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Halfway point of NFL season marked by Nick Foles' record-equalling seven touchdowns while two coaches fall ill.
The National Football League season passed the halfway point of a season that has been marked by upsets on the field, while health problems suffered by two coaches this week have put the game into some context.
Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak was taken to hospital after collapsing at halftime against the Indianapolis Colts, who said on Sunday that he was stable and with his family.
On Saturday, Denver Broncos coach John Fox had also been hospitalised in Charlotte, North Carolina after feeling light-headed while playing golf.
Fox will undergo surgery for an aortic heart valve replacement early next week, and will be out of coaching for several weeks.
The NFL prides itself on being an evenly-balanced competition and the first nine weeks of the season have lived up to that billing with a series of unpredictable results.
Sunday was no different. The Kansas City Chiefs (9-0) continued to defy the odds, beating the Buffalo Bills (3-6) 23-13 to remain as the NFL's only undefeated team, having been joint-worst last season.
Touchdown record
Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles threw an NFL-record-tying seven touchdown passes in the Eagles' 49-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders (3-5), with Foles became just the seventh quarterback to throw seven touchdown passes in an NFL game. The most recent was Peyton Manning, earlier this season.
The New York Jets (5-4), as up-and-down a team as any, beat the high-flying New Orleans Saints (6-2) 26-20, a week after they suffered a 40-point thrashing to the Cincinnati Bengals (6-3).
All season we've won one, lost one, won one, lost one and we've got the bye next week, so we're going to lose that one.
The Carolina Panthers (5-3), another team who have torn up the script, completed a 34-10 thumping of the Atlanta Falcons, who made the NFC Championship last season but have fallen to 2-6 this campaign.
And the New England Patriots (7-2) and the Eagles (4-5) both romped to huge wins after the Seattle Seahawks (8-1) survived a major scare against the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-8).
The Chiefs finished tied for the league's worst record (2-14) a year ago but continue their incredible run under new coach Andy Reid, overturning 10-3 halftime deficit to win away from home after Sean Smith returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown.
The Jets have been on an unusual sequence this season, alternating between wins and losses each week.
This week they were due to win but had to work against a Saints that got 382 yards and two touchdown passes from quarterback Drew Brees at Metlife Stadium.
Jets quarterback Geno Smith threw for just 115 yards but he rushed for a three-yard touchdown that gave his team the lead while Nick Folk kicked four field goals to maintain his perfect record this season.
"We knew it was going to be tough. We didn't know how we'd win. All I know is I have a team that believes and will fight all the way," said Jets head coach Rex Ryan, whose brother Rob is the defensive co-ordinator with the Saints.
"All season we've won one, lost one, won one, lost one and we've got the bye next week, so we're going to lose that one."
Trotting Panthers
The Panthers made four wins on the trot, picking off three interceptions. Cam Newton threw for one touchdown and ran in one himself in Charlotte.
A week after throwing away victory against the Detroit Lions, the Dallas Cowboys (5-4) secured a last-minute, 27-23 win against the struggling Minnesota Vikings (1-7) in Texas.
Dallas quarterback Tony Romo threw for 337 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner to Dwayne Harris with just 35 seconds left on the clock.
The Tennessee Titans (4-4) ended a three-game losing streak with a 28-21 victory away to the St Louis Rams (3-6) with running back Chris Johnson, who rushed for 150 yards, scoring the winning touchdown less than three minutes from the end.
The Washington Redskins (3-5) regained their composure after blowing a 10-point lead in the last quarter to beat San Diego Chargers (4-4) 30-24 in overtime with fullback Darrel Young securing the win with a four-yard touchdown run.
New England quarterback Tom Brady had a field day in his team's 55-31 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers (2-6).
Brady completed 23-for-33 passes for 432 yards and four touchdowns to move into sixth place on the NFL's all-time completion list and seventh in passing yards.
The Seahawks, one of the favourites to win the Super Bowl, overcame a 21-0 deficit against the Buccaneers to win 27-24 in overtime.
The reigning Super Bowl champions, the Baltimore Ravens (3-5), lost 24-18 against the Cleveland Browns (4-5).


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Morrissey is a mythological creature, one we may never really know. We do know that he was the lead singer of the Smiths and a fantastic solo artist, but his private life has remained, through the years, fiercely private. In all of the years I've known of Morrissey (25 or so years now of my own life), I've never once read in a magazine or on a website about a confirmed romance between him and anyone else. And trust me, I have done my research. In a world where every private experience is mined for publicity, there's something to be said for that level of secrecy. He should probably be awarded some type of medal.
There are, however, a few details about Morrissey's life that have been made public—details that give us a clue as to what life may be like with the Mozman, should you find yourself in a romantic situation with him. A few things you may want to know ahead of time. For example:
• Morrissey is a staunch vegetarian. If you eat meat around him there's a good chance he won't want to make out with you.
• Morrissey dislikes most music, except for five bands. (These five bands will vary on any day you ask him.)
• He says he has only seven friends.
• He cannot cook anything apart from tea and toast.
• He wears jeans that are two sizes too big for him.
• He hates politicians.
• Morrissey loves girl musicians.
• He also loves beer, old Hollywood, and very large rings.
Since there is no official account from anyone whosoever about what it may be like to be in a relationship with Morrissey, we can only ponder based on these little bits of personal information what it could actually be like to have Morrissey as a real-life, actual boyfriend. What types of things would you do?
If Morrissey were my boyfriend…
We'd lie on the floor all afternoon quoting Oscar Wilde to each other.
We'd go on dates to the Hollywood Forever cemetery and take Instagram photos in front of the Johnny Ramone memorial.
We'd do each other's hair and I'd finally learn how to give myself a proper blow dry and quiff.
We'd paint each other's nails.
We'd giggle about music we both think is stupid—which is pretty much everything that isn't the New York Dolls, Sparks, or Patti Smith.
We'd spend every single afternoon by the pool.
We'd drive down the Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, listening to Diana Dors songs, and he'd sing along while seductively raising his big big beautiful eyebrows at me.
We'd go shopping together, but I'd let him pick everything out since he naturally has much better taste than me.
I'd cook for us—big, romantic vegetarian feasts—and save him from his life of tea and toast. (One cannot live on tea and toast alone.)
He'd write love songs about us on his antique typewriter in the bathtub.
We'd end each day crawling underneath the covers with our clothes on to watch James Dean movies in bed until we fell asleep.
Then we'd get up the next day, and do all of it all over again. ♦
Kristina Fleischer is a Los Angeles native and digital geek working in social media for broadcast television. Her interests include denim, the beach, the Undertones, and the films of Pedro Almodóvar. You can find her on Twitter here.

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Dealing with bug, Gardy hands off duties Sunday
MINNEAPOLIS -- After leaving Saturday night's 3-2 win at Target Field early due to the stomach flu, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire spent Sunday's 7-1 loss in his office, and handed over managing duties to bench coach Terry Steinbach.
The Twins skipper met with the media on Sunday morning and noted that he was still feeling under the weather and hadn't eaten anything recently. At the time, he was unsure about whether he would be in the dugout for the game.
Gardenhire left Saturday's contest during the fifth inning and missed seeing Chris Colabello's first career RBI -- a game-tying run in the sixth -- in person.
"Well, I had an IV in my arm and I had monitors on me, so it was wonderful," Gardenhire said. "My heart rate went up. They almost put me in an ambulance when he got the hit. It was actually really nice to see."


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International Grammar School
Bombay spectrum represents the Hindu festival Holi, which is the celebration of colour. The cones of coloured rice signify the necessity of cultural experience, colour and taste. Yet they furthermore point towards the direction; the aim in which humanity must reach… transcendence. By placing the cones in different contexts, the message of the aim can be seen in the environment of everyday life. By living in India during years of my childhood I was surrounded by the richness of culture, the colour, the taste and spirituality. Bombay spectrum evolved and developed through the original ideas and concepts of Indian culture. Ultimately highlighting colour, expressed through natural materials, such as rice which is a fundamental universal staple.
By combining the formal qualities of art and utilising non-traditional materials artists make artworks about societies and cultures. Consider how Nicola Wells and Dieter Roth express ideas through their use of materials. List other senses apart from sight that these works may stimulate. Suggest how the use of non-traditional art materials changes the way artists make work. Analyse the way Wells, Roth and Roy de Maistre utilise rhythm and colour in their work to strengthen their intentions.


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A woman in Spain jumped to her death as bailiffs approached to evict her Friday from her fourth-floor apartment for failing to pay the mortgage, officials said.
It was the second apparent suicide linked to evictions, and it further illustrates the dire conditions many Spaniards find themselves in as the country�s economy sinks. The government recently created a task force to study how to reduce evictions because of the devastating personal impact of repossessions due to tough Spanish mortgage rules and growing unease among the public on the subject.
The unnamed 53-year-old woman threw herself from her balcony in a suburb of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, the regional Interior Ministry said. She worked at a local bus depot, was married to a former town councilor and had a 21-year-old daughter.
Local judge Juan Carlos Mediavilla told reporters at the scene that it was �necessary to amend current mortgage legislation� to prevent a recurrence of such events. Employment and Social Security Minister Fatima Banez said late Friday that the government deeply regretted the woman�s death.
Home owners in Spain face greater risks than mortgage-holders in many countries. If a home owner in Spain is unable to make the agreed mortgage payments � through unemployment or low income � he or she can get evicted but also remain liable to repay whatever value is left on the mortgage after the repossession.
Since the 2008 property crash, more than 350,000 people have been caught in this trap. There are another 500 evictions a day, according to government figures.
On Oct. 25, Jose Miguel Domingo, 53, was found dead in the courtyard of his building in Granada moments after bailiffs appeared to evict him. A day later, another 53-year-old man who had been unemployed for four years jumped out of his apartment window in the eastern town of Burjassot as eviction loomed. He survived but with injuries.
The dramatic impact that repossessions can have on individuals spurred Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy�s government to create the task force on evictions, and the latest death will likely add pressure on the group to find solutions.
�We must find the most effective means to alleviate the situation experienced by people who are losing their homes,� Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said earlier this month.
On Thursday, the European Court of Justice�s advocate general, Juliane Kokott, handed down a non-binding legal opinion that criticized Spanish legal rules regarding evictions, saying they were incompatible with European norms, according to Spanish media reports.
The ruling came in response to a query from a Spanish court on a 2011 lawsuit over an eviction due to an unpaid mortgage. Kokott said the Spanish system did not sufficiently protect consumers against possible abusive clauses in mortgage contracts.
An improvement in the property market is not expected anytime soon. The government predicts Spain�s economy, which is now in recession, will not grow until 2014. Unemployment is at a staggering rate of 25 percent.


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MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday.
A male nurse had to help the man previously identified as Jose Ivan down the gangplank of a police patrol boat after a 22-hour trip from the remote coral atoll where he washed ashore last week after apparently setting sail from Mexico on December 24, 2012.
About 1,000 curious onlookers crowded the dock for a glimpse of the long-haired fisherman, who smiled and waved briefly before he was whisked away for a medical check-up at Majuro Hospital.
The castaway told US ambassador Thomas Armbruster, who was acting as an interpreter for Marshall Islands authorities, that he was originally from El Salvador but had been living in Mexico for 15 years before his epic voyage.
"He said he is a shrimp and shark fisherman," Armbruster said Monday in Majuro minutes after talking to him. "He looked better than one would expect."
And foreign ministry officials said he told them during a debriefing that he was a 37-year-old whose full name was Jose Salvador Albarengo.
He said he lived in Tapachula, near the Mexican border with Guatemala, and worked for a company named Camoronera Dela Costa.
Albarengo said he was on a shark-fishing expedition with a youth named Xiquel when strong winds blew them off course and they became lost.
Albarengo said the boy, described as 15- to 18-years old, died a few weeks into the ordeal because he could not eat raw bird meat.
The surviving fisherman was found disorientated and clad only in ragged underpants last Thursday, after his 24-foot (7.3-metre) fibreglass boat floated onto a reef at Ebon Atoll, the southernmost cluster of coral islands in the Marshalls.
Unable to speak English, he communicated to his rescuers through pictures and gestures that he had survived the 12,500 kilometre (8,000 mile) odyssey by eating turtles, birds and fish and drinking turtle blood when there was no rain.
Marshall Islands immigration chief Damien Jacklick said authorities were still gathering information and the foreign affairs department planned to contact overseas officials to arrange his repatriation.
"With the help of the US ambassador, we were able to obtain information on his family members in El Salvador and the United States," he told AFP. "We hope this information will help us track down his family."
Medics plan to give Albarengo a thorough check before he is interviewed by detectives.
He spoke briefly to a Spanish interpreter via a faltering radio link over the weekend while still at Ebon Atoll and said he was keen to return home.
"I feel bad," he said of his physical and mental state. "I am so far away. I don't know where I am or what happened."
Stories of survival in the vast Pacific are not uncommon.
In 2006 three Mexicans made international headlines when they were discovered drifting, also in a small fibreglass boat near the Marshall Islands, nine months after setting out on a shark-fishing expedition.
They survived on a diet of rainwater, raw fish and seabirds, with their hopes kept alive by reading the Bible.
Castaways from Kiribati, to the south, frequently find land in the Marshall Islands after ordeals of weeks or months at sea in small boats.


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Steve Rahaman is back with yet another riveting take on the human condition in his latest film To Be King. Rahaman delivers a script well executed by his actors, which portrays the lengths a father will take to lead an exemplary life for his child, defying all odds and breaking the mold of a man trapped in the "street" life.
This story is much more involving than his previous films as it brings together the values of family loyalty, redemption and determination. Nigel Harvey delivers a heartfelt performance as up and coming boxer Tyrone King. His character faces obstacles both in and out of the ring and is pushed to the limits as he struggles to escape the shadows of his father's legacy in order to create his own path.
Miriam Morales gives a breakthrough performance in her first full length film capturing the audience as Sharon Stills, the mother of King's daughter. Not only is she believable but her performance is also flawless, authentic and is worthy of praise.
Kamel Goffin, who plays Wesley King, Tyrone's younger brother, gives a genuine portrait of a young man struggling to break free of the life of crime he is subjected to. Viewers keep a look out, Goffin's capacity as an actor is sure to transform him from supporting to leading actor.
Frank Merlino and Tommy Clohessy, who have worked both together and with Rahaman in the past, unite once again to play the roles of King's trainer and promoter. This film pushes Merlino's abilities as an actor and gives him a chance to stand in the spotlight. His role as Uncle Frank provides a platform for Merlino to showcase his talents and in doing so, Merlino shines.
Clohessy, who is a natural, steals each of his scenes as the corrupt promoter Jimmy O'Reilly and as expected performed brilliantly.
Clarissa Martinez, the social service worker, played by Rosie Moss and Nya Harvey, who is Harvey's real life daughter and plays the role of King's daughter in the movie, adds to the dimension of the film and King's character as the audience sees a softer, loving side of the boxer. Both Moss and the young Harvey performed with grace and sincerity.
To Be King is more than just a boxing film. It is film about loyalty, love and liberation. Rahaman manages to bring the story to life with the use of powerful, gripping dialog and a plot that is conducive to his works. His growth as a director is evident with each new film and is an indicator of what is to be expected of him as a director in this industry. The story flows well throughout the film and leaves audiences with a sense of triumph and hope. This is definitely one of, if not Rahaman's best works thus far.
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Then in the library last week I came across Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (Harper Collins, 2007). Conjured up by Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley, two writers at Alternative Press magazine, Everybody Hurts features observations on fashion, the Internet, music, movies, books, and even eating habits in teaching readers "what it means to be emo in the present tense."
Simon and Kelley line up a formidable array of zest and humor in describing different facets of emo. Everybody Hurts offers pages of emo fashions, ranging from Frat Emo to Christian Emo to Trustafarrian Emo. The "Emo Hair Guide" offers illustrated examples of hair styles ranging from "The Reverse Faux-Hawk" and the "Hasidic" for boys to "The Zelda" and "The Side Mullet" for girls. (Simon and Kelley use the terms "boys" and "girls," which seems to say that emo lacks an "in your face" feminist side.)
Included in Everybody Hurts are reviews of emo Web sites, blogs, and online communities like myspace.com and friendster.com. There are reviews of movies that appeal especially to the emo crowd: "Amelie," Will Farrell's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Edward Scissorhands," "The Royal Tenenbaums", and a dozen other films.
Since emo is often associated with music, Simon and Kelley offer numerous reviews. Here your reviewer is too ignorant to comment except to say that he was pleased that emo musicians often favor literature as a good source for the names of their bands and songs (Hawthorne Heights, As I Lay Dying, and Gatsbys (sic) American Dream are just a few of these bands).
Simon and Kelley also move beyond the media to look at emo eating habits and emo restaurants and clubs around the country. They even include a check list for aging emos so that they'll know when they've moved into adulthood.
Despite all this information about the emo life, however, Simon and Kelley have trouble defining an emo. They come closest perhaps when they write that emo is still a kind of music, sure, but more than anything, it's a state of mind. It's a place where people who don't fit in — but who long to fit in with other people who don't fit in — come to find solace, and its resident ideology is something that those within the scene take very seriously.
They go on to describe core emo values: depression, empathy, faith (a belief in carrying on rather than a religious faith), non-athleticism, and effortlessness. They label Jane Eyre, Holden Caulfield, Buddy Holly, and Dobie Gillis as examples of historical and fictional characters who might fit the emo scene today. Also providing evidence of emoism are people who love some combination of Red Bull Energy Drinks, iPods, and a fondness for Japanese cars.
Since it is apparently impossible to define emo as we might define a Methodist or a Rotarian, Simon and Kelley have elected to paint an impressionistic portrait of an emo. They do a fine job with their verbal brushes, and we are indeed left with a vision of what emo is.
It's difficult to believe that emo will have a shelf life much longer than this book. Movements this vague tend to fade away. What will probably occur with emo is that the movement will eventually blend into another movement, enfold itself, and become quietly absorbed in the culture as have some other fads from the past. Everybody Hurts may serve less as a guide to emo than as a gravestone.
Sometimes a book we love is like the seventh-grader we had a crush on so long ago. The passion at the time was intense — our beloved's every words, every glance, every move became topics of vital interest to us. Then we moved away and lost sight of each other, and our memory dims until finally this vision is all but extinguished.
And then something happens — a chance encounter, a dream, a wisp of memory soft as breeze in summer, and we feel the old emotions come alive like banked coals suddenly ablaze.
The language here is probably too strong for my feelings toward a book, yet when I saw The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. I (Picador, 2006) sitting on a library shelf, all the excitement that I'd felt on first reading a collection of Paris Review interviews jumped to life. Here were some of the interviews I had pondered so deeply back when I was in my early 20s, the words of Hemingway and Eliot, Vonnegut and Bellow, West and Didion back when all of writing and writers were still so fresh and lovely to me.
I checked out the volume, of course, and brought it home and poured a drink and opened the book. I didn't quite know what to expect. Many of the interviews and writers are the same that I had read 30 years ago, but I myself had changed. I wondered how the writing and the interviews would seem to me, whether my early love of this series and I had grown apart, whether the romance had died.
I am delighted to report that the spark was still there, that if anything my love for these interviews had deepened over the years. Here was Rebecca West, still acerbic as ever, only now I could laugh with her rather than take her too seriously. Here was Papa, still so intense, still wanting to meet all challengers, and yet more gentle than I remembered, more generous toward some writers, more willing to admit how much he was influenced by them and by painters. Here is the fine interview of editor Robert Gottlieb in which his clients, his writers, remind us what once constituted a great editor in our country and why we need to have those editors back again.
If you're new to the Paris Review interviews, this is a wonderful way to meet your favorite authors. If you've already read the interviews, let me recommend this volume anyway. Like me, maybe you'll find that an old flame hasn't lost all its fire.


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Just listened to and interview on Talk of the Nation Oksana Marafioti, the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir. It really sounds like a fascinating book. Check it out.
From Goodreads.com:
What little Oksana and her sister, Roxy, know of the United States they've learned from MTV, subcategory George Michael. It doesn't quite prepare them for the challenges of immigration. Why are the glamorous Kraft Singles individually wrapped? Are the little soaps in the motels really free? How do you protect your nice new boyfriend from your opinionated father, who wants you to marry decently, within the clan?
In this affecting, hilarious memoir, Marafioti cracks open the secretive world of the Roma and brings the absurdities, miscommunications, and unpredictable victories of the immigrant experience to life. With unsentimentally perfect pitch, American Gypsy reveals how Marafioti adjusted to her new life in America, one slice of processed cheese at a time.


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- For other uses, see Overlord (disambiguation).
Overlord Wyrmthalak is the overlord and taskmaster of the lesser city of the Blackrock citadel. He receives his commands from General Drakkisath.
- Cleave- Inflicts 110% of normal melee damage to an enemy and its nearest allies, affecting up to 3 targets in a 180 degree arc.
- Demoralizing Shout- Reduces the melee attack power of nearby enemies for 30 sec.
- Sweeping Slam- Inflicts normal damage plus 50 to enemies in a cone in front of the caster, knocking them back.
Wyrmthalak is a relatively simple fight. He performs a knockback so it is best to tank him against the wall behind him. Melee DPS should stand behind Wyrmthalak to avoid the Cleave and Slam abilities. When he reaches around 50% health, two random choices of a Spirestone Warlord, Smolderthorn Berserker, or Bloodaxe Veteran will run up the ramp to assist him. They will need to be controlled or off-tanked to prevent them from attacking casters.
If you can kill Wyrmthalak fast enough, move back to the wall behind where Wyrmthalak was initially standing. The two mobs that show up to help, which if Wyrmthalak is already dead, will just stand there and do nothing and you won't aggro them.
Wyrmthalak is soloable with most level 70 classes.
- [60D] Maxwell's Mission
- [60D] Warlord's Command
- [60D] Seal of Ascension
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| 2.7°C Belfast
A former top headteacher has been banned for life from the classroom for spending thousands of pounds of public money on personal expenses such as a 50th birthday party, taxis and mobile phone bills.
Joanna Shuter, who was once hailed as one of the best heads in the country, was found guilty of "unacceptable professional conduct" while working at Quintin Kynaston School in north London.
In a judgment published today, a professional conduct panel recommended that Ms Shuter be handed a prohibition order banning her from teaching indefinitely. It also said she should not be allowed to apply for order to be lifted at a later date.
The recommendation was approved by a senior Department for Education official on behalf on the Education Secretary.
In its decision, the panel said that while Ms Shuter - who was named Headteacher of the Year in 2007 and awarded a CBE - had been a "force for good" in many respects, she had made numerous expenses claims over a significant period of time for personal gain and her conduct should be treated with the "utmost seriousness".
The judgment found that Ms Shuter used £6,292.90 of school funds to pay for her 50th birthday party in 2011, claimed £5,855.67 for taxis that were not related to school business and bought furniture worth around £1,500 which was delivered to her home address.
It also found that she charged the school £8,269 for a hotel stay for the senior leadership team and spent money on mobile phones including contracts for herself, her son and her daughter.
Ms Shuter admitted the allegations, the judgment says.
She also admitted taking on paid work for speaking at conferences and consultancy during term time and instructing her personal assistant to carry out non-school related tasks such as organising her consultancy and public speaking engagements, booking flights for her family and arranging the rental of her holiday home.
In its recommendation, the panel said: "In light of the panel's findings against Ms Shuter, which involved making numerous and extensive expenses claims in respect of public money, over a significant period of time for personal gain, there is a strong public interest consideration in maintaining public confidence in the profession.
"This is particularly so in Ms Shuter's case, in light of her high national profile as an influential figure in the education world and public recognition as Headteacher of the Y ear and her receipt of a CBE. This high profile increases the risk of public confidence in the profession being undermined.
"The Panel is also of the view that in the climate of recent years, the public interest in maintaining public confidence in the management of public finances, including ensuring that expenses claims against public funds are appropriate, is particularly strong.
"Accordingly, the Panel considers that public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if conduct such as that found against Ms Shuter were not treated with the utmost seriousness when regulating the conduct of the profession."
It added that while Ms Shuter had admitted her wrongdoing she had also showed "a lack of insight into the severity and impact of her behaviours".
The document says that in respect of the birthday party, Ms Shuter set up separate accounting for them but failed to reimburse the school until she repaid £5,906.98 in April 2012 - more than a year after receiving an invoice for it.
Ms Shuter resigned from Quintin Kynaston, an academy school, in May last year.
Andrew Christie, executive director of children's services at Westminster City Council, said: "We referred this case to the National College for Teaching and Leadership, as the highest professional body, for an independent review and to determine if further action could or should be taken.
"We expect very high standards from teachers and headteachers in Westminster. We also believe we have a duty to help maintain these standards across the teaching profession as a whole, and will always do what we can to uphold these standards."


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Japan's Oki has developed an office chair that, it claims, can jump. And we thought all they were good for is spinning around and skating along on the casters.
Oki's chair, curiously codenamed 'Leopard', employs what the company's boffins call a "robot leg", with the bit for your bum equivalent to the thigh. The calf, ankle and foot form the stand on which the seat rests.
Oki's 'Leopard': the leaping chair
Oki's pitch is that the design makes the contraption actively help you stand up and makes sitting down more comfortable too. Empty, the chair's seat is angled upward so you don't have to bend down as far as you would with a standard chair. As you descend, the seat and back move in harmony with your own seat and back.
Standing up or sitting down, help is at haunch
The robotic leg follows the movement of the user's own limbs as he or she gets up, propelling the posterior with its spring-made muscles.
Oki's original robot leg: yes it can jump, but it's not likely to win an arse-kicking contest
The chair - ahem - springs from Oki's work on robotics, specifically the development of a robot leg with an artificial musculature that mimics a human's leg muscles. Oki's leg can not only jump on its own but land without falling over.
Oki's original artificial leg could be kitted out with motors and was capable of jumping. Alas, the company hasn't seen fit to equip Leopard with said engineering - though the codename suggests its boffins originally considered it.
Maybe they'll relent, and add a suitable method of propulsion when the chair goes on sale in May 2009.


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The AX_C_COMPILE_VALUE macro determines a compile time value by generating the object code and reading the value from the code. Static data initializers like sizeof(int) are unavailable to preprocessor. The macro calculates the values known to compiler's static initializer.
Assumptions: The sought value should not exceed 65535. The shell interpreter and the sed utility are expected to exist and work similarly across possible build platforms.
Result: The resulting configure script will generate the preprocessor symbol definition:
#define COMPILE_VALUE_<ALIAS> <NUMBER>
It was important that the value was embedded into the object file in a predefined byte order during the test. This ensured that the result was independent from the target platform's byte order.
The existing AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro also computes the size of the given type without running the test program. However, the existing macro will produce a piece of configure script that will take the time proportional to the logarithm of the sought value.
Example of use in configure.in:
AX_C_COMPILE_VALUE(sizeof(int), sizeof_int) AX_C_COMPILE_VALUE([sizeof(int[[543]])], sizeof_int543)
As a result of running the generated configure script, the following definition will appear in config.h:
#define COMPILE_VALUE_SIZEOF_INT 4 #define COMPILE_VALUE_SIZEOF_INT543 2172
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The popularity of Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes, and Turnovers hasn't waned, but the quilts made from them have begun to a look a lot alike until now! Kimberly Einmo, rising star international instructor and AQS author of Jelly Roll Quilts & More (2010), introduces an entirely new design sense in this book, which really is a magical approach to using precuts. She also introduces a 'shopping list' concept to make prepping for sewing a snap. More time for creating, sewing, and quilting! 13 colorful projects give readers the opportunity to grasp her vision, and she provides block options for true originality. Last but not least, Kimberly experimented using precuts in a Round Robin exchange with international quilting friends. The idea and the results are amazing. This book will fuel quilt guild projects and challenges for years to come.
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"Must Have" book for any quilter that enjoys or wants to learn to create spectacular quilts using Jelly Rolls, as well as those that are familiar with creating such quilts but would like to create more spectacular quilts. The 12 designs in this book have easy to follow instructions and great visuals. Each design is worth the cost of this book alone. Great value.
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- Having quilting books is like having a personal class in your home, and it's always a bonus when the instructor has a sense of humor, and perhaps even a magician's hat. Kimberly Einmo's personality shines through in her book as she introduces a new approach to jelly roll designs. From cutting instructions in "shopping list" form to basic unit construction, these patterns assemble in a flash. And, even better, they don't have that common "jelly roll" look to them. As her final trick, Kimberly offers up two galleries one of "Quilted Bitlets," made from each project's leftovers, and the other of jelly roll round-robin quilts. --"Quilt Almanac 2012", page 87. (Posted on 4/18/12)
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The Orioles will likely officially announce they've resigned outfielder Nate McLouth to a one-year deal today, assuming everything goes well with his physical.
And now that McLouth is back in the fold, one major question is whether he would return to the leadoff spot where he flourished for the last month of the season after Nick Markakis went down with a broken left thumb.
Needless to say, McLouth's production out of the leadoff spot played a pivotal role in getting the Orioles to the postseason, and once the O's made the playoffs, McLouth was arguably the team's best hitter.
But all things being equal, Markakis seems to be the better fit. Here's a look at how each returning Orioles leadoff man fared last season. Endy Chavez and Robert Andino also started games from the leadoff spot but aren't returning. Xavier Avery also started at leadoff for 15 games last season, but all signs point to Avery beginning the season in Triple-A.
Nick Markakis (33-21 record in 54 starts) .335/.390/.420, 15 2B, 5 HR, 28 RBI, 20/14 walk-to-strikeouts, 0 stolen bases
Nate McLouth (15-8 record in 23 starts) .263/.342/.455, 4 2B, 5 HR, 6 RBI, 11/22 walk-to-strikeouts, 6-for-6 stolen bases
Nolan Reimold (8-6 record in 14 starts) .308/.328/.631, 6 2B, 5 HR, 10 RBI, 2/13 walk-to-strikeouts, 1-for-1 stolen bases
Brian Roberts (7-10 record in 17 starts) .182/.233/.182, 0 2B, 0 HR, 5 RBI, 1/3 walk-to-strikeout, 1-for-2 stolen bases
Ryan Flaherty (3-0 record in 3 starts) .154/.154/.385, 0 2B, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 0/6 walk-to-strikeout, 0 stolen bases
While McLouth hit five of his six regular-season homers from the leadoff spot and was 6-for-6 in stolen base attempts, Markakis was just a completely different hitter from the leadoff spot. He's not your prototypical leadoff man because he doesn't steal bases, but Markakis is a solid baserunner.
He recorded a .335/.390/.420 line from atop the order while hitting just .256/.333/.452 from the No. 3 spot. Markakis was a doubles machine and would have projected to hit 45 doubles over a full season in the leadoff spot. Of all the impressive stats, his .390 on-base percentage, highlighted by 20 walks and just 14 strikeouts, says that he fits the role better than McLouth.
Before replacing Markakis in the leadoff spot, McLouth received most of his starts at the No. 3 spot, where he hit .244/.305/.360 in 22 starts there. But a better fit might be seventh in the order, where he recorded a .353/.436/.529 line in nine starts.
Earlier this week, Markakis said it didn't matter to him where he hit in the order.
"It is what it is," Markakis said. "Wherever he wants to put me in the lineup, that's where I'm going to be. I'm not going to complain or moan about being somewhere in the lineup. Buck's going to put me where he thinks I'm going to help this team the best and that's what I'm going to look forward to and that's the mind set I'm going to have."
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I saw that Mint 13 and LMDE (as well as the Debians don't show fortunes automatically by default). Who wants to stare at a boring old terminal screen?
Have some fun with fortunes! Have some more fun with cowsay and the numerous creatures available! Have one or have em all!
It's really easy too; all you need to do is edit your .bashrc in your home folder (it's hidden, press Ctrl+H to see hidden files and folders) and add one line of code to it.
If you don't know what fortune is, it's basically a program that shows random quotes, fortunes, and sayings--many from famous authors, many from well respected Linux users (like Husse for example), and some from anonymous users. If you don't already have fortune installed, the command to install it is:
Cowsay is another simple and fun program. What it does is it takes the input of whatever you (or another program inputs), and outputs it as a creature who responds with a "thought bubble." Some of my favorites are dragon, tux, elephant, tortoise, duck, and rabbit. There are over 40 different creatures available in the default package (you have the option of adding more). If you don't have cowsay installed by default, the command to install it is:
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sudo apt-get install fortune-mod
Now that you have the required programs installed (or already HAD them installed), here is the tutorial:
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sudo apt-get install cowsay
Option 1: Automatic fortunes + cowsay
This option will automatically display a fortune ALONG with a random cowsay creature whenever you open a terminal.
First: Open a terminal
Second: Paste this in the terminal. Hit enter and you're done. Close the terminal, reopen it and voila! (Read the explanation if you want to know how the command works).
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echo 'cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1) $(fortune)' | tee -a /home/$USER/.bashrc
Now, here is the explanation. The "cowsay -f" option allows a person to choose a creature to say the thought (in this case I made it random);
the "ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/" lists all the .cow files (which contain the creatures) and the list is handed over to "shuf" which obviously shuffles or randomizes them;
the "fortune" bit is the actual fortune that is outputted via the random animal; the "tee -a" takes the output of what "echo" echoed and adds it at the end of a file (over here, that is .bashrc). You COULD use gedit (pluma) or leafpad to edit the .bashrc file, but I'm to lazy to do that
Option 2: Automatic fortunes ONLY
Paste the following line in a terminal and press enter. Close the terminal, reopen it again, and ta-daaa! (Not much to explain here. Read the explanation above).
Option 3: On-demand fortunes + cowsay
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echo 'fortune' |tee -a /home/$USER/.bashrc
This is a good idea if you're not bored all the time, but when you are bored, you can call the cows and other creatures on demand to entertain you.
Paste the following line in a terminal and press enter. Close the terminal, reopen it. (Note: for the alias, the command should NOT be "fortune" as it is already used).
To call on the cowsay-fortune combo, just type in "fortunes" in the terminal. Enjoy!
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echo alias fortunes=\''cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | shuf -n1) $(fortune)'\' | tee -a /home/$USER/.bashrc
Explanation. The "alias" acts like a placeholder so when you issue your custom command, it will execute whatever you set that alias to.
Now whenever you want to call on the animals and fortunes, type in "fortunes" in the terminal and press enter! That's it!
Wikipedia can explain more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_%28command%29
Thanks for looking at my tutorial! I hope you've enjoyed it as much as the funny quotes and awesome animals!
That concludes my tutorial. If you have any suggestions, or if any of the commands fail to work, do let me know here...I don't appreciate messages unless its crazy important.
If for some reason you want to remove these commands, you can easily edit the .bashrc file in your home folder using Gedit (Pluma), Geany, Nano, or Leafpad and remove the parts that you don't require. Here's a screenshot of some of the more "interesting" creatures (and things) that I liked:
Tags (ignore this. It's here so the Google bots can find this how-to easily): fortunes-mod, fortunes, cowsay, automatic fortunes, auto fortunes, automatic cowsay, auto cowsay, cowsay and fortune, cowsay with fortune, random cowsay, random fortunes and cowsay.


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I finally tried Ten Tables in Cambridge, an outpost of the original in Jamaica Plain. It's a popular place - the cozy, dimly lit restaurant was completely packed and it wasn't even a weekend night. As with most other restaurants, they serve locally sourced ingredients, but instead of a hip, modern direction, they went with the comfortable, neighborhood feel.
We went with the tasting menu instead of ordering a la carte, which is $55 for 4 courses.
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Much of archaeology, especially in academia, comes down to how you spend your summer vacation. After finishing up the first year of a PhD at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, this summer I've been making the project circuit in Italy and Jordan, the latter as part of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project.
Today was the day off for the team, and met with a slow start after a late night of football and dancing under the stars on the roof of the dig house (aka Club Sayhoun). Day off or no day off, five of us were up early and ready for a six hour hike to Jebel Harun, the grave of Aaron (Arabic: Harun), brother of Moses. And what a hike it was- you can all check out Allison's post detailing just why visiting the tomb has been a pilgrimage for almost two thousand years. To add to her sparkling narrative would hardly do it justice, so instead I'm going to focus on the archaeologists with whom I spent the day hiking to the top of the known Petra world.
Crafty just finished up the fourth year of her PhD at the Joukowsky Institute. She researches pilgrimage sites in central Turkey, so was mixing business and 'pleasure' in hiking up what seemed like 10000m in 30+ degree desert sun. She's also been a great friend in my first year at Brown in showing me both the school and the city, and will be sorely missed this coming year as she lives in Istanbul with a fellowship at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations.
I just met Andrew this year at Petra, where he's working for the first time after finishing his MA at the University of Colorado Boulder. In the last week I've already discovered he has a wicked sense of humour and, after today, I also know the man is a beast when it comes to an intense hike. I'm sure there must be some goat blood in his family tree somewhere.
Linda is another Brown student, so I've had the chance to get to know her pretty well in the last year. Aside from a shared love of dance (NB- she can actually dance, and I cannot), and a mutual hope for a Spain win against Italy on Sunday, we've also spent the last year in classes and brushing up on Latin to varying degrees of success. If I wanted to embarrass us both, I'd post the video of us re-enacting the opening scenes of the Lion King on the mountain today. I think this time discretion is the better part of valor.
Allison is another person I've had the good fortune to meet this season at Petra, and has just finished up her first year of a PhD at Stanford. We've already had some great chats about communicating archaeology to the public. I don't know how she made it up the mountain after a serious bout of sickness yesterday, but after some strategic shady stops, a lot of water, and even more stairs we emerged victorious to greet the others and have some lunch.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion of archaeology focusses on the archaeology itself- on the site, the materials, the landscape, the archive, the publication. But at least to me, the personal interactions on days like today leave a more lasting impression. Meeting and developing friendships with these people- the archaeologists, my peers- is the thing that is ultimately the most rewarding aspect of a career in archaeology. I'm looking forward to similar days of archaeological pilgrimage, both in the rest of my season with BUPAP and in the future.


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In just seven weeks' time, Joe Soto will challenge for the Tachi Palace Fights featherweight title and then drop a weight class to compete in a season-five Bellator Fighting Championships bantamweight tournament.
It's a ballsy quest, especially considering Soto's yearlong layoff.
It's even gutsier when you consider that Soto's career was nearly cut short by an eye injury that forced surgery and two grueling months of recovery.
Soto, 24, was one of Bellator's first champions. He earn the title by winning the season-one featherweight tournament, which ultimately set up a title fight with season-two tourney victor Joe Warren.
Soto entered the fight undefeated with a 9-0 record (and eight stoppages). But Warren, a world champion Greco-Roman wrestler, tagged him with a knee to the head that set up a TKO victory at Bellator 27. The September 2010 defeat was stinging in more way than one. In addition to blemishing his once-spotless record, Soto soon developed problems with his eyesight.
"A couple weeks later, I started seeing black spots," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I went to the doctor, and they said, 'You'll need to have emergency surgery tomorrow.'"
Soto, it turns out, tore his retina, and when looking out the corner of his eye, all he saw was darkness. It was a punch to the gut, but the surgery proved successful.
Still, it wasn't exactly an easy recovery.
"After the surgery, what they do is inject a gas bubble in the eye," he said. "It seems like there's water in there, and then if you shake your head, it's like there's water moving around inside your eye. But it's a gas bubble actually. It kind of stops you from seeing real well. It's just real blurry. It's like you're looking through water and glass. That was the worst part.
"But it started going down little by little. It was like halfway at one point, and then it went away, and I started seeing better."
But that was a two-month process, and along the way, he got simple but frustratingly annoying instructions for the first two weeks: "Don't lift your head."
"The worst part about it was for two weeks after the surgery … they make you keep your head down," he said. "I'm walking around with my head down, going to sleep face first.
"It sucks. Your neck starts cramping. You can't really do anything. You can't look at anyone you're talking to. You can't watch TV. It's pretty miserable."
Back in May, though, doctors gave Soto clearance to continue. Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney was equally ecstatic.
"We're so happy he's back," Rebney said at the time. "He started the whole thing out. He was the first champion we ever crowned."
But rather than easing into competition, Soto is going full throttle. At Friday's Tachi Palace Fights 10 event in Lemoore, Calif., Soto (9-1) challenges dangerous Eddie Yagin (13-4-1) for the organization's vacant featherweight title.
Seven weeks later, he drops a weight class and enters Bellator's season-five bantamweight tournament, which includes Warren, who delivered Soto his first loss and put him on the sidelines with the eye injury.
"He's part of the reason I wanted to drop down," said Soto, who helps kick off the eight-man tourney at Bellator 51 on Sept. 24. "Plus, it was the first tournament I could sign up for. I wanted to get busy right away, and I want to get that rematch."
Soto meets Eduardo Dantas (10-2) in his opening-round matchup, and Warren (7-1) takes on Alexis Vila (9-0). If both are victorious, though, Soto and Warren could meet in the semifinals or finale this fall.
"It's going to be a challenge, but it's something I want to do," Soto of his two upcoming fights.
But for now, he can't look ahead to either Dantas or Warren. The Sept. 24 event isn't even really on his radar. Instead, he has his surgically repaired sights only on Yagin.
"You focus on one fighter at a time," he said. "I'm only worrying about this guy now."
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Moments before yesterday's review of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One went live, I received a message from Insomniac Games via Twitter. It said, "We will still love you, though you realize as a dev it's terrifying knowing Jim S's wit/snark/hate is about to crash down on us."
So yeah, that made me feel bad.
It's a common misconception that reviewers love to give negative reviews. Perhaps the sociopathic ones do. The rest of us are gamers, and it gives us no joy at Destructoid to have a bad time with a game and then write about it, especially with the rage that follows from both gamers and developers.
Except in this case, the anger came from only one of those sources and it wasn't Insomniac, a studio that may well be the classiest developer in the whole bloody industry.
After the review went live, I came to learn that I had just awarded Insomniac Games the lowest review score in its 17-year, 15-game history. The review is also the lowest-scoring non-port Ratchet & Clank review of all time. It's not a record I'm exactly thrilled about, but there it is. However, rather than get angry or upset, the message I received from Insomniac was one of dignified acceptance.
"It's bound to happen at some point," said the studio during our exchange. "No hard feelings. You backed up [the] score with your thoughts."
By no means is this an endorsement of the review by Insomniac. Nobody likes getting slammed by the critics, and Insomniac is certainly not pleased with what I wrote. Did it get upset, demand a rewrite, or complain about the score? I received nothing of the sort. Not from Insomniac, nor from Sony -- a publisher that has always treated me with respect and friendliness, despite the litany of criticisms I've written about the company before (and still stand by, I might add).
Insomniac Games has been one of my favorite developers for a long time. I've long admired the way it respects its workforce and I love its ability to craft truly endearing characters. It's unpleasant taking a dump on someone's hard work at the best of times, but when it's a studio you truly value, it's all the worse. Nothing's worse than souring a relationship with people you like.
Recently, we had Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski whine about 8/10 reviews for Gears of War 3, claiming to be "upset" by criticisms and implications that Gears of War 2 might have been slightly better. He is another developer I've always liked, but he now refuses to talk to me, ever since I asked him to justify his Gears 3 outrage. When I see that kind of behavior over a positive, very high review score and contrast it with the dignified, adult response from Insomniac, I am astounded. One side is cheapening the entire idea of a review system and encouraging melodramatic fanboy backlash, while the other -- in my opinion -- reacted with the professional responsibility that so many more studios need to adopt.
We have the same problem with gamers themselves. I've received a few hateful messages from people furious over the 8.5/10 score I gave Batman: Arkham City, and there are communities almost obsessed with crying over our critiques. Yet while the members of N4G and GameFAQs go on the attack within seconds of any of our reviews going live, looking to undermine our writing and whip themselves up into a childish frenzy of emotional convulsion, it's cheering to know that people who have a better right to be angry than anybody else can take criticism on the chin and move forward with their lives.
As someone who has received phone calls and emails from all manner of folk upset by my reviews, I can't tell you what it means to me on a personal level to have such polite discourse and understanding from a developer who really had no impetus to be polite at all. If more developers had the grounded grace of Insomniac, this would easily be the best industry in the world.
Insomniac Games' attitude should serve as an example to everybody working in videogames and ought to shame many of those same people.


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Middlebury downs Plattsburgh in non-conference tuneup
Panthers comeback effort snaps five-game losing skid
Middlebury broke a five-game skid with a 5-3 road win at Plattsburgh State (6-15). Five Cardinal errors coupled with some timely offensive production by the Panthers (4-10) helped lead Middlebury to the win at Chip Cummings Field on Tuesday afternoon. Middlebury returns to action with a three-game set at Hamilton on Friday and Saturday.
Plattsburgh State put the first run on the board when designated hitter Tommy Verdino reached on a throwing error by Middlebury first baseman Joe McDonald. That mistake allowed Brian Latulipe to come all the way around from second base to provide a two-out run and make matters 1-0 Cardinals.
Middlebury got to Plattsburgh State starter Scott Orr early on as well, knotting matters at one on a two-out RBI single by Andrew Lind. The hit plated Tom Rafferty who led off the top of the second with a single of his own.
Although they eventually regained the lead in the fourth, it looked as though the Cardinals were poised to do so sooner. Ben Weightman crushed a one-out triple to deep center field in the bottom of the second, but Middlebury hurler Sawyer Olson registered two of his seven strikeouts to end the Plattsburgh State threat.
An additional pair of Middlebury errors allowed the Cardinals to break the 1-1 deadlock in the bottom of the fourth. Verdino was gunned down on strikes, but wound up making it all the way to second after a throw from Lind sailed over the head of McDonald.
Weightman brought Verdino in after he reached on a fielding mistake by Tom Rafferty before the Cardinals netted yet another run in the fifth. The only earned scored by Plattsburgh State came after Luke Weaver reached on a perfectly placed bunt to lead off the frame.
From there, Nick Lupo smacked a single through the right side of the infield, advancing Weaver to third. Lupo tried to advance to second on the throw, but was caught in a hang-up by the Middlebury infield. While Lupo was trying to get out of his jam, Weaver broke for home, scoring easily.
Looking to close things up Colin Crawford came out from the Plattsburgh State bullpen, only to have his defense falter. The Panthers were able to tack on one run in the seventh and yet another in the eighth to tie things at 3-3.
After registering a pair of quick outs in the top of the ninth, Crawford issued back-to-back walks before base hits by Alex Kelly and Kyle Finck plated the only two earned runs of the day for Middlebury and accounted for the final score.
Plattsburgh State struck out 11 times as team, allowing reliever Noah Bakker Noah Bakker threw four innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. Crawford (0-3) was hit with the loss. Lupo went 3-4 with an RBI and a walk to lead the Cardinals while no went 2-4 to pace Middlebury.
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| 2°C Belfast
The Scottish independence referendum campaign enters its final stage today with just four weeks to go until the fate of the nation is revealed.
MSPs met at Holyrood for the last time before the referendum yesterday, clearing the decks for the last stretch of the campaign beginning with speeches by key figures from both campaigns.
Scottish singing duo The Proclaimers will join Yes Scotland chief executive Blair Jenkins in Edinburgh this morning, promising "an important campaign announcement".
Former prime minister Gordon Brown will join Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont to make the case for a No vote in Glasgow.
Meanwhile, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander will join Scottish Labour deputy leader Anas Sarwar argue for keeping the UK together at a mosque in Pollockshields.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie will begin the final leg of his party's campaign to keep Scotland in the union with a visit to St Andrews in Fife.
SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon opened today's campaigning with a message for pensioners, insisting Mr Brown must explain why he is "backing Tory plans to cut payments for pensioners across Scotland".
She said: "When he was the prime minister, Gordon Brown backed a much slower increase in the state pension age, but now the Labour party has joined the Tories in plans to increase the state pension age to 67 from 2026.
"This decision is unfair to men and women across Scotland and will mean that Scottish pensioners continue to lose on average £10,000 compared to pensioners in the rest of the UK.
"The decision to follow the Tory lead and abolish savings credit is a direct hit on poorer pensioners who have saved for their retirement.
"This is a particularly mean spirited decision and Labour should be ashamed that they have signed up with the Tories on this cut.
"Similarly the decision not to increase pension credit in line with the triple-lock is a blow to poorer pensioners.
"Labour and the Tories are singing from the same hymn sheet on pension cuts and it is only a Yes vote that will protect pensioners in future from these cuts.
"Scotland is a rich country which can well afford to fund our pension payments and an independent Scotland will give pensions and pensioners the priority they deserve."
A Better Together spokesman said: "Despite Nicola Sturgeon's bluster, the reality is that independence would put the hard earned pensions of Scots at risk.
"The impartial experts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have made clear that a separate Scotland would need to make extra cuts worth £6 billion to things like pensions in the first few years after independence. That's a risk we don't have to take.
"Pooling and sharing our resources across an economy of more than 63 million people in the UK, rather than just five million people in Scotland, secures the pensions of Scots. We should say no thanks to putting that at risk with independence."
Mr Rennie will set out his arguments for a No vote in the referendum, stating the country benefits from shaping its own agenda in the Scottish Parliament while ''sharing risk and reward across the broad UK shoulders''.
He will then join activists as they hit the streets of the town as part of Scottish Liberal Democrat canvassing events spanning the country from Shetland to the Borders.
Mr Rennie is expected to say: ''I can think of no better way to kick off our final leg of campaigning than in St Andrews, home to the third oldest university in the English-speaking world, the University of St Andrews.
''It is one of the many reasons that I am proud to be a Fifer. It is one of many why I am proud to be Scottish.
''It is one of the many reasons I believe that we can and will achieve more as part of the UK family of nations.
''That is the positive case for the best of both worlds that Scottish Liberal Democrats have been making throughout this campaign."
Scotland will go to the polls on September 18, with the result expected to be revealed the following day.


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The Titans will sit with Pats free agent center Dan Koppen at some point this week.
The Titans are scheduled to host Patriots center Dan Koppen on a free agency visit later this week, possibly as early as Wednesday. Koppen, a nine-year pro, finished last season on Injured Reserve after suffering a broken ankle in the season opener. Koppen was drafted in the fifth round of the 2003 draft out of BostonCollege. He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2007. Last month, the Titans entertained centers Scott Wells, Chris Myers and Jeff Saturday in free agency, but all three players signed elsewhere.


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Some homeowners discovering ants everywhere
Mulch in yards could be part of problem
The wet weather this year has been great for gardens but not for those who don't like bugs crawling around their houses.
WeatherWatch 12 meteorologist Luke Sampe explored what you can do to reduce the number of them invading your home
"They came out of nowhere," homeowner Patty Levy said.
Levy is talking about her unwanted home invaders -- ants.
"There were hundreds and hundreds of ants, and I'd come back in an hour, and there were hundreds more," Levy said.
P.J. Winklemann from Advanced Wildlife Control described the quantities of ants finding their way into area homes this year as "absolutely nuts."
"This year, because of the amount of rain that we've had (there's) just an unbelievable amount of ants we've had at people's houses," Winklemann said.
He said by this part of summer, he's usually done filling up his sprayer, which helps to get rid of the colonies around houses, but this July is as busy as April.
Winklemann said the mulch in front of your house could be the prime real estate for an ant problem. It's the moisture in the wood chips that allows the ant colonies to thrive.
So to keep the ant count down at your house, you might want to consider stone or gravel for landscaping.
"I just thought, 'OK, I haven't wiped the counters down enough, I haven't cleaned enough,'" Levy said.
"It's one of those things where ants are just continually going into people's houses," Winklemann said.
"We like to keep them outside," Levy said.
A daily battle waged -- all thanks once again --- to the weather.
Ear wigs, silver fish, wasps and bald faced hornets are also swarming in great numbers right now.


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Adorable Pau(s)
>> Thursday, September 10, 2009
I just have to post this up though it's of no-relevance with food review! It's too adorable to resist! I've tasted the pau(s) & it's actually not too bad! You just have to pay for the novelty - RM1.00/mini pau! Alex & Rao got it from the Taman Universiti's Tuesday evening pasar malam (night market) in Seri Kembangan....
Would you care to get it?
Green rabbit: pandan-flavored lotus paste filling
Pink piggy: red bean paste filling
Orange hedgehog: lotus paste filling
I wanna get the pau(s) for my Kuantan kiddos!!
- Ruth


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| 2.8°C Belfast
Amanda Holden said she was "moments from death" after losing more than 13 litres of blood following the birth of her daughter.
The actress and Britain's Got Talent judge told The Sun Sunday that her heart stopped for 40 seconds and it was "touch and go" whether she lived or died shortly after the birth of baby Hollie.
In a candid interview with the new Sunday tabloid, the 40-year-old said her husband Chris Hughes did not know whether she was alive or dead for seven minutes.
The front page of the new title features an exclusive interview with Holden, the first after the birth of her daughter, which left her in a critical condition in hospital.
The story is headlined "My Heart Stopped For 40 Seconds", and is accompanied by a picture of Holden cradling her daughter Hollie.
The mother-of-two said that shortly after she gave birth to the baby by caesarean section at lunch time on January 23, one week before her due date, she started to haemorrhage.
Her husband was ordered from the room as doctors frantically tried to save her life.
She told the newspaper: "There was a moment where they said I had flatlined for 40 seconds, my heart stopped and I was literally moments from death. It was touch and go. As much blood as they were putting into me was going out. It just would not clot. I lost about 13-15 litres of it all-in-all.
"For seven minutes Chris didn't know if I was alive or dead. They literally ran out of my blood group in London they had them on mopeds coming from everywhere with it."


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Friday was an 87% down day on the NYSE by volume.
The DOW lost 217 points on the day, 572 points top to bottom for 5.3% on the week.
The S&P lost 25 points on the day, 60 points top to bottom for a 5.2% loss after topping at 1,150.
The NDX lost 55 points on the day, 105 points top to bottom for a 5.5% weekly loss, and the RUT performed slightly better.
The major uptrend lines are clearly broken and the topping technical patterns we've seen develop, namely the smaller rising wedge and expanding megaphones, proved prophetic and are now obviously confirmed.
Next week there is a lot of important data coming out with the 4th quarter GDP being the most important. Expectations are north of a trumped up and laughable 4% plus. There will also be the FOMC meeting beginning on Tuesday.
Of course the battle of Bernanke's reconfirmation rages. This is nothing but a distraction from my perspective. The puppet gets played by the puppet masters and the media and people are all confused, worked up, and distracted from the bigger and more important reality. That being that it doesn't matter who is running the Fed, they work for the central banks. Replacing Bernanke won't fix anything, ending the Fed and our debt backed system will. Keep your eye on the debt and the purveyors thereof.
Here are the games being played:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With only a week left before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's term ends, the Senate lacks the 60 votes to force a confirmation vote.
And the White House and Senate leaders are starting to scramble, as more Democratic senators say they plan to vote against giving Bernanke a second term as Fed chief.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. and Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., both said Friday that they plan to vote against Bernanke. Several other Democratic senators told CNN they're undecided.
"It is time for a change -- it is time for Main Street to have a champion at the Fed," Boxer said in a statement. "Dr. Bernanke played a lead role in crafting the Bush administration's economic policies, which led to the current economic crisis. Our next Federal Reserve Chairman must represent a clean break from the failed policies of the past."
But the Senate can't even start the process of considering Bernanke until 60 senators sign off, because a few senators who oppose his confirmation filed official "holds" delaying the process.
The math to 60 -- at this point -- looks bad for Bernanke," wrote Chris Krueger, an analyst for Concept Capital Washington Research Group in a report. "Chaos is reigning on the Hill right now and Democratic members are in severe anxiety over their own re-elections."
Some are really starting to wonder whether Bernanke will be confirmed before Feb. 1. If the vote is delayed, there's a question as to whether Bernanke can be temporarily re-appointed as acting chair. If not, Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn would serve as acting chairman.
Senate leaders were unsure Friday how the votes were going to play out or when they'd start the procedure to force a vote.
Again, this is a distraction, look up and you will see the strings. Look down and you will see our chains being pulled. Darn, those shackles are really beginning to hurt! Oh yeah, we know when our chains are being pulled and you knew it was coming the day of Goldman's record profit announcements (bad cop) that was obviously coordinated with Obama's slap down routine (good cop). Pleeesssse.
Surprise! The market goes down hard. Who could have guessed? Now we have to figure out the next stage of the game, and make no mistake, they are playing games in what has become the world's largest unregulated thug casino.
If you got short on a break of that megaphone, about 1,130ish, congratulations, I hope you were wise enough to take some profits into the close yesterday. The short term stochastics are WAY oversold, a place were we could receive EITHER a rip roaring rally on Monday, or a continuation of downward motion crash style. This is the danger zone – room on the daily stochastic, below the bottom Bollinger, fresh sell signal on the weekly charts, but very oversold short term. Bounce or crash – with this setup there's usually not a lot in-between. All out crash is a very low odds event, but the action looks very bearish and the doorway can get awfully small awfully fast. Hard down on Monday could lead to an intraday reversal, so be careful. Reconfirmation of Bernanke, or at least proceeding forward on a vote would likely be considered bullish, and visa versa.
The DOW is down more than 500 points off the high, remember that the last 3 times we received VIX sell signals that we had selloffs of 1,000 points or more over the course of the next several weeks. Once again that signal was prophetic. In case you are wondering, do not expect a Hindenburg Omen for quite some time. This is due to the fact that stocks are so far off their 52 week lows that it will take a lot of that action to produce new lows. Although I do note that many names have given back sizable chunks already, selloffs are coming on relatively good earnings, another sign of a major top.
I'm noticing that the Elliott Wave people I follow are all in agreement on the short and mid term. It would seem that we are beginning wave C or wave 3 down depending on their primary wave count. Whatever they label the move, they are all expecting a sizable move. Prechter is looking for 1,000ish on the DOW, that would be a giant Zig-Zag. McHugh is looking for the same but is open to a flat type of formation or a Zig-Zag towards zero. And Tony Caldaro is looking for a flat type of formation that would likely double bottom near the March '09 lows. I think it depends on events between here and there, there are still choices to be made and hopefully we can help give a kick in the pants so that those choices are good ones. I am keeping my eye on the debt, that is the tell for progress or lack thereof.
Heading over to the charts, the SPX just rammed through support in the 1,115 area and landed on the next level of support just above 1,090. You can see it's well below the 50dma, well below the bottom Bollinger, and nearing oversold on the daily. Again, the weekly chart just produced a fresh sell signal. The support pivots are right here at 1,090, and then not again until 961 where there is a massive volume void, an area that may draw prices towards it if the heavy support is broken in the 1,080ish and just below area. That 1,080ish area is the next key location:
On the SPY you can see the same detail but note the volume. Much higher and confirmatory volume. What is different about this descent is that the first volume spike was followed up by the second. That has not happened during this entire B wave rally:
The DOW is actually a little more bearish looking than the SPX at this point, having broken beneath the entire previous support shelf:
Next up is a one year non log chart of the DOW. Clearly the large rising wedge and uptrend line are broken, there is no denying that. This is a good perspective of the continuous 10 month long volume divergence and 6 month long RSI divergence – both are historic. Prices on the DOW are already back to where they were in mid October:
The DOW Industrials triggered a triple bottom breakdown flipping the prior bullish target to bearish with a 9,650 initial target:
The NDX also has a bearish target but that initial target was already reached. The Wilshire 5,000, the widest market index, produced a bearish target also that is quite a ways down:
As is typical at major turning points, there was a non-confirmation between the Industrials and the Transports near the top where the Industrials made another new high but the Transports did not. Below is a one year chart of the Transports, uptrend is now clearly broken:
The XLF made its high for the rally way back in October, made a new double top and is now being rocked once more with very heavy volume selling despite positive (trumped and casino manufactured) earnings. A break below $13.70 is very bearish:
The dollar is in either leg 3 or c up, stalled slightly, but still looking to target 81ish with a potential gap fill up to 82. After that we'll have to evaluate later. According to Prechter the dollar is beginning a longer term uptrend:
You can see the opposite happening in the Euro which is targeting roughly 1.35 on this current leg:
The Japanese Yen has actually been strengthening a little, that will wind up hurting the Japanese who need it to continue to lose value.
Troubling is that as equities are selling off hard all of a sudden, bonds are rising a little, but not strongly. This is what I've been expecting, that as stocks decline, bonds prices flatten or go up a little, but during times that stocks go up, bonds prices drop dramatically, thus ratcheting their way up in yield.
Oil has again broken below support, a bearish looking breakdown:
Gold is trying to find support in the $1,080 area and held up relatively well on Friday compared to the rest of the market. Should it break support in that area, the next support level is down around the $1,030 area, and then just under $1,000.
The XAU is oversold and landed on up sloping support:
The Point & Figure chart pattern for gold is targeting $930:
Of course the pundits will be saying the correction is healthy... And at some point we'll bounce, but my suspicion is that the new higher high may not be there for quite some time. Again, Monday is a dangerous day either way, so please be careful as desperate people do desperate things, that includes central bankers who own quant computers.
Below is the latest version of Monetary Trends:
Monetary Trends 2-10
Note the wild swings that are now appearing on the CPI chart. Those are lagging the wild swings elsewhere, like in equities and oil. Do they now get the wild swings under control, or do they swing larger until the system breaks? I say it breaks:
Consumer credit is still falling and take a look at non financial commercial paper, now down nearly 50% on the year? Wow.
Total Loans and Leases as well as Commercial and Industrial loans at commercial banks continue to decline:
The trailing P/E is back to another all time record high just under 150. This is the historical number guys, do not believe for a second future forecasts or P/E's that are based upon "operating" earnings where the latest trick is to take "one time" huge write-offs under another name each and every quarter. This number should come down as the current earnings season progresses, but it will be nowhere near normal historic levels:
Below is the latest M2 expressed in YoY change in billions. M1 and MZM look similar:
Below is YoY change in institutional money funds:
Retail Money Funds:
Oh yes, we could go on and on, but I'll leave it here for now. Enjoy your weekend… but don't fear the equity market Reaper, in this instance change is good.
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Simpson strike enough for Tigers
Jay Simpson struck his first goal in 16 months as Hull marked manager Steve Bruce's first npower Championship game in charge with a 1-0 opening-day win against Brighton.
The game appeared destined for a goalless draw as both sides missed a bucketful of chances, but Simpson, an 80th-minute replacement for Aaron Mclean, lashed the ball high into the roof of the net from inside the penalty area to deny the Seagulls a share of the points they deserved.
Simpson, whose last goal for the Tigers was in April 2011 against Middlesbrough, twice went close to adding a second goal in the 90th minute, but was denied by sprawling Brighton goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak, while blazing another effort over the crossbar.
Hull earlier hit the woodwork through summer signing Sone Aluko, but the scoreline was rough justice on Gus Poyet's Brighton, who took the game to their hosts for long periods and spurned numerous clear-cut chances, with Craig Mackail-Smith heading against the crossbar early in the second half.
Brighton striker Ashley Barnes headed the game's first chance over the crossbar in the fifth minute, but Hull went closer to taking an early lead soon after when Aluko's curling shot from 20 yards was well saved by Kuszczak, a free capture from Manchester United.
Brighton midfielder Craig Noone sent a shot from outside the penalty area fizzing wide and then crossed for Mackail-Smith, who headed just off target in the 21st minute, as Poyet's side began to look dangerous on the counter-attack.
Hull had to wait until the 30th minute before their next opening, midfielder Robert Koren crashing a 20-yard shot straight at Kuszczak.
Brighton wrestled back a more equal share of possession as half-time approached and another summer signing, Andrew Crofts, fired a shot inches wide.
Hull were then denied by the woodwork in the 35th minute when Aluko's cross-cum-shot from the left beat Kuszczak only to rebound back off the crossbar and the Brighton goalkeeper was at his best moments later when diving low to turn away another thumping drive from Koren.
Paul McKenna almost broke the deadlock in spectacular style four minutes into the second half when he crashed a shot from 30 yards towards the top corner, but Kuszczak was equal to it again and tipped the ball over.
Then it was Brighton's turn to be denied by the woodwork. Noone crossed after another sweeping move and Mackail-Smith headed the ball against the crossbar in the 50th minute.
Noone curled a shot wide and midfield team-mate Gary Dicker headed Wayne Bridge's cross narrowly off target, while at the other end Koren dragged his effort wide and home appeals for handball were turned away by referee Stuart Attwell when Aluko's shot was blocked by Crofts in the area.
Mackail-Smith pulled his angled volley wide and Hull goalkeeper Ben Amos did well to keep out Kazenga LuaLua's 25-yard shot with 10 minutes to go, but substitute Simpson converted high into the net from defender Joe Dudgeon's pass and was then denied by another superb save from Kuszczak when he looked poised to make it 2-0 in the closing stages.
Source: PA
Source: PA