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Jan. 3, 2010
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The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters Monday's Big West game at UC Riverside with an overall record of 5-6 and a Big West record of 0-1. The Gauchos dropped a 57-55 decision at UC Irvine on Saturday night marking the second straight year that they have opened league play with a road loss. Last year, after dropping the opener at Long Beach State, UCSB lost a 71-69 decision at UC Riverside. Since opening the year with a 4-0 record, Santa Barbara has lost six of seven games.
On The Radio
All men's basketball games are broadcast live on AM 1490 KIST and available for free online via audio streaming. Fans from all over the world can also hear the Gauchos' online by clicking here. Gerry Fall and Don Ford call all the action.
Possible Starters - Notes
G - Will Brew - Played a season-high 30 minutes at UC Irvine.
G - Orlando Johnson - Is the only Gaucho player to score in double-figures in all 11 games.
G - Paul Roemer - Scored five points in final 11 seconds on Saturday night at UC Irvine.
F - Jaimé Serna - Had nine points, seven rebounds, two blocked shots, and two steals at UC Irvine.
F - James Nunnally - Attempted just five shots in 36 minutes on Saturday night.
Possible Reserves - Notes
G - Chris Brew - In four appearances since scoring in double-figures in back-to-back games, has 11 total points.
G - Jordan Weiner - Scored one point at UC Irvine, his first point in five games.
G - James Powell - Has now scored 1,009 career points, 22nd all-time at UCSB.
G - Justin Joyner - Is likely out for at least two weeks as he lets his injured ankle recover.
F - Jon Pastorek - Made his only field goal attempt in game at UC Irvine.
F - Sam Phippen - Tied his season-low with two minutes played on Saturday night.
F - Lucas Devenney - Played season-low two minutes at UC Irvine, making his only shot.
C - Greg Somogyi - After season-highs for points, rebounds and blocks on Dec. 29 at Cal, played three minutes vs. UCI.
The Bob Williams File
Bob Williams is in his 12th season as head coach at UC Santa Barbara. He enters the game against Cal with a Gaucho record of 184-152 (.549). Overall, Williams is in his 22nd season as a coach at four-year schools. He coached for two seasons at Menlo College (31-24) and for eight seasons at UC Davis (158-76). Overall he has posted a four-year coaching record of 373-252 (.596).
The Gauchos, The Highlanders, The Road
The Gauchos and UC Riverside have played 25 times going back to 1955. Last year, the teams split a pair of games. The Highlanders won the game in Riverside, 71-69, while UCSB won its home game, 66-53. Meanwhile, in true road games, UCSB has gone 1-4. Since opening the road schedule on Nov. 28 win a win over Loyola Marymount, the Gauchos have dropped four in a row (Montana State, Arizona State, Cal, and UC Irvine). Santa Barbara has one neutral court victory, over Furman at the Golden Bear Classic in Berkeley. In 2008-09, the Gauchos were 3-10 in true road games and 6-11 in all games played away from home.
Joyner Shuts It Down For Now
Junior point guard Justin Joyner did not play in the loss at UC Irvine on Saturday night and is not expected to play for at least two weeks as he allows his injured right ankle to rest. Joyner, who missed all of the 2008-09 season while recovering from wrist surgery, sprained his ankle in practice before the Gauchos' exhibition opener against Sonoma State and did not return to action until Nov. 23 against San Francisco. The ankle, however, never completely recovered and Joyner re-injured it in the Dec. 29 game at Cal. He will not practice and will receive rest and treatment over the next couple of weeks.
Johnson Continues To Double-Up
Sophomore Orlando Johnson had 19 points and eight rebounds in Saturday night's loss at UC Irvine. It was the 11th consecutive game in which Johnson has scored in double-figures and the eighth time he has scored 16 points or more. He has, in fact, scored 16 or more in four straight games, averaging 18.2 points over that span. Johnson leads the Gauchos in scoring at 16.8 points per game and rebounding at 6.1 per game. He had the team's only two double-doubles this season. On Nov. 17, in a win over Weber State, he had 19 points and 10 rebounds. On Dec. 29, in a loss at Cal, Johnson had a different type of double-double as he had 17 points and 10 assists. His 10 assists were not only the most by a UCSB player this season, but they equaled the highest total by a Big West Conference player this season. A transfer from Loyola Marymount, Johnson scored a career-high 25 points on Nov. 23 against San Francisco.
Serna Rebounds From Sub-Par Performance
In Saturday night's loss at UC Irvine, sophomore forward Jaimé Serna rebounded from his poorest performance of the season with a solid effort against the Anteaters. On Dec. 29, Serna missed all eight of his shots and had just one rebound in 18 minutes as the Gauchos lost at Cal. On Saturday night, the Laguna Beach, Calif., native made 4-of-7 shots and finished with nine points. He also had seven rebounds, two blocked shots, two steals, and one assist. In addition, Serna played a season-high 34 minutes. He continues to rank second on the team in rebounding at 4.5 boards per game. Finally, despite playing a season-high 34 minutes against the Anteaters, Serna did not commit a personal foul. He has fouled out twice this season, has had four or more six times and three or more seven times.
Nunnally Passes On Shooting
Despite playing a season-high 36 minutes on Saturday night, sophomore James Nunnally attempted only five field goals against UC Irvine. He made two of the field goal attempts and finished with eight points. The five attempts were his second fewest of the season. Nunnally is second on the team in scoring at 11.6 points per game. He scored a career-high 24 on Dec. 28 against Furman and followed that up with a 10-point performance on Dec. 29 at Cal. Nunnally's also scored 20 points on Nov. 23 against San Francisco.
For Starters, Will Brew Is Alone
Will Brew stands alone for UCSB. Actually, Brew starts alone. The sophomore point guard is the only Gaucho to have started all 11 games. Two other players, Orlando Johnson and Jaimé Serna have each started 10 of the 11 games. Brew continues to lead the team in assists at 2.9 per game and he is now averaging 4.8 points per game. In three games since scoring a total of 21 points over a six game span, 3.5 per game, Brew has scored 22 points, 7.3 per game. He has made three shots in each of the last three games going 9-of-16, 56.2%, to improve his overall field goal percentage to 37.8%. Brew had a season-high nine points, on three three-point baskets, on Dec. 29 at Cal.
The Kids Are Alright
Through 11 games, UCSB's underclassmen - the freshmen and sophomores - have been pretty productive. As a group, they have scored 509 of the team's 744 points, 68.4%. In addition, the group of seven has 177 rebounds (62.3%), 60 assists (55.9%), 33 steals (57.7%), and 19 blockes shots (90.5%).
Taking The Lead And Not Giving It Back
During its four-game winning streak to open the season, UCSB trailed to just two teams, Cal State Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount. The only time the Gauchos were behind in the second half - albeit briefly - was to LMU. When they lost four in a row, they never led in the second half. In its win over Furman on Dec. 28 - repeat after me - Santa Barbara never trailed in the second half. The same, but opposite (Does that make sense?), was true for a Dec. 29 loss at Cal. On Saturday night, the Gauchos trailed by three at the half against the Anteaters, tied the score at 27-27, but then fell behind by 10 and never caught up again. Through 11 games, the team leading at the half in UCSB games has won.
The Starters Stick Around
In Saturday's game at UC Irvine, UCSB's starters played 158 minutes. It was the most time logged by Gaucho starters in a game this season. Two players, Orlando Johnson and James Nunnally, each played a season-high 36 minutes, the most by a Santa Barbara player this season. Jaimé Serna (34) and Will Brew (30) also recorded 30 or more minutes. The offensive production reflected the time dominance of the starters. The Gaucho bench finished with a season-low eight points while the starters accounted for 47 in the game against the Anteaters.
Around The Key: Notes
✔ 11 of the Gauchos 21 blocked shots have come in the last four games.
✔ Actually, after blocking a total of three shots in six games, UCSB has nine in the last two games.
✔ UCSB made two three-point baskets in Saturday's game at UC Irvine, a season-low. The previous low was five.
✔ After playing at least 15 minutes in each of the first eight games, Sam Phippen has totaled just seven in the last three.
✔ The Gauchos had a season-low six assists at UC Irvine on Saturday. For the first time this year, Will Brew had none.
✔ After outrebounding UC Irvine 9-2 early in the game Saturday, UCSB was outrebounded 32-20 the rest of the way.
✔ The two-point margin of defeat at Irvine was UCSB's smallest of the season. All other margins were double-digits.
✔ Justin Joyner has yet to score in 54 minutes of play this season.
Next Up
On Friday, Jan. 8, UCSB will return home for the first time in 34 days. The Gauchos host UC Davis in a game that will tip-off at 8:00 p.m. to accommodate ESPNU. UCSB will also host Pacific on Sunday, Jan. 10 at 3:00 p.m. To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.


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Submission + - How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage (medium.com)
KentuckyFC writes: Arbitrage is a way of making profit by exploiting price differences for the same asset. In capital markets, traders aggressively seek out and exploit these market "inefficiencies". Now one data scientist says it's possible to do the same with metro fares and has studied the fare-arbitrage potential of San Francisco's subway system, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). The idea is to swap tickets with another commuter during your journey to reduce the amount you both pay. BART has 44 stations which allows 946 different journeys and 446,985 unique pairs of trips. Of these, over 60,000 have arbitrage potential and commuters can save at least $1 on 4,666 of them. But there are good reasons why cities might want to maintain price differences for certain journeys--to encourage people to live in certain areas, for example. What's more, it's possible to imagine a pair of commuters who each travel from one side of a city to the other at considerable cost. But by swapping tickets in the city centre, they could both pay for a short commute in each others' suburbs. But is that fair to other commuters?

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Lady Hornets dominate in Central opener
The Bryant Lady Hornets had no trouble in their first 7A Central conference matchup on the year defeating the Little Rock Central Lady Tigers 14-0 in five innings on Thursday night at Interstate Park in Little Rock.
"We did what I wanted to – came in scored runs and made some great defensive plays," Bryant Coach Debbie Clark said. "Peyton [Jenkins] did a good job.
"In situations like this, there is so much about this that you can't control. The field is different, different umpires, the pitching is different. But, that is what makes us a team that's going to develop into a really good team, is because we take these situations and overcome them. I'm just really proud of them."
Senior starting pitcher Peyton Jenkins gave up one hit and a walk in five scoreless innings for the win and struck out nine Lady Tigers.
The Lady Hornets (7-0, 1-0 7A Central) wasted no time getting on the board. Jenkins flew out to left field to open the game up, but senior second baseman Jenna Bruick reached on an infield single and stole second base. Senior catcher Jessie Taylor walked, and after senior Kayla Sory flew out to center, sophomore Kaley Coppock hit a liner to the left-center field gap for a three-run inside-the-park home run for a 3-0 Bryant lead.
Junior Carly Yazza walked and scored all the way from first base on a throwing error by the third baseman to first on sophomore Breanna Sanders' grounder to put the Lady Hornets up 4-0 after one.
Jenkins walked the first batter of the game to start the bottom of the first. The Lady Tiger went to second base after a sacrifice bunt, but Jenkins came back and struck out the next two batters to get out of the inning unscathed.
The Lady Hornets put up four more in the top of the second. Junior McKenzie Rice singled to start the inning, stole second and reached third on a groundout by Jenkins. Rice ended up scoring on a wild pitch.
Bruick picked up her second of four hits on the day with another infield single and scored on Taylor's triple to make it 6-0. Taylor went for the inside-the-parker, but was gunned down at home.
But, the inning wasn't over. With two outs, Sory walked and moved to third on a single by Coppack. Yazza hit a double which was just inside the third-base line to score both runners and an 8-0 lead.
Jenkins gave up a double to start the bottom of the second, but the runner was gunned out at third base when left fielder Ashley Chaloner hit the shortstop Sanders with the relay throw, who in turn hit Rice, who tagged the runner, at third.
Jenkins set down the final 11 Lady Tigers in order including three strike outs in a row, the leadoff through third-place hitter. Jenkins also struck out the last two batters of the game.
The Lady Hornets would add one run in the third inning and four more in the fourth to finish the blowout.
Bruick went 4 for 4 for Bryant, scored twice and added two RBIs. Coppack went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Yazza finished 1 for 2 with two runs scored and two RBIs.
Though the Lady Hornets had little trouble scoring, Clark said there are some improvements to be made. Central's starting pitcher had a good changeup, which kept some Bryant hitters off balance.
"[Something] we're going to work on is the changeup with less than two strikes," she said. "Basically all you can do is pop it up or just bloop it. We need to let that one go. That's about discipline.
"It's our first conference win and that's extremely important."
Next up for Bryant is the Tournament of Champions held at Burns Park in North Little Rock. The Lady Hornets take on Hope tonight.
"A lot of the girls have played with Coach Godwin in the summer some," Clark said. "His daughter is the pitcher. She has a lot of speed, a lot of movement and she's smart."
Clark, though, is confident in her team's ability.
"Any time we put pressure on the other team, a lot of times they have a hard time keeping up with us," she said. "My goal for my players is to score a run every inning. If we do that, we have seven runs at the end of the game and it's hard for any team to score those kinds of runs against our defense."


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Independence is in the Eastern Sierra region of California
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Independence is one of several small towns along US highway 395 through the Owens Valley in California. Pretty much the only reasonable way in by car is either from the north or south on US 395.
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On the west side of US 395 six miles south of Independence (five miles north of Lone Pine). http://www.nps.gov/manz
Manzanar was the site of an Internment Camp for people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
In time of war, it is normal and accepted practice to imprison or confine citizens of an enemy country who reside in the opposing country. The Japanese Internment of World War II went far beyond these reasonable bounds. During World War II, all people of Japanese descent living on the west coast of the continental United States including American citizens were stripped of property and most belongings and sent into imprisonment at remote locations in the West.
To properly understand why this improper internment happened, one first needs to understand some background: California had a significant history of racism against Asian peoples including preventing Asians from participating in the gold rush, blaming Asians for economic bad times and getting Japan to voluntarily reduce emigration to California, and forbidding Asians from owning land.
The Manzanar Relocation Camp is the best preserved example from this deplorable episode in American History, and is slowly being turned into a National Historic Site.
In some Asian cultures, there is a severe injunction against being a troublemaker or being out of step with good behavior. For such Asians, to be interned or jailed is a mortifying embarrassment. If you should happen to meet someone who may have been interned, keep in mind that this embarrassment may (or may not!) apply.
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Encre Noire is one of those fragrances that I like when it dries down. The vetiver smooths out much better after about a 30 minutes or so.
Thread: Buy it for the Drydown?
I am wondering how often we end up with a scent strictly because of its dry-down. And how long are you willing to put up with an opening, or even heart notes that you don't care for in order to get to the dry-down.
I have a scent that the first half-hour I just tolerate because I really love the dry-down. This has got me to thinking about all the scents I've sniffed on a car in a store but whose dry-down I never get to experience. It brings into focus just how important trying each scent on your skin and wearing for at least a few hours is.
Are you willing to put up with things just to get to the dry-down?
Encre Noire is one of those fragrances that I like when it dries down. The vetiver smooths out much better after about a 30 minutes or so.
Sycomore is one for me. I care very little for the opening. The mid notes I suppose I can cope with. But once that dry down is going, it is amazing!
I suppose to answer your question, 20 mins is about right for an opening I can't stand. I'd like to be able to put the scent on and by the time I'm in the car or at work at the latest for it to be pleasant for me at least. That said, if the wife can't stand it, this comment makes it invalid.
I personally love the dry downs of many scents but I also love the evolution of the scent from beginning to end.
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Some for the drydown but I think more for the opening notes
I love musks and the deeper base notes... so for me, a lot of my purchases are based on the drydown. I wouldn't buy it if I couldn't live with the first few hours, but if if it's tolerable then I probably would - just to get to the drydown
Regarding store testing, I agree you do need to let a scent develop to judge it properly, but I think sometimes you can get a sense of those that are really so harsh, or so pale and wan, from the outset that they really won't improve. The bigger danger I find these days are those scents that seem so beautiful the first hour, and then just degenerate into a pale, boring mess.
This happens, especially with vintage perfumes. The top is usually the first thing to go, but often the drydown is fine. I have for instance No 5, Shocking, and others that have turned, but after a while I get whiffs of the glorious drydown.
I personally would do it only on a cheapy well made find other then that NO.... If it's gonna have me reaching a level more in my pockets, then I will have to use utmost analytical decision , so No I wouldn't buy it just because I love the base notes(dry down)..I will have to love the entirety of juice(Top,heart,base) for me to fork out the Euros.....
"Thank GOD for the nose, for without it we would not be enjoying these beautiful created Scents" also Remember "Balance is everything and the key to appreciating "
I own, and positively adore, Guerlain Chamade exclusively for its yellow, powdery, narcissus drydown. It is pure heaven, and one of the greatest things I have ever smelled.
It is one of the longest drydowns I have ever had to wait for in a fragrance. Well over an hour. It feels like the fragrance is testing me. I own a bottle of vintage extrait but unlike many of cacio's experiences, this juice is intact from the beginning. What I normally do is apply it in the morning after I shower, and by the time I leave the house, the beautiful drydown is wafting off my skin. Because it's the extrait, it lasts a while.
Everything I buy needs to have a great drydown, if it does, I don;t care about the opening.
Only few exceptions like Sel Marin or citrus fragrances would be made.
We want a niche forum.
In my case, I'd admit a little over an hour as the maximum period/interval to wait for a fragrance to develop its drydown. Fragrances that I would buy almost strictly for the drydown and the longer term evolution, less for the top and middle notes, would be, in my opinion:
Ungaro II, Guerlain Heritage, most Jacomo fragrances including Rouge, CK Obsession, YSL Opium PH, Braukmann Classic, Yardley English Blazer- though all very different from each other, they all have a common point- the skin development (at least, to my nose) far exceeds the first impression, the top and middle notes, in complexity, smoothness, (in most cases) lasting power.
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You live with the drydown for the longest period so I can understand doing this. Personally, I have to like it all
I agree with Kaern - I enjoy my lovely sparkling topnotes and heartnotes too much to buy something just for the drydown, but of course since it's with me the longest it's got to be good, too. There are just way too many utterly gorgeous perfumes out there to have to put up with anything less than wonderful in the overall composition. That said, there are perfumes whose best part is the drydown, just like there are some whose best part is in the top or heart, but for me to actually love it, they all have to be lovable.
Wingie - I suppose I can understand where y'all are coming from in some cases, but I'm so surprised you'd skip the top and heart of Chamade! It's been one of my favorite perfumes since I was a small child, and I still recall my first reaction to smelling it right out of the bottle - I was completely smitten with those ravishing topnotes! I frequently refresh well before the drydown just to prolong the glorious opening, and I can't begin to imagine what it would be like without them ...it actually makes me a little sad, lol!
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Good opening is a must for me. That's why I will always prefer GIT or Chez Bond over Cool Water - Cool Water is as beautiful as the other two, imo, but only after a half-hour of synthetic yellow Pine-Sol mess.
I can think of at least several fragrance whose dry-downs I prefer to the opening. Chanel Coromandel, however, is a great example of what you describe. The beginning is rough for me, but the dry-down (after about 1/2 hour) is smooth and dark-chocolaty.
The good opening is important, of course, but I wouldn't buy a perfume only because of the top notes; the dry-down is, after all, what lasts on my skin.
Actually, there are more perfumes in which I like the top notes, but the dry-down turns into something not so exciting or even unpleasant.
Interesting thread - has anyone else avoided buying fragrances due to the drydown?
Perhaps not entirely off-topic to the thread title as often a generic musky, or musky vanilla, or just 'meh' drydown will deter me from buying a fragrance these days so it's definitely a factor in my decisions.
Interesting, danieq - it's actually one of the main reasons that I fail to buy things at the moment!
Weak drywdowns:
Bigarade Concentree, Iskander, Sel Marin, Lady Vengeance, Trefle Pur, Endymion, Malabah, Opus 1870, Voyage Parfum, Derby (new), Lyric Man, Tom Ford for Men, ...
Uninteresting / boring / one-dimensional / linear / cheap and the likes:
Yatagan, CDG EDP original, CDG 2 Man, Kenzo Jungle Homme, Rien, Declaration, ...
Late drydowns I disliked: Leather Oud, Absolue Pour Le Soir, Back to Black, Ambra Mediterranea, Tiffany for Men, Peety, Must de Cartier PH, Aziyade, Spiritueuse Double Vanille, Eau Des Baux, ...
All sickeningly sweet at close range on my skin.
I am actually glad, less money spent
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We want a niche forum.
It seems that the modern marketing policy is to concentrate on Top notes and forget the rest. Most fragrance producers aren't that concerned with repeat sales; a big launch, recoup the money plus a bit, and then on the next. Most purchasers of fragrance buy after a quick sniff, being persuaded by the glossy ads. In past times things were different. One got to know a fragrance (fewer were launched and fewer were bought), and if one liked one bought again.
Many good Base Note materials are now restricted or banned (best example is Oakmoss) and so the Base Note suffers.
Ill Wait 30 minutes for something lovely, definetly!
It surely is annoying Me more when I loove the first chord just to see it dissappear in 15 min :/
While I like the opening of Parfum Satori Sakura, with its cherry blossom and floral beginning, I found the drydown of a very elegant incense with the much-lighter floral component to be impetus behind my purchase.


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Just call her Lindsay History Maker.
It's a heck of a lot easier to spell than her real name.
And not entirely inaccurate, as Steinert graduate Lindsay Usarzewicz is part of a history-making women's soccer team at Misericordia University.
The freshman midfielder and her teammates will play Messiah in tonight's NCAA Division III semifinals in San Antonio. It marks the first Cougars team in any sport to ever reach the Final Four.
"Making this kind of history is so unreal," Usarzewicz said. "It's the best feeling in the world. It's awesome to be here as a freshman and I could only imagine the feeling as a senior. It's gotten us so fired up to just go out and win."
Usarzewicz, who had two goals and two assists in varying roles this season, said that the energy running throughout campus has been incredible. It was a big year for the athletic program, which played football for the first time (with Steinert's Dean Lucchesi and Alex Amodie on the roster).
But while the grid team suffered the usual growing pains in a winless season, women's soccer went 20-2-2 after winning its first-ever NCAA Tournament game last year. "We gained so much confidence from getting our first NCAA win," coach Mark Stauffer said on the Misericordia website. "We knew we had 10 starters coming back and that we would have a chance to do something special."
Usarzewicz wasn't part of that team, but was caught up in the wave of confidence last August.
"Before the season started we were all very excited," the former Spartan said. "We knew we had the potential to be a good team and our coach would tell us every day that we're going to the Final Four."
They wouldn't have gotten there, however, without Usarzewicz. After getting some substantial time during the start of the season, the lineup settled in with the returning veterans.
When the NCAA Tournament started, Lindsay was told she would be one of the penalty kickers should games go to a shootout.
That's exactly what happened on Nov. 17, when Misericordia and Ithaca were tied through regulation and two overtimes. Usarzewicz was the Cougars fourth PK shooter and, as luck would have it, if she did not convert the season would be over and a ton of seniors would have their hearts broken.
Not too much pressure, eh?
But Usarzewicz displayed the same steely nerves she showed in basketball and soccer at Steinert and buried the shot.
"I don't know what it is about pressure," Usarzewicz said. "But I seem to do well with it in my own way."
Misericordia went on to win the shootout, then defeated Brandeis in the Elite Eight. That sets up tonight's semifinal against defending champion Messiah, which defeated the Cougars 2-0 in September.
"We can beat them," Usarzewicz said. "We had a bad first half against them. If we take that away and play our best we can beat this team, there's not a doubt in my mind. We all just have to believe we can beat them and put in 110 percent."
One thing is certain. The Dallas, Pa. campus is throwing 110 percent worth of support behind its team.
"Our school is beyond supportive," Usarzewicz said. "There are posters all over the school for us. People are emailing us, saying how proud they are and they're even having a live screen party for everyone back at school.
"Everywhere around school, people see us and know who we are and are always cheering us. It was that way even throughout the whole season."
And Lindsay History Maker loves being part of the ride in just her first year.
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BELVIDERE (WIFR) -- It's an accident not a homicide. That's the ruling by a Boone County jury who found Jamie Page not guilty of first degree murder.
A shriek and sigh of relief as Jamie Page learned that after nearly a year and a half in jail she's a free woman. Page was found not guilty in the stabbing death of her boyfriend Jacob Van Zant.
"She loved him. She was going to marry him. We're just glad they saw it because she was innocent," Page's Aunt, Janet Graves, said, while fighting back tears.
Van Zant's mother, Cathie Stafford, says the couple was not engaged and had no plans to marry.
As Page's family celebrates the victory they say they also understand the pain Van Zant's family feels.
"I'm really, really sad for Jacob's family because we knew him and loved him and we know how bad it is for her. I don't know if she'll ever be able to be the same," Graves said.
Page stabbed Van Zant early in the morning of February 2, 2013 inside their home at 209 Garden Drive in Belvidere. Page told investigators she was trying to cut herself. When she pushed Van Zant away she accidentally stabbed him.
Defense Attorney Paul Vella says the evidence in the case spoke for itself.
"Once you really got down and looked at the facts and thought about them, it was just a horrible accident. There was no criminal intent or no criminal act involved here," Vella said.
Page's family and friends are now focused on helping the young woman rebuild her life.
"I'm glad she's free, and to get on with a normal life, and hope that she can have a normal life and a decent life and be happy with herself and learn to be happy again," Carol Chriswell, a friend of Page's, said.
In order to find Page not guilty the jury of 11 women and one man had to answer the following two questions:
Did she perform the act that killed Van Zant?
Did she know that act created the possibility of death or great bodily harm?
There was no argument over whether Page stabbed Van Zant, but the jury believed it was accidental.
Boone County State's Attorney Michelle Courier says she's disappointed with the verdict, but respects the jury's decision. She says all the state wanted was justice for Jacob.
UPDATE: After spending the last 18 months in a jail cell, Jamie Page will experience freedom again. After four and a half hours of deliberations, a jury found her not guilty in the February 2013 stabbing death of Jacob Van Zant.
Page;s family cheered as the verdict was announced late this afternoon. Her attorney Paul Vella argued Van Zant was stabbed as he tried taking a scalpel away from Page when she was trying to cut herself. The young woman's family says they knew justice would prevail.
Van Zant's family was obviously devastated by the verdict. Boone County State's Attorney Michelle Courier says she is disappointed with the outcome, but respects the jury's decision.
UPDATE: A jury has reached a verdict in the stabbing death of a young man that happened in February 2013.
Jurors have been deliberating for about five hours now in the murder trial of Jamie Page. Around 2:30 this afternoon they re-watched the video of Page's interrogation by police, when she explained in her own words what led to her boyfriend, Jacob Van Zant being stabbed in the chest.
Page's attorney says it was an accident, saying Page was trying to hurt herself. The defense says Van Zant was stabbed as he and Page struggled over the knife. Prosecutors say Page did it on purpose, claiming the couple had been arguing, and that's why she stabbed Van Zant.
Again, there is still no verdict yet. We'll let you know as soon as it's announced.
UPDATE: BOONE COUNTY (WIFR) -- By Monday afternoon, the fate of the Belvidere woman accused of murdering her boyfriend should be in the hands of a jury.
It was an emotional day in court for both the family of the victim, Jacob Van Zant and the defendant, Jamie Page. one of the hardest parts of the day was watching the video when Page found out Van Zant was dead.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God, I did it."
While the video is hard to watch, prosecutors pointed out Page never cried when she found out Van Zant had died from the stab wound on February 2, 2013. During the video of Page's police interrogation, she showed officers how she was swinging her arms and when she stabbed Van Zant with a scalpel.
Prosecutors argue her story changed multiple times and Page purposely stabbed Van Zant. The defense argues it was an accident.
Both sides have rested their cases. Closing arguments will begin Monday morning, then the jury, made up mostly of women, will get the case.
BOONE COUNTY (WIFR) – A difficult day In court for the family of Jacob Van Zant as they listened to his girlfriend's frantic screams to a 9-1-1 operator.
That woman, Jamie Page, is on trial for the 20-year-old's murder.
"I had a knife in my hand. He slipped and fell, I don't know."
Many of Van Zant's family members had to leave the courtroom as that seven minute long 9-1-1 tape played out. Prosecutors say Page stabbed the 20-year-old in the chest in their Belvidere home in February 2013.
The defense argues Page was trying to cut herself and that Van Zant was stabbed as he was trying to take the knife away from Page. However, prosecutors say the defendant's story was never consistent.
"She didn't mean it, that she freaked out and that he fell into a knife and she will continue to change the story about what happened and how it happened."
"You'll see that this was an accident. It was only an accident. There was no criminal intent."
In addition to hearing the 9-1-1 tapes, prosecutors also showed the jury the bloody scalpel and pictures from the bedroom where Van Zant died.
UPDATE: The murder trial of a Belvidere woman is underway in Boone County today.
Jamie Page is charged with the stabbing death of her 20-year-old boyfriend, Jacob Van Zant. The death happened in the couple's home on Garden Drive in Belvidere in February 2013.
In opening arguments, prosecutors claim Page and Van Zant began arguing about her Facebook page when Page started hitting him and eventually picked up a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
Page's defense lawyers say the stabbing was an accident, claiming Van Zant was trying to prevent page from cutting herself and in the struggle, he got stabbed. The jury heard the 9-1-1 call this morning. In the call, a hysterical Page cries Van Zant accidentally fell on the blade.
BELVIDERE (WIFR) -- New information about this weekend's homicide in Belvidere where police say a teenager stabbed her fiance to death.
The suspect's grandmother says her granddaughter, 19-year-old Jamie Page, didn't mean to kill 20-year-old Jacob Van Zant, saying Page accidentally stabbed her fiance to death. She says Page was trying to hurt herself with the knife and ended up killing Van Zant while he tried to take the weapon away. Page is the Boone County Jail facing murder charges. She was arrested more seven hours after the crime. Investigators say it all went down at a home in the 200 block of Garden Drive in Belvidere at 5am Saturday morning where the couple lived with Page's grandparents. When officers arrived, they found Van Zant suffering from stab wounds. He was taken to OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, where he later died.
Page grew up in the Belvidere area; the victim was from the Chicago suburbs. The suspect's grandparents say the couple moved in two months and the victim was supposed to start a new job Monday morning.


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A hematologist is usually a board-certified internist who has completed additional years of training in hematology. The hematologist generally focuses on diagnosing and managing hematologic disease, especially tumors, and other cancers.
The hematopathologist is usually board-certified in both anatomical and clinical pathology and has additional years of training in hematopathology. Hematopathology is not only the study of disease of the blood and bone marrow, but also of the organs and tissues that use blood cells to perform their physiologic functions, such as the lymph nodes, the spleen, thymus, and other lymphoid tissue. The hematopathologist focuses on the diagnosis of conditions of the hematopoietic and lymphocyte-rich tissues.
Complete blood count (CBC), which includes:
white blood cell count (WBC)
red blood cell count (RBC)
platelet count
hematocrit red blood cell volume (HCT)
hemoglobin concentration (HB) - the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells
differential blood count
To aid in diagnosing anemia, certain cancers of the blood, and to monitor blood loss and infection
Platelet count
To diagnose and/or to monitor bleeding and clotting disorders
Prothrombin time (PT)
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Urinalysis, which includes physical examination of color, pH level, and gravity; chemical analysis for blood, proteins, glucose, and other substances; and microscopic examination of the red and white blood cells, bacteria, and other substances
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How to Amplify Messages by Cultivating Audiences & Influencer Relationships
By Sarah Skerik, Vice President of Social Media, PR Newswire
From Beyond PR
It's not a comfortable question, but in today's connected world, it's one we communicators have to ask ourselves. And here it is:
How many of the media and influencers in our media databases hear regularly from us (or our brands) other than when we have a press release in hand or a story idea to pitch?
In many cases, the answer is "Rarely." However, social media offers us the ability to develop relationships at our fingertips, as well as some opportunities to significantly improve our personal effectiveness, and the resonance of the messages we publish, specifically:
- The ability to create a landing pad for messaging, by cultivating an interested audience; and
- A way to develop personal relationships with key influencers that will keep you "present" and top of mind.
Creating a bouncy landing pad for messages by cultivating your audience before you communicate:
It's not unusual for a PR campaign to still operate on the "Ready, aim, fire" principle. The audience is targeted and the message is subsequently distributed. Follow up calls are made. This approach misses one of the greatest gifts to PR from the inventors of networks like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest – the gift of ongoing audience attention. Any content marketing strategy worth its salt makes social channels a key distribution network for messages. PR pros need to embrace this strategy, too. Why?
Every day, on social networks all over the world, with absolutely no regard at all or whatsoever for our various and sundry communications plans and corporate schedules, conversations are happening relating to the products, services, ideas and causes we spend our days promoting. People are looking for information. Bloggers are blogging. Consumers are considering what to consume next. If we're lucky, several of these actors might alight upon a message we published. If we're unlucky, however, they may overlook our brands completely.
Now, some folks aren't considering capturing these spur of the moment opportunities. However, those communicators who are more dialed in to their marketplaces – and, arguably, their company KPIs (key performance indicators) – do care deeply about these opportunities – and they're wise to do so. The ability to capture the ongoing attention of your audience can result in extremely measurable outcomes, and create a soft, springy and receptive landing pad that can bounce your messages around to different people who will amplify it for you.
Modernizing media relations with meaningful digital connections
The second opportunity social media offers public relations practitioners is a more modern approach to media relations. And no, I'm not talking about simply sending out pitches on Twitter. By paying attention to what journalists are doing on social media, you can:
- Develop a good idea of what sort of stories interest them. (What do they tweet, bookmark or read via social reader?),
- Identify other opportunities for coverage or exposure beyond their primary beat (Do they pin images on Pinterest? Contribute to a blog in addition to their beat? Create vlogs or podcasts? These are all parts of the news hole.)
- Learn what sort of content is popular with the larger audience. (Which stories trigger enthusiastic sharing?)
- Find non-traditional influencers who weren't on your radar screen but are nonetheless influential, especially in niche areas of interest.
- Understand what topics are near and dear to the hearts of the audience.
The act of simply paying attention to the conversation around topics central to your organization is always informative. An added bonus is that you'll be able to subtly introduce yourself into the conversation (and to the key players) by adding value when you start sharing useful information, and sharing content posted by others among your own social network. Tweeting a journalist's story is a positive way to get on his or her radar screen, especially if you have cultivated a solid and relevant following yourself.
Developing digital relationships
The good news is that cultivating audiences and developing good digital relationships with media and influencers on social networks are achieved through similar means. Here's how you do it.
- Develop a focused presence on the social networks germane to the topic you're promoting. This presence is ideally branded, but it can be a personal presence bearing your name, as well. If you're ambitious, you can do both. Either way, be transparent about who you are, and where you work.
- Delve into the topics at hand. Become an expert, share your expertise, and share good content. Engage in conversation. Focus on being helpful, interesting and authentic.
- Research hashtags, follow lists and read what others tweet. Get a handle on the nature of the conversation in your space. Learn what sort of content resonates with the influencers who have gained your interest.
- Look at your media list and connect with key media who have also developed professional presences on social networks. Important: pay attention to how these folks use social media. If they don't talk shop on their Facebook wall, you should avoid doing so too.
- Commit to building these presences over time. It takes time to gain traction with an audience. Along the way, you have to care for and feed your social presences.
- Practice the 90:10 rule. Fully 90% of what you share shouldn't be brand-focused. Act as an editor at large, finding and sharing lots of interesting stuff. Yes, you can drop one of your messages into the stream every now and then. But if you want to create and maintain interest, you'll need to be selfless with the content you curate and the presence you construct.
As you proceed, you'll pick up more followers, and find interesting people to follow. You'll identify influencers. And if you do it right, you'll become a valued member of the community, one who others rely upon for great information. You'll be creating a receptive audience for key messages, and positive relationships with influencers who matter, and triggering a loop of incredibly valuable attention, interaction and opportunity. We call this new approach to PR and content marketing Agile Engagement.


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Pomegranate aromas and black cherry flavors, a pretty crisp mouth feel for a red, and a medium body that permits you to enjoy the long tail of this wine without the puckering and drying of heavy tannins. Like a newborn horse it's not perfectly balanced, but it's serviceable for an evening in with a good movie and the dogs at my feet. I enjoyed it on a Thursday night with a slab of Cognac-flavored pork paté and some crackers.


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Is theistic religion a consolation?
Theistic Religion can be a consolation in some scenarios, but not all. It has tended to be largely negative throughout history with many deaths and much sadness caused. Whilst people may find comfort in their beliefs, it should be noted that this comfort is from delusion. They are believing in superstition and the supernatural for purely emotional reasons, without the backing of empirical evidence.
It may be argued from a Utilitarian standpoint that as long as there is a benefit on some level, then the belief is justified. To keep true to this Utilitarian assessment though, the negatives of a belief should be assessed as well. It can easily be argued that any acceptance of concepts which contradict empirical information weaken those holding the belief. Consider that "ignorance is bliss", for example the ignorance of the soon-to-be victim of a serial killer, might better be described as "ignorance is vulnerability". Certainly the victim's belief in god would not have been more valuable then the knowledge of who was sneaking up behind them.
When considering a religions benefit (theistic or otherwise), one should also consider its effect on others, and has been. For example; Christianity has obvious consolatory benefits for someone, but the negatives have included oppression, depression, racism, sexism and homophobia.


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I recently looked at a house that needed some things done to help it sell.
I recently looked at a house that needed some things done to help it sell. This is an important thing that comes up frequently these days when folks find out what a buyer's market truly is.
A buyer's market is one in which advantages favor the buyer in a home sale. In other words, the stars are aligned in such a way to allow buyers to find great deals a bit more easily than sellers to do the same.
Some of issues facing buyers are affordable interest rates, affordable house prices, and a large enough selection to find the ideal home. All three of these conditions are currently being met, hence it's a buyers market.
It should not be viewed as a detriment for home-sellers, but it may make it a bit more difficult. If everything is in place, buyers will buy. That's straightforward. What isn't quite as straight up is getting them to buy the one you're selling.
But all is not lost: There are a few simple things you can do as a seller to help the process. First among the many things you can do is create a striking visual for a potential buyer. Commonly called curb appeal, it is the first impression a buyer has when they view a house.
This viewing may be in person, but is just likely to come about by viewing a picture online. Either way, the adage is, you get only one chance to make a good first impression.
Clearing clutter from the front yard is essential; keep the yard gnome stashed away for your new digs. Same goes for the Christmas lights hanging from the eaves, too.
Some other to-do items: If it's broke, fix it. If it looks old, paint it. If it drives, park it somewhere else. That includes bikes, motorcycles, campers, motor homes, classic cars, and especially that old beater of a truck.
Yard decorations should be kept to an absolute minimum. Let buyers decide what is right — give them a blank canvas. The basics of raking, mowing, snow shoveling, grass planting, etc., all need attention too.
Next time you come home, look at the house like you did the first time you saw it. Try to see what potential new owners want to see About the House.
Rob Kinsey has been a licensed builder for 30 years and is a home inspector with nearly 20 years of experience.


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New Study Shows Beer Industry Contributes $6.9 Billion Annually to Pennsylvania Economy
Apr 08, 2009, 13:44 ET from National Beer Wholesalers Association
Data Shows Quality Jobs, Solid Wages, and Overall Economic Impact
"Beer distributors are proud providers of 95,000 quality jobs with solid wages and great benefits in every state and congressional district across the country," said
"America's brewing industry continues to play a pivotal role in supporting this nation's economic viability," said
According to the study, the beer industry directly employs 33,874 people in
"In addition to providing quality jobs with solid wages, the three-tier beer distribution system provides transparency and accountability and works to keep American consumers safe," added NBWA President
Nationally, the beer industry directly and indirectly contributes more than
"These numbers demonstrate that our industry is essential to several sectors of the U.S. economy, particularly as the nation struggles to regain its footing in this uncertain climate," said
In addition to strengthening the
The Economic Impact study was conducted by
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) represents the interests of 2,800 licensed, independent beer distributor operations in every state, congressional district and media market across the country. Beer distributors are committed to ensuring alcohol is provided safely and responsibly to consumers of legal drinking age through the three-tier, state-based system of alcohol regulation and distribution. To learn more about America's Beer Distributors, visit http://www.nbwa.org.
The Beer Institute, established in 1986, is the national trade association for the brewing industry, representing both large and small brewers, as well as importers and industry suppliers. The Institute is committed to the development of sound public policy and to the values of civic duty and personal responsibility: http://www.beerinstitute.org/
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A search and rescue operation is underway tonight for two kayakers believed to be missing in treacherous water off Sydney's northern beaches.
A witness reported seeing two kayakers off Long Reef headland this afternoon who appeared to be in distress.
Stephen Leahy, chief executive of the Westpac Life Saver Helicopter Rescue Service, said the witness then saw one of the kayakers come out of their kayak and swim towards the other, with both kayakers then swept further out to sea.
The witness phoned the police, triggering the rescue operation.
Sydney was hit with gale force winds today and Mr Leahy said the water was "very, very choppy" and that there was a lot of sea mist.
The Westpac helicopter was tonight sweeping the northern beaches from Manly to Avalon, up to 8 kilometers out to sea.
The crew are using a thermo-imaging camera to try to locate the kayakers.
No reports have been received of missing persons so far.


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CWC plays well on both sides of ball
The Carmi-White County Bulldogs, coming off of their second consecutive home loss on the season, came to McLeansboro Friday night looking for a win.
But more than just a win, Coach Kurt Simon was looking for a better effort out of his team. He was pleased with the team's effort in a 49-12 win over the Foxes.
"I thought the kids played well," said Simon. "We did some multiple things out of lots of different formations. I still think we have a lot of room for improvement in the passing game. But, we made a step tonight."
The game started off with a strong showing by the Foxes on their opening drive. They moved the ball down the field well, but the drive stalled out and the Bulldogs took over. Quarterback Chase Sailer and the offense moved down the field and scored a touchdown on a Dylan Rankin six-yard run, with Sailer adding the extra point. The Bulldogs were up 7-0 at the end of the first.
All the Bulldogs managed to do in the next two quarters were add 42 points to the board.
Lukas Matsel and Sailer both added one-yard touchdown runs to the score in the first half of the second quarter.
Wesley May of the Foxes was able to break an 88-yard kick return for a touchdown to get Hamilton Co. on the scoreboard with six minutes to go in the second.
But the Bulldogs continued to move the ball well and Sailer hit Ryan Farr with under a minute to go in the second with a 33-yard pass that Farr juggled and pulled in to score. CWC took a 28-6 lead into halftime.
Earlier in the game, Brett Short ran the ball to the goal line, but was denied on a diving attempt. At the start of the third quarter, Hamilton Co. kicked off to CWC and Short was determined to cross that goal line. Short took the kick and ran it 85 yard for a quick touchdown early in the third.
Simon said that with the first three games being a bit tighter, new faces got a chance to shine in this win.
"The first few games were nail-biters the whole way and guys like Brett (Short) have come along in practice," said Simon. "He had a great game."
Matsel took a second run into the end zone for six and Rankin took an interception 65 yards to the house for the final points of the third quarter.
Simon and the Bulldogs have been battling injuries early this season, so a 49-6 lead going into the fourth quarter meant a good chance for the younger players to get some playing time and experience.
"It is always good to see the younger guys get some playing time," said Simon. "As much hard work as they put in week in and week out, to see some of those kids get a chance to play and contribute was great. And when they got in and got opportunities they did a great job. I am really proud of them."
The Foxes did manage another score in the fourth on a 28-yard run by May against the Bulldog second-team defense.
Sailer was 8-10 for 71 yards and a touchdown in the passing game. Rankin led the team in rushing with 10 carries for 71 yards. Farr led the team in receiving with three catches for 34 yards.
Defensively the Bulldogs were led in tackles by Weller with six tackles (six solo), Rankin had a 65-yard interception with a touchdown and Dillman had a two yard interception. Josh Burtis recorded a sack.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State service leaders on the Council of LionHearts, in partnership with the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, have coordinated a day of service March 1 to provide students with a free alternative to drinking and to make a positive contribution within the surrounding community.
This event acts as a symbol of support for the local community on State Patty's Day, an event that brings excessive drinking and community disruption. As an alternative, State Day of Service will provide students with a variety of service opportunities that allow them to give back to, and connect with, local community members. The hope is that students will participate in activities that make Penn State proud and inspire them to engage in future service projects.
State Day of Service will consist of more than 25 different service opportunities. Some students will be doing service as early as Friday (Feb. 28), while the majority of people will be meeting Saturday morning (March 1) at 9 a.m. in Heritage Hall or Freeman Auditorium. Students will have the opportunity to participate in service projects ranging from working outside at the Arboretum and cleaning the streets downtown to volunteering at a shelter for retired racing greyhounds. The event is free and open to all students. To sign up, students should visit http://volunteer.psu.edu. The first 1,000 to sign up will receive a free drawstring bag.
This will be the fourth year that the Council of LionHearts coordinates an alternative to the student-created drinking holiday. However, the goal remains the same: to provide meaningful service activities in the State College area and show the community what it really means to be a Penn Stater. To track progress and reflections throughout the day, volunteers will be asked to tweet from their service locations using #SDOS2014.
The Penn State Council of LionHearts, established in 2004, is a student organization comprised of service representatives from Penn State's most active service organizations. For additional information, visit http://studentaffairsblogs.psu.edu/lionhearts/. For additional information about IFC, visit pennstateIFC.org. For more information about the Panhellenic Council, visit pennstatePHC.org.
Rebecca Davies
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Pamela Gramlich
Panhellenic Council
Chris Burnside
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Let's face it: The new Avengers movie is one of the best comic-book-to-film adaptation to come out in a long time (thanks, Joss Whedon). Given its big-budget status and plethora of superheroes, it only stands to reason that the next step is a film-to-video game adaptation, and that apparently has already begun.
Marvel, through brand protection firm MarkMonitor, has registered the domain for Avengers: Battle for Earth and it is currently sitting on Ubisoft servers.
The fact that Ubisoft is involved is puzzling, since Marvel's VP of games production TQ Jefferson told Forbes that the new movie game would be coming from Disney, which purchased the comics giant in 2009. Jefferson also said that Sega would no longer be involved with the games and Disney Interactive would take over. Marvel: Avengers Alliance is already a Facebook game through Disney's Playdom brand.
In late 2011, videos surfaced on YouTube showing an Avengers game being developed by THQ's Studio Australia before it was closed down. The videos were removed soon after the story broke.
Ubisoft refused to comment, but we've also reached out to Marvel and Disney to see what gamers can expect in the way of an Avengers game. Whether it comes from Ubisoft or Disney, something is brewing.


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Not all airlines would marvel at the idea of landing a plane in Yemen's war-torn capital Sana'a, let alone to repeat the feat not once, but regularly over a sustained period. But, the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service often operates flights to places commercial carriers would never go. In 2015, as major airlines pulled out of Yemen citing growing unrest, UNHAS Yemen was just being activated. Almost one year later and several flights down the line, the service has extended its activities in order to better respond to needs.
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Global food production has reached an all-time high, however one-third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted - approximately 1.3 billion tons. Post-harvest food loss is one of the leading causes of food insecurity for millions of farm families around the world, impacting their nutrition, health, and financial stability. Here's how the World Food Programme's supply chain expertise is helping to achieve Zero Loss for Zero Hunger:
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As Chief Air Transport Officer, Pascal Vuillet leads operations for the WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) in Ethiopia. UNHAS provides passenger air services for the humanitarian community, enabling them to reach and carry out life-saving work with isolated populations in some of the world's most remote and challenging locations that are not served by commercial airlines. He took the time recently to speak with us about his job, the highlight of his time working for WFP, and what it takes to head operations in Ethiopia every day. This is what he had to say.
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This morning when I woke up these are some things that I saw posted on Facebook. Coincidental? I don't think so! God is beyond any words I know! I am so thankful He is my Father!!
Praise God while I slept He was busy bringing comfort to me this morning! I celebrated by praising and thanking Him for everything I needed to see first thing this morning! Then I put two marshmallows in my favorite coffee (it is just a two marshmallow kind of day)! Thank God it is a new day and His mercies are new each morning!
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Friday, March 18, 2011
3D mammography
MGH Imaging attains a medical first
The MGH celebrated a medical milestone March 7, when the Breast Imaging Division scanned the first U.S. patient using breast tomosynthesis, a revolutionary three-dimensional (3D) mammogram imaging technology.
Pioneered by the division after more than a decade of research, breast tomosynthesis recently received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The scan is performed at the same time as a conventional mammogram using the same scanner, which moves in an arc over the patient rather than remaining stationary. The process, however, produces multiple images, rather than a single two-dimensional frame, allowing radiologists to move back and forth through multiple image slices.
"Like flipping through the pages of a book, the radiologist is now able to look at one page at a time instead of seeing the whole breast reduced to a single frame, as is the case with standard mammography," says Elizabeth Rafferty, MD, director of the MGH Breast Imaging Division.
In addition to improving detection, the new technology can help rule out abnormalities that might appear suspicious in a traditional two-dimensional mammogram. This reduces the need for additional imaging or biopsies.
Breast tomosynthesis is available for annual mammogram screening as well as for diagnostic purposes. For more information, access www.3Dmammo.org.
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Before this tour of Europe began, the All Black selectors would have known their preferred XV.
Give or take a few choices, Steve Hansen, Ian Foster and Grant Fox would have rocked up to a selection meeting and red-inked about a dozen of their favoured side.
There would have been some in-depth banter about choices at left wing, lock and blindside flanker, a few thoughts about halfback and some more light-hearted chat about which of the two mature hookers was leading their selection tussle.
Then the wise trio would have gone about splitting up their travelling group of 32 while making sure they retained a number of combinations they wanted to consolidate.
This weekend against Italy at Stadio Olimpico they are running the best midfield of Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith and praying neither gets dinged as the back-up has dwindled.
Up front, Tony Woodcock and Keven Mealamu get back into their frontrow work together while Kieran Read rocks up with the captain's armband for the first time as he and halfback Aaron Smith go about their business.
They are building blocks and another way of oiling the test team patterns before the full weight of the All Blacks is sent out against Wales and England.
And if the selectors wanted to feel a little bit of the heat which has favoured the side in their stay in Rome, they would like some options at wing, lock and blindside flanker.
The reserves bench, too. Beauden Barrett has talent which suggests he can cover five-eighths, wing and fullback, which makes him a more valuable replacement than Aaron Cruden.
And can Charlie Faumuina show he can anchor a scrum better at tighthead than Ben Franks and move up a rung because of the extra front-rower on the bench rule?
Those subs' roles will evolve and may be influenced by injury.
So the strong starting heat comes at lock, blindside and left wing.
Liam Messam has made the most of his elevation since his recall to the squad and direct entry to start at blindside in Hamilton against Ireland.
When Victor Vito was damaged in the first test of that series then Read hurt in the next, Messam was called into the squad and immediate action.
It was a watershed moment for the 28-year-old who had been an All Black since 2008 without quite making his best impact. When he missed out on the World Cup squad last year, it seemed the selectors' patience had eked away as well.
But there is nothing like happenstance or fortune or a set of issues to galvanise a player.
Messam knew it.
He was on his hometrack in Hamilton, he was in the All Blacks but there was a blowtorch aimed at his muscularly athletic frame.
"It was a bit of a breakthrough, I guess, I wanted to show what I could do," he said. "I wanted to go out and have a crack and it paid off."
That test complete, Messam carried on as the starting blindside flanker throughout the Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship except when he was used from the bench against the Pumas.
Adam Thomson started that game but his moderate form then stupid footwork against Scotland last week ruled him out of contesting the best test XV.
Messam's opposition is coming from Victor Vito, who is seen as the back-up to Read but can also use his immense talents in the No6 jersey.
One lock will be Sam Whitelock. His best partner for the final two tests may change depending on the opposition.
Brodie Retallick has had an exceptional season for someone so inexperienced. His skills and work-rate stand out and he is what Ali Williams used to be: a wide-ranging mobile man, who duked it out with the best at lineout and scrum, manned up in defence and topped it off by his impressive athletic ball-playing skills.
Perhaps Williams will find those treasures once more this weekend and if he does, it will be his turn to give us the "nah-nah-na-nah-nah" routine.
But at this stage Retallick and Luke Romano seem to be squaring off for the test start, perhaps getting one each with Retallick against Wales and the heavier Romano ready for a clunking afternoon of duty at Twickenham.
Out on the left wing, take your pick between Hosea Gear and Julian Savea.
The latter pitched up against Scotland and while he can lose his compass on defence, his impact sent a huge challenge Gear's way this weekend.
Savea gets another chance as well because of the injuries to Israel Dagg, Tamati Ellison and Ben Smith, to add or subtract from that performance in Edinburgh.
They will all face substantial challenges. The forwards will get a taste of the physical from Italy who are a heavy duty set-piece side while all but Savea, who is getting a repeat start, will have been twitching to make a tour statement.
The danger is they will be in a hurry, they will be over-amped to make things happen quickly.
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When it comes to broadband speeds, U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) largely deliver on their promises, says a report issued today by the Federal Communications Commission, but "throughput" is only one of several metrics listed in the report that affect network performance. ISPs should provide a broadband "nutrition label"—easy-to-understand information about service-limiting factors—and users need better ways of measuring the performance their ISPs are delivering, concludes a study from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.
Out of some 2 billion Internet users worldwide, about 500 million are residential broadband users, and recent figures show that two-thirds of U.S. households are hooked up to high-speed Internet. Generally speaking, these customers' throughput—the "width" of their Internet pipeline—lives up to speeds advertised by their ISPs, says the FCC report, "Measuring Broadband America." But many home Internet users simultaneously run multiple applications that each use network resources, and the behavior of one application can affect the performance another application receives, says Nick Feamster, associate professor in the School of Computer Science.
"People should care about more than just throughput," Feamster says. "Optimal network performance depends on several other factors, but measuring these important metrics and explaining them to consumers is challenging. It goes back to transparency—we want to give users the information that will help them make the best decisions about which service plan to purchase, and to give them ways to verify that they're getting the level of service that they're paying for."
Feamster and his Ph.D. student, Srikanth Sundaresan, consulted with the FCC on its study data, which were gathered from about 10,000 homes across the United States and involved many different ISPs. Their recommendations incorporated data from both the FCC study and from an independent study, Project BISMark (http://projectbismark.net/), a new open-source router platform that allows users to continuously monitor the performance that they are getting from their ISP.
For the initial BISMark study, Feamster and Sundaresan deployed network-measurement devices in 16 homes across three ISPs in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The recommendations are spelled out in the paper, "Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway," to be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCOMM 2011 conference, Aug. 15-19 in Toronto (visit the #GTSIGCOMM website to learn more). The home routers used in BISMark (as well as the platform source code) are available too; Feamster and Sundaresan have been shipping them to home users since early 2011.
"We found that performance of U.S. ISPs more consistently matches their advertised promises than the ISPs in other countries—they do a pretty good job," Feamster says. "But at the same time, those advertisements are based on performance metrics that don't tell the full story about how users' applications will actually perform. Throughput might have been the dominant metric when the debate was dial-up versus broadband, but it no longer gives the complete picture about application performance."
Today's broadband is fast and ubiquitous enough that most applications can function well on a fraction of the throughput that most service plans offer, Feamster explains. But when several applications or activities are using the network at the same time—for example, a user might be streaming a high-definition movie while making a video call over Skype—or when many other users are simultaneously on the network, that's when performance can suffer. Often the network gives preference to activities or users with the biggest bandwidth appetites and leaves the rest foraging for scraps.
One key factor is "latency," a general term that refers to several kinds of delays incurred in the processing of network data. For instance, in the "last mile" of connectivity to a household—the final leg of connectivity from the ISP to the home—data errors and packet loss often crop up at a disproportionate rate, and these can significantly impair activities like streaming video or voice over IP services. To minimize this problem, ISPs often perform error correction in the last mile, which comes at the cost of some additional delay.
"They're basically introducing a time lapse that, if you scaled it out to the appropriate physical distance, would equate to half the width of the country," Feamster says. "So, if you're a gamer and you chose your service plan based solely on throughput speed, you might not receive the level of service you expected."
Feamster and Sundaresan also found that certain cable and DSL modems can introduce excessive latency, depending on the activities and applications that users are performing in their homes. "Any user who has noticed that certain activities like uploading photos can render the network unusable has been a victim of excessive buffering, or 'bufferbloat,'" Feamster says.
In addition to proposing an Internet "nutrition label" that would detail network performance in terms of throughput, latency and other measurements, Feamster and Sundaresan have included mechanisms in the BISMark router to give priority to latency-sensitive applications like Skype so that they might function normally while their hungrier counterparts eat up the remaining bandwidth. If throughput can be thought of as the number of lanes on the Information superhighway, the new technique in the BISMark router provides an "HOV lane" for voice and video traffic, so that the real-time traffic doesn't get stuck waiting for your photos to finish uploading.
"Consumers need better tools for understanding whether their home network is performing as well as it should. A major part of making this possible is giving users an easy way to monitor their home network activity and performance over time, which is our vision for the BISMark router," Feamster says. "For example, I can see that, in the past few days, the performance of my access ISP has been declining during peak hours.
"Ultimately, we envision the platform enabling applications that solve a much wider range of problems," he continues, "such as giving users the ability to manage usage caps that ISPs are now instating, to implement parental controls or to diagnose performance problems inside the home itself."
Brendan Streich


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Wow...that was just...*speechless*
I've been waiting for this forever, and it doesn't dissapoint! Its vastly different from Parakiss anime, which is just great! The OP and ED were awesome, though I perfer the ed song over the op I liked the op animation XD Lots of hints for things to come.
I thought it stayed true to the manga, even though the time order was reveresed, but that isn't a problem.
Also, I seriously hope this at least 26 episodes, hopefully longer! If they were to follow the manga and did 26 episodes they would stop around volume 8-9ish, and that's when things get good Ah well, can't have everything, right?
Enjoyed this ALOT, one of the best anime shows this season, methinks ^^;
|2006-04-05, 21:11
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This comment had me very curious. As someone who studies animation, I am wondering what exactly you were expecting out of an animated adaptation? Additionally, I am really interested in which manga-to-anime adaptations you consider to be noteworthy. =3
|2006-04-05, 22:01
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I'm so happhy I've been waiting for this show to come out, i've been counting the days. The screen caps look great, I cant wait to get a copy of the raw. Oh and personaly I hope they do 52 episodes for this show. It would be so much better that way
|2006-04-06, 03:57
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Do we have any word on interested fansubers? Is this in the Noitamina slot? Also what other animehas Asaka Morio directed? i think ir ecognize the name from CLAMP works?
To be fair about ParaKiss's pacing (at least till the last ep) the manga too was paced much faster than Nana, probably partly as it was serialized in VERY small chapters in a Fashion magazine unlike most manga
|2006-04-06, 04:50
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I just saw the screenshots of Nana, getting very excited over the anime at the moment. I love the manga and really glad that it is being turn into an anime, about time!! I must say the screenshots look good, too bad I don't understand Japanese, would've download the raw in an instant if I did. Now just have to wait patiently for the subs.
|2006-04-06, 09:16
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I don't mind so much ParaKiss's anime adaptation as much as fans of the manga...I didn't really like many of the characters anyway. ^^;;
|2006-04-06, 09:26
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Originally Posted by raphaël
Though the animation is satisfying, nothing great comes out of it, like you would be expecting from such a great original work. You just wish there was more...
Argh, that's a good question! Especially as i've never wanted to take part in those endless and pointless " which is better manga or anime" debates...
Actually, your question somehow makes me realize i'm more of a manga-addict than a anime-fan ( maybe because i can listen to music while reading. lol). That's why i'm quite touchy when it comes to adaptations.
Anyways i found a good example to prove i'm wrong amongst Animesuki releases : Mushishi. I only watched the first episode, because i thought i might save the rest for later. ^^
In my humble opinion, this anime is technically perfect. Though, when i got to have a look at the original manga i was somehow surprised. The art is a bit too dark, too rough to be easily readable. And i sort of like simple lines ( Kitô Mohiro, for instance). In the anime, the colors and the "simplified" art makes it so much better i couldn't say anything but "woa...".
Otherwise, i really like "Windy Tales", its art and feeling. The fact that it is an original scenario (if i'm not mistaken) may be one of the reason. ^^
Coming back to nana's case, i have to say i'm not especially a fan, but it's still a manga that means a lot to me, mainly because it made me change my mind about shôjo manga, which i started to read since. As i said, it's just not like any other manga. That's why i just wished they put a bit more efforts in it. Like "good is not enough", to me. lol
Nana in anime is "good", maybe "really good". But not "f... great" as the manga is.
I don't mind other adaptations to be only "really good". But Nana had to be different, in my idea. More than a mainstream thing.
I believe there's a gap between "lower-class" animation, like Ai shiteru ze Baby or Suzuka ( I'm not gonna make friends here, well, whatever...), and the rest. Don't get me wrong, i watched them from the beginning to the end, so i think i can tell.
Then you have Bleach, Yakitate, Karin and else, which i really enjoy, because of the rythm, the voices ( Matsushiro Ken rules!!!), and maybe because i haven't read the manga. Of course, i'm thankful to animesuki and all the fansubbing teams who brought all of these. Weren't they there, i would be still reading my stuff without trying to get to know something else.
Then again you have "upper-class" anime, like Mushishi, Noein, Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo, Ichigo Mashimaro, Lain, etc... even from a only technical point of view i'm sure you won't disagree with me when i say you can't compare them with the others i mentioned.
My only problem is that from what i've seen so far, i just can't rank Nana in the upper-class, and believe me i wish i did...
I know you'll tell me i don't know a thing about animation, or that everything's just a matter of taste. That's why i'm keeping on saying this is just my very personal opinion. My english is bad so i can't really express it correctly. It just looks like i'm the only one feeling a bit disappointed here, so i guess i'm wrong, in the end...
I just hope you understood what i mean
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Nana episode 1 raw
Good first epsiode. Nana is now at the top of my list for the new season, along with Suzumiya Haruhi.
I liked the movie, but this is much better so far. They stick pretty close to the look of the manga, and the characters work better for me. It took a while to get used to the voices -- and maybe I'm still adjusting to Nana Komatsu (light Nana) -- but they were good choices, and the real human voices bring the manga characterization to life. The voice of Nana Oohashi (dark Nana) was a little rougher than I expected, but I got used to it fast. The voice of Nana K adds a certain strength that threw me at first, but is interesting. This first ep helped me get into the characters more than either the movie or the first part of the manga did.
Gunslinger Girl and Rozen Maiden do not actually recommend the director to me, but this ep was well conceived, well constructed and well paced. It showed a nice touch.
The sketchy animation of the faces is based on the manga, but maybe doesn't work quite as well in anime. The exaggerated motion of Nana K's mouth babbling on the train didn't work for me, for example. In fact, I found Nana O's voice and look a little more effective than Nana K's. Maybe I just miss the very first part of chapter one, which I think really fleshes out Nana K's character (so to speak). I guess they thought her early dalliance was a bit heavy to start with.
But this is mere quibble. Seemed like a great start to me. At the end, when Nana K said she almost cried, tears came to my eyes, too.
By the way, I love ParaKiss. It had its problems, and so far I like this better, but I like Kobayashi Osamu's work, or at least I've liked both Beck and ParaKiss. It is true that it was not especially true to the feel of the manga, but I thought it was a good anime.
And I am totally in love with both the OP and the ED.
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|2006-04-06, 22:37
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I am actually just getting through Mushishi myself, and I see what you mean by excellent animation.
I must say that shoujo manga is a lot harder to do "exceptional" things with as far as animation goes, because of the style of the stories. Though if you want to see a GREAT animated adaptation of a shoujo manga, I highly recommend Hachimitsu to Clover (Honey and Clover), as I think I like it better than the manga. ^^;
But back to Nana...I haven't read through the entire manga yet, and actually my first impression of Nana was through the movie, which I loved--mostly for the cinematography and the music.
|2006-04-07, 05:12
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The raw is still downloading for me, so I'm still yet to see this episode. I have quite high hopes for it though, because reviews said that it's faithful to the manga. I like the movie but with the limitation of time they had to cut a lot of things. So far I've seen the OP & ED only.
OP: I like Nakashima Mika's voice better for Nana, but the song is better than Glamorous Sky (my favourite "Blast" song is still Isolation).
ED: Opposite to the above... I like Olivia's voice better than Yuna Ito's, but the song is so-so. The funny thing is that I always thought "Journey" from Yuna's single sounds like an anime ending. Is there a possibility that they would use it as ED? Well, most likely not, but a girl can dream.
From the screencaps, the character designs and colors look nice. Hachi's face needs some getting used to. One thing I want to hear the most is how Paku Romi would sound as a woman, rather than an adolescent boy.
raphaël: It's interesting that you put Bleach as good adaptation, because I'm personally quite annoyed with some of the changes the anime made. But you said you never read the manga, so that may be why. Also, Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop (both of which totally rock, btw) are not manga adaptations because the anime came first.
|2006-04-07, 05:45
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Finally done downloading the raw . I just watched it and I have to say that the animation is really good. I still have to get used to Hachi's round face though but it would work out just fine.
The OP and ED songs were in my opinion both nice. They sounded ok in my ears when hearing them for the first time. Sometimes I've got problems with songs , when hearing for the first time I'll think it sucks but when hearing for 3/4 more times it would sound better and better.....well I'm just kinda weird sometimes
But anyways, I can't wait for the next episode! I have to fill my days with other (new)anime until the next Nana.....
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I'm also glad you noticed Mushishi too.
About Honey and Clover, i didn't mention it because the heroin Hagu just really gets on my nerves, but it's indeed really good animation, maybe "upper-class". lol and i really enjoy the humor and all the male characters.
But this would be better written in another topic
I agree with you about the shoûjo-style scenario. You're completely right.
So, anyways, from now on, we just have to wait for wednesdays, right?
Rhys, you're right too. I wasn't really "mistaken", actually, those titles just popped out when i was trying to remember what's great animation to me. ( who know that guy who looks stupid and who's just doing what he can to save himself. lol yes yes, i really knew!)
And you guessed right about Bleach. Maybe i'd be upset too if i read the manga. I'll ask you more about that in the proper thread.
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O n July 1, the Charlotte County Commission held a special public hearing regarding the proposed East and West Spring Lake Wastewater MSBU pilot program. I organized a presentation to the board regarding the central sewer program — an important decision critical to the health and safety related to their identified key focus area: water quality.
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Hey there, genea-lovers, it's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) How old is your great-grandfather now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."
2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ahnentafel (ancestor name list). Who is that person?
3) Tell us three facts about that person with the "roulette number."
4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook or Google Plus note or comment, or as a comment on this blog post.
5) If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then spin the wheel again - pick a grandparent, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!
1) Which great-grandfather? I'll choose the one I actually met when I was very young, Clyde J. Wyman Day. He was born 19 Jul 1880, so if he were alive today, he would be 131 years old. Dividing by four, I get 32.75, rounded up makes my ahnentafel number 33.
2) My #33 person is Cynthia (Batman) Dillman.
3) A) She was born on 20 Feb 1809 in Harrison County, Indiana, and died on 16 Jan 1878 in Crawford County, Indiana.
B) She married Michael Dillman, my paternal great-great-great grandfather, on 08 Oct 1831 in Harrison County, Indiana. Their marriage is documented in the collection Indiana Marriages 1811-1859.
C) Cynthia was buried in Dillman Cemetery near Curby, Crawford County, Indiana. I have visited and photographed her gravesite several times.
4) You're reading my blog post.
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There has got to be some way to get entropy to understand that some package is just none of its business to mess with, and should even be a way for it to pretend that the package is installed so that things that depend on it can still install (albeit possibly broken install) things that depend on it.
I use portage for a couple of packages. One or two of those do exist in entropy. I am well aware of the dangers and possibilities of things getting broken.
Anyway there are reasons why I use portage for those packages so I put them in entropy package.mask to get entropy to leave them alone. Sadly... as I knew would happen, all this did was to remind me later which packages I may need to emerge (that's good), but it also prevented entropy from doing world updates because there is no best effort option for an "equo world".
I realize that this functionality can horribly break lots of dependancies... yada yada.. no seriously... I know. Package.provided is probably safer than a --force option of some kind to equo becasue it's less obvious how to use it, so noobs won't be too tempted to just "force" it, but it's less safe in that it allows reverse depends to still be installed, so both options would be good. One far from redeeming(can be don other ways) good thing about entropy abusing the world file by placing every single installed package in it, is that at least equo would still do it's best to install absolutely everything else... including packages that are only needed for the "provided" package. Then the re-emerges could deviate from entropy as minimially as possible to meet it's depends at least if one is careful about the emerge options.
Am I missing an option somewhere?