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DURANT, OK- A Durant church consider dropping their Boy Scout troop after the Boy Scouts of America made the historic ruling to allow openly gay youths into the program.
The First Baptist Church in Durant has sponsored the Boy Scouts since 1946 and Pastor James Robinson said since the National Council ruled to allow openly gay youths to join the troops, they are considering to withdraw their troop's charter.
Robinson said they've been talking about withdrawing sponsorship of their Boy Scout troop for over a year. He said they were prepared when the Boy Scouts of America ruled to allow openly gay youths to the program last May.
"We knew what we have to do, it didn't make it easy because of this history because of what we want to project as a place where people could come," he said.
Robinson said the BSA's decision goes against their church's teachings.
"Boy Scouts basically said that they believe that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle, which we disagree with," he said.
He said it could also pose as a liability issue if they keep sponsoring the program.
"Boy Scouts go on Boy Scout trips and if you have someone who took basically a stand of a different kind of sexual orientation if you please, it's gonna put boys in compromising situations that we don't believe we should ever ever do," he said.
Texomans are divided on the church's decision.
"It's fair. Because due to the fact is gays, like in the military, when they put them in the military has caused enough problems," said Harold Huebner.
"I do think that's wrong because it's a Christian facility so I do believe come as you are. Don't base someone off because of their sexuality," said Janeshia Lewis.
"We're gonna do what what we believe is right for our own conscience, for our own belief for us and for our situation," said Robinson.
Robinson said they are looking into creating an alternative program, but said it's a hard decision to sever their ties from an organization they're proudly been a part of for over 65 years.
"I regret this, and it's really not us leaving scouts. It's Boy Scouts of America leaving us, in my opinion," he said.
The church's Boy Scout committee will make the final decision whether to withdraw the charter in August. Robinson said any Boy Scouts sponsored by his church are welcome to join other troops in the area.
The resolution that allows openly gay youths to join the Boy Scouts of America will take effect January 1st.


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Monkey Wrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, will host a screening of the POV documentary "Better This World" on Wednesday, 8/24, at 8 pm. This film will air on KLRU Tuesday, 9/6, at 9 pm
Watch the full episode. See more POV.
The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramatic tale of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal. Better This World follows the radicalization of these boyhood friends from Midland, Texas, under the tutelage of revolutionary activist Brandon Darby. The results: eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism charges and a high-stakes entrapment defense hinging on the actions of a controversial FBI informant. Better This World goes to the heart of the war on terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.

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Dallas Braden said he'll play catch tomorrow and tentatively throw off flat ground in an attempt to get ready for a possible start Saturday against Cleveland.
Braden said a major problem in his progression is that he feels like he's starting from square one every time he wakes up. He's tried heating pads and anti-inflammatories at night before he goes to bed to help feel better once he starts his day, but the elbow has almost always been a little stiff. Bob Geren said if things go well for Braden tomorrow, he'll be the likely starter on Saturday.
Brett Anderson threw 40 pitches off a mound on Monday in Phoenix with hitters standing in the box but not swinging. The next step for Anderson will be to pitch again on Friday or Saturday (there seems to some confusion) with hitters possibly swinging.
Ryan Sweeney is back in right field for the A's, with Coco Crisp in center and Conor Jackson in left. Gabe Gross is the DH tonight as Jack Cust sits for a second straight day. Geren said it's a matchup thing with Kevin Millwood. Gross is 5-for-6 with a homer against Millwood, and Cust is just 4-for-23 with 12 K's. Geren said Cust will be in there tomorrow against Jake Arrieta.
BTW, an absolutely gorgeous night for baseball here at Camden Yards. About 75 degrees, slight breeze, relatively low humidity. Is this Baltimore or Walnut Creek?
The lineups
A's – Crisp CF, Barton 1B, Jackson LF, Suzuki C, Kouzmanoff 3B, Sweeney RF, Ellis 2B, Gross DH, Pennington SS, Sheets P.
O's – Patterson LF, Tejada 3B, Markakis RF, Wigginton 1B, Scott DH, Jones CF, Wieters C, Moore 2B, Izturis SS, Millwood P.


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Idaho growers are worried prolonged above-normal temperatures may have stressed or damaged certain crops, especially Russet Burbank potatoes and onion fields already weakened by iris yellow spot virus.
According to the National Weather Service, temperatures for the first 14 days of July averaged 8.6 degrees above normal in Boise, where daily highs exceeded 100 degrees from July 11-14. Temperatures during the first two weeks of the month averaged 8.5 degrees above normal in Twin Falls, 6.2 degrees above normal in Burley, 5 degrees above normal in Pocatello and 4.7 degrees above normal in Idaho Falls.
Clint Shock, director of Oregon State University's Malheur Experiment Station, said onion thrips transmitted a lot of iris yellow spot virus prior to the high temperatures.
"If the onions have water stress after they get iris yellow spot virus, our experience is it really hurts the yields," Shock said. "Irrigation management is really critical."
Complicating matters, Shock said, some onion growers in the upper region of the Owyhee Irrigation district, who don't have supplemental Snake River water, are running out of water.
Rhett Summers, who raises Russet Burbanks on Eastern Idaho's Rexburg Bench, said afternoon temperatures stayed at 85-90 degrees for three consecutive weeks.
"We're concerned about plant stress and plant shutdown as the plant goes into survival mode instead of production mode," Summers said. "We're concerned about reduced yield and reduced quality."
Randy Hardy, a fresh Russet Burbank grower in Oakley, said temperatures on his farm reached 101 on the afternoon of July 14. He's been equally concerned about early morning temperatures in the 70s.
"What makes Idaho potatoes as good as they are is we have heat, but we don't have extreme heat, and it cools off at night," Hardy said.
He believes high temperatures may have taken the "edge off" a crop that had been about 10 days ahead of schedule and set a large number of tubers.
"You may see some fields coming down earlier than normal," Hardy said, adding heat could contribute to rough skin, odd shape or high sugar levels at the ends of Burbanks.
Mountain Home grower Jeff Harper, whose farm reached 104 degrees on July 13, said he's having trouble keeping up with irrigation demand, though he's run his systems nonstop throughout the heat wave.
"Our irrigation systems were never designed to deliver the water we need," Harper said, adding he's updated one farm to deliver 30 percent more water, and potatoes there seem to be weathering the heat better.
Despite the heat, Wilder, Idaho, grower Doug Gross expects average yields, noting plant canopies closed before temperatures spiked, shading soil. He said the Boise Project has an adequate water outlook, and he's planted varieties that handle heat well.
"We got a great starts," Gross said.
Idaho sugarbeet and corn growers say the heat has been good for their crops.
Hardy believes the heat has prematurely ripened some of his irrigated wheat. In North Idaho, Potlatch grower Joe Anderson said dry land winter wheat already affected by a cold winter is "turning pretty fast" in the heat, and he expects a thin spring wheat crop unless ample moisture arrives soon.


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On the brink of losing to a crosstown rival, Skyview volleyball coach Sheila Kupferschmid pulled her squad aside and shared a message.
"Look guys, it is one set. Don't look at the big picture. It's one set at a time. If you can get into the fifth set, anything goes," Kupferschmid said between Games 3 and 4 of a Northern Lights Conference match Tuesday against Soldotna.
Skyview responded.
The Panthers came back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat the host Stars 22-25, 25-20, 21-25, 25-22 and 15-7, clinching the NLC Southern Division's No. 1 seed to the conference tournament and earning a regular-season sweep of the team that ended their season a year ago.
Skyview is now 7-2 in conference play heading into Saturday's regular-season finale against Wasilla.
SoHi, meanwhile, is 5-4 in the NLC and will be a No. 2 seed entering the playoffs regardless of the outcome of a 12:30 p.m. Saturday match at Kenai Central.
Stars coach Bruce King said the difference Tuesday was his unit's inability to handle the Panthers' serves, which SoHi also failed to do in a 3-0 loss to Skyview early this season.
"Nothing really changed and nothing was different from the last time we played them. We could not pass their serves," King said. "That was the primary problem we had tonight."
Naomi McMullen keyed Skyview on the serve, earning a team-best 24 service points.
Yet the Stars won two of the first three games, building a 19-11 lead in the opener before holding off a rally by the Panthers, who inched within 23-22 before losing the final two points.
The momentum shifted midway through Game 2, after SoHi built an 11-4 lead. Skyview used a 17-4 run to erase the deficit behind the attack of Amanda McDowell, who finished with 22 kills.
Skyview then built a 20-14 lead in Game 3, but fell apart when SoHi's Heidi Westerman stepped to the service line. Westerman, who finished with seven kills and 28 assists, sparked a 10-1 run with eight straight service points.
That's when Kupferschmid pulled her unit off the court, out of sight behind the bleachers, and urged the players to respond.
The result was a 25-22 win in a Game 4 in which there were nine ties and five lead changes.
Skyview then slammed the door on-serve in Game 5, building a 6-1 lead and riding it to a 15-7 margin.
Many of the Panthers' points in the fifth game — and the entire match — came off poor returns from SoHi's service-receive.
"In this game, if you can't pass serves, then you end up shoveling free balls over the net," King said. "If you shovel free balls over the net to Skyview, they are going to make you pay."
Marlee Cunningham finished with 17 kills for Skyview, while Holly Ramsell added 13.
That pair, along with McDowell, were active at the net all evening as the Panthers set up kill opportunities off SoHi's serve returns.
McDowell said the Panthers' simply needed to relax after losing the third game.
"We were all jumbled up and ahead of ourselves, and we just settled down and got focused, concentrated and figured it out," she said.
Meanwhile, the Stars open the postseason against the NLC Northern Division No. 3 squad.
SoHi defeated Skyview in the 2010 conference tournament after getting swept during the regular season, but must find a way to pass with more efficiency off the serve if it hopes to repeat that effort.
Kaillee Skjold had 14 kills and 10 blocks for SoHi, while Kylee Woodford posted 30 digs.
What held more value to King, however, was the style in which the Stars played. The team did not match the strong play that led it to second place in the prestigious Dimond Service Volleyball Tournament on Saturday. SoHi defeated Skyview in a best-of-three match in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
"What's frustrating is when we don't play our game. That was the difference tonight. Last weekend we passed so well and then we come into this match and we don't pass very well, and that's the difference," he said.


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Submission + - More fuel for Facebook censorship advocates in India (oneindia.in)
thodelu writes: Close on the heels of Friday's communal clashes in a town in India that were triggered by a Facebook post which contained morphed images apparently deriding a religious place of worship, there has been another incident. City police have removed images from another similar blog post citing 'cyber criminal' laws. There has been an ongoing effort in India to censor the web which would get more backing as a result of these events. Would we be seeing another Chinese wall?


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Greene working on plans to bring Stanley Cup to Grand Forks
The Stanley Cup will soon be coming back to Grand Forks.
Matt Greene, who won hockey's biggest prize with the Los Angeles Kings last month, is working on plans to bring the Cup to the city where he spent three years playing college hockey for UND.
The Cup will likely be in Grand Forks on Aug. 11 or 12. Final details are still being hammered out and will be announced at a later date.
Greene, a former UND captain who led UND to the 2005 national championship game, helped the Kings win the Stanley Cup for the second time in three years. Greene was an alternate captain on both of the Cup-winning teams.
Each member of a Cup-winning team gets to have one day with the prized trophy.
His second home
After the Kings won it in 2012, Greene brought it to his hometown of Grand Ledge, Mich. This time, he'll bring it to Grand Forks.
"It really didn't surprise my wife and I when he told us," Greene's father, Jim, said. "Two years ago, we had a fantastic time here in Grand Ledge. We had a ton of fun. The community got to share in the excitement. It was available at a couple of public events. We had a private party at our house where 400-plus people showed up. Everyone was happy. Everyone behaved well. It was great.
"Matt did that. Now, there's another community equally as special to him."
Greene has stayed closely connected to Grand Forks ever since he turned pro in 2005. He returns to town each summer to work out and see old friends.
Greene also has played in a summer charity golf tournament hosted by UND sociology professor Frank White. During the last NHL lockout, he drove to Houghton, Mich., to watch UND play a series against Michigan Tech.
"Matt learned a lot in those three years at UND," Jim said. "I think he feels tremendous loyalty to the community."
Greene will be the third former UND player to return to town with the Cup. Previously, Ed Belfour brought the Cup to Grand Forks after winning it with the Dallas Stars in 1999 and Mike Commodore did the same after winning it with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006.
Greene recently signed a four-year, $10 million deal to stay with the Kings.


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With 2014 just around the corner, the world of football will enter yet another year of mega transfer tussles.
In 2013, we have seen the likes of Gareth Bale move from Tottenham to Real Madrid, Radamel Falcao move from Atletico Madrid to Monaco and Mesut Ozil make an extraordinary move from Madrid to Arsenal.
But in the January and summer windows of 2014, which major superstars around the world will move on and complete switches to the biggest clubs on the planet?
Well, GMS will look at 10 of the biggest stars that could well be moving on next year.
Here's our top 10:
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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Every January when the third Monday of the month rolls around, experts say people get downright depressed.
Studies say today is the most depressing day of the year. Nobody has paid their Christmas bills, you probably have already broken your New Year's resolution and man, it's cold out.
However, it turns out nobody was really singing the blues today, not even those of us who had to get out of bed and go to work.
In fact, when 23 News went to see how people were feeling today, we received a surprisingly cheery response.
"It's a beautiful day. It's bright out. There's sunshine. It's a little cold, but this is Illinois and it's winter, I mean what would we expect?" said Guy Spinello of Rockford.
"This couldn't be the most depressing day of the year because it's Martin Luther King's birthday," said Christina Perez.
"The sun's out so I'm kinda having a pretty good day to tell you the truth. I'm eatin'," said Michael Gregory of Rockford.


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ExchangeIt is another option.
Disclaimer: I used to work there (but not on that product), and I still think that company is really cool.
No offense, but their marketing department needs to pull their heads out:
ExchangeIt! is the only groupware product on the market to simultaneously and transparently support the following clients: Microsoft® Outlook®, secure browser-based access over the Internet, and Ximian® Evolution(TM)*.
I highly doubt that in all the world, there is not another
Yup, I evaluate expensive software suites now and then, and if you have a "contact us" on the pricing page, it's a negative mark. If I am looking at e.g. 20 different packages, I'll only trial 3 maybe 4 of them. If you have too many negative marks, then you get binned early.
Go ask your HR department how they deal with CV's and job openings. Same process; you have to get the list to a managable size.
It's called LDAP. And we were using it for years before Active Directory...
Oh wait, Active Directory uses LDAP too.
Does Apple Computer count?
Would you care to enlighten us on what "full AD integration" means? Active directory is just an LDAP server user to most applications. That's a trivial feature to implement.
Not to mention the hundreds (thousands?) of programs that need Exchange.
Can you give some examples of applications that most firms would actually need? Also note that many of those applications exist because Exchange is deficient in areas.
The closest I have worked with a
We migrated the stafflist to LDAP, so the argument about the staff list not showing up when composing emails has been vanquished as well.
I think what people need to realize is that contact and scheduling systems are an amalgam of several networking protocols. With a pretty front end. I keep forgetting the pretty front end. In any case, and fool with enough time on his hands and a DB backend could build his own.
I think its funny that you do not know what features the alternatives lack, but you see those features as manatory for a viable alternative .
Microsoft takes, the communication protocol of the day and dumps it in Exchange, and writes the client side support into Outlook.
IM, VOIP, CRM, ERP, you-name-it, MS as Exchange/Outlook support for it.
The vast majority of s
None of the products provides full Outlook-to-Exchange feature fidelity in Outlook, but they all hit the basics of group calendar and scheduling, shared folders, and e-mail. The feature that companies are likely to miss most when using the servers we tested with Outlook is forms.Administrators also have the additional overhead of deploying a MAPI (Messaging API) connector to each client. With the exception of Bynari, all the vendors support remote packaged distribution of their connectors. With the Bynari offering, administrators will need to perform a few additional tasks to ensure that the connector installs with user- specific settings.
Ximian hasn't figured out the MAPI, they use WebDAV as their line protocol, I suspect. Could be wrong. Exchange supports WebDAV access.
Trying to reverse MAPI line protocol is insane. What you want to do is write a client-side connector, like all the vendors in the article. I'm working on one at openconnector.org [openconnector.org]
MAPI, btw, is a semi-documented standard. There are at least two books on it. But still, MS keeps tweaking it and doesn't release the changes, so we have to go back and reverse engineer those changes. In all its just a lot of coding, rather and reverse engineering.
With the exception of Scalix Server, all the products have prices lower than those of most enterprise groupware applications, with per-user costs in the range of $20 to $47. Exchange 2003, in contrast, has a per-user license cost of $67, while Scalix Server's price approaches $60 per user.
Surely if you're a big enough corporation to pony up the money for Outlook and want Exchange then the saving of $20-$47 per head is peanuts and it w
As such, what works for the reverse - people who don't (or can't) run Outlook in a company that runs Exchange?
Here's my situation: We run Exchange Server 5.5, *without* IMAP support. Believe me, I've begged for it, it's not happening.
I've tried Ximian/Novell's Exchange Connector, but it only works for Exchange 2000/2003. Our server is too old, and they don't plan to upgrade yet.
Anyone know of anything else that'll work? Right now I'm going in through the Java-riffic Outlook Web Access. I'd almost rather eat glass.
I'll give it a try - they specifically claim support for Exchange 5.5. Thanks.
Groupware Bad [jwz.org]
And I said, "Jesus Mother of Fuck, what are you thinking! Do not strap the 'Groupware' albatross around your neck! That's what killed Netscape, are you insane?" He looked at me like I'd just kicked his puppy.
Exchange4Linux is an open-protocol, open-source Exchange Server replacement. It's written in Python, and the Outlook connector, while also written in Python, is not for free, but reasonably priced (small quantity price is $50 IIRC). Everything, and I mean everything is stored in a PostgreSQL database. There is something very, very cool about being able to run arbitrary SQL queries on your todos, calendars, contacts and even emails. It brings a level of data integration together that sometimes makes me want to weep. Perfect example: Our customer service department has a rotating "on-call" person. They have a calendar in which they organize who's turn it is. I query the DB once a day to let my Asterisk server know who to redirect the call to. Totally seamless, and that's just a small small example.
Neuberger-Hughes [n-h.com], the company responsible for Exchange4Linux also does the whole turnkey solution for those who want someone to yell at but still want the peace of mind that having your data in open software can only provide.
I don't work for them, I am just a happy user of their software.
I've been running Communigate on my home system for years for myself and friends and it just works, with a small footprint and lots of features. Granted I have not run it in an enterprise environment, but I am familiar with Outlook and Exchange, and Communigate gives you what you need. Plus it can either integrate with or run its own LDAP directory, providing a lot of the same abilities as Exchange if it is run in a mostly MS or even non-MS shop.
The interface is entirely web-based, it runs on all the major
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Serena Williams Wins 17th Grand Slam Title
Serena Williams handled her task of defeating Victoria Azarenka on Sunday, making it her 17th Grand Slam Title and fifth U.S. Open title. These stats are only matched by one other person; Roger Federer.
Williams won in three straight sets: 7-5, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1. It was a long, hard-fought battle between the two tennis stars, lasting 2 hours, 45 minutes as Williams (31) became the oldest woman to win the Open. This also marks the longest women's singles Open final since 1980 when the time started to be recorded.
Following her loss, Azarenka had encouraging words for the victor, "I think it's incredible what she's achieving. She's playing definitely her best tennis right now. That's just really exciting for me to be able to compete against that type of player who can be the greatest of all-time.''
Serena won her first open back in 1999, making her the first player in tennis history to win a U.S. Open 14 years after winning their first.


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NASHVILLE | In all corners, courtyards, nooks, gazebos, porticos and river boat docks around the vast Opryland hotel this week, there seemed to be consensus that the Rays have to trade one of their starters.
NASHVILLE | In all corners, courtyards, nooks, gazebos, porticos and river boat docks around the vast Opryland hotel this week, there seemed to be consensus that the Rays have to trade one of their starters.
Except in the Rays' sixth-floor meeting-room suite.
They head home from the winter meetings with all eight potential starters intact, though with a much better idea of what the return would be if they do make a deal.
"At the very least we have more clarity," executive vice president Andrew Friedman said Thursday afternoon. "I wouldn't say anything is imminent."
The possibility that got the most buzz during the meetings was sending veteran James Shields to the Royals for outfielder Wil Myers, one of the game's top prospects.
Word from the Kansas City media was that the Royals would make that deal, but that the Rays wanted more than Myers. (Friedman, of course, wouldn't say.)
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound right-handed masher was consensus minor-leaguer player of the year after hitting a combined .314 with 37 homers, 109 RBIs and a .987 on-base plus slugging percentage between Double- and Triple-A.
The Royals are also planning to re-group, spending a few days, or even weeks, assessing different possibilities, whether with Shields, other Rays pitchers such as Jeremy Hellickson or Wade Davis, or elsewhere.
The Rays may be wise to wait, too. Not only to see what else, or more, the Royals have to say, but to hear from the other teams that failed to find a starter elsewhere.
Specifically, the teams that miss out on top free agent Zack Greinke. Both acknowledged frontrunners, the Rangers (who could offer another promising young hitter in Mike Olt) and Dodgers, have both expressed interest in Shields.
Also, teams such as the D-backs who the Rays were talking to, potentially as part of larger — and thus far not consummated — deals centering on Justin Upton.
While Shields likely would bring the Rays the biggest return — and have the biggest impact on the roster given his $10.25 million salary — the Rays have other, though obviously lesser, trade options.
Hellickson. Only 25, with two seasons of double-digit wins and a career 2.96 ERA as a starter, he could be a future ace, and he's cheap, making about $500,000 this coming season before becoming arbitration eligible.
But there may be some question as he didn't get through six innings in 14 of 31 starts, and another issue is agent Scott Boras, meaning it's unlikely he'd do a long term deal before hitting free agency in 2017.
"I don't think anyone would trade Helly based on his future and abilities," Boras said. "I think they may be looking at it as a team component rather. And certainly he's the kind of player that's attractive and will bring a lot of things. I think you have to be in the position of a club official in determining what's best for them. He's certainly a guy that I'd like to have on my team. And I do as a matter of fact."
Davis. After spending 2012 in the bullpen, Davis seems to be ticketed for a return to the rotation. So either the Rays would have to trade one of the others to make room, or just deal Davis, who is signed for this season ($2.8 million) and next ($4.8 million), with options at $7 million, $8 million and $10 million over the next three.
"Wade's desire is to stay in Tampa and be in the starting rotation," agent B.B. Abbott said. "That being said, he actually learned from being in the bullpen last year and he believes it will make him a better pitcher in the future. Whatever happens, Wade will be the consummate professional and work hard in whatever role he has with the club, as he always has."
Jeff Niemann. Had Niemann not a) broken his leg in May and b) hurt his shoulder upon his September return, he may well have been the pitcher they were most looking to trade. Especially as arbitration pushes his salary toward $3 million.
Niemann says he is feeling good and will be fully ready for spring training. So the Rays could just decide to wait, hope he pitches well in the spring, and deal him then.
"Things," Friedman said, "have definitely narrowed down for us."


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Huskies place six in Top 10 at middle school ski meet
The Homer Middle School Huskies placed three girls and three boys in the top 10 during the Kenai Peninsula Borough Middle School Ski Meet held Saturday at the Kenai Golf Course. The meet was hosted by Kenai Middle School. The meet consisted of a 3k skate race followed by a 3k classic race.
The top female skier from Homer is seventh-grader Mia Alexson, who took second. Another seventh-grader, Charles Rohr, took top honors for the Homer boys, placing fourth.
"This team had a terrific season, all of them improving and all of them having a blast," according to a press release.
Homer Middle School Girls Results: Seventh- and eighth-graders
Mia Alexson 24:27 2nd place; Sarah Wolf 25:44 4th place; Audrey Russell 27:48 6th place; Desiree Cleary 28:52 11th place; Haley Knott 29:3 12th place; Audrey Rosencrans 30:47 16th place; Samantha Jacobson 32:15 19th place; Libby Fabich 32:21 20th place; and Mystique Ross 33:31 21st place
Boys: Seventh- and eighth-graders
Charles Rohr 22:21 4th place; Tadgh Sholz 25:02 7th place; Denver Waclawski 25:31 10th place; Landon Bunting 26:06 12th place; Jacob Davis 26:48 13th place; Joshua Wisner 27:02 14th place; and Jacob Marquardt 27:22 15th place; Hoxie Parks 27:34 18th place; Ben Kettle 28:36 20th place; Zane Boyer 29:49 23rd place; Jay-Mason 30:45 24th place; Eric Super 35:23 32nd place; Hyram Dory 40:12 36th place; and Sage Elkington-Wood 41:42 39th place.
Sixth Graders
Katia Holmes 26:53 1st place; Caleb Rauch 26:28 2nd place
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It seems whenever I read an article about something new and great discovered by a telescope, it mentions one of the orbiting sattelite type telescopes.
I can't remember when I last heard from a ground based one, except for routine things as continuously sweeping certain areas of the sky for anomalies, like a space surveillance camera.
Now I don't follow astronomy closely, so my viewpoint is based on what of it gets through to general science news sites.
But are huge investments in ground based telescopes like this still worth it compared to the alternative?
Most optical observations are done by the ground-based ones. They're more available (there's more of them than there are of the Hubble), flexible, and they're enormous.
What recent stories are you talking about? Among big media ones, I recall some supernova stuff (ground-based telescopes), dark matter stuff in Abell 520 (ground-based Canada France Hawaii telescope and Hubble), and of course planet stuff (ground-based telescopes). Of stuff that doesn't make it to the media, the bulk of optical observing comes from the ground-based ones.
For the same price as a large space-based telescope, you can build a much larger ground-based one. You have to contend with atmosphere (which is why they're always on mountains), but we're getting better at dealing with that. Space-based telescopes make a trade-off: less light gathering as they're smaller, but potentially higher resolution/clarity as you don't have to deal with the atmosphere.
Non-optical telescopes are different though. The atmosphere is quite opaque to much of the non-optical spectrum; far-infrared, X-Ray, and Gamma Ray instruments do best outside the atmosphere. The microwave observatories are out there as well, though I think that's more to avoid noise than atmospheric opacity, as the CMB is very weak.
I know next to nothing on this matter, but recall having read that linking ground-based telescopes allows for much better observations/resolutions based on the distance between these telescopes.
If this is the case wouldn't 2+ telescopes in space be able to out-perform any ground-based installations, simply due to there being more, well, space?
You're talking about interferometry - you improve your resolution at the expense of field of view, but you don't get any more light gathering power. So it's good if you want to look at very small things, but not so good if you want to look at very dim things, or a lot of the sky at the same time.
Very long baseline interferometry is done with radio telescopes on Earth (and soon in space) that might be on different sides of the planet. You can do this because someone figured out how to do interferometry at
Thanks! Interesting stuff - went googling
I normally consider myself a somewhat smart cookie, but this topic makes my head spin a bit too much. Hats off to you for understanding (some of?) it
Here's the key (that everyone who talks about it seems to forget to mention): interference is a Fourier transform.
Interferometry is nothing more than letting two (or more) sources interfere with each other, measuring the interference pattern (i.e. the Fourier spectrum), inverse Fourier transforming, and there's your image.
The tricky bits come when you do things like synthetic aperture radar (a moving receiver instead of two receivers), or VLBI (the interference is virtual, inside a computer).
Now, if you wan
You have to contend with atmosphere (which is why they're always on mountains)
... except for the ones that are not. Which are principally radio telescopes.
To extend your discussion
It seems whenever I read an article about something new and great discovered by a telescope, it mentions one of the orbiting sattelite type telescopes.
Putting a telescope in space usually requires some governmental involvement (resources, rockets and/or funding). If there are any issues with a space deployed telescope then you're going to need to perform maintenance via spacewalk (e.g., Hubble).
The results of a space telescope are usually better, but they are smaller, much more expensive and need to get past a lot of obstacles.
With the advances in both active (compensation for deformation of the mirror due to gravity and it's position) and adaptive (compensation of the mirror to negate the effects of atmospheric distortion) optics ground based telescopes can come close to if not equal what can be done in space. When you couple the fact that you can build much larger apertures on the ground for significant less money than what is launched into space I wonder why they are still fooling around with space based telescopes.
Hubble has a 2.4M mirror and cost about 1.5B at launch and over it's lifetime a total of about 6B when you figure in all of the shuttle trips for maintenance and the ground support costs. The 10M Keck telescopes cost 94M each when they were built. The James Webb telescope has become a CF of huge proportions with an estimated cost of close to 8.8B through 2018.
Don't get me totally wrong here. Some magnificent discoveries were made with Hubble along with Swift and Chandra. We do need some space based telescopes but the cost of space base instruments is enormous compared to ground based and there are significant advancements that are being made with sensors and other ground base instruments that are pushing the need for space base instruments further out of the picture.
Active and adaptive optics help compensate for the factors you mention. But they can't do a thing for wavelengths that don't make it through the atmosphere (UV, deep IR, and so on), and those wavelengths are critical for many modern paths of inquiry.
You're absolutely right about the huge expense of space-based platforms, though, to my ongoing dismay. Growing up in the late 60's/early 70's, I expected so very much more of our near future in space.
Some reasons for a space-based telescope:
* Elimination of atmospheric absorption and distortion. In some wavelengths, the Earth's atmosphere absorbs near 100%, so going to space is the only option there.
* Very long exposure times. Earth-based exposures are limited by how long the night is.
* Hard to modify if you have a great new instrument you want to put at the receiver end
* Very expensive
Given those circumstances, we end up with lots of big telescopes on the ground, and a few in space for task
This is largely an illusion. Most space-based telescopes are run either by NASA or ESA, and both of those organizations have very large public relations offices. These offices issue a lot of press releases and put a lot of effort into getting results from their satellites into the media. The Space Telescope Science Institute was one of the pioneers of this approach to popularizing astronomy, and they were very successful at it. Ground-based observatories tend not to have big public outreach budgets, and usually do not have large numbers of people dedicated to getting their results into the media, so we do not see their results on the front pages of the New York Times or the Economist as often.
Space- and ground-based observatories generally do very different things and complement each other instead of compete with each other. For example, I have used ground-based observatories to take spectra of very faint sources and combined them with X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical observations from Swift and Hubble. The science that comes out of these observations would be impossible without observatories both on the ground and in orbit.
and only if, it's completed before the (larger) Thirty Meter Telescope [tmt.org] in Hawaii, and the (larger still) European Extremely Large Telescope [eso.org] in Chile.
And even if it is completed before TMT and E-ELT, as soon as either of them is completed, it'll lose the title.
Did I mention both TMT and E-ELT are also targeting completion by the end of the decade? Yup.
So, good luck, GMT!
(And it goes without saying that non-optical radio telescopes, which use dishes instead of mirrors, have long been much larger. And that even submillimeter telescopes, which also use dishes, are working on staying larger, with the 25-meter CCAT [ccatobservatory.org] planned for Chile later this decade.)
Yep, of course. In fact, the telescope I run at my job had "the largest monolithic mirror ever made" from 1999 until 2004 (when Roger Angel started cranking out 8.4-meter ones). Wasn't considered the largest telescope, of course, because segmented 10-meter mirrors of the Keck twins (1992 and 1996) next door to it were larger overall, just segmented.
That said, using the phrase "world's largest" in the headline before the first concrete pour invites comments like mine.
And these telescopes will be dwarved by future ones. One hundred years from now, we'll probably having giant space telescopes working as a single interferometer with extremely long baselines orbiting the sun beyond jupiter orbit capable of imaging extraterrestial planets.
There's the Very Large Optical Telescope [wikipedia.org], then there's the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope [wikipedia.org] and the European Extremely Large Telescope [wikipedia.org]. What's next? Ridiculously Large Telescope?
They've gone to PLAID! (Particularly Large Array of Independent Dishes)
Maybe they are taking after the USB committee. What are you supposed to do after you give the first revision a name that can't be topped, like Full Speed. My first USB hub was slower than I intended because I thought Full Speed was faster than Hi-Speed.
Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock
I think you'll find that the people blasting rock aren't astronomers...
when i actually payed a bunch of people to pay another bunch of people to build it.
In addition to the vast distance -- the very closest star to earth is four light-years away
I guess that's what you get for sleeping during the daytime and working at night.
And here's me thinking they were going to blow stuff up at random in the hope a telescope would come out of it.
This is hardly the largest telescope being built. At seven 8.5m mirrors, it is equivalent of a 22m telescope. Just last week I was using the Parkes 64m telescope which was build 50 years ago (and it is hardly the biggest telescope in the world).
Oh did they mean largest optical telescope....
Still better than blowing off the bottom side.
I have a question: how come no one has considered using a spot on Australia's Nullarbor Plain to build a giant telescope? Like Chile's Atacama Desert, the Nullarbor Plain has just about no rain and has effective freedom from light pollution, so it would be perfect for a large optical telescope installation.
Wasn't a better approach to building telescopes to have multiple smaller ones working in conjunction, spread out across acres of land (or more) ?
There are two factors that help a large telescope for astronomical observations, resolution and light gathering. Combining smaller scopes (through some process like interferometry) gets you better resolution. There's a limit to what you can do effectively, though and a lot of gear in between has to stay aligned properly to work it. My gut feel for the engineering of it says that the probability of something failing would go up with the square of the number of scopes. For the other factor, the light gat
There has been opposition to building telescopes on some mountains.
http://mauisierraclub.org/?p=57 [mauisierraclub.org]
http://www.mountgraham.org/content/suit-launched-save-mount-graham-red-squirrel-university-arizona-telescope-project [mountgraham.org]
Extended and ongoing environmental impact studies are part and parcel of the final process of choosing a telescope site these days. We do try to be very careful to be considerate when building these facilities & work with teams of local environmental biologists. Also, in most cases nowadays, one of the preconditions for site use is that the site is returned to its original pristine state once the telescope in finally removed again.
There is, however, sometimes still local opposition. E.g. in Hawaii, this is usually on native cultural grounds, & nowadays, an effort is made to involve local native cultural leaders (in the early days, some culturally insensitive decisions were made, and both sides of the debate are aware of this).
In the case of Chile, such facilities are often welcomed, as they're much less damaging than the extensive mining operations already in existence there, but still provide good engineering and other technical jobs for Chileans. Plus, many Chileans are proud that their country can boast some of the finest such research facilities in the world.
(Full disclosure: I am both a professional observatory staff astronomer and a longtime member of Greenpeace).
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A Juneteenth Parade and Celebration has been set for Saturday, June 15 in downtown Mount Vernon. The event will begin at 11 a.m. with a parade. Immediately following the parade,
free hot dogs, chips, sodas, and watermelon will be served on the square. A live DJ will provide music for the event. For more information and details on how to join the parade, see the June 13 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Monday, April 10, 2006
More Officially Licensed College Football Homes
Well, we here at the M Zone have come up with a few more designs they should consider.
First up is The Sparty, a 1,400 square foot house directly in the shadow of the larger home just down the street.
Next we have the The Bowden, a charming FSU-inspired colonial, complete with field goal posts for practicing those pesky game-winning kicks.
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DAGGUMIT,how dare you attack all that is sacred in college football. By the way, I do believe that is Sebastian Janikowski peeking out the bedroom window, he does have one year of eligibility left.
- April 10, 2006 10:11 AM
- paulwesterdawg said...
Great stuff.
I proposed a GT version that has a backyard reminiscent of the Forest Moon of Endor.
- April 10, 2006 12:21 PM
- Yost said...
That's great, Paul. And thanks for Ye Old Linkage.
- April 10, 2006 1:45 PM
- djej1 said...
I love the FSU house.
- April 10, 2006 5:55 PM
- Yost said...
Thanks, D.
- April 10, 2006 6:01 PM
I am forwarding this to my beloved brethren at War Chant so they are aware that you are spreading the evils of the the wide right myth.
May their traffic and posts help you see the light that all is Bowden.
- April 11, 2006 7:32 AM
- Yost said...
LOL, Slim. Show us the light, baby!
- April 11, 2006 12:00 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Awesome. I guess the medioctrity of MSU is just further indicated by the complete lack of any response to the truly ouch-worthy Sparty."
And you forgot to mention that The Bowden has closets with built in shoe racks for all the free shoes.
- April 11, 2006 2:07 PM
My dear Yost,
I would never dream of addressing you as YO, In the future please refrain from calling me Slim.
As for you Mr. Baggypants, may the starch in your speedos chap your family nuggets.
- April 11, 2006 3:39 PM
- Yost said...
Dearest Mr. Slimrod,
- April 11, 2006 3:40 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
That's why I go commando.
- April 11, 2006 3:48 PM
You are indeed a true gentleman.
Unlike the reptilian sub-creatures,(Gators) we are subjected to on a daily basis here in Florida. Appalachia my friend has nothing on Gainsville.
- April 11, 2006 4:04 PM
Hey.....I thought that house with the goal post was Mike Lantry's....
- April 12, 2006 8:09 AM
- IC said...
Nope. Matt Frantz's.
- April 12, 2006 8:38 AM
Didnt Matt Franz kick a game winner against MEECHIGAN in the famous "EARLE HEADBAND" bowl in '87?
- April 12, 2006 11:04 AM
- IC said...
You're right.
For almost 20 years I've only remembered Frantz for missing badly on a field goal attempt at the end of Michigan's 1986 win in Columbus. After reading your comment I did some research and learned that Frantz put tOSU ahead 23-20 (the final score) with over five minutes left in the 1987 game.
- April 12, 2006 12:00 PM


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior goalie Genny Ladiges finished with 46 saves, one shy of her season high, but No. 10 Dartmouth's 52 shots on goal were enough to give the Big Green a 6-0 win Saturday afternoon at Ingalls Rink. Ladiges has now made 40 or more saves five times in the last seven games, and seven times overall this year. Defenseman Sasha Nanji had a four-point day for the Big Green (two goals, two assists).
While the end result was the same -- a loss -- on Saturday afternoon the Bulldogs got off to a much better start than they did Friday night against No. 9 Harvard. It took Yale 10 minutes to get its first shot on goal against the Crimson, but on Saturday the Bulldogs' first shot came within the first 20 seconds and there were several quality chances for the Blue early on.
By the end of the first period the Bulldogs had more shots on goal (10) than they had all game Friday (nine). But Dartmouth took full advantage of its first good chance, as forward Kelly Foley knocked in a goal at the 1:43 mark.
The Bulldogs settled down after that, killing off a pair of penalties that included one right after junior defenseman Jamie Gray and sophomore forward Jackie Raines nearly connected for a goal, with Raines winding up called for goaltender interference after she collided with Dartmouth's Lindsay Holdcroft.
Holdcroft was shaken up on that play but remained in the game and made one of her best saves of the day two minutes later, when senior forward Lauren Davis set up sophomore forward Paige Decker for a backhander right in front. A minute later, freshman forward Stephanie Mock sent a rebound try just wide. A pair of great saves by Ladiges in the final two minutes kept Dartmouth's lead at one heading into the first intermission.
Yale had a brief 5-on-3 early in the second, but a slap shot by senior forward Aleca Hughes went wide. Dartmouth wound up getting a short-handed chance for Nanji that was denied by Ladiges. The Big Green would tack on goals by defenseman Moira Scanlon and Foley, who scored with only .5 seconds on the clock in the second to get Dartmouth's lead to 3-0.
A video review confirmed Dartmouth's fourth goal of the game, as Nanji's wrister hit inside the goal before bouncing out at 12:27 of the third. A short-handed goal by forward Reagan Fischer with 4:51 to play made it 5-0, and Nanji added one with 30.9 seconds left for the 6-0 final.
The Bulldogs finished a perfect 5-for-5 on the penalty kill, and have now killed off nine straight successfully.
Yale travels to Clarkson and St. Lawrence next weekend.
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Rafa Benitez says Fernando Torres can rediscover form and fans will be onside
Rafael Benitez insists he can help Fernando Torres rediscover his form and he has a message for the Chelsea fans.
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Benitez got a frosty reception from sections of the club's support when he made his first appearance in the dug-out against Manchester City on Sunday.
But he is adamant that he can revive the fortunes of the club and Torres - and get the fans back on side in the process.
"I understand the fans and how they feel," he told Sky Sports News. "I will try to prove I am here for the right reasons and I want to win.
"Imagine if you are a player who is struggling. I would say 'Stay focused, try to do your job, don't get distracted, concentrate on your football'."
"For me it is the same, I want to concentrate on coaching, improve the players and bring the fans back.
"I understand the feeling of the fans because of my time at Liverpool. We had a rivalry which was quite difficult.
Benitez' second game in charge will be a west London derby with Fulham on Wednesday night and he is expecting a difficult evening.
"I know a derby's a derby," Benitez said. "Maybe it's not the biggest rivalry for us, but we have a lot of respect for Fulham."
He insists he can bring the best out of Fernando Torres, who he turned into a £50m player at Liverpool - but says it is not just up to him.
"Torres can come back, but how far? I don't know. It depends on the team. Yes he can improve, I am sure he can improve, but it depends on the team to help him.
"I am not under pressure to pick him because Daniel Sturridge is still injured so I don't have many options."
But Benitez acknowledged the 28-year-old is not the same player he had been before joining Chelsea and needed to improve physically to stand a chance of recapturing his glory days.
"He's not exactly the same player now, because he was at maximum level at this time [at Liverpool]."
Torres also has to help himself, as does Benitez, following a run of just 19 goals in 88 games for the European champions.
"The first thing is to give him some confidence, instructions as to how he can do things in a different way, improve him a little bit physically," said Benitez, who wants Torres's team-mates to create more chances for the striker and win the ball back more quickly in defence.
"You need to be stronger in defence, regain the ball easier and then you can create your own chances. That will benefit Torres.
"Players with mobility, quality... we can improve all these things."


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March on Washington Begins at Georgetown Law
Photo 1/3: Van White (L'89) organized marchers to meet outside McDonough Hall to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.
Photo 2/3: Dean William M. Treanor speaks outside of McDonough Hall.
Photo 3/3: Van White (L'89) organized marchers to meet at First Street and New Jersey Avenue. A day earlier, White convened a conference on civil rights that tackled such issues as racial profiling, voting rights and the achievement gap in education.
August 28, 2013 — They came from New Orleans, Detroit and Indianapolis. Hundreds came to walk and to sing, to commemorate a watershed moment in American history — the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
They came to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a speech he gave at the Lincoln Memorial that day — and to hear another speech, this one by the nation's first African American president, Barack Obama. They came to celebrate the dream.
And because a Georgetown Law alumnus, Van White (L'89), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, had a dream of his own, they met at the Georgetown Law campus. White organized marchers to meet at First Street and New Jersey Avenue outside McDonough Hall the morning of August 28. A day earlier, White convened a conference on civil rights that tackled such issues as racial profiling, voting rights and the achievement gap in education.
Connecting the 1963 event with current issues provides a "substantive path forward — rather than just a path to the Mall," White said.
White invited veterans of the 1963 March on Washington to lead the crowd. But before stepping off at 9 a.m., they listened to the national anthem and heard Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor offer brief remarks:
"Our motto is 'Law is but the means, justice is the end,'" Treanor said. "Thank you to Van White for organizing this. And thank you all. Your presence makes this day possible. Thanks for your dedication to the cause of justice and equality."
Shortly before the walk began, Shirley Washington, who marched in 1963, described how she felt 50 years ago. "I was in 11th grade," she said, "but I knew it was a big deal."
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tax-delinquent properties in the city of Philadelphia have crippled the tax base, eroded the equity of thousands of homeowners and starved city government and school district of badly needed funds, a Philadelphia newspaper said.
The newspaper said a yearlong Inquirer/PlanPhilly investigation of the tax enforcement system found that delinquency depresses the overall property tax base by at least $9.5 billion, almost 10 percent of Philadelphia's $98.5 billion in taxable real estate.
The delinquent properties lower the worth of neighboring homes by an average of 22.8 percent, and few neighborhoods are untouched — in fact, 96 percent of all single-family homes in the city have lost .value because of nearby delinquents, the paper said.
Eliminating such delinquencies could increase the tax base by almost $300 million a year, the paper said.
And while some of the properties are owned by low-income homeowners unable to pay their bills, at least 59 percent of all delinquent real estate in Philadelphia is owned by landlords, speculators and investors who don't live on-site, the paper said.
Other large U .S. cities, on average, collect 95 percent of what they are owed in property taxes the same year those taxes are due, and the average collection rate climbs to 99 percent in later years with enforcement measures that can include auctioning off delinquent properties, the paper said.
Philadelphia' collection rate has come in well below those rates, averaging 85.6 percent annually since Nutter took office, 10 points below the average rate of the 20 largest cities over the same period.
Despite such problems, the problem has received little sustained attention over the last few decades, and sporadic crackdowns on tax dodgers have had little lasting effect.
But with taxes scheduled to go up for most homeowners under this year's transition to a new assessment system, the many delinquent homeowners has become a political issue for council members and Mayor Michael Nutter, who last month vowed a $40 million investment in enforcement over the next five years. He predicted that the effort would yield annual collections of $260 million over the next five years.
Nutter, who declined to talk to the newspaper for Sunday's story, said last month the problem in Philadelphia is that too many property owners pay other taxes but not the city and school district.
"They pay the federal government. They pay the state government. They pay the phone company. They pay a whole lot of folks, but they're not paying us, and we're not going to stand for it anymore," he said.


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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James Holmes had warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts.
Court documents made public Thursday revealed Dr. Lynne Fenton also told a campus police officer in June that Holmes had threatened and intimidated her.
Her blunt warning came more than a month before the July 20 attack at a movie theater that killed 12 people and injured 70. Holmes had been a student in the university's PhD neuroscience program but withdrew about six weeks before the shootings after failing an important test.
Campus police officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according one of the documents, a search warrant affidavit.
''Dr. Fenton advised that through her contact with James Holmes she was reporting, per her requirement, his danger to the public due to homicidal statements he had made,'' the affidavit said.
Whitten added that Fenton said she began to receive threatening text messages from Holmes after he stopped seeing her for counseling, the documents said.
It was not clear whether Fenton's concerns about Holmes reached other university officials. Whitten told investigators she deactivated Holmes' access card after hearing from Fenton, but the affidavit did not say what other action she took.
Neither Whitten nor Fenton immediately responded to phone messages Friday.
The university released a statement Friday saying the documents supported its assertions in August that Holmes' access card was deactivated when he quit a doctoral program but that he was not banned from campus.
The statement did not address whether the university took any steps in response to Fenton's warning that he was a threat to the public.
It also did not directly address the difference between the officer's statement that she deactivated Holmes' access card because of Fenton's concerns and the university's statement that the card was deactivated because Holmes had left the school.
University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said she could not elaborate on the statement because of a judge's gag order and because the school did not want to jeopardize the prosecution of Holmes.
Nicholus Palmer, an attorney for the widow of one of those slain in the attack, said it is still unclear how much school officials knew about Holmes before the shootings.
''But from what's come out, there's clearly knowledge that this guy was dangerous,'' he said. Palmer's client is suing the university and Fenton.
'We think we did everything that we should have done.'Don Elliman, Chancellor of University of Colorado, Denver
The indication that a psychiatrist had called Holmes a danger to the public gave momentum to Democratic state lawmakers' plans to introduce legislation to further restrict mentally ill people from gun purchases. State Representative Beth McCann initially cited the information Thursday as a reason she would introduce a bill as soon as Friday, but quickly backed off and said no date has been set.
The theater massacre has inspired a new state ban on large-capacity firearm magazines.
In the days after the attack, university officials released little information about Holmes or how it responded to concerns about him. University officials cited both a gag order in the criminal case and US privacy laws.
''To the best of our knowledge at this point, we think we did everything that we should have done,'' university chancellor Don Elliman said three days after the attack.
Campus police also said they never had contact with Holmes. University officials acknowledged a criminal background check had been run on Holmes, but the person who requested the background check has not been publicly identified.
The documents released Thursday were previously sealed, but the new judge overseeing the case ordered them released after requests from news organizations.
District Judge Carlos Samour took over this week after the previous judge, who had sealed the documents, removed himself. Judge William Sylvester handed off to Samour on Monday, saying the case would take up so much time that he could not carry out his duties as chief judge of a four-county district.
Defense lawyers revealed last week that Holmes had offered to plead guilty, but prosecutors rejected the offer and announced Monday they would seek the death penalty.
The newly released records also showed that police collected more than 100 items of evidence from Holmes' apartment, including 50 cans and bottles of beer, a Batman mask, paper shooting targets, and prescription medications to treat anxiety and depression. His attorneys have said he is mentally ill.


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India: New Program for Rural Women With AIDS Highly Effective
June 24, 2013
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing researchers reported that an intervention delivered by lay women trained as accredited social health activists (ASHA) was successful in improving antiretroviral therapy (ART), immune-cell counts, and nutrition levels among HIV-infected women in rural India. The ASHA-LIFE (AL) program supplied counseling to HIV-infected women and assisted them in obtaining healthcare and treatment. Barriers to care for rural, HIV-infected Indian women included stigma, transportation difficulties, and financial constraints.
The study randomly selected HIV-infected women in an Indian state, Andra Pradesh, to be part of either a six-month AL intervention or a control group. Both AL and control groups participated in six education sessions to learn about HIV/AIDS, dealing with the illness, adhering to ART, and overcoming barriers to treatment. Broader topics covered in the intervention included family care, nutrition, and life-skills. ASHA visited the women in the AL group to identify and overcome barriers to accessing ART and treatment and to supply high-protein foods. The control group received standard-protein foods and did not receive ASHA visits or support.
Adey Nyamathi, distinguished professor and associate dean of international research and scholarly studies at UCLA School of Nursing, stated the AL group had better ART adherence, higher CD4 T-cell levels, less "internalized stigma" and depression, and increases in body, muscle, and fat mass in comparison to the control group.
The full report, "Impact of Asha Intervention on Stigma Among Rural Indian Women With AIDS," was published online in the Western Journal of Nursing Research (2013; doi: 10.1177/0193945913482050).
The full report, "Impact of an Asha Intervention on Depressive Symptoms Among Rural Women Living With AIDS in India: Comparison of the Asha-Life and Usual Care Program," was published online in the journal AIDS Education and Prevention (2012; doi: 10.1521/aeap.2012.24.3.280).
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Hi All,
i am trying to add some check boxes under a webpage e.g. Cars, Trucks, Toyota, Honda, when the user clicks Car check box and click replot button then the page should be populated with Cars by all vendors, but when the user selects Car and Honda check boxes, and clicks re-plot button the page should be populated with cars made by Honda Only.
coding for individual check boxes is done but for multiple selection criteria i have no idea, like Cars and Honda example, please guide.
code for checkbox is as follow:
else if (plotOptChbox[10].checked == true && markers.get('Managed_By') == 'Honda') {
filterMarker[fmCnt] = markers;
the above is only for one checkbox, all others are like same with different values comparison.


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It was mid summer; my girlfriend Tammy came over to visit. She wanted to see my new apartment and help me unpack. She was more excited then I was.
Time ticked away and we were almost done with getting my place together. Someone knocked on the door and Tammy ran to answer it. It was Rob and Jim our boyfriends. I jumped up ran over to Jim and gave him a hug and kissed him. God it felt so good to taste his sweetness on my lips. I was still holding Jim. Rob came over and pinched me on the ass.
"Hey there sexy," he said
"Hey Rob," I said
Tammy looked at him with an angry face.
"Rob, what's up with you, no kiss or hugs for me?"
She picked up her stuff and headed to the door. I turned around and asked her where she was going, she turned to me and said, "I'm going home." She opened the door and left. We heard the car start up and she was off.
I felt bad, but she knew that Rob and I had something special together. Yes, he was my first love. He had taken my virginity away long ago. So there is that special bond between us. My boyfriend Jim knew this and it had not bothered him about the way Rob was towards me for he knew that I loved him.
Time ticked away, Tammy never came back or called.
We sat around my apartment laughed and told stories, and then my boyfriend came closer to me and started kissing me hard. I felt a little tense because I could see that Rob was watching us. Jim leaned over and said in my ear.
"I know how hot you get when you are being watched" I looked at him and said,
"You know what I am thinking?"
"No baby?" he spoke
I want to have Rob and you tonight and together.
Jim looked startled.
I whispered to Jim, if you don't want to I do understand but I have to admit to you that I was getting excited thinking about all the possibilities for pleasure I could have with Rob and you in my bed.
"No, its ok, I just feel a bit weird. It might be horrible, or it might turn into a real jealousy thing, or it might be really, really hot and wonderful."
He sighed again and said: "I don't know. We've never really done this before But, I love you, and I want you to enjoy sex, so long as we are exploring together. You are mine, and I intend for you to stay mine. Just as long as he knows this, and accepts it, and you know who your man is. It actually does turn me on to think of watching you with another man."
"Ok!" I smiled up at him and kissed him lovingly, "I'll go ask him." He laughed.
I went up to Rob and asked and at first he said, "No," I can't hurt Mojha. Which I could understand and then he said, oh hell, be stupid to turn down a threesome with you.
He grabbed my ass firmly through my jeans and pulling me against his hard cock, tilting my hips so that he brushed my very warm, engorged, and well-lubricated clit. I gasped and kissed him back harder.
I went over to my large bed. The men were quick to follow. I faced the two of them and held out my hand. "C'mere boys," I said in a sexy but seductive voice.
"Now, since you seem to enjoy being a voyeur, boyfriend of mine, I am going to let you watch Rob seduce your girlfriend. No condoms. I want to feel every hot inch of his cock; I want him to feel the slippery hot wetness that is dripping from me covering his cock when he takes me. I want his cum in me. I want to taste it, and feel it mingle with my own cum, as my orgasm dips my cervix into our juices."
Jim's eyes popped from his sockets, and his jaw went slack. I thought he was going to balk, but after a few seconds he said:
"Yes, Okay. I'll do what you want baby"
Rob began touching me through my clothes. I pulled his shirt from his wais, and ran my hands across his warm skin. He felt wonderfully exciting, new, and electrically charged. I slipped off my shoes, and knelt to kiss his belly.
I shot a quick glance at my boyfriend, who was watching with a mixed look of love, jealousy, and lustfulness.
Rob pulled me back up to taste my mouth; I had tied my shirt under my breasts, and Rob pushed the shirt over my shoulders and down my arms. I slipped out of the sleeves, and lifted my right leg to wrap around his waist, something that my boyfriend loves for me to do. Rob responded by grabbing a double handful of my ass and biting my neck with a moan. I rubbed him through his jeans with my right hand. He was kissing at my ears and raising the fine hairs on the back of my neck as I felt quivers run from my spine, my aching hard nipples erect, my swollen clit ached to be sucked, my slippery pussy drenching my panties. I gasped for air from the excitement. I looked again at my boyfriend, not wanting him to be hurt. He nodded encouragement at me and licked his lips. I allowed myself to relax fully, knowing that Jim was not upset with how things were going, and that everything was safe because he was there.
I finished removing Rob's shirt and undershirt as he rubbed and pressed and pulled at my body. I allowed him to remove my tee shirt and stopped him from taking off my red bra.
"Not yet," I whispered, and knelt down before him. I wanted to be the one in control not him. I took his shoes and removed them. I removed his socks, giving his feet a tickle with a short rub. I looked up at him, and allowed him to absorb the sight of a woman kneeling before him, full breasts straining at the fabric of my bra, dark curls falling around my head, face looking up at him with desire. Then I ran my hands up his legs, cupping his balls and rubbing him through his jeans.
I moved closer and ran my parted lips over the long bulge that was straining at the blue fabric, blowing breaths of hot air through the cotton. I kissed the skin along his waistband and opened his fly buttons. As I released him, the beautiful male scent of him filled my nostrils, and his eager young cock probed from the opening in his cotton briefs. I licked my lips hungrily, making sure that both men could see it, as I watched a tear of clear pre-cum leak from Rob's cock. I licked at it hard, with my tongue, cleaning his cock head of all traces of his juice, and then took him into my mouth, gently sucking, and stroking him with my fingers. I pulled him from my lips with a slurp sound and looked up.
"Do you like that, Rob?"
"Mmm hmm..." he said
I pulled his underwear down and removed them and his jeans from his ankles. I stood and said:
"Good, then you'll love this."
I guided him to the bed and pushed him down onto his back. I quickly removed my jeans and socks and straddled him, making sure he felt the moist heat radiating from between my thighs and through the thin cotton of my panties. I rubbed my crotch up and down against his length, enjoying the look of tortured pleasure on Rob's face. After a few minutes, I rolled off him to remove my panties, tossing the damp, snail-tracked fabric at my boyfriend. I returned to rubbing myself against Rob, now coating the sensitive underside of his cock with the juices leaking from my lips. The warm, slippery bath elicited a hungry moan from his chest, and his hands found my ass and ground me into him. The pressure against my hot, protruding clit sent shivers through me as I cum. As I got over the first waves, I turned to Jim and asked him to please help me, to show me it was ok to have Rob inside me by putting him inside me. He came to our side and asked what I meant by that.
"Grab his cock and lift it so I can take him into me, hold him so I can slide down. Show me that it's ok, Baby, help me fuck him." I pleaded. He looked a little unsure that he wanted to touch Robs cock, but I looked up at him and begged, "Please, Jim. I need you to give him to me. Please." He nodded, and guiltily reached down to where our two bodies would join. He caressed my ass, and rubbed the wetness between my thighs, and I kissed him.
I lifted my body up enough to accommodate the gift my boyfriend was giving me as he grabbed the warm shaft of Rob's erection. I broke off the kiss, and looked down at Rob, who looked much surprised at the situation. I met the head of his penis with the hot mouth of my pussy and wiggled my hips to give it a good coating of my lube to join his own. I was a little surprised when Jim took a firmer grip of Rob's and began rubbing this other guy's cock up and down my lips, rubbing my clit and teasing the entrance to my womb. I closed my eyes and sat down slowly, feeling every centimeter of pleasure as I took this man deep into me as I reached the base of his cock, Jim began rubbing my clit as I rocked back and forth on the warm, hard, column of flesh that was buried in my pussy. I looked up at him with pure lust and told him that that was enough for now. I returned attention to Rob, who had placed his hands on my hips, gently pulling and pushing them in rhythm. I rubbed my clit with two fingers and cupped my breasts with my right hand. I asked Rob if he wanted to see my breasts, and of course he said yes. I stopped rubbing my clit and fed the juice-coated fingers to him. He sucked and licked them clean and told me I was so delicious.
I reached behind my back and unclasped my bra, slipping it from my shoulders and down my arms, letting it fall to the floor beside the bed. I cupped my firm, tan breasts, presenting them to him. He smiled and reached up to grab them, placing his warm palms over my nipples, rubbing in a gentle circle. I moaned and leaned forward to kiss him and fuck against him with longer strokes. I brushed my breast against the sparse hair on his chest as he again reached down to guide him deeper into my pussy. He grabbed a double handful of my naked ass and began to impale me on his cock. I was on top, but he was fucking me so hard moving his hips up and down where his ass was lifting up a bit. I was so relaxed and enjoying it all, rubbing my clit into his coarse pubic hair, as his cock stroked the sensitive parts of my pussy walls and the entrance to my womb. The gentle stirring effect of him is shaking my cervix building up inside me. I lost track of how many times I cum, but I remember Jim coming to lay beside us at some point, stroking my back and ass and telling me how beautiful I was and how fuckable and naughty I looked climaxing on Rob's cock.
He started fingering my bottom as I rode Rob's to his first climax. I began to cum and I could not stop cumin! I screamed and moaned so fucking loud. Rob sent his hot cum into me as I milked his cock with my pussy and clenched my boyfriends probing finger with my muscles. I went limp and rested against Rob's as he and Jim stroked my tingling body. I lay there for what seemed like days, enjoying the afterglow and the affectionate attentions of four hands and two mouths caressing and exploring my body.
I recovered enough to raise my head and look up at my man. He looked at me tenderly and stroked my cheek and my hair. I told him I loved him and that I thanked him for giving me this pleasure. I kissed Rob and slowly got up enough to crawl into my boyfriend's lap, facing him. He put his arms around me and I felt his erection growing against my lower belly. I said something like:
"Aw, is it your turn now? Do you want to fuck me, knowing that you will be dipping the head of your penis into Rob's fresh cum? Does it turn you on to know that I'm all lubed and slippery with another man's cum? Or do you want to fuck your little slut girlfriend to punish her?" I asked, finally.
"Yes. I want to punish you, and I do want a piece, even if you are slick with the fresh sperm of another man.
Get up." He was trying to play like he was rough and angry with me, but I knew he was playing.
I climbed off of him, and Jim sat on the bottom left corner of the bed. He beckoned me over and turned me so he could enter me from behind. I sat down on his lap, and he lifted my thighs so that my legs dr*ped over his, leaving me wide open to being touched and fondled. He kissed my neck and rubbed my breasts.
He used one hand to stroke my thighs gently, and teased me as my pleasure grew again.
He asked Rob to come kneel in front of me.
Rob nodded and knelt in front of us. He said:
"I'm doing this," and went right into sucking on my clit, he ran his tongue over me, even licking Jim's shaft as it rocked slowly in and out of me. Between the two of them I was cumin in waves again in very little time.
Eventually, Jim lifted me off him, and laid me back on the bed to fuck me doggie style. He had better movement this way and began filling me with full strokes. Rob came over he was ready to fuck me again but this time with Jim in my pussy. He took his cock and glided into my ass. Slowly I could feel my asshole being stretch. I was in a little pain but a good feeling pain. In a glimpse of time he was in. Pumping my ass hard and long strokes and Jim fucking my pussy. God dammit it felt so good. I was screaming and moaning so loud, my cum and Rob's cum what was left in my pussy was cumin out and getting all over my legs and Jims cock.
Harder Jim was fucking me. He was so excited and turned on that his moans were loud and the words he was speaking I couldn't believe he was so fuckin hot. He started to cum quickly, throwing his head back and gasping as he continued to thrust into me. I could feel his hot cum squirt deep inside my pussy. I started to cum again, my body felt so worn down but it felt great to cum for my man. Rob was still fucking my ass as Jim left his cock inside me for a few. I moaned to Rob to cum for me.
"Let me feel that cum in my ass"
"Cum baby"
I spoke those last words and Rob started to cum, squeezing my ass so hard. He pushed deep one more time to push his cum deeper into my ass. I pulled him down against me and we cuddled as Rob lay down beside us. I ended up taking both there cocks into my mouth and started to lick and suck what was left, plus feel the taste of all of our cum mixed together.
"Mmmm yeah" Jim and Rob said, "You like that taste don't you?" I look up with seductive yes and said, "Yes I Do"
We ended up sleeping together, with the two men on either side of me, until morning.
The threesome lasted for three months. Each day we have done different things together and never told my girlfriend our little secret.


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Ok friend from Spain is coming with his girlfriend (she doesn't speak english) to Cincinnati for about a week. He has been here many times and stayed in Cincinnati for months at a time. Meeting in New York for 4 days, then coming to Cincy for 7. He mentioned maybe show her another City.
Figure, we'll do the reds, bengals (both in town), zoon, kings island. Then maybe a 2 day drive trip. First two that come to mind are Chicago or Nashville. If they just did New York would they really want to go to Chicago? Nashville is more of a change and shows another part of country but is there enough to do?
Any thoughts or suggestions?


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It became evident that Dusty managed game 4 so he could set up game 5 to the best of his advantage. He has Latos, Marshall, Broxton, and Chapman all on regular rest. He also has Arroyo in reserve if need be. Cueto going down really hurt the Reds in that they had to pitch Leake in game 4.
I look at Game 5 and they need a big effort from Latos, especially in the 1st. Quite their bats down early. Cant let guys like Arias and Crawford beat you. If someone on the Giants is going to beat you make it be Posey.
Keep the ball in the yard.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/21/pine_trail_release/
Intel's Atomic 'Pine Trail' arrives early
Nettops? Fuggedaboutem
Posted in The Channel, 21st December 2009 05:02 GMT
Intel's new-and-slightly-improved Atom processors and support chips met the waiting world Monday morning, a couple of weeks earlier than their oft-rumored rollout at the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Their early appearance is one of the only surprises about the new Atom platform, code-named Pine Trail. As widely reported, the Pine Trail platform consists of two sets of chips: one, code-named Pineview, houses the Atom processor core, integrated memory controller, and GPU. A second, code-named Tiger Point, houses I/O.
The incorporation of the memory and graphics controllers onto the processor die is essentially the only major difference between this new generation of the Atom and its predecessors. The chip is still manufactured using a 45nm process, and although access to memory is quicker, the architecture of the compute core is fundamentally the same in-order execution scheme as before.
The single-core Atom N450 is designed for netbook use, and it's joined by two more power-hungry parts aimed at what Intel used to call "nettops" but now calls "entry-level desktops": the dual-core Atom D510 and the single-core Atom D410.
The demise of the term "nettop" is a welcome one. "We still believe that there will be devices called nettops in the market, but the term really didn't catch on," Intel director of netbook marketing Anil Nanduri told a gaggle of reporters gathered in San Francisco last week for a pre-briefing on the release.
Any clock speed you want, as long as it's 1.66GHz
I/O duties in the Pine Trail platform will be handled for all three chips by the new NM10 Express Chipset. And yes, despite the designation of "chipset," the NM10 is a single chip.
Netbooks and
nettops entry-level desktops built using the new chips will run on Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic, plus Windows XP home and Intel's Linux-of-choice, Moblin.
The N450 is intended to replace the current Atom N270 as Intel's prime offering for the netbook market. Sharp-eyed Reg readers will note that the N450 is listed as having a TDP of 5.5 watts, over double that of the N270's 2.5 watts, and wonder whether Intel is going in the wrong direction, power-wise.
Remember, though, that the N270 required Intel's 82945GSE graphics and memory controller, which sucked up an additional 6 watts. The new 5-watt N450, on the other hand, has shrunk those functions of the 945GSE into the 45nm N450, resulting in more-miserly power requirements.
In addition to the power savings - which Intel calculates will average around 20 per cent after all other factors are taken into account - the N450 is 60 per cent smaller than the N270, and the two-chip scheme will further reduce required motherboard real estate.
When asked about whether Intel's new netbook platform will be able to compete with upcoming ARM-based "smartbooks" touted by Qualcomm, Pegatron, and others, Nanduri was dismissive. "I know there's a lot of press about those devices," he told the assembled press, "but we have yet to see any, so it's all speculation.
Absent from Nanduri's remarks was any mention of MIDs - the mobile internet devices that Intel has trumpeted in the past. And for good reason: The Pine Trail combos are still too power-hungry to form the basis of a handheld device. Entry into the MID market - if it even exists - will have to wait until the next shrink of Intel's low-end processors, Moorestown, expected for later in 2010.
By making its Atom announcements at the beginning of Christmas week, Intel has apparently chosen to reserve the CES spotlight for the new additions to its Core i3/5/7 processor line, including the new 32nm Arrandale mobile and Clarkdale desktop parts, which are scheduled to meet the public on the morning of January 7 from 7:30 to 8:02.
Yes, you read that time correctly. As explained to us by an Intel spokesman: "32 minutes. 32nm..."


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 1 Maryland women's lacrosse team topped Virginia Tech 22-12 Saturday at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex to earn the top seed in the upcoming ACC Championship.
Maryland (16-1, 6-1 ACC) wrapped up a share of the regular season conference title and will battle for a sixth-straight tournament championship when the ACC Women's Lacrosse Championship begins next Thursday at Boston College. Senior Beth Glaros led the Terps with five goals as Maryland honored its six-member senior class prior to first draw. Sophomore Halle Majorana posted a career day with four goals. Brooke Griffin added four goals and Kelly McPartland and Taylor Cummings chipped in with two each.
Glaros wasted little time kicking off a high-scoring half with a score 42 seconds into the contest. Maryland and Virginia Tech (7-9, 0-7 ACC) combined for 19 goals in the opening stanza alone. VT answered with a Megan Will goal at 27:44 before Maryland notched three unanswered tallies from McPartland, Glaros and Majorana for a 4-1 lead with 25:44 remaining in the first half.
After a Hokie score at 22:25, Maryland compiled another punishing 3-0 run featuring goals from Griffin (2) and Majorana for a 7-2 cushion 10 minutes into the game. VT shrunk the lead to four with a Meghan Macera tally at 17:21 and the two squads exchanged goals twice before Maryland compiled its third 3-0 rally of the contest with scores by Erin Collins, Glaros and Majorana for an 11-5 lead with 2:22 remaining in the first half.
Will notched a goal for the Hokies and McPartland found the back of the net for the Terps with under a minute left in the period for a 13-6 score at the break.
The Terps – who utilized their entire bench for the majority of the second half – picked up two goals in the 25th minute of the second half by Majorana and Bryn Boucher to extend their lead to nine. Virginia Tech answered with four straight goals in a seven-minute frame in-and-around the 20-minute mark for a 15-10 score.
Maryland stepped on the gas with its biggest scoring stretch of the game, posting six unanswered goals from Glaros, Cummings, Griffin (2), Zoe Stukenberg and Mattie Meredith to get the clock running with 13 minutes remaining.
VT picked up a goal from Meg Bartley at 11:50 but a Theo Kwas tally negated the score. Julia Heaps capped the scoring with a Hokie goal with 5:25 to play before Maryland held possession for a 22-12 final in the Terps' last regular season game as a member of the ACC.
In addition to Glaros, the Terps honored seniors Mary Angstadt, Annie Farrell, Kelsey Horton, Jen Mendez and Amalie Trentzsch. Maryland shot a sparkling 22-for-30 in the game. Cummings was sensational across the board, adding nine draw controls, three ground balls and three caused turnovers to her two-goal showing Saturday.
"It was a good day to honor our seniors and a good day to celebrate Maryland women's lacrosse," head coach Cathy Reese said. "We saw a lot of great things from a lot of people today on the offensive end. We executed well and shot well and that was important and obviously a crucial part of our success."
Maryland travels to the ACC Championship Thursday where it will face Virginia Tech at 11 a.m. in the first round. The game will be shown live on RSN affiliates.