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A petition from the campaign to
I declare that allowing our children to pray in schools will create questions:
"Who is this God that we pray to everyday?"
I believe that educating our children on a Higher Power will assist in instilling the idea of "The Value of Life". The idea that life is God's to sow and reap and should be regarded, cherished and respected.
An ambiguous prayer, at the very least, of enlightenment and positivity.
Please offer prayer as an enhancement to the new and upcoming safety regulations that the government will commence to keep our children safe.
BONUS: God offers prayer as a FREE resource. No tax increase whatsoever.
PS: We teach every subject (including sex education) in schools why not religion?
WE GIVE OUR CHILDREN OPTIONS BUT NO METHOD BY WHICH TO MEASURE AND WEIGH THOSE OPTIONS. God is that math course.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Michelle Vazquez
This petition closed about 5 years ago
You should sign this petition if you are breathing, alive, great-full, have children, will have children, don't have children, have a zest and respect for life.
Parents, future parents, famliy,...
You should sign this petition if you are breathing, alive, great-full, have children, will have children, don't have children, have a zest and respect for life.
Parents, future parents, famliy, bereaved, friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, brothers, teachers, administrators, law enforcement officers, politicians, business owners, church goers, sinners, saints, life celebrators, nuns, partiers, artists, toy makers, members of the clergy, churches, doctors, lawyers, etc....
You should sign this petition if you think that prayer in our schools will instill life values and introduce the idea of a Higher Power.
You should sign this petition if you think it would benefit our students to start a conversation with God. So that they never feel forsaken or alone and that they seek God's counsel, if nothing else, in times if disparity and also to celebrate their own lives.
May our children understand what masterpiece they are.
I say we put God back in our School as a reinforcement to prayer at home.
God Bless & Thank you in advance for signing our petition.
[echurch ---> www.potentialchurch.com is where I fellowship but the above petition is about assisting our youth to develop a relationship with God.]


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When I was a bit younger, someone (I don't remeber who) gave me a Dammit Doll. Ever seen one? Mine looked almost exactly like this one:
Dammit Dolls are awesome because you really can go upside someone's head with it and not do any "real" bodily harm. Are you paying attention here SilverBlue? The dolls even come with a little ditty…
Whenever things don't go so well…
And you want to hit the wall and yell…
Here's a little dammit doll
That you can't do without.
Just grasp it firmly by the legs
And find a place to slam it
And as you whack the stuffing out
Yell, "DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!"
Hey, if you want to make yourself or someone else a Dammit Doll, just click the doll's picture above for instructions. Then…SLAM IT, SLAM IT, SLAM IT!

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Created by designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Lumines features block-dropping puzzle gameplay in which music plays a key role, similar to other Mizuguchi-developed titles Rez and Every Extend Extra. The game originally appeared in 2005 as a launch title for Sony's PSP, and later as a downloadable game for the Xbox 360 and PC.
Similar to the game's Xbox 360 incarnation, Lumines can be purchased as a standalone Base Pack—which includes a challenge mode with 21 unlockable skins and a skin edit mode—and upgraded with the Advance Pack, which adds 21 challenge mode skins, Puzzle Mode and Mission Mode.
Both the Base Pack and Advance Pack are available now on Steam for $9.95 and $7.95, respectively. Players who buy the games before April 25 will receive a 10% discount off their purchase.


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Basing its final concert for the year on Sunday around the theme of a German Christmas was a shrewd move for Bach Musica. Conductor Rita Paczian has always been drawn to the obscure and forgotten; programmes have often featured the New Zealand premieres of music first heard on the other side of the world a century or more ago.
On Sunday the rarity was the 1890 Der Stern von Bethlehem, a cantata by German composer Josef Rheinberger, best remembered for his organ works and legendary pedantry as a teacher.
It was lightish fare, essentially Mendelssohnian in spirit, but substantially tinted with Wagnerian washes. Yet there was no denying its charm and, from the very first page, it offered the choristers the opportunity for strong, confident singing.
The orchestra, too, more than played its part, under Paczian's astute baton.
Richard Phillips, Tavis Gravatt and Anthony Schneider were a mellifluous Three Wise Men and Morag Atchison was a soprano with the vocal armament to give her Maria aria its Wagnerian dues.
Earlier, Bach's D minor Double Concerto had no shortage of energy and spirit. Of the two soloists, Sarah McCracken and Justine Cormack, Cormack presented the sharper profile in a work that very much pits the one violin against the other.
I could have forgone a selection of German Christmas carols presented in somewhat pedestrian arrangements although even here there were surprises. The first was having Handel's See the conquering hero comes presented as Tochter Zion, freue dich; the second, a sentimental but pretty Silent Night, centred around the liquid tones of Ji Yin's harp.
The good news for Bach Musica is that next year the group leaves the cathedral for the better acoustics of Baradene College's auditorium and Auckland Town Hall, with a set of five attractive evening concerts. Some first-rate soloists have been engaged and, in May, they will offer a long overdue nod to women composers from Fanny Mendelssohn and Cecile Chaminade to our own Dorothy Buchanan and Leonie Holmes.
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Crossroads Open House provides glimpse inside program
ST. MARYS - The Crossroads Partial Hospitalization Program hosted an open house on Thursday afternoon where community members were invited to tour the program's new facility, which opened in July inside Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys.The program is made available through Dickinson Center, Inc. and serves area adolescents ages 11 to 18 years old who are experiencing emotional and/or behavioral symptoms associated with a mental health diagnosis. Students involved in the program reside in Brockway, Cameron County, DuBois, Johnsonburg, Kane, Ridgway and St. Marys Area school districts. "Today what you see is the success of a partnership between Elk Regional and Dickinson which continues to grow and mature. We welcome that partnership, being able to accommodate the program here at the hospital," said Gregory Bauer, Elk Regional Health System president and CEO. "It was a nice fit and we're really proud to see the results of this. A very modern, a very convenient, a very safe place for the Crossroads program here at Elk Regional. We feel the services compliment our healthcare services by having them here on our medical campus."The new facility is located on the third floor of the original ERHC building, former site of the hospital's pediatric wing and more recently the dialysis unit. It is separated into multiple rooms, including a standard classroom, group therapy room, doctor's office, conference room, cafeteria/kitchen and administrative offices/lobby.Crossroads Program Director Tonya Wolfe welcomed visitors while various staff members described the details of each portion of the program, which includes class work, group therapy and psychiatric services.


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Review: SwitchEasy CoverBuddy for iPad mini
Company: SwitchEasy
Website: www.switcheasy.com
Models: CoverBuddy
Price: $20
Compatible: iPad mini
Next to sleeves, shells are some of the simplest cases available. SwitchEasy's first case for the iPad mini is a small version of CoverBuddy ($20), a shell originally released for the second- and then third-generation iPad. This edition is actually one of the best tablet shells we've come across though, offering a surprising amount of coverage. Unfortunately, the color options have been seriously struck down, going from 11 to just two: clear or translucent grey.
The design of this version deviates from the previous model. It's still a hard plastic shell that snaps onto the back of your tablet, covering its edges but leaving room on the left side for a Smart Cover. Before, there was a gap between the magnetic spine and the case. CoverBuddy now leaves just enough room to attach the lid. It doesn't stop short with long, edge-exposing openings at the other sides. Instead, it has individual, well-centered holes for the headphone port, microphone, rear camera, side switch, and Lightning port. Small holes over the speakers let the audio out while still protecting the aluminum. The biggest difference this time around is the inclusion of button coverage, a rarity for shells. Plastic extends over the Sleep/Wake and volume buttons, protecting them from damage. We found it took just the slightest bit more effort to press them, but that's acceptable given how uncommon that level of protection is.
CoverBuddy comes with a pair of protective inserts for both the headphone port and Lightning port, plus a sheet of screen film, a cleaning cloth, and a bubble-removing card—this screen protection is a new addition. We wish SwitchEasy offered the wide array of colors it does for the larger shell, or least some opaque options. Glossy, clear options show scratches and fingerprints, plus any dirt or dust that gets under the case. Other than that, there's not much more one can ask for from a shell. As has always been the case, the cost of pairing up a shell with a Smart Cover is way too expensive; better solutions can be had for less. But if you already have one of Apple's lids, this is a really smart companion, worthy of our strong general recommendation.
Updated November 26, 2012: Shortly after our original review was posted, SwtichEasy announced the availability of six additional colors of CoverBuddy for iPad mini. Color-matched to the iPad mini Smart Covers, these are soft touch finished opaque cases. They sell for the same price as the see-through versions, and come with the same accessories.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Twas the Night Before Christmas in Pacerville
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through his home
Danny Granger was stirring, racking his dome.
"Why can't we win, with or without me?"
He asked himself in front of his Christmas tree.
Troy Murphy nestled, all snug in his bed,
Forever content with losing, he lay down his head.
Brandon Rush in his kerchief, and TJ in his cap,
Not only in their bed, but on the court they would nap.
When out in the yard there arose such a clatter,
Jim O'Brien sprang from his bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window he flew like a flash,
Not even bothering to cover his stash.
Twas Travis Diener, and he had demands,
He wanted playing time, the ball in his hands.
"I won't turn it over, anything's better than TJ."
But Jim O'Brien insisted, for this he needed a BJ.
"Come on Coach, I'm not that bad,"
"I have a 3 to 1 assist to turnover ratio, and stats I can pad"
"Tis Christmas time, a time for giving,
"Please, please Coach, I wanna earn my living."
Then Coach O'Brien went into a terrible fit,
"You'll never learn!" he turned and he spit.
TJ is my starter, at times Earl Watson,
AJ Price is my 3rd string, you're just... a Diener.
Travis just looked at him, sad and confused
Travis felt useless, pathetic and used.
When suddenly they both looked North,
Was it really Jarrett Jack, pointing back and forth?
"I told you Jim, but you didn't listen"
I didn't ask for much, now my game you are missin."
Beside him was a dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurus Rex,
Wait no, twas Chris Bosh, sporting a Rolex.
Jarrett looked and scoffed, again and again.
O'Brien looked lost, much like his gameplan,
"You weren't worth the money, you asked for too much"
"Your energy and ruthlessness wasn't worth that much!"
Suddenly Jim realized what he never could,
For he was wrong, fix this team he would.
Make a trade with Toronto, bring back the man,
Maybe we can save this team, yet again.
Jim got on the phone and away he dialed,
Brian Collangelo answered, and boy he was riled.
He was drunk as ever, Jim hadn't heard him like this before,
Everyone knew he had a problem with drinking, but he left it at the door.
Not his normal, merry self,
But a spiteful old man, drunk in his wealth.
He laughed and he laughed, he sure got a kick,
"You want Jarrett back? Come suck my d**k!"
Jim then learned what Karma was,
He turned and he looked and there he was.
Twas Travis Diener, grinning a grin,
So big, so happy, so full of sin.
Travis then laughed, in Jim's plans was a wrench,
But damn, Travis realized - he was still on the bench.
Back at home, still at his tree,
Danny Granger was happy, happy as can be.
For this team has a future, and it is bright,
With Roy Hibbert there too, it should be a delight.
Brandon Rush can go, that is for sure,
Inconsistent all the way, though a trade he may lure.
Go Danny Granger, fight the good fight.
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
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:cheers: great bump
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European Commission
Brussels, 3 October 2012
Council of Employment and Social Policy Ministers, 4 October 2012, Luxembourg
The EU's Council of Employment and Social Policy Ministers will meet on 4 October in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of Ms Sotiroula Charalambous, Cyprus' Minister for Labour and Social Insurance. The European Commission will be represented by László Andor, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
Proposal for a Directive on minimum health and safety requirements regarding exposure of workers to electromagnetic fields
The Council is due to adopt a General Approach on the proposed Directive to update and improve EU rules to protect workers from electromagnetic fields in their daily tasks (see IP/11/704). The rules are to protect workers like doctors and nurses giving patients magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRI), people working with radar, welders and workers reparing power lines. Commissioner Andor will welcome the fact that a large majority of the principles and elements included in the Commission's proposal have been retained in the compromise text prepared by the Cyprus Presidency and will underline his readiness to work closely with the European Parliament with a view to the proposal being adopted as soon as possible.
Towards a job-rich recovery and giving a better chance to Europe's youth
The Council is due to adopt conclusions endorsing the April 2012 Employment Package (see IP/12/380, MEMO/12/252 and MEMO/12/256) Commission Andor will welcome these Conclusions, underlining that in the face of the current record levels of unemployment, the measures outlined in the Employment Package should be implemented swiftly through the mechanisms of the European Semester. The Council's conclusions broadly endorse and support the three-pronged approach of the Employment Package for a job-rich recovery – stepping up job creation, restoring the dynamics of the labour market and enhancing the EU governance of employment policies. The Council Conclusions will also invite Members States and the Commission to improve young people's first work experience and their participation in the labour market. The Commissioner will announce his intention to present in December a Youth Employment Package, including a proposal for a Recommendation on Youth Guarantees and a second phase consulation of social partners on a quality framework for traineeships,.
Policy debate on the Europe 2020 Strategy and the new European Governance
The Council is due to hold an important debate and endorse the contributions of the Employment Committee (EMCO) and the Social Protection Committee (SPC) on the evaluation of the second European Semester. The Council is due to endorse both Committee suggestions for moving forward. Commissioner Andor will welcome the broad direction of both opinions which could help the Employment and Social Policy Council to play its role in EU Governance and under Europe 2020. He will strongly support the emphasis both documents place on the need for balance between the roles of both the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and the Employment and Social Policy Council in their deliberations on the Commission's proposals for country specific recommendations (CSRs) (see MEMO/12/386). The Commissioner will welcome the initiative of the Cyprus Presidency to develop a roadmap for the next Semester, as earlier planning and improved coordination between Presidencies, Committees and the Commission will be essential for the success of the Semester and the needed reinforcement of the European employment and social governance.
Preventing and tackling child poverty and social exclusion and promoting children's well-being
The Council is due to adopt conclusions on "Preventing and tackling child poverty and social exclusion and promoting children's well-being". Commissioner Andor will very much welcome these conclusions as a valuable input for the planned Commission Recommendation on child poverty, due to be adopted at the beginning of 2013 as part of the broader 'Social Investment Package'. He will also mention that he is looking forward to the forthcoming Presidency's conference on child poverty and well-being that will take place in Nicosia on 18-19 October. This event is an additional timely opportunity to discuss these conclusions and the Social Protection Committee (SPC) report adopted last June and feed into the Commission Recommendation.
European Social Fund (ESF)
The Presidency will provide information on the situation of the European Social Fund (ESF) in the context of negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020 and of the cohesion policy regulations. The Commissioner will outline his concerns about the lack of support in the Council of the Commission proposal for a more predictable and sufficiently robust ESF budget. He will warn Ministers about the possible negative impact of these developments on the capacity of the ESF to deliver the support that is expected in the current economic and social situation.
Implementation of the Agreements between the EU and Turkey, Montenegro, Albania and San Marino on coordination of social security systems
The Council is expected to reach political agreement on four proposals for a Decision on the EU position in the Association Councils with regard to Turkey, Albania, Montenegro and San Marino, as the EU and its Member States have undertaken obligations in Association Agreements (or a Cooperation and Customs Agreement in the case of San Marino) to implement a limited set of social security coordination rules between the Member States and the associated country concerned. Commissioner Andor will support the Presidency's text on the four proposals on the EU position in the relevant Association Councils. The decisions, once adopted by the Association Councils, will not only fulfil the commitments made in the Agreements, but will also safeguard the social security rights of EU nationals and their family members working in one of the countries concerned.
Lunch debate on Mobility of workers
During lunch, Ministers are due to discuss the topic of mobility of workers, which one of the fundamental rights in the EU and could alleviate the pressure of unemployment in countries affected by the recession while responding to the needs of labour markets where there is a high level of labour demand. It is also an important aspect of the Employment Package. Commissioner Andor will present the figures on worker mobility and the key initiatives to facilitate and promote mobility in the EU. More specifically, the transitional arrangements for Bulgarian and Romanian workers will be discussed as well as the proposal for a Directive on enforcing the rights of workers to exercise their free movement which the Commission will present shortly. The reform of EURES and the portability of pensions are also on the agenda for an informal discussion.
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Pastrana joins NASCAR
Posted 29 December 2010 - 07:22 PM
Travis Pastrana has left Subaru for NASCAR. Here's one link:
Posted 29 December 2010 - 11:25 PM
I had heard rumors of this, but I guess its official now.
Is everybody bailing on Subaru or what?
One of us needs to become a famous rally car driver.
I volunteer as soon as somebody fully sponsors me through Rally School and
sponsors a car for me too :-p
Oh and also gives me full access to a test track and a rally prepped car for between races
It'd be fun showing up the big boys with a USMB sponsored car.
And yes, I would request the back window be exclusively for a USMB vinyl.
Posted 30 December 2010 - 12:48 AM
Posted 30 December 2010 - 07:53 AM
NASCAR hasn't even been good to watch since all the slick marketing guys showed up - like the last 10 years or so. The old characters were part of what made it. Now they are just mobile decals for marketing and a money grab.
Which is why if I attend a race these days it's on dirt.
Personally I believe NASCAR peaked several years ago and is simply looking for revenue any way they can rather than making their product better. Through new nameplates(Toyota), through high visibility drivers (Danika and now Pastrana), heck who's the guy driving for Ganassi that came from Formula One? He came for the money and basically stated as much when he made the switch.
The highly regulated quality of the races isn't very exciting. It's all about the money, including beer sales and marketing. Too bad.
Posted 30 December 2010 - 10:04 AM
Posted 05 January 2011 - 04:52 PM
This is so surprising to me. NASCAR is evidence that we are devolving as a culture. ha ha.
I can't remember where I saw it (might have been a board member), but I like this quote:
"dirt is for racing; tarmac is just for getting there."
Posted 05 January 2011 - 08:12 PM
This is so surprising to me.
Really? This was COMPLETELY predictable. I mean seriously, he gave up the National Championship last year to go to Australia with the Nitro Circus crew.
Pastrana wasn't getting much competition here in the US. Really, there was a point last year where his speed factor was like 104, which theoretically isn't even possible.
He is not a die-hard rally guy, he's a motorsports guy. And his life is sponsored by Red Bull. Let's assume he's not going to leave them, so what's the next step? WRC? Red-bull already has Sebastian Loeb. Dakar? Carlos Sainz. And Subaru isn't in WRC at all....so he'd have to completely change teams, only to play backup to a much more famous (and possibly better...) driver.
The NASCAR redbull teams are not doing that great. Pastrana has said he's dreamed of driving for NASCAR his whole life.
Also, driving for NASCAR is a totally different thing than watching a bit on TV. it may only be left turns, but at 200mph.....yea. I even have a greater respect for it just playing a bit on GT5.
I was kind of expecting him to do some Monster Jam racing. But apparently his dabbling in that over the last couple years didn't spark his interest.
Edited by Numbchux, 05 January 2011 - 08:14 PM.
Posted 05 January 2011 - 11:28 PM
But dang. Rally racing is just so darn cool..
Posted 08 January 2011 - 12:10 AM
But dang. Rally racing is just so darn cool..
Agreed! But TP leaving doesn't change that. In fact, quite to the contrary...with Pastrana, Block, and L'estage officially not competing next year, there's a real chance that someone "new" is going to win it. That was a big reason why we were trying to make a push for nationals.....although we weren't able to come up with enough sponsor dollars to make it happen. maybe next year.
Maybe a Super Production car? Also, I don't know anything about him, but it seems that David Higgins (SRTUSAs second driver for next year) has the credentials to do very well.
Not to mention the 2WDs. Dillon van Way and Chris Duplessis both have new cars. Chris Greenhouse is always a hoot to watch in that poor old Neon. And I'm anxious to see who (if anyone ) tries to compete in the Fiesta cup.
Unfortunately, I'm sure the loss of those big names will lead to the loss of a lot of spectators, which makes these events financially even more difficult.
We don't need Pastrana to have fun in the woods.
Posted 08 January 2011 - 04:39 PM
It's still the best motorsport out there, even if it's not big in the USA.
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Chad O'Donnell hasn't been inside the Hart Center since he left Holy Cross in 1999 after a three-year stint on the men's basketball staff, so the University of Albany associate head coach is understandably excited to return to the building tonight.
Holy Cross hosts the Great Danes at 7. It's the first meeting between the programs.
"It will be fun to see it again," said O'Donnell, who grew up in Mendon. "I loved my time there. Holy Cross will always be special to me because it was the first Division 1 school I worked at, and being a Central Mass. guy, it was always one of the schools you looked up to when you were growing up."
The 42-year-old O'Donnell is in his ninth season at Albany. He was elevated to associate head coach before last season. He is the longest-serving active assistant coach in the America East Conference.
During his time at Holy Cross, O'Donnell gained a great appreciation for its basketball tradition. Albany's Division 1 history is brief, but good.
The Great Danes moved up to Division 1 in 1999 and they've made three NCAA Tournament appearances in the last eight years, including last season.
"I feel like we have everything we need to be successful here," O'Donnell said. "I'm very fortunate to have a great job here."
O'Donnell and his wife, Anna, have three children, Declan, Brayden and Madeline.
O'Donnell knew by the time he was a middle-schooler he wanted to get into coaching. Playing for coach Jim Grant at Nipmuc Regional only enhanced his career plans.
O'Donnell was a senior at Springfield College when he landed his first coaching job as an assistant on Tom Moore's staff at Worcester State.
"I was coaching kids I played against in high school," O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell also served under current Worcester Academy athletic director Ed Reilly at Bryant and for one season was the director of basketball operations on Oxford native Tom Herrion's College of Charleston staff. O'Donnell was on Bill Raynor's staff at Holy Cross.
"All the coaches I've worked for have had a major impact on my life," O'Donnell said. "Tom Moore was the first guy I worked for and he taught me how basketball works and the day-to-day plan of what you do to build a program. Tom Herrion — talk about a great coach and motivator. He had an impact that I'll use hopefully when I become a head coach some day. I've been very fortunate. You just hope your time comes."
The Great Danes are 4-3 and coming off a win over NJIT. Albany lost to Bucknell, one of HC's Patriot League rivals, 77-64, last month.
"I think Holy Cross will be right up there with Bucknell as one of the better teams in the Patriot League," O'Donnell said.
"(Senior forward Dave) Dudzinski is probably one of the top two or three players in the Patriots League and one of the tougher big guys we'll play this year. I think it will be a great game and I look forward to it becoming a pretty good rivalry."
Good Works candidates
Holy Cross senior guard Alex Smith and Worcester State senior guard Michel'le St. Pierre are nominees for the 2014 Allstate Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Good Works Teams.
The award recognizes a select group of college basketball student-athletes who have made significant contributions to the greater good of their communities through volunteerism and civic service.
Smith is one of 52 Division 1 nominees. She is a two-year Crusaders captain and has been a member of the Holy Cross Leadership Academy for three years.
Smith serves as the coordinator of HC's participation in Team Impact and also makes weekly visits to the Parsons Hill Nursing Home in Worcester to interact, play games and talk with senior citizens. She volunteers with the United Way and helps organize the team's annual community events, such as Holy Cross Cares Day, the Mercy Center basketball game and the Walk to Cure Cancer.
St. Pierre is among 32 nominees from Division 2, 3 and the NAIA.
"She exemplifies this award with all the 'good works' she does on and off campus by willingly volunteering for any community service project," Worcester State coach Karen Tessmer said. "She has a gift with kids and a real heart and passion to help others out, especially those with medical issues or who are less fortunate. She can lift someone's spirit just with her presence and positive attitude."
St. Pierre is involved with Team Impact and serves in the National Guard.
Voting panels will select one 10-member team — five student-athletes from Division 1 and five from Division 2, 3 and the NAIA.
Merc all-stars
The Worcester Area Football Association announced the 23rd annual Steve "Merc" Morris All-Star Team as selected by the eight sports information directors of Central Mass.
Anna Maria senior running back Robert Small was named Offensive Player of the Year and Assumption junior defensive end Derek Mann was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Assumption senior placekicker Tad Beuchert earned Special Teams Player of the Year honors, while Fitchburg State freshman quarterback Garrett DelleChiaie of Leominster and Holy Cross freshman quarterback Peter Pujals shared Rookie of the Year honors.
Fitchburg State coach Pat Haverty, who guided the Falcons to their first winning season since 2005, was named Coach of the Year.
First-team selections were: quarterback, senior Robert Baker, Becker; running backs, Small and junior Zach Grasis, WPI; tight ends, senior Scott Simonson, Assumption, and junior Casey Hippert, Worcester State; wide receivers, senior Mike Fess, Holy Cross, senior AJ Scerra, Worcester State, and junior Phillip Saint Juste, Fitchburg State; offensive tackles, senior Tim Grupp, WPI, and senior Kyle Pedretty, Holy Cross; offensive guards, senior Jack Dustin, Assumption, and junior Brendan Coan, Fitchburg State; center, sophomore Tim Farina, Becker; placekicker, Beuchert; return specialist, junior Kris Williams, Nichols.
Defensive tackles, senior Khalid Pitts, Assumption, and senior Mike Stuppiello, Assumption; defensive ends, Mann and junior Bryan Narcisse, Worcester State; linebackers, senior Melvin Booker, Becker, senior Jordan Koehler, Anna Maria, senior Mike Bates, Assumption, and junior Talib Barksdale, Fitchburg State; defensive backs, senior Erik Abramson, Assumption, sophomore Sean Murphy, WPI; sophomore Matt Bhaya, Holy Cross, and junior Kris Williams, Nichols; punter, senior John Macomber, Holy Cross.
Second-team selections were: quarterbacks, DelleChiaie and Pujals; running backs, senior Matt Pedone, Assumption, and junior Steph'fon Teague, Fitchburg State; wide receivers, senior Ehab Hamdan, WPI, senior Dylan Rimsky, Nichols, and sophomore Will Ricard, Anna Maria; offensive tackles, sophomore Kevin Grey, Anna Maria, and freshman Maxwell Schiavone, Fitchburg State; offensive guards, senior Mac Hanlon, Worcester State, and junior Robert Ricci, Nichols; center, senior Blake Nold, Assumption; placekicker, senior John Macomber, Holy Cross; return specialist, sophomore James Ward, Assumption.
Defensive tackles, senior Emanuel Riggins, Assumption, and junior Zack Skerry, Worcester State; defensive ends, junior Ryan Mathe, WPI, and sophomore Michael Calafore, Becker; linebackers, senior Matt Colangelo, Assumption, senior Adam Straughn, Worcester State, senior Roman SanDoval, Holy Cross, and senior Tony Valente, Anna Maria; defensive backs, sophomore Eric Lacroix, WPI, junior Elizear Torres, Fitchburg State, sophomore Connor Richard, Nichols, and senior Demetri Underwood, Anna Maria; punter, sophomore Vinny Tavernelli, WPI.
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Bir, a small town in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh is well known for its majority Tibetan population, beautiful monasteries, educational institutions and NGO's. Crowned in the lap of the majestic Dhauladhar Ranges in the background, this tiny town is set in one of the most picturesque setting.
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INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Fri. 30/03/12: International papers react to Thursday's general strike in Spain. El Pais says it's important to keep an open dialogue between the government, different political parties and trade unions. The Guardian says that on top of labour laws, Spain needs to reform its two-speed labour market. Also, the New York Times explores the US "gated community mentality", in the aftermath of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
EL PAIS: "El dia después"
LA VANGUARDIA: "Huelga desigual"
GUARDIAN: "Pain in Spain"
NEW YORK TIMES: "The Gated Community Mentality"
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: "More guns, fewer hoodies"


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2003-04-15 Intel 875P High end chipset for the P4, formely known as Canterwood. Identical to Springdale, but adding ECC support and a new "turbo mode", called PAT (Performance Acceleration Technology), reducing latencies when using dual channel DDR400 and the 800 MHz bus. PAT is expected to raise performance by 3-5% compared to the Springdale. Priced at $50 at launch.
2003-05-21 Intel 865PE/G/P Dual channel DDR 400 chipset with around 6.4 GB/s bandwith formerly known as Springdale. Supports both the new 800 MHz bus, and the present 533 MHz one. Includes the new Communications Streaming Architecture (CSA) for direct connection between the north bridge and the Intel PRO/1000 CT Gigabit Ethernet chip.
The new, matching ICH5 south bridge includes 8 USB 2.0 ports, two Serial ATA ports, two ATA/100 channels, six channel AC97 sound, and (unfortunately) legacy support. The enhanced ICH5R south bridge ($3 more) also adds RAID 0 (striping) support. A recent software update has now also added RAID 1 (mirroring) support to the R version.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana Two employees at a College Station company are among those on board an oil exploration vessel detained by the Venezuelan Navy.
The government of Guyana says the ship, the RV Teknik Perdana operated by Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum was ordered to divert Thursday to Margarita Island in Venezuela and its U.S. - based crew remains held there.
36 people were on board, including 5 U.S. citizens, 2 of which are employed by College Station-based TDI Brooks International.
News 3 spoke with Peter Tatro, the Director of Operations for TDI Brooks International Sunday, who confirmed the vessel arrived to Margarita Island 6 a.m. Venezuela time Sunday.
The company located on South Dowling Road was contracted to do an acoustic survey of the ocean floor.
"Two of the employees on the vessel are TDI Brooks employees. The crew and our employees are all safe and healthy and in good spirits. It's our hope that this will work itself our fairly quickly," said Tatro by phone.
Tatro confirmed there was open communication still between he and his employees aboard the vessel.
"Obviously our focus is the rapid release of the crew and getting them back to their families, the broader issue is one of sovereignty issue between Venezuela and Guyana and that's not something I can comment on."
Guyana says the ship was well within the country's exclusive economic zone while conducting a seismic survey of the seafloor when it was stopped by the Venezuelan Navy.
But Venezuela claims the vessel was within its territorial waters and called the action a serious threat to the peace in the region.
*Associated Press Story*
The government of Guyana says the Venezuelan navy has detained the crew of an oil exploration vessel operated by Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum in waters disputed by the two South American nations.
Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the RV Teknik Perdana was ordered by a Venezuelan navy ship to divert to Margarita Island in Venezuela and its U.S.-based crew remains held there.
Guyana says the ship was well within the country's exclusive economic zone while conducting a seismic survey of the seafloor when it was stopped Thursday by the Venezuelan navy. The ministry said in a statement Friday that Venezuela claims the vessel was within its territorial waters.
The ministry called the action a "serious threat to the peace" in the region. An Anadarko spokesman had no immediate comment.
According to the Washington Post:
The total number of crew members was not available, but there were at least five U.S. citizens, including Anadarko contractors and employees of TDI Brooks International, a company based in College Station, Texas, which was contracted to do the acoustic survey of the ocean floor.
Peter Tatro, the director of operations for TDI, said the company is in contact with its employees.
"The people are fine. Our concern is just sort of what happens next," Tatro said. "We don't know what to expect when they arrive in Venezuela."


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Finding Timmer
In 2011 I embarked on a five-month journey with my best friend Nick. The plan was to ride from the southernmost tip of Africa to the northernmost tip of Norway. Since we were planning big, it only made sense to also attempt summiting Kilimanjaro on the way. Nick and I were going to meet our friend Timmer who would be flying into Africa specifically for the climb. One month into our trip, we were still waiting for our bikes to arrive from America. We will never fully know what the reason for the delay was with all the excuses both countries gave us. It doesn't matter anyway. We finally did get the bikes and had only ten days to make it to Tanzania to meet up with Timmer for our scheduled climb. The ten-day journey was quite the ride with multiple flat tires and bike malfunctions. I was already on my second fuel pump and Nick's rims were becoming less and less round. With only 250 miles left to go, we were right on track to meet Timmer that evening, and then it happened.
I remember talking to Nick on my intercom when he told me that his bike was acting weird and he had to stop. I turned around and buzzed over to where he had pulled off on the side of the road. Just as I slowed down to stop next to Nick, my front wheel started acting squirrely. I had a flat. Nick thought his problem was his rear hub. Both bikes were broken down at the same time, which would've been fine if we had spare time, but we were trying to meet Timmer 250 miles away at a hotel. We each propped rocks under our skid plates, set up the tent, and began working on our bikes: Me on my front flat, and Nick on his rear hub. I fixed my flat in no time, as by then I was almost a seasoned pro. Nick's bearings were all blown up, and although he had back up bearings, he couldn't seem to pry the old casing out of the hub. After some discussion, a plan developed for me to ride back to the last town (30 minutes away) and see if there was anyone who could get the old bearing out.
I charged down the road, entering the town just as dusk fell. People started surrounding me as I stopped my bike and grabbed the hub. I asked the growing mob for a mechanic and someone pushed through. The man was confident that he could remove the old bearing. This was good news and he took the hub off somewhere. By this time it was dark and the people were still hovering around me and pushing closer. It was all I could do to keep an eye on my luggage. The man came back with the old bearing removed and a new set already pressed in. How could this be? I didn't know, but it was wonderful news. I paid the man, and then quickly grabbed two cokes and some street food for dinner. Thirty minutes later, I was back to Nick with the dinner and the repaired hub. Since it was now 9 p.m., we decided to call it a night and get up early in the morning. We could make the next 250 miles to meet Timmer before noon. Little did we know that the next morning I would have another flat and this time I was out of patches… Ah, the life of a traveler.


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Larger fuel tank..anybody try it?
Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:52 PM
87 GL wagon 4wd 6" lift ej22'd
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:59 PM
you could baffle it better than our tanks came from the factory too.
Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:52 PM
On the old GLs didn't the 2wds not have the indent for the rear diff? Or was that the second gens? Either way I'm sure it increased the fuel capacity a bit.
Do 2wd ea82's hold more fuel? Can somebody confirm? My 4wd tank has a big indent for the diff, but it only looks like I'd gain a gallon or two if it wasn't there. I thought about pounding the indent back out, but I didn't see it going well in my head, and I'd only gain at the most 2 gal. However, if my tank goes south for some reason, a 2wd tank might be a good replacement.
make yourself a fuel cell.... shouldnt be a huge stretch from what you did to the back of your wagon
you could baffle it better than our tanks came from the factory too.
Thought about making a tank, and I might do it if a stock one from another car/truck or universal is more expensive(probably, but less hassle...maybe). Like you say though, it would give me a chance to make custom baffles/size/sending unit/mounting. This route is sounding better and better.
Posted 06 November 2012 - 03:56 PM
then, copy the fuel pickup and return, and you are set. there are tons of fuel cell building supplies out there.
also, race cars these days use fuel cell foam in the cells to curb weight transfer. it could be the cheap and quick way to baffle your cell proper.
Posted 10 November 2012 - 12:11 PM
Me, I was always trying to lose weight in my Soobie wheelers, power to weight, stress on the axles and the like. I usually tried to run them with about a half a tank or less to save as many pounds of cargo as possible.
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The Southeastern Conference is a strange and superior college football landscape where a 6-foot-3-inch, 245-pound "Football Jesus'' (Tim Tebow) and a 5-foot-9-inch, 175-pound "Honey Badger'' (Tyrann Mathieu) have sat at the same table. It's where Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, and Baton Rouge possess the same kind of mythic resonance as Pompei, Tanis, Machu Picchu. And above all, it's where the college football champions of the past six years reside.
How the SEC came to dominate college football is a question every other conference is trying to answer. Enter Ray Glier, a longtime journalist who has covered the SEC since 1986. Glier's book, "How The SEC Became Goliath," takes a historical, analytical, and highly anecdotal look at the past half-dozen seasons. Clearly written for those with their eyes already fixed on SEC football, at times it's an exhaustive, clear-eyed study of the conference's calculated college-football takeover; other times it's a love letter to the sexiest conference in college sports.
The book itself is organized chronologically, but Glier's argument breaks down into themes. So, how do I love thee, SEC? Let me count the ways.
■ There's the money.
Five of the 14 schools have annual athletic revenue of more than $100 million, mostly from football. No conference spends more on coaches or facilities. Its schools are willing to go to lengths most schools aren't and a lot can't. In 1997, Florida paid star coach Steve Spurrier $1.94 million, Glier writes. There were only two coaches who made more — they were in the NFL. Now more than half of SEC coaches earn $3 million a year. The campuses are football factories in the most literal sense. Teams keep as many as 12 strength and conditioning experts on staff, many making salaries in the deep six figures, some topping out at $1 million.
■ There's the pride — Southern Pride.
"The South finished second once before," Glier writes of the region's inherited angst. "Ever since, it's been determined to finish first." That explains the spending, but of course, the South is a head-scratching web of racial, cultural, and historical complexity. Football's a part of it. It's isn't easy to sort through the relationship, but Glier examines the way the South's inferiority complex fuels its never-ending football arms race and also the different motivations blacks (social and economic opportunity) and whites ("win one for the south'') have for playing in the South.
■ There's the winning tradition.
Florida won the national championship in 2006 and 2009; Alabama in 2010 and 2012; LSU in 2008; and Auburn in 2011. Every other conference is on the outside steaming up the showroom glass. The winning breeds bitterness from the competition (a common joke is that SEC stands for Surely Everyone's Cheating and when the recent idea of a national playoff series came up, part of it was to curb the SEC's supremacy). And more often than not Glier comes off as a defense attorney, peppering his case for the SEC with catchphrases like "rock 'em, sock 'em" and "Big Boy Football."
But those cliches undermine the most interesting parts of the narrative. He draws sketches of the most important characters in the conference's six-year run, and those mini-profiles are the meat of the story.
The cast starts with Nick Saban, a Cleveland Browns assistant under Bill Belichick in the early '90s credited with bringing NFL mentality to the SEC and turning LSU and Alabama into monsters. Les Miles is the fiercely loyal, ever-poised, if sometimes quirky, LSU head coach. Ron Zook was the maniacal recruiter who laid the foundation for Florida's two titles; Urban Meyer, the coach who brought them home. Michael Clayton was a kid who grew up in Louisiana distrusting LSU and it's Good Ol' Boy ways until Saban came along and changed the culture.
They're all parts of the super-system that's rolled championships out on assembly lines.
Glier says he hammered out the book in two months with a lot of 2 a.m. writing sessions. But looking at the BCS standings — five of the top 10 are from the conference, including No. 1 Alabama — he could have taken his time. The SEC isn't going anywhere.Julian Benbow can be reached at jbenbow


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Jaguar is Over 835
The Panther Finder is brand-new, with a new brushed metal appearance, and enhanced column view, with the items used most commonly in the far left column. Searching is "live" and a lot faster, and is more user-centric instead of computer-centric.
The Finder now has labels, and icons can resize with window resizing.
The iDisk now caches itself locally, so it can be used offline, and the user can copy to and from it more efficiently (with the real copies happening in the background).
A new feature called Expose allows minimizing into a smaller window, all open windows, to temporarily move everything out of the way, sort of like workspaces.
File Vault can encrypt a user directory and decrypt it "on the fly."
Faxing is now built-in, and available system-wide.
Pixlet is a new compression codec that does video compression without noticable artifacts, for 48 bits per pixel: at 960x540 and 24 fps, can be decoded on a 1GHz Power Mac.
Preview is significantly faster, with searching, and PS to PDF conversion.
Panther features fast user switching, a feature in Windows XP, allowing under-one-second (on the demo machine) switching between two different users.
FontBook is a new "pro" app for font management.
iChat AV is an update to iChat that does audio and video conferencing in addition to text, that works with any built-in or USB mic, and any DV video camera, connecting using only a user's screen name. It is going to beta today, and will be included in Panther, and will be sold for $29 to Jaguar users. Apple will sell iSight for $149, a small camera that does audio and video over FireWire.
Apple is preparing a new set of developer tools called XCode, which works with GCC 3.3, does distributed compiles (using available resources on the network), and has other cool stuff. It is fast, it has improved searching (like the Finder, and over entire projects), and it looks like an iApp (though it isn't metal). It removes the need to link; onnly link objects you need to launch. It starts compiling while you are editing, cutting the time you need to compile drastically. It can modify the program while it is running.


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I am implementing an IM application for mobile browsers. IM page is a standalone page and an user can open multiple IM pages at a time. IM pages are getting updated for new IM from a call to webservices. As of now all open IM pages use the same sessionID to connect to webservice and get data from webservice for a new IM. This is done in a thread.
Since all the pages use there own threads using the same SessionId, the new IM for lets say Page1 can be received by Page2. So, is there any mechanism to share this data with Page2 which was received by page1?
We don't want to create multiple sessionIDs with the webservice.
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Sister Barbara Anne Mullen, O.P. (Sister Gilbert Marie), Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville
Sister Barbara Anne Mullen, who served in the religious life for 58 years, died on Thurs., Jan. 16, 2014. Sister was 76 years of age and was a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville. Sister Mullen was born on Oct. 24, 1937, daughter of Gilbert and Margaret Mullen. Their home parish was Holy Cross, Brooklyn.
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Kelly Taylor remembers the moment she found her son Jaise dead. He had slipped out of her sight for 90 seconds in the backyard of a Port Stephens holiday home. Within moments her eight year-old daughter had spotted him at the bottom of the pool and dragged his limp, cold body from the water.
It was an eerily silent death. No one heard the five year-old wander through a faulty pool gate and quietly fall into the pool. Once his blue face was against the pavement, however, chaos set in as Taylor frantically attempted CPR and screamed for help while her two other children were inconsolable.
''I was about to take him out for fish and chips,'' said Ms Taylor, 33. ''And I never got to ever again.''
Ms Taylor, from St Marys, will spend her third Christmas without Jaise on Tuesday.
But this summer should, according to the state government, be the last of such discontent.
By next summer, every backyard swimming pool in NSW will be listed on a mandatory, state-wide register and every pool owner will have registered their pool and certified ''to the best of their knowledge'' that it is safe and complies with legislation.
The new legislation was drafted to end the state's over-representation in national backyard pool drownings, argued the Minister for Local Government, Don Page.
''The greater tragedy is that effective and well-maintained swimming pool fences, combined with vigilant adult supervision, could have prevented most, if not all, of these drownings,'' he said when moving the motion in October.
Yet those working at the coalface of drowning prevention say the legislation will do nothing to curb tragic deaths like Jaise's and may even result in a rise in child drownings.
''This is a policy solution that is destined to fail, and children's lives will be in the balance,'' said Professor Paul Middleton, the chairman of the NSW branch of the Australian Resuscitation Council. ''Without mandatory inspections of private pools to certify their safety compliance properly, this legislation will not save lives.''
More than half of the 21 children under four who drowned in swimming pools in the last year were from NSW.
In addition, about 36 NSW children are left with permanent brain injuries each year from swimming pool accidents.
The backyard pool is a quintessential part of balmy summer life in Australia. But of the 340,000 private swimming pools in NSW, more than 80 per cent do not comply with legislation.
Aside from the heartbreak of losing a child, the legal ramifications of non-compliance became very real for an Armidale retiree who was charged with manslaughter in July because a neighbour's toddler wandered through his backyard and fell into his dilapidated pool.
In an Australian first, Philip Cameron, 61, was charged with the manslaughter of two-year old Sebastien Yeomans after a frantic search by neighbours eventually found him in Mr Cameron's poorly fenced, badly run-down pool.
On Wednesday, the Director of Public Prosecutions dropped all charges because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. Yet his solicitor, Mark Daley, said there were ''no winners'' in the tragic case.
''[Mr Cameron] will have to live with what happened here for the rest of his days,'' he said outside Armidale Local Court.
A coronial inquest into the deaths of six children in backyard pools in 2010 found that the state's alarmingly high number of drownings came down to non-compliance.
In those deaths, none of the pools had gates and fences that complied with existing laws.
The inquest prompted a two-year review of legislation culminating in legislative changes passed in October. The new laws will require:
Pool owners to self-register their pool and certify to the best of their knowledge that it complies with legislation or risk a $2200 penalty.
Pool owners to pay about $150 for a professional inspection before a property can be sold or leased.
Councils to develop their own locally-appropriate scheme for inspecting pools.
Mandatory, periodic inspections of pools in tourist and visitor accommodation.
Yet Mr Page baulked at the final hurdle, said Michael Morris, the founder of the drowning prevention charity Samuel Morris Foundation.
The government did not introduce a scheme similar to those in Western Australia and Queensland, where every pool owner must pay about $200 for a mandatory inspection every three years.
The introduction of the laws in both states received some backlash yet the rate of compliance in Western Australia has since doubled and the number of pool drownings has halved.
''I'm concerned that we've gone one half of the way but won't see that followed through because there are no mandatory inspections for all pool owners,'' he said.
''We already know that 80 per cent of pools are non-compliant without mandatory inspections. It's likely we'll see a short-term dip in drownings because of the public education campaign around the new laws but as soon as it's off the agenda, the numbers will creep up.''
He likened the system of self-certifying one's own pool to self-registering one's own car.
Kim Lovegrove, a solicitor and conduit professor of building regulation and certification, said the system would create a legal minefield and possibly more cases like Mr Cameron's.
It's also likely that public liability and home insurance costs may rise because of the risk associated with self-certifying a non-compliant pool.
''It will potentially change the liability dynamic,'' Professor Lovegrove said. ''Personally, I believe in highly intrusive 'belts and braces' regulation rather than giving the individual primary autonomy for compliance. It's a choice to have a pool and you assume a paternalistic risk when you do.''
What worries Mr Lovegrove about self-certification is that pool owners are often innocently ignorant of their pool's dangers.
A qualified pool inspector, Andrew Plint, whose daughter Hannah drowned in a non-compliant Queensland pool in 2007, recently inspected a pool with a 1500-kilogram horse tied to the fence.
Others are often surrounded by children's swing sets, trampolines, pot plants and clotheslines.
''Owners are usually quiet shocked when you point out the basics,'' said his wife, Kathleen, who runs Hannah's Foundation to campaign on pool safety.
Mr Page has defended his legislation as ''striking the right balance between pool owner responsibility and government regulation''. He said it was not practical to inspect all pool fences and councils were ''best placed to decide which pools should be inspected and how often''.
Under the new laws, councils have 18 months to devise their own scheme for pool inspections in their local area.
Mr Morris said having 152 different schemes would be a nightmare.
''We will have pools on opposite sides of the street that are subject to different schemes,'' he said.
A uniform, mandatory scheme would be a greater cost burden. ''But what price is a life?'' he said.
It is a question Ms Taylor grapples with everyday.


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1899 L.A.'s Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzimmons to win the heavyweight title.
1902 In the first football game for the Tournament of Roses, Michigan defeats Stanford, 49-0, at Tournament Park. The game was replaced by a chariot race the next year. Football would not return until 1916.
1903 The Los Angeles Angels begin more than 50 years of play in the Pacific Coast League.
1923 USC defeats Penn State, 14-3, before 43,000 in the first Rose Bowl game played in the Rose Bowl.
Another first for USC, with the first football game at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. USC defeats Pomona, 23-7.
1926 Red Grange and the barnstorming Chicago Bears defeat the L.A. Tigers at the Coliseum before 65,270, the largest crowd to see a pro football game.
1928 USC wins its first football national championship with a 9-0-1 record.
1929 California center Roy Riegels recovers a fumble but runs 70 yards in the wrong direction, setting up a safety in the Bears' 8-7 Rose Bowl loss to Georgia Tech.
1931 USC ends Notre Dame's 26-game unbeaten streak with a 16-14 victory before the first sellout at Notre Dame Stadium. The Trojans are greeted by 300,000 fans on their return to L.A.
1932 USC defeats Tulane, 21-12, in the Rose Bowl to win the national championship.
The Summer Olympics open at the Coliseum. Babe Didrikson wins gold medals in the javelin and the 80-meter hurdles, and ties for first in the high jump.
1933 USC makes it consecutive national titles and completes a 10-0 season with a 35-0 victory over Pittsburgh in the Rose Bowl.
1934 Santa Anita opens. The Santa Anita Handicap is the first $100,000 race.
1935 USC wins its first of nine consecutive NCAA men's track titles under Coach Dean Cromwell.
1938 They're off and running at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, the second major track in the area.
1939 Duke hadn't been scored on all season until USC backup quarterback Doyle Nave threw a touchdown pass to Al Krueger in the final seconds for a 7-3 Trojan victory in the Rose Bowl.
1940 Seabiscuit comes back from injury and wins the Santa Anita Handicap, becoming the highest-earning horse in history. It is the final race for the crowd favorite. Might make a good movie.
1944 USC defeats Washington, 29-0, in the only Rose Bowl that is not intersectional because of wartime restrictions.
1946 The NFL-champion Cleveland Rams become the Los Angeles Rams.
1947 Pasadena's (and UCLA's) Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier by playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1948 Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open at Riviera Country Club with a record score of 276. It his Hogan's third win in 18 months at the course, which still goes by the nickname "Hogan's Alley."
1951 The Rams win their only NFL championship in Los Angeles, beating the Cleveland Browns, 24-17, at the Coliseum on a 73-yard pass from Norm Van Brocklin to Tom Fears in the fourth quarter.
1954 UCLA, under Coach Red Sanders, wins its only national championship in football, scoring a 34-0 victory over USC to finish 9-0.
1956 Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl "Bobo" Olson in the fourth round at Wrigley Field to retain the world middleweight championship.
1957 Brooklyn owner Walter O'Malley officially announces that the Dodgers will move to L.A. in time for the 1958 season.
1958 The Dodgers play their first home game in the L.A. Coliseum against the San Francisco Giants in front of 78,672 fans. The Dodgers win, 6-5.
1959 A baseball record 93,103 fans pack the Coliseum to pay tribute to catcher Roy Campanella, who was paralyzed in a car accident before the Dodgers moved to the West Coast.
--1960s1960 The expansion Los Angeles Angels join the American League.
1961 Jim Murray writes his first column for The Times.
1962 The Dodgers play their first game at Dodger Stadium, losing to the Reds, 6-3, in front of 52,564.
1962 USC goes 11-0 and wins its first national football title under John McKay.
1964 UCLA goes 30-0 and wins its first NCAA men's basketball title.
1965 Sandy Koufax pitches his fourth no-hitter, and first perfect game, in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium. He later wins Game 7 of the World Series against Minnesota.
1966 UCLA gets its first Rose Bowl victory by upsetting top-ranked Michigan State, 14-12.
1967 In the first Super Bowl, at the Coliseum, Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the upstart American Football League, 35-10.
1968 UCLA's 47-game men's basketball winning streak ends at the Astrodome against Houston, 71-69, before the largest crowd to see a basketball game, 52,693. But the Bruins go on to win the national title.
1969 UCLA wins an unprecedented third consecutive NCAA basketball title. It will win the next four.
--1970s1970 Ontario Motor Speedway ("the Indy of the West") opens with the California 500. Jim McElreath wins before a crowd of 180,223. The track closes a decade later.
1971 USC goes 24-2 in basketball, with both losses to UCLA, and the Trojans don't qualify for the NCAA tournament. UCLA beats Villanova for its fifth NCAA title in a row.
1972 The Lakers win their first NBA title in Los Angeles.
1973 The Angels' Nolan Ryan throws two no-hitters, striking out a total of 29 batters against Kansas City and Detroit. He goes on to break Sandy Koufax's season record with 383 strikeouts.
1974 Notre Dame defeats UCLA, 71-70, ending the Bruins' 88-game basketball winning streak. Later that year, Dodger pitcher Al Downing gives up Hank Aaron's record 715th home run in Atlanta.
1975 UCLA defeats Kentucky, 92-85, in the NCAA title game and John Wooden's final game. It is his 10th NCAA title in 12 years.
The Lakers bring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar back to L.A., trading Elmore Smith, Dave Meyers, Junior Bridgeman and Brian Winters to Milwaukee.
1976 After 23 years at the helm, Walter Alston retires as Dodger manager and is replaced by Tom Lasorda.
1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew suffers his first loss, finishing fourth, 16 lengths behind winner J.O. Tobin, in the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park.
1978 The Dodgers become the first team to draw 3 million fans. They win the NL pennant but lose the World Series to the New York Yankees in six games.
1979 The Lakers, who have the first pick in the draft, reach an agreement with a 19-year-old, tall, skinny point guard from Michigan State: Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
1980 It's Showtime! Rookie Magic Johnson, playing center in place of an injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, has 42 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists as the Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers, 123-107, to win the NBA title in six games.
1981 The Dodgers rally from a series deficit for the third straight time in the playoffs and defeat the Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
1982 Cheryl Miller scores 105 points for Riverside Poly in a 179-15 girls' high school basketball victory over Norte Vista.
Magic Johnson is the MVP of the playoffs as the Lakers defeat the 76ers in the Finals for the second time in three years. Johnson was also MVP of the 1980 Finals.
1983 USC's women's basketball team, led by Cheryl Miller, wins the first of two consecutive NCAA titles.
1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's career scoring record of 31, 419 points in a game played at Las Vegas. Abdul-Jabbar finished with 38,387.
The Summer Olympics return to Los Angeles and are a rousing success, athletically and financially, despite a boycott by Eastern Bloc nations that leaves the U.S. dominating the medal count. Carl Lewis wins four gold medals in track and field, equaling Jesse Owens' record.
The Rams' Eric Dickerson breaks O.J. Simpson's NFL season rushing mark in the second-to-last game of the season. Dickerson's record of 2,105 yards still stands.
1985 After eight failed attempts (including in Minneapolis), the Lakers end the Boston mystique, defeating the Celtics in Game 6 at the Boston Garden, 111-100, to win the NBA title.
1986 USC loses at Hawaii, 5-3, in the final game of Rod Dedeaux's 45-year baseball coaching career. Dedeaux won 11 national championships and sent 59 former players to the major leagues.
1987 The New York Giants win their first NFL title since 1956 with a 39-20 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI at the Rose Bowl.
1988 Wayne Gretzky is traded to the Kings from the Edmonton Oilers for two players, three first-round draft picks and $15 million.
A hobbled Kirk Gibson hits a two-out, pinch-hit, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a 5-4 victory over Oakland in Game 1 of the World Series. The Dodgers defeat the A's in five games.
1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the NHL's all-time leading point scorer during a 5-4 win over his old team, Edmonton.
1990 Loyola Marymount's Hank Gathers collapses on the court during a West Coast Conference tournament game and dies. The high-scoring Lions then go on a sensational NCAA tournament run to the Elite Eight.
1991 Magic Johnson announces his retirement from the Lakers because he is HIV-positive.
1992 The Golden Boy: Lightweight boxer Oscar De La Hoya of East L.A. wins a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics, fulfilling a promise to his dying mother.
1993 The Kings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs to reach the Stanley Cup finals for the first time. They go on to lose to the Montreal Canadiens in five games.
Former Heisman winner O.J. Simpson leads police on a low-speed chase to his home in Brentwood. He is charged with double murder, but found not guilty in 1995.
The United States defeats Colombia, 2-1, at a World Cup soccer match at the Rose Bowl. Brazil would go on to defeat Italy in the final at the Rose Bowl.
The Rams play their final game before moving to St. Louis and lose to the Redskins, 24-21, in front of only 25,705 at Anaheim Stadium. The Raiders lose to the Chiefs, 19-9, at the Coliseum. They would return to Oakland in 1995.
1995 Tyus Edney goes the length of the court in 4.8 seconds as UCLA defeats Missouri, 75-74, in the second round of the NCAA tournament. UCLA, under Coach Jim Harrick, defeats Arkansas, 89-78, to win the Bruins' first NCAA basketball title since John Wooden's retirement.
1996 Magic Johnson comes out of retirement and nearly has a triple-double against Golden State. He averages 14.6 points in 32 games.
The Los Angeles Galaxy makes its debut in Major League Soccer and attracts 69,255 to the Rose Bowl to see a 2-1 victory over the MetroStars.
The Lakers trade Vlade Divac to Charlotte for the rights to high schooler Kobe Bryant. July 18: Jerry West gets his man, as the Lakers sign free agent Shaquille O'Neal to a $121-million contract.
1997 California Speedway opens in Fontana.
1998 The Dodgers are sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., ending 40 years of O'Malley family ownership in Los Angeles.
1999 Brandi Chastain scores the clinching penalty kick in front of President Clinton and another 90,184 fans at the Rose Bowl as the United States edges China, 5-4 on penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie, to win the women's World Cup.
Staples Center, new home of the Lakers and Kings, opens with a Bruce Springsteen concert.
2000 Shaquille O'Neal is the Finals MVP for the first of three consecutive years as the Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers, 116-111, in Game 6 at Staples Center for their first title in 12 years.
2001 The Lakers complete the best postseason in history with a 15-1 record, making it consecutive titles with a 108-96 victory over the 76ers.
2002 After rallying from a 5-0 deficit in Game 6, the Angels beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-1, in Game 7 to win the franchise's first World Series title.
2003 Pele takes the ceremonial first kick as the $150-million Home Depot Center opens on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson, giving Los Angeles its first soccer-specific stadium.
Kobe Bryant is charged with felony sexual assault in Colorado. Charges would be dropped a year later.
2004 USC defeats Michigan in the Rose Bowl, 28-14, and wins the Associated Press national championship with a 12-1 record.
2005 No. 1 USC routs No. 2 Oklahoma, 55-19, in the Orange Bowl for its second consecutive national championship and first BCS title.
2006 Kobe Bryant scores 81 points, second-highest in NBA history, in a victory over Toronto. He had scored 62 points against Dallas a month before.
Compiled by Steve Horn and Houston Mitchell, Times staff writers.


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HARVARD – A tight mayoral battle in Harvard eventually went the way of incumbent Jay Nolan on Tuesday night.
Nolan took 53 percent of the vote against William Parker, according to unofficial results.
"I look forward to serving Harvard, and I'll do it the best I can for the citizens," Nolan said.
Nolan, who spent two years on the city council before his election as mayor in 2005, referenced his fiscal responsibility in keeping a balanced budget during the lead-up to the election.
Parker, 36, is a political newcomer and Navy veteran who opposed the city's decisions to raise taxes and water and sewage rates.
He also wrote a letter to the editor criticizing Nolan for his dishonesty in explaining the circumstances that led to the hiring of former Alderman Darrell Perkins to the Public Works Department.
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Following every Baltimore Ravens game this season, Ryan Chell and I will take to the airwaves Tuesdays on "The Reality Check" on AM1570 WNST.net with a segment known as "The Five Plays That Determined The Game."
It's a simple concept. We'll select five plays from each game that determined the outcome. These five plays will best represent why the Ravens won or lost each game.
This will be our final analysis of the previous game before switching gears towards the next game on the schedule.
Here are the five plays that determined the Ravens' 25-15 win over the Cleveland Browns Sunday at Cleveland Browns Stadium…
(Note: not all pictures are always of actual play)
Glenn Clark's Plays…
5. Bernard Pierce 12 yard TD run on 3rd & 1 (1st quarter)
4. Brandon Weeden pass intended for Greg Little incomplete on 4th & 2 (4th quarter)
3. TJ Ward roughing the passer called after Joe Flacco incompletion (4th quarter)
2. Torrey Smith 19 yard TD catch from Joe Flacco (4th quarter)
1. Anquan Boldin 21 yard catch from Joe Flacco (4th quarter)
(Ryan Chell's Plays on Page 2…)


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The term, beyond a reasonable doubt is found often in science and the U.S. judicial system. It means that enough evidence has been provided such that any reasonable person would agree with the conclusion.
One of the common misconceptions about the scientific method is that claims can be proven like they can in mathematics. This isn't the case. Nothing in science is absolutely proven. All one can do is demonstrate the claim beyond a reasonable doubt.


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"It can seem arbitrary to contractors, but after you get briefed on a national scale, it's hard to back off and ignore it here at home," he said.
Yet, despite all of Whitney's accomplishments in his professional life, he is most proud of his family.
Whitney first came to Moab when he was 6 months old. His father was a uranium worker, and Whitney spent most of his childhood in the Moab area.
"This was the most awesome place to grow up," Whitney said. "We were always up at Power Dam or Lefthand [Canyon]. Every Saturday, we climbed Moab Rim, usually in our bare feet, and I've skinny dipped in every pothole in Grand County."
Whitney began dating his wife when he was a sophomore in high school. Trudine was the daughter of Whitney's science teacher, and the sister of one of his good friends. Whitney spent a great deal of time with the family and eventually, he and Trudine became close.
Even when Whitney's family moved to Salt Lake City, where he completed high school, the two remained a couple.
"We dated mostly through the mail," Whitney said.
During the summers, Whitney would come back to Moab and work on a construction crew with Trudine's dad.
Two weeks after he graduated from high school, Whitney returned to Moab and he and Trudine were married. Then he joined the military, where he specialized in crown and bridge work. During that time, the couple's first of five kids were born.
When he returned to Moab, the young family moved to Castle Valley.
"She wanted to move out of Moab, but there was no way I was leaving home," Whitney said.
They bought a plot of land in Castle Valley for $5,000 and put a mobile home on it, where they lived while Whitney built the family a home.
Life in Castle Valley wasn't easy, he said.
"There were about 12 families out there," Whitney said. "There was no running water or electricity."
Shortly after the move, the couple welcomed their third child.
"It was a real struggle," Whitney said. "I put my car into the river the first month we were out there, so I was hitchhiking in and out of town, hoping I'd get home before dark so I could kill a rabbit so we could have meat with our dinner."
The young couple struggled while Whitney was building the house.
"I bought a couple of boards a paycheck," he said. "Whatever we could afford."
During the construction, the couple had two more children.
At one point, the family pitched tents in the kids' bedrooms so they would have somewhere to sleep until the house was finished.
"Jeff Stucki helped me get a roof on, and we got the windows covered before winter," Whitney said.
Despite the hard times, Whitney is glad they were able to build their home the way they did.
"It's sad that people can't [build homes like] that anymore," he said. "In a way, the system we have keeps kids from being able to do that."
Eventually, Whitney was offered the job as the building inspector for Grand County. He recently finished a stint on the board of the National Board of the International Code Council He's traveled to Washington D.C., where he's met with senators and congressmen.
"It's been real eye-opening and entertaining to see how things work on a national level," he said.
Whitney's sixth child joined the family by chance. His daughter was a senior in high school when a woman asked her to watch her baby. Whitney's daughter agreed, and she brought the baby home.
"Over the next few months, we had him more often than we didn't," Whitney said.
When the state decided to remove the child from his home, they contacted Whitney and suggested he and Trudine file the paperwork to be foster parents.
"Over the next few years, they rotated a lot of kids through our house, but he was the one constant," Whitney said. When the boy was 5, the Whitneys officially adopted him. He's 21 now.
Whitney and Trudine have been married for 42 years.
"I tell everybody else what to do, and she tells me what to do. That's the deal," Whitney said.
He stays busy with work and developing his line of cutting horses, but his family, including his 14 grandchildren, remains the most important part of his life.
"My family is my big pleasure," Whitney said. "Most families, the kids can't wait to get away and never come back. Mine couldn't wait to get away, but they love to come home."


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Reliant Receives Qualified Integrator and Reseller (QIR) Qualification from PCI Security Standards Council
First Company to Meet Challenging QIR Qualification Requirements
By: PR Newswire
Jan. 9, 2013 01:00 PM
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Reliant, the market leader in virtualized retail application and data security solutions, announced its qualification as the industry's first Qualified Integrator and Reseller (QIR) under the PCI Security Standards Council's recently created QIR program. Reliant will showcase recent innovations in virtualized payment applications integrated with its flagship Redbox Platform at the National Retail Federation's 102nd Annual Convention & EXPO, to be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 14th through January 16th.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130109/CG39138)
Through its patented Redbox Platform, the in-store private cloud, Reliant provides a comprehensive data security suite (PCI), powerful network infrastructure and an open platform to host a variety of in-store retail applications. Redbox Platform cost-effectively delivers VoIP, Digital Signage, Interactive Kiosk, DVR, Guest Wifi, Payment Applications, Music and more from one centrally managed, locally hosted appliance. Redbox Platform virtual configurations and software updates are managed centrally through Redbox Platform Manager.
In response to the industry's request for more instruction to help address security risks that can lead to cardholder data compromise during the payment application deployment process, the PCI Security Standards Council created the Qualified Integrators and Resellers (QIR)™ program. The program provides training and qualification for integrators that sell, install and/or service PA-DSS validated payment applications for merchants' PCI DSS security efforts.
"Payment card security is a shared responsibility. Integrators and resellers, payment software providers and merchants must work together to protect cardholder data. The Qualified Integrators and Resellers (QIR)™ program not only helps integrators and resellers better understand how to address some of the basic security flaws we're seeing that can be easily avoided, but also it makes it easier for merchants to have confidence in the services being provided to them, "said Bob Russo, General Manager, PCI Security Standards Council. "The Council congratulates Reliant for becoming the first QIR and demonstrating its commitment to supporting merchants' PCI DSS compliance efforts through secure installation and maintenance of PA-DSS validated payment applications."
"In the past, some compliance details encountered by Reliant when deploying retail payment applications were left to the interpretation of the merchant and QSA communities. This led to some inconsistencies, which have now been resolved with the launch of the QIR program. The PCI SSC has given us a better-defined and standardized process to follow," said Phil Stead, Vice President of Retail Systems at Reliant. "With this qualification and the continuing improvement in standards for implementing payment applications in retail stores, we look forward to integrating our Redbox Platform with an even wider variety of payment systems" added Mark Weiner, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Reliant.
About PCI Security Standards Council: The mission of the PCI Security Standards Council is to enhance payment account security by driving education and awareness of PCI security standards. For more information, please visit www.pcisecuritystandards.org.
About Reliant: Reliant transforms IT's approach to delivering and supporting store systems by allowing retailers to create an in-store private cloud. This allows a wide range of application, systems and network configurations to be centrally delivered, managed and maintained, reducing ongoing support costs and eliminating the need for equipment to otherwise run each application. This highly flexible and secure architecture in turn enables retail executives to keep pace with 21st century customer-engaging applications. For more information, visit www.reliantsecurity.com.
Media Contact: Traci Weiner, Reliant Security, 917-338-2200, email@example.com
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