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Friends and family say a final goodbye to formal FSU President Stanley Marshall.
A memorial service was held for Marshall today at Trinity United Methodist Church in Tallahassee.
He died last Sunday in Westminster Oaks Retirement Community.
He was 91.
Marshall served as FSU's president from 1969-1976.
In 1987, he founded the James Madison Institute, a think tank for public policy.
Folks gathered for a reception at the church following the ceremony.
He was a teacher, a businessman, a college president and the founder of a respected think tank.
It's all part of former FSU President Stanley Marshall's legacy.
Doctor Marshall passed away at the age of 91.
He served as FSU president from 1969 to 76.
Marshall served on the school's board of trustees as recently as 2005.
In 1987, he founded the James Madison Institute, a think tank for public policy.
"He would come in until the last days," said Institute CEO Bob McClure. "And when he wasn't able to drive, his wonderful wife of over 50 years Shirley would drive him here," he said. "He would come in every couple of weeks, but he was always interested, sharp as a tack," McClure said.
Doctor Marshall stayed committed to higher education long after his tenure as FSU president and board of trustee member were over.
He served on Florida's Board of Governors from 2004 until 2012.
Marshall's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Monday, June 16th at Tallahassee's Trinity United Methodist Church.
TALLAHASEE, Fla. (AP) -- Former Florida State President J. Stanley Marshall has died. He was 91.
A spokeswoman at the James Madison Institute confirmed that Marshall passed Sunday at home in the Westminster Oaks retirement community in Tallahassee after suffering from illness in recent years.
Marshall was named Florida State president in 1969 and served for seven years. He founded the James Madison Institute in 1987.
Marshall served in the United States Army during World War II and was Florida State's president amid heavy protests to the Vietnam War and during the civil rights movement. His book "The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University" was published in 2006.
Marshall was married to wife Shirley for almost 50 years, and the pair had five children and 13 grandchildren.


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Aracelis "Cuquie" Moore passed away November 9, 2012.
She will be missed greatly by her family and friends. Cuquie loved to worship the Lord, spend time with family, laughing and always wearing a smile on her face. She and her husband, Clark, had passion for missions. Cuquie was a loving and caring person, devoted wife, mother, sister and friend, always thinking of others first. "To know her was to love her."
Survivors include her husband Clark Moore, daughter Carole Moore, son Lee Moore, mother Julia Santos, brother JR Gonzalez and sister Nellie Montecalvo.

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Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this big screen adaptation of the amazing true story that inspired the world and captured the hearts of millions. When a family of gray whales is trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle, a small-town reporter (Krasinski) teams up with his volunteer-environmentalist ex (Barrymore) to rally an unlikely coalition of Alaskan natives, oil tycoons and the Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales before it's too late. Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney & Ted Danson co-star in this feel-good family movie, which is based on the real-life events of 1988's Operation Breakthrough, detailed in Thomas Rose's book "Freeing the Whales".
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TORONTO (AP) — Kole Calhoun hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, C.J. Wilson won his eighth straight decision and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Wednesday night.
Mark Trumbo hit a two-run home run, his career-high 33rd, and Josh Hamilton had three hits as the Angels won for the ninth time in 12 meetings with the Blue Jays.
Mike Trout drew a one-out walk off Steve Delabar (5-3) in the eighth and went to third on Hamilton's double. Trumbo was intentionally walked to load the bases for Calhoun, who hit a sacrifice fly to left.
Calhoun went 1 for 2 with two sacrifice flies, helping the Angels win for the fifth time in seven games.
Wilson (16-6) allowed four runs, three earned, in seven innings to match his career-high in victories, first set with Texas in 2011. The left-hander, who has not lost since July 5 against Boston, walked four and struck out six. He's 12-1 with a 3.02 ERA in 17 starts since June 14.
Dane De La Rosa worked the eighth and Ernesto Frieri finished for his 32nd save in 36 chances.
Moises Sierra went 3 for 4 with two doubles and a triple, but it wasn't enough for the Blue Jays.
Toronto took a 3-0 lead with a two-out rally in the first. Sierra doubled home Rajai Davis and Adam Lind, who had both walked, then scored on a throwing error by shortstop Erick Aybar, who overthrew first base on Mark DeRosa's infield single.
The Angels answered with two runs in the second off Blue Jays starter R.A. Dickey. Hamilton drew a leadoff walk and Trumbo followed with second-deck blast to center, his sixth consecutive hit. Trumbo went 5 for 5 in Tuesday's 12-6 win.
Trumbo's homer was the 31st off Dickey this season. Only Oakland's A.J. Griffin (33) has allowed more.
Los Angeles tied it on Calhoun's first sacrifice fly in the fourth, with Trout scoring his 100th run of the season. Trout is the third Angels player to record consecutive 100-run seasons and just the seventh player in big league history to do it at ages 20 and 21. The last was Alex Rodriguez, who scored 100 runs in 1996 and 1997.
Toronto reclaimed the lead in the bottom half when Sierra led off with a triple and scored on an error by third baseman Andrew Romine, who couldn't handle Aybar's relay throw.
The Angels tied it again in the fifth. Grant Green hit a leadoff double and scored two batters later on Aybar's sacrifice fly.
Dickey had pitched at least six innings in his previous 15 starts but failed to extend the streak. The knuckleballer allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings, walked two and struck out two.
NOTES: Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion (left wrist) missed his third straight game. Manager John Gibbons said Encarnacion has not been able to hit off a tee or in the cage since Sunday because of lingering pain. … On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, members of the Toronto Police Services, Toronto Fire Department and Toronto Emergency Medical Services participated in the national anthems.
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Are there more A&C radio episodes in existence, other than the two dozen or so shows that have surfaced on cassette over the past 20 years?
Yes, there are more. Hundreds more. In 1985, the archivist for the A&C estates, Bob Furmanek, rescued 25 boxes of discs and recordings from a warehouse in Van Nuys. When he inspected the long-forgotten crates, Bob was shocked to discover that the boxes contained more than 300 Abbott and Costello radio appearances, from their earliest Kate Smith shows in 1938 to their last pre-recorded ABC programs in 1949. There were other recordings, too, including live performances at the Hollywood Bowl in 1946 and the War Bond Tours of 1942. Metacom released a few of these radio shows in 1986 (without the commercials), but this A&C goldmine has yet to be tapped!
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Local Health Department Receiving Technical Assistance: Randolph Board of Health, MA
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is currently offering technical assistance support to local health departments to improve their capacity to develop or enhance health promotion programs for people living with disabilities through coordination of existing health department and community services.
The Randolph Board of Health community is very diverse with approximately 22 different languages spoken by its residents. It also houses a local school for autism students up to age 22. The Randolph Board of Health and its community partners are conducting a project to promote the health and well-being of people with disabilities funded by NACCHO.
Project Activities:
Randolph Board of Health is receiving technical assistance from Jefferson County Health Department and is planning to increase awareness around emergency preparedness and individuals living with disabilities by offering emergency preparedness classes and "grab and go" backpacks.
Click here for further details about Jefferson County's project.
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Randolph County Health Department received guidance from Jefferson County Health Department (WA) to gain information on how the sponsor agency created and implemented emergency preparedness activities in Port Townsend. With information and materials gained from the Jefferson County Health Department, they were able to reach out to individuals with developmental disabilities.
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Fisherman Tony couldn't believe his luck when he stumbled upon a pile of pictures apparently dumped at his favorite riverside spot. Fast forward 15 years and Tony, accompanied by his daughter, is told by Philip Mould at a recording of Antiques Roadshow that one of the pictures is an unknown work by Winslow Homer, worth £30,000.
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Russia's opposition is turning to the streets to protest Sunday's presidential election which returned Vladimir Putin to power. The protesters may have agreed on a set of very catchy slogans, but they're not a cohesive political movement.
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Cardinals looking great!
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Cardinals looking great!
Kolb just looked like Sanchez there.
Props due to kerry rhodes.
must be his contract year :yes:
terrible jetlike pick :mad:
Who cares about the Mia game.
OK, you can turn it off now. :O:(:steamin:
Tannenhill is already better than Sanchez he's gonna put up 400 yds
Hartline is sneaky fast aka fast for a white guy
It really sucks after watching our debacle seeing Miami look this good.
Replacement ref were better
More blown calls today
These guys are the real rejects
Kolb blew this game can't believe he threw that ball to futz who was out of bounds
418 yards on the road on his 4th game
has our idiot QB ever gone over 400 against a good team?
Wild game! Arizona still in it
Wake is ****ing awesome abusing arz left tackle
That Miami pass rush is pretty good.


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I run a Joomla site and I went to one of the famous commercial sites that deal with vulnerabilities. They have a free security audit for malware.
I ran it on my site. And I got a reply that "Host is not alive". I have Admin Tools WAF turned ON. They recommend to shut it down temporarily, so their scanner can check everything. But to me that doesn't make any sense. Because, in my opinion, if their scanner couldn't get through, it means that the site passed the audit fine.


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Verizon FIOS Adding Big Ten Network
Filed under:
Add another 1.2 million subscribers to the BTN pile:
For sports fans, Verizon is launching three new HD sports channels.Verizon has always placed a high priority on providing all major sports programming and offering as much as possible in HD.
The company has now added top college basketball and football action with the Big Ten Network, which will be available in both standard- and high-definition.
Verizon was the last alternative (fiber/satellite) provider to sign on; now it's just Charter, Time Warner, and Mediacom left.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:01 PM#2
Fingers Crossed
Come on Charter! I just hope BTN will be available to us non-footprint viewers on some tier or other.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:01 PM#3
Is 1st good?
July 1st, 2008 at 9:00 PM#4
Greatest buckstache EVER
I haven't posted in forever but I figured these gems were worth a comeback. I present to you the greatest piece of buckeye trash ever.. http://www.sumodawg.com/guns.html
July 1st, 2008 at 9:37 PM#5
1. hey orlando 2. how the heck did you find those gems?
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 AM#6
You don't even want to know
You don't even want to know Gsimms.,,long time no talk by the way. I only wish Mzone was still around, they probably would of had a field day with this guy.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 AM#7
Three alphanumeric characters describe...
...the best thing about new MGoBlog - WS6.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:25 PM#8
If anyone here has Verizon Fios, please let me know. For a primer, please read this - http://mgoblog.com/content/mgovideocom-fall-2008-previewhelp-needed
We need some Fios users to help us this Fall with seeding 720p games. Leave a comment and I'll get in touch with you.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:57 PM#9
Why is that Buckeye chap
Why is that Buckeye chap called "Sumodawg" I wonder? I bet Sumodawg smells like oleander.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:45 PM#10
Brighthouse Too
Brighthouse is in the Detroit area (Farmington/Livonia/Novi) which is actually a nice bit of unsupported BTN potential-fans. Let's hope they get on board REAL soon.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:38 AM#11
I should not have explored
I should not have explored Sumo Dawgs site... lets just say he has a new years picture that will make you want to grab the nearest bottle of eyebleach. what has been seen cannot be unseen. Why does an odd part of me miss the random insanity of haloscan?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 AM#12
Holy god, why did you even mention that? There's not enough bleach in Chicago to fix what you just did to my mind.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 AM#13
The Horror was just nominated for "Biggest Upset." And it WILL win. Thank you SO much Carr, DeBord, English, Henne, Crable, Brown, and Sears for the gift that just keeps on giving!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 AM#14
Defeat The Horror
Every Michigan fan should get his ass onto ESPN.com and vote like hell against The Horror as much as possible. Now Trinity vs. Millsaps already won the Pontiac game-changing performance award, so now we have to get to work on the ESPYs. Everyone should vote for Fresno St over Georgia. I'm also a Pats fan, but if you must, vote for the Giants. That might have the best chance of defeating The Horror and taking one major step toward locking it in the vault of CFB history.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 AM#15
aye, aye...
...on my way over there now...
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 AM#16
Still waiting on Suddenlink to pick up BTN or it's back to Buffalo Wild Wings in the fall
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 PM#17
Cox hasn't signed up either,
Cox hasn't signed up either, shafting us on the E. coast.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 AM#18
Fingers Crossed 2.0
God I'm dying up here in Saginaw !!! Please Charter Please !!!!!!!!!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:52 AM#19
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Ten Things I Learned from My Father
1. Stay loyal to your family. My father was the youngest of four. He had three older sisters (Ann, Betty, and Helen) who looked after him when he was a boy. But later in life, Dad would be there for his sisters to look after them during their respective illnesses. Certainly family has issues or problems, but my father always tried to stay "neutral"--he never wanted to be estranged from his sisters or be on bad terms with them. Dad appreciated and respected them.
2. Don't be afraid of hard work. My father was a carpenter. He worked for the Union Railroad. When Dad retired in 1983, his boss gave him a handwritten letter that said: "I had to write you a note because I know of no way to let you know how much I think of you as a man, and a craftsman. This country was built by men like you who took pride in their work. I don't know where we will find the men to replace them and you." In addition to his job on the railroad, Dad performed his own version of "Extreme Makeovers" on a number of houses throughout his hometown of Duquesne, Pennsylvania and its surrounding areas. His talents were reflected in the countless roofs, paneling jobs, cabinets, decks, and more. Dad's job on the railroad was not glamorous, but he took great pride in his work. Learning from Dad, I take pride in my own work--no matter the job.
3. Smile! My father had the most beautiful smiles and. He was generally a happy guy who loved to laugh and joke. Even in his times of suffering, he found a way to say something cute or funny to his doctors, nurses, and others around him and would give them that smile.
4. Actions Speak Louder Than Words. Dad wasn't much for outwardly expressing his feelings by saying "I love you," all the time, or by hugging and kissing. But it was by his actions that I knew he loved me. He was always there when I needed him. He was the guy you could always count on. I felt safe with Dad. Once in awhile, his softer side would show through his tough exterior, and he would wrap his strong arms around me and give me a hug. And, he would always tuck me in at night and give me a goodnight kiss when I was a little girl. He'd say, "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." this was the signature sign off of comedian Jimmy Durante.
5. Be a Team Player. My father was a star basketball player in his day--throughout high school, and playing on several semi-professional teams until his late 40s.Whether it was on the basketball court, or in the game of life, Dad was always first and foremost a team player. Today, the idea of working for the good of the team often gets lost in the "me" generation and the "I want it now" society. Dad worked well with others. Perhaps it was partly because of his easygoing nature, or that he could adapt to any situations. He was actually the most unselfish person I have ever known. While others on his basketball teams may have wanted to hog the ball to take top scoring honors, Dad focused on making sure the team won. He was generous with his time and money and would help anyone in need without an ulterior motive or desire for anything in return. Dad was a true gentleman on and off the court.
6. It's Not Presents or Material Things that Matter. My father was not a materialistic person, and was generally unaffected by the idea of holidays. Although he would make sure we had them, he never understood the obsession with presents, gifts, cards, etc. and always told us not to "waste our money" by buying such things for him. What he enjoyed most is just having me and those he loved around him.
7. Be a Good Friend. My father was a loyal and true friend. There were very few people in Duquesne that dad did not know either through basketball, the Slovak Club, the Union Grill, or the Railroad. Dad had such a warm personality that people were attracted to him instantly. But, his circle of core friends did not change very much over the years. Many of these friends were his former basketball teammates. You don't find friendships like that anymore. It is a rare thing today to have the same friends in your 70s that you did in your teens and twenties. Dad was a lucky guy; he was a good friend and had good friends in return.
8. Look After Your Neighbors. My father was the "go-to" guy on our street. Whenever the next door neighbor needed a ride to the beauty parlor, the doctor's office, or the grocery store, or church, my father would gladly volunteer. WIth his carpentry skills he also fixed many a roof, put in paneling, or did other odd jobs for anyone who asked--many times he would not accept any payment.
9. Give From the Heart. My father cared about his family and always tried to do right by others. He gave of himself without expectation of anything in return. Next to his big blue eyes, and beautiful smile, Dad's generous heart was one of his most distinctive features. After Dad passed away, one of my cousins wrote to me: "If all the people in the world could have someone like him in their lives the world would be a much better place and there would be peace through out."
10. Shoot Your Best Shot! Dad used basketball as a metaphor throughout his life. He met the challenges of life like he would a tough opponent on the court; with one simple phrase in mind: "When the chips are down, shoot your best shot." As I face challenges in my own life, I try to think how my father would tackle a problem or address a situation and try to keep this phrase in mind.
So, on this Father's Day I say "Thanks, Dad" for all you've taught me. I miss you more than you know!


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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money
Published 8:43 am, Saturday, February 2, 2013
If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average US citizen.
Facebook, for example, pays its average intern $6,056 per month. That ends up being a base salary of about $72,000 per year.
But there's another tech company that pays its interns even more than Facebook.
Glassdoor, a career and company rating site, helped us compile a list of tech companies that pay their interns the most. Its salary data is based on anonymous salary reports voluntarily shared by current and recent employees, including interns.
The following list combines monthly average pay with hourly monthly pay to take into account a larger data sample among tech interns. Companies were only included if they had 20 or more salary reports within the past two years.
Here's who pays its lowest level people thousands of dollars every month.
20. Cisco Systems pays its interns an average of $3,930 per month
Annually, that would be: $47,160
"Great company, very knowledgeable peers from top universities, work is good, good compensation and you learn a lot. Flexibility and work/life balance is unmatched. Free movie tickets, tickets to amusement park, free frequent lunches, great gym, free train pass, lot of intern events with free food, pays for your tuition, San Jose a good place to live. College grads like me these days wants to work for more recent brands like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter but companies like CISCO and others who have been there from decades are great places to start your career." -- Former Cisco Systems college intern (San Jose, CA)
19. IBM pays its interns an average of $3,942 per month
Annually, that would be: $47,304
"Tech giant with massive resources and really talented people. You work on products that are touched by millions in mission critical areas. For such a big company, it feels very nimble. You can easily reach any employee worldwide through Same time. It feels like a tight-knit environment, even thought you are 1 or hundreds of thousands. Every manager I have dealt with is awesome. Uber professionalism throughout." -- IBM software engineer intern (Austin, TX)
18. EMC pays its interns an average of $4,004 per month
Annually, that would be: $48,048
"EMC is a great company with great employees. Seniors are willing to help and easy about timelines. Its was a awesome experience as a starter and provided me a good learning experience. With that said, it has good salaries for the intern." -- EMC software engineer intern (Hopkinton, MA)
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Strange and weird. I reply to a post from West Coast Offensive
Vinny/Gronk/Guido/ Boob/Mitch feels the obsessive need to jump in and complain about posting tImes.
I was up, four banned. Unlike your heroes, I wasn't shooting guys in a strip club, battering women, auditioning bimbos or throwing corpses in ditches
That's not my way, that's the Patriot Way
Originally Posted by sg3
a more appropriate logo would include video cameras, guns, cocaine and dead bodies in ditches
You forgot to add in Bob Kraft's gold digging skank
Originally Posted by child please
You forgot to add in Bob Kraft's gold digging skank
Lmfao...and this bimbo married Woody for true love.
Originally Posted by ReincarnatedBob
Lmfao...and this bimbo married Woody for true love.
She's been out of high school for a while and Woody wasn't banging her when his dead wife's body wasn't quite yet 6 feet under.
try again dooosh
I'd give up if I were you too, comparing an old dirty drunk dirt bag like Kraft to Woody is a losing proposition. Carry on loser, keep up that post count.
Originally Posted by ReincarnatedBob
Wow, it really is true what has been posted about you.
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… I suppose the real issue with Dunn is his increasingly declining walk rate. After topping out at 18.7 BB% in 2008, he "dropped off" to 17.4% in 2009 and then to 11.9% in 2010, the worse mark in his career. Unsurprisingly, Dunn swung at more and more pitches out of the strike zone during that time, topping out at a career high 28.5%. That combined with a career worst 13.8% swing-and-miss rate can lead to a lot of pitcher's counts, a problem for any batter. It could just be a fluke, because his walk rate did improve in the second half of this season…
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Market Update: Defensives Up, Equities Down, and Risk Flatlining
We are seeing continued outperformance by defensive sectors such as utilities, while equities pull back.
Well, a little less than a week later we are seeing continued outperformance by defensive sectors such as utilities, while equities pull back. In the chart below, I have plotted price from the 9/14 S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) highs for the utilities, small caps (NYSEARCA:IWM), and S&P 500. It is clear that deterioration began last week and followed through this week. Just look at the drop and underperformance of the high beta/risk small caps.
Using the S&P 500 to gauge the broader market, I am seeing initial technical support at 1440, then 1430. But those are the obvious traditional lateral supports. I'm also seeing the potential for an A-B-C measured move to 1420ish (the initial breakout area). A sustained move under 1420 would likely cause technical damage that would need some time to repair.
Trade safe, trade disciplined.
Editor's Note: Andrew Nyquist is an independent investor based in the Minneapolis area. This article originally appeared on his investing and economics site, See It Market.
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Al Golden's first signing class at UM has grown over the summer from 16 to 19 players.
His 2012 class? That's already at 19 players and we're still a little more than seven months away from National Signing Day.
The Hurricanes picked up two more verbal, non-binding commitments on Tuesday. The first, 6-2, 215-pound outside linebacker Reggie Northrup from Jacksonville First Coast is considered the 26th best at his position according to ESPN. The other, Tallahassee Godby receiver/tight end Brandon Holifield (6-6, 216), just started playing football three months ago and isn't even the best pass catcher on his team.
Such has been the story this summer with Golden's second recruiting class. For every highly-regarded recruit he's landed a commitment from, there's another player recruiting analysts sort of scratch their heads at. Charles Fishbein of Elite Scouting Services said he likes the players UM has offered and received commitments from, but thinks Golden and his staff are "taking a lot of kids they can wait on."
"I don't think they're doing a bad job, I just think they're taking a lot of kids that are going to need time to develop, not instant impact type guys," Fishbein said. "That's not necessarily a bad thing. But when you're losing as many guys as they're losing, you need a few that can play right away. The teams they're trying to catch aren't waiting for kids to develop. They're reloading."
Of the 19 commitments in UM's class, eight are four-star recruits (five are considered ESPN Top 150 recruits) and eight are three star recruits. ESPN ranks the Hurricanes as having the ninth-best overall recruiting class as of June 23rd.
ESPN recruiting insider Corey Long said while UM's 2012 class "isn't going to win the 2012 recruiting national championship, they're loading up on athletes -- and some of them are real good."
"I think in general some Miami fans are wondering what's going on," Long said. "But you look at some of the players they've gotten -- Reggie Northrup is a heck of a player. [Miami Norland running back] Duke Johnson is the best player in the state. [St. Thomas Aquinas defensive tackle] Jelani Hamilton is one of the top three defensive lineman in the state. [Austin, Tex. quarterback] Preston Dewey is a major steal. [South Miami cornerback] Amos Leggett has a hard time staying with schools, but is a talent. [Norland linebacker] Keith Brown has gotten huge. [Norland's] Erick Flowers is a good offensive lineman.
"It might not be the sexiest group of kids, but the guys they're recruiting and getting commitments from players they're seeing up close and have a plan for. They're doing their due diligence. If a coach sees a player and believes he can play at the level they want him to and the level they'll be facing, he'll take them. That's anywhere. Al Golden has his own level of evaluating talent. Every coach sees something different. They're inviting kids to camp, watching them and taking the ones that stand out. That's what they're supposed to do."
Long believes UM will end up signing more than 30 players in its next class. The local must-gets in his opinion for the Hurricanes? Miami Columbus and ESPN Top 150 player Deon Bush (considered the sixth best safety in the country) and either Homestead receiver Herb Waters or Miami Northwestern receiver Amari Cooper.
"Bush has to be their No. 1 recruiting target," Long said. "As for the receivers out there, I like Cooper the most. I've got him as the third best receiver in the state. Waters is good too. Either one of them will make their receiving class better. There is also a lot of local talent in 2013 with [University's] Jordan Cunningham and [Northeast's] Stacey Coley. So maybe they wait for one of those guys."
Both Long and Fishbein like Northrup.
"I saw him at the FSU Camp last week," Fishbein said of Northrup. "He's going to be a 235 pound linebacker, going to run down hill and be a good run stopper. I think he could be a starter in his second year, after playing on special teams his first year. He's a little stiff in pass coverage. He's athletic enough to play bigger, slower tight ends. But I think he's more of a downhill run stopper, kind of like a Darryl Sharpton."
Northrup, who had 108 tackles and seven sacks as a junior, will likely come in and play outside linebacker according to his father. He could also end up enrolling early in January.
"He's completed a lot of his requirements already," Northrup Sr. said. "I know he's taking his ACT again, the math portion because he wants to get a higher score. But ultimately what will determine if he goes early is if they take away wrestling in the Jacksonville area. He's a two-time state qualifier, placed third as a sophomore. If they cut wrestling, I'm sure he's going to want to go to college early."
As for Holifield, he's considered a gifted athlete with a lot of upside, but not a whole lot of football experience. He finished third at the state championships in the high jump and caught one pass in his spring game for a touchdown. After camping at UM recently, Holifield added a UM offer to a group that included FAU, Gardner-Webb and Samford.
"He's on a team with Laith Harlow, a 6-5, 240-pound tight end who is headed to Oklahoma," Long said. "So I don't know how many opportunities [Holifield] is going to get to catch the ball. But he's definitely a talented athlete, not a bad guy to take a chance on. Miami coaches obviously saw something at their camp they really liked."
UM commitments (Ranked in order based on ESPN Player grades, e-ESPN 150)
WR Angelo Jean-Louis, Palm Beach Central, 6-0, 185 (e-No. 7 WR)
RB Duke Johnson, Miami Norland, 5-9, 175 (e-No. 10 ATH)
CB Amos Leggett, South Miami, 5-11, 175 (e-No. 8 CB)
QB Preston Dewey, St. Andrews, Austin, Tex., 6-2, 200 (e-No. 9 QB)
LB Raphael Kirby, Stephenson, Stone Mountain, Ga., 6-1, 215 (e-No. 11 OLB)
LB Reggie Northrup, Jacksonville First Coast, 6-2, 215 (No. 26 OLB)
LB Keith Brown, Miami Norland, 6-1, 215 (No. 27 OLB)
DE Jelani Hamilton, Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas, 6-4, 245 (No. 35 DE)
DT Trenton Taylor, Lakeland Lake Gibson, 6-3, 245 (No. 26 DT)
WR Jontavious Carter, Crisp County, Cordele, Ga., 6-3, 192 (No. 40 WR)
QB Gray Crow, Clearwater Countryside, 6-3, 220 (No. 34 QB)
OT Ereck Flowers, Miami Norland, 6-6, 288 (No. 61 OT)
DE Dwayne Hoilett, Vero Beach, 6-3, 212 (No. 64 DE)
DE Jake O'Donnell, Central Bucks East, Doylestown, Penn. 6-5, 235 (No. 83 DE)
CB Vernon Davis, Miami Coral Reef, 5-9, 170 (No. 47 CB)
CB Larry Hope, Hialeah American, 5-10, 160 (No. 50 CB)
QB David Thompson, Miami Westminster Christian, 6-1, 195 (No. 89 QB)
WR D'Mauri Jones, Leesburg, 6-3, 185 (Unranked)
TE Brandon Holifield, Tallahassee Godby, 6-6, 216 (Unranked)


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Sarah Palin supporters, in a desperate effort to avoid having their shining light tagged as a quitter have started comparing her to several famous "quitters" of the past.
At first, the comparison was to Barack Obama. He "quit" the U. S. Senate to become president. That is a laughable comparison and I did not think the Palin supporters could come up with anything worse...until I read syndicated columnist Roger Simon moments ago.
Simon, perhaps working too hard to get around the conventional wisdom that Mrs. Palin's press conference Friday was more bizarre than fried onions on an ice cream sundae, compared the half-term Alaska governor to a true hero of our nation, former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole:
But you can see why some in the media were shocked and dismayed. Imagine abandoning your office! Imagine quitting and deserting the voters who elected you!
Though this is what Bob Dole did in 1996, didn't he? Dole resigned his Senate seat to run for president. I remember it. I was standing right there when he did it. And I don't recall anybody accusing him of being a quitter. Or of being pregnant.
While Simon makes some solid points about sexism in the media, the Dole comparison is insulting When Dole left the Senate late in the '96 campaign, it was after he served more than three decades in Congress. It was after he had been his party's vice presidential candidate 20 years earlier. And more than anything else, it was a half century after he lost the use of an arm while fighting for his country in the Second World War.
And Roger Simon is comparing a man who has given his entire life for his country to someone who has spent 2 1/2 years as governor of Alaska.
Sarah Palin quite because she couldn't stand the heat. That sounds more like Eliot Spitzer than Bob Dole.


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TOWNSEND -- Two longtime volunteers credited with reinvigorating the Townsend Historical Society 40 years ago were honored at a potluck meal and presentation.
Ed and Mary West joined the society at a low point in its history. The group was about to lose its home in the library basement and there were only about five active members.
The key role the Wests played in bringing the society back to life, finding it a new home and continuing to preserve the town's history was detailed by Jeannie Bartovics, the society's site administrator, during an audio-visual presentation following the meal.
Ed West attended his first meeting while the society was facing the "hydra-headed crisis" of moving its collection and finding a new home. By the end of the meeting, "Ed had been voted the new and very startled president," Bartovics said.
Under his leadership, the group became a legal nonprofit organization and found a permanent home. The society purchased the present headquarters, the Reed House, in 1972.
"The house needed work," Bartovics said, but was ideal for a historical group. The Rufus Porter murals on the wall date back to 1835 and it was owned for generations by the Reeds.
The Wests were key in expanding the society's collection. Mary West had an "artful way" of acquiring historical documents, Bartovics said.
In a 1979 interview filmed by the Wests with the Stewart sisters, who owned what is now Cliff's from 1922 to 1959, Mary obtained a menu and a meal punch card from the former restaurateurs.
The couple also recorded an interview in 1989 with Miss Pearl Russell, a beloved teacher at the Spaulding School and later at North Middlesex Regional School. During a clip of the film, audience members sang along to the school song under their breaths.
Ed West photographed events in town. These photographs documenting one-time events like the flood at the South Street bridge that encircled the cooperage and the last freight train to roll through town are now part of the society's collection.
The Wests also purchased real estate for the society -- a small family cooperage shop and the land the West Townsend Railroad Depot once occupied beside the Harbor Church.
The Harbor Church was given to the society by the members of the church about the same time the Society for the Preservation of New England Activities donated the Grist Mill.
The society's holdings and membership have increased and fundraising continues to be important. The Wests began a tradition that still brings money into the coffers. In 1981, they began the annual Arts and Crafts Fair held on the common.
During the fair, Ed West still sells the lead-free tin soldiers he makes to benefit the society.
Former Townsend resident Deb Jones spoke after the presentation. "So many aspects of my adult life I owe to you," she said to the couple.
When she bought her first sheep from them, he suggested she join the society. Thirty years later, she has moved out of town but still raises sheep and still volunteers at special events at the society.
The Wests have also been involved in town government over the years. Jones was talked into being on the zoning board.
Gene Rauhala, former president of the society, also spoke. He met the couple when he was a child at school and through Boy Scouts. They are still a part of his life, especially as he goes about his duties as town moderator, a position West once held.
"In Townsend, that's what we all strive to be like -- Ed West as moderator," he said.
The couple, he said, are the face, heart and soul of Townsend.


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Creating and maintaining accurate SQL Server 2005 logs won't necessarily drive your business to sell more widgets, increase customer satisfaction, or bill more hours, but logging database-usage information for auditing is a common requirement in today's business and legal environment. Database audit-logging requirements run the spectrum from "none needed" to "it's critical that we log everything" and will chiefly depend on the auditor. A DBA might need to track high-level usage information for capacity planning. A corporate security group might want proactive notification of failed access attempts. A compliance officer might have a list of specific information required by statute. SQL Server 2005's built-in audit-logging tools — the SQL Trace utility; its client application, SQL Server Profiler; and C2 audit mode — can help DBAs perform various degrees of auditing along that spectrum. We'll briefly review all the audit-logging options in SQL Server 2005, then walk through how to use SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler. Finally, we'll take a quick look at upcoming auditing improvements in SQL Server 2008 and the option of using third-party auditing tools.
Built-In Logging Tools
SQL Server 2005 has several built-in, audit-logging options. Of these, SQL Trace is the most straightforward, out-of-the-box option for audit logging a SQL Server 2005 instance. SQL Trace records event information for SQL Server instances, and SQL Server Profiler provides a GUI view of your trace results.
In addition to SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler, SQL Server 2005 provides the following options for audit logging:
- Data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML) triggers. An application developer can use DDL and DML triggers to leave a thorough record of SQL Server actions. Additionally, you can use SQL Server Service Broker in conjunction with triggers for audit logging. Service Broker uses extensions to DML to provide queuing and asynchronous messaging between SQL Server 2005 instances — to make the audit workload asynchronous to the application workload. When a database event occurs, a trigger sends information about the event to an auditing database via a Service Broker message. You can find more information about using SQL Server Service Broker for auditing at http://www.sqlteam.com/article/centralized-asynchronous-auditing-with-service-broker.
- Transactional replication. Transactional replication is a data-distribution method whereby incremental data changes are replicated from the source system (Publisher) to recipient systems (Subscribers). (For more information about replication methods, see "SQL Server 2005 Replication," February 2007.) Transactional replication has limited audit-logging value. It's possible to alter the transactional replication subscriber-side stored procedures to record the publisher DML. However, since you can't pass client credentials to the subscriber, there's no way to record which user carried out a particular task.
- Application audit logging. In some cases, it may make the most sense to have applications write their own audit logs However, applications might not know everything that happens in the database at their behest, so they might not be able to record all the information needed for audit logging. If you need to log only binary large objects (BLOBs), this is your best option.
Using SQL Trace
SQL Trace consists of a set of stored procedures that record event information for a SQL Server instance. SQL Trace writes in a proprietary format to .trc files, which can be read either by using SQL Server Profiler or the sys.fn_trace_gettable system function.
To define your own trace by using stored procedures, call sp_trace_create to create a new trace. Then specify an output parameter (to capture the ID of the new trace), the option parameter value, the maximum file size, and an output filename. Be sure to set the option parameter to 2 if you'd like SQL Trace to create a new file whenever the current file fills up (i.e., rollover). Otherwise, your trace will last only until the first file reaches its maximum size.
Next, specify the events to capture by using the sp_trace_setevent stored procedure, specify any event filters to reduce overhead, and call sp_set_tracestatus — setting the status of your trace to 1. The sample code in Listing 1 demonstrates a typical trace.
The first line of this trace definition declares a variable to hold the newly created trace ID. The first EXEC statement creates the trace, outputting the ID. It specifies an option value of 6, which is 2 (trace_file_rollover) + 4 (shutdown_on_error). It also provides a file path and specifies a 5MB file size. It doesn't specify a maximum number of rollover files. Because we've added 4 to the option value, this trace will stop the SQL Server instance if the file share specified becomes unavailable for any reason. This stoppage would be inconvenient, but if an audit log of the databases on the instance is important enough, that could be an acceptable risk. Clearly, one should consider the consequences of using shutdown_on_error carefully.
The second EXEC statement adds a single event to the trace. This event is 109 Audit Add DB User Event, and column 7 is ClientProcessID. You can find documentation for all the available events and columns in the sp_trace_setevent SQL Server Books Online (BOL) topic at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186265(SQL.90).aspx.
Keep in mind that server-side traces don't persist. If a SQL Server instance is restarted, you need to restart the trace. To automate restarting the trace, create a stored procedure in the master database that contains a trace definition. You'll need to dynamically generate a trace filename, or the stored procedure will fail because of a filename collision. The following code sample shows one way to generate a trace filename:
Declare @FileName nvarchar(100) set @FileName = '\\Server\Share\'+ 'startuptrace_' + convert(nvarchar(25), GETDATE()) Then use sp_procoption to specify that your trace stored procedure should be executed when the server starts, as follows: sp_procoption sp_name, StartUp, True
Insert your own stored procedure name for sp_name.
A great resource for trace-script writers is a trace script for Common Criteria Compliance that the SQL Server 2005 SP2 product group built. It performs the same basic function as the Listing 1 trace but is much more comprehensive. For example, it defines the trace in a stored procedure, dynamically retrieves the instance path, makes the stored procedure a startup procedure, prints diagnostic information, and sets a large number of trace events for a comprehensive log. (For more information about Common Criteria Compliance, see the sidebar "Common Criteria Compliance." You can see the Common Criteria Compliance trace script at https://members.microsoft.com/sqlcommoncriteria/EAL1_trace.sql.
To enable SQL Server to find your stored procedure at startup, the scan for startup procs advanced configuration option must be set. Using sp_procoption to mark a stored procedure as an autoproc will cause SQL Server to automatically set the scan for startup procs option for you.
Be aware that using SQL Trace has a performance cost and places some processor and I/O overhead on the SQL Server engine. However, SQL Trace imposes a small amount of overhead as compared with SQL Server Profiler, whose overhead is significantly greater (more about this shortly). For tips on mitigating SQL Trace's overhead, see the BOL article "Optimizing SQL Trace."
C2 Audit Mode
C2 audit mode is a SQL Server 2005 feature that supports out-of-the-box audit logging. It logs all audit trace events, including every data column. A C2 audit mode log is identical to a SQL Server trace that includes every column of every security audit event.
C2 audit mode also utilizes a slight amount of system resources. I tested C2 audit mode at the Texas Microsoft Technology CXenter in Austin, by performing the same traces with C2 audit mode enabled, then disabled. C2 audit mode imposed a 3.6 percent performance penalty — as measured by time of workload execution. The test was run on a dedicated, single-processor test system with a mixed test workload provided by a second system running a Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmark B (TPC-B)-like script. With C2 audit mode off, the workload averaged 47 seconds over repeated tests. With C2 audit mode on, the same workload averaged 48.7 seconds. Average CPU use was 1.1 percent higher with C2 audit mode on — 57.89 percent versus 59.04 percent.
If all you need is basic "who logged in and accessed what" audit logging, create a trace that includes the Audit Schema Object Access event (all columns) and the Audit Login event (all columns) within the Security Audit event group.
To determine whether or not C2 audit mode is turned on, you can use the following T-SQL statement, which returns the current value of the C2 audit mode option:
SELECT value FROM sys.configurations WHERE name = 'c2 audit mode'; GO
If the result is 1, C2 audit mode is enabled; if 0, it's disabled.
To turn on C2 audit mode, run the T-SQL code in Listing 2. You'll need to restart the instance for the setting to take effect. If you prefer to use the GUI rather than T-SQL to enable C2 audit mode, open Object Explorer and right-click a server. Then select Properties and the Security page. Click the Enable C2 audit tracing check box. Then restart the instance.
With C2 audit mode enabled, SQL Server will write information to a series of .trc files in the instance data directory. Once a file grows to 200MB, it's closed and a new file is created. If the data directory runs out of space, the instance will immediately stop. To recover from this catastrophe, you'll either need to clear some space or restart the instance from the command line with a -f flag (to disable audit logging).You can find more information about starting a SQL Server 2005 instance in the BOL "How to: Start an Instance of SQL Server (sqlservr.exe)" topic. Once you have a command line open to the appropriate binn directory, entering sqlservr -f will start SQL Server in minimal configuration and will place SQL Server in single-user mode.
You can disable audit logging by using the T-SQL statement in Listing 3. Press Ctrl+Break in the command window to stop the instance, then start the instance as you normally would. You can read the C2 audit mode .trc files either by using SQL Profiler or the sys.fn_trace_gettable system function.
There's no way to change C2 audit mode files' location from the instance data directory. You can change the default location of the data directory by using the Server Properties dialog Database Settings page.
SQL Server Profiler
SQL Server Profiler lets DBAs and developers record and analyze exactly which T-SQL statements were submitted to the server and how the server accessed the database to return result sets. You can also use SQL Server Profiler to automate the SQL Trace script-creation process. Although some DBAs may find using SQL Server Profiler easier than SQL Trace, Profiler's performance overhead makes it an inefficient tool for production audit logging.
If you use Profiler to run a trace, SQL Trace starts an in-memory (or rowset) trace to output trace records to the Profiler GUI as they occur. If you choose to save the trace to a file, Profiler will write the file unless you check the Server processes trace data check box, in which case SQL Trace will take care of writing the file.
Profiler's performance penalty is far greater than SQL Trace's. The same test workload used in the C2 audit mode testing ran 71 percent slower compared with no logging when Profiler was used. Profiler also imposed an additional 17 percent CPU load. (This was without checking the Server processes trace data check box.) Running the same test with SQL Server processing the trace data rather than Profiler resulted in somewhat better results; the workload ran 47 percent slower and used 10 percent more CPU than the workload running with no logging.
When the test workload was analyzed with Profiler running on a remote machine, the test workload's performance was almost five times worse than when Profiler was run on server's console session. CPU load on the server actually decreased while the SQL Server process waited for the remote Profiler to keep up. Because rowset traces can greatly slow SQL Server, you'll want to find out whether a SQL Server instance has any active rowset traces. To do so, run the following query:
SELECT * FROM sys.traces WHERE is_rowset=1 AND status=1
You could even set up a scheduled job to run this query every so often to alert administrators to rowset traces on production servers.
A better way to use Profiler is to first determine what you need to log, then set up a server-side trace by using SQL Trace, and use Profiler to build the appropriate trace. You can tell Profiler to export a trace script to a .sql file; to do so, navigate to Profiler's file menu, select Export, then select Script Trace Definition). Profiler will write the sql file to disk. You then use the .sql file as your SQL Trace definition. You might find this approach preferable to hand-coding a trace script, especially if you're tracking a large number of events and data columns.
Default Trace
In SQL Server 2005, a default trace is always running in the background, providing a persistent log of configuration activity and changes. It maintains the log data necessary to help you diagnose problems when they first occur, including the following:
- events related to database file auto-grow and auto-shrink
- instance errors and warnings
- full-text–search errors
- object creation, deletion or alteration
- audit events like login, login failed, schema ownership changes
To read all events recorded in the past 24 hours from the default trace, execute the T-SQL statement in Listing 4. To turn off the default trace, set the advanced configuration Default Trace Enabled option to 0 using sp_configure. To verify that the default trace is running, use the following query:
SELECT * FROM sys.configurations WHERE configuration_id = 1568
For more information about Default Trace, see Vipul Shah's blog at http://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/archive/2007/04/16/default-trace-in-sql-server-2005.aspx.
SQL Server 2008 Audit-Logging Improvements
Auditing in SQL Server 2005 is a do-it-yourself enterprise using triggers, logs, SQL Trace, and SQL Server Profiler. In contrast, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 promotes auditing to a first-class server object. You can do granular audit actions on database objects and users and write audit information to multiple outputs, including files, Windows application logs, and the security event logs.
SQL Server 2008 contains a new, high-performance, lightweight tracing infrastructure called Extended Events. The new auditing infrastructure is built on top of Extended Events, so it should be scalable, reliable, and have low overhead. SQL Server 2008 will provide tools for audit-log consolidation across the enterprise and fully supports the use of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on consolidated audit data.
Build Versus Buy
The ability to log database logins, login failures, and usage is a common requirement in today's compliance-driven environment. Whether you have to log everything or almost nothing, SQL Server 2005's out-of-the-box audit-logging capabilities might be all you need to fulfill those requirements. If you need more extensive auditing capabilities, you might want to consider third-party solutions that provide such features. For more information about what third-party auditing products offer, see the sidebar "Third-Party Audit-Logging Options." I recommend that anyone serious about database auditing do a build-versus-buy evaluation taking into account the costs of each approach. On the buy side, you should consider the costs of acquisition, support, maintenance, implementation consulting, and customization. On the build side, consider the costs of development and maintenance. One comparison between the two approaches is cross platform support. A third-party solution can probably be applied to multiple platforms, whereas a solution built on SQL Trace will be SQL Server specific.


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Uefa Champions League
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Wednesday, April 18. Kick-off: 1945
Chelsea centre-back David Luiz is unavailable for selection, having sustained a hamstring injury during the FA Cup semi-final defeat of Tottenham last weekend.
Gary Cahill replaced the Brazilian defender at Wembley, and could deputise once more against Barcelona this evening.
Branislav Ivanovic is also available for selection, and will provide Roberto di Matteo with another option in the centre of defence.
For Barcelona, Gerard Pique has overcome a thigh injury and and will feature in defence along with Carles Puyol and former Liverpool star Javier Mascherano.
Dani Alves is also back from a thigh problem, but Ibrahim Afellay has yet to recover from knee ligament damage.
Lampard relishing underdog tag
Frank Lampard is relishing the prospect of entering into tonight's Champions League tie with Barcelona as underdogs - a tag Chelsea have become unaccustomed to in recent years.
The Blues face Barca at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of their last four encounter, with the Catalan giants favourites to not only progress, but also retain the trophy the won at Wembley last May.
Facing arguably the finest club side ever is certainly a daunting prospect for Chelsea, but the Blues will be riding high from the weekend hammering of Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final.
A Chelsea win this evening is not something many observers appear to be contemplating, and Lampard hopes this can play into the hands of the west London outfit.
"I quite like the tag of being underdogs," the veteran midfielder told a pre-match press conference.
"It is refreshing if you believe in yourselves, and we do believe in ourselves.
"The last thing we want to do is take too much fear into this game.
"You can talk yourself into fear by talking up Barcelona all the time and we have to believe in ourselves. We have to respect the opposition but we have to play our game.
"Our style of play has been very effective lately. We are mixing an organised, disciplined game with some very good, attacking football."
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Have a mini movie buff in the family? Use a big popcorn bowl as a basket and fill it up with movie-sized boxes of candy, packets of microwave popcorn, a movie theater gift card and a newly released age-appropriate movie, such as The Nut Job, which is due for DVD and Blu-ray™ release on April 15, just in time for Easter.
For the budding book lover in your family, stock a basket with age-appropriate classics as well as some current titles. Don't forget a few fun bookmarks as well as blank notebooks and pens for those who are inspired enough after reading to do a little writing of their own. If your kid likes word games as much as reading, include some crossword puzzle or word search books, too.
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Encourage your child's interest in baking with his or her own set of utensils, such as a rolling pin, cupcake tins and measuring cups and spoons, as well as spatulas in fun colors, cookbooks and even a certificate for a few cooking classes at a local kid-centric cooking school.
If your family is headed to the shore this summer for your vacation, get a head start on the beach toys by giving your kids a beach-themed Easter basket. For the "basket," use a large beach tote in a material such as mesh or woven plastic that will allow excess sand to fall through the holes, and then fill it with a big character towel, plastic beach toys, plastic refillable water bottle, Boogie Board, floaties, flip-flops, sunglasses and even a new bathing suit. Don't forget the sunscreen. Your child will be geared up for your vacay before school even lets out for summer.
Remember that a basket doesn't have to be chock full of sugary candy, chocolate and marshmallow bunnies to make your kids smile on Easter morning. With a unique basket geared toward their individual interests, they will never even miss the sweet stuff.
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Now suppose I were to stand up here and call Coulter a \[expletive]. (Interestingly, unlike "faggot," American newspapers won't print this word, although it's no more offensive). That would, I believe, be a highly inappropriate thing to do. Even though it's my personal opinion that, if anyone deserves to be called a \[expletive], Coulter does, it's still the sort of thing any decent person will avoid doing.What the hell is he talking about?
Yet if I were to point out that Coulter is, by any reasonable standard of evaluation, a \[expletive], I suspect much outrage would ensue. After all, Nancy Pelosi is giving a speech later tonight inside this same hotel, in which - in this hypothetical scenario - someone Pelosi doesn't know (i.e., me) would have called Coulter a \[expletive].
If such a thing were to happen, the entire right-wing noise machine would leap into action. Ann Althouse would probably write a column in The New York Times about how, if Pelosi were really a feminist, she would unequivocally condemn some guy Pelosi has never heard of, who called Coulter a \[expletive] in front of 75 people in a hotel room in Denver.
For reference, here's my post about the Coulter/"faggot" thing. My point was that I'm under no obligation to disassociate myself from someone I've never allied with. So this hypothetical column writing he's imagining... it doesn't fit me at all.
Thanks for keeping my name in the press, Paul. But that was just weird.
IN THE COMMENTS: Go in there and read Daryl Herbert's 11:08 comment. I'd reprint it on the front page here -- it's one of the best comments ever -- but it's kind of long, and it's got that word. You know, the word.


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Thursday Sports Round-Up
WAYNESFIELD — New Knoxville scored six times in the seventh inning to rally past Waynesfield-Goshen 6-4 for its first win of the season on Thursday night.
New Knoxville entered the final frame down 4-0.
After Cody Shaw got on base to start the seventh, back-to-back doubles from Jake Allen and Spencer Wolf cut the lead to 4-2.
Michael Porter, who went 2-for-4, singled home Wolf to make it a one-run game.
After pinch runner Adam Howe stole second, Tyler Shreve singled home Howe to tie the game 4-4.
The Rangers weren't finished, with K.V. Mooney delivering the game-winning hit with a two-run single.
Shane Topp pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh to wrap up the win. Topp earned the win on the mound after throwing three scoreless innings of relief. Starter Tyler Shreve pitched the game's first four innings.
"Topp came in and did a nice job for us," New Knoxville head coach Nick Schroer said. "We were able to back it up with some timely hitting. The change it pitchers helped us, and once we were able to get a couple of hits they kept coming. Hitting is contagious and you just need to get one going and they all start going."
Waynesfield-Goshen took a 4-0 lead with four runs in the bottom of the third inning.
NEW BREMEN 9, MARION LOCAL 3: The New Bremen baseball team traveled south to Fifth Third Field and picked up a 9-3 win over Marion Local on Thursday night. The Cardinals travel to Celina tonight at 5 p.m.
MINSTER 10, SPENCERVILLE 0: Devon Poeppelman and Ethan Wolf had RBI hits in the first inning and Minster never looked back in a 10-0 run-rule win over the Bearcats.
WAPAK 10, MARION LOCAL: Wapakoneta starting pitcher Renee Lovett, threw a complete game shut-out from the mound, while the offense delivered a 10-0 win in six innings.
NEW BREMEN — The New Bremen boys and girls track and field teams swept their five-team event on Thursday night. The New Bremen boys scored 123 points to outlast second-place Parkway (99 points), Fairlawn (80), Jackson Center (25) and Botkins (23). The Cardinals girls won with 95 points. Parkway took second (91 points). Botkins (71 points), Fairlawn (48) and Jackson Center (41) rounded out the close team standings.
New Bremen's Zane Ferguson won the pole vault by clearing 11 feet, six inches.
The New Bremen 3200 meter relay team of Drew McClurg, Cort Speckman, Nate Herriott and David Gonzales won with a 9:02.4 time.
The 800 meter relay team of Jacob Swiger, Parker Manger, Jared Kremer and Garrett Westerbeck won with a time of 1:38.24.
The 1600 meter relay team of Kremer, Speckman, Swiger and Westerbeck won with a 3:50.93 time.
McClurg also won the 3200 meter run with a 11:19.01 time.
Jared Kremer also won the 400 meter dash with a 55.26-second pace.
Garrett Westerbeck won the 300 hurdles with a 43.66-second time.
New Bremen's Ally Elking won the girls mile with a 5:58.29 time and also took the 800 meter run with a 2:46.58 time.
Makenna Brackman took first in the 400 meter dash with a 1:07.72 time.
The 1600 meter relay team of Makenna Brackman, Shelby Paul, Veronica Hirshfield and Elking won with a 4:44.73 time.


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Deadline for submission of all application materials is February 1, with final decision of admissions by February 15. The program begins with a mandatory on-campus orientation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in early May, with classes starting in mid-May.
Application requirements
- BS in Nursing or BSN reflected in official transcripts
- Minimum of a 2.8 GPA for admission, with a 3.0 GPA maintained during program
- Current licensure as a registered nurse in Pennsylvania with 2000 hours of experience
After acceptance into the program, the following are required:
- Proof of current:
• CPR certification (healthcare provider course)
• Immunizations and tuberculin testing
• Liability insurance
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• ACT 151 criminal history check
• 114 FBI clearance, including fingerprinting
• ACT 34 child abuse clearance forms
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A completed application includes all of the following:
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There is little pressure on Edwin Maldonado in Monday's Santa Ynez Stakes, or for any
of the other jockeys in the race, save for Garrett Gomez.
Gomez rides 3-5 morning line favorite and newly crowned 2-year-old filly champ of 2012 Beholder in the Grade II race for 3-year-old fillies at 6 ½ furlongs. Maldonado rides 5-1 second choice Dawn's Charm, smashing 10 ¾-length maiden allowance winner at Betfair Hollywood Park Dec. 14 for Jeff Bonde, who trains the gray daughter of Hard Spun for owner Michael House of El Cajon.
"She's working good and she really improved a lot her last race," said Maldonado, who has ridden Dawn's Charm in each of three starts. She was 10th at Santa Anita in her debut, beaten nearly 10 lengths, last Sept. 29.
She showed good speed in her next start, running second to the half-mile marker before weakening to finish fifth, beaten only four lengths in an improved performance.
"The key with her is to be in front," Maldonado said, "and she never was in front before.
"I was on for a couple of her works here and she went well. They were maintenance works, but she's ready for the race."
The field for the Santa Ynez: Small Moves, Victor Espinoza, 30-1; Blushing Angel, Joe Talamo, 10-1; Dawn's Charm, Edwin Maldonado, 5-1; Lady Rosamond, Martin Garcia, 10-1; Inwiththeblonde, Juan Hernandez, 10-1; Renee's Titan, Tyler Baze, 8-1; Switch to the Lead, Julien Leparoux, 8-1; and Beholder, Garrett Gomez, 3-5.
First post time Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is 12:30 p.m. All Thoroughbreds members at Santa Anita tomorrow will receive free a premium Santa Anita hooded sweatshirt with paid admission while supplies last.
Doug O'Neill, so fresh it looked "like he just jumped in at the quarter pole" thanks to an Air Reddam jet flight back from last night's Eclipse Awards in Florida where Team O'Neill's Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another was an overwhelming winner as outstanding male 3-year-old of 2012, was back at his command post Sunday morning, multi-tasking with the media during training hours.
"We had a wonderful time there," O'Neill said of the ceremony held at Gulfstream Park. "It was great. Everyone was so nice. It was a real good venue.
"If you had to knock anything, it would have been ideal if there had been more video clips of all the nominees. That would have been cool. But it still was great.
"(Hostess) Jeanine Edwards urged speakers not to go over a minute, so they started playing the piano (as a cue to end their say) after a minute with some people. That was funny."
One horse O'Neill had a close watch on Sunday morning was galloper Mudflats, a recent acquisition who disappointed in the Jerome at Aqueduct, but was a portrait in gray this morning.
"We've got the San Vicente Stakes (Grade II, $150,000 at seven furlongs Feb. 17) circled on the calendar for him," O'Neill said.
Kayla Stra missed victory by a head in her first race as a new mother. The 28-year-old Australian native had an eventful trip to just miss winning Saturday's third race aboard 44-1 shot Wild in the Saddle, losing to front-running 62-1 outsider J Louie, ridden by Tyler Baze.
For Stra (pronounced straw), it was her first ride since last May 20 at Betfair Hollywood Park. During that span, she took time off to give birth to a son on Nov. 15 fathered by trainer Gus Headley. The boy's name is Brys (pronounced Breece) Baldwin Headley.
"I was hoping to win," Stra said after the narrow defeat. "If I hadn't been wide, I might have got there. It would have been great to win for the chaplain," referring to trainer Francis Meza, wife of Eddie Meza, chaplain for the Race Track Chaplaincy of America.
Eddie is the brother of former jockey Rafael Meza. Francis and Eddie celebrated big time four races later when A Jealous Woman, trained by Francis, won the $75,000 Megahertz Stakes in a three-horse photo under Brice Blanc.
For Kayla, a win Saturday would have been additionally appropriate since her grandmother, Joan, is in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach battling complications from recent cancer surgery on a kidney. Joan was 76 last Friday.
"I was hoping to win not only for the chaplain, but for my grandmother," Stra said. "We're saying our prayers."
If hunch plays mean anything, the Man Upstairs should be on Kayla's side Monday. She rides a horse for Gus in the third race named On Holy Ground.
FINISH LINES: My Miss Aurelia, who lost to Questing by four votes in the Eclipse Awards voting for outstanding 3-year-old filly of 2012, worked four furlongs on Santa Anita's fast main track on a sparkling Sunday morning in 50.20. Steve Asmussen assistant Scott Blasi called the move "easy." Another Asmussen runner, 2012 Eddie D. winner Unbridled's Note, went five furlongs in 1:01 flat . . . Secret Circle, winner of a division of the Southwest Stakes and the Rebel Stakes last year, worked four furlongs for Bob Baffert in 51.40, while promising maiden winner War Academy went the same distance in 48.20 . . . Lady of Shamrock, winner of the Del Mar Oaks and the American Oaks on turf for John Sadler, went four furlongs on the main track in 51 seconds . . . Strong Suit, pointing to the Arcadia Stakes on Feb. 2, worked five furlongs in 59.80 for Simon Callaghan, who has Jamie Spencer coming in from Europe for the ride. "He's the owner's retained rider," Callaghan explained. "The horse worked very well. I couldn't be happier." Callaghan added that Robert J. Frankel Stakes winner Qaraaba is on course for the Grade II Santa Ana Stakes at nine furlongs on turf March 24 . . . At Hollywood Park, 2011 Strub Stakes winner Ultimate Eagle worked five furlongs under Martin Pedroza on Cushion Track in a bullet 59.60, cutting fractions of 24 and 36 while galloping out six furlongs in 1:11, according to trainer Mike Pender, who said Pedroza "was like a statue." . . . With the majority of players backing winning favorite Prettypriceygirl in yesterday's first race, 164 remained alive in ShowVivor entering Sunday's action . . . Next Saturday, Jan. 26, fans can watch and wager as the best California-bred horses battle over six stakes races at The Great Race Place. Fans in attendance at Santa Anita receive free a Sunshine Millions Beach Hat with paid admission while supplies last. In addition, there will be a KROQ concert in the infield, live music between races, microbrew beers, premium food trucks and family fun activities.
(Current through Saturday, Jan. 19)
Jockey Mts 1st 2nd 3rd Win% Money Won
Rafael Bejarano 81 17 17 5 21% $1,018,250
Joseph Talamo 90 14 14 15 16% $684,882
Garrett Gomez 53 12 12 5 23% $767,220
Edwin Maldonado 94 12 9 12 13% $502,700
Tyler Baze 91 10 10 9 11% $380,930
Martin Garcia 70 9 8 8 13% $529,938
Victor Espinoza 32 9 3 6 28% $304,120
Julien Leparoux 56 7 7 5 13% $414,960
Kevin Krigger 34 7 3 2 21% $187,950
Trainer Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Win% Money Won
John Sadler 49 8 9 7 16% $414,630
Jerry Hollendorfer 32 8 7 6 25% $472,398
Bob Baffert 57 7 8 5 12% $731,660
Doug O'Neill 56 7 8 4 13% $463,384
Peter Miller 26 5 7 2 19% $315,550
John Shirreffs 16 5 2 2 31% $238,880
Richard Mandella 15 4 2 2 27% $313,520
Mark Glatt 15 4 1 1 27% $85,600


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Murray Backs Anti-Doping 'Passports' for Tennis
Andy Murray Saturday backed a tougher anti-doping regime for tennis, including biological passports and more blood tests, to keep the sport drug-free after the Lance Armstrong scandal.
As Serena Williams called the Armstrong saga "sad" and women's number one Victoria Azarenka said the disgraced cyclist "deserves everything he gets", Murray said he would support tighter controls for tennis.
"I think it's something that all sports are now trying to improve their doping controls and make it better, you know, make sure that every sport's as clean as possible," the British major-winner said at the Australian Open.
"If that's more blood testing or the biological passports, that's something we need to do and improve in tennis, as well."
Drug cases are rare in tennis but its anti-doping system, which relies largely on urine rather than blood tests, has been criticized as outdated, and some suspicions have been voiced about leading players.
Men's number one Novak Djokovic Friday said he had not been blood-tested for six or seven months, although Murray said his blood was examined between four and six times a year.
Biological passports are used in some sports including cycling to provide a running record of each athlete's test results, to detect unusual variations.
After Djokovic said Armstrong should "suffer for his lies" following his long-awaited doping confession, Azarenka also had harsh words for the seven-time Tour de France champion.
"I think he deserves everything he gets. You know, you cannot go through the stuff and be a hero in the end of the day. You cannot lie. You cannot cheat," said the Belarusian.
Williams said she was "glued" to the TV interview, adding that the Armstrong case would now bring many top athletes under suspicion.
"I think as an athlete, as someone that works really, really hard since I was four or three, you know, I think it's a sad day for all athletes in general," she said.
Williams added: "Unfortunately, I think a lot of people now look and are like, OK, if somebody that great, what about everyone else in every other sport?"


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Hewlett-Packard Wednesday took to YouTube to demonstrate that its new OneView converged infrastructure management platform bests rival Cisco's Unified Compute System (UCS) Manager product.
The YouTube video, titled "HP OneView + HP BladeSystem: Faster, Simpler, Smarter than Cisco UCS Manager," features HP Vice President and Chief Engineer for HP BladeSystem Gary Thome and HP Engineer Chris Bradley providing what HP is calling a "side-by-side demo comparison of HP OneView and Cisco UCS."
HP says in the YouTube cutline that HP OneView "enables you to manage your infrastructure faster, at lower cost and with greater scale."
[Related: HP Makes Converged Infrastructure Market Grab With OneView Platform]
Cisco's Unified Compute System, which was launched four and a half years ago, has been a big hit in the channel with the product now on a $2 billion annualized run rate.
HP claims the biggest OneView advantages over Cisco UCS show up in terms of ease of use, simplicity and time-savings in complex IT environments.
Specifically, HP claims that OneView requires only four steps and 30 seconds of administrative time to retire a virtual local area network (VLAN) in a 160-server environment compared with 480 steps and about two hours with Cisco UCS based on internal testing by HP in September.
Cisco's UCS tackles just one small part of the converged infrastructure management problem, said Thome in a press conference question-and-answer session after the HP OneView launch.
"We think that HP OneView is just a much more comprehensive approach to managing IT infrastructure," said Thome. "When you couple that with HP BladeSystem, we really believe that this is just the best approach for enterprises for running their traditional enterprise applications, highly virtualized environments or even building a private cloud."
In the YouTube video, Thome compares what he calls the "cumbersome" UCS approach to moving a workload in a 640-server environment that involves moving manually through rows of data to the relatively quick-and-easy HP approach that features a dashboard data view of data center cool spots that could accommodate the workload change.
Cisco had not yet responded to the HP claims as of press time. But, Cisco has claimed in the past that Cisco UCS results in a 61 percent reduction in ongoing administrative/management costs.
NEXT: Cisco Partner Disputes HP OneView Vs. Cisco UCS Test Data


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The Skunk Train is a great attraction to check out when you're visiting Cleone, California. The train runs from Fort Bragg to Willits, CA, much farther inland. There's also a midway point in Northspur, California. The Skunk Train is a true trip back in time. Everything about the train is relevant to the century old tradition of travel. People can bring their cell phones, cameras and modern clothing, but aside from that, everything resembles a trip back to the olden days of traveling by rail.
Here's a description from the Skunk Train website. "The view from the restored rail cars is pretty much unchanged: towering trees, deer drinking from the Noyo River, an isolated fisherman's cabin peeking from the forest. With occasional whistles as it chugs through tunnels, over bridges and past open meadows, the train follows the coastal "Redwood Route" as it has since 1885."
"Moving at a leisurely pace, the trains pull covered cars as well as open observation cars—perfect for capturing photographs of this truly exhilarating journey."
Right now is the perfect time to get on the train and take a trip through Northern California's forest. You can ride the Christmas train, a 90- minute train ride including a visit from Santa and the Elves, music, cocoa and cookies. It departs from both ends in Fort Bragg and Willits.
There are other trips throughout the rest of the year and you can check it out on their site here. Fort Bragg is just south of the Cleone Gardens Inn. After a relaxing night in our bed and breakfast, you can take a day trip checking out all the beautiful landscapes of Northern California then come back to Cleone for great fishing or relaxation.


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4 steps to creating a 'searchable moment' and winning a sale
One Saturday afternoon, you decide to take a stroll down a local street, and a chalkboard sign on an upcoming sidewalk catches your eye.
"Wine tasting today, 2 to 5 p.m. 30 percent off all bottles," it reads.
Feeling spontaneous, you head into the store. 30 minutes later you leave the store having signed up for its mailing list and carrying a bottle of pinot noir from a California brand you had previously never heard of.
You have just experienced what I call a "searchable moment."
Searchable moments are the holes-in-one of marketing. Within one excellent stroke, a customer searches and finds a new store, becomes familiar with the brand and makes a purchase.
The rise of the Internet and mobile technology has made searchable moments increasingly common. In fact, 70 percent of consumers will purchase from a restaurant within an hour of finding the menu via local mobile search.
To stand out from the competition in this age of instant gratification, you need to create as many searchable moments as possible for consumers online, and you can do so by following these four steps:
1. Cast as wide a net as possible
Be everywhere your customers are. We recently found that 81 percent of consumers have used a mobile app to search for a restaurant in the past six months, and 91 percent have used a web browser.
Your brand and offerings need to be easily found at these online locations. Do a quick search for your business on your desktop and smartphone. Take note of where your business shows up, and make sure the information displayed is up to par.
2. Create a sense of urgency
Why was the wine tasting sign effective? One of the reasons is because it was limited by time. It is quite possible to create a similar sense of urgency among new consumers online.
Keep your online listings up to date. If you're hosting an event or offering a sale, your online listings should be the first place you let people know about it — there's no better way to get introduced to a new company.
3. Shorten the path to purchase
On the Internet there is often a physical and geographical barrier standing between the consumer and their ability to buy from you. To lower that barrier, make sure your contact information is readily available so the consumer can call you to get more information or place an order.
Take a look at online ordering capabilities. Many consumers love being able to order by a simple click of the mouse or swipe of the finger (for evidence, look no further than Domino's recent ad campaign).
Start leveraging location-based mobile apps—the Yelps and Foursquares of the world. Consumers who find your business on them are already close by, and therefore the path to purchase is inherently short.
4. Images, images and more images
Have you ever wondered why every post on Facebook these days seems to include an image? Or why photo-laden sites like Buzzfeed have recently exploded in popularity? It's because images are essential to making today's Internet world go round.
Adding images of products and menu items in online directories can increase click-through rates by upwards of 30 percent. If your business offers great products, show them off with pictures.
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Christopher M. Litster is Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Constant Contact.