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First Taco Bell YUM, +1.58% scored a critical hit with its cheeky advertisement last week for its new Waffle Taco breakfast by enlisting endorsements from real-life Ronald McDonalds (who are no relation to the guy with the red hair and floppy shoes). Then McDonald's quickly offered free coffee at breakfast for two weeks. And, on Monday, White Castle updated its Facebook page: "Most Wanted Waffles: Coming Soon." (The breakfast waffles will be available at participating locations.) But experts say that behind the joke there's a serious reason the fast-food chains are having a food fight: As far as our appetites are concerned, it's always morning in America.
Breakfast menus are the only growth area on fast-food and casual dining menus, says Julia Gallo-Torres, U.S. food service category manager at research firm Mintel. Breakfast sales rose over 5% to $27.4 billion last year at quick-service and fast-casual restaurants, according to Mintel's analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. What's more, sales of breakfast meat and eggs — the key ingredients in the Waffle Taco, McDonald's egg-and-bacon McMuffins and White Castle's "Most Waffles" — rose 300% from 2010 to 2013, more than any other breakfast item. "These restaurants are all right on target," Gallo-Torres says.
There's a race for that breakfast dollar, analysts say, and the first step is luring consumers with a good cup of coffee. More companies have been upgrading their morning coffee — including McDonald's MCD, +0.28%, Starbucks SBUX, +0.23%, Subway, Dunkin' Donuts DNKN, +0.22% and even Burger King US:BKW , says Warren Solochek, vice president of client development for the food service practice The NPD Group, a market research firm. Read: "I'll see your Taco Bell breakfast and raise you free coffee: McDonald's strikes back."
Among the other high margin (and increasingly popular) items: oatmeal. "It's has been around forever and a day," Solochek says, "but many people don't want to wake up any earlier than they do and cook it." McDonald's, Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Caribou Coffee, Jamba Juice and Fresh & Co. all serve morning oatmeal. Jamba Juice even offered $1 bowls of oatmeal at participating stores in California, New York and D.C. every Wednesday from Jan. 1 to March 27. (For comparison, a 42-ounce box of Quaker Oats with 30-plus servings costs $3.98 on Walmart.com.)
Despite being such a high-margin item, oatmeal can at least claim to be somewhat healthier than menu items like Taco Bell's Waffle Taco. A bowl of McDonald's fruit and maple oatmeal with brown sugar has 290 calories, 5 grams of protein, 4 grams of fat, 58 grams of carbohydrates and 160 milligrams of sodium. A Waffle Taco with sausage has 370 calories, 23 grams of fat, 115 milligrams of cholesterol, 28 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 8 grams of sugar and 12 grams of protein — and 550 milligram of sodium.
In the breakfast wars, however, Taco Bell's brazen television commercial—which features two dozen real-life Ronald McDonalds — might end up stirring up its golden-arch rival, according to Robert Passikoff, founder and president of marketing consultant Brand Keys. McDonald's had indeed already responded: "We've consulted with Mayor McCheese and he has confirmed that Ronald McDonald, in fact, still only chooses McDonald's."
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Knit dresses can be so great IF you have perfect shape around the hips and butt. Otherwise they can often just draw attention to the area that women are most self-conscious about.
I think this young lady does a great job finding a knit dress that feels every bit as cozy and comfy as you want a knit dress to feel in the Fall and yet it draws attention to her legs and not her hips.
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Dolphins owner Stephen Ross says that for the first time since he bought the franchise five years ago, he's confident that the team is heading in the right direction.
Ross told reporters that first-year coach Joe Philbin and rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill showed him enough in their first seasons in Miami that Ross now believes the team can go the rest of the way toward title contention.
"The two biggest ingredients in a winning team are your coach – and I think we have our head coach – and second is a quarterback you can build around," Ross said. "This is a quarterback-centric league, and you see every great team that is there consistently has a quarterback. I think we have our quarterback. Once you are there, it is a lot easier, I think, to put the building blocks around them."
Ross said that when he bought the Dolphins, the team was really run first and foremost by Bill Parcells, and Ross was a hands-off owner. Now Parcells is gone and Ross is feeling more confident about taking a hands-on approach.
"This is really the first time I've really gotten involved," Ross said. "I didn't select the people that were here before. I was handed a situation that, for one, I was kind of pinned to the wall. I have a lot of respect for Bill, but I didn't put together that organization. I also felt that I should learn a little bit before I started making moves. Making moves for the sake of making moves is sometimes probably the worst move you can make. You want to sit back and really assess the situation, which I was able to do."
Ross kept General Manager Jeff Ireland as the lone holdover from Parcells' time with the team, and Ross praised Ireland for the work he has done in the last year. The two most important moves of the last year, hiring Philbin and drafting Tannehill, have been given Ross's seal of approval.


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California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
Carneros is one of California's key wine producing regions, situated close to the Pacific coast. Although Carneros is relatively young, having been first used for viticulture in the 1940's, it has proven to be a highly successful region, capable of growing high quality grapes and producing wines of real character and distinction. Unlike many other regions of California, Carneros is considerably cooler, and benefits from the tempering effect of Pacific fog on the vineyards. As a direct result of this, Carneros wineries are able to produce fine grape varietals which require cooler temperatures, such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir – grapes perfect for the sparkling wines the region has become famous for. However, plenty of still red and white wines are made in the region, from a wide array of grape varietals.
The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.


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text: Question 9 on the first page of the 2010 Census form. After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in its surveys. Instead of the term, which was popularized during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use "black" or "African-American." Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP The Two-Way No More 'Negro' For Census Bureau Forms And Surveys February 25, 2013 Many African-Americans complained about the bureau's use of the word during the 2010 Census, calling it offensive and outdated. On Monday, officials said they would stop using it.


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The Four Horsemen (4HM) used to be something special. The fight was considered the pinnacle of vanilla WoW. It was extremely technical and it came down almost entirely to execution, not RNG or gear or dps. The only drawback of the fight was that it required a lot of tanks and they all had to be geared pretty well. Before I talk about how to do the fight now, I want to talk about how it was done at 60 because I think it is pretty cool to know the history of stuff like this and hopefully I can give some insight into why this fight was so highly regarded. If you don't care about the history, uh… too bad, read it anyway because many of the mechanic are the same or at least similar (but heavily watered down) and I don't want to type it twice :P
The four horsemen were Thane Kor'thazz, Sir Zeliek, Lady Blameaux and Highlord Mograine. There is some lore hitch that I don't really remember that required Mograine to be replaced with Baron Rivendare in the level 80 version of the fight. Each of the bosses did relatively high melee damage and had another special ability. Kor'thazz called meteors down on a random person and it did a boatload of damage, but, if there were other people near the target, then damage was split amongst all the people it hit – just like meteors from the anubisath in AQ20 and AQ40 – so if it only hit 1 person, it was probably a 1-shot but if it hit 10 people, then all 10 took a little bit of damage. Zeliek had a spell called Holy Wrath that acted like a chain lightning with holy damage and the damage got more severe with each person it chained to. Blameaux summoned void zones on the ground that did a whole bunch of damage would kill anyone but a tank that stood in it for more than 1 or 2 ticks. Compared to the others, Mograine was fairly tame because he only did damage to the tank, but he hit like a truck and he had a chance on hit to proc bunch of fire damage (gogo fiery enchant!).
The bosses each applied their own mark (Mark of Zeliek, etc.) which would stack with itself but not with marks from the other horsemen. The marks were not resistable, could not be removed in any way and ignored immunities (iceblock, pally bubble, etc.) and they did increasing damage based on how many stacks you had. Health pools were pretty low back then and the damage from a fourth or fifth mark was nearly fatal for most classes. The Horsemen had a 75 yard range with the mark so you had to rotate early and often because you would usually pick up a mark while you were running to the boss and another while you were running away. Since they were cast every 12 seconds, and you never wanted more than 4 or 5 stacks, you only really had around 30 seconds of dps on a boss before you had to start moving again. The marks had a 90 second duration back then which is incredibly long compared to the current version which is in the neighborhood of 20 seconds (I don't remember exactly how long, but I think its about 20s) and depending on how quickly you were rotating, it was entirely possible for you to start on Horseman X, rotate through the other 3 Horsemen and get back to X and still not have had Mark of X expire. If that happened, you had to go into the safe spot and wait for your marks to expire before you could safely join the rotation again. Since the Horsemen had a much longer range than they do now, the safe spot was pretty tiny and required the tanks to position the horsemen as deep into the corner as possible or else the safe spot wouldn't exist at all. And back then, after you killed a horseman, his spirit stayed at the spot where he died and continued casting marks so even if you had an insane amount of dps and could zerg one down, that quadrant of the room was still dangerous.
Since the marks did a relatively large amount of damage, even the tanks couldn't stay in place for very long and survive. After a while, guilds were able to do it with only 6 or even 5 tanks, but for the first kill and to play it safe, you really wanted to have 7 or 8 tanks. With 8 tanks, you would have 4 of them start in the safe zone and 4 of them on bosses. When the tanks on the bosses picked up 4 or 5 marks, they would call for relief and the 4 tanks hanging out in the safe spot would go and taunt the bosses and then the tank rotation would begin. Depending on how many tanks your had, they might be continuously rotating around the room or you might only have 4 main tanks moving around the room while the others just went in and out of the safe zone as relief only. Either way, there would be a lot of taunting going on and back then, spell hit and melee hit were two separate things and taunt was only affected by spell hit so resisted taunts were at least a hassle, and at worst, fatal. Before people were exposed to this fight, the 4 piece set bonus on T3 (+5% to hit with taunt) seemed dumb, but after this fight it all made sense.
If you think about it, threat should have been a complete non-issue on the fight – the tanks are taunting off of each other and therefore conserving a threat pool while the DPS is only really generating threat on a particular boss for 30 seconds or so and then rotating around the room for at least 90 seconds. On a fight like 4HM where everything else is so elegantly handled, making threat a complete joke would have been awfully ham-fisted. I don't really remember exactly how the designers overcame that problem but they did. I recall talk of the Marks reducing threat by half when they were applied and I remember talk about a share threat pool. I don't know if anyone conclusively determined how the threat mechanics worked on that fight, but whatever it was, tanks actually had to work for it. It wasn't overly difficult to hold aggro during the fight, but you couldn't be asleep either.
When the horsemen hit 75%, 50% and 25% they would cast shield wall which lasted for long enough and reduced damage enough that it was not worthwhile at all to keep dpsing them which added another twist to the rotation since people were better off just going to the safe spot than taking damage from marks while doing relatively little damage to the boss.
You had tanks rotating around the room and the entire raid taking damage which meant that healers had to be really good to switch targets and keep everyone up as well as rotating themselves. The entire raid was contantly in motion. And as much as you tried, people were bound to get out of sync with each other so the group you started with probably wouldn't be the same as the group you would end up with. That meant it wasn't really feasible for a raid leader to try and direct the fight, everyone had to keep track of things on their own which added another layer of difficulty.
The fight was just so elegant and such a pure execution fight and that is what made it so great. There were only two legitimate reasons for people to fail on the fight 1) they didn't have enough tanks or 2) they didn't execute. Number 1 was a legitimate gripe, the fight did require an awful lot of tanks and it's a real pain in the ass to wipe for logistical reasons. But once you had enough tanks, the only other failures came from execution. The fight wasn't a dps race and it didn't have any significant randomness so you didn't have to worry about RNG or passing a gear check (if you got there in the first place, you had enough gear). You didn't have to worry about weird new mechanics and the fight wasn't resting on the shoulders of a select few people. It all came down to having the right strategy and having everyone in the raid be able to execute it.
Of all the fights in Naxxramas that have gone from hard at 60 to laughable at 80, this one is the only one that I am really disappointed with. I am not surprised or angry or upset about it, just disappointed. I can't imagine how they could have possibly tuned this fight for 25 people, let alone 10, while still keeping the difficulty and the spirit of the fight alive. Then again, Blizzard is a lot more creative than I am and a lot better at making designing a video game so I had hoped that they would figure something out. I think I am most disappointed because the whole point of re-releasing Naxxramas was so that a much larger audience could experience a fabulous dungeon with excellent boss encounters. But this fight in particular had to be nerfed quite hard in order to go from 40 down to 25/10 people and because it was a step above the rest of the instance in terms of difficulty at 60, it had to take an extra whack of the nerf bat in order to be suitable for an entry level raid. The end result is that after all that, it really isn't the same fight anymore. It's a catch-22, in order for the masses to experience the encounter, it has to be nerfed to such an extent that the masses are only experiencing a shadow of a reflection of the original.
That said, the new version is a good fight, it fits well with the rest of the instance, it requires newcomers to have their heads on straight and its not a total pushover. I am sure Blizzard could have changed some elements of the fight to make it closer to the original and therefore a lot harder, but then lots and lots of people would be getting stuck on it. Having a boss that it is a wall is ok when it is the hardest dungeon and it is one of the last bosses i.e. the original 4HM, the original Mother Sharaz, M'uru. Hardcore raiders may bitch and moan a bit when they are banging their head against a really hard boss, but really, they are used to it by now and most actually relish the challenge. But you just can't do that to casual/social raiders. My only regret is that Blizzard took the very best fight from vanilla WoW (maybe all of WoW) and made it just another entry level raid encounter. The current incarnation is not a bad fight by any means, its just not special anymore.
Well, after that trip down memory lane, I can talk about the fight as it stands today. The major mechanics of the fight are the same, the bosses put up marks on everyone in range but the range and duration of the marks is a lot shorter and the damage relative to your health pool is a lot lower. The marks will still kill you if you let them stack too high, but just about everyone in the raid can live with up to 5 stacks without being in mortal danger and since the range is much smaller, you get a lot more dps time. The bosses still have the same abilities, void zones, holy wrath and meteors, but I am not really sure what Rivendare does, if anything. Blameaux and Zeliek automatically run to their corners when you pull and they just sit back there and chain cast and never melee which means they are tankable by just about anyone with a decent sized health pool. Kor'thazz and Rivendare also run to their corners when you pull but they can and will move around and melee people so you will want to put proper tanks on them.
The way my guild does the fight is to zerg down Kor'thazz as fast as possible because once one of the horsemen is down, the fight becomes terribly easy. Everyone pops cooldowns and burns Kor'thazz like mad. Last week, in the 25, we killed him before the second mark was cast. I think the goal for a guild new to the fight should be to get him down by the time the fourth mark goes off or at least get him low enough that the tank can finish him off. If you can't quickly kill Kor'thazz quickly (this is usually the case in the 10man or in the 25man if you are new to the fight), you will want the Kor'thazz and Rivendar tanks to switch. We have all the DPS stay in the corner while the tanks (along with a healer usually) run toward each other and they each taunt the other guy's boss. Then the tanks run with their new boss back to the same corner they came out of. So nobody actually rotates or changes sides except the bosses. Then the dps hits Rivendare until they get four marks again and the tanks switch back. During the tank switches, and when DPS is on Rivendare, Kor'thazz can be pretty dangerous because his meteor will be hitting only two people – the current tank and his healer (who is standing on top of the tank so that meteor damage is split). After another four marks, the tanks switch back and this time, Kor'thazz will almost certainly die to the second round of dps. After Kor'thazz dies, the dps moves back to Rivendare once their marks have expired and they finish him off.
While all that is going on in the front of the room, we have a few healers in the back of the room 'tanking' the caster bosses and rotating with each other to keep their marks low. You could also have some people with high hp back there tanking, but that means less dps up front. The only hitch is that if no one is in range of Blameaux/Zeliek, they will start nuking the entire raid and they won't think that anyone is in range of them unless your healers back there take some aggressive action against the boss. Think of it like tapping a mob anywhere else in the game, a single melee swing or a dot is enough – you just have to let them know you are there.
Once Rivendare and Kor'thazz are dead, the dps heads to the back of the room to clean up back there. Zeliek's chain lighting can and will kill a bunch of people if all the melee flood in there so we have them go to work on Blameaux first and then a couple at a time can go work on Zeliek. As a tank, I don't really have anything else to do at this point. The two bosses in the back don't need real tanks and I am just making Zeliek harder if I try to dps him so I go and tank Blameaux for a little while. When I have a couple marks from her, I run out and go /dance in the middle of the room until the fight is over. I am helpful.


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THE PARTY AIA Austin's Women in Architecture committee, chaired by Wendy Dunnam Tita, kicked off its inaugural Shape the Conversation event series with a grand opening party in downtown Austin.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 6 (Reuters) - California
Democrats, whose supermajority in the state legislature was
effectively lost after two party lawmakers were either indicted
or convicted of criminal wrongdoing, proposed a sweeping package
of ethics reforms on Thursday.
The proposal comes against a backdrop of renewed focus on
ethics in the legislature of the most populous U.S. state after
California state Senator Ron Calderon was indicted on corruption
charges last month, and fellow state Senator Roderick Wright was
convicted of voter fraud and perjury.
The criminal proceedings add to concerns that surfaced
earlier this year when the California Fair Political Practices
Commission sent warning letters to elected officials saying
fundraising parties thrown for several lawmakers and the
governor by a prominent lobbyist were in fact illegal.
"The good legislative work that we do is only as good as the
public's perception and trust in the legislature," Senate
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announcing the legislation.
The legislation proposed on Thursday would ban elected
officials in California from accepting any gifts from lobbyists
and would reduce the value of gifts that could be accepted from
other sources. It would also ban fundraisers at lobbyists'
The proposal would also expressly forbid officials from
accepting certain types of gifts that have nothing to do with
lawmaking, including tickets for theme parks and professional
sporting events, spa and golf trips or cash and gift cards from
anyone, whether or not that person is a lobbyist.
A spokesman for Republican leader Bob Huff said the reforms
seemed appropriate, but that his party had not been included in
the process of developing them and so had not yet examined the
proposed language closely.
Calderon, part of a decades-old California political
dynasty, surrendered to authorities last week to face two dozen
counts of bribery, fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. On
Monday, he said he would take a leave of absence from the
legislature while court proceedings resulting from a federal
corruption indictment take place in Los Angeles.
A week earlier, Senator Roderick Wright also took a leave of
absence linked to his conviction in January on eight counts of
voter fraud and perjury after prosecutors said he did not live
in the Southern California district that he sought to represent
in the Senate.
Wright has asked the judge in his trial to reject the jury's
verdict, saying California's law on where lawmakers must live is
too vague.
Both men will be paid while on leave. But the absence of the
two lawmakers means that Democrats have effectively lost their
two-thirds majority in the state Senate, necessary to raise
taxes, sell bonds or put certain measures before voters.
However, because they are leave and have not been expelled
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Steinberg, who granted paid leaves of absence to both men
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expulsion of the two senators.
But Steinberg, who controls what legislation gets to the
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the rules committee, which he chairs. The proposal was quashed a
second time on Wednesday, when Steinberg declined to bring it up
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text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices turn up slightly on Monday, nudging yields down, as the lack of a deal in Washington to avert a wide slate of tax increases and spending cuts that begin to take effect at year-end -- in just hours -- deflates confidence and is seen as likely to slow the economy. Yields on 10-year notes TMUBMUSD10Y, -3.45%, which move inversely to prices, fell 1 basis point to 1.70%. "As we look to Wednesday morning and ponder an opening trading day for 2013 without a budget plan, the knee-jerk reaction will prove bearish for risk assets as higher taxes and lower government consumption will take a toll on growth -- at a very minimum they'll distort the economic data for January, making it harder to gauge the pace of the recovery," said bond strategists at CRT Capital Group. "Any elevated growth concerns should benefit Treasurys." U.S. bond trading is expected to end at 2 p.m. Eastern time and remain closed Tuesday for New Year's Day.


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Recently, Kelly Marie Alvarez of Lawn Fawn stamps sent me two very cute clear stamp sets:
My Silly Valentine and Plus One. For today's tutorial, I used the valentine set. Even though it says valentine, they are also great for everyday love and friendship projects.
- I stamped them onto cream cardstock and made tags out of them.
- I colored the stamped images with watercolor pencils for a soft look.
3. Now these tags would great as journaling spots, gift tags or even on cards.
Hope you enjoy this mini tutorial and Happy Tuesday :)


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The BCD996XT Uniden's APCO-25 Capable desktop Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture. This scanner became available to the market in July, 2009. It is an upgrade to the BCD996T. (The BCD996P2 is an upgrade to the BCD996XT.)
Bold features are newly added in this model over the BCD996T.
This scanner is compatible with the following Trunking System Types and System Voices used in the RadioReference Database, of course you must verify that the scanner will cover the appropriate frequency range:
Press and hold 2,9, and Hold, power on the scanner to re-initialize the Memory and restore the Preloaded systems. When it asks do you wish to restore the preloaded systems press the E/Yes key. WARNING This will erase any personal programming you may have done to your DMA.
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GASTONIA � Kris Lang is continuing to pursue basketball championships, this time in the Venezuelan League for Cocodrilos de Caracas.
Lang, a 1998 Hunter Huss High graduate, is averaging 12.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 46 games and has helped his team advance to the second stage of the Venezuelan League season.
Cocodrilos de Caracas went 36-17 to finish second in the regular season race and is 4-4 in the second stage.
Lang, a four-year starter at the University of North Carolina from 1999-2002, had previously helped teams win league titles in the Polish League (Anwil Wloclawek) and the National Basketball Developmental League (Asheville Altitude).
Pro baseball
Alex Castellanos (Belmont Abbey 2007-08) is hitting .286 in three games with the Los Angeles Dodgers since being promoted last week.
Blake Lalli (Gardner-Webb 2002-06) is hitting .268 with six home runs and 13 RBIs in 28 games for the Nashville Sounds. Nashville is the Milwaukee Brewers� Class AAA Pacific Coast League affiliate.
Devin Harris (Ashbrook 2006) is hitting .264 with 16 home runs and 48 RBIs in 65 games for the San Jose Giants. San Jose is the San Francisco Giants� Class A California League affiliate.
Jake Buchanan (North Gaston 2007) is 7-1 with one save and a 1.99 ERA in 17 appearances (12 starts) for the Corpus Christi Hooks. Corpus Christi is the Houston Astros� Class AA Texas League affiliated.
Preston Lyon (Forestview 2008) is hitting .231 with one RBI in seven games for the San Angelo Colts of the independent United League.
And three players are on rosters but have yet to play this season � Mitch Harris (South Point 2004), Julian Ridings (Crest 2010) and former Gastonia Post 23 and Gastonia Grizzlies standout Tyler White.
Harris is on the State College Spikes roster. The Spikes are the St. Louis Cardinals� Class A New York-Penn League affiliate.
Ridings is on the Hudson Valley Renegades roster. The Renegades are the Tampa Bay Rays� Class A New York-Penn League affiliate.
And White is on the roster of the Houston Astros� Rookie League Gulf Coast League affiliate.
Pro football
Cameron McGlenn (South Point 2006) has 22 tackles and three pass interceptions in three games for the New Orleans Voo Doo of the Arena Football League. The Voo Doo (3-9) host the San Antonio Talons on Friday.
And Julian Rauch (Ashbrook 2003) has converted 31 of 38 extra points and missed four field goal attempts in six games for the Pittsburgh Power. The Power (3-9) visits the Orlando Predators on Saturday.
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Julian Schnabel broadens his canvas for his fourth film, "Miral," turning his lens on multiple protagonists and a half-century of Middle East strife. On the face of it a bold undertaking, the Jerusalem-set feature plays out with an awkward staidness, the results not so much prismatic as fragmented.
The story of four Palestinian women, "Miral" is no political tract but a melodrama, emphasis on heartache, selfless sacrifice and often lush visuals. The painter-turned-director knows how to manipulate his widescreen images to create a rarefied atmosphere too.
But while style had an illuminating power in "Basquiat," "Before Night Falls" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," here it feels as self-conscious as the script's simplified history lessons.
Adapting her autobiographical novel, journalist Rula Jebreal traces the matriarchal lineage of the title character. The story begins decades before her birth, in the days preceding the establishment of Israel. Hind Husseini, the woman who will become Miral's surrogate mother, rescues dozens of Palestinian children orphaned in a 1948 attack on their village.
Played by the fine actress Hiam Abbass (best known stateside for "The Visitor"), the well-to-do Hind is an intriguing character, never looking back as she welcomes hundreds of orphans into what would become Dar Al-Tifel, a school that's still functioning. Two brief, evocative scenes with a visiting American (Willem Dafoe) suggest a path untaken, but Hind's emotional life goes unexplored.
Instead Abbass is burdened with stilted expository dialogue and a series of increasingly gray wigs as the story progresses and Miral (Freida Pinto) takes center stage.
In the "Slumdog Millionaire" actress' performance, the center does not hold. Miral, who falls in love with a political activist, is meant to be the inheritor of her biological mother's emotional fragility and her aunt's passion for justice. The lovely Pinto is able to lend her role a youthful tenderness, but her fire burns only so deep.
The lack of a compelling lead figure, combined with Schnabel's tentative approach to the material, casts the film's later stretches in the balmy glow of soap opera.
Using the touch-points of 1967's Six Day War and 1987's
, when teenage Miral is galvanized into action by the sight of Israeli bulldozers razing Palestinian homes, Schnabel paints a convincing picture of displacement and life under occupation. Without undue emphasis, he and cinematographer Eric Gautier use the parched landscape — they filmed in Jerusalem — and its checkpoints to eloquent effect.
The film works best in its depictions of everyday negotiations, as when Miral's cousin begins dating a Jew (played by the director's daughter, Stella Schnabel).
"Miral" doesn't aim to present every point of view, only that of its characters. There's nothing "anti-Israel," as some have claimed, about its earnest, if simplistic, call for compassion and peace. One of the strongest scenes involves a would-be act of terrorism by a Palestinian and unequivocally identifies with the intended victims. And Miral's journey leads her back to her gentle father (Alexander Siddig) and to Mama Hind, voices of patience, moderation and love.
MPAA rating
: P-13 (for some violent content, including a sexual assault)
: Hiam Abbass (Hind Husseini)), Vanessa Redgrave (Bertha Spafford), Willem Dafoe (Eddie)
: Directed by Julian Schnabel; written by Rula Jebreal; produced by Francois-Xavier Decraene. A Weinstein Co. release. Running time: 1:46.


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SPRINGFIELD, La. – The Lipscomb Bisons golf team is heading to Louisiana, but birdies will be on their minds more than gators and gumbo.
The Bisons are coming off a fourth place finish last week in the Grover Page Classic in Jackson, Tenn. They will be seeking a higher finish at the ninth annual Carter Plantation Intercollegiate hosted by Southeastern Louisiana.
The 54-hole tournament starts Monday with two rounds followed by the final 18 on Tuesday. The course is par 72, 7,104 yards. It is the home course for Southeastern Louisiana from the Southland Conference and is considered to be one of the best courses in the United States.
Teams were scheduled for practice rounds Sunday.
"We are doing what we need to do two-thirds of the time," said Will Brewer, Lipscomb's director of golf. "It is a mental game.
"I think our ball striking is getting better. We still need to putt a little better. We still need to think and process things a little better."
The Bisons were in the hunt for first place in the Grover Page Classic. But the final four holes dropped them to fourth.
"They are not used to being in a position to win," Brewer said. "Until you do it, you don't totally believe you can do it. Had we finished strong at Grover Page we would have won it.
"That is what I am trying to get them to think about. It is 54 holes. It is not 48, 50 or 51. The team that plays the best for 54 holes is going to be at or near the top."
Blanton Farmer, Dustin Wilder, Paul Kleine-Kracht and Ryan Terry are the four players Brewer is counting on the most as they continue to improve their games.
"Blanton is playing well," Brewer said. "Dustin and Paul are starting to play better. Ryan is coming into his own as a player.
"We are very close. It is a matter of can we put it all together for three rounds of competition. I think we can."
Also in the field are Austin Peay (Ohio Valley Conference), Jackson State (SWAC), Louisiana-Monroe (Sun Belt), New Orleans, Nicholls State (Southland), Oakland (Summit League), Oral Roberts (Southland), Sam Houston State (Southland), South Dakota (Summit League) and Southern Illinois (Ohio Valley).
"There are a lot of quality teams," Brewer said. "We are excited.
"It looks like the weather is going to be good. With two tournaments under our belts we should be prepared and ready to go."


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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
This is only in TLR stratos where to put it simply, shit happens
|2012-11-12, 04:27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
I don't know, man...
I see the prologue as some sort of "spark" that starts the story off.
And this may sound stupid to ask, but does IS Academy have the best medical tech? Being able to treat something like a collapsed lung like it's nothing?
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|2012-11-12, 06:30
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
Got it
I've also been wondering all this while... Some robots tend to have a classification of their own even though they're basically mechas:
Gundam - Mobile Suits
Muv-Luv - Tactical Surface Fighters
I wonder, for those who are doing battle/powered armor units for their respective OCs, are they going to have their own classification or are they going to be referred to as simply "battle armors"?
I've only done about 4 chapters for the re-write so far but it feel stale having the Minerva simply classified as "battle-armor"... I need to think of another term to replace it.
|2012-11-12, 08:51
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
Eh, I don't mind it. :P
Have a short scene:
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|2012-11-12, 09:00
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
@stratos: The plot thickens... DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. Seriously though, good work. Rarely see briefing/info review scenes.
@jak: been contemplating your question and I'd have to answer no. They don't have a reason to have such extensive space and equipment dedicated to the medical field.
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Location: Delusion world
-Please note that I am more of an idea and concept person... I can tolerate terrible story so long as I feels that the idea and concept is interesting and good.
- Please note that I have certain....dislike due to certain ground rules when it come to IS-versewhich can be violated so long as the Author presented some good reason/idea/concept).
>> No Killing of IS pilot (not cool, IS is presented as a sport...you don't kill a baseball player for being good at batting...or able to throw fastball)
>> Tabane is one-of-a-kind genius and should be remains as such.
>>>By extension: which is why no technology is allowed be more advanced or equal than IS (Due to canon ruling that IS are black-box which nobody could figure out) (However, I am very lose about this ruling so long as there is a good reason...or the technology presented is distinctively different from IS)
Anyway, unfortunately most of the Stories in FF feels the same for me.... -_-. so I will mention the notable one and the ones which I remembers(I have bad memory)
Stratosphere's Athena Series. (It is more interesting....because no IS-users are actually harmed in the process . Only Drones...)
Note: Killing IS pilot is not cool...even if they are in super advanced powersuit...
Sacred Twin (Twin-cest is winsome and Ichika is smarter).
Daydreams of Maidens in Love (More character and Less action(Most fanfic writer focus too much on action element and forget that IS is still a harem story...The action elements usually take back-seat to harem antic.)
Stories by Squall 'Tabuukilla' Lione....are awesome but I just don't like.....that much. (I think it is due to a combination of testosterone poisoning (the stories) and over-dose(over-dose from reading other fanfic).....)
Infinite Stratos: Angelic Descent..... it is quite...good...*Twitch*Twitch* (read above for reason why twitching). I just ignore a few minor points to enjoy the story.
Author's story which I suggested to Avoid:
Rukotaro and Rukko
|2012-11-12, 20:42
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
As for why it's different, it was mostly to give a different flavor. Hell, my fanon has FOUR kind of machine that is basically I.S.-knockoff. With only difference in abilities but mostly not cosmetic.
All of them went into general classification of Stratos-class Powered Armor or Powered Exoskeleton.
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Unidentified man, c. early to mid-1870s
Carte de visite portrait by unidentified photographer
Image © and courtesy of Diana Burns
This carte de visite, like the hand coloured portrait which I described in the previous post, was sent to me by Diana Burns, who says:
In the case of the "Man with Strange Eyes," I had at first thought the CDV had been tampered with, but close inspection would suggest that his eyeballs were 'enhanced' over the original photo, although why I don't know.
There is a very simple explanation to why the young man's eyes look as though they have been tampered with - they have! The photosensitive emulsions used on early photographic glass plate negatives were far more sensitive to blue, violet and ultraviolet light than that of other wavelengths. This made the colours from the blue end of the spectrum appear abnormally dark on the negative, and hence very light on the albumen print produced, for example, on a carte de visite.
To counter this effect, a retoucher would be often employed by the photographer to pencil in the eyeballs appropriately on a print or, less frequently, to alter the negative. It was a tricky process to get right, particularly on the small format of cartes de visite, but obviously worked to the customer's satisfaction in most cases. Over time, while the emulsion on many examples has faded, the retouching has not, leaving the very odd "piercing eyes" effect which is very commonly observed in many old portraits from the first few decades. In this particular portrait, the dots of black ink have not been added very carefully, so now that the contrast has been enhanced by fading of the sepia, the large size, odd shape and misplacing of the surrogate irises seems very odd indeed.
Digitally recreated negative
This peculiarity of early photographic emulsions being not equally sensitive to all wavelengths of light, also resulted in the "shades of grey" - actually sepia - that were produced on prints from the 1850s through to the 1880s not being the same shades as those that might be produced by the same sets of clothes, skin tones, hair and backdrops in a studio today. In addition, too much white or light coloured clothing could easily result in an over-exposed, washed-out effect. Studio photographers would therefore often provide detailed guidelines on what colour clothes their customers should and shouldn't wear when visiting for a portrait.
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Example of unretouched albumen print, showing "pale" eyes
Detail from stereographic print of family of Charles and Lucy Stratton, c. early 1880s
Image © and courtesy of Liz Stratton
After reading this article Liz Stratton very kindly sent me some scans of a stereographic portrait of her ancestors (Stratton family photo), which demonstrates how such a lightening of the eyes would look in an unretouched state. Being from the early 1880s, by which time technology had developed somewhat, the effect is somewhat less than it might have been in earlier years. I have some earlier examples which show the effect and, if I can find that "safe place" where I put them, I'll feature scans in a future Photo-Sleuth article.


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The movement to "reform" the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a citizen-enforced law that requires public agencies to analyze environmental impacts of significant proposed projects, is gaining strength in 2013. Everyone from the Governor to the Senate President to business groups to public agencies are joining forces, singing the same anti-CEQA song.
Their evidence that CEQA is broken? A heaping of random anecdotes of CEQA abuses, and one misleading law firm-backed study of a small group of outlier appellate cases. Meanwhile, the overwhelming trial court data reveal a different story, as documented by NRDC and the California League of Conservation Voters. In fact, according to the NRDC/CLCV data, CEQA litigation is hardly widespread or the all-powerful tool of nefarious NIMBYs and rival businesses or labor groups that reformers claim.
CEQA reformers' argument is that since CEQA was passed, new environmental laws and standards have been enacted, negating the need to study most impacts in advance. State Senator Michael Rubio carried the torch last year, proposing a secretive and last-minute bill to essentially replace CEQA review by deferring to project compliance with existing environmental standards.
This is where the lame San Diego transportation plan comes into play. Under SB 375, the state's land use climate change law, San Diego was supposed to develop a regional transportation plan that would meet state-developed greenhouse gas targets. San Diego would do this by encouraging development near transit and discouraging sprawl-inducing transportation projects. But the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), the local transportation planning agency responsible for drafting the plan, responded by essentially fudging numbers based on inputs like proposed freeway construction to reduce traffic, increases in telecommuting, and job losses from the Great Recession. Using these factors, SANDAG's projected emissions dipped in the short run just enough to meet the targets, before rising again by 2050 — in short, a total failure to make a good-faith effort to implement the law through long-term changes in land use and transportation planning (see chart below).
In response, environmental groups sued SANDAG under CEQA to enforce meaningful change in the transportation plan. SANDAG ignored a host of options: reconsidering transportation projects in the pipeline as discretionary so they could reprogram those funds, revisiting their sales tax plan that mandates too many highway projects, and generally promoting more infill development instead of sprawl throughout the north county. The trial court agreed, finding against SANDAG last month.
You'd think the SANDAG case would cause the environmentally minded infill proponents who are backing CEQA reform to reconsider their standards-based plan. But instead, State Senate pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Senator Rubio, both pro-infill supporters of CEQA reform, have held up the lawsuit as an example of CEQA abuses. After all, SANDAG met the SB 375 standard, right?
Their arguments are misguided and counter-productive. In this case, San Diego met the targets through creative statistics and an emphasis on highways and sprawl, running completely counter to the clear SB 375 intent. Relying solely on these targets would result in worse environmental outcomes and more sprawl. CEQA was therefore needed to hold SANDAG's feet to the fire and encourage meaningful compliance.
I'm sure enforceable, aggressive environmental standards exist that could replace CEQA review in certain instances. But replacing CEQA almost wholesale in favor of these standards is fraught with disaster, as the SANDAG case exemplifies. After all, what do we do when the standards are weak? Or when there is no mechanism to enforce meaningful compliance with the standards, as in the SANDAG case? Or when the standards are in place precisely in response to concerns over citizen suits under statutes like CEQA – pressure that would disappear with CEQA suits?
I'm all in favor of looking at ways to reduce barriers to CEQA compliance for environmentally friendly projects, such as certain infill development, public transit, and renewable energy installations. But a gutting of CEQA protection in favor of reliance on broad, inconsistent, and sometimes unenforceable standards is too much.
Californians deserve a more thoughtful approach to CEQA reform, and I hope the Legislature will deliver it in 2013 (perhaps as a positive indication, Sen. Steinberg and Rubio have already launched a CEQA "listening tour").
And I also hope that CEQA reformers who claim to support infill and urban development actually read the SANDAG plan before holding it up as an example of something worth preserving. Now that's a standard I could support.


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I don't know that I can say anything about the 142nd Open Championship that hasn't already been said from a fan perspective. Anytime you come down to the final nine holes on Sunday at a major championship - and there are still a handful of players in contention to win, you know you're in for a special and dramatic ending. The fact that Phil Mickelson shot an incredible 32 on the final nine - and ended up winning going away, says so much about his talent, his heart and his place in the game. Congratulations to Phil on his first Claret Jug and his fifth major championship.
As a teacher of the game, one thing that I really enjoyed was seeing how Phil managed his way around the course. His mental strength was evident when he hit what he thought was a perfect shot on the par 3 16th, only to see his ball roll back 20 yards off the green. Rather than resign his fate to bad luck, he converted a tough up and down to save par. On the 17th, he showed his considerable golf skill when hit what he called "two of the best 3 woods of my life" to get on the green in two and make an easy two-putt birdie to widen his lead. And then the guts he showed on the final hole, hitting a six iron just past the bunker to 15 feet of the hole, which led to a final birdie and clinch his win, was all the evidence you need to know that you've watched the complete player. In fact, it was like watching a fine artist paint with many colors to complete a beautiful picture.
As you watched Mickelson work his way around Muirfield, you may have noticed the constant deliberations he had with his caddie, 'Bones' McKay. They are not just talking about yardage and wind direction, they are talking about the type of shot Phil wants to hit. Mickelson is the rare golfer who can hit three or four types of shots to every target. He can hit the high fade, the low draw, the punch shot, spin it back, etc. Many of his conversations with Bones during the round would be his intention to "ride the wind" or "turn it over" and talking through which options provided the best chance for success. Obviously, this helps him manage his way around the course in better fashion than most. Obviously, his artistic skills have every type of color, brush and texture. But he gets the most out of each of them.
I find this to be so critical for golfers to get the most out of their game. Not that anyone expects you to have all the shots Phil Mickelson has, but you should practice a wide variety of shots, understand what you can hit on demand and then manage your way around the course based on what you can do. It sounds simple but most amateur golfers tend to practice one type of shot, accept it as all they have, and then force that into situations where it can hurt more than help.
So what do you do?
1.) Practice a variety of shots: Most players understand when they need a chip vs. a pitch, and certainly, you should practice both. But how about the low punch with a five iron that might run out a long ways towards a downhill green? And can you play both a fade or draw with off the tee? (The more you practice learning how to curve the ball the better you will become. If you can make the ball curve right to left and left to right you can probably find straight. And more important when you lose control you can get it back.) Introducing a variety of shots to your reportoire will make practicing more interesting, more fun and help you in a variety of situations. You will probably find a number you can pull off, a few you can't, and a few you want to keep working on.
2.) Understand what you can do: Once you've practiced hitting the high draw, it becomes more than just an option when you need it on the course, it can become a scoring weapon. That back left pin is now a birdie opportunity, not a menace to your scorecard. You now have more tools to help you recover from errant tee shots, or more alternatives to get close to the hole after missing the green. Golf is not just about hitting your good shots well, it's about the ability to recover from your misses (and we all miss!)
3.) Manage your game: One of the most common mistakes by all golfers is knowing the shot that's needed is not one they can consistently pull of - and trying to do it anyways. If you don't have the high, soft fade; don't go for that back right pin. If you can't draw the ball with a driver, don't try to cut the dogleg. In time, you may develop those shots you need (keep practicing) but until you can pull off the shot seven or eight times out of ten, stick to what you know on the course. It may mean hitting away from the pin on certain greens. That's okay. Your scores will reflect smart decisions as much as your golf skill at the end of the round. I often encourage students to go out and play 9 or 18 with just 3 clubs. Most will pick a 5, 6, or 7 iron, a wedge and putter. And amazingly, they often end up shooting one of their best rounds.
There are always multiple ways to approach a hole and the old adage is, "There's no room for pictures on the scorecard." Whether you have championship skills and can decide to hit a knockdown 7 iron into the wind or are just trying to learn to hit a pitch shot over a bunker, know there is no one right way to play a hole or a round - and the more variety of shots you have, the better your chances of success.
Jack Nicklaus once told Jim Flick that "Golf is a game of emotion and adjustments. It is about reading yourself at any point in time both Physically and Mentally to pick the best shot for you to get the most out of your game". That is profound when it comes to understanding the game. Picking the shot is an art. We had a chance to witness a true artist today at Muirfield. Wishing you all the best in your artistry as well. Enjoy the game and the Journey that golf takes you on.
Mike Malaska is the PGA Director of Instruction at Superstition Mountain Golf Course and Las Sendas Golf Clubs. Malaska is the Worldwide Director of Jack Nicklaus Golf Academies and was the 2011 National PGA Teacher of the Year. Malaska is the author of the golf instruction book "I Feel Your Pain" and is a consultant for TaylorMade Adidas. He can be contacted via his website www.malaskagolf.com


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• The Schedule
Game No. 12
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Cal State Fullerton Titans
at UCSB's Thunderdome
Radio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara
Livestats: UCSBgauchos.com
On-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
On-Line Video: BigWest.org
Game No. 13
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at UC Riverside Highlanders
at UCR's Student Recreation Center
Radio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara
On-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
On-Line Video: BigWest.org
• Tickets Available For All Gaucho Games
Plenty of great tickets remain available for every UCSB men's and women's basketball game the rest of the season. To purchase or for more information, please visit the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, call 805-893-UCSB(8272) or click here.
• Williams Passes Pimm For All-Time Victory Lead
UCSB's 58-57 win at Cal Poly on Monday night gave the Gauchos a 1-0 record in Big West play and also pushed head coach Bob Williams to the top of the school's all-time list for coaching wins. Williams, who coached his 222nd win and tied Jerry Pimm's previous mark on Dec. 13 at the University of San Diego, has now guided the program to 223 wins in his 13-plus seasons.
• The Gaucho Record
UCSB is 6-5 after opening Big West play with a 58-57 win at Cal Poly on Monday night. The Gauchos are 1-0 in league play for the first time since the 2007-08 season. The win over the Mustangs also ended a three-game losing streak and a three-game road losing streak.
• UCSB Returns Home...Briefly
The Gauchos' game at the Thunderdome on Thursday night against Cal State Fullerton will be their first home game since a Nov. 30 double overtime loss to UNLV (94-88). Since that gut-wrenching defeat to the Runnin' Rebels, UCSB has played five games, all on the road, going 2-3 over that span. The game against the Titans will be the team's first home game in 35 days.
• Johnson's Late Three-Pointer Gives UCSB Narrow Escape At Cal Poly
Orlando Johnson's three-point basket with just over five seconds to play helped UCSB escape Cal Poly with a 58-57 win on Monday night. It was the second straight year that the Gauchos defeated the Mustangs by one point on a late shot. In 2011, a James Nunnally basket at the buzzer did the trick. Santa Barbara, which led by as many as 13 points in the second half, went without a basket for more than seven minutes prior to Johnson's game-winner. The Gauchos were led by freshman forward Alan Williams who posted his first career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Johnson, Nunnally and Nate Garth each added 12 points.
• Johnson Becomes Eighth Gaucho To Score 1,400 Points; Nunnally Is Next
During the four-game road trip that was completed at BYU on Dec. 22, Orlando Johnson became the eighth player in school history to move past the 1,400 point mark. He tallied 12 in the Big West-opener at Cal Poly and now has 1,436 in his career, fivth all-time. The only other player to score 1,400 or more in fewer than four seasons was Doug Rex (1968-71) who finished his career with 1,434. James Nunnally also scored 12 at Cal Poly and now has 1,370 points, 10th in school history. He needs 30 points to move into ninth all-time and when he does so, he will become the ninth player in school history to eclipse the 1,400 point mark.
• Probable Starters - Quick Fact
F 0 Jaimé Serna - Had seven rebounds at Cal Poly, two more than previous three games.
G 10 Kyle Boswell- Started the last two games after coming off the bench in first nine.
F 21 James Nunnally - The only Gaucho to score in double-figures in all 11 games.
F 24 Christian Peterson - After one game off the bench, was back in starting lineup at Cal Poly.
G 33 Orlando Johnson- 12 points at Cal Poly moved him into fifth on UCSB's all-time list.
• Probable Reserves - Quick Fact
G 1 Nate Garth - Made all four of his shots and scored career-high 12 at Cal Poly.
F 5 Keegan Hornbuckle- Played 10 or more minutes in four straight games.
G 11 T.J. Taylor - Played a season-low four minutes at Cal Poly.
F 15 Alan Williams - Had career-highs of 13 points, 10 rebounds and 29 minutes at Cal Poly.
F 12 Lewis Thomas - Did not play in the win at Cal Poly.
G 43 Duke DaRe - Walk-on from De La Salle HS has yet to play in a game this season.
C 55 Greg Somogyi - His 161 blocked shots rank second in school history.
• Playing The Percentages
UCSB limited Cal Poly to 37.7% shooting in the Big West opener for both teams on Monday night. It was the sixth time in 11 games this season that the Gauchos have held an opponent below 40.0% shooting, but it was the first time in four games that they had accomplished the feat. Santa Barbara has yet to allow an opponent to shoot above the 50.0% mark. The highest field goal percentage by an opponent this season was the 48.3% that BYU shot on Dec. 22. On the other side of the coin, UCSB is shooting 46.3% as a team and has been over 40.0% 10 times in 11 games and over 50.0% three times.
• Three-Point Bounce Back
After a three-game stretch when they allowed opponents to make 25-of-50 three-point attempts, the Gauchos limited Cal Poly to just 4-of-18 from outside the arc, 22.2%. Also, after a two-game stretch in which it made just 8-of-33 three-point tries, 24.2%, UCSB was a decent, if not spectacular, 8-for-20 against the Mustangs, 40.0%. After a one game switch, the Gauchos are now outshooting their opposition from three-point territory, 35.1% to 34.2%.
• Half And Half
UCSB has scored 30 or more points in 18 out of 22 halves this season. Two of the Gauchos sub-30 halves came in Monday night's win at Cal Poly when they scored 29 in the first half and 29 in the second half. The other two came in a Dec. 19 loss at Cal when they had just 23 in the first half and 27 in the second.
• Costly Throws
Since making a season-best 85.7% from the free throw line on Dec. 13 at San Diego, UCSB has gone into a free throw shooting tailspin. In the last four games, the Gauchos have gone 31-of-53 from the charity stripe, 58.5%. They were just 8-of-14 on Monday at Cal Poly.
• Johnson Makes His Points
Even when Orlando Johnson had a tough shooting night, he made the biggest shot of the game. Despite going 4-for-14 in the Jan. 2 win at Cal Poly, it was Johnson's three-point basket from deep in the right corner with just over five seconds left in the game that gave the Gauchos a 58-57 win over the Mustangs. Making his second start at point guard, he finished with 12 points in the game. On Dec. 22 at BYU, Johnson made his first start at point guard and had one of his best shooting games of the season, making 10-of-16 shots and scoring 22 points. Johnson continues to lead the Big West in scoring at 20.2 points per game. He has scored 20 or more seven times in 11 games this season. Johnson scored a season-high 36 points while adding 10 rebounds , four assists, three steals and a pair of blocked shots in UCSB's double-overtime loss to UNLV on Nov. 30. The 36 points were his second highest total ever and the double-double was one of four that Johnson has recorded this season. In addition to UNLV, he had double-doubles against Washington (24 points and 10 rebounds), Portland (26 points and 12 rebounds) and Westmont College (20 points and 12 rebounds). Johnson has now scored 10 or more points 10 times in 11 games this season and 71 times in 73 games during his career. He not only leads the Gauchos in scoring (20.2 ppg), but also in rebounds (7.0 per game) and assists (2.8 per game). Since collecting a total of five rebounds through the first two games, he has had 72 in the last nine games, 8.0 per game. The 12 points that Johnson tallied at Cal Poly pushed his UCSB career total to 1,436 ranking him fifth on the school's career scoring list. He needs 145 points to move into fourth all-time. If the 383 points that Johnson scored as a freshman at Loyola Marymount are factored in, he has now tallied 1,819 in his collegiate career. Recently, the only sore spot for Johnson has been free throw shooting. Normally a very dependable free throw shooter, he has gone 7-of-17 (41.2%) in the last four games.
• Second To Nunnally
Senior James Nunnally had 12 points and five rebounds in the win at Cal Poly. He made 4-of-10 shots overall and 1-of-5 from three-point range. He was coming off of one of his best games of the season. On Dec. 22 at BYU, Nunnally responded to consecutive season-low 10 point performances by making 9-of-13 shots overall, including 1-of-3 from three-point range, and scoring 22 points. He also collected seven rebounds, three assists and a pair of steals. He is now averaging 16.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, ranking second on the team in both categories. Nunnally is the only UCSB player to score 10 or more points in all 11 games this season and the 22 he had at Provo gave him four 20+ scoring efforts this season. Also, by scoring 12 in the last game, he closed in on the number nine spot on UCSB list for career points with 1,370 and needs just 30 more to become the ninth player in school history to move past the 1,400 point mark and when he does so, he will be in ninth. If/when Nunnally does achieve 1,400 points, it will be the first time in school history that two players have exceeded 1,400 career points in the same season. When Nunnally scored 20 and 24 in the first two games of the season, it marked the first time he has scored 20 in back-to-back games since mid-February of last season. He has had a season-high eight rebounds four times this season and he's had five or more nine times in 11 games.
• Making A DisSERNAble Difference
Jaimé Serna scored a season-low two points in the Jan. 2 win at Cal Poly, but he added seven rebounds, two blocked shots, three assists and a steal. Serna attempted just three shots in 26 minutes against the Mustangs, equaling his fewest this season. In UCSB's Dec. 22 game at BYU, Serna scored 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting. He has scored in double-figures six times in 11 games and is averaging 9.9 points per game, third on the team. On Dec. 13 at San Diego, in the first Gaucho road game of the season, Serna scored a career-high 22 points and tied a career-high with five blocked shots. He also swatted a USD lay-up attempt in the closing seconds to secure the win. Serna has attempted just 61 shots in 11 games this season, 5.5 per game, and made 42 of them, 68.9%. In the last nine games, he has hit 37 out of his 52 attempts, 71.2%. Serna has been perfect from the field in three games this season. He went 4-for-4 vs. Westmont and then had 5-for-5 efforts against Portland and UNLV. In his career, the Laguna Beach, Calif., native has now made 277 of his 495 field goal attempts, 56.0%, the third highest mark in school history. In a Nov. 22 win over Portland Serna tied his career-high with 10 rebounds and had 15 points to record his second career double-double. He is also fourth on the team in rebounds at 4.2 per game, but prior to collecting seven boards at Cal Poly, he had just five over a three game span.
• Who's The Bos?
Guard Kyle Boswell is fourth on the team in scoring at 7.4 points per game. He had just three points on Jan. 2 at Cal Poly and has scored in double-figures just once in his last eight games, a 10-point performance on Dec. 22 at BYU. Boswell, who made his first start of the season at Provo and has now started the last two games, added a career-high four assists against the Cougars. He continues to lead UCSB in three-point field goal percentage at 42.5%. Boswell is second on the team with 17 three-point baskets and has made at least one in five straight and 10 times in 11 games. He hit one at Cal Poly, a pair at BYU and has two or more five times and season-high three in wins over Chapman and Westmont. Boswell tied what was then his career-high with 11 points in the Nov. 11 opener against Chapman. He then set new career-highs in the next two games, going for 12 on Nov. 15 vs. Santa Clara and 15 on Nov. 18 against Westmont.
• The Other Williams
It was fitting that freshman Alan Williams had his biggest game of the year in a win that pushed head coach Bob Williams to the top of the school's all-time coaching victory list. Playing a season-high 29 minutes off the bench, Williams scored 13 points, collected 10 rebounds, had two assists, one blocked shot and a steal. The point, rebounds and assist totals were all season-highs. He made five of his seven shots, also highs. Williams has been one of the team's most productive players. He has 39 points and 45 rebounds in just 100 minutes of play. He is averaging a team-high 18.0 rebounds per 40 minutes played and, despite playing more than 10 minutes just four times, has five or more rebound five times. Williams ranks fourth on the team in rebounds at 4.5 per game despite ranking ninth in minutes played.
• Somogyi Makes Most Of His Minutes
Senior Greg Somogyi hasn't played a lot of minutes in recent games, but by and large he's made the most of the minutes he has played. In the last five games, Somogyi has totaled 49 minutes and although he scored just 14 points in those 49 minutes, he has also collected 20 rebounds and blocked 11 shots. On Dec. 16 at Washington, he played 12 minutes and scored a season-high seven points while collecting six rebounds and blocking two shots. Somogyi has, in fact, had four or more rebounds in five of the last six games, never having played more than 14 minutes in any. Also, with his three blocked shots on Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, he now has 24 on the season and 161 in his career, second on UCSB's all-time list. Somogyi blocked a season-high six shots in just 15 minutes on Nov. 26 against San Diego State. He also had five on Nov. 15 against Santa Clara and now has five or more 10 times in his career, also second in school history. Finally, the 7-foot-3 Hungarian holds UCSB's all-time record for blocks in a game with eight on Feb. 20, 2010 at Fresno State.
• Garth Comes Alive
Junior Nate Garth, a transfer from New Mexico, has come off the bench in the last two games. His first non-starting role didn't pan out too well. On Dec. 22 at BYU, he played 10 minutes, was scoreless and had four turnovers. In his second appearance off the bench, things went much better. On Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, Garth logged 17 minutes and scored a career-high 12 points. He had by far his best shooting night of the season as he was a perfect 4-for-4 from the field, including 3-for-3 from three-point range. While he only had one assist against the Mustangs, he did not turn the ball over. For the year, Garth is now averaging 4.3 points, 2.5 assists and 2.2 rebounds per game. He had a season-high six assists in a Nov. 22 win over Portland and has had four or more four times. His previous scoring high this season came on Dec. 16 at Washington when he tallied eight points.
• Taylor Made
Freshman T.J. Taylor played a season-low four minutes in the Gauchos' narrow win at Cal Poly on Jan. 2. Prior to the game against the Mustangs, his season-low for minutes played was 14 and he played 17 or more nine times in 11 games. Taylor missed his only field goal attempt in the win at Cal Poly, a three-pointer. He is now averaging 3.6 points, 2.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game. He has made at least one three-point basket six times this season, including three of the last four games. He scored a season-high 10 points vs. UNLV on Nov. 30 and had a high of six assists in the season-opener vs. Chapman.
• Hornbuckle Expands His Role
Sophomore Keegan Hornbuckle has played in six games since returning to active duty for UCSB. After playing a total of 13 minutes in his first two games back (vs. UNLV and at San Diego), he has played 10 or more in four straight, averaging 14.5 over that span. In the last four, the transfer from Colorado has averaged 5.0 points and 1.7 assists per game. Hornbuckle had a season-high 11 points on Dec. 16 at Washington.


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Hello all,how do you do all? I am fine alhamdo lilah.
I know that I didn't write for longe time ,that because I was studying during the summer holiday 5 subjects to prepare for the 6th grade and Finished them all but I felt relly tierd .
There was bad event in this summer holiday ,(hnk told you about that ) IN 14/7 from this year which was Friday (which Muslims used to go the Friday prayes in the time of afternoon prayer )In that day my father was invited at his friend house to have lunch with many others doctors after doing friday prayer so at 3p.m Aunt N uncle K's wife (they are living in Baghdad )called dad when he was taking the lunch at his friend house and told him the uncle K died in bomb in the mosque where he was doing the prayer with his father in law (Aunt N's father ) It was avery hard news to my father (a wife of one doctors who was there told my mother that the doctors there ,offered to my father that the would drive him home because they saw the effects of that bad news ,but Dad refused),so my father called my mother and told her to prepare her self to take her and went to my grand father house to tell him about my uncle(when my mam told us I didn't believe and start to cry and I was going to a lecture of English but I can't go and my tears full of tears I would not understand anything because my mind think of what heppened ) ,and in their way grandfa'shouse my father called my uncle uncle H and told him what happened and ask him to start talking about the news there ,and when they reached there uncle H had them and they saw all there crying and didn't believe what heppened .
And in that days the situation in Baghdad was bad ,and we should bring my uncle 's body here to bury it here so my garand father prevented my uncles to go to Baghdad and bring it becasue of the bad case so they asked one of the drivers who is working in the way between mosul and baghdad to go there and bring it with Aunt N ,Uncle K's son was here in mosul from the begining of the holiday he is 14 years old and the bigest of his brothers and sister ,It was really gard day to all the family .
After that my uncle R called from out side Iraq and I think he felt that there is a strange thing had happened so my father told him what had happened (one of uncle R's friendstold us that when uncle R heard that sad news he closed the door of his flate and unlocked his mobile for three days 'he is very kindhearter ') So he asked my father to bring my grand mother and grand father to Syrai to see them after the heppening so in 30/7 we went to syrai and met uncle R and spent nice time there .And we star there fore 17 days ,I felt so happy to see uncle R
after 8 years because I love his personality so much and I really hope to see him again soon
my war wuth the 6th grade started from 2weeks and I must be more stronge to win the war with high marks .I need your prayer to win this war
Now we are in Ramadan this is the best month in the year ,I love this month soo much because I feel that I can conrol my self. from eating and drinking for 14 houres .And after Ramadan we will be in Al ieed inshallah .
ok now I must go now
See ya ,
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Hello all,how do you do all? I am fine alhamdo lilah.
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