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Nephrectomy (nuh-FREK-tuh-me) is a surgical procedure to remove all or part of a kidney:
A nephrectomy may be performed to treat kidney cancer or to remove a seriously damaged or diseased kidney. In a donor nephrectomy, the surgeon removes a healthy kidney for transplant into a person who needs a functioning kidney.
The surgeon may perform a nephrectomy procedure through a single large incision in the abdomen or side (open nephrectomy) or through a series of small incisions in the abdomen (laparoscopic nephrectomy).
A surgeon performs a nephrectomy either to remove a diseased kidney or to harvest a healthy kidney intended for an organ transplant.
Most people have two kidneys — fist-sized organs located near the back of the upper abdomen. Your kidneys:
Often, a surgeon performs nephrectomy to remove a cancerous tumor or abnormal tissue growth in a kidney. The most common kidney cancer in adults, renal cell carcinoma, begins in the cells that line the small tubes within your kidneys. Children are more likely to develop a type of kidney cancer called Wilms' tumor, probably caused by the poor development of kidney cells.
The decision about how much kidney tissue to remove depends on:
The surgeon makes a decision based on the results of imaging tests, which may include:
A partial or radical nephrectomy may be needed to remove severely damaged, scarred or nonfunctioning kidney tissue due to traumatic injury or other diseases.
A healthy person with good kidney function and a low risk of certain disorders, such as high blood pressure or diabetes, is a good candidate for donating a kidney to someone who needs a transplant. A transplant recipient who receives a kidney from a living donor has a better chance that the transplanted kidney will survive than does a person who receives a kidney from a deceased donor.
Long-term complications from a nephrectomy relate to potential problems of living with less than two complete, fully functioning kidneys. Although overall kidney function decreases following a nephrectomy, the remaining kidney tissue usually works well enough for a healthy life.
Problems that may occur with long-term decreased kidney function include:
Before surgery, you'll talk with your surgeon about what options are available for you. Questions you might ask include:
You may need to stay in the hospital from one to five days, depending on the type of procedure. Ask your surgeon and health care team about your probable recovery time.
You'll receive instructions about what to do the day before and the day of your surgery. Make note of any questions you might have, such as:
If you're planning to donate a kidney for a transplant, you'll have certain tests and exams done to make sure you're a suitable candidate.
Criteria for being an ideal kidney donor include:
A nephrectomy procedure is performed during general anesthesia. You'll receive a medication (anesthetic) before surgery so that you won't be awake or feel pain during surgery. You'll also have a urinary catheter — a small tube that drains urine from your bladder — placed before surgery.
The nephrectomy procedure varies, depending on how the surgery is performed and how much of the kidney is removed. Variations include:
The smaller incisions in robotic and laparoscopic surgery usually mean less pain after surgery and a faster return to normal activities.
Recovery time after the procedure and the length of your hospital stay depend on your overall health and the type of nephrectomy performed. The urinary catheter remains in place for a short time during your recovery.
Expect to receive instructions before leaving the hospital about restrictions to your diet and activities. You may be encouraged to begin light, everyday activities as soon as you feel able, but you'll need to avoid strenuous activity or heavy lifting for several weeks.
Questions that you may want to discuss with your surgeon, cancer specialist (oncologist) or other members of your health care team following your nephrectomy include:
Most people can function well with only one kidney or with one whole kidney and part of the second. You'll likely have checkups to monitor the following factors related to kidney function.
After a nephrectomy or partial nephrectomy, you may have overall normal kidney function. To preserve normal kidney function, your doctor may recommend that you eat a healthy diet, engage in daily physical activity and attend regular checkups to monitor your kidney health.
If you develop kidney disease in your remaining kidney after nephrectomy or partial nephrectomy, your doctor may recommend changes to your diet, such as limiting salt or protein.
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26 March 2009 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
In this tutorial we are going to create a SilverStripe theme from a static template. While completing this tutorial, you will build a good foundation for using the SilverStripe templating language and be able to create themes with dynamic menus and content areas.
The example template provided with this article was created using the CSS framework in this article and so is structured correctly for turning into a silverstripe theme. If this is the first time you are creating a SilverStripe theme we would recommend using this template as it will make following the tutorial a lot easier. However you don't have to use this template as long as your theme is structured correctly. Below is the reccomended theme folder structure:
To use the included template, download and extract the zip file attached above. Copy the contents of the brushedsilver_START folder into the new directory; themes/brushedsilver/ of your SilverStripe install. We then need to tell SilverStripe to use this theme as the default, which is done in the mysite/_config.php file. You will see a line setting the theme to blackcandy which we need to replace with the name of our theme. In this example our theme folder is called brushedsilver so we change this line in _config.php to:
Note. As of version 2.4, you can now set the theme via the SiteConfig page in the CMS. However if you don't want CMS users to be able to edit the theme you will need to set it here and likely want to remove the option within site config. see this post.
Getting Started
The first thing we need to do is create a single theme template which we can then break down into smaller pieces. Create the file themes/brushedsilver/templates/Page.ss and copy the contents of themes/brushedsilver/index.html into it. We now have a static HTML template under a .ss file. This will still work in silverstripe, just without any dynamic content. This gives us some indication as to how flexible SilverStripe's templating system is, we can use as little or as much regular HTML as we like all the way to having a pure HTML page! Obviously we don't want that so lets start making our template dynamic.
The first thing to do is edit the  section. We need SilverStripe to dynamically generate the meta-tags, the page title and also include any files we specify in our page controllers. Here is the same  section converted into a silverstripe template:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <% base_tag %> <title>$Title » $SiteConfig.Title</title> $MetaTags(false) <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <% require themedCSS(layout) %> <% require themedCSS(typography) %> <% require themedCSS(form) %>
So lets run through this. The first thing we do is include the <% base_tag %> which is required for many of SilverStripes functions to work and set the title to hold the variable $Title which will be replaced by the title of whichever page we are on. This is followed by $Metatags(false) which adds the meta-tags set, the false specifying that we don't want it to include a <title> tag of its own. If we wanted our page title to just use the MetaTitle under the meta-data tab in the CMS, we could set this to true and remove our <title> tag. SilverStripe would then include the entire title line for us, but we would not be able to set a persistent part of it like the name of our site, which we do in this instance by grabbing it from the SiteConfig. At first this may look a little odd: $SiteConfig.Title What we are doing here is saying , get the 'Title' value from the SiteConfig object. This sort of notation is used often, but don't worry if your not quite clear about it yet, were just starting!
Finally add <% require themedCSS() %> tags for each of our CSS files and adjust the IE6 conditional path to be relative to the root of the site. And thats it, our  section is now ready for SilverStripe's dynamic magic.
Top Level Navigation
The navigation in the satic HTML is in the form of an unordered list. We are going to emulate this structure using a SilverStripe control loop which will loop over the top level pages allowing us to create a new list item and link for each one. It looks like this:

 Home
 <% control Menu(1) %>
 $MenuTitle
 <% end_control %>

 ...
The control loop <% control Menu(1) %> tells SilverSripe to loop through the pages in the top level menu, creating whatever HTML is between this starting control and the <% end_control %> for each one. So in this case we create a
 followed by a  and then a closing
. Within the  we use a few SilverStripe variables, namely $LinkingMode, $Link, $Title and $MenuTitle. The key to understanding how this works and how control loops work in general is understanding that within this control loop you are in the context of whatever item is being looped through, in this case pages in the top level of the site tree. So when we loop through and use the $Link variable in the href, SilverStripe inserts the link to the page whose context we are currently in. Likewise for $LinkingMode, $Title and $MenuTitle, while outside the control we would be getting the values from the actual page we are on, inside it the values returned are of the items in the loop.
$LinkingMode inserts a class based on whether the link we are creating is for the current page or whether the current page is a child of this link. This way we can style a.current and a.section to be highlighted to show the user they are on that page or in that section.
For more information on the built in variables and functions you can use in a template see this page: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=built-in-page-controls.
At this point, have a look at your page. You will notice the header image not showing as we havn't adjusted the path yet, but also notice that the top level navigation is now generated from your SilverStripe site. Remember that you will need to add ?flush=1 to the end of your URL each time you want to see changes made to a template. This makes sure SilverStripe clears its template cache before rendering the page. It's also worth disabling or clearing your browsers cache to avoid any confusion. If your using firefox you can download the Developer Toolbar that has a "disable cache" button among numerous other useful tools. If are using Chrome then you can do a hard refresh by hitting F5.
Adding the Sidebar and Content
Now lets get onto the main section of our page, otherwise know as the Layout. The Layout is the section of the page that changes between different types of page, so later on we will be stripping this out of our page and placing it in it's own file so that we can vary the look of our pages without having to have completely new templates. Before we do that though we want a completely working page.
First part is the banner image and the sidebar. For the banner image we just need to make the path to the image relative to the root. For the sidebar we use a control loop identical to the one we used for the top navigation, only this time we call Menu(2) instead of Menu(1).

$Level(1).Title

 <% control Menu(2) %>
 $MenuTitle
 <% end_control %>

 ...
The only extra thing to notice here is that we use the variable $Level(1).Title for our sidebar's header. As mentioned before, this type of notation ($a.b) is used to get single values from within single objects, in this case we are getting the Title of the top level page in this section. This is actually a shorter way of writing <% control Level(1) %>$Title<% end_control %>.
Next up is the actual content area. This is really quite simple as all we need to do is insert our $Content variable along with the $Form (for the login form etc.) and $PageComments (for pages where comments are enabled in the CMS) and then make sure our typography, layout and container divs are closed. We also want to get our breadcrumbs in there which is as simple as using $Breadcrumbs. Gotta love SilverStripe :)
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$Breadcrumbs

 $Content $Form $Pagecomments

The Footer
There's not a whole lot to our footer, and even less that needs to be dynamic. We will however add a nifty variable to make the copyright year dynamic. $Now.Year will return the current year, so we can just stick that strait into our template.
...

© SomeCompany $Now.Year | Provided by SSbits.com

So now we have a complete dynamic template which pulls in our page content and dynamically generates the menus. However, as a single file it's not particularly useful, as if we wanted a page with a different layout, for example without a sidebar, we would have to do it all over again in another file! Of course there is a simple solution that SilverStripe provides and that is to use a Layout template.
Creating the Layout Template
To create a Layout template we need to pick a
 which we can always place into the main template, very much like you would with PHP includes. In this example were going to use the Layout
 section and place it and its contents in a seperate file, allowing us to use different versions of that Layout for different page types. So first cut everything within the

 tags pasting it into a new file themes/brushedsilver/templates/Layout/Page.ss and replacing it in the main template with $Layout like so:

<% control Menu(2) %>
$MenuTitle
<% end_control %>

Then in place of that in your main Page.ss template:

 $Layout

Now when SilverStripe draws a page it first grabs the main template from themes/brushedsilver/templates/Page.ss and when it encounters the $Layout variable it looks in the templates/Layout/ folder for a layout which matches the name of the current page type. If it can't find one or the current page type is Page then it just uses themes/brushedsilver/templates/Layout/Page.ss. It then resumes drawing from the main template for the footer etc.
Creating the Includes
We can also take this a step further and remove some things from our Layout template so that we can then re-use them in other templates. Let's remove the sidebar and the breadcrumbs. Create two files in the themes/brushedsilver/templates/Includes/ folder, Sidebar.ss and Breadcrumbs.ss. Cut everything inside and including the

 and paste it into Sidebar.ss. Now we can simply replace it with an <% include %> tag, as well as introducing a condition to decide whether we add it to our template or not.

<% control Menu(2) %>
$MenuTitle
<% end_control %>
And back in our Layout/Page.ss this is replaced by
... <% if Menu(2) %> <% include Sidebar %>
 <% end_if %> ...
You will notice that we are using an <% if %> statement here. What we are doing is testing to see whether there is a second level menu to display and if there is we add our sidebar and our
 which limits the size of our content area. If not, then everything contained within the <% if %> is ignored leaving out the sidebar all together and letting the content fill the whole page.
Note. we are moving the
 to be inside this conditional statement, so if you copied and pasted the code above make sure you don't have another content
 below it.
We also need to repeat this conditional <% if %> for the closing content
, otherwise we will have an extra closing element when not including the sidebar. So replace the
  line this at the end of your Layout/Page.ss template with the following:
... <% if Menu(2) %>
 <% end_if %> ...
We now do a similar thing with our breadcrumbs so that they are only displayed if we are on the second level. Cut the contents of and including the
...
 and paste it into the Breadcrumbs.ss file. In its place put this code into themes/brushedsilver/templates/Layout/Page.ss
<% if Level(2) %> <% include Breadcrumbs %> <% end_if %>
This code has a subtle difference to the one we used for the sidebar. In our If statement we use Level(2) instead of Menu(2). The difference here is that with the breadcrumbs we only want to display them when the user is actually on the second level or greater, while with the sidebar we want to show it on the first level only if a second level exists.
This process of separating page elements into Includes is good practice that I recommend repeating for the Footer and Header sections as well as any custom blocks you use repeatedly in your templates.
So that pretty much wraps up the tutorial. You should now have a fully fledged SilverStripe theme that can be extended as you create new page types with different data. So Say you now want a seperate page template for the HomePage page type, you would add the file Layout/HomePage.ss and add the markup for that page. SilverStripe would then include that Layout file when viewing pages of type HomePage. As I am sure you have realised SilverStripe's templating system is not only very simple for non-programmers to understand but it is also unobtrusive and allows you to build your templates in a fashion very similar to those of a static HTML page, leaving all the complicated code where it should be, in the Model and Controller php classes.
Sometimes you may want to use a template that was created by somone else who did not have SilverStripe in mind. Here are a few pointers to preparing it for conversion into a SilverStripe theme.
- Use the blackcandy theme bundled with SilverStripe as a guide to the file structure of a theme. All your files should be in one folder with the name of your theme, containing three folders: css, images and templates. The templates folder should then contain two folders: Layout and Includes. Place all your images in the images folder and all your style sheets into the css folder.
- Although not essential it's good practice to separate layout, typography and form CSS into their own files. This makes editing easier as well as encouraging re-use in later projects.
- If you are using active states for navigation buttons so that they are highlighted if you are on that page check to make sure they are using the correct CSS selectors. Silverstripe uses .current and .section classes, returned when using the $LinkingMode variable.
15/11/2010 8:32pm (7 years ago)
Great POST!
This gave me a aHA with silverstripe. Been working (fighting?) with SS for a little while now and this helped clear up a lot. Except when I made the Footer.ss, what's the code to place it back into Layout/Page.ss. At least I assume that is where it goes. I'm sure it's right in front of me but not hitting me at the moment.
Thank YOU!
23/06/2011 9:02pm (6 years ago)
I too have learned a great deal from this example. I own both SS books but this exercise taught me more than both so far...
Where I am struggling is in setting up the search box. By inserting the $SearchForm variable on the page.ss and borrowing elements from blackcandy, I have been able to successfully search and get a results page across my site.
The problem is that the search input window is located all the way to the right of the screen with the button underneath it. I see that you have set up some searchcode formatting in the css file that is different than that in the blackcandy site. From Googling the SS forums, I know I need to insert a couple of div's in the page.ss to make this work (i.e. get the search window to stay in the frame of the header) but have not been able to figure out what goes where.
Can you offer a hint?
Thank you in advance for all of your superb tutorials.
19/07/2011 12:09pm (6 years ago)
I'm a newbie. I have ebook "Silver Stripe - The Complete Guide to CMS Development, but haven't its source code. If you have it, plz share for me (email@example.com) ^ ^ Thank a lot!
Ps: I'm not good at English ^^
08/08/2014 11:32am (3 years ago)
Hi Aram, many thanks for a very informative post. This is the best explanation for plugging a static template into SilverStripe I have read so far.


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The NCAA Infractions Committee included a clause allowing for UNC to delay the penalty phase for a year due to the infractions report being released after National Signing Day. Despite the timing involved, North Carolina was proactive in starting the penalty phase immediately to prevent the scholarship sanctions from factoring into the 2015 recruiting class.
Therefore, UNC enrolled 20 initial counters for the 2012 football season in August – or so it thought.
Enter third-year sophomore Roy Smith. He enrolled at North Carolina for the 2010-11 academic year to run track. The 5-foot-9, 170-pound Miami, Fla. native placed second in the 400-meter hurdles at the ACC Outdoor Championships in 2011 and finished fourth in the same event in 2012.
Smith played wide receiver at powerhouse Northwestern High School and decided with his father last spring that he would approach first-year head coach Larry Fedora about walking onto the football team.
Fedora agreed. UNC was short on wide receivers and as injuries mounted throughout training camp, Smith found himself taking snaps with the first- and second-team offensive units.
Around that same time in August, according to sources, UNC learned the NCAA had determined that Smith was a recruited student-athlete due to his high school interaction with the track and field coaching staff. Even though Smith was not recruited for football, the NCAA bylaws apply to the institution, not the individual athletic programs.
As North Carolina had already enrolled 20 scholarship players for camp in August, this determination meant that Smith would count as No. 21, according to sources.
North Carolina could have avoided the initial counter crunch by not allowing Smith to play last fall. UNC's preseason three-deep at punt returner, however, was depleted by injury and attrition, forcing running back Gio Bernard to assume the role in the season opener against Elon. After Bernard left the game with a knee injury, Smith took his place, returning six punts for 127 yards.
Smith ultimately played in six games in 2012, catching three passes for 30 yards and returning 12 punts for 164 yards.
The NCAA has since decided to grant UNC a reprieve by allowing the school make up for the 2012 scholarship overage by subtracting a scholarship from its 2013 count.
A school official confirmed to IC on Tuesday that UNC will be limited to 19 initial counters for 2013.
"Obviously it means UNC loses an initial counter for 2013," InsideCarolina.com recruiting analyst Don Callahan said. "From a recruiting strategy standpoint, it doesn't change anything because the staff was fully aware of the situation in August. It doesn't mean that UNC can only sign 19. It just means if the Tar Heels sign more than 19 they are basically over-signing."
That distinction is critical. The NCAA limits its Football Bowl Subdivision schools to 28 signees between Signing Day and May 31. North Carolina will not come close to that total next Wednesday, but even if it signs in excess of 20 players, the 19 initial counter limit isn't applied until August enrollment.
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Seattle Children's researchers found that the mild to moderate developmental delays that can accompany the most common type of craniosynostosis can be overcome. ... cont.
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Neurodevelopmental assessment of craniofacial disorders; psychiatric assessment and diagnosis of adolescent disorders; disruptive disorders; autism; anxiety disorders; behavioral medicine
The Infant Learning Project is a 5-year prospective study funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research examining the neurobehavioral outcomes of infants with single-suture, non-syndromic craniosynstosis. Single-suture craniosynostosis is characterized by premature fusion of two, adjoining plates of the skull, which result in malformations and dysmorphology of the head in the absence of corrective surgery. A total of 250 children with one of four types of single-suture synostosis (sagittal, metopic, right unilateral coronal and left unilateral coronal) are being recruited from four clinical centers across the U.S. (in Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, and Atlanta). A case-matched comparison group of 250 normal healthy children is also being followed. Participants are assessed at 3 time points - at time of enrollment (14 months of age or younger), at 18 months, and at 36 months. By following prospectively a relatively large sample of infants with and without targeted diagnoses of craniosynostosis (n = 500) and using a comprehensive battery of well-known standardized tests and neurocognitive tasks that can predict later learning and language disabilities, we hope to avoid the methodological problems experienced by past researchers. Specific study aims are to: (1) Characterize the neurobehavioral development and parental adjustment of infants with single-suture fusions, as compared to carefully matched, typically developing infants (2) Examine relations between neurobehavioral development and degree of abnormality in bone and underlying brain tissue among children with craniosynostosis (using new CT scan measurement models) (3) Examine relations between neurobehavioral development and presence of genetic mutations among children with unicoronal synostosis (4) Develop predictive models of 36-month functional outcomes for all infants with craniosynostosis (5) Determine relation between age of cranioplastic surgery and neurobehavioral development
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Farm dinners spotlight growers' connection to what's on our plates
August 12, 2012
The last time I had dinner on a farm, we ate baked chicken and steamed broccoli topped with American cheese. There were eight of us, and the whole meal probably cost $20.
My, how times have changed.
People are now paying hundreds of dollars to dine in farm fields. Last week, Isabelle Farm in Lafayette hosted 50 people who paid $210 each for an elegant dinner that could easily have been served in a sleek air-conditioned dining room. But instead of exposed brick and chandeliers, cornstalks and sunbeams provided the atmosphere.
The menu, by chef Steven Redzikowski of Oak at Fourteenth, paid homage to the ingredients' growers:
> Red Wagon Organic Farm heirloom tomato and First Fruits peach panzanella salad with Avalanche Cheese Co. goat cheese and mint and tarragon vinaigrette.
> Pickled Red Wagon Farm spring garlic shrimp and grits with Isabelle Farm Anaheim and jalapeno soffrito.
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Um what?
Just saw this on TDH's FB page...
Um what?
Just saw this on TDH's FB page...
While I'd definitely love to own one just because, I really don't expect to see this get released in my life since efX is handling it.
I don't want to judge this helmet before it comes out, and I KNOW it won't have the faults that the MR had considering TDH members oversaw it, but such a specific piece AND paint job is hard to capture in mass production.
It's going to be a great looking piece I'm sure, but I wouldn't troop in one after owning most of the EFX helmets and feeling how hot they get with the padding and such. I think this piece for a majority will belong on a display of some sort or tucked away in a box like the MRs are. Lol.
This is molded off the ESB hero helmet....yes...they got to CAST the HERO helmet.....
Game over...this is it
I'm intrigued for sure. I really want to hear the history behind this endeavor. Casting a screenused helmet is something I figured would never happen.
How did this happen? I figured GL would never let the actual lid get cast. These are going to sell really fast, if they actually make them.
Sounds like Disney is opening the coveted LFL archives to some very lucky vendors for prop replicas. eFX is also doing a full screen accurate ANH Stormie suit, according to my FB feed.
I agree with Wolfsburg, I'd love to hear the backstory on this new helmet.
Amazing! I'd write a longer reply, but I'm afraid my drool will short out my keyboard.
Looks good,but think ill stick to FP new lid,being down to the fact that its pretty likely this will be massed produced no doubt somewhere in the Far East,would rather have it from a trusted vendor who knows what he's doing...
So most of the time I fire from the hip as far as posting...with this thread though I wanted to think about what I wanted to say first. And Danzo hit the nail on the head....Somewhat what I was thinking. Now with that said, and seeing the thing you still have to wonder what process they will use, if it will be painted, who will be painting it, what they will be using to paint it, how much will it cost, when will it be out available to the public (if it even happens) and if its outsourced overseas whos economy are we helping here? I really would LOVE to have this helmet in my collection which is about to get back to where it was before I went to Korea. This thing looks really cool, but in the end believe half of what you see none of what you hear. When its on sale then we can talk more.
It's all answered here, complete with video of them molding the helmet:
The Holy Grail of Boba Fett ? Part 1 | The RPF Pulse
Hardly all answered...but there is alot of info there...none of my questions are answered in Arts pulse post
Well the post was a "part 1". Who knows how many more parts will be added. Maybe you'll find out. lol
Is it just me, but can't help thinking this is a bit of a shame?
little vid of it happening
eFX - Original Empire Strikes Back Boba Fett Helmet Molding - YouTube
It looks nice for sure. But as previously stated who knows what the end production pieces will look like. Plus it will be forever and a day before we actually see it in anyone's hands. I am still waiting for them to release their biker scout helmet that they showed off last year.
Bit of a shame? Why?
I am surprised that people aren't hugely excited about the idea that the ESB hero helmet was cast!
All the mystery, gone. All the years of fettling to achieve accuracy, null and void...LOL!
Hey, but at least we learned there definitely is a 'wavy brow' on the ESB helmet, and that it's not an optical illusion due to the paint up.
I'm with Danzo and F4R. I'll stick with FP and the talented artists here.
I'm still going to get one of these whether it sits on a shelf or not. The lineage has won me over. Still love my ASOK FP Budget and considering the FPH2.
Hopefully it won't come to that, but if the factory paintjob proves to be that bad, I'd probably just have the whole thing stripped and repainted by one of the talented artists in the Fett world. I just hope the helmet itself isn't exorbitantly expensive! This helmet's lineage is pretty much the holy grail for Fett helmet fans (unless you prefer the ROTJ helmet! ) so pricing makes me a bit nervous.
I'm curious though, if thats the "Legend" edition, why is there no visible signs of the crack in the left corner mandible? Legend means its not modified correct?
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TNB: Weekend Whipper
Last week we featured a video that shows a climber attempting a route on a hill called Susunia in West Bengal, India. As usual (this being the internet), the comments are pretty harsh, ranging from speculation that the climber was errant in not getting a second piece of pro to simply stating that the video is an example of "some of the funniest (bad) shit I've ever seen. How is that guy not dead?"
In 2010 I went to south India and sampled some climbing in an area called Ramanagaram, between Bangalore and Mysore (check out the photos and article). A local climber named Kamalesh Venugopal was kind enough to show me around and we uncovered a few good pitches and a spectacular route—a shady, two-pitch crack that we dubbed Bollywood (5.11d, 5.10).
Although we could have climbed Bollywood all clean with several #5 Camalots and a few Big Bros, we elected to bolt the long upper section which was over 4-inches wide, because, as Kamalesh informed us, "You probably couldn't put together a double rack of cams to four inches if you gathered every piece of gear owned by climbers in all of South India."
With this in mind, we placed gear till the crack widened beyond five inches, and bolted the rest, hoping that other climbers in the active community would be able to sample one of the finest routes in the region.
The fact is that most of the people in the world can't afford climbing gear because they are having a hard time just getting enough food for themselves and their families. Each day, as we drove through the small settlement of Ramanagaram, I saw a spectacle of poverty that would melt even the iciest heart. Beggars with twisted limbs, hungry children with hollow eyes, even corpses. The sights graphically brought home just how lucky we are to enjoy the affluence that allows us to pursue such a frivolous—if incredibly rewarding—activity as climbing rocks.
Which brings me back to the Weekend Whipper. In the comments, people were speculating wildly. "This guy is probably the town's best climber. This entire village is out watching him as he demonstrates his skills or lack thereof … Rather comical."
But, since we're hypothesizing, I'll put forward a more likely scenario. The gear you see is all the gear available to him. He can't back up the belay, as someone suggested, and he can't back up the pin and he doesn't have a piece that fits the crack above.
So the choice facing the climber here is not between foolishly hopping on the rock and going for it without adequate equipment or heading to the gear store with his next paycheck and buying a rack of cams, micro-stoppers and a GriGri first. The choice is between climbing and not climbing.
When I was in India I learned that the bolts needed to equip a short sport climb represented about half a month's wages for a middle-class Indian. Watching this video—which depicts a scenario where no one was hurt, where all the systems work perfectly, by the way—I'm not inclined to criticize, but rather to remark on the incredible pull of ascent and to send out a long-distance fist bump to all my brothers and sisters, all over the world, who are stepping up and going for it despite the obstacles in their path. Aum Shri Maha Ganapataye Namaha! May your obstacles be removed.


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Hello! I realise this post may be a bit irritating - why don't i just dig in and read all the old posts that answer related queries? the answer is that i have just arrived in china and my internet connection is very slow, so please be indulgent!
i am a totally new teacher and i have just got a job at a language institute here. my job includes teaching middle school classes of about 32 students. I expected to learn by watching the other teachers at work, but i've been made to observe the guy i'm replacing all week, and he just stands at the front and drones through a powerpoint presentation trying to elicit the word 'taco' and similar, then complains when the students get bored, so i feel a bit out on a limb. the students have separate english lessons given by chinese teachers, and their understanding and reading skills are really impressive, but like language students everywhere, they're reluctant to talk. the native english-speaking teachers are here just for oral practice, so the students don't have any textbooks in our classes and we aren't expected to make them write anything. I really want to get the students talking and practicing with games, fun activities and lots and lots of pair and group work, but they aren't used to this sort of teaching, and they tend to chat in chinese a lot. i have taken the initiative and spoken to some of the chinese english teachers about what topics they want us to teach and what to focus on, and i've planned my first lesson, but as i have no experience, i'm pretty apprehensive, and it would be incredibly helpful to hear any tips at all on working with large groups, chinese students, encouraging speaking and keeping students' attention. games and activities that work? anything!
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House Budget Committee and Anti-Poverty Programs
May 07, 2014
By Lauren French
Can we solve poverty by cutting programs designed to alleviate it? The 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's launch of the War on Poverty has given the powerful House Budget Committee and its chair, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) a "hook" to drive attention to such federal programs and a platform for discussing whether and to what degree to continue investments in them.
Ryan has released his budget and held a set of hearings. The latest hearing, held April 30 was entitled "Lessons from the Frontlines."
The hearing witnesses offered their perspectives on the role of federal funding in fighting poverty. The first two witnesses to testify, Robert Woodson, founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Bishop Dr. Shirley Holloway, founder of House of Help City of Hope, work with individuals facing a variety of issues including drug addiction, incarceration, and homelessness. Both expressed criticism of federal anti-poverty spending and advocated for faith-based programs. Woodson testified that "compassion for the poor cannot be defined by how much we spend on them." Holloway agreed with Woodson, adding that "love is greater than any dollar."
In response to these witnesses, Budget Committee member Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) voiced her concerns noting , "we also need public policies that provide opportunity for all." Private charities themselves argue they cannot possibly make up for large federal cuts. For example, the Ryan budget cuts would slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP," formerly known as food stamps) by $137 billion over 10 years. Another witness, Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, adamantly defended federal programs such as Head Start and the Earned Income Tax Credit. "The War on Poverty has lifted millions of children and families out of poverty," Edelman testified, "and I am very concerned that 50 years later some people think the best way forwards is backwards – trying to unravel the very investments that have had such impact and given millions of children a new lease on life and hope for the future."
Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" budget makes profound cuts to those investments. A recent analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities notes that the budget plan would achieve the vast bulk of its "savings" by making cuts to programs that serve low-income families and individuals; in fact, fully 69 percent of non-defense cuts would be made to such programs
At the hearing, committee Democrats challenged the "Path to Prosperity" budget plan and stressed the need for federal funding as central to an effective anti-poverty agenda. "We want the same thing as the other side wants, which is to get rid of programs that don't work," explained Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), "But damn it, many of these programs do work and many of these programs are the difference between life and death in our community."


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Pilarzyk Stops Eight Shots, but Green Bay Falls 1-0
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Sophomore keeper Katy Pilarzyk (Madison, Wis.) and a young Green Bay (3-6-0) defense hung tough, but a late goal by visiting Detroit (4-4-1) left the Phoenix with a 1-0 loss in the Horizon League women's soccer opener at Aldo Santaga Stadium.
Pilarzyk made eight saves in the game, including seven in the second half, helping to keep the Titans off the scoreboard for most of the afternoon. Pilarzyk's last save, stopping Alyssa Riley's shot from in close off a corner kick, led to the Titan game-winning goal. The rebound went to Abby McCollum, who scored from just a few yards out for an 85th minute goal and a 1-0 lead.
Making her ninth start in nine game this season for the Phoenix, Pilarzyk teamed with a defensive backline full of freshmen to keep the Titans at bay, but the Phoenix offense could not get it going.
The best chance of the game for the home team came in the 11th minute, when sophomore Emily Friedl (Kenosha, Wis.), made a move to free herself and send a cross into the box. Hannah Kernen (Belleville, Wis.) got a decent header on the cross, but her attempt could not get over the arms of Titan keeper Nora Abolins.
Freshman Maria Lillge (Appleton, Wis.) came off the bench in the second half and made a beautiful strike from outside the box in the 64th minute, but Abolins made another nice save.
Green Bay plays one home game and one road game next weekend. The Phoenix will travel to Wright State for a Horizon League game on Friday night at 3 p.m. CT before hosting a non-conference tilt against Indiana State at 12 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30.
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USC Starts 2011 NCAA Tournament At Home
Nov. 29, 2011
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2011 NCAA Tournament - Galen Center
Friday, December 2 - NCAA First Round
Tulsa (27-6) vs. Oklahoma (21-11) - 5 p.m.
Yale (18-6) vs. No. 7 seed USC (25-4) - 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 3 - NCAA Second Round
Tulsa/Oklahoma winner vs. USC/Yale winner - 7 p.m.
All times local to match site Live video webcast and Gametracker live stats for all matches on usctrojans.com
USC Probable Starters No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. kps pct. dps bps pps 1 Alexis Olgard So. MB 6-5 1.57 .385 0.20 0.77 2.06 3 Natalie Hagglund So. L 5-9 --- --- 5.03 --- --- 7 Alex Jupiter Sr. OH 6-3 4.45 .276 2.84 0.54 5.38 8 Lauren Williams Sr. MB 6-4 2.67 .402 0.22 0.80 3.12 10 Sara Shaw So. OH 6-2 2.17 .235 2.17 0.24 2.51 12 Kendall Bateman Sr. S 5-11 0.27 .281 12.09 aps 22 Katie Fuller Jr. OH 6-2 2.85 .247 1.77 0.48 3.27
LOS ANGELES -- The USC women's volleyball team (25-4) will be hosting the first and second rounds of the 2011 NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament, Friday and Saturday (December 2 and 3), at the Galen Center. USC, ranked No. 1 in the nation according to the latest AVCA poll, earned the No. 7 national seed in the tournament and will face Ivy League champion Yale (18-6) in a 7 p.m. match on Friday. The other first-round match will feature Conference USA champion Tulsa (27-6) and Oklahoma (21-11), which finished in fifth place in the Big 12 Conference, in a 5 p.m. start. The winners of both matches will play on Saturday at 7 p.m. with the winner advancing to the Honolulu Regional.
All three matches will be broadcast live through a free video webcast on usctrojans.com.
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Yale Notes
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And The Award(s) Goes To...
Jupiter, Bateman and Hagglund also earned All-Pac-12 Conference along with senior middle blocker Lauren Williams. Junior outside hitter Katie Fuller was named All-Pac-12 Conference honorable mention while middle blocker Hannah Schraer earned All-Freshman Team honorable mention.
Jupiter became the third player in USC history to be named conference player of the year (Cathy Stukel in 1980 and April Ross in 2003).
Career Builders
Jupiter now holds the USC career records for kills (1,822), points (2,142.0) and total attempts (4,483). She set the points record on Sept. 3 against UCF and broke the previous mark of 1,689.5 points (Keao Burdine, 2001-04). She set the record for career attempts, passing Jennifer Kessy (1995-98) for the school record at 4,356 on November 12 and set the kills record on November 19 against Arizona, breaking Jennifer Kessy's mark of 1,799 kills.
Bateman set a new USC career record for assists on November 25 at UCLA, breaking the previous career record of 4,258 held by Janice Mounts (1995-98). Bateman currently has 4,264 career assists.
Carrying The Banner
The Power of the Pac-12
This is the first season for the Pac-12 Conference with the addition of Colorado and Utah. For women's volleyball this season, all 12 teams will play a double round-robin schedule (home and away) for a total of 22 conference matches.
Record Crowd
As of November 28, USC ranks 23rd nationally with an average attendance this season of 1,548 fans.
Road Warriors
Out Of This World
This season, she has 418 kills (4.45 kps) while hitting .276 with 48 service aces (0.51 saps), 267 digs (2.84 dps), 51 blocks (0.54 bps) and 506.0 points (5.38 pps). She was named 2011 Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year and became a three-time All-Pac-12 Conference Team selection.
In the final regular-season match at No. 4 UCLA, she had 18 kills with five digs, one ace and five blocks (four solo) in the four-set win. She hit .607 on 18 kills (18-1-28) on November 19 at home against Arizona with two aces, five digs and three blocks in a 3-0 sweep of the Wildcats. During the match, she broke Jennifer Kessy's school career record for kills. Against Arizona State in a four-set win on November 11, she had 17 kills while hitting .325 with nine digs and tied a season high with four blocks.
She was named Pac-12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week on November 14, the third time she received the conference honor. In 3-0 sweeps on November 11-12 at Oregon State and No. 20 Oregon, she combined for 30 kills and 41.5 points. In addition to averaging 5.00 kills per set and 6.92 points per set, she hit .324 with eight service aces (1.33 saps), 23 digs (3.83 dps) and four blocks (0.67 bps). She tallied 16 kills with three aces at Oregon State. Against Oregon, she hit .367 on 14 kills with a career-high five service aces along with 15 digs and three solo blocks.
She posted a double-double in a three-set sweep of No. 10 Washington on Oct. 22, tallying 13 kills and 17 digs. On Oct. 28 at No. 5 Stanford in a three-set loss, Jupiter had 16 kills and 11 digs. The following evening at No. 2 Cal, she posted 15 kills while hitting .406 (15-2-32) with a season-high 18 digs.
She hit .333 with nine kills in a sweep on Oct. 22 against Colorado with 12 digs, two aces and two solo blocks. For the fourth time in her career, she recorded four service aces in a match on Oct. 21 against Utah. On Oct. 14 in a four-set win over No. 16 Oregon, she tied a season high with 22 kills and set a season high with 14 kills while hitting .314 (22-6-51) with two aces and three blocks. She had a match-high 16 kills on Oct. 7 at Arizona while hitting .382 in the 3-0 sweep before a 15-kill, 13-dig performance the next night in a four-set win at Arizona State.
She had 14 kills while hitting .344 with nine digs and two solo blocks in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 30 at Colorado and then recorded 15 kills with nine digs and two blocks while hitting .407 on October 2 at Utah. On Sept. 23 against No. 1 California, she had 16 kills, eight digs, four blocks (two solo) while hitting .343 in the sweep over the Golden Bears. She followed with a double-double against No. 2 Stanford in a three-set sweep with 15 kills and 11 digs while adding three aces. She had nine kills and 10 digs on September 16 in a 3-0 sweep at No. 4 Washington.
She earned 2011 FGCU Homewood Suites Invitational all-tournament team honors after recording 37 kills in three matches, including a 19-kill effort in a 3-0 sweep of Furman while hitting .410 (19-3-39) with seven digs. The following day in Orlando against Clemson, she had 18 kills while hitting .325 (18-5-40) with seven digs and a solo block.
She was named to the 2011 Rockvale Outlets/AVCA Showcase all-tournament team after recording 44 kills and 22 digs in two matches against No. 12 Minnesota and No. 1 Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania. She had 22 kills and nine digs in the five-set win against Minnesota while hitting .327 and adding three solo blocks, following up in a five-set loss to Penn State with 22 kills, 13 digs and two service aces.
Jupiter posted 16 double-doubles in 2010 and 12 in 18 Pac-10 Conference matches. She was named to the 2010 All-Pac-10 Conference Team, the second straight year she received the honor. She registered a double-double against No. 3 seed Stanford in the 2010 Dayton Regional final with 23 kills and 15 digs while hitting .290 against the Cardinal and earned NCAA Dayton Regional all-tournament team honors. She was named Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week and Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week twice in 2010, becoming the first USC women's volleyball program to earn national player of the week honors twice in a season. On Nov. 1 after she recorded 42 kills in wins at home against Washington State and then-No. 7 Washington. She had 12 kills and seven digs while hitting .318 in the 3-0 sweep of Washington State on Oct. 29 and followed with a spectacular match on the FOX Sports Net Game of the Week against Washington. She had 30 kills (one away from her personal best) in the five-set win over the Huskies with 14 digs and a .414 hitting percentage (30-6-58). After getting only three kills in the first set, she came back with eight kills in the second set and nine kills in the third with no errors for a .607 hitting clip in those two sets.
On Sept. 24, 2010, against No. 11 UCLA, she registered her 1,000th career kill and became just the 17th player in USC history to accomplish the feat. She posted a team-high 21 kills to go with 12 digs in the four-set win against the Bruins. Her first AVCA National Player of the Week honor came on Sept. 6 after earning most outstanding player honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu (Sept. 3-5). She also was named Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week, the first time she earned that honor. She posted 49 kills (4.45 kps) in three matches against three teams that were receiving votes in the coaches' poll with four aces, 26 digs (2.36 dps), 10 blocks (0.91 bps) and 61.0 points (5.55 pps). She did not have one reception error in 58 attempts on the weekend.
She led the Women of Troy in 2009 with 522 kills (4.54 kps) with 33 aces (0.29 saps), 308 digs (2.68 dps), 73 blocks (0.63 bps) and 608.0 points (5.29 pps). She earned AVCA All-America third team and AVCA All-Pacific Region honors while also earning her first All-Pac-10 Conference honor. Her 522 kills were the fourth-most in school history, along with her 5.29 points per set average. She finished seventh in the nation for points per set and 12th for kills per set during her sophomore season and recorded 15 double-doubles. She was third among all Pac-10 Conference players in points and kills and fourth for service aces. On Sept. 26 at Arizona State, Jupiter posted career-highs with 31 kills and 20 digs in a four-set win while hitting .433 (31-5-60). She earned Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament team honors after recording 41 kills, 21 digs and seven blocks (five solo) in three 3-0 sweeps.
During her 2008 freshman season, she registered 350 kills (3.24 kps) with 12 service aces (0.11 saps), 122 digs (1.13 dps), 59 blocks (0.55 bps) and 403.0 points (3.73 pps). She was named to the Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team. Jupiter recorded double digit kills in 20 matches and became the third freshman at USC since 1981 to lead the team in kills (Tracy Clark in 1982 and April Ross in 2000).
Take The Bait
Bateman has 1,149 assists (12.09 aps) this season with 26 kills (0.27 kps), 188 digs (1.98 dps) and 34 blocks (0.36 bps). She was named 2011 Pac-12 Conference Setter of the Year and named to the All-Pac-12 Conference Team.
As of November 28, she has orchestrated the team's offense to a .292 hitting percentage, ranking the Trojans fourth in the nation.
On Nov. 25 at No. 4 UCLA, she had 46 assists with nine digs and two blocks in the four-set win. She posted a 13.29 assists per set in wins at home against Arizona State and Arizona (November 18-19). She had 53 assists in the four-set win against ASU with seven digs and four blocks and posted 40 assists in the sweep over the Wildcats. On November 12 at No. 20 Oregon, she posted 46 assists as the team hit .359 in the 3-0 sweep. She tied her career high with two service aces and added seven digs. She had two kills with 36 assists, five digs and one block on November 11 at Oregon State as the team hit .327 for the match.
She had 36 assists in a 3-0 sweep of Washington State on November 4 with the team hitting .368 and recorded 38 assists the next evening against No. 10 Washington in another 3-0 sweep with the Trojans hitting .343 as a team. She averaged 12.83 assists per set in road matches at No. 5 Stanford and No. 2 California (Oct. 28-29). She had 37 assists with four digs and one solo block in the three-set loss at Stanford before having a 40-assist match in a sweep at Cal where the Women of Troy hit .319 as a team. She added 11 digs and four blocks against the Golden Bears.
She posted 49 assists on Oct. 14 in a four-set win over No. 16 Oregon with nine digs and three kills. In a 3-0 sweep on October 7 at Arizona, the team hit .364 as she recorded 39 assists. The following night at Arizona State, she had 60 assists (15.00 aps) in the four-set win with 10 digs and four blocks. She was named Pac-12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week on September 26 after leading USC to 3-0 sweeps at home over No. 1 California and No. 2 Stanford (Sept. 23-24). She had 42 assists (14.00 aps) with seven digs and two blocks against Cal as the Women of Troy hit .271 for the match. Against the Cardinal, she posted 41 assists with nine digs and one block.
She registered 77 assists in two 3-0 sweeps on the road (Sept. 16-17) at No. 4 Washington and Washington State. She had 41 assists (13.67 aps) against Washington with six digs, followed by 36 assists against Washington State while guiding the team to a .447 hitting night.
She had 35 assists with a kill and six digs in a win on Sept. 4 against Clemson in Orlando. She posted 45 assists (15.00 aps) in a sweep on Sept. 3 against Furman with a kill, five digs and two block assists. At the 2011 Rockvale Outlets/AVCA Showcase, Bateman had 54 assists and 11 digs against No. 12 Minnesota and 47 assists with 10 digs at No. 1 Penn State.
With Bateman handling the team's offense, USC was eighth in the nation last season for hitting percentage (.290). She sent the Trojans to Kansas City for the 2010 NCAA Final Four with 64 assists and 15 digs in the five-set win against No. 3 seed Stanford on Dec. 11 and had a career-high five kills with 35 assists and 10 digs against Indiana in the regional semifinal. Bateman earned NCAA Dayton Regional all-tournament team honors. In the Trojans' first-round match against New Mexico, she had 42 assists and six digs as USC hit .330, followed by 55 assists in a four-set win against No. 18 San Diego with two kills and five digs as the team hit .338.
She posted 63 assists with seven digs and four blocks on Nov. 26, 2010, in a five-set win at No. 9 UCLA. She posted a career-high 5.0 points on Nov. 5 against No. 2 California, tying her career bests with three kills and two service aces. In the four-set win against the Golden Bears, she registered 58 assists and eight digs. She recorded a career-high 71 assists (14.20 aps) in a five-set win on Oct. 22 against No. 16 Oregon and orchestrated an offensive attack that hit .392 against the Ducks. The following night, she had 41 assists in a 3-0 sweep of Oregon State as the Trojans hit .370 for the match.
She earned all-tournament honors at the 2010 Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu after leading USC to a 3-0 mark with wins over No. 4 Hawai'i, New Mexico and Michigan State. She had 126 assists (11.45 aps), 17 digs (1.55 dps) and 11 blocks (1.00 bps) as she guided the team to a .302 hitting percentage on the weekend. She had a career-high six blocks in the five-set win on Sept. 5 against No. 4 Hawai'i, adding 53 assists and six digs. She posted 41 assists and guided the Women of Troy to a .407 hitting night in a 3-0 sweep of Michigan State.
As a sophomore, she earned 2009 Pac-10 Conference honorable mention and Pac-10 Conference All-Academic honorable mention recognition after leading the nation with a 12.41 assists per set average. She recorded 227 digs (1.97 dps) and 48 blocks (0.42 bps) on the season and handled an offense that hit .248, ranking 35th in the nation. USC also finished second in the nation for assists per set and kills per set.
She posted 49 assists and 12 digs against Oklahoma in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament at the Galen Center and finished the regular season by registering career highs with 62 assists (15.5 aps) and 15 digs in a four-set win on Nov. 28 against No. 19 Arizona. She earned her first-ever Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week honor on Nov. 23 after recording 80 assists and 10 digs in two 3-0 sweeps. She had 57 assists, seven digs and three block assists against No. 4 Washington on Nov. 13 in a five-set win and then posted 60 assists (15.00 aps) with eight digs in a four-set win against No. 25 Washington State.
Bateman appeared in 24 matches in her 2008 freshman season and recorded 117 assists on the season (2.72 aps) with two aces (0.05 saps), 32 digs (0.74 dps) and seven blocks (0.16 bps). She made her first collegiate start in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Dec. 5 against No. 15 San Diego, recording season-highs in the four-set victory with 25 assists, 10 digs and four blocks.
During the summer of 2008, Bateman played for the U.S. Junior National Team, playing at the FIVB World Championship in Mexico. She was a two-time member of the U.S. Girls' National Team, part of the squad that finished 10th at the 2007 FIVB Girls' World Championship in Mexico and a member of the squad that won the 2006 NORCECA championship.
She was a two-time Mizuno/Volleyball Magazine All-American at Mira Costa High and led the Mustangs to a perfect 37-0 record and the school's fourth straight state championship in her senior season. She was part of the mythical national championship squads in her junior and senior seasons as named by prepvolleyball.com and named CIF most valuable player in her senior season.
Where There's A Will, There's A Way
This season, Williams has 251 kills (2.67 kps) while hitting .402 with 75 blocks (0.80 bps) and 293.0 points (3.12 pps). She was named 2011 All-Pac-12 Conference, the second time she earned the conference honor.
Against No. 4 UCLA on Nov. 25, she posted 10 kills and four blocks (two solo) in the 3-1 win. She hit .833 on 10 kills (10-0-12) in a 3-0 sweep on November 19 against Arizona. On November 18 against Arizona State, she became the 18th player in USC history to reach 1,000 career kills. She had 11 kills while hitting .429 with four blocks.
She was named Pac-12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week on November 7, the second time she earned the conference honor. In 3-0 sweeps against Washington State and No. 10 Washington (November 4-5), Williams hit .692 with 20 kills with only two errors on 26 attempts with six blocks. Against the Cougars, she was a perfect 9-for-9 with three blocks and hit .529 on 11 kills (11-2-17) with three blocks against the Huskies.
She had 10 kills and five blocks in a four-set win on Oct. 14 against No. 16 Oregon. In two wins at Arizona and Arizona State (Oct. 7-8), she hit .477 with 23 kills against only three errors. She had 11 kills while hitting .588 against the Wildcats and had 12 kills at the Sun Devils while hitting .407 with a season-high seven blocks.
She hit .529 on 10 kills (10-1-17) with three blocks on Oct. 2 in a 3-0 sweep at Utah. She had nine kills with no errors (.429) against No. 1 California on Sept. 23 in a 3-0 sweep. She hit .571 (13-1-21) on 13 kills with two blocks in a 3-0 sweep on September 17 at Washington State.
In four matches from Sept. 2-4 in Florida, she had 36 kills and hit .552 as she recorded only one hitting error in every match. Against Furman on Sept. 3, she had 12 kills while hitting .611 (12-1-18). Williams hit .418 at the 2011 Rockvale Outlets/AVCA Showcase in University Park, Pennsylvania, recorded 27 kills (2.70 kps) with seven blocks.
In 2010, she posted 13 kills and five blocks on December 10, in the five-set win over No. 3 seed Stanford in the Dayton Regional final after 10 kills and four blocks the previous night against Indiana. Against No. 18 San Diego in an NCAA second-round match, she had 10 kills and hit .562 (10-1-16) with five blocks in the four-set victory. In the five-set win on Nov. 23 at No. 23 Oregon, she tied her career highs with 19 kills and eight blocks while hitting .533 (19-3-30).
She tied her personal best with eight blocks (the fifth time she did so in her career) on Oct. 30 against Washington. She had one of her best matches of the season on Oct. 22 in a five-set win at home against No. 16 Oregon when she had a season-high 17 kills and hit .640 (17-1-25) against the Ducks. She earned all-tournament honors at the 2010 Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu after leading USC to a 3-0 mark with wins over No. 4 Hawai'i, New Mexico and Michigan State. She was second on the team with 31 kills (2.82 kps) while hitting .473 with 18 blocks (1.64 bps).
In 2009, she made 30 starts in 31 matches as a sophomore. She finished fourth among Pac-10 Conference players with a .371 hitting percentage and third on the team with 281 kills (2.55 kps). She recorded 15 assists (0.14 aps), 19 digs (0.17 dps) and 343.5 points (3.12 pps) while leading the team with 105 total blocks (0.95 bps) with 20 solo blocks. She finished the season with double-digit kills in four consecutive matches. She had a team-high 14 kills and hit .407 (14-3-27) with a career-high eight block assists against No. 3 Hawai'i on Dec. 5, 2009, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and earned her first-ever Pac-10 Conference Player of the Week honor on Nov. 16, 2009, after registering 33 kills while hitting .462 with 11 blocks and 41.0 points in wins over No. 4 Washington and No. 25 Washington State. She had 14 kills and eight blocks (four solo) while hitting .364 against Washington. She followed that with a career-high 19 kills against Washington State without a single error for a .559 night (19-0-34).
In her first collegiate season in 2008, Williams earned Pac-10 Conference honorable mention recognition and was named to the Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team. She had 209 kills (2.11 kps) with a .323 hitting percentage and a team-leading 103 blocks (1.04 bps) with 15 solo blocks and 88 block assists. On Oct. 11, 2008, in a five-set loss to No. 10 Washington, Williams recorded a season-high 16 kills with six block assists while hitting .462 (16-4-26). She hit .550 (12-1-20) on Nov. 21 at No. 2 Stanford and followed it with a .455 match (11-1-22) with four blocks at No. 7 Cal.
She played on the 2008 U.S. Women's A2 National Team and played on the 2007 Junior National Training Team. Williams is a fifth-year senior after redshirting at USC during the 2007 season.
Surf's Up
She has 478 digs (5.03 dps) this season and was named 2011 Pac-12 Conference Libero of the Year. On November 19, she moved into a tie for 10th place on USC's single-season list for digs.
On November 11 at Oregon State, she had 17 digs for a 5.67 digs per set average. She had 22 digs (7.33 dps) in a sweep on November 4 against Washington State.
Hagglund had 25 digs and four assists on Oct. 14 in a four-set win over No. 16 Oregon. She set a personal best with 33 digs on October 8 in a four-set win at Arizona State. She had 41 digs in two 3-0 sweeps (Sept. 16-17) at No. 4 Washington and Washington State. She tied the school record for most digs in a three-set match with 30 against the fourth-ranked Huskies, tying the mark held by Debora Seilhamer (vs. Pepperdine, December 3, 2005). She recorded 17 digs in a 3-0 loss on Sept. 2 against UCF in Fort Myers, Florida.
This summer, Hagglund was the starting libero for the United States Junior National Team that competed at the FIVB Volleyball Women's Junior World Championship Peru 2011. She was named Best Libero for the tournament after posting a 56.99 success percentage on 365 total attempts. She averaged 4.90 digs per set, the second-highest total in the tournament for Team USA, which finished fourth.
She finished with 498 (3.98 dps) last season was named to the 2010 Pac-10 Conference All-Freshman Team. She had a team-high 16 digs in the Dayton Regional final win against No. 3 seed Stanford. She recorded 27 digs in a five-set win on Nov. 26 at No. 9 UCLA. She posted 23 digs on Oct. 30 against No. 7 Washington and had a season-high 28 digs (7.00 dps) in a four-set loss at Arizona State.
She earned 2009-10 Under Armour All-America first team honors and played for the La Costa Canyon High squad that won the San Diego Section Division I championship in four sets. Hagglund played for the 2009 U.S. Under-19 Beach Volleyball squad as part of the No. 2 team and was part of the youngest team ever to qualify for the main draw of the AVP Manhattan Beach Open (2009). In high school, she was a member of the 2008 La Costa Canyon High squad that was named national champions by Prep Volleyball and Max Preps.
The Pattern Is Full
This season, she has 271 kills (2.85 kps) with a .247 hitting percentage, 15 service aces (0.16 saps), 168 digs (1.77 dps), 46 blocks (0.48 bps) and 310.5 points (3.27 pps). She earned 2011 Pac-12 Conference honorable mention recognition.
Fuller posted a season-high 16 kills and led the starters with a .314 hitting percentage in a four-set win on November 25 at No. 4 UCLA, adding eight digs and four blocks. She had 11 kills and 10 digs in four sets on Oct. 14 against No. 16 Oregon and then hit .692 (9-0-13) on nine kills against Oregon State on Oct. 15. She had 11 kills and four blocks in a four-set win on October 8 at Arizona State.
She tied a career high with 13 digs as part of her first double-double of the season, adding 12 kills, in a 3-0 win on Oct. 2 at Utah. In a 3-0 sweep of No. 2 Stanford on Sept. 24, she had 14 kills and nine digs. She had a season-high 15 kills, adding six digs and two blocks in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 16 at No. 4 Washington, followed by a 12-kill performance at Washington State, where she hit .579 (12-1-19) with five digs and three blocks. She had eight kills while hitting .412 (8-1-17) on Sept. 4 in a 3-0 win over Clemson in Orlando, Florida.
Fuller had five kills and six blocks (one off her personal best) on Dec. 4, 2010, in the NCAA Tournament second-round win against No. 18 San Diego. She had seven kills and a career-high seven blocks on Nov. 26 in a five-set win at No. 9 UCLA. On Sept. 5 in a five-set win at No. 4 Hawai'i, she posted career highs with 17 kills, six digs, six blocks and 20.5 points while hitting .382. She had eight kills and hit .312 in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 4 against Michigan State.
She filled in admirably during the Portland and Fresno State matches (Sept. 18-19) as a freshman in 2009. She led the team with 10 kills against Portland with two digs and one block while hitting .471 (10-2-17) in the 3-0 sweep. The following night against Fresno State, she had five kills with seven digs and two service aces.
The Shawshank Redemption
She has 178 kills (2.17 kps) this season while hitting .235 with 13 aces (0.16 saps), 178 digs (2.17 dps) and 205.5 points (2.51 pps).
She had 10 kills with nine digs and hit .333 on November 18 in a four-set win against Arizona State. She registered a career-high 17 kills on November 12 at No. 20 Oregon while hitting .538 (17-3-26) with two assists, seven digs and one solo block during the 3-0 sweep.
She recorded 10 kills and seven digs on Oct. 14 in a four-set win over No. 16 Oregon. On October 8 at Arizona State, she tied her career best with 15 kills and set a new personal best with 19 digs in the four-set victory. She tied a then-career best with 12 digs in a 3-0 sweep on Sept. 30 at Colorado. On Sept. 24 against No. 2 Stanford, she had 11 kills and a career-high three blocks in the 3-0 sweep.
Shaw had a career night at No. 4 Washington on Sept. 16 with 15 kills while hitting .481 (15-2-27). She added 11 digs, one away from her personal best. She hit .583 (8-1-12) the next evening at Washington State with six digs and two solo blocks. She recorded a season-high 10 digs on Dec. 11 in the 2010 Dayton Regional final against No. 3 seed Stanford with her previous high being 10 digs in a 3-0 sweep on Oct. 23 against Oregon State.
She was rated No. 11 nationally by Prep Volleyball and played for the 2009 U.S. Women's Junior National Team. She also was a finalist for the Prep Volleyball National Player of the Year honor and 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection. Shaw earned 2009-10 Under Armour All-America first team honors after leading Westlake to its third straight Class 5A state final and was named 2009 Gatorade State Player of the Year.
Standing Guard
Olgard made her season debut on Sept. 30 at Colorado after undergoing a knee operation in the spring and dealing with a bout of mononucleosis at the start of the season. She has 55 kills (1.57 kps) while hitting .385 with 27 blocks (0.77 bps).
She had six kills and six blocks (one solo, five assisted) in a 3-1 win on Nov. 25 at No. 4 UCLA. Against Arizona State and Arizona (Nov. 18-19), she had 20 kills and no errors. She had 11 kills while hitting .500 with four blocks against the Sun Devils and had nine kills while hitting .692 (9-0-13) the next evening against the Wildcats. In her first start of the season on Oct. 29 at No. 2 California, she posted eight kills for a .368 match (8-1-19) and five blocks (two solo). She recorded two kills and four blocks on Oct. 15 against Oregon State.
Last season, in the Dayton Regional final against No. 3 Stanford, she hit .636 on eight kills (8-1-11) with three blocks. During the Trojans' second-round match in the NCAA Tournament against No. 18 San Diego, she missed her season-highs by one for kills with 11 and blocks with eight against the No. 18 Toreros. She had a season-high nine blocks to go with eight kills in a five-set win on Nov. 26 at No. 9 UCLA. Against No. 1 Stanford on Oct. 8, she had nine kills with no errors and three blocks for a .450 night and recorded 12 kills in a .500 night with two blocks against No. 7 California.
She was rated as the No. 5 recruit in the nation by Prep Volleyball and played for the 2009 U.S. Women's Junior National Team while being an alternate for the 2008 squad. She was a finalist for the Prep Volleyball National Player of the Year honor and 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection. At the 2009 FIVB Junior World Championship in Mexico, she finished fourth in blocks among all players and 20th in scoring. She was an integral part of three state championship squads (2006, 2007 and 2009) and was named 2009 Gatorade State Player of the Year as well as 2009 Inland Northwest Junior Female Athlete of the Year.
Rare Treat
She has 125 kills (1.76 kps) this season while hitting .370 with 41 blocks (0.58 bps). She earned 2011 Pac-12 Conference All-Freshman Team honorable mention.
She hit .714 on six kills on October 7 at Arizona and followed the next night with by recording season highs in kills (12) and blocks (five). Against No. 1 California on Sept. 23, she hit .600 on a season-high nine kills (9-0-15) without recording a hitting error. She hit .889 (8-0-9) with a solo block against Florida Gulf Coast on Sept. 2 and had seven kills in a .636 match (7-0-11) the following day against Furman.
Burn Notice
She has 72 kills (1.76 kps) this season while hitting .262 with 63 digs (1.54 dps) and 81.5 points (1.99 pps).
She posted eight kills while hitting .375 in a sweep against Oregon State on Oct. 15. She recorded nine kills, two aces and five digs while hitting .450 (9-0-20) in a three-set sweep on Sept. 3 at Florida Gulf Coast. On August 27 at No. 1 Penn State during the Rockvale Outlets/AVCA Showcase, Burnham registered a career-high 15 kills, 12 digs and 15.0 points in the five-set loss.
She was rated as the No. 49 incoming recruit in the nation by Prep Volleyball and was a 2010 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection, along with earning All-America honors by Prep Volleyball. She was the team captain for the Newport Harbor squad that won the 2009 CIF-SS Division 1-AA championship as Burnham earned 2009 All-CIF Southern Section first team honors. She was named most valuable player in the CIF Division I state championship match after posting 12 kills in the 3-0 sweep of Salinas. Burnham was a member of the National Charity League where she completed 50-100 hours of community service a year and created her own neighborhood food drive in her community while she was in high school.
Yo, Adrian!
She had four digs on December 3, 2010, in an NCAA first-round match against New Mexico.
Her father, Bob, was a two-time All-American player on the USC men's volleyball team and the 1977 national championship squad. He went on to coach the men's team (1982-89) to five NCAA Final Four appearances and the 1988 national championship.
Summer Breeze
Young Gun
She posted a season-high five kills on Oct. 15 against Oregon State while hitting .556 (5-0-9). with two blocks.
From Serbia With Love
She tied her season best with four kills on Oct. 22 against Colorado. She had a season-high four kills in a 3-0 sweep on Nov. 12 against No. 20 Arizona.
While going to the School of Economy, she also played in the Serbian National Team program on the youth, junior and senior squads. She was a member of the 2008 and 2009 squads that finished fourth at the European Championships and a member of the 2007 squad that finished second at the European Championships. She was the fourth-ranked blocker at the 2007 World Championships in Mexico.
Friends Of Jaclyn
FOJ has completed over 300 adoptions in over 25 different sports. There are currently over 1,000 schools on a waiting list for FOJ adoptions.
This season, the Women of Troy adopted Shelby Taylor, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2004, and currently in the eighth grade. Once the tumor was removed, she lost the ability to move or speak within two days, but steadily improved. She has been cancer-free since then and is a welcome addition to the team this season.
For more information on the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, go online at friendsofjaclyn.org.
Court of Dreams
USC mourned the loss of Lou Galen, who passed away on Nov. 12, 2007, at the age of 82.
Celebrating USC's Olympic Heritage
The salute, themed "Cardinal and Gold Medal Heritage," will lead up to the 2012 London Games. The celebration is part of the Pac-12 Conference's "Follow The Pac-12 To London" initiative to recognize the league's Olympic tradition prior to the 2012 Games.
Since 1904, 393 Trojan athletes have competed in the Olympic Games (they have won 583 places on Olympic teams), taking home 122 gold medals (with at least 1 gold in every summer Olympics from 1912), 76 silver and 60 bronze. The USC women's volleyball program has produced 22 Olympians, beginning in 1964 with Patti Lucas-Bright (USC's first season as a recognized collegiate program was 1976 at the AIAW level, but the Women of Troy still competed in women's volleyball).
If USC competed as a country, its 258 total medals would be tied for 18th among all countries (while its 122 gold medals would be tied for 12th). In six different Olympics, USC's medal count would have placed it among the Top 10 nations.
USC Olympians have represented 57 different countries and have participated in 28 different sports.
All-Time Great Night
The Women of Troy honored Kim Ruddins for the Sept. 24 match against Stanford. Ruddins (1981-85) was a two-time first team All-American in 1984 and 1985 as a setter from Los Angeles (Westchester High). She represented the United States in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.
Come On Irene
Fans can go online to help victims of the hurricane that affected the East Coast by going online to the American Red Cross website at www.redcross.org.


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ECO Transit to sell ads on buses
October 12, 2012
VAIL, Colorado – With 31 buses in its fleet, ECO Transit has announced that it will sell ads on the outside and inside of its buses. A "significant" portion of the proceeds of the advertising dollars goes directly back to ECO Transit as an additional revenue source to support the transit program, the agency said.
"It is an opportunity to continue to provide a high level of service to our riders," said Kelley Collier, ECO Transit director of transportation. "The cost to run our buses continues to escalate and advertising is a great way to fill the gap."
Advertisers can purchase sections of the outside of a bus or the whole thing (called a "full wrap"), which is visible by locals and tourists. These wraps, which are common in many other communities, have high visibility. Also available are the inside panels seen by 750,000 riders per year.
Street Media Group, which received the ECO Transit advertising account, is headquartered in Fort Collins and is responsible for several other bus advertising programs, in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Pueblo. Local marketing company Anderson Marketing Communications will handle the sales for Eagle County.
Prices for the advertising panels on buses range from $30 for an inside panel and start at $100 for exterior panels for a four week period for each bus. There is also a cost for printing and installation. Special pricing is available for nonprofit organizations. For more information or to receive a media kit, contact Jill Anderson at email@example.com or call 970-855-0199.


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Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Brad Snyder, a naval academy graduate who was blinded in 2011 by an improvised explosive device, won two gold medals and one silver medal in swimming at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. He competed at the 2012 Warrior Games presented by Deloitte.
Kari Miller, a U.S. Army veteran, had both her legs amputated after she was hit by a drunk driver. She won silver medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games in sitting volleyball.
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Through partnerships with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, the work of the U.S. Olympic Committee has impacted the lives of thousands of wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. Over 2,000 athletes are annually served directly by the Paralympic Military Program with thousands more enabled by the connections the program has provided them.
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My dad used to fly these. I've never been so close to one in flight.
Here it is, low and slow over Golden Gate Park heading southwest:
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One assumes it's an HC-130H out of CGAS Sacramento.
You know, these people:
Sacramento, Sacramento where ya at?
Semper Paratus


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Athletic support club that had its beginnings in 1975 with the Red and Gold Booster Club which later became the IPFW Athletic Club and in 1989 became the Royal Dons Club with membership levels of $25 to $2,500.
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