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Over the remaining few years, the advantages of bike trails in Winchester Kentucky have turned out to be extra evident. What's more, being pleasing to go riding a bicycle, research has shown that bike trails in Winchester KY and other greenways enhance air quality, leads to physical fitness, reduce criminal activities, take the edge off summer high temperatures, perk up the value of assets, prompt tourism revenue, trigger economic expansion, boost employee efficiency and job contentment. As a matter of fact, the greenery of bike trails in Winchester Kentucky can boost satisfaction and tranquility in the neighborhood.
The following are the indispensable benefits of bike trails in Winchester Kentucky
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Bike trails in Winchester Kentucky take the edge off the summer heat - Bike trails in Winchester KY surrounded with trees and shrubs that cover buildings, structures, concrete and other heat absorbing materials, is proven to help extensively in reducing inner-city atmospheric temperatures. This owes to evaporation where the greenery blows out water vapor and moisture.
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Olivia Wilde Loves A Smoky Eye
As Olivia Wilde tours the country promoting her newest film, Drinking Buddies, we've become captivated by her consistenly awesome, but always varying smoky eyes. At a Los Angeles screening last week, makeup artist Melanie Inglessis used Wilde's vintage Bruce Springsteen t-shirt as a guide. "She's a big fan of the smoky eye," Inglessis says of Wilde. "So I thought let's go with a really black, rock 'n roll version to complement the outfit." She started by rimming the eye with Revlon's PhotoReady Kajal Intense Eye Liner ($8) "Don't worry about the line being perfect, just make sure there's no skin showing between the lashline and the lid," she says. Then she used Chanel's Illusion D'Ombre Long Wear Luminous Shadow ($36) in Illusoire, a smoky gray, to blend the black "back and forth, back and forth, to soften the line." Whether you're using black, burgundy, or blue, Inglessis says the key is to stick within one palette. "The darker color stays in the outer corner and the inner corner of the eye stays light," she says. Then Inglessis uses a small flat brush to draw a sort of u-shape on the outer corner of the eye to connect the pigment on the top and bottom for super seamless color. To finish, she lined the waterline with the same kohl pencil, a very important step, she says, "because it closes the gap between the lashes and the color."
Then, in New York last night, for a Brooklyn screening of the film and an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, makeup artist Katey Denno played with color on Wilde's eyes. An iridescent green matched the actress' dress at the former, while a shimmering white highlighter popped against the white Wilde wore to the latter. (Try Revlon's Illuminance Crème Shadow ($6) in Seashells for that same radiance.) Whatever color you choose just remember: it should get progressively darker toward the outter corners of the eye!

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LOS ANGELES - A team of students representing UCLA Anderson School of Management defended their title as Silver Shovel award winners Thursday night at the 2008 UCLA/USC Real Estate Challenge held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. Presented by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the annual event showcases the talents and creativity of the next generation of real estate leaders by posing a specific real estate case challenge to each school's team.
"We are very pleased to have partnered with NAIOP again on this outstanding event, which represents a tremendous educational opportunity for our students," said Tim Kawahara, executive director of the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA. "Our students and faculty advisor worked incredibly hard on this challenge and we are proud of their victory over an accomplished group of students from USC."
This year, the two teams examined Metro Studio@Lankershim (MSL), a real estate development project that will include television and production studios, retail and office space including NBC's future West Coast News Headquarters. Located at the Universal Metro Red Line station in Universal City, MSL will be designed and built in two phases as a transit-oriented, state of the art center to encourage the use of public transportation and high-tech job growth in the San Fernando Valley. Phase I of the project is the development of a site that will house NBC Universal's operations, production, news and local affiliates. The teams were asked to develop the Phase II portion of the project, for which a specific use has not yet been determined.
The UCLA team consisted of: Mike Brown, Julie Chapgier and Casey Lynch, three second-year MBA students; Albert Bernal, a fourth-year JD/MBA, and architecture student Andrew Kao. The team collaborated to develop the highest and best use for the property, focusing its efforts on positioning Universal City as a vibrant and robust urban destination, with a development that satisfies the needs of the key stakeholders in the project: users, investors and the community.
"Through this competition, our team had the rare opportunity to put the academic study of cutting-edge real estate development into a real world context," said UCLA team member Mike Brown. "In the past seven weeks, we spoke with CEOs of major development companies as well as nationwide experts on transit-oriented development, green building and mixed-use building projects. The level of thinking, collaboration and execution we needed to pull this off as a team created a transformative experience for us."
With an eye toward complementing the surrounding community and filling an underserved demand for a modern hotel and rental apartments, the UCLA team proposed a mixed-use development which they named The Gardens at 101 Cahuenga. Their plan consisted of three separate parcels containing a 225 room high-design urban hotel, a 360 unit rental apartment complex, and 30,700 square feet of project-serving retail. In addition to promoting Metro Red Line ridership, the team's proposal was also designed to interact with the Phase I site being built by NBC Universal across the street.
"The team did a remarkable job of creating a sense of place with 'around-the-clock' vibrancy to the Cahuenga corridor," said Paul Habibi, UCLA Anderson lecturer and team advisor. "By weaving synergistic uses into a challenging location, the team showcased their creativity and understanding of all the project's key constituents."
In its eleventh year, the NAIOP UCLA/USUC Real Estate Challenge celebrates the rivalry between the two schools, but more importantly, the competition draws attention to the robust real estate programs at both UCLA and USC, and the next generation of real estate talent. The winning team is awarded the Silver Shovel, a silver shovel inscribed with all past winners, and a $5000 cash prize. The UCLA Anderson team donated their cash prize to Challenge for Charity, UCLA Anderson's largest charitable organization.
About UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
The Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate, a joint center of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law, was formed with a mandate to create and administer UCLA's activities surrounding the topic of real estate. The mission of the Center is to advance thought leadership in the field of real estate by generating influential research, educating the next generation of leaders, and providing meaningful forums for industry professionals and policymakers. Through its various programs and activities, the Center employs a multidisciplinary and global approach to addressing the most critical real estate challenges facing our society today and in the future.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are advancing management thinking through innovative research and teaching. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson prepares students to become global leaders.


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LEWISBORO, N.Y. -- Access to live music, inventive cocktails and good food just got easier thanks to the opening of The Heights and Brother's Vic's Lounge , a new 6,000-square-foot concert venue/banquet hall/restaurant owned by Lewisboro resident Victor Ponzo.
The space, technically in Vista, but with a South Salem P.O., features a lounge area in the front and a banquet area in the back. It officially opened Friday, Feb. 10 with a huge emphasis on music.
Ponzo is a musician -- he's in a band with other Lewisboro, N.Y. residents called Blues Corruption -- and is big on booking name-brand acts that rock. On the docket: Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez (on Friday, Feb. 24), Hugh Pool (on Friday, March 3) and Vaneese Thomas (Saturday, March 4), to name a few.
Sporting events on screens in the lounge portion are also on the agenda with the Daytona 500 set for Sunday, Feb. 26.
Fine dining and drinks are another part of Ponzo's mission and he's brought in hospitality experts such as General Manager Brian Gernant, Bar Manager Sue Vitiello, and Chef Matt White to ensure the utmost in customer satisfaction.
The Heights and Brother's Vic's Lounge is located at 920 Oakridge Commons, (914) 841-1597, www.theheightsatbrothervics.com/ .
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This game update enables dynamic ad serving capabilities in The Sims 3. However, there are no immediate plans to activate any content of this kind. The Sims 3 EULA has further details. See http://www.ea.com/1/product-eulas.
Lights placed on residential and community lots will now properly display onto the neighborhood
Sims may now walk and stand on bridges
Players who play The Sims 3 with game modifications can now create a folder in which to place their game modifications. The folder should be located here:
C:Documents and SettingsYourComputerMy DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 3Mods
When Mods are placed in the official Mod folder, a notification will appear to remind players that Mods are installed.
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March 10, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - With a 30-25, 26-30, 33-31, 30-26 victory over conference foe Newbury College, the nationally-ranked No. 10 MIT men's volleyball team raised its North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division record to 10-0 en route to its first regular-season title since joining the league in 2004. No. 3 Carthage College swept the Nighthawks, 30-20, 30-18, 30-22, in the second match of the day and then gave the Engineers their first home loss of the season by defeating the hosts, 30-14, 30-24, 30-22.
With a season-high 24 kills, junior Praveen Pamidimukkala surpassed the Institute mark for kills in a career which was previously 1,265. He also posted 10 digs and two aces as Scott Pollom tallied 14 kills and four blocks. Philip Rogoz had a solid outing for the Engineers (22-4) as he finished with 58 assists, 13 digs, and two aces. Eric Reuland contributed 16 kills, 12 digs, and a team-high seven blocks while Michael Demyttenaere bolstered MIT's front row with four blocks. Ryan Dean registered 11 digs and seven assists as Matthew Ng collected 17 digs. Eugene Jang rounded out Tech's defensive efforts with 10 digs.
Nicholas Horrocks led Newbury (19-8, 8-3 NECVA) with 31 digs while Erik Kostanski amassed 21 kills. Matthew Hartmann recorded 59 assists and six blocks as Ken McNeeley picked up 10 kills and seven blocks.
In Carthage's first match, Rob Koehler paced the Red Men (15-7) with 10 kills and a .818 hitting percentage. Al Russo totaled 11 kills, a .588 hitting percentage, and three aces as Ryan Baumgartner notched 19 digs. Matt Ulmer dished out 41 assists and earned four blocks.
McNeeley was Newbury's offensive leader as he tallied nine kills to go along with three blocks. Harrocks collected 16 digs while Hartmann distributed 27 assists.
In the final match of the day, Reuland led MIT's defense with 10 digs and three blocks as Pamidimukkala posted 13 kills and eight digs. Dean added seven kills to Tech's cause while Rogoz recorded 24 assists.
Ulmer totaled 31 assists, 11 digs, and three blocks for Carthage as Russo tallied 11 kills and eight digs. Juri Veldre finished with 10 kills and a .421 hitting performance while Baumgartner and Shane Olson amassed 16 and 12 digs, respectively.
On Tuesday, March 13, MIT will host Endicott College while Newbury will do the same for Johnson & Wales University. Carthage continues its weekend trip to Massachusetts on Sunday, March 11 as it will travel to Endicott to face the host Gulls and Mount Ida College.


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The Pet loo is an innovative lawn toilet that will contain your pet's waste in one designated area and will ensure your peace of mind on those extended periods of time you are away from home. If you live in an apartment or a house, take your dog to the office or simply want an aid to assist in potty training your pet, the Pet Loo is a hygienic, convenient and an environmentally friendly way to allow your pet the freedom to do its business without relying on you for the opportunity to be taken out.
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If you've gotten your new Windows Phone 8 device and are looking for the Windows Phone 8 version of the Skype app.... it's not out yet.
With Windows Phone 8, we are expecting some new features to Skype that include the ability to keep you signed-in and reachable even when you've closed out the Skype app. You'll also find that your Skype contacts are automatically added to your Peoples Hub and Live Tile support for unread messages.
When will Skype for Windows Phone 8 hit the shelves? Hopefully sooner than later
but in the meantime, you can use the existing version of Skype that can be found here (it's a freebie) at the Windows Phone Store. [Edit: Actually, George is incorrect here as you cannot run the old version of Skype on Windows Phone 8]


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It isn't as if the Mets want to trade Jon Niese, but he's one of the few valuable chips they have to deal. Left-handed starters are always a premium and the Mets are hoping to bring back a starter, catcher and infielder. Niese ended the season on the disabled list, so his health is a concern making it doubtful they'll get that much.
And, if they don't, what's the point considering pitching is their biggest need.
Reportedly, the Yankees, Boston, Toronto, San Diego and Colorado inquired. If this is the fire sale it seems to be, I don't see them dealing with the Yankees unless they overpay.


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Xbox One Media Remote Leaks at Online Retailer
A picture of the official (and unannounced) media controller for the Xbox One was inadvertently leaked online.
CVG reported that a product listing of the Xbox One Media Remote was posted onto Amazon Canada, but was removed immediately after fans started noticing its existence. The remote itself looks relatively basic and much smaller compared to the Xbox 360 Media Remote. Microsoft has already confirmed that the Xbox 360 Media Remote is incompatible with the Xbox One. The lack of a variety of features on the remote could reiterate the notion that Microsoft wants people to be using its voice command and Kinect methods of navigation.
Amazon Canada had the price of the Microsoft-manufactured item set at $24.99 Canadian, which translates to about $23.71 in U.S. dollars. The remote was set for a release date of March 4 on the Canadian Amazon page. No word yet from Microsoft on when or if this remote will be officially announced.


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Sean 'Diddy' Combs son Justin has hit back at critics of his college sports scholarship, insisting he worked hard to land the grant.
The promising football star, 18, has been offered a full athletic scholarship to UCLA, prompting many to suggest the school should not be covering his education costs when his father is a multi-millionaire.
A UCLA spokesman has already defended school officials' decision to hand Justin the $54,000 prize – insisting the grant is paid for by ticket sales and not school funds – and now the budding sportsman has taken to Twitter to address the controversy himself.
In a series of tweets, the teenager claims he is just as deserving as any other student to receive the grant, and he's not letting the negative reports interfere with his studies or his athletic dream.
He writes, "Regardless what the circumstances are, I put that work in!!!! PERIOD. Regardless of what you do in life every1 (sic) is gonna have their own opinion. Stay focused, keep that tunnel vision & never 4get (forget) why u started (sic)."
The rap mogul has yet to speak out about the scholarship, but Justin's mother, Misa Hylton, has taken to her Twitter blog to speak her mind, insisting her son's scholarship award will have no affect on need-based grants for other, less fortunate students.
She tweets, "My Son is his own man. He will earn his own way through life. You want to penalize my son for working hard and putting education first? Shame on you. He deserves to be rewarded."


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I'm a lifelong software engineer and gamer. I started programming with a Commodore 64, then made mods for the Quake series, and eventually got my break in the game industry at Relic Entertainment, helping ship Company of Heroes in 2006. Since then I've worked on Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, the entire Dawn of War II franchise, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, and Company of Heroes 2.
I'm now working in the mobile game (and app) space, which is rapidly evolving, and presents an exciting challenge. I'm also writing about my thoughts and lessons learned in game development on my website (www.karlschmidt.net) as well as here at Gamasutra.
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Duke vs. Alabama – NIT Season Tip-Off Semifinal
Nov. 27, 2013 • 9:30 p.m.
New York, N.Y. • Madison Square Garden (19,812)
TV: ESPN • RADIO: Blue Devil IMG Sports Network, Westwood One
The Opening Tip
• Duke takes on Alabama in the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off in Madison Square Garden Wednesday (9:30 pm - ESPN).
• The Blue Devils are playing their 219th straight game as a top-10 team in the AP poll. Duke is 181-37 (.830) in that span.
• Duke is ranked No. 6 in both the AP and USA Today Coaches' Polls. The Blue Devils are 112-30 all-time when ranked No. 6 in the AP Poll.
• Duke is 27-15 all-time with a 22-7 mark under Mike Krzyzewski at Madison Square Garden. The Blue Devils have won 14 of their last 16 games at MSG.
• The Blue Devils have won 26 consecutive regular-season tournament games and are 77-15 in regular-season tournaments under Coach K.
• Duke is 19-2 in the NIT Season Tip-Off with 13 consecutive victories. Duke's last Preseason NIT loss came on Nov. 29, 1996 against Indiana.
The Last Time Out
• Jabari Parker scored 19 points in the second half and Rodney Hood hit the game-winning free throw with five seconds left to push Duke past Vermont 91-90 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Parker and Hood combined to score 48 points, including a game-high 26 from Parker and 22 from Hood.
• Duke allowed Vermont to shoot .648 (35-of-54) from the floor for the highest shooting percentage the Blue Devils have allowed since 2010, while the 90 points were the most Duke has allowed in a win since Feb. 22, 2009.
• Quinn Cook and Andre Dawkins also scored in double figures with 14 and 16 points apiece. Cook added eight assists – and just one turnover – while Dawkins hit three three-pointers.
• Parker scored at least 20 points for the sixth straight game, while Hood reached that mark for the fourth time.
By The Numbers
• The Blue Devils are 24-2 all-time in the NIT Season Tip-Off claiming championships in the event in 1985, 2000, 2005 and 2009.
• Jabari Parker has scored 20 or more points in each of the first six games of the season, marking just the second time a Duke player has accomplished that feat. Art Heyman opened the 1961-62 season with 10 straight 20-point games. Parker is also the third Division I freshman in the past 10 years to open his career with six straight 20-point games and the first since Indiana's Eric Gordon (2007-08).
• Jabari Parker (23.0 ppg.) and Rodney Hood (21.8 ppg.) are the top scoring tandem in the ACC (fourth in the NCAA) at 44.8 points per game. The duo has combined for 10 20-point scoring games, while shooting 91-of-148 (.615) from the field and 21-of-39 (.539) from three-point range. Duke is one of only six teams in the nation with two players averaging at least 20.0 points per game.
• Duke has scored 90 or more points in four of its first six games and ranks sixth in the NCAA in scoring at 92.7 points per game. The Blue Devils are 272-8 under Coach K when scoring 90 or more points in a game.
• Duke (5-1) has not lost more than one game in the month of November since the 1999-00 season. The Blue Devils are 79-4 in the month over the past 14 seasons.
• Duke has seven players shooting better than 50.0 percent from the field. Three – Rodney Hood (.667, 40-of-60), Amile Jefferson (.792, 19-of-24) and Semi Ojeleye (.714, 5-of-7) – are shooting over 60.0 percent. The Blue Devils lead the ACC and rank fourth nationally in field goal percentage.
• Junior Quinn Cook leads the ACC and ranks eighth nationally in assists (7.2 apg.) and leads the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio (5.4:1). Cook has eight or more assists in four of six games this season and has had more than two turnovers just one time this season.
• Sophomore Amile Jefferson has hit 79.2 percent (19-of-24) of his field goal attempts this season to rank fifth nationally in field goal percentage. Jefferson has made six consecutive field goals.
• Duke has had a double-figure scorer off the bench in five of six games this season. The Duke bench averages 23.3 points per game with graduate student Andre Dawkins averaging a team-high 9.6 points per game off the bench.


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Lend Lease sells aged care unit to Archer Capital
Lend Lease is selling its aged care business for $270 million to an entity controlled by private equity firm Archer Capital.
The property group said in a statement to the ASX this morning that it had signed an agreement with Archer Capital's Australian Aged Care Partners to sell the business, which includes 30 facilities - 2338 beds and 563 beds in development.
Lend Lease said it would receive $200 million in cash and a promissory note of $70 million, with the transaction to be completed by the end of March.
The aged care business had been acquired in 2009 as part of the Primelife deal.
Steve McCann, Lend Lease's chief executive and managing director, said the sale was in line with his company's strategy.
"The aged care business is more closely aligned to healthcare services than property and is therefore considered non-core for Lend Lease," Mr McCann said.
"Lend Lease will continue to be a leading manager and owner of retirement villages in Australia. Lend Lease will use the sale proceeds to continue to deliver its core development pipeline in Australia."
The construction and infrastructure developer reported operating net profit after tax of $302.3 million for the six months to December, a 37 per cent increase from the previous corresponding period, on the back of funding generated by the $6 billion Barangaroo South project in Sydney.


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Orioles send Astros crashing back to Earth
Houston, TX – Chris Tillman fired seven strong innings and the Baltimore Orioles put an end to the Houston Astros' string of six straight wins with a 4-1 victory at Minute Maid Park to open a three-game series between the clubs.
The American League bottom-feeding Astros had returned home off a 6-0 road trip, but Tillman (5-2) halted that momentum by yielding just one run and four hits to go along with a season-best eight strikeouts.
"He had a lot of pitches working for him," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Tillman. "That kept them from sitting on him."
He had support from the last two spots of the Orioles' batting order, with Ryan Flaherty going 2-for-4 with an RBI single and Danny Valencia cracking a solo homer in Baltimore's fifth triumph in its last six tests.
The Orioles also scored a pair of runs off Houston errors that helped spoil a solid seven-inning performance from Astros starter Lucas Harrell.
Harrell (4-7) held Baltimore to two runs -- one earned -- and five hits while fanning six without a walk in the hard-luck defeat.
Brandon Barnes had two of the Astros' five hits, including a solo homer off Tillman in the sixth inning.
"(Harrell) kept us in the ballgame, but we couldn't get that big hit," Barnes said.
Valencia broke a scoreless deadlock with an opposite-field blast to open the third inning. Manny Machado doubled two batters later, took third on a Harrell wild pitch, then came home when Astros first baseman Chris Carter mishandled Adam Jones' two-out grounder for a 2-0 Baltimore edge.
Harrell shut the Orioles down thereafter, giving up just one more hit and wrapping up his stint with 10 consecutive outs.
Tillman, tagged for four homers over 4 2/3 innings in a loss to Washington on Wednesday, surrendered a single to Barnes to begin his night, then didn't allow another hit until Barnes sent a fastball well over the wall in left to put Houston on the board in the bottom of the sixth. The Baltimore righty had set down 12 hitters in a 13-man span prior to the blast.
The Astros managed only two more singles against Tillman and relievers Tommy Hunter and Jim Johnson the rest of the way, and the Orioles created some distance with single runs in the final two frames.
Nate McLouth single-handedly put the Orioles up 3-1 after singling off Wesley Wright to start the eighth and stealing both second and third, with Astros catcher Jason Castro throwing errantly on the final attempt to allow him to cross the plate.
Flaherty followed a J.J. Hardy double in the ninth with a run-scoring single to complete the scoring, and Johnson worked around a single in the ninth to post his 19th save.
Game Notes
Baltimore has prevailed in seven straight meetings with the Astros, but had never previously won in Houston. The O's were swept in a three-game set in their only prior visit to Minute Maid Park in June of 2003 ... Tillman improved to 10-1 in 12 career starts against AL West teams and is now 4-0 with a 2.30 ERA in five road assignments this season ... The Orioles, who lead the majors in home runs (82), have now put up at least two extra-base hits in 32 consecutive games ... Houston fell to 9-22 at home, the worst mark in the majors.


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I went through a three year journey from Hell. It actually started by reading the entire Bible. I wrote down difficult passages and took them to my pastor and / or sunday school teacher. The list of questions got longer and the answers got vaguer. My process was deeply involved Christian to doubter (deep guilt for doubting), to deist to finally Agnostic Atheist.
It took me about a month after leaving my church, to admit that I was an atheist.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Genea-Bloggers Adopt Facebook
Like others, I was very resistant to Facebook at first. My first invite came out of the blue, literally, from some unknown 1st cousins in Post Falls, Idaho. They had found this blog and realized that their father was one of my uncles. So I dove in somewhat hesitantly.
Hesitantly in the same way in which I approached blogging over a year ago - I started asking myself questions such as:
- do I really want to do this?
- will all my "business" be out there for people to see?
- should I worry about others stealing pictures or post text?
For Facebook, I worried that I would only use it occasionally to keep in touch with my cousins. Little did I know that more and more of my blogging peers would join and find new widgets and gadgets to use!
Sometimes Facebook can be overwhelming, especially when there are many requests and notifications. When I am requested to add an application, many times I am leery if it seems too off the wall or if I feel it will bombard me with stuff. So, I will add it, then very often remove it if it just isn't for me.
One aspect that I am psyched about: groups. I've just started the Genea-Bloggers group and have even secured a dedicated, easy-to-remember web address:
So, if you are on Facebook and are either a genea-blogger or just play one on TV, please take a look.
5 comments:
- Kathryn Doyle said...
My hesitation came from my two college-age children who are now mortified that I have a Facebook page.
- July 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- Moultrie Creek said...
I see a lot of potential but haven't really been able to focus well because there's also a lot of distractions. I have to agree with Megan Smolenyak that it is very easy to post things to Facebook, but I'm still not comfortable navigating past the fluff to the meaty stuff.
- July 10, 2008 at 4:07 AM
- Thomas MacEntee said...
I agree with the fluff vs. stuff. As I've gotten used to FB, I've decided not to get into gift sending, etc. with certain audiences - I usually save that for my cousins who use FB more for socializing.
- July 10, 2008 at 6:11 AM
- Jennifer said...
Easy to just deny the applications you have no use for. Most of the time, the people who have sent things to you will never notice. It's the only way I have found to keep my profile page relatively clean...
- July 10, 2008 at 10:26 PM
- Jasia said...
I gave Facebook a couple days to win me over (putting in a genuine effort to learn the ropes, connect with people, and observe what others were doing with it). It didn't. Now I'm doing a couple without Facebook. We'll see whether I'm happier with it or without it. The last 24 hours without it have been pretty nice. I'm not missing it at all :-)
- July 10, 2008 at 10:55 PM


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VANCOUVER -- With their fourth studio album Battle Born, released earlier this year, Vegas rockers The Killers painted themselves with a hard-working, blue-collar arena pop coat.
It was somehow fitting then that their latest appearance in Vancouver should take place in the old school Pacific Coliseum rather than the much slicker Rogers Arena Monday night, Brandon Flowers and his gang bashing out some of the biggest rock songs to have come out of the '00s in a set peppered with new anthems about hard knocks and love in hard times.
It's difficult not to appreciate songs like set opener A Matter Of Time, all thunder and lightning, when a leather jacket-clad Flowers nails all those anthemic points with ease. Flowers has always been a powerful frontman and he is undoubtedly The Killers' best asset, making each song feel personal, pointing to the audience during key lines, asking people how they feel instead of rambling on about himself (and when he does he genuinely laughs awkwardly).
Flowers is arguably the only reason why some of the songs from Battle Born don't simply land with a thud in concert. Monday night he imbued tracks like The Way It Was with a fresh spirit, making up for the album's warmed-over '80s synth glow.
If Flowers was the focal point throughout the show, drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. was easily next in line, hammering his kit feverishly. On the other hand, guitarist Dave Keuning and bassist Mark Stoermer played with little urgency. Smile Like You Mean It? Feet in cement. Spaceman? Spaced out, more like.
It may not have been anything new for fans, but the chasm between the band's sound and its performance style was jarring, especially when the new material didn't take off.
When it felt a bit sluggish, the band could rely on a spiffy light show and some kaleidoscopic background animations. During Miss Atomic Bomb it was a bright orange blast of pyro that gave the song some extra fire. But when The Killers nailed the classics - Human, Somebody Told Me - they needed little extra help, band and fans both coming alive, the floor hopping, the stands shaking.
It felt good.
The danger for The Killers at this point is that they could easily become the same kind of retro-flavoured act as the two that were headlining across town at Rogers Arena Monday night, Loverboy and Journey, churning out albums of filler on which to anchor past hits.
Granted, that's not a bad way to make a living, but The Killers have more teeth than what they're currently showing.
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The sisters' set pulsated with a slightly more electro feel throughout, perhaps hinting at Tegan and Sara's future direction on their new album Heartthrob set to come out in late January.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After posting its highest score of the season, a 189.950, against Springfield and Rhode Island College last weekend, the Yale gymnastics team travels to Rutgers on Saturday. Towson will join the Bulldogs for the tri-meet.
This season, Rutgers is averaging a score of 189.530, but the Scarlet Knights have broken 190.000 in their last two meets. Last Saturday, Rutgers fell to Cornell 192.675-190.950 but defeated Brockport in a tri-meet. On Feb. 27, the Scarlet Knights placed second in a four-way meet at home, scoring a 190.875 and falling to Bridgeport.
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New indicator of innovation output
This MEMO explains the objectives of the new indicator of innovation output and provides an overview of the performance of EU Member States, other European countries associated to the EU's research Framework Programme, and some of the EU's main trading partners.
More information is contained in the Staff Working Document accompanying the Communication, including performance charts for all countries.
Why is the Commission proposing a new indicator of innovation output?
Innovation is key for Europe's competitiveness, growth and jobs, and is therefore at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The European Union has set itself the goal of becoming an "Innovation Union".
The new indicator of innovation output was developed at the request of the European Council to benchmark national innovation policies and monitor the EU's performance against its main trading partners. It measures the extent to which ideas stemming from innovative sectors are capable of reaching the market, providing better jobs and making Europe more competitive.
In March 2013, the Heads of State and Government requested a discussion on innovation in October 2013, calling on the Commission to deliver the indicator by that date. The indicator also fulfils a commitment under the Innovation Union flagship initiative to "launch the necessary work for the development of a new indicator measuring the share of fast-growing innovative companies in the economy".
How will this indicator be used?
The Europe 2020 strategy is underpinned by five headline indicators. One of these is to improve the conditions for Research & Development (R&D), with the aim of raising combined public and private investment levels for R&D to 3% of GDP.
Within the European Semester cycle, the European Council assesses Member States' progress towards these targets, on the basis of monitoring performed by the European Commission.
The proposed new indicator complements the one on R&D intensity by zooming in on innovation output. It will support policy-makers in establishing new or reinforced actions to remove bottlenecks preventing innovators from translating ideas into successful products and services.
How was this indicator developed?
Innovation output is wide-ranging and differs from sector to sector. A broad set of options for the new indicator were explored using Eurostat's framework for quality indicators and state-of-the-art statistical analyses.
To advise the Commission, a High-Level Panel of leading innovators and economists was set up in 2010. In parallel, cooperation was undertaken with the OECD to develop sectoral innovation coefficients, as part of the indicator component measuring the employment of fast-growing firms in innovative sectors.
Member States were also associated to the discussions on the scope and definition of the indicator during dedicated workshops in 2012 and 2013.
In order to refine the indicator and bring it to its full potential, the Commission identified four further areas for future analyses including improving its data on fast-growing firms in innovative sectors, analysing how the innovation coefficient datasets could be improved to ensure larger sets of observations across sectors and over time, and enlarging its international dimension.
What are the components of the new indicator?
The new indicator on innovation output is based on four components chosen for their policy relevance, data quality (international availability and cross-country comparability) and robustness of results:
1) technological innovation, as measured by the number of Patent Cooperation Treaty PCT patent applications per billion GDP. This shows the ability of an economy to transform knowledge generated by investing in R&D into marketable innovations.
2) employement in knowledge-intensive activities (KIA) as a percentage of total employment. This focuses on how a highly skilled labour force feeds into the economic structure of a country. Investing in people is an opportunity for Europe, because education and training provide workers with the skills to generate innovations.
3) competitiveness of knowledge-intensive goods and services. This is based on both the contribution of the trade balance of high-tech and medium-tech products to the total trade balance, and knowledge-intensive services as a share of the total services exports. It reflects the capacity of a country to reach global markets with its innovations.
4) employment in fast-growing firms of innovative sectors. This provides an indication of the dynamism of fast-growing firms in innovative sectors as compared to all fast-growing business activities. It captures the capacity of a country to transform rapidly its economy to respond to new needs and to take advantage of emerging demand.
What are the links between the new indicator and the Innovation Union Scoreboard?
The new indicator of innovation output complements the Commission's Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) and Summary Innovation Index (SII) (IP/13/270). These assess the innovation performance of Member States and the EU more widely, against a broad set of 24 innovation indicators including inputs, throughputs and outputs.
The novelty of the proposed indicator is that it focuses on innovation output.
To do so, it uses three output measures from the Innovation Union Scoreboard
In addition, it adds a new component on employment in fast-growing firms of innovative sectors. This new component will be integrated in the future into the IUS.
From 2014, results for the new indicator are planned to be published simultaneously with the IUS results, supported by analyses of the performance of each Member State.
Main results of the new indicator
Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg are the EU Member States getting the most out of innovation according to the new indicator.
ountries' scores for 2011 are shown in red and for 2010 in blue, with respect to the EU average, set to 100 in 2010. In 2011, the components reflect the situation in 2009 (patents), 2010 (jobs in fast-growing firms) or 2011 (KIA, competitiveness). In 2010, they are based on 2008 (patents), 2009 (jobs in fast-growing firms) or 2010 (KIA, competitiveness) data.
Are Member States improving their innovation performance?
The EU has increased its performance in 2011 by 4.4 score points compared with 2010.
Progress in this period was strongest in knowledge intensive service exports.
Most Member States have likewise increased performance. However, given that longer time series are not yet available, it is too early to say something about trends.
In the 2014 edition of the Innovation Union country profiles, the European Commission will include a detailed analysis of the performance of each Member State.
How does the EU fare in comparison to its international partners?
Data are currently only available for the key non-European partners USA and Japan and for some Associated Countries (Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Turkey).
Japan is outperforming all EU countries and is the number one performer in the new innovation indicator. Japan performs well in all components of the indicator. It performs particularly well in the contribution of medium and high tech products to trade balance and in PCT patent applications. The U.S. score is similar to the one of the EU. The U.S. performs particularly well in employment in knowledge-intensive activities and near the EU average in the other components.
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Berkeley Lab scientists reveal the latest research on how to reduce your carbon footprint at home, work, and when you shop. Learn how even small choices can have a big impact.
Iain Walker's research focuses on optimizing the energy use and comfort of buildings. He's a staff scientist in the Energy Performance of Buildings Group, which is part of Berkeley Lab's Environmen...tal Energy Technologies Division. He's also executive editor of Home Energy Magazine.
Cindy Regnier is a Project Manager in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Berkeley Lab. She has over 13 years of mechanical engineering design experience, with a focus on low-energy buildings. Her projects have included several LEED Platinum buildings and the design of a 200,000 sf carbon neutral, net-zero energy science museum in San Francisco.
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It wasn't too long ago that buyers looked at a new home and pondered whether they would flip it in two, maybe three, years. Today, the questions are different.
If we have kids, can we use that home office as a baby's room? Can the family room be turned into a children's playroom? Will the first-floor den work 10 years from now as an in-law suite? Can we rough in some plumbing in the basement, in case our grade schooler is a "boomerang" child after college?
Now that the whole idea of flipping has flopped, today's buyers are thinking not in the short-term range, but in the 10-to-15-year range, said John Wozniak, president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago and J. Lawrence Homes of Wheaton.
"People thought the economy would continue to boom, but today they're not sure it always will," he said. "So they're planning ahead for family needs that might include the kids moving back after college or the in-laws eventually moving in with them."
After outgrowing a one-bedroom condo in the West Loop, Mike and Trinity Haynes focused on buying a home that would grow with them. Last year, the parents of a 2-year-old bought a three-bedroom town home at Lexington Square in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. The couple plan to turn their home office into a bedroom in a couple of years and repurpose a family room.
"We're thinking of making it into a playroom for Molly, and then possibly a bedroom for relatives who visit," said Trinity Haynes.
Several factors are reinforcing decisions to buy for the long haul, including a sluggish housing market, financial considerations, growing children, adult children moving back home, accommodating the needs of elderly parents and the "aging in place" concept.
Anticipating the future needs of your family at the design stage allows you to stay in your home and neighborhood longer. Here's a blueprint for buying a home that will adapt to life's stages without major renovations down the road.
Study the floor plan carefully. At Northbrook-based FGH Architects, President Jeff Harting sees more clients asking for "life houses." They're 30 or 40 years old and want a comfortable home they can stay with for the next 35 years, "but not one that's going to feel like an empty hotel after the kids leave," he said.
Harting's team designs such a home around a central core comprising living and dining room, kitchen, mudroom, home office and a single bedroom, with compact, efficient connections.
"We typically create a second, back staircase leading to kids' wings and kids' bathrooms, bedrooms and play areas," he said. "When the kids leave, you're still left with a more compact home, so that remaining occupants don't feel they're walking around an empty house."
Many of the homes have elevators, used now for convenience and later to help older residents get around.
"That allows it to be a life house," Harting said. "It can be for a young family, growing family, shrinking family or aging family."
Think smaller, more flexible. J. Lawrence Homes, with communities in Wadsworth, Joliet, Lynwood and North Aurora, used to offer homes of up to 4,000 square feet, but finds today's buyers want 2,500- to 2,900-square-foot homes.
"Not everyone is buying a four-bedroom house anymore," Wozniak said. "Many are focusing on three bedrooms. We offer quite a few three-bedrooms with lofts that can accommodate many functions."
For instance, first-floor dens can become bedrooms, home offices or some other form of flex space as family needs dictate, he said. The second-floor loft can start out as a kids' playroom, then become the video game room, the family entertainment center, a home office or a homework center for kids.
Size up the basement. One secret of finding a home that will grow is to consider the height of the basement ceiling, said Court Airhart, president of West Chicago-based Airhart Construction, building single-family and town homes in West Chicago, Wheaton, Winfield, Woodridge and Lisle. A higher, 9-foot ceiling allows a basement to become flex space and offers far more functionality.
"That will accommodate the build-out of a bedroom or perhaps a teen's recreation area," Airhart said. "That height makes the space feel so much better. And you can always rough in plumbing in the basement, then build a bathroom down there when you need it in the future."
Universal design. Incorporate user-friendly design features such as a stairless front entryway, walk-in showers and lever door handles that make a home safer, accessible and more comfortable for everyone — young and old.
Open floor plans. Buyers aren't looking long term at just single-family homes. They're also viewing condos and town homes that way. At Lexington Homes' town houses in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood and Des Plaines, and soon Palatine and Prospect Heights, "we're opening up floor plans, where kitchens are not separate rooms anymore," Executive Vice President Jeff Benach said.
"They flow into the family or great rooms," he said. "That opens it up to accommodate different morning patterns. With the kitchen open, you can adapt those patterns as family needs change."
Many families buying Lexington's Bridgeport town homes are drawn to the flexibility of first-floor family rooms next to the garages, Benach said.
"A lot of people are looking to make that family room into a full master suite as their needs change down the line. ... We offer rough-ins for a bathroom down there, so they can easily build a full bath when they need a master suite."
Loft living. Airhart, like Harting, sees elevators as a key to homes morphing over time. At his Courthouse Square row houses in Wheaton, buyers have the option of a third floor with general loft space, and an elevator option.
With a 750-square-foot apartment in the loft, accessible by elevator, "we've had from 'bounce back' kids to parents living there," Airhart said.


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"Oblivion," the big-budget sci-fi movie portraying a bleak future that sees Earth ravaged by machines, has us asking two questions: No. 1: Does Tom Cruise age? And No. 2: Why does the food of the future look so ... gross?
In "Oblivion," it's all wan-looking soups, water sipped from plastic baggies reminiscent of the kind you'd see hanging by a hospital bedside, and entrees that look like they're made from slabs of seaweed.
Photos: Futuristic movies, don't get hungry
It's not just "Oblivion," though. The culinary future has often been depicted as bleak:
--In 1973's "Soylent Green," a New York City cop played by Charlton Heston is marked for murder after he stumbles upon an unthinkable secret about a greedy corporation's plan to feed an overpopulated, futuristic Earth. It culminates in one of the most memorable lines in cinema, captured in this YouTube clip: "Soylent Green is people!"
--"Star Wars" aficionados are no doubt familiar with ooky-looking blue milk, glimpsed at one point as it is poured by a young Luke Skywalker in 1977's "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope." The Wookiepedia says the blue milk is known as Bantha milk or Tatooine milk, and describes it as a blue-colored liquid derived from a female bantha's mammary glands,and enjoyed on planets throughout the galaxy. It also adds this tidbit: "The milk was well known for being very rich and refreshing, its opaque coloring suggesting that it was also sweet." But that doesn't mean it's appetizing to look at.


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Chef Laurent Tourondel, who won critical acclaim at Cello restaurant in New York and then achieved great popular success with his BLT Steak restaurant and its spinoffs (BLT Fish, BLT Prime, BLT Burger etc.), and his colleagues designed a hamburger for Red Robin, and the casual dining burger chain only paid them $10,000, which is cheap from a product development perspective.
The Smashed Smoke Burger is made with New York Cheddar cheese, red onion, black pepper bacon and a house-made "ketchup" that's really more of a chutney, according to Denny Marie Post, Red Robin's chief menu & marketing officer.
It was one of 12 hamburgers that Post tasted at the recent South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash. Red Robin invited all of the competitors in the annual ground beef extravaganza to enter the burger chain's own competition, with the agreement that the winning burger would be featured on the menu later this year, and whoever created it would get a cool $10,000.
"We saw this as an opportunity to have a burger with an interesting provenance," Post said.
Red Robin got a dozen takers, and so Post, Red Robin culinary director Scott Weaver (newly arrived at the chain from The Cheesecake Factory) and Mo Rocca, host of the Cooking Channel's My Grandmother's Ravioli, walked around shortly before the bash started and tasted them all.
Team Tourondel's burger was the 9th one they tasted.
"Mo said he was wondering if he could make it to the end, and this burger gave him a second wind," Post told me.
Although it's really just a take on the classic bacon-cheese burger, Post said the high-quality bacon and the chutney-like sauce, with raisins and other components "really set the whole thing off.
"As they were cooking it, they applied a smoky baste," she added. "It really came together in a wonderful, wonderful way."
She said there was a mixed bag among the other entries.
"There were a lot that were very basic, and some that were torturedly complex — with truffles and lobster and things that sound good conceptually, but when you take a bite, they don't do it."
Tourondel's burger will be part of the line of premium burgers that Red Robin plans to test later this year.
Post said she's confident that Weaver and his team will be able to make the burger successfully at all 475 of the chain's restaurants, including making the sauce in-house.
"We make a lot of our sauces fresh in the restaurant," she added. "And there's something to be said for the chef-craft that comes from creating sauces from scratch."
She added that it's probably not worth the effort to have the sauce manufactured offsite for a limited-time offer.
As for the pepper bacon, that could possibly be a new SKU for Red Robin. "That's something our guests would likely like to try on other things," she said.
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Imagine the Newtown, Conn., tragedy through the eyes of an impressionable 14-year-old. She was just born when Columbine happened and was too young to understand 9/11. A little bit more seeped in when the Virginia Tech shooting occurred, and then there were more shootings at malls and movie theaters. Now this.
"Where can one be safe, ever? Is this the new normal?" asks a 14-year-old.
We live in an ever more violent period. The last 14 years have seen more turmoil, more extreme behaviors, more chaos across the globe. Our cultures are morphing at extreme rates because of social media. Perhaps one of the side effects is an increase in extreme anti-social actions that challenge the boundaries of civilization as we know it.
The average 14-year-old in America experiences multiple ways they communicate in person and in cyberspace. They split the world into winners and losers and give very little room for "others" to exist in comfort.
Reality TV, websites and other venues reinforce the need to be the best. This competitiveness is fueled in a Darwinian manner. As the resources dwindle, the aggression increases and violence often follows. We see an increase in bullying and cyberbullying, hazing, and gang violence, and when this phenomenon is mixed with mental illness we see massacres.
Why? Because there is no hope of survival. The "losers" have decided to commit suicide and therefore they do not think about any other consequences, none other than their own desire to seek revenge or to express the anger that has simmered within them for years. To finally be in control, to be the winner, in a warped scenario that is not absurd in their eyes.
What these people are missing is a supportive peer group — people who recognize them, rather than avoid them or treat them as invisible. We, as a society, tend to do that. To treat those who are "odd" in some way, those who do not fit in, those who are not winners, as if they do not exist. And perhaps we drive some of them to the edge.
When we speak of our mental health system, what are we really talking about? For the most part, our mental health is held in the hands of insurance companies that dictate to hospitals and providers the length of care, and circumstances, that will be reimbursed. That is why only the actively suicidal or homicidal patients are hospitalized. That is why most leave the hospital before they have been stabilized on medications or connected to community services. That is why so many people are untreated or undertreated.
In addition, though we have equal rights for people of all colors and religions, a stigma exists when we start to speak about mental health. Many people do not want treatment because they do not want to be stigmatized in their own minds, and in the eyes of others.
We have not come to grips with the fact that, at any moment, half of America is depressed, a quarter of America is anxious and nearly 70 percent of us have problems sleeping. We do not want to recognize the abundance of mental health problems that face our children and ourselves.
Our "vulture culture" emphasizes a winner/loser mentality that encourages dominance and aggression. These behaviors will stop when individuals become assertive and protect themselves; when bystanders learn to be proactive as a group and protect victims, and when schools and institutions create communities of respect and support.
We need to de-stigmatize mental illness. We need to have mental health professionals decide who should be treated and how they should be treated. Various kinds of treatment centers need to be integrated in all communities throughout the country and these services cannot be controlled by insurance companies. There is no premium high enough to cover the cost of the lives of our children.
Let"s join together to change our culture, our infrastructure and our point of view, so that 14-year-olds will not believe that the "new normal" is one in which massacres are an everyday reality.
The author has been a psychologist for 25 years, specializes in issues which confront children, tweens and teens. She has recently appeared on television news programs to discuss school bullying, as well as the Virginia Tech shootings. She lives in the New York area.


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by Tom Utescher
Like a top-fuel dragster with bald tires, the girls basketball team at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is having trouble applying its horsepower to the pavement. The Lions didn't play up to their talent level at the three-day West Chester University Christmas Classic last week, beating one truly woeful team but losing to a pair of unremarkable squads in their other two outings.
Against Freire Charter on December 27, a one-point Lions lead early in the fourth quarter vanished and the situation deteriorated into a 39-28 defeat. The following afternoon, SCH kept Oxford High School winless for the year, thumping the Chester County club, 46-28. The Lions wound up playing for third place against Susquehanna Township High School, which is located just outside of Harrisburg.
The locals slipped behind 19-10 in the first quarter, and when Susquehanna put together a 22-4 second period, the Lions' fate was sealed. They outscored the Indians the rest of the way, but lost 65-56. SCH will make a fresh start in 2012 with an overall record of 6-6.
The holiday tourney did not begin in an auspicious manner for the Chestnut Hill franchise. A regular starter who had missed the previous game was on the bench for the beginning of this outing, and forward Michelle Boggs, lost on the rainy backstreets of West Chester, hurried into the gym just two minutes before game time. The Lions' opponent, Freire Charter (4-2), was coming off of a 38-32 loss to SCH's Inter-Ac colleague, Penn Charter.
Missing a number of lay-ups in the opening period, the Lions saw an early 4-2 lead transformed into a 10-5 shortfall by the end of the quarter. Two minutes into the second frame, they pulled even at 10-10 on a lay-up by Boggs. Freire Charter regained the lead, and the Lady Dragons had a 12-11 edge at the interlude.
A jumper, a lay-up and a free throw by Pownall and a tally off a rebound by Boggs got the Lions into an 18-all tie in the middle of the period. The Dragons went up 24-20, but a pair of free throws by SCH senior Sydni Epps got the locals within two at the three-quarter mark.
Off of a pass from Boggs at the outset of the fourth quarter, Pownall scored on a drive and then converted a free throw, nudging the Lions ahead, 25-24. However, that would be the last SCH field goal of the afternoon; Freire closed out the contest with a 15-3 surge. Poor shot selection (and execution) by SCH led to defensive rebounds for the Dragons, which led to scoring on the transition.
Pownall put up a game-high 15 points, but the bad news was that she outscored the rest of her teammates, combined. Boggs and Epps each had six points and sophomore Madi Sehn added a free throw. The Dragons got good outside/inside balance from guard Latisha Johnson, with 12 points, and forward Chelsea Woods, with 11.
The Lions' next opponent, Oxford, was clearly overmatched in the tournament as whole, falling to a record of 0-8 with its loss to SCH. After rolling to a 28-8 halftime lead, the Lions turned their entire bench loose and entered maintenance mode.
Epps, with 10 points, Elana Roadcloud, with nine, and Boggs, with eight, led the parade to the Hornets' basket. Caroline Henry chipped in with four points, while three points apiece came from Sehn, Schumacher, and Maddi Hinchey, and two each from Pownall, Alexis Giovinazzo, and Kyra Jackson filled out the rest of the winners' total.
The bench players also saw plenty of action in the game against Susquehanna Township, but it wasn't because the Lions built up an insurmountable lead. Experimentation with different player combinations by Springside Chestnut Hill couldn't prevent the Indians from steadily pulling away. After the Lions got behind 41-14 before the intermission, they played a stronger second half but still were left nine points shy of Susquehanna at the final horn.
Boggs had a big game with 22 points, with Epps adding 11 and Roadcloud and Hinchey each scoring six points. Sehn, Schumacher, and Pownall produced five, four, and two points, respectively.


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by Jane Lenel
"Couch potato" is not an endearing term, and Kevin Mallon would never use it with those who choose to stay seated. Nor is he prone to restating the overused cliché "Use it or lose it" to explain his obvious mission at Cathedral Village in upper Roxborough, where he has been the director of the Fitness Center for 10 years.
"The challenge of my job is trying to cure inactivity," he says, explaining that exercise is not only important for the healthy functioning of our hearts, digestion, brains, etc. — even memory — "but it also enhances the pursuit of the joys in [our] lives."
Of course, fitness centers abound offering all the standard exercise cure-alls, but Mallon (the best-loved man at Cathedral Village, where everyone simply knows him as Kevin) does more than add 10-pound weights to your leg lifts and prescribe umpteen minutes of Nu Step pedaling on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
He builds personal relationships with his Cathedral Village fitness "customers," gets to know their whole life picture and what motivates them, and knows the intimate details of their knees, backs and other parts.
He's also unique in advising: "Be creative in your movements. Be creative in your thoughts, feelings and actions; bring lightness and aliveness to your inner realm; feel more effective and efficient in your movements and energize them. Be more present and in touch with your body."
"What I'm selling — well-rounded, holistic wellness — pays vast dividends," he insists.
Citing an article, "Exercising and the Aging Brain," by Terry Eckmann, Ph.D, in the Journal on Active Aging (Nov./ Dec. 2011), Kevin notes that "just as with cardiovascular health, the brain can change in response to exercise and other positive lifestyle choices at age 9 months or 90 years." There are also numerous factors — neurons, dendrites — that affect the brain's growth through exercise, as well as stimulating the production of brain chemicals.
At the CV retirement community in his job "activating" residents, some of whom have accumulated as many as 90 or more years, Kevin works not only on land (in the fitness center) but at sea (in the big swimming pool), stretching, strengthening and combating the water pressure, but no belly flops. Yoga and Tai Chi classes are also part of the routine and he has regular meetings with the CV medical staff — a general wellness team — to keep abreast of everyone's needs and development.
"The less medication, the better," he says. "Cultivating your health organically" is the trick, not pills, and becoming more in touch with your body and releasing tension."
A resident of Roxborough all his life until a recent move to Doylestown, Kevin, 33, went to Germantown Academy and Ursinus College in Collegeville. At Ursinus he received a B,S, degree in Exercise and Sports Science focusing on anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, psychology, etc., and he minored in business management. His home family with his wife Kate includes three children: Kevin James, 5, who helps Kevin mow the lawn; Marleigh, 3, and Maxwell 10 weeks, who is "an example of the innate ability to move correctly," Kevin says.
Kevin communicates to the residents at Cathedral Village that fitness/wellness is a continuous journey and not a destination, so activity must be built into our daily routine. "We have activity integrated into our family lifestyle," he says, centering on being active and adventurous as a family, including hiking, kayaking, swimming and biking, combined with the love of sports he's had since he was a boy.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Chicago Bears' Devin Hester lost more than the game last night!
The Chicago Bears played the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday. While the Bears are likely upset over their fifth loss in six games, wide receiver Devin Hester may have it the worst.
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ACWORTH, Ga. -- Two Woodstock women are behind bars in Cobb County, accused of stealing from residents at an assisted living center.
Investigators believe 31-year-old Candace Ballard and 23-year-old Jayne Phillips stole jewelry, credit cards and computers from residents at the Heritage at Brookstone assisted living facility in Acworth.
According to Cobb County Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce, the two suspects were looking for an assisted living home for an elderly relative. After touring Heritage at Brookstone, Pierce said one of the women sneaked into the building's private quarters to steal from the residents.
Credit cards taken from the home were used at stores in Cherokee, Cobb and Fulton counties, Pierce said.
Ballard and Phillips were arrested Tuesday. They were charged with three counts each of burglary and two counts each of credit card fraud. Pierce said investigators found some of the residents' missing items in the suspects' home.
Police are now working to determine if Ballard and Phillips are responsible for similar crimes in nearby areas.
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For Dr. Michael Rechter, his profession is also his passion. Dentistry is in his blood, literally. Both his parents were dentists, as were his grandfather, aunts and uncles. While they all practiced separately, it allowed him to have professional relationships that most people will never experience.
Long Island Dental Excellence has been in Rockville Centre for over 25 years. In August, the practice was moved into new, much larger state-of-the-art offices. The entire facility was designed with patient comfort in mind. Rooms are open and airy, chairs are extremely comfortable, and monitors allow patients to watch TV. As always, the staff helps patients to enjoy a positive experience, which Dr. Rechter believes is paramount. They are also wonderful with children.
Dr. Rechter understands that fear can cause people to avoid regular dental visits and checkups. Lack of pain or discomfort doesn't always mean there isn't a problem, he points out. If a brewing issue can be detected early, a crisis can often be avoided. Between the calming environment, the compassionate staff and the fact that Dr. Rechter spends time talking to his patients; fears can usually be alleviated. For patients who are still fearful, Sedation Dentistry is another option he offers.
Having logged over 1,000 hours of Continuing Education, Dr. Rechter prides himself on keeping up with the most current technology, some of which allows early diagnosis of dental issues. For this, Long Island Dental Excellence is equipped with technology like digital X-rays, LED oral cancer screening, and laser cavity detection.
While Dr. Rechter covers all types of general dentistry, the emphasis of his practice is on the atheistic side … smile makeovers. He and his staff expertly are trained in treating and repairing cracked, chipped or stained teeth. Long Island Dental Excellence offers a wide range of dental makeover options such as veneers, porcelain crowns, tooth bonding and tooth-colored composite fillings.
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