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BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team faced Heartland Conference
rival Rose-Hulman and fans at Memorial Stadium witnessed the Beavers drop two HCAC
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Nick Rodesky (Bowling Green) took the loss, dropping his record to 0-4 after allowing three hits and five runs in one inning of work. Jordan Kruse (Napoleon) started the game for Bluffton. Kruse gave up seven hits and six runs in just 3.2 innings of work. Nick Broyles tallied two hits, one run and two RBI with his third-inning dinger. Tim Webb went 2-for-2 and scored two runs. Kyle Trainer added three hits and two runs for the Beavers.
In the third inning of game two, Rose-Hulman continued its offensive assault, scoring five runs. Bobby Newman hit a grand slam to give the Engineers a 7-1 lead after a Bluffton miscue kept the inning alive. Bluffton came back in the bottom of the third with a leadoff single by Niermann. Broyles stepped to the plate and ripped a two-run triple which allowed Niermann and Miles Richardson (Granvile/Newark Catholic) to score.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #15 on:
December 12, 2013, 02:44:31 PM »
I'm wondering why a family meal is being hosted in a home where several people are not welcome. There's not much more you can do other than remind MIL that you are not welcome in their home and you will not be in attendance. I would not call my SIL. I would not accept a second or third hand invitation either. I would want SIL or BIL to call directly. Even then, I don't know if I would want to go given her cold behavior towards us.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #16 on:
December 12, 2013, 02:46:51 PM »
I believe you are trying to be the better person, but stop. She is taking advantage of you with no consequences.
Don't send any more cards. Do you think she is showing pictures to her kids or just tossing them out? If she wants to see what your kids look like, or for her children to have a rel
with their cousins, she can behave like an adult.
I agree with those who suggested that DH tell MIL that you won't attend and why.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #17 on:
December 12, 2013, 02:56:01 PM »
OP Here with some clarification. My husband is and always has been my biggest supporter. He has told me and his family point blank that if he has to choose between me and them he will choose me.
I come from a large family with many cousins. We didn't live close but my parents made visiting a priority and I am still best friends with several of my cousins today. My husband's family grew up 15 minutes from his cousins and didn't really spend time with some of them until he was an adult. I don't think either situation is 'right' or 'wrong' just 'different'.
SIL has two boys, ages 11 and 9. My oldest 2 boys are 11 and 8. These are the only boy cousins on either side of the family close to the same age as my boys. (There is a 4 yr old boy on one side and a 5 yr old girl)
I know that part of my problem is learning to 'let go' of what I see as an ideal cousin rel
. My husband supports MY decision to invite SIL over because it is the only time my boys can spend with their cousins.
The cut direct was just with me - It seems SIL and her husband would still like a rel
with my husband. (Meaning they will talk to him and call and ask for favors) - He is doing great at turning down those favors now, when he used to help out much more often before.
This is my first post ever and I am grateful for so many quick responses already. I hope the additional background helps.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #18 on:
December 12, 2013, 02:59:27 PM »
I agree with previous posters. It doesn't make sense that she gave you the cut direct and not your husband, you both made the choice about the insurance. And it's certainly immature and unprofessional behavior; if she hoped you would ever change your mind and use her as your agent, she has given you lots of reasons why that is NOT a good idea.
Stop sending Christmas cards. Have your DH tell your MIL you will not be attending. Stop inviting them to your house. She's basically being rewarded for being rude to you on a regular basis. It sets a horrible example for your children (and their cousins) on how people should treat each other. I would not allow someone in my home who treated me the way she's treated you.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #19 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:00:09 PM »
I am astonished at your husband's willingness, even though it is lessening, to have a rel
with someone who gives his wife the cut direct. That seems all shades of wrong to me.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #20 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:05:37 PM »
Please let go of your image of cousins being best friends. Do you really want your children to have a rel
where they only interact at parties where they see their cousin's parents treat their mother like dirt in her own home?
Right now, you are giving them all the power. Take it back.
Last Edit: December 12, 2013, 03:07:39 PM by rose red
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #21 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:12:46 PM »
You are getting a lot of great advice here. I hope you take it to heart. Your DH should flatly refuse to communicate with SIL at all as long as she is being such a fool. You and your DH are a team. And stop inviting her to your house! If she can't be gracious enough to even greet the hostess she does not belong there! And as for your MIL, as others have said, simply tell her you, DH and your kids cannot attend as you have been clearly told you are not welcome in SILs home.
Personally, I think the holiday celebration should be moved to a different location. If SIL is unwilling to get over herself and act like an adult then she should not be given the privilege of hosting the family party.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #22 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:15:02 PM »
OK, when I posted before I had assumed that the cut was to both you and your husband.
Following your clarification, I would simply tell your MiL that you have not been invited and will not be attending. If you and your husband want to see other family members, invite them to your home. I can understand why you'd want to your children to have a rel
with their cousins, but I don't think that is going to happen until your SiL is willing to behave like a civilised adult. It's not healthy for your children to see their mother being treated like a second class citizen in her on home, or to see their father tolerate this kind of behaviour.
Stop inviting them (or, if you want, invite the kids alone) And your husband needs to live his boundaries, and make clear to his sister that if she won't treat his wife with, as a minimum, basic respect and politeness, he won't be helping her out, or socialising with her.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #23 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:37:37 PM »
Your SIL gave you the cut direct (for years now) over you not giving her home insurance business?
And she has the gall to show up at
home at a party
are hosting and give
the cut direct?
Why would you invite her to your home?
My answer as to whether you should go to your SIL's for Christmas is "No, no, no and helz no". Why would you go somewhere you are clearly unwanted and will be treated to the silent treatment by your SIL and who knows who else? That action will only make the event miserable for you.
Your DH needs to call his mother and tell her that you will not be attending, since she extended the invitation. Your MIL may be trying to get you and your family there without your SIL's knowledge. (That is not cool, even if you guys were on good terms) Even if your SIL is aware of the invitation, she should be the one extending the invitation due to the situation.
See your MIL and other SIL at another time during the holidays. A nice evening at a restaurant. A weekend brunch. There are a ton of ways they can enjoy you and your family without the not-nice SIL being a part of it.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #24 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:53:35 PM »
I'm going to go against the grain here, and say that I think the OP has been doing a great job at moderating the reaction to this silliness. I think inviting them to their big do-s and keeping up the cards may be the high road, but there's no point in wrestling in the mud.
I do think that a frank discussion with the SIL is in order though. Sure it's come to abit of a head by having the family celebration scheduled at her house, but it is a long time coming to say, "Look, I know that you were disappointed by our homeowner decision, but our finances are our own
business, and we would like to move past that to mend the family."
Make it clear that, as you said yourself that you're not looking to place blame or recriminations, just put the past two years behind you and move on. Your own words on the subject are natural and true for you, so use them.
After you've made that clear, you can say that you have been issued a second hand invitation to xmas at her house, and you would prefer to celebrate in a home where you are welcome, and now it is up to her to take your hand extended in peace..or not.
I do agree with everyone who says that unless SIL makes a direct invitation for the entire family *specifically* including you, that none of you should go to the celebration.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #25 on:
December 12, 2013, 03:58:53 PM »
I just want to reiterate - I don't think your DH or your kids should go to an event where you are not welcome. It's just all kinds of wrong. You're a family and it's important to support each other. Would you go to a family party where the host explicitly and purposely excluded exactly one of your sons from the invitation? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't, because that would be saying that it's acceptable to exclude one of your sons from an invitation to your family. It's not acceptable, and it's no more acceptable to exclude you.
I think DH needs to tell MIL that none of you will be able to come to any party held at SIL's because SIL has made it clear that you are not invited. And if DH is talking to SIL, he can tell her directly that his family will not be attending any event where his wife is not welcome. Frankly, it's unreasonable for SIL to expect otherwise.
Last Edit: December 12, 2013, 04:01:41 PM by GreenBird
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #26 on:
December 12, 2013, 04:03:40 PM »
I think it's time for SIL's power to be whittled down to more reasonable levels. That means you and your husband stick together like glue on this one. Either she treats both of you with a degree of politeness and respect, or
of you have anything further to do with her.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #27 on:
December 12, 2013, 04:11:49 PM »
I can understand you inviting your SIL's family to your events, for the sake of your sons and their cousins and to be the bigger person. I agree with others, though, that neither you, nor your DH and sons should go to SIL's house for this event.
I would have trouble maintaining any kind of rel
with someone as petty and immature as your SIL. Even if it were my sister. Cut direct over not using her services? She's done this to other family members as well? If her business depends on selling to her family, she needs to get out of the business. If her ego can't handle rejection, she needs to get out of the business.
people have a blanket policy of not doing business with family because it can go bad so very quickly. Can you imagine what would have happened if you had bought your policy from her and her company denied a claim? Or she messed up the renewal paperwork and you found yourselves without insurance? Talk about bad feelings!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #28 on:
December 12, 2013, 04:14:01 PM »
It is not up to you to do anything. It is up to your husband to do something. This is his sister, correct?
Read more of the posts. You state that they are still in contact with your dh, asking for favors, etc.
Personally, if this was my dh, he would have a whole of something to say to his sister and then a whole lot of nothin' to say.
If it were us, we would show up to the home of SIL and if she asks me to leave, my dh would stand up and state that this situation is getting crazy. You need to apologize to my wife, because it was not her decision not to use your services, it was mine. If you want her to leave, then we all leave and we will never be back.
I say this because it is time your dh stands up to his sister over this nonsense and not let it continue to go on.
Why didn't you use her services, if I may ask?
Last Edit: December 12, 2013, 04:17:10 PM by YummyMummy66
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Re: Invited but Not Welcome at Family Christmas-What to do?
Reply #29 on:
December 12, 2013, 04:20:54 PM »
Was your SIL always like this? Did she always get her own way in the family as the kids were growing up? Was she always the one who would treat people despicably and have everyone else in the family fall in line with her? That's a lot of power she wields there!
I know your husband loves you (and I assume your MIL and at least some of the other family members do too), but they are all enabling her to continue this behavior by not sticking up for you. As long as they let her run the show and get by with this stuff, she has no incentive to stop it. She apparently loves the drama and the feeling that she's "winning", and she IS because no one is really backing you up here, not even your husband.
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made by SCO in the ongoing court case, 185 have been dismissed by
the court. It looks like the long-running legal battles are coming
to a head, and for Linux supporters, the news that most of SCO's
claims have been dismissed has brought much cheer. However, there
are still 107 SCO claims remaining, so it's not over just yet.
Groklaw has the full details: http://tinyurl.com/h68wa
# Mandriva 2007 development started
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Mandriva The first alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2007 is now
available for download -- see http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03538.
There's a comprehensive list of changes and new features since the
2006 release at http://tinyurl.com/n9psk, and OSDir has been swift
to grab screenshots: http://tinyurl.com/zwhrb
# Planning the next Ubuntu release
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More than 60 Ubuntu developers have met up in Paris to discuss the
next release of the distro: Edgy Eft. Unlike Dapper, the last
release, Edgy will not focus on long-term support but will instead
look to integrate bleeding-edge features. These include Xen-enabled
kernels, stack-smashing support in GCC and the SMART package
manager. See http://tinyurl.com/zyp9k for more info.
4. This month on the forum
Say 'Linux audio players', and most people think of the big duo:
Amarok and Rhythmbox. donoreo asked what else there was in the wide
world of open source, explaining that he'd tried the Gnome and KDE
apps. M0PHP pointed in the direction of XMMS and its GTK 2 sibling,
BMP, while Flea recommended Quod Libet. In general, though, most
forum regulars were in favour of Amarok, which had won a previous
LXF website poll with 40% of the votes. [1]
Is Windows Vista a new 'paradigm' in computing? There's certainly a
lot of buzzwords being thrown around, but as we found in the LXF 82
cover feature, there's not a whole lot that's completely new. That
said, Rhakios made a good point that sums up some of the problems
Microsoft faces: "If they put anything genuinely knew in there, then
yer standard windows user would just moan about not knowing how to
use it." [2]
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[2] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=3514
5. Special newsletter feature
Readers often ask me how I go about finding programs to cover in the
HotPicks section of LXF. With thousands of projects in various
stages of development, it's not easy to sort the wheat from the
chaff, but by looking in the right places you can make the task
simpler. In this mini-feature we'll look at some of the best sites
to go app huntin', and what they cover.
1. Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net)
This is THE index for open source software. Nigh on every release of
every app in existence is announced here, with short descriptions of
what the program does and what has changed since the last version.
If you look at the front page, you'll see a long list of apps, which
isn't very useful as it's a hotch-potch of server tools, desktop
programs, games and others. Fortunately, though, with a free account
you can log in and narrow down the categories, even sorting them by
popularity and rating. Freshmeat is an industrial-strength release
resource, then -- massively exhaustive, but not as focused as some
of these sites...
2. KDE-Apps (http://www.kde-apps.org)
If you're a KDE user, this is the place to go to catch up on new
releases. The site makes heavy use of screenshot thumbnails, and
allows users to rate and comment on individual apps. As with
Freshmeat, you can narrow down categories (see the list on the
left), which helps to avoid the bajillion 'KDE improvement' and
'Kommander script' entries that clutter up the listings.
3. GnomeFiles (http://www.gnomefiles.org)
From the OSNews crew is GnomeFiles, the Gnome equivalent to
KDE-Apps. Except it's not purely Gnome software -- you'll find
standalone GTK programs listed too, so if you're running a different
desktop or window manager it's a great site to watch. At the bottom
of the front page, GnomeFiles has a list of the most recent updates
on the Gnome FTP server, so you can keep an eye on the latest
releases of core Gnome components.
4. HappyPenguin (http://www.happypenguin.org)
Another good resource, useful for finding HotPicks games! This site,
the Linux Game Tome as it's also known, lists new versions of open
source and proprietary entertainment software for Linux. Handily,
the individual game pages list requirements, so you can see
at-a-glance whether it's some sanely buildable SDL-only app, or a
horrific monster that requires OCaml-FLTK bindings (or equally weird
So there we have four of the best resources for locating the best
new Linux releases. If you've come across any other sites worth
visiting, let me know and I'll mention them in the next Newsletter!
6. New archive PDFs
We've added some more PDFs of past articles to the LXF Archives, and
Newsletter readers can see them early, before they're added to the
website page:
* LXF 70 - HotPicks
* LXF 70 - Installing Beagle guide
* LXF 70 - Gimp tutorial
* LXF 71 - File manager roundup
* LXF 71 - What on Earth is Cairo?
* LXF 71 - Gambas tutorial
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Linux Format 83, on sale Thursday 27th July
# Ubuntu Forever -- Desktop Linux is here, now: we call it Ubuntu.
Read our exclusive guide to getting the most from the best
desktop distro ever!
# SpikeSource -- Open source stacks for business
# Linux on Rails -- Is it time to switch to Ruby?
# Compiler shoot-out -- the best code-munchers rated
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Thursday afternoon, Brittney Schie and her cousins, Emily and Hannah Watkins, came home to tears of relief and gratitude.
Sunday night, Brittney spent the night in Cairo at the home of her Aunt Melissa Watkins. Watkins called Brittney's mother the next day to say she didn't have enough gas to bring the girl home.
"Ms. Schie said she would come to her house to pick up the child. When she arrived at her house, the child, along with Ms. Watkins and Ms. Watkins' two children were missing," says Jimmie Scarbrough, Chief Investigator, Grady County.
After three days of frantic searching, Melissa Watkins again called her sister, this time to tell her she was coming home. The girls' ordeal ended here at the Grady County jail when Melissa Watkins was booked shortly after 12:30 Thursday afternoon.
Officers say Watkins told them she had been kidnapped, but the girls told a different story.
"It was found out through Brittney Schie, the oldest girl, that they had been living out of the car," says Scarbrough.
Family members say they don't know why Watkins did what she did.
"She should have called somebody, she knows the numbers! There's no excuse and she deserves what she's getting," says Brittany's brother, Russell Schie.
But above all, they look forward to returning to a normal life. Melissa Watkins is in the Grady County Jail, charged with interference with child custody.
Brittney Schie is back home in Thomas County, and her cousins are home with their father in Cairo.


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The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet 200
UnknowingFool writes "When the Courier project was leaked out, it was a bold look at how MS would design new tablets. Microsoft was currently selling tablets but they didn't make a dent in the market. The problem was it was too bold. According to the story Ballmer had two competing executive visions for tablets: J. Allard and Steven Sinofsky. Allard's vision was very different from MS thinking while Sinofsky's was more in line with existing Windows but was years away. Ballmer called on Gates to help and Gates met with Allard. Gates was apparently troubled on how Courier would not mesh with Windows or Office. The project was cancelled shortly thereafter. An interesting detail was that Courier was more complete than most outsiders knew. While there was no one prototype that unified all the concepts of Courier, there were parallel efforts in the different aspects of it."


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PORTLAND, (AP) — An Oregon entrepreneur who sells products intended to help people with an array of physical maladies has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he filed false tax returns.
Jim Cole, 66, of Hood River, is the founder of Maxam Laboratories and TurboSonic USA, companies that claim to help everything from autism and Alzheimer's disease to varicose veins and vertigo.
Federal prosecutors, however, accuse Cole of being a modern-day snake oil salesman. Government agents started an investigation of Cole's businesses in 2010, eventually seizing computers; 220 boxes of papers, files and records; and inventory and assets that Cole values at more than $1 million.
Court papers describe those assets as the ill-gotten gains of mail fraud. They accuse Cole of misrepresenting his nutritional supplements and exercise equipment as curatives. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis J. Hubel scheduled the trial for Dec. 10.
"I wish the IRS had brought these charges sooner," Cole told The Oregonian after Friday's arraignment in U.S. District Court. "But after they raided my businesses, terrorized my employees, ran off with all my inventory and ransacked my home, they chose to wait until now to charge me formally.
"And so until now, I've just had to wait. I get to have my day in court, and I look forward to showing my innocence of these charges."
The government has leveled a series of allegations during the past few years at Cole, his companies and the supplier of powders that Maxam uses to make its nutritional-supplement sprays.
The supplier, Daniel George of Massachusetts, is said to be a chemistry genius but has no four-year college degree and served two stretches in prison for tax evasion and conspiring to make and distribute amphetamine, according to court records. But to date he faces no charges in relation to his association with Cole.
Maxam adds water to the powders George supplies and puts the mix in spray bottles, which retail for about $100. Cole estimates he has about 30,000 customers who spritz the supplements under their tongues for health benefits.
The government's position is that Cole has routinely claimed that his dietary supplements and TurboSonic exercise machines offer curatives for his customers. Cole's lawyer disagrees.
"Mr. Cole has repeatedly denied that he has made any false claims about his products, and he looks forward to a trial where he can show that to the world," said attorney John J.E. Markham II.
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Recent News
Posted on: 05 January, 2015
East Central University will open the spring ECU SCREENS season with "JOHN," a "transfixing" (Daily Telegraph) dance theatre piece, at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8, in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center.
"JOHN" authentically depicts real-life stories, combining movement and spoken word to create an intense and moving theatrical experience.
Posted on: 09 December, 2014
ADA – East Central University senior Miles Mitchell, a business administration major from Louisville, Ky., took first place in the college division of ECU's Tiger Tank Pitch Competition. Mitchell's winning pitch was called SuiteSeat, an app to be used in stadiums for concession and souvenir delivery. The pitch competition was held in conjunction with ECU's Annual Leonard Limes Lecture on Nov. 19. Presenting the $250 award to Mitchell was Mike Southard (right), president and CEO of the Ada Jobs Foundation, and Stacey Bolin, director of the Wilburn L. Smith Center for Entrepreneurship.
Posted on: 04 December, 2014
Mike Turpen, chair of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, will be the keynote speaker at East Central University's 2014 fall commencement exercises at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Kerr Activities Center.
Bachelor's degrees will be awarded to 232 students while 95 others will obtain their master's degrees during the ceremony.
Turpen, a champion for education in Oklahoma, is perhaps best known for his weekly appearances as a political analyst on "Flashpoint with Turpen and Humphreys," which can be seen on KFOR, channel 4, in Oklahoma City.
Posted on: 03 December, 2014
Several local dancers will be performing in the Oklahoma City Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" set for Saturday [Dec. 6] at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University's Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. Two performances are scheduled for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and available at tickets.ecok.edu or at Gem Jewelers, 101 W. Main in Ada. For additional information, contact the ECU Box Office at 580-559-5751.
Posted on: 26 November, 2014
ADA - The East Central University football team will be participating in its first post-season competition since the 1993 season and you can make sure you are there for all the festivities, Saturday, Dec. 6, in Copperas Cove, Texas.
The Tigers (6-4) will take on Texas A&M Commerce (8-3) at 6 p.m.in the 2014 C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl in Bulldawg Stadium, with an Alumni Tailgate starting at 3 p.m. that includes a barbeque meal. Cost of the tailgate is $10 at the stadium.
Posted on: 25 November, 2014
Dr. Bruce Weems, dean of East Central University's College of Health Sciences, was honored for his service to science education in the state.
Weems received the Dr. Jack Renner Award by the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association (OSTA) on Friday, Oct. 31, at the Dunlap-Codding Law Firm in Oklahoma City.
Posted on: 25 November, 2014
For the second year in a row, the East Central Oklahoma Regional Science Fair and Oklahoma State Science and Engineering Fair will be funded, thanks to the efforts of East Central University President John R. Hargrave along with Oklahoma State Sen. Susan Paddack and State Rep. Todd Thomsen.
The $100,000 grant doubles last year's fund, which not only covers these two particular fairs hosted by ECU, but other local and regional fairs across the state.
OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET'S "THE NUTCRACKER" TO FEATURE NEW SETS, COSTUMES FOR 2014 OKLAHOMA PREMIERE AT ECU ON DEC. 6Posted on: 25 November, 2014
The 2014 Oklahoma Premiere of the Oklahoma City Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker," with new set designs and costumes, is set for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.
The production is being presented by Devon Energy and the Chickasaw Nation.
The new sets were designed by Emmy Award winning scenic designer Gregory Crane and the elaborate new costumes are from Colorado designer Susanne Hubbs, whose designs have been featured in Dance Magazine.


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Princeton Review lists UH Manoa among the nations best college values in 2006 directoryUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa is one of the nation's "best value" undergraduate institutions according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company chose Manoa as one of 81 schools it recommends in the new 2006 edition of its book, "America's Best Value Colleges."
The book is a guide to colleges with outstanding academics, generous financial aid packages and relatively low costs. It includes public and private colleges and universities in 35 states.
The Princeton Review made its selections based on data reported by administrators at more than 350 colleges, along with surveys of currently enrolled students. Robert Franek, Princeton Review Vice President-Publishing, says, "We used more than 30 factors to rate colleges in four categories: academics, tuition GPA (the sticker price minus average amount students receive in scholarships and grants), financial aid (how well colleges meet students' financial need), and student borrowing. Bottom line: the 81 schools that met our criteria for this book are all great college education deals."
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Thai cuisine is a blending element of several Southeast Asian traditions. Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components. Thai food is known for its balance of three to four fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal: sour, sweet, salty, and bitter. Shangri-La Hotel, Surabaya will bring you to a gastronomical experience during Flavors of Thailand from 25 April to 5 May 2013 for lunch and dinner at Jamoo Restaurant. Chef WuttivitTheerasomboonkun and Chef Jutamas Paintunyakit from Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok will bring you to taste the real Thai cuisine specially created by their selves.
Chef Wuttivit has many years of culinary experience gained locally and from overseas. He joined Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok in October 2003. While working at the hotel, Chef Wuttivit participated in the task force that assisted in preparing Thai dishes at Shangri-La's Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu during the 12th ASEAN Summit meetings, which took place at the resort. Chef Wuttivit was inspired to become a chef after seeing King Rama IV's cooking photographs. He had the privilege of knowing Chef Charlie Amatyakul, a famous Thai chef, whose father worked in the royal palace and whose mother hadcooked for the royal family since the reign of King Rama IV. Chef Wuttivit stayed in Chef Charlie's home for five years and learned the art of cookery from him. He loves to cook, especially Thai cuisine and is a firm believer of promoting Thailand through his cooking skills.
Chef Jutamas's inspiration to become a chef came from her mother's kitchen when she was a child, which influenced her to continue her education at Dusit Thani College in Kitchen and Restaurant Management. During her study the in college, she had a chance to join many culinary activities such as food sale from the four regions of Thailand and the Food Stylish competition. Chef Jutamas joined Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok in 2010 as Commis III in the Thai Banquet kitchen and later moved to the Cold kitchen as Commis II. She had a chance to join the Shangri-La team from Bangkok to promote Thai cuisine at the Thai food promotions in Shangri-La properties in China and Indonesia at the World Economic Forum in January 2012.
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Youth drivers target of program
With teen motorists remaining Ohio's most at-risk group for being involved in a traffic crash, efforts are being made statewide to help these new motorists remain in control behind the wheel.
A new program being implemented by the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) is meant to educate high school students about the dangers new motorists face, as well as the importance of good decision making.
In looking at local statistics involving crashes for young adult motorists between the ages of 16 and 20 in Auglaize County, OSHP Wapakoneta Post Sgt. Brian Jordan said unsafe speed definitely stands out as a common factor.
He said in 2011, crashes involving motorists in this age range accounted for 16 percent of the county's total 565 crashes. Of the 93 crashes, 30 were for unsafe speed with 33 percent of those involving injuries. Failure to yield and deer were factors in 15 crashes each with 60 percent of the failure to yield crashes involving injuries and 20 percent of the deer crashes involving injuries.
To date in 2012, 59 of 302 crashes, or 19 percent, involved motorists who were 16 to 20 years old. Nineteen of those crashes were caused by unsafe speed, 10 by a deer, and four for motorist inattention. Thirty-one percent of the unsafe speed crashes involved injuries and 25 percent of the driver inattention crashes involved injuries. Just 1 percent of the deer crashes had injuries to the drivers or passengers.
The largest number of crashes involving young adult motorists in recent years was in 2010, when such crashes accounted for 21 percent, or 124, of the total 585 crashes handled by troopers with the local post.
A factor in 41 percent of the crashes was unsafe speed, with 43 percent of the crashes involving injuries. Twenty of the crashes involved a driver following too closely, with 45 percent of those crashes involving an injury. In September of 2010 a young adult driver, who was driving at an unsafe speed, was killed in a crash.
State statistics indicate that in 2011, 161 young adult motorists between the ages of 16 and 20, were involved in fatal traffic crashes on Ohio roadways. In 2010, there were 160 such crashes involving young drivers and in 2009, 177 crashes.
"We recognize our crash problems and go out and enforce those violations whether they are adults or teens," OSHP Wapakoneta Post Commander Lt. Scott Carrico said.
He intends to contact schools and distribute safety materials and hang posters reminding students of the importance of making safe driving decisions.
Once a month a trooper speaks to a Carteens program, offered by the Ohio State University's Auglaize County Extension Office, to address young motorists about crash-causing violations, defensive driving techniques, and the importance of wearing safety belts. The program is offered to first-time traffic offenders and reaches approximately 300 teen drivers each year.
Troopers also serve as part of the program offered at local fairs and speak to area driver's education classes.
Young motorists are encouraged to visit the You Are In Control page on Facebook and share their safe driving stories or view educational videos concerning good decision making.


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I got one of those red light camera tickets in the mail the other day.
For those of you who don�t know what I�m talking about, the state has a pilot program going on and it�s either A) a boon to traffic safety, and keeping people alive by the millions, or B) a naked money grab by Big Brother, as cameras mounted to traffic lights click-click-click every time you approach, and if you so much as go over the white line by a teense, you stand to get a ticket in the mail.
I got my ticket at Bakers Basin and Route 1 in Lawrence. (There�s another camera in Mercer County on Rt. 130 in East Windsor). My wife called me up at work to alert me to the infraction. I was steamed. It was $140.
I immediately contacted my lawyer. (I don�t really �have� a lawyer. I have a friend, Nick Travisano, who�s a lawyer. I just like saying �my lawyer.� Anyway ...) Anyway, I figured I�d fight �The Man� on this one. Not to necessarily win the case, but to have the entire law thrown out on constitutional grounds. To quote Jeff Lebowski, �This aggression will not stand.�
So I called the fearless Travisano, and he was game. He said he�d look into it.
He called back in a few minutes to inform me �The Man� had pretty well insulated themselves on this one. Fighting it � if I was indeed guilty � was going to result in a loss.
To nutshell the basics: The camera clicks away. The infractions are looked at by real-life police. If the car in question broke the law, the ticket is sent to the owner of the car. If the owner swears he wasn�t driving - FORESHADOW ALERT!!! - then he has to prove someone else was driving. No points, just the fine. All in all, airtight for the prosecution.
So the law was solid. Doesn�t mean it hasn�t been challenged in the past (the cameras went off-line over the summer as the state Department of Transportation checked to make sure drivers had enough time to navigate the lights) and it doesn�t mean it won�t be challenged in the future (a bill in the legislature seeks to ban red light cameras and repeal the current program).
�It�s a waste of time and manpower,� said retired Trenton Police Captain Dan McKee, who reached out to me after he saw a Facebook post of mine on the subject. �In Philadelphia last year, I came up to a light, and looked in my mirror and saw fire and police coming behind me. So I turned right on red to get out their way.�
Only problem? No right on red at this particular, camera-installed intersection.
�I got my ticket in the mail a month later, and went to fight it,� McKee said. �And the judge told me he believed me, but said, �If I accept this from you, then everyone will use the same excuse.� He told me if I wanted to track down the fire truck that was behind me ��
I mean really: A retired police captain tells his story, and the judge won�t accept it? Looks like �The Man� is even taking down �The Man.�
And guess what? They are.
�We�ve had two state troopers, a handful of local officers, all driving private cars, they come in the same as everyone else to plead not guilty or to ask for courtesy, and I don�t give it to them,� said Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, who doubles as the Lawrence Township prosecutor. �If you think about it, this really is the most fair system. You can�t get out of the ticket by being someone�s wife or cousin. It�s right there on camera.�
Gusciora told me he�s OK with the law, saying it was �erected because of a lot of accidents� at the Lawrence intersection and that it�s �there for the right reasons.�
I don�t doubt the above, but I still hate it. I hate it for the Big Brother reasons everyone hates it for, but I really hate it because we all drive a little to the left of the law, constantly engaging in �illegal� behavior no one cares about. But now, in these certain spots, we�re expected to change our behavior to follow the law to the letter. It�s silly. The vast majority of us come to a rolling stop at right-hand-turn-on-red situations, speed through yellow-almost red lights, etc. And even when we do this in front of a police officer, we�ll rarely, if ever get a ticket.
But with the red light cameras, every minor little infraction is caught on video, and tickets are sent. At the risk of sounding like a 3rd grader, it�s just not fair.
�People will plead to murder quicker than they�ll plead to one of these tickets,� Gusciora said. �We get 10 to 20 people each session, very upset with the ticket. But if you�re blatantly blowing through a red light, you�re going to get the ticket.�
Gusciora did say a handful of tickets are dismissed, especially if it�s of the ticky-tack variety.
Which brings me back to my ticket. Each ticket comes with an Internet link. You can see the actual video. And what I saw was 25 percent horrifying, 75 percent hilarious. I saw my SUV zoom through a just-turned-red light. It wasn�t close. The light was yellow, my car sped up, and just as the light turned red, my car hit the line and rambled through. Guilty as charged. Payment sent.
One note, though: Based on the day and time of the ticket, I was actually somewhere else, in another car. So who was responsible for this act of driver misconduct? I�d rather not say in this space. But I�ll give you a hint: Rhymes with �why mife.� Just want to clear my name. I�m a very conscientious driver.
Read Jeff Edelstein every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He can be reached at email@example.com, facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and twitter.com/jeffedelstein.


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First let me say that the new site is already *way* better than the old one. It's refreshing to click a link and not have enough time to make a cup of tea before the page refreshes.
However, something that I find a bit annoying is the "On the forums..." bit on the front page. Wouldn't it make more sense if an update to a thread resulted in only one update in this section? For example, it's conceivable that a particularly active thread could have seen the five most recent posts in the forum. In the present situation this results in all other threads disappearing from the "On the forums..." box. It's very annoying and is the one part of the old site that I miss.


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Ajo Monzó's curator insight, June 23, 2015 6:02 AM
Aplicaciones de Google en el aprendizaje basado en proyectos. Infografia útil y clarificadora!
Lee Hall's curator insight, June 23, 2015 10:30 AM
More reasons to use Google apps for education with your students.
Guillaume Decugis's curator insight, May 15, 2015 6:49 PM
There are a lot of bad reasons to do guest blogging - including bad and outdated SEO tactics that no longer work - but there are also very good reasons to do so which is why it's one of the lean content marketing best practices.
While measuring the impact of guest blogging remains ambitious in my opinion, this post frames what to expect when doing proper guest blogging: more visibility, more distribution. I find however that #5 - lead generation - is a stretch and I wouldn't recommend to guest blog to generate leads. Yes, a good guest post will send some traffic to your site (but maybe not as much as you expect) and some of it might convert if your site is optimized for that. But it's a long shot.
Another reason which is more valid in my experience to justify guest blogging is to expect thought leadership development by contributing to well established blogs in your industry. The association of your brand with an established one acts as endorsement and will add credibility to your next pieces and your blog.
Kent Lundgren's curator insight, January 3, 2015 3:53 AM
Borde vara självklart idaghttps://www.google.se/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=jei=dGykVPmLGoPTygOomoC4DA&url=http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/Global/Sjofart/Dokument/Haverirapporter/N_2010/2010_05_29_passagerarfartyget_Juno_kollision_med_%2520segelbat.pdf&ved=0CCoQFjAE&usg=AFQjCNHFn8zi2K7jWXwUhmMN9fp9lc_C8g&sig2=lnBDd0lUJr6sRG68T44P-g
John Gravitt's curator insight, February 4, 2015 9:09 AM
Make sure you have a strong connection. Test before you present.
Iva Golec's curator insight, July 31, 2015 9:18 AM
Five presentation apps (with helpful annotations) that you may want to use when you get tired of Prezi.
Willem Kuypers's curator insight, August 16, 2015 3:36 PM
Prezi est déjà tendance, voici quelques concurrents.
Marie Arndt's curator insight, December 3, 2014 6:56 AM
A useful mobile tool for taking your presentations anywhere.
David Smart's curator insight, November 1, 2014 9:10 PM
Help language learners improve their writing skill.
emilioet's curator insight, November 5, 2014 4:12 AM
Interessante strumento di controllo grammaticale online
Alfredo Corell's curator insight, October 1, 2014 5:51 PM
Boards and lists
More natural way for managing related notes like to-do lists or project tasks. Lists are set of tags that act as filters. By drag notes across lists notes will change their tags accordingly.
emilioet's curator insight, October 7, 2014 5:03 AM
Interessante ma non ci sono metodi di condivisione.
María Luisa Meza's curator insight, December 9, 2014 11:08 PM
Video para los desafíos de la educación en el curso de docencia en línea.
Tina Jameson's curator insight, December 14, 2014 6:48 PM
When so many new technologies promise to transform education - what role is left to the teacher? Why is the teacher still important? This powerful clip effectively presents compelling arguments for the importance of teaching students in a 'social' classroom setting - with reference to 'how' students learn; making the best of all types of tools to aid what goes on 'in the student's head'.
Bart van Maanen's curator insight, December 15, 2014 8:43 AM
Interessant lijstje video editing webapps die je gratis en online kan gebruiken.
María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight, December 20, 2014 3:28 PM
Five free video editors that deliver impressive results | @scoopit via @edumorfosis http://sco.lt/...
Pablo Barrios's curator insight, July 2, 2014 10:35 AM
Escritorio en Symbaloo sobre Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos #ABP
Juana Portugal's curator insight, July 4, 2014 3:38 AM
¡Muy buen trabajo y muy completo sobre ABP! Gracias por compartirlo
Stephane Buisson's curator insight, August 30, 2014 7:18 AM
Le b.a.-ba du googleur ... si un community manager ne connait pas ça ...
B. de La Fonchais's curator insight, September 1, 2014 4:06 AM
Pas seulement utile pour les community managers.
Kelly Coffee's curator insight, January 9, 2015 10:46 AM
Nothing hidden about these "tips & tricks" - just standard every day library functions. This is not new, most these functions have been used since Win95, the days before we see the net as we do now. Nonetheless, whatever it takes for people to finally catch up and educate themselves about easier searching techniques!
Teresa Maceira's curator insight, April 8, 2016 8:32 PM
Add Google hacks to a students research skill set
María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight, June 28, 2015 1:01 PM
Diseñando vídeos...Ofslides — Convert PPT to Video Presentation | @scoopit via @baibbb http://sco.lt/...
Nick Urban's curator insight, July 17, 2015 3:40 PM
For teachers interested in transforming their social studies classroom from the traditional mode to a more digitally based curriculum will find this fascinating. The ability to convert old PowerPoint presentations into videos that can be directly uploaded to YouTube are a tremendous offering. Creating and crafting your own podcast channel via YouTube is a terrific way of allowing your lessons to go home with the class and allows you more time in class to spend engaging students in the content!
Iva Golec's curator insight, August 10, 2015 11:34 AM
Ofslides lets you turn your documents into video presentations.
nihal abitiu's curator insight, June 24, 2015 5:39 AM
Des outils à utiliser et à découvrir directement et gratuitement no sign up required for these tools !
Daniel Morgenstern's curator insight, June 24, 2015 7:55 AM
de multiples outils accessibles en un clik (certains sont bien connus) pour :
faire des sondages
éditer des cartes mentales
retoucher des images,
cherimacleod's curator insight, May 31, 2015 1:05 AM
Kathy Schrock knows thinking and technology ....right on, as always!
Ness Crouch's curator insight, March 13, 2016 3:08 AM
Kathy Schrock has been looking ahead with technology and a librarian's instinct for organization for years. She's still hitting it out of the park.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight, November 25, 2014 3:00 AM
Good Tips to use this popular app and prepare good digital presentations.
Lee Hall's curator insight, December 1, 2014 10:31 AM
I don't usually include tools that cost, but Explain Everything is one app I was willing to purchase with my money. It lets you record a presentation and then export is as a mp4 to your camera roll, so you can share it with others. Great for the flipped classroom.
Francisco Morfin's curator insight, February 5, 2015 1:21 PM
Me gusta el montón de cosas para elegir
Pongo's curator insight, October 25, 2016 10:12 AM
Este cuadro incluye la taxonomía de Bloom con actividades y aplicaciones tecnológicas para su ejercicio.
Anna-Liisa Hayward's curator insight, November 1, 2014 7:00 AM
Anything that can help with Moodle is appreciated!
ManufacturingStories's curator insight, November 1, 2014 2:42 PM
For more resources on STEM Education visit http://bit.ly/1640Tbl
Audrey's curator insight, November 3, 2014 2:24 PM
Moodle is a great resource to help learning. Have a look at http://www.hotmoodle.com where students of psychology are able to download AQA A lesson "bibles" written for students to gain top grades.
António Leça Domingues's curator insight, June 24, 2016 2:54 AM
Kit de desenvolvimento pessoal para professores.
Munira Mansoor's curator insight, March 20, 3:51 AM
This topic shows how to put professionalism in our Routine and get it accommodate in our work.
johanna krijnsen's curator insight, June 23, 2014 4:02 AM
another great tool for students to create online presentations and animations
Ajo Monzó's comment, April 9, 2013 3:32 AM
Hello David, I agree with you, to be a critical thinker sometimes can be even dangerous, buttheyare the people who move the world...thanks a lot for your comment!
IFP Nord Pas de Calais's curator insight, August 27, 2014 3:18 AM
Une liste complémentaire, c'est donc en tout 74 banques qui sont répertoriées.
Sandrine Delage (Borgé)'s curator insight, August 28, 2014 2:59 AM
Je collecte toujours ces infos très précieuses quand on contribue en interne ou en externe
Willem Kuypers's curator insight, January 30, 2015 2:53 AM
Toujours intéressant à communiquer aux étudiants, il y a des bancs d'image libre. C'est mieux que d'utiliser Google Search pour les images.
Mary Starry's curator insight, August 30, 2014 3:21 PM
A faculty member can never have too many resources for images.
MrBieb's curator insight, September 2, 2014 4:49 AM
Een heel bruikbare lijst om je voortaan geen zorgen meer te maken over het rechtmatig gebruik van foto's/afbeeldingen.
Ana Fernández's curator insight, September 2, 2014 5:23 AM
¿Eres consciente de la importancia de utilizar imágenes de uso libre en tus proyectos? ¿Alguna vez te has parado a pensar en los problemas que pueden derivarse del uso de imagenes de terceros? ¿Sabías que Google Imágenes permite filtrar las búsquedas por el tipo de licencia?
En este artículo nos presentan una selección de estos bancos de imágenes libres de derechos que nos serán de gran utilidad.


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For those trying to install the Leisure Suit Larry games the on a modern PC, I have written new installers for the old Sierra DOS games. It will install your game and set it up to run automatically in DOSBox from Windows shortcut, just like any Windows game or program. Just download the right installer for your game. These installers do not include the games. You must own the games to install them.
The standard Vista warning for old games should be observed -- because of its limited write access, avoid installing in the %ProgramFiles% folder ("C:\Program Files" on most English systems or "C:\Program Files (x86)" on Win 64 systems) or you may have problems with not being able to save configuration changes or saving games.


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Clippers ride strong start to win over RocketsFeb 14, 2013 - 6:45 AM Houston Rockets team playing without James Harden.
The Clippers got off to an impressive start, falling just shy of 50 points before the end of the first quarter. Chauncey Billups and Caron Butler each contributed 19 points to help Los Angeles to its third win in a row.
Chris Paul added 10 points and 11 assists for the Clippers, who will play their Staples Center co-tenants in the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday prior to the All-Star break.
Without their leading scorer, the Rockets fell into a large deficit early and were unable to recover. Harden, who injured his ankle on Tuesday against the Golden State Warriors, was a late scratch after experiencing soreness during warmups.
Chandler Parsons scored 17 points, while Jeremy Lin and James Anderson each donated 14 in the setback.
"We didn't come out ready to play, we had no ball pressure," said Rockets coach Kevin McHale. "They pressured us a lot and we weren't really poised with the ball. We won't win when we don't defend."
The Clippers got rolling early, dropping a 46-spot on the Rockets in the opening quarter before totaling 69 points by halftime.
Los Angeles had a sensational 77.3 shooting percentage in the first, where Butler scored 17 of his points by knocking down 7-of-9 from the field -- including a trio of triples without a miss -- to help the Clippers to 46-28 lead heading into the second.
Despite holding Los Angeles to just 23 points in the second quarter, the Rockets dug themselves too deep a hole and still trailed by double-digits throughout the period, and as it would turn out, for the rest of the game as well.
After their margin was reduced at 58-47, the Clippers upped their advantage to 20 by the break following an 11-2 push highlighted by a pair of Billups 3- pointers. He made 4-of-7 from long distance for the night.
"I'm doing better but I'm not quite in game shape," said Billups, who played 19 minutes in just his sixth game of the season. "It will take a couple more weeks. Guys focused tonight, with two games before the break we wanted to play well."
The Clippers converted 9-of-16 from 3-point range in the opening half, but made shot just 4-for-16 from long distance over the final two periods.
Nevertheless, Los Angeles cruised the entire second half, only seeing its margin reduced to 10 points in the final 30 seconds of play.
Game Notes
Los Angeles has defeated Houston in five straight contests ... The Rockets failed to score 100 points for the first time in 11 games ... Jamal Crawford scored 13 points of the bench for the Clippers ... After making his first three 3-pointers, Butler missed his final five attempts from long distance ... The Clippers shot 49.3 percent from the field, while the Rockets made just 43.9 percent from the floor.
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I'm a storyteller.
But I don't always tell all my stories.
I haven't told you about all the broken pieces that make up my life.
And you probably don't know that some days I struggle with my yes. As in the last 14. The first two weeks of a new year and I'm weary and my family is stretched and there are a dozen decisions we need to make and I just want to pull the covers over my head and order Chinese food and watch movies with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Okay, I've done that already.
I'm supposed to be excited about All the Things, but I'm mostly scared. I'm supposed to be a leader, but mostly I'm inadequate. I'm supposed to love this dream and mostly I'm overwhelmed by it. I'm supposed to be living in community and mostly I feel alone.
Some days I'm not fine.
There. I said it.
And then just a few days ago, I learned about a community of refugee women and children living in poverty just down the road from me. Women who have faced unspeakable hardships and suffering and they need help. And all of a sudden, they are all I can think about. And I'm reminded of what makes me feel alive. Part of my story is saying yes. It gives me purpose and makes me want to throw back the covers and courageously live the next chapter of my story.
This is the year I'm telling my whole story. All of it. Even the broken parts.
And you have a story too. Maybe one you haven't told? That hurt. That testimony. That regret. That hard parenting road. That miracle.
Here's your chance:
Let's make 2014 a storytelling year. Because your story matters.
But first you have to tell it.
Check out all the (in)RL details here. Registration opens tomorrow and it's FREE!
I'm also sharing over at the (in)courage community today about the painful places.


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Hey guys! It's been a while since I posted a MOC, but after a month and a half of sorting (not even done yet, looks like it'll be YEARS at this point ) the urge to build was far too strong! I'd gotten more into fleshing out my Castle universe and adding more to the history (a map and some other bits will be coming soon) so this MOC was concocted in my brain.
In an event held by the King of Lions Edward VI, the 4 main kings of the land were invited to the Gotharc Cathedral. Edward VI intended to find a suitor for his daughter, but the royal painter HAD to capture this moment prior to the mass. Thus, the famous "Four Kings on Thrones" painting was created!
L-R: King of Crowns Steve II, King of Dragons Conrad I, King of Lions Edward VI, and the Bat King, who's name is unknown...
Gotharc Throne Room by GrayOverload, on Flickr
Brickshelf(when moderated): http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=512786
C&C very welcome as always! It's great to be back to building, got lots of ideas flowing so expect a few more MOCs at a higher frequency!


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DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water 61
vinces99 writes "A mere glass full of water from Monterey Bay Aquarium's 1.2 million-gallon Open Sea tank is all scientists really needed to identify the Pacific Bluefin tuna, dolphinfish and most of the other 13,000 fish swimming there. Researchers also discerned which of the species were most plentiful in the tank. Being able to determine the relative abundance of fish species in a body of water is the next step in possibly using modern DNA identification techniques to census fish in the open ocean, according to Ryan Kelly, University of Washington assistant professor of marine and environmental affairs, and lead author of a paper in the Jan. 15 issue of PLOS ONE. 'It might be unpleasant to think about when going for a swim in the ocean, but the water is a soup of cells shed by what lives there,' Kelly said. Fish shed cells from their skin, damaged tissues and as body wastes. 'Every one of those cells has DNA and if you have the right tools you can tell what species the cell came from. Now we're working to find the relative abundance of each species present,' he said."


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It seems now that the horrible photo and video we've seen may have been staged or the attacker was given a fake gun.
Strange politics. Strange people. Strange laws.
There has to be more information about this odd story. I'm glad no one was killed.Bulgaria's deputy chief prosecutor Borislav Sarafov told Sofia news agency novinite.com that the stunt cannot be deemed an attempt on Dogan's life because of the gas handgun used.
He said: 'With this gun one cannot kill a person. With these bullets one can't kill a person either.'
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
8:00 PM ET - BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
8:00 PM ET - BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
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Yeahh I'm going to this game tonight. Have pretty decent seats. First Bucks game since '06 or something wow. I can't wait ! We've had a nice start to the season, pretty ironic we're 3-0 on the road. Division game tonight, let's get to 5-2.
Pacers will be tough to beat. They always had our number as I recall all the way back to the Reggie Miller days.
All Hail King Goerge, "The Traitorous King"
"In my eyes, life is likened to christian ideology... its molded into three parts best described by the divine comedy; inferno, purgatorio and paradiso. You can live it in self loathing and pity, obscurity and ambiguity, or with beauty and elegance. Does that make the ideology truth? no, it makes it an irrelevent metaphor." ;p
A couple things about this game-
Dalembert is looking better, and Sanders is coming back down to earth a little bit. They form a pretty good duo at the C spot.
Henson looked good when he got in the game, except on the glass. This is one of the things that frustrates me about Skiles though. When they were up 30 points in the 3rd quarter, Henson and Lamb should've been in the game. Perfect opportunity to get them some minutes.
Scott Skiles really seems to hate Harris on the defensive end, because he continues to score efficiently on the offensive end, run the floor and finish, and get little playing time. 20 minutes for a 20 year old kid who is 4-5 in the game in a blowout just doesn't make sense for me. Dunleavy was cold, and doesn't need to be playing in that game.
In a game like that, Lamb, Henson, Harris, and Sanders should combine for more than 54 minutes of playing time, and veterans like Daniels, Udrih (who played well), and Dunleavy should play much less than the 62 minutes they played.
If nothing else, put Illyasova in the game more and see if he can get something rolling. The dude continues to not only shoot terribly, but put up mediocre rebound numbers.
Nice to see Jennings string together a couple good shooting nights.
All that said, 5-2 looks pretty good, and the starting group did dominate tonight
Very fun game to watch ! 5-2 does look pretty good.
Ya I have never been able to understand Skiles' substitution method. I thought lamb and henson should have played a lot more, they need as much garbage time as possible because they still look super nervous out there, and I don't know why because in Milwaukee they play in front of less than 10,000 fans, in college they were playing in front of crowds of 25,000+
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nope Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was released last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and was published by Konami. Hideo Kojima and his studio, Kojima Productions, assisted with the development of the game.
Konami has told Shacknews that it "does not comment on rumor or speculation. We hope everyone is enjoying Castlevania: Lords of Shadow."


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Modified Mustangs & FordsFeatured Vehicles
1955 Ford F-100 - Fat And Proud
John Maffucci's '55 Ford F-100 Classic Truck Is A Nostalgic, High-Tech Powerhouse
What is it about an old fat-fendered Ford pickup that gets our juices flowing for what used to be? When Editor Mark Houlahan handed me this assignment, I found myself gazing at the truck, longing for the era in which it was conceived. It stirred a lot of memories of a different time in our country.
In those days, it was the perceived Soviet nuclear threat, the red scare, communism, and "duck and cover" that troubled us most. In the end, we had nothing to worry about. The U.S. and Russian superpowers weren't foolish enough to push buttons. So times were better than we thought they were. The future showed promise. We were headed for the moon. Economic times were stable. The living was good.
When I was a kid growing up in the early '60s, Ford F-100s like this one were all over the place in various states of condition. There were pickups, panel deliveries, flatbeds, and more in a wide variety of occupations. They were hardware-store delivery trucks, plumber and electrician service trucks,and abundant in private hands from coast-to-coast. Most of them, it seems, had flathead and overhead valve in-line sixes. A few had V-8s. When they came up the street to a neighbor's home to deliver goods and services, I always knew what they were by the sound of their in-line sixes.
At first glance, we were convinced this '55 F-100 wasn't powered by anything Ford put in its cars and trucks during the '50s. When John Maffucci fires the engine, it doesn't sound like a flathead or early overhead valve Ford mill, either. There's the soft, throaty pulsing of Ford's modular overhead cam V-8 first introduced in 1991 in the Lincoln Town Car.
At that time, we didn't know anything about the engine. Carline by carline, it found its way into more and more vehicles-the '92 Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis, then the '94 Thunderbird and Cougar, and after that, the '96 Mustang GT and Cobra, and the Ford F-Series trucks and E-Series vans during the late '90s.
The mod motor-as we like to call it-has become mainstream when most of us old die-hards never dreamed it would. Pushrod V-8s have given way to late-model, overhead cam technology in many classic Fords.
John's F-100 is a case in point. He could have taken the easy path and opted for a small-block Ford or a big retro FE-series Ford big-block. But, the more he thought about his truck project, the more he considered something radically different underhood. He chose Ford Racing Performance Parts' 5.0L DOHC modular crate engine sporting an Eaton supercharger from an '03 Cobra and a host of aftermarket goodies, all expertly assembled by Tim Matherly of MV Performance in Statham, Georgia.
It isn't your grandfather's ol' flat head or Y-block pick 'em up anymore. "We found this truck in a chicken coop in Clemont, Georgia," John says. "My intention was to build a shop truck, a kind of rat rod, using parts left over from the '03 Mustang Cobra we ran at Bonneville in 2003. This 5.0L Cammer engine is the same powerplant we ran in our Bonneville land-speed car, setting a record at 178 mph.
John says the shop-truck idea went right out the window when Ford expressed an interest in having it on display at SEMA. "We decided to make it a unique show truck with all '03 Cobra running gear, including the six-speed transmission and independent rear suspension." John credits Graeme Bartils of North Georgia Fabrications in Dahlonega for the exceptional craftsmanship. He says it was a great challenge to make everything work. The frame was boxed for strength and constructed to accept the huge 5.0L DOHC engine and driveline. Not only does it look sharp-it performs. This is where dreams teamed up with execution and results.
That's Ford '06 Tungsten Gray, paint code T8, if you're thinking about using it yourself. Randy Powell of Powell's Auto Body in Dahlonega, Georgia, performed all of the bodywork and paint, which includes Dennis Carpenter reproduction sheetmetal produced with the original factory tooling. Note there's no fiberglass or off-shore tin in this F-100. It consists of real steel for real people who like their Ford iron original. One exception is the GE Lexan bed floor designed that way so you can see John's handiwork. He wants everyone to see the Mustang Cobra independent suspension and custom exhaust work underneath.
Underneath is indeed the Mustang Cobra's rear suspension and brake system. In front, John opted for another Mustang generation's underpinnings and brakes. That's a Heidt's Mustang II front suspension sporting huge 13-inch Cobra spec binders. In back are smaller SVT Cobra 11.6-inch discs. As you might expect, John has the Mustang II's rack-and-pinion system for precision steering and responsive handling. It sure beats the pants off of any worm and sector, king-pin-clad F-100 we've ever seen.
Tim's Upholstery in Gainesville, Georgia, did all of the custom work inside, including Porsche Lip Stick Red leather wrapped around custom fabricated seats. We like the SN-95 Cobra instrument panel dovetailed into the steel F-100 dashboard and fitted with Auto Meter instrumentation. It's a nice retro-tech modification that looks like it was born there. A Sony sound system based in the custom headliner complements everything John has done to the interior.
The sole objective with a restomod like this is blending modern, high-tech amenities into the classic lines of a fat-fendered F-100 truck. Here, you have all the creature comforts of a 21st century vehicle coupled with awesome styling that will be with us for a lifetime-exactly what John intended.
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Ford Truck Facts
Did you know Ford built its first truck in 1905?
It followed that act with its first personal pickup truck in 1925:
'25-'27 - Model T trucks
'28-'31 - Model A trucks
The first B-Series trucks came in 1932 along with a V-8
The F-Series was first introduced as the F-1 in 1948
Ford introduced the F-100 in 1953
Ford's first 4x4 truck and the F-250 were introduced in 1959
Ford's first F-Series Crew Cab was in 1974
The F-150 was introduced in 1975
In 2008, the Ford F-Series line will celebrate its 60th anniversary
The Details
'55 Ford F-100
Owner: John Maffucci, Dawsonville, GA
5.0L DOHC FRPP crate V-8
94mm bore, 90mm stroke
Steel crank
11.0:1 compression
Forged H-beam connecting rods
Forged pistons
Aluminum block and heads
55-lb/hr injectors
Lightning 90mm mass air meter
Metco blower pulley system
Accufab 100mm throttle body
K&N filter
'03 Cobra-based Eaton supercharger, ported and polished
Tremec T56 six-speed
Hurst shifter
Independent 8.8-inch from '03 {{{Mustang}}} Cobra
3.55 gears
Bassani headers
Borla 211/42-inch mufflers
Front: Heidt's Mustang II, rack-and-pinion steering, Pro shocks
Rear: '03 Cobra IRS, Pro shocks
Front: 13-inch disc from '03 Cobra
Rear: 11.6-inch disc from '03 Cobra'03 Cobra Hydraboost assist
Front: BBS RGR one-piece forged aluminum, 18x8-inch
Rear: BBS RGR one-piece forged aluminum, 18x8-inch
Front: BFGoodrich Comp T/A, P235/50ZR18
Rear: BFGoodrich Comp T/A, P245/55ZR18
Porsche Lipstick Red leather custom bucket seats, late-model SN-95 instrument panel with Auto Meter instruments, Sony sound system, and Valentine One radar detector in custom overhead console, Billet Specialties knobs and mirror, Flaming River steering wheel
'06 Ford GT Tungsten Gray applied by Randy Powell of Powell's Auto Body, Lexan bed floor for undercarriage visibility at shows


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I can't stress this part of this enough.
I LOVE Brandon Stokley. If he ran for governor of the State of Maryland I would vote for him. Hell, I'd register under the names of six or seven dead guys as well so I could just keep voting for him.
If he hadn't re-signed with the Baltimore Ravens, I probably would have offered to invite Stokley and his family over to the Glenn Clark compound for dinner. I would have offered to grill. My fiancé and I are partial to kabobs, but if Brandon Stokley was coming over we would have grilled a meal called "anything he wants." We probably would even use real plates instead of the regular paper plates that we regularly use when we eat outdoors.
I REALLY love Brandon Stokley. I've been planning a "Bachelor Road Trip" with my best friend recently before I get married. If he wasn't going to be playing football this Fall, I would have asked him to come along. I could just envision the two of us chugging beers at a Lone Bellow show in Memphis and belting out every word to "Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold" before posing for goofy pictures together at Graceland the next day.
You know as well as I do that my outpouring of love is going to have to be followed by a sentence that starts with the word "but." I'm just trying to delay it because I would to make sure my love for Brandon Stokley is fully conveyed.
There are only roughly 150 current or former NFL players who can claim to have won a Super Bowl for the city of Baltimore. We've lost a number of the Super Bowl V champion Colts, we've lost a couple of the Super Bowl XXXV champion Ravens as well. The fraternity gained 55 or so new members earlier this year, but remains incredibly exclusive.
Of those 150 or so members, even fewer can claim to have scored touchdowns in a Baltimore Super Bowl victory. Tom Nowatze, John Mackey (who is the only member of this group to have passed away), Duane Starke, Jermaine Lewis, Jamal Lewis, Anquan Boldin, Dennis Pitta and Jacoby Jones (two) join Stokley on the very exclusive list. Stokley's TD haul in Super Bowl XXXV will forever be special
Whether Brandon Stokley ever rejoined the Ravens or not, I would like to think he would have never had to pay for another beer or dinner in our city. If that meant I had to personally purchase every one of those beers and dinners, I would be willing to. That's how much I love Brandon Stokley.
Okay, now here's the "but" of it.
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