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We've watched the incredible skill and beauty of human physicality at the Rio Olympics. In all sports and in everything we do, it takes the coordinated activity of the nervous system, consisting of billions of nerve cells working together. Of course anything performed effortlessly takes years of dedication and practice. That only happens when we repeatedly stimulate and strengthen neurons with repeated use. Our circuits fire better together. But it's not just in sports that repetition is crucial for skill development, but in all learning.In Beautiful Practice, Frank Forencich suggests that every moment of human life is a rep.
Turns out we are always etching grooves in our brains and nervous system, Forencich says.We are always practicing something, and that very practice helps us become more of that very thing he says.
So this month, whatever you find yourself doing, be it cognitive, spiritual or physical, keep doing your reps.Start with the small stuff, like cleaning up your desk, or walking with better posture. Maybe it's running like the wind, like Bolt, total grace and beauty. A single rep is where it all starts.
Yoga blocks get a new use in this innovative and challenging core workout! Now you don't have to worry about not going to the gym this summer, if that's the case, and get stronger than you thought possible with these core exercises.
I recently had a big birthday ( number- wise ) and was again inspired by renownd nutrionist Liz Applegate, about aging and our changing bodies. This column is on my website, but wanted to share it with you:
Embracing your age and your changing body
There's no end to promises. Every month, on the cover of every health magazine, there's that promise of flat abs in five days, a yoga butt now, and five pounds and three inches off our waists by the end of the week. Research shows that most women actually have lower self-esteem after reading health and fitness magazines, but guys, you are not immune either to the ideals of youth and beauty. Boys and men now account for 5 to 15 percent of patients with anorexia or bulimia. You might not be influenced by an 18-year-old selling age-reversal face cream, but many women in their 40s, 50s and beyond focus on unachievable weight loss and body image goals. Coming to terms with biology, preventing chronic disease and understanding how fat cells are impacted as women age is the focus of a new program called Embrace Your Range at the University of California at Davis, led by Liz Applegate, director of sports nutrition.
"Body fat shifts as women age," Applegate said. "We still have that prehistoric wiring to store fat." Although there are at least 10 genes that regulate fat distribution in women and men, once a women turns 40, the fat that was once in the hips and thighs in her 20s and 30s shifts towards the belly. As she approaches menopause in her 50s, even without a change in body weight, abdominal fat increases due to a decrease in estrogen. Applegate helps the women in her program find acceptance through a diet and exercise plan that accounts for the changes that accompany age.
Although there is no halting the aging process, physical activity is one aspect that women can control with a balanced exercise program. The Women's Healthy Lifestlye project, for example, is a strong example of the benefits of lifestyle changes on avoiding weight around menopause. In this four-and-a-half-year study, the intervention group participated in various sessions, including recipe modification, social support, restaurant eating, food labeling, a 1,300-calorie reduced-fat diet and physical activity goals of 1,000-1,500 calories per week, along with ongoing consultations. Although this group only lost about two pounds, their waist sizes decreased by almost an inch. The control group gained about 5.3 pounds.
A look at Healthy People 2010 data reports that less than 30 percent of women engage in regular exercise, and only 17 percent engage in strength training, both well-documented benefits to women with menopausal symptoms. Many women in Applegate's program, prior, through their logs, had reported that they weren't strength training. In another study, postmenopausal women were expending 130 calories per day less than premenopausal women, tipping their positive energy balance towards dreaded extra pounds.
The eating plan in Embrace Your Range emphasizes increased protein intake as well as fiber derived from fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains rather than supplements. Many of the women in her study weren't getting the recommended 2010 Dietary Guidelines for protein, particularly in the morning, as they skipped breakfast. The guidelines allocate 25 percent of the plate to lean sources of protein, or about 70-90 grams a day. Three pieces of fruit and three cups of vegetables with three different colors are emphasized for enough fiber to control body mass and perhaps also prevent Alzheimer's. There is some evidence that dairy, such as yogurt, may block fat storage, as well as play an important role in preventing osteoporosis, says Applegate, as half of all women are prone to the disease. It also turns out that certain foods, such as empty calories and alcohol, prompt fat cells to fill up, creating more of a fat droplet in the cell. But those very same fat cells are willing to shrink with enough exercise.
More than 80 percent of the participants in the program reported feeling more energetic on the eating plan, enjoyed the camaraderie and improved body image. Her program was presented at the American College of Sports Medicine's 15th annual Health & Fitness Summit in Anaheim, Calif.
The following is welcome good- sense advice from a top nutritionist: Dr. Christopher Mohre
My friend Claire is helping whip her new beau into shape, hitting the gym five days a week. Claire also has him doing dozens of sit-ups so he'll get a movie-star six-pack. For most people the first thing that comes to mind when you say "abs" is one muscle—the rectus abdominis. She means well, but doing hundreds of sit-ups are hard on your back because of devastating loads to your spine. In 2008, there were 3.4 million emergency room visits—an average of 9,400 per day, for back problems, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Back problems are the fifth most common reason for all doctor visits in the US. Trading the sit-up for safer and more effective abdominal work can help spare this outcome.
Dr. Stuart McGilll, a professor of spine mechanics and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at The University of Waterloo, points out that spine disks only have so many bends in them before they become damaged. Keep the bends for essential tasks, such a tying shoes, rather than using them in ab training, he recommends. The Army agrees. In 2011, after 30 years, the Army's Physical Readiness and Combat Tests deemed the sit-up test as an ineffective assessment of a person's core in relation to their battle strength.
In sports that require repeated hyperextension—like gymnastics, diving, volleyball, weight lifting, golf, football, tennis and rowing—the incident of back injury is 11 percent, according to the International Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences. In football lineman, it may be as high as 50 percent. The types of injuries vary with age. In adolescent athletes, nearly 70 percent of lumbar spine injuries occur when forces are exerted on skeletally immature spines, whereas the majority of adult back injuries are related to muscle strain and disc disease.
If you want a stronger, tighter core, instead of full sit-ups, try the traditional crunch or many variations of a curl-up. Lifting your head and shoulders a few inches (around 30 degrees) off the floor and holding briefly is a good exercise to challenge the abdominal muscles while imposing a minimal load to the lumbar spine
Muscle function
The four layers of abdominal muscles are like a woven basket encompassing the belly. The long vertical rectus abdominis runs vertically from the sternum to the pubis crest and is trained when you do an exercise such as the crunch. The external and internal oblique muscles rotate and side-bend the trunk. The deepest layer, right below your belly-button, named the transversus abdominis, plays a significant role in stabilizing the trunk, specifically the spine, during all movement. All the abdominal muscles hold in our organs and help us in forced exhalation, as in coughing, urinating or giving birth. But the most critically important function throughout the day—writes Judith Lasater, Ph.D., P.T., author of Yoga Abs Moving From Your Core—is stabilization, to keep the back free of pain and the abdomen strong.
Very few sports require fully flexing the spine, as in a full sit-up. Rather, the core transmits power from the hips through the torso as in pitching a ball or running. Here, the abdominals work together with muscles in the lower back, hips and pelvis, known as the core, stabilizing the spine. The core and spine can handle large forces vertically, but not in extreme flexion, as in sit-ups, twisting or bending.
For example, a 154-pound man standing upright has 154 lbs. of pressure on the L3-L4 disc, which the spine can easily handle. Sitting and bending forward 20 degrees, the pressure on L3-L4 bumps up to 264 lbs. In the bent-knee sit-up the pressure almost triples, up to 396 lbs. Simply modifying the sit-up to a partial curl-up, with the head and shoulders lifting a few inches off the floor, eliminates these huge compression forces on the discs.
In a June 2009 New York Times article titled "Core Myths", the marginalized view of the core being "abs "was challenged by McGill. He compares the spine to a fishing rod supported by muscular guy wires. If all the wires are tensed equally, as in the whole lumbo-pelvic-hip complex, the rod stays straight. A core exercise program should emphasize all the muscles that girdle the spine, not just the abs, to ensure balanced strength. In his lab, he's demonstrated how an average sit-up can exceed the limit known to increase the risk of back injury in normal American workers.
The full sit-up is three muscle actions: neck flexion, spine flexion and hip flexion. It's important to be able to sit up, no doubt, but repeated sit-ups do place hundreds of pounds of compression on the lumbar disks. Hooking or holding the feet down stresses the low back even more. Ironically, the bent-knee sit-up has been taught to minimize the action of the hip flexor in the sit-up, though it is not correct. The abs can only curl the trunk. The sit-up is a strong hip flexor exercise (used in climbing stairs or skipping), whether the knees are bent or straight.
McGill says that the following three exercises, done regularly, can provide a well-rounded, core-stability program: practice the curl-ups, learn how to do a side-plank (lie on your side and raise yourself in a straight line) and try the bird-dog (kneel on your hands and knees, legs hip-width apart, raise an alternate arm and leg to hip height and hold for four or six seconds).
Claire tried all three, smitten over both the planks and her slim new guy.
In the wonderful ending from Woody Allen's "Manhattan," he lists certain things that make life worth living: Groucho Marx, the second movement of the Juniper Symphony, Marlon Brando. For me, the smell of morning coffee that my boyfriend makes first thing has to be on that list. Ah. There is now more good news on the positive effects of coffee on health, and the once held belief that coffee dehydrates isn't so.
It turns out your morning Joe not only gets you going and boosts alertness, but is as hydrating as water. That's good news for those 1.6 billion cups of coffee enjoyed worldwide on any given day.
In a new study from the University of Birmingham in the UK , participants drank about three and one-third cups of coffee per day for three days in a row. Then they drank the same amount of water for three consecutive days. Controlling for physical activity and food and fluid intake, the researchers compared a wide range of markers (total body water, body mass measurements, kidney function, urine volume, and blood values) and found no significant difference in the subjects' hydration status when they were drinking coffee versus water.
Although the study sample is small (50 adult men who were habitual coffee-drinkers), its findings echo similar previously collected data regarding the relationship between moderate caffeine consumption and hydration.
It's important to stay hydrated and drink fluids throughout the day, and water is still a good first choice. After all, water is essential for life, as it transports nutrients, regulates body temperature, lubricates joints, helps preserve cardiovascular function and aids with weight management.
A typical adult needs anywhere from 11 cups of water per day for females to 16 cups for males, according to The Institute of Medicine Water Intake Recommendation. Diet, ( i.e. that bunch of grapes, or apple, full of water) physical activity level, age and environmental conditions (such as humidity) all effect proper hydration levels. For example, colder days impact urine output, and more intense activity increases water loss.
However, during these cold months, remember not to go overboard on the hot chocolate, cream, and mocha's just yet. It is the coffee itself, not just the caffeine, that is so unique.
Coffee contains hundreds of different chemical compounds. The Coffea plant's roasted berries, ( they're not actually beans), has a very strong antioxidant capacity, more so than blueberries or broccoli. It's benefits are many, including a positive impact on memory, recently published in Nature Neuroscience. Coffee drinkers compared to non-coffee drinkers are also protected from dementia and Parkinson's as they age, Type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancers and stroke.
While having lots of coffee isn't recommended for everyone, for some of us, it's a great way to start a perfect day.


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OLD WESTBURY, N.Y.- The #1 Mercyhurst men's lacrosse team won, 7-6, at #7 NYIT Saturday afternoon. James Chayka's fourth goal of the day came with two seconds left in the East Coast Conference (ECC) match.
Down 5-3 after three quarters, the Lakers began their comeback. Mitch McAvoy won the face-off to open the period and quickly fired a shot that went high. Two other Laker shots went missing before Chayka picked up a groundball. He found Jake McAndrew, who dished to Zac Reid for the score.
Kyle Kallay's shot on the next possession was stopped by NYIT goalie Billy McGee, setting up a Bear opportunity. Sean Rimmer scored with 10:23 left to put the hosts up two again. The teams traded turnovers and then the Lakers called timeout. With 7:43 left in the fourth, Chayka scored to make it 6-5.
McAvoy won another face-off and set up the Mercyhurst attack. McAndrew found the back of the net with 6:28 to play, tying the contest. Each team had chances down the stretch, including a Reid shot that drew iron with under five minutes remaining. McGee saved a Deven Alves try with 2:27 left, but Michael Grace came up big on the other end, saving a Rimmer shot with less than 50 seconds left.
Cam Edmiston collected the ensuing groundball and triggered the Lakers' final chance. Chayka scored with two seconds showing on the clock, keeping Mercyhurst undefeated in 2012.
Chayka also opened the scoring with 6:17 to play in the first period. Grace stopped a Bear shot and set up the Laker offense, with Kallay cashing in at the 3:47 mark for a 2-0 lead.
Ryan Brunet began his stellar match with a goal less than a minute later to get the Bears' on the board. After a Laker penalty, Brunet found the back of the net again with 10 seconds remaining in the first. The defenses took over in the second quarter, as neither team got on the scoreboard.
Another Mercyhurst penalty led to an NYIT score with 9:09 left in the third period. Brunet finished a Jason Smith pass for a 3-2 Bear edge. Brunet was then called for a cross check and the Lakers converted the man-up chance, as Chayka evened the score with 7:14 left.
Less than a minute after that, Brunet atoned and regained the hosts' lead. Each goalie made a save before Smith beat Grace with 2:07 showing on the clock, giving the Bears a 5-3 advantage.
Chayka totaled a career-high four goals, while McAndrew had a goal and an assist. Reid and Kallay had the other scores. Grace made five saves to improve to 11-0 as the starting goalie. Brunet had four goals for the Bears and McGee recorded 11 saves.
Mercyhurst posted 35 shots to 25 for NYIT. Each team won eight face-offs.
The Lakers have now won 18 straight games dating back to last season. They have taken eight of the last nine matchups with NYIT. Mercyhurst improved to 11-0 this year, while Tech dropped to 11-3 overall.
Coach Chris Ryan's squad heads to Dominican Saturday, April 28. The ECC game is slated for a 1 p.m. face-off.

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Explaining the Housing Bubble
Adam J. Levitin
Georgetown University Law Center
Susan M. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate
April 12, 2012
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, No. 4, pp. 1177-1258
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-15
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-60
Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-16
There is little consensus as to the cause of the housing bubble that precipitated the financial crisis of 2008. Numerous explanations exist: misguided monetary policy; a global savings surplus; government policies encouraging affordable homeownership; irrational consumer expectations of rising housing prices; inelastic housing supply. None of these explanations, however, is capable of fully explaining the housing bubble.
This Article posits a new explanation for the housing bubble. First, it demonstrates that the bubble was a supply-side phenomenon attributable to an excess of mispriced mortgage finance: mortgage-finance spreads declined and volume increased, even as risk increased — a confluence attributable only to an oversupply of mortgage finance.
Second, it explains the mortgage-finance supply glut as resulting from the failure of markets to price risk correctly due to the complexity, opacity, and heterogeneity of the unregulated private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) that began to dominate the market in 2004. The rise of PLS exacerbated informational asymmetries between the financial institutions that intermediate mortgage finance and PLS investors. These intermediation agents exploited informational asymmetries to encourage overinvestment in PLS that boosted the financial intermediaries' volume-based profits and enabled borrowers to bid up housing prices.
This Article proposes the standardization of PLS as an information-forcing device. Reducing the complexity and heterogeneity of PLS would facilitate accurate risk pricing, which is necessary to rebuild a sustainable, stable housing-finance market.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 82
Keywords: housing bubble, securitization, mortgage, MBS, RMBS, CMBS, PLS, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE, informational asymmetries, community reinvestment act, affordable housing goals, irrational exuberance, standardization, housing finance, real estate
JEL Classification: K23, L15, L32, L50, R31
Date posted: September 1, 2010 ; Last revised: May 7, 2015
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GDB8: Roli to take on the Bruins
Jason Gregor
October 27 2008 01:33PM
Dwayne Roloson will get his second start of the season tonight. What does this mean?
This is more about Coach MacTavish being frustrated with Mathieu Garon, than it is the Oilers showcasing Roloson. Garon didn't look good in Vancouver, and he let in a soft third goal in Colorado. The Oilers need him to be better if he's to be their everyday #1 goalie.
Starting Roloson also is a sign that the coach doesn't have confidence in young Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers just yet. If he did, tonight would be an ideal time to start the 24-year-old.
This is a huge game for the Oilers. A win puts them two games over .500 before their longest road trip of the season. Then all they would have to do is go 2-4-1 on the road trip and return home .500 after 15 games. If the Oilers are .500 or better after 15 games, with 12 of them on the road they will be ecstatic.
If Roloson plays well, this will muddy the goaltending picture even more, and it will also push Garon to be better. When asked what has been the difference in the last three losses compared to the first four games MacTavish was quick with a response, "Goaltending and special teams, plain and simple."
That sounds like a coach who is expecting more out of his goalies, and his decision to start Roloson proves that.
Pisani back in
After missing two games with a sore back, Fernando Pisani draws back in centering Ethan Moreau and Eric Cole. Pisani tweaked his back on a snapshot in the morning skate in Chicago, and has been getting treatment for the past four days. He says he feels fine and it shouldn't be a reoccurring problem.
It looks like Zack Stortini will sit out tonight, as he was the last player on the ice at practice this morning. And Jason Strudwick won't play due to a sore shoulder.
October and November games matter
After 20 games last season, only one western team that wasn't in the playoffs at that time (Anaheim) was able to make it in. The Oilers need to be in the playoff race come the first 20 games, or it will be much harder to make up ground. The Oilers schedule could make it easier to make up ground, but they have to be close after 20 games.
—Listen to Gregor weekdays from 3 to 6 pm on the TEAM 1260 or online at www.justagame.ca.
October 27 2008, 08:32PM
I remember when wind won the NBA Championship in 1995
October 27 2008, 08:32PM
I would literally abandon my heterosexual lifestyle if Sheldon Souray told me to.
October 27 2008, 08:33PM
And Snow won a grammy for Informer.
October 27 2008, 08:34PM
I would also chop Rob Brown in half if he looked at me sideways
It's okay... they're playing again... crisis averted. For now.
October 27 2008, 08:37PM
Wow...TB tied it. So..they should end the game now.
Ah yes. A bunch of coaches we have never heard of discussing a bunch of prospects we will never see.
October 27 2008, 08:41PM
I'm waiting for someone to uncork a fastball. With all this rain falling someone is going down sooner than later.
October 27 2008, 08:42PM
Kick his ass sea bass!!
October 27 2008, 08:43PM
Towel Boy what kind of insane pull do you have over Major League Baseball? Bud, is that you?
October 27 2008, 08:43PM
I was waiting for a bat go flyin' and kill someone. Looks like they're tarping now.
October 27 2008, 08:44PM
Me and Bud go waaaay back.
October 27 2008, 08:44PM
I can't follow baseball once the Red Sox are out. I only cheer for Boston, except for tonight when I cheer against Boston.
What on earth does Cam Neely do for a living? VP of what what?
Look its Cam Neely!!!
But in a desk!!
October 27 2008, 08:45PM
I can't follow baseball unless it's the World Series and past the 5th inning. If those criteria aren't met, then I'd rather watch a Wedding Story on TLC or even a fund drive on PBS.
October 27 2008, 08:46PM
Know what show is funny on TLC? That John and Kate plus 8, because one day he is going to have enough and knock that bitch down a peg.
October 27 2008, 08:48PM
Yeah, he strikes me as that quiet reserved type that eventually goes nuclear one day.
October 27 2008, 08:48PM
Jon & Kate reminds me why I don't have any regular contact with my octuplets
October 27 2008, 08:49PM
You know he has his bags already packed and a condo lined up.
October 27 2008, 08:50PM
I need Souray to get some points for my fantasy here. Not a pool either.
October 27 2008, 08:51PM
The oilers do know that they are playing against Tim Thomas right? And any puck headed within 10 feet of either side of the net has a 80 percent chance of going in.
October 27 2008, 08:52PM
And a 10000 percent chance of having Tim Thomas freak out about being scored on.
October 27 2008, 08:52PM
I want to warn anyone walking downtown that if a laptop comes flying out of a 16th floor balcony and smashes on the ground in front of you it is the property of the OilersNation and we have good lawyers.
October 27 2008, 08:55PM
Nice "around the world" Rollie.
October 27 2008, 08:55PM
That was actually preformed by Daft Punk
October 27 2008, 08:57PM
Damint Visnovski
October 27 2008, 08:57PM
gr8 song.
October 27 2008, 08:58PM
Me fail english?? Thats umpossible
-Ralph Wiggam circa 1996
October 27 2008, 09:00PM
Nice save rollie
October 27 2008, 09:03PM
too cheap to buy the game
seems to have really opened up, though
October 27 2008, 09:05PM
You know...I just realized that this game has sorta been boring. Rollie's been playing pretty darn swell though.
October 27 2008, 09:10PM
Watch our for that laptop!!!
October 27 2008, 09:11PM
GUYS, just tuned into the Radio online, WTF 0-0????
Whats going on? Why hasn't Gagner scored 3 goals and why hasn't Cole scored 4???
October 27 2008, 09:16PM
4 Goals in the 3rd.....maybe even some for the oilers.
WE NEED a GOAL!!!! Doug Weight would score a goal....
October 27 2008, 09:17PM
holy eff me...thomas...bastard!
October 27 2008, 09:19PM
I hate Tim Thomas....allstar my ass
October 27 2008, 09:21PM
I wish I knew what Mark Schultz thought.
alright Cogs, time to shine. :D
October 27 2008, 09:26PM
I kinda wanna see Thomas in a shootout...so Gags can light him up and then Thomas can beat up his goal post.
October 27 2008, 09:28PM
This is not good.
October 27 2008, 09:30PM
for fuck sakes.
October 27 2008, 09:31PM
damnit Sam!
at least they are getting closer to a win. right?
October 27 2008, 09:34PM
Well Rolson's stock just skyrocketed. Silver lining I guess. Hey, so, should we like, start putting more pucks in the net than the other team soon, or?
October 27 2008, 09:43PM
KLowe better have Tortarella's number on speed dial because this ship needs a turning right quick.
October 27 2008, 10:47PM
Wow your team really sucks.


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If nose tackle Josh Brent watches the Dallas Cowboys play again in person this season, it won't be from the team's sideline. Not after the firestorm that was ignited by his presence on the sideline during Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Although the club hasn't announced it has officially banned Brent from the sideline, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports that Brent -- facing intoxication manslaughter charges stemming from the one-car accident Dec. 8 that resulted in the death of practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown -- won't be back on the bench. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the move.
The decision first was reported by ESPN.
BELL: Hard to fault Cowboys for supporting Brent
JOB EARNED: Why Jason Garrett deserves to stick around in Dallas
Brent left the sideline during the third quarter Sunday after being informed of the controversy generated when images of his presence were shown to millions of viewers.
The Cowboys seemingly are in damage-control mode, with the team maintaining management was unaware Brent would show up at the game.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
After the game, neither Jones nor coach Jason Garrett expressed any issues with Brent's presence on the sideline. They maintained Brent's teammates urged him to attend the game, complying with the wishes of Brown's mother, Stacey Jackson, who despite losing her son urged his teammates to support Brent.
"She said that Jerry (Brown) would want this," Jones said in the locker room after the game. "I will speak for him here, but I'll speak for me, too, 'We want you to support him.' His teammates asked him to come and be down there with them. So that's where we are. I do know that certainly there's the other side of the coin, but this is the case of the people that he's arguably the closest to, really wanted him around for him."
Brent visited with players in the locker room before the game, and there was no debate about his presence. A club official said Jones didn't become aware of Brent's presence on the sideline until shown during CBS' broadcast of the game.
Monday, Garrett said the team was still "working through" its handling of Brent, who was placed on the non-football/illness list last week. The club has remained engaged with Brent, who has access to the team's staff, including counselors and trainers.
Garrett was unavailable Tuesday. Monday, he said that Brent "handled it beautifully" by leaving when informed of the controversy.
"It becomes a real sensitive topic to a lot of people when you're in a public place like the game," Garrett said. "There were no bad intentions, other than to support Josh as part of our football team."
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INDIANAPOLIS – Superintendent Glenda Ritz has invited Laci Slaughterback, Miss Indiana Bully Basher 2013 to the Indiana Dept. of Education booth at the Indiana St. Fair, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 2:30 pm in the Toyota Expo Hall next to the Old Fashion Hooks Drug Store.
"I'm very excited to have Miss Indiana Bullying Basher at the DOE booth to share her mission through education and awareness to fight bullying among young people," said Ritz.
Slaughterback, 21, joined girls from all over Indiana to compete for the title of Miss Indiana Bully Basher 2013. Slaughterback is a senior at Indiana University Southeast, majoring in elementary education. She will travel all over the state of Indiana with the rest of the Bully Basher team to schools for an informative, interactive 45 minute assembly on anti-bullying.
The Bully Basher program is an anti-bullying organization founded by Miss Teen America, Katie Himes. As a contestant in several beauty pageants, Himes was required to choose a platform that reflected her passion for a charity or cause. She focused on anti-bullying efforts. Himes, however, took her passion beyond the stage and reached out to others by creating the Bully Basher program. It is an interactive program for students of all ages that seeks to stop bullying, empower those who have been victims, and create awareness for future bullying situations, in an environment that teaches students not to be judgmental of others. The program has reached over 10,000 students. For more information about Bully Basher click on the following link: http://www.bullybasher.com/about.html.


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Goalkeeper Joe Hart insists heads will not drop in the Manchester City dressing room despite another setback in their quest to retain the title.
The Barclays Premier League champions drew 2-2 with Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium yesterday, their second draw in the space of five days.
That meant another two points dropped and they now trail rivals Manchester United by nine at the top of the table, four more than a week ago.
But manager Roberto Mancini was quick to insist the title race was not over and Hart maintains the players will remain confident.
The England number one said: "We have got to be. There is no point turning up otherwise. We have got to win every game and look not to drop any points. It is a good challenge for us.
"We will always be in it, but unfortunately it's a big gap, getting too big for our liking.
"You have to move forward, and that means we have to beat Southampton next week. We are nine points behind with 13 games to go, so we need the win."
City claimed a point from a pulsating match when Sergio Aguero sensationally rounded Jose Reina and chipped home from an outrageous angle 12 minutes from time.
That cancelled out an equally stunning long-range strike from Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard which had put the Reds ahead five minutes earlier.
Edin Dzeko and former City striker Daniel Sturridge, the latter in controversial circumstances, traded goals in the first half.
City were unhappy Daniel Agger was not penalised for a foul on Dzeko, and that Liverpool did not put the ball out of play as the Bosnian lay injured in the build-up to Sturridge's equaliser.
Yet, by full-time, City appeared to accept a draw was as much as they deserved.
Hart, 25, said: "It was a tough game. I thought Liverpool played really well. I imagine they'll argue we were lucky to get a result in the end. That's a shame but you have got to move forward.
"They are a good side and I think they have finally worked out what the manager wants from them. They are a really tough side to play against.
"It is not the result we wanted but I think a draw is a fair result."
Despite the setbacks, City's recent form remains relatively good.
After losing at Sunderland on Boxing Day, City won six in succession in all competitions before being held to a goalless draw at QPR last Tuesday.
City's defence - currently missing injured captain Vincent Kompany - had also gone 584 minutes without conceding when Sturridge struck against his former club.
Hart added: "We need to do what we have done in the last seven games, when we won six and drew one.
"Of course we have now drawn again, and that is enough of the draws. We need to start winning."
One bonus for City from the weekend was that Ivory Coast were beaten in the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup.
Midfield talisman Yaya Toure and his brother Kolo could now be available for the Saturday evening trip to Southampton.
Mancini said: "I am sorry for Yaya and Kolo but I hope they come back very angry and they can play well for us."
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By RANDALL and BARBRA JONESHuntington
It has been with great interest that we have been following the stories of the criminals and the break in crimes perpetrated at the Circle 4 farms in Beaver County. First, let us say that we do hope those committing the crimes and those "masterminds" behind the scenes are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
As members of our county Farm Bureau Board for 15 years, and as a farm family and as members of the FFA and the 4-H Advisory Boards, we believe we have an insight into agricultural production that most people of the Animals Rights Coalition will never have. We dare to bet that most of them have not an inkling of what it takes to produce the food and fiber they willingly consume every day. We remind them (and all of us) that although other countries may have the edge on superior automobiles or electronics, NOWHERE in the entire world are farmers as productive and efficient as they are in the United States of America-and that includes production agriculture operations. If it weren't for the strength of agriculture in this country, those people involved in the Coalition would be living under conditions of a Third World Country. It is agriculture that gives this nation its power and wealth. We can live without weapons, we can live with out oil, but even the most vile dictators of the world must have food and fiber to exist.
As hog raisers and hay farmers ourselves, we have visited and toured the Circle 4 operations. We found it fascinating and gleaned many great new ideas for improving the production of our own very small operation. The conditions at those farms are superb! One of the concerns voiced by the Animal Rights Coalition was that the pigs were raised in dark rooms. Did they ever consider the fact that those rooms are scientifically calibrated to temperature oxygen? Sows naturally farrow in the dark-whether on home farms or at a production facility. We observed that the diets of all the pigs are calibrated by a highly educated animal nutritionist and monitored by technicians. The pigs all had access to fresh water on demand. The pens were clean-- much cleaner than those of pigs "raised in sunlight and fed apples." There is a company veterinarian who regularly monitors the health of the animals. There is a HUGE difference in the health and quality of animals raised on calibrated diets compared to those fed in the backyard on grain and "table slop". The quality of meat is superior which only results in superior nutrition to humans from meat consumed.
We have been in many homes where children were not treated as well as those animals at Circle 4. Do you know of any children raised in less than clean conditions and fed less than balanced diets? Does every child you know have access to a doctor who makes house calls? Maybe those so concerned should direct some of their efforts to cleaning up human society and leave those in the agricultural industry alone to keep providing their food and clothing. Just remember: Pig by-products just may be providing some of you with life today by way of insulin, heart valves or numerous other lifesaving products.


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Bryant Glade Nelson of Clawson will be honored at a surprise open house to celebrate his 80th birthday. The celebration will take place on May 16, from 2-4 p.m. in the Ferron Senior Citizen Center.
Bryant and his wife Becky have 15 children, 44 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Bryant is a WWII vet and retired from Western Coal Carriers where he worked as a truck driver and mechanic.


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Iraq: we still don't get it
The very moment I learned the U.S. had invaded Iraq I commented about what a terrible mistake it was. I spoke out against it. I wrote in opposition. And I immediately predicted that it could only result in a civil war between the Shia, Sunnis, Kurds, and perhaps other groups or groupings. I continued my criticism month after month. I wrote my M.A. thesis concerning the Near and Middle East and colonialism. Anyone who had even a rudimentary knowledge of the area knew the tragedy that would result from the U.S. invasion.
Yes, President Bush lied to the American people about developments in the Middle East. Yes, long before the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center, there were right-wing nuts who advocated invading Iraq. Yes, there was a sort of cabal among Bush's advisers, Vice President Cheney, and some of the leading military-industrial producers. Big War, Big Corporations, Big Profits. Big Ignorance. Big mistake.
Iraq is not a nation whose creation, boundaries, etc. have any tie to the history of the peoples living in that region. Iraq was created by colonialists. Its borders made no sense. That is true of other areas of the Middle East. National boundaries have little to do with the ethnic or religious grouping within them. The stupidity that was manifest in the Bush administration and the right-wing nutcases and the greedy military industrialists has cost the U.S. trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and the loss of any prestige we may have had.
Our mistakes in the Middle East will have to be faced for many years to come, perhaps by generations of Americans. We cannot force our political and moral philosophy down the throat of other peoples, especially when motivated by greed and political deviance. And this is especially true in the Middle East. Especially.
For what it is worth, when in the Senate, Barack Obama voted against invading Iraq. Hillary voted for it.


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The Apollo is an all-purpose activity center, featuring a renovated historic 1912 theater.
Belvidere Cemetery and Pettit Memorial Chapel
Established in 1847, this is the burial ground for Belvidere's illustrious pioneers. Want to go right to a Frank Lloyd Wright landmark? Visit the Pettit Memorial Chapel.
Boone County Historical Museum
Explore this varied collection of local memorabilia. The museum includes a log home, Civil War artifacts, a natural history room, historic dolls, clothes, tools and transportation ranging from a 1906 Eldredge Runabout to Belvidere's first Chrysler.
Exclusively Yours Leiza-George
A shopping experience like no other, this store has floor-to-ceiling gifts from around the would. Its specialties include handmade oak and Amish furniture, jewelry, linens, cards, Christmas items and more.
Tom Guirl's Beaver Creek Pottery
Find skillfully handmade and kiln-fired pottery to decorate your home.
Frank Lloyd Wright Pettit Memorial Chapel
Pettit Memorial Chapel, located in Belvidere Cemetery, was designed by Frank Llyod Wright and erected in 1907. Brochures available for self-guided historic tours. Open daily, 8am - sunset. Tours available by appointment.
The Northern Illinois Wine Trail is a unique collection of 40 wineries and vineyards, each distinctive and picturesque in its own way. Follow the Northern Illinois Wine Trail from downtown Chicago's urban splendor to the unmatched scenic beauty of Galena and Northwest Illinois. You can choose to visit one winery, experience several wineries within one of our three geographic loops, or go all out and experience everything the Northern Illinois Wine Trail has to offer from East to West. Regardless of how you choose to experience the Northern Illinois Wine Trail; the staff of our family-owned wineries and vineyards are there to welcome you with incomparable Midwest hospitality and service - not to mention numerous award-winning Illinois wines.
Musicals, comedies and mysteries are performed August-May at this civic center located in Byron High School.
A.G. Spalding: From Byron to the Big Leagues Exhibit
Located at the Byron Museum of History, this exhibit features Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Albert Spalding, from his youth in Byron to his league pitching career and the founding of the Spalding Sporting Goods Company.
This natural history museum displays prairies, woodlands, wetlands and other interesting exhibits illustrating life as it existed hundreds of years ago in Northern Illinois. Be sure to make a stop at the museum gift shop.
Byron Museum Of History & Lucius Read House
The Byron Museum Complex consists of a large Exhibit Hall and the historic Lucius Read House, which was on the Underground Railroad and is a listed site on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The Read House features a permanent exhibit entitled, 'From Shackles to Freedom: The Underground Railroad' which shines a spotlight on Byron's participation in the Underground Railroad. We are happy to accommodate group tours outside regular hours. Tours are free and are self-guided or a docent can be arranged. We also have ample meeting space available.
View the stars and planets every Tuesday and Saturday. Free public viewing is guided by our staff. Closed if cloudy.
Step back in time in the Loveland Museum and get a glimpse of Dixon and Lee County history. See exhibits from the life of "Father" John Dixon, the Blackhawk War, Civil War and other conflicts, local industry and attractions, the Truesdell Bridge disaster and President Ronald Reagan.
Located in the heart of downtown Dixon, Illinois, The Next Picture Show is a non-profit fine arts center in the Rock River Valley. Our goal is to nurture, develop, educate, foster the arts, and galvanize artists and patrons within the community. The Next Picture Show is open from 8am to 4pm, Monday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Custom & ready-made frame shops with large selection of prints and framed pictures.
First Christian Church served as the Reagan family church while they lived in Dixon and helped form Ronald Reagan's Christian-based work ethic, which included a short term as a Sunday School teacher.
Wings of Peace and Freedom Park
A Bulgarian immigrant donated the Wings of Peace and Freedom sculpture to the City of Dixon. The artwork, which includes a full-size replica of a section of the Berlin Wall, recognizes President Reagan's efforts to attain worldwide peace and freedom.
Begins the Trail Reagan Statue
A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan, astride the likeness of a palomino horse he rode nearly 60 years ago, sits at the head of the Heritage Crossing Riverfront Plaza located on River Street in downtown Dixon. The statue, created by local artist Don Reed, serves as the centerpiece of Heritage Crossing, an open-air plaza that looks out onto the Rock River.
Northwest Territory Historic Center
The Northwest Territory Historic Center is a History Research and Learning Center housed in President Ronald Reagan's boyhood South Central School; located in his hometown of Dixon, Illinois. Beautifully restored with the dedicated support of the townspeople and Reagan colleagues, the Center is proudly affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and houses the Veterans History Project Regional Center, auditorium, research library, historical exhibits, art gallery, surround-sound theater and museum store. A visit to the Northwest Territory Historic Center includes: The Unchanged Land-an interactive exhibit on Native American & Black Hawk War; The Changing Land-an interactive exhibit on early American Farming; Ronald Reagan's Restored Classroom; Rock River Assembly Diorama; Chautauqua Assembly Building Model; Earth from Space Poster Exhibit; President Reagan History Room, changing historical exhibits, a museum store and much more.
Franklin Creek Preservation Area
Franklin Creek Grist Mill, 1893 Twist Road off Old Mill Road, Franklin Grove. Covered wagon tours. Interpretive Center.
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Embroidery on shirts, caps, bags, etc.
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Two-story stone building built in 1860 by Abe Lincoln's cousin. Restored dry goods store houses a consignment shop featuring local artisans. Also national headquarters for the Lincoln Highway Assn.
CITY:Franklin Grove
Long noted throughout northern Illinois for pencil drawings in black and white and color work in acrylic art, the gallery feature displays of Scheffler's art, and also provide a working center to fulfill commissions for patron's special requests. The Rooney Building was recently chosen as a location for a commemorative mural by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition. The Rooney Building is a companion to the renowned H.I. Lincoln Building as a Farming Heritage, Inc. historic preservation project.
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Jane Addams, born and raised in Cedarville, was an internationally famous humanitarian and social work pioneer who founded Hull House and won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is buried in this lovely old hillside cemetery.


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* Manual rooting https://www.cypherpunk.at/2011/10/manual-rooting-android-on-linux-2

* Manual rooting https://www.cypherpunk.at/2011/10/manual-rooting-android-on-linux-2

* Manual rooting 2 http://www.pocketables.com/2011/06/how-to-manually-root-almost-any-android-device.html

* Manual rooting 2 http://www.pocketables.com/2011/06/how-to-manually-root-almost-any-android-device.html

===Backup Program===
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* Android developer site http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

* Android developer site http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Revision as of 10:30, 4 April 2013
Started: April 3 2013
Goal: To use the UHF transmitter on the Runbo-X5 Android phone as a SDR
Who: Ardillo
Active task: Getting root rights on device
The Runbo X5 Android smartphone is a normal Android 4.0 phone with some strange features. The most important for users is that it is an IP-67 graded device which means it can be submersed in water and you can drive over it. It also has a built-in laser and Walkie Talkie. Wait.. a what? A Walkie Talkie, it works on the UHF band between 400-470 MHz. After reading this feature I was curious about the possibility's. Maybe we can use this to hack some KlikAanKlikUit systems or build a other SDR-system of it. The Runbo has WiFi, Bluetooth and some other standard things as well.
I followed [this] guide for unrooting the device.
For rooting the device I first had to get adb working. Luckily nowadays Android gives you an ADT bundle for Linux. After unzipping the adb package is at the extract location in map Android/sdk/platform-tools. For listing all devices connected you have to execute command:
./adb devices
But instead of listing the devices I saw question marks. After so somehow the device wasn't recognized. I made an file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules en put the information below in it. I found the Vendor ID after running 'dmesg'.
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
After that the device was recognized as 'Runbo' with the './adb devices' command.
- Runbo's home website http://en.runbo.net
- Runbo's download page http://en.runbo.net/download.php
- Manual rooting https://www.cypherpunk.at/2011/10/manual-rooting-android-on-linux-2
- Manual rooting 2 http://www.pocketables.com/2011/06/how-to-manually-root-almost-any-android-device.html
- Xda developers http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28178105
Backup Program
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Temple of the mind
23 July – 10 October 2004
National Gallery of Australia
Media preview
22 July 2004
View Montien Boonma: Temple of the mind website
The National Gallery of Australia is proud to launch an exhibition exploring the sensory experience of Buddhism: Montien Boonma: Temple of the mind is a major exhibition of works by the late Montien Boonma, one of Asia's best-known contemporary artists. His death in 2000 at the age of 47 was not only a great loss for Thailand, but also for the global art community.
A feature of Montien Boonma's art is its unique tactile and sensuous quality. This exhibition from the Asia Society, New York comprises 38 major works including soil drawings, candle and perfume paintings, charcoal sketches, mixed-media works and brass sculptures, as well as herbal and sound installations. Among the installations is the National Gallery of Australia's own Temple of the mind: Sala for the mind, a 4-metre high, stupa-shaped installation of wooden crates seeped in multicoloured fragrant spices and medicinal herbs.
Montien Boonma found his creative voice in the depth of Buddhist ideas and forms. Herbs and healing practices have a long association with Buddhism and have played a central role in much of the artist's work since the mid-1990s when he lost close family members, including his beloved wife, to cancer. The fragrance of the herbs soothes and heals both body and mind. Many of his works are metaphors for hope, faith and healing, symbolising religious devotion and transporting viewers to a spiritual realm.
In Buddhist teaching, sacred enclosures are cosmic centres of contemplation and concentration. Montien Boonma's constructions embrace this concept and visitors are invited to enter many of the installations and sculptures in the exhibition, including Temple of the mind: Sala for the mind. Viewers can also enclose their heads and shoulders in Melting void, a group of rough-cast torsos of the Buddha. In the large installation House of hope (1996–97), the artist encourages the audience to move through thousands of strings composed of medicinal herbal beads suspended like a curtain from the ceiling and falling in coils upon the floor.
The exhibition traces Montien Boonma's artistic response to his faith while charting his remarkable development as a contemporary artist. Inspired by Buddhist concepts and symbolism, his works are often created from modern industrial materials such as cement and steel. The result is a multi-sensory experience, in which ancient spiritual ideas and concepts find international contemporary expression.
Montien Boonma: Temple of the mind is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Blakemore Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. Montien Boonma: Temple of the mind is organised by the Asia Society and Museum, New York.
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Woodstock is the granddaddy of all music festivals. How much do you know about 1969's "three days of peace, love and music"? Take this quiz to test your knowledge.
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Question 1 of 30
How many acts played Woodstock?
There were 32 acts in the Woodstock lineup, spread out over Aug. 15-18, 1969.
Question 2 of 30
Which band was the first to sign a Woodstock contract?
The Who
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first band to sign in April 1969.
Sly and the Family Stone
Question 3 of 30
How much money did Creedence Clearwater Revival make for playing Woodstock?
CCR made $10,000 for its 50-minute set.
Question 4 of 30
What was the payment cap per artist?
The Woodstock promoters put a $15,000 limit on each performer.
Question 5 of 30
Which band made $15,000?
The Band
The Who
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears was a top earner at Woodstock.
Question 6 of 30
Which artist made $30,000?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix got around the cap by agreeing to play two sets.
Janis Joplin
John Lennon
Question 7 of 30
Besides Creedence Clearwater Revival, which artist made $10,000?
Joan Baez
Joan Baez was the only other artist on the $10,000 level.
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Question 8 of 30
Who was the first artist to play at Woodstock?
Arlo Guthrie
Richie Havens
Richie Havens took the stage at 5 p.m. on the opening day.
Pete Seeger
Question 9 of 30
Why was Richie Havens' set extended?
because he refused to leave the stage
because the crowd didn't want him to stop
because the next bands were stuck in traffic
Havens was scheduled to play four songs but had to kill time because other performers were stuck in traffic.
Question 10 of 30
Who was the last artist to play at Woodstock?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix finally went on at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18.
The Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead
Question 11 of 30
Which group was the lead-in to Jimi Hendrix?
Led Zeppelin
the Rolling Stones
Sha Na Na
Yes, that's right. Sha Na Na was the opener for Hendrix.
Question 12 of 30
What was Jimi Hendrix's band?
the Experience
Gypsy Sun and Rainbows
Hendrix's band was introduced as the Experience, but it was actually Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.
the River Wide
Question 13 of 30
Who gave the opening speech and invocation at Woodstock?
Swami Satchidananda
Indian guru Swami Satchidananda opened the festival by saying, "My beloved brothers and sisters, I am overwhelmed with joy to see the entire youth of America gathered here in the name of the fine art, music."
Sathya Sai Baba
Swami Krishnananda
Question 14 of 30
Which performer was six months pregnant at Woodstock?
Grace Slick
Mama Cass
Joan Baez
Joan Baez gave birth to Gabriel Harris in December 1969.
Question 15 of 30
Social activist Abbie Hoffman famously interrupted The Who's performance immediately after what song?
"Pinball Wizard"
The Who had just finished "Pinball Wizard" when Hoffman rushed the stage.
"Who Are You"
"Baba O'Riley"
Question 16 of 30
Which band was scheduled to play but didn't, reportedly because the promoters wouldn't give the members a helicopter?
Iron Butterfly
Woodstock lore has it that Iron Butterfly got stuck at an airport and couldn't make it through traffic to Woodstock, but festival co-creator Michael Lang claims the band demanded a helicopter and were refused.
Jethro Tull
Question 17 of 30
Which Woodstock act had the biggest hit song at the time of the festival?
Blood, Sweat & Tears
"Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat & Tears was at No. 11 on the Billboard Top 200 for the week of Aug. 16, 1969.
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Question 18 of 30
Which act had multiple songs in the Top 200 that week?
The Band
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival had "Green River," "Bad Moon Rising" and "Commotion" on the charts at the time.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Question 19 of 30
John Sebastian, the lead singer of this band, was pulled out of the crowd for an impromptu acoustic performance.
Lovin' Spoonful
John Sebastian of Lovin' Spoonful was at Woodstock as a spectator but was pressed into action when there were technical difficulties.
Captain Beefheart
Buffalo Springfield
Question 20 of 30
The theme song to this TV show ended up being Sebastian's biggest hit.
"Happy Days"
"Welcome Back, Kotter"
Sebastian scored big with the theme song to "Welcome Back, Kotter" in 1976.
"WKRP in Cincinnati"
Question 21 of 30
Which band's set was cut short because of equipment problems?
Grateful Dead
By all accounts, the Dead's Woodstock set was not its best.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Sly and the Family Stone
Question 22 of 30
What was the last song of the Grateful Dead's set?
"Sugar Magnolia"
"Turn on Your Love Light"
Somewhat ironically, "Turn on Your Love Light" was the last song before the Dead went dark.
Question 23 of 30
After this performer's set on Sunday, there was a three-hour thunderstorm delay.
Pete Seeger
Arlo Guthrie
Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker performed his iconic "With a Little Help From My Friends" just before the storm.
Question 24 of 30
How old was Michael Shrieve, the youngest performer at Woodstock?
Twenty-year-old Shrieve, the drummer for Santana, is thought to have been the youngest.
Question 25 of 30
Which Woodstock band had a Top 40 hit with "Going Up the Country" in 1969?
Canned Heat
Canned Heat's "Going Up the Country" peaked at No. 11 in January 1969.
Question 26 of 30
What was the name of Janis Joplin's band at Woodstock?
the Holy Hobos
the Kozmic Blues Band
Joplin was backed up by the Kozmic Blues Band.
the Tin Can Junkies
Question 27 of 30
Who went on "The Dick Cavett Show" in his muddy Woodstock clothes?
David Crosby
Crosby and Stephen Stills chatted with Cavett in their performance outfits.
Joe Cocker
Pete Townsend
Question 28 of 30
Who claimed to have had LSD hallucinations on stage that made him think his guitar was a snake?
John Fogerty
Neil Young
Carlos Santana
It was Santana with the guitar snake.
Question 29 of 30
This Woodstock band had a No. 1 and a No. 2 hit in 1969.
The Byrds
Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone topped the charts with "Everyday People" in February and hit No. 2 with "Hot Fun in the Summertime" in October.
The Mamas & the Papas
Question 30 of 30
Woodstock was only the second live show for this group.
The Band
The Who
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were all veteran performers, but they had played together only one previous time.


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FGD: A Slumbering Monarch
Kent Wilson
February 20 2013 02:48PM
If you think the Calgary Flames start to the season is disappointing, imagine being an LA Kings fan. Fresh off their Cinderella (sort of) Stanely Cup win, you endure 3 1/2 of months of lock-out, only to see your club stumble out of the gates and land at 12th in the Conference through the first 14 games.
Of course, the Kings struggled though much of last season only to squeak in under the wire and then win the whole thing, so it's possible LA's issues aren't causing as much consternation amongst their faithful as the Flames are here. Nor should they, frankly, because the Kings still boast some of the league's best underlying numbers, including the top close-fenwick (corsi) ratio in the league (58.29). Meaning, Sutter's boys still control the flow of the game better than anyone else in the NHL, the puck just isn't going in for them enough for it to matter. Yet.
In addition, Jonathan Quick had off-season back surgery and has gone from stud to dud. His even strength SV% is just .905 right now (roughly about replacement level) which is a huge step back from his elite .933 last year. It was Quick and the defense that held the Kings in the running during the clubs long offensive dry spell in 2011-12, so now the team will either need him to re-discover his form or actually start converting all that zone time to goal scoring earlier rather than later this time around.
The Flames can't really count on a goaltending turn around, at least not right now. With Kipper still out and the pairing of MacDonald and Taylor probable to guard the net for another few games at least, Calgary will either have to hope one of them plays over his head for a bit or they can outscore their issues in net. A nice run of percentages would really help things out right now.
Like the Blues, the Kings are an excellent team at dictating play, so Calgary will have another stiff challenge on their hands this evening. St. Louis kind of toyed with the Flames through the first half of that game, so without Backlund and the first liners looking a bit lost south of the red line these days, the team will have to have their foot to the floor from minute one in order to have a chance tonight.
The Line-up
The Flames first line was mostly a non-entity against the Coyotes and didn't really show up in the Dallas game either despite the club's notable come back in the third period. Tanguay and Iginla are some of the only forwards with an o-zone ratio above 50% at this point, but both are back to hovering are break even in terms of possession.
- Cammalleri - Tanguay - Iginla
- Glencross - Stajan - Stempniak
- Hudler - Horak - Cervenka
- Comeau - Begin - Jackman
- Giordano - Bouwmeester
- Brodie - Wideman
- Butler - Smith
- MacDonald
The Stajan line has probably been the best one through the last two games. Matt's semi-resurrection under Hartley probably has less to do with the player and more to do with the coach and opportunity. Stajan was never good enough to be tabbed as "Iginla's next center", but he was also never as bad as Brent Sutter seemed to think. Centering a line with guys like Glencross and Stempniak, who are generally at the bad end of the ice and can contribute offensively, is ideal for a guy of Stajan's skillset. If that was Calgary's third line (and if they had a true PvP option) they'd be in good position.
MacDonald goes again tonight after Taylor's loss in Phoenix. I thought Taylor generally looked more solid and was better at absorbing rebounds than the former Red Wing, but it's hard to argue too hard given how lousy a couple of the rookies goals against were.
The Opposition
Unlike the Flames, the Kings have three first/second lines, although Sutter seems to have inserted at least one third/fourth liner on each of them
- Clifford - Kopitar - Brown
- King - Richards - Carter
- Penner - Stoll - Williams
- Lewis - Fraser - Nolan
- Ellerby - Doughty
- Scuderi - Voynov
- Muzzin - Drewiske
- Bernier
It is somewhat obscene, as a Flames fan given the clubs center depth, to see the Kings using Jeff Carter as a winger.
Aside from scoring troubles and lackluster goaltending, the Kings are also battling injuries on the blueline, which is why you see youngster (and up until now first round disappointment) Keaton Ellerby skating on the first pairing with Drew Doughty. Scuderi and Voynov are a more than capable second pairing though, so it's not like the Kings have a severe depth problem there.
In net will be Jonathan Bernier, who in contrast to Quick has a sterling.950 ES SV% in three games played so far. Bernier was disgruntled in the summer and asked the Kings organization for a trade, which never happened. If Quick continues to struggle for any length of time, he might just have a chance to usurp the incumbent (which was unthinkable just a few months ago).
Sum it Up
Both teams are looking to climb out of the Western basement and sooner rather than later. The Kings have a better roster, better underlying numbers and a better reason to expect a sharp turn around at some point. The Flames, on the other hand, are simply trying to turn back the tide and prove to everyone - especially themselves - they can be an-going concern.
I read Darryl Sutter ranks 8th highest in reg. season sh% in NHL history.
Kings weren't so good... the Flames were just that bad.
fans boo'd team at end of period...
Simply remarkable. I never thought I see the day where the Flames were the absolute worst outfit in the league. It appears on all accounts this team has rolled over, given up and withered away. Tonight was another example how soft this team is. No pride and no passion.
I remember games like that last season especially in March against Colorado and twice against the Oilers. Had they won those games they would have been in the eight spot by a point at 96. They were literally gliding around in the Colorado game, no push back is disturbing.
February 20 2013, 11:02PM
No. There was no room in the pressbox...because of all the scouts.
How many scouts were at the game tonight?
now seriously. waking up at 1am - 4am to see this? I did it for last couple of years but started do be tired (and not because a lack of sleep) When I can wake up, players can wake up and start to play too I think. Bye guys. Must go to work. .......... Oh crap, see you next match anyway :o)
Flames drop to 5-7-3 on the year. Next up is Minnesota on Saturday night.
Yup, that means to hit 56 points they would have to go 21-11-1 or .656 hockey just to squeak into the eighth spot.
February 20 2013, 11:04PM
LA is simply a better team with more talent, I they were play 10 times LA would win 7 or 8 of them.
Glad I gave my tickets away.
Yup, that means to hit 56 points they would have to go 21-11-1 or .656 hockey just to squeak into the eighth spot.
So you're saying there's a chance!
So you're saying there's a chance!
Mathematically yes, realistically as Vince McMahon would say "You've got no chance, no chance in hell!"
February 20 2013, 11:07PM
I know, but I never wanted to believe, but now I see that for all of these years, since he was brought over by Sutter, that Kiprusoff was always that saving grace, always masking deeper development issues with the goaltending, it is now being exposed. I know it has been discussed plenty, but tonight, it just seems that much more magnified how bad this team really is and not a damn thing will be done to help. Sloppy passes, constant, ineffective line juggling, and yes, the players have tuned out Hartley. The same old garbage is spewed after a loss, "we need to be better.", "there are no excuses." , "we need to develop consistency." blah blah, freakin' blah. I never give up on the Flames, and I will never stop cheering for them, but changes have to be coming as I am sick and tired of seeing that look of bewilderment on Feaster's face at every home game, after every loss, and nothing being done, with the same old crappy product that is supposed to resemble a quality hockey team. The fans should not be subject to this BS, but as long as King is in power, nothing will. I can take no positives out of this game tonight and like I have said after every loss, let's do better next game. I just have that gut feeling that some players are almost trying to play their way out, "conspiracy theorists are wonderful, right Jay"
Flames chances to make playoffs drop 9% and now sit at 10%>>>> say goodbye friends.
correction -- 11%.... "so your tellin' me there's a chance..."
February 20 2013, 11:35PM
I lost count on how many times passes were behind the forwards on the rush, players fell down on the rush, defencemen fell down at the blueline after they had puck possession in LA's zone. Does anyone else want to make a pitch for ROR? Oh yeah, nevermind, same ol' same ol' from Feaster and Co. Nope, no way, the fans don't mind waiting around another year, do you?
It'd be great to see some change this year - some actual, make-a-difference change. I'd be glad to see Iggy, Jay B, and Kipper traded.
February 20 2013, 11:53PM
It'd be great to see some change this year - some actual, make-a-difference change. I'd be glad to see Iggy, Jay B, and Kipper traded.
I don't know what else it will take. A few more losses, injuries, more patchwork, no thank you. I agree that I would love to see some changes and a few more quality signings, without mortgaging the future. I would say that the risk of going after someone like O'Reilly is what it is going to take. A shakeup, overhaul, do whatever!! No more plodding along with the crew that we have now, as it is frustrating to watch this same group, make the same mistakes that was supposed to have been corrected in practice, that's why they call it practice. I saw so many times, LA make short, tape to tape passes to get out if their zone and it worked effectively all game, when they were on the breakout. Feaster, either pull the plug on the season and let the fans know that you are tanking or make some changes...Please!!!


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