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Jim Nagel thought he was done coaching football, which was fine by him.
After all, he had been teaching the game, watching film and calling plays for 35 years. The last nine tested his dedication like never before — as an assistant at Linfield, the man who led Ashland High to three state championships slept on a couch under the bleachers of Maxwell Field in the spring, and shared an apartment with other coaches during the fall season.
"Coaches are kind of crazy that way," said Nagel, 67, who has lived in Ashland for the past 30 years.
But after Linfield head coach Joseph Smith decided recently to take over play-calling duties from Nagel, Nagel in turn decided that he was done with crazy.
"That was the challenge that made the living conditions worthwhile," Nagel said, adding that he also missed being available to help out his wife around the house.
The retirement didn't last long.
When Southern Oregon University head coach Craig Howard caught wind of Nagel's availability through an SOU assistant coach, he phoned Nagel and arranged an interview. The two met at Howard's office at Bob Riehm Arena last week. It must have went well, because at the end Howard offered Nagel a job as an offensive assistant. Nagel accepted, and was on the practice field with the rest of the team on Monday afternoon.
"He's one of the best coaches around and we're just blessed to have him," Howard said.
Nagel, who coached the Grizz football team for 20 years and served as the Ashland High athletic director for 14 before stepping down following the 2004 school year, will coach the tight ends at SOU — at least initially. Howard's plan calls for Nagel to eventually coach the quarterbacks as well, one of Nagel's specialties.
Nagel was hired by Linfield prior to the 2004 season and, calling plays from the press box, immediately helped orchestrate the most prolific offense in NCAA Division III football. The Wildcats led the nation in scoring in 2004 and 2005, and quarterback Brett Elliott set a national collegiate football record with 61 touchdown passes in 2004, the year the Wildcats claimed their fourth national championship (the first three were NAIA Division II titles).
Twenty years before that magical season, Nagel had a similar impact at Ashland High. In the 10 years prior to Nagel's arrival, the Grizzlies were a combined 35-51-2. Three years later, Ashland made the playoffs for the first time in 34 years. Three years after that, in 1989, Ashland claimed the school's first-ever state football championship, beating Roseburg 24-22 at Autzen Stadium to cap a 14-0 season.
The Grizzlies earned four more state championship game appearances under Nagel, winning it all in 1991 and 1998. He coached his final game at Ashland in 2002.
Monday's practice brought back fond memories.
"The surrounding mountains were familiar, and the rain that came down was quite familiar, unfortunately," he said, "so I felt right at home."
This time, Nagel won't be taking on a reclamation project. Not by a long shot.
The Southern Oregon football team is coming off a record-breaking year, offensively. The Raiders averaged 52.8 points and 642 yards per game, including 448.8 through the air. Sophomore quarterback Austin Dodge passed for 5,076 yards and 42 touchdowns, and guided the Raiders to the postseason for the first time in 10 years. They fell in the quarterfinals — at Morningside in overtime — and were ranked fifth in the final NAIA Top 25 poll.
"I think my number one concern and goal would be to not screw up the quarterback [Dodge], he's playing so well," said Nagel, only half joking. "I've seen Dodge play and I've watched him at practice and he doesn't need a lot of coaching. …He's at the level of Brett Elliott. I would say he definitely compares."
That doesn't mean there won't be plenty of work to keep Nagel busy between now and the Raiders' 2013 season opener, Aug. 31 against Rocky Mountain. And at the top of that list is learning SOU's offense, which operates at lightning speed during games. The Raiders executed, on average, 92.5 plays per game during the 2012 season and five times ran more than 100 plays. That kind of pace requires expert knowledge of the system.
That won't be a problem for the likes of Nagel, who in three-plus decades on the gridiron has seen, coached and/or studied just about every offense ever devised. That includes SOU's offense.
"There are lots of similarities to what Southern Oregon is running and what we ran at Linfield, so it's a very easy transition to understand the concepts," Nagel said. "The challenge is that the terminology is definitely different, and that's something I'm learning, because some things that meant one thing for us (at Linfield) mean something else here."
That doesn't mean that Nagel will be taking over play-calling duties, which is handled by offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Ken Fasnacht.
"At the pace they go, it would be a real challenge for me to do that my first year," Nagel said. "(Fasnacht's) done a heck of a job, so why change that.
"I see my role as, if I see something that would be a good plus I can put my two cents in. And they can always say no."
He's back: Nagel to coach at SOU
Jim Nagel thought he was done coaching football, which was fine by him.


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As the woman calmly stood at the checkout counter in Washington County, signing a receipt from a stolen credit card, she seemed oblivious to a security camera recording her actions for all the world to see. Ditto for a tattooed service station robber in St. Paul, two men involved in a Richfield pawn shop robbery and murder, and two suspected Robbinsdale home invaders.
In each case, crystal-clear surveillance images led to arrests.
Stunning advancements in video surveillance technology -- it's the new DNA of crime fighting, one Minneapolis business owner said -- have police crowing about the ease and speed of catching suspects accused of robbery, theft, assault and other crimes. While authorities say that it's difficult to measure how much new high-resolution images contribute to successful prosecutions, personal stories about speedy identifications of suspects abound.
Police received dozens of calls after photos of Dawn Marie Rassett, the woman charged in Washington County with stealing credit cards from teachers' purses, were published. And additional charges came last week in Ramsey County after police found more video allegedly showing Rassett, also known as Dawn Marie Scott, using stolen credit cards at businesses in Roseville, White Bear Lake, Maplewood, Vadnais Heights and North St. Paul.
Rassett, 41, of Maplewood, remains in the Washington County jail, accused in a rash of thefts from schools, churches, a doctor's office and even a wedding.
"The quality of the still frames we got from the videos at the convenience stores is the main reason we caught her," said Sgt. Andy Ellickson, an investigator at the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
The digital technology allows crisp quality and timely clues that videotapes never did, often heading off courtroom arguments over fuzzy images that might not make it clear who committed the crime.
"The cameras have just gotten better. They're like nice portraits," said Dave Hautman, general manager of Franklin Nicollet Liquor in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. "It makes everybody feel more comfortable, more safe, including the customers."
The liquor store bought its cameras from Video Surveillance Solutions, an Iowa firm with Minnesota offices in Roseville. The company's Minnesota product manager, Todd Rubey, said video surveillance in the metro area has increased about 300 percent since 2002.
Computer-driven digital cameras also have applications for residences, ambulances, city parks, summer cabins, horse barns and even farmers who can monitor machinery and crops. Front-pocket surveillance units, barely larger than a pen, sell for $209, he said.
Nearly 80 percent of all metro business owners now have cameras installed, Rubey said, because employees steal much more from businesses than shoplifters or robbers do. Cameras, which start about $2,000 plus labor for installation, "hold accountability to a higher standard," he said.
For most business owners, the process of putting fresh tapes into a VCR has gone the way of eight-track music tapes. Business owners now can record images for months. If they're robbed, a few clicks on the computer will take them to the precise time of the holdup to help police catch a suspect. Such was the case in Woodbury on Thursday when police released a photo of a suspect using stolen credit card numbers on fake cards he had created.
Concerns about privacy
To other people, the spread of surveillance cameras smacks of George Orwell's "1984," said Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. The novel described a society of pervasive government surveillance, public mind control and the voiding of citizens' rights. Many Minnesotans don't like having their every move subject to scrutiny and preservation, he said.
Another worrisome consequence of the increasing surveillance, Samuelson said, is that police tend to control many of the videos that show confrontations and might hide evidence of their own misconduct.
Rubey, a former Air Force engineer, said he understands the privacy concerns. But new surveillance technology, he said, makes it harder than ever for misbehaving cops to disguise excessive force, just as it's difficult for suspects who rob banks or use stolen credit cards to argue their guilt.
Doubt over murky images,
"There's no question but that technology is better, we're getting better pictures," said Doug Johnson, Washington County's chief attorney. But he also said that nobody in his office could remember a time when a prosecution failed because of a grainy surveillance photo.
Although images now show everything from assaults on store clerks to police brutality and car break-ins, surveillance cameras a decade ago recorded murky images that left doubt.
In 1999, authorities tried to determine who abducted Katie Poirier, a Moose Lake convenience store clerk. Although Donald Blom was eventually convicted of her kidnapping and murder, his daughter and some of his co-workers said during his trial that they didn't recognize the person in the video who was pushing Poirier out the door.
"In today's world I think we would have more and better images of Blom," said Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. "It wouldn't have taken as long to track him down."
Hautman, who also works at the affiliated Red Lion Liquor in Burnsville, said he hoped the nine cameras pointed at the front door and elsewhere of the Franklin Nicollet store would make robbers think twice. He can monitor from home or anywhere else with a laptop computer what the cameras see. Changes in technology, he said, are astounding.
"When banks got robbed you had these rotten pictures," he said of the old VHS tapes. "Now it's like having an 8-by-10 glossy."
Kevin Giles • 612-673-4432

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LITTLETON -- The Denver Nuggets have logged more miles but at least they've played eight home games.
A few weeks into the season the Monarch girls basketball team has yet to play in front of a friendly crowd.
"It's been a tough road," Coyotes coach Chris Lewis said.
It got even tougher against fourth-ranked Mesa Ridge on Thursday. The Coyotes didn't hit a bucket in the first quarter but were still within six points late in the third. The shooting woes finally caught up with them and they fell to the Grizzlies 53-34 in the first round of the Memorial Hoopla Tournament at Heritage High School.
"I don't know what our shooting percentage was, it wasn't very good, and sometimes it kills you against a team like that," Lewis said.
Mesa Ridge had a significant size advantage -- freshman Kylee Shook is 6-foot-4 and junior Samantha Rudd is 6-1 -- but it didn't deter the Coyotes from going inside. They attacked the taller Grizzlies, and it paid off when Shook and Rudd picked up three fouls apiece midway through the second quarter.
By then Monarch (2-3), which missed all eleven field goals in the first quarter, started hitting shots. Ellie Dietz and Raegen Rohn scored on consecutive possessions to cut a 13-point deficit to nine.
"We need to take a learning experience because we're going to be outsized in most of the games we play," senior Bridget Anthony said.
The Coyotes seemed to learn a lot at halftime. Trailing by 11, Anthony hit three straight shots and a free throw to cut the lead to 32-26 with 5:31 left in the third.
"At the beginning they were effective at blocking our shots but we made some adjustments," Anthony said.
They had a chance to get closer but couldn't convert on their opportunities.
That's when the Grizzlies found their offense. Gabby Prunell hit a shot and Ifti Dunne drained two jumpers to put Mesa Ridge ahead 40-26 heading into the fourth.
"I thought we were very effective in the middle of the third quarter and then they pressed us a little more and it didn't work out," Lewis said.
The Coyotes play Montebello in the consolation finals at 4:30 p.m. Friday and then finish the tournament Saturday afternoon. When they return from the holiday break they play their first home game, Jan. 8 against Front Range League rival Boulder.
Lewis hopes the rough early schedule pays off.
"It's tough to start the first half of your season on the road, but games like this will build us for the better in the second half."
Mesa Ridge 53, Monarch 34
Dunne 6 0-0 14, Shook 6 0-0 12, Purnell 4 2-5 11, Jackson 4 0-0 8, Gatzke 2 0-0 4, Rudd 0 4-6 4. Totals 22 6-11 53.
Anthony 4 1-1 9, Rohn 3 1-2 8, O'Flannigan 1 5-6 7, Dietz 2 0-1 4, Cendali 0 4-6 4, Stimac 1 0-0 2. Totals 11 11-16 34
Score by quarters:
Mesa Ridge 12 18 12 11 -- 53
Monarch 4 15 7 8 -- 34
3-point field goals -- Mesa Ridge (3): Dunne 2, Purnell; Monarch (1): Rohn. Total fouls --Mesa Ridge 12, Monarch 11. Fouled out -- None. Technical fouls -- None.


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Free-to-play is the future for Crysis developer Crytek. While Crysis 3 will be a full retail release published by Electronic Arts, the developer considered implementing F2P elements into the upcoming shooter.
"We even considered a standalone free-to-play version for Crysis 2, to be honest. Launching the single-player as a packaged good and then making multiplayer free-to-play-only," Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said. "We also considered that for Crysis 3, and it didn't happen again."
Sony has recently made standalone multiplayer versions of its online shooters, like Killzone 3 and Starhawk. However, it's likely that the lack of F2P play on consoles made it impossible for Crytek to implement F2P into their last two retail releases.
The next Crysis game promises to be radically different, but will it be F2P? Yerli isn't sure yet, telling RPS that "it's too early to say," but promised that "when I said free-to-play's gonna be our future, I meant that and I hold to it."
One of the reasons why Crytek is so adamant about moving to a microtransaction model is that it will eliminate the desire for people to pirate their games, a problem that has plagued Crytek for years. Both Crysis and Crysis 2 were pirated on a massive scale, but a switch to F2P will dissuade the need to illegally download Crytek's future games. "My desire is that everybody can just play Crysis and don't have to spend money from day one," he said. "I just want them to be able to give it a try. And then they can make their choices about spending money."


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Netactview is a graphical network connections viewer for Linux, similar in functionality with Netstat. It includes features like process information, host name retrieval, automatic refresh, sorting, filtering and csv file save. It has a fully featured GTK 2 graphical interface.
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[Original] During the final day at the THQ "Gamers' Day" event in New York, Xbox Live's Major Nelson revealed that all multiplayer DLC for the upcoming Kaos Studio shooter Homefront will arrive on the Xbox 360 first. Microsoft has a similar deal in place for all Call of Duty series DLC.
Additionally, Xbox 360 users will receive an exclusive multiplayer map when the game launches later this year. The map, 'Suburbs,' is here at the event. Expect full hands-on impressions of the map and a new mode for the game's multiplayer next week.
Whether the 'Suburbs' map will eventually be available on the PC and PS3 is unclear.
Homefront is due to hit all three platforms on March 8. A single-use pass will be used to lower the multiplayer level cap for those who buy used copies; a new pass will cost $10.


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Isn't Do Not Track voluntary? The advertiser can choose not follow it, right? If so, what is all the fuss about?
Surely you aren't suggesting that the government should just allow consumers to speak ill of advertisers and other members of the better sort?
Clearly the horrors of 'do not track' are so great that we must have a law to forbid people from even expressing such a destructive preference.(Now, um, never you mind that I said that targeted advertising was awesome, and thus would theoretically be popular and simply outcompete DNT, that was, um, different for some reason! Targeted advertising is exciting and ought
It is currently voluntary. A lot of people are pushing for it to be mandatory, which would practically chop Google's business plan off at the hips. Right now they read your mail (not the employees, but the servers), they track your searches, and if you have Android they know a lot more about you than you think. Do not track being mandatory would turn off a lot of their data gathering. And they are an advertising sales company, no matter what other products they bring to consumers. Just as with FaceBook, you are the product and your eyeballs are being sold to advertisers.
Microsoft intends to turn DNT on by default for IE 10, and even if you don't go with Windows 8 you might get some updates for Win7, if not actually IE 10, that set DNT accordingly. Now a huge browser market, including most people people who don't know what DNT is, nor do they care, will have it disabled by default. This pits Microsoft against Google in a huge way.
Aside from all of the other fallout that will happen by making it not just a standard, but a fine-inducing requirement, it will be essentially unenforceable in that it will be hard to prove tracking versus proper context-based targeted adverts. Pointless unenforceable laws/regulations that depend on politicians pretending to support their constituents on the small things so they can screw voters on the big things are not the way to a better internet. But that's what we're going to get when politicians get involved.
The fuss isn't about right now, it's about looking down the road and seeing oncoming traffic. A smart person would at least pull over, and assess whether a U-turn is in order, or getting off the road, or if maybe staying the course is in fact appropriate.
The way to combat this is for every website that detects the DNT header to simply respond with a page saying how to turn it off or download a different browser. How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
I forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads [adblockplus.org], thank goodness. Since I ignore any ads I do see -- I never click -- they might as well be for products I cannot use.
"It is currently voluntary. A lot of people are pushing for it to be mandatory, which would practically chop Google's business plan off at the hips."
No, they aren't. They aren't trying to make anything "mandatory". What they're pushing for, is to make it all opt-in only.
People will still have a choice. They only difference is, it will be truly voluntary, as opposed to the way it is now, which is not so much voluntary but sneaky.
YOU, and other Slashdotters, may be aware of how much you are tracked, but believe me, the vast majority of people do not.
"I fear the overall trend is that privacy will erode further and further though, so this is a losing battle."
It's not a lost cause. The solution is actually quite simple. Making tracking opt-in only, and imposing harsh penalties for violations, can easily solve the problem.
The solution is actually quite simple. Making tracking opt-in only, and imposing harsh penalties for violations, can easily solve the problem.
Other have pointed out, that if you run a tech website then display tech ads. If you run a site about cats, post ads for cat food. There's *no need* for cookies following users around. Just display ads that are germane to what your site is about.
I was hating cookies back in the 90s. I understand the need for sites to make money. All this information we call the internet doesn't come free. Can we have a little restraint though please? Your idea of putting government in charge of advertising has only one f
Microsoft intends to turn DNT on by default for IE 10, and even if you don't go with Windows 8 you might get some updates for Win7, if not actually IE 10, that set DNT accordingly. Now a huge browser market, including most people people who don't know what DNT is, nor do they care, will have it disabled by default. This pits Microsoft against Google in a huge way.
Sort of relates to this internal Microsoft memo that was leaked.
Halloween Document XII.
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The argument against spam goes like this: person A maintains an email server that person B uses to send spam. Person A shoulders the cost while person B receives the benefits, this is widely acknowledged as a bad thing.
No, the argument against spam is that (in the absence of filtering) it overwhelms users' inboxes with unsolicited and unwanted messages and makes it exceedingly difficult for email / Usenet / SMS / etc. to be useful. Remember the days of writing your email address like this: email example com? That is not what the administrators or owners of mail servers were doing; that was what users did, to avoid spam in their inbox as long as possible.
Visiting an ad supported website goes like this: person A maintains a web server that person B uses to retrieve content. Person A shoulders the cost but offsets this with advertising money, person B receives the (non-monetary) benefits.
The other day, my mother was trying to read The New Yorker online, but a hover ad kept covering the article -- and there was no clear way to get rid of it. She now uses ABP, because otherwise, some websites would be unusable. That is exactly the same situation as email and Usenet spam, except that this time, it is so overwhelmingly profitable that the people doing it can appear to be "legitimate" (OK, I'll be fair: they usually advertise real products, which adds some amount of legitimacy).
You know whose resources are wasted with advertising on the web? Users', that's whose; CPU cycles, RAM, screen time and space, and so forth. What benefit are users getting? Targeted ads they did not want to begin with? When people need to buy things, they actually do benefit from advertising, but of a much different kind: classifieds like Craigslist, shopping search engines (what, you think that is not a form of advertising?), etc. It is not surprising that Amazon makes so much money in advertising -- not because they track users, but because when people need something, they use Amazon's search engine to find what they need.
Advertising is very important to the web as it exists right now
If that is true (and frankly, I think the web would be fine if everyone used ABP), then it is time to make a better system, perhaps one that is more distributed so that popular online publications are not so costly to operate.
What I'm saying is, and I'm trying to put it politely, people as a whole should be aspiring to a higher level of ethics than douchebag spammers.
I agree, but I am not greedy.
Remember the days of writing your email address like this: email example com?
That should read: email [at] example [dot] com
it is time to make a better system, perhaps one that is more distributed so that popular online publications are not so costly to operate.
Various companies offer cloud delivery networks to make delivery more distributed. But not all the costs of running a web site are related to delivery (that is, bandwidth). Some are related to creating the works displayed on the site. How do you recommend making it less costly to pay a site's writers without discouraging them from becoming the site's writers in the first place?
No, the argument against spam is that (in the absence of filtering) it overwhelms users' inboxes with unsolicited and unwanted messages and makes it exceedingly difficult for email / Usenet / SMS / etc. to be useful.
That's not right, that isn't why people are so dead-set against spam. Consider different methods of distributing targeted advertising, they can be lumped into two groups: spam, fax ads, and telemarketing calls to your cell phone in the one group, junk mail and telemarketing to a landline in the other group. The first group is banned or restricted by law, the second group is unrestricted (at least prior to the Do Not Call Registry). All of them waste a person's time, the difference between them is that the f
ABP is mandatory; DNT is just a distracting waste of time predicated on bad ideas about what Internet advertising should be (and for that matter, what the Internet itself should be). We solved the invasive web advertisement problem long ago with ABP, just like we solved the email / Usenet spam problem with spam filtering.
Is the portal to your parallel universe still open?
Spam still makes up the majority of E-Mail traffic. That you don't see it does not mean the problem has disappeared.
ABP has not made a dent in advertisement, because almost nobody uses it. Remember that we aren't the average Internet user. According to the Mozilla AddOns page, ABP has 14 mio. users. There are about 2.4 billion Internet users. So 0.6% of the Internet users use ABP. And I'm being generous there because most of those 14 mio. will also own a sm
Isn't Do Not Track voluntary? The advertiser can choose not follow it, right? If so, what is all the fuss about?/quote> That's the situation now, free for all.
He's afraid the FTC will make it mandatory, so advertisers can't simply track regardless. Also that browser makers are making DNT the default.
But unless you stop deleting cookies, TEH INtARNeTS AS WE DONE KNoW IT GOES BOOM!
Fuck. You.
I'm trying to figure out why swearing is considered insightful... but I got nothin'.
You post history provides zero evidence that you are actually swearing-averse, so I conclude you must be an advertiser.
You post history provides zero evidence that you are actually swearing-averse, so I conclude you must be an advertiser.
For a limited time only, my bullshit is 20% off regular price...
So what? It could be a three hundred quintillion dollar industry. It doesn't change the ethics, morals, or the fact that most people don't want it. Advertising has been shoved down people's throats. It's been put in places where it was promised not to appear. It eats away at our culture, it deadens people's nerves, and it saturates everything it comes in contact with. It is a plague -- and it needs reform. It is an industry without regulation, without controls, and with an insatiable appetite.
And not a one of them are for reasonable controls. It was only recently, and after fighting tooth and nail, that we even got them to stop screwing with the volume on our TVs. Fuck them -- when they learn to be responsible, then maybe I'll learn to give a damn whether they get thrown under a bus or not. But probably not.
It's the money. All the way down.
Pretty impressive diatribe by an advertising executive. He probably eats the Wheaties box for breakfast.
He probably eats the Wheaties box for breakfast.
Probably tastes better than the bag.
Actually, the larger the valuation for the industry, the worse it is, since the size of the industry is what gives you an idea of how much is being bled off from sectors that wouldn't be better off if set on fire.
Actually, the larger the valuation for the industry, the worse it is, since the size of the industry is what gives you an idea of how much is being bled off from sectors that wouldn't be better off if set on fire.
Hey, I'm not saying advertising doesn't have its place. I'm not even saying companies shouldn't be allowed to spend as much as they want on it. I happen to believe in freedom of speech, even speech I disagree with. But I also have the right to ignore others' speech, or to respond with speech of my own. Legislating away that choice is wrong -- and that's what this guy is advocating. Well, fuck him. His position isn't just unethical, it's unamerican. Nobody has a right to shove their own beliefs down other people's throats and that statement doesn't change because money is involved, even a lot of money.
If people hang a "no soliciting" sign on the door of their home or business, it should be respected. In many jurisdictions, there's a penalty if you don't. If you add your phone number to the "do not call" list, that also has to be respected. It's even required by law in cases where the other party is owed money. The right to free speech doesn't include the right to be heard: I can walk away. That doesn't change just because the speech is digital instead.
Sure, we should nationally publish the public schedule of one Mr. Eric Wheeler, get a little money from a mysterious donor to "Make It Okay", then we should flood him every waking moment of his life with about 7 people per minute offering him stuff. 'Oh, I'm sorry, you said you liked advertising. I'm sorry if you think that doesn't apply to you." But no, it's always built in with little cute loopholes to the Powers That Be, like an I Am An Executive setting.
I'll just never get the point of any of it and I'll never understand why people would rather get something for free than pay a little and get ads.
First, when someone says "hey, shut up, you can't complain about it because it's free". Bullshit. Charge me a buck a month or something. If you're a worthwhile service, my sanity and reducing the visual clutter of everything is worth a buck to me. Give me the damn *choice* to decide what is more important to me. Let me decide if I want to be the product or if I wa
Charge me a buck a month or something.
In fantasy land, this would work. They might only earn $1 off your visits for a year.. but if you had to pay, the bill would be more like $50/year.. because 49 other people would have refused to pay anything.
Of course, then you would say, $50/year is outrageous, and you're not going to pay
So in REALITY, the site would have 0 customers, and would be shutdown.
So the question is.. if you don't like the ads on the site.. WHY DO YOU GO THERE?
WHY are you here on slashdot for example? And I noticed you chose not t
I sympathize with the advertising industry, and the companies like Google that have done so many kewl things with the money they made out of Internet ads.
But the Internet killed off the newspaper and magazine business, where I used to work. At one time, newspapers in every city would hire a lot of reporters to spend a lot of time following the issues and informing their readers what was going on. Now they've been laying off their reporters, they're down to skeleton crews, and some of the great newspapers we
So the question is.. if you don't like the ads on the site.. WHY DO YOU GO THERE?
The content of the website might be more valuable than avoiding ads. They might be blocking said ads.
Of course, then you would say, $50/year is outrageous, and you're not going to pay
So in REALITY, the site would have 0 customers, and would be shutdown
Really? I'm paying $50/year subscription to Orson Scott Cards e-zine [intergalac...neshow.com]. I'm doing it for a second year already, and... yes... it is still there, haven't been shutdown.
How's that as the single counterexample necessary to show the falsity of your statement?
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
If you cannot innovate; legislate.
If you cannot innovate; legislate.
A lot of businesses consider legislation to be innovative. Some of them are in the news right now for suing their competitors to keep their products out of the marketplace. Others are being sued or investigated by various governments for anticompetitive practices that consist of making their product incompatible with a competitors', and then using the law to keep them from reverse engineering compatibility back in.
A large number of lawyers is now as important as a large number of engineers these days; That
It could be a three hundred quintillion dollar industry.
Whoa! That's almost the entire derivatives market.
People don't want targeted ads? That's completely made up. Maybe a tiny subclass of people don't, but people at large do. Why do you think they work so well? If you're a guy, haven't you complained about TV ads for tampons?
Face it - ads are a part of life, and if you're going to have to see them anyway, they may as well be for things you'd be interested in. I'll take ads for video games, car products, and electronics over random ONE WEIRD TIP FOR WHITENING YOUR TEETH shit any day.
Looking at it another way,
I do not want targetted ads. For two reasons: targetted, and ads.
You say "ads are a part of life" -- so is pollution and diseases. Proponents of pollution say "but it allows the industry to produce cheaper goods this way", proponents of diseases would want to ensure steady income for pharma companies.
The thing I I do want it. I would love it if I was only shown ads which were for things that I was truly interested in. It would be wonderful if ads were a product discovery service.
Except they're not. There's not enough margin in that and that's not how advertisers want to reach me.
Take for example and of the music streaming services. Pandora, Spotify, Last.fm, etc. They know exactly what music you like to listen to. So it should be a slam-dunk to target ads to you for stuff you're interested in. Sell you the album you're listening to, sell you tickets to a local show of any of your favorite artists. Hell, alert you some TV show, movie, or game that uses your favorite music in the soundtrack.
But no. You get adverts for songs, artists, and genres that you've explicitly told you never want to hear again. The service that can have surprisingly good accuracy when suggesting new music and artists is quite literally tone deaf when suggesting ads.
The only explanation is that the record labels are dumping so much money to promote X that they buy up all the available slots, whether its appropriate or not. They still think we're listening to the radio and are not an infinitely fragmented audience, so they throw money at it to keep the little guy out. The little guy who would most benefit targeted ads. And the streaming services let them do this, even though it's a disservice to their listeners because the listeners aren't their customers, the record companies are, and they're already on thin ice with them to begin with. So they'll do what it takes to keep them happy.
Now that's just streaming music, but the same factors apply in other areas where targeted ads could work if the players had any interest in playing that game.
Do Not Track is not a problem.. because it will never seriously be implemented. It's just a request, and it will be ignored by every advertising company there is.
1) it's a $300 billion industry
2) targeted ads are more effective.
so 3) if your ad company implements DNT, you will be less effective, and your clients will go where their ads (and $) are more effective -- which is where DNT is not implemented.
No one is going to give up billions (or their jobs) to implement DNT.. any ad company that does will be out-competed by their competitors and die.
And NO consumer is going to pay to have DNT. If consumers REALLY cared about targeted ads, they wouldn't happily post every details of their lives on facebook.
Which is why others use proxies, noscript, ghostery, and other blockers to both obscure our addresses, and confound these jerks. Trust DNT? Not really.
But it's painful for the big data analysis engines, the advertisers, and the data whores. And if it's a bit painful for Uncle Sam, sorry about that, but get out of my biz.
Remember that you're playing with the business models of corporations that believe they have every right to know all things about your, for their purposes, not yours.
Which is why a very small percent others use proxies, noscript, ghostery, and other blockers
1% use blockers.. 1% opt-out (by not using the site), and 98% are busy posting what they ate for breakfast on facebook.
There is much truth in this. This is why I try and educate people.
That's why ABP etc. should be included by default in browsers.
If that were to become the case, more sites would say "turn off ABP or enter your credit card number".
If consumers REALLY cared about targeted ads, they wouldn't happily post every details of their lives on facebook.
Most people have no idea about what Facebook is collecting about that, which is part of the problem. Even highly educated people are shocked to learn about this:
http://www.switched.com/2009/09/21/gaydar-experiment-uses-facebook-to-find-your-sexual-orientatio/ [switched.com]
It is the responsibility of browser makers to provide for user security. We cannot stop people from giving their information away voluntarily; we can include ABP or similar software in all browsers, and thus remove the incentive to create inv
There may be a middle ground. I think most people against tracking don't want all of their private information collected. Things like looking up what that bump means or some other personal problem. Instead you could have a system like Pandora. A thumbs up and thumbs down. If you are on a website and an ad for hemorrhoid cream shows up you can click on the thumbs down so in the future it doesn't display ads like that.
I'm always looking up crap on Amazon I'd never buy because I'm curious to read the reviews.
Just another shill for the investor class, bemoaning the fact that there are still things that can't be bought and sold.
Are you logged into Google or any other search/email service right now? Then the data collected is most definitely not anonymous. Your search and surfing data is being collected and can be tied to you, or at least your online identity.
"the online industry's highly successful self-regulatory privacy practices"
Right, which is why all junk mails are opt-in and all unsubscribe requests are honored quickly.
"Online advertising has been one of the few unqualified success stories in our economy in recent years"
Yes, pop-up ads, and then the new pop-up ads designed to defeat my wanting to avoid them, have been an "unqualified success". Ditto for hovering crap, garishly flashing crap, and automatically starting embedded video and audio.
All that ha
He is right, if we have Do Not Track legislation the economy is going to crash just like after recordable tapes destroyed the film industry and Napster eliminated all musicians.
... do what television advertisers do and display ads based on the typical demographic based on the subject matter?
You're a customer of the advertising agency? or the sites displaying ads? really? How much did you pay them last year?
Their REAL customers... you know -- the companies that buy ads.. they love targeted ads because they are effective, and they love companies that implement them like Google.
So more like -- fuck you free website visitor.. because our customers (THE ADVERTISERS) love our product (AD SPACE)
It's extremely unlikely this $300 B number represents all the targeted advertising companies and all their clients. There are very few companies that don't do some form of targeted advertising. If you were to add up the revenue of all the companies that use targeted advertising, it'd be tens of trillions of dollars.
This is the same thing we heard from the credit bureaus when the fair credit reporting act was enacted. The same thing we heard from many industries with the EPA & clean water acts.
For most things there is an upside and a downside. If most of the country doesn't think your upside out weighs your downside, then sucks to be you.
(BTW and off topic) If Apple really wanted to stick it to Google, then what they'd need to do is push for legislation similar to the FCRA only applied to online tracking.
It always amazes me how such an educated group of individuals as exists on
Full Disclosure: I've been in digital media for several years and am currently a fairly high-level individual on the more technical analytics/strategy side of things at a top digital media agency.
Now, despite my background, I want to preface this by saying that since I was very young, I've always been very paranoid about my privacy, and still remain
I want to preface this by saying that since I was very young, I've always been very paranoid about my privacy, and still remain paranoid to this day. I used to react to these sorts of things by spewing vitriol without knowing enough technical details to truly be qualified to comment. I would venture that is the case for the vast majority of people here.
So you were "one of us" but very young. But now you've matured and see the "real" story. Rrrright.
The reality is, you guys are in the minority, and despite a
We had the internet long before people like him were trying to massively profit by any means necessary, no matter how low.
He speaks of compromising a $300 billion industry
Just because there is some 'industry' where some arbitrarily large amount of money is exchanged, it doesn't mean it has any right to exist at all.
This is different, but about as justifiable as the "too big to fail" arguments of yore.
He would call down the wrath of god on EVERY ad company.
Save us jebus
Yes, because the radio, television, magazine, and newspaper industries were unable to survive without targeted advertising...
(Yes, many of those are dying now, but it's not because targeted advertising is infinitely better in every way. Programs that block/hide ads are more likely to be a threat to ad revenue than limiting targeting. Good old fashioned "People on a site about cats probably will respond to ads for cat food" logic ought to be good enough to sustain the sites. And, if there isn't a way to gene
Fucm this asshole, fuck his wife, fuck his children, fuck his grandchildren.
Gloves are off, and will cost several billion to put back on. Deal with it, or leave.
Netflix and Amazon don't need tracking of casual browsers, because they have real customers. They have, legitimately, information about what you knowingly bought from them. Businesses that have real sites that sell real stuff don't really need to track browsers, just customers. Even Facebook doesn't need tracking of casual browsers, since, while they're intrusive, you clearly sign up with and log into Facebook. Google doesn't really need personalization; they were profitable just putting up ads that were relevant to the current search.
So, really, it's the junk sites that need this. Those with Google AdSense junk ads. Most entertainment sites. Slashdot. Crap like that. Getting rid of tracking would hurt them. We might lose some of them. No big loss.
If an advertiser could know when I was in the market for a product or service, I would welcome their ads, if they were limited to the product or service I was researching
The problem with today's targeted ads is that they are stupid
Example: I fly RC helicopters, serious, high-end RC helicopters. The stupid robots see this, and send me ads for cheap, toy helicopters
I would welcome targeted advertising if it was even close to the things I am interested in
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. -- John D. Rockefeller


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Ok, where to begin?
Well, first off I'm kind of amazed that in personality, I have very little intuition, but as a momma, my intuition is evidently much stronger. I always thought I'd go to 41 weeks, and she was born at 41 wks 1 day, and I was just sure I was having a girl (and was right). Anyway, I had some pretty strong prodromal labor on Monday...even had a friend come pick up Asher for the night because I thought I'd have the baby. I labored all night with no sleep, but by morning it piddled out.
Then, on Friday evening the contractions started back up again, and that's when it all started, at 40 weeks 6 days. Thankfully, Friday right before I went into labor, I just felt really "blah" and tired, even though the contractions hadn't started back up yet, and I needed a nap (I NEVER nap) So my mom took Asher to a nearby town to the mall and Trevor and I napped for 3 hours...LIttle did I realize at the time how much I'd need it. Labor started around 8 pm Friday, I labored throughout the night...the contractions hurt, but I could breathe through them, and talk in between them (but not during)....But after about 24 hours I was getting frustrated mentally because my contractions weren't regular. They were always strong, but they'd be 4 minutes apart, then they'd be 15 minutes apart, then 7 minutes apart....I somehow doubted if maybe I wasn't really in labor....but I knew i must be because they were SOOOO strong. After about 24 hours that's when I called some UC friends, a midwife friend, and some others, and they all said the same thing: some people just don't have textbook labors that start off far apart and the contractions get closer and closer...My mom researched online and also read that some people's contractions never get closer than 7 minutes; they just get more intense...That's precisely how mine was behaving.
I pretty much just kept laboring, mom just sat to keep me company and time contractions (but would only say when i asked how close they were...) and Trevor just sort of hung out in the other room, which is fine by me because there was nothing I wanted anyone to do; I just wanted them to witness her birth, get me a glass of water, etc.
I never checked my own dilation, my water had not broken, and my contractions were all over the place so I had nothing to go off of regarding my progress except for my own state of mind. Based off that, I think I was in transition for a good 6 hours of the 44 hours of active labor....The contractions were HELL, still irregular, but double peaking and I could not deal with them. I wasn't super loud, but during them I was writhing around, rocking on the couch clawing into it like a demon possessed woman. I started crying in between them and wondering if I could do it. I am so thankful for the women in BIN (a group here on CM for natural birthing moms) who offered words of encouragement...I was sooo close to transferring even though that was the LAST thing in the world I wanted, and I needed the encouragement. It took me forever to post my post int he group because i was having contractions that sent me to my hands and knees every few minutes between typing...Anyway, after reading that many VBAC moms had 2-3 day labors, and others who never had regular contractions, i felt like I had a newfound energy. That last day, I was praying a LOT. Just begging God to give me strength and peace and my mom read me some of the Bible verses I had printed off for such a time as that.
Then the last few hours before i had her (maybe 2 pm? I dont remember...) the contractions DID get closer together, though at this point I was not asking mom about times....I had been laying on the couch, and when I felt a contraction coming on, i'd immediately jump to hands and knees and rock all around in every direction....it's the only position in the last 12 hours or so that I could handle during a ctx. In those last few hours, I barely had time to lay back down from one contraction ending before another would start, and they were double peaking a lot. I kept saying to mom I couldn't do it anymore, but I knew if I went to the hospital they'd cut me open, and frankly I didn't even know how I'd get to the car if I wanted to because my contractions were so close together and I couldn't walk through them...Mom said she'd take me if i wanted, but that everyone felt that way during transition, but it was ultimately up to me. I was crying, and I prayed to God, "PLEASE, I want to start pushing...I cannot keep doing this...I need this to be over...I'm not strong enough; i'm too weak....If i have one more contraction like this, I'll have to call 911 and just fail..." Literally as I was praying this in my head, rocking back and forth on my hands and knees, I had a contraction and suddently felt a VERY overwhelming need to push and told my mom so. She put down some chux pads and other waterproof materials on the couch with a sheet over it and I kept pushing there on the couch in hands and knees. I had no concept of time, it really did NOT seem that long but mom said she was pretty sure I pushed for an hour and a half. Halfway through pushing, my water broke...and found its way off the waterproof coverings (eh, we needed to dry clean the couch cushions anyway! LOL)....At this point Trevor came in the room and watched the whole thing from the "business end" which really surprised me because he kept saying he just wanted to be told when the baby came out. Mom caught her, and before I could even turn over to sit and see her she had already started crying and pinked up, really way faster than i expected. Mom said she was born with a nuchal hand (and that hand is still always up by her face). Her cord was super short and she had very little vernix but was very bloody and slippery so we just sort of laid her on my thigh....which she promptly covered with meconium after she was out...The cord still had a wee bit of a pulse when we cut it because her cord was so short and i was having contractions needing to push out the placenta...but it had been several minutes and she was breathing well. I then went to the shower to clean up, and caught my placenta in my hand.
Audrey was born at 4:27 pm after 44 hours of active labor and an hour and a half of pushing.
I didn't tear and we were all doing just fine....She nurses like a champ too and is MUCH louder of a cryer than Asher was.
May write more later; DH needs to take his computer to work.....
...Okay, it's now Tuesday and I have a few more minor details I wanted to add. well, first off I'm feeling better. And though I didn't tear, I had a few battle wounds, LOL. For one, my aunt showed me, which I hadn't even noticed til yesterday, that I had a broken blood vessel in my eye (i'm guessing while i was pushing)...and my hands and knees are STILL 2 days later red from me laboring for so mnay hours on the couch on hands and knees or elbows and knees.
Asher is OBSESSED with "his baby sister". He just wants to touch her head all the time. He so far hasn't decided he wants to nurse again, but he HAS started stealing her pacifiers. He hasn't used a pacifier since he was 2 months old, but whatever, I don't care.
Trevor told me last night that he can't wait til he's done with class today so he can come home and cuddle with his baby; he hasn't gotten to spend too much time with her yet because she wanted to nurse the whole day on Sunday and yesterday he had to work and had class so he wasn't home much. She already has him wrapped around her little finger. :-)
Okay guess that's all. Thanks again to all those who encouraged me, and thanks to my God who gave me the strength and made my body to do what it needed to do. I am so grateful.
EDITED APRIL 2011-- When Audrey is 18 months old. At the time that Audrey was born, no one had any idea that anything was wrong with her. She was breathing fine, her heart sounded great, etc. She went to the pediatrician at her newborn check up at 3 days old, and he said she looked marvelous. Same at all her other check ups. I had listened to her heart in utero and she always sounded great. At four months old, Audrey began to have what looked like newborn startle reflex (arms shooting out to the side, legs stretched out, etc), but they were coming regularly, in a pattern, like every 15 seconds or so. I googled infant + arm spasms, because that is what they looked like. That google search changed my life. After reading, and seeing some videos of other children with the same thing, I realized Audrey was having infantile spasms, a devastating type of epilepsy that almost always leads to brain damage and varying degrees of mental retardation. We were in Vegas visiting my family at the time, so we immediately changed our tickets and got her back to her pediatrician who had her admitted to the hospital. They did all sorts of tests. They discovered during an MRI that her brain was full of tumors, and she was diagnosed with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, a genetic disorder that affects 1 in 6000 people born in America. It causes benign tumors throughout various organ systems in the body, and when those tumors get in the way of normal body functioning, they can cause major problems. They told us the tumors in her brain were "too many to count" and if they tried to surgically remove them all, she would have no brain left. The tumors were causing her to have the infantile spasms/epilepsy. We also discovered at that time that she had a tumor in her heart and bradycardia/arhythmia (slow and irregular heart beat). When they told me that, I had a flash back to when i was 38 weeks pregnant. I was listening to her with the fetoscope, and her heartbeat sounded irregular and very slow (80 bpm). I freaked out, but she was still moving and i thought for sure I had heard it wrong, so i waited an hour and listened again. It was normal. No arhythmia and 140 bpm. I never heard that odd thing again before or after. But when i listened to it on the machine in the hospital, it sounded just like it did that day when i was pregnant. I had heard the first "symptom" of her disease myself when i was pregnant with her, but I brushed it off because i never heard it again and never had heard it before then, and it was never heard at any newborn check ups up to that point either.
I now know why my body labored in such an "odd" fashion. (long, drawn out labor with irregular contractions). When i googled "cardiac rhabdomyoma (the type of heart tumor she has) and TSC and newborn"....everything that came up in the search were autopsy reports of babies who died in labor. They were given pitocin to regulate the labor, and the babies' little hearts were just not strong enough, with the irregular beating and slow or really fast heart rate (both happen with TSC tumors), and the contractions send them into cardiac arrest and they die. I now fully believe that my labor was the way it was because God and my body knew what Audrey could handle. Had i been ina hospital, had they let me labor at all, the would've freaked out when my contractions never got regular, and when labor was going on for so long, and they would have given me pitocin to regulate it. And i am fully convinced had they done that, she would have died. Since joining some TSC forums, for those who know ahead of time that their babies have TSC before they are born, they have them by cesarean precisely because the trials of labor are often too much for them, but many times, even in people with medical care, the TSC is not able to be detected, even by ultrasound, before the baby is born. Many times the tumors do not show up until later in pregnancy, and if someone has an uncomplicated pregnancy and only the 18 week ultrasound, they might never know their child had it until later. So having a traditional "monitored" pregnancy would not have helped me. My body worked with my baby and kept her alive. It has been a very long road, but she is doing FAR better than anyone ever told me she would. I was told she would be a vegetable. She is far from it. She is currently 18 months old, just starting to walk, and is climbing the couch and sneakily escaping into things she shouldn't be in...a crafty, smart, beautiful, feisty little toddler. I felt I should update because I have learned so much from her birth, and even more after she became sick and i realized that in trusting God, he kept my baby girl alive even before anyone knew anything was wrong. I trusted my body, God, and the process and it was the best for her and me.
I still regularly update her progress at www.trevorandheatherlittle.com/audrey, and in the early days i blogged about her at www.caringbridge.org/visit/audreylittle (I eventually switched to our family blog, but when she was first diagnosed and in the hospital and going through various treatments, that is all on the caringbridge site for those that might want to read it)
Just because so little is known about infantile spasms and early treatment is key I also wanted to add a link to her youtube video, one we took to show the doctors of her having infantile spasms, so people can know what they look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJR-VK0AoBM
How awesome... I wish I had mine at home sure coulda done better then thehospital and the butthole OBGYN i had last time... She is beautiful and your little guy is a cutie pie... congrats hunnn
They are both so adorable! Congrats on the home birth. Something that i couldn't have done due to high risk but would love to have such an expericence. God Bless!!
Wow..beautifully written, I think I even felt some of your ccontractions! lol Congrats to you and your family. I love happy endings. :)
Great job, Heather! I'm so happy for you/with you. She is beautiful - just like her mama!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Sep 2013 23:03 UTC
So there you have it - ads are very likely going to be part of Gmail soon. After all, it seems almost silly to not monetize a core app with an absolutely massive install base - between 500 million and a billion. I just hope these ads won't be overly intrusive, and from the looks of things, the Gmail team is approaching the situation with care.
Ads on my Android Gmail application? Seriously, Google?
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"Google gets cut of every app sold in the play market
That revenue stream is barely self sustaining.
Android Manufacturers who wish to sell android devices with Google services
We don't know if they charge for Google services. CyanogenMOD certainly does not pay for their version. "
"Barely sustaining" They take a freaking 30% cut from all sales. Also most free apps are monetized by Google ads.
CyanogenMOD DOESN'T come with Google apps, you have to download and install them after you install firmware.
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Baldwin a skeptic on weapons ban
e House, has shied away from talk of a proposed ban on assault weapons, disappointing some gun control advocates. The liberal Democrat's cautious path shows the altered thought process of a new senator now representing one of the nation's most politically balanced states-one with a strong hunting tradition-rather than just one of its most left-leaning congressional districts. It also illuminates the rocky road ahead for the provision in the Senate. Six Democratic senators from Baldwin's neighboring states have either declared as co-sponsors or supporters of the ban. But Baldwin has stressed the broader support for gun control measures based on expanded background checks.
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Submission + - Google Tipped off EU about Microsoft Browser Ballot (theatlanticwire.com) 1
Dupple writes: The tired spat between Google and Microsoft just got a lot more interesting after reports that the search giant tipped off European authorities to antitrust concerns, a tip that will now cost the Windows-maker nearly a billion dollars. When news of the fine levied by the European Union's competition watchdog broke on Wednesday, nobody was too surprised that the European Commission was punishing Microsoft for bullying consumers. But with a recent headline-stealing dispute between the Redwood, Washington company and Google, it's competitor down in Mountain View, California, bloggers got curious. Early Wednesday evening, The Wall Street Journal's Tom Gara wondered, "Did Google Snitch?" According to a Financial Times report published a few minutes later, the answer is yes.
The link to the FT in the original article is sadly behind a pay wall
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The confirmation came at a Monday afternoon press conference in College Park, Md. The University of Maryland is leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the promise of increased sports revenue in the Big Ten.
About 350 miles away, the latest shakeup in college athletics was undoubtedly felt in Storrs. UConn, a charter member of the Big East Conference, is viewed as the likely choice to replace Maryland in the ACC as that school shifts to the Big Ten in 2014.


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When Colin Kaepernick was in college at Nevada, he was a phenomenal player — the first player in NCAA Division 1 history to pass for 10,000 yards and run for 4,000 yards in his career. But he wasn't a Heisman Trophy candidate or a first-round draft pick, in part because many people thought the Nevada "pistol" offense was a gimmick.
Now that Kaepernick has led the 49ers to the Super Bowl from the pistol, the man who invented the offense, former Nevada coach Chris Ault, is celebrating what he has accomplished — and predicting big things for the pistol in the NFL going forward.
Ault said on NFL Network this morning that contrary to what some people believe, the pistol isn't predicated on a quarterback running the ball. In fact, Ault said he believes NFL defenses will be able to take away a lot of the runs that Kaepernick does so well. It's just that when defenses are focused on preventing Kaepernick from getting to the outside, that leaves a lot open in the middle. Ault said he thought Frank Gore's two touchdown runs against the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game were set up by the defense having to worry about Kaepernick running in the read-option.
"I think defenses will catch up, but here's the beauty of the pistol: I know we saw Kaep run for 181 yards against Green Bay — that's certainly the read part of the game, it's great — but what you saw last week is what I believe our pistol brings to the table: Kaep didn't run it. He read it and handed it off because Atlanta was taking away Kaep on the outside," Ault said. "And those two plays, I believe, that Gore scored on, both of them were read-type plays. The beauty of what we've done in the pistol and what I've seen the 49ers and the Redskins doing, is, it's not just the read play itself. It's also the play-action pass off of it."
Ault said the pistol formation, in which the quarterback is not under center but is closer to the line of scrimmage than a typical shotgun formation, with a running back directly behind the quarterback, makes it harder for the defense to key on the running back.
"When that back sits behind the quarterback, the linebackers do not have a clear view of what he's doing," Ault said. "You can run downhill power games, counters, gaps and all that from the pistol."
Anyone who thought the pistol was all about the quarterback running the ball after watching Kaepernick's record-breaking rushing game against the Packers saw in the 49ers' win over the Falcons that that's not the case: Kaepernick led the 49ers to a win while running just two times for 23 yards.
"I don't think the NFL quarterbacks are all going to start running the ball 15 times a game," Ault said. "But if you've got the read in your offense, it is a threat, it's something you've got to be concerned about, and of course if you've got a guy like Kaep who can run like a gazelle, you've got to be more than concerned with it. You've got to put one and a half people on him."
Ault said that any NFL team, even those with slow, pocket passers, could run its offense out of the pistol.
"They could run the pistol formation," Ault said. "They don't need to run the read part of it. When we first put the pistol in, in 2005 and 2006, that's all we ran — we ran the power, the gap, the counters, the zones, the outside stuff. We did not run the read at that time. So the pistol offense, the most important thing there is you can run any offense you've been running."
Ault isn't suggesting that his offense is the best for every team — he acknowledged that it has weaknesses and strengths like any other system. But he says it's not a gimmick. It's here to stay.


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Official Announcements for the City of Alexandria: June 6 – June 12, 2009
For Immediate Release: June 5, 2009
Saturday, June 6 – Civil War Sesquicentennial Meeting
The Office of Historic Alexandria and Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association are co-sponsoring a Civil War Sesquicentennial community planning meeting at George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 101 Callahan Dr., from 9 a.m. to noon. Both organizations want to gather public input and refine ideas for Alexandria's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. As part of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, a local committee will participate in a statewide effort to develop a greater understanding of the cause, impact and aftermath of the war, based on the theme "Understanding Our Past, Embracing Our Future." Activities associated with this initiative are planned to take place from 2011 to 2015. This meeting is open to all and public participation is encouraged. For further information, please call 703.838.4554.
Saturday, June 6 - Alexandria Commission for the Arts Hosts a Goals-Setting Workshop for Grants Recipients
The Alexandria Commission for the Arts will host a Goals-Setting workshop from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. to City's arts grant recipients at the Dr. Oswald Durant Memorial Center, 1605 Cameron St. An Arts Commissioner with an expertise in the area of goals setting will be providing the workshop free of charge. To reserve a seat, call Cheryl Anne Colton at 703.838.6348 or e-mail email@example.com.
Tuesday, June 9 – City Council Worksession on Potomac Yard Planning and Metro Feasibility
The City Council will host a worksession on Potomac Yard Planning and Metro Feasibility at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Workroom, Alexandria City Hall, 301 King St. For more information, call Valerie Peterson at 703.746.3858.
Wednesday, June 10 – Virginia Paving Liaison Committee Meeting
The Virginia Paving Liaison Committee will hold its next meeting from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the mini-auditorium at Samuel Tucker Elementary School, 435 Ferdinand Day Dr. This committee was formed to discuss operations and to resolve any problems, conflicts or issues identified by the community related to Virginia Paving's operations. The committee is composed of representatives from surrounding residential communities, Virginia Paving Company, and City staff. For more information, call Steve Milone at 703.746.3829.
Thursday, June 11- Deadline for Submitting the 2009 CIVIC Awards Nominations
The Alexandria Park and Recreation Commission is seeking nominations for the 2009 CIVIC Awards. The annual awards program recognizes the volunteer efforts of Alexandrians who are involved in their communities and who have provided a valuable service in meeting recreation, park, and/or cultural needs. Deadline to submit a nomination is Thursday, June 11, 2009. For additional information, call 703.838.4343 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
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Saturday, June 13 – Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Police Headquarters Facility
The Alexandria City Council will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the new police headquarters facility at 8:15 a.m. at 3534 Wheeler Ave. The headquarters will allow the City to consolidate Police operations from four locations, reducing significant spending on current and future leases for other buildings. Construction of the new headquarters facility will be completed by Fall 2011.
Saturday, June 13 – Public Hearing on Moving City Council, School Board Elections
The Alexandria City Council will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall, 301 King St., to receive comments on a proposal to move City Council and School Board elections from May to November, beginning in 2012. The proposed ordinance would make no other changes to the electoral process (such as changing the length of Council or School Board terms, or staggering elections), since any other change would require the General Assembly to approve an amendment to the City Charter. A copy of the proposed ordinance, and additional information, can be found at http://dockets.alexandriava.gov/fy09/051609ph/di6.pdf
Following the public hearing, the Council will take final action on the proposed ordinance.
Thursday, June 18 – Shuttle Access at Van Dorn Street Metrorail Station
The City of Alexandria and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) invite residents to attend a meeting regarding shuttle access at the Van Dorn Street Metrorail Station from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Days Inn Alexandria Hotel, 110 South Bragg St. Officials from Metro and the City will present recommendations on short- and long-term solutions for a safe and effective shuttle drop off/pick up this location that will meet the needs of residents, shuttle providers and Metro. For more information, contact Jim Maslanka at 703.746.4075.
Thursday, June 18 - Alexandria Arts Forum Meeting
The Alexandria Arts Forum will hold its monthly meeting at noon at the Dr. Oswald Durant Memorial Center, 1605 Cameron St. This month's featured speaker is Sheila Whiting, Director of the Charles Houston Recreation Center. For more information, call Alan Wile, President, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alexandria Marketing Fund Accepting Applications
Applications are now being accepted for the Alexandria Marketing Fund, a program administered by the Alexandria Marketing Committee. The program is designed to foster projects that enhance the long-range marketing priorities of the City; increase awareness, while expanding the quality, of Alexandria's diverse retail, dining, hospitality, cultural attractions and other businesses; promote Alexandria to specific target audiences, including residents and visitors; and generate additional business sales and tax revenues in Alexandria. The deadline for applications is June 15. For more information or to apply, visit alexandriava.gov/marketingfund.


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Carolina looks sharp on first day of practice at Wofford.
As fans screamed his name and clamored for autographs Friday at Wofford's Gibbs Stadium, Carolina corner Captain Munnerlyn took a few moments to reflect on the first day of training camp in his rookie season.
The Panthers continued their new tradition of opening training camp with an evening workout at the stadium where the fans' frenzy certainly translated to an additional bounce in the players' step. It wasn't always this way, as the team formerly opened with an early morning session on the practice fields.
"I remember those days," said Munnerlyn, a former USC standout now in his fifth NFL season. "I remember my rookie year going out there at 9 in the morning and it was so hot and not nearly as many fans and thinking, man, the NFL is like this? But I like that coach (Ron Rivera) has us out here like this and it's a blessing.
"It just helps get you ready for the games. We're going to have fans out there during the season and we're in a stadium and that helps get you ready. It helps give you a lot of extra motivation and gets you a little more excited than normal because nobody wants to get embarrassed. You want to make all the plays."
There was big applause when speedy veteran receiver Armanti Edwards caught a pass over the middle, and even louder noise when former Wofford star receiver Brenton Bersin snatched a long toss. Jason Williams, Robert Lester and Luke Kuechly had interceptions, the latter coming off starting quarterback Cam Newton to incite a boisterous "Luuuuuuuke" from the crowd.
The practice ran shorter than scheduled as Rivera liked what he saw.
"I was very pleased with the pace and the tempo. I thought the guys practiced fast and did a lot of good things for us and that's what you want early, good tempo and pace so they understand how things need to be done.
"I told the players we finished this practice ahead of schedule, and that was because we had a great tempo and practiced with a lot of energy, and you do that and practice fast you get off the field fast and get off your feet. Anytime you cut that much time (12 minutes) off a practice it's huge."
As for what impressed Rivera the most, the third-year Panthers coach ran down a multitude of positives.
"I got an opportunity to watch some one-on-one pass protection and pass-rush and I thought there were some really good things that went on, especially some of the young guys, so it was good to see that. Some of the running things we did were good and I really liked what I saw out of DeAngelo (Williams), who looks like he's getting close to in-season form.
"The quarterbacks threw the ball well and I liked what happened with the defensive backs that made a couple of plays on the ball so that was good to see. And (Kuechly) picked up right where he left off in making a nice play on Cam rolling underneath the intended receiver for an interception. A lot of good things happened, but again we're not in pads so don't want to get too carried away."
The players obviously enjoyed having the large crowd to cater to, and that no doubt aided in the speed and crispness of the workout.
"Anytime we're practicing in front of this many fans, whether it's here or fan day at Bank of America Stadium, it just makes the competition level go up a little more because we want to give the fans something to look forward to during the season," receiver Brandon LaFell said. "So you play with a little chip on your shoulder."
Rivera chuckled when acknowledging how some players just seem to love a large audience.
"Anytime you have crowd it brings energy to the players and they want to show well," Rivera said. "It's funny because in front of crowds certain guys really do stand out and do make plays and Steve Smith continued to do it and he loves the audience and plays well to them.
"A lot of guys do and they love the energy the fans bring to them so it's kind of nice to have this type of atmosphere especially during the first practice."


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OTTAWA, Ill. — Mrs. Beverly Quinn, 84, of Ottawa, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at La Salle County Nursing Home.
Funeral Service for Beverly will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Ottawa Funeral Home, 1111 La Salle St., Ottawa, with Carl Hardie officiating. Visitation will be prior to services, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, at the funeral home. Burial will be at Ottawa Avenue Cemetery.
Beverly was born Oct. 10, 1928, in Morris, Ill., to Fred and Anna Marie (Luck) Brooks. She owned and operated 3 Sisters Beauty Shop in the Central Life Building with her sisters for many years.
She is survived by one son, Tom (Kelly) Quinn, of Ottawa; two granddaughters, Kyann and Shayla Quinn; three sisters, Betty Ann Hehn of Marseilles, Ill., Charlene Valerio of Marseilles, Ill., and Marjorie Hauge of Ottawa; and many, many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; six brothers; and four sisters.
Pallbearers will be Justin and Tim Bretag and Jesse and Jason Cavanaugh.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
The online guestbook may be viewed and remembrances shared at www.ottawafuneralhome.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Ottawa Funeral Home in Ottawa. For additional information, call (815) 433-0300.
Beverly Quinn
OTTAWA, Ill. — Mrs. Beverly Quinn, 84, of Ottawa, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at La Salle County Nursing Home.


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I'll be spending the night with my parents tomorrow night, which means I get to see the doggie. My baby pup is a super cuddler, so that will help. The cats don't like to cuddle as much as the doggie.I'm going to take time to think about this dude. Right now, I'm trying to do some work because I was a bit of a slacker today, but I just want to go to sleep and then get up in the morning to do stuff for my friend's baby shower.
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RU sets enrollment records
Radford University's fall 2013 enrollment has set a school record of 9,928 students.
RU's fall 2013 enrollment includes 8,913 undergraduate and 1,015 graduate full-time and part-time students. This year's undergraduate enrollment is also a record for the University. By comparison, the fall 2012 enrollment included 8,610 undergraduate and 963 graduate students.
Additionally, retention among the returning freshmen cohort (Class of 2016) increased by four percent, compared to the previous year, and is the highest since fall 2008.
Radford University's enrollment has increased yearly since fall 2009 for a total of 1,050 students. This trend is despite a recent U.S. Census Bureau report that national college enrollment declined in the fall of 2012 for the first time in six years.
"Our enrollment growth and increased retention speak highly of our reputation as a student-focused institution," said RU President Penelope W. Kyle. "I think these trends validate that the diversity of our programs, commitment to our students, and offering of a quality education are very attractive to our students and their families. Radford University is a school of choice to help our students realize their goals."
Reflective of RU's growth and diversity, the Class of 2017 is composed of 1,986 students from 314 Virginia high schools and 138 out-of state and international high schools, and represents 16 different nations. Nearly one-third of the class is from northern Virginia. More than 38 percent of the new freshmen are first generation college students, a more than four percent increase over fall 2012. Nearly 30 percent of the new class identify themselves as ethnic minorities, with 12.8 percent as African American and 6.6 percent as Hispanic/Latino.
Radford University is a comprehensive public university of more than 9,900 students. RU serves the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation through a wide range of academic, cultural, human service, and research programs. Well known for its strong faculty/student bonds, innovative use of technology in the learning environment and vibrant student life on a beautiful 191-acre American classical campus, Radford University offers students many opportunities to get involved and succeed in and out of the classroom. The university offers 69 degree programs at the undergraduate level, and 21 master's programs and three doctoral programs at the graduate level. A Division I member of the NCAA and Big South Athletic Conference, Radford participates in 19 varsity sports—11 for women and eight for men. Since 2005, the university has secured approval and funding for nearly $300 million in capital projects, including both new construction and renovation.
Learn more about Radford University at www.radford.edu.


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METAIRIE, La. -- The New Orleans Saints have hired Michigan State offensive coordinator Dan Roushar to coach running backs and reassigned Bret Ingalls to overseeing the offensive line.
In a move announced by the team on Saturday, Ingalls takes over an offensive line that had worked since 2008 under Aaron Kromer, who left after the 2012 season to become the Chicago Bears' offensive coordinator.
Ingalls has coached the offensive line at several college stops, including his most recent at Northwestern from 2006-08 before joining the Saints.
Roushar, who spent six seasons at Michigan State, said in a statement released by the university that moving to the Saints is an opportunity he couldn't pass up, but he also said Michigan State is poised to have a "tremendous" 2013 season.
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(MCT) — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — At one timeout, Cam Biedscheid and Zach Auguste bounced into the air and off one another in celebration, two wiry and previously dormant freshmen who were jumper cables in a granular late January conference win.
During another break, trainers worked to stanch the bleeding on Tom Knight's knee because Notre Dame couldn't do without a senior who was an afterthought two games ago. In a 65-60 victory over Villanova on Wednesday, this was the new reality setting in for the Irish, only faintly resembling the old one.
That might not be a bad thing. It wasn't bad that Biedscheid reintroduced himself with a career-high 18 points, featuring five 3-pointers. It wasn't bad that Auguste provided four points and bouncy verve in spot duty. It was more than fine that Knight added 10 points, four rebounds and two blocks in his second straight start.
It's something, fueling consecutive wins after losses in three of four. For the Irish (17-5, 5-3 Big East), for now, something is enough.
"It's a really good start, to see how we worked," center Jack Cooley said after battling to 17 points and 16 boards.
"In years past, you always know who's going to play. That routine really helps you in your comfort zone, to know how the games flow. And it's been a little chaotic in the last couple games adjusting to that. I don't want to say it's set, but now that we're getting to figuring it out, it's a lot better."
Biedscheid was a lot better, and how. The touted 6-foot-7 freshman scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half after totaling nine points in his previous three outings.
One 3-pointer gave Notre Dame a lead it wouldn't relinquish with 13 minutes left, and two more long-range bombs preceded Auguste's back-to-back scores to open a six-point edge with less than seven minutes to play. The Irish had breathing room, and Biedscheid could exhale.
"I was just actually making shots," Biedscheid said. "(Coaches) just want us to do what we can do, and they feel that I'm a scorer and I can make open shots and they want me to take them whenever I have them. Even when I'm missing, they tell me to have the confidence to step up and shoot the next one."
The Irish were up eight after a Jerian Grant 3-pointer with four minutes left but had to weather iffy free-throw shooting late. A team thought to be polished before the season is an unfinished product in the middle of it, but at least it likes where it is headed.
"We're playing two big guys," coach Mike Brey said. "Jack has a sidekick now, pounding away, and that makes the rest of our team more physical. It's fun watching the new vibe that we have."


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Perhaps JR Raphael at PC World put it best: "iPhone App Rejected? There's a site for that"
In what amounts to yet another visible expression of the frustration many possess in response to the substantial number of iPhone and iPod applications rejected by Apple for reasons that continue to escape anyone's understanding - including, at times, even some who work at Apple - a new website has been launched to serve as a repository for the would-be applications that never made it through the App Store's approval process.
Enter AppRejections.com, a new Web site designed to track and catalog all the "unusual" and "unfair" rejections from Apple's App Store. Launched just days ago by UK-based iPhone developer Adam Martin, App Rejections takes a strong stance against Apple's methods.
On the whole, Martin's website may by new, but his argument isn't. He is simply the latest scorned developer looking for an outlet to vent. And instead of taking to a blog or penning a nasty email, he has set up a website that has already gained considerable traction and received a fairly large amount of media attention.
There are now more than 100,000 iPhone applications available on the App Store. However, Apple has a secret, undocumented, unquestionable, random process for deciding which applications to allow onto the deck.
Since Apple point-blank refuses to document the criteria, or even to discuss the matter on anything except a case-by-case basis. I decided to collate all the known examples of rejected apps -- and so this site was born.


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Submission + - Missing paperwork delays UK broadband (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: "UK broadband funding is being delayed... by missing paperwork. The government is doling out £530m to boost UK broadband, but needs European Commission approval first. The department responsible for broadband says it's sent the necessary documents, but the EC says it hasn't received them. It's the latest delay to the funding, following competition concerns over BT's dominance in the market."


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Imagine being 10yearsold and playing your favorite sport as a kid. Now take that imagination and add to it being inducted into the Hall of Fame at that very same age.
Mind-blowing and impossible would be the description most would come up with when they think about the odds of that ever occurring.
For most people, inductions into Cooperstown and Canton are never going to be stops they make over the course of their lifetimes, but for Abigail Agulnick, that Hall of Fame induction happened just last month, when she was welcomed into the Legends of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame as the 2013 Junior Female Competitor of the Year. The prestigious honor is only available to one female competitor under 21yearsold each year.
�We were very proud,� said Lawrence Agulnick, Abby�s father. �We didn�t know how to take it at first. The real impact of it came when we were sitting at the dinner and watching the other people who chose to show up and be honored and awarded next Abby.�
With a night filled with excitement and honor for the Agulnicks, Abby�s side of still being a young girl showed.
�It started out that lots of people were in their karate uniforms and I wanted to come in my karate uniform because I wasn�t used to dressing fancy,� said Abby with a laugh.
Beyond being named the 2013 Junior Female Competitor of the Year, Agulnick�s resume is more than impressive. She is presently the top-ranked female competitor in her age group in the traditional forms and traditional weapons divisions.Abby is also the three-time reigning National Points Champion in her age group in the North American Federation of Martial Arts. The list of achievements goes on and on for the young athlete.
�I like both the times I got my black belt,� Abby said.
She received her second junior black belt in tang soo do, being the first youth student to attain this rank. Years of practice have built up to her most recent accomplishment of being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Beginning at the age of four, Abby has been more than dedicated since she started her training, currently practicing around three hours per day.
�We tried gymnastics and swimming lessons and all the things you do as a kid and this is the one she gravitated toward,� Lawrence said.
Lawrence went on to state that Abby has always made her own decision every step of the way throughout her career in karate. The sport has always peaked her interest and it�s what she has always wanted to do.
�I like learning new forms and learning how to use new weapons,� Abby said.
With every sport young children participate in, parents and coaches always hope for them to learn lessons that they can use beyond the playing field. While many sports teach teamwork, sportsmanship and other similar characteristics, karate is unlike most sports due to its individual competitions.
�She�s honing certain traits that are in her,� Lawrence said. �Discipline, determination, commitment and practice.�
With these characteristics coming into full view for young Abby, the most important lesson Lawrence feels his daughter has learned is what every coach preaches in sports: practice.
�I think the best lesson that Abby has learned from karate is that there is no such thing as naturally successful,� Lawrence said. �She understands that nothing comes easy and that it is all hard work.�
With a resume that exceeds several pages and trophies and medals that could fill a room, Abby Agulnick continues to practice hard consistently. Even at such a young age, it is remarkable that Abby has found something that she has such adoration for in karate.
She exemplifies a lesson that working vigorously at something one has passion for does not seem like hard work at all.


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Jan. 8, 2013
While most places around the country are experiencing the cold winter, the state of Florida has yet to budge from this summer's weather. FAU's swimming and diving team will be avoiding the harsh winter by competing throughout Florida during the month of January.
The diving team began competition today in a dual meet against West Virginia in Coral Springs. It was the Owls' first meet of 2013. Swimming coach Steve Eckelkamp and diving coach Michelle Davison-Sandelin will lead the swimming and diving teams in four more meets throughout the month, traveling all around Florida.
The Owls' next meet is set for January 12, against Western Kentucky and Nova at Nova. The team will then hit the road, traveling to the University of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast, before heading back to South Florida in their final meet of the month at FIU on January 26.
The team's final meets of 2012 were marked by incredible accomplishments by Eric Williams, Agnes Bucz and Eszter Bucz, who will certainly remain strong competitors for the rest of the season. Williams won two events for FAU in both their dual meets against University of Denver on December 19 and Purdue on December 21.
Agnes and Eszter Bucz both took multiple wins against Denver and Purdue in December. The teams, comprised of fierce competitors, are certainly ready to take on the competition in 2013.
I urge all Owls to come out and root for your swimming and diving teams at their next meet on December 12 at Nova Southeastern University located at 3301 College Ave. in Fort Lauderdale.


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Jennifer O'Connor Celebrates 5 Years with COMBANK Mortgage!
COMBANK Mortgage Company is proud to celebrate Jennifer O'Connor's 5th Anniversary as a member of their Financial Family. Mrs. O'Connor is the Office Manager and Loan Closer for the mortgage company. Her main job duties include coordinating loan closings, preparing documents and ensuring files are accurate. She is a valuable team player and has spent time working outside of the mortgage area, gaining experience in Community Bank's Electronic Banking Department.
Jennifer was born in Corinto, Nicaragua and currently resides in Homestead with her husband Mark. She graduated with honors from Miami Southridge High School and received her Bachelor of Science in Management from Florida International University, graduating cum laude. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering at her church, spending time with her family and reading Dean Koontz novels.
Excited about her anniversary, Jennifer stated, "Community Bank has truly grown into my second family. I'm blessed to have the opportunities that I have here and look forward to seeing what's in store for me in the future."


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Mine are ready to go, will post then monday, will be within two months:-)
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Mine are ready to go, will post then monday, will be within two months:-)
All flies in the mail. Looking good folks. Spares to Geoff.
Got some nice flies in the mail yesterday.
Look like flies came from size 2/0 to size 22 hooks. What fun.
Received my April SOTM flies yesterday afternoon. Great job everyone. Thanks, Bill & All.
Flies came in the mail today, in record time to Canada.
Thanks for the great flies everyone.
Now off to the river to test the effectiveness. :)
Flies came in while I was on vacation, great ties everyone.
I received my flies the other day thank you all I'm not worthy after my simple fly
We let the fish judge flies on this swap. They are the Supreme Court of Flies.


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Warriors forward Harrison Barnes will not play Saturday's game against visiting Sacramento, a team source confirmed.
Clearly, his left toe inflammation still isn't healed enough for action. Barnes hasn't played since an Oct. 7 preseason game against the Kings. He hasn't practiced with the team since either.
No timetable has been set for Barnes return. He's listed as day-to-day. Coach Mark Jackson announced on Tuesday he would miss the first two games and be re-evaluated. Jackson said the goal is for the injury to completely heal so the issue doesn't linger.
The team hasn't revealed the details of Barnes' injury — such as what's causing the inflammation, how it happened, how its being treated or how long Barnes could be out — which is usually up to the player.
The Warriors' bench could certainly use Barnes, who Jackson said will be the sixth man when he's healthy. Golden State's second unit has struggled to score the first two games.


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When Jem meets someone new (anybody, even strangers) and looks in their eyes a number appears in her head. That number represents the day they die. thats why she tries to avoid relationships. Until she meets Spider. Then something horrifying is about to happen! read the book to find out!


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BROOKLYN, Mich. – Brad Keselowski should keep quiet and focus on racing rather than teams' hiring practices.
That was the opinion of Richard Petty, who reacted Saturday to Keselowski's comments earlier in the week that teams like Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing are "stealing away" top race-shop talent from other teams.
"He should be concentrating on what he can do to win another championship," Petty, a seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, said at Michigan International Speedway of the 2012 champ.
"All (the talk) does is dilute his time," Petty continued. "All it does is deteriorate what good he has done. Keep your mouth shut and do your job, and take it for what it is."
Ford, the manufacturer that backs the Penske Racing team for which Keselowski drives, has won only two of 14 races this season.
Keselowski on Thursday said one Ford problem is that teams like Gibbs and Hendrick are "stealing away" key talent, including some members of Keselowski's championship team.
Kyle Petty, Richard Petty's son who used to drive a Sprint Cup car and now works as an analyst for TNT, said hiring away of talent has been going on "only since '49," a reference to the year NASCAR began.
"It's hard to comment on (Keselowski's remarks), because it always goes on," Kyle Petty said. "It's a free-will country, last time I checked. You can go work wherever you want to work.
"If a guy wants to pay me more money, then that's where I'm going to go work."
Keselowski is ninth in points, with no wins.
During the last six races, Keselowski's No. 2 Fusion has had finishes including 33rd, 32nd and 36th. He fell six places in the standings in that time.
"If Brad was running better on the race track, he probably wouldn't be talking about it," Kyle Petty said. "But where's he been the last six or seven races?
"This is just the latest thing that's passed his goggles this week, on why somebody's against him. (He thinks) the garage is after him. This year, for whatever reason, there seems to be a lot of paranoia in that group, in him especially.
"Why, I don't have a clue, because he's the champion. He acts like he's the underdog, but he's not the underdog. He's the champion."
Richard Petty, 75, co-owns Richard Petty Motorsports, which sponsors the No. 43 Fusion driven by Aric Almirola, and the No. 9 Fusion of Marcos Ambrose.
Nicknamed "the King," Richard Petty raced from 1958 through 1992 and won a Sprint Cup-record 200 races.
He battled the likes of David Pearson, Cale Yarborough and Bobby Allison for NASCAR supremacy.
"You never heard Pearson or Yarborough holler about anything," Petty said. "They kept their mouth shut and done their job.
"If somebody beat them, they got beat. If somebody had a faster car, so what? Throwing off on the competition doesn't help anything."
Kyle Petty said team-jumping is a product of changes in racing.
"There's not the loyalty in this business that there used to be," he said. "But the sport has changed."
Keselowski qualified 16th for Sunday's Quicken Loans 400 at MIS.
He turned the 10th-fastest lap (195.143 mph), the third-fastest among Fords, in the final practice for the race.