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Queensland will have to overcome a 15-year Origin hoodoo to win this year's State of Origin series.
That's how long it's been since the Maroons came from 1-0 down to win rugby league's Holy Grail.
Queensland will also have to overcome a woeful record of five losses and a draw in six matches at Telstra Stadium, where the Blues have outscored the Maroons on average 24 to 11 (148 to 70pts).
Since Origin switched to a best-of-three-series in 1982, the state winning the first game has captured the title 16 times with two of those series - in 1999 and 2002 - ending in controversial draws.
Coming from 1-0 down has only been achieved three times, twice by Queensland, in 1982 and 1987, and by the Blues in 1994.
While Queensland has been able to keep four series alive over the years after dropping the opening game, they haven't gone on to win the decider since 1987.
On that occasion, NSW took the first game 20-16 at Lang Park while the Maroons hit back to level 12-6 at the famed SCG.
The decider was one of Origin's truly great games, Queensland taking the thrilling clash 10-8 at the "cauldron" with Alfie Langer man of the match.
The Maroons couldn't repeat the effort in 1992 after squaring the series with a nailbiting 5-4 Lang Park win, the Blues getting home 16-4 in the decider this time with another halfback, Ricky Stuart, winning man-of-the-match honours.
Last year, Queensland came from 1-0 down to retain the title with a drawn series after an 18-18 result in the Sydney decider.
Origin's second draw in the past four series has prompted the introduction this year of a "no limit" golden-point rule in the event the scores are level after 80 minutes of battle.
Recent history is on Queensland's side, at least for Origin II this year, with no team having won back-to-back matches since NSW made a clean sweep of the 2000 series.


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Top 100 Seniors
Top 100 Sophomores
Top 100 Freshmen
to Attend College a Wise Choice For
This Year's Top-Ranked Juniors
high-school baseball players invariably face difficult decisions each
year on whether to attend college, or skip college and play at the
professional level immediately.
ultimate goal for most, regardless of the route taken, is to play
Major League Baseball, and various studies on the topic are
inconclusive whether players have a better chance of achieving their
goal by attending college first or starting their pro careers.
as players that are drafted out of high school, history has shown
that players who elect to attend college generally have roughly an
equal chance of being drafted (a.) in a higher round out of college
than they were out of high school, (b.) in approximately the same
round and (c.) in a lower round.
player on the accompanying list of the nation's Top 100 College
Juniors is projected to fall into the first category when the
2012 draft is conducted in June. Unless they stumble this spring, all
100 should profit from their decision to attend college first before
playing pro ball. That includes Stanford shortstop Kenny Diekroeger,
who holds the distinction of being the highest unsigned high-school
pick from the 2009 draft to be eligible for this year's draft.
was a second-round selection of the Texas Rangers out of a California
high school, and gambled that he could improve his draft position by
spurning the Rangers and attending Stanford for three years. That
gamble appears to be paying off as Diekroeger projects as a
first-round pick in June—even as he comes off a relatively-subpar
sophomore season for the Cardinal.
State righthander Jake Barrett (third round), Virginia righthander
Branden Kline (sixth round) and California lefthander Justin Jones
(seventh round) are other college players drafted in the first 10
rounds in 2009 that should safely improve their draft stock as
college juniors, although Barrett has been bothered somewhat by a
sore arm in the pre-season that has curtailed his workload.
a total of 43 players listed among the nation's Top 100 Juniors
weren't even drafted out of high school three years ago, including
four returning players that were selected a year ago for the first
time as draft-eligible sophomores. Among those who weren't drafted
out of high school but have a solid shot of being drafted in the
first round in June are Texas A&M righthander Michael Wacha (No.
6 overall in the Top 100), San Francisco righthander Kyle Zimmer (No.
11), Stony Brook outfielder Travis Jankowski (No. 14), Jacksonville
outfielder Adam Brett Walker (No. 15) and Rice righthander J.T.
Chargois (No. 16).
but the 6-foot-6 Wacha were relative unknowns to scouts coming out of
high school, and obviously made a prudent choice in attending
college, and developing their games at that level.
every high-school player develops at the same pace in college as
Wacha, or from the time he enrolls in school to a point, generally
three years later, when he is eligible for the draft again as a
junior. We've taken Perfect Game's list of the Top 100 College Freshmen from 2010, and identified where those players are now
and what their prospects are for the 2012 draft.
total of 39 players were ranked in the Top 100 then and are still
ranked in the Top 100 now, including Stanford righthander Mark Appel
(No. 5 then, No. 1 now) and Arizona State shortstop Deven Marrero
(No. 4 then, No. 2 now), the two top-ranked college juniors for the
2012 draft. Appel entered college as an unsigned 15th round pick of the Detroit Tigers, Marrero an unsigned 17th-round
selection of the Cincinnati Reds
both players have significantly enhanced their draft standing by
attending college vs. signing out of high school, although both would
have been drafted much higher three years ago had they not been so
intent on attending college and made those feelings known.
Wacha is the classic exhibit this year of the player that has
enhanced his draft position after being passed over altogether out of
high school, Florida catcher Mike Zunino, and Georgia Southern
teammates Chris Beck and Victor Roache are three obvious college
players drafted out of high school that have done as much as anyone
to bolster their stock for this year's draft. They rank 3-4-5 among
the nation's top juniors.
(29th round), Beck (35th round) and Roache
(25th round) were all mid-round drafts out of high school,
and none projected to emerge as first-rounders three years later.
Zunino was ranked the 33rd best freshman in the nation two
years ago, while Roache was at 86 and Beck wasn't ranked at all.
All three made enormous strides in their games as sophomores. Zunino
was the Southeastern Conference player of the year, while Roache led
Division I schools with 30 home runs.
by Zunino, Florida has more players (six) on the list of Top 100
Juniors than any other college, and with that motherlode of talent
it's little surprise that the Gators are the nation's consensus
pre-season No. 1-ranked team. Coincidentally, Stanford follows with
five players, led by Appel, and the Cardinal is ranked No. 2 in the
country to begin the 2012 season.
Florida and Stanford as prime examples, it goes without saying that
college teams can prosper significantly from the decisions that
players make on their future coming out of high school, almost as
much as the players themselves.
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On another Friday morning just four months ago, these 20 first-graders were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
And these six educators died trying to protect them.
This week, 45 senators forgot those faces and ignored our voices. They voted against expanding background checks for gun buyers.
By the numbers
3,513 people have been killed by guns since Sandy Hook.
91 percent of Americans favor expanded background checks for gun buyers.
91 percent of Florida voters favor expanded background checks for gun buyers.
$21 million was spent in the 2012 election cycle on federal elections by the National Rifle Association.


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VENICE — Pitching, timely hitting and solid fundamentals all played key roles for Venice High School in its 2-0 win over Lemon Bay on Friday night.
Venice looked to make a statement early as Katelin Davis led off the game with a triple to the wall in right-center. She scored two pitches later when Taylor Baker connected for a single to right.


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Today's the last day of New York Fashion Week, that twice-yearly ritual at which retailers and editors give us a look at what we're going to be craving in spring. Big this year: prints. Whimsical prints.
To get a bead on what looks like a swing back away from minimalism, Morning Edition guest host David Greene talks to Sally Singer, editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
"A woman only needs so many pairs of chic black pants," Singer says. "Or so many cream jackets. What does she need now? She needs a dress covered in birds — or that's what the [retailers] hope."
There's more on that — and on how the urge to stay fashion-forward might conflict with fears that the economy might soon be moving in reverse — in the audio above.
And in that photo gallery, courtesy of my colleague Nina Gregory out at NPR West, there's just shy of a dozen examples of work from designers Singer says are addressing a whole new generation of fashionistas — and who have "the capacity and the drive" to be the next gang of Tommys and Calvins and Ralphs.
Go on, look at 'em full-screen. You know you wanna.
DAVID GREENE, host: Today is the last day of New York Fashion Week, that twice yearly ritual where retailers and editors decide what they think we want to buy in the spring. To give us a peek, we spoke with Sally Singer. She's the editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and she joins us from our New York Bureau. Sally, good morning.
SALLY SINGER: Good morning.
GREENE: So what are the trends in fashion you're seeing? What is my wife going to be telling me that she wishes she could buy next spring?
SINGER: Next spring your wife is going to want to wear a print is what the New York Designers are saying. In fact, she might want to wear three prints, and there might be like a neon streak in them somewhere, certainly more whimsical than we've seen fashion in some time.
GREENE: Whimsical prints? Why does fashion seem to be going in that direction with women's clothing heading to the spring?
SINGER: I think a few things. We saw in Europe, for the fall, some wonderful prints of pansies and cats and dogs, and the like, so you have a surge out of Europe for print and color. That's one thing. On the - the other thing is that we've been in a pretty minimal period, and, you know, that plays itself out with the retailers. A woman only needs so many pairs of chic black pants or so many cream jackets.
What does she need now? She needs a dress covered in birds. And - or that's the hope.
GREENE: Well, what's the mood of the retailers who are sitting out in the audience with you?
SINGER: You know, I feel this season they seem upbeat. I mean, cautiously upbeat.
GREENE: Sure.
SINGER: But more upbeat than I've seen in a while. It might be that they've seen, and I hear this, that those who have money seem to be shopping and seem to be consuming in a way that might be out of step with what we've just read on the front page of the paper, that the poverty rates are the highest they've been in decades, I think.
So it just might be that the top end of retail is sustaining itself, which is exciting for the retailers who sit at the shows because they know that what they're buying from these shows will get to somebody.
GREENE: So some of the brands that are at these shows are certainly familiar to our audience, I mean big American designers: Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger. Who are the young designers who are going to be those future Calvins and Tommys?
SINGER: Well, I think this week, so far, we've really seen a new generation emerge who have the capacity, the drive, the sort of at oneness with their customer to build those sorts of brands. There's Alexander Wang, who's still exceedingly young. I don't even know if he's 25 yet. He is the go-to person for skinny, sporty, techno-ey, hipster, chic. And his show was fantastic exercise of branding.
And it wasn't a show about the future of fashion and direction and couture, it was a show about how kids want to look right now. Rag and Bone, same thing, two guys, British, fantastic line started by doing made in America jeans and shirts for men. Now they have a full line that again has everything from the sunglass to the shoes, speaks to a generation that loved rave culture, that likes a bit of historicism, nostalgia.
And I would say the third would be Olivier Theysken, who made his name doing exceeding beautiful ball gowns in Paris. He now has a line for Theory called Theysken's Theory. It's like a baggy, dropped-crotch trouser and layered, tailored jackets. And when you saw it, you thought I need all those clothes in my closet. And they cost usually under $700, which still is a lot of money. I absolutely grant you that, but isn't $7,000.
GREENE: It sounds like the headline from Fashion Week is women get ready for print season next spring.
SINGER: Or print exhaustion.
GREENE: Print exhaustion. That's Sally Singer who is editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Sally, thanks so much for being here.
SINGER: Thank you.
GREENE: You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Here's a guide to removing, dissassembling and reassembling a Cannondale Super Fatty M Headshok -apologies for the length. I'm posting this so other people can see what I did to service my fork. I did not have a lot of money; my Headshok was bottoming out constantly and felt too weak on compression. Add to that my woes of getting dirt into the needle bearings and a torn boot, and I knew I had to do some work to it. I could, of course, have sent it off to Cannondale or gone to my local bike store (big Cannondale dealer) to get if fixed and rebuilt professionally..... but factoring in a new firm spring kit, boot, labour, etc, I think I was looking at a conservative $150 minimum.
Since I already had a spare 1 1/8 headset and stem, and Manitou SX-R forks (year 2000 model) can be bought on Ebay for around $90 (add in another $40 for headset reducer cups) including all shipping, if I was going to spend around $150, I would have spent it on the latter option. In short, money talks for me and my experience with Cannondales has taught me to prefer non-proprietary bike stuff. Oh yes, I know Manitou SX-Rs aren't exactly modern technology nor the best suspension, but neither is the Headshok Super Fatty M -and since I have an SX-R on my hardtail, I knew what the fork was like -its tunability, reliability and performance were all more than adequate for me.
It can be done. I did all work by myself with no help. It can be a one person job. It's not half as bad as people will lead you to believe, and the design of the fork holds no terrible secrets -conceptually it's actually pretty simple! A cautionary note though: I found the job to be pernickety in the sense you had to do some stuff in the right order, and it makes a difference if you do. All I can say is that the order I've listed is the order I found that worked for me, and usually there's a method in the madness for a reason.
Total cost for me to regrease, put a boot on, install new needle bearings and firm ride springkit and purchase any tools I needed: about $70. It took me about 8-10 hours in total to disassemble, reassemble, disassemble and reassemble again (includes thorough degreasing and cleaning). Admittedly, I do have some tools already, but everything else I needed I use in the general maintenance of bikes and is not Cannondale specific (e.g. hammer, Slick Honey grease, Pedros degreaser, etc).
So this leads me to caveat number 1: basically I had nothing to lose. If I screwed up this fork or couldn't get if back together, it didn't really matter, I'd just go ebaying and get a set of adaptor cups and a used fork (also keep in mind I believe when you strip a Headshok, Cannondale may consider any warrantees null and void). My primary objective was to disassemble the fork and put it back together. If I could do this, I'd then invest in the necessary Cannondale parts and fit them myself. I had nothing to lose but time here.
Onto caveat number 2. Since I do not have access to top secret classified Cannondale documents regarding servicing/assembly of Headshoks, I am not privvy to torque specs or the like. This means that I put this fork back together the best way I could (Cannondale diagrams notwithstanding) using at best some guesswork and "common sense" ("common sense" here is very subjective I know. Let me reveal here I'm not a professional bike mechanic, nor am I a qualified mechanic in any area. What I have done is strip various car/motorcycle engines down and put them back together -working mind you!!!! -and my wife believes I have a natural aptitude for mechanics. Then again, she says I'm really good looking too ;^). I consider myself to be confident at mechanics..... confident in knowing when I'm out of my depth). The point here is that I'm just posting what I did -I am by no means suggesting this is the proper or appropriate way to safely reassemble a Headshok. So here you have it, caveat number 2: You mess with your Headshok at your own risk and this posting does not constitute in any way any endorsed ways of properly servicing or assembling or reassembling Headshoks. I am also not responsible for your costs or damages incurred, personal injuries, first born child, blah blah blah. It's all your responsibility and I can't vouch for the accuracy of this post or be responsible for any mistakes contained within.
Finally caveat number 3: I did my work on a Super Fatty M. I have no idea about any other Headshok models, they may be totally different as far as I know. The Super Fatty M is an 80mm travel spring/elastomer model with variable compression via an allen key adjustment after removing the top cap. It came as standard on my 2001 model year Jekyll.
OK, before I started this, I combed the internet looking for help. I googled, I yahooed, I did everything I could to search for any variation of the words "Cannondale Headshok Headshock assembly disassembly installation removal" etc. Let me tell you: there isn't much out there. And what there is, is hardly encouraging. Certainly Cannondale provides no technical help in the sense of stripping down a Headshok -just rather weak technical diagrams and advice such as "service at an authorized dealer every 40 hours of use". Hmmmm. Anyway, here are some helpful links I found:
http://www.fastglass.net/bike/headshok/repair.html (also has Cannondale technical diagrams in the archive. This was the site that helped me the most -not least because of the clear directions but also great photos. On the downside -and rather worrying for anyone reading it -it does not include reassembly instructions, nor the disassembly of the bearings and races).
http://www.bikeparts.com (has some Cannondale Headshok parts as well as proprietary tools such as the castlenut tool ~$35)
http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/tech/headshok.html (Cannondale's own documents for Headshoks)
http://www.cyclingforums.com/showthread.php?t=21400 (thread on Headshok disassembly)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...be9a1ca8d0cd7a (another thread on Headshok disassembly)
Some of the common themes I found in the message boards are:
(i) don't take a Headshok apart
(ii) if you do, don't ever, ever, ever take apart the needle bearings and races.
Ooops, too late. I've always been a bit pigheaded anyway -and like I said, I had nothing to lose.
old inner tube (700x23 was the best size I found)
small flat bladed screwdriver
zip ties
Slick Honey grease (does not degrade elastomer stuff)
WD-40 (helped degrease parts)
Threadlok (missing from photo)
11mm open ended wrench
Green Park SPA1 pin spanner (had to buy this from my local bike store $9)
block of wood
allen keys
old front axle
vice and workbench (well lit!)
home fashioned castlenut tool out of old door hinge (used a hacksaw and file, as well as a hammer and vice to knock this into shape).
electrical tape
rags (missing from photo)
paper towels (missing from photo)
plastic ziplock bags (missing from photo)
outer race holding tool (fancy name for an approximately 15cm length of 700x23 inner tube with valve very close to one end, zip tied at both ends)


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MANSON - The Titans of Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire qualified three wrestlers for this Saturday's Class 1A District wrestling tournament at Okoboji High School after their placings at the 1A Section al meet in Manson on Feb. 2.
Alex Hoffman at 113 pounds and Cody Thompson at 285 pounds earned championships at the Sectional to advance, while 126 pounder Austin Thompson finished second in a wrestleback to advance to the District meet.
At 113, Hoffman earned his way to the finals with a :41 win by fall and a 9-0 Major decision before winning the title with a 5-1 decision over Mitch Brinkman of Pocahontas Area.
In the 285 pound bracket, Thompson advanced off a :55 win by fall and a 3-2 decision before winning the title with a 13-2 Major decision over Nathan Myrice of Ridge View.
Austin Thompson would earn a 7-0 decision to make the finals, but was pinned in 3:06 by Jared Eischeid of Carroll Kuemper. Thompson then wrestled back against Jordan Rozenboom of Manson NW?Webster and won a 10-0 Major decision to finish second at 126, as well as record his 100th career victory.
Other results for the Titans saw Matt McGrauth finish third at 152 pounds and Sam George at 120 pounds, along with Justin Rodreguiz at 138 and Hunter Brown at 170 all earn fourth place finishes. Kodi Ferguson at 160, Kyle Long at 195 and Tyler Hoffman at 145 pounds all finished in sixth place for the Titans.
"I?felt all of the wrestlers went out and gave it everything they had and left nothing on the mat,"?noted Titans Head Coach Michael Jensen. "The three wrestlers that are wrestling at the district are ready to put in the work to try an achieve their goals."
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Despite the fact that it's nearly broke and in the middle of a major organizational shakeup, the Philadelphia School District is moving forward with plans to turn failing schools over to charter organizations.
Four low-performing Philadelphia schools have been targeted — Cleveland, Creighton, and H.R. Edmunds Elementary Schools, and Jones Middle School.
They will all become charters in September, the district said in a news release Wednesday.
Six potential providers will vie for the contracts to run them. Four currently run so-called Renaissance Schools: Mastery Charter Schools, Mosaica Turnaround Team, Scholar Academies and Universal Companies. Two would be new to the program — American Paradigm and String Theory Schools.
American Paradigm was formed in July to "achive and maintain academic excellence, to reduce persistent patterns of inequity, and to create culturally diverse and caring learning communities," but its leaders founded two successful charters in the city, First Philadelphia Charter School for Literacy and Tacony Academy.
String Theory Schools runs the well-regarded Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School.
All six providers "have demonstrated success in managing high-performing, diverse urban public schools," district spokesman Fernando Gallard said.
The four schools to be turned over were identified based on years of poor performance. Other factors, including "school climate, feeder patterns, and neighborhood characteristics" were also considered, according to the district.
Cleveland is located at 3735 N. 19th St. in the city's Tioga section; Creighton is at 5401 E. Tabor Rd. in Crescentville; H.R. Edmunds is at 1191 Howarth St. in Frankford; and Jones is at 2950 Memphis St. in Port Richmond.
School Advisory Councils at each of the four schools will meet with the possible providers over the next few months and recommend their picks to the district. The School Reform Commission is expected to formally match the schools in April.
This is the third round of Renaissance schools. In 2010 and 2011, the district gave some schools to charters but also designated "Promise Academies," turnarounds run by its own central office and allocated greater resources than typical district schools.
There are currently 13 Renaissance charters with about 11,000 students enrolled. Nine more schools are district-run Promise Academies.
But with a severe money crunch - the district must cut $38.8 million by June and faces a shortfall of more than $269 million already for next school year - it will not add new Promise Academies this year.
Besides its fiscal problems, the district is in the middle of reinventing itself. Thomas Knudsen, a temporary chief turnaround officer, is overseeing the decentralization of the district.
But both city and district officials have said they cannot use organizational turmoil or cash flow problems as reasons to halt school turnarounds.
"Reform, restructure, replace. That's where we are. That's where we're going in public education in Philadelphia," Mayor Nutter said in January.
Both he and School Reform Commissioner Pedro Ramos have signed on to the "Great Schools Compact," which promises to transform 50,000 seats in failing public schools through school closings and charter conversions.
By virtue of its compact, Philadelphia has already won $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It hopes to secure more Gates money.
A recent study gave high early marks to both Renaissance K-8 charters and Promise Academies, saying both produced gains in student achievement. Climate and attendance also improved as a result of the turnarounds, the study found.


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I'm pretty sure Borges ran bubble screens at SDSU, but to be honest, they are one of the most dangerous plays to run if you have press on the outside. That tunnel screen thing that we did was similar except Gallon would start the route showing a Go route, causing the DB to back off, but then would come back for the ball.
Honestly, I think both the offense and defense will improve vastly next year. The offense will improve because the receivers will finally, maybe, you know, understand the concept of a route tree. Denard will finally be able to call audibles that won't have as many go-nowhere plays like this year. Don't forget Touissant. The defense also seemed a little like a one-trick pony until the Ohio game, in which we tried something new and it didn't work. Perhaps with our vastly improved linebacking crew, we can do more baiting and technique variation. Very rarely did I see pre-snap motion for the corners this year, but that should change next year. Also, I expect to see more linebacker blitzes from the base set. If Campbell and Pipkins can control the line and take up blockers (2 each maybe? We've seen the destruction Campbell can make with only 1 blocker against him) the linebackers will be free to wreak havoc.


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Originally published on April 9, 2013 10:26 am
Cancer is a scary diagnosis for anyone, and teenagers can have an especially hard time dealing with the news that a parent is sick. To help young people cope with a parent's illness, father and daughter duo Marc and Maya Silver wrote the book My Parent Has Cancer And It Really Sucks. They speak with host Michel Martin.


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Boffins build omelette-making android
Egg-citing development in robotics?
A robot's been cooking up a storm in Japan, where its maker – Yaskawa Technology – has taught the drone to bake the perfect Japanese omelette.
What do you mean it tastes machine made?
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The firm's MotoMan SDA10 robot was shown cooking an Okonomiyaki cake in front of crowds at a recent robot fair in Osaka.
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According to several reports, the droid mixed all the ingredients together – which included batter, eggs, cheese and cabbage – and then flipped and fried the omelette to perfection.
Yaskawa's website states that that MotoMan SDA10 has seven axes of movement per arm and a single axis for base rotation. It can also hold up to 10kg of weight on each of its arms, which have a forward reach distance of almost a metre.
The robot's "human-like flexibility" also makes it suitable for a wide variety of boring assembly jobs, such as digital cameras, as seen in the above video.
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David Friend: Friendly Initiator
A master blueprint: As in any city, large or small, construction and renovation are ongoing and WVU is, in many respects, a small city. Thanks to Friend's efforts, it's now one with a master growth plan for dining services. Over the next five years, he will oversee 13 new operations or renovations including several on three regional campuses.
"Two of our regional campuses were turned into self-operated locations versus contract," he explains. "The third was already self-op; we went into it to help out, but it has since come under our operations. Potomac State College in Kaiser, WV, transitioned under Jeff's directorship. Two years later, we took over Jackson's Mill Conference Center. Then, two years ago, we assisted West Virginia Tech, in Montgomery, to become self-operated. All revenues stay on-site, but we help with administration and procurement of food by letting them use our purchasing program. We're also providing support and direction for those units. We don't charge a thing since they're regional campuses of our university and we want to increase their profitability."
Now, Potomac State is building a residential dining facility as well as a retail outlet. Since it has become much more profitable, reserves the department has accrued are being used to cover the costs of the renovation. Jackson Mills is renovating a 300-seat dining room and adding new meeting rooms. West Virginia Tech plans to open a new food court in the fall of 2007. Friend is overseeing all three of these projects, while managing some renovations of his own. "This summer, we're renovating Boreman Bistro from a traditional cafeteria to a food court," Friend points out. "Production will be at each point of service so there's interaction between production personnel and students. There will be demo cooking, a deli with items made to order, a Healthy 'U' station, plus soup and salad—all geared to provide healthy options."
Healthy 'U' debut: As a matter of fact, creatively providing healthy options has earned national recognition for Friend and his department. Since West Virginia has the dubious honor of being ranked third in the nation among states with a high level of heart-related diseases, WVU's president, Dr. David Hardesty, Jr., wanted a campus-wide wellness initiative to be created. Rising to the challenge, Friend and his staff developed the Healthy "U" program, which was a gold medal winner in the 2006 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards from the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). More recently, Healthy "U" garnered a gold medal from Welcoa (Wellness Companies of America). It was eligible for competition since WVU has become a "Well Workplace."
"The Healthy 'U' program has multiple components with wellness centers in each of the residential dining facilities," Friend explains. "Right at the beginning, I hired our first full-time dietitian, Nettie Freshhour, two years ago. Each of the centers has a food pyramid displayed along with 12 brochures packed with specific information, plus a different 2,000-calorie diet sheet each day. Some participants don't follow it rigidly for all three meals, but initially we thought about 50 people in each operation would take advantage but now there are at least 100 at each site. In Café Evansdale—our dining center for the largest residential facility—we've served as many as 500 when we menued raspberry chicken."
Employee inclusion: The Healthy "U" program has also been geared to the needs of all dining services employees with components that combine walking activities (such as complete 100 miles in 100 days) with a chance to win a prize in a random drawing; funding health screenings with release time given by the department, and more.
Friend says revenue has increased 25%, from $16 million to $20 million, on the main campus alone. Part of that can be attributed to an increase in enrollment of about 500 students. But it's also directly related to an increase in off-campus meal plan participation. "We [were selling] about 5,000 meal plans when I launched an aggressive campaign to increase participation [among] off-campus students," he says. "Off-campus sales increased 96.4% for the '05-'06 school year with a 230% further increase in '06-'07. Prior to my becoming director, there was not a comprehensive program in place to sell off-campus meal plans."
Friend says his true love—besides Nancy, his wife—is high-end special event catering, so he's looking forward to the 2009 opening of a $25-million alumni center. "I see great potential growth for catering in addition to the more than 4,000 events each year that account for more than $1.3 million in annual sales today. A four- or five-course meal really allows you to show your creativity."


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I have an Ubuntu 12.04 mediaserver at home. All the files are kept under a username of data at /home/data. My HTPC mounts the server via sshfs and connects using rsa keys. All was working fine until yesterday when I stupidly changed the file permissions of the user called data on the server. I changed the permissions to a+wrx /home/data (I can hear you all laughing) and now everytime I try to connect I am prompted for a the data@xbmc password.
I've googled around and tried changing permissions as suggested in a few posts, but nothing seems to put things back.
Here is the output for the server's permissions. Can anyone spot what I need to change?
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drwxr-xr-x 2 data data 4096 Feb 10 09:44 .ssh
data@fileserver:/home/data/.ssh$ ls -l /home/data/.ssh
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 data data 392 Feb 10 09:44 authorized_keys
-rwxrwxrwx 1 data data 3915 Feb 2 15:56 authorized_keys.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 data data 391 Sep 13 17:55 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 data data 222 Sep 15 11:29 known_hosts
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Today we feature a picture of a child getting an outdoor haircut. The picture was taken in 1936, so I would imagine that a professional haircut was a luxury most people could not afford.
Interestingly, I have not gotten a professional haircut in over 25 years. Ages ago I got the robocut system, and cut my own hair. It is a nice clipper system hooked to a vacuum. It has a spacer that lets you precisely set the length the cut will be. So you just set the length, run it over the top, then set it a little shorter, and do the sides, and then my wife cleans up the edges with scissors. The whole thing takes under ten minutes. I went to this not so much to save money, but just the hassle.


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March 20, 2007 - 5:43am
'Nother sourdough
Simple rye/honey/water starter. This one came out SUPER soft...incredibley soft. I absolutely am in love with the texture. It's kind of a mixture of all sorts of flours since I had a tons of small amounts left. I had some organic gold&white from my co-op, KA AP, KA bread flour, and rye from my coop, and a stone ground white from a water mill a couple towns over. Yea...5 kinds of flour in this bread. It's wonderful!


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|2004-05-01, 21:13
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Everett, WA
Age: 36
|2004-05-02, 03:47
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The Incarnation of Chaos
I've got a few. First one has to be when Luffy tells Coby about his desire of becoming Pirate King and how its okay if he dies. First time around it always stuck out in my mind before I even knew what was going on. To say something like that and mean it was just awesome to me.
Second moment was when Luffy and Zorro show up to defend the slope of Usuop's hometown. Both tired and pissed, just whipped the hell outta some people.
After Nami was stabbing herself in the arm and asked Luffy for help, he put the hat on her head and said damn straight. Then the scene shows him walking, head down, and expands to show the original pirate pimps sitting and waiting on ol capt. "We're going" look up, see their faces. Priceless scene.
Last but not least, just a hell of a lot of the scenes in the 4th movie. Just awesome. NOt to mention, everytime they did the past of someone's sad life. Stuck out of course.
Almost forgot when Usuop stood and remembered what was expected of him in his fight with the mermaid men. That stood out because he is the only one who isn't uber strong or have the wiles of a sexy woman, so it took a lot more guts to do what he did. To remember the pain that Nami went through, and how all of his comrades, ,even his old pirate crew had shown signs of extreme bravery, and everyone willing to lunge into the pit of almost certain death for the sake of an ideal. It was just awesome. "Nami was crying, what other reason do we need!"
|2004-05-02, 14:28
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Luffy first met Zoro
Shanks save Luffy (scaring the sh*t out of the Sea King)
Mihawk slice up Krieg Ship
Zoro vs Mihawk
Arlong vs Luffy
Appearance of Somker
Appearance of Dragon
Zoro vs Cactus Town BW
|2004-05-03, 08:39
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Portugal
Mine's would be:
When Nami was stabbing herself then Luffy stops her she then asks for help, he puts the Straw Hat on her head and goes "DAMN RIGHT".
When Luffy defeats Arlong then comes out from under all that rubble, stands up and shouts to Nami "You are my Nakama".
When Luffy and Zoro are fighting in Whiskey Peak then Mr.5 and Miss Valentine go to try and defeat them, then Luffy and Zoro turn around and say "Shut the Hell Up, our fight... You're in the way" and defeat them both with 1 hit.
there's a lot more but these are the ones i recall for now.
|2004-05-03, 09:50
|Link #31
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Everett, WA
Age: 36
In the Clock Tower Town movie, when the fat guy thinks that he has Luffy squished, Luffy retaliates and pushes upwards with his rubberband strength into his lair (where Zoro is). And he gets his revenge by attack him.
|2007-10-23, 12:41
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To The New World
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Singapore
Should be the following..
Luffy asked Ussop to burn the government flag, and told Robin that he have not hear from Robin that she wants to live. And then.. Robin replied as what in my siggy claimed. The lining up of the characters on the tower with the BGM. Excellent.
Sogeking's sniper shots at the marines and Spandam on the bridge of hesitation at the Justice Tower to prevent them from taking Robin away. He sang and Zoro thought.. "Does he has to sing?"
During Luffy's fight with Arlong, he destroyed Nami's room in that tall building, causing all the furniture to flunk out; this has a significant impact on Nami which caused her to tear.. and said "Thank you.." to Luffy. After the battle, Luffy shouted: "Nami. You are my nakama!" Nami nodded and agreed in overwhelm gratitude.
When Luffy was stuck in the bulidings in Water 7, Nami leaped and jumped to find him despite the approachin Laguna. This was one of Nami's coolest moment I feel.
And this has never fail to move me..
and a lot more..
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|2007-10-23, 22:17
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there are a lot of cool moment let me see
the execution tower luffy says good bye to his nakama without fear to death
the enies lobby arc when they all go to rescue robin
the moment that luffy makes crocodile fly trought the floor of the city
"CLEAR THE SKY" when luffy destroys the gigant electricity sphere of enel and then he hits him and makes the bell ring
luffy vs bellamy 1 hit 1 kill that moment i say "GG" it was just take that fuking moron o.o
dunno there are to much cool moments
|2007-11-04, 00:02
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Know who you are
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Resides within the depths of Ned infested Glasgow
and yea have to agree with u on the Kamehameha
|2007-11-11, 13:21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
so many moments to pick from the one that comes to mind right now is in ep 309when luffy screams out something like "until i die" cant remember exactly b4 the jet gattling, but man wen i saw that i knew a major beat down was about to take place
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TYLER, Texas (AP) — A conservative state senator and a moderate state board of education member are debating a school lesson plan system that has turned political.
Houston Sen. Dan Patrick and East Texas SBOE member Thomas Ratliff are scheduled to debate Saturday night in Tyler.
Patrick is a critic of the system called CSCOPE, a subscription service that allowed teachers in small school districts to access lesson plans built around state curriculum standards. He's called some of the plans liberal and anti-American.
Ratliff says Patrick is misrepresenting the system that small cash-strapped schools need it to prepare students for state standardized tests.
Tea party activists have made CSCOPE an issue in the 2014 campaign and Ratliff proposed the debate to show there is nothing wrong with it. Patrick has worked to kill CSCOPE.
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Gyro-Burger with Yogurt Sauce
This recipe brings the tastes of Greece to customers love of burgers. The burger itself features chopped spinach, cumin and garlic and is topped with a creamy yogurt sauce.
1 lb. ground American Lamb
1 tsp. dried oregano, crushed
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/4 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 tsp. salt
2 pita bread rounds (6-inch), halved crosswise or 4 hamburger buns
1 cup chopped fresh spinach or lettuce
Yogurt Sauce:
3/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 medium cucumber, peeled and chopped (about 2/3 cup)
2 green onions, thinly sliced
1 tbsp. chopped fresh mint or 1 teaspoon dried mint, crushed
1/4 tsp. granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
Salt, optional
1. In large bowl, combine oregano, garlic powder, pepper, onion powder, cumin and salt. Add lamb; mix well.
2. Form into 4 patties, about 3/4-inch thick. Grill or broil about 5 minutes on each side or to desired degree of doneness.
3. For yogurt sauce: In medium bowl, combine yogurt, chopped cucumber, sliced green onion, mint and sugar. Place gyro-burger in pita pocket or hamburger bun; top with chopped spinach and yogurt mixture.
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Ding Junhui was on top in the first ever all-Chinese ranking event final, as he beat compatriot Xiao Guodong 10-6 to win the Shanghai Masters at the Grand Stage.
The world number seven wrapped up his seventh ranking event title, and his second this calendar year after winning the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in March.
Having overcome Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson en route the final, and overcame Barry Hawkins in yesterday's semi, 26-year-old Ding went into this contest as overwhelming favourite.
His opponent Guodong has shown through the week that the run to his maiden final was no fluke with Stephen Maguire and the in-form Mark Davis among his scalps. He then beat Michael Holt yesterday in the battle of the first-time ranking event semi-finalists, to lift himself to a career-high 28 in the world rankings.
He fell 2-0 behind today with Ding making a break of 83 along the way, before runs of 64 and 67 drew the underdog level 2-2.
From there it was fairly one-way traffic though with the experienced of the two making a 66 and 126 on his way to moving 6-3 ahead.
Guodong responded with a 78 before runs of 65, 78 and 81 put Ding one frame away from victory.
The 24-year-old rattled off two straight frames to briefly keep the match alive. He was first in again with a 45 in frame 16, before breaking down and allowing Ding to pounce with a run of 71 to secure the title.
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All applications must be submitted through the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources website at www.wildlife.utah.gov, officials said in a news release.
Before applying for a general deer hunting permit, DWR officials suggest hunters visit http://go.usa.gov/ZMCm for information that will help them decide which of Utah's 30 deer-hunting units to apply for.
Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator for DWR, suggests that hunters submit their applications before the last day of the application period.
"If you apply before March 6," she says, "you should be able to get your application in fast."
Waiting until the deadline day may pose some challenges, she said.
"Thousands of hunters wait until the last day to apply," Tutorow said. "Receiving that much traffic – in such a short period of time – slows our website and the entire application process down."
Those who wait until March 6 to apply should make sure they begin the application process before 11 p.m., she said. Those who begin the application prior to 11 p.m. but don't log off the system before completing the application will be allowed by the system to finish the application.
"If you log off before 11 p.m., and then you try to get back into the system," Tutorow said, "you'll be out of luck. After 11 p.m., a bonus point and a preference point are the only things you can apply for."
Additional information is available in the 2014 Utah Big Game Application Guidebook, which is available online at www.wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks, at DWR offices and from more than 300 hunting and fishing license agents across Utah.
Those who would like a chance to hunt all three general deer seasons are encouraged to consider joining Utah's Dedicated Hunter program, Tutorow said. Lifetime license holders must complete the online lifetime license questionnaire by March 6 and select the unit you want to hunt.
For more information about applying for a 2014 Utah big game hunting permit, call the Utah Hunt Application office at 800-221-0659 or visit the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office.


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Autumn veg box recipes
Food shopping can be a bit of a minefield at times, particularly when choosing products you will enjoy, whilst balancing cost, environmental and ethical issues.
Personally speaking, food shopping will always be a toss up between these factors. Cost is a major factor, but I am definitely part of a growing number of people wanting to eat local, seasonal Organic food. Part of the difficulty with that for most people is actually sourcing ingredients – I certainly struggle to find a good farm shop, and don't always have loads of time to dedicate to food shopping. So, with that in mind, I was keen to try a veg box from Abel & Cole, as they offer a wide range of groceries as well as fruit and vegetables.
My delivery arrived at my door within my allotted time frame, and included fresh vegetables, meat, wine, olive oil, fruit, vegetables and chilies. All the meat and vegetables was from within a 150-mile radius from my home, and was all Organic and very, very fresh. The wild venison from Hampshire Game was superb. Like for like prices are extremely competitive. The quality of the produce is outstanding, and it is a very convenient way to shop. All boxes come with a selection of seasonal recipes for you to try, but here are some of my seasonal recipes for you to try – all made with ingredients from my veg box.
Venision steaks with Sage, Rosemary and garlic
Serves 2
2 Venison minute steaks (appx. 250-300g)
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 spring rosemary
6 sage leaves
8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Place all the ingredients into a large, shallow dish and mix well to combine. Leave to marinate for at least an hour – the longer you can leave it the better the flavour.
When you're ready to cook the steak, preheat a pan (preferably a grill pan) under a hot heat. Add the steaks and cook for 2-4 minutes on each side. Cook the herbs and garlic with the meat, too.
Once the meat is cooked to your liking, allow to rest for 10 minutes on a hot plate to become more tender.
Serve with some freshly steamed green beans and baked squash
Baked onion squash with garlic and sage
Serves 2
An onion squash
3 cloves garlic
6 sage leaves
A generous drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 180C
Cut the top off of the squash and remove the seeds and stringy flesh from the inside. Place onto a large baking tray and put the garlic and sage inside the squash. Drizzle with olive oil and bake for 20-30 minutes until the flesh is lightly browned and tender. Serve immediately.


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Students within the Lexington City Schools will have the opportunity to partake in scholastic competitions that aim at creating a different kind of excitement for learning.
Students within the Lexington City Schools will have the opportunity to partake in scholastic competitions that aim at creating a different kind of excitement for learning.
Talk of the Jacket Academic Boosters club was presented Tuesday during the board of education monthly meeting.
The formation of the organization has been in the works for the past couple of months. All grades in the system will be able to participate in some form of competition.
School board member and Ward 3 representative, Robert Curlee, created the idea due to his heart for the system and the students before he was appointed to the board. Although he provided the initial cost to start the organization, the booster club will receive ongoing donations to help fund the activities.
Meetings have taken place with parent-teacher organizations and administrators from each of the schools, and members of the community and representatives from Lexington City Council.
"Thank you all who pledged support. I'm looking forward to this," Curlee said. "This is a community thing. We need to get this instilled from kindergarten on up."
The purpose of the club is to support, recognize and motivate students for academic excellence. A 501(c)3 status will be sought. Bylaws and officers will also be in the works.
Rick Kriesky, superintendent of Lexington City Schools, said this was the first time he has seen a group come together and form an academic boosters club. He noted the emphasis is on academics.
Students at South Lexington School will have something that's developmentally appropriate such as reading. Each elementary school in the district would host intramural competitions where students would compete in teams and win $100 prize money. Winners from each of the elementary school would then compete against each other in an interscholastic competition for a chance to win more money.
Lexington Middle School students would compete in a school-wide competition. Each grade winner would receive $100 as prize money. Two hundred dollars would go toward the school-wide winners.
At the high school level, money will be used to support the debate and mock trial teams that will also have the opportunity to win prize money. Through a letter system that will signify achievement there will be a sponsorship of academic letters to senior students who maintain a 3.5 grade point average while in high school. They will receive letters that include a depiction of the lamp of knowledge.
Also there will be a capstone recognition or Jacket Scholar Program where students who meet a certain criteria — 95 percent attendance throughout high school career, 3.0 G.P.A., no in school suspension or Jacket Academy assignment, membership in at least one curricular organization for a year and attendance at the school for one full year — will receive an orange stole with inscribe letters "Jacket Scholar" for graduation.
Chair Scott Biesecker, at-large member, said this was something that's outstanding and outside the box.
"This is what we need. Everybody that is involved...thank you for providing the leadership."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech fans attending basketball games in Eblen Center this season have noticed a new addition to the facility -- large recycling bottles. The big Pepsi bottles, each more than four feet tall, are located at nearly every entrance in the arena as well as around the concourse.
Tennessee Tech athletics has partnered with
R-Cubed Environmental Solutions and Pepsi to provide for fans
attending any event in Eblen Center -- from games to graduations
-- the opportunity to help the environment by
recycling plastic bottles and cans.
"Tennessee Tech Athletics is 'going green' with assistance from R-Cubed and Pepsi," explained Mark Wilson, TTU Director of Athletics. "We are encouraging everyone to recycle at every event in Eblen Center. R-Cubed will empty the containers and recycle the materials."
"R-Cubed Environmental Solutions is proud to
manage the conservation needs of Tennessee Tech Athletics," said
Jason McCormick, co-owner of R-Cubed. "Tennessee Tech is showing
social responsibility and its awareness that conservation is
important for our area and beyond.
"Mark Wilson knows that Tech, being a leader in this community, will inspire and influence others to take part in this 'green initiative.' Our hope as a partnership is to lead by example to show others how to conserve at home, work and in their everyday lives in general."
In Eblen Center with two of the recycling bottles, are, from left: TTU DIrector of Athletics Mark Wilson, Jason McCormick of R-Cubed, and Michelle Smith of Pepsi Group Cookeville.


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Entrepreneur workshop series to tackle small business taxes
The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University continues its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The workshop will be preceded by a networking event at 5:30 p.m. The workshop will follow the networking event and conclude at 7 p.m.
The topic of the workshop will be "Taxes and Your Business" with Mary E. Fox, an attorney with Fox Ruhlen Co. LPA in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This event is free and open to the public.
Fox has practiced law for 30 years. Although her practice encompasses all areas of family law and probate matters, she also provides services for the formation of businesses, tax planning and tax preparation.
She is a director of Community First Bank N.A. and the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Ohio State and Wyandot County Bar Associations, and is currently an instructor at ONU.
Fox earned her dual Bachelor of Arts in political science and accounting from ONU and her juris doctor from ONU's Pettit College of Law.
For more information, contact Kevin Ernst, director of the CEDC, at 419-772-2753 or email@example.com


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Fayetteville area high school students planning to take the ACT can prepare for the test by enrolling in an ACT preparation class on the Motlow's Fayetteville Center.
Classes will meet Thursdays, Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24 from, 6 until 9 p.m. in room 104. The registration deadline is Sept. 27. The course is limited to 25 students.
Registration forms can be obtained online at www.mscc.edu/cpes/extended services.aspx. Completed forms can be mailed or faxed to the address indicated on the registration form. Registration is not complete until payment has been received.
The cost is $60, plus $30.95 for a textbook, with each to be paid separately. Registrants should write a check for the registration fee to Motlow College.
For a textbook, checks should be written to the Motlow College Bookstore. Textbooks will be available only on the first night of class. Those wishing to purchase a book with cash are asked to have the exact amount.
For more information, call 931-393-1760 or 1-800-654-4877, ext. 1760.
The ACT prep class focuses on four areas of the ACT: English, mathematics, reading and science. Emphasis will be on the test-taking skills, logical analysis and pacing oneself. Practice tests in each of the four areas will be administered during and at the conclusion of each course. Classes will be taught by Gayle "Mimi" Hughes.
The ACT prep classes are designed to prepare students for the national ACT on Oct. 26, but taking the prep class does not register a student to sit for the actual ACT. Students must register separately with ACT to take the national exam. For more information, visit www.ACT.org.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.- Senior Royal Thomas (LaGrange, Ga.) matched his career-high with 26 points in an 85-77 loss for Georgia College men's basketball (5-6, 1-3 PBC) to the University of North Georgia (5-4, 2-1 PBC) Saturday at the Centennial Center.
Royal Thomas went a perfect 8-for-8 from the free-throw line, adding a 9-for-13 effort from the field for his 26 points, adding five rebounds. He set his career high three games ago against the College of Coastal Georgia. The senior guard had 19 points in the second half.
Sophomore Terrell Harris (Indiantown, Fla.) was the only other Bobcat with double-figure scoring with 10 points and seven rebounds. It was Harris' eighth-straight game in double figures. Junior Larrentis Thomas (McDonough, Ga.) tied for the team lead with seven boards, also needing nine points to eclipse the 200-point mark for the season. Freshman Matt Polyne (Marietta, Ga.) provided a nice spark with nine points in 10 minutes off the bench.
The Nighthawks shot the lights out, hitting for 52 percent (27-52) to just 40 percent (27-68) for the Bobcats. UNG made five more threes (9-4) and three more free-throws (22-19) to provide the difference. Georgia College controlled the boards 41-34, including an 18-10 advantage on the offensive glass.
The Bobcats hit 19-for-21 from the free-throw line, a 91 percent clip for the team's best effort of the season. The school record for free-throw percentage in a game is 1.000, hitting 15-of-15 against Clayton State University in the 2003-04 season.
UNG was led by a 19-point, 10-rebound double-double from the Peach Belt Conference's (PBC) leading scorer in Ishmael Hollis. Lamar Richardson and Chris Tanzy put in 15 points apiece, while Michael Varrichione added 14 and Travis Core 11.
The Bobcats are back in action Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m., traveling to Flagler College (7-4, 1-3 PBC). The Saints most recently beat Clayton State University 82-68 tonight.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Today we feature a picture of the grand band leader, John Philip Sousa. The picture was taken around 1900. I had thought about using this as a mystery person contest, because this picture is not a well known picture of him, and I thought people might not recognize him. Given that you figured out the picture of his wife yesterday, likely someone would have gotten it.
Domestic Update:
In the end, Lovie has two healthy babies. Lovie stopped sitting on the other eggs yesterday. When she gave up, I went out and gently cracked the eggs open. They had perfectly formed little peacocks, but they were not living. I guess not all of the babies have what it takes to get out of that shell. Anyway, it looks like she has two fine babies. Yesterday she moved the family out of the chicken coop and into the brush behind Chickie Town. She is really well hidden back there, and the babies hide under her wings. I am hoping everything goes OK, and have decided not to lock them up in the peacock palace. They did not like that last year, so this year will just let the peacocks be peacocks.
Also happy to report that Ain't Gina is now free, and is no longer being held captive by Lovie in the laying box. She is out running around, and appears to be doing fine.


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Food and Farms in the Spotlight at UVM Libraries
- 07-17-2013
- By Nancy Stearns Bercaw
The University of Vermont Libraries celebrate the bounty of Vermont food and farms in summer programming and exhibits.
On Thursday, Aug. 8, at Bailey/Howe Library at noon, a panel of local farmers will discuss their work and the paths that led them to their current career trajectories. Susie Walsh Daloz, program director of UVM's Farmer Training Program, will moderate the panel. Participants will be treated to salad provided by the Farmer Training Program and additional refreshments.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, at 12:30 p.m., the UVM Farmer Training Program will present an heirloom tomato tasting, outside the Bailey/Howe library, to the accompaniment of local music. Attendees at both events can participate in a raffle for books from Vermont-based permaculture publishers Chelsea Green, on topics such as rebuilding the foodshed, resilient farming and homesteading, the importance of taste in the local food movement, and seed saving.
In further collaboration with UVM's Farmer Training Program, the Bailey/Howe Library hosts Changing Fields, an exhibit featuring images of contemporary farmers in training alongside their historical counterparts. Image reproductions, broadsides, and books document the changing face of farming in Vermont, from traditional practices of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the back to the land movement, to a new generation of farmers working in the model of sustainable agriculture.
At Dana Medical Library, Superfoods of Summer showcases the nutritional value of Vermont's fruit and vegetable harvests. Citing large national studies, the exhibit makes the case for beets, berries, cabbage, tomato, corn, zucchini and more, while sharing information about their seasonal availability. Both exhibits are accompanied by a rotating selection of related books from the libraries' collections.
To learn more about a new generation of farmers and sample their produce, visit the UVM Farmer Training Program Farm Stand, Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. until Oct. 10, outside Bailey/Howe Library.


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2012-09-26 / Events & Calendar
Temple Sinai Chinese Auction
Temple Sinai of Massapequa and Amityville will sponsor an international (Chinese) auction, Sun., Oct. 7 at 270 Clocks Blvd., Massapequa. Entry tickets are $5 each and extra cards are $1 each. There are special raffles for larger prizes. Doors open at 6 p.m. For information, call 631-957-2953.
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Lady Monarchs Lose Heartbreaker at East Carolina, 64-63
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The Old Dominion University women's basketball team (9-12, 2-5) lost to East Carolina (17-3, 5-2) in heartbreaking fashion, 64-63, on Thursday afternoon at Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. With the win, the Pirates extended their home winning streak to 24, a streak that dates all the way back to November 12, 2012. Throughout this streak, only UAB and ODU have come within a single point of winning in Greenville, NC.
Shae Kelley led the way for Old Dominion, netting 20 points and grabbing five boards, while teammate Chelisa Painter recorded a double-double in a 13 point, 11 rebound performance. Becca Allison went a perfect 11-11 from the line and finished with 13 points on the day.
ECU's Jada Payne led all scorers with 23 points to go along with nine rebounds. Shae Nelson scored 17 points off the bench for the Pirates; teammate Abria Trice also finished in double figures with 12 points and nine boards.
With 7.7 seconds left in the first half, Galaisha Goodhope dribbled down the length of the court and missed a runner, only to have teammate Chelisa Painter tip the ball in just before time expired to tie the game up at 33 all.
Old Dominion scored the second half's first field goal, before the Pirates reeled off a 7-0 run to take a 40-35 lead with just over 16 minutes to play. East Carolina stretched their lead to 46-38 at the 11:41 mark, and then expanded their advantage to the largest lead of the game, 51-40, with 10:51 to play in regulation.
The Lady Monarchs would respond with an 8-0 run, cutting their deficit down to 51-48 with 7:53 to play. At the final media timeout (3:48), East Carolina was clinging to a 56-52 advantage. A Goodhope three-pointer with 1:09 remaining, pulled Old Dominion within four points, 61-57. Shae Kelley then went 1-2 from the free-throw line to pull ODU within three points, before ECU's Janesha Ebron also went 1-2 from the charity stripe, extending the Pirates lead to 62-58 with 41 seconds showing on the game clock.
ODU pulled within two points (62-60) with 20.8 seconds left, then fouled Ebron, who knocked down both of her free-throws, giving the Pirates a 64-60 lead with 13.3 remaining. On the ensuing possession, Shae Kelley was whistled for a walking violation, but ODU would steal ECU's inbounds pass, which led to Tiffany Minor banking in a three-pointer just before time expired, making for a 64-63 Pirates' victory.
For the game, the Lady Monarchs shot 14-35 (36.2%) from the floor, 3-12 (25%) from three and 18-25 (72%) from the free-throw line. East Carolina shot 22-56 (39.3%) from the floor, 6-16 (37.5%) from downtown and 14-17 (82.4%) from the charity stripe.
Thursday's game entailed a total of seven ties and five lead changes. With the loss, ODU's 28 consecutive games of defeating ECU has ended. Thursday's game between the Lady Monarchs and Pirates was originally scheduled to be played on Wednesday; however, due to inclement weather and adverse traveling conditions. East Carolina is the only Conference USA team that Old Dominion plays twice this season, as the two teams will square off again in Norfolk on March 5th, for the grand finale of the 2013-14 regular season.
First Half Notes
Eight minutes into the ballgame, East Carolina jumped out to a 9-6 lead over Old Dominion, as Jada Payne scored seven of those points for the Pirates. The Lady Monarchs shot just 3-16 out of the gates, before knocking down six consecutive shots and taking their largest lead of the game, 19-13, with 7:46 showing on the first half's game clock.
ECU responded with a 9-2 run, taking a 22-21 lead at the 5:16 mark. Both teams would then go back and forth, bringing the score to 30-28 in favor of the Pirates with just 2:37 remaining in the opening half.
At the half, Old Dominion and East Carolina were all nodded up at 33 apiece. ECU's Jada Payne (six rebounds) led all scorers with 13 points, while ODU's Shae Kelley (five rebounds) closely followed with 12 points. Shae Nelson contributed nine points for the Pirates. ODU's Chelisa Painter was the first half's leading rebounder with eight boards to compliment her seven points.
For the half, Old Dominion shot 40% (14-35) from the floor, 16.7% (1-6) from three-point range and 44.4% (4-9) from the free-throw line. Compared to East Carolina shooting 36.7% (11-30) from the floor, 42.9% (3-7) from downtown and 80% (8-10) from the charity stripe.
Next Up for the Lady Monarchs
Old Dominion will return home on Saturday, February 1, when they will take on Marshall, at 7:00 p.m. Saturday's game at the Ted Constant Convocation Center will also be Barefoot Night!
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Saturday, Feb 15 - vs. UTEP - 7:00 p.m. (Hoops for a Cure)
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"O Oysters, come and walk with us!...A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach"
So says the walrus to the carpenter in Lewis Carroll's poem named for those same characters, as they embark upon a midnight feast of oysters. At the risk of sounding like someone who just woke up from an amazing first date, it's difficult to imagine how any oyster-eating experience could improve upon the Walrus and Carpenter Low Tide Picnic, which is based on this poem. An empty beach, a 'sulkily shining' moon, such quantities of sand, and yes, that briny beach, make for a magical evening recreated for oyster enthusiasts by seafood guru Jon Rowley and Taylor Shellfish Farms.
Low tide in the winter is prime oyster-eating time, when the plump, clean-tasting oysters, brimming with briny flavor, are naturally refrigerated. Then the sea rolls out, leaving fields of them on the beach for picking. Tables hug the tide line, brimming with each of the four types of oysters commonly grown in the Northwest: Olympia, Virginica, Pacific, and Kumamoto, with many more underfoot in their natural environment. As the tide moves out, the lanterns lighting the beach and the tables—also filled with wines deemed best for pairing with oysters—are moved to match the water's edge.
The "oyster bus" as it's known among food lovers in Seattle, is a fundraiser for the Puget Sound Restoration Fund (tickets are $125), which works with Taylor and other oyster farmers to restore native oyster populations and use them for environmental improvement. It leaves from downtown Seattle two or three times a year for the hour-plus drive to the Shelton, WA oysterbeds. Rowley, the events' organizer, uses the ride to introduce everyone to Northwest oysters and their growers.
Jeff Pearson is part of the fourth generation of family working at Taylor Shellfish Farms, and this event, he tells the bus-full of people, is what he considers the ultimate oyster experience. The cool evening beach and its effect on slurping freshly-shucked oysters are what he strives to recreate in an indoor setting at his oyster bars (Taylor currently has one shop in Seattle, and has plans to open at least two more). His staff of shuckers is waiting on the beach to crack open hundreds of bivalves, or to help people learn to do it themselves.
Rowley continues the bus lesson by describing the way to pair a freshly-shucked oyster with wine. He goes by the handle @oysterwine on Twitter, the name he uses for his "dating service" for oysters in search of their ideal wine match. He instructs everyone on the proper way to eat an oyster with wine. "Think of the wine as an accoutrement," he says, adding that additional accoutrements should not be used (basically, put down the horseradish).
Steps for eating oysters with wine:
- Slurp the oyster
- Chew the oyster, so that all the flavors come out
- Sip the oyster wine
Check out the slideshow for a figurative taste of the cold bivalves, or perhaps a cup of oyster stew, when even a glass of Sauvignon Blanc can't stave off the chill of a Pacific Northwest winter night.
For more information, and to make sure you don't miss next year's bus, follow @oysterwine on Twitter and keep an eye on the Taylor Shellfish site.


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The world is reacting to news that Nelson Mandela has passed away. Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa's Ambassador to the United States, met Mandela in prison and he's been inspired by him ever since. Rasool speaks to host Michel Martin about Nelson Mandela's life and legacy.
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The start of the school year always leads me down memory lane. Suddenly I'm back at that one room country school being welcomed by Mrs. Martin, the only teacher I would have for the next seven years. Not that I kept flunking first grade, but all 15-20 of us were taught in the same room until we graduated.
Eighth grade graduation from country school was a big occasion. Wed join several other schools like ours at a church in a nearby town to hear a speaker try to fill our young minds with dreams of what could be and get our diplomas. Our graduation slogan was "Be the best of whatever you are." Those words frequently float back into my mind, prodding me to work harder in order to push myself a notch closer to the dream.
Memories of growing up on the family farm have had a powerful effect on my life. We rose early, worked hard and quit late. Those habits have stayed with me through life and I'm grateful for them. Life is short at its longest and we need to seize every opportunity that comes our way to be productive and make a difference. Each morning I read the following quote that hangs on the wall of my study:
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. And by the grace of God I will do it."
There's no way to face that challenge every morning and idle the day away.
Remembering encouraging things people have said helps keep us motivated and effective. Let's forget the downers and remember those who've come into our lives to build us up: parents, teachers and others.
"You're going to ruin that boy," I heard more than one say when my father told about how well I had done some job on the farm. But Dad was no dummy. He knew hearing those words of praise would build confidence in me to tackle any task he assigned and motivate me to work all the harder.
Then there was the high school English teacher who came to my desk to say, "Roger, I like the way you write. You're close to getting an A." She never gave me that top grade, but youre reading this column because of the memory of her encouragement.
Memories of growing up attending a white country church on a hill make me grateful. Often I find myself giving thanks for the pastors there who made a difference in my life. Most of our ministers during those Depression and World War Two years were graduates of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. My guess is that only one or two of them had been to seminary. But they loved God, cared for souls, reached out to youth, filled our minds with the Bible and packed the pews with eager listeners.
And they kept us busy. There were services Sunday morning and evening, midweek prayer meetings and activities, annual missionary conferences and frequent week long services with traveling evangelists. If you're wondering how we had time for all of this, remember we had no television sets, video games or computers.
It was at that country church that I met the two most important influences on my life: my Lord and the attractive girl who would become my wife. Both have showered me with love and been faithful to me. I owe both of them more than I can ever repay.
And I intend to spend the rest of my life showing them Ill never forget it.
Roger Campbell is an author, a broadcaster and columnist who was a pastor for 22 years.


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But before getting to the Dwyer, there is first the matter of the 9th race, the New York Stakes, a prelude to a Grade 2 Double into the Dwyer. The New York will be run at 10 furlongs on Belmont's inner turf course; the Dwyer is a mile and a sixteenth over Big Sandy.
A cursory look at the past performances indicates that both events are two-horse races. But as you look a little more closely, so much for cursory looks. First the most probable winners:
Making her third start off a layoff looking to complete a sweep of the Sheepshead Bay and New York Stakes is Aruna. Her class lines speak for themselves; she's a multiple graded turf winner and a Grade 1 heroine on Keeneland's synthetic Polytrack oval.
In taking the Sheepshead Bay, it was as much a credit to Ramon Dominguez's ability as the mare's, Dominguez pulling the string at mid-far turn, at once swallowing the pacesetter and blowing the race wide open.
As much credit goes to Graham Motion, who's profitable lifetime with his repeaters, at the graded level and in third-off-the-layup scenarios. Yet, she might not be the public's choice; that distinction likely will go to a 4-year-old making her U.S. debut.
It will be Banimpire's first start for Chad Brown and the first since owner Martin Schwartz shelled out $3.1 million to call her his own based on her sophomore form.
Brown's been taking his time with her, putting her through her paces at Saratoga's Oklahoma training track. Brown's profitable with his new acquisitions and learned from Bobby Frankel how to get horses ready, especially turf horses, off long layoffs.
But there will be challengers to the favorites. Hit It Rich (5-1) is coming off a Pace Low in which she earned a lifetime best performance figure, showing incremental improvement for Shug McGaughey; as honest as they come.
Mystical Star (4-1) is likely to be overbet. In her last race, she beat the gate—illegally—dropped a million lengths out of it, then put in a huge rally that got her within 1¾ lengths of Aruna in a remarkable performance.
Fourth finisher Principal Role (8-1), beaten 2¼ lengths, had virtually no chance given the race shape but still finished well and is very likely to go forward in her third start off the layoff for Bill Mott. She should be a generous price.
The trick will be to get alive into the Dwyer that figures to be a match between trainer Michael Matz's Teeth of the Dog (5-2) and Rick Dutrow's Zetterholm (3-1).
After finishing fifth in the Preakness, Teeth of the Dog came back to win the Easy Goer overnight stakes on the Belmont undercard, his first start over the surface and at today's trip. It was a lifetime best effort but not one likely to have taxed his reserves.
When last seen, Zetterholm was a good, late-run fourth in the Preakness and has worked purposefully coming up to this G2 test. He's 2-for-2 lifetime at an analogous distance and 1-for-1 at a one-turn route.
But his strength is the fact that with three wins from six career runs, he's the winningest member of the field and in that career, his performance figures never have taken a backward step; a perfect developmental pattern.
While significantly slower on performance figures, Morgan's Guerrilla (4-1) deserves a look-in here. His tactical speed likely will serve him well in this relatively paceless group and the presence of Dominguez obviously helps his upset chances.
And even Fast Falcon (10-1) shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. His last effort, second to Teeth of the Dog, was his best ever when measured against the speed of the track; he gets five pounds from the favorite, is working sharply, and picks up Rosie Napravnik.
If the Late Pick 4 is your play, you probably could use all of the above. If it's the Double, a 2x2 is the most probable result, and if interested in an upset, Zetterholm seems the one most likely to succeed.


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Pope Unplugged
Pope Benedict XVI might not be ready for a solo album, but his voice will be heard on a new CD. Geffen Records will release the "Alma Mater" ("Nourishing Mother") on Nov. 30. It will include a hymn sung by Benedict as well as snippets of prayers and talks.
The Catholic News Service story notes that Benedict is a music lover himself. Perhaps this is just the beginning of his musical career. Would you like to see the Holy Father in the recording studio?


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SARANAC LAKE - Saranac Lake will host a two-day "bioblitz" on Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15.
The goal will be to find as many different plants and animals as possible and catalogue them to create baseline data that can be used in the future by scientists and natural resource managers. The bioblitz is organized by the Center for Adirondack Biodiversity at Paul Smith's College and the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI).
The free event will be led by scientists, who will take groups of volunteers into the field. Anyone interested in participating in the event is welcome to join, regardless of their scientific background.
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Volunteers pull in their nets to look for organisms during a bioblitz in Follensby Park in Tupper Lake in June 2010. During the weekend of July 14-15, there will be a bioblitz in Saranac Lake.
"Our experts will basically provide the training needed for any sampling, so there's no experience necessary," said David Patrick, director of the Center for Adirondack Biodiversity. "The groups will be going out for different lengths of time. ... If people need to leave early, we can accommodate that."
Experts will teach members of the public how to catch and hold a dragonfly, identify a frog, where to look for plants and animals and more.
A bioblitz is designed to find and identify as many species as possible during a specific period - in this case, 48 hours. This is the fifth year that a bioblitz will be held in the Adirondacks. Other bioblitzes have taken place at the Adirondack Chapter of Nature Conservancy's Follensby Park in Tupper Lake and at the Newcomb VIC.
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Saranac Lake Bioblitz Schedule
Saturday, July 14
7 a.m.
-Bird sampling around the village of Saranac Lake (finish by 9:30 a.m.)
-Bird sampling at Lake Colby (finish by 9:30 a.m.)
- Bird sampling by Saranac River (finish by 9:30 a.m.)
8 a.m.
-Activities in the Saranac Lake Free Library including experts identifying mystery organisms, exhibits, and real time display of the data collected and species found during the bioblitz (all day)
-Sampling small mammals using live-traps (finish by 10 a.m.)
- Sampling fungi at Dewey Mountain (finish by 10 a.m.)
9 a.m.
-Amphibian sampling at Lake Colby (finish by 11a.m.)
9:30 a.m.
-Informal welcome ceremony for the Adirondack All-Taxa-Biodiversity-Inventory Saranac Lake Bioblitz (until 10 a.m.)
10 a.m.
-Sampling dragonflies and damselflies on the Saranac River (finish by 5 p.m.)
- Sampling dragonflies and damselflies by Lake Colby (finish by 5 p.m.)
- Sampling plants on Mount Baker (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling wetland plants by Lake Colby (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling plants on Mount Pisgah (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling plants behind McDonalds
- Bird sampling at Dewey Mtn (finish by noon)
- Bird sampling at Pisgah Mountain (finish by noon)
- Bird sampling at Mount Baker (finish by noon)
10:30 a.m.
- Children's bioblitz scavenger hunt in the village (finish by noon)
11 a.m.
- Amphibian sampling in Saranac Lake Wild Forest near Lake Colby (finish by 2 p.m.)
- Fungus sampling at Dewey Mountain
11:30 a.m.
- Fungus art demonstration with the artist's conk, Ganaderma applanatum
1 p.m.
- Children's bioblitz scavenger hunt in the Village (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling plants around the Village of Saranac Lake
- Sampling terrestrial invertebrates in the village of Saranac Lake (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Fungus sampling at Dewey Mountain
6 p.m.
- Keynote presentation by Steve Young, Chief Botanist with New York Natural Heritage "Look what I found!
- Discovering the rare plants of the Adirondacks." Saranac Lake Free Library (finish by 7 p.m.)
8 p.m.
- Acoustic sampling for bats on the shores of Lake Flower
9 p.m.
- Wetland biodiversity at night: Sampling for amphibians, insects and others using flashlights in Saranac Lake Wild Forest adjacent to Lake Colby
Sunday, July 15
8 a.m.
- Sampling birds at Bloomingdale Bog (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling birds on the Ampersand Mountain trail (finish by 3 p.m.)
- Sampling plants on Ampersand Mountain (until 3 p.m.)
8:30 a.m.
- Sampling fungi on the Ampersand Mountain trail (finish by 1:30 p.m.)
- Sampling plants at Bloomingdale Bog (until 3 p.m.)
9 a.m.
- Sampling amphibians and reptiles on the Ampersand Mountain trail
10 a.m.
- Sampling dragonflies and damselflies at Bloomingdale Bog (until 5 p.m.)
- Sampling dragonflies and damselflies at the Paul Smith's College VIC (until 5 p.m.)
- Sampling plants in the village of Saranac Lake (until 3 p.m.)
5 p.m.
- Wrapping up the bioblitz: Final results and species tally
"This event truly epitomizes the goal of the Adirondack ATBI: To bring scientists and citizens together in sharing their passion for the incredible diversity of life found in the Adirondack Park," Patrick said. "I can't think of another event that will bring together experts on so many different groups of organisms all working together in the same place."
Beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday, groups will begin heading out from the Saranac Lake Free Library to search for different organisms. Participants can drop by the library throughout the day to join them. Sign-up sheets will be available on Saturday for Sunday's surveys, which will take place farther afield.
The Northern Lights School will offer scavenger hunts for children ages 3 to 12 at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Steve Young, chief botanist with the New York Natural Heritage Program, will deliver a presentation called "Look What I Found! Discovering the Rare Plants of the Adirondacks."
The bioblitz is being held in Saranac Lake in part because the organizers hope the location will encourage members of the public to participate and learn more about their environment.
Experts will also be available to help people identify photos of plants, animals or fungi they may be curious about. People are asked not to bring the organism itself.
"All of the data that comes back in will be contributing to our long-term access database," Patrick said. "It's made free and available to anyone who wants it. So this is part of a scientific inventory. It's not just a feel-good exercise. People are contributing directly to these baseline data that we will use for long-term monitoring."
Other supporters of this project include SUNY-ESF, SUNY Potsdam, The Wild Center, the Village of Saranac Lake, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Adirondack Park Agency, New York Natural Heritage, the Paul Smith's College VIC, Northern Lights School, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Adirondack Botanical Society and the Adirondack Mountain Club.
For more information, contact David Patrick at 327-6174 or firstname.lastname@example.com, visit www.adirondackbiodiversity.org or search for "Adirondack ATBI" on Facebook.