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The Elise Collection features classic decorative detail and a rust resistant finish that ensures long outdoor life and adds elegance to any outdoor area. The thick, plush cushions will certainly give the whole family many hours of comfort, whether for relaxation or entertainment. The Elise Collection by Caluco offers a variety of different ensembles, which provide endless possibilities for a classic touch to any outdoor space.

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Oct. 8, 2008
Two U.S. Womens Beach Teams Still Undefeated
Two U.S. womens beach teams are among the four remaining unbeatens at the SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in Dubai.
Kerri Walsh (Saratoga, Calif.) and Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.), playing together for the first time internationally, and Jen Boss (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) both improved to a perfect 3-0 in the tournament after victories at the Jumeirah Beach Park courts on Wednesday.
Walsh and Branagh were big winners in their third-round match, sweeping Sanne Keizer and Marleen Van Iersel of the Netherlands, 21-14, 21-15. The victory catapults Walsh and Branagh into Round 4 where the squad will meet Canadians Marie-Andre Lessard and Annie Martin on Thursday.
Not to be outdone however, Boss and Ross defeated the Swiss pair of Sarah Schmocker and Isabelle Forrer in the third round, 21-18, 21-17 and will play Brazils Maria Clara-Carol in their next match on Thursday.
The winners of both matches will advance to Fridays semifinal round.

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I had a little Tupperware container of sardines in the fridge the other day and took them out to have for lunch (yes, I like the wee fishies: anchovies, sardines, mackerel, you name it) I had the darndest time getting the lid off the container, until (you probably already saw this coming) the lid suddenly flew off and my sardines-packed-in-water spilled all over me and the kitchen counters and floor. Of course, I was wearing my favorite blue cashmere cardigan from Landsapos; End, just returned from the dry cleaner, and I got fishy water all over it.

The cats had been watching with interest all along, as they know that anytime Iapos;m prepping food there just *might* be something in it for them, and when the the sardine explosion occurred, it was like throwing chum to sharks. Suffice it to say, they helped significantly with cleanup.

My sweater smelled so bad, I took it off and put it aside while I cleaned up the the mess, and I promptly forgot about it. About an hour later, I was sitting down to go through my in-box, when I heard a persistent chewing sound nearby, and when I went to investigate, there was Cindy, chewing what turned out to be a 3" diameter hole right through the sleeve of my now-delicious sweater. Aaargh

I pulled her off it, and stared at it for some time trying to decide if it was in any way salvageable (Itapos;s not. I can patch it and use it as an around-the-house sweater, I guess, but itapos;s ruined for any sort of public wear.) Then I began to contemplate where all the wool had gone, and quickly realized that it was gathered in little Cindyapos;s stomach. They say tripe tastes like boiled knitting. I guess a sardine-soaked sweater tastes like boiled fishy knitting, which is apparently delicious if youapos;re a cat.

I wondered if Cindy would be able to actually digest all that blue cashmere. After all, itapos;s soft and, presumably, in lots of little pieces in her tummy. I worried a little that I might have to bring her to the vet for some sort of emergency procedure. I decided, though, to let Nature run its course. I made her sleep in the bathroom that night, but nothing untoward happened. The next day she ate, pooped, and played just like any other cat.

Then last night, she was sitting innocently at my feet here at the desk, when she started heaving, eyes bulging, like the guy from whom the Alien burst in the eponymous movie, and with one mighty blurggggg, out came an absolutely enormous pile of blue knitting. I honestly could not believe that that little cat had been walking around with all that yarn in her tummy for two days. She then walked off as if nothing had happened. Buttered cashmere would not have melted in her mouth.

(Anyone who feels any sympathy for the cat, by the way, is barking up the wrong blog. She is an eeeevil cashmere-chewing she-cat, and as my mother-in-law would say, sheapos;s no better than she ought to be.)

Here she is, looking sweet and innocent.

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Climbing Tools: Munter Hitch / tyed off Munter
There is a difference between being good at a sport and truly excelling at it. You may never wish to compete in a sport climbing event, but that does not mean you do not want to develop your rockclimbing skills to the next level. A climbing school is a great way to improve your technical skills while learning how to increase your speed. A good school can even help you master areas with which you are having difficulty.

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Texas Holdem poker has quickly become one of the most frequently played forms of poker out there, both for professional players and amateur hobbyists. Fortunately, www.MansionPoker.com has hundreds of such games in progress all the time. If Texas Holdem poker is your game, sign up and get playing - whether for fun or for high stakes, youre sure to have a good time!This online poker site has more than just Texas Holdem poker for you to try your hand at. Other poker versions offered include Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Draw and more. These are constantly being played at a variety of different tournaments: you can enter for nothing into freerolls that are played daily (some for up to $3000). Or you can put up some cash and bet on games that can win you tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars! And if youve got the nerve, dont miss out on the end-of-the-month grand tournament, with a guaranteed prize of one million dollars, every month.www.MansionPoker.com boasts a number of unique features that will help you advance your game. For example, the player notes and player classification tools will help you keep tabs on your opponents. The statistics and logging options can help you log all your games and chats so that you can analyze your play afterwards and improve your techniques. These features will help you become the best player you can be. For Texas Holdem poker and Five-Card Draw and everything in between, visit this online poker room and show ‘em what youve got.

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Funny picture (c) http://funnyillustration.com/
Regarding exercise, Black has been quoted as saying that Ultimate is the only form of exercise that he doesn't hate. Black dated actress and comedian Laura Kightlinger from 1997 until 2005. In January 2006, he became engaged to Tanya Haden (daughter of the jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, and sister of violinist and singer Petra Haden). Haden herself is an accomplished cellist. Both attended Crossroads school, but met again 15 years after graduating, at a friend's birthday party. Black proposed marriage around Christmas 2005 with a $50,000 Neil Lane ring. They married on March 14, 2006, in Big Sur, California. Their son, Samuel Sammy Jason Black, was born on June 10, 2006, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. On May 23, 2008, Black and his wife welcomed their second child, another boy, whom they named Thomas Tommy David Black.
Black's comedic style combines many key elements from both sides of the traditional double act. Black typically begins a skit in which he presents an earnest introduction to a premise or subject that quickly reveals itself to be flawed or fundamentally ludicrous. Black then switches completely to a far-extreme caricature of human emotion.
His would-be straight-man Gass often functions to trigger these outbursts. Tenacious Ds subject matter illustrates this technique. In Tribute, Tenacious D tells a story in which they claim to have performed, The Greatest Song in the World, for a, Shiny Demon, who would otherwise EAT THEIR SOULS. In Inward Singing, Black doesnt merely discover a new vocal technique, he discovers what he refers to as "the most powerful tool in singing technology since yodeling". Black's skits also use the catchphrase 'more cushion for the pushin', a self-deprecating reference to his abdominal body fat.
Bio Info (c) http://en.wikipedia.

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McCain has said that he wants to appoint conservative justices like Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Obama voted against confirmation of both of those individuals and has said that he would pick liberal justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

As a result of its current makeup, however, the Supreme Court is likely to tilt only in one direction after this year. Simply put, the November election may well determine whether the court becomes significantly more conservative or its ideological balance remains roughly the same. And a McCain-shaped Supreme Court, pushed farther to the right, could have dramatic and long-lasting consequences for the rights of Americans.

Even if Obama wins the election, it is far less likely that the Supreme Court will become more liberal in the near term. This is because any vacancies on the court between Jan. 20, 2009, and Jan. 20, 2013, are likely to come among the three most liberal justices. John Paul Stevens is 88 years old. Although he is in good health, it seems unlikely that he will still be on the court at age 93 in 2013. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75. Perhaps because she is frail in appearance there is always speculation that she might step down. There is a widely circulated rumor that David Souter (now 69) wants to retire and go home to New Hampshire.

Across the ideological divide, the picture is much different. John Roberts turned 54 in January of this year. If he remains on the court until he is 88, like Stevens, he will be chief justice until the year 2042. Neither Clarence Thomas nor Samuel Alito has yet to celebrate a 60th birthday. Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are 72. The best predictor of a long life span seems to be confirmation for a seat on the Supreme Court. Thus, these five justices likely will be on the Court throughout the next presidential term and perhaps for an additional decade or more.

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It is not only the future of the Supreme Court that is at stake with the November election. The president also selects judges for the many federal district courts and the 13 federal circuit courts of appeal, the last stop before the Supreme Court. These judges, too, have life tenure and often remain on the bench for decades. Most of the 13 circuit courts of appeal currently have a Republican majority, but on most it is by a small margin. A McCain presidency would likely ensure substantial Republican majorities in every circuit, whereas an Obama presidency would offer the chance to shift some circuits back to control by judges selected by a Democratic president. This balance, too, is important; because the Supreme Court agrees to preside over only a fraction of cases moving through the federal court system each year, the rulings of the circuits often play an important role in shaping federal law.

There are probably many reasons why the future of the Supreme Court has not been a prominent issue this election year: the understandable focus of voters on the financial crisis, the ailing U.S. economy and the protracted war in Iraq, and the sense that swing voters are unlikely to base their selection on the issue of judicial nominations.

But the reality is that Supreme Court justices often serve for decades. (Justice Stevens was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975.) The court decides countless basic questions concerning the structure of government and individual rights. Voters may well want to consider that John McCain and Barack Obama offer starkly different choices as to the direction of constitutional law, now and for decades to come.

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Grand Theft Auto series and the PlayStation 2 have gone hand in hand, which each game debuting on the PS2 before it travels to other consoles. That all changed with the release of last year's side story, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. This game, designed to take advantage of the PSP's hardware, was an impressive technical feat, managing to pack in a lot of what made the "big" GTA games so memorable. But it fell short in a few key spots, most notably the story, the characters, and the series' biting sense of style and satire. That stuff was easy to overlook when you could carry Liberty City around in your back pocket. But on the PS2, where you can compare it directly to the three Grand Theft Auto games that have appeared there, the whole package is significantly less interesting, even considering the PS2 port's budget price.

Toni Ciprani, like most of LCS's characters, is fairly uninteresting.

Not much has changed, so if you've already played this on the PSP, there's not much reason to take on the PS2 version. The game's got a slightly longer draw distance on the PlayStation 2, and the streets look like they might have a few more people on them. But neither of these things dramatically changes the game, and they can't save the game's otherwise murky visuals and often poor frame rate. But it also controls a little better; with the right analog stick back in effect, you've got all the camera control and other buttons you're used to hitting on the PS2. It's neither elegant nor particularly noteworthy, but if you didn't play it on the PSP, Liberty City Stories' $20 price tag is just right. Just don't go in expecting anything approaching the grandiose nature of GTAIII, let alone the bigger, crazier Vice City or San Andreas. And if you've already played it on the PSP, well, there's little reason to play it again, because this is the same game, with the multiplayer modes stripped out.

As a return to Liberty City, the New York-themed locale first made famous back in Grand Theft Auto III, Liberty City Stories is all about retreading through well-worn territory. If you still remember the streets of Liberty City, you'll see plenty of the same spots here. But as a game that was designed for the less powerful PSP, you'll probably notice that Liberty City Stories is much smaller in scope than what we've seen in the series more recently. Missions, which grew to epic proportions in San Andreas, are much shorter and feel pretty meaningless in LCS. There are plenty of moments where you'll complete a mission and immediately think, "Well, at least I'll never have to do that again." The story, however, is the biggest casualty.

Liberty City Stories tells the tale of one Toni Cipriani, a regular-type mob guy who did a good deed for the head of the Leone crime family, Salvatore Leone. Toni had to go away for awhile, but the heat's died down, and he's back on the job in Liberty City, maintaining his loyalty to Sal while wiping out the family's enemies in droves along the way. As you ascend to become Salvatore's right-hand man, you'll start and finish gang wars with other mafia types, a few triads, the yakuza...pretty much all of the usual suspects are present.

If you're familiar with the various mafia presences over the course of the past three GTA games, you'll recognize a few of the names and faces here. But the story stands alone and doesn't require you to remember the various cast members. That's a good thing, because the mafia characters in the other GTA games have been largely forgettable. The game's storyline really isn't up to par with the console installments in the series, because very little actually happens. Even potential plot points are squandered, like when Toni finally becomes a made man but a bad cutscene doesn't actually show the ceremony. The game's mission path doesn't deviate into crazy territory, and most of the characters are fairly lifeless. There are no enigmatic weirdos like Truth, the crazy hippie from San Andreas, or Steve Scott, the porno director from Vice City, to break up the heavier-handed mafia tasks. This dulls the game's personality, preventing its characters and events from becoming as memorable as we've come to expect from GTA games and their excellent storylines.

If you stick to the missions and don't mess around too much, you can finish the game's story mode in 10 to 12 hours. But the deceptive game-progress counter will only report around 40 percent completion if you stick close to the missions and don't do much else. The game has some rampage side missions and the standard pizza delivery, vigilante, taxi service, and ambulance missions, too. You can seek out ringing pay phones to get into street races. You can report to car lots to sell cars or motorcycles by test-driving vehicles for prospective consumers. And, of course, there are 100 hidden packages to find. If you get into all this optional stuff, there's a lot more city to see, and plenty of different cars to see it in.

The weapons in Liberty City Stories are what you'd expect from a Grand Theft Auto game. You'll start out finding basic pistols, submachine guns, and shotguns, but over time, your enemies will start to drop higher-powered weaponry. You can carry only one weapon of each type at a time, but ammo for one weapon in a class will work for another, so running over weapons is handy for collecting bullets, even if you don't decide to switch out for a lower-powered weapon. The system works roughly the same way that it worked in GTA: Vice City. In fact, the whole game feels like it's the world of Grand Theft Auto III, with some (but not all) of the Vice City enhancements thrown in. The game has motorcycles, for example. You'll also be able to change your clothes, but this works on an entire-outfit level, not on a piece-by-piece level like in San Andreas. You'll occasionally fight alongside other Leone-friendly gangsters, but they're completely controlled by rudimentary artificial intelligence. You can't issue commands to them like you could in San Andreas. Considering how dopey the AI can be in some spots--we witnessed more than one occasion where our allies decided that the best way to get closer to their target was to run in place up against a wall--a simple "get over here" command would have been handy.

The audio end of Liberty City Stories is structured identically to how it's done in the "big" games, but again, on a slightly smaller scale. The cutscenes are given full speech, and for the most part, the characters are well-portrayed and voiced, even if you don't recognize most of the names in the credits. Whenever you're in a car, you can listen to a handful of different radio stations; as you'd expect, it's here where the game gets its jokes in. From commercials telling you that the Internet is clearly a tool of the devil that ruins lives (which is true) to ads for generic mascot-driven kart-racing games, there's a lot of funny stuff here. However, the radio stations loop more frequently than you'd probably like, presumably due to this being a port of a PSP game and the storage limitations of the original version's UMD format.

DJ Clue serves up some DMX, Fat Joe, and more, but most of the soundtrack falls flat.

The music in the past two Grand Theft Auto games has been incredibly important in setting the game's tone. The '80s music in Vice City and the rap stations in San Andreas were key to both the tone and the pace of those two games. Liberty City Stories' soundtrack doesn't really serve as the same type of pop-culture touchstone. The rap station, hosted by DJ Clue, depicts a pretty accurate take on late-'90s East Coast mix tape and rap radio. A bunch of the music on the other stations, however, was custom-written for the game, with a focus on sounding sort of like various forms of pop music. While 1998 might be a little too recent to get nostalgic about, there's still a bunch of really awful boy-band pop music from 1997 and 1998 that would have made for perfect "driving around and running over cops" music, so it's disappointing that some higher-profile stuff didn't get licensed.

In the end, Liberty City Stories pales in comparison to the "real" Grand Theft Auto games developed by Rockstar North, and this port to PS2 feels suspiciously like a cash-in, something the megapopular series has been very careful about in the past. Without the benefit of running on a portable platform, all of this game's problems stick out in a much more noticeable fashion. The writing isn't up to par with the past games, the mission design is often dull, and overall, the game feels like the mechanics of GTA, without the attention to detail and care that was put into the previous console installments of the game. That said, since it's available for only $20, some of these things can be overlooked--but make sure to set your expectations accordingly.

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Soyou want to be a football journalist? You want press access to all the matches and press conferences, one-on-one interviews with the football stars, dining with the biggest names in the game?
Theres good news, and theres bad news.
The bad news is that your chances of making it as an averagely-successful journo working for a top-of-the-line newspaper are less than 1 in 10,000. And your chances of being a really, really, REALLY successful journalist and living the life (which usually involves writing a book, being called up by players for exclusive interviews and god knows what) are 1 in a 1,000,000. 1 in a million, and Im being generous.
The good news is that most people quit at the first hurdle - the challenge of getting in. The real battle for the top starts once youre in the business - as long as youre on the outside, youre nothing (or very little). And since most people quit before theyre in, your chances of success can be a lot higher (still very poor odds but better than 1 in a million, at least) as long as you can figure a path into the world of football journalism.
So how do you do it? I asked the same question to a few journalists - some successful, some getting there, but all of them with different backgrounds, experiences and tips to share. From our conversations, here is a collection of tips that you can follow to dramatically increase your chances of getting in - of becoming a football journalist.

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