? A company called Orabrush had launched its oral care brand in 2009 with funny, irreverent YouTube videos. That brand wasn't a conscious influence, but maybe it was a subliminal one. "What they did was smart was very successful for them," Dubin says. "They showed you can use humor and be irreverent and have a great brand story. That ad was certainly in my subconscious." A more direct influence was Old Spice, whose "The man your man could smell like" campaign informed Dubin's mock bluster, not to mention the ad's series of tracking shots.
Now that the ad has made its mark with consumers, Dollar Shave Club is dealing with "typical startup stuff," Dubin says, including servers that are crashing from too much traffic. At the moment, the company is planning a sequel, probably around Father's Day.
Meanwhile, Dubin says he's not afraid of a persistent fashion trend that could limit the scope of his new business: Beards. "Look, we love beards," he says. "I personally can't grow a beard. If I could, I would. But we're not beardphobic."


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Chiang Mai International Airport. It is surrounded by mountain ranges where dignified Doi Suthep can be clearly viewed, beautiful rice field and shady trees, circled by natural creeks streaming down from high mountains of northern Thailand, franked by "Mae Ta Chang River" which is the natural water source for agriculture and plantation by traditional way of life of the native community. It is also closed to many famous tourist attractions of Chiang Mai such as Royal Park Rajapruk, Chiang Mai Night Safari, Chiang Mai International Conference and Exhibition Center, and located in the residential zone according to the latest Urban Plan of Chiang Mai Province of Thailand.
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Orthodoxy in India
This article seeks to be a clearinghouse of information and links regarding the history and state of Orthodox Christianity in India.
Orthodox Church is the oldest of all christian communities in India. The church directly connects with Apostle Thomas and his evangalization in India.
The following are the list of Churches that follow Orthodoxy in India:
- Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Oriental Orthodox Church)
- Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church (autonomous part of Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Malabar Independent Syrian Church (not in full communion with Oriental Orthodox Church)
- Archdiocese of Knanaya (part of Syriac Orthodox Church)
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an autonomous church in the Oriental Orthodox Communion. This church recognises Syrian Orthodox Patriarch as its Spiritual leader and Catholicos of East as its supreme head. The current head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is His Holiness Catholicos Baselius Mar Thoma Didymos 1st. He is the 113th Catholicos seated in the Throne of Saint Thomas.
Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church
A rivlary between the Catholicos of East and Patriarch of Antioch, split the church of India into 2 sets. Jacobite Orthodox Syrian Church is a semi-autonomous church under the Syriac Orthodox Church. This church recognises Syrian Orthodox Patriarch His Holiness Igantius Zakka 1st as its Supreme head and a titular Catholicos as their regional head.
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
Malabar Independent Syrian Church is a fraction that got split from the main Orthodox christian body in 1772. The current head of the this Church is Metropolitan Cyril Baselius. This church is not in full communion with other Orthodox Churches.
Archdiocese of Knanaya
Knanaya Archbishop appointed by the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch rules the Knanaya Archdiocese of this semi-autonomous part of the Syriac Orthodox church.
See also
- 1 parish in New Delhi (St. Thomas, 2006)
- Church of Armenia (Diocese of India, communities in Calcutta, Chennai-Madras and Mumbai-Bombay)


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Getz, Herrera set to return to Royals
Giavotella, Teaford and Ciriaco sent to Triple-A Omaha
KANSAS CITY -- Chris Getz is back to play second base and Kelvin Herrera is returning to the bullpen, as the Royals made some All-Star break roster moves on Thursday.
To make room, second baseman Johnny Giavotella and relief pitcher Everett Teaford were optioned to Triple-A Omaha.
The Royals also assigned infielder Pedro Ciriaco, claimed off waivers from the Padres on Tuesday, to Omaha. He had to clear waivers first because he was out of options.
Behind the moves was an effort to get the Royals moving up in the standings in the final 70 games of their season after ending the first half with five straight losses and going six games under .500.
"We've got to go -- it's time to go, so we've got to make sure we've got as many hot guys in that lineup as we can get in there," manager Ned Yost said.
One of those guys is Getz, who hit .313 in 14 games for Omaha. Getz began the season as the Royals' second baseman, but after batting .214 in 47 games, he was optioned to Omaha on June 22.
"Getz has been swinging the bat really well down there, and like when we brought Johnny up, Johnny was swinging really well right there, so we're just going with hot hands right now," Yost said.
Giavotella struggled at the plate after being called up on June 30. He went 3-for-4 in his first game vs. Minnesota, but he was just 4-for-30 since then and was hitting .206 in 10 games.
"I didn't really have too many at-bats, so I wasn't really able to get my feet under me and get comfortable. It's just the name of the game and I have to go back to Omaha. I'm not going to change anything," Giavotella said. "I'm happy for the guy [Getz], he was doing well in Triple-A and he deserves to be up here."
Getz said the time at Omaha was beneficial, because he had time to make adjustments in his batting approach without the obvious difficulties of implementing changes while playing at the Major League level.
"I know expectations are very high around here and they should be, because the talent level is very high and I hope to be a big part of it," Getz said. "Just get back to being myself and playing and hopefully we have some fun."
The hard-throwing Herrera was in his second Minor League stint this year. In 29 games for Kansas City, he was 3-5 with a 5.20 ERA and was most recently sent out on June 25.
"He needed to incorporate his curveball and his changeup a little more and just continue to work on his mechanics," Yost said. "I want guys getting the job done up here, and he wasn't getting the job done."
In a total of 12 outings for Omaha and Double-A Northwest Arkansas, he gave up just two earned runs in 18 innings with a 1.00 ERA and had 27 strikeouts against six walks.
Yost will put Herrera right back into the late-inning setup mix with Tim Collins, Aaron Crow and Luke Hochevar. He won't let Herrera's earlier problems influence his decisions.
"It's not going to scare me away from him -- 'OK, gee, we've got runners at first and second. I don't want to bring Herrera in here,'" Yost said. "If you're in the big leagues, you're in the big leagues and he's a quality Major League reliever who's struggled. He's gone down, he's got himself back on track, he's throwing the ball well -- let's see what happens."
Teaford arrived just last Saturday and pitched two-thirds of a scoreless inning in Sunday's loss in Cleveland. He returns to the Storm Chasers, with whom he was 3-2 with a 2.88 ERA in 23 games, including nine starts.
The moves were announced before the Royals held a one-hour optional workout on Thursday evening at Kauffman Stadium.
Technically, Getz and Herrera were placed on the Major Leagues' new "taxi squad" and won't be formally added to the 25-man roster until before Friday night's series opener against Detroit at Kauffman Stadium.
Yost is eager to get back into action against the Tigers, who lead the American League Central, eight games ahead of the third-place Royals. On their final road trip after a split of four games in New York, the Royals were swept in three games in Cleveland.
"We lost the last three games and that kind of put a bad taste in your mouth going into the break, but you regroup and here we go again," Yost said.


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Glens' psychiatric residency begins
The American Osteopathic Association has approved the LECOM/Manatee Glens Hospital Psychiatry Residency program, the first private, non-profit psychiatric hospital to have its own medical residency program and one of only seven such Osteopathic programs in the country.
The first three residents will begin in the summer of 2014 and will stay for four years. Manatee Glens will add residents each year until there are 12 total, according to a statement.
"Florida is in dire need of more psychiatrists. We know that physicians are likely to stay in the community where they train," Manatee Glens president/CEO Mary Ruiz said. "These physicians will also alleviate some of the current demand for more mental health and addictions help and enable Manatee Glens to serve more people."
Manatee Glens now trains post-doctoral graduates, interns and those in rotations in nursing, social work, pharmacy, occupational therapy, case management and physician assistants.
Longboat resort has 30th 4 Diamond
For the 30th consecutive year, the Resort at Longboat Key Club received the AAA Four-Diamond Award.
The resort first received the award in 1983, one year after it opened. It is one of only six hotels in Florida to have received this award for 30 or more consecutive years, according to a written statement from the resort.
Florida has 132 AAA Four-Diamond lodgings, second in the U.S. behind California's 180.
The award is based on the work of professionally trained inspectors who use published guidelines to conduct unannounced hotel and restaurant evaluations.
"We are thrilled to achieve this outstanding milestone of 30 consecutive years as an AAA Four-Diamond Resort," said Jeff Mayers, the resort's general manager.
RE/MAX Platinum goes international
RE/MAX Platinum Realty has begun an international department to bring international real estate buyers to the Sarasota-Bradenton area by leveraging the global RE/MAX brand and the RE/MAX broker network in more than 85 countries.
The department works closely with the new Global New Homes Division, which markets builder and developer properties internationally through the RE/MAX broker network, international trade shows and active company sales efforts, according to a statement.
Broker-owner Bryan Guentner said the international department was begun in the summer because it is the season for international tourists. "Many people who come here on vacation from other countries are looking for second homes in Florida," he said.
The department was formed with the help of RE/MAX Platinum Realty agents, many of whom are natives of foreign countries.
Business buzz: Glens psychiatric residency; Longboat AAA 4-Diamond; Remax Platinum goes global
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2007-08: Joe Gleason capped a sensational career at Edina High School, where he led the Hornets in scoring among defensemen with 42 points (nine goals, 33 assists) in 31 games. His 33 assists ranked second on the team, while his 43 points was tied for seventh in the state in defenseman scoring. Gleason averaged 1.35 points per game this season and also served as one of Edina's tri-captains. Gleason's crowning individual achievement this season was being named one of the finalists for the prestigious Mr. Hockey Award. He was also named to the Class AA All-Tournament team and to the Pioneer Press All-State First team. In addition, Gleason was also named to both the AP and Star-Tribune All-Metro Second Teams.
2008-09: Gleason spent the season with Des Moines in the USHL. The blueliner scored 5 goals, 16 assists for 21 points in 59 games for the Buccaneers.
2009-10: Gleason registered 9 assists in 39 games for the University of North Dakota. The blueliner played a regular shift on the power play in addition to even strength ice time as a freshman.
2010-11: With a talented and crowded blue line at North Dakota, Gleason appeared in only 22 games as a sophomore. He scored 1 goal and 3 assists in that time, often lining up as a fourth line forward rather than his natural position on defense.
2011-12: Gleason seized a full-time role on the blue line for North Dakota as a junior. In 41 games for the Fighting Sioux he had 15 assists and was minus-six with 14 penalty minutes. North Dakota finished fourth in the WCHA in the regular season and captured the Broadmoor Trophy playoff championship after back-to-back wins over Minnesota and Denver. Minnesota returned the favor in the NCAA West regional final, defeating North Dakota, 5-2 to end the Fighting Sioux season.
2012-13: Joe Gleason had the best offensive season of his career in his senior year, scoring three of his five goals on the power play for North Dakota. Teamed with fellow Chicago prospect Nick Mattson late in the year after skating with Dillon Simpson (Edmonton), he skated in 41 of 42 games and also had 13 assists; finishing +3 with 18 penalty minutes. North Dakota finished third in the WCHA and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament after an overtime loss to Colorado College in the WCHA Final Five semifinals. The Fighting Sioux lost to eventual national champion Yale, 4-1, in the NCAA West Regional Final.
Talent Analysis
Gleason is an offensive defenseman with good speed. Despite his diminutive stature, Gleason's tenacity, determination and fiercely competitive nature served him very well in high school in demonstrating that he could effectively go up against bigger opposing players. Gleason has quick feet and transitions exceedingly well. He possesses a very good burst of speed and acceleration. He keeps his feet moving.
His great poise and patience with the puck, along with the ability to move really well with it makes him a good quarterback on the power play. Gleason distributes the puck quite well and can make some really nice outlet passes too. His speed and great puck skills also allow him to effectively jump up into plays or lead rushes. While he can transition back to defense quickly, his lack of size may make that part of his game a bigger challenge at the collegiate level and beyond. Gleason also possesses a terrific wrist shot. He can get pucks on net and will shoot as often as the opportunities present themselves.
Getting stronger will be key to Gleason's future success.
Gleason capped off his collegiate career with his best offensive season for North Dakota. Although he is not likely in the Blackhawks plans going forward, Gleason has the puck-moving ability and work ethic to help a minor league club.


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This List Proves Stuff Happened in 2013 You Would Have NEVER Believed in 2012
Another year has come and gone. With it, as with any year, are the crazy news headlines.
Some of these are weird, some are record setting, some are tragic. Any way you cut it, your 2012 self would not believe you if you said these events would happen.
Aaron Hernandez on Trial for Murder, Suspect in More Homicides
Nelson Mandela Memorial "Fake" Sign Language Interpreter
Utah Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Man, High on Meth, Fights off 15 Police Officers While Masturbating
Boston Marathon Bombings and Consequential Investigation
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Review: Sony NEX-5R compact system camera
Price: $1000 with 16mm-50mm lens
Nicely refined
This 16-megapixel compact system camera is the latest development of Sony's NEX range. The overall design has been refined to improve the aesthetic balance of body and lens. When the lens is retracted, it no longer overpowers the body. The NEX bodies have always been petite and this one follows that tradition while packing in all the controls expected on a DSLR. The excellent tilting, high-resolution, 75-millimetre LCD incorporates some touch functions. Wi-fi sharing with smartphones and computers is built in. The camera comes with an external flash unit in a case designed toattach to the camera strap.
The image quality is excellent, as is to be expected from a sensor also used in DSLRs. The wi-fi sharing with smartphones is brilliant — just download the PlayMemories Mobile app and the camera and phone find each other and start communicating in a trice.
This is a beautiful camera, but the beauty is bought at the expense of usability. Even with the touchscreen access, it is a nuisance to have to go into the menus to set the shooting mode. Such basic controls should be on the camera body.
We said of an earlier version of the NEX it was the sensible alternative to a DSLR for most people and that is even more true of the NEX-5R. The range of E-mount lenses is constantly growing, so the NEX-5R is the basis of a system that can be as simple or as serious as the user requires. The APS sensor is shared with a number of DSLRs, not just Sony's, and it performs well in all its manifestations. The simple and straightforward wi-fi setup is the icing on a very attractive cake.


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Major disaster averted at Mississippi lake, officials say
Lake Tangipahoa drained to alleviate pressure on levees
Emergency officials believe they have averted a major disaster at a state lake ravaged by Hurricane Isaac's rains.
Crews continue to drain Lake Tangipahoa at the Percy Quin State Park near McComb.
Numerous work crews from the state and federal government are trying to secure the weakened portion and another area on the dam that had a slide because of all the water from Isaac.
On Wednesday, 33 pumps were moving 130,000 gallons of water a minute trying to keep it from reaching the Tangipahoa River.
"It is going to be another two to three days before the breach is final, and we will continue to keep taking water out of the lake as the progresses," said Ramie Ford, the director of Mississippi state parks.
Environmental officials believe they have a handle on the breach, but it will be another week before the dam is in the clear.


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See Who's Calling With A Reverse Phone Lookup
It happens to all of us. You're right in the middle of something – maybe eating dinner or watching a great movie – when the phone rings. Obviously, everyone should know how busy you are. So, it must be important.
You jump up to answer. Before grabbing the phone, you sneak a quick peek to make sure it's someone you actually want to talk to. You quickly learn that the caller is … a complete mystery.
The Unknown Number Blues
There you are, standing next to the phone wondering what to do next. Your curiosity is peaked, but you don't answer. Sure, you're adventurous, but not many people are bold enough to take a call from an unknown number.
Of course you have an Ace up your sleeve. You'll wait a minute, listen to the message and decide whether or not you want to call back. But you're trumped! They don't leave a message. You have no idea who called, or why.
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People get calls from unidentified numbers all the time. It's one of life's little frustrations, especially when you receive multiple calls from the same number. You'd like to think you can count on Caller ID to have all the answers, but that's just not the world we live in. Don't worry, though, there is a solution.
Thanks to a little thing called a Reverse Phone Lookup, you can see who owns most any phone number in the United States. The reverse lookup service from PeopleFinders.com empowers you to see who owns a cell, land line or even an unlisted number. People use it every day to get information about a number, or find someone today using their old digits.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 25 – IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY AND, unexpectedly, big, wet flakes of snow are falling; not sticking, but turning the sky into a curtain of white, through which I can see the silhouettes of pine trees and the grey, mysterious beginnings of the Sound.
To me – and to all my friends hovering around this point in life – the season is not the same as it once was. I suppose that's nothing profound, but perhaps my deeper appreciation for spending time with family is. I feel more in touch with the fact that the years – and the Christmases – will come and go without cease until my life reaches its end, and that without significant effort on my part to pause and savor these more important moments, I will just be letting time wash over my oblivious soul.
As so last night, sitting next to the Christmas tree with my parents and the dogs – feeling as warm and happy as ever I have in 23 winters – I breathed in and out slowly, feeling the light and the air as they rose to the eaves, carrying with them a genuine spirit of the all the good times spent in that very room …
This trip I've been able to see home with honest eyes; not unsentimental, but also not with forced sentimentality. The streets that once seemed flooded wth memories now only have evaporating oily pools of them – every now and then a splash, and a smattering of the past.
As I walked along the boardwalk yesterday I saw the now vacant community store, the apartment where a friend once lived. In the crisp wind I saw the northwest, the clear waters and a sky unwittingly shifting between silver and blue. I saw the weathered edges of this familiar coast.
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New Half-Blood Prince Promo Pictures of Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, More Surface Online
Mar 16, 2009
HBP Film
Several new promotional photos for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are now online. Of unknown origin, scores of readers let us know about these new photos which include: Tom Felton as Draco, Bonnie Wright as Ginny, Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter, and Teenage Tom Riddle. All bear the official WB HP6 logo.
Update: Oclumencia sent us high res versions as follows:
Tom Felton as Draco
Bonnie Wright as Ginny
New Bonnie
New Harry (Profile of Dan Radcliffe)
Thanks to SS, those on LJ and all who emailed!