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32 wrote:TMC wrote:32 wrote:uptempo wrote:1. Mullin needs to be fired or reassigned to serving beers to people who sit in the lower bowl of the Oracle. This guy has no business running this franchise; he is overmatched and makes reactionary moves. No master plan; no strategic plan; no accountability. For him to have believed that the team should have been built around a fragile point guard, a Duke front court player, a power forward who does not like to play in the paint, and a center who should be flipping burgers at 'In and Out' should be enough reason to get rid of the stiff.
We have a Duke front court player...?
And I don't think our center's bad at all. Biedrins has been GREAT this year.
He's talking about the previous project. Last year's project, that is, with Dunleavy and Foyle as those players...
I got that. But I think it's incorrect to claim that Mullin built the team around Murphy, Dunleavy, and Foyle... when he's clearly been more focused on players like Richardson, Diogu, Davis, Ellis, and Biedrins.
That's right, Mullin was focussing on those listed players and I'm sure that if he had his way, he'd get rid of Foyle as well, as he has with dun and Murphy which was a positive move, just one that hasn't reaped much rewards so far.


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Have you heard about Ingress? Wondering what it's all about? Here's one blogger's inside information about this new augmented reality game from Google. Looks like it will have great appeal to geocachers. Personally I'd be a little concerned about having my movements tracked by Google.
A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Sunday, December 02, 2012
What Google's new game "Ingress" is really about
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Do you think that you have already played all of games available at SilverGames? Think again. You need to take a look at the brandnew games in the library.
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Showing you how to use water wisely through a variety of water saving programs, tips and incentives.
Providing San Francisco a drought-resistant and sustainable water source for non-potable uses.
A naturally occurring source of water found beneath the surface of the soil. One of our first sources of drinking water.
Utilizing rainwater, stormwater, foundation drainage, graywater, and blackwater to meet non-potable demands.
As water supplies become more vulnerable due to drought and the effects of climate change, it is critical that we diversify our water supplies to add more local sources into our water portfolio. See the Water Resources 2017-18 Annual Report and the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan.


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It is snowing outside and sometimes it rain so we do not have desire to go outside even though it is Friday night. But what can you do if your basement bar is freezing cold to spend time together with friends.. ? Easy solution is make a fire and warm it up before your guest arrived. It can work only one time if you think about every friday to spend some time in your basement you need to make extra effort that can be useable.
First measure your well, how wide and deep is the opening according to the picture and think about other situation like what are the surrounding.
- Is there children playing around?
- What kind of animals living aroung?
- Is there big trees near your house that old leaves are falling off?
- Is your well is covered enough from the floor to protect rain and snow fall?
- Do you need sunlight in the day?
- Does your basement has good air circulation system?
Many many factors to think about before installing it.
So be sure you think all about before you start it also think about the cost and type of the materials you will use that can keep long and easy to clean. Not that it look dirty every day and hard to clean like wood cover or iron.
I would prefer to think about using acrylglas from basement well cover to fit all these requirement. There are two type of acrylglas materials such as clear or frosted. Depend on where you are going to use both of the cover are recommendable for every home owner who want to spend friday night to celebrate party with friend in the basement.


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Each applicant must submit the application letter and one copy of each required item, assembled as follows:
Kendra Mitchell (fifth from the left), Florida State University, Tallahassee was named the 2011 recipient of the Barksdale Turner Scholarship in African American/Black Literature.
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Most embarrassing tweets of 2013
By 2013, public figures should be well aware that embarrassing tweets can't really be taken back — but that didn't stop politicians, media figures and others from stepping in it in very public ways this past year. Here's a look back at some of the most controversial, accidental, deleted and talked-about political tweets of 2013.
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Former MSNBC show host and actor Alec Baldwin has had his share of Twitter controversies over the years, and this June it happened once again when he took on a British journalist. In a string of later-deleted tweets, Baldwin threatened the Daily Mail's George Stark for writing about tweets his wife sent during the funeral of "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini. "My wife and I attend a funeral to pay our respects to an old friend, and some toxic Brit writes this f—-ing trash … If I put my foot up your f—-ing ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much … I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna f—- … you …up," some of the tweets read, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Baldwin later apologized and said his tweets were not meant to attack Stark's sexuality.
( PHOTOS: Best celeb tweets on politics in 2013)
You are not the father!
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) deleted several tweets this year, some poking fun at the media (including gushy tweets to Cyndi Lauper) and others to a woman he believed to be his daughter but whom he had not publicly acknowledged. But he continued to generate controversy with his tweets after he learned from DNA tests that the woman wasn't his daughter after all. "Told AfricanAmerican towdriver my week - father -DNA test not father reporter/attractive fallout. he (not aware of TN9) says, You're BLack! Yo," Cohen tweeted in July. Despite raising some eyebrows, Cohen did not remove the tweet or backtrack, and he explained the story during an appearance on MSNBC. "He goes, 'Man, you're black.' And I took it was a compliment. I hear it in Memphis all the time. My constituents don't look at me as a white person, they say, 'You're one of us,'" Cohen said.
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The N word
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer learned firsthand the dangers of typos in October, when he appeared to mix up the adjacent "b" and "n" keys on his keyboard. Replying to a tweet from a reporter about a story on political polarization, Pfeiffer tweeted that it was a "smart point" and followed up with: "@jmartNYT also a much nigger factor on the right," Pfeiffer wrote." He deleted the errant tweet and apologized for what he called an "obviously horrendous typo."
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Defending drone strikes
Time magazine journalist Michael Grunwald set off a social media storm one weekend in August when he tweeted, "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange." After a quick and heavy backlash, he deleted the tweet and apologized, but questions about his intentions continued.
In the age of smartphones, sometimes your pocket sends a message to the entire world. That appears to be what happened to Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) in December when he inexplicably tweeted, "13($$411/,)$&@'njjvv. Zzz c. aqedukfedqqhliobvvxxsaqaAsfvbbcvv.V. N. b. @m@m@@@@@cfv." The tweet was deleted almost immediately, while light mockery ensued.
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"Nancy boy"
Be careful what you retweet: Sen. Lindsey Graham's Republican primary challenger in South Carolina learned that lesson firsthand in August when she retweeted a follower's message that included an offensive term for her challenger. "RT @PaulSteel4: @nancymace we support you here in Florida. Nancy Mace vs Nancy boy graham."" The tweet was deleted after about 10 minutes, but archived by Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops.
Think before you thank
Texas gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott is a prime example that sometimes you get in trouble not for your own tweets, but for tweets you reply to. In August, Abbott replied to a follower "thanks for your support" after someone tweeted to him: "@GregAbbott_TX would absolutely demolish idiot @WendyDavisTexas in Gov race - run Wendy run! Retard Barbie to learn life lesson." Abbott was criticized by the Democratic Governors Association for allegedly endorsing the use of "retard Barbie" to describe his challenger, state Sen. Wendy Davis. Abbott later tweeted he did not endorse offensive language and urged his supporters to "stay positive."
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Selfie of the year
Fox News and radio personality Geraldo Rivera posted, then later deleted, a selfie of himself standing in front of a mirror, clad in only a very low-hanging towel, in July. "70 is the new 50 (Erica and family are going to be so pissed…but at my age…)," he wrote. Rivera later explained that he was bored and had too much to drink when he made the decision to tweet.
"I'm sitting around, I had a drink, and I had taken that picture on Saturday morning, and I was looking at it and I just said to myself: 'You know what, I gotta tweet this thing,'" Rivera said on his radio show. "I look pretty good for a 70-year-old, and I think because I'm so old people will cut me some slack. They won't take it too seriously."


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NSA Helped Destroy Trust In US Internet Firms, But Would Going Overseas Be Any Better?
from the unfortunately-not deptThe NSA has created a real mess for the tech industry these days. As has been detailed repeatedly, and showing a complete lack of concern for basic privacy, the NSA has basically destroyed trust in US internet companies not just for Americans but everyone outside of the US as well. We're already hearing stories of foreign companies demanding contracts with internet firms that say data must be kept outside the US. And there are worries about a splintering internet. Even Eric Schmidt has said that Google explored the option of moving its servers out of the US, if it would protect them more from the NSA. But the company eventually chose otherwise, and the more you think about it, the more you realize that the really messed up thing in all of this is that even with all of the revelations, it's still probably safer to keep the data inside the US than out of it.
First off, when the data is within the US, there are at least some restrictions on what the NSA/FBI can access. There are quite reasonable complaints about just how insanely broad Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act are... but, at least those laws do include some restrictions and oversight (even if we all agree it's not nearly enough). However, once things are outside of the US, it's basically "fair game" to the NSA. The NSA has interpreted Executive Order 12333 to mean that it's "open season" on all information not in the US. As ridiculous as it sounds, that actually means that there are somewhat greater restrictions on information inside the US than outside. Those stories about the NSA hacking into the links between Google and Yahoo data centers? Those were only done on offshore data centers outside of the US, under the auspices of EO 12333. Meanwhile, for local intelligence operations, they rarely even have the same kind of restrictions that the NSA has -- meaning that offshore data may be even more at risk of being spied on by whatever local intelligence agencies are in that country.
It's a complete mess for the entire tech industry -- but if you were running a tech company and wanted to best protect that data from the NSA, there's at least a strong argument that the best move is to stay in the US, even after all of these revelations. And, honestly, that's even more of a reason why the US tech industry needs to be fighting strongly for much greater reform and oversight concerning NSA (and FBI) activities inside the US. The protections are way too low, but at least there are some protections.
I recognize that some are going to disagree with this entirely, as many have completely written the US off because of these revelations. But, there's a simple question to ask: if that's the case, do you really feel safer with your data somewhere else, where there are no rules at all about what the NSA can do with it?
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This study expands our previous work (especially subtribes Maxillariinae, Oncidiinae, Zygopetalinae, and Stanhopeinae) to the entire family.
In recent years, orchid systematists have made great progress in clarifying evolutionary relationships among orchid genera, based largely upon cladistic analyses of both molecular and morphological/anatomical data sets. A well-supported outline of tribal and subtribal relationships is quickly emerging, limited primarily by the rate that rare taxa can be collected and analyzed. As such broad scale studies progress, it is becoming clear that one of the most daunting remaining tasks will be the phylogenetic revision of very large, species rich genera (e.g., Bulbophyllum, Epidendrum, Maxillaria, Pleurothallis). An even greater problem is that few taxonomists have the years of intensive study and breadth of knowledge to work with these large taxa. For example, few taxonomists are able to accurately identify a randomly-chosen Pleurothallis or Maxillaria species. Existing keys and subgeneric classifications are incomplete and are based upon admittedly artificial classifications.
To attempt a modern molecular and morphology-based phylogenetic revision of these huge genera, a broad collaboration is required among alpha-taxonomists who have intensive, detailed knowledge of the species, their variation and nomenclature, and molecular systematists who can generate and analyze the large data sets necessary to resolve these genera. We have assembled such a collaborative group, which includes: 1) herbarium/field botanists with years of study and deep knowledge of these species and their nomenclature; 2) orchid molecular systematists with experience in collecting and analyzing large combined DNA data sets; 3) pollination biologists; and 4) natural product chemists experienced in analyzing floral rewards.
Why study Orchidaceae? With more than 800 genera and 25,000 species, Orchidaceae are the largest and most diverse family of plants. Orchids represent a significant branch in the tree of life, with more species than vertebrates (excluding bony fishes). Although new orchid species continue to be described, a solid alpha-taxonomic framework exists in the form of a collaborative provisional checklist of all genera and species. No other group of plants attracts such widespread interest from professional botanists, horticulturists, and the general public alike.
This site contains information from our grant proposal, as well as some additional information, and includes: 1) the Project Summary; 2) the Project Description (with tables of morphological characters and taxa); 3) References; 4) the Management Plan (with a table of morphological characters and character states; 5) a list of our collaborators; 6) a link to a list of all known species of Orchidaceae (the Kew Orchid Checklist of all currently recognized genera and species) 7) cladograms from published and unpublished studies of the molecular systematics of various groups of orchds will be added as we develop this site; and 8) links to a number of useful sites.


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Just days after a leading Chinese general said the Philippines was facing its "last chance" to resolve disputes in the resource rich South China Sea, the two countries are locked in a potentially violent confrontation.
James Hookway at The Wall Street Journal reports the Philippines' newest and most advanced warship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, sped out to confront two Chinese surveillance vessels in an apparent dispute over fishing rights.
Tensions are already high in the area as China declares rights to suspected oil and gas reserves beneath the sea floor, throughout the region.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario met with Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and both men restated their governments' position that the Scarborough Shoal where they're facing off is in their own country's territory and neither will stand down.
The Shoal is within a couple hundred miles of the Philippine coast, as shown in the map below.
While both sides say they want to defuse the situation diplomatically, it seems they've reached a sticking point, and neither side is prepared to budge.
"The ambassador of China took the view that they have full sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal," Mr. del Rosario told the Associated Press. "So, in a sense we had reached an impasse in terms of our positions. And so there's a real challenge for us in terms of our agreement to keep on talking today."
The confrontation began when the Philippines sent its newest warship, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter to arrest the crew of several Chinese fishing boats anchored at the Scarborough Shoal.
In response, China rushed two surveillance vessels to the area, stopped the arrests, and the standoff began.
The Filipino sailors who boarded the Chinese vessels found illegally collected coral and live sharks aboard one of the boats.
The confrontations are not new, but the assertive Philippine response is. According to an unnamed Philippine military official "This is part of larger pattern. These new standoffs are coming to light only because we are better positioned to stand up to China now."
That ability comes as the U.S. renews attention on its long-time South Pacific ally, and sends much needed equipment to help it fend off Chinese assertiveness in the region, like the BRP Gregorio del Pilar facing off with China right now.
Acquiring the vessel was big news in the Philippines last summer and prompted the Inquirer Global Nation to say the vessel would help the country defend against an attack by "China's formidable armada."
"Imagine the Philippine David with its cutter slingshot against the China Goliath," Rodel Rotis wrote at the time.


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Here are Game Fails' top five video game fails of June 2012. Why does it take them this long to pick them? I don't know. I do know that first two here are so-so. Then they get to the Skyrim one.
The rest are excellent, but I think that Skyrim one should have gotten the top spot.
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Nothing: Accomplished/
Your grand plans. The best you could ever hope to achieve...
A failure.
A failure to strike fear. We are unafraid.
A failure to change our way of life. Future marathons will undoubtedly have record sign ups. I wish I was running NYC tomorrow, in fact.
A failure to deliver any kind of message. We are loud. You are silent.
A failure in execution, as loss of life was so much less than it could have been given the crowd numbers. Right now, our experts our dismantling your weak attempts to hurt more of us, lifting prints, executing searches, tracing receipts, reverse engineering cell records. You will be found and brought to justice.
We will bury our dead, treasure their memory and they will forever be revered as empowering symbols in the struggle to protect the freedoms you sought to vanquish. Their lives will not be lost in vain, and in their name we will continue on.
We will heal the injured. Many will run a year from now. Injured bystanders who have never run a day in their lives are waking up today in hospital beds resolving to complete the race next year, and many more after that. You have failed to do anything but embolden them.
In the end, your life lived alone, suffering whatever private pain you selfishly felt the need to inflict on others, will have been a complete wasted effort. It is similar to the lives that past hatemongers have led. You will only ever be cared about as a footnote to our history--a meaningless and empty nomenclature that failed to be human, to connect, to love and be loved.
Undoubtedly, you are our failure, too. Somewhere along the line, we ignored you, passed you over, and failed to recognize your sickness--or perhaps that you even existed.
For this, we are truly sorry. In the end, in a society where we believe anyone can achieve greatness, your life will have meant nothing, and you will have accomplished nothing.


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I'm considering becoming a foster parent and/or adopting through the foster care system. There is a HUGE need for foster parents and a very short supply of people willing to do it. The kids that get pushed through the system are good kids, they just have been through a lot of really tough stuff. Abuse, neglect, you name it. So yet most if not all of them have problems. Christians and other religious groups often pride themselves for being the ones who "step up to the plate" so to speak and it's often said within the religious communities that they are meeting the need above and beyond any other group religious or not. I would like to disagree with. I'm wondering who here has adopted (if you feel compelled to share your stories that would be awesome...) Anyone considering adoption? Anyone already been a foster parent? I live in a state where same-sex couples may adopt and I wish it were like this everywhere...maybe some day. But for those who are unable to adopt for this reason or being single parent etc. please share your point of view as well. Thanks!!!!
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I'm pretty certain that I would have if I had fertility problems. Im pretty maternal and I always wanted children. I stayed home with mine when they were little and I looked after other peoples children in my home to earn an income. I fostered a little boy for 12 months during that time. It worked out well with him and I have considered doing it again in the future.
.But I hear that its not all good with fostering older children who have probably already had 30 caregivers by the time theyre only 10. They are the ones who would be challenging because they dont trust and need the most help.
If I had loads of money I would possibly look at adopting children from overseas. I really like the idea.
I'm very interested in childrens rights.
Children are just like the Great Apes, they need people to speak up for them.
Adoption appealed to me beginning in my early teens and I thought I would have a blended family or a family of all adopted children. Now I realize I'm not parenting material. People who are willing and able to adopt or foster are very special, indeed.
I would do a lot of research before parenting any child, because it never hurts to be aware of what you're getting into. I also think it's important to go into fostering with a good support system for you personally and for the child(ren) as well. I wish you the best of luck.
I plan to adopt a child (or two) within 3 or so years. I found an adoption agency that serves my area and single lesbians, which would be me. I know it will be a lot to raise a child on my own, but I don't want to spend my life waiting for someone to come along so I can continue with my plans, and I don't want my plans driving me to desperation, either. I can do this. What I'm not clear on is whether I'll be able to name my child and whether I'll be able to homeschool him/her. Both issues are important to me.
I have not dipped my toe into the gene pool, but I have raised 6 children. I still have two living with me and my girlfriend (13 and 18 year old girls) The rest are spread throughout the US now. The 13 year old was adopted at age 3 and was born drug exposed. Life has been good and she was recently accepted into one of the top high schools in the country with an academic scholarship.
Not all foster/adoptive parents are as fortunate, so as others have said, do your homework and be very aware of potential/possible issues. My girlfriend gave her adopted daughter 100 kisses a day for several years so that she knew she was wanted and loved.
Bottom line, without going into the "novels" I occasionally post on TA, is that all appropriate interactions with children will make your life and their lives richer and more fulfilling. Good luck and feel free to friend me and contact me via message if you would like more info. I have tons of it, but I am trying to be more succinct in my posts.
I think that in foster care they like to try to fit in with your family. They might offer you someone more your sons age.
Older foster children can be very hard wired and they like to steal your stuff and generally not really care about you. You would have to be prepared for that.
But I still think that if you can manage this kind of work knowing that you often have to say goodbye to kids youve grown attached to then good on you because there is always a shortage of good foster carers.


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There's some input lag, and it doesn't really fit with the theme of the game-anywhere "the world is in play" marketing theme of the PS Vita. But then again, its sticks and buttons just don't have that clicky-click of a fight stick, either. So this enterprising Japanese modder whipped up a solution allowing the user to feel like he's playing full-scale Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on a screen a fraction of the size.
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Google retools Internet search engine
Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by Web surfers.
The overhaul came as part of an update called "Hummingbird" that Google Inc. has gradually rolled out in the past month without disclosing the modifications.
The changes could have a major impact on traffic to websites. Hummingbird represents the most dramatic alteration to its search engine since it revised the way it indexes websites three years ago as part of a redesign called "Caffeine," according to Amit Singhal, a company vice president. He estimates that the redesign affects about 90 percent of the search requests Google gets.
Any reshuffling of Google's search rankings can have sweeping ramifications because they steer so much of the Internet's traffic. In the U.S., Google fields about two of out every three search requests in the U.S. and handles an even larger volume in part of Europe.
Google disclosed the existence of the new search formula Thursday at an event held in the Menlo Park, Calif. garage where CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder Sergey Brin started the company 15 years ago.
Google celebrates its corporate birthday on Sept. 27 each year, even though the company was incorporated a few weeks earlier. The company is now based in Mountain View, Calif. at a sprawling complex located about seven miles from the 1,900-square-foot home where Page and Brin paid $1,700 per month to rent the garage and a bedroom. The co-founders' landlord was Susan Wojcicki, who is now a top Google executive and Brin's sister-in-law.
Wojcicki sold the home to Google in 2006 and it is now maintained as a monument to the company's humble beginnings.
Google's modifications haven't triggered widespread complaints from other websites, suggesting that the changes haven't resulted in a radical change in the way that Google displays its search rankings. The Caffeine update spurred a loud outcry because it explicitly sought to weed out websites that tried to trick Google's search engine into believing their content was related to common search requests.
Hummingbird is primarily aimed at giving Google's search engine a better grasp at understanding concepts instead of mere words, Singhal said.
The change needed to be done, Singhal said, because people have become so reliant on Google that they now routinely enter lengthy questions into the search box instead of just a few words related to specific topics.
Just as Page and Brin set out to do when they started Google in a garage, "we want to keep getting better at helping you make the most of your life," Singhal said.


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WORCESTER, Mass. – With a Kelsey MacIsaac (Durham, N.H.) power-play goal at 14:45 in the third period women's hockey was able to salvage a 1-1 ECAC East tie with the College of Holy Cross Saturday afternoon at the Hart Recreation Center.
MacIsaac's game-tying tally helps the Beacons to close out the weekend with a 0-1-1 record as they now hold an overall record of 8-10-4, 5-6-4 in the ECAC East. For the Crusaders they now hold a 12-4-5 mark overall, while in the conference they now stand at 6-3-5.
Saturday's draw marked the first time that the Beacons have tied Holy Cross in both of their meetings in the series history. The two teams skated to a 2-2 draw in November at the Clark Athletic Center. The series record now stands at 6-10-3 since their first meeting in 2004.
Both of Saturday's goals came late in the third period, with Holy Cross scoring on a Devon Ball tally to make it 1-0. One minute 45 seconds later, MacIsaac took advantage of a Holy Cross checking penalty, which gave UMB the man-up opportunity.
Setting up the score was Katie Loiselle (Glocester, R.I.) and Sarahanne Cavolo (Roxbury, N.H.). Between the pipes freshman goalie Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.) had one of her best showings of her young career as she made 28 saves.
UMass finished the contest with a combined 16 shots on goal, while the Crusaders posted 29 shots. Holy Cross led all three periods first outshooting the Beacons 8-6 in the first, then 10-3 in the second, and 10-6 in the third. In the overtime period, both teams tallied one shot on goal.
On the power-play UMB finished 1-for-4, while their penalty kill held the Crusaders to 0-for-5 on the day.
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BERLIN, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A German insurance giant revealed employees put a trip to a swingers' hotel in Jamaica on company expenses when it published the results of an internal audit on a public website.
The reputation of Ergo, the primary insurance unit of Munich Re , the world's biggest reinsurer, suffered a blow last year when a German newspaper reported that a subsidiary had hosted a sex party in Budapest in 2007 to reward top employees.
On Sunday, Ergo unveiled a website containing details of 12 similar incidents. It showed employees had also charged the company for tickets to a strip club in Estonia.
In a statement, Ergo head Torsten Oletzky said the company had decided to publish the results of an internal audit of more than 500 incentive trips in the interests of transparency.
"With the published material, you can make your own judgment," Oletzky said.
(Reporting by Chris Cottrell; editing by Robert Woodward)


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Cueboy Quest is an adorable 8-bit style physics game
Yes, that's right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is!
You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To get it to open, you must shoot at one or more targets, and those targets aren't always in your line of sight. For example, on one level the the target is a balloon which is stuck all the way at the other end of the screen. You must first nudge it free, and then watch it float up and try to shoot it before it floats clear off the screen. Your bullets are chunky pixels that have some weight – the have arcing trajectories, so you don't always hit exactly where you aim.
There's another level where you must jump on the balloon as it floats up, use it as a platform to get to the other end of the screen, and then turn to shoot it very quickly before it flies away. Each level is very short, and most of them are quite easy. And not only are the graphics 8-bit blocky, but they're large too. Simply beautiful!
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The quarterback class of 2012 was a historical group topped with Luck — Andrew Luck.
The quarterback class of next week's NFL draft will arrive in the large shadow cast by last year's rookie passers, burdened by the expectations created by Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson and the rest.
"Those guys changed expectations for many quarterbacks, let alone rookies," West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith said. "Those guys stepped right in, including Russell (Wilson), and were leaders from Day One. That's the one thing I took from it. No matter what age difference, where you come from or what pick you are when you're taken for that role as a quarterback in the NFL, you have to lead by example. That's the thing all those guys did.
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Barry Sanders may not have a Super Bowl title, but he becomes the first player to appear twice on the cover of Madden NFL.
The former Detroit Lions running back received 58 percent of the more than 700,000 votes cast in the finals of Sportsnation's Madden 25 cover vote, beating out Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. There were more than 40 million votes cast throughout this year's bracket.
Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller advanced to the second round, as did former running back Terrell Davis.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
They are known as Marland's Rules. 10 edicts that the Emmy winning soap writer outlined as the template for how to write a winning daytime drama (a.k.a. How Not To Wreck a Show).
Douglas Marland was the Headwriter for General Hospital from 1977-1979, Guiding Light from 1979-1982 and As The World Turns from 1985 until his death in 1993. (There were also stints on The Doctors and Loving, which he co-created).
He penned many memorable characters and storylines, and won the hearts of millions of soap fans. But how well did Marland really follow his own rules?
Marland Rule # 4
Be objective…. What is pleasing the audience? You have to put your own personal likes and dislikes aside and develop the characters that the audience wants to see.
When Marland took over GH in 1977, the main story revolved around Nurse Jessie, Dr. Steve, his wife Audrey, and her back-from-the-dead-husband, Tom. Laura Weber was last seen as a freckle-faced pre-teen and Scotty Baldwin was the rarely on stepson of lawyer Lee. Within months of Marland's arrival, Laura (re-cast Genie Francis) was a surly teen dragged out of a cult by her biological mother and busy falling for mom's boyfriend as well as the now law-school aged Scotty. A whole new family, the Quartermaines, had arrived in town (and the not-yet-Quartermaine Monica quickly recast), as well as a former-hooker turned student-nurse named Bobbie. Jessie, Steve and Audrey took up residence behind the nurse's desk and rarely left it again.
Marland Rule #6
Don't change a core character. You can certainly give them edges they didn't have before, or give them a logical reason to change their behavior. But when the audience says, "He would never do that," then you have failed.
Before Marland, ATWT's Dusty Donovan (Brian Bloom; above) was the vagabond son of a cowboy. He loved horses, the outdoors, and was the bad boy Lily's (Martha Byrne; above) mama lion, Lucinda, was constantly warning her sheltered daughter to stay away from (to the point of setting Lily up with every "more suitable" preppy who came along). After Marland, the role of unacceptable bad boy was handed to Holden. So Dusty had to become the humorless, judgmental, Harvard aspiring stick-in-the-mud in comparison. Even Dusty's cowboy shirt wardrobe was passed on to Holden (when Holden wore a shirt, that is) as Dusty suddenly began donning buttoned up collars and Bill Cosby sweaters.
Marland Rule #7
Build new characters slowly. Everyone knows that it takes six months to a year for an audience to care about a new character. Tie them in to existing characters. Don't shove them down the viewers' throats.
When Douglas Marland took over GL in 1979, the Bauers were still front and center, and the Spauldings had been introduced two years before. Within a year of his tenure, we watched just-got-into-town Ross Marler prosecuting newcomer Jennifer for murder, the Chamberlain family moving into Spaulding Enterprises, a front-burner triangle for youngsters Kelly, Morgan and Nola, plus the addition of Nola's mother, Bea, and the Reardon boarding house.
For ATWT in 1985, Marland promptly introduced Shannon, Sierra, and Stewart (nothing in the rules about overuse of the letter "S"), then wrote a murder mystery featuring victim Marie Kovac, who'd only joined the show a few months earlier, and equally new suspects Kevin, Ken and Tad. The killer turned out to be the similarly new Doug (Marland favorite John Wesley Shipp; ex-Kelly, GL), who was later murdered by Marsha, a woman who joined the show the same time he did. (To be fair, the mystery also encompassed Bob, Kim and a recently recast -- with Julianne Moore -- Frannie, but everyone else in it was created just to serve the newbie-filled story).
More importantly, though, 1985 brought to Oakdale the Snyder family. Headed by Earth-mother Emma, they were a many-sibling, fatherless clan who lived a life of virtuous poverty on a farm. Unlike the Reardons of GL, the Snyder farm was merely an unofficial boarding house for every lonely ingenue looking to slum away from home (which probably explained the virtuous poverty; at least Bea expected rent for her trouble).
Soon afterwards, innocent, virginal, rich girl Lily became embroiled in a triangle with medical school bound Dusty and social climbing farm girl, Meg, who even faked a pregnancy to get Dusty for herself. Which was nothing at all like the triangle between innocent, virginal, rich girl Morgan, medical student Kelly and social climbing boarding house girl Nola, who even faked a pregnancy to get Kelly for herself on GL. (And neither bore the slightest resemblance to innocent, virginal, rich girl Laura, law student Scotty and social climbing cat house girl Bobbie, who even faked a pregnancy to get Scotty for herself on GH). When Marland had a story he liked telling, he'd shoe-horn (dare we say shove down viewers throats) it into any show.
Douglas Marland left daytime television an incredible body of work and an unimpeachable legacy. But even he knew his own rules were made to be broken.
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- Loger said...
Marland's worst day is a million times better than anything we see today on daytime soaps. It's sad what budget constraints, producers with no vision and recycled writers can do the serialized genre that is thriving in prime time but dying in daytime.
Characters on ATWT like Meg and Paul and Rosanna (and on and on) are so confusing these days. I don't understand their motivations, what they're all about, who they love and WHY they do anything they do. Marland's characters were so well thought out and seemed like real people.
I don't know why this is, but even the writing from one day to a next is so inconsistent these days. I would love to see an interview with Jean Passanante or Chris Goutman that really dives into some of the budget issues - lack of sets, lack of actors crossing stories, lack of consistency, etc. Perhaps if we knew why some of this was happening, it would be easier to take.
- Oakdalian said...
Are you sure you want to show up the Goutman/Passanante regime for all its flaws with this post? ATWT isn't following ONE of those rules. LOL. No one in charge has the intention of following them either. Loger, last week Goutman appeared on a Chicago radio show with Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann, saying that the Luke/Noah romance has been treated like any other on the show. How is that, when Meg, Craig and Paul or Carly, Jack and Katie have been featured for days on end as Luke and Noah have averaged 1-2 episodes per week for months?
- Oakdalian said...
I just had to come back and say it takes a LOT of nerve for the production company whose series garnered a renaissance of critical acclaim and awards because of Marland's writing to sponsor a blog that tears his work apart. Just face it, any writers coming to ATWT after him will be held to the standard of his excellence until they match or exceed it. He was THAT GOOD. What was the point of this anyway, to say he wasn't perfect? We knew that. The present day Oakdale is no better for the effort. ATWT is only getting recognized now because it's incrementally better than other fading shows in some respects. Maybe Marland bent his own rules, but at least he had some.
- Esther said...
unimpeachable legacy
Which you certainly did your darndest (and a bit of shoe-horning yourself) to impeach. If he's so bad, whom do you hold in higher esteem? Or were you doing this just to generate comments (and my ire, lol)? ;)
Doug did break a few rules he set, like staying at ATWT longer than he suggests one should to stay fresh. But like loger said, I'd take Doug's bad stuff over the stuff from today's hacks.
PS: Oakdalian, love your last statement.
- Miss Holt said...
So what if Doug Marland broke a few rules he created? Big deal! His work was still great to watch. GL's David Kreizman doesn't follow ANY of those rules. All he does is destroy, destroy and again, destroy. He doesn't care about any character or the show. I swear it's like Ellen Wheeler and Kreizman are just waiting for GL to be cancelled. They should be BOTH be fired before it's too late.
- Eric said...
Fair enough--one thing that wasn't in Marland's rules but that he sucked at particularly at ATWT was murder mysteries (some of his gothic stories didn't really work either). The man wasn't infallible. Some of your "breaking his own rules" though I think you have to put in context--the GH one especially. That show needed drastic FAST changes--it was on the verge of cancelation and if Marland wanted the soap to survive, and mor eimportantly for his first time as a headwriter after working at AW under Lemay, his JOB he had to vastly change around the playing field. Maybe audiences liek the people who were originally behind the hospital desk but the ratings certainly didn't show this.
I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "It is better to remain silent and merely be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
- Scarlett Echo said...
"Oakdalian said, "The present day Oakdale is no better for the effort. ATWT is only getting recognized now because it's incrementally better than other fading shows in some respects. Maybe Marland bent his own rules, but at least he had some."
Well said.
Marland's work puts TIIC currently to shame. You'll find more longtime ATWT viewers remember Marland's ATWT much more fondly than any other period of the show and for good reason.
The current team seems hell-bent on breaking every rule with an arrogance that somehow they can do it better.
Note to TPTB: You're failing across the board and if it weren't for the amazing cast and the faithful fans of those actors this show would have bitten the dust years ago.
- PrincessSparky05 said...
Whether Marland broke some of his own rules or not isn't the point. It doesn't excuse the present PTB's lack of structure, balance, and continuity for ATWT today - and it shows. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The important thing is that Marland developed intelligent, logical rules for a successful soap, and IMO, they should be followed by every daytime writer - especially the current ones of this show.
And I agree - actor loyalty is the only reason why I'm still watching right now.
- dharmabum said...
Reading between the lines, this is what I inferred you were really trying to say....
Dear Longterm ATWT Fans,
Stop quoting Marland's rules as if they are the ten commandments or something. He really wasn't all that, and anyway we don't care that you think we insult your intelligence on a daily basis with glaring character inconsistencies, rewritten history, and huge plot holes. Actually, if you are watching our show, you probably aren't that intelligent anyway. After all, it's just a soap! It's not like it's some sort of iconic show that's been on air more years than some of us have been alive, with a fanbase who passed down their viewing habits from mother to daughter over the years. I mean, remember, with Marland, young rebel Dusty stopped wearing plaid shirts and decided to become a doctor of all things... coincidentally right around the time he grew close to his surrogate father John Dixon, who was also a doctor. It's really no different than the sweet nerdy Adam Munson-Hughes (who grew up onscreen with nary a violent or overly malicious tendency) moving to LA and then mysteriously returning as a ruthless villain and would be sister-in-law rapist without any sign of a conscience, or Brad Snyder returning as Jack's younger brother instead of his older brother with no mention of their painful history with alcoholic mother Delores that caused them to become estranged because it kinda doesn't jive with the whole older brother is now younger thing...right? Right?
Now pipe down and stop complaining, because we are smarter than you and that's why we run the show and you just watch it...err, uh, I mean, we care about your opinions. Really we do.
The Powers That Be
Of course, I could be wrong. *raises eyebrow*
- Scarlett Echo said...
You've hit the nail on the head. That's actually how TIIC see their bread-and-butter (us) and their heads need to roll.
- TrentDawsonFan said...
My guess is that Doug Marland didn't just pluck those rules out of thin air. He learned from his experiences. That means that at one time or another he HAD to BREAK some of the rules in order to ever be able to formulate them. Their validity is not diminished by that, quite the contrary--experience can be the best teacher.
In any case,saying that Marland himself broke the rules in no way excuses the poor writing of the present regime.
Just a suggestion, but maybe instead of making excuses, tptb should actually TRY to FOLLOW the rules for once and see what happens. It could be that they really work and ratings might go up. (In other words, don't knock the rules until you have actually, honestly tried them!) On the other hand, if it turns out that the rules don't actually improve the show, (then, and only then) tptb would have a valid reason to speak negatively about Doug Marland and his rules.
- FTW said...
I am not really sure what the point of this blog was. Of course, he didn't always hit his own rules. There is a lot that goes into writing a serial. But the problem is that you are providing us with the exceptions of Doug Marland's writing not the rule whereas we couldn't do that today because the exceptions have become the rule. Characters are disconnected from their history, flipping motivations and personality traits as easily as they change clothes.
What is even more frustrating is that viewers can catch a little bit of brilliance every now and again. It makes it even harder to then turn around and watch characters who are isolated and never speak to each other or characters that have no connection to history or characters who fall in love in 2 seconds. Some of this is sure mired in budgetary constraints but some of it is bad story telling. And instead of showing us how Mr. Marland broke his rules, I think it is time to show us what TPTB intend to do to follow them. Otherwise the viewers as they say are dropping like flies. ATWT has one of the strongest ensembles in television. Even kid actors like Mick Hazen are extraordinary talents. Let's take advantage of that. TPTB need to get out of their own way. I, as a viewer, don't need slashings and attempted murder and horrible, instant pairings between mistmatched people. Just follow the rules. Mr. Marland is the brilliant wizard behind the curtain.
- Jennifer said...
Wait a second... Douglas Marland didn't create Sierra, Stewart, or Shannon. The previous head writer did before him. At least check your facts before you post!
And I'm sorry, but I think this is a slap in the face of a man who wrote two PGP soaps and probably helped make a lot of money for the company. This post reminds me why I am not watching PGP shows anymore!
- Lucy said...
Oh boy. I cannot believe PGP allowed this to be posted.
- rthrquiet said...
You know, it's one thing to subject an artist's oeuvre to critical analysis and point out that, well, he wasn't perfect. I think that's legitimate ground to cover. But to pick and choose what you choose to focus on, to pull things deliberately out of their contexts in order to prop up some pretty weak argumentation--well, that's pretty ballsy. And then NOT TO EVEN GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, that certainly takes into the realm almost of the unfathomable. Given that Marland is not even here to defend himself, it's just appalling. Let me just pick on the entry for GH, because it's symbolic of what's wrong with the rest of the post. No, when Marland took over GH in 1977, the story definitely did *not* revolve around Jessie, Steve, Audrey, and Tom. Tom had been gone for several years in fact, having been written out by one of the previous headwriters. Steve and Audrey had something of a story, but Jessie hadn't had one in several years. The chief stories when Marland took over had to do with a triangle between Mark Dante, Terri Arnett, and Mark's devious wife whose name I can't remember at the moment; and the saga of Rick Weber, Monica Webber, and Jeff Webber, with Lesley thrown in the mix. Alan Quartermaine was also thrown in, but he was created by the previous headwriters, not Marland. Laura's being pulled away from her adoptive mother by Lesley was, again, a story of previous headwriters, though it's true that Marland pulled Laura front and center in a way she hadn't been previously, and that he beefed up Scotty's presence. He definitely created Bobbie. But to say Steve, Audrey, and Jessie went into storyline oblivion is simply wrong. Jessie had a romance of sorts with Dan Rooney and became Bobbie's erstwhile mother figure; Steve was revealed to be Jeff Webber's father; and Audrey dealt with the strains on her marriage brought on by her increasing responsibilities as head of nurses' training. Marland was probably successful in keeping the older characters MORE in the forefront than ABC at the time would have wanted.
You really have to wonder at the motivations of somebody who would get on here and post something like this. Surely Douglas Marland was not perfect. And just as surely he was worlds better than the hacks that are in charge of the show at the moment. No amount of getting on here and trashing him will change that.
One final point: Let's assume that every single point made by the original poster is true. (It's not, but assume it for a minute.) Does the original poster not see the difference between a handful of instances across a long career, and a creative team that cannot go a SINGLE DAY without breaking many, if not most, or even all, of the rules Marland outlined? The point isn't that Marland followed every one of his own rules to the letter in every single episode of every single show he wrote: it's that he followed them in spirit most of the time, and he learned a lot as he went along and made mistakes. Generally, he wrote compelling stories that held my attention and didn't insult my intelligence, which I certainly can't say about the current scribes.
Geez. I really don't know what to make of a post like the original one here. It would be pretty inexcusable if Marland were still alive, but given that he's dead and not even around to defend himself against the half-truths and errors, it's really pretty vile, isn't it?
- Peter said...
I just want to correct some date information in the original post: Doug Marland didn't start writing "Guiding Light" until January 1980 -- he didn't write in 1979 -- I've looked at credits up to and including in December 1979 (as late as December 14, 1979 on World Of Soap Themes website) and on that December 14, 1979 episode the closing credits distinctly have written the show was still being written by headwriters, Jerome & Bridget Dobson. It was in January 1980 that the Dobsons, a PGP & CBS dictated move at the time to boost the ratings of "As The World Turns", went to ATWT while Marland came on as headwriter of GL. Facts need to be checked and rechecked before writing what is supposedly fact based on even a blog.
- Destry said...
I think the the Doug Cummings/Marsha Talbot Storyline, from beginning to end, was HANDS DOWN the best example of his commandments. Cummings was someone who heard Kim sing on her honeymoon(past into present) He let the Hughes Family take Center Stage/Made Lucinda go absolutely nuts driving everyone crazy at the hospital (Fan favorites)and then made John Dixon compassionate/empathetic so he could be the father that Andy needed when he started drinking without losing his edge (John's quips with mom Kim(give them edges not different personalities). I think that even he knew sometimes his commandments would have to be broken - especially if the stories weren't working (did they ever find Tad Channing). And the way James Steinbeck came back to life!! :) Doug Marland compelled me to watch the show 6 years running EVERYDAY! I MEAN IT EVERYDAY, EVERY SHOW! And also regarding the character changes: some worked (Meg before she married Antonio - Meg when she left Antonio / Lucinda & Craig before and after they met Sierra) and some (Betsy period - Barbara) not so well.) Not only was he skilled in writing these stories he personally selected the actor and actresses to flesh them out (Doug / Marsha / Iva). No matter he broke his rules (would you wait for the Crosswalk Sign to change before you crossed a street with no cars to help someone in need?) he knew how to create a great story - from the inside out. You were the best Douglas Marland.
- sarah saad said...
شركة تنظيف خزانات بجدة
شركة كشف تسربات المياه بالدمام
شركة نقل عفش واثاث
شركة نقل عفش بالرياض وجدة والدمام والخبر والجبيل اولقطيف والاحساء والرياض وجدة ومكة المدينة المنورة والخرج والطائف وخميس مشيط وبجدة افضل شركة نقل عفش بجدة نعرضها مجموعة الفا لنقل العفش بمكة والخرج والقصيم والطائف وتبوك وخميس مشيط ونجران وجيزان وبريدة والمدينة المنورة وينبع افضل شركات نقل الاثاث بالجبيل والطائف وخميس مشيط وبريدة وعنيزو وابها ونجران المدينة وينبع تبوك والقصيم الخرج حفر الباطن والظهران
شركة نقل عفش بجدة
شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة
- Sarah Saad said...
شركة نقل عفش بابها
شركة نقل عفش بنجران
شركة نقل عفش بحائل
شركة سكاي لخدمات نقل العفش والاثاث بالمنطقة العربية السعودية نحن نوفر خدمات نقل اثاث بالرياض ونقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة ونقل عفش بمكة ونقل عفش بالطائف نحن نقدم افضل نقل اثاث بخميس مشيط ونقل عفش بجدة
شركة سكاي نقل العفش
مدونة لنقل العفش
شركة نقل عفش بمكة


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Whiskey. Turkey. Foxtrot.
Think all those turkey cakes are bad?
Well, they are.
But these are worse:
1. Mildly amusing idea, SUPER creepy execution:
No. Just... no.
2. "Jack Skellington and the Politically-Incorrect Window Display of Holiday Awkwardness."
With bonus charred turkey flying out of a pumpkin.
3. Evil Zombie Pilgrim:
Yeesh, this reminds me of the bad guy in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Whatever happened to all the cute little pilgrims?
Oh, wait, here they come!
4. Pilgrims in straitjackets:
You know, I'm starting to think bakers REALLY don't like these guys.
5. Thanksgiving Bachelorette Party:
"Hey, bebeh, do you prefer light meat, or dark?" [eyebrow waggle]
6. "Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"
Admit it: you'd order a dozen of these in a heartbeat, just to see your in-laws' reactions.
Actually, Jeannie tells me she HAD to buy this because her cell phone camera wasn't working - and this obviously needed to be documented for posterity. POSTERITY THANKS YOU, JEANNIE.
Posterity also thanks Megan L., Christie C., Jamie N., Rob, & Laurie R. for the excellent wreckporting.


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2009: Played in 24 of 27 matches and 77 total sets ... Started 15 matches at outside hitter and two at the opposite position ... Set single-match career highs in kills (32 vs. USC, 4/1), attack percentage (.562 vs. Northridge, 1/23), digs (14 vs. Stanford, 3/28), blocks (7 vs. Cal Baptist, 3/24), and assists (2 vs. USC, 4/1) ... Ranked 43rd in the country with a 3.27 kills per set average ... Connected on 252 of his 531 attack attempts.
2008: Saw action in 26 of 27 matches and a total of 75 sets ... Started two matches, the first vs. Pacific (1/5) and the second at Cal State Northridge (3/5) ... Had a perfect night at Long Beach State (3/1), putting down a career-high six kills with no errors in six attempts ... Also had a career-best five blocks in that match ... Dropped in five aces vs. Pacific (1/5) ... Fourth on the roster in total aces (12) ... Also totaled 20 digs and 10 blocks on the year.
2007: Redshirt.
Played for Fresno Volleyball Club for three years before changing to Central Cal for the 2005-06 season ... Captained Central Cal and was named its MVP under head coach Rudy Barajas ... His SCVA team won a gold medal by defeating China at the 2005 Global Challenge in Salt Lake City.
A 2006 graduate of Hanford High School in Hanford, Calif. ... Played junior varsity as a freshman and varsity as a sophomore, earning team MVP honors both years ... Captained the Bullpups both seasons ... Coached by Amber Block ... Missed playing his junior and senior years due to shoulder injuries ... Competed in water polo (goalie) and track and field (high jumper) his senior year ... A member of ASB and the Asian Club and served as president of the Volleyball Club ... Between high school and club, he has played outside and opposite as well as middle blocker.
Born Apr. 9, 1988 in Hanford, Calif. ... Parents are Jerry and Reneé ... Has an older sister, Corey, a younger sister, Schuyler, and two older brothers, Dru and Garth ... Majoring in geography and hopes to be a land developer and contractor ... A member of UCSB's Student-Athlete Advisory Board ... A Boston Celtics and Larry Bird fan ... Favorite flick is The Big Lebowski and his top actors are Danny Glover and Christopher Walken ... Sushi and Thai are on his menu ... Listens to the music of Andrew W.K. ... Lists his bicycle as his most cherished possession ... Also recruited by Long Beach State, UC Irvine, UCLA and UC San Diego ... Favorite hobbies include smiling and laughing.


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A gradual increase in the temperature of the atomosphere and the oceans, observed since the late 19th century and thought to be due to the so-called greenhouse effect (reduction in radiation of heat from the Earth by an increase in CO2 concentration of the atomsphere). Possible public health effects of global warming include shifts in the habitats of pathogenic organisms and vectors, food crop failures, and health hazards associated with changes of climate (elevated average regional temperatures, drought, flooding).
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an ecological model of world climate changes based on the greenhouse effect, exacerbated by burning of fossil fuels, massive deforestation, and conversion of cropland to industrial and other urban uses, all contributing to an increase in the earth's temperature. Major shifts in climate are not unusual in the history of the earth, which has undergone global warming in previous periods of geological history.
glo·bal warm·ing(glō'băl wōrm'ing)
A nonspecific colloquialism for the phenomena related to changes in weather pattern caused by generalized elevation of ocean temperature. Although still in dispute in some quarters, recognized as a dangerous and potentially overwhelming ecologic crisis; some scientists believe it may be possible to slow or reverse the trend through limitation of greenhouse gas emissions, which are thought responsible for the rise in global temperatures.


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Galaxy S III May Be Top Android Phone, But Samsung Pushes Extra Features Instead
Having recently seen introductions of new phone operating systems from Apple and Microsoft, I was curious about how Samsung would introduce its new Galaxy S III smartphone in the U.S. yesterday.
The device itself—with a 4.8-inch screen and dual-core processor—looks very strong, and Chief Marketing Officer Todd Pendleton and Chief Product Officer Kevin Packingham went out of the way to describe five things it has that "no other phone has." But I was a bit surprised at one obvious thing it does that went unmentioned—it runs Android. Now that may be obvious, but given the push around Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), it was interesting that neither Google nor Android was referred to at the launch.
Instead, the focus was on those five new features. These include All Share GroupCast for document sharing and collaboration; ShareShot for automatically sharing photos among people at an event; S Beam, which allows you to transfer content from one device to another by simply tapping the devices back to back; Smart Stay which senses when you are looking at the display so it doesn't dim the screen; and Pop Up Play, which lets you email or text on top of a running HD video.
These all looked cool, although the first three are really useful only if everyone in your group has the same phone, which does limit the appeal. And—at least at first glance—all these features seem somewhat buried within Android and Samsung's TouchWiz extensions on top of that.
Another feature that's interesting is TecTiles, which lets you use near-field communications tags as a way to automatically have the phone open a website or download content using a peer-to-peer WiFi network. (S-Beam uses a similar feature.) I was impressed by a number of the photography features, including the ability to take 20 shots in about three seconds, and a Best Shot option that picks the best out of eight photos in a row, using the 8-megapixel rear-facing picture.
On the hardware side, it looks quite good in either a metallic light blue or white case, dominated by a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display with 1,280-by-720 resolution (using the PenTile technology). The phone is based on a 1.5-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (8960) processor with LTE support and comes in models with 16GB or 32GB (plus a micro SD card option) and will be available on more U.S. networks than any single phone I've seen: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular.
I think it's interesting that unlike most Ice Cream Sandwich phones, it has one physical button (that generally brings you to the Home screen) and two light-up buttons (one for the menu options, one for back). You hold down the Home button to bring up thumbnails of your running applications to move among them—a slight difference from the other phones I've seen with this OS. Indeed, it's certainly a contender for the top Android phone, even if Samsung isn't positioning it that way.
I want to spend a bit more time before passing judgment on the Galaxy S III, but in the meantime, there's the PCMag review.


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