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MISSOULA, Mont. - UND will take the momentum from a big road win at Montana State into an arena where few Big Sky teams have had success in recent seasons. League-leading Montana now awaits the Green and White as the two will clash at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula Saturday at 8:05 p.m. CT.
All-time: Montana leads 8-5
In Grand Forks: Montana leads 6-1
Division I: Montana leads 3-1
UND Head Coach Brian Jones vs. Montana: 1-3
Montana Head Coach Wayne Tinkle vs. UND: 3-1
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• The Grizzlies are unbeaten in league play this season at 13-0 and tied the Big Sky record for most consecutive regular season wins on Thursday with their 24th straight. Northern Colorado was the latest victim, falling by 10 (73-63).
• The 82-73 victory over the Bobcats gave UND a season sweep of Montana State and now the teams are tied for fourth in the Big Sky standings at 7-6.
• By improving to 7-6, UND moved over the .500 mark in league play for the first time this season. UND started the season 1-4 in Big Sky play, but has won six of its last eight.
• The win over Montana State was the second straight road game that UND overcame a double-digit deficit in the second half to post a victory (Northern Arizona; down by 11 at halftime). It was the third Big Sky road win for the club - only Montana (6-0) and Weber State (6-2) have more.
• Montana's only loss at home this season was a 68-67 double-overtime loss to South Dakota State on Dec. 15. The Jacks also beat UND by a point this season on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer (71-70) on their home court in Brookings.
• UND's last visit to Missoula was for the 2009-10 season opener as the Green and White played in the Grizzly Tournament. The Griz held UND to a season-low 37 points in that contest en route to posting a 24-point vicotry (61-37).
• The Griz also defeated UND the season before in Missoula, posting an 83-63 victory in what was the first meeting between the two teams since the 1964-65.
• That Division II clash nearly 50 years ago was also the last time North Dakota played Montana State and Montana in back-to-back games in the Treasure State. Bill Fitch was UND's head coach and sophomore Phil Jackson was just starting to make a name for himself in the basketball world.
• This will be the fifth meeting between the teams at the Division I level with Montana owning a 3-1 edge in those contests. The Griz lead the overall series at 8-5.
• UND's lone Division I win in the series came last season in Grand Forks as the Green and White knocked off the Griz in overtime, 88-81. Junior Aaron Anderson had 20 points to pace five UND players in double figures.
• The Griz returned to The Betty earlier this season and posted a 77-62 victory in the first Big Sky matchup between the clubs. Montana led by only two at intermission, but opened the second half on a decisive 11-0 run to put the game out of reach.
• Huff led all scorers with 25 points in the win at Montana State and his output moved him into 22nd on UND's all-time scoring charts with 1,132 points. He needs only four points to move into the top 20.
• For Huff, the 20-plus point scoring game was his seventh in Big Sky play.
• UND improved to 5-0 when scoring 80-plus points in a contest.
• Huff equaled his season-high with four steals to move into a tie for fourth on UND's all-time steals chart with 122. Huff had a steal late in the first half that he converted into a layup at the buzzer to make it a 34-31 deficit for his squad.
• A main cog in UND's two-game road winning streak has been redshirt freshman Shane Benton. He had seven points in the win at Northern Arizona, then responded with career-highs in points (13), rebounds (5) and steals (3) in Thursday's win at Montana State.
• Those 20 points account for more than half of his season total of 39 points.
• Huff and Benton helped UND register a season-high 15 steals against Division I opponent this season (16 vs. Presentation on Dec 3.
• Anderson scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half, including the final seven of the contest to seal the victory.
• Junior Jamal Webb scored 12 points to round out a quartet of double-digure scorers for UND. He had six second-half points on a pair of old-fashion 3-point plays. The first came on his first career dunk as his one-handed throw down made it a 65-59 lead for the visitors.
• Webb also added six assists, which moved him into sixth on UND's career charts with 322.
• With those 12 points, Webb surpassed the 800-point plateau for his career. In his last two games, Webb has 13 assists to only a pair of turnovers. He is averaging averaging 17.5 ppg and 6.5 apg against the Bobcats this season.
• Webb had two of five and-one conversions for UND in the final eight minutes of the contest.
• Junior Brandon Brekke was saddled throughout the game in foul trouble, but added two of those 3-point plays down the stretch and finished with nine points in the closing eight minutes to help cement the comeback.
• Senior Jordan Allard picked up his fifth start of the season for the injured Josh Schuler, who sat out the MSU game with back spasms.
• The Nodaks, as the team was commonly referred to back during the Phil Jackson era, would go on to win both of those contests in the Treasure State during the 1964-65 season. UND defeated Montana 71-62 on Dec. 11 before traveling east a couple of hours to Bozeman where they beat the Bobcats 71-69 on the next day.
• With the win over Idaho State on Feb. 2, head coach Brian Jones surpassed former NBA coaching legend Bill Fitch for fourth place on the all-time career wins list at UND with 95. Fitch went 94-45 from 1963-67. Jones now has 96 career wins.
• Webb had three more steals against Montana State, marking the 13th time this season he had three or more in a contest. He is currently tied for 18th nationally in that department and first in the Big Sky at 2.6 steals per game (51 total). He needs 18 more to reach the top spot on UND's all-time list (currently second with 160 for his career) where Scott Guldseth (1990-93) currently resides with 178.
• Huff and Anderson are not far behind Webb in the steals department for league games. Huff is second at 2.5 spg, while Anderson is tied for seventh at 1.5 spg.
• Webb and his backcourt mates were not the only ones reaking havoc on the defensive end against the Bengals - senior Mitch Wilmer swatted away a career-high four shots in the contest.
• Brekke returned to the lineup vs. Weber State on Thursday and played 17 minutes off the bench. It was his first action since playing five minutes in the win over Bowling Green on Dec. 29. He missed 11 games total after suffering a concussion in the loss to North Dakota State (Dec. 9).
• UND improved to 7-4 at home with its home win over Idaho State on Feb. 2. UND went 13-1 at home during the 2011-12 season.
• UND suffered another injury to key contributor as senior captain Doug Archer went down in practice prior to the Weber State contest. He missed both the Weber State and Idaho State games and there is no timetable for his return.
• Wilmer and junior Alonzo Traylor both posted their first career double-doubles in the team's Big Sky debut at Southern Utah (Dec. 17), but the T-birds were able to hold off the visitors with a 10-for-12 stretch at the foul line down the stretch.
• Wilmer scored 15 points and added a career-best 11 rebounds, while Traylor came off the bench to score 13 points and equaled Wilmer's rebounding total.
• Unfortunately for Traylor, the double-double was the last action of the season for the JUCO-transfer, who was ruled academically ineligible for the second semester.
• The Big Sky is the third conference that UND has been affiliated with since the program began in 1904. At the Division II level, UND was a member of the North Central Conference from 1922 to 2008. After spending one season as an independent during its first season of Division I play in 2008-09, UND spent the next three seasons in the Great West Conference.
• With the addition of the Thunderbirds and UND, the Big Sky basketball playing members grew to 11 this season. Southern Utah played last season in the Summit League, while UND wrapped up a three-year run in the Great West Conference.
• The top seven teams from the regular season will all advance to the Big Sky Conference Tournament where, if they do advance, UND would have a crack at earning its first NCAA Tournament berth. UND won the GWC Tournament in 2011 and 2012 anda advanced to the CIT Postseason Tournament both seasons.
• The Big Sky Tournament will be held at the home venue of the No. 1 seed and regular-season champion.
• Head coach Wayne Tinkle has his Griz off to a 13-0 start in Big Sky play and with a 73-63 victory over Northern Colorado on Thursday, Montana tied the Big Sky record with its 24th straight Big Sky regular season win (Weber State; 1968-70).
• The Griz have also won 23 straight Big Sky home games now, which tied Idaho (1980-83) for the Big Sky record.
• Junior Kareem Jamar had 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in the victory over NC for the Griz, whose 13-game winning streak is the second longest active in Division I right now behind Akron's 14 straight.
• Montana's program record for consecutive wins is 14 set during a 25-7 campaign last season.
• Senior Mathias Ward is the team's top scorer at 15.1 ppg in overall games (fourth in Big Sky) and a 15.2 ppg clip in league play (sixth). He poured in a season-high 27 points in the win over UND on Jan. 10.
• In his two previous games against UND, Ward scored a total of four points.
• Classmate Will Cherry - the reigning Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year - is second in league games, averaging 5.2 assists per game. He is currently third in steals (2.1/g) behind UND's Jamal Webb (2.6/g) and Troy Huff (2.5/g).
• Cherry had 28 points in the overtime loss at UND last season and scored 14 points in the road win this season at The Betty. In three games against UND, he is averaging 14.0 ppg.
• Montana leads the Big Sky in free throw shooting (76.3 percent).
• Montana has a two-game cushion on Weber State in the league standings and became the first Big Sky team to clinch a berth in the postseason tournament with Thursday's win over the Bears.
• The Griz will take to the road for their ESPN BracketBusters game as Montana will face Davidson on ESPNU on Saturday, Feb. 23.
North Dakota 82, Montana State 73 (Feb. 7) • Bozeman, Mont.
BOZEMAN, Mont. - For the second straight Big Sky road game, North Dakota overcame a double-digit deficit in the second half to post a win this time knocking off Montana State 82-73 at Worthington Arena on Thursday night.
Junior Troy Huff scored a game-high 25 points and freshman Shane Benton added a career-high 13 points to spark UND (10-12, 7-6 BSC) to a season sweep of the Bobcats (10-11, 7-6 BSC). Those two also combined for seven steals as UND had a season-high 15 of those in league play to ignite the comeback.
Montana State raced out of the gates in the second half and extended what was a 34-31 lead at halftime to as many as 14 points just over six minutes into the stanza.
However, just like they did on Jan. 26 at Northern Arizona, UND found a way to erase a large deficit and left a visiting venue with a victory, improving to 3-3 on the road in league action.
It was the first visit to Bozeman for UND since the 1964-65 season and it was the first Big Sky loss for Montana State on its home court this season.
After facing its largest deficit of the game at 55-41, UND went on a 19-4 to seize control of the contest.
The North Dakota men's basketball team added one more former North Central Conference foe to its 2012-13 schedule on Monday as ESPN officials announced that Omaha will play host to the Green and White during their annual Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters weekend. The game will take place Saturday, Feb. 23 at Omaha's Ralston Arena. Tipoff time is set for 1 p.m.
This will be the final season of an 11-year run for the event that pits 122 NCAA Tournament hopefuls from 15 different mid-major conferences against each other. Omaha is in its second season of transition to the NCAA Division I level and first in the Summit League.
The Mavericks are currently 8-17 overall and 5-7 in the Summit League, which puts them fifth in the standings of the nine-team conference. UND is currently 9-12 overall and 6-6 in its first season in the Big Sky. The .500 league mark puts UND in fifth alone in the 11-team conference.
In four career games against Idaho State, junior Aaron Anderson is now averaging 18.0 ppg, which is nearly eight points higher than his career average of 10.1 ppg. In the two games at Holt Arena, Anderson is averaging 19.5 ppg, including a career-high 20-point outing last season. Anderson had 16 points in Saturday's win over the Bengals that gave UND a season sweep of ISU.
A 3-pointer from the top of the key vs. Eastern Washington on Jan. 17 moved junior Troy Huff into an elite club in the history of North Dakota basketball. Huff's trey at the 13-minute of the second half brought his career total to 1,002 points as he became the 32nd UND player and just ninth junior to reach that milestone. Patrick Mitchell - a captain on last year's squad - was the last UND player to add his name to this list. Mitchell finished his career with 1,136 points and stands in 20th. Huff is quickly working his towards Mitchell, having moved up 10 spots to 22nd in the last six games by scoring 130 points (21.7 ppg).
At some point over the next season and a half, Huff will likely have a couple of his classmates join him. Aaron Anderson is the next in line to reach the milestone (919 career points) and if his season average holds up (currently 13.9 ppg), he could do so by the end of the 2012-13 season. UND has never had two players reach the 1,000-point plateau in the same season.
When it comes to Big Sky play, UND is home to one of the top scoring duos in the conference. Junior Troy Huff (19.5 ppg) leads the Big Sky in league scoring and classmate Aaron Anderson (16.0 ppg) is fifth. Only Southern Utah, with Damon Heuir (18.8 ppg) and Jackson Stevenett (18.5 ppg) have two players in the top five along with UND. Huff has reached double figures in 12 of 13 Big Sky games, including a season-high 26 points in the win over Northern Arizona. Anderson has reached 20-plus points three times in league action. He scored a career-high 25 points vs. Portland State. Both Huff (18.8 ppg) and Anderson (14.0 ppg) are averaging career-highs in overall games as well.
Junior Jamal Webb has moved into second place on UND's career charts for steals with 51 already this season. He tops the Big Sky charts, averaging 2.6 spg. Webb is closing fast on UND's career leader Scott Guldseth, who had 178 from 1989-93. He has 34 in 13 Big Sky games to give him 160 for his career. Webb also joined a new career top 10 recently and has moved into Top 10 on the all-time assist chart. He is currently sixth with 322.
HUFF NETS FIRST two BIG SKY POW AWARDS
Junior Troy Huff was named the Big Sky Player of the Week on New Year's Eve after his 14-point, 12-rebound outing in the 56-53 victory over Bowling Green. He was the first UND player to receive the honor from the team's new conference. The double-double was the sixth of his career as he played in just his second game back from a broken jaw. He picked up his second honor three weeks later after leading UND to pair of back-to-back home wins over Eastern Washington and Portland State.
Senior Mitch Wilmer has started the last 19 games for UND and is subsequently playing the best basketball of his UND career. Wilmer, who had only three starts coming into the season, is averaging 5.9 ppg, 4.4 rpg and 1.3 bgp for the season. He has scored 127 points this season, which are 44 more than he had in 55 career games entering the campaign. Wilmer has set or equaled his career-high in scoring four times in those 16 starts, chipping in with 11 points at South Dakota State (Nov. 28), upping that to 12 at North Dakota State (Dec. 9) before scoring 15 against Southern Utah and Northern Colorado. He added his first career double-double against the Thunderbirds in UND's Big Sky debut by adding 11 rebounds to his point total. He is coming off a 10-point outing in the win over Northern Arizona, which put him back in double figures for the first time in five games.
Seven teams on UND's 2011-12 docket advanced to postseason tournaments, including four to the NCAA Tournament (Kansas, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota State). UND beat two of those teams at home (Montana and South Dakota State). North Dakota State and Western Illinois both made the CBI Invitational, while GWC foe Utah Valley earned an at-large bid to join UND in the CIT Tournament.The schedule does not get any easier in 2012-13, as UND's slate has seven more teams on it that advanced to postseason tournaments. Kansas State advanced to the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament. Northern Iowa made the second round of the NIT. Both Montana and South Dakota State lost their first games in the NCAA Tournament. Bowling Green and Weber State joined UND in the CIT Postseason Tournament, while NDSU lost in the first round of the CBI Invitational.
UND's quintet of Aaron Anderson, Brandon Brekke, Troy Huff, Josh Schuler and Jamal Webb produced 65.4 percent of UND's points in 2010-11, which was tops among any freshman class in the country. As sophomores, that unit upped that number to 70.9 percent of the team's scoring (1,526 of 2,153). However, as sophomores, that unit had company at the top of the national charts. The Memphis sophomores, a unit UND edged out last season (63.9 percent as freshmen), produced 73.6 percent (1,923 of 2,614) and NDSU's sophomores concluded the Bison season scoring 71.3 percent (1,564 of 2,194) of their team's points. So far, the 2012-13 juniors, which includes the addition of JUCO-transfer Alonzo Traylor, have accounted for 72.7 (1,073 of 1,475) percent of the team's scoring through 20 games.
Head coach Brian Jones has four starters back and six of his top seven scorers from his 2012 GWC Tournament championship team. The seventh-year head coach will have to replace second team All-GWC performer Patrick Mitchell, who averaged 10.4 ppg and 4.4 rpg during his final season with the program. The 2011-12 squad posted a 17-15 record and earned an automatic berth to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament for the second consecutive season. UND lost at Drake, 70-64, in the opening round of postseason play.
Head coach Brian Jones has a 16-man roster, but only 11 of those players are now active for the 2012-13 season. The team was hoping for good news from the NCAA on granting Texas Tech transfer Jaron Nash a waiver to play immediately and not have to sit out this season, but the organization denied UND's request. Houston Baptist transfer Dustin Hobaugh transferred to UND after one season with the Huskies to pursue a degree in commercial aviation. Hobaugh is sitting out the 2012-13 season and will have three left to play starting with the 2013-14 campaign. Besides Nash and Hobaugh, Jones is using redshirt seasons on junior college transer Ryan Salmonson and freshman walk-on Thomas Blake. Salmonson played two seasons at Cosumnes River Community College, while Blake prepped at St. Maria Goretti in Hagerstown, Md. JUCO-transfer Alonzo Traylor played in eight of the team's first nine, averaging 7.0 ppg and 5.1 rpg, but has been ruled academically ineligible for the second semester.


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Cooking Matters for Adults is designed to help participants choose and prepare healthful meals within their budget. The class involves hands-on cooking, food safety, and nutrition education.
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FastTrac® GrowthVenture™ is targeted to existing businesses who want to develop a plan for growing their companies. Hindsight is 20/20, so use that to create a framework and a plan to improve your business performance. In this course, you are an active participant working on your own business strategy. Facilitators are knowledgeable entrepreneur practitioners who are attuned to the issues that influence the decisions you make about your company, making the program meaningful by applying this knowledge to your business. On-going coaching enables you to access one-on-one input to continue to move your business forward even after the program has ended.
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I had spent all of six minutes with Julia Sweeney when I brought up adult braces.
They're the worst, I said. I had them for two years, I said. They're the worst, I said again — this time with feeling.
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It's an odd thing to say to a person you barely know. Especially a person who lived through cervical cancer, recently lost a brother to alcoholism and nursed another brother through non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which eventually killed him.
Adult braces are, quite obviously, not the worst.
But Sweeney had offered a tidbit about her 13-year-old daughter, Mulan, getting braces. And because I had just read Sweeney's new book, "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother," I felt like we were pals.
And because she is a good sport, she reacted like we were.
"Oh, I know!" she said. "A friend of mine had them and when he finally got them off, a year later he started losing his hair. He always jokes, 'I only had one good year! One year when I had hair and good teeth!'"
Of course, she's so much more than a good sport.
"Julia tells the truth," says her friend and fellow comedian and author Merrill Markoe. "Her writing voice is very personal and chatty, like she has called you on the phone to tell you what just happened. Or invited you over for dinner, and now, after a glass of wine, she is catching you up on what she has been doing lately."
Nowhere is this more evident than in "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother," her charming, droll, at-times heartbreaking account of adopting 17-month-old Mulan from China, and, a few years later, marrying her husband and moving from Los Angeles to Wilmette, where she still resides.
The book is a collection of essays she assembled and edited into a narrative, ostensibly during a month of luxurious solitude when her husband was traveling for work and Mulan was at sleepaway camp.
She writes in the prologue:
I love my job.
Secretly I hate my job.
I love my family.
If only they would disappear.
And they do, for a spell. At which time Sweeney, known both for her "Saturday Night Live" years (1990-1994) and her one-woman shows "God Said Ha!" and "Letting Go of God," invites us to sit for a spell.
"I so did not write this book in a month," she laughs. "All the stuff where I'm looking back, that's from old writings. But I did have a month where I assembled all the chapters. And a lot of the writing was from that month."
The essays delve into Sweeney's life before Mulan — the cervical cancer that robbed her of a uterus, the relationships that did not end in wedded bliss; and her life outside of Mulan — losing her beloved brother Bill to addiction, meeting her husband, Michael.
But the majority of the book is about motherhood. Which isn't a topic she was particularly eager to tackle.
"I resisted it for so long because I didn't want to write about being a mom," she says. "It seems like such a common experience. So many people have kids and they're always difficult and they say funny things and, you know, I'm not really a fan of that stuff."
But she teams up frequently with singer-songwriter Jill Sobule for "The Jill and Julia Show," a mix of singing and social commentary performed live, and she found that many of her monologues tended toward the parental.
"They became these crafted stories that I did with Jill because it was the easiest and only material I had to tell," she says. "The stories sort of got solidified and an arc was put into them and the funny was mined into the right places."
And audiences, Sobule says, ate them up.
"I'm up there (on stage) with her as a fan and so I feel like I'm part of the audience, but I also get to watch the audience," Sobule says. "And I see how they connect. She talks with such humility and sweetness on any subject, and we laugh at her stories and we laugh at ourselves and that's what's great about her. We relate to her, and we root for her too."
Sweeney's previous works are equally personal. "God Said Ha! A Memoir," based on her one-woman show, was published as a book in 1998 and, later that year, turned into a film starring Sweeney and Quentin Tarantino. It recounts the year following her divorce, during which her younger brother Mike was diagnosed with cancer and moved in with her. Shortly after his death, Sweeney was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent a hysterectomy.
"Julia is unfailingly brilliant at presenting her life as a comedic story," says Markoe. "She is at ease as a story teller, and seems to stick to the truth. But through some magical combination of her attitude and the details she presents and her innate intelligence she manages to make even the darkest experiences she lives through seem funny.
"She's just really good at this," Markoe says. "Maybe even the best at this."
Which likely explains why she has succeeded at writing about motherhood — a topic rich with comedic possibilities, but rarely treated to truly funny re-tellings — that is often hilarious.
Christopher Piatt, creator and host of Paper Machete, a local weekly "live magazine" program, says Sweeney is a storyteller unlike most.
"I work with a lot of amazing comic artists and monologuists and Julia Sweeney is a total pioneer of the form," Piatt says. "She tells her story very plaintively with very little gimmickry. I can't think of a better solo artist who talks about her life. She's in a class by herself."
Of course, that's the adults talking. I asked Sweeney what Mulan thought of her new book.
"She's only read like a third of it," Sweeney laughs. "She said to me, 'It's very conversational.' I'm like, 'Thank you?' I never know if that's a diss or not."
As the person who felt comfortable enough — compelled, even — to launch into a vain, insecure rant about braces, simply because I had read her conversational book, I feel confident saying:
It's not a diss.
Julia Sweeney will appear at Printers Row Lit Fest June 8-9.
Heidi Stevens is a lifestyles reporter and columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
"If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother"
By Julia Sweeney, Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $26
An excerpt
We went to a lot of parks. I'd lived in Los Angeles for twenty years and had never noticed children's playgrounds. Suddenly with a toddler, they sprang out at me everywhere. People seem much more likely to approach you when you have a child, and that's both a great and frightening thing. Once someone asked me at the park, "Is her father Chinese?" And I said, "Yeah. I think so. I mean, it sure seems like it."
They would also go up to Tara and ask her for her name, and she just would stare at them blankly and say nothing. I would allow a short pause and then answer "Tara" for her. One day when she was almost three years old, an elderly man leaned over and asked, "What's your name, little girl?" I said, "Tara," and simultaneously I heard my daughter say in a clear, loud voice, "Mulan." She looked at me with a frown, as if to say, "You can call me Tara. But I answer to Mulan."
I had to give it up. She was Mulan.
After that, I replied "Mulan" when people asked her name. Their faces would freeze in a smile and they'd say, "You mean, like after the movie?" And I'd say in a gush, "No, no. That was her name in China. I wanted to name her—well, I did name her Tara, but…blah blah blah." I soon tired of that song and dance and eventually just answered emphatically and slowly, "Yes. After the movie."
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Due to an extremely busy schedule, it has been a few months since I have posted anything here, which I am really sorry about. Anyway, I am now going to try to catch up and post notes of wines from earlier this year, starting with some of the most recent. This first group of notes are from an in-store event that I attended this past Saturday.
April 27, 2013 – Albino Rocca - Current Releases, Vintages, Concord, MA
In my humble opinion, this producer is one of the best at bridging the gap between the more traditional and modern styles of Barbaresco. Although Daniela Rocca, the daughter of the late Albino, was in town to present her wines the day before, I was unable to go then - it would have definitely been great to meet and talk with her about her wines and Barbaresco in general.
Since these 2009 Barbarescos are the first that I have tried so far from this year, I don't have much of a feel for the vintage yet. Evidently, however, some successful wines were made, and I am looking to trying more in the near future.
Also note that now, some wines besides the standard Barbaresco are labeled with the vintage year spelled out; I like this in terms of presentation/design/marketing.
2011 Barbera d'Alba DOC "duemilaundici"
Medium-bodied, bright, well balanced, with good lift and moderate tannin; lightly floral, with youthful cherry and plum notes. Very good.
2010 Nebbiolo d'Alba DOC "duemiladieci"
Light to medium-bodied, elegant, with good underlying acidity and light to moderate tannin. Very approachable now, with cherry, rose, baking spice, and lightly earthy notes. Very good.
2009 Barbaresco "duemilanove"
Medium-bodied, moderately structured for Barbaresco, with bright acidity; shows notes of cherries, roses, baking spices, and hints of tar and mint. Very good/excellent.
2009 Barbaresco Ronchi
Full-bodied, well balanced, with spicier tannins; shows notes of cherries, red plums, cedar, roses, and a bit of tar. Excellent.
2008 Barbaresco Ovello Vigna Loreto
Full-bodied, smooth, elegant, well balanced, with cherry, dark berry, baking spice, tar, rose, and lightly herbal notes. Excellent.


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This is the next chapter in Ezio's story and the first Assassin's Creed game to have multiplayer on a home console. Personally, I'm pumped because I absolutely loved the time period and Ezio. Being able to play it with a few bros sounds even better.
my friend will love this
Im lost, do they have two different Assassins creed games in development right now?
or are they going to make this one, and then AC3
And Guess what I just ordered Chinese food for supper ya
Im not too excited. If it has fully cuztomizable characters then I might be. But I was more interested in the Story of AC, so if its not a direct story telling lead on from AC2 then id rather wait for AC3.
Im not too excited. If it has fully cuztomizable characters then I might be. But I was more interested in the Story of AC, so if its not a direct story telling lead on from AC2 then id rather wait for AC3.
Well, the link does say that Ezio is now a legendary master assassin and he leads a brotherhood of assassins to conquer Rome, which is where AC II ended. So, I'd pretty much say the story is a continuation. As for the multiplayer, don't be ready to judge it so quickly. How can you say going around Rome assassinating dudes with friends doesn't sound awesome?
Great. Ezio is a beast though. :]
@ Reyia
not likley that your o nthe part that im talking about on Gears Of War 3. 0.0
This is a must have. Only problem is all the other great games coming out at the same time.
I was excited till i learned this was just a 15 hour spin-off that doesnt include desmund. Ubisoft, conserve your time and money for AC3 please!! i want a full game, not some halfhearted attempt that will only sell because it has multiplayer.
This will be fun, but they better not take my Altair armor from me, and for that matter my villa! I want it all!
check out my blog!
Rainheart, I'll never forget you.
can't... wait....
It should be awesome. If not well... a lot of people will be disappointed.
Yes, but this is the BETTER game...
The vila is destroyed in the beginning but I think you get a whole city to mess around with. It will also be way more detailed editing...


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Channel = #GIOC
TNC Casino
This is the official HQ of the Terror Ninja Clan or TNC. MBP, Travis, Reck and PMC are the high ranking officers of this clan. This clan is focused on military enforcement and having a good time :D.
We are a happy bunch but dooshbagery will not be tolerated. Every one is welcome until stated otherwise. Basic GIO rules apply here and on top of that the "Spartan Death Kick" or SDK can be used to shame a user/member for their dooshbagery. Only high ranking officers can initiate a SDK and must have approval from at least one other officer.
Dooshbagery will not be tolerated.
SDK'ed users/members.
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Kanye West, Dec 11, 2012.
Should I check out the OddFuture shit?
do you like Kanye West?
I thought you two were the same person
yea Kanye is nice, love that new song clique with 2chainz althought im not a big fan of him
oh fuck you walleye
Ha ha!
I heard that Doug E. Fresh has a new and hip type sounds
Loddy Doddy Reggie
Kid Cudi is my Reggie
Drake is gay
fuck outta here Hal
saw that nigga live, he is nice
You don't need anything else but this.
Day n Nite is my theme song. Not that gay remix though.
i like most of his stuff, he isnt bad
i like to switch it up mang
his voice is annoying and hes Canadian
i think he cool, but thats you


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After the tragedy in Newtown, many public figures, including Senator Barbara Boxer, responded by proposing a violent solution to a violent problem: more police officers in schools. Instead of making schools safer by creating nurturing, supportive learning environments, they wanted to make schools safer by turning them into prisons.
Californians have shown that they emphatically disagree. According to a new survey by the California Endowment [1], Californians believe 2-1 that we should place mental health counselors in schools, not police.
We at GSA Network couldn't agree more. We know that access to counselors is especially important for LGBTQ youth, as they are at a higher risk for mental health issues including depression and suicide. In fact, statistics show us that youth who are harassed based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation are more than twice as likely to experience depression than those who are not. What's more is that these youth are more than twice as likely [2] to seriously consider suicide and to make a plan for suicide. Adding more cops to schools could never fundamentally address the issues that create homophobic and transphobic environments for queer youth and lead them to such fatal conclusions. Queer youth and Californians demand counselors, not cops.
Not only do school counselors alleviate the mental health issues of LGBTQ students, but they also help address students' academic and behavioral issues such as anti-LGBTQ bullying or harassment. GSA Network's report "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Why Zero-Tolerance is Not the Solution to Bullying [3]" highlights the discipline disparities faced by LGBTQ, low-income, youth of color. That's why we call for an end to reliance on punitive discipline, such as suspension or expulsion, especially in cases of bias-based incidents of harassment or bullying. Instead, alternative discipline measures must be taken. Counseling, teaching coping skills, and conflict management are alternatives to anti-LGBTQ bullying that actually address students' behaviors at the source. School counselors play a vital role in helping create safe, positive, healthy, supportive and equitable school environments, and we need more of them.
Increasing the policing of youth does not solve the issue of violence in schools. Rather, we must look at the roots of violence and find ways to give youth the tools they need to make healthy decisions for their long-term success, which include access to supportive counselors. The late social-justice minded theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer said, "We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself." We know school counselors are the spokes in those wheels, stopping violence at the root and helping prevent violent incidents on their campuses.
We'd like to give a warm and appreciative shout-out to all school counselors:
Happy National School Counselors Week & thank you! Thank you for your dedication to school safety, to teaching youth the skills they need to succeed, to listening when no one else will or when no one really understands. We give you our deepest gratitude on behalf of LGBTQ youth and those who are harassed and discriminated against in their school communities.
If you are currently a school counselor and would like to know more about what you can do to support LGBTQ youth and GSAs in your school, have a look at our quick tip list:
Co-authored with Geoffrey Winder, Senior Manager, Racial & Economic Justice Programs
[1] http://tcenews.calendow.org/releases/survey:-californians-say-mental-health-care-and-emergency-preparedness-are-best-ways-to-prevent-school-violence
[2] http://www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/GetTheFacts/health.html
[3] https://gsanetwork.org/news/blog/two-wrongs-dont-make-right/06/26/12
[4] https://gsanetwork.org/resources/building-your-gsa/10-steps-starting-gsa
[5] https://gsanetwork.org/resources/gsa-actions-events/conducting-school-survey
[6] https://gsanetwork.org/get-involved/change-your-school
[7] http://www.rjoyoakland.org/resources.php


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Talk:San Andreas in GTA III Era
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What do folks think of renaming this article State of San Andreas? We could then change San Andreas in GTA 1 to City of San Andreas. The current names seem a little cumbersome to me. Thoughts? EganioTalk 03:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
- That could work! I'm the one that suggested making it like this when this page was just called San Andreas and there was the other article for San Andreas in GTA 1. The reason I suggested like this is because that's how the other cities are set out. eg. Liberty City in GTA 1, Liberty City in GTA III/Liberty City Stories, Liberty City in GTA IV, Vice City in GTA 1, Vice City in GTA Vice City. What does everyone else think about Eganio's proposal? Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 08:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't like the idea at first, because it doesn't follow the standard rule of naming things with their real name, and the preference for keeping names short. However I think it does a good job of explaining what the page is about - "San Andreas" is still confusing (no matter how often you explain the difference). I also think City and State is a good distinction, but it needs to be made massively clear what the difference is (with a disambig). Go for it. Gboyers talk 14:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I too was apprehensive at first, owing to a presumed disruption in naming consistency. However, given that all other locations in GTA games that have reappeared are invariably cities in all their iterations, I thought this case warranted special consideration, since one version is a city, while the other is an entire state. This provides us the opportunity of using shorter names to distinguish between the two. And my apologies to Biggest gta fan ever for stealing any of your thunder! Maybe I should read the old discussions more carefully! ;-) EganioTalk 18:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- Don't apologize, I simply went by consistency before, if this page does deserve special conditions, we should go with it. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 04:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Why doesn't anyone mention the fact that there is a place in California called "San Andreas"? Seriously, it's a real town. Google "San Andreas Fault", if you don't believe me. MrNaku45 01:53, December 4, 2009
San Andreas State alignment for historical lineage
The City of San Andreas (with all its quarters), should be implemented into San Andreas State in a future GTA edition at a location may be south of San Fierro, further down the San Andreas State coastline. It should be renamed and it's previous bibliography in GTA1 revised from San Andreas City, to 1st City in San Andreas (the State). A suggestion would be to replace "F" with "TH" and rename the first city of SA, Thirst City SA [A conibation and capital of the State of San Andreas]. An alignment purely for historical continuation reasons. This would coherently bridge early editions with the later in GTA. No GTA map past or present should be destroyed or changed only (.a.) left alone, (.b.) enhanced (may be for fresh difficulty aspect), (.c.) expanded/advanced (with strict relative reference to map original), (.d.) added to, or all of the previous, eventually plugged into one unifying database. The Unified States of Americana [Ref No 65 on GTA V Wishlist/archive3]...said Prodigy "..let's get it right yeh". NIM 06:05, March 14, 2010 (UTC)


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Here's another item to add to your "You know you're an Alaskan" list: You know you're an Alaskan if you no longer know how to dress for pleasant weather.
I discovered this trait this summer. I think I first became aware of it after Memorial Day weekend, when people were coming to work sunburned after being outside all weekend. "I didn't expect it to be that nice," they would say when asked why they didn't pack sunscreen, but I'd be willing to bet that if the weather had been less than pleasant, say 40 degrees with a cold rain, they would have had the perfect gear for it.
I think I first realized that I had acquired this trait during a June mountain bike trip up to Crescent Lake. I dressed for the ride just like I normally do — moisture-wicking base layer and a shirt made of some sort of performance material. Since it was warm, I figured I'd go with just a lightweight, long-sleeve shirt as an outer layer — no need for the heavy fleece or the rain shell, right?
Turns out, I didn't really need most of the rest of the layers I was wearing, either. We had to stop about 20 minutes in so I could strip down to my T-shirt, prompting a comment from one my fellow riders that was something along the lines of whether I realized it wasn't February.
I had a similar layering dilemma last weekend, when I took part in a bike race that started at Sheep Mountain on the Glenn Highway, out toward Glennallen. The temperature at the starting line was 75 degrees, the sun was shining and there was hardly a breeze to speak of. I sorted through the duffle bag full of cycling clothing I had brought, looked at my wife (who likes to give me grief over my acquisition of cycling gear) and commented, "I don't even need to wear a base layer today, do I?" Heck, I even pulled off the tape I had used to cover the vents in my cycling shoes — keeping my feet cool has never really been an issue for me while riding around here.
In general, I'm no longer equipped to handle the warmer temperatures we've been having. Outside of my workout clothes, I only have a couple of short-sleeved shirts anymore. And I'm down to one pair of nice shorts. Waiting around for a sled dog race to finish at ten below zero? No problem, I can dress for that. Cross-country skiing on a crisp winter day? Got that covered. Bike ride in the low 40s with a cold headwind coming off the inlet? I've got the perfect gear for that, too.
Sunny and 75 degrees? Apparently, I'm clueless.
It seems like I should remember something from growing up with the hot and muggy summer weather on the East Coast, but that was back in the olden days, when "layering systems" included cotton T-shirts and cotton sweatshirts, with some nylon mesh thrown in. Definitely not as many choices as there are these days. In fact, it's hard for me to muster too much sympathy for people who complain about having to go outside in any sort of weather — it seems there's a scientifically designed technical fabric for every activity in every condition (including, apparently, 75 and sunny).
While I've enjoyed all the sunshine, I am looking forward to the return of our more typical Southcentral Alaska weather this fall, and some nice snow this winter.
In the meantime, does anyone know where to get some sunscreen?
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A good day for fish as responsible MEPs vote for sustainable EU fisheries
Brussels, Belgium, 18 December 2012 - Today the European Parliament's fisheries (PECH) committee members voted 13 to 10 in favour of the draft report by Ulrike Rodust (S&D, DE) on the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) Basic Regulation, the cornerstone of the CFP reform package and the key to sustainable fisheries in the EU.
- Maximum Sustainable Yield – above MSY (BMSY) by 2020
- Multi-annual Plans (MAPs) and a timeline for implementation in four years' time
- Commitment to eliminate discards in European fisheries with binding timetable
- Regionalisation – cooperation amongst stakeholders within or between member states to agree on management measures for shared fisheries
- External dimension - with active EU participation in international fisheries; EU fleets shall only fish surplus stocks from 3rd countries; EU fighting against IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing.
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY How much do we, who are alive today, differ from our most recent evolutionary ancestors, the cave-dwelling Neandertals, hominids who lived in Europe and parts of Asia and went extinct about 30,000 years ago? And how much do Neandertals, in turn, have in common with the ape-ancestors from which we are both descended, the chimpanzees?
Although we are both hominids, the fossil record told us long ago that we differ physically from Neandertals, in various ways. But at the level of genes and the proteins that they encode, new research published online today in the journal Science reveals that we differ hardly at all. It also indicates that we both Neandertals and modern humans differ from the chimps in virtually identical ways.
"The astonishing implication of the work we've just published," says Prof. Gregory Hannon, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), "is that we are incredibly similar to Neandertals at the level of the proteome, which is the full set of proteins that our genes encode."
Collaboration with a paleogenetics pioneer
Hannon, who is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is well known for his work on small RNAs and RNA interference, was invited this past year to help examine Neandertal DNA by Dr. Svante Pbo, a pioneer in paleogenetics, a field that employs genome science to study early humans and other Paleolithic-era creatures. In a separate paper, Pbo's team today publishes in the same issue of Science the first complete genome sequence for Neandertal, an achievement that builds on work he has led since 2006 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Genomics in Leipzig.
"Dr. Pbo's publication of the full Neandertal genome is a watershed event, a major historical achievement," Hannon says. "The work we conducted in collaboration with his team is only a small part of the larger effort, but it helps us put the Neandertal genome into better perspective, relative to the modern human genome and those of our nearest common ancestor among the apes, the chimpanzees, from whom we diverged about 6.5 million years ago."
The CSHL team contributed a technology developed by Hannon, postdoc Emily Hodges, Ph.D., and others at CSHL in 2007. "We call it "Array capture re-sequencing," says Hannon, "and it enables us to extract from genomes important information, on a very selective basis, rapidly, very accurately, and at low cost. We always anticipated that it might help in the analysis of evolutionary relationships, so when Svante offered us the opportunity to apply it to a Neandertal sample, we were very excited and grateful for the opportunity."
The technique enabled Hannon's CSHL team, working with Pbo's team in Leipzig, to greatly amplify intact bits of DNA from a Neandertal sample that was 99.8% contaminated -- mainly by bacterial DNA-- and regarded by Pbo as not likely to yield useful data. The sample studied was considerably more impure than that used as the basis for Pbo's full Neandertal genome sequence. "Our technology is particularly useful in enabling us to work with the most contaminated samples," says Hannon. "We identify and then greatly amplify just those portions of the target DNA called exons. Exons are stretches of DNA that encode proteins. They comprise only a small fraction of the total genome of modern humans, about 1%."
The Neandertal genome, like that of modern humans, contains about 3 billion base-pairs of nucleotides often referred to metaphorically as "letters" in the genome's "book of life." The Hannon-Pbo collaboration focused on obtaining the most accurate possible sequence of only 14,000 protein-coding segments within the full genome. "These," Hannon explains, "are exons that give rise to the 14,000 proteins that we know are different in modern humans and chimpanzees." The question was what those 14,000 proteins would look like in our Neandertal relatives.
"The overwhelming majority of chimp proteins about 75% -- are different from ours in at least one amino-acid 'letter," according to Hannon. These amino-acid changes are in most instances slight, but the resulting functional differences the way they affect what proteins do in cells can be great, and presumably help to explain many of our differences from chimpanzees.
Eighty-eight amino-acid differences and what they might signify
Hannon's team applied its focused sequencing method on those areas in the Neandertal sample obtained from Dr. Pbo, and, after several rounds of refinement, they arrived at the number 88: they found only 88 changes in Neandertal protein sequences compared with the modern human. Hannon calls this number "astonishing."
At an early stage of the study, the team identified many more protein differences -- about 1000 -- between modern man and the specific Neandertal individual sampled, a male who died about 49,000 years ago in a cave called El Sidrn, in Spain. But that initial figure was based on comparing the Neandertal sequence to that of the modern human reference genome. When the teams incorporated into their calculations variations in the modern human code that they catalogued in 50 individuals from a range of modern ethnic groups, the number of human-Neandertal protein differences dropped from over 1000 to only 88.
Although Hannon says it will be important to study the functional role of the 88 proteins, he expects that many may prove "neutral," functionally. These would be changes in the genetic code that do not issue in any difference in the function of the associated proteins. If even more human genome samples -- say, from 500 contemporary individuals rather than 50 -- were included in the comparison, the number of differences might drop again, Hannon believes. And if additional Neandertal samples were factored into the comparison, he says, "it's possible that the number of differences could approach zero."
In short, Hannon says, "the news, so far, is not about how we differ from Neandertals, but how we are so nearly identical, in terms of proteins." In addition to following up on the functional associations of the 88 proteins identified in the current study, Hannon says new research is likely to address other portions of the genome particularly those segments responsible for regulating what genes do. In effect, the search for what distinguishes us from our nearest hominid ancestors will shift to from differences in sequence to differences in function.
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Senior Center schedule: Bingo, 12:30 p.m. Thursday; karaoke, 8:30 a.m. Friday; transportation to grocery, bank and pharmacy, noon Friday; karaoke.
Senior Center schedule: Bingo, 12:30 p.m. Thursday; karaoke, 8:30 a.m. Friday; transportation to grocery, bank and pharmacy, noon Friday; karaoke, 12:30 p.m. Monday; poker-keno, 9:15 a.m. Tuesday; art class, noon p.m. Tuesday; poker-keno, 9:15 a.m. April 17; lunch, 11 a.m. daily; and cards and billiards, 8:30 a.m. weekdays.
For information, call the center's manager, Arlene Levron, at 594-6741 or 594-8905.
Bingo: Ward 7 Citizens Club's bingo is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at its club home, 5006 La. 56, Chauvin.
Donations: Bayou Petit Caillou Winterguard is seeking donations to help pay for the cost to compete in regional competitions in Louisiana and Mississippi. The team consists of seven local girls twirling/dancing with flags, rifles, sabres and batons. To make a donation, call the Chauvin Recreation Center at 594-2020.
Meeting: The Chauvin Lions Club's board meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at the club home, 145 La. 58, Chauvin. The club's general meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 17 at the club home.
Members of Catholic Daughters of Americas are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph Catholic Church's parish center, 5232 La. 56, Chauvin. The rosary will be recited at 5:30 p.m.
The St. Joseph Knights of Columbus 4th Degree's business meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 19 at the club home, 201 La. 58, Chauvin. The meal starts at 6:30 p.m., and the rosary will be prayed before meeting.
Registration: Registration for Terrebonne Parish Recreation Department's T-ball for children 5 and 6, and baseball for teens 15 to 17 begins April 22. You can register from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays at the Little Caillou Recreation Center, 215 Angel St., Chauvin. Registration costs $20, and a birth certificate is needed at time of registration. For information, call 594-2020.
Twirling camp: Learn the art of twirling baton, flag, rifle and saber. Registration for Twirling Unlimited Summer Camp is scheduled for April and May at the Chauvin Recreation Center. Registration is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. People of all ages may sign up. Children must be potty trained. Students interested may inquire about our winterguard competition group. This group will compete in the Louisiana Colorguard and Percussion Circuit. To be eligible to try out for this group, you must attend the Twirling Unlimited Summer Camp. Children must be present at registration with their previous equipment. For information, call 594-2020 or 856-2108.
Boat blessing: St. Joseph Catholic Church's annual boat blessing is scheduled for noon April 21 in Chauvin.
Birthdays and anniversaries: I am trying to update birthdays and anniversaries in the Chauvin column. If you would your birthday or anniversary in the column, call Gina at 856-2108 or 594-2020. If you have any events, achievements, awards or know of an outstanding person in the community, we would like to share this also.
Birthdays: Lou Ann Duplantis, April 10; Clabert Kramer II, April 13; and Jamie L. Robichaux, April 14.
Anniversary: Wilbert and Mary Thibodeaux, April 10.


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Lady Titans punch playoff ticket
CRAWFORD – The East Oktibbeha softball team didn't make things easy for themselves, but they found a way into the playoffs on Thursday.
Lady Titans pitching walked 21 McAdams batters, 18 in the first three innings, but East Oktibbeha overcame its mistakes to defeat the Lady Bulldogs 23-13.
"We had to dig ourselves out of the hole the entire way but we persevered throughout this season and we're just happy we're about to go into the playoffs for the first time in a long time," said Lady Titans coach Pam Roberts.
The win puts East Oktibbeha 5-3 in t in the postseason as the Class A, Region 5, District 4 runner-up.
While Roberts' team can celebrate their accomplishment now, things didn't look so bright early against McAdams.
The Lady Bulldogs jumped out to a 6-0 first inning lead and held a 13-8 advantage heading to the bottom of the third. That's when East Oktibbeha's fortunes changed for the better.
The Lady Titans closed the gap to 13-10, and when Savannah Blair connected for a three-run, inside-the-park home run, her second of three round-trippers for the day, the score was tied. Blair's four total hits, some error-assisted, accounted for 10 Lady Titans runs in the game.
"It feels good to come through like this," said Blair. "Now, we're going to the ship (Class A playoffs). This the first time I've ever been in the playoffs and I just wanted to take us there."
East Oktibbeha scored three more third inning runs to take a 16-13 lead into the latter stages of the game. They would never trail again as Quanisha Doss hurled three shutout innings to hold down the Lady Bulldogs long enough for the Lady Titans to secure the 10-run mercy rule win.
"I just changed the way I was stepping and where I was standing and how I was throwing the ball up there," said Doss of the adjustments she made the last three frames. "I got nervous and mad (during the first three innings), but it feels good now because we are heading to the playoffs and the seniors want to get a ring."
The Lady Titans will open the playoffs on Tuesday at Noxapater. No game time has been set as of yet.
Roberts is just glad her team finally righted the ship on Thursday to give themselves a postseason run.
"We really pulled it all together," said Roberts. "By the time they figured out it's not about the balls and the strikes, it's about the play of the game on the field, then they were ready to go. We've had a great season. I can't say enough."


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Nadeem Siddiqui: Rebuilding a Brand
His next move was a bold one: he closed the central warehouse, a huge process but one that Siddiqui felt had to happen if the department was to survive.
"We were buying our food a year in advance," he says. "We were so tied to the system that we couldn't change the menu. Our customers are going off campus and seeing new items, and they want us to do that and we can't change the menu."
Predictably, there was resistance to the move, mostly from people who feared their jobs would be lost.
"I told them, my job is to save your jobs," Siddiqui recalls. "We had financial issues, and if we didn't close the warehouse we were going to have even worse issues. And in the end, nobody has lost a job. Some people have retired, but those who chose to stay all have jobs. They may not be doing the same jobs they did before, but that's a growth process."
He and Arthur also have established new training programs for employees, to give them the skills they need to carry out Siddiqui's initiatives. "We can rewrite the menus and revamp the programs, but in the end it's the execution," he notes. "You can create the nice recipes and the beautiful presentation, but if the day-to-day people can't produce it, then it's just show business. We're in the reality business. We have to execute every day what we promise our customers."
Siddiqui has not been bashful about letting people know what works and what doesn't within the department. He has outsourced the operation of the campus C-stores to a local vendor "because we don't have the expertise to run them." And he has freely admitted that catering has "some challenges."
"People come to us and ask us if they can use [an outside caterer] and I say, 'Please do. I support that because we're not ready for you. And I don't want [your event] to fail because of us.' I know that once we rebuild the program the business will come back."
Siddiqui's road to A & M has been circuitous, to say the least. It began in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where Siddiqui grew up. He came to this country in 1982, like his father had years earlier, to get an education. He matriculated at Moorhead State, in Moorhead, MN. After graduating, he went to work at nearby Concordia College, under the tutelage of Jane Grant Shambaugh.
"I worked for Jane for three years," Siddiqui recalls. "Jane was great, because she was straightforward, honest, tell-it-like-it-is, and I appreciated that. I learned so much from her." After Concordia came a succession of jobs as Siddiqui criss-crossed the country, never spending more than two or three years with one company or institution: Aramark; St. Lawrence University in upstate New York; Grinnell College in Iowa; the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, his first director's job; the University of Chicago; another stint with Aramark; Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and finally Stanford, where his boss was Silver Plate Award winner Shirley Everett.
"I also worked for Peg Lacey (another Silver Plate recipient) when she was with Aramark," Siddiqui adds. "I am probably the only person in this industry who has worked for all three of these women: Jane, Peg and Shirley, and anyone who has worked for any of these women is going to be successful if you practice what they teach you."
Perhaps the most important thing they have taught him is that students always must be his department's primary focus. "We're foster parents, whether we like it or not," he explains. "For nine months out of the year these are our children and we have to do everything we can to help them."
That attitude prompts him to do what some people might consider above and beyond the normal routine, such as offering to have a Braille menu printed for a blind girl who will be attending A & M next semester. But Siddiqui believes such actions should be everyday occurrences.
"That's our job; to make sure that every element of each person's well-being is taken care of," he says. "A Braille menu is the least we can do. In the past, students have come to our foodservice operations because they are convenient. We're trying very hard to create a culture here that will make students come not just because we're convenient, but because we're great."


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Matloff, who has a foot in both the Statistics and CS camps, but says, "The problem is not that CS people are doing Statistics, but rather that they are doing it poorly. Generally the quality of CS work in Stat is weak. It is not a problem of quality of the researchers themselves; indeed, many of them are very highly talented. Instead, there are a number of systemic reasons for this, structural problems with the CS research 'business model'." So, can Statistics be made more attractive to students? "Here is something that actually can be fixed reasonably simply," suggests no-fan-of-TI-83-pocket-calculators-as-a-computational-vehicle Matloff. "If I had my druthers, I would simply ban AP Stat, and actually, I am one of those people who would do away with the entire AP program. Obviously, there are too many deeply entrenched interests for this to happen, but one thing that can be done for AP Stat is to switch its computational vehicle to R."


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Pizza, fries, nachos, soda pop ... the dinner of champions it's not. But it's often the dinner that kids dashing from school to practices, games and home wind up eating.
Fast food, concession stand fare and packaged snacks are staples in many households. That's especially true for children in organized sports, even when parents acknowledge they aren't the healthiest options, according to a study published in the July/
"Mostly it's convenience, especially with parents working and everybody being so busy," says
So what's a parent to do?
Even when healthy meals are a priority, serving them up requires planning. Take
Summer was challenging enough, with overlapping practice schedules and multi-day, all-day tournaments. Now school, with its early mornings and homework, is back in the mix.
The Marks rely on light meals like noodles before practices and tote a cooler filled with protein-packed snacks, granola bars, sandwiches and water bottles to games and tournaments. On weekends, they make pans of lasagna, enchiladas and other dishes perfect for quick weeknight meals.
They then usually wait to eat later in the evening, after everyone is back home, so they can connect as a family around the dinner table.
"That's really important to us," Mark says. "Sometimes it falls apart and doesn't work, but we try."
What's for dinner is also key, says
"Vegetables don't taste quite the same if they've been eating chicken nuggets and French fries at most meals," says Burnett, who spends many of her own evenings and weekends shuttling her two daughters to tumbling, volleyball, cheerleading competitions, softball and other activities.
Even fruit tastes less sweet to a young palate used to artificially sweetened sports drinks and sodas, she says. Sweet drinks also add unneeded calories and fill kids up, making them less likely to eat that healthy snack. That's why Burnett recommends filling a reusable bottle with plain old water instead of buying sports drinks and other beverages.
"Kids will do better when eating healthier and staying hydrated with water," Burnett says. "That will show up in how they're performing."
Good nutrition isn't a one-shot deal, though. It's something parents can work on throughout the day, says
"Every time you add something healthy to the mix, it takes the pressure off the evening meal to be the end-all be-all of balanced nutrition," says Bader, whose 7-year-old daughter, Amelie, competed in her first youth triathlon earlier this year. "It frees you up."
Bader follows a basic protein-whole grain-fruit-vegetable formula for each meal. That might mean a hard-boiled egg, slice of whole-grain toast and blueberry-beet smoothie for breakfast, followed by a turkey and cheese sandwich (also on whole-grain bread) with fruit and a salad for lunch.
Scrambled eggs, homemade burritos, wraps and quesadillas are quick-and-easy dinner options, as are leftovers. When Bader cooks on weekends, she often makes a bigger batch of meatloaf or adds extra burgers to the grill with an eye toward midweek.
"We all have days when the kids aren't going to eat as well, like at birthday parties or on vacation," Bader says. "I'm constantly figuring out strategies so that doesn't become a majority of our diet."
Notice that Bader said "our." She and her husband,
Books like "My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus" (
Preparing one meal just makes sense, says
And, like anything, planning, shopping and cooking healthy meals becomes a habit.
Denis' husband and her collaborator on the Restaurant Guide of
No one stopped at the drive-through on the way home or suggested ordering pizza, because they knew a healthy dinner was waiting at home.
"When the whole family eats healthy, it just falls into place even if the schedules are hectic," Denis says. "If the adults eat healthy, the kids will eat healthy, no matter who's at the table."
When it comes to kids, the word "snack" often means sugary drinks and highly processed foods loaded with sugar, salt or fat. But it doesn't have to be that way, says
"People forget there are real food options that are convenient," Bader says. "Kids like them just as much as the other stuff."
_Banana roll-ups (a small whole wheat tortilla spread with peanut or other nut butter, topped with a banana and rolled up)
_Carrot sticks, sliced sweet bell peppers and cherry tomatoes with homemade ranch dressing for dipping
_Edamame in the pods
_Fresh fruit and a small serving of almonds or other nuts
_Fruit smoothies (pack them in a thermos or freeze in small cups to take along)
_Hard-boiled eggs
_Kale chips
_Ice pops made with fresh fruit and herbs
_Trail mix made by combining your child's favorite dry cereal, nuts, seeds, pretzels and dried fruit
_Whole-grain crackers and cheese cubes or sticks
_Yogurt sprinkled with granola and fresh berries (pack granola separately to keep it from getting soggy)
Packing a cooler or lunch box with snacks is a great way to keep kids fueled on the go. But it's also important to keep those snacks safe.
_Wash coolers, lunch boxes and water bottles after each use.
_To keep cold foods cold, add ice packs or a frozen water bottle to an insulated cooler or lunch box.
_Remind kids to clean their hands before eating.
_Throw out any leftover perishable foods.
Makes 8 small ice pops
5 large or 8 small peaches, peeled, pit removed and diced
1/2 cup honey
Leaves from 1 fresh sprig of thyme
6 fresh mint leaves
Combine the peaches, honey, thyme and mint in a blender and puree. Pour into reusable ice-pop molds. Freeze for at least 4 hours.
Per ice pop: 100 calories (none from fat), trace fat (no saturated fat), no cholesterol, 24 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram protein, 1 milligram sodium, 1 gram dietary fiber.
There's nothing like getting a serving of veggies out of the way first thing in the morning. Your kids might not even notice with this recipe from the "
Makes 6 (1-cup) servings
3 beets, roasted, peeled and roughly chopped
2 cups frozen blueberries
1 banana
12 ounces 100-percent fruit juice (black cherry or berry)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Trim beet stems to about 1 inch, wash beets well, wrap each in foil and roast until a knife pierces them easily (cooking time varies depending on the size of the beets). Allow beets to cool enough to handle, and then rub with a paper towel to slide the peel off. Beets can be roasted ahead of time and refrigerated until needed. Add beets, blueberries, banana and juice to blender. Blend well.
Per serving: 65 calories (6 percent from fat), trace total fat (no saturated fat), no cholesterol, 15 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram protein, 33 milligrams sodium, 3 grams dietary fiber.
When it comes to veggies, sometimes it's all about the dipping. Try this homemade version of ranch dressing from
Makes 1 quart
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups low-fat mayonnaise
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 teaspoon fresh parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon fresh chives, chopped
1 teaspoon fresh dill, chopped
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Chill overnight before serving. Refrigerate leftovers for up to three weeks.
Per 2-tablespoon serving: 47 calories (77 percent from fat), 4 grams total fat (1 gram saturated), 7 milligrams cholesterol, 2 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram protein, 125 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.
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It's less than a month from the June 1 start of hurricane season, and at least one question comes to mind: Got your insurance tied down?
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, a trade group, is recommending that it's time for homeowners to review whether to buy flood insurance.
This recommendation comes just days after the April 25 Bankrate.com study that concluded only 51 percent of Americans know their home's correct flood designation, a label assigned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that plays a major role in determining rates.
What's more, a 2012 poll by the Insurance Information Institute concluded that only 13 percent of American homeowners had flood coverage.
Flood insurance is separate from a standard homeowners policy, and 81 percent of Americans know that, according to the Bankrate.com study. The industry is drawing attention to flood coverage now because new policies typically require a 30-day waiting period before they take effect.
Flood insurance has been a hot-button topic for other reasons this year, as reforms could raise premiums for the federal program.
In addition, South Carolina lawmakers are trying to subside the rise in rates for property and casualty coverage on coastal properties. State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, recently introduced a bill that would provide tax credits to coastal insurers. The hope is that would encourage more companies to write policies in coastal areas and curb the increasing rates.
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In the first part of an interview spread over a number of articles, Mary Jane Hall, crochet designer and author of Positively Crochet, talks to us about the design process, shares tips for aspiring designers and gives us an interesting insight into the world of crochet designing.
- 2 Tips for Aspiring Crochet Designers
- 3 Insight into the World of Crochet Design
- 4 About Crochet Design
KP: How long have you been crocheting and how did you get started?
MJH: Well, I was 18 and in collage. This was 1969 when crochet was all the rage (just like today) and I wanted to learn to make those long crocheted vests. I think I made 10 of those for my friends in collage that year for Christmas. I was obsessed and you guessed it! My grades went down as a result of spending more time on crochet.
KP: What inspired you to start designing crochet items?
MJH:A little over 2 years ago several teen girls and women ages 20-60 came to me asking if Id teach them to crochet. They had started to see lots of crochet garments in the stores, including ponchos. These eager young girls wanted to make ponchos and I could not find very many patterns on the internet at the time. I decided to try my hand at designing some that were more updated such as the shorter ponchos and capelets. Then I decided to try selling some of the patterns on eBay and I sold 150 patterns in a 2 month period. At that point, I thought Id see if any publishers were looking for new patterns. I had contacted Kooler Designs after seeing their email in a booklet called Ruthies Scarves. They liked my patterns and after showing them to Leisure Arts (their publisher) Donna Kooler called me to say that they wanted to publish not only one but two booklets of my designs! I was in shock and on cloud 9! They wanted all 14 designs to California immediately. So I guess I was at the right place at the right time!! After that, I began designing more crochet wearables and accessories, and Carol Alexander chose all 11 of the ones I had emailed her (for Crochet! magazine and other DRG books). The rest is history! I have not even taken a break from designing since that happened 2 years ago.
KP: Can 'anyone' design crochet patterns? What skills do you need?
MJH:People say to me all the time, You are so talented!, or You have a special gift, and my response is, Thank you so much, but anybody can do this. It just takes desire and determination. I am the kind of person who believes that anybody on this earth can do anything they set their mind to. Of course I have had good influences in my life. At an early age when I was growing up, my sisters and I had a singing group and we sang professionally (getting paid) by being regulars on a Saturday evening show every week, called Country Junction. We didnt like country back then, but we sang folk songs with our guitar. Also as teenagers, we had our own weekly radio program and we also traveled all over the state singing and campaigning for a state representative. So we were told by our parents that we could do anything we set our minds to do. We were very successful as singers and also made a record and appeared on TV many times. Then when I left home and got out on my own, those principles stuck with me. I continued singing professionally at fairs and festivals (as well as other events) and that principle translated into other areas of my life. I have tried to succeed in anything I do. I think it is a mind set, and a decision that you make. It just took determination and a lot of work.
Another example is that people tell me all the time, Youre such a good cook. You are so talented. I wish I could cook like you. I just laugh and say, Can you read? If they say yes, then I say, If you can read a recipe, you can cook! When I became a realtor in the 80s, I was top sales person of the year my first 3 years. I do not say this in any way to brag or to boast. I am not any more special than any other human being. Anyone can do those things if they set their mind to it. Another thing is that I married a guy, Terry, who is one of the most talented motivational speakers you could ever hear. He has traveled all over the country giving his Yes, You Can! seminars to businesses, churches, and the chamber of commerce in different cities. What he says about life is very powerful and has substance. He makes people laugh and he can bring people to tears 2 seconds later. I have been surrounded by positive thinking most of my life, and so when you asked me Can anyone design?, I had to give you the background on where I am coming from and why I believe anyone CAN design. In fact they can do anything they want to do, as far as its morally right and legal!
KP: What are your plans for the future?
MJH:I absolutely love designing and I have made so many wonderful friends in this business. (designer friends, editors, publishers and fans) This career has really enhanced my life, and I want to do it forever. Ill do it till Im 100 if I can! I like submitting designs to magazines, but I also love doing books. I dont like all the pressures, but the rewards are great. And Im not just talking about money!!


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DeMarcus Ware scooted toward the parking lot Wednesday, unnoticed by reporters. His impact on the Broncos, however, remains as impossible to miss as his lime-green Nikes.
June practice in shorts fosters optimism. Everyone looks good, focus is narrow and goals are shared. So many players have chips on their shoulders, Doritos figures to film a commercial at Dove Valley.
Ware's presence warrants a double take. He grows in significance every time a teammate approaches a microphone or shares an anecdote. After practice earlier this week, Ware worked overtime with a teammate. And not linebacker Von Miller, who might benefit most by Ware's addition. Ware, the former Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowler who was cut this offseason, worked with right offensive tackle Chris Clark.
Clark switched positions from the left side after all-pro Ryan Clady's return from an injured left foot. It creates a challenge with footwork, not unlike a shortstop moving to second base and learning how to turn the double play. Ware advised Clark on specific moves, trying to quicken his adjustment.
Alone, the scene speaks about Ware's intentions, his drive to leave the Cowboys' puzzling mediocrity in his past and reach the postseason. He helps everyone. Defensive end Derek Wolfe calls him a coach on the field, pointing to assistance provided in simple drill work. Miller joked that Ware is a "like a psychic because he already knows what I am asking before I ask it."
Tight end Julius Thomas praised Ware on Wednesday. Having Ware across from him in drills becomes a daily CliffsNotes.
"I am trying to improve and get better, and I always like to remind people that it's tough to learn when you are going up against the best players in the world," Thomas said. "Going against someone of DeMarcus' experience and skill level makes me better. I can't say enough about how much he has helped me so far, and how it will only continue going forward."
Ware downplayed his role, saying he's watching from the "catbird seat." He is getting a read on his teammates while also serving as an open book. It's becoming clear with each passing day why defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio frets little about his defense's leadership.
Prater back at camp. Place-kicker Matt Prater returned to the Broncos on Wednesday and participated in closed team practices. Prater, who made 25-of-26 field-goal attempts last season, missed the first four organized team activities sessions because of a personal medical issue.
Footnotes. Cornerback Chris Harris (left knee) continues to make progress. He could return as soon as the third preseason game, and he sees no reason he won't be ready for the Sept. 7 season opener as part of an improved unit. "You get Von and me back with the new guys, and this defense is going to be scary," predicted Harris. ... Thomas, a former college basketball player, on whether the 6-foot-8, 250-pound LeBron James could play in the NFL: "If I can do it," Thomas said, "he could definitely do it."
Troy E. Renck: trenck @denverpost.com or twitter.com/ troyrenck


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September 3, 2013 > Bill would provide online protection for minors
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP), Aug 30 - Minors who post embarrassing photographs or information on social media websites would have a chance to remove it from public view under legislation being sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg requires that website operators give children a way to take down the material and to disclose on their sites how to make those requests.SB568 also prohibits websites from marketing alcohol, tobacco and other products to minors. It further bans them from giving minors' identifying information to third-parties marketers.It would apply only to registered users of the websites and take effect Jan. 1, 2015.The Senate passed the bill 38-0 Friday, sending it to the governor.


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European leaders hammered out a deal early Thursday morning to pull Greece back from the edge of default and provide a bigger buffer of cash for other vulnerable EU countries. The details, though, remain to be worked out, and many experts question whether meltdowns will spread across the Eurozone.
EU Pulls Greek Economy Back From Brink. Now What?
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Software giant and Dow-30 component Microsoft (MSFT – Free Microsoft Stock Report) has reported revenues and earnings of $20.5 billion and $0.72 a share for its fiscal third quarter, compared with our estimates of $21.0 billion and $0.77 a share. (Years end June 30th.) The primary difference between the two earnings figures relates to a $733 million fine ($0.09 a share) that was imposed by the European Commission during the quarter. That said, the financial report generally made for good reading, and investors are greeting the results warmly. Microsoft shares were bid sharply higher in early market trading, in response.
Despite the adverse trends in the PC business, the Windows and Windows Live Division is making headway with Windows 8. Indeed, the ecosystem for the new operating system is continuing to take shape, with Microsoft and its partners clearly focused on the multiple-dimensional product marketing requirements to commercialize Windows 8 at the consumer level. Meantime, Windows 7 continues to be a success, particularly in the business arena, with two-thirds of enterprise desktops now on this system.
Server & Tools continued to find the wind at its back. Indeed, the group had another good quarter, with strength in demand coming from datacenters (virtualization and database) and strong interest in Windows Azure (cloud platform). Our sense is the established trend here is likely to remain for some time yet, given corporate customers' interest in improving the overall efficiency of their computer systems and networks.
The launch of the new Office productivity suite and general demand from businesses for the range of products offered by the Microsoft Business Division moved this group nicely forward for the March period. Moreover, the momentum for Office 365 continues to build, attracting small- and medium-sized businesses. In addition, the subscription-based revenue model for the new Office suite is interesting, since it should eventually provide a hefty annuity stream and smooth future product transitions. As it stands now, the prospects for MBD look good.
Meanwhile, the losses at the Online Services Division continued to narrow. Ad revenue moved forward at a good clip, benefiting from further improvement in revenue per search. And despite the strength of its competitor (Google search), Bing continues to pick up market share. Finally, the Entertainment & Devices Division is benefiting from higher transactional revenues and growing membership at Xbox Live and expanding interest in Windows Phone.
Adding it all up, we think the prospects for Microsoft are good, and we continue to recommend these high-quality shares to those with a longer-term perspective, say in the two to three year range. Our revenues and earnings estimates for fiscal 2013 are now $79.0 billion and $2.75 a share (including the $733 million fine from the European Commission). At this juncture, our sense is revenues and earnings should move nicely higher in fiscal 2014, to around $85 billion and $3.00 a share.
About The Company: Microsoft Corp. is the largest independent maker of software. It develops and sells products for a wide range of computing devices. The company also sells the Xbox video game console. Revenue sources in fiscal 2012 were as follows: Microsoft Business, 32.6% of total; Windows & Windows Live, 24.9%; Server and Tools, 25.3%; Entertainment & Devices, 13.0%; Online Services, 3.9%; Other, 0.3%. Research & development spending as a percent of 2012 sales was 13.3%.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Inspired by the onstage persona of Kiss, this rock band from Ohio is composed of Andrew Biersack (Andy Six) (vocals), Ashley Purdy (bass, backing vocals), Jake Pitts (lead guitar), Jeremy Ferguson (guitar, violin) and Christian Coma (drums).
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