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WILKES-BARRE - When the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins return from a three-game road trip to Norfolk and Hershey this weekend, they'll probably bring a few souvenirs with them.
Bruises. Scrapes. Maybe even some stitches.
The East Division has the reputation of being the toughest in the AHL, and the statistics seem to back that up.
All five teams in the division are in the top 10 in the league in penalty minutes, led by the Penguins in fourth place overall at 21.98 per game. All five are in the top 12 in fighting majors, led by Norfolk in second place with 61.
"If you look at all the teams in the division, they play a heavy, hard style," coach John Hynes said. "There's guys on every team that fight. They're always physical, highly competitive contests."
Thursday's moves
The Penguins got a player back from Pittsburgh on Thursday, when the parent club sent down center Zach Sill after a successful two-month stay in the NHL. Sill had no points and 12 penalty minutes in 20 games as a fourth-line forward and penalty killer.
The Penguins did not, however, get forward Dustin Jeffrey back from the Dallas Stars. Pittsburgh declined to re-claim Jeffrey on waivers, so Dallas retains his rights and can assign him to the AHL's Texas Stars.
Comeback story
RW Adam Payerl is making progress in his return from an upper-body injury, skating a bit at the end of practice this week.
Hynes said Payerl is still considered week-to-week, not day-to-day, but given that his recovery time was estimated at three to four months when the injury occurred Nov. 30, it's a positive development for the second-year pro.
Battle of brothers
The recent brawl between the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames could look like a grade-school picnic compared to a new NHL rivalry that is about to be born.
It's Richards vs. Richards.
The Pittsburgh Penguins, with assistant equipment manager Teddy Richards, will visit the Dallas Stars, with assistant equipment manager Josh Richards, on Saturday night.
The Richards brothers worked together with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton from 2007-13.
Storm of the century
Norfolk is generally one of the better weather destinations in the AHL, just a few miles inland from Virginia Beach. Just not this week.
Two to four inches of snow fell in the Norfolk area Tuesday night, which qualifies as a crippling storm in an area of the country not used to such weather. The Chesapeake division of the Virginia state police responded to 148 car accidents and 97 disabled vehicles from midnight Tuesday to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Detective story
The new HBO drama "True Detective," starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, looks like it might be a hit, with more than 6 million people viewing the premiere episode.
The show's writer and creator, Nic Pizzolatto, is the brother-in-law of former Penguins forward Darcy Verot. The show is set in Louisiana, where Verot played for the Western Pro Hockey League's Lake Charles Ice Pirates from 1997-99 and met his wife, Nicole.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - With alumni, family, and friends looking on, 5 Eights took to the water Sunday afternoon at the T. Gary Rodgers Rowing Center in Oakland, Calif. The racing coincided with high tide, leading to near perfect racing conditions. The Freshmen A was victorious finishing in a time of 5:05.7, followed closely by the Seniors posting a time of 5:07.3. Close behind were the Juniors at 5:11.5, then the Sophomores and Freshmen B with times of 5:16.6 and 5:22.3 respectively.
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My name is Hitty Lotzalove Sevashteen. I live with Andrew, who is a collector of many things. He is particularly enthusiastic about collecting Bécassine, the classic French comic character.
Well, in the spirit of "anything you can do, I can do better," I have decided to amass a Bécassine collection of my own. I leave it to you to judge of which of us has the better stuff.
In any case, there is no question as to who has the superior wardrobe! Ruth Brown made my Becassine costume. Kay DeMattei made my ensemble with the red-work apron, and also made my Becassine-print dress (I provided the print).
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September Golden Transfer
This month's Golden Transfer goes to Sustainable Ballard, a four-year old organization that promotes sustainable practices within its community, with the goal of making Ballard the "first US town [not to nitpick, but I thought it was a neighborhood] to become energy independent."
As I mentioned in Friday's post, this weekend SB hosted its annual sustainability festival in Ballard Commons Park. This year, they added something new: a fun, clever (and, I'm hoping, effective) program to get Ballardites (Ballardians?) out of their cars: Undriving …
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Another bus-chick-friendly weekend event (or, First Ballard, then the world!)
Sustainable Ballard's annual festival is happening this weekend at Ballard Commons Park (17, 18, 44). It's all about celebrating sustainability and educating folks about how to "live more lightly on the earth." Last year, I gave a short talk at the festival's transportation tent about my experience living without a car. This year, SB's making car-free advocacy a major focus of the festival, with "Undriving Ballard: A place for people to explore alternatives to car travel, and get inspired to make an Undriving Pledge."
I'm going to be there, sharing some of my knowledge …
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Still more reasons to get on the bus
1) On September 21st, city residents across the country returned parking spaces to the people. From parkingday.org:
Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into "PARK(ing)" spaces: temporary public parks.
StreetFilms posted a couple of videos:
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2) Sprawl counteracts fuel efficiency gains. From the Detroit Free Press:
An expected 59% increase in the number of miles Americans drive between 2005 and 2030 will outpace …
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Bus tunnel's back in business
Yesterday, I hit up the tunnel reopening celebration at Westlake Park.
The first person I ran into was Josh, an old acquaintance from my college days who now works for the city. He was there representing the S.L.U.T.
Which reminds me: We haven't had a discussion about this controversial transportation project yet. I'd be happy to entertain opinions now, if anyone's interested. But I digress.
Next, I ran into my favorite transit planner, Jack, who was, per usual, ready with answers to all my "which route will …
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Eastbound 4, 3:10 PM
Two middle-aged men, who are apparently acquaintances, are making conversation in the back of the bus. One of them takes a drink from a bottle of pop.
Middle-aged man #1: This tastes just like that orange ice cream we used to have back in the day–you know, with the cream in the middle? [Pause] "Want some?"
MAM #2: "No thanks, man."
MAM #1: "Come on–have a taste! I don't have any germs. Got a little cancer, but no germs."
A third man, 10-15 years younger, gets on and joins the conversation. As the bus passes the new city hall, he …
Westbound 27, 3:15 PM
A group of teenage boys in the back of the bus is discussing the Kanye-50 sales battle. Eventually the talk turns to battles at bit closer to home.
Teenage boy 1, to the rest of the group: "If you mess up my t-shirt or step on my shoes, that's like pushing me in front of my girl: real disrespectful."
Transportation safety, part III
Real Change editor Adam Hyla has an interesting article about the bus tunnel in this week's issue. Apparently, some drivers are concerned that the light-rail-focused engineering adjustments are not ideal for buses.
The problems can be summed up by a measurement: 14 inches, the height from the light rail tracks embedded in the road to each station's platform. That height makes for a nearly even transition between the floor of the trains (which don't arrive until 2009) and the station platform.
But Metro's diesel-electric hybrid buses ride lower than the trains. So, to make bus floors approximately the same …
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Category: seattle stuff Tagged DSTT, Real Change
Good news for Water Taxi riders
The season, which usually ends September 30th, has been extended through October. From a Metro press release:
Due to anticipated record ridership and higher than expected revenues, King County Metro Transit will extend service on the Water Taxi through the month of October. The extended service will be offered on weekdays only and serve commuters traveling between West Seattle's Seacrest Dock and Pier 55 along the downtown Seattle waterfront. The Water Taxi had been scheduled to wrap up its 10th sailing season on Sept. 30.
"The value of the Elliott Bay Water Taxi was particularly evident during the …
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Speaking of Frida…
Talk about a good reason for a bus wrap:
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Frida's birth Mexico City converted some of their city buses into "Fridabúses" — moving shrines honoring the painter.
(Source: fridakahlo.it)
Frida just so happens to be one of my non-bus-related obsessions. (Be thankful you've been shielded from it for so long. My friends and family members haven't been as fortunate.)
What I wouldn't give to ride on one of those…
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Category: cool stuff Tagged bus wraps, Frida, Mexico City, transit advertising
9/24: a big day for transit
I've already mentioned two of the transit-related happenings that are scheduled for the 24th: the reopening of the downtown bus tunnel and the first day of operations for Microsoft's Connector bus service. Now, we have another cool development to look forward to: new trains!
Today Sound Transit announced expanded Sounder commuter rail service starting September 24th that includes two new weekday round trips on the south corridor and one on the north corridor. The new south corridor trains include the introduction of a new "reverse commute" train that will run from Seattle to Tacoma in the morning …


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CORVALLIS, ORE. - Junior designated hitter Devon Rodriguez put the Golden Bears on the scoreboard with a lead-off homer in the seventh inning, but that was the limit of Cal's scoring as it fell to No. 5-ranked Oregon State, 6-1, Friday night at Goss Stadium in Corvallis.
The Beavers (35-8, 15-4) were led by the standout pitching of senior left-hander Matt Boyd, who threw 8.1 innings with three hits, one run, one walk and a career-high 12 strikeouts. Rodriguez, who hit his sixth home run of the season, got another one of the Bears' (21-24, 9-13) hits with a single in the ninth inning, but junior catcher Andrew Knapp had the only other single for Cal on the evening, getting a hit through the left side of the infield in the first inning.
Meanwhile, Oregon State scored three runs in the bottom of the third inning on a three-run double down the right field line by Ryan Barnes off of Cal freshman right-hander Ryan Mason (5-3, 3.0 innings, four hits, four runs, three walks, one strikeout). The Beavers added two more runs in the fourth inning on Michael Conforto's two-run single off of Bear sophomore right-hander Keaton Siomkin (5.0 innings, five hits, two runs, one walk, three strikeouts).
OSU scored its final run on Jake Rodriguez's sacrifice fly in the eighth inning.
The Bears next play the Beavers in the second game of the three-game series Saturday, May 4 at 2:05 p.m. at Goss Stadium (shown on Pac-12 Networks) in Corvallis. The two teams play the final game of the series at 12:05 p.m. on Sunday.


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Sorry to open yet another knee pain thread, but today on my ride I started getting knee pain in my left knee around mile 10 that lasted most of the rest of the trip. Around the same time my knee started hurting, I realized I hadn't eaten little carbs and not much today (just 3 eggs, a bagel with creamcheese, a cinnamon bun, and a glass of cranberry juice today).
A little history about my knee: It's been smashed into pavement countless times. It creaks when I stand up, but rarely actually hurts anymore. The only way you can tell something has happened to it is when it creaks.
Anyway, I remember reading somewhere that if you don't get enough glucose in a certain amount of time, your joints start to ache. Since my left knee has been banged up more than my right, I assume that I was lacking enough glucose to make my injured knee ache without my other knee being affected. Am I right that this can happen, or am I imagining things?
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Rust Belt Rising
"I was a GM brat myself," says Kris Ockomon, the imposing mayor of Anderson, Indiana, in his spirited Hoosier twang. "Both my parents retired after 30 years of service. It's been a way of life around here."
Indeed, ever since 1906, when brothers Perry and Frank Remy developed an electric car starter in Anderson, the city has been synonymous with automaking. For nearly a century, freight trains set out from its downtown carrying alternators, wire harnesses, horns, and headlights to General Motors factories scattered across the country. No fewer than one out of every three Anderson residents worked in the city's two dozen parts plants.
But that was then, of course. Like scores of other cities and towns spread out across the nation's Rust Belt, Anderson watched as its automotive industry collapsed, a victim first of globalization and then of prolonged economic slump. In the past two years, though, Ockomon has steered this city of 57,000 toward a stunning reversal. In setting out to rehabilitate its industrial sites and retool its auto plants, he has attracted green businesses and rebranded the place along the way.
And he's not alone. Thanks in large part to a group called the Mayors Automotive Coalition, or MAC, mayors across the nation's conservative-leaning heartland are finding themselves the unlikely stewards of bright-green towns. A six-foot-three former police detective, Ockomon got together in 2008 with a handful of other mayors to found MAC, aimed at helping their communities deal with the litany of woes -- unemployment, declining populations, the polluted and abandoned industrial sites known as brownfields -- that had resulted from the crisis. The coalition now serves more than 50 communities, working to secure federal funds by developing proposals and drafting bills with the help of a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm and then descending on Capitol Hill to make the case in person. "These guys know people," says Anderson deputy mayor Greg Graham of the lobbyists. "They can pick up the phone and call them. And in Washington, you have to have that or you're going nowhere."
That hasn't been a problem for the mayors. Since 2008 MAC has advocated for more than $3 billion in funds for cleanup and rebuilding efforts in struggling automotive towns (including some whose mayors aren't official members). In early 2009, the group's efforts led to the creation of a $773 million trust fund to deal with environmental contamination at former GM facilities. "Communities like ours could never come up with enough money to clean up those environmental problems," says Graham, who himself oversaw a GM assembly line as a young man.
Another big success is MAC's drafting of the Auto Brownfields Revitalization Act (ABRA), which will establish a $375 million fund at the Environmental Protection Agency to provide assessment and cleanup grants for the retooling of brownfields. ABRA also calls for a five-year plan to allocate $625 million for the redevelopment of brownfield sites and for job creation in hurting towns. By reusing hundreds of acres of prime real estate, the mayors intend not only to rejuvenate downtown areas but also to preserve open space at their cities' edges.
Such "smart-growth" strategies increasingly turn up on MAC members' agendas, as their cleanup and recovery visions move in the direction of more far-reaching plans. Ockomon points to the Nestlé beverage factory that opened in Anderson in 2008, bringing jobs for 600 with it, thanks in large part to water system improvements paid for by funds secured through MAC efforts. The town's Flagship Enterprise Center houses Bright Automotive, the manufacturer of an electric delivery van, as well as a lithium-battery company, both of which received loans championed by MAC. Ockomon also is overseeing the redevelopment of Anderson's downtown, clustering new buildings along the rail lines that once served the auto plants to cut carbon-spewing traffic.
In Lansing, Michigan, Mayor Virg Bernero, a co-founder of MAC, has repurposed blighted land to create a pedestrian-friendly "green zone" with industrial buildings converted to riverfront offices; and Tipton, Indiana, will soon welcome Abound, a manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic modules, into a plant built to make transmissions for Chrysler.
Kevin Hinkley is the mayor of Wixom, Michigan, which just recruited a manufacturer of gearboxes for windmills to its downtown. "When we attack Capitol Hill on a fly-in," he says, "you got 30-some mayors from around the country. We're Main Street. I don't have the ability to run to Lansing or Washington and hide from my constituents. I got to go to church with these people. We hear the troubles they go through, and when we go to these congresspeople, they see that struggle."
Of course, true recovery will mean more than just winning a bunch of federal dollars and attracting green industry. "What's required is identifying streams of income that can get reinvested in the economy and in changing infrastructure," says Henry Henderson, director of the Midwest program for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"We can't stop what we've started in the last two years in terms of moving from grease to green," agrees Hinkley, who recently helped clean-tech outfits Xtreme Power and Clairvoyant Energy negotiate a plan to set up in a factory that once sent out Thunderbirds and Lincoln Continentals. "When the dotted line is signed on this deal," he says, "we are going to be the poster child for transforming a small community heavily reliant on the automobile industry."
Ockomon is similarly optimistic. "The [GM] retirees here are starting to diminish in numbers," he says, "and the young people realize that green energy and a healthy way of life -- that's the future."
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In August 2012, 2 Chainz released his debut studio album Based on a T.R.U. Story, to mixed or average reviews. The album spawned three successful singles: "No Lie" (featuring Drake), "Birthday Song" (featuring Kanye West) and lastly "I'm Different", which all charted in the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Today's O.P.P. is from Johnathan. He says his wife is unhappy and wants him to be more dominant in the bedroom. He is uncomfortable with this because he doesn't want to treat her like a random girl he met at the bar. They have tried what she wants, and she is still unhappy. He fears his wife of two children is going to leave him.
Slacker and Steve were both confused because of why this was happening. There was a cancer scare and they have come to the conclusion that it is because she is the mother of his children, and she was really sick. He doesn't want to hurt his wife. They think he is an amazing guy and he doesn't want to treat his wife like a tramp, but she wants to be treated this way. Slacker thinks he needs to disconnect her as two different people: a mom, and his wife that wants to get rough.
Steve thought that once a woman became a mother she wants to just stay as the respected mom she is and not get a little rough in the bedroom.
What advice can you give Johnathan?
I think he can get a little more rough if he maybe drank a little before relations. Or they can watch some videos together or something. Spice it up a little. Role play where she needs to be "punished." If you have a good imagination and some time on your hands, I am sure he can get it done!
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Microsoft lawsuit targets Vancouver Click Fraudsters
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Microsoft Corp has filed a lawsuit against three Vancouverites that it alleges committed a form of "click fraud" by improperly manipulating Microsoft's online advertising service for profit.
Microsoft of Redmond, Wash., filed the suit in federal court in Seattle on Monday against three people and several corporations under their control. The suit seeks at least $750,000 in damages for an alleged scheme last year to drive up advertising costs for legitimate Microsoft advertisers while creating an advantage for the defendants' own businesses.
Microsoft's complaint alleges that three defendants in Vancouver, B.C. -- Eric Lam, his mother Melanie Suen and his brother Gordon Lam -- made more than $250,000 in profits through the scheme.
The WSJ's Nick Wingfield contacted Gordon Lam by phone and he claims he isn't aware of any lawsuit by Microsoft and refused to answer further questions.
In this case, Microsoft alleges that the defendants engaged in "competitor click fraud" where a perpetrator seeks to exhaust a competitor's advertising budget while boosting the prospects of their own advertisements.
Microsoft said starting last year that legitimate advertisers using its online advertising service began experiencing waves of fraudulent clicks on their advertisements, which were promoting auto insurance and virtual currency used in the online game World of Warcraft. After an investigation, Microsoft said it traced the source of the allegedly fraudulent traffic back to the defendants.
Microsoft alleges that the scheme allowed advertisements for the defendants' own sites to displace their competitors' advertisements, creating higher traffic and revenue for the defendants businesses.
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|Harvest Fest starts today
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Thursday, 23 July 2015 00:00
New this year–Ventriloquist show,
bike rodeo, bounce house,
toddler trot and baby crawl
By Sheri Hink-Wagner
The Wauneta Breeze
Wauneta's Harvest Festival kicks off tonight (Thursday) with one of many new events during the four-day celebration.
Tonight, the Wauneta Chamber is hosting a family friendly comedy ventriloquism act at the Chateau Theatre. The show will feature comedy ventriloquism, singing and voices including performances with Francis' "puppet characters, cartoon voices, original jokes, music and lots of fun."
Francis and his sidekick, "Wingnut," have been entertaining audiences since Francis was 10 years old, when he learned about the art of ventriloquism from a book. He built his first puppet from paper mache and a balloon. He makes all his own characters today.
The comedian lives in Denver and has performed on cruise ships, at colleges, comedy clubs, festivals and special events all over the country including several years of performances at the Tumbleweed Festival in Gordon, Neb.
The Wayne and "Wingnut" show starts at 7 p.m. MT/8 p.m. CT tonight, Thursday, July 24. Tickets are $5 and available at the door. Movie passes will not be accepted.
The Senior Center will host a pancake, egg and sausage supper at the Senior Center tonight starting at 5:30 p.m. MT/6:30 p.m. CT so be sure to stop by there first to grab a bite to eat before the show.
After the show families can head over to the Wauneta Swimming Pool for night swimming from 8 p.m. MT/9 p.m. CT to 12:00 a.m. MT/1 a.m. CT, weather permitting. Admission will be $1 for everyone, season passes not accepted.
Lots to do Friday
Several activities are planned for Friday afternoon including another new event, a bicycle rodeo sponsored by the Chase County Hospital and Clinics nursing staff. The rodeo will get started at 1 p.m. MT/2 p.m. CT at the Wauneta Medical Clinic.
The Village of Wauneta and Susie's Creative Stitches have teamed up to offer a Harvest Fest staple event, Pool Olympics, on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. MT/4 p.m. CT at the Wauneta Swimming Pool. The event will feature raft boat races and fun events for youngsters as well as a diving contest and other games for the older kids. Prizes will be awarded.
Voting in the annual digital photo contest begins Friday afternoon from 3 p.m. MT/4 p.m. CT to 5 p.m. MT/6 p.m. CT at Champa Group. All are invited to stop by and vote for their favorites. The categories in this year's contest are automobiles, BRAN 35 and general. Entries are due to Champa Group by 12 p.m. MT/1 p.m. CT today (Thursday). The photo contest winners will be announced Saturday evening.
Other activities are set to begin Friday afternoon. The Lions Club will sponsor a bounce house at the park from 4 p.m. MT/5 p.m. CT until 8 p.m. MT/9 p.m. CT. They will also host their popular Walking Taco feed at the park starting at 5 p.m. MT/6 p.m. CT. During the same time the Methodist Youth Group will also offer root beer floats at the park.
At 5:30 p.m. MT/6:30 p.m. CT the youngest Harvest Fest attendees will have their own special events–the Toddler Trot (ages 2 to 5) and Baby Crawl (birth to age 2)–hosted by the Hamlet MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) chapter. Toddlers are invited to wear their super hero capes for the event. Prizes will be awarded to each participant.
Friday evening at 6 p.m. MT/7 p.m. CT there will be sand volleyball and a baseball game at the park. The Wauneta C Team will go head to head against their parents.
Friday night wraps up with a 7 p.m. MT/8 p.m. CT showing of "Max" at the Chateau Theatre.
Saturday morning offers host of activities
Saturday things get into full swing with many activities planned for the entire family. The day begins with the annual Yucca Run and Fun Run. Registration for the Yucca Run begins at 6:30 a.m. MT/7:30 a.m. CT with the run starting at 7 a.m. MT/8 a.m. CT. The fun run will follow at 7:45 a.m. MT/8:45 CT.
Next up will be the annual BWTelcom courtesy breakfast from 7 a.m. MT/8 a.m. CT until 9 a.m. MT/10 a.m. CT.
Parade floats will begin to line up at 8:30 a.m. MT/9:30 a.m. CT in the school parking lot. Entrants must be in line by 9 a.m. MT/10 a.m. CT to be judged. Parade entry forms are available at Valley Bank and the Wauneta Breeze in Wauneta and the Imperial Republican in Imperial.
Viewing of entries in the digital photo contest at Champa Group and the Southwest Nebraska Entrepreneurs craft show begin at 9 a.m. MT/10 a.m. CT. Hometown Family Radio will also be in town starting at 9 a.m. MT/10 a.m. CT with their "Spin and Win" game.
The parade will begin at 10 a.m. MT/11 a.m. CT. The theme for the 2015 parade is "Keeping Southwest Nebraska Connected." The staff of Southwest Public Power District will serve as Grand Marshals. The Wauneta-Palisade volleyball team will be selling root beer floats along the parade route during the parade again this year.
Whirlwind of activities after parade Saturday
After the parade there are several activities planned for kids of all ages. Harchelroad Motors will host a Poker Walk after the parade. The Wauneta Palisade Cheerleaders will sell sno cones and offer face painting downtown after the parade.
There will also be a Nickel Scramble for preschoolers and chalk art competition, water balloon toss and hula hoops for all ages sponsored by Valley Bank after the parade. Chalk artists should plan to bring their own chalk supplies. Water balloons and hula hoops will be provided.
Wauneta Crossroads will offer special Harvest Fest lunch specials from 11 a.m. MT/12 p.m. CT until 2 p.m. MT/3 p.m. CT. Good Times Bar will also serve lunch specials and their regular menu items from 11 a.m. MT/12 p.m. CT until 1 p.m. MT/2 p.m. CT.
The water fights sponsored by the Wauneta Volunteer Fire Department kick off at 12:30 p.m. MT/1:30 p.m. CT with registration 30 minutes earlier at noon MT/1 p.m. CT.
Good Times Bar will once again offer nickel beer during the water fights until the fights conclude or the tap runs dry.
The Village of Wauneta will host free swimming at the Wauneta Swimming Pool during the afternoon from 1 p.m. MT/2 p.m. CT until 4 p.m. MT/5 p.m. CT. The Wauneta FFA duck race will begin at 3:15 p.m. MT/4:15 p.m. CT.
The fourth annual Cody Fanning memorial horseshoe tournament will be held Saturday afternoon in the city-owned grassy area at the north end of Shawnee Avenue, between the football field and the river. The tournament begins at 4 p.m. MT/5 p.m. CT. The contest will be limited to 16 teams. The first, second and third place winners will earn back their $20 entry fees. Contact T.J. Ellicott at 308-350-1183 to register or sign up Saturday before 3:30 p.m. MT/4:30 p.m. CT.
Saturday evening fun
Saturday night be sure to come out and share a good meal and conversation at the free barbecue on main street sponsored by the Wauneta Chamber. The Methodist Church will also sell homemade pie, ice cream and drinks during the barbecue. The photo contest winners will be announced at the barbecue.
After the meal, be sure to stop by the Chateau Theatre to watch local performers showcase their talents at the Harvest Fest Talent show, which will start at 7 p.m. MT/8 pm. CT. Admission is $2 per person school-aged and older.
The evening will end with a mainstreet concert featuring the Sherman County String Band and a 9 p.m. MT/10 p.m. CT showing of the showing of "Max" at the Chateau Theatre.
The concert and dance will take place on the north end of Tecumseh. The bluegrass and country music concert is open to those aged 16 and over. In case of bad weather the concert will be held at the Wauneta American Legion.
The weekend festival will end on Sunday with a Sunday Dinner of roast beef, ham and the fixings offered at the Senior Center from 11 a.m. MT/12 p.m. CT until 1 p.m. MT/ 2 p.m. CT. The weekend concludes with a 7 p.m. MT/8 p.m. CT showing of "Max" at the Chateau Theatre.
The schedule is subject to change. See the full schedule on page 7 of the print and/or e-edition or online at WaunetaHarvestFestival.com.
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More Than Just a Mom: Mompreneur. Momoir. Sanctimommy. Why are so many words being momified?Lynn Harris
Mompreneurs. Momfinitions. Momversations. "Mom" as a cutesy prefix or pun: it's taking over the, excuse me, momiverse. And it's driving me mom-nanas.
Make no mom-stake: it's great – even revolutionary – to see the experiences of mothers named, recognized and shared, not just left to blend into the taken-for-granted background. With the grating exception of sanctimommy, most such mom-isms are well-intentioned, at least when they are coined and embraced, by hard-working mothers themselves. (What's a little momnesia among friends – or should I say, among one's momtourage? And who, really, can argue with momnipotence?) Some mom-isms are just neutrally and usefully, descriptive, like momfriend (the one you hang out with only because of your kid). And others are hilarious. My friend Stephanie calls herself a momivore, as in, "mother who eats whatever is left on her child's plate."
Some of these punny expressions, however, only wind up patronizing. Rather than distinguishing our experience, they diminish it.
Take mompreneur. If it works for you, and helps you brand your business, that's great. But let's face it: when we are not among other mothers who are prepared to salute and support us, the word "mom" has a different – and diminutive – connotation. An entrepreneur means serious business. A mompreneur, far as it sounds, deals binkies. (Analogy: "chick lit." Without the "chick," it's literature. Add the chick, and presto, it's – often unfairly – dismissed as fluff.) This is hardly our fault. But it's reality. So why buy into it when we don't have to? I know mompreneurers work and parent full-time, which is laudable. But still. Why not just be an : entrepreneur? Would your husband ever call himself a dadtrepeneur? (Speaking of whom, the um:momnipresence of these terms implies that dad never does any of this stuff at all, which is a problem on several levels.)
As Susan J. Douglas and Meredith Michaels write in The Mommy Myth: "'Mom' – a term previously used only by children – doesn't have the authority of 'mother,' because it addresses us from a child's eye view. It assumes a familiarity, an approachability to mothers that is, frankly, patronizing; reminiscent, in fact, of the difference between 'woman' and 'girl.' 'Mom' sounds very user-friendly, but the rise of it, too, keeps us in our place, reminding us that we are defined by our relationships to kids, not to adults.'"
There has also been a bit of a war of words over the term "mommybloggers." Some mothers who blog say hey, it's what we do – so what? But the pitfall, according to bloggers like Joanne Bamberger of PunditMom (yes, one can be a pundit and a mom, she says), is that others pick up on the term as a pejorative. "It ends up as shorthand for someone who is less deserving of respect or influence," she says. "It makes our opinions much easier to ignore."
I'm not calling for a ban on the word "mom" in passing, in casual conversation, in calls to pre-school. (As in, "Hi, this is Bess's mom." Not, "Hi, I'm just calling for a quick momversation about nap.") Motherhood does inform almost all that we do; there's no shame or lameness in that. And, of course, everything wonderful and smart and strong that we do with the word "mom" attached should only serve to increase respect for the term. But let's face it: our culture's not there yet. Which is why I'm not calling this a mommentary.


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The good news first: Most of HB 194 is being repealed. It's good to see Republicans follow the advice of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a moderate Republican who called or the repeal of HB 194 earlier this year.The bad news: Some new limits on voting rights are going to remain in place, and the entire repeal process, which involves the passing of SB 295, might be unconstitutional.
While it's good to see HB 194 repealed, it's not the only voting law Republicans enacted last year. The Ohio legislature also passed HB 224, which prohibited voting the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before election day.For Democrats, this poses a bit of a problem.
Even the Obama team spoke on this issue. In an email to Obama supporters Tuesday, Greg Schultz, the Ohio State Director on the Obama team, urged voters to speak up: "This bill could mean an end to our last three days of early voting this November — and would change the rules, right in the middle of an election year. It's an unambiguous attack on our voting rights."The other problem is the repeal could be unconstitutional. After HB 194 passed, voters were quick to speak out against the new law and put it up for referendum in the November 2012 ballot. So Republicans are repealing a law that is already up for referendum. This is the first time that's happened in the Ohio legislature, and Democrats claim it might be unconstitutional.


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ceoforum.com.au: When you look back on your career as a CEO, what do you see as your two or three most important achievements?
Ziggy Switkowski: In my first CEO role at Kodak we were very focused on Total Quality Management (TQM), and the company was well recognized for its achievements in this area. Playing some small part in helping to create a stronger awareness and culture of quality in manufacturing, not only in the business that I ran but more broadly, was very satisfying, as was extending the life of the Australian Kodak operation by more than a decade by successfully negotiating with both the parent company, Eastman Kodak in the US, and the our Federal and State governments. This was, I believe, a good outcome for both the company and for Australia - and was made possible, in part, because of the recognition that the local business was in its own right a strong, capable and competitive organisation.
Leading Telstra through the dot-com boom and bust, with only minor dents to the corporate chassis, would be another one. Telstra now has a portfolio of assets and businesses in areas such as wireless, broadband, subscription TV, IP telephony, and online search and directory services, that leave it well-positioned for success.
ceoforum.com.au: With 20/20 hindsight, what are a few things you would have done differently?
ZS: A number of investments made at Telstra during the 1999-2000 period, both in Asia and in local internet companies, didn't deliver the value we expected. If you overpay for an asset, and pretty much everyone did at that time for hi tech enterprises, subsequently extracting any shareholder value becomes almost impossible.
I think the error we made was underestimating the difficulty in getting the management balance right when, as an 'old economy' company, you invested in very different 'new economy' companies. You need to pay enormous attention to operational issues, while at the same time respecting the cultural and style differences between the two companies.
Joint ventures also can be problematic, especially when the goals and the cultures of the companies are so different. That was an issue with both Foxtel and Pacific Century Cyber Works (PCCW). Given the differences between Telstra and its JV partners, it was quite a challenge to get clarity of objectives and responsibilities. Of course, joint ventures often are created with built-in and recognised conflicts of partner agendas, so I'm not sure those difficulties could have been totally avoided!
ceoforum.com.au: That propensity during the dot-com boom for traditional telco companies to splurge on buying speculative assets was widespread. Do you think that behaviour by global peers creates an investment climate within which it is very hard not to buy something, no matter what fundamental analysis might tell you?
ZS: I don't think peer pressure was so much of a factor, but it was very easy to get caught up in the exuberance of the moment. Much of the analysis at the time was very optimistic about the future demand for internet-related services, and the potential of 3G wireless services. Companies like Telstra, which had a very strong balance sheet, were in a position to be players in the market, and, given the technology basis to our business, the investment opportunities seemed a good fit.
I and my team did make some mistakes on these investments, but none of them threatened the company as such, and, with the passage of time, were only small perturbations in the trajectory of the company. Other companies, of course, were not so fortunate, and did not survive that period.
We also had some luck in investment timings. If you look at the auctions of the 3G wireless spectrum , they took place in Europe around a year before Asia, when the boom was at its peak. As a consequence, European telcos, such as France, British and Deutsche Telecom, paid out tens of billions of dollars, more than ten times the price per capita than companies did in Asia and Australia.
ceoforum.com.au: Did your approach to the CEO role change, over the course of your positions at Kodak, Optus and Telstra?
ZS: In the early years of all the roles I tended to focus on key management processes: defining a clear vision, determining key result areas, communicating effectively, planning the business and managing talent. As these processes became institutionalised within the company, I spent more time on scenario planning. This is about trying to understand the big shifts that were occurring, or would occur, in the industry – be they technological, regulatory or something else. Your attention then naturally shifts to how you should be structuring your organisation to respond most effectively – as your strategy evolves, so must your structure.
There was this natural shift from first putting in place effective management processes to, once they had been bedded down, looking at larger strategic issues. All of this was occurring at a time in which the industry we were operating in was itself going through enormous upheavals.
One thing you do learn as a CEO is that you need to be intervening all the time, and the timing of these interventions can be critical so is something that you are always working to get right. Because of the breadth and complexity of any CEO role, you are making decisions all the time – on business strategy, organisational structure, key appointments, regulatory positions, investments, and many others. Inevitably a certain percentage of those decisions fall short of initial expectations, , so you need to act quickly and, in some cases, reverse. At times you can often be too slow in responding – say, with an appointment that hasn't worked out, you may leave the person in the role longer than you should. The challenge you have as a CEO is that you are continually getting all these very diverse signals about how the business is travelling, and you need to integrate those signals and then act upon them in the most effective and timely manner.
ceoforum.com.au: How can a CEO get that balance you are suggesting is required between getting involved in the operational detail of certain key management processes without losing sight of the strategic big picture?
ZS: I very much agree with the recent Ram Charan comments where he said that success requires an intense focus on operations. That in turn requires that you as a CEO be capable in that business area, and that you allocate sufficient time to drill down into the organisation. You also need to make sure that, when you appoint people to your team, they have been selected, in part, because they have the capability to be operationally excellent in the area they are overseeing.
If there has been one thing I have definitely learnt as a CEO over the last decades is that, while you need excellent strategic thinking skills and the ability to convincingly represent the organisation externally as a CEO, this is never sufficient. You also need to understand the operations in detail, and how the processes in individual businesses can affect company outcomes.
Strategies can only be made real if you connect back to the question of how a given strategy can be made operational in your organisation: that is, an organisation with particular commitments, resources, assets, processes and legacies. While capable executives can move between industries, there is more risk associated with importing an executive who doesn't have either the industry knowledge and/or the knowledge of the market that the company is operating in.
ceoforum.com.au: How do you believe the time demands on CEOs have changed over the years?
ZS: In my experience, it's very difficult to get any work-life balance as a CEO – the role expands into the time available! This has been enabled by the various technologies – email, mobile phones, personal digital assistants – that everyone is familiar with.
There is something of a paradox in this, of course: while most leaders would encourage their own staff to be aware of the work-life balance issue, the demands on most CEOs make achieving such a balance very difficult indeed. The shorter average tenure of most CEO appointments also exacerbates this: a CEO position is now seen as a fixed term campaign requiring complete dedication to the cause for the duration, rather than, as it perhaps once was, a more extended journey where you could stop to smell the roses on the way. The pressures from competitors, investors, analysts and so on are only intensifying, so it's very hard to see this changing any time soon.
Another thing that has changed over the years is the amount of attention you need to give to the regulatory environment. The burden and intrusiveness of business regulation seems to have increased in recent years in many industries, so dealing with the associated issues around this does take up more time than it did.
Even as a CEO, you can still be hostage to circumstances, so, when an issue emerges, you often need to respond to it very quickly. Expected reaction times to issues are now much faster – you need the ability that good politicians have, which is to work to the cycle of the daily demands of the media. This is something that I had to develop in the role at Telstra at particular. In the early period at Telstra, our major shareholder - the government - believed our public relations and media processes were too lethargic, in that we were taking a considered approach to issues that the government felt needed a response the same day. We did change our approach and made sure we had allocated sufficient resources to manage and respond to issues as they arose, rather than waiting a few days as we had once done.
ceoforum.com.au: Do you think the market's expectations of CEOs have changed to any appreciable degree over the years?
ZS: There's no doubt that as institutional investors are being held accountable for performance on a quarterly, or even a monthly, basis, that demand for accountability and superior short term performance will be urged upon corporations. , Of course as a CEO, as you need to reconcile that imperative with your larger business goals, but ignore it at your peril !
There also is an increasing intolerance for unconventional strategies of any kind. The markets get very nervous, for instance, when (resource companies aside), an Australian company considers expanding off-shore. Yet, strategically, it's the most obvious thing for most Australian companies to do. These reservations, of course, may be well-founded – after all, the track record in this area is not great. Yet a carefully planned international expansion should be a strategic option for many substantive Australian corporations.
ceoforum.com.au: What was most surprising things you found about being a CEO?
ZS: You were often pleasantly surprised by the ability of people to step up to deal with what at the time can seem enormous challenges or crises. In the case of the Sydney Olympics, for instance, there was a hugely effective, near flawless effort by the technology providers, who were Telstra and IBM. When natural disasters occur, like the Thredbo landslide or the Canberra bushfires, we saw a fantastic response from Telstra people on the ground, all on their own initiative. Those qualities of people often surprise and inspire you.
There is another paradox that you may experience as a CEO, and Telstra was probably a special case of this. On one hand you are sitting on top of an enormously powerful organisation, and you are its senior decision-maker. At the same time you and the company are suspended in a kind of three-dimensional grid, made up of a whole lot of other forces and players: investors, customers, suppliers, media, regulators, government, competitors, consultants, rating agencies, directors and so on. In often mysterious ways, all these forces interact and influence what you can and can't do, and how effectively you can execute your strategies.
This is not just being accountable to different stakeholders, it's more subtle and elusive than that: just how these forces constrain you or shape your options is sometimes far from obvious! It's really about understanding the practical limits on the notional power of your role.
ceoforum.com.au: Are there any CEOs on the Australian scene that you particularly admire, and if so, what is most admirable about them?
ZS: When I judge top CEOs I look for i) an ability to consistently deliver superior returns to shareholders over a long period, ii) a clarity and correctness of strategy, and iii) a leader whose company 'makes a positive statement' in its approach and style . When you apply those criteria, you identify people like QBE's Frank O'Halloran, Woolworth's Roger Corbett, Wesfarmer's former CEO Michael Chaney, Allan Moss and David Clarke at Macquarie Bank and Australia Post's Graeme John.
All these CEOs have achieved great success for their enterprises and stakeholders, and have been enormously effective in the CEO role.
ceoforum.com.au: What kind of legacy do you think CEOs should aim to leave behind in their organisations?
ZS: I've come to believe that, perhaps because of the comparative shortness of CEO tenures now, it can be difficult to leave lasting corporate legacies. It is your effect on relationships, and on the people you nurture and befriend, that may prove to be the one true legacy that you have.
Success in your role, after all, is based on the decisions you make and which are implemented by your team, and these are people you have attracted, promoted and empowered. Those people may survive you in the organisation, or they may move on to other companies and industries, but they make up the network that will endure as you leave your role. A year after leaving Telstra, I feel this may be my most enduring and important legacy.
Can I add that being a CEO is an enormously satisfying and rewarding experience. I know it is a job that attracts a fair share of critics, but there is no more worthy or important role in the community or national economy - you deal with fascinating people, you are presented with interesting challenges every day, and, through the decisions you make, you have can bring benefits to all the different stakeholders in a business: shareholders, customers, employees and the broader community. I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to serve in the CEO role for three outstanding companies.
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Op-ed: Martin Indyk says deceased IDF Chief Lipkin-Shahak never gave up on the dream of peace
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Published: 12.20.12, 17:13 / Israel Opinion
Martin Indyk
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak died
Wednesday, and Israel lost one of its last warriors in the cause of peace.
Amnon was, like his mentor and patron Yitzhak Rabin,
a general who became a peacemaker. I met him first when he was the director of Military Intelligence, and came to work closely with him when he was Rabin's IDF chief of staff, and then when he entered politics as deputy prime minister in Ehud Barak's government. Amnon played a leading role in defending the State of Israel
and its citizens, but he played an even more important role in peace negotiations with the Palestinians and the Syrians.
Of all the Israeli players in that tragic drama, Amnon was the most trusted by the Arabs on the other side of the negotiating table. Tall, handsome, with a charming smile and a rye sense of humor, Amnon's integrity shone forth like a beacon in a storm - wise, all-knowing, reliable.
Two anecdotes from my experiences with Amnon give testimony to his qualities. In 1994, he was dispatched to Tunis by Rabin to deal with Arafat after the "Hebron massacre" in which Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein had slaughtered 29 Palestinians at prayer, derailing the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Rabin told Amnon he could offer to evacuate the Israeli settlers who were living in the heart of Hebron if that would bring Arafat back to the negotiating table. That concession was unnecessary.
Arafat so trusted Amnon - probably because he admired him for all the characteristics that he possessed and Arafat lacked - that he agreed to return to negotiations without demanding any compensation. When Amnon reported this to Rabin, his commander admitted great relief because he feared he would not have been able to deliver on the commitment to evacuate the settlers.
In 2000, at the Camp David peace negotiations, Amnon played a crucial role presiding over a second-track of informal negotiations with Arafat's aides. These negotiations took place on the porch of Amnon's cabin, late at night, as Israeli and Palestinians explored creative solutions to help bridge the differences while the American negotiators listened quietly.
The most emotional exchange took place over Jerusalem. He explained to the Palestinians that the Temple Mount was a question of identity for Israelis: "The Temple Mount is the lock and we don't have the key. All that we have is our heritage and our beliefs. I can't put myself in Palestinian shoes; I have only my own shoes. And I can't give it up. You will have control; your flag will fly there. But if we give up our sovereignty we give up our dreams."
Amnon was also a chef of sorts. Once a year his friends would gather to partake of Amnon's "Chief of Staff Chulent." Truth be told, it wasn't such a great chulent, but what was truly great and memorable about those occasions was the love that flowed between Amnon and his many friends. I know that Bill Clinton loved and admired him too, as did his counterparts in the US Army.


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You've heard of Only Child Syndrome where the only child you have gets narcissistic and spoiled from getting all of mommy and daddy's attention? What about Other Child Syndrome? Sometimes I feel like I spend so much time thinking, talking and worrying about Sadie (my tiny twin) that her sister Mattie gets short shrift. Mattie's fat, cute as hell, bursting with life and teeth, walking – in that ridiculously adorable Frankenstein toddle that even intermediate walkers seem to have, chatting (okay mimicking) and by and large being a normal, ready with a smile, baby. But normal doesn't stand out in this house, normal is for pussies. Normal doesn't get you attention. In her family of anxious misfits, her downright "I'm not looking for trouble, I just want to be held. Can't a little lady get some attention?" attitude doesn't make us come running. The squeaky wheel gets the grease right? Not always. Mattie may be very squeaky but she's not under weight nor is she under the care of four therapists, a pediatrician and a pediatric GI. Sometimes when one of Sadie's therapists comes in to "play" with Sadie, Mattie seems almost confused. She wants to play too but she's in the way and needs to be distracted. What does that feel like for a fifteen-month-old I think to myself sometimes. Is she feeling left out? Will this leave a feeling within her that she's not as worthy of strangers' attention as Sadie? Will I always have to be making up to her for all the extra Sadie got? But then, just when I start to really worry, Mattie will find the plastic lid to a coffee can to chew on and it's like Christmas came early for her. These kids, they're easily amused.
Then there's my older daughter, Elby. She is certainly not wanting in the attention department any more than Sadie. I went to special over the top effort to make sure she didn't feel usurped by the babies omnipresence in our lives when they first came home from the NICU. Elby was in preschool and for the first few months when she'd get home it was like a war zone in the house with two colicky babies screaming bloody murder all afternoon and evening. I felt horrible for her – so once things calmed down, I overcompensated. There was lots and lots of special "mommy and Elby" time (usually involving Target –which usually involved a new toy). I created a monster. Now when I get her from preschool I'm always greeted with a "where are we going today, Mommy?" I know what you're thinking, "Stefanie, why don't you try taking her for a walk or going to the park for a little while? She just wants to be with you. It doesn't have to involve buying her something." To which I will say to you, "Really?" 'cause you try telling a four-year-old that for a good time we're taking a walk around the neighborhood. I've tried it and she looked at me like I'd just suggested we go dump all her Barbies in the trash can. Luckily, at four-years-old, Elby is just as happy at the 99 Cents store as she would be at Disneyland. So, yes, I'm still buying her happiness but at least it only costs about $1.98! Not only does she get her attention this way, but she's also figured out a way to stay a baby in one respect: she will not poop in the potty. I know everyone will have advice for me and I've tried it all. The pediatrician says she'll grow out of it. But for now, she stands out in our house for having the abnormal need to wear a Pull-Up to do her deed.
So, with regards to special attention, Elby and Sadie are set. And now I just have to figure out a way to make things fair for my little Matilda. Maybe Mattie will develop some kind of disorder to pull us away from the other two. I just hope she doesn't become a biter, fire starter, start drawing disturbing anti-social pictures or worse develop a desire to go into acting. The last thing she needs is her own sitcom, which will eventually lead to a drug addiction which she will instantly parlay into a huge book advance to write her personal memoir, which will obviously blame me.
Damn, I better go start spending some one-on-one time with my "other child" right now.


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Oklahoma football: Why the Sooners' 35-20 victory at Iowa State was a feat of Clay
AMES, Iowa — Brennan Clay was supposed to run up the middle. Run out the clock, go the locker room with a 7-6 halftime lead and try to figure out how to leave the Big 12's northern outpost alive.
"I was really supposed to go up the gut," Clay said.
But this was a magic day for Clay. A day he went from situational tailback to workhorse. From squadman to star. A day he was indispensable in OU's 35-20 victory over Iowa State.
"I realized, we had, what, 25 seconds left?" Clay said. "I was like, well, our offense is pretty potent. I knew we can take some shots down the field, I figured, why not?"
Clay didn't hit a home run. Didn't go cross-country. But he also did not go gently into that good half.
Clay turned his counter outside, zipped to a nine-yard gain and got out of bounds at the OU 39-yard line with 26 seconds left.
Buoyed by a little field position, Bob Stoops and Josh Heupel got more aggressive. They ordered up consecutive deep passes.
Landry Jones dropped the first one into Justin Brown for a 40-yard gain, the next one to Kenny Stills for a 21-yard touchdown.
The Sooners had breathing room, and when they marched 75 yards in 14 plays after the second-half kickoff for another TD, this game was over.
Not just because of Clay's smarts. Also because of Clay's legs.
Filling in for the injured Damien Williams, Clay rushed for 157 yards on 24 carries.
An OU running game that's been hit and miss this season was definitely a hit Saturday, against a stiff Iowa State defense. And it makes all the difference for Landry, who threw for 405 yards and four touchdowns.
"It just makes it tough on defenses, where they can't play two high safeties all the time," Landry said. "They gotta roll a safety in the box. Once they do that, they're giving up some things down the field we're able to take advantage of."
And who saw this coming from Clay? The junior entered this season with the second-lowest yards-per-carry average in OU history, among tailbacks with at least 100 carries. His longest run as a Sooner had been 13 yards.
Saturday, Clay had runs of 12, 12, 15, 13 and 18 yards, the latter for a touchdown.
"One of those deals, it's the next guy up," Landry said. "We leaned on Brennan today, and he did an excellent job. Brennan's always been a guy that regardless of what happens, he's going to work hard."
That's the thing about Clay. Great attitude. Smile on his face. Upbeat spirit.
Dom Whaley emerged from nowhere to be the tailback a year ago. Williams arrived from junior college this year and took over.
"That's part of the game," Clay said. "Great backs come to this university."
But sometimes, he also serves who stands and waits. Clay has been a decent kickoff returner, plays on third downs as a receiver out of the backfield and gets a few carries a game.
Then came Saturday.
Stoops termed it a "huge day" for Clay and "very satisfying … even for the other guys. He's a great team player. He's an example for all the players. When you get your opportunity, are you going to take advantage of it?"
Clay did.
"I've just been fortunate enough, being able to play my turn," Clay said. "Damien, it was a sad situation he was out. But I was able to step up. They recruit us for that."
So Saturday, when this still was a ballgame and the Sooners looked vulnerable in a stadium that has eaten a ranked team or two, Clay kept a half alive and went home with a game he'll remember forever.
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This project publishes the Reference Implementation, Technology Compatibility Kit, examples and tools for JAIN-SIP-1.2 (JSR-32 maintenance release) and an SDP library that conforms to the public release of JSR 141 (JAIN-SDP) interfaces. JAIN-SIP is a low level Java API speicification for SIP Signaling. The intended users of this project are SIP developers.
This project publishes a full implementation of the RFC 3261 Specification and as well as suppport for several SIP RFCs.
You can embed the JAIN-SIP stack in an applet, HTTP servlet or an application. JAIN-SIP can be used in SIP Proxy Servers (stateful and statelss) and in SIP User Agents. JAIN-SIP has been used to build a Session Border Controller, a few Softphones, a Resource Adapter for the JAVA Service Logic Execution Environment, a SIP Servlet Implementation and in a few Test tools.
The JAIN-SIP Reference implementation is a product of the Advanced
Networking Technologies Division at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) - an agency of the United States Department of Commerce.
The JAIN SIP RI, TCK and tools published by this project are in the public domain.
The Android OS already includes the JAIN-SIP stack internally and the classnames collide, along with some other issues which require renaming the package names. You can download the android builds from the following links:Javadoc for Android
This project includes an extensive test suite that is run when ever a change is made to the CVS repository. Visit the download link above to see the tests run by cruise control for each commit. JAIN-SIP has been leak tested under both error conditions and error free operational scenarios. Here are the results of long term stability testing (Pascal Maugeri: "Genaker VoIP API using JAIN-SIP v1.2.85"):
A nice getting started article. There are also various books in which JAIN-SIP is used to teach about SIP signaling and IP Telephone. Search in Amazon to find those.
Some other active projects that use JAIN-SIP:
SIP-FOR-ME: SIP is not just for you. Its for ME too! A usable subset of this project has been "ported" to j2me.
JAIN-SIP-APPLET-PHONE: Its an Applet! No its a Phone! No its jain-sip-applet-phone!!
SIP Communicator: A very cool multiprotocol communicator.
The built-in Google Android SIP stack
Cafe-SIP: An open source project that builds SIP tools and the Jiplet container.
KIT-KAT: A cool testing tool from AT&T that uses JAIN-SIP
The SipXecs open source PBX uses JAIN-SIP.
The Mobicents JAIN-SLEE Container uses JAIN-SIP for its resource adapter.
SIP Servlets implementation on JAIN-SIP ( with extensions )
The openfire XMPP container uses JAIN-SIP for its SIP plugin.
OpenJSip: A simple well documented JAIN-SIP proxy server.
A ESB Connector for SIP that is built on JAIN-SIP
Voicetechnology uses JAIN-SIP in a Hosted PBX product. Deployed in Brazil and Japan to provide Hosted PBX Services.
RFC 3263 Router for JAIN-SIP
A SIP tester that uses JAIN-SIP
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Note that all contributions to the gov/nist hierarchy are in the public domain.
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John Mayer Looks Mmm Mmm Good After Flying In From NYC
Posted on Thu Mar 31st, 2011 11:36am PDT By X17 Staff
Last night John Mayer touched down at LAX, and rather than rocking a tee and jeans, the sexy singer opted to wear a suit. Before you get too critical about his appearance, keep in mind he was on a plane for six hours...
So what has the serial ladykiller been up to lately? Star Magazine claims that Oscar winner Kate Winslet is his latest fling, and the two are keeping their romance on the DL. An insider tells the mag, "A few weeks ago, John was at a party in Manhattan when he ran into Kate. He really put the moves on her, and Kate eventually responded." Seriously?! Then again, Jennifer Aniston fell for his charms, so who knows...
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"Whatever you ask in my name," Jesus said, "I will do it" (John 14:13). Some people seem to think that Jesus is giving us a blank check — we can ask for anything at all, and he will sign his name to it and pass it along to the Father, and it will be done — guaranteed.
We all know that this doesn't work — and it's a good thing it doesn't! Some people pray for rain at the same time as their neighbors pray for sunshine. The home seller prays for a high price, the home buyer prays for a low one.
If God had to answer every request he was given in the name of Jesus, the world would be chaotic, driven by the whims of well-meaning but foolish people. Even if humans could all agree, we simply don't have the wisdom to be telling God how to run the universe.
So what did Jesus mean?
Whatever we ask
"I tell you the truth," Jesus said, "my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name…. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete" (John 16:23-24). Does this mean that we fill out the request form, and Jesus signs it and sends it to his dad? "Hey, Dad, I've got a buddy here who wants a million dollars. How about doing it as a favor for me?"
No, that is not the way it works. Jesus is not a middleman who stamps his signature on our request, pretending that our request is really his. He says: "I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you" (verses 26-27). We have permission to go to the Father directly, because God loves us just as much as he loves his own Son. (Does that thought astonish you as much as it does me?)
Hebrews tells us that Jesus gives us permission to go to God directly. We do not need a middleman. So what does it mean to ask in the name of Jesus?
Let's imagine that we are in an ancient palace. The king is sitting on his throne, his prince at his right hand, dozens of guards at attention, hundreds of loyal servants waiting for orders so that every decree will be carried out immediately.
And now imagine that we go into the palace, and the guards immediately make way for us, knowing that we have permission to approach the king. They swing aside, snap to attention and give us the royal treatment. We walk into the throne room, bow before the king, bow before the prince, and then tell the king: "In the name of the prince, I ask you for a better job and a nicer home."
Maybe my palace protocol is a little rusty, but it seems a little odd for me to speak "in the name of the prince" when the prince is sitting right there. Maybe this is not what it means to ask "in the name of Jesus."
More than pronunciation
Some people think that Jesus was talking about pronouncing his name in a certain way. They believe we have to get his name right — like a secret password — before the request will get through the heavenly filters. But when ancient peoples talked about someone's "name," they were not worried about the right pronunciation — they were referring to a person's status or importance.
We can see that in the book of Hebrews. It begins by telling us that Jesus has inherited a better name than the angels have. The name in that context seems to be "Son," but the precise word isn't really important — the point being made is that Jesus is superior to the angels. He has a higher status, a greater glory.
When we talk about the superior name of Jesus, we are really talking about his superior importance. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we are not dealing with a special word — we are dealing with a special person. When we pray in his name, we are praying according to the way that he is — according to his nature. Our praise and requests should be something that fits his character.
Let's use another analogy. Suppose that a police officer says, "Stop in the name of the law" — it means that the officer has the force of law behind the command. But suppose that same officer asks for a bribe: "Give me $20,000 cash in the name of the law." Using the words "in the name of the law" does not automatically give the officer legal support, does it? When the officer says "in the name of the law," he is supposed to be acting within the rules of the law.
In the same way, when we use Jesus' name, we are not obligating him to support our own whims and desires. Rather, we are saying that we are already in accord with what he wants. We are saying something that he has authorized us to say.
Rather than forcing him to conform to our wishes, "in his name" means exactly the opposite: We are conforming to his wishes, we are acting within his will. When we speak on his behalf, we need to make sure that we are saying something that he would agree with.
When we say "in Jesus' name," we are conforming to the words of the Lord's prayer: Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Let it be done in my life. If my request is not according to your will, then feel free to change it to what it needs to be. "In Jesus' name" is our affirmation that, as best we know, our request is within his will.
Let your requests be known
However, if we have to pray according to God's will, what's the point of praying? Isn't he going to do his will whether we ask for it or not? Doesn't it go without saying that if we ask God to do what he already wants to, that he will do it?
But God is the one who is telling us to pray. In his wisdom, God has decided to do certain things only in answer to prayer. Sometimes this is so that we will learn, in the process of prayer, what his will is, and whether our request is for selfish purposes. We don't always understand what God's will is, and praying can sometimes help us come to a better understanding.
But I suspect that on many things, God's will is not set in stone. God may not have decided, for example, which person we should marry — but he has already decided how we should treat the person we marry. He requires that we choose the person, and choose each day how we will interact with that person. Prayer can help us here, too.
Prayer changes us — but it also affects what God does. Since he has decided to do certain things only in answer to prayer, he decides what to do based in part on what we do, on what we need in the situations we have chosen, and on what we ask him to do. He has the power to carry it out, the compassion to help us in our needs, and the wisdom to know what is really best for us.
"In everything," Paul says, "by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God" (Philippians 4:6). Whatever is on your heart, whatever it is that you want, ask God for it.
Jesus has given us the authority to ask — but it is a request, not a command. We can trust God to answer in the best possible way, at the best possible time. But whatever we do (prayer included), we are to do it for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). When we do that, we can be confident that we are praying in Jesus' name.