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The fifth-year middle linebacker has been the Rams' most recognizable defensive presence since establishing a team rookie record with 144 tackles during the 2009 season. In the years following that breakout rookie campaign, Laurinaitis has become a stalwart on the field, a mentor to his teammates, and the centerpiece of a green-but-growing defensive unit.
"The Bell Cow"
Since staking his claim as the Rams' starting middle linebacker in his rookie season, Laurinaitis has been arguably the team's most irreplaceable defensive presence. The personnel around him have changed often. Only DE
Perhaps Laurinaitis' best attribute since arriving in the NFL has been his clockwork-like degree of consistency. In his five seasons in St. Louis, Laurinaitis has not missed a single game, and led all Rams defenders in tackles during his first four years, becoming the only Rams player to lead the team in total stops for four consecutive seasons since the franchise moved to St. Louis in 1995. Through 10 games in 2013, Laurinaitis is in line to push that streak to five seasons. If there are concerns to be had for Rams defensive coaches, whether during a game week or in the offseason, Laurinaitis has gone to significant lengths to be sure he won't be among them.
"I take a lot of pride in my preparation and taking care of my body and being available," Laurinaitis said. "I take a lot of pride in being a guy that, when coaches go to bed at night, they're not worried about if I'm going to be in the right gap or whether I'm going to make the right checks on my calls. They have other people to worry about and I've always prided myself on that."
Having a player of Laurinaitis' caliber and work ethic to setting the tone for a youthful defensive group has been a major boon to Rams' defensive coordinator Tim Walton. As a first-year coordinator tasked with guiding a youthful defense in the challenging NFC West division, it certainly doesn't hurt to be able to rely on a veteran with both the eagerness and ability to lead.
"It's been outstanding," Walton said. "He's the captain. He's our bell cow there to make sure everything goes. His leadership skills have been instrumental in the development of some of those young guys. It takes time. Those guys are coming, but those guys work hard and he's the guy that's helping those guys grow."
The Mentor
Numbers can help to calculate Laurinaitis' on-field contribution, but quantifying his influence off the field with his teammates could prove more difficult. In filling the leadership position within the defensive unit that Walton and the rest of the Rams' coaching staff envisioned for him, Laurinaitis has taken naturally to the role of mentor.
While the phrase 'coach on the field' can often grow tiresome and cliché in respect to veteran athletes, no player in St. Louis has embodied that label more than Laurinaitis. From his spot at the core of the Rams' defense, Laurinaitis has made an effort to reach out to each new member of the defense and bring them up to speed. Whether it's becoming well-tuned in watching game and practice film or preparing mentally each week, Laurinaitis has not hesitated in passing his knowledge of the game to all willing to listen.
His most recent crop of mentees includes rookie linebackers
"All of the linebackers have been a help to me," Ogletree said. "They all try to chip in and help me learn something that they may have seen and I didn't see. Them just being in the league as long as they have, they may know something that I don't know. I just try to take it and use what they give me."
Laurinaitis can attest to the value of having a veteran presence to turn to. As a rookie, Laurinaitis often sought out the wisdom of veteran safety O.J. Atogwe, who was instrumental in teaching Laurinaitis many of the preparation techniques he uses today, from how to properly decipher game film to how to ready himself mentally each week. With the role of veteran sage passed to Laurinaitis, he has found his pupils to be eager students, which has only hastened the progress of both the individuals and the unit as a whole.
"Alec is hungry to learn, T.J. (McDonald) is hungry to learn," Laurinaitis said. "All the young guys, they listen to what you have to say and you have to build them up. You've got to understand that they'll make some mistakes because they haven't seen a lot. When we were young, we made those mistakes, too."
Since his days at Ohio State, Laurinaitis has received high marks for his efforts in being a student of the game, and has carried that reputation with him to St. Louis. Simply performing as an on-field contributor on Sundays was never the role that the former second-round pick allowed himself to be limited to.
The Best Has Yet to Come
Individual success has come without delay for Laurinaitis in the NFL, and the progress he has made into his fifth season suggests that he won't be slowing down any time soon. His 174 tackles in 2012 established a career-high. He also has made strides both in coverage and as a pass-rusher. Through the first 10 games of 2013, Laurinaitis is on pace for his fifth consecutive season of more than 100 tackles, and has also created three turnovers with a pair of interceptions and a fumble recovery.
However, team success—which is the first measure that Laurinaitis looks to—had proven elusive for Laurinaitis and many of his teammates to at the beginning of their careers. Now with a young, talented roster and a defensive-minded coaching staff, the future appears brighter in St. Louis, and Laurinaitis looks forward to being a key part of not only the transition period, but also the future success.
Laurinaitis has been close before. In his second season, the Rams entered the season's final week in control of their own destiny, needing a win in Seattle to claim the NFC West crown and the team's first postseason appearance since 2004. Instead, the Rams left Seattle with a 16-6 loss and a taste of what could be.
Under Head Coach Jeff Fisher, the Rams put together a bounce-back 2012 campaign, and with recent draft picks and free-agent acquisitions now establishing themselves in St. Louis, have shown flashes of what the future could hold. Laurinaitis, still a young man in his fifth NFL season at 28 years of age, can see the light at the end of what had been a protracted tunnel to begin his career, but knows he and his teammates have much yet to accomplish.
While the talented youth on the defensive side of the ball can excite with its big-play ability, the process in establishing the standard of consistency that Laurinaitis adheres to has not come without its growing pains. The Rams' defense stands among the league leaders in both turnovers created and in sacks, and last week in Indianapolis, showed significant strides in shutting down the opposition's running game—a previous area of difficulty.
"Teams are too good in the NFL to get away with (mistakes)," Laurinaitis said. "They will find them. Every team will."
The pursuit of the mistake-free performance remains in progress, both for Laurinaitis and his teammates. As always, it will be the presence of Laurinaitis—both in what he achieves on the field and how he prepares himself and his teammates off of it—that will be the fuel behind that pursuit.
"It's the same routine from Day 1," Laurinaitis said. "Win, lose, whatever, you keep studying hard, you keep taking notes the way you always have, and you never take anything for granted. There are always guys out there working hard who want to take your job. I love the game too much to ever take a day off."


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MG enthusiasts around the world are preparing to celebrate the golden anniversary of the MGB this year, and in the beloved sports cars' country of origin, the party won't get any more lively than at this summer's 2012 Silverstone Classic – one of just three official events celebrating the B's 50th.
Great Britian's major celebrations for the MGB open with MGLive! in June and conclude with an MG gathering at Blenheim Palace in September. In between comes this year's three-day Silverstone Classic, staged July 20-22 at the home of the British Formula 1 Grand Prix. All MGB owners attending these three special events will be presented with a unique commemorative rally plaque exclusive to the individual show.
"We are very proud to welcome the MGB50 celebration to the Silverstone Classic," said event director Nick Wigley. "The 'B' is at the heart of the classic car movement in the U.K. and, as part of this trilogy of special events, we look forward to giving owners a great rocking and racing experience. This is a fantastic era for celebrating golden milestones in the British sportscar industry – last year, the Silverstone Classic honoured the 50th birthday of the E-type with a Guinness World Record; this year we will be paying homage to 50 years of the remarkable MGB."
More than half a million MGBs were built between 1962 and 1980 in Abingdon – home of the MG factory, located just down the road from Silverstone, to the south of Oxford. From the original Mark I roadster, through to the MGB GT and the GT V-8, the MGB has survived as one of the most affordable and adored sports cars in the world. In its day, The 'B' also enjoyed some notable racing and rallying successes during the Sixties with victories, either outright or in class, at Brands Hatch, Nurburgring, Sebring, Targa Florio, Spa-Francorchamps, as well as the Monte Carlo Rally. The Silverstone Classic should provide the perfect backdrop for the MGB50, with more than 800 historic race cars in action and 7,000 classic cars on display throughout the weekend. Adding to the party atmosphere, there will be live music from Mike and The Mechanics and Adam Ant, plus a free fun fair, retail village, air displays, demos and the new AA World feature with its own wealth of attractions.
"It's shaping up to be a tremendous year for the B," said MG Car Club General Manager Julian White. "Each of the three events offers MGB owners something different, and I know many enthusiasts will be keen to attend all three celebrations. The MG Car Club is based in Abingdon, the spiritual home of the marque, so we know firsthand how much the MGB means to people. So it's only natural we have big plans for the MGB50 anniversary." MGB50 Chairman John Watson added: "The two main MG Clubs are working together to enjoy 12 months of MGB celebrations to mark the 50 years of 'The Great British Sports Car.'"
Full details of the 2012 Silverstone Classic powered by the AA – including information on ticket offers and a comprehensive selection of on-site camping facilities – are available via the event's website, SilverstoneClassic.com.
Had one when I was a kid. Put a Buick V6 in it. What a hoot.
BTW we always called it Great Britain (not Britian)
The VIN on my 1962 MGB is G-HN3-/136 with a manufacture date of June 19th, 1962. It is one of the oldest MGBs in the States. The car is located in San Diego CA and will be part of two displays celebrating the 50th year of the MGB.
That's three days after I was born!
Great entry level possibly the best British small sports car ever..
I do love the E type's also if you could afford one at that time or even now. I suggest that buying the correct MGB now is a solid investment I love servicing these vehicles and restoring them.
Keeps me feeling young
Pray tell, what and when are the two displays?
The MG Car Club Rocky Mountain Centre (MGCCRMC) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the MGB at the MGCC Glenwood Springs Rally on June 8, 9 and 10th in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This is the 60th year for the oldest continually operated Rally in North America. Hope to see you there!
Jim The MG Rescue Guy
I was fortunate or unfortunate ( depending on your point of view) to own more than one MGB in the seventies. The only one that ran for more then a mile at a time was a '72 which I bought from a local gas station as a chassis/body and ten cardboard boxes full of parts that my friends & I put back together in my garage. I still have the lug wrench that I carried under the seat to bang on the fuel pump when it stopped running on the road. Wish I still had the carbuerator adjustment tool which was mandatory to keep in the tool box as they would need to be adjusted after every road trip. Great cars, wish I still had one.
Wonderful. I had a 1953 and a 56 and I sold them both. Great cars.
A friend of mine back in the 1970's had a daughter who wanted one of these as a graduation present. They went to the local dealer and he didn't have the blue color she wanted in stock. So her dad bought one anyway and then took it directly to a body shop to have it repainted blue. This doesn't say anything about the car, but I will always remember that example of bad parenting every time I see one.
Not all of us!!
Hate em, ever calling them "sports cars" was mislabling of the highest order 🙂
Badly built, poor handling, blah blah…
Reading UK
Actually these cars were one of the best handling cars of there time, and they have good build quality also. Now you say they are not sports cars but I can assure you they are. No there not super-cars or muscle-cars but defiantly not a Gremlin or Chevette 🙂
I agree that my '67 B was not the best handling when I got it, but some very minor tweaking turned it into one sweet and quick direction changing machine. What a fun ride!
I traded my cherised 1955 MGTF1500 for an MGB. What a mistake!
I have always been infatuated with these cars, however at 6'4″ it is not to be. Also, a friend of mine received a 1975 MGB for HS graduation. He owned it for 90 days (88 of which were in the repair shop).
I've heard of someone that's 7'0 driving these with the top up, pictures too. No excuse not to buy one now, so time to check craigslist
Or, you know, Hemmings:
I had two back in the 70's a 67 & a 68. They were a blast but two quotes describe them, Much Grief and Lucas prince of darkness. I had them both at the same time as one would always refuse to run.Sometimes I think they conspired against me.I also had a 64 Chevy that I used when I really had to be somewhere!
I can relate C Young @ 6'8″ Ive never had much of an inkling for a "sports car"! lol
An "intermediate" '64 Lemans is about as small as I can get…
Ours is undergoing a restoration at this time!
My '76 MGB makes me very happy and I've met some fine people because of my ownership of the car.
Still have my 75 MGB SPTSR ANNI IN GARAGE AND NEED TO TAKE IT FOR A SPIN THIS SUMMER… Great fun. Fifty K
I'm thinking of growing a beard in celebration …………
I'm buying an anorak.
My first car was a B. I've been hooked ever since. I've owned a 70 model since 1983. For all the haters. Modern upgrades to fuel pumps and ignitions have made the cars as realiable as most new cars. You don't have to adjust carbs after a long drive that's BS. An saying it's not a sports car is pure crap. It's got more race heritage than most modern sport cars. It just came from a different era.
To the haters I say "If you can't keep an MG running, perhaps you should find a different hobby."
My first car was a B — it provided great exercise…when the lucas electrical system would crap out and I would start walking to find a telephone to call AAA….then I bought a 1947 MG-TC from a guy in England…it came into New Orleans and I went down with a car trailer and pulled it back to Missouri….Paid $4,000 for the car and sold it less than 2 years later for $8,200…that provided the down payment on my first house…I still miss the B…. I liked the windup windows but always wanted an MGA…sadly never owned one.
I'm dropping a Ford 302 in my MGB right now (to celebrate!). A great car, made a even better!
I am also adding a 4-link rear suspension and larger disc brakes. Thanks to very healthy MGB aftermarket parts availability, this is a bolt up proposition.
BTW, I am 6'6″ tall. I removed the seats and installed Miata seats in it. There is a lot of legroom in it!
My 1st MG was a used 66 B that I drove the heck out of……Loved that car. It did have issues but back in the early 70's most cars that were driven hard had issues. I have a 61 MGA in my LBC collection that is certainly a "sports car" though at her age is not driven hard.
my first car was a 68 mgb.had more fun than the law allows.tinkered w/ it .ended up working and restoring them for other people.met my wife of 20 yrs because she had an 80 that her dad paid me to restore.she used that car to approach me with a ? about it.stil have my second 68 and her 80.great affordable simple cars.just plain fun.congrats mgb. . btw anybody have info on the old 1950cc big bore kits of the late 80s
Just purchased a restored 1967 MGB this Fall and just love it. Use it to drive around Asheville NC and on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Also have a nice 1963 short wheel base Land Rover (restored as well). If I didn't have Old English Cars close by to keep me humming I would worry!
These cars are very simple both electrically and mechanically. Oddly, the myth about "Lucas Electricals" seems to persist. My three cars have original generators and coils. The 64 Midget has well over 300,000 miles on it, and there have been no electrical failures yet. Even all of the toggle switches are still working. I've owned it since 1972.
I agree, a very fun car to drive. I'm 6′, and I fit in there just fine, even with the top up. More odd mythology? I can stretch out the full length of my legs and not contact the end of the floor pan when the seat is set fully back.
A bit under-powered compared to the B type, but the 40 MPG is nice these days. Those SU carbs are an amazing design. pure genius. I expect they will last practically forever, as long as I keep those dashpots full!
And the simplicity of the engine allows for a 4 hour valve job. Try that with one of our modern fuel injected nightmares….
I had an iris blue 1963 MGB roadster when I was in college. I loved that car. Have been trying to find another that is in original or restored condition and not botched up with mods. There are not many nice ones left in the US due to rust, abuse, and export of them.
The first and last MG imported to thecUS used to be in Strasburg PA at Gast Classic Cars.I don't know if they are still owned by Jeff Gast or not.
Bought 1 of these with my Wife [ She wanted 1 ] in the late 70's Fun car But needed constant attention .
My brother had 1958 A in the late 60's and never had a serious problem . He later bought a Sprite in 1969 while he was 1 of the Original – Non Steroid – Body Builders He could
Dead Lift the rear with ease ! .
just bought a 1966 MGB roadster last dec. 2011, xmas present to my self . using it almost every day with fun
that's what you call good timing .
I bought a new MGB (GHN3L53123) on July 2, 1965. It was my daily driver, it was a great car, unfortunately driving it around in northern Ohio winters for 8 years caused much rust to develop. I tried to stay ahead of the rust, but sold it in 1973 before it fell apart.
I bought a brand new MGB convertible back in 1974, right off the dealer's showroon floor!
They called the color "blaze", combination of red and orange. The interior was black vinyl.
All of my freiends back then tried to talk me out of it, "You don't want that car, Mike. They fall apart as soon as you own one!"
But, I was stubborn and bought it anyway. (My other two choices were a Jeep or a Cutlass/442.)
The car ran fine for the first 3 years. I babied it too! Changed that oil like a preacher, every 2500 miles! Washed every week, waxed every 2 weeks, it looked awesome! Gallons of Armor All! Lots of compliments from everyone, even my doubting friends!
However…..as soon as the 3 year mark passed, all bets were off!
Over the next 4 years, I changed the clutch 3 times! (And no, I did not ride it! The car had a carbon clutch, so I was very careful! I never raced it, or abused it in any way!
Every week, I would pop the hood (err, bonnet!) and look down and say. "Ok car, what's it going to be this week??"
Finally, after 7 years and 118,000 miles, I gave up and bought a Honda Accord Fastback! Great car, by the way!
So, that's my "MGB Story!"
Just bought (married) my 3rd one… a '77 B and am currently in the process of domesticating it into the role of a daily driver. Couldn't be happier! Even when it breaks down… grab a screwdriver and vice-grips, pop the bonnet, scrape my knuckles, say a few choice words, twist, tweak, or duct tape something, and fire it back up! Can't do that with the new cars- is there even anything under the hood of new cars?!


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There's a thread I was reading earlier this afternoon that's now missing...not sure if it was yours, it was about outing someone's homophobia on a radio show, and where etiquette draws the line, and I thought it was quite interesting. I didn't see anything in it that was inappropriate -- so I wonder if it's a bug in the boards and multiple threads are vanishing?
I was reading one about getting a neighbours mail by accident, and it vanished before I finished reading the second page! I've actually been in a similar situation though not quite the same content. I'm hoping it comes back so I can finish reading it and see it resolved.
There is no bug in the forum software. The anonymous letter thread garnered a considerable number of complaints from readers citing that the thread was going nowhere, legal advice was being dispensed, etc. and was therefore removed.
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The Tornado men finished second behind nationally-ranked Queens (N.C.), scoring 53 points. The host, Queens, finished in front of King with 25 for a meet best.
Leading the pack for King was sophomore standout Spencer Frantom (Morristown, Tenn.), who finished fifth overall with a 25:23 time in the 8k run. The men also witnessed three of its runners finish with personal records, helping the Tornado to their second place team finish.
Jordan Noe (Morristown, Tenn.) was one of three King runners to set new personal best times, finishing just behind Frantom with a 25:26 time. His time set a new PR and led him to a sixth place finish. Justin Humphreys (Bristol, Tenn.) finished 12th overall, running a time of 26 minutes, flat, also a new PR for the senior. Sophomore Taylor Dix was the third King runner to set a new personal best. The Memphis, Tenn. native finish 19th overall (26:27).
Third-ranked Mount Olive finished third on the men's side, 13 points away from King. After Mount Olive, the field became quite separated with Erskine (126) finishing fourth, Belmont Abbey (174) and Limestone (174) rounding out the top half of the men's field.
"The men ran really strong and I was really proud of our individual performances," said Head Coach Peter Dalton. "A performance like today makes us all very optimistic and excited for the regional championships and make us feel like we are in good shape for an appearance in the national championships in Spokane (Wash.)."
The Tornado entered the race ranked second in the conference and in the region, an honor they held all five weeks the rankings were released by the USTFCCCA.
The Lady Tornado ran to a third place finish in the meet behind nationally-ranked Queens and Mount Olive. King finished with 80 points, just 11 points behind Mount Olive.
Kendra Sokol (Kingsport, Tenn.) was the first King female harrier to cross the line with a 19:21 time, placing her 12th overall in the 5k race. Behind her, three Lady Tornado runners hit new PR marks to contribute to the team's success. Danielle Alfano (Chattanooga, Tenn.) finished three seconds behind Sokol for a 13th place finish and set a new PR with that time. Mariah Arnold (Abingdon, Va.) also set a new personal best with a 19:28 time, finishing 15th in the race.
After Danielle Beauvais (Winchester, Va.) crossed the line in 16th (19:34), it marked a point where four of King's top-five runners finished under the 20-minute mark and in the top 16 overall spots. Evan Ferrell (Richlands, Va.) finished right at 20:00 for a 24th finish to round out the team's performance.
Morgan Weddle (Nicklesville, Va.) ran her first race for King College, setting a new best performance time of 20:35 and finishing 41st overall.
Dalton said, "We are confident in our ability to run the 6k when it is time to do so in two weeks. We had some great individual performances but we will look to improve upon our team performance in order to get back to Nationals and compete with the field at the regional championships."
Both teams will take to the track again on Nov. 5 at the Southeast Regional Championships held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The top two ranked teams in each region will receive an automatic invitation to the National Championships, which will be held in Spokane, Wash. on Nov. 19.


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The battle of the BFL's top two teams lived up to expectation today as Golden Square and Gisborne played out a thrilling draw at MyJet Oval.
Golden Square led by 52 points early in the second quarter, but Gisborne fought back from the slow start, with the scores locked together at 14.10 (94) apiece in the best game of the season so far.
The draw guarantees Gisborne will finish on top of the ladder.
Meanwhile, there was almost another draw today, with Maryborough upsetting Strathfieldsaye by one point at Princes Park.
The Magpies won 10.9 (69) to 9.14 (68) in a game that ended with confusion after the scoreboard at the final siren indicated Strathfieldsaye had won.
The loss has cost the Storm any chance of finishing in the top three.
Other results:
South Bendigo 11.8 (74) d Castlemaine 7.10 (52).
Eaglehawk 13.18 (96) d Kangaroo Flat 9.10 (64).
Sandhurst 12.17 (89) d Kyneton 10.7 (67).
Heathcote proved too good for Colbinabbin, winning the qualifying final by 55 points at White Hills.
The Saints booted nine goals to one in the pivotal third quarter to win 19.12 (126) to 11.5 (71) and set up a second semi-final against Lockington-Bamawm United next week.
Huntly and North Bendigo meet in tomorrow's elimination final at Colbinabbin.
NEWBRIDGE and Pyramid Hill have finished in the top three at the expense of Calivil United and Bears Lagoon-Serpentine after today's final round.
Bridgewater 20.18 (138) d BL-Serpentine 13.8 (86).
Marong 19.12 (126) d YCW 9.10 (64).
Pyramid Hill 15.9 (99) d Calivil United 9.16 (70).
Newbridge 12.13 (85) d Mitiamo 7.6 (48).
How the top-five finished: Bridgewater (54 points), Newbridge (44), Pyramid Hill (44), BL-Serpentine (44), Calivil United (42).
St Arnaud produced its best performance of the season to trounce Wycheproof-Narraport by 95 points and keep its finals hopes alive.
The Saints won 20.14 (134) to 5.9 (39), with Nicholas Coghlan kicking eight goals.
Other results:
Donald 14.12 (96) d Boort 6.6 (42).
Lexton's Matt Brown brought up his 100th goal for the season in the Tigers' 291-point drubbing of Royal Park.
Brown kicked the eight goals he needed to get to 100 and was then rested in the Tigers' 44.28 (292) to 0.1 (1) win in the top versus bottom clash.
Other results:
Rovers 17.10 (112) d Dunolly 11.18 (84).
Carisbrook 11.16 (82) d Natte Bealiba 5.4 (34).
Navarre 15.12 (102) d Newstead 3.6 (24).
Avoca 8.10 (58) d Talbot 6.9 (45).
BENDIGO GOLD and PIONEERS
Both the Bendigo Gold and Bendigo Pioneers were beaten in their matches today.
The Gold lost to ladder-leaders Port Melbourne 16.10 (106) to 8.5 (53), meaning they are yet to shore up a finals berth.
The Pioneers went down to the Western Jets 15.10 (100) to 3.5 (23) in their last home game of the season.


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You are likely to be a participant in some rather extraordinary developments in the coming months, most of which you will find to be intriguing. Many new doors will be opened for you.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — When in a discussion with another, you might suddenly have an ingenious flash of inspiration. If this happens, do not treat it lightly.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Someone whom you'd like to know better is also eager to learn more about you. You just might get an opportunity to develop things further.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Although unexpected success is likely to come through an unusual chain of events, this doesn't mean that you should leave important things to chance.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You're in an interesting cycle where friendships are concerned, and some intriguing people could soon enter your life. Be sure to be open-minded and receptive.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A well-intentioned, dependable friend could have an interesting proposition. It could produce copious benefits for both of you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A colleague is as eager as you are to firm up a partnership arrangement. However, both parties need assurance that it'll be fair and equitable.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — This is one of those unusual days when some peripheral benefits could be more impressive than you'd hoped, and even better than your initial investment.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Spontaneous events will likely turn out to be the most fun. Be sure your schedule isn't overly structured so that you can go along with the flow of things.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Improvements in your material circumstances should begin soon. If you've been involved in something unprofitable, you might be able to improve the outlook.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Good news could be delivered via a strange pipeline. It could pertain to something either social or romantic, and will be quite interesting.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Your financial trends may be going back and forth. Because it's likely to be one of your more favorable days, make it meaningful.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — The power of your personality is much higher than you may realize. You're making a good impression on others, and this will be reflected in your popularity.
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2003-04 Women's Basketball
Muskingum 72, BC 50
Senior Lindsay Bacon leads team with 17 points; Karin Schaller breaks blocks per game
record with eight
By Ben Risinger, SID
November 26, 2003
NEW CONCORD , OHIO - The Bluffton College womens' basketball team (0-3) were defeated 72-50 by Muskingum College on Wednesday night.
Bluffton came out very well early in the ball game as they were up 15-4 with 11 minutes left in the first half. A late half surge by the Muskies put them up by seven at the end of the first. The Beavers shot 43 percent (12-for-28) shooting in the first half to only be down by seven 37-30 going into the locker room. Bluffton went 8-for-26 in the second half (31 percent). Overall, the Muskies ended the game with 42 percent shooting, compared to the Beavers 37 percent on the game.
Leading Bluffton in points was senior Lindsay Bacon (Troy/Troy) with 17 points on the evening. Freshman Tanya Rickenberg (Defiance/Paulding) threw in 10 points and a team high seven assists. Sophomore Karin Schaller (Jenera/Arlington) had a team high nine rebounds and added seven points. ** (updated 11/27) Schaller also had eight blocks on the contest, breaking the BC blocks per game record. The previous record was five blocks in a game by Kim Bostater vs. Albion in the 1995-96 season.
The Beavers will be back in action next Wednesday for their 2003-04 home opener against Capital University . Tip off is scheduled for


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Sweden has long been a major exporter of music. Until recently, however, it would be fair to say that most of the music Sweden exported wasn't very, well, very good. Glossy and catchy, sure, but the specialty of the Swedish music houses was a peculiarly empty kind of pop, made by artists that have mostly been forgotten: Roxette, Ace of Base, Robyn. Remember Robyn? She had that R&B-lite hit back in '97, "Show Me Love?" Show me love, show me life; baby show me what it's all about… Ring any bells? The chorus was sticky as hell at the time but once it came unstuck, the song was gone. And so was Robyn.
Except. A huge star in Sweden, Robyn has, in the past few years, reinvented herself as that nation's answer to Gwen Stefani. A Gwen Stefani who starts her own record label, works with avant-garde producers, raps like a mo-fo and dresses up like a telephone if it gets the video point across. A Gwen Stefani with nerve, in other words. Her new EP, Konichiwa Bitches, just made it to the States and comes pedigreed with credits from members of Stockholm's best and weirdest band The Knife (more on them later) and Teddybears, the Swedish group who brought you the unavoidable "bomb-ditty-bomb-a-dang-a-dang-ditty" dancehall pop song scoring ads for Heineken Beer and "Grey's Anatomy." More importantly, however, the songs on Konichiwa Bitches kick butt. The title track is eyebrow-raisingly lewd and ass-shakingly groovy, Robyn's simultaneous come on and a kiss-off to all the boys who want her. And who wouldn't? The teen-pop princess isn't ashamed to flirt. But now she's in charge of showing love, and showing life, and showing what it's all about. And she's not about to let anyone forget it.


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Shopko announced Friday, Oct. 12, that the liquidation sale will end at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, and the store conversion process to Shopko Hometown will begin Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Toledo Pamida store. The store will be closed for one week until the first department, Consumables, is converted.
The pharmacy will remain open during the entire conversion process which will last between five to six weeks.
The conversion to Shopko Hometown will include new interior and exterior signage, carpet, paint, updated and supplement fixtures and lighting and a new easy to shop store layout. Each of the store's three primary departments will be converted one department at a time with each department opening to shoppers as soon as it's complete.
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The Pamida Store in Toledo on Sunday, Oct. 14. The store will close on Saturday at 5 p.m., but will be reopening soon as a Shopko Hometown Store.
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The first department to be converted will be Consumables, which includes health and beauty, over the counter, candy, beverages and snacks. The department will open to the public by Oct. 28, followed by the Home department which will open no later than Nov. 11.
The Home department includes sporting goods, electronics, housewares, toys and domestics.
The final department to convert is Apparel which will open by Nov. 18.
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The store's outdoor lawn and garden department will remain open throughout the conversion.
A grand opening celebration will take place once the entire conversion process is complete.
"Since our merger with Pamida early this year, we've converted more than 120 Pamida stores to the Shopko Hometown format," said Mike Bettiga, Shopko Interim CEO. "The response from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive and we are thrilled to be just weeks away from introducing this retail concept to Toledo."
Shopko Hometown combines Shopko's strong reputation of health services and customer service with a broad and dynamic offering of strong national brands and high-value private label brands of apparel, home furnishings, toys, consumer electronics, seasonal items, and lawn and garden products all in a well laid out store formats that range from 15,000 to 35,000-square-feet.
Shopko is investing approximately $80 million into Pamida store conversions which occur in phases through the end of the year.
Shopko is owned by affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm focused on leverage buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies.
About Shopko
Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Shopko Stores Operating Co., LLC is a $3 billion retailer that operates almost 350 stores in 22 states throughout the Midwest, Mountain, North Central and Pacific Northwest regions. Retail formats include 134 Shopko stores, providing quality name-brand merchandise, great values, pharmacy and optical services in small to mid-sized cities; 5 Shopko Express Rx stores, a convenient neighborhood drugstore concept; and 10 Shopko Hometown locations, a smaller concept store developed to meet the needs of smaller communities. In addition, Shopko is in the process of converting over 170 recently-acquired stores and pharmacies to the Shopko brand. For more information, visit www.shopko.com.


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Nora Guthrie had put off reading her late father Woody Guthrie's recently unearthed novel, "House of Earth," even after she'd agreed for it to be published. Having devoted much of 2012 to preparing events and projects surrounding the centennial of the singer-songwriter-artist's birth, she said, she wanted to read the book at her leisure, when it wouldn't feel like "work."
Nora Guthrie had put off reading her late father Woody Guthrie's recently unearthed novel, "House of Earth," even after she'd agreed for it to be published. Having devoted much of 2012 to preparing events and projects surrounding the centennial of the singer-songwriter-artist's birth, she said, she wanted to read the book at her leisure, when it wouldn't feel like "work."
So it wasn't until last fall that she started in on the manuscript's pages and soon reached the lengthy, graphic sex scene in a cowshed during which the husband and wife discuss the benefits of adobe homes.
"I went, 'Dad! Whoa!'" Nora Guthrie, 63, recalled on the phone from the New York-based Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives, of which she is the director.
She was encountering what she calls the "slightly undomesticated animal side of him" — Woody Guthrie writing about the time before he moved to New York City and became a famous folk singer and got into the habit of wearing clean clothes. This was Dust Bowl Woody, a man earthy not only in sensibility and humor but also in philosophy. Everything in "House of Earth" — life, sex, nature, shelter — is intended to spring from the earth.
It's a book that could have been written only by someone with talent: a keen ear for dialogue, a deep sense of empathy, sharp powers of observation and a lyrical way with words. Paragraph after paragraph could have been recast in the kind of epic ballads that made Guthrie famous.
For instance, there's this description of the elements' toll on the protagonists' wooden house in the Texas upper plains:
"Then the long keen rays of the late spring sun would come. They would shine down against the house for several hours out of every day. They sucked. They bit. They scratched. They clawed and they chewed at the boards. And they sipped the wild saps, gums, rosins, juices, and waters out again with sunrays, winds, the dry tongue and lips of the weather that sings, then whispers, then sucks, and kisses all of the little houses until they are dry again and brittle. And this was the dryness of the heat against the house."
"House of Earth" also is — let's be honest — a misfit of a novel, taking its place in a long tradition of idiosyncratic fiction authored by accomplished musicians (among them Bob Dylan's "Tarantula," John Lennon's "In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard in the Works," and assorted works by Nick Cave). It dates from 1946 to 1947, which places it after he moved to New York, wrote "This Land Is Your Land" and saw the publication of his memoir "Bound for Glory," a book filled with incident and drama. More happens on the train in the first chapter of "Bound for Glory" than in all of "House of Earth."
This, no doubt, is by design. Guthrie's interest here lies less in constructing a dramatic arc than drilling deep into the lives of an isolated married couple, Tike and Ella May Hamlin, as they subsist in a rickety wooden house on desolate land that they will never own.
Guthrie, never shy about sharing his leftist views, fills his novel with speeches and platform statements, such as this exchange between Tike and Ella May:
"I wish you'd think up some kind of a way to get us a piece of nice good farmin' land, with an adobe house on it, an' a big adobe fence all around it."
"There's not but one way. And that is to just keep on working and fighting and fighting and working, and then to work and to save and to save and to fight some more," she said.
Mind you, this dialogue comes in the middle of the sex scene.
The only characters in the novel are Tike — whose crude humor, plain-spoken yearnings and fighting spirit remind Nora Guthrie of her father — the spirited, long-suffering Ella May, and a young woman, Blanche, who arrives to help with a baby delivery. Nature and that old not-adobe house, with its gaps and cracks for letting in the dust and wind and snow, occupy the rest of the author's attention.
Nora Guthrie acknowledged the novel's lack of plot or narrative momentum.
"This is like a lot of nothing — a lot of nothing happening," she said. "I think what kind of got to me is it pulled me as a human being down to that same place, the repetition of it and the unrelenting quality of it day after day after day: nature, people, farm, shelter, sex. It's just this repetitive, unrelenting existence."
"House of Earth" came out Feb. 5 from Infinitum Nihil, actor Johnny Depp's new HarperCollins imprint. Depp and historian/author Douglas Brinkley ("Cronkite," "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast") are credited with editing the novel and writing its lengthy introduction, though Guthrie said she dealt only with Brinkley in the book's preparation.
In their introduction Brinkley and Depp, who received a Grammy nomination for their liner notes to the 2008 documentary "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" (Brinkley is Thompson's literary executor), speculate on why "House of Earth" went unpublished following its completion in 1947: Perhaps Guthrie "sensed that some of the content was passe," or maybe the graphic sex was too much in a climate in which Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" had been banned in the United States.
But Tiffany Colannino, archivist at the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York's Westchester County, said there's no way to know what Guthrie actually was thinking on this matter.
"We don't have him writing about 'House of Earth' at all," Colannino said. "We don't have him making any comment on it."
She is relatively certain that Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967 at age 55, sent a complete version of the manuscript to filmmaker Irving Lerner, who had worked on some socially conscious documentaries — though how the author imagined that a late-'40s feature film might be crafted from a story in which the characters do little other than argue, have sex, contemplate their struggles and rhapsodize about adobe houses is anyone's guess. At any rate the film never got made, but Lerner's copy of the novel was donated to the University of Tulsa's Guthrie collection.
Brinkley and Depp write that they "stumbled on" "House of Earth" there while researching material about Bob Dylan for a separate project. Colannino said the archive had a photocopy of the Lerner manuscript as well, and when Brinkley called for permission to edit and publish it, she and Nora Guthrie gave the OK.
"I said, 'OK, you're a smart guy. If you think it's good enough to publish, I'll trust you on this,'" Nora Guthrie recalled.
Brinkley and Depp, who call the novel "a significant cultural event and a major installment in the corpus of his published work," note that editing was minor, with two paragraphs restructured and some spellings tweaked and "cosmetic changes" made. Colannino said Guthrie liked to elongate some vowel sounds, and some of those were edited for comprehension's sake while maintaining the spirit of the language.
The novel's publication is in line with Nora Guthrie's general attitude about her populist father's works: They were intended to be shared. The highest-profile Guthrie excavation project has been Billy Bragg and Wilco's acclaimed "Mermaid Avenue" albums, for which they wrote and recorded new music to go with the songwriter's unpublished lyrics. But the Woody Guthrie Archives is packed with lyrics, manuscripts, artwork, notebooks, scrapbooks, correspondences and other creations that have never been made public or even inspected by his daughter.
"The bulk of his creativity was never published or sung," Nora Guthrie said. "I have 3,000 lyrics in the archives. He only recorded 250 in his lifetime."
Among those unrecorded songs, she noted, was one called "House of Earth," but it addresses a different subject from the novel: The lyric is about a prostitute who, among other things, promises to teach her johns things that they can take home to their wives.
"Woody is writing sex therapy songs pre-Dr. Ruth," Nora Guthrie said with a laugh, noting that she sent the lyrics to Lucinda Williams, who recorded a version of the song for the "House of Earth" audio book. "She sings it in her gravelly house-of-earth voice."
As for the "House of Earth" book, Nora Guthrie said there are no other remaining Guthrie novels left to publish — at least as far as she knows.
"I'll have to sit and look through everything," she said. "There's so much in there."
"House of Earth" by Woody Guthrie; Infinitum Nihil (288 pages, $25.99).


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AUDUBON — Helping Wakisha Charter school, end their divide-and transform the achievement gap; it is TeamChildren to the rescue.
When in need for new computers but not a lot of money to pay for them the Wakisha Charter School went to TeamChildren for 65 refurbished computers to keep their computer lab open this school year. The National Cristina Foundation assisted Vivian Sye-Payne, PTSA Coordinator for Wakisha Charter, in reaching out to TeamChildren earlier this summer.
"We finally did it," Sye-Payne states, today the pallets of computer equipment were loaded for transportation to the school. TeamChildren knows the importance of technology for low income schools to be able to have their students use a computer. With the discounted price that TeamChildren offers all of Wakisha Charter's 400 students will be able to use the high quality, low cost refurbished computers.
TeamChildren has a technology center of over 1,000 computers looking for new homes of economically challenged families, schools and organizations throughout the Delaware Valley. TeamChildren is dedicated to help those who want to have a computer get one. "We have needed these computers for so long," Sye-Payne proclaimed, thanks to TeamChildren the students are Wakisha Charter will be able to use computers for this school year any many years to come. And equally important we now know were to direct them to receive a computer for their homes.
TeamChildren, an Audubon based nonprofit, is making a difference in the educational future of children. Its mission is to ensure every child has the tools and opportunities they need to contribute and compete effectively in today's rapidly changing digital global environment. It aims to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of its efforts and expand them throughout the region, the state and the nation.
TeamChildren has distributed over 11,000 high quality low cost refurbished computers reaching more than 50,000 children. Each computer comes loaded with extraordinary learning programs that will enable any one of any age expand intellectual abilities in the comfort of their homes at their own interest and pace.
The computers are all refurbished by teens and senior citizens that volunteer their time and expertise. TeamChildren is reaching out to local business to raise funds to help expand our efforts until we reach every child.
For more information, contact Jessica McGowan by email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or phone (610)666-1795 or visit our website www.teamchildren.com.


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With the release of the Ultimate Evil edition of Reaper of Souls earlier this week, many players may be exploring Diablo III for the first time or returning to the game after not playing since the core game's PC release in 2012. With that in mind, we've gathered together some of the most important tips for leveling at an impressive pace.
We're purposefully focusing here on smart practices for playing the game well, especially if you're new to the game. If you're looking for power-leveling exploits, many of which involve repeating certain tasks over and over, other online guides are likely to be a better resource. Also, while our guide here is targeted towards players of the new console release, most of the strategies below work equally well on PC.
Start A Hero, and Stick With It
One of the most enjoyable ways to play Diablo III is through exploring alternate characters and their powers. However, once you settle on a character class, play him or her all the way up to the end of the campaign before investing too much time in alts. While you're at it, consider taking that initial main hero all the way to level 70.
Why? There are lots of reasons. Higher difficulty settings don't unlock until you're partway through the main campaign, and you'll want those higher difficulty options for some of our later tips. Adventure mode doesn't unlock until at least one character has finished the campaign storyline. A level 70 hero allows you to start developing your paragon levels, which carry over to new alts, giving those new characters a boost from the start. Plus, level 70 characters have access to the best gems, which can be shared with your low-level alts as soon as they begin acquiring socketed items, which can make a big difference in speeding up progression.
Play Together
This somewhat obvious point bears mentioning if you're new to the game. Diablo III can be fun on your own, but the fun is magnified with more players. In fact, Blizzard provides an XP boost that increases with each new player that joins the party. Beyond that simple boost, every aspect of the game is easier with more players, and you'll simply move through the game faster. And have more fun.
The other big reason to play together (or at least be on other player's friends list) involves the new social features of the Ultimate Evil Edition. Player mail lets you share items with other players; while that might not be common practice among strangers, good friends can send each other aid to support the leveling drive. More friends also adds up to more opportunities to get nemeses from your friend's game (which drop good loot) and for that friend to receive a special gift targeted to your account, which they can then send to your mailbox.
Capitalize On Apprentice Mode
The new, currently console-exclusive apprentice mode is a blast for a lot of reasons, but it's also a ridiculously fast way to advance a hero. If playing with a group of friends, figure out which member of your party has the highest level hero, and request that they play that character while you're grouped up.
The other heroes in the group will see their stats boosted to an appropriate level to survive, even if the absence of higher level skills and gear won't make them quite as powerful as the mentor character. The high level character helps assure the speedy dispatch of monsters, while the apprentices soak up the increased rate of XP and gear.
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Freddie Mac will be at the Upcoming MBA National Secondary Conference & Expo 2013
April 26, 2013
If you are planning to attend the MBA National Secondary Conference & Expo 2013 next week at the New York Marriott Marquis, please come by our Customer Information Center located at the Marquis Ballroom, Salon C, 9th level. We'll have details about the initiatives Freddie Mac is undertaking to make it easier for you to do business in today's housing market and provide you with greater purchase certainty for the loans you plan to sell to us.
During the conference Freddie Mac executives will be speaking about pressing industry topics and providing important updates on Freddie Mac's Single-Family business operations. We hope you will be able to attend these sessions:
- Update on FHFA Proposed New Framework for Mortgage Securitization
Mark Hanson, SVP, Secondary Mortgage Market Transformation
Sunday, May 5, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.
- Secondary Market Executives Update
Paul Mullings, SVP, Single-Family Sourcing & Securitization
Monday, May 6, 2013, at 3:15 p.m.
We look forward to seeing you at the MBA National Secondary Conference & Expo 2013.


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Wednesday, 23 May 2018
March 16, 2009, UNITED NATIONS (NEW YORK): – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today offered a nuanced and detailed suggestion to curtail the Security Council's veto power and make it more diffuse.
Speaking at the Seventh Informal Plenary of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Reform, which was devoted to discussing "The Question of the Veto," Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves began with the premise that the Security Council veto is "undemocratic on its face" and "should be abolished."
However, Ambassador Gonsalves conceded that, due to political and legal realities, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' "desire to abolish the veto is currently an unattainable dream." Instead, the Vincentian envoy suggested that the "principled and pragmatic solution" was "to accept, however reluctantly, the continuation of the veto in some form, but to seek that its use be formally restricted, made more transparent, more diffuse, and more subject to the democratic imperatives that drive our reform effort generally."
Ambassador Gonsalves supported measures previously proposed by Costa Rica, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Singapore and Switzerland to forbid the use of the veto in cases of genocide and crimes against humanity. He also echoed their suggestion that every use of the veto should be formally explained to the General Assembly, so as to increase the transparency of its use.
The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador further suggested that the inclusion of a veto override provision, modeled on that of Section 7 of the United States Constitution. He suggested that such a "democratising ideal" would "further subject [the Veto's] use to democratic imperatives."
Additionally, Ambassador Gonsalves insisted that the power of the veto should be extended to new Permanent Members of the Security Council. "It is not at all contradictory to call for the abolition of the veto on one hand, and its extension to new permanent members on the other," he said. "The root of our objection to the veto is its undemocratic nature and its concentration of too much power in the hands of too few. Diffusion of this power to additional players reduces both its deleterious impact and the current undemocratic imbalances. Indeed, it is fair to say that a prerequisite for the continuation of the veto should be the expansion of the permanent membership, with full veto rights. Today, no member of the African or GRULAC geographic blocs has the power of the veto. This is an untenable and unjust situation that must be redressed, either by abolition of the veto in its entirely or its extension to all new permanent members."
The Vincentian Ambassador also cautioned against approaching reform of the Veto, and Security Council reform generally, from a position of fear that any meaningful reform would itself be vetoed by existing permanent Members of the Council. "We cannot be afraid to seek meaningful reform out of fear of a veto from the [Permanent Five] at the point of ratification," he said. "This is the very essence of what is wrong with the veto to begin with - its chilling effect on real progress and real reform that is counter to the will of the General Assembly. If any of us had any questions about the use and effectiveness of the hidden veto, we need only listen to speaker after speaker today, who first condemned the veto in uncompromising terms, before quickly tempering our reforms with "reality" in the face of an assumed veto from some member of the P5."
"If our reform efforts are to be governed by learned helplessness, or constrained by fear of an ultimate veto, then we should stop being coy and trying to divine the tea leaves of what is acceptable to the P5," he continued. "Instead, we could simply ask them politely to reform themselves, or to tell us explicitly what reforms we should attempt to enact. That would save us all hours of haggling."
Ambassador Gonsalves' most recent statement marks the tenth Vincentian intervention on the issue since April 2008. Ambassador Gonsalves also discussed the issue extensively in a November 19, 2008 Statement on the Report of the Security Council (.pdf | " target="_blank">YouTube Video).
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It's never to early to start the passion for hunting. Haters will hate, don't worry about it.
I saw that on MM and thought that it was way cool. Good on you for teaching them right.
It's never to early to start the passion for hunting. Haters will hate, don't worry about it.
You are doing a great job Jen. To some it wouldn't matter what age you started him out, that you hunt is the problem. Keep doing what you know is right and forget the rest.
Never too young. My son will be here tomorrow (they are inducing labor) and I already bought him a gun... Atleast I get to use it till he is old enough haha
I saw the pic on Facebook and the first thing that popped into my head was now that is going to be a die hard hunter! People can have their own opinions and there will always be negative opinions about hunting. Would the same people have something negative to say if he was dressed up as a cowboy for Halloween sporting a couple cap gun pistols pointing them and a Indian? I doubt it. I think it is never to early to teach our kids ethics, safety, and respect! The earlier the better.
Jenbickel, my wife actually shared your pic yesterday on facebook with nothing but good comments. Way to go.
Facebook just seems really stupid to me. Senseless drama!
But to answer the question. Never too young! Your child will become a successful person if he learns to hunt and respects the animals he hunts the way you do! That is one thing I have seen repeated over and over in my life.
Thanks everyone! It makes me feel a lot better to know I'm not the only one with the thought that its never to early to start teaching them! Apparently my thinking isn't too left field!
Jen, way to go! Pissing people off. Haha jk. I take my 5 and 7 year old boys shooting bows at least once a week. As long as there is safety engrained in them. Much better than being at one of their friends home one day and their parents have a weapon laying around and they do something stupid with it. Here is a photo of my boys from quail hunting last week
Lmao! That made me laugh so hard! Good job on taking your boys out! They sure are cute!!!


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Morning Five: 11.22.13 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on November 22nd, 2013
- It did not take long for the latest John Calipari to the NBA rumors to start this season and this time they involve the New York Knicks. Of course, this rumor is based on one writer's belief that Calipari's CAA ties and the team's early season struggles will lead the two together. He does provide quotes from anonymous NBA executives who offer vague comments that seem to reflect more about the current state of the Knicks rather than about the likelihood of Calipari actually leaving Lexington for New York City. Obviously the money would be great and at some level Calipari almost certainly wants to have chance to rewrite his record as a NBA coach, but we cannot imagine that the Knicks with their high-profile job with a demanding media, atrocious salary cap situation, and even worse draft situation would be the ideal landing spot for Calipari if he wants to succeed at the NBA level.
- It seems crazy that just a few years ago people were wondering if Mike Krzyzewski was starting to slip as he was coaching the US National Team and routinely missing out on big-name recruits. Less than a week after landing two top-five recruits in Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones, Krzyzewski secured the #1 recruiting class this year when Justice Winslow committed to play at Duke yesterday. The announcement was not unexpected as Duke was the clear favorite coming into the announcement. With Winslow the Blue Devils now have four five-star players (Okafor, Jones, Winslow, and Grayson Allen) who have already committed to play for them next year. We will leave the issues surrounding Krzyzewski's moves to adjust to the one-and-done era for another post, but will just say that they are interesting.
- It has not taken long for Rutgers and Julie Hermann to get back in the news. The school, which defended its decision to keep Hermann even after allegations of past abuse came out before she took over as the school's athletic director, will now have to look into allegations that Hermann's discussions with the father of a football player who was reportedly abused never actually happened. The entire thing is so ridiculous that although the parents of the football player apparently believe it we have to think that the athletic department and possibly the school will have to do something about it. Firing her might seem harsh to some, but the school has already dealt with so much negative publicity with its previous abuse incident that when combined with the questions surrounding Hermann's hiring and this latest incident it would not be outside the realm of possibility.
- As usual Luke Winn's Power Rankings are filled with useful and interesting information even if he is holding off on bringing back the Aaron Craft and Russ Smith Turnometers (to his credit, he created a VCU Turnometer although he picked the wrong day to unveil it). The two statistics that jump out at us this week are the ridiculous percentage of minutes that Kentucky's freshmen are playing this season (75.3%), which far exceeds what the 1991-92 Michigan or 2006-07 Texas freshmen did, and Jabari Parker's ridiculous usage rate (34.1%), that exceeds even that of Michael Beasley (33.5%) and Kevin Durant (31.6%). We expect Parker's number to come back down as he gets more used to his teammates and Duke's players adapt to playing with him. We cannot say the same for Kentucky's freshman as we would suspect that their minutes would actually go up as the season goes on particularly for the freshmen who will be role players as they take minutes from their more experienced teammates as the season progresses.
- Some of you may remember the horrifying case involving Devonta Pollard's mother, who kidnapped a six-year-old relative in a dispute over land and a storage shed. Yesterday, a jury took less than an hour to convict her on all three counts: conspiracy, kidnapping, and obstruction. Devonta assisted the prosecution in the case against his mother and claimed that he was unaware of the involvement of his mother and other relatives until after the kidnapping. Prosecutors are recommending deferred prosecution for Devonta for his role in the case. His mother is not as fortunate as she will be sentenced on February 18 and is looking at 20 years to life in prison.


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After playing high school football in the smallest enrollment class in Illinois, Bryce Farquhar on Monday was named the new football coach at St. Charles East, a program coming off a berth in the IHSA Class 8A playoffs, the state's largest class.
Farquhar – who coached lower-level football in East's program over the past seven years – considers a feverish work ethic the common denominator in his success, no matter where he's been.
"I think I've gained the respect of coaches and kids just by putting in the work, and that's really my vision for the program," Farquhar said. "We're going to put in the work to be successful not only as athletes but as men and good community members and good students. It's such an awesome responsibility. I'm just proud to be in this spot."
Farquhar, 34, replaces Mike Fields, who cited family considerations in stepping down after his fifth season with the Saints.
Farquhar, a Huntley resident, was chosen from a pool of more than 40 applicants, according to East athletic director Mike Sommerfeld. The hiring is subject to school board approval, which is expected to come May 12.
Working under a relatively compact timeframe to hire a coach in time to set up the Saints' summer program, Sommerfeld still sought input from parents of East players, who expressed a desire that the coach implement a "robust" offseason program, assist players with college recruitment and generally help take the program to the next level.
East made the playoffs in three of Fields' five seasons but did not win a playoff game.
"In the end, what they were looking for was exactly what we were looking for," Sommerfeld said. "We met with the parents, and some of the things that they said they wanted, we definitely brought that perspective and kind of worked that into our questioning when we questioned the finalists. It was very important to hear from them because we need their support."
At East, Farquhar first coached under Ted Monken, then Fields, but said he will bring a distinct brand of leadership to the program. He said changes in the program will have more to do with all the behind-the-scenes details that add up to success rather than any drastic shifts in Xs and Os.
Fields – a longtime former sophomore coach at Geneva before coming to East – installed Farquhar as the Saints' sophomore coach, knowing how crucial a role that is in a program.
"He's qualified and he'll do a wonderful job," Fields said. "He's well respected by the kids. I know he'll definitely put in the time and do all the things you need to be a successful coach. … I'm excited for him to see how he does and what he does. He's got a bright future."
A teacher in East's wellness department, Farquhar (pronounced Fork-er) played high school football for a powerhouse 1A program in western Illinois, then known as Northwestern-La Harpe. He then attended but did not play football at nearby Western Illinois University before his teaching career took him to the Chicago suburbs. A stint as an assistant football coach at Richmond-Burton preceded his move to St. Charles East.
Farquhar said joyous emotions bubbled up when Sommerfeld told him he'd be the Saints' next coach, then quickly realized the amount of tasks needing prompt attention to prepare for the summer. One of those is figuring out which of the other members of Fields' former coaching staff will remain on board for the 2014 season.
"I think I owe it to those coaches to sit down even though I know them very well and see where they see themselves in four years, see what their vision is and then try to match that with my goals and my vision, and make sure we're still on the same page," Farquhar said.


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below is from a Scammer! Some of the emails
may not look like scams, but they all lead to the same
thing. The scammer will pay by check (cashier's check/money
order) for more then the pet is worth, then they will
ask you to send them back the difference in money. A
couple weeks later you find out the check was fake and
the bank will take it out of your account. This scam
can be set up several ways.
key points for pointing out a scammer:
1. Doesn't care much about the pet, just the transaction.
2. Says they will use their own shipper.
3. 95% of the scammers are from overseas (Nigeria, Israel, South Africa)
4. Pays you more then the pet is worth, then asks for the difference in money back.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date Caught: 3/15/2010
IP Address: 188.8.131.52
Host Information: 18.104.22.168
Name: fredEmail: email@example.com: Hello i will like to know if your puppy still available for sale and how much is the last asking price and what is the present condition for the puppy. Thanks.


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HARRISBURG - A flap over Gov. Tom Corbett's acceptance of $11,000 in gifts from lobbyists and business executives during a recent two-year period is leading to new calls for a state law to ban gifts to public officials completely.
A gift ban is one of the issues that a newly formed legislative Government Reform caucus could decide to push for.
Under the state Ethics Law, public officials can take unlimited gifts of unlimited value as long as they are publicly disclosed if above a monetary threshold.
They are required to disclose any gifts with an aggregate value of $250 or more and transportation, lodging and hospitality with an aggregate value of $650 or more on their annual financial statement of interest filed with the state Ethics Commission.
Corbett disclosed those gifts, which include tickets to sport events, a flight on a private jet and concert tickets, in reports filed with the commission for 2010 and 2011.
The problem that government reform lobbies like Common Cause Pennsylvania have with gift-giving is what's legal in Pennsylvania.
The monetary reporting thresholds in the ethics law are too high and enforcement of the governor's code of conduct for executive branch employees is spotty, wrote Common Cause executive director Barry Kauffman in a memo.
Kauffman made the argument that gift-giving to a public official is different from when friends exchange gifts.
"When you and I reciprocate to a gift from a friend, we're likely to provide something of relatively equal value, a bottle of wine, a DVD or a dinner invitation," he said. "But when a governor or other public official reciprocates, it can be a multimillion-dollar contract, a job for a lobbyist's friend or instructions to regulators to back off an enforcement action..."
Kauffman also focused on the workings of lobbyists.
"Lobbyists basically try to become professional 'friends' and the gears of these friendships often are greased with gifts, food, hospitality and travel," he added. "Danger to our government occurs when these relationships break down public officials' due diligence or improperly bias their judgment."
Welfare drug testing
A bipartisan effort to have a drug screening program for all recipients of state cash assistance benefits is under way in the Senate.
A bill sponsored by Sen. John Wozniak, D-35, Johnstown, would direct the Department of Public Welfare to conduct random tests of at least 5 percent of individuals receiving cash assistance benefits over consecutive six-month periods.
Sen. David Argall, R-29, Tamaqua, endorsed the legislation, saying tax dollars shouldn't be used to pay for someone's drug habit.
A 2011 state law provides for random drug tests of welfare recipients who have a prior drug felony conviction. Schuylkill County was selected to participate in a pilot project to test the law.
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Well, it's not a regular season game so I would rather NOT see him risk further injury.
By Mike Florio
In an interview that will air on Thursday's edition of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN (5:00 p.m. ET), Chiefs coach Andy Reid addresses running back Jamaal Charles' status for Friday's preseason game against the 49ers. And while Reid declined to commit to Charles playing in the second preseason contest of the year, Reid made clear… Read more…


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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies.
Wait, I guess that's like basically just a person.
Except that your neurons don't use boolean logic. There's a good reason why humans are really bad at numerical computation.
Also, in the article they're using DNA, not neurons. The funny thing is that the DNA much more resembles the classic Turing machine than any practical computer ever built.
Who's talking about neurons? If the 'computation' being performed is that of 'generating a phenotype' rather than something mundane like cognition, then every multicellular organism is a compute cluster, whether it has a nervous system or not.
Just because the DNA (the machine) is Turing equivalent doesn't mean that every organism (the program) is Turing complete.
" then every multicellular organism is a compute cluster, whether it has a nervous system or not.
A bunch of identical cells can just sit next to each other without communicating (see variuos algae), and I wouldn't call that a computational cluster.
But they did communicate, by virtue of having come from the same mitosis process. Lots of parallel compute systems don't require inter-node communication after the nodes have received their initial work packet. Remember those "distributed.net" RC5-cracking competition clients? All they needed was to be told what section of the keyspace they were responsible for searching, and then they ran autonomously after that.
Just like popping out a baby...
Except that your neurons don't use boolean logic.
This is not True.
Hello, world. Stop. Boobs!
But it could regenerate itself!
Combine this with the previous article and one could have a built in doctor.
We all know what happens when bio-gelpacks on our starships catch a cold!
I think I'll wait until these results can be verified by real biologists.
These 'genetic circuits' could, for example, be used by scientists to track key moments in a cell's life or, in biotechnology, to turn on production of a drug at the flick of a chemical switch.
Code-Monkey Translation:
Scientists, lacking a good debugger for living organisms, have made a breakthrough: They're now able to employ the tried and true tradition of adding
printf( "Made it here and didn't crash!" );
if ( DEBUG && VK_LSHIFT_DN ) {
code into bacteria.
Despite the platform being in open beta for as long as anyone can remember and its undeniable popularity the world over, professional coders experienced with situations that require resorting to this technique in undocumented code, badly supported 3rd party plug-ins, and poorly understood niche embedded systems, are advising the scientists to wait for the more mature 1.0 release of the DNA API specification before implementing their own domain specific language on the platform.
"If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?" -- Garrison Keillor


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Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Jacobs joins Wolves
following a successful loan spell at Molineux.
The winger, 22, played nine times for Wolves whilst on loan and his
performances have persuaded Kenny Jackett to sign him permanently.
The arrival of Simon Dawkins and Patrick Bamford at Derby meant
first-team opportunities were likely to be limited.
Derby boss Steve McClaren said: "It goes without saying we wish
Michael all the very best in his future career with Wolves and thank
him for his contribution in a Derby County shirt.
"We just felt he should be playing first team football at this stage
of his career and unfortunately, with the options at his disposal,
that is something we weren't able to offer him."
Jacobs joined Derby on a three-year contract from Northampton in 2012.
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On Tuesday night, members of the Friends of Fort Defiance braved poison ivy, steep hillsides and treacherous brush to clear away a hillside at the Lovers Leap area on the east side of the park.
They also had to deal with broken bottles and other litter.
That's really a shame, considering that the Friends group is doing work that would normally fall under the auspices of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. As we all know, though, the DNR doesn't have the resources to maintain its parks that it has in the past. That's where groups like the Friends of Fort Defiance come in. And that's why they were clearing away the hillside Tuesday night so people could enjoy nature's beauty.
Unfortunately, it's some of those very people - there to enjoy the gorgeous view - that have been throwing beer and pop cans and bottles and who knows what other kinds of litter down the hillside. While the Friends are doing these people a favor, a few thoughtless individuals are returning the "favor" by littering and making it dangerous for the Friends to work.
This is one of the most beautiful spots in northwestern Iowa. It's a crying shame that these few thoughtless individuals would ruin it for everyone else.
We hope these people somehow find it in their conscience to feel a little guilt the next time they think of chucking a pop can, beer can or other litter over the side of the hill. There are trash cans for litter in the park. Please use them. And don't ruin the park for others.
It's just plain common courtesy and common sense.


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South Tama High School is proud to announce Jake Herriott as the PBIS Student of the Week. He is the son of Cliff and Tammy Herriott.
Jake is involved in Football, Basketball, Track, and the Iron Man Club. In his spare time he likes to spend time with friends and play sports.
Jake's future plans are to attend DMACC and then transfer to Iowa State University to major in engineering.
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Jake Herriott
Thank you Jake for being respectful, responsible, ready, and successful.


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Anyway I am now on Arithmetic Sequences and Series and I was wondering if there were any math sites other than purplemath (which has been a HUGE help ) that can help me capture this concept.
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The inland port will expand the export capacity of Montana's agricultural producers and build on $254 million in private investments pledged for related construction projects to be built in the area.
The TIGER grant was announced December 15, 2011, and has now been obligated to the Northern Express Transportation Authority to complete the final phase of the $17-million project.
"The multimodal hub center will provide Montana with an inland port that will help increase trade and create economic opportunities for its residents and businesses," said Secretary Foxx. "These federal dollars will translate into new businesses and jobs and will strengthen long-term growth and support the president's goal of doubling exports by the end of 2014."
Currently, Montana does not have the ability to ship or receive containerized cargo by rail because it lacks an inland port.
"By 2050, America's transportation network will need to move four billion more tons of freight annually," said Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo. "Projects like this are an important step toward keeping America moving now and in the future."
The multimodal hub center construction involves relocating a small BNSF facility from downtown Shelby to an industrial park. Once complete, the center will be able to accept and deliver unit trains.


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NEW ORLEANS - The Super Bowl was delayed because of a power outage Sunday, plunging parts of the Superdome into darkness and leading to a 34-minute delay in the biggest game of the year.
The Baltimore Ravens were leading the San Francisco 49ers 28-6 when most of the lights in the 73,000-seat building went out with 13:22 left in the third quarter.
Auxiliary power kept the playing field from going totally dark, but escalators stopped working and the concourses were only illuminated by small banks of lights tied in to emergency service.
Philip Allison, a spokesman for Entergy New Orleans, which provides power to the stadium, said power had been flowing into the stadium before the lights failed.
"All of our distribution and transmission feeds going into the Superdome were operating as expected," Allison said.
The outage appeared to originate in a failure of equipment maintained by stadium staff, he added.
The power failure occurred shortly after Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown, giving the Ravens a commanding lead.
The public address announcer said the Superdome was experiencing an interruption of electrical service and encouraged fans to stay in their seats. Some fans did the wave to pass the time. Players milled around on the sidelines, some took a seat on the bench, other on the field. A few of the Ravens threw footballs around.
Officials gathered on the field and appeared to be talking to stadium personnel. Finally, the lights came back on throughout the stadium and the game resumed.
The outage provided a major glitch to what has largely been viewed as a smooth week for New Orleans, which was hosting its first Super Bowl since 2002 and was eager to show off how the city has rebuilt since Hurricane Katrina.
Monique Richard, who is from the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, had tickets in the upper deck.
"My exact words on the way over here were, 'I hope this goes off without a hitch,' because the city just looked so good, they were doing so well, the weather so good everything was kind of falling into place," she said.
"We haven't had the Super Bowl in 11 years. It might be 20 more. Hopefully, everybody will be understanding."


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that prohibits local law enforcement agencies from detaining people for deportation if they are arrested for a minor crime and otherwise eligible to be released from custody.
AB4 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, was one of eight immigration-related measures Brown signed on Saturday. The governor also approved a bill allowing lawyers to be admitted to the California bar even if they living in the U.S. illegally.
Ammiano's legislation creates a statewide standard for how local agencies comply with the federal Secure Communities program, which requires law enforcement to check the immigration status of any one who is arrested.
The governor vetoed a similar measure last year because it did not let officials detain those convicted of crimes such as child abuse and drug trafficking, exemptions that were removed from this year's version.
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What's New in Beta 2: Web Parts Revisitedby Jesse Liberty
I've been working with Whidbey (.NET 2005) for a little over a year. During that time, I've come to have enormous respect for the engineers at Microsoft, and I do believe that .NET 2005 (2.0) is a great improvement over 1.x. That said, the beta has had a bit of a hard time settling down, and so many of the earlier columns I wrote (and that others wrote) about Whidbey are, at best, a bit out of date (and some are badly broken).
This column will revisit, fix, and expand on one of my favorite 2.0 features: Web Parts.
Before we begin, however, let me note that Microsoft has published a few articles about features they had hoped to get into beta 2, but that didn't make it, including an excellent article titled " Features Postponed in ASP.NET 2.0." In addition to what is listed on that page, however, other features simply changed, or disappeared.
One breaking change, for example, is that the
IEnumerable interface now extends the non-generic
IEnumerable interface.
public interface IEnumerable<T> : IEnumerable
The net result is that in order to implement the interface you must include a non-generic
GetEnumerator method. Since the signatures for the generic and the non-generic
GetEnumerator methods are identical, you must implement the non-generic form explicitly:
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
throw new NotImplementedException();
There are a few other breaking changes here and there that make moving to beta 2 from the CTP an adventure, but one of the more significant, to me, is the change to how Web Parts work. The key change here is that the Web Part Page Menu is now removed, and thus you must supply that functionality yourself. This article will walk you though creating a Web Part Page and will expand on my previous article to show you how to add a catalog and an editor menu to give your users even greater control over your page.
To begin, please download the WebPartsBeta2Starter kit and use that as the starting point for this article. This starter kit assumes you have already installed SQL Express on your local machine, and set it up to support personalization (see my previous column on personalization for details). You start with a single login account: jliberty. The password is Liberty! (that is an exclamation point [bang] at the end of my last name).
Note: In beta 2, Microsoft implemented the System.Web.UI.WebControls.CreateUserWizard.PasswordRegularExpression property, which defaults to the following "strong" password requirements: it must be at least six characters long, and must include at least one element each from three of the four types of characters: English upper case, English lower case, Arabic numerals, and special characters. (See " Strong Password Enforcement" for more information.)
The first step is to open the starter kit and make sure it works. Log in and you should see a screen very much like Figure 1:
Figure 1.
You'll create a new page, WebPartsDemo, and a link to that page for the logged in user.
To begin, modify Welcome.aspx and add a third hyperlink within the
<asp:LoginName ID="LoginName1" runat="server" />

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink2" NavigateUrl="CreateAccount.aspx"
runat="server">Create User</asp:HyperLink>
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink3" NavigateUrl="ManageRoles.aspx"
runat="server">Manage Roles</asp:HyperLink>
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink4" NavigateUrl="WebPartsDemo.aspx"
runat="server">Web Parts</asp:HyperLink>
You are now ready to create the WebPartsDemo.aspx page.
Creating Zones
A page that uses Web Parts is divided into zones: areas of the page that can contain
content and controls that derive from the
Part class (
Part controls). They can
also contain consistent UI elements (header and footer styles, border styles,
etc.) known as the chrome of the control. For this example, you'll arrange your
zones in a table (to make layout easier). Here are the steps:
- Create a new page called WebPartsDemo.aspx.
- Open the WebParts section of your Toolbox, and drag a WebPartsManager onto your page from the WebParts panel in the toolbox. (The job of the WebPartsManager is to track and coordinate all of the web part controls on the page. It will not be visible when the page is running.)
- Add a new table, with two rows and three columns. Rearrange the columns so that they are not of even size.
- Drag a WebPartZone into each of the six table cells. Each WebPartZone will have a default name (e.g., "WebPartZone6") and a default heading. You can easily modify either or both of these properties in the properties window. Your page should now look like Figure 2:
Figure 2.
Adding Controls To ZonesSet the
HeaderText property on the first zone to
News. Drag a Label control into the zone; it should now look like Figure 3:
Figure 3.
<asp:label> web control does not have a
title attribute, but because it is
now wrapped in a Web Part control, which does have a
title attribute,
you can set the title (though you will confuse Intellisense). To see this at
work, switch to Source view and modify the label as shown:
Runat="server" Title="Today's News" ID=
"Label1">
Thousands die. Thousands more die at eleven.</asp:Label>
While you are in Source view, set the label's text to "Thousands die. Thousands more die at eleven."
Switch back to Design view, set the page title to "Web Parts," and then drag a
ListBox control into WebPartZone3. Click on the list box, and then on its smart
tag and Edit Items to open the ListItems Collection Editor. Add a few items to
the list box. Back in Source view, set the
Title property to "Our Sponsors."
Run the application, log in as jliberty, and your page should look more or less
like Figure 4:
Figure 4.
Minimizing and Restoring
Click on the Minimize tag and a menu appears allowing you to minimize or close the Web Part, as shown in Figure 5:
Figure 5.
If you choose Minimize, the Web Part is minimized to its title, and the Minimize tag offers the choices of Restore or Close. If you stop the application, then restart and log back in and return to the page, it will still be minimized (personalization at work).
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KOKOMO, Ind. – A coroner has determined that a body found hidden in a basement freezer in a central Indiana home is a man reported missing by his mother.
Kokomo police Maj. Brian Seldon says authorities went to the home of 51-year-old Walter Logan on Sunday and found the badly decomposed body of 29-year-old Alex Shipp of Kokomo. Shipp's mother reported him missing a day earlier. She told police she hadn't heard from her son since Nov. 8.
Authorities say the freezer was not plugged in and the body was intact. Coroner Jay Price said the cause and time of death are still under investigation. Logan was being held on a preliminary murder charge. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had an attorney.


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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- After carding a first-round 76, senior Katherine Bell is tied for 22nd and has the Tennessee Tech women's golf team in 23rd place on day one of the Kiawah Island Classic in South Carolina.
Only two out of the 172 players in the 32-team tournament, hosted by College of Charleston, shot under par on Sunday. The Golden Eagles shot a combined 324 and must improve on Monday to play in the top flight of 18 teams on Tuesday.
Freshman Megan Williamson followed Bell, carding an 80 on the day, followed by Amber Shepherd's 81, Allison Geer's 87 and Madalyn Everts 88. Tech holds a two-stroke lead over Bucknell and is just eight strokes out of 16th place.
Host College of Charleston leads the pack by nine strokes after shooting a combined 292 on day one. A recap after Monday's action will be posted on TTUSports.com.


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Release Notes: This release adds support for network play over UDP and refreshes the UI bits a bit, with some bugs fixed and minor code clean-ups in the maintenance tools.
Release Notes: A new menu structure, a world map where you can select where to play, and an advanced player input selection have been added to the core game. In addition, it is now possible to write computer opponents in Python, with an example bot included. The game physics have been improved to make the gameplay more interesting.
Release Notes: This release adds a new menu system, improves performance (optimized for both low-end PCs and Internet Tablets), and adds more options (including experimental weather effects as Easter eggs).
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug when installing Tennix on Unix-like systems via the makefile. The game itself hasn't changed. Packagers and users who weren't able to install version 0.6.0 should use this version.
Release Notes: This release adds support for mouse and touchpads to the player controls. Other improvements include increased performance (partial screen updates) and some gameplay improvements.
Release Notes: Improvements were made in the Win32 build, including a startup dialog box from which fullscreen mode can be toggled. Optional joystick support was added, which has to be enabled on the command line. Keyboard controls were added. There is background music in main menu.
Release Notes: Improvements in the computer AI should make single player mode more challenging. The ability to pause/unpause a running game by pressing "p" on the keyboard has been added.
Release Notes: Support for real tennis-like scoring (game, set, match). The help text scroller in the main menu describes keyboard controls. Various gameplay-related bugs have been fixed (out, racket swinging). Support for multiple court types has also been added: grass, clay, and hard court are available.
Release Notes: This release adds completely overhauled SVG artwork in beautiful Tango style and a referee to the gameplay. The menu was simplified further. A Debian package is now available. Support for Unix-style installation ("make install") has been added.
Release Notes: This version brings in (faded) line drawing, improvements to the font system, and data embedded in the tennix binary. This makes it possible to "protect" game data from editors. Support for window manager window closing has been added, and the main menu was also improved.