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The great ones make it look easy. Houses, that is. When a custom home is fully resolved—when the design is inspired, the craftsmanship spot-on, and owner, architect, and builder fully in sync—the result betrays nothing of the effort expended in its creation. Rather than an accumulation of bits and pieces, the building achieves a state of unity and inevitability approaching that of music. And we don't quibble with Mozart or Muddy Waters; we sit back and enjoy the performance. So it is with this house, which weaves the familiar notes of wood, stone, glass, and steel into something almost alive. But just because it looks easy doesn't mean it was. In fact, there was a point in its history when this house seemed unlikely to get further than plans on paper.
Builder Mark Schilperoort first laid eyes on those plans in 2002. "We were kind of excited about it," says Schilperoort, who had recently launched a new company to produce just this type of work (see "The Builder: On Key," page 51). After he won the job, though, the project hit a snag. The new building would replace an existing house on a suburban lot outside Seattle, but a code official declared its location too close to the existing well. "The house pretty much has to sit where it is," Schilperoort explains, and the closest alternative location for the well was on a neighbor's property. "It seemed like an impasse," he says, "and the project sort of went away." The owner persisted, however, pursuing and eventually buying a lot across the street on which to dig a new well.
That left Schilperoort only the matter of producing the most complex and challenging house of his career. "We'd seen those plans a couple of years before, so we'd had our heads into them already," he says. "But, boy, it was just designed to the gills." The credit for that goes to architect Nils Finne, who is no stranger to architecture of the nth degree. Before opening his own firm, Finne was project architect for Richard Meier's $1.2 billion Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the largest art museums in the world. Finne and Schilperoort have worked together on a number of projects, but as they tour this house a year after its completion, it becomes clear that they consider it the high mark of their collaboration.
The house consists of two distinct pavilions joined by a glass-walled entry link. To the north of the entry stretches a long, low-roofed wing that contains the garage and the house's private spaces. To the south, almost a separate building, stands a kitchen/great room. It is the latter, the eccentric hip roof of which is surmounted by an immense, glazed monitor, that announces itself and draws one inside with the promise of something very special.
The interior delivers on that promise. Ostensibly square, the room's plan actually describes a subtle trapezoid that splays outward to the south, creating a false perspective that emphasizes the room's generous size. Low cabinets subtly delineate cooking, dining, seating, and office spaces. The kitchen area, with its understated slate countertops and un-kitchen-like cherry casework, blends seamlessly with the room's sit-down zones. And that bane of formal spaces, the television, is cleverly hidden. At Seahawks game time, a large flat-screen unit rises at the push of a button from the living room cabinet; another button causes it to pivot for viewing from any part of the room.
The great room's structural system consists of an exposed welded steel frame roofed over with 4x10 rafters, smaller purlins, and a tongue-and-groove deck, all of Douglas fir (see "Details: Rhythm Section," page 49). Clear fir also lines the webs of the wishboned I-beam columns that support the roof, making them seem improbably delicate. "People say, 'Are those supporting?'" Finne says. "Yeah, about 40 tons!" The steel frame, blackened to contrast with the wood, allows for exterior walls that are predominantly glass. The star of the show is the monitor overhead, which raises the roof both literally and figuratively. Like the pavilion itself, the monitor is trapezoidal in plan, but it splays toward the north rather than the south. Its broken-back shed roof also rises toward the north, washing the room with diffuse, indirect light. During Seattle's long rainy season, quality of light equals quality of life. In this house, the owner reports, "You don't get seasonal affective disorder. Winters are great."
To fine tune the room's design, Finne says, "We made a model at pretty large scale to see how all that would look." Due to the complex geometry involved, not to mention the many custom fabrications and furnishings throughout the house, "We spent a huge amount of time in shop drawings." Field conditions tend to have a mind of their own, however, and the company that built the windows wasn't about to trust drawings for custom units with no right angles in them. "The frames were dry fit up there twice before they glazed them," Finne says. "They had the president of the company out here dry fitting those."
Less dramatic at first glance, the bedroom wing also holds its share of surprises, the greatest of which, again, lies overhead. What appears from ground level outside the house as a low-pitched hip roof is in fact a different animal entirely. The ridge beam runs diagonally, from one building corner to its opposite, rising along its 100-foot length from the garage to the master bedroom. One plane of the roof pitches from the ridge toward the south, the other toward the east, making the ridge, arguably, a hip. The scheme has the effect of peeling the bedroom wing open along its length, ramping up the drama with each successive room, from a utilitarian garage to a child's bedroom to the master bedroom, whose symmetrical plan and skewing sections maintain a beautifully balanced tension. Nearly as open to the outdoors as the great room, the bedroom affords the option of drawing a set of hidden shades or relying for privacy on the dense, green wall of firs that rings the property.
If architecture is, as Goethe said, "frozen music," then this house is a piece in two movements: the great room, which plays like a continuous overture, and the bedroom wing, which begins quietly and builds to a subtle crescendo. Finne's plans were the score for this performance, but Schilperoort's role was equally, shall we say, instrumental. "We had to do physical mock-ups," the builder says. "How do you want to make this transition? How do you want to accomplish this? There was a lot of physical figuring." As with any performance, he admits, "There was a fear factor." But the outcome is nothing short of a virtuoso turn.
Project Credits
Builder: Schilperoort & Brooks General Contractors, Mountlake Terrace, Wash.
Architect: Finne Architects, Seattle
Living space: 4,225 square feet
Site: 1.85 acres
Construction cost: Withheld
Photographer: Benjamin Benschneider (except where noted) Resources: Bathroom plumbing fittings/fixtures: California Faucets, Duravit, Elkay, Hansgrohe, Kohler, Toto, Waterworks; Cabinets: Pete's Cabinets; Ceramic tile: Ann Sacks and Oceanside; Dishwasher: Miele; Garage door: Holmes Garage Doors; Hardware: FSB; Kitchen plumbing fixtures: Elkay, Hansgrohe; Lighting: Bruck; Linoleum flooring: Forbo; Oven: Thermador; Paint/stain: Benjamin Moore, Cabot's, Devine, Livos; Range: Viking.
Details: Rhythm Section
A composite system of wood and steel, this house's structural frame is an eye-opener, in more ways than one. "All of our houses are in that never-been-done-before category," says architect Nils Finne, "but the framing [on this one] made everyone kind of break out into a cold sweat." The steel fabricator's powerful computer imaging program allowed the architects to view the proposed frame in three dimensions and rotated to any angle, which speeded the design. But when the steel members arrived, builder Mark Schilperoort looked at the compound miters of their precut ends and thought, "If this goes together it will be a miracle."
The steel crew assembled the puzzle without a hitch, though, and Schilperoort's carpenters went to work on the wood framing. Because every structural member is exposed, he says, "You almost have to frame the house the way you'd build a cabinet. You're setting 400-pound pieces of wood that don't get covered." Builder, architect, and owner spent a long evening under the open frame, setting the precise location of every ceiling light fixture. "There was a lot of pre-planning before we could cover that roof," Schilperoort says, "because all of the electrical is buried up there. You'd have to pull the whole roof off to monkey with that." Schilperoort showed equal foresight in hiding the supply lines for the sprinkler heads, in places using the box-section steel frame as a plumbing chase.
The Builder: On Key
When Mark Schilperoort left a successful custom building partnership to start a new company, the timing seemed less than fortuitous. Schilperoort & Brooks General Contractors opened for business too late to cash in on Seattle's dot-com heyday and just in time for the shock of 9/11. Despite some initial jitters, though, the company has exceeded the expectations of both its clients and its owners. Much of the credit goes to Schilperoort, who left his previous position because the company had grown too large for the hands-on approach he prefers. At between 20 and 30 employees, the new company's size allows him to engage fully in the design-intensive projects that are its specialty.
Schilperoort gives equal credit to his partner, Mike Brooks, whose accounting background is a perfect counterbalance to Schilperoort's construction site expertise. "I do budgets pretty well," Schilperoort says, "but it's not the part of the business I thrive on." And the team has produced. "We hoped to have $250,000 in cash flow in three years. That was one of our goals, because we didn't want to have to borrow. It actually took about four years to get there." The company's volume has tracked steadily upward, from $1.2 million in its first year to $9 million in its seventh. "We want to do work that we enjoy," Schilperoort says, "and survive." Make that a check, in both columns.


text: Mental toughness seems to be something lacking in most of the ladies. Even Joannie Rochette struggled with this, but was able to finally overcome it the last two seasons. I remember when I heard her mother had passed away and thought "Oh! No" thinking it would be difficult to perform in her country at the olympics with the expectations and now the burden of her mother's death. I'm glad she proved me wrong. Canada's women have been notorious headcases and sometimes they finally make a mark (see: Rochette, Manley) but unfortunately usually go the other way (see: Chounaird, Humphreys, ? Phaneuf). I think this question has been asked so often, it may put more than a lot of expectation to prove the doubters wrong.

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Kate Middleton and Prince William's Dog Lupo at Polo Match
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The title of America's favorite canine may be split between First Pup Bo and Hollywood It dog Uggie, but in the UK, it's all about Lupo! Though both Windsor boys were the guests of honor at a charity polo match on Sunday, Kate Middleton and Prince William's adorable Cocker Spaniel was overwhelmingly the center of attention (even among his royal entourage). We can't wait to see more of this cute pup and his princely antics . . . he's definitely our cup of tea!


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By Rob Kelly
Ignasi Miquel hopes to fulfil a lifelong dream by playing at Wembley this season - but for now he won't look beyond Sunday's clash against Aston Villa.
Arsenal host Alex McLeish's side in the FA Cup fourth round, and with Manchester City already out and Manchester United due to face Liverpool, a number of bigger clubs could have fallen by the wayside by the last 16.
All the same Miquel says that the Gunners squad are taking nothing for granted and must remain focused ahead of a big test against Villa.
"Anyone can beat anyone in the cups. You saw in the Carling Cup that Manchester United lost at home to a Championship team [Crystal Palace]," he told Arsenal.com.
"These games are completely different from the league, so anyone we play will be a hard game. Of course the big teams have a good chance in the FA Cup, but you have to stay focused and make sure you beat who is in front of you.
"It is a dream to play at Wembley in a big final. First, we have to go step by step, but obviously if we can get to Wembley it would be a big, big thing for us.
"We have not won a title for quite long, so it would be great for us. But our next game is on Sunday against Aston Villa and we must focus on that. If we keep working and stay mentally strong we can get through it."
Miquel made his Arsenal debut in the FA Cup last season and featured against Leeds in the memorable third-round match that saw Thierry Henry score the winner on his return to the Club.
"That was amazing. It was the best crowd I have ever seen at the Emirates. The last 10 or 15 minutes were unbelievable," the Spanish defender said.
"Everyone knows it is a hard time for us but if you get the supporters behind you, you feel more comfortable. After Thierry scored, Leeds had a couple of chances but we stayed strong at the back and the supporters were with us, so that helped a lot."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


text: I build it so I could mount the deep atop the trench hive with the only entrance through the trench hive. The bees, not liking a void, will draw out the frames and the queen will start laying in the trench hive frames. At that point shake all the bees free of the deep super and put a queen excluder in between so the queen can't go back up into the deep. You'll then be able to pull the deep as harvest after 3 weeks (any remaining brood has hatched) and you're completely switched over to mediums on the trench hive.


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Monday, September 5, 2011
Introducing The amazing GPS (Gimp Paint Studio)
From the GPS site:
"GPS is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.
The goal of GPS is to provide an adequate working environment for graphic designers and artists to begin to paint and feel comfortable with GIMP from their first use. Later the user will change these settings based on his own workflow preferences and understanding of GIMP."
...Alright, clear as mud? There really is nothing like seeing it in action, so here is a great video displaying what GPS 1.5 is capable of:
Quite impressive stuff, I must say.
I want to use the opportunity to congratulate fellow Spaniard Ramon Miranda for the amazing work he´s put on GPS.
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- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2011 at 3:23 PM
I don't get it; is it a collection of brushes and gradients? Is it a separate application or is it a set of plugins for Gimp? It isn't installable on Debian with aptitude.ReplyDelete
The video doesn't have anything to "see in action", just some overview which is useful to 'sell' the upgrade to existing users, but nothing by way of explanation for new users on how its used (oh unless perhaps if we sign up for proprietary, privacy-erasing Facebook).
Looks like some fantastic options and software, just not a clean message as to what it is or why I might need it.
He does have some other videos on youtube showing him in action...ReplyDelete
I've added this to both the 32 and 64 bit repos and it is a really nice addition to Gimp.ReplyDelete


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The Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, and Gun Registration. Here is an excerpt:
In Haynes v. U.S. (1968), a Miles Edward Haynes appealed his conviction for unlawful possession of an unregistered short-barreled shotgun. His argument was ingenious: since he was a convicted felon at the time he was arrested on the shotgun charge, he could not legally possess a firearm. Haynes further argued that for a convicted felon to register a gun, especially a short-barreled shotgun, was effectively an announcement to the government that he was breaking the law. If he did register it, as 26 U.S.C. sec.5841 required, he was incriminating himself; but if he did not register it, the government would punish him for possessing an unregistered firearm -- a violation of 26 U.S.C. sec.5851. Consequently, his Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination ("No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself") was being violated -- he would be punished if he registered it, and punished if he did not register it. While the Court acknowledged that there were circumstances where a person might register such a weapon without having violated the prohibition on illegal possession or transfer, both the prosecution and the Court acknowledged such circumstances were "uncommon." The Court concluded:
"We hold that a proper claim of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register a firearm under sec.5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under sec.5851."
If you ever get into an argument with a neighbor or co-worker about any gun registration stupidity, then I recommend that you either send them the link to Cramer's essay, or hand them a printout of it. End of argument! - J.W.R.
In other words, anti-gun laws only apply to law abiding citizens; criminals are exempt! Thus sayeth the United States Supreme Court!


text: In the media, and to a lesser extent in the country at large, the AR-15 rifle serves as a totem and a fetish. It is the gun whose name everybody knows; the stuff of nightmares and of fantasies; perhaps the most loved and most hated object in a country of plenty. And, all told, thats really quite silly.So sure were the horrified darlings of the gun-control salon that an AR-15 had played a part in the abomination at Navy Yard that many felt compelled to insert one into the story, front and center.


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Jason Weber made 17 saves to lead visiting Detroit to an 8-6 victory against the Canisius College men's lacrosse team on Sunday afternoon. The Griffs drop to 3-4 and 1-1 in MAAC play, while the Titans improve to 4-4 and 1-0 against conference foes.
"We felt good about our effort today but we just made some simple mistakes," said Canisius head coach Randy Mearns. "We didn't handle the ball well at times and then their goalie came up with six saves in the third quarter where the game was ultimately decided. We had the opportunities and had good looks but just couldn't bury them. Their goalie played well and I know that some of our players would like to have some of their shots back."
Sophomores Billy Jacobbi and Nick Tuttle led the Canisius offense with two goals apiece. Juniors Tim Edwards and Austin Romantic also added a goal.
Junior Alex Govenettio recorded seven saves for the Griffs, while senior Kevin Collins recorded a career-best four caused turnovers. Edwards also won 13-of-18 faceoffs to lead Canisius at the X.
The teams battled in a closely-contested first half with neither team gaining more than a one-goal advantage. The even opening 30 minutes of action led to the teams heading into the intermission squared at three.
Detroit seized the momentum in the third quarter, however, with three-straight goals to take a 6-3 lead with 6:39 remaining in the quarter. Tuttle stopped the run with his career-best second goal of the game as the teams headed into the fourth with the Titans ahead, 6-4.
The Titans extended their lead to four with the first two goals of the final frame. Edwards and Jacobbi pulled Canisius to within two with 1:05 remaining but the Griffs were unable to pull any closer with Weber making two final saves to preserve the Detroit victory.
Detroit finished the game with a 37-36 advantage in shots, while the Griffs held the edge in ground balls, 23-22.
Shayne Adams led the Titans with four points and three goals in the winning effort.
Canisius takes a break from conference action for a road contest with nationally-ranked Albany. The Griffs and No. 18 Great Danes are set to meet at 3 p.m.
Game Notes: Tuttle scored one goal in the first 19 games of his career before his two-goal performance on Sunday … Weber's 17 saves are the most by a Canisius opponent since Alex Hewit also recorded 17 stops for Princeton on Feb. 23, 2008 … The matchup was the meeting of the last two MAAC Champions.


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I nearly forgot the Ted Blalock puzzle Climbing Through Eagle Pass (it's a snow scene).
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I was at Target today and bought a new puzzle:
But I'll have to return it. I thought it looked familiar, but the name was different; they called it Christmas Traffic Jam before. :(
Wait! It had only 500 pieces before! Would you return it anyway?
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"Hail him who saves you by his grace,
and crown him Lord of all."
I just found this one in the basement:
"Hail him who saves you by his grace,
and crown him Lord of all."
Thanks, Steph! I returned Christmas Time to Target and bought these at another store:
I try to do my grocery shopping on Mondays. Today I went with my daughter and found a puzzle while we were there. I love this one:
Love them MW. Need to get out before Black Friday to get mine!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Beautiful puzzles ... do you frame them when they're done?


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'Miller leads the goaltenders with 253,024 votes, 44,532 ahead of second-place Marc-Andre Fleury of Pittsburgh. Campbell is second among defensemen with 242,852 votes, trailing only Toronto's Bryan McCabe (245,976). Briere (214,295) holds the third forward spot behind runaway leader Sidney Crosby (401,365) and his Pittsburgh teammate Evgeni Malkin (217,146).'
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Jack Wagner is back on "General Hospital" for the first time in 18 years, once again playing the character that made him a household name -- Frisco Jones -- and Access Hollywood was first on set with the returning daytime star.
"I think, in life, we never can anticipate where it's going to take us, so to be back here and to be working with Kristina [Wagner], my ex-wife, who's just so beautiful and wonderful, and to have so many of the core characters back from the '80s, when 'General Hospital' was so huge - [it's] been awesome," Jack told our Access producer (pictured above) during our exclusive visit to the "GH" set on Thursday in Los Angeles. "I'm really happy. I'm glad I came back."
PLAY IT NOW: Jack Wagner's Last Dance On 'Dancing With The Stars'
Jack will make his return debut as sexy secret agent Frisco on February 4, one week before the return airdate of another famous face from Port Charles - Genie Francis - who, as previously announced, is reprising her role of Laura Spencer.
Their returns coincide with the show's 50th anniversary, which occurs this April.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: General Hospital Hunk Jack Wagner
For much more from Jack, including what it has been like working with Kristina, details on whether Frisco and Felicia will rekindle their romance, and the answer to the question - 'Where has Frisco been all this time?' -- tune into Access Hollywood on Friday.
Check your local listings.
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Pretty sure Tim Cook would appreciate a widgets on the Lockscreen / Homescreen instead of unlocking & launching the app. Have also changed up the Keyboard via Color Keyboard and works fine!
I agree the 5 should be wider too!
As you said, a JB being produced 8-12 months after the release of a iphone will be useless to many, and if this time period continues for every release...it is defeat. Game over. The jailbreak scene will slowly die off, with only the hardcore modders remaining. Based on his comments about how he enjoys a smaller JB scene, I don't know if Planetbeing would see this as a bad thing.
Planetbeing's justification for not releasing his supposed working, legal jailbreak contradicts itself, in that he has stated he believes that 6.1 will break the supposed exploit(s) used by the JB, yet one of his reasons for not releasing a JB is to save it for 6.1 and beyond...This does not make sense. It would be better to have a JB on 6.0.1(2) then to not have one... at all. Does ANYONE not agree? If he does have a JB, waiting for 6.1 is a MASSIVE gamble, and is either foolish, selfish, or both.
I can't agree with you on switching to a Samsung though...that would not happen. I will take my stock iPhone over any Samsung, any day. And as far as your comment regarding the percentage of iPhone users enjoying a stock iPhone decreasing...well that's just wrong. The iPhone has the biggest market share it has ever had...ever.
The niche community here on Modmyi tends to greatly overvalue their importance to Apple, and their impact on Apples bottom line. I never go to work or go to the bar or to the movies and hear people saying how much they dislike their iPhone....ever.
Tim pull your head out and do something bigger! N better!
why buy the iphone 5 when in less than a year is gonna be a new one?... apple is playing with our money
I just wish companies would realize people don't want them to improve there products.
Seriously though, apple isn't forcing you to spend money. Sorry if they don't wait a full year to improve a product. Personally I'd rather see full refreshes yearly and the "s" models in between
I think it has to do with the iPod Touch 5. It uses the exact same screen. The problem is that they put two year-old hardware in a brand new, premium-priced iPod, released a new iPad that doesnt cost much more, and then expected the iPod to sell well.
The new iPod simply isn't worth the price, and the iPhone is still too expensive.
I make themes for iOS and even I'm now telling people to go with Android!
people ARE leaving iOS because its boring, plain and simple. the last 3 iPhones are essentially the exact same phone but with very minimal spec increases whereas the update from the Galaxy S II to the Galaxy S III was a mile apart.
If I was in charge at apple I would offer users what they want, more choices, more flexibility and more freedom.
I would shock the world and produce the iPhone "Note" a 5" apple Phablet. the thing would sell like crazy and I myself would not pass one by.
you're not very honest are you? a JB iPhone is far short of stock Android. if Samsung's pentile display is so horrible and you think iOS is more stable blah blah blah why do you own all these Android devices?


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fan boys opened in canada today
fan boys opened in canada today
When is it going to be on dvd?
1 theater in Montreal only...
It also shows only in Toronto and Vancouver I believe.
I will definitely be up for the DVD
pfft i guess ill have to wait till it comes out on did since i live in a small town =|
The wait is only about a month from now.
THAT SUCKS!... now we gotta wait till may19th


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I tried to avoid writing about Mad Men again this week for Television Tuesday, but dammit, it's everywhere. And this quote in an interview with creator Matt Weiner with fan site Basket of Kisses jumped out at me:
DL: She's wondering if it's possible to do a story about race in the early 60s without having it become cliché.I don't think anyone's going to quibble with the argument that Mad Men is a feminist show. Weiner and his writing staff clearly make the role of women and the societal challenges facing them a major focus of the show - it's not accidental, it's a byproduct of a concerted effort to make this show about women and feminism. His language above reflects that fact - he is able to clearly and easily use feminist language such as "othering" and "privilege".
MW: I don't know... Because the whole thing about, let's not even call it race, let's just say racism—it's the same as sexism or whatever—[is] thinking of people as other. It's literally about thinking of people as other.
They don't have the same feelings and thoughts as you do, they don't have the same desires. It's the way men are with women about sex, the way Greg was with Joan. Like why would she be that way? She's a woman! You're not supposed to want sex. You're not supposed to be horny. Or want to have power, or have experience, or have thought sex out. So I look at the race issue, it all comes down to knowing individuals. As individuals become more ingrained in each other's lives. That's what the great thing is about integration and everything, the generation that's after me, my kids, it's not an exaggeration, they don't know the difference. They do not see it because they are surrounded by people of all different kinds, especially in Los Angeles, and they're just people....
My favorite line in that whole story line is Paul saying to her, "Can't it wait? Why can't it wait?" That's the understanding of it. And by the way, privileged white people who have good politics have made a huge difference in that world. They were very, very important to the world changing. I wasn't just trying to ridicule him. They were the people that actually, I was trying to show, why do you go down there? It's more complicated.
RL: It's sort of like, the straight women speaking up about AIDS is what helped move that along.
MW: Right, absolutely. And the fact that the people who are activists are often, intolerant or insufferable or egotistical or whatever else it is, or privileged, y'know?
DL: You kind of have to be privileged to be part of a movement because otherwise you can't take time off of work.
MW: Well, yeah. They talk about this with the Russian Revolution, it wasn't made out of people growing up in poverty, it was a lot of sons of doctors that made the revolution happen.
However, and very very like feminism, Mad Men also practices silencing and erasing of persons of color. Yes, there are black characters and the occasional Asian character. Yes, they occasionally speak or have conversations among themselves. And I think that Weiner is definitely trying very, very hard to get a cookie and include civil rights in the show.
He's ignoring it completely, but he has almost never made it a focus: the only specific story (rather than individual scene or interaction) centering on race was a C storyline, B at best. The lack of stories about civil rights, about persons of color, about the changes their community was going through, stands in stark contrast to the constant and able sympathy for white women.
I'm going to turn it over to the best feminist analysis I've read thus far of Mad Men, by LaToya Peterson, to explain:
Although Draper has a gift for engaging and seeing through marginalized types—the unwed mother, the Jewish heiress, the closeted gay man—in the case of the black characters, the relationship never goes beyond shallow conversation. Mad Men takes on a number of cultural controversies, yet race is treated with politeness, distance, restraint, and a heavy dose of sentimentality. For a show that takes place in the early '60s, as race riots are breaking out, this is a glaring omission... The white patriarchy is breaking apart, the rush of the '60s are upon us. But the black characters are still trapped in a romantic haze of noble, silent suffering...
[M]inorities are shown in glimpses around the edges of narrative. They include the two black women that are ladies' room attendants, the black sandwich seller, the Chinese family used as a prank on Pete Campbell, Carla, the Draper's black maid, the black delivery men dropping off the copier, the elevator operator Hollis, and the Asian American waitress. For the most part, they pop up and say one or two lines... Black characters remain silent enigmas, and Asian Americans are barely noticed at all.
Here's the thing. Matt Weiner is very deeply sympathetic towards women's rights and feminism and what was going on with women in that period. This is reflected by the makeup of his writing staff - five women out of nine writers.
But something else is reflected by the writing staff: there are NO persons of color.
When you don't have any people directly affected by racism writing the show, how are you supposed to accurately and sensitively communicate the experience?
Matt Weiner is not really concerned with using his privilege to directly address the changing role of persons of color in the area. From the interview:
They are parallel universes. They're not based on hatred, and it's not In the Heat of the Night. This is not Birmingham, Alabama, this is New York City, people are living side-by-side, but they are parallel universes. And this is how they intersect...So I look at the race issue, it all comes down to knowing individuals. As individuals become more ingrained in each other's lives. That's what the great thing is about integration and everything, the generation that's after me, my kids, it's not an exaggeration, they don't know the difference.But individuals are already there. You've made very sure to have some persons of color in disempowered positions - I'm thinking specifically of Hollis, the elevator operator, here - but you don't do anything with him, except show him or Carla once in a while to show your viewers that you remember that black people exist.
Why can't Hollis have a storyline? Why can't he come up with a great idea by chance, his own "basket of kisses", and be given a chance to show himself to the world? Why can't he be involved with one of the secretaries (or executives) at work? Why wasn't Shelia given significant personality characteristics? Why can't Carla have a close relationship with the Draper kids? Why didn't Paul's co-workers express the racism that they surely would have?
"The worlds just didn't cross!" is a sorry excuse, because they did cross. People had lives. Sal gets to have a crush on Ken and [spoiler] almost fuck a bellboy.[/spoiler] Carol comes out to Joan. Peggy gets ahead - she shouldn't have, but she did, somehow. These things weren't supposed to happen, but they did. Hollis would have had a life, would have had ideas and things to say. But he doesn't, really, on the show. Maybe he's not comfortable talking much around the white folks who work at Sterling-Cooper, but Mad Men puts no effort into finding a situation where he would talk, would act, would be involved in the story.
Race was a big deal in the sixties. Maybe it wasn't talked about a whole whole lot by the people who work at Sterling Cooper, but you know what else wasn't talked about? Date rape. Unhappy housewives. Extramarital affairs and children.
When you've gained a LOT of attention and sympathy for addressing the oppression of class and race privileged women and class and race privileged LBG men and women, it kind of seems odd that you're not discussing the other big upheaval in power structures that was seething by 1960 and just as much on the precipice of explosion as Betty by 1962. When you're making a show that's critical of the power structure, but specifically not very critical of race, that's marginalization, and that's silencing.
He's a white liberal who wants that cookie. From the interview:
And by the way, privileged white people who have good politics have made a huge difference in that world. They were very, very important to the world changing. I wasn't just trying to ridicule him.I really hope that I'm wrong. Maybe season 3 will mimic season 2 and make race a focus instead of a footnote - or maybe Weiner will put it off until season 4, or 5, or never.
From the piece by Ms. Peterson quoted above:
If the show ignores race again, then it is truly written by cowards. Would it be so difficult to show Carla crying for the little girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church? Would we get a different glimpse of this rarefied world if Hollis gets promoted beyond elevator boy? Could the show's writers and producers stomach having one of their characters—Pete Campbell or Roger Sterling—drop a racial epithet with the same ease which with they do misogynistic comments? Or is it, as a friend of mine summarized, that "misogynists are cads and racists are monsters?"


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The Japan-based 3yo, who won at Santa Anita on Oct. 12 in just his third career start, is coming to the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic the right way, according to Nobutaka Tada, racing manager for owner Hidetoshi Yamamoto.
"He shipped very well from Hollywood Park yesterday and everything went well," said Tada. "Mr. Fujisawa was very pleased with his conditioning. He said he was coming up to this race better than he was for the Belmont Stakes.
"He has settled in better than expected," Tada said. "We are very happy with the way he is coming into the race. Kasai said he was very pleased with his canter this morning."
Casino Drive won his maiden race in Japan in February, then did not race again until he won the Peter Pan at Belmont in May. A stone bruise forced him to the sidelines, and he did not make his next start until the Oct. 12 race here.
Champs Elysees (Tr: Robert Frankel; ex. rider: Goncalino Almeida) – The Juddmonte Farms' homebred, a 5yo horse by Danehill out of the even more-exceptional mare Hasili, completed his conditioning for Saturday's Classic with a gallop of 1 3/8m Friday morning as the sun was coming up at Santa Anita.
Trainer Robert Frankel left stable business Friday to his longtime aide, Humberto Ascanio, and the veteran horseman – who first came to work for the Hall of Fame conditioner in 1973 – reported the British-born runner was in fine fettle.
"All's good," Ascanio noted.
Champs Elysees, who has finished in the top three in 15 of his 19 lifetime starts and earned $1.2 million in the process, will break from the outside 12-post in the Classic field and be partnered for the first time by the young New York-based star Alan Garcia.
Colonel John (Tr: Eoin Harty; ex. rider: Iggy Puglisi) – Colonel John, a 3yo son of back-to-back Breeders' Cup Classic winner Tiznow (2000-01) galloped around the track Friday morning under the watchful eye of trainer Eoin Harty, who knocked wood and said the colt is in excellent shape and ready to go in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
No matter how the Santa Anita Derby and Travers Stakes winner fares against older horses on Saturday, his owners, Sue and Bill Casner of WinStar Farms, pledged to run Colonel John next year.
"He was bred and born at our farm in Versailles (Kentucky) and I picked out the mare and she was bred to Tiznow," said Sue, who throughout the week has been attired in a wardrobe of hats, jackets and T-shirts all bearing the name of the horse and military insignia. "We are going to run him next year. Hopefully, he will repeat his daddy's accomplishments and win the Classic."
Harty has saddled six Breeders' Cup horses and won the 2001 Juvenile Fillies with Tempura but Colonel John is his first Classic horse. Edgar Prado gets the call and although he has ridden in 56 Breeders' Cup races and won three, the Classic has eluded him.
As for WinStar, the Casners bred five entrants, including Kentucky Derby victor Funny Cide, and owned one Breeders' Cup starter but have yet to win any of those races.
The Casners also bred and own Well Armed, the favorite in the Dirt Mile.
"My husband and I have been on the racetrack for a long time and we love this business," said Sue, who has been married to Bill for 35 years and mucked stalls and walked their horses when they started out. "We go where our horses are. We love to travel and be around them."
"Colonel John is Sue's horse and and Well Armed is our horse," said Bill, "They're both homebreds and that makes them a little more special."
Curlin (Tr: Steve Asmussen; ex. rider: Carlos Rosas) – Steve Asmussen sent out Stonestreet Stables' Curlin out for his usual gallop on Friday, getting his final preparations for the Classic.
"The horse looks beautiful," Asmussen said. "The weather is still going to be in play, it's been pretty warm. But that's why we brought him out here in advance, to give him a chance to adjust, just like we did in Dubai.
"Will he run his race on a synthetic surface? That's the huge question. And that's why all the handicappers don't have him picked (on top) in the selections (see Daily Racing Form). You wouldn't see that if this race were on the dirt."
Asmussen is reluctant to look past Saturday, but if Curlin were to secure Horse of the Year honors for the second year in a row and join the ranks of two-time winners like Affirmed, Secretariat, Forego and Whirlaway, he responded, "That's good company."
Speaking about his emotions surrounding Curlin, Asmussen said, "What a catalyst he's been for great experiences, for our entire family. We have a room at the house with photos of all the races he's won. He's got his own room."
Asmussen holds the record for most wins in a season (North America) of 555, set in 2004. Through yesterday, his horses have won 508 races and he could very well break his own record this year.
"It's been a tremendous year and it all began with the announcement of Curlin returning to training," said Asmussen. "And how he's put together back-to-back $5 million years (in earnings). For him to set the all-time earnings record is amazing and the condition in which he's come out of it all is the best part."
It's too early to tell whether or not Stonestreet Stables' Jess Jackson will decide to campaign Curlin in 2009. Asmussen doesn't even want to think about it right now and wants to savor Saturday.
But he does concede, "Next year is going to be a rebuilding year for us. It's going to be a different look next year without many of these horses in the shedrow."
Stablemates Student Council (Classic contender) and Pyro (Dirt Mile) are both destined for stud duty after the Breeders' Cup.
With all the races Asmussen has won over the years, he has one Breeders' Cup victory from nine starters to his credit: the 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic with Curlin.
Duke of Marmalade (Tr: Aidan O'Brien) – At 6:50 a.m. Friday, Duke of Marmalade and the five other members of trainer Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle stable to race on Saturday left the quarantine barn to canter 1m on the main track.
O'Brien said Duke of Marmalade quickened a bit in the second half of his trip around the Pro-Ride track.
Duke of Marmalade won five consecutive Group 1 turf races in Europe this season. He is moving to the synthetic surface Saturday for the Classic, where he will compete against defending champion Curlin.
"The Duke has been an exceptional horse all year and you can see why," O'Brien said. "He always steps up to the plate. He cantered well. We're very happy."
O'Brien sent the 4yo Danehill colt to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, where Duke of Marmalade finished seventh, 3 ¾ lengths behind the winner, the filly Zarkava. Accoring to O'Brien, the Classic has been on Duke of Marmalade's schedule for a long time.
"It's great to be here and great to be taking part in such a great race," O'Brien said. "Duke is one of these horses who has danced every dance. You can see the physique of him and the power, the strength and the toughness. He has all the things. We look forward to seeing him running."
Fairbanks (Tr: Todd Pletcher) – Team Valor's potential spoiler Fairbanks galloped 1 1/2m on the morning before his greatest challenge, the hopes of his connection buoyed by the affinity shown for the distance by the Giant's Causeway 5yo, who is 4-2-2-0 at 1 1/4m and the apparent pacemaker with veteran Richard Migliore in the stirrups.
"Pretty straightforward," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "We're going to the front and taking them as far as we can. We're hoping to go fast enough to spread out the field and slow enough to have something left."
Go Between (Tr: Bill Mott) – If there were any nerves in the barn of the Pacific Classic winner, you couldn't detect them from his trainer, the unflappable Bill Mott.
"We're ready to race right now," said the Hall of Famer, who won this race with Cigar in 1995. What many people probably don't remember is that Cigar lost the Classic in 1996 to Alphabet Soup at Woodbine, the only Breeders' Cup ever run outside the U.S.
Go Between has had a few days to acclimate himself to the Pro-Ride surface at Santa Anita since shipping in from Churchill Downs, but he hasn't raced since the Pacific Classic on Aug. 24 over the Polytrack at Del Mar.
"I wasn't at Del Mar, but I guess this track is somewhat different," Mott said after sending the son of champion Point Given out for his usual 1 3/8m gallop. "He seems to be moving very well over it, that's all I can tell you. There are going to be slight variations to all of them (artificial surfaces). He seems to handle it well."
Go Beween has run first or second in all six of his starts on artificial surfaces, including a victory in Sunshine Millions Classic at Santa Anita, but that was a different surface then. He has two wins in five starts with three seconds this season as a 5yo.
"I'm optimistic in that the horse has been training well," Mott said. "His works have been as good as you could ever expect them to be. He's coming into it real good, and that's all we can ask."
Mott seldom gets too excited about any victory, and a win in the Classic would probably not alter his post-race demeanor.
"It'd give us a reason to do a few high-fives, I guess." he said. Garrett Gomez, who rode in the Pacific Classic, will be aboard and breaking from the inside post.
Henrythenavigator (Tr: Aidan O'Brien) – After competing in top-level mile turf races in Europe this season – where he won four consecutive Group 1's – Henrythenavigator will try 1¼ m in the Classic.
A total of 12 horses from North America, Europe and Japan will compete in the first Classic to be run on a synthetic surface.
"I think it's as fair as it can get, really, isn't it?" trainer Aidan O'Brien said. "With the surface, it's going to allow dirt horses and grass horses to compete in some kind of middle ground."
American jockey John Velazquez will rider Henrythenavigator for the first time in the Classic.
Raven's Pass (Tr: John Gosden) – The 3yo son of Elusive Quality, who will stretch out to 1 1/4m for the first time in the Classic, finished his preparations Friday morning.
"He galloped a mile-and-an-eighth and then he stood in the gate," said trainer John Gosden. "That's it for him. Everything's good, and he's ready to go."
Jockey Frankie Dettori was aboard this morning as he gets ready to ride Raven's Pass for the first time.
A Kentucky-bred, Raven's Pass has become one of the best milers in Europe, winning the Queen Elizabeth II and Celebration Mile his last two starts.
The Classic will be his first start on a synthetic surface.
Smooth Air (Tr: Bennie Stutts Jr.; ex. rider: Sue Milne) – Trainer Bennie Stutts, Jr. predicted Friday morning, "There could be world records (race times) set this weekend…the track is like lightning."
The statement came a day after he sent out Mount Joy Stables' 3yo Smooth Air for a "two-minute lick."
"The clockers actually got him in 1:48 yesterday," said Stutts. "So he only galloped around one time today. He did enough yesterday," said the 70-year-old trainer.
Stutts, based at Calder Race Course in Miami, Fla., met up with another Breeders' Cup trainer from back home this morning: Pete Anderson, who trains Marathon contender Delightful Kiss. The two reminisced about the old days.
"I have a win photo back home," said Stutts, "from 1948 at Belmont Park. Pete was the winning jockey on a horse for my father. He was an apprentice and just 16. I'm not in the picture, though. I was 10."
The two have known each other for 60 years and they will both have their first Breeders' Cup starters on Saturday. Ironically, neither of them will saddle their own horses.
"My cousin, trainer Charlie Stutts, will saddle Smooth Air for me," Stutts said. "He's stabled out here. I have a torn rotator cuff that's hurting me."
Anderson's daughter, Aggie Ordonez, will saddle Delightful Kiss. "He's too much for me right now," Anderson said. He stands over 16 hands…I'm about 4-11."
Student Council (Tr: Steve Asmussen; ex. rider: Carlos Rosas) – Millennium Farms' Student Council galloped at Santa Anita under exercise rider Carlos Rosas on Friday. The 6yo horse will make the final start of his racing career in the Classic as he is destined for the stallion barn.
"He's a beautiful horse and is doing extremely well," said trainer Steve Asmussen on Friday morning. "He's aggressive and very sharp. He drew extremely well and should have a good run to the first turn."
Student Council is Asmussen's "other" horse in the Classic. Curlin, last year's Classic winner, is getting most of the attention. Regarding questions from the media about the horses, Asmussen said, "The ratio is about 10 to one (Curlin to Student Council).
"He (Student Council) is a very good horse, though. He's here for the right reasons. He has plenty of accomplishments in his own right. And he's in great physical condition," he added.
Asmussen said that each of his Breeders' Cup horses would fly back to Kentucky on Monday.
Tiago (Tr: John Shirreffs; ex. rider: Frankie Herrarte) – A sign at the entrance of Barn 55 South at Hollywood Park reads: Giacomo 2005 Kentucky Derby winner, owner Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Moss, trainer John Shirreffs, jockey Mike Smith.
The same connections seek another of the biggest prizes in American racing Saturday when Tiago--a half-brother to Giacomo--starts in the Classic. The 4yo galloped 1m Friday morning under regular exercise rider Frankie Herrarte to the satisfaction of Shirreffs after being shipped Wednesday from Hollywood Park.
Shirreffs, Smith and the Mosses hope to get the two-day extravaganza off to a winning start with favored Zenyatta in the Ladies' Classic Friday.
Smith has ridden 10 Breeders' Cup winners while Shirreffs and the Mosses seek their first victory.
Giacomo finished fourth in the 2006 Classic while Tiago finished fifth in the race last year on a sloppy Monmouth Park surface.
Tiago has enjoyed previous success at Santa Anita. He has recorded three firsts, two seconds and two thirds in nine starts at the Arcadia track, highlighted by a victory in the 2007 Santa Anita Derby.


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26Kelli Tennant
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Tennant is a 2005 graduate of Chaparral High in Temecula, Calif...participated in tryouts for the 2005 U.S. Junior National Team...played with the 2004 JNT as well as the 2002 and 2003 Youth National Team...earned 2004 Volleyball Magazine All-America first team honors...listed as a Fab 50 recruit by Volleyball Magazine...named 2004 Riverside Press Enterprise Player of the Year and listed on the Los Angeles Times All-Star Girls' Volleyball Team...as a senior, she was named Southwestern League most valuable player, earning all-valley, all-area and All-CIF first team honors...earned 2004 all-state first team honors...led Chaparral to the 2004 CIF Division I-A and Southern California regional finals...named to the all-tournament team at the 2004 Durango Classic and Torrey Pines California Challenge...named 2003 CIF Division I Player of the Year...also earned all-league, all-valley and all-area Player of the Year honors in her 2003 junior season...played club volleyball for TCA, which won the 2005 Junior Olympics Qualifier championship in Austin, Texas...played for Saddleback, winning the 2004 U-17 and 2004 U-16 Volleyball Festival championship...played for Temecula Valley, which won the 2001 U-14 Volleyball Festival championship...earned named Chaparral's Female Athlete of the Year...California Scholastic Federation member for three years and was a member of her school's ASB executive council for three years.
Kelli Michelle Tennant was born on Dec. 10, 1987...daughter of Steve and Viviana...has one brother, Steven...lists former USC player Jennifer Pahl as her biggest sports hero...favorite television shows are Gilmore Girls, Friends and Full House...favorite movies are Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Pretty Woman...majoring in public relations with hopes of working as a news or sports anchor.
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text: Yeah all 3 of my RB's have byes this week who would of thought. Take a risk and do a trade. Who knows maybe that player has a really good season. I took a risk in getting 3 injured players early in the draft, but I knew if they got healthy and got back into form I'd have a good team. I'm rooting for you to beat Hire Millen. He's beating everyone right now.


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I connect my iPhone to the audio in on my Macbook Pro and could record with Garageband.
The audio level is pretty low. Any better way to do that? Is it planned to be able to record a LoopMash within the iPhone and export it to iTunes? It seems kind of strange that we cannot share mashes. Regards. gfisch


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By Lauren Brownlow
As a senior at Carson-Newman who would hop in her car after basketball practice and drive ten minutes down the road to coach the Talbott School middle school girl's team, Sylvia Hatchell could not have imagined she'd be where she is today, a win away from 900.
Yet, she's almost essentially the same person. She goes to church every Sunday, even on game days. When she warns her preacher that she may have to leave early, he just shakes his head and is still surprised she comes at all. "Look, the hay is in the barn," she tells him. "We're just waiting to go out there and compete."
If there's ever a game to test her steady demeanor, though, it would be this one: going for her 900th win, at home, on Super Bowl Sunday, against Duke. She'll still go to church that Sunday like she always does, though. She'll have a house filled with friends and family that are more important to her than basketball. And she says her demeanor will be the same.
"I've coached over 1,200 games. I'll be the same that I've always been. There won't be anything any different for me on Sunday," Hatchell said. "Nothing will be any different for me. Like I said, it's not life or death and the sun's going to come up tomorrow, and we're going to play (Duke) again in a few weeks. But I'm going to be giving it all I've got, and I'm sure our players will too."
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt said she started thinking about Hatchell's 900th win before this season began. But Hatchell certainly didn't view it as a given, even this year. After all, the team's record is 20-2 right now. One more win, and not only will Hatchell have 900 wins, but the Tar Heels will also have surpassed their entire win total from last season, which ended in early March in the 2012 ACC Tournament. This year, UNC has reached 20 wins before January ended.
Hatchell seemed almost reluctant to talk about her 900th win and much more happy to discuss the Carolina-Duke game, which is one of the best rivalries in the country in all sports. She'd much rather everyone (including her team, probably) focus on that.
"I appreciate the fact that everybody is recognizing me, but it's not about that - it's about these kids having a tremendous college basketball experience. And there is not a better basketball college experience than playing in a Carolina-Duke game," Hatchell said. "It doesn't matter what sport it is, what gender you are - it just doesn't get any better than Duke and Carolina playing each other. Really, that should be what this whole game is about on Sunday."
And on the flip side of that, of course her own players want to get this 900th win almost BECAUSE it's Duke. They want 900 for Hatchell. And they want to beat Duke, badly. So what better way to combine the two than to have both happen at once?
"It just adds to the whole Duke-Carolina game. It just makes it that much more intense," Krista Gross said. "It makes us that much more ready to play, maybe makes us play that much harder. We really want to get that win for Coach Hatchell and get that win against Duke more than anything."
Hatchell downplayed the significance of her 900th win compared to the Duke-Carolina game, of course. While some of that is her trying to be humble and shift focus back to her players, a lot of it is just who Hatchell is. She's the same person who drove the ten minutes to coach a middle school girls' team when she was 22. She's down-to-earth, focused on her family and fiercely loyal to her players.
And she now has the benefit of perspective. She didn't know as a young coach that after a few losses in a row, the sun would still come up the next day. She knows that now. She feels as young as she ever has, and with an excellent recruiting class coming in next season, who knows? Maybe she'll even reach 1,000 before she hangs it up.
"I've just got tremendous balance. I've got a great family, staff, everything. I'm having a good time and these kids are the reason for it, because I love this team, and I think they know that. I think that's one reason why they're playing so hard right now," Hatchell said. "Every day, I'm excited. I can't wait to get up and get going. I'm having a great time. Mainly, it's just the journey and the people around me, especially this group of kids."


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In the win at USF, Bussie co-led WVU in rebounding with seven boards and converted 4-of-9 free throws to finish with six points.
Bussie averaged 12.0 points per game, 9.0 rebounds per game and 1.5 blocked shots per game in a pair of Big East wins last week. She shot 56.3 percent (9-16) and 46.2 percent (6-13) from the free throw line.
WVU Athletes of the Week
Spring 2012
Week 1: Rachael Burnett, Women's Swimming
Week 2: Hope Sloanhoffer, Gymnastics
Week 3: Christal Caldwell, Women's Basketball
Week 4: Alaska Richardson, Gymnastics
Week 5: Asya Bussie, Women's Basketball
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This Week in Women's Basketball
The Mountaineers return to action on Feb. 12, when they travel to Notre Dame, Ind., to take on No. 2/2 Notre Dame in a 3:30 p.m. tip ... the game will be broadcast on ESPNU, with Kayte Christensen and Anne Marie Anderson on the call.
Last Week in Women's Basketball
WVU went 2-0 last week as it defeated USF 55-52 in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday and returned home for a 66-50 upset win over No. 14/12 Louisville ... Ayana Dunning paved the way with a double-double of 15 points and a career-best 17 rebounds at USF ... WVU came out of a halftime deficit to win the game ... Asya Bussie led all players with a double-double of 18 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Louisville ... four WVU players had double figures, including a career-best 14 points from freshman Linda Stepney.
Notes and Quotes
WVU continued the streak of holding Louisville winless at the Coliseum with the upset win ... WVU limited Louisville to its lowest point total this season--the previous low was 54 points against then-ranked No. 12/10 Kentucky ... the win marks the first time West Virginia has upset a ranked team at the Coliseum since Jan. 29, 2008, when they defeated No. 4 Rutgers, 63-54 ... WVU is now riding a three-game win streak as it is 17-6 overall and 7-3 in the Big East. "They came out and followed the game plan very well. They played hard for 40 minutes. I am very proud of them. We played hard and they are a good team. They have a lot of talent and they are ranked so it is a good win." --coach Mike Carey on the win over Louisville
This Week in Swimming & Diving
The diving team will commence on their portion of the Big East Championships from Feb. 10-12, at Trees Pool in Pittsburgh, Pa. ... the preliminary rounds will begin at noon each day, while the finals with be held at 6 p.m.
Last Week in Swimming & Diving
Both teams were idle.
Notes and Quotes
Last year Matt O'Neill led the Mountaineer men with a seventh-place showining on both the 1-meter (289.65 points) and 3-meter (315.70 points) boards ... Richard Pokorny also scored points with a 14th-place finished on the 3-meter (238.15 points).
This Week in Track & Field
The Mountaineers return home to host the Blue-Gold Meet on Friday, Feb. 10, at the Shell Building ... it is scheduled to begin at noon ... WVU will compete against Waynesburg, Geneva College, Westminster College, St. Vincent, Bethany College and Alderson Broaddus.
Last Week in Track & Field
Four new Mountaineer track and field athletes qualified for the Big East Championships with strong performances last Saturday at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup in State College, Pa. ... those who earned Big East qualifying marks were Jenna Barreto (400m dash), Stephanie Caruso and Hallie Portner (mile run), and Lindsay Kopenhaver (pole vault) ... already qualified for Big East, Chené Townsend matched last year's season-best mark of 8.53 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to place second overall in the event finals ... Barreto qualified via her 57.42-second finish in the 400-meter, placing 16th in the event ... Caruso and Portner qualified in the mile by way of their respective 5:05 and 5:07 finishes, beating the 5:08 league standard ... Kopenhaver vaulted the required 3.55 meters to qualify for Big East, her highest mark of the year ... high jumpers Sydney Cummings and Katelyn Williams placed first and second, respectively, at 1.73 meters ... Stephanie Aldea placed seventh in the 800 meter run, while Sarah Martinelli placed fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 9:55.99.
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A total of 18 Mountaineers have now qualified for the Big East Championships that will occur Feb. 18-19 in New York City ... the Mountaineers look to achieve Top-20 finishes for a fifth consecutive year in both indoor and outdoor track ... returning All-Americans from last season include Chelsea Carrier-Eades, Harrison, Sarah-Anne Brault, Mock, Williams and Jessica O'Connell.
This Week in Wrestling
WVU will travel to Athens, Ohio, for a dual meet against Ohio on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.
Last Week in Wrestling
The Mountaineers were defeated by No. 9 Pitt, 26-12, in front of 1,399 fans at the Coliseum on Senior Night.
Notes and Quotes
Redshirt senior Brandon Williamson (HWT), who stretched his winning streak to seven-straight matches, notched his 20th victory of the season with his 7-2 decision victory over the Panther's Joel Yahner ... the win didn't come easy, as Williamson battled a flu-like virus that zapped him of his energy and left him dehydrated ... coach Craig Turnbull tried to convince him not to wrestle due to the illness, but Williamson gutted out the tough victory ... "I was really proud of Brandon tonight because he was very sick this morning," Turnbull said. "He called our trainer around 5 a.m. this morning from the hospital after he contracted some type of flu. I tried to convince him not to wrestle, but he was adamant about wanting to wrestle on Senior Night." ... also scoring victories for WVU were redshirt senior Matt Ryan and sophomore Michael Morales ... Morales' spectacular pin at the 2:11 mark of the first period brought the crowd to its feet.
This Week in Gymnastics
The No. 24 Mountaineers return to the WVU Coliseum and play host to No. 11 Ohio State, No. 13 Auburn and Ball State on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. … the meet is a "Pink Meet" to encourage awareness about all types of cancer, especially breast cancer … the meet also is a "Dollar Day," with all tickets, hot dogs, popcorn and Coca-Colas available for $1 each.
Last Week in Gymnastics
The Mountaineers (5-2, 3-0 EAGL) lost a tight battle at No. 22 Michigan, 194.65-194.05, on Feb. 3, at the Crisler Center, in Ann Arbor, Mich. … WVU battled back from a two –rotation deficit and grabbed a 146.075-145.825 lead in the third rotation before losing the meet in the fourth rotation … the Mountaineers lost all four events, with the Wolverines (4-0, 3-0 Big Ten) pulling out wins on vault (49.225-48.75), bars (48.575-48.55), beam (48.025-47.975) and floor (48.825- 48.775) … sophomore Hope Sloanhoffer finished second overall with a 39.125 score … WVU went six-for-six on bars for the second straight week, with junior Kaylyn Millick finishing fourth overall with a 9.775 mark … Sloanhoffer and junior Alaska Richardson tied for fifth overall on vault with matching 9.775s … Richardson and sophomore Makenzie Bristol led WVU on floor and finished third overall with 9.8s … Sloanhoffer won beam with a season-best 9.825 score
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The Mountaineers' dropped to 4-16 all-time against UM … UM's Joanna Sampson won the meet with a 39.3 mark … senior Tina Maloney scored 38.5 and finished fourth, while junior Chelsea Goldschrafe made her career all-around debut and tallied 38.375 … Goldschrafe scored a career-best 9.725 on bars, while freshman Dayah Haley opened the bars rotation with a career-high 9.625 … Bristol has earned a career-high 9.8 on floor three times this season … sophomore Amanda Carpenter scored 9.75 on beam and finished in a tie for second place, while Millick tallied 9.725 and placed fourth … WVU's meet on Sunday is its lone home quad-meet of the season … WVU is 3-6 against Auburn, 7-1 against Ball State and 11-15 against OSU.
This Week in Rifle
The No. 3-ranked West Virginia rifle team does not compete this week.
Last Week in Rifle
The Mountaineers (9-2, 4-1 GARC) lost their first GARC match of the season on Feb. 3, with a 4680-4650 defeat against No. 2 Kentucky at the WVU Rifle Range ... UK won both disciplines, 2365-2356 air rifle and 2315-2294 smallbore ... freshman Taylor Ciotola paced WVU with a combined score of 1165 ... Ciotola and senior Michael Kulbacki shot 590 air rifle and finished first on the team and fourth overall ... the score is a personal best for Ciotola ... freshman Meelis Kiisk paced the Mountaineers in smallbore and shot 576, good enough for sixth place ... the Mountaineers defeated NC State, 4647-4577, on Feb. 5 at the WVU Rifle Range ... WVU dominated both guns, 2346-2318 air rifle and 2301- 2259 smallbore ... senior Justin Pentz finished first overall with a score of 1166 and finished first in the smallbore competition, 580 ... freshman Meelis Kiisk finished first in the air rifle competition with a score of 588 ... Ciotola and Pentz tied for second place with air rifle scores of 586.
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The Mountaineers continues to lead the all-time series with Kentucky, the defending national champions, 14-8 … junior All-American Petra Zublasing missed this weekend's matches, as she was shooting with the Italian National Team at the Rocky Mountain Rifle Championships, in Colorado Springs, Colo. … Ciotola, Kulbacki, Kiisk, senior Justin Pentz and freshman Thomas Kyanko contributed to the team's air rifle score against UK … Bock replaced Kiisk in the smallbore lineup … the match against NC State saw Ciotola, Kissk, Kulbacki, Kyanko, and Pentz contribute their talents to WVU's score … Kiisk was back in the lineup for the match
This Week in Tennis
WVU will take on George Washington on Friday, Feb. 11, at 1 p.m.
Last Week in Tennis
The Mountaineers lost matches to No. 9 Virginia, Pitt and Akron.
Notes and Quotes
WVU has been playing one player short this season, but despite the circumstances, coach Tina Samara has seen her team respond at times ... junior Emily Mathis, sophomore Mary Chupa and senior Veronica Cardenas have each shown flashes of dominance this season ... Cardenas and Chupa scored victories in singles play against Pitt ... Cardenas was able to win in straight sets 6-1, 6-0 ... Chupa also won in straight sets against her opponent from the Panthers, 6-2, 6-2.


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well i've been checking TDH for about two weeks now and trying to learn things so its easier when i jumped in... i saw the trash can armor and tried it, it looked great, i'm working on the backplate but i have a few question on other parts. Sry i forgot to mention im a boba fett costume maker and and its my first one, and im really excited because the helmet and EE-33 carbine look good. but here are my questions...
Like the vest, what is it made of because it'll be cheaper for me to make it.
The gauntlets and jet pack are a larger problem, is there a good template to go off of if using sintra?
and lastly, whats the best way to make a ROTJ cape?
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o so is it like some little kid thing then?
o so is it like some little kid thing then?
o ive seen ppl wit the sweatshirts b4
dont know what invader zim is? thats awful. Its a litte kids show as much as ren and stimpy was a kids show
mace youre a fucking inbred
Invader Zim is awsome! except i never see it on tv..... what channel is it on?
Im just wondering Mace are you bored or just a no lifer? Cause everywhere i look i see ''mace2200 have posted today''
im just crazy bored i had no school today and no homewrk and i was home alone
did some post recycling. you fuckers need to look after this place better so that you don't look like a damn baby in a week-old diaper...
please, for the love of god, toys recognize your place and stay out of the intermediate thread maaaaan, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out if your shit belongs in there or not. just look at the other posts. if you think to yourself "shit, that's too good for me" then stay the fuck out. only enter if you think you can win in a battle against one of the intermediate heads.
also, some posts have been moved around, plenty others were deleted. if your post's not where you left it, look for it elsewhere (intermediate ---> toy blackbook, toy painted, or toy throws), if you can't find it anywhere. leave it at that. no reposts please.
the toy questions thread is for legit useful questions, and legit useful questions ONLY
the toy chat thread is the only place where you're allowed to talk about your day and how much you love high school musicals
I'll be out of the mod game for a while, and in that while I'll have a very short fuse and will not look for the root of th problem. I might pop in one random day and see someone doing something that doesn't need to be done, and that someone will get a very fast, very swift infraction. I don't have the time to chat about who started it, or who's more toy. so it's in your interest to play by the rules and be as good as you possibly can. better safe than sorry, right?
I hope so.
I wish you all happy bombingscience'ing, and I hope everything is clear and poses no problems.
take it easy; keep it breezy.
Cya Phat.. It's going to get scary up in here without you dude..
I just finished my first blackbook ever! i feel like ive accomplished a fuckload, but its just time to start a new one and keep going, ive got a looooong way to go to even have fresh style
anyone know what the 50 free caps are? or can you pick? i could use 50 ny fats right about now
So I was walking to class today from the mainbuilding (I have a really small school) and I saw this. I pretty much burst out in laughter.
There's this lil 2nd or 3rd grader running around with chalk writing EP on everything. I'm talking hanging on monkey bars writing his name everywhere and it's hilarious. What makes it better is that there's another lil dude crossing his name out.
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The Iowa Lakes Community College Men's Basketball team breaks back into the top ten in this week's NJCAA Div. II top 25 coaches' poll; jumping from #12 to #8. The Lakers, with a 21-5 overall record and 10-2 in the conference, also hold the top spot in the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference.
"Good honor for our guys and all the hard work they have put into the season," said Head Coach Troy Larson. "Our focus is on continuing to get better and to be playing the best possible basketball come tournament time."
Iowa Lakes has two conference games left on the schedule; Saturday Feb. 23 against Iowa Central in Fort Dodge and Saturday March 2 versus Ellsworth Community College in Estherville. Winning one of these two final league games would ensure the Lakers the #1 seed in the regional tournament.
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One of my principles in life is to address critical issues with whomever is involved. If something bothers me, I tell the person responsible for my sadness what my feelings are and my thoughts about it. I may sugarcoat my words to sound less offending, but nonetheless, I express it with utmost honesty and sincerity. I try to be diplomatic but without losing objectivity and purpose. If I don't care about you, I will not be going to such length of telling you. Only people I care about deserve my most intimate feelings, and only if I care enough will I risk the possibility of a fight or a misunderstanding. Don't get me wrong, I care about many things, but I know who or what my priorities are. Besides, I'm not the type who lets the whole world know of my feelings yet the person for whom my feelings are directed to has no idea about it. That's not fair, I think.
The purpose is quite good, I myself is guilty of professing my faith publicly. But it's just wrong to point a finger to a culprit that honestly, is neutral, and in most cases, has done more good than bad. I would have liked the statement a thousand times if it expressed using social networking sites as a medium to get closer to God rather than sounding accusing. Friends, please don't go preaching like that, specially if people listen to you or value your opinion. Imagine how many minds you will be influencing by such negativity. Please think of the consequences of your actions.
You might be asking if I did go to the source directly? Yes, I did. I'm sharing this with you so you know that doing something like that can possibly annoy me, big time. Ha-ha.
Another thing that bothers me are people who are unaware that they are accusing other people of certain faults that they themselves are guilty of. I abhor to a certain extent those who cannot be consistent. I am not saying that they have no integrity, but really, it's almost next to having none. What does it mean when you say one thing, yet your action does not reflect your words? You preach this, yet you do that. You scold someone for being like this, yet you are guilty of it yourself.
Well, no-one is perfect. That's why we have our family, our friends and other people who cares for us to back us up. We got people who cares enough to tell us about the things that we need to know about ourselves. One of the thoughts I've learned from my high school English class and I think that you might agree on this too, that the biggest room in this world is the room for self improvement. Indeed it is. Let's strive to be the best that we can be. And let's challenge ourselves to be a better version of ourselves everyday.


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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by Darth Tater, Apr 12, 2012.
How did I get involved in this? I am an MSU alum, by the way.
The better question would be: Why would Drath NOT drag me into this... Nice choice of using the word "drag", huh?
Le'Veon Bell is CRAZY athletic for a guy 240#. Shots from the Boise, Indiana, and Notre Dame games
Looks like a broken ankle waiting to happen. Amazes me every time he does it.
...Holy crap! That one against Indiana is freaking crazy.
Sparty looking confused at the end of the half. Only lead 10-3.
How can the Spartans lose at home to a team that couldn't beat CMU at home? I guess the weather played a factor.
So a month ago........Central Michigan University shows up at Hawkeye's stadium and beats Iowa. Now.......................these same Hawkeyes go on the road and beat the Michigan State Spartans. Iowa is 2-0 in the Big Ten, while MSU is 1-2. That puts the Spartans 3 games back of Iowa. I guess being a spoiler with less than half the season done will be OK............
Yeah. My team sucks. The offense and play calling are a joke. Playing for pizza bowl. Wolverines will destroy the Spartans. I'm a bit down but not too much because I saw it coming. Well...now I have to hope my fantasy team and the eagles do well.
@ nemo. Yep.but it isn't acceptable. Also to win two games to go to Toilst Bowl game. I hope the media adds to their humiliation. They've earned it .
It would be cool to have UM vs MSU in a bowl game.........
It's bizarre. MSU takes care of business in Mt. Pleasant week 2. CMU beats Iowa in Iowa City in week 3. Iowa beats MSU in East Lansing today. Roushar should either be fired or demoted back to O-line coach. He is clearly in over his head as OC
I think the Spartans will hold off Michigan and play well for one quarter. But I think Michigan wants it more so they can be number one In the state if they are not already. The Spartans cannot score. Whether it's the playcalling, the quarterback, the receivers, or all of the aforementioned. They barely beat sorry Indiana and lost to Iowa at home. Michigans fans will be going wild as Michigan gets their first victory against MSU in FIVE years and spanks their big brother hard Michigan 28 Michigan State 6 I Hope Kirk Cousins is not watching. He owned Michigan. MSU won't even hold them off for a year since his proud departure. This year Denard will not crumble under the pressure. The Spartans won't even make him sweat. He plays well against a lousy teams and poorly against the good teams. Michigan State is a lousy team. Pizza Bowl is the new goal.
Low scoring game so far. I keep looking for Bo and Woody on the sidelines. Wolverines are up 9-7 early in the 4th.
Michigan State is 4-4. The mighty Spartans have four more games to pla. @ Minnesota and Wisconsin Nebraska and Northwestern I will give them the benefit of the doubt And say that they went to of them. That makes them 6-6 They will be sweating While they wait to see if Somebody is going to let them play In their bowl. The Spartans are a larger university and travel well. I think somebody will take them. Happy happy joy joy! I think they will go to the pizza bowl or something equivalent to that. Someplace where it is cold. LOL. I don't know if they will win or not. They will be playing some little University That had a good year or a larger university that had a year like the Spartans. But I'm not afraid to predict. I don't know why anybody would be. You guess wrong and people you a hard time all in fun. I assure you I don't mean anyone in particular. If you are right you reach Wiggles status. That is quite an incentive. I'm going to guess that they win the bowl game. Eventually they will score against some team in worse shape than they them. They finish the season on a positive note ha ha. That should attract plenty of good recruits. Not!
Is it possible for anything to be less exciting and more meaningless than my predictions? Yep. Michigan State football. The Big Ten is weaker this year than any in recent memory. Michigan State is near the bottom. I don't think they could even outscore Appalaician State right now. Wisconsin 7 Michigan State 5 ...but sad to say... who cares? Ive got my jersey on ad I would prefer a victory...why not...but this season Is shot. But thanks for bearing Boise State guys! I would have chosen that over winning the remainder of their games after losing that.
The words of a true fan.
State is 5-5 now and have Northwestern and Minnesota left on their schedule. Minnesota is at 5-4, while Northwestern is at 7-2...... After another crushing defeat, one has to wonder if a bowl game will be salvaged. A win today woulda helped their big brother cross state rival by placing UM in sole posession of 1st place. i guess the green and white didn't want that.
Can't believe maxwell wasn't pulled for medical precautions. He didn't even know what down it was after the dinger. Tough loss though.
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We've reviewed a number of BenQ digital cameras over the past few years. If you take a look at those reviews, there is a noticeable progression over time, from generic mass-produced boxes indistinguishable from any other Chinese import camera, to stylish and well-made ultra-slim cameras with decent performance and picture quality, in fact some of the more recent models were starting to look seriously competitive. However with the recent well-recorded turmoil at BenQ I was concerned that this steady improvement would come to a sudden halt or even go into reverse. BenQ has apparently outsourced its camera manufacturing to a low-end OEM manufacturer called Ability Enterprise, whose existing range of cameras is uninspiring to say the least.
However I may have been too hasty in my concern, because I've got the latest BenQ camera in for review and it's actually pretty good. The DC E1000 is so new it isn't even featured on BenQ's UK website yet, and won't be available to buy in this country for another couple of weeks, so this is the first review of the new model in the UK. The E1000 is a 10-megapixel, 3x zoom compact with a 3-inch 230k monitor and s reasonably advanced set of features. I terms of specification its main competition comes from Pentax's excellent Optio A30 (£145), and the equally excellent Casio EX-Z1050 (£118). The E1000 will be going on sale at an initial price of £140, but will probably be available for much less within a few weeks.
It's certainly a striking-looking camera. The most obvious feature on the front of the camera is a large bar of what appears to be brushed stainless steel inset into the left-hand side of the facia. According to the hilariously awful translation on BenQ's corporate website, "Metal is the primary element symbolized the manhood", because "hard, cold and rigid say it all". Er…yeah, right. Bizarre phallic symbolism aside, the metal bar does at least provide a secure hand grip (!) making the camera quite comfortable to hold. The other styling features are equally eye-catching. The camera is finished in attractive matt black, with a metallic red ring outlining the lens. The rear of the camera is a flat plate of glossy plastic, transparent over the monitor screen and with the rear controls inset into it and a small textured area for the thumbgrip. The top panel is finished in a metallic gunmetal grey.
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BCFC 4 on June 30th
The next event for the BCFC promotion is on June the 30th, and due to some drop outs there are still a few slots to fill... The current slots are as follows...
Amateur B
1 x Under 66kgs
1 x Under 77 kgs
Amateur A
1 x Under 84 kgs
1 x Under 84 kgs
1 x Under 77kgs
To apply for the slots, check out the website here or email Tom Hanlon.
Hope to see you there! Ian Freeman will be commentating again so it will be a great night of entertainment!


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Monday, July 22, 2013
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Northwestern University, with a grant from the National Center for Education Research (NCER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is providing support for the 2013 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials.
The seventh Summer Training Institute's aim is to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. The course sessions will provide intensive training on planning, implementing, and analyzing data for cluster-randomized trials. Principal Investigator, Spyros Konstantopoulos, PhD, will lead the workshop.


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Two words. Baling twine.
Sisal or plastic? Don't really see sisal much any more
"I put a piece of dried cow patty on top of the pine needles"I've got plenty of that lying around but hadn't tried it in my smoker yet. I've read stories of indians using buffalo chips and pioneers using cow patties but have never tried it. How's the aroma and how do the bees take to it?
I like the idea of bailing twine. I'm a yarn dyer and I have a lot of spare yarn. I'll bet with a little practice, I could use that.
Eric lit the smoker yesterday with the torch. It had a charcoal briquette, some dry sumac berries, some toilet paper, some pellets, and some cardboard in it from previous attempts. He ventilated it like crazy and we had fabulous smoke for hours. Thanks for all the help!