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Recipe for Chicken Soup
Unless you're a glutton for punishment, don't come near our house for at least another week. We've been sick. Really sick. Like coughing-your-lungs-up sneezing-your-eyeballs-out kinda sick. I shouldn't complain because it's been a long time since we've all been down with illness, which is a huge miracle with a family the size of ours. Unfortunately, we can't all get sick at the same time and just get it over with. It hits us one at a time with a day or two overlap of victims. Do the math. If the average sickness lasts 5 to 7 days, with a family of 7 that works out to roughly one full month of grumpy, miserable Aarons. Somehow, I seem to have had it worse than the rest of the family. Maybe kids are just more resilient and don't let it get them down. Not gonna lie, I don't mind a good excuse to stay in bed for a couple of days every now and then. It's like a mini-vacation where Netflix replaces white sand beaches, and NyQuil replaces room service.
After a few days of no relief, my dad brought me a Neti Pot. Who on earth decided that pouring water up your nostrils is a good idea? I thought I was gonna drown standing over my bathroom sink. For those of you unfamiliar with the Neti Pot, it's a cute little blue plastic pot that you fill with warm water mixed with a saline solution. You put the spout of the pot in one nostril and pour it in until the water runs out of the other nostril. The lady on the box looks so cute and smiley as the water runs freely out of her nostrils. SO opposite of what I looked like. My eyes were burning. Water was coming out of every facial cavity except for the one it was supposed to be coming out of. I was spitting and coughing frantically and my nostrils were on fire. I reread all of the instructions until I was sure I was doing everything right. I tried again. Finally there was a breakthrough and I was able to breath for the first time in days. I'm still not completely sold on the Neti Pot. There has got to be a better way! But, it did work. It just took me awhile to figure it out.
In the midst of my sickness and misery, I craved only one thing: chicken soup. Several years ago I found an amazing chicken soup recipe on one of my favorite food blogs. This soup is the ultimate comfort food whether you're sick or just having a rough day. It's actually great even if you're having a great day. The original recipe is for chicken & dumplings, but I have a slight aversion to biscuit-y dumplings, so I prefer to serve it with noodles or rice. Enjoy!
Recipe by Our Best Bites
6 cups chicken broth
1 lb. cooked chicken cut into bite-sized pieces
1 cup sliced carrots
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 onion, minced
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
1 bay leaf
1 handful of chopped fresh parsley or 1 Tbsp. dried parsley)
½ teaspoon basil
1 14-oz can evaporated milk
In a large pot, heat some olive oil over medium heat and add onions and garlic. Saute for a few minutes then add chicken broth, chicken, bay leaf, and basil. Bring to a boil. Add carrots and celery then reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and cook until carrots and celery are tender. When carrots and celery are almost done, add chopped parsley. Add evaporated milk. Increase heat to boiling and add noodles, rice, or dumplings. Cook until noodles or rice are tender or dumplings are cooked through.
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Purim & Rationalizing Evil
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(10) Mary, February 25, 2010 7:59 PM
There is a quadrilateral when a person is evil, crazy, obsessed with anti-Semitism, and has totalitarian power. Having all 4 characteristics can bring into manifestation an evil that one does not see without the other factors. There should be some sort of alarm bell built to recognize when this merger happens. Ahmadinejad of Persia has it. Granted the people of Persia are not crazy and are fighting him but they presently they don't have the power. When the bad are armed and the good is unarmed, the result is a bloodbath, whether the media focuses on it or not. 4 is the number of manifestation. It is interesting that the Nazi symbol had 4 spokes. It is interesting that the Hamantashen by which to remember Haman is a triangle with depth to it as well.
(9) Mary, February 25, 2010 6:58 PM
(8) Rosen, February 24, 2010 12:55 PM
quick correction on Zionism
(7) Lori, February 24, 2010 5:17 AM
G-d's light in this world
I enjoyed this immensely. I am not Jewish but believe with all my heart that they are G-d's chosen people and through them spiritual light is in our world. I faithfully pray for Israel and the Jewish people's protection and that the Nation's of the world will benefit from their G-d given correct spirtual knowlege and they too may become righteous and pleasing to G-d. I now know what Purim is about and the dire importance of remembering and recognizing evil in the past and yet in existence. We too, righteous Gentiles of the world must do all that we can to protect Israel and support her and her people in every possible way.
(6) Chana, February 24, 2010 2:29 AM
Never forget......
Dear Lori, I always so enjoy your commentary and you are so right by warning us to be on guard and to never forget. Like Hitler and his henchmen, the evil people of our present time are hard at work to put the Jews in the worst daylight possible and to make people believe we Jews deserve to be regarded with suspicion, distrust and total disregard. We must be strong and be aware, just like my parents and grandparents were when they saw the signs early-on of what was to be with Adolf Hitler at the helm......that awareness "saved" us from the deathcamps of Europe. May the God of Israel be with us always.

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The number one issue I see with the current state of our city, is the lack of communication between the members of our local government and our citizens. This problem is an unnecessary one, this city deserves to have leaders that understand the need for clear communication within itself, with other leaders in our area, and most importantly with the public.
As a former member of the U.S. military and a successful businessman, I firmly believe that commitment and reliability are the cornerstones for positive progression in a business as well as a community. During my time as the City Operations Manager for Hertz, being a reliable person with the commitment to do things right helped me to accomplish a number of things. For example, despite the hard economic times, we were able to make the proper cuts, and increases in efficiency, to avoid lying off a single employee in our region. Not only was I determined to keep each of our employees safe from personal economic hardships, but during my time with the company we were able to increase sales by 100 percent, making our region the number one region for car rentals in the entire country the last three years in a row. It is this kind of business background, along with more than 20 years of leadership experience that I hope to bring to the table as the next mayor of Cape Coral.
It is time for Cape Coral to stop being viewed as the black sheep of Lee County, and start being thought of as a city full of new opportunity. We cannot solve our problems with the same thought-life that created them. Finding solid solutions to these problems begins with listening to fresh new ideas that come forward from the participation of the public, and taking into consideration new courses of action that will help this city become as great as it deserves to be.
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Police have opened an investigation into allegations that Sunderland winger James McClean has been the target of death threats.
The 23-year-old was criticised for his decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy on his shirt during the Black Cats' 2-1 defeat at Everton last weekend.
It is understood that threats have been directed towards McClean on Twitter, a social networking site which the player no longer uses, with police confirming on Sunday they are investigating.
A statement released by Northumbria Police read: "Police are carrying out inquiries following a third party report of threats made on social networking sites.
"Officers have spoken to Sunderland AFC and inquiries are ongoing."
After Sunday's game against Fulham, Black Cats manager Martin O'Neill confirmed McClean had received death threats, and backed him to rise above any negative reaction from fans concerning his choice not to wear a poppy.
O'Neill said: "James will deal with it (the booing).
"I think it is to do with the issue last week, it's a free choice in this world.
"James has lived with a lot of things - he's getting death threats too now so that doesn't help."
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The years have come and gone, and yet for some odd reason I still receive requests for my 'Best Of' journal entries in Heavy Metal, as well as several other genres. Why I still receive these requests I have no idea, but I've relented on being an e-seclusionist curmudgeon and eternally lazy long enough to post my Best in Heavy Metal of 2012 list. I hope whatever poor soul or bored last.fm troll that reads this dated meandering of metal finds something that they haven't otherwise heard or thought to listen to since '12. Unlike the previous journal entry, many if not most of the reviews here are sourced from other writers, webzines, and various publications as noted at the bottom of the review. Also, I encourage any suggestions for albums released in 2012 that I've omitted as it's painfully obvious from my list that I can't possibly listen to everything out there.


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Tickets for the 2014 New Era Pinstripe Bowl - scheduled to kick off at Yankee Stadium at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, pitting schools representing the Big Ten Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference - will go on sale to the general public at www.pinstripebowl.com and www.ticketmaster.com on Friday, August 15, at 10:00 a.m.
Yankees full- and partial-season ticket licensees, Yankees Universe members, and Yankees Group Leaders will have the opportunity to take part in a special pre-on-sale beginning on Tuesday, August 12, the details of which can be found at www.pinstripebowl.com.
MasterCard cardholders can take advantage of a special MasterCard only pre-on-sale starting at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 13, and ending on Thursday, August 14, at 10:00 p.m.
All fans purchasing tickets beginning on Tuesday, August 12, through mid-November are eligible for "early bird" discount pricing of up to $30 off per ticket.
The 2014 New Era Pinstripe Bowl will be the first in the bowl's history to feature teams from the Big Ten and ACC. Each respective conference has entered into multi-year agreements with the New York Yankees and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl to have a representative school play in the game - the Big Ten from 2014 through 2021 and the ACC from 2014 through 2019.
Established in 2010, the New Era Pinstripe Bowl has seen increased attendance in each of its first four years of existence. In 2013, a sellout crowd of 47,122 saw the Notre Dame Fighting Irish return to Yankee Stadium and defeat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 29-16. This year's game will be nationally televised by ESPN, which has also secured national and local radio rights for ESPN Radio.
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Despite taking a three-goal lead into half time, Barcelona survived a second-half scare from Mallorca to win 4-2 at Iberostar Stadium.
Xavi put the Blaugrana on the path to recovering from their shock midweek Champions League defeat to Celtic with a sumptuous free kick, and goals from Lionel Messi and Christian Tello ensured a comfortable lead at the break.
The hosts came back out fighting, though, and pulled two back through Michael Pereira and Victor Casadesus. However, Messi once more saved the day as he ensured that Barca's blushes were spared when he slammed in his 76th goal of 2012, breaking Pele's record for strikes in a calender year in the process.
Mallorca set out to stifle the Catalan giants, dropping midfielders back when out of possession to create a wall of bodies in front of their own goal.
In time, Joaquin Caparros' team grew in confidence but were unable to take the chances that came their way. After blazing over from Ximo's cross moments before, Tomer Hemed saw his header turned around the post by a scrambling Victor Valdes in the 22nd minute.
But it proved only to be a brief scare for the Blaugrana as a moment of pure quality saw them break the deadlock. From a central free kick 25 yards from goal, Xavi curled a majestic, pinpoint shot over the wall and into the top-left corner with 28 minutes on the clock.
Barca should well have had a second five minutes later, but Tello put too much power on his square pass across the face of goal and David Villa was unable to divert the ball into the gaping goal.
Tito Vilanova's men had enjoyed over 70 per cent of possession throughout the first half and they finally put a worthy distance between them and the opposition with two goals in quick succession before the break.
First, Messi was afforded too much space his low shot left Dudu Aouate red-faced as the keeper allowed it to slip through his grasp in the 44th minute. Then, one minute later, Tello received the ball on the left and after cutting in-field onto his right foot, swept a powerful effort past the keeper and into the bottom corner.
Caparros brought Alfaro on in place of Hemed for the second half and the striker almost had the perfect impact. However, he lost his footing when attempting to volley in from close range and ended up sending it over.
Mallorca did get a goal in the 55th minute though as Javier Mascherano was caught in possession by Victor, who then lofted the ball to the far post where Pereira remained composed to fire over Valdes and in.
Three minutes later, the deficit was halved as Victor sent a penalty straight down the middle following a handball from Sergio Busquets in the area.
But Barca used all their experience to take the sting out of the game by holding the ball. They then extinguished any hope of a comeback as Messi rifled in an emphatic second following a brilliant knockdown from Alexis Sanchez.
The Argentine missed a fantastic chance to complete his hat-trick in the 88th minute but it mattered little. The win means the Catalan remain unbeaten in La Liga this season, and temporarily open up a six-point gap over Atletico Madrid at the top.


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Calendar Plugin
Note: It turns out I simply don't have time to work on this. Sorry, this project is dead and won't get finished.
See also: TeamCalendarPlugin, GoogleCalendarPlugin, GanttCalendarPlugin
This plugin adds new navigation item "Calendar". Calendar is (or is aimed to be) the tool for planning of tasks with associated date and time. E.g. ticket to be solved, a conference to attend, or a call to be made can be planned with Calendar. Items for given week are displayed in an overview with resolution of 15 minutes. Three small monthly views are also available, with days containing items marked.
Certain items may be prioritized, and are then displayed in a bright color to stand out.
This was taken a while back, so it's still in Czech locale (plus all the testing events are in Czech), but I hope it's not a big problem. The "Azcalendar" tab is visible at the far right of the Trac menu bar.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for CalendarPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download the zipped source from [download:calendarplugin here].
You can check out CalendarPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Recent Changes
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|Paul Maritz, EMC chief strategist and head of the Pivotal Initiative.
EMC on Wednesday said it plans to spin out its Pivotal Initiative for developing cloud and big data technology as a separate organization, and it is open to the possibility of that organization having its own IPO someday.
EMC for the first time also broke out financial information about Pivotal Initiative, noting that the organization expects revenue of $300 million in 2013, up 101 percent over the revenue from the prior year, and that EMC expects to invest $400 million in the organization.
EMC's Pivotal Initiative is a new organization formed in December that combines VMware's non-core technology for building platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings and EMC's big data technology.
[Related: EMC Talks Flash Storage, Pivotal Initiatives On 4Q Financial Call]
Headed by Paul Maritz, who in July stepped down as VMware's CEO, Pivotal Initiative is a separate organization focused on developing the infrastructure for transforming applications built on and using cloud, mobility and big data technology while allowing VMware to focus on continued development of software-defined data center technology.
Pivotal Initiative includes six primary components, including EMC's Greenplum big data platform with its Hadoop focus and its Cetas data analytics software; VMware's GemFire high-speed application ingestion software, its Spring platform for integrating legacy data and its Cloud Foundry cloud-independent application automation technology; and Pivotal Labs and its 250 application development team.
Maritz on Wednesday said the total addressable market for cloud platforms and application and for big data was about $8 billion, but it would grow to about $20 billion by 2017.
EMC is expected to invest $400 million in Pivotal Initiative in 2013 and 2014, Maritz said. The organization is expected to bring in revenue of about $300 million in 2013, with revenue expected to grow to over $1 billion by 2017, he said.
Pivotal Initiative, while new, has already unveiled Pivotal HD, a new Apache Hadoop big data distribution it said moves Hadoop queries from a batch to an interactive process and makes them as easy as SQL database queries.
Pivotal HD is based on Project HAWQ, which brings to Hadoop the kind of high-performance queries, high-performance data loading rates, ease of management, and integration with other business intelligence tools that users have come to expect from traditional database tools, EMC executives said last month.
NEXT: Still Early, More To Come On Pivotal Initiative


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3 Sioux Falls Men Charged After Weekend Incident
Police say two Sioux Falls men were arrested over the weekend for assaulting the boyfriend of a female relative, and the boyfriend was also arrested.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says police were called around 5:00 pm Sunday to the 800 block of North Duluth Avenue, where an argument between a boyfriend and girlfriend became physical.
Clemens says the man pushed the woman and began punching her, prompting two of the woman's relatives to intervene. He says the men punched the boyfriend to where he was unconscious when police arrived.
The suspects jumped out a back window but were caught and arrested.
Clemens says 37-year-old Justin Kills Small and 26-year-old Jamie Kills Small were both charged with aggravated assault and fleeing, while the boyfriend, 26-year-old Maza Grassrope, was arrested for simple assault-domestic.
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DALLAS - Larry Hagman, best known for his role as J.R. Ewing on TV's Dallas, has died.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Hagman passed away Friday afternoon at a hospital in Dallas due to complications from a recent bout with cancer.
He was 81.
Hagman had been in the city celebrating Thanksgiving and "re-enacting the iconic role he loved most" for the recent revival of the hit 80s show, according to a statement from his family, obtained by the newspaper.
TNT released a statement late Friday saying the network is "deeply saddened" to hear of Hagman's passing.
"He was a wonderful human being and an extremely gifted actor. We will be forever thankful that a whole new generation of people got to know and appreciate Larry through his performance as J.R. Ewing," the statement read.
"Our thoughts a prayers are with his family at this very difficult time."
Hagman, a native Texan, was born in Fort Worth on Sept. 21, 1931, the son of actress Mary Martin and attorney Ben Hagman.
He moved to Los Angeles after his parents' divorce and would eventually follow in his famous mother's footsteps.
For five years, Hagman was a cast member of the London production of his mother's show, South Pacific, before joining the U.S. Air Force.
While stationed in England, he met and married his wife Maj Axelsson.
After serving, he appeared on and off Broadway, and later moved to California.
Hagman became a household name when he landed the role of Anthony Nelson on TV's I Dream of Jeannie. The show ran from 1965-1970.
But his role on Dallas would make him a TV icon. The episode "Who Shot J.R.?" received some of the highest ratings in TV history, with more than 350 million people worldwide watching and guessing who the triggerman was.
Dallas originally aired from 1978-1991. Nearly 20 years later, TNT brought the series back to television, premiering on the network in June 2012. It was renewed for a second season, slated to begin airing in January 2013.
Hagman is survived by his wife and two grown children, as well as several grandchildren.
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 98012958 | Dated April 29, 1998
The Honorable Henry J. Hyde, Jr.
2110 Rayburn HOB
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Hyde:
We write to express our strong opposition to the bill introduced today by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), titled the "Workforce Improvement and Protection Act of 1998," which the Immigration and Claims Subcommittee is scheduled to mark-up tomorrow. We urge you to oppose this bill and its onerous provisions that would render the H-1B program useless for U.S. employers and cripple their ability to be competitive in today's global economy.
While Representative Smith's bill ostensibly addresses an issue of crucial importance to American business and the American economy, the arbitrary limitation on H-1B visas that enable U.S. employers to temporarily bring into this country vitally needed foreign-born professionals, the permanent provisions included in this bill will effectively kill the program's usefulness to employers, rendering any increase in available visas meaningless. These temporary foreign professionals' skills enable U.S. companies to remain competitive in today's global marketplace and create jobs in this country. H-1B professionals are hired by companies not because they prefer to hire foreign workers, but because either the companies cannot locate adequate numbers of qualified workers domestically, or because these foreign professionals possess skills, experience, and expertise that is unavailable here, and that will allow this country to remain competitive.
However, in the name of protecting and improving the U.S. workforce, Representative Smith's bill enacts extensive new regulatory burdens on employers wishing to hire these temporary professionals. One of the main reasons the H-1B program was created was to allow U.S. employers to obtain relatively quick approval to hire foreign professionals who would enhance U.S. competitiveness and create more U.S. jobs. However, the additional burdens in the Smith bill will significantly increase the time it takes to hire a foreign H-1B professional, preventing U.S. employers from using the program, and allowing other countries to gain the benefit. These burdens effectively offset any advantage gained by increasing the H-1B cap. In addition, this new scheme imposes significant Government oversight on individual employers' hiring decisions, especially in the area of recruitment.
The H-1B program outlined by Representative Smith in his bill is unnecessarily restrictive, and would seriously harm the competitiveness of U.S. businesses. We urge you to strongly oppose this bill and support an increase in the H-1B cap that does not impose significant new regulatory processes on the program. Thank you.
Jeanne A. Butterfield
Executive Director
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Evan Turner's feeling it, everything seems to go right for the 76ers.
Turner was at it again, assembling yet another superb shooting display in the Sixers' 104-98 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats at Time Warner Cable Arena.
Turner's up-and-under move at the four-minute mark capped a game-saving run for the Sixers, who staved off two instances in which the Bobcats had drawn even despite owning a 10-point lead at one stretch of the third quarter. Jason Richardson knocked down four 3-pointers in the fourth, including one with 70 seconds to go, to keep Charlotte at arm's length.
Turner had 25 points on 10-for-15 shooting, and 10 rebounds, including a pair of big defensive boards in the final two minutes. Richardson had 22 points, 14 of which were scored in the fourth quarter. And Jrue Holiday paired 13 points with 15 assists.
The Sixers (10-6), who have won four of five road games this season, won their second straight heading to Turner's hometown, Chicago, for a tilt with the Bulls tonight.
Friday's game represented the eighth consecutive game in which Turner has logged a double-digit scoring tally, the longest such streak in his three-year career. Prior to that, a three-game span from Nov. 10-14, Turner shot 6-for-21 for 19 points. That's a three-game total, folks.
Sixers coach Doug Collins has said he likes where Turner's game is – both emotionally and physically. He likes that Turner is taking smarter shots, shots within his wheelhouse, while giving up looks that he knows might go a teammate's way. In terms of consistency, the Sixers couldn't ask for more from Turner. He's done it all in the last eight games, six of them ending in victorious fashion.
The Sixers led at half, 54-50, but only because of a solid effort from the floor. Turner had his hand in that, too, going 4-for-6 from the field. Thad Young was as active, shooting 6-for-7. It was a recurring trend up and down the box score.
The Sixers shot 58.5 percent in the opening half, knocking down 24 of 41 attempts, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range. Elsewhere, the first two quarters were disastrous. They permitted the Bobcats 10 fastbreak points and 11 points of the Sixers' seven turnovers.
For Charlotte, which has one of the NBA's more-porous scoring defenses, giving up an average of 100 points per contest, the Sixers didn't seem to have any interest in putting away the Bobcats.
The Sixers assembled a 14-6 run midway through the third quarter for their largest lead, at 72-62. The Bobcats reeled off seven straight thereafter, setting the tone for a tight game the rest of the way.
Charlotte closed to within one, at 76-75, at the turn of the quarter, with a Bismack Biyombo bucket in transition. Once more, Turner was there to give the Sixers a cushion. His pull-up jumper in the lane led to a traditional 3-point play, and a 79-75 advantage.
Not to be outdone, the Bobcats Ramon Sessions' fastbreak flip with 9:28 to go brought the game even, at 81-all, for the first time since the first half. And that's where it stayed for the next two minutes, as both teams traded a series of misses.
Then Richardson got it going from long range.
Richardson made a 3-pointer, his first successful try from there in the game, to break a tie. His next 3, off a scrum and kept alive with fancy footwork from Holiday, made it an 89-85 Sixers lead with 5:34 remaining.
Left alone in the left corner, on a head-shaking performance defensively by the Bobcats, Richardson hit another trey and Turner – on the Sixers' next possession – had a nifty up-and-under move to bring the Sixers' lead back to three possessions, at 95-87. Richardson was on the left wing again, with 1:10 to go, and buried another 3-pointer to stall out the Bobcats' rally.
Visit Christopher A. Vito's Sixers blog at delcotimes.com for more coverage


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Clinton High basketball coach Tony Gannon recently told senior Kyle Cutler to Google the name John Havlicek.
"I told him he was the greatest sixth man ever," Gannon said, adding with a laugh, "He had no idea who John Havlicek was. He didn't even know how to spell it."
However, Cutler not only is the definition of a sixth man, but he also has become an inspiration on and off the court since going through an ordeal over the past couple of years.
During his sophomore baseball season pitching for the Gaels, Cutler suffered a collapsed left lung. It's now happened three times over the past two years while he's still performed as a three-sport athlete for the Gaels.
"I never knew I had it, but it's a genetic thing in the family," he said, noting that he first experienced "this weird feeling" after a baseball game during his sophomore year.
"I was just sitting at my house, getting some weird pains, so I told my dad and we made an appointment," Cutler said. "When I went in the hospital, they said I was describing (symptoms of) a heart attack."
Following an X-ray, the technician said he would likely be called in a couple of days, but then the doctor noticed something very wrong.
"I didn't even make it home, they said I needed to go to UMass, my lung collapsed," he said.
Cutler went immediately into surgery, where his 20 percent collapse was repaired and things went along normally until several months later when the part of the lung collapsed again.
"There are bubble-like cysts called blebs that grow on the lung," he said. "So whenever they pop, that part of the lung collapses. They just go in, snip that part out, put it against my chest wall and I'm good."
"They fixed it again and said it couldn't get any worse," he said, rather matter-of-factly, downplaying the seriousness of the problem.
Cutler went through his entire junior year without any troubles, quarterbacked the football team this past fall, was eagerly awaiting the basketball season and was felled a third time two weeks into the season.
"One day before school (in December) started I went down to the nurse, I was feeling a little weird again," he said. The diagnosis was that 50 percent of that lung had collapsed.
He was again rushed by ambulance to UMass-Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
"My heart shifted over due to all the pressure, so I had to go through it all over again," Cutler said. "I was in the hospital for 15 days, with a chest tube, and they re-did all the surgery."
Just after Christmas, he returned to the court feeling as good as new.
"It's in the family, it has nothing to do with sports, so getting hit and stuff doesn't cause it," he said. "I'll have it for the rest of my life, so it can happen whenever."
There are no restrictions now for the Clinton senior, who hopes to attend Fitchburg State in the fall and continue playing football and baseball.
The Gaels (10-1, 4-0 to lead Wachusett C) qualified for the postseason a 54-52 win over Gardner.
Clinton is led by Brendan Kittredge (15.5 points per game) and Alex Santiago (12.3), and include a solid supporting cast, including Richard Dalton (9.5), Ed Rupia (8.5) and Franklin Perez (6.4).
Batallas joins banner bonanza
Narragansett senior Bianca Batallas added her name to the honor roll of 1,000-point players for Warrior basketball when she reached the milestone last week in a 48-35 home loss to Sutton. Batallas became the 10th player, nine of them girls, to reach that mark and add her name to the banner adorning the wall of 'Gansett's Eleanor Putnam Fieldhouse. It is something she's had her sights on for a long time.
"When I was little, I used to say 'I wanna be on that banner' and now that I will be it's sorta weird," she said, recalling that she and current teammate Summer Moulton saw Moulton's cousin, Jaci, score her 1,000th point in 2006.
There are few schools in Central Mass. able to claim 10 players in their 1,000-point club.
Mike Duprey became the first Warrior and only boy to score 1,000 points in his career, doing it in 1991. The other eight girls to reach the milestone were Mindy Lavigne (1993), Sheila Knower (1993), Leanne Tourigny (1996), Emily Morgan (1996), Nicole Gallant (1998), Jaci Moulton (2006), Kathleen Jasinski (2008) and Taylor Walker (2009).
Gallant, now Nicole Hemlin, just happens to be Batallas' Senior Topics teacher.
"The day I hit the 1,000th point, she chased me down in the parking lot to wish me luck," Batallas said. "She told me not to be nervous, even though it was impossible not to be."
Batallas, who will attend Regis College and plans to play basketball there, is averaging 15.5 points per game and is part of a 1-2 punch that includes junior Raegan Mulherin (17.3 ppg).
Narragansett coach Dick Kodys, who has been around as a head coach or assistant for nine of the 10 1,000-point scorers, is impressed by his senior's intensity on the court.
"When she gets between those black lines, there's no one more aggressive on the boards and all over the court than Bianca," he said. "She wants to win, that's the bottom line."
The Warriors are 8-3 and in third place in Mid-Wach B, with balanced play from senior Summer Moulton, and juniors Michelle Beaulieu, Emily Burdette and Erin Smith.
Congratulations to Jacob Loewen, who set the Hudson High boys' basketball career scoring mark on Tuesday night in a 68-64 overtime victory against Marlboro.
For the Hawks, it was their first win at Marlboro since 2005 and only their fourth win over the Panthers overall since 1982.
Loewen poured in 30 points to surpass Jason Blackburn's school mark of 1,075. Now at 1,079 points, the Hawks' senior still has half a season left to challenge Ali Peters' all-time school record of 1,221, set in 2003.
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CALGARY, AB (Jan. 29) — Olympian Emily Cook (Belmont, MA) geared up for the Feb. 2-4 VISA Freestyle International with another FIS Freestyle World Cup top-ten aerials finish, taking seventh place at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, AB. Mengtao Xu of China was the women's winner, with Canada's Olivier Rochon taking the men's top spot. The U.S. men were led by Dylan Ferguson (Amesbury, MA) in ninth place and Jonathan Lillis (Rochester, NY) 12th in his first World Cup finals. Windy conditions at the site limited the event to a one-run final.
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Groundbreaking design now available at dealers worldwide, and debuting at events in New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
WESTON, CT, MARCH 30, 2011 — After a year and a half of research and development, D'Agostino LLC has begun shipping its innovative new Momentum amplifier to dealers around the world, the company announced today. Company founder and acclaimed high-end audio designer Dan D'Agostino will personally introduce the amplifier at dealer events in April and May.
The Momentum amplifier has earned praise from numerous publications and industry experts for its unique, innovative technology and incomparable sound quality. Through the use of copper heat sinks with cooling venturis; an efficient power supply design that consumes less than 1 watt at idle; and hand- construction using rugged through-hole circuit boards, the Momentum delivers an incredible 300 watts into 8 ohms from a stylish, compact chassis.
The first production run of the Momentum amplifier recently shipped to key dealers around the world. "We're proud to say we have the best dealers in the business,†D'Agostino commented. "We've chosen them for their passion for the world's finest audio products, and for their ability to demonstrate the full capabilities of these amplifiers.†The company currently has six dealers in the U.S. and 22 international distributors, and is in talks to add more dealers during 2011.
Dan D'Agostino will be demonstrating the amplifiers himself at three upcoming U.S. dealer events. The first will be at Innovative Audio in New York City (iavny.com), April 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. D'Agostino will then join David Wilson of Wilson Audio Specialties and Karen Sumner of Transparent Audio Laboratories for the "Big Three Summits†at the Hi-Fi House (hifihousegroup.com) locations in Jenkintown, PA on May 4, 6 to 9 p.m., and Wilmington, DE on May 5, 6 to 9 p.m.
Due to the recent sharp rise in the prices of copper and aluminum, the company also announced a price increase on the Momentum amplifier from $42,000 per pair to $45,000 per pair. The first production run of the amplifier has been sold, and a second production run has now begun to fill the demand.
For more information on D'Agostino LLC and its products, please visit www.dagostinoinc.com.
ABOUT D'AGOSTINO LLC
D'Agostino LLC was founded in 2010 by famed high-end audio designer Dan D'Agostino, former founder and Chief Engineer of Krell Industries. The company designs and builds high-end audio electronics in its Weston, CT facility. All products are built and tested by hand to the highest standards, and all incorporate innovative design and circuit topologies not seen in any other audio products.


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2014 Jeep Cherokee First Look
Jeep's Radical Reset of its Mainstream Player
Though it can upset loyal brand customers, discontinuing of a model for a year or two before introducing its replacement can be healthy. The forced break with continuity and tradition forces both product planners as well as consumers to examine their preconceived notions of that brand or model, and take a fresh look at a model they might not have previously considered. Jeep hopes that will be the case with the new 2014 Jeep Cherokee, which is a complete clean-sheet re-think of Jeep's small/midsize product strategy. Based on what we've seen so far, it's a galactic improvement over the outgoing Liberty.
Contemporary Crossover, Still a Jeep
The biggest change between the 2014 Cherokee and the Liberty is its platform. Unlike the Liberty, which used a quasi-unibody platform with a live rear axle and longitudinal layout, the transverse-engine Cherokee is built upon the unibody CUSW platform that also underpins the Dodge Dart compact sedan. The Cherokee shows the versatility of this platform, which is loosely based upon the Alfa Romeo Giulietta chassis, by matching or surpassing the Liberty's approach, breakover and departure angles, and providing what should be to be a much smoother on-road ride, better aerodynamics, and vastly improved fuel economy.
Before official specifications were revealed, many Jeep loyalists were concerned that the crossover would be a Jeep in name only, like the soft-roader Compass and Patriot. Jeep has preemptively addressed critics by offering not one, but three four-wheel-drive systems; two offer a low-range option, one which has a rear locking differential, a key piece of hardware and bragging rights for off-road aficionados.
A big part of the 2014 Cherokee's story its fuel economy, which is said to be 31 percent better than the Liberty for V-6 models and 45 percent better on I-4 ones. However, it's important to keep in context that for the last few models years, the Liberty was only offered with V-6 power. As for the engines themselves, the base mill is Chrysler's 2.4-liter "Tigershark" four-cylinder, which is an adaptation of the so-called "World Engine" with Fiat's MultiAir variable valve lift technology. Jeep has not yet released official EPA figures, but claims a respectable 31 mpg highway for the two-wheel-drive Cherokee equipped with the four-cylinder.
The upgrade engine is a smaller-bored version of the familiar corporate Pentastar V-6, this time in 3.2-liter form. Still port-injected, the engine produces 271 hp and 239 lb-ft of torque, an improvement of 61 hp and 4 lb-ft over the Liberty's old 3.7-liter SOHC 12-valve V-6. The most radical change in the powertrain department is the adoption of a nine-speed automatic transmission. Yes, you read that right. More than double the number of ratios of the Liberty, and three more than most of its competitors. In Jeep-speak, the gearbox is called the 948TE. It's a license-built ZF 9HP, the same one that was recently touted in the 2014 Range Rover Evoque.
Lowdown on Low Range
In terms of how that power hits the pavement (or trail) the Cherokee will be offered in front-wheel-drive, Jeep Active Drive I, which is the standard, single-speed four-wheel-drive system, Jeep Active Drive II, which has a low-range ratio, and Jeep Active Drive Lock, which is essentially Active Drive II with a locking rear differential, available exclusively on the off-road-oriented Trailhawk model. All four-wheel-drive systems are offered with four terrain modes: Auto, Snow, Sport, and Sand/Mud. The Trailhawk's Active Drive Lock adds a fifth mode, "Rock" which is available only in low-range, and optimizes power application for climbing obstacles. Both the Mud/Sand and Rock Modes can distribute up to 100 percent of power to the rear axle. But during normal on-road driving, the four-wheel-drive systems disconnect the rear axle, resulting in improved fuel economy and less mechanical drag. Jeep is claiming an industry-first for this feature.
Also, thanks to ratio spread afforded by the transmission's abundance of speeds gives low-range-equipped Cherokees an impressive crawl ratio. Equipped with the Tigershark four-cylinder, the Cherokee has a crawl ratio of 56:1, and 47.8:1 with the 3.2 Pentastar. For comparison, the Grand Cherokee has a crawl ratio of 44.1:1 and the Wrangler Rubicon a ratio of 73.1:1.
With all this driveline wizardry, Jeep did not lose sight of the importance of capability. To that end, the Cherokee has a maximum trailer towing capacity of 4500 lb. Though 500 lb lower than the Liberty's, that's still considerably higher than the 2500 lb and 3000 lb ratings more commonly found in the class.
Dimensionally, the Cherokee is fractionally bigger than the Liberty in length and width, but is about five inches shorter in height. In terms of weight, the Cherokee is meaningfully lighter than the Liberty in most configurations. Jeep did not release weight for four-cylinder models, but the front-drive V-6 tips the scales at 3811 lb, while the Trailhawk comes in at a stout 4106 lb. The outgoing Liberty 4x4 weighed in at 4290 lb, with the 2WD weighing 4076.
Inside, it's mostly the same space-wise, with Cherokee passengers having about the same amount of space as those riding in Liberties. However, in terms of interior styling and features, the Cherokee blows its predecessor into the weeds. Starting with the overall style, the Cherokee's sculpted dash and console look like some actual thought was put into the design process, compared to the Liberty's angular cabin that looks like it came from the early 1980s designed with a straight-edge on a drafting table.
Material quality is improved as well as style. The Cherokee gets soft-touch material on the door uppers, door armrests, upper dashboard and center armrest. Nappa leather seating surfaces with driver's side memory seats are available, as is a heated steering wheel, heated and cooled front seats, a wireless device charging pad, and Chrysler's massive 8.4-inch center touchscreen display (a five-inch screen is standard) with available streaming media apps Pandora, Aha, and iHeart Radio. Also available is adaptive cruise control with active braking and the 2014 Cherokee also gets the distinction of being the first Chrysler product to get park assist.
The Look: Love It or Hate It
As for the exterior design, specifically the front-end styling, it's a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. In an early media preview, Jeep reps sandbagged the styling by saying "You're probably going to hate it." One thing's for sure, it's a radical departure from Jeep's traditional look. Particular scrutiny has been given to the design of the front lighting, which some have compared to the Nissan Juke's. Like the Juke, the Cherokee's upper light strip consists of LED running lights and directional signals while the actual headlights are mounted lower on the front fascia.
On most Cherokee models, the headlights are housed in an integrated one-piece body-colored molded front bumper cover. On the Trailhawk, the headlights are surrounded by a gray plastic accent piece that covers the bumper and lower fascia that comes up and around the headlights. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we prefer the styling treatment of the Trailhawk, which also includes two bright red tow hooks, which Jeep representatives proudly claim are fully functional. Around back, all Cherokees get standard LED taillights, which are an horizontal design, mounted high, bordering the rear glass.
Pricing has not yet been released, but for context, the Liberty 4x2 starts at $24,320 before incentives, going up to $34,330 for a fully-optioned Limited Jet Edition 4x4. We think a fully decked-out Cherokee Limited V-6 4x4 may crest that total, but we don't see the Cherokee going over $40,000, even with the most lavish level of equipment. Considering a Honda CR-V starts at around $23,625, a Ford Escape goes for $22,865 for the price-leader S trim, and a Subaru Forester goes for $23,820 with an automatic, the starting price on a front-drive, four-cylinder Cherokee will likely start around the $23,000 range. Official pricing should be released closer to the Cherokee's anticipated on-sale date this Summer.
|2014 Jeep Cherokee
|$23,000-$29,000 (est)
|Front-engine, FWD /4WD, 5-pass, 5-door, SUV
|2.4L 184-hp / 171-lb-ft SOHC 16-valve I-4; 3.2L 271-hp / 239-lb-ft DOHC 24-valve V-6
|9-speed automatic, single-speed/low-range 4WD optional
|3811 lb (V-6 4x2) - 4106 lb (V-6 4x4)
|106.3-107.0 in (Trailhawk)
|182.0 x 73.2-74.9 x 66.2-67.8 in
|7.5-9.0 sec (TT est)
|19-22 / 28-31 mpg (est)
|IN U.S. Summer 2013


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Manton, Walter P. TaxidermyWithout a Teacher. So. Framingham [Mass.]: The J.C. Clark Printing Company, 1876. Catalog Record | Enlarge Image | Adopt a Book Home
The author describes how he originally wanted to call this book "Simple Chats on Taxidermy," and in it he certainly takes a conversational approach after first setting the stage: "I ask the reader to take himself, in imagination, to my work-shop, and to proceed as if I were at his elbow, guiding his hand and explaining to him the mysteries of this mysterious and beautiful art." What follows is a manual of instruction for preparing and preserving birds and animals, including information on hunting and hygiene. This copy has a blindstamp on the title page from Philbrick James Library and the bookplate of Deerfield Public Library, which declares, among other rules, that "All loud talking or unnecessary noise in the Library room is strictly prohibited."
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Rogic off to join Celtic
Young playmaker Tomas Rogic is off to join Celtic in Scotland after A-League leaders Central Coast Mariners agreed terms for his transfer.
Recently capped for Australia, the highly-regarded Rogic has been trialling with the Scottish giants at their mid-season camp in Spain.
He will now travel to Glasgow to discuss personal terms with the club after gaining clearance when the Mariners agreed to transfer terms on Wednesday.
It is another big step in the dramatic rise of 20-year-old Rogic who has only held a professional contract for one year.
It is believed Celtic consider him first-team material in the short term, meaning Rogic could even be involved in the club's Champions League games against Juventus next month.
Clubs who reach the last 16 of the Champions League are permitted to add three players to their registered European squads by February 1.


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Holly and Bob Miller Fellowship Gift Helps Advance Palliative Care in Vermont
- 03-08-2013
- By Jay Goyette
Over the last ten years palliative care has been one of the fastest growing trends in health care, seeing an increase of approximately 148 percent in the number of palliative care teams within hospital settings by 2010. However, recruiting such practitioners has been a challenge for Vermont hospitals. A $100,000 gift to the University of Vermont from Holly and Bob Miller of Burlington, Vt., will fund an Advanced Practice Nursing Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care at the Vermont Palliative Care Collaborative designed to provide access to quality palliative care for all Vermonters.
The Palliative Care Collaborative is made up of representatives of the UVM College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the UVM College of Medicine, Fletcher Allen Health Care, and the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle counties, as well as individual community members. It was created in 2007 thanks to a $325,000 gift from an anonymous donor. The group has overseen distribution of funds to support medical student events such as Palliative Care Week and a physician fellowship program at UVM/Fletcher Allen, enhancements in UVM's nursing programs in end-of-life care, and support for VNA's community outreach through its Madison-Deane Initiative.
The Advanced Practice Nursing Fellowship is a critical education and clinical care component made possible by the Millers, who recognize the needs of end-of-life and palliative care patients. The availability of palliative care for all Vermonters is a priority service goal for the Palliative Care Collaborative and for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, which prepares advanced practice nurses.
"We are excited about the opportunity to support this unique and rare collaboration," said Holly Miller. "Our gift for this nursing fellowship is given in the spirit of a tribute to these four institutions that have come together to identify the greatest needs around palliative and end-of-life care for our community. We truly believe that this will make a meaningful difference in patient care."
Holly Miller has been an advocate for the thoughtful and supportive care of individuals nearing their end of life for nearly 30 years. She was a founding director of the Vermont Respite House and has served on many community boards and committees. With a primary focus on palliative and end-of-life care, Miller is a hospice volunteer, a member of the Noyana Hospice choir, and longtime member of the Madison-Deane-Initiative, all programs within the VNA's umbrella of end-of-life care services.
"Bob and Holly Miller truly understand the critical need for palliative care services as this leadership gift certainly demonstrates," said Patricia Prelock, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. "Their support will help us ensure a specialized and much-needed focus in palliative care for nurse practitioners for years to come."


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Join thousands of other players and make your home in Free Realms! Do what you want to do, when you want to do it, in a lush, living, 3D world filled with lush landscapes and fun wildlife.
Originally launched in 2009 for the PC and 2010 for MAC, Free Realms delivers an endless array of exciting gameplay activities, minigames and adventures to entertain a diversity of players. From ninja fighting and playing soccer to battling pirate ships and training exotic pets, in Free Realms players can be and do whatever they want whenever they want! Free Realms offers a fun, social environment to connect with old and new friends while participating in live events, group quests and community activities.
Free Realms gameplay is as varied as the people who play. Looking for adventure? Unlock jobs like Ninja, Explorer and Wizard to battle enemies and disarm traps as you search for lost treasure, or duel other players. Battling not for you? Take time to teach your pet a new trick, decorate your house, or grow vegetables and flowers. When you're ready for a different kind of challenge, play a wide variety of completely integrated mini-games to craft useable items or get your high score onto the leaderboards.
There's always something new to see and do in the world of Free Realms, with weekly and monthly content updates, regular and special events, and even player-created parties and celebrations.
Featuring the familiar activities, minigames and adventures found in the PC version with a streamlined user interface, Free Realms for the PS3 capitalizes on all the interactive features the console has to offer and is easily accessible from the PlayStation Store. Players can use voice chat to lead their group into battle and socialize at a party, while also earning, comparing and sharing trophies.
"This benchmark is an honor and a true testament of SOE's success with Free-to-Play games," said John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment. "Free Realms delivers a truly captivating, quality gameplay experience that keeps our community engaged and continues to attract new players every day."
To celebrate the rapidly growing community of players, SOE will offer a special promotional in-game varsity letterman jacket to each character, for players that log in at least once from Oct. 21 through Oct. 31, 2011 PDT.
SOE is also hosting a Free Realms Spooktacular in-game event where fun tricks and treats will be available for players to claim when they log in. From Oct. 24 through Nov. 7, 2011, players can log in to take part in several bone-chilling special events such as the Vampire vs. Werewolf Dance-Off in the Bone Bog Cemetery. Additionally, players will have the opportunity to purchase a new Werewolf mount for haunting in style, as well as new ghoulish Halloween costumes, including a Ghost, Grim Reaper, Mummy outfit and more.
Key Features:
- Love the thrill of combat? Players can be a ninja, warrior or wizard to battle enemies or duel other players. Combat not for you? Go on adventures with pets, mine for gold, cook up a meal or enter a demolition derby! When players are ready for a different kind of challenge, they can play a wide variety of completely integrated minigames, pick up a quest, decorate their house, construct a maze or explore the terrain on the back of their T-Rex Ride. Free Realms is theplace to join your friends to discover, explore, compete, create and just have fun!
- Fun Now, No Waiting: Free Realms is easy to access! Get in the game quickly and easily from the PlayStation®Store, create a character, and adventure in a fully immersive social game world within minutes! Click on the Game Guide to access the Activity Finder, Events Calendar, 3D and 2D minigames, quests, Match Making and more!
- Be Whoever You Want: With 15 jobs to get into and more than 30,000 wearable combinations, players can find the perfect profession, or try them all! Jobs include: wizard, blacksmith, medic, archer, warrior, ninja, brawler, chef, miner, demolition derby driver, kart driver, adventurer, postman, soccer star, and fisherman.
- Fun for Everyone: With so much to do and seeit's easy for players to find something fun for you! Start by playing minigames like cooking, mining, soccer, Demolition Derby, or Pirate's Plunder. Players can decorate their player house with a party dance floor, rocket ship or talking tiki head, or create a maze with any number of items and invite friends over to race through it. The action doesn't stop there; players can participate with the entire community at live event Boss Battles or in holiday quests, attend in-game concerts and learn boom box dance moves.
- Vibrant, Deep Environment: There are eight distinct, unique and breathtaking environments for players to explore. Areas include the snowcapped mountain villages of Snowhill, the dark and mysterious swamps of Blackspore, and the sunny shores of Seaside.
- Connect with Friends: Whether one's meeting up with old friends or finding new ones, Free Realms players can connect, play, quest and adventure together. For group quests and multiplayer battles, players just log in to see what their friends have been up to, select them from your friends list and join them in game.
- Play Free or Upgrade: At its heart, Free Realms is free-to-play, with more than 800 quests and the ability to take each job through level four. But players who want to break through to the next level can become Members with access to an additional 400 quests and the ability to level all jobs up to 20. Memberships are offered in terms of one month, three months, six months and lifetime, which is valid for the life of the game. Members and free players can also purchase a variety of items and wearables through micro-transactions.
- Family-Friendly: Recently recognized by Creative Child Magazine with the 2010 Creative Toy Award Seal of Excellence, Free Realms is a fun online experience to share with the entire family. Parental controls on the PC allow for the customization of safety options, include pre-canned and white-list chat, reporting and filters for younger players. For kids who enjoy playing on the PS3, robust parental controls are innate to the PS3
Free Realms is rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and up with content descriptors of Crude Humor and Fantasy Violence. Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB.
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Why do you even need a queue, and which one should you use? There are a number of queuing options out there today, and while options are great, it is sometimes hard to examine all the features of each to determine the best fit. As you start to look deeper into the options certain patterns and features emerge. Some projects are more suitable for certain environments, and it would be nice to learn which one best matches your environment.
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With only one year left on Illinois' current construction program, a coalition of business and labor groups is trying to get discussion started about what to do when it ends.
In many ways, the timing for such a discussion could not be worse, but unfortunately there will not be a better opportunity any time soon, and it's a discussion that must be had.
The crux of the Transportation for Illinois Coalition message is that without a new construction program, Illinois' transportation system, the lifeline for the state's prosperity, will deteriorate rapidly, further battering the state's economy, costing thousands of jobs and delaying necessary work that will only cost much more to complete later. The group's legislative prescription is a major revision in the way gas taxes are collected for state transportation projects, supplemented by increases in various driver's license and registration fees.
With pensions, budgeting and a simmering debate over income taxes already on their legislative plate, Illinoisans understandably may be wearying of talk about financial crises, but fortunately, this situation is not yet an emergency. Its potential solutions do demand attention, though, and serious reflection, for the coalition is right to warn of the foolishness of letting the construction program dissolve and its proposals carry serious consequences for motorists in Illinois.
The easy part of this debate is the question of changing the way gas taxes are collected. A system based on a percentage of the wholesale price of gasoline makes more sense than the current fixed figure per gallon, which cannot naturally follow the trends in inflation and the economy as a whole.
For example, when the present 19 cents-a-gallon motor fuel tax was implemented in 1990, gasoline in Illinois cost about $1.50 a gallon. Since then, labor and materials costs have increased markedly as have the needs for construction and upkeep of Illinois roads, but sales of gasoline have not kept up. Indeed, under such a system, the only way to produce a revenue stream for roadwork that ebbs and flows with the economy is to sell more gasoline, a prospect fraught with numerous drawbacks.
Basing the fee on a percentage of the price of a gallon of gas offers a better alternative. The question is, what should that figure be? The coalition wants 9.5 percent. That's not an unreasonable a place to start discussion, but it is for many reasons an uncomfortable one. Yes, when the present gas fee was implemented in 1990, the 19 cents represented nearly 13 percent of the then-common $1.50 retail cost of a gallon of gas, and 23 years later, it's less than 5 percent. But the coalition estimates that a 9.5 percent tax on the wholesale gas price would add about 13 cents to the retail cost of a gallon of gas today. In a time of continuing economic hardship, it's hard to generate interest in adding to people's burdens.
We must remember, of course, that Illinois' transportation assets are critical to the state's economic vitality and that fixing them later rather than maintaining them now could add even more to those burdens. The coalition plan would generate $800 million a year to stave off such a prospect. Is that the best number to work with? It's worth a discussion, and, bad timing or no, one that needs to get under way.


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LinkedIn groups: true networking tool or time waster?
The jury is still out on belonging to online IT groups.
A round-the-clock forum to exchange tech smarts and business leads or another Facebook-style time thief?
LinkedIn groups promise unparalleled networking opportunities – but for some they're just another way to be spammed and sidetracked.
LinkedIn - the professional social network - has around 150 million users worldwide, including two million Australians, including around 133,000 IT professionals. Users are permitted to join a maximum of 50 groups and, with more than a million to choose from, those who want to jump on a soapbox or press the flesh in cyberspace are spoilt for choice.
SR7 social media consultancy partner James Griffin said LinkedIn groups could be a powerful conduit to the wider corporate world – but only for the focused and discerning user.
People who were members of more than 10 or 15 groups had probably joined most of them for the sake of it, and belonging to as many as 40 or 50 was 'ridiculous', Griffin said.
"There's a lot of noise about social media revolutionising business but you need to be clear what your purpose is," he said.
"Unless there's the ability to work on prospects or new business, they can be a useless place to be. It's ok to budget to put some time aside to participate in groups but as with other social media, it's easy to get distracted on the highways and byways and find you've spent an hour and a half essentially wasting time."
Chief technology officer at IT start-up Lockbox Rick Harvey said this was most likely to occur within 'ad hoc' groups.
"[They] are usually aimless, unbalanced, un-moderated and often contain self-appointed megastars spurting emotional drivel that rarely has any latent value," Harvey said.
As well as offering the business equivalent of wasting 20 minutes looking at hundreds of ski trip photos of a friend of a friend on Facebook, participating in groups can carry privacy risks.
"It is yet another mechanism for LinkedIn to get social graphs of the way people operate and gain intelligence on discussions that may be semi-confidential," Harvey said.
On a positive note, the medium allowed cohorts to self organise quickly across diverse organisations, Harvey added.
"This is good if the aim of the group is some higher goal such as a working group looking at productivity issues in a given industry."
LinkedIn regional managing director Cliff Rosenberg said successful groups all had a clear raison d'etre, and readily identifiable target participants.
"Groups where these points aren't clearly defined are the ones that are apt to lose their way," Rosenberg said. "You need to think about how the group will add value to members. Groups are about quality not quantity of connections."
Cloudsafe365 CEO Craig Deveson agrees: "A good group is one where there is constant interaction of like-minded people," he said. "I set up and managed a few groups in the early days; however that was before the trend to open groups, which is more about volume and less about quality sometimes."
'Bad' groups were those taken over by members with a secondary purpose for being there - recruiters trawling for business being among the worst offenders in this regard, Deveson added.
Rigorous moderation, including the exclusion of members who do not conform can prevent this sort of hijacking. Rosenberg said moderators could – and should – exclude group members who strayed from topic or pushed their own unrelated products and services onto other members.
"People need to think of the LinkedIn group as being like a business meeting – and be more selective about who is allowed in," Griffin said.
"You wouldn't allow people to wander in off the street and sell products at a real meeting."
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My next DIY TQ is actually gonna look very similar to this design. I think this will work great in a hammock.
My next DIY TQ is actually gonna look very similar to this design. I think this will work great in a hammock.
Well...I survived the nigt. The temp read 38 when I got up. I was toasty warm and actually had to vent a bit during the night. (I had my 0* Incubator)
Things I noticed:
Good: I was able to warm up pretty quick once in the bag. I actually like the fact that it hugs around me and I don't need to tuck it in. Just stick your head in and it pretty much tucks itself in. The hood is nice and if I don't want to use it I just tucked it under my head like a pillow. It was good. The bag is pretty light and packs down really nicely. It also has a small loop into the top so you could attatch it to your ridgeline if you were so inclined.
Bad: (and this is a pretty minor thing) When you are all tucked in nice and snug it's a bit tricky reaching out of the hammock (for a water bottle or what not). It wasn't bad, it just wasn't as easy as I'm used to with other quilts. For things on the ridgeline I was able to reach through the hood hole and access things. It was only when I went for my water bottle (on the ground) that I had to "untuck" and then get tucked back in afterwords. Again...not a big deal, just different.
So far I really like this bag. After a few more nights I'll update some information and maybe do a video review or something.
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Interesting! Thanks for the report. How does venting it work if you get too hot? That was a concern for me that drive me to pursue another choice.
The hood area has a drawstring that allows you to open it up prett good. I'm actually able to stick my arm up through and above my head if I wanted to. I also found that you don't have to put your head in the hood area. If you want you can put your feet in the box and use it like a regular TQ. It doesn't tuck well like that, but it works if you don't want to trap a lot of heat.
If you ain't havin' fun, you're doin' it wrong
I've just got the alpine one! Rated at 35f. Will be perfectly adequate for summer in the hammock. Has added side baffles so might be extra good for keeping out those draughs. as i'm a cold sleeper it will need teaming up with something else for the weather we have here at the moment. Its supposed to be used attached to a pad and has snap fasters around the edges. You can't feel these protruding at all. Handy storage pocket at the neck end. Packs down great snd lofts well. Lovely and soft outer shell. Nice foot box shaping. Not for anyone too large in stature and I recommend getting the longer version for average height. That will give enough down to snuggle around your head.
Actually we bought Enlightened Equipment ProdigyX TQs.
The gift card remains untouched.
Dividend bought a Snowpeak canister stove.
Yessir. With piezo.
I am a
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I recently bought a Nvidia Geforce GT640 and installed the driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia from the rpmfusion repo's on Fedora 17 and rebooted only to find that it halts when booting. I thought that perhaps I needed to disable the nouveau driver, however pressing 'e' at grub I noticed:
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linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 ... nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off vga=normal
which suggests to me that the nouveau driver has been blacklisted and therefore shouldn't be loaded by the kernel? To be honest I have no idea if thats correct and I feel completely out of my depth with this and so any help or advice would be really appreciated.
Also I tried booting an older kernel (which doesn't blacklist nouveau) but found that I lose picture completely - monitor says there is no signal!
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Dorothy Williams Mattesich
Nov. 19, 1919 - Mar. 4, 2013
Dorothy Mattesich passed away after a lengthy illness at the Creekside Care Center in Stockton, CA. Born in Oakland, Dorothy had two older brothers Irving
Williams and Ray Williams who predeceased her and leaves two half sisters Evonne Bissig and Carol Saburit of Lafayette and Madera respectively. Dorothy grew up on a ranch in Escalon where she attended Elementary School and graduated from Escalon High School.
Dorothy married the love of her life, Tom Mattesich, and enjoyed their marriage of 54 years up to the time of Tom's death in 1993. They shared in the operation of their very successful Trucking Business for 48 years. She made many friends both socially and in the business community during this stage of her life, Socially,
Dorothy belonged to bridge clubs, pinochle clubs, and secret pals, She loved to travel and their business often took them to many eastern and southeastern states.
Dorothy loved her family and friends and was always supportive, giving, and caring. She was very literate and especially accomplished in writing. She was also skillful at writing jingles and won many prizes from contest submissions. She enjoyed listening to big band era music, attending festive events, trips to Tahoe and Reno as well as week long vacations in Santa Cruz.
Dorothy is predeceased by husband Tom Mattesich and survived by sons Gary and Robert, daughter-in-law Rose Marie, grandchildren Jill Udoutch, Tom Mattesich, Megan Mattesich and great grandchildren Joel Udoutch, Aaron Udoutch, and Sarah Udoutch. Dorothy was a loving mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother and a devoted friend who touched many lives and will be missed by her family and friends.
Memorial services will be held on Wednesday March 20th, 1:00 pm at the DeYoung Funeral Home Chapel at 601 N. California St. in Stockton. Committal will be at Farmington Memorial Cemetery, 6255 Escalon Bellota Road, Farmington, CA 94550. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts can be made to the United Methodist Church of Farmington, 25636 E. Elm, Farmington, CA 95230. Online guest book at deyoungchapels.com


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Find out "What's the Buzz?" on this week's special 1-hour edition of Great Gardening featuring Bees & Pollinators. Spring has finally sprung with summer close behind. There are only a couple chances left to ask your garden questions. Get ready for a great growing season!
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That is what you need to do, when you encounter all this. Get out of the flock, overcome the fears..fly and see what you really can do if you try.
"Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a reason to live to learn, to discover, to be free!"
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Topic: February 2005
The first 35 pages of this book are speckled with all sorts of magical realist riffs, not something I really recognized the first time.
Lemme see...
The idea of circuses and exaggeration. Larger-than-Lifeness.
Napoleon's exaggerated personality and appetite.
The extremities of life at camp, where "there is no heat, only degrees of cold."
The introduction of a curious and important character who could speak a "funny language none of us could understand," and yet "he understood everything" [italics added].
An underlying politics:
"We're white with red noses and blue fingers. The tricolour."and the suggestion that war's reality is not sensible in the way that soldiers or leaders might imagine it.
This differentiates Henri, our narrator in this first section, from other soldiers. While being a true patriot, he recognizes the moral dichotomies of war, that "nowadays people talk about the things [Napoleon] did as though they made sense."
We get the following neat little summation from Henri more than once in this book: "I'm telling you stories. Trust me."
The authentic magical realist tale often demands the finesse of an extraordinary narrator, someone who can see inside and outside the story. Someone who can be reliable, or if unreliable, still believable. We want the tall tale to work.
Henri is one such extraordinary narrator, of good Catholic stock and born to serve his soon-to-be monarch, while still being capable of acknowledging the horrific side effects of war and "liberation":
"Words like devastation, rape, slaughter, carnage, starvation are lock and key words to keep the pain at bay. Words about war that are easy on the eye."In other words, he sees what's really going on. He recognizes how people will manage reality so that it's palatable, even when it's at its most horrible.
When he admits he's telling stories, you have two options as the reader: question him (after all, "telling stories" is only a hair different than "telling lies") or trust him.
Henri asks you to trust him. And why not? He's moral, obedient. His character is life-affirming; he loves his mother, is true to God, he believes in angels. And he's There. As Napoleon's private cook, Henri's got an inside into the little general's personal life.
This is how we get to the real stories in history?the reliable narrator. In this case, Henri's revelation of the seeds of tyranny and violence that constitute the rise of Napoleon occurs without ever baldly accusing his beloved leader of immorality.
Henri's observations are sly, but telling. For instance, when Henri is first introduced to Bonaparte's storeroom, he discovers dozens of chickens, sans beaks and claws, held inside wooden cages and "staring through the slats with dumb identical eyes."
The presence of these particular chickens is meaningful to a farm boy like Henri, who has seen plenty of wringed necks and caged animals in his life to not be shocked by the sight. What he is startled by, however, is the silence of the birds.
"Not even a rustle. They could have been dead, should have been dead, but for the eyes."Henri is telling us something we need to know here. Author Jeanette Winterson is using Henri's point of view to structure the story's message in multiple ways.
1/ She's establishing the humanity of her main narrator to make him credible and sympathetic. Someone to trust? Absolutely.That's why they bother Henri, because they're no longer just livestock to him. Not in this context.
2/ She's also hinting at events to come. Caged chickens are tyranny enough, after all; to then remove their beaks and claws after they've already been sequestered says something about Napoleon that we now understand to be true: that he was cruel, vain, and a serious control freak.
3/ And finally, she's suggesting the chickens represent something. Are they blind? No, only voiceless, and without any way to defend themselves. What could that stand for, but the aftermath of Napoleon's reign on the innocent? These chickens are witnesses.
Henri is a truthteller, then. One who lives up to his commitment to his family, his church, his country. One who both loves and loathes his leader. What could be more human? More grounded in reality?
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Wales have released a 19-man squad for their Student Rugby League International against Australia in Treorchy on December 5 (kick-off 2pm) and coach Wayne Williams believes that he has a team capable of pulling off a shock win writes Ian Golden.
?We?ve already proved this year that we?re the best side in the UK after beating Scotland, Ireland and England students.? comments Williams, ?And over half of the lads played in this year?s Welsh Conference side who also did the triple-crown against their counterparts. This is not a side that?s used to losing and this game will be fantastic preparation for next year?s World Cup in Brisbane.?
The match is part of a month-long tour for the Student Kangaroos as they attempt to retain the Academic Ashes that they won back from Great Britain in Australia in 2003. Treorchy's Lower Regent Street ground has been chosen to host this match for the second time, after successfully staging on the last Academic Ashes tour in 2001.
The Welsh squad contains nine players from the successful Cardiff-based, UWIC University including full Welsh international Aled James who is studying in Cardiff during the professional off-season.
James? new Sheffield Eagles team-mate, Pete Moore, is currently studying at Leeds Met University and will turn out for Wales before being the only Welsh representative in the Great Britain squad.
Moore and James? former Cardiff Demons colleagues, Mark Dando and Gareth Morgan, who both study at UWIC, are also in the squad while Newport Titans? Dan Nelmes, studying at Exeter gives the Gwent club only their second ever international player.
Nine other Welsh players will be well-known to Welsh Rugby League fans after starring for Aberavon Fighting Irish and the Welsh Conference side in 2004.
Their experience will provide a stern test for the touring side before they face the Academic Lions on December 15 in Dewsbury and December 19 at Warrington's Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Welsh Squad: Neil Davies (UWIC / Aberavon Fighting Irish, Capt), Gareth Morgan (UWIC / Cardiff Demons), Gavin Curry (UWIC), Dewi Scourfield (Cardiff University), Mark Dando (UWIC / Cardiff Demons), Matt Drew ? (UCE / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Geraint Davies ? (Swansea University / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Mark Burke (Swansea Institute / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Joel Keen (UWIC), Jason Massey (Swansea Institute / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Denis Pugh (Glamorgan University), Aled James (UWIC / Sheffield Eagles), Pete Moore (Leeds Met / Sheffield Eagles), Dean Scully (Swansea Institute / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Olly Green (UWIC), Phil Carleton (UWIC / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Dan Nelmes (Exeter University / Newport Titans), Dan ap Dafydd (Brunel University / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Sean O'Brien (Coleg Glan Hafron / Aberavon Fighting Irish), Matt Jackson (UWIC)
Full Australian Tour Schedule:
December 1st - England v Australia (Blackheath RUFC) December 5th - Wales v Australia (Treorchy Zebras RUFC) December 8th - Ireland v Australia (Limerick UL) December 12th - Scotland v Australia (Edinburgh Academicals RUFC) December 15th - Great Britain v Australia (Rams Stadium, Dewsbury) December 19th - Great Britain v Australia (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington)


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Crowder College has once again announced an increase in enrollment for the spring semester.
Crowder College has once again announced an increase in enrollment for the spring semester.
With 4, 976 students enrolled, total enrollment jumped 5.33 percent from the spring 2012 semester, when 4,724 students had signed up for classes.
The number of credit hours students enrolled in also increased by 3.86 percent from last spring, up to 46,643 credit hours.
Jim Riggs, Crowder's director of admissions, said he believes the continued increase in enrollment numbers is due to a combination of what Crowder offers, including, its several locations and value.
"Geography does come into it because the new sites have increased enrollment," Riggs said. "Our enrollment across the board has been strong."
While the spring enrollment is up this year, that number has decreased from the college's enrollment numbers last fall, when Crowder reached a record enrollment at 5,590 students.
However, Riggs said a higher fall enrollment than spring enrollment is common at community colleges and universities alike.
"It's very standard," Riggs said. "I think we did a pretty good job of holding our students."
He said some factors that contribute to a lower spring than fall enrollment are the loss of December graduates, transfers and the lack of an influx of recent high school graduates that is common in August.
"We're very pleased," Riggs said. "I know the numbers across the state are not good."
Both fall and spring enrollment numbers have grown the past several semesters, and Riggs said it has been a "long, long time" since Crowder has seen a decrease in overall enrollment, and he plans to work to keep it that way.
Last December, the Crowder Board of Trustees voted to waive out-of-state tuition, cutting the cost of attendance down to three tuition rates: in-district, out-of-district, and international.
Those students living out-of-state will no longer pay the $134 per credit hour for out-of-state tuition, and will instead qualify for the $105 per credit hour out-of-district tuition rate.
The Crowder College district, which consists mostly of Newton and McDonald Counties, is made up of the Neosho R-5, Seneca R-7, East Newton R-6, Diamond R-4 and McDonald County R-1 school districts.
Riggs said that change, which goes into effect this fall semester, could contribute to future enrollment growth.
"I'm optimistic," Riggs said. "We're going to have to do some recruiting. I think we can attract more students in the border areas."
He said the future McDonald County campus, to be located on Larry Neff Drive in Jane, will also be a plus, attracting students from nearby Northwest Arkansas.
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These are the last two teams I have yet to preview and I'm going to be a bit brief with them, due to time constraints. Rialto has been in rebuilding mode for about as long as it's been a high school, as it has been almost impossible for the Knights to gain any traction.
Whether it be with coaching changes or transfers, its been hard for Rialto to keep any sort of consistency. They are all right on the coaching front, as Eric Rodriguez returns for a third year at the helm, giving them stability up top. Who Rodriguez can depend on to increase the win total of the Knights – who have gone 1-9 and finished last in the Citrus Belt League the last two seasons – is up in the air.
Rialto lost its top passer (Ambrose Lee) and rusher (Clay Guess) before their eligibility expired – a two-pronged blow for a program that lost star WR/DB Gary Walker to Redlands East Valley the year before. The Knights do have some size up front, but with inexperienced skill position players and only two starters returning on defense, it will be tough for them to improve very much on their place in the CBL hierarchy.
While Rialto is stuck in neutral, Arrowhead Christian made some strides last year, qualifying for the playoffs for the first time in five years. The Eagles' 6-5 record represented more wins than ACA had in its first three years under Wayne Cochrun and indicates a program on the rise.
With Cochrun being the only returning coach in the Christian League, ACA could make a bit of a move. It returns several key players from a year ago, with junior quarterback Jeremy Eldridge, senior OL/DL Adam Schwartzman and hard-hitting senior LB Spencer Summer leading the way.
Schedules for both (Home games in CAPS, league games with *)
Sept. 11 – at Barstow
Sept. 18 – ARROYO VALLEY
Sept. 25 – vs. Granite Hills (Apple Valley HS)
Oct. 2 – YUCAIPA*
Oct. 9 – at Miller*
Oct. 16 – CARTER*
Oct. 23 – REDLANDS EAST VALLEY*
Oct. 30 – at Eisenhower*
Nov. 6 – REDLANDS*
Nov. 13 – at Fontana*
Sept. 11 – WEBB
Sept. 19 – vs. Citrus Valley (Redlands HS)
Sept. 26 – vs. Bloomington Christian (Colton HS)
Oct. 2 – YUCCA VALLEY
Oct. 9 – PALM DESERT XAVIER PREP
Oct. 16 – at Western Christian*
Oct. 23 – at Huntington Beach Brethren Christian
Oct. 30 – AQUINAS*
Nov. 6 – at Ontario Christian*
Nov. 13 – LA VERNE LUTHERAN*


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Claude couldn't of been killed by playboy x , coz he is in gta 2 which is based in 2013. maby hes good friends with playboy x and left his clothes there because in gta 2 the color of his clothes r different. [[User:lozzy94]]
Claude couldn't of been killed by playboy x , coz he is in gta 2 which is based in 2013. maby hes good friends with playboy x and left his clothes there because in gta 2 the color of his clothes r different. [[User:lozzy94]]
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this is a list of what i think happened to every protagonist in all the gta games, sorry i haven't played gta 4 or china town wars so i don't know much about them.
the protagonist of gta 1:the cops finally catch him/her.
the protagonist of gta 1 London:this was based in the 60s so hes long dead.
Claude speed: got shot by a zaibatsu assassins (as seen in gta2).
tommy vercetti: was killed by a former vance crime family member,because of revenge of killing lance vance.
mike: hes still alive and well but is out of the life of crime.
cj: when cj betrayed the leones and robbed them of all there money the leones were forced back to liberty city,Salvatore then put a hit on cj.
Toni cipriani: when Salvatore dies Toni becomes don, joey Leone is jelious of this and kills Toni so he become don.
vic vance: killed by Ricardo diaz ( as seen in gta vice city).
fell free to comment or make your own fate list.
1. the vance crime family came after the vercetti gang so nobody really cared about lance
2. GTA IV i think niko's fate is he prolly got out the crime buisness settled down with one of the internet girlfreinds and lived a normal life
3. you skipped claude--Coop804 13:20, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Claude is Claude speed,and the vance crime family was before and u would think there would be some members left.
1. Claude Speed and Claude aren't confirmed to be the same person.
2. The Vance Crime Family was extremly likely to have been dissolved after Vic and Lance left it. Even if there were some remnants, it wouldn't be likely that they would manage to kill Tommy Verrcetti.
3. The guy in the beginning of Vice City is definetly NOT Vic Vance. --PBello 19:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
1. its pretty obvious that Claude is Claude speed,they look the same and they dress the same.
2.like i said they would be still some members of the vance crime family and still would be close to lance.
3. if that wasn't vic then who was it. and why wasn't vic in vice city.--User:lozzy94
hang on you could be right it could of been pete vance.User:Lozzy94
i have played gta 4 . so my guess is that:
nikko belic : living the american dream with his brother roman.User:lozzy94
how could CJ have been killed by salvatore when sal's in LC and Carls in san andreas? And I have neither played Vice city, or the stories version, but I how can you be so certain that the guy at the beggining is Vic? --GTAddict 13:28, January 7, 2010 (UTC)
- Rockstar Games have stated themselves that the character killed is Victor Vance. A-Dust 16:38, January 7, 2010 (UTC)
ignore my bit about victor then. --GTAddict 19:22, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
1. claude (gta 3)Claude probably fufilled what he wanted to do in liberty city and returned back to san andreas, or he was killed by toni cipriani. 2.tommy vercetti grew older in vice city and quit the mob to retire. 3. carl johnson carried on rollin with the Media:grove street boys and madd dogg and the casino taking over los santos or he was killed by salvatore leones hit squad but this is most unlikely as they moved back to liberty city and lost a bit of power 4. mike retired out of crime with the money. 5.toni ciprianitook over the leone family as joey showed no intrest in the family carried on running the ristaurante with his ma. 6.victor vance was killed at the start of vice city. 7.niko bellic got on with his life after kate/romans death and settled down with the money he earned from his criminal past and got his fresh start. 8.johnny klebitz carried on running the lost mc. 9.luis lopez carried on running the clubs and probably bought one forgetting his criminal past to turn legit. louis987
ummm gta addict sal could of put a hit on cj when sal went to liberty city , i never said he killed cj. User:lozzy94
I know that, I'm saying that the Leone family is in LC not San Andreas. how could Salvatore's hit POSSIBLY have been the end of CJ? also, can I ask why someone removed my spoiler warning? --GTAddict 11:32, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
he got the best hitman in san Andreas that not even cj could withstand. User:lozzy94
Claude: Moved to Liberty City and was killed there by Playboy X. In GTA4 Claudes costume is found in Playboy's penthouse after you've unlocked it. So that MAY confirm hes is dead.
CJ: May have been killed by Salvatore's men after the Triads who CJ was working with raided at the Casino in Las Venturas. Or moved back to Liberty City and was killed by Claude? --HarveyH92 18:48, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
Claude couldn't of been killed by playboy x , coz he is in gta 2 which is based in 2013. maby hes good friends with playboy x and left his clothes there because in gta 2 the color of his clothes r different. User:lozzy94
@lozzy - I think you will find that killing CJ isnt all that easy: remember he's managed to outwit and outgun the ARMY. the best hitman in san andreas HAS to be CJ. killing him would be next to impossible. --GTAddict 15:07, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


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Holly Mattmuller, a senior outside hitter, led Venice High to the Class 7A state championship this season, and the recognition poured in as a result.
The team was grand marshal at the City of Venice Holiday Parade and was honored at the Sertoma Club and before the school board.
Mattmuller, meanwhile, was honored as the Florida Dairy Farmers Class 7A Player of the Year, was named third-team All-American by MaxPreps.com and is a finalist for Player of the Year for prepvolleyball.com.
She can now add another award to her impressive list: HTPreps Volleyball Player of the Year.
"She's an awesome kid,'' said Venice coach Brian Wheatley. "She's been on varsity since her sophomore year and has made steady improvement throughout.
"She was definitely our go-to player this year.''
Mattmuller dominated this season, finishing with 491 kills, 484 digs, 49 aces and 38 blocks.
Venice won the Class 7A state title by sweeping St. Thomas Aquinas 25-15, 25-21, 25-16 and Mattmuller had 13 kills and 10 digs in the match.
She wore her championship medal home, brought it to school each day for a week and it now hangs over her bed.
"It was really exciting,'' she said. "It's weird to think we won the state championship. It hasn't sunk in yet.''
An exceptional student with a 4.3 GPA, Mattmuller will be attending West Florida next year. She eventually wants to become a cardiologist.
"When I went there the team and coaches were so welcoming,'' she said. "And that's really hard to find.''
Away from volleyball, Mattmuller is involved in many activities at her school.
She is National Honor Society treasurer, a senator for Student Government, the leader of the Student Leadership team, Math Honor Society president and Spanish Honor Society member.
She is also someone Wheatley is going to miss greatly on the volleyball court.
"We've had a lot of good players over the years and she always did what was asked of her,'' said Wheatley. "I think every team needs that type of player.''
Player of the Year
Holly Mattmuller, Venice, senior
Coach of the Year
Brian Wheatley, Venice
Kayla Armer, Manatee, senior
Tori Biach, Saint Stephen's, senior
Rachel Drummey, Manatee, senior
Sydney Dell, Lemon Bay, senior
Courtney McDevitt, Braden River, senior
Mariah Robertson, Lakewood Ranch, senior
Carly Scarbrough, Riverview, junior
Danika Yoder, Venice, senior