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Junior Elizabeth Keevil competed in the A draw for the Lady Bisons. Keevil was defeated in her first match by APSU's Vanja Tomic 6-1, 6-1 before falling to Murray State's (MSU) Alexis Webb in a close three-set match with a super tie-breaker acting in place of the third set, 6-3, 2-6, 10-4.
Also competing in the A draw for the Lady Bisons, senior Kara Jackson defeated Western Kentucky's (WKU) Alex Crofford 6-2, 6-3 before falling to APSU's Carolin Weikard. Jackson was defeated in a consolation match by WKU's Monta Reinfeld 6-3, 6-0.
Freshman Alyssa Bellini fell in her first match in the B draw to WKU's McKinley Vucina in a close three set match 2-6, 6-2, 12-10. Bellini won her consolation match, defeating WKU's Carrie True 7-5, 6-2.
Junior Danielle Hansen defeated True in the first round of the B draw 7-5, 6-3 before falling in her consolation match to APSU's Rachel Margolies 6-1, 6-1. Hansen won another consolation match during the weekend, defeating Vucina 6-2, 6-3.
Sophomore Carlina Jow also competed in the B draw for the Lady Bisons, picking up two wins. Jow posted a victory in her first match, beating Morgan Freeman in a three set match, prevailing 6-3, 4-6, 11-9. Jow fell in her first consolation match to APSU's Kimberly Loo in another tight three-setter, 6-7(4), 6-1, 10-7. Jow won her second consolation match by defeating Caplinger from WKU 6-3, 6-3.
Junior Samantha Bowman picked up one win in her three matches during the weekend in the C draw. Bowman lost in the first round to Loo 6-0, 6-4 before going on to defeat Freeman 7-5, 6-4 in her first consolation match. Bowman was defeated in her second consolation match to Murray State's Kristen Garcia 6-2, 6-0.
Senior Julianne McMeen competed in the C draw for the Lady Bisons posting a win and some close losses. McMeen lost her opening match to WKU's Leanne Caplinger 6-7(5), 7-6(6). McMeen also fell to Garcia 6-0, 6-1 but defeated Freeman in her second consolation match.
The Lady Bisons were able to post two doubles wins on the weekend from McMeen and Jow and Jackson and Bellini.
Keevil and Hansen fell in their first doubles in the A draw to Weikard and Loo 8-4. WKU's Reinfeld and Crofford defeated Keevil and Hansen in their consolation match 8-2.
Jackson and Bellini were able to defeat Vucina and Mason in the first round of the B draw 8-3 before falling to Murray State's Cunitz and Canty 8-3. The duo also lost to Webb and Wiseman from Murray State 8-2 in their consolation match.
Jow and McMeen defeated Caplinger and Stephens 8-1 in their first round doubles match in the C draw. However, the pair was taken down in the second round by True and Freeman 9-8(4).
The Lady Bisons will have the rest of the fall semester off from competitive play before entering into their spring season next semester.
(A)Vanja Tomic (APSU) def. Elizabeth Keevil (LU) 6-1, 6-1
(A) Alexis Webb (MSU) def. Keevil (LU) 6-3, 2-6, 10-4
(A) Kara Jackson (LU) def. Alex Crofford (WKU) 6-2, 6-3
(A) Carolin Weikard (APSU) def. Jackson (LU)
(A) Monta Reinfeld (WKU) def. Jackson (LU) 6-3, 6-0
(B) Katrina Vucina (WKU) def. Alyssa Bellini (LU) 2-6, 6-2, 12-10
(B) McKinley Mason (WKU) def. Bellini (LU) 6-3, 6-3
(B) Bellini (LU) def. True (WKU) 7-5, 6-2
(B) Danielle Hansen (LU) def. Carrie True (WKU) 7-5, 6-3
(B) Rachel Margolies (APSU) def. Hansen (LU) 6-1, 6-1
(B) Hansen (LU) def. Kartrina Vucina (WKU) 6-2, 6-3
(C) Carlina Jow (LU) def. Morgan Freeman (WKU) 6-3, 4-6, 11-9
(C) Kimberly Loo (APSU) def. Jow (LU) 6-7(4), 6-1, 10-7
(C) Jow (LU) def. Caplinger (WKU) 6-3, 6-3
(C) Loo (APSU) def. Samantha Bowman (LU) 6-0, 6-4
(C) Bowman (LU) def. Freeman (WKU) 7-5, 6-4
(C) Kristen Garcia (MSU) def. Bowman (LU) 6-2, 6-0
(C) Leanne Caplinger (WKU) def. Julianne McMeen (LU) 6-7(5), 7-6(6)
(C) Kristen Garcia (MSU) def. McMeen (LU) 6-0, 6-1
(C) McMeen (LU) def. Freeman (WKU)
(A)Weikard/ Loo (APSU) def. Keevil/ Hansen (LU) 8-4
(A) Reinfeld/ Crofford (WKU) def. Keevil/ Hansen (LU) 8-2
(A) Jackson/ Bellini (LU) def. Vucina/Mason (WKU) 8-3
(A) Cunitz/ Canty (MSU) def. Jackson/ Bellini (LU) 8-3
(A) Webb/ Wiseman (MSU) def. Jackson/ Bellini (LU) 8-2
(B) Jow/ McMeen (LU) def. Stephens/ Caplinger (WKU) 8-1
(B) True/ Freeman (WKU) def. Jow/McMeen (LU) 9-8(4)
Written by Ashlan Williams, student assistant in the athletics media relations department.


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The end of the world came and went on December 21, 2012. The end of the world also did not happen on December 31, 1999. I am not up on my apocalypse dates, but I am sure there are many other end-of-the-world scenarios that we have lived through and many more prophesized. One man, Joe Oakland, decided to turn the most recent apocalypse on its head and create a "Givepocalypse" instead. I asked Joe a few questions just before the "Givepocalypse".
Why are you doing the Givepocalypse?
About a year ago, while watching T.V., I had noticed the ridiculous amount of End of the World/Apocalypse programming on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, etc. I thought, "With all of these organizations trying to capitalize on the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse, why is nobody trying to actually do some good around it?" Somebody should do something good around this idea- why not me?
Then something occurred to me that I had seen in an episode of the NBC show, Parks and Recreation. In this show, one of the greatest characters of all-time, Ron Swanson, explained how he made a killing selling hand-carved wooden flutes to a group of Pawnee residents that predicted the apocalypse a few times every year. They would spend the night preparing for the apocalypse by playing these flutes in a park.
Predictably, the apocalypse never came, but Ron still was able to grift his ill-gotten flute money. Then I had a thought that made me laugh; if I could bring the two ideas together and organize people to donate to charity on the day before the apocalypse (instead of buying flutes) I could really do some good – and maybe give people a chuckle, too. The Givepocalypse was born.
After shelving the idea for a few months, revisiting it, and finding it basically unworkable, with too many moving parts in the concept of the organization I thought I would need to pull it off, I re-shelved the idea (maybe permanently this time). But on November 26th, 2012, while feeling a little guilty about letting my Givepocalypse idea die on the vine, I thought "maybe I am completely overthinking this idea," so I scrapped all of my previous ideas, and looked at the Givepocalypse anew. I had the answer almost immediately – become an advocacy group for giving, plain and simple.
Here is the concept we have stuck to: On December 20th, 2012, the Givepocalypse, donate at least $5 to ANY charity that you support. This was clean, simple, and doable – except that there were only 25 days until December 20th and nothing had been done besides registering email accounts and the Givepocalypse URL.
This difficulty turned into opportunity when I realized what an amazing achievement it would be to pull of any level of success in such a short period of time. I created the concept of a "sprint-charity," which, if I was writing the Dictionary definition, I would describe as: a charitable endeavor with a life-cycle that spans less than three months from concept development, to completion of the charitable goals or charter. Further, I would create my own blog on Tumblr called "Behind the Curtain: Making a Sprint-charity," where I would chronicle my experiences with this new concept daily, and hopefully inspire others to chase their crazy ideas to create good as well.
Our mission was simple: Create the Givepocalypse sprint-charity drive, work extremely hard, and see how far we can get!
Finally, one of the cleverest parts of the Givepocalypse (if I do say so myself!) is the idea of giving to ANY charity that you support. By giving to the charity that you already support, you are already motivated to follow through and actually make sure you donate on the Givepocalypse. All we are asking you to do is make an extra donation of at least $5 on the Givepocalypse
So, how did it go?
In just 25 days from creation to the Givepocalypse and only $39 invested in its creation the co-founders Joe and Candice Oakland made a significant impact.
The following statistics are just those that were confirmed through the pledge forms and Facebook event. The actual numbers may be higher since people may have been inspired to donate without making an official pledge.
- 302 Pledges from Awesome People
- At least $1510 in Donations Pledged to Organizations (though the estimate of actual donations is $6000 or higher)
- 82 Organizations Supported – See these organizations listed the Pledge & Donate Page and keep supporting them!
- 21 States reached including Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Oregon, Missouri, New Hampshire, Kansas, and Hawaii
- 6 Countries reached including the United States, Morocco, Costa Rica, Iraq, Sweden, and El Salvador
Do you see another Givepocalypse in the future?
For now, this was a one time event, but if we feel that there is more room from growth, and the idea of a day dedicated to giving, pure and simple, is an idea that people would like to get behind, we may look to do something like this again. Rest assured though, if there is another apocalypse predicted, we will be there to do some REAL good before the "end."
You can watch for updates on the Givepocalypse website, givepocalypse.com, and connect with them on Facebook and Twitter.

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BELLS, TX-- A Bells man, whose daughter disappeared from Oklahoma City in 1981, has never stopped searching.
Jalah Gray shows us the man last seen with Charlotte Kinsey, and takes us back in time to the courtroom, where a young attorney tried one of the first "bodiless" murder trials in Oklahoma history.
On September 26, 1981 Royal Russel Long drove Charlotte Kinsey, Cinda Pallett and their two boyfriends to this truck stop just off I-40. When they got here and there was no truck waiting, Long asked the boys to get out and wait while he went to check the next stop.
The boys later told investigators they watched as the car drove away and the two girls waved out the back window. That was the last time Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett would ever be seen.
"After the 3rd or 4th day of the initial investigation after the girls disappeared, Royal Russel Long was removed as a person of interest," prosecutor, Ray Elliot, said.
The focus of that investigation would come back to Long about three years later.
By the time he again became the main suspect in the Kinsey and Pallett case, he was already serving a life sentence in a Wyoming prison for kidnapping and raping two young hitchhikers.
One girl escaped, but Long took off with 12-year-old, Sharon Baldeagle, who was never seen again.
Ray Elliott had just begun his career as Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma City, when Cinda and Charlotte disappeared.
Little did he know, that case would consume his life.
"I literally lived, ate, breathed and slept that case, Mr. Macy took me off of every other assignment, and I had no other assignment," he said.
It was the second bodiless murder trial in Oklahoma history, and captured the attention of people nationwide.
Mike Gassaway defended Long in the 1985 trial.
"There's a lot of tension because it appeared to me that the district attorney's office was taking this case personally as opposed to professionally," Gassaway, said.
"You can take a case both personally and professionally, as DA of this county I take it personally any time a character like Royal Russell Long comes into this county and kidnaps 2 of our young girls and murders them."
The prosecution built a case with overwhelming evidence against Long, including the testimony of the two boys who identified him as the man who drove away with the girls, and the rental car with a trunk mat that had been painted.
"So we luminoled this mat and there came a perfect silhouette of two small bodies laying back to back on that mat outlined in blood, with a boot print on the lower right hand corner," Elliot, said.
A long blonde hair was found stuck in the paint in the corner of that mat and a large chunk of blonde hair was also found in Long's home in Wyoming.
A forensic expert testified that those hairs were a match to Charlotte Kinsey.
Investigators found that Long had been trained as a meat cutter when serving time years earlier in California.
They even had a confession Long made to a fellow inmate in Wyoming.
"He says to the inmate sitting next to him, "If you cut the bodies up small enough and put them in a rat hole, they'll never find them," Elliot, said.
Judge Charles Owens would not allow the inmate to testify.
In fact, Judge Owens threw out several vital pieces to the prosecution's case.
Including the testimony of Long's own daughter who said he had molested her many times.
"She had witnessed him on numerous occassions try to entice young girls into the cab of his truck, either by the use of a live puppy, or most often with stuffed animals, which again was clearly his MO in our case," Elliot, said.
Judge Owens ruled there was not enough evidence to send Long to trial.
"If Royal Russell Long is in fact guilty as charged in this case, it would appear that law enforcement officials in the State of Oklahoma, quote "Picked him before he was ripe."
"At that point I realized that the case was over."
Elliott says Long would taunt the family when he walked by, saying things like he was the only one who would ever know the real story.
"In my opinion he was referring to the FBI, and that somehow he felt in his mind that the big boys, being the FBI, owed him a favor, for his informant activity, and he was going to call in that favor," Elliot, said.
"As much as we've hurt and gone through trying to find our daughters, it's pretty inhumane of anybody to sit back and say I can prove your daughter's alive and yet not provide any of it," Pearla Peterson, said.
"When Long walked out they said, he done it, I mean you could tell that that was the end of it," Otis Kinsey, said.


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Trick or Treat!!
Citizens throughout the three nations are once again donning their most terrifying garb, swarming the streets, and hungrily awaiting the arrival of adventurers from across the realm. Even the exorcists from far to the west are doing their part to add some spook to the season by holding the Wake of the Lilies once more. Don't forget those hard-working MHMU moogles, either! They've been busy for days painting the towns blood-red, transforming them into haunted havens for harrowing hordes of hellions!
Yessiree, this year's Harvest Festival is shaping up to scare the socks right o—stop the presses! This just in!
A trio of abominable aberrations has just appeared in Windurst that threatens to shroud this year's festivities in utter darkness!
Eeno-Keeno and Yah Teih trundled home from school under a sky stained the color of cruor, which cast an ominous shadow over Windurst Waters' Optistery as they passed by. Amidst their fateful stroll, Yah Teih glimpsed a lone bat splayed across the ground, woefully flapping its wings in an attempt to take flight. Her predatory instincts having kicked in, she called out to her taru companion.
"Eeny! Look...look!"
"I toldy-wold you never to call me that!"
"Because my name's Eeno-Keeno, not Eeny!"
"But Eeno-Keeno's too looong. If I used that, our prrrey would escape before I finished speaking."
"I don't care if anything 'escapes'! We're not on the huntaru anyway!"
"Hey, you there. Got any food?"
The two children looked around in utter bewilderment. What could the source of that ill-mannered voice possibly be?
"My poor baby's so hungry he can't fly! Help him, now!"
Even after a second glance, the schoolyard companions could scarcely believe the voice they had just heard emanated from a bat, but that is what the evidence suggested.
"It's wearing something around its necky-weck. A pendentaru, maybe?"
"S-so...that's where those worrrds were coming from..."
"Altana's arches, you can't see Jugner Forest for the trees! Just give him something to eat!" implored the pendant.
"That's easier said than done. We don't have a single-wingle scrap of food," Eeno-Keeno retorted as he turned his empty pockets outwards.
"Wait, I think I have some grrrub."
Yah Teih rummaged around in her pockets and pulled out one of many saccharine sweets her mother had made for the Harvest Festival. The confection was a simple affair—kneaded flour rolled into a stick, fried to a golden brown, then lightly coated with sugar to top it all off. Of course it should be nigh on impossible to ingest such a thing if not first thoroughly chewed, yet the beast hastily gulped it down without sinking in a single tooth.
This is no ordinary bataru, is all Eeno-Keeno had time to think before two more of its brethren came swooping in.
"So this is where you ended up..."
"You're so slow."
"I hate you two! How could you fly off and leave me to die!?"
The air suddenly filled with harsh screeches of anger, which Eeno-Keeno could only liken to the raking of an outraged teacher's fingernails down a blackboard. After the bats finally lost the energy to shriek at each other, they directed their attention toward him.
"You wouldn't happen to know of a moogle around these parts..."
"That can use magic, do you?"
"Last year, we witnessed a breathtaking miracle through our crystal ball."
"Someone had a moogle imbue his sword with magic..."
"To beat One-Eye."
"Hey, Eeny, that sounds like parrrt of the Harvest Festival!"
"How many timesy-wimes do I have to tell you!? My name's Eeno-Keeno!"
Despite being awash with rage at his partner's blatant attempt to perturb him, Eeno-Keeno was still able to piece together what his mithra companion meant by her epiphany; the bats had described exactly how adventurers exterminate Pyracmon. The MHMU entreats adventurers to rid the nations of Pyracmon every year around the Harvest Festival, so if her deduction was correct, then...
"Ummm...one should be afloataru outside the city gatesy-wates..."
Eeno-Keeno's tentative declaration instigated yet another round of high-pitched screeches—this time of glee rather than gall.
"But why go through all the trrrouble to meet one of these moogles?" Yah Teih inquired after the ruckus had died down again.
"Because we are in dire need of potent magic," sighed an exasperated voice through one of the bat's pendants.
"We're gonna use it to make history! We're gonna be the very best...like no one ever was!" said another in the same grating voice that pled for sugary sustenance earlier.
"Like the Dark Lilies," added another reticently.
That last line sent a frightening shockwave up Eeno-Keeno's spine. Those bats must be familiars, he reasoned, which meant that evil sorceresses were controlling them and communicating via those pendants!
"Our actions will be so abhorrent that not only those who witness them will wet themselves in terror, but so will their children and their children's children every time our tale is retold!" exclaimed one of the witches haughtily, which set the familiars to twirling so rapturously that one could easily mistake their movements for a ritualistic dance.
These witches are pure evil. The Dark Lilies have sinister plans to destroy the world! They're certainly not supposed to be role models for anyone!
"Heh heh heh."
"Tee hee hee!"
The cacophonous mingling of these three distinct yet equally bone-chilling cackles, coupled with his realization of the witches' true intent, instantaneously froze Eeno-Keeno in place; he had not even the power to quiver in fear.
"You shouldn't do bad things," Yah Teih said in a frigid tone as she stared defiantly at the winged trio.
"...What did you just say?"
"You shouldn't do bad things."
"I wouldn't talk like that to us if I were you. Don't you know that that, overseas, we're super famous for—"
"Stop right there!"
"No bean-spilling."
"I don't carrre who you are. If you do anything mean, I'll stop giving you candy," Yah Teih fumed, which sent the bats into a conflicted tailspin.
"...I want candy," stuttered one downtrodden voice after a prolonged pause.
"Come to think of it, I have yet to partake of any myself. How unfair," declared another, this time more eager than exasperated.
"Don't worry. There's still a lot to go arrround. Here."
"Yum," the downtrodden bat stated tersely, seemingly satisfied.
"Hmm, not bad at all. To think it would still be so sapid even though we are only tasting it via our familiars..." added the other.
"Stop obsessing over stupid candy, you two! We've got more important things to think about!" the first bat scolded jealously.
"You didn't seem to think it was stupid-wupid when you were wolfing it down before," Eeno-Keeno blurted out, putting the ornery sorceress in her place.
When all was said and done, the witches had completely depleted Yah Teih's candy stash.
"Hmph, I guess these treats were delicious enough to get you off the hook. You don't know how lucky you are."
"Just don't harrrm anyone, okay?"
"Haha, you wish! I don't recall making any such promises!"
And with that, the winged trio took to the skies and flew westward toward the city gates, leaving behind only a declaration of their infamy:
"No one in the world can match our malevolence!"
"Do you think they'd rrreally just use us and leave...?" Yah Teih sighed as the sun began to set.
"Who knows..." was all Eeno-Keeno could reply.
Those bats' owners are truly fearful mages. However, I remember our teacher telling us how the stronger a magic user is, the more apt she is to lose her way.
All we can do now is trust in the adventurers they'll meet along the way. Once those wicked witches discover the power that adventurers hold, they'll be sure to see the error of their ways...
Event Schedule
The Harvest Festival will creep into town at 1:00 a.m. (PDT) on Thursday, October 18, 2012, and vanish into the shadows on Thursday, November 1, at the same hour.
Your Purple-Winged Partners
Brave adventurers willing to take up the task of driving off the unholy infiltrators should seek out the moogles stationed in the areas below. Complete the tasks assigned, and you shall be met with great reward!
West Ronfaure (I-6) / East Ronfaure (G-6) North Gustaberg (L-8) / South Gustaberg (J-7) West Sarutabaruta (J-8) / East Sarutabaruta (G-11)
Oh my goodness, why have glinting and glistening globules of light appeared beside moogles throughout the three nations? This warrants an investigation...
Trick or Treat!
As Harvest Festival tradition goes, the residents of the three nations have dressed themselves in fearsome costumes, hoping to spook adventurers and earn a treat or two in the process. By trading certain treats to costumed NPCs, characters will be able to dress up as monsters or beastmen themselves, and acquire beloved Harvest Festival items to boot!
Southern San d'Oria / Northern San d'Oria Bastok Mines / Bastok Markets Windurst Waters / Windurst Woods
- NPCs will accept most food items of the Sweets category, with certain exceptions that do not appeal to their finicky palates.
Bomb Decorations and More Fun With Costumes!
Throughout the festivities, players will be able to enjoy the illumination of the now-famous bomb decorations. As in previous Harvest Festivals, one can't help but wonder what might happen if two characters in full costume were to approach these decorations while in the same party...
Wake of the Lilies
The Harvest Festival will again play host to the Wake of the Lilies, with three aspiring exorcists from the West making their annual pilgrimage to the three nations. Would-be shadow-hunters should seek them out at the following locations:
Gertrude in Northern San d'Oria (D-8) Brian in Bastok Markets (G-8) Roger in Windurst Waters (north side) (F-5)
- After successfully completing an exorcist's request, players will be required to wait one Vana'diel day before accepting another.
Seasonal Stalls
Special Harvest Festival stalls will make an appearance in the following areas, offering all manner of seasonal goodies for sale. Furthermore, decorate your Mog House with three new lanterns available in each nation, and your moogle just might have a surprise for you the next time you speak with him!
- This special gift may still be obtained after the Harvest Festival has ended, as long as the necessary conditions have been met.
Northern San d'Oria (D-8) Bastok Mines (H-9) Windurst Waters (north side) (G-10)


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At the Savannah River Site, the job numbers keep rising.
Photo courtesy of Energy Department Image
The HCTRW Reactor at Savannah River Site is one of the primary projects being worked on through the Recovery Act.
Through the Recovery Act, the Office of Science is facilitating their NOvA Project in Orr, Minnesota.
Because of the infusion of workers, the town has seen a trickle-down effect ..stores, hotels, and the town of Orr is doing more business.
The photo is of workers at the Crescent Junction disposal site in Utah in front of the container holding the one millionth ton of uranium mill tailings that was transported from the pile in Moab, Utah. The container is being prepared to be dumped in the disposal cell. Of the first million tons transported for permanent disposal, almost half, or 490,000 tons, was shipped using Recovery Act funding.
James Hall, 43, is no stranger to employment hardships. As a sheet-metal worker, he has become accustomed to spending extended amounts of time away from home to support his family. Having worked throughout the United States as a skilled member of his craft, Hall is thankful for the recent employment opportunities at SRS funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The first 10 miles of the McNary-John Day Transmission Line by Highway 10 in Washington State.
At MIT, Dr. Don Sadoway received a grant through ARPA-E to develop all liquid metal batteries.
Cody's team at Arizona State received a grant for the Advanced Research and Development of Metal-Air Batteries through ARPA-E. Says Cody: "This has the potential to dramatically decrease the cost of energy storage. A cell phone could remain powered for as long a month without charging."
VIRGIN ISLANDS - Students in the solar water heating installation training program installing solar water heaters on homes for the elderly on St. Croix.
Delegate Donna Christian and Under Secretary of Interior Babuta with students who described the training program to the dignitaries.
Savannah River Site has attracted tens of thousands of South Carolina and Georgia residents through their job fairs.
More than 1000 people attended the Allendale Job Fair that was hosted by the Savannah River Site. By late May, the Site received more than 12,500 resumes from eager job seekers.
Dr. Michael Harvey, chief technical officer of XeroCoat Inc. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded XeroCoat Inc. a grant to develop a method for applying its patented anti-reflective coating technology directly onto assembled solar panels. "We may have had to push the timeline out to three years, and then there's a very good chance we'd miss the market opportunities because we know other companies in China and Japan are trying to develop this — we now believe we have a head start instead of having to play catch-up."
Pete, who's a married empty-nester with four kids, lost his job in January after keeping Americans safe and comfortable by testing car parts for the last 15 years. But through volunteering for a local action agency, he retooled his old skills and scored a new job as a weatherization inspector.
Wendy Van Zandbergen, a single mother from Durant, OK teetered on the verge of losing her house after almost nine months of unemployment. Now Wendy works as an energy education trainer for Big Five Community Services Inc., her local community action agency.
Bob Fahlberg, a field investigator at Hanford, conducts systematic foot-based land surveys (walkdowns) to identify potential waste sites in the River Corridor. Under the ARRA work scope, Fahlberg recently led a walkdown of six waste sites at IU2/IU6 Segment 1 to collect site-specific information, such as the waste site dimensions. Results will help determine if a potential site needs to be cleaned up. If so, it will be added to the list for remediation.
Charlie Skiba spent the past 16 months in "self-imposed semi-retirement" before he was hired in June as a senior construction subcontract engineer for WCH.
Charlie is part of the ERDF expansion team at Hanford. The expansion project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
When Ty Rose, a platoon commander with the U.S. Marine Corps, finished his tour in Iraq and returned from the service in 2008, he found himself out of work. Ty attended a Service Academy Career Conference in May 2009 at Washington D.C., where he met with representatives from CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company and was offered a job on the spot as a field work supervisor at the Hanford Site in Washington State. "Recovery Act funds have put me in a job, it's taking care of my family, and it's giving hope"
New hires at Hanford site in Washington.
The Hanford site is located on 586 square miles in southeastern Washington State
New hires at the Savannah River Site, Tim and Kevin are originally from Newport, IN.
Jamie Bing is a new hire at the Savannah River Site.
Kera Woods is a new hire at the Savannah River Site.
Janella Bradley is a new hire at the Savannah River Site.
"We're creating local jobs, hyper, local jobs. You know these are jobs that can't be outsourced. They're, they're smaller scope jobs and odd jobs that big construction companies are coming out of state to do. It's people from the community. It's people from the area."
"In my opinion, the greatest benefit to the weatherization program eventually is going to be changing the way America builds."
"So, I cashed in my 401k and the little severance I had left and I made a gamble. It was either make your mortgage payment, or go down and try to take some classes. That was the break that I needed. That was my networking opportunity to get some face time with somebody. I'm so thankful for it." This is what I want to do. I'm fortunate that I found something. Also, not only to support my family, but where I want to go the rest of my life, like this is what interests me. I love doing the problem solving and I found my career, you know."
ARPA-E funding will be used to develop design parameters and a working prototype that can store and deliver energy on the roder of 5-kWh. The device will use cheap and domestically abundant materials and is expected to attain unprecedented current density and lifespan at an acceptably low cost. If successful, this project will facilitate the widespread deployment of renewable energy technologies in the United States.
Delphi Automotive Systems is developing a novel electrical energy conversion device that will be 50 percent more efficient than existing silicon-based technologies. If successful, this project will improve the energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness of hybrid/electric vehicles and renewable energy systems (e.g., solar, wind).
Agrivida's President and co-founder Mike Raab. His company is using ARPA-E funding to develop a new method for converting plant biomass into useful feedstock for the production of bio-fuels. If successful, this project could increase domestic production of renewable bio-fuels and reduce our nation's dependence upon foreign sources of fossil fuels.
With ARPA-E's financial support, 1366 Technologies is developing a novel wafer manufacturing process that plucks wafers directly from molten silicon and could cut the cost of installed photovoltaic systems in half and reduce wafer capital costs by 90 percent. If successful, this project could increase domestic energy production and generate many new jobs in the solar photovoltaic industry.
Univenture and Algaeventure Systems have designed and fabricated an innovative algae harvesting dewatering and drying system that is far more energy-efficient than existing techniques. If successful, this technology could dramatically reduce the energy cost necessary to harvest, dewater, dry algae and potentially transform the economics of algae-based bio-fuel production, and generate new jobs.
The East Side Access project will connect the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Main and Port Washington lines in Queens to a new LIRR terminal beneath Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The new connection will increase the LIRR's capacity into Manhattan, and dramatically shorten travel time for Long Island and eastern Queens commuters traveling to the east side of Manhattan.


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Get ready sky watchers, the Perseids are coming! The bright and mighty meteor showers, known as the Perseids, are all set to light up the night sky with their flickers of bright light. The name comes from the constellation they seem to originate from – Perseus.
The Peak of the Shower: Timing
The peak of the shower falls on the nights of 11/12th of August (tomorrow night). The peak, being a slightly broad one, will also cross into the 13th. The showers will last till the 24th of the month, but if you miss the peak, there is no point in hunting out the faint trails later on. Simple advice: Don't miss it tomorrow!
The showers will be visible through the night. You might want to catch up with them late evening and spend your time with them till night falls. The late moonrise will help ramp up the grandeur of the spectacle.
The Moon
The moon rises at about 1:30 AM on these two days and by the time the moon reaches anywhere near the zenith, it will be nearly predawn and you'd already be feeling sleepy. The moonrise on the 13th of the month happens at about 2:30 AM and, by that time, the peak of the shower will already have passed. Moreover, the bright planet, Venus and Jupiter, will be close to the moon, so they won't spoil your view either.
The Origin of the Perseids
The Perseids happen because of the comet Swift-Tuttle. Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through a path of debris left behind by a comet which has just passed through that region. The debris then fall through the Earth's atmosphere, burning up in the process and creating the brilliant flickers that we see.
Now, of course, as the years go by, the intensity decreases, because the comet's orbital period around the sun is way longer than the Earth's. The next time Swift-Tuttle visits out neck of the woods, it will be in the year 2126. Don't try to hold your breath that long.
Location Location Location
Choose a location away from the city, if you can. The lesser the light around you and the lesser the fog/smoke in the surrounding atmosphere, the better it is. Of course, all of this means that the nights will get really chilly. Make sure you have a proper blanket, coat and mattress. Spraining your neck is not such a great idea, and thus, reclining against a soft is definitely a good idea.
And Photos
The shutterbugs will definitely want to get their shots and it will be a good idea to go for long-exposure shots. Patience to make multiple attempts is the key; photo contrast is king!
Happy shooting star gazing!


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Academy for Creative Media to hold open call for lead actor in big screen adaptation of Kung FuUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Academy for Creative Media
HONOLULU - Legendary Pictures (Superman Returns, 300) is producing a feature film based on the popular 1970s television series Kung Fu. The University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Academy for Creative Media will hold an Open Call for the lead actor in this film as part of their ACM 385 Master Class series.
The class will conduct a search to cast the lead character, CAINE. In the film, Caine is male, around 30 years old, with a Chinese mother and American Father. The story takes place in the American Old West during the 1800s and is a Martial Arts Western. A martial arts background is not necessary, but the ideal candidate for the role should be physically fit with some athletic training, preferably in martial arts, gymnastics or dance.
Male actors of Asian or hapa (mixed Asian) descent between the ages of mid-20s to mid 30s are invited to the Open Call.
Requirements for the Open Call
· Prepare a one-minute monologue of your choosing, delivered in English
· Prepare a one-minute demonstration of your martial arts or athletic ability — You will be timed and stopped at the end of one minute!
· Bring your headshot/resume as well as CLEARLY LABELED demo reels or publicity materials that will help us get to know you and your talents better — unfortunately, original materials CANNOT BE RETURNED
· Be prepared to wait — possibly all session
· Candidates clearly not right for the role will not be read
· Call-backs will take place on the same day, at the end of the session
· If you have already auditioned for casting, it is not necessary to attend
The Open Call takes place as follows:
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007
Time: 4 to 7 p.m.
Address: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2550 Campus Road, Crawford 115
Honolulu, HI 96822
UH campus parking available after 4 p.m. for $3 (parking zones 2 and 3 are near Crawford).To view parking zone map, log on to http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/permittedNEW.pdf.
For further information please check out our website http://www.hawaii.edu/acm/.No phone calls please!
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Your Views
Bring back British Rail, a transport system for the people not the rich.
British trains should be run and owned by Britain, not overseas companies.
Railways should be run as an affordable service for all people, not just for shareholders and to provide luxury for expense account holders.
Time to put British Rail back into public ownership.
Lower your prices.
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Make all rail public ASAP.
To many foreigners taking over key industries and services . Profits are leaving the country in millions but services provided are abysmal. High time all key services were nationalised.
Most of our railways are nationalised. The trouble is it's all foreign nations. How on earth did our government let that happen? No replies please, I know.
It already is, the Dutch public own it.
Nationalisation is here to stay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not the best climate at the moment but they can now see what Northern & LNER achieve in public ownership before anymore decisions
That's the SNP's plan.
No Tim, we will not 'give it a rest'. We will continue haranguing you tories who want a privatised railway but continually demand that the public bail you out with subsidies, and are somehow happy that every single franchise is foreign-owned. Two faced hypocrisy.
We can't wait till 2022 - needs done NOW.
The franchise system is past its sell by date
I'm all for nationalisation in the bigger picture. But dont we subsidise the Scots enough. Thanks to us they already get,free prescriptions, tuition fees dentistry and all. So no let them pay for something themselves and generate their own income
In fact, people should be doing maths, not rocket science. The importance of passenger revenue under privatisation has declined. In the last ten years of BR, it averaged around 64% whereas in the first ten years of privatisation, its 55%.
Timing of this post is appalling. Give it a rest during this worldwide crisis.
SNP and Alex Salmond?
any train company should be public
Abeltitio more like
Can't nationalise it as Westminster /network rail are in charge of the tracks points and signalling and some Scottish stations
Renationalise all railways
Nationalise the lot 👍
Sam Hayward
Ed Henry
Phil Taylor Rio was the first name down
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A momentous day 🚆✊ 'Britain's trains have effectively been nationalised' amidst the coronavirus crisis. This proves what we've been saying all along - public transport is an essential public service, not a cashcow for private operators. ...
Covid-19: government suspends rail franchise agreementsEmergency measures will be in place for six months to avoid train companies collapsing
More on the story here: www.citymetric.com/transport/has-government-just-renationalised-britain-s-railways-4969
Call me a cynic but I see this as the Tories protecting their friends from losses associated with this crisis. The public purse will cover the damage. When this is all over the franchises will resume and we'll be back to square one.
Let's try to make it permanent (although I think an arms length wholly owned organisation (ALMO) would be a better prospect in the long term).
When JC proposed re-nationalisation the howls of derision were 'where's the money coming from?' Now the toryscum do it when there's hardly any revenue coming in, so either this is an excuse to axe lines in favour of their beloved money pit HS2 or there really is a 'magic money tree' 🤔
Now they need to do the same thing with the water companies, it should be a public utility too.
Hurrah hurrah hurrah! I hope this crisis sends us back towards public ownership of all essential services x Responsible leadership is what's needed, not profits for shareholders!
Radical socialism is what's needed after all. The media & ruling class demonised Corbyn for suggesting such a thing. Funny, that.
The problem is, socialist nationalisation is without compensation to shareholders and pulls down the fat-cat managers' salaries and bonuses to reasonable levels. Capitalist nationalisation protects the shareholders and executives at the expense of the tax-payer - remember the banks in 2008-14? They're gonna give the railways back to the privateers. No joy here then, unless we fight to keep the railways public (RMT/ASLEF/TUC?).
Sorry, but let them go bust. The trains, track, and staff are all going to still be there, ready and waiting to be managed for the public benefit, not foreign nationalised train operators.
Michael Walsh
They are just 'socialisng' the losses. Moment the trains are back in profit they will privatise them again.
Paul Banks
Let's make ssure they stay in Public hands when this chaos is over!
Tories protecting their friends again, I guess when this is all over them get their franchise back for one pence.
Socialism saving the country.
Hmm.. you could almost wonder if they'd be better run by The State?
Terrible decision, the franchise holders should be made accountable and bail themselves out with the profits they have made. If not they should surrender the franchise. The government should commence an emergency nationalisation of the railways and rolling stock due to the pandemic. Forcing the discharged of all the private rail franchise contracts due to frustration and bringing them under the control and operation of the government.
All people who work on the railway read this.
Not nationalisation. Just allows them to bail out the franchises as their incomes fall. Branson will probably try to sue HMG for not allowing his gravy train to keep running. (He will just have to depend on whatever he gets from NHS!)
They'll give it back once it's profitable again.
Some good then from all this!
However, the train operators will continue to run the services "for a small predetermined management fee", the DfT said. Private companies will run the trains but the government underwrites it all and, during this exceptional time, carries the losses.
Socialism the only way
I wonder how many don't realise you've deliberately reversed the BR logo? At first I thought you'd 'hung the Union Flag upside down'.
Bloody Northern started arbitrary rolling cancellations on the day I was trying to get to Manchester Airport (March 20th). Had to get a taxi in the end after I'd paid for rail tickets. Good riddance I say, and welcome back BR (permanently I hope).
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When ever anything goes private the service drop and prices go up. Bring everything back as British.
It's the same story in virtually every case. Councils being forced by central government to outsource many services. Those service costs then spiral, there's little the council's can or are willing to do and so on. It's just a huge shit slinging fight where councils and local tax payers get shafted but central government sits there wanking over the scenario.
Be interesting to put a number to the amount of people who voted Tory to get Brexit but in non brexit days wouldn't have voted Tory or wouldn't have voted at all .... It wouldn't surprise me if that was a major factor in the result.
In privatisation the revenue and income earned from the fares appear to have dropped leading to increase in political subsidies. In the last ten years of BR, it averaged 64% while in the first ten years of privatisation, it was 55%, This explains why rail privatisation even with the highest fares in Europe cannot cover the cost
But voters had a chance to say that in the election and they backed the party who believe the railways are working. Labour proposed nationalisation and it was rejected. We must respect the will of the people - the last 4 years have taught not to disagree with the results of votes....
Bit late you all voted Tory
Bring back all the privatised companies that were given away by the corrupt Tory's,
If you vote tory, the silver wear gets sold, it's comman policy however when there's trouble just dump it and run, and leave the blame elsewhere
You can only take back control of the TOCs, the track belongs to a different company and all the trains belong to banks and leasing companies who have paid out for them.
Actually, voters said the reverse on 12th December.
Far more passenger trains running now.
Which voters? Because clearly not the 13 million that voted Tory They will be put back into privatisation,the Tories will not run the railways as state owned
But they forgot about it in the election ! Spilt milk ?!!
My heart says renationalise everything. It is, after all infrastructure - which is different from 'industry'. My head, however, remembers when my coloured wife was insulted by British Rail counter staff in Nottingham in the seventies, I was ripped off by platform staff (porters) - also in the seventies - and generally an attitude that people turned up their places of employment as a favour. Customers were treated as a nuisance. Civility was rare. Workmanship standards were questionable. British cars were a joke, albeit rusty.
Privatisation has benefitted nobody apart from foreign ownership shareholders CEOs etc and has allowed regular frequent price rises and pisspoor customer service. Anybody who says it is better than British Rail is a stupid idiot
Biggest scam ever,privatisation,conned,gulled all for the rich to bleed the country dry with little or no input back.Crumbling britain except Londonistan gets everything going.
Northern Rail renationalised - a great decision for passengers! ...
Privatisation has made so many poor decisions since early days. It's been a disaster.
This government's idea of re-nationalisation and our idea of re-nationalisation aren't necessarily the same thing!
This arguing about tory /labour is pointless. Look at the rail and coal industries, more track milage and pits shut when labour were in than the tories. Labour had 13 years and never renationalised the railway. That makes me think that both parties are bought and paid for and the establishment can then control things to suit themselves. If voting changed anything it would have been banned years ago. Just look at the government policies and broken promises since 1958.
I was a Deputy Chief Controller when we lost the supervision of the Great Eastern railways. You can imagine how difficult it was with the stock, staff and routes being under control. It will never work again until we gain ONE CONTROL system.
ive worked on the railway 32 years now. she has no idea what she's on about. its nothing to do with tories or labour because labour were in charge for 13 year and did nothing. lner is now government run. I used it today and it's still shit. another sticker another name changes nothing. the bunch of wankers in charge of the company are the problem
The East Coast route has been taken back into public ownership three times. It's easy to see what the future is for Northern Rail.
but i cannot easily get to southport on a sunday. 6 days a week its a doddle to get notts to southport. sunday twice as long and all over the country. ridiculous
well done Cat Hobbs, that is great!
For how long,Capitalism does not like nationalisation,tax payer will put it right again for privatisation.
We need to own it AND control it
But it needs to improve.
Slowly but surely
Now do the other franchises!
About bloody time. Northern are a bloody disgrace.
I really want to know just how much First Group are bunging the Tories to keep hold of Trans-Pennine. How they are somehow being portrayed as a victim of Northern Rail's issue is disgusting. Northern never regular boot off a whole peak hour trainload of passengers at Stalybridge so the train can be reversed and avoid delay fines later in the day...
I don't mind if others want their local or national lines renationalised but, current ticketing difficulties aside, please don't change C2C it works better, far better than it ever did under BR
RIP BR's Mr S & C (Settle & Carlisle) Ron Cotton.
Network Rail is state owned. The DfT sanction what train operator's do. The Government is at the core of what goes both wrong and right with the railway. It was also Government interference that scuppered British Rail.
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Today Northern rail is re-nationalised. That's two franchises down, only eighteen more to go! Join the original passenger-led campaign for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit 🚆✊ bringbackbritishrail.org/franchises ...
LNER are not exactly a good example are they? I support nationalisation wholeheartedly, but they have not improved the London to Leeds service plus it's now even more expensive than before! It needs to be done properly!
Let's face it. This government is only nationalising these lines to pump public money into them and then, when they've got them up to spec, they'll sell them, on the cheap, back to the public sector.
Will they ever learn the railways are for people to get around to see loved ones and visit places and earn a living not to fill up pockets of shareholders and foreign investors it's time for Change
But the same trains, same people running them, empty promises from the Dominic Cummings led government of overdue infrastructure improvements.
The common factor with the failed franchises is the DFT, yet renationalisation will involve the DFT and politicians even more. How exactly will that work? Get rid of political interference and safeguard freight paths and I would be all for renationalisation.
A lot of the reason it's shit is the billions wasted reducing capacity and the legacy of stupid short MUT rubbish. Marples totally fucking the system and the endless real cuts after were done by governments of both flavours.
maybe you should look into LNER and see who is actually running it , you maybe surprised , or maybe you just dont want to say !!!! simple fact is no part of the railway is run on a nationalised basis its all contracts
Unfortunately it will make very little difference until network rail get off their arse and do some serious work on the infrastructure, with proper skilled railwaymen.
Needs to be re-organised. Publicity runned Northern Ireland Railways and mainland Europe Railway are working.
You do understand that under either a nationalised or privatised railway the industry is run by the government irrespective...
Strike some more and South Western Railways is next. A total shambles of a train company.
Still.needs a lot of common sense building into the system.
I do hope the r m t ballot calls for all out strikes time to rid us of johnson
Get rid of first class coaches. They have no place in the modern world.
You forgot Railtrack. Easily done - it's just all the infrastructure. www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/08/Whitehall.transport
South Western Railway next?!
This needs to happen on the K&WVR.
Please let Southwestern be next.
I was in Brighton last weekend. Sunday 1530 to London was 12 carriages. Compare this with 3 or 6 Edinburgh to Manchester service at peak times!
I can honestly see GWR doing this very soon
Southeastern next please, 14 years of misery for us now...
Capitalism is just one success after another 🤔
I hope we can renationalise South Eastern rail soon!
When the railways were built in the victorian times. Their was not so many people to transport around. In comparison to nowadays a lot more people. Nothing has changed a lot over the years of improving the rail network. Still in the yeara of the victorian times. Its not easy to get trains in the right places to go if its unworkable. It needs good planning to make it work.
On this site I'd like to know which part of BR you want back, you have to remember things were very different in those days, for example PPE was absolutely dire. The H&S was often non existent, there were a lot of dead-wood staff. Even the sandwiches were horrific!!! It was run on a shoestring budget, so the equipment was clapped out and skinflint ideas are still about such as the Pacers. Sadly we still have equipment although nostalgic is costly to run all legacies of that should have gone ages ago. Unfortunately the words future proof are low on priorities except for the busiest main lines, despite the vast numbers of new housing developments going on and the over-congested roads.
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Jose Rodriguez wasn't always a family man. He began his adult life as a Navy man, enlisting straight out of high school. Twelve years later, he and his wife Angelica were ready to settle down."We decided to wait until I got out of the service to have children," explains Jose. "There is a lot of moving and family separation when you are in the Navy. If we were going to build a family we wanted to build one together."Adoption was always an option for the Rodriguez family. They heard about it frequently and were not turned off by the idea. But it was their faith that played a major role in their final decision to adopt."There is a verse about taking care of widows and orphans," says Jose. "So this paired with the fact that we wanted to expand our family, adoption was natural progression."


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| April 27, 2012, 11:24 am
We're quickly closing in on the postseasons for all spring sports. The Class 5A playoffs will get 32 qualifiers, split into eight four-team districts.
The true-seeded bracket will be set on May 7; District play begins May 12.
As the 32 qualifiers are based on league finish, here's how the postseason playoff picture is shaping up. We'll only show teams in the hunt for the postseason, and we'll use league records, since that's what matters in these instances.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Network autoconfiguration failedYour network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Etc..
I'll probably compile a "supported network cards" list at some point in time according to what the modules report as "supported". Current kernel is 220.127.116.11.In the mean time, which cards did you test?
I don't know Etherboot. Possibly it's doing something wrong. If you find a Boot ROM for the Realtek 8139 and it still doesn't boot, then I'm doing something wrong and I'll have to fix it.
Quote from: "radu.c"I don't know Etherboot. Possibly it's doing something wrong. If you find a Boot ROM for the Realtek 8139 and it still doesn't boot, then I'm doing something wrong and I'll have to fix it.Hi,I'll give some more info. I made bootable CD image for this card. It finds it on boot, the finds PXE server, gets kernel and initrd image and then starts linux system (but this is already part of diskless image)....Then I guess it would need to nfs mount and there it stops cause network is not working. At that stage I cannot dmesg, ssh into it, to get more info...Should diskless image work with 8139 card or can I somehow determine it to load proper kernel module (and what kernel module is for this card) ?Regards,Rob.
You can mount the initrd in a temporary location and examine its contents: mount -o loop -t cramfs <initrd.img> /mount/point. Look in lib/modules/220.127.116.11-vanilla-pluto-1-686/kernel/drivers/net for 8139too. If it's not in there it means I missed it.....
dcerouter_260:~/mount/lib/modules/18.104.22.168-vanilla-pluto-1-686/kernel/drivers/net$ ls3c509.ko b44.ko epic100.ko natsemi.ko sis900.ko via-rhine.ko3c59x.ko e1000 fealnx.ko ne2k-pci.ko sk98lin yellowfin.ko8139cp.ko e100.ko forcedeth.ko ne.ko tg3.ko8139too.ko eepro100.ko hp100.ko pcnet32.ko tlan.ko8390.ko eexpress.ko mii.ko r8169.ko tulipdcerouter_260:~/mount/lib/modules/126.96.36.199-vanilla-pluto-1-686/kernel/drivers/net$


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== Installing ==
== Installing ==
First, install the utilities for managing cgroups; you need to install the {{AUR|libcgroup}} package from the [[AUR]].
First, install the utilities for managing cgroups; you need to install the {{AUR|libcgroup}} package from the [[AUR]].
{{Note|Cgroups can be handled natively by [[systemd]], see [http://www.freedesktop.org/
{{Note|Cgroups can be handled natively by [[systemd]], see [http://www.freedesktop.org//systemd// this] for more information.}}
== Simple usage ==
== Simple usage ==
Revision as of 06:17, 7 December 2013
cgroups (aka control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, police and account the resource usage of certain processes (actually process groups). Compared to other approaches like the 'nice' command or
/etc/security/limits.conf, cgroups are more flexible.
Control groups can be used in multiple ways:
- create and manage them on the fly using tools like cgcreate, cgexec, cgclassify etc
- the "rules engine daemon", to automatically move certain users/groups/commands to groups (/etc/cgrules.conf and /usr/lib/systemd/system/cgconfig.service)
- through other software such as Linux Containers (LXC) virtualization
Unfortunately this feature is often underappreciated due to lack of easy "how-to" style documentation. This is an attempt of fixing the problem. :)
First, install the utilities for managing cgroups; you need to install the libcgroupAUR package from the AUR.
Simple usage
Ad-hoc groups
One of the powers of cgroups is that you can create "ad-hoc" groups on the fly. In fact, you can even grant the privileges to create custom groups to regular users. Run this as root (replace $USER with your user name and groupname with the name you want to give to the cgroup):
sudo cgcreate -a $USER -g memory,cpu:groupname
That's it! Now all the tunables in the group groupname are writable by your user:
$ ls -l /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/groupname total 0 -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cgroup.event_control -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cgroup.procs -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.rt_period_us -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.rt_runtime_us -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 cpu.shares -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 notify_on_release -rwxrwxr-x 1 user root 0 Sep 25 00:39 tasks
Cgroups are hierarchical, so you can create as many subgroups as you like. Let's say that, as a normal user, you want to run a bash shell under a new subgroup called 'foo':
cgcreate -g memory,cpu:groupname/foo cgexec -g memory,cpu:groupname/foo bash
There we go! Just to make sure:
$ cat /proc/self/cgroup 11:memory:/groupname/foo 6:cpu:/groupname/foo
A new subdirectory was created for this group. To limit the memory usage of all processes in this group to 10 MB, run the following:
$ echo 10000000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/groupname/foo/memory.limit_in_bytes
Note that the memory limit applies to RAM use only -- once tasks hit this limit, they will begin to swap. But it won't affect the performance of other processes significantly.
Similarly you can change the CPU priority ("shares") of this group. By default all groups have 1024 shares. A group with 100 shares will get a ~10% portion of the CPU time:
$ echo 100 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/groupname/foo/cpu.shares
You can find more tunables or statistics by listing the cgroup directory.
You can also change the cgroup of already running processes. To move all 'bash' commands to this group:
$ pidof bash 13244 13266 $ cgclassify -g memory,cpu:groupname/foo `pidof bash` $ cat /proc/13244/cgroup 11:memory:/groupname/foo 6:cpu:/groupname/foo
Persistent group configuration
If you want your cgroups to be created at boot, you can define them in
/etc/cgconfig.conf instead. For example, the "groupname" and "groupname/foo" group definitions would look like this:
group groupname { perm { # who can manage limits admin { uid = $USER; } # who can add tasks to this group task { uid = $USER; } } # create this group in cpu and memory controllers cpu { } memory { } } group groupname/foo { cpu { cpu.shares = 100; } memory { memory.limit_in_bytes = 10000000; } }
Useful examples
Matlab does not have any protection against taking all your machine's memory or CPU. Launching a large calculation can thus trash your system. Here's the what I have put in
/etc/cgconfig.conf to protect from this (replace $USER with your username):
# Prevent Matlab from taking all memory group matlab { perm { admin { uid = $USER; } task { uid = $USER; } } cpuset { cpuset.mems="0"; cpuset.cpus="0-5"; } memory { # 5 GiB limit memory.limit_in_bytes = 5368709120; } }
This cgroup will bind Matlab to cores 0 to 5 (I have 8, so Matlab will only see 6) and cap its memory usage to 5 GiB. The "cpu" resource constrain can also be defined to prevent CPU usage, but I find the "cpuset" constrain to be sufficient.
Launch matlab like this:
$ cgexec -g memory,cpuset:matlab /opt/MATLAB/2012b/bin/matlab -desktop
Make sure to use the right path to the executable.
For information on controllers and what certain switches and tunables mean, refer to kernel's Documentation/cgroup (or install linux-docs and see
For commands and configuration files, see relevant man pages, e.g.
man cgcreate or
man cgrules.conf


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911 calls obtained from rural home invasion
40/29 News obtained the 911 calls made to dispatchers during a home invasion Tuesday.
The search is on for the man who deputies said broke into a home and attacked a woman.
She escaped her attacker, hid in the bathroom and called police.
"He reached for me and he got in my hair and he jerked me back. I just ran. I ran in the living room," Lisa Green, the victim in the home invasion, said to dispatchers.
In a Sebastian County home, deputies said David Green's wife was at home doing yard work.
Deputies said Green was away at work when he got a frantic call from his wife that a man was trying to get in the house.
Green called 911.
"And she just called me screaming and now the phone is disconnected," said David Green, in a 911 call to dispatchers.
The panicked husband waited on the line as dispatchers called every unit in the county to assist at the scene of the home invasion.
Deputies said the attacker kicked in the Green's side door and pulled out the screen trying to get inside.
Minutes after the husband's call, his wife called 911 from their bathroom.
"They're almost there, OK? Do you still hear anything inside the house, like if he's there with you?" asked 911 operators.
"I don't know," said Lisa Green.
After eight minutes into the call you can hear on the tape as help arrives.
911 tape: Sheriff's Office!
911 operator: Do you hear them?
911 tape: M'am? Sheriff's Office!
Lisa Green: It's me! Can I come out?
911 operator: Yeah, Sheriff's on scene is what he's yelling.
Deputies canvassed the area after the home invasion.
They're still developing leads on the suspect.
Deputies describe the man as unshaven, has dirty black hair that covers his ears. Deputies said, "he had a very strong body odor."


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RIP bro'
true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Very sad indeed. Very nice gent who's postings I will miss.
Anyone know what his last name was or where a card can be sent?
Truly sad news....a brilliant man. I will miss his wit.
No Heat No Cool You need Action Fast
condolences to the carnak family-from the mo-flo family.
First Arpa, now Carnak......this is so sad....who's gonna fill their shoes?
It is time for all good men to come to the aid of their country, for we are in deep crap.
Here is a link to the Funeral Home information and online condolences book. As far as I can see the obituary has not yet been published.
I am going to miss his presence here on the site.
RIP Carnak. You'll be missed.
The key to happiness is lower expectations.
Don't pick the fly crap out of the pepper.
A very sad day, he was one of the guys that I never doubted his word, and learned plenty from .... just sad.
"Nothing else can poison our culture, corrupt our society or ruin the character of our people like unearned money or unearned opportunity." -- James R. Cook
"Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889.
The king of Latent, we will all miss you Brother, probably should dedicate a Humidity forum just for you, your past answers will live on forever.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards" ~ Vernon Law
"Skilled Labor Isn't Cheap, Cheap Labor Isn't Skilled" ~ Unknown
"When the teachers become unteachable we're all in trouble"
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." ~ John Wooden
Originally Posted by frigetater
First Arpa, now Carnak......this is so sad....who's gonna fill their shoes?
Twilli knew he shouldn't have watched that video, that song has a lot of meaning ....makes Twilli sad.
I liked Murrays style. He gave as good as he got. Kindred spirits we are. I will miss corresponding with the Canuk on that flat rock in the ocean. Happy trails to you my friend.
Expect nothing, yet expect the unexpected.
Press on Regardless, Endeavor to Persevere.
Just a little something:
Apparently he once worked for a competitor of mine, Eng "A", years after I worked for ClimateMaster.
Now it makes sense why there was a sudden improvement in their equipment in the early 90s
Is this a Fabreze moment? C.Y.D. I'm voting white elephant. 2¢.
Years ago Carnak offered me a controls job, I didnt take it but he was a good guy and will be missed deeply.
Originally Posted by MatrixTransform
very soon it is you that will be pwned
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Entourage Season 6 and DVD giveaway!
The boys are back this Sunday – the 6th season of Entourage kicks off this weekend (Sunday, July 12 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on HBO in Canada and the US) and judging by the screener of the first 2 episodes they sent over, all signs point to a more thoughtful, less frivolous direction. Still fun, but not so random. The writing went awry in season 4, non? By the end of Season 5 it started turning around. And this year, they seem to be exploring some new angles. In particular, I love the way the first episode ends.
Lloyd and Ari are front and centre. Vince's career seems back on track. And Tom Brady, LipGloss Zac Efron, 50 Cent, and Mark Wahlberg will all be making cameo appearances. Also… Turtle is still dating Jamie Lynn Sigler. Check out the jacket Vince is wearing on Jay Leno too. Jacek would never because he has no style, but he should.
Are you ready?
If not, catch up with Season 5 on DVD. I have 10 box sets to give away! If you're interested email [email protected] with Entourage Season 5 as the title before midnight Pacific on Tuesday, July 14th. Standard contest terms apply. Good luck!
And attached – last night's premiere in LA and the boys Wednesday night at Villa shooting new scenes. Look at Drama's mouth. Amazing, right?
Photos from Splashnewsonline.com and Wenn.com


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With the second leg of their Champions League tie against Real Madrid to come and a Premier League title within their grasp, the Dutchman could be forgiven for hoping for a day off on Monday when United face Reading in the FA Cup. But that is not the way the 29-year-old sees it.
"I have found out that when you play for Manchester United, every game is a big game," he said.
"There are some extra-special matches - like when you play City or Liverpool in the Premier League and Real Madrid in the Champions League - but the so-called smaller games are important also because winning those games makes you champions.
"Personally, I love to play all of the games.
"You get into a rhythm. I get used to having a game every three days and when you don't play for a week, it can take maybe 10 or 15 minutes to get your rhythm back.
"I want to play against Reading. I want to keep going, playing all of the games.
"I love the intensity of playing for United. It is great to be involved in huge games when you don't know what is going to happen.
"You get more out of it when there is a thin line between winning and losing.
"I love the buzz, the drama, the excitement. I live for that. I can't imagine the day when I have to stop playing. I know I will miss the buzz so much."
Source: PA
Source: PA


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Victoria Beckham: Birthday at Home
H7 left Los Angeles yesterday for London with her siblings and her mother, who is celebrating her 39th birthday today. I love the shot of her with her hand on Brooklyn's neck. They seem close and he has always seemed devoted to her and now seems less a child who needs to be minded than one of the adults who helps with the minding. And I wonder who she is at home, what the difference is between the permanent pouter we see in high heels and the parent her children know her to be. I don't even like kids and I would watch that show.
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Dr. Daniel Hinshaw Appointed Visiting Professor of Palliative Care
20 February 2012 • Faculty Appointment • By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick
Dr. Daniel B. Hinshaw has been appointed Visiting Professor of Palliative Care at St. Vladimir's Seminary. Dr. Hinshaw is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, in the Section of General Surgery. He serves as an attending consultant physician on the inpatient palliative care consultation service at the VA Ann Arbor Health Care System and provides outpatient palliative care services at the University of Michigan Geriatrics Center. He completed a fellowship in Palliative Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in June 2001, during a sabbatical. His clinical research interests are focused on care at the end of life, spiritual distress in advanced illnesses, and the use of complementary medicine in the relief of pain.
"Our seminary faculty is very impressed by all of Dr. Hinshaw's work, nationally and internationally," said seminary Dean, Archpriest John Behr, who made the faculty appointment. "And, we are deeply honored by the fact that he now can represent St. Vladimir's Seminary in these endeavors."
Dr. Hinshaw currently is in Brasov, Romania helping with two courses in their Masters in Palliative Care program. He will be in Belgrade from March 4–16, and will meet with Dragan Makojevic, director of Serbian Orthodox Philanthropy and a SVOTS alumnus, who will help Dr. Hinshaw facilitate some meetings to explore possibilities of sharing his work with Serbian Orthodox Christians.
Speaking about his new association with SVOTS, Dr. Hinshaw said, "I am deeply honored by this appointment. It provides a wonderful opportunity to align my clinical, teaching, and scholarly work more closely with the healing mission of the Orthodox Church.
"A major challenge that modern health care poses to patients, especially those with a strong religious faith, is the compartmentalization of different perspectives and skills," he continued. "This lack of effective interdisciplinary communication among those caring for the sick fragments most efforts at providing holistic care and exacerbates the suffering of those facing serious life-threatening illnesses. This is particularly problematic with regard to the integration of religious faith with the clinical care of the sick.
"The highly secularized nature of Western society has effectively divorced health care from the healing ministry of the Church," he concluded. "I hope that the appointment to the SVOTS faculty will make it possible to create bridges between the profound Orthodox theological understanding of the human person in illness and health and the practical application of this understanding within pastoral and diaconal ministries of the Church that will transcend the many artificial boundaries created by secularization."
Dr. Hinshaw and his wife, Dr. Jane (Carnahan) Hinshaw, have committed their lives to studying and offering palliative and hospice care not only in the U.S. but also in Romania, Uganda, and Ethiopia. In October 2011, the Hinshaws were on our seminary campus to present a seminar to our students: "Spiritual Issues in Suffering and Palliative Care." Because of the Hinshaws' medical expertise and the broad interest in their topic, their seminar was offered free to the public, and more than 50 students and guests, mostly neighboring hospital chaplains, attended. The entire seminary community welcomes Dr. Hinshaw back to St. Vladimir's, in his new capacity. Truly we are blessed by this addition to our faculty.


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U.S. Women's Update for April 11
Bill Kauffman
Associate Director, Communications
Phone: 719-228-6800
E-Mail: email@example.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 11, 2011) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on April 11 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION SYSTEM UPDATED FOR 2016 OLYMPICS: The Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Board of Administration approved a new qualification system for indoor volleyball to be implemented for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 12 vacancies will be decided by the following process: one host country; five continental championships or continental qualification tournaments; two from FIVB World Cup; and four from intercontinental qualification tournaments to be organized with four teams per tournament. The major change is the reduction by one team qualifying through the FIVB World Cup and the introduction of four intercontinental qualification tournaments on four separate continents.
NEW FORMAT APPROVED FOR 2014 FIVB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: The Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Board of Administration confirmed a new formula for the 2014 FIVB World Championship. The new formula, for both men's and women's tournaments, will see 23 of the 24 teams go through the qualifying with the host team the only confirmed country. In recent World Championships, the defending champion was also granted a spot into the next World Championship. The 24 teams will be divided into four pools of six teams in a first-round round robin with the top four teams advancing to the second round, which will involve two pools of eight teams. The top four teams from each pool will then advance to the quarterfinal phase. For the 2014 FIVB Women's World Championship, NORCECA will have six spots in the event, while CEV (Europe) will have 10 positions including the host. AVC (Asia) will have four teams, while CAVB (Africa) and CSV (South America) will have two countries each.
BERG, HODGE WITH VILLA CORTESE IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) are competing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A league during the 2010-11 professional club season. In Italian Serie A action, Villa Cortese (15-4, 41 points) edged third-place Scavolini Pesaro 22-25, 25-15, 25-18, 19-25, 23-21 on April 10. Hodge, playing at outside hitter, charted 23 kills on 42 attacks to go with three aces for a match-high 26 points. Berg set the squad to a 41 kill percent for the match while chipping two kills on three attacks and an ace for three points. For a photo gallery of the match, click here Villa Cortese, now in second place and two points behind first-place Bergamo, returns to the court next weekend to compete in the Italian Cup. Villa Cortese will meet Yamamay Busto Arsizio in the semifinals on April 16, with the finals on April 17. The opposite Italian Cup semifinal match has Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo facing Scavolini Pesaro. After the Italian Cup, Villa Cortese will have another meeting with third-place Yamamay Busto Arsizio (12-7, 37 points) in Italian Serie A regular season competition on April 23, which will air live on Rai Sport 1.
HARMOTTO WITH LIU-JO VOLLEY MODENA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) is playing for LIU-JO Volley Modena in Italy's Serie A League during the 2010-11 professional club season. Modena (7-12, 22 points) defeated Riso Scotti Pavia 25-21, 25-22, 25-15 on April 9. Harmotto scored five kills on 10 attacks to go with two blocks for seven points as part of a balanced team offensive attack. On the opposite side of the net, Harmotto faced former Penn State teammate Blair Brown, who had a team-high 15 points with 13 kills on 29 swings, one block and an ace. Modena returns to Italian Serie A action on April 23 against third-place Scavolina Pesaro (11-8, 37 points).
PAOLINI WITH NOVARA IN ITALY: Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing this professional season in Italy with Asystel Volley Novara of the Italian Serie A Division. Novara (11-8, 35 points) lost a grueling five-set match to 10th-place Despar Perugia 18-25, 29-27, 25-18, 23-25, 15-13 on April 10. Paolini collected seven kills on 12 attacks while starting all but the fourth set. Novara, now in fifth place, takes on top-ranked Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo (14-5, 43 points) on April 23 in its next league match.
LARSON WITH KAZAN IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is playing for Dinamo Kazan of the Russia Super League during the 2010-2011 pro club season. Kazan is now 19-1 on the season and atop the league standings after defeating fifth-place Odintsovo (12-8) 22-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 15-12 on April 7. Kazan challenges fourth-place Uralockha-NTMK (14-6) on April 11 in its next match, followed by sixth-place Omichka (12-8) on April 15 in the final regular season match. For the season, Larson has compiled 205 points and averaged 3.55 points per set, including a 40 kill percent on 419 attacks. She has compiled a 60 positive percent on 486 service receptions.
MORRISON, SIX AMERICANS ON ONE AUSTRIAN TEAM: U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) is serving as head coach of the Austrian Post Schwechat team during the 2010-11 season. The team has six American players including Jill Collymore (Seattle), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Post Schwechat competes in the Middle European Volleyball Zonal Association (teams from Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia). Post Schwechat is nearing the completion of its 2010-11 season and is taking part in the Austrian Bundesliga Final round versus Linz. After winning the first of a best-of seven finals round meeting with Linz, Post Schwechat went on the verge of winning the series with two additional victories last week. Post Schwechat won the second match 25-20, 25-11, 25-6 on April 6. Pressey turned in 11 kills on 17 attacks and three blocks for a match-high 14 points. Jones added five kills on seven attacks and a match-high six blocks for 11 points. Crimes was credited with four kills on five swings and an ace. Thompson set the team to a 68 kill percent and .517 hitting efficiency. In the third meeting, Post Schwechat swept Linz 25-19, 25-20, 25-16 on April 10. Crimes pocketed eight kills on 13 attacks, three blocks and two aces for a match-high 13 points. Pressey chipped in nine kills as part of an 11-point performance. Jones added 10 points with eight kills on 15 attacks. Thompson set the squad to a 42 kill percent, while Miyashiro was credited with a 62 positive reception percent on 13 attempts. The series continues on April 13, and if necessary, matches on April 16, April 20 and April 23.
SYKORA SETTING TABLES FOR VOLEI FUTURO IN BRAZIL: Three-time U.S. Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) is competing for Volei Futuro in the Brazilian Superliga during the 2010-11 professional club season. Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) was playing for the squad until an injury curtailed her first professional season. Volei Futoro, which entered the Brazilian Superliga as the number-three seed, advanced to the semifinals with two victories over Macae Sports in the best-of-three quarterfinals. Volei Futuro begins the semifinals on April 12 against Sollys/Osasco, followed by an April 23 match. If necessary, the third match will be played April 26.
KIM GLASS WITH RABITA BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Rabita Baku of the Azerbaijan professional league in 2010-11. By finishing first in the Azerbaijan Super League regular season, Rabita received a quarterfinal round bye in the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs. During the Final Four Round, Rabita will play Lokomotiv on April 18, Igtisadchi on April 19 and Azerrail on April 20. All matches of the Azerbaijan Final Four Round will be televised live on Idman Azerbaijan TV at http://www.yildiz.tv/?act=dvr&chan=idmanaz.
IGTISADCHI LOADED WITH AMERICANS IN AZERBAIJAN: Two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) is playing for Igtisadchi of the Azerbaijan Super League. By finishing second in the Azerbaijan Super League regular season, Igtisadchi received a quarterfinal round bye of the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs. During the Final Four Round, Igtisadchi will play Azerrail on April 18, Rabita on April 19 and Lokomotiv on April 20. All matches of the Azerbaijan Final Four Round will be televised live on Idman Azerbaijan TV at http://www.yildiz.tv/?act=dvr&chan=idmanaz.
TAMAS WITH AZERRAIL BAKU: Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist playing middle blocker for Team USA, is playing for Azerrail Baku of the Azerbaijan Super during the 2010-11 professional club season. In the Azerbaijan Super League playoffs, third-seeded Azerrail defeated Shirvan 25-11, 25-13, 25-14 in the quarterfinal round to advance to the Final Four Round. Azerrail is set to play Igtisadchi on April 18, Lokomotiv on April 19 and Rabita on April 20. All matches of the Azerbaijan Final Four Round will be televised live on Idman Azerbaijan TV at http://www.yildiz.tv/?act=dvr&chan=idmanaz.
DAVIS, METCALF, RICHARDS HEADLINE LOKOMOTIV BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Olympians Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), along with 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), are playing for Lokomotiv Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League. By defeating Baki in the quarterfinal round, Lokomotiv advanced to play in the Azerbaijan Final Four Round. Lokomotiv will play Rabita on April 18, followed by matches against Azerrail on April 19 and Igtisadchi on April 20. All matches of the Azerbaijan Final Four Round will be televised live on Idman Azerbaijan TV at http://www.yildiz.tv/?act=dvr&chan=idmanaz.
BOWN WITH TURKEY'S ECZACIBASI: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympic Games middle blocker for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in Turkey for Eczacibasi during the 2010-11 professional club season. In the Turkish League, Eczacibasi topped Karsiyaka Izka 25-11, 25-13, 25-8 on April 5. Bown scored seven kills on nine attacks to go with two blocks for nine points. In its second match of the week, Eczacibasi dropped 23-25, 20-25, 27-25, 25-22, 15-12 match to top-ranked Vakifbank Gunes Sigorta on April 9. Bown was not on the active roster for the match. Eczacibasi is now in second place with an 193 record on the season, while Vakifbank Gunes Sigorta widened its lead on first place with a 21-1 record.
SPICER WITH POLAND'S GCB CENTROSTAL BYDGOSZCZ: Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.), a setter for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in the Polish professional league this winter for GCB Centrostal Bydgoszrcz. During the 2011 Enea Fnału Polish Cup, GCB Centrostal Bydgoszrcz defeated Sandeco Rumia TPS 25-11, 25-11, 25-19 in the quarterfinal round on April 8. However, Spicer's club lost in the semifinals to Bank BPS Muszynianka Fakro 25-17, 25-17, 25-22. GCB Centrostal Bygoszrcz starts the Polish League best-of-five quarterfinal round on April 16 against BKS Aluprof Bielsko-Biała. Other matches in the quarterfinal round will take place on April 17 and April 30, and if necessary, on May 1 and May 4.
MONTREUX VOLLEY MASTERS POOLS DETERMINED: The U.S. Women's National Team will compete in the Montreux Volley Masters event held June 7-12 in Montreux, Switzerland. The U.S. opens the tournament on June 7 versus Peru. After its off-day in pool play, Team USA faces Germany on June 9 followed by a June 10 match against China. Semifinal round matches will take place on June 11, followed by the classification matches on June 12. In the opposite Montreux Volley Masters Pool, the four teams competing for the title are Cuba, Italy, Japan and Netherlands.


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