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Straight fall line into a flat outrun. If it does slide the debris will fan out. This is about as clean as it gets in the Tetons.
Story and Photos by Jeremy Jones
"What happens if I get caught in an avalanche or take a fall on this face?" This thought is always with me when climbing up or riding down a mountain. I let my mind go to a dark place. "You will die, you will never see your kids again." This may sound harsh or negative, but the consequences are real in the mountains and one bad call can erase a lifetime of good calls. Especially if the mistake is on a "dirty" line - meaning a line that has secondary exposure. Secondary exposure is anything that can kill you if you fall down the mountain or get caught in an avalanche. The exposure could be a stand of trees below you, large cliffs, sloping cliffs, crevasses, or a terrain trap that would quickly fill with snow if you are caught in an avalanche.
The first line of defense in staying safe in the mountains is picking clean lines. I have made a career out of picking steep, well featured lines that have clean out runs. I learned early on that instead of looking at the tops of the mountains and falling in love with beautiful lines with bad out runs. I first focus on the outruns. This is the key to any line. Figure out where the safe outruns are and go up from there. Once on top of a line the first thing I do is figure out where my exit is. By picking clean lines, I am able to take risks I would never be able to take over exposure. I would rather throttle a clean line then side slip down a dirty line. The cleaner the line, the bigger risks I will take.
Steep, straight fall line, clean out run, already sluffed, 3,2,1 dropping.
There are times I will ride over exposure but it is an exception, not the norm. Take the Grand Teton for example. It is a large hanging snowfield that ends in a couple hundred foot cliff. Getting caught in a small sluff on that line would be fatal. 99% of the time I would not even consider riding that line. The exposure is too massive and the consequences too high. But every once in awhile I will find myself in the dream cycle of clear weather and stable snow conditions. I am able to work my way up to these unthinkable lines after days or weeks of riding the surrounding safer terrain. It is only when I can say with out a doubt that the line is stable that I will ride it. Something as minor as a change of the predominant wind direction, or increasing temperatures can close the window. A foot of snow in these scenarios can erase weeks of snowpack confidence.
Dropping in above cliffs on the otterbody route.
The accepted belief in ski mountaineering is that a person should always hike up what they intend to ride down. This way you know if there is hidden ice or avalanche danger. If I am concerned with hidden white ice and worried that I may not be able to hold an edge then I am climbing the line even if it is exposed. In this scenario hard snow is the danger not avalanches so spending extra time on the face is fine.
If there is a big hang fire above in the form of cornices, a heated slope that funnels into the face or concerns with avalanche danger then I am hiking around. I would way rather evaluate a slope from above by cutting a cornice, or doing a ski cut. If a ski cut in between islands of safety releases a small pocket it is much easier to get out of than if that small pocket released while you were hiking up. I have had picnic table size pockets release while hiking up and been pulled off the face. If I encountered that same pocket riding down it would not have been a major issue.
I generally try and avoid huge slopes or bowls. There is no way right way to evaluate, climb up or ride down big slopes. I have much more fear on 38 degree, seemingly mellow terrain then on 50 degree, chutes, flutes and rocks.
We had very stable conditions in Austria but this face was still scary. It was a huge 38 degree face and if it slid, you would go 4000 ft to the valley floor and die. I rode the skyline ridge to the riders left.
No matter how great your route selection is, how fancy your avy gear is, how many avy books you have read, how cool your group is, Saying NO is the most important tool in your avy kit. Read the local avy report and respect it. Ride to live another day!
There is no such thing as a clean line when the depth of the slab you are worried about is this large. Squaw Valley - KT-22


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Valve's 'perfect hiring' hierarchy has 'hidden management' clique like high school
Valve's idealised 'flat management' structure is not all it's cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year.
Hardware hacker and former head of Valve's hardware division Jeri Ellsworth first offered a glimpse into the firm's machinations when her tweet confirmed February layoffs at the firm.
Now, in a fuller video podcast interview, she has characterised secretive Valve's purportedly utopian structure as masking 'hidden management' cliques that operate like High School adolescents.
It was this minority in the company that led a 'witchhunt' on the famous day Valve fired so many notable staff, rounded up "all the undesirables" and got rid of them.
Ellsworth's very personal take on the situation was published this weekend in a lengthy discussion with The Grey Area podcast.
"There is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company," she claims.
"And it felt a lot like High School.
"There are popular kids that have acquired power, then there's the trouble makers, and then everyone in between. Everyone in between is ok, but the trouble makers are the ones trying to make a difference."
She later talks of a "'Weird paranoia' in the company that their culture would be contaminated - they went on a witch hunt" and a how this left her "stabbed in the back"
Developers were originally left scratching their heads when the hugely-respected game studio went through a round of redundancies in February. It was seemingly uncharacteristic as not only did it drop important staff members, including Ellsworth and Steam chief Jason Holtman - but the business is built to value and support all developers thanks to a flat management structure.
It even has a lengthy management handbook that explains how this radical operation uses peer review and colleague ratings to hire and fire individuals.
It was this mechanism which Ellsworth battled against to hire her own team - and which she eventually fell foul of.
Her frank account of what happened - detailing the tough side of Valve's idealised structure, how it betrayed her, and why its hiring process are flawed - is 90 minutes long and well worth a watch if you have the time, especially as it details how Ellsworth managed to retail ownership of the hardware ideas she dreamt up for Valve - you can view the first part here.
But we have transcribed extracts below that detail specifically the situation about Valve's hiring and firing practices.
"I should frame all of this with I have a lot of friends at Valve and there are lots of great people there. The hardware team was very close-knit [and we worked long hours together]," begins Ellsworth, when asked by interviewer Jenesee Grey, who had interviewed her in a previous podcast about her work with Valve.
"I'm going to try and be careful about what I say, because my view is not 100% true for all the different groups in there."
Careful, maybe, but she is deliberate and detailed - and gives a very passionate account of how an idolised and idealised business may not get everything right. Or, er, anything at all going by this account. Read on.
Hidden management
Hardware hacker Ellsworth joined Valve to help build out a hardware offer - which over time was name checked by founder Gabe Newell as an important part of Valve's future. But the problem was that Ellsworth struggled to get approval from her new colleagues to let her hire in more staff.
"The first time we spoke [on The Grey Area podcast] about the hardware department all stemmed from trouble hiring people," she explains, summing up the problem which led to her departure - and which she ironically always had reservations about before joining the studio.
"When I first considered joining Valve I was sceptical they would stick with it. I really didn't want to commit - but they started pumping me up and selling me on having control of the hardware group and build hardware. We all used to joke about how hard we worked, doing the jobs of five people at once.
"Now we've all seen the Valve handbook, which offers a very idealised view. A lot of that is true. It is a pseudo-flat structure, where in small groups at least in small groups you are all peers and make decisions together.
"But the one thing I found out the hard way is that there is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company. And it felt a lot like High School. There are popular kids that have acquired power, then there's the trouble makers, and then everyone in between. Everyone in between is ok, but the trouble makers are the ones trying to make a difference.
"I was struggling trying to build this hardware team and move the company forward. We were having a difficult time recruiting folks - because we would be interviewing a lot of talented folks but the old timers would reject them for not fitting into the culture.
"I shouldn't say the numbers, but there were very few of us in the hardware department. We were understaffed by about a factor of 100."
The Valve hardware team were devising some strong concepts, specifically around augmented reality. Yet the ideas were killed off by the company in its regular peer-review process - a staple of the flat management structure - which can see colleagues that you rarely interact with vet your work and decide if your employment is safe.
When tweets from Ellsworth and breaking stories like Develop's about the departure of Steam head Jason Holtman forced the studio to break tradition and comment on the redundancies, it said it wasn't changing strategy on hardware.
That 'didn't jive' with Ellsworth's direct experiences.
"Well there were five of us working on this project, and all of us were canned on the same day," she says pointedly in answer to Grey's suggestion that Valve is out of hardware.
"The things that do work in Valve that we will bring forward into our new company is the idea of flat management structure, but on a small scale.
"Their structure probably works really well with about 20 people, but breaks down terribly when you get to a company of 300 people. Communication was a problem. That's where management… Well if I had anything to do differently, would be to make sure a layer of management could do communication correctly."
Specifically that includes outreach within the studio in terms of connecting staff together, she says.
"There's all these resources in the business which are just there idling or doing things, maybe they could come and help us - but there was no way to reach them at all."
Ellsworth's vocal frustration with this was the start of friction between her and some peers, she says.
"When I complained about this - and this is what I think is hilarious, what I call really drinking the Kool-Aid… He said that 'If communication was important at Valve it would have evolved a long time ago.' Which is insanity."
Ellsworth implies that Valve's management structure - or lack of - has actually encouraged bad behaviour of a sort from some staff, rewarding those who manage to game the system or avoid risk.
"They have a bonus structure in there where you can get bonuses - if you work on very prestigious projects - that are more than what you earn. So everyone is trying to work on projects that are really visible. 'Look at me, I am making all these great improvements to the latest and greatest video game'.
"And it's impossible to pull those people away for something risky like augmented reality because they only want to work on the sure thing. So that was a frustration, we were starved for resources."
'Stabbed me in the back'
Which is pretty ironic given that it was Valve's bottomless pockets which had given Ellsworth's team plenty of technology to help prototype her visionary ideas.
"We had a machine shop with millions of dollars of equipment in it and couldn't hire a machinist for $40,000 a year to manufacture machine parts for it. Because they were worried that bringing in a machinist would hurt their precious culture," she said.
"If I sound bitter, it's because I am. I am really, really bitter. Because they promised me the world and then stabbed me in the back.
"What I learned from Valve is that I don't think it works. Give people complete latitude with no checks and balances it is human nature that they will minimise the work that they do and increase the control that they have.
"We used to joke that it's good at hiring lots of lead guitarists. We went out and hired lots of great makers - but we were all lead guitarists, we couldn't go out and hire someone just to manufacture the parts. Just getting a tech for around the lab was almost impossible. That's why a layer of management can help organisations."
Ellsworth found herself asking senior staff for help regularly - and frustrated with the hiring brick wall. In the end she says she that led to her being 'fired for being abrasive'.
"And I probably was - but I just couldn't find a way to make a process to actually deliver any hardware inside that company."
Ellsworth was hungry to build scale so Valve could build hardware, and points to that other famous Seattle business that does have that kind of scale: "Like Microsoft, the rumour is that its hardware department has 1,000 people working in it [making the Xbox]."
At Valve, "I was working with people adding zero value, in fact creating negative value" so she chose to "use the Valve handbook and roll my desk away and work with someone who is productive". But that approach only backfired and "appeared to the higher ups as abrasive and disruptive".
Ellsworth is honest about how she too was blinded by the idea of Valve's HR utopia.
"I drank the Kool-Aid really hard. Even up until the last day I was hopeful we could turn it around at least for our project. We had a goal and had proved that all the pieces were there that we could have all these cool virtual reality experiences."
She had come to believe this through months of long hours, much of it spent with then colleague, fellow fired friend and new business partner Rick Johnson. He would work on one project at Valve in the day time (Valve's move towards Linux) then spend his evenings with Ellsworth on the augmented reality tech.
Their project still lives on, since pulled out of the business and owned by Ellsworth and Johnson's new venture, with Valve's consent.
"The day I got fired I was walking up to the elevator and one of the mechanical engineers said 'Did you hear so-and-so was laid off?' It was someone on our project. I was mad. I hopped in the elevator and went straight up to our team - and I found Rick, and he said 'I was fired. You too.'
"I couldn't believe it. The handbook said that if you get too far off course they will tell you about it."
But Ellsworth's team was just dropped.
At first "I was in denial about it, thinking they would change their mind," but during the wait for her meeting with Valve boss Gabe Newell she turned rebel and "started boxing things up. I was scared they would just junk it.
"I was hiding it," she admits.
Ellsworth and her team had built a unique area of the office, filled with all sorts of strange equipment and unique lighting - including a chandelier - and some of it her own hardware. She started effectively shutting down the AR studio literally. "It took at 26 foot truck to get my stuff out - place looked like a ghost town after I left."
When the time came to confront Gabe Newell, she said that "you should fund this externally or give it to us".
"There was a lawyer in the room and Gabe just turned to him and said 'Give it to 'em'."
Ellsworth later adds that there were protracted lawyer discussions, and it wasn't this simple. But to all intents and purposes Ellsworth and Johnson were effectively working continuously the next day at his house. Four weeks after leaving Valve, their project came to fruition with prototypes for augmented reality glasses that use head mounted projectors with a special reflective mat and sub-millimeter head tracking - likened to the holographic 3D chess in Star Wars - demoed in May at the 'maker' event Maker Faire.
Her frustrating account has a happy ending, and Ellsworth has affection for Valve and its staff. And although it's clearly hurtful that her departure was decided by an external group which wanted to "round up all the undesirables and get rid of them", but she regularly caveats her personal response to the matter versus her friendships with the staff still there.
"I'm still really friendly with the folks there and the ones I wasn't friends with before we became friends since. My heart goes out to them - it's probably completely different, and they may have got their machinist."
At one point, Ellsworth's comments suggest Valve's software culture couldn't quite handle the demands and quirks of a hardware business: "being in a software company with no process for making hardware people were mortified by some of the prototypes we showed them".
Yet Valve's focus had its advantages, Ellsworth adds too.
She says: "It was great working under the guidance of software folk as it gave us focus," pushing Ellsworth and co to ask for "gameplay from clever hardware ideas."
Plus the firm's in-joke of 'Valve Time' - where projects promised completion in a matter of weeks actually take months or years - is actually a by-product of stringent process.
"There's a lot of reasons there is 'Valve time'. A lot of it is chaos, but it's also because they are thinking about their customers. And we want to keep that methodology to make sure what we promise is deliverable."
At another point, she reminds the interviewer: "I love Valve, I loved them."
But deeper probing just pushed back to a "'Weird paranoia' in the company that their culture would be contaminated - they went on a witch hunt and got rid of me and a bunch other talented folks. And it was just a couple of people [that did that] - that's what happens when you have a flat management structure like that, a bunch of people can wreak that kind of havoc.
"They definitely don't want this kind of story getting out there."
You can view the full podcast here in six parts. Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6.
Image credit: Jeri Ellsworth

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Adolf Galland
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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.William Markiewicz
Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland (March 19 1912 – February 9 1996) was a World War II German fighter pilot and commander of Germany's fighter force from 1941 to 1945.
- They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.
- About Stukas, quoted in "Duel of Eagles" - Page 330 - by Peter Townsend - History - 2001
- The fighter must seek battle in the air.
- Quoted in "Duel of Eagles" - Page 330 - by Peter Townsend - History - 2001
- The wave of terror radiated from the suffering city and spread throughout Germany. Appalling details of the great fire were recounted. The glow of the fires could be seen for one hundred twenty miles. A stream of haggard, terrified refugees flowed into the neighbouring provinces. In every large town people said, 'what happened in Hamburg yesterday can happen to us tomorrow.' Berlin was evacuated amid signs of panic. In spite of strict reticence in official communiques, the terror of Hamburg spread rapidly to the remotest villages of the Reich. After Hamburg in the wide circle of the political and the military command could be heard the words: "The war is lost".
- Quoted in "The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle" - Page 807 - by Anthony Read - History - 2004
- During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- "He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- Superior technical achievements — used correctly both strategically and tactically — can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
- Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
- The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
- If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
- We have many, many pilots which have been wounded twelve or fifteen times during the war, but we had to use them. They were constantly in combat.
- I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
About Galland
- Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.
- General James H. Doolittle
- Adolf Galland was a living legend in the German air force of 1944. Galland's credentials as head of the German fighter forces stood imposing. His distinguished career spanned the entire war.
- Danny S. Parker
- Galland was undoubtedly the most colorful and charismatic German fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.
- Alex Kershaw
- Well, if it hadn't been for chaps like him...we wouldn't have had a bloody Commonwealth Air Training Scheme.
- Event organizer to Sir Douglas Bader, on Galland's being invited to a reunion of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan veterans


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bizgolfer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 41 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
I need a logo for this all-day event in the SF Bay Area for professional women, such attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, investment bankers and the like. It'll be used in print, on the web and on clothing.
Business Women's Golf Summit
I am an author and speaker on how business women can use the game of golf for business development. I've created this event for a distinct professional women clientele. I need a logo that these women will find as being professional and depicts business and golf. I will use the logo in print ads, on proposals, the web, and on logo-ed items, such as caps, visors, golf balls, etc.
- Exudes strength and professionalism
- Feminine font is good
- Green color
- Nothing cute
- Nothing that can be interpreted to be condescending to these women.
- Do not use a golf hole...it's overused.
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Djtokamalo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
My name is Ignacio. I've been a Dj for well over 15 years and have been around the nightclub business in the NY tri-state area for quite a while and after seeing so many places go to the ground because of bad sound & lighting system, I desired to address this issue. So I started doing my own Lighting Programming which then progressed to Sound upgrading services & Lighting Programming and finally evolved to a Sound, Lighting & Video Design, Installation, Programming & Maintenance services! I'm extremely competitive, creative and look forward to new challenges while trying to stay on current on all new and exciting gear and trends in my business line.
anyone owning or looking to start a Nightclub, Lounge or any type of business involving Sound, Lighting or Video. From the smallest lounge to the largest nightclub NATION WIDE! specially the middle size business owner.. who's affraid of reaching out to certain level companies, thinking it will be too much money..
I'm looking for a logo that represents my company's concept. HIGHER LEVEL = taking venues to newer hights, stepping business up, bringing the future to them now...
I would like to have a logo that while some what futuristic is TRENDY and hints to the idea of STEP ABOVE THE REST or something of that nature!
TRENDY, FUTURISTIC, FUN, BUSINESS LIKE. not something too real state or architectural company looking like. I'm in the Entertainment business and being CATCHY OR ATRACTIVE is very important.
Would like it to STAND OUT, should be clear, bold and atractive looking. so it could look good without needing to have too much information with it.
Do not like the idea of a CROWDED business card = too much info on a certain area
Do Not like cartoons/child like looking logos
Do Not want CLIP ART OF LIGHTS, SPEAKERS, TVs or any equipment. I'm not a Equipment Store or Re-saler, I bring Dreams to reality, Solutions to Problems, Upgrades to working situations..... RESULTS
Attachaed, you will find an example of a logo that I like (it's actually my dj company's logo: MUSICAL MADNESS Entertainment
Would like to get every type of Finished File Format available for this logo! so that i could get t-shirts, banners and any other type of marketing tools available.
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I think is time to dive into books, it has been too long since i read a last page of any book, i wonder what it will be and where it will take me and whom i will meet in it's pages. i also plan on purging many things in the house, things that clutter up drawers and closets and end up making me feel phobic. I also want to commit myself to a few things i put on my list when i first moved to the hill, one of those things is meditation, true meditation. on my last visit too santa fe, new mexico i visited a tibetan home where i was gifted the most beautiful piece of music perfect for reflection. I played it for a month straight every morning and evening as k and hiked through the colorado mountains a few years back.
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March, 11
Swift remains pop's golden girl
Taylor Swift has reclaimed her crown on Billboard's annual Money Makers list.
The Red singer, who topped the rich list in 2012, was back in the top slot after earning around over 39 million US dollars (over £23.8 million) from record sales, royalties and touring.
Country star Kenny Chesney rose three places to second place, thanks to his seventh album Life On A Rock and No Shoes Nation stadium tour, with earnings of an estimated 32.9 million US dollars (£19.8 million).
Justin Timberlake came third, with his comeback after a seven-year break from music earning him around 31.5 million US dollars (£18.8 million).
Rock acts Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones round out this year's top five.
Taylor topped the list two years ago, but relinquished the crown to Madonna in 2013. Her latest album Red has been a success, making eighth in the list of best-selling records in the US and selling nearly 10 million downloads, while her accompanying world tour had estimated takings of around 30 million US dollars (£17.9 million).
Beyonce, Maroon 5, country singer Luke Bryan, Pink and Fleetwood Mac complete the year's top 10.
One Direction, Mumford And Sons, Justin Bieber and the reformed New Kids On The Block appear in the top 40, which is compiled by data supplied by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS and Billboard Boxscore.
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October 26, 2012
China is blocking access to the New York Times website because the Times is featuring an expose on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his family's accumulation of $2.7 billion in wealth. The election is just 11 days away and out on the stump, the candidate are talking jobs, taxes, and entitlements. One thing we haven't heard much about this election season is climate change. Voters in Chicago will decide on election day whether the city can negotiate for cheaper electricity rates. Merger talks between Random House and Penguin could be the first sign of a big shake-up for the publishing industry.


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The Queen sent a message this morning to U.S. President Barack Obama expressing "deepest sympathies" to the American people, particularly to the victims of the tornado that struck the state of Oklahoma yesterday.
According to The British Monarchy website, the Queen's message reads:
I was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of life and devastation caused by yesterday's tornado in Oklahoma. Prince Philip joins me in offering our heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families at this difficult time. Our deepest sympathies go out to all those whose lives have been affected, as well as the American people.
The message comes amidst ongoing reports of casualties and recovery efforts in Oklahoma, also called "tornado alley."
As of Tuesday morning, KFOR-TV, a TV station from the state's capital of Oklahoma City reports at least 91 dead and at least 233 injured after a 2 mile wide tornado tore through the town of Moore Monday afternoon, hitting two elementary schools in its path.
During overnight rescue efforts, several children were pulled out of the rubble alive but as recovery efforts continue, the death toll is expected to rise.
Last week, the Queen's grandson, Prince Harry, saw what remains of the devastation left by hurricane Sandy, which struck the Jersey Shore towns of Mantoloking and Seaside Heights in Oct. Accompanied by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Prince Harry also saw the current rebuilding efforts, commenting on the "fantastic" American spirit and the resilience of the American people.
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"Straight" Guys Pretending To Have Gay Sex May Be Too Convincing... (NSFW-ish)
Our friends at The Gaily Grind have provided us with yet another edition of allegedly "straight" men doing very gay things--though this time we think we're gonna have to see the receipts!
These "straight" buds jokingly simulating gay sex are mighty convincing...
Judge for yourself! (NSFW)
Yeah. That may be too convincing.
(Note to "straight" men: saying "No homo" after doesn't make it not gay.)
Ok, I do want to point out that these are young, presumably late teen to early 20's boys. The wind could shift a different direction and they would get a hard on. The "top" was grinding against the other guy, of course he got a hardon, it doesn't mean he or either are "gay." One does wonder why they would do this to begin with, but hey, why all the labels?
No how about you go f*ck yourself you small minded moron. And no I have never met gays who mock straight people having sex. If anything it always seems to be straights mocking things that gays do. Because god forbid that we are different. And this has nothing to do with laughing at oneself. Just because you don't have the brain cells to light a fire doesn't mean that the rest of us view it one way.
I hate to be this guy, but it could also be the fact that they are letting out some closeted homo tendencies, but doing so in a supposively "mocking" manner. The fact is, none of us know what their inner thoughts were, maybe it was mocking, maybe it was because they actually have feelings like that, but dont want to go right out and say it. Look at the end, both of them were getting hard, so obviously they were both enjoying it.


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They didn't want to be part of the conversation; they wanted to be the topic of the conversation.
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New Delhi: Two days into the admission process in Delhi University, seats in popular courses have filled and several colleges are not expecting a second cut-off list for certain subjects.
At Miranda House, around 430 admissions were made against a total of 1,000 seats.
Seats in Political Science and History (Honours) are filling up fast and there is a possibility that these courses might not have a second cut-off list. We still have one more day of admissions left on the basis of the first list,Miranda House principal Pratibha Jolly said. Among science courses, Botany (Honours) and Zoology (Honours) have also seen a good response, she said.
The possibility of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) issuing a second cut-off list for Economics Honours is also unlikely, as the college has already over-admitted students for the course. We have already admitted 129 students for 123 seats in Economics. We will see the turn-out tomorrow, since there is scope of admitting students under OBC quota, P C Jain, principal, SRCC said.
While the admission process at St Stephens College is different from other colleges, college authorities maintained that there will not be a second cut-off list. Owing to the rollback of the four-year undergraduate programme, seats in Economics and English (Honours) had to be reduced from 100 to 50 and from 60 to 30, respectively. A truncated list of candidates for Economics will be released because of the change in seats. We had announced the list of candidates admitted provisionally to Economics. Apart from that, there will not be a second list, Karen Gabriel, media co-ordinator at St Stephens, said.
At Indraprastha College for Women, almost half the seats have been filled in the first two days of admission. Seats in courses such as BCom (H) and English (H) have been taken. It is likely that English and BCom may not see a second cut-off list. Most of the admissions have been completed in these courses, M M Yogi, Public Information Officer at IP College, said.
In South Campus, Kamla Nehru College has filled nearly half of its 800 seats. Almost two-thirds of the seats in Psychology, English and Journalism have been filled. We do not expect a second list in these courses, Minoti Chatterjee, KNC principal, said.
Jesus and Mary College too will not release a second cut-off lists for Economics and Psychology. We may not come out with a second list for both subjects. (Source- Financial Express)


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Hope you are all having a great week so far!
The weather is getting colder and although it looks nice and sunny in the morning, it then turn into cloudy and starts to rain. I guess you can never know what to expect. As far as the University goes, there is a lot of pressure going on due to the fact that we have so many hand-ins in January and February, and if we don't start early it will be impossible to manage to finish everything on time. I am always planning on starting everything early but I am such a last minute person that I always manage to leave everything for the last minute!
With the weather acting all weird I decided it was time to wrap myself into my favourite mustard coat. My boyfriend bought this coat for me two years ago and it's still my favourite one, not only because of its personal value but also because I love mustard colour during this time of the year. I don't know why but the colour gives me a sense of warmth, making it perfect during Winter. The same goes for the heels. As you probably already know I love statement necklaces (Pop of Yellow, The Tartan Shirt) and I just had to wear it. I really like how the outfit turned out.
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This section of the Auditee Resource Center includes a number of tools, practice aids, and other resources produced by the GAQC that would be useful to recipients of federal assistance.
Preparing for Your Single Audit: An Auditee Perspective Web Event
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Preparing for Your Single Audit: An Auditee Perspective Web Event. This archived GAQC event titled, Preparing for Your Single Audit: An Auditee Perspective, is intended to help auditees better understand the requirements of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations (Circular A-133), and other reference documents (e.g., the various cost circulars), the various responsibilities placed on auditees, the importance of hiring a qualified auditor, and tips for preparing for a single audit. no continuing professional education (CPE) is available for listening to the archive of this event.
Single Audit Fundamentals On-Demand Series. This GAQC series of Web events titled, InSight: Single Audit Fundamentals On-Demand Series, focused in on single audit fundamentals and was intended to serve as basic single audit training for audit staff. The series was very well received and ultimately converted to self-study CPE that you can access form your desktop. While these courses are targeted to auditors performing single audits this series of four on-demand courses will also help auditees to better understand the single audit process. The courses are offered in an interesting and informative e-learning format that your staff can take advantage of right from their desktops. You can purchase the complete series or purchase each part individually. The four parts include the following:
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Subrecipient Monitoring: An Auditor and Auditee Perspective Web Event. The purpose of this archived GAQC Web event is to help auditors and auditees understand the subrecipient monitoring requirements contained in Circular A-133. The presenters also focus on effective monitoring processes for entities subject to Circular A-133. Access this archived event. No CPE is available for listening to the archive of this event.
Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) Practice Aids. The SEFA, which is an auditee-prepared schedule, is an extremely important aspect of an auditee's responsibility when subject to a single audit. It is also a key document that the auditor uses to determine the appropriate scope of a single audit. Due to the importance of the role that auditees have in preparing the SEFA, the GAQC has developed two practice aids specifically directed at auditees as follows:
- Worksheet for Identifying Federal Program Information: This Practice Aid is intended to assist the auditee in accumulating and documenting important information for each of its federal awards. This information should be provided to the auditor at the beginning of the single audit.
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Hilarie Mukavitz - With all the great comedy duos, it is usually the "funny man" that we remember. We remember Lou Costello saying "Hey Abbooooott!" but not Bud Abbott's delivery that led up to that point. The comic in the duo often gets most of the credit. Today, however, I'd like to spend a bit of time talking about those unsung heroes in Muppet comedy: the great straight men of Muppet comedy duos.
Bert - played by Frank Oz
In the ongoing debate about whether it should be "Bert and Ernie" or "Ernie and Bert," I am firmly in the "Bert and Ernie" camp. Why? When a comedy duo is billed, the straight man's name goes first: Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Martin and Lewis; and the one that had the most direct impact on the Muppets: Burns and Schreiber.
Bert is a rare example of Frank Oz getting to play the straight man. As hard as it is to believe now, initially Frank Oz and Jim Henson played around and traded off who was Bert and who was Ernie before Sesame Street began. Jim Henson once commented "Frank didn't like Bert. He felt Bert was too dull. But then after a while he realized that Bert's dullness was really a lot of fun, and he got into this dullness thing and turned it into this wonderful personality."
Bert and Ernie have the classic odd couple dynamic. Bert is the one with the routine, and usually the more rational of the two (as can be seen by the classic "banana in the ear" bit). Like many a straight man, there are the long-suffering looks at the camera when the goofy Ernie is pulling his antics. What makes Bert unique as a character is his passionate devotion to interests very few others share. (A trait which, as a geek, I can relate to strongly.) Bert loves oatmeal, argyle socks, pigeons, paper clips, and bottle caps and the letter W. There is even an example of a rare sketch starring Bert without Ernie in which Bert is surprised and delighted to find out that Rick Moranis shared a lot of the same interests.
Out of all the duos that Frank Oz and Jim Henson performed together, Bert and Ernie were the ones they performed for the longest time. They are also the only Muppet characters to be mentioned in Frank Oz's eulogy at Jim Henson's memorial service. If you haven't had the treat of hearing about "Bert in Self-Contemplation," I highly recommend it... just keep a Kleenex box nearby for the end.
Sully - played by Richard Hunt
Like Penn and Teller, Sully is literally the silent partner for construction worker buddies Biff and Sully. It is implied that even though we never hear Sully speak, it is probably because Biff never lets him get a word in edgewise. However, when given the opportunity, Sully demonstrates that still waters run deep, and that he has talents his usually oblivious partner is unaware of.
Sully is an accomplished musician... When Biff and Sully move a piano together, Biff can pound out a basic scale. When he leaves, Sully plays a Chopin prelude. When Biff forgets his radio, Sully actually constructs an entire piano to play so Biff can have music while he works. Sully also seems to have a side gig as a bass player with a band that Ernie leads. Notice that Bert specifically yells at Sully... probably because he's thinking "Hey, you have a loudmouth best friend too. You should understand what I'm going through." Also included in Ernie's band is another classic Sesame Street straight man: Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson - played by Jerry Nelson
Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the special hell that is the life of Mr. Johnson (sometimes known as Fat Blue). It seems that he is fated, whenever he decides to go out to eat, to always be served by the cute, lovable, totally inept Grover. I would recommend to Mr. Johnson that perhaps he should start cooking for himself... but I'm guessing the grocery store cashier would also be Grover. Grover seems to be the only one working customer service jobs in Mr. Johnson's tortured universe. Mr. Johnson's name was revealed during Grover's stint delivering singing telegrams. Grover has also shown up in Mr. Johnson's world as a pizza delivery monster, a flight attendant, a street musician, a wig salesman, a department store salesman, an employee at a framing shop, a fitness instructor, a taxi driver, a move theater concession stand worker, a photographer, a hot dog vendor, a baker, a rental car company employee, a reality show host, and the star of "Spidermonster."
Kermit the Frog - played by Jim Henson
The ultimate straight man in the Muppet universe is Kermit. He's been straight man to Sesame Street characters, Muppet Show characters, humans, you name it. Besides his versatility, one thing that makes Kermit unique as a straight man is, when he is not showing frustration, he has a mischievous side as well. Kermit can give as good as he gets. Here are a few examples:
Kermit and Grover
When Grover is not pestering Mr. Johnson, he can often be found at Kermit's place. Grover makes repeated attempts to sell Kermit items that would require body parts that Kermit does not have: a nose-warmer, a toothbrush, earmuffs. Once, we not only see Grover try to sell Kermit sunglasses, but we get to see Kermit do a Groucho Marx impression.
It was also common for Grover to interrupt whatever Kermit was trying to teach with a "Heeeeey froggy babyyyyyy!!!" Although Kermit does manage to get Grover back a few times, particularly when Grover tries to talk about how great the number 2 is.
Kermit and Cookie Monster
Pretty similar to the Kermit and Grover sketches... except usually Cookie Monster's interruptions are about, surprise surprise, his single-minded pursuit of the cookie. Now and then ,Cookie Monster would show up playing a character. I especially enjoy the sketch from a Muppet Newsflash where we can see Cookie Monster in drag playing Little Red Riding Hood.
Kermit and Don Music
In the Don Music sketches, Don Music is attempting to compose commonly known songs like "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Row Row Row Your Boat." To ease Don's frustration, Kermit gives suggestions for lyrics, which ultimately results in a totally different song such as "Drive Drive Drive Your Car" or "Mary Had a Bicycle."
Kermit and Forgetful Jones
The few sketches with Kermit and Forgetful Jones are classic. More than once Kermit has attempted to direct Forgetful Jones in a movie. You can see Kermit at his most frustrated when Forgetful has to sing the theme song to Oklahoma in this fan-favorite, truly classic example of Richard Hunt's ridiculousness and Jim Henson's almost broken attempt to keep from laughing.
Kermit and the Sesame Street Kids
There are multiple examples on Sesame Street of a Muppet playing the straight man to whatever child they are talking to. One example would be Herry Monster and John John. But, perhaps, the absolute best example is Kermit with a girl named Joey, who, when singing "The Alphabet Song," kept bringing up Cookie Monster, pushing Kermit to leave... but then bringing him back in the most adorable way ever conceived.
Kermit and Fozzie
As host of The Muppet Show, Kermit was basically the straight man to just about anybody that appeared, Muppet or guest star. One of the best combinations was Kermit and Fozzie: the Hope and Crosby of the Muppet world; best friends. Kermit is relatively patient with Fozzie, and keeps trying to help him succeed... but even his best friend the bear can push the frog over the limit. Moments such as "Good Grief, the Comedian's a Bear," Fozzie trying to negotiate with the help of Irving Bizarre, Fozzie after group therapy, and countless other examples illustrate the frustrating, hilarious, and unbelievably fulfilling (for both of them) relationship that Kermit and Fozzie share.
Kermit and Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy rose from being a recurring character to being a lead in just about a year after her debut. She was soon overshadowing Fozzie, which just goes to show the only person who can really upstage Frank Oz, is Frank Oz. Besides having a dynamic like a comedic duo, Kermit and Piggy are also sparring partners. They actually have a relationship similar to some of the pairs in romantic comedies in the 1930's and 1940's, such as Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Though I doubt Katherine Hepburn ever karate-chopped Spencer Tracy (although I bet she was more than capable of it).
The next time you are watching a Muppet project, and one of the characters is making you laugh, don't forget the straight man character who helped make that possible. I've barely scratched the surface here. Tell me, fellow Muppet fans, who are your favorite Muppet straight men?
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A noise discussion during the Camden County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting raised the question: is it time for Camden County to consider a noise ordinance to address noise complaints from those living near lakefront venues with outdoor entertainment?
A noise discussion during the Camden County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting raised the question: is it time for Camden County to consider a noise ordinance to address noise complaints from those living near lakefront venues with outdoor entertainment?
County commissioners say determining what is noise and what appropriate levels are is a difficult task. A noise ordinance may not be the solution for the problem.
In a poll of the Camden County Commission, the Lake Sun asked "is a noise ordinance something that you, as a county commissioner, believe needs to be addressed with the number of lakefront venues with live music that are located within the county?
Here's what they had to say:
Presiding Commissioner Kris Franken:
Noise ordinances have the potential to be very problematic. First, there is some concern as to our authority to institute such an ordinance because of the fact that we are not the county building code official. These duties, as you are aware are handled by the fire departments where they exist. Secondly, the measuring of sound intensity, through a decibel meter, can vary greatly depending on certain conditions present at the discrete locations where it is required. It should be noted, that as a rule, higher frequency sounds have a tendency to register louder on a decibel meter, and lower frequency sounds (like the booming base notes we have all heard) tend to register much quieter than expected on the meter. Water drastically affects the accuracy of the measurement as sound has a tendency towards natural amplification as it travels across the surface. Large hills and rock walls have a tendency to reflect sound up into the atmosphere and be less obtrusive. In my opinion, it would probably be most prudent to administer sound level limits through CUP's issued by the Planning Commission for the various sites, where needed, with specific procedures for how the readings are to be taken that are specific to each individual site.
Associate Commissioner Beverly Thomas:
I certainly understand the concerns of residents living close to venues that utilize music as part of their operations. All residents should be allowed to have "quiet enjoyment" of their own property. However a noise ordinance is probably not the best choice. Most noise ordinances are administered with the use of decibel meters. Sounds are changed so much just by location, especially when you add how sound carries across water. What may be too loud on one side of the property may not be on the side where the meter is being utilized. These results can be very subjective.
We are also looking at time as an element of how the music can be maintained to be better "neighbors". This could be done by limiting outdoor music to cease at a certain time. I guess what this all means is that a noise ordinance is not currently being reviewed, which is not to say that it may be at some future time. What we are doing is requiring venues to develop and construct sound abatement structures to help keep noise contained within or close to the venue.
Associate Commissioner Cliff Luber:
As the 2nd District Camden County Commissioner, I am aware that residential owners and businesses are in certain instances, neighbors with one another. As neighbors, it is preferred that they have a mutual respect for one another and work toward amicable solutions. The solutions being put forth in terms of requiring sound abatement measures to redirect sound are proven and affordable. This is a very minor problem at the lake with only two active situations currently. I am not in favor of a noise ordinance as they are too subjective. I would however, consider a decibel reading only after a business is allowed to install noise abatements measures, as a condition of the Conditional Use Permit (CUP). This gives the business owner the opportunity to make the necessary corrections that he feels is needed to operate his establishment, and the homeowner to evaluate and potentially benefit from the results of those abatement measures.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 20, 2012) – The No. 1-seeded ETSU men's tennis team will battle No. 5-seeded USC Upstate in a rematch of the two sides' regular season finale on Saturday in the Atlantic Sun Championships semifinals at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center. Match time has been moved to 8 a.m. due to the threat of inclement weather.
ETSU (12-8, 9-0 A-Sun) – ranked No. 72 in the Campbell/ITA national poll – defeated USC Upstate 5-2 last Saturday to earn the Buccaneers their first undefeated conference season since 2009. The Senior Day match was bittersweet for ETSU's graduating class of Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium), Jeremy Bonnevalle (Keerbergen, Belgium) and Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden), as Gille and Bonnevalle were defeated in singles play while Akser was downed with Gille in doubles. The singles losses also snapped 11-match winning streaks for Gille and Bonnevalle, and put a dent in their unblemished A-Sun records.
USC Upstate (12-9, 4-5 A-Sun) earned its spot in the semifinals by defeating No. 4 Lipscomb, 4-2, in Friday's first quarterfinal. This will be the Spartans' first trip to the semifinal round.
The other semifinal match featuring No. 2 North Florida and No. 3 Stetson has also been moved to 8 a.m., and will be played at the tennis courts at Milligan College.
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With an estimated 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24, the vast majority of them living in developing countries, youth are both a policy and political priority for many countries around the world.
An increasing number of governments are turning to youth financial services. Access to financial services—savings, payments, credit and insurance—can help young people to build assets, protect themselves against risk, and it can unlock economic potential. Yet, the World Bank's Global Financial Inclusion Database (Findex shows that youth are 33 percent less likely to own a bank account than an adult.
Last week we asked you for questions to put to policy makers gathered at a CGAP event in Paris to discuss what can be done to improve opportunities for youth through financial services. This video shows policy makers' responding to the question: "Why youth financial services?"
Policy makers from eight countries around the world and a range of different government departments including ministries of Education, Finance, Youth and Sport, as well as Central Banks, agreed that youth financial services represent a largely untapped opportunity to address social issues in their countries.
But equally failure to address issues of youth unemployment and other ills faced by the large number of young people in the world today could result in major social unrest, warned Ashraf Gamal El Din from Egypt Post.
Change of mindset
Most banks see youth as a risky proposition—young people generally have no business or financial experience, and often little collateral. A "change of mindset" is needed in how we look at youth and their bankability, said Mukhmeet Bhatia of the Indian Ministry of Finance. And so most policy makers agree there is an important role for governments to play in encouraging youth financial services.
In the UK, with large numbers of youth unemployed, the government is backing a start-up loans scheme to help young people aged 18-30 who can't get loans from banks to start new businesses. They hope to make youth businesses a driver of the troubled UK economy. But the Start-Up Loans scheme, chaired by celebrity angel investor James Caan from the TV reality show Dragon's Den, doesn't just offer credit. Non-financial services such as mentoring, training, and help with business development are all critical pieces in making sure such schemes are successful and that young people grow successful businesses so they can pay back the loans.
Financial education plays an important role in making young people active and responsible users of financial services. The Philippines Central Bank has invested in a significant financial education program, as well as a partnership with the 12 main commercial banks in the Philippines to promote kiddie accounts. To promote youth savings they also had to first remove regulatory barriers to youth accounts by dropping the age at which it is possible to open a bank account to seven.
Future customers, citizens of the future, creators of their own destiny
Policy makers acknowledge the difficulty of getting banks to see youth as an opportunity, rather than a risk. And for that reason, governments will have an important role in changing the current mindset. The argument won't be made through quick returns, but long-term investment in the future:
"They are your future customers, future citizens," said CGAP's Tanaya Kilara. "I think everything you do with youth has higher returns in the long term. You might not see it right now. You might not see it tomorrow. But you will see it over their lifetime." For Ruth Dueck-Mbeba of The MasterCard Foundation it's about making youth creators of their own destiny so that they create new opportunities and "grow the pie", rather than being reliant or dependent on existing resources.


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The Bonn Talks included the second major session this year on a strengthened international climate change agreement to be finalized in December 2009 in Copenhagen.
As agreed at the previous session of Climate Change Talks in Bangkok, all five elements of the negotiations - adaptation, mitigation, technology, finance and a shared vision for long-term cooperative action - were discussed under the Convention at the Bonn session.
Long-term cooperation
Regarding the debate on future action, three workshops on adaptation, finance and technology were held, designed to deepen understanding of the issues forming the building blocks of a future agreement.
The negotiating group on long-term cooperative action, the AWG-LCA, which was established at last December's conference in Bali, put several concrete proposals on the table. This resulted in a clearer understanding among governments on what countries would ultimately like to see written into a long-term agreement to address climate change.
While the tabling of these proposals was an important step in moving the negotiating process forward, the need for more targeted proposals in the next sessions was made clear. The AWG-LCA session ended with a call on Parties to submit specific textual proposals which are expected to provide the basis for an initial negotiating text in Poznan in December.
The Kyoto Protocol
Talks also continued in Bonn for the working group on further commitments for Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, the AWG-KP. The objective of these negotiations was to identify means that may be available to industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol to reach their emission reduction targets beyond the first phase of the Protocol in 2012. One of the issues under consideration, for example, involved broadening the range of greenhouse gases to include those such as the group of fluorinated ethers.
A round table on the means was held in Bonn. The group also looked at methodologies for estimating emissions and global warming potentials of greenhouse gases, and a workshop on these matters took place.
Ongoing work
In addition to the two working groups explicitly designed to negotiate the Copenhagen agreement, ongoing work under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol was taken forward.
Parties agreed on scaling up practical technology transfer efforts, in particular for Africa, small island developing states and least developed countries. This will include collaborative research and development of technologies and technology needs assessments. Parties also agreed to develop performance indicators to monitor and evaluate progress on technology transfer.
Important progress was made on the issue of adaptation. Parties agreed to implement the second phase of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, during which a wide range of activities will be carried out. This includes expanding the engagement of different organizations, which will have a positive impact on implementing adaptation action. Parties also agreed to streamline funding for adaptation projects.
The next round of climate change negotiations to pave the way for a future agreement in Copenhagen will take place in Accra, Ghana from 21-27 August.


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Richmond, Ky. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team lost its second consecutive game on Thursday night at Eastern Kentucky. TSU fell behind in the first half and eventually lost to the Colonels 76-67.
Patrick Miller had 20 points for the Tigers on 6-of-14 shooting and shot 4-of-8 from deep. It was Miller's fourth 20-plus point game of the season.
Jordan Cyphers poured in 15 points for Tennessee State (12-9, 6-2 OVC) thanks to a 10-for-11 line from the charity stripe. His 10 freebies set a new season-high.
Jay Harris got the Tigers started with a triple at the 18:10 mark, but the Colonels responded with a 9-0 run to take the lead.
Thornton was able to end the run with a jumper, but TSU was unable to build off the bucket. The Tigers never scored back-to-back field goals in the first half and shot just 30 percent (6-of-20).
The Tigers did draw 10 fouls during the first 20 minutes, allowing the Tigers score 10 of their 24 first half points at the line.
Thornton finished the game with six points and added five boards and a season-high six steals.
Eastern Kentucky (16-4, 6-1 OVC) was able to pad its lead by shooting 66 percent (16-of-24) during the opening frame and 60 percent (6-of-10) from downtown. The offensive flurry allowed the Colonels to take a 15-point lead into halftime.
EKU's Corey Walden (12) and Mike DiNunno (13) accounted for 25 of the Colonels' 39 first half points.
TSU had problems handling the ball during the opening frame, leading to 11 turnovers and 10 EKU points.
The Tigers came out of halftime on fire, drilling the first seven points of the half to make the score 39-33 in favor of the home team.
TSU would pull within four later in the period when Cyphers nailed a jumper at the 10:50. The bucket was the senior's second consecutive basket and made the score 49-45.
From there, EKU used a pair of triples to score eight straight over the course of two minutes.
The Colonels raised their lead to 17 when TSU racked up a pair of technical fouls. EKU's DiNunno hit a pair of freebies and then four more off of the technicals for a six-point swing.
Big Blue attempted a comeback by rattling off a 16-5 run, but the effort fell short. TSU ran out of time and dropped the game, 76-67.
The Tigers forced 17 Colonel turnovers and scored 21 off of EKU miscues. TSU also beat EKU on the boards, 31-25, thanks to 10 rebounds by M.J. Rhett.
However, the Tigers shot 37 percent from the field (19-of-51) and allowed the Colonels to make 25 of their 45 attempts (55.6 percent).
TSU is now 0-7 when shooting under 40 percent.
TSU will play the last of its three game road trip when the squad takes on Morehead State on Saturday night. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and the action can be seen on the OVC Digital Network.
--TSU Tigers--


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- 2 frozen thin crust pizzas, thawed
- ½ lb. pizza or Italian bulk sausage
- ½ lb. sliced mushrooms
- 1 small onion thinly sliced
- 1 small green pepper chopped
- 1 can pizza sauce
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 Tblsp. olive oil
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a skillet, cook sausage until done, drain. Add veggies and continue stirring just long enough to heat and tenderize them.
- Stir in ½ can of pizza sauce and 1 cup of cheese, just to hold mixture together.
- Generously cover a pizza pan or cookie sheet with foil (leave foil loose and make sure there's enough to pull up over and wrap around pizza)
- Place one pizza, cheese side up, centered on foil.
- Cover pizza with sausage mixture, and spread out to edges.
- Cover with 2nd pizza, cheese side down. Press down to secure.
- Wrap foil around pizza and bake, tightly covered, for 20-25 minutes.
- Roll back foil and spread olive oil over top of crust. Now spread with
- remainder of pizza sauce, and cover with 2 cups shredded Mozzarella.
- Bake,uncovered, for additional 20 minutes or until cheese is golden.
Terri's Notes
By all means, make this with you favorite pizza toppings!
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This page provides links to comparisons between SQLite and other database engines. The information that this page links to is intended to provide designers with information to help them choose the best database for their particular situation. If you find additional comparision information, please add a link to this page.
- ALSQLBenchmark from arkadia.com - A benchmark project to compare SQLite vs Firebird vs MySql.
- SqliteVersusDerby - A comparison of SQLite and the CloudScape/Derby database open-sourced by IBM.
- SqliteVersusDbstar - A comparison of SQLite and the db.* database engine open-sourced by Centura Software aquired by Birdstep Technology (http://www.birdstep.com/database) in 2001. db.* branched out of the RDM Embedded source code.
- SqliteVersusRDMMobile - RDM-Mobile 3.0 from Birdstep Technology (http://www.birdstep.com/database) is basically the same product as RDM Embedded. It was extended with additional access layers (Java-JNI, XML).
- SqliteVersusRDMEmbedded
RDM-Embedded (also from Birdstep Technology) adds a SQL-Layer to RDM-Mobile. It features an ODBC-like C-API. The SQL-Dialect is very limited compared to SQLite (no triggers, no views, no outer joins ...). No DDL-Statements can be executed via the SQL-Layer, the table structure must be predefined using a preprocessor utility. As the records are fixed-size the database can grow large but does support variable length strings.
- What about EmbeddedMySQL?: (description) I
don't know enough to do a comparison myself, but it seems to have a lot of
A big turn off for EmbeddedMySQL is their license - here's an extract:
"The MySQL source code is covered by the GNU GPL license (see section G GNU
General Public License). One result of this is that any program which includes,
by linking with libmysqld, the MySQL source code must be released as free
software (under a license compatible with the GPL)." (added by
Another turn off is its size: when i link SQLite into my app the difference is barely noticed not so with EmbeddedMySQL.
- What about SimpleSQL?: (for description -- obsolete link; points to advertisement)
SimpleSQL is only sparsely documented. The code is uncommented except
for a boiler-plate header comment on each file. There are some test cases
but the testing seems to be much less rigorous than SQLite. SimpleSQL uses
the LGPL license.
- SQLite versus Berkeley DB:
Berkeley DB (BDB) is just the data storage layer - it does not support
SQL or schemas. In spite of this, BDB is twice the size of
SQLite. A comparison between BDB and SQLite is similar to a comparison
between assembly language and a dynamic language like Python or Tcl.
BDB is probably much faster if you code it carefully. But it is much more
difficult to use and considerably less flexible.
On the other hand BDB has very fine grained locking (although it's not very well documented), while SQLite currently has only database-level locking. -- fine grain locking is important for enterprise database engines, but much less so for embedded databases. In SQLite, a writer gets a lock, does an update, and releases the lock all in a few milliseconds. Other readers have to wait a few milliseconds to access the database, but is that really ever a serious problem?
See also: KeyValueDatabase.
- SqliteVersusFirebird - SQLite versus Embedded Firebird SQL server : In the embedded version of FireBird (ie. the equivalent of SQLite vs. the client/server version) the database must reside on the host where the EXE is running, ie. it is discouraged to use a database on a remote host, such as (\\server\data\myfile.db) or (x:\data\myfile.db). This drawback can be circumvented though. However, an embedded server locks a database file for its own exclusive use after successful connection. This means that you cannot access the same database from multiple embedded server processes simultaneously (or from any other servers, once an embedded server has locked the file). The embedded server has no facility to accept any network connections. Only true local access is possible, with a connect string that doesn't contain a host name (not even localhost). see FirebirdSQL.org website
- SqliteVersusVistadb - SQLite versus the VistaDB product
- Sqlite versus ITTIA DB
ITTIA DB has row-level locking, which allows larger concurrent transactions than SQLite's database-level locking, and UNDO-REDO logging, so that the page cache is not flushed at the end of every transaction. SQLite uses manifest typing, whereas ITTIA DB enforces data types.
- See also 602SQL an interesting cross platform database a bit unknow till now, the project seems to be stopped but what's there is impressive.


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