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The authority regarding who is the best quarterback to come through central Ohio over the past 23 seasons might be Dublin Coffman High School football coach Mark Crabtree.
The authority regarding who is the best quarterback to come through central Ohio over the past 23 seasons might be Dublin Coffman High School football coach Mark Crabtree.
Since he took over the Shamrocks in 2001, Coffman has produced brothers Zack Stoudt and Cole Stoudt, both of whom made the "All-Time ThisWeek Football Team" honorable mention list, as well as other solid quarterbacks.
Then there's the debate about which Coffman quarterback was better: Brady Quinn or Jack Rafferty?
"People have asked me which one's better, and I think you've got to look at stats," Crabtree said.
With that in mind, the senior season by Rafferty in 2003, combined with his sophomore and junior seasons when he attended St. Charles, made him ThisWeek Community News' choice as first-team quarterback.
After passing for more than 2,000 yards in both his sophomore and junior seasons, Rafferty transferred to Coffman.
While Quinn threw for more than 2,000 yards in each of the two seasons that Rafferty was starring at St. Charles, Rafferty developed into an unstoppable force for Coffman. He passed for 3,221 yards with 27 touchdowns and six interceptions and rushed for 1,357 yards and 20 touchdowns in his only season with the Shamrocks.
Joining Rafferty on the first-team offense are players who put together historic senior seasons like Jeff Backes, Maurice Hall and Lance Moore, standout running back Nick Goings and a group of talented linemen headlined by Justin Boren.
The first-team defense features one of the three players from central Ohio to be named Mr. Football in Andy Katzenmoyer, one of five ThisWeek Super 25 captains on the first team in Jordan Gafford and strong representation from Pickerington, DeSales and Upper Arlington.Quarterback
Rafferty (final prep season in 2003).
A finalist for Mr. Football as a senior at Coffman, the 6-foot, 182-pound Rafferty originally signed with Western Kentucky after not getting a Division I scholarship offer. He eventually landed at Otterbein, where he became a semifinalist for the Gagliardi Trophy as one of the top 10 players in small college football.Running Back
Backes (Upper Arlington, 2000), Goings (Dublin Scioto, 1995), Hall (Brookhaven, 2000).
Backes, who was sidelined for all of his junior season, rushed for 3,353 yards and 44 touchdowns as a senior when he became the third player from central Ohio to be named Mr. Football and UA won the Division I state title.
Hall also starred in 2000, rushing for 3,057 yards and 51 touchdowns, and was named the Super 25 captain.
Goings was Super 25 captain as a junior in 1994 for Dublin and shared captain honors with Katzenmoyer in 1995, when he also led Scioto to the Division II state title in its first season as a program.
Backes went on to play for Northwestern, Hall played for Ohio State and Goings played for Ohio State and the University of Pittsburgh. Goings then played eight seasons in the NFL, all with the Carolina Panthers.Wide Receiver
Moore (Westerville South, 2000), Ernie Wheelwright (Walnut Ridge, 2002).
Moore, who is set to begin his eighth season with the New Orleans Saints after playing at Toledo, had perhaps the greatest season by a central Ohio wide receiver as a senior in 2000. That fall, he finished with 103 catches for a then-state-record 1,585 yards with 24 touchdowns, and he also set a state record with 18 catches in a game.
Wheelwright was a 6-5, 215-pounder who averaged 25 yards per catch and had 21 touchdowns over his final two prep seasons.Tight End
Jake Butt (Pickerington North, 2012).
Set to begin his first season playing for Michigan, Butt had seven touchdown catches as a junior and 68 receptions for 907 yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior while helping the Panthers reach a Division I state semifinal.Offensive Line
Jacoby Boren (Pickerington Central, 2011), Justin Boren (Pickerington North, 2005), Marc Kielmeyer (Westerville South, 1995), Andrew Moses (Watterson, 2004), Adam Olds (Coffman, 2000).
No family was more represented on the all-time ThisWeek team than the Borens, who produced second-team linebacker Zach and two of his brothers in first-team offensive linemen Justin and Jacoby.
While Justin played for Michigan and Ohio State and Jacoby currently is at Ohio State, Moses played for the Buckeyes and Kielmeyer played for Penn State.
After Olds made first-team all-state as a senior and signed with Ohio State, his promising career was thwarted by chronic hip problems while in college.Defensive Line
Grant Bowman (DeSales, 1998), Luke Fickell (DeSales, 1991), Simon Fraser (Upper Arlington, 2000), Roosevelt Nix (Reynoldsburg, 2009).
The distinction of DeSales' greatest defensive player over the past two decades comes down to Fickell, who was the state's Division III Lineman of the Year as a senior and won three consecutive state wrestling titles, or Bowman, who was the state's Defensive Player of the Year as a junior and led the team to back-to-back state titles.
Fraser led UA to a Division I state title as a senior before playing for Ohio State and in the NFL, including three seasons with the Cleveland Browns.
Nix was a three-time Super 25 honoree who plays for Kent State.Linebacker
Jayson Gwinn (Brookhaven, 1991), Brett Hughes (Upper Arlington, 1999), Katzenmoyer (Westerville South, 1995), Lawrence Reid (Pickerington, 2000).
Katzenmoyer, who was named Mr. Football as a senior, helped the Wildcats earn a state runner-up finish in 1994 and a regional runner-up finish the next year. He went on to play for Ohio State and for two seasons with the New England Patriots.
Reid helped Pickerington end a seven-year playoff drought as a junior in 1999 and then was the district's Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. He played three seasons for Michigan before an injury ended his career.
Hughes helped UA make the playoffs during each of his final three seasons before turning his focus to a college and professional lacrosse career.
Gwinn was a high school All-American as a senior and had begun to settle in as a defensive lineman for Ohio State when he died in a car crash on Dec. 12, 1993.Defensive Back
Jordan Gafford (Worthington Kilbourne, 2005), Dominic Jones (Brookhaven, 2004), Keiwan Ratliff (Whitehall, 1998), Ryan Redd (Pickerington, 2000).
Gafford started at quarterback and in the secondary as a senior when he was named the Super 25 captain before heading off to Miami University.
Jones made the Super 25 each of his final three prep seasons including as a senior when the Bearcats won the Division II state title.
Ratliff played for the University of Florida as well as in the NFL from 2004-10.
Redd, who also was a standout running back, earned first-team all-state honors and a scholarship to Miami with his play on defense. He had 80 tackles and 17 pass break-ups as a senior.Place-Kicker
J.D. Detmer (Hilliard Davidson, 2010).
Kicking a 58-yard field goal in a 47-6 first-round playoff win over Northland as a senior was just one of the accomplishments for Detmer, who now plays at Toledo.
He closed his prep career by making 36 of 46 field-goal attempts and 131 of 135 extra-point attempts. He was 13-for-16 on field-goal attempts as a senior.Punter
Ben Buchanan (Westerville Central, 2007).
There might not have been a better kicker/punter combination over the past 23 years than Buchanan, who averaged nearly 41 years per punt as a junior and senior and went on to punt for Ohio State.Return Specialist
Ryan Sprague (Kilbourne, 1998).
Sprague's talents as a kick returner became evident as a sophomore when he averaged 42.1 yards on 15 returns and scored five touchdowns.
He returned two kickoffs for touchdowns as a junior. Then as a senior, he returned two blocked punts for touchdowns.


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DETROIT (AP) ? A minivan carrying six members of a Michigan high school boys' golf team collided with another van on a rural road, killing the 30-year-old coach and a 17-year-old golfer, and a 27-year-old woman in the other vehicle.
DETROIT (AP) ? A minivan carrying six members of a Michigan high school boys' golf team collided with another van on a rural road, killing the 30-year-old coach and a 17-year-old golfer, and a 27-year-old woman in the other vehicle.
Four other members of the Grayling High School golf team were in critical condition after Monday morning's crash in Kalkaska County's Excelsior Township, 25 miles east of Traverse City.
The condition of a fifth golfer was not immediately available. The names of the victims were not released.
"It was pretty horrific," Michigan State Police Sgt. Don Bailey said of the crash.
Bailey told The Associated Press he came upon the crash shortly after it occurred about 11:30 a.m. Monday in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. He had to use a fire extinguisher to put out a fire in one of the vehicles.
"There were three ejections and those bodies were laying around," he said.
Excelsior Township is about 15 miles west of Grayling, which is in Crawford County.
The golf team was in a silver minivan and left Grayling for an invitational tournament in Traverse City. The minivan was northbound on Crawford Lake Road when it smashed into the side of a white minivan traveling east on County Road 612.
"Our initial investigation shows the white van may have been speeding," Bailey said. "There's also a question if the silver van stopped at a stop sign."
A woman driving the white minivan was in serious condition, while a 3-year-old girl in that vehicle appeared to be unhurt. Bailey said the girl was in a child restraint seat.
Students at Grayling High School were notified of the crash Monday afternoon, and events and practices were canceled, according to Joe Powers, superintendent of the Crawford AuSable Schools.
Crisis team counselors will be at the school Tuesday.
"We do have classes because we believe the students need each other," said Powers.
"We will delay the formal start of school to have an opportunity for students to talk to each other. We will have counselors throughout the building, including the hallway, so students can lean on adults they know and who they are comfortable with."
Powers said this was the golf coach's first year with the team.
Mike Fortino, general manager of the Grayling County Club, said one of the injured golfers was his nephew, an 18-year-old senior at the high school.
"He has a broken jaw and some teeth are knocked out," Fortino said.
The team has about 30 members and sometimes plays at the club, he added.
"They were going to a match (Monday) and only take six to eight players," said Fortino. "Some of the kids work here, have girlfriends here. Some of their mothers work here.
"The coach was new at his job. He was a personal friend. It's a bad day, a bad day."


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Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father Fouad was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad's brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher.
Aleppo, Syria. Opposition fighters regularly launched operations to seize suspected government informants after dark. Two informants were captured, declared guilty under interrogation, and tortured throughout the night; tired fighters had to be replaced so the torture could continue. After 48, hours the captives were released.
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles dragging the body of a man who was killed earlier as a suspected collaborator with Israel. The man was one of six suspected collaborators who, according to witnesses, were forced by masked men to lie down in the street and were shot in the back of the head. The Hamas military wing claimed responsibility.
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. Smoke rises after an Israeli strike.
Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter prepares to fire a rocket-propelled grenade against government forces.
Aleppo, Syria. Two rebel soldiers stand guard in the Karmel Jabl neighborhood of Aleppo. The dust from more than one hundred days of shelling, bombing, and firefights hung thick in the air around them as they took turns guarding their machine-gun nests.
Idib, Syria. Aida cries while recovering from severe injuries she received when her house was shelled by the Syrian Army. Her husband and two children were fatally wounded during the shelling.
Aleppo, Syria. A severely wounded child awaits medical treatment by the small staff of doctors in one of the city's last standing hospitals, as President Bashar al-Assad's army steps up its military campaign to regain control of the city.
Heglig, Sudan. A Sudan Armed Forces soldier lies dead in a pool of oil next to a leaking oil facility. He was killed during heavy fighting with southern Sudanese SPLA troops, after they entered the northern Sudan oil town during a brief but bloody border war between the two countries.
Jerusalem, Israel. Israeli border officers pepper spray an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City.
Zabadani, Syria. Flares seek to light up Free Syrian Army positions as government forces shell the village.
Rochester, NY, USA. Several police officers search a house for an armed suspect.
Ishinomaki, Japan. People walk down a road in a neighborhood ravaged by the tsunami.
Nairobi, Kenya. Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across.
San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The bodies of Lesbia Altamirano and Wilmer Orbera lie on the floor of a pool hall after being attacked by unidentified masked assailants in Choloma on the outskirts of the city. A wave of violence has made Honduras among the most dangerous places on Earth, with a homicide rate roughly 20 times that of the U.S. rate, according to a 2011 United Nations report.
Barcelona, Spain. Mireia Arnau, 39, reacts behind the broken glass of her shop, stormed by demonstrators during clashes with the police at a general strike in the city.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Natalia Gonzales, a 15-year-old crack user, poses for a portrait in an area known as 'Crackland' in the Manguinhos slum.
Hanoi, Vietnam. Tran Van Chuc and Nguyen Van Dung have been together for more than one year. Vietnam has historically been unwelcoming to same-sex relationships. But its Communist government is considering recognizing same-sex marriage, a move that would make it the first Asian country to do so, despite past human rights issues and a long-standing stigma. In August 2012, the country's first public gay pride parade took place in Hanoi.
Herat, Afghanistan. Zahra, 20, burned herself four years ago. Women are in a subordinate position in Afghan society, where conservative Islamic laws and tribal traditions dictate what they are allowed to do. Forced marriages, domestic violence, poverty, and lack of access to education are said to be some of the main reasons for self-immolation.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA. Oglala youths hold an upside-down flag, an international symbol of distress and an act of defiance toward the U.S. government, at a rally to commemorate the 1975 shoot-out between American Indian Movement (AIM) activists and FBI agents. Two agents and one AIM member died; AIM's Leonard Peltier was jailed for life.
New Delhi, India. Every morning, children from nearby slums arrive in small groups, barefoot and carrying mats and brooms and start cleaning a portion of a land under a metro rail bridge, which will be their school for the rest of the morning.
Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. A jockey, his feet stepped into a harness strapped to the bulls and clutching their tails, shows relief and joy at the end of a dangerous run across rice fields. The Pacu Jawi (bull race) is a popular competition at the end of harvest season keenly contested between villages.
Jiaxing, China. Young male gymnasts stretch their legs as a female gymnast jumps onstage during a warmup at a youth sports school in Zhejiang Province.
London, UK. A swimmer soars above the water in the synchronized swimming competition.
Kolesa, Czech Republic. Velká pardubická is one of the oldest and most challenging cross-country steeplechase runs in continental Europe. It has been held since 1874 in Pardubice, the Czech Republic, some 100 kilometers east of Prague. The difficulty of the 6,900-meter-long race, held in October, is rather unique for the horsemen due to the winding, deep, heavily ploughed, demanding course with equally difficult fences. It is the highpoint for any Czech jockey, who dreams if not of winning the race, then at least of riding it.
London, UK. Gold medal winner Jiyeon Kim of South Korea kisses her medal during the award ceremony of the Women's Sabre Individual Fencing.
London, UK. Andrea Baldini of Italy celebrates defeating Yuki Ota of Japan to win the gold medal match 45-39 in the Men's Foil Team Fencing finals.
Mogadishu, Somalia. Suweys at her mother's home, four kilometers from the center of Mogadishu. In Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, young women risk their lives to play basketball. Suweys, the 19-year-old captain of a women's basketball team, and her friends defy radical Islamist views on women's rights. They have received many death threats from not only al-Shabaab militias and radical Islamists, but some male members of their own families. " I just want to dunk," said Suweys. It is on the basketball court she feels happiest. "Basketball makes me forget all my problems."
Tokyo, Japan. Kenji Daido The life-long discipline, harsh physical training, and preparation for the fight can explain the half-god status of Sumo in Japan today. Part of a team, the wrestlers are required to follow a strongly codified community life; the youngest execute tasks for the community and even serve the oldest.
Yangon, Myanmar. Lethwei is an unarmed Burmese martial art similar to styles of Indochinese kickboxing. Lone Chaw, 31, a three-time Myanmar National Champion and the sport's real legend, opened a gym where he is now seeking to pass on his skills to the younger generation.
Dulombi, Guinea. Bissau Many young football players around the world touch their first ball on a field of bare dirt. Here a youth group plays on a 'football field' that was the site of military barracks and fields of the former Portuguese colonies in the country.
Jeselo, Italy. Summer holiday camping. Someone is up a little too early.
Youngstown, Ohio, USA. Every day, John McLean, 65, visits the St. Vincent DePaul Society Dining Hall, where homeless and poor people can eat a good meal, socialize and get warm. In 2011, Youngstown was named the poorest of the 100 largest cities in the country; more than one in three citizens live below the poverty line.
Rome, Italy. Mirella in the privacy of her room. Mirella, 71, spent 43 years of her life with the only person she loved, with all of life's difficulties, laughter, and beautiful moments. But over the last six years things changed: Mirella lived with her husband Luigi's illness, Alzheimer's, and devoted her life to him as his caregiver.
Rome, Italy. Sharon, a sex worker, on her makeshift bed. For nearly 20 years, the women of Benin City, a town in the state of Edo in the south-central part of Nigeria, have traveled to Italy to work in the sex trade. Every year, successful ones recruit younger girls to follow in their steps. Most migrant women, including those who end up in the sex industry, have made a clear decision to leave home and take their chances overseas. They are headstrong and ambitious women who migrate in order to escape conflict, persecution, environmental degradation, natural disasters, and other situations that affect their habitat and livelihood.
San Salvador, El Salvador. An anti-gang police unit searches for gang members. Many in El Salvador remain skeptical that the truce will stick, noting that young men in poor neighborhoods lack alternatives and there is no easy way to lure them off the streets.
The favelas in Rio de Janeiro, slums where drugs and guns are a daily reality, are often separated by only one street from the richest and most exclusive areas of the city. With the World Cup coming to Rio in 2014, and the Olympics in 2016, politicians are trying to clean up and pacify the favelas. New roads are being built, children play, and mothers take their children to school. Yet there remains an abundance of drugs and alcohol, conflicts between locals and the pacification police, and people who wish things would return to the way they used to be. What will happen when the big events have passed?
Belgrade, Serbia. Milan Ponjiger survived a fall from the sixth floor, but his mother and father did not. "We jumped from our balcony because we had big financial problems," he said. The economic crisis in Serbia has been going on since early 1990, as a result of the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Soroe, Denmark. Since the age of 18, Bonnie Cleo Andersen has been working as a prostitute, a profession legal in Denmark since 1999. Now 38, she owns a house in a village where she runs a brothel by herself. She had a hard and violent childhood and has gone to prison more than once. Today, her only goal is that her children will have a better life than hers.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA. American Girl is a popular line of dolls that can be customized to look exactly like their owners. Kayla poses with her lookalike doll against a portrait of her ancestors.
Bam, Iran. Only Ra'na and Somayeh kiss each other with true love. Because of their disfiguration, others don't like to kiss them. Somayeh Mehri, 29, and her three-year-old daughter Ra'na live in a small town in one of the poorest regions in Iran. Somayeh's husband, Amir Afghanipour, a thief and drug addict, hit her and locked her up many times. If she followed through with plans to divorce, he threatened that she would not live her life with her face. Then one night in June 2011, he poured a bucket of acid on his wife and child while they slept. Their faces, hands, and bodies were severely burned; Somayeh lost her ability to see and Ra'ana lost one of her eyes. Somayeh still needs hundreds of surgeries and Ra'na needs more than 70. The government and villagers have paid for some of these surgeries, sometimes selling their land to pay for more operations.
Olivenza, Spain. Padilla adjusts his 'montera', or bullfighter hat, before a bullfight in a southwestern Spanish town. Juan Jose Padilla, a 38-year-old Spanish matador who is also known by his professional name of 'the Cyclone of Jerez', lost sight in one eye and has partial facial paralysis after a terrifying goring. Five months after his injury, he returned to the bullring.
Tilburg, the Netherlands. After living with his father for ten years and staying in a youth shelter, Martin, 18, returned home two years ago to live with his mother. He arrived with some clothes in a bag and no work or degree.
London, UK. Actor Daniel Kaluuya
Beijing, China. Ai Weiwei
Warsaw, Poland. Zuzia, sensitive to sunlight due to her albinism, attends a special school for partially sighted children and dreams of meeting someone like herself.
Conakry, Guinea. Boubacour Diallo, 18, tumor in his head. "I am born like this. This hump has always been there. It is God's will. People sometimes laugh at me, but that doesn't bother me. I am an honest Muslim. I don't fear death."
Khoram-Abad, Iran. In different Shiite areas, mourning for Moharam takes various forms. One of the traditional ways in Iran is 'fourthly pulpits', held every year in Lorestan province, especially in Khoram-Abad, a city 310 miles away from Tehran. In this ceremony on the ninth day of Moharam, the first and most important Shiite month, women from different classes gather barefoot - traditionally wearing black mourning clothes - with covered faces and go to 40 different pulpits called 'saqa–khaneh'. They light a candle in silence to show their respects for Imam Husain, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad who was slain in battle during the month, while waiting for him to accept their wishes.
Zhangmu, China. Wu Mingjie, 4, parents working in Guangdong Province. Across China, nearly 50 million children do not live with their parents. Nearly every young person in Zhangmu, a village near Chongqing, works far from home, and 21 children were left behind. Fu Huaying is a substitute teacher in the village. All of the children love her, and she loves them too.
Black Mountain Road, Australia. The endangered Southern Cassowary feeds on the fruit of the Blue Quandang tree. Cassowaries are a keystone species in northern Australian rainforests because of their ability to carry so many big seeds such long distances.
Solo, Indonesia. One of the monkeys trained to entertain motorists along busy intersections in the Central Java city, Mimin wears a mask made from a doll's head. Monkeys purchased at local markets are trained for up to six months to perform tricks such as using stilts and playing the guitar, and are said to help their young owners earn up to 50,000 rupiah in a day ($5).
Bonaire, Netherlands. Antilles The eye of a Caribbean Trumpet fish (Aulostomus maculatus) refracts light into multiple colors.
Ross Sea, Antarctica. New science shows that Emperor Penguins are capable of tripling their swimming speed by releasing millions of bubbles from their feathers. These bubbles reduce the friction between their feathers and the icy seawater, allowing them to accelerate in the water. They use speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour to avoid leopard seals and to launch themselves up onto the ice. New science shows that Emperor Penguins are capable of tripling their swimming speed by releasing millions of bubbles from their feathers. These bubbles reduce the friction between their feathers and the icy seawater, allowing them to accelerate in the water. They use speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour to avoid leopard seals and to launch themselves up onto the ice.
Wenzhou Zoo, China. Ring-tailed Lemur
Hanifaru Bay Marine Reserve, Maldives. A whale shark breaks the surface while waiting for a tidal delivery of plankton into a large cul-de-sac in the coral reef. Once the waters turn from clear turquoise blue to cloudy green, this shark and others in the area will alternate between ram and suction feeding, to hoover and filter their planktonic food from the water column.
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View Podcast (30:35 min) Becca Stevens, founder of the Magdalene House and Thistle Farms, delivers the keynote speech at the 2011 National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC).
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This podcast series is part of the NSVRC xCHANGE forum where research and practice converge to end sexual violence.
Listen (12:37 min) In this NSVRC xCHANGE podcast, Dr. Sarah E. Ullman discusses her recent book, Talking About Sexual Assault: Society's Response to Survivors. This book explores women's rape disclosure, addressing such issues as why, how often, and to whom women disclose their sexual assault and how these responses affect survivors.
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(4:16 min) This video podcast features a conversation with Alison Bellavance, Director of Education and Training at Planned Parenthood of Northeast and Mid-Penn in Pennsylvania, about incorporating healthy sexuality approaches into sexual violence prevention work.
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(5:57 min) This video podcast features a conversation with Jonathan Yglesias, Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator for the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance about the state's YES Campaign and their vision for branding prevention.
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ARM Chief: It's a Bit Early to Write Intel's Obituary
Even Intel's chief rival thinks that the chip giant still has some good years left.
Asked about Intel's future, ARM Chief Executive Warren East noted that Intel is a company that has successfully navigated a number of big changes during the 60-year history of the chip industry. So those who write the company off are probably making a mistake, East said.
"I think it's a little bit early to call that sort of thing for Intel," East said, kicking off the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. "Intel has successfully in that time reinvented themselves from a memory maker into a microprocessor company."
Nonetheless, ARM and the legion of companies that make chips using ARM's designs certainly have their sights set on Intel's key markets. Once relegated to low-end devices, ARM-based chips dominate the smartphone market and, with the release of Windows RT, now are competing in the PC market as well.
ARM last week announced a new line of 64-bit chips aimed at bringing a threefold increase in performance for roughly the same amount of power consumption. The company is also working to bring its chips into another power-sensitive area: The data center.
Technology, East notes, already consumes 10 percent of the world's electricity, highlighting the need for more power-efficient chips. He likened it to the auto industry where miles-per-gallon has replaced horsepower as the key benchmark.
"That is an essential part of the equation," East said.
East said that he sees continued tough competition, whether it is his firm and other chip players or on the device front, between Apple, Google, Samsung and others.


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New for Colorado
White River National Forest Map
Finally! The new White River National Forest map is now available. More than 10 million people visit this popular forest each year and now they will have a new map to help them in their explorations. The scale of this shaded relief map is 1:126,720 or one half inch equals one mile. Campgrounds, picnic grounds, trails and trailheads, scenic view points, wilderness areas and much more. Printed on water and tear proof material.
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Welcome to Colorado
Colorado contains a microcosm of almost all that is astounding about the West. Endless stretches of plains rise up slowly to the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains, then down to arid mesas, redrock canyons, and narrow mountain valleys.
The Front Range, or eastern face, of the Rocky Mountains is what Colorado is justly known for. Visit once, and you'll rave about the ski areas with perfect snow and mind-boggling views, deer browsing in mountain meadows, or columbine growing by a glacier-fed creek. The Front Range is also the most populous, and recreational facilities tend to be highly developed and modern. The public lands of the western slope, on the other hand, offer an intriguing glimpse of the past. Fossils mark where dinosaurs roamed; ancient ruins and petroglyphs dot thecanyons and tablelands; and historic mining towns nestle in steep-sided valleys. The Plains have relatively little public lands, although the state manages a number of excellent wildlife viewing or hunting areas.
Take some time to explore the wonders of Colorado here at the Colorado Public Lands Information Center. You will discover a wealth of detailed information about where to go and what to do while touring the public lands of this state.
In our Maps & Books section, you can purchase books, maps, and other educational items to make your virtual or real visit truly rewarding. To begin your journey, click on Recreation Search.
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You have surely heard someone say they don't build 'em like they used to? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep Pickup is a perfect example of how they used to build 'em, but will its modern-day price give you the willies?
Hey, check out the new blog format, pretty sweet, huh? Not so sweet - in fact, seemingly leaving a sour taste in the mouths of the 79% of you who gave it a Crack Pipe loss - was yesterday's 2006 Lotus Elise. Sure everyone loves an Elise, but when an accident is so severe that it inflicts damage to both car and title, it's sometimes best just to walk away.
Sure the Elise is a modern interpretation of the classic less-weight equals more speed school of thought, and even meets today's stringent safety and pollution wrangling mandates to boot, but as yesterday's car proved, it has its limits. Today's 1962 Willys Jeep Pickup has none of those constraints, and it may very well be the last vehicle you'd ever need to buy.
What calamity do your tea leaves foretell? Armageddon? Meteor attack? A big sale at Pennys? Whatever the disaster, this Jeep is built to survive it. Sure Subaru may claim pownage of the zombie apocalypse, but really, when the shizzle hits the fan, you're going to want something with a little more ground clearance than a WRX, as well as a handy place to mount your double pump.
This pickup is based on the same robust ladder frame as the Jeepster, and maintains leaf-sprung solid axles at both ends, the front one being a Dana 25 while a Dana 53 holds up the back. In between is a Spicer two-speed transfer case, and bolted to that is a Borg Warner T90 3-speed with overdrive. Power is provided by the massively robust Super Hurricane flathead six, an engine that displaces 226 cubic inches and produces 105-bhp. I said it should last until the end of days, I didn't say it wouldn't take that long to get there.
Outside, this Jeep has the expected vertical grille, round headlamps, and flat-topped fenders you would expect of the related Jeepster, while in back there's a step-side bed where you might otherwise assume there to be a wagon's tail. That bed here is coated in enough diamond plate to be a girl's best friend, and the tailgate sports the twin I-beam embossing shared with the FC pickups.
Under that is the step bumper of the gods. Other trucks may have rear bumpers that do double duty as perch for your Timberlands, but they all pale in comparison to this one, which is more a wrap-around porch than a bumper. Overall it appears to be a very well maintained and considerately updated truck- the paint looks shiny, the body seems as straight as an old Jeep could be expected to appear, and the alloy rims look. . . well, like ass.
Those totally incongruous wheels are about the only issue one might have with the exterior presentation of this Willys, the diamonds on the soles of her bed being a toss up. But of course the rims are an easy fix if you know which end of a lug wrench goes where. Inside things are better with a pair of faux sheep adorning the twin buckets and a center bin that looks appropriately nicked and dented (hmm, Nick Denton?) evidencing this as a place where work gets done, and not one where earl grey tea gets sipped. Instrumentation is augmented, but still sparse, and it may be disconcerting to discover that the Speedo is marked with single digits. Despite that graphic choice this Jeep assuredly will do more than 9 miles per hour.
However, it won't do oodles more, being built for the comfort of slogging over either rough terrain or the oleaginous entrails of zombie hordes, rather than for speed. It also will serve well for parades, and for Fireman fantasy fulfillment requiring only a pair of red suspenders and a Dalmatian to complete the effect. Mileage? Who the hell knows or cares, as the lifespan of trucks like this Jeep aren't counted in miles, but in decades, or perhaps even centuries as there's little to stand in the way of it's surviving to the next big calendar flip-over.
But what of its price, is that also one for the ages? The seller is asking $7,500 for someone to move to you-Jeep-istan, and that's a lot of dough for an old and very basic vehicle. Remember, this Jeep lacks A/C, power anything, and has the driving dynamics of a riding mower, it will, however, last a long, long time. That means that any price paid could be amortized over years or even decades, making its full CPY (cost per year) eyebrow-raisingly low.
What do you think, is this Jeep worth $7,500? Or, does that make you think they don't price 'em like they used to?
You decide!
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019
7:45 pm - 9:05 pm
By Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage
Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. This spring, Chicago Shakespeare stages the critically acclaimed new musical SIX, following its debut in the United Kingdom and celebrated West End run. The six wives of King Henry VIII join forces for an electrifying musical celebration of empowerment—shining a spotlight on women who are so much more than the history books might lead us to believe. The all-woman cast, backed by an all-woman band known as the "Ladies in Waiting," traverses the spectrum of modern-day pop with a soundtrack that has stormed up the UK charts. The queens take the mic to reclaim their identities out of the shadow of their infamous spouse—remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of twenty-first-century girl power.
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TREVOSE, Pa., July 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Moments after learning that the world's oldest man credits his longevity to a daily dose of six Anacin tablets and one banana, scientists at Insight Pharmaceuticals began to investigate whether 'Bananacin' – a banana-flavored Anacin tablet – might be the elixir for longevity.
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According to multiple news reports, 112-year-old Salustiano "Shorty" Sanchez-Blazquez of Grand Island, New York, credits the banana-Anacin combo for his extended life. Born in 1901, Guinness World Records now recognizes Shorty as the world's oldest man.
"Historically, apples are the fruit most associated with staying healthy and avoiding doctors," said Jennifer Moyer, vice president of marketing for Insight Pharmaceuticals. "Our scientists had never looked into the banana before. But now that the certified oldest man in the world credits bananas and Anacin as his life-extending combo, we're certainly going to explore whether a new 'Bananacin' product makes sense."
Anacin, invented in 1916 by William Milton Knight, is one of the oldest brands of pain relievers in the United States. Its unique formula contains two important ingredients – aspirin and caffeine – to deliver fast pain relief from headaches. Anacin is currently available in regular and maximum strength tablets as well as regular strength caplets; Insight Pharmaceuticals is exploring a banana-shaped capsule for the new 'Bananacin' flavor.
"Forget the fountain of youth – 'Bananacin' could be a game-changer for life expectancy," Moyer noted. "If nothing else, 'Bananacin' sounds delicious! And it only makes sense that the oldest man in the world recognizes the benefits of Anacin, which is one of the oldest brand pain relievers in the U.S."
While Insight Pharmaceuticals scientists work to bring 'Bananacin' to drugstores nationwide, headache sufferers can visit www.Anacin.com to download a $2 coupon for any original Anacin product. Bargain hunters can follow Anacin on Twitter (@Anacin) to double their coupon to $4.
"We're committed to helping people have better days by giving them fast pain relief – especially for those great nights that are followed by rough mornings," Moyer continued. "And if we can somehow discover how to help them add days to their life with 'Bananacin,' it's a win-win."
About Anacin:
Anacin®, a licensed product of Insight Pharmaceuticals, is one of the oldest pain relievers in the United States and has been a trusted brand for over 50 years. It is a leading cure for minor aches and pains associated with headaches, backaches, cramps, stiff muscles, the common cold, toothaches, and minor pains of arthritis. For more information, please visit Anacin.com or follow us on Twitter (@Anacin) or Facebook (Facebook.com/AnacinRelief).
About Insight Pharmaceuticals:
INSIGHT Pharmaceuticals, LLC is a consumer products company whose strategy is to generate growth by acquiring brands with solid consumer equity that can be further developed through their merchandising and marketing expertise. The company strengthens its portfolio of brands by employing a variety of strategies, all with an in-depth understanding of the heritage of the brand and the needs of the consumer. Additional information about Insight Pharmaceuticals can be found at www.InsightPharma.com. Media Contact: Company Contact:Robert Johnson
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Why? It completely obliterates their previously prepared narrative of, "ZOMG!!! Democrats are running away from Shelley Berkley and her SCANDALS!!!!" They're having such a hard time realizing that somehow her campaign has been able to scoot past Dean Heller's manufactured "controversy" and turn the "scandalous" spotlight back onto Dean Heller and his actual record.
In particular, a handful of pundits are screaming out Berkley calling out Heller for his support of Paul Ryan's Medicare busting plan. While they're arguing over semantics, they're ignoring the fact that "Ryan-care" would indeed end the traditional Medicare system and dramatically raise health care costs for seniors if enacted.
Even a REPUBLICAN member of Congress recently admitted the truth behind Paul Ryan's spin. He even sent a flier to his constituents late last month highlighting his opposition to "Ryan-care"!
House Republicans approved a budget in April that would drive up Medicare costs for seniors, and Mitt Romney has embraced the plan crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). But not all in the party are in agreement. Ten Republicans voted against Ryan's budget in April, and now, Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) is campaigning on his opposition to it. [...]
The GOP plan that McKinley opposes would give seniors the option of enrolling in traditional Medicare or taking a stipend to buy their own health care policy on the private market. Republicans have argued it would slow the federal government's rising costs for Medicare, but the Congressional Budget Office says the plan would increase seniors' out-of-pocket costs by privatizing Medicare.
In the flier, McKinley says Congress "must balance the budget," but not on the backs of seniors. McKinley spokesman Jim Forbes told the Los Angeles Times that the congressman "is standing for what he believes in," but in an election cycle dominated by health care and budget issues, McKinley's stance is out of step with the rest of his party.
And this is exactly what Shelley Berkley has been saying. Unlike the manufactured "Kidney-gate SCANDAL!!!" about nothing, Heller actually voted for "Ryan-care". And if it's really not as frightening as Berkley's ad suggests, why won't Heller run on it? Why won't he just come out and defend his BFF Paul Ryan? What could he possibly be afraid of?
So keep this in mind as you hear media pundits console Dean Heller's campaign as they whine and complain about Shelley Berkley's new ads.


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Optimized to deliver the maximum lumens per watt in the smallest packages, Strato 70 Constant Current drivers are the perfect choice for new commercial and residential LED lighting applications with limited space for electronics.
The series offers designers a choice of 6 standard models. They have a wide range input and are 90% efficient. Strato 70 has a 10% - 100% dimmable output current (with 0-10V dimming), temperature protection for the LEDS and worldwide safety approvals, making them a desirable choice virtually anywhere in the world. Strato 70 incorporates a host of integrated features that simplify lighting fixture design, reduce time to market, reduce safety approval cycle time, and decrease lighting fixture size, complexity and cost.


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Roundup for Weekend Herb Blogging #6
Since that first weekend what started as a joke between Sweetnicks and I has turned into a regular weekend event. This weekend once again bloggers from all over the world participated.
First to send an entry was Vijay from the great Indian food blog My Dhaba. Every week Vijay sends us something interesting and unusual, and this week he featured the date palm, lots of interesting information about dates, and a great recipe for Date Kheer (pudding). Best of all was a charming photo of Vijay's son Adarsh, showing off a handfull of freshly-picked dates.
Next to send in a link was Cookiecrumb from I'm Mad and I Eat, one of my favorite blogs. Cookiecrumb sent a photo of her always adorable dog, Bean Sprout, nestled among some sage and a very interesting sounding recipe for Sage Pecan Cheese Wafers. (Cookiecrumb, what if I tried making them with whole wheat flour?)
Next was a new participant (seems like every week we get at least one or two new people!) Ruth from Once Upon a Feast sent some photos of impressive looking pots of basil and rosemary that she had on her porch in August and some lovely cut herbs as well. Since Ruth is in Toronto, her herbs that were growing madly back then are now feeling the effects of winter. (Ruth, I don't think I have ever told you, but one of my best friends in Salt Lake is from Toronto.)
Next was another new participant, Mae Gabriel from the blog Rice and Noodles. Mae told me she was from Jersey in the Channel Islands, and I got out my Atlas to be sure I knew where it was. Turns out I am just another uninformed American when it comes to Geography, despite being a teacher. (If you didn't know either, the Channel Islands are in the English Channel, and Jersey is quite close to the coast of France.) What a great place to live. Anyway, back to herb blogging, Mae shared a photo of her amazing garlic plant and some interesting information about garlic.
Indira was next to post with her beautiful photo of spinach (Palak, Pala Kura) as well as recipes for Spinach Dal and Palak Paneer. Indira writes the blog Mahanandi, where her photos of gorgeous Indian food always make me hungry. I don't have much experience cooking Indian food, but there is a great store in Salt Lake called India Unlimited where I love to shop. (I confess Indira, I mostly buy jars of premixed curry paste or cilantro chutney.)
Next up, Farmgirl sends an amazingly sunlit photo of escarole with a lone stalk of dill shooting out. If you have not visited Farmgirl Fare to see the daily farm photo, you're missing out on some great photos. I haven't ever grown escarole, but it was also beautiful in this photo.
As for myself, this weekend it was time for Thyme (to round out Simon and Garfunkel's famous four). I do have an intersting thyme recipe that I'll be posting this week also, but I was too busy over the weekend celebrating my dad's 80th birthday to post it.
Next weekend we will be back with more interesting and unusal posts about herbs, plants, veggies, or flowers, so if you're a blogger, come and join in the fun.


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sarahfimm necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 185 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Sarah Fimm
Sarah Fimm is a recording artist and performer based in Woodstock, NY. Her music has been featured in both television and film. She's toured with Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Delerium. Sarah has released six albums to date and is now working on completing her seventh to be released in 2010. Featured on this record are such well-known musicians as Josh Freese, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, Earl Slick and more. Her last record "Red Yellow Sun" was a mixture of orchestral and rock music. The new album will just plain rock.
Sarah has a broad and international audience of all ages. Her music is enjoyed by fans of A Perfect Circle, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Muse, Grace Slick, and many other artists.
Sarah is in need of a new logo to be used on a soon-to-be-completely-redesigned website as well as stickers, t-shirts, and other merchandise.
The new album is moving in a rock direction so we're looking to steer clear of anything too girly or flowery. Originality is important, nothing too simple or generic, don't be afraid to break the boundaries of what you think might be acceptable.
Some of Sarah's music can be heard:
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More songs from the new rock record can be sent upon request.
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text: This table puts everything for one swimmer on one page in one table. "Std" (for Marian) is 1st in the USMS Top Ten. "CanDo" is the time the Duck thinks Marian can swim. "Perf" is Marian's best actual time. "CanDo%" is "CanDo" indexed to the "Std". "Perf%" is "Perf" indexed to the "Std". "Hope" is the amount of improvement the Duck thinks Marian can achieve. (It is assumed that Marian gains 1 seconds for each turn in a 50 and 2 seconds for each turn in a 1500.) Click here for USMS data. (updated 7/14/14 08:01)


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CUM Books has become a much-loved and popular name in South African homes for many years. This chain of Christian family bookshops began when six NG Kerk-boekhandel shops were bought. In 1993 CUM Books began to enter major shopping malls. The first shops were opened in Westgate and Greenacres. Since then, CUM Books has gone from strength to strength and there are now over 40 branches countrywide and an online store.
The 360 Virtual Tour of this store was created by 360 Productions.
The city of Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, and home to many historical buildings.


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
October 10th is the ten year anniversary of the death of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, for over 50 years the Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, and for 17 years, my Master (may God bless his soul and raise him to the highest rank of His beloveds). To commemorate the occasion, his own poem is a fitting tribute to his life and station:
My heart holds Your home,
my head desiring You;
Night and day have all passed,
while I am pledged to You.
I have suffered at the hand
of the people of the time;
In the world I've only seen
fidelity from You.
I've been drunk with Your wine
Since pre-eternity;
I surrendered to Your will
till post-eternity.
I've no hope for heaven
or for the Resurrection;
I have never wanted
anyone but You.
Once I realized that in reality
the Path cannot be traveled
Except on Your feet,
I lost both my head and feet.
With every breath I take
I am conscious of You;
I gave up heart and soul
for contentment from You.
If, like Nurbakhsh, you have pledged
yourself wholeheartedly to God;
The creation then will be ready
to pledge itself to you.
– from the Divan of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
Ya Haqq!


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Geneva is a glazed ceramic with an exquisite sandstone visual featuring a diagonal granular appearance available in both warm and a cool modern color options sure to appeal to today's customer. Comes in two colors.
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When Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, got a call from DC Comics about its latest Superman storyline, the famed astrophysicist saw an opportunity to make real science a part of superhero lore.
He said to DC: How about I find you a real star that could be home to Superman's native planet, Krypton? He did, and here's how.


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'The Onion' is fake, Globe uncovers
In a big-city newspaper exclusive, The Boston Globe today uncovered evidence that The Onion, a website that claims to be "America's Finest News Source,'' is in fact not a legitimate news source, but a website full of satire and fake news.
The newspaper discovered the shocking truth after scouring a recent Onion article. The article is headlined "Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of Big City.'' The giveaway that the article was satire was the use of the word "charming'' in the same sentence with the "T,'' the city's trolley and subway system. Bostonians use many words to describe the "T'' and it's fair to say, the Globe has learned, that "charming'' is not one of them.
Another obvious mistake was the Onion's quoting of a Boston College student, who said "It's really cool going to school in the city.'' Any savvy Bostonian knows that describing Boston College as being "in the city'' is obviously a falsehood.
If there was one clue, more than all the others, to the article being suspicious, it was a reference to people eating a big, fancy dinner at the top of the Prudential Center. When a reporter queried a person entering the Prudential Center and asked if there is a restaurant on top, the man laughed and said, "That's wicked funny.''
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Philip Stein watches are not merely watches, they are also designed to contribute significantly to your health and well-being by wearing them. The 'Prestige Automatic Gents Philip Stein' is no exception. Under the case of the twin-subdial face which features dual time-zone and date displays, is a thin metal plate called a natural frequency disc. Apparently, when worn on the wrist, the fundamental frequencies of the Earth transmitted by this disc interact with what is known as the human biofield.
The frequencies that resonate from the watch "regulate" the body, enabling the person wearing it to be less vulnerable to stress. It's called Frequency Technology, and the company fits these plates into each of their watches. Since the company launched in 2002, they have received thousands of endorsements from customers who have reported better sleep, less tension, improved concentration and improved overall well-being. Perhaps the most important endorsement came in 2003 when media giant Oprah Winfrey featured the watch on her 'Oprah's Favorite Things' show.
Philip Stein was founded by owners Will and Rina Stein. Will, a marketing expert with broad business experience, and Rina, a watch designer, combined their knowledge and skills to develop the brand.
Drawing on Rina's 28 years of experience in the watch business, Will's extensive marketing background and their newly acquired knowledge that natural frequencies had the power to improve one's overall well-being, the couple set out to develop a watch that promoted health and combine it with unique looking watches featuring a dual time zone and interchangeable straps.
When the watch range first became available in 2002, it marked the first time in history that frequency-based technology had been incorporated into a luxury watch brand.
But does this "frequency technology" really work? Frequency-based technology is based on some of the premises of Nikola Tesla, known as the "father of physics" and Winfried Otto Schumann, a physicist who discovered that the earth's frequency ranges between 7-9Hz. Many scientists have since come to believe that 7-9Hz is also the frequency that the human body needs to reach optimal health.
By incorporating alloy chips and disks that mimic the earth's frequency, Philip Stein's watches are said to help balance the energy flow of the wearer and reduce stress. In other words, Philip Stein's watches are more than just a fashionable timepiece – they help avoid stress by keeping our bodies in harmony with the earth's natural rhythms.
The distinctive features of the watch range have also received much praise. From the dual time zone dial to the aperture in the back of the casing offering a glimpse of the company's Frequency Technology, and the interchangeable watch straps, the Philip Stein range has become a significant player in the Swiss watch industry. Today, Philip Stein watches are sold in 25 countries around the world. The product line has expanded to include a wide range of styles.
The Prestige Automatic is made of highly polished stainless steel with a black exterior and white interior with "Clous de Paris" motif. The movement is an automatic ETA 2671. The upper subdial features hours, minutes, seconds, and date at 6 o'clocck, while the lower subdial features dual time-zone display. It comes on a brown crocodile leather strap and is expected to retail upwards of US$3500.


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who accuse you violence? (not that it would surprise julie: you never met war not like, you pissant.)and you absolutely incorrect about senate bill, which is one of current lies being spread by your ilk. merged senate bill does not allow federal money be used abortions, however many times you and yours lie about it. bill does allow women buy unsubsidized abortion coverage with own money, but assholes like you not able handle even that. given how this set up, it highly unlikely such plans even be offered by insurance companies. rich women, of course, still can get their abortions.
obama gave you nothing much at all. that why bachman say she "heartbroken" and stupak called "baby killer" by one your zygote-savers on floor house.you pretend happy because your hope defeating health care reform dashed. putz.
sure. now tap your ruby slippers together three times and say it again.
I want to know what health care is the best it?


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This flatware comes from a large clearance lot of assorted cutlery we sourced from a Sheffield factory. The cutlery was produced between 40 and 60 years ago and includes cancelled orders and end of lines. All are unfinished items. The company (called Cotelere Ltd) produced high end cutlery for Mappin & Webb, Garrards, Asprey, C J Vander, Roberts & Belk as well as private commissions for Luxury yachts etc. Some of the cutlery is older stock from another company called Fletcher that was purchased by Cotelere.
All cutlery is unfinished needing polishing and perhaps silver plating to really set them off. Or perhaps you like this rough unfinished state. We certainly do! It has been stored for some decades and has gained tarnish and patina in that time. All pieces are strong and functional.
These items are priced individually. Some pieces we have many hundreds of and some just a few.
See the quantity box for the amount we have available. You will only pay postage for the first piece you buy. The rest are sent free.
Makers mark / hallmarks: not finished items so hallmark not added
Sourced: in England
Origin: Sheffield, England
Age: circa 1950-70's
Materials: metal, steel
Size roughly: 7.5 inches
Weight unpacked roughly: 60 g
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text: Hastings 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2012 Hey guys, Hastings here with a quick few questions, I would appreciate any input or tips . I have been playing Swtor since the very hour of its release date, and was a 5 year WoW player. Now back when i played WoW, I believe I may have picked up a bad habit. I stopped using my keyboard for movement entirely and only used it for key bindings. Which means I relied on my mouse for ALL my movement. (Meaning I would just hold down my right/left mouse buttons to move, turn and adjust camera) this free'd up the letters "w,a,s,d,q,e" for more keybindings, which at the time I thought was a good idea. now in swtor this habit is haunting me, my main dmg keybindings currently are "1,2,3,4,5,q,w,a,s,d,f,g," then "+ shift" to all of them for twice as many. now because i only use my mouse for movement and turning I had to keybind "Target nearest enemy" to the letter "E" and tap "Tab" to change targets, because i was unable to target with my mouse. in PvE and while levelling a melee class I found no issue with this current keybinding and targeting set up. I'm not an idiot, I do know the disadvantages with this set up, such as: 1. I no longer have strafing (all my characters are melee classes tho, so it is LESS necessary) 2. If I wanted to target a foe that was NOT the closest, I had to stop moving and quickly use my mouse to target (although "tab" does cycle thro targets) 3. I could not turn my camera WITHOUT turning my character 4. and could not reverse But I figured those were a small sacrifice for the comfortable keybinds of "q,w,e,a,s,d,". I also know the advantages of this setup. 1. quick character turning for melee classes allowing you to get behind you target fast. 2. smooth character turning allowing full control of the degree of the angles you turn at 3. freeing up "q,w,e,a,s,d" for easy hand placement for dmg attacks. 4. i could move any direction and keep attacking with all my attacks (unlike if u were turning with your "D" key and needed to use your "F" keybind) But now in Swtor level 50 PvP I find it extra hard to target enemies that are on different levels/hights in hut ball and so on. So now considering the pros, and cons, and the fact I personally enjoy melee classes more. !!!Should I stick to my personal setup, where I am more comfortable and my muscle memory is already in place, or should I try to rebind all my attacks and go back to movement with my keyboard?!!! Any and all of your input and suggestions are much appreciated, thank you for taking your time and reading my about issue, I thank you and I appreciate it. - Hastings (50 sith jug - realm= crucible pits) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Most people know that being overweight is not healthy, yet losing weight can be difficult. This guide will help you through the weight loss process by explaining how successful weight loss really happens. If you've tried to lose weight before, don't view past efforts as failure. Instead, learn better weight-loss strategies, try again, and make this time different!
- I. Healthy Weight Loss
- Step 1: The benefits of a healthy weight
- Step 2: What is your ideal weight?
- Step 3: Causes and medical considerations
- Step 4: How to lose weight the healthy way
- II. The Basics of Losing Weight
- Step 5: Modify your diet
- Step 6: Create healthy food habits
- Step 7: Get moving
- III. Motivation and Help
- Step 8: Small steps add up
- Step 9: You can do it
- Step 10: Choosing a weight loss program
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Law students taking the State Bar examinations in California will not be compelled to take the test on July 27 if it interferes with their religious practice.
The date set for this examination is the Hebrew date of 9 Av when Jews fast in mourning for the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. After an eight-month lobbying effort by Jewish students and organizations, the bar examination committee reversed an earlier decision and allowed observant Jews to have the same privilege as their counterparts in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Missouri of postponing the test to a more convenient date.
It all started with an appeal from test candidate Baruch Cohen who sent a letter to the state bars admissions office in which he explained the nature of the day and its restrictions on eating and washing.
"The California bar examination is challenging enough as it is," he wrote. "It must be hard to imagine what it must be like to take this grueling exam while fasting and not showering."


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The 28-year-old Girls free spirit allowed photographer Kristina Loggia to follow her for a day around her Brooklyn home, with side trips to the local library and a neighborhood diner. Click through the gallery ahead for photos, plus Kirke's thoughts on Mommy groups, naked groping, and Shabbat dinner. (Best read with lilting British accent.)
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Appendix A
Statement of Reinhard A. Hohaus on Part II, "Hospital Insurance
for Older People and the Disabled"
The issues posed by this section of the Report are quite complex
and far reaching in their impact. Extensive experience and studies
in both private and social insurance lead me to take exception to
the basic recommendation made in Part II. In short, I believe the
analysis and the proposals contained in this part of the Report
should be regarded as primarily a useful means of fostering discussion
as to what might be the most appropriate ultimate moves. My reasons
for these reservations are summarized briefly below.
This proposal to provide social insurance to pay for hospital care
and certain related medical services for older people and the disabled
differs profoundly from our system of paying cash benefits to beneficiaries
under social security. I believe the proposal and its implications
should be examined and evaluated more thoroughly before any final
conclusions are reached.
The Report recognizes quite correctly that more is involved here
than inpatient care in hospitals. It also acknowledges that some
flexibility is needed in providing medical care benefits; this need
is reflected by its proposals for benefits that would help pay the
cost of certain outpatient services and of home nursing care. There
are many uncertainties, however, as to what collateral effects the
covered services would have on other medical services.
We are not dealing with matters that are fixed or stable, but rather
with conditions that have been changing rapidly and will continue
to change. We know that the availability of voluntary insurance
and prepayment plans has already had marked effect on the utilization
of hospital facilities. With this have come very serious financial
questions. While the matter of cost is exceedingly important, we
also need to know much more clearly where any initial move is likely
to lead, so we can better judge whether the direction indicated
is a desirable path to take.
I have long been a strong supporter of the principles that have
been incorporated in our social security program. I am also strongly
inclined toward principles which advocate harmonizing voluntary
efforts with Governmental measures, such as the Report endorses.
Unquestionably, further evidence must be developed as to whether
or not this kind of partnership can be accomplished effectively
in the procedure proposed in the Report.
In the formulation of the proposals contained in the Report, not
enough recognition has been given to the rapid growth and present
scope of voluntary insurance for older people. Instead of supplementing
existing plans which have won wide public acceptance, the proposal
might lead to adverse consequences. Before moving into this area
the potential economic and social consequences should be weighed
at greater length than has been done. In like manner, the consequences
of alternative measures must also be considered before final conclusions
are reached.
Much progress has been made in better identifying the issues for
objective consideration and appraisal. The Report contributes substantially
toward that end, especially in its recognition that hospital care
is but one, though an important, area of medical care. It also recognizes
that in many cases care may be required far beyond the limited period
of hospital care suggested in the proposal.
Where the range of need among the aged is so great, it is especially
important to make certain that any aid provided through Government
is utilized most effectively and in a manner that truly advances
the health and welfare of all our citizens.
Further comments on the cost of the proposal on hospital insurance
are given below.
Statement of Reinhard A. Hohaus on the cost of the changes recommended
in Parts II and III
The Report expresses concern about the impact of the recommended
financing provisions on our economy and the taxpayers, in both the
short run and in the long run. It asks, in effect, that the necessary
taxes be such that they can be borne "by the employee, employer
and the self-employed without undue burden or strain." One of the
major findings in the Report is:
"The maximum amount of annual earnings that is taxable and creditable
toward benefits needs to be substantially increased in order to
maintain the wage-related character of the benefits, to restore
a broader financial base for the program and to apportion the cost
of the system among low-paid and higher-paid workers in the most
desirable way."
I agree with that recommendation.
[Table 5] estimates the "level-cost
of the benefits of the present program" at 9.09 percent of taxable
payroll under a $4,800 earnings base. The table also estimates that
if this taxable base is increased from $4,800 to the $6,000-$7,200
base recommended in the Report and if the present benefit formula
is extended to the new base, the level-cost would he .59 percent
of taxable payroll lower. Stated another way, a liberalization costing
that percentage of the new taxable payroll would not change the
present level-cost of 9.09 percent of taxable payroll.
However, if all of the Council's proposals [Parts II and III] are
enacted, the level-cost will increase to 10.13 percent of taxable
payroll with respect to the recommendations of Part III, and with
the level-cost of .90 percent of taxable payroll with respect to
the recommendations of Part II, there would be a total level-cost
of 11.03 percent of taxable payroll. This would be an increase of
about 21 percent above the level-cost of 9.09 percent of taxable
payroll applicable to the present program.
An increase of this magnitude, in addition to an increase in the
maximum earnings used for determining taxable payrolls, warrants
serious scrutiny and public discussion. The cost of adopting all
of the recommendations raises important questions as to priority
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Defenders of the Innocent Second Annual Awards Reception: Empathy
The Circle of Empathy
On May 18, at the Defenders of the Innocent Awards Reception, Larry Marshall made the following remarks (excerpted from his longer speech):
The Circle of Empathy We Choose to Inhabit
by Larry Marshall
Defenders of the Innocent Awards Reception, May 18, 2009
The challenge we all face is how to define our own circle. We can make it a very small circle, or we can make it a much wider circle.
Five Options for the Size of that Circle
- There are those of us who define that circle in a very narrow way. The circle is ourselves.
- In fact, there are folks who make it even smaller. Their circle is their pocket. That's all that matters. That is what makes the call for their concern, their passion, their empathy.
- Most people we know go beyond that. The next biggest circle is the family—our children, our partner, and that is wonderful, but again it is a relatively easy circle to draw. They are part of you. They are connected to you.
- Then there are people—a bit more generous—whose circle reaches into their community, their neighbors, their church, and that's also wonderful. But it is still a circle of people who look like you, who talk like you, who stay with you, who hang with you.
- And then there are the remarkable folks who actually draw their circle so much broader, who see all humanity falling within that circle, who see the suffering of those who have no connection to them, whom they will never meet, who don't look like them, who don't live near them, but about whom they say, "This is my suffering." These people recognize that this is all one circle that we inhabit.
A Wide Circle Brings Reform
We are here tonight because all of you in this room, recognize that this is your issue, that these are your brothers, that these are your sisters. You have worked steadfastly to try to bring to the public's attention these cases both because of what these individual cases represent, but also because of the energy and the leverage that each of these cases presents for meaningful reform of the system.
We have seen how each of these cases ends up creating a momentum, a momentum that brings public attention to these issues and generates some real reform.
We have a choice. If that choice is to draw our circle of empathy to include all of our brothers and sisters, and then to scream out with as much passion and intensity, and to sacrifice as much as we would for our very brothers and sisters, to do that is as godly as we on earth can ever come.
The Work of the Innocence Project: Holy Work
So I beg of all of you, as you think in these very tough times how to participate in different endeavors of giving and supporting, to recognize that the work that this Project is doing for those who are so far on the outskirts of that natural circle of empathy, that this work is in fact holy work and by doing it, we are reaching out to make the world so much purer, so much more full of love and care and dedication.


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Good news coming from the "Ninja Turtles" front! A leaked script found by Latino Review's El Mayimbe contains references to the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villains Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang.
But this also comes with bad news, because there is apparently a synopsis floating around as well. It mentions the turtles "[coming] to Earth" with Splinter from their "recently destroyed planet." No. The only thing that should be coming from a destroyed planet to Earth is the ooze that turns the Earth turtles into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Because those guys are from New York, thank you. The fact that TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman is allegedly responsible for some of this script does not make me feel better. This reboot is definitely going to lead me into a What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? moment, I can just feel it. Read the rest


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A fire broke out at the Apple Campus in Cupertino last night
The fire raged from about 10pm to 12.30am pacific time in an R&D building at Apple's Valley Green Six building on the extensive Cupertino campus. Over 60 firefighters arrived at the scene.
Santa Clara deputy chief, Hal Rooney, said that the fire could have started in an air conditioning unit on the second floor.
Quick, get a picture!
We await official comment from Apple. Nobody is dead and there are no reported injuries, which is the main thing.
The Mercury News reported that, "Some Apple employees stopped by to look at the scene and snap pictures on their I-phones (sic)."
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Gadget freaks are still buzzing about Apple's planned iPhone, a combination smart phone and music player that won't even be available until June. Meanwhile, the traditional cellphone makers are continuing to churn out music phones that can be in the hands of consumers much sooner.
The latest, and most unusual, of these music phones has just been announced by Sprint. It's a Samsung model called the UpStage. The UpStage costs just $149, less than a third of the iPhone's planned $499 price, and it will go on sale early next month.
Samsung has shown real creativity in solving the problem of cramming a decent music player and phone into one small gadget. The slim UpStage has been designed with two distinct faces. On one side, it has a phone keypad and a small screen, for making voice calls and tapping out text messages. But if you turn it over, you see a larger screen and navigation controls, mainly for playing music, but also for other tasks, such as viewing online data.
Sprint's UpStage music cellphone by Samsung.
At the same time, Sprint is slashing the price of songs sold on its proprietary music service from an outrageous $2.49 each to just 99 cents. That isn't quite as cheap as it seems, because you have to pay $15 a month for the privilege of buying the 99-cent songs. But it's still a positive step for consumers.
I've been testing the UpStage and found that its two-sided design works pretty well. It's a better music phone, in my opinion, than Verizon's Chocolate model, built by Samsung's Korean rival, LG.
But the UpStage has too many weaknesses and compromises for me to recommend it. It has lousy battery life, both as a phone and as a music player, a limitation Sprint and Samsung have tried to offset with a free add-on that makes the phone too bulky. And it comes with so little memory that, out of the box, it can hold only around 20 average songs. Adding more capability costs extra, thus lessening the price advantage. There are other downsides as well.
I tested the UpStage primarily as a music player, because that's its claim to fame. I compared it with the base-model iPod Nano, which also costs $149, although of course it doesn't include a phone.
I did try out the basic phone stuff, like making calls, all of which seemed OK, though the screen on the phone side of the device is very small, a sort of throwback to early cellphones. Sound quality, reception and the keypad all were fine. The built-in 1.3 megapixel camera is standard for phones these days.
Only one of the phone's two screens can be used at any one time, and you have to press a "flip" button on the side to switch. This worked well, but was kind of a pain when I was trying to use the keypad to type in text, like a Web password or the name of a new song playlist, on the music side of the phone. I had to flip to the side with the keypad and then flip back.
I loaded in about 20 songs and the UpStage played them back pretty well, displaying all the correct song information and album art. I also loaded in some photos, which also displayed fine, though the phone can handle only small picture files. I purchased a song from Sprint's music service, and that downloaded and played well.
Walt reviews Samsung's new MP3-playing cellphone, the UpStage, which is a third of the price of Apple's iPhone. But he says it won't satisfy the bulk of people looking for a music phone.
The only problems were that the album covers and photos looked grainy, because even the larger screen has pretty low resolution. And occasionally, the start of a song was clipped. The iPod Nano exhibits neither of these problems.
Out of the box, the UpStage comes with only a tiny memory card, which can hold only around 20 standard MP3 files. The iPod Nano can hold 500 of those files. To get the same capacity on the UpStage, you have to buy a larger, $40 memory card.
Though the UpStage is bigger than the iPod Nano, it has far worse battery life — just 2.5 hours of talk time for the phone and seven hours of music playback time, compared with up to 24 hours of music playback time for the Nano. To compensate, Sprint is throwing in a "battery wallet," a case with an additional battery built in. This brings the talk time to 6.3 hours and music playback time to around 17 hours. But it makes the phone twice as thick.
There are two other problems with the UpStage. First, synchronizing its music with songs stored on a PC requires you to install and use Sprint music software. It doesn't work with Windows Media Player or the Windows version of Apple iTunes, which most music lovers already own. (You also can manually drag and drop songs onto the phone's memory card.)
Second, the navigation pad on the music side of the phone can be confusing. It works by touch controls; you have to use just the right pressure and slide your finger just the right distance along its sides to get it to work right. It's too complicated.
Samsung and Sprint deserve credit for a good try with the UpStage. But it doesn't quite cut it.
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We recently brought you word that Warner Bros. had erased Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to the Head from their release schedule so that Sly could oversee the presumed final cut of the film. It turns out that the reports were unfounded, as a studio response today has put to rest any rumors of apparent unease within the project. The press release includes a statement from director Walter Hill (The Warriors) himself, assuring fans that the film is running smoothly and he and Stallone are on the same page. He also reports that they're finishing up shoots on Bullet to the Head, a story that follows a New Orleans hitman (Stallone) and an NYPD detective (Sung Kang) who team up to track down the men who killed their respective partners. That should come as good news to Hill and Stallone fans, as Bullet to the Head sounds like it should be a good old fashion action movie (axe fights!) with two of the genre's greatest veterans. Hit the jump to see the press release.
Check out the press release from Hill and Warner Bros. below. There's still no explanation as to why the release date has disappeared without a replacement, but perhaps the studio is waiting to see how Stallone's The Expendables 2 tracks before pegging Bullet to the Head with a new date.
Burbank, CA, March 5, 2012—Contrary to recent inaccurate and unfounded reports that Sylvester Stallone had taken over the editing of BULLET TO THE HEAD, director Walter Hill continues his editing of the movie. Walter Hill said today, "I'm currently finishing up and locking reels on the movie — as to the content and style of the film, Sly and I are in perfect sync. I'm delighted with the way the film is turning out and hopefully so will the audience."
Hill recently wrapped production on the action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone, which will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.