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2013 MTV Movie Awards
Host: Rebel Wilson
Venue: Sony Pictures Studios
City: Los Angeles, California
Date: April 14, 2013
Movie Of The Year: Marvel's The Avengers
2013 Movie Awards Summary
The MTV Movie Awards are really for the films and our favorite stars came out in full force. Bradley Cooper started things off on a serious note with a meaningful acceptance speech for Best Male Performance but the tone turned lighthearted when Adam Sandler and Chris Rock took the stage to present Best WTF Moment to 'Django Unchained' duo Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson, both of whom later returned to the stage to accept the MTV Generation Award and Best Fight respectively. MTV Trailblazer honoree Emma Watson gave the most gracious thanks while Comedic Genius Award winner Will Ferrell kept his cool when his speech was spontaneously interrupted by Aubrey Plaza. All spirits were high when 'Marvel's The Avengers' took home the Golden Popcorn for Movie Of The Year.
On the music front, the aca-amazing cast of 'Pitch Perfect' joined Rebel on stage for a medley of epic proportions. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis killed it with an infectious performance of "Can't Hold Us" and Selena Gomez debuted her hot new single "Come & Get It" with some seriously skilled dance moves.
Missed the show? Have no fear! We've got the entire thing on demand for you. Be sure to also check out our behind-the-scenes footage captured on All Access Live and all our favorite photos from the night. And while you're doing that, we'll start brainstorming how we can possibly top this year's show in 2014. Until next year, movie lovers!
2013 Movie Awards Winners
Movie Of The Year
Best Male Performance
Best Female Performance
Best Scared-As-S**t Performance
Breakthrough Performance
Best On-Screen Duo
Best Shirtless Performance
Best Fight
Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson & Jeremy Renner vs. Tom HiddlestonClose
- Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy - The Dark Knight Rises
- Jamie Foxx vs. Candyland Henchmen - Django Unchained
- Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace - Skyfall
- Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane - Ted
Best Kiss
Best WTF Moment
Best Villain
Best Musical Moment
Best Hero
- Snow White - Snow White And The Huntsman
- Iron Man - Marvel's The Avengers
- Hulk - Marvel's The Avengers
- Catwoman - The Dark Knight Rises
MTV Comedic Genius
MTV Trailblazer Award
MTV Generation Award
2013 Movie Awards Performances
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis "Can't Hold Us"
Selena Gomez "Come & Get It"
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Inside The Press Room
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Post Party
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My movie memories as a kid and teen were all about the music. I grew up watching "Oklahoma" live every year at Discoveryland. My mom and I watched "The Sound of Music" every year when it came on TV. And I especially loved "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". Then as a teen I became enamored with "Grease", my neighbor friends and I knew all the words to all the songs. We also loved, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and later "Dirty Dancing" both of which had an awesome soundtrack!
Which is why as a young adult with money to spend I started collecting Soundtrack CDs. I loved the movie memories soundtracks brought back. I was heartbroken when my large collection was stolen out of the back of my car one day.
I have also always been a classic movie lover. I will watch a Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Rock Hudson, Spencer Tracy and James Stewart movie or time. They just don't make 'em like that anymore!


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Last week, on Saturday, I woke up at 3:30 a.m with problems breathing. Every time I took a breath, my left lower rib would hurt. I thought I must have a broken or badly bruised rib. My back rib also hurt, which often happens when the front rib is injured.
The funny thing was that I did not have a bruise in the area that hurt and I could not remember being punched or kicked there (at least not recently). I did, however, have a small area with a rash. Hmmm.
So I was off to the emergency room.
The doctor looked at my rib area. I was sure it was broken, cracked, or at least bruised inside. Can you guess what the problem was?
Shingles. The rash gave it away.
When you have chicken pox as a child (which I did), it is possible for the same virus to recur when you are an adult. This usually happens on only one side of the body, as it did with me.
Fortunately, I sought treatment right away, and the doctor was able to prescribe an antiviral. This helped to keep the rash area from spreading.
But the reason I thought that my rib was broken was that shingles really hurts. It feels like a combination of an itchiness and a burning feeling, not just on the surface but deeper. Ouch! A week later and it still hurts.
But I am telling you all this because as I have found, shingles is a pretty common thing. There is a vaccine, but it is usually given to people over 60 (I am only 50). Also, if you ever have shingles, it helps to get treatment as quickly as possible.
I also found out that shingles tends to be triggered by stress. As you know from reading this blog, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer last year in June. Since that time, and especially during her chemotherapy, radiation, and subsequent treatment, I have tried my very best not to get sick. And I have not caught a cold or flu since that time. So getting shingles really upset me -- but it was probably stress triggered.
While I feel that I could, at least somewhat, work to stay healthy and avoid colds and the flu, I was not as successful in avoiding stress. My wife's diagnosis and treatment certainly caused a lot of stress. Fortunately, practicing Karate regularly, and lifting weights and cardio exercise, helped to relieve stress. But apparently not enough to avoid triggering shingles.
We all are human. None of us are Superman or immune to sickness and aging. Through regular Karate training, however, we can stay in the best shape possible, which will help us to stay healthy and fight off illnesses, at least some.
Since I have turned 50 I have had a colonoscopy and shingles. I also joined AARP. How about that!
By the way, my wife has been doing very well. Cancer diagnosis and treatment really makes you appreciate each and every day.
OK, here is the irony in my case. I have been working on the roof of my house in preparation for reroofing. I was painting the eves and installed gable vents. I have also been getting quotes for different types of roofing (new roof versus elastomeric coating). My roof has asphalt shingles -- and I got shingles.
Also, when I went to the emergency room, the doctor asked me how much my rib hurt on a scale of 1 to 10. I said 2. He said, "only 2?" I said, "yes, if a 10 is having your arm ripped off." It turns out that you are not supposed to compare a 10 to having your arm ripped off. Karate students don't like to complain, so a Karate student's 2 is probably a normal person's 6.
No matter how tough we might be (or thing we are), getting prompt medical attention is important. In my case, it probably made the shingles much less worse that it could have been.
Charles C. Goodin
Not A Broken Rib
Last week, on Saturday, I woke up at 3:30 a.m with problems breathing. Every time I took a breath, my left lower rib would hurt. I thought I must have a broken or badly bruised rib. My back rib also hurt, which often happens when the front rib is injured.
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I have never liked the use of poison to control unpopular animal populations, even as a youngster on our farm in Southern Saskatchewan. I hated to see our neighbour across the road out dropping poison into gopher holes (some of it on our property) and I never liked the cyanide guns that government agents used to decimate coyote populations in those days.
At the time it was more of a gut reaction although maybe even then I understood how indiscriminate the results of the poisoning was. The cyanide guns killed a lot of farm dogs along with the coyotes they targeted. The gopher poison killed a lot of other unintended birds and animals.
For a long time now poison has not been allowed in most jurisdictions as a method to control these populations. But the out-of-control growth of gophers in SW Saskatchewan and Prairie Dogs in the U.S. West has changed that dynamic. This year, in answer to local demands, the federal government authorized the use of strychnine by Saskatchewan and Alberta landowners to help solve their problem.
I find it hard to fault the ranchers and farmers who have been impacted by these animals for calling for more drastic measures to reduce their populations. There has been a huge economic cost for them, with crop damage and even equipment damage due to the rodent's burrowing holes, exacerbated by the influx of badgers making even bigger holes in the process of digging out their gopher prey.
The ranchers/farmers in SW Saskatchewan have been very good about welcoming shooters onto their land in an attempt to reduce the populations in that manner. And although there have been a large number of shooters that have come into the area and killed a lot of gophers their efforts apparently did not make a serious dent in the populations.
One of the concerns with poison is the incidental kills and I noted that there were Burrowing Owls in the area, which would be particularly vulnerable to the poison regime.
I asked one of the ranchers in SW Saskatchewan about that and he said that he had seen nothing in that regard so far. Mind you this particular fellow seemed to be pretty careful about the placement of his poison, making sure it was placed well down the hole and getting rid of any poison-killed gophers that he found. I'm not sure that everyone placing their poison will be that conscientious.
An indication of how effective poison control can be comes from a conversation I had with a fellow in Weyburn who has gone down to North Dakota for the past few years to shoot Prairie Dogs. When they were leaving the ranch they shot on last year the rancher told them he had a crew coming in to apply poison on his lands. In the past week the rancher advised that it was pointless to come down this spring, as the poison applied appears to have killed off 90-95 percent of the dogs on his property.
It remains to be seen if the control program is as successful for the farmers and ranchers in Saskatchewan .
On a cynical note, a couple of years ago when the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation put together a shooting derby to help in reducing the gopher numbers there was a great amount of hoopla in the media, instigated by animal rights groups, decrying how inhumane it all was. However there doesn't appear to be much caterwauling and hand wringing over the fact that strychnine is now being used to kill off large numbers of the animals. So obviously the concern wasn't for the gophers per se; it was all about an agenda against guns, shooting and hunting.


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HOUSTON, June 13 (UPI) -- A Texas woman just released from jury duty was arrested after she jokingly sent a text message asking a co-worker to phone in a bomb threat, authorities said.
Harris County Precinct 1 Assistant Chief J.C. Mosier said Cynthia Ann Creed, 51, had just been released from jury duty Tuesday at the Harris County Courthouse when she sent a text message to a co-worker reading, "Call the courthouse (1201 Congress) Tell them there is a bomb ... Pleeese," the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday.
Creed sent a message about 13 minutes later explaining she was "just kidding," but by that time the co-worker had already alerted police, who cleared the jury room and were searching the building for explosives with bomb-sniffing dogs.
"I am flabbergasted," Mosier said. "I don't know what in the world she was thinking. This is the kind of thing you expect from a 17-year-old teenager, not a 51-year-old woman."
He said he was shocked to learn Creed had just been released from jury duty and was "a block or two down the street" when she sent the first text message.
Mosier said he believes Creed was telling the truth about the incident being a joke.
"I do feel horrible because this is a good woman," he said. "But she made a silly, but serious mistake."
Creed was charged with giving a false report and was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail.


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Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Director, Office of Global Health, Internal Medicine; Associate Program Director for Global and Community Health, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Global Health Leadership Institute; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine
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Yale Network for Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NGN)
MacMillan Center: African Studies
Dr. Rabin is an Internist and Pediatrician who joined the Yale faculty in 2011 as a member of the Section of General Internal Medicine (YSM Department of Internal Medicine), and currently serves as the Associate Director of the Office of Global Health, and the Associate Program Director for Global and Community Health in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program (YPC). She attends and teaches on the medical wards at the St. Raphael's Campus (SRC) of Yale-New Haven Hospital; directs care and precepts residents in the SRC Adult Primary Care Diabetes Clinic; co-directs the YPC Community Engagement Curriculum; directs the YPC Home Visit Elective; and co-directs the Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) medical education capacity building collaboration which is based at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences/Mulago National Referral & Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
Her areas of academic interest include global health education and clinical ethics, outpatient diabetes management, and health care transitions.
Education & Training
|Univ of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry (2006)
|Harvard University School of Public Health (2000)
|College of William and Mary (1997)
|Global Health Chief Resident
|Yale University Primary Care Program
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|AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2010)
Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) Kampala, Uganda (2013)
Founding Member (2013-2014) and Member of the Governing Board (2014-present); mission is to build capacity in the realms of prevention, care, training, and research to enable the provision of effective and integrated care along the NCD management spectrum.
Co-Director, Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) Collaboration Kampala, Uganda (2011)
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text: Arizona\n Arizona might be home to the Grand Canyon, but the state isn't all desert: Over 93% of the country's winter vegetables are grown here. Come and see for yourself during the Yuma Lettuce Days festival.\nArkansas\n Did you know the state grain of Arkansas is rice? Celebrate by visiting the Grand Prairie Rice Festival, or check out the state's other delicious food events.\nCalifornia\n The most populated state in the nation, California also produces 90% of the country's wine and has the festivals to match.\nCanada\n Our neighbor to the north has more to offer than maple syrup. Check out wine, shellfish, and more.\nColorado\n Come for the skiing, stay for the food and wine. Colorado's wineries and their festivals aren't to be missed.\nConnecticut\n In 1895, the nation's first hamburger was created at a lunch truck in this state; be sure to check out Connecticut's other delicious events as well.\nFlorida\n Florida might be one of the top orange producers in the world (second only to Brazil), but the Sunshine State has many more culinary offerings, including a kumquat festival.\nGeorgia\n With grits being the official state food, you know that a Shrimp n' Grits Fest in Georgia has got to be good.\nIllinois\n In addition to its many other festivals, Illinois, the top pumpkin-growing state, has a festival dedicated to the squash.\nIndiana\n Let the Hospitality State work its magic as you enjoy festivals and events devoted to apples, maple syrup, hot dogs, and more.\nIowa\n While Iowa might be best known as an agricultural state, it's also home to one of the country's largest Coca-Cola festivals.\nKentucky\n With one food festival's roots dating back to 1843, Kentucky has a long legacy of friends, fun, and good food.\nLouisiana\n Visit the Bayou State for cook-offs featuring sizzling jambalaya, fresh shrimp, and world-famous crayfish; there's also a festival celebrating the world's largest omelet.\nMaryland\n It only makes sense that the official food of the Crab State is the blue crab. Besides mouthwatering seafood, Maryland takes tremendous pride in its local wineries.\nMassachusetts\n With oysters, cranberries, baked beans, and more, come see what makes the Bay State great.\nMinnesota\n The Land of 10,000 Lakes has more to offer than great fishing festivals; check out events dedicated to apples, beers and breweries, turkeys, and more.\nMissouri\n The Show Me state wastes no time in showing visitors its culinary delights: wine, ribs, and breweries all make Missouri a delicious destination.\nNebraska\n Home to Kool-Aid and Cornhuskers, Nebraska's culinary heritage combines both new and old traditions.\nNevada\n The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world, so you shouldn't have a problem booking your visit for this state's great cook-offs and food events.\nNew Hampshire\n In addition to its many food festivals, New Hampshire is home to the country's oldest and largest annual picnic, now a state holiday.\nNew Jersey\n The Garden State won't disappoint with its many festivals dedicated to strawberries, seafood, ice cream, wine, and of course, the Jersey Tomato.\nNew Mexico\n Celebrate New Mexico's state vegetable, the chile pepper, with multiple cook-offs, festivals, and more.\nNew York\n Created in Buffalo's Anchor Bar, buffalo wings first got their start in 1964. Celebrate this food's history and more in New York.\nNorth Carolina\n Home to Lexington, the "Barbecue Capital of the World," North Carolina also boasts festivals devoted to watermelon, hot sauce, home brews, and pickles.\nOhio\n The banana split was first created in Wilmington, OH, in 1907 \u2014 be sure to come out and celebrate this and Ohio's other delicious celebrations.\nOregon\n Covering over 3.4 square miles, the world's largest single mushroom grows in the mountains of Oregon. Appropriately, a truffle festival is held each winter.\nPennsylvania\n In the birthplace of liberty, cheesesteaks, soft pretzels, and more, Pennsylvania's food festivals are a national treasure.\nRhode Island\n For classic New England fare, celebrate the tastes of the Ocean State. 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Post-Apartheid South Africa is often referred to as "the rainbow nation" -- a nation, as Mandela proclaimed, "at peace with itself and the world." Don't let the name fool you: South Africa is far from touting universal peace, love, and harmony (as is the rest of the world, for that matter). Poverty, hunger, violence, and disease are rampant throughout villages and townships and South Africa is considered as one of the most protest-rich countries in the world. But, there is some truth to its colorful moniker.
South Africa is rich with biological, geographical, and cultural diversity, with 11 official, and 8, unofficial languages; the spectrum of ethnicities, landscapes, and wildlife is astounding. Kruger National Park, Africa's oldest wildlife park, boasts a greatest variety of wildlife on the continent and is home to the Big Five of African safaris: Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant, and Cape Buffalo (along with hippos, cheetahs, giraffes, and the other usual suspects).
On the other end is Capetown, S.A's second largest city (Johannesburg being the first), where you can stroll through the Cape Dutch-style historic streets, rock-climb Table Mountain, sample fine wines in the Cape Winelands, and lay out on the city's many beautiful beaches. Take a step back 40,000 years and examine the Bushmen rock paintings in the Drakensberg caves or hop on an ostrich in Oudtshoorn, a town in the Karoo desert, and go for an unforgettable ride on the tallest living birds in the world. Visit a Zulu village (try Shakaland) in the province of Kwazulu Natal; during your stay in Kwazulu Natal, be sure to check in at Durban, a warm, beautiful, and busy port city with a "Golden Mile" of protected beaches, an exotic bird park (Umgeni River Bird Park) and a curiously vast Indian populatio leading to the bustling and delicious Victoria Indian Street Market.
South Africa's spectrum of diversity extends to its culinary offerings as well. If you are a traditionalist, head to the Northern Limpopo province and grab a bowl (or three) of porridge, Vhuswa, traditional VhaVenda maize porridge, and Baobob porridge, to be specific. If you're an adventurist, you can delight in some dried, fried, or stewed Mopane worms (also known as Mashonzha)! African immigrant food has exploded in popularity -- a mix of cultures and ingredients that result in tastes that only the South African melting pot (literally) can provide.
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and the province of Gauteng all host a plethora of restaurants and food markets that specialize in the immigrant cooking style. Now, safaris, ostrich rides, culinary adventures--all of this will cost you, but very little. South Africa may not be as cheap as other destinations on the African continent, but compared to the costs of traveling in Europe or North America, it's more than affordable. And given the bounty of attractions and variety of cultures you'll witness, you're guaranteed to discover your pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.


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TMC wrote:Mr. Crackerz wrote:TMC wrote:Is there a limit of moves on this leage?. Because, due to the online draft, I've made a bunch of moves already and I've got a few more on waivers.
It's taking me a while to get the kind of roster I want, particularly on defense. To be honest, I don't think I have a bad team, but it'd certainly woul have been different with me drafting. I still hate my running game.
I want you to lose, so i froze your account. Kidding.
Actually, i had a setting where every free agent from the first game of the week until the day after the last one is automatically put on waivers (this week started on thursday). I will be changing it. The reason why i didnt change it sooner was because i was too late, and i didnt want to change it when this week had already started. If i changed it within the last few days, it might have seem like i was cheating and only benefitting myself.
This is why i only have 3 defensive players playing this week. I was too late. Hope i cleared it up a bit. I will change it on wednesday, to refect just sundays and mondays.
Coo. Thanks for clearing it, Mr. C. Although I wouldn't have a problem with an inmediate change. I mean, everybody should be aware of such a change, but posting about on the board AND with a statement on the league home page would have been enough. And you wouldn't have had to play a whole week with just 3 defensive players.
Although that still lefts my question unanswered... is there a limit to the number of roster moves you can make in this league?.
oh sorry, the answer is no. There are unlimited moves.


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US Open - Murray out, but not down after losing slugfest to Djokovic
Andy Murray felt let down by his body as he wearily exited the US Open at the quarter-final stage in a four-set loss to Novak Djokovic.
It was past 1am in New York when the world number one finally finished off a 7-6 (7/1) 6-7 (1/7) 6-2 6-4 victory after three hours and 32 minutes to move forward to a semi-final against Japan's Kei Nishikori.
The contest was brutally physical, as matches between the pair always are, and Murray was clearly suffering during the fourth set.
His service speed dropped below 100mph and it was not a surprise when Djokovic pounced in the 10th game, clinching victory on his first match point when Murray netted a backhand.
The Scot said: "I'd say definitely physically he was fresher, but towards the end I tried to hang in as best I could in the fourth set.
"He appeared fresher than me. Whether he was or not I don't know - maybe he does a better job of hiding it than me. The pace of my serve slowed significantly towards the end of the third set."
The considerable consolation for Murray was that he played his best tennis since back surgery almost a year ago and looks close to the form that brought him two grand slam titles.
"I played well," said the eighth seed. "Especially the first couple of sets there was some good tennis. I played a poor tie-break in the first set definitely.
"I was down in the first set and I fought back. I was down in the second set and I fought back. So I fought hard. I played some good tennis. But it wasn't enough.
"Right now I'm obviously disappointed. It's extremely late. I'm tired. I don't feel particularly proud right now. But I think there was some good tennis. Hopefully I can build on that."
This was easily the most eagerly-awaited clash of the tournament so far and a match-up that has decided four grand slam finals - both men winning two each.
Murray had the advantage of having won their only previous meeting here, when he broke his grand slam duck in 2012, and their last grand slam match, last summer's career-defining Wimbledon win.
There was no doubt he was the underdog this time, though, with Djokovic back at world number one, the Wimbledon champion and through to the last eight without having dropped a set.
The New York crowd settled in for a long night as Djokovic began the contest at 9.43pm, and it quickly became clear service breaks would not be at a premium.
Having made the perfect start with a break of the Djokovic serve, Murray found himself 4-1 down before fighting back to level.
It was anyone's game heading into the tie-break but Murray dropped his first service point with a double fault and never recovered.
Murray had never beaten Djokovic from a set down and the world number one had never lost a match at Flushing Meadows from a set up, so the odds were firmly in his favour.
Djokovic's record in New York is seriously impressive, with the 27-year-old now through to an eighth consecutive semi-final and bidding to reach a fifth straight final.
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Murray was twice a break down in the second set but doggedly kept clawing his way back, his flat cross-court forehand becoming the match's signature shot.
Djokovic saved a set point at 5-6 but this time it was the world number one who made a poor start to the tie-break and Murray won it easily.
The Scot looked at his best right at the start of the third set but he played a loose game to be broken for 3-1 and never managed to wrest the initiative back.
A tally of four break points taken from 16 created showed that Murray did not lack opportunities but could not make the most of them.
The eighth seed had spent an extra three and a half hours on court in getting to the last eight so it was perhaps not surprising he began to struggle first.
He received a heat pack from the trainer for his back but his serve was stiff and awkward.
Any concern over Murray's back is a source of worry because of the problems he went through that eventually prompted him to undergo surgery, but he reported no serious issue.
"I got stiff in my hips and my back towards the end of the third set," he said. "I don't know exactly why but I'm certainly not injured. I didn't hurt anything. It was just, I think, fatigue."
Murray arrived in New York declaring himself in the best shape since last year's Wimbledon following a training block in Miami.
Two days later he cramped dramatically against Robin Haase in his first-round match and was slightly disheartened that again he could not give his best late in the match.
Murray prides himself on being one of the fittest players on tour, and he said: "I was a little bit disappointed because I did train very hard.
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BREA – Advocates for immigration reform ended a five-day fast with a ceremonial sharing of bread and prayer, and with tears and hugs.
At least 200 onlookers encircling them Friday morning in the heart of downtown Brea cheered. And about 25 opponents looking on jeered.
The fast is "a pacifist and committed way not just to get what we want but what we've earned," said Silvia Hernandez, a Buena Park resident who fasted for five days and spoke about family reunification.
"You can stay together in Mexico," countered Anita Hynds, a Yorba Linda resident and member of the Orange County-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform, CCIR, which opposes illegal immigration.
Advocates camped out in front of Rep. Ed Royce's district office. On Friday, about a dozen police officers stood by with many more positioned nearby. While both supporters and opponents of immigration reform exchanged a few barbs, there were no confrontations.
"Immigrants have built this country," Mike Garcia, president of SEIU-United Service Workers West, said to the crowd's roaring approval.
Inside Royce's office, a group of protesters asked a staff member to convey their concerns to the congressman that undocumented immigrants are abusing the system, taking advantage of social services and shifting work away from Americans. Miguel Mondragon of Garden Grove argued with them that the immigrants pay taxes and contribute to society.
The Brea fast was among dozens of local fasts and events across the country. Participants in the Fast for Families events hope to spur a vote on the U.S. House floor. Last summer, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill that would establish a process leading to citizenship for millions of people now living in the country illegally. Meanwhile, immigration reform advocates are continuing a fast they began on Nov. 12 in Washington, where Vice President Joe Biden visited them on Friday to lend his support, the Associated Press reported.
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Now some good news folks: I received the confirmation that I successfully passed the Silverlight 4 Microsoft Certification.
I was too busy to immediately brag about it and write a show-off post so I will here just quickly share my thoughts on how all this went before my brain moves these impressions to non-accessible-memory-banks-prepared-for-deletion.
First of all I must admit that I was pretty sceptical about the whole certification thing. I'm not big fan of certifications in general and I find it a bit overrated – who cares about fancy printouts people are framing on their walls. You either know how to do your job or you don't and some poster with Microsoft stamp on it wont change that in any way.
But at that time (it was 3 months ago) Silverlight 4 Exam was beta test (you could take it for free) and in that period of time I was switching my corporate job to become a full time Silverlight developer so this seemed like perfect opportunity to test my knowledge – and I applied.
Honestly I did not had enough time to prepare for the test – even though I was planning to do so. Simply could not find the time or strength to study and eventually I had to go for a test without any especial preparations – all I had was my hands-on experience in writing Silverlight code and few books I have read on the subject along the way.
Naturally I expected lots of theory mumbo-jumbo in the test so I was sure I will fail-fast
But to my surprise the test was mainly pragmatic with questions from real-world Silverlight programming practice so it turned out I did pretty good after all.
It was interesting that some parts of the test required knowledge of MVVM pattern – just as if they asked me what to put there
All in all test turned out to be more serious and realistic than I expected so this is +1 for old Microsoft.
In case any one of you want to take the test and don't know how to prepare I have two things I could recommend:
- read THE book: Pete Brown's Silverlight 4 In Action – Its the best Silverlight book I have read so far and covers most of the knowledge needed for the exam.
- Mark Monster also participated in the Beta Silverlight 4 testing and blogged about how he was preparing for it so this is also worth reading.
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Judging mostly by the pageview count, that is.
One of my first posts on atheism, Life, the universe, and everything (or, I'm An Atheist And So Can You!):
The universe *is* finite. We (by which I mean scientists, the guys on whose shoulders I'm trying to stand) are pretty sure it started as an infinitessimally tiny, infinitessimally dense speck containing all the matter that exists in this universe (picture the end result of a "giant" black hole having eaten *everything there is*), and something happened to cause it to explode violently enough to eject all of that matter outward.
If you say "God did it", you're still thinking like a deist. Remember, you're an atheist now, so play along. I'll get to your thought on that matter in a moment.
Now, the fact that the universe is finite — there's only so much matter in the universe, and it all got thrown outward by a violent explosion — means there's a limit to the universe. Yes, the word finite implies this, but I have to stress this point. There's a limit to the universe. I don't know what happens if we were to fly out past this limit — past the point where the furthest star in the furthest galaxy got flung billions of light-years away from here. Maybe you'll basically expand the definition as to what the limit is, and the universe will contain every star plus you way out stretching the edge of the bubble just by flying out past that border. Maybe you'll hit something and get bounced back. Maybe you'll wrap around to the other side. Maybe there's a whole lot of emptiness for a very, very long time, then eventually a big glass wall.
Why is it so difficult to "come out" as an atheist?
Well, for starters, not believing in gods and devils and ghosts and psychic powers and healing crystals and homeopathy on merely the word of some person who has little or no real evidence for their claims is an extraordinarily liberating feeling. The fact that I don't feel the need to thank God for my every blessing or pray to God to ask him to fix my every trivial problem frees up a lot of my precious time to actually enjoy my blessings and do something about my problems. It also means I can recognize a chain of cause and effect in advance, and either correctly attribute the good fortune that comes my way to the little nudges I can give them, or do something preemptive about the bad things before they escalate. And it means that I can wholeheartedly embrace the true study of reality as it is, the scientific endeavour to expand human knowledge. If there's one thing I believe in, it's the scientific method.
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What, then, are quarks made of? Does this basic unit have a predefined grid that it has to fit onto? Is movement of everything determined on this grid, however infinitessimally small that grid might be? If so, then the time it takes for that basic unit to move from X=4 to X=5 could very well be the basic unit of time of the universe, one "CPU clock tick" in this computer simulation we call existence. That would imply that the speed of light, which is the fastest that light can travel in a vacuum, might be the absolute fastest that every most basic unit of matter can travel through space — e.g., that every single clock tick the matter is moving one grid point. Which might mean that faster-than-light travel is impossible. Or, we could learn that it's possible to move two grids each tick, or three, or a hundred. Once we know the most basic unit that exists in this universe, and the most basic unit of time, and the most basic unit of space, then all the doors to understanding the universe will be unlocked, and it will just be a matter of walking through them all, and in the right order so as to actually figure out how this universe works, what its rules are, and how (if it's even possible) to bend its rules.
I'm an agnostic atheist. I believe this universe is comprehensible, given enough time and directed efforts, and I believe (like Sagan) that we are this universe's way of knowing itself. There is nothing spiritual about that fact — we don't know how many universes there are, or what rules they run on, or whether life is possible in all of them, but the anthropic principle says we wouldn't be here to observe and worry about the universe if this universe were not capable of sustaining us, so who's to say there's anything special about us except that we live in a multiverse of very, VERY large numbers, so multiple such occurrences were bound to happen? And who's to say that our understanding of reality is anything close to perfect, and that there is no possibility for as-yet-unexplained phenomena?
Imagine a healthy human mind — not the brain, but that thing that the theists commonly call the soul, the consciousness that is contingent on the proper functioning of that brain. That mind has several properties built up by the structure of the brain over long aeons of evolution: the capacity for rational thought, a sympathy for other like minds that sometimes extends beyond our species by process of anthropomorphism, an ability to create mental images of people based on mere descriptions of them, a willingness to accept authority, an ability to detect (or, more often, suspect) agency behind something that may have no agency at all. Like all other evolved traits, what might be useful in one respect can also be detrimental in another. In other words, because we were not immaculately designed, our minds, the product of the physical brain, has vulnerabilities. Our mental programming has, shall we say, bugs.
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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Myfaces Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by MatthiasWessendorf: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Trinidad_and_JSF_12 New page: = General JSF 1.2 Information = JSF 1.2 requires JSP 2.1, which is part of JavaEE 5.0. You cannot use JSF 1.2 against JSP 1.2 or JSP 2.0. But, the JSF RI and MyFaces 1.2.x do a fallback to Facelets, when you are not in a JavaEE 5 container. JSF 1.2 is also provided by the application server, instead of being delivered by the web application as JARs in WEB-INF/lib. In particular, this means that we no longer use the Sun RI, or MyFaces, etc. - we simply use whatever implementation is provided by the server. A proper JSF 1.2 application server must ignore any JSF 1.1 libraries that are left over in WEB-INF/lib. == Overhauled JSP integration == === Better lifecycle, no more f:verbatim === Instead of mixing component tree building and rendering, JSP integration is now strictly two phase: * build the component tree * render the whole tree with UIViewRoot.encodeAll() In particular, this revised approach means that f:verbatim is now a no-op, and is not needed at all. So, *do not use f:verbatim*. === Better ID assignment === A new JspIdConsumer API lets the JSF engine match components up to JSF tags predictably. You don't need to know the details of how it works, but we should see far fewer duplicate ID exceptions and should have automatic support for tr:forEach with varying numbers of children. == New EL APIs == JSF 1.2 supports the JavaEE 5 unified expression language (EL), which unifies the JSF and JSP expression languages. The old javax.faces.el APIs are deprecated, and replaced by javax.el APIs: * ValueBinding => ValueExpression * MethodBinding => MethodExpression * VariableResolver and PropertyResolver => ELResolver * vb.getValue(context) => vb.getValue(context.getELContext()) The unified EL offers the following benefits: * c:forEach works. HOWEVER it does not support varStatus, so we still have tr:forEach for that. But both work with all JSF tags, not just tr: tags. * JSF EL has support for EL functions * Support for inherent type coercion. E.g., if a user provides an EL binding to a boolean that mistakenly returns the Strings "true" and "false", it still works - no ClassCastExceptions. * Ordinary JSP EL has full access to managed beans. * ValueExpressions and MethodExpressions are automatically created for you by the JSP engine - there's no need for JSPs to create them. * Better DT APIs. BIG GOTCHA: Do *not* cast to UIComponentTag. 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Pass it a clientId and an implementation of the new ContextCallback API, and the ContextCallback will get called back with the component instance *and* with all component and parent state properly initialized. Use this feature with delicacy: it does require at least a partial tree traversal, so it should not be used hundreds of times per request. === generics === The JSF APIs use generics, so say goodbye to casting from Object to UIComponent. === resource-bundle element === You can *and should* use the new resource-bundle element in faces-config.xml instead of using <f:loadBundle> in each JSP. 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Want a jack-of-all-trades car? Then you need our guide to every hatchback you can buy. There's a verdict for every one and you'll find more info by clicking on each model name. Oh, and don't forget our Car Chooser, that'll also help you find the right one
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Alfa 147: Alfa's Golf rival has had a makeover. Jolting suspension, but, otherwise, the best of Italy: knee-trembling style, sexy engine and good value if you don't go for the top spec.
Audi A3: A facelifted car that is almost identical to the last one. Which is no bad thing, because it remains one of the best interiors on sale. Also gets the full range of engines.
BMW 1-Series: Facelifted 1-Series still keeps the rear-wheel drive layout, but you can now opt for even less practicality and get a three-door version. The new green philosophy at BMW.
Citroen C4: The C4's had a facelift and gained a couple of new engines. And, like a modern-day DS, it's still packed full of interesting tech.
Dodge Caliber: It might look like yet another soft-roader, but this is actually more of a family hatch in disguise. Dodge's first foray into the mainstream UK market is a poor one, though.
Fiat Bravo: Fiat's renaissance continues. Punto injects cool into supermini, and now Bravo nearly does the same into the family hatch. Even manages to shake off Fiat's slightly iffy image.
Ford Focus: A new Focus that's as conservative as the original was original. Yet it's better built and better to drive then its predecessor and is as practical as a hatchback can get.
Honda Civic: Bonkers new angular design from the free-thinking Civic designers. Looks a bit like an Eighties' spaceship, which is a good thing, but the ride's a bit stiff for granny.
Hyundai i30: Hyundai's take on the Kia Cee'd, sharing the same platform. Not exactly a revelation, but average styling disguises a car that's actually OK, if a tad dull.
Kia Cee'd: Korean Focus rival that's neat, well-made and has almost a premium feel inside. Rides well on independent suspension and is not expensive. Seven year warranty helps too.
Mercedes A-Class: This facelift is as pointless as a 12-year-old kid getting one. And it doesn't stop the A-Class being the weakest model in the Mercedes range.
Nissan Qashqai: All-new car in an all-new sector. Or that's what Nissan would have you believe. But this is an interesting proposition, a hatch/SUV that actually does meet its brief.
Peugeot 308: Peugeot's aiming for increased quality with its latest family hatch - only time will tell. Unlike the face, which is instantly ugly. More luxury inside, and it's bigger too.
Proton GEN-2: New budget five-door hatchback that's very European in concept, although it's a concept that's five years old - so don't expect to be blown away by razor-sharp dynamics.
Renault Megane: The all-new Megane, minus arse. Good to look at, lots of kit, but not quite as good to drive as a Focus or Golf. A good, sensible choice, then - but is that the Renault way?
Subaru Impreza: New approach from Subaru - the saloon's been ditched and it's now a hatch. Reassuringly, it's still not pretty, but wait for the turbocharged versions before you get too excited.
Toyota Auris: Weak effort from the world's most powerful car maker that should have been braver with this all-new Corolla replacement. It even looks pretty similar to the old car.
Vauxhall Astra: The latest Astra is a quantum leap over the old model. It's now a serious player in the Golf class and impresses in every area. Get the manic VXR for laddish kicks.
Volkswagen Beetle: Appealing retro styling atop common-or-garden Golf underpinnings. Convertible version is terribly chic, apparently. But only with people who have hair extensions.
Volkswagen Golf: The sixth generation of VW's iconic hatch. This time it plays it safer than ever, in a reassuring, Germanic sort of way. So, if you want thrills, wait for the GTI…
Volvo C30: Stifling the automotive yawn that is Volvo with a desirable hatchback? The C30 has a lot to do, but all the ingredients are there, starting with that corking glass-hatched rear.
Chevrolet Lacetti: The reasonably-priced car continues GM's product offensive in the British market, but at least it's no longer an offensive product, just duller than the Corrie omnibus.
Seat Leon: Current Leon's styling isn't to everyone's tastes, but it's better than the Toledo. Positives are the mechanicals (all Volkswagen anyway) and the general impression of quality.
Mazda3: It's a rival for the Ford Focus. So that means a family hatchback with a mild penchant for pedalling and irritating telly adverts to alert the public to what the hell it is.
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Why The PawSox No Longer Wear Shorts To The Ballpark
Daniel Nava knew exactly what to do on the first pitch he saw in the big leagues, but what to wear to work was a different story.
(all photos, except when noted, courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
As Gordon Edes of ESPNBoston.com wrote in early July, Nava committed a minor breach of major league protocol on a Red Sox road trip when he arrived at the clubhouse wearing shorts. That had always been allowed in the minors, so Daniel's wardrobe malfunction was understandable but embarrassing.
"It was stuff that I'm not going to do again, but at the same time, you live and you learn," Nava told me. "I wish I hadn't done that, but now I know. I guess next time I should err on the safe side. Rather safe than sorry right?"
Shortly after Daniel's minor flub, PawSox players were no longer allowed to wear shorts to the stadium.
"It's such a tough job that we all have as staff members here because we want them to go up there and be perfect but it's impossible," Pawtucket manager Torey Lovullo said. "Daniel has mastered the hard part and that's going out there and performing. He is one of the nicest, most-compassionate kids that I've ever met and the fact that he wore shorts is not an indication that he's not a big leaguer. But we talk about having 'feel' and know what it's going to take to fit into Tito's clubhouse."
Nava certainly didn't look out of place in the batters box. In 29 games with Boston, Daniel batted .286/.381/.451 with 10 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, and 16 RBI. But the 27-year-old outfielder says he never felt totally comfortable.
"I really don't think that I ever felt 'normal' up there because everything is so dramatically different," Nava said. "The emphasis on winning is huge, and I was constantly learning as I was going. I got more comfortable, but I would never say that I sat there and thought, 'Now I'm good to go.' It definitely kept me on edge."
"There was the nervousness and anxiety of going up there and being a major leaguer and all of the little things that nobody understands until you walk into that clubhouse for the first time," Lovullo said. "Once you go up there and feel that and experience the intensity of going out and trying to win each and every day, you come down here with a new attitude."
In 7 games since returning from Boston, Nava is 8-for-26 (.308) with 2 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI, and 7 walks (.441 OBP). He is virtually guaranteed to return to the Red Sox when rosters expand in September if not sooner.
"I want to get back there, and I think any player who has been up is going to say the same thing," Nava said. "I do know that there is stuff that I have to work on, so I'm trying to focus on that stuff and realize that if I get another shot, I want to have those things locked-down."
And next time, he'll know what to wear.
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If you've read this blog in the past, you have undoubtedly enjoyed the brilliant photos provided by the "Official Unpaid Photographer of Heard if From Hoard" Kelly O'Connor.
Kelly has graciously allowed me to pick and choose from her website and I can honestly say that I am dazzled on a daily basis when I go looking for a photo to match my content.
In addition to the great photography, Kelly has come up with a fantastic idea for a potential giveaway item at McCoy Stadium: The Josh Reddick Magic Hair Game.
It's based on the old Wooly Willy toy in which metal filings are moved about with a magnetic wand to add features to a cartoon face.
In the Josh Reddick version, you start with a buzz-cut and a clean-shaven face and let the fun begin.
You can use the magnetic pen and metal filings to add a Mohawk.
Or a bushy mustache/soul patch combo.
Or just the mustache.
Or a scruffy beard.
Or long sideburns . . . you get the picture.
(The Mohawk and bushy mustache/soul patch photos are courtesy of Louriann Mardo-Zayat. All others are courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
In case you're wondering, Reddick loves the idea. This MUST happen in 2011.
By the way, Josh has missed the PawSox last seven games with a strained oblique on his left side, but he could be back in the lineup on Thursday night in Toledo.
"Josh had a good day yesterday," Torey Lovullo told me before Wednesday's game against the Mud Hens. "He threw from the outfield to all of the bases, he took good batting practice, and if he continues on that path today, he should be in the lineup on Thursday. We need him. This team misses him. We've had a lot of guys going out there without being able to have a day off, so he'll be a welcome addition."
Thursday's game starts at 7:00. I hope you'll join us for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 6:45 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
I'd love to hear from you. Please take a moment to tell me who you are and where you're from in the comments section or you can e-mail me at email@example.com.
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Family medicine provider, and former smoker, Donald Wolfram, MD, explains why it's never too late to quit smoking and how quickly quitting it can benefit your health.
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Diabetes can impact the body's major organs if not properly controlled.
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Lakeland Occupational Health medical director, Catherine Boomus, MD, MPH, FACOEM, explains about what services the practice provides, so southwest Michigan employees can stay healthy, and get back to work when injuries happen on the job.
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Nov 26, 2018
Excessive weight gain can have larger impacts on health than one might expect. There are 6 causes of obesity, some of which might surprise you. Options for weight loss and obtaining a healthy weight are available and help is available.
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Bursae sacks throughout your body are meant to help you by cushioning the bones, tendons, and muscles near your joints.
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If left uncontrolled, diabetes can cause health complications over time.
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German Minister Calls Security A 'Super Fundamental Right' That Outranks Privacy; German Press Call Him 'Idiot In Charge'
from the going-down dept
One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global spying. Instead, the fall-back position has become: well, yeah, maybe we did some of that, but look how many lives were saved as a result. For example, the day after the first leaks appeared, it was suggested that PRISM was responsible for stopping a plot to bomb the NYC subways. However, further investigation showed that probably wasn't the case.
Now it seems that Germany is using the same tactic in an attempt to ward off growing domestic criticism -- and encountering the same problem with that attempt to re-frame the narrative, as the Stars and Stripes site reports:
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is backing off his earlier assertion that the Obama administration's NSA monitoring of Internet accounts had prevented five terror attacks in Germany, raising questions about other claims concerning the value of the massive monitoring programs revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
The same article quotes a particularly ridiculous comment made by the same Minister:
Defending NSA practices, Friedrich noted that security is a "super fundamental right." As such it outranks fundamental rights such as privacy. German newspapers were scathing in their assessment, calling Friedrich the "idiot in charge."
As that indicates, at least some in the European press are getting tired of mindless defenses of the spying program -- as well as associated claims about how many lives it has saved.
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Back in 2001, I created the first GPG signing key for Dell, which the Linux Engineering team used to sign various packages and releases over time. I've long since handed day-to-day use of that key over to the Product Group Release Engineering team. They have issued a new stronger key which they will be using to sign future packages. I have signed this new key, and it has been signed by the original 2001 key as well, to provide continuity in the web of trust. The new key is on the usual keyservers, fingerprint:
pub 4096R/34D8786F 2012-03-02 Key fingerprint = 4255 0ABD 1E80 D7C1 BC0B AD85 1285 4914 34D8 786F uid Dell Inc., PGRE 2012 (PG Release Engineering Build Group 2012) <firstname.lastname@example.com> sub 4096R/79DF80D8 2012-03-02


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No Signs of Abuse in Body of Duct-taped Dog Found in Pennington County
RAPID CITY - Authorities say there are no signs of abuse in a dead dog that was found wrapped in duct tape and abandoned in western South Dakota.
A rock hunter found the body Monday on the frozen Cheyenne River in Pennington County. Sheriff's Capt. Corey Brubakken says the dog appeared to be wrapped with great care, leading investigators to believe it had been prepared for burial.
Authorities are still trying to determine who owned the animal and how the dog's body ended up on the river.
Officials estimate the mixed-breed pointer was 7-9 years old.
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Honda to reveal NSX successor at Detroit
* Teaser image of new car revealed * Concept will use handle-based steering * Original NSX developed with Ayrton Senna...
Honda will showcase a successor to its iconic NSX sports car at the Detroit motor show in January.
The Japanese manufacturer teased a silhouette image of the car at a media preview ahead of the Tokyo motor show. The car looks longer than the EV-ster concept shown at this weeks event, but with a similar profile.
It has been styled by Honda Designs creative director, Toshinobu Minami. He said: 'We are proceeding with the development of this car, and you will see the design soon.'
He confirmed there are plans to sell the supersports car globally; it will be marketed as an Acura in the US, and Honda everywhere else.
No technical details have been released. However, sources say the new car is likely to use a tuned version of Hondas newly released SH-AWD powertrain, which blends a V6 petrol engine, an electric motor with a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, and two additional electric motors, one on each rear wheel.
The system uses the difference in torque between the rear motors to aid turning. The vehicle could also have the potential to run for limited distances on electric power alone.
The concept car is almost certain to use Hondas Turn Lever System the handle-based steering set-up that features on all three of its Tokyo show concepts. Honda says it tested the system around the Suzuka grand prix circuit before the end of its Formula One involvement, and found it was more than three seconds per lap faster than a car with a conventional steering wheel.
Developed in conjunction with then-Honda Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, the NSX was introduced in 1990 and sold through to 2005. It drew praise for accessible handling and its all-aluminium V6 engine factors that make the SH-AWD set-up an even more likely solution for any successor.


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The Calusa: "The Shell Indians"
- The students will be able to identify characteristics of the Calusa Indians and how they differ from other Indian tribes living in Florida.
Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks:SS.A.1.2.1 - SS.A.2.2.3 - SS.A.3.2.4 - SS.A.4.2.1 - SS.A.6.2 .3 - SS.B.1.2.1
Calusa tribes salvaging explorers waterways fashion marauding mound archaeologists artifacts hollowed-out fierce
Suggested Activities:
- Using a map of Florida, identify the southwestern area of Florida. Have the students mark this as the location of the Calusa Indians. Have the students also locate and mark the Caloosahatchee River, Estero Bay, and as many other waterways as possible.
- Have the students create models of Calusa Indian dwellings using sticks and woven palmetto leaves.
- Have the students create tools, utensils, and jewelry from shells.
- Have the students compare and contrast the Calusa Indians to the Tocobaga Indians using three-column Notes.
- Have the students complete a vocabulary map for the vocabulary word "artifacts."
- Complete and review FCAT questions.
(Note: Actual FCAT practice passages are wrtten at the students' independent reading level. These Florida History selections are written at the students' instructional reading level. Therefore, students should not be asked to complete the questions until after receiving class instruction on the vocabulary and content of the passage. Students should also read the Florida History selection independently before answering the FCAT questions and be permited to return to the selection for rereading as they answer.)
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With reports of at least a dozen foreign hostages killed and the fate of an estimated 40 U.S., French, Japanese, and U.K. citizens uncertain, hundreds of people are being evacuated from Algeria as a precaution, according to BP's latest statement on the attack of the In Amenas natural gas facility in the Sahara Desert.
BP said there continues to be "a small number" of employees at In Amenas whose current location and situation remain uncertain. The oil major declined to provide any further information as it works with the Algerian government. "BP is in direct contact with the families of all of those staff affected, offering support and providing confirmed information as we can," the company said.
It began bringing non-essential workers out of Algeria as a precautionary measure.
"Three flights left Algeria yesterday, carrying a total of eleven BP employees alongside several hundred staff from other companies," BP said. "The first flight arrived in London yesterday afternoon. The second two flights landed in Palma in Majorca overnight and staff on these planes are expected to transfer on to final destinations during the course of the day. A fourth plane is expected to transport further staff out of the country today and we will arrange further flights as necessary."
The people include workers from BP, Statoil and Sonatrach, as well as contractors to the joint venture that runs the complex.
Friday marks the second day after the attack on the In Amenas energy complex has left in doubt the facility's energy output of 213,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day.
Crude oil prices remained in focus as word of the attack affected commodity markets.
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A scheduling conflict elsewhere turned into opportunity for North Gaston High School.
DALLAS � A scheduling conflict elsewhere turned into opportunity for North Gaston High School.
North Gaston this week learned that it was selected to host the 3A West wrestling regional next month after a scheduling conflict ruled out original host Gardner-Webb University.
The Wildcats will not only have home-mat advantage but also stand to gain financially.
�If we handle it right, we�ve really got a good opportunity to land it for the next couple of years,� North Gaston coach Beau Norwood said.
The tournament is scheduled for Feb. 22-23 and features 26 schools representing six conferences across Western North Carolina. Sixteen wrestlers will compete within each weight class, with the top four advancing to the state championships a week later.
North Gaston can accommodate a tournament this size because it will have five mats � three in the gym and two in the commons area, straight ahead from the school�s main entrance. The school plans to bring bleachers into the commons area. Both sets of bleachers will be pulled down in the gym. North Gaston has two competition mats of its own and plans to borrow one each from W.C. Friday, Holbrook and Mount Holly middle schools.
�I think it�s going to give us a chance to showcase our community and school,� Norwood said. �I hope people get excited about it. I hate it�s going to be another year before East Gaston gets back in our region.�
The tournament will begin the evening of Feb. 22, a Friday, and will continue will full Saturday starting in the morning. The conferences assigned to the 3A West are the MEGA 7, Big South, Northwestern, South Mountain Athletic, Mountain Athletic and Western N.C. Athletic.
Freedom hosted last year after a long run at St. Stephens. Previously, Enka was host for a number of years.
�I think being at home is a huge advantage,� Norwood said. �You don�t have to worry about travel. You�re not going to change up a lot of your normal routine. You don�t have to worry about sleeping in some hotel bed wondering if you�re going to sleep well.�
Norwood asked St. Stephens assistant coach Roy Hoffman to serve as tournament director. Hoffman has experience as tournament director when the regional was held at St. Stephens.
Norwood wants to make the event a memorable experience for the athletes and is working on ideas such as enhancing the atmosphere for the finals.
The tournament should be a money-maker for North Gaston as the host school keeps all concession sales and 40 percent of the net ticket revenue after expenses.
�I hope that it could turn into a pretty substantial fundraiser for us,� Norwood said. �If I can make enough money to send 10 kids to camp this summer, then we�re doing a good job.�
Camp can cost almost $400 per wrestler, Norwood said.
Until the regional, North Gaston will get plenty of experience hosting tournaments. The Wildcat Duals are Saturday, with Burns, East Gaston, Myers Park, Providence Day and Vance scheduled to attend. North Gaston also hosts the Big South 3A Conference tournament Feb. 9.
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Parkhouse in Romford is pleased to announce the results of its annual salary survey, of permanent and temporary positions within the industrial sectors.
Given the current climate, it comes as no surprise that few organisations increased salaries during 2010. However, salaries and benefits remain a key driver in attracting and retaining the right staff. People are a company's greatest asset, and with the current economic situation this is more important than ever.
Andy Michie, Franchise Support Manager said "The downturn has forced many organisations to make tough decisions with regard to their employees' pay. However, we have seen the best employers focus hard on maintaining the loyalty of their key staff through other measures such as increased training and comprehensive benefit packages. Whilst there have been some signs that the economic outlook is slightly better than it was, we anticipate that the pressure on pay will remain. We therefore expect to see more and more organisations working hard to look after their staff in other ways."
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Chili cook-off will be Oct. 5
Marion County Park and Lake will have its seventh annual chili cook-off from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 5 outside the lake hall.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three entries, as voted on by members of the public. An entry is two to three gallons of chili and requires a $15 fee.
Tasting kits will be available to the public for $5.
There will also be a corn-hole tournament. Both events are fundraisers for the lake.


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Apricot drops 'too complicated' Linux from netbook line
Windows XP only from now on
Apricot has pulled the plug on its Linux-based netbook, choosing instead to offer the pint-sized Picobook Pro only with Windows XP.
The Pro, which launched last week, was to be offered with a choice of XP and SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition - the latter priced at £279, the Windows model costing £328.
Yesterday, Apricot yanked the Linux release and dropped the price of the XP version to £299 - or raised the price of the cheapest model by 20 quid, if you prefer.
Apricot's Picobook Pro: Tux-less from now on
"Apricot will not be selling with Linux variants," a company missive revealed, which suggests it's not merely dropping SuSE for Ubuntu or another netbook-friendly distro.
"Apricot has made this decision to ensure customers have a smooth installation of their operating system," the company told Register Hardware.
"The Linux version proved too complicated with initial testers, who would opt to purchase and install XP any way.
"Apricot believes that this will be a more attractive product offering for their target customers, because as soon as it is switched on, it is ready for use."
This week, Asus CEO Jerry Shen said return rates on Linux-based netbooks were much the same as those of XP models.
The Picobook Pro is based on a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor and comes with 1GB of DDR 2 memory, a 60GB hard drive and all the usual Small, Cheap Computer accoutrements. It's available from Apricot's website


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Blog More, Blog Now
By Shuva Rahim
Blogging is part of marketing for many photographers. While starting a blog can be relatively easy, many find it overwhelming or just don't feel like they have the time for it.
So why even blog? The main reason photographers blog is to gain exposure. Blogging can help improve your Google search rankings, help establish a relationship with your clients and prospective clients, and eventually get you more business.
Maintaining a blog on a consistent basis does take time and discipline. So here are some ideas on getting and staying in the habit:
- Make blogging part of your normal workflow for every client. Shoot. Edit. Blog.
- Have a notebook on you (in your car or camera bag). After each session, jot down things that made an impression on you and blog about it.
- Write your blog in the first person. Keep the tone fun, positive and conversational. If you don't consider yourself a "writer," then get in the habit of reading at least 3 or more blogs daily to help get ideas on what and how you want to represent yourself. Think of your Website as your handshake and your blog as the conversation following the handshake.
- Start a blog budget – a list of possible post ideas and when you want to publish them. Also consider pre-blogging, or starting a post you want online in the future.
- View your blog as your own personal news service, like the AP or Reuters. Every day something new is happening. So think of things you can blog about at least 2-3 times a week. And blog posts don't have to be epic entries. They can be as short as a couple sentences.
So what do you blog about? Anything that is news.
- Your Sessions. A sneak peek of your shoots is always fun to see. However, some clients may be sensitive to first seeing their photos (blogged) for the world. So ask in advance when they want their session posted.
- Products. Show off some of the products you offer and are proud of.
- Specials. Talk about any specials you are doing and who they are for.
- Events. Announce your participation in an event such as a bridal show or a charity auction. Take photos of the event and blog about it after.
- Award and Recognitions. If you won an award or were publicly recognized by an individual or company then talk about it on your blog. If a company named you as an event sponsor, blog about it.
- Publications. If your photography got published in a newspaper or magazine then it's worthy of a blog post.
- Conferences and Workshops. If you attended a continuing education event, talk about what you learned.
- How You Got Started in Photography. This is a non-timely topic, but a random post about how you got started in photography is always a fascinating read.
- Guest Bloggers or Interviews. If there's a business you work with closely consider doing a Q&A with the owner or write up a piece about them.
- Finally, Your Family and Friends. Throwing in a personal post about loved ones gives you a human component to which people can relate.
The more often you blog the more ideas you will find you to write about and the easier it will get. And the more you blog the more exposure you will get, thus leading to more business – something everyone wants this new year.
Shuva Rahim is the owner of Accent Photographics, and focuses on lifestyle images of children, families and weddings in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. Before photography, she worked as a newspaper reporter for nearly six years and is thrilled to be using her love for writing with her blog.


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