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By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
AUBURN, Ala. – The Tennessee Tech softball team closes out its three day stay in Alabama unable to put its first win on the board as the Golden Eagles wrapped up day three of the Plainsman Invite with a pair of losses to host Auburn, 8-4, and Louisiana-Monroe, 7-0.
Tech (0-5) had its opportunities throughout the afternoon, but late rallies by both the Eagles (4-1-1) and Warhawks (3-2) plagued TTU's chances at putting a check mark in the win column for the first time in 2014.
In the opener, the Golden Eagles found themselves trailing 5-1 to Auburn heading into the top of the sixth, but the bats came alive to the tune of two runs to jump right back into the thick of things. Sophomore Olivia Bennett kicked off the scoring, blasting a solo home run to left center to cut the deficit to 5-2.
Bennett has now popped two round trippers in the first five games for Tech, while recording her second multi-hit performance of the young season after going 2-for-3 against the Tigers.
The Golden Eagles weren't finished in the sixth, plating a two-out run thanks to an Alyssa Richards RBI double, scoring junior Hannah Eldridge, who had walked one batter earlier. Richards matched Bennett's 2-for-3 showing with one of her own, knocking in two runs as well after getting Tech on the board with a run-scoring single in the top of the fourth.
Now down 5-3 going into the bottom of the sixth, Auburn put some breathing room between itself and TTU, scoring three crucial runs to break the contest open at 8-3. The Tigers smacked two home runs in the frame, with red-shirt junior Morgan Estell blasting a solo shot with one out in the inning off Tech starter Hannah Weaver, and junior Brandi Melero using a two-run home run off junior Taylor Ketchum to essentially put the game out of reach with just one inning to play.
The two Auburn round trippers made it back-to-back frames in which the Tigers hit two home runs in an inning, after freshman Kasey Cooper and junior McKenzie Kilpatrick did the honors in the bottom of the fifth.
Despite allowing three of the four long balls in her outing, sophomore Hannah Weaver gave the Golden Eagles length in her first start of the season, tossing 5.1 innings, surrendering six earned on nine hits to suffer her first loss of the year.
The Golden Eagles did notch a run in the top of the seventh on an Angi Sakamoto home run off Aubrun starter Marcy Harper, as the junior from Waipahu, Hawaii matches Olivia Bennett for the team lead with two round trippers on the year.
Harper earned the win for the Tigers with a complete game effort, surrendering four earned on five hits for the sophomore's third victory of the season.
In the late game, Tech had an opportunity to seize its first win of the season, trailing Louisiana-Monroe 1-0 with still three innings left to play. Despite not scoring a run yet, freshman hurler Danielle Liberatore kept the Golden Eagles in the hunt by allowing only one run while scattering four hits through the first four frames.
The Warhawks would go on to pad their lead late, plating one in the fifth, two in the sixth, and three in the seventh to put the contest on ice. Four of the six runs in the final three innings were unearned as Tech made a pair of costly errors to aid the ULM scoring barrage.
The big Warhawk hits came off the bat of freshman Vanessa Garcia, who drove in a run with a double in the fifth, and sophomore Faith Bohack, who knocked in two with a single to center in the seventh.
Liberatore was tagged with her second loss of the season with a complete game performance, surrendering seven runs, however only three of which were earned.
Offensively, the Golden Eagles couldn't seem to figure out red-shirt senior Samantha Hamby. The Monroe, La. native, who recorded the win against Tech back on Friday, went the distance, giving up just three hits to improve to 2-1.
TTU sets its sights on its second tournament of the year next weekend, traveling to Woodstock, Ga. for the Phyllis Rafter Memorial Tournament hosted by Kennesaw State. The Golden Eagles will match up with Southeastern Louisiana and Northern Kentucky on Saturday, March 15, before locking up with Akron and Kennesaw State on Sunday, March 16.


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GREENVILLE, Ill. – After a 2009-10 season that ended in a 8-17 record, the Greenville College women's basketball team will rely on the experience of the returning women and the new faces on the squad to propel them back to the top of the SLIAC.
The Panthers, who are picked to finish 6th in the SLIAC in 2010-11, return 11 ladies from last years campaign, including all five starters.
Greenville will be led by standout sophomore center Katelyn Wise (Rochester, Ill./Rochester). Wise, who posted 12.4 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game, received SLIAC Honorable Mention honors for her efforts last season. Wise will be a force inside, and will provide constant stability at the post-position.
The Panther frontcourt will showcase several talented guards, highlighted by sophomore Laura Hobbie (Vandalia, Ill./Vandalia). Hobbie, who contributed nearly ten points per game while shooting 33 percent from behind the arc last season, gives the Panthers the ability to stretch the floor, and offers a consistent shooting option.
The 2010-11 Lady Panthers will also look to some new faces for contribution this season. Guard Emmalee Fladland and forward Julia Hale, both junior transfers from Nebraska junior college, and forward Amy Radford, a sophomore transfer from Milliken University, will see significant minutes and add to the Panthers depth.
"We are picked to finish 6th out of the 9 teams in our conference, but I think we have to consider ourselves a top four team in the SLIAC," states Head Coach Roy Mulholland. "One of our goals is to find a consistent work level and play at that level all of the time. If we do this, and everyone can accept their role on the team, we have a great shot to be really good this year."
The Lady Panthers have put together a challenging schedule, and will start their season Tuesday, Nov. 16, as they travel to St. Louis, Mo. to take on the Eutectics of St. Louis Pharmacy.

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Moon and Companions [1]
Like a referee in the middle of a boxing ring, the crescent Moon stands about halfway between two rivals tonight: the planet Mars and the star Antares. They're low in the southwestern sky as darkness begins to fall. Antares is to the upper left of the Moon, with Mars a little farther to the lower right of the Moon.
The "rivalry" between these two bodies is based on their color: orange.
Mars was named for the ancient god of war because its color is like that of blood -- especially when the planet is at its brightest.
Antares is the same color, so it was named with the war god in mind, too. "Ares" was the Greek version of the god, and "anti" means "against" or "rival of." So the star's name means "rival of Mars."
Of course, any rivalry between a planet and a star is pretty lopsided. Mars is a relatively small chunk of rock -- about half the diameter of Earth. Antares, on the other hand, is not just a star, it's a super star. It's so big that if it took the Sun's place in our solar system, it would extend all the way out beyond the orbit of Mars -- swallowing its rival like a speck of cosmic dust.
Look for the two rivals flanking the crescent Moon early this evening. Mars is lower in the sky, so it's tougher to find; binoculars will help you pluck it from the fading twilight. Antares is a little higher, and it sets around an hour later, so you shouldn't have any trouble finding it.
More about Antares tomorrow.
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ESTHERVILLE - Funeral services for Emily Menendez, 89, of Estherville will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Estherville. Interment will be held at Riverview Cemetery in Moundsville, W.V.
She died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at Rosewood Manor in Estherville.
Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 13, at the Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel
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When Leila Walker started making dolls out of fabric as a kid, she had no idea it would lead her to sculpting. She started her college career as a drawing major at Florida International University in Miami, but found more of an interest in constructing than drawing.
"I'm better at hands-on work," she said.
This young Sanibel artist has already experienced what every artist dreams of selling her work. She sold three of her four life-size pieces created for her college thesis during BIG Arts 2009 Biennial Sculptors Exhibit in which she took first place for her Hollow Victory sculpture.
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Leila Walker and her Broken Promises sculpture
"I felt successful," she said of selling the pieces that she nearly threw in the trash. "It was awesome to win, too."
While she creates each piece for herself, she finds a way to relate them to others. Her wire wrapped sculptures are power packed with materials and symbolism, while leaving space for her to insert a hand-written poem on canvas or dried flowers, pebbles, a broken mirror all clues to the depth of feeling she explores while creating her pieces with hemp, wire and string.
"It puts the reflection on them and it's not about me anymore," she explained.
Leila may be a young Sanibel artist, but she is far from the proverbial starving artist. For nearly two years, she has been working in the Watson MacRae Gallery, located in The Village Shops along Periwinkle Way. Her favorite parts of the job are meeting the artists with work on display there and others getting to see her work. She currently has three pieces on display in the gallery the Tug of War series and Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams.
"It takes me out of the small box and into the world of art," she said of working in the small unique gallery that sells exceptional fine art and unusual jewelry, ceramics and glass.
Interestingly, scale does not seem to hinder the effectiveness of her work. Her small figures are as strong as the life-size, the large as insightful as the small. But all are created with the same passion, attention to detail and care. Already in her short career Leila has won several awards, including the President's Education Award in 2004, first place in the Rauschenberg Gallery Student Exhibit in 2006 and the 2009 BIG Arts juried sculpture exhibit.
When asked which artist she admired most, she couldn't narrow it down to just one. On her list are Helen Frankenthaler, an American abstract expressionist painter; Kiki Smith, best known as an American sculptor classified as a feminist artist; Deborah Butterfield, an American sculptor known for creating horses out of objects like metal and wood; and George Segal, an actor who inspired her turn pieces into a story.
As for her future plans, she will be taking it one step at a time. But for her immediate future plans, she will be traveling to California for a couple of weeks and then to the Big Apple for a month, where she will immerse herself in the world of art.
"I love it," she said of creating art. "It is how I express myself."


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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) -- Neighbors said there were some intense moments Thursday morning in La Crosse.
The FBI office in Chicago said agents were there to investigate a crime.
The FBI office in Chicago confirmed agents were in La Crosse Thursday in connection with a criminal investigation.
The FBI office in Milwaukee also said agents from its office were there to assist.
WEAU 13 News talked to La Crosse Police.
The department said it wasn't involved, and wouldn't give us any information.
One neighbor said her husband heard loud noises around 6:00 Thursday morning, and called police.
"They said, the FBI is there and what you heard they said were flash grenades. Flash grenades they called them. Those are set off to stun somebody, make it hard for them to get away, make it hard for them to react," said Becky Post.
We're not showing the house involved, until we confirm it's the home the FBI searched.
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April 13, 2008
Santa Barbara, Calif. - An eleven-inning seesaw battle saw the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (23-11, 5-1) drop the series finale against the UC Davis Aggies (23-11, 5-1), 18-14 Sunday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The Aggies scored five times in the top of the eleventh after relinquishing a 13-12 lead in the bottom of the ninth to take the series two games to one. The top two teams in the Big West Conference combined for five lead changes, 32-runs scored, and 42 hits in Sunday's roller coaster contest.
The Gauchos jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the first, scoring three runs. With the bases loaded and one out, Shane Carlson found a hole on the left side of the infield, singling home Brian Gump and Chris Fox, to give the Gauchos a two run advantage. Patrick Rose followed suit, lacing a 1-2 pitch down the right field line, scoring Mike Zuanich from second. After one inning of play, the Gauchos found themselves ahead, 3-0.
The Aggies countered in the top of the second as Kyle Mihaylo ripped an RBI double to right center field, scoring Evan Hudson from first. Gaucho starter Chuck Huggins (6-1) retired Matt Dempsey to get out of the jam.
UC Davis tied things up in the top of the third with a pair of runs. After Gaucho shortstop Shane Carlson's errant throw on a double play ball extended the inning, Aggie catcher Jake Jefferies lined a two-RBI double down the right field line, tying the game at 3-3. Designated hitter Ryan Scoma put the Aggies in front, 4-3, with a seeing-eye RBI single up the middle.
UCSB knotted things up in the bottom of the fourth on Steve Cook's RBI single through the left side.
Aggie center fielder Ryan Royster broke a 4-4 tie in the top of the sixth with a two-RBI single into right field. Royster's base knock ran Gaucho starter Chuck Huggins from the game.
Huggins allowed nine runs (six earned) on nine hits in 5.1 innings of work. The Redwood City, Calif., native struck out three and walked only one.
Michael Martin came on in relief of Huggins and immediately allowed a single and a two-RBI double, before inducing two consecutive groundouts to get out of the inning. The five-run sixth inning for the Aggies, put them ahead, 9-4.
The Gauchos mounted a rally in the bottom of the seventh as Shane Carlson drove in Chris Fox with an RBI single up the middle, to bring the Gauchos within three, 9-6. With runners on second and third, Patrick Rose worked the count full before lacing a two-RBI single down the right field line. Rose's two-RBI single was his fourth hit on the day, as the Gauchos moved within one, 9-8. With one on and two down, Matt McColgan belted a go-ahead two-run home run high over the left field fence. McColgan's third long ball of the season put the Gauchos in front, 10-9. The Gaucho rally would continue, as Cook doubled into the left center field gap. Gump followed by banging an RBI double off the right field wall, and Chris Fox added to the parade with an RBI single of his own. After seven innings of play, the Gauchos held a 12-9 lead.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the eighth, Jason Roenicke came on in relief of Michael Martin to face Ryan Scoma. Scoma blooped a ball over the head of shortstop Shane Carlson for a two-RBI single, bringing UC Davis within one, 12-11. Aggie center fielder Ryan Royster's struck again with an RBI single up the middle to tie the game at 12-12 with two out in the top of the ninth. With Royster on first, Ty Kelly hit a soaring fly ball down the right field line. Second baseman Steve Cook ranged into shallow right but it fell in between right fielder Brian Gump and Cook for a go-ahead RBI double.
The Gauchos would not go down without a fight. In the bottom of the ninth, Gump redeemed himself, singling home Gunnar Terhune to tie the game back up, 13-13.
The tie wouldn't last long as UC Davis broke through for five runs in the top of the eleventh inning.
Royster, a thorn in the Gauchos side all day, broke the tie with a sac-fly RBI, scoring Grant Bauer from third to put the Aggies in front, 14-13. UC Davis wasn't done there, as they scored four more times in the inning. A two-RBI double by catcher Jake Jefferies, put UC Davis ahead, 16-13. The Aggies would tack on two more runs in the frame, taking a commanding five run lead into the bottom half of the eleventh.
The Gauchos scored once in the bottom half, but were unable to muster another late inning rally, eventually falling to their Big West Conference counterparts, 18-14.
UC Davis improved to 5-1 in BWC play, with the Gauchos fell to 6-3.
Justin Fitzgerald (3-1) picked up the win for the Aggies with 3.1 solid innings of relief work.
Zach Samuels (2-2) took the loss, allowing five earned runs in 1.2 innings of relief.
UC Davis catcher Jake Jefferies had a career day, going 5-for-7 with three runs scored and six RBI. Royster and Scoma both added four RBI as well.
Gaucho third baseman Patrick Rose led the way offensively going 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three RBI. Carlson went 2-for-6 with three runs scored and three RBI. Designated hitter Gunnar Terhune went 4-for-6 with two runs scored and one RBI.
Seven of the nine Gaucho starters recorded multi-hit games. In all, 24 position players played in the game, along with 11 pitchers. The Gauchos' 14 runs and 21 hits were the second highest totals of the season.
The Gauchos resume play Tuesday, April 16 against Westmont College at 2:00 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.


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A Ninilchik woman was found dead in a field in Ninilchik on Wednesday afternoon. Alaska State Troopers identified the woman as Kathy L. Kvasnikoff, 40. Although the cause of death has not yet been determined, no foul play is suspected, troopers said in a press release.
Troopers received a call about 3:35 p.m. Wednesday that a person passing by the field near the intersection of Kingsley Road and Bluff Drive saw a body. Bluff Drive is south of the intersection of Ninilchik-Oil Well Road and Kinglsey Road. Footprints led from the road to where Kvasnikoff's body was found, but because a snow plow had cleared the roads, troopers lost the tracks beyond that, said trooper spokesperson Megan Peters. Troopers don't know how she came to be in the field or if someone had driven her to the area and dropped her off.
"We don't know where she started from and what she was doing," Peters said.
Troopers could not see any obvious signs of death for Kvasnikoff. No firearms or weapons were involved and there were no apparent wounds. Her body will be taken to the Alaska State Medical Examiner for an autopsy.
Kvasnikoff was not wearing clothing suitable for the weather, Peters said.
Kvasnikoff had last been seen three days earlier. A family member reported her missing late Tuesday night.
Troopers have asked people with information on where Kvasnikoff might have been before she was found dead to call troopers.
"We don't know when she died or what she was doing prior to her death," Peters said. "If anyone has information, let us know so we can fill in the gaps."
People with information can call the Alaska State Troopers at 235-8239.
Kvasnikoff came from a longtime Ninilchik family with roots going back to the original 19th century settlement of the community.
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Oddly enough, there's one thing NOT PC readers have had on their mind's this week: Mt Albert. If you want to catch up on what posts were most read this week, then these are they:
- Support Pistorius in Mt Albert!
Here's your link to Julian's brochure and his Facebook Campaign page.
- DOWN TO THE DOCTOR'S: Mt Albert, Mudbaths and Morons
Doc McGrath tackles some of the mid-week's biggest news items. He might have mentioned a pig farm or two.
- NOT PJ: Long hard road in Mt Albert
And Bernard Darnton takes all the jokes other people have made about Melissa Lee and gathers them in one place.
- Selling out
Why is capitalism losing the battle? Look no further than the people who claim to support it, but dare not speak its name.
- Timeline of a short political career
Melissa Lee's political career arc has been up and down like a damp firework.
- Morgan-Wishart debate
Here's your audio link to the Gareth Morgan-Ian Wishart global warming debate on Leighton Smith's Newstalk ZB show earlier this week.
- More on stealing people's homes
As we've been saying, you don't actually need to steal people's homes to build motorways, power lines or railways.
So if you want to catch up NOT PC's week, then those are the posts to read first.
PS: And don't forget to check out this week's Objectivist Blog Carnival for lots more good stuff!


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Library sponsors Charles Darwin bobblehead fundraiserUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Communications & Events Coordinator, Library Services
In celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's Birthday and the sesquicentennial publication of On Origin of the Species, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library has purchased commemorative Charles Darwin Bobbleheads to sell in the Library Shop.
These "little Darwins" come complete with Darwin's dates inscribed on the base. Made of polyresin, the bobbleheads weigh about 1 pound, 3 ounces and stand approximately 7.5 inches tall.
Every Darwin fan and every biology lab needs a Little Darwin! What better way to assure the success of your thought processes and experiments than to have Charles Darwin overseeing your creative endeavors? It is the perfect gift for the scientist who has everything!
The sale of the Darwin bobbleheads supports Library enrichment events such as exhibits in the Bridge Gallery, lectures, readings, and workshops for the campus community. There are a limited number of Darwins left. If you missed out last year, now is your last chance to get Charles Darwin Bobblehead ($25/each) at the Business Window (956-7203) on the first floor of Hamilton Library.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 6:19PM #1
As I was just accused of being a Muslim on here, I thought I'd post my reasons for being on here arguing against the greatness and validity of Judaism....in someone else's words.....
It is surely true that the need and desire to believe precede belief. That may be due to a personality failing about which we can do nothing. We can, however, make our case plain enough so that the hard-headed, clear-eyed position begins to seem a virtue in itself.
We atheists must adopt a non-apologetic approach. We must shed the self-effacement which has too often characterized us. We must assert the moral and ethical superiority of our position. Indeed, we must be as ready to do so as the religious are with regard to their position. We must tell the world of the robustness and joyfulness of the intellectual, moral, and emotional freedom which atheism represents.
You'd need to read my entire blog to fully understand why I believe the ancient Hebrews worshipped volcanic activity.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 7:41PM #2
So, good for you for finding a belief system that works for you?
If your goal is proselytism, you need to show why atheism is attractive and beneficial enough for a person to make the cost benefit analysis to decide to convert. If a person is happy with their religious belief, what does non-belief offer to make the switch worthwhile?
If your goal is to force and bully people into agreeing with you, then you've got a problem in terms of hypocrisy.
I disagree with your premise because I believe that the religious impulse is an integral part of human culture and religion offers many positive goods to both individuals and communities. The problem is fundamentalism, the arrogant belief that one's own opinions alone are correct and that everyone who disagrees is wrong and stupid and bad. THAT is what imperils the human future.
I'm quite happy as a progressive Anglican and have no intention of adopting atheism.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 7:55PM #3
fog you appear to not like Jews. Yes you have been on the CD board and the Atheist board, but here is where you seem to like to say unpleasant things to those who are Jewish. So it is more then, just being theists.
You are an atheist, great, you are happy being an atheist great. Why are you proselyting that?
Why are you obsessed with Judaism?
Why not everyone live and let live. Judaism is not trying to take over the world, or forcing itself into government or threatening people for not converting. Again why the obsession? Christianity and Islam has a much worse track record for abuses. Particularly in the modern world.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato..
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 8:06PM #4
I read the page presented. It was not especially interesting and was mired in error and anger. I read of your approach and goal and neither is particularly persuasive. If you belief in convincing others that your position vis-a-vis religion and atheism is sound and morally right then you have a long way to go until you reach that point. All you have done is make me feel even more comfortable in my beliefs. So, thanks for that.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 8:29PM #5
Oh I am so sorry. Forgive me for being presumptuous but I was sure you would all be aware that right now religion is causing a whole lot of trouble in the world and may well be the cause of yet another war.....Israel and Iran....two horribly opposing nations/religions that have actually got a lot in common, but that is often the way isn't it? Same fake god, same use of uniforms, similar beliefs, different sides of the fence, different label.
I am not focusing on Judaism. I have spent a lot of time on Islam and on Christianity and even the New Age.....all religions that produce people who believe they are superior and that encourage seperatism and disregard and disdain of 'the others'.
Religion is a comforter and Judaism is the ultimate comforter as it presents itself as a family. One big family all conforting each other. However, that desire to huddle amongst yourselves and see everyone else as defective/inferior 'computer game players and party people' (quoting from one Jew on here) has done you no good long term.
Religion is a mental prison for the various herd mentalities initiated by primitive people who lived in scary times surrounded by natural phenomena they didn't understand and under constant threat of attack from neighbouring people of different paranoid dillusions.
What's changed? Not a lot, apart from the fact each person in the world now has the opportunity to learn about their religion and to comprehend the problems religion has caused the world.
What's more important to you? Comfort or world peace, because this world will not survive if all the people with the comfort blanket refuse to be flexible and meet 'the others' halfway....i.e. blend in.
You'd need to read my entire blog to fully understand why I believe the ancient Hebrews worshipped volcanic activity.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 8:43PM #6
The brewing conflict between Israel and Iran is based on geopolitical concerns and imperial ambitions, not religion. Iran possibly wants nuclear capability to extend its national interests in the region and defend itself against Western imperial aggression; Israel is contemplating per-emptively attacking Iran because it believes that it will be the first target of Iran's imperial aggression.
While the current government of Iran is theocratic, Israel is not formally a theocratic state.
If you really believe that removing religion will bring universal peace, then you are as ignorant of history and human nature as you are of Biblical criticism.
The REAL cause of human misery and the REAL threat to our future is the material inequality and exploitation that is inherent to the capitalist mode of production.
You bourgeois atheists are all alike: you would strip people of the opiate that gives them some comfort and escape from the material horrors of the modern age but do NOTHING to solve the real material suffering that makes the illusion of religion so comforting.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 9:15PM #7
Marx aptly described atheists like you as like "children who tell anyone who is willing to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogeyman."
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 9:16PM #8
That is anti-goyism and I am offended by that.
So you assume I am a materialist. What makes you think that? In fact you could not be further from the truth and my work is very much focused on persuading people to be more thoughtful of the cost of materialism. What is your job?
Are you saying all the Jews who were executed in the holocaust did not suffer REAL human misery? Is materialism more REAL a human misery than being executed? How about the millions of people killed by Muslims during their Bible based conquests over the centuries? Not REALy miserable deaths? How about the indigenous people slaughtered by Christians during Colonialism? Not REALy that miserable? Not a patch of the human cost of materialism?
Ok, so materialism is misery making and that is why I am passionate about my (normal) work. But have you ever investigated the cause of the hideous rise in materialism? Why are people in the West so addicted to buying cheap crap from China and then throw it all away after a week? Why do they spend so much money on plastic junk when they have kids with rickets due to poor diets? China is a Communist country and it became Communist under the persuasion of Jews.
Before the flood of cheap imports from China, Europeans mostly produced their own goods and valued them more highly....i.e. were less materialistic.
So, yes, I am with you on the materialism thing and am very annoyed that Communist China is destroying European manufacturing and destroying the youth with plastic junk and over sexualised children's clothing and toys, but it's is not the REAL misery maker.
Moderated by Bunsinspace on Apr 16, 2012 - 10:57PM
You'd need to read my entire blog to fully understand why I believe the ancient Hebrews worshipped volcanic activity.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 9:24PM #9
So, Foggy - if your 'belief system' is so fulfilling and satisfying to you, why are you continually coming back here?
If you'd learned only ONE actual fact about Jews, it's that we despise proselytizing and those who proselytize - of whatever faith to whatever faith, it's the whole concept that repels so many of us.
If any of us desired to no longer be a Jew, we'd be doing something about it. It's not as though anyone here needs your help, LOL!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 16, 2012 - 10:13PM #10
Im pretty sure that "anti-goyism" isn't a word, and I have no clue where you find that in my post. If you would be so kind as to point that out to me, I'd appreciate it.
I apologize for assuming you were a materialist just because you are an atheist who denies and rejects all spiritual beliefs that cannot be proven by science as comforting but dangerous illusions. I don't know how I could have leapt to that conclusion.
As far material suffering, all I know is that millions if not billions are starving, have no access to clean water or health care, and are forced to slave their lives away for pennies in soul-crushing misery. Even in the Core, where the wealth extracted from the laboring poor and subject nations flows, there is poverty and alienation as everyone must compete to satisfy the whim of the Invisible Hand. What will atheism do to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, set captives free? How will your atheism pull down the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly? How will it bring justice to an unjust world where 5% of the world population controls over 1/3 of its wealth?
Because if your atheism doesn't address these issues, not only is it no better than the religions you condemn but italso even worse as it offers not even an illusion of hope.
The exportation of industrial production to the Third World is the product of the free market and the inevitable logic of capitalismI one invests capital where it can make the most profit, and you maximize profit by exploiting labor.
China hasn't been "Communist" since Deng Xiaoping took over. I also didn't know that Mao was a Jew.
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What is Ganglia?
Posted by Matt Massie in FYI on November 9, 2005
Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for compact, portable data transport, and RRDtool for data storage and visualization. It uses carefully engineered data structures and algorithms to achieve very low per-node overheads and high concurrency. The implementation is robust, has been ported to an extensive set of operating systems and processor architectures, and is currently in use on thousands of clusters around the world. It has been used to link clusters across university campuses and around the world and can scale to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.
Ganglia is a BSD-licensed open-source project that grew out of the University of California, Berkeley Millennium Project which was initially funded in large part by the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and National Science Foundation RI Award EIA-9802069. NPACI is funded by the National Science Foundation and strives to advance science by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure: the Grid. Current support comes from Planet Lab: an open platform for developing, deploying, and accessing planetary-scale services.
We're back!
Posted by Matt Massie in Uncategorized on March 7, 2018
SourceForge updated their infrastructure and we missed the email explaining how to prevent downtime. Everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ganglia Web 3.7.2 released
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on June 14, 2016
Ganglia Web 3.7.2 has been released. Changes in this release are
- Fix for a reflected XSS issue in the metrics API
- Other minor improvements and fixes
Thanks to Lior Adar from Palantir Security for reporting the XSS issue.
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Ganglia Core 3.7.1 Release
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on April 1, 2015
Ganglia team is happy to announce release 3.7.1 of Ganglia core. Major changes in this release are
- Hash table in gmetad has been reworked to support much higher metric counts and larger number of metrics
- A number of GMond python modules have been rewritten and enhanced
You can download the latest release here
Ganglia developers at GSoC Reunion 2014
Posted by dpocock in Uncategorized on October 25, 2014
Ganglia developers Daniel Pocock, Carlo Arenas, Vladimir Vuksan and Robert Kovacs were invited to the Google Summer of Code reunion / mentor summit 2014.
Google organized a gala dinner at the Tech Museum, San Jose, to celebrate 10 years of GSoC. Pocock and Arenas discussed Ganglia's role in Linux HPC with Linus Torvalds over drinks.
Ganglia web 3.6.2 released
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on August 3, 2014
Ganglia Web 3.6.2 has been released. Changes in this release are
- Performance improvements including https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/pull/240, https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/commit/6df16c88131a828ce6b9855eca7fbfcc5146a2ae
- New clearer heatmaps https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/pull/235
- Other minor improvements and fixes
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Ganglia welcomes Google Summer of Code students for 2014
Posted by dpocock in Uncategorized on May 20, 2014
Ganglia has been granted funding for five students in the 2014 Google Summer of Code
The names of the students chosen for the program were announced on 21 April and the official coding period has started this week.
The students are:
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|Plamen Dimitrov
|NVIDIA GPU monitoring
|Md Ali Ahsan Rana
|Ganglia/Nagios integration
|Chandrika Parimoo
|Ng Zhi An
|Internal Ganglia metrics
|Oliver Hamm
and the mentoring team consists of Rajat Phull, Bernard Li, Nick Satterly, Robert Kovacs and Daniel Pocock.
The whole Ganglia community congratulates the students on their selection for GSoC this year and is very excited about working with them. We would also like to thank O'Reilly for generously providing the GSoC students with copies of the book Monitoring with Ganglia
If any other member of the community would like to assist formally or informally in the mentoring program, testing any of the projects or anything else please just get in touch with us through the Ganglia developers mailing list or #ganglia on freenode
Google Summer of Code 2014: Ganglia offers opportunities in Data Science, Machine Learning, jQuery, JavaScript, Python
Posted by dpocock in Uncategorized on February 28, 2014
The Ganglia team is delighted to be a part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) in 2014
We are currently looking to expand our team of mentors and we are enthusiastically looking to welcome students who want to contribute to the project.
Please see some of the following resources:
Ganglia Web 3.5.12
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on January 6, 2014
Ganglia Web 3.5.12 has been released. Changes in this release are
- Fix for failure to create heatmaps https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/pull/222
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Ganglia Web 3.5.11 released
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on December 31, 2013
Ganglia Web 3.5.11 has been released. Changes in this release are
- Improved cluster load heat map https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/pull/212
- Fix for a XSS when supplying a host regular expression filter https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/issues/218
- Numerous other enhancements and fixes
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Ganglia Web 3.5.10 released
Posted by vuksan in Uncategorized on July 9, 2013
Ganglia Web 3.5.10 has been released. Changes in this release are
- Support adding cluster view graphs to views
- Correct the issue where under certain circumstances aggregate graphs would omit random hosts
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This little tool is here to help you to document your DTD's efficiently. It is a straightforward extension of the javadoc concept and a not so straightforward implementation of some of the concepts solidified by a half-God.
Advantages of DTDDoc over competition (let's do some marketing :))
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#1 Barack Obama surrounded by fried chicken10-17-2008, 12:51 PM
From the Los Angeles Times
Altered Obama photo in GOP club newsletter sparks outrage
Illustration shows the candidate's head on donkey's body on a bogus $10 bill that says 'Food Stamps.' Leader of the Upland women's group denies racism, but a state party official decries the image.
By David Kelly
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2008
A Republican women's club in San Bernardino County sent out a recent newsletter with a photo of Barack Obama surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon and ribs, sparking widespread outrage and rebuke from GOP leaders and Democrats.
The illustration shows the Democratic presidential candidate's head atop a donkey's body on a bogus $10 bill referred to as "Obama Bucks." Inscribed on the money are the words "United States Food Stamps" surrounded by stereotypical African American food.
The October newsletter went out to about 200 members of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, based in Upland.
"I apologize to anyone who was offended because that was not my intent," said club President Diane Fedele. "It was poor judgment on my part. It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of Obama's statement that he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
The caption reads: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on ????? Food Stamps, what else!"
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,2506591.storyAt Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)
I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
Where can I get one?
Maybe I'll just wait until the Messiah is elevated to King, and get them from the bank.
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The Mustangs of PCM had a roller coaster ride Friday night with the girls losing a nail-biter 46-41 and the boys winning by an amazing 99-62 blowout against South Hamilton.
Both PCM and South Hamilton started out cold in the 1st quarter of the girls' game, as the score was 9-4 and both teams shot under 30 percent from the field; but things would heat up for the Mustangs after a 8-0 run to go up by 3 and take a 17-16 halftime lead. The same margin held true after three quarters of play at 31-30.
Unfortunately, the Mustangs were only held to only ten points in the 4th quarter after an 8-0 run by South Hamilton's senior Taryn Wicks – who scored 22 points throughout the game and put the Hawks up by seven with under two minutes left to play – putting the game out of reach. The Mustangs fall to 9-5 overall in the season and 7-5 in the Heart of Iowa Conference and face Roland Story in Monroe on Tuesday night.
The PCM boys opened the nightcap with a quick 29-12 1st quarter to bury the Hawks early, en route to a 39-point win. Scott Bruxvoort would be the Mustang's go-to-guy, yet again, as he had little resistance scoring 46 points throughout the night as one of ten Mustangs in the scoring column.
PCM now goes to 12-2 in the season and 10-1 in the Pride of Iowa Conference and will face Roland-Story in Monroe on Tuesday. You can catch a delayed broadcast of last night's action on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. on 92.1 KRLS.


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Fall - Made his season debut at the Cobb/Ferrell Mean Green Classic... Led the Cougars at that tournament with a score of 221 to finish in a tie for 15th place... Tied for 15th at the Del Walker Intercollegiate to lead the Cougars for the second straight tournament... Posted a score of 212 to lead the team... Led the Cougars at the Baylor Intercollegiate with a 17th-place finish. Spring - Led the Cougars with an even-par 216 to tie for third at the Rice Intercollegiate... Fired a 69-68 through the first two rounds to grab the first-day lead... Finished second at UH's own All-American Intercollegiate... Fired back-to-back 69s in the final two rounds to lead the Cougars... Led the Cougars at the National Invitational Tournament with a score fo 221 to tie for 29th... Shot a 4-under-par 68 during the final round of the Administaff Augusta State Invitational to lead the Cougars... Rallied from a tough start to shoot a 69 in the final round at the River Landing Intercollegiate.
Fall - Played in all four tournaments... Recorded the first Top-Five finish of his career with a fifth-place score of 219 at the Kansas Invitational... Had a score of 217 at the Del Walker Intercollegiate... Shot 227 at the Duke Classic... Began his collegiate career at the St. Mary's Invitational, where he posted a score of 230. Spring - Finished second at the Cougars' own All-American Intercollegiate with a score of 216... Fired a 71 in the middle round at that tournament... Posted an even-par 72 in the second round at the Border Olympics... Tied for medalist honors at the National Invitational Tournament after shooting 8-under-par 208... Finished 7-under-par through the final two rounds of that tournament... Led the Cougars with a 13th-place finish at the C-USA Championship... Posted scores of 72 and 71 during the first two rounds on the way to a 54-hole score of 218.
Golfed for two years at Kent State... Competed in four tournaments in his sophomore season... Tied for 26th place at the Mattaponi Springs Shootout with a 3-over-par score of 219... Tied for 38th place at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate after shooting 9-over par... Played in six tournaments in freshman season with the Flashes... Posted a scoring average of 75.50... Best finish was a tie for 22nd place at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at the Ridges after shooting an even par 72 in the final round... Shot a season-low round of 71 in the second round of the 2006 Louisiana Classics, where he tied for 32nd place... Also played in the Tunica National Intercollegiate and Inverness Intercollegiate Tournaments.
Attended St. David Catholic Secondary School... Honored as the 2004 Male Athlete of the Year... Was also named golf team MVP all four years of high school... Won the Ontario Junior Tournament of Champions and the R.C.G.A. Future Links Championship at Listowel Golf Club in 2004... Was the medalist in Porter Cup Qualifying after he tied the tournament's record for low qualifying round with a 64... Eventually tied for 53rd place...Lost in the round of 16 at the 2005 GAO Ontario Match Play Championship and RCGA Canadian Amateur... Tied for third at GAO Men's Amateur with a 5-under-par 283... Selected to the Canadian Junior Boys All-Star Team that competed in the 2004 Canada vs. Ireland matches... Was the runner-up at the 2004 Ontario Junior Boys Championship where he had a four-round total of 2-under par 286... Played hockey in the Cambridge Winterhawks League and helped team capture a provincial championship.
Born April 11, 1986, in Waterloo Ontario, Canada... Son of Dennis and Judy Moser... Majoring in business management... Is left-handed... Also recruited by UAB and Oklahoma.


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Jack Nicholas Jones was born May 1, 2005, weighing 6 lbs. 10 oz., to parents Nicole DeSalvo and Robert Jones of Carmel, to maternal grandparents Karen DeSalvo of Putnam Valley and John DeSalvo of Kansas, and to paternal grandparents Jackie and Ed Jones of Carmel.
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That intrinsic burden of responsibility, of taking charge, being the unruffled voice of reason, was instilled in the son early.
"He's the oldest of five kids so it just comes naturally, I guess," surmises Kevin Glenn, Sr., from the family home outside Detroit. "Kevin used to catch the bus home from school with two of his younger siblings and he was always the boss. The one making sure everything was OK and everyone was all right. Kevin's been that way all his life. Quiet. A leader. Someone people turn to, are drawn to, listen to. Never complains. Whether you lose or you win, you've just got to get better and better and better.
"When he plays against competitive people, when obstacles are put in his path, it just pushes him to go further and further and further."
All the way, Sunday, to his first start in a Grey Cup game. At 33.
The Kevin Glenn story has morphed into THE story of the 100th anniversary of the game that knits our nation (at least most of it) together. The kind of heart-tugging tale of adversity and perseverance and sweet
Kevin Sr. reckons nine members of the immediate family will be heading across the border from Motor City to see how the story plays out. It helps that he works for Southwest Air and his wife Jill for United. So they're handling the flights.
Kevin Jr. is, apparently, on the hook for tickets.
"I hope so," laughs his dad. "Else some of us are going to be stuck outside!"
To say that Jr. is a chip off the ol' block might be understating the fact some. A mirror-image, more like.
"A lot of people," says quarterback Kevin, "mistake us for brothers, not father and son. That's OK. Actually, I think it's pretty cool.
"I'm proud to be named after my dad. Very proud. The only downside to being a Jr. is that people gettin' us mixed up all the time. When I first went to apply to buy a house they told me I already owned one. And I'm like 'Um, no I'm pretty sure I don't ...' And apparently I had a couple of credit cards I didn't know about, either, since '89.
"When I was only 10."
Kevin Glenn has always felt familial backing. For instance, his folks showed up for the '07 Grey Cup here, even though their son had suffered a broken arm in the East final and was unable quarterback the Winnipeg Blue Bombers that disheartening day.
"My whole career my dad has been coming out to support me. He's the reason I'm actually playing football. I don't think I'd be here if he hadn't convinced me to keep at it. When I got to high school I had no intentions of playing football. I was gonna quit and stick with baseball. He convinced me. He saw the potential. So I played football. And from that day forward, I've never stopped playing football."
The patriarchal pride isn't only in the performance. Because there's much more, as we've learned over the past few months, to Kevin Glenn. The dad speaks now of the phone call he received when John Hufnagel decided to re-insert Drew Tate for the West semifinal as the starter, even after the son had been quietly stellar, understatedly brilliant, for 14 weeks in replacement.
"We talked that day," recalls Kevin Sr., "and he said to me: 'Coach Huff's gonna start Drew, dad. And as long as we win, I'm OK with that.' "
Everyone, by now, knows what happened next.
"I'm proud just because of the type of person he is. He's a nice kid. He cares about the person beside him. Our family is a close family. He has his priorities straight. When Saskatchewan had him on his neg list, he didn't have his degree yet. He said he was going to back and get it. And he did. He's a man of his word. When he was playing in Saskatchewan, he was going to Illinois State in the off-season. And we all went up to see him get his degree.
"That made us proud. That made him proud. That's what family's all about."
That sense of obligation his father speaks of, the sort of clear-thinking and bulldog-like determination are what helps define Kevin Jr., and have served the Stampeders so well in difficult times this season. Clearly, the sense of respect is reciprocal.
"A lot of people don't necessarily have their dads in their lives, or they're kind of a here-today, gone-tomorrow type thing," says the son. "I've been fortunate enough to have had my dad in my life my entire life. I don't take that for granted, believe me.
"I envision him being on the field after we've won. Yeah. Certainly I do. My dad, my whole family. They were there for me in '07 when I was hurting the most. When I was down. When I was doubting.
"So to have them there if I could win a championship ..."
You couldn't keep Kevin Sr. away by tying him to a team of wild horses or by chaining him to a departing fleet of Monster Trucks.
"I'd say we're both jacked up," says the dad. "He's not going to show you so much but believe me, he is. He's a pretty quiet, laid-back guy. Inside, I can promise you, his heart is thumping. He talked to me over the phone after the Western semifinal and I could tell he's very excited.
"He really wanted to be in that game in '07 and now he's finally got another chance to go back and play in it. I couldn't be happier for him. I know how much this means to him.
"You tell those people in Calgary they're coming home with the Cup.
"It's going to be the icing on the cake."
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New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A historical drama "Bharat Ka Veer Putra - Maharana Pratap", inspired by the life and times of the 16th century Rajput ruler, will roll out soon on Sony Entertainment Television.
Produced by Contiloe Productions, the idea for the show germinated while producer Abhimanyu Singh was working on "Jhansi Ki Rani".
"While making 'Jhansi Ki Rani', I kept coming across the fact that Maharana Pratap was a major source of inspiration to Rani Lakshmi Bai. On reading more on him, I realised that he was one of the bravest Indian rulers to have ruled in India, a true patriot who never gave up his freedom," Singh said in a statement.
Channel officials are hopeful the show finds resonance with today's generation.
"We hope to give the audience an insight into his inspirational life. We have always been fascinated with the countless stories of courage, valour and sacrifices associated with Maharana Pratap, and most of them are extremely pertinent and relevant even in today's times," said Sneha Rajani, senior executive vice-president and business head, Sony Entertainment Television.
The cast of the show is not yet known, and the date of its telecast is yet to be locked. If sources are to be believed, it will take a few months before it hits the small screen.


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CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Names UNA One of America's 'Great Colleges to Work For in 2013'
Jul. 29, 2013
By Terry Pace, Communications and Marketing
FLORENCE, Ala. – The University of North Alabama has been named one of America's "Great Colleges to Work For in 2013" by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation's premier publication for professionals in the academic world.
In its sixth annual survey of faculty and staff, the Washington, D.C.-based journal recognized UNA and 96 other colleges based on employee responses in 12 categories of evaluation.
"Taking pride in one's university is reflected in the quality of everyone's work," UNA President William G. Cale remarked. "Students are the great beneficiaries of attending a school such as UNA because when we all care about what we do, the learning environment, the service environment and the extracurricular environment are the best they can be. I am the greatest champion of this university because I so deeply believe in the talented people who excel every day in what they do."
UNA earned high marks in five categories: Collaborative Governance, Confidence in Senior Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Professional/Career Development Programs and Work/Life Balance. Through The Chronicle's volunteer survey, faculty and staff at each participating college agree or disagree with survey statements related to each specific category.
"Our faculty and staff enjoy their work at the university largely due to the freedom they feel to pursue their professional and career goals," noted Catherine White, UNA's director of human resources. "Our university has over 180 years of history, and our setting in northwest Alabama offers an unsurpassed quality of life. Our faculty and staff recognize the wonderful opportunity that is employment at UNA. Our employees love the university, so there is a shared sense of commitment to it which makes for a great working environment."
Colleges are grouped in the survey as either four-year or two-year institutions, and by enrollment size. (UNA is included in the category of medium-sized colleges with an enrollment of 7,128 students.) Other colleges recognized this year include the University of Southern California, Baylor University, Stanford University, University of Notre Dame, Duke University, Gettysburg College, Washington and Lee University, Austin Peay State University, Mississippi State University and two other Alabama colleges, Troy University (which received recognition in one category) and the University of Montevallo (which earned honors in two categories).
"Both our faculty and staff are supported in their professional and career endeavors through encouraged participation in professional conferences, research opportunities, and through our generous Tuition Remission program, which includes traditional and distance-learning formats as well as continuing-studies programs," added Kari-Kay Cassady, human-resources coordinator for UNA. "Our faculty and staff are also provided with expert assistance in applying for and receiving grants for various professional research and activities."
In its summary of "Outstanding Features" of UNA, The Chronicle emphasized the university's broad-based commitment to the development of writing skills among students as well as faculty: "The campus Center for Writing Excellence offers workshops on issues related to writing across the curriculum and in scholarly disciplines. North Alabama also sponsors a weeklong writing-and-research retreat for faculty to work on publications and presentations."
UNA previously participated in The Chronicle survey in 2010, when the school also ranked high in Shared Governance, Job Satisfaction, and other key areas of workplace excellence.
"UNA has an extremely effective governance structure that fosters open communication and gives all employees the opportunity to be fully informed, to voice concerns and to seek change," Cale believes. "When individuals know that their voice is heard and respected, a university is on its way to being a great place to work."
Results of the survey were published in a special "Academic Workplace" edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education released on Friday, July 26. Results of the survey and rankings for each college are available online at http://chronicle.com/article/Great-Colleges-To-Work-For/140369/#id=big-table.
A high-resolution image of the cover of the "Academic Workplace" issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education is available in the UNA Gallery at: http://www.unalionsden.com/archive/photo.php?id=7577
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GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official says he hopes that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire in Syria will take place, but he warns that there are no guarantees it will hold.
The 15-nation U.N. Security Council endorsed the idea of a temporary truce, proposed by the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria with the aim of setting up talks on ending the country's 19-month-old conflict.
"We hope that they both realize the importance of a pause in the fighting ... in the symbolic quieting the silence of the guns," said Jan Eliasson Eliasson, the U.N. Deputy Secretary-General. "But the most important thing is that it could perhaps create a political environment, where political talks are possible," he said Thursday.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the envoy, has warned that the failure of yet another U.N. cease-fire plan would only worsen the fighting.


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Monday, September 20, 2010
Ohio Bobcat Mascot Banned for Bum Rushing Brutus Buckeye
Apparently the OU Bobcat didn't get the message.
As Ohio State's Brutus Buckeye led his team onto the field before the Tosu/OU game, the jackhole wearing the Bobcat costume thought this was the perfect time to bum rush Brutus and tackle him. Bobcat guy then followed Brutus into the endzone where he jumped on his back as Tosu fans booed (yet, shockingly, didn't kill the bobcat).
OU officials released a statement today apologizing for the incident and banning the student in the Bobcat costume from any future association with the school's athletic department.
Seriously, dude, what exactly was your thought process on this one?
5 comments:
- phil said...
There's a lot more to this story than the press is covering. It involves Brutus and a covert affair with the Bobcat's wife. The Ohio Bobcat earlier in the day found text messages on his wife's phone and the ugly incident came to a head at the Ohio State endzone. In related news, Brutus will be the new spokesman for EXTENZE.
- September 20, 2010 5:11 PM
- plooder said...
Interpol reports that Bucky Badger paid the Bobcat for the nefarious assault. As it turns out, Brutus loaned Bucky a large sum of nuts to pay off a gambling debt to the Minnesota Gopher; this scene was Bucky's attempt to liquidate his debts.
- September 20, 2010 5:55 PM
- Bigasshammm said...
One of the most incredible things I've seen in a long time.
- September 20, 2010 10:30 PM
- Mikoyan said...
It couldn't have happened to a better mascot.
- September 21, 2010 1:45 AM
- Paul Poenicke said...
As a Michigan fan who spent time as an undergrad at Ohio, this was like Christmahanakwanza five months early. Wonderful! Glad to see someone putting that worthless nut in his place.
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Fort Valley Shooting Suspect Arrested in Florida | Crime
A man who allegedly critically wounded a woman in a Saturday night shooting in Fort Valley is now in custody.
A news release from Police Chief Lawrence Spurgeon says 26-year-old Brandon Strickland of Newnan is now in custody in Gainesville, Fla. on drug-trafficking charges.
No further information on the arrest is available.
A news release from Spurgeon says the shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. at 413 Anderson Ave. He said officers found 27-year-old Dandra McKay had been shot.
She was taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia where, Anderson said, she is now in critical condition.
The release says Strickland was the suspected shooter.
Anyone with any information on the case can call Fort Valley Police Dept at (478) 825-3384.


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Matt Muller, a 22-year-old business major with concentrations in IT management and legal studies, graduates from Babson College May 18 with a job in hand. How does that feel? Here's what he told Globe correspondent Cindy Atoji Keene.
I was 100 percent confident that I'd be employed after graduation, but until a few weeks ago, I wasn't sure what that job would look like. But thanks to a recent offer from Inflection, a San Francisco start-up, I'll be winging my way out to the West Coast in August to become an online product manager, earning $62,000 annually.
During my four years at Babson, I wasn't that focused on the ultimate end goal, a full-time job, except that people kept asking, "What are you planning on doing after graduation?" I didn't have an absolute answer. When I first started college, I thought maybe I'd go back to managing IT at Cape Rail, where I worked myself up from ticket seller to taking care of all the regional rail line's technological services. Then I thought I'd be an accountant; I really didn't know, but I believed it would all work out as part of the college experience.
I heard about the job at Inflection through a good friend of mine, who is one of the company's operations folks. He happened to be in Boston, and we grabbed dinner. He said to me, "Matt, I love my work; I think you should check out the company." He recommended me to a hiring manager, and after five or six phone interviews, they flew me out there to interview with another half a dozen people. There were over a thousand candidates for 13 positions, so it was my task to persuade the team that I was the best person for the job.
I've lost track of the number of times I've worked on my elevator pitch, rehearsing it over and over. I was thrilled when I heard I got the position — it's perfect for me, because I can do both sides of the equation, both the nitty-gritty of digital life, if you will, as well as business development.
About half of my friends have already landed jobs after graduation; the other half are actively looking or actively trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. Since I've been working various jobs since age 14 and have even started my own Web design company, I look pretty good to recruiters.
I spend a lot of time — about two to three hours a day — on social media that develops my own "brand." Between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and my own blog, I have a pretty intense online presence. It's definitely challenging to find a job in this economy, but I believe strategy and persistence ultimately pay off. It takes a lot of introspection to determine what you're good at — and what you're not good at.


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I changed things this year. We are meeting a newly divorced friend of ours for an early dinner and will have appetizers later.Brunch tomorrow will be braised steak, hashbrown casserole, freshly baked doughnuts and black eyed peas along with hog jowl bacon. Should be delicious.Tomorrow night is just appetizers for DH and I.
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So, been watching this and noticed there is like no entries on the show. And there are a bunch of smoking people on it! Over-18s of course i am referring to.
Such as The Collective? Only one of the five is under 18, the others are far over it! Like trent and zach and will!!
Nathaniel for the Michael Buble aspect? Adil for a lifeguard? Josh Brooks for a white guy? Justin Standley for those who like a bit of cowboy? Fourtunate??
The judges! Ronan Keating is some fine Irish ass. And Guy Sebastian, he surely must do it for some. What about Luke Jacobz the host? Or Johnny Ruffo, last years winner who is now declaring to the world he's on top of the world when he's on top (of you girl, but hey... live a little)
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New Jersey's Attorney General Freaks Out About Proof-Of-Concept Bitcoin Mining App; Issues Ridiculous Subpoena
from the overreach dept
Apparently, at a hackathon back in November, some MIT students hacked together a proof-of-concept version of this kind of thing called Tidbit. As the EFF explains:
Tidbit uses a client's computer to mine for Bitcoins as an alternative to website advertising: in exchange for removing ads from a website, a user would give some CPU cycles to mine for Bitcoins instead. Tidbit was clearly presented as a proof of concept, with the developers making clear the code was configured not to mine for Bitcoins. That's because in addition to refining the code, they needed to work out the legal details, like drafting a terms of service, and the ethical details, like making sure there was a way for users to opt-in to the service so their computers weren't being used to mine Bitcoins without their knowledge. Tidbit won the Node Knockout award for innovation and the students thought they were on their way to continuing with their project.Again: it was a proof of concept that couldn't actually mine Bitcoin, and the developers were working on ways to make sure that it was only useful for legitimate purposes before releasing the software. But, it appears that New Jersey's grandstanding acting Attorney General John Hoffman (who has gone after some app makers who had installed secret Bitcoin miners with apps), along with Deputy Attorney General Glenn Graham, suddenly decided that this proof-of-concept software must be illegal as well, and sent over a ridiculously overbroad subpoena. EFF is now helping the developers fight that subpoena.
As EFF explained in a letter to Graham, the whole effort was ridiculous. Not only do the developers have nothing at all to do with New Jersey, but the code is just a proof of concept and isn't being used for any actual Bitcoin mining -- and the whole point was to use it with consent for legal purposes. New Jersey sent back a somewhat obnoxious letter, basically saying, "screw you, we're New Jersey, you must respond to the subpoena."
Tidbit, with the help of EFF, has now filed a motion to quash the subpoena. Yes, Bitcoin is an emerging field right now, and the regulations around it are a bit up in the air. But there's no way to look at this other than as a massive overreach by politicians in New Jersey who have suddenly decided that any Bitcoin mining app must be up to no good. Hopefully the courts recognize that this is just a massive overreach on several different levels.


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Scope and Contents: The Totsye Harper Winslow papers on the Curtis-Wright Cadettes (1943-1997; 0.25 cubic feet) documents role and history of the Curtis-Wright Cadettes at Purdue and in the Curtis-Wright Corporation during World War II. Photographs, newsletter, and clippings document their time at Purdue as well as the Engineering Cadette Program. Programs, newsletters, and papers document local and national reunions of the cadettes, as well as their history. Also included is information on the individual members of the Purdue Cadette classes. The collection is mostly representative of the Purdue Cadettes, with very little information on the women who graduated from Curtiss-Wright Programs at other Universities. This collection would be useful tor researchers interested in women in science, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, World War II production, and the role of women in the war effort. Types of materials include: photographs, programs, newsletters, and papers.


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A Richland Hills woman has been indicted for the assault of her gay neighbor after she allegedly beat and choked him with her cane while screaming "faggot" back in March.
Wanda Jena Derby, 72, became upset when her adult son began moving in with neighbor Lloyd Guerrero and his family on March 28, Richland Hills police Detective Tye Bell said previously. She allegedly approached Guerrero and beat him with her cane, yelling "faggot" and trying to choke him.
Bell said Derby told police she was afraid Guerrero would give her son AIDS because he was gay.
Guerrero suffered bruises to his body and neck but was treated at the scene by police.
Derby was initially charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, but was indicted Sept. 14 on a charge of assault causing bodily injury, a Class-A misdemeanor.
Christopher McGregor, the assistant district attorney assigned to the case, said Derby's case was presented to the grand jury as a felony, but they returned it as a misdemeanor indictment.
McGregor said the language in the indictment was used to try to convince a jury that the assault was a hate crime, which could increase Derby's sentence.
According to the indictment, Derby caused bodily injury to Guerrero "by hitting him with a cane or by hitting him with her hand, or by pinning his neck to a wall with a cane."
The indictment also states that Derby "intentionally selected Lloyd Guerrero as the victim of the offense" because of her "bias or prejudice against a person or a group, namely: Homosexuals."
Texas' hate crimes statute doesn't allow a misdemeanor to be enhanced to a felony, but would require a minimum of 180 days in jail. Punishment for a Class A misdemeanor is up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine, according to the Texas Penal Code.
Derby faces another misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly striking Guerrero's mother when she tried to intervene in the attack. A pre-trial conference for both cases is scheduled for Oct. 31.
Guerrero told Instant Tea that he's healed emotionally since the March assault and no longer harbors angry feelings toward Derby. He and his family moved out of the apartment complex within a week of the attack, he said.
He said 180 days in jail as a minimum punishment if Derby is convicted is a good thing, and he agrees that amount of time is enough for justice to be served and Derby to learn her lesson.
"Even though she did something terrible, people make mistakes. It's not something she should ever be happy about," he said. "I'm to the point where I can forgive her."
Guerrero is focusing on getting his Project: Blue Voice organization classified as a nonprofit. He started the group after his hate crime attack to share the stories of others who have been attacked for being who they are. He said he's already planning to visit schools in the coming months to start a dialogue about hate and bullying.


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Hi, everyone:
Got the idea of starting this thread from a comment by Mr.Widget that my 45 year old Hartsfield shown in my avatar might be the oldest one owner Lansing system in the forum. I really doubt it, 'cause there were so many D130's, etc. sold in the fifties.
Let's hear from some of you old timers if you have Lansing systems still in use pre-dating my 1959 purchase.
If we want to expand the topic, I have a Harman-Kardon mono amplifier from 1957 that drove a D130 in a homebuilt (from Lansing plans) C37. The D130 needs a recone so it won't qualify until that is done.
The Hartsfield avatar picture was made in August 1959, the year I bought it in Atlanta, GA. Although not used every day, I still like to play some early mono albums through this great speaker.
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THE WORLD THIS WEEK - Friday, October the 29th - part 2
The World This Week looks back at the top stories over the past seven days. Laura Baines and guests discuss Obama's chances in the midterms, Brazil's post Lula future, African elections in the light of polls in Ivory Coast and Guinea and the threat to France from Al Qaeda following the first direct threat from Osama bin Laden.
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The onion, where it's April 1st year round.
And where only Apple could reinvent the Wheel.
The onion, where it's April 1st year round.
and the net, home of eternal September
Maybe next they'll invent some way to dial a phone with just some sort of rotary wheel...
Dialing a phone with a rotary wheel will actually be a whole lot easier in my mind than typing an email with a whole wheel. I don't see how this process is faster than me typing exactly what I want. Imagine trying to program with that thing. Predictive text will not be any help with odd variables names and punctuation marks all over the place. This to me is definitely overkill.
Dialing a phone with a rotary wheel will actually be a whole lot easier in my mind than typing an email with a whole wheel. I don't see how this process is faster than me typing exactly what I want. Imagine trying to program with that thing. Predictive text will not be any help with odd variables names and punctuation marks all over the place. This to me is definitely overkill.
It's quick than you think. Suppose you wanted to type Whoosh! to inform someone that they had missed a joke. Once you enter Wh you can just select Whoosh! from the dropdown list.
Hal is working on one of these already - that's why his first sentence has "quick" where the form "quicker" should have been.
If this isn't on the iPhone AppStore already, it will be real soon. Enough folks would shell out a few bucks for the novetly of it.
"Hey, look at me! I can dial my iPhone, just like in those old movies!"
Mount your iPhone in a shoe, and you can play Maxwell Smart. Now that would really freak people out, when your shoe rings, and you take it off to answer it.
Mount your iPhone in a shoe, and you can play Maxwell Smart. Now that would really freak people out, when your shoe rings, and you take it off to answer it.
I had no idea that iPhones had such a monopoly on the "being able to be mounted in a shoe" form factor...
This reminds me of the Mactini on the The Peter Serafinowicz Show Christmas Special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noe3kR8KqJc
You could get a cardboard cutout made of yourself to fool the rest of the office.
It'd probably be less painfull if you got it made of cardboard.
Personally, I thought it was a bit of a waste of space but its "The Onion" what else could is be?
MacWorld San Francisco is today. This content is made available to you as part of their 'driving and leveraging for increased consumer experience' toward the '"Idle" supersite subbrand of the Slashdot publishing matrix'.
This post took 119 minutes to write on my new MacBook Wheel.
Oh noes, it took up almost 2 cm of your screen when you opened Slashdot, and perhaps as much as 3 minutes of your opening morning avoid-work browsing to view the video, however will you recover from such trauma?
I'm sure this being on the front page of
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Do you seriously lack onine news sources to read and places to comment?
This is a bit "out there", but to be perfectly honest I'd rather use a laptop running VISTA over that silly Macbook Wheel. It will take me more time to type an e-mail on that thing, then it would to send an e-mail on Vista. This is what happens when Steve gets sick, Apple gets desperate for ideas.
Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary?
I think you're missing the real genious here. What Apple/Steve did is simplify the computing experience so that it "just works". If you were to type an email in Vista, you'd have to use the confusing keyboad which has way too many buttons. A common keyboard has about a hundred too many.
Instead, you just flick the wheel around until you get to the character you need, like you would with a safe. That's it, there's just one device you interface with, and everything is a single fluid motion around the wheel. As is often the case, you're just stuck with your old obsolete ways, while Steve has seen the light and wants to share with us all.
- Yes, iWheel !
Next year's big Apple announcement will be the elimination of keyboards from the MacBook Air. Just touch sensitive pads so that we can make it even THINNER!!!!
Uh oh, that is scary, because it is not that outlandish as the wheel so I could see Apple pulling that off and convincing everyone it is better (AKA "cooler").
I mean, imagine that reading the summary, for a moment, I actually thought Apple might be giving this a go!
For example I remember how people were telling me for years that you only need one mouse button, especially when the mouse looks nice.
Anyway, this should not be on Slashdot front page unless it is April fools, but it is a great video nonetheless!
Seriously, though, I think Apple missed a trick here. I'm really hoping they'll invent the iNothing. People are regularly asking what could be simpler than a wheel, and whilst I agree that they have got it down quite nicely, they could go further.
With the iNothing, you don't have the hassle of using the wheel or viewing a screen, you just have to do nothing! Now it really doesn't get simpler than that. I'd pay $5000 for that, minimum!
Puts me in mind of this recent spoof, by Peter Serafinowicz: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/348881/d4b348a0/de_mactini.html [dumpert.nl]
Ever heard of a mouse? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing) [wikipedia.org]
These darn rodents get into all the darndest of places!
Actually, I hardly ever touch the rodent. That's what Vimperator is for.
People are too lazy to type or read anyway
You are absolutely right, which is why this half-assed move from Apple surprises me a little bit. Well, perhaps not, when Apple does stuff they always do it half way.
As you point out, people are too lazy to type and read, so what is it with the bright and shiny LCD that they ship this with? Typical Apple Tax. They want all my money, but they give me stuff I don't need nor want. Dropping the keyboard is great, but why force me to buy a screen? I am not going to type on the keyboard, why do they think I would
This joke is about 5 years late, just like their Dick Cheney/undisclosed location joke I saw a few weeks back.
I remember when the Onion was something special.
with Macbook Wheel
How did you Added your own Sentenced, The actor asked for an aardvark. 16uy89; ?
Sent from my MacBook Wheel.
(I know this is a joke.)
The predicted 7 inch iBook will not have a keyboard. Will probably have a virtual keyboard like the iPhone.
So not to crazy to imagine a full sized laptop with a virtual keyboard.
Of course the wheel is silly.
And the next generation version will replace the two-dimension wheel with a little sphere that can be rotated through the use of a finger - it will be called te MacBall.
...and now I want a wheel in place of my trackpad.
Damn you, Jobs!
Nothing is more than a few hundred clicks away!
"The abortion was successful" was another one.
I guess the onion tv bug [placement] is equivalent to a pie symbol?
Great easter egg Onion....
Apples' latest must have gadget
Thi's seem's to have been written by a per'son who ha's no idea where to put hi's apo'strophe's
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I love sitcoms. The sitcom is that TV show that puts you in a good mood after a bad day. They're funny without being stupid, and they usually have really good stories. What's your favorite and why?
1 Peter 3:15 (NASB): "But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence."
big bang theory!!!
Friends, HIMYM, and Modern Family.
Gamer. Writer. Reviewer. Carpe diem.
No *** nowadays really....Seinfeld, King of Queens, and Becker are my favorites though.
All time? Probably Everybody Loves Raymond.
In terms of current shows? Raising Hope, definitely.
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I enjoy How I Met Your Mother. It has smart writing, great characters, and the actors really pull the show off. I also really enjoy New Girl and Arrested Development.
Long live play.
The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. I agree with the whole "you can't go wrong with NPH". Seriously, is there something this guy CAN'T do? He even voiced Nightwing in "Batman - Under the Red Hood"! How awesome is that?
No mention of Always Sunny? For shame, kids! I've had zero love for (currently airing) sitcoms with studio audiences. HIMYM, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men; I can't appreciate any of them.
Oh, and anything Gervais has ever created is brilliance in my book.
At the moment it'd probably be How I Met Your Mother. The classics of Friends and Seinfield are there are well, as is Home Improvement.
Can't stand Big Bang Theory though. The few episodes I watched made it look like a show that leaned on the "lol what a nerd" theme, and as someone who recognized the things they referenced I didn't fall for the premise and it never caught on with me.


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Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic says David Moyes has not lost his cool
Nemanja Vidic has been impressed with the cool of David Moyes despite Manchester United's slow start to the season.
Last Updated: 13/09/13 11:18am
Despite United only registering one victory so far this campaign, and losing to Liverpool last time out, new manager Moyes has placed faith in the squad.
The former Everton boss took the reins from Sir Alex Ferguson during the summer, while several members of his backroom staff also made the switch from Goodison Park.
Although it has not been an idyllic start to the title defence, defender Vidic hailed the composure shown by Moyes, with no sign of the 50-year-old raising his voice in the dressing room.
"Until now he didn't really have any needs to shout at players, because at the moment everything is going smooth," he said in the Daily Mirror. "The players are training well and as long as it's like that he won't have any reason to do it.
New challenges
"Obviously the new manager brought his staff as well, who have worked with us for two months, and we've got to know each other more.
"It's all positive - I think we are in good shape. It's not big changes - we have similar players - but he's trying to teach the players different things. There are lots of positives and now it's time to show them on the pitch."
Serbian international Vidic acknowledged the success enjoyed by United during Ferguson's three-decade tenure but admits he is relishing the prospect of a new era.
"We had success with Sir Alex," the 31-year-old added. "It was a pleasure and I am glad I worked with him. But something new always comes - it's new challenges, new training, new preparations.
"I had a great time with Sir Alex and we had so much success. I will always remember it as a good time."


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The Gulf Coast Humane Society will offer pictures with Santa and a shelter pet Saturday, Dec. 15, from 2-4 p.m. at 2010 Arcadia St., Fort Myers, for a suggested $10 donation.
Come see Santa and choose which adorable and adoptable pet you or your child would like your picture with. Pictures can either be taken home that afternoon or e-mailed.
For more information, contact Gulf Coast Humane Society at 239-332-0364 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Jennifer Galloway, Executive Director