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June 11, 2008
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay—Community commitment, a strong link to the credit union philosophy and a microfinance lending program that disburses funds and collects payments on a daily basis were the highlights of a recent internship two Minnesota credit union executives recently completed in Paraguay.
Heather Hernandez Viveros, associate vice president of human resources at Anoka Hennepin Credit Union in Coon Rapids, and Jaroslav "Jaro" Mendoza, assistant branch manager and loan officer for City-County Federal Credit Union in Brooklyn Center, visited eight credit unions during their 11-day internship. The internship was made possible thanks to a partnership facilitated by World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) between the Minnesota Credit Union Network, Inc. and Central de Cooperativas del Area Nacional Ltda. (CENCOPAN), Paraguay's credit union association.
"Our credit union recently implemented plans to serve the Hispanic population in this area, and there are aspects we can improve upon," Hernandez Viveros said. "By going to Paraguay I was hoping to see how Latin American credit unions reach out to members and build trust with their members."
Mendoza said his visit was for much the same purpose. "In Minnesota, very few credit unions are set up to serve Hispanic communities," he explained. "But that's what credit unions were set up to do - serve those who are underserved or not served at all."
Hernandez Viveros and Mendoza worked directly with Paraguayan credit union staff to explore philosophical and operational issues. Credit unions in the Latin American country emphasize community and member commitment, including helping build and subsidize schools and pharmacies.
Both participants spent time at Mercado 4 Credit Union, examining in depth the microfinance initiatives of the credit union, located in the center of a busy market. The member-merchants' operations required daily cash infusions in order to operate, so the credit union designed a 60-day term with a daily repayment structure compatible with the merchant's cash flow patterns. The merchants borrow money in the morning to purchase goods to sell from wholesalers, and then deposit their funds at the end of the work day. Credit union loan officers circulate among the market stalls, collecting daily loan payments from borrowers. The rates are favorable to borrowers, who save more than $40 in interest per loan, or more than $240 per year - the equivalent of a month's wages for the average Paraguayan worker - compared to rates offered by local loan sharks for the same type of service.
Merchant and credit union member Lidio Guanes was able to leverage the loan program to expand what started as a small herbal remedies concession, limited to a three-foot-by-six-foot table, financed originally by a $100 credit union loan. Today, he occupies a storefront at a busy market intersection and has trademarked his products under the brand name Poha Ñana, "natural remedies" in the Guarani language. He also warehouses the products and serves as wholesaler to other vendors, again thanks to Mercado 4's loan program.
The program also benefits the credit union. Thanks to the new loan product, the formerly struggling Mercado 4 had grown its loan portfolio to $2.3 million by the end of 2007 from $1.1 million in 2005, participants said. Credit union assets also grew by 60% in 2006.
"It's so incredible how they have been able to meet the needs of members rather than asking members to meet the needs of the credit union," Hernandez Viveros said. "They are living the people-helping-people philosophy. I returned home feeling very good about being part of the credit union movement."
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.
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Transportation officials launched an expanded Thomasville fixed bus route Monday morning, adding more than 20 new stops throughout the city.
Transportation officials launched an expanded Thomasville fixed bus route Monday morning, adding more than 20 new stops throughout the city.
The service is free to residents and has about 61 stops, according to Davidson County and Thomasville records.
The new stops were added due to customer demand, said Steve Swaim, Davidson County's transportation manager.
"Anytime we have areas of either city, Lexington or Thomasville, that there's a demand for, we look at it, and if we feel it's feasible to do so, we will look at doing expansions," Swaim said.
The route, which operates from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, stretches from Unity Street to the north, Holly Grove Road to the south, Liberty Drive to the east and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the west, according to a map of the route.
Buses make one loop about every hour.
The expanded route includes new stops on Liberty Drive, Randolph Street, Unity Street, National Highway, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cedar Lodge Road and Fisher Ferry Street. The route also stops at several additional businesses and community buildings, including Church of God on Blair Street, Guy's Family Pharmacy and Little Caesars Pizza on Randolph Street, Grace Lutheran Church on Unity Street and the shopping strip on Cedar Lodge Road, according to the map.
New bus shelters may also be on the horizon for some stops on the Thomasville route. Later this week, transportation officials will ask the Davidson County Board of Commissioners to approve and participate in a grant that would provide funding for shelters.
The $80,000 Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement grant would require Davidson County to appropriate $20,000 in local match funding, totaling $100,000 for shelter construction, according to county records.
If approved, the project, which is also a part of the long-range State Transportation Improvement Program, would be completed by the end of 2013, said Guy Cornman, Davidson County's planning director.
Rex Buck, director of Davidson County Public Services, said the county has identified several pieces of property for the shelters but has not made any definite decisions.
The Thomasville fixed route, which started in 2011, is largely funded through state and federal grant money, Swaim said.
Ridership for the Thomasville route has steadily increased since its implementation. In 2012, the route had 22,766 riders for a total of about 30,749 miles traveled.
Eyeing the success of the Thomasville route, transportation officials rolled out a similar circulating bus route in Lexington last year. About 21,860 people rode the Lexington route in 2012 for a total of about 22,502 miles.
Officials also started a connector route last year, which ties the Lexington and Thomasville routes together. About 13,671 people used the connector route for about a total of 37,734 miles traveled.
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This story only has 2 comments right now. One recommending XBMC and another recommending RaspberryPi.
Correct on both counts. I don't think you need to reinvent the wheel on this...
Also, "USB hard-drive"? Do you really want to transfer media to a drive? Build a home NAS and stream everything to the media player. The media player should be small and quiet. There is no need for an HDD.
Even with the best of tools and setups, pure streaming is not always an option. My synology NAS barfs on
To say DLNA sucks donkey dick is an understatement. I have an DNS-323 and if the indexing messes up it takes 20 minutes to re-index my MP3s. I stopped using DLNA 2 weeks after I tried it.
I have no problem with CIFs though.
Another tip: instead of letting XBMC store all the artwork/covers/nfo/etc locally, leave it on the NAS. Then any new XBMC connection is ready to go from the start.
Even with the best of tools and setups, pure streaming is not always an option. My synology NAS barfs on
Your NAS doing DLNA is doing more than a NAS needs to. XBMC happily supports connecting to Samba or SFTP shares within the application, or you could just use NFS and attach the NAS share to the local filesystem. If a NAS cares about what type of file it's sending over a plain filesystem access protocol like that it's a broken NAS.
DLNA sucks donkey dick.
Hey, slow down. We're talking about building it, not what we're going to watch on it. But since you brought it up is it available on Blu -ray?
DLNA does suck, this is why you simply use an nfs share on the nas which is running linux on an old core2duo in a large case, will support far more hard disks, will not be tied to any particular hardware as any linux machine could read the raid, etc etc.
One big beefy box with all the hard disks, many small nimble network clients, works a charm.
Also, "USB hard-drive"? Do you really want to transfer media to a drive? Build a home NAS and stream everything to the media player. The media player should be small and quiet. There is no need for an HDD.
Why not have "everything" (and the builder gets to choose what she knows she wants):
And be sure to also
Oh, and I forgot the most important thing
O.K. is there a problem with MythTV ?
I keep promising myself a system based on MythTV.
http://www.mythtv.org/detail/mythtv [mythtv.org]
Combine this with AppleTV, it's only $99, and you have somewhat sane system.
It comes with remote already so one less extra step to tinker on.
Your question is about media and entertainment. Are you entertained by tinkering stuff or consuming entertainment generated by others?
For large libraried MediaCompanion, Ember Media Manager, or similar is an absolute must. By generating the NFOs yourself you take the guessing and searching out for XBMC. It works great once you set it up properly and the new Eden build has added a TON of great features and usability
+1 here, works great and can notify xbmc when it updates. The best part is if it finds the wrong show you can manially hand it an id and be done with it.
I rather suspect you're having a problem with SMB, not XBMC.
I've never seen XBMC refuse to catalog anything with even close to the correct name. Ever. (In fact my biggest problem is sometimes it ends up cataloging stuff that isn't even shows, like the 'lost+found' or 'Transfer' directories.)
So if XBMC isn't seeing things, I suspect that's because XBMC isn't seeing things. XBMC uses different SMB networking code than Windows does. It has built-in cross-platform code.
However, I think you can force XBMC to
Boxee box is a cute little box with a modified XBMC. Works surprisingly well, indexing and streaming tv-shows and movies of my NAS.
Some bugs and limitations sure, but the WAF is incredible!
Even better answer...don't. Seriously the power draw of anything he can cook up (unless he builds his own raspberry Pi based unit) will be nuts compared to the already built. I've had plenty of happy customers with the Nbox and Nbox HD, both are simple enough your average 6 year old can use them and its $25 for the Nbox and $60 for the Nbox HD. The only thing you need to know is use an external drive with its own PSU as the nbox doesn't put enough power over USB to drive laptop drives. But they are cheap, easy to use, VERY low power, and have both USB and SD slots which is great for when i want to take a movie over to watch with my dad as i can just slap it on an SD and drop it in my pocket.
Now if you want to go HTPC well there has never been a better time as tiger has been selling AMD kits crazy cheap on account of the impending socket change. You can get a fully loaded triple for like $220 bucks right now and the AMD IGP supports just about every time of codec you can name.
If you want even cheaper there are several kits at newegg based on the Brazos platform which gives you a dual core APU that has 2 bobcat cores and an AMD HD6320 GPU. The Brazos platform is great, in fact i liked it enough i sold my laptop for a EEE netbook and just love it. I've also built several HTPCs out of Brazos and its just a great little unit. If you want to go Linux its been supported OOTB since Ubuntu 10.04 so no worries, i'm pretty sure the XBMC Linux build supports it as well. And of course if you want to go Win 7 it has full support for DXVA and can even play some older games like L4D and Crysis with the graphics lowered.
So if all you are wanting is a video player just get a prebuilt like Nbox HD unless you want to build a pi based, or if you want a full fledged HTPC look at the Brazos followed by one of the Athlon kits, just depending on how much power and money you are willing to spend. Brazos is only 18w so its the lowest powered HTPC i know of but with a little underclocking and a good board with the ability to turn off phases you can get an Athlon down to sub 50w.
http://openelec.tv/news/item/235-openelec-on-raspberry-pi-our-first-arm-device-supported [openelec.tv]
Of course getting hold of a RaspBerry Pi will be tough, but once you have done that it's all done
Maybe he wants to make his player soon, not in a few months. If you order a RaPi now, you get a delivery estimate in the third quarter. If you can wait, you should probably wait for the new Google TV, which is based on the Marvell Armada 1500 SoC. Like the RaPi it has HDMI, hardware H264 decoding and a GPU, but unlike the Rapi with its slow ARMv6 single core and no disk or network interface on chip, the Marvel SoC has a dual core ARM v7 with NEON support, and SATA and Ethernet on chip. I expect it to come w
I'm not to sure this is the right solution. Given my past experiences with making video run smoothly on underpowered devices even with hardware decoding it'll be an uphill battle.
For only a few square cm more you can buy a pico ITX board with significantly more power and features.
XBMC 0.11 (Eden) seems to have a few issues with some remotes, specifically media center ones, and has pretty lousy netflix streaming integration. I've been trying for a few weeks now to iron out the issues, but quite frankly it just "isn't there yet".
XBMC is good software, and I applaud the teams working on it, if the remote issues can be ironed out and proper netflix support added it would be awesome.
Umm, no the remote works fine for me and many others - I use cheap MCE remotes. However since you're trying to get NetFlix running you're obviously doing this on Windows. Dump that and move to Ubuntu, you'll be happier. For Netflix and Amazon VOD I use PlayOn running on a windows desktop and DLNA - works fine for MANY WEB sources. That said, I prefer media off my own NAS at far higher quality
Unless you're really dead set on DIY, I recommend the Xtreamer [xtreamer.net] Ultra for $399, available on Amazon. From the blurb "Xtreamer ULTRA Mini-ITX SFF HTPC (1.8 GHZ Intel Atom Dual-Core D525, nVidia ION 2, 4GB DDR3, HDMI 1.4a) Includes Remote, Mini Wireless Keyboard w/ Trackpad, PLUS XBMC and Boxee Configured and Ready to Go!", so it's a full PC and a very small, nice and quiet one at that.
The Ultra comes without a hard drive, but it has a 2.5 bay where you can add an HDD or SSD. I did the former. It boots off
$400 is way to much for this kind of box when you have things like this Asus for $180. http://www.amazon.com/Asus-EB1012PB0320-Eb1012p-Fcbga559-Desktop/dp/B004X1PICM/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1333841714&sr=1-3 [amazon.com]
Atom Dual core D510
Install the XBMCbuntu or OpenELEC and your done. The mini keyboard with your box is handy, but outside of the initial configuration, I
I have one of the ASUS boxes an ASROC and about 4 Zotac ND01s. The ASUS is VERY nice and swapping HDD in it is cake. Memory not so much. IMO this is one of the better ION boxes around and runs XBMC extremely well.
A friend of mine is looking at doing this very thing. He is going to use a Raspberry Pi, Linux and an XBMC style application.
The one thing all of the little hardware boxes do that your Pi running XBMC (or small Atom) can't do is streaming media. To be allowed to do that you have to prove to Netflix, Amazon, etc. that the box is tamper proof enough they feel safe in allowing 'The Precious' to be sent to it. Of course since pretty much every BlueRay player streams and sucks at actually playing irregular discs (as in downloaded content) just have one of those to cover locked content and build a media box of your own for everything
My Atom boxes running XBMC can access both Amazon instant watch, and Hulu content just fine. I can't access Netflix as I am running Linux and Silverlight doesn't exist on that. But if I actually used Netflix I have a PS3 or Google TV I could stream to.
Outside of Netflix XBMC will pretty much stream everything. The nice thing about the Hulu plugin is that you don't need Hulu Plus, and if you have Plus all of those shows that won't let you stream to a TV will still play just fine.
If you are interested in e
I can't access Netflix as I am running Linux and Silverlight doesn't exist on that.
Silverlight actually exists for Linux (aka Moonlight); I reckon that it works really bad, it's acutally completely useless in general.
DRM isn't implemented in Silverlight (for obvious reasons), so it can't play Netflix. About all I've ever seen in Moonlight is a notice to update my version of Silverlight.
Get yourself a WD TV Live Media Player Plus, get a 7200RPM 2TB USB hard drive. Connect the media player to your network via wired Internet. Copy media to the media player's share.
If you buy a WDTV product you really, really want to flash it with WDLXTV goodness:
http://forum.wdlxtv.com/ [wdlxtv.com]
The new WDTV (that came out in November 2011) has N wifi built in.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B005KOZNBW [amazon.com]
I LOVE that thing (although I have it wired, as it has a GigE port as well). It plays absolutely anything you throw at it.
I also think it will a good programming adventure
Indicates that at least you have some sense of what it will take to do this and what the end result may (or may not) end up like. Too many people would go into a project like this with the idea of saving money (doesn't work) or making something that is better than mass market version s and usable by others in the household (no real chance of that).
But if you're looking for an adventure, this may be a good choice for you.
[TPB] ---Internet---> [PC] ---LAN/WLAN---> [NAS] ---LAN/WLAN---> [HTPC with XBMC] ---HDMI---> [TV] ---vision---> [guy on couch]
Go and fetch the parts you are currently missing.
[TPB] ---Internet---> [PC] ---LAN/WLAN---> [NAS] ---LAN/WLAN---> [HTPC with XBMC] ---HDMI---> [TV] ---vision---> [guy on couch]
Go and fetch the parts you are currently missing.
Careful. If the OP reads from right to left she won't have the time nor desire to build the media center.
Go and fetch the parts you are currently missing.
I have everything else, but I'm presently missing "[guy on couch]". I've never run into a distribution system that required one. But if I must have one, can you tell me what the minimum system requirements are? I'm not sure what the battery life of 'guy on couch' is, but I've heard from my heterosexual friends that economy models generally weigh more, have limited ram, and the processor has what was described to me as a "very aggressive power saving feature". I'd also like to know how much these things cost and if there are any maintenance requirements beyond feeding him and giving him access to the bathroom. Again, very new to the market, so apologies in advance.
At first I was like "cool. A woman on the internet". And then I was like "oh wait. We are on the internet".
I believe swapping TPB with sabNSB\SickBeard\CouchPotatoe and perhaps Headphones would provide a better solution.
For ~70$ you can buy a chinese box running Android with HDMI output, wi-fi and remote on sites like dealextreme, merimobiles, pandawill etc. Something like this
(it's just an example, there are literally hundreds of slightly different options):
http://www.merimobiles.com/GV_11A_VI6131_Android_2_3_TV_Box_1080P_1GHz_HDMI_p/meri3957.htm [merimobiles.com]
Don't expect it to work well out of the box, but as a DIY project it should be fine. You can write a custom android app to control it, or install something like plex for android.
For more possibilities, make sure you get a device with an available root access.
I assume you mean by hardware video player you're trying to make a dedicated piece of gear to play multimedia files. If so that is insane. Why re-invent the wheel for something everyone from the hacker community to the big manufacturers are doing perfectly fine with software and off the shelf components?
Most hardware media centres are nothing more than some fanless microITX PC with a TV card, harddisk, and some custom made LCD front display. It's one of the reasons they take so horrendously long to start up. Why not just whip together something like that and then throw XBMC, Myth TV, or MediaPortal on it? Bonus points for making it run on a Raspberry Pi, or some other ARM based processor.
Those three packages seem to do basically all of what you're suggesting anyway so what are you trying to gain?
If you think you can do it better than the existing packages then why not make a plugin for them? You get to build on an already established project which has been through the countless mistakes you're likely to make on the way, and you can give back to an existing and large community rather than competing with the established players.
You want loudness control? Movies AND documentaries?
Resuming play?(!!)
You're going to need a lot of FPGAs, and you're going to need to rewrite a lot of popular codecs. Movie codecs. Documentary codecs. TV episode codecs. Audio codecs (with loudness control).
Thinking about this some more, are you sure the "popular" codecs meet all your requirements? Those codecs are for the kind of people satisfied without a customized library screen. Think big. You need to write some of your own codecs, running on you
Most of the devices use the ffmpeg libraries to handle the decoding (and encoding on those that can rip or record).. which always made me wonder why some don't support certain formats/codecs while others do considering they're nearly all built using ffmpeg...
Nvidia Ion2 does HD Audio (all supported BR formats), I'm running a Asus S1-AT5NM10E. It's cheap and only missing harddrive and memory. XBMC Linux does not yet do HD audio but standard mplayer does. I'm streaming full BR rips over NFS and it's smooth. I'm running XBMC for now, and if I want the full experience I just start the movie with mplayer.
I have tried some media streamers in the past altough not the Popcorn Hour, my problem have been with scale, the one I've tried didn't do a collection of thousands
Was using PS3 w/Media Centre (DLNA streaming app) on a PC.
Then I read up cinavia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia [wikipedia.org]
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1265114 [avsforum.com]
Decided to convert my NAS
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=hp%20microserver&hl=en&meta= [google.com.au] into a HTPC with a slimline video card (40$) and put XBMC on it (plus XBMC remote for Android, no IR, no bluetooth required)
Has been better than expected, XBMC came a long long long way since my Xbox 1.
Playback is smooth, UI is good, even installed MySQL on the little NAS and now the library can be accessed around the house easily with multiple copies of XBMC tied in to the main box.
Very good stuff.
I'd agree, for a number of reasons.
It still isn't clear how the Pi is going to perform for multimedia content - it will ship licensed only for H.264 acceleration AFAIK so if you've got any HD MPEG-2, for example, you may have some issues. Also, if you're planning "a good programming adventure" you'll probably be cross-compiling on a different architecture and then attempting to debug on an unfamiliar platform.
With something like an Atom/ION platform you can more conveniently do your software development on
This is what I just put together. System PXE Boots Debian, and starts up XBMC within about 20 seconds. When running, it's only 25 watts or so, and it boots fast enough that I have no problems shutting it down when not in use. Plays 1080p high profile smooth as silk.
If a media/content producer/distributor wants to use DRM, then I don't want their crap. So I don't care if the media play box can do DRM or not. I'll make or get DRM-free content. I want a box that can play any and all of that, from anywhere, including media in Linux and BSD filesystems.
As I see it, any media/content producer/distributor that wants to use DRM is clearly not marketing their product to me. That means they cannot claim what I'm not buying from them as a loss, because their businesses model
There are some great discussions going on here, but too many people are saying stuff like XBMC or building PCs or some crap. Doesn't sound like what you are looking for.
I am no expert, but I could tell you what some of these devices that you talked about actually are.
First, you would probably need a customized motherboard which has HDMI output for both audio and video. As building your own motherboard would be costly, it sounds like you are going to need something like a microATX motherboard to start with.
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ST. CHARLES – A quick start Tuesday propelled the host St. Charles North boys water polo team to a 9-2 victory against Hinsdale South in a Neuqua Valley Sectional opening-round game.
"Right away from the beginning, we were up, so the kids came out energized, enthused and ready to play," said North coach Chris Cloy, whose team led, 3-0, after the first quarter.
The North Stars (16-13-1) advanced to face top-seeded Naperville North in a sectional quarterfinal at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
Ryan Hamilton (three goals) and Justin Simmonds (two) paced the North attack. Collin Bawolek made eight saves in goal, while Nick Kowaleski had eight steals.
The North Stars lost, 12-0, to Naperville North in the Huskies' home tournament April 6.
St. Charles East 9, Metea Valley 5: At St. Charles, East emerged in a Neuqua Valley Sectional opening-round game and advanced to face Naperville Central in a sectional quarterfinal at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Streamwood 8, St. Charles East 7: At St. Charles, East allowed five unearned runs, including two in the top of the seventh, as the Saints (16-9, 14-6 Upstate Eight Conference River Division) fell into second place in the conference behind Batavia. Isaac Nimick, Nicholas Erickson and Sean Dunne had two hits apiece for the Saints, who who were unable to take advantage of runners at second and third to end the game.
Morris 7, Kaneland 6: At Morris, Kaneland (10-13, 7-7 Northern Illinois Big 12 East) was unable to hold a 5-0 lead after the first half-inning. Josh Cohrs doubled and drove in two runs for the Knights.
Burlington Central 2, Rockford Christian 1: At Burlington, Alex Bell scattered six hits in the complete-game victory. Central (9-8, 8-2 Big Northern Conference East) was out-hit, but got two RBIs from Michael Scott.
St. Francis 9, Ridgewood 6: At Wheaton, Jack Petrando (two RBIs) and Alex Alcantara both had three hits for 15-9 St. Francis.
St. Charles North 8, Elgin 0: At Elgin, Abby Howlett sparked North's 18-hit attack, finishing 4 for 5 with three RBIs. Sabrina Rabin and Katie Roggemann combined on a four-hitter for the North Stars (15-4, 11-2 UEC River).
Rosary 16, Walther Lutheran 1 (5 inn.): At Aurora, Sam Phelps drove in nine runs, four with a grand slam, as Rosary (9-11, 6-6 SCC) gave ample support to pitcher Emma Molenhouse (five-inning no-hitter).
St. Francis 12, Marian Central 1: At Woodstock, Maggie Remus improved to 14-0 in the circle for St. Francis, which moved to 17-3 in the SCC romp.
St. Charles East 1, Metea Valley 1: At St. Charles, Darcy Cunningham scored off a Carly Pottle assist as East (13-5-2) tied the match with a goal midway through the second half of its regular season-closing, UEC crossover.
Geneva 4, Bartlett 0: At Geneva, Mary Landry and Megan Kozlow both had a goal and an assist as Geneva (11-8-1) won the UEC crossover.
Batavia 3, South Elgin 2: At Batavia, the Bulldogs prevailed in the UEC crossover.
Batavia 7, Geneva 0: At Batavia, Batavia (17-6, 5-0 UEC River) earned the sweep by winning a trio of three-set matches, including wins from Ryan Sterling at No. 1 singles and the No. 3 doubles pair of Joe Maenza and James Carr.
St. Charles North 4, Waubonsie Valley 3: At St. Charles, North improved to 15-7 behind victories from Matt Ernst at third singles and Grant Spellman and Keith Hedges at No. 1 doubles.
Wheaton Academy 4, Fenton 1: At Bensenville, Jon Anderson won at No. 2 singles in a third-set tiebreaker for Wheaton Academy, which swept the doubles matches.
St. Charles East 2, Elgin 0 (25-11, 25-12): At Elgin, Jacob Samuels had six kills, Tom DeBruyne added 14 assists and two aces and Sam Pulcanio had 10 digs for East (15-16, 2-2 UEC River).


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I have made a site that allows for some basic Active Directory management remotely. This is done using vbscripts and ActiveX.
The site works fine on IE.
However, now I want the site to work on Firefox and Chrome browsers (The goal is the use the site from an Android tablet).
I understand that vbscripts and ActiveX will not work. What is the best way to go about rebuilding the site so that it will work with Firefox and Chrome?
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Paczki Day Is Back
Paczki Day is March 4 (or Fat Tuesday). Last year I wrote a blog about Paczki Day, and how I had such a hard time finding Paczkis (pronounced POONCH-key) in this area. This year, they are closer than I had imagined. The County Market at 24th and Spring in Quincy has Paczkis!


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By CHELSEA M. REYHER
Editor�s Note: Three families in the area shared with reporter Chelsea Reyher the story of their child�s addiction and their personal struggle with the disease. Their words are real, but for the sake of their privacy they are referred to under aliases � the Wilson, Smith and Jones families.
Anne Wilson�s daughter had been smoking marijuana since adolescence, went through the drug court as a young adult and eventually developed a heroin addiction.
But she also graduated from college with honors and had a good marketing job for two years � until her addiction got so out of hand that she was fired.
�Looking back on it, there were lots of times when she was AWOL. She wouldn�t show up for family birthday parties, but she always had an excuse,� said Wilson.
Wilson called herself a �world class enabler,� but with the help of her son and daughter-in-law, Wilson took her daughter to an inpatient rehab after she was fired.
�Four-and-a-half years ago, when she came out of her first rehab, that was the point when I really started doing what I should have been doing all along.�
Wilson eventually stopped financially supporting her daughter and wouldn�t communicate with her unless she was clean and in recovery.
�Anything you would normally do to help a healthy child is just enabling a child who�s an addict. So it�s counter-intuitive to everything you�ve learned as a parent,� said Harry Smith, whose son is an addict. �You think you�re protecting them, clearing away hurdles, helping them to stay on the straight and narrow path � whether it�s paying fines and parking tickets, driving them to court cases to make sure they don�t miss their court cases, making car payments, bailing them out of situations.�
But that only makes it easier for the addict to keep using, he said.
Addiction is known as a family disease because family members develop symptoms of their own and get just as sick as the addicts themselves.
�Often the family is divided. The addict creates chaos in the family. They will often pit one family member against another,� said Sandra Lockhart, a facilitator in Chester County for the Pennsylvania Recovery Organization � Achieving Community Together, or PRO-ACT, a family education program. Family members sometimes take on the persona of the addicted person, she said, which was true for Smith.
�I was addicted to my addicted son,� said Harry Smith. �My frame of mind kind of went up and down as his addiction got worse or got a little bit better. The worse his addiction got the more anxiety I felt, the more depressed I would get.�
Smith�s wife, Mary, said as a parent, she felt like she should be able to do something, but the more she did the worse it got. It was the feeling of hopelessness that fed her depression.
And without the education on addiction, Sue and Joe Jones struggled with determining an addiction from normal adolescent experimentation.
�When I definitely knew it was a problem was the night he sat here and said �I need to smoke and I can�t not,�� said Sue Jones of her son. �I didn�t really understand the scope of it until he started getting help and we started getting educated.�
All three families went to a few education programs as a part of their child�s rehab. And while not connected with a rehab facility, the PRO-ACT family education program has three sessions: understanding addiction, the impact it has on the family, and developing a support network. But it wasn�t easy for the families to digest.
�It took us quite a few rehabs for us to realize that this problem is going to be around for all of his life,� said Harry Smith. �It�s got nothing to do with social circumstances or family surroundings � that I think is the hardest thing to actually believe because you want to believe that this horrible disease that they�re telling you about does not apply to your own kid.�
Beyond initial education, families are encouraged to continue their recovery. Nar-anon and al-anon meetings are an opportunity for family and friends to share their story and listen to others� experiences. And there are other support groups that don�t necessarily follow the same structure but are another avenue for recovery.
�For years I�ve been saying I just want to find a group of fathers to see what they�ve done, what�s worked, what hasn�t worked and get a little bit of strength from people who are going through the same thing,� said Harry Smith, who found a support group and goes every week.
When Anne Wilson started going to meetings, she found a sponsor and attributes much of her recovery to the support she got from him.
�Had it not been for him as a recovery person saying to me, �don�t do this,� really helping me and guiding me, I wouldn�t be where I am today,� Wilson said. Because without that support, �it�s just too hard to hang up on your kid when they�re calling from jail. And it�s too hard to get to the point where you say I don�t care if you don�t have any shoes that aren�t flip flops, I don�t care if your tooth hurts, I don�t care that you haven�t had a haircut.�
But the addicts� recovery has to be their own, and they have to face the consequences of their actions. A family member�s recovery involves education, support and taking care of themselves � in whatever avenue works best for them.
�Knowing that I couldn�t do anything that would help him at all, I decided to help other people because I felt like I needed to do something for someone,� said Mary Smith. She went to Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity and started going to Church again. �Now I feel like I have other things that I can grab on to and people that I can talk to.�


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Today in America
World AIDS Day Statement from the Black AIDS Institute
December 1, 2010
Today is World AIDS day. And while we appreciate that the world stops to reflect and recommit itself to the fight against HIV every December 1st, every day is World AIDS Day at the Black AIDS Institute because ending AIDS requires work each and every day.
Next June will mark 30 years since the first AIDS cases were diagnosed in this country. The moment brings not only an opportunity for reflection, but also for a renewed commitment from each of us to do our part to finally end the spread of this disease.
No matter how you look at it, thru the lens of gender, sexual orientation, age, class, level of education or region of the country, Black people bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in America today. Those are the facts.
Thankfully, a growing number of organizations that recognize that ending AIDS is a year-long effort are slowly joining the effort. Today in America, there's a beginning of a new era of engagement on HIV/AIDS. Now, 30 years later, the country is engaged again -- with a national HIV/AIDS strategy, new scientific breakthroughs, and possibly a renewed sense of hope that, someday, we will be Greater Than AIDS.
I believe we -- as individuals, as a community, as a nation, as a family -- can be GREATER than AIDS. Last year, the Black AIDS Institute, together with our partners at the Kaiser Family Foundation, launched a national effort to mobilize Americans in response to HIV. Greater Than AIDS is about the role that each of us can play, including getting informed, getting tested, getting treated, and getting involved. By acting together, we can be Greater than AIDS.
That's why our resolve to end AIDS must not end today. Every day, in both large and small ways, whether we realize it or not, we experience deciding moments that maintain the status quo, move us backwards or propel us forward toward our goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in our communities. Far too many of us continue to turn a blind eye or wait for someone else to solve this problem.
Action is greater than apathy.
There are some incredible individuals and institutions who demonstrate what it means to be Greater Than AIDS. Their stories -- indeed, their Deciding Moments -- challenge us to take action. There are no innocent bystanders in the fight against AIDS. What you decide to do or not to do makes a difference. Every deciding moment matters.
I have been living with HIV for 30-plus years. Every moment of my life is a deciding moment. I decide to care in the face of HIV/AIDS. I decide to fight apathy and complacency because of it. I decide to love in spite of it. Because I know it is in the caring, fighting and loving that I am greater than AIDS. And let me tell you something. Every moment of your life is a deciding moment as well. I know that you are greater than AIDS. The question is, are you willing to take action and prove it?
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Ridden by John R. Velazquez for trainer Jimmy Jerkens, Quality Road was making only the third start of his career in the one-turn mile test after a sensational debut at Aqueduct in late November and a runner-up effort at odds-on in an allowance race here Jan. 10. The imposing 17 hands bay paid $13 to win and was timed in 1:35:01 over the fast track.
Winning Jockey Quotes
John R. Velazquez:
"I knew we would have a lot of speed (coming in), but the trick was to settle him in there and make him relax. He was ready to run and run today. The closer we got to the finish (line) the stronger I felt we were getting. It's always special to win (races), but when you can pull off back-to-back (stakes) it's even more special. It was a great day."
(Velazquez won the Canadian Turf Stakes aboard Twilight Meteor the race before.)
Winning Trainer Quote
Jimmy Jerkens:
"I was glad to see him break sharp and then settle in. He came out of his last race with a little cough, but has trained great since then. We've thought a lot of him from his first start. He's got the pedigree to go on, but a one-turn mile is still basically a sprint and a lot different than going two turns. We'll talk it over before making a decision on what's next. I'm a New York guy so the Wood (Memorial on Apr. 4 at Aqueduct) might be one option. On the other hand, he's trained great over the track down here (Palm Meadows) and weather isn't likely to interrupt his schedule, so the Florida Derby is naturally a possibility. We missed the first deadline (for Triple Crown) nominations, but we'll put it up in March. It will just cost a little more."
Ken McPeek (Theregoesjojo, 2nd)
"We are really happy. We didn't lay it all down for this race. He wasn't 100% cranked and we're excited about going forward from here. I thought he ran a great race and lost to a very good horse. And believe me, the horse that won is one very impressive horse."
Ian Wilkes (Capt. Candyman Can, 4th)
"I thought he ran good. I wasn't disappointed. Of course, you always hope to win a race like this, but the main thing we wanted to see was that he had the talent to keep moving forward. We will see how he comes back, evaluate him and talk to the owners."
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So, it's not that I go out of my way, exactly, to hide from Mr. Squeak how much I spend on my scrapbooking addition--er, hobby--but I don't go out of my way to advertise it, either. Today, however, he happened to be in the office when I was putting together the credits for this page. He noticed me copying and pasting the credits from Lynnie's Store Product Link Excel Spread Sheet and asked what that was. (Lynn, he thinks this is the coolest thing ever and commends your dedication to making this! Me, too! Thanks so much!) THEN he noticed how long the credit list was...
Him: "Wait! Does this mean you actually bought all of these things?!?"
Me, slowly, knowing this cannot end well: "Um, yes."
Him, incredulous: "Do you actually use all of the things that you buy?"
Me, sidestepping: "Well, yes. For this page I just finished, I used all of these things I'm listing."
Him: "I'm sure that's not what I meant, and I'm sure you know that."
Me: "Sweetie, would it enhance your life in any way to know how much disk space my digital scrapbooking supplies use up?"
Him: "Good point! Finish up and then let's watch the series finale of 'Fringe.'"
This page is inspired by Amy M's Lots of Love challenge #1. The challenge is to make a page based on a cute Valentine's card saying. Amy's been collecting a whole bunch of these sayings in the challenge thread, and I thought it might be fun to take some of those sayings and put them all on the same page, 'cause you know, with the exception of watching the series finale of 'Fringe' and Kathleen's 30MM Masterpiece challenge, I had nothing else scheduled today. Seriously, what better way to spend a fine, sunny, warmish (mercifully, the cold snap out here seems to be abating) January Saturday than indoors doing digital scrapping?
The page design was inspired by all ya'll that are doing Project Life, as well as some things I've seen at Pinterest (seriously, how much do you looooove Pinterest!) and a page I saw at Gallery Standouts about a year ago.
ETA: in case you can't read what's written on the note the doggie is holding, here it is: "Valentine, Life would be 'ruff' without you!"
Designer Digitals Lots of Love Freebie No 1 (bow on doggie)
Lynn Grieveson
Breezy Flowers: Fancy
Breezy Hearts
Forever Mine Mini Kit
Hint at it: Love
Summer Bursts Paper Pack
Grunge Source
Drawn Hearts Paper Pack (recolored)
Cassie Jones
How'd They Do That? No. 13: Bending Shadows
Laying It All Out No. 03: Custom Stickers and Clever Layering
How'd They Do That? No. 18: Weaving Words
Pattie Knox
Call The Doctor! Kit
Cardstock Cuties: Hay Ride (altered mouse)
Coffee Klatch Kit
Cozy Crochet
Double Dutch Ribbons and Bows
DIY Laundry Line
Felt Board Friends: Barnyard Buddies
Felt Board Friends: BeeAutiful Blooms
Felt Board Friends: Something Fishy
Sanded Chip Hearts
Teacher's Pet Kit
Under the Sea Elements
Maplebrook Studio
Colbie Solids Paper Pack
Finer Things No. 01 Rose Paper Pack
Patterned Palette Super Pack No. 03
Samma Kit
Katie Pertiet
Bakers Twine Assortment No. 02
DoodleDo Arrows Brushes and Stamps No. 3
Drawn Blossoms No. 01
Game Cards: Love
Graphed Notebook December Paper Pack
Haunted Woodlands Kit
Heart Pebbles No. 03
Double Dutch Ribbons and Bows
Lesson Book Kit
Little Woodsy Kit
Mixed Bag Brushes and Stamps No. 02
Notebook JournalersPocket Pages Layered Templates No. 03
Pocketing Envelopes Layered Template No. 01
Spooktacular Kit
Mindy Terasawa
Little Creepers Stickers (tree branch)
Fonts: a whole bunch. PM me if you're interested in a specific one.
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U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, will have a series of "meet and greet" events Saturday in West Alabama.
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, will have a series of "meet and greet" events Saturday in West Alabama.
Marengo County: noon at Mr. G's Pizza, 1053 U.S. Highway 80, Demopolis
Sumter County: 1:30 p.m. at Livingston City Hall, at 201 Church St. in Livingston
Greene County: 3:30 p.m. at City Hall, at 116 Main St., Eutaw
Shelby will address the legislative agenda for the first session of the 113th Congress and important issues facing the nation and Alabama. After his remarks, Shelby will open the floor to questions and comments from the audience.
"Over the years, these meetings have provided an excellent opportunity for area residents to listen and voice their opinions on the activities of our government," Shelby said in a news release. "This will be a great chance to discuss the important issues facing our state and our nation."
Also, at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Shelby will be in Tuscaloosa to speak at the Chamber in Session breakfast at the Hotel Capstone at 320 Paul W. Bryant Drive.
Tickets to the breakfast are $25. To RSVP and buy tickets, contact Stacy Gann at 205-391-0559. The meeting is open to the public and there will be additional seating for those who don't want to buy a ticket for breakfast.
The senator also has a pair of "meet and greet" events scheduled for Feb. 18:
Hale County: 8 a.m. at Moundville City Hall, 410 Market St.
Perry County: 10 a.m. at Judson College, 302 Bibb St., in Marion.


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This week's blog is about nutritional certification. I have had
a few students ask me about the nutritional certification program
that I heard about through Standard Process. I wanted to share this
information with everyone.
The nutrition program is from the International Foundation for
Nutrition and Health (IFNH), which is a nonprofit educational
organization supporting health care professionals. The Certified
Clinician in Whole Food Nutrition (CCWFN) is 100-hour certification
program on whole food nutrition. It is designed to help
practitioners implement nutrition into their practices through the
functional model. The course is in a long distance learning that
allows practitioners to review material at their convenience as
often as they like. The Nutritional Exam incorporates many simple
hands-on tests that help the practitioner better manage his or her
patients through quick verifiable results.
The CCWFN program is divided into seven parts, each of which
consists of audio/visual lectures and supporting manuals. The seven
topics that are covered are digestion, sugar handling,
musculoskeletal, endocrine and male/female hormones dysfunction,
immune/allergy, nutritional biochemistry, signs and symptoms, and
also managing and marketing your nutritional practice.
If you would more information about the nutritional exam and
certification, please go to the CCWFN website.
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Buttermilk Spelt Bread from Plotzblog
Great recipe, I'm still working on becoming a better baker! I found this recipe on Plotzblog.de (I love Google translate!). The first I made this recipe, I understood afterwards how the buttermilk softens (my way of characterizing) the whole grain bread. I did however want "more lift" or more volume so I tried the second time and added 20% bread flour in place of the spelt.
I used a hard lid covered loaf pan, this was a mistake! The bread rose, hit the roof of the pan and didn't rise to its full potential.
The trickiest part was figuring out when the bread is done, here's the second mistake! I should've waited 24 hours to cut the loaf. After 8 hours the bread was still spongy, after 24 hours the texture improved.
Here's the link to the recipe -
http://www.ploetzblog.de/2013/05/29/leserwunsch-dinkelvollkornbrot-mit-buttermilch/ [1]


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Taiwan Plans Oil, Gas Exploration in South China Sea
Taiwan plans to start exploring for oil and gas in the South China Sea from next year, an official and local media said Friday, in a development that could increase tensions in the contested waters.
The Bureau of Mines and state-run oil supplier CPC Corp are expected to kick off exploration in 2013 in the sea around Taiping, the biggest islet in the Spratly archipelago, the United Daily News website and other media reported.
Jerry Ou, head of the Bureau of Energy, announced the plan Thursday in parliament, the paper said, adding that a budget of Tw$17 million ($585,000) had been set aside for the project.
"At the moment, it's something that's being planned by the government, and we haven't received any details yet," an official with CPC Corp told Agence France Presse, declining to be named.
The Bureau of Energy declined comment, while the Bureau of Mining was not immediately available for a reaction to the report.
Taiwan, which does not have any oil resources of its own and is dependent on imports mainly from the Middle East and Africa, would seem to have solid economic reasons for looking for new energy reserves.
However, carrying out oil and gas exploration in the Spratlys could ratchet up tensions, as the islands are claimed entirely or in part by Taiwan, Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
All claimants except Brunei have troops based on the group of more than 100 islets, reefs and atolls, which are spread across a vast area but have a total land mass of less than five square kilometres (two square miles).
Taiwan maintains a small coastguard garrison on Taiping, 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) from its southern coast, and earlier this year sent new mortar and anti-aircraft systems to the islet, angering Vietnam.


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American Forces Press Service
April 16, 2007 – A U.S. Army soldier and two Marines died during operations in Iraq recently, and another soldier died in Qatar, defense officials said.
-- A Multinational Division Baghdad soldier died yesterday when a patrol was attacked with small-arms fire in southern Baghdad. The unit was supporting an Iraqi national police unit that came under fire near a local mosque.
-- A 13th Sustainment Command soldier died April 14 from non-combat related causes during leave in Qatar. The incident is under investigation.
-- A Marine assigned to Multinational Force Iraq was killed April 14 when an improvised explosive device detonated near troops patrolling south of Baghdad on foot. -- A Marine assigned to Multinational Force West died April 14 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province. The servicemembers' names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Meanwhile, the Defense Department released the identities of one soldier and one Marine killed recently supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
-- Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Santee, 21, of Mission Viejo, Calif., died April 14 from a non-hostile vehicle accident in Anbar province. Santee was assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
-- Army Sgt. Larry R. Bowman, 29, of Granite Falls, N.C., died April 13 in Baghdad of wounds suffered when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Bowman was assigned to the 513th Transportation Company, 57th Transportation Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Two Soldiers, Two Marines Killed; DoD Identifies Previous Casualties
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Just as the events of 9/11 forced American businesses to assess their possible risks from terrorist threats, companies must also now address the likely disruptions caused by any potential discovery of bird flu in this country.
Workers' health concerns and the interruption of productivity are the chief worries of employers. Many have met with health officials and have developed their own contingency plans in the event of a public health scare.
Among the issues:
Worker shortages: A shutdown of public transportation would make it difficult for employees to get to work. In addition, shortages in manpower would result from employees becoming ill, taking time off to care for others, tending to children when school is closed, or staying home to avoid infection.
To address this concern, employers are planning for two possible back-up scenarios. One option, especially for large companies with multiple offices throughout the country, is to divert workloads to other locations. In some cases, employees may be expected to work from home.
As an individual, you should talk to your manager about the company's contingency plans in the event of an outbreak. Ask how information will be conveyed and shared among staffers.
Does the company have a toll-free number for employees to check in? This proved to be a very valuable resource during Hurricane Katrina, enabling employees to notify their companies about their whereabouts and their ability to work. On the flip side, these toll free numbers also provided details from the employer to its workers on location closings and other up-to-the-minute information.
If you think you may be required to work from home, do you have the necessary back-up files and equipment? This may include a computer, Internet access, phone, access to files or other key information.
Even though the health and safety of you and your family will no doubt be your primary concern, don't underestimate the importance of securing your employment and finances ahead of time. If the government should announce that bird flu has been reported in the US, ask your employer about payroll and benefits plans.
In the case of Hurricane Katrina, when the magnitude of the damage was realized, many employers extended pay and benefits to all staffers for a specified amount of time—ranging from a week to three months -- even though these people were unable to report for work. If you don't already participate in a direct deposit program, sign up now. Those who were not yet signed up prior to Katrina had great difficulty in receiving the funds. (By the way, even in the absence of natural disasters or other work disruptions, direct deposit affords employees with many great benefits, including speed of funds availability.)
Depending on the nature of its business, your employer may also offer drills and seminars on how to respond in the event of a health scare and what role employees are expected to carry out and/or how their role, if critical to the company's function, would be filled in their absence. If you're unaware of such information, ask your manager or your HR department. Proper planning and advance knowledge keeps everyone informed and helps prevent panic, which is especially beneficial in times of potential crisis.
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Golgol Mebrahtu took an age - well, 26 games - to notch his first ever A-League goal. Now it seems the African migrant, who came to Australia as a youngster, cannot stop scoring.
His sixth minute strike gave Melbourne Heart a dream New Years Day start against the Newcastle Jets, who had come into this game with the motivational benefit of a pep talk by cricketing legend Sir Viv Richards, who hails from Antigua, the country of origin of Jets marquee player Emile Heskey's family.
So often this season Heart has got itself into positions to win games, only to blow it. This time it managed to keep its nerve, running out 2-1 winners thanks to some fine work by Mebrahtu and debutant goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne. The latter overcame his concession of an early penalty to make two good saves from headers by the former England striker Heskey to preserve his side's lead in the second half.
The victory lifts Heart off the foot of the table and gives them 15 points, one less than the Jets, after 14 rounds.
Mebrahtu's opening goal was his second in two games, the Somali born striker having also netted early in Heart's 3-2 loss to Wellington on December 27.
It brought his total to three in three weeks - the goal which broke his duck and gave his team a last minute win against Perth Glory came in Round 10, early in December - and in the form the youngster is in he could well add to that tally given more opportunities.
And on this display why wouldn't Heart coach John Aloisi use the speedster more often?
The knock on Mebrahtu was that while he had pace to burn and got himself into good positions he lacked the composure to make the most of those opportunities.
Aloisi has spoken all season about how hard the 22-year-old has worked in training on improving his finishing. Hampered by injury, Mebrahtu was not available much at the start of the season but it now looks as though that effort is paying off.
Mebrahtu still has his speed - at times when he could gallop into clear space he quickly outpace his pursuers. But he also has the confidence now to accept and even demand the ball to be played to feet in tight areas. Against the Jets he showed he had touch and guile as well as sheer velocity as he came close to picking up short passes, played one-twos and even got back to the edge of his own penalty area to help defend attacks.
Aloisi had made six changes to the side that surrendered that two goal lead in Wellington for a game that had, as a result of his side's lack of recent results, assumed critical importance. Aziz Behich, Richard Garcia, Simon Colosimo and Patrick Gerhardt all came into the starting line up, as expected. Jonathan Germano's inclusion in midfield was hardly a surprise either, the Argentinian now back in the groove after injury kept him out of action for the first half of the season.
Less foreseen, however , was the relegation to the substitutes bench of veteran goalkeeper and dual Heart player of the year Clint Bolton. The 37-year-old is fit and healthy, so this was the first time in the club's history that he had missed a game when available for selection.
It did give Redmayne the chance to make his debut for the club, however, and perhaps foreshadows a changing of the guard. Great as Bolton has been, he cannot go on for ever, and at 23 Redmayne is surely the face of the future.
That future might have looked pretty bleak, at least momentarily, for the former Central Coast and Brisbane Roar back up goalkeeper as he was guilty of conceding a penalty in the 16th minute, hauling down Ryan Griffiths as he bore in on goal. Some referees would have reached automatically for the red card, but Chris Beath judged that Griffiths, while the last man, was running away from goal, and although it was a clear foul and a penalty he gave Redmayne a yellow card.
Griffiths, who had been played through by Heskey after the latter had intercepted the ball in Heart's half, made no mistake to put the Jets level following Mehbratu's opener.
That had come about through a Jets blunder when a loose ball was played into midfield and intercepted by Fred, the Heart skipper. His pass found Josip Tadic, who weighted his delivery to the overlapping Mehbratu perfectly and the African finished nicely under the body of Jets keeper Mark Birighitti.
The latter showed midway through the first half that Redmayne was not the only keeper who could blot his copybook by conceding a penalty. Birighitti had come out to claim a bouncing ball from a Tadic flick and got to it well enough but, as he ran out he was put under pressure and lost control. The ball fell to Germano, who had his legs whipped from under him by the desperate goalkeeper.
Beath again pointed to the spot and, perhaps in a mellow New Year's mood, dispensed another yellow card rather than the red which could have made it a shocking start to 2013 for the Jets keeper. Tadic kept his cool and blasted his penalty high and hard, giving Birighitti little chance.
Redmayne, the penalty aside, had been little troubled on his debut but he had shown enough by dealing with a handful of corners and crosses before he was forced to make his first real save, tipping wide a long shot from former Heart player Craig Goodwin.
Heart had the chances to secure their lead and make life easier for themselves. Garcia's fierce drive was beaten away, and Germano should have scored with a free header from a well worked short corner between Fred and Mehbratu, the latter's cross finding Germano in space on the far post.
Heskey's strength made him a handful whenever the ball came in his direction, and his header early in the second half forced Redmayne into another fine save.


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The Barrier Island Group for the Arts (BIG ARTS) is pleased to announce our 35th Anniversary and new season for Schein Performance Hall, Founders Gallery, Phillips Gallery and Herb Strauss Theater. In wide-ranging programming that covers more than 250 performances of theater, dance, music of all kinds, educational lectures, film series and productions for young people, BIG ARTS continues its commitment to producing and presenting the best of national and international arts to residents and visitors of Sanibel, Captiva and surrounding Southwest Florida regions.
Series sampler subscriptions, special discount packages and individual tickets for the 2013-2014 season are on sale now. Tickets may be purchased online at bigarts.org, by calling the Marks Box Office at 395-0900 or the Herb Strauss Theater Box Office 472-6862 and at BIG ARTS, 900 Dunlop Road.
"For our 35th season, BIG ARTS' theater, dance and music programming will continue our tradition to provide cultural enrichment as well as entertain, delight and surprise our audiences," said BIG ARTS Executive Director Lee Ellen Harder.
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Schein Performance Hall features some of the most innovative dance and musical performers in the world as well as distinguished speakers and thought-provoking film series designed to invite spirited discussions after each film. Founders & Phillips Galleries showcase an array of art exhibitions throughout the year and we are especially honored to host the annual International Society of Experimental Artists Juried Art Exhibit (ISEA) this year. As always, our art exhibits are free and open to the public.
Under the leadership of Production Manager Bobby Logue, Herb Strauss Theater will stage a variety of professional productions, ranging from the critically-acclaimed one-man show Hamlet to the hit Broadway musical, Into the Woods. BIG ARTS will also offer special events this year in multiple genres, including classical Steinway artists, The Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo, and popular jazz artist, John Pizzarelli. In support of the vast pool of local talent, our Community Collaborations include performances by Dance Alliance, Southwest Florida Symphony, BIG ARTS Community Players, BIG ARTS Community Chorus as well as BIG ARTS Concert Band, which is now under the new direction of Mike Lamade.
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Returning to Sanibel as the featured performer for this special BIG ARTS fundraising event, please save the date for John Pizzarelli Quartet in concert on Jan. 24. The jazz performance will be followed by a fine wine and dessert reception. You also won't want to miss the splendor of two of Steinway's finest artists as the Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo takes their place at two Steinway grand pianos on stage in Schein Performance Hall. The special event concert will be followed by a champagne reception and tickets are on sale now.
The Herb Strauss Theater features the humorous murder mystery, "Art of Murder," a BIG ARTS Community Players production directed by Peter Sterns this October before kicking off its full season of professional productions, which includes the internationally acclaimed one-man "Hamlet" starring Raoul Bhaneja: an original fun-filled musical, "Holiday Spectacular," written and directed by Bobby Logue and John Ramsey; Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony-award winning musical, "Into the Woods," the thought-provoking drama, "Defamation," in which the audience is the jury; the light-hearted musical, "Romance/Romance," with book and lyrics by Barry Harman and music by Keith Herrmann; and closing out the season with the hysterical madcap musical, "The Big Bang," with music by Jed Feuer and book and lyrics by Boyd Graham. New this year, tickets to all Herb Strauss Theater performances are only $5 each for students with valid student ID and for children 17 and under.
-Family Programming
In addition to the summer arts camp, BIG ARTS offers several events specifically selected to appeal to the entire family. This season features a fantastical dance and musical performance by ArcheDream for HUMANKIND; National Geographic LIVE! speaker, Greg Marshall, inventor of the Crittercam; the 2nd Annual Photography Scavenger Hunt; and the free BIG ARTS Family Day in May. New this year, tickets to most family programs are only $5 each for students with valid student ID and for children 17 and under.
The Classical Afternoon series opens with a concert by the winner of the 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Stanislav Khistenko, in December, and continues with a performance by violinist Miroslav Hristov and pianist, Vladimir Valjarevic, featuring works by Liszt, Bartok and Kodaly in January, before ending with chamber musician, cellist Dmitry Kouzov accompanied by pianist Peter Laul. Evening classical music concerts include internationally prize-winning ensembles, Calidore Quartet and The Faur Quartett. Tickets to classical concerts are free for children 17 and under as well as for students with a valid student ID but must be reserved in advance.
This season's roster of jazz, pop and contemporary musicians includes popular American folksinger and 2009 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Tom Paxon; the Rossano Sportiello/Nicki Parrott/Eddie Metz Trio featuring Harry Allen offers a journey through "The Great American Songbook;" The Piano Men Starring Jim Witter performs a musical journey through the 70's, featuring the song of Billy Joel and Elton John; while Country Royalty rounds out the season with Jason Petty & Carolyn Martin's Musical Tribute to Hank Williams and Patsy Cline. Tickets to all jazz, pop and contemporary performances are only $5 each for students with valid student ID and for children 17 and under.
The universal language of dance will be showcased this season through the artistry of Dance Alive National Ballet and Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater. The award-winning troupes will awe audiences of all ages with stunning performances. Tickets to all dance performances are only $5 each for students with valid student ID and for children 17 and under.
-Visual Arts
All visual arts exhibits are free and open to the public, including the ISEA Annual International Juried Exhibition & Symposium, Sanibel Captiva Art League, Big & Small Buy It Off the Wall, Based on Books, Gordon Coughlin Retrospective, Latin Beat, Trick of the Light: Black and White Photo Show, It's Illuminating, Eliza Brewster: Quilts and Prints, Beyond the Refrigerator Door (children's exhibit) and Open Doors (children's exhibit). In addition to the artwork on display, tickets are available for ART Poems and ARTSalons, which this season includes speakers Andrew Kurtz, Lydia Black, David Acevedo and Martha Graham.
-Community Collaborations
Featuring productions and performances by Dance Alliance, Wendy Webb, BIG ARTS Community Players, Writers Read, BIG ARTS Community Chorus, BIG ARTS Concert Band and three classical concerts by Southwest Florida Symphony, the new season offers a wide array of programming for all ages. Don't forget, tickets to most Community Collaborations events are free for children 17 and under as well as students with a valid student ID.
Experts in their fields, each renowned speaker in The FORUM lecture series will discuss a topical and key issue of our time. The 2013-2014 docket includes Luis Rubio (topic: Mexico), Tarek Masoud (topic: Egypt/Syria), David M. Walker (topic: U.S. economy), John Dickerson (topic: mid-term elections), Edward Luce (topic: India), Nicholas Eberstadt (topic: U.S. demographics), Anne-Marie Slaughter (topic: foreign policy) and Christie Todd Whitman (topic: the environment).
The popular Monday Night, Not for Monday Night and Documentary film series return with a slate of intriguing titles, such as "No, Barbara and Ginger and Rosa". Each Monday night screening is followed by a complementary reception and discussion led by knowledgeable film aficionados. A special chocolate and wine tasting reception followed by a Monday Night Film selection will be featured on Feb. 10.


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In 2004, the United States dedicated a long-awaited memorial to the 16 million men and women who served in the armed forces during World War II, the 400,000 who died in Europe and the Pacific and those who toiled in factories on the home front. A GATHERING OF HEROES recounts the touching and inspirational story of World War II veterans from Indiana who embarked on a cross-country trek to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorial which honors their sacrifice. D
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Susan Wu, MBA '06: Passionate about building great consumer products
"Though venture capital can be rewarding, I missed the opportunity to work with a closely knit team to build something extraordinary," Wu says. "I have the utmost respect for all the entrepreneurs, hackers, and self starters out there who defy the odds to work for what they believe in."
Selected as one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2009, Wu is noted as "The first venture capitalist to focus on virtual goods -- products that don't exist offline, such as Facebook gifts and everything your avatar needs in Second Life." (See http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2009/susan-wu) Virtual goods provide the revenue stream for Ohai, as well.
"Being the CEO of a startup is the hardest job I've ever had," says Wu. "Every day there are innumerable, unforeseen emergencies that arise, no playbook, and you just have to do the best job you possibly can. This has simultaneously been the most challenging and most rewarding year of my life so far."
Wu, whose experience includes volunteering and working for the Apache Software Foundation, a leading open source software organization, says that her open source background is "incredibly related to everything" that she does now. She pinpoints a couple of valuable lessons she has learned from working with the open source community:
- It can be powerful (and world changing) to align peoples' individual passions in a focused, coordinated way.
- Decentralized community movements can be so much more effective and resilient than firm structures.
Wu and her team are excited about Ohai because they are building something they believe in. "[We believe] that something like a game can transform peoples' everyday lives, and that through the daily practice of playfulness, we can learn something about ourselves and grow," says Wu.
In an entry on her blog at Ohai, Wu compares her daily practice of yoga to the daily 'practice' of playing an MMO: "...if an MMO could help you feel heroic and accomplished, a little bit each day, how would that translate over time into a new kind of muscle memory? What could you be in your everyday life if you felt heroic rather than defeated and hopeless? And if you felt heroic and acted as such, how would that then spread to your friends?"
"Play is not frivolous," says Wu. "It's necessary!"


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After Australian rugby player Kurtley Beale squandered the opportunity to kick the Wallabies to a famous victory over the British & Irish Lions, GiveMeSport takes a look at the costliest slips in the world of sport.
The others, lamentably, are all by Englishmen who have captained their country, as Fox Sports Australia were keen to point out.
3. David Beckham
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The former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder failed to live up to his reputation as a legendary set-piece taker against Turkey in 2003. Beckham had elected to take the crunch penalty for England, with scores level in the European Championship qualifier, when he had his own Beale moment. He also missed a penalty in their defeat to Portugal at Euro 2004.
2. John Terry
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Chelsea's Barking-born 'captain, leader, legend' had one penalty kick from 12 yards to win the club their first UEFA Champions League title in 2008. Yet, the skipper fell victim to a rain-soaked Moscow pitch and, after 120 minutes of near deadlock against major rivals Manchester United, Terry missed the Blues' only chance to win the dreaded shootout.
1. Mike Atherton
Perhaps most agonisingly of all, the England cricketer suffered from dismal luck against Australia in an Ashes Test at Lord's in 1993. His slip caused him to be run-out on the verge of achieving a century at the Home of Cricket, a feat that he never achieved during his career. Worse still, he was already on 99 not-out and going for a regulation third run.
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Bobby & Steve's Healthful Adventure
Retailer aims to help customers eat well with new snacks and beverage offer.
When first lady Michelle Obama called out the c-store industry a few years ago for its lack of healthful options in food deserts, many retailers reacted with anger or frustration. But for Bobby & Steve's Auto World, the criticism served as a call to action.
"She painted a picture I believe to be inaccurate, that in these food deserts, c-stores serve only junk food," says Jared Scheeler, director of retail operations for the seven-store, Eden Prairie, Minn.- based chain. "The standard product mix you see in the c-store technically carries a certain amount of nutritional value.
"Not everything is junk," he says. "We certainly do have some good, healthy products. It's just that to overcome that stereotype, we had to expand on it."
So in 2011, Bobby & Steve's began testing its Eat Well program, which aims to introduce a greater selection of healthful, all-natural and gluten-free snack and beverage options to customers. The chain, which sells fuel, has an average of seven service bays per site and offers towing services and car washes, had built its business on everything automotive. But it also prides itself on being forward thinking and innovative inside the store.
"Because of the trends in health and a greater focus on health and fitness in this country, you've got to think that the typical c-store will carry a fair amount of healthier snacks in the future," says Scheeler. "We said: Why don't we do that right now? Why don't we be the first ones to market, and create an identity as a healthy retailer in our market and build upon that?"
Bobby & Steve's began working with United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI), Providence, R.I., a distributor specializing in natural, organic and specialty foods, after being referred by its main wholesaler, Naperville, Ill.-based Eby-Brown Co.
In building the offer, UNFI targeted the best-selling healthful, natural and gluten-free snack and beverage items in supermarkets, ultimately settling on a core of about 75 SKUs. "We're able to zero in on what's coming out of the warehouse that they're pulling from, and what's coming out of the channel that they are pulling from," says Mary Jo Marks, retail training and education department manager for UNFI, which operates 13 warehouses across the country.
Bobby & Steve's and UNFI took a cautious approach to product selection. The companies strived to build a great attraction for working moms, while not turning off the average c-store consumer. As Marks explains, long-term success is all about taking baby steps.
"One of the first things you look at," Marks says, "is 'Who is my customer?' If they are asking for natural products, I want to bring in those baseline products where they won't get sticker shock." The next level is to add organic items in a "middle of the road" price range.
That said, Bobby & Steve's believes consumers seeking these products will pay a little more for them. In its research before launching the Eat Well program, the retailer learned that the average ticket for a consumer of healthful snacks is $2 higher than that of an average c-store consumer—or about $11.20, according to research from The NPD Group.
"You're typically going to see a higher price point on the healthier snacks just because the manufacturers have a lot more overhead than mainstream large distributors and manufacturers," says Scheeler. "However, consumers looking for that product know they will have to pay a premium for a healthier, better product and are willing to do that."
Putting It Together
As a retailer builds its offer, pricing becomes more favorable, Marks says. She suggests retailers track sales of certain "indicator" items to determine whether customers have the appetite for a more advanced offering. For example, she cites kombucha, a fermented tea beverage, as well as organic yogurt and kale chips, as products that indicate a deeper demand for healthful items. And while kombucha—a highly perishable, specialized product—is not a natural c-store fit, Bobby & Steve's found great success with GT's Synergy kombucha-juice blend from Millennium Products.
To make room for the healthful items, Bobby & Steve's originally had planned to drop the bottom 20% of snack and beverage SKUs, but it has since decided to simply add to the current sets.
"Through some help with merchandising, we were able to keep most of the products we were currently carrying while adding our healthy product," says Scheeler. "Going forward, as we carry this product into other stores, we are not afraid of eliminating that bottom 20% if needed."
The decision not to cut low performers was based partly on a desire to build upon the current customer base, rather than swap out demographics. "We felt if we could appeal to a new segment that really didn't have a place in our store before without alienating our existing base that we could really help our business," says Scheeler. "And the results have shown it."
Bobby & Steve's goal for the Eat Well products was a 4% lift in in-store sales. In fact, sales have grown by double digits over the past two years, which Scheeler attributes partly to the Eat Well program. "That's growth we hadn't seen at those stores ever in the 15 years' existence of our program," he says. Also, UNFI has risen to be Bobby & Steve's fourth-largest distributor, after Eby-Brown, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo—and ahead of the mainstream-snack DSD distributors.Packaged beverages has seen the highest boost in sales, simply because the previous healthful options were so slim. The other category that has benefited greatly is alternative snacks. The team was concerned about how healthful chips would perform alongside traditional varieties, but it has been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of items such as PopChips, as well as vegetable-based chips such as lentil and black bean.
"From our first full year with the Eat Well program, we saw a 20% increase in that category alone," says Scheeler.
In a departure from many c-store retailers' approach to healthful items— placing items in a dedicated section— Bobby & Steve's decided to integrate the items inline with the main sets. It is an approach that reflects the retailer's investment in the business of healthful eating.
"Right now you typically see if a c-store carries a line of healthy products, it's either a 4-foot set in a gondola or endcap. To me, that communicates: We're dabbling in this but we're not really committed to it," says Scheeler.
"Having the product scattered throughout the store communicates to our consumers that this is part of the fabric of who we are as a retailer," he continues. "You don't have to go to this section to find something that's healthy. We've got a whole store and have it marked with specific icons on the shelf to indicate which products fall within certain health categories."
To help customers easily find Eat Well items, Bobby & Steve's developed three icons to identify products in three specific health categories, beginning with "healthy," which is any item that contains 200 or fewer calories per serving, has 10% or less of the recommended daily value (RDV) of fat, 10% or less of the RDV of saturated fat, and 5% or less of the RDV of cholesterol.
The next category is "all-natural," which includes any items labeled by the manufacturer as such; and finally, "gluten-free." Some items may qualify for more than one category. The retailer has placed the icons right next to the shelf tag of the Eat Well products, and it developed store signage to explain the coding system. It plans to expand to outdoor signage as the program rolls out to the chain's other five stores this month.
While Bobby & Steve's has found success with new items, it also has realized how much of its traditional offering already met the program's requirements.
"Packaged nuts, PowerBars, Clif bars, Slim-Fast bars, various beverages—things we already had in our stores. ... We were surprised by how much of it already fell within these categories, and we wanted to market it as well, in addition to bringing in the new products," says Scheeler.
Bobby & Steve's tested the program at two of its highest-volume, highest-traffic stores, one in downtown Minneapolis and another in Bloomington, Minn. While Scheeler acknowledges that demographics partly played a role in the site selection—choosing stores in more affluent neighborhoods where it would have the highest possibility of success—the goal is to make the program work in every location, regardless of the customer profile.
Sites with the highest demand will get the largest product mix and variety, while those with lower demand will have an edited mix. "However, the program will still be available in every store, and we are going to work hard to develop the reputation as a healthy convenience store," Scheeler says.
Next Steps
Not every Eat Well offering has been a runaway success. For example, when the program first began, Bobby & Steve's introduced take-home sizes of healthful snacks, which did not sell. It has since shifted to single-serve, grab-and-go packages.
Another area the retailer is still trying to crack: edible grocery and frozen meals. Madalena Ferreira, retail captain for Bobby & Steve's, believes better marketing may be one of the solutions. "When customers come into the store, they are directed to snacks and packaged beverages, and you only go to the grocery aisle if you really need something," she says.
"So that's going to need education on our part, to let consumers know we do offer products in those categories."
Marks of UNFI says healthful frozen meals are a tricky sell in c-stores because they tend to be pricey, and supermarkets already carry such a large variety. A more viable offer could be frozen nondairy novelties such as soy ice-cream bars, or handheld burritos, which can be eaten on the go. To figure out the right healthful mix, retailers need to be willing to try and err, she says.
"It's educating the consumer, and having the offerings like Bobby & Steve's," says Marks. "And they are working on it—'If that didn't work, let's try this.' They're not giving up. Sometimes people put [healthful] in a box. It's not that it's not working; you just haven't hit on what works."
Once Bobby & Steve's rolls the program out to all locations, it will focus next on foodservice. The company already offers a variety of healthful food options—sandwiches, salads, wraps, fresh fruit, yogurt parfaits, veggie bowls and pasta salads—but has not yet highlighted them with signage or labeling. This next leg will be somewhat more involved, requiring the retailer to formulate nutritional values for all of its foodservice items, in addition to new labeling.
Another next step: adding organic to the Eat Well program. While Bobby & Steve's already sells several organic items, it does not call them out with signage. The company plans to formalize the offer slowly, partly because organic items tend to carry a premium price point. "We've had individual products that if they approach the $6 to $7 range, it doesn't get a response from the consumer we need, and it's something we certainly have to watch out for," he says.
Bobby & Steve's is hopeful that as the Eat Well program expands and matures, customers' perception of healthful food offerings in the c-store channel will as well. "Consumers will ultimately drive what the standard c-store carries," says Scheeler. "We have study after study indicating the average American is looking for healthier options. They are more likely to frequent stores with healthier options.
"As more companies like Bobby & Steve's Auto World get ahead of the game and provide services like this to our customers, then going forward, I think the average consumer will demand this in a c-store."


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To win the Senior Babe Ruth title, UMB?Bank knew what it had to do Tuesday night in doubleheader against Edward Jones.
To win the Senior Babe Ruth title, UMB?Bank knew what it had to do Tuesday night in doubleheader against Edward Jones.
Win both games or even split with Edward Jones and the Senior Babe Ruth title was theirs for the 2012 season. However if UMB?Bank somehow managed to lose both games, they would be tied for a share of the lead with Edward Jones.
As it turned out UMB Bank decided that winning both games would be easier, as they defeated Edward Jones by the scores of 7-1 and 7-5.
In the final-team standings, UMB Bank finished the season with a record of 7-1 overall. Edward Jones placed second at 3-5 while Alliant Bank finished third at 2-6.
In the first game of the doubleheader, UMB?Bank jumped out to stay against Edward Jones by pushing across two runs in the top-half of the first on two walks, a lead-off double by Mitchell Hackman and a RBI-single by Jacob Francis.
Of course UMB Bank didn't stop there. While holding Edward Jones scoreless in its half of the first, UMB?Bank came back and plated another run in the top-half of the second on the RBI-triple by Hackman to go up 3-0. Then, after another scoreless inning by Edward Jones, UMB?Bank sent one run across in the top-half of the third when Jalen Poindexter led off with a single and scored on the RBI-double by Francis to make it 4-0.
Edward Jones didn't go down without a fight, though. In the bottom-half of the third, Edward Jones finally got on the board with one run on back-to-back singles by Nathan Small and Addison Jobe.
Unfortunately for Edward Jones, they never got any closer in the ballgame as UMB?Bank came back and tacked on another run in the fourth on singles each by Andrew Tutin and Mitchell Hackman and a ground rule double for an RBI by Poindexter. Then, in the fifth, UMB Bank added yet another run when Jeremy Davis led off with a ground rule double and scored on the RBI-triple by John Reese.
Kyle VanderLinden picked up the win on the mound for UMB?Bank while Caleb Hein took the loss for Edward Jones. VanderLinden pitched all seven innings and struck out six batters while giving up one run on three hits and one walk. Hein, meanwhile, went the distance for Edward Jones and surrendered seven runs on 14 hits and three walks while striking out eight.
UMB Bank also out-hit Edward Jones 14-3, with Mitchell Hackman going 3-for-4 with a single, double and a triple.
Jeremy Davis was 2-for-4 with two doubles while John Reese had a single and a triple, Jalen Poindexter and Jacob Francis each with a single and a double, Kyle VanderLinden with one double and Tyler Spence and Andrew Tutin each with one single.
For Edward Jones, Jeffrey Jackson, Nathan Small and Addison Jobe each had one single.
In the nightcap, Edward Jones took the early lead with two runs in the first on one walk, a single by Tanner Hulbert and RBI-singles each by Dylan Albertson and D.L. Green.
Meanwhile, after holding UMB Bank scoreless in its half of the first, Edward Jones came back and added one run in the second on four walks and one again in the third when D.L. Green led off with a double and scored on the RBI-single by Aaron Waibel to make it 4-0.
Needless to say the game was far from being over. In the bottom-half of the third, UMB Bank sent one run across on the two-out solo home run by Jalen Poindexter to cut the lead to three at 4-1.
Then, after both teams failed to score in the fourth inning, UMB?Bank rallied back again with six runs in the fifth on one walk, two errors, a RBI-double by Kenny Edwards, a two-RBI double by Jeremy Davis and a RBI-double by Jacob Francis to go up for the first time in the game by a score of 7-4.
Edward Jones then plated one run in the sixth on the RBI-single by Dylan Albertson to end the scoring.
John Reese was the pitcher of record in the game for UMB Bank while Addison Jobe took the loss for Edward Jones.
Jared Oser started the game for UMB Bank and pitched the first-four innings, giving up four runs on four hits and five walks while striking out four. John Reese then came in and pitched one inning in relief and allowed one run on one hit while striking out one. Then, to finish the game, Jalen Poindexter pitched two innings and issued one run on one hit while striking out one.
For Edward Jones, Jobe pitched the first-five innings and yielded seven runs on five hits and one walk while striking out six. D.L. Green then came in and pitched one inning in relief and struck out one batter.
Jacob Francis went 2-for-3 in the game for UMB?Bank with a single and a double. Jalen Poindexter was 1-for-3 with a home run while Jeremy Davis doubled and Tyler Spence singled.
For Edward Jones, Dylan Albertson went 2-for-4 with two singles. Caleb Hein doubled while D.L. Green, Dallas Franklin and Aaron Waibel each singled.


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With the London LinuxWorld Expo coming up next month I thought it's worth letting everyone know about the offer on LPI Exams at the event.
A great way to get into Linux Certification with a vendor neutral linux certification programme.
Full conference delegates can take the 101 / 102 exams for free (ie. those paying for a days attendance or more).
Those attending the event for free get half price tests £40, instead of the usual £80.
Details of my first LPI certification exam taken at LinuxWorld Expo last year
The exams at LinuxWorld Expo are paper based, rather than the computer based version offered at most test centres, but the questions are the same, it just takes a little longer to get the results.
You can take 101 and 102 in any order, and can attempt both at the conference without having pass one first.
If you want to get an idea of what the exams involve you can test yourself on the Penguin Tutor (unofficial) LPI practice exams.
Get yourself on track to certification with the LPI exams.
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Good luck to anyone that takes the exams a LinuxWorld Expo, London.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - After losing for only the second time in 20 games on Friday, the Anaheim Ducks will try to get back in the win column when they visit the St. Louis Blues for Saturday's clash at Scottrade Center.
Anaheim was aiming to become the second team in NHL history to win 19 times in a 20-game span Friday evening in Chicago, but the Ducks fell behind early and were never able to catch the Blackhawks in a 4-2 loss at United Center.
The loss -- Anaheim's first since Dec. 29 in San Jose -- halted an eight-game winning streak for the Pacific Division leaders and it came two days after the Ducks routed Vancouver by a 9-1 score.
Marian Hossa scored a pair of goals, including a key empty-net score in the final eight seconds, to help the Blackhawks cool off the Ducks. Hossa also scored short-handed midway through the opening period and Kris Versteeg followed with a goal in the first to stake Chicago to a 2-0 lead at the end of 20 minutes.
Bryan Bickell made it a 3-0 game with 9:47 left in the third, but Ryan Getzlaf scored with 6:13 remaining for the Ducks and Kyle Palmieri made it a one-goal game just 53 seconds later.
Anaheim went with an extra skater twice over the final minute-plus of regulation, but were unable to get the equalizer before Hossa put the crucial insurance goal into the empty cage.
"We didn't come ready to play, to meet them," said Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau. "And maybe with all the press we've gotten in the last days some guys just weren't ready for this."
Ducks goaltender Jonas Hiller lost for the first time since Dec. 3, ending his club-record win streak at 14 games and remaining tied with Tom Barrasso for the second-most consecutive wins in one season by a goaltender.
Backup goaltender Frederik Andersen could give Hiller a breather on Saturday with the Ducks playing on back-to-back days.
The Ducks won the first of three scheduled meetings against the Blues on Dec. 7, taking the contest at Scottrade Center by a 5-2 score. Andrew Cogliano scored twice for Anaheim, which has won four of five in the series overall and two of three in St. Louis.
The Blues have lost two of their last three games, but they hope to get a boost Saturday with the return of leading goal-scorer Alexander Steen. The Swedish winger was activated from injured reserve on Friday and is ready to go after missing the last 11 games with a concussion.
"I think we're going to play him as much as he can handle," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said after Friday's practice. "Hopefully he can get up to speed right away and play the minutes that he did before and contribute the way he did before because he was a huge impact player for us."
Despite having not played since Dec. 21, Steen is still leading the Blues with 24 goals, which ties his career-best for tallies in a season. David Backes is second on St. Louis with 17 goals.
St. Louis could certainly use the offensive help considering the club has scored a total of four goals over its last three outings. The Blues last were in action on Thursday when they dropped a 4-1 home decision against the Los Angeles Kings, who received 28 saves from goaltender Jonathan Quick.
T.J. Oshie provided the sole offense for the Blues, who suffered their first home defeat since a 4-2 setback to San Jose on Dec. 17. St. Louis had won five straight as the host before Thursday's setback and is still 18-4-2 as the home club this season.
Jaroslav Halak stopped 27 shots, but was his own worst enemy on a key score in the final period. It was a 3-1 game at 4:21 of the third, just 10 seconds after Los Angeles forward Jeff Carter was whistled for hooking, when Halak collected a dump-in behind his net, but failed to see Trevor Lewis in pursuit. Lewis picked up the disc, circled the net and tucked it inside the left post.
"I think I made a mistake at the worst possible time with the game on the line for us. Will take blame for this one. We lost two points because of me," said Halak.
Brian Elliott, who is 13-2-2 with a .925 save percentage and 1.87 goals against average this season, will get the start Saturday. He is 1-2-2 with a 3.45 GAA in six career games against the Ducks.
The Blues are capping a three-game homestand tonight and will begin a four- game road trip Monday in Detroit.