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DRT now feuding over the Alamo
By Scott Huddleston - Express-News
Tensions within the group running the Alamo have fueled an unprecedented schism, casting uncertainty on the future of the Shrine of Texas Liberty.
Two members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas are forming their own nonprofit to benefit the Alamo, despite the DRT's objections.
"I think the split has been a long time coming," said Erin Bowman, the San Antonian leading the effort.
Conflicts within the DRT, which has run the state's top tourist attraction since 1905, are frequent. But some say in-fighting among the Daughters is the worst it's been in years, amid the pressure of raising a record $60 million for the state-owned Alamo in a down economy.
DRT leaders say they're moving ahead with plans to preserve and expand the Alamo, working methodically within their bylaws and committee structure to do the job right.
But a faction of DRT members favors an aggressive marketing and fund-raising campaign. They say the Daughters are neglecting their duty as guardians of the Alamo.
A few even question whether a volunteer group like the DRT is fit to run the Alamo in this era of competitive fund-raising.
In 2007, Bowman, a DRT member working as a volunteer, spearheaded the DRT's capital campaign for the Alamo, site of the epic 1836 battle for Texas independence.
She was in France, caring for her daughter, who was critically injured in a boating accident, when DRT members voted at their May 2008 convention in Tyler to remove her from the campaign. Some of the Daughters have decried the fact that Bowman wasn't able to defend herself when she was dismissed.
Madge Roberts, who was DRT president-general when Bowman was removed, said that even though the Daughters disagreed with some of her tactics, the task she was charged with may have been "too big a job" for one person.
"She wasn't treated badly," Roberts said. "They voted to thank her for all the wonderful things she'd done."
Rising acrimony
Dianne MacDiarmid, who recently served as the DRT's Alamo Committee chairwoman, said a faction of the Daughters, known by critics as "The Toxic 20," were jealous of the attention Bowman was getting. She had been meeting with VIPs, telling them about an ambitious 2007 Alamo master plan to expand the grounds, add new buildings and even reconstruct the acequia that provided water to the Alamo defenders in 1836.
"There's a group of women who use the Alamo to try to promote themselves. For them, it's a power trip," said MacDiarmid, who's helping form the new nonprofit.
The DRT, with about 7,000 members, has some forward-thinking members, MacDiarmid said. But a vocal faction has been slow to embrace new ideas, she said.
The week before Bowman was dismissed, the Ewing Halsell Foundation gave the DRT $1 million for its capital campaign. The funds now are frozen in an account with the San Antonio Area Foundation, since the Daughters have yet to develop an Alamo business plan.
After Bowman was dismissed, private donors who had pledged more than $70,000 to develop a business plan withdrew their support.
The Daughters also have severed ties with DINI Partners, a national fundraising consulting firm hired in late 2006 to craft a business plan and help with the capital campaign.
DRT leaders said they're still actively pursuing all the elements of the master plan, including a business and marketing plan that would help them access the Halsell grant.
"We had hoped the DRT would handle the whole situation internally," said Patti Atkins, DRT president general.
The DRT, which doesn't charge admission to the Alamo but relies on gift shop revenues for 92 percent of its operating income, has cut its operating budget from about $6 million to $5.5 million. But Atkins said a lot of nonprofits have cut expenses in the recession.
"We've really been through ups and downs, including the Great Depression. But the DRT is a strong organization. We're going to make whatever adjustments are necessary to preserve that complex," Atkins said.
Bowman shouldn't have used the master plan to entice donations before the DRT had secured room to expand, she said.
The DRT is working with the city to close part of Houston Street, and to get the city to deed it the right-of-way. So far, it's been unable to negotiate the purchase of two nearby businesses to make room for the expansion.
"Some of the information she shared was premature. You can't show a huge drawing of an expansion when you don't own the property," Atkins said.
Critics say the DRT has dragged its feet on a plan to raise money from marketing and branding opportunities. Although many companies use an Alamo image, there's no official Alamo logo used to sell T-shirts and other items to support it.
Bowman said the Daughters also have failed to embark on a new frontier by starting a membership program, like many zoos and museums have done. People would pay fees for access to special, after-hours events, a newsletter and other perks.
Atkins said a special task force of the DRT is still working on branding and membership.
"Those two things really have to be conjoined," she said.
The DRT had worked toward getting the Alamo accredited by the American Association of Museums, like the Witte Museum and McNay Art Museum. But members voted at their recent convention in Killeen in May to halt that effort.
Gossip and in-fighting
David Stewart, director of the Alamo for seven years, made a surprise announcement at the convention that he'd retire May 31. Stewart said the convention in May was the most divisive he's seen.
"The ladies were at each other's throats, gossiping and in-fighting," he said.
Leaders of the organization have refused to listen to outside experts and Alamo staff, he said, adding: "They need to let staff do its work."
Stewart's departure was followed by another. Craig Stinson resigned last month after working as the Alamo's first-ever marketing director for nearly two years.
Bowman, who's worked in private fund-raising for 30 years, isn't content to just walk away from the situation. Her creation of a nonprofit is an end run, yet she insists it isn't a form of payback, but a way to promote the best interests of the Alamo.
"I don't care about the Daughters. I care about the Alamo," she said.
Bowman is well connected to movers and shakers through the volunteer fund-raising she's done for everything from the San Antonio Academy and Christus Santa Rosa to clinics in Mexico.
She said her new nonprofit would work with the Texas Historical Commission to disperse funds for Alamo projects through the San Antonio Area Foundation.
"I'll never touch the money," she said. "I will bypass the DRT."
Bowman has applied for a service mark, similar to a trademark, with the Texas secretary of state's office, to form the nonprofit.
A lawyer for the DRT has sent letters asking her to "cease and desist any and all fundraising efforts."
Even though Bowman is a member, "she currently is not authorized to represent the DRT in regards to raising charitable funds for the Alamo," lawyer Anthony Campbell wrote.
Atkins said she doubted the DRT would sue Bowman. But the Daughters are proceeding with their own Alamo campaign.
In Stewart's absence, former DRT president-general Virginia Van Cleave, the new Alamo Committee chairwoman, is serving as an unpaid interim director at the Alamo. Atkins said the DRT will hire a new director to lead the Alamo's 85-member staff.
But MacDiarmid said the DRT isn't up to the task of addressing the Alamo's needs, from the crumbling walls of the 1700s Shrine and Long Barrack to a new, expanded library.
"The Daughters think $20,000 is a lot. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed," she said.
Through the years, there's been occasional talk of the state taking over management of the Alamo. Bowman said she'd like to see the Alamo in the care of the state, with the Daughters providing volunteer support.
Atkins said the DRT is doing just fine, continuing to run the Alamo at no cost to taxpayers.
"We have not changed our focus at all. Our timeline has changed, but the state of the nation also has changed," she said.
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Liverpool are set to hold talks with Manchester United transfer target Pepe Reina over his future at the club.
The 30-year-old Spanish international is on the Red Devils radar, according to The Daily Star, with the newspaper reporting that Sir Alex Ferguson is weighing up a £15million move for the player earlier in the week.
And, now Metro claims that Reina's representatives are to sit down with the Anfield outfit in the coming days, with the club looking to get a clearer picture on the stopper's future.
Agent Manuel Garcia Quilon is also looking to get an idea of what direction Liverpool boss Brenand Rodgers is hoping to take the club, according to the report.
Reina still has three years left on his contract, but his father recently talked up the opportunity of his son leaving Merseyside for Barcelona.
"Pepe has shown sufficient proof of the calibre of goalkeeper he is and right now – and sorry for the lack of modesty – he would be up to the task and the ideal keeper for FC Barcelona," said Miguel Reina, according to the paper.
And, whilst the reference was to the Catalan giants, Reina snr's comments are unlikely to have gone unnoticed by the Manchester United hierarchy, given the club's reported interest.
Ferguson is said to be in the market for a new No.1, with the Scot worried about David De Gea being targeted with high balls – an area of apparent weakness at Old Trafford.
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So, Friends, Here We Are Again.
The New York Times reports that a new survey shows 17-year-olds know less than nothing about history and literature, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us/27history.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin (if you have trouble using that link, search under "Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions"). What are we, the community that creates nonfiction for kids up to 17, to make of this?
Every time I mention a study such as this here, we fall into the same arguments: NCLB is at fault — a view echoed by those who conducted the survey in the Times article; I cite other surveys showing teachers do not have enough advanced training in history; Monica objects that I am speaking from outside the classroom; there is a flurry of comments back and forth; and then a new survey comes out.
I can't help thinking of a song we used to sing at summer camp, Putting on the Style http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPUTONSTY;ttPUTONSTY.html The point being that young people are always "putting on the agony, putting on the style." The fact that tweeners and teenagers are self-involved is hardly a news flash. The 17 year olds today who are fuzzy on what happened in 1492 are no different from the
"Sweet sixteen, she goes to church, just to see the boys
She laughs and she giggles at every little noise"
in the song.
The difference is not the teenagers, it is us. We are not figuring out how to break into their world and make their past: the art, the history, the literature that is their heritage, important to them (important meaning either that they care about it, or that they know they need to be aware of it). In the survey, the one thing almost all of the teenagers get right is the I Have a Dream Speech. But what value is knowing that, if you know nothing about the history of race relations?
I again appeal to all of you who come here to take this question seriously: how can our books break into the self-involved worlds of our readers, when schools are under NCLB pressure — so our subjects may not be covered in class? What can we do to command the attention of those teenagers?
As I have said before, I think that by expressing our own judgments we can challenge young people; by writing books that are cognizant of other forms of technology, we can give them many ways to enter our subjects; we need to be bold and experimental. I find that, when we are, those teenagers are grateful. When we break into their world, we also offer them a way out, a pathway to a past that they did not know, and which is full of unexpected riches.


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Do you want to believe bunnies are fluffy and not fat?
Now everybody needs a nap, Princess Maya by Kasia P., box kitties by Paul P., squirrel by Florian W., Brussels Griffon by Stacy Z., Political Chuck pup by Sara S. via Dooce.com, sloth baby by Sam J. & Sara, and Knabbel the bunny by J. Pockele.


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I have an internal site at the following file path:
/home/http/kbmls/ and since /home/http is the document root,
the site is referenced as follows:
http://bart.johnson.com/kbmls bart.johnson.com is my internal domain (locally resolved host).
The default page is kbmlsLoader.py, which is symlinked from
/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/kbmls so that I can used both traditional
cgi and a 'clean URL'.
I find that the cookie set by the first request to the site http://bart.johnson.com/kbmls
is not being transmitted. IOWS: A check for the cookie on a second request
does not find it, even though I can verify that the cookie is set on my system.
It is likely that something is wrong with my .htaccess file
AcceptPathInfo On
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script py
DirectoryIndex kbmlsLoader.py
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /kbmls
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} lang=([^;]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?lang=%1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteCond $1 !^(kbmlsLoader\.py|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
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MyCPAN::App::DPAN::Reporter::AsYAML - Record the indexing results as YAML
Use this in the dpan config by specifying it as the reporter class:
# in dpan.config reporter_class MyCPAN::App::DPAN::Reporter::AsYAML
This module implements the reporter_class components to allow
dpan to create a CPAN-like directory structure with its associated index files. It runs through the indexing, saves the reports as YAML, and prints a report at the end of the run.
Inherited from MyCPAN::App::BackPAN::Indexer
Creates the 02packages.details.txt.gz and CHECKSUMS files once
dpan has analysed every distribution.
This is the big problem. Since we didn't really parse the source code, we don't really know how to match up packages and VERSIONs. The best we can do right now is assume that a $VERSION we found goes with the packages we found.
Additionally, that package variable my have been in one package, but been the version for another package. For example:
package DBI; $DBI::PurePerl::VERSION = 1.23;
Given information about the module, make a guess about which package is the primary one. This is
Get the $VERSION associated with PACKAGE. You probably want to use
guess_package_name first to figure out which package is the primary one that you should index.
Returns true if the indexer should ignore PACKAGE.
By default, this skips the Perl special packages specified by the ignore_packages configuration. By default, ignore packages is:
main MY MM DB bytes DynaLoader
To set a different list, configure ignore_packages with a space separated list of packages to ignore:
ignore_packages main Foo Bar::Baz Test
Note that this only ignores those exact packages. You can't configure this with regex or wildcards (yet).
Not yet implemented. Otehr code needs to be refactored and show up here.
If a modules/03modlist.data.gz does not already exist, this creates a placeholder which defines the CPAN::Modulelist package and the method
data in that package. The
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Creates the CHECKSUMS file that goes in each author directory in CPAN. This is mostly a wrapper around CPAN::Checksums since that already handles updating an entire tree. We just do a little logging.
This code is in Github:
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Storms River
Storms River is a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It is located in the Garden Route and functions as the gateway to the Tsitsikamma National Park. Only a short drive east of Knysna, Storms River comprises more than just a village – it is a synonym for anything adventurous and daring, mild or wild. Storms River mouth is spanned by a suspension bridge, offering breathtaking views over rocks and coves and crashing waves of the Indian Ocean. The bridge leads to a lookout point from which sweeping views over a verdant forest and the Stormsriver camp reward any hike to this area. A first-class Eco-Destination, ecologically sensitive activities such as Bungee Jumping from the Bloukrans River Bridge, and Canopy Tours, are two of the most popular things to do at Storms River and surrounds!
Get in
By car
Located on the N2 the village is easily accessible by car from Port Elizabeth and Cape Town as well as other towns along the Garden Route.
By bus
The main companies stop in Storms River at the petrol station on their Cape Town - Port Elizabeth run.
By rail & plane
There is no rail station nor airport in Storms River. Though the nearest train station is at Assegaai, in Kareedouw (40 km), as a stop of the Apple Express [22]. The nearest airports are located either in George or in Port Elizabeth, both 180 km away.
Get around
Nearly everyone goes to Storms River by car and this is definitely the best way to tour around.
Tsitsikamma National Park is one of the main attractions in Storms River.
Guided walks
Starting at the Forest Station down-town Stormsriver, all have free self-issue permits at unmanned gates.
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U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Naperville, issued the following news release:
Congressman Bill Foster, D-Naperville, expressed disappointment in the USPS plan to end Saturday mail service and released the following statement:
"Congress has repeatedly shown bipartisan opposition to attempts to end Saturday mail service. Millions of small businesses, seniors and others rely on Saturday service, and it should not be first on the chopping block to solve the financial problems the USPS faces.
"The United States Postal Service is an important institution that our country relies on – I encourage Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to work to find a path to balancing the USPS budget that improves and streamlines services instead of cutting back."


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Last week we had an awesome duct tape workshop. I still find it amazing the things one can make from duct tape, and the fact that the tape itself comes in so many different colors and designs. Sometimes it's hard to choose which color to use for a project!
Below, are two projects that were made that day, a colorful necktie, that really is knotted around Edward Cullen's neck like a real tie, and a messanger bag that works just as good as anything you can buy in a store! Check them out! And if you're interested in making anything with duct tape because you missed the exciting workshop, all you need are three basic things: duct tape in colors you love, a pair of tough scissors, and a ruler. Here are two books with fantastic design ideas for everyone:
Ductigami: The Art of the Tape by Joe Wilson
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Paul Monticciolo has been named chief technology officer at Mercury Systems Inc., a Chelmsford-based provider of clustered computer systems used in military applications.
He was previously president and general manager of Mercury's Federal Systems division.
During a 20-year tenure at Lincoln Laboratory, he became a recognized expert in multiple intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies.
Monticciolo holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
Peter J. Tallian has been promoted to chief operating officer at BTU International Inc., a Billerica-based provider of advanced thermal-processing gear.
Tallian will also keep his position as principal chief financial officer.
He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Aaron Miller, a Woburn-based financial representative, was recently honored by Northwestern Mutual with membership into its 2012 Forum Group, which recognizes an outstanding year of helping people achieve financial security.
Only the top 5 percent of Northwestern Mutual's more than 6,000 financial representatives receive this honor.
Kaitlyn G. Bicknell, of Merrimack, N.H., has been promoted to store manager at the TD Bank branch office on Northwest Boulevard in Nashua.
She is responsible for new business development, consumer and business lending, managing personnel and overseeing the day-to-day operations at the store serving customers throughout the area.
Bicknell has five years of banking experience.


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Chippewa Falls, WI (WEAU) - We've had one of the most unusual spring season's this year with snow and freezing temperatures. But how is the weather affecting wineries in our area?
It turns out that River Bend Vineyard & Winery in Chippewa Falls isn't whining about Wisconsin's wine country this spring, but taking in the new season.
Just off Highway 27, there's a feeling of tranquility in the air that you wouldn't expect in Wisconsin.
"When they come here, they feel like they're completely removed from their regular life," said Co-Owner Donna Sachs of River Bend Vineyard & Winery.
But at River Bend Winery in Chippewa Falls, you get a taste of wine country.
"It's really fun when we re-open in the spring because a lot of our customers become friends and so you don't see them over the winter as much," said Sachs.
Donna Sachs says they produce about 20 thousand gallons of wine a year and spring is when most of their bottling is done.
"What this weather does for us is hold off bud break which is good because in the past we've had years here it's warmed up really early and the vineyard decides to wakeup then they're very vulnerable to frost," said Sachs.
Although they're behind in pruning, their doors have finally opened to the tasting room on weekdays.
"Magenta is our best seller. If we had a flagship wine this is what it would be," said Sachs.
No matter what your taste buds prefer, there are a variety of flavors.
"We make grape wine except a wine like strawberry blush is 80% grape wine, 20% strawberries." said Sachs.
But Donna gets to feel like a mad scientist, experimenting with new flavors.
"These machines will let me know how much sulfur dioxide is in wine and the other machine will tell me what the acidity is," said Sachs.
It helps her develop new ideas, like sparkling wines that will be ready by October.
"The stuff that's falling through the bottle is actually the yeast that's conducting the second fermentation and creates all the carbon dioxide that will be trapped," said Sachs.
So whether you're a wine lover or not, Donna says here you'll feel like family.
"People ask us all the time so you talk wine all-day, you make wine all-day, you enjoy wine when you go home? We say absolutely," said Sachs.
This year the winery will have 10 barrels are going into retirement from production. Those will be auctioned off on May 18th, with all the proceeds going to the Chippewa County Humane Association.


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Existence of Jesus
The existence of Jesus as a real, historical figure has been debated for centuries. Apologists who believe Jesus did actually exist try to use this purported fact to support other claims, such as that he was divine or that his teachings should be followed.
Historical vs. Biblical Jesus
When debating the question of whether Jesus really existed, it is necessary to distinguish between several questions: "Was there a preacher named Jesus in Judea around 1-33 CE, who was crucified by the Romans?" and "Was there really a person who performed the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Bible?" The former is an ordinary and plausible claim; the latter is an extraordinary claim, and requires extraordinary evidence. This is like asking "Did George Washington exist?" vs. "Is it true that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac river?"
If Jesus was an ordinary human who did not perform any miracles, it would not be surprising that there are no contemporary accounts of his existence, since most people from that era have gone unrecorded.
However, if he had performed miracles, or if his life had been accompanied by extraordinary events, we would expect many people to have written about them. For example, Matthew 27:51-53 says that when Jesus died,
"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."
The fact that there is no contemporary extra-Biblical evidence of such an extraordinary event strongly suggests that it never happened. Likewise, the star of Bethlehem, which allegedly marked Jesus' birth, would presumably have been seen all over the world, and been recorded by other literate societies, such as China.
Contemporary Extra-Biblical Evidence
Contemporary extra-Biblical evidence is often requested to help corroborate the existence of Jesus Christ. This is a very important epistemological application. Objections to this requirement come in several forms:
- All the "extra-Biblical" texts that were available would have been aggregated into the Bible.
- The different books of the Bible are each individually independent corroborations.
It's unfortunate if the above is true, because the problem is still present - contamination.
When an incident or dispute occurs in modern society, and the police are called to address the situation, one of the first steps they take is to separate all the individuals involved. Next, they interview each person for his/her interpretation of events. The individual stories are then cross examined by the police officers in order to identify discrepancies and similarities, attempting to reconstruct what really happened.
If two witnesses are standing next to each other while one or the other is interviewed, the other person's testimony will be contaminated. If the second person is asked what happened right after the first person, and parrots what he/she heard, it's hardly independent corroborating evidence.
Yet that's what happens when all the evidence is collected into the Bible - it's all contaminated, and for all we know, has been edited to match. If we discover independent evidence that has not been contaminated, and it matches, it's going to be much more helpful in corroborating assertions in the Bible than not.


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ABC's "Don't Trust the B—- in Apt. 23" and "Revenge" took ratings hits Wednesday night, while "American Idol" held mostly steady to deliver an overall win to Fox, according to preliminary numbers.
Airing "American Idol" from 8 to 10 p.m., Fox took first place in ratings and total viewers with an average 4.6/13 in the advertiser-cherished 18-49 demographic and 16.5 million. "Idol" was down very slightly from last week.
CBS came in a distant second in ratings and total viewers with an average 1.9/5 in the demo and 7.9 million. "Survivor" at 8 took a slight dip from last week, drawing a 2.6/8 in the demo and 9.5 million total viewers. The network ran repeats for the rest of the night.
ABC took third place in ratings and total viewers with an average1.8/5 in the demo and 5.6 million. The network ran repeats from 8 to 9:30, and without the benefit of an original lead-in, "Don't Trust the B—- in Apt. 23" dropped 23 percent in the demo from last week to a 2.0/5. It had 4.9 million total viewers. "Revenge" at 10 was also down, dropping 13 percent in the demo to a series low of 2.0/6, and had 6.8 million total viewers.
NBC drew fourth place in ratings and total viewers with an average 1.2/4 and 4.8 million. "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" remained steady versus last week with a 1.6/5 in the demo and 5.8 million total viewers, while "Best Friends Forever" at 8:30 was also even with last week, drawing a 0.8/2 in the demo and 2.7 million. "Rock Center With Brian Williams" at 9 jumped 50 percent in the demo to a 0.9/2, with 3.8 million total viewers, while "Law & Order: SVU" was even with last week, taking a 1.6/4 in the demo and 6.4 million total viewers.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Police say 27 people were killed in the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, including the gunman, and one person died at another scene. The dead at the school include 20 children.
The gunman opened fire Friday morning inside a school where his mother worked. He blasted his way through the building as young students cowered helplessly in classrooms while their teachers and classmates were shot.
The gunman killed himself. The state's governor says someone who lived with him also died.
Young students crying and looking frightened were escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line after the shots rang out in Newtown, 60 miles northeast of New York City.
The attack comes less than two weeks before Christmas and appears to be the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the son of a teacher at the school where the shootings occurred. A second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, is presumed dead.
The first official says Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police. An earlier report from a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.
Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation.
The first official said Adam Lanza is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Family members are relaying what children told them about the shooting.
A 6-year-old told his father that he was in his classroom when a gunman burst in and shot the teacher. Robert Licata says his son "grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door." Licata says the shooter didn't say a word.
Stephen Delgiadice says his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter is fine.
He says the shooting is alarming because his family always considered Newtown to be the safest place in America.
Seventeen-year-old Mergim Bajraliu heard the gunshots echo from his home and raced to check on his 9-year-old sister at the school. He says his sister heard a scream come over the intercom at one point. And he says teachers were shaking and crying as they came out of the building.
As a father, President Barack Obama says, he's grieving for the victims of today's school shooting in Connecticut.
His remarks to the nation from the White House today were emotional ones, as Obama wiped his eyes and had to pause for several seconds to keep his composure.
He said, "Our hearts are broken today." Obama said the victims were "beautiful, little kids" who "had their entire lives ahead of them" -- and he recited future milestones lost: "birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
Obama called for "meaningful action" to prevent such shootings, but he did not say what that action should be. He ordered U.S. flags be flown at half-staff through Tuesday.
As he spoke, two senior aides standing nearby cried and held hands.
Obama, who began his comments with no greeting, ended them with words of Scripture, and walked away in silence. Shortly before speaking, Obama ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds through Tuesday.


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Carry Me
The first time I heard this song I was turning into the Old Stonnington Cemetery for the second funeral that week. I had just lost my brand new husband of less than 4 months a week earlier and was there again for his best friends daughters. We had been in the hospital for most of February as he lost his battle of cancer and it was one of the first times I had turned on the station in about a month. I feel that this song came out just for me and I heard it at just the right time. I turned on WCIC as a way to find comfort as I had grown up with it all of my life and was listening to the station in Springfield. Although I had no idea how far my depression would go as I had never batteled it before I did know that God would carry me through the next several months and He clearly has. My time of grief is far from over but I do know that no matter what happens God is in control and will continue to carry me through it.


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I was brought up short when Mike Saunders said for our file server we should put FreeNAS on a 2Gb USB stick and our data on the hard drive, and "if you have two hard drives you can install FreeNAS on one and use the other for storage, but that can be wasteful". What? Can't BSD/FreeNAS use partitions? Maybe not, maybe I've heard that before.
But anyway, two drives would be wasteful of what? A drive? I thought we are talking about using an old system unit; so using the original (ie smallish) HD for the system and putting in a shiny new terabyte HD for the data would probably be ideal - especially as the alternative might be to discard it.
Anyway, I have a boxful of old HDs in the attic from past upgrades, ranging from about 1Gb up (I only recently threw away several even smaller ones down to 105Mb!). Am I the only guy who keeps such stuff? These HDs are crying out to be used like this.
Moreover, a USB stick permanently "sticking" out the front of a system unit of a "secure" server? Waiting for the cat to walk past and knock it out? Not a good idea IMHO!


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Allie Mac Kay was live from Panera Bread in Pico Rivera at their Bakers-in-Training class.
The Panera Bread Bakers-in-Training program, first introduced to St. Louis bakery-cafes in 2011, is now available at select Los Angeles locations. Designed for children ages 5–12, the program teaches the fundamentals of baking at Panera in a fun group setting that makes the craft of baking accessible to young children.
As part of the class baking demonstration, children work hands-on to shape and score French baguettes, and decorate a cookie. The Los Angeles curriculum is also designed to facilitate discussion of childhood hunger, how it affects the community and how to help. For more information on locations and to sign up for the Bakers-in-Training program click here.
This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on June 2, 1014.


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Graham's 800
Mike Graham now tops the 800-series list at East Hampton Bowl. The former all-state bowler recently put together 300, 259, and 257 games for L.W. Winslow Painting in the Tuesday night businessmen's league to achieve the feat. Graham is the only one at the Bowl who has rolled two 800-plus series. It was his fifth 300, though he's got a ways to go to catch his father, Steve, who has 11 perfect games to his credit.
T-Ball to Start
Mark McKee will begin overseeing East Hampton Kiwanis's T-ball sessions at the John M. Marshal Elementary School field on Saturday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. The program, for boys and girls ages 5 through 8, will last six weeks. Registration will be held Saturday.
Rowing Results
Gavin Nelson (stroke) and Ryan Lewis (bow), representing the Sag Harbor Municipal Rowing Club, won the men's novice doubles race at the Long Island junior rowing championships in Oyster Bay last weekend, finishing five lengths ahead of the runner-up, McGann-Mercy High School of Riverhead, on the 1,500-meter course.
In men's novice quads, Sag Harbor's Nelson, Elias Van Eckle, Steven Hatgistavrou, and Ryan Lewis finished second, by less than half a second, to St. Joseph's High School of New Jersey, despite catching a crab at the start.
Rugby Champs
The Montauk Rugby Club won the Long Island Rugby Club's Mother's Day tournament at Lido Beach with wins over Lansdowne (12-7), the New York Police Department (51-0), and the Brooklyn Rugby Club (31-0).
Montauk's forwards comprised John Glennon, Danny Fagan, Jim Abran, Scott Abran, James Lock, Nick Lawler, Jarrel Walker, Charlie Collins, Conner Miller, Randy Steyart (making his debut), and Steve Daige.
The backs were Gordon Trotter, Rich Brierley, Brian Anderson, Brian Powell, Matt Brierley, Liam DeFronzo, Jon Quinn, and Matt Reilly (on loan from the Suffolk Bullmoose).
The side practices Tuesday and Thursday evenings at East Hampton's Herrick Park. Montauk is to play a home game with the Connecticut Yankees, a Division II rival, at the park on May 21.
Boys Lacrosse
The East Hampton High School boys lacrosse team improved its record to 3-8 (4-9) with a 15-2 win under the lights at Southampton Friday. Earlier in the week, the boys lost 20-9 here to Bayport-Blue Point, the fourth team in Division II.
It was 10-4 at the half, but the Bonackers, "playing more aggressively and a little smarter," according to their coach, Mike Vitulli, came back to cut the margin to 12-8 in the third quarter "before we were hit in the last minute with two bad penalties. It was 14-8 after three." Tyler Mathews scored three goals in the Bayport game and Brendan Damm had four.
Having lost four Division 1 players to graduation last year, namely Ryan Shaw, Providence's face-off man, Tyler Brenneman, who's a midfielder at Notre Dame, Austin Heneveld, who plays attack for the U.S. Naval Academy, and Jake Beyer, who's a defenseman at Mercer in Georgia, the playoffs are not in the cards for the Bonackers this spring.
Gload Drives in 2
Ross Gload started in right field for the Philadelphia Phillies in Monday night's game with the Florida Marlins and drove in two runs. The Phillies won the game 6-4. Gload, who's used as a pinch-hitter primarily, was batting .364 by game's end.


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|Collin Merritt shot this 190-inch buck Saturday (Nov. 3) in Claiborne Parish on his 17th try for the big deer, which he'd been chasing since the hunting season began.
Collin Merritt, Tyler Lewis and Bric Langford grew up together around Haynesville, hunting and fishing and playing football together all their lives.
Friday night (Nov. 2), the 26-year-olds shared a venison dinner together and talked about hunts each had planned for the next day, all in Claiborne Parish but in different areas.
Lewis commented casually that it would be extra special if all three of the life-long friends were successful in downing trophy bucks the next day. Incredibly, that is exactly what happened, with the smallest of the three deer taken that day scoring 150 inches.
But Merritts top them all a 14-point buck, it has been greenscored at more than 190 inches.
I hunt on family land in the Leton area near Shongaloo, and Ive been after one particular deer for the past two seasons, the hunter explained. Ive had him on camera since last year, and starting with bow season and continuing on into primitive firearms and now gun season Ive been on the same stand 17 times waiting for a chance at this huge buck.
Merritt had seen five different bucks during the hunt, but he held off on shooting one because he knew the big one was in the area.
His wife, Jessica, got a nice 7-point buck off the stand (which is situated right on the border between Claiborne and Webster parishes) opening day of gun season, and she was back on the stand with him Saturday.
Jessica shoots right-handed, so I had her sit on the right side of our box blind while I sat on the left, Merritt said. At around 7:40 (a.m.), I looked down the lane and saw a deer step out into the lane about 350 yards away.
Jessica put the scope on the deer and confirmed it was a doe.
Merritt, who was a lineman for the Haynesville Golden Tornado football team, was interested in playoff pairings and was checking his phone to see who Haynesville would be playing. But his wifes gasp interrupted his surfing.
Oh my gosh, there he is! she whispered loudly.
Merritt grabbed his rifle and stared through the scope.
I put my phone down, put the scope on him and agreed it was the big buck Id been after all season, he said. The buck wasnt coming any closer, and Jessica and I agreed it was too long a shot for her plus the fact Ive killed deer that distance before.
The pair exchanged positions in the stand, and Merritt put the crosshairs on the buck that was quartering slightly toward him.
When I shot, he took off running straight toward the stand, Merritt said. I jacked another shell in my .257 Weatherby Magnum, but before I could get off another shot the buck stumbled and fell right in the middle of the lane.
Upon reaching his prize, the buck was everything hed hoped for. Sporting 14 points, the mass over the entire rack was incredible. Inside spread was 20 ½ inches, bases were both over 6 inches around, and the smallest circumference all the way out was just over 4 inches.
Preliminary measurements indicate the 206-pound buck will score at 191 7/8 inches Boone & Crockett by Simmons Sporting Goods.
Before we went hunting that morning, Jessica told me that I could make a morning hunt but that afternoon she wanted me to stay home and spend time with her and our 19-month-old daughter, Merritt said. After I got the big buck, I told her I would not only stay home this afternoon but shed have the pleasure of my company tomorrow, as well.
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Artisan Infrastructure Tuesday said it has expanded its wholesale Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering with the integration of a new cloud-based object storage platform.
The new cloud-based object storage offering makes it possible for MSPs, cloud service providers, telecom service providers and other solution providers to add cloud storage for backups, disaster recovery, and file sync and share to their own managed services offerings, said Brian Hierholzer, CEO of Austin, Texas-based Artisan Infrastructure.
And those partners can add object storage at up to 70 percent below the cost of competing cloud storage, Hierholzer said.
[Related: IDC: File-Based, Object-Based Storage Growth Far Exceeds Overall Storage Growth]
Artisan Infrastructure has focused on the wholesale cloud market since 2009, offering its IaaS technology only to those who offer managed services to other partners or to their own customer base, Hierholzer said.
In 2009, Artisan Infrastructure was looking at offering retail cloud services but was unable to find any cloud hosting companies offering wholesale services.
"We called and asked for their wholesale department, but realized there was no real wholesale mechanism," he said. "We saw channel programs, and discount pricing from retail. So we decided to scrap our retail cloud and move into providing infrastructure services."
Artisan Infrastructure currently offers compute, storage, networking and services infrastructure for customers on top of which partners offer their own software and services, Hierholzer said.
The latest part of its IaaS offering is cloud-based object storage, which Hierholzer described as the first of its kind offered on a wholesale basis. It is fully Amazon Web Services S3-compatible, making it easy for other service providers to add to their services, he said.
"We are the only company that's pure wholesale," he said. "Others say they do wholesale, but they also offer their own retail services."
IndependenceIT, an Allentown, Pa.-based provider of Desktop-as-a-Service technology based on Artisan Infrastructure's IaaS offering, is looking forward to its partner's new cloud-based object storage, said independenceIT President and COO Seth Bostock.
Artisan Infrastructure provides a platform on which independenceIT can offer its cloud-based desktop services, Bostock said.
"We buy the entire platform from [Artisan] on which to build a completely redundant virtual desktop platform," he said. "It's important to have a complete storage and backup offering for our customers."
NEXT: Integrating Artisan Infrastructure's Platform


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In the wake of the latest Keystone XL setback, you have to wonder whether it's starting to sink in, whether the tar sands industry and its political apologists are getting anywhere close to that feeling of "Really, it's me, not you."
For decades this industry has developed a culture of always getting its way. When confronted with opposition inside its native Alberta, it could always bully or buy its way free, knowing that the provincial government in Edmonton was another of its wholly owned subsidiaries.
Then, as Ottawa was taken over by the Calgary oil crowd in the form of the Harper government, it knew it could also rely on shameless cheerleading from the likes of Jason Kenney, Joe Oliver, and the rest of the "ethical oil" team, and also from federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, who still, after all these years, is simply reading the lines given to him.
The danger with this kind of cozy domination is that you come to believe in your own absolute rectitude, that in the face of ongoing opposition you continue to truly think that dissenters must be either confused or part of some nefarious conspiracy.
"It's not me, it's you," you say to yourself. So, your response is to provide ever more "information" (which of course is never "rhetoric") and go on the attack against your opponents themselves (avoiding their actual criticisms).
But reality has a funny way of biting back, as George W. Bush found out after trying to supersede it.
The tar sands industry now faces legal challenges from First Nations, low carbon fuel initiatives in California and the EU, opposition to its pipelines in the U.S., in British Columbia, and in Eastern provinces and states. It faces water pollution concerns from the North, acid rain concerns from Saskatchewan, and jobs concerns in Eastern Canada due to Dutch Disease. It faces calls to reverse its exploding greenhouse pollution from Nobel Laureates, and from Canadians concerned that the industry is unfairly blowing Canada's carbon budget.
Are all these people crazy? Is it still you, not me? Is all the mounting evidence simply wrong?
As it stands, the industry has massive expansion plans, and despite what its political apologists say, they have intentionally refused to put in place any regulatory limits that would get in the way of this expansion -- Canada's environmental laws just tinker ineffectually around the edges.
So we remain on a collision course between an industry and reality, between a culture of deafness and a world on fire.
To get off this pathway, industry cannot avoid forever the question of how big it needs to be and for how long. Mindless expansion is something that cancer does, not thinking human beings. The environment does not care how efficient you are, it only cares about your overall impact, which must come down, not go up.
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Meanwhile in Division Four East, Ynysddu's blindside flanker Ian Prosser scored the only try of the game after they narrowly defeated Cwmbran 5-3. This result meant Ynysddu end 2012 top of their league.
Two matches went ahead in Division Four South West. Bryncethin close the gap on Penlan at the top of the division to six points after they went to Pyle worthy winners in a 21-12 result.
Cwmavon remain in fourth position but are on the hunt for a top three place after they won away against Cefn Cribbwr 28-15. This was despite the victors scored one try compared to the home side's two.
In Five West, St Davids have won their first game of the campaign, after 11 matches of asking. They beat Bynea 18-14 who are struggling at eighth place.
The biggest margin victory of the day came from Division Five South East as St Albans thrashed Pontllanfraith at home 50-18. Both sides were hovering around the bottom of the league prior to today but the home side ensured they collect just their second victory of the season. Pontllanfraith still have a lot to do as January beacons.
Ystradgynlais also won their second game of the season. They defeated fellow strugglers Banwen, 10-7 in Division Five South West.
At the SWALEC Plate competition, Ammanford of Division One West progress to the third round after their 20-10 away win over Three South West's Morriston. Cardiff Medicals go through to the fourth round of the SWALEC Bowl, despite drawing 9-9 at Taffs Well.


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St. Augustine has this to say to us about how we can become Saints.
1 - Humility is the key to growing spiritually:
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."2 - We all need to forgive and be forgiven:
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.3 - Suffering can be the path to goodness and holiness:
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.4 - With virtue, there is freedom:
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.5 - Our work and prayer will help us grow closer to God:
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.6 - Love is a choice:
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.7 - Those who remain faithful will see God face-to-face:
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.


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A rare mind revelation from the Civic United Front
Interviewed by Mlimani TV station early this week about why his party recorded abysmal performance in the just ended by-election in Uzini constituency on Zanzibar island, Ismail Jussa Ladhu, deputy secretary general of the Civic United Front, declared that CUF didn't win the seat because there are more Christians and churches in the area than Muslims and mosques.
It's a rare mind revelation from one of the more highly trusted CUF officials, better educated than average and with considerable exposure locally and outside, becoming a symbol of what kind of leaders we have in this country.
It's perhaps the clearest illustration of what some of the CUF leaders especially those who defected have been saying about this political party. They have accused CUF of being a Muslim-dominated party, saying it has a clear religious bias.
Though we don't believe those allegations seriously because the Political Registration Act of 1992 has proper safeguards on such misdirected politicking, one cannot ignore even the more glaring signals, as in this case. The Act provides that any party that is statutorily identified with religious activities and faith partiality can't be registered, but the revelation from Jussa confirms what its party dissidents, past and present, have all along critics have been saying.
Jussa simply wants us to believe that Christians are anti-CUF while Muslims are pro-his party. We thought and believed that those who have been voting for the party in the past elections in Tanzania did so because of being attracted by CUF's policies.
But according to Jussa, it's the opposite. He clearly believes that his party can win easily in those areas where there are Muslims in majority and Christians as a minority. Jussa might be right because being one of the members of the CUF's inner circle; he has all the facility to understand why in some areas his party is popular while in others it registers abysmal performance.
What is appalling is that we still have leaders who believe in the politics of divisions along race, ethnicity and faith based issues, instead of advocating for a clear policy that will eradicate poverty as well as bringing prosperity economically, politically and socially.
From Jussa's verdict, those who voted for CCM and Chadema are Christians because in Uzini constituency there are more churches and Christians than Muslims. While Jussa might have some details in the area's demography or psychology which most other observers may not be aware, his comments can only be qualified, unavoidably, as totally unacceptable.
The point here is that if this is how politics is going to be managed in this country, then Tanzania is slowly descending into chaotic politics in future. It means that the CUF, when it has its back on the wall, is ready to abandon statutory rationality (policies), pluralism (non-racial and non-sectarian) attitude in favor of playing to the gallery of religion, to attract irrational fears and votes, with readiness for violence. All religious politics ends in violence, by definition.
That Jussa might statistically be right doesn't count, but rather that his comments are unjustifiable if they represent the spirit of that political party, their line of action in the months to come – that is, in any future polls and in preparing for polls.
Those sentiments and the political orientation implied therein is what must be avoided at all costs and are consequently harmful to the political climate, to the peace and understanding constituting the reason both for the constitution and the formation of a Government of National Unity. He has simply shown how he treads in cheap politics of divide and rule.
In a country that has been battling and weathering serious allegations of religious division between Muslims and Christians in the history of the ruling party, Jussa's comments serve to add petrol to the fire, worsening the situation.
Our leaders have to be careful about what they say to the public and what they shouldn't, the sort of imagination they should keep to themselves, so that they don't stir up the tiger of revolt that is part of politics, itching for a fight for whatever reason, so long as an important person has said it is right to burn and kill. They should be mature enough to distinguish between 'pillow talk' and public discussion.


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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- It was one of those nights when the Buccaneers numbers stacked up in some cases, but the end result was one they would rather forget. Especially since opportunity knocked.
It was a match the Bucs needed desperately -- one they wanted to seize, but couldn't capitalize in critical situations.
Barry's volleyball team lost to Florida Southern, 25-16, 15-25, 25-20, 25-19, in the Buccaneers' return home after 24 days away from Health & Sports Center. It was a match where the Bucs outproduced the Mocs in kills and assists, but committed more errors and were outblocked.
Barry (11-11, 3-6 Sunshine State Conference) put away 50 kills, while Florida Southern had 44. Tania Torres' 13 kills and .478 attack percentage highlighted a Buccaneer offense that saw six players accumulate six kills or more. Even with a change in the customary setter role, with freshman Jasmine Serna assuming more of the duties running the offense while splitting time with senior Mima Hajdukovic, Barry had 47 assists to Florida Southern's 43.
Serna, who has spent most of the year as a libero and playing defense, had 13 assists, while Hajdukovic took on a more conventional hitter's role in attempting 18 attacks and finishing with six kills.
Numbers aside, there were holes too insurmountable to overcome. Case in point, in the first set Barry found itself behind by nine late and couldn't recover. After dominating the second set -- the Bucs taking advantage of Jayla Trombley's kill on an assist from Ashley Carrero to grab an 18-12 lead the Mocs (16-9, 6-3 SSC) couldn't recover from, Barry found itself behind the eight-ball again after the intermission.
The Buccaneers took a 15-13 lead in the pivotal third set when Carrero put away one of Hajdukovic's 31 assists, but FSC rattled off six straight points to seize control, 19-15. Bucs freshman Laine Cielena put down one of her eight kills to halt the Mocs' momentum for a moment, but Florida Southern didn't relinquish its lead to take a 2-1 advantage in the match.
Florida Southern went ahead, 17-12, in the fourth set, only for Barry to bounce back with kills by Carrero, Trombley and a Mocs' hitting error to cut it to 17-15. But FSC didn't allow the Buccaneers to go on a late run to push the match to a fifth set.
Barry hit .151, and had sideout percentages of 46 and 45 percent in the first and third sets when the Bucs needed more serves or scoring opportunities. Barry was whistled for five ballhandling errors, while FSC had four.
Carerro led Barry with 15 digs, Mariana Lisboa had 13 and Hajdukovic 12. Tashalyn Begon had six kills and a .33 attack rate. Cielena had two of the Buccaneers' five solo blocks. Torres had five blocks, two solos, and Carrero had an all-by-myself block of her own. Trombley had six kills and two block assists, delivering some nifty putaways at pressure-point times.
But in the end, it was the W that the Buccaneers were seeking most, and on this night it didn't come their way.
Barry will play host to Saint Leo at 4 p.m. Saturday. Saint Leo was scheduled to play at Lynn Friday but had the match postponed until Sunday due to weather issues from Hurricane Sandy.


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Mistakes in the playoffs are magnified.
The pain they inflict can make a team buckle. In fact, they're almost impossible to survive. The Colorado Eagles know that just as any team does, but knowing something and feeling it first hand are quite different.
Critical errors and a pinch of bad luck made a recipe for disaster for the Eagles on Thursday night in a Game 4 loss to Idaho 4-3.
Even with costly errors early on that saw Colorado fall behind as many as three goals, the Eagles nearly pulled a rabbit out of the hat. Trailing by a goal well into the final frame, Colorado drew a power play and had Idaho on the ropes.
Veteran Kevin Ulanski ripped a shot from the right circle and struck far iron, and possibly more, causing the light to flash in a momentary rush of excitement. But it was only a moment as the officials waved it off.
Ulanski was mere centimeters away from saving the outcome.
"Yeah, it was one of those, but we need to get more pucks to the net with people in front to be successful," he said. "The message is to put this behind us as quick as we can and come out with the same intensity we had in the second half of the game."
The Eagles will have no choice but to let the loss fade as the first-round series is level at two games apiece with Game 5 less than 24 hours away. It won't be the almost goal that has Colorado playing the "what if" game, rather a lackluster period and a half.
It was a 40-minute rollercoaster of emotions for the Eagles in the first two periods.
Idaho found its way on to the scoreboard first for the second straight game 4 minutes in, but the way it came spelled out the kind of night awaiting Colorado goaltender Dustin Butler.
Steelheads forward William Rapuzzi threw a shot at net from the left boards and halfway through its journey the puck redirected and slowly slid in past Butler, who appeared to lose sight of it.
Things would get worse for Butler.
In a bold move, Butler skated out to his own blue line in an attempt to play the puck forward while Colorado was on the power play, but the gamble backfired as Idaho's Rob Linsmayer intercepted the puck and scored short handed to bump his team's lead to 2-1.
Colorado would answer back 12 seconds later with a Jason Beatty power-play goal to stem the tide and enter the first intermission only a goal down.
However, Butler remained shaky. The Steelheads netted two more goals in the first 8 minutes of the second period to snatch a 4-1 advantage, prompting Eagles coach Chris Stewart to pull Butler in favor of rookie Eric Williams, who appeared in just one game for the Eagles since being signed from the WHL on April 9.
"We gave up a couple goals at the beginning of the game that really knocked the wind out of us," Stewart said. "The positive thing to look at is how we responded. I though we responded well. We had more than enough opportunities to tie that game up and possibly win the game."
Butler stopped 11-of-15 shots, while Williams turned aside all 10 he faced.
The Eagles could easily have been crushed mentally trailing by three goals and playing in front of an untested rookie, yet they didn't.
Forward Alex Hudson streaked in and sniped one past Idaho goalie Pat Nagle on a 2-on-1 at 12:59 of the second - his first of the postseason -- later followed by Kyle Ostrow's second goal of the playoffs with 2:05 remaining in the frame to cut the deficit to 4-3 entering the third.
Colorado stays at home for one final game Friday night (7:05 p.m.) before returning to Boise for Game 6 and Game 7, if necessary.
Contact Reporter-Herald Sports Writer Cris Tiller at 970-669-5050 ext. 511, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/cristiller
Steelheads 4, Eagles 3
At Budweiser Events Center
Idaho 2 2 0 — 4
Colorado 1 2 0 — 3
First period— 1. Idaho, Rapuzzi 1 (McDermott, Jdson), 3:45. 2. Idaho, Linsmayer 1 (Patterson), 14:51 (SH). 3. Colorado, Beatty 1 (Nelson, Bidwill), 15:03 (PP).
Second period — 4. Idaho, Patterson 1 (Linsmayer), 2:56. 5. Idaho, Montgomery 1 (Robinson), 7:16. 6. Colorado, Hudson 1 12:59. 7. Colorado, Ostrow 2 (Daavettila, Johnston), 17:55.
Third period — No scoring.
Shots on goal — Idaho 25; Colorado 27.
Power plays — Idaho 0-for-1; Colorado 1-for-6.
Goalies (shots-saves) — Idaho: Nagle(27-24); Colorado: Butler (15-11), Williams (10-10).


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My septum
I woke up with that urge. People who have at least one form of body modification will know what i'm talking about, you know that desire to get something, to feel the adrenaline rush of getting a new piercing or tattoo once again, well, I was no stranger to that feeling. Having already had angel bites, side labret, tragus, smiley, nose, 10mm ear lobes and countless other ear piercings, there was only one more thing I wanted. A septum. I had wanted it for a while now by my parents hated it and so did my friends. "Ew, it looks like a bull ring please don't" or "But you have a really pretty face, why ruin it?". I brought it up with my boyfriend and he thought it would really suit me and told me to go for it, not that I would of listened if he said no anyway, I don't get piercings for anyone else, I get them for me. If I like it I go for it, simple as that really.
After bringing up the idea with my parents (please bear in mind i'm only 15) it was a flat out no. After every mod i've gotten my parents always say the same thing, its always been the line "This is the last one, I mean it" but with some of my birthday money left over, I was determined to get it. I had been researching it for a few months, and I knew that it was probably the most easily hidden piercing, after showing my parents pictures of what it looked like flipped up, invisible, they finally agreed to let me get it done. They even done some research themselves. They kept trying to put me off with the classic "Apparently its the most painful piercing anyone can get" and "It's almost impossible to get it completely straight" and "Some people haven't got the correct nose structure for it" but I didn't care about the pain, or even if it was straight, I really wanted it done, and I was going to get it no matter what.
My mother rang up my usual piercing place, but they were fully booked until wednesday. It was monday and I really couldn't wait that long, so we decided to travel to another piercing shop near by. Many of my friends have had something done there and they gave it a good review so I just went for it. Walking into the shop I smelt the comforting smell of cleanliness. Me, my mum and my best friend walked up to the front desk and the man asked what I wanted. "Is it possible to have a septum done?" "yeah sure, wait there, fill this in, the piercer should be up in a while, hes just dealing with another client". He handed me a form and I scanned over it, signed it, and gave it back.
Around 2 minutes later, a very hot guy ran up the stairs smiling, "who is it that wanted a septum?" I shyly said it was me and he asked me to follow him downstairs to the room. It looked really clean and had a massive fish tank behind the chair. He began setting up all the equipment he needed. "Why do you want a septum?" he asked me, "Why not?" I replied, he giggled and said "very true". Before he could get down to the needle and clamp job, he had to feel my nose and check if I would be able to get it done. He put on gloves and washed his hands and stuck his fingers up my nose and began feeling around. It was a bit awkward having a hot guy feel around in your nostrils, but it was over before I knew it. "Wow, you have the perfect sweet spot". I could get it done.
He told me to sit up the straightest I possibly could and clamped my septum. He had to do this a couple of times in order to get it as straight as possible. Finally he clamped it in the right spot, and asked if I was ready. He lined the needle up to the clamps and told me to take a deep breath in and then to exhale slowly. "Ouch you little bugger" I said. I felt a slight pinch and then a tugging sensation as he pushed the bar through, but it was nothing unbearable, in fact i'd say my normal nostril piercing hurt a lot more but the pain varies from different people, it depends on your pain tolerance.
A month on and my septum's doing great, its completely invisible when flipped up and its completely straight. I must admit I didn't clean it as often as I should of but it hasn't got infected or anything but I do suggest you clean it religiously. I'd recommend this piercing for anyone thinking of getting it done, I love it!
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By Anson Wainwright
Over the summer, Erislandy Lara took on Alfredo Angulo in a fan-friendly clash of styles, the smooth boxing of the former Cuban amateur standout versus the hard-charging pressure of the Mexican warrior. Following a trip to the canvas in the fourth round, Lara found himself there again in the ninth. The southpaw held a slim one point lead on two of the scorecards while Angulo was up on the dissenting judge's card by three points. It looked as though Angulo was coming on strong, in a position to win the fight before midway through the 10th, Lara landed a combination that saw Angulo back off and decide enough was enough. Self-preservation was more important at this point. The win took Lara to 18-1-2 with 12 stoppage wins. The 30-year-old took a well-earned rest but now looks to close out the year and become a world champion when he faces Austin Trout, 26-1 (14), for the vacant WBA light middleweight title tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Keen to prove he's the better man, Lara says, "I've worked very hard to get to this position and I'm not going to let this opportunity slip away. Trout is a good fighter but I know he's not on my level." Also, the Showtime broadcast will be headlined by Paulie Malignaggi-V-Zab Judah, along with Devon Alexander-V-Shawn Porter and Sakio Bika-V-Anthony Dirrell in support, live at 8 p.m., ET/5 p.m., PT. Anson Wainwright - On Saturday, you take on Austin Trout at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY. What are your thoughts on this fight? Erislandy Lara - This is a big fight for me and my team. I've worked very hard to get to this position and I'm not going to let this opportunity slip away. Trout is a good fighter but I know he's not on my level. I feel I'm the best 154-pounder in the division and I want to prove it on December 7th. AW - What do you think of Trout as a fighter? What do you see when you break him down in terms of weaknesses and strengths? EL - Like I said, he's a good fighter but I've fought many guys like him in the amateurs. He's similar to Paul Williams being that he's a tall southpaw and I know he's coming to fight. I don't want to give away what my game plan is but I'm going to dictate the fight on my terms. He does a lot of things well but he definitely has some flaws that I'll take advantage of. AW - There has been some bad blood between the two of you in the build-up. Could you tell us about this? EL - He's trying to get under my skin with his brave talk but once he steps in the ring with me, he's going to know I'm here to punish him. I speak my mind when someone starts talking smack and I replied to his comments with firm words of confidence. I'm going to beat him down. AW - Both of you are known as boxers. On paper, this doesn't look the most exciting of fights. What are your thoughts on that? EL - People have their own opinions on how this fight is going to play out and that's just part of the business. I can do everything in the ring and I believe this fight will be more exciting than people think. Everyone will be surprised on how this fight will play out. AW - In your last fight back in June, you were involved in a very entertaining fight with Alfredo Angulo, you had to twice get off the canvas before stopping him in the 10th round. Can you talk us through the fight? EL - It was a great fight and I showed the world I can handle adversity. I worked very hard to get in great shape and took care of my body as I [have] for this fight. I was easily dominating him with superior boxing skills until I got dropped. But I got up off the canvas and got back into my groove. He caught me again late in the fight but as we all know I got up again and finished him off. Angulo is a very tough guy and I took him out. AW - Where has you camp been for this fight? Can you tell us about it? EL - I'm hosting camp in Houston Texas, where I have my whole team here getting me ready. I'm feeling very sharp and sparring has been fantastic. Everything is going great. AW - You had such an extensive amateur career before turning pro. For you, how easy was the transition to the pros? EL - It's a difficult transition from the amateurs to the pros I would imagine for some fighters but for me, it's been a smooth switch. I had so many amateur fights, it's like riding a bike. I just know what to do in the ring. I actually enjoy not wearing headgear because I can see everything coming at me. And the smaller gloves give me confidence in my power. I was born to be a fighter. AW - If we look at the light middleweight division in general, what are your thoughts on the current champions and top contenders, WBC & WBA "super" champion Floyd Mayweather, the IBF's Carlos Molina and the WBO's Demetrius Andrade? Plus top contenders like Saul Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, etc.? EL - All the fighters you mentioned bring something to the table. Floyd, of course, is considered the best fighter in the world but he's never faced an opponent like me. I know I can beat Mayweather if given the chance. "Canelo" is a bright young star who is still learning his craft but he's not on my level. Cotto still has some fight left in him but nothing like before when he was in his prime. Molina and Andrade are hungry fighters who accomplished their goal of becoming a world champion but I feel I'm better then both of them. AW - What are your goals in boxing? EL - To be the best fighter in my division and hopefully, one day, be considered worthy enough to become a Hall-of-Famer. AW – Lastly, do you have a message for Lara and the fight fans who will be watching on Showtime? EL - To all my fans who support me, I want to say thank you for being there for me. I fight with a lot of heart and will continue to work hard in the gym to be ready for the elite in my division. God bless you all. Questions and/or comments can be sent to Anson at email@example.com and you can follow him at www.twitter.com/AnsonWainwright .
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COLLEGEVILLE — "We've knocked off another giant, and we've got one more to go."
Nor-Gwyn manager Tony DiBricida's words after Monday night's game were apt.
After the upstart Packers took a 2-0 series lead on Perky powerhouse Collegeville in their semifinal series, the Sox came rolling right back to force Monday night's Game Five, only to run into the hot hand of Kyle McGovern.
McGovern was sublime as he dealt with the Perky League's top offense, allowing only one run in his six-inning complete game to extend Nor-Gwyn's season and end Collegeville's with a loss for the first time since 2008 in the Packers' 7-1 win.
"I felt really confident," McGovern said. "Collegeville's a great team. Beating them in Game One gave me a lot of confidence, and I just felt like we were going to come in and win."
The Packers came in and got their offense going early, striking in the opening frame when Mike Villari came around to score on Daryl Clark's two-out single. Though Collegeville's Anthony Bruno held the Packers at bay in a scoreless second, momentum really began to shift in Nor-Gwyn's favor in the third inning.
John Gyles led off the inning with a single, and after Clark popped up to third, Michael Knipe walked. Matt Blazynski flew out, and Bob Filler singled Gyles home, putting Knipe on third.
Filler drew a soft Bruno pickoff attempt — nothing out of the ordinary — but Knipe jailbroke for home and succeeded to plate the third run and truly turn the game in the Packers' favor.
"Knipe stealing the run to make it 3-0 really set the tone for us," McGovern said. "We coasted from there."
"That was a huge, uplifting play," he continued. "Knipe stealing that run really made it feel like momentum was with us."
The Sox tacked on their only run in the bottom of the frame after Andrew Miller narrowly snuck in safely on Lenny Del Grippo's RBI single.
Four more nails were put in Collegeville's coffin in the top of the sixth when Blazynski's two-RBI single, Eric Lewandowski's sacrifice fly, and Ryan Dolan's RBI fielder's choice tacked on four runs to bloat the Packer lead to 7-1.
McGovern led off the home half by giving up back-to-back singles to Del Grippo and Jon McGlone, but caught a break when Del Grippo was forced out after McGlone's blooper to shallow right-center was scooped up and tossed to second before Del Grippo could advance.
McGovern retired the next two in order to end the game after six darkness-shortened frames.
"It's hard," Collegeville manager Bob Letter said. "It's always hard."
"The fact of the matter is that only one team ends the season with a win," Letter continued. "It's just not going to be us this year. We came back, made it a series, but didn't have any answers for them tonight."
"Kevin (McGovern) threw great," Letter went on. "They're peaking at the right time. One through nine, they're tough outs. They make pitchers throw a lot of pitches, playing great defense, and getting great pitching. That's a great combination."
McGovern fanned nine Black Sox hitters in his six innings of one-run ball. He scattered five hits and walked one.
"We came through," DiBricida said of his Packer team. "We had a rough first half, and I told them to stay in there and keep plugging, and this is the result."
"One thing that I've told these guys all season is that they're a talented team," DiBricida went on. "I told them, 'Don't worry about the record. Don't worry about any of that stuff.'"
"(We) can win this thing, and we've got one more round to do it."
Nor-Gwyn will take on the winner of Tuesday's Norristown-Skippack matchup in the finals.


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Using the JGN-X1 cloud environment managed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), OKI (TOKYO:6703) and Hokkaido Television Broadcasting (HTB) have jointly set up the OKI MediaServer, an OKI video distribution system that complies with the ITU-T IPTV standards.
Effective October 1, 2012, the partners launched the experimental ITU IPTV IPv6 global testbed for content2 distribution created by HTB based on the LIME standard specification. This experiment will distribute IPTV content to organizations in various countries interconnected by JGN-X, including service providers, research institutes, and universities, for the purpose of promoting the ITU-T IPTV standards. The plan calls for eventually expanding the network to approximately ten countries by the end of March 2015, based on requests from overseas service providers considering adopting the IPTV Standard.
OKI and HTB have launched the ITU IPTV IPv6 global testbed project to promote the diffusion of the ITU-T IPTV standards and to establish an environment for service verification by service providers planning to adopt the IPTV Standard. This testbed can primarily be used to verify the following: (1) whether a network offers adequate bandwidth and quality (delay, loss) suitable for IPTV video distribution; (2) functions allowing collaborative linking of videos, still images, text, and applications in content created based on LIME standard specifications. The content produced by participants for such verification will be registered on the OKI MediaServer.
As part of this experimental project, the partners presented a demonstration of video distribution on November 20 and 21 at the ITU Headquarters in Switzerland and at the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2012 (WTSA-12) held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. WTSA-12 participants will include regulatory agencies working in the area of communications and telecommunications carriers in UN member states. OKI believes participation in the event will help promote the ITU-T IPTV standards.
1 JGN-X (JGN-eXtreme)
JGN-X is the Testbed Environment for R&D to realize and broaden the New Generation Network Technologies to meet the demands of ICT society in the future. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has started JGN-X from April 2011. As well as the promotion of advanced research and development, achievements such as education of ICT human resource, promotion of research activities in rural areas, international competition improvement, was seen in the projects.
For details, visit http://www.jgn.nict.go.jp/english/index.html
2 Content developed by HTB based on LIME standard
Refers to interactive TV content based on LIME standard specification created by HTB using data broadcast production know-how and content developed and accumulated through terrestrial digital broadcasting service operations. One LIME application developed by HTB won the Honorable Mention in the Value to Society Corporate awards in the 2011 ITU IPTV Application Challenge contest.
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Barbecue Beef Taco Plate Recipe
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- 4 pounds ground beef
- 2 envelopes taco seasoning
- 1 cup water
- 4 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup 2% milk
- 2 envelopes ranch salad dressing mix
- 4 cans (4 ounces each) chopped green chilies, drained
- 1 cup chopped green onions
- 3 to 4 cups shredded romaine
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 4 medium tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 2 to 3 cups honey barbecue sauce
- 2 to 3 packages (13-1/2 ounces each) tortilla chips
- In a Dutch oven, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in taco seasoning and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, milk and dressing mixes until blended. Spread over two 14-in. plates. Layer with the beef mixture, chilies, onions, romaine, cheese and tomatoes. Drizzle with barbecue sauce.
- Arrange some tortilla chips around the edge; serve with remaining chips. Yield: 2 plates (20 servings each).
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"I was pleasantly surprised by this recipe. I, too, was a little worried about the bbq/taco flavoring together, but this was definitely a hit! I will make this again the next time we have friends over."
"I've made this recipe several times and it's been a hit each time. I've given out this recipe many times. It's just awesome!! I usually make 1/4 the recipe and it goes very fast."
"How would you divide that down to 6 or 8 servings....Linda from Chanute Ks"
"I was hesitant at first to try this recipe with the barbecue and the taco flavors clashing in my mind, but now, this has to be one of my favorite recipes. Thanks."
"Can this receipe be eaten cold, is the meat suppose to cool before you put it over the cream cheese.Can you make this receipe the day before and refigerate"


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Friday July 31 2009 07:10:09 PM
Surf spot: Jenness Beach, NH, United States of America
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Wind direction: No wind
Wind Strength: Glassy
Nb waves ridden: 20
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Fun little session after rainstorm rolled through. Very few others out and had 3' clean waves coming through in sets. Wind had died down to nothing leaving conditions glassy. Jenness isn't the most consistent or largest break in New Hampshire, but when you hit it right, there is no comparison to any other beach here.
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So either I have a cold or I have the worst allergies ever. I can't tell. It started off really differently from a traditional cold so I'm hopeful that it's just allergies. Which is really possible because on MLK day Sean and I raked leaves, cleaned the gutters, and probably stirred up all kinds of allergens. Sean even climbed a tree to get on top of our roof since we don't have a ladder.
See? Crazy.
But, the point of this post is not to talk about my allergies/cold or cleaning gutters, it's to talk about the gift bags I made for my sister's baby shower. So, I went to Michael's with an idea of what I wanted and just started looking down the aisles. I stumbled on some blue gift bags, Martha Stewart stickers and the tiniest clothespins I have ever seen.
The stickers came in a variety of items, not just elephants as is my theme. But, they were just too cute so I couldn't leave them out. And, the "Thanks so much" stamp was something I already had from Impress So, I just put them together and got this:
So there you have it, my little thank you bags. Now I just need to fill them. What would you want in your bag?


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The number of reservists called to active duty is swelling, with many joining in the buildup for a possible war with Iraq.
Wednesday alone, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced that nearly 16,000 National Guard and Reserves have been activated.
Many reservists hold critical positions in our community, and their expertise would be difficult to replace.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out why the military would want Doctor Charles Wright. He has experience as a pilot, he's preformed thousands of surgeries, and he's one of only dozen Air Force trained neurosurgeons.
"I have to believe deep in my heart there is information that has not been released that supports cocking the hammer of the gun and the way we're mobilizing all of our forces," said Dr. Wright.
As President Bush presented his case for war with Iraq in the State of the Union Address, Doctor Wright listened with mixed emotions.
"I don't know anyone sane who wants to have combat or have a war occur. But if I'm going to ask them to go and get shot up on my behalf or on behalf of my country, I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to provide care for them," Dr. Wright said.
The doctor doesn't know if he'll be called to duty but members of his neurosurgery team at of St. Anthony's say the community will miss his expertise.
Dr. Wright is one of only a handful of neurosurgeons in Rockford, but he's confident if called to duty that his partners could pick up the slack.


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Hanging with Stormcrow and family. Sam and Emma are a ton of fun and can hike as hard as Dear Ol' Dad))))))
Off to Sitting Bear and the Devils Cliff Trail. Steep and fun and sunny. "Those with no Shoulders"
We leave the Stormcrew and find Laurel Knob and then off to the Rock Jock Trail for the night. Whippoorwills!!!!!! All night long. No rain or storm this year. One gets what one receives.
Fun to look back on these trips whilst editing and re-live some wonderful moments in life.
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MINOOKA — With boys volleyball such an emerging sport around the Joliet area, success is at a premium. Even still in it's youth, the Minooka boys volleyball program has been the one of the most successful of them all, taking fourth place at the state tournament twice in the past three years. In the one year between the state appearances, the team made it to the sectional finals, coming within one game of making it down to state again. Despite not bringing home a title yet, the success has been a big part in the growth of the sport at Minooka.
"The state experience is always exciting for everyone. I know for me it wasn't different from the first time. The excitement level was the same as the first time," head coach Janel Grzetich said. "We're slowly but surely making a name for ourselves, and our goal is to get there again this year."
A lot of players who went on that run are back this year, as defending Southwest Prairie Conference MVP Phil Hannon is back for his senior season with the Indians. He hopes to use that state experience from last year and make him even better this season.
"It was a lot of fun last year. It felt really good to be a part of that team," Hannon said. "Winning the conference MVP to me wasn't such a personal thing, but a sign of our team. This year, I think our team can grow from that."
Two of the bigger hitters returning for Minooka are seniors Maalik Walker and Matt Svetlecich. Both big players had strong postseason runs last year, and look to build off their individual successes from a year ago.
"There's pressure, but both Svetlecich and I have played with Phil (Hannon) now for four years, so that helps a lot with our consistency out there on the court," Walker said.
"We have a lot of the same kids from last year, but a lot of the new kids are going to have high expectations and know that they'll have to work hard," Svetlecich added. "I think if we do everything we need to do, we can get back down to state."
Minooka looks to do what the 2010 team couldn't do, and that's make a repeat trip down to state. As mentioned before, the 2011 team only made it to the sectional, which was a disappointment after getting fourth in state the year above. This team tries to avoid that let down and make it to the state finals in back-to-back seasons.
"A lot of these boys were on this team last year, so if they just rest on their laurels that's not going to be fine with us," Grzetich said. "They have to say to themselves 'last year was great, but what are we going to do this year?' That's going to be the true test of their ability."
Even with a lot of success from the past three seasons, there are some doubters out there who seem to think that last year's team was only carried by one person in Rick Bishop. This Minooka team knows that couldn't be farther from the truth, and are ready to show those doubters wrong.
"Last year, they said that we weren't that diverse as a team and only had one guy carry us, which is 100 percent false," Walker said. "It bugged us all the time when people said he was the only one that carried us. Don't get me wrong, he was a huge contribution to our team, but he didn't do everything."
With all that experience and a team that looks poised, the sky may be the limit.
"Our goal is to get back down to State, and I definitely think this group can get to the final four again," Hannon said.
"We have a lot of returning starters, and the guys that are filling in spots have been looking really good in practice," Svetlecich added. "Hopefully we can make it down to state again."


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HANOVER, N.H. — In its season opener, the Dartmouth Big Green football team scored touchdowns on each of its first three possessions and then held off host Butler by a final of 30-23. Sophomore quarterback Dalyn Williams threw for 228 yards and ran for another 119 to lead Dartmouth (1-0) to its fourth consecutive opening-day victory.
Williams enjoyed his third straight 200-yard passing game dating back to last year and first career 100-yard rushing game, averaging 6.6 yards on his 18 carries. He also ran for a touchdown while senior Dominick Pierre rumbled for three more, picking up 93 yards on 23 carries. Pierre is the first Big Green player in two years to run for three touchdowns in a game.
Butler (2-2) rallied from a 30-10 deficit in the fourth quarter with a pair of touchdowns and had the ball at its own six with just over a minute to play but no timeouts remaining. Bulldog quarterback Matt Lancaster, who completed a school-record 42 passes on 68 attempts, was able to guide his team to the Big Green 34 before the last pass fell to the turf near the end zone as time expired. Lancaster finished the game with 395 passing yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
The two teams combined for 190 plays and nearly 1,000 yards with Dartmouth collecting 497 and Butler 480. The Big Green attack was a bit more balanced, however, with 259 yards coming through the air and 238 on the ground. No less than nine Dartmouth receivers caught at least one pass, led by sophomore Victor Williams and junior Ryan McManus with six apiece. Two Bulldogs amassed at least 100 yards receiving with J.T. Mesch hauling in 13 passes for 112 yards and Bret Shannon eight more for an even 100 and a touchdown.
Dartmouth stymied the Bulldogs on the game's opening drive, then marched 64 yards on its first possession of the year for a quick 7-0 lead, twice converting 4th-and-1 runs by Pierre. Dalyn Williams had the honor of scoring the first points of the season with his one-yard dive, which he set up by connecting on a 23-yard pass to sophomore tight end Sam Laptad — his first career catch — on the previous play.
Butler responded with a 34-yard field goal by Jon Treloar after driving 58 yards, but the Big Green offense came right back. Pierre capped an eight-play, 65-yard drive by finding a gap around the left side of the line and sprinting 19 yards for the touchdown. With the PAT provided by junior Riley Lyons, Dartmouth enjoyed a 14-3 lead with 1:31 remaining in the first quarter.
The Big Green defense regrouped on the next drive, forcing a quick three-and-out for Butler, and the 33-yard punt with no return gave Dartmouth excellent field position at its own 43. Two passes to Victor Williams for a total of 21 yards pushed the Green to the Bulldog 32 to end the quarter, and four plays later, Pierre had his second score of the day, barreling in from a yard out.
Later in the second quarter, Butler zipped down the field as Lancaster completed passes on all seven plays, the last a nine-yarder to Shannon for the touchdown, cutting the Bulldog deficit to 11 at 21-10. Twice before the intermission Dartmouth had scoring opportunities, but one drive stalled at the Butler eight, while the other ended in a 38-yard field goal attempt that went wide left on the final play of the half.
Dartmouth caught a break in the third quarter when a punt bounded off a Butler blocker's back and into the arms of sophomore Will McNamara at the Bulldog 26. Twice the Big Green converted on third down, the second a four-yard Pierre run into the end zone. But the snap on the PAT was fumbled, leaving the score at 27-10 with 5:51 left in the quarter.
Butler got its offense going at that point, but could not capitalize after advancing to the Dartmouth six as junior Stephen Dazzo picked off a Lancaster pass in the end zone for a touchback. Dalyn Williams immediately led the team into Bulldog territory where Lyons booted a 42-yard field goal for a 20-point lead.
The Butler rally began in earnest with a 13-play, 81-yard drive that Lancaster capped with a 15-yard scoring strike to Brandon Collins. The point after was off the mark, however, leaving the score at 30-16.
A Big Green fumble on the following drive with 4:09 to play opened the door for the Bulldogs, and they took advantage by gobbling up the 67 yards in just two minutes. Lancaster burrowed his way into the end zone from a yard out with a second effort, and suddenly the score was 30-23.
Dartmouth managed to cover up the onside kick, but failed to get a first down as Butler spent its final timeouts. Freshman Ben Kepley perfectly placed his punt, dropping it by the sideline at the Bulldog six with 1:03 left, but Lancaster would not give up. Five completions sent Butler to the Big Green 34, but after spiking the ball to stop the clock, his next three passes were all incomplete as junior Troy Donahue broke up one of the tosses and sophomore Vernon Harris batted down the last one as the clock expired.
Dartmouth, which has won seven straight on the road but lost its last four at home, returns to Hanover next Saturday for its home opener against Holy Cross at 7 p.m. Butler begins its conference slate in the Pioneer Football League on the road when it travels to Jacksonville for a game at noon next weekend.
Notes: The 42 completions and 70 pass attempts are the most ever for a Dartmouth opponent … defending FCS champion North Dakota State is the only team with a longer current road winning streak at 11.
Williams' Big Day Leads Big Green to 30-23 Victory at Butler
HANOVER, N.H. — In its season opener, the Dartmouth Big Green football team scored touchdowns on each of its first three possessions and then held off host Butler by a final of 30-23. Sophomore quarterback Dalyn Williams threw for 228 yards and ran for another 119 to lead Dartmouth (1-0) to its fourth consecutive opening-day victory.


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