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Live 805 Hosted by Tom & Sandy
Your local entertainment guide to everything in the 805!
From things to do, places to go, to the very best cuisine in Ventura County. And the people you're likely to see when you get there.
Tom Hilton, a 58 year old Southern California native, has had his fair share of the local culture. Growing up in the hot San Fernando Valley, and graduating with his BA at Cal State Northridge, Tom has expanded his career over the past 30 years in the 805 area as a successful entrepreneur. Owning companies in various facets of business such as, the clothing industry, tool and supply, automotive and current co-owner of one of the 805's chiquest and most successful design and home furnishing studios, Great Rooms, Tom's determination and drive serve as a constant attribute to his future endeavors. Surrounding himself with three beautiful women on a daily basis, his wife Carol of 26 years, and daughters Nicole, 25 and Victoria, 19, it can be said that Tom is an impeccable listener and a supportive critic. Interested in travel, sports, fishing and the great outdoors, and spending quality time with his wife, Tom's love for adventure and fun add to his already charismatic and outgoing persona.
Tom's love and knowledge of the 805 region and all it has to offer like, wineries, restaurants, movie theaters, concerts and local events, are the essence of what led his interest in hosting a local radio show. He hopes his passion for his beloved area will inspire others to get out there and experience all that the 805 region has to offer.
In the words of his wife, Carol... "If not now, then when??"
Sandy Seekin's a true native of Ventura County, born in Santa Paula, and raised in the 805!! She currently makes her home in Camarillo with her husband and two children. Sandy considers her close-knit family amongst her greatest accomplishments.
Sandy's worked in the Ventura County Real Estate field for more than 15 years, culminating in owning her own Escrow Company with her husband, Dave.
For the past year, Sandy stepped way outside her comfort zone by co-hosting a weekday radio program called "Two Moms and a Mic". It was here she learned the ins and outs of broadcasting, and found her passion, behind the Mic.
Sandy and her family spend weekends in local restaurants, visiting local wineries, sampling the wonderful outdoor opportunities, and other entertainment options, all in Ventura County.
So, it was only a matter of time, before her passion for broadcasting, and her quest for family based experiences, led her to host Live 805!!
This where you'll learn about all the fun things to see, do, and taste in Ventura County.
Show Producer: Jim
Jim Mulligan was born 59 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio. He started drumming in the 6th grade and never looked back. High school rock and roll bands got him through the 60's. He then took a 4 year break to attend, and graduate from, St. Leo University in Florida with a BA in Business Administration. During those college years, he was active in campus radio events which led to his first business in 1972, known as "The Mad Hatter Sound System", DJ'ing for parties and nightclubs when disco was not yet a word. He then traveled through the south drumming with a nightclub, show band until 1976 when the rock world brought him to L.A. He met Ann, his wife of 32 years, the first week in town.
A business venture, selling tools to the trade, led him to his buddy, "The Voice" Tom Hilton in 1976. Working together, industrial tools and supplies was their employment, until 2001when their wives got in the act and the four of them opened "Great Rooms Home Furnishings" and "Phoenix Sales". Jim's chops stay in rythm by playing with the smooth jazz outfit, "Round Trip" www.roundtripband.com in the Ventura area. He has four children ages 28 thru 20 and one cat named "Critter".


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Container terminals
Moving cranes like never beforeHarsh contaminants, salt abrasives and high humidity. Port cranes have always endured corrosive operating conditions that make service life a challenge.
Today, market conditions have port operators pushing equipment to new limits. Under pressure to offload cargo quickly and keep harbour time costs low for ship owners, operators are moving full (or potentially overfull) containers, faster than ever. These increasing loads and shrinking handling times have crane engineers looking for ways to design-in robust, and low- to no-maintenance performance solutions.
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SKF provides rotating, lubricating and maintenance enhancing solutions for critical crane applications:
- Gearboxes
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We help crane manufacturers and operators implement cost-efficient ways to support crane safety, reliability, productivity, energy efficiency and sustainability. Solutions include a wide assortment of bearings, lubrication systems and lubricants as well as comprehensive condition monitoring services.

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text: A giant thank you from the county fair board, in the form of a dinner, went out to all who donated funds and supplies to recent projects at the fairgrounds, including the new grandstand, press box, winner's circle and the Health, Safety and Ticket Sales Building. The hard working fair board members and volunteers paused for a few hours Friday to enjoy the fruits of their labor and joined the donors in christening the new grandstand with a champagne toast. The sound system was tested for the first time on the crowd of just over 350 people as they became the first group to hold ceremony in and under the new grandstand. Morning Journal/Patti Schaeffer


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A couple of days ago I was talking with ObioneX2 about our growth strategies for social media, online marketing, and all that good stuff. We brainstormed for a good 45 minutes. Sadly, our biggest immediate goal was still pending. Right after hanging up, I get a tweet and an email from our account manager on Stitcher, congratulating us on being added to Stitcher. Talk about good timing!
We are beyond stoked about the HorsePLAY! Stitcher Radio station. Stitcher is much more accessible than iHeartRadio and iTunes, especially for smaller brands and startups. The process was easy and well worth it.
From a marketing perspective, I love how Stitcher is a more open market. Everything is primarily ad-supported and everyone has a chance to have their voice heard. It's a very inclusive experience, whereas other networks make submission or being featured exclusive (and sometimes painful). Stitcher does not place tons of limits or requirements on content, which allows us creatives to do our thang and not worry about filters, post-production editing, and potential conflicts of interest. They see the inherent value in syndication, collaboration, and cross-promotion, just like we do here at GANG.
From a consumer perspective, I love the wide variety of content there is on Stitcher. You can enjoy old style radio shows, psychic readings, technology news, video game reviews, friends getting together, and so much more. For me, listening to audio shows is a fun way to spice up my work hours and support other lesser-known marketers and online authorities. I have looked around and nothing comes close to what Sticher offers. The ease of use, features, massive content library, and behind the scenes team make this network top-notch, whether you are a listener, broadcaster, or both.
I also wanted to comment on comments made by Chris Hardwick of the Nerdist a few years back, when they pulled their content off the Stitcher network. He and other A-listers feel that no one should be able to monetize their content. They make a huge deal about ads being place in front of their content. I see this as an expected requirement to keep the Stitcher Radio platform as open as possible. There's no need to make a fuss when even YouTube is doing the same thing and Google multimedia platforms are far more restrictive.
We're excited to work with Stitcher Radio to help them expand while we grow our own brands here on GANG. As long as we are allowed the freedom to produce the content we are passionate about, I see no issue. There's no such thing as a free lunch and we get that so rock on, Stitcher Radio!
As such, we urge all our supporters to follow our Stitcher Radio referral link, leave us a review, add us to a playlist or two, and support our fellow podcasters. By supporting Stitcher Radio, you support our show and fellow geeks worldwide. Everyone wins!
Thanks for the support and help us celebrate this big win for our team and community. Tweet me @Yogizilla and @ObioneX2 with what you'd like to see next. Topic and guest suggestions are always welcomed!
Stay tuned for more HorsePLAY! updates, events, and previews here on GANG and on our Horseplay Steam community group!
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School feeding
Every day, countless children across the globe turn up for school on an empty stomach, which makes it hard to focus on lessons. Many simply do not go, as their families need them to help in the fields or around the house.
For all of them, having food at school every day can mean not only better nutrition and health, but also increased access to and achievement in education. It is also a strong incentive to consistently send children to school.
In 2018, 16.4 million school children benefitted from nutritious WFP meals and snacks. It also built the capacities of 65 governments, which led to improved national school feeding programmes for another 39 million children.
Programme particulars vary between the provision of breakfast or lunch, or both. Some programmes provide complete meals, while others distribute fortified, high-energy biscuits or nutritious snacks, such as date bars. Food and/or cash rations are handed out to families as incentives to keep children in school on condition that they attend regularly.
Food is procured locally when possible. In 46 countries, school feeding programmes are linked to local smallholder farm production, combining nutritional and educational benefits with a positive impact on local economies. Partnering with civil society, school feeding programmes can help build trust in national education systems and foster social inclusion. In Tunisia, where the national school feeding programme reaches 240,000 children in 2,500 schools, local youths are employed as caterers, ensuring local ownership.
Programmes can be tailored to target specific groups of children, including those forced into child labour, or those whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. They can also prevent early marriage for girls and child pregnancies, and help girls access better paid jobs through education. In Malawi, a joint programme by the government, WFP, UNICEF and UNFPA has been designed specifically to tackle various cultural barriers preventing girls from attending school.
During crises, school feeding successfully meets basic nutritional needs while getting children back to the classroom. In Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, school feeding programmes are helping Syrian refugee children improve their nutrition and continue their education, investing in their own – and the region's – future.
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UN agencies join forces to fight against the impact of pandemic-related school closures on millions of children


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The price for the new smartphone with Facebook Home has dropped $99 to only 99 cents.
It's been a month since Facebook unveiled the new HTC First with Facebook Home and some are saying it's not a good sign that the "Facebook phone" has been subject to price-slashing, according to Mashable. The smartphone was selling for $99.99 last month with a two-year contract with AT&T. Now the price is down to 99 cents.
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To illustrate the point further, AT&T is showing the HTC First sticker price of $350.99 and displaying the 99.7 percent discount.
Critics are saying that this means the Facebook Home phone is a failure because Apple and Android smartphones are typically discounted only when new versions come onto the market, usually over a year. However, turning it into a 99-cent throwaway phone is a bit unusual and has Mashable making references to the doomed Microsoft Kin. While HTC or AT&T weren't saying whether sales were anemic, almost anyone with a recent Android phone can download Facebook Home for free rather than buy the HTC First.
We're not so sure the Facebook Home phone was a failure because it's a great price for a decent 4G phone, provided you looooove Facebook -- because you won't be able to escape it on this phone. (Facebook is now promoting the deal it calls a "good move by AT&T.") The price-slashing could also mean a more renewed interest in the phone from those who previously wouldn't have considered the purchase, and consumers always love a good buy.


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ATLANTA — For the first time, scientists have found evidence of flu in bats, reporting a never-before-seen virus whose risk to humans is unclear.
The surprising discovery of genetic fragments of a flu virus is the first well-documented report of it in the winged mammals. So far, scientists haven't been able to grow it, and it's not clear if — or how well — it spreads.
Flu bugs are common in humans, birds and pigs and have even been seen in dogs, horses, seals and whales, among others. About five years ago, Russian virologists claimed finding flu in bats, but they never offered evidence.
"Most people are fairly convinced we had already discovered flu in all the possible" animals, said Ruben Donis, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who co-authored the new study.
Scientists suspect that some bats caught flu centuries ago and that the virus mutated within the bat population into this new variety. Scientists haven't even been able to grow the new virus in chicken eggs or in human cell culture, as they do with more conventional flu strains.
But it still could pose a threat to humans. For example, if it mingled with more common forms of influenza, it could swap genes and mutate into something more dangerous, a scenario at the heart of the global flu epidemic movie "Contagion."
The research was posted online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The CDC has an international outpost in Guatemala, and that's where researchers collected more than 300 bats in 2009 and 2010. The research was mainly focused on rabies, but the scientists also checked specimens for other germs and stumbled upon the new virus. It was in the intestines of little yellow-shouldered bats, said Donis, a veterinarian by training.
These bats eat fruit and insects but don't bite people. Yet it's possible they could leave the virus on produce and a human could get infected by taking a bite.
It's conceivable some people were infected with the virus in the past. Now that scientists know what it looks like, they are looking for it in other bats as well as humans and other animals, said Donis, who heads the Molecular Virology and Vaccines Branch in the CDC's flu division.
At least one expert said CDC researchers need to do more to establish they've actually found a flu virus.
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Technically, what the CDC officials found was genetic material of a flu virus. They used a lab technique to find genes for the virus and amplify it.
All they found was a segment of genetic material, said Richard "Mick" Fulton, a bird disease researcher at Michigan State University.
What they should do is draw blood from more bats, try to infect other bats and take other steps to establish that the virus is spreading among the animals, he continued. "In my mind, if you can't grow the virus, how do you know that the virus is there?"
Donis said work is going on to try to infect healthy bats, but noted there are other viruses that were discovered by genetic sequencing but are hard to grow in a lab, including hepatitis C.
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Group Activities
Yesterday I showed how easy it is to create a custom group of modules using the beefed up library search capabilities of Accordance 9.4. In today's post, I want to show you a few things creating these groups enables you to do.
Open every module in the group: Yesterday I created a group of every module containing books published by Zondervan. Having found all these modules and put them together in a convenient place, I could now just double-click the folder for my Zodervan group in the Library window to open every single module in that group! Each module will be opened in a separate tab, and you can use command-} or command-{ to cycle forward and back through all of those tabs. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with all the modules in a group.
Amplify to a specific module in a group: Let's say I'm reading about the battle of Gibeon in Joshua 10 and I want to read about Gibeon in the Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (ZEB). I can't remember which tool category it belongs to, but I know I put all my Zondervan resources together into a group. So I right- or control-click the word Gibeon in verse 1, then go to the My Groups submenu. As I drill down into the Zondervan group, I get a listing of all those modules. When I select ZEB, it opens right to the article on Gibeon.
Search all modules in a group: Let's say I want to see what all my Zondervan resources have to say about Gibeon. I can simply right- or control-click the word Gibeon, then choose my Zondervan group from the Search All submenu of the contextual menu. This will open up a Search All window and find every occurrence of Gibeon in every module in the group. The Search All window defaults to searching all English language fields, but if I wanted to search for images of Gibeon, I could change the language pop-up menu from English to Caption and re-run the search. That search finds maps and photos of Gibeon from ZIBBCOT, ZEB, Halley's Bible Handbook, and the Archaeological Study Bible.
These are just a few ways organizing your modules into groups can make an immediate difference in your studies.
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A thousand times over I want to thank you for providing pics along with the narratives in your blogs - these step-by-step explanations really brings out your thoughts w/exceeding clearness!
Could you PLEASE!, PLEASE! ask the web master to add MOREEEEEEEEEE pictures, even videos, to each of the A's module web-pages (just as was done to the new "Highlighting Some New Features in Accordance 9.4")? As I'm browsing through the "Products" pg. to look for new modules I would like to see far more visual-pics to see how it both LOOKS in A. and how it WORK in A.
P.S. I'm primarily a visual learner...if you haven't already figured that out...THANKS!


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Taraji P. Henson is Mary, a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
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My sister and I have been working on this for years, gradually adding songs to the list as we hear them. The general rule: they have to seem normal (even romantic) until you listen to the lyrics because it's always creepier when the creepiness sneaks up on you. Like deranged toddlers. It's delicious. And the work isn't done yet — like Pokémon fans, we want to catch 'em all. But since it's that special time of year where we celebrate all things creepy, and because I haven't posted anything in a while, I figured I'd share what we have so far. Enjoy! And if you can think of any additions, please list them below. (Also, these are in no particular order, and the links go to Youtube videos as official as achievable.)
1. "Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates
H&O are a guilty pleasure of mine, and this song seems really upbeat when you don't pay attention to the lyrics (which my mom, for one, never does). The first verse even seems pretty run-of-the-mill until you get to the last line before the chorus that says, "You can't escape my private eyes…" And suddenly it becomes a stalker theme song.
2. "Every Breath You Take" by The Police
This is probably the most famous stalker theme song, but it still counts because if you're not really paying attention to the lyrics, it sounds like a normal, you-broke-my-heart-but-I'm-still-in-love song. But it's really, really not.
3. "Teddy Bear's Picnic" by Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra, featuring vocalist Val Rosing
This is a little different from the others on the list because it sounds super-creepy but is actually — when considering the lyrics alone — just a sweet children's song from the '30s. Which makes the song as a whole even creepier.
4. "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart
My sister and I used to laugh about this song — the bad synths, the cheesy, wailing guitar, the fact that Hart seems to think that wearing sunglasses at night makes him cool — until we heard it on the radio on the way to the airport one fateful day. And we realized two things: a) it's actually pretty awesome (in a cheesy, '80s pop music way), and b) it's a classic stalker song filled with veiled threats alluding to switchblades and at the same time trying to be reassuring by telling the beloved, "Don't be afraid." Which makes me afraid.
5. "Living Room" by Tegan and Sara
My sister gets the credit for this one. Another stalker song, this time with a banjo. But, admittedly, if Tegan Quin confessed to spending every morning obsessively watching me go about my daily business, I'd invite her in for a glass of wine instead of calling the cops.
6. "One Way or Another" by Blondie
If we were to compare songs to real stalkers, this one would be Stalker Sarah, a little bit older, in heels.
7. "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthews Band
It really does sound like a regular love song throughout most of it, until you get to 3:17. I won't spoil the surprise in case you don't already know what I'm talking about.
8. "One of These Nights" by The Eagles
It took me forever to realize that this was actually a threat veiled in sweet nothings. Don Henley, a love song is no longer romantic if you threaten to come up behind and "get" me.
9. "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League
Like the Police song above, this one is pretty obviously stalker-creepy, but I didn't realize it until the Swiffer commercials. I'm going to assume that other people lived the majority of their lives thinking this was just a New Wave dance song, too, and I'm blowing your minds right now.
10. "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull
The line "Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent" and the later, connected line, "Sitting in the cold sun, watching the frilly panties run" is really all that needs to be mentioned about this song. Also, ick.
11. "I Will Possess Your Heart" by Death Cab for Cutie
Another seemingly normal love song, assuming that the title isn't a literal vow. But the line at 5:38 changes everything. As casual as he tries to make it sound, it is not okay to look into someone's window as you "slowly pass." Maybe it's not at the stalker level, but it's still creepy.
12. "Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial)" by Coheed and Cambria
While the parenthetical subtitle of the song is pretty metal, most of the lyrics are fairly tame on a surface level. It's just a guy debating with himself about leaving his girlfriend, right? Nope. In the spoken part in the middle of the song, it's revealed that the protagonist is having a conversation with his bicycle about killing her off. Which takes this song (and the rest of the album) to a Son of Sam level of creepiness.
13. "Come Sail Away" by Styx
No, it isn't a love song. It's about an alien abduction. That may not surprise you, but it took some people I know (see #1) around 20 years to realize it. Which makes it perfect for the list.
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BeagleBoard/GSoC/2014 Projects
BeagleBoard.org 2014 Google Summer of Code Projects
- Status reports: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beagleboard-gsoc
- Live chat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=beagle-gsoc
Project: Android Remote Display
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- Student: Praveen Kumar Pendyala ()
- Mentors: Vladimir Pantelic
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Project: BeagleLogic
- Student: Kumar Abhishek (Abhishek_)
- Mentors: Matt Ranostay, Hunyue Yau
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Project: BeaglePilot
- Student: Victor Mayoral Vilches (vmayoral)
- Mentors: Andrew Tridgell, Hunyue Yau, Luis Gustavo Lira
- Code:
Project: Bone101
- Student: Diego Turcios (DiegoTc)
- Mentors: Jason Kridner, Steve French, David Scheltema and Jongseuk Lee
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Project: MMC and DMA Linux performance
{{#ev:youtube|YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID||right| MMC and DMA Linux performance}} Improving performance of MMC driver by understanding issues, improving MMC, DMA drivers and eliminating bottlenecks. A good amount of performance improvement in these drivers of Linux Kernel is possible just by identifying what's going on in hot paths and how things can be done more simply, without breaking anything else. Intelligent buffer allocation and reducing overhead where possible in dependent components such as DMA would be involved.
- Student: Saket Sinha (disdi)
- Mentors: Joel Fernandes, Greg Kroah-Hartman
- Code:
- Melange: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/disdi/5878405773918208
Project: PyBBIO
{{#ev:youtube|YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID||right|PyBBIO}} Developing the PyBBIO library to include an SPI Library, Library for interfacing a camera and various sensors such as pressure sensor etc. Adding C extension to Python system calls to make the code run faster. Interfacing a BLE module and an example code to but sensor values on Xively's feed.
- Student: Rekha Seethamraju (rseethamraju)
- Mentors: Alex Hiam, Steve French
- Code:
- Melange: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/rseetham/5757334940811264
Project: BotSpeak
- Student: Deepak Karki (karki)
- Mentors: Pantelis Antoniou, Hunyue Yau, Jason Kridner, Alex Hiam
- Code:
- Melange: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/deepak_karki/5700735861784576


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I tend to use my desktop as my workspace so I like wallpapers that act as more of a background decoration rather than elaborate artwork. So I created this. This is based on a wallpaper I found on the net (sorry, can't remember where) and I re-did it. The original was in jpeg format and it had a bit of dithering to it.
It's real basic, just 140×140, but I tile it and it comes out real nice:
It's a vector image so it's able to be resized real easy if need be.


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With 60 points - 50 for his Gotham victory and 10 for his win in the Grade 3 Withers - in the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" series, Samraat is virtually guaranteed a spot in the starting gate at Churchill Downs for the May 3 Run for the Roses.
The New York-bred colt will spend the next four weeks at Palm Meadows training center preparing for his final engagement prior to the Derby, the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial on April 5 at the Big A.
"Going to Florida this time is a different function than it was last time going down there," said Rick Violette, who trains Samraat for Leonard Riggio's My Meadowview Farms. "It's more for him to get some sun, graze a little bit; hey spend 75 percent of their energy keeping warm, no matter how many heat lamps or blankets you have."
While Samraat's margin of victory over Uncle Sign shrunk from one length in the Withers to a neck in the Gotham, Violette said he was even more impressed with the colt's performance on Saturday, as well as that of 20-year-old jockey Jose Ortiz.
"I think both the horse and the rider rose to the occasion again," said the trainer. "It's unusual for a young rider not to override in those situations. They usually get to flailing, but he never hit this horse."
Thrilling finish to Gotham
Samraat fought his way to a narrow lead at the top of the stretch and held on grimly in a furious three-way battle to the wire on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack to win the 62nd running of the Grade 3, $500,000 Gotham for 3-year-olds by a neck.
Moving up three-wide when given his cue by jockey Jose Ortiz, Samraat drew alongside the embattled front-runners on the far turn and the trio swept into the stretch inches apart. Under a vigorous hand-ride, Samraat stuck his head in front with three-sixteenths of a mile to go.
"As soon as we got to the first turn I was third behind the two leaders, and that's where I wanted to be," said Ortiz. "I just hand rode him and he responded very good, and I tried to keep him straight."
Uncle Sigh, the Withers runner-up, edged up between Samraat and In Trouble to finish second, with In Trouble another neck back in third.
"Samraat is a nice horse. Now I'm a believer," said Gary Contessa, trainer of Uncle Sigh.
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Henderson talks of his Cheltenham squad
Nicky Henderson was the top trainer at Cheltenham last year with seven winners
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These include virtually all of his returning heroes, such as Sprinter Sacre, Bobs Worth, Simonsig and Riverside Theatre as well as a former Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in Long Run, which explains why Henderson is long odds-on to be top trainer when the meeting begins in three weeks' time.
"What happened last year is unrepeatable. Maybe Paul (Nicholls) or Willie Mullins will have seven, but it has happened once to us, so it won't happen again," said the Festival's all-time leading trainer.
"You would settle for one - anything that comes your way is gratefully received. The best thing is if you can find one winner on the opening day. It doesn't make the horses run faster but it gives everyone confidence."
If betting is taken literally, that one winner will surely be Sprinter Sacre, who could be sent off the hottest favourite at the fixture since Arkle won the 1966 Gold Cup.
Henderson, who had opened his stable for a media morning on Monday, became practically doe-eyed when asked to pose with the Sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase-bound gelding, who has hardly been tested in seven starts over fences.
"I think he (Sprinter Sacre) is as good looking a horse as you'll ever see. Bobs Worth is no oil painting, he's just a nice horse, but with Sprinter Sacre it's a different ball game."
"Simonsig and Sprinter Sacre are two of the best work horses I've ever seen," Henderson said.
"He has a lot of natural talent and it's just easy for him. We won't be complacent, but he loves doing it. If you enjoy what you are doing, you can do it well."
While Simonsig, hot favourite to follow in Sprinter Sacre's footsteps by taking the Arkle Trophy, could be joined by his stablemate in having a preparatory schooling session with the renowned Yogi Breisner, a handful of the other leading lights are to have a racecourse gallop at Kempton on Saturday.
These include the Gold Cup hopes Long Run and Bobs Worth, who have not appeared in recent trials, as well as Triumph Hurdle prospect Rolling Star.
Defending Ryanair champion Riverside Theatre - back after being diagnosed with ulcers - and Binocular, the former Champion Hurdle winner, are others who will have a spin on the turf.
After managing a one-two in the race named after his father, the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase, the trainer named his five probable runners as Tanks For That, Anquetta, French Opera, Petit Robin and Kid Cassidy.
Finian's Rainbow is set to defend his Champion Chase title against Sprinter Sacre despite a laboured appearance at Ascot over the weekend.
Henderson said: "You'd have to admit he was disappointing but Barry (Geraghty) is adamant he doesn't go in soft ground. I think everything points to going back to two (miles)."
Oscar Whisky was confirmed, as owner Dai Walters had suggested, for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle after a much improved attempt at a longer distance when just beaten by Reve De Sivola in the Cleeve Hurdle.
"Our main objective had been to win a third Aintree Hurdle but Big Buck's not being there has opened it up," he said.
"That has invited us there, and we'll go."
While Grandouet, set for a later gallop after recovering from a minor issue, and Kingwell Hurdle runner-up Khyber Kim join Binocular in the Stan James Champion Hurdle, Henderson effectively ruled out My Tent Or Yours.
A facile winner of the Betfair Hurdle, JP McManus' youngster will revert to the William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle.
"He's very good and he goes for the Supreme," he said.
"I have been speaking to everyone and that is the plan, I believe. I know JP has Jezki in the Supreme as well, but don't forget he's got Binocular in the Champion and we're happy with him."
Virtually all the team have competed their racing trials ahead of Cheltenham, one or two handicappers aside, but Saturday could see last-ditch Triumph auditions for Vasco Du Ronceray and Courtesy Call.
"They are two who really need a run on better ground and could go for the Adonis at Kempton," Henderson said.
A decision on whether yet another smart novice, Chatterbox, heads to Cheltenham has not been made.


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Laura tweeted, "cupcake stand i did last saturday, @shaunayounge thanks 4 the tip u gave me the other day ;)"
I was so glad to see Laura's finished design, that I thought it would be fun to see what you guys are up to in your own kitchens. Next time you whip up a cake or some really pretty brownies, snap a pic and share. Be sure to include any tips or techniques that made your creation turn out so well.
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- Paula Rosenthal said...
So pretty! What was the tip you gave her?
- May 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Shauna Younge Dessert Tables said...
Hi Paula,
Laura wanted to know how far in advance she could frost cupcakes, because she needed to make so many. Here's my response:
@lau_tena Hi! It will harden if exposed to air. It's best to ice them and serve within 24 hrs. Store in an airtight container. Good luck!
- May 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Just a Bite Desserts said...
Thanks, Shauna! I was just curious. :) Have to say, love your blog and your beautiful work. I find it so inspiring and am impressed with your marketing savvy as well.
- May 12, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- sunghee said...
Cool~! I'd like to share mine! =) Here are the photos:
If I were to do it again, I would prep things sooner and get to the event place early.
- May 16, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Shauna Younge Dessert Tables said...
Hi Sunghee,
Thank you for sending your NY-inspired design. I'll share with the readers tomorrow.
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USA adventure magazine WEND recently summed my life up pretty well:
"Australian adventure photographer (and occasional journalist) Mark Watson is a liar. He suggests his job is not so glamorous, but drop him an email and his out of office auto response will inform he's heli-skiing New Zealand or trekking Patagonia. In downtime he surfs and mountain bikes Sydney's Northern Beaches or can be spied drinking cafe latte's on the beachfront when he should be editing photos. He is a Nikon Ambassador and Red Bull Australia's No.1 photographer, ... and after a few Corona's, admits, I photograph cool people, in cool places, doing cool things! Quickly followed by the disclaimer it's not always exciting ... But always said with a mischievous grin.
So there ya have it... but if you want a more detailed approach:
I am a full time professional adventure sports photographer.
The challenge to create emotion in my imagery is what drives me to push the boundaries of conventional photography and hence my work is regularly published in outdoor and sporting magazines worldwide.
With a client list that includes Red Bull, Treble Cone, Oakley, Speedo, Land Rover, Tourism Victoria, and The North Face, I am lucky enough to never be short the chance to create breathtaking images once never thought possible.
My first paid freelance job was a Snowboarding photo published in Australian Snowboarder magazine in 1999. The first commissioned job was photographing product and mountain biking images for Wild Horizons, a company run by adventurer Huw Kingston, one of my early influences in pursuing my own path in life.
I only committed to professional photography in 2000 after returning from two years living and working in London.
I threw in my 'real job' managing a photography store and established mwphotography (now inciteimages) and began networking. I traveled to mountain bike events, met with magazine editors and began photographing athletes freelance before getting images regularly published and commissioned work from magazines. I did likewise for snowsports but really threw myself into documenting the 'then new' phenomenon of Adventure Racing, which later led me all over the world.
A top tip for beginners is Determination. It takes a long time to get noticed and many photographers give up. Just because somebody says it cannot be done, does not mean that is so. A plethora of friends and peers suggested there was no future in adventure sports photography, I did not believe them.... now I get paid to go heli-skiing or trekking in Peru! I always email those same people, mostly friends, to let them know where I am ... just for a laugh.
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Railers start strong but fall to Cahokia in Eaton opener
By Jeff Benjamin
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[November 20, 2012]
If the Lincoln Railers could
play every quarter like the first eight minutes of Monday night's
season opener against Cahokia, you could probably make plans for a
season-ending celebration that included a trophy picked up in
When a squad as young and
inexperienced takes the floor, you really never know what you are
going to get. However, Lincoln coach Neil Alexander's bunch came out
blazing, both offensively and defensively, forcing Cahokia into
numerous early turnovers and scoring at will on the Comanches.
Junior Joey Olden notched the Railers' first points of the season
on a steal and layup with about a minute gone in the contest. After
Cahokia tied the game, Max Cook drained a 3 to put Lincoln up 5-2.
With contributions coming from everyone, including baskets from
Gavin Block and Edward Bowlby, the Railers extended their advantage
to 10-4. The Comanches answered back, thanks to their ability to
convert offensive rebounds into points, and grabbed their first lead
at 11-10.
What was most impressive about the early stages of the game was
how crisp the passing was, with sharp cuts, good screens, while
defensively, I think a lot of Railer fans will be surprised just how
quick this team is, at least early in the game.
Down one, Bowlby led a 13-2 charge, scoring six points on passes
from Cook and Block. The run also included a 3 from Olden and a
3-pointer from Will Podbelsek as time was ticking down to end the
quarter, giving Lincoln the 20-13 lead after one.
The scoring continued with Bowlby and a free throw from Block as
the Railers stretched out to an early double-digit lead at 23-13.
Cahokia certainly did not go away, and the second quarter was much
different from the first. Whether it was their continued pressure on
the Lincoln starters, none of whom left the court in the first
quarter, or the Comanches' ability to make adjustments, Cahokia went
on a 15-4 run to end the quarter.
Instrumental in their improved quarter was the play of Keenan
Minor. The senior, a returning member of the last year's
all-tournament team, scored eight of his 10 first-half points while
Lincoln could muster only a four-point play from Block midway
through the run.
Both teams shot the ball well in the first half, with Cahokia
connecting on 62 percent, buoyed by success of second- and
third-chance points, while Lincoln hit on 56 percent. The main
difference for the Railers was the 3-point shot. After missing only
two of their attempts in the first quarter (4 of 6), the home squad
hit only 1 of 6 in the second, the shot resulting in Block's
four-point play.
The third quarter was much more tightly contested. After the
Comanches scored early, Bowlby again came up big to tie the game at
30 with a 3. Another long-range connection from Minor was answered
by Podbelsek to knot the contest at 33. Lincoln was able to grab the
lead back moments later when Podbelsek scored on a layup after a
nice back-door pass from Bowlby. Minor, making an early bid to
return to the all-tourney team, hit two more 3s to push the Cahokia
lead back to four.
Before the game, Minor's shooting prowess had been discussed. "We
just lost where he was out there," Alexander said. "We talked about
it before the game. You can't let a shooter do that. He hits one,
then he'll hit two, then three, and we let him."
After an Olden free throw, Lincoln's own long-range specialist
contributed as Tyler Horchem hit a 3 with a little more than a
minute remaining to tie the game at 39. Not to be satisfied with
that, Horchem's steal less than a minute into the fourth resulted in
his second 3 of the night, giving Lincoln a 42-39 lead.
All night, Cahokia was led by Minor and Division I recruit Darius
Austin. The tandem scored 29 of the Comanches' first 39 points. So,
one could easily believe that stopping those two would go a long way
toward pulling a victory. Well, someone forgot to tell Vincent
Jackson. The senior, held scoreless through the first three
quarters, came up big in the fourth, scoring all nine of his points.
[to top of second column]
Where the Railers suffered late was on the boards at the defensive end.
Too many times Cahokia got second and third chances. That's not to say
Lincoln did not do well on the boards. In fact, the Railers outrebounded
a much taller Comanche team 28-25, including 17 offensive rebounds.
However, where the difference was made was Cahokia going right back up,
while the Railers numerous times would grab a rebound and kick it back
out for one attempted 3 after another. The shots that were falling in
the first quarter had abandoned them in the fourth quarter as they were
only 2 of 7 in the final eight minutes.
However, with all that was not going right, the Railers
mounted a final charge when down 49-44. Cook's 3, after an
offensive rebound from Olden, brought Lincoln to within two.
Later, trailing 52-47, Block cut the lead back to three with a
pair of free throws.
Ahh yes, the free throws -- something that will talked about in
this game for a while. Traditionally, Lincoln teams have excelled at
the free-throw line. In the past, Alexander has stressed the
importance of free throws, hinting that "four or five games a year
are decided by free throws." Well, this was one of those games as
the Railers struggled to a 7 of 15 performance from the line. Most
surprising of that total was the usually reliable Block, who missed
more from the line Monday night than during his entire freshman
Block stayed tough with a basket to cut the lead again to 54-51.
The Railers fouled Jackson, who promptly missed two free throws,
including the last one seeing the ball getting stuck on top of the
basket support. That worked to Lincoln's advantage as it allowed the
Railers a chance to set up an opportunity to tie the game.
With 7.5 seconds left, Cook took the inbounds pass, crossed half
court and fired up a 3 that veered slightly to the left and was
grabbed by Austin, who made a pair of free throws to seal the final
at 56-51.
For an opening night, there were a lot of positives as well as
areas that need to be worked on. However, it was certainly a game
that a lot can be learned from and, who knows, maybe a lesson
learned from Monday night will come in handy down the road.
The Railers did feature a very balanced scoring attack, led by
Block with 12 points and Bowlby with 11. Podbelsek added nine, with
Cook scoring seven, and Olden and Horchem each chipping in with six.
Cook also led the team with seven rebounds and six assists, while
Block added in five assists and five rebounds.
It is a quick turnaround for the Railers as they are back at it
Wednesday night against Morton. The Potters fell 75-57 in the
opening game of the evening to Seton Academy. Game time on Wednesday
is 8 p.m. If you're looking for something to do, or you need an
excuse to avoid helping in preparation of the big meal on Thursday,
this team is certainly worth your efforts.
Block 3-9 4-9 12, Bowlby 5-9 0-0 11, Podbelsek 3-5 1-2 9, M.Cook
2-7 1-2 7, Olden 2-4 1-2 6, Horchem 2-6 0-0 6, Krusz 0-0 0-0 0. Team
17-40 (.425) 7-15 (.467) 51. 3-point field goals 10-29 (.345) (Podbelsek
2-4, Cook 2-6, Horchem 2-6, Block 2-6, Olden 1-3, Bowlby 1-4).
Rebounds 28 (Cook 7), assists 16 (Cook 6), turnovers 9.
Minor 21, Austin 16, Jackson 9, Hickman 7, Rivers 3. Team 22-38
(.579) 7-13 (.538) 56. 3-point field goals 5-14 (.357) (Minor 3,
Rivers, Hickman). Rebounds 25, assists 9, turnovers 13.
Scoring by quarters:
Cahokia 13-15-11-17 56
[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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If your S corporation has suffered losses due to economic hard times, you may be able to save a lot in taxes from these losses if you have Section 1244 stock. As you know, one of the advantages of an S corporation is that the firm's annual income or losses are passed through to shareholders. Gains are reflected on the individual shareholder's tax return, and losses are deductible.
One of the big advantages of having Section 1244 stock is that stockholders in an S corporation can claim an ordinary loss rather than a capital loss if the company runs into trouble, says Paul Gada, a tax analyst with CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, a division of Riverwoods, Illinois-based tax and business law information provider CCH Inc.
What's the advantage of claiming ordinary losses over capital losses? Individual stockholders are able to take more losses and thus a bigger deduction on their returns. The maximum excess capital loss that an individual taxpayer is allowed to deduct is $3,000 in any one year. Unused excess capital losses are carried forward and may be used to offset future capital gains.
Ordinary losses are more attractive from a tax standpoint than capital losses. In the year that qualifying Section 1244 stock becomes worthless or is sold at a loss, the taxpayer may deduct up to $50,000 of the loss as an ordinary loss rather than a capital loss. Those who are married and filing jointly may deduct up to $100,000. If the loss exceeds these limits, the excess will normally be treated as a capital loss.
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Rama and the Albanian government are searching for a PR, marketing, branding or ad agency to develop a branding campaign to create a new identity for the country, promoting its image as a tourist destination and place for investment.
Writing about the contest on the PRWeek Blog, Campbell says: "They know they have a problem internationally, with a lot of the focus on the hangover from communist dictatorship, or today on corruption, organized crime and other negatives."
"Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama launched a global 'Branding Albania' contest via twitter, saying that #nextgenerationalbania would bring a 'beautiful spring' to Albania's somewhat hard and wintry image."
Campbell is supporting the contest after working with Rama and the Albanian Socialist Party on the election campaign which brought them to power last year.
"I got involved with Edi Rama's campaign in opposition, and have stayed involved now he is Prime Minister, because I got to know the region during the Kosovo war, liked it, found it fascinating politically and historically, as well as strategically important," he explained. "Countries which try to change for the better deserve support in trying to change."
Mark Lucas, founder and director of Silverfish Media, worked with Rami and Campbell on the election campaign. He said the image overhaul was the next step from the initial campaign which sought to position Albania as a modern, colourful and energetic country among voters.
"It's not just a marketing excercise, it connects to changing the country," added Lucas, who also worked with the Labour party on UK election campaigns from 1997 to 2010.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whom Campbell served as director of comms, also provided strategic advice to the Socialist Party in the run-up to last year's elections in the country, and is currently advising the Albanian government on its efforts to join the European Union.
The contest, which is open until 30 April, has already attracted 54 applications from countries including the UK, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong and the US, including CNN International, according to Campbell.
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Shot on location at the Palazzo Biscari in Italy, Mikael Jansson makes neat work of the stunning Rococo scenery with Cara Delevingne as muse. Each shot was as distinct as the next with a different backdrop each time but the culmination of it all came in the carefully curated mix of colored and black-and-white photos that would fit right into any art gallery.
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Meanderings are what you get when I either have no coherent ideas for a post or a number of things I want to write about that are all insufficient to fill out a full post. Other times, like this time, it's just a collection of junk thrown together.
* The recent deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson within a few days of each other revived one of my least favorite memes--people dying in threes. I realize that very few people, if anyone, actually takes this sort of thing seriously, and really thinks that if two celebrities die today that movie studios should be contacting their insurance companies. Still, it is a perfect example of how multiple endpoints and loose definitions can lead to some awfully silly things being said.
The endpoints are wide open, as this adage never defines what the period is in which the three deaths should occur. Obviously, if you wait long enough, you will be able to group at least six billion people together in death. Practically, though, it leaves it open until the third person you need to form your group dies. Had Michael Jackson died three days later than he did, he still could have been in the group. If he was still alive and well, then people could have reached back in time for David Carradine, or waited around for Steve McNair and Robert McNamara. No matter.
The loose definition of such groups is also apparent. That they are reasonably well-known is the only qualification. Certainly Michael Jackson's fame outshined the other two, but they are in the group all the same. There was no need to wait around for two other people of Jackson's notoriety. If time had gone by and no one else of note had died, I'm sure somewhat would have dug through the obituaries and found a lesser-known individual to include in the group.
* Speaking of silliness, how about ESPN's 20 Year All-Star team, covering the twenty years that ESPN has been broadcasting MLB games? They have been showing the nominees for various positions during the Monday and/or Wednesday night games, opening up an internet poll throughout the week, and then announcing the winners on Sunday Night Baseball.
Obviously any time you let internet voting occur without any sort of screening or restrictions, you are bound to get some silly results (remember the pitiful All-Century Team that didn't include Hans Wagner among others?) So it's not worth criticizing the selections themselves, and it would be hard to do so anyway because they are the result of a disparate group of individual choices.
However, the whole exercise illustrates why I don't like this kind of exercise when the time period is restricted arbitrarily (obviously ESPN had its reasons for using twenty years, but it has no particular baseball significance). The selection of Nolan Ryan as top right-handed pitcher is illustrative of one of the biggies. Leaving aside the fact that Ryan has been lionized and overrated by many ordinary fans, with his strikeout and no-hit feats overshadowing the more mundane aspects of the game like preventing runs and winning games, and accepting for the sake of argument that Ryan is one of the five or ten greatest pitchers of all time, it is patently absurd to suggest that he is the best right-handed pitcher of the last twenty years, given that he only pitched in four of them...
...Unless you look at it from the perspective of "best to play in this period, period". Since Ryan played in the twenty-year period, he's eligible, and he's a reasonable choice within the bounds of this idiosyncratic viewpoint (remember, above we agreed to accept the premise that Nolan Ryan was one of the very greatest pitchers in history). I don't think this is what most people have in mind when they look at a question like this--do you want to put Cal Ripken or Tony Gwynn on an all-00s team?
There's the middle ground, which would be something like "I'll consider someone if they played a significant amount in the period, whether or not they actually have a case to being the best in that period." From this perspective, you could justify a vote for Cal Ripken on the 20-year team, because he was played in roughly half of the seasons and was still productive in most of them.
And then there's the literalist definition of twenty years, in which only performance within the period is taken into consideration, and thus it is getting dicey when you argue for Nolan Ryan over Dan Haren, let alone Greg Maddux or Mike Mussina. While most people will gravitate towards one of the latter two definitions, these types of exercise usually leave it open-ended, and the results are as much a question of how you approach the exercise as they are a judgment on any of the players involved.
There will be a rash of this stuff coming up near the end of the season and over the winter as the decade ends (Or does it? Even that is not so easy to define). I'll be over here with my fingers in my ear, yelling "STOP!" in vain, thank you very much.
* I love the MLB Network, and think it knocks ESPN's socks off in every aspect of broadcasting, analysis, game coverage, ...except one. Statistics.
The stats displayed on-screen on MLB Network, either during games or on MLB Tonight, are pathetic. I think the standard line for starting pitchers is W-L, ERA, K, and W. That's not so bad except for the omission of innings, which are sorely needed to contextualize the last three categories.
For hitters, though, you get BA, HR, R, and RBI. No plate appearances (or even at-bats). No OBA or SLG. They do display the OBA, SLG, and OPS leaders sometimes on MLB Tonight, but that's about it.
ESPN is running circles around them in this department. The standard batter line when watching a game on ESPN is BA/HR/RBI/OPS, with OBA, SLG, and OPS in tiny print at the top of the screen (at least until the at-bat starts and they are replaced by the always captivating "after x-y count" stats).
* You always see the barb that "you don't watch the games" directed at sabermetricians, and this is often coupled with the "living in your parents' basement" type of stereotype that adds up to nothing more than "sabermetricians are losers". You know, socially maladjusted folks who think girls have cooties and stand in the corner at any sort of social gathering they are roped into attending.
Obviously this argument is not even worth attempting to refute. However, the implicit assumption is kind of funny--that watching a large amount of baseball games makes one cool. After all, this argument is usually advanced by fans, not baseball professionals who are paid to watch and attend games. To the public at large, people who watch a lot of baseball games are probably not considered to be at the top of the social hipness scale. So the whole "watching games" argument (even if one was to accept the premise that sabermetricians don't watch games) really boils down to the Star Trek fans telling the Star Wars fans that they are losers.
* I am embarrassed to say that I was unaware that Steve Phillips attended the University of Michigan. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Meanderings are what you get when I either have no coherent ideas for a post or a number of things I want to write about that are all insufficient to fill out a full post. Other times, like this time, it's just a collection of junk thrown together.
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An 84-year-old man is dead and his 67-year-old female companion is in surgery tonight after they were struck by a vehicle while crossing Westminster Street this evening.
Police Lt. Kevin O'Brien said the couple, both from Westminster, were crossing the street after having dinner when they were hit by a car.
"They were having supper at Bob's Caf�. They came out of Bob's. They were crossing the street. They were almost across the street and then they got hit," Lt. O'Brien said, "The fellow was on the outside, the female on the inside. He got hit first."
The accident happened around 6 p.m. on Westminster Street near Simonds Road. The motor vehicle stopped, Lt. O'Brien said. He declined to identify the driver.
The man died at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus, Worcester, where the woman was still in surgery as of 11 p.m. tonight, according to Lt. O'Brien.
Police decline to release the name's of the victims. Accident reconstruction crews were still at the scene late tonight.


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Two highly listenable tracks sans hype:
Reader S.O.W. -- Stan Chow
Stan Chow--award winning, Grammy nominated graphic designer/illustrator from Manchester, England. Also this week's Reader Submission of the Week thanks to the tip off from Ed Sawdowski. Stan Chow is responsible for the Mad Men portrait posters from last year, and enjoys drawing caricatures more than you know. His details in face expressions really does it for me.
Don't forget to send us your stuff at email@example.com! But seriously, just send it.
We want to see it.
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Tags: caricature, illustration, Manchester, reader submission, UK
Poster Art on the London Underground: A Platform for Art
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Tags: britain, graphic design, london, public service, typography, UK
Renaissance Man/Designer: Alex Koplin (H/34)
Alex Koplin aka H/34 is a designer/DJ from Philadelphia/New York who is associated with the east coast based independent record label Moodgadget (big fan). I've seen his works around the web and thought this was an opportune time to put together a piece on him, since after all, it's his birthday. After going through his design and his whole soundcloud, I realized how much passion he puts into his work and that he is a self-made enthusiast fusing two of my most favorite things on this planet--music & design.
He's also an avid videogame modder, and co-founder of a local Pittsburgh Airsoft league.
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Tags: music, Pennsylvania, philadelphia, record sleeve, video game
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I'm afraid I must be more negative.
Yes, PM does work, mostly. I still haven't been able to get the mailto suggestions to work on Vista and would have thought that with the number of people reporting the problem he would have worked on at least that fix.
Gleason Pace wrote:look at Postbox. It just works.
Gleason Pace wrote:By the way, that wasn't a smiley at the end of "a couple of versions before 4" That was an attempt to close the parens, which the forum software got carried away with.
Gleason Pace wrote:Probably will need to go the long way around.
finding_mcflappy wrote:Postbox looks like a revamped version of Thunderbird, which does beg the question - would I be better off just using Thunderbird and save some money?
chrisretusn wrote:I have Thunderbird installed, not to fond of it.
chrisretusn wrote:I have been looking at Claws Mail.
Gleason Pace wrote:Postbox goes far beyond TB.
Maybe, but how does it stand up to PocoMail?
That is my biggest hurdle. I am really set in my ways and also with things that PocoMail does with my messages. I have yet to find a single client that works for me. There is always something missing or not to my liking. Be it filtering, scripting, the way signatures are handled, etc.; so far PocoMail is the only client to fit my needs.
chrisretusn wrote:I have yet to find a single client that works for me.
Gleason Pace wrote:Postbox goes far beyond TB.
Looks like it does do much more and I'm tempted, but in a dying (if not dead) desktop mail client market how sustainable is it going to be?
I've already caught myself accessing and organising Gmail via the web rather than retrieve it in Poco. The important stuff I fetch to the desktop. Not that I want to abandon a desktop client, but I'm not so sure I want to pay for it any more if there is an alternative.
After a successful mail import into Thunderbird I'm checking for errors and checking out functionality, if I find that it's not enough I'll look at Postbox, which I understand can just pick up Thunderbird's mail directly.
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We're fans of any application that makes our lives, in some way or another, easier. And, as we showed you not too long ago with our hands-on time with Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile application for Android, we'd say that the app does indeed fit into that little corner of our tech necessities. Then again, that may just mean we watch TV too much. Either way, we're happy to announce that, beginning June 22nd, you'll be able to get in on the goodness for yourself.
Thanks to Sling Media's constant push for public release, we can finally say that there's going to be a time where everyone (if you're in a supported Market, that is) can start Slinging their media every which direction. Here's what you'll need: The SlingPlayer Mobile application (which is going to cost $29.99 when it become available tomorrow), either a SlingBox SOLO, PRO, or PRO-HD, and connectivity via your wireless carrier's network (3G and 4G supported), or a WiFi signal. If you've got all that, then you can start enjoying all the greatness that is SlingPlayer Mobile.
If you need any more information about SlingPlayer, check out the press release below. Or, you could watch the embedded video from our hands-on time with SlingPlayer Mobile. We think you should do both, but we know how visual you are, so enjoy the video. Oh, and the pictures. Those are always good, too.
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Press Release:
Sling Media Launches SlingPlayer Mobile for Android Smartphones
Application now delivers your home TV experience to Android phones anywhere you have mobile phone access
Foster City, Calif., – June 22, 2010 – Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today the availability of its SlingPlayer Mobile™ application for Android™ Smartphones. The all new application gives Android phone users easy access to their home TV experience anywhere they have mobile phone or Wi-Fi internet access. Now anyone with an Android phone never has to miss a favorite TV show when they're away from home.
"We're committed to the Android platform, and users of our new and improved SlingPlayer Mobile application will experience one of the most complete mobile television experiences available today," said John Gilmore, Sling Media Senior Vice President and General Manager. "Now the full spectrum of viewing, including local channels and sports teams, video on demand, pay per view and even control of their home DVR, is available to the growing number of people moving to Android."
How it Works
When in your mobile phone provider's area of 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi coverage and connected to a Slingbox® SOLO, PRO or PRO-HD, SlingPlayer Mobile makes it simple to watch and control your living room television at any time from any location. Watch live and recorded TV and schedule recordings of new programs from any Android Smartphone.
SlingPlayer Mobile for Android features faster startup and control response times, and it works among a variety of Android-based mobile phones in the market today. It also has a new user interface that gives quick-touch access to the most critical remote controls and recently viewed channels.
Current Pricing and Availability
SlingPlayer Mobile Android is available now for download for $29.99* in the Android Market in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
*Price is in U.S. dollars. U.S. dollar to local currency exchange will be carried out at purchase via the customer's bank or credit card provider. Pricing and availability subject to local laws.
Visit http://www.slingbox.com/go/android for more information.
About Sling Media, Inc.
Sling Media, Inc., an affiliate of EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is the leading provider of video placeshifting products and services for consumers and television service providers. Sling Media's product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox™ that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using internet-connected PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones. For more information, visit www.slingmedia.com.


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C O K CO Operative Credit Union
Swift Code : CCENJMK1
Swift Code is a standard format of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. SWIFT code is also called Bank Identification Code(BIC Code) and it is unique identification code for a particular bank. A SWIFT code is recognized and approved by the International Standards Organization, or ISO, They are used when transferring money between banks, particularly for international wire transfers. Banks also used the codes for exchanging other messages between them.
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|C O K CO Operative Credit Union
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|C O K CO Operative Credit Union LTD
66 Slipe Road Kingston 5
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The SWIFT code is an 8 or 11 alphanumeric characters code that uniquely identifies financial institution. When 8-digits code is given, it refers to the primary office. If a SWIFT code is eleven characters, this means that the bank has added a three-digit code to denote a specific branch of a bank. The code formatted as below;
For Example: AAAA BB CC DDD
- First 4 characters - bank code (only letters)
- Next 2 characters - ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (only letters)
- Next 2 characters - location code (letters and digits) (passive participant will have "1" in the second character)
- Last 3 characters - branch code, optional ('XXX' for primary office) (letters and digits)
The above mentioned format of Bank Identifier Codes (BIC) or Swift Code is approved by the International Standard Organization (ISO) and represents a particular bank or bank branch.


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Native Anthropologist has written a great post about the ethical challenges of fieldwork, discussing the kinds of information one can publish and how that material might be used at the expense of the communities involved. He wonders what kind of distance one needs to maintain when collaborating with others, and how one can do this as a native anthropologist. He writes:
"I had to find a way to write an article with enough meat to qualify for publication in the magazine, and therefore make my friend proud, but with just enough not to incur the wrath of the Nigerian embassy in Cotonou, or to call undue attention to my research."
I hope it's okay to draw attention to his blog!


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'Today' host Hoda Kotb opened up on being a brand new mom in an interview with People magazine.
"One of the things in my life I've always wanted was to be a mom," Kotb told People in its issue which hits newsstands Friday. "Sometimes in your life, things just don't work out for whatever reason, so you say, 'Well, I wasn't meant to have that.' But it was really hard to come to terms with it."
Kotb announced last month that she'd become a mom after adopting baby Haley Joy Kotb.
Kotb, 52, lives with boyfriend Joe Schiffman, who she has been dating since 2013, Today.com reported. Schiffman is a New York-based financial executive.
U.S. & World
"I wake up sometimes and go, 'Oh my God, I have a baby!'" Kotb told People. "But it feels totally real. I guess if you've been waiting this long for something, and you wish for it, pray for it, hope for it, wonder if it will ever be, and then it happens, nothing's more real. Nothing."


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Hi Hungry Girl, I was wondering, what are some of the most frequently asked questions you get? And, of course, I'd love to know the answers! Curious in Culver City
Hi Curious,
Good one! I definitely get asked some questions over and over again. And since they're pretty important, I'm recapping 'em all, right here and now...
I want to enjoy Tofu Shirataki noodles, but the texture is weird and they smell funny right out of the bag. Any tips? When it comes to this low-cal pasta swap, the trick is to rinse the noodles and THOROUGHLY pat them dry. Click here for more on this...
Where can I find that recipe for two-ingredient brownie muffins made with pumpkin? Right here!
Why is Splenda used in some of your recipes? What if I don't wanna use artificial sweetener? Real sugar has close to 800 calories per cup, and using Splenda in recipes is a great way to enjoy decadent desserts that aren't loaded with sugary calories. Lately, we've been including alternate nutritional info if you make the recipe with sugar instead. Click here for some natural no-calorie alternatives!
Where can I find the PointsPlus® values for your cookbook recipes? You can find the PointsPlus® value* for every recipe in every cookbook on our book site. Just select the book, and click to see the recipe photos. Then peruse the chapters for all of the values! For example, all of the PointsPlus® values* for recipes in HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX! can be found here.
Why do your recipes and supermarket suggestions include processed food? I've got LOTS to say on this subject. It all comes down to my realistic approach to better-for-you eating. Click here for the full 411...
What's the 80/20 rule you're always talking about? This too is all about a realistic approach to eating smart. Basically, if you make good choices most of the time, you can loosen the reins a bit the rest of the time. This way, you won't feel restricted but you won't go overboard either.
Do you get paid to mention products in the daily emails or use them in recipes? NO. While there are ads in the Hungry Girl world, they're always very clearly marked (for example, "Guilt-Free Groceries" with "brought to you by..." messaging). And even those products HAVE to be HG tested and HG approved. As for recipes, not a single product (in the emails or cookbooks) is EVER included as a result of advertising. Companies behind products we love and use often choose to advertise with us, but again, those ads are separate and distinct from editorial content. Click here for more...
Where can I find the recipes from your TV show? They're all here on our show site. Search by episode or by recipe. There are MANY great recipes from the show, so you might wanna get comfy and spend some time over there!
Well, there you have it. To see ALL of the questions and answers since 2004, click here and browse around!
Hi Hungry Girl, I'm obsessed with all things minty and chocolatey. Can you recommend some good guilt-free picks? Choco-Minty Maggie
Hi Maggie,
While I'm not personally a huge fan of chocolate mint, I know a lot of people who LOVE it. And there are many delicious, no-guilt ways to get a fix... Snack-Aisle Scores - Miss Meringue Drizzled Meringue Cookies Mint Chocolettes are a GREAT pick. They're incredibly tasty, and you get to chomp on ten of 'em for 130 calories and 3.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 4*). A filling snack with impressive stats is the Luna Protein Mint Chocolate Chip bar -- 170 calories and 5g fat, plus 3g fiber and a whopping 12g protein (PointsPlus® value 4*). I love Luna bars. Another fun find is Jet-Puffed Chocolate Mint marshmallows. A 17-piece serving has just 100 fat-free calories (PointsPlus® value 3*). Add a few to hot cocoa or a sugar-free chocolate pudding snack! Speaking of pudding, look for Jell-O's Sugar Free Chocolate Mint Fudge Pudding Snacks in the fridge section of the supermarket -- just 60 calories and 1g fat each (PointsPlus® value 2*). Freezy Finds - Dreyer's/Edy's Slow Churned Mint Chocolate Chip is the way to go if you're craving mint chocolate chip ice cream. A 1/2-cup serving has 120 calories and 4.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 3*). Can't be trusted around multi-serving tubs of ice cream? Go for one of these Skinny Cow treats -- a Mint Low Fat Ice Cream Sandwich (150 calories, 2g fat, PointsPlus® value 4*) or a White Mint Truffle Bar (100 calories, 2.5g fat, PointsPlus® value 3*). Soooo good! Finally, stock your freezer with Chocolate Mint VitaTops, which have 100 calories and 1.5g fat each, plus 9g fiber and 4g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). Definitely worth ordering online! HG Recipes! - Check out these guilt-free creations: Peppermint Bark Fudge (who cares if the holidays are over?), Scoopy Arctic Chocolate Delight, ChocoMint Martinis (if you're of the legal drinking age, of course!), and Peppermint Hot Cocoa. That cocoa features sugar-free calorie-free peppermint-flavored syrup (like the kind by Torani), an amazing item if you want to infuse other chocolate treats with a little sweet minty goodness. Unconventional Stuff - Extra Dessert Delights Sugarfree Gum comes in Mint Chocolate Chip, and each stick has only 5 calories (PointsPlus® value 0*). PERFECT if you want to feed a craving for chocolate mint without spending a lot of calories. And Nature Made VitaMelts makes a chocolate-mint melatonin supplement to help you sleep. Talk about sweet dreams! There you go -- plenty of choco-minty options. Enjoy!
Today, January 16th, is International Hot & Spicy Food Day. Celebrate with a batch of these Spicy Asian Meatballs or this Spicy Thai-Style No-Cook Stir-Fry!
Have a question for Hungry Girl? Send it in! She answers new Qs each week (but cannot respond to emails personally).
SmartPoints® value not what you expected? Click here for more info on how the values are calculated, plus more FAQs about PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® values on our website.


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Pictures from the 2012 British Journalism Awards. All photos credit: JB Young Photography.
Pre-awards drinks
Under warden of the Stationers' Company Ian Locks.
Lord Black of Brentwood, read his speech in full here.
New journalist of the year Emma Slater pictured with Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford.
Investigation of the year winners Fay Schlesinger and Alexi Mostrous of The Times.
Science journalist of the year Tom Feilden of the Today programme with Alison Steel of the Chartered Insitute of Public Relations.
Photojournalist of the year Matt Cardy pictured with Lori Miles.
Winners of innovation of the year – The Guardian – for Reading the Riots, pictured with Peter Cole of the British Journalism Awards judges.
Sports journalist of the year David Walsh pictured with Jonathan Grun of the Press Association.
Business journalist of the year Chris Giles of the FT pictured with Ian Locks of the Stationers' Company.
Political journalist of the year David Hencke (right) of Exaro pictured with Kevin Marsh of the British Journalism Awards judges.
Breaking news award winners Andrew Gregory of the Daily Mirror and Steve Back of political pictures.
British Jourrnalism Awards journalist of the year David Walsh of The Sunday Times.
Photographer Paul Conroy (left) and Sunday Times foreign editor Sean Ryan (right) pick up a special award presented in memory of Marie Colvin from Bob Satchwell of the Society of Editors.


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Obscenity: One More Shot in February
Thanks to a mistrial at the Ninth Circuit in 2008, there may be one more chance for a nationwide thawing of the Court's nearly forty-year-old obscenity jurisprudence.
The government's prosecution of Ira Isaacs in 2008 centered around Isaacs's distribution of bestial and scatological pornography. But in June of that year, as the trial was pending, the LA Times reported that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation as the district court judge for Isaacs's case, maintained a porn server of sorts on his computer. Although the content on Kozinski's server was a far cry from the extreme nature of Isaacs's material on trial (NSFW), the public controversy compelled Kozinski to declare a mistrial.
The Isaacs case is now set for a February 2011 trial in the Central District of California. But the legal landscape for obscenity has changed since 2008 in a way that makes Supreme Court review of this case far more likely than it would have been had no mistrial been declared in the first place.
As Rhett Pardon of XBIZ Newswire reported yesterday:
The introduction of national community standards were put in play after an appeals panel last year found it more logical for obscenity prosecutions.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a CAN-SPAM case — U.S. vs. Kilbride, 584 F. 3d 1240(9th Cir. 2009) — that a national community standard to define Internet obscenity is more appropriate than a local one.
Attorney Roger Jon Diamond, Isaacs' attorney, said that it's to his advantage to be open to a national community standard using the Miller test, despite the fact that local community standards of the Central District of California would be beneficial.
U.S. prosecutors are advocating a local community standards instruction.
Isaacs was charged with two counts of using a common carrier and interactive computer service for interstate commerce in obscene films.
"Because the videos were from the Central District, you are looking at jurors from the Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties who typically are liberally minded," Diamond told XBIZ.
But Diamond noted that using a national community standards could create a legal maneuver that could benefit Isaacs.
"If the government were to press for a national community standard, they might have a problem finding an expert witness on the matter, because there are none," he said. "And we could move for a dismissal."
Some months ago, I wrote about the circuit split created when the Eleventh Circuit refused to follow the Ninth Circuit away from local community standards, and suggested that this split made the issue ripe for Supreme Court review. No party, however, petitioned the Court over either judgment. Then, in a case in the D.C. District Court this summer, a deeper split looked possible–the judge had refused to follow Kilbride in a published denial of defendant's motion to dismiss [693 F.Supp.2d 25]–but the judge ultimately threw the case out before it went to the jury.
Isaacs's case, then, may be the last Bush-era obscenity prosecution that can lead to a relaxation of the Court's 1973 Miller test to determine what speech may be classified criminally obscene and therefore left unprotected by the First Amendment. Although it is not entirely clear whether Kilbride will govern the Isaacs case–Kilbride applied only to Internet obscenity, whereas Isaacs is being prosecuted for Internet and common carrier transmission of obscenity–if the district court decides Kilbride applies to the mails as well as the Internet, then that will be an even stronger blow against Miller than Kilbride itself was.
Still, it's hard to believe that any jury will not find Isaacs's movies to be plainly patently offensive and crystal-clear appeals to the prurient interest, whether the jury uses national or local community standards. To get a sense of the content of the material on trial, just read their titles: "Gang Bang Horse — 'Pony Sex Game,'" "Mako's First Time Scat," "Hollywood Scat Amateurs No. 7."
In Kilbride, neither the defense nor the prosecution had incentive to appeal: the prosecutors got their conviction (albeit under the federal anti-spam statute rather than anti-obscenity statutes) and the defense successfully chipped away at the Miller test. In the Isaacs case, however, I see no way Isaacs avoids conviction unless the judge declares obscenity laws altogether unconstitutional or, as in the D.C. trial, throws the case out. With a conviction comes incentive to appeal. With an appeal comes a Ninth Circuit judgment affirming, if not broadening, Kilbride's deviation from Miller, further reinforcing the circuit split, while upholding Isaacs's conviction. And with an affirmation comes a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court asking for reversal by questioning the ability of any community standards, whether national or local, are sufficient First Amendment safeguards against the criminalization of protected speech.
I can't imagine the current Court bringing all obscenity within First Amendment protection, let alone letting Isaacs walk. But I can imagine the Court affirming the use of national standards as perfectly clear enough to gain a conviction in line with contemporary standards patently offended by bestiality or scatological porn. That way, the Court can have it both ways: a more lenient standard of determining obscenity less susceptible to prosecutors' unjust forum-shopping, but a standard not so lenient as to provoke headlines that the Court sympathizes with peddlers of uber-extreme pornography.


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