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BATON ROUGE - Thursday night proved to be déjà vu for members of the LSU Soccer team as they once again overcame a 2-0 deficit in the first half to score three unanswered goals while claiming a thrilling 3-2 victory over the streaking Arkansas Razorbacks on Senior Night at the LSU Soccer Stadium.
The Tigers (9-7-4, 5-6-2 SEC) sprint to the finish line as winners of three-straight matches to end the regular season as they also snap a three-game winning streak by the Razorbacks (9-9-1, 6-6-1) entering Thursday's regular-season finale.
The win also hands LSU its ninth-straight victory in the series dating back to the 2004 season.
It was a familiar spot for the Tigers as they also faced a 2-0 deficit at Ole Miss on Friday of last week before pulling off an improbable 3-2 come-from-behind overtime win in Oxford.
After sophomore Jodi Calloway pulled one back on a corner kick by freshman Jade Kovacevic with just over two minutes remaining in the first half, Kovacevic drew the Tigers level on a free-kick strike in the 70th minute and freshman Fernanda Pina scored the game-winner in the 86th minute to deliver a victory for the home side.
"That's two times in a week to come back from 2-0 down to win a game," said LSU head coach Brian Lee. "We have great character. Sometimes we have an issue transferring that character to the field. It was a great fight back. We really needed that win. That's a big win for our season."
The Tigers quickly found themselves facing a two-goal deficit late in the first half when the Razorbacks found the back of the net twice in a span of 39 seconds in the 31st and 32nd minutes of play.
As LSU's junior goalkeeper Megan Kinneman batted a floated free kick by Razorback defender Allie Tripp off the crossbar, freshman striker Ashleigh Ellenwood was in position to clean up the rebound for her team-leading fifth goal of the season at the 30:28 mark of the first half. The Razorbacks struck again inside of a minute following a disastrous turnover by LSU's back line as sophomore striker Jeriann Okoro raced into the area and finished the breakaway to give Arkansas a 2-0 lead at the 31:07 mark.
But the Tigers would roar back to cut the deficit in half before the break when Calloway netted her first career goal in the 43rd minute when she found herself on the end of a curling corner kick service by Kovacevic from the left corner flag for the header at the top of the six-yard box to cut the Arkansas lead to 2-1.
Kovacevic finished the regular season tied as the SEC's leading assist maker in league play as each of her team-leading six assists came against SEC competition.
"When you're down 2-0, you really have to work," Lee said. "I thought Jodi's goal changed the whole game. Coming from 2-1 down, that's a much different task with plenty of time. We didn't feel like we didn't have enough time to come back. We continued to play well in the second half."
After junior Nina Anderson drew a foul 25 yards out in the 70th minute, Kovacevic stepped up and rifled a free kick inside the top-right corner of the net past a helpless Kelly Roliard in goal for Arkansas for the equalizer to level the score at 2-2 with her third goal of the season.
LSU's comeback was complete with just over four minutes from time as Pina scored her fourth goal of the season to tie sophomore Alex Arlitt for the team lead.
Senior striker Carlie Banks led the charge with an attack down the left flank as she dribbled into the area and centered a pass to junior forward Danielle Murphy, who then dummied a ball to Pina behind a Razorback defender near the top of the six-yard box. Pina's strike found the back of the net to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead with just 4:16 to play.
The LSU defense stood strong down the stretch as the Tigers claimed their third-straight victory to end the regular season.
"Scoring three goals three games in a row is a lot for us. We'll see if we can keep it going in Orange Beach," Lee said. "We know the next time we lose, our season could well be over. We are certainly on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament. We have to keep winning if we want to play in that tournament.
"You're allowed to get better over the course of the year. I think our team has really improved and is peaking at the right time."
With their victory over the Razorbacks and a 3-2 overtime win by Mississippi State over Ole Miss on Thursday night, the Tigers earn the No. 8 seed in the 2012 SEC Women's Soccer Tournament and will go up against the Rebels in Monday's opening round at 6:30 p.m. CT at the Orange Beach Sportsplex.
The SEC Tournament will run through Sunday, Nov. 4, as the championship match is set for a live television broadcast on ESPNU. Live streaming video of the two semifinals on Friday, Nov. 2, will be shown to certain markets on ESPN3.com.
LSU vs. Arkansas
October 25, 2012
Head Coach Brian Lee
On tonight's match ...
"That's two times in a week to come back from 2-0 down to win a game. We have great character. Sometimes we have an issue transferring that character to the field. It was a great fight back. We got contributions from a lot of different kids. We really needed that win. That's a big win for our season."
On the early 2-0 deficit ...
"When you're down 2-0, you really have to work. I thought Jodi (Calloway's) goal changed the whole game. Coming from 2-1 down, that's a much different task with plenty of time. We didn't feel like we didn't have enough time to come back. We came out in the second half, and it took us a while to get the first one. We are really dangerous on set pieces. Jade (Kovacevic's) service is so good. She blasted in one to make it 2-2."
On Fernanda Piña's game-winning goal ...
"Fernanda has been in that spot four or five times this year. She is a really clutch kid. We don't really measure what they do with the ball if they get on it late. It is the ability and the willingness to put yourself there. She put herself there again, and finished it well. I thought that was big time."
On the Tigers' past three comeback wins ...
"Scoring three goals three games in a row is a lot for us. We'll see if we can keep it going in Orange Beach. We know the next time we lose, our season could well be over. We are certainly on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament. We have to keep winning if we want to play in that tournament. You're allowed to get better over the course of the year. I think our team has really improved and is peaking at the right time."
Senior Forward Carlie Banks
On tonight's game ...
"I wasn't going to stop. I wasn't going to give up. We did it last weekend against Ole Miss. I knew our team had the fight enough to do it again."
On the 2-0 deficit ...
"We were playing pretty well that first half. I knew we could come right back from that. It wasn't a question in our minds."
On her last regular-season game ...
"I almost started crying when the whistle blew. It is awesome. It is a great feeling."
On the three-game winning streak ...
"We are peaking right now. This is a perfect time to. The SEC Tournament is right around the corner. This is when we need to shine. This is when it matters."
Freshman Midfielder/Defender Jade Kovacevic
On tonight's match ...
"On the first goal, I took the corner and put it far post. Brian (Lee) always tells me to put a little bit of curve on it and to look for far post. Jodi (Calloway) has a great vertical. She got on top of the ball and put it right under the crossbar. Then we got a foul right outside of the box. I've been working on free kicks for forever. It just felt great to hammer it into the back of the net.
"I try to do whatever I can for my team, especially coming in as a freshman. I try to do as much as I can to be a team player. I try to do all I can in the game."
On the three-game winning streak ...
"We had a really slow start to the season. I think we are finally coming together. It has taken a lot of overtime games and some losses. We finally believe in each other. We are on this winning streak. We are doing well right now at the most important time of the season."
On Brian Lee's message at halftime...
"He wasn't mad. He was just trying to motivate us to keep playing. He just influenced the inside backs to get more forward so we could have more opportunities to score."


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Bids discussed on new police station construction
The Sweetwater City Commission held a brief discussion on Tuesday on the bids for the construction of a new police department.During the September 10 meeting, six bids were opened, with the price ranging from $5.3 to $6.7 million. The item was tabled at that meeting, however, in order for the architect to review the bids in detail.At Tuesday's meeting, City Manager Eddie Brown expressed that the bids came in higher than expected, which left the commissioners with the option to accept the low bid or reject all of the bids. Thus, approval was given to reject the bids.Dr. Jerod Peek, precinct 4 commissioner, stated that the city recognized and appreciated the effort made by the bidders throughout the bid process. However, the city will continue with construction plans and consider other options, such as possibly reducing the scope of the project, in order to attract other interested bidders.Also during the meeting, approval was given for city staff to purchase two items through the low bid offered by the state-approved Buy Board. One item is an ambulance for EMS, as the current models are from 2008, 2006, 1999 and 1995. The 1995 model will be replaced by the new purchase, in which the low bid proves to be the best option for replacement. The approval allows for Grant Madden, the city's Emergency Services Director Grant Madden, to negotiate the best deal.The second item to be purchased will be a pumper truck for the Fire Department. The truck to be replaced was purchased five years ago and was a used, 1983 model.The pumper truck failed a recent test and due to continual past repairs, the best option is to purchase a new truck--although the purchase was scheduled to take place next year. The cost of the pumper truck is anticipated to be anywhere from $250,000 to $300,000.


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All teaching students in NSW will have to pass a ''tough'' literacy and numeracy test before they can graduate, amid concerns some new teachers struggle to explain maths and grammar concepts to their students.
Students who fail the new online test, which will be introduced by 2016, will not be allowed to complete their final practical assessment in the classroom, which would stop them graduating.
Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said he expected high standards of teaching graduates and the new test would ensure every student graduating from a teaching course in NSW had adequate literacy and numeracy skills.
''The test will be quite difficult, quite complex, and so it should be,'' Mr Piccoli said.
''I don't resile for one minute from setting very high standards and guarding them with things like a literacy and numeracy test.''
Mr Piccoli said universities and schools had reported graduate teachers struggling to explain maths and grammar concepts.
NSW would be the first state to set such a test, with a complete introduction planned for 2016 after trials this year and next. Students would be able to sit the test as many times as they wish - ''a little bit like your driver's test'', Mr Piccoli said.
But Tom Alegounarias, president of the NSW Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Training, said some students would not be able to pass at all.
''If history and commonsense about tests apply, there will be students who find that they are not suited to teaching,'' he said. Mr Alegounarias said universities should encourage students to sit the tests early in their degrees. but a high failure rate would not necessarily prompt revised, easier questions.
''If students are failing because they don't have the requisite knowledge, that would not be a reason to change the test,'' he said.
Emma Semrani, a fourth year teaching student at the Australian Catholic University, is doing her practical placement at Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Menai.
''We need to ensure that we are competent in what we do so we give children the best chance of the best future possible,'' Ms Semrani, 21, said. ''I think it's important that you as a teacher constantly revisit material to make sure you are up to date.
''You're not always going to be 100 per cent competent in your own literacy or numeracy because you have to teach all key learning areas.''
Mr Piccoli said all of the state's vice-chancellors had agreed to the new assessment, devised by the Australian Council for Education Research and the NSW Board of Studies.
As part of improving teacher quality, students starting a teaching degree from school will also need three Band 5 Higher School Certificate results, one of which must be English.


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GMC is adding another Denali to its line-up. Or should that read: GMC is adding another version of its Terrain crossover? Actually, they're both accurate, as the popular CUV is set to get the upscale Denali makeover for the upcoming model-year.
It would appear to be a good combination. GMC can barely build the Terrain fast enough to meet surging demand, and the same holds for just about anything currently getting the Denali badge, which is why the maker also unveiled the 2013 GMC Acadia Denali during its Chicago Auto Show preview, last month.
We'll get a closer look at the 2013 GMC Terrain Denali at next month's New York International Auto Show, but the maker provided an advance look to a select few brought to the Big Apple this week. And while it might have kept the specifics secret, the basics are familiar to anyone who has checked out the other Denali offerings.


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The Washington State Archives, Digital Archives' primary mission is to provide for the preservation of valuable legal and historical electronic records of the State so that they may be centralized and made available for future research. Archival electronic records are transferred to the Digital Archives, just as archival paper records are transferred to the State Archives and the regional branches (Chapter 434-662 WAC).
You must identify which of your records are considered archival and eligible for transfer. All archival or potentially archival records are listed in the approved local government and state government Records Retention Schedules. If you need further assistance please contact the State Records Management office, or your Regional Archivist.
To begin the transfer process, consult with an electronic records consultant who will coordinate the transfer of your records. A few of the items we will discuss are:
If you have archival electronic records to transfer to the Digital Archives please contact us at 360-586-4901.


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"Being the Entrepreneur" and Giving New Orleans a Boost
A team of Johnson MBA students spent an intensive week helping an entrepreneurial business in a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina
May 07, 2014
New Orleans is about a lot more than Bourbon Street and voodoo legends.
The last week in March 2014, I joined MBA students from around the country in New Orleans for the IDEAcorps Challenge. The team from Johnson was joined by teams from Wharton, Chicago Booth, Berkeley Haas, Tulane, and Loyola. This Challenge is not your standard case competition. Each team was paired with a local start-up and tasked with being the CEO for a week, with the goal of having as much impact on the business as possible.
The Johnson team was paired with IMOTO Photo, a real estate photography company. The company has seen early success in the New Orleans market and has its sights set on a regional expansion. Darryl Glade, CEO of IMOTO, challenged us early in the week to "be the entrepreneur." This became the Johnson team's call to action.
We took on IMOTO's toughest challenges as our own. Working with Darryl, we realized the company faced significant barriers to scale, from its incomplete financial statements to manual day-to-day operating processes. Our focus for the week was reducing manual operations, such as order processing and scheduling photo shoots, updating financial statements, developing a long-term customer retention strategy, and opening-up new sales channels.
In just a few days we were able to implement new order-management processes and automate activities that had previously taken hours. We also developed a long-term technology roadmap that will enable IMOTO to handle larger order volumes as they expand to multiple cities.
Not only did the team update the accounting systems to immediately provide clarity in the financial statements, but we also helped Darryl secure a financial advisor that will manage IMOTO's books and reporting for the long term.
IMOTO is expanding beyond its hometown to Atlanta, a market that is almost triple in size. With this expansion, the company needed to have the ability to analyze and target its customers. We developed reporting capabilities and a communication strategy that will allow IMOTO to identify and better target customers.
Finally, we opened up a new sales channel for the business--hotels. We were able to meet with more than 10 hotels in the French Quarter and booked two photo shoots during the week. With the results of this shoot, we got IMOTO an endorsement from the Greater New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Association.
At the beginning of the week, I asked the team members about their goals for the IDEAcorps Challenge. Each one of us said impacting IMOTO was our number-one objective. Throughout the week, we leveraged our diverse backgrounds and skill sets, and in true Johnson fashion, we worked collaboratively toward this goal. Each team member was truly dedicated; in fact one team member was diagnosed with the flu and kept working through her illness(despite her team member's best efforts to get her to rest). This dedication helped us gain the entrepreneur's trust. It enabled us to have challenging conversations with Darryl and push his business forward in just five days.
On Friday, the IDEAcorps judges, including Rimas Kapeskas, Managing Director of UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, and Lizette Terral, President, New Orleans Region JP Morgan Chase, assessed all six MBA teams on how much impact we had on our entrepreneurs. This year a local team won, from Loyola University. Regardless of the result, I think we met our personal goal, and we take tremendous pride in what we were able to accomplish for Darryl and his team.
We would not have been able to do so much in a week without the incredible support from the Johnson community. Last year's IDEAcorps team and the Johnson IDEAcorps alumni provided great advice, and also helped us fundraise to finance the trip. Our wonderful faculty advisor, Rhett Weiss, was with us for late nights and early mornings. He provided invaluable advice on leadership and business strategy, which really made the week an exceptional learning experience.
Additionally, we want to thank all of the Johnson clubs, campus organizations, and individuals that helped sponsor our trip.
The IDEAcorps Challenge and Idea Village team did a lot more than show us a great time in New Orleans; they illustrated the power of entrepreneurship and believing in our big, crazy ideas. Idea Village allowed us to grow beyond business school frameworks and theories and enabled us to "be the entrepreneur" for a week—as well as make a few incredible friendships along the way.
The 2014 IDEAcorps Challenge team was Annie Keyes (lead), Dale Beard (co-lead), Alan Barnes, Margaret Wu, Santiago Kegevic, and Teresa Lee. Adviser was Rhett Weiss.
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Scoliosis Research Society Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Ian Stokes, Ph.D.
- 10-18-2013
- By Edward J Neuert
Ian Stokes, Ph.D., a professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation emeritus at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the international Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) at the society's annual meeting in Lyons, France, in September.
The SRS Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented to senior members of the Scoliosis Research Society with a distinguished history of dedicated service and commitment to the society and the field of spinal deformity research and care.
After graduating in Engineering Science from Cambridge University in 1971, Stokes performed research on the biomechanics of the forefoot for his 1975 Ph.D. from Polytechnic of Central London.
Stokes joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in 1980. His primary research interest is in problems of the spine, including muscle function around the lumbar spine and spinal deformity and growth plate biomechanics, with an emphasis on using biomechanical modeling and simulation. He has had close collaborative ties with the UVM's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Physical Therapy, the Sainte-Justine Hospital and the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers in Paris.
Stokes has published more than 125 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the course of his career. He was named a University Scholar in 2006-2007.


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We're keen to find life partners but not so interested in marriage, according to a new study that uncovers the nation's dating habits.
The RSVP Date of the Nation report, published this week, has found that while many of us hope to find a life partner, the majority of single adults in Australia are not interested in marrying.
But while just 41 per cent of singles would like to get married, there are marked differences both between the sexes and between generations - and tradition still shapes many young Australians' approach to love lives. Younger generations are keener to tie the knot than older singles.
Sixty-seven per cent of Gen Y respondents said they want to get married, compared to 39 per cent of Gen Xers and just 12 per cent of Baby Booomers.
Overall, 66 per cent of the 3325 survey respondents - weighted to represent the population - told the dating site that they were happy with being single, though 58 per cent revealed that they "would like to spend the rest of their life with the one."
In another category, while just 56 per cent of singles overall see marriage as a "valid and important social institution", 67 per cent of Gen Y - birthdates falling roughly between 1980 and 2000 - hold the same view, falling to 54 per cent for Gen X (1960 to 1980) and only 44 per cent for Baby Boomers.
We may be becoming more progressive and open to options beyond marriage, but there is one difference between the sexes that appears to uphold every Hollywood stereotype going: women want to get married more than men.
On average, by our calculations, 9.7 per cent more single women than men want to spend the rest of their lives with the one, see marriage as a valid and important institution and want to get married.
As much as many singles may not want to tie the knot, there is still social pressure to do so, with 52 per cent reporting that they feel expected to marry and 55 per cent saying they feel they are expected to have children.
John Aiken, Fairfax-owned RSVP's resident relationship expert and psychologist said that the results show "that singles still place social importance on marriage and that many are feeling the pressure – especially women."
He points out that the priorities of age-groups vary, with younger adults counter-intuitively more likely to be more aligned with those in their 50s.
"They are likely to be more focused on individual pursuits and not as concerned about biological clocks or social conventions. For Gen Y, this comes from an idealism and attitude of 'it's all ahead of me' and for the Boomers, many feel they have 'been there, done that'."
Relationship and sex expert Jacqueline Hellyer goes one step further, telling Life & Style that she believes the institution of marriage is "good and strong" but that "it is the Baby Boomers who have lost their naivety." Divorce has put many off approaching the aisle again.
"[The popularity of marriage] goes in swings and roundabouts. One of our innate drives is to reproduce and create a fairly stable environment in which to do that."
She said the stats confirm her "belief that when you're younger, marriage is more important to you."
Having a child out of wedlock is taboo-free for many, too, 35 per cent of the surveyed singles would have a child before marriage.
"There's just so much more choice available now and people have more mature attitudes towards their relationships," said Hellyer. "You don't have to get married to have a family but younger people are still looking to marriage as an important option."
For Kylie Dunjey, a counsellor with Relationships Australia, the data reflects what she sees as a change on the continuum of life's big moments. "The milestones are the same: we have sex, move in, have children and then marriage is inserted around that, in a different place to where it once was."
Still, she says, the figures - and her daily work - show that there is hope amongst single people to find the stability and security of the right person. "Those things are still attractive – if you want to start a family, there is a higher investment in getting married."
Whether built on a youthful idealism or perhaps as a counter-response to Gen X and Baby Boomers' failed marriages (a theory needing more data at this stage), says Dunjey, "there is definitely still a desire for healthy, long term relationships."
Living in sin may not be as frowned upon as it once was, but neverthless, the church is keen to celebrate the report.
A spokesperson from the Archdiocese of Sydney said: "In fact the table that shows 41 per cent of all Australian singles want to get married also very clearly shows there is great optimism about marriage with the younger generation than perhaps the often jaded and cynical baby-boomers.
"Despite continuing claims that marriage is a thing of the past, the figures show with Gen Y and Gen X there are many who still [want] a lifelong and exclusive commitment."


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Just over two weeks before the NFL Draft kicks off, the Bills hosted Clemson WR Sammy Watkins, Notre Dame OL Zack Martin, and McGill University (Canada) OL Laurent Duvernay-Tardif for pre-draft visits on Wednesday.
WR Sammy Watkins
Watkins rewrote the school record books in his final collegiate season with 101 receptions for almost 1,500 yards (1,464) and 12 touchdowns. Though only 6-1 and 211 pounds, Watkins plays bigger on the field, and big plays largely summarized Watkins college career.
This past season he was the only receiver with two touchdowns of more than 90 yards with one coming against Syracuse (91) and the other against Virginia (96). But Watkins is far from a one trick pony. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney made use of the dynamic wideout in a variety of ways with bubble screens to make use of his elusiveness, routes over the middle knowing he was physical enough to make plays in close quarters and fades knowing he could outleap defenders.
"For me I think I can do just about anything on the field from running back to wide receiver, slot. I can make plays all over the field," said Watkins. "What I love doing is dominating defenses and I think that's what I bring to the game. I think that's going to turn over to the NFL. When I come into the NFL I think I can be that dominant receiver."
Perhaps his greatest asset is his body control and the way he can adjust to passes when they're not on the money. Watkins is also a team player that works to sustain blocks for backs or fellow receivers on end arounds and receiver screens.
Watkins solidified his top five prospect status with a 4.43 40 time at the combine along with a 34-inch vertical, 10-foot six-inch broad jump and a solid 16 reps on the bench. If he gets past the Oakland Raiders at five it will be big news.
OL Zack Martin
"I've played tackle my entire career and I've told teams that's the position I'm familiar with and I think I can be effective there, but at the same time I'm willing to play any position," said Martin. "I think that's one of my biggest strengths is my versatility. It's just a matter of where they see me playing."
Due to Martin's less than ideal measurables for the tackle position with 32 7/8-inch arms, some teams see him as more of a guard prospect. However, Martin had a very strong Senior Bowl lining up at tackle and guard and has convinced a good number of teams that tackle won't be a problem for him at the NFL level.
"I'm a big fan of Zack Martin as a player," said NFL.com draft analyst and former scout Daniel Jeremiah. "As he's come through the process, through the Senior Bowl, the workouts, meeting with teams… to me there's no real mystery to him. You know exactly what you're getting. I think he's one of the safer players in the draft. He can play tackle if you want him to, he can slide inside and play guard."
Martin himself has heard the talk about him having shorter arms than most teams would prefer in a tackle, but he feels his game tape and his play at the Senior Bowl should be enough to prove he can have a successful career out on the edge in the NFL.
"I know there's a reason why they do measurements so I know why people look at that, but for me at the end of the day when you watch the tape you have to watch what I've put on tape and give everyone a chance at a position before you rule them out because of measurements," said Martin.
Going back to school for his senior season in 2013 also proved to be a plus for him. Martin believes he sharpened his game even more in his fourth collegiate season.
"I think I grew a lot this year. I became more of a complete player. I think they saw a growth in my technique and consistency," he said. "I thought I had a pretty good year in 2012, but from a consistency standpoint I thought 2013 was my best year."
A two-time captain with natural leadership skills who holds teammates accountable it's easy to see why the Bills and a host of other NFL clubs see Martin as an attractive prospect.
Not surprisingly, Buffalo isn't Martin's first pre-draft visit. There were reports that he visited with the Dallas Cowboys at Valley Ranch last week.
OL Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Every year we see a few Canadian based prospects come off the board in the NFL draft. On day three McGill University offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is likely to be one of them.
The Bills, like most clubs when it comes to Canadian-based players, have some blanks to fill in on their final report on the prospect that may have been answered with an in-person meeting.
Following a pro-day style workout that demonstrated his NFL caliber athleticism (40 time around 5-flat, 31.5″ vertical, 9-6 broad jump, 34 reps on bench, and a 4.59 short shuttle) Tardif had dinner with one of Buffalo's scouts, per a report from the Tornoto Sun.
As impressive as his workout may have been, he was more than 20 pounds lighter (298) than his listed playing weight (321). Prospects often shed weight so they can run and move faster. NFL talent evaluators will undoubtedly factor that into their evaluation. That being said, Duvernay-Tardif did enough to show he has NFL-level athleticism and is forecast as a developmental prospect who will probably come off the board on day three (Rounds 5-7).


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The Times Herald (http://www.timesherald.com)
Thursday, June 19, 2014
TROOPER — Jason Ferrie hasn't been known to write out many prescriptions, but he had just the right medicine Thursday night for ailing Pottstown.
The left-hander carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning before settling for a three-hitter in hurling the visiting Spartans past Trooper, 2-1, in a rare, low-scoring game at the Lower Providence Township Building.
Scuffling for most of the season due to injury, Pottstown needed a boost, and got it from Ferrie, who handcuffed the Tribe and got just enough offense from his Spartans mates to halt the team's four-game winless streak.
"Coming off last night (a dreadful Pottstown performance that featured seven errors and just three hits in a loss to Lansdale), I think we've all been around enough to know we just had to forget that one," said Pottstown player-manager Jamie Nash. "But Jason coming out and throwing a game like that, that's a real momentum builder."
Before he took the mound Ferrie had a 1-0 lead thanks to Tyler Russ' RBI single in the top of the first.
There was still a slight hangover from Wednesday night as Pottstown committed four errors in the game's first two innings, but Ferrie was able to pitch around that early trouble, particularly in the second inning when he got a pop-up and a strikeout after the Tribe put runners at first and third with just one out.
"I had good command of my fastball," Ferrie said, "and I was able to get ahead with it. That set up my secondary pitches and then I was able to pitch them backwards later in the game."
Meanwhile, Trooper starter JP Harris was nearly as good. The right-hander allowed just five hits (all coming in the two frames that Pottstown scored), and kept the Tribe in the game.
"Like any pitcher I wanted to pound the strike zone and get ahead of the hitters," Harris said. "They put a lot of balls in play, and our guys made the plays.
"We didn't commit an error all night."
Pottstown added another run in the top of the fifth on Adam Regensberg's two-out RBI single.
But when Trooper was turned away in the fifth inning, it was becoming obvious that Ferrie was closing in on a no-no.
Then just as suddenly, it was gone.
"I thought about it before I went out (in the sixth inning)," Ferrie said, "and as soon as it popped in my mind I gave up a hit to the next batter."
That hitter was catcher Drew Frankenfield, who opened the sixth with a line-drive double to left-center field.
Frankenfield moved to third when Brian Hartsell's pop fly to right field dropped between three Spartans, then scored when Joe Conaway rolled a single to left.
The Tribe wanted more, but Ferrie retired the next three Tribesmen in order, then 1-2-3'd them in the seventh to close out the win.
The win was welcomed, but Nash said the Spartans are caught in a season they didn't foresee.
"We were a game away from the semifinals last year, and we had one of our best teams," Nash said. "We felt good going into this year.
"But the group we thought we'd have haven't been around. Ben Gresh tore his ACL, Tom DeAngelis has a broken rib. We've added a couple of players that have helped, but it almost feels like a rebuilding season."


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From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., firefighters will be stationed at the entrances of Dominick's, 800 Northwest Highway, Fox River Grove, to collect donations of cash and nonperishable food.
Last year, the generous gifts from the community funded the purchase of a replacement freezer for the pantry, which is an important social safety net that serves Cary and Fox River Grove.
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BOSTON — At around 10:30 p.m., Bruins PR let the media know there would be an announcement coming.
Twenty minutes later, TSN's Bob McKenzie reported that Boston acquired center Chris Kelly from Ottawa for a second-round pick. The Bruins have since confirmed the deal.
Kelly is on the books for this year and next at $2.125 million. He is a natural center and a left shot who should fit in as the third-line center with rookie Tyler Seguin shifted back out to the wing.
This season, Kelly has 23 points (12 goals) in 56 games. He has never scored more than 38 points, and that was way back in 2006-07, the year a loaded Ottawa team went all the way to the Stanley Cup final.
Kelly comes at a cheaper price than Mike Fisher, but obviously isn't the same type of two-way player as Fisher.
The pick is Boston's own second-rounder. They still own Minnesota's from the Chuck Kobasew trade of last fall.


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Is one of Nevada's largest mental health facilities "dumping" patients in other states?
It is a question that the City Attorney in San Francisco wants answered by top state officials.
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has opened a formal investigation into the practices of Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas.
A Bee investigation details how the facility bused roughly 1,500 patients to other cities and states between July of 2008 and March of this year.
Herrera has sent a letter to Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services demanding the state turn over documents related to the discharging of mental patients to Greyhound buses and transporting them across the country.
The letter was copied to Governor Sandoval and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.
Herrera said his city will seek compensation from Nevada if it determines that "patient dumping" resulted in improper transfers of patients to San Francisco.
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GRAYSON CO, TX-A fire that burned thousands of acres in Oklahoma crossed state lines Monday burning hundreds more in Texas.
Firefighters from Grayson and Cooke counties have been monitoring the blaze sweeping through the tree line along the Red River since 2:00 Monday afternoon.
Grayson County Fire Marshal, Kevin Walton said the flames started in Love county, spread to Marshall county, then crossed over to Grayson county. Walton said because of the high winds and drought conditions, they have been keeping a close eye on the fire as it headed west for almost 8 hours. Firefighters from Gordonville, Sherwood Shores and Callisburg have been on stand by on Delaware Bend Road in case the fire headed south.
Walton said, they decided not to approach the flames just yet.
"It's not worth risking volunteers and equipment to put out something that potentially we can't put out anyway so we're just gonna watch it. But if it comes back this direction, we're gonna stop it at the bottom of this road down here before it climbs back up the ridge," he said.
Walton said they are still determining how many acres are burned in Grayson county. There are no reported injuries or structures threatened.
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A 55-year old doctor has gone on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork charged with indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
Dr Kevin Mulcahy, of Creggane, Lombardstown, Mallow, Co Cork, denies the offence, which is alleged to have occurred 24 years ago.
The victim told the court that Dr Mulcahy touched her inappropriately while he was examining her at her home in North Cork.
Dr Mulcahy said he had no recollection of conducting an examination on the woman, who is now aged in her late 30s.
The victim told the court Dr Mulcahy became her mother's GP in the second half of 1989, at a time when her mother was seriously ill.
She said Dr Mulcahy would come to the family home several times each week.
On one occasion, two days before Christmas, she said she was feeling unwell herself with a head cold or a chest infection.
She went with Dr Mulcahy to her bedroom where they were alone.
The door of the bedroom was closed, but she could not recollect if it was locked.
She said after Dr Mulcahy examined her for the cold, he conducted a breast examination on her, to which she consented.
She said he then touched her inappropriately outside her clothing.
She said she did not tell her mother at the time because there was so much happening in the house and she did not want to add to the stress and strain.
She said she did not know what to think afterwards, because this was "a totally new scenario" to her.
The woman said she attended Dr Mulcahy on one further occasion as a patient but he then ceased to be her GP and she made a complaint to gardaí in October, 2010.
She denied in cross examination that she was mistaken in her recollection.
Dr Mulcahy said on several occasions during his evidence that he had no recollection of conducting an examination on the woman.
He said he had seen hundreds of thousands of patients over many years and he had no idea how he was supposed to remember what happened two days before Christmas in 1989.
"As far as I'm concerned, it didn't happen", he said.
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CINCINNATI (AP) - Eighth-ranked Xavier beat crosstown rival Xavier 76-53 today in a game that featured a steady stream of trash talking and was called with 9.4 seconds left when the teams got into a brawl on court.
CINCINNATI � Eighth-ranked Xavier beat crosstown rival Xavier 76-53 today in a game that featured a steady stream of trash talking and was called with 9.4 seconds left when the teams got into a brawl on court.
Words escalated into shoving and swings as the final seconds ticked down. Both benches cleared and coaches pulled their players away. The referees called it.
The teams traded words as they walked past each other toward the locker rooms at halftime, with the referees stepping between them � a common occurrence in the emotional rivalry.
Mark Lyons scored 19 points, and Tu Holloway led a 12-point run in the first half for Xavier (8-0), which extended their best start in three years and their recent domination of the Bearcats (5-3). Cincinnati went 1 of 16 from behind the arc and trailed by double digits the entire second half.
Yancy Gates led Cincinnati with 18 points and 12 rebounds. The Bearcats shot only 30 percent from the field.
Xavier has won four of the last five, seven of the last 10, and nine of the last 13 games in the city�s annual bragging-rights game. The Musketeers had a little extra motivation in this one.
Last season, Cincinnati took advantage of Xavier�s injury-depleted roster in a 66-46 victory on the Bearcats� court, the most lopsided score in the series in eight years. Cincinnati geared its defense to stop Holloway, who was only 2 of 13 from the field for five points.
This would be Holloway�s last crosstown shootout, and he was determined to prevent Cincinnati from getting its first back-to-back wins in the series since 1995-96.
When the national anthem ended and both teams headed toward their benches, Holloway lingered on the court by himself for a few seconds, head down, eyes closed and soaking in the moment.
He was in the middle of the trash talking at the end, yelling something at the Cincinnati bench before the brawl broke out. After the game was called, he jumped on the scorers� table and celebrated with the crowd.
During the week, Cincinnati�s Sean Kilpatrick suggested Holloway wouldn�t start if he played for the Bearcats. Whenever Kilpatrick touched the ball, the Xavier student section chanted: �Who�s Kilpatrick?�
Kilpatrick finished with 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting.
Xavier was coming off a 73-61 win at Butler on Wednesday night that extended their best start in three seasons. The Bearcats had the week off for exams, giving them time to prepare for the game.
Playing an eighth-ranked team gave the Bearcats a chance to regain some luster.
They reached the NCAA tournament last season for the first time since 2005, when Bob Huggins was coach. They considered their program�s rebuilding nearly finished, needing only another successful season to re-establish their national prominence. They got off to a good start, getting ranked in the preseason poll for the first time in eight years.
Then home-court losses to Presbyterian and Marshall in front of small crowds knocked them out of the rankings and raised questions about whether they�re capable of an encore.
The start of the game followed the annual pattern � a lot of emotion, a lot of missed shots. Xavier coach Chris Mack got a technical for jumping in the air and arguing against a goal tending call on the Musketeers.
There were eight ties and six lead changes, with neither team ahead by more than four, before Holloway got Xavier rolling. He hit a 3 � his first field goal � to start a 12-point run late in the half. Holloway also came down with a rebound and passed to Lyons for a fastbreak layup during the spurt, which put Xavier in control for good at 34-23.
Holloway had a three-point play during a 9-2 run that opened the second half and made it 43-27. Cincinnati didn�t get the lead under 10 points the rest of the way. Justin Martin�s 3 made it 56-38 with 9:19 to go, taking the drama out of the game.
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you guys talk like this haley offense is magical and will be around for years.
if he can't find ways to get the football into the endzone he should be fired after this season. I've never seen a more pedestrian offense led by a franchise QB.
as far as clarks comments, they seem pretty stupid to me. There is no reason to put that kind of pressure on wheaton and raise fans expectations. He should really just shut his mouth sometimes, but that seems impossible for him.
Is there an OC who can make Ben and the fans happy? I doubt it...
Who said Haleys offense is magical? Its the O we have right now so we have to reference it but outside of keeping Ben "cleaner" I have yet to see the benefits. I think we need to give him more than half a year with Ben to see if its going to work.
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would it have been better then last year with wallace, brown, AND wheaton (minus maybe sanders who we then didnt need to re sign and taken a 3rd round pick)? yeah, pretty easily i would think
there's a lot of passes going to paulsen and johnson at training camp. the offense really is evolving. howling was running well in the first preseason game, that looks different to me.
Not even factoring in those missed games, his total was still tied for his second best production. Not sure what you are expecting, but the offense was coming along fine before Ben's injury.
project stats all you want. I would rather watch the games and draw my own conclusions.
The offense did not do a very good job generating points with more than enough weapons, IMO.
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Welcome to 52apolooza, the Outhouse feature focusing on DC's September Relaunch. All of DC's 52 titles will be reviewed by our pool of reviewers to point out the best and worst that DC's new comic book line has to offer. If you'd like to see how this book compares to the rest of DC's New 52, check out the Official 52apolooza Rankings!
Everyone has their favorite version of Supergirl, whether it be the one wearing a bandana, the one wearing a knee-length skirt or the one who wears shorts under her skirt (thus earning the ire of weirdos everywhere). Now, there's a new version of Supergirl, one who doesn't wear a skirt at all but instead wears fashionable Kryptonian leggings. How will the 52apolooza crew take this radical departure in wardrobe? Read on and find out!
Marvel Reviewer: Niam Suggitt
For a long time I didn't see the point in Supergirl. I thought it cheapened Superman and ruined his whole 'Last Son' schtick. I thought the character was an unnecessary cash-grab character, like Batgirl or Batwoman. But then Sterling Gates came along and made Supergirl one of DC's best comics. Despite being almost constantly caught up in one crossover or another, Gates and artist Jamal Igle turned Kara Zor-El into a really strong character with enough to set her apart from her more famous cousin. So for me, this new, rebooted Supergirl has a lot to live up to.
And for the most part it does, this was a really enjoyable comic with top quality art and a good take on Supergirl. Michael Green and Mike Johnson are a writing team I'm unfamiliar with but they really write Kara's inner thoughts well, subtly including hints as to her history and personality. It was great to see her panic at developing powers and her confusion at what's going on. Just as we the readers are on unfamiliar ground with this new universe, so is Supergirl.
There is one issue though, which is that not much really happens. Supergirl crash-lands on Earth, fights some dudes in Robot suits and then Superman shows up. I imagine some fans will be frustrated at this lack of forward momentum, that we don't see Kara's life on Krypton or maybe a glimpse into what her ongoing status-quo is. But I don't mind a slower pace, and the thoughts inside Supergirl's head are still very interesting. It doesn't hurt when your extended action sequence is drawn as well as this one, Mahmud Asrar's work is better than I've ever seen it before. I was unsure about Supergirl's new costume at first, but Asrar makes it work, and even Superman's new duds looked good. Asrar's art is crisp and kinetic, so as I said, if you're annoyed a there being too much action, then at least it looks good.
Overall this was a strong first issue, not much happens in it, but what does happen is very enjoyable. In a week when depictions of female superheroes have been very controversial, Supergirl is a shining light of non-sleaziness and good storytelling. I enjoyed this small taste of the new Kara Zor-El, I just hope we'll get some more going on in future issues.
Writing: 18/25
Artwork: 22/25
Accessibility: 20/25 (As long as you know who Superman is and that Supergirl is his cousin, then you should be fine, this is all-new)
Enjoyability: 21/15
Total Score: 81/100
DC Reviewer: Brian Burchette
The plot to the first issue of this series is rather quite simple. Kara once again comes crashing down to Earth more than slightly dazed and confused, only to be attacked by American soldiers in metal armor. A huge fight ensues that could have been stopped sooner but Kara doesn't speak English, only Kryptonian. After defeating the soldiers she is suddenly stopped by the one person who could... Superman.
That's the story. It's a pretty by the book origin of a character that really hasn't changed all that much from her previous incarnation. There's really nothing new here and though it is a solid beginning, I think in this case it was an unnecessary one.
Story: 20/25
Art: 20/25
Accessibility: 23/25
Enjoyment: 18/25
Final Score: 81/100
New Reader Reviewer: Tricia Long
Supergirl has a morning after that I never want to experience. One minute she's in school, chilling with her friends and dreaming of the day she can put on blue spandex, the next she's in Siberia. Understandably, she's shocked both by her location and environment. Then, some guys show up to capture her (jerks) and get the full Kryptonian-reacting-to-our-yellow-sun treatment.
The best part of this issue? You get to experience a little dramatic irony – that's when the audience knows something the character doesn't. We know that Kara has similar powers to Superman, that her genetic makeup will make taking down these robot-suited men easy as pie; but we get to experience the terror of her discovering that, which is both a wonderful way to introduce her to new readers and provide characterization.
Not a lot happens in this issue compared to others I've read – there's no time jumps, there aren't that many characters to meet, nobody dies horribly. We do know that Kara's arrival on Earth happens simultaneously with several other moments in the DC universe (Starling backing through a church for one), which makes this a pretty big day for old planet Earth. If you've read the other #1 issues, you'll probably take this as a signal that something big is on the horizon. All of these heroes, summoned to Earth, at the same time? That can't be good for anyone.
I liked the simplicity of the palette used. The striking colors of what I think of as the "super" uniform stand out starkly against the snow of Siberia, and stuck with me long after I finished the issue. Something was off about the drawing, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Supergirl's face was oddly blunt, not at all what I was expecting given the crisp squareness of Superman's face. This wasn't disappointing in anyway, just something I noticed in the course of reading.
All in all, this was an intriguing first issue. I'd be interested to see where things go – how Superman explains to Kara what happened, how she fits into the Superman mythos. I don't feel strongly about this book like the last two that I reviewed, but it's definitely worth a read. If nothing else, you can truly experience life in another person's head for about 10 pages.
Writing: 20/25
Art: 18/25
Enjoyability: 20/25
Accessibility: 22/25
Total Score: 80/100
Total 52apolooza Score (with Three Reviews In): 242 (Average Score: 80.67)
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(Woodland, CA) – Yolo County Sheriff-Coroner Ed Prieto and the Yolo County Board of Supervisors have announced a path forward to assess the items of concern identified in the recent Yolo County Grand Jury report concerning the internal operations of the Yolo County Sheriff's Office.
Woodland Mayor Skip Davies, whose term ends July 2, has agreed to chair an independent working group charged with completing an evaluation of the issues identified in the grand jury report, and to make recommendations where appropriate to improve the operational environment within the Sheriff's department. Sheriff Prieto has encouraged representatives of the five labor organizations that serve the department to actively participate with Mayor Davies in the working group. The Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff recognize and appreciate Mayor Davies willingness to assist in this effort.
The Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Prieto look forward to working with Mayor Davies in the coming weeks to identify the scope and methodologies for the working group. Areas of analysis are expected to include the issues raised in the grand jury report, plus a comprehensive look at the workplace climate, hiring processes, current training practices and employee evaluation processes.
"It is important to me not only that the issues raised by the grand jury be fully analyzed, but also that all of the employees within the Sheriff's department be provided an opportunity to be heard," said Yolo County Sheriff-Coroner Ed Prieto. "I fully support this effort and believe it will enhance my personal commitment and the department's commitment to excellence and the performance of our duties with increased professionalism and integrity."
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My new suspension arrived today. A day sooner than expected! Workmanship is outstanding and the turn around was fast.
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My new suspension arrived today. A day sooner than expected! Workmanship is outstanding and the turn around was fast.
Thanks Stu!!
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Off topic dragon360, but am I reading your profile correct that you have 5 hammocks? Just curious but what is your go to hammock for summer and for winter, assuming they're different?
I ordered some whoopie slings yesterday. Hope they get here soon! I've read nothing but good about Stu and his work.
Thanks sleestac. We sure appreciate your kind words.
Ordered late at night Tues (effectively Wed) Got them via USPS on Fri. Alas, got them too late to swap over before this weekends first-hammock camping trip. Quality looks good! Looks like I will need to trim my Hennessy ends to make them work but I haven't looked closely. Maybe just a ziptie or something on the ends. We'll see when I get back from work tonight.
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Amazon Web Services is developing a hardware-based cloud storage appliance for enterprises that prefer to use a mix of private and public cloud infrastructure, CRN has learned.
The AWS cloud storage appliance, which already is being tested by some customers, effectively acts as a bridge between an enterprise's private cloud and the AWS public cloud. It lets enterprises keep sensitive data on-premise and use the AWS cloud for file sharing, backup and disaster recovery, sources familiar with the Seattle-based vendor's plans told CRN.
Amazon isn't manufacturing the cloud storage appliance itself and is instead working with a third-party white-box vendor, sources said. It's unclear how AWS will go to market with the cloud storage appliance.
An Amazon spokesperson declined comment, citing the vendor's policy of not responding to "rumors or speculation."
[Related: HP CEO Whitman: 10 Take-Aways From Q4 Earnings]
The sources said this is the next step in a hybrid cloud strategy that began last January when Amazon unveiled its AWS Storage Gateway, a virtual machine image that runs in VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Amazon added a gateway-cached storage volume feature last November and started positioning AWS Storage Gateway as an alternative to local storage arrays for storing customers' primary data.
The AWS cloud storage appliance uses a similar approach to startups such as Nasuni, TwinStrata and Panzura, which sell on-premise hardware that ties into AWS and other cloud storage services. But unlike these offerings, the AWS storage appliance will only work with the AWS cloud, sources told CRN.
"This is Amazon extending the reach and purpose of already a robust cloud offering," one source with knowledge of Amazon's plans told CRN. "The appliance is a means to an end to ensure that customers have different paths to the same destination, which is cloud adoption."
The idea behind the AWS cloud storage appliance is to let enterprises tap into the cost efficiencies of its public cloud while keeping their sensitive data on-premise. This is a notable shift, as AWS executives have long preached that public cloud is capable of handling anything enterprises need to do, and that private clouds are unnecessary.
"Over time, we think very few companies are going to own their own data centers, and ones that do will have a small footprint," Andy Jassy, senior vice president, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Infrastructure, said in a keynote at the AWS re:Invent conference in mid-November.
Even after beating out IBM for a $600 million cloud computing contract for the Central Intelligence Agency, AWS executives avoided using the term "private cloud" to describe the project. But in an interview with "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed that AWS is indeed building a private cloud for the CIA.
"We're building what's called a private cloud for them ... because they don't want to be on the public cloud," Bezos told CBS News correspondent Charlie Rose, according to the interview transcript.
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Video: Gay Twins Speak Out On Bullying
Nigel Campbell | August 22, 2013
Gay twins, Gary and Larry Lane, are sharing their experiences as victims of bullying.
We realize they probably could have talked about anything and we'd still watch since they had us at "gay twins."
Enjoy! (Actually, the video's pretty sweet and earnest.)
Who knew identical twins got teased simply for looking alike?
The struggle is real!!
The video is part of the Friend Movement, a campaign created to provide "positive anti-bully images through art and media."
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SantoLubes LLC Recognition Dinner was held on January 24, at Renato's Ristorante in Spartanburg.
SantoLubes LLC Recognition Dinner was held on January 24, at Renato's Ristorante in Spartanburg. The following SantoLubes employees were recognized for completing fifty hours of volunteer service: Angela Dowdle, Daisy E. Lugardo, Stella McJimpsey, Mitzi Morris, Judy Petty, Mark Shedrick and Jeter Starnes. Together they donated 350 hours of volunteer service and raised a total of $3,500 for the following non-profits in Spartanburg County: Spartanburg Humane Society, SPIHN, Guardian Ad Litem Program, Friends of Croft, Greater Spartanburg Ministries, Southeastern Children's Home and Habitat for Humanity.
In December, SantoLubes employees are given the opportunity to choose one 501 (c)3 where they will volunteer fifty hours beginning in January, completing their service by December 31. In January of the following year, a Recognition Dinner is held. Each employee, who has completed fifty hours of volunteer service to the non-profit of their choice, and a guest are invited to the dinner. A representative from each of the nonprofits where a SantoLubes employee has volunteered 50 hours of service is also invited, as well as Chris Steed, President and CEO of United Way of the Piedmont, Valida Foster and Meghann Swafford, also with United Way of the Piedmont.
The evening recognizes each employee, who has completed fifty hours of volunteer service, showcasing how their volunteer service has benefited the non-profit where they have served, and how the actions of a few have made a positive impact on Spartanburg County. A check from SantoLubes for $500 is presented to each nonprofit agency where a SantoLubes employee has completed fifty hours of volunteer service.
All the employees who participated in the SantoLubes 2012 Employee Volunteer Program, have signed up for the 2013 program, and have already begun their volunteer service. SantoLubes Employee Volunteer Program also welcomed several new participants to the 2013 program.
Dianne Garrison, Director of Community Relations stated, "Every time a person volunteers his or her time, it means giving up something of themselves. It might be time, comfort, money, but something. When individuals step forward they are essentially agreeing to sacrifice their own needs for the needs of someone else. SantoLubes' appreciation is limitless for the outstanding contribution these employees make to Spartanburg County.
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The Diagnosis
Einstein's Dreams
Good Benito
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It was easier, I think now and then, to be a novelist or a poet in the days before cable television. Today it only takes ten minutes of flipping channels to find that whatever pet theory one had about the world up to that moment is badly shaken. It's one thing to think about America in the abstract and another to actually see half a dozen preachers preaching, talk shows on everything from politics to dieting, ceaselessly repeated commercials, forty-year-old sitcoms with canned laughter, cooking shows, wars and revolutions in progress, music videos, soaps, the shopping channels selling wigs, discount jewelry, burglary alarms, and Samurai steak knives. "We are coming to you live," the reporters remind us from a forest fire or an of-fice building where a disgruntled em-ployee has shot his boss and six other co-workers.
It is, of course, impossible to watch any of this for more than a few minutes since one can't help being curious about what is on the next channel. There is just too much of everything. We can either try to take it in stride, sitting back dumbfounded, or seek consolation in the latest literary theory which keeps guaranteeing that there is no world beyond language. "Don't confuse me with facts," people say jokingly, and there is some truth in that. What is called realism has always been based on a principle of selection, a way of cutting up that messy reality into manageable parts; television tries to do this while making the reality more of a mess.
Alan Lightman is like a man who, after gazing at a mirror in a dark cellar, takes it out into the living room, then out into the busy street. His first novel, Einstein's Dreams, owes a debt to the poetic and philosophical fiction of Borges and Calvino, in which verisimilitude and plausibility are not an issue and the quality of the imagination is what counts. His second novel, Good Benito, uses a fairly familiar strategy in contemporary fiction: it is an autobiography in the guise of a novel, concerned to suggest that the hero's own story is representative of a broader contemporary intellectual and moral predicament.
In comparison to these two, his most recent novel, The Diagnosis, is a far more ambitious undertaking, involving a larger cast of contemporary characters. After finishing this book, it may not seem strange at all when we see six phenomenally overweight women in miniskirts share their sex lives with us on TV, or a grinning congressman in a paid ad, wearing an obvious toupee, who promises, if elected, to promote family values and pass no gun legislation.
Lightman, who was born in Memphis in 1948, teaches physics and writing at MIT. Before bringing out Einstein's Dreams in 1993, he wrote and published essays on science, translating its complex theories into everyday examples. Einstein's Dreams purports to be a collection of…
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The Five Different Types Of "Nice Girls"
The people over at the Frisky listed the five different types of sluts. We don't use that word. We call those girls "friend-people"! Also, we just think it's a bad term, because we prefer "floozy" or "harlot." However, we do frequently describe ladies as being "nice." Here are the different "nice girls" you'll encounter. Some of them aren't actually nice!
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Very good emulator, but I hope it works on new Mac as well. The current version "for Mac" only works for PowerPC machines (since it is released 10 years ago).
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Mac version hasn't been updated in 10 years, and is PPC only. There's a fork called Mac Boy Advance that is for Intel processors.
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I've used VBA for quite some time now. I have some questions, though. I recently downloaded a VBA build titled "VisualBoyAdvanceM907.7z," which, I guess, is the contents for a somewhat newer build of VBA [copyright 2008? I'd say so.] I want to know of any improvements in this build, because I've been having a problem using the "link" feature in the build I normally use [1.8.0]. I opened two VBA emulators and "linked" them together. They recognized each other on the [same] network, but when I loaded a 1st-gen Pokemon game on both of them, I couldn't enter the trade room or the colosseum on either emulator. I unchecked "Pause when inactive window," as I hear that it's a necessary step if you want to try this on the same computer. I even tried using two different computers and loaded the same VBA build on both, linking the emulators on the [same] network, and loading the same game doing the same thing in both to connect in the game, and I *STILL* couldn't manage to get the emulators to recognize each other after the game loaded. Has all of this been fixed in VBAM SVN907? And Myles, you probably need to change your save type. Is it set to Flash 64K? Because if it is, you should try setting it to Flash 128K to see if that solves the problem.
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Joined: Jul 17, 2007
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 20:18
I have a question regarding player names. I created this team:
The "Cold Blooded *******" and gave all my players names regarding the team name.
Mighty ******, Strong ******, Big..., Small... i now found out that the client changed all player names.
Well im not a native english speaker but for me a ****** is not something purely negative. If i offend someone please let me now and i delete the team.
If not is there a way to change the names back?
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Joined: Aug 01, 2009
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 20:20
Well, the client didn't change the names, a mod did. If you want to change them, you can simply ask a mod or create a support ticket, but they won't change them back to what you had them as.
Joined: May 13, 2007
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 20:40
Your teams were reported, and the team name and player names were changed by me.
The guidelines are clear, if you had read and understood them, you should have known your team was borderline at the least.
Generally we don't change player names, unless exceptional circumstances. I certainly won't be using my time to change them to something else. You may however send a ticket regarding the team name. Here an admin might take pity on you.
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 21:22
Of course i read and understood the name guidelines. But it was not clear to me that B....d is such an offending word.
Thanks for the information. I will delete the Teams.
Joined: Dec 29, 2008
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 21:27
Largely contextual. Used in the more clinical sense, to describe someone whose parents were not married at the time of conception (or birth, at least) it isn't terribly offensive in general.
Used to describe someone as a dirty, rotten jerk...widely considered unacceptable.
Very narrow window of acceptable use. Possibly none depending on the opinion of the admins. Your purported usage seemed to have little to do with parentage, I would point out.
Joined: Jul 10, 2009
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 21:39
Is anyone really offended by b@#$#@d though?
Seems that word has found it's way into common usage (at least in the USA) to the point where it's more or less lost its pejorative power.
If I make a team of roosters will I get the names changed?
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  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 21:55
But apparently
this one
was OK.
Massive teams - massive matches - open play
Joined: Aug 01, 2009
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 22:03
koadah wrote:
But apparently
this one
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I... don't know how to respond to that.
Joined: May 13, 2007
  Posted: Nov 30, 2011 - 22:09
I would say to do with parantage is worse tbh maysrill.
The word is on the list not accepted by the site. I presume by the site owner and if he says something, that's how it is. No matter what you think.
Let's be honest here, it's just another good chance to moan about the crappy admins, isn't it.
Locking this, because I sick of listening to the constant whining while whiping your butts for you when you need it.
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Not as famous as the Grand Canyon, the Bryce canyon is still an amazing place to visit and offers landscapes very different from the GRand Canyon.
Especially, the colors are more vivid and the rock formations are very interesting.
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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WUNTA'S organising committee has vowed to fight for the return of a showpiece Friday night carnival event on Liebig Street next year after disappointing crowd numbers at the weekend.
With strong community sentiment, organisers said they were prepared to give it their all and look at going back to the future and returning the Fiesta to its traditional Friday night home.
But they also said for the plan to be viable and a success, full community support was needed.
The popular Wunta on Liebig segment, with the street's southern end turned into a mall for open-air dining and entertainment, was scrapped in 2008 after complaints about unruly behaviour by drunken patrons.
"The community has been screaming out for a return to the street for years," vice-chairwoman Donna Gladman said yesterday.
"Wunta is a community festival and we want to give the community what they want but we also need them to show their support.
"We will give it our all to try and return to Liebig Street next year, but there are no guarantees, we aren't promising anything."
Ms Gladman said moving Friday night's celebration back to the street was not a negative reflection on the existing set-up at the Civic Green, but more a reflection of what the community wanted.
"Wunta is a different event to what it used to be. We think the current set-up on the green is fantastic and has been very successful," she said. "But there has been a sentiment in the community that it's not as good as it used to be when it was in the street.
"There are a lot of hurdles to overcome in terms of licensing and security, but we are prepared to give it a go, as long as the community supports us."
Ms Gladman said an action meeting would be held in the coming weeks to determine if there would be enough support to make the move back to the street viable.
She said higher costs associated with moving the fiesta back into the street would mean scrapping a national headline band.
"We are a small, volunteer-run, sponsor-supported event, so our resources are limited," she said.
"If we were to go back to the street, the costs would be much higher in terms of security and licensing, which would mean we would have to scrap having a multi-national band.
"But we are prepared to do that and go with a wholly local theme if that's what the community wants."
The fiesta's budget showed fixed income would be $46,613, expenses about $85,000. Income from the weekend would be about $35,800, based on last year's figures.


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