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"We're really excited about that," said Superintendent Ben Dutton.
Collard is currently the dean of students at Campbell Elementary.
"He brings some good experience to the table," Dutton said. "He's got a good maturity, a nice and calm demeanor. Everybody loved him at Campbell. We're excited to have him."
The district had 27 people turn in applications for the position. The applications were narrowed down to five candidates, who were interviewed by a 14-member interview committee made up of board members, administrators and staff.
In other business, the board unanimously approved renewing the contract for Superintendent Ben Dutton, after an executive session that lasted about 40 minutes.
Also approved was the administrator salary schedule as presented.
Scott Szabo, of Lauer, Szabo & Associates, was at the meeting to present financial audit for the year 2011-2012. The district filed for an extension to turn in their audit to the state, because it took them a little longer than they thought it would to complete.
The board approved the audit as presented.
"Everything looks good," Dutton said. "We're in good financial condition."
The district has about 12 months in reserve, although he said there are some maintenance things that will drop down the reserves over the next couple years.
A 2012-13 supplemental budget was also approved, to cover expenses that were not covered in the regular budget. The district had to spend $130,000 to purchase a new activity bus, after their old one died.
In other business, there was discussion about the baseball field. Dutton said they're about 3 to 4 inches short on dirt, as the wind has blown off the dirt that was laid down in 1999 or 2000. The Peetz Lions Club and Lyle Schumacher Memorial have both agreed to contribute some funds to field the expenses to add new dirt.
A field improvement proposal for not more than $14,000 was approved by the board.
Dutton said they will bring in red dirt specifically for baseball fields. The work should be done in the next several weeks, hopefully in time for baseball season.
There was also discussion about the bus barn. The new bus, which will be late in delivery, will not fit in the current bays. A new bus barn is being proposed to house the busses that would be built west of the current bus barn.
Additionally, the board learned the ag program needs a new skid steer. It would be used to moved lumber and steel and for large projects and is eligible for reimbursement through the Career and Technical Education programming.
The meeting also included discussion about the summer school program. The district would like to see funding for students that may not meet special needs requirements, but fall below the grade level averages, to help accelerate their learning instead of just getting them by.
"We need to provide something for students that drop off very heavily during the summer," Dutton said.
The district does have a handbook they give students to work on over the summer and if they complete it they get a reward, but that's not enough for some students who drop off very heavily.
They will be contacting parents of specific students to invite them to be part of this program.
Additionally, Dutton gave an update on the junior high school language arts opening. A meeting with staff the week before the board meeting, resulted in a unanimous decision to replace Evelyn Gardiner's position; she is retiring at the end of the school year.
The district plans to begin advertising for the position next week. In addition to junior high language arts, they will also ask whoever fills the position to do some kind of elective.
During his report, Dutton also talked about the Northeast Colorado BOCES Consortium for Student Achievement and Growth. He informed the board that in the upcoming evaluation changes, 50 percent of teacher evaluations will now be based on student outcomes. The state has recommended some assessments the district can use or they can work with the consortium to create their own assessments in this area.
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BRUNSWICK, Maine - For the second weekend in a row, the No. 2 MIT women's indoor track and field team were competing in Maine, this time traveling to Bowdoin College for the Bowdoin Quad Meet . Tech ended the day in first place with 283.50 points, leaving a 130 point gap between it and second place Bowdoin with 152 points. Springfield College was third with 81 and WPI was fourth with 55.50 points. Most of the Engineers improved on their performances from last weekend's meet.
One of MIT's strongest events was the Pole Vault, with Engineers claiming the top four spots. As she did last weekend against Bates and Colby, sophomore Cimran Virdi (Walnut Creek, Calif.) won the event, improving by an inch to an 11-08.00. Juniors Joanna Chen (Richland, Wash.) and Abigail Klein (Bethesda, Md.) were second and third with vaults of 10-10.00 and 10-06.00 respectively and freshman Jennifer Tylock (Shrewsbury, Mass.) came in fourth when she cleared the bar in 10-00.00.
Senior Jaclyn Konopka (Novi, Mich.) easily won the Long Jump with her 17-06.00, improving greatly from her jump last weekend. She came second in the next event, the High Jump, with a distance of 5-03.00. Junior Preethi Vaidyanathan (South Windsor, Conn.) came in first, also with a 5-03.00, and freshman Stephanie Guo (Houston, Texas) was third in 5-01.00. In the 60m Hurdles, senior Jackie Brew (Amherst, N.H.) ran a 9.19 and Konopka was second with a 9.36.
Throwing slightly further than she did last Saturday, sophomore Isabella Stuopis (Amherst, N.H.) won the Shot Put in 43-02.25, once again breaking her own MIT record. Freshman Jackie Vahey (Winchester, Mass.) was second with a 39-00.25. In the Triple Jump, junior Michelle Johnson (Glendora, Calif.) came in first with a jump of 35-11.50 and, in the 60m, junior Veronica Szklarzewski (Chicago, Ill.) won with an 8.12 and Brew was second, also with an 8.12.
The first of three Engineers to complete the 5,000m was junior Elaine McVay (San Ramon, Calif.) with her time of 17:45.06. Freshman Maryann Gong (Livermore, Calif.) was second with an 18:17.22 and junior Shivani Kaushal (Grand Blanc, Mich.) came in third place in 18:51.98. Senior Louise van den Heuvel (Nashua, N.H.) won both the mile and the 1,000m with times of 5:07.13 and 3:02.74 respectively, while junior Cindy Huang (Mountain View, Calif.) was first in the 800m in 2:20.10.
To end the day, the 4x800 A relay won with a time of 9:43.47, finishing almost a minute ahead of Bowdoin in second place in 10:38.59.
MIT has a busy weekend ahead of it; on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24-25, the Engineers will be at Boston University for the John Thomas Invitational. Also on that Saturday, MIT will host the Art Farnham Invitational at 12:00 p.m., an event named in honor of former MIT track and field coach Art Farnham.

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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - April is National Donate Life Month and Sacred Heart Hospital and UW-Eau Claire have teamed up to raise awareness on the need for bone marrow donors.
Thursday, they put on a Be The Match bone marrow drive at the Davies Center on campus. People stopped by to learn about bone marrow donation and some even joined the Be The Match Donation Registry.
A Sacred Heart representative says if you're interested in joining the Be The Match Registry and couldn't make it Thursday's event, you can CLICK HERE to register online or call 1-800-MARROW-2 (1-800-627-7692).


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Was up at Mount Hamilton today with some iClub guys and Nasioc Locals. Got some friends from LegacyCentral.org with me to help me feel in place. The drive was cool. Met up in Sacramento with some locals, then we all headed down to Stockton where we picked up a few more. Almost everybody was in an Impreza of some kind. There were plenty of variations.
We then headed on the road from Stockton to San Jose and along the way managed to pickup even more Subarus (yes... you guessed it. WRX's). So yeah... I tried to stay at the front of the pack. I figured, 70+ guys in their 200+hp racecars had to cause some sort of accident. And I'd preffer it happen behind me Luckily no such accident occured. Once we got into San Jose (or close to it) we stopped at some mall. At 1st i thought the mall parking lot was the actuall meet, but it wasnt... just more guys to pickup. So now instead of 70 Impreza's, we're rolling with more like 120 impreza's. I had no idea where we were going, but we ended up on a 2 lane Country road into the hills. When I say 2 lane, i dont mean 2 lane with a dotted stripe... or even 2 lane for that matter. More like 1 and a half Lanes, with a faded double yellow line, and plenty of skid marks to warn you of whats to come.
The view was great. We were out of the city, and had a park to hang out at. Met some new people, but not many USMB members. Rumors of some kid wrecking his STi spread around the camp, but it turned out to be more like a brushed bumper and scraped fender. Too bad it ruined the new side skirts his dad bought him. Oh well.
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We need to have some sort of meet like this for all USMB members in the bay area.
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Posted 12 July 2004 - 09:16 AM
We used to ride our bicycles up there (pre driver's license), great views along the way. Did you go all the way up to the top where the observatory is?
Sounds like a huge meet:) .
Sounds like a huge meet:) .
Posted 12 July 2004 - 09:22 AM
Sweet cars there, the 05 GT wagon looking good, and whose black BE Legacy was that? Awesome-looking!
Looks like a fun time...
Looks like a fun time...
Posted 12 July 2004 - 10:09 AM
Out of all those cars there, this Legacy wagon is beautiful!!!!! I would give my left arm for it!!
Posted 12 July 2004 - 11:57 AM
That BE is Imprezer's, or whatver his name is, the guy that owns i-club. Unfortunately we were told it wasnt a real B4. Rest assured it was beautiful. Almost as beautiful as the 05 GT. The owner of taht wagon subieman, is standing right infront of it in that picture. Just toss your arm at him and see if he'd take it
and yeah we went all the way up to the top. Kinda scary as narrow as it is.
and yeah we went all the way up to the top. Kinda scary as narrow as it is.
Posted 12 July 2004 - 12:48 PM
Not only scary, but very dangerous. Not even enough room to allow 2 cars to pass safely. Ontop of that, i ended up hitting a rock, or a huge pothole, and put a bubble in one of my tires. Looks like I'll be replacing the tires sooner than I thought.
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Pontypridd schools reached the final after a convincing 27 to 12 point win over last year's finalists Cardiff schools. While reigning champions Rhondda schools reached the final after a hard fought 15 to 13 win over Swansea schools.
In the other matches its east v west when Ysgol Glantaf, Cardiff will take on Coleg Sir Gar from Carmarthenshire in the schools final. Coleg Sir Gar also contests in the colleges' final taking on Coleg Morgannwg.
Richard Hodges Cardiff Blues / WRU Performance Manager said,
"It's a testament to the development structure and the hard work of all involved that the Blues region are providing four of the six finalists in Wednesday's finals.
"It promises to be a huge day for the youngsters and their families and no doubt there will be future stars of the Blues on show."
11.45am: Dewar Shield Final: Pontypridd v Rhondda
1.30pm: Schools final: Ysgol Glantaf v Coleg Sir Gar
3.15pm: Colleges final: Coleg Sir Gar v Coleg Morgannwg


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Police have concerns for the welfare of a 14-year-old girl from Melbourne's inner east who has been missing for more than two weeks.
Charlotte Tucker left her Richmond home about midday on December 12, telling her family she was going to the beach.
A police spokeswoman said Charlotte was believed to be in the Clayton area with friends.
She had been active on her Facebook page until December 19.
Investigators and family members have concerns for her welfare due to her age and the time that she has been missing.
Charlotte is described as being about 165 centimetres tall, with a thin build, fair complexion, hazel eyes and long, brown hair.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is urged to call police.


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Hollywood's 'Noah' the truth or lie?
See what really happened during a worldwide flood
Noah, who played the lead in the biblical account of the Great Flood, is getting more press these days than most in Hollywood and half of those in Washington.
He's been the bull's-eye of one of the famed Bill Maher rants against religion ("The thing that's really disturbing about Noah isn't the silly, it's that it's immoral. It's about a psychotic mass murderer who gets away with it, and his name is God.")
He generated a controversy at the Vatican, where there was a scheduled meeting between actor Russell Crowe, of Hollywood's newest version of the story of Noah, and the pope, then there wasn't a meeting scheduled, and then it was scheduled but only if nobody knew about it?
Noah's been cited in a recent poll in the United Kingdom, he's been the subject of a debate between a biblical scholar and an atheist and more.
But what's the truth?
That would be in a new book called "Noah: The Real Story" by author Larry Stone. It was released Tuesday.
He talks about the "floating zoo," the stories from around the world that seem to align with the biblical account, the technical questions about the size of the Ark, how the animals were assembled, what they ate, where the Ark landed and has it really been found.
No biblical account has raised as many questions and generated as much controversy as Noah and the Ark, and the story in the Bible is just the beginning.
Want the truth about the Ark, the flood and the archaeology behind it all? Get "Noah: The Real Story" exclusively from the WND Superstore!
Stone also has written "The Story of the Bible" and "Women of the Bible." He's a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and University of Iowa School of Journalism, and he's studied at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.
"For centuries American monks, Russian soldiers, German scientists, an English politician, an American astronaut, and a Baywatch star have looked for it in vain," the book explains.
"With Darren Aronofsky's $130 million religious epic 'Noah' coming out on March 28, 2014, a lot of people are going to be searching for answers when it comes to information about the Flood, God's judgment, and the ark," said Stone. "I'm confident my book will provide the deep answers that even Russell Crowe himself (playing Noah in the movie) couldn't hope to give."
Stone suggests there are great lessons to be learned.
He said while the Bible records God's promise not to destroy mankind by flood again, there are other threats. Some have already happened, and could again.
"In 1908, a two-hundred-foot piece of a comet exploded over Siberia and flattened forests for a hundred miles. It had the effect of one thousand Hiroshima bombs," he warns.
There there are the 10 million dead stars in the Milky Way, and the possibility Earth could encounter one. Maybe the world wouldn't get swallowed right away, but "if the earth were to get within one billion miles of a black hole, its orbit around the sun would become elliptical, which means for three months our surface temperatures would go up to 150 to 180 degrees and for three months they would go to 50 degrees below zero."
And there's the global epidemic of the day.
"In 1918, a flu epidemic in the United States killed twenty million people – one in five in the country," he said.
"When Noah was warned of disaster, God told him how to survive the Great Flood," Stone writes. "What can we do now to survive the end of the world? How can we taken action to save people, save plants, and save animals?"
"Noah's secret on how to survive the end of the world is to watch, be ready, and choose now which side you are on … who you will believe and serve," Stone writes.
He quotes Christian author C.S. Lewis, who wrote, "God will invade … When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right, but … this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.
"It will be too late then to choose your side … It will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side."
Evangelist Ray Comfort calls "Noah," "An excellent book with a timely message for a world that is running out of time."
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This project is a transformation of an abandoned school into the headquarters of semi-government offices (HKCAAVQ) in Hong Kong. Such an adaptive re-use architectural design is far more complicated than the construction of a new building as it must take into account intensive considerations to structural, electrical and mechanical alterations; architectural re-layouts, new functions, external finishes and signage to create a 're-birth' of the original structure.
In addition, the entire adaptive re-use involves a total GFA of 250,000 sq ft and has major alterations in structure as well as interior detailing and lighting designs specifically designed for functionality and practicality. The intensive alteration includes new functions like a reception, conference rooms, lecture halls, multi-function rooms, staff rooms, a green zone, modified elevator and an increase in entrances and barrier-free access.
The transformation is an attempt to re-introduce new programs of interactive elements like concierge for visitors, numerous conference rooms and meeting rooms for overseas visitors' meetings, multi-function hall and office facilities, whilst such re-introduction is a manifestation of revealing the new programs inside.
One of the major challenges in the re-use of the building was the 'skin surgery' needed to create an in and out feeling to the external juxtaposing facades and re-introduce the elements of 'black and white' vertically with a 'timber' appearance onto the new external 'skin'.
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E.J. Abrams-Ward dropped back, looked one way, then another and fired a tight spiral toward a Winston-Salem State teammate during a summer workout.
WINSTON-SALEM | E.J. Abrams-Ward dropped back, looked one way, then another and fired a tight spiral toward a Winston-Salem State teammate during a summer workout on the Rams' practice field.
Just like old times.
Four and a half years after he was dismissed by Tennessee, the 23-year-old former multi-sport standout is making a comeback at Winston-Salem State as either a quarterback or wide receiver or even both. He will be a junior when fall classes start next month with two years of athletic eligibility remaining.
Abrams-Ward is competing with Anthony Carrothers, who started two games in the Division II playoffs, and DeShean Townsend. They are vying to replace Kam Smith, who was a three-year starter.
"It's actually going pretty well," Abrams-Ward said.
The flip side is he hasn't played in five years.
"Yes, that is true," Abrams-Ward said. "Right now I'm just trying to get my body acclimated and trying to get in tip-top shape. Getting the wind back in my chest and my legs under me, getting the mental part of the game back and go from there."
At 6-5, 212 pounds, Abrams-Ward is about the same size as he was in high school and hasn't lost any speed.
"I'm glad he's getting an opportunity," said retired Thomasville basketball coach Woody Huneycutt, who had Abrams-Ward on two of his state champion teams. "I hope he does well. I think he will do well."
Although it would seem that Carrothers might have the edge after leading the Rams to a pair of playoff wins in their march to the Division II national championship game, the competition is said to be wide open.
"It is great competition," Abrams-Ward said. "We're all going hard. We don't look at it like 'I'm trying to beat this guy out.' We're all trying to push each other to make each other better."
If he doesn't win the job, there's always the option of playing wide receiver, the position for which Abrams-Ward was recruited by Tennessee in the first place even though he didn't play the position in high school.
"The opportunity could present itself for me to go back to wide receiver and possibly do a dual-action thing," Abrams-Ward said.
The road to get there is one that took many turns for Abrams-Ward, not all of them in his favor.
In front of friends, family and more than a few TV cameras on Feb. 6, 2008, Abrams-Ward pulled a Tennessee tie out of a bag. The state's No. 1 recruit was going to be a Volunteer.
Abrams-Ward graduated as one of tradition-rich Thomasville's greatest athletes. He played on three straight state championship football teams as a fullback, linebacker and, finally, quarterback. He led two state championship basketball teams and as a senior fired a three-hitter against Chatham Central, striking out 16 with a fastball nearing 90 mph.
But Abrams-Ward's career at Tennessee stopped before it really started. After he redshirted for the 2008 season, Abrams-Ward was dismissed from the team for unspecified reasons by the school in January of 2009.
What followed was a long odyssey. There was the possibility of turning to basketball for Abrams-Ward, who was throwing down prolific dunks as a 14-year-old freshman during the state playoffs. He enrolled first at Guilford Tech and then transferred to Davidson County Community College, where he intended to play for the Storm. That didn't work out either.
"It just wasn't the right opportunity at the time," Abrams-Ward said. "I had a lot of things going on outside sports. I had to take care of my family and make sure we were all on the same page. Now I'm ready to come back and renew my sports career however that takes me."
The responsibilities have also grown tremendously for Abrams-Ward, who has three children — a 3-year-old daughter, a 1-year-old daughter and a son who was born five months ago. There's not a lot of extra time.
"Right now, I don't," Abrams-Ward said. "I have the summer workouts and I'm also working at Food Lion. Commuting back and forth between Thomasville and Winston-Salem and seeing my children, my itinerary is pretty much full every day."
That also means looking ahead at the big picture. Abrams-Ward is still young enough and has the size and skill set to possibly get to the NFL. But he knows there's a good chance of that not happening, too.
"I'm taking academics more seriously than I ever have in my life," said Abrams-Ward, who is majoring in economics. "I have come to grips with the understanding that sports can only last you so long."
Abrams-Ward also believes the tribulations have made him stronger.
"Honestly, I had to stay humble and never give up," Abrams-Ward said. "You never know where you're going to end up."
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"What greater gift than the love of a cat"
Charles Dickens
Not long ago we had to say good bye to our dear Elliot.
Lilly's little heart broke while she mourned about the loss of her best friend, to old to get over it. So she decided to follow him, leaving now us grieving for her....
My dear little Star, I miss you so endlessly, your purr, your soft little paws, your beautiful crystal blue eyes, your silky-soft fur - simply everything! Sleep tight my love,
I will always carry you in my heart!


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Anyone here knows where to order a few yards of 4 oz ripstop dacron? Sail shops that I called would only let me order 1 bolt minimum (100 yards), and that is way too much for what I need. The most I would need would be like 5-10 yards.
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Coleridge Lives!
Of all works of literary scholarship a short critical biography must be one of the most difficult to write. "A shilling life"—even if we add a bit for inflation—won't really "give you all the facts," for the obvious reason that in dealing with a man worth this kind of attention the facts that matter are facts of mind demanding rather extensive discussion. Even facts in the common sense—friends, marriage, personal habits, and so on—are nothing except as they relate to the particular intellectual adventure that demands our attention. When interpretation tries to grapple with the work of a man so prolific, so many-sided, and often so exasperating as Coleridge, only the firmest grasp and finest tact can get the proportions right. Let me say at once that Mr. Bate has not only the range of knowledge necessary to see Coleridge in his historical perspective, but, what is more important, the critical acumen and good sense to bring out without fuss or dogmatism just what it is that makes Coleridge a major figure in our intellectual landscape. His book is valuable both to the beginning student and to the mature reader.
One main difficulty that Mr. Bate had to face is suggested by the simple question, What are we to call Coleridge? By virtue of a generous handful of poems he belongs with the major English poets. He is also, as Mr. Bate says, "one of the half dozen greatest critical interpreters in the history of literature." But as this book shows, poetry was not his vocation ("always an educator at heart," "his real effort lay elsewhere"), and even his criticism gains part of its suggestive power from the fact that it so often points toward matters that cannot be discussed in literary terms alone: "his religious and philosophical pilgrimage must serve as one of the principal themes, perhaps the central theme, in any true account of his life." Yet—and here is the difficulty—it is impossible to discuss the poetry, the criticism, and the various branches of his philosophy as though these were separate activities. With Coleridge, more than with most men of comparable intellectual power, the furthest reaches of speculation are connected by innumerable filaments to the most direct, sensitive, and inward aspects of personal experience. Nothing seemed to him to be true that did not "come home" to him, to use one of his characteristic phrases; and we value the best part of his thought because of the presence in it, everywhere, of the living person. (That is why Herbert Read some time ago called him an early "existentialist" thinker.)
Mr. Bate is attuned to this core of Coleridge's thought, the perplexities of "the heart" that directly nourish the formulations of "the head," the intimate pressures—often unconscious and only able to struggle toward expression in poetry and symbols—that make Coleridge, for all his superficial self-delusion, one of the most…
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D'Angelo Harrison scored 21 points and JaKarr Sampson added eight points and 10 rebounds as St. John's defeated College of Charleston, 64-53, in the ESPN Charleston Classic presented by Foster Grant on Thursday night.
The Red Storm (2-0) opened up an 11-point lead midway through the first half and were not pushed by the Cougars (1-1), who are hosting the eight-team event.
Harrison had a 3-pointer and seven quick points to put St. John's ahead 22-11 with less than six minutes gone. College of Charleston never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.
Nori Johnson led the Cougars with 11 points while Trent Wiedeman had 10.
The two programs had never played before, though they share some significant connections. College of Charleston's basketball architect coach John Kresse, played at St. John's for Red Storm great Joe Lapchick and was an assistant for Lou Carnesecca.
Kresse came down South, "Noo Yawk" accent intact, and turned the Cougars into giant killers – most notably defeating Maryland in the 1997 NCAA Tournament before nearly toppling eventual champ Arizona in a 73-69 loss.
Kresse spoke with the Red Storm players at coach Steve Lavin's invitation, sharing stories of the program that Lavin's trying to rebuild.
The TD Arena court is named after Kresse, who watched from the stands and was congratulated by people on both sides.
Also in the stands was former Cougars' coach Bobby Cremins, who grew up in New York City before finding success on and off the court down South.
St. John's is in the midst of a four-game opening week, following up Tuesday's season-opening victory over Detroit with three games in Charleston.
The Red Storm didn't look like they had tired legs, though, running right from the opening tip.
Christian Jones and Garrett had six points each and Harrison had five as St. John's opened up a 22-11 lead with nine minutes left in the half. The lead grew to 32-18 in the opening half, before the Cougars trimmed it to 10 points at the break.
The Red Storm kept the pressure up in the second half and Charleston struggled to stay in the game.
Greene and Harrison had layups to put St. John's ahead 46-28 with 14:42 left.
CofC will meet Auburn tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. (ET) at TD Arena and the game will be carried on WatchESPN.com/ESPN3.
· For the second-straight game, the Cougars used the starting lineup of sophomore Anthony Stitt, senior Andrew Lawrence, junior Anthony Thomas, sophomore Adjehi Baru and junior Trent Wiedeman.
· St. John's takes a 1-0 lead in the all-time series in the first-ever meeting between the alma mater of legendary CofC head coach John Kresse and the school he spent 23 years with.
· The Cougars donned all-black uniforms for the first time in program history (0-1).
· Junior Nori Johnson came off the bench and registered a team-high 11 points which marked the third time of his career to lead the team in scoring.
· Trent Wiedeman turned in his second-straight game in double figures with 10 points.
· Anthony Thomas led the Cougars in the rebounding column with a career-high 11 boards.
· CofC won the battle of the boards with the Red Storm, 38-35, and has now outrebounded back-to-back opponents in Towson (+2) and St. John's (+3).
· Freshman Theo Johnson continues to impress tying a career-high with two blocked shots against the Red Storm. He has totaled four in the last two games of his young career.
College of Charleston Head Coach Doug Wojcik
On the game …
"Give St. John's a lot credit. We talked a lot to our team about their speed and transition defense. We were surprised with it. They made about four of five shots at the end of shot clocks. I can't fault my guys for their effort there. I think the kids are really disappointed, and yet, there are some positives from the game. We didn't shoot that well to make a run at them and make them think about what they were doing. Their length and size is pretty impressive. We outrebounded them, but turned it over a little too much and didn't make enough shots – and that's a bad combination."
College of Charleston Junior Forward Trent Wiedeman
On not being able to sustain a run tonight …
"It was definitely frustrating. But, you have to give a lot of credit to St. John's. They are a great team and are really athletic. I think their length and athleticism bothered us a little bit. We missed shots we normally wouldn't have tonight. I think, at times, we were a little tentative because (Chris) Obekpa had eight blocks in the last game (against Detroit)."
College of Charleston Junior Forward/Guard Nori Johnson
On the loss to St. John's …
"They came out in a 1-2-2 zone. We knew they would play it. They didn't play any man. There were plenty of opportunities to get the open shot. We just couldn't get it going. We got it going early in the first couple of shots, but there was a stretch we couldn't hit shots. We just need to come out more prepared tomorrow. I thought we had a great mentality coming in. We knew they were an aggressive team and played BIG EAST basketball. We had to match that with the same toughness. I didn't think we got bogged down by them."
St. John's Head Coach Steve Lavin
On the game …
"I'm really proud of our kids. We talked about the importance of being able to win on the road in college basketball. Tonight was a great opportunity to get a sense or gauge for where we are in terms of maturity and elements of being successful in enemy territory – like a venue like this can be. I'm proud of how they played a cohesive brand of basketball. I thought our energy and defense on the floor ignited our offense. We were also aggressive, and yet, we showed intelligence by not fouling. I thought they showed, not only their athleticism and quickness, but a smart brand of basketball. We will have to recalibrate and get ready for another tough opponent tomorrow night."
St. John's Sophomore Guard D'Angelo Harrison
On the game …
"We have more experience on the road with our backcourt now. We missed a couple of easy shots that we should have had tonight. We have really good chemistry which we carried on from this summer. It was like a regular road win for us. It was good that we played the host team, but we have to have everyone playing well at all times."
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Hello everyone! I am going to try to make yet another tamagotchi log. I've tried many other tamagotchi logs, but it tended
to get very hard to manage because of taking pictures, cropping them, editing them, and uploading them. Since pictures
were such an encumbrance, I've decided to make this log without pictures, so it could be less manageable and may last longer
than the other ones. I hope you enjoy my new log!
Tamagotchi iD l
I will start with two tamagotchis in my log. The first one is my iD l. After spending half an our digging it out of my box filled with old
tamagotchis, I popped two triple-A batteries in the iD l and there was a beep. The screen lit up, and a colorful egg appeared in the
center of the bright screen. After setting the time and date, the egg hatched into a pink square with a large, peach bow on its head.
The time was 10:52 AM
I named her Marzia, after a famous You-tuber by the name of CutiePieMarzia. For an hour, I took care of Marzia until at 11:52, she
evolved into a painter pallet with a fave and brush. She looked very odd, I think she was a Paletchi, though I might be wrong. Anyway,
We went to the store and got several items. These items were:
- Vacuum
- 2 packets of seeds
- Diary
- Jump Rope
When we came home, Marzia planted the seeds outside in her backyard. Though, she didn't really like planting them because it was
raining cats and dogs outside. Luckily, the rain had stopped an hour later when Marzia came back outside to play with her jump rope.
Tamagotchi V4
My next tamagotchi is my V4. I am on my 5th generation right now, and I've actually had the same generation in my last log. (Gens 1-2)
Right now, his name is Dojo, and he is a Gozurotchi (I'm not sure if I spelled that right). He looks like a ninja. He has a son named Mochi,
and tonight he will leave. So, tomorrow, Mochi will be on his own, and will be the 6th generation. I'm actually aiming for at least 15 generations,
a personal record.
I will be updating this several times a week, possibly once a day, but sometimes I may be too busy to update.
That is all for now, I hope you liked my first log entry!
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Golden Eagles have won six of last seven games;
Visits TSU Saturday then back home Monday night
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Rachel Glidden is happy to back in action after missing most of the first two months of the basketball season with a foot injury.
Her Tennessee Tech teammates are happy that their senior guard is back in action, too.
On Monday night, Glidden provided the offensive spark with three 3-pointers down the stretch and then partially blocked the potential tying shot in the waning seconds to preserve a 68-65 Ohio Valley Conference victory that allowed the Golden Eagles to climb into a tie for third place in the league standings.
Tech (12-14 overall) improved to 8-4 within the league with their fourth conference road win. Tech is tied with SIU Edwardsville which dropped a three-point game Monday night at home against Morehead State.
Austin Peay (5-20 overall) saw its OVC mark fall to 2-10. It was the only regular season meeting this year between the two rivals, and gave Tech a 71-17 lead in the all-time series.
Glidden went 4-for-7 from long range, making her one of three Golden Eagles to notch double figures in scoring with 12 points. Senior Tacarra Hayes topped Tech with 18 points on sizzling 8-for-11 shooting, and also dished out seven assists and grabbed four rebounds. Junior Jala Harris added 14 points, three assists and three steals.
It was a game that featured outstanding shooting by both teams. Tech connected on 52.8 percent (28-for-53) for the game, including a gaudy 64.6 percent (14-for-22) in the second half.
Austin Peay shot 53.5 percent (23-for-43) for the game, including 59 percent in the first half. The Govs also owned a large advantage at the free throw line, going 15-for-19 while Tech was 5-for-7.
Whitley Hanley led APSU with 16 points and eight rebounds, hitting 6-for-9 from the field. Meghan Bussabarger was 5-for-6 and added 12 points, while Kaitlyn Hill scored 11 points on 4-for-6 shooting. Leslie Martinez added nine points and eight assists, but had her 3-point try with eight seconds remaining tipped by Glidden, ending Austin Peay's final hope to avoid its eighth consecutive loss.
The Govs hit 59 percent from the field in the first half and 10-for-11 at the free throw line, taking a six-point lead into halftime, 38-32. The Govs climbed on top by seven, 21-14, midway in the half and carried a similar lead the rest of the way. The largest APSU lead of the half was eight points.
Early in the second half, Tech erased a five-point deficit to tie the game, 42-42, on a Glidden 3-pointer with 15 minutes to play. A Martinez 3-pointer put APSU back up three and the Lady Govs expanded that to six points, 55-49, as Hanley made a trey with 11:08 to go.
Glidden drained two 3-pointers in a two-minute span, the second knotting things at 57-57 with about seven minutes left. Tech took a couple of two-point leads on baskets by Hayes and Darling, and Glidden's fourth trey of the game with 5:43 left pushed the Golden Eagle lead to 64-59.
A 6-0 APSU run gave the lead back to the home team, 65-64, with 4:04 remaining.
Junior Kellie Cook's jumper with 2:07 was the eventual game-winner, making it 66-65. Harris and Molly Heady each hauled down key defensive rebounds after the Tech defense forced missed shots in the next couple minutes, and Harris hit a jumper with 22 seconds left for a three-point lead.
APSU had the last possession and set up a 3-point try by Martinez but Glidden stepped out and blocked the shot. The rebound went to APSU, but the Govs never were able to get off another try.
Tech has now won six of its last seven games, the only hitch being an overtime loss to SIUE in Eblen Center. The Golden Eagles play their final road game of the regular season Saturday at Tennessee State with a 5 p.m. tipoff.
After that, the Golden Eagles wrap up the season with three consecutive home games starting with a visit from league-leading Eastern Illinois on Monday (Feb. 13).


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BOSTON, Mass. – The No. 2 Yale coed sailing team placed fourth at the Fowle Trophy this weekend, qualifying for the ICSA Team Race National Championships. This means the Bulldogs have qualified for all six national championships this fall and spring season.
The Bulldogs were represented by senior Cameron Cullman with junior crew Marlena Fauer, junior captain Chris Segerblom with sophomore crew Katherine Gaumond and sophomore Graham Landy with senior crew Heather May.
It was a trying weekend for the Bulldogs. The unstable winds on the Charles River make any team racing combination unstable, and combinations changed many times throughout the races.
The Bulldogs almost did not make it into the top-eight round robin, but they received redress for a race against Bowdoin because of a broken hiking strap. Yale won the re-sail, advancing into the top-eight with a 0-3 record. Yale then bounced back given their second chance and won the next four races.
Yale then went 4-3 in the second top-eight round robin, advancing to the final six. Yale beat Brown and Dartmouth and lost to Roger Williams and Tufts. Yale also beat Boston College, but with a pending black flag hearing.
Coming off the water, the Bulldogs were unsure of whether they would qualify. The outcome depended on the black flag hearing for the Boston College race and a protest hearing between Roger Williams and Tufts. If Yale lost its black flag hearing and Tufts won its hearing, the Bulldogs would not qualify for Nationals. However, Cullman argued the hearing and won, giving Yale a win over Boston College and a final 11-8 record, allowing the Bulldogs to finish in fourth.
Despite this rocky weekend, the Bulldogs still only finished two races out of first place, showing how difficult the weekend was for every team.
Yale will now train for the rest of post-season in preparation for the three national championships the team has qualified for. Part of the training will include the Alumni Regatta hosted at the McNay Family Sailing Center next weekend.
Report filed by Katherine Gaumond '15, Yale Sports Publicity


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Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher disagrees with Mayor Michael Hancock's recreational marijuana tax target, arguing the city should seek a starting tax rate of 3.5 percent instead of the mayor's suggested 5 percent tax rate.
Gallagher warned Denver City Council members in a letter sent to Councilman Charlie Brown Monday, that the city's 5 percent tax rate plan risks sending users back to the "dark shadows of the black market."
"He wants the city to be very careful about not putting too much of a tax on it, because you (could) then defeat the purpose of what Amendment 64 was meant to do, which is not buying on the black market," said Denis Berckefeldt, spokesman for the auditor.
The city expects it will have to spend about $9.4 million on education, enforcement and regulation of the pot industry, for which the tax would compensate.
The council will determine a starting tax rate and ceiling at its meeting Monday. The city will then pose those rates to voters in November. If approved, the council can raise the recreational marijuana tax rate to the determined cap.
Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said she is concerned with providing Denver with the necessary resources to regulate this new industry.
"I see no reason to start worrying about competing with the black market," she said. "I want to set (the tax) where I feel makes sense, and I don't believe that 5 percent is excessive."
The letter came less than a week after an audit found grievous problems with how the city licenses, tracks and manages Denver's medical marijuana industry.
"It is imperative that adequate resources and staffing be devoted to the licensing and regulation of all marijuana businesses," Gallagher said in the letter. "Yet (the tax rate) must not be so high as to foil the intent of Amendment 64."
Gallagher, who was not available for comment Tuesday, acknowledged in his letter that no one knows what the tax level should be, because the costs of the industry to the city are so uncertain.
"We're in uncharted territory," Berckefeldt said. "You do have to start some place. We can't just go into this without insuring some sort of revenue is coming in."
Which is why the 3.5 percent proposal is meant to be a starting point in the search for a taxation sweet spot, the auditor argued.
Brown said members' opinions vary on what the tax rate should start at and where it should be capped.
Some don't think the city should tax marijuana at all. Others, such as Faatz, said it should go as high as 15 percent.
"I didn't vote for this damn thing, but it is what it is and we got to deal with it," said Brown, who favors the 5 percent rate. "We want efficient and fair regulation, and I think fair taxes as well."
A study will soon be completed that will amend the $3,000 medical marijuana license fee and make it more realistic for recreational marijuana, Brown said.
Political consultant Katy Atkinson estimated the tax will pass regardless of the rate, since many voters don't use marijuana and often support taxes on someone else.
"(The city) can probably get from the voters whatever they ask for," she said.
Brown said voters know that this industry is in its infancy and involves guess work.
"I think this vote on tax is huge because this will be, whether we like it or not, the council's legacy. We're going to be judged," he said. "I think the whole world is watching this issue. We got to get it right."
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Schools within 90 miles of Austin (Baylor and Texas A&M) having won the last two national championships. Texas, meanwhile, last won an NCAA Tournament game in 2008 and last made it to a regional semifinal in 2004. To return to the glory days of Hall of Fame coach Jody Conradt, the Longhorns have turned to one of her former assistants. Karen Aston, who also spent time at Baylor before taking over as coach at North Texas, will try to get Texas back near the top of the Big 12 standings and make the Longhorns a factor in March Madness.
Coach: Karen Aston, 1st season at Texas. 101-63 in 5 seasons.
Last season: 18-14 overall, 8-10 in Big 12, tied 6th.
Post seaon: Lost in first round of NCAA Tournament.
Top players
Junior guard Chassidy Fussell (16.3 pprg, 4.4 rpg), senior post Cokie Reed (6.2 ppg, 4.5 rpg), Neka Enempkali (3.8 ppg, 5 rpg), junior forward Anne Marie Hartung (4.6 ppg, 4.3 rpg), freshman post Imani McGee Stafford, freshman guard Empress Davenport, freshman guard Celina Rodrigo.
Coach Aston says
"I think we have to change our mindset with our current team. I think it would be unfair to our players right now for me to jump ahead and say I've got to get better players ... So I think the most important thing is what we do between the lines. I think we need to get between the lines, get a different mindset. Every single thing you do has to matter. I think that really is where we have to start. The other things will take care of themselves."
Travis Mays, one of the top scorers for the UT men's basketball team who graduated in 1990, has been hired as Aston's top assistant. ... Nadia Taylor, a 5-8 senior who started 4 seasons at third base for UT's softball team, will spend her final season of collegiate eligibility on the basketball team. ... Imani McGee Stafford, a 6-7 freshman, is the daughter of former USC player Pamela McGee and the younger sister of Javale McGee, who plays for the Denver Nuggets. ... Chassidy Fussell finished the 2011-12 season tied for second nationally in free throw percentage (.905, 86-of-95). She connected on her final 24 attempts of the season.
Season opener
Nov. 9 vs. St. John's
Top nonconference games
Dec. 8 vs. UCLA
Dec. 16 Tennessee
Dec. 28 vs. Iowa
Conference opener
Jan. 2 at Iowa State


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David Beckham walked off the field at the Home Depot Center with a smile on his face and an American flag draped around his shoulders, leaping to high-five one last fan as he ended his most excellent MLS playing adventure with a powerful performance.
Beckham didn't score in the 3-1 victory over Houston that secured the Galaxy's second straight MLS Cup championship, but he was a strong presence with his trademark curving free kicks and dynamic leadership. The Galaxy had been forced to rally all season, and he would not let its playoff journey end Saturday without a bounce-back triumph.
He was sure of himself and his choices, a certainty played out in his every move. If he had a tear in his eye as he exited in front of his three sons — each wearing T-shirts with his No. 23 and the name DADDY on the back — it reflected joy over a job well done, not sorrow over leaving a task unfinished.
"Today's a good day," he said.
By contrast, teammate Landon Donovan seemed detached from the festivities, lost in an emotional and physical state he said could be described as burnout. Saturday's game might have been his last for the Galaxy, too, a decision he's still grappling with.


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St. Petersburg Times: Pelosi Keeps Democrats in Tow
By Wes Allison
Nancy Pelosi needed some votes. The 30 or so liberals packed into her conference room had them. Now if she could just persuade them to give the votes to her.
It was mid May, three months into the fight with President Bush over funding for the war in Iraq. Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House, had been juggling two main factions within her Democratic caucus: liberals who want Congress to use the power of the purse to end the war and moderates who fear over-reaching.
The president had vetoed the first funding bill Congress had sent him, so the House was about to vote on a second. But liberal Democrats were frustrated because it lacked a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Pelosi explained her predicament to the members, who ringed the long wooden table in her Capitol conference room and snacked on chocolates and California pistachios.
Yes, Pelosi told them, the bill was too weak. But it was all she could do right now. Pelosi speaks often about 'sequencing,' of the importance of taking one step at a time, and she reminded them of that. Plus, she said, what if I give you something in return?
Last fall, when it looked like the Republicans might lose Congress, they began warning that electing Democrats would cede control of the U.S. House to Nancy Pelosi, a wild-eyed San Francisco liberal bent on driving the nation off the Left Coast.
But halfway through her first year as speaker, the highest-ranking woman in U.S. history has shown a propensity to govern from the center. Even her Republican adversaries acknowledge that through a combination of listening, cajoling and dealing, she has artfully held the disparate Democratic caucus together on major issues, particularly in opposing the war in Iraq.
Her role, as a result, is that of an overbooked dog-walker, tugging at nervous moderates, while reining in liberals eager to bolt ahead of the pack, and possibly into traffic.
It isn't always pretty, but she is moving the pack along.
'Nancy Pelosi is smart, she's a good strategist, and she understands that to govern you have to govern from the middle. I'm becoming a fan,' said Rep. Allen Boyd, a North Florida Democrat and leader of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition, who had worried Pelosi might steer too far left.
'She does a lot of listening as to what our thoughts are, and explaining what her positions are, and that's one of the things I like about her – she's listening to a side opposite of what her normal constituency would be.'
Regardless of how distasteful he finds her political positions, Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Bartow, the third-ranking House Republican, said Pelosi deserves credit for keeping her side together.
'You have this very unnatural alliance within her caucus that creates a great deal of internal tension that she has managed quite well,' Putnam said.
It didn't start that way.
As speaker-designate, she backed an old friend and leader of the House antiwar movement, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., over Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., for the job of majority leader.
Hoyer, who is less liberal, had been Pelosi's second-in-command for four years. He was also the clear favorite, and many thought backing Murtha was needlessly divisive. House Democrats chose Hoyer.
Later, she tangled with John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the energy committee, by ordaining a special panel to address global warming.
Dingell's committee should have jurisdiction, but Pelosi worried that the longtime defender of the auto industry would be too soft.
In March, when some members of the Appropriations Committee threatened to balk during the first showdown with Bush over the Democratic plan to bring the troops home next year, Pelosi summoned them for a chat.
'You are on this committee because I know I can count on you,' she said, according to a Pelosi loyalist who was there. 'And you don't have to be on this committee. So you know where I need you to be.'
Members say Pelosi, 67, has softened her style in the past couple of months, seeking to build consensus through retail politicking. Her father was the mayor of Baltimore, as was her brother, and she was raised in the art.
During a fireside chat at the Capitol with the children of reporters and members for Take Your Child to Work Day, Pelosi introduced Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and her daughter Rebecca, then noted that the congresswoman was Rebecca's Brownie troop leader.
'She has 230-some-odd members. How would she remember that?' Wasserman Schultz said. 'It's like she's all of our mom. … You don't want to let her down.'
Ironically, most of the grumbling about Pelosi has come from liberals, old allies like fellow Californians Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters, who think the speaker should be more aggressive on the war.
She is, after all, one of them, and for years they've stuck together on education, the environment and workers' rights.
But last month, they and 25 other liberals were about to break ranks in a dramatic way and sink the reworked version of the Iraq spending bill. Which is why they were packed into Pelosi's conference room the night before the vote listening to their leader suggest a deal:
If they didn't kill it, she would allow a vote on a measure by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., to pull troops from Iraq in 180 days.
McGovern's bill would never pass, but liberals all year have wanted to take that vote to show the president they weren't afraid of his claims that opposing the war meant opposing the troops.
Pelosi warned them it must be 'a strong vote, and a strong repudiation of the president,' members and aides said.
'And if you have a strong vote on McGovern, you have to pass (the war bill), because we are not going to be responsible for denying funding to the troops.'
In the end, the McGovern bill got 171 votes. That's almost 50 votes shy of passage, but far more than even its backers had expected. And thanks to the votes from the liberals, the spending bill passed.
Days after her swearing-in in January, before the war debates began, the Democrats quickly met a half-dozen campaign pledges, passing bills to cut student loan rates, rescind tax breaks to oil companies and lift Bush's restrictions on funding embryonic stem cell research.
But most of these and other House bills have stalled in the Senate, and the president has pledged to veto many of them.
The big exception was the first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade, which Bush signed.
Taking heed of the bribery scandals and ethics troubles that helped cost the Republican Party its 12-year rule of Congress, Pelosi and the freshmen also pushed tough new ethics and lobbying rules.
However, the Democrats have failed in their pledge to excise hidden 'earmarks,' the billions of dollars in funding for legislators' pet projects. Nor have they kept another promise: returning bipartisanship to the House.
'There have been countless missed opportunities to change the tone and heal the institution,' Putnam said. 'And in almost every case, they have chosen a more partisan approach.'
Like the GOP before them, Democrats have limited amendments the minority can offer and sometimes bypassed committees to ensure the leadership's versions of key bills survive.
When Rep. Ric Keller, R-Orlando, filed a bill to consolidate information about federal student aid, grants and scholarships on one Web page, Democrats told him they loved it -then tacked it onto their bill. During debate on the first war spending bill in March, Democrats said Republicans could offer an amendment, then reneged.
'They shouldn't have done that. I don't expect perfection here … but everything else ought to have a significant amount of openness,' said Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
'They're not at the point where you would condemn them, but they're at point where you have concern.'
Critics say the Democrats lost the battle over the war spending bill, because the version Bush finally signed last week is mum on leaving Iraq.
But it does set goals for the Iraqi government, which Bush had resisted. More importantly, Pelosi has brought the national debate on the war into the halls of Congress, where it had been largely absent for four years. 'Icebergs move slowly,' Wasserman Schultz said. 'But at least now there is a crack in the ice.'
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have promised to keep at it. The defense spending bill for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 is coming soon.
'She keeps using that word, sequencing,' said Rep. Jan Schakowsky. D-Ill. 'And the debate really has been transformed from 'stay the course, escalation,' to, 'When are we going to end this war?' Not if, but when.'
Some Democrats have warned Pelosi the war cannot be the House's only worry if they hope to prevail again in 2008, and Republicans hope that becomes problematic.
Most of the 30 freshmen Democrats who took Republican-held seats last fall are in swing districts, and their voters are more conservative than the party's elders who lead top committees and set the agenda.
While Pelosi has kept her team together on the war, Putnam says the Democratic unity will face more stress over issues like immigration reform, entitlement spending and taxes.
The speaker's true test will be how she governs then.
'Winning is a pretty sweet feeling,' Putnam said. 'And winning allows you to paper over significant differences. For a short period of time.'


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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Freshman Rashid Gaston had a career-high 20 points and his second straight double-double as Norfolk State remained perfect in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play, sweeping Florida A&M 69-58.
Gaston added 10 rebounds for his third double-double as the Spartans (20-10, 15-0) clinched a share of the MEAC title and the top seed in the conference tournament -- both program firsts.
Norfolk State has won 14 straight, and host North Carolina A&T Thursday with a chance to complete the first perfect MEAC season since Coppin State did it consecutively in 1992-93 and 1993-94.
The Spartans also moved to 10-0 at home this year and will be seeking their first undefeated home season since 1988-89.
Jamie Adams had 13 points and Reggie Lewis 12 for the Rattlers (8-21, 5-10).
Norfolk State shot 49.1 percent (28 of 57) to Florida A&M's 31.4 percent (22 of 70).


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NEW YORK — NBC News' "Today" remains the front-runner in the ayem race, but "GMA" is gaining in key demos.
"Today" averaged 5.9 million viewers, a dip of 7% from the same week last year, but still 1.4 million ahead of ABC News' "Good Morning America," according to Nielsen estimates for the week of Jan. 21-25. With an average of 4.5 million viewers, "GMA" was up 7% from the same week last year.
In the key news demo of adults 25-54, "GMA" gained 13% from the same week last year (1.8/14), while "Today" dipped 20% (2.4/19). The week marked the closest margin in the demo rating for the season — a gap that represents about 740,000 viewers.
CBS News' The Early Show" averaged 2.5 million total viewers, a 7% gain from the same week last year. Among adults 25-54, "Early" (0.9/8) was down a tick.
Meanwhile, in the Sunday morning public affairs derby, NBC News' "Meet the Press With Tim Russert" again led the pack on Jan. 27, attracting 4.1 million viewers. ABC's "This Week" averaged 3.1 million, CBS' "Face the Nation" 2.7 million and Fox's "News Sunday" 1.6 million.


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''Staged'' properties sell about 50 percent faster than homes stuffed with quirky collections, unique interiors and personal photographs. Many professional tricks are easy and affordable.
• Create curbside appeal. An unkempt lawn, dying plants and a dirty walkway will discourage sellers, says Angelina Perez, owner of Bertone, a home-staging company based in Aventura. She recommends sprucing up the lawn with affordable plants, fresh mulch and the use of a pair of clippers.
• Hire or rent a pressure cleaner. Clean the driveway, walkway and exterior walls. Consider new paint for the facade. And look out for small handprints or paw prints on doors and windows.
• Depersonalize. Remove personal collections, one-of-a kind accessories and even family photographs, says Mark Baratto, a certified home stager and real estate agent at http://www.binnovational.com/, a South Florida-based home staging company.
• Streamline. Too much furniture and clutter detract from the basic bones of a home. ''If you can't see it, you can't sell it,'' Baratto says.
• Hit the sales. Baratto recommends buying vases, candles and generic art from the sales section of Pier I and other retail chains. Look for generic items. ''You gotta think hotel,'' Baratto says. Also keep an eye out for lightly scented candles, especially those that smell like just-baked apple pie or chocolate chip cookies.
• Spruce up the bathroom. Toss out the old shower curtain and replace unmatched, thread-worn towels. Shop for looks and don't fret over the quality of the towels, Perez says. ``It's more of a show. You're showcasing your home.''
• Clean, clean, clean. If you're not a competent housekeeper, hire a professional crew to do your dirty work. Rent a carpet cleaner or hire a professional.
It all goes back to the hotel-room concept. If a room appears dirty or untidy, hotel guests promptly check out and leave.
This is from my latest column in the home & design section of the Miami Herald.
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2002-03 Women's Basketball
bc 49, tu 83
Robinson collects 11th career double-double but Bluffton falls 83-49 at TransylvaniaBy Scott Van Eman
February 15, 2003
[ Statistics ]
Bluffton College lost to the Heartland Conference leading Transylvania University Pioneers 83-49 Saturday afternoon in Lexington, Kentucky. The Beavers held a 14-13 lead with 9:37 left in the first half but were unable to maintain it despite shooting nearly six percent better than the Pioneers in the first half.
Bluffton falls to 2-20 overall and 1-12 in the Heartland Conference. Transylvania improves to 19-3 overall and 10-2 in the HCAC.
Bluffton shot 36.7% from the floor and 66.7% from the free throw line against Transylvania, who attempted 33 three-pointers in the game to mark the most attempts from 3-point range that BC has seen yet this season.
Senior Lyndsey Robinson led Bluffton with 15 points on 6-for-12 shooting from the field and 3-for-4 shooting from the free throw line. Robinson also pulled down 11 rebounds to collect the 11th double-double of her career. Bluffton leading scorer Melissa James was held to six points in the game but was the next-highest scorer.
Three Transy players scored in double-figures, led by 15 points from Katie Boaz.
Bluffton will take on Heartland Conference rival Defiance this Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Founders Hall and will then travel to Thomas More next Saturday to finish up regular season play. The first round of the Heartland Conference tournament is slated for February 25.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia/Blogger re http://wwwp2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science
|Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Csikszentmihalyi on 2010 (aged 75)
|September 29, 1934 (1934-09-29) (age 81)
Fiume, Kingdom of Italy (now Rijeka, Croatia)
|Known for
|Flow (psychology)
autotelic activities
The native form of this personal name is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály. This article uses the Western name order.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ( listen); born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian psychologist. He created the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state.[1][2] He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.[citation needed]
Work[edit]Csikszentmihalyi is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology.[3] Csikszentmihalyi once said: "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason."[4] His works are influential and are widely cited.[5]
Personal background[edit]Csikszentmihalyi immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at the age of 22.[citation needed] He received his B.A. in 1960 and his PhD in 1965, both from the University of Chicago.[6]
Csikszentmihalyi is the father of artist and professor Christopher Csikszentmihályi and University of California, Berkeley[7] professor of philosophical and religious traditions of China and East Asia, Mark Csikszentmihalyi.[citation needed]
In 2009, Csikszentmihalyi was awarded the Clifton Strengths Prize[8] and received the Széchenyi Prize at a ceremony in Budapest in 2011.[9]
Main article: Flow (psychology)
In an interview with Wired magazine, Csíkszentmihályi described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost."[12]
Csikszentmihalyi characterized nine component states of achieving flow including "challenge-skill balance, merging of action and awareness, clarity of goals, immediate and unambiguous feedback, concentration on the task at hand, paradox of control, transformation of time, loss of self-consciousness, and autotelic experience."[13] To achieve a flow state, a balance must be struck between the challenge of the task and the skill of the performer. If the task is too easy or too difficult, flow cannot occur. Both skill level and challenge level must be matched and high; if skill and challenge are low and matched, then apathy results.[10]
One state that Csikszentmihalyi researched was that of the autotelic personality.[13] The autotelic personality is one in which a person performs acts because they are intrinsically rewarding, rather than to achieve external goals.[14] Csikszentmihalyi describes the autotelic personality as a trait possessed by individuals who can learn to enjoy situations that most other people would find miserable.[11] Research has shown that aspects associated with the autotelic personality include curiosity, persistence, and humility.[15]
Motivation[edit]A majority of Csikszentmihalyi's most recent work surrounds the idea of motivation and the factors that contribute to motivation, challenge, and overall success in an individual. One personality characteristic that Csikszentmihalyi researched in detail was that of intrinsic motivation. Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues found that intrinsically motivated people were more likely to be goal-directed and enjoy challenges that would lead to an increase in overall happiness.[16]
Csikszentmihalyi identified intrinsic motivation as a powerful trait to possess to optimize and enhance positive experience, feelings, and overall well-being as a result of challenging experiences. The results indicated a new personality construct, a term Csikszentmihalyi called work orientation, which is characterized by "achievement, endurance, cognitive structure, order, play, and low impulsivity." A high level of work orientation in students is said to be a better predictor of grades and fulfillment of long-term goals than any school or household environmental influence.[17]
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1975). Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-87589-261-2
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1978) Intrinsic Rewards and Emergent Motivation in The Hidden Costs of Reward : New Perspectives on the Psychology of Human Motivation eds Lepper, Mark R;Greene, David, Erlbaum: Hillsdale: NY 205-216
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Larson, Reed (1984). Being Adolescent: Conflict and Growth in the Teenage Years. New York: Basic Books, Inc. ISBN 0-465-00646-9
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega, eds. (1988). Optimal Experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34288-0
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 0-06-092043-2
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1994). The Evolving Self, New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-092192-7
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1996). Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-092820-4
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1998). Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02411-4 (a popular exposition emphasizing technique)
- Gardner, Howard, Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Damon, William (2001). Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. New York, Basic Books.
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2003). Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning. Basic Books, Inc. ISBN 0-465-02608-7
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2014). The Systems Model of Creativity: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-94-017-9084-0
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2014). Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-94-017-9087-1
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2014). Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-94-017-9093-2
See also[edit]
- Creativity
- Motivation
- Attention
- Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- John Neulinger
- Experience Sampling Method
- Jump up ^ O'Keefe, Paul A. (September 5, 2014). "Liking Work Really Matters". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- Jump up ^ Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow : the psychology of optimal experience (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060162535.
- Jump up ^ Thinker of the Year Award
- Jump up ^ "Virtue Quotes & Quotations". focusdep.com. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- Jump up ^ Nigel King & Neil Anderson (2002). Managing Innovation and Change. Cengage Learning EMEA. p. 82. (ISBN 1861527837)
- Jump up ^ "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi". Claremont, CA, USA: Claremont Graduate University, Division of Behavorial and Organizational Sciences. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
B.A., University of Chicago, 1960
- Jump up ^ http://eall.wisc.edu/?q=node/28[dead link] East Asian Languages and Literature
- Jump up ^ Nakamura, Jeanne. "2009 Clifton Strength Prize Laureate". Clifton Strengths School. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
- Jump up ^ "President of Hungary honors SBOS Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi with national science prize". Claremont Graduate University. June 3, 2011. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Csikszentmihalyi, M., Finding Flow, 1997.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 0-06-092043-2
- Jump up ^ Geirland, John (1996). "Go With The Flow". Wired magazine, September, Issue 4.09.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Fullagar, Clive J.; Kelloway, E. Kevin (2009). "Flow at work: an experience sampling approach". Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 82 (3): 595–615. doi:10.1348/096317908x357903.
- Jump up ^ Car, A. Positive psychology. The Science of happiness and human strengths. Hove, 2004.
- Jump up ^ Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Nakamura, J. (2011). Positive psychology: Where did it come from, where is it going? In K.M. Sheldon, T. B. Kashdan, & M.F. Steger (Eds.), Designing positive psychology (pp. 2-9). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Jump up ^ Abuhamdeh, Sami; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2012). "The importance of challenge for the enjoyment of intrinsically motivated, goal-directed activities.". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38: 317–30. doi:10.1177/0146167211427147. PMID 22067510.
- Jump up ^ Wong, Maria; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1991). "Motivation and academic achievement: The effects of personality traits and the quality of experience". Journal of Personality 59: 539–574. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00259.x.
External links[edit]
- Faculty page at Claremont Graduate University
- Brain Channels Thinker of the Year - 2000
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at TED
- American psychologists
- Hungarian psychologists
- American science writers
- Positive psychologists
- Creativity researchers
- Psychology educators
- Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- University of Chicago faculty
- University of Chicago alumni
- Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
- Hungarian scientists
- American people of Hungarian descent
- People from Rijeka
- 1934 births
- Living people
- Claremont Graduate University faculty


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Herking and jerking his way to a solo double steal in the sixth inning Sunday, Pittsburgh's Josh Harrison stutter-stepped his way around five throws and two missed tags.
He wriggled out of a pickle. And after catching his breath at third, Harrison calmly walked in on a RBI that rallied the Pirates back ahead of the Rockies.
"That was a big momentum changer," Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado said. "That was huge for them. We didn't do it right. We didn't play that play the right way."
But much more bluntly, it was Harrison's towering solo home run on the first pitch of the eighth inning, the first of back-to-back homers, that pushed Pittsburgh to a 7-5 win over the Rockies at Coors Field.
Harrison's solo shot to right-center field, one of his four hits, was followed three pitches later by another from Gregory Polanco, breaking a tie after the Rockies had rallied twice before.
And Colorado (43-61) had a three-game winning streak snapped before leaving on a seven-game road swing through Chicago and Detroit.
"We've got to get an out there," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of Harrison's two steals. "I look at a rundown as a free out. Harrison is probably one of the tougher guys to put away in a rundown, but we've got to get the out there. It was a big play. We have to execute."
Franklin Morales struggled. He gave up six hits and two runs and walked five in four-plus innings.
"He dodged some bullets," Weiss said.
The Rockies, with a major league-leading .317 home batting average, rallied after Morales' exit. Brandon Barnes hit a two-run homer to deep left field to score Wilin Rosario. And Charlie Blackmon's double high off the center-field wall scored DJ LeMahieu, giving Colorado had a 4-2 lead.
With Chad Bettis in relief, Arenado speared a Jordy Mercer line drive at third, then dived headfirst back to the bag to double up Andrew McCutchen. It helped the Rockies get out of their own pickle, a bases-loaded jam with no outs.
Bettis escaped the fifth, but not the sixth. Travis Snider pinch-hit a two-run homer off Bettis. Then Harrison started dancing.
He steamed ahead with too much speed to second, sliding right through the base under the tag of Josh Rutledge. But Rutledge, the Rockies' shortstop, watched as Harrison calmly stood up and took off for third from behind second base.
A rundown started. And Harrison sneaked past Colorado catcher Wilin Rosario on his way to third. Harrison even eyed taking off for home, with the plate uncovered, but settled in for air at third.
The game broke apart in the eighth, when Harrison crushed Rex Brothers' first-pitch fastball and Polanco lined a 2-1 slider over the wall.
"I can't explain it to you, to be honest with you," Brothers said. "The way we played the last couple days and then to come in and do that today, I really can't put it into words."
The Rockies also left some runs on the board. Second baseman LeMahieu, who quietly has baseball's best batting average since June 22 (.381), singled three times but scored just once. He was caught trying to steal third with one out in the eighth.


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Damn That Dome
This is why baseball should be played outside:
Damn that Dome.
That's not why the Yankees lost, but it sure didn't help them win! That 7th inning was utterly disgusting. First an infield single, then a real single…then Colon was out. Then the lazy fly ball to center…my poor Curtis. It must be such a lonely feeling when your out there under the ball, then all of a sudden it's gone, and there's nothing you can do about it. When I saw Curtis's hands flail as he desperately tried to find the ball again, I knew the tone was set for the rest of the game. That ball indeed dropped. Boone Logan then had a chance to exit the inning, but he botched what should have been a 1-2-3 double play. Nope. Right off the glove! And all runners were safe. Then my Curtis had a chance to redeem himself, and made a nice diving play in center. But by leaving his feet, he allowed the Rays runner to score on a sac fly. He tried making up for leaving his feet, but his throw sailed wildly wide of the plate. That slim 1 run lead the Yankees enjoyed became a 1-run deficit before my eyes. And they lost it by 1 run.
Now I know it's unfair to blame the dome, so I'm not really "blaming" the dome, I'm just expressing my disgust in the fact that there is a dome. And I'm not just hating on the dome because the GrandyMan lost the ball. When I saw the Yankees's schedule for after the All-Star break and saw they'd be on the road in Toronto and Tampa Bay, I said, "Jeez, the two most boring, head-achy, and ugly stadiums in a row."
Not to mention, ballparks where my cute centerfielder loses the ball which ultimately leads to a loss! Just get rid of them! Or move those teams. No one ever goes to Blue Jays games or Rays games unless they play the Yankees, anyway.
I said I wouldn't do that, I apologize. Perhaps I'm avoiding the real problem here.
Over the All-Star break, my Grandma's favorite player, and our cleanup hitter Alex Rodriguez underwent surgery to repair his impaired knee. Since his absence, the Yankees are 3-3, and their offense just isn't the same…they don't have that extra "oomph" they have when A-Rod is in the lineup. I didn't really worry too much when I heard he was having the surgery. I remembered how the Yankees went 14-4 without their Captain, Derek Jeter. I didn't think they would struggle even more without A-Rod.
I think, since the offense is stinking up a storm, maybe Joe Girardi should implement some lineup tweaks? Since he hasn't done anything yet? Everyone's been talking about how hot Brett Gardner has been, so why is he batting 9th? I say, but your best guys up top, so the heart of the order is actually good, so maybe a rally can actually happen instead of having a stinky guy come up with runners in scoring position and just kill everything. I don't see what the big deal about shaking up the lineup will be – I mean are they doing well the way they are now? All that talk about rhythm, protection, it just bugs me. I mean these guys are Major League hitters. Stop being so sensitive. Hit the damn ball, that's what you're getting paid for.
I say just try something different, something like this:
#1 Brett Gardner
#2 Derek Jeter
#3 Curtis Granderson
#4 Robinson Cano
#5 Mark Teixeira
#6 Nick Swisher
#7 Jorge Posada
#8 Russell Martin
#9 Eduardo Nunez
And YES, I know Granderson and Cano are back-to-back lefties, but I don't think it matters at all. Both Grandy and Cano are not neutralized by lefties. They both still hit very well against them with Cano at an insane clip .342 against lefties. Gardner at the top, why not? So he struggled up there in the beginning of the year – he struggled in GENERAL at the beginning of the year. The team needs a spark, and Gardner can provide it. I mean he can't be any worse than Jeter up there. And he has stolen I think 12 bases in a row now? Oh, and he leads in stolen bases with 29. So this way when he leads off with a single, he can steal 2nd and not worry about Jeter grounding into a double play.
I doubt they're going to do anything to spark the offense, but I would give it a try. Just like Billy Martin did. Pull the names out of a hat, and that'd be the lineup order! DO SOMETHING!
Maybe then, it won't matter what kind of ridiculous excuse for a stadium they'd play in. Even if a ball is lost here or there, they'd still be able to HIT!
Oh well, one more game in this place, then back home to that beautiful ballpark in the Bronx.


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17. the article says he is just switching stations to get on live vs. recorded....
The owner of WPHT, CBS Radio, said in a statement on Monday afternoon, Premiere recently notified WPHT they will be syndicating Rush Limbaugh on a new station in Philadelphia. As a result, we are pleased to be able to now showcase Michael, who is a well-known and acclaimed broadcaster in the market, in this new time period.
Mr. Smerconish is a relative rarity on radio: a moderate. He has interviewed President Obama and has filled in for Chris Matthews on the MSNBC program Hardball a number of times.
His radio program is syndicated across the country, but until now WPHT has time-delayed it in Philadelphia. With the move by Mr. Limbaugh, it can be played live in his home market.
How long do you think it will take for the DUmmies to notice? :friendly_wink:


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Earns Weekly Award For Second Time This Season
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - For the second time this season Sarah Halejian was recognized for her performance by being named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week it was announced by the league office.
Halejian had an outstanding game against Georgetown on Dec. 10 when she scored a season- and team-high 27 points in a one-point loss to the Hoyas. She shot 11-of-20 from the floor and was 3-of-6 from three-point range. She scored 17 of her points after halftime on 7-of-12 shooting en route to her third 20-point outing of the season.
The 27 points is tied for the sixth-highest single-game total in Yale history, while her 11 field goals is tied for fourth. The 20 field goal attempts is tied for third in Yale's single-game records.
Halejian's honor is the third Player of the Week award in her career and second of the season (Dec. 2). She was also a six-time Rookie of the Week honoree in 2011-12. Halejian shared the weekly award with Princeton's Blake Dietrick.
The junior guard currently leads the Bulldogs and among Ivy League leaders she ranks first in assists (3.3 apg), second in steals (2.3 spg) and sixth in scoring (15.5 ppg).
The Bulldogs are back in action at John J. Lee Amphitheater on Thursday, Dec. 19, against Saint Peter's at 6 p.m.
Report filed by Jeff Mead, Yale Sports Publicity


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I love to cook but I also like shortcuts. I am not averse to using the occasional cake mix, envelope of Knorr sauce, cube of bouillon, or box of frozen white corn. These convenience foods deserve a place in every pantry and freezer.
A lot of convenience foods have recipes on their packages, some of which have become classics: Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies, Chex Mix, Argo Corn Starch lemon meringue pie, and Ritz Cracker's mock apple pie. The Quaker Oats canister has the best oatmeal cookie recipe I have ever tried, although I do swap out the raisins for dried cherries or cranberries. Ghirardelli's can of cocoa used to have a killer brownie recipe on its label. You can also play around with these recipes, making them lighter, healthier, and more savory.
Carissa Katz
Crack Pie has addictive qualities.
At a time when a lot of talented chefs are making dishes look like science projects (enough with the spittle and foam!), David Chang, the genius chef behind Momofuku, Ssam, Ko, and Noodle Bar, has been finding ways to utilize dried milk, cornflakes, oatmeal, and Twizzlers in thoroughly modern ways.
Convenience foods, or "tertiary processed foods," as they are sometimes called, have evolved to such an extent that we are offered some kind of shortcut in every aspect of cooking today. Some should be avoided at all costs, such as TV dinners and instant mashed potatoes. Others, such as canned beans, tuna, frozen puff pastry, rice pilafs, and pancake mixes, are perfectly acceptable.
Couscous takes a mere five minutes to make. Try adding some diced and roasted carrots, onions, and fennel with a pinch of curry and you have a lovely side dish incorporating starch and some vegetables. You can improve stuffing mixes by sautéing onions and celery and tossing in some fresh thyme and parsley. Add a banana or blueberries and a half cup of granola to your Sunday morning Bisquick pancake mix.
Aunt Jemima's pancake mix was introduced in 1869. The next historically significant convenience food was Libby's canned meat, in 1890. Canned peas came in 1925, and Birdseye "frosted foods" came in 1930. Clarence Birdseye, an American living in Labrador, Canada, between 1912 and 1916, discovered the effect of rapid freezing on vegetables and developed the first "quick freezer" for fruits and vegetables.
Industrialization and the need to feed the post-World War II population led to a burst of new products in the 1940s like Mrs. Paul's fish sticks, Minute Maid orange juice, Ragu pasta sauces, and Tupperware to keep all those nifty leftovers fresh. The iconic Swanson TV dinner made its debut in 1953 with many more frozen products to follow. Creativity has petered out over the last few decades with the only new noteworthy products being tuna kits and Heinz's green and purple ketchups.
In 1965, close to 30 percent of American households were using convenience foods. By the 1990s, that number had doubled. Nowadays, almost every household consumes convenience (or fast) foods on a daily basis.
While this trend is alarming due to the lack of quality of some products and consumer education, you can find that some of these products have a rightful place in our kitchens. Frozen gyoza? Shelled edamame? Yes! Bottled salad dressings? Crushed garlic in a jar? No!
There is a show on TV called "Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade." The philosophy from "the internationally acclaimed home and style expert" is to use 70 percent ready-made foods combined with 30 percent fresh ingredients. The show promises the viewers their dishes will taste as if they've been made from scratch.
Well, I am a "culinary expert" and I took a look at her episodes on money-saving recipes, and I was aghast at how fattening and ultimately not money saving they were. Scones, nachos, shortcakes, risottos, barbecue bean chili dogs, cinnamon roll French toast, spaghetti and meatball calzones, and canned peach pie. Surely there was at least one healthy sounding recipe? Pasta with edamame sounded promising. Alas, it was pimped up with bacon and sour cream.
I have to say that my cooking philosophy is far more Jamie Oliver — keep it fresh and simple — than Sandra Lee's, who extols the virtues of Glazed Doughnut Crisps, (ingredients: sugar cookie mix, canned frosting, and artificial brandy extract, topped with drippy sugar icing and food coloring). Heavens!
Somewhere between fresh, made-from-scratch cooking and convenience foods there is a happy medium. Read the labels, use your own judgment, and feel free to whip up the occasional cake mix, Knorr hollandaise sauce, or Campbell's soup tuna noodle casserole.
Crack Pie
Here is David Chang's Milk Bar restaurant recipe for Crack Pie, adapted from Bon Appetit magazine.
Serves 10.
Oat cookie crust:
Nonstick spray
9 Tbsp. butter, room temp, divided
51/2 Tbsp. brown sugar, divided
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 egg
Heaping 3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup flour
1/8 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp salt (generous)
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 Tbsp. nonfat dry milk powder (optional)
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter, melted, slightly cooled
61/2 Tbsp. heavy cream
4 large egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
Confectioner's sugar for dusting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan with parchment paper. Spray with nonstick spray. Combine six tablespoons butter, four tablespoons brown sugar and two tablespoons sugar in bowl of mixer. Beat until fluffy, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally. Add egg, beat until fluffy. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Spread into pan. Bake until light golden on top, about 18 minutes. Cool completely.
Using hands, crumble oat cookie into large bowl, add three tablespoons butter and 11/2 tablespoon brown sugar. Rub in with fingertips until mixture is moist enough to stick together. Transfer to nine-inch glass pie dish. Press evenly into dish and place on baking sheet.
Position rack in middle of oven, preheat to 350 degrees. Whisk both sugars, milk powder, and salt to blend. Add melted butter and whisk. Add cream, egg yolks, and vanilla and whisk until thoroughly blended. Pour into piecrust. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. Filling may begin to bubble up. Reduce temperature to 325 degrees and continue baking until filling is brown in spots and set around edges but a bit wobbly in the center, about 15 to 20 minutes more. Cool at least two hours, then chill. Dust powdered sugar over pie before serving.
(Be warned, I have made this pie a few times and it is difficult to get out of pan. Be careful, be patient!)
Aunt Tink's Lemon Cake
Back by popular demand, here is my Aunt Tink's Lemon Cake!
1 package yellow cake mix
1 package lemon Jello
3/4 cup apricot nectar
3/4 cup canola oil
4 eggs
Juice and rind of two lemons
11/2 cups confectioner's sugar
Combine juice, rind, and sugar and beat until thick glaze consistency.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a springform or bundt pan. Beat cake ingredients for four minutes on medium speed. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. When cake is cool enough to handle, invert onto platter and top with glaze.
Knorr Hollandaise Made Better
Four servings.
1 envelope Knorr hollandaise sauce mix
1 cup whole or low fat milk
1/4 cup butter
1-3 tsp. fresh lemon juice
Pinch of cayenne or smoked paprika
Whisk sauce mix and one cup of milk in small saucepan. Add 1/4 cup butter and bring to boil, stirring frequently. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring frequently, until thickened, about one minute. At this point, taste the sauce and add as much lemon juice as you like. Add a pinch of cayenne or smoked paprika if you like it a bit more piquant.


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I'm setting up a computer for a complete newbie (using Fedora Core 2) and couriering it to them accross the country. The box has an Nvidia pro card and they have told me their screen is an ACER AL511 flatscreen.
Basically, if I set up the monitor etc to suit my hardware, a "detected hardware" change at their end will effectively uninstall Nvidia drivers. I therefore want to set the monitor up to correct settings for tehir monitor just before sh8ipping the box off to them, so it will just work straight away to their system.
Problem: Under display config, there are lots of Acer monitors, but no AL511. I know that they are likely cross compatable, but some will not be, and I don't want to pick the wrong one in it causes grief to this complete newbie at the other end. I certainly don't want it to run diagonal lines, bad flicker or too low res for their hardware.
Anyone else here using Fedora Linux with an Acer AL511 ? If so, can you please let me know which monitor is chosen in your display hardware settings?