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Baldelli is Honored for his Perseverance
It seems like I have been talking about this guy for a long time this week. He has been a linch-pin of the Tampa Bay Rays organization since he was selected in the 2000 Amatuer Draft number 1 for the team. He was a anchor in centerfield for the Rays until a off-season injury began a run of over 3 years of on and off again Disabled List visits.
He has been a model athlete and aggressive competitor. He has beaten not only the odds to make to the major league level, but also taken on a ailment that was poised to take it all away from him for good this Spring. It was a sad day in March2008 when Rocco Baldelli met the media under the bleachers at Progress Energy Field and relayed the news that his ailment might have just cost him the game he loved.
But through the teams' positive efforts and the numerous flights across America to seek out doctoras and remedies Baldelli never faltered from confidence. It was written that one one such flight Rocco told his father that he might not be able to win this fight, but he carried on until he was finally assured that he could again play the game with grace and agility again.
So it is with great pride and a test of mind over matter that the Tampa Bay Rays' own Rocco Baldelli was voted the winner of the 19th annual Tony Conigliaro Award. This award is presented annually to a Major League player who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination and courage that were trademarks of the late Major Leaguer. Baldelli is the third Rays player to recieve the award. Former Rays pitchers' Tony Saunders ( 2000) and Dewon Brazelton ( 2004) have also recieved the pretigious award.
Tony's brothers, Billy and Richie, will make the official presentation of the award at the 70th annual Boston Baseball Writers' Association of America's dinner on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in South Boston.
The Rays placed Baldelli, 26, on the 60-day disabled list on March 28 with a mitochondrial disorder, a condition that slows muscle recovery and causes fatigue, costing him the first 116 games of the season; he also missed the final 124 games of 2007 due to a hamstring injury.
Baldelli fought his way back to the Major Leagues and returned in August to hit .263 in 28 games with four home runs and 13 RBIs for the Rays in 2008, playing a key role during the team's postseason drive. The Rhode Island native contributed to Tampa Bay's World Series berth and AL Championship by hitting .333 with one home run and four RBIs in the ALCS against the Red Sox. Overall, Baldelli hit .200 (4-for-20) during the postseason with two home runs and six RBIs.
In the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Baldelli went 1-6 during the series, but made an timely solo homer in Game 5.5 in the 7th inning off Ryan Madson to even the score at 4-all. The Rays eventually lost that game, and the series, but the determination and the spunk of Baldelli was apparent to everyone in the ballpark that night.
In 1990, the Red Sox began the award to perpetuate the memory of Conigliaro, who died that February after an eight-year struggle to come back from a massive heart attack that left him severely handicapped. Major League teams submit nominations and an independent 12-person panel does the voting.
Baldelli came in first with 43 points followed by Arizona's Doug Davis with 27 and Oakland's Brad Ziegler with 26. Cleveland's Cliff Lee, Cincinnati's Mike Lincoln and Alexei Ramirez of the Chicago White Sox also received votes.
Past winners of the award are: Jim Eisenreich (1990), Dickie Thon (1991), Jim Abbott (1992), Bo Jackson (1993), Mark Leiter (1994), Scott Radinsky (1995), Curtis Pride (1996), Eric Davis (1997), Bret Saberhagen (1998), Mike Lowell (1999), Kent Mercker and Tony Saunders (2000), Graeme Lloyd & Jason Johnson (2001), Jose Rijo (2002), Jim Mecir (2003), Dewon Brazelton (2004), Aaron Cook (2005), Freddy Sanchez (2006) and Jon Lester (2007).
Conigliaro became the youngest player at age 20 to lead a league in home runs when he hit 32 in 1965, and the youngest in AL history to reach 100 homers (22 years, 197 days). His promising career was tragically shortened when he was hit in the face by a pitch at Fenway Park on Aug. 18, 1967. He missed all of 1968, made a dramatic comeback in 1969 and was traded to the California Angels after the 1970 season. Conigliaro played two years with the Angels and then made another comeback with the Red Sox in 1975, his final season in the Major Leagues.
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This is a great story. I am so glad that he was able to play in the World Series. Wow.
It is a great story, and luckly for everyone has a happy ending so far.
Rocco is a great clubhouse guy and can make a difference to any team he is on just by being there. The game knowledge and the savvy he has gotten the last few years sitting there next to Rays' coaches, Steve "Hendo" Henderson, and Tom Foley is beoynd compare. Because of his injuries and aliment he as seen the best and worst of baseball and still wants to play the game.
Where ever he plays in 2009 will be better for him being on the bench, or in the field period.
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I think an important part is not talking about religion in a very bashing matter, i do however question and explain the mistakes in the sermons every time i go with my girlfriend. After that i don't think there is a major problem (yet, as i'm still young and no children).
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I pretty much avoid it, unless I know they are somewhat like minded.
I have a problem with my girlfriend at the moment. She is also a non-believer, however, she is uncomfortable about my 'outspoken' atheism. Does not like me posting stuff on social web sites... which is what brought me here. To be honest, when I think about it, it really pisses me off. I don't know what will happen if the problem gets worse... but in the back of my mind I am thinking that no-one has the right to stop me or even make me feel that I should stop. I think the atheist message is far too important to let anything get in it's way. That includes my relationship.
I remember reading about that in the forums, sorry, i don't know what could be the best in that situation.
religion should be as open to discussion as any topic. if people can talk about their politics with such passion, they should be able to talk about anything. there is no logical reason why religion should be off the table.
having said that, know your audience. if your boss is born again, it may not be a good idea to start espousing the inaccuracies of the bible. you could get fired. if your significant other's family is highly religious, you can observe their ceremonies and not feel like a hypocrite (in as much as the ceremonies mean nothing to you).
but you should never hide that you don't share their religious beliefs.
amongst my friends, i speak plainly about anything. people who are your friends will accept your nonbelief. those who leave, let them. i've got friends who are born again, hindu, muslim, mormon, and atheists like myself. people come and go from your life, but you shouldn't compromise your integrity to avoid offending someone. people do not have the right to not be offended.
I dont talk about it.
My dad became a pastor late in life, I was brought up assuming there was a god (sort of how I thought Santa Claus etc was real) but never having it jammed down my throat. About 7 years ago we started going to church, and I always hated it, be it the stuffy smells or the annoyingly cheesy church goers.
Anyway he learned a year or two ago that I am an atheist, during a shouting match with him mocking my premarital sex and unsure nature of my relationship with my girlfriend. Normal stuff, but to him I was a pretty terrible person. I told him to never try to talk to me about religion again because I asked him if someone could disprove god, would he give it up and he said no... therefore no reason to go further.
About half the time he ends up bringing religion into the conversation somehow... I never do.
If people bring it up I will debate them, but I keep it to myself.
Why cant the religious people know do the same?
Well, two things I can tell you from experience:
1) If your best friend is a Christian, and you egg him on enough, he will punch you.
2) If your girlfriend is a Christian, and she is waiting for marriage to have sex, you are waiting for marriage to have sex.
So I guess... don't talk about it, and tolerate it? Not sure what kind of message that sends, but. C'est la vie.
my wife is Catholic but doesn't go to church, and rarely talks about religion. but i made the mistake of taking up the atheism/theism debate with her once, and made the further mistake of getting angry when she wasn't persuaded by my logic.
it may not be worth starting an argument with somebody who isn't causing a problem, and doesn't really care about the question, just to try to "prove you're right".
I've never met a theist with whom I really wanted to have a close relationship. But then I'm not much of a people person in the first place.
Well, It really depends on both parties. Children may cause a serious issue. I'm the product of a religious mother and an atheist father (very outspoken). they get along fine, but politics and religion are rarely discussed among the two of them, but in the house itself since my brother and i have grown to agree with my father we discuss it frequently away from the ears of my mother. As far as how we were raised my brother and i were baptized, sent to catholic school during elementary, public school in high school. while growing up we got both views and eventually picked one. my mother is fine with it, its never been an issue but it really depends on both your comfort zones. does she want kids to be raised with her beliefs and you dont? thats the only big issue i see there.
I have a friend who is highly religious and dated an atheist who made a joke about her and she got upset. it stemmed into a long argument and eventually they decided it would never work out, but i mostly believe its because of his arrogance and her hypocrisy and selfishness. it was doomed from the start in that way.
You just can't get all upset and tell them: god doesn't exist!
Talk to them about evolution, the universe and historic facts. Most people love to learn new stuff without having to research or read about it.
Truth is the most fascinating story a person can hear of.
Talk to them as if they were 6 years old. From an adult to child perspective. Don't debate them, explain them scientific facts and leave the bible and its god for the end, that will be the cherry on the cake!.
That being said, I don't associate with religious men. Nothing good (for me) is going to come out of it. I don't like feeling censored, while being forced into hearing or agreeing with primitive concepts.
I prefer someone who shares my interests, and atheism is one of them.
I've adopted the strategy of keeping things casual and polite with the believers in my life, just as I learned to do with the bigots and political extremists (Bonus points when they're all three! Oh, family.). Superficiality bores the hell out of me. It really, really sucks...we end up talking about celebrities, the dog's psychiatric history, and alternative "medicine."
I have realized that belief in a deity may help some individuals. Religion, as adopted by the masses, has resulted in a downward spiral for the general welfare of humankind, but on an individual basis may very well help people cope and give them hope. I am a staunch atheist and firmly feel that religious belief is similar to the Celestial Teapot. The problems that I face with personal relationships with theists is focused on when belief trump reality. Insert numerous examples here from creationism, civil rights (sexism, racism, anti-gay), etc. As I do not enjoy theists passing judgement on me based on my non-theist beliefs, it is hypocritical to do the same to them. Similarly, I have friends that are Republican and we get into occasional arguments, it is the same with religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson said "labels are mentally lazy ways to assert you know someone without truly knowing them." I judge people when I get to know them, not on religious beliefs even though I challenge different beliefs.

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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - State officials say the personal information of more than 92,000 Missourians was accessed by potential identity thieves who hacked the computer systems of Nationwide Insurance, which also does business as Allied Insurance.
Missouri's insurance department said Friday the Oct. 3 data breach could affect more than 1.1 million people across the country who did business with Nationwide or Allied.
Missouri's insurance director says the breach affected the records of people who got quotes for auto insurance after August 2011. The department says Nationwide believes the hackers accessed names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and birth dates, among other things.
Nationwide is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to people affected by the data breach. The insurer says it's not aware that the information has been misused.


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It's House Party time on the Xbox 360 and everyone's invited - well, anyone with an Xbox and subscription to the Live service, that is. Fortunately, it's the kind of party where you don't actually have to speak to anyone and can just sit down and get your game face on instead. As part of the Microsoft platform's biannual celebrations, developer Runic Games has made a version of its 2010 PC hit Torchlight especially for the Xbox 360 and its available to buy from 9 March 2011 at the price of 1200 points - roughly equivalent to a tenner. Why should you care? Well, because it's really good fun.
Torchlight is an RPG dungeon crawl in the best sense of the term largely because the plot is more or less completely immaterial. There is a plot and it's perfectly good but it's basically there to explain that there isn't one. You're more than welcome to follow it but we very quickly found ourselves skipping the narrative to get down to some more action. It's third person, diagonally top down view of you hacking and slashing your way through gangs of monsters and demons that comes across almost like a Gauntlet for the 21st century.
The story takes place on or under the frontier, boomtown of Torchlight so situated because it stands at the entrance to a vast and cavernous system of mines upon a rich seam of the curious, magical and slightly sinister ore known as Ember. Between this mysterious substance, the labyrinth of chambers and the small town at the top, you get all the dungeons, loot and quest-givers a game could need. No travelling the long roads of a carefully thought out world, no studying a map, meeting strangers on the way, getting lost and virtually no side quests whatsoever. This is fantasy RPG stripped down to its essentials and it's a rollicking romp for it. Take a complex format boil it down at a careful temperature, drive off the hot air and what you get left with is a concentrated residue of all the best things about this genre still left wonderfully in tact.
It's a familiar character creation and progression chart. You start by choosing one of three major classes: Vanquisher, Brawler or Alchemist - which translate pretty much as ranger, fighter and mage - and then add points to your attributes and skills as the levels tick by. We chose to play an Alchemist to get a decent taste of the magic for both graphics and gameplay purpose and haven't looked back since. That's not to say the other classes aren't fun but we've certainly thoroughly enjoyed our choice, and might even consider going back to try out the others some time soon.
What's rather nice is that within each class are plenty of choices of sub-class as provided by the talent tree for you to climb as you see fit. Three major spell/skill categories within the Alchemist path are those of the elemental-style evocter, the druidic/conjurer creature summoner and that of the fighter/mage and all the buffs that go with it. Naturally, you can pick and choose as you go but commitment pays off in dividends and rather quickly if you decided to specialise from the off.
Your final choice before you hit the big, wide world is a pet to come along with you. Given that there's no multiplayer option - a crying shame, as it turns out - this is the only company you get, so choose wisely between the wolf, lynx and chakaway (a small cute dragon thing). Actually, you don't have to choose that wisely because one of the more fun things about the game is that you can feed your pet different kinds of fish, which you yourself hook from small eddies in pools and streams you chance upon, and it'll turn them into a giant bat, spider, elemental or just about anything you care to think of. If you buy the game within the first 2 weeks you also get a fish that'll transform your little buddy into an ogre permanently. Well worth doing.
Your pet acts as a nice buffer between you and the hoards trying to jump all over your spell casting and long range rifle shooting or even just someone to compete with if you're a Brawler running in for the kill yourself. More useful that that though, they can also carry as many items as you can (up to 50 objects and stacks) and even take them up to the shops to sell while you're still deep in the dungeons which is an excellent time saver cutting right down on that ball ache that is the traipse up to town and back again just to lighten your load. After all, who wants to stop in the middle of a looting spree?
Should you wish to get back to the surface every now and then, you'll find plenty of waypoint portals to zip your right up there and you can even make your own with fairly easy to come across Town Portal spells.
The loot itself also manages to tread a well-managed balance between too plentiful and not common enough. Anyone can use any item but not all items would be the right choice. It's up to you to work that one out but the minimum ability required for each weapon or piece of armour should give you a pretty good idea at who its aimed. There are four or five different levels of gear colour coded so that you know how special each one is and all of them can be further enchanted at a cost or when you're lucky enough to find special fonts down in the mines. Last of all, some of the items come with sockets for you to further augment your kit with various chunks of Ember that you find strewn about the dungeon floors. Better still, these can be combined together up in the town to make a small heap of them into one all-powerful nugget of enchantment.
The gameplay itself is a silky side step from the slight more strategy focused PC version down the arcade spectrum to a free flowing action adventure but without turning all of your hard earned abilities and loot into an irrelevance. Everything from area of effect for spells and swipes with your sword, to ranged shooting, is dealt with nicely and there's all the usual console additions such as controller rumbles when you score a critical hit or the dreaded heartbeat when you're low on health. It does feel like a bit of a cheat when you out-manoeuvre a fireball but then, presumably these things would be aimed at a point in space rather than being person-seeking if they existed in real life anyway. Fortunately, Torchlight is so thoroughly enjoyable that you never bother questioning the philosophy behind it because you're too busy, knee deep in poison zombies and tree demons to notice.
Therein, of course, lies one of the potential issues with it though. There's really not a lot to it. Hack, slash, cast spell, pick up loot, sell loot, keep some loot, level up, do it again. We can't say that we got bored of it but there was a part of us that trying not to think about the simplicity of the formula either. Again, to get a bit philosophical about it, it is not really any different to any other RPG in that respect but there really are no bells and whistles to mask the fact. At the same time though, how much depth do you really expect from an Xbox Live Arcade game?
One of the main features of the game is touted as the fact that your adventures are unique. Each dungeon is randomly generated from a set of hand drawn square units stitched together in a way that makes sense. While it looks good and works perfectly well, it does rather highlight the fact that there's absolutely no importance to what you're doing and where you're going. The whole thing does also tend to the rather easy. Admittedly we chose the Normal setting but one does get the impression that there's as little of strategy about this game as there is of puzzles - about 3 per cent of the total experience if we had to pin it down.
There's also the slight annoyance of the transfer to console system that you only get four controller button slots to map with your spells and abilities. Yes, you can change between a few different sets of four by hitting the d-pad but that's just not an option when you've got a giant spider with its fangs dripping venom onto your face.
RPG dungeon crawling at both its simplest and finest, Torchlight for the Xbox 360 is really, really good fun. The modest outlay and Xbox Live Arcade headline belie both the enjoyment and value that you'll get out of downloading this fantasy hack and slash treat. While we'd challenge anyone not to get their tenner's worth, there will be plenty of people who tire of it before they reach the end, let alone have the patience with the retirement system that gifts you an heirloom weapon to your new character if you're prepared to go through the whole experience again.
All in all though, it's time to stop reading and get playing. Purists might prefer the PC experience but even the most hardened of their ranks couldn't fail to beam with satisfaction as the XP comes flying in at the bash of a button. Most entertaining.


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Steverson focused on approach of White Sox hitters
CHICAGO -- The 2013 White Sox offense stood as the American League's worst, scoring just 598 runs.
But under hitting coach Todd Steverson, with the new regime starting Monday against the Twins on Opening Day, the White Sox hope the approach will be different.
"Overall, it has been a good progression to this point," Steverson said. "Once everybody gets a hold of being able to be confident and go up there and stick to their plan, that will in my opinion kind of roll into us being able to see pitches, go deeper into counts.
"Take our fair share of walks. Barrel up some balls that are out over the plate that we want to hit and become an offense that is dangerous. Controlling the count a little earlier in the at-bat, where you get your pitch and don't put your pitch in play. Go deeper into the pitcher's pitch count."
Steverson noticed during Spring Training that there were a few instances of hitters swinging at borderline 3-2 pitches where they could have taken walks. As shown from his previous comments, though, it's not all about strictly working the count. If the best pitch is the first pitch, then go after it.
It's a greater focus on approach than mechanics with Steverson, according to White Sox captain Paul Konerko.
"He knows the swing and the mechanics and that stuff if it needs to go there, but I think he focuses more on what you are looking for, what you swung at," said Konerko. "A lot of times if you dissect those things, you don't even get to, 'My swing is messed up' or 'We need to fix this.' When you fix those things and have a clear picture of what you are doing there, you take good swings a lot of times.
"If you are swinging at bad pitches and putting yourself in a hole 1-2 or 0-2, even with a great swing, you are not going to hit in this league. That's where the focus is a lot of times: definitely with runners in scoring position. Heightening that thought about what you are looking for and being real selective on your approach has been something in Spring Training.
"Inevitably during the season, every guy probably has a little tinkering and a little bit of mechanical stuff going on here and there that you have to monitor. He's got that too in his pocket," Konerko said. "You can't ask a question he's not answering right away. He doesn't have to go look it up. He's really together on his thoughts."


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Telecoms operator Vimpelcom VIP.N said on Friday its annual shareholder meeting will be held on December 21 provided that a Russian court lifts injunctions before the end of November.
The Moscow Arbitration Court in April imposed a ban on 2011 profit distribution by Vimpelcom's Russian unit, prompting the New-York listed company to defer dividend payment and postpone its AGM till December.
The injunctions are part of a lawsuit filed earlier in the year by Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service, contesting the dominant position of Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) in Vimpelcom, whose Russian unit is considered by the state a strategic asset.
"In light of the injunctions ... the Supervisory Board has determined that if the injunctions are not lifted prior to November 27, 2012 it would be prudent to postpone the Shareholders Meeting," Vimpelcom said in a statement.
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's Altimo increased its stake in Vimpelcom last month, overtaking Telenor and raising prospects for withdrawal of the anti-monopoly lawsuit. The court had set the date of November 27 for a hearing of the lawsuit. (Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Megan Davies)


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I want to take a break for a minute from the whirlwind Premier League season to remind everyone that the World Cup Draw is happening this Friday, December 4th, and will be televised live around the world.
For soccer fans, it's one of the most exciting days every four years as the fate of the 32 teams competing in the 2010 World Cup are decided when we find out which groups the countries will be playing in.
And then there's always The Group Of Death. The group that pundits and fans spend thousands of hours lamenting over and trying to figure out which two teams will progress to the next round. Who will be in the Group Of Death this time around? We'll have to wait until Friday to find out.
To promote The Group Of Death and ESPN's coverage of the World Cup Draw, ESPN overnighted a package to me late last week which included several items of interest to soccer fans. Rather than describe what was inside, I decided to open the package in front of the video camera so you can join in the excitement of seeing what was inside. Click the above video to watch what happened.
After you've watched the video, keep on reading this. In the next few weeks, I'll outline more details about the daily coverage you can expect to see from the websites, podcasts and videos in conjunction with the EPL Talk Network of sites (all nine including this one) as we bring you coverage from around the world about the 2010 World Cup.
But before I go, I do want to make sure you know that we just launched our World Cup Shirts store where you can buy World Cup jerseys for your favorite team. And everything is 100% official merchandise. So if you or your loved one are shopping on this "Cyber Monday" or in the next few weeks for holiday presents, head over to the World Cup Shirts store for the best selection.


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"The maps and travelogues left behind by others are great blessings, full of useful information and inspiration, but they cannot take the journey for us."~Author unknown
Many of us knew exactly what we would do if our husbands cheated on us. And then it happened. Suddenly we not only weren't doing what we always said we'd do (almost without fail, throw him out), we were behaving in ways that were confusing to us. That made us wonder if we'd lost our minds. And within that confusion lay such judgement of ourselves. So many of us were ashamed of ourselves for not sticking with what we said we'd do.
Thing is, none of us really knows what we'll do until we're in the situation. And once we're in that situation, the best we can do is treat ourselves with compassion for the challenge we're facing.
And, of course, none of us knows what another woman should do because we're not in her situation.
I bring this up because a BWC member commented a while back that she had taken my "advice" and stuck with her husband only to find out that his affair had never really ended. There she was, another year or so invested in her marriage, and only deeper in pain.
She was leaving him then and only wished I had encouraged her to do so earlier.
I told her I was very sorry for her pain. Sorrier still that her husband wasn't able to accept the deep gift of her desire to rebuild their marriage.
But, I pointed out, I never told her to stay or leave and I felt badly that she had interpreted my response to her as such. I, frankly, haven't a clue whether any of you should stay or leave. Actually that's not true. If there's abuse of any kind, get out. Now. (Though even with that, I know that some women simply can't leave for any number of reasons that I might not understand.)
But beyond that, there's isn't a right way to respond to this.
Life is messy. Marriages that look hopeless somehow get stitched together to everyone's benefit. Others just don't make it despite valiant attempts. Some survive betrayal only to fall apart down the road for other reasons.
I wish I had a crystal ball and could therefore predict which marriages were worth fighting for and which should be hastily exited. Of course, I don't. I don't pretend to.
What I do offer here is hard-won wisdom from walking my own path. Though each of us is unique we face similar challenges. Our husbands behave in bizarrely similar ways. We can benefit from each other's experience as long as we recognize that we don't all walk the same path to healing. As long as we understand that what worked for her mightn't work for me and vice versa.
There are times when I will use such words as "here's what you should do" and then outline the steps a BW can take to, for example, get back on her feet, get some sleep, or regain her self-respect. But I don't have all the answers. I haven't even faced all the questions. I have my own experience and an understanding of what so many of you have faced as you've trusted me with your stories. That's all.
Each of our stories is our own. Each of us walks her own path to healing. I cannot walk yours and you cannot walk mine. But we can hold each other up along the way.


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Bodrum town property for sale can still be affordable with apartment accommodation for sale in Bodrum Town starting in the region of £80,000 often located in the outskirts of Town in the popular Konacik area. Villas range from traditional to modern luxury homes with prices reaching well into to the millions of pounds, these homes offer the most amazing panoramic sea views as well as marina and castle views.
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Status of Pollinators in North America (2007)Board on Life Sciences
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Pollinators--insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction--are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America\u0092s most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over time. In addition, for wild species with demonstrated declines, it is often difficult to determine the causes or consequences of their decline. This report outlines priorities for research and monitoring that are needed to improve information on the status of pollinators and establishes a framework for conservation and restoration of pollinator species and communities.
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- As noted, improved information gathering for the beekeeping industry is critical, and the NASS should modify its data collection methodologies. In addition, the potential for the development of new management protocols to increase the use of wild pollinator species for agriculture should be explored to create alternatives to honey bees as commercial pollinator demands rise and shortages become likely.
- Effective conservation or restoration of pollinator populations requires comprehensive knowledge of their biology, which is currently insufficient to inform the design of sustainable management and maintenance programs.
- Introduced parasites and pathogens clearly have harmed some managed pollinators, most notably honey bees.
- Long-term population trends for the honey bee, the most important managed pollinator, are demonstrably downward. Similar data are not available for other managed pollinators, such as alfalfa leafcutting bees and bumble bees.
- Long-term, systematic monitoring is necessary for unambiguous documentation of trends in species abundance and richness. Such monitoring allows detection of relationships between changes in pollinator communities and the putative causes of change.
- Managed pollinator decline and rising cost of pest control could increase pollinator rental fees.
- Research in genetics and genomics has facilitated the development and maintenance of mite- and pathogen-resistant stocks of honey bees. However, these technologies have not been widely adopted, and there is a pressing need for translational research to synthesize commercially viable practices from the results of basic research.
- The causes of decline among wild pollinators vary by species but are generally difficult to assign definitively. Pathogens that have spilled over from commercially produced bumble bees for greenhouse pollination appear to have contributed to declines in some native bumble bees. Other factors for which there is convincing evidence include habitat degradation and loss, particularly for some bats, bees, and butterflies.
- The consequences of pollinator decline in nonagricultural systems are more difficult to define, but one important result could be an increased vulnerability of some plant species to extinction.


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County health officials said an employee at Porter Elementary School in San Diego has been diagnosed with meningitis and officials are asking parents to be on alert for any symptoms in their children that could be caused by the meningococcal bacteria.
The reported infection of a staff member at the Lincoln Park campus comes after school officials countywide were put on alert following a deadly outbreak of the disease in Tijuana.
Health officials say Tijuana has been hit with 18 confirmed cases of meningococcal disease, including six deaths, since Jan. 4.
Last week, a 36-year-old man died in San Diego County from the disease and a 1-year-old recovered after being hospitalized in February.
The last time the infected school employee was at the campus was last Friday. Health officials have notified people who had been in close contact with the individual that they should receive antibiotics to prevent any possible infection. The employee is being treated at a local hospital, health officials said.
"The risk to individuals who are not in direct contact with the infected individual is minimal," county Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten said in a statement.
This is the third case of meningococcal disease reported the county in 2013. Last year there were eight cases.
Symptoms can include fever, intense headache, lethargy, stiff neck and a rash that does not blanch under pressure. Anyone with symptoms is urged to seek medical care.
The bacteria can be spread by sharing drinking glasses or eating utensils and other close contact. The time between exposure to the disease and the onset of symptoms typically is between two to 10 days.


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The Swedish glam metal band CRAZY LIXX will be celebrating their fifteenth anniversary as a band with the release of their fifth studio album, "Ruff Justice"! Set to be release on April 21.
"Ruff Justice", the 10-track sleaze metal gem that harkens back to the best of '80s hard rock, draws inspiration from not only music, but 1980's horror and action flicks and is a glowing reminder that pretty much everything was better in the 80's. With its big choruses, memorable hooks and riffs, impressive guitar solos and a massive production by Danny Rexon and Chris Laney, this album is sure to resonate with old fans and new listeners alike.
"We've tried the same 'all killers-no fillers' approach that we've gone for on our previous albums, but this time, more than ever, I think we've come close to that vision," says lead singer and producer Danny Rexon.
"Ruff Justice" will be the first CRAZY LIXX album to feature the new lineup of Chrisse Olsson and Jens Lundgren handling the axes.
"It does bring a certain feel to the album that I think we've been missing since the days of 'New Religion' (2010). Once again the whole band pulls in the same direction and the end result, I believe, will be very well received among those who hold 'New Religion' in high regards. If I would compare Ruff Justice to any of our previous albums, that would have to be the one," Danny Rexon concludes.
The album also includes two songs which have appeared on the "Friday The 13th" videogame soundtrack: "XIII" and "Live Before I Die". Friday the 13th: The Game is an upcoming survival horror video game developed by Gun Media and IllFonic, and published by Gun Media. It is scheduled for release in early 2017 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
Today's tune "Wild Child" is taken form the upcoming album "Ruff Justice"
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SAINIK SCHOOL BIJAPUR (SSBJ) began functioning in temporary shelters on September 16, 1963. Thirteenth in the series of Sainik schools set up across the country in the sixties, SSBJ was cosseted in a small corner of Vijaya College in Bijapur.
The management of Vijaya College lent the school a section of its building where the morning assembly, the library and the classrooms were housed.
The school moved to its present permanent 406-acre campus on Athani Road Bijapur in the month of November 1966. Dr. Zakir Hussain, Vice President of India, declared the school campus formally open on December 17,1966, offering the secondary school leaving certificate at completion of course, SSBJ now offers the CBSE syllabus of study.
The name Bijapur is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit term for victory. The city has a rich history and is known for some of the most interesting monuments of the mid centuries of the second millennium. The Gol Gumbaz is renowned internationally as the largest unsupported single dome structure in the world. Ibrahim Rouza is another impressive structure. Both these master pieces of architecture were built by the AdilShahi kings.
Bijapur is the head quarters of the district administration and is close to Karnataka's border with Maharashtra. It is an important point on the railway line running from Hubli in the heart of Karnataka state to the city of Solapur in Maharashtra, 100 kilometres to the north. The National Highway No. 13 that connects Solapur with Bangalore also passes through Bijapur.
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The public sector could soon have access to shared Oracle ERP platforms operating through one of the government's shared services centres, if a £750 million framework agreement goes ahead.
Details of the agreement emerged today in a prior information notice, which is being run out of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The notice reads: "The scope intends to cover existing Oracle platforms in the UK government departments and any supporting technologies, and to include upgrades and implementations of new Oracle version for these existing platforms."
Essentially the government is looking for an implementation partner, or partners, to get departments onto a select few shared Oracle ERP platforms, as opposed to having many disparate systems operating across the public sector.
Other reports have suggested that the Cabinet Office wants a single Oracle ERP platform across government, but Computerworld UK understands this not to be true. An FCO insider working on the framework said that it is likely that there will be multiple Oracle ERPs to choose from, which will vary in cost.
According to sources, this will also not be mandated as the only option for government departments, as there are other frameworks available, such as the G-Cloud.
It is also understood that this framework is being issued off the back of the government's recent deal with Oracle over reduced licensing costs, which should deliver £75 million worth of savings by 2015.
The £75 million in savings will be due to measures such as the application of a single discount for new Oracle contracts signed from now on – but not applicable to existing contracts – with the government acting as a 'single customer' buying products in bulk from the supplier.
Previously, different parts of government have purchased Oracle software on different terms and at different prices, for example, via system integrators, which charge an administration fee for the service.
The FCO source said that it is looking to keep the number of vendors involved on the framework to a minimum. This fits with the government's announcement at the end of last year that there would be fewer frameworks created going forward, but if they were created, they would involve fewer suppliers in order to remove excess waste and would have to be considered 'strategically important'.
However, if handed to one or two suppliers, it is likely that critics will view the framework, which could reach three-quarters of a billion pounds, as another example of the public sector handing cumbersome SI contracts to a select few companies - ultimately blocking out smaller players.
Sources indicated that there will be a supplier event held on the 11th February and an official contract notice could be issued in March. It is understood that the contract length is likely to be run for a minimum of three years, with the possibility to extend for up to four years.
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Author Kitty Kelley is used to raising eyebrows, and she did it again on Friday night at a party celebrating publication of her controversial new book, "Oprah: A Biography."
At the party, held in Marina and Daniel Ein's Georgetown home, she declared Oprah herself had been the book's best source. How was this possible, given that Oprah refused to give her an interview?
Kelley got an in-depth view of Oprah from Oprah's own words, she said. Known as a tireless investigative reporter, Kelley said she gathered and cross-referenced every interview Oprah has ever given over the past 25 years -- on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines in the United States and overseas. (The book lists 47 pages of footnotes and bibliography.)
Some members of Oprah's family and her close acquaintances hotly dispute the talk show queen's version of her life in these interviews.
"But I didn't depend on any one person for the facts in the book," said Kelley. "It is a mosaic of the hundreds of people I interviewed and listed as sources."
Among the book's claims: Vernon Winfrey, a kind but stern man, raised her as his child, even though he realized he wasn't her father. Katherine Esters, a cousin Oprah refers to as "Aunt Katherine," told Kelley the identity of Oprah's biological father, on the condition she keep it secret. Esters also claimed Oprah didn't grow up as poor as she claims and said she doubted if Oprah was sexually abused.
Several of those interviewed said Oprah's two greatest needs since early childhood are to be in charge and to be in the spotlight. These traits have made her controlling and a narcissist, writes Kelley, citing sources who have worked with Oprah. Her power in publishing and television is now so great that Kelley has had trouble getting TV appearances and newspaper interviews for the book. (Nevertheless, though it has been out only a few days, Amazon claims it has just hit third place on its best-seller list.)
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Kelley describes Oprah's transition from "trash TV" to inspirational topics and credits her with popularizing a love of reading through her book club. At the book party on Friday, she shared her admiration for Oprah, saying that through talent and determination she has become one of America's best-loved icons, world-renowned, a friend of global celebrities and a billionaire twice over.
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Ciwuja is generally regarded as a Chinese name for the herb Eleutherococcus senticosus (so-called Russian ginseng). However, it is unclear whether herbal products manufactured in China and offered as ciwuja are in fact identical to eleutherococcus or rather belong to a related plant. In this database, we tentatively regard the herbs as identical.
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Hastings Announces Natural Resources Subcommittee Chairmen
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WASHINGTON, D.C., December 20, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today named Subcommittee Chairmen for the 113th Congress and also announced the establishment of a new Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
The Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation will have jurisdiction over matters related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and all public lands including the National Park System, U.S. Forests, Bureau of Land Management lands and national monuments. The Natural Resources Committee has primary jurisdiction over NEPA in the House of Representatives and oversight and legislative efforts regarding NEPA were previously handled at the Full Committee. The establishment of this Subcommittee will allow this authority to be exercised in a more focused manner.
The creation of this new Subcommittee builds on the reforms started at the beginning of this Congress when we established the Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee another issue that was previously handled at the Full Committee, said Chairman Hastings. Moving jurisdiction of NEPA to a specific Subcommittee will allow us to better review and address how this law is being implemented and the impacts its bureaucratic red-tape has on jobs, our economy and access to public lands and resources.
These Subcommittee Chairmen represent a dedicated and talented group of individuals with expertise and knowledge of these issues and will continue working hard to advance a natural resources agenda that creates jobs and strengthens our economy.
Natural Resources Subcommittee Chairmen for the 113th Congress (listed in alphabetical order by subcommittee):
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Chairman: Doug Lamborn (CO-05)
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs
Chairman: John Fleming (LA-04)
Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs
Chairman: Don Young (AK-at large)
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation
Chairman: Rob Bishop (UT-01)
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This is a great project for younger girls, as the pinwheels work pretty well but older girls might be a bit disappointed that they don't work perfectly but they're still awesome! That doesn't really matter since, in my experience, pinwheels are really a toy more suited for younger girls anyway. You can spice up the project and colors by getting a pack of assorted colored drinking straws instead of plain white ones. The best straws are straight and not the kind with the bend in them.
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- Plastic drinking straws
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- Pinwheel pattern.
- Print the pinwheel pattern. You can reproduce this pattern on white construction paper with a copy machine. Be sure to cut the construction paper to 8½ in. by 11 in. You can also print the pattern out onto thicker colored paper directly.
- Cut out the pattern along the solid lines.
- Decorate the un-folded paper. Stickers might not work so well due to the folding and aerodynamics, but any other crayons, colored pencils, or markers should be fine for decorations.
- Cut the dotted lines from the four corners to the center circle, doing your best not to cut into the center circle.
- Use the sharpened pencil to poke a hole through the four tiny dark circles. The pencil point also works well to poke a hole into the straw, though you can also have an adult use a nail or a very small diameter hole punch. Carefully push the pencil point through the straw about ½" inch from the top.
- Make the tiny holes on the four points meet at the center circle.
- Push the brass fastener ends through the holes on the pinwheel. then push the fastener through the center circle.
- Place the straw on the back side of your pinwheel and push the ends of the fastener through the hole in the straw. Open-up the fastener by flattening the ends in opposite directions.
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3 Hottest Brunette Hair Colors 2014 – Brown Hair Color Ideas
Brunette hair color was the hottest one of most times and this message bears a number of reasons .First of all it is the one that meets almost all skin tones and also complexions which is the reason why women so often pick dark brown hair color ideas .Yet another advantage of brunette hair is minimal routine maintenance ;compared to bright rich skinned colors like reddish or blonde darkish brown color doesn't fade instantly and requires much less time and effort .
BRUNETTE : Walnut is known as a more soft ,lighter ,natural shade of brown ;honey brown is a pretty golden tone ;chestnut is a deeper chocolate with red undertones ; dark brown hair Color is extremely rich and deep ; black is the darkest way of brunette hair .
Chestnut Brown Hair Color
Do you know why Chestnut Brown hair color is so beautiful and popular ? Its just perfect mixture of cool and warm brown tones .
Most of these colors can vary from the deeper shades of Zooey Deschanel to a slighly lighter brown hair color like Rose Byrne .Both shades look wonderful with some toasted walnut highlights interwoven from the mids to ends.
Brown Sugar Hair Color
There might be simply no better model for the brown sugar look than Kim Kardashian and also Beyonce .Channeling the warm undertones of their skin and eye color ,this a fantastic shade for all those dark brown shoppers who wish to try "going blonde ."
The level of lightness can managed by highlight dimensions and placement ; although ,we suggest the balayage method combined with certain hand painted items .
Chocolate Brown + Caramel Ribbons
You'll have to consider your ombre or baylayage method with this one , also ! Probably the most popular and trendy shades for brunettes in 2014 is rich chocolate brown ,combined with caramel or butterscotch highlights .
The rich warm tones of chocolate brown matched with the soft golden hues of caramel and butterscotch allow this appear amazing dimension and shine .


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HUNTINGTON, WV -- Marshall University's Board of Governors approved a resolution Monday on an agreement with Capstone Management of Birmingham, AL, to build a 123,000-square-foot recreation center scheduled to open in January 2009.
The project, which also includes new residence halls and will later include baseball and softball fields, will cost $94 million, according to the Huntington Herald-Dispatch.
The center will feature pools, a three-story climbing wall, a track, courts for basketball, volleyball, racquetball and handball, and three fitness rooms for free weights, Nautilus and cardiovascular machines. The center also will have a child care area and an outdoor area for sunbathing.
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When Dexter started adding a big guest star to the cast in season three, it was largely because the show had killed off Sgt. Doakes, the antagonist, in season two. This left everyone involved in the series with a big hole to fill. Someone had to be at least somewhat on to Dexter, or Dexter had to have someone he could pursue. Without that uniting narrative, then the show would just turn into another crime procedural with horror elements. The problem was that there were only so many season-long narratives you could tell within the world of Dexter. You have the idea of someone almost catching on to what Dexter was up to. You have the idea of a bigger, badder serial killer for Dexter to pursue. And beyond that, you have the idea that will presumably make up the final season of the show: Members of the Miami police department start to grasp that Dexter Morgan is not who he says he is (though that closely ties in to the "someone catching on to what Dexter is up to" narrative).
So the show has come up with subtle twists on both of these formulas in the last two seasons. Season three features the "Someone catches on to what Dexter is up to … and wants to help!" plot (with Jimmy Smits as the someone). Season four features the "Dexter pursues an even more prolific serial killer … and decides he can really learn a lot from the guy!" plot (with John Lithgow as the someone). And now we have season five, which is only slowly revealing itself, but seems to be another combination of the two formulas, with Julia Stiles (playing a character named "Lumen" for some reason) finding out just who Dexter is but then revealing that there were other people in on kidnapping her than just Boyd, which means that either Dexter's going to have to take them out or she's going to do it herself. (This is just my assumption about what the show is going to do based on that final scene; I haven't seen any future episodes.)
My favorite season of Dexter is the second season because - abominable final two episodes aside - it's the season that deals most directly with the morality of what Dexter does. Too many seasons of the show want to reduce what he does to a kind of grimly smiling arithmetic, a kind of balancing of the scales that's ultimately helpful to society. Season two is the only season that seems to grasp that what Dexter is doing is an aberration on some fundamental level. He may be USEFUL, in some regards, but what he's doing is simultaneously WRONG, and he will eventually be punished for it. The other seasons have a tendency to fall back on the idea of him as a glibly chattering killer who lightens up the mood with cheap jokes. I don't mind this portrayal much of the time because the show is told from Dexter's point of view, and that's almost certainly how he sees himself. But season two was the one season where the show stepped outside of itself and said, "Yeah, we know that some of this is just a bit troubling, and we're going to get into the knotty ethics of all of this."
What I like about season five so far is that it seems to be dealing with these ideas as well, first by showing us the fallout of Dexter's decision to engage with the Trinity Killer and then by reminding us (subtly sometimes) of how other people see Dexter. In every single episode, there's been a moment when a character outside of the series regulars came across Dexter and saw him in his natural state, then tried to escape him, only to fail. In these sequences, the show isn't afraid to turn Dexter into a monster out of a horror movie, and it's not afraid to abandon any conception of him as a well-meaning, bumbling serial killer. The sequences when Dexter pursues Lumen in tonight's episode - even as we know that he's not going to kill her - are legitimately terrifying, shot through with the cinematic grammar of a chase sequence in a slasher film. When Dexter lunges out of the brush and grabs Lumen around the waist, it's not played as a moment of triumph for him. It's played as a moment of terror for her.
But the other thing I like about season two is sort of lacking thus far in season five. Season two has relentless pacing. In the premiere, Dexter's trash bags are discovered, and the rest of the season is one, long cat-and-mouse game between him and literally everyone else in the cast. It's the one season when the supporting players are fitfully interesting because they're occasionally on Dexter's trail, even if only inadvertently. Season five has almost none of this sense of relentlessness. Big stuff happens, but none of it has any urgency to it. You can sense the writers trying to correct this by throwing in smaller cat-and-mouse chase scenes in nearly every episode, but the stakes for Dexter, so far, feel curiously low, even though he's revealed himself to a troubled young woman and now decided to care for her, rather than take care of her. An episode of Dexter with low stakes is often a pretty bad episode of Dexter, and even though I like individual moments of this episode, I'd be hard pressed to say it was one of the show's finest hours.
Normally, I try to work in a little plot summary before this point, but in this episode, so little happened that it feels almost pointless to do so. Everything that happened felt like a foregone conclusion. Lumen tried to escape Dexter's clutches, but he eventually talked her into trusting him by playing the Rita card. Then she revealed that men other than Boyd were involved in her imprisonment. Maria got Angel to apologize to the guy he beat up, and the guy agreed to lay off for a bit (even though it's obvious this plot point will come up again at some point). Deb and the team got one step closer to Santa Muerte, but didn't catch their man. Dexter's nanny quit, then came back after Dexter sweet talked her. And Quinn tracked down the Mitchell family, then showed Jonah a photo of Dexter. Jonah, for whatever reason, didn't say he knew the guy before the men protecting him came to cart Quinn away, but Quinn just KNEW he knew Dexter, adding more fuel to the "Quinn is no Doakes" fire.
Every season of a show like this is a battle to keep things moving along just quickly enough but not move them so quickly that you write yourself into a position where you run out of story. (The only show in recent memory that pulled off the, "We've run out of story number one, so here's story number two!" switch I can think of is the third season of Breaking Bad.) The ultimate thing to try to avoid in situations like this is a sense that everything happening is inconsequential. Unfortunately, even as I'm pretty sure I'm going to love the back half of this season of Dexter, the front half just has too much in the way of stuff just happening with a shrug. "Beauty and the Beast" has some very nice moments - most everything with Dexter and Lumen works - but it also has a lot of throat clearing, and I hope there's less of that in the episodes to come.
Stray observations:
- The character played by Maria Doyle Kennedy is literally named "Irish Nanny" in the press notes, yet she's the first-billed in the guest cast at the end, which means there must be more to her than just that. So … maybe those of you who think she's evil are on to something?
- Seriously, what kind of name is LUMEN?!
- Dexter using Harrison as a prop on one of his information hunting outings was pretty funny.
- I also liked the reminder that Dexter is absolutely terrific at his job when he came to the Santa Muerte crime scene.
- The "Dexter steals medicine" subplot was also a whole lot of nothing, now that I think about it.


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During the Renaissance, brilliant sculptors like Donatello sought to bring the Bible's teachings to life in breathtakingly realistic bronze sculptures. Now, this first-ever Michael sculpture continues that epic art form as a museum-quality bronze sculpture depicting St. Michael and the Dragon. The bronze sculpture is made even more spectacular by the artwork of acclaimed contemporary realist artist Howard David Johnson, in his Bradford Exchange artistic debut!
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It's almost Father's Day and we wanted to pay homage to all the rad fathers of the world, particularly the ones who share their love of music with their kids. Here are our Top 5 What's In My Bag? episodes featuring dads at Amoeba. Two episodes feature dads shopping alongside their kids and the others are fathers trying to navigate that potential minefield of picking out music for their children.
5. Jay Bentley of Bad Religion and his son, Hunter, demonstrate what happens when the generations listen to very different musical styles. Unlike his punk rocker dad, Hunter is an aspiring rap artist and picks up underground hip hop. Watch as Jay reacts to his son giving Bad Religion some praise. (Start at 2:37 for the conversation between father and son.)
Jay Bentley (Bad Religion) - What's In My Bag?
4. Comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic, in our very first episode of "What's In My Bag?" back in 2008, was at Amoeba Hollywood shopping for his five year old daughter. (Side note: We are talking to him near the entrance to our parking garage as he was on his way out the store. Oh, how far we've come in 6 years!)


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Bianca Del Rio, crowned "America's Next Drag Superstar" by winning season six of the television reality series "RuPaul's Drag Race," will perform at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona.
Self-proclaimed as a 'clown in a dress," Del Rio (Roy Haylock) emerged on the New Orleans' gay entertainment scene in 1998 and nearly immediately became a premier nightlife entertainer. Multifaceted talents of costume design, comedy and theatrics were seamlessly merged to create the beloved Drag Queen persona that is Bianca Del Rio.
In addition to performing in drag, Del Rio is a costume designer for Broadway shows, ballet and opera. She performs weekly at various New York City bars, clubs, and eateries while traveling nationally and internationally for events. Her impeccably quick-witted comedy, effortless fashions, and unique ability to make audiences cry from laughter while she tatters their self-image to shreds, keeps everyone beckoning for more.
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, in the Office of Student Life in the Slep Student Center. They are $5 for Penn State Altoona students and $10 general admission, cash or check only. For more information, call 814-949-5407.