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Sb III took off, grew up, sort of. Jordy has become stale. Our fights used to go on for months. Non existent now. Don't feel the hate. GMC I wept after his banning. Who you got anyone? Suggestions would be welcome. Everyone needs a rival.
Maybe that'll bring him back.
Well, first things first: how many miles were you getting with your old Nemesis?
I think the repartee between you and SAR could be worth reading. Truth be told, there are quite a few to choose from over on the Pfail. I'm pretty sure I've been put on ignore by one or two of them.
Listen, you can't just go swapping out one nemesis for another like it's a liver or something.
Lex Luthor?
How far from your Nemesis will you be sitting? Brightly lit room, or darker?
May I suggest stokes?
He loves to argue, has a soft spot for Sanchez and unlike any other nemisis, he can easily fit in a carry-on bag.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers won't risk losing Kyrie Irving for any more games.
On Thursday, Cleveland coach Byron Scott said he will consider shutting down his All-Star point guard, who recently missed three games with a hyperextended right knee and said after Wednesday's comeback win over Utah that the injury was still bothering him.
"If Ky is hurting, I have no problem sitting him down," Scott said.
Playing his second straight game after resting for a week, Irving scored 20 points with 10 rebounds and seven assists as the Cavs overcame a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter and beat the Jazz 104-101. Irving scored 11 points in the final 4:21, but after the game said his knee still wasn't 100 percent.
"The only way I would get better is if I sit out for the rest of the season, and I'm not doing that," Irving said.
The comment surprised Scott, who said he will talk to Irving and trainer Max Benton before any decisions are made.
"If there is any way of doing more damage by continuing to play, then I'll find that out and we'll go from there," Scott said. "I want him (Irving) to go out there and play and be effective for us," Scott said. "I don't want him playing at 100 percent."
Irving played almost 38 minutes against the Jazz and didn't seem to be slowed by the right knee, which he banged against teammate Omri Casspi's knee in a practice two weeks ago. The Cavs rested their 20-year-old star for three games and he returned Monday night when Cleveland s hosted the New York Knicks.
Irving did not speak with reporters following a light practice. With games almost every other day, Scott is using the off days to have his players work on their shooting and lift weights.
The Cavs host the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday.
Irving, the NBA's Rookie of the Year in 2012, has missed 14 games this season with injuries. He sat out 11 games with a broken index finger and the Cavs kept him out of the other three to allow his knee time to heal.
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Since my last column, my Grandma has passed away. She died peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, January 19. She was 87 years old. Her funeral was held a few days later, and most of the extended family and many people who were friends with her or knew her from various places came to give their condolences. It was incredible to see so many people who cared about Grandma. She was truly loved. I will miss her.
I remember the many long hours I recently spent at the hospital waiting for news about Grandma's condition. While this was happening, I was also wondering when my computer would return from the repair shop. It had contracted a virus at precisely the worst possible time. The college semester would begin shortly, and I needed to complete the icebreaker activities in each of my classes before it began. The icebreakers are mostly ungraded activities in which I introduce myself to my other classmates and show that I understand the syllabus material for each class; they are not exactly proper schoolwork, but I feel compelled to do them anyway to show the teachers that I am indeed participating in the course. I was relieved when my laptop came back from the repair shop, as I was then able to complete the icebreakers quickly. I finished them during the days between Grandma passing away and her funeral.
After the funeral, I then had to begin doing the schoolwork in each class. For the first two days of the semester, I read through the first chapters in each of my textbooks and participated in virtual discussions. These discussions are the online equivalent of classroom discussions; all of the students answer the teacher's questions, and then we must discuss aspects of the course material among ourselves. These portions of the class are apparently supposed to be the easy part, but I find them quite exhausting. It takes me a bit of time to complete one discussion post because all of my ideas need to make sense before I can post my thoughts, and I have to make sure that my spelling and grammar is correct. I also try to post two or three replies to people who talk to me in each discussion per day. Multiplied across five classes with one to three discussion areas each, I have found that this takes a lot of time—time I would rather use to work on essays, quizzes, exams, and other areas of my schoolwork. By the time I am done with discussions for the day, it is usually very late at night, and I feel compelled to head off to sleep.
When the discussions are out of the way, I am then able to concentrate on doing everything else that is required. These assignments bring their own challenges, but they are a welcome diversion from the continuous grind of producing discussion posts. This semester, I am finding that the quizzes are the easiest part of my coursework. They are all presented in an open-book format this year, which means that I can freely look up the answers in my textbooks It is still a bit tricky for me to find some of the correct answers, especially when under a time limit, but at least the format provides me with a bit of relief. The essays, on the other hand, are much more difficult. During my first two weeks, I have been assigned three different essays. I find essays much harder because they require more time, and I have to really put a great deal of effort into editing my own work. Once everything is sorted out, though, and the essay is complete, I feel satisfied with what I have done.
The first few weeks of this semester have actually been fairly easy, but my courses do require a lot of work to be completed in a short period of time, which always takes getting used to. However, I think I am starting to adjust and will be able to continue my schoolwork for the next few months without too many difficulties. I am looking forward to learning more useful information this semester, and I cannot wait to graduate.


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I know I've seen this posted somewhere, but I was wondering about an update...When is The Complete Guide to Homeschooling from Birth to Grade 6 coming out? I'm about halfway finished reading The Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling, and all these references to the next volume have me starving for more!!! I'm hoping it'll be out soon, in other words.
So do we I'm afraid we don't have a firm ETA as of yet, it'll be out whenever we have time to put the finishing touches on it.
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Are volumes 2 and 3 of Mary's Complete Guide ever going to be published? I am very interested in reading them!
Not sure, but it won't be any time soon, either way. We do, however, intend to put our entire reviews database of thousands of reviews online in the near future. Just a matter of me having the time, what with all the different projects I'm working on.
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Only 2:30, but here is NASA's landing video from their Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision#p/a/724782A8B8BE3EE5/0/Drv0SS1rCpk [youtube.com]
I have to give credit to NASA. Their HD real-time stream was great! I was able to put it full screen on my 23" monitor, sit back, and enjoy the whole thing!
Note that the first orbital shuttle flight was right about the time my father brought home our first computer, a TRS-80 model III. What I do with computers has changed a bit, but the enjoyment level is about the same (maybe a little lower now). Want to see something really weird? Wikipedia classifies the -3 as a business system. I guess I should just be thankful it hasn't been deleted (yet).
If only we knew what comes next.
It seems every 4-8 years a new 20 year plan is given to NASA that may or may not have anything to do with the last 20 year plan. Between politics and NASA's own bureacracy, it seems that the US manned space program is stalled. Thank goodness we still have JPL and its hardy unmanned probes.
While we are getting rides from Russia to install experiments from the EU and Japan, perhaps our private sector will advance enough to pick up where NASA left off. Here's to you, Burt Rutan.
JPL isn't without its issues either, but at least they accomplish stuff. My brother worked for them for 5 years until the bureaucratic mess became too much. To hear him describe it, they have a serious brain drain issue where the lure of the private sector takes a lot of their best and brightest. Its a hearty bunch that stay for the long term and manage to get past the politicking.
To hear him describe it, they have a serious brain drain issue where the lure of the private sector takes a lot of their best and brightest.
But I thought all government workers were spoiled, lazy, and overpaid? And there would be no consequences if we slash their salaries whenever we need to close a deficit?
People who want to be spoiled and lazy don't get difficult degrees in aerospace engineering, physics, etc. and go to work doing serious science work at someplace like JPL. People like that want a good work environment and rewarding work, regardless of the pay. There's lots of engineers who quit their well-paying jobs because the office politics are toxic, the work environment bad, they're tired of all their projects being shit-canned, etc.
Yes, there's lots of spoiled, lazy, overpaid government workers, bu
The "we shouldn't pay any taxes at all" group is actually a very tiny minority. Most grumbling on taxes comes about from:
Inefficiency (when money being spent on project X greatly exceeds what it should cost)
Waste (eg, having to spend all the budget this year to ensure it doesn't get cut next year, so things are bought and then immediately thrown away)
Irrresponsibility/abuse (like vacations and luxury for lawmakers under the guise of official business)
Superfluous projects (ie, government spending money to d
All too often, the libertarian's working definition of "waste" is "any program that doesn't benefit me personally". The magic of this line of thinking is that everybody can agree that there's enormous waste in government spending.... and as long as you don't ask them to point out exactly what that waste is, they'll never notice that they're all talking about each others' sacred cows.
I resemble that remark.
Seriously though, as a political science major, I do take exception to that. There are plenty of people in the field doing good research that widens our view of how government operates, when and how it fails, how to avoid the problems of the past, and give us new ideas and models to use in the future. Society is sufficiently complex that we need people trained specifically to write, analyze, and revise policy that implements the will of the people. It is capable of being just as rigor
No true Scottsman fallacy, eh?
Maybe there not really that many fat lazy government workers?
Scottsman? SCOTTSMAN?
Um..the extra T is for golf.
But I thought all government workers were spoiled, lazy, and overpaid?
You make a good point... clearly there's an exception to every rule!
I kid, I kid. Please don't audit me.
It's fun that everything you said is in the past tense...
Sure, they were useful and did beneficial research. Before. When they still had money and cared.
Thank goodness we still have JPL and its hardy unmanned probes.
Where's the love for the JHU APL? (Note that MESSENGER is just a few days from its Mercury orbital insertion)
As to Discovery, it's particularly bittersweet to watch her retirement. I saw her launch firsthand as a kid in '85 (STS-51D), which had a big impact on me. A good part of the reason I'm (still*) at NASA today. Discovery was the orbiter for both return to flight missions. She launched HST.
I also had the privilege to watch her last launch. I admit, it almost brings a tear to my eye.
* Working at NASA was more of a right-place-right-time opportunity for me. Not leaving NASA in disgust years ago is largely due to the love of the program I have, largely instilled by that early shuttle launch.
Huh. Imagine that! Every 4-8 years NASA gets new marching orders that force it to waste the money it spent on the last marching orders by axing those projects.
And every 4-8 years we get a new President.
What an astonishing coincidence!
What really needs to happen is that we need to somehow enact a law that says the President isn't in charge of NASA and can't order them to drop everything in favor of something else on a whim. The history of NASA from the shuttle onward is pretty tragic, and not because NASA or the idea of a national space agency sucks, but because idiots keep screwing with their budget. The shuttle itself was supposed to be a proof of concept - - Let's show that we can build a space plane with this prototype and then go build a production model that's cheaper and works better. But budget restraints canned that.
Then they got new budgets and were going to try for a good space plane again, and then W got into office and decided to go to Mars, so NASA had to drop everything and start working on the Mars trip. Then Obama took office and killed the Mars trip - not that I entirely fault Obama for doing that since the Mars trip was unworkable as ordered, but the point still stands. NASA has become a huge waste of taxpayer money not because of NASA mismanagement, but because of mismanagement of NASA. It really does need some independence, because we've progressed beyond the point where viable programs can be ordered and delivered in 8 years, so all we have is NASA working for at most 8 years on something and then being told to throw everything from that program away because the new President isn't interested in it.
The law you want already exists. Congress is in charge of NASA.
But Congress can barely manage their own cafeteria.
Laws often originate with either a lobbyist or POTUS.
US Government's Plan for Nasa - 2011 to 2031:
-Gradually close down the US space program and subcontract all spaceflight to private sector companies
-Sell off the shuttles so we can finally pay off our pawn loan and get that sweet guitar back
-Lose edge on space-based achievements and discoveries to other more honest nations that don't have need to over-fund stealing oil from the middle east
-Divert all space funding to an illegitimate war for control of a doomed source of fuel
-Gradually divert all science, mat
It seems every 4-8 years a new 20 year plan is given to NASA that may or may not have anything to do with the last 20 year plan. Between politics and NASA's own bureacracy, it seems that the US manned space program is stalled. Thank goodness we still have JPL and its hardy unmanned probes.
Gee, good thing then that the new plan is smaller missions involving the development of specific technologies and capabilities, rather than a 20 year plan requiring single-purpose development, so that when the next cycle comes, even if the new guy changes plans, we still have what we already built.
BTW, Burt Rutan is awesome, but it's Elon Musk who is going to be providing the rides first.
As someone who was there watching the launch in person, it was definitely a nail biter. Forty seconds left in the launch window, though I suppose they could have waited a day and gone up then.
It almost got delayed a day anyway. There's a minimum separation time between when one ship leaves ISS and another one docks, and if they had held fast to that schedule, it would have been delayed until Friday because of the late departure of... I think it was a Soyuz mission. They decided to override that and go on Thursday anyway. Either way, there presumably was an alternate launch window already planned for Friday.
The best part was how many people reacted to the original mission schedule in the same way. NASA's banners said that it would be up for 10 days and spend 363 days in orbit. Immediately, my reaction was, "Wait... you're within two days of being up there for a year, and you're not going to do it?" Well, they extended the mission by two days.
And just to anthropomorphize the shuttle a bit, I don't think general purpose computer 5 was ready to go to a museum. It failed to shut off. I particularly liked the controller's comment when he said that they'd be sure not to use that switch on the next flight. Hilarious.
Wow. Just... wow.
>> Discovery's odometer stood at some 5,750 orbits covering nearly 150 million miles, during 39 flights spanning a full year in space
That's nothing, my Yugo once drove 150 CONSECUTIVE miles without catching on fire or breaking down!
That's nothing, my Yugo once drove 150 CONSECUTIVE miles without catching on fire or breaking down!
You must've had it in H.
I just thought I should point that out. The picture of me aboard the shuttle totally added to the epicness of it all.
(And yes, I printed out my flight certificate already, though no one in my office was nearly as impressed with it as I.)
I have been feeling that the shuttle program was a big mistake for NASA. It's had too many problems, never flew as often as it was supposed to, and couldn't get out of low orbit, and has been shut down too many times, and cost more than it should have per launch. It might have been ok if they could have flown monthly as was originally planned, but it never even approached that ideal.
What would have happened if they dropped the shuttle program early on, and did anything different for manned flight. The shuttle program is known more for its problems than for its successes. It never grabbed much public attention, and became more of a "another shuttle launched? when did that happen?". It didn't have a plan to evolve, so we have been stuck with the same technology for these long years. A non-reusable program would, at least, give us more chances to evolve the design.
Two tragic accidents, yes. But a mistake? I'd call it pretty remarkable for our first partially-reusable spacecraft. It did things nothing else could pull of, like bringing back satellites. Hopefully, the next generation will figure out how to do it with a totally and *legitimately* reusable system.
It did capture several satellites, Hubble being one of them. I'm not sure if it ever pulled one into its bay, shut the doors, and came home though.
I don't think it ever returned with one. It also captured intelset VI for repairs, and released it again.
Did the shuttle, indeed, ever return a satellite?
At least two, I believe. From what I remember they were launched on a shuttle but the upper stages didn't fire, so they were recovered on a later flight and then launched again by expendable rockets?
Yes. Plus, it also picked up the LDEF (Long-Duration Exposure Facility) launched by a previous mission and returned it as well (on a separate mission).
So what? What use is there in bringing back satellites? That's an utterly stupid requirement. If a satellite is bad, then let it burn up in the atmosphere, and build and launch another one on a Titan rocket. It's safer and cheaper than trying to salvage a bad one. Why should people risk their lives trying to salvage bad satellites when it's easy to just build new ones? What's more, the Shuttle can't even reach many satellites (such as ones in GEO).
Some satellites cost a couple of billion dollars to build and deploy. Spending a couple of hundred million to retrieve and refurbish them, then a couple hundred million to put them back into orbit, is a bargain compared to building a new one.
As for GEO, we need only make a GEO-capable shuttle.
I really don't get why people get hung up on $/kg when the major expense of most projects is in design and inventing and testing and building of manufacturing and support facilities. But in a lot of vehicles, the siz
So what? What use is there in bringing back satellites? That's an utterly stupid requirement
You have to realize it was a cold war requirement to F with the soviets low altitude photorecon satellites. Back then they launched with actual photographic film, you know, like light sensitive celluloid or whatever. So the threat that we could scoop them up:
1) Made them launch higher, thus lower res, less payload = less film.
2) Made them threaten to put a little self destruct mechanism in the satellites, making them waste payload mass (and volume, I suppose)
Another idea was we'd deploy military sats, and if they didn't work, rather than leaving them up there for the soviets to mess with, or even worse, having them land on soviet territory, we'd just pick em up and take em home.
The last idea was, of course, being all things to all people all the time, some doofus promised we'd have 100 launches per year, so if we're up there on a
So there were very solid cold war reasons to bring back sats.
You have to realize, all the design work was done in the early 70s, forty years ago. Very few electronic products have forty year runs.
The whole thing was a bad idea, and it was all driven by a stupid military requirement to be able to bring back satellites from space. If it weren't for that requirement, they could have done something just like the Russians: a small capsule for people (Soyuz), and a big disposable pod for cargo (Progress). The total costs of this type of system are much lower than the Shuttle. There is absolutely NO reason to ever bring large cargo back from orbit (unless maybe you've recovered an alien artifact!). If
The Soviets copied our space shuttle, and put it into orbit. But Buran [wikipedia.org] sucked, the Soviet space program is dog-slow, and the fall of the Soviet Union intervened, so they mothballed it after the one (unmanned) flight and fell back on Soyuz [wikipedia.org].
That's the only reason the manned space program is still based on capsules. If the Buran program had a clue nobody would know what a Soyuz was today. And the Russians are thinking of redoing Buran from scratch [spacedaily.com].
If they do, in a few years you may be back here wondering wh
Not 2 a year per shuttle, two shuttles a year.
The 2 week turnaround was a little aggressive, but it's not the reason each shuttle didn't fly more often. Lack of missions and the existence of the other shuttles made the rapid turnaround unnecessary. Although the fact that the 2-week number was bollocks from the start is one of the reasons there are so many shuttles.
who occupy the White House and Congress. Who are more concerned with staying in power and therefor buying off friends, family, and supporters, with our money instead of keeping America great. America has become their second priority behind themselves. Where we have such a convoluted tax system that the IRS's budget is two thirds of NASA's.
While I was not a fan of the shuttle program for many years it is the image people most associate with the American space program. They were big, bold, and beautiful, compared to simple rockets. Each launch was impressive. Unfortunately tragedy and money being directed at buying off people for votes will keep us from getting back to the good days of NASA. Sure we still fly the occasional probe and such but they don't inspire me at least, not like seeing men do something up "there".
150 million miles
Hopefully NASA can roll it back a few million before putting it up for sale. What's the KBB on a used space shuttle?
$0.00 or $billions depending if you're a museum or not.
We have lost our ambitions for spaceflight.
That seems like a bizarre claim when there's probably more commercial interest in spaceflight today than ever before in the history of the human race. Dozens of groups are building suborbital rockets, SpaceX has built and flown two new orbital launchers with new engines for less than the cost of NASA putting a dummy upper stage on top of a shuttle SRB, and at least some of those groups will come up with innovative ways of reducing the cost of spaceflight as a result.
John F. Kennedy:
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
America today:
We choose not to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Because they are not easy, they are hard.
Lack of a cold war to rattle your sabers in will do that to a country.
So the only reason the shuttle remained was to get to the station, and the only reason the station remained was to have a place for the shuttle to go.
Almost everything else got cut for budget reasons, etc.
So, now that the shuttle is all done, that means the station is all done and will be deorbited rather soon, correct?
There has to be a simple reason why they don't leave it up there, but I don't know what it is. It costs $$$ for every kilo that goes into orbit. It's an airtight space full of equipment and other useful things. It has engines and a bit of leftover fuel that could be used for station keeping.
What aren't the shuttles just made a permanent part of the station and source of parts and the crew just sent down via MIR or something?
It's an airtight space full of equipment and other useful things.
It's far from airtight and is only designed to operate in space for a couple of weeks (which is why they didn't go to a great deal of trouble to make it airtight). Cooling and power would be problematice and the interior space is small compared to a space station module.
A number of people have suggested this and there's no good reason to do it and lots of good reasons not to do it.
So you'd use it as somewhat leaky storage and a source of spares and raw materials. Still seems way more valuable up there than sitting in a museum.
So you'd use it as somewhat leaky storage and a source of spares and raw materials.
There's little commonality between shuttle parts and ISS parts, no-one is going to be melting down the shuttle's aluminum for raw materials to build new space station parts, and you'd need to bring more supplies into space to keep the atmosphere from leaking out (plus more fuel to raise the orbit since you'd have another hundred tons of mass). It's simply a lose-lose proposition.
What aren't the shuttles just made a permanent part of the station and source of parts and the crew just sent down via MIR or something?
The Mir didn't make a very good re-entry vehicle.
The Mir didn't make a very good re-entry vehicle.
Arguably better than SkyLab?
My three year old is fanatical about space, planets, the moon, astronauts, everything. How am I supposed to explain to him that our "great" country doesn't do any of that stuff any more? What sort of answer can I give him that doesn't sound a complete fucking cop-out? I have yet to think of one.
I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.


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Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos has said he would pick Sergio Busquets over Lionel Messi if he had the chance to pick any Barcelona player.
It may come as a surprise that Ramos would choose to overlook Messi as he is widely to considered to be the world's best player at the moment and even of all time.
The Santiago Bernabeu star was speaking to Spanish radio station Cadena COPE when he was asked which player he would take to the capital from Camp Nou if given the chance.
Although Busquets may not be too pleased with his international teammate's reasoning behind why he would choose him – Ramos wants him as a replacement.
"If I could sign one Barcelona player for Real Madrid, that would be Sergio Busquets," he said in the interview.
"There are a number of players I like, but the one we perhaps need is Busquets.
"Xabi Alonso is playing too many matches now and we could do with a player like Busquets."
Ramos went on to say he admired and got along with many of the Barcelona squad, especially those he plays with at international level.
An obvious question to ask would be why he didn't pick Lionel Messi, whom you would think is the first fantasy choice for most footballers.
Ramos claimed that even to imagine the Argentine in a los Blancos shirt would be impossible, with the same applying to Andres Iniesta.
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Shares of broadband wireless provider Clearwire (CLWR) are down 2 cents, or 0.6%, at $3.16 in late trading after the company this afternoon reported Q4 revenue that missed consensus estimates and a slightly deeper loss per share than expected.
Revenue in the three months ended in December fell 14%, year over year, to $311 million, yielding a net loss of 28 cents.
Analysts had been modeling revenue of $313 million and a 27-cent loss.
CEO Erik Prusch trumped the company's year-over-year revenue growth of 1% for the full year, adding that "Our full year 2012 results demonstrate our continued focus on reducing costs, managing revenues and liquidity, and providing exceptional service to our customers during a transition period as we build an LTE network equipped to provide wireless consumers the speeds and capacity they desire."
Clearwire, which is the subject of a takeover offer from Sprint-Nextel (S), as well as an offer from Dish Network (DISH), spent $102 million in capital investment to build out its network capability for "long-term evolution," or LTE, this quarter. The company had coverage of 137 million people in the U.S. at the end of the quarter, 135 million of them within 4G wireless coverage, it said.
Clearwire management will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it here.


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I have been contacted by a shelter -- the one where I got Willy. They have this small white dog named Friskie, photo attached. He has not been adopted because he is blind. He is age 11 years. They want to know if I will take him. I am trying to sort out what breed / mix he is, what do you think?
Here is what I know so far: male, neutered, UTD, non-shedding, 90% blind (I've asked for more info, if this is cataracts, glaucoma etc). Gets along well with dogs and cats. Belonged to a couple, wife did, husband had to move in with relatives, can't care for dog or self.
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Needed for depth with Powell and Knight both likely out.
(WSCR) Back up running back Kahlil Bells time with the Bears may again be coming to an end.
According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, the Bears are expected to release Bell on Monday.
The Tribune reports injuries to receivers Alshon Jeffery and Earl Bennett have the Bears looking for additional help at the wide out position.
Bell was waived by the Bears earlier this season after the running back refused to take a pay cut from his $1.26 million salary. He was re-signed by the team on Sept. 15 after Matt Forte suffered an ankle injury.
Needed for depth with Powell and Knight both likely out.
Terminate the Terminator, sign Bell or another FA RB for depth.
As for Bell, he desired an opportunity to play elsewhere after being inactive for the Bears' last game at Jacksonville. Bell was surprised by the move and was even dressed to play before getting word of his status.
Bell played in two games after rejoining the team. He rushed for 32 yards on 12 carries and caught one pass for 11 yards.
Bell, who was waived by the Bears during the preseason after refusing to take a pay cut from his $1.26 million salary, rejoined the team Sept. 15 after Matt Forte suffered an ankle injury.
Bell is expected to be claimed off waivers, possibly by Green Bay. His salary now stands at $615,000, making him more attractive on the waiver wire.
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Although Bell is a strong one-cut back with loads of potential, he had an injury-riddled and generally ineffective career with the Bruins. He played in only 25 games over the past three seasons, starting 14, because of a suspension (2006), torn right ACL (2007) and high ankle sprain (2008). As a senior, he averaged 2.8 yards per carry playing hurt behind a young, constantly rotating offensive line. His 10 catches for 65 yards did not showcase his talents, either. If his legs are healthy and his mind is right, teams running a zone-blocking scheme could find him to be a great bargain as a late pick or free agent.
Positives: Stout frame with good overall musculature. Powerful one-cut runner who, when healthy, can carry the load. Good initial quickness to get to and through the hole. Can lower his shoulder and run through tackles. Delivers the blow. Good stiff arm. Good leg drive for short-yardage situations, which could be even better with a lower pad level. Tough to bring down. Fights for extra yardage by keeping his legs churning and can break away after being apparently stopped. Runs with a chip on his shoulder. Can cut in space and gain yardage in chunks. Surprising balance for a big back. Soft hands out of the backfield. Coaches say he has matured into a team leader during his career.
Negatives: Bit of a bull in a china closet. Marginal vision. Too often runs into the backs of his own blockers because he lacks patience. Runs a bit upright and can get himself in trouble when running laterally and not getting square. Lacks breakaway speed. Some real intangible red flags; suspended in 2006 for reportedly fighting with a teammate, and had another brush with a teammate this past season. Has struggled with durability throughout his career. Torn right ACL among the injuries that require a medical check.
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Im not positive but in addition to the terminator who is no proven even more worthless since lex hilliard is out producing anything connor has ever done, I believe we still are holding a spot with landolt???
Either way, Bell seems like a great insurance signing who at least has pro experience.
Bears waived RB Kahlil Bell.
According to the Chicago Tribune's Vaughn McClure, the Bears want a receiver to take Bell's roster spot. Bell played well down the stretch last season, but was active for just two of Chicago's first five games. With so many teams in need of running backs, it's possible he won't slip through waivers unclaimed.
are there any reports that we are in fact trying to sign bell? if he clears waivers.
We need bodies at the RB position right now.
Doesn't matter who..... The Injury Bug is kicking the Jets Collective Asses worse than anything the Pats ever did.
Plus if he has some snaps to show what he can do next week, it would be a great opportunity to analyze him as a player in our system.
Bell Has been released by the Bears
In 2012, Bell became an unrestricted free agent, and the Bears extended a qualifying offer to him, which he accepted on April 14, 2012.[5] The contract was worth one-year and $1.26 million. He was waived on August 23, 2012 when he refused to have his contract reduced to $700,000.[6] He was re-signed by the Bears on September 15, 2012 after starting running back Matt Forte went down with an injury.[7] Bell was later waived on October 15.[8]
Need to give Grimes a chance.
What's the bio or stats on this guy?
Why did we sign him off a PS, which mandates that he is on our active roster for at least 4 weeks, if we aren't going to play him; especially now that McKnight and Powell might be out.
I find it hard to imagine we would have sacrificed a roster spot for 4 weeks simply to gain some intel over the texans.... But, with tanny and rex running the show, you never know.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man must stand trial on charges he dangled his girlfriend's infant daughter out a window, then doused the woman with perfume and lit her on fire.
Twenty-seven-year-old Clinton Cohen, of Wilkinsburg, was ordered to stand trial on attempted homicide and other charges after Monday's preliminary hearing, at which 22-year-old Maria Redman testified.
The woman says Cohen accused her of cheating on him and grabbed the 3-month-old baby and held her out the window by her clothing. When Redman objected, she says Cohen told her, "That baby's not mine. I don't care."
Redman says Cohen then punched and choked her and used a lighter to set her on fire after dousing her with perfume. Redman spent nine days in the hospital.
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2.1 Northern Arizona University, hereinafter referred to as University, is committed to preserving the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of its information resources while also preserving and nurturing the open, information-sharing requirements of its academic culture. The University must protect its information assets, provide for the integrity of institutional processes and records, and comply with state and federal regulations.2.2 Authorize the creation of the University Information Security Program, hereinafter referred to as "Program", in support of this policy. The Program will establish, implement, and maintain information security related policies, procedures and standards for the University. These policies, procedures and standards will support the University's compliance with federal, state and ABOR regulations, and support the implementation of information security best practices.2.3 Authorize the creation of the University Information Security Committee, hereinafter referred to as "Committee", in support of this policy and the Program. The Committee will review and recommend to the President's Cabinet, information security policies and standards, and provide guidance and support to the University Information Security Officer for the implementation and maintenance of the Program.2.4 All systems implemented after the effective date of this policy are expected to comply with the provisions of this policy and the Program. Existing systems must be brought into compliance as soon as practical.
3.1 Availability: The information resources of the University, including the network, the hardware, the software, the facilities, the infrastructure, and any other such resources, available to support the teaching, learning, research, or administrative roles for which they are designated.3.2 Confidentiality: Information is protected from unauthorized use or disclosure.3.3 Integrity: Information is protected from unauthorized or unintentional modification.3.4 Appropriate level of security: Information falls in a range from fully public to confidential and protected by law. The level of security applied should be appropriate to where it falls in this spectrum.
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State of Arizona – Government Information Technology Agency – IT Security Statewide Policy P800Arizona Board of Regents: Tri-University Target Information Security ArchitectureArizona Board of Regents: Tri-U Personnel Guidelines on Protecting University Information and SystemsArizona Board of Regents: ABOR Policy Manual, Chapter 9 – Information Technology, 9-202 University ResponsibilitiesArizona State University: Information Security Policy (Draft)The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Information Security Policy and Standards (Draft)Peltier, Thomas R., Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: Guidelines for effective information security management. New York: Auerbach Publications, 2002.
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The Ionia County Economic Alliance (ICEA) will host Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley Thursday morning at the Ionia County Intermediate School District for the annual ICEA Executive Update breakfast.
The event, which is open to the public, begins with registration at 7:30 a.m. and will wrap up at 9:30 a.m. To register, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 616-771-0327.
Calley will provide an in-depth analysis of the state of the state, as well as discuss regional plans for growth and how they will intersect with those of local economic development agencies, according to Jennifer Wangler, business development consultant at The Right Place, which partners with the ICEA.
Troy Pepper from Cargill Kitchen Solutions and other local businesses that have benefited from the ICEA's services will offer a brief testimonial; and Chris Thelen, ICEA board chair, will provide a summary of his organization's results and a report on the progress of economic development in Ionia County, Wangler added.
The ICEA provides a range of economic development services to attract and retain businesses to the county. In 2011, the ICEA and The Right Place Inc. formed a strategic partnership to support economic growth and provide additional support to area businesses in Ionia County and encourage more regional marketing efforts in West Michigan.
"They connect with the other resources and assets in your community that are there to support businesses that help support their growth and keep them local," Wangler said. "When you have businesses that are expanding, you have job growth, people are gaining employment, and they have money to spend in their community."
Cargill and Herbruck's Poultry Ranch are two companies that expanded recently and took advantage of the services ICEA and The Right Place provide, said Wangler.
"It's a connection to state resources to support business development efforts," she said. "There are also smaller companies that have benefited. There are local nonprofits designed to support small business. We bring those resources to the companies so the companies don't have to find these resources on their own."
This is the third year of the ICEA partnership with The Right Place.
"We thought it would be a good time to bring in the lieutenant governor as a good example of a county partnership with regional government," said Thelen. "He'll provide an overview of the progress at the state and regional levels in his keynote address, and I'm going to provide an overview of the progress made in Ionia County."
Thelen said that businesses often are so focused on just operating that they don't have time to look at the benefits and business services available to help them with expansion, including grants, loans and incentives.
"This is a good opportunity to see how ICEA can be the linkage to tools out there. It really is a one-stop shop," Thelen said.
Calley served on the ICEA board several years ago, when he was an Ionia County commissioner, Thelen said, "and we thought this was a neat event to have him come back and participate in."
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LONG-TIME nemesis of the Bendigo Bank Spirit, Townsville Fire struck again to win last night's Women's National Basketball League match in north Queensland by four points.
Billed as a "danger game" for the ladder-leading Spirit, it proved to be as Townsville gained a seven-point break by three quarter-time and then withstood a fightback to triumph 56-52.
Bendigo's winning streak of six was snapped as a Fire attack led by Micaela Cocks, 13 points; Jessica Adair, 10; and Jessica Foley, 9: kept the heat on.
Spirit raced to a seven-point lead before Fire scored.
Field goal percentages for both were remarkably low in the first half which ended with scores locked on 24-all.
Bendigo had sunk just eight of 34 attempts from the field and just two of 10 in three-point territory.
Townsville's tally was 9-30 and 0-8, but it had a 100 per cent record at the free-throw line.
Spurred on by the vocal fans, Townsville led 42-35 with a quarter to go.
The Bernie Harrower-coached Spirit showed plenty of fight as a three-pointer by Gabe Richards put her team within two points at 45 seconds to go, but Fire replied through Rachel Flanagan to again lead by four at 24 seconds.
Shortly after, Fire was celebrating a hard-fought victory.
Bendigo's best were Richards, 17 points and six rebounds; Kelsey Griffin, 13 and 10; and Kristi Harrower, 10 and 8.
Although Spirit won the rebounding duels, 38-33, Fire's poise at the charity stripe was a key to victory.
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Regular price: $72.47
A person's conversational style includes far more than the words that he or she speaks. Each conversation is composed of contextual cues, unspoken messages, body language, and the rhythms of speech. For the most part, people communicate without a conscious focus on the subtleties of language. Through this course, the complexities of language, and all that language entails, will become more apparent.
This is not a book about science, rather it's a book about perceptions. Where this book is presented as Scholarly lecture series it implies that it should be treated as having a basis in factual reality, but this is not what you are receiving. While the work begins with descriptive terms and possible scientific approaches to Sociolinguistics, the lectures work much better as self-help.
The author goes through a variety of elements of conversation which may allow the listener to improve their personal relationships with those around them through adjustments in the speech or by recognizing those issues of others.Those seeking scientific scholarship will be disappointed, those seeking an introduction to Social Linguistics in a non-scientific vocabulary will really enjoy.
The Modern Scholar: He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language, also by Deborah Tannen, is VERY similar to this series. I would not recommend purchasing both.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
If you have read any of Deborah Tannen's popular titles, you will probably enjoy this. It is billed as a series of lectures (boring!) but you could just as easily reframe it as different chapters in an audio book.
Concepts are explained simply and clearly. It is quite accessable to the lay person, because there isn't an assumed level of knowledge.
Having read some previous titles by the same author, several vignettes were familiar, but it was quite amusing/entertaining to hear them read aloud. (eg the story about the pediatrician talking to the little girl.)
There is also an accompanying booklet to download. If you are considering downloading this title, the accompanying booklet gives a rough idea of what you can expect. It is very helpful if you want to follow up any of the authors cited.
Would highly recommend for people with a general interest in communication, or linguistics.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful
This is pseudo-scholarship at its worst. I was very disappointed to learn the lectures were by the woman who wrote the awful book, "you just don't understand" but thought I would give give it a short since I'd paid for it. It was just as bad as her book. This woman shamelessly perverts science. She creates untestable hypotheses which would make Freud blush. She even begins with an idle boast that she "saved a marriage" of a student through her course. She then proceeds to insult our intelligence with conversation analysis that a ten year-old could constuct if they were forced to waste their time that way. I am shocked this woman is alongside excellent scholars on the other lectures in this series.
27 of 53 people found this review helpful
I loved this course. Excellent, both in content and in narration. Professor Debora Tannen presents sociolinguistics' findings on cultural and gender differences between conversational styles in engaging andceffective way, but also without dumbing down the topic.
Although I am a fan of Deborah Tannen's books, and I have enjoyed attending lectures she has given, I was disappointed in this series. There was a lot of repetition, to the point where I kept thinking I was listening to a record that was skipping and stuck on the same sentence. I'm not talking about expounding on a topic or rephrasing it, but rather an almost verbatim account of the same sentences. Based on this, even though I am interested in the subjects she writes/talks about, I would hesitate to get another one of her audio lectures.
What disappointed you about The Modern Scholar?
The selection was not informative. It amounted mostly to discussing the scholarly names for mannerisms and tendencies that everyone already recognizes in their day to day communications.
Has The Modern Scholar turned you off from other books in this genre?
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
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I've read several Modern Scholar selections and enjoyed most of them, but not this one. The professor had very little practical information to offer. Most of it was examples of miscommunication to which the narrator supplied the linguistic terms. This selection might be of use if you are Sheldon Cooper or Mr. Data from Star Trek. Anyone who has good communication skills will find almost nothing valuable here. Worst of all, the professor tries to tell us that those who simply wait for their turn to talk instead of trying to listen actively, ask questions and be engaged in what we are saying are not really rude, they just have a different conversational style. Ya, I'll say. Don't waste a credit on this one.
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Pet Supply Drive, through Friday, The Kiwanis Ice Arena in the Cantine Veterans Sports Complex, Saugerties, is accepting donations for River Radiology's Pet Supply Drive to benefit displaced animals and families with pets affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donations are also being accepted at River Radiology in Kingston, at Prestige Toyota in Kingston and at the True Value in New Paltz.
Arrivals - A Sound Experience, a self-guided listening walk along West Strand at Rondout Creek, starting at Gallo Park, Kingston, accompanied by a free iPhone app. More information at deeplistening.org or vivcorringham.org/arrivals
7:30 a.m. Red Hook Rotary Club meeting, Apple a Day Diner, S. Broadway, Red Hook.
9 a.m. Senior Rail Trail Walk, Hopewell Junction Rail Trail Head. Walk is canceled if it rains.
9 a.m. Bouncing Babies, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255, www.gardinerlibrary.org
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Art Class: "Abstraction, Color and Composition." $140/four classes. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock. www.woodstockschoolofart.org
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Art Class: "Ecorche," $140/four classes. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock. www.woodstockschoolofart.org
9:30 a.m. Tots n Tales, for 2 years old, Hyde Park Free Library, 2 Main St., Hyde Park. (845) 229-7791.
9:30 a.m. Senior walking/biking group at the Walkway Over the Hudson, Meet at the Washington Street entrance.
10 a.m. Rhinebeck Bridge Club, Church of the Messiah, Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Diane Martini, (845) 795-1096.
10 a.m. Parkinson's Exercise/Dance Class, St. John's Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave., Kingston. To 11:30 a.m. (845) 679-6250 Anne Olin.
10 a.m. Bouncing Babies storytime, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255.
10 a.m. Tales of Ten: storytime for 2-to-5-years-old, Mohonk Preserve, routes 44/55 and 299, Gardiner. (845) 255-0919.
10 a.m. Storytime for preschoolers, 3-to-5-years old, Stone Ridge Library, Main Street, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-2044.
10 a.m. Happy Apple Thrift Shop, 24 E, O'Reilly St. (across from the firehouses), Kingston. To 3 p.m. (845) 338-0833.
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Local history room, Starr Library, 68 West Market St., Rhinebeck. (845) 876-4030
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday Trek: Tillson Lake Snowshoe, Minnewaska Preserve program, pre-registration required, (845) 255-0752.
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Healthy Heart Lecture and Luncheon, includes talks: "Heart Disease- early detection and prevention, " Vassar Brothers Medical Center Joseph Tower Auditorium, 45 Reade Pl., Poughkeepsie. The event is sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical.
10:30 a.m. Toddlertime story hour and crafts for children ages 18 months to 3 years, Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St., Kingston.
10:30 a.m. Stress reduction through meditation, Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St., Kingston (845) 339-8567
10:30 a.m. Preschool storytime, for 3-to-5-years-old, Ellenville Public Library, 40 Center St., Ellenville. (845) 647-5530.
10:30 a.m. Lapsit storytime, for birth to 24 months, Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-3771.
10:30 a.m. Vipassana Meditation. $5 suggested. Mountainview Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave., Woodstock. Mtnviewstudio.com
10:45 a.m. Story Station, for preschoolers, Hyde Park Free Library, 2 Main St., Hyde Park.
11 a.m. Terrific two/three storytime, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255.
11 a.m. Read to Me Story Time for preschoolers ages 3-to-6-years-old, Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave., Saugerties. (845) 246-4317.
11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Yoga, $12. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255
12-2:30 p.m. Playspace for families, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255, www.gardinerlibrary.org
12:30-5:30 p.m. American Red Cross Blood Drive, Dutchess Community College South - Dutchess CC South Lounge, 31 Marshall Road, Wappingers Falls. 1-800-RED-CROSS, redcrossblood.org.
1 p.m. Games, Games, Games, Mah Jong, bridge and Mexican train dominoes, Rhinebeck Town Hall, 80 E. Market St., Rhinebeck. (845) 876-8799.
1-2:15 p.m. Vipassana meditation, Suggested donation $5. Benefits local charity. Mountainview Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave., Woodstock. (845) 679-0901
1-4 p.m. Art class: "Artistic Anatomy," $140/four classes. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock. www.woodstockschoolofart.org
1-5 p.m. "Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form," $190/four classes. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock. www.woodstockschoolofart.org
1-6 p.m. American Red Cross Blood Drive, Highland Hose Company #1 - Community Room, 25 Milton Ave., Highland. 1-800-RED-CROSS, redcrossblood.org.
1:30 p.m. Great fours/eights story hour, Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-1255.
3-6 p.m. Free tutoring by appointment, homework clubs and after-school kid sitters. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St., Ellenville. 1-877-576-9931
3:30 p.m. After school story hour for kindergarten and first grades, Stone Ridge Library, Main Street, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-2044.
3:30 p.m. Media Magic afterschool program, Free. For grades 9-12. CMP, Carriage House 2nd floor, 42 Catharine St., Poughkeepsie. www.childrensmediaproject.org
�3:30-4:30 p.m. "Terra Tuesdays," in Feb. Feb. 12: "Tracks and Traces." Germantown library. Free program for elementary-aged children to explore nature in winter. Pre-registration required: (518.537.5800), or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
3:30-5 p.m. Teen Art Lab, after school art program with Jessica Poser. No registration. Free. Open to all students 13-18. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St., Kingston
4:15 p.m. Terrific Tuesdays, for grades K-6, Ellenville Public Library and Museum, 40 Center St., Ellenville. (845) 647-5530.
4:30-5:30 p.m. Spanish Club For Youth, at Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardner. For youth ages 10 and older, will allow members to practice conversational Spanish in a fun, relaxed atmosphere through games and other activities (845) 255-1255, www.gardinerlibrary.org.
5 p.m. Wound Care Healing Support Group, held last Tues., each month. For patients, family, caregivers, for emotional and spiritual well-being. Wound Care Center, Northern Dutchess Hospital, 6511 Spring Brook Ave., Rhinebeck. RSVP: (845) 871-3881.
5-7 p.m. Ask the Energy Expert, Free. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook. (845) 758-3241, www.redhooklibrary.org
5:30-7 p.m. Graduate School Open House, free, students encouraged to bring their transcripts, Student Union Building Multipurpose Room, Rt. 32 South, SUNY New Paltz, www.newpaltz.edu/graduate.
6-7:30 p.m. Hudson Valley CDF Celiac Support Group, (4h Tuesday of month), Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, Conference Room B. (914) 755-5336, www.hvceliac.com.
6 p.m. Bard Clemente Courses (through May 2013), Free college credit humanities courses at Kingston Library Tuesdays and Thursdays, 55 Franklin St., Kingston. Applications available at the library circulation desk.
6 p.m. Gentle Movement with Mimi, $7 per session. Tivoli library, 86 Broadway, 845-757-3771 or visit www.tivolilibrary.org.
6 p.m. Scrabble Mania, Ellenville Public Library and Museum, 40 Center St., Ellenville. (845) 647-5530.
6 p.m. Boxing Conditioning, $10. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Ave., Woodstock. www.mtnviewstudio.com, (845) 679-0901
6 p.m. Kuumba Latin Fever, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson. $2 donation. (845) 828-3612.
6-7 p.m. Gentle Flow Yoga, Cornell Street Studios, 168 Cornell St., Kingston. (845) 331-0191.
6-7:45 p.m. Kuumba Latin Fever, $2. Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson. (518) 828-3612
6:30 p.m. Woodstock Fencing Club, Woodstock Elementary School, Woodstock. (845) 657-8021.
6:30 p.m. Zumba, $40/four classes, $12/one class. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardiner. (845) 255-12557 p.m. Ben Rounds Band, Pine Hill Arms, 288 Main ST., Pine Hill. (845) 657-2871; benrounds.com
7 p.m. Town of Hyde Park Historical Society Meeting and presentation, DVD on a worldwide hobby: "Geocaching," Free, open to public, refreshments. Hyde Park United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1 Church St. (845) 229-2559.
7-9 p.m. 4 Season Edible Landscaping from annuals to trees, Ulster County BOCES, 175 Rt. 32 North, New Paltz, $15 fee per class, pre-registration encouraged: Dona, (845) 340-3990 ext. 335, www.cceulster.org.
7 p.m. Women's Drum Circle, TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, 415 Main St., Rosendale. www.transndancendrum.com, $10
7-8:30 p.m. Fiber Fanatics, Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Hayes-Waite Library, 300 Wall St., Kingston. (845) 331-5300, firstname.lastname@example.com
7 p.m. Town of Hyde Park Historical Society meeting, Hyde Park United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, Hyde Park. Business meeting, speakers, refreshments. All welcome. (845) 229-2559.
7 p.m. Evergreen chorus of Sweet Adeline's International, practice/auditons, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 110 Overlook Road, Poughkeepsie. (845) 797-4890.
7 to 8 p.m. Pounds Off Weight Loss Group, The Pine Hill Community Center: 287 Main St., Pine Hill. This program utilizes hypnosis, nutritional education, coaching and group support to help people lose weight, led by Ruth Strassberg. Free. (845) 254-5469. www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org.
7:30-9:30 p.m. Life Drawing, Tuesdays & Thursdays, Unison Learning Center, 68 Mt. Rest Road, New Paltz. (845) 255-1559, unisonarts.org.
7:30 p.m. Working with Light, TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, 415 Main St., Rosendale. www.transndancendrum.com
7:30 p.m. Argentine Tango, Sadhana Yoga, 403 Warren St. 3rd fl., Hudson. www.sadhanayoga.com
7:30 p.m. "Hudson Valley through the Ice Age." Speaker Tom Lake, Estuary Naturalist for the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program. $7/$5 members, refreshments available. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson.hhnaturemuseum.org, (845) 534-5506, ext. 204.
8 p.m. Jazz Recital, SUNY New Paltz Faculty, Studley Theatre, 1 Hawk Dr., SUNY New Paltz. Tickets $8, $6, $3 at door. (845) 257-2700.
8-9:30 p.m. GaMaLaTaKi Rhythm Workshop, $20/one session, $55/three sessions, $110/si sessions. Photosensualis Gallery, 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock. RSVP to (845) 679-1239.


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CHARITON — The Clarke boys basketball team fell to 1-11 for the season with a 63-41 loss to Chariton here on Friday.
The Indians entered the second half tied with Chariton at 24-24, but were outscored by a 24-7 margin in the third quarter.
Freshman Troy Morgan led the Indians in scoring with 11 points, knocking down three 3-pointers. Colin Morris added eight points and grabbed six rebounds. Carlos Tamayo scored eight points off the bench.
Brin Evins scored nine points and pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds. Justin Adams scored three points and Jared Jamison added two.
The Indians shot just seven free throws in the game, making only two.
Clarke returns to action on Friday at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont and travels to Pleasantville on Monday.


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A chemical commonly found in food and drink packaging has the potential to affect embryonic brain development, say US scientists.
The chemical, Bisphenol A, can be found in the lining of food and drink packaging, including some plastic bottles and in the lining of metal cans. It is used to protect against contamination and extend the content's shelf life.
Known as BPA, the chemical has also been found in some baby bottles. Last year the federal government announced a voluntary phase-out of BPA use in polycarbonate baby bottles.
Outlined in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, the study got pregnant mice to ingest the chemical and then studied the neurons from the offspring to establish the effect of BPA on brain development.
"Our study found that BPA may impair the development of the central nervous system," said neurologist and lead author Wolfgang Liedtke from Duke University. "[It] raises the question as to whether exposure could predispose animals and humans to neurodevelopmental disorders."
The chemical was capable of oppressing a gene vital to nerve cell function and to the development of the central nervous system. However local researchers said the amounts of BPA studied did not reflect normal consumption rates.
Neuroendocrinologist Wah Chin Boon from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health said the dosage used in the study was 20 times higher than the amount approved by Australian, New Zealand and American food standards bodies.
"The approved level is a lot higher than what someone would consume anyway, so it is very unlikely someone would consume that volume," Dr Boon said.
Australia, New Zealand and America have the same maximum consumption standard for BPA at 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day.
The American study used 10 milligrams per kilogram per day.
"I don't think a person could consume that much," she said.
A senior lecturer at Adelaide University's faculty of medicine, Dr Ian Musgrave, agreed, saying while the research threw light on aspects of gene regulation, it was not relevant to human exposure to the chemical.
But Dr Boon said as a scientific study, it was useful to learn about the mechanisms at play because while BPA has been shown to affect the developing nervous system, little is known about how this occurs.
"This research shows that if the dose is high enough it can shut down the sodium channel, which is important for brain development" she said.
The chemical has raised questions before - mainly whether exposure to it can predispose people to a range of health problems including reproductive and immune system disorders, cancer and obesity.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand says an "extremely large amount" of food and drink would need to be consumed to even reach a tolerable daily intake for BPA.
A survey by consumer group Choice found that a nine-month old baby weighing nine kilograms would have to eat more than one kilogram of canned baby custard containing BPA each day to reach the tolerable level. And that was assuming the custard contained the highest level of the chemical.


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Northern DistrictsProudly supporting KS Williamson, TG Southee, TA Boult, BJ Watling, CJ Anderson, MJ Santner and IS Sodhi, TL Seifert and ZN Gibson
What this world needs is an outright ban on any discussion of young NZ fast bowlers before they've played 10 first class matches.
Exit pursuing a beerOriginally Posted by Jimmy Neesham
Ugh Brownlie. Really is on a Famish Marshall run-hungry road. Woodcock! Hope Howsie is too late to rewind the stream and enjoy it.
Don't squander the gold of your days making a shrine of cricket videos, trying to improve the hopeless failure, giving your life away to the Blockys, the Devciches and the Weerasundaras! Surrender your devout little cricketing heart to the inured agribusinessman.
New Zealand A 52/4. Luke Woodcock playing at five and out for two is about all you need to know I reckon.
Young out for 54 - lbw looked a little harsh imo - could easily have missed offstump, while Young was pointedly looking at his bat.
Latham three away from century.
Well done Tom Latham. His second FC hundred. Looked pretty good from what I saw, and against a decent opposition.
Wow, superb signing. Well done Wellington - that is a real coup.
Heh, PEWS got thrown off the trail by Dom Post ignorance, Taylor probably is safe after all. Millmow used to at least be quite good for scoops.
Noted England were playing ODIs in early January in India. Wgtn running a very fine line and one injury away from it turning to ****? Not sure.
Unmukt Chand, NZ A ODI Series - YouTube
Abhinav Mukund, NZ A ODI Series - YouTube
Derek de Boorder, India A ODI Series - YouTube
1) Ross is Boss.
2) See point 1.
Leading the charge against nuances being used in posts.
Overrated XI M Bracewell, Burns, Rahane, Don Voges, Bairstow, Alecz Day, Donovan Grobelaar, Luke Ronchi, Faulkner, Dan Christian, Permaul
Worker is seriously useless at converting his 50's into 100's, still just the one 100 to go along with 14 50's.
Nice to see Broom with some early season form after the disastrous season he had last year. With Ryder out and someone like Franklin getting a run in the test team some early runs couldn't hurt but help.
Oh, and New Zealand are in full collapse mode here. From 1/169 to 4/250, they're now 8/270 with Sharma picking up a couple of cheap wickets after being hammered pretty much all day. With Arnel in and only Woodcock and McKay left as support I can't see them making the 44 required runs.
Edit: Nevermind the match has been called off anyway.
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Bloody hell. Could have sworn NZ would have an easy win here. I suppose it was silly to expect NZ to not screw up the chase.
Oh, apparently the match is over. I could've sworn there was still a few overs left. Maybe they called it a draw early, don't see why they would though considering how close the match was.
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I have a Dell Dimension E520 running Vista Home Premium SP2, OEM Roxio EMC 9 DE.
The original DVD drive went bad, and Dell replaced it with a Philips drive.
Itunes also was installed: it installed its own upper filters
Roxio then reported that there was no drive detected.
I un-installed and tried to re-install Roxio EMC 9 DE: and kept failing. "Setup Application has stopped working"
Read posts on how to do a clean re-install of Roxio EMC 9 DE. This time the install went thru.
But Roxio said there was no DVD drive.
Tried a lot, re-installed pxengine 4 to no avail: and for some reason tried the pxengine 3 version: and my dvd drive was recognized: and things were fine. I thought. I found later that MyDvd was not installed: and I could not make DVDs.
I have tried to do a clean re-install of MyDvd: it did not work."Setup Application has stopped working"
I tried a re-install of EMC 9 DE : it did not work."Setup Application has stopped working"
I tried a clean re-install of EMC 9 DE: this time the set up went through: but MyDvd was not installed.
I noticed today ( after trying for about two years) that EMC 9 wants Directx 9. My Vista has Directx 11.
Would that be the reason for MyDvd failing to install?
I have plans of purchasing Creator 2012: but will that also require Directx 9?
Can Directx 9 Co-exist with Directx 11.
Request some guidance: as Moviemaker is very basic.
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After one of the most successful Barbecue Festivals, planning is already gearing up for next year.
After one of the most successful Barbecue Festivals, planning is already gearing up for next year.
With preparation for the 30th Annual Barbecue Festival comes looking retrospectively and seeing what could be done better. So Stephanie Saintsing Naset, executive director of the Barbecue Festival, and city staff met Friday, almost three weeks after the event, and discussed modifications.
Naset commended several city and county departments for their performance the day of the festival. Due to strategic planning, there were no serious accidents relating to the festival, streets were cleaned in record time, the health department reported no major vendor problems, and police safeguarding the perimeters of the festival meant increased safety for Lexington's visitors.
The festival hired more than 10 additional officers from neighboring law enforcement in addition to the Lexington Police Department officers.
"The (additional policemen) allowed traffic flow to be maintained easier. The additional officers are more expensive, but it is well worth the investment rather than someone get hurt," Naset said.
Capt. Billy Scarboro of the Lexington Police Department said this year worked better than any years prior.
"We didn't have any issues as far as I know of," Scarboro said. "Although we did have a few vehicles sneak in early that morning, but we took care of it and got the cars moved."
Scarboro spoke of an occurrence that happens almost every year. Without fail, some festivalgoers will come upon the roadblocks at the side streets, Salisbury and State streets, get out and move the barricades in an attempt to park closer to the activity. The problem may happen every year, but Naset reported that each year, fewer and fewer make it across the barricades thanks to the hard work of the police officers.
But even before the day of the festival, the road barriers posed an issue for some Main Street merchants. In what was an accident, roadblocks went up about 6:30 p.m. on Main Street and the side streets from Salisbury to State. The side roads were not to be closed until 7 p.m., but a glitch in communication caused a sticky situation for businesses still open at that time.
"We try to keep the streets open as long as possible, but we have to about close them at that time to get everything in place for the morning," Naset said.
She added that she, as well as city staff, is sensitive to the strain the street closings put on the existing businesses, and next year extra effort will be made to close the streets at the reported time and not before.
One street preacher was arrested during the festival but when all was said and done, the individual was only issued a citation for failure to disperse. According to the North Carolina General Statues 14-288.5, any law enforcement officer or public official responsible for keeping the peace may issue a command to disperse in accordance with this section if he reasonably believes that a riot, or disorderly conduct by an assemblage of three or more persons, is occurring. The command to disperse shall be given in a manner reasonably calculated to be communicated to the assemblage, the statue says.
The street preacher, Scarboro said, positioned himself in front of the Jaycees' beer garden and shouted a message of damnation to hell for consuming alcohol. The street preacher was wearing a voice-magnifying device that participants of the beer garden reached over and turned off when he came too close to the fenced-off area.
The man also made a scene during Ross Coppley's performance on Stage 3.
"We gave him plenty of warning and plenty of time before we did anything," Scarboro said.
The man was released with only a citation, but as the festival grows, so does the number of religious groups sharing their beliefs either through a spoken or written form. Naset noted several parties positioned through the festival either picketing with signs, handing out pamphlets or preaching.
The idea of a "free speech zone" for political parties and religious groups was suggested during the meeting. The zone would mimic similar areas that have been created in events such as the Democratic National Convention and the Dogwood Festival.
"As (the April BBQ Capital) Cook-off grows, this is going to become an issue as well. At this point, the festival just seems to have the most people. This is not going away, it's only getting worse," Naset said.
Even with a few dilemmas, Naset and city staff heard rave reviews about the organization and overall smoothness in the days leading up to the event as well as on festival day.
"It was a good day overall, but there is room for improvement. We'll keep working at it," Naset said.
Newell Clark, mayor of Lexington, said his family spent more time at the festival this year than years prior.
"Citizen after citizen, even after the festival, came to me and told me that it was the best Barbecue Festival they had ever been to," Clark said.
"I had one vendor tell me they travel from festival to festival, and this was the best organized festival they have been to. They loved coming here," Scarboro said.
But when one ends, the next begins. Plans are already being formulated for the grand anniversary of 30 years.
"On behalf of the sponsors, thank you (city and county staff) again. I'm looking forward to the 30th (Barbecue Festival), and we're hoping it's going to be bigger and better," Naset said.
Rebekah Cansler McGee can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 228, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Seated here I can close my eyes, and for the moment shut out these familiar scenes of home. Then I can hear again the roar of artillery…see the utter devastation of the Korean countryside…see the homeless orphan children crying for food and warmth in the chill of a Korean winter.
I can see also the American GIs standing on a snow-covered, wind-swept hillside to hear the Gospel, and then go back to the trenches…see some of those same GI's in a front line MASH hospital (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), dying, and as they die, hear them talk about home in Arkansas…Oregon…Minnesota…Vermont.
And when I open my eyes, and it hardly seems possible, for here the only planes we ever see here are friendly passenger planes, headed north to Washington…or south to Charlotte, and Atlanta.
It seems unbelievable that just weeks ago I walked amid the complete destruction which is the aftermath of a modern bombing and artillery barrage.
And though the entire trip seems so remote and far away now that I am home, I know this, that my visit to Korea was the greatest experience of my ministry. Nothing has ever made such a profound, and I pray, lasting impression on my Christian life.


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Pete Townshend appeared last night (Oct. 9) at Barnes & Noble in New York's Union Square to talk about his new autobiography, Who I Am: A Memoir. At one point, Townshend spoke about the difficulties The Who have faced without Keith Moon and John Entwistle. "We feel the ghosts of Keith and John," he said. "The second phase of The Who in a sense was really when we started to tour again around the year 2000, 2001. We were still able to evoke the sound, particularly with [drummer] Zak Starkey. Now it's much more difficult even though Zak's there. John's sound was very big and rich and organic. When John died, there was a hole in the sound onstage and I was able to grow into that and find space. And I have to say as a guitar player, I prefer working without John. But as a member of The Who creating the incredible, powerful, driving, visceral sound, he's gone. I can't really do that again."
Townshend also said he's put production duties for the upcoming Quadrophenia tour into the hands of Roger Daltrey. "He's working on a new dramatic scenario for it," Townshend said, "working on a new video, trying to find a way to be comfortable being the narrator."


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The dynamic DBC Forum, a networking group under the umbrella of the Doral Business Council actively participates not only in bimonthly meetings but in all DBC events.
The DBC Forum was well represented at the recent DBC Inaugural Legacy Gala with several members buying tables while individual Forum members put together two tables of community-active people.
DBC Forum members also joined forces to help support several charitable events including the 2012 Heart Walk, the American Diabetes Walk and Relay for Life. In addition, the DBC Forum has held several socials during the past year and looks forward to a Dec. 2 holiday BBQ party at the home of Norris Perez, of Halo Branded Solutions.
In January, the very capable highly motivated entrepreneur, Lizz Wiegandt (of Mary Kay) takes over as Chair of this group with lots of new ideas for expanding its membership base as well as that of the DBC.
DBC Forum Steering Committee members for 2012 include: Chair, Gloria Burns; Vice Chair, Max Fleischer; Secretary, Norris Perez; Treasurer, Marti Bueso; Membership, Lizz Wiegandt;Attendance, Theresa Gonzalez; Historian, Armando Fernandez; Registrar, Reza Ray.
Attendance at Forum breakfast meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of every month is critical to retaining an exclusive membership category.
Because of the group's success, there is often a waiting list for specific category memberships, so those who cannot attend on a regular basis risk losing their spot.
(Members may not miss more than four meetings a year),
All applicants for the group must first be a paid member of the Doral Business Council. For information on the Doral Business Council, visit www.doralbusiness.com.


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Big South Conference Announces Division Names for Men's Basketball and Baseball
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The Big South Conference announced today the names of its new six-team divisions in men's basketball and baseball are North and South. Below is the divisional breakdown for both sports:
|North Division
|South Division
|Charleston Southern
|High Point
|Coastal Carolina
|UNC Asheville
Beginning this season, men's basketball will play a 16-game Conference schedule which will include two games against divisional opponents (10 total), and one crossover game against the opposing division (6 total). Division champions will be recognized, and all 12 teams will participate in the VisitMyrtleBeach.Com Big South Men's Basketball Championship. Seeding will be by divisions -- the top two teams with the best overall Conference won-loss percentage in each division shall receive the top four seeds in the championship and first round byes. The remaining seeds shall be determined based on division finish. In the event of a tie for a particular seed, the seed will be determined within each division.
Big South baseball teams will utilize a 24-game, two division schedule format for the 2013 season. The 12 teams will play a 3-game series against five teams in the same division and three in the other division based on the final 2012 Conference standings. Eight teams will advance to the Conference Championship and will play in double-elimination brackets leading up to the "winner-take-all" championship game. The procedure to determine the eight teams is being finalized and will be announced in November.
With the Big South Conference's membership reaching an all-time high of 12 institutions in 2012-13, the League adopted divisional play for the first time in Conference history with men's basketball and baseball the first sports to split into divisions.