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The Walters Art Museum has been granted $111,615 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support a nearly two-year project called "American Visions: Engaging the Community with American Art."
"In the minds of the public, the Walters is a place known more for ancient, medieval, Renaissance and baroque work," said Joy Heyrman, development director at the Walters, "but the founder, William Walters, cut his teeth as a collector on American art. There has not been a bright beam of focus put on our American collection before."
The grant will enable the museum to digitize more than 600 American artworks and put them online, where they can be accessed for free, along with the thousands of images already on the Walters website.
"It is wonderful to think about all our American art being available around the globe online," Heyrman said.
Funding from the grant will also support an exhibition Heyrman is curating, "New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville," which will be run March 10 to June 2, 2013.
The grant will make possible a catalog of works by the mid-19th century, Baltimore-born painter, along with programs that seek to "engage audiences with themes of American life that Woodville addressed and continue to have relevance today."
There will also be a companion exhibit involving area high school students and interactive material on the Walters' website related to Woodville, "a short-lived, but influential painter who became a beloved figure," Heyrman said.
Other artists, among them Alfred Jacob Miller, Frederic Edwin Church and Asher B. Durand, and various other activities are being planned as part of the "American Visions" project through June 30, 2014.


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Gubernatorial candidate Marc Holtzman and 3rd Congressional District candidate Scott Tipton take time to mingle during Friday's Mesa County Republican luncheon. Holtzman is poised to take on Republican Bob Beauprez in the March primary. At this time Tipton is running unopposed in the primary, though if he were to win he will take on Democrat John Salazar who's currently serving as the Representative in the 3rd Congressional District. Both campaigns will be putting a lot of emphasis on immigration issues. There's a bit of controversy surrounding the Holtzman camp today. According to the Associated Press, Holtzman is being accused of violating rules which require the Secretary of State to be notified when a campaign official resigns. The AP learned that Holtzman's campaign treasurer quit in October or November. Candidates are required to notify the office within five days of a resignation. A spokesperson for Holtzman says a notification form on the matter was mailed to the Secretary of State's office in December, but apparently was never received. Since then a second form was delivered and the spokesperson says the issue has been resolved.
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More than four years after being involved in a crash that fatally injured his passenger, a Grinnell man pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of vehicular homicide, a Class C felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Lee Allen Breuer, 53, initially faced a Class B felony-level vehicular homicide charge as the result of an automobile crash Nov. 9, 2008, near Oakland Acres. Then-Jasper County deputy sheriff Lt. Denny Stevenson came upon the scene in the 13000 block of Highway 6 East at 1:24 a.m. that morning and discovered Breuer, who had been driving, attempting to assist his passenger, 48-year-old Ceann Viola Bailey of Grinnell, out of the overturned vehicle.
According to court documents, as Stevenson rendered assistance, he detected an odor of alcohol coming from Breuer, who he further observed was unsteady on his feet. Stevenson also observed a number of beer cans lying in and around the car.
Breuer and Bailey both were transported to Grinnell Regional Medical Center. At the hospital, Jasper County sheriff's deputy Aaron Groves asked Breuer to provide a breath test, but was refused, so he read Breuer the implied consent advisory required by law.
Breuer further refused to provide blood or urine test samples. Stevenson then met with a magistrate judge in Newton and obtained a warrant authorizing withdrawal of a blood specimen from Breuer.
Bailey later was transferred to University Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City, where she died five days later as a result of injuries sustained in the crash.
As a result of the blood sample, which showed a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.171 percent — more than double the legal limit — the Jasper County Sheriff's Office filed the charges against Breuer in December of 2008. Breuer's attorneys then attempted to have the blood test results suppressed because the search warrant authorizing medical personnel to draw his blood was not physically present at the time the blood was extracted.
Breuer's attorneys alleged his constitutional rights were violated as a result. In January of this year, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the extraction of blood was constitutional and no rights had been violated. That ruling affirmed earlier rulings by both the district court and Iowa Court of Appeals.
Breuer's sentencing date was set for Jan. 28.
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- 1-1/4 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen corn, thawed
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 cup shredded pepper Jack cheese
- Cook macaroni according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook the beef, onion and green pepper over medium heat until meat is no longer pink and vegetables are tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain.
- Stir in the tomatoes, beans, corn, chili powder, salt and cumin. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until heated through.
- Drain the macaroni and add to skillet; stir to coat. Sprinkle with cheese. Yield: 8 servings.
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"Oh dear, my hubby didn't like it. I substituted tomato sauce, & taco seasoning; omitted the green pepper & the cumin. It was a flop."
"I made this as directed with one exception- due to the comments below, I decided to add a packet of taco seasoning instead of the plain chili powder. This makes a ton of food. I used the biggest skillet I had, and there was no room for the macaroni, so I took out my biggest mixing bowl and stirred it together in there. After tasting it, I decided to make another addition- a condensed can of nacho cheese soup. It kind of pulled the sauce together and added a nice subtle cheese flavor. I topped with a little grated pepper jack, and it was pretty good. If you're looking for something that feeds a crowd, this will certainly do it."
"I substituted a can of diced tomatoes with jalapenos for one of the cans of tomatoes and used a shredded mexican cheese blend. It was quite tasty. Next time I think I will substitute a can of ranch style pinto beans (in a chili flavored sauce) for the plain, canned beans. That should make it taste more like chili and less tomatoey"
"With the description and the way it smelled while cooking it I was a bit disappointed with the flavor. I even added a lot more chili powder and cumin. Then added garlic pepper and salt. The pepper jack cheese definitely saved it though if you add a lot of pepper jack cheese to it it works pretty good. It was fairly easy to make and had lots of leftovers. Next time I think it would be better if I put actual chili seasoning in it."
"We quite enjoyed this one :) I subsituted NN small diced tomato w/ onion, green pepper and garlic for the diced tomato, and used Jalapeno havarti instead of the pepper Jack cheese. Good! I will definitely be making this one again."


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Elizabeth and James : by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
The Olsens' Contemporary Movement
By Julee Greenberg and Khanh T.L. Tran
As if Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen weren't busy enough, the twins are on to a new venture the launch of Elizabeth and James, a contemporary sportswear line, ready for fall selling.
Named after the Olsens' younger sister, Elizabeth, and older brother, James, the line is the latest addition to the extensive portfolio of brands managed by the twins' 14-year-old company, the Culver City, Calif.-based Dualstar Entertainment Group. For the new brand, the Olsens teamed up with L'Koral Industries, a Vernon, Calif.-based firm owned by partners Peter Koral and Jane Siskin. Best known for their multilabel junior business and the creation of the Seven For All Mankind brand, as well as contemporary label LaRok, L'Koral expects volume in excess of $200 million this year.
The latest launch comes just after the debut of The Row, the Olsens' directly owned high-end line consisting of $655 floor-length Modal cardigans and more than 25 knitwear pieces, selling at Barneys New York nationwide and Maxfield in Los Angeles. In the fall, the duo will expand distribution of The Row's $3,220 Tuscan lamb fur coats, $875 banded strapless dresses and other items to specialty retailers including 10 Corso Como in Milan, Harvey Nichols in London and Isetan in Tokyo.
As The Row rolls out, the 20-year-old fraternal twins (21 in just 14 days) have turned their focus to the contemporary market. In true twin form, the sisters completed each other's sentences when describing the line in a telephone interview.
As far as inspiration for the collection, Mary-Kate, who shares the title of design consultant on Elizabeth and James with her sister, said, "We wanted it to be based on a relationship between a young girl and a boy and tell the story through the clothing."
"It's a clash between masculinity and femininity," Ashley added.
While they named the line in honor of their siblings, Ashley said they haven't put a face to the label. Still, the young woman they have in mind when they're designing is in her "early 20s, figuring out life and just experimenting," she said. "It's a sophisticated woman with a playful side and is still chic. It's someone who understands fashion and understands details and expects that as well."
Mary-Kate said they approached Siskin a year ago to become a partner in the label, which she hopes will fill "a void in the market that we thought we could definitely excel in."
Siskin said when she met with the girls, they seemed to be on the same page almost immediately.
"It was at the same time that we were thinking of launching another contemporary line at Koral, so the timing was perfect," Siskin said. "Since our meeting, the development of the line has really been a natural process and we all work together so well. The girls are all about detail, where I see the big picture, so it's a nice combination."
The result is a full contemporary collection that is a play on masculine verses feminine and casual versus dressy. There's the Elizabeth blazer, which is tailored for a woman's figure, and the James blazer, which has more of a boyfriend-inspired boxy fit. There are washed leather jackets; a stretch twill military-inspired top and the same top available in taffeta, for a more feminine look; supersoft shrunken T-shirts as well as oversize T-shirts; pencil skirts; cashmere sweaters; chunky knit swing jackets; oversize fur jackets, and cashmere coats. For a dressed-up look, the line includes silk dresses and a sequin minidress that was inspired by one of Mary-Kate's vintage finds.
Siskin declined to give first-year sales projections for the brand, but said they plan to take growth slowly without oversaturating the market.
While acknowledging there may be a slight overlap between the Elizabeth and James line and L'Koral's LaRok brand, Ashley dismissed any concerns there would be an inter-company rivalry between the two businesses, partly because the price points are different.
"I think it only benefits us because they have so much experience with LaRok and the contemporary market through Jane and Peter Koral and their resources and marketing strategy," Ashley said. "They can only help teach us about the contemporary market and guide us in the right direction."
Ashley emphasized that Elizabeth and James won't share any designs and fabrics with mary-kateandashley, their exclusive clothing collection for Wal-Mart, or The Row.
"They're all parts of different companies," she said, noting the mary-kateandashley brand is produced under license with various companies that work with Dualstar, while The Row is funded and run by the twins. "They all stand alone. They all represent a different place in the market."
At a time when many shoppers pay more attention to trends than brands by mixing bargain purchases from fast-fashion retailers such as H&M with contemporary and designer labels, Ashley said the consumer has become more sophisticated. With wholesale prices ranging from $40 for T-shirts to $452 for a fox-fur trim coat, Elizabeth and James is intended for a woman who wants a designer garment but cannot afford it, she said.
"It's a sophisticated, but a smart, shopper. It's someone who understands the design aspects of fashion [and] the designer product, but also doesn't want to pay designer prices," Ashley said.
Ashley said Elizabeth and James will launch domestically with four collections for spring, fall, holiday and resort in limited distribution.
"A lot of [retailers] were very interested," she said. "We were just interested in going into business with someone who wanted to be partners and grow the brand and brand awareness."
In the end, Elizabeth and James is about their vision.
"We're always going to stay true to ourselves and what we believe is chic and flattering and fashionable," Mary-Kate said. "That's something that we really look at in the line, whether it's color or themes or fabrics. We really think about the customer."
For Bergdorf Goodman, which picked up the line for fall along with Neiman Marcus and Intermix, Roopal Patel, senior women's fashion director at Bergdorf's, said the Elizabeth and James collection should fit in on the contemporary floor quite well.
"The look of the line is very modern with an urban approach," she said. "It's fresh, appealing and very eclectic. I think that customers will notice that it will reflect their own personal styles without taking over their look by being supertrendy. The line shows a great balance of vintage meets masculinity and rock 'n' roll, which makes it unique."
Patel said when she went to look at the collection for the first time, she brought along her team of buyers, who each tried on something from the line and each found something they loved.
"Elizabeth and James is inviting without being overpowering," she said. "I think it will do very well for us."
Understanding the contemporary customer is a crucial step toward success in the highly competitive, but still booming, category, said Janine Blain, director of the West Coast office in Los Angeles for the Doneger Group, a New York-based fashion merchandising, trend-forecasting and consulting company. In fact, Blain said the contemporary category is marked by two segments: the increasingly important fast fashion as characterized by retailers like H&M and Zara, and the branded collections such as Alice + Olivia, BCBG, T-Bags and Ella Moss.
"There is more great product at a good price than, in my opinion, there ever has been in the U.S.," Blain said. "Contemporary gals will shop at H&M. They will shop at Zara. Some will check out Forever 21. Again, it's not about a brand. It's about picking up a great look."
Still, Blain said there is always room for good new brands because the contemporary category is a fast-turning market.
"That means that customer loves newness," she said. "She shops every week. Always giving her a reason to buy is important."
While the Olsens' celebrity would generate intrigue from consumers to check out Elizabeth and James, Blain commended their decision not to name the line after themselves, especially at a time when the contemporary customer is tiring of celebrity endorsements.
"When [labels] are screaming a celebrity name, that becomes first and the design is secondary," she said. "They are smart in how they are marketing this. I do like the idea that they are being a little more subtle."
Besides, Blain said, the Olsens are recognized as style leaders and always have a look. "Even if they are very young, they wear some very sophisticated designers," she said. "They look contemporary even if they are not wearing a contemporary label. What does that mean? They look hip."
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AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SAS Energy Forecasting, new from the business analytics leader, helps utilities operate more efficiently by capitalizing on new interval data from smart meters. Unlike other load forecasting software, SAS Energy Forecasting supports multiple planning horizons – from the next hour to the next 50 years.
"We needed a forecasting solution that was more flexible and responsive to deal with variations in demand caused by a number of factors, including the general economic downturn, changes in market conditions and the unpredictable weather we've seen"
Faced with volatile wholesale energy markets and increasingly complex asset portfolios, utilities need robust load forecasting to improve planning and operations while ensuring that lights come on when customers flip the switch. Without analytics, the increasing volume and variety of data can easily overwhelm traditional forecasting systems and processes.
"We saved utility customers millions of dollars in our first year using SAS," said David Hamilton, Manager of Load Forecasting for Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, which provides wholesale power to 11 not-for-profit distribution cooperatives. "With SAS, we can capitalize on massive volumes of new data and quickly adjust to changing conditions. We needed to understand how our customers are likely to buy energy in the future. We couldn't answer that question for the organization if we didn't have SAS."
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"SAS recognized the opportunity for utilities to use big data to make a marked improvement in forecasting effectiveness," said Alyssa Farrell, SAS Global Marketing Manager for Energy and Utilities. "Working with our customers, we developed SAS Energy Forecasting to go beyond what any forecaster has had access to before. We include utility-specific forecasting models and a comprehensive forecasting toolset for further refinement or custom configuration. Data mining and other analytical methods produce forecasts that more accurately reflect business realities and better guide decision makers ranging from load forecasters to senior executives."
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Look thru the upgrades, and you will observe that most of them are also done on the MF tractors. For instance the MF came with cartiride filters, as did the early 1000 series Fords. Don't see too many people trading tractors because of filters. Realizing that MF all came negative ground, but the starters, the oil spin on filter are just upgrades from the ferguson line. Same with the exhaust.
I can afford to spend a few dollars on my Super Dextas. I own four Super dextas, and for what I payed for the four, I could maybe buy one MF 135.
Forgive me, but not one piece of equipment I own has not be upgraded. I am a mechanic, not a collector, and some upgrades are just logical because I am a mechanic.
Like the first time I saw someone trying to jump start a Dexta.
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With the first two months of 2013 firmly behind us, the month of March is destined to be forever remembered as the most massive month of gaming in recent memory. Blockbuster titles like Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite, God of War: Ascension, and Gears of War: Judgment are just a taste of the monster lineup of games that will decimate our wallets all month long. The following list showcases 15 games coming out this month along with videos and links for more info on each game. Without further ado, here are the Best Games of 2013 for the month of March.
Really want to play the new Castlevania game but the 3DS gives me a headache ha. Can you play it on the DS?
The only ones I have pre-ordered right now are Tomb Raider, Gears Judgment and Lego City Undercover for the Wii U.
I might pick up one more, but with new consoles coming later this year, it makes picking up current games something that goes on the back burner.
Soul Sacrifice coming this month, I'm looking forward to that/


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The new documentary from Austin's own Sam Douglas will air nationally in August. But KLRU is offering our viewers the first look at this inspiring story tonight (6/10) at 7 p.m. The filmmaker and other guest will be in the studio talking about the experience of making this film.
Citizen Architect
In 1993, the late architect and MacArthur "genius" Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build program in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by frank, passionate, never-before-seen interviews with Mockbee, the film shows how students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic, indigent client, Jimmie Lee Matthews, known as "Music Man" for his passion for soul music. The Rural Studio provides students with an experience that inspires them to consider how they can use their skills to better their communities. Interviews with Mockbee's peers and scenes with those he's influenced infuse the film with a larger discussion of architecture's role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, citizenship and social change.


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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 53rd annual O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Super Start Batteries listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Todd Lesenko Runs 5.695/126.65, Now #13; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Jeff Arend Runs 6.344/100.92, Now #14; No Prior Run
12:29 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 75 degrees, relative humidity 20 percent, barometer 28.99 inches, adjusted altitude 2,456 feet, track temperature 107 degrees.
The track and weather conditions will likely play a big part in ET's
and speeds for this session.
Left Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 4.121/308.07, Now #6; Best prior run: 4.097/304.46, Was #6
Right Lane: Gary Densham Runs 4.065/305.91, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.053/307.09, Was #2
Densham shows his power and tune up again with a strong low four pass, close to his Friday best. ...and no trip to the beach this time!
Hagan runs right with him on a strong pass with a little more speed.
They stay in their current positions for now.
Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.908 sec., 330ft-2.339, 660ft-3.328/261.78 mph.
Gary Densham's incremental times: 60ft-0.907 sec., 330ft-2.311, 660ft-3.272/266.48 mph.
Left Lane: Terry Haddock No Time, Now #18; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 4.099/306.46, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.221/283.25, Was #11
Haddock's car is a little lazy off the line and then bangs the blower right at the tree.
Wilkerson gets the power to the ground this time and runs right up into the top half of the field with a major speed improvement. Smoke from the engine in the lights, but no oil on the track.
Tim Wilkerson's incremental times: 60ft-0.906 sec., 330ft-2.326, 660ft-3.302/263.00 mph.
Left Lane: Robert Hight Runs 4.111/311.20, Now #11; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 7.058/88.64, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.190/305.08, Was #11
Hight's engine goes zing right in the middle of the burnout. The crew picks up the throttle stop off the track, checks out the engine, and sends the car up to the line.
It must not have hurst anything, as Hight's Mustang leaves well and runs straight and true all the way to the current #11 spot with a strong ET and MPH.
Tasca had identical sixty foot time, but smoked the tires right after that.
Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.910 sec., 330ft-2.346, 660ft-3.325/265.01 mph.
Left Lane: Courtney Force Runs 4.036/318.24, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.071/311.49, Was #3
Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 7.301/87.44, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.093/296.44, Was #5
A little drama in the left lane again, as Force's Mustang was slow to start. She makes a normal burnout and pulls to the line.
Once again, nothing wrong, as her Mustang powers right on down Broadway into the new top spot on the ladder. She takes the long way down, as the car starts to move steadily towards the wall after the 660' lights and goes through the lights very close to it.
Pedregon won't improve after a strong leave. The tires start to smoke and he is done.
Courtney Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.902 sec., 330ft-2.315, 660ft-3.269/271.08 mph.
Left Lane: John Force Runs 4.238/265.85, Now #14; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Phil Burkart Runs 8.280/62.49, Now #17; No Prior Run
This pair should set the first bump spot.
Force's Mustang is strong until after the 660' lights and then starts to tail wag a little. There is a boom from the engine and the chutes are quickly out. He gets in the field for now.
Burkhart ran a best of 4.239 yesterday, but the right lane bits again with tire smoke right off the line.
John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.902 sec., 330ft-2.325, 660ft-3.331/240.64 mph.
Left Lane: Alexis DeJoria Runs 7.204/86.19, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.107/302.69, Was #10
Right Lane: Tony Pedregon Runs 6.498/102.10, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.225/248.89, Was #13
Jeff Arend is on the bump spot at 6.344.
Two good initial leaves and then both cars strike the tires.
Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 4.073/311.92, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.102/314.53, Was #9
Right Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 4.440/201.88, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.085/308.28, Was #4
Great looking pass for Capps to jump into the top four for now. A little better ET, but a little less MPH.
Gray left right with Capps and was right behind him until near the 660' lights, where the tires start to spin. He has to lift.
Ron Capps' incremental times: 60ft-0.890 sec., 330ft-2.320, 660ft-3.293/267.69 mph.
Left Lane: Del Worsham Runs 4.054/310.20, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.101/306.26, Was #9
Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 5.374/135.17, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.045/316.67, Was #2
Both cars have a strong leave and run together until after the 330' lights. Beckman's Valvoline/MTS Charger starts to spin the tires at that point and he has to lift.
Worsham is on a strong pass and picks up both ET and MPH to move all the way up to the final top four position of the session.
Del Worsham's incremental times: 60ft-0.901 sec., 330ft-2.307, 660ft-3.270/267.00 mph.
1:01 p.m. NHRA is pushing the teams today for a very quick turn-around between rounds.
Courtney Force is number one at 4.036 and Jeff Arend is on the bump spot at 6.344.
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But the sequel below is crap. Literally.
Wow. I mean...wow.
Let's see if we can sum up how the creative process went to produce the comedic masterpiece above:
* In a bolt out of the blue on par with the flash of genius that struck Newton after the apple struck him, the idea hits Mascot Man (probably as he sits on the toilet).
* He immediately writes this "shit" down so the moment of inspiration doesn't elude him.
* He spends the time to make - MAKE! - an M-shaped fake turd, probably giggling the entire time at the shear hilarity of it all.
* He next dresses up in his paper mache costume
* He sets up his video camera in the bathroom
* He then shoots this turd (of a video)
* He then edits this turd (of a video-slash-video of a turd)
* Unable to wait for the millions of Internet viewers, he immediately
* Uploads it to YouTube
* Keeps hitting refresh on his YouTube page for 8 straight hours, wondering how in the hell this thing isn't going viral like the kid who got stoned at the dentist
* Returns to work at Subway the next morning
* Starts thinking of next bit of Buckeye-theme Internet magic on his lunch break


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Bylsmas Present Check to Children's Hospitalby Sam Kasan / Pittsburgh Penguins
It's the holiday season and the Bylsma family is in the holiday spirit.
Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma and his wife Mary Beth presented a $19,900 check to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation Thursday morning.
"For our family, whenever we come to a city we get in touch with the Children's Hospital is a necessity for our family, for our son's health situation," Dan said. "We've established a relationship with Children's Hospital for a number of years now. We have participated in events with the hospital. This summer with our hockey camp and the Pittsburgh Penguins, to be able to donate the proceeds from the camp to Children's Hospital was something our family wanted to do and is glad to do."
|Coach Bylsma shakes Will's hand after a fun game of air hockey
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The Bylsmas handed the donation check over to Greg Barrett, president of Children's Hospital, and Joe Walton, Children's Hospital board member, inside the Lemieux Sibling Center.
"I go beyond the financial commitment – which is very large and a wonderful gift for us – but just the fact that they come in and spend time with kids," Barrett said of the Bylsmas. "These are kids that could be here for months. Some of them spend their entire youth in and out of the hospital. (Athletes and coaches) come in and do this behind-the-scenes, they all do. They spend hours with the kids without the media and everybody seeing. That means so much to the families and kids."
Dan agreed.
"To be involved and participate, not just a monetary sum or donation, but to participate with the kids and be here with the families is a big part of it for myself, my wife and our son Bryan," Dan said. "We're happy to make a donation, but we're equally as happy to participate with Children's Hospital. We participate as a family. We've been here at times making crafts and hanging out with the kids and have participated as well in other events."
Following the check presentation, the Bylsmas spent some time with some of the patients in the Lemieux Sibling Center. Eight-year-old Will challenged the coach to a game of air hockey. After a spirited effort, Dan lost to Will.
"I don't take losing very well," he jokingly told the youngster.
The Bylsmas then spent a couple hours in the Dick's Sporting Goods Teen Lounge, where they mingled with patients.
Dan watched the movie "Elf" with Emily, 18, and her boyfriend Derrick, shot pool with Erica, 19, and Robert, 21, and even Skyped with Santa Claus. Dan made sure to remind Santa of his address, just in case.
Mary Beth chatted with Robert, Erica and Ashley, 18, while the three painted arts and crafts.
Erica even tried to get Dan to join Twitter. "Even the Pope is on Twitter," she notified him. The coach warmed to her personality. Erica and Dan each posted a little note on the room's "Twitter Board."
For the Bylsmas, their experience with children and young adults at Children's Hospital is a personal one.
"For us, the health of our son is something we've had to monitor for a long time," Dan said. "For a long time we didn't know what we were dealing with. He has an immune deficiency problem. The care we've gotten in Pittsburgh has personally affected our family. What they have here in Pittsburgh is exceptional with Children's Hospital, the care they have for the kids, the care for the families, from the doctors to Austin's Playroom with the Lemieux Foundation participation, to (the Lemieux Sibling Center), it's truly a remarkable place. We'll continue to be involved in a lot of different ways with Children's Hospital."
The Bylsmas donated the proceeds from the coach's hockey school – Pittsburgh Penguins Training Camp featuring Dan Bylsma – held this past summer at CONSOL Energy Center.
"We've been doing our hockey camp for 19 years," Dan said. "In Michigan we did it for the first 18 years. The last several years the proceeds have gone to a charity of our choosing. This year going into the school we decided that Children's Hospital was the charity we wanted to donate. It's part of the relationship we've had since we've been in town."


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Well said sir.
The Age Of Miracles
11/20/2008 – Michigan 55, #4 UCLA 52 – 3-0
11/22/2008 – Michigan vs Ohio State (-20) – 3-8
I think I may have mentioned this before, but at some point in my mid-twenties I wrote twenty pages of a novel about a group of five friends who lived in the same house in college and at some point because of stupid college hijinks ended up promising to carve and lacquer a set of five ninjas that would stand the test of time, because friendship was forever, or something less saccharine that I never got down to refining.
This is where the novel departs from hard realism, because the friends actually carry out the intricate carving and lacquering of five different ninjas that are perfectly symbolic of each person in the house and their relationships to each other person in the house. This is also where the novel departs from the realm of things that exist, because obviously. You try to write that.
Chronologically, the novel ended with the character that was a thinly disguised me (all fictional characters you write in your twenties are thinly disguised versions of people you know, and one of them is always you) burning the ninjas in a ceremony representing the end of the world, or the fellowship, or whatever. One friend returned, late, because his wife delayed him for some reason or another. The others never showed. The one who did was not inclined to care.
I was sad. I lived in Ann Arbor and my friends had moved away and the people around me who vaguely replaced them were distant or unsuitable or impractical or really short and probably addicted to cocaine given their behavior. I worked engineering jobs listlessly, finding slight motivation in the first six months before dropping off into lethargy. At my last engineering job there was a week where I spent literally 80% of my time playing Tropico. I was single, and felt alone. I was alienated from the city I'd lived in for a half-dozen years.
The thing I was, and the things I thought I would be, had broken. I think this is a common thing these days. I think everyone gets through college with the idea they will be a special snowflake, and then they find themselves in a strange city or, worse, a city abandoned by the people they knew before. They work a job at which they are not a special snowflake. It's boring. It is not at all what anyone envisions themselves doing. If you're not a lawyer or engineer, it probably pays poorly.
And the adult world encroaches and says "this is life, get used to it."
And you write twenty pages of the Great American Novel before getting used to it.
Once a year, usually around this time, I pick up Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch and look for the passage in it that I remember and never find it. At this point I am convinced it does not exist. In it, Hornby sums up the bile and self-loathing and devastating fatalism that he feels about both his life and that year's edition of Arsenal. The two things are inextricably linked, and they live under a steel gray sky.
This is what I find:
Home to Villa in the League Cup quarter-final replay was probably my worst-ever night, a new low on a relationship already studded with them. …
Part of it was my own latent depression permanently looking for a way out and liking what it saw at Highbury that night; but even more than that, I was as usual looking to Arsenal to show me that the things did no stay bad forever, that it was possible to change patterns, that losing streaks did not last. Arsenal, however, had other ideas: they seemed to want to show me that troughs could indeed be permanent, that some people, like some clubs, just couldn't ever find ways out of the rooms they had locked themselves into. It seem to me that night and for the next few days that we had both of us made too many wrong choices, and had let things slide for far too long, for anything ever to come right; I was back with the feeling, much deeper, and much more frightening this time, that I was chained to the club, and this miserable half-life, forever.
Eh, close enough.
I'm not really sure what happened in the past four years to change everything. Again, I think this is a fairly common occurrence these days. You spend a few post-college years wandering in the desert, melting your special snowflake shell away, and then once you've stripped yourself of that ego you find a center.
One night in 2004 I decided that I should start a blog. At some point I lost my mind, checking the traffic numbers every 30 minutes and spending every hour from my arrival at home to bedtime doing something or other related to the blog. In April of 2006 I was fired from my engineering job because instead of engineering I was mostly blogging. (And playing Tropico.) I idled around for a few months, half-heartedly searching for jobs until AOL invited me to be a lead blogger on their nascent college football site, which, when combined with the trickle of income the blog was generating at that point, added up to food and rent.
It was a leap of faith. My mom was openly petrified.
Author James McManus got a job covering the World Series of Poker for Harpers before the WSOP was a cool cultural touchstone. He lucked into a seat by winning a satellite with his advance money, then made the final table. He wrote about his experiences, and a sordid Las Vegas murder that was part of his Harpers assignment, in Positively Fifth Street.
The book opens with an imagined re-enactment of the sordid murder, and McManus manages to slip a sentence in that stuck:
For non-early-bloomers, thirty-three can become the age of miracles—the time to start a family, launch a new venture, make partner, publish your first novel, even found your own worldwide religion.
McManus—divorced, remarried, joyfully whipped as hell, finding stunning new professional and personal success—is obviously talking about himself here. Like Hornby, he wandered, crazy, until finding some sort of balance.
At some point you are not what you were, and then you are nothing. It's at this point people start putting themselves together, once you have had that year where you do too much of something—drink, play video games, feel sorry for yourself, brick threes, fumble—feel terrible after, and then do too much of that something again.
That thing I was before is not what I am now. I have a capital-s Significant Other and a great group of friends in town. I work, a lot, and like it. I recognize that period of mid-twenties malaise as part of the past. How did I get here? I was adrift. I struck on a thing. I lost my mind. I woke up later. In the meantime I had accidentally built a life, and a career.
I have an imaginary speech by Rich Rodriguez or John Beilein in my head. In it, he says that everything everyone in the room came to Michigan for has been torn asunder. He says that everything that they were told before they signed a piece of paper is worthless. He says…
Nothing you were told about this place has come true. You came here and found a different coaching staff and a different team. A plainly deficient team. No one recognizes you. You run out in the same uniforms but what you do is unrecognizable to these people. This… what we have here is broken. The things we do do not work. The culture we have is dysfunctional. This program is a heap of ash.
You did not sign up for this. And you have every power and inclination to leave. Some of you will. Fine. No one will blame you. It's cold and people scorn you and there are so many of them.
Some of you will stay. And you will go insane. You will work, and you will work, and we will build something here from nothing. Because, make no mistake, this is nothing. You will build something out of this. If you're a senior next year and you teach some freshman something, you will build something. If you're a freshman and you refuse to quit on your stupid decision, you will build something.
What you build will be yours. Few in the great history of his university have had that opportunity. Everything came based on what came before. They were part of a great chain, now broken.
Those of you who stay will forge a new one, starting today. When we are done we will fix the last link to the broken chain, and break the first link, and tell those who come after us to live up to it.
a man who made that speach.
I love Michigan and I believe in this group of players and coaches. And if only 22 players stay, then so be it. Anyone who stays will have incredible strength and determination. That will be our foundation for a glorious future.
So checking this site compulsively while sitting at my Engineering job in a city I've only been in for 5 months and questioning whether or not I belong here....is normal?
The first year (at least) after college is spent, by the vast majority of human beings, in some level of unhappiness, thinking you should be doing something else.
...any time thereafter where there is a dysfunction in the work environment (poor management, awful, time consuming project) those thoughts pour back in. At least in my experience.
That's pretty much how it goes for the first year. Check out the book "Quarterlife Crisis".
And the next time you don't wake up in time to make the game at Fox and Hound, go to the Falloon instead of 810. Had a much better time watching the game there.
These 11am games make F&H pretty much impossible. I have watched a few at 810 but never the Falloon. Planning on being at the Falloon tomorrow? I definitely want to be be within walking distance of home in case I need to self-medicate after the game.
I'm pretty sure we watched the Toledo game at 810, no?
Well done.
arsenal lost to villa saturday
so i guess some things never change
Sometimes I wish you could write the floor statements for the Senator I work for.
Go Blue.
Disclaimer: this is not in any way intended to provoke any kind of a political discussion whatsoever.
Out of curiosity, which senator do you work for?
a). I'm glad I am not the only one who uses Hornby's Fever Pitch as a jumping off point for his understanding of fandom.
b). Damn. Just damn.
because I'm ready to crush some buckeyes!!!
To me, speeches like that are what make football great. It is a metaphor for life. Things don't always go your way, not everything has a happy ending, sometimes things get hard, but what separates the great from the ordinary, the successful from the failures, is who decides to stay and keep working and who decides to quit.
None of these Michigan seniors would have seen their careers ending in this fashion, but they stayed, they worked, and they laid the foundation for the future and when Michigan is great again it will because they started the building process, they stayed and are champions as men for it.
Brian, I've been reading your blog for years but this is the first time I've been moved to comment. This is probably the best post I've read here. Good stuff.
That is all.
is a great way screw up the structural steel calculations you're supposed to be focusing on. Look what happened to Brian.
It was actually structural fiberglass pultrusions, but yah I should probably double-check these.
...only in my case it's the wall sections.
Sheridan's 33rd birthday was tomorrow.
(Actually, I think Threet goes into the game at some point.)
A lot of what you just wrote strikes a chord with me, as I've spent a large portion of my mid-twenties in a similar place you were. Often, things you write are things I've thought about, but just not been able to organize in my head. I appreciate that.
Those Who Stay Will Be Chainmakers
Great stuff!!
Brian, you are truly one of the few people in this world that bring joy and meaning into the lives of other people.
Actually, I think any post Brian writes immediately before The Game qualifies for the Hall of Fame.
Now that's a way to kick off a Friday.
I started today in a great mood coming off a great client meeting yesterday and a huge win by the BB team last night. But this just raised it another level.
I don't know about anybody else, but I feel really good about tomorrow.
Well done sir. Well done indeed.
Brian, this post i so well written and so on point that I have been linking it almost exclusively to people who don't even know what a Michigan Football is. That, is great writing.
Bloody hell, that was amazing. I'm going to print this, or link this, or something. I need to read this every so often.
P.S. Beat the Bucks.
I think I'm going to go watch "Kicking and Screaming" (*not* the Will Ferrell film). I suggest anyone who has felt this way to do the same.
Just wow...
Copywrite that before it ends up in a movie, or at least mandate that Al Pacino give it...
At some point you are not what you were, and then you are nothing. It's at this point people start putting themselves together, once you have had that year where you do too much of something—drink, play video games, feel sorry for yourself, brick threes, fumble—feel terrible after, and then do too much of that something again.
This is me! At 32 I have decided I needed something to get me back on "track." Not that I am off, have a great paying job (that I don't have to do to much at), a great family (wife, 14 mo. old), etc... But something has been missing, so I joined the National Guard. We shall see what this journey brings!
....you're so lame! Only 25 pages of a novel. Puleeze, I got well over 100 pages of mine done before real life got in the way....quit slacking off!!!
Otherwise, killer post.
A++ will read again
Tremendous post. Just outstanding job of summing up the post-college malaise that seems to engulf so many of us. And I, too, have had imaginary pep talks for this team, saying things such as "today is for what was here before I got here," etc.
It's their last shot this year, and the last shot for the seniors. For this one day, it's about the last four or five years. It's about the blood, sweat, tears, and adversity they went through. It isn't about if they hate Rich Rod, or don't know if they want to be a part of what is being built, or can stand the changes that are taking place. I feel that this game is about the players alone, and what they've been through this year, but also years past.
It's also a chance to recapture a sense of pride. And here's hoping they do, and they never forget what it felt like as long as they live.
Brian - very nicely played. You get a little bit of everything around here. This is a great site. Your sentiments were unexpected, but appreciated. I have been in that place you so vividly described. And find myself back there on occasion. I think you captured the suffering spirit of the typical sports fan well. I don't like the misery of this current football campaign. But I loved the euphoria of beating UCLA last night. Here's to hoping (though not expecting) a miracle tomorrow in Columbus.
Go fucking Blue!
Thank you for making this post, Brian. Incredible. I am going print it out and hang it in my office.
As a kid just starting out in the working world going through the same feelings just described, it is reassuring knowing everyone goes through it. Keep up the great work Brian, this is far and away my favorite post that I've read.
of Thunderbird to you, sir.
Well, I would if I had a glass.
But raising a brown bag seems inadequate.
...it enhanced my mancrush on Brian.
I've been reading since the summer of '05. I was busted twice that summer, red faced, trying to explain to my boss how a sports blog could find its way onto my screen while researching heating output of blades in a server rack.
Posts like UFR and UV keep have kept me coming back every day, sneaking a guilt-ridden peek. But posts like "The Age of Miracles" have legitimized in my mind why I do it.
you must be a really fast typist
So what you're saying is that I will stop hating my new city and new job only after I get fired and am forced to pursue my yet to realized dream? That may be more than I can handle.
Posts like this are exactly why I keep coming back here.
I wandered across the country in the 5 years after my graduation from UM, and even ended up in grad school (at the very home of the team we beat last night!), spending/borrowing a small fortune to try and find my way. I came out the other side, found myself in Los Angeles, and while I'm not Home, I'm happy. You summed this up more awesomely than anyone ever has.
are a phenomenal writer.
Now begins the portion of the show where we all go bat shit insane and forget about reality and hang on every snap - with no other storyline, tangent, or stat to get in the way. As they say "that's why they play the Game." And that is why I am a fan.
Thanks Brian, Go Blue.
Simply, phenomenal. You have a gift. I am fortunate enough to be able to read it on a daily basis. "The Age of Miracles". Epic.
can someone get that speech to rodriguez for tomorrow? ASAP people, we got a game to win!
I can relate to this post almost exactly, except replace engineer with scientist. Ann Arbor can be a very sad place to live after graduation. I realized this while walking home alone on a cold winter night from the Blind Pig after a night out by myself trying to make new friends playing pool with the townies (who are pretty damn sketchy) because all of my friends moved out of town. After a couple of years of that I went to grad school in a new city, and got to repeat the whole process of finding a life and losing it again and coming to terms with mediocrity. But after moving back to my hometown my career has improved and things are good...for now; although my state of mind is probably still too dependent on the success of the Michigan football team. Maybe it reminds me of 1997 when I was a senior and had front row season tickets in the student section (right in front of the one hot semi-asian cheerleader we had that year), good friends, and a lot of potential.
As a townie, I take offense to that, although I do feel that some of them are pretty bad. But isn't that the case with any college? I feel like all schools don't like the townies and feel that they are sketchy.


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Hillfest (April 27th, 2014)
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College is pleased to announce the hiring of Brittany Owens as the Cobras assistant softball coach.
A former standout player for the Cobras, Owens completed her Coker playing days in May of 2010. A career .314 hitter, Owens had 20 doubles, six home runs and 37 RBIs during her two years with the Coker softball team. In 2009, she was ranked 13th in the country in doubles per game.
Prior to her time at Coker, Owens played two years at Florence-Darlington Technical College for the Stingers and before FDTC she was a star player for the Hannah-Pamplico Raiders.
Owens received her Bachelor of Arts degree in criminology from Coker in December of 2010 and in addition to her duties as the Cobras assistant coach, she intends on work for the Hartsville Police Department.


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General Comments: Futures closed lower on speculative selling. Trends have started to turn down for at least the short term, and speculators appear to be getting out of long positions. News of harvest progress in West Africa amid improving conditions was negative. The strong demand news of the last couple of weeks should be part of the price now. The weather is good now, and arrivals at ports are increasing. The harvest is underway and it could be that prices work lower for the near term. However, the overall fundamental picture should support higher prices as the supply situation should be tight and demand looks strong. That implies that the market should be able to digest the harvest relatively easily and resume the longer term rally soon.
Overnight News: Scattered showers or dry conditions are expected in West Africa. Temperatures will average near normal. Malaysia and Indonesia should see scattered showers. Temperatures should average above normal. Brazil will get dry conditions and near normal temperatures. ICE certified stocks are lower today at 3.853 million bags.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are mixed to down with objectives of 2620, 2530, and 2410 December. Support is at 2655, 2645, and 2610 December, with resistance at 2715, 2750, and 2780 December. Trends in London are down with objectives of 1660 December. Support is at 1700, 1670, and 1660 December, with resistance at 1740, 1760, and 1800 December.
General Comments: Futures closed sharply lower on follow through selling. Demand shown in the USDA export sales reports yesterday was poor. Good weather in US productions areas has seen the harvest pace pick up quite a bit this week. Traders should get more reports on demand next week. Brazil conditions are reported to be very good in Bahia. US crop conditions right now are generally good in Texas. The Delta and Southeast are reporting generally favorable conditions as well. Trends are mostly down on the charts and price action yesterday was very weak.
Overnight News: The Delta and Southeast will see dry weather. Temperatures will average near to below normal. Texas will see dry weather. Temperatures will average below normal this week and near to above normal this weekend. The USDA spot price is 76.51 ct/lb. today. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.110 million bales, from 0.102 million yesterday.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are down with no objectives. Support is at 78.80, 78.30, and 77.90 December, with resistance of 79.25, 79.75, and 80.10 December.


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4-26-07 -- The Dallas Mavericks finally discovered that beating the Golden State Warriors isn't as hard as they had made it look.
And it's even easier when Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson lose their cool.
Jason Terry scored 28 points, Dirk Nowitzki had 23 and Josh Howard led a 15-2 run in the third quarter that sent the Mavericks to a 112-99 victory over the Warriors in Game 2 on Wednesday night, evening their first-round series.
"We needed to turn it up," said Howard, who had 22 points and 11 rebounds. "They were aggressive at the start of the last game and we didn't respond. This time, we turned it around."
Dallas had lost six straight to Golden State dating to last season. The Mavericks' search for a skid-buster included a new starting lineup in Game 1, but that only resulted in a 12-point loss.
So coach Avery Johnson went back to the formula that won 67 games in the regular season and saw his club back in synch from the start.
"It was a physical game and emotional," Nowitzki said. "I think they got us in the first game and took us out of our game. I said after Game 1 we need to execute a lot better. We made a couple of adjustments that worked. Now they'll make adjustments going home and we'll go from there."
The Warriors hung tough in this one. Then when the game started slipping away, they made things worse on themselves.
Dallas already had surged ahead when Terry dribbled into Jackson, drawing a foul, then kept going into Davis. Words were exchanged and there was some shoving, but officials broke it up by giving those three players technical fouls.
Davis got another tech, and an automatic ejection, for arguing about a foul with 0.2 seconds left in the third quarter. He was smiling and clapping at the time, although coach Don Nelson was warning him to cool it.
"We're not good enough to lose a player to an ejection, much less two," Nelson said. "It hurt us when we lost Baron. I thought we had a shot at the time. It wasn't to be."
Davis insisted he was clapping to keep his teammates' spirits up.
"I felt bad," he said. "I apologized to the coaches and my teammates."
The game was turning into a rout when Jackson got his second technical with 4:34 to play. Whatever he said to get tossed wasn't nearly as bad as his reaction afterward. He wouldn't stop screaming at officials as he headed to the locker room, with teammate Matt Barnes trying to cover Jackson's mouth with his arms, then with a towel.
The series shifts to Oakland for Game 3 on Friday night, and there's little doubt the emotions will remain high.
Jackson led the Warriors with 30 points, his most ever in a playoff game, but also had eight turnovers. Davis had 13 points, two assists and one rebound; he had 33 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists in Golden State's victory in the opener.
The Warriors certainly won't be unhinged by this loss, just their second in the last 12 games. Nelson won't allow it. He's kept his club loose, telling everyone they were lucky to win the opener and that there was a better chance of him being hit by lightning than of his team winning Game 2. His task now will be harnessing Jackson and Davis' emotions.
Johnson expected Dallas to bounce back strong. The Mavericks have lost consecutive games only once since starting the season 0-4, and last year they recovered from two Game 1 losses to win Game 2 both times. They went on to win both series, too.
Still, this victory was a bit of a relief to the Mavs because it ended a five-game postseason losing streak that started in last year's NBA finals and it should quiet talk of Nellie and the Warriors having their number.
Golden State opened the game strong, going on an 11-0 run in the opening minutes. The Warriors were up 23-16 soon after, but all their points had come from Jackson and Monta Ellis. That duo was a combined 9-of-10; everyone else was 0-for-8.
The Mavericks finally made their move midway through the second quarter and the playoff-novice Warriors seemed ready to crack. Right after Dallas went ahead, Golden State committed a rare inbounds violation, giving the ball back to the Mavs. Terry turned it into a three-point play that got the crowd going bonkers, prompting Nelson to call a timeout.
The Warriors regained the lead at the start of the second half, but couldn't keep it.
Ellis had 13 points in the first quarter but didn't score again until the final minute of the third quarter. He finished with 20 points. Jason Richardson had 14 with 10 rebounds.
Howard filled his stat sheet with five steals and two blocks. Nowitzki was 7-of-15 with seven rebounds. Jerry Stackhouse, who was scoreless in the opener, had 17 points, although 11 came from the foul line.
Dampier started but played only 14 minutes. Backup DeSagana Diop played 27 minutes. Still, it was a lot more than the 18 combined minutes they had in the opener -- and one of them was on the court for the first 19 minutes of this game.


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Racial disparities exist, but what causes them can be complicated. Harvard anthropology student Jason Silverstein says it has to do with a lack of empathy. Host Michel Michel Martin talks with Silverstein about a Slate article he wrote titled, 'I Don't Feel Your Pain.'
Study: Whites Think Black People Feel Less Pain
By editor • Jul 11, 2013


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Deus Ex: Human Revolution received plenty of critical praise, but a few common criticisms dogged the game. Namely, the way the multiple endings were triggered, and the boss fights. In a new interview, project lead Jean-Francois Dugas talks about the team's decisions on those elements, and admits that production constraints forced their hand in some ways.
"There are two aspects to the ending," Dugas told Rock Paper Shotgun. "The first aspect has to do with the buttons. In the original design we did not want it to just be you facing four buttons and you just press one, end of story. We wanted the players to get involved in doing something more that would make the choice mean more in their minds, but again it was just a constraint of production at some point. We simplified the ending to make sure that we could do it, that we could ship it."
He says that he understands players' disappointment with the way the choice was presented, but he says he's completely happy with the actual ending videos. "That was the vision we had, and we fulfilled it. When I look at the endings and the feedback, it's not unanimous that people hate them. Some players love them, other players feel disappointed because they just think 'what happened next?'"
The much-maligned boss battles were another stumbling point. He says the team originally wanted to make the bosses more consistent with the rest of the game. "We had our pillars of stealth, of non-lethal actions, and everything else, and we wanted to make sure that was reflected in the bosses, but in the end it was not," he said. "It's the place where people were surprised because they would equip themselves in a certain way and then they got their and everything they'd fought for disappeared. You have to change your mindset, which can be upsetting. I think the biggest weakness there wasn't the concept of having boss fights, it's just that our boss fights are not Deus Ex boss fights and that's why people are complaining about them. I guess we live and learn."
That said, Dugas says the team was surprised that people found them "frustrating." He says the team decided to include them thinking "at least they will be entertaining in some fashion." If anything, the team expected fans to criticize them for being uninteresting, rather than difficult.
If you're hungry for more Deus Ex, the Missing Link DLC is coming in October. Check out our new hands-on preview of the upcoming story mission.


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As the Opportunity rover toddles across the Martian plains, it keeps finding blueberries. They were scattered around its landing site. It found little ones on the rim and floor of a small crater, and big ones on the floor of a big crater. And just a few months ago, it found jumbled masses of them -- like blueberries smashed together by a big foot.
The "blueberries" are actually round lumps of an iron-rich material known as hematite. Most of them are about the size of BBs or peppercorns, but a few are as big as -- well, blueberries.
The blueberries tell geologists that the area Opportunity is exploring was once wet. That's because hematite forms in watery environments, and the blueberries are embedded in layers of salt that were left behind when water evaporated.
The water probably wasn't in the form of a lake or sea, though. Instead, it most likely consisted of groundwater that soaked the soil.
Opportunity is headed toward an even bigger crater. It's still miles away, and might not survive the long trek. But if it does, it'll look for more blueberries in the layers of rock around its rim. They may tell scientists how wide an area was soaked in water, and when the water evaporated -- leaving piles of dried-out blueberries.
And you can see Mars tonight. It's to the upper left of the Moon as darkness falls, and looks like an orange star. The true star Regulus stands above the Moon, completing a beautiful triangle.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2010


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Robert Morris University
-- The Office of Graduate Admissions is rolling out two new fully online graduate degree programs this fall: the M.S. in Health Services Administration and the M.S. in Higher Education. The university also has unveiled an online undergraduate business degree for the fall.
-- Check out the latest edition of RMU in the News: The hits kept on coming for the RMU Polling Institute, and Anthony Moretti, Phil Harold, and Karen Paulett were just a few of the Colonials who had dates with the Fourth Estate in June.
-- The university has updated its placement rate web page with information from the Class of 2013: 92 percent of those who earned a bachelor's degree were working or enrolled in graduate school a year after graduation. If you manage a university web site that refers to the placement rate, please link to rmu.edu/placement. The page will continue to be updated over the next several weeks and throughout the year.
-- Education Professor Dan Shelley and his student Ryan Gracey attended a NASA robotics workshop last month in Upper St. Clair. Vice Provost Larry Tomei also attended. Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
-- Arif Sirinterlikci, university professor of engineering, was named to the Mechatronics Advisory Board at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC). Among the goals of the board are to connect employers with skilled manufacturing workers and promote CCAC's associate degree program in mechatronics. He also received a Certificate of Appreciation during the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Annual Conference this week in Detroit. Sirinterlikci serves on the SME's steering committee for the Manufacturing Education and Research Community and on its Journals Committee.
-- Susan Van Cleve, associate professor of nursing, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Of the 189,000 nurse practitioners in the nation, 50,000 are members of the AANP, and only 478 are Fellows. Also recently inducted was Robert Morris DNP graduate Lorraine Block, and Denise Ramponi, assistant professor of nursing, also is a Fellow.
-- The Aritst of the Year Show for Hyla Willis at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts will wrap up July 20, and she gives a gallery talk from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 17. Willis is an associate professor of media arts.
-- Colonial Theatre's summer production of Damn Yankees takes place July 24-27 in Massey Theater. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. July 24-26 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 27. Tickets are $10.
-- RMU and MCG Jazz are hosting a performance by Jazz Attack at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, in the Sewall Center. You can purchase tickets online .
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Church and A/C company disagree over repair bill | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- Larry Varnom owns a small heating and air company, a company he said he started in 1966.
"I've been fortunate over the years," said Varnom," I have lost very little money since I have been in business."
Varnom said last May he serviced the air conditioning system at Greater Israel United church and has yet to be paid for his service.
"One time they told me the check was in the mail," said Varnom," from the Northside to the Westside doesn't take three or four months."
Varnom, frustrated, filed a claim of lien against the church for $1,018.
"I can't go around passing out thousand dollar bills, I'd like to have my money," he said.
Dr. Eugene White is the pastor of the church.
"The church said that they would pay him, but they would pay him payments on it," said White.
Dr. White said the lien comes as surprise.
"I don't know why he would put a lien realizing he has not satisfied the church," said White.
White said there were no estimates before the job started so he stopped the work after learning how much it would cost.
"If he had told me it was going to be about one thousand dollars I would have told him let me go back to the church," he said,"I don't do things unless I am authorized."
Even in the middle of this dispute, White said one of the units is still not working.
"When he came here it was not working," said White,"when he left here it wasn't working."
Varnom said he worked on the entire system, replacing parts in some units, and not just the one air conditioner that is not working.
He wants to be paid.
"I never got paid for any of my parts on the house or any of the freon on the church," he said.
The church proposed resolution is for Varnom to come back and finish the job so he can get paid.
Varnom's response is he did nothing wrong and feels he should be paid the past due bill, plus interest and the cost of filing the lien.


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A spokesman for Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez on Friday denied more allegations of his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
According to ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Anthony Bosch -- who ran a recently-shuttered South Florida anti-aging clinic that currently is under investigation by federal authorities and Major League Baseball -- personally injected A-Rod with PEDs at his Miami home.
"The allegations are not true,'' a Rodriguez spokesman said early Friday afternoon.
Rodriguez was among numerous athletes named in a Miami New Times story Tuesday that alleged that the clinic run by Bosch, called Biogenesis, essentially served as a distribution center for PEDs.
The story, based on documents turned over to the paper by a former Biogenesis employee, alleged that Rodriguez procured and used PEDs from the clinic from 2009 into last season.
On Tuesday, A-Rod -- who has not yet spoken to the Yankees about the report -- denied the allegations in the story. Bosch also has denied the story.
"The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch are not true,'' A-Rod's spokesman said in part of Tuesday's statement.
In the wake of Friday's report, MLB remained focused on its own investigation of Biogenesis, which got under way long before the New Times article was published. Asked Friday about the latest developments involving Rodriguez, an MLB spokesman said only that an investigation is ongoing.
A day earlier, New Times editor-in-chief Chuck Strouse said MLB officials made their first call to the newspaper in an effort to obtain the PED documents central to the story. But Strouse said the newspaper has yet to decide whether it will turn over the documents. Those documents are likely to be important in any attempt by MLB to impose disciplinary action or suspensions without a positive drug test.
A league source said Tuesday that the Yankees, who owe Rodriguez $114 million over the next five years, would like to get out from under that contract. They have not commented publicly beyond Tuesday's statement, saying they will wait for MLB to conclude its investigation.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman reiterated that stance during an ESPN Radio interview Friday.
Asked about getting an early termination of A-Rod's contract should the allegations prove correct, Cashman said: "[You] can't act on anything unless you have verifiable facts.''
Speaking generally of the case, which also involves other MLB players, Cashman said, "We have a very bad story MLB is looking into.''
Other players mentioned in the New Times report include Melky Cabrera of the Blue Jays, Gio Gonzalez of the Nationals, Bartolo Colon of the Athletics, Nelson Cruz of the Rangers and Yasmani Grandal of the Padres.
A source familiar with Rodriguez's thinking said Thursday that the 37-year-old has no plans to retire, something no one with the Yankees thought was a possibility anyway.
"Alex is working diligently on his rehabilitation and looks forward to getting back on the field as soon as possible,'' the person said.
Cashman said the expectation remains that Rodriguez, recovering from hip surgery, will be ready to play by July or August. The GM isn't counting on it, though.
"If we can get Alex back as expected, that will be a significant contribution,'' he said. "But to count on it would be a mistake.''
Hafner signs with Yanks
The Yankees made official the signing of lefthanded-hitting Travis Hafner, who will be their designated hitter against righthanded pitchers. The one-year, incentive-heavy deal has a base salary of about $2 million.


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Tristan Prettyman just released the music video for "My Oh My." The first single off her upcoming album Cedar + Gold, Prettyman told CBS Local it's a song about "this journey through your first love."
"I co-wrote that song with Kevin Griffin from Better Than Ezra," she revealed. "He came to my house and we wrote 'My Oh My' in about 30 minutes in my living room."
Prettyman said Griffin had the rhythm and the first chord for the song.
"I just loved it from the minute I heard it. 'You got my heart on a string/You want me back again and you know I'll do anything,'" she said referencing the track's first line.
She further explained how the song details the cat and mouse game of a relationship gone wrong.
"The whole song is this journey through your first love and breaking up and thinking you'll never see him again and there's no chance and then they come back into your life. And you're like, 'Oh man, I still like you. What's the deal with that?'" she said.
"Then it ends up being this amazing thing. And then you're back together and then you're broken up again," she said. "Why do we keep going back to things that aren't good for us? How much is going to be enough? How hurt do we have to get to get over it finally?"
Fascinated by being in the presence of someone that makes your heart skip a beat, Prettyman learned from her own mistakes while writing the song.
"Writing that song made me more aware of the situation that was actually happening," she said. "Often times I'll write songs and I'll kind of understand what they mean and then I'll have an epiphany several months later where I actually have a moment of relating to one of my songs. 'Oh, that's what that means! Okay.' And it kind of lays it all out there for me."
As far as finding closure within her current single, Prettyman is still trying to figure things out.
"I don't know if I've learned my lesson yet," she laughed.
Watch the music video for "My Oh My" below as Tristan tries to escape the cat and mouse game once and for all.
-Annie Reuter, CBS Local


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NEW YORK - The Columbia women's soccer team will close out its home slate Saturday when it hosts Dartmouth at 4 p.m. Saturday's game will serve as Senior Day, as well as Homecoming for the Lions. Four Columbia seniors: Isabel King, Monica Jean, Liz Crowe and Lexi Nichols will be acknowledge prior to the game for their contributions to the women's soccer program the last four years.
Columbia will be looking to get back in the win column during conference play, having fallen to Penn and Princeton in its two most recent Ivy League contests. Despite the losses, the Lions remain in the contention for the Ivy League title, with just three games on schedule. Columbia, with six points is in fifth place, but could match second-place Dartmouth with nine points with a win over the Big Green.
Coleen Rizzo has taken over the goal-scoring duties of late for Columbia. The junior forward has scored in four of the last five matches for the Lions and has a team-best 14 points this season. Classmate Beverly Leon has found her stride offensively and is second on the team with 13 points.
Grace Redmon continues to lead the Ivy League with five shutouts this season. The sophomore keeper is second in the Ancient Eight with 59 saves and fourth in save percentage at .808.
Dartmouth similarly has played well on the defensive end this season. Goalkeeper Tatiana Saunders is tied for second in the Ivy League with four shutouts, while posting a .823 save percentage. Her 3.92 saves per game ranks third in the Ivy League.
The solid defensive play has led to a four-match win streak for the Big Green. Dartmouth has defeated Penn and Boston University this past week, each by a score of 2-1.
Dartmouth is led offensively by Chrissy Lozier and Emma Brush. The duo is tied for second in the Ivy League in goals scored with seven. Brush has also accumulated four assists for a team-best 18 points.
Columbia won last season's meeting in Hanover, N.H., 2-1, but Dartmouth leads the all-time series 18-4-4.


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In 1949-50, a hot new fad was sweeping through the auto industry: the hardtop convertible. Here's Dodge's contribution to the styling trend, the 1950 Coronet Diplomat.
When first you hear it, the term "hardtop convertible" sounds like an oxymoron—like "constant variable" or "jumbo shrimp." Hold on, and we'll make some sense of it. In the late '40s, industry product planners discovered that many new car buyers, especially young people,


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Sept. 27, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Expect a low-scoring game when Yale and Harvard meet in the Ivy League opener for both teams on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Reese Stadium. Both teams have impressive streaks going without allowing a goal. The Bulldogs have posted three straight shutouts and have allowed only one goal in their last four games, while the Crimson haven't allowed a goal since losing to Boston College on Sept. 9, a string of four straight games.
Both teams are coming off 1-0 victories. Yale (4-4) edged Boston University 1-0 on Tuesday night. Maggie Westfal, who leads the team with four goals, scored the only goal of the game in the 14th minute. She has scored in three straight matches and has at least one point in four of the last five games.
The Bulldogs have six players with at least one point. Freshman Becky Brown has three goals and two assists, and Hannah Smith has a team-high three assists.
The Crimson (5-2-1) feature one of the top freshmen in the Ivy League in Katherine Sheeleigh. She was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday after scoring three goals in a 4-0 win over Central Connecticut and leads the team with five goals and 10 points.
Lauren Mann has played every minute of every game in goal and has a 0.60 goals against average.
Yale is 3-1-1 in its last five games against the Crimson and the last six games between the schools have been decided by one goal or ended in a tie. Last year in Cambridge, Andrea Bouchard scored her first career goal as the Bulldogs escaped with a 1-0 victory. Harvard leads the all-time series 25-7-1.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut packed a few minor ret-con tweaks, but mostly provided additional scenes to clear up the ending of the game. BioWare seems to be giving tacit admission that it should be considered the "true" ending, by deciding to include it on the Wii U version from the start.
"The extended ending is basically going to be part of the game instead," said producer Michael Gamble. "You won't have to download it."
We're still fairly in the dark about Wii U's storage capabilities. Gamble's comments to Siliconera may indicate the company is looking to ensure everyone has access to the extended ending, regardless of how much storage Nintendo plans on including with the console. Given the DLC was a hefty 2GB, it would make sense to include that data on disc, if possible.