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Fiesta Grande's doors finally reopened on Dec. 18 - roughly 18 months after a storm shut them - at 109 N. Main St., in the former Locker Room Bar.
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On June 29, 2012, a fast-moving storm tore the roof off the brick building at 119 W. 5th St. in Marysville, causing it to partially collapse. The storm began a lengthy odyssey for the owners of the Fiesta Grande restaurant, a well-loved neighborhood institution that was on the first floor of that building.
"We knew it was going to take time to reopen, but not as much as it did," said Francisco Arevalo, the restaurant's general manager. His sister, Rosie, and a silent partner own the restaurant.
They were delayed by "a fight with the insurance company; then the business-interruption insurance only covered certain things," said Dennis Schulze, a Marysville attorney who works with Fiesta Grande's owners. "Then, they needed to find another location" because the cost to rebuild on the original site would have been exorbitant.
Fiesta Grande's doors finally reopened on Dec. 18 - roughly 18 months after the storm shut them - at 109 N. Main St., in the former Locker Room Bar.
Mr. Arevalo said he never doubted that the restaurant would reopen.
"We felt broken-hearted after so many years of hard work. For a lot of people, this would be just another job, but for me and my family, (Fiesta Grande) was our life," he said.
The commitment was just as strong with respect to the restaurant's location. Leaving downtown Marysville "didn't even cross our mind," Arevalo said. "We thought we'd be better off staying downtown because we not only feel like part of the community, but because we see the downtown still has a lot of potential to grow."
It took a lot of work to reopen the doors.
The Union County Development Fund, a private group that buys and rehabilitates properties, sold the owners the building at 109 N. Main. It needed a lot of work, including new plumbing, electrical and heating and cooling systems.
The space still has the original tin ceiling and an antique cooler in the bar area. "It's the first thing you see as soon as you walk in the front door, and a lot of our older customers remember it from coming in here when they were little," Arevalo said.
The new Fiesta Grande has an open concept, but with a capacity of 99 is a lot smaller than its previous space.
Fiesta Grande's reopening had been much anticipated in Marysville.
"Most restaurants, if they had to shut down for a month, they'd be dead," Schulze said. "This one, a year and a half later, they had people lined up for their opening, before they had officially announced they were open. People have been knocking on the windows trying to get news on what was happening.
"It's so great. The food is very good, but I think people love them because of the combination of attention to service, the food and because it's a fun place to be."
The restaurant is expected to be around for a long time, but a move back to its 5th Street location is envisioned.
"People have said they are as glad we are back as we are, but probably in the back of their mind, they're wondering what our plans are for the empty lot where we used to be," Arevalo said. " We are planning to rebuild and reopen Fiesta Grande there, hopefully in the near future."
If that happens, the Main Street space will be rented to another restaurant.
"We're part of the community here," Arevalo said. "We're not going anywhere. The only place to go is forward."Off the menu
• Colorado-based Moe's Original Bar B Que will soon open a restaurant at 128 Broadway E. in Granville. It's owned by Kara Gallagher and Greg Tracey and is set to open in March.
• Hot Heads Burritos plans to open a restaurant this spring at 2051 W. Henderson Rd. in a former Starbucks.
• Tom + Chee, a Cincinnati-based grilled-cheese and tomato-soup chain, plans to open two restaurants in central Ohio soon, at 10709 Blacklick Eastern Rd., Suite 300, in Pickerington (near the Marcus Theater), and at 1840 Hilliard-Rome Rd. on the Far West Side. The company has been featured on Man v. Food and Amazing Eats. The company said the restaurants will open in March or April.Obit file
Brewsky's, 4510 Kenny Rd., has closed.
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Six days after Edward J. Markey was elected to the US Senate, five Democratic candidates are already running to replace him in the US House of Representatives.
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian of Waltham jumped in the race for the Fifth Congressional District with a video announcement on Monday morning. State Senator Karen Spilka of Ashland, who previously said she is running, kicked off her campaign with an event in Framingham on Monday evening.
There are three other declared Democratic contenders in the heavily Democratic and largely suburban district that runs from Revere to Lexington to Framingham to Holliston: state Representative Carl M. Sciortino of Medford, and state Senators Will Brownsberger of Belmont and Katherine Clark of Melrose.
Koutoujian, a former state representative who became sheriff in 2011, spoke about his family's immigrant roots and called public service his "life's work" in his announcement.
"We need to know that the next representative hears the voices and sees the faces of those that they represent and, most importantly, can get things done to make their lives better," he said in the video. "I have dedicated my life to doing exactly that and I'm ready to bring those progressive values and a lot of hard work to Washington."
Spilka noted her record of working to pass laws related to the economy, health care, the environment, and programs for children, according to a copy of her prepared remarks shared by her campaign.
"[T]his race will be about who can best deliver on our progressive principles in a Congress mired in gridlock and obstructionism," Spilka was scheduled to say, according to the prepared remarks.
Warren Tolman, a former state senator, whose name had been floated as a potential candidate in recent days, said on Monday he would not run for the seat.
The date of the special election has not been set because Markey has not officially stepped down to be sworn in as a US senator. After that resignation takes effect, state election law calls for Governor Deval Patrick to schedule a special election for a date 145 to 160 days later, which probably means that the special election will be held in December with an earlier primary contest.
Also on Wednesday, the campaigns publicly discussed reviving the "People's Pledge," a pact designed to limit outside spending in the race. Sciortino and Brownsberger have called for such a pledge in the special election. Campaign aides to the three other candidates said they were open to some version of the agreement pioneered by Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Republican Scott Brown in the 2012 US Senate contest.
Warren and Brown signed a pledge that effectively limited outside spending in their hotly contested race. The pact stipulated that every time an outside group spent money on advertisements to benefit a candidate, that candidate was required to make a donation to charity.
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Ravens may be the most intelligent nonhuman animal.
Edgar Allan Poe was not the only one impressed with the great intellect of the raven. Ravens also much impressed the prophet Elijah when God ordered the birds to bring the prophet bread and meat.1
Today's biologists and psychologists are coming to the conclusion that ravens may be the most intelligent nonhuman animal. Studies that reveal the superior cognitive abilities of ravens and crows challenge the Darwinian claim that the properties of the human mind and of certain birds can be explained by natural descent.
Ongoing debates over the origin of life have focused only on the origin of the physical attributes of life. The origins of the "soulish" and spiritual aspects of Earth's higher life-forms remain largely ignored. (According to the Bible, soulish life includes creatures, namely birds and mammals, that God has endowed with mind, will, and emotions so they can form relationships with members of their own species as well as with human beings.) Two recently published papers, one in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, alerted the scientific community to the severe challenges the origins of soulishness and spirituality pose to naturalistic models for life.
Three verses in Genesis 1 use the Hebrew verb bara ("create") to describe transcendent creation miracles—when God creates something brand new that never existed before, independent of, or from outside of, any of the material components of the universe, including the laws of physics and the space-time dimensions of the universe. The three bara miracles take place in verse 1 (the creation of the universe), verse 21 (the creation of "soulish" animals), and verse 27 (the creation of human beings "in the image of God"). They imply that the origin of life has three components: physical life, soulish life, and spiritual life.
God designed soulish animals so that each kind can serve or please humanity in its own distinct way; Job 39 implies that soulish animals were preprogrammed by God to do so before humans even existed.2 The Bible defines spiritual life as a God-given capacity in creatures to discover and to form a relationship with Him. In the same manner that He designed soulish animals to serve and please humanity, He made humans, the only form of spiritual life on Earth, to serve and please Him.
Secular scientific literature has paid scant attention to the origin of humanity's spiritual attributes, and virtually no research considers the origin of the soulish features observed in the higher animals, particularly birds and mammals. From a philosophical perspective, avoiding the origin of soulishness and spirituality makes perfect sense. For Darwinian explanations of life, both issues are dangerous minefields.
In his book The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin explicitly states that the difference between human and nonhuman minds is merely "one of degree and not of kind" and that "there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties."3 As proof, he pointed out "there is a much wider interval in mental power between one of the lowest fishes …and one of the higher apes, than between an ape and a man."4
Darwin's "proof," however, doesn't establish his premise that man is naturally descended from lower animals. From a biblical perspective fish possess no soulish qualities at all, whereas both apes and humans do. So, of course, a wider gulf in mental power exists between a fish and an ape than between an ape and a man.
In the recent opinion essay in Nature, biologist Johan Bolhuis and psychologist Clive Wynne accept the premise that species have naturally evolved and, thus, possess shared ancestry. But they contest the Darwinian principle "that species with shared ancestry will have similar cognitive abilities."5 For example, researchers have noted cognitive similarities between physically disparate species, but not necessarily between physically similar species. Bolhuis and Wynne point out that this "illustrates that cognitive traits cannot be neatly arranged in an evolutionary scale of relatedness."6
Bolhuis and Wynne contrast the cognitive capacities of birds and primates. In the Darwinian models, apes and humans are closely related and share a relatively recent common ancestor. Birds, on the other hand, are only distantly related to primates. Thus, Darwinists predict that of all animals, apes should come closest to manifesting the cognitive capabilities of human beings.
But Bolhuis and Wynne give examples where birds defy this prediction. They cite how "Caledonian crows [though not quite matching ravens in intellectual prowess] outperform monkeys in their ability to retrieve food from a trap tube–from which food can be accessed only at one end."7 They also refer to an experiment demonstrating that "crows can also work out how to use one tool to obtain a second with which they can retrieve food, a skill that monkeys and apes struggle to master."8 Evidently, certain bird species exhibit greater powers of the mind than do apes. (See crows' cognitive powers in action here.)
High cognitive abilities of certain bird species even sometimes challenge a purely physical explanation for their behavior. Take for example the marsh tit. This bird stores seeds in tree bark or in the ground and is able to retrieve them days later while its "close relative," the great tit, doesn't store food at all.9 Biologists presumed the difference would be explained by a larger hippocampus in the brain of the food-storing birds. Alas, the evidence doesn't support this suggestion.10 Studies also show that food-storers do not perform any better in spatial memory tasks than do the non-food-storers.11
In their paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, three psychology researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), boldly declared Darwin's idea of the continuity of the mind (from lower species to higher) a mistake.12 They argue "there is a significant discontinuity in the degree to which human and nonhuman animals are able to approximate the higher order, systematic, relational capabilities of a physical symbol system."13 They go on to show that this discontinuity "pervades nearly every domain of cognition and runs much deeper than even the spectacular scaffolding provided by language or culture alone can explain."14
The UCLA study addressed only the properties of mind that pertain to symbolic thought. Putting aside the unique spiritual attributes of human beings, the UCLA team demonstrated that even in the soulishness that both humans and the higher nonhuman animals share, there is such an enormous discontinuity that Charles Darwin's descent of man theory must be wrong.
RTB scholars conclude that God, not natural processes, must be the causal agent behind all three origins of life: physical, soulish, and spiritual. For more physical evidence and reasons for our conclusion we recommend our books, Origins of Life15 and Who Was Adam?,16 which explain our creation model on the origins of physical life and spiritual life. I am currently writing a book on the origin of soulish life.
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Did NASA discover a parallel universe where times runs backwards? According to media outlets and social media, yes. But what does the evidence actually reveal? What implications does this discovery have on our universe? And are the conclusions imaginative or informative?
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Question of the week: What is the strongest physical evidence for the big bang?
My answer: I frequently get asked this question by people who lack formal education in physics and astronomy. I tell them that the strongest physical evidences for the big bang creation model are technical and need careful explanation for laypeople to understand and appreciate. I have provided those explanations with extensive documentation in my book, The Creator and the Cosmos, 4th edition.1 I find, however, that most people who ask me this question are satisfied with me giving them one or two visual demonstrations that we must be living in a universe that has been continuously expanding from a big bang beginning.
My fond memories of ministry partnership with Ravi go back more than three decades. Some of the earliest go back to Veritas Forums on university campuses where we did tandem presentations. My part was to present compelling scientific evidence for the God of the Bible, and then Ravi would follow with an exquisite articulation of the philosophical and theological implications of this evidence. His eloquence always amazed me, and still does. He could turn a phrase in such a way that listeners even years later would readily recall both his words and their impact.
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Call me boring, or simply old-fashioned, but "dinner-and-a-movie" date nights have long been one of my favorite ways to spend a Friday night. Normally, I catch a flick at the Charlestowne 18 theater in St. Charles, but the dining scene in that area is largely comprised of franchises and chain restaurants; something I try to avoid if it can be helped.
So, when I heard of an ale house popping up in the site of the former Bennigan's directly across the street from the Charlestowne Mall, I got excited. My only hope was that the food would be just as worthy of a visit as the beer. Turns out it is.
After having already visited the Spotted Fox Ale House once and liked it enough to go back a second time, I decided to do a Mystery Diner column about my third visit.
Serving upscale American contemporary cuisine and 30 craft beers on tap, prices at the Spotted Fox (simply advertised as Ale House on the side of its building to passersby) remain competitive with other area eateries.
I rolled into a packed parking lot – always a good sign – around 7:30 p.m. on a Friday evening.
I approached the hostess who greeted me with a kind smile despite the controlled chaos equivalent to that of any popular restaurant on a busy night.
"It'll be about a 30-minute wait," she informed me.
I hesitated as I calculated the amount of time my dining companion and I would have before the start of the 9 p.m. showing of "Django Unchained."
"OK, that should be fine," I answered.
As the hostess scribbled my name, I glanced over at the 30-seat bar looking for a place to plop, but nearly every seat was accounted for.
My dining companion arrived and shortly after we nabbed a couple of seats at a high-top table steps away from the bar – strangely enough, it was the same table I've sat at for all three of my visits.
The Ale House's open-floor plan gives the place a relaxed vibe. With heavy-handed masculine features, such as rich woods and dark leather custom-made furniture, the interior provides a perfect setting for beer-drinking and game watching on one of the plethora of flat-screen TV's uniformly dispersed throughout the space. Somehow it simultaneously manages to pull off sleek and sophisticated with bamboo walls and ambient lighting.
The waiter showed up in no time at all despite the rush.
First order of business would have been drinks – but not on the job! So, I'll refer to my previous experience with Ale House libations. On previous visits, I sampled The Lefthanded Milk Stout ($6), a deliciously cool and creamy dark brew perfect for dessert and quite filling. And I have to say, the Ale House bar staff knows how to shake up a decent cocktail. Funnily enough, the next time I want a Cosmo done right, I'm heading to the Ale House.
On to appetizers, we ordered the Buffalo Chicken dip ($9.99) with house-made corn tortilla chips on a recommendation from our waiter. He also recommended the Fried Pickles ($4.99) and Calamari ($10.99) – maybe another time.
Another app that looked intriguing was the Sliders – a trio of either pot roast with gruyere cheese, crispy pork belly with pickles, or a cheeseburger with crispy shallots for $9.99.
The menu has everything from sandwiches and panini's to salads, burgers, pastas and fish.
Previously, I ordered the Pesto Panini ($10.99) layered with grilled chicken breast, ripe red tomatoes and shaved red onion with a fresh pesto drizzle, and loved it!
The California Panini with oven-roasted turkey breast served with bacon, guacamole and ranch dressing ($10.50) was also good. But I was in the mood for something more stick-to-your ribs so as to not give into my weakness for movie-theater popcorn later in the evening.
I opted for the simply stated Mac N Cheese. But simple it was not. The dish included cavatappi pasta, house-made cheese sauce with white truffle oil and the trendy foodie-favorite – crispy pork belly ($11).
My dining companion ordered the Parmesan Chicken ($10.99) with braised tomatoes and white wine butter sauce served with seasonal vegetables (broccoli in this case) and a twice-baked potato.
The Buffalo Chicken Dip – which was only mildly spicy – paired nicely with the corn tortilla chips. We learned a quarter of the way in to dunk deeply so as to catch each of the dip's layers of herb cream cheese, breaded buffalo chicken, Chihuahua cheese and pico de gallo. With the dip mostly depleted, our entrees arrived.
One word to describe my Mac N Cheese – rich! Extremely rich. I can usually eat any one of my dining companions under the table, but only a few bites in, and I was finished. If you're not a fan of pork belly, no matter how appetizing the truffle oil may sound, I would pass on this one – especially if you savor the traditional taste of Mac N Cheese, because this is not your average mac.
The Parmesan Chicken came with a heaping amount of food. And not one, but two large Parmesan encrusted chicken breasts piled on top of one another. The chicken was succulent and tender. The broccoli was cooked to perfection – flavorful, nice coloring and crispy.
My next visit will probably include the Blackened Tacos ($11.25) with shrimp or fish or one of the eight different burgers gracing the menu such as The Fox – a burger with Angus beef, applewood-smoked bacon, a fried egg, white cheddar and fried shallot strings ($10.25) or possibly the Swiss Mushroom ($10.99) topped with sauteed mushrooms, ale-braised onions and Swiss cheese.
Spotted Fox Ale House has something for everyone. The ingredients are trendy as well as seasonal, and the food is varied and creative while tipping a hat to American-food favorites.
Whether you hunker down for pre-game football food and drink, pop in on the way to a movie or for some mid-shopping sustenance, the Spotted Fox can accommodate.
Spotted Fox Ale House
Address: 3615 E. Main St., St. Charles
Phone: 630-584-2239
Website: spottedfoxalehouse.com
Hours: 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Friday through Saturday, and 9 a.m. to midnight Sundays.
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Most of us are quite familiar with the account of David and Goliath. However, there is much more to the passage than the normal Sunday School lesson contains. Pastor Todd seeks to set the scene for the battle which will come in the next lesson. We hope this message gives you a more full view of this event.


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If there is a time you are going miss family, it is this time of year. Our children are grown and now live in three different states. Yet when they were living at home, we rarely ended up in church together, because my husband and I are both pastors. The one night we all showed up in the same place was Christmas Eve. On that night it was our family tradition to light the candles in the Advent wreath at the beginning of each of our services.
Two of our three children are extreme introverts and do not like being in front of groups. The other child, Will, has mental disabilities, autism, epilepsy and hyperactivity and does not handle crowds well. Yet, on Christmas Eve all three were troopers. They dressed up, divided the parts and traveled from one church service to the other, looking after their brother and grabbing supper between services.
I remember the year Will learned to blow out candles. Our routine had been to pass the lighter among us, each one saying a part and lighting a candle. Only that year each time a candle was lit, Will blew it out. Picture the other four of us, closing in around the wreath, talking fast and rapidly passing a lighter, racing against Will�s best efforts to blow. The Light had come into the world, and we were doing our best to keep Will from extinguishing it.
Years passed, our children grew and left home, two to college, one to a group home, but still we gathered to light candles on Christmas Eve. Then our daughter married, and she and her husband served as mission workers in an inner city ministry. December came, and as the newest worker at the shelter, our daughter drew Christmas Eve duty. For the first time, our family was separated on December 24. That year when my husband, I and our sons stood to light candles, there was an empty space, and our thoughts were with a loved one, far away in a cold, stark homeless shelter.
More years have brought more Christmas separations, time shared with in-laws, distant residences, sick grandchildren, and the advancement of our son�s disabilities. This year our children will spend Christmas in their own homes. It is, after all, time for them to develop their own family traditions. Yet when candles are lit on Christmas Eve, we will think of each other and remember.
Families change in many ways, but the message of Christmas is God�s presence does not. Distance or circumstance may separate us, but not from the Light that has come into the world. This Christmas Eve, alone or with family, light a candle.
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Another intimate, handcrafted work of poetic autobiographical cinema from French director Philippe Garrel, in which his son Louis and Anna Mouglalis star as actors and lovers trying to reconcile their professional and personal lives.
Jealousy will be a delight for lovers of French cinema, director Philippe Garrel, and those who appreciate allusions to the New Wave. Described as a film à clef by Variety in their Venice review, the film allowed Garrel to explore his own personal experiences through the casting of his son, Louis Garrel, as the central character, Louis. The plot of the film clearly mimics the director's experiences as a child – his own father, the actor Maurice Garrel, who left his mother to raise Philippe on her own.
[Louis Garrel will participate in a free NYFF Live talk on October 2!]
Here, it is Louis who has just left the mother of his 8 year old daughter (an adorable brown haired girl named Charlotte, who stands in for the young Philippe), Clothilde, for a fellow actor, Claudia. Louis and Claudia move in together, and with Clothilde bitter and alone, left to care for Charlotte. In Jealousy, the audience experiences moments between characters that expose their relationships and their fragility, changing from one scene to the next. Each character has their own concerns to address – the film is a quiet study not just on jealousy but on how to have a satisfying relationship with someone else. With actors-playing-actors flitting in and out of camera, the film is also a meditation on the question of performance in relationships, life, and theater.
"The script by Garrel and regular collaborators Caroline Deruas, Arlette Langmann and Marc Cholodenko sprinkles in a fair few graceful parallelisms like this throughout, and yet the ensemble infuses the dialogue with a spontaneous breeziness, like they're making it all up on the spot," Variety said about Jealousy. This effect of apparent casualness underscores the attention to detail in the film and the power of what is conveyed onscreen – as The Hollywood Reporter put it in their Venice review, "Jealousy instead offers moments of quiet tragedy in some seemingly innocent throwaway moments." The film is dedicated to portraying families and relationships in all their multitudes, from anger and sadness to joy and comfort.
The film's imagery is wonderfully cinematic – the black and white filming was done by Willy Kurant, the cinematographer for the classic Godard film, Masculin Feminin. NYFF is screening <em>Jealousy as a part of this year's Main Slate Selection.
Jealousy (La Jalousie)
Director: Philippe Garrel
Writers: Marc Cholodenko, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Philippe Garrel, Arlette Langmann
Cast: Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis, Emanuela Ponzano, Arthur Igual
Screens: October 3 + 7
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Philippe Garrel is a true child of French cinema. His father was the great actor Maurice Garrel, he made a 2nd home for himself in the Cinémathèque Française, he shot his first film at the age of 16 and he rode through the streets of Paris shooting newsreels of May 68 with Godard in his red Ferrari. From the start, Garrel's intimate, handcrafted cinema has stayed elementally close to the conditions of silent film — the unadorned beauty of faces, figures and light — and revisited the same deeply personal themes of loss, mourning, and rejuvenation through love. In this sharp, vigorous film, shot in glorious black and white by the great Willy Kurant (Masculine Feminine), Garrel takes a fresh look at his titular subject, patiently following the professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director's son Louis and Anna Mouglalis. With a beautiful score by long-time Garrel collaborator John Cale.


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Q: It's getting harder for my 9-year-old dog to do the things she used to enjoy. How can I help her age gracefully?
A: While every dog is different, most canines enter their geriatric phase at 7 to 8 years of age. As with humans, advanced age can lead to arthritis, decreased mobility and decreased organ functions. An expert from my pooch's veterinary clinic offers the following tips to help embrace your dog's inner puppy as the years go by:
Keep up the exercise: Don't discount those daily walks. Even if the pace is a little slower these days, it's a way to bond with your dog and burn calories together. Just be sure to monitor your pet during and after the walk. Dogs don't sweat, so be mindful of excessive panting or signs of exhaustion. If your dog is like my sister's dog, Daisy, it will simply stop when enough is enough. If you have a couch potato, introduce exercise on a gradual basis. A few minutes of fetch each day can keep dogs active.
Watch the weight: On a small frame, an extra three to five pounds can strain hips and joints. Since older animals are less active, they require fewer calories. Talk to your veterinarian about reducing portions or switching to a senior formula, which has fewer calories and often includes joint-friendly supplements such as glucosamine and chondroitin. A smaller-size kibble or softer food also may be necessary to aid in digestion. I've added a bit of warm water or veggie broth to help soften Daisy's food during her visits.
Get regular checkups: An annual veterinary exam is recommended for all dogs. Older dogs also should undergo blood work so vets can catch any internal issues such as kidney or liver damage. In some breeds, biannual blood work is recommended. Talk to your vet about blood tests during the next visit.
Keep it simple: A dog's vision and sense of smell can diminish with age. Be sure to keep things simple by removing obstacles from around the house. It also helps to establish a routine for older dogs and avoid sudden schedule changes. Pet steps or doggie ramps also provide easy access so your dog doesn't have to strain. Make sure that pet bedding is soft to cushion old joints.
Take note of toys: Try toys that are gentler on your dog's teeth and jaws. Contrasting colors make balls and plush pull toys easier for older eyes to track down. Make sure playtime is still fun by adding new activities. You really can teach an old dog new tricks.
Protect those chompers: Teeth become more brittle with age. Make sure to check your dog's teeth regularly and watch for signs of tartar or gum disease. Check out tips from an earlier column on keeping those teeth pearly white.
Socialize, socialize, socialize: Older dogs need love, too. They make the best cuddle bugs, especially for elderly relatives. Interacting with younger dogs also may help your pooch stay young at heart. Try one-on-one play dates with other dogs. Also, consider fostering a dog from a local rescue group. It's a short-term commitment that allows your pet to help another dog learn the ropes and — hopefully — land a forever home.
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Magical Faerie wish bottle comes complete with a beautiful hand crafted iridescent shimmery faerie wing and real Rose quartz and Amethyst gemstones chips
The corked glass bottle is then tied with wax cotton cord with a faerie and Believe charm attached, and a parchment scroll tied ready for you to write your wish upon.
The kit comes complete with instructions and a 'Finding the Faerie folk! print out on parchment paper and tied with a ribbon
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Wish Kit Instructions ~ print out on parchment
'Write down your wish upon the scroll and place in the wish bottle.
Ask the faeries for their help and guidance in making your wish come true!'
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~ Finding the Faerie folk! ~ Print Out on parchment
~ Go out into nature and feel the fresh breeze, carry some gemstones with you for the faeries do love these. Dance in the moonlight, walk barefoot in the dew and ask the faeries (politely!) to show themselves to you. Hunt for mushrooms under a mossy tree and let your heart be open to magic and mystery ~
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Presented in a handstamped giftbox with faerie wings and 'Make a wish' stamp made of recycled card & filled with shredded recycled green paper.
Wish bottle size 5.5cm high x 2cm wide
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A former government official responsible for protecting whistle-blowers has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of injury to government property.
Scott Bloch had his government computer and those of two of his staffers wiped clean of information in 2006. He had been under investigation at the time for retaliating against employees at the federal agency he headed, which was responsible for protecting the rights of federal workers and ensuring that government whistle-blowers are not subjected to reprisals.
He faces up to six months in jail.
Bloch originally pleaded guilty in 2010 to a misdemeanor count of contempt of Congress and was sentenced to a month in prison. But that was overturned because a magistrate judge refused to let Bloch withdraw his guilty plea, even with the support of prosecutors.


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New York State Lobbying Law of 2005
Chapter 1 of the Laws of 2005, as amended by Chapter 596 of the Laws of 2005 (collectively referred to as the "Lobbying Law"), makes major changes to the Legislative Law and State Finance Law, which regulate lobbying on government procurements. It creates two new sections in the State Finance Law that restrict contacts, require disclosure of certain contacts, and address the responsibility of bidders and proposers, during the procurement process. These sections are effective as of January 1, 2006.
SCHEDULE W, COMPLIANCE WITH NEW YORK STATE'S STATE FINANCE LAW SECTIONS 139-j AND 139-k, is made part of all solicitation packages in compliance with the Lobbying Law. For additional information, all Bidders/Proposers are urged to contact the New York State Office of General Services at (518) 474-5607, or access their website:
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If the thrill of the catch is part and parcel of going fishing, then experiencing the wilder side of life is up there with it, says TV presenter and angling enthusiast Henry Gilbey
A big coastline, endless tangles of rivers and a generous sprinkling of lakes, in Ireland it's pretty easy to get away from it all, especially if you have a rod at hand…
It doesn't actually matter what you like to fish for or whether you have a preference for fishing out at sea from a boat, on vast loughs, quiet stillwaters, tumbling rivers, gurgling streams, open beaches or plunging cliffs. You'll find the lot here.
Legendary freshwater fisheries in the northern part of the island, such as Lough Erne, Corrib, Lough Neagh, Mask and Currane all cater to both fly and coarse anglers with a rich mix of species. There's no close season for coarse fishing around Ireland, so fill your boots with all manner of different freshwater fish throughout the year.
Keep a keen eye out for a migratory trout species called the dollaghan, unique to Neagh and its tributaries. And don't forget about the famous River Blackwater that flows through Tyrone, Armagh and Monaghan. You can experience excellent fly fishing, spinning and worm fishing all while on the lookout for salmon, brown trout and, of course, dollaghan.
The River Moy, flowing through Sligo and Mayo, on the other hand is justly famous for its sea trout fishing.
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Make as much time as you can to visit the parts of Ireland that only fishing can take you to, but if time is short and coarse or game fishing is your thing then Lough Erne, Lough Ree, the River Shannon and the Fermanagh Lakelands should be at the top of your list.
The magnificent predator Pike can be caught throughout the island, from loughs and rivers to canals. But Pike and Lough Erne, for instance, go together like Ireland and bass. Irish bream fishing, on the other hand, has been a famous pastime for many years now: who wouldn't fall in love with catching those magical red-finned roach as a warm summer evening shimmers across the water?
Finally, don't go forgetting about the island coastline. Here, on this endlessly winding, weaving coast, the saltwater fishing is as wide ranging and as varied as it is in the lakes, loughs and rivers. The Causeway coast is impressive enough already, but how about scrambling around the area with a fishing rod in hand? There are few wilder yet more easily accessible coastlines than Ireland and when you really step off that beaten track you could end up fishing spots that are yours and yours alone.
Now, that's really getting away from it.
Fishing can be easily accessible, serene and social here, but it can also be wild, dramatic, heart-stopping and life-affirming. Ireland as a whole is blessed with the whole gamut of angling opportunities. If the people are the island's beating heart, then its wild places are the lifeblood.
And fishing is just about the best excuse ever to experience them.
But deciding what to fish for and where to go is half the fun.
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It's obvious the Giants defense isn't what it once was.
But if you ask their defensive coordinator why, he makes it clear it's not the coaching.
"We've prepared better than what we've played," Perry Fewell said, via Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News. "I think if you look at the tape we're in position to make plays. We haven't made plays."
While coaches default into self-preservation mode this time of year, it's hard to pin the blame for the Giants' precipitous slide on one man.
They were seventh in the league in total defense in 2010, and won a Super Bowl a year ago. This year, they're 30th in total defense.
But mostly, they've been awful when it counted most, allowing 67 points in their last two must-win games, which leaves them only a slim conditional chance at the playoffs heading into the final weekend.
"We've been in position," Fewell said. "We haven't made a football play for the last couple of weeks. We've been in position to make football plays, but it hasn't gone our way."
If there's a sign that players know Fewell's right, it's that there's no open or indirect grumbling about him yet.
"We won a Super Bowl in this system — I think that's the main thing," linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka said. "We had the same system that we did last year."
"There's a lot of support for Perry," defensive end Osi Umenyiora added. "I'll just say that."
Of course, the Giants were trending this direction defensively last year, finishing 27th in the league. But their play late in the year was much of the reason they won a title, so that fades from memory. That's added some insulation for Fewell, and any offseason changes should rightly begin with personnel.
He's had chances to interview for head coaching jobs in the past (and the Panthers may have made a significant mistake picking Ron Rivera over him), and will likely continue to. But until he gets one of those jobs, he's left trying to scheme for an aging cast which needs a re-tooling.


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College life should not mean having to go through the 280 pages of To Kill a Mockingbird on Saturday night just because the English teacher needs a paper on his desk by Monday at 9:00am (even if he actually gave out the assignment a month ago).Enter Spark Notes
Spark Notes (or Sparknotes) is the college students answer to working smarter, not harder. Sparks study guides are wildly popular resources that will help student understand books, study for exams and write that paper thats been put off for weeks.
Spark Notes started as literary guides and from there they have expanded to cover history, math, biology and many among other subjects.
Sparknotes editors, experts in their fields, claim to never omit important information and encourage students to read the guides along with the textbooks or books they summarize. They also encourage students to draw their own conclusions and use their own words when writing papers based on Spark Notes study guides.
Nonetheless, the study guides have provoked quite a bit of controversy among college and school teachers that call them a cheating tool and claim students use Sparkguides as a replacement for reading assignments.
Besides Sparknotes, there are a number of other study guide publishers that are always willing to lend a hand to college and school students on their path towards academic excellence. Some examples are Cliffs Notes and Kaplan.
If you cant wait now to get that 80 pages Sparknotes guide to To Kill a Mockingbird, you can find it (and buy it) here.


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Oh, is that how it is, you big smeggy pants?
You think you're so great with your do-hickeys and what not?
Well I'll tell ya, we don't not take kindly to none of this brew ha ha around the parts where I part... from.. and... What? Who said I wanted one of these? Where?
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Days are getting shorter, darker, cooler. And nothing can chase the blues quicker than needles and yarn. Ask any knitter. There are times when a simple project frees us to ponder more pressing matters; at other times, a pattern engages us so thoroughly that we concentrate on it rather than other concerns. This issue gives you both—projects that come together quickly and others that take time—and each will provide plenty of gratification.
Seams like fun
I-cords—those made by you or one of the new I-cord yarns—can be seamed together for fun accessories. These unusual gems do not even require knitting needles! They are perfect for non-knitters—as long as they are willing to sew long seams. Spirals & seams will grow from I-cord yarn into a hat and scarf. Spirals & scribbles takes yarn through an I-cord maker, seams it into a hat with a spiral edge, and pairs it with an openwork scarf.
The Spice braid is a fast and fun knit. This 72-inch, bulky, cable scarf is grafted into a circle for neck-hugging warmth.
Knitter's has you collared
Keeping your focus round the neck, Reds rounds & ridges plays with stockinette and reverse stockinette rings of color. Here is a chance to master working in the round and placing increases strategically. The poncho will top your jacket or coat, or tuck inside as a cozy cowl. Opt for Scallops in mink, where a wavy lace grows into a circular collar that can chase away the chill or accent a turtleneck.
Artichoke twist, Harvest jewels, and Ribbon-o-round place the knitting interest at the top of the sweater. These round-yoke cardigans offer adventures with cables, Fair Isle, or simple stripes. Cables in camel means business with a sideways knit cabled yoke, and accompanied by skinny ribs. Over a pair of tights and boots, this tunic can take you from the office to 5-o'clock cocktails. Change to heels and evening accessories, and move on to dinner and dancing.
Aztec plaid takes five colors and places them in a trellis-like stranded pattern. The color arrangement changes for each section of the vest, then is highlighted with an asymmetrical collar.
Lace? Oh yeah! Start with a cowl. Add a jacket or duster. Mulberry cascade features interlocking leaves that scale up in size as they travel down the length of the piece.
Try angles
Triangle shawls can be constructed easily as in Two to triangle. We provide this allover lace shawl with options to mix in a bit—or a lot—of lace and garter stitch for additional looks. Triangle junction is a series of nine triangles, built one at a time and finished with a lace edge. Because we choose great handpainted yarns, these will be fun and unique wraps to weather the season.
Take me anywhere is a large-needle, one-piece beauty with minimal shaping and built-in edgings that form diagonals and chevrons.
I have a cable for you
Our cover cardigan is a play of color blocking and texture. The contrasting bands and raglan cables offer a festive salute to Autumn delight. The companion pullover, Woodsman, combines solids with a coordinating marl for quiet sophistication with rugged appeal. Or deepen the color options with Copper & Walnut; the hint of cables at the raglan shaping amuses the knitter and adds style to the knit.
Elegantly appointed
Every woman wants wardrobe options that are classic and elegant. Entrelac & old lace gives you a skirt for work or play. Begin with entrelac and then flow into a scallop lace—cleverly shaped with yarn-over increases that are twisted for a few rows and left open for the rest. The Azure tunic is full of twists and turns and will show your knitting prowess while flattering your figure.
Once your day is done, don Emerald blocks. The jacket is perfect over a basic black dress and resplendent with a crush of pearls. Haori on the side adds an Asian influence to dressy events—day or night. If layers are too much to handle, pair an elegant shell with the Flirty flapper and dance your cares away.
Trellis & fins revisits the triangle drapes from One skirt 3 ways in our last issue. Adding this top provides a dressy 2-piece knit. On its own, it tops jeans—or anything else—beautifully.
No matter the temperature, great knits can get you thinking warm thoughts and with those, you'll feel on top of the world.
Speaking of heights, in the Knitting Universe, Alexis Xenakis joins The Dunbabin family in Machu Pichu and back at home in Washington state. Who hasn't heard of Cascade 220? Here is an enlightening history of how this mainstay in our industry, and all of Cascade yarns, came to be.
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This rapid recovery program is slower than it sounds. The mayor's office sent out information on the program and said that all a homeowner needs to do is fill out some paperwork explaining the damage to their home and the city will get right on it.
Although the way this works is that the homeowner will be contacted within 48 hours of filing the paperwork to set up a time for a free assessment. Following the assessment a work order is created that lay out the specific needs of the repairs, in the opinion of a city official.
After the work order is made, the homeowner will choose to sign up to have the repairs done by a city contractor as "quickly as possible." They also have the option of paying for a contractor themselves and use FEMA funding, which entails that person filling out more paperwork and waiting on lines again.
As many New Yorkers don't even have running water, heat or electricity, it is difficult to imagine they have time to wait for paperwork to be filed or even the time to fill it out just for an estimate.
One woman who has been without power for over two weeks walked right past the Red Hook NYC Restore center to get to a food truck that was handing out free chicken and french fries. She said that she needs food now and with 48 hours to wait on a claim she simply said paperwork won't feed her child.
The food truck was parked in front of a church, Visitation Parish, located a few blocks from the center. A line had formed for free food at the food truck and another line was for cleaning supplies being handed out by the church. Both lines were longer than those at the new center.
It seems that people would rather clean up their own mess than wait 48 hours to be told how much of that mess the city will clean up.


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My perception of White Collar before seeing it was that it had the unenviable task of sometimes getting lost in the shadow of its more popular show Burn Notice. But while it may be easy to make the comparison (both have charismatic lead actors and capable supporting casts), the fact of the matter is that White Collar is staking its own claim and doing it rather well.
Created by Jeff Eastin, the show's premise is intriguing to say the least. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer, Flightplan) is a young, well-dressed and charismatic entrepreneur of sorts. However his main skills are in high-end burglary and forgery. Caught by FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay, Get Smart), he's given an interesting proposal; he would be allowed to stay out of prison, though monitored with an ankle bracelet and consult with the FBI on motives and skills used in White Collar crimes. At the end of the first season, he finds himself witness to the death of his girlfriend and, with the help of the Bureau and his trusted friend Mozzie (Willie Garson, Sex and the City 2), he hopes to try and find who did it, while helping Peter with other suspects in unrelated crimes.
There are a few pleasant surprises that one watches over the course of White Collar and its second season, but the biggest one about the show itself is Bomer's performance. It is part confidence, resolve and conflict. Considering his wardrobe, it is as if Caffrey could have been a direct relation to Thomas Crown, with lots of poise under pressure and sage wisdom from the other side of the law tracks. His determination to find the murderer of his girlfriend at points turns into blind yet justifiable rage, particularly when during an episode in the season he confronts who he believes is responsible for it, a disgraced former Agent played by Noah Emmerich (Pride and Glory). With all of that, it's the subtle conflict that he has about becoming legit which is the most intriguing thing the show pushes forward. Neil works well with the other agents in the office, particularly Diana Barrigan (Marsha Thomason, Las Vegas) and Clinton Jones (Sharif Atkins, ER). He even gets along well with Elizabeth Burke (Tiffani Thiessen, Saved By The Bell), Peter's wife and in a comedic twist late in the season, Peter and Neil 'switch' identities, allowing for Neil to be a little more settled.
The show's New York City location allows them to take advantage of a veteran talent pool. Combined with the contributions of the supporting cast and recurring cast (such as Emmerich), Tim Matheson (Animal House) and Richard Schiff (The West Wing) are among the recognizable faces that guest in the second season. Their contributions help raise the bar of believability to the stories. The only disappointing guest performance is sadly the one of the main antagonist, portrayed by Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin) who seems to want to do some Cary Grant impression, but it's both inconsistent and fails miserably. While his presence was welcome to help provide an origins episode to Caffrey's character (and the show to a larger extension), the accent becomes grating.
McCarthy's performance aside, White Collar is an entertaining show that is filled with solid contributions from both the main and supporting cast, and the stories are just as engaging, particularly when you deal with the formula the show presents. The standalone eps combined with the ones designed to advance the story and characters result in surprisingly good television. Now just starting its third season, I'd volunteer that when it comes to USA's summer schedule, White Collar is just as good as Burn Notice, but for different reasons.
The 16 episodes that comprise the second season of White Collar are all presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, consistent with their original broadcast format. The show looks very good, with flesh tones reproduced accurately and blacks looking solid without many image artifacts or compression. You can spot the seams between the shot footage against green screen, but they look free of edge enhancement and for that matter, the show lacks many post-production tweaks. All in all quality viewing material.
The show's Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound option for all of the episodes is a surprisingly powerful experience. There is lots of activity on the low-end for the subwoofer to get some work in, dialogue is consistent through the production and channel panning and directional effects are ample and convincing. It's much more immersive than I was expecting coming in, particularly as the show has more explosions and gunfire than one would assume. But overall, Fox does justice to White Collar.
The extras are peppered through all four discs and are a variety of things. Disc One has seven deleted scenes (8:23) that are forgettable, but the gag reel (5:07) is actually funny and worth watching an extra time or two. Disc Two has the creative team of both White Collar and Burn Notice roasting each other, Jeffrey Ross style. The former's roast (6:03) is a little more entertaining and drier than the latter's (5:36), but both are good and can also be found on the Burn Notice fourth season discs.
Disc Three has three extras: "Slick Willie" (5:14) is an appreciation of sorts for Garson and his character, along with his thoughts on the show. There are two commentaries on the disc, the first, for an episode titled "Point Break," includes Eastin, Bomer and DeKay and they toss out some possible Season Three details, along with their thoughts on working on a particular sequence. For the most part the material is generic and can be skipped. The second track (for the episode "Forging Bonds") is a lot more jocular, perhaps because Garson and Thiessen join in the fun, though Thiessen joins about 15 minutes into the commentary. There is more joking around from Garson and more trivia and detail in scenes is pointed out here as well, along with some hilarious jokes about the wigs Garson uses for this episode. This one is definitely more entertaining. Moving onto Disc Four, the commentary on the finale (named "Under the Radar") is the quietest track of the lot, primarily because the participants (the same group from "Forging Bonds") hadn't seen the episode at that point. There is some joking and production trivia, but it's mainly hearing them laugh and/or gasp at the appropriate moments. The other extra is "So Here's The Deal" (12:47), a production diary about how an episode is created from script to shooting, and covers working in New York and the production and location design and how this is approached. It's a fairly quick extra but most likely the best of the bunch.
Perhaps the biggest take away from the second season of White Collar is that you don't have to watch the first season to appreciate it, but the show's appeal and execution by the actors is such that you want to see it on your own regardless. Technically it's better than average and from a supplements perspective isn't shabby, and worth a rental for those looking for a slight change of pace in their summer entertainment.


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Lotus Border Parrot Green Color Pure Banarasi Silk Saree
Regular price Rs. 1,599.00 Sale price
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Barbra Streisand was feted last night in Los Angeles by a bevy of celebrities who saluted the legendary singer for her career and charity work.
Streisand was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year, The Associated Press reported. "I said yes because it's such a wonderful organization that takes care of their own -- the people who actually create the music," the singer said at the event.
Among the stars who performed songs associated with Streisand's career included Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, Barry Manilow, "Glee"'s Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison, Jeff Beck and Kristin Chenoweth.
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At the event, Prince introduced Streisand as "very simply the one and only." Streisand also performed several songs herself, including "Evergreen" and "The Way We Were."
The singer is nominated for a Grammy in the Best Pop Vocal Album category for "Love is the Answer."
"I love music for what it does to the soul, how it elevates the moment, the emotions," said Streisand, according to the AP. "I love music for what it's given me. It gave me a job when I couldn't get a job as an actress. I love how music binds us together. It also reflects the times we live in."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Ceola Clark scored 11 points and Western Illinois, despite not scoring in the last 8 minutes of the game, held on to beat IPFW 43-40 Thursday night.
Remy Roberts-Burnett added 10 points for the Summit League-leading Leathernecks (16-4, 8-1 Summit). Jack Houpt's 3-pointer with 12:49 left was Western Illinois' last field goal, and the Leathernecks didn't score after Don McAvoy's free throws made it 43-31 with 8:35 to play.
Mario Hines led the Mastodons (9-13, 2-6) with 13 points and seven rebounds. Joe Edwards scored with 1:34 left to get Fort Wayne within three, but the Mastodons' Luis Jacobo missed a pair of 3-point tries in the final minute.
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Straily has work to do after first outing
PHOENIX -- Dan Straily wasn't so sharp in his Cactus League debut against the Brewers on Tuesday, but he now has a to-do list in advance of his next start.
The A's right-hander retired each of his first four batters but boarded six of his next eight on a pair of walks and four hits and was tagged for three runs in two-plus innings.
"It was nice to get out there and kinda knock the rust off," said Straily. "I know where I stand and what things I need to work on. We can take the side sessions to work on finishing hitters. That was the only thing kinda missing today.
"Nothing really devastating and it's not like I was all over the place. It's not like I'm trying to walk leadoff hitters or anything, but I was just missing, and I'm ready to work on it and finish hitters."
"He was all right," said manager Bob Melvin. "He had trouble putting some guys away on two-strike pitches and got some balls up late in the counts. He'll probably get a little more refined the next time out."
Straily threw 40 pitches on the day, making use of his entire repertoire. His place in the A's rotation is his to lose, after he moved ahead of Tommy Milone on the depth chart last year, but it's for others to talk about, he insists.
"That's way above my pay grade," he said. "I'm just out there getting ready for the season. That's not even a question for me. "


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Rollins hits HR No. 200 in 14th straight opener start
ARLINGTON -- Jimmy Rollins on Monday made a record-setting 14th consecutive Opening Day start at shortstop for the Phillies.
Rollins set a National League record for shortstops with 14 consecutive Opening Day starts for the same franchise. Cincinnati's Dave Concepcion held the previous mark with 13. Rollins also tied Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr. for the big league record. Ripken started 14 straight from 1983-96.
"It's cool," Rollins said after a 14-10 victory over the Rangers at Globe Life Park. "I don't think too much of it. If I'm on the team, I expect to be out there."
Rollins also hit the 200th homer of his career in the second inning, a grand slam to hand the Phillies a six-run lead. He is the 19th player in baseball history to have 400 or more doubles, 100 or more triples and 200 or more home runs in a career. Fifteen of the first 18 players are in the Hall of Fame, including Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Stan Musial, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, George Brett, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.
"Oh yeah, I knew that," Rollins said of the milestone. "I remember growing up, going to Oakland A's games and looking at the size of Mark McGwire, and I was like, 'I'm not going to hit too many home runs. I'll hit a few, but I could play there [in the big leagues].' Going back to that, I guess I proved myself wrong."
Rollins' next homer will be his 200th as a shortstop, as one of his homers came as a pinch-hitter.
Some wondered if Rollins would make the Opening Day lineup. He is on baby watch, with his wife expecting their second child in the coming days. Rollins did not travel with the team from Philadelphia to Texas on Saturday, instead arriving Sunday night. If Rollins' wife goes into labor, he is expected to leave the team. Major League Baseball allows players three days of paternity leave, which Rollins used with the birth of his first child in May 2012.
"I stayed an extra day because I didn't want to fly here and fly back if something happened," Rollins said. "I wanted to be there. The baby let me go out there and play ball for a few more days."
Mike Schmidt holds the Phillies' record for consecutive Opening Day starts at any position, with 16 at third base from 1974-89.


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In Florida, President Obama slammed Romney, arguing the GOP candidate's math doesn't add up. Meanwhile, a pizza parlor owner swept the president off his feet. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Hours after his opponents Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan did a Sunday morning TV show blitz, President Barack Obama criticized them for not offering more specifics on how they would keep revenue stable while not raising taxes on the wealthy.
"Governor Romney and his allies tell us that we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions on new tax breaks for the wealthy. Listen, you've got to do the math because when my opponents were asked about it today, they couldn't. It was like two plus one equals five," Obama told a crowd of more than 3,000 in a gymnasium at the Florida Institute of Technology here.
When asked during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" what tax loopholes he would eliminate, Romney got no more specific than telling host David Gregory, "high income taxpayers are going to have fewer deductions and exemptions."
On ABC News' "This Week," Ryan said Romney and he would consult with Congress before deciding which loopholes to cut. "We want to do this with the consent of the elected representatives of the people and figure out what loopholes should stay or go," he said.
Of their lack of specifics, Obama said, "That's not bold leadership, that's bad math."
Ever mindful of his local audience, Obama also focused heavily on Medicare, an important issue to the 17.6 percent of Florida's population over age 65 – more than four percentage points over the national average.
He cited a new study by Harvard Professor David Cutler that found seniors who qualify for Medicare beginning in 2023 would see higher premiums over the course of their retirement under the Romney/Ryan plan, which would give seniors the option of getting a voucher to help pay for private insurance in addition to the traditional government-run program.
Cutler, one of the Obama campaign's chief health care advisers in 2008, conducted the study on behalf of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal advocacy organization.
"Basically your profits would decline by the thousands so their profits could rise by the billions," Obama said of the study's conclusion.
The Romney campaign responded with a statement from spokesman Ryan Williams calling the study "discredited."
"President Obama's latest false attacks are a sign of desperation. Only one candidate in this race has robbed today's Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare – Barack Obama. He has done nothing to reform Medicare for the long haul and prevent it from going bankrupt, and on his watch family health care premiums have increased by nearly $2,500," the statement read in part.
In Melbourne, the president also mentioned another issue important to voters on this slice of Florida's coast, whose economy is buoyed in part by the space industry.
"Here on the Space Coast, we started a new era of American exploration that is creating more jobs right here," Obama said, noting the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars last month.
He warned that Republicans would stifle the research and development that his administration has encouraged.
"This is where we've got a choice. We could, as the House Republican budget proposes, cut back on research and technology or we can continue to be at the cutting edge because that's what we've always been about," he said.
The president is now on his way to West Palm Beach for the fourth and final stop on his two-day Sunshine State campaign swing, after which he'll return to the White House – hopefully, he said this afternoon, in time to catch Sunday Night Football.
"We intend to be finished to get home in time for kickoff," he told the crowd in Melbourne.


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Club fueled campaign for longtime broadcaster's Hall of Fame nomination
SAN FRANCISCO -- The fans have spoken on behalf of Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper.
Next, many of the game's greatest voices shall be heard.
Kuiper was among the 10 finalists named Wednesday by the Baseball Hall of Fame for the Ford C. Frick Award, given annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Kuiper inspired the Giants to launch a get-out-the-vote campaign among fans, which proved to be successful. He was one of three finalists selected through online balloting at the Hall of Fame's Facebook site, along with Bay Area icon Bill King and Expos broadcaster Jacques Doucet. Nearly 21,000 votes were cast.
The other seven finalists -- Joe Castiglione, Ken Harrelson, Eric Nadel, Eduardo Ortega, Mike Shannon, Dewayne Staats and Pete van Wieren -- were chosen by a Hall of Fame research committee.
A 20-member panel, including 16 living Frick Award recipients, will elect the winner, who will be announced at baseball's Winter Meetings on Dec. 11. Kuiper said that he'll remain at peace regardless of the voting results.
"I look at this list, and all those guys deserve to go," said Kuiper, who has called games for 28 years, all but one with San Francisco. "That's why there won't be a mistake."
Kuiper meant that sincerely, being that he shares history with a number of other finalists. Castiglione, for example, was calling Cleveland Indians games when Kuiper broke in with them in 1974. Staats was the voice of the Oklahoma City 89ers, Cleveland's Triple-A affiliate, when Kuiper played for them.
Kuiper cherished the Giants' fan-balloting push, as well as the fans themselves who voted for him. "They'll never know how much I appreciate it," he said. But he believed it would have looked unseemly to participate in the venture.
"I'm not going to campaign or politick. I won't do it," said Kuiper, 63. "I will not get on a soapbox and say I need to be in the Hall of Fame. It doesn't sound good; it doesn't look good."
After all, Kuiper knows how a Frick Award winner should look or behave. He recalled that during the Giants' stop last month in Los Angeles, somebody asked him before a game to discuss his candidacy for the honor. Kuiper froze, instantly realizing that Vin Scully, the Dodgers icon who was the 1982 Frick recipient, was in an adjacent broadcast booth.
"It was hard for me even to think or talk about it, knowing that he was 10 feet away," Kuiper said. "Vin's 'the guy.' He's like Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams in the ballplayers' Hall of Fame."
In other words, Kuiper's thrilled just to be included in the conversation for the award.
"It really kind of takes my breath away," he said, "and if it doesn't happen, I will not be disappointed."


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Dark nights, cold and frosty mornings – it's finally winter and the chance for every council comms team to prove their worth.
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Reducing the burden of obesity-related illness on the NHS and public finances in general is something councils should be taking seriously.
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- H Amdt 176 - Restores $20.5 Billion in Appropriations for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Vote to pass a bill that amends the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, repeals direct payments to farmers, and amends crop insurance and dairy programs.
- Authorizes states to implement a pilot project work program for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to which individuals between 50 and 60 years of age are assigned (Sec. 4033).
- Requires an individual participant in the pilot program to participate in a mandatory work activity for a minimum of 20 hours per week per household, and requires the individual participant to be subject to penalties during a period of nonparticipation (Sec. 4033).
- Defines "work activity" as certain activities including, but not limited to, the following activities (Sec. 4033):
- Employment that is not subsidized by any public program;
- Participating in a career or technical training program directly related to the preparation of individuals for employment in current or emerging occupations;
- Participating in a job search, obtaining employment, or the preparation to seek or obtain employment including, but not limited to, life skills training, substance abuse or mental health treatment, or rehabilitation activities.
- Exempts certain individuals including, but not limited to, the following individuals from a state's pilot work program requirements (Sec. 4033):
- An individual who has "good cause" for nonparticipation as determined by the state;
- An individual who has 1 or more dependent children less than 1 year of age;
- An individual who is participating in a work program under a state program funded by the Social Security Act for at least 20 hours per week.
- Establishes a minimum payment threshold of $20 or more per year for home energy assistance that must be met or exceeded in order for the household to qualify for the SNAP, whereas existing law specified that households receiving any amount of home energy assistance are eligible for the SNAP program (Sec. 4007).
- Prohibits the continuation of SNAP benefits to households in which a member receives "substantial" lottery or gambling winnings (Sec. 4009).
- Limits the eligibility of college students for SNAP benefits to individuals participating in the following study programs or courses (Sec. 4008):
- Career or technical education; or
- Remedial courses, basic adult education, literacy, or English as a second language.
- Requires state agencies to verify the income and eligibility, or immigration status of applicants for SNAP benefits (Sec. 4014).
- Appropriates $79 million for employment and training programs for SNAP recipients for each fiscal year, whereas existing law appropriates $90 million for each fiscal year (Sec. 4019).
- Specifies that nothing in this act prevents a state from enacting legislation that tests any individual who is a member of a household applying for SNAP benefits for the unlawful use of controlled substances (Sec. 4033).
- Repeals direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, and the Average Crop Revenue Election program to producers on farms of the "covered commodities" of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, long and medium grain rice, soybeans, "other" oilseeds, and peanuts (Secs. 1101-1104).
- Requires the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to make price loss coverage payments to producers on farms for a covered commodity when the effective price for the commodity for the crop year is less than the reference price for the commodity for the crop year (Sec. 1107).
- Requires the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to make a one-time revenue loss coverage payment to producers on farms for a covered commodity when the actual county revenue for the crop year for the covered commodity is less than the county revenue loss coverage "trigger" for the crop year for the covered commodity (Sec. 1107).
- Requires farmers for the 2014 through 2018 crop years to maintain "sound agricultural practices" by meeting the following requirements prior to receiving price and revenue loss coverage payments (Sec. 1108):
- Comply with applicable conservation requirements;
- Comply with applicable "wetland protection" requirements; and
- Control "noxious weeds".
- Authorizes farmers to purchase additional crop insurance coverage from the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation through the Supplemental Coverage Option based on either of the following, beginning no later than the 2014 crop year (Sec. 11003):
- An individual or area yield and loss basis;
- An individual yield and loss basis supplemented with coverage based on an area yield and loss basis to cover part of the deductible under the individual yield and loss insurance plan policy;
- A margin basis alone or in combination with coverage based on individual or area yields and losses.
- Limits the amount of optional additional disaster assistance provided to producers of noninsured crops to no more than 65 percent of individual yields, whereas existing law did not specify a limit (Sec. 12306).
- Prohibits an individual or legal entity with an adjusted gross income exceeding $950,000 from receiving any of the following federal benefits (Sec. 1604):
- Price and revenue loss coverage payments;
- Marketing loan gains or loan deficiency payments;
- Disaster assistance; or
- Payments made through the Noninsured Crop Assistance Program.
- Repeals the Catfish Inspection Program (Sec. 12107).
- Requires the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to reconcile the social security numbers of all individuals who receive payments under this act with the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration at least twice a year to determine if the individuals are still living (Sec. 1607).
- Extends the requirement that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture purchase at least $50 million per year of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools from the 2012 fiscal year to the 2018 fiscal year (Sec. 4204).
- Requires the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to establish the Dairy Producer Margin Insurance Program which makes margin insurance payments to participating dairy producers whenever the average actual dairy producer margin for a consecutive 2 month period is less than the coverage level threshold selected by the dairy producer (Sec. 1401).
- Repeals the Dairy Product Price Support Program, the Milk Income Loss Contract Program, the Dairy Export Incentive Program, and the Federal Milk Marketing Order Review Commission (Secs. 1481, 1482 & 1486).
- Establishes new crop insurance protection plans for producers of upland cotton and peanuts (Secs. 11016 & 11017).
- Establishes economic adjustment assistance at a rate of $.03 per pound for domestic users of upland cotton (Sec. 1207).
- Establishes a competitiveness payment program for domestic users and exporters of extra-long staple cotton produced in the United States whenever the following occurs (Sec. 1208):
- The price of extra-long staple cotton produced in the United States exceeds the world market price; and
- The lowest priced competing growth of extra-long staple cotton is less than 134 percent of the loan rate for extra-long staple cotton.
- Extends the requirement that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture make loans available to sugar cane and sugar beet farmers at the following rates for the 2014 through 2018 crop years (Sec. 1301):
- 18.75 cents per pound for raw sugar cane; and
- 128.5 percent of the loan rate per pound for raw sugar cane.
- Increases the minimum amount that may be used to assist certain countries in increasing farm production and farmer incomes to an amount not less than the greater of $15 million or 0.5 percent of the funds appropriated to the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program (Sec. 3014).
- Repeals the Partnership for Nutrition Assistance Program between the United States Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government (Sec. 4033).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 13, 2013
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Have to say I'm conflicted with this Women's semi-final, normally want OZ to lose at all things cricket, but the Crims side is quite fit, Especially Ellyse
Have to say I'm conflicted with this Women's semi-final, normally want OZ to lose at all things cricket, but the Crims side is quite fit, Especially Ellyse
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ECB - you are a complete ****ing disgrace, #FTECB
FMD, never heard anyone overcomplicate the game like Sanjay Manjrekar does in commentary. Dead set kills any coverage he is involved in, an absolute shocker. Less is more, especially with television.
74-2 at the 10 over point of the Windies innings. Both sides will be reasonably happy I reckon, West Indies to have Gayle still there and wickets in hand, Australia to have kept them down to that score.
One way of stopping Gayle scoring runs.. just don't bowl at him
its annoying watching Bravo pick off singles last ball of every over.
Im sure the Australians dont mind it though.
For as long as there is limited overs cricket - of ten, twenty or fifty overs - there will remain the Sri Lankan spinners' mid-innings choke
Gayle is absolute box office. What a man.
Did he chuck in a little Gangam style there?
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He's been doing it after he takes a wicket... wafg.
Gayle obviously trying to impress Ellyse. Who apparently bowls quicker than Vinay Kumar and Balaji, can't say I'm surprised.
Doherty still round the wicket to Gayle - and goes for 6 first ball. His 16th of the tournament.
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