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The Southern California Trojan, Vol. 3, No. 12, August 08, 1924
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Appointment Secretary ||I wishes to see all those who are registered with the appointment jlj office before they leave the campus rfie South<s*i3 California The Appointment Secretary wishes to see all persons who are registered at the ^Appointment office before they leave the campus. VOLUME III FRIDAY, 'AUGUST 8, 1924 NUMBER 12 WORLD CITIZENSHIP IS U. S. GREATEST NEED Amcrica Fitted to Take World Lead Says Dr. Devine "We have no greater task today than to prepare ourselves for world citizenship," stated Dr. E. T. De-vine, editor, lecturer, and social worker in his address "E Pluribus Unum" given in chapel Tuesday. "Wife must develop the capacity for /world citizenship which in its ktttadest sense means no conflict, no stility, no domination of one na-ion by the other. The United States is histrically ad geographically fitted to take the lead. U. S. TOO SECTIONAL "Americanization does not mean making over Italians, Mexicans, Hebrews, Chinese, Japanese and other nationalities into Americans, suddenly. In every generation we have succeeded better in Americanization than the preceding because of gradual assimulation. Our great fault is over emphasis on local affairs as distinct from national. Our nation is built of local loyalities—states. Children are and should be brought up to feel a deep sense of loyalty. California is too sectional. There is no place in the world but California. WAR CLEARED VISION "During the war, most men acquired the ability to discern things, and now are able to see into France, England, Italy. China, Japan, and by standing on tip toe even into 'Mexico! Who knows where the next archduke may be assasinated? We do know that clarified public opinion will prepare us for the extension of our motto 'E Pluribus Unum'," concluded Dr. Devine. TWO NEW COURSES AT METROPOUTAN COLLEGE The Metropolitan college announces the following courses to open next week: School Law—the course which is required of all candidates for teachers' credentials includes an includes an introductory course of the principle problems of administration of public education with special reference to California. Course will open Monday, August 11. Hours, 4 to 6:20 p. m. Instructor G. Vernon Bennet. Units, 2. Citizenship and education—an analysis of the ideals and habits essentia'? for good citizenship. Begins Monday, August 11. hours 7 to 9:20 p. m. Instructor. Benent. Units. 2. "Neighbors" to be Given The Epworth league from Sunny-side Methodist church will present "Neighbors," by Zona Gale, in the LTniversity church. August 8, at 8 p. m. A musical program will precede the play, and a silver offering will be taken. The league announces that this is a chance for summer school students to recuperate after finals. MANY SOCIAL AFFAIRS PLANNED TO END TERM The University of Southern California will grant school certificates for California school positions to 325 teachers. Friday afternoon will mark the close of what is considered the most successful summer session in the history of the university. Many teachers will return to other states with special credentials from this university for advanced work. Social affairs are being arranged while "exams" are going on. These events are intended to left the strenuousness of "exams." From 1 to 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon the art department will give an exhibition of summer students' work and at 4 o'clock on the same afternoon Dr. Lightner itmer of the University of Pennsylvania will speak on "Some Near Relatives of Man." The lecture will be illustrated with stere-opticon slides. Thursday evening a picnic supper for students of music will be given at the tea garden of the Hollywood bowl. I^ater the guests will attend the symphony orchestra concert. FRESHMAN HANDBOOK TO CONTAIN NEW THINGS I - Work on the Freshman Handbook j s progressing rapidly and according i to Willard Brown, the editor, the 'ook v. i ! be ready for the press in a very few days now. When the book is placed on sale a: the opening o; the fall semest.:?/its patrons will have t number cf improvements on which o commcnt. The most noteworthy of hese, says Kenneth Stonier, Manager of Publications, will be the new imitation leather cover which will replace the old paper one. The new cover is a real work of art and promises to give the new Frosh Bible a very handsome appearance. Other changes will be made to pro-ide for the growth of the school and he many new features and institutions appearing on ihe campus during his an ' the coming year. On the taff are: Tcm Harrison, who was to i'ave edited ihe book, but who will not be in school next semester; Miss Mar garet Matheson. who is also an associate editor; and Arnold Houlgate, sport editor. Anyone desiring to contribute suggestons or materal to the bock shcu'd see the editor or some i member of the staff immediately. | ANNOUNCEMENTS Although the branch of the Associated Students' Store in • the old college will be closed after the sum-j mer session, the main branch located on University avenue and Thirty-I sixth street will remain open. * * * "If students who have attended this university, as well as those who intend to return will leave their names and permanent addresses with the librarian, they may have the use of the library after the close of the I summer session," says Miss Charlotte M. Brown, the librarian. L L TAKES NEW PROGRAM Next Years Publication to be Increased in Size and Content Professors Thoughts on Close of Term By MADELINE W'LLETT 1 have a stack of term papers as high as my head to correct before..... .... handed me a theme that looked and sounded like .... .... worried to death over that biological curve. My class isn't .... .... he went to sleep right in front of me in class and snored 'tii... .... class is ready to pick up every word I say and .... .... eight o'clock classes are breaking my heaith. Next year . . . . .... have come to school on the street car. The Ford is ... . .... tried to teach them something. I thought I had succeeded, but if you could see those .... .... criticise every word I say. One would think that they're the... .... one of these young intelligeneia that infest every college campus New and enlarged policies for the Journal of Applied Sociology were announced by the executive committee of the periodical after its annual meeting on Friday, August 1. at the University of Southern California. This new program Includes the following items: SCOPE ENLARGED I The scope of the journal is to be enlarged to include the work ot sociologists from all of the other leading countries of the world in addition to the United States. In this way it is planned to bring to the readers of ihe journal the latest scientific data regarding sociological problems, not only in this country but in all other parts of the world. II. Dr. George S. H. Rossouw, professor of sociology in the University of South Africa has accepted the position of cooperating editor of the onrna' ° > ■ r • rr>~esentative v, he journal s'aft' from Africa. Asia already has two staff representatives and the Hawaiian Islands have one. III. Prominent European sociologists are to be invited to become cooperating editors. SIZE INCREASED IV. The size of the ournal is to be increased to eighteen pages. V. An increased number of short articles, together with reviews of foreign books and periodical material on sociology will be used. SEPTEMBER CONTENTS ANNOUNCED The contents of the forthcoming September issue are announced to be as follows: Albion W. Small: "Researches Into Research." Frank. Wilson Blackmar: "Mutations in Progress." Edward T. Devine: "Democracy and Social Work." William C. Smith: "Second Generation Oriental Children." E. P. Cotton: "The Mind of the West African." E. S. Bogardus, "A Study in Social Distance." Lowell Coate: "Social Values of the Radio." E. H. Sutherland: "Public Opinion as a Cause of Crime." CORA MILLER TO PLAV IN TENNIS FINALS Winner in the semi-finals over Em- ma Hoffman, in the tennis tournamet. Wedesday, Cora Miller, w 11 match Oiive Mi es for :he final match. Thursday. August 7, at 9 a.m on the col-ege courts. A silver cup, given by A. G. Spaulding and Bros, of this ci^y will be presented to the winner. Final singles between Fred Weber and J. S. Hughes of Pomona will also he played, the winner to receive honorary ment on. said . had a giggling spell and nearly disrupted class .... . gabble off verbs until I'm ready to .... . just as blank as they were the first day in the class .... . my budding philosophers are in the slough of despond .... . going to correct my stories after I get back from vacation . . . . not going to give a single grade over .... . thinks he's bluffed me, but he hasn't. When he gets his grade... . Lord be praised, school's over! MISS LONSOTfE WEDS Miss Mary E. Lansotte, U. S. C., 1924, was married to Donald F. Stone, WTiittier Vollege, 1922. Tuesday evening in Friends Church, Los Angeles. The Rev. Davjd E. Henley read the marriage service in the presence of friends and relatives. Andrew Hansen of Whittier, a classmate of the bridegroom, was best man, and Miss Jane Lansotte. sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. Mr. and Mrs. Stone left for Camp Baldy on their honeymoon to remain there until fall. After the beginning of the school year, they will be at home In Elinor, where Mr. Stone will be instructor in the high school. CAFETERIA TO BE REMODELED TO MAKE NEW LIBRARY ROOMS Negotiations With Boos Brothers for a University Lunch Room Under Way, Says Mr. Bovard The cafeteria, which for the last 15 years has occupied the basement floor in the old college tniHdmg, .is to be remodeled into a collateral reading room Tor the library. The reading room will be ready for use by the pening of the fall semester. This announcement was made Wednesday -—--c by Warren B. Bovard. The cafeteria under the capable T L Advertising is Discussed by Miles Allen Fifty s:udenis and the faculty of the Metropolitan College or Commerce, were feted at a commerce luncheon aranged by Miss Sionich, vice-social chairman of the club, at the Brcadwav deoar ment grill. Wednesday. MILES ALLEN SPOKE i\!i'es AHen. advert sing manager of 1 e Crescent Creamery Company was the speaker. His subject was, "the thing advertising" which was well received. He gave a general outline of advertising; the importance of it and its place in the field of commerce Following Mr. Allen's talk. Rolland Parker, president of the school of commerce and business administration, spoke briefly on the co-operation need-3d in perinea.ing such feeling and riendship necessary for the progress "f bo'h organizations. He assured the members of the Metropolitan division that his organization is ready at all times to assist them in any way and asked that such co-operaton be accorded his organization. MR. WOODS PRESIDED Thomas Woods, Jr., president of the Metropolitan club, presided at the 'unchc-on. He stated that it was the lub's intention to have various forms -f entertainment for its members and, from time to time, noted men of the commercal field would be asked to address the club on the different phases of commerce. Those expressing themselves said that they had spent ?. pleasant and practical hour and would look forward to the next ''lunch hour." management of Mrs. M. A. Gans, is closing its most successful year. The largest da'lv attendance it has ever had has been during the present summer session. "The university administration regrets that it has been compelled to use this space for school purposes," said Mr. Bovard yesterday, "but the library has become so crowded that more room is an absolute necessity. NO CAFETERIA NEXT YEAR Because of the lack of space the university will not conduct another cafeteria in any building, but investigations are being made looking toward the advisability of opening a lunch room in some building near the campus. It is interesting to note that the University of California, Southern Branch, is losing its cafeteria also. A few years ago it was considered a necessity for an educational institution to have an eating place on its campus. Such a place is still desirable, but. on account of the number of small lunch and tea houses that are built around a college campus, it is not necessary. On the other hand the greatly increased enrollment in the Los Angeles institutions of higher learning has put room for class and library purposes at a very high premium. CAFETERIA SECONDARY **T am sorry the university will have to give up its cafeteria but students always must remember that all other interests are secondary to the educational program." The business office has been cor-respondinging with Boos Brothers in reference to opening a cafeteria near the campus next semester. LOST AND FOUND DEPT. HAS MANY ARTICLES "If you lost a good pen, you won t see it again, but if it was a poor one, you'll find it here," was the announcement made yesterday at the information office, home of lost and found artcles. And judging by appearances, all the poor lost pens in Los Angeles have found their final resting, place in that .ffice drawer Eut they have plenty of company, because there are innum erab'e pencils, gold ones, silver ones, nd iust p'ain wood ones—not t© speak of a whole box full of brooches, lather tacky, to be sure, but useful notwithstanding. Then, there are hats, caps, and vraps galore. Even a few stray furs have crept into this refuge. Some MISS IVES TO TAKE DEGREEJN CHICAGO i Miss Ives, of the French depart- j I ment. will leave next deek for Chi- | cago, where she will study French for her Doctor of Philosophy degree, under Doctor Lancaster of the John Hopkins University. Miss Ives has been at the Univer-sity of Southern California four years, and received her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees here. Miss Yong Honored In honor of Miss Soong Moy Yong, a junior at U. S. C.. a handkerchief shower was given at the home of Mrs. Ella McMath Tuesday afternoon. Miss Yong came to the university two years ago from Singapore and has just completed her pre-medical work. She plans to enter the medical school at Ann Arbor. Michi-scared young freshman conveniently \ pan, and the shower was given as a dropped his report card in order to farewell party, avoid unpleasant revelations, and this, together with a check book and four tarnished compacts, presage of four shiny noses, bear witness to other and happier days. Last of all, the lost and found department bears a peculiar resemblance to a branch library—except that it has more books. Every branch of earn in? is represented. Since knowledge is contained in books, one is confronted with the lamentable fact that U. S. C. students are in the habit of losing a great deal of knowledge The custodian of the department asks that students who are losing sleep over long-lost articles to inquire at the information office, because a happy reunion might be effected. Presidents Office Force Compiling- List ■President's office workers are compiling a complete list of all fraternities and organizations on the campus. They are asking for the names of the presidents of all organizations together with their phone numbers and addresses. Garnrna Kps Give Dance Gamma Epsilon fraternity gave the oniy all-school dance of the summer session. August 6. at their house. 1280 West Adams, which students from both Universities attended. It was a flannels and sport dress affair.
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St. Patrick's Day is just about here making it a very good time to once again bring you another batch of Irish recipes from Darina Allen, the "Julia Child of Ireland" and noted founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School located in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland. Allen's recipes for Cottage Pie with Garlic Butter, Buttered Cabbage and Irish Apple Cake, enhanced with Irish-made Kerrygold 100 percent natural cheeses and Pure Irish Butter – made with milk that comes from Ireland's grass-fed cows – are about as Irish as they come. Says Allen, "In Ireland we can grow grass like nowhere else in the world. Many of our best foods, like our butter, come from this lush green grass." Besides teaching cooking courses at Ballymaloe, Allen also finds time to work as a food writer, newspaper columnist, cookbook author and television presenter. In addition, Allen's website, at www.cookingisfun.ie, is a treasure trove of Irish recipes, images – and philosophy: "Finally, we believe that cooking and eating should be enriching, enjoyable, entertaining and, in a word, fun." For more Irish recipes (and ideas for St. Patrick's Day), visit www.kerrygoldusa.com, or to find a store that carries hormone-free Kerrygold dairy products, go to www.kerrygoldusa.com/where-to-buy/.
Sue Ade is a syndicated food writer with broad experience and interest in the culinary arts. She has worked and resided in the Lowcountry of South Carolina since 1985 and may be reached at email@example.com.

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Stand with heels together, toes out at a 45-degree angle. Bend knees slightly; shift weight into center of left foot; step right, weightless, foot forward. Shoulders relaxed, pretend you're hugging a giant beach ball against your chest (as shown). Close eyes; breathe deeply for two minutes. Switch feet. Repeat.
Triple Heater Stimulator
Feet together, clap hands in front of forehead and rub palms together for 10 seconds to create warmth (as shown). Next, clap and rub in front of heart, then repeat in front of navel. Inhale, bringing hands in prayer position to head. Tuck chin and hold breath as you rub lower back two to five seconds. Exhale.
"I tried it"
Needles for Blood Pressure
Acupuncture so terrified me that it should have made my blood pressure worse. Yet here I was, having a man perform a task that had the actual word puncture in it. I was in my second trimester of pregnancy, and my blood pressure read a worrisome 140/100 at my OB's office. I was willing to try anything to fix it.
I began seeing Jason twice a week. He adjusted pillows and blankets for me. He listened to my story and asked after my family. I swear I could hear a pop as he punctured (yes) my skin. But the room was warm and cozy. And when I returned to my OB, I was holding a scrap of paper showing a normal reading of 110/80.
I've heard of white coat syndrome, in which vitals get worse simply because you are in the company of a doctor. I think part of what made my pressure drop in Jason's office was the opposite—a sort of kindness syndrome, in which a medical professional gives you the time you need, puts his hands on you, looks you in the eyes and tries to understand you.
I'm glad that acupuncture helped my blood pressure. But I'm even more grateful that for those few hours, over those few months, it helped me. —Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Qigong for Cancer
I was 32 years old and five months pregnant when doctors told me I had colon cancer. At that time, in 1996, it felt like a death sentence. Still, I told them I wanted to deliver the baby and then focus on the cancer—I had gone through eight miscarriages, and this time, I was really having a baby. That's all I wanted to think about.
After my son was born, I had a six-hour surgery to remove my colon. But six months later, I learned the cancer had spread: I had a huge tumor in my liver. Surgery was difficult—40 percent of my liver was resected. Doctors offered up chemo but said they honestly didn't know if it would help. I told them, 'I've spent too much time in hospitals, away from my son. I don't want it.
Then I met Shane. He was an incredible athlete who had never smoked yet had lung cancer. He told me about qigong, and I went to our local wellness center and joined a class called Chi-Lel Qigong.
The master taught us to direct life energy: We used meditation and hand movements to direct the qi to our body parts. The point is to use your mind to overcome your 'matter.' It was calming, while also making me feel present and alert. The energy 20 people gave off was so positive. You could feel it.
The instructor told me this is not a once-in-a-while thing; to heal myself, Qigong would have to be part of my life. And it has been for 13 years. I am cancer-free, and my liver regenerated. I go in yearly for blood work, and the oncologists says that's all I need to do.
I'm so grateful that I've been able to stay and watch my son grow. Who knows why people really get better? But this is what worked for me. —Cris Epstein, as told to Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Hypnosis for Stomachache
The gnawing pain in my abdomen arrived one morning and wouldn't quit. When one specialist after another failed to help, my therapist suggested hypnosis. I sat on her couch, my eyes closed. "Feel how the couch supports your body," she intoned. I felt lighter, as I let the couch, not my muscles, hold me up. In the same monotone, she instructed me to relax my body. I imagined a flickering flame as I fell into oblivion.
Yet I could still hear her talking. About a mental dial I could turn down. About a word I could choose that, when I said it later, would dull the pain. After 45 minutes, she counted backward from 10 and I was out of it. The agony was not gone, but it was dulled.
My therapist told me I could do the same exercise at home—self-hypnosis. I used it until, after five years of pain, a new doctor finally pinpointed the cause: an intestinal parasite. A few antibiotics later, I was well.
I still use self-hypnosis, now and again, when I want to quiet my mind. I like that awake-falling-asleep feeling. And I like, too, having a tool that I can wield to help myself when medicine can't—or when I don't like what medicine has to offer. —Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Paradise in One minute Flat
Get comfy, take a few breaths, and picture yourself on a beach. Feel the soft, pink sand, and listen to the steel drums.
Visualization takes you on vacation: "When you imagine a serene image, the optic cortex is activated in the same way as when you really see the vista," Dr. Bauer says. The brain relays your bliss to the endocrine and autonomic nervous systems, lowering your heart rate and blood pressure and goosing immunity. Imagine that.
Reboot Your iPod: Now it's a Painkiller
For headaches or joint pain, groove out. Chronic pain sufferers who listened to music for an hour a day for seven days reduced their hurt by 20 percent, according to a study by Sandra L. Siedlecki, Ph.D., senior nurse researcher at the Cleveland Clinic.
The key is to choose tunes that recall a time when you were happy and free from pain. "Usually, we listen to music to validate how we feel. That's why we play sad songs after a breakup," Siedlecki says.
"But to use music therapeutically, you need to listen to songs that make you feel the way you want."
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CFI Celebrates Supreme Court's Rejection of Religiously Motivated Discrimination in Marriage
June 26, 2013
Secularist advocacy organization the Center for Inquiry heralded the Supreme Court's decisions to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and effectively nullify California's Proposition 8 as historic and tremendous advances in civil equality that honor the just, secular character of the U.S. Constitution.
"As an organization grounded in the values of secularism and humanism, which recognize the intrinsic value of every person, we are delighted to celebrate these milestones in the struggle for full equality before the law for all citizens," said Michael De Dora, CFI's Director of Public Policy. "DOMA and Prop 8 were betrayals of the secular ideals set forth in our founding documents, relegating LGBT Americans to second-class status. The Court's rejection of these measures strongly reinforces the idea that religiously based attitudes on sex and marriage will not stand in the way of granting fundamental rights to anyone."
CFI also notes that the work for full marriage equality is not complete with today's rulings. Prop 8's dismissal may still face future legal challenges, and most states still do not allow same-sex marriages.
"Our work to create what Lincoln described as 'a more perfect Union' is not over. We strongly urge the states to join those that have already legalized same-sex marriage rights with marriage equality legislation of their own," said De Dora. "Congress should likewise act at the federal level to affirm the equal rights of all citizens, regardless of who they seek to marry."
In March, CFI joined a coalition of secular and humanist organizations in filing amicus briefs with the Court, urging them to overturn both DOMA and Prop 8. CFI is also a member of the Respect for Marriage Coalition, an initiative comprised of a wide variety of groups pushing for the repeal of DOMA.


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The Washington Community School District's school buildings will need regular facility maintenance to keep them in useable condition. Washington School Superintendent Mike Jorgenson outlined some of the upcoming needs at this week's school board meeting.
One aspect is in relatively good shape. Roofs at Lincoln and Stewart elementary, and at the old portion of the new high school were replaced recently enough that there are four or more years left on the warranties. But the middle school, or the former high school building, has quite a few roofs, but it's unknown exactly when some roofs were last replaced. Jorgenson says the roofs are not leaking and he is not recommending replacement at this time until it is determined how long the building will be used.


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Make AIDSWatch Happen in Your Hometown
April 20, 2012
Next week HIV advocates from around the country will come to D.C. for AIDSWatch 2012 to tell Congress to make health care, treatment, housing, prevention, and support service programs a priority. However, you don't have to be in D.C. to make your voice heard about the lives and health of people living with and affected by HIV in the United States! Members of Congress will be in their home districts May 1-4, so you can organize these same kinds of conversations in your hometown through setting up district visits. Just follow these simple steps:
If you will be in D.C. next week, please be sure to say hello to AIDS United staff (Ronald Johnson, Donna Crews, and Caressa Cameron) that will be at the AIDSWatch training! We would love to connect with you to learn more about the work you are doing in your state and how we can help. We are also working with advocates across the country who are interested in connecting with AIDSWatch participants when they return home from D.C. Please email Charles and Caressa if you are interested in joining or leading district meetings when you return to your state.
This article was provided by AIDS United. Visit AIDS United's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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Bacon is the so-called trend that always waxes and never seems to wane. What started out as a revived appreciation has yielded a cornucopia of culinary offerings ranging from the whimsical (Bacon ice cream!) to the weird (Bacon vodka! Ed. note: Ewww!). And, the weirder: Days ago, a restaurant unveiled its all-bacon burger. But, is bacon getting too big for its britches? A backlash may be building if this Eater interview with Southern chef and eschewer of bacon John Currence is any indication. Currence notes, "Everybody went bananas for bacon. It was an easy thing. If you were cooking and didn't have any sort of real ability at all but wanted to illustrate something through the Southern lens, you'd throw bacon at it, no matter what."
What's your position on bacon? Mainstay or culinary crutch? Weigh in on today's poll!


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Advocates for children are complaining loudly that legislation creating a pre-k program in Florida is cheap and not what voters mandated.
The plan will be under discussion next week in Tallahassee as the Legislature meets in special session. Even Gov. Jeb Bush has some problems with what lawmakers are suggesting.
Georgia's pre-k program is a model for the nation. Teachers in the Peach State must have bachelor's degrees. Florida's plan requires only a high school degree to begin.
Georgia kids spend six and a half hours a day learning. The Florida plan calls for just three hours. That's something Georgia educator Jeanna Mayhill of Thomasville just don't think is enough.
"You take a typical child who after lunch if they will be coming into a program will be needing a nap, and is that really a useful use of our resources?"
Georgia spends almost $4,000 a year on each child for pre-k. Florida is allocating about $3,000. Even conservative Dominic Calabro of Florida Taxwatch says the state is trying to get by on the cheap.
"The more you can invest and see that investment is in high quality content in the teachers, the better the chances are that you are going to produce kids that perform."
Even the governor is expressing concerns about the quality of the Legislature's bill, especially the 18 to 1 student/teacher ratio.
Even with a better student teacher ratio, Roy Miller of Florida Children's Campaign is giving the Florida plan low marks.
"Give this plan a grade, please. As it currently is written, D+ C-, is that high quality? "No, it's low quality babysitting for the regular school year."
Taxwatch says state lawmakers should forego the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend on turkeys for their districts and use the money to invest in a quality program, not a cheap one.


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#1 CAIR Files FEC Complaint over Obsession: Radical Islams War Against the West.
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CAIR Files FEC Complaint over Obsession
Recently the stalwart Egyptian blogger who calls himself Sandmonkey interviewed Mohammed Habib, who, he says, is slated to become the next Supreme Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Toward the end of the interview Sandmonkey asks Habib an uncomfortable question about the Brotherhoods relationship with the Council on American Islamic Relations, and you can practically see Habib squirm right on the printed page. Ehh, this is a sensitive subject, and its kind of problematic, especially after 9/11, he says.
Why is it a sensitive subject? Why is it kind of problematic? Partly because the Muslim Brotherhood is on record as wanting to do more, much more, in the United States than simply spread a positive image of Islam along with its values, culture, history and teachings. The Brotherhood is engaged, in its own words, in a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allahs religion is made victorious over all other religions.
Is CAIR engaged in this effort? Is it trying to sabotage and destroy Western civilization so that Allahs religion is made victorious over all other religions here in the U.S.? Is it working in tandem with other Brotherhood entities to accomplish this?
Despite the fact that the film Obsession contains no political content and was made well before the 2008 election cycle began, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, those paragons of Islamic moderation and honesty, would now have you believe that the national distribution of the DVD was an Israeli plot to elect John McCain. And theyve filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging just that.
According to MarketWire, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging the FEC to investigate whether the Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization that distributed DVDs containing Obsession: Radical Islams War Against the West, is really a front for an Israel-based group seeking to help Sen. John McCain win the U.S. presidential election.
This is a very revealing action for CAIR to take. It reveals in particular two key aspects of CAIRs mindset:
1. It shows that CAIR is fully aware that the jihad against Israel is an integral part of the global jihad, and is not just a struggle to recover Palestinian stolen land. Thus a film that reveals the nature and goals of that global jihad -- Obsession -- benefits Israel.
2. It also shows that CAIR believes that John McCain will fight against the global jihad in a way that Barack Obama will not -- and that it believes therefore the distribution of an anti-jihad film, which in a sane world would be welcomed by both the Left and the Right since the global jihad wishes to destroy and remake the West utterly, must be some partisan plot.
It further shows CAIR yet again on the wrong side of the jihad, as they are again and again. The Flying Imams threaten the ability of airline passengers to report suspicious behavior without getting harassed legally, and CAIR is right there. Sami Al-Arian for years bamboozles the Left into thinking he is a gallant freedom fighter for the Palestinians without the shadow of a hint of support for terrorism, and CAIR backs him all the way. The Patriot Act? CAIR was against it -- and not just the legitimately questionable parts, either. Has CAIR ever sponsored a single anti-terror initiative that would actually make it easier for law enforcement to identify and apprehend jihad terrorists? Nope.
Yet this shady group still enjoys mainstream media support, and is routinely depicted as a neutral civil rights organization.
American voters, said CAIRs cofounder and executive director Nihad Awad, deserve to know whether they are the targets of a multi-million-dollar campaign funded and directed by a foreign group seeking to whip up anti-Muslim hysteria as a way to influence the outcome of our presidential election.
American voters also deserve to know whether they are the targets of a campaign, multimillion-dollar or no, funded and directed by Islamic supremacists to mislead and deceive them about Islamic jihad terrorism as a Recently the stalwart Egyptian blogger who calls himself Sandmonkey interviewed Mohammed Habib, who, he says, is slated to become the next Supreme Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.way to influence the outcome of our presidential election, and to influence much more besides.
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Derek Trucks is gearing up for the release of Made Up Mind, the new Tedeschi Trucks Band album slated to hit stores next month. Speaking to Rolling Stone, he and wife Susan Tedeschi say recording at the couple's Swamp Raga studios in Florida fostered a casually productive atmosphere. "There's something nice about having a studio where it doesn't feel like work," says Trucks. "Everyone just shows up and it's a hang. You're rehearsing in a place where you just turn the knob and now you're recording."
Made Up Mind is said to feature the same sizzling blend of blues, rock and R&B that made the group's debut, Revelator, a sensation. The band has been road-testing most of the songs on their current tour. "You want to play it when you have new tunes that you feel good about," says Trucks. "But you want the record … to still feel fresh and like new music."
Trucks points out that the 11-piece band gelled early on, building a special chemistry that carried over into the making of the new album. "From the first moments of [the 11 of us] playing in the studio together, there were elements of it that were magic," he explains. "It took a long time for everybody to find their place. But I remember about six months in … it just started flying."


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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited three Louisiana men for alleged hunting violations on Nov. 8 in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Agents cited Alex Manuel, 21, of Melville, Titus Manuel, 17, of Krotz Springs, and Blake Sparrow, 20, of Krotz Springs for illegally taking a deer at night, hunting from a moving vehicle, discharging a firearm from a levee road, intentionally concealing wildlife evidence and taking a deer with an illegal weapon.
Agents received a public tip about potential night hunters on the East Guide Levee approximately three miles south of Hwy. 190 in Lottie. While patrolling the area, agents noticed a vehicle stopped on the levee with headlights off. After investigating the stopped vehicle, agents found one of the suspects close to the vehicle.
After briefly interviewing the suspect, he admitted to shooting a deer from his vehicle and that two more individuals were hiding in the woods with the illegally taken deer. The deer and firearm were recovered and the remaining two suspects were apprehended without incident.
Illegally taking deer at night and intentionally concealing wildlife evidence each carry up to a $950 fine per count and up to 120 days in jail. Hunting from a moving vehicle carries up to a $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail. Taking deer with an illegal weapon brings up to a $350 fine and up to 60 days in jail.
Agents involved in the case include Sgt. Jerry Stassi, Sgt. Cliff Ortis, Senior Agent Anthony Adams and Senior Agent T.J. Ashley.
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Phone: (800) 544-1489
Territory: Twin Cities, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming
Hometown: Lidderdale, Iowa
High School: Kuemper Catholic
College: 2002 CSB/SJU graduate
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College Activities: I was very involved in college and took full advantage of what CSB/SJU has to offer! As a result I have a lifetime of memories and wonderful friendships. While at CSB/SJU, I was a member and two-year captain of the Blazer Softball team. Go Blazers! I wrote for The Record and took over duties as sports editor my senior year. I was a Student Manager at McGlynn's and in my spare time I played some intramural volleyball and basketball. Undoubtedly, one of the best things I did was spend the fall semester of my junior year studying abroad in China.
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(MCT) — NEW YORK — The NHL's chances of playing a full regular season in 2012-13 are about to go down the drain and commissioner Gary Bettman warned the road to settling the owners' lockout might soon get rougher.
Bettman reiterated Wednesday that a deal would have to be reached on Thursday to fit in a one-week training camp and start the regular season Nov. 2. Although many have speculated there might be wiggle room beyond Nov. 2 to fit in 82 games, Bettman stated firmly that if play doesn't start by then, there is no chance of playing a full regular season.
"If we go past Nov. 2, we cannot play an 82-game season," Bettman said after the news conference at Barclays Center to announce the Islanders will move to Brooklyn beginning in 2015-16.
The NHL already has canceled the schedule through Nov. 1. An announcement of the cancellation of a larger chunk of games likely will come in the next two days. The Jan. 1 Winter Classic outdoor game at Michigan Stadium and the All-Star Game in Columbus also are in jeopardy.
There are no future negotiating sessions scheduled and Bettman suggested it might be prudent to take a step back and "have patience." Although the NHL Players' Association asked the league Tuesday evening to meet Wednesday or any other day this week, Bettman said there was no point because the players are not willing to offer anything different from their three proposals submitted Thursday or to negotiate off the proposal the NHL submitted last Tuesday.
"We said to them that we are prepared to meet if you want to discuss our offer or if you want to make a new offer," Bettman said. "They have no inclination on doing either and so there really was no point in meeting at this point. … The fact of the matter is there's just some times where you need to take time off because it's clear that you can't do anything to move the process forward and we're at one of those points right now because we gave our very best offer."
The NHL's latest proposal included a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue for a six-year term (plus a one-year mutual option) and a "make whole" provision that would defer some of the money on existing contracts and pay it out during the length of those deals. The NHLPA view the "make whole" provision as players paying players instead of owners paying players and have rejected the idea.
"That offer, for better or for worse, was contingent on playing an 82-game season, so I think things in some respects may get more difficult," Bettman said.


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Feb. 21, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (Gophersports.com) – Jon Lehman re-set his own school record in the indoor weight throw as the Gopher men's indoor track & field team closed out its 2014 home schedule on Friday night with the Snowshoe Open.
Lehman, who originally set the school record earlier this year at the Bill Bergan Invitational in Ames, finished first on Friday night with a toss of 22.98 meters (75-04.75 ft.) – improving on his original record by almost three feet and recording the third-best weight throw in the nation this year. The performance is also a Snowshoe Open and University of Minnesota Fieldhouse record. Justin Barber finished third in the event (20.30 meters, 66-07.25 ft.) while Gian Ferretti came in fourth (unattached, 19.97 meters, 65-06.25 ft.)
"We had some good performances tonight, but we need to be better next week at the Big Ten championships," Minnesota Director of Men's Track & Field and Cross Country Steve Plasencia said. "Tonight was a good way to end the home stretch of our indoor season, but we definitely need to keep improving."
Zach Siegmeier also had a memorable night for the Gophers in the pole vault. The senior cleared 5.45 meters (17-10.50 ft.) to win the event and set a new Snowshoe Open record. The performance stands tied for the ninth-best pole vault in the nation this season. Former Gopher Jack Szmanda finished second at 5.15 meters (16-10.75 ft.) while Logan Markuson came in third at 4.90 meters (16-00.75 ft.).
Minnesota closed out the night with a nice win in the 4x400-meter relay. The group of Austin Salargo, Rashawn Fountain, Mitch Hechsel and Nate Roese clocked a winning time of 3:15.03 to pace the event with Hechsel overtaking the field in the third leg and Roese finishing the race off by building a good lead for the relay team.
The Gophers finished first and second in the 5,000 meter run on Friday with Adam Zutz clocking a 14:33.31 to win the event. Andrew Larsen came in second at 14:35.18.
Minnesota picked up the top four finishes in the 600 meters on Friday with Nate Roese taking top honors at 1:19.85 followed by Rashawn Fountain (1:20.14), Trenton Daniels (unattached, 1:20.43) and Mitch Hechsel (1:21.58). The Gophers finished 1-2-3 in the 800 meters with Jeffrey Cottrell leading the group with a win at 1:52.65 followed by Derek Wiebke (unattached, 1:52.85) and Marcus Paulson (1:53.28).
The Gophers also picked up individual wins in the triple jump from Jordan Charles (unattached, 14.49 meters, 47-06.50 ft.), the 200 meters from Brad Nueman (unattached, 22.02) and the 400 meters from All-American Jacob Capek (49.13). Nueman also finished second in the 60-meter dash (6.94) behind former Gopher and Snowshoe Open record holder Ibrahim Kabia (6.88).
Four of the top five competitors in the shot put came wore the Maroon & Gold including runner-up Mark Jennings (17.57 meters, 57-07.75 ft.). Logan Hussung came in third (17.46 meters, 57-03.50 ft.) followed by Emmanuel Onyia in fourth (16.52 meters, 54-02.50 ft.) in fourth and Luke Johnson in fifth (16.48 meters, 54-01.00 ft.).
Four of the top seven times in the one-mile run came from Minnesota with Cole O'Brien pacing the Gophers' contingency in second place with a time of 4:12.85. Derek Storkel finished fourth at 4:13.36 and Christian Skaret came in one spot behind his teammate in fifth with a time of 4:15.19. Troy Koivisto finished seventh at 4:19.3. Six of the top seven times came out of the first section of the one-mile run including all four Gophers.
In his season debut for the Gophers, Wally Ellenson finished second in the high jump by (2.05 meters, 6-08.75 ft.) behind only former Gopher All-American Matt Fisher, who cleared 2.10 meters (6-10.75 ft.) as an unattached competitor. Luca Wieland (2.00 meters, 6-06.75 ft.) finished fifth while Ryan Lockard (unattached), Derek Jerde and Nick Bachinski all tied for seventh (1.95 meters, 6-04.75 ft.). Lockard also finished fifth in the long jump with a height of 6.60 meters (21-08.00 ft.).
In the 60-meter hurdles, Ben Holcomb finished third with a time of 8.39.
The Gophers return to action next weekend with the 2014 Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championships in Geneva, Ohio.
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The University of Minnesota men's track & field program returns to action this weekend, competing at the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field West Preliminary in Sacramento, Calif.
`U' to Compete in 10 Events at Prelims
5/17/2018 - M. Track & Field
Outdoor All-Americans Obsa Ali and Jackson Wellenstein lead the Maroon & Gold into competition with the action slated to run May 24-26 at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium.
Gophers Finish Seventh at B1G Meet
5/13/2018 - M. Track & Field
Minnesota returns to action with the 2018 NCAA West Preliminary, May 24-26, in Sacramento, Calif.


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One month after a 65-year-old ExxonMobil pipeline burst without warning and dumped Canadian tar sands oil in the town of Mayflower, Ark., government investigators and residents are still looking for answers to basic questions about the spill.
When did the pipeline begin leaking? When and how did the oil company find out about it? How quickly did the company act? How much oil spilled from the pipeline's 22-foot-long gash? And what condition was the line in before it ruptured?
The unanswered questions are urgent because they speak to issues of pipeline safety and enforcement as thousands of miles of new and reconfigured pipelines — including the Keystone XL — are being proposed to run across the United States.
Three groups are currently investigating the Mayflower spill. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a branch of the Department of Transportation that is primarily responsible for developing and enforcing pipeline regulations, is handling the official federal inquiry into the cause of the pipeline rupture. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has launched his own investigation into the spill and is reviewing more than 12,500 pages of documents that Exxon turned over at his request. U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is also doing his own inquiry of the spill.
Last week InsideClimate News sent transcripts of the 911 police reports it obtained from the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office to Rep. Markey's office upon its request.
They tell a different story from what Exxon reported to the federal government in the initial days of the spill, which was also different from what the company told the public in subsequent weeks.
Below is a summary of the most pressing unanswered questions and inconsistencies. All times have been converted to local time (CDT).
When did the Pegasus pipeline start leaking, and when did Exxon find out about it?
Police records show that Mayflower resident Jennifer Dement of 50 Starlite Road North was the first to report the oil spill to local law enforcement at 2:44 p.m. on March 29. But when the pipeline ruptured, and how long it took Exxon to discover the leak, are still unclear. In the four weeks since the spill, the company has given four different answers to these questions.
In the initial incident report the company filed with the National Response Center on the day of the spill, Larry Hawthorne, an Exxon field regulatory specialist, said Exxon's command center in Houston detected a drop in pressure on the line at 1:15 p.m. In a second NRC report filed by a different Exxon employee later that day, the time of discovery was listed as 3:20 p.m. In a third and final report, it was changed back to 1:15 p.m.
To add to the confusion, Hawthorne told InsideClimate News in an interview on April 10 that Exxon confirmed the spill when company representatives arrived on the scene at 3:15 p.m., and that any mention of an earlier detection time was a mistake by the NRC. But police transcripts don't place Exxon representatives at the spill site until 3:43 p.m.
An NRC official checked the audio recordings of Exxon's emergency calls for InsideClimate News and confirmed the accuracy of the incident reports.
Most recently, in an April 10 post on the company's blog, ExxonMobil's Perspectives, Exxon's vice president of public and government affairs, Ken Cohen, said it first detected a pressure drop in the line at 2:37 p.m.
How did Exxon find out about the spill?
According to Exxon's account on its blog, a low pressure alarm was received at 2:37 p.m. at ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's Operations Control Center in Houston.
Police transcripts reveal that 911 dispatchers called Exxon about the spill at 3:19 p.m., and that company representatives arrived on the scene 24 minutes later from their field office in Conway, about 22 miles away. The transcript timeline suggests that Exxon may not have known about the spill until the police alerted the company.
How quickly did Exxon shut down the pipeline?
On its blog, Exxon said that it shut down the pipeline system within 16 minutes of discovering the pressure drop on the line. What remains unclear is when the shutdown was initiated: 1:15 p.m., 2:37 p.m. and approximately 3:20 p.m. are all possibilities. Because of the high pressure inside the line, oil escapes rapidly in a rupture, and the difference between a small spill and a big spill can be a matter of minutes.
The company also said oil continued to leak out of the ruptured area after the line was shut down. One company employee initially told the NRC that the leak lasted three hours. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency, the oil continued to leak for 12 hours after the first 911 calls came in from local residents. Exxon later confirmed the EPA's timeline on its blog when it wrote, "oil appeared to stop seeping from the pipe at 3 a.m. CDT on March 30."
How much oil spilled?
The size of the spill remains unknown. In the week following the pipe's rupture, Exxon said in press releases that only "a few thousand barrels" spilled at the site. The corrective action order issued by PHMSA on April 2, said the spill was 3,500 to 5,000 barrels and that those figures came from Exxon.
During that same time, reports posted online by the EPA estimated the spill even higher — at 4,000 to 7,000 barrels — as much as 40 percent more. Exxon has since said that approximately 5,000 barrels spilled.
Estimating the size of spills is often contentious, because the volume of the spill affects the fines and penalties companies may eventually pay for violating the Clean Water Act. Fines can be as high as $1,100 for every barrel spilled. If gross negligence or willful misconduct is proven, violators can be forced to pay as much as $4,300 per barrel.
What caused the pipeline rupture?
On April 10, McDaniel announced that the rupture on the pipeline was 22 feet long and 2 inches wide. The cause remains under investigation. The damaged section of the pipe has been sent to Hurst Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Inc. in Euless, Texas, a third-party lab chosen by Exxon and approved by PHMSA.


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PRINCETON, N.J. – Pitcher David Speer, shortstop Aaron Silbar and outfielder Jordan Serena headlined nine All-Ivy League selections for Columbia as first team selections, as announced by the conference office Thursday afternoon.
Garnering All-Ivy League second team accolades were: pitcher Joey Donino, catcher Mike Fischer, first baseman Alex Black and designated hitter Joey Falcone. Rounding out the selections for Columbia were honorable mention selections, pitchers Tim Giel and Kevin Roy. The nine selections are the most for Columbia since 2010 when it also placed nine student-athletes on All-Ivy League teams. Seven of the nine Columbia selections are making their first appearances on All-Ivy League teams.
Speer, a junior from Westport, Conn., was the frontline weekend starter for the Lions throughout the year, posting a 6-2 record en route to his first All-Ivy League selection. Speer, who started a team-high 10 games for Columbia, threw a conference-most 66.1 innings and sat down 63 batters to pace the Ivy League. Speer's overall 2.17 ERA puts him in a tie for sixth lowest in the league, while his 1.06 conference-only mark was the fifth lowest. His five complete games this season are the eighth most in the nation.
Silbar also garnered his first All-Ivy League selection after manning shortstop for Columbia for the second straight season. The junior from Jacksonville, Fla. made a drastic improvement from his sophomore campaign, raising his batting average nearly .100 to .316 as a junior, second best on the team. A starter in 44 of 45 games for Columbia to this point, Silbar is one of two Lions to post double-digit doubles, registering 11 two-baggers and 20 RBI. His 49 hits tied Black for the most on the team.
Similar to his two teammates, Serena's first All-Ivy League selection is to the first team. The sophomore from Parker Colo. brought a multi-faceted attack to the diamond this season. His speed on the base paths garnered much of the attention this season, as he swiped 27 bases (15th in the nation) in 28 attempts to lead the Ivy League. Serena also produced at the plate and in the field as well. His .278 batting average was third-highest among Columbia's starters, while his 14 doubles and 35 runs scored paced the team. Playing primarily as the Lions' centerfielder, he was the lone position player to not commit an error, tallying 86 putouts and four assists in 90 attempts.
Donino made the jump to weekend starter this season and thrived, especially during conference play. The junior from Avon, Conn. whiffed a league-high 36 hitters over 31 innings on his way to a 4-0 conference mark. On the season, Donino fell just short of teammate Speer, striking out 61 in 50 innings of work. He finished the season with an unblemished 6-0 record (3.06 ERA) and was the only weekend starter to not give up a triple or home run this season.
Fischer was the definition of dependability and durability behind the dish for Columbia this season. For the second straight season, the junior from Scotia, N.Y., was charged with just one error for a fielding percentage of .997. Opponents on the base paths also thought twice before attempting steals with Fischer behind the plate, as he threw out nearly half of all base runners that attempted to steal, 17-of-36 (47.2 percent). He showed his durability, starting 38 games this season, including the final 21 of the season, while also manning the plate for all 20 conference contests.
Black, a senior tri-captain, is making is second consecutive appearance on the All-Ivy League second team. The Lions' first baseman, who also saw action on the hill as a closer, was a model of consistency and power at the dish. Batting in the heart of the Columbia lineup (third, fourth or fifth) the entire season, Black led or was tied for the team-high in six offensive categories: batting average (.327), hits (49), home runs (seven), total bases (78), slugging percentage (.520) and on-base percentage (.452). Black's on-base percentage was assisted with 25 walks and 11 hit by pitches, both tied for second on team.
In his first season at Columbia, Falcone worked his way from pinch-hitter to clean-up hitter during the Lions' historic Ivy League season. With awe-inspiring power, Falcone continued to improve throughout the season, driving his average up to .336, while also launching five homers, a triple and five doubles. He joins Black as one of just two Columbia starters to slug over .500 (.536) and to post an on-base percentage over .400 (.403).
*Note: Despite posting the highest batting and slugging average on the team, Falcone has not yet reached the required minimum at-bats to be considered for NCAA and Ivy League rankings.
Columbia's stellar pitching was also recognized with a pair of honorable mention selections in Giel and Roy.
Giel joins Black as the only two Lions to earn a second selection to an All-Ivy League team this season. A second-team reliever selection in 2011, Giel served as a weekend starter and one of the Lions' tri-captains. In conference play, the Gibsonia, Pa. native, posted a 1.71 ERA over 31.2 innings. He struck out 26 hitters, while going 2-2 from the hill. Overall, Giel's 2.73 ERA was second-lowest on the team.
Roy, a freshman from Houston and Columbia's primary reliever, threw 24 innings in 12 appearances this season. His 2.25 ERA, .202 batting average against and 19 strikeouts are the second-best among his bullpen mates, helping him to earning a 3-1 record.
All-Ivy League Selections
Mike Ford, Princeton (Jr., 1B/P – Belle Mead, N.J.)
Mike Ford, Princeton (Jr., 1B/P – Belle Mead, N.J.)
Joe Purritano, Dartmouth (Fr., DH – Woodcliff Lake, N.J.)
P – Mike Ford, Princeton (Jr., 1B/P – Belle Mead, N.J.)*
P – Michael Johnson, Dartmouth (Sr. – Georgetown, Mass.)
P – David Speer, Columbia (Jr. – Westport, Conn.)*
RP – Thomas Olson, Dartmouth (So. – Manhattan, Kan.)
C – Matt MacDowell, Dartmouth (So. – Falmouth, Maine)
C – Chris Piwinski, Yale (Sr. – Folsom, Calif.)
1B – Mike Ford, Princeton (Jr., 1B/P – Belle Mead, N.J.)*
2B – Matt Parisi, Dartmouth (So. – Clermont, Fla.)
SS – Aaron Silbar, Columbia (Jr. – Jacksonville, Fla.)*
3B – Nick Lombardi, Dartmouth (So. – Saugus, Calif.)
OF – Ennis Coble, Dartmouth (Sr. – Atlanta)
OF – Ryan Deitrich, Penn (Sr. – Collegeville, Pa.)
OF – Jeff Keller, Dartmouth (Jr. – Atherton, Calif.)*
OF – Alec Keller, Princeton (Jr. – Richmond, Va.)*
OF – Jordan Serena, Columbia (So. – Parker, Colo.)
UT – Rick Brebner, Penn (Jr. – Langhorne, Pa.)*
DH – Joe Purritano, Dartmouth (Fr. – Woodcliff Lake, N.J.)*
P – Joey Donino, Columbia (Jr. – Avon, Conn.)
P – David Hickey, Yale (Jr. – Darien, Conn.)
P – Kyle Hunter, Dartmouth (Sr. – Palm City, Fla.)
RP – Michael Byrne, Cornell (Fr. – Vienna, Va.)
C – Mike Fischer, Columbia (Jr. – Scotia, N.Y.)
1B – Alex Black, Columbia (Sr. – The Woodlands, Texas)
2B – Tanner Anderson, Harvard (So. – Tampa, Fla.)
SS – Mike Martin, Harvard (So. – Buffalo Grove, Ill.)
3B – Brent Lawson, Yale (Fr. – Newport Beach, Calif.)
OF – Brandon Kregel, Harvard (So. – Lilburn, Ga.)
OF – Will Marcal, Brown (So. – Lexington, Mass.)
OF – JD Whetsel, Cornell (So. – Liberty Twp., Ohio)
DH – Joey Falcone, Columbia (So. – Brooklyn, N.Y.)
P – Tim Giel, Columbia (Sr. – Gibsonia, Pa.)
P – Zak Hermans, Princeton (Sr. – Coppell, Texas)
P – Zach McCulley, Cornell (Jr. – Pensacola, Fla.)
P – Cole Sulser, Dartmouth (Sr. – Santa Ysabel, Calif.)
RP – John Beasley, Penn (Sr. – Virginia Beach, Va.)
RP – Cale Hanson, Yale (Jr. – Katy, Texas)
RP – Kevin Roy, Columbia (Fr. – Houston)
C – Austin Bossart, Penn (So. – O'Fallon, Ill.)
2B – Brenton Peters, Cornell (Sr. – Leesburg, Va.)
SS – Tom D'Alessandro, Cornell (Jr. – Dix Hills, N.Y.)
3B – Alex Flink, Princeton (Sr. – Dallas)
DH – Kevin Tatum, Cornell (So. – Woodbridge, Va.)
* Unanimous Selection
^ Due to ties in voting, the first team expanded to 17


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The 7th annual Last Mile Ride will be held on August 18, 2012, at Gifford Medical Center in beautiful Randolph, Vt.
Staging begins at 8:30 a.m. and motorcyclists depart at 10 a.m. for a 100-mile ride through some of Vermont's most beautiful countryside. The guided ride includes some spectacular landscape and a mid-way break for riders to stretch their legs. The ride ends at Gifford Medical Center, where it will have begun, with a barbecue lunch, live music and prize giveaways.
The cost is $50 for one rider and $75 for two riders (on one bike). Riders need not pay the money themselves. They can fundraise the fee by asking friends and family for donations.
For their effort, riders get free commemorative pins, T-shirts if they register early, an escorted ride, a very fun day and the opportunity to support an outstanding cause. The ride raises money for services for terminally ill patients at Gifford, or those in the last mile of life. Visit http://www.giffordmed.org for more information.


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They have about $12 worth of parts in them if that much and they are all over $150.00... I want one to work out with at the gym - but I'm not paying that much for one when I can have a CD walkman for $20 bucks....
Wow! A 2-feet piracy radius.
No seriously, really, if their lawyers found out a way to suit these guys for money, they would care.
Law-suits probably has the record insdustries biggest income/outcome ratio as no real wokr is needed. Just free income(tm). It's their new business-model.
As opposed to unlicensed broadcasts with a license?
Um, they have. Drop by your local Radio Shack. For fifteen bucks you can buy a little device that plugs into the headphones jack on any portable device and broadcasts it on a channel of your choice (well, usually there's a choice of maybe four channels to try). This is how we listen to cassette tapes in my girlfriend's car, which only has a CD player. That said, it is pretty cool that it's built right into the device.Wonder why no one ever thought of it before...
Indeed. Does anyone know of one that can be picked up in the UK (preferably London) which has a range that covers the house?
I'd love to tune the kitchen radio into my MP3's playing in my room without having to mess about with cables and moving equipment.
An MP3 file at 32 kbit/second sounds muffled - high frequencies largely removed - while an Ogg at 23 kbit/second (16 kbit nominal) has a much better tonal balance. The Ogg stream is not pristine quality, but much better than the MP3.
If you're interested in packing many hours of low bitrate material, Ogg is the way to go.
I don't understand what you're talking about. Can you explain? I have mp3s that I downloaded 6 years ago that work in Winplay3 and Winamp 3.
On one of the Neuros surveys, it asked which new format you prefer they add support, and FLAC was one of them. I thought FLAC was a lossless format so one could record and edit sound files, not for listening? Do audiophiles really notice the difference between a high quality ogg/mp3 and FLAC? I don't notice any distortions with a high quality ogg vs the original. Is the FLAC file smaller? Logically and from what I've seen, the FLAC file should be bigger. It is lossless after all...
The only thing I wish this thing did is have an FM Radio and (why not) support Ogg.
This Nueron thang sounds like it's got some nice features, but the lack of the video/picture functionality, plus being $100 more, I think I'm still ok for now.
Of course, something new and better will come out soon enough to make me start thinking about selling my Archos on eBay (like I did with my 10 GB model) and upgrading
Anyone care to compute out how long it would take to actually fill that 20GB hard drive that USB 1 speed?
"I prefer the blunted cudgels of the followers of the Serpent God." -- Sean Doran the Younger


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Paraz notes
Blas de la Cruz. The starting person of the family, based only from the Carcar records, bore the name Blas de la Cruz. A baptism record in 1816 showed Don Blas de la Cruz as a cabeza de barangay then. But in the marriage in 1836 of his son Alejandro Lucas (later Alejandro Paraz), Blas was said to have been already deceased by that time.
Blas's wife was a Ma. Gabriela. Meanwhile, there is a burial record in 1860 for Gabriela Aleson, viuda (widow) of Blas de la Cruz. (Although it's always possible there are other Gabrielas married to other Blases de la Cruz, but until I run into these other couples' records, I will appropriate the data for Gabriela of the Paraz family). A significance in all this would be that all Paraz in Carcar descended from Blas de la Cruz have Aleson (now spelled Alison) blood.
Aside from Alejandro, Blas and Gabriela had another offspring, a daughter baptized as Marcela Candelaria in 1814. She was married in 1837 to Antonio Gabriel, son of Juan Cipriano and Ma. Pancita. That family later took the surname Alcoseba and Antonio Gabriel became Antonio Alcoseba, and was a brother of Carmiano Alcoseba. Marcela was also identified in subsequent records as Marcela Paraz.
Origin of the family. A church record has not been found yet that says the family (either Blas de la Cruz or Ma. Gabriela) originated elsewhere other than Carcar, and so, for me the opinion remains that Blas was a native of Carcar. However, whether he was just born in Carcar but of parents one or both of whom came from another place likewise we cannot say categorically.
With regards to their place of residence, the earlier records already placed them in Latid.
Paraz the surname. There is no Paraz in the catálogo de apellidos, only Paras (p. 101, col. 3). But even the old records in Barili also used to spell the surname there as Paraz. And regarding the family's use of the surname, I have not come across a record that referred to Blas de la Cruz as Blas Paraz while he was still alive or even after he'd died.
Simeon Paraz. Third-born (1841) of Alejandro, Simeon was an escribiente (scribe) and was the Carcar church fiscal, a cabeza de barangay and later became teniente síndico (lieutenant acting as capitan) of the town when the gobernadorcillo was charged with an offense. He relinquished the office to Florencio Noel a couple of days before Leon Kilat arrived in Carcar. He is included in the list of Carcar's chief executives, having held office 1896-1898.
Other Paraz lines. I have four lines that bore the Paraz surname (but not yet certain that they belong to this same family since it's possible other people already also carried the pseudo-surname Paraz even before the Claveria decree).
One was a Teodora Paraz married to Juan Clemente with children born 1820-1830s. The children later took the surname Barellano, so Juan Clemente's family was Barellano. But like I said above, without other records to tell us so, we can't be sure whether Teodora was of the main Paraz family.
Another was Eleuteria Paraz whose first husband, Remigio Alcos, died in 1859, and who married again to Estanislao Apao in 1861. Although Eleuteria was already a Paraz by 1859 I can't link her yet to Alejandro and Marcela in the main branch, or to Teodora for that matter without a record to do that.
A third is a pre-Claveria Francisco Paraz with a marriage record (to a Ma. Candelaria) in 1830 and a second marriage (to Ma. Rita) in 1834. Probably because I could not trace their family group after may be because he had taken another surname, and, gosh, it would be very difficult to sift through the records for a Francisco married to a Rita with children born after 1834. I need luck here.
The fourth is a Carlos Paraz who lived in Latid around 1850 with wife Maria Alesna. I have two children of the couple but nothing after them. But it remains possible that Teodora, Eleuteria, Francisco and Carlos were also children of Blas de la Cruz.
On a personal note. I discovered a personally interesting record in that one of Simeon's many children, Niceforo, was born and baptized in 1883 with padrino (godfather) D. Pedro Aleonar, who is my great-grandfather. The two were probably fellow cabezas at that time. Meanwhile, in a much earlier record (1821), Vidal Ygnacio, Pedro Aleonar's grandfather, was registered under the barangay of D. Blas de la Cruz, Simeon's grandfather.
see also Paraz family tree


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Many of us receive dozens of spam messages daily.
Most of us get spam every day. Some of us get a little, and some of us get a lot, but if you have an e-mail account it is always there. Here is the example
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Obviously this is spam, yet it made it through the spam filters and I opened it because the subject line made it unknowable whether it was spam or not.
Spam is incredibly annoying, especially in large quantities. If you have a public e-mail address you can receive hundreds of spam messages for every legitimate message that arrives. Even with good filters, some of the spam makes it through. And filters can sometimes delete messages that you really do want to receive. Spam is free speech run amok.
Where does all of this spam e-mail (also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail") come from? Why is there so much of it? Is there any way to stop it? In this article, we will answer these questions and many others as we take a dive into the sea of spam.
Spam is a huge problem for anyone who gets e-mail. According to Business Week magazine:
In a single day in May [2003], No. 1 Internet service provider AOL Time Warner (AOL ) blocked 2 billion spam messages -- 88 per subscriber -- from hitting its customers' e-mail accounts. Microsoft (MSFT), which operates No. 2 Internet service provider MSN plus e-mail service Hotmail, says it blocks an average of 2.4 billion spams per day. According to research firm Radicati Group in Palo Alto, Calif., spam is expected to account for 45% of the 10.9 trillion messages sent around the world in 2003.
One of the problems with spam, and the reason why there is so much of it, is that it is so easy to create.
spam e-mail
You could easily become a spammer yourself. Let's say that you have a recipe from your grandmother for the best blueberry muffins ever created. A friend suggests that you sell the recipe for $5.
As in, the Meat?
Where did the name "spam" come from? See Templetons.com to find out!
You decide that your friend might be on to something, so you send an e-mail to the 100 people in your personal e-mail address book with the subject line, "These Blueberry Muffins Have Been Described as Heaven -- You Can Have the Recipe for $5!" Your e-mail contains a link to your blueberry muffin Web site. As a result of your 100 e-mails, you get two orders and make $10.
"Wow!" you think, "It cost me nothing to send those 100 e-mails, and I made $10. If I sent 1,000 e-mails I could make $100. If I sent a million e-mails I could make $100,000! I wonder where I could get a million e-mail addresses... Ok, you can think alone..."
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
How Spam Works
Many of us receive dozens of spam messages daily.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Gary Payton grew up on the West Coast and became a dominant defender. Bernard King got his start on the East Coast and developed into a great scorer.
Those different routes led to the same destination -- the Basketball Hall of Fame.
And both began their journeys on city playgrounds.
On Sunday, they will be inducted into the sport's shrine along with Rick Pitino and nine others in a ceremony that caps three days in which they or their family members received Hall of Fame rings and jackets and applause from a room full of admirers.
Payton remembers a simpler time as a kid in Oakland when he had to climb the pole himself to hang a net from the rim.
"I went outside and took my basketball and dribbled down the block," he said Saturday. "Then we got to that big old gate and the chains were locked. We had to jump over the gate or we made a hole in the gate or we pulled the gate up and went under there and just started playing on that concrete."
Payton laments the passing of that era into one where teens have games planned for them in their hometowns or at organized tournaments around the country.
"They don't play that hard anymore," he said. "We played on the playground and that's where I got my toughness and all the (trash) talking from because I had to play against the neighborhood rowdies. They wanted always to say, `little Payton was this, little Payton was that.' And I had to prove myself.
"I got in a lot of fights."
In the NBA, Payton backed up his barking with persistent, annoying defense that earned him the nickname of "The Glove." He spent nearly 13 of his 17 pro seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics. He was an All-Star nine times, a member of the All-Defensive first team nine times and averaged 16.3 points.
King was raised in Brooklyn and was past his prime, slowed by a serious knee injury, by the time Payton was drafted in 1990. But he averaged 22.5 points in his 15-year career with five teams that ended in 1993.
As a small forward, he wouldn't have been guarded much by Payton, a point guard. But if Payton would have defended him, King knows how it would have turned out.
"Certainly, out on the open floor, yeah, he would have locked me down," King said, "but on the low block I would have gotten what I wanted, but it's just a delight to be going in with him."
King grew up surrounded by outdoor basketball courts.
"For a kid, it's a tremendous outlet," he said, "particularly in the area where I grew up."
He returned recently to his old Fort Greene neighborhood to find most of those courts gone.
"They left one court at least," he said. "On the back side of (his old) building is the basketball court I used to play on and there's a plaque on the building identifying it as King's court, which is really nice.
"Basketball was king in New York and I was part of that playground legacy, but, more importantly, I had great coaching."
One of those coaches was Pitino. He was an assistant with the New York Knicks under Hubie Brown from 1983-1985 while King was on the team. He said Brown would ask him what play to run.
"All I did the entire season was say, `Go to Bernard,"' Pitino said with a smile.
King could sense that Pitino had a bright future.
"You could see then through his work ethic and his talents that he was going to be a tremendous head coach," King said, "Besides, he called the right plays."
That meant getting the ball to King,
"Bernard's always been one of my favorite players," Pitino said, and "I can't tell you how many times I've said in my life to my players, `Gary Payton, you're not,"' when teaching defense.
Pitino's induction comes just five months after he led Louisville to the NCAA championship. He also won the title with Kentucky in 1996 and is the only coach to take three teams -- Providence was the other -- to the Final Four.
"You're on such a high with the championship and you're on another high here," he said, "so it segues into (something) I'll never forget. It's just an incredible feeling for all this to happen in a very short period of time."
The other inductees include former coaches Jerry Tarkanian, who led Nevada-Las Vegas to the 1990 NCAA title, and Guy Lewis, who took Houston to five Final Fours.
E.B. Henderson, who learned basketball at Harvard in 1904 then introduced it to African-American students in Washington, D.C., and four-time ABA All-Star Roger Brown will be enshrined posthumously.
The others selected are North Carolina women's coach Sylvia Hatchell, five-time WNBA All-Star Dawn Staley, former Knicks guard Richie Guerin, NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik and Oscar Schmidt, who played in five Summer Olympics for Brazil.
"This is the best three days of my life," Schmidt said. "Yesterday, I got a ring. Today, I got a nice jacket. And tomorrow, I'll be with those legends.
"I can't believe that."


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More often than not, when you see a comedian get political, they're taking shots at conservative rather than liberal ideas. The Comedy Store's Alf LaMont has an interesting piece on this up today at the Huffington Post. (You can also read my in-depth interview with LaMont going inside the Los Angeles comedy scene.)
He recently moderated a panel at South by Southwest on political humor, and as he notes, when he asked for examples of conservative humor, the only name anyone was able to throw out was Dennis Miller. I admit that, when I first opened up his article, this was the first name to come to mind for me too.
There are other notable conservative comedians, though fewer that make their conservatism part of their act. Finding a popular social conservative comedian is even harder. One bright note for conservative comedy: there seems to be more representation when it comes to libertarians, though this also includes libertarians who lean more to the left like Bill Maher.
LaMont spoke with Professor Peter McGraw about the topic before the panel; McGraw writes the Humor Code blog for Psychology Today. He boils down the reasons for the bias to five reasons; the fifth is reliant on LaMont's own political perspective, though there seems to be some room for common ground in his other points.
It's a topic that seems to be in the zeitgeist recently, as I've seen several other articles on the topic; Mike Lafferty at the Orlando Sentinel had what I thought was the most interesting piece on the topic, talking about how the paper has a section that compiles political humor and satire from late night talk show hosts and online. It comes at it from the earnest perspective of trying to provide comedic balance, but conservative humor is simply hard to come by.
It seems like comedy should be able to take on a range of targets, regardless of ideology. As LaMont writes, "Even political comedy is best approached not from a political point of view, but rather a point of view of what is funny."
Do you have any ideas for why comedy is like this? Is it simply tradition? Is there something inherent in comedy that makes conservative comedy more difficult or less appealing? Do you think KPCC does a fair job of trying to be equal opportunity humorists during Comedy Congress? Share your thoughts in the comments.
(You should also go read my interview with one of the panelists from that South by Southwest panel, funny lady Sara Benincasa.)


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Senior center Morgan Smith has been named MCAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week for the week ending Dec. 2.
Smith, from Nixa, MO, averaged 27.0 points and 7.7 rebounds per game last week as the second-ranked Bobcats posted a 2-1 record. For the week, she was 31-for-54 from the field (57.4 percent) and 19-for-22 at the free-throw line (86.4 percent).
The Lady Bobcats will be in Forest City, Iowa this weekend for a conference double header with Waldorf College.


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Chip White USOC Coach of the Year finalist
Chip White, Mammoth's longtime contribution to the U.S. Ski Team coaching ranks, last week stepped to the top of the heap.
The United States Ski Association announced that the former Mammoth Mountain Ski Team coach and head coach of the women's alpine speed team, has been selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee as finalist for National Coach of Year—the organization's most prestigious coaching honor.
During the 2013 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup season, White led all six of his athletes to the World Cup podium—four of them for the first time in their career.
The team captured the nations standings for downhill by a massive 457-point margin.
Lindsey Vonn (Vail) earned a record sixth straight downhill title before calling it quits for the season because of injury, while Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) was in the hunt for the Super G title when the final race was canceled, relegating her to second. Finally, Mammoth's Stacey Cook recorded two downhill podiums and finished fourth in the downhill standings in the most successful season in her World Cup racing career.
The coach of the year award will be presented June 21 in Colorado Springs, the ski team said.
Spring Series—Mammoth Mountain
The Elite FIS Spring Series wrapped up on Monday, April 1.
Taking part in the series were World Cup racers, U.S. Ski Team athletes, and Mammoth Mountain Ski Team members Tyler Wormhoudt, Kirk Carlson, Lucas Underkoffler, Natalie Riffel, Charlee Kelly, and Alexa Wehsener.
Two other local racers, Geordie Lonza and Michael Beutner, who currently attend Eastern schools but maintain their MMST connections when at home, also took part in the event.
Also, a number of familiar names of racers who graced the slopes at Mammoth as junior racers included: Tim Jitloff, Ty Sprock, Travis Ganong, Dylan Brooks, and Bryce Eller.
Lonza had an outstanding week, finishing in the top 15 in all of the races, including two fifth place results. However, this year's Spring Series was a bittersweet one for Lonza as they were the final races in her ski racing career.
She celebrated by taking her last runs in a lighthearted outfit, which was a far cry from the speed suit that she was accustomed to wearing. Lonza recently earned an All-American result in the NCAA Championship slalom and was named First Team All-East for the third time in her career.
Additionally, she earned All-East recognition all four years. Originally scheduled for two super G, two giant slalom and two slalom races for both men and women, the event, hampered by inclement weather, was forced to end a few races short.
Starting Wednesday, April 3, and continuing through April 6, many of the same athletes will be racing in the Western Region Elite Speed Series at Mammoth.
The series will consist of two downhill races and two super G races for both men and women.


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2011 Super League Season Preview
Preview of Super League XVI by Simon Reuben
Engage Super League XVI gets underway this weekend as all teams head to Millennium Stadium Cardiff for the opener.
The theme of this year's Magic Weekend is local Derby's. The match of round 1 is a repeat of Last year's Grand Final as old rivals Wigan Warriors and St Helens lock horns again.
So below we look ahead at the prospects for all 14 Super League teams.
Last year: 10th
New coach: Mick Potter
Ins: Patrick Ah Van (New Zealand Warriors), Shaun Ainscough (Wigan), Matt Diskin (Leeds), Olivier Elima (Catalans), Bryn Hargreaves (St Helens), Marc Herbert (Canberra Raiders), Shad Royston (Halifax), Ian Sibbit (Salford), Chev Walker (Hull KR), Gareth Raynor, Kyle Briggs (Featherstone Rovers)
Outs: Chris Nero (Salford), Steve Menzies (Catalans), Joe Wordle (Huddersfield), Matt Orford (Canberra Raiders), Michael Worrincy (Penrith Panthers), Wayne Godwin (Salford), Stuart Reardon (Crusaders), Rikki Sheriffe (Newcastle Falcons), Andy Tate (Wakefield), George Burgess (South Sydney), Glenn Hall (North Queensland), Ben Helliwell (Warrington), Danny Sculthorpe (released)
Prospects: 2010 was not the best year for the Bulls, as they missed out on making the eight. But 2011 looks a lot brighter with the addition of new coach Mick Potter and some good signings their minimum aim is a place in the play-offs.
Last year: 9th
Coach: Terry Matterson
Ins: Martin Aspinwall (Huddersfield), Jake Emmitt (St Helens), Nick Fozzard (St Helens), Willie Isa (Melbourne Storm), Richie Mathers (Warrington), Danny Orr (Harlequins), Nick Youngquest (Crusaders)
Outs: Matthew Dawson (Huddersfield), James Evans (retired), Joe Westerman (Hull), Michael Shenton (St Helens), Michael Wainwright (Dewsbury), Liam Higgins (Sheffield), Ryan Clayton (Halifax), Mitchell Sargent (retired)
Prospects: Danny Orr will a big addition to the team and if they can stay healthy they will be a match to anyone. To have a chance of making the eight they need to be more consistent.
Last year: 14th
New coach: Trent Robinson
Ins: Scott Dureau (Newcastle Knights), Damien Blanch (Wakefield), Ian Henderson (New Zealand Warriors), Lopini Paea (Sydney Roosters), Jason Baitieri (Sydney Roosters), Steve Menzies (Bradford), Ben Farrar (Manly)
Outs: Olivier Elima (Bradford), Dallas Johnson (North Queensland Cowboys), Dane Carlaw (Brisbane), Casty McGuire (Parramatta), Chris Walker (Parramatta), Adam Mogg (Canberra), Jerome Guisset (retired), Brent Sherwin (released), Steven Bell, Dimitri Pelo, Kane Bentley, Andrew Bentley
Prospects: Having Trent Robinson on board should give them direction. Should defintay improve on last year's wooden spoon finish. Look out for ex Knight Scott Dureau a player to watch.
Last year: 8th
New coach: Iestyn Harris
Ins: Paul Johnson (Wakefield), Stuart Reardon (Bradford), Richard Moore (Wakefield), Jamie Murphy (South Wales Scorpions), Hep Cahill (Melbourne Storm)
Outs: Nick Youngquest (Castleford), Weller Hauraki (Leeds), Tommy Lee (Wakefield), Luke Dyer (Central Comets), Jamie Thackray (Barrow), Rocky Trimarchi (released)
Prospects: New coach Iestyn Harris will be hoping for a good start as they come into the season on minus four points. Gone be tough to match last year's top-eight finish. Jarrod Sammut key player
Last year: 13th
New coach: Rob Powell
Ins: Luke Ambler (Leeds), Jack Latus (Hull KR), Chris Bailey (Manly), Nick Kouparitsas (Sydney), Mark Calderwood (Hull FC), Mike Burnett (Hull FC), Joe Mellor (Wigan - loan), Karl Pryce (Wigan - loan)
Outs: Ben Jones-Bishop (Leeds), Danny Orr (Castleford), Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook (St Helens), Will Sharp (Hull)
Prospects: In for an interesting season. They have a young new coach in Rob Powell who has no head experience has a head coach. Would be an amazing performance to make the eight.
Last year: 5th
Coach: Nathan Brown
Ins: Matt Dawson (Castleford), Joe Wordle (Bradford), Jamie Simpson (Sydney), Luke O'Donnell (North Queensland), Matthew Sarsfield (Wigan)
Outs: Martin Aspinwall (Castleford), Brett Hodgson (Warrington), Stephen Wild (Salford), Simon Finnigan (Widnes)
Prospects: After getting to within eighty minutes off the Grand Final last year, the Giants will be in the mix for a play-off place. Possible dark horses.
Last year: 6th
Coach: Richard Agar
Ins: Joe Westerman (Castleford), Will Sharp (Harlequins)
Outs: Craig Hall (Hull KR), Mark Calderwood (Harlequins), Mike Burnett (Harlequins), Dennis Tuffour (York), Shaun Berrigan (New Zealand Warriors)
Prospects: Praying for an injury free season as they slipped away at the end last year. Having made Craig Fitzgibbon new skipper for the year they should be challenging for the top four again.
Last year: 7th
Coach: Justin Morgan
Ins: Craig Hall (Hull FC), Blake Green (Canterbury Bulldogs), Willie Mason (North Queensland Cowboys)
Outs: Chev Walker (Bradford), Jack Latus (Harlequins), Chaz l'Anson (Widnes), Frankie Mariano (Wakefield), Mike Ratu (Halifax), David Mills (released)
Prospects: Still waiting for the arrival of marquee signing Willie Mason who could make a big impact on Super League XVI. Look out for Blake Green and his partnership with Mick Dobson. Another team with a chance of a top four finish.
Last year: 4th
New coach: Brian McDermott
Ins: Ben Jones-Bishop (Harlequins), Ben Cross (Newcastle Knights), Weller Hauraki (Crusaders), Zak Hardaker, Rory Kettlewell (Gloucester)
Outs: Matt Diskin (Bradford), Luke Ambler (Harlequins), Greg Eastwood (Canterbury), Dane Manning (Batley), Tom Bush (York), Scott Donald (retired)
Prospects : The Rhinos will miss star duo Jamie Peacock and Danny McGuire in the early part of the season. But they have the quality to overcome that. New coach Brian McDermott will add new enthusiasm to the team. Could be there and there about's at the business end of the season.
Last year: 2nd
New coach: Royce Simmons
Ins: Michael Shenton (Castleford), Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook (Harlequins), Josh Perry (Manly Sea Eagles)
Outs: Keiron Cunningham (retired), Matt Gidley (retired), Matty Smith (Salford), Nick Fozzard (Castleford), Jake Emmitt (Castleford), Bryn Hargreaves (Bradford), Paul Johnson (Wakefield), Maurie Fa'asavalu (Harlequins RU), Ste Tyrer (Widnes), Jamie Ellis (Leigh), Andy Yates (Hunslet), Jack Bradbury (Oldham), Chris Dean (Wakefield), Gaz Frodsham (Widnes - season's loan), Tom Armstrong (Leigh - dual registration)
Prospects: Will miss influential legend player Kerion Cunningham. Josh Perry will be a good addition. Some people are writing them off still have a very good squad. A big threat to anyone.
Last year: 12th
Coach: Shaun McRae
Ins: Matty Smith (St Helens), Wayne Godwin (Bradford), Chris Nero (Bradford), Luke Patten (Canterbury Bulldogs), Stephen Wild (Huddersfield), Vinnie Anderson (Warrington), Iafeta Palea'aesina (Wigan), Phil Bailey (Wigan), Sean Gleeson (Wakefield), Adam Neal (Warrington)
Outs: Ian Sibbit (Bradford), Jeremy Smith (Wakefield), Philip Leulaui (Lezignan), Luke Swain (Carcassonne), Karl Fitzpatrick (retired), Malcolm Alker (retired), Stuart Littler (released), Willie Talau (released)
Prospects: The City Reds have made more signings then anyone else. could be a real handful this year, with a top eight finish likley. Gone shock some teams this year, the Willows will be a difficult place to go to.
Last year: 11th
Coach: John Kear
Ins: Jeremy Smith (Salford), Frankie Mariano (Hull KR), Kevin Penny (Warrington), Tommy Lee (Crusaders), Paul Johnson (St Helens), Josh Veivers (Wigan), Stuart Howarth (Wigan), Andy Tate (Bradford), Motu Tony (Whitehaven), Chris Dean (St Helens)
Outs: Jason Demetriou (Keighley), Tevita Leo-Latu (Salford), Sean Gleeson (Salford), Kyle Bibb (Dewsbury Rams), Paul Johnson (Crusaders), Damien Blanch (Catalans), Richard Moore (Crusaders), Paul Cooke (released)
Prospects: Gone be a difficult year for them. Likley chance they will finish the year with their Super League status taken away from them. In John Kear they have a good coach who will fire them up. But, with a points deduction looming they look like they will be around the bottom end of the table.
Last year: 3rd
Coach: Tony Smith
Ins: Brett Hodgson (Huddersfield), Joel Monaghan (Canberra), Ben Hellewell (Bradford)
Outs: Richie Mathers (Castleford), Adam Neal (Salford), Vinnie Anderson (Salford), Kevin Penny (Wakefield), Chris Hicks (Parramatta)
Prospects: Great chance of a long overdue visit to Old Trafford . Good coach and a big squad having won the Challenge Cup for the last two years, they look a good bet for a top two finish.
Last year: CHAMPIONS
Coach: Michael Maguire
Ins: Brett Finch (Melbourne), Jeff Lima (Melbourne), Ryan Hoffman (Melbourne)
Outs: Shaun Ainscough (Bradford), Iafeta Palea'aesina (Salford), Phil Bailey (Salford), Josh Veivers (Wakefield), Stuart Howarth (Wakefield), Mark Riddell (Salford), Matt Sarsfield (Huddersfield), Joe Mellor (Harlequins - loan), Karl Pryce (Harlequins - loan), Cameron Phelps (released)
Prospects: The team to beat again. Three big signings from Melbourne Storm in Ryan Hoffmann, Brett Finch and Jeff Lima. Michael Maguire is attracting a lot of attention from Down-Under but this should not stop the Warriors chances of retaining their title.