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Taiwan LCD monitor makers' shipments reached 22.14 million in the second quarter of 2014, up 10% on quarter and 0.9% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
Makers such as Foxconn Electronics and Wistron saw orders increase as vendors prepare to release new units, which helped push Taiwan makers global shipment proportion to 64.2%.
Going into the third quarter of 2014 Taiwan makers can expect to see a 6-7% increase due to demand during the peak season as well as to an increase in orders for new units as a result of Windows XP support coming to an end.
Meanwhile, the ASP of LCD monitor panels is mostly increasing due to limited supply as panel makers are shifting their focus to production of small- to medium-size applications, added Digitimes Research.
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Dear FRED (Family Records Extraction Directors) and others interested:
You are invited to the special first quarter training meeting to be held on Saturday, 20 Mar 2010 at 9:00 am. at our Training Center. If you are involved or interested in indexing, this meeting is for you. People from the family search indexing department have been invited and committed to join us and give instruction and answer questions on these topics:
1. Familysearch indexing beta test in progress. (It may be released by meeting time.)
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Please let others know about this meeting, because it will be helpful to all Stake Extraction Directors, Assistant Stake Extraction Directors, High Counsel advisers over Temple and Family History, High Priests Group Leaders and others interested in Family Search indexing work. Please tell them and/or bring them with you.
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Continuation of 105. This online course aims to develop proficiency skills in listening, reading, and writing Khmer at the first year level. Use a multimedia CD-ROM and a textbook to complement the web-based instruction.
Books may be purchased at the UH Manoa bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/manoa/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
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If you've somehow run out of things to do in Torchlight 2, a hefty mod might be just the thing to brighten your spirits. The "Synergies" mod adds a new class, some new bosses, and a series of "raid like dungeon chains."
The mod (via PC Gamer) adds the "Necromancer" class, which combines aspects of the Emermage and Outlander, and adds a massive "Skull Barrage" attack. You can use this powerful ability to take on the end-game content, which Synergies makes more difficult with the addition of tougher bosses and overworld maps, with more armor sets as rewards.
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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. - For much of Monday's first round at the Big West Golf Championships at the Tijeras Creek Golf Club in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., UC Santa Barbara ran a close second to tournament-leader Cal Poly. The Gauchos, however, struggled over the final few holes of the first round and all 18 of the second round before shooting a solid 291 in Tuesday's final round to finish in sixth-place with a score of 891. Cal Poly won the team title at 853.
Santa Barbara was paced by junior Joe Ryon who tied for fifth-place with a 1-over par 217. He was 3-under par heading into the final round but shot 76 on Tuesday to finish at 1-over. Sophomore Ryan Keefe tied for 11th-place in the tournament with a 4-over par 220 and sophomore Marty Melcher tied for 28th with a 14-over par 230. Senior Greg Wells and freshman Tony Verna each shot 15-over par 231 to finsih tied for 30th.
Cal Poly won the title by 15 shots over second-place UC Irvine, the No. 1 seed enterin the tournament. Long Beach State finished third, 19 shots back of the Mustangs. Long Beach's Ryan Panichpakdee won the individual title by seven shots over Cal Poly's Travis Bertoni, with a 16-under par 200. Panichpakdee's score included a 10-under par 62 in the final round.
Rounding out the team results, Cal State Northridge was fourth at 876, Pacific fifth at 886, UCSB sixth at 891 and UC Riverside, the defending team champion, was seventh at 899.


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Okay. It's just that when I hear about browser hardware acceleration, I see in the future Canvas-powered websites which use the GPU for stupid things, just like Flash currently does. I see laptop battery life continue to go down. I see a Vista effect where developers require ultra high power from the user's machine because their own machine is powerful. I see users which don't have fast 3D acceleration being penalized because they use open-source drivers or AMD's crappy proprietary drivers, or just because their old laptop includes a crappy intel GMA chipset.
If you make the feature available, you can safely assume that people will use it. Hardware acceleration in browsers is just like composited desktops : it's fine as long as it's optional and people can survive without it. Sadly, the web is not a desktop, where disabling compositing will just make windows look ugly. If developers require hardware acceleration and it's not available, the site won't work. That's the kind of things which I'm fearing.
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Posted 24 May 2013 - 08:03 AM
Ghost Mine was another surprise for me. From the commericals I thought it was going to be stupid and gimmicky. I ended up not missing an episode. Yes, it grabbed me from both angles: investingating and mining.
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It's been a while, I just wanted to thank you for all the help you provided while I was putting together my diff amp project. I did settle on a design, a 1000X diff amp in an enclosure with a rechargeable battery pack. Everything resides in a largish project box. This device will operate stand alone or will output to a scope.
In stand alone mode there are two sets of windings, capacitively coupled directly into the diff amp. Between the windings is a third winding, outputting a quasi-sine wave running at about 125kHz. I'm using the switching supply as the source for the driven element. The display is an old Ramsey kit EMF detector. A bunch of LED's that are driven by the diff amp output. The device works nicely. It will detect me within 6 feet so it needs to be in an empty room to work well. The internal coils can be replaced with antennas placed at the corners of a room, the driven element sits roughly between them. This also seems to work nicely. Results so far are inconclusive, it's difficult to say one way or another if my device is actually detecting anything truly unusual. Time will tell. Thanks again for the help.
About paranormal TV, what a bunch of BS. Shows like "My Ghost Story Caught On Camera" can be expected to be silly. One piece of dust floating across a camera lens is predictably Aunt Selma. The show does have entertainment value.
It's another think when Zak produces video with illuminated dust and claims that this is the presence of a spirit. He proceeds to "debunk" this as evidence of genuine paranormal activity. After watching hours and hours of video, Zak should know better.
I did do an experiment with video orbs. I ran my video rig with the video light above the lens. In an hour I caught dozens of "Spirit Orbs", pieces of floating dust close to the lens. Some of these "Orbs" were interesting. Different colors, some blinked. I can only assume that the blinking orbs were actually flat pieces of floating debris that were revolving in front of the lens. When I removed the light from the rig and placed it on a lightstand a few feet away, guess what? No orbbies.. Surprise..
A genuine ghost hunting show could never really be done. Nobody could collect that much evidence in a day or two to fill up a TV show with interesting content.
My guess is that the endless K2 hits you see are nothing but two way radios keyed safely off camera, a few feet away.
The important fact most overlook regarding any posted evidence is how it is validated. These days any evidence without collaborating support is worthless. Pictures can be faked by any novice well enough to fool most people. EVPs can be hoaxed. And don't even get me started on the outright schlok such as Ghost Boxes and KII meters as communication devices.
Consider as an example one of the best EVPs I have ever captured. By itself it would be great class A evidence. but also it could be duplicated by a good sound engineer as a hoax. What sets it apart is the backstory; 5 witnesses were present, all can be accounted for and were no where near the recorder. And along with the EVP a lamp was picked from a dresser and thrown against a wall. The audio track also captured those sounds, plus the fact the witnesses, upon hearing the sounds, were on the scene and took photos of the aftermath within 30 seconds. The time base verifies the continuity of time. The only one present at the scene at the time was a child who obviously did not hoax this. First of all, she was too young to understand all the details and secondly the audio recorders / amplifiers were sensitive enough she could not have moved without us recording the sounds. All witnesses and investigators also verified no trickery; no hidden lines, or other stuff of this nature. Since 5 of us were present we served as a check on each other. I
I point this out to show that it is not just the EVP, or in other cases the picture, that provides the evidence. Rather it is how it all fits together, how various facts work to validate each other that strengthens the evidence. A single piece of data does little, but when combined with all the facts is what provides the validation needed to provide good evidence. TV shows seldom take the time to build that level of detail. They simply use the spook factor to sell shows.
And BTW, as an aside, the EVP event was not done in the dark while stumbling around. Rather the child was asleep in her room with a night light on, and the recording operation conducted from another room with full lighting. Unlike the TV shows that seem to promote fumbling around in the dark.
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Not exactly sure how a network vetts the potential investigative team, but you can be sure that they are seen through media filters. And whatever intentions the group may have will be modified to suit the production company in the quest for ratings and ad dollars.` That being said, these shows are revenue platforms and thats really all they are intended to be. So, enjoy the locations and the antics and the occasional paranormal event.
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A Marine recruiter in North Carolina has been charged with sexually assaulting two teen-aged recruits, according to police and local media.
Sgt. Derek Craig Percival, 24, remains in jail on charges of attempted second-degree rape, involuntary servitude, sexual battery and communicating threats, according to the Rowan County Sheriff's Office.
According to WCNC, the NBC station in Charlotte, officers arrested Percival at his apartment on Saturday where he lives with his wife and two children.
Police told local media the alleged assaults took place at a Marine recruiting office in Salisbury, a suburb of Charlotte, and at Percival's apartment.
In an interview with WCNC, one of the alleged victims, a 17-year-old who was not named, said she had met Percival four or five times about possibly joining the Marine Corps and had gone to his apartment for a party in September.
She said she also stayed overnight at his apartment last Saturday, while his family was there, when she and other recruits could not get a ride home. She told the station that early Sunday morning he forced her to have oral sex with him and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
"He said, 'If you don't let me, I'm going to rape you,'" she told WCNC. "And I said, 'No you're not, just go away, just stop.'"
Later that morning he approached her again and asked for sex, she told the station.
Another recruit, an 18-year-old friend of the first alleged victim, told the station that Percival had asked her to show her breasts and give him oral sex when she visited the recruiting office.
A 17-year-old female recruit tells WCNC's Diana Rugg that she was sexually assaulted after attending a party at her Marine recruiter's apartment.
Capt. Joseph Reney, a Marine spokesman, told NBC News that the Corps is cooperating with local authorities in their investigation and will conduct an internal investigation of its own. "I can tell you that this isolated situation does not reflect the entirety of Marine Corps recruiting, " Reney said. "The Marine Corps holds its Marine to a high standard and we will uphold that standard."
Phone messages from NBCNews.com to the Rowan County Sheriff's were not immediately returned.
The Marine Corps said Percival has an attorney, although his name was not provided. Percival has not entered a plea on the charges.
After an increase in the number of sexual assaults reported in the military, including at least a dozen instructors accused of assaulting recruits at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in September of 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered a review of all military policies and procedures in an effort to curb the problem.


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Don't look now, but even cops in Fargo are arming for battle against terroristsby THEUNHIVEDMIND, theunhivedmind.com
December 25th 2011 2:20 AM
J. D. Heyes
December 22, 2011
(NaturalNews) There is an ongoing terrorist threat in the world, most Americans would agree. Local, state and federal officials are right to want to be prepared in the event another 9/11 attack or something worse was to happen. But that said, most of us could also agree that there are more high profile targets in New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to name a few than, say, Fargo, N.D.
And yet Fargo – and scores of sleepy cities and communities like it – have been recipients of billions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security money they have used to turn their local police departments into small armies ready to do battle in every traditional sense of the term.
Fargo officials have received some $8 million taxpayer dollars out of at least $34 billion in DHS funding to purchase things like military assault rifles, military-style Kevlar helmets and other battle-ready gear, including a nearly $260,000 armored truck with a rotating turret that the local department mostly uses as eye candy at the annual Fargo picnic.
Carol Archbold, a Fargo resident and criminal justice professor at North Dakota State University, said "Most people are so fascinated by it, because nothing happens here. There's no terrorism here." And that is the problem, say experts.
"The argument for up-armoring is always based on the least likely of terrorist scenarios," Mark Randol, a former terrorism expert at the Congressional Research Service, Congress non-partisan research wing, told the Center for Investigative Reporting. "Anyone can get a gun and shoot up stuff. No amount of SWAT equipment can stop that."
And yet, the spending spree that has spanned 10 years seems destined to continue, because the trend appears to be to turn police departments into small armies, no matter the potential for actually having to deal with an attack, because somewhere, sometime, in Devil's Haven, U.S.A. – or Fargo – a "terrorist" might strike.
"It's foolish to not be aware of the threats out there, whether it's New York, Los Angeles, or Fargo. Our residents have the right to be protected," Fargo Police Lt. Ross Renner, commander of the regional SWAT team, said. "We don't have everyday threats here when it comes to terrorism, but we are asked to be prepared."
No one is suggesting that Americans living in Fargo are less important than those living in New York, Los Angeles or the Capitol City. But in a time when the nation's debt is spiraling out of control, isn't it logical to prioritize? Shouldn't DHS and Congress be a little more concerned with putting their terrorism prevention limited resources into parts of the country that are more likely to be attacked?
And what is all of this police militarization doing in terms of becoming a threat to civil and constitutional rights? Is all of the weaponry really making us safer – or do we just think so? Consider these facts:
• In Montgomery County, Texas, the sheriff's department owns a $300,000 pilotless surveillance drone, like those used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to search for and identify al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
• In Augusta, Maine, home to less than 20,000 people where a police officer (thankfully) has not died from gunfire in the line of duty for more than 125 years, the department just purchased eight $1,500 tactical vests.
• The police department in Des Moines, Iowa, bought two $180,000 bomb-disarming robots.
• One Arizona sheriff even has a tank, for crying out loud.
Many of the newly armed cops are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. And terrorism remains a very real threat in America. But DHS isn't tracking where its funds are being spent, and it appears obvious that scores of millions of dollars are being used in places where, frankly, the terrorist "threat" appears negligible at best.
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By Jim Garamone
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2006 – The Iraqi army is halfway to its goal of 10 divisions as the 4th Division assumed command of the area north of Baghdad yesterday. The division assumed primary control of its area of responsibility from the 101st Airborne Division. This is the fifth of 10 division headquarters in Iraq to assume the lead in regional operations.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman called the development a key benchmark in the effort Iraqis are making to take control of their own country. The division will be in the lead for security in Salah Ad Din, Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk provinces. This area includes the cities of Tikrit, Kirkuk and Samarra and Iraq's northern oil fields.
Overall, Iraqi security forces are in the lead with five army divisions, 25 army brigades and 85 army battalions, Whitman said. The Iraqi national police have two battalions in the lead in other areas. In northern Iraq, 33 battalions, nine brigades and two divisions have demonstrated their ability to operate independently and now lead the fight against terrorists and anti-Iraqi forces. The 5th Iraqi Army Division assumed the lead in Diyala province in July.
The assumption of authority ceremony was held at Camp Dagger, outside Tikrit. Iraqi Lt. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Abdel-Rahman al-Mufti, commander of the 4th Army Division, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner, commander of Task Force Band of Brothers, presided. Dignitaries attending the ceremony included Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, Defense Minster Gen. Abdul Qadir Muhammed Jasim, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, Multinational Force Iraq Commander Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the governors of Salah Ad Din, Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk provinces, and many provincial and local leaders.
"I think this is a good day for Iraq," Khalilzad said. "The people of Iraq are starting to get organized so they can take on more responsibility for their own country." Casey agreed. "I think what you saw here today was a great statement in progress and unity in Iraq," he said. "They (Iraqis) keep taking small steps and getting better and better every day."
The 4th Division will continue to report through the coalition command structure until the Iraqi Ground Forces Command is fully set up at Camp Victory, outside Baghdad, Multinational Corps Iraq officials said. "The IGFC begins standing up in September with its formal alignment under the Joint Headquarters and will then conduct a phased assumption of overwatch for Iraqi army divisions," said Army Lt. Col. Michelle Martin-Hing, a Multinational Corps Iraq spokeswoman.
American advisers will continue to work with the 4th Division as it moves forward. Servicemembers assigned to military training teams are embedded with the Iraqi units. Thirteen such teams are with the 4th Division. Roughly 150 U.S. personnel are assigned to the teams, and U.S. units will continue to partner with Iraqi units as they gain more capabilities.
Servicemembers of Task Force Band of Brothers, which is built around the 101st Airborne Division, "will continue to train and operate with the Iraqi army as they now take the lead for security operations," Martin-Hing said.
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Sylvester Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman who teams up with a young Washington DC detective (Sung Kang) in a high-stakes investigation that leads from dingy back alleys all the way to the power corridors of New Orleans. The unlikely duo, brought together by two vicious murders, take on all who stand in their way, willing to sacrifice everything to exact revenge. Directed by Walter Hill, the crime actioner also stars Christian Slater and Jason Momoa.
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Lita De Los Santos had eight brothers serving in World War II. Their absence forced her family to face their own battles on the home front.
KLRU will be highlighting several distinct Austin voices as part of the Latino Americans Mi Historia project. We also want you to become a part of the Latino Americans Mi Historia project. Make a video describing what being Latino means to you, share your family traditions, tell us how you celebrate your heritage and culture or let us know about your role models. Share your story and become part of ours. More details on submitting your video
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The Equity Office takes this charge seriously. We have expanded our mission of fostering a climate of healthy diversity that values individual and group differences and respects the perspectives of others by working to eliminate institutional oppression or barriers that perpetuate inequity, injustice, and mono-cultural education.
The Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education (formerly the Office of Diversity) first opened its doors at De Anza in 1989, primarily to ensure affirmative action and equal opportunity in hiring faculty and staff. Since then, the college has expanded its services to include faculty and student equity.
Today, thanks to the tireless commitment and efforts of many, the Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education provides guidance and leadership in developing and maintaining an environment that upholds De Anza's value of inclusion while seeking to address those obstacles that hamper student success as well as faculty and staff excellence.
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In part, determining if a student has had, or is having, a quality learning experience is measured by student access and achievement. Thus, using the philosophy and approach of social justice and multicultural education we determine student equity through rigorous ongoing accountable processes that will work toward ensuring equity in all measurements of student access and achievement across lines of gender, racial identity, ethnicity and disability. Specifically, the college must increase transfer rates and degree and certificate awards, improve access, course completion, course retention and persistence, and, importantly, equalize student success rates by gender, race, ethnicity and disability.
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The Florida Public Archaeology Network will have a booth at the St. Marks Stone Crab Festival. Festival attendees will have the opportunity to learn about various ways to become involved in local archaeological programs and organizations. There will also be literature available on both maritime and terrestrial archaeology in Florida. Hands on activities will be available for both childrens and adults!
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It is looking less likely that Hurricane Sandy, which is churning its way toward New England from the Caribbean, will simply slide by the region, the National Weather Service says.
"There's some confidence we will probably be impacted but to what extent is still very uncertain," Weather Service meteorologist Hayden Frank said Wednesday night.
Meteorologists have been keeping a close eye on Sandy, saying that it could miss the region entirely, brush by it, or slam directly into it early next week. But Wednesday night computer models began to suggest that the region will not go unscathed.
The hurricane, which had intensified from a tropical storm, was carrying 85-mile-per-hour winds at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The Category 1 hurricane was moving north through the Caribbean at 14 miles per hour, about 60 miles north of Jamaica, the Weather Service in Taunton said.
If the hurricane does touch down in New England, it will most likely hit on Monday through Tuesday of next week, Frank said.
A direct-hit scenario would have "huge implications" in New England, the Weather Service said in a forecast discussion posted Wednesday.
A direct hit could bring strong winds that would topple trees that have not yet dropped their leaves. That could cause widespread power outages, while waves and winds pound the coast, eroding beaches and causing coastal flooding. Heavy rain could also cause flooding in the interior, the Weather Service said.
The other possibility, a "close pass," would whip up strong winds and high seas and might produce coastal flooding and power outages, the Weather Service said.
"There's tremendous uncertainty," Frank said of which scenario will play out.
But the Weather Service emphasized in the Web discussion that "there is greater weight towards scenarios of . . . a close pass . . . or a direct hit."
It said the "best advice is to be tuned to the latest forecasts" and be "prepared for every scenario."
Oceanfront communities are watching Sandy closely, and some are taking precautions against potentially destructive wind and surf.
Jill Buckley, business manager for the Scituate harbor master, said that most private boats have been taken out of the marina, but that the commercial fleet will also be taken out of the water, along with the harbor master's boats. "The season ended last week, so we're in pretty good shape as far as boats," Buckley said.
The harbor master decided to call in a crane early to pull floats out of the marina before the storm makes its way to New England, she said. "We were going to do it next week, but we want to get them out by Friday just in case we get some wind up here."Globe correspondent Melanie Dostis contributed to this report. Melissa Werthmann
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Battlefield 4 pre-orders are starting to show up at various retailers around the globe. EA kicked off the pre-order craze on Origin, offering an exclusive DLC with a Battlefield 4 pre-order. EA went the extra step, offering a "Digital Deluxe Edition" for $70 which includes access to the Battlefield 4 beta and some extra in-game items.
Lol....here is a brand new game but wait you can get the downsized version for free that you already played
I already preordered BF4 thru Origin for the Beta access but that is a damn good deal as well.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California has added a transfer from Maryland to its men's basketball team under new coach Andy Enfield, giving the Trojans three transfers for the upcoming season.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder started 44 of 83 games in three seasons at Maryland. He averaged 3.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists last season while helping lead the Terrapins to the NIT semifinals.
As a senior, Howard will be eligible for the upcoming season.
Enfield said Monday that Howard's grandmother helped raise him in Los Angeles. He attended Oak Hill Academy in Virginia.
Last week, center D.J. Haley joined the Trojans after graduating from VCU this summer. He will have one year of eligibility at USC.
Howard joins two other transfers at USC. Guard Katin Reinhardt left UNLV to be closer to his hometown of Dana Point, and forward Darion Clark left Charlotte. Both are sophomores who will have to sit out this season under NCAA rules.
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Wednesday night at Frederick High School, the senior point guard signed a national letter of intent to play basketball for Western State Colorado University.
Adams said the recruitment process was stressful. He was getting looks from several Division-III and NAIA schools. Western State, he said, was his top choice among the schools that recruited him.
The Warriors hold their team camp at Western State every summer and Adams said he has built a relationship with the coaching staff. He also became comfortable with the friendly, team atmosphere in Gunnison.
"They're doing incredible things up there," Adams said. "They're very similar to Coach (Larry) Frank in a lot of ways. They preach becoming better men in order to become better basketball players. They focus a lot on what's going on when you're not playing basketball and when the ball deflates."
Adams said he felt Western State was a place where he would have help developing a plan for the future, not just playing basketball. But he does have a good shot at getting some immediate playing time.
Head coach Mike Moskowitz and his coaching staff, and their similarities in style and philosophy to the Frederick coaches, were the main things that drew Adams to the Mountaineers.
"I truly believe that God has a plan for everyone and I think this is my plan," Adams said. "I'm excited to get up there and get things going."
He wasn't the only one who was excited. Half the student body showed up to Adams' signing on Wednesday night. Warriors head coach Larry Frank wasn't surprised.
Anointing Adams the best team basketball player he's seen in his seven years at Frederick, Frank said the six-foot point guard was recruited for his leadership and court vision more than anything. The Warriors senior could easily score 20 points and let assists be secondary, Frank said, but he prefers to be an on-court coach and make sure the ball gets where it needs to be.
Frank said Adams holds both the single-season and career records in steals and taking charges at Frederick. Adams broke the school's single-season record for field goal percentage as a junior and Frank expects him to pass the career assists record at some point during his senior season.
"He's a coach on the court and that's something you can't teach nowadays. He's just one of those players that does it all," Frank said. "They're getting a good, well-balanced student athlete down there."
Adams averaged 11.2, 5.7 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game his junior season.
Adams said he wasn't sure whether to sign early or not. But now that he's signed, he said the weight of the decision has been lifted and he can focus on his senior season at Frederick.
"I feel so much better than I did when I was undecided," Adams said. "It feels good to get it off my shoulders and now I'm 120-percent focused on our season here at our high school."
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Rick Daniels, the local president of the newspaper company that publishes the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, the Enterprise in Brockton, and Metrowest Daily News in Framingham, plans to resign at the end of the year.
Daniels joined Gatehouse Media New England in 2007. He had previously served as president of The Boston Globe, from 2001 to 2006.
A Gatehouse spokesman confirmed the move, first reported by the Ledger, but declined to provide additional details.
The Ledger reported that Daniels, who lives in Cohasset, plans to pursue investment and advisory roles for media companies.
The parent company, Gatehouse Media Inc. of Fairport, N.Y., is one of the nation's largest publishers of local newspapers but has been weighed down by $1.3 billion in debt. The company owns 112 weekly and seven daily newspapers in New England, covering more than 100 communities in Eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Whether it's pre-game barbecues, community outreach programs or fund-raising efforts, the athletic department at South Dakota State sponsors or works in conjunction with other campus entities to host a number of special events throughout the school year.
To learn more about some of these special events, click on the links below.
* Beef Bowl and Cereal Bowl (Football)
* Fast Break Basketball Clinic
* Hobo Day
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St. Francis (Seminary) Cemetery, Andover, Massachusetts
Franciscan Friars
Our Sienna Heights Nuns cemetery near here is much like this, circles. It is peaceful and lovely.
Carol, these were taken last year, and I had forgotten all about them. I noticed on this FAG site there are 4 people listed, no requests tho, so I'll go and take those photos, and place on this site.


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NEW YORK, Feb. 13 , 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ooVoo, the largest independent social video chat providers with 66 million registered subscribers, today announced the winner of the "Oz The Great and Powerful Premiere Sweepstakes," awarding Crystal Lyons of Miami, Fla. with a trip for two to attend the star-studded film premiere of Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful." The movie, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Zach Braff, will premiere in Los Angeles on February 13th.
"We're thrilled to offer this once in a lifetime opportunity to one of our loyal users," said Jay Samit, president of ooVoo. "With thousands of entries received in just four days, the enthusiasm for this sweepstakes has been amazing."
Launched on February 5th, the "Oz The Great and Powerful Premiere Sweepstakes" gave fans a chance to win a trip for two – including airfare and hotel accommodations – to the Hollywood world premiere by submitting an entry form on ooVoo's Facebook page. A winner was selected at random on Friday, February 8th.
As part of the sweepstakes promotion, ooVoo showcased Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful" film trailer in Watch Together™, a recently-launched feature that provides ooVoo video chat users the ability to watch YouTube videos simultaneously with their friends. The film trailer was also showcased via ooVoo's new social video ads, where users can watch ads and share them with friends.
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While many countries have a more static approach to menu development, American chefs have long provided a "melting pot" of creativity toward food. When Americans began competing as an official team in 1956, they were clearly the underdogs. However, American cookery soon established itself as world-class cuisine, and American chefs distinguished themselves at the IKA and other international competitions.
The 1960 team captured the first world championship honor at the IKA and repeated the distinction in 1980, 1984 and 1988 by taking the prestigious hot-food competition and establishing a new world record for the most consecutive gold-medal wins. In 2004, ACF Culinary Team USA won the hot-food championship with one of only four gold medals given and finished third overall. In 2008, the national team again won gold in the hot kitchen, for the first back-to-back gold medals since 1980. The ACF regional team won the overall world championship title in the regional category. At the 2012 IKA, ACF Culinary National Team USA won a silver medal in cold-food presentation—only one gold medal was awarded—and a silver medal in the hot-food kitchen, placing sixth overall. Additionally, in 2005, ACF Culinary Team USA took home two gold medals at the Salon Culinaire Mondial, which is held every six years in Basel, Switzerland.


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Most people spend much time carefully choosing the clothing they wear. They pick outfits based on the event they're attending or the weather outside.
Often, footwear is seen as an afterthought - an accessory to an outfit. But this is a mistake. For comfort and safety, you should put as much thought into what shoes go on your feet as to what clothing goes on your body.


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President Obama has long used House Republicans as a foil. Now that one of the leaders in that group, Paul Ryan, is on the ticket alongside Mitt Romney, the connection is that much clearer. NPR's Scott Horsley joins host Guy Raz to talk about the president's response to the newly formed GOP ticket.
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MOVIE REVIEW- <i>Dragon</i> delight: Animated film is best of '10, so far
You can look to the news to learn about changes in U.S. foreign policy, but you might learn more from the movies. First, Avatar had villains who invaded a sovereign nation to steal their precious minerals. Now, in How to Train Your Dragon the scary monster that threatens a not-exactly peace-loving people is tamed rather than slain. Yes, there's a new sheriff in the White House!
If you haven't been to the movies in a while, How to Train Your Dragon helps you catch up on what you've missed. This animated diary of a wimpy Viking features the voices of the stars of three March releases: Jay Baruchel (She's Out of My League), Gerard Butler (The Bounty Hunter) and America Ferrera (Our Family Wedding).
There are scenes of people harnessing and riding fearsome creatures, not unlike the Banshees in Avatar or the Bandersnatch in Alice in Wonderland. Apart from Hiccup (Baruchel), the runt of the litter, all the Vikings– especially Stoick (Butler), their chief and Hiccup's father– are beefy guys with arms like Precious'. And speaking of Precious, the dragons all serve a big mother dragon with a temperament like Mo'Nique's in that film.
There's also a lot of talk about a dragon's "blind spot." Maybe they meant "blind side"? For retro fans, you have to go back to the 1978 Superman for a flying scene as romantic as the one where Hiccup takes Astrid (Ferrera) for a ride on the back of the dragon he's named Toothless.
Like most children's films, especially animated ones, a "different" child comes to earn his father's love and respect, when his difference proves to be an asset.
Hiccup is apprenticed to Gobber (Craig Ferguson– it's not explained why the adults' Scottish burrs aren't passed down to the younger generation), who tells him, "Stop trying so hard to be something you're not." But Stoick forces his son to go through Dragon Training, something like Percy Jackson's Camp Half Blood. There, he's taught how to kill dragons because "Killing a dragon is everything around here." A classmate, Snotlout (Jonah Hill) sizes up his fearsome opponents like a low-tech "Sherlock Holmes."
The lessons don't take on Hiccup. He doesn't want to kill dragons, even though it's a combination of sport and survival skill. One night, he shoots down a Night Fury, "the dragon no one's ever seen," immortalized in legend as "the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself." When he goes to finish it off, Hiccup looks into the dragon's eye in an amazing scene in which the animated characters' eyes show more emotion than those of any live actors.
They wind up bonding– gradually and secretly– as the culturally sensitive Hiccup learns the ways of various species of dragon, enabling him to overcome them in class without harming them.
There's a lot of fighting and roaring and breathing fire but very little killing and no bloodshed in this PG movie that may scare but shouldn't traumatize. I told the father of a five-year-old the only reason for not taking his son to see it is that he'll want a pet dragon afterward.
It's not much of a compliment, but How to Train Your Dragon is the best movie to come out of Hollywood in the first quarter of 2010. The actors do better work in bodies other than their own, probably because they have better material to work with; and if the technical elements aren't on a par with Avatar, they're about as good as anything that's been done in computer animation.
The lesson that understanding your enemy can lead to them not being your enemy should get through to the youngest viewer, but may be lost on parents who kept their kids home from school rather than risk having them "indoctrinated" by a speech from the President.
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It's no secret that the Wii U has had a terrible year – decent launch, but terrible year. This situation is extremely frustrating considering that Nintendo had an entire year ahead of the competition to put out convincing content on their 8th generation system and they totally dropped the ball.
That's what I said initially lol.
There's going to be at least one Wii U game a month for the rest of the year, which is definitely a plus for people who already have Wii U consoles. At that point my concern is if Nintendo has anything for the pipeline at the start of next year since Mario Kart won't be out until April.
by the time i get my wii u the games will be all there and i wont have to wait and possibly some price drops but this system has been on my mind i can't wait to play nintendo games in HD its been a long time coming
The Wii U drought is just starting.
nonexistence 3rd party support - check
overpriced wii u - check
last gen graphics - check
rehashed and old ports - check
averaging 40k sales a month in NA (ps3 and 360 never went lower 70k) - check
In the end, Wii U will be closer to gamecube's status. completely behind ps4 and xbox one.
Let's see how they handle 2014. Maybe third parties will port games to the thing.
I like the One game a month thing they're doing, but how long can they keep it up? They WERE understaffed at the launch of Wii U, and NOW that they hired more developers, we may not see the pay off until maybe mid to late next year, so Iwata REALLY needs to get on that third party support.


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In the final part of his interview with ZAM, Colin talks PvP and design philosophy
In the second and final part of my interview with ArenaNet's Game Director Colin Johanson (you can read Part One here) we began by talking about World vs. World and how players took the game in unforeseen directions.
"It's amazing the amount of emergent game play that comes out of it. We could beta test this thing until the cows come home and we put the game out live and all of a sudden we're going to see completely different behaviors than we ever would have expected.
When one person discovers something cool and then everybody else starts doing it, it's amazing to watch this stuff happen. It's honestly one of the coolest parts of developing an MMO; you just get to see so much emergent game play that rises up out of your player base.
It's always interesting to see the stuff they've thought of, I really get a kick out of the fights over the jumping puzzle in World vs. World and the different tactics for that. Once your world owns it, how people put the call out to get Mesmers in there to drop a portal so people can get to the top faster. All the coordination in that has been interesting to watch. It's just incredible to see how much people work together in World vs. World and the different tactics they've come up with. When we add some of the new systems that we're developing and WvW expands with even more support, I'm really excited to see where that goes in the future."
World vs. World certainly remains popular, but there is plenty of room for it to grow and improve. I asked Colin what was the most important aspect of what ArenaNet was bringing to the WvW experience this year.
"I think, depending on who you ask as a World vs. World player, each of them would give you a different answer. I think there are honestly three different things we need to resolve. If we tackle all three, I think we're going to make a massive [impact] in the WvW sphere and I think it's already a really strong part of the game but I think we can put it over the top if we can hit these three. [The first is] culling, so you can see as many of the enemy as possible and you can always see what's going on. I think that's really important.
The second one is the sense of personal progression, a reason for you to log in every day with the sense that you're progressing when you're fighting in there and it kind of goes hand in hand with the third one for me which is a reason for you to log in and play even if your server is losing or if it's day six and you have no chance of coming back.
There also need to be minute to minute, hour to hour reasons to be winning or holding locations, not just the overall weekly motivation to do that and I think the progression system will tie into that. The system that we're working on, that we'll talk about in more detail later, really supports the concept of reasons to be there every day and to try and be winning and holding areas every day. And I think if we can attack all three of those things then we will solve the major issues in World vs. World that are floating out there, things we can still address.
Those are the really big three and all of them are equal in making World vs. World a better experience."
Having already mentioned the utility and fun (or overpowered win button depending on your message board) nature of the Mesmer Portal, I asked Colin about designing abilities that would bring that much flexibility to other professions and the challenge in making a tool for players to really run wild with.
It is difficult. I can say that when Mesmer Portal was first discussed as a skill, there were a lot of people who said there is no way in the world we should ever do that, it's going to break our game in a thousand ways, it's going to cause all these unforeseen problems that we're never going to see until the game goes live and then we're going to find them all out.
I think when it comes to game development you can pick one of two stances: one of those is play it safe, do the stuff that you absolutely know you can pull off and that doesn't come with any risks and those can be really polished solid games but rarely will they drive innovation or push things forward.
Then your other option is you say let's do the thing that's fun, let's try it, lets try something crazy and hopefully it will work and we'll see what kind of emergent game play comes from it.
We had that discussion about adding underwater combat to our world, a giant chunk of the world is an underwater actual playable game space. We went back and forth on that for a while, "Is this something we can do?" "It's going to be a huge challenge." It's almost rebuilding the game's movement and combat systems all over again a second time. And the answer was, well it's really hard, but we're never going to find out if we can do it if we don't give it a try. And if we don't try to do it, our game can't be quite as good as if we try to do it. So let's give it a shot.
I think Mesmer Portal falls into the same category where occasionally an idea comes up which is so crazy there's just no way we can do it, but something like that we said you know what, it's so much fun and it changes the way people would play the game so much it's worth it. Let's see if we can take the risk and make it work. That's kind of how that thought process goes and I'm sure somewhere around the office there's a couple of people right now that would tell you they still think it was a really bad idea that we did it. But it's out there and people are having fun with it. So it's a good trade off."
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All-star inspires through adversity
**Reprinted courtesy of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Originally ran on Monday, June 4thWOODROW — The final play of the Greater West Texas Baseball Coaches Association Class 3A-4A all-star game, played Sunday at Cooper, certainly won't be stored among baseball's greatest highlights.A simple putout at first base to end a lopsided exhibition game isn't the sort of sequence that will have Cooperstown calling to collect the details. But then you discover the story of the player who grasped that final, seemingly meaningless, out in his glove, and the play becomes pretty incredible after all.Chayse Tracy, who last month completed his senior season at Borger, wasn't supposed to be here. Not after he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at age 7, a rare cancer that nearly cost him his life."When they found the tumor, it was the size of a golf ball," Tracy's aunt, Shelley Tracy-Wise said, "and it had already metastasized in his lungs. Usually, once you've metastasized, you have no hope."But with the help of doctors, Tracy fought, using the strength that made him a national youth champion wrestler as a 7-year-old to battle through nine months of constant chemotherapy. His aunt said Tracy still played all his little league games that year. He lost his hair, so teammates shaved their heads in support.Tracy kept fighting and the chemo took. Within a year, Tracy was free of cancer."That he's even here is amazing," his aunt said.But recovery came at a cost. Tracy, to that point a right-handed ballplayer, had to have his right shoulderblade removed. Contact sports were ruled out of his future. He was told baseball would be the only sport he could play.If he was going to play baseball, though, Tracy decided he would have to pitch, have to contribute in the biggest way the game would allow. That meant learning to throw left-handed."It was real hard and it took a long time," Tracy said. "Every day in the backyard, I'd just be throwing as hard as I could. Keep throwing left-handed. Not even catching, just throwing left-handed as hard as I could until I got there."Because of the limited mobility in his right arm, Tracy was forced to catch left-handed, too. On the mound and in the field, he wears a glove on his left hand. Once he makes a catch, he slides his glove over to his right hand and makes the next throw with the left.Tracy spent hours with his father watching videos of former major leaguer Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand but won 87 big league games in 10 seasons and threw a no-hitter in 1993."Every time they were in the hospital they watched (Abbott's) videos," Tracy-Wise said.By the time he made it to high school, Tracy had become an effective left-handed pitcher. This season he was named to the District 1-3A first team for his work on the mound. Despite limited range with his swing, he was also the team's best hitter."Every time he was on the field," Borger coach Steve Ribera said, "I thought he was a walking miracle. He didn't just play — he excelled.""He's freakin' incredible," teammate Max Lusk added. "He's a good leader and just always positive with everything."Tracy's positive outlook was put to the test in March, when his father, Charles Tracy — who had helped him discover new life within the game of baseball — passed away.Tracy found himself using the game to grieve. He leaned on his Borger teammates, who served as honorary pallbearers at the funeral service, donning their Bulldog uniforms."He said, 'I can't do this without them,'" Tracy-Wise recalled. "They all came and sat in the front two rows. They asked if they should dress up. He said, 'No, my dad would want you in your uniforms.'"In his final home game, Tracy found one more way to honor his father, who was a member of the Borger baseball booster club. Before the game, Tracy searched out a freshman teammate with the No. 15 jersey, the number his father always worn, and offered a trade for his own No. 7 threads."Our whole family was there," Tracy-Wise said, "and to see him standing out there with his dad's number, it was just really cool."For his determination and ability to inspire others, the GWTBCA honored Tracy on Sunday with the Eric Alvarez Memorial Award, named after the former Rotan coach who was killed in a car accident in 2005."I couldn't think of anyone better (than Tracy)," Ribera said. "He exemplifies that every day. It's one thing when a kid overcomes things like this and is a part of the team and gets by, but Chayse was so much more than that."Tracy said he would like to play baseball in college, though he isn't sure where. He may walk on at a small-college program, just as long as he can stay close to the game that has helped him battle through so much."It's been hard to get here, he said, "but with hard work you can get wherever you want."


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A few months back I had a problem. I wanted to make a nice little web app, but didn't want to start seeking for awesome domain names or start using resources for its marketing. I wanted to have a Youtube-like place for my small apps. That's when I came up with my idea.
Turgu.com is a platform for web apps. Anyone can share their web apps instantly and use apps made by others. It takes just the name, logo image and URL of the app to share it with the world.
I believe this kind of outsourcing of website promotion could be very useful to many web developers / entrepreneurs. However, I believe there's still a lot to improve with the service.
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A number of area boys soccer players had standout seasons. Addison Trail won its own tournament at the state of the year and was third in the West Suburban Gold. Montini won its first ever regional. Timothy Christian won a sectional title in Class 1A. Players from those teams as well as Glenbard East, Willowbrook and York comprise the 2013 Suburban Life East all-area boys soccer team.
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School: Glenbard East
Year: Senior
Impact: Aguilar has always had a knack for scoring goals for the Rams and was a big part of the East's offense for the past four years. He was the go-to threat in the Rams' attack this season and was an IHSSCA all-sectional pick.
Angelo Amato (MVP story)
School: Addison Trail
Year: Senior
Impact: The all-area MVP was a three-year starter on the back line for the Blazers. Each of the past two years he was AT's sweeper and helped organize the defense. He was twice an all-sectional selection and was one of four Blazers to earn all-conference honors this fall.
Tito Cabral
School: Willowbrook
Year: Senior
Impact: Cabral was a three-year varsity player for the Warriors and their leading goal scorer this season. He was an honorable mention all-sectional pick this season as a forward.
Cesar Chavez
School: Addison Trail
Year: Senior
Impact: Chavez scored 10 goals and had seven assists this season while playing in the central midfield. He was a top playmaker in the midfield for the Blazers and was a West Suburban Gold all-conference pick.
Jimmy Clausing
School: Montini
Year: Senior
Impact: Montini won its first ever regional title and made it to a Class 1A sectional final thanks largely in part to the play of seniors like Clausing. Clausing scored in the sectional semifinal win over Chicago Christian and was the Broncos' top attacking threat.
Jon Cuomo
School: Timothy Christian
Year: Senior
Impact: The senior midfielder/forward led the Trojans in scoring each of the past two seasons. This fall he scored 12 goals and finished his career tied for seventh on the all-time Timothy scoring list.
Tyler Gibish
School: York
Year: Senior
Impact: Despite missing nearly a month of the season, Gibish still led the Dukes in scoring as they competed in the tough West Suburban Silver conference. The senior forward was an honorable mention all-sectional pick.
Trey Smith
School: Addison Trail
Year: Senior
Impact: The all-conference Blazer forward tallied eight goals and five assists this fall. Smith totaled 18 goals in his two-year varsity career and was named as an honorable mention all-sectional player.
Carlos Urbina
School: Glenbard East
Year: Senior
Impact: Urbina was a midfielder last year and began the season as a playmaker in the Rams' midfield. Midway through the season he shifted to defense and helped solidify the Rams' back line.
Tyler Vlasak
School: Timothy Christian
Year: Junior
Impact: Vlasak was the spark at the heart of the Trojans' sectional title-winning team. He had 18 assists, second-most for a single season in program history, to go with nine goals and a Metro Suburban all-conference selection.
Andrew Wieringa
School: Timothy Christian
Year: Junior
Impact: Wieringa transitioned from defense to offense in the middle of the season and still tallied six goals and seven assists. He efforts earned him an honorable mention all-conference pick.
Honorable mention
Addison Trail: Daniel Krajewski
Glenbard East: Brian Mika
Montini: Jack Brady
Timothy Christian: Mike Wieringa
Willowbrook: Dylon Jones, Dan Torres
York: Nick Gaudio, Jack Hayes, Corey McGovern


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The Relationship between Branchiosomatic and Pulmosomatic Indices in the African Lungfish, Protopterus Annectens of Anambra River, Nigeria
The relationship between Branchiosomatic indices (BSI) and Pulmosomatic indices (PSI) in various sizes of the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens procured from Anambra River was determined. There was an inverse relationship between BSI and PSI. Mean BSI exhibited highest values of between 0.90 and 0.96 in the fingerlings, then began to decrease as the fish grew until it reached minimum values of between 0.36 and 0.44 in the large sized P. annectens. Conversely, mean PSI showed minimum values of between 0.32 and 0.48 in the fingerlings, then rose to a peak of between 0.88 and 1.06 in the large sized P. annectens. The study tends to support the palaeontological evidence which states that the Amphibians evolved from some now extinct fish groups related to the lungfishes during the Devonian period.
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West Chester Henderson looked like a lock to be in the Ches-Mont Final Four as the two or possibly one seed from the National Division. But, without star guard Jason McCormick, who is lost for the rest of the regular season due to illness, the Warriors fell last Thursday to Downingtown West.
Now, Tuesday�s game with rival West Chester East has a whole lot more meaning than just bragging rights. If the Warriors lose to Vikings and to Coatesville on Thursday, Downingtown West could get the No. 2 spot if they win out this week. How quickly an injury can dramatically change a team�s fortune.
Great Valley held up very well against a good Penn Wood squad Saturday and the victory should give Jim Nolan�s Patriots a lot of extra confidence going into the District 1 Class AAAA playoffs, where I think they should be in great shape as the number three seed. But, the Patriots have to get by West Chester Rustin on Tuesday night at Rustin to get the American Division crown and the top seed in the Ches-Mont tournament.
A build up of condensation on the floor stopped Coatesville�s game at Octorara on Saturday. The game will be completed this afternoon, picking up from the second quarter where they left off. Coatesville needs to win to help its seeding in the district playoffs.
Oxford and coach Sean Harvey are quietly putting together a very strong season. The Hornets are young and talented and hopefully will qualify for the playoffs so the kids get a taste of what they are like. They will be a strong contender in the Ches-Mont American next season.
I�m all for playing difficult nonleague schedules and have taken teams to task for not doing that over the years, but Devon Prep has played a brutal nonleague slate that I do not think the Tide is up for with the low numbers of kids in the program. Sometimes. you can bite off more than you can chew and I think the Tide did that this season.
West Chester East has really struggled this season, but the low point may have come Thursday when the Vikings scored five points in the second half against Coatesville. Scoring only five points is a very tough thing to do, but East accomplished it.
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1.Great Valley (20-0) -- The Patriots rolled over Penn Wood.
2.Coatesville (12-6) -- Only a wet floor can stop the Red Raiders.
3.Church Farm (13-5) -- Nice win over Holy Ghost Prep for the Griffins.
4.W.C. Henderson (13-6)-- The Warriors lose to Downingtown West.
5.W.C. Rustin (10-8) -- Golden Knights have big one with Great Valley.
6.Conestoga (10-10) -- Pioneers are on playoff bubble.
7.Kennett (12-7) -- Blue Demons drop tough one to Rustin.
8.Westtown (11-9) -- Quakers look to have another winning season.
9.Dowingtown West (10-9)-- Whippets still alive after win over Henderson.
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Discovering the Discoverer of Oxygen
Last weekend in the New York Times, Barry Gewen reviewed Steven Johnson's book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America. It follows the career of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the British-American scientist and political reformer. Here's a sample of the review:
Arriving in London from the provinces in 1765, he quickly joined a group of freethinking intellectuals known as the Honest Whigs, which included James Boswell and Benjamin Franklin. (Priestley's history of electricity established the popular image of Franklin flying a kite during an electrical storm.) When he relocated to Birmingham some years later he joined another remarkable circle, the Lunar Society, with members like James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather; they called themselves the Lunaticks.Here's a webpage from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission about Priestley's home. And here's a digital version of his Essay on the First Principles of Government, a very far-seeing and thus entirely uninfluential book.
During his Birmingham period Priestley devoted most of his energies to religion and politics. His unorthodox beliefs, along with his enthusiastic support for the French Revolution, turned him into a very public target for nationalist zealots. Conservatives like Samuel Johnson called him "an evil man," and despite his many accomplishments he was refused an audience with King George III.
Priestley, Steven Johnson says, had made himself "the most hated man in all of Britain." In 1791 a mob burned down his house and, more tragically, his laboratory. Soon he and his family were off to that new, more open-minded country, the United States.
In America as in England, Priestley seems to have become acquainted with everyone who was anyone. He had tea on several occasions with George Washington. John Adams urged him to settle in Boston. He was especially close to [Thomas] Jefferson. Mr. Johnson calls him "a kind of Zelig of early American history." Yet, as in England, his religious and political views got him into trouble. During the repressive time of the Alien and Sedition Acts, it was only the personal intervention of President Adams that kept him out of prison.


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Deadlines prohibit me from writing this column after Friday night's game between Coal City and Morris for the Class 3A Herscher Boys Basketball Regional championship.
The local-on-local matchup ensures our prep basketball season will extend into next week. It's also been ensured that, among MDH-area teams, only the winner will keep playing. Gardner-South Wilmington, Minooka and Seneca have all been eliminated, with the latter two making it as far as Wednesday.
I was there for Seneca's exit, which came in the form of a 45-27 loss to Newman at the 2A Byron Sectional. It was the most lopsided loss of the season for the Fighting Irish, and their first since late December by double digits. A Seneca team used to protecting leads and playing close games — the Irish won their two games at the Bureau Valley Regional by a total of four points — was put in an unfamiliar position when Newman bolted to a 17-6 first-quarter lead.
"Yeah, we're not really used to that. We're more used to getting ahead and then trying to stay ahead," Irish senior Brian Bergeson said. "But we should have never let that happen. We should have never put ourselves in that position."
One reason the Irish fell behind as much as they did was that Newman was extremely efficient offensively during the first eight minutes, and the Irish weren't. The Comets went 8-for-13 from the field and had just one turnover, whereas Seneca was 2-for-7 and turned the ball over four times.
"They came out fired up right from the start and played with a lot of energy," junior Irish reserve Alex Bott said. "We didn't have the energy to match them."
There may be an explanation for the Irish being a step slow, and for them giving big minutes to their backups even more than usual. According to coach Russell Witte, eight of Seneca's 15 players have been affected during the past several days by a bug that has swept through the team. It's certainly not the only reason for the 18-point loss, but it may give some context to things like junior Conlan Callahan, who is arguably their most consistent scorer, being shut out on the night.
"Conlan Callahan was out (Tuesday) and didn't come in (to school) until 11 o'clock today. He waited as long as he could," Witte said," and you could tell he wasn't himself.
"We needed our subs tonight. We knew coming in that we weren't 100 percent, that we would need our subs to play heavy minutes."
Sick or not, the Irish continued to miss, and miss, and miss some more. A 2-for-16 effort from three-point land can be attributed to a combination of randomness and players not feeling well. Some of the layups and great looks that the Irish couldn't get to fall were less explainable. I asked Bergeson if the Irish just had to chalk it up to being a night where nothing went their way.
"I would say so," he said. "Nothing seemed to go in our favor. I don't know. (Newman) definitely earned it, but we had trouble getting anything going at all."
Rochelle's rumored switch
When I interviewed Morris Athletic Director George Dergo for my piece this week about changes within the Interstate Eight and Northern Illinois Big 12 Conferences, I asked him if there was anything he could say on the record about the rumors that Rochelle may move from the NIB12 East, which it shares with Morris, to the West, which is losing Dixon and Streator. I wasn't able to work it into the story, so I'll share his response here.
"I've heard nothing officially on that," Dergo said. "All of the athletic directors still have to meet. There has been word that Rochelle may be switching to the other division, but it's not that big a deal either way. You've gotta remember that in most sports, you play conference crossovers with everyone, so you end up playing all just about all of these teams anyway. So that's not a huge concern for us. But to comment on that like it's happening and what it'll mean for the conference would be premature."
Saturday Sentinel: Locals ensure basketball will be played next week
Deadlines prohibit me from writing this column after Friday night's game between Coal City and Morris for the Class 3A Herscher Boys Basketball Regional championship.


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Bite your tongue! They still can't get Kinect to work right with games, I can just imagine what it would be like as a PC interface! /moves hand to save work/ "Oh you want me to delete and shutdown? Okay"...nooooooo!
And everyone can see what "MSFT is trying to do" they are trying to turn Windows into a cellphone so the users will "get used to it" and buy their overpriced WinPhones and WinRT tablets...which they just had to cut orders in half on because nobody is gonna pay more than an iPad or Kindle for something with no apps and lousy software support..sigh.
If they don't get Ballmer out of the big chair soon I could easily see MSFT becoming another RIM, a once great company that only has legacy customers and even they are looking at exit strategies. The sad part is if they would ape IBM instead of Apple they'd be doing great, they could backport the appstore to Win 7 and focus on selling features and support contracts to supplement their OS sales but Ballmer just can't see past Cupertino and that is gonna be what runs the company into the ground.


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It's true what they say: Your keyboard is crawling with bacteria. But if you're a woman, you may have less to worry about.
Researchers who took swabs from office equipment in New York, San Francisco and Tucson found more than 500 types of bacteria, most of which normally live on our skin or in our nasal, oral and intestinal cavities.
Chairs and phones accumulated the most bacteria, followed by desktops, keyboards and computer mice. In a few cases, hardy microbes commonly found in hot springs and volcanic islands appeared in the mix, perhaps tracked into the office following someone's vacation to St. Lucia or Yellowstone.
New York and San Francisco's bacterial diversity was virtually identical, while Tucson's microbes tended to be heavy on desert-soil bacteria in addition to the human-derived species. San Francisco offices were the least contaminated.
And while the offices of men and women had the same types of species, women's offices had, on average, 10 to 20 percent fewer of them. Differences in hygiene may account for that, the research team reported in the online journal PLoS ONE. Men are known to wash their hands and brush their teeth less frequently than women, the researchers write, and are generally "perceived to have a more slovenly nature."


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Computer science professor explores, explains possibilities
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By Mary Kincy
In 2003, Dr. Oleg Komogortsev — then a graduate student at Kent State University — wanted very much to play the beta version of what would become one of the world's most popular online role-playing games, World of Warcraft.
Access to the game was highly restricted, however, with invitations to the beta test site selling online for as much as $17,000. So Komogortsev put his computer science background and his interest in eye-tracking technology to work, sending an e-mail to the game's developers in which he pledged to explore the possibility of applying eye-tracking to online role play. Continue reading


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TetherBerry, which will officially release their application March 9th has an application that allows you to use your Blackberry as a wireless modem. Some carriers such as Verizon who suck every penny out of you, actually make you pay for this feature on your blackberry. Well, using Tetherberry, there is no need. (After March 9th, you do have to purchase this program) I think this is a great application to use if your carrier makes you pay. OR if you have tried to set up a network connection on your computer and have failed, Tetherberry is VERY easy. A few steps actually. Just download both files, open both applications on your BB and PC and connect via USB and you are connected.
I just did this and did a speed test over at speedtest.net and I got 145kbps for download and 34kps for upload. This is still decent speed through your BB and allows you to send email, talk on AIM. Obviously not good speed to download large files.
I still highly suggest downloading this application. Its one worth having!


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Braylon is the man. I don't know how he isn't our #1 receiver right now. We need a tall fast deep threat, and we've gone one that has already has chemistry with Sanchez, and most importantly WANTS to play for the New York Jets.
He has been a big part of our two recent playoff runs and I just don't see how you don't bring him back.
Despite Jets coach Rex Ryan saying hes more focused on the players currently on the roster, the Jets today wouldnt completely rule out the possibility that WR Braylon Edwards could return to the Jets. Edwards is no longer on the Seahawks roster after being waived from their injured reserve list. He will be subject to the waiver claims period Tuesday.
"You guys know what Ive always said about Braylon in the past," Ryan said. "So you know how I feel about him, but right now, I think well just focus on the guys we have."
ESPN's Adam Schefter reported today that the Jets were considering re-signing Edwards, who played for the team from 2009-10, despite the fact that Edwards recently criticized the Jets for their handling of their quarterback situation.
"Don't blame Sanchez. I played there. Blame the idiots calling shots. Mark is a beast and will probe it when given a proper chance."
Edwards apologized the next day on Twitter, and the Jets could use help at wide receiver. Beyond the fact that Santonio Holmes is out for the season, rookie deep threat Stephen Hill is out with a sprained knee ligament suffered in Sunday's game.
Edwards, 29, caught 88 passes in two seasons with the Jets in 2009-10, with 11 touchdowns.
No more dolphin trash or or practice squad players. Make ur last move a good one tannenbaum!
Bring him in. What do we have to lose
Just sign him then we can stop talking about signing him.
Probably change to why we should cut him.
This would be the smartest move the Jets have made in some time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwnf95DHiRQ I miss the dougie LOL
Did anyone actually read the page that this linked to?
Jets will consider bringing back their former wide receiver, either by claiming him on waivers or signing him if he clears them.Maybe the Jets do bring him back, but the closest thing I see to that is that (according to league sources) the Jets "will consider" bringing back Edwards.Coach Rex Ryan was asked Monday if they might consider Edwards.
"You guys know what I've always said about Braylon in the past, so you know how I feel about him," Ryan said. "But right now, I think we'll just focus on the guys we have."
Now, with the Jets trying to seize the AFC's last wild-card spot, they are in need of receiving help. Edwards is getting serious consideration, despite the events of last week.
COnsidering their WR situation, I"m sure the Jets are "considering" everything.
while we are on that subject of ray posting that he thought the Jets might have " the potential" to win 12 reptilleon...how did your definite firm and cast in concrete Jets 5-11 prediction turn out??
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Any sane GM would sign B.E. in this situation. Judging from Tanny... sorry, Braylon.