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Jan. 8, 2008
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The Schedule
Game No. 16
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at UC Irvine Anteaters
at UCI's Bren Center
Radio: KTMS 990/1490-AM
Internet: UCSBgauchos.com
Game No. 17
Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal State Fullerton Titans
at CSUF's Titan Gym
Radio: KTMS 990/1490-AM
Internet: UCSBgauchos.com
The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters the week with an overall record of 12-3 and a Big West mark of 1-1. On Saturday night, the Gauchos lost their first Big West game of the season, an 88-84 decision to Cal State Northridge. The loss was also the first at home for UCSB. The Gauchos have won 10 of their last 12 games overall. They opened Big West play on Thursday night with a 79-64 victory over the defending league champion, Long Beach State.
Gauchos Still Off To Their Best Start In 19 Seasons
Despite the loss to Cal State Northridge, UCSB's 12-3 start is still the program's best in 19 years and it equals the second best in program history. The last time the Gauchos had a better record through 15 games was in 1988-89 when they went 14-1 to open the year. The 1987-88 Gaucho team was also 12-3 after 15 games.
UCSB Loses Lead, Tough Game To Cal State Northridge
Deon Tresvant scored 31 points, including 23 in the second half, as Cal State Northridge rallied from 12 down to hand UC Santa Barbara its first home loss in eight games this season, 88-84 on Saturday night. Tresvant made 10-of-17 shots overall and 7-of-11 from three-point range, but in final 20 minutes he was particularly hot, drilling 7-of-8 shots overall and five out of six from three-point range. The Matadors trailed UCSB by as many as 12 points on two occasions in the second half, the last coming at 66-54 with 11:35 remaining in the game. Tresvant led an outstanding second half offensive assault by Northridge. After shooting 35.3% in the first half, the Matadors made 17 out of their 25 second half shots, 68.0%. The Gauchos also shot the ball well, making 50.9% overall, but they did not have much success from three-point range, making 4-for-15 and missing all nine attempts in the second half. Northridge took its first lead of the second half at 74-73 when Jonathan Heard made a lay-up with 7:01 to play. Harris responded for UCSB by hitting a baseline jumper, but on the other end, Tresvant was fouled by Gaucho guard James Powell and he made both free throws to give his team a 77-76 edge. Santa Barbara never tied or led the game again. Led by Chris Devine, UCSB took a six-point lead into the halftime locker room. Devine finished with a season-high 24 points, including 17 in the first half. Harris, the Big West's leading scorer, had 25 points, including 16 in the second half. Powell added 13 and Ivan Elliott had 11 for the Gauchos. For the Matadors, Heard and Paul Wayne each had 12 points, while point guard Josh Jenkins had 10 to go with his nine assists. UCSB was paced in rebounding by Devine and Elliott who had eight apiece. Powell tied his career-high with six assists. In addition to his offensive explosion, Tresvant led Northridge with seven rebounds and four steals. The Matadors forced Santa Barbara into 20 turnovers, including 14 in the first half. The Gauchos forced 16 turnovers in the game.
Probable Starters - Notes
G - Justin Joyner - Has 36 assists and 12 turnovers in the last eight games.
G - Alex Harris - Has 1,374 career points, needs 21 to move into sixth all-time at UCSB.
G - James Powell - Tied career-high with six assists against Cal State Northridge.
F - Chris Devine - Has averaged 20.5 points and 8.0 rebounds in last two games.
F - Ivan Elliott - Averaged 11.7 points and 8.3 rebounds in last three games.
Probable Reserves - Notes
G - Nick Quick - Has attempted seven shots in just 10 minutes of action.
G - Jordan Weiner - All eight of his baskets this season have been three-pointers.
G - Paul Roemer - Has played 10 or more minutes in 14 of 15 games.
G - D.J. Posley - Has scored four points in each of the last three games.
G - George Murphy - Has yet to play in a game.
F - Nedim Pajevic - Hampered by sore knee, played a low of nine minutes Saturday.
F - Sam Phippen - Tied season-high with one steal in win over LBSU.
F - Beau Gibb - Scored two points vs. CSUN, his first points since Dec. 1 at LMU.
F - Peter Jordan - Walk-on freshman has played in two games this season.
F - Spencer Ford - Will redshirt the 2007-08 season.
The Bob Williams File
Bob Williams is in his 10th season as the head coach at UC Santa Barbara. Last year his team recorded an overall record of 18-11 and a Big West mark of 9-5. The 18 wins were the most regular season wins by a Gaucho team since 1991-92 and it equaled the second most wins a Williams-coached UCSB team has ever had. Williams has led Santa Barbara to winning records in five of the last six seasons, the only exception being a 2004-05 team that was ravaged by injuries. He has guided UCSB to a pair of postseason appearances. In 2002-03, the Gauchos went 18-14 overall and 14-4 in league. The 2002-03 Big West mark earned Santa Barbara its first-ever Big West regular season championship along with a trip to the postseason National Invitation Tournament. Additionally, the success earned Williams his second Big West Coach of the Year award, his first coming after an impressive 1999 campaign. In 2001-02, Williams guided UCSB to its first Big West Conference Tournament title ever and first NCAA Tournament appearance in 12 years. Including this season, Williams' UCSB teams have posted a 152-125 (.550) overall record and an 86-59 (.589) record in Big West games. Prior to his arrival at UCSB, he spent eight years at UC Davis and in those eight years, his teams recorded 20 or more wins five times and a 158-76 record. In Williams' final season, the Aggies went 31-2, won the NCAA Division II National Championship and he was named NABC Division II Coach of the Year. Including two seasons at Menlo College, Williams has a record of 341-225 (.603) at four-year schools.
The Opposition
The Gauchos and UC Irvine have played 66 times in a series that dates back to 1968. Santa Barbara holds a 41-25 edge all-time, the Anteaters won the last time out, by a score of 70-52 in the second round of the 2007 Big West Tournament. Prior to the loss in last season's Big West Tourney, UCSB had won three straight games in the series, including a regular season sweep in 2006-07. Last year, the Gauchos defeated UCI on Jan. 6 in Irvine, 64-59, and on Feb. 8 in Santa Barbara, 71-62. UCSB and Cal State Fullerton have played 63 times in a series that dates back to 1977. The Gauchos hold a narrow 32-31 advantage over the Titans. The teams split a pair of games in 2006-07 with each team winning on its own floor. The Gauchos defeated Fullerton at the Thunderdome, 84-76, and then the Titans won in Orange County, 79-73. When UCSB won the first game between the schools last year, it ended a five-game Titan winning streak in the series.
The Gauchos On The Road
The Gauchos are 3-2 in true road games this season. They won their last road game, 58-51 at Eastern Washington on Dec. 29. On Dec. 22, they had a two-game road winning streak ended, losing at North Carolina, 105-70. Prior to the game at UNC, UCSB had won consecutive road games, a decisive 79-52 decision at Ball State on Dec. 19, and a 63-56 win at Loyola Marymount on Dec. 1. The Gauchos lost their only other road games this year, 67-48 at Stanford on Nov. 11. Santa Barbara has won a pair of neutral court encounters this season, defeating Northwestern State (92-71) and Harvard (79-61) in the Basketball Travelers Classic, also at Stanford. In 2006-07, the Gauchos recorded an all-time best 10-4 record on the road. Dating to the 2005-06 season, UCSB has gone 17-7 in its last 24 true road games .
The Gauchos At Home
UCSB had its nine-game home winning streak ended on Jan. 5 by Cal State Northridge, 88-84. With wins over Long Beach State, Utah Valley, Pepperdine, UNLV, Montana State, San Francisco and Cal Poly Pomona, the Gauchos opened the year with a perfect 7-0 Thunderdome record, extending a two-season home victory streak to nine in a row. The nine game home winning streak was the longest the program has experience since it won 15 in a row bridging the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons.
A Rebound Rebound
UCSB outrebounded Cal State Northridge on Saturday night, 34-30. For the Gauchos, it ended a streak of three straight games in which they were either beaten or tied on the boards. The rebound victory was just the sixth of the season for Santa Barbara. The Gauchos are being outrebounded by an average of 2.8 per game, including a high of 27 at North Carolina. UCSB's largest rebound margin has been six, against UNLV and at Ball State.
Eight-Game Streak Was Longest In A Long Time
UCSB's eight-game winning streak, which was ended at North Carolina on Dec. 22, was the longest that a Gaucho team has put together since Bob Williams became head coach in 1998-99. It was also the longest winning streak since the 1988-89 team opened the year by winning 11 consecutive games and it equaled the second longest streak in school history. Santa Barbara also won eight games in a row in 1971-72, 1960-61 and 1940-41.
The Shoe On The Other Foot
UCSB got a taste of its own medicine against Cal State Northridge on Saturday night. The Gauchos were forcing an average of 20.1 turnovers entering the game, tops in the Big West Conference. The Matadors were second in the league with more than 19 turnovers forced per game. In the game on Saturday night, UCSB committed 20 turnovers, including 14 in the first half, and forced Northridge into 16. It was just the fourth time this season that the Gauchos had more turnovers than their opponent and it came one game after they had produced a season-low in turnovers. In the Big West opener against Long Beach State, Santa Barbara had just eight turnovers to go with a season-high 23 assists.
Turning Over A New Leaf
Despite having more turnovers than Cal State Northridge in its last game, UCSB is still forcing turnovers at quite a clip this season. The Matadors had 16, which equaled the season-low by an opponent, but Gaucho opponents are still committing an average of 19.8 per game in 2007-08, an increase of 6.4 per game over the 13.4 per game they forced in 2006-07. Last year, a UCSB opponent had 20 or more turnovers just once, 21 by Pepperdine in a double overtime game. In 2007-08, UCSB has forced 20 or more turnovers eight times in 15 games. On Jan. 3, Long Beach State had 22 turnovers and no Gaucho opponent has had fewer than 16 miscues in a game, the total that top-ranked North Carolina, nationally-ranked Stanford, Eastern Washington and Cal State Northridge each produced. The highest total by an opponent this season was the 28, on Nov. 9 by Northwestern State.
A Bump In The Three-Point Road
UCSB, which has been so proficient from three-point range this season, has gone into a bit of an outside shooting slump in the last few games. While the Gauchos are still shooting a solid 41.7%, they have made a total of just 14 three-pointers in the last three games. In all, UCSB is 14-of-49 in the last three, 28.6%. In fact, the last three opponents, Eastern Washington, Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge, each made more threes than the Gauchos and combined to go 28-of-72, 38.9%. Despite the three-game three-point struggle, UCSB still ranks second in the Big West in three-point field goal percentage and first in three-point field goal percentage defense.
Playing The Margins
Of UCSB's 15 games this season, 10 have been decided by double-figures, including eight wins. The Gauchos' largest victory margin of 27 came on Dec. 19 at Ball State, and their largest margin of defeat, 35, came on Dec. 22 at North Carolina. The games were on the same road trip. The 88-84 loss to Cal State Northridge marked the first time this year that UCSB lost a game by fewer than 10.
Sharing The Ball
In their Big West Conference opener against Long Beach State, UCSB produced a season-high 23 assists. In the game against the 49ers, the Gauchos had three players with at least four assists and seven players with two or more. On Saturday, in the game against Cal State Northridge, they had 17 more assists, giving them a two-game total of 40, he highest of the year. UCSB is led in assists by starting point guard Justin Joyner. Joyner has 60 assists in 15 games, an average of 4.0 per game. Guard James Powell tied his career-high with six assists against the Matadors and is now averaging 2.3 per game, second on the team.
That `70s Show
While UCSB has allowed 70 or more points in a game just three times this season, the Gauchos have scored 70 or more 10 times, going 8-2 in those games. UCSB has actually scored 74 or more nine times this season, including five times in the first six games and four of the last five. The Gauchos are averaging 72.6 points per game, slightly more than the 71.2 points per game they averaged last year. Their highest scoring effort this year was a 92 point explosion in the opener against Northwestern State, and their lowest scoring effort was a 48 point output on Nov. 11 at Stanford.
Men Of Steal
UCSB is averaging 8.8 steals per game, an increase of 2.6 per game over last season's average of 6.2. Santa Barbara has seven players with at least 10 steals this season after only having six last year. At the current pace, the Gauchos would finish the year with more than 260 steals, a new school record.
The Harris Poll>
Senior guard Alex Harris scored 25 points and had four rebounds in Saturday's game against Cal State Northridge. It was Harris' highest point total since he also went for 25 on Dec. 7 against Utah Valley and it came one game after he scored a season-low 16 points and tied his season-high of four assists in UCSB's win over Long Beach State. In fact, in the three games prior to the game against the Matadors, Harris averaged 17.0 points per game and had his three lowest point totals of the season. The senior from Alameda, Calif., continues to lead the Big West in scoring at 22.1 points per game. He has not scored fewer than 16 points in a game this season and he has scored 20 or more nine times and 25 or more five times. Harris has either led or tied for the team-lead in scoring in 13 of his 14 appearances this year. In addition to scoring, he also paces the Gauchos in three-point shooting. He made 1-of-2 from beyond the arc on Saturday night, and while it ended a streak of 11 straight games in which he had made at least two three-point baskets, he has now made 36-of-69, 52.2%. In the last seven games, Harris has been even more prolific from beyond the three-point line. In the last seven, he has made 21 out of 32 three-point attempts, 65.6%. He is averaging 2.6 three-pointers per game, but in 11 games since he returned after missing the Nov. 15 game against Cal Poly Pomona with a thumb injury, he has made 32-of-55 three-pointers, nearly 3.0 per game, and 58.2%. In the Dec. 7 win over Utah Valley, Harris made six three-pointers, a career-high. He has made three or more six times this season, and two or more 12 times in 14 games. Harris has now made 156 three-pointers in 377 career attempts, 41.4%, the fourth highest percentage in school history. Harris has scored 1,379 points in his UCSB career, the seventh most in school history. He needs 21 to move into sixth. He went for a season-high 29 points on Nov. 24 against Montana State, making career-highs in free throws, 15, and free throw attempts, 18, all in the second half. Since the beginning of the 2006-07 season, Harris has scored 921 points in 43 games, an average of 21.4 points per game. He is averaging 3.9 rebounds per game, third on the team, and has had four or more in four of the last five games. He had a season-high eight rebounds on Nov. 24 against Montana State, and he has had seven twice, on Nov. 27 against UNLV and Nov. 10 against Harvard. Also, of his 22 assists on the year, 14 have come in the last five games, including a season-high four in two of the last three. Harris was a Preseason All-Big West and Mid-Major All-America selection.
The Devine File
Junior forward Chris Devine rebounded from two of his toughest offensive outings of the season with two of his best. On Saturday against Cal State Northridge, Devine scored a season-high 24 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including a pair of three-pointers, and 6-of-8 from the free throw line. Coupled with a 17-point effort in the conference-opening win over Long Beach State, he has averaged 20.5 points per game in the last two, making 14-of-22 from the field, 63.6%, both of his three-point attempts, and 11-of-13 from the free throw line, 84.6%. Devine is now averaging 13.9 points per game, an increase of more than a point per game from what he was averaging after scoring 15 total points in games against North Carolina and Eastern Washington. The 24 points he scored against the Matadors ranks as the fifth highest scoring total of his career. Prior to his back-to-back single-digit totals, he had scored 10 or more in 10 straight games. He has now done so 12 times in his 14 appearances this year. While he is now shooting 53.1% on the season, the Eagle River, Alaska, native has made 29-of-47, 61.7%, in the last five games. On Dec. 19, in a win at Ball State, Devine scored 22 points and made a season-best 9-of-10 shots from the field. Devine had eight rebounds against Cal State Northridge, one shy of his season-high of nine, set on Dec. 1 at Loyola Marymount. In fact, he has had eight rebounds in each of the last two games and is now averaging 5.7 rebounds per game, second on the team, and he has had 23 in his last three games. In addition, he has averaged 6.8 per game in the last nine, and since collecting just three combined in the first two games of the year, he has had 77 in 12 games, 6.4 per game. Devine has had seven or more rebounds eight times in his last 12 games. A Preseason All-Big West selection, he had a season-high four assists on Dec. 7 against Utah Valley and two or more seven times this season. Despite not having a steal in the last two games, Devine is leading the team with 21, including 14 in the last seven games. He has also produced six of his seven blocked shots in the last four games, including a career-high three at North Carolina. Finally, Devine is averaging 27.7 minutes per game, but in the last 10 games his playing time has increased. In his first four games this season he averaged 22.2 minutes per outing, playing a high of 31 on Nov. 1 at Stanford, but in his last 10 games, he has played exactly 300 total minutes, 30.0 per game. He played a season-high 34 minutes on Nov. 27 against UNLV.
Old Buddy, Old Powell
Sophomore guard James Powell scored a season-low two points and attempted a season-low two shots in 23 minutes against Eastern Washington on Dec. 29. In the two games since, a win over Long Beach State and a loss to Cal State Northridge, Powell has averaged 14.5 points to push his scoring average back to 11.0 points per game. Although he made just 4-of-12 shots overall and 1-of-6 from three-point range against the Matadors, he had 13 points. In addition, Powell had six assists, tying his career-high and moving into second on the team with 34. In the league opener against Long Beach State, he scored 16 points and tied his career-high with six rebounds. He also had three assists and a trio of steals. Since scoring a total of just 17 points in the first three games of the year, he has scored 148 in the last 12, 12.3 per game. Also, since making just 7-of-25 shots overall, 28.0%, 2-for-9 from three-point range, 22.2%, and 1-for-3 from the free throw line, 33.3%, in those first three games, he has heated-up. In the 11 games since then, including 10 wins, Powell has gone 51-of-113 overall, 45.1%, 26-of-61 from three-point range, 42.6%, and 20-of-25 from the free throw line, 80.0%. The Pomona, Calif., native scored a career-high 24 on Nov. 15 against Cal Poly Pomona. He is second on the team with 28 three-point baskets. Powell has made at least one three-point basket in 12 of 15 games and two or more eight times. He made a career-high five three-point buckets, all in the second half, in UCSB's 63-60 win over UNLV on Nov. 27. In fact, it was his three-pointer with less than half a second remaining that decided the game. He was named Big West Player of the Week for the effort. Powell has averaged 3.6 rebounds in the last nine games and is now averaging 3.2 per game for the year. He also had a pair of steals in the game against Cal State Northridge and now has 17 on the season, seven in the last three games.
Justin Joins In
Sophomore guard Justin Joyner continued his solid play at the point in the first two games of the Big West season. In Saturday's loss to Cal State Northridge, Joyner had four points, four assists, three rebounds and a steal. He did, however, equal his season-high with four turnovers. The four turnovers also equaled the total he had in the five previous games combined. In the league opener against Long Beach State, Joyner had five assists while committing just one turnover, and he added seven points, three rebounds and a season-high three steals. With his four assists on Saturday, Joyner has now had four or more assists seven times in the last nine games and 10 times in 15 games this season. He enters the week with 60 assists, 4.0 per game, and just 28 turnovers, 1.9 per game. His 2.1-to-1.0 assist to turnover ratio leads the Big West. Even with four turnovers on Saturday, Joyner has 36 assists and just 12 turnovers in the last eight games, a 3.0-to-1.0 ratio. In fact, he has had more than one turnover in a game just once in the last six games and he has had one or fewer nine times this season. He has had more assists than turnovers in nine of the last 10 games and in 11 of 15 this season. Joyner has had more turnovers than assists just once this year, Nov. 11 at Stanford when he had two assists and four turnovers. The Gauchos are 9-1 when he has four or more assists. Joyner is now averaging 3.4 points per game. He had a season-high nine on Nov. 10 against Harvard and he added eight twice, on Nov. 27 against UNLV and Dec. 7 against Utah Valley. As a freshman, Joyner led the UCSB in steals with 36, an average of 1.3 per game. This year, he has 15 steals, a figure that ranks fourth on the team. He tied his career-high with three steals twice this season, on Dec. 7 against Utah Valley and Jan. 3 against Long Beach State. Finally, Joyner is third on the team in minutes played, having logged 409. He is one of three players on the team averaging more than 27 minutes per game and has played 30 or more five times.
Ivan The Good
Senior forward Ivan Elliott continues to be one of UCSB's most consistent players. On Saturday night against Cal State Northridge, he scored 11 points and he had eight rebounds, equaling his second-highest total of the year. In the league opener against Long Beach State, Elliott had 13 points, his second highest total of the year, and also eight rebounds. He has now scored in double-figures in three consecutive games for the first time this season. In the Dec. 29 win at Eastern Washington, he scored 11 points and he had a season-high nine rebounds. Elliott is now averaging 9.4 points and a team-leading 6.0 rebounds per game. He has scored 10 or more points eight times this season, including five of the last six game and seven times in the last 10. In the last eight games, Elliott has averaged 10.2 points per game and in the last six he has chipped-in 10.7 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He had a career-high 17 points in the season opener against Northwestern State on Nov. 9. While Elliott leads the Gauchos in rebounding at 6.0 per game, he has been even better in recent games. In each of the last seven, he has had at least five boards and over that span he has averaged 7.1 per game. In all, through 15 games, he has had six or more rebounds 10 times, including each of the last six games. Elliott is shooting 53.3% overall, tops among UCSB regulars, and he has become a bonafide three-point threat. Although Elliott missed his only attempt from beyond the arc in the loss to Cal State Northridge, he has still made 15-of-30, 50.0%. He has made at least one three-point basket in 11 games this season and he made a career-high three on Nov. 24 against Montana State. Overall, he has made 50.0% or better from the field in eight of the last nine games, hitting 35-of-60, 58.3%, over that span. Finally, Elliott leads Santa Barbara in blocked shots with 18, 1.2 per game. He has had two blocks in each of the last two games and four times this season.
A Piece Of The Pajevic (Pronounced Pie-uh-vich)
Senior forward Nedim Pajevic had a sore knee on Saturday night against Cal State Northridge and was a game time decision. While he did play, Pajevic was limited to a season-low nine minutes. He was scoreless, and in fact did not attempt a shot, had two assists, one rebound, one blocked shot an three turnovers. Pajevic was coming off of a solid three-game stretch in which he had averaged 8.0 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 blocked shots per game. In the win over Long Beach State, the native of Sarajevo, Bosnia, had six points, two rebounds, one blocked shots, one steal and four assists. The four assists were one short of his season-high. After missing all six of his field goal attempts and going scoreless in a Dec. 19 win at Ball State, Pajevic hade 6-of-10 shots and scored 12 points, equaling his second highest total of the season, on Dec. 22 at North Carolina. He followed that game up with consecutive six-point totals in wins over Eastern Washington and Long Beach State. Pajevic is shooting 51.4% on the season and in the last four games he has gone 12-of-20, 60.0% Overall, the transfer from Weber State is now averaging 6.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. He is also third on the team in assists with 32, 2.1 per game. Pajevic has scored in double-figures six times in 15 games, including a season-high 16 on Nov. 10 against Harvard. On Nov. 20, in a win over San Francisco, he recorded 10 points and 10 rebounds, the only double-double registered by a Gaucho player this season. Pajevic also has proven to be one of the best post passers that UCSB has had in recent years. He had a season-high five assists on Nov. 15 against Cal Poly Pomona and has had two or more assists 10 times. The Gauchos have gone 9-1 when Pajevic has two or more assists.
Roemer Charges
In 2006-07, sophomore guard Paul Roemer played 132 minutes in 16 games. This year, Roemer has been a valuable reserve and has already logged 231 minutes in 15, an average of 15.4 per game. He has played at least eight minutes in every game and 15 or more in nine of 15 games. On Saturday night, Roemer played 11 minutes and while he scored just one point, he did have two assists, one steal and a career-high four rebounds. He is now averaging 2.3 points, 1.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 0.9 steals per game. Roemer has had two or more assists eight times this season, including a high of four in the season opener against Northwestern State. He also tallied his career-high of 10 points in the opener. Finally, despite ranking eighth on the team in minutes played, he is fifth on the team in steals with 14.
Strike A Posley
Junior guard D.J. Posley scored four points on 2-of-3 shooting from the field in the game against Cal State Northridge. It was the third straight game in which Posley has scored four points and he has now gone for four or more seven times this season, including six times in the last seven games. Overall, the Chicago native is averaging 3.1 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game. He ranks second on the team with his 18 steals. Since going scoreless in the first two games of the year, Posley has tallied 46 points in 13 games, 3.5 per game. Also, since missing his first 10 shots of the year, he has gone 19-of-45, 42.2%. Finally, Posley has recorded his season-high two assists in four of the last six games.


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Educators Concerned Reforms Could Limit College Options
By Jody Serrano
Now that leading Texas educators are catching up with the fine print in the state's new omnibus education reform law, they find themselves chafing over a previously overlooked prospect: Even students who score straight A's throughout high school might not be eligible for automatic admission to state-run universities.
Under new graduation requirements contained in House Bill 5, approved by the Legislature in May, students graduating with the most basic degree, the so-called foundation plan, won't be counted in a school's end-of-year class rankings. Under state law, only graduates in the top 10 percent of their classes are automatically admitted to the state's public universities.
Concerned educators argue that this provision, which takes effect for incoming ninth-graders next fall, also would create a two-track educational system that relegates greater numbers of individuals to a mediocre, second-tier education. According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 48,310 students used their ranking to gain admission to college in fall 2012 out of 61,518 students applying to public four-year universities. It is not clear how HB 5 will affect those numbers.
"We could be sending a signal to some students that they don't need a rigorous high school education," said Texas State University President Denise Trauth. "I've never said that every young person in Texas needs a four-year degree, but what they have to have is something post-high school that will prepare them for the workforce."
The new law allows 10th-grade students to choose among three graduation plans, two on the college-ready track, called the distinguished and endorsement plans, and the foundation plan, which is considered the career-ready track. Students who go the foundation route will not be eligible for a Top 10 ranking. Nor will they complete college admission requirements, which usually require four years of English, science, social studies and math.
Jude Valdez, vice president for community services at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said colleges have struggled with HB 5 because they have yet to receive direction from the state or the public education community on how the rankings will be affected. Some university officials worry students will be confused by HB 5 and expect to get automatic admission even if they don't meet the requirements.
"High schools are grappling with how they're going to get this whole thing into place by next year," Valdez said. "They're just struggling on how to get it going."
Meanwhile, stakeholders in higher education have begun to understand the limits on admissions that are written into the complex new law.
Raymund Paredes, Texas' higher education commissioner, said the state can't expect students to know whether they want to go to college at the beginning of their high school career.
"It is highly likely they will change their minds between the ninth and 12th grade," Paredes said. "So they need to have a strong academic foundation regardless of what they plan to do."
HB 5's author, state Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, a Killeen Republican, dismissed concerns the law will affect college access.
"The Top 10 Percent has only been available to those top-performing students, anyhow," Aycock said. If students expect to qualify, he said, "they need to step up and take Algebra II and complete an endorsement and the whole deal."
Aycock said the new system would affect only students who want to go to the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, the state's flagship institutions, but state numbers tell a different story.
According to the Coordinating Board, there were 21,408 top 10 applications to UT and A&M in fall 2012 – almost 50 percent of total applications. There were 26,902, applications to other institutions in fall 2012.
Disputes over HB 5 are nothing new. During the session, the bill spurred questions over whether the state was decreasing rigor in public schools. Proponents said the bill would allow students to gain skills needed in career and technical fields, and meet growing labor demands.
Under the law, the so-called "4×4″ curriculum, which required students to take four years of English, science, social studies and math, is no longer mandatory. Students in the two college-ready plans will continue to take four years of the four courses, but students in the foundation must take four years of English and only three years of the other core courses.
Students who graduate under distinguished and endorsement plans, the college-ready tracks, also take classes in areas of interest. Endorsements include business and industry, public services, arts and humanities and multidisciplinary studies.
Cyprus Springs High School counselor Sharon Bey says she is not overly concerned students will have their college choices diminished since, typically, school officials start speaking to students about the future while they're still in elementary school.
"I think that's reasonable, and even as a parent I would want my students to make those choices a lot earlier than ninth grade," Bey said. "I think we're doing a disservice if we don't talk to them early."
Other educators fear some students will never have a discussion about college. Texas State President Trauth said she is concerned HB 5 might increase school tracking, a practice in which school officials identified non-college students early on and put them in certain classes. School officials often have low expectations for minority students, especially blacks.
"What I would hate to see happen here is young people decide at a very young age that they're not going to go to college and then they don't take the courses you need to get into college," Trauth said. "And down the road they change their mind, but it's too late to go back and start over."
George Norton, associate vice president for student affairs at UT-San Antonio, acknowledges that HB 5 may give students more options to pursue career and technical training. By lowering high school graduation standards, he said, the state might also improve graduation rates and allow more students to qualify for college.
However, Norton said that by limiting access to the state's top schools, HB 5 would likely make it harder for students to succeed.
"Any time high school graduation requirements are watered down… it is a disservice for students in that curriculum," Norton said. "They will simply be less prepared regardless of what direction they take in life and in the workplace."
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Setting up what promises to be a contentious reckoning in the Washington state Senate, the House on Friday passed a measure requiring that most insurance carriers in the state cover abortions.
House Bill 1044 is intended to ensure that insurers continue covering abortions once bureaucratic hurdles for doing so come into effect next year with the enactment of federal health care reforms. Lawmakers in the House passed the measure by a vote of 53-43, with all but two Democratic votes cast in favor and all but one Republican voting against it.
"Today nearly every health plan in Washington state covers a full range of reproductive options," said Rep. Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma. "And we want it to stay that way."
Opponents contend that abortion coverage in the state is already widespread and the bill is unnecessary. They also argue that it could risk federal health care funds by violating federal law and that it infringes on religious liberties.
"This bill takes away my choice as a woman and other individuals' choices as well to choose not to have that care," Rep. Shelly Short, R-Addy, said.
Supporters point out language in the bill that makes any portion of it inconsistent with federal law moot and exempts insurance carriers — though not businesses or individuals — objecting to abortion on moral grounds from paying for the coverage. The measure goes next to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.
A similar bill in the upper chamber has 23 co-sponsors, leaving it two votes shy of a majority. Another senator, Rodney Tom, D-Medina, who leads the majority caucus of 23 Republicans and two Democrats, spoke recently in support of the bill at a pro-abortion rights rally at the Capitol.
Sen. Randi Becker, R-Eatonville, who is chairwoman of the Health Care Committee, said she will make hearing the bill in her committee a priority.
Given the widespread abortion coverage in the state, Becker said she is skeptical of the measure's utility, but she is keeping an open mind. She declined to speculate on its prospects of clearing her committee, which is made up mostly of Republicans.
Sen. Steve Litzow, a Mercer Island lawmaker who is the sole Republican co-sponsor of the bill in the Senate, said he was heartened that it had cleared the House but said it was unlikely that any action would be taken to move it to the Senate floor in the event that it fails in committee.
"I would be surprised," he said. "You'd have to do something that would be out of the ordinary."
In a statement, Gov. Jay Inslee commended the House for passing the bill and implicitly urged Senate leaders to allow the bill to come up for a floor vote, where supporters believe they have the votes to pass the bill.
"The Senate should not shut the door of democracy when it comes to women's health care," he said.


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Story highlights
- Mother of Hector "Macho" Camacho says her son isn't alive
- She says she will make the final decision, likely on Saturday
- Camacho was shot in the face on Tuesday, declared brain dead
The mother of champion boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho probably will make a decision on Saturday about whether to remove her son from life support, she told reporters Friday night.
"For me, he's not alive," Maria Matias told reporters in Puerto Rico.
But one of the boxer's sons, Hector "Machito" Camacho Jr., said his father is alive and "is going to fight until the end,"
Matias said she will make the final decision on her son's life.
The famed Puerto Rican boxer was shot in the face Tuesday and on Thursday was declared clinically brain dead.
A passing gunman shot Camacho, who was in car in front of a bar in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Camacho, a former lightweight and junior lightweight champion, was in the passenger seat of the car, police said. The driver was shot twice and killed, they said.
The suspects are two men who are believed to have been traveling in a gray vehicle, said Lt. Wilfredo Rivera of Cataño Police. They escaped after a shootout with police at a residential complex, WAPA TV reported.
During his career, Camacho, 50, awed fans with his quick hands and ring antics, developing a reputation for flamboyance. He also battled a series of legal issues that stemmed from drugs and other problems.
A southpaw, Camacho fought professionally for more than 25 years and last stepped into the ring in 2010.
He had a career record of 79 wins, six losses and three draws.


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HP whips out d*** in a box
By d***, we mean cluster
Posted in The Channel, 13th November 2007 22:18 GMT
SC07 HP continues to celebrate the "Shorty" blade system in any way it can. At this week's Supercomputing show in Reno, HP unveiled a modified version of Shorty called the Cluster Platform Workgroup System that gives engineers and researchers direct access to a real workhorse.
The new box holds up to 8 blade servers in the c3000 chassis and can be run as a type of deskside unit. HP claims the system shows close to 1 teraflop of horsepower.
HP's approach here is a less sophisticated take on the personal cluster/desktop supercomputer trend that has started to gain momentum. Orion Multisystems pioneered the market back in 2005 with a 96-processor Transmeta-based box that could plug into a standard wall outlet. The start-up failed for a number of reasons, but now companies such as SiCortex and Scalable Servers have picked up on the idea.
These types of units get our imagination bubbling. In a couple of years, regular users with about $10,000 or so to burn should be able to produce short Pixar-like films. And there are people talking here about using such robust computers in conjunction with in-house product modeling kits to let Average Joes design and even produce all types of objects in their garage. Fanciful? You bet. But one must dream.
For the moment, HP will aim the mini-cluster at the usual high performance computing set - engineers doing computer-aided design, oil and gas exploration and bio-tech operations. Sure, the box runs pretty loud and isn't much to look at, but it's nice to see a Tier 1 trying this concept.
The system runs Linux, of course, and, as you can see, Microsoft's cluster operating system.
Clusty Shorty
Along with the "Shorty" tweak, HP announced the ProLiant DL160 G5 server, which is a thin, rack system that relies on Intel's latest quad-core chips. Again, this box should go to HPC users.
You can buy the Cluster Platfrom Workgroup System today, while the new ProLiant ships in the first quarter of 2008.
Customers will need to hit up this site to nab a quote on the cluster. Meanwhile, HP said it expects the ProLiant DL160 G5 to start under $1,500. ®
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Bangalore:The Congress on Wednesday stormed back to power in Karnataka in a spectacular fashion after seven years, decimating the ruling BJP and BS Yeddyurappa's KJP along the way.
In good tidings for a party battered by a series of scams at the national stage, Congress put up an impressive show in the elections bagging 121 seats, eight more than the half-way mark in a House of 224, obviating the need for crutches and belying predictions.
Polls were held for 223 seats with one countermanded after a BJP candidate died.
However, it would not be easy for the Congress high command to name its choice for Chief Minister's chair. Senior Congressmen who see themselves as the right choice for the top job have already started to lobby support in their favour.
Among those waiting with bated breath are Siddaramaiah, DK Shiva Kumar, G Parameshwara, Veerappa Moily and Mallikarjuna Kharge. For the record Sonia Gandhi has said that the leader will be chosen by the MLAs.
The BJP, which had triumphantly showcased its southern bastion while pitching for respect as a national party, was decimated to just 40 seats in the 224 member assembly.
Victory in the battle for the Vidhan Soudha has come as a breath of fresh air for Congress' rank and file and also as optimistic news for the party leadership which has been battling multiple allegations of graft/impropriety against its ministers at the Centre.
Embolden by the win, the UPA government adjourned the Parliament sine dine today, two days ahead of schedule.
The BJP has itself to blame for the humiliating loss. Saddled by corruption, infighting within the cadre and rebellion by BS Yeddyurappa, it was all the way down hill for the party that dreams of occupying the South Block in 2014.
The other big story is the hard lesson learnt by BS Yeddyurappa – no individual is bigger than the party. His party, KJP has won 6 seats.
JD(S) of the Gowdas fared better winning 40 seats. However, Kumaraswamy's wish to play kingmaker would have to wait another five years as the Congress has secured a simple majority.
Key candidates
Won: Priyank M Kharge (Chittapur), Dinesh Gundurao (Gandhi Nagar), Roshan Baig (Shivajinagar), Siddaramaiah (Varuna), Umashree (Terdal), Ajay Dharmsingh (Jevargi), Ramalinga Reddy (BTM Laylout), MP Patila (Babaleshwar), RV Deshpande (Haliyal), K Gopal Poojary (Byndoor), Pramod Madwaraj (Udupi), Vinay Kumar Sorake (Kapu), UT Khader (Mangalore), Shakuntala Shetty (Puttur), K Abhayacharya (Moodabidri), HS Mahadeva Prasad (Gundlupet), K Sudhakar (Chikballapur), Makbul S Bagawan (Bijapur City), RV Devraj (Chickpet), Tanveer Sait (Narasimhraja), BG Govindappa (Hosadurga), Ramesh Jarkhiholi (Gokak), Umesh Jadhav (Chincholi), KB Prassana Kumar (Shimoga), C PUttarangashetty (Chamrajnagar), Ambreesh (Mandya) , H K Patil (Gadag), Khagodu Thimmappa (Sagar), Munirathna (Rajaraajeshwarinagar), KJ George (Sarvagnanagar), NA Harris (Shanti Nagar), Prakash Hukkeri (Chikkodi), Belgaum North (Fairoz Sait), Inamdar Basangowda (Kittur), SS Mallikarjuna (Davangere North), Shamanur Shivashankarappa (Davangere South), ST Somashekhar (Yeshwantpur), Qamar Us Islam (Gulbarga North), BA Mohiuddin (Mangalore North), JR Lobo (Mangalore South)
Lost: CM Ibrahim (Bhadravati), MCVenugopal (Jayanagar), S Kumar Bangarrapa (Sorab), Bhart Paragouda Patil (Ramdurg), CK Abdul Rahman Sharief (Hebbal), Dr G Parameshwara (Koratagere), GS Manjnatha (Chitradurga)
Won: Govind Karjol (Mudhol), Anant Hegde (Sirsi), Jagadish Shettar (Hubli-Dharwad Central), Arvind Bellad (Hubli-Dharwad West), V Sunil Kumar (Karkal), KG Bopaiah (Virajpet), Ravi Subramanya (Basavangudi), Satish Reddy (Bommanahalli), BN Vijay Kumar (Jayanagar), Bharamgoud Alagoud Kage (Kagwad), B Suresh Gowda (Tumkur Rural), Umesh Katti (Hukkeri), Laxman Savadi (Athani), SR Viswanath (Yelahanka), Ashwath Narayan (Malleshwaram), S Muniraju (Dasarahalli), M Krishnappa (Bangalore South), Belgaum Rural (Sanjay Patil), R Jagadeesh Kumar (Hebbal), S Suresh Kumar (Rajaji Nagar), R Ashoka (Padmanaba Nagar), GH Thippareddy (Chitradurga), Lamani Rudrappa (Haveri)
Lost: B Sudhakar Shetty (Udupi), AV Byregowda (Chikballapur), Sanjeeva Matandoor (Puttur), BV Ganesh (Chamrajpet), CC Patil (Nargund), M Srinivas (Rajaraajeshwarinagar), KS Eshwarappa (Shimoga), PC Mohan (Gandhi Nagar), HL Krishnappa (Yeshwantpur), Krishna Palemar (Mangalore North)
Won: HD Kumaraswamy (Ramanagaram), HD Revanna (Holenarasipur), S Chikkamadu (Heggadadevankot), DR Shivraj Patil (Raichur), HS Prakash (Hassan), Zameer Ahmed (Chamrajpet), HK Kumaraswamy (Sakleshpur), DC Thammanna (Maddur), HC Balakrishna (Magadi), JK Krishnareddy (Chintamani), Sudhakara Lal (Koratagere)
Lost: Anitha Kumaraswamy (Channapatna), Sudha Bai Malleshnaika (Hosadurga)
Won: BS Yeddyurappa (KJP) - Shikaripura, US Banakar (KJP) – Hirekerur, B Sreeramulu (BSRC) – Bellary, Sambhaji Patil (Ind) – Belgaum South, CP Yogeshwar (Channapatna), Santeesh Sail Krishna (Ind) – Karwar, Arvind Patil (Ind) – Khanapur, P Rajeev (Ind) – Kudachi, Mankala Vaidya (Bhatkal), Ashok Kheny (Bidar South), Halady Srinivas Shetty (Kundapura)
Lost: Manjunath Vandal (BSRC) – Indi, Pooja Gandhi (BSRC) – Raichur, Shobha Karandlaje (KJP) – Rajaji Nagar
Elections were held to 223 segments on Sunday, after the one in Periyapatna in Mysore district was countermanded to May 28 following the death of BJP candidate. At 71.29 per cent, the voter turnout was the second highest in the state history, after 71.90 per cent in 1978.


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Is phrase below clear? How this will be right?
"The common man will remain an abandoned and defenseless orphan under the uncontrollable domination of any caste of god-like rulers: whether they call themselves capitalists or communists. This will continue so long as the interests of each voter (be honest, his voice) will not become an object of rival attention of several parties in a new multi-party model of government. And until actually done work in exchange for sympathies of voters doesn't become sole condition of competitive survival in power those who are deprived the right of next pre-election advertizing.
Only under this condition, can political parties not reign, but actually work for the people and you may rest assured in friendly and stable future for you and your children."


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Pretty much the reason. They started putting the crank guide plate on manual transmission cars as when they were on the boat getting shipped, they were left in gear and would jump the timing belt.
I don't get it.
The timing belt doesn't have that much load on it. It just drives the camshaft(s) and the water-pump.
And in any case, wouldn't the parking brake be on whilst in transit?


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Rome: Emanuele Giaccherini`s stoppage-time winner sent Juventus nine points clear at the top of the Serie A table after a disappointing performance against Catania from the Italian champions.
The substitute fired home from close range, and his goal, coupled with Napoli`s surprise defeat to Chievo, mean Antonio Conte`s side are now clear favourites for the Serie A title.
The Serie A leaders looked to impose themselves on the game early, but only had an Andrea Barzagli long range effort to show for their early endeavours, with the defender`s strike flying over the bar.
Mirko Vucinic was rested for the Champions League win over Celtic in midweek, and the break seemed to have done him good as he tested Mariano Andujar for the first time, but the goalkeeper turned his shot from distance behind for a corner.
The visitors had obviously decided to try and counter the attacking threat of Conte`s side, but they almost took the lead themselves when Alejandro Gomez tried his luck from distance, but Gianluigi Buffon was equal to it despite initially spilling his effort.
Long range efforts were becoming a theme of the match, with Francesco Lodi and Leonardo Bonucci both firing wide before the home side twice went agonisingly close to breaking the deadlock.
Claudio Marchisio curled a shot wide after good interplay with Vucinic, before the Montenegro striker hit the post after capitalising on a breakdown in communication in the Catania defence.
The remainder of the half passed with little incident on the field, though Catania coach Rolando Maran was sent to the stands after arguing with the officials.
The second half continued where the first had left off, with Juventus pressing at every opportunity, and Andujar had to be at his best to deny both Bonucci and Paul Pogba in quick succession.
Pogba was slowly making his way into the match after a quiet start, and he went close again as he volleyed an effort wide from 25 yards.
Vucinic was still the biggest threat for Conte`s side, but his finishing wasn`t up to its usual standard, highlighted when he could only shoot wide from close range under pressure from the impressive Andujar.
Juventus rang the changes in search of a breakthrough, and one of their substitutes Alessandro Matri went close with a header as the game entered its final 10 minutes.
Giaccherini then took centre stage as he went from zero to hero. The winger was booked for diving in the last minute of normal time, but redeemed himself when he slotted home from close range after Andujar flapped at Pogba`s searching cross.
Fabio Quagriella almost doubled the lead, but Andujar parried well from the Italy striker.


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DeKALB – There is a day in the near future that is going to be like pulling teeth for Brandon Bice.
It's a good thing the Northern Illinois senior defensive end knows a little something about that.
"Growing up I always loved going to the dentist," Bice said. "I loved the feeling of my teeth being clean after."
Bice wants to be an oral surgeon when he's finished with football, and at some point after this season he will take the Dental Admission Test, a five-and-a-half-hour grind that he hopes will land him in dental school.
"Not the most fun process," Bice said. "I've taken three or four practice tests and after the 5 hours you just want to lie down."
The process will be worth it, said Bice, who proudly proclaimed he's never had a cavity.
Thursday night at Huskie Stadium, Bice took the first step toward what he hopes will be a season where he consistently rattles the teeth of opposing quarterbacks at the first practice of the season for the Huskies.
"Bice will be a better player than he was a year ago," NIU coach Jerry Kill said. "He's had a great summer."
A third-team all-MAC performer a year ago with 6.5 sacks, Bice will be counted on this season to help offset the loss of first-round NFL draft pick Larry English on the defensive line.
Replacing English's production is one of the key questions the NIU defense will have to answer.
And Bice downplayed some of the high expectations he faces at the start of the season.
"Clearly I'm no Larry," Bice said. "I don't know how you really replace a guy like that. I called him this summer and talked with him about stuff he's learned in the league and he gave me some hints and tidbits. "
Some of those tidbits included some of the things English excelled at, like taking off on the snap and not predicting a move to offensive linemen. It's something that Bice said he considers the hardest thing to learn as a defensive end and was thankful to receive tips in that area from the two-time MAC MVP.
"You can tell when you watch on film if you're predicting a move," Bice said. "It'll end up slower rather than if you just went and did it full speed. It looks a lot better and it usually works."
Defensive line coach Jeff Phelps said Bice has changed his game and has become a leader on the defensive line.
"I just think he's gotten a little more athletic, a little faster, a little stronger," Phelps said. "The love of the game changes and it looks like you run faster, because you're happy to be out here."
Just as happy as pulling teeth.
Bice preparing for dental career
DeKALB – There is a day in the near future that is going to be like pulling teeth for Brandon Bice.


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I finished scanning my cemetery bookshelf using the app Codex. And just in time for my newest arrival.
I found a used copy of this book on Amazon.com. Sometimes you can find really nice copies for half the original cost. It is a beautiful book.
I made a quick visit to Elmwood Cemetery while in the area for an event. I'm looking forward to matching the information with some of my photos.
Elmwood Cemetery
Jackson Co., MO
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
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Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
Published on January 11th, 2013
Written by: Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 11 2013 (IPS) Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems.
Were all scared, said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. But we must tell the truth about whats happening and challenge people to do something to prevent it, Ehrlich told IPS.
Global collapse of human civilisation seems likely, write Ehrlich and his partner Anne Ehrlich in the prestigious science journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society.
This collapse will take the form of a gradual breakdown because famines, epidemics and resource shortages cause a disintegration of central control within nations, in concert with disruptions of trade and conflicts over increasingly scarce necessities, they write.
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Escalating climate disruption, ocean acidification, oceanic dead zones, depletion of groundwater and extinctions of plants and animals are the main drivers of the coming collapse, they write in their peer-reviewed article Can a collapse of global civilisation be avoided? published this week.
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We talked to many of the worlds leading experts to reflect what is really happening, said Ehrlich, who is an eminent biologist and winner of many scientific awards.
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To continue with business as usual is an act of suicide on a gargantuan scale, Prince Charles concluded.


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Final Test Before Ivy League Championships
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's crew will conclude the regular season against an unfamiliar opponent. The Bulldogs race Rhode Island on Saturday at the Gilder Boathouse. The first race is set for 10 a.m. and the day concludes with the two varsity eights facing off at 11 a.m.
"We were looking at a three-week layoff this year between the Brown race, which is traditionally our last regular season race, and the Ivy League Championship due to our exam schedule," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "So we decided to take the opportunity to schedule URI."
The Rams should provide a good test. URI won the Atlantic 10 championship last weekend and earned an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship.
"URI is a fast program who we should race more often," Porter said. "They have already secured an NCAA bid so it is a great chance for us to see how we match up."
Yale, ranked ninth in this week's CRCA/US Rowing poll, hasn't raced since retaining the Nat & Anne Case Cup from Brown on Apr. 29. The Bulldogs won the varsity and second varsity eights against the Bears.
"We are very much still a work in progress and [the Rhode Island] race is a chance for us to check a few more things before next week," Porter said.
The Ivy League Championship is May 19 on the Cooper River just outside Camden, N.J.
Race Schedule
10 a.m. – Second Varsity Four
10:20 a.m. – Varsity Four
10:40 a.m. – Second Varsity Eight
11:00 a.m. – Varsity Eight
Yale Boatings
Varsity Eight: 1. Eliza Hastings, 2. Maddie Lips, 3. Colleen Maher, 4. Kim Szokol, 5. Nina Demmerle, 6. Claire Tolson, 7. Abbie Young,8. Natalie King, coxswain: Kristen Brownlee
Second Varsity Eight: 1. Kristjana Gudmundsson, 2. Abby Loucks, 3. Elizabeth Vincent, 4. Kristina Wagner, 5. Emily Tormey, 6. Amber Anderson, 7. Martha Cosgrove, 8. Madeline Dinse, coxswain: Christine Devlin
Varsity Four: 1. Mieke Scherpbier, 2. Natalie Lapides, 3. Juliet Caragianis, 4. Jen Stockwood, coxswain: Margaret Ayers
Second Varsity Four: 1. Kara Freeman, 2. Brit Sharon, 3. Mimi Reichenbach, 4. Amina Edwards, coxswain: Laura Grimbergen
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Order an iced tea in the southern United States, where summer's most popular drink was born, and it will invariably be sweet tea, cloyingly sweet. In Britain, the only proper tea is hot tea.
In other venues without any long-standing or deeply rooted tea-drinking traditions, tea lovers are free to experiment.
"There's a fun aspect to iced tea that people have really taken to. They add a lemonade or a little vodka or tequila or top it up with Perrier. They experiment," said Bradley Grill, a spokesperson for DavidsTea, a Montreal-based company with 108 stores.
DavidsTea launched a whole collection of summer tea blends at the start of the season with names that are anything but serious: Mint Julep, LalaLemon and Tropicalia.
As a purist, Kevin Gascoyne, co-founder of the Montreal tea emporium Camellia Sinensis, drinks his tea hot no matter what the season. But he, too, is seeing more and more interest in full-bodied and flavoured teas destined for cold drinks.
"A traditional iced tea is best made with full-bodied black tea such as a good Assam or a whole-leaf tea like Ceylon from Sri Lanka. But you can make great iced tea out of any tea," Gascoyne said.
The classic iced tea most of us know is a hot-weather concoction from the southern United States. From Louisiana to Florida and Georgia to Alabama, all year long the preferred thirst-quencher is a glass of sweet iced tea, what they call the "house wine" of the South.
There's a story about the origins of iced tea that tells of a tea plantation owner who arrived at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair with samples of tea to give away: hot tea. But the weather was excruciating steamy and he dumped bags of ice into his pitchers. His "ice tea" was the hit of the fair, and it has been popular ever since. Or so the story goes.
"Serving iced tea in the South can be an elegant affair: crystal pitchers glistening with condensation, tall glasses filled with ice cubes at the ready, and a side dish with lemon wedges," writes Fred Thompson, a food writer from Raleigh, North Carolina.
"Maybe because ice tea's been so long associated with the South, it seems to slow us down and gives us a chance to catch our breath, if only for a moment."
There's plenty of store-bought bottled iced tea to choose from. But most of it is too sweet, full of artificial ingredients and pretty expensive, too. Making your own is inexpensive and easy, and the sugar content is entirely up to you. In fact, the sugar can be replaced with a variety of healthier sweeteners.
At Montreal's Marché Soupson, chef Leyenda Lee Lee insists that drinking sweet drinks is counterproductive.
"When it's really hot out, sweet is cloying. It drags you down," says Lee, who sells her barely sweetened basil and fruit teas by the glass or the Mason jar all summer long, 50 litres a week.
"What you need is something with a light sweetness that's a little fruity and fragrant," she says.


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In which we watch everything start to unravel.
Adam and Natalia's relationship is going swimmingly. They have a lovely, tender first first-time-in-the-bedroom conversation wherein they are open and communicative and sweet.
"I like how clear you are with me," he says as they kiss. Her reply: "What other way is there?"
Hannah, meanwhile, is still in the throes of her severe OCD relapse. It's not clear whether she's taking her meds or not, but from all appearances she's no better than she looked last week.
She meets with David, the editor of her book-in-progress. He unapologetically tells her he is not pleased with her work. He encourages her to stop writing about her "Jane Austen" friendships and to get back to writing about her "sexual failures." Could Ms. Dunham be cheekily using this David character to put a voice to her own critics? This viewer thinks so.
Shoshonna's infidelity with the Doorman last week weighs on her heavily, and she overcompensates by being cloyingly complaisant.
"What's with all the geisha s--t?" Ray asks bluntly. I must note, with joy, that he's draped in Shosh's peace-sign emblazoned Snuggie at this point. She dodges his apologies and questions. Ray trudges off to help Marnie "lay down a track" on her new quest to follow her "American Idol" singing dreams.
Charlie stands Marnie up for lunch, but attempts to make amends by inviting her to his office party that night, as employees are celebrating that his app hit 20,000 "MAU's" (monthly average users). Ray and Shosh also attend. Ray digs into Charlie, commenting on the s----y beer and asking if the women there are prostitutes. He is not taking too well to his best bud's newfound success.
Marnie shows up and replaces the DJ's iPod with hers. She has a "special treat" for Charlie and his employees. Unfortunately, that special treat is a piano-driven ballad version of Kanye West's "Stronger" that she warbles out in front of the stunned office.
It is excruciating to watch. Marnie is not entirely terrible — it has some charming moments — but the fact that everyone is witnessing it with dropped jaws and snarky smirks on their faces makes the whole thing fall terribly, awkwardly flat. Ray is the only one who claps at the end. Charlie grabs Marnie and pulls her aside to berate her. They fight and within seconds have sex on his desk. Because of course they do.
Ray presses Shoshonna to tell him why she's acting so weird, and she admits that she "held hands" with the Doorman. While we don't know exactly how far things went with them, we do know that it was definitely more than hand-holding. Ray laughs it off and hugs her, leaving her more distraught.
Hannah, holed up in her apartment attempting to write, manages to puncture her eardrum by too vigorously Q-tipping. It's horrific to watch. She screams in pain and calls her parents, who instruct her to get medical attention. Hannah goes to the hospital and the doctor tells her know she's OK. Hannah tellingly asks him if he could clean her other ear out, "just because it's feeling a little uneven." She's still clearly way way down the OCD rabbit hole and needs more help than this general practitioner can give.
Natalia's high school friend hosts an engagement party, so Natalia asks Adam to accompany her. Adam isn't comfortable with her girlfriends and steps outside for a breather, when he spies Hannah walking down the street, ambling home from the hospital. He shirks when she approaches and is quick to declare he's out with his girlfriend. Hannah blinks tellingly.
It all seemed OK — awkward, but OK — until Adam (several years sober) comes back to the bar and orders a Jack and Ginger. Natalia looks surprised and he claims that he "just wants to be able to have a nice time with" her. We all collectively groan. This can't be good. Dancing and drunken sloppy bar kisses lead to them coming back to Adam's place for the first time.
Natalia is a bit taken aback by his weird workshop/living space but cheerfully offers that he just needs someone to help him organize. Adam's dark, broody, kinky side comes out (or back?) and he directs Nat into a forceful, cold sex act (hence the episode's title).
"I don't think I liked that," Natalia says, stunned, as she gets dressed afterwards. "Are you done with me?" Adam asks. They sit in silence.
Hannah sits on the edge of her tub, twitching uneasily. She anxiously begins to forcefully take a Q-Tip to her other ear, so I can only assume so that she can even herself out.
This episode was rough. No, I don't want a sugar saccharine happy ending bow tie around the season, but I'd love it if maybe, just maybe, one of the characters could see a faint shimmering glimmer of hope for his or her future. I look forward to next week's season finale, to see if anyone does.


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Producer Benedict Carver (Bratz, Doomsday) has teamed with Hayter to create the company, which will develop "film, TV, Internet and video game projects in the action, sci-fi and horror genres," according to Variety.
The studio's first project will be "Demonology," a film about a student attending an international high school in Belgium. Hayter will write and direct the movie, which was influenced by his time spent in an international school in Japan.
"It's about an American kid who goes to one of these schools in Belgium, but it brings my own horrible experiences of school to life," said Hayter.


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Plattsburgh Magazine: What You Told Us
July 2013
Plattsburgh Magazine staff wanted to know what readers think of the print publication. So we asked.
We sent a survey to a random sample of our readers. Of the 7,825 people in that sample, 266 took the survey, giving it about a +/-6 percent margin of error.
Developed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, this tool allows us to compare our magazine's results to those from other master's level institutions with twice-yearly publications and a similar circulation size.
Here are our findings:
More than half of the respondents said the magazine is their most important source for news about the campus.
Amount Read
Nearly 85 percent said they read every issue or almost every issue. The national average for similar institutions is 50.5 percent. In addition, 69 percent said they read all or most of each issue, compared to 40.5 nationally. And, around 90 percent of our respondents said they spend at least 10 minutes reading each issue — 23 percentage points higher than respondents from other schools.
Reading Preference
Most respondents still prefer to receive the magazine in print, though many said they like to have it both in print and online.
Plattsburgh Magazine scored significantly higher than peer publications when it came to the quality of the content; cover; ease of reading; layout and design; photography; and writing. At least 76 percent of respondents rated Plattsburgh Magazine as either "good" or "excellent" in each of these categories.
Connections to the College
Almost 83 percent said the magazine strengthened their connection to the school. The national average for colleges in Plattsburgh's category was 71 percent.
Readers of Plattsburgh Magazine express that connection in a variety of ways, including recommending the college to a potential student or family member; making a donation; and contacting a classmate or friend.
Most of our respondents felt that Plattsburgh Magazine consistently portrayed the institution accurately and objectively. However, some felt it only portrayed the college in a positive light and around 2 percent felt it was not an objective source of information.
What Alumni Want to Read
Respondents told us they were most interested in reading about:
- Institutional history and traditions.
- Alumni in their professions.
- Campus facilities and growth.
- Individual alumni profiles.
- Student achievements.
Next Steps
"Plattsburgh Magazine staff members are grateful to all of those who took the time to fill out the survey," said Michelle Marasch Ouellette, director for public relations and publications at the college. "Their answers inform our decision making and will help us continue to craft a better publication."
To read more about these findings, download Findings from Spring 2013 CASE Magazine Readership Survey (PDF file size 320KB). Note: this document requires Acrobat Reader, which is available as a free download.
Contact Information
For more information, please contact:
Office of Alumni Relations
Room 113 Hawkins Hall
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901-2681
Phone: (518) 564-2090 or (800) 964-1889
Email: [email protected]


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U.S. Workers: 2013 Will Be A Better Year for Jobs, Economy
Randstad survey shows employees more optimistic than last year around the future of their companies, opportunities for promotions and the job market
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Dec. 18, 2012 11:19 AM
ATLANTA, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent survey by Randstad U.S., workers revealed they are hopeful for a better year in 2013 when it comes to jobs and the economy. According to the survey, 57 percent of employees believe they are likely to receive a raise in 2013, up 10 percent from last year. Additionally, a majority of employees (59 percent) believe the job market will pick up next year. Workers also feel positive about their companies, with 47 percent predicting their employers will expand their workforce in 2013 and 30 percent believing they will receive a promotion (up seven and six percent, respectively from October 2011).
However, nearly half (47 percent) of workers feel the economy has negatively impacted their careers, yet only 15 percent of employees believe they might lose their jobs (down five percent from 2011). At the same time, most employees (78 percent) believe their companies have a great future.
"The outlook for next year certainly looks brighter for most employees. With the election and economic issues at home and abroad, a cloud of uncertainty had caused many employees to remain skeptical around future jobs and employability in 2012," said Jim Link, managing director of human resources for Randstad US. "Today we see employees are very positive about their future prospects and are hopeful to regain any economic momentum lost. As optimism increases, employee engagement will be increasingly important for companies' retention efforts. This is why it is so valuable for employers to analyze and understand what motivates their most important asset—talent."
Other data indicates employees are more optimistic when it comes to employer benefits and employment:
When it comes to the job search, 47 percent of employees indicate they plan to explore their options when the job market picks up. While this number is down three percent from last quarter, it remains a top concern for companies as some struggle to retain top talent.
Most employees indicate positive attitudes towards their current jobs with over two-thirds, 68 percent, indicating their company makes an effort to keep them engaged. Also, 62 percent of workers expect to grow their careers with their current employers. Of workers surveyed, 79 percent indicated they are inspired to do their best and 77 percent are proud to work for their company or organization.
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Dictionary entry
heechoo • adv • below, downhill, a little bit downhill
Lexicon record # 484 | Source references: JE18 JE43
Semantic domain: directions and locations
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (3)
Your search: semantic domain directions and locations
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Broader semantic domain: properties and relations
Related semantic domain(s): colors, sounds and speaking, times and seasons
Writing system: default | hyphens | linguistic
choolekw down, downhill
choolew below, downhill
hehlkew in the mountains, toward the mountains
hehlkeek inland, in the mountains
hehlkue ashore, on land
heechoy below, underneath
heekoch across (water)
heekoh across (water)
heeko'ch'uek across (water)
heemar below, under, underneath
heemarkeek below, underneath
heema'erk'uek below, underneath
heemech front, in front
heenahpch behind (a person), following behind
heenoy after, behind
heenoyk after, behind
heeno' after, behind, following
heepech upriver, upstream, a little bit upriver
heepuer a little bit downriver, down below, northward
heepuereyow northward, toward the (Klamath) river mouth
heer inland, north side
heerken inland
heerkeek inland
heetoy here
heewoh across the sea, halfway
heewon above, a little way above
heewo'neek above
kes down
kesomewet on the left
laapeeshkah along the seashore
lekw outside, out
lekwsew outside
lekwsee outside
now away
pecheek up river, upstream, far upriver
pechkue upriver, upstream
pechow upriver, upstream
pechue upriver, upstream
perwerh south
perwerw south, town
perwery south
puel below (lower down the river)
puelekuek down river, at the river mouth
puelekw down river, at the river mouth
pueleek down river, far down river, at the river mouth
pueloyoh below (lower down the river)
puer north (in the direction of the Klamath River mouth)
puereyow north (in the direction of the Klamath River mouth)
reeek'ew shore, sandbar, ashore, river's edge, shore line
skelee down
skeleek down
sohchee up, on top, above, on
wechpues confluence
wogee middle, in the middle
wohpekw across the sea, west
wohpew across the sea, west
wohpewk "the direction about at right angles to the course of the lower Klamath, or roughly southwest", across the sea, west
wohpuek into water
won up, above
wonekuek up, above, on
wonekw up, above, uphill (from the river)
wonep' hill
wonew above, overhead, in the mountains, higher, in the hills
woneek upward
wonoyoo up, high up
wonue up, above, over, on top of
wonuekuek above, overhead
woop' out in the water (of an island, etc.)
woop'ee out in the water (of an island, etc.)
woop'eek out in the water (of an island, etc.)
worue overhead, on the surface
'o slookw downhill
heechoo • adv • below, downhill, a little bit downhill
Lexicon record # 484 | Source references: JE18 JE43
Semantic domain: directions and locations
Short recordings (2) | Sentence examples (3)


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''Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'' cooked up $19 million in its opening weekend. Paramount's R-rated action film update on the classic fairy tale starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton topped the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. Other films opening over the weekend didn't fare as well. The crime thriller ''Parker,'' starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, debuted in fifth place with $7 million, while Relativity Media's raunchy ensemble comedy ''Movie 43'' opened in the seventh spot with $5 million. Universal's supernatural horror film ''Mama'' starring Jessica Chastain dropped to second place with $12.8 million in its second weekend. Several best-picture Academy Awards contenders continued to benefit from Oscar buzz. ''Silver Linings Playbook,'' which is up for eight Academy Awards, came in third place with $10 million. The film starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence is in its 11th weekend of release. ''Zero Dark Thirty,'' the Osama bin Laden manhunt drama also starring Chastain, dropped to fourth place with $9.8 million. (AP)
Canada says no to Quaid
Canadian immigration officials have rejected US actor Randy Quaid's request for permanent resident status in Canada. A Canadian government official confirmed over the weekend that Quaid's request had been denied. He can appeal the decision. US officials last year refused to seek extradition of the actor and his wife from Canada to face felony vandalism charges in Santa Barbara, Calif., but authorities there say they'll have the couple arrested if they return to the States. Quaid has sought to stay in Canada, claiming he was being hunted by ''Hollywood star-whackers.'' His troubles began in 2010 when he and his wife were arrested for causing more than $5,000 damage at a home they were renting. (AP)
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"I want to make sure the story is something that touches people. We're just getting started. I'm very excited." - J.J. Abrams, at the Producers Guild Awards, on being named the director of the next "Star Wars" movie.


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Was he the model for your sign?
November 24th, 2015
Whether or not the flowers are in bloom, Elk enjoy our garden and front lawn[...]
Spend the morning discussing the migration, nesting, habitat, conservation, natural history and ecology of mountain birds. Have fun in the field while learning to identify, enjoy and appreciate birds. Participants will learn to identify as many species as possible both by sight and by songs/calls. By learning to identify birds by sound, you can develop a good sense of what birds are nearby.