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Quote from: Bethalize on January 23, 2013, 10:29:16 AMIs there such as thing as Canadian premium whiskey? The only Canadian whiskey I've seen here is cheap rye.Crown Royal. And to combine two suggestions, they've now come out with a maple flavoured Crown Royal. I haven't tried it yet, though.But I thought that taking whiskey to the UK was kind of like taking snow to the Arctic. If alcohol is OK to take, maybe some ice wine?
Is there such as thing as Canadian premium whiskey? The only Canadian whiskey I've seen here is cheap rye.
And one more question, because I wasn't able to make head nor tail of it when I tried to find the info on the internet. When we are bringing gifts for our friends, what is cap on them when declaring to customs? We are planning on bringing 1 bottle Canadian Whiskey, 1 pair instant pirate pyjamas, 1 box turtles, 1 box maple sugar candies, and 1 bag moose droppings. Will that be cool or will they want us to pay some sort of tariff?
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Walmart protests throughout Connecticut
Healthcare workers demand retailer improves wages, benefits for employees
Updated 11:50 pm, Friday, November 23, 2012
MILFORD -- Police Friday broke up a protest by more than two dozen healthcare workers outside the Walmart store here in support of store workers toiling long hours on the busiest shopping day of the year.
The protesters, members of the healthcare union for the nearby West River Healthcare Center, marched outside the super store for about 15 minutes shouting, "Down with Walmart, up with the union," until police arrived.
Confronted by two officers, protest organizer Jesse Martin, agreed to move the protest to the street, more than 100 yards from the store.
The local protest was part of a coordinated, nationwide action in support of Walmart employees on Black Friday.
At Connecticut Walmart stores in Milford, Danbury, Norwalk and Hartford, members of District 1199, the state's largest union of health care workers, demanded the retail giant improve wages and benefits for workers.
The organization that put together the protests, OURWalmart -- or the organization united for respect at Walmart -- claims the retail giant is making record profits on the backs of its employees who received meager wages, little healthcare and are threatened with firing if they complain.
"We are here to support the Walmart workers, to be heard because they cannot be heard, they cannot voice their concerns without worrying about retaliation," said Martin.
A Milford Walmart employee, who said she was afraid of being fired if she gave her name, gave a restrained fist pump as the protesters arrived and began handing out flyers.
In Danbury, About 50 people protested outside the Walmart store on Newtown Road, waving signs and chanting. They began with a march up the parking lot to the storefront, where Walmart staff and members of the Danbury Police Department asked them to leave. They then stashed their signs and pamphlets and walked into the store.
Local activist Justin Molito, holding his 4-year old son Pike's hand, began shouting out a statement of support for Walmart workers inside the store, with his fellow activists repeating his words with equal fervor and volume.
When Molito was about half-way through the statement, Danbury police took him by the arm and marched him out of the store, with the supporters following in their wake.
They then spent the rest of the morning on the sidewalk that runs along Newtown Road, waving signs and getting the occasional car honk of support from the people driving by.
"Everything they sell is from China,'' said Fran O'Rourke, one of the protesters. "They want to pay people like they're Chinese workers. This is America.''
Most shoppers at the Milford store tried to ignore the protesters as they rushed into the store seeking bargains. But Mirna Morawski, of Fairfield, stopped and began studying one of the fliers.
"I'm not happy the way Walmart is treating its employees," she said. "They hired a lot of immigrants to work in their stores but they don't pay them enough to support their families."
The protests took place as the National Labor Relations Board weighs a complaint Walmart filed against the union Nov. 15 accusing it of violating federal labor laws by illegally picketing. The company said the union has tried to force the company to the bargaining table although it does not officially represent its employees.
Walmart asked the board for an investigation and immediate injunction. If the board rules in Walmart's favor, it would seek an injunction in district court to stop the protests.
On Nov. 20, organizers from the nonprofit OUR Walmart fought back by filing their own complaint with the labor board accusing Walmart of intimidating workers. The protesters are demanding more-predictable schedules, less-expensive health-care plans and minimum hourly pay of $13 with the option of working full-time.
Walmart officials have released a statement nationwide acknowledging the protests but maintaining they are not supported by store employees.
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On election night, Mitt Romney called Barack Obama to concede. Shortly after, Romney gave his concession speech, Obama addressed his supporters. This is the tradition of every election, except 2000, which went decidedly off script.
Do such concessions happen on the local level?
Not necessarily.
Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, said he got the phone number of his 36th Senate District opponent, Bill Albracht, R-Moline, and put the scrap of paper in his front pocket on election night.
Jacobs said he was prepared to call his rival if it became clear Albracht would win.
As it turns out, Jacobs won handily with 55 percent of the vote.
Albracht, a Vietnam veteran and retired Secret Service agent, congratulated Jacobs on his website, but never called the senator, who has served since 2005.
Jacobs said that if he had lost, he would have resigned early so that Albracht would gain seniority over other freshmen. Such seniority could result in better committee assignments.
"It would have been important for our district," Jacobs said.
We published a number of stories on the campaign because the 36th District includes most of Whiteside County.
One of my stories concerned a Jacobs campaign assertion about Albracht's position on Medicaid co-pays. While the assertion was true, it left out an important fact – that Jacobs had essentially supported the same thing earlier this year.
In other words, the story was arguably positive for Albracht.
I left message after message with Albracht. His campaign manager told me her candidate had many events and was too busy to talk.
Jacobs, on the other hand, was the opposite. I could reach him on his personal cellphone. If he didn't answer right away, he'd call back soon after.
Would Albracht have become more accessible if he had been elected?
I don't know the answer to that question. I couldn't reach him.
David Giuliani is a reporter for Sauk Valley Media. He can be reached at dgiuliani@saukvalley or at 800-798-4085, ext. 525.


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Today's high will reach 60 with partly cloudy skies but no expected rainfall and South winds at 14 mph. Overnight lows will drop to 40 and be followed on Friday with a hih of 61 in sunny skies, no expected rain and SW winds at 11 mph. Overnight lows on Friday will drop to 45. Saturday looks to be 63 with a 10 percent chance of rain with cloudy conditions.


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Submission + - Why VMware Should Worry More About Red Hat (informationweek.com)
gManZboy writes: "KVM? Isn't that horse number four in a three-way hypervisor race between VMware, Microsoft and Citrix? Look closely: For several reasons, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, just over the horizon, poses a larger threat to VMware than Microsoft virtualization technology, long-term. One advantage is speed: "The KVM or kernel virtual machine, unlike other hypervisors, is part of the Linux kernel and uses the Linux scheduler and memory manager. That means it can do its work as an extension of kernel operations," as Charles Babcock notes."


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Guerlain has just released a new blush series, Rose Aux Joues ($50), which has a duo format of lights and darks (Messywands has counter-swatched them all). These come in the now-familiar Guerlain gold format palette, which includes the full mirror. It is relatively sleek for packing, yet has enough impact to retain elegance.
I chose Golden High ($50/ #05) as my first test into this new line. This is one of the more unique combinations, yet extremely versatile for frequent wear.
Golden High's top color is an apricot-brown with a soft shimmer, and the small bottom shade is a matte soft peach that is a more pigmented version of Nars Sex Appeal. Swatches:
The duo is a nice combination for a subtle "nude with a splash of color" look. It's sophisticated, will work well with nearly all fall colors (reds, burgundy, greys, khaki greens, and navy), whether worn with these colors as eyeshadows, accessories or clothing.
I found that the glowy shimmer in the top shade did not translate very strongly to my cheek. Although your effect may vary, the found that the shimmer was very slight once applied. The effect of the lighter peach shade (in the bottom small pan) was very subtle.
The Guerlain Rose Aux Joues blush pans are relatively small–to apply the color separately, I first tried a MAC 168, which has a small, dense head. Because the top shade is so pigmented, I found this was unsuccessful. It concentrated the color too strongly in my application areas (I prefer a more subtle, glowing look). I had far better results with the Nars Yachiyo brush (reviewed here at The Non Blonde). The small bristles at the top of the Yachiyo, in combination with the steep cut of the bristle head, allowed me to get softer color with edges that blended naturally into my skin.
Overall, I liked Guerlain Golden High. It doesn't have a gasp-worthy effect of a Chanel Joues Contraste, but the effect is beautifully natural. The powder is very finely milled–it does melt into the skin. Golden High also fits well into the rest of Guerlain's gray-toned eyeshadow palettes (there are a few in the line). Looking in my car's rear-view mirror driving around town, I really liked the subtle and flattering effect. Those who find some blushes too "powdery" or obvious will love the very natural effect that these give.
It will be easy to pass these by if you look at the pans on a counter. The texture is a bit hard, and the colors do not jump out at you. At the same time, if you try these on during a makeover, I think you'll be persuaded that these add a really nice, natural and sophisticated effect. I prefer this duo blush duo range to Guerlain's 4-color blush line. Except for Red Hot, I'm not tempted to get too deeply into the rest of this range. The colors are subtle and lovely, but some may find that they already have similar colors from other lines.


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Jason Lain, 31, pleaded for leniency Friday afternoon before a Marion County judge imposed a life sentence for his involvement in a January home invasion.
Jason Lain, 31, pleaded for leniency Friday afternoon before a Marion County judge imposed a life sentence for his involvement in a January home invasion.
"I believe if I had a second chance out there I'd be able to do better than this," Lain told Circuit Judge Brian Lambert.
But in the end Lambert imposed a life sentence for Lain, who qualified as a "prison releasee reoffender." A life sentence is the mandatory maximum punishment for offenders with this designation. Lain has 13 prior offenses, both felonies and misdemeanors.
Before the sentence was imposed, defense attorney Leonard Klatt, citing case law, argued the judge had discretion in imposing the re-offender designation.
A jury on Friday found Lain guilty of breaking into an elderly woman's house in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 7 and stealing jewelry, electronics and a shotgun. An accomplice threatened to shoot the woman.
Outside the courtroom after the verdict, Klatt stopped short of saying the sentence was excessive but did put the punishment in context.
"Mr. Lain got the same penalty the young people in the Bargo trial received, and their charge was first-degree murder," he said.
Four co-defendants are serving life sentences for the 2011 murder of Seath Jackson, 15. Michael Bargo, 21, has been found guilty and awaits his punishment; the state is seeking the death penalty.
Klatt later said the problem is more widespread. "The whole problem is with the legislative setup, where they just mandated so many required sentences, and that's why we have our prisons so full," Klatt said.
While he did say he accepted the judge's decision, he thinks the system would benefit if judges were given more opportunities for discretion.
After deliberating for two and a half hours, the jury found Lain guilty of armed burglary of a dwelling with an assault, furthering the burglary by cutting a telephone line inside the victim's house, and two first-degree misdemeanors — contributing to the delinquency of a minor — for leaving his children unattended in a hotel room during the crime.
In his closing argument, Assistant State Attorney Bryon Aven recounted the evidence that linked Lain to the burglary at the Southeast Ocala residence.
The state believes Lain and co-defendant Christina Lyn Brick, 34, pried open a door to the residence, cut a phone line so the woman who lived there couldn't call for help, threatened to shoot her, and then rummaged through her house for half an hour before leaving with the stolen items.
Then they returned to the Ocala Inn, where witness Jose Martinez watched Brick dump out a pillowcase full of jewelry onto the bed.
Lain told Martinez the pair had "used some muscle to get some stuff from an old lady," Aven said.
"During the ransacking, she heard Mr. Lain speak and she recognized his voice," Aven said, referring to the victim's testimony. Lain had previously performed several odd jobs at the house and knew the woman, and therefore chose to target her, according to Aven.
The state also pointed to surveillance footage from the Ocala Inn. The video showed Lain's truck leave the parking lot hours before the burglary and then return. A man and woman are shown exiting the vehicle shortly after the burglary had been reported to authorities around 4:50 a.m.
Authorities later recovered several of the stolen items from that truck, where a sticker in the back window displayed Lain's name.
Items recovered included a Macbook labeled with the victim's name, an iPad, and gloves the state believed were used during the crime.
The morning began with the state calling its last witness, Emily Haines, a DNA expert with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who testified finding evidence of both Lain and Brick's DNA on a flashlight left at the residence.
Klatt pointed out this DNA could have been previously left by Lain while performing odd jobs at the house.
After the state rested, so did the defense, without calling any witnesses. If Lain had decided to testify, the state told the court it intended to call Brick as a rebuttal witness.
Klatt sought a judgment of acquittal before the jury started deliberating, but Lambert denied the motion.
During his closing argument, Klatt emphasized there were no eyewitness who placed his client at the house the night of the crime. He pointed to potential issues with the DNA results and the fact that Lain's prints were not found on any of the stolen items, only on the flashlight.
"That doesn't prove he was there on the night of the robbery," Klatt argued.
He further argued the couple's conduct concerning the children constituted bad parenting and negligence, but did not rise to contributing to their delinquency.
During the trial, Klatt also pointed out Brick pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the same charges and she was the one who threatened the victim and committed the offense. He urged the jury to use common sense.
"To be a principal (to the crime), I don't even have to prove Mr. Lain was present," Aven reminded the jury. "But I believe I have."
After the verdict, Klatt commented on his client. "I think he could be a real asset to society," he said. "Now it's a question whether he would ever be in society."
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Sen. Al Franken and the United States of Algal America
Thirty seconds into his address to the crowd at the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit in Minneapolis, Senator Al Franken, D-Minn., had the entire room chuckling, capitalizing on his customary charm and humor. The room was packed, people standing against the walls without an extra seat in the huge conference hall available. But over the course of his speech, the tone of his message, although sprinkled with clever remarks and jokes, including a phrase in which he called the USA the United States of Algal America, Franken's message was serious.
"I don't need to tell this group your work has the potential to revolutionize our nation's energy mix," he said. His assessment of the industry was one of great praise, but he made specific mention to the role he and his colleagues in the Senate could help play in the future.
For Franken, supporting the algae industry means supporting job growth, and it also means supporting national security. Like all renewable fuels, he explained, it will take strong state and federal partnerships to help the industry. And one of the first things Franken believes he, as well as his colleagues, can do "is replace big oil subsidies," a statement that ignited the crowd into a cheer, especially after he made a direct comment to the fossil fuel industry. "It's time to stop subsidizing dirty energy."
As Congress moves to make sweeping budget cuts, he said we still have a lot of work to do in Washington, but he noted that he will fight those cuts if it means clean energy funding cutbacks. Maybe he wasn't joking about the U.S. of Algal America.


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Shelby County Schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson says it is looking less likely that the school system will provide support services to the new suburban school districts.
"There was some discussion early on," Hopson said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines." "But I think as we move forward and some of the talks have happened between the County Commission and the municipal schools … I'm not so certain that there is going to be a wide menu of services that the municipal schools are going to even want. I don't think we can build a budget around the possibility of sharing services."
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
Hopson's comments offer one of the few on-the-record glimpses at what is happening during ongoing talks between the Shelby County Commission and the mayors of the six suburban towns and cities in Shelby County. Both sides in the ongoing federal lawsuit over the local school reformation have been talking since August trying to reach a settlement in the part of the lawsuit involving the creation of suburban school districts. Unlike earlier talks, the countywide school board is involved in those private settlement discussions.
Some on the Shelby County Commission believe there could be some public indication of where the talks are during Wednesday committee sessions of the County Commission.
Meanwhile, the early voting period opened Friday, Oct. 18, Downtown in four of the six sets of elections for the suburban school boards that will govern the municipal school districts. The two other cities, Arlington and Collierville, do not have early voting in advance of the Nov. 7 election day because all of the school board races in each of those municipalities are uncontested.
Hopson said he and his staff are planning for at least seven scenarios that range from all of the suburban school districts beginning operation with the 2014-2015 school year to all of them deciding to delay their first school year beyond that.
At a board-staff retreat last week, Hopson's office estimated the start-up of all seven suburban school districts next August would have an impact of more than $52 million on the county schools system's bottom line.
"The biggest driver in that $52 million number is about $28 million in health and retiree benefits, insurance benefits. That's going to stay with the Shelby County Schools regardless," Hopson said of the obligation to fund such benefits until the retired employees reach 65 years of age. "If you started working for the Shelby County Schools when you were 20 and you worked for 30 years and now you are 50, Shelby County Schools pays those retiree health insurance benefits. … We are going to have a $28 million cost next year on that. That's not going away."
The benefits are "hard costs" that remain even though the school system will have less in the way of expenses because it would be operating fewer schools with fewer students and need fewer teachers with the opening of the suburban school districts.
"But then the central office cost and the school support costs and the insurance cost and the OPEB (Other Post Employment Benefits) liability – that remains," Hopson said. "What we'll do and what we are anticipating doing is obviously the central office will shrink some more."
This week the school system also sends its application to federal officials in Washington to take up the $23 million in federal funding for the Head Start program now administered by Shelby County government. Hopson confirmed the application envisions a staff of four or five in the school system's central office to contract out with Head Start providers and enforce a new "rigor" to align early childhood development at the centers with what the school system begins teaching those children when they reach kindergarten.
Head Start is a program that involves some prekindergarten classrooms but also early childhood development before the age of 4.
Separate from the Head Start contract, Memphis voters go to the polls Nov. 21 to vote up or down a half-percent sales tax hike that would go to fund a prekindergarten expansion in Memphis separate from the school system administered by a city government prekindergarten commission.
Hopson said he was uncertain if the school system would seek to provide those services as well under contract.
"I know that we have some very strong pre-K programs and pre-K curriculum," he said. "I would hope that, at a minimum, if that passes we'll do a lot of coordinating (with the city)."
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- U.S. Forest Service re-opens portions of Lefthand Canyon off-highway vehicle area
- Lefthand Fire: Boulder County blaze 100% contained; 622 acres burned
- Lefthand Fire to cost Boulder County taxpayers about $100,000
- Lefthand Fire: Crews beat back blaze, reach 80% containment
- Lefthand Fire: Boulder County blaze 60% contained, evacuations lifted
- Lefthand Fire: Pets, horses given refuge from fire in Longmont
- Lefthand Fire evacuee fears 'it might be all gone'
- Button Rock Reservoir fire near Lyons snuffed
Fueled by dry grass and whipped by high winds, a fast-moving fire burned between 200 and 300 acres in Lefthand Canyon northwest of Boulder on Friday, but with nightfall bringing lighter winds and higher humidity, firefighters hoped to have the human-caused blaze 50 percent contained by morning.
Origins: Started around 10:35 a.m. Friday in Chaos Canyon. Believed to be human-caused.
Size: 200-300 acres
Fuels: Burning ponderosa pine with grassy understory
Status: 25 percent contained
Threatened: 12 homes and 6 outbuildings
Action: Firefighters were planning to staff the fire overnight and conduct burnout operations to stop the fire along Lefthand Canyon Drive. A helicopter is expected to help firefighters today in areas with steep terrain along the north flank of the fire.
Areas evacuated: Residents of Lake of the Pines, North Foothills Ranch and Mountain Ridge were allowed back into their homes Friday afternoon. Areas along Lefthand Canyon Drive above Geer Canyon Drive remained off-limits Friday night.
Roads closed: Lefthand Canyon Drive is closed from U.S. 36 to Jamestown, except to residents with ID.
Shelter for evacuees: The YMCA closed its shelter at 8 p.m. Friday. Evacuees who need services can call 303-722-7474 and choose option 2.
Weather: The National Weather Service forecast gives a 20 percent chance of showers after 11 a.m. Winds will be north/northwest between 5 and 13 mph, with gusts up to 20 mph.
More info: For updates on the fire, visit dailycamera.com.
Residents of most of the 223 homes evacuated in the Lake of the Pines, North Foothills Ranch and Mountain Ridge subdivisions were allowed to return home Friday afternoon and evening, though emergency managers warned residents to stay by their phones and be prepared to leave again if the fire changes course.
"They still need to pay attention to what's going on," Boulder County Sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said.
Between 10 and 15 homes above Geer Canyon Drive in Lefthand Canyon remained off-limits Friday night, Brough said, and Lefthand Canyon Drive remained closed between U.S. 36 and Jamestown because the 100 firefighters battling the blaze needed the road clear for their vehicles and hoses.
With only one person needing housing, the Red Cross closed its emergency shelter at the Boulder YMCA at 8 p.m. Friday. The shelter will reopen today if necessary, local Red Cross spokesman Jim Rettew said.
The U.S. Forest Service declared the fire to be human caused because it started in the popular Lefthand Canyon Off-Highway Vehicle Area/Shooting Area, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Maribeth Pecotte said. There was no lightning Friday, and there are no power lines in the area that could have been brought down by high winds.
However, the actual cause has not yet been determined.
The fire, which was 25 percent contained Friday night after a coordinated air and ground attack, started around 10:35 a.m.
When firefighters first were called to the scene by people using the shooting area, the blaze was between one-eighth and one-quarter of an acre, and it was slowly moving downhill. But the winds quickly changed that situation, Brough said.
"It (was) jumping from ridge to ridge," Brough said.
Thick smoke was visible throughout Boulder County, and the county health department issued an air quality advisory.
"There was nothing but smoke and ash falling from the sky," said Jessica England, an area resident who learned of the fire when one of the teenagers she works with at the YMCA's Lafayette location called her.
As she drove back toward the foothills, she quickly realized the fire was serious. England and her husband scrambled to pack up their important documents and their dogs after being ordered to evacuate.
"This is the third time this has happened to us, so it's a little bit old hat," she said. "I'm trying to be optimistic, but the fire was very close."
Firefighters from numerous agencies spent much of Friday protecting 12 homes and six outbuildings that were threatened by the fire, most of them in the Heil Valley Ranch area.
They did backburns around the homes and stayed on the properties.
"I want to commend the firefighters," Brough said late Friday. "They really did a marvelous job."
With the fire 25 percent contained late Friday afternoon, firefighters began burnout operations to secure the fire along Lefthand Canyon Drive. The activity caused an increase in thick smoke in the area, alarming some residents, but the burns were intentional.
Despite the high winds, an air tanker from New Mexico was able to drop slurry on the fire Friday afternoon, and a helicopter is expected to help fight the fire along rugged terrain on the north flank of the blaze today.
A call center for residents has been set up at 303-413-7730. People are asked not to call 911 unless it's an emergency.
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The Gold Coast Titans have come away victors after a dour struggle with the Parramatta Eels at Skilled Park tonight, triumphant 18-12 in front of 14,840 spectators.
It was a tiring clash for the most part, the entertaining part of the game well and truly over after the first ten minutes - the Titans managed to rush to a 14-0 lead early after Luke Bailey and Chris Walker both managed tries as well as a penalty goal to Scott Prince.
Stunned, the Eels defence finally steeled itself and then the visitors struck back late in the half with two tries of their own, first Joe Galuvao helping himself to a four-pointer, before a poor kick from returning Titans' five-eighth Mat Rogers gave the Eels a chance to play some razzle-dazzle as they linked up across the park for 90 metres, Daniel Mortimer finishing off the movement. Inu's goalkicking was put in the spotlight after a second consecutive miss - both kicks not from terribly difficult positions and would have had the Parramatta faithful wondering why Luke Burt didn't assume duty.
The second half started with Eric Grothe going in out wide for the Eels, reducing the gap to two. A war of attrition ensued, but slowly descended into an error-riddled finish as both teams struggled to handle the dewy ball. The Titans put a six-point buffer on again when David Mead went over out wide following an Eels error in their own half, with the remaining fifteen minutes devoted to the visiting side attempting to cross the line with no luck.
The Eels will head home for another dose of Monday night footy next week, hosting the Storm in a clash that could get ugly if they don't lift. The Titans on the other hand have a very short turnaround, they take part in Friday's Double Header against the Bulldogs at Suncorp Stadium.
Match Details Gold Coast Titans 18 def Parramatta Eels 12 Round 18 - Monday July 13th, 2009 07:00pm Venue: Skilled Park, Robina Qld Referee: Steve Lyons & Matt Cecchin Sideline Officials: Daniel Eastwood & Gavin Morris Video Referee: Steve Clark Crowd: 14,840 Halftime: Titans 14 Eels 8
Gold Coast Titans 18 Tries: Luke Bailey, Chris Walker, David Mead Goals: Scott Prince (3/4) Parramatta Eels 12 Tries: Joe Galuvao, Daniel Mortimer, Eric Grothe Goals: Krisnan Inu (0/3)
LeagueUnlimited.com Player of the Match 3 Points: Scott Prince (Titans) 2 Points: Mat Rogers (Titans) 1 Point: Nathan Cayless (Eels)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary Talk about the game as it happens - Titans v Eels forum discussion - click here!
Hello and welcome to Skilled Park for this Monday Night Football clash between the Gold Coast Titans and Parramatta..
Team news: for the Titans, Preston Campbell is out, meaning William Zilllman moves to fullback and David Mead to the bench.
For the Eels, Jonathan Wright comes into the centres in Ben Smith's spot. Smith goes to the bench, meaning Jeremy Latimore drops off the bench. Final teams are thus:
TITANS: 17. William Zillman 2. Kevin Gordon 3. Esi Tonga 4. Brett Delaney 5. Chris Walker 6. Mat Rogers 7. Scott Prince (c) 8. Luke Bailey 9. Nathan Friend 10. Michael Henderson 11. Anthony Laffranchi 12. Mark Minichiello 13. Brad Meyers Interchange: 14. Matt White 15. Will Matthews 16. Daniel Conn 18. David Mead EELS: 1. Luke Burt 2. Krisnan Inu 3. Joel Reddy 21. Jonathan Wright 5. Eric Grothe 6. Daniel Mortimer 7. Jeff Robson 8. Nathan Cayless (c) 9. Matthew Keating 10. Fuifui Moimoi 11. Nathan Hindmarsh 12. Joe Galuvao 13. Todd Lowrie Interchange: 4. Ben Smith 14. Kevin Kingston 15. Broderick Wright 17. Tim Mannah
This is the fist time these two have met at Skilled Park. The Titans have won both previous clashes overall, and are warm favourites to make it three-out-of-three (they're in fourth place coming into tonight, the Eels are in 14th).
Out come the sides, and we're just about ready to go...
2nd min: TRY Gold Coast Titans Well, the Titans sure don't waste any time! After Brett Delaney recovers a loose Parramatta ball, and in the ensuing set of six, Prince's grubber kick comes off the upright and is recovered by Luke Baley for a try Conversion attempt by Scott Prince successful. Gold Coast Titans 6-0
8th min: PENALTY GOAL Gold Coast Titans Kicked by Prince from right in front. Prince won the penalty somewhat dodgily, as Krisnan Inu was busted for a late hit on Prince as he kicked it. However, a look at the replay show that it quite arguable was a legal hit. Gold Coast Titans 8-0
10th min: TRY Gold Coast Titans Rogers offloads to put Tonga in a hole, but the Eels make the tackle. On the next play, however, they go totally left-to-right, ending with Delaney putting Walker in in the right-hand corner. Conversion attempt by Scott Prince successful from the sideline! Gold Coast Titans 14-0
11th min: Possibly a real pounding on the cards here...
21st min: Titans win a repeat set of six off an unusualy intercept, but Prince's kick is blocked on the last tackle
23rd min: Repeat set of six for Parramatta inside the Titan 20...
24th min: TRY Parramatta Eels Joe Galuvao puts Parra much more back in the contest by crashing over... Conversion attempt by Krisnan Inu unsuccessful. Gold Coast Titans 14-4
35 min: TRY Parramatta Eels Daniel Mortimer scores for the Eels following a poor kick at the other end from Mat Rogers. The Eels link it up as they run the length, finishing with the young five-eighth. Conversion attempt by Krisnan Inu unsuccessful. Gold Coast Titans 14-8
38 min: ATTEMPTED PENALTY GOAL Parramatta Eels Inu misses a penalty. Gold Coast Titans 14-8
HALFTIME: Titans 14 Eels 8
Second half underway...
48 min: TRY Parramatta Eels Grothe scores for Parramatta - they're right in this contest! Conversion attempt by Krisnan Inu unsuccessful. Gold Coast Titans 14-12
60 min: A number of up-field raids by both sides have resulted in little points since Parramatta's last try.
65 min: Attacking lines standing very flat as the game wears on. Brad Meyers with a big gash in his face, blood streaming down his bushranger-type beard.
67 min: A knock-on inside their own half could hurt the Eels here, a chance for points now.
69 min: TRY Gold Coast Titans The Titans use a right-side overlap to put David Mead over in the corner. Conversion attempt by Scott Prince unsuccessful. Gold Coast Titans 18-12
71 min: Tryscorer David Mead finds himself on the end of another raid down the flank but he can't handle Brad Meyers' final pass and the ball rolls into touch out of his hands. The Eels on halfway with a chance now.
73 min: No result with a grubber on tackle three well wrapped up by Zillman. The Titans complete their set and get a good kick away.
75 min: The clock is ticking for Parramatta who seem to be playing some panic footy, deep in their own half too. They make it over halfway but Mortimer drops it on the fourth.
77 min: Ben Smith puts it on the toe for Parramatta on the last but the grubbing kick rolls into touch just before the corner post. Could well have been the Eels' last chance unless they can force a Titans error in this return set. Titans scrum feed.
79 min: The Eels with their last set of the game from their own half. Luke Burt can't take a Nathan Hindmarsh offload and that looks like it will be it with 40 seconds on the clock.
FULLTIME: Gold Coast Titans 18 Parramatta Eels 12


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Third Annual Food Symposium to Be Held Oct. 31
- 10-29-2012
- By Jeffrey R. Wakefield
The University of Vermont will hold its third annual Food Systems Symposium Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Silver Maple Ballroom in the Davis Center.
The goal of the symposium, said Doug Lantagne, UVM Extension dean and Food Systems director, "is to highlight the importance of partnerships between academic disciples at the university and the experiential knowledge in the Vermont community.
"These partnerships are essential to increasing the breadth of innovative research opportunities and the success in winning funds to address complex community needs," he said.
The schedule for the symposium is as follows:
9 a.m. – Welcome
9:15 a.m. – Keynote: Partnerships Beyond the U.S.
"Aspects of African Food Security" – Wouter van Hoven
Traveling all the way from Africa, van Hoven will share his experience in putting together a transdisciplinary team to address a complex and unique food system problem in African communities. His work engages the harsh realities of food insecurity in Africa in the face of attempts to preserve native wildlife.
Van Hoven worked closely with the Manavella Community in Limpopo, South Africa and the Magano Mountain Community bordering the Dinder National park in Sudan to ensure that the food supply becomes secure, directly due to alternatives to unsustainable harvesting of natural resources in protected areas and indirectly due to marketing of wildlife experiences and products.
Partnership Presentations
10 a.m. – Partnerships Regionally
"Enhancing Food Access Across the Northeast Through a Regional Partnership" –Linda Berlin
Representing a team of researchers from across the Northeast, Berlin will discuss their project that addresses the issue of food security in underserved populations in the Northeast through sustainable regional food systems. As a project partner, Ron Prohaska, owner of Ted's Market in Island Pond, Vt., has agreed to have his store be one of the 18 stores across the Northeast that is a focus of our current research efforts, along with the communities in which they are located.
11 a.m. – Partnerships Within the University
"Food Safety from Milking to Marketing for Vermont's Artisanal Cheese Makers" – John Barlow, Londa Nwadike
Barlow and his team will discuss their new transdisciplinary project on campus that addresses artisanal cheese producers' ability to minimize food safety risks and understand their consumers' needs. Extension efforts will help artisanal cheese producers apply the resulting technology and information.
11:45 a.m. – Partnerships Beyond the Individual Projects
"The Ethics of Eating: Why Transdisciplinarity is Important" — Tyler Doggett
In this presentation, Doggett. from the UVM philosophy department, will help us think broadly about food, from Africa to Vermont. He will challenge us to examine the bigger picture and to think more transdisciplinary about feeding our communities verses feeding the world.
12:30 p.m. – Brown Bag Lunch
1:30 p.m. – Opportunities Panel
This panel will bring together representatives from organizations looking to do collaborative, transdisciplinary food systems research with other universities and with Vermont community organizations. The panelists will discuss currently available opportunities for collaboration. Moderated by Jane Kolodinsky, chair, Food Systems Spire Steering Committee, 2010-2012. The participating organizations include Green Mountain College, Vermont Technical College, and Vermont Law School.
2:30 p.m. – Presentation of Food Systems Master's Faculty
Food Systems Program Faculty - Curious about the new Food Systems Masters Program? Here is your opportunity to hear from faculty about their food systems research, teaching and collaborations! Moderated by Amy Trubek, faculty director of the master of science in food systems program.
3:30 p.m. – Closing Remarks


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"I think spirituality is also about the reconciliation of opposites. It's about diving deep inside yourself beyond the polarities to a place of unity where everything holds together." — Sister Helen Prejean, IN SWEET COMPANY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ABOUT LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE
Many years ago, I somehow came across the words of R. H. Greenville — a man? a woman? a writer? I never could find out more about them — that have served me well throughout the years.
Greenville wrote an essay called "New Day," an opus so lofty I never could take it in all in one sitting. So I took it line by line and used various thoughts in the piece as affirmations I whispered to myself over and over again when my own thoughts would not suffice.
Here are my favorites, the tried and true words of the anonymous R. H.. Greenville; the unsung legacy of a life of faith and divine love.
"I am not limited. I am part of the limitless freedom, wisdom and activity of God. The best that I have experienced is but a prelude to the good which it is my destiny to know and enjoy."
"I am exalted, lifted up in mind, heart and spirit when I contemplate the grandeur of life of which I am, have always been, and shall always be a part." "Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, divine light, divine love, surround me."
"I am not afraid to let go of the old and grasp the new. Movement and activity are a part of my life and a part of my joy in living. My mind is open to new ideas. My heart welcomes the opportunity to know and grow in understanding."
"I trust Him to bring heavenly results out of earthly conditions."
"His is the power by which I conquer. His is the presence by which all things are made new and glorious.
Thank you, R. H., whoever, wherever you are!
Your thoughts?


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Feb. 13, 2009
The Schedule
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. Loyola Marymount University Lions
at the UCSB Robinson Gym Tennis Courts
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. Cal Poly Mustangs
at the UCSB Robinson Gym Tennis Courts
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine
at the UCSB Robinson Gym Tennis Courts
What to know
The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team opened their first two games red hot, outscoring their opponents 12-2. The Gauchos swept Cal State Bakersfield 7-0 and then topped UC Davis, 5-2. In their last match, the UCSB women cooled off, only taking two points against the University of Pacific and losing 5-2. The Gauchos will now host Loyola Marymount, Cal Poly and Hawai'i in the first three matches of a six match home stand.
Lion Tamer
The LMU women's tennis team dropped their first and only match of the season to the University of San Diego, 7-0. The Lions will look to turn it around this weekend as they stroll into Cal Poly before heading south to visit Santa Barbara.
Mustang Showdown
The Cal Poly women's tennis team has opened their season in almost the same fashion as Santa Barbara, taking their first two of three matches. The Mustangs outscored their first two opponents 13-1, most recently taking down Big West rival Cal State Northridge, 6-1. However, the Cal Poly women were halted in their tracks when they traveled to Stanford and were swept 7-0 by the Cardinals. The Mustangs will face LMU before trying their luck against Santa Barbara.
A Rainbow Rumble
The University of Hawaii women's tennis team has opened the season in a three game skid. The first loss came at the hands of Stanford, in which the Rainbow Wahine were crushed, 7-0. In the next two, the Hawaii women came a little closer, getting edged by both San Diego State and UC Davis, 4-3. The Rainbow Wahine will look for their first win of the season in Santa Barbara on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.


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|Birth Date:
|Orange, Calif.
|High School:
|Villa Park HS
|Outside Hitter
Season-high three put-aways twice, vs. Cal State Fullerton (Nov. 16) and in loss to then-No. 10 Pepperdine ten days earlier...Two kills on three other occasions, including Oct. 31 conference victory at Idaho...Earned start at UC Riverside on Oct. 19 due to Megan Blackshire's illness, producing two block assists...Part of three-match stretch in which she assisted on a pair of blocks...Member of the Big West All-Academic Team.
Saw action as a reserve middle blocker during her inaugural collegiate campaign...Appeared in all five games at Long Beach State and pounded home a season-best four kills on nine attempts without an error for a .444 hitting percentage...Also assisted on three blocks in narrow loss to the 49ers...Had another four-kill effort against Idaho in the Thunderdome, a match in which she hit .677...Three put-aways in an Oct. 13 win over UC Riverside, another match in which she did not commit a miscue.
High School
Amy Sarkaria is a 2001 graduate of Villa Park High School...She holds the Spartans' career records for kills and blocks...Recognized as the Century League's Most Valuable Player, Best Blocker and Best Offensive Player as a senior...Once recorded 36 kills in a single match...Played for the Cal Juniors club team which placed first at the Martin Luther King Jr. Classic and SCVA Regionals and fifth at the Junior Olympics...Recognized as Student of the Month in English and AP Physics while at Villa Park HS...Honored as a Golden State Exam Award recipient in Geometry...Member of CSF who also competed in softball, basketball and track as a prepster.
Amy Alyse Sarkaria was born on December 1, 1983 in Houston, TX...Majoring in aquatic biology...She is a fan of Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers...Enjoys reading works by Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison and David Eddings among others...Her favorite movies include "The Mummy", "Sixteen Candles", "Braveheart" and "Anastasia"...Cereal is her favorite food...Has one sister (Jana, 25) and one brother (Todd, 23)...Daughter of David and Brenda Sarkaria.
Career Highs Kills:7 vs. Cal Poly (11-22-03) Digs:1 on nine occasions, most recently at UC Irvine (10-17-03) Aces:1 at Loyola Marymount (9-2-03) 1 vs. Texas-Arlington (8-30-03) BS:1 on three occasions, most recently at UC Irvine (10-17-03 BA:4 vs. American (9-12-03)


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Panoramic view with La Silla
This unique panoramic view of the La Silla area stretches across an angle of nearly 270° and was obtained by combining nine 6x9 cm exposures with a Linhof Technika camera. It was made at sunset from a point near the access road that descends to the Pelicano Camp at the entry to the ESO area. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope tower is at the left on the observatory ridge, the living quarters are to the far right of the site and many of the telescope domes are seen in between. Photograph and computer work by Hans Hermann Heyer (ESO). The La Silla Observatory is located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the driest and loneliest areas of the world. The land around this isolated peak was acquired in 1964 and following some years of construction work, the inauguration of ESO's first observatory took place in March 1969. The solitude of this remote desert site is well illustrated by the above panorama, obtained in 1996.
An amazing interactive virtual tour is available.Credit:
About the Image
|Release date:
|26 October 1999
|Related releases:
|6000 x 680 px
|Field of View:
|200° x 40°
About the Object
|La Silla, Panorama
|Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface : Mountain
Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
|La Silla
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My book states the following:
Two position vectors v and w are equal if and only if the terminal point of v is the same as the terminal point of w. This leads to the following result:
Theorem: Equality of Vectors
Two vectors v and w are equal if and only if their corresponding components are equal. That is,
If v = <a1, b1> and w = a2, b2>
then v = w if and only if a1 = a2 and b1 = b2
The first part basically stated that only the terminal points of two vectors have to be the same for them to be equal. However, there can be two vectors with different initial points and the same terminal point, but this won't make the definition (second statement) true.
Why does the statement and the definition seem to contradict each other?
Btw, the following was stated at the beginning of the section while describing geometric vectors:
"Two vectors v and w are equal, written v = w, if they have the same magnitude and direction. For example, the three vectors shown in figure 42 have the same magnitude and the same direction, so they are equal, even though they have different initial points and different terminal points. As a result, we find it useful to think of a vector simply as an arrow, keeping in mind that two arrows (vectors) are equal if they have the same direction and the same magnitude (length)."
This description does not match up with the ones described above, so I think it is safe to say that the material is bot referring to geometric vectors.
Lastly, keep in mind that the section only describes position vectors and geometric vectors.


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Join KLRU for a special screening of the PBS documentary LADONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 directed by Austin filmmaker Julianna Brannum edited by Austinite Sam Douglas
DATE: Wednesday, November 5
TIME: 7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
LOCATION: KLRU's Studio 6A
RSVP: The event is free but RSVP is required. RSVP now
This documentary profiles the life and work of Comanche political and social activist LaDonna Harris. Filmmaker Julianna Brannum and editor Sam Douglas will be in attendance to discuss the film and answer audience questions.
LADONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 chronicles the life of Comanche activist and national civil rights leader LaDonna Harris and the role that she has played in Native and mainstream American history since the 1960s. Harris' activism began in Oklahoma, fighting segregation and assisting grassroots Native and women's groups. She continued her work in Washington, DC where she helped to introduce landmark programs and legislation including tribal land return claims, improving education and healthcare for Native Americans, ending job discrimination against women, and protecting environmental resources for tribes. Using interviews, archival footage and photographs, LADONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 celebrates her life and the personal struggles that led her to become a voice for Native people and highlights her contemporary work to strengthen and rebuild indigenous communities and train emerging Native leaders around the world.
This event is part of KLRU's Native American Heritage Month programming.


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A high-speed police chase that started after a man stole a car prompted this month's State Law Enforcement Division investigation into the York Police Department and York Police Chief Andy Robinson's use of force, according to city officials and police documents.
Three York City Council members told The Herald that City Manager Charles Helms on Friday showed them video from the April 4 chase and arrest. The video Helms showed lasted 10 minutes or less and shows Robinson on the scene during the arrest of the man charged with stealing the car, the councilmen said.
The video ended with Robinson getting out of his car and approaching the suspect, who was handcuffed and on the ground, Councilman Ed Brown said.
Other law enforcement officials are seen on the video, but the video was shot too far away from the arrest scene for a viewer to see much detail, Mayor Eddie Lee said after watching the footage twice.
Mayor Pro-Tem Charles Johnson, who also watched the video on Friday, said it hasn't "got much on it." Johnson said he didn't observe Robinson doing anything "worth investigating."
Johnson declined to comment further, saying he couldn't add more detail because SLED is still investigating. Lee told The Herald that SLED officials are including in their investigation interviews with many law enforcement officials who were on the scene.
Robinson has refused to comment on the investigation since it became public on Monday when The Herald reported it on heraldonline.com. Helms issued a statement Thursday that said the investigation involved "use of force" during an arrest but added he would not comment further until the probe was completed.
Police records from both the York Police Department and York County Sheriff's Office show that the April 4 chase started at about 11:40 a.m., after a car theft from the parking lot of the BP Gas Station and China Garden eatery on Chester Highway in the York city limits.
Authorities obtained a description of the stolen gold Buick and used the in-vehicle OnStar system to track the car as it left the gas station. Police later identified and arrested Jacob Floyd Bailey, 29, of Marietta, S.C., the man they say stole the car. He was released from jail on bond on April 5.
A York police lieutenant initially tried stopping Bailey as he drove off U.S. 321 toward McConnells, according to police documents. But, Bailey did not immediately pull over and the chase continued until officers arrested him nearly one hour later, records show.
Bailey led York officers on a chase through the city, eventually traveling on S.C. 5 into the York County Sheriff's Office jurisdiction and, later, toward Rock Hill, according to police reports. Sheriff's office deputies joined the chase, which reached speeds of more than 100 mph.
At one point, officers stopped their pursuit but renewed the chase when Bailey took S.C. 5, heading back toward York, police reports state. He finally stopped in a residential driveway on Park Place Road, where officers surrounded Bailey and arrested him. Bailey was "extracted" from the stolen car by "county units" who arrested him on the ground, a York Police Department report states.
Authorities issued Bailey a traffic ticket for reckless driving, and city of York police warrants show he was charged with grand larceny, failure to stop for a blue light and possession of controlled substances. He was also charged with driving under the influence and third-degree assault and battery, according to the sheriff's office report.
Bailey admitted to drug use, including methamphetamine and hydrocodone, the report states. He also admitted to deputies that he stole the car from the York gas station before fleeing from police, according to York Police Department records.
Neither the York Police Department nor the sheriff's office reports obtained by The Herald this week mention Robinson joining the April 4 police chase or being at the scene of the arrest on Park Place Road. Both departments' records appear to not list every officer at the scene.
The video of the arrest that Brown saw on Friday shows officers kneeling on the ground near Bailey with Robinson standing nearby, Brown said. He described the footage as a short clip in which he did not see any "excessive force."
Police reports from the arrest do not describe a struggle with Bailey while handcuffing him or state that anyone was injured during the chase or arrest. Deputies noted in their report that field sobriety tests were not given to Bailey immediately after the chase because he needed to remain handcuffed, "for fear that he would fight or flee."
The Herald's efforts to reach Bailey over several days this week were unsuccessful.
Bailey is awaiting trial on an October 2013 attempted murder charge in Greenville County, court records show. His criminal history includes convictions for driving under suspension, unlawful carrying of a weapon and receiving stolen goods, according to SLED records.
In November 2012, Bailey was placed on probation in which he was to perform community service, said Pete O'Boyle, spokesman for the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. On Friday, probation officials issued warrants on Bailey that will charge him with violating his probation once he is found, O'Boyle said.
The Herald has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the York Police Department and city officials, asking for video and audio from the April 4 chase and arrest.


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Four To Be Inducted Into ODU Sports Hall Of Fame On Oct. 9
By ODU Athletics
Sept. 20, 2009
NORFOLK, VA--The 2009 Old Dominion University Sports Hall of Fame induction class features a wrestling All-American, Sailing All-American, an All-Conference baseball player, and the school's first full-time sports information director.
The 2009 Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be held Friday, Oct. 9th at the Constant Center, at 7 p.m. The inductees will also be honored during the ODU-Presbyterian Football Game, on Oct. 10.
This year's class includes Nick Hall (Wrestling), Christine Accetella (Sailing), Scott Thomson (Baseball), and Joe Law (Administration,) posthumously.
Nick Hall, was arguably one of the top wrestlers in ODU's history. The heavyweight wrestler finished fifth at the 1995 NCAA Championships. In 1995-96 season he ranked third nationally by the national services and finished the season 36-1. In the national quarterfinals he suffered a serious spinal injury, rupturing his fifth and sixth discs. He lost and was not able to continue in the tournament which kept him from repeating as an All-American. Hall completed his career with a 115-18-3 record which ranks him fourth on ODU's all-time list. He is also tied for first with 29 career pins. Hall was an NCAA qualifier three successive years from 1994 to 1996. He captured the Colonial Athletic Association titles in 1995 and 1996, and was named CAA Wrestler of the year both of those years.
Hall graduated in 1996 from ODU with a degree in psychology. He returned to his home in the Long Island area of New York, where he is the father of a daughter, Tori and four sons; Nick, Tyler, Rocco and Jacob. Hall is an account manager in the wine and spirits industry, and also a volunteer wrestling coach at his high school, Longwood In Middle Island, NY, where his oldest son is following in his footsteps.
Scott Thomson came to Old Dominion in 1987 as the Maryland High School Baseball Player of the Year. During his four seasons at ODU, Thomson displayed his durability and consistency. He still ranks in the top four in seven ODU career baseball records. He ranks number one in career games started with 220, second in doubles with 63 and triples with 16, and ranks third with 278 career base hits.
As a freshman, Thomson was named to the Sun Belt Conference All-Rookie squad and led the Monarchs with 31 RBI. In his junior season, he was selected pre-season All-American by Baseball America. That season, he led the nation in triples with eight, hit .399 and was named first team All-Sun Belt as ODU ranked as high as 23rd in the nation. The Monarchs also reached the Sun Belt Conference finals and played in the NCAA Regionals at the University of Texas where Thomson led the game off against Cal State Fullerton with a home run. He later hit another homer in that game.
In 1991, Thomson led the team in homeruns, was named first team All-Sun Belt Conference and was The Virginia College Player of the Year. ODU won 39 games that year and again reached the finals of the Sun Belt Conference. Thomson played two seasons of minor league baseball, then returned to school to complete his degree in physical education at Western Maryland University.
Scott has been the head baseball coach at Mount St. Mary's for the past 12 years. In 2007, the Mounts had the best record In their history and Thomson was named NEC Coach of the Year, winning the league and advancing to the NCAA regionals. Scott has three children, Braden, Becca and Allie.
Christine Accettella was a first team All-American sailor in 1994. She served as team captain and earned MVP honors on the squad. In 1991, she was part of the second-place finish in the B-Division at the 1991 ICYRA Women's Sailing National Championships. She also skippered a crew to a first place finish in A-division of the 1993 Navy Fall Women's regatta. In 1993, Accetella placed seventh in the ICYRA Women's National Championships. In 1993-94, she won the women's intersectionals , and placed second at the Mid Atlantic Sailing Championships and the MAISA Women's District Championships. The Babylon, NY native competed in the Gaastra J22 World 2000 Championships.
A native of Babylon, NY, Accettella graduated from ODU in 1994 with a degree in sports medicine and in 1996 earned a masters in physical therapy. She served as an assistant coach at ODU for three years, and currently works in the physical therapy field in the Hampton Roads area.
Joe Law served as the University's first full-time sports Information Director from 1972-79. A native of House, NM., Joe became the sports information director at ODU after retiring from the Navy. Joe served on various CoSIDA (College Sports Information Director's of America) committees, and his publications won various awards from the Organization.
A tireless worker, Joe was a mentor to many in the field of sports media relations. He also implemented much of the athletic photography and historical record archives. Joe played a major part in the development of the ODU Sports Hall of Fame and remained on the committee until 2005. After leaving ODU, he served as public affairs officer at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for 14 Years. Joe passed away on Sept. 24, 2007.
The evening begins with a social at 7 p.m. followed by the Hall of Fame Ceremony at 8 p.m. Tickets for the event are $35. For more information, please call the athletic ticket office at 683-4444.


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Eye Tracking Coming To Video Games 102
An anonymous reader writes "Over the past several years, we've had a spate of new input methods for playing video games. Instead of just pushing buttons, now we can wave body parts around, yell at the screen, or even (weakly) control things with our thoughts. Now, we're adding an eye-tracking sensor bar. It's being created by SteelSeries, but it's based on tech from a Swedish company called Tobii, who built similar tech for cars. 'Inside the device there are two cameras and an infrared light source. The infrared light reflects off your pupil and cornea, which is then captured by the two camera sensors. Throw in a healthy serving of Tobii's proprietary image processing algorithms, and a physiological 3D model of the eye, and you can work out the position of the eye and the direction of the gaze with high accuracy. Tobii doesn't seem to put an exact figure on the resolution/accuracy, merely saying that "within less than a centimeter" is possible.' Of course, the biggest question will be how well it works, but it seems like it could be a useful supplement to normal control schemes. I can see how it would be nice to simply flick your eyes to an icon to do something, or to make it easier to dig through your in-game inventory."


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GENEVA – The Longmeadow Parkway Bridge has received a $45 million commitment from the Illinois Department of Transportation, Kane County officials announced Wednesday.
News of the financial boost received a round of applause during the Kane County Executive Committee meeting.
Kane County Board member Maggie Auger, R-Algonquin, said she was pleased to learn the county was awarded this money and thanked all involved.
The Longmeadow project will add about 5.6 miles of road from Route 62 across the Fox River to Huntley Road in the Algonquin, Carpentersville and Lake in the Hills area.
Construction on the four-lane bridge could begin as soon as 2015, according to Kane County. Costs are estimated at $120 million.
Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen said he is "delighted" to have exceeded his goal of securing an additional $10 million to $15 million of state or federal funding.
"Timing was just right in this case," Lauzen said, noting teamwork also was key.
Algonquin named Longmeadow Parkway 20 years ago and subsequently set aside land and paved the first phase of the road. The village has envisioned the road being a path across the Fox River for the residents and businesses in northern Kane County, Village President John Schmitt said in a news release.
In the news release, Schmitt thanked the Kane County Board for pursuing money for the road.
"This will be a major infrastructure improvement that will not only help relieve [traffic] congestion, but will be a business builder in the Carpentersville, Algonquin and Huntley industrial parks," Schmitt said.
Kane and McHenry counties have passed resolutions supporting the project, as have 10 municipalities: Algonquin, Barrington Hills, Carpentersville, East Dundee, Gilberts, Hampshire, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Sleepy Hollow and West Dundee, according to Kane County.
The Kane/Kendall Council of Mayors contributed $5 million of the $45 million, Lauzen said.
Tolls will contribute to future funding. Prices have not yet been set for the tolls, which will be collected with an I-Pass-compatible system in cooperation with the Illinois Tollway, according to Kane County.
The Longmeadow project has completed the Phase I engineering stage, and the county is continuing with land acquisition, said Kane County Board member Drew Frasz, R-Elburn, who chairs the Transportation Committee.
"Things are moving along very well," he said.
Visit www.co.kane.il.us/dot for information.


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Intelliject President & CEO Spencer Williamson recently won the Ernst & Young (E&Y) Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Greater Washington Award in the Health Services and Technology category.
Based in Richmond, Va., Intelliject was founded in 2004 by twin brothers Eric and Evan Edwards in an effort to find a more user-friendly solution to administer epinephrine in the event of anaphylactic shock. Both brothers had suffered from severe allergies since childhood.
That solution became the Auvi-Q device, the first and only epinephrine auto-injector with voice instructions. Auvi-Q provides step-by-step voice instructions along with visual cues and a five-second countdown to help ensure the medication is delivered quickly and accurately during a potentially life-threatening situation.
After years of development, Auvi-Q is now on the fast track. The company received FDA approval for the device in August 2012 and reached a licensing agreement with Sanofi-Aventis to commercialize the product in North America.
In January 2013, Auvi-Q became available on pharmacy shelves in the U.S., and the company is well-positioned to expand internationally.
Intelliject is a shining example of Virginia's growing life sciences industry and the innovative environment the Commonwealth offers to entrepreneurs. More than 800 life sciences companies have chosen to locate in Virginia for its access to top research institutions, biotech parks and a highly-trained workforce with the medical expertise to support the industry.
To learn why Virginia was ranked the No. 2 Emerging Biotech Hub by Business Facilities magazine, click here.
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Date(s) - 06/01/2014
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Like a study on the mass exodus of players doing ladder play after the koreans find the tournament?
Ninety percent of the players in this tournament are not superhuman multitaskers. After watching enough of their first-person video streams, you see that most players can't react to novel situations. They just learn "build an army before the X minute mark", or "counterattack with fast ground units when his army moves out," executing the same limited skill set game after game. What this study will probably show is the rapid development of mechanical skills from low-to-mid level play, followed by the gradual acquisition of timings and strategic instincts.
Well of course a novel play would slow them down. The reason they are so fast is because they no longer thing about the normal stuff, it is ingrained like a champion chess player. But that does not mean that they are unable to cope with the never seen before.
I'll reply to you.
Seems to me this is a severely flawed discussion, well into Apples & Oranges territory.
Let me talk from a modest knowledge of the chess side. Chess does not normally reward "actions per minute" except the subset of Blitz events. Yes, GMs have higher "throughput of variations" than amateurs, but generally so I've heard is that a "mere master calculates, the GM 'knows'." The GM simply doesn't even look at the weak moves. Then all that analytic firepower gets focused on grade A moves.
Yeah, these C&C-type RTSes are about micromanagement, not strategy.
"Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics." - Carl von Clausewitz
Now, what's Starcraft about again?
And yet both the amateur and the professional is right in regards to Clausewitz's statement. For any strategy in the real world, 90-95% of the strategy is logistics. No, they are not separate.
As for Starcraft, it's a bare minimum abstractions tactics, all focusing on micromanagement, which is a deathtrap in real life. People who were good in Brood Wars etc who later went into officer academy or became NCO's turned out to be really bad leaders and tacticians. Many of them have aspergers or OCD, and when face
"There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves." - Napoleon
He was a guy famous for not caring about supply lines.
How did that work out for him in Russia?
How did that work out for him in Russia?
He reached Moscow. So I'd say it worked for him far better than most "conquer Russia" strategies have.
This is similar to chess in that players learn to identify certain counter strategies to other strategies. Another analogy would be like card counting in black jack, in that rather than do a full calculation of probabilities in your head, you've abstracted that process to a set of techniques. Of course these techniques are not as accurate or reliable, but in a realtime game like Starcraft, you don't have time for formulating a detailed war plan.
Let me be the first to explain "why Starcraft 2?"
The answer lies in the oft-cited measure of player skill at the game: actions per minute. This is an unprecedented numerical measure of expertise that lends itself well to the study of "expertise" -- a term which means something different in the study of the brain than it does to the everyday person. Expertise is nothing less than a figurative rewiring of your brain in order to better excel at a chosen repetitive task. You can check out Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] if you want to read more about it.
As a daily SC2 ladder player, I can definitely state that APM has little to do with skill. It's a useful metric to determine how well a skilled player can execute his strategy but that's it. It doesn't, in any way, indicate whether a player can dynamically adjust his play to beat his opponent. It just means that if he can come up with a sufficient strategy, that he will probably be able to make it happen (assuming, of course, his opponent doesn't throw a wrench into the works). So, it scares me that anyone doing research in this field would put so much weight into APM.
Yeh, I've watched videos where a player during any kind of idle time will click on and off things just to keep their APM up...
it's about warming the hands up and keeping the intensity high, so you can easily pull off these 300apm with no filler in decisive moments of the game. Some spam apm to enlarge the e-peen but they are not pros and more often than not it makes them play much worse. It's not a measure of skill but more like a measure of physical potential, what you do with that potential is an entirely different story.
Actually, APM has a lot to do with skill. But it's important to differentiate between raw APM and effective APM.
Raw APM is literally how many clicks and keystrokes you execute per minute. Effective APM is how many of those keystrokes were meaningful (repeatedly clicking the same move command over and over has no effect on the game and is thus not meaningful). The trick here is that the game obviously measures raw APM, and it's difficult for the game to discern exactly what separates meaningful clicks from m
Actually, if you RTFA, you'd see that from analyzing 3500 replay files the study has established that players who make more actions per minute, and whose actions are more widely distributed across the map, do tend to win.
All really good players have a high APM but not all people with high APM are really good players. Thus, it's a shit statistic.
I think the "distributed across the map" part is key. In beginner / intermediate play, a really key ability is to actually remember to keep building stuff while scouting or fighting. Can you throw down that building on time while also looking at your opponent's base and gleaning useful information there in an early scout? In an early skirmish, can you micro well enough to gain a minor advantage while also still building workers for the long term economy that actually matters? In the midgame, it's worse, you
As a fellow cognitive scientist let me be the first to explain "why Starcraft 2?" The answer lies in the oft-cited measure of player skill at the game: actions per minute. This is an unprecedented numerical measure of expertise that lends itself well to the study of "expertise" -- a term which means something different in the study of the brain than it does to the everyday person. Expertise is nothing less than a figurative rewiring of your brain in order to better excel at a chosen repetitive task.
APM is a distorted metric. It does not distinguish between a meaningful action, a redundant action, a nervous "twitch" (i.e. multiple clicks rather than one), etc.
Furthermore it contains an additional distortion. Since it is a metric that players are evaluated by, and/or used in silly "pissing contests", it can be intentionally distorted. Why click on that point on the ground once when you can click on it five time rapidly? APM focused players often are manically clicking on empty ground issuing no unit orders when they have nothing to do for a second or two, they have rewired their brain to have them do "something" even if there is nothing useful to be done.
For the programmers reading along, Think of APM as the LOC (Lines of Code) of the Starcraft world. Both metrics can be meaningful in an idealized setting, but such is not the setting of most real world events.
You're half-right. Many of those "useless" actions actually do have a purpose: to keep up your pacing. It's easier to keep up clicking maniacally the entire game than to repeatedly accelerate and decelerate as the demands in the game go up and down. That's why you see people spamming clicks at the beginning of the game. Sure, by themselves clicking on the minerals a whole bunch is pointless, but it acts as a warm-up for the rest of the game.
So that you can scan all kinds of brain functions while this happens. It would help with brain function mapping as well, which we seriously need to know and understand. Brain surgery needs to go beyond just cutting hunks of meat, it needs to be about helping reroute neural networks in organic units, to include humans.
There is so much that we still don't understand and frankly it's annoying.
We need general information, not microscopic at the moment. That's like shooting a mosquito with a bazooka. I am sure we can monitor plenty of brain activity and map some data. With large numbers like this and them all in the same type of brain function format, it's ideal for extrapolating observational data.
Think of it as watching brain functions like one would watch car traffic from above. We hope we could be tree top level, but we are doing good to just watch from orbit. If we can bring it down closer we
You'd only be able to map their brain after killing them and putting them under a scope.
Obviously that's phase two. We couldn't exactly gather the two data sets the other way around, now could we?
I saw a documentary where a brain surgeon was scanning a musicians brain while they were doing brain surgery and had the musician hum tunes while they mapped general locations so that they'd avoid hacking out those pieces while removing a tumor. They literally just had letters written on little pieces of paper and were just letting the wetness of his exposed brain hold them on
Amazing, if I do say so. I see we need to engineer some better tools for our scientists to use to study brains with. I guess I need more biology classes as well. I should have started this 40 years ago.
Here's what I think of, an array set about the skull to pick up any kinds of RF, something sensitive, then some IR to check any kinds of thermal levels. What other kind of stuff could we monitor and use to project a mathematical graphing of this? Break out the fancy graphing calculator for that.
We need someon
it's just humans, horde and elves.
nothing more!
What about Undead? (You insensitive clod!)
The title is confusing. Expertise is not a science. You (hopefully) get expertise when you do research, as the article explains.
The title is confusing. Expertise is not a science.
Right. But when you talk about how the scientific investigation of X is done, you can refer to that subject as 'the science of X'. Not a common way to phrase it, but it is correct. Would you rather they called it 'expertisology'?
Would you rather they called it 'expertisology'?
Oh yes, please. Can we?
maybe it's re-inventing pedagogy. maybe. but doing something to learn to do it is hardly revolutionary, except if you compare it to "humans as robots" way of teaching people to do things, which was hot shit at beginning of last century(for industry jobs where you just repeated the same task, then it made sense to see how the best one doing it did it and then copy those movements and teach them to everyone..).
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Defiance 37, Bluffton 19
By Ben Risinger, SID
November 15, 2003
DEFIANCE, OHIO - The Defiance Yellow Jackets (4-6, 3-3 HCAC) defeated the Bluffton Beavers (2-8, 0-6 HCAC) 37-19 in the 2003 football finale for both teams.
The game started off on a positive note as the Beavers received the opening kickoff. Sophomore Ben Dodds (West Lilberty/Bellefontaine) ran the kickoff back 67 yards to start the opening drive. Two plays later, quarterback Jared Owens (VanWert/Crestview) completed a 31-yard pass to Dodds for the touchdown to go up 6-0 after a failed PAT. Defiance would answer right back two minutes later to take the lead 7-6. At the 9:06 mark in the first Dodds would post a 2-yard run for the second Beaver touchdown to give Bluffton the lead once more 12-7 (2-point conversion failed).
Over the course of the next two quarters Defiance would score three more times to widen the lead to 21-12. In the third quarter junior Mark Gable (Alvordton/Hilltop) would catch a 48-yard pass from Owens to tighten the game to 24-19 (Carrion kick good). Defiance would score twice more in the contest to give the final of 37-19.
Hurting the Beavers were two critical plays, the first one was with 2:32 left in the first half when Bluffton found themselves at the Defiance 3-yard line for first and goal when Dodds fumbled the ball for the loss. The second crucial play was early in the fourth quarter when Owens would find his pass intercepted at the Bluffton 3-yard line to be run back for the touchdown. Ending the day, Defiance went 4-for-4 in the red zone, with the Beavers going 1-for-4.
Comparatively, Bluffton posted 22 first downs compared to Defiance 's 18. Bluffton posted a total of 321 yards (175 rushing, 146 passing) compared to the Yellow Jackets 417 yards (156 rushing, 261 passing). The Beavers led in time of possession at 33:47, compared to Defiance with 26:13. Bluffton played smart on the day, allowing only two penalties for 10 yards, compared to Defiance with nine penalties for 78 yards.
Quarterback Jared Owens finished the contest 29-14-2 for 146 yards in the air and a career high two passing touchdowns. Ben Dodds led the Beavers in rushing with 81 yards and a touchdown off of 28 carries. Dodds also had five kickoff returns for 174 yards. Mark Gable led the receiving attack with five catches for 74 yards and a touchdown. Junior Matt Chiles (Sidney/Sidney) led the Beaver defensive effort with 13 tackles (8 solo, 5 assisted) and two tackles-for-loss for eight yards. Senior Chris Sommers (Delphos/Jefferson) had 10 tackles (4 solo, 6 assisted) on the day.
The game caps off the end of the 2003 season for Bluffton and head coach Greg Brooks' first season at the helm of the Beavers.


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Capcom Classics Collection Remixed provides quality entertainment that delves deep into Capcom's history, offering players more depth and gameplay challenges. Play this latest cache of classics in several aspect ratios including normal, stretch or, depending on the title, its original vertical orientation. Fully customizable controls enhance the gaming experience by allowing the reassignment of the analog stick to accommodate vertical games. Enjoy the timeless hits of yesteryear with the wireless capabilities the portable system has to offer such as joining no-fuss multiplayer games and downloading music. Players will need to be pried away from this game as the multitude of bonus materials will have them glued to the system wanting more.
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- Block Block – An innovative twist to the block breaking genre, Block Block features a two player co-op mode, allowing for the cooperative destruction of blocks. Also unique to this title was the constantly shrinking paddle that forced player to finish each board as quickly as possible.
- Captain Commando – Following in the footsteps of several great side-scrolling brawler titles, this four player co-op game tracks the adventures of four intergalactic space rangers who must enforce peace throughout the galaxy.
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- Quiz and Dragons – The most innovative quiz game of its time which features integrated RGP style gameplay. Taking place on a virtual board game, players would roll the dice to determine their progression. A battle would ensue if characters landed on an enemy. Knowledge is power as quizzes are provided with each confronted challenger. Answering correctly is a strike against the enemy. A wrong answer is a strike against the player.
- Street Fighter – The game that started the entire fighting phenomenon and created a generation of video game brawlers. The first Capcom fighting game only had two playable characters, Ken and Ryu, who would travel the world to compete in martial arts tournaments.
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text: @Ekeemz Who would you give the Man of the Match award to then? It was definitely Ramires' in my opinion. Bad refereeing or not, he was still the best man on the pitch. Not only did the two chances that resulted in goals for Chelsea pass by him, he still destroyed and outplayed the midfield of Arsenal this game, that's completely undeniable. The referee definitely had some wrong calls this game but things like this unfortunately happen all the time. I think the result 2-1 represented well what happened in this game anyways. Chelsea was amazing in the beginning of the game, even the commentators here who are clearly against Chelsea were impressed. And when they went 2-0 they started to slow down the game. It's only natural that Arsenal had more chances then. Arsenal anyways built up some immense pressure in the final minutes but they didn't look particularly like they were going to score or turn this around in my opinion. Arsenal really misses RVP. It's clearly noticeable.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The seniors' last meet at Coxe Cage was a memorable one as the Bulldogs posted up one PR after another while fighting for places at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet on Saturday. The team placed third with 19 points. Although the Bulldogs did not win the meet, senior captain Marty Evans said they had many runners "leave it all on the track."
"We just had the mentality and conviction to beat people no matter what happened in the past, which is the essence of this sport," Evans said.
The throwers started the Bulldogs off strong with sophomore Mike Levine's third-place finish in the weight throw with a season best of 17.60m, almost a meter farther than his previous best. Senior David Smith also threw a PR in the weight throw (15.31m) and a season best in the shot put (14.57m), while freshman Stefan Palios threw a PR in the weight throw (12.42m).
"We had a really good transition meet going into Heps," Smith said.
Freshman Dana Lindberg also had a breakthrough performance, placing third in the long jump with a PR of 6.92m.
In the sprints, junior Matthew Bieszard took second in the 500-meter dash with a PR of 1:04.00. Freshman Daniel Jones also clocked in the third-fastest time in preliminaries (7.10), while Evans placed fourth in the 400-meter dash in 49.11, his fastest time at Coxe Cage. Evans also ran a solid lead leg in the 4x400-meter relay, along with senior Chris Stanley, senior Nathan Molina and Bieszard to run a season best of 3:18.89 and take second. In the 200-meter dash, Lindberg, Molina and Stanley went fourth (22.51), fifth (22.77) and sixth (22.85), respectively.
Riding off their impressive performances at Giegengack Invitational last week, the distance runners made another phenomenal team effort. The duo of freshman James Shirvell and senior John Van Deventer ran a strong race in the 1,000-meter run, Shirvell taking a close second with a PR of 2:25.50, only four-tenths behind the Tigers' Van Ackeren, and Deventer shaving five seconds to run a PR in 2:25.64. Shirvell passed a pack of three Tigers early on to lead most of the race until getting passed in the last 50 meters, fighting for first until the very end. The Bulldogs also had a strong showing in the mile with junior Julian Sheinbaum running a PR of 4:13.28 to place fourth and freshman Michael Pierce placing sixth in 4:14.60, a PR by more than 20 seconds. Sophomore Christopher Ramsey also ran a PR of 1:53.52 in the 800-meter run. In the 3,000-meter run, junior Nathan Richards came in first for the Bulldogs to place fifth overall (8:20.81), followed by sophomore Matthew Thwaites in ninth with a PR of 8:35.45.
The Bulldogs finished off the day with a season best of 7:50.02 in the 4x800-meter relay with the team of junior Charlie Jaeger, Ramsey, Sheinbaum and Shirvell. Although Sheinbaum dropped the baton while battling a close race with the third leg runners from the Crimson and the Tigers, he was able to finish and hand it off to the Shirvell for the final leg.
The Tigers took home the title with 114 points, the seventh consecutive time they have won since joining the Harvard-Yale meet seven years ago. Even with the Tigers' dominance at the tri-meet, David Shoehalter, the Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, said the Bulldogs' top performances from the meet will score major points at Heptagonals Championships.
"Those high quality performances are going to translate over into Heps," Shoehalter said.
The Bulldogs will take the next two weeks to gear up for Heptagonals on Feb. 26-27 in New York, N.Y.
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