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Sugared down: Advisory board calls for healthier school food
Parents concerned about the foods served up in Charlottesville City schools– and statistics suggesting that one in three local students fourth grade and up are overweight or obese– should mark their calendars for June 2. That's the night the Charlottesville School Board will meet and hear the recommendations of the School Health Advisory Board, a federally mandated volunteer board comprising parents, health professionals, and teachers.
According to Board Chair Ivana Kadija, mother of two city school students, the recommendations include slashing sugar and salt and seeking ways to increase offerings of local produce. (The schools already obtain some local produce and goods through the Food Hub, an organization that serves as a one-stop-shop for local produce, but the advisory board would like those efforts expanded).
"It's clear that sugar is something we are absolutely addicted to," says Kadija, citing research conducted in France that shows rats prefer intense sweetness even to highly addictive cocaine.
While Charlottesville City Schools Assistant Superintendent James Henderson says the school system has already made significant changes and is dedicated to further improving the nutrition in school-provided breakfast lunch and snacks, Kadija says more needs to be done.
An online petition Kadija created calls on the schools to restrict sugar intake and has already garnered more than 500 signatures from parents and officials including school board members Guian McKee and Juandiego Wade as well as Mayor Dave Norris and Charlottesville City Councilor Satyendra Huja.
The petition can be found at http://bit.ly/kUPSAd.Read more on: Ivana Kadijaschool food
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Oh. Another "Advisory " group made up of special interest representatives. I am sitting on the edge of my chair waiting for the report. Maybe they ought to recommend that high schooler not be allowed to leave campus to have lunch at a fast food restaurant. That ought to get rid of a lot of traffic congestion.
Enough of government trying to micromanage our lives!
I believe in healthy nutrition, so I serve it at home, and have taught my children healthy choices from an early age, and I try to set a good example. The school cafeterias serve up balanced meals, the kids can find healthy selections, if they want to. And parents can choose to pack them a healthy lunch, again, if they want to.
Isn't it a little bit odd - some people insist that a teenage girl should have the right to choose to end her pregnancy, but also believe that she is incapable of independently making good choices when it comes to deciding what to have for lunch and we need the government to decide for her?
Twinmom- they are trying, they are micromanaging our lives. Unfortnately they are unable to manage their own lives.
I suggest the school board perfect their rectal self-exam technique and properly discipline the students, then properly teach the students and turn this society around............
They're not trying to micromanage your lives. They're trying to serve one (or for those who also need breakfast) two good meals a day. This group is not coming into your homes and telling you what to eat. What could possibly be wrong with trying to improve the food served in schools?
And "special interest group"? Really? Parents of kids in the schools? Teachers of those kids? That's now a "special interest group" spoken of in the same way as oil and tobacco and cable television companies?
Chris, have you read the petition? It is extremely vague. It calls on the School Board to "take a stand" to "restrict sugar in our schools".
So what does that mean? Replace sugar packets with stevia? Or does it mean that students will not be allowed to bring in Kool-Aid to class parties? They complain about cookies, ice cream, cereals and yogurt, when we all know there are "low-sugar" varieties of those items. The petition doesn't even make a distrinction between refined sugars and natural sugars. How are they going to police a "restriction on sugar" in the schools? Search every lunchbox and toss out what someone thinks might be contraband, when perhaps it wasn't loaded with sugar afterall?
If you want to have a petition that calls for inclusion of more fruits and vegetables, whoops scratch that, as many fruits (such as bananas and raisins) have a high sugar content. If you want to include more fresh vegetables or whole grains or ??, fine, then do it. But to try to "restrict sugar" is ludicrous and unenforceable. This petition as currently written, illustrates just how little this Advisory Board knows about nutrition and foods.
The petition is too vague to be of any particular help. But it's also a group of private citizens expressing their concern (albeit, in my opinion, ineffectively). It's not "government trying to micromanage our lives." The reality is that at public schools some governmental agency is choosing what food is offered to students for lunch and breakfast. Choosing different foods isn't micromanaging, it's choosing different foods within the context that they already managed.
Nowhere in the petition does anyone suggest searching lunch boxes.
What I know of school cafeteria meals (granted, not comprehensive); they don't provide good, balanced meals. French Fries are still considered a vegetable, I believe. Clearly, we can improve school food. Whether this petition is a way to help that along is a different question.
Regardless, there's no micromanaging on the part of government here.
I worked as a kitchen manager in the county schools for almost ten years. The school nutrition program is headed by a registered dietician whose goal was and is to provide wholesome fresh foods every day. The child nutrition program is self-sustaining. It does not receive funding from any government source. It does receive product from the Department of Agriculture.
The school I worked in provided a salad bar with at least ten fresh ingredients each day, freshly made sandwiches, homemade pizza, hot meal selection and yes, a burger or chicken sandwich with fries. Students were not permitted to purchase fries without the rest of the meal including milk. We also sold cookies and ice cream(gasp).
The bulk of "bad" food came in the door in lunch boxes and back packs. When they banned sodas, kids would come in with a 2 liter bottle or 12 pack of cans. When they banned candy and high fat chips from the vending machines they'd come in with bags of chips and candy. When we introduced fresh foods with better nutritional content, they'd send someone out to McDonald's. They will continue to do this and no amount of legislation will change it.
If these folks with the petition are so concerned, maybe a good place to start would be in their own pantries and refrigerators. You can't take care of everyone and you can't change people's habits through legislation.
Maybe we should spend a little more time minding our own business
Chris, we agree on one thing - "The petition is too vague to be of any particular help."
You also wrote:"...it's also a group of private citizens expressing their concern (albeit, in my opinion, ineffectively)." Not Exactly True!
The article states, "School Health Advisory Board, a federally mandated volunteer board comprising parents, health professionals, and teachers."
The government mandated this board, which means federal dollars were spent created the boards, writing goals for the boards, etc etc. The teachers' and health professionals time is not free. The School Board, and eventually City Council will spend time (and tax dollars) reviewing the petition, considering the petition, voting on the petition, and (likely) trying to implement it. Those are my tax dollars being wasted to deal with a petition that makes no logical sense.
You interpret the petition to mean that it requests that the schools improve their school lunch program, but that is NOT what the petition says. It says the goal is to "restrict sugar", nothing more, nothing less. You can't read a lofty goal of improving nutrition into this. The Advisory Group chose to focus on one thing only - restricting sugar-, not upping the number of salads, not eliminating french fries, not shopping at the farmers' markets, not substituting turkey burgers for beef.
Lahlee, thanks for your comments from the front lines. Your message speaks volumes.
It's a volunteer board.
The petition is a community driven effort that also happens to involve a volunteer parent on the board.
Yes, we can't take care of everyone. We should clearly stop trying.
Maybe some parents could chime in.......maybe some parents could "parent", and take their own kids and themselves off crappy food
Um...parents are on the volunteer board.
And part of the issue here is school lunches and breakfasts are provided most often to people who don't have enough money to reasonably feed their families.


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Devastated Ivan Franjic has issued a parting warning to World Cup superpowers: beware Australia.
Franjic believes Australia will shock the Netherlands or Spain in their remaining group matches in Brazil.
"We can compete with the best nations in the world, I truly believe so," injured defender Franjic told reporters on Sunday.
"I know that in the next few games, Holland and Spain are going to get a bit of a surprise … I think there is an upset coming in one of those two games."
Franjic will return home nursing a torn left hamstring which ended his World Cup.
The Brisbane Roar defender's injury came while contesting a header in Australia's tournament opening 3-1 loss to Chile in Cuiaba on Friday.
"There's just no explanation for it," Franjic said of his injury.
"I'm just devastated, to be completely honest."
Franjic initially held some hope of scans showing a minor strain, but that was dashed when he woke the next morning.
"I had power after, it might have been adrenaline still kicking in there. But the next day when I woke up, I knew it was just gone," he said.
"It's a weird one because I looked back at the week and where I have gone wrong – didn't I stretch a certain area or something?
"And I can't pick a point where I was unprofessional and did something out of the ordinary."
The 26-year-old took some solace from actually playing in a World Cup – the right-back delivered a canny cross to Tim Cahill for Australia's sole goal against Chile.
"Personally, I got a lot out of it," he said.
"Obviously when you first come into camp, you don't want to make a mistake and you want to impress the older boys.
"And now I really feel a part of it. My confidence was high, and especially after that (goal) assist, I just felt like I was booming and I had a lot to offer."
He said Australia's spirited fightback after conceding two goals to Chile in the initial 15 minutes showed the Socceroos could match it with the world's best.
"Chile is a great nation, you can't take anything away from them," Franjic said.
"The first 15 minutes were hard to explain, they just came at us and it looked like we went back a bit.
"And then … we just saw they're as normal as us and Australia is right up there."


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Is there a pause, hiatus, or slowdown?
So here is the basics. If you look at annual global temperatures since 1998, there is no visible rise. 2005 and 2010 are generally regarded as a bit warmer, but our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to rise. Where are the steadily rising temperatures? Looking at it this way might suggest (especially if you want to think this way) that global warming has slowed appreciably, or even paused, and that the planet is not really all that sensitive to GHGs after all.
The question if highly complex, and responding to it demonstrates that you can't take the planet's annual temperature and draw firm conclusions about present or future global warming.
For links to a variety of news accounts and analyses of this issues, click here.
For links to scientific papers examining this issue, click here.
But here are two key factors that help us understand what has been going on and why.
1. NATURAL FORCINGS. In addition GHGs, nature has its own way to alter climate, temporarily increasing or decreasing global temperatures. There are three main natural forcings:
(a) fine particulates emitted mainly by volcanoes (called "aerosols"); most of these cool the earth by reflecting the sun's rays back into space.
(b) fluctuations in solar irradiance. Solar energy reaching the planet goes through cycles of greater and lesser intensity--roughly 11 years going up and 11 years going down, and (all else being equal) raise and lower global temperatures accordingly.
(c) changes in the ocean: there are years when the Pacific Ocean is characterized by El Nino, which warms the planet, and years of La Nina, which cools the planet, and some years with neither. There are also longer term fluctuations, in particular the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The point is that short-lived changes in the ocean can temporarily increase and decrease global temperatures.
So, we can't just take the planet's temperature and say whether global warming is or is not happening. We have to also consider these natural forcings.
The upshot is this. 1998 was a freak year with the highest El Nino on record, along with solar irradiance near its highest point. The 2000s, on the other hand, were largely a decade in which three things were happening together: declining solar activity, a preponderance of ocean cooling (La Ninas more than El Ninos and a cooling period of the PDO), and some volcanic activity that emitted aerosols that cooled the planet.
Those three things working together temporarily dampened the rise in global temperatures.
AND YET, the decade of the 2000s was considerably warmer than the 1990s, with every year warmer than the average temperature of the 1990s!
In fact, one scientific study recalculated what has been really happening with global warming by removing these natural forcings. What did they find? The planet is continuing to warm. (For a summary of this study, click here.)
2. THE OCEAN. When the planet warms, most of it is actually absorbed by the ocean rather than persisting in the atmosphere or surface of the planet. And what has been happening to ocean temperatures? They have been increasing. (For analyses that discuss this, click here, here, and here.)
So, no, there ain't no pause, despite surface appearances and the wishful thinking of contrarians. We are heating up the planet, and heading toward disaster.
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Living fossil is the nickname given to organisms whose
traces appear in the fossil layers from early geological periods,
of which living specimens are still found today. These living things
exhibit no differences from their counterparts from millions of
years ago, and represent living examples of those long-dead fossil
Without doubt, the most important of these is the forementioned Cœlacanth.
For many years, evolutionists portrayed it as the most significant
supposed intermediate form, on which they wasted a great deal of
speculation until the first surprise appeared in 1938.
The Cœlacanth: An Example of a False Intermediate Form
A 410-million-year-old
Off the coast of southern Africa,
in the winter of 1938, a fishing boat called The Nerine dragged
from the Indian Ocean near the Chalumna River a fish thought
to be extinct for 70 million years. The fish was a cœlacanth,
an animal that thrived concurrently with dinosaurs...18
These words, by the evolutionist Keith S. Thompson,
chairman of the Oxford University Academy of Natural Sciences,
are a clear expression of how quickly an evolutionary myth faded into
nothing. The catching of a live specimen of Cœlacanth did
away with one of the greatest fake foundations of the theory of
The Cœlacanth,
which according to the fossil record, dates back some 410 million
years to the Devonian period, was regarded by evolutionists as
a powerful intermediate form between fish and reptile. It had
been mysteriously erased from the fossil record 70 million years
ago, during the Cretaceous
period, and was believed to have become extinct at that time.19 Based
on these fossils, evolutionist biologists suggested that this creature
had a non-functioning, "primitive" as evolutionists
put it, lung. Speculation regarding the Cœlacanth became
so widespread that the fish was cited in many scientific publications
as the most significant evidence for evolution. Paintings and drawings
of it leaving the water for the land quickly began appearing in
books and magazines. Of course, all these assumptions, images and
claims, were based on the idea that the creature was extinct.
The truth was very different, however. Since
1938, more than 200 present-day Cœlacanths have
been caught, after that first one off South Africa. The second
came from the Comoro Islands off north-west Madagascar in 1952,
and a third in Indonesian Sulawesi in 1998. The evolutionist paleontologist
J. L. B. Smith was unable to conceal his amazement at the capture
of the first Cœlacanth, saying, "If I'd met
a dinosaur in the street I wouldn't have been more astonished."20
living Cœlacanth specimen.
Later, photographs of a pair of Cœlacanths cavorting
was even published in National Geographic magazine! The
capture of living Cœlacanths revealed that the claims
regarding it were nothing more than deceptions. The structure that
evolutionist researchers suggested was a primitive lung turned
out to be nothing but a fat-filled swimbladder. In addition, evolutionists
had always depicted the fish as living in shallow waters, as a
potential reptile preparing to crawl onto the land where it would
continue to "evolve." Yet the Cœlacanth was
now found to be living in the deepest ocean waters—a bottom-dwelling
fish almost never rising above 180 meters below the surface.21
In 1987, the German naturalist Hans Fricke confirmed
these research findings when he observed and photographed Cœlacanths off
the Grand Comoro Island. He observed that the fish swam backwards,
forwards and even tilted head down, but never once "walked,
crawled, or otherwise moved on the bottom with their lobed fins."22
Cœlacanth being a living fossil
eliminated the so-called evidence that evolutionists had exhibited
so proudly to support their imaginary scenario of the fish's
transition from water to land. When this creature was encountered
in 1938, it immediately revealed the fraudulent nature of the
transition from water to land. Evolutionists cast no aspersions
on the fact of this living fossil and did not seek to convince
anyone that this discovery was in error. They came up with no
new conjectures regarding the Cœlacanth and
the story of how it emerged from the sea onto dry land. The stasis
in the fossil record had demolished the story of this fish's evolution
by tearing down one of its basic premises.
Professor of
political science Robert G. Wesson set this fact out in these terms:
The bony-finned Cœlacanth,
thought to be long extinct but rediscovered in 1938, has been
approximately static some 450 million years (Avers 1989, 317).
... The nearly timeless species are not exempt from the changes
of proteins that go on in all living beings, and they could surely
vary in many ways without loss of adaptiveness, but their patterns
have become somehow frozen. ... From the point of view of conventional
evolutionary theory long-term stasis is hard to explain. Rapid
evolution ... is incongruous that species remain unchanged through
changing conditions over many million years.23
The bony-finned Cœlacanth,
thought to be long extinct but rediscovered in 1938, has been
approximately static some 450 million years (Avers 1989, 317).
... The nearly timeless species are not exempt from the changes
of proteins that go on in all living beings, and they could surely
vary in many ways without loss of adaptiveness, but their patterns
have become somehow frozen. ... From the point of view of conventional
evolutionary theory long-term stasis is hard to explain. Rapid
evolution ... is incongruous that species remain unchanged through
changing conditions over many million years.23
The Horseshoe Crab
The first fossil records of the horseshoe crab go back 425 million
years, yet this living fossil still lives along present-day shores.
Its tail, which allows it to walk with ease across the sand and
which is used for steering, its two eyes with their exceedingly
complex structures, and all its other unique features have remained
unchanged over the last 425 million years.
The Cockroach
The cockroach, the oldest winged
insect in the world, first appears in fossils some 350 million
years old, from the Carboniferous period.24 This
insect—with its various feelers and hairs that are extremely
sensitive to the slightest movement, even to air currents, its
perfect wings, and its resistant structure capable of withstanding
even radiation—is identical now to how it was 350 million
years ago.25
The Okapi
Another living fossil that invalidates one
of the greatest faulty proofs of the theory of evolution—and which even revealed
a fraud perpetrated in the name of evolution—is the okapi,
shown in the illustration below.
The fossils belonging to this animal dated
back to the Miocene epoch. The okapi had always been believed
to be extinct—that
is, right up until the first living specimen was captured in 1901.
At that time, it was taken up as an example by evolutionists and
presented as an intermediate form in the equine evolution scenario,
which itself is totally false. However, with the capture of a living
okapi, that scenario of equine evolution was also done away with.
The "evolution of the horse" was
for a long while the evolutionists' Exhibit A in regard to the
imaginary origin of mammals. Various living and extinct species
were set out, one after the other according to size, totally
ignoring the gross anatomical differences between them, and were
presented as different stages in the evolution of the horse.
This series, exhibited in natural history museums for many years,
was described in textbooks as if it were a solid proof of evolution.
Today, however, a great many evolutionists admit the invalidity
of the equine evolution scenario and confess that it is an example
of wishful thinking totally based on sleight-of-hand.
November, 1980, the evolutionist Boyce Rensberger addressed a four-day
symposium attended by 150 evolutionists at the Field Museum of
Natural History in Chicago, which considered problems facing the
theory of evolution. He described how the equine evolution scenario
had no basis in the fossil record and how the horse never underwent
a process of gradual evolution:
The popularly told example of horse evolution,
suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized
creatures living nearly 50 million years ago to today's much
larger one-toed horse, has long been known to be wrong. Instead
of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate species appear
fully distinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional
forms are unknown.26
The popularly told example of horse evolution,
suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized
creatures living nearly 50 million years ago to today's much
larger one-toed horse, has long been known to be wrong. Instead
of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate species appear
fully distinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional
forms are unknown.26
Rensberger was quite right; no evidence exists
that any such process as equine evolution ever took place. The
equine "series" is
totally speculative and is not based on the facts. Moreover, there
are considerable anatomical and physical differences among these
animals. What Rensberger ignores, however, is that not all the
species in the series are extinct. The okapi, encountered in 1901,
showed that a creature that evolutionists depicted as an intermediate
form was in fact still alive today. This animal, which has no relation
to the horse and which bears a far closer resemblance to the zebra,
was living in the Miocene epoch (23-5.3 million years ago), displaying
the same complex features it possesses today.
The living fossil of the okapi again demolished one of the main
claims of the theory of evolution. The equine series scenario,
full of inconsistencies in all possible regards to begin with,
was finally eradicated, and another evolutionary disgrace was quietly
placed on the shelf.
Dr. Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History
said the following about this equine family-tree, which was still
lingering in the museum basement:
There have been an awful lot of stories, some
more imaginative than others, about what the nature of that history
[of life] really is. The most famous example, still on exhibit
downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps
fifty years ago. That has been presented as the literal truth
in textbook after textbook. Now I think that is lamentable, particularly
when the people who propose those kinds of stories may themselves
be aware of the speculative nature of some of that stuff.27
There have been an awful lot of stories, some
more imaginative than others, about what the nature of that history
[of life] really is. The most famous example, still on exhibit
downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps
fifty years ago. That has been presented as the literal truth
in textbook after textbook. Now I think that is lamentable, particularly
when the people who propose those kinds of stories may themselves
be aware of the speculative nature of some of that stuff.27
Other Living Fossils
Newspapers frequently attract attention with
such headlines as "20-Milion-Year-Old
Spider Fossil Discovered" or "35-Million-Year-Old Lizard
Fossil Unearthed." Each of these reports is actually further
proof that nothing like the evolutionary process ever happened.
There are many examples of living fossils and in addition, these
examples go back hundreds of millions of years.
The crocodile
is a reptile that was living 200 million years ago, as is confirmed
by the fossil record.28 Yet it is of course
alive today. Ginkgo trees were living 125 million years ago, but
living specimens were found in China in our own time. Neopilina
molluscs were living 500 million years ago, the tuatara lizard
200 million years ago, and archaeobacteria as long ago as 3.5 billion
years ago.29 These are still alive today,
with all their complex systems and perfect structures. The nautilus,
another mollusc, was living in the seas 300 million years ago,30 and
these creatures are living, feeding and reproducing in exactly
the same form in today's seas.
The Australian and African lungfish is another
example of a living fossil that was alive 400 million years ago
and still thrives in the present. Charles Darwin was astonished
by the survival of these fish down to the present day, and in his Origin
of Species, he therefore referred to them as "anomalous
forms" that "may almost be called living fossils."31
This is by no means the end
of the list of creatures that still survive today unchanged, in
exactly the same form as they displayed millions of years ago.
The sturgeon, mackerel, freshwater bass, herring, needlefish, lobster,
crawfish and the Devonian-period shark are all examples of living
fossils. Other examples include the jellyfish, sponges, frogs,
bees, ants, butterflies and termites. The 230-million-year-old
dragonfly, soldier ants dating back 100 million years, and the
150-million-year-old salamander are all still living today. The
same applies to arachnids such as the spider and myriapods such
as the millipede.32, 33
Finally, a spider fossilized
in amber, and estimated as being 20 million years old, was one
of the most important discoveries of the 2000s. A statement from
Manchester University announced that this spider, 4 centimeters
long and 2 centimeters wide, was identical to present-day specimens.
It is hoped that a blood specimen from the spider can extract the
arachnid's DNA.34 However, this fossil spider
is certainly not the only specimen found. Other fossil spiders
unearthed in excavations have been estimated to be hundreds of
millions of years old, and are now on exhibit in museums in various
countries of the world. The oldest known and most perfect sea spider
fossil dates back 425 million years—important evidence that
these creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years.35
The Earth contains countless other fossil specimens from millions
of years ago of organisms still living today, such as this spider,
and of other creatures now extinct. The fossils illustrated in
this book are just a few of the millions of specimens kept in various
18. Keith S. Thomson, Living
Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth, 1991, book cover
19. "Evolution:Living Fossils," http://www.straight-talk.net/evolution/living.htm
20. Jean-Jacques Hublin, The Hamlyn Encyclopædia of Prehistoric Animals,
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2012 NAIA Men?s Soccer Players of the Week - No. 8
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Gaetan Massiah of Mobile (Ala.) has been named the NAIA National Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week and Patrick Kinsella of Ashford (Iowa) has been tabbed National Men's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Massiah and Kinsella were selected based on their performances from Oct. 15 - 21 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Massiah, a 5-foot-9 freshman midfielder from Bordeaux, France, recorded his second hat trick of the season to lead No. 18 Mobile to an upset victory over then-No. 6 Belhaven (Miss.). Massiah scored his first goal at the 54:48 mark of the second half to tie the game at one. Seven minutes later, Massiah gave the Rams its first lead of the game with his second goal of the game. Massiah was not done as he added his third and final goal nine minutes later.
Massiah is second on the team and 46th in the nation with 11 goals.
Kinsella, a 6-foot-3 junior goalkeeper from Surrey, England, added two more victories to his record in goal last week. In 180 minutes of action, Kinsella tallied 11 saves in two matches. In a 1-0 shutout victory at then-No. 19 Hastings (Neb.) on Oct. 16, Kinsella stopped seven shots. On Oct. 20, he tallied four saves against Jamestown (N.D.) in a 2-1 victory.
On the year, Kinsella stands at 10-2-2 and ranks third in the NAIA in goals against average (0.690).
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here.
Offensive Nominees: Michael Da Silva, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Marian Saar, Tabor (Kan.); Kevin Cornwall, Vanguard (Calif.); Cesar Silva, Huston-Tillotson (Texas); Jeff Roland, Evergreen (Wash.); Lucas Cordeiro, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Adam Wood, Midland (Neb.); Isaac Grotenhuis, Cornerstone (Mich.); Juan Maffey, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Jonathan Cabale, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Felipe Silva, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Lucas Almeida, Ashford (Iowa); Manuel Espinoza, Great Falls (Mont.); Jhonathan Rico, St. Thomas (Fla.); Steven Fiema, Grace (Ind.); Declan Price, Missouri Valley; Harry Mason, Cumberland (Tenn.); Josh Braun, Asbury (Ky.); Nahom Tekle, Milligan (Tenn.); Jose Luis Rodriguez, Talladega (Ala.); Adam Black, Oklahoma City; Gage Palmer, Embry-Riddle (Ariz.).
Defensive Nominees: Lorenzo Munoz, Wiley (Texas); Matt Mason, Oklahoma Wesleyan ; Edgar Toco-ayala, Kansas Wesleyan; Reece Richardson, Indiana Tech; Lewis Wilcox, Midland (Neb.); Brady Espinoza, Evergreen (Wash.); Shane Powell, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Jordan Hall, Lyon (Ark.); Conor Thomas, Grand View (Iowa); Juan Guzman, Great Falls (Mont.); Jack Marchant, Rio Grande (Ohio); Lyle Howe, St. Thomas (Fla.); Collin Cone, Grace (Ind.); Josh Wells, Missouri Valley; Dylan Fouts, Asbury (Ky.); Xavier Audergon, Mobile (Ala.); Dan Ball, Milligan (Tenn.); Nathan Inger, Rogers State (Okla.); Oliver Bell, Cardinal Stritch (Wis.); Alex Palomarez, Menlo (Calif.).
2012 Men's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1 (Sept. 4): Will Monsour, Belhaven (Miss.); Henry Moody, Texas at Brownsville
Week 2 (Sept. 11): Brad Lyons, Concordia (Mich.); Andi Hoffer, Thomas (Ga.)
Week 3 (Sept. 18): Will Monsour, Belhaven (Miss.); Milco Risteski, Robert Morris (Ill.)
Week 4 (Sept. 25): Joe Sbarro, Benedictine (Kan.); Luke Baxter, Bellevue (Neb.)
Week 5 (Oct. 2): Richard Isberner, Rio Grande (Ohio); Kyle Breckan, Cornerstone (Mich.)
Week 6 (Oct. 9): Naissim Ayadi, Mobile (Ala.); Dennis Kramer, Southern Poly (Ga.)
Week 7 (Oct. 16): Jordan Green, Hastings (Neb.); Vignir Johannesson, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Week 8 (Oct. 23): Gaetan Massiah, Mobile (Ala.); Patrick Kinsella, Ashford (Iowa)


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Top teams stay on track on first day of U23 World Champions
Myslowice, Poland, June 11, 2014 - The top teams at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships in Myslowice showed their strength on the first day of main draw in hot and sunny Slupna Park.
The only hiccup on Wednesday was the 2-0 loss of first seeded Polish team Jagoda Gruszczynska and Karolina Baran in the women's tournament.
Second seeded Nicole Laird and Mariafe Artacho from Australia, Austria's Lena Plesiutschnig and Katharina Schützenhöfer (3rd) and last year's bronze medallists Melissa Humana-Paredes and Taylor Pischke (4th) from Canada all booked two straight wins.
In the men's competition the 2013 champion and first seeded Bartosz Losiak and his new partner Michal Bryl did the same, as did the 2013 bronze medallists Lorenz Petutschnig and Tobias Winter (2nd seeded) from Austria, Brazil's U21 champions Allison Cittadin and Gustavo Carvalhaes (3rd) and Norway's Andreas Takvam and Runar Torsvik Sannarnes (4th).
Also interesting was the fact that two lucky losers remained without set loss in main draw: Latvia's Haralds/Armands in the men's and USA's Larsen/Metter in the women's competition.
Qualification dropouts Larsen and Metter come back strong as U23 lucky losers
Losing in qualification, being put on the reserve list, getting in as lucky losers at the last moment and winning two matches in main draw. USA's Kelley Larsen and Betsi Metter experienced it all within 24 hours at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships in Myslowice.
The Americans, at their first international event, had to wait until the last second to see if Nigeria would show. The African team was stuck in customs at the airport and for long it was not clear if they would get a visa. Read more
Puerto Rican debutants give Austrian medal contenders a bit of a scare
Puerto Ricans Kevin Joel
Rodriguez and Christian Encarnacion made an impressive international debut on
Wednesday at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships in Myslowice.
Turkish beach volleyball: the future is bright
Beach volleyball in Turkey
has some strong competition from volleyball, like in many countries. Young
players are attracted by the money, role models and superstars like Neslihan
Demir and Naz Aydemir.
The second edition of the FIVB U23 World Championships continues on Thursday with two more rounds of pool play. An amazing total of 72 matches will be played, starting at 8.00 on the six courts in Slupna Park.
The fifth and final pool round is scheduled for Friday, as is the first single elimination round. The top 4 of each of the 6 pools per gender advance to the knockout phase, the pool winners and the two best runners-up earn a bye in the first round. The semifinals and medal matches for both genders are played on Sunday.
The U23 World Championships
are the first of four FIVB age-group events this year. Next stop will be the
U17 in Mexico (July 15-20), followed by the U21 in Cyprus (22-27) and the U19
in Porto (July 29-August 3). In August China stages the Youth Olympic Games,
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The NLL started more than a decade ago and is still running to this day. The league initially used NBA Live by EA Sports before switching to Total Pro Basketball. Since then the game has transitioned to [DDS:PB1]and most recently [DDS:PB2]. On each occasion the rosters were transferred over so the league has been going for numerous seasons without restarting.
The league is now in its 19th season, and the year 2022. While we are in the year 2022, the rookies have always been innovatively created by our expert rookie developer team, which composed by a special group of guys who does a lot of analysis and research to provide the most exciting and close representation of real life Rookie prospects. Each prospect is a real life player but not necessarily matching the talents or intangibles of his real life counterpart. For example, the last five #1 picks in our drafts are as follows:
2022 - Dante Exum
2021 - Jabari Parker
2020 - Victor Oladipo
2019 - Marquis Teague
2018 - Maalik Wayns
The 2022 draft class is set to include the likes of Elfrid Payton, Dante Exum and Marcus Smart among others, it was dubbed to be the biggest and most talent loaded draft class that hinted a number of potential franchise players. This Draft class has a nickname of Mega22, Mega because of the loaded talent class and 22 for the year 2022.
Up until this season we have been running the same Rookie Draft and Scouting system. That allows teams to scout and schedule workouts and in return Teams will receive information (ratings) of there chosen prospect. This is one of the best part of the league it gives you an exciting way of scouting and unpredictability on the talent you can potentially have in the Draft.
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Chapter One
BRODY turned the glass over in his hand and held it up to the light, checking for smudges before rubbing them away with the clean bar towel. He smiled as he glanced around the empty bar—his bar. Brody had practically grown up on the stool behind the bar. Tyler's had been his grandfather's place and his great-grandfather's before that, and where he'd spent most of his summers. When he was a little boy, his pappy had let him put the peanuts into the little dishes for the tables. Then, as the years passed, he was given a cloth and allowed to clean the tables, then the bar and, finally, he graduated to a summer job mixing cocktails and opening beer bottles. "Money ain't worth nothing if you ain't worked for it, Brody. You remember that," Pappy said time and time again in his harsh, Texan bark. "Just because you come from money, son, doesn't mean you don't have to earn your own."
Brody knew he was fortunate to have grown up in one of the wealthiest families in San Antonio, but Pappy's words had struck a chord with him, and he'd never coasted through life on his parents' shirttails. He'd decided against taking the easy route and stepping into a tailor-made role at the successful Tyler home-improvement chain, instead working his way through college and grad school to pursue his love of architecture.
He'd only been out of grad school for three weeks, the ink on his degree barely dry, when his grandfather had been diagnosed with cancer. Spending hours by Pappy's bedside, they'd shared memories, Brody had read To Kill a Mockingbird to him, and more often than not, they just sat in silence, each garnering the comfort they needed from the other's presence. During one of those long days, Pappy had told Brody he was leaving the bar to him, but that he wanted him to sell the place and use the money to set up his own firm.
Ten days later he held Pappy's hand as he took his final breath, and after they'd buried him beside Grams, Brody had left the wake at his parents' house. He'd had no idea where he was going—maybe his subconscious had been guiding him, maybe it was Pappy himself, he didn't know—but he found himself standing outside Tyler's, the key in his numb fingers.
Inside, gazing around the empty room, inhaling the familiar smells and assaulted by a myriad of memories, Brody knew he could never part with it. He'd taken off his black suit jacket, picked up a bar towel and a glass… and he was still doing the same thing six years later. Not many twenty-seven-year-olds had their own successful business, and he knew how lucky he was. He'd already had a large clientele of regulars, and after some modernization, word of mouth had made it one of the most popular bars in town. It might not have been the life he'd envisaged, but he wouldn't have had it any other way.
Stacking glasses on the shelf behind him, he glanced up at the mirror when he heard the bell indicating the arrival of a customer. Unable to contain the breath that escaped his lips or the sudden speeding up of his heartbeat, his gaze tracked the man's path to the bar.
The stranger looked to be about the same age as him, and probably around six feet tall. But it wasn't his height and age that had Brody's cock twitching in his pants. The guy was basically the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, man or woman. Putting the last glass on the shelf, Brody picked up the towel and began to rub down the sleek wood of the bar top. He failed dismally in his effort not to stare as the man settled himself on a stool, and cursed inwardly at the press of his wayward dick against the denim of his jeans when the man ran a shaking hand through short, light-brown hair, causing his tight T-shirt to cling to the muscles of his lean chest.
For God's sake, snap out of it, Brody! He threw the towel over his shoulder and pushed his chocolate-colored bangs out of his eyes. Could you be any more obvious? Stop drooling over the poor guy and go serve him. Brody squared his shoulders, grabbed a beer mat, and walked toward the end of the bar, hoping desperately that the butterflies flapping up a storm in his stomach weren't about to fly out of his mouth.
"Hey," he said brightly, slapping the beer mat down on the bar in front of Tall and Gorgeous. "What can I get you?"
Brody's stomach hit his shoes when the stranger lifted his gaze and he looked into the prettiest green eyes. No, not green, too ordinary. They were the deep sea-green of a stormy ocean, splattered with gold flecks and rimmed with long dark lashes, and he would have been more than happy to spend the rest of his life gazing into them. Yeah, thank you, Oprah—just get him a drink!
Green-eyes scanned the array of alcohol on the shelves behind Brody and shrugged. "I'm not sure."
Brody's brow furrowed at the weight of those words, as if it had taken an incredible effort to voice them. When the man glanced at the rows of beer and then back at him, Brody was sure his heart actually skipped a beat at the innate sadness in his eyes. "Hey." He reached out without thinking and placed his hand over Green-eyes' hand where it lay on the bar. "Are you okay?" His breath caught in his throat at the well of tears in the gaze that flitted to his and then away.
"I don't know," he mumbled.
Brody glanced at the clock on the wall and made an executive decision. You're the boss, dumbass, every decision you make is executive. Ignoring his inner voice, he tossed the bar towel into the basket beneath the bar, grabbed two bottles of beer from the shelf, put one down in front of the stranger, and smiled reassuringly.
"Here you go," he said softly. "You look like you need someone to talk to. And who better than your friendly bartender? I'm a good listener, honest. You have to be or they won't let you into bartending school." He felt something warm unfurl in his gut when the man's lips twitched. "Listen, I've got a couple of hours before this place starts filling up, so what do you say I turn over the closed sign and we chew the fat for a while?" He held up his right hand as if to swear an oath. "I promise I'm not an axe murderer, and they assure me the insanity has skipped a generation."
Brody waited as Green-eyes seemed to weigh up the suggestion for a few moments and then nodded. Brody's smile grew wider and he strode across the room to turn the sign on the door, flick up the lock, and pull down the blind. He noted the way Green-eyes nervously studied the label on the bottle of beer, and frowned in concern when the man started as Brody sat on the stool next to him.
Picking up the second beer, he took a long draw before turning on the stool to face the other man. "Hi, I'm Brody, Brody Tyler, the owner." He held out his hand and his gaze snapped up when long fingers folded around his and he felt a sharp shock of static pass between them. Judging by the man's intake of breath, he'd felt it too. Clearing his throat, Brody tried not to drop the hand he held as though it were a hot potato and raised an eyebrow in question. "And you are?"
"I don't remember."
"Excuse me?"
"I said I don't remember," Green-eyes replied in a tired voice. "I have no idea who I am."
HALF an hour later Brody sat opposite him in one of the booths against the wall, both of them drinking their second beer. Brody had listened, his gaze widening more and more, while the other man gave him the condensed version of his last three months. Told him how he'd been found in an alley with a knife in his side and a fractured skull. His face so badly beaten that it had taken a couple of months for the swelling to go down and the bruising to fade, and for him to even resemble a human being.
Brody sipped on his beer as the soft Texas drawl explained how he'd woken up in the hospital after surgery, scared and alone, with no idea who he was. There'd been no wallet or driver's license in the suit jacket he'd been wearing, so the police assumed he was a victim of a brutal mugging—the wrong place at the wrong time. They were unable to find anyone fitting his description on their database, and had put his picture on the local news station, but no one came forward to claim him.
"I woke up in that hospital and I'd never been so terrified in my entire life," he said on a smile. "Or at least I don't think I had—how would I know? Maybe I wake up in the hospital all the time." His lips lifted in a wry smile. "Sorry, thinking about this can kind of make you go a little crazy."
"I can't even begin to imagine how terrible this must have been for you," Brody said, shaking his head in disbelief. "You don't remember a single thing? You've not had any flashes, you know…." He shrugged, aware he was babbling but unable to stop himself. "Feelings of déjà vu?"
"Well there are two things I know for certain," he replied. "I don't like Jell-O, in any flavor, but I do like beer." He smiled and took another sip from his bottle.
Brody laughed boisterously and chinked their bottles together before downing the remainder in his own. "What about a name?" Brody voiced one of the many thoughts racing around his brain. "Surely they had to call you something for the last three months?"
Green-eyes shrugged. "They called me Paul—one of the nurses who took care of me, Anna, came up with it—but I don't like it. It doesn't feel right, you know what I mean?"
"How come they let you out if you still can't remember who you are? Did they say if you'd ever remember anything?" There was something about the man in front of him that made Brody want to wrap him up and keep him safe. He couldn't explain it. Never had he felt such an instant connection with a guy. Sighing, he mentally shook his head. Jesus, Brody, you don't even know if he's gay. Hell, he probably doesn't even know if he's gay. He watched from beneath lowered lashes as the other man drank the rest of his beer before answering, and heat uncurled in his lower belly as those beautiful, full lips closed around the lip of the bottle.
Shit. I am so screwed.
Noting the suddenly nervous way his gaze flitted from Brody's face to where his fingers were picking at the label on the now-empty bottle, Brody reached out and placed a hand over the scratching fingers, stilling their movement. "What? What happened?"
"They had no reason to keep me. I mean, I'm healed, just not up here." He tapped his forehead and his lip curled up derisively. "They have no idea if I'll ever get my memory back. They said I might wake up one morning and remember everything, or it could be gone forever. But two days ago—" he paused and looked around as if he were making sure they were still alone, "—I was in the john down the hall from my room, when I heard the doctor and two nurses talking about me. They said they couldn't give me the prolonged care I needed and they should refer me to a 'specialist' rehabilitation center," he said, using finger quotes.
"A specialist rehabilitation center?" Brody asked, suddenly realizing that he still held the man's fingers in his own. He withdrew his hand as casually as he could and leaned back against the cushion.
"That set off alarm bells in my head. They were going to send me to some nut house and I… I couldn't let them." His tear-filled gaze locked with Brody's. "I'm not crazy. I just forgot a few things, like my name, where I'm from, and anything to do with, oh, I don't know, forever. But I'm not crazy, so…." He dropped his gaze again.
"So?" Brody prompted.
"I stole the guy in the next room's clothes and some money out of his wallet," Green-eyes said on a rush of breath. "I wrote down his name and address, and I'm going to pay him back, honest. Then I snuck out. That was the day before yesterday."
"Jesus." Brody drew out the word, feeling that the moment warranted it. "Wait." He frowned as his brain caught up. "The day before yesterday? Where did you sleep last night?"
Green-eyes blushed and muttered, "In an alley. I didn't have a choice." He groaned at the incredulous look on Brody's face. "I didn't have enough money for a motel. I washed up in the bus station bathroom this morning. What's so funny?"
"I was just thinking. You're not a very good thief. Couldn't you have stolen a wallet with a credit card in it?" Brody chuckled softly as Green-eyes's lips twitched in response to the tease.
"He only had fifteen dollars, so I left him five. I think it's safe to say that whoever I was, it wasn't a criminal mastermind." Green-eyes smiled and put his hands flat on the table as if to push himself to standing. "Well, thanks for the beer, Brody, and the shoulder. But I think I've taken up enough of your time. I guess I should be going."
"Where?" Brody asked, his eyebrows rising so high they disappeared beneath his bangs. "To another alley? Or a shelter where they'll take what's left of your ten dollars?"
"What else am I supposed to do?"
Brody checked the clock; he was going to have to unlock the door soon. Willow and Kristie, his cocktail waitresses, would be arriving any minute. Thoughts bounced around his head like a pinball as he stared at the man opposite him. He had no idea what the hell he was doing, but one thing kept flashing in his head like a neon sign: Don't let him leave! The thought of this lonely, scared man going out alone into a world he no longer knew had anxiety sending a shot of acid up Brody's gullet. He wanted to help him—no, needed to help him. In his mind's eye, Brody suddenly saw him huddled against a wall, desperately trying to fight off degenerates who were trying to steal his clothes, or worse—his virtue. His virtue, Tyler? He didn't have time to reply to his subconscious as he reached out and grabbed the other man's arm, pulling to make him sit back down.
"Wait! This is totally crazy, but…." Brody took a deep breath. "I'm guessing you need a job, and a place to stay, right?" He waited for Green-eyes' nod before continuing. "Well, I need another bartender. I had to kick our last one to the curb a few weeks ago and I'm struggling up there by myself. You won't get rich, but your meals are included, and—" he swallowed hard, knowing he was going to get an earful from Wyatt for what he was going to say next, "—I live above the bar and I have a spare room. It's yours if you want it."
Green-eyes stared at him in disbelief. "Brody, you don't know me. Good God, I don't even know me. How do you know I'm not an axe murderer? I can't, it's too much—"
Keeping his voice soft and low, Brody gazed into the other man's eyes. "I know it sounds nuts, and you're right. I don't know you and you don't know me. But I tend to go with my gut, and I think you're a good guy who's had an awful thing happen to him. Besides." He tilted his head and unleashed his dimples. "My Momma would kill me if I didn't help you out."
Brody watched a whole gamut of emotions cross Green-eyes' face as he deliberated the offer. He understood his apprehension, how could he not? The guy had no idea who he was, where he belonged, whether there was anybody missing him. Then a complete stranger offers him a job and a place to stay as if it's no big deal. Everything for this man was a big deal right now, he surmised. Everything must be so confusing in a world he suddenly didn't belong in. Jesus, he was wondering what in the hell he was doing himself; he could only wonder at what must be going through the other man's head. Keeping his face as impassive as he could, Brody sat back and let the other man think it through in silence.
"Okay," he eventually said, his lips curving into a smile. "We must both be nuts, but okay, yes."
"Great." Brody smiled, fighting the urge to fist-pump the air and do the Snoopy dance on one of the tabletops. "But before we do anything else, we have to find you a name you actually like." When Green-eyes raised his eyebrows in answer, for the first time Brody noticed the smattering of freckles across his nose that were, quite frankly, fucking adorable. Pushing himself out of the booth, he strode across the room and grabbed the newspaper out of the rack on the wall. "Here, find yourself a new name," he said, tossing it to him with a grin. His grin widened as the other man opened the newspaper, and he walked across the room to pull up the blind, turn back the sign, and unlock the door.
"That's it! That's the one!"
Brody tried to catch the glass he was holding as it slipped from his fingers at Green-eyes' shout. Stepping back to avoid the shards of glass flying across the floor, he looked up as the other man waved the newspaper at him as he crossed the room. "I take it you've found one," he said on a chuckle, grabbing the dustpan.
"Oh, shit, sorry."
"It's a bar, glasses get broken all the time, don't worry about it," Brody reassured, quickly sweeping up the glass and throwing it in the trash can. He looked into eyes that, for the first time, glowed with something other than fear and despair—excitement and hope. As he had done when Green-eyes had walked into the bar, Brody grinned. "Hi, I'm Brody."
Strong fingers clasped Brody's tightly and pumped his hand up and down, a huge smile lighting up the beautiful face. "Hi, Brody. Good to meet you, I'm Nash."


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May 5, 2009
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Both of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's tennis teams will head north for their NCAA Tournament debuts.
The men's tennis team will head for seventh-ranked Williams, where they will face Neumann Friday at 2:00 p.m. as one member of a five-team field. The Knights are 17-3 and were champions of the Colonial States Athletic Conference. The winner of their match will face the host Ephs Saturday, while the championship match is scheduled for Sunday.
The UMD women will visit sixth-ranked Amherst, where they will face 18th-ranked Bowdoin Friday at 2:00 p.m. while participating in a six-team field. The Polar Bears were 8-8 and earned an at-large berth in the NCAAs after losing to Tufts, 5-0, in the first round of the New England Small College Athletic Conference Tournament. The winner of their match will play 19th-rated Tufts Saturday, while the title match is slated for Sunday. The winner of each regional tournament will advance to the NCAA Championships, scheduled for May 19-21, with the men at Claremont-McKenna-Scripps College in Southern California, and the women at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.


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If you do any publishing with Docbook you should take a look at the Ant and Docbook Styler Suite. I recently stumbled across that and have so far been very impressed. Installation is as simple as executing a target in the build file provided with the distribution and using the library is as simple as adding a task in your Ant build file to execute a target in their build file. You have to provide a handful of property values so their task knows where to find your docbook source, what to generate, etc. but it really is a snap to use. Their 3 or 4 page instructions (included in the distribution of course) are very clear and got me up and running within 10 minutes or so.
I have looked at other Ant + Docbook solutions and they are all a wirey mess of dependencies and you have to download Docbook stylesheets separately and plugging in FO support is another twisted mess, and on and on. The Styler Suite was much much simpler and seems to do a very nice job.
If you are a docbook author but not a Java developer, this may turn out being more headache than it is worth but if you already have Ant and Java installed, using this is a cinch.
Thanks to Dawid Weiss for the slick tool!
Ant Docbook Styler Suite Thursday, December 30, 2004
If you do any publishing with Docbook you should take a look at the Ant and Docbook Styler Suite. I recently stumbled across that and have so far been very impressed. Installation is as simple as executing a target in the build file provided with the distribution and using the library is as simple as adding a task in your Ant build file to execute a target in their build file. You have to provide a handful of property values so their task knows where to find your docbook source, what to generate, etc. but it really is a snap to use. Their 3 or 4 page instructions (included in the distribution of course) are very clear and got me up and running within 10 minutes or so.
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Code Cracker Lives On
I bought my first Palm Pilot back when the Palm IV series first came out. I think it was 1998. Soon after I bought the device I was interested in writing software to run on the thing. I picked up a copy of OReilly's Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide, and I was on the ground running. I remember spending a weekend just playing around with the API and I built a very simple little game that played like the old MasterMind game that most of us played as a kid. It wasn't that I wanted to write a MasterMind game, that was just something simple that I could use to help learn the PalmOS API. I expected to just throw the thing away when I was done but I found myself enjoying playing the game when I had a minute or 2 to kill (like standing around in front of the microwave at work waiting for my lunch to cook) so I held on to it. I gave the application a proper name, CodeCracker, created a very simple web page that explained a little about the game and I put it on my personal web site and made the game available for download. I remember being surprised at how many people found the page and even more surprised at how many people bothered to take time to send a thank you note to me. A couple of years later I was cleaning up a hard drive and stumbled across the source code. I decided to put the source code on SourceForge for safe keeping and it has been there ever since.
Just today I received an email from a guy in Italy saying thanks for the game and offering some suggestions for how to improve the game.
I spent a weekend 6 or 7 years ago playing around with writing something for the PalmOS and a very simple game evolved. It is sort of interesting how these little things linger on.
CodeCracker Lives On! ;)
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Hostility Directed At Prevayler Monday, December 27, 2004
Prevayler seems to be getting a lot of blog attention all of a sudden. I don't know what kicked off the spike in attention, but something seems to have done just that.
Prevayler is yet another framework for POJO persistence. What makes Prevayler unique is the fact that it takes an approach that your entire data model is in memory all of the time. Because it is always reading from RAM, performance benefits are touted as high as 9000 times faster than Oracle and 3000 times faster than MySQL (I won't go into all of the details behind those numbers, see their site for more details). One of the costs of this approach is directly related to RAM limitations. If everything is loaded into RAM all of the time then the amount of RAM is an obvious potential road block.
Some of the blogging rants I have seen go to great lengths to elaborate on the flaws of this approach. This guy rants with some hostility for several pages about Prevayler's shortcomings while this guy seems to take a more calm pragmattic look. Some of the attacks I have read are really pointed at the idea that Prevayler is a ridiculous idea that could never replace our relational databases. I don't think Prevayler is proposing that they are really a threat to Oracle or any other DB vendor. I think they are proposing a solution that makes sense for some systems but not all. I don't know if they are right or not, but I think that is what they are proposing.
I am not a Prevayler proponent and I am not taking a position to defend Prevayler. I have played around with their tool a little and it is interesting but I am really not a Prevayler evangalist. What I find interesting about the attacks on Prevayler is that a lot of them seem to be very passionate and fired up. If Prevayler was really a totally insane ridiculous idea I don't think anyone would even pay attention. Maybe this is just another manifestation of the idea of how emotionally connected Enterprises (that means people) get to their databases and even the idea that it might not be right is enough to launch the missiles.
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Naughty Or Nice? Saturday, December 25, 2004
Apparently, this guy sold his kids' Christmas presents on eBay because the kids were naughty. My wife and I sometimes joke about selling our boys on eBay when they misbehave (that is right, the boys... not their toys.). I never considered selling their stuff. ;)
As I type this post I am looking out over a sea of toys and schtuff all wrapped up and spread around our family room. In about 6 hours from now I expect a certain 7 year old boy to be jumping up and down on my bed yelling something about Santa Clause having been in our house. I better get to bed.
Happy Holidays To All!
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JDO 2.0 Sunday, December 19, 2004
The Public Draft of JSR-243 is available for download at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=243. This JSR is defining the JDO 2.0 spec.
There is a lot of new and cool stuff being proposed for 2.0. One item in particular that I am interested in is the whole detachment idea. The idea is that we would be able to detach a persistent object from the data store, modify the object and then later re-attach that object and commit the changes. The changes could be commited by a different PersistenceManager and could even be committed in an entirely different VM.
Another nicety proposed for 2.0 is the formalization of O/R metadata for defining indexes, foreign keys and constraints. Some JDO implementations already support this sort of thing via vendor extensions in the meta data. ObjectDB uses this approach. Other implementations suggest that you let their tool create the tables and columns and then you go in after the fact and define your indexes, constraints etc. in the database yourself. TJDO takes this approach. It will be nice to have this formalized in the metadata for portability.
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J2SE 6.0 Snapshots Available Thursday, December 16, 2004
I just noticed that it looks like J2SE 6.0 snapshot releases are being made available at https://j2se.dev.java.net/. Have I finished upgrading to J2SE 5.0 yet??? ;)
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What Is Wrong With Our Web Apps? Friday, December 10, 2004
Last night Rob Smith gave a great presentation on Tapestry at the St. Louis Java SIG. I liked a lot of the things that I learned about Tapestry but as I listened and learned I was thinking about what sorts of problems does Tapestry really solve for me. Then I started thinking about how that relates to many other web app frameworks that are out there. Just off the top of my head without spending too much time thinking about it or Googling or anything like that, I came up with this list of tools that help us build web apps...
- Servlet
- Java Server Faces
- Velocity
- Tapestry
- Struts
- Spring
- Tiles
Several of those can be thought of as being direct competitors of each other.
These technologies all try to help improve our web apps by making it easy to do things like separate the presentation layer from the data. Some provide tools to help with state management. Some help with scalability. Those are all important things to address and sometimes are difficult to address. If the tools can help solve those problems that is a good thing of course.
Web apps are hard to build. Few would still entertain fantasies about some magic web tool that solves all of the Enterprise's problems, is easy for everyone in the Enterprise to use and doesn't call for much development time. We all know that can't happen. If we didn't know that in the beginning, we know it now.
I believe that a lot of things are well suited as web apps and for the purposes of this conversation I am using the term "web app" to mean an application that uses a web browser as its primary front end. However, I am wondering if a lot of us are spending a lot of time and effort (that sounds like money to me) building web apps that really shouldn't be web apps. At last year's No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium in St. Louis I remember a comment that Bob Lee made during one of the expert panels. Bob said something very close to "Can we all just agree to stop building browser based apps?".
I don't think that web apps are bad. I think a lot of things work very well as web apps. In addition, as a Software Engineer I find working with a lot of the web app frameworks to be a lot of fun. I am just wondering if we are collectively trying to push pegs into the wrong shaped holes too often.
More and more I am feeling like we really need a fundamentally different (and better) way to build distributed systems. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but somewhow I feel like we are solving a lot of the wrong problems and that in 6 months or 6 years or however long it takes us to come up with this next generation of ideas we are going to look back and wonder how we ever managed to operate our businesses any other way.
What do you think about any of that? Let me throw out some specific questions for thought.
What problems do you have in building web apps that are not solved very well by the existing frameworks?
What types of projects have you been involved with that were architected as web apps that should not have been and what made them poor candidates to be built as a web app?
What types of projects have you been involved in that were not architected as web apps that should have been and what made them so well suited to be web apps?
What do you think is next?
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Report: Israel extends cease-fire for 24 hours
GAZA CITY — Israel's Cabinet extended a humanitarian cease-fire for 24 hours but said it would respond to any attacks from Gaza, according to an Associated Press report.
The AP quoted a government official who wrote in a text message that the truce would be extended through midnight on Sunday, but that operations targeting Hamas military tunnels would continue. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters on the development.
Hamas had earlier rejected Israel's four-hour extension of a humanitarian cease-fire Saturday as the Palestinian death toll in the conflict rose to more than 1,000. A short time later, the group said it fired five rockets from Gaza, two pointed directly at Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, at least 130 bodies were recovered Saturday, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said, as Palestinians used the cease-fire to move medical supplies and tend to the dead and injured in the Gaza Strip.
As the initial lull in hostilities began at 8 a.m. Saturday, Gazans poured onto the streets to find food supplies, look for missing family members or return to homes they left for shelters. The nearly three weeks of fighting has left swaths of rubble, destroyed roads and damaged power infrastructure in residential neighborhoods across the strip.
More than 1,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed since the conflict began on July 8. Another 6,000 have been wounded. In Israel, 43 have died, including 40 soldiers, two civilians and a Thai worker.
Imad Nasrallah, 38, said he and others have made it a point not to forget the living.
"With my brothers and neighbors, we volunteer and go help others, in case their homes were targeted," Nasrallah said. "We transfer the wounded to hospitals or go carry the martyrs and bury them."
Saturday's temporary truce was the second and the longest since the conflict began on July 8. A humanitarian cease-fire on July 17 was quickly overlooked as rocket fire resumed as soon as the set five hours expired.
In Paris on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with European foreign ministers to find ways to build off Saturday's lull.
On Friday, Israel rejected a U.S.-backed proposal for a weeklong truce because it would require its forces to interrupt its operation to destroy Hamas tunnels. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told troops Friday that Israel may significantly widen the Gaza ground operation.
A truce proposed by Egypt last week was rejected by Hamas because the group said it wasn't consulted. Hamas says any peace deal must include the lifting of a blockade against Gaza.
In the northern town of Beit Hanoun, residents — many of whom had fled days earlier — encountered widespread destruction Saturday.
"Nothing is left. Everything I have is gone," said Siham Kafarneh, 37, weeping as she talked about the destroyed home she had spent 10 years saving up for and moved into just two months ago.
The continued hostilities have meant nowhere is safe for Nasrallah and his family as shelters no longer offer the promise of security, he said.
"It's not safe to go out but there is no guarantee our homes are safe," said Nasrallah. "Many houses were hit by Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes while people were inside."
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2015-06-24 - Steph Douglas is the founder of Don't Buy Her Flowers – an online gift service that delivers what new mothers really want (think tea, truffles, magazines and dry shampoo) instead of blooms. As a mother of two kids, she is always balancing work, motherhood and me time.
"When we had our first baby, I received eight bunches of flowers. I didn't have the vases or the energy to do anything with them and while they were lovely gestures, it just seemed such a waste. Those first months of motherhood are tough – so I started putting little packages of magazines, chocolate (and gin) together for new mum friends and they generally came back with 'this is the first gift I've had for me'. That's where Don't Buy Her Flowers started.
When it comes to life-work balance, it's really important to recognise you can't do everything you did before and run a business on top. Having support is also key: at around the same time I started the business, I got involved with Mother's Meeting. They have a Business Club as well as events such as 'Netwalking' where you come together with other truly inspiring mums – every time I leave feeling like I can take on the world.
Whether running my business or with the kids, I need a bag that unites those two worlds. The Storksak x Bugaboo bag looks great – often changing bags are so 'twee'. I've never worn something twee in my life, but suddenly I'm supposed to because I'm a mother? It's also great quality and designed to last. From business club to playground, it's about keeping a sense of who you are, without compromising on the practical side. More than anything, mothering definitely isn't the end, it's just the beginning.
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Georgie-Ann Getton-McKoy is the founder of CITE Collective, a company that develops initiatives to enable the growth of Black and diverse entrepreneurs and techies. She is a Baruch College Alum, serial entrepreneur, community builder, speaker, author and a Diversity in Tech Evangelist. She I enjoys learning as well as teaching new and creative ways to find solutions to real-world problems. Connect with Georgie-Ann on social @georgiebhumble
Malcolm Paul is a product manager and full stack developer. He works with startups to help clarify their products/ideas and create plans to bring them to market quicker while saving time and money. Currently he runs a six-week course to teach entrepreneurs these critical skills. Being from the Caribbean, Malcolm enjoys hard work, fun and is working on his personal skills.
Both Georgie-Ann (Jamaica) and Malcolm (Dominica) are Caribbean Americans in Tech and in this episode we discuss:
The importance and benefits of community Being a Caribbean in Tech.
Challenges being Caribbean in Tech.
Building and maintaining connections
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How NFL.com analysts are projecting the first-round picks for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2013 NFL Draft:
Matt "Money" Smith
No. 17: Keenan Allen, WR, CaliforniaThe Steelers need an upgrade at wide receiver and are fortunate it's a deep receiver class. I'm not giving up my Pac-12 bias on this one. You can't convince me there's a better receiver in the draft than Allen. He will be the steal of the draft.
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Charles Davis
No. 17: Jarvis Jones, OLB, GeorgiaMedical and speed concerns are present, but his tape says he plays fast. A wide receiver will merit serious consideration here, too.
» Full mock draft
Daniel Jeremiah
No. 17: Jarvis Jones, OLB, GeorgiaThe best way to sum up Jones: excellent in pads, horrible in shorts. His stock took a bit of a hit following his pro day, but I don't see him falling too far, thanks to his proven ability to get after the passer.
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Bucky Brooks
No. 17: Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, TennesseeThe Steelers' offense needs more juice after losing Mike Wallace in free agency. Patterson is an exceptional playmaker with the ball in his hands; with his talents, he could thrive in offensive coordinator Todd Haley's quick-rhythm passing game.
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Akbar Gbajabiamila
No. 17: Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida StateRhodes plays the game like a throwback physical corner in press coverage. The Steelers like that style of play.
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Gil Brandt
No. 17: Jarvis Jones, OLB, GeorgiaI'm not sure he'll be able to play in space; he'll probably have to play with his hand on the ground. When he's going forward, he looks pretty special, but is he big enough to succeed in the NFL? He posted a pair of slow 40 times (4.92 seconds) at Georgia's Pro Day; does that lack of speed mean the difference between getting a sack and the quarterback getting the ball off? I like some things about him, but overall, I'm not nearly as enthusiastic as many other observers. Star Lotulelei also could go here if his health checks out.
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Charley Casserly
No. 17: Tavon Austin, WR, West VirginiaThe deep threat to replace Mike Wallace.
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Josh Norris
No. 17: Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, TennesseeA surprise, yes, but unless the Steelers opt to address a need at linebacker, they can roll the dice on an explosive playmaker.
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Whoopi Goldberg Goes Down the Rabbit Hole
Oct 23, 2013 9:33 PM EDT
Whoopi Goldberg will lend her voice to Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, TVLine.com reports. The View co-host will voice the wife of the White Rabbit (John Lithgow) in an upcoming episode that flashes back to the Rabbit's past. Once Upon a Time in Wond… Read more


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ChessCube Team Tournament 3 - 2013 | Info
Welcome to the ChessCube Team Tournament 2!
CCTT-2 will see ChessCube teams battle out in the ChessCube Team Tournament this October- where one team will have bragging rights for being the best team on ChessCube!
The first CCTT will run from October 1 2013 to October 27 2013. (Not confirmed yet - but it should be these dates)
Tournament info - link coming soon.
Tournament schedule - link coming soon.
Tournament Teams - link coming soon.
Tournament Groups - link coming soon.
1 - A team captain
2 - A team name
3 - Minimum 5 team members (4 players, 1 reserves), Max 7 (4 players, 3 reserves)
4 - No members that are cheats/abusers
5 - All members must be ChessCube VIP
6 - A FULL understanding of the rules & info as described in the "Tournament Info" link above.
You have 2 choices with a CCTT Team - you can either submit a team as a captain once you have found your players - or you can post your details in a separate post below if you want to be recruited for a team instead.
If you're a CCTT Team Captain:
Submit your team via this form.
Applications must be submitted before 24:00 GMT/Midnight on Monday, 9 September, 2013.
Team captains are VERY important for the CCTT. You will be responsible for finding players, making sure they're online and ready to play at the time of a match, making sure they understand the rules AND making sure they are not cheaters/engine users. Your entire team will be disqualified if one of the players cheats, so you should be willing to call players (normally or through Skype/ChessCube), find their REAL names and be comfortable that they are legitimate (e.g. don't put anyone on your team who you cannot find out information about). So, there is some work involved with being a team captain!
Please reply to this post with the following information:
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If you're not VIP - ask a team mate or team captain to sponsor you with a VIP account before the tournament starts. Alternatively - you can purchase a VIP account yourself
Note: Depending on the number of entries - we will decide if 16 or 32 teams will play in CCTT-2.
Winning team:
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MACON, Ga. - Lipscomb and Mercer will face off Saturday afternoon inside Lipscomb's Allen Arena in the Atlantic Sun Match of the Week. This will mark the second meeting this season between the two schools; the Lady Bisons dropped Mercer in four sets back on Oct. 10. Saturday's match can be viewed on ASun.TV.
With the season winding down, both teams are in a tight race for seeding in the upcoming conference tournament. As the Bears prepare to host the conference championship for the second consecutive season, and the Bisons aim to defend their 2007 conference crown. Lipscomb enters the weekend with inside track to the top-seed with a game lead over Belmont and a two-game lead over Mercer.
Mercer volleyball boasts multiple players who currently rank among the conference leaders in various statistics. Karen Dorris ranks sixth in kills per set (3.36), and senior libero Claire Tucker is second among Atlantic Sun players in digs per set (5.33). Freshman outside hitter Amiee Frutchey is sixth in digs per set (3.54). Sophomore middle hitter Krista Hurley checks in at eigth overall in hitting percentage (.298), while sophomore middle blocker Libby Hansch is hitting .281, ranking tenth among conference players.
A pair of sophomores lead the Lady Bisons in middle blocker Alex Kelly, who as of Nov. 12 has knocked down 446 kills for a conference-best average of 4.05 kills per set, and sophomore setter Stefine Pease, who was honored as a pre-season all-conference selection. As of Nov. 13, Pease has dished out 1,113 assists on the season for a conference-best 10.12 assists per set.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is an 11-member league committed to Building Winners for Life, with a focus on academic and athletic integrity and a balance between the two for the student-athlete, and maintaining a high level of sportsmanship. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun encompasses six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sun consists of some of the most dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, Campbell University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University.


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"Here Comes the Sun" is my favorite George Harrison Beatles song, probably because it reminds me vividly of the day he died. This new guitar solo is finally bringing the song back to life for me.
I can't believe George Martin and Harrison's son, Dhani, manage to keep from exploding into exultation upon discovering this little gem of guitar work in the master tracks of "Here Comes the Sun." The solo is buried in a muted channel on the masters and is completely different from anything that made it onto the final version, or onto any live recording I've ever heard. I'd describe it, but you should just give it a listen in the video above.
If there's anything unfortunate about the music recorded by departed musicians, it's that sometimes their most beautiful songs get tarnished by death. Especially when it comes to a sentimental song like "Here Comes the Sun." George Harrison died almost exactly 10 years ago. I remember that day because a bunch of my high school classmates played this song together upon hearing the news. It was etched forever in my brain. THAT would be what I remembered forever. The memory was freed today when I heard this guitar solo. "Here Comes the Sun" was always a perfect song, but it is somehow a little more perfect now. Maybe because it still changes more than 40 years after it was recorded. [Open Culture via Brainpicker]


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Thank you SO much Kandice!! An update is awesome!!
My favorite players are now gone.FranchescaRussellAnd now KristinaThe first three boots. Now Krista, don't continue the streak! Favorites left: Stephanie, Rob, Philip. The rest are dumbers.
Though your logic about ranking which is the better player of the four is problematic (), I agree with everything you said.
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Harbor East FRESHFARM Market
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- 9am - 1pm EDT Saturday, August 10 2019
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Harbor East FRESHFARM Market opens this weekend, Saturday, June 14th!!
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Harbor East FRESHFARM Market opens this weekend, Saturday, June 14th!!
Saturdays, 9 am to 1 pm, Harbor East, Baltimore, MD
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The Harbor East FRESHFARM Market will be on the waterfront in downtown Baltimore in the 1000 block of Lancaster Street.
OPENING DAY Chef Demo: Oceanaire Seafood Room; Demo starts at 11 am.
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Whole Foods at Market Kids' Activity: Maria Gruzynski, Marketing Coordinator Extraordinaire, will be reading the book "The Carrot Seed" and give kids carrots to snack on. You children also get to decorate clay pots and plant a carrot seed to take home and watch grow. 9:00am-1:00pm.