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The Example Administrator subscriber account in Cisco Unity performs the following functions:
Demonstrates the properties of an administrative subscriber account
Functions as the owner or recipient of call handlers
Acts as the default member of the default public distribution lists
After you install Cisco Unity, do not delete Example Administrator until you transfer its functions to another user within Cisco Unity.
Caution: If you delete Example Administrator before you transfer its functions to another user, you can cause failures that include:
When users access the opening greeting, they receive the fail-safe message "Sorry, this system is currently unavailable."
Users are unable to route some message types, such as system and undeliverable messages.
When users attempt to address a message to a public distribution list, they receive a fail-safe message.
This document describes how to set up a true administrative subscriber account and delete the Example Administrator.
Readers of this document should have knowledge of these topics:
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Structured Query Language (SQL) table administration with Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager
The information in this document is based on all Cisco Unity 3.x versions.
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
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By default, you cannot delete the Example Administrator subscriber account through the SAWeb interface. It is the only account for which the red X (Delete) button in the top, right corner of the window is dimmed, as shown here:
Instead, you must delete the account directly from the SQL database. Before you do so, however, you must create a new administrative subscriber account.
Before you delete the Example Administrator, follow this procedure to create a new administrative subscriber account.
Click the blue + (Add Subscriber) button in the top, right corner of the window.
This allows you to create a new Exchange account or import a preexisting Exchange account.
In this window, a new account called "Unity Administrator" is created:
The subscriber name is arbitrary, but the subscriber template assigned to this new account is not. The Template field should be set to {Default Administrator} Template, as shown above. This assigns to the new administrator a class of service (CoS) of {Default Administrator}, which allows the account to:
Access SAWeb
Create, edit, and delete any of these:
distribution lists
Perform other administrative tasks
Click Add to create the account.
In the Profile window, either uncheck or leave checked the Set subscriber for self-enrollment at next login and List in phone directory check boxes.
These features are optional. You may also record a voice and greeting, which is optional but recommended. This window shows these options:
After you create the new Unity Administrator subscriber, you need to associate the call handlers and public distribution lists that the Example Administrator owns with the new Unity Administrator. For fresh installs, there are only three call handlers and three distribution lists that you need to change. This can be done in SAWeb. For preexisting installs or sites with multiple custom call handlers, the best way to make these changes is with the Bulk Edit utility found under Drive:\CommServer\Utilities\BulkEdit.
In Cisco Unity 3.1, the owner of a call handler does not have any real bearing on the functionality of that call handler. It is good practice to update the Owner field on the Profile page of a call handler. This prevents the generation of unnecessary errors when you run the DBWalker utility.
It is imperative, however, that you update the Message Recipient field on the Messages page of that handler. If you do not change this field before you delete the Example Administrator subscriber, the fail-safe message is played when that handler is reached over the Telephone User Interface (TUI). If that handler has any messages, they are undeliverable and completely lost. The Message Recipient setting does not need to match the Owner setting on a call handler.
This window shows the Bulk Edit utility:
The All Call Handlers radio button has been clicked, but it is much easier to perform these steps:
Click the All Call Handlers owned by this subscriber: radio button.
Click Find and search for the Example Administrator.
This lists only the call handlers owned by the Example Administrator.
Click Next.
At the next screen, click the Profiles tab, and click the Set Owner to this subscriber radio button.
Click Find.
The Subscriber Search dialog box appears.
Select the Unity Administrator account, as shown in this window, and click OK:
Click Next.
The Bulk Edit - Apply Call Handler Changes window appears.
Click the Update Call Handlers button, shown in this window, and watch the progress bar:
When it has completed the update of the handlers, a dialog box shows the number of warnings and errors encountered during this process (see Step 10).
Be sure that there are no warnings or errors (as show below) and if there are please check the Bulk Edit log for details.
The above procedure should now be repeated with the Bulk Edit to complete the change over. Complete these steps:
Click the All Call Handlers with this subscriber as the message recipient radio button.
Click the Messages tab.
Click the Set the Message Recipient to this Subscriber radio button in the Message Recipient area.
Complete Steps 5–10 of the first procedure provided in this Update Call Handlers with Bulk Edit section.
At this point, check some of the call handlers in SAWeb to verify that the changes have occurred. The first place to look for the call handlers is the Profile pages. This example window shows the Opening Greeting:
The change was clearly successful because the new Unity Administrator appears in the Owner field. If you need to change this again, click the Change button and select another subscriber.
To verify the message recipient, click the Messages link in the menu at the left side of the window. The window below shows the change made with Bulk Edit:
To change the recipient, click the Message recipient drop-down arrow and choose a recipient type. Click Select. This selects the subscriber or public distribution list that receives messages that are left for this call handler.
There are no tools currently available that allow real-time changes to the Owner field of public distribution lists, directory handlers, and interview handlers. You must make such changes manually in SAWeb.
By default, there are only three distribution lists: allsubscribers, systemevents, and unaddressedmessages. Follow the procedure provided in this section for each of these lists.
Note: For the three default lists, the Example Administrator is the only member after a new install. You need to add the new Unity Administrator account to these lists to replace it.
Access the desired distribution list in SAWeb.
On the Profile page, click the Change button next to the Owner field.
Choose Unity Administrator.
Save the list.
Repeat Steps 1–4 for any other distribution lists that have been created since the installation of the server.
Repeat Steps 1–4 for all directory and interview handlers.
Note: Interview handlers are similar to call handlers in that they also have a Message Recipient that you must set to the appropriate subscriber.
The last place to check for references to the Example Administrator is the Event Notification Utility (ENU). Each event can have a separate notification destination and, sometimes, multiple notification destinations. By default, an event is set to notify the systemevents public distribution list. Because the new Unity Administrator should already be a member of this distribution list, you usually do not need to add the Unity Administrator to this list.
If new events have been set up for notification, however, it is important to be sure that they are not set to the original Example Administrator. In this example, the Disk Almost Full event is configured to send notification to Unity Administrator instead of the Example Administrator or the systemevents distribution list:
The window shown in the The Example Administrator section of this document shows the red X (Delete) button for the Example Administrator dimmed. You cannot delete the account from within the SAWeb interface. You must remove the subscriber directly from the database, as described in this procedure:
Open SQL Enterprise Manager, and navigate to the UnityDB database of the Cisco Unity server.
Click Tables and, in the main window, right-click the Subscriber table.
Choose Open Table > Return all rows, as shown in this window:
When all the subscribers are displayed, look under the Alias column for the Example Administrator.
Right-click on this row and choose Delete, as shown in this window:
Enterprise Manager displays a dialog box that warns you that the deletion is permanent.
Click Yes in the dialog box to confirm the deletion of the Example Administrator.
At this point, it is safe to delete the account from the directory as well. If you have Cisco Unity integrated with Exchange 5.5, you can delete the Example Administrator recipient in Exchange Administrator. If you have Cisco Unity integrated with Exchange 2000 and Active Directory, use the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in to delete the user account. The window shown in Step 5 above illustrates how to select and delete the Example Administrator account.
Return to the Subscribers page in SAWeb and search for the Example Administrator. You should not find it, as shown in this window:
After you have completed all the procedures presented in this document, be sure that the Cisco Unity system continues to function properly and that you do not encounter the fail-safe message. These tests should suffice for verification:
Call into a few call handlers now owned by the new administrative subscriber. The original greetings that were used before the change should still function.
Leave a message for the same call handlers. Then, verify that the messages are delivered to the mailbox of the new administrative subscriber.
After you dial into Cisco Unity, attempt to address a message to a public distribution list owned by the new administrative subscriber. Another easy test is to search the directory for the distribution list. If everything has been done properly, fail-safe should not be heard when the directory handler returns the names of the lists.
Close all Internet Explorer browser windows. Attempt to log in to SAWeb using the new administrative subscriber account.
Run the DBWalker utility to check for any other broken links that may have been missed, such as call handlers or call routing rules that point to the Example Administrator. Be sure to always download and use the latest version of the DBWalker tool.


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There's reason for question the plan, as I'll describe below, but it's notable how the New York Daily News and New York Post editorial pages, steady backers of Atlantic Yards, have discovered their inner Daniel Goldstein, fervently denouncing the "scheme."
(It's also notable that the public gets a voice decide--though it should be pointed out that a Monday in August is not exactly designed for mass turnout. Neither the public nor local elected officials voted on support for Atlantic Yards. Note that the Nassau County Legislature and then the Nassau Interim Finance Authority would then decide.)
Were the editorial pages just bamboozled by "Jobs, Housing, and Hoops"? Is this "good government" week? Or did someone (Rupert, Mort?) make the call?
Meanwhile, "thousands of union workers, Nassau County officials, hockey fans and Islanders players" held a rally this week, the business community is opposed, the rival teams Devils and Rangers registered their support, and Governor Andrew Cuomo stayed studiously neutral (in contrast with his office's unyielding support for Atlantic Yards, a state project).
Here's some audio on the debate.
Some contrasts
It's not at all the same funding mechanism as that for the two baseball stadiums in New York City and the Atlantic Yards arena--the questionable but legal use of tax-exempt bonds as PILOTs (payments in lieu of taxes), a magic trick that requires tax-exempt land and diverted phantom taxes.
Nor is the $400 million sought from voters to be used for land purchase and infrastructure, as the nearly $300 million in direct funding (plus much, much more in indirect support) for Atlantic Yards.
Rather, Nassau Coliseum backers want voters to pay for construction--but, unlike with Atlantic Yards and the two stadiums, at least the government would get a percentage of rent.
Not a simple call, but reasons for skepticism
The Long Island Press, in a 7/28/11 article headlined A Hard Look at Ed Mangano and Charles Wang's Plan to Rebuild Nassau Coliseum, concluded:
An analysis by the Press—consisting of dozens of interviews, from residents and business owners to lawmakers, Isles fans, county officials and members of LI's building and business sectors, including [owner] Wang and [county executive] Mangano themselves and a review of all published assessments of the proposal outlining its positives and consequences, should there be inaction—reveals strong arguments on both sides of the heated debate. By its designers' own admissions, there are still additional documents yet to come (including a much-touted non-relocation agreement that would theoretically bind the team to the Coliseum), along with further details to be explained. Yet, simply put, the upcoming much-hyped referendum raises more questions than proponents have answers.Well, we know the value of architectural renderings--not much, since they can always be replaced, as with Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards plan.
Nassau voters are being asked to evaluate an incomplete proposal on a building with no architectural rendering, differing projections from varying county departments and a loosely defined financial guarantee from the team the arena is supposed to house.
And it's interesting to see the press latch on to differing economic projections--an ongoing issue with Atlantic Yards.
The article, by the way, points out how the establishment does not support the plan. Association for a Better Long Island (ABLI), which represents some of the largest developers and real estate professionals on Long Island, thinks the county has much more pressing needs:
"This has nothing to do with the Islanders," says [ABLI's Desmond] Ryan. "He [Wang] bought the team. It's costing him money. He made a bad deal now he wants the taxpayers to bail him out."Hence the value, in the case of Atlantic Yards, in spreading the costs/tax breaks among larger entities: city, state, and federal government. Were "Brooklyn" independent--the way AY proponents and naming rights sponsor talk about presenting the arena "to Brooklyn"--we'd have to pay for it, and maybe think harder.
deMause's take
Not dissimilarly, sports facility skeptic Neil deMause, writer of the Field of Schemes blog and book, is critical, but says it's not a simple call:
Oh, it's way less swindleous than the Yankees deal, surely. But it's still the public putting up 100% of the cost and getting back 11.5% of the revenues, and likely ending up with a loss of at least a few million dollars a year. That might or might not be a cheap enough price to be worth holding your nose and voting for if you're an Islanders fan (or just want this whole soap opera to be over with), but it's hardly a gift to Nassau County.On his blog, deMause added:
If the Islanders were to leave — and I'm not so sure they'd bolt immediately if they lost next Monday, if only because there are so few other options to move to — then having a bunch of county-owned land as an asset wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, especially in a land-hungry market like greater NYC. You'd RFP it out, and see what you come up with.The Daily News
As I've said repeatedly, I don't think the Wang proposal is the worst deal in the world. But as it looks like the county would end up taking a loss, even if not a huge loss, it's certainly worth exploring what the alternatives would be — whether involving the Islanders or not. Otherwise you're just bidding against yourself.
...If anything, this is a good example of how hard it is to fashion a stadium/arena deal that's fair to taxpayers: Here you have a proposal where the team would be paying significant rent, and where the governing body has a legit worry about losing economic activity to neighboring areas (unlike, say, Minnesota, which is just surrounded by more Minnesota), and it's *still* tough to make the numbers pencil out on the public side. People really need to get over thinking of sports facilities as cash cows and realize that, once you factor in construction costs, they're money pits — going halfsies on a money pit might well be preferable than taking on the full load, but it's still nothing to get excited about.
The Daily News editorial, headlined Nassau County Exec Edward Mangano's $400 mil gift to billionaire Charles Wang is bad for taxpayers, makes some reasonable points:
Why should the voters of Nassau reject County Executive Edward Mangano's plan to borrow $400 million to build a new arena for the National Hockey League's Islanders?Funny, but skeptical analyses of the Atlantic Yards arena by the New York City Independent Budget Office didn't provoke similar editorials.
Because, according to the Islanders' own figures, the deal would be a bonanza for team owner Charles Wang while saddling taxpayers with huge risks.
Why else should voters reject Mangano's scheme at the polls Aug. 1?
Because, according to the county's Office of Legislative Budget Review, a new Nassau Coliseum would produce too little revenue to spare taxpayers from having to subsidize Wang's profits.
As with so much of Mangano's pig-in-a-poke proposal, the financial projections are as squishy as they come - one more reason for voters to be wary.
In the Post
The New York Post, in an editorial headlined Vote 'no' on Nassau boondoggle, opined:
Yes, the Nassau Coliseum, where the team now plays, is obsolete and needs to be replaced. But Nassau is a fiscal train wreck, even beyond its killer taxes -- with a projected budget deficit of $225 million and a $4 billion debt load.Hmm, isn't Forest City Ratner getting a lot more than half a billion dollars in (direct and indirect) benefits? Sure, but the costs are spread out.
Voters would have to be fiscal masochists to want to borrow and spend just under half a billion dollars more on a risky, private-sector venture.
The Post writes:
Meantime, there's scant evidence to back the claim that the project, about the size of the current coliseum, would create 3,000 jobs.Well, there's scant evidence to back claims of Atlantic Yards jobs, too.
A columnist's warning
Raymond J. Keating, an economist and conservative columnist, wrote a 7/28/11 op-ed in the Post headlined Madness in Nassau: Nix giveaway to Islanders:
When they dole out corporate welfare to pro sports team owners, politicians always promise huge economic benefits, which never materialize, while ignoring or playing down costs to taxpayers -- or simply wishing them away.And sometimes they muddy the water with outlandish projections about benefits for an entire mixed-use complex, right?
In the Times
The New York Times editorial page hasn't weighed in, but Times Sports columnist George Vecsey today writes, in Where Many Things Besides the Islanders Need Fixing:
Questions about priorities are always worth asking before the public agrees to build new facilities for team owners. The questions seem particularly vital as Nassau County holds a bond referendum on Monday that seems jiggered to produce a new arena for the Islanders.He adds:
Hard-core fans with long memories and hard-hat construction workers with short hopes for work may find their way to vote Monday. Polls suggest a broader swath of the population does not want to subsidize a new arena but may not make it to the booths for a craftily timed Monday vote on the first day of steamy August.
Normally, I am on the side of public projects. I'm all for high-speed railroads and repairing the infrastructure, but not so sure about an arena for a hockey team.He's been a little less exercised about Atlantic Yards.
This proposal reminds me of how New York City lobbied to host the 2012 Summer Olympics based on building an all-purpose stadium on the West Side of Manhattan. The Olympic powers rejected it, rightfully so. All the evidence tells me that big-box arenas and stadiums are often a mom-and-pop proposition for jobs and create dead spaces, just like Nassau Coliseum.
Would the Islanders move (and to Brooklyn)?
Some wonder whether the Islanders would move from their antiquated arena, or whether owner Charles Wang would pony up himself for a new building.
Forbes's Tom Van Riper points out that, while there's a new arena waiting for a tenant in Kansas City, the New York cable TV market is far more attractive.
Similarly, adds deMause, Kansas City is "unlikely to give the Islanders the sweetheart lease they require" and Quebec officials "want way more than 11.5% of revenues - they're looking to go halfsies."
Van Riper thinks Wang might fund a new arena himself, or that the Barclays Center might be modified to house the Islanders. A letter-writer to the Post also suggested the Barclays Center option.
The latter is impossible--the arena's too small for major league hockey.
However, in my admittedly incomplete search, I've seen no discussion of the likely outcome of the closing of the Coliseum: a significant boost in events such as concerts and shows in Brooklyn.


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The next edition of SurgeXperiences (120) will be hosted by Dr. Sid Schwab from the northwest part of the United States near the Pudget Sound. He is a retired general surgeon whose blog is Surgeonsblog. He is the author of the book "Cutting Remarks". If you haven't read it, you should.
He has been on the Dr Anonymous Blog Talk Radio show as both a guest and as a guest host.
Dr. Schwab's request for submissions:
"Having complained previously about themed blog carnivals (while acknowledging that people have a perfect right to do it however they choose), I'm making no suggestions other than getting your entries in on time. Unless an unprecedented deluge leads to more than I can handle, I plan to link 'em all up. So feel free, and freed. And please: lower your expectations."
SurgeXperiences is a blog carnival about surgical blogs. It is open to all (surgeon, nurse, anesthesia, patient, etc) who have a surgical blog or article to submit. The deadline for submissions is April 25th. Please submit your posts here.
Here is the catalog of past surgXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.
Don't confuse "our" Dr Sidney M Schwab, surgeon, with Dr Sidney I Schwab, the neurologist. Dr. Schwab are you related?


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Clifford Smyth
Dr. Smyth earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2001. After postdoctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Mellon University, and M.I.T. he joined the UNCG faculty in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. His research is in discrete mathematics: including combinatorial probability, computational complexity, and discrete geometry.
His current projects include the generalization of the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality to means based on other symmetric functions, the generalization of Reimer's inequality in combinatorial probability, and a study of the effects of vector-host affinity on disease. This last project is part of UNCG's Math-Biology Program.
Past Graduate Students
- Davorin Stajsic worked on the project "Combinatorial Game Theory" under the direction of Dr. Clifford Smyth.


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The 10 Most Creative Families
An American political dynasty to rival the Adamses and Kennedys, the Bush family has been an inescapable fact of American life since the early 1950s. It has produced a senator, two governors, and, most notably, two presidents, not to mention several members of Skull & Bones and two wars with Iraq. The clan also, for a time, threw its cap into the sports ring, when George W. Bush bought a share of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and has made a mark in fashion via Lauren Bush, a successful model and designer who married Ralph Lauren's son David. The saga continues: George P. Bush, son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, recently launched his own political career, in Texas.
The Bush clan, photographed at their summer compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, 1986.
John Forbes Kerry didn't quite make it to the White House, but the craggy former Massachusetts senator, who is fluent in both French and German, gets to fill Hillary Clinton's well-traveled shoes as secretary of state for the next four years. In addition to his political achievements, Kerry, a descendant of John Murray Forbes, a railroad magnate and merchant, has raised two accomplished daughters from his first marriage: Alexandra, a documentary filmmaker, and Vanessa, a physician who founded the Global Health Service Corps. Kerry's second marriage, to Teresa Heinz, linked the Brahmin Forbes clan to the Pittsburgh ketchup dynasty.
John Kerry celebrates his daughter Alexandra's 30th birthday aboard his campaign plane, 2003.
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Taking the Body
Rhys Finnick
October 21 2013 11:59AM
As our own Kevin McCartney documented last week, the Winnipeg Jets use a very aggressive forecheck. The three forwards attempt to trap the puck-carrier in his own corner, sealing off any possible exit strategies up the boards or into the open ice.
Aggressive forechecks are going to get caught up ice sometimes. That's one of the trade-offs of getting beneath your opponent's goal line. However, the Jets' forecheck has been noticably struggling all season, and it may have something to do with a preoccupation towards 'Taking the Body,' even finishing their check after the play on the puck has already been made.
The supposed purpose of finishing a check is to let your opponent know they will be punished every time they touch the puck. It's hard to believe that an NHL player would be intimidated by this Taking the Body approach. Every player league-wide has played high level hockey for the majority of their lives, and yet, somehow, someway they've all found a way to overcome their fear of body-checks and make high calibre plays.. Hockey is a fearless game, and the players who were good enough to make it to the NHL know how to play that way. And yet some coaches expect their players to finish every check, to Take the Body - especially come playoff time.
Here is an example of when taking the body was the wrong decision from Friday's shootout win against the Blues:
Bouwmeester (off-screen) has just made a pass from his own end up to his partner Pietrangelo (27) in the neutral zone. Pietrangelo fumbles the puck trying to make a lead pass and turns back to get the puck, putting his body in an awkward position even after he spots Kane (9) making a beeline toward him. But he does it to make a play on the puck.
Kane, determined to Take the Body, doesn't see Pietrangelo's error. Kane instead braces himself for the hit.
Kane has pinned Pietrangelo, but Pietrangelo is the only one who is able to get a stick on the puck, however feebly, and Kane can't even see it. The result was an elbowing minor for Kane, instead of a two-on-one for Kane and Wheeler (26) on Bouwmeester.
From the same game and period, here is another example of Taking the Body gone wrong. This time we see a sloppy forecheck from the Cormier/Jokinen/Peluso line:
Byfuglien (33) starts deep in the Blues' zone, poking the puck up the boards towards Jokinen (12) and away from Polak (46) and Sobotka (17). Jokinen ignores the puck, instead electing to run over Sobotka, who still manages to get the puck by Jokinen and towards the blue line. Byfgulien covers over top and a board battle throws the puck back behind the Blues' net where Sobotka and partner Shattenkirk (22) both go to retrieve it. Peluso (14), who has been covering for Byfuglien at the right point, races in to hit Sobotka, but neither looks at the puck nor tries to get a stick on it. A couple seconds later, the Blues are able to break out of their zone with all three Jets forwards starting their back-check from below the goal line.
This is all not to say that Taking the Body is always a bad hockey play. A body-check is meant to separate the player from the puck, but there is a much more effective way to Take the Body and still give yourself a chance at gaining puck possession. We saw Byfuglien do it in the play above, in fact. Vancouver's Sedin twins are masters of Taking the Body effectively. Though they are often mislabeled as soft, the Sedins play a very physical game based around Taking the Body, gaining possession, and starting a cycle.
Here's a example from a couple seasons back against the Blue Jackets:
You can see here that Dorsett (15) and Henrik Sedin (33) are both tracking the puck coming from around the boards, with Dorsett on the inside. Sedin has his stick prepared to poke Dorsett's and his left hand ready to ride the defenceman into the boards.
Sedin presses Dorsett into the boards, Taking the Body, and knocking the puck loose with his stick.
Sedin is then able to use his momentum to push off of Dorsett and gain possession of the puck, eventually leading to a goal for brother Daniel.
There's a right way and a wrong way to Take the Body. Many teams still insist on hitting quantity rather than quality. The idea of body-checking - and by extension Taking the Body - is to use your body to separate your opponent from the puck. When the focus is instead on punishing your opponent, the intensity of the collision often takes both players out of the play. The Jets could make improvements on the execution of their forecheck just by caring about the puck more, and thinking offence instead of punishment.
It's time more teams dropped their focus on making sure players Take the Body, and switched to worrying whether their players Take the Puck.
October 21 2013, 12:30PM
I tend to agree. The idea of 'wearing a team down' is premised on your bottom-6 hitting their top-6. Advanced analytics have shown us that more hitting is correlated with losses because it means you don't have the puck.
Structurally, teams are increasingly organized as power-vs-power - one-dimensional offensive players are falling down lineups around the league and bottom six players play other bottom six players. It's part of the reason teams are in love with power forwards right now - people they can put out against a top line who will get the body on them. Of course, no one considers that Lucic can only exist in the Bruins system that emphasizes 5-man motion and puck support. He's too slow and lazy to make it on the Jets, for instance. He would be used on the 3rd or 4th line and maybe on the PP.
In that shift above, the Jets' 3rd (ish) line of Jokinen/Peluso/Cormier was pounding the Blues' fourth line. We've moved toward having two types of hockey games happening depending on who gets sent over the boards. It's an unfortunate trend to my mind.


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Skip to comments.Poll: Condi Rice tops GOP VP list
Posted on 04/22/2012 12:14:03 PM PDT by Innovative
Republicans are increasingly falling in behind Mitt Romney's White House run, but they haven't got a clue who he should add to the ticket, a CNN/ORC International survey says.
Condoleezza Rice tops the vice presidential wish list among Republicans and right-leaning independents, according to the poll Wednesday. Twenty-six percent of those polled backed the former national security adviser and secretary of state under George W. Bush as Romney's No. 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The FP Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Obama, âLeading from Behind,â Iraq, and More
I have no idea whether Condi is conservative. Her foreign policy expertise is unquestionable ... though, apparently, she and Dick Cheney butted heads quite a bit. She's been largely silent on domestic issues, as a far as I know.
VP polls this early are mostly just name-recognition contests.
Doesn't work for me.
Condi Rice Bio
Professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Professor of Political Science and FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Condoleezza Rice is currently a professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution; and a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of The Rice Hadley Group.
From January 2005-2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush's Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.
If that's the "choice", I'm voting for Goode-Clymer. (and if any freeper is going to whine that doing so will cause Obama to win, I live in Illinois. If you think this state's electoral votes will go to Romney, I have a bridge to sell you). Romney is bad enough, I don't want a running mate who's even MORE liberal.
Really? I question her foreign policy expertise and believe she was in over her head as Secretary of State, and did a lousy job. Her record on Mexico and Israel was awful and ended in failure. Perhaps she'd make a good Ambassador to Russia, if only Bush had given her that post instead...
NO to Socialist Slick Willard !
Gen. Petraeus (sp) is my first and strongest choice. He can lead and implement strategy
LOL Olympia Snowe is going to be available.
Obviously time to call in the Thundering Evangelists to beat somebody down over this one.
Obviously time to call in the Thundering Evangelists to beat somebody down over this one.
Pull black voters? No. Won't happen.
Key state? No. Rubio helps with hispancs and Florida.
Women? Perhaps. But I doubt it really closes the gender gap in VP position.
Better to pick a VP that guarantees major swing state and helps with Hispanics. Seems like Rubio to me.
I am tellin' ya... A dark horse candidate is going to be able to harness the Christian Right. That can be something close to a third of all voters... If everything aligns, and I am hoping YHWH grants it, conservatives could really get a win with a 3rd party this time.
Oh boy politico bull shit again.
They imagine they can continue to get work ghost writing books and commenting if they can control the Presidential candidate.
That happened to the Democrats a bit earlier, but it's the same problem.
These fringe groups need to be RETURNED TO THE FRINGE. It's time for the PEOPLE to move in and take over their own processes.
She'll tell you her liberalism up front.
You just know that boy ain't gonna' do that !
Likely voters? Nope. Registered? Nope. And does "independents who lean towards the GOP" mean main-stream conservatives? Nope.
But she is black and a woman...isn't that all that counts?
>I have no idea whether Condi is conservative.<
Did you observe her at the 2002 State of the Union address when Bush declared Islam to be a ROP?
She appeared to have a Chris Matthews moment complete with a tingle up her leg.
NO. Granted, she is much more dignified than Biden, but she is not pro-life, and that will matter if she is needed for a tie-breaker in the Senate.
I will say, though, that it would just frost Michelle Obama to have an attractive black woman on the opposing ticket.
She's bland and boring. AND the worst political piano player since Richard Nixon.
Might I humbly suggest that her foreign policy experience and prescriptions were unquestionably nonsensical. Nothing about her political persona suggests she is anything but a OWG apologist and domestic policy naif.
That said she would probably add considerably to the "electability" of the ticket (more a comment on the imbecility of the electorate), even thought the result would not be helpful to humanity.
I could hold my nose and vote for Mittens, on about 1/3 of those picks, just to get that person as a front runner for next time around. Any of the rest, and I will be voting for Gary Johnson of the LP.
While we generally agree, I find something far more nefarious to be afoot. I am among those who believe that the two parties seem to be acting in unison - The Left foot and Right foot of the same behemoth. Since before Reagan, the only opposition has come from the Goldwater/Reagan Conservatives, and to a lesser degree, our Libertarian cousins.
I have already been of a mind that it is not salvageable without 'watering the tree of liberty' for some years now - So any attempt in the political arena would really have to be an Hail Mary Pass... And as to that pass, if my fellows have the stones for it, I will gladly push all my chips to the center of the table, hoping against hope that they prove me wrong... Because there are otherwise only two alternatives when one gets down to it - fight or chains - And both of those paths are grievous endeavors.
But then, wisdom comes late to the masses, and few remain who would lead them well, if they would be lead... In the end, I fear, it will be bread and circuses... Bread and circuses.
Romney/Rice 2012... Somebody better gear up the Rice-A-Romney graphics :P
"Romney-Rice vs. Obama-Biden (or even Obama-Hillary)— that would surely be interesting."
Except she's said repeatedly she's not interested.
I could live with choice #2: Romney-Santorum. :-)
I believe Condi voted for Obama last time around. That should qualify her as a good VP alternative him, should Biden stop playing the court jester. Condi won't change the black vote, and she won't do much for the feminist vote. She isn't going to help with the Hispanic vote, and she won't tip the scales in Florida. In her case, the PC VP doesn't help much. Romney needs a VP who will attract voters he otherwise won't get.
She would not deliver black votes any more effectively than Michael Steele delivered black votes.
Nice try, Politico.
LOL! don't give Obama White aka Romney any ideas. You know Orin Hatch may be looking for work too
Didn't Condi support affirmative action?
Didn't Condi support affirmative action?
On the one hand, she could probably destroy Obama on foreign policy. OTOH, she might not get a single black vote outside of Allen West and her own family.
Urges respect & sensitivity in same-sex marriage debate
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged respect and sensitivity in the debate over same-sex marriage. When asked her own views on the subject, however, she ducked the question.
This is an issue that can be debated and can be discussed in our country with respect for every human being, Rice told the News & Record of Greensboro, N.C. When we get into difficult debates about social policy, we get into difficult debates that touch peoples lives. The only thing that I ask is that Americans do it with a kind of sensitivity that real individuals and real human beings are involved here.
In a major defeat for President Bush and other Republicans who hope the issue will rally GOP voters for the November elections, the Senate rejected by a wide margin last week a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Asked for her opinion on the amendment, Rice told the paper, This is not my area of expertise or, frankly, my area of concentration at this point.
Source: Advocate.com GLBT news site , Jun 16, 2006
Message of her candidacy: no ceiling for blacks
Wouldnt a Condoleezza Rice candidacy change America? The very fact that an African American woman could actually become president would send a powerful message to every minority child that there is no more ceiling, no more limit for black Americans in elective politics.
The stain that began to spread through our land when the first slaves landed at Jamestown, VA, would be erased. Condis election would be the last battle of the Civil War, the last civil rights demonstration, the end of a saga that has haunted us since our nation was born. In a land where the signs once read No Irish need apply, wasnt the election of John F. Kennedy the death knell of anti-Catholic bigotry?
If the civil rights movement of the 1960s was animated by the haunting lyrics and melody of the song We Shall Overcome, electing Rice to the White House would send a very different message: We have overcome. And that, apart from Condis obvious merits as a possible president, might just be worth voting for.
Source: Condi vs. Hillary, by Dick Morris, p. 20&181 , Oct 11, 2005
Supports college affirmative action, as beneficiary herself
Rice was under pressure to increase the number of tenured female and minority faculty. Rather than bow to the pressures, Rice charted a centrist course. Admitting she was a product of affirmative action, Rice endorsed using racial and gender preferences in hiring faculty. I am myself a beneficiary of a Stanford strategy that took affirmative action seriously, that took a risk in taking a young Ph.D. from the University of Denver.
Yet, as much as she backed affirmative action in hiring faculty, she strongly opposed it in granting tenure. She consistently refused to give into demands that she favor minority and women professors in granting tenure.
Rice has broken with President Bush to endorse race-based preferences in college admissions. Rice said, I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.
Source: Condi vs. Hillary, by Dick Morris, p.115-118&179 , Oct 11, 2005
Race-neutral preferable, but use race factors until achieved
When the President decided to submit an amicus brief, he asked for my view on how diversity can be best achieved on university campuses. I offered my view, drawing on my experience in academia and as provost of a major university.
I agree with the Presidents position, which emphasizes the need for diversity and recognizes the continued legacy of racial prejudice, and the need to fight it. The President challenged universities to develop ways to diversify their populations fully.
I believe that while race neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.
It is important to take race into consideration if you must, if race-neutral means do not work.
If Romney picks Condi Rice for VP I will just stay home.
No thank you she voted for Obama
Dr. Rice has never run for any political office in her life. She's not about to start now. She's a foreign policy wonk/Russian expert.
A President Rice? Nah.
Second, she's too much an "Inside the Beltway" choice. What I mean is she doesn't have a real base in the country.
Third, she doesn't appear to have much in the way of political skills or likability with a broader public.
Think Nixon picking Henry Cabot Lodge or Dole going with Jack Kemp, candidates who were more "ho-hum" or "who's that" than inspiring.
She wouldn't give me any more incentive to get out and vote this time than I already have.
Condi Rice was a total flop as Secretary of State.
Her most notable accomplishment was the implementation of a cease fire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict that saved Hezbollah from being wiped out and allowed them to rearm.
This came after months of Condi denying that she would support a cease-fire.
Condi is part of the tradition of incompetent female Secretarys of State that continue to this day.
And has everyone forgotten that she openly supported Obama for president in 2008?
milt is the most risk-averse politician I have ever seen. The riskiest choice you could hope for from milt would be a very Anglo-looking Hispanic Man.
Obama-Clinton would scare me because a lot of Democrats who didn't vote for Obama would line up behind Hillary.
I don't know how many votes Condi would bring in, but she would be my first choice.
Oh no! You're talking about trayvon martin killers now!
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4) Contact the bloggers and inform them of the award
So, here we go... 7 things to share about myself.
1) I have been married for more than 10 years now. I met my husband on Saint Patrick's day... not at a bar, but in an Internet chat room. Yes, that may happen all of the time now, but when we met, it was considered "weird". Not only that, I was a freshman in college in Oregon, USA, while he was a student in Ontario, Canada, about 3,000 miles away.
2) Growing up in Oregon, our family spent a lot of time visiting the ocean beaches, which I love (and miss)! As a child I would spend hours on the beach collecting sea shells, searching for that perfect shell or sand dollar. It is one thing that I really miss living where I am now! The ocean is too far away!
3) I am a Master Reiki Teacher and Practitioner! I love working with people and sharing the healing arts with others.
4) Soooooo......... one day, not all that long ago... I was at the check out at Wal-Mart (of course, right?), when I bent down to grab something from under my cart and MY PANTS RIPPED OPEN! And, seriously, I had only bought them a couple of weeks prior. Thank goodness it was a cold day, and I had a coat with me. ha ha... made for a good laugh. Better yet, my sister was there for me to laugh about it with.
5) These are my amazing and crazy three children. They make life chaotic. They make life fun and meaningful. My three most favorite days of my life... the day each of them were born. Those are days, and I'm not exaggerating here.. that I wish I could relive each and every day! Yes, I've been called insane.
6) I have a fear of worms and slugs. I don't think my husband fully appreciates this, and thinks it is some kind of joke to tease me about it. He did not grow up with the giant slugs in Oregon... I don't think he can truly appreciate the grossness....
7) My favorite colors have always been blue and green. I can't say that I ever remember it being pink and purple, like most girls :)
And... now for me to pass on the Stylish Blogger Award! I have recently found the following 8 blogs that I feel deserving of this award. Take a moment to check them out!
1) Being Brook
4 comments:
Congratulations! I have truly enjoyed your blog and enjoyed finding out more about you through your award. Keep up the good work and the great blogging.ReplyDelete
Atleast you were at Walmart when you pants ripped and not like... church. They have a whole website dedicated to the people of walmart. haha :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous family!
I am a new follower, btw :)
I love your story about your pants ripping! Although it may not have been funny at the time, it's funny now, right? ;)ReplyDelete
I am terrified of praying mantis'. Does that make me weird?
Have a great day!
I'm scared of slugs, too! I used to send my brother outside with the salt shaker to kill and remove any slugs before I would go outside!ReplyDelete
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Responsive design has drawbacks for image-heavy sites, an IRWD speaker says.
Don Davis
The proliferation of web-enabled smartphones and then tablets presented a challenge to online retailers: How could they make their web sites designed for computers look good on all the devices a consumer uses?
That led to the emergence of what's called the responsive design approach to building web sites. The idea is that a retailer or other web site owner can design a single site that displays differently depending on the viewer's screen. That, proponents say, would allow the retailer to build and maintain a single site and still have it look good on a PC, tablet or smartphone.
In reality, the approach will work better for some retailers than others, says Raul Justiniano, a web developer for the Original Penguin brand of fashion designer Perry Ellis, who has been trying to employ responsive design principles as he designs and updates pages for OriginalPenguin.com.
He'll expand on his views on responsive design Feb. 12 at the Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference in Orlando, FL, in a session entitled, "Responsive web design: One size fits all, but at what price?"
"I'll explain at the conference the limitations of responsive design," Justiniano says. "There are lots of benefits to having one site that works on all devices, iPads, desktops, iPhones. But there are a lot of shortcomings in what you can do in an e-commerce context."
The big problem Justiniano encounters involves images, which play a big role in promoting products at OriginalPenguin.com, an apparel site. Employing responsive design principles, the site could be programmed to shrink an image by, for example, 50% when presenting a page to a consumer using a mobile phone. But that's not a good solution for OriginalPenguin.com, he says.
"We can't shrink images because our images are important for representing the brands we're selling," he says. "If you shrink the image you're not able to see all the details the users like to see."
Instead, the e-retailer creates different images for smaller screens. For example, a home page image that shows PC users six fashion models might be cropped to show just four models, so that a smartphone user still sees the apparel with sufficient detail. Justiniano calls that approach adaptive, rather than responsive, because it's using different elements in some cases. However, in some respects the site remains responsive. For example, the categories, site structure and product categories remain the same, regardless of the device the shopper is using.
Justiniano says responsive design is a good approach for retailers whose sites rely heavily on text—which can be more easily resized automatically than images. And it may be the most practical solution for smaller e-retailers that lack the resources to create different images, or sites, for PCs, tablets and smartphones.
Internet Retailer's editors asked Justiniano to speak not only because of his 10 years of design experience, but his work before Perry Ellis, which included the creation of print, web and mobile interfaces for such clients as AT&T, Best Buy and PBS.


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KENILWORTH-Ray Tyrel Hanson, age 28, passed away Feb. 2, 2013 at his home in Kenilworth. He was born Nov. 14, 1984 in Price, Utah to Raymond Bruce Hanson and Glenna LaRae Jensen. Ty was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He graduated from Carbon High School Class of 2003 and later attended the College of Eastern Utah where he received his Associates. During his studies he loved being in the school musicals, Jazz Band and as a broadcaster for C.E.U. His life revolved around music and all it had to offer. As an accomplished musician, Ray could play anything by ear with any instrument. Over the years, he received several awards for playing the saxophone and guitar.
Ray loved camping, barbecuing and dutch oven cooking in the foothills of Kenilworth with his buddies. He loved visiting with his family, friends and he loved people of all ages. He will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved him.
Survived by his parents, Ray and Glenna Hanson, Kenilworth; sister, Diana (John) Fredricks, Mingus, Texas; nephews, Levi Denny, Trevor Denny, both of Norfolk, Virg; Zane Denny and Noah Fredricks, of Mingus, Texas; and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins who will miss him dearly.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, J.L. and Leonda Hanson, Joseph L. Jensen and Glenna Chubbuck.
Funeral service, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, 2 p.m., Mitchell Funeral Home (233 East Main Street) in Price. Family will be at Mitchell's Tuesday evening from 6-7 p.m. and Wednesday one hour prior to services. Interment, Cliffview Cemetery, Price. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are always welcome daily and may share memories of Ray at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net


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After years of being ranked as one of the most reliable automakers in the industry, Ford's recent use of in-car infotainment systems have caused it to plummet in quality rankings.
Consumer Reports
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Japanese automakers are taking advantage of Ford's decline with Scion, Toyota, and Lexus sweeping the top three spots. Those three Toyota brands were followed by Mazda, Subaru, Honda, and Acura with all models produced by the top seven brands offering average or better reliability.
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"They've put out some updates to try to address some of those problems for both the transmissions and the infotainment controls, but it doesn't seem to be enough," Fisher said.
Despite Ford plummeting in the Consumer Reports reliability rankings, the company posted a massive profit for Q3 2012. Ford racked up $1.63 billion in profit during the quarter, marking a slight decline from $1.65 billion earned the same quarter of 2011. Ford had a pre-tax operating profit $2.2 billion amounting to $.40 per share. Analysts had anticipated a gain of $.30 per share.
"The Ford team delivered a best-ever third quarter, driven by record results in North America and the continued strength of Ford Credit," said Alan Mulally, Ford president and CEO, in a statement. "While we are facing near-term challenges in Europe, we are fully committed to transforming our business in Europe by moving decisively to match production to demand, improve revenue through new products and grow a stronger brand, improve our cost efficiencies and take advantage of opportunities to profitably grow our business."
However, things don't look is rosy for Ford in Europe with the company reporting a loss of $460 million during the quarter marking a loss of about $1 billion in Europe this year alone. Ford has previously announced that it expects to lose about $1.5 billion in Europe during 2012 and 2013. The automaker plans to restructure its European operations and shed workers.
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A new analytics tool quickly tells e-retailers what consumers think of their apps.
Katie Evans
It can be daunting and time-consuming for e-retailers to keep tabs on how their mobile apps resonate with consumers and measure up against the competition. In many cases retailers must visit app stores such as Google Play and the Apple App Store and read consumer ratings and reviews for both their own apps and those of their competitors to get a good snapshot.
Now a new mobile app analytics tool aims to give brands and businesses that snapshot more quickly. App testing service uTest today unveiled Applause, a free mobile app analytics product that analyzes more than 50 million app reviews for one million iOS apps and Android apps designed for Apple Inc. smartphones and phones using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system.
The Applause technology crawls consumers' reviews and ratings to look at keywords and consumer sentiment to grade apps from 1 to 10 in the following areas:
The total tally of the scores for those areas creates the app's Applause Score, which can range from 0 to 100. If there is not enough ratings and reviews pertaining to a specific area, Applause will not assign a score.
Brands, including e-retailers, can use the Applause score to consolidate all their app store ratings and reviews and quickly get a general feel for what consumers think of their apps, uTest says. They can also look at the specific scores in each of the 10 areas to analyze user feedback about features, performance and usability and better understand what consumers like about their apps and what can be improved. The tool also aims to help app developers compare their apps against competitors to see how they stack up, uTest says.
For example, the average score for of Walmart.com's Android app (all versions) is 59 out of 100. The retailer scores high in usability and lower in privacy. The average score for all iterations of Walmart.com's Apple app, meanwhile, is 56, with similar strengths and weaknesses.
Brands can see one score for all versions of their app or break scores down for each. For example, Walmart.com competitor Target.com scores a 67 Applause score for its Apple app, helped by higher scores for recent versions of the app. For example, the newest iteration of the app garners an Applause score of 73, and the version before that a 78.
Applause says it will eventually include several pricing plans for those brands that want more features and functions but it plans to always offer a free version of the program.
"This type of actionable, explicit app analytics fills an enormous blind spot for brands," says Yvonne Genovese, managing vice president at research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. "Until now, companies merely knew how many stars their app had received, occasionally read reviews, or looked at implicit analytics to infer how users felt about their apps. Now, brands can see results of deep data analysis and make informed decisions about where to best direct resources so apps perform as intended, delight their users and, in the process, maintain an edge on the competition."
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is No. 6 in the Internet Retailer Mobile 400. Target is No. 34.


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When friends or family members choose to open their homes to others, it is customary for guests to offer a gift of thanks in return.
There is the old adage that guests should "knock with their feet" when arriving at a party or social event. This means their hands will be busy carrying a gift or something that can contribute to the event.
Although presenting a gift to the hosts will not guarantee a future invite, it certainly will show the current invitation has been much appreciated.
There are many gifts that can be offered. Some guests choose to bring a dish that can be served or a dessert. Bottles of wine will always fit the bill, unless it is a dry household. However, those looking for other unique ideas can consider the following gift concepts.
1. Picture frame: If the party host is known well -- as is his or her design style -- purchase a picture frame that fits in with the decor. A silver or black frame is generally neutral and can be a go-to choice if one is not certain of the style.
2. Guest book: Having guests sign a book at a wedding or other big event is a customary tradition. The idea can also be applied to smaller gatherings. Hosts and hostesses may want to keep track of those whom they have invited to their homes and re-read in the future the small notes of gratitude that have been expressed by guests.
3. Candles: Candles impart a warm glow in the house, and a decorative set of candleholders and some scented candles can be a wise gift idea.
4. Fine chocolates: Gourmet chocolates will appeal to the sweet tooth in many people. A hostess can choose to keep the chocolates to herself or serve them to the rest of the guests. Select a higher-end brand of chocolates, not simply the standard that is found at the nearest drug store.
5. Houseplant: A decorative houseplant can brighten a home's interior. Plus it's a gift that will grow year after year and can make for a fond memory of a special occasion.
6. Cookbook and cooking supplies: If the party host is a resident gourmand, treat him or her to a cookbook from a favorite chef and include some tools of the trade in a gift basket.
7. High-end linens: A thoughtful gift is a set of monogrammed hand towels for the bathroom or kitchen. Find a company that does monogramming, or purchase the towels separately and then bring them to a kiosk in the mall that does embroidery.
8. Handmade gift: Guests may want to offer a gift from their own kitchens. For example, if someone is known for her decadent brownies, a platter wrapped in cellophane would make a fine hostess gift.
While hosts and hostesses can be in receipt of gifts, it is by no means mandatory. On the flip side, hosts and hostesses can also offer their guests a parting favor as a thank-you for enjoying the event. Food favors or other small knick-knacks are considerations.


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By GARY ARRINGTONSports writer
With a 41-7 victory over the Carbon Dinos last Friday night in Castle Dale, the Emery Spartans claimed the "Coal Bucket" trophy for the 18th time in 20 football meetings between the two schools. Emery joined with Juan Diego and Delta in picking up lopsided region victories.
Juan Diego and Delta are both ranked by the two Salt Lake City newspapers in the top four in 3-A this season. Both schools are undefeated through six ball games. North Sanpete, Carbon and Salem Hills are schools going the opposite direction as those three schools have yet to pick up a victory this season. Emery is 3-3 on the season.
In the ball game, Emery received the opening kick-off and returned it to their own 28-yard line. After Chance Ariotti picked up four yards on a run up the middle, Colby Snow took the hand-off and broke through the line for a 68-yard run and a touchdown. Vern Kofford kicked the extra point. Emery led 7-0.
Carbon then put together what turned out to be their only scoring drive of the night as they also marched 72 yards and scored on a one yard run by their quarterback Blake Najera. The point after kick was good and the score was tied 7-7.
Emery returned the next kick-off to the 28-yard line. After two runs left it third and 10 for the Spartans, quarterback Gatlan Huntington hit tight end Cameron Hansen with a 40-yard pass to keep Emery's drive alive. JT Noyes then picked up 21 yards on the ground for another first down. Ariotti then ran the ball for five yards, seven yards and finally two yards for the touchdown. Kofford missed the kick left and Emery led 13-7.
After forcing Carbon to punt on their next drive, The Dino punter kicked one to the Emery one yard line where it died. Emery picked up four first downs before they fumbled the ball and gave it back to Carbon at their 44-yard line.
After holding Carbon to a minus four yards, Emery blocked the Carbon punt and Emery got the ball at the Carbon 32-yard line. Huntington completed a 20-yard pass to Snow, Snow picked up another eight yards on the ground and then Ariotti scored his second touchdown of the night on a four yard run. Kofford's kick was good and Emery led 20-7 midway through the second quarter.
Emery would score on their next drive as well. Starting at the Carbon 43-yard line, Huntington threw a perfect pass to wide receiver Tanner Procarione for a 43-yard touchdown. Kofford kicked another extra point and Emery led at the half 27-7.
In the second half, Emery's defense limited Carbon to 71 yards of offense. Emery would score two more times in the second half.
On Emery's first drive, Huntington hit Hansen for a 28-yard touchdown and on Emery's last drive, Dalton Judd ran left and scored on a 21-yard run.
Ariotti finished the game with 13 carries for 68 yards and two touchdowns. Snow finished the game with 117 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown. Noyes finished the game with 81 yards on eight carries. Noyes had runs of 65 yards and 30 yards called back by penalties. Huntington completed six of 10 passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns. Hansen caught three passes for 72 yards, Snow caught two for 36 yards and Procarione had the one for 43 yards and a touchdown.
Emery now hosts Juan Diego this Friday night as the Spartans look forward to taking on one of the best teams in the state. Game time is 7 p.m.