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In a video recorded at the Q Gathering held April, 2012 in Washington DC, Amy Sherman shared the implications of Proverbs 11:10, "When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices."
Missional church leaders seek deep community transformation that advances a fortaste of God's Kingdom. Too often, though, we fail to deploy our congregants' unique vocational power strategically, creatively, and effectively toward that bold end.
Equipping members for living missionally in and through their work is an essential strategy for "rejoicing our cities." That vision demands that we draw thoroughly on all our congregants have to offer—their vocational expertise, networks, influence, platforms, and skills.
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Gombe et Mahale National Park
Gombe national park
Gombe, the smallest National Park in Tanzania, is a vestige of the fragile habitat of chimpanzees: a small strip of ancient forest, located in the mountains and interspersed with deep valleys clinging to the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Made famous by Dr Jane Goodall's research, the great attraction is the chimpanzee population and there are other primates such as baboon, blue monkey, red-tailed monkeys and vervets.
Mahale national park
Mahale exceeds Gombe National Park in terms of size and beauty but access is even more difficult. Most visitors fly in by charter. Treks are escorted by armed Ranger who knows the habitat and behaviour of the chimpanzee families.
Our advice
How to get there: Kigoma by scheduled flight from Dar es Salaam or railway Dar es Salaam to Kigoma which can take 3 days! The best season: July to December. In the "Green Season," chimpanzees are more difficult to find and observe.
Among other points of interest, a side trip to Ujiji where the small memorial to mark the place where Stanley famously asked: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" can be found.
Petit mémorial pour marquer l'endroit où fut prononcé la célèbre phrase : "Dr Livingstone, I presume", à Ujiji, près de Kigoma.
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@Taz - well if McLaren had done this they may have gotten a harsher penalty but you also have to remember that McLaren has a history of cheating any lying to the FIA so it makes sense to punish them more harshly. As far as a precedent being set for future testing, where will these teams get their tires from? Pirelli surely won't be supplying them. I think that the penalty is fair. It is a much larger advantage for a team to run their own program over three days than it was to get extremely limited data from Pirelli's program.


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In our recent Developer Q & A, we mentioned yet another new feature to be introduced with the imminent arrival of the Manstein build: the first iteration of the fog of war. It's a fairly common feature in strategy games, and it should have a noticeable impact on the way Generals plan their moves.
The term "fog of war" ("Nebel des Krieges") was coined by the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz to describe the lack of situational awareness experienced by the participants in a military conflict. In the chaos of warfare, you very often have no idea where your enemies are, or your friends, or how they are doing. What happened to the fighter squadron you saw flying over your head yesterday? Did they bomb the target or get shot down? Probably only their commanding officer knows.
To simulate this, we will turn off the lights! Beginning with the coming Manstein build, the Campaign Map will be darkened and you will only be able to see what the Assault Teams directly under your command can see. This includes both friendly and enemy units. Otherwise it would be too easy to circumvent the fog of war by logging into an alternate account on the rival faction and checking out where everyone is. However, you will remain able to see ongoing battles as orange flames anywhere on the map, so you always know where the party is happening.
This limited vision will also force Generals to discuss strategies with each other more and exchange information on the faction chat in order to organize their offensives. This lays the groundwork for the Command Structure, which we plan to implement at a later stage, and in which the upper echelons of the hierarchy would be able to get a more complete picture of the conflict, seeing what all their subordinates see.
But that's not all: by eliminating the need to draw all Assault Teams deployed on the Campaign Map, the fog of war should greatly improve performance and reduce memory usage.
Armies in Darkness
One important detail to keep in mind is that the Campaign Map is built on a square grid. This affects how your Assault Teams' field of vision will be represented. You may have noticed in the example above that the Light Armor AT at Königs Wusterhausen is near the top left corner of the map square (right side of the illustration). Light Armor ATs have a vision range of 0: this means they only see the map square inside of which they are located. The result is that the "spotlight" which represents this AT's field of vision appears off-center. This is not a bug, but rather the result of the grid resolution. We may adjust the grid resolution (and vision ranges) in future builds so that everything appears more centered.
Also note that your AT's field of vision will not travel in real-time, but only follow your AT once it reaches its destination.
Visibility Ranges
Some units see more than others! With the fog of war, Recon units will live up to their name by providing reconnaissance reports in the form of a wider range of vision. A range of 2 means the unit's vision extends to 2 squares in every direction around the unit's current square, thus encompassing a 5×5 grid. Motorized Recon, as well as Fighter Squadrons, can reveal a 7×7 grid (range = 3). Starting in the Manstein build, having upgraded Assault Teams becomes much more interesting!
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Misjonsteam frå Bergen Bibelskule 2007
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I was born in 1960 in Osterøy, Norway. One thing I learned as a child, was to take care of things and don't just throw them away. And I always like to think that what happens, has to be remembered. Our everyday will sooner or later become history. And from history we can learn. I don't know whether these lines will be read by someone or not, but if they will, just remeber that today is important for the future, and maybe the answeres to the whys and hows of tomorrow. I believe that there is a great purpose with the small beginnings of everyday life. If not, I wouldn't be here. And to preserve all the things that comes our way, blurb is a great help.
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Fresh off of the triumphant conclusion to her duology The Orphan's Tales, World Fantasy Award finalist Catherynne M. Valente returns with Palimpest, which is getting blurbed by everyone from Warren Ellis to Elizabeth Bear. Award-winning author Daniel Abraham writes that "Catherynne Valente has once again proved her mastery of the fantastic. Full to the brim with beautiful images and gorgeous prose, Palimpestbelongs on the same shelf with Calvino's Invisible Cities and Winterson's The Passion. Valente is writing the smartest, gentlest, deepest work in the field, and she's good enough to do it. I remain in awe."
What's it about?
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse--a voyage permitted only to those who've always believed there's another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They've each lost something important--a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life--and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.
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4th and Synecdoche
The windows of Theophania's shop are incandescent, illuminating the corner of 4th Street long past the hollow hour. The heat of the place radiates rosily into the rain-spattered street, and oh, here and there, here and there the muscled shadow of Theophania herself passes by, her pipe held aloft like a sword, spinning around and around. She is a glassblower, and on the end of her pipe is a glob of fire, a knob of molten sand, growing longer and longer as she spins. Look at her: such massive shoulders, her head shorn, her leather apron stained with splashes of wet glass that hardened and broke off years ago. Her cheek is a great scar, warped and twisted, an old burn, almost as old as she is. She would scold me, she would tell me not to speak of her private travails, but I am profligate. Theophania's mother was also an initiate in the temples of glass, a beauty with a back like a parade horse. Her broad chest compressed a hundred winds into watery-pale pillars that glowed blue and orange in their moments, and cooled, too, in their time. With tears and grief and resolution, that lady held her child's face to the vat when Theophania was but six, sacrificing her daughter's beauty to the monstrous, jealous gods of silicon.
Little Theo was very solemn that night, even though her hands shook. She did not cry at all when her skin grazed the boiling slick. I was so proud of her! I like to think I stand as witness to all their baptisms, but especially this one. Even as her face bled, she comforted her mother: now the maids and lords that rule in the glassine heaven will love me best of all, and you will see, oh, you will see the things I shall make!
I have seen them, as have you, though perhaps you did not know it: crystal banisters curling with frosted fog and tiny swallows, chandeliers of ice and bone, goblets that changed their shade depending on the sort of drink they held""red for wine, white for cream, green for bilberry liqueur. And her tiny fetishes rest still in the pockets of all the young men in feathered hats, Theo's toads and parrots and beetles with blue antennae. And the balls, those thousand balls that sang through the air. For once Ululiro came here, the shark-general, her steel epaulets jangling. Those were the first days of the war, when everyone was puffed full of flawless plans for supremacy, and all the guns were polished to gleaming, and each soldier felt as though they were on holiday: flags snapped in the breeze, red and green, golden spiders crawled over the coalpacking district, clicking merrily at one and all. Ululiro was not yet half-shark and beautiful as a black tree, though her eyes were as sharp as her teeth would be one day.
Theo tended her ovens, banking the flames and securing the tubs""to another soul it might have seemed as though she was baking bread. Ululiro came to her and said she had a need for ordnance, a great deal of it.
"Certainly," answered Theophania, for whom a cannonball was but a minute's work. "But surely you could have a better shot than glass. There are ironworkers; there are silversmiths."
"I do not want them. I want the girl who ruined her face for the maids of heaven."
Theophania said nothing to this. She did not like that her private ablution was known; she could not make it unknown.
"Of course you are one of us," said Ululiro, the lights of the glass-fires sparking in her long, braided hair. "It goes without saying."
Theophania said nothing to that, either. She had not so brief a space between dinners that she could decline government work.
And so Theo raised her pipe like a trumpet; she drew a long breath through her great bellow-lungs. Each time she passed her breath into the knob of liquid glass, she cried out in wordless pain and a grief like bones breaking. All that was bruised in her passed through her lips and into glass, all that would bruise in days to come. She closed up each ball without letting the cry escape and polished it with soaking cloths until it was smooth, round. One atop the other they sat, her trapped weepings, encased in perfect crystal. For Ululiro she did this three thousand times, and because she was not one of them, and could let nothing go without saying, she did this three thousand times for Casimira also, and had the cannonballs sent to the mistress of vermin on a palanquin of skulls, draped in blue gauze. When this was done. Theophania slept, exhausted for three months, motionless as a princess on her glass bed. All the while she slept her glittering ordnance flew through the air over the Albumen, over the financial district, over the salons and the crowded tenements. And with each cannon-shot, Theophania's cry screamed out over the bloody concrete, the lymph-stained rails where all carriage traffic was banned. While the glassblower dreamed, her shrieking pierced all those armored ears until every soldier knelt and clutched their heads just to escape her, just for a moment's peace, and for a space, kneeling in the mud and the broken cobblestones, they grieved together, Theophania, and the city.


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BOSTON - Coast Guard crews are looking to the public today to help determine the source of several probable hoax distress calls that have been received in Maine and Massachusetts over the past couple weeks. Hoax distress calls placed to the Coast Guard are classified as a felony punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Anyone with information that can help authorities identify the caller is encouraged to call Sector Northern New England's command center at 207-767-0303. (U.S. Coast Guard Audio)
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July 14, 2013, 08:14:06 AM »
That is how many games will remain after the Pirates play the Mets today and start the 2nd half of the season next Friday night in Cincy. The Pirates still will play 36 of their remaining 69 games left against teams with losing records and they will play 17 of those 36 games at PNC Park. They still have 6 games left with Miami,6 with Colorado,7 with San Diego,6 with Milwaukee,7 with the Cubs,and 4 with the Giants. The other 33 remaining arent very easy. They of course have 14 games remaining with the Cardinals 8 home 6 away,9 left with the Reds 3 home 6 away, 4 with the Nats on the road who have a losing record now but I am going to put them in the winning record category for now,3 at Texas,and 3 at home against the D Backs. Let's assume the Pirates beat the Mets today and worse case scenario go 20-16 in that 36 games they have left with losing teams, they would still only need to go 13-20 in the stretch they have against the winning teams to win 90 games and most likely qualify for the playoffs. Now I know you cant automatically just look at series against bad teams and pencil in wins, but still I believe the Pirates are going to do much better then 20-16 in that 36 game stretch against teams with losing records. A lot of those games are at home where the Pirates have played very well also.
Of course the 14 games left with the Cards and 9 left with the Reds are 23 of the remaining 33 games left the Pirates have against teams with winning records. And of course we all know those games will go a long long way to determining who wins the division and who is the top wildcard team and gets to host that 1 game playoff in their home ballpark. The bottom line is the Pirates still dont have a very tough schedule remaining and they MUST take advantage of still having to play teams like the Marlins,Rockies,Padres,and even the Cubs and Brewers numerous times before the season is over. The division title and their playoff positioning could and probably will depend on it so you absolutely MUST take advantage...
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nice break down, thanks for taking the time to do that 2nd half schedule breakdown.
I think I saw something yesterday, that the 56 first half pirate wins are 2nd all time. I think 1971 was the most... so in my lifetime this is literally the best first half of Pirate baseball I've ever witnessed. even better than the early 90's
i'm thankful for that.
I'm in Pa visiting family, so its nice that I can watch Root sports and stuff while I'm here. So just being back since yesterday morn in the airport, driving and listening to sports radio, and watching local tv I get a good buzz vibe that I never got from 1993-2004 before I moved out of western pa. Unfortunately i'm here during the all-star break mostly and won't see many more games after todays and won't be able to go to PNC as I have a very sick father i'm helping take care of.
I guess it all just struck me that, no matter what. This Pirates first half was special. and you can't take that away. Even if they don't make the moves/trades we want to make, or they do make the moves/trades we DON'T want them to make, and even if they do suffer a 2nd ( I don't count 2011) straight 2nd half collapse.
I feel like I got my money's worth already.
Go Bucs!!!
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"I think I saw something yesterday, that the 56 first half pirate wins are 2nd all time. I think 1971 was the most... so in my lifetime this is literally the best first half of Pirate baseball I've ever witnessed. even better than the early 90's"
It seems like the All Star game is bit later this year than normal...I am guessing that contributes to the above "statistic" Probably should look at same number of games rather than some what arbitrary AS game date.
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July 15, 2013, 09:26:04 AM »
Every single remaining game is gonna tough.
Miami has been very competitive the past month with the return of Stanton and the emergenge of Fernandez, Turner and Eovaldi.
In addition they have some very tough road trips coming up (10 to start the 2nd half, a WC trip to SF and SD, and 9 gamer in Sept featuring Cards and Rangers)
I'd say the first 15 games of the 2nd half will determine the fate. They cannot stumble out of the gate.
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Oklahoma football notebook: Sooners flip Cal commit Dannon Cavil
The Sooners received their third commitment in three days Monday when Texas high school wide receiver Dannon Cavil flipped to OU.
Cavil had been committed to California since last month. Before that, he was committed to Ole Miss.
Cavil (6-foot-5, 205 pounds) is the Sooners' 20th commitment for the 2013 class and the fourth wide receiver.
"Recruiting has been a BLESSING and a curse. Im (sic) glad its all over," Cavil tweeted before tweeting that he'd committed to the Sooners.
Rivals.com reported the commitment switch not long before Cavil's announcement.
Cavil's commitment, combined with Young's, likely signals the end of the Sooners' involvement with Laquon Treadwell, the nation's top wide receiver prospect, according to Rivals.com.
Treadwell visited Norman in December and was in Stillwater over the weekend for a visit to Oklahoma State.
He's expected to announce his decision Thursday, with Ole Miss being the favorite, while OSU and OU were also listed in his top three.
Rivals reported Monday night that the Sooners and Treadwell had "parted ways." Cavil, from San Antonio's James Madison High, is expected to enroll later this week and go through spring practice with the Sooners.
OU also has commitments from wide receivers Austin Bennett (Manvel, Texas), Jordan Smallwood (Jenks) and K.J. Young (Perris, Calif.).
Young committed to the Sooners on Sunday, a day after Garland, Texas, defensive tackle Charles Walker committed.
Four-star prospect Tahaan Goodman visited Oklahoma last weekend, and one tweet the Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., safety posted Friday night sent some of Sooner Nation into a frenzy.
"Wow don't even got a host ... smh weak," tweeted Goodman, who Rivals.com ranks as the nation's fourth-best 2013 safety.
Sunday, Goodman (6-foot-2, 185 pounds) told Rivals that the host issue had nothing to do with OU coaches.
"They had someone (as) my host but he just left; we had him in the restaurant so I just didn't have (a host)," Goodman said. "I guess a lot of the players weren't there, because they were still back home or whatever with their families. I think I had one and then he just left."
Goodman said he wound up hanging out with senior-to-be Roy Finch.
"He kind of helped me out," Goodman told Rivals. "I hung out with him and he showed me around."
Goodman went on to say he loved the coaching staff, the possibility of early playing time excites him and he's intrigued by OU's solid record of sending defensive backs to the NFL.
With a big recruiting weekend behind them, Sooners coach Bob Stoops and defensive coordinator Mike Stoops went to Tulsa on Monday to visit a pair of players who are already committed and at least one 2014 target.
They visited Sooners wide receiver commitment Jordan Smallwood at Jenks before going to Tulsa East Central, to visit defensive back commit Stanvon Taylor.
Smallwood isn't the only recruit the Sooners are after at Jenks.
They've already offered Trojans junior safety Steven Parker. Parker also has offers from Alabama, Oklahoma State and Tulsa.
When asked last week about junior-college transfer defensive tackle Quincy Russell, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops hesitated before answering.
Russell signed with Oklahoma in December — meaning Stoops shouldn't be barred from talking about the three-star prospect — but he told reporters he'd stick to the statement he issued upon Russell's signing.
Monday, when OU began classes for the spring semester, the reasoning behind Stoops' hesitance became a little clearer. Russell apparently has yet to enroll at Oklahoma, according to a people search on the university's website.
Rivals.com reported that Russell took a couple intercession courses at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas, but is still expected to arrive in Norman soon.
Russell (6-foot-3, 300 pounds) originally signed with Texas out of high school, but was forced to go the junior-college route because of academic issues.
The day after Russell signed with Oklahoma, Stoops told reporters that he was a "huge difference maker" and that coaches were excited about him.
The Sooners' defensive line, which struggled through most of the 2012 season, was senior-dominated, meaning Russell could start immediately and contribute next season.


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If there was an award at the Oscars, Gothams or Spirits for best visionary art cinema of the year, "Climates" would be the clear front-runner. But, of course, there isn't. Directed by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan ("Distant"), "Climates" is the kind of movie that must be seen on the big screen to be fully appreciated. Gorgeously, immacutely constructed, the film is a quiet stunner, and for me, most likely the best movie of the year (if we're counting these days). I will be seeing it again this weekend to confirm my awe and appreciation.
As I wrote after its Cannes debut, where it won the critic's prize, "Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan sharpens his vision like a knife with 'Climates,' a sparse exacting drama - stunningly photographed in crisp Hi-Def digital video - about the separation between a man (played by the director) and his wife (Ebru Ceylan, the director's real-life wife).
"Beginning in the blistering heat of the Turkish coastal town of Kas and ending in the cold snowy Turkish outskirts, the film chronicles the couples' drifting apart and their tentative reunion. In between, the man emerges as a misogynistic, selfish bastard, while the woman comes across as a hardened yet wounded victim. If the depiction seems simplistic, it also feels very true (and funny, in the same dark, physical way "Distant" drew laughs), with each perfectly mapped scene and quiet, tense exchange revealing the insurmountable battle of the sexes."
If you don't believe me, here are some other critics' praise:
"Exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern" -- Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwartzbaum
"It has a vivid, sensual texture that's unmistakably Ceylan's. He's one of those rare directors who doesn't need a credit for identification" -- The Onion's Scott Tobias
"This film paints a haunting portrait of existential solitude, one in which the images speak louder and often more forcefully than do any of the words." -- The New York Times's Manohla Dargis
"A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most accomplished filmmakers--handling the end of a relationship and the cloud of human confusion rising from its wreckage as if the subject had never before been attempted." -- Village Voice's J. Hoberman
"A meticulous study of a crumbling relationship, marked by many luminous small moments and a startling interruption of violent eroticism." -- Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir
"Climates puts Ceylan on a par with Ingmar Bergman."- Screen's Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
"Subtle, substantial and sublimely beautiful...Ceylan has lost none of his willingness to probe both the less attractive aspects of everyday human behaviour and the cruel ironies of life, so that the film feels almost painfully honest. That said, he does so with such wit, intelligence and exquisite artistry--if the Festival comes up with more visually stunning film than this, I'll be very surprised--that the film confirms him as one of the most exciting cinematic talents to emerge in recent years." - Time Out London's Geoff Andrew


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Yet despite these strong sentiments, only 15% of the patients surveyed said a doctor had ever asked about their religious or spiritual convictions.
The Medical Benefits of Faith
There are sound medical reasons to take these beliefs seriously. An analysis of 42 studies involving 125,286 patients, published in the June 2000 issue of Health Psychology, found that those with some sort of religious involvement live longer -- though no one knows whether longevity is due to their faith or their community ties.
Moreover, two-thirds of the patients in the University of Pennsylvania study said that being asked questions about their beliefs would increase their trust in a doctor, which has also been linked to better medical outcomes in some studies.
"We're not doing our jobs if we ignore these questions," says Daniel Sulmasy, MD, director of the Bioethics Institute at New York Medical College, a Catholic university. "After all, it's not just bodies that become sick. Any illness raises issues of spiritual or religious meaning and values."
The point of a spiritual history is not to quiz patients on their formal religious affiliation, says Puchalski, who is medical director at the National Institute of Healthcare Research, a group promoting the integration of spirituality and health care. "We're really just trying to understand what's important to a patient and how those beliefs and values might affect how the patient copes with illness."
The "Spiritual Intake"
Puchalski has developed a series of four questions that attempts to get at a patient's belief system, which could include nature, philosophy, family, and community -- along with formal religion. Such so-called "spiritual intakes" have been taught at 64 medical schools in the United States, including Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
"Physicians are not being trained to be spiritual directors," she says. "The idea is simply to open the door to discussion." If a more in-depth exploration seems warranted (for instance, if a patient believes that an illness is a deserved punishment from God), a doctor might then refer the patient to a clergy member or counselor -- in the same way physicians refer patients who bring up issues of domestic abuse or family troubles. Puchalski calls her system FICA; here's what the letters stand for:
F: Faith or beliefs. Do you consider yourself spiritual or religious? What things do you believe in that give meaning to your life? (If the patient doesn't want to discuss such questions, this is the time for the doctor to end the spiritual history interview.)
I: Importance and influence. How might your beliefs influence your behavior during this illness? What role might your beliefs play in helping you regain your health?
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The Elk Lake boys' basketball team is hungrier than ever to get past last year's obstacles that ended the season too soon.
The Warriors put together a 20-4 record before losing to district champion Holy Cross in the semifinals and dropping the third-place game to Mid Valley and a shot in the PIAA playoffs.
"Last year was a very exciting year for us and we enjoyed it a great deal," head coach John Warnero said. "It gave us fuel and passion to reach that next level. This is a new year with new challenges that we are looking forward to."
Warnero returns for his 8th season as head coach and will be assisted by Marc Weisgold.
The Warriors lost Rob Heft to graduation, but return five seniors who will look to immiediately make an impact.
"Rob was one of the best players I have ever coached," Warnero said. "It's going to take all of us to chip in to fill that role.
That's exactly what those seniors, Tanner Reyan, Matt Woolcock, Tyler Arnold, Nick Dudock and Pete McGee plan to do.
"The seniors have been a tight group and have played together since fourth grade. Veteran leadership and team unity is what this squad is all about, and they possess a great deal of dedication and commitment to represent our program well."
The seniors will be joined by junior Wyatt Warner; sophomores Seth Tewksbury, Bailey Newhart, Cole Tyler, Hunter Watkins, Jonny Baltzley, JJ Heft and Gavin Kelly; and freshmen Ben Woolcock, Kyle Day, Jason Vasquez, Griffin Bunnell, Evan Debonis, Chris Meaders, Alex Hewitt, Lionel Cordova, Kyle Oakes, and TJ Tyler.
As the Warriors prepare for another competitive season, Warnero has his expectations high for his team.
"We expect our team to work hard on every possession, play hard, smart and together," Warnero said. "We need to focus on the things that we can control and the rest will work itself out. With a veteran team, we're really focusing on the fine details and the wrinkles each read can provide. It's the little things that can make all the difference."
The Warriors return a great deal of experience and quickness, but lack overall size, Warnero added. The team will square off against some tough teams, including a battle against Montrose.
While the Warriors will foucs on their next opponent throughout the season, Warnero also tries to prepare his players for what comes after the season ends.
"We talk a lot about using the game of basketball as a tool for growth," Warnero said. "Ultimately it's all about becoming the strongest version of ourselves. We want them to leave the program with great character and traits."
Elk Lake starts up the season on Dec. 6 against Carbondale, and will hold an alumni game and 'Meet the Warriors' night on Saturday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. Attendants can meet the youth travel team, junior high boys and junior varsity and varsity teams for the 2013-2014 season. Donations will be taken to benefit the Coaches vs. Cancer efforts.


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Believe it or not, conference tourneys started yesterday...
Yesterday, Big South started
Today, Horizon starts, Butler plays and if they lose will not be a final 4 member for the first time in 3 years.
The important games regarding bubble teams don't begin until tomorrow.
Tomorrow (possible teams we need to cheer for or team to root against if you hate Iowa alot)
At-Sun (Belmont)
Ohio Valley (Murray St.)
Patriot (nobody, though want Bucknell to lose so Iowa gets no NIT bid)
West Coast (Gonzaga, St. Mary's)
I'll update this when teams relevant to the bubble play...the good games don't start til March 1 but it's championship week!
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Belmont beat Jacksonville 76-62 (bold is bubble team)
Bucknell beat Navy 87-63
MVC starts tomorrow as Drake plays Bradley at 9:30 pm
All the favorites won tonight so it was a good day for the Cyclones off the court.
Harvard won in OT against Columbia...meaning they are likely to get the auto spot in the Ivy.
Murray St. won and will play Tennessee St. tomorrow in the OVC title game.
Belmont came back and beat E Tennessee St....if you like David vs. Goliath then you'll be interested in their game vs. Florida Gulf Coast. FGCU made it to the championship game in their first ever conference tourney.
NC-Asheville, the regular season champ in the Big South made it to the championship game where they will also face a bottom tier team in VMI, who is 15-16 on the season.
look at my bracket for a schedule of the games tomorrow...3 tickets will be punched...cheer for Murray St....if they lose a bid will be stolen...even though I'm 99% sure we are in I don't want the committee to get any reasons that we will be out.
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Harvard has to beat Cornell and have Penn lose to either Yale or Princeton or there will be a 1 game playoff in the Ivy for the auto berth
At this point, I don't think that ISU is in danger of losing out on a tournament slot regardless of what happens in any of the other tournaments. We are playing for seeding now.
If teams still bids, does that hurt our seeding?
Hilton Coliseum was specifically built to hold in sound with a solid concrete structure, steel doors, and a crowd that sits just a few feet from the court. With a fan base that frequently ranks among the nations largest crowds, players from opposing teams, as well as Iowa State, have said that the floor has shaken due to the loudness of the crowd
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If teams still bids, does that hurt our seeding?
probably not, even though we are close to a lock I don't want to be having to sweat it out on selection sunday...
Root for Murray St. tonight..I'm rooting for VMI and Florida Gulf Coast so Iowa doesn't get to the NIT.
That's what I was thinking too. I'm really looking forward to that Wichita St. v. Creighton game. Hopefully they both make it and don't steal one. Although, it might be nice for creighton to lose and drop out and for us to beat baylor and get ranked. Poetic Justice.
Tennessee State taking it right to Murray State, but their best player just sat down with 4 fouls, and 15 minutes to play.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
Ahhh. I love March Madness.
Not looking good for Tennessee State right now.
I thought Murray State would have a 6 point lead right now. Less dramatic than I expected, but it's about to be over.
Tennessee State's guy will come back soon, but he'll be cold, and the game's momentum is going entirely away from his team. I don't think he'll go back to dominating.
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A kind of hand piercing – Knuckle piercing – is not done on the metacarpals or your knuckle joints but the spaces between them. So if you thought that your punches could be made more deadly then you are hoping a bit too much. Anyhow, keeping the violence at bay (because when piercing gets in the way of impact it can get really bad), let's see what knuckles piercing is all about.
Knuckles piercing is usually done with curved barbells. Both single and multiple piercings can be done on between knuckles. Compared to others, knuckle piercings are high risk piercings as these tend to get stuck in the pockets or brush against surroundings. These do not get in the way of daily activities though and are pretty unique.
Knuckle Piercing – Not Everybody's Game
Knuckle piercing looks great however, its also one of the most vulnerable body piercing. Infection, rejection and migration are just some of the risks that knuckle piercing may have. The risk is a tad bit higher in case of knuckle piercing.
There's another kind of piercing that complements knuckle piercing, known as hand web piercing. Hand piercing is also risky as there's a lot of hand movement in daily life. So anyone with a hand piercing has to be doubly careful of say running fingers through hair, opening and closing doors or picking up stuff and even shaking hands.
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While the Department of Transportation has scheduled its first truck size and weight outreach session May 29, Congress has reintroduced opposing legislation — one bill would freeze the limits, another would expand them.
The last transportation reauthorization bill requires the DOT to complete a comprehensive study of the issue by November 2014. The May 29 event will be the first of four sessions for stakeholders to comment on the study.
On May 7, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced the Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act, which would apply an 80,000-pound and 53-foot limit for tractor-trailer trucks to the entire National Highway System. Currently these restrictions apply only to Interstates.
SHIPA would expand the current freeze of triple-tractor trailer operations on Interstates to the NHS, but exemptions would exist, such as for firefighting equipment.
This year marks the seventh consecutive year SHIPA has been introduced. The bill, which has not been assigned a number yet, has three co-sponsors.
Conversely, Rep. Mike Michaud introduced the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act Feb.12. The Maine Democrat's bill would allow states to increase Interstate truck weights to 97,000 pounds. SETA or H.R. 612 would require these tractor-trailers have a sixth axle to decrease per-tire weight and improve braking.


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Each year your account is reviewed to determine if you meet the requirement for mandatory EFT filing. If the average (per payment) deposit for State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Personal Income Tax (PIT) is $20,000 or more for the prior State Fiscal Year (July 1 through June 30), you are required to make all SDI and PIT deposits by EFT during the next calendar year, regardless of the dollar amount. Mandatory EFT filers are notified of their status by October 31, prior to the year of mandatory EFT participation. Mandatory EFT participants are subject to a 15 percent (10 percent for periods prior to 3rd quarter 2014) noncompliance penalty if an SDI/PIT deposit is made by any other means (e.g., check, cash, credit card, etc.). The Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Employment Training Tax (ETT) payments are not subject to the noncompliance penalty. Note: If you meet the requirement for mandatory EFT filing of your payroll taxes with the EDD, you are also mandated to remit all child support wage withholding payments by EFT to the Department of Child Support Services' State Disbursement Unit.
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- To enroll in the Statewide EFT Program, employers must submit an Electronic Funds Transfer Authorization Agreement (DE 26) with a pre-printed voided check or a completed Bank Specification Sheet attached. The DE 26 provides the bank information for the employer account from which debit entries will be made.
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The following are the ACH Debit reporting options available for making a DE 88 deposit through the State's data collector, Metavante:
- Web Payer — Employers who are currently enrolled in the Statewide EFT program can report payments online by going directly to the payment website of State's data collector, Metavante.
- Bulk Filer Solution — Payroll agents or payroll services who initiate EFT DE 88 payments on behalf of multiple taxpayers can go to Metavante's Bulk Filer Solution. In order to use this Web interface, agents must register with Metavante and create their own unique Bulk Filer ID to be used when sending their payment transactions. Each of their clients must be registered as an employer with EDD, be assigned an employer account number and enrolled in the EFT ACH Debit Program before a payment will be accepted. For more Bulk Filer information, refer to the Electronic Funds Transfer Bulk Filer Setup Guide (DE 154).
- Phone: Employers who are currently enrolled in Statewide EFT program can call 1-800-554-7500 to make their DE 88 deposits by phone.
The State's data collector, Metavante, is not under the control of EDD, and EDD is not responsible for the contents or links contained in their website. The EDD recommends that you review Metavante's security and confidentiality statements.
ACH Credit Method: The ACH Credit method allows you to transfer funds by instructing your bank to debit your bank account and transfer those funds to the State's bank account. You need to provide your bank with an Information for Your Bank (DE 532). The DE 532 provides your bank with instructions on how to transmit your DE 88 payment transactions to EDD in the approved NACHA record format.
The timeliness of your EFT payment is determined by the settlement date (the date funds are credited to the State's bank account).
- Next Business Day deposits — must settle in the State's bank account on or before the third business day following the payroll date.
- Semi-Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly deposits — must settle in the State's bank account on or before the next business day following the due date
ACH Debit payments that are completed before 3 p.m., Pacific Time, can settle the next business day. For ACH Credit payments, check with your bank to ensure a timely settlement date. If the last timely settlement date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, this settlement date is extended to the next business day. Refer to the Legal Holidays page for a schedule of the current tax year or call the EDD's Taxpayer Assistance Center at 1-855-866-2657.
If you have questions about EFT, visit the FAQ - Electronic Funds Transfer or call the EFT Helpline at 916-654-9130. The Electronic Funds Transfer Program Information Guide (DE 27) also provides detailed information on the EDD EFT Program.


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AMES, Iowa—All five Iowa State starters scored in double-digits Wednesday in Hilton Coliseum as the Cyclone men's basketball team led the whole game, posting a 91-51 victory over Kennesaw State.
The Cyclones' starting five all registered double-digits for the first time this season. Iowa State's quintet was led by Melvin Ejim, Jake Anderson and Diante Garrett who each scored 14 points. Scott Christopherson (13 points) and Jamie Vanderbeken (11 points) rounded out the scoring for the Cyclone starters. Reserve Calvin Godfrey also posted double-digits, as the freshman tallied a career-best 11 points.
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The Cyclones started the game on a 27-7 run to distance themselves from the Owls, and Iowa State never looked back. Kennesaw State would cut the gap to as little as 10 (37-27), but the Cyclones responded with an 11-0 run en route to a 48-29 halftime lead.
Ejim delivered a career-high 12 rebounds to record his first career double-double (14 points, 12 rebounds).
The Cyclones' 40-point victory was the second time this season Iowa State has defeated a squad by at least 40 points. Drake fell to the Cyclones by 48 (91-43) on Nov. 17.
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Next bike I buy, after a TT rig, will be this Monster Garage wannabe.
There she is, didnt show up the first time. Its cool
It's got skull bar-end caps.
you get monster garage there too? i suppose it is filmed in the states...loved the Porsche Golfball collector!!
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All the episodes are cool man.
Especially the one where they turn the Mac truck into the ultimate delivery machinge.
yes that one was great..loved the 4 barral shooter...also when they shoot a tv thru the window
the Mustang 5.0 lawn mower made me cry
One of my brothers best friends just finished filming a monster garage episode. They took a stock bronco and made it a "monster truck"... I am not sure when it will air.
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Joe, bad you!!! We didn't wan't to know what was coming up on Monster Garage!!! We wanted it to be a suprise!!
How about the episode where they took an Impala and made it in to a Zamboni?
I think it's cool when the team fails..It's so funny, "Jesse lost! That SUCKS!!" and then he shoots it up with a huge machine gun...Ha ha.
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how much is it?
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How is that spelled?? L-A-Z-Y??Originally posted by Raiyn
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Good one Joey and Mark! I got my invite to Google+ yesterday and spent a bunch of time getting my circles organized, but still have more to do. Looking forward to the benefits, so I will bear with the setup effort.
'm really enjoying my time on Google+, but I've noticed I keep spending more and more time there. I guess that's not a bad thing. : )
LOL, a clear comment about "Priorities"!! Love it……and sooooo true! Are people getting lost in "Social Media" and forgetting about realities???
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Michelle Rhee gets some support from Senator Joseph Lieberman.
Here's a book review of Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach For America.
How we allowed ourselves to not immediately thank the anonymous blogger codenamed Eduwonkette for her delightful Photoshop work is beyond me. We were remiss. However, if she wishes to join us right-of-center think tank folk for cocktail hour, she would do well to jettison her visions of beer and embrace our right-of-center ritual, which involves sipping cognac from snifters and remarking about how this, that, and the other is really going to hell in a handbasket and what is to be done about it all.
Finally. At long last. A group of serious analysts, commissioned by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, has concluded that NBPTS needs to include student learning gains in its evaluation of teacher quality! What's more, that conclusion is based not on ideology but on some very sophisticated analysis of which teachers do and do not actually turn out to be more effective in the classroom. I didn't have Tom Kane's study to lean on but have been making that argument for approximately twenty years. So have numerous Fordham studies, reports, and manifestos. (See, for example, ??pp. 213-215 of Troublemaker; Better Teachers for Better Schools, and this and this Gadfly item.) Find the study by Kane et al at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~pfpie/pdf/National_Board_Certification.pdf.
But will NBPTS take this sound advice? Education Week reporter Debra Viadero is far from confident. Read her excellent piece over at edweek.org (subscription required)....
The folks at Education Sector are really putting it all out there. First this and now this, from Andy Rotherham, who finds a host of problems with the NAACP convention speech and education platform of John McCain.
Then, at the bottom of his post, we learn:
In the interest of transparency as I start to write more about the campaign I should note that I'm supporting Senator Obama. And, although in my role at Education Sector, a non-partisan 501c3 organization I've had contact with both campaigns around our published work and theories of action, in my free (personal and non-compensated) time I have contact with the Obama campaign on policy issues.
Wait a minute. Isn't this just another way of saying: "In??my free time,??I actively work for Senator Obama, who I'm supporting, and in??my non-partisan 501c3 time,??I criticize Senator McCain and tell you I'm supporting Obama"???
The issue isn't transparency, as Rotherham writes. It's fairness. If Rotherham wanted to maintain even a patina of impartiality here,??he might have mentioned in his post something--anything--about how the deficiencies he identifies in McCain's education platform are filled by what Obama is offering....
Here we are, somewhat dubious, but still enthused that Maryland reported record gains in proficiency scores this year, when we learn that Maryland neglected to mention they made their test easier. By making the test time 1 hour shorter (which, they claim only prevented the students from getting fatigued but did not decrease the difficulty--isn't part of what makes tests difficult the time limit?), some questions were necessarily cut. These were not just any questions, however, these were the psychometrically approved questions.
Maryland had taken an off-the-shelf test, created by psychometric experts at Harcourt or similar, in 2002 and combined it with in-house questions. They argued that the off-the-shelf test lent validity to the assessment because it had been tested on millions of students across the nation, while the in-house questions were more relevant and aligned with the curriculum. In a cryptic Baltimore Sun article, we learn that Maryland elected to drop the vetted off-the-shelf questions for the following four reasons:
Although students had to answer about 40 questions on the standardized portion of the test, Maryland officials did not count most of them. Instead, they elected to count the questions that focused on...
Although students had to answer about 40 questions on the standardized portion of the test, Maryland officials did not count most of them. Instead, they elected to count the questions that focused on
It's an absolutely beautiful, sunny day in downtown D.C. this Friday, but I can't seem to shake this article that I was reading this morning on the metro into work. It's not about Michelle Rhee's school reforms, or alternative certification, or pay for performance, or teacher quality, or school choice, or student achievement, or any of those very important things we pontificate about here at Fordham. It's about homeless kids. It was in a pile of articles on education that our interns gather for us each day and I started to breeze by it for something "meatier" on the aforementioned topics. But then I stopped and read.
The article centers upon homeless schoolchildren in Ohio and Michigan. We learn that Ohio had a 12 percent increase in student homelessness between 2005 and 2007, with over 13,000 kids experiencing homelessness at some point in that timeframe. Michigan had about 18,000 homeless children during the last school year, a 16 percent rise from 2006-2007. Toledo has seen a tripling of homeless kids in the last two years, Cleveland a 60 percent increase. Heavy foreclosures from our current housing crisis are apparently driving the increases. But poverty, breakdowns in families,...
It occurs to me that we may need to start on this blog a "Quick and the Ed Watch" category. It's not that we want to, you see; it's that somebody needs to.
The reason is exemplified by Kevin Carey's latest post about John McCain, in which the blogger is upset by the following sentence, from McCain's speech to the NAACP, that laments that talented people without proper certification are barred from teaching in public schools: "They don't have all the proper credits in educational ???theory' or ???methodology'--all they have is learning and the desire and ability to share it."
Carey is exercised by the inclusion within quotation marks ("contemptuous quotes," he calls them) of theory and methodology. Such punctuative liberty is "ridiculous," Carey writes. Furthermore, he continues, it "is garden variety anti-intellectualism and doesn't speak well of Senator McCain's approach to policy or other matters."
But are we so sure that knowing about educational theory and methodology, be they quoted contemptuously or not, is a necessary condition for effectively running a classroom? Is it not true that much of this theory and methodology is a relatively...
The new issue is out. Where to begin? Mike tells us why the U.S. educational system is so successful (yup, successful), Checker tells us why Randi Weingarten is no Al Shanker, and Amber tells us why there are problems with the latest study from Jay Greene et al. This week's edition tested positive for EPO, and we're not ashamed to admit it.
Judging from several of the comments on my last post, the ideas that undergird merit pay for teachers are not lost only on NPR reporters. Corey, for example, writes:
Does LeBron play better when he's paid $20 million than if he, and everybody else, were paid $1 million? That's a legitimate question. And different from asking if it's fair to pay LeBron the same as everybody else when he's clearly better.
It's also a different question than asking whether the players currently earning $1 million will work harder to try and earn as much as LeBron than they would if they had no potential for salary increases.
What is missing here is an understanding of, inter alia, the job market. Merit pay is engineered not only to develop better teachers by encouraging those already in the field to work harder, but it's also--and maybe more so--designed to attract talented people to classrooms and keep the best teachers from leaving and pursuing other careers. So, yes, it is incredibly foolish to ask, as Larry Abramson did, "Is performance pay working if it just rewards teachers who are already doing a good job?"


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ALUN WYN JONES has warned that Wales will face a French backlash when they travel to Paris this weekend.
Les Bleus suffered a shock 22-21 defeat at the hands of Italy in Rome on Saturday, with a late Mirco Bergamasco penalty sealing the spoils for the Azzurri.
Second row Jones fears that result could make life harder for Wales when they step out at the Stade de France.
"No doubt there will be some kind of backlash," said the Ospreys skipper.
"It's a tough place to win out in Paris, with the quality players France have and questions over some of the players that have been rested.
"So we will keep one eye on that and see how they go off the back of their defeat in Rome.
"The players know how difficult it is to go to Italy and win. France going out there and losing shows what a good win it was for us a couple of weeks ago."
Wales followed up that victory in Rome with a 19-13 triumph at home to Ireland on Saturday to put them in good spirits ahead of their trip to Paris.
"We'll keep the talking to a minimum and make sure we do all we need to do on the pitch," said Jones.
"We are not getting ahead of ourselves.
"There's still one carrot left in this competition and an even bigger carrot at the end of the year with the World Cup.
"What we achieve now puts us in good stead for that."
Wales' success on Saturday was in no small part down to the efficiency of their lineout, which earned them possession no fewer than 18 times.
After conceding an early steal to Paul O'Connell, the hosts were spot on, which would have brought real satisfaction to lineout caller Jones.
"I have got huge respect for Paul and Donncha (O'Callaghan), so it's testament to all the forwards in the squad and the analysts and how the basics worked," he said.
"It was pleasing to win the lineouts and not have any unforced errors.
"Paul stole one, but sometimes you've got to lose some to win some and that's what we did.
"Sometimes you need to lose one to know where you are going.
"You know how they defend if they steal one, and you don't go there again. It's as simple as that.
"Eventually we were very happy with the performance of the forwards and the pack."
Wales also scored their try from a lineout, with Mike Phillips profiting from a quick throw-in from skipper Matthew Rees.
It was a controversial score which shouldn't have been allowed as Rees used a different ball to the one that Jonathan Sexton kicked out on the full.
So what was Jones' take on the incident? Was he aware of what was going on?
"Not really, I was still calling the lineout halfway down the pitch," he replied.
"A try is a try.
"It was scored wasn't it? Simple as that."
Reflecting on the game as a whole, Jones said: "We are a bit disappointed we didn't play as much as we'd like early on.
"We did have quite a bit of possession, but a few loose kicks probably played us into a bit of trouble.
"But then in the second half things improved. The set-piece went quite well and we closed it out in the last 10 minutes through great defence and great work ethic."
After going eight games without a win, Wales have now strung together three successive victories.
"It was disappointing with the win-loss ratio during that eight-game period, but there were some great performances in that," said Jones.
"The performances were there, it was just a case of getting the control and game management we need to succeed.
"There's a bit of error control coming back into our game and our game management is getting better."