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Goal #2: Enriching Individual Lives
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
The University of Illinois at Springfield's community is characterized by students, faculty, staff, alumni, and outside partners and constituents as providing an atmosphere that is vibrant and actively engaged with comprehensive and integrated initiatives that contribute to the intellectual, cultural, social, and personal enrichment of all its participants.
Strategic Thrust #1: Providing an Intellectually Rich Campus Environment
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and outside partners and constituents will be stimulated and engaged intellectually through their interactions with UIS and each other.
Action Step #1: Develop an incentive mechanism that rewards units that collaborate across disciplines when designing and implementing intellectual learning opportunities and/or events. Develop forums for the sharing of research and scholarship across programs and colleges.
Action Step #2: Provide incentives for students to participate in programs and events that support the learning objectives of their particular course.
Action Step #3: Each academic year, the Chancellor, in collaboration with the UIS community, will initiate an Annual Campus Dialogue. That theme can be used by faculty, staff, and program planners for curriculum or program/event planning. This would also include opportunities for community participation.
Action Step #4: Utilize the web-based electronic calendar by way of a user-friendly portal that would allow easy data entry of sponsored programs and events.
Action Step #5: Provide financial and administrative support to faculty and staff to engage and invite speakers, guests, and lecturers to campus to address diverse ideas and perspectives.
Action Step #6: Encourage students, faculty, and staff to contribute through greater community involvement, service learning, and civic engagement activities.
Action Step #7: Examine the steps necessary to develop a co-curricular component to students' academic transcripts.
Performance Indicators for strategic thrust #1:
- Annual Campus Dialogue up and running
- Administrative support in place for faculty to give class credit for certain kinds of student participation
Strategic Thrust #2: Providing a Culturally Rich Campus Environment
UIS will create a comprehensive plan for the arts.
Action Step #8: Identify and acquire equipment, add storage space, and provide or build additional rooms for performance and practice (rehearsal) venues for the performing arts.
Action Step #9: Provide adequate museum/exhibit space as part of the Brookens Library renovation for traveling and professional exhibits.
Action Step #10: Strengthen the curriculum and co-curriculum in the visual and performing arts and provide scholarships to attract students to these programs.
Action Step #11: Assign the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the provost to further develop a master plan for the arts that would be implemented in the next five years.
Action Step #12: Create cultural programming that is aligned with community interests.
Performance Indicator for strategic thrust #2:
- Master plan for the arts created and implemented
Strategic Thrust #3: Providing a Culturally Diverse Campus Environment
Students, faculty, staff, outside partners, and other constituents will be exposed to a university community that is infused with an appreciation of diverse cultural perspectives. The UIS environment will be characterized as an inclusive and safe place for different perspectives to be explored.
Action Step #13: Utilize a standardized multicultural sensitivity survey to determine baseline data regarding the current cultural climate of UIS.
Action Step #14: Utilize the findings from the sensitivity survey to enhance the cultural climate at UIS; re-examine the climate periodically. Emphasize tolerance and respect for a diversity of opinions.
Action Step #15: Develop an institutional definition of diversity; more important, establish benchmarks that are appropriate for the institution. Determine how the institution will know when the benchmarks regarding diversity have been attained.
Action Step #16: Study the possibility of making the Access and Equal Opportunity Officer position full time instead of part time.
Action Step #17: Recognizing that intercultural awareness is an important institutional value, we will strengthen relevant programs and enhance diversity in the curriculum by increasing the number of courses that deal in whole or in part with multicultural issues and perspectives, including ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.
Action Step #18: Provide faculty development funds to encourage the inclusion of multicultural perspectives throughout the curriculum, both specialized and mainstreamed.
Performance Indicators for strategic thrust #3:
- Multicultural sensitivity survey conducted.
- UIS definition of diversity established and disseminated.
- Program in place to establish benchmarks on diversity of the UIS community and to monitor progress in achieving acceptable levels.
- Ongoing curriculum review and curricular adjustments reflecting the UIS commitment to inclusiveness and diverse cultural perspectives.
- Increased co-curricular and extracurricular activities reflecting the UIS commitment to inclusiveness and diverse cultural perspectives.
Strategic Thrust #4: Providing Social/Personal Enrichment
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and outside partners and constituents will have opportunities to enhance their personal growth, social capital, support network, networking opportunities, and extracurricular programming. UIS strives
to promote an enjoyable and supportive learning environment that produces engaged and informed citizens. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and outside partners and constituents will characterize UIS as a catalyst in their personal
Action Step #19: Enhance and expand service learning opportunities within the classroom, which will serve to bridge students and faculty to the greater Springfield area, and expand community involvement/civic engagement activities for faculty, staff, and students.
Action Step #20: Develop greater partnership relationships with the Office of Student Volunteers and Service-Learning (OSVSL) as a way to link faculty and students with not-for-profit and private-sector organizations in the Springfield community.
Action Step #21: Expand the UIS Study Abroad Program, which will allow students, faculty, staff, and outside partners to engage in global development with our sister cities and colleges.
Action Step #22: Expand the Career Development Center's Employer Relationship Program, which actively develops relationships with current and potential new employers of UIS students while supporting the environment (virtual or face-to-face) that brings students and employers together.
Action Step #23: Design and develop a space for the Faculty Development Center that would provide faculty a specific location to gather and exchange best practices in teaching, scholarship, and service.
Action Step #24: Evaluate the effectiveness of New Faculty orientation and how it currently meets the needs of UIS's new faculty. Utilize the feedback from new and established faculty to design the faculty orientation program.
Action Step #25: Foster greater interaction between faculty, staff, students, and alumni, such as learning communities that are developed and sponsored by individual colleges or specific degree programs.
Action Step #26: Design a First-Year program that will support the transitional needs of the expanded first-year student population, transfer students, and new graduate students. This would include but not be limited to the redesign of Preview Days, New Student Orientation, Bridge (transitional) Programs, and Academic Support Services.
Action Step #27: Research best practices utilized by other institutions that are recognized by their peers as models for engaging their alumni and the outside community in the development and advancement of university initiatives.
Performance Indicators for strategic thrust #4:
- More partnerships with external community involving service learning and volunteer opportunities
- Faculty Development Center up and running
- First-Year program in place to help with transition of freshmen and new transfer and graduate students
- Three to five "best practices" from other universities implemented at UIS
Strategic Thrust #5: Enhance Intercollegiate Athletics
UIS Athletics initiatives include the addition of new sports that will enhance revenue, visibility, and community support. UIS Athletics will build upon our current emphasis on academic success and comprehensive student development.
Action Step #28: Create a development plan to secure an adequate number of athletic scholarships.
Action Step #29: Explore methods to improve academic advising for athletes.
Action Step #30: Explore the costs and benefits of expanding intercollegiate athletics, including, but not limited to, a shift from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Action Step #31: Promote the role of athletics in enhancing student life.
Action Step #32: Explore the possibility of joining the Drake Group, which deals with the relationship between athletics and academics.
Performance Indicators for strategic thrust #5:
- More scholarships for athletes
- Creation of an academic advising unit for student-athletes
- Increased public visibility for programs and greater attendance at athletic events


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It is a terrifying thought that many people under 30 will never see a "C:\>" prompt, let alone an "A:\>". But although as far as Microsoft is concerned DOS has been dead pretty much since Windows 95 went gold, it wasn't quite the end of the road for the operating system.
MS-DOS itself has had a long life-after-death, finding use in embedded devices, such as some industrial control systems, and it is still downloadable from Microsoft's MSDN site. But Microsoft's decision to effectively euthanise DOS also fuelled the rise of alternatives, one of the most prominent of which is FreeDOS: An open source MS-DOS-compatible system licensed under the GPL, which has managed to survive, and even thrive, in the wake of Microsoft's release of Windows 95 and other post-DOS OSes.
And for an open source project that many might consider niche, its creator, Jim Hall says there is still substantial interest in FreeDOS, at least judging by download numbers. There were more than 379,000 downloads of FreeDOS since the release of 1.1 in January last year, and there were more than 39,000 downloads of FreeDOS 1.1 in January this year alone.
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These numbers are solely for downloads from the project's site, so the real number of people who have had contact with the system is likely higher. A number of vendors — including ASUS, Dell, HP, Intel and Seagate — have either distributed versions of FreeDOS or released FreeDOS-based products (such as Seagate's hard drive diagnostic package SeaTools).
These days Hall is the director of IT for the University of Minnesota Morris and a contributor to open source projects such as GTKpod and the venerable Emacs text editor (he's also the creator of GNU Robots).
But when FreeDOS project began in 1994, Hall was undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. In June of that year, Hall posted "PD-DOS project *announcement*" to the comp.os.msdos.apps Usenet group. "A few months ago, I posted articles relating to starting a public domain version of DOS," Hall wrote.
"The general support for this at the time was strong, and many people agreed with the statement, 'start writing!' So, I have..."
Hall's posted noted he had written a manifesto for the project; or actually, as he explains, a "manifest". "When I first wrote that, I simply didn't know what a 'manifesto' meant," he says "I remember downloading a copy of the GNU Manifesto to my computer and reading it, and realising that I needed a simple document that described FreeDOS so others could see it as I saw it.
"But in downloading GNU's 'manifesto.txt' file and saving it to my DOS computer, the name got munged to DOS's '8.3' limits (eight characters for the name, then three characters for the extension) and it was simplified to 'manifest.txt'. Since I didn't really understand the definition of 'manifesto', I referred to the document by its 8.3 name, which is why I called it a 'manifest' in the original Usenet posting."
"I'd read news articles saying that Microsoft was going to get rid of DOS with the next release of Windows, and everything would be Windows-only after that," Hall explains. Microsoft was preparing for its first 'post-DOS' OS — Windows 95.

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Wissam Keyrouz - Advances by militants in Syria and Iraq, and US calls for a coalition against them have made Gulf monarchies set aside disputes over Qatar's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, analysts say.
Wary of spectacular gains made by Islamic State militants, the oil-rich monarchies fear the militants could advance towards their own borders, where the extreme ideologies could find support.
"The biggest danger (in the Gulf) comes now from these (emerging) terrorist groups, and not from the Muslim Brotherhood," said Abdulaziz Sager, head of the Gulf Research Centre think-tank.
Qatar's relations with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain sank to a new low in March when the three governments withdrew their ambassadors from Doha, accusing it of meddling in their affairs and supporting the Brotherhood - designated as "terrorist" by Riyadh. For Sager, the UAE was "the strictest" against Qatar among the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
UAE State Minister for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash wrote on Twitter Sunday that his country's interest lies "in a strong Arab Gulf... sheltered from regional differences."
Speaking to reporters following a meeting of Gulf Arab foreign ministers, Kuwait's top diplomat Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah said that the six-months spat with Qatar was on its way to being resolved. He said the ambassadors could return to their posts "at any time", without giving a specific date.
The announcement came as Saudi King Abdullah underscored the threat posed by militants unless there is "rapid" action. "Terrorism knows no border and its danger could affect several countries outside the Middle East," Abdullah was quoted as telling ambassadors, including the US envoy, on Friday. "If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month," he warned.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States were from the kingdom. Saudi authorities have long feared blowback from militant groups, particularly after a spate of Al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom from 2003 to 2006.
Kuwaiti political analyst Ayed al-Manaa agrees that "we now have a fear which is much bigger than the differences in foreign policies, with IS taking over one third of Syria and Iraq".
"IS as an ideology is not only present in (Iraq and Syria). It is present in our countries and is waiting for the opportunity to appear," said Manaa. "The political disputes (with Qatar) are no longer a priority... We live in danger from northeast Syria and northwest Iraq. This is an alarm bell for GCC nations to end their differences."
GCC states on Saturday said they are ready to act "against terrorist threats that face the region and the world".
The foreign ministers of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - the six GCC states - also pledged a readiness to fight "terrorist ideology which is contrary to Islam".
However, "we are waiting for more details to understand what is needed" for the coalition proposed by US President Barack Obama, said Sabah.
Obama said he was developing a broad plan that would involve military, diplomatic and regional efforts to defeat the IS militants who have sown terror through crucifixions and gruesome beheadings. Obama said he would dispatch US Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East to discuss the plan with regional allies, including the Gulf Arab states.
Regional expert Frederic Wehrey said that "the GCC does not have the capacity for real expeditionary military operations outside the Gulf. "The question is what military value would they bring beyond the symbolic legitimacy of Arab participation," said Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Sagar agrees, pointing out that the participation of GCC leader Saudi Arabia, would be limited to "intelligence" and the kingdom's "ability in influencing public opinion in the Muslim world."
Saudi Arabia's top cleric has already branded Al-Qaeda and IS militants as "enemy number one" of Islam and warned young Muslims to steer clear of "calls for jihad" issued on "perverted" grounds.–AFP


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After much back and forth, including a veto threat and failure to get cloture, the energy bill has finally passed the Senate by a vote of 86-8. To get the votes, Democrats had to compromise on utility reductions and increasing taxes on oil companies. The new bill will require automakers to reach a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of 35 mpg by 2020, as well as increase ethanol use to 36 billion gallons a year.
The next step is to send the energy bill to the house for approval, which shouldn't be a problem, and then onto the President for his signature. The White House is happy with the bill, so that should be the ball game barring any unforeseen complications. To aid automakers, the bill includes language to spend 50% of fines collected from those in non compliance to help manufacturers adjust their manufacturing to meet the new reqs. Requirements that would make automakers attain multiple standards has also been stripped. All in all, it's about the best compromise we're going to get and a bill that I think that a majority will be happy with. [DetNews]


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I don't think Unsy helped his case today. Slightly puzzling team selection and substitutions. Davies was poor, should have been subbed. Kenny isn't ready yet. DCL works hard but again not ready for 90min. I would have played Vlasic....But it has to be said, i wouldn't fancy the manager job at the moment..
I agree with the last BBC Merseyside call in fella."DCL is not a Premiership striker"It's true - hard working target man for the long ball, but no goal threat.
Yet, we were probably better 2nd half.
Agree with Carragher that if we don't beat Watford that we look in trouble. A win there could change the landscape a bit. Still not ready to write Unsworth off. He's come into a difficult situation and had tough games.Not panic stations yet (for me) but getting worrying.
Me? Baines and Kenny are better than Martina?? Coleman obviously is but we havent seen him for a year. Niasse is clearly a bit of a donkey but DCL doesnt even ocupy defenders. Centre halves..... Williams has had more good games than Keane this season though its fashionable on here to blame Williams and Martina for Keane and Baines being shit. Think Gueye is clearly our best defensive midfielder. I just got giddy doing my list
Not ready to write him off but its a little worrying the players who seem totally out of favour. Need big changes in team selection
Yes Martina is fucking awful. Can't defend yet some are think he can attack because he floats in a cross which finds an opposition player 99 times out of 100.Ashley Williams has been a yard dog since he arrived and gifts a golden chance almost every match. Jagielka still has recovery pace and is much less of a liability. Keane has been fine for most of the season.Everything else you said is fine.
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- Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - FP2
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Felipe Massa believes Ferrari will be strong in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but may struggle slightly in qualifying tomorrow.
While the headline lap times see Massa ending FP2 over a second slower than Sebastian Vettel, his long run pace was more encouraging, leading race engineer Rob Smedley to praise him over team radio following the session. Massa admitted that the car looked quite strong on high fuel, but that Ferrari may be less competitive during qualifying.
"We got through everything on our job list, which is always a good thing, both in the first and second free practice sessions," Massa said. "We tested the tyres in the usual way - first on a low fuel load and then with a lot more - to evaluate them over a long run.
"From what we could see, over a long run we are reasonably competitive, but less so on a single flying lap. Sure, it would be better if we were a bit quicker, but we will see what the situation is when it really matters, which means to say tomorrow afternoon in qualifying."


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SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he has given $500 million to a non-profit donation fund to help improve health and education.
Zuckerberg gave the donation to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation of San Mateo, Calif., which advises donors in allocating funds according to the donors' interests, CNNMoney reported Tuesday.
The amount is the largest the foundation has ever received, CNNMoney reported.
Zuckerberg donated 18 million Facebook shares, the Tuesday's closing price of which was $27.71 per share and amounted to $498 million, CNNMoney said.
Zuckerberg, who posted the announcement of the gift on Facebook, said he and Priscilla Chan, his wife, pledged to donate $100 million worth of Facebook shares to help improve Newark, N.J.'s public education. The donation was made according to the couples' participation in the Giving Pledge, a program initiated by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to encourage billionaires to give most of their money to worthy causes, CNNMoney reported.
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I have a Dell Latitude Laptop.
I attempted to install this game and afterwards it wont run after clicking the icon for it. It will give a black flashing in and out of full screen mode and then poops and does nothing. After installing the second disk it said something like "DirectX8.0a Object error" but I don't know if that is really the problem or not..
I have also attempted to change it's compatibility..and change screen resolution for it.. but doesn't seem to comply at all.
I have to say that I have really loved this game in the past but it is such a pain not being able to run it on newer computers.. I feel driven to do some piracy and download an emulator with a Syberia I or II file instead..
I have once attempted to reinstall it on a newer computer and it had a slow-mo glitch which I have used one of the "patches" for it but still had iffy graphics.. but was enough to satisfy my Syberia craving.
Sigh.... I'm afraid I really don't know what to do in this case scenario though..
I have attempted to reinstall DirectX and to check for computer glitches within it's installation process.. but there is nothing..


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Katy Perry Gets Eaten By a Shark in the Cutest Way [PHOTO]
Katy Perry is out of the country doing the promo rounds for 'Prism.' Even though she is working, she still found time in her schedule to have some fun. While in Japan, the singer was eaten by a shark in the cutest possible way! Wait, what?
Perry shared this photo of herself fully immersed in the shark's mouth and on her way into its belly! Notice not a single hair is out of place, and her bow remains fixed in her bob-with-bangs 'do. She is the cutest shark bait we've ever seen.
She joked that the shark is not her spirit animal in her Twitter caption.
Oh, Katy! Only you can make the predicament of being in the mouth of a mechanical, giant Jaws look really adorbs and like a lot of fun.
The 'ROAR' singer doesn't appear to be mourning the reported breakup with on-off BF John Mayer. Or maybe she's doing fun stuff to keep her spirits up. Whatever the case, we're totally crushing on this shark snap.


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Xavier upsets No. 16 St. Louis in OT
Already eliminated from the Atlantic 10 race, Xavier finds itself in a very uncharacteristic position -- trying to decide the league title with upsets.
Travis Taylor had 19 points and a career-high 19 rebounds on Wednesday night, and Xavier never trailed in the overtime while beating No. 16 Saint Louis 77-66, ending the Billikens' 11-game winning streak and leaving the A-10 title up for grabs.
Xavier (17-12, 9-6 A-10) ended a long winning streak for the second time in eight days. The Musketeers snapped Memphis' 18-game streak at the Cintas Center last week.
"In March, everybody is banged up," senior guard Brad Redford said. "Here at Xavier, it's a tradition to play winning basketball."
This win kept the A-10 race open heading into the final weekend.
The Billikens (23-6, 12-3) wasted a chance to win a share of a conference title for the first time since 1970-71 in the Missouri Valley. Their last outright title came in 1956-57. They could have clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament with a win on Wednesday.
Instead, they fell into a first-place tie with No. 21 VCU, which beat Richmond on Wednesday. Saint Louis beat VCU during its 11-game winning streak for the head-to-head advantage. Saint Louis finishes the season at home against third-place La Salle on Saturday. VCU is at Temple on Sunday.
Given how the race is so close, the Billikens figure the tournament will be just as wild.
"It's wide-open," Saint Louis coach Jim Crews said. "It's a great league. You've got to play well and get a little lucky to win. It's as open as it could be.
So was the game until it reached overtime.
The Billikens tied it on Jordair Jett's tip-in with 11 seconds left in regulation, but they managed only one field goal in overtime. Taylor had a dunk and four free throws as the Musketeers pulled ahead 74-62.
Taylor's 19 rebounds were the most by a Xavier player since David West had 19 in 2003 against Fordham. He leads the A-10 in rebounding.
"I've just got to go after the ball each time it's in the air," Taylor said. "It creates a lot of energy. I just try to get them all."
Kwamain Mitchell led Saint Louis with 17 points. Cody Ellis, the Billikens' top 3-point shooter, missed all of his 15 shots -- 11 behind the arc -- and finished with four free throws.
Saint Louis beat the Musketeers twice last season, including a 73-68 win at the Cintas Center that snapped Xavier's A-10-record streak of 43 straight conference wins at home. The Musketeers pulled this one out on a night honoring their three seniors, including Taylor.
"I don't know if there are five better rebounders in the country than Travis Taylor," coach Chris Mack said. "I don't know if he had a lot of confidence coming into the season. He's earned that confidence and he's grown and grown as the year's gone on. That's a heck of a performance."
The rematch featured the conference's two stingiest defenses. Saint Louis leads the league and is ranked 19th nationally, allowing only 57.9 points per game. Xavier is second in the A-10, allowing 62.3 points. Those stingy defenses were locked in during the first half, which ended with the Billikens leading 24-20 -- the seventh time that St. Louis has held an opponent to 20 or fewer in the opening half.
Junior forward Dwayne Evans has led the Billikens' offense during the winning streak, averaging 16.5 points. He picked up his third foul and went to the bench with 18:52 left, having scored five points. Evans finished with 16 points.
Xavier never trailed after putting together the game's first significant run, scoring 10 straight points for a 37-29 lead with 11:47 left. Redford hit a 3 to finish the spurt as Saint Louis went more than 6 minutes without a point.
Evans scored nine consecutive points, keeping the Billikens close. Xavier point guard Dee Davis missed two of his four free throws in the final minute, and Jett's tip-in with 11 seconds left tied it at 59.


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I've ridden quite a few different types of conditions with this tire (Sand, Loose on hardpack, Hardpack, Wet (not muddy). As a rear tire, it is the fastest tire I've ridden. I have it setup tubless. Seems durable with over 300 miles so far on it. I did have the air to low and came up short on a gap and put a tiny hole in the side wall which I've patched. Overall, I love this tire. I'm 220lb pack and all and ride AM/XC quite a bit with a few hits here an there on the more Freeride style trails.
Perfect for UT
I have been running this tire for a couple months on the rear of my Santa Cruz TBLTc. Not just a race tire by any means, although I would run one on my race bike as well. The profile is deceiving, it grips very well on the "dirt" we have in UT, whether you're riding around SLC/PC or down south in St. George. However, it might be a little under gunned for the super rocky technical terrain in Moab. It will break loose while cornering hard, but in a very predictable controllable way. I haven't had these wear any quicker than other tires I've run in the rear. Will be buying another one.
Great race tire
These tires as described are low profile and fast rolling. They have more volume then other race tires and the EXO sidewall gives it some extra strength in the sidewall. I've ripped through two small block 8s sidewalls in 2 months and haven't had a problem with these sidewalls. This is a popular tire in Utah.
Well Rounded and Fast Rolling
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I installed this tire on the rear of my Full Suspension XC Mountain Bike. I found it to be very fast rolling with excellent grip for cornering. For dry/dusty conditions the tire has good braking performance. In wet conditions it can pack up but clears easily. I found the wear to be pretty good, this is a dual compound tire so the center is a harder compound than the cornering lugs. That means it will endure hard braking without premature wear. I will add, looking at this tread pattern I was doubtful but riding it has made me a believer.
Solid tire
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I would recommend this tire as a rear tire, it rolls well and mine has lasted longer than the 6 weeks claimed by SGL. The EXO sidewall definitely makes this a durable tire, at least compared to other tires I would run. If you're going from a softer sidewall tire like a Schwalbe, be prepared to run 5psi less. Currently running a 2.35/2.2 Ikon EXO combo, but I think I'll go back to a Schwalbe for the front..
Not a great tire
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I have now gone through two of these. In both cases the tire blistered after only a couple months of riding. I spoke to my local bike shop and they have seen the same. Maxxis will not replace them. The tire performs well, but the lack of Maxxis to stand behind the product is a problem. I will not buy Maxxis products


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I am excited to announce a new initiative here at azimuthaudio.ca. If you look up in the top right corner on this site, from now on you will find a link for "Free SFX Pack Downloads". In it you will be able to find small collections of free sounds that I will be posting there from time to time. In the past I have posted "Limited Edition" sound packs that were only available to the first 40 people to click on the download. These were snatched up quickly and have been out of circulation for over a year. Those downloads included some of the following great recordings:
Cringer the Cat: an extremely irritable feline that loved to let you know when he was nearby with attitude filled meows and other vocalizations.
Arctic Terns: angry, territorial birds recorded on a small island off the northern coast of Iceland.
and Fireworks: launched off of a frozen river in an isolated area of northern Canada on New Years Eve.
Now all these recordings are back up on this site and available for download to everyone. You can find them in the folder called "Legacy Sound Packs" on the download page. A standard End Users License Agreement applies, you are free to use them in your productions any way you please as long as you don't re-circulate them or re-package and distribute them.
In the future I will be adding more packs to the download page on this site, and they will all be accompanied by blog posts illustrating how the sounds were recorded. It is my sincere hope that everyone can add the new sounds to their personal libraries and get some use out of them. They should all be delivered as .wav files at a minimum of 96k (sometimes higher) and 24bit, with Soundminer embedded metadata.
All I ask in return for the free sounds is that you either sign up for the RSS feed for this blog or follow @azimuthaudio on Twitter. This will ensure you don't miss out on any future Free Sound Packs. If you are already doing one or the other then you are good to go.
If you do use these sounds in a production of some kind I would love to hear about it, either via the comments section on the blog or by hitting me up on Twitter.
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WESTMINSTER, Md. – As the 2013 football season kicks off with the first-ever night game at Kenneth R. Gill Stadium this Sat., Sept. 7, McDaniel College's Department of Athletics launches a new live internet video stream of home athletic events.
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Green Terror away football games will still be carried via an internet-only audio broadcast, allowing fans to tune in for all 10 regular-season games and any postseason contests. The opportunity will also exist to carry men's and women's away basketball games as an internet-only audio broadcast.
The format for home football games will remain the same with the pre-game Green and Gold Kickoff Show airing 20 minutes prior to kickoff. Halftime programming will feature a Green Terror athlete and a postgame show wraps up the day's action with an interview with head coach Mike Hoyt.
The Green Terror opens the football season at home against Catholic on Sat., Sept. 7. Game time is 7 p.m. Gates will open three hours prior to kickoff, and admission is free. Parking on the field is $10 per vehicle (cash only, payable at the gate.)


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David Luke Hopkins Jr., first president and CEO of Brown Investment Advisory and Trust Co., died May 23 of heart failure at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. He was 84.
The son of D. Luke Hopkins Sr., who was president and chairman of Maryland National Bank, and a homemaker, he was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton.
After graduating in 1946 from St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 from Princeton University, where he played varsity football and was a member of the Ivy Club.
He served in the Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
Mr. Hopkins began his business career in 1950 with J.P. Morgan Bank in New York City, where he rose to executive vice president and managing director.
In the early 1970s, he established and headed the bank's Asia Department. From 1979 to 1992, he was head of trusts and investments and later J.P. Morgan's private bank.
The former longtime Bedford, N.Y., resident returned to Baltimore in 1993, when he took a job as managing director at Alex. Brown & Sons, where he helped establish Brown Investment Advisory and Trust Co.
He served as its first president and CEO until retiring in 1998.
Mr. Hopkins served from 1976 to 1993 as a member of the board of Westvaco Corp., which was founded by William Luke, his great-grandfather.
He had been head of the board at Garrison Forest School. He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Maryland Historical Society, Mount Desert Historical Society and the Episcopal Church Foundation.
Mr. Hopkins enjoyed spending summers and sailing at a second home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. He also was a history buff and was particularly interested in the Civil War.
The former Monkton resident, who moved to Broadmead five years ago, was a communicant of Immanuel Episcopal Church in Sparks.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St.
Surviving are his wife of 62 years, the former Suzanne Bunker; a son, Robert Dixon Hopkins of Glyndon; two daughters, Suzanne Bunker Hopkins II of Cambridge, Mass., and Cassandra Hopkins Watson of Essex, Conn.; a brother, former state Sen. C.A. Porter Hopkins of Cambridge; two sisters, Florence Hopkins Borda of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Katherine Hopkins Mellon of Far Hills, N.J.; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Another son, David Luke Hopkins III, died in 2006.


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'Book of Mormon' fans gather in NY for free show
NEW YORK -- Lauren Bowling will be flying in all the way from Atlanta. Billy Peterson will be getting up at 3 a.m. to catch a train into the city. Asher Bailey made sure he'd be able to skip work -- he invited his boss.
All three have secured what must be the Broadway equivalent of the Golden Ticket tucked in a Wonka Bar: a free pair of seats to the hit musical "The Book of Mormon."
Producers of the show are celebrating its one-year anniversary on Wednesday by handing out free seats to a special matinee performance for winners of a special lottery.
"I'm so excited about this show, you have no idea," said Peterson, 34, who lives in Lake Placid, N.Y., and will have to drive to Albany in the wee hours to catch a train to Manhattan's Penn Station.
Each lottery winner gets two seats, and Peterson has invited his estranged brother, whom he hasn't seen since 1999.
"I don't know what we'll do, but we'll have fun," he said.
Bowling, a 25-year-old aspiring writer, will be traveling even further than upstate New York. She'll be coming from Birmingham, Ala., where she just relocated after several years living in New York. She figures she tried to get into see "The Book of Mormon" 10 times.
"I just left New York, and then three weeks later I get an email saying that I finally got into the show," Bowling said with a laugh. "That's just the way life works."
She is taking her mother, and the two will fly back after dinner in the city.
The wildly popular musical is one of the hardest tickets to get even a year after opening, and last week it boasted an average ticket price of $183, with premium seats going as high as $477.
Daily lotteries for a small number of $32 tickets have attracted as many as 600 people at some performances outside the 1,066-seat Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The special free matinee attracted plenty of attention: From March to May, when the sweepstakes was open, about 10,000 fans entered.
Jessica Harrop had Wednesday's fan performance date circled on her calendar even before she landed tickets. The 26-year-old TV producer, who specializes in science programs, had tried 16 times previously to win lottery tickets.
"It was getting frustrating," she said. "I sort of told myself I was going to stop trying and just spend the money and buy tickets soon. This was kind of the last shot at getting cheap tickets."
Her boss nicely gave her the day off, and she invited as her guest her younger sister, who is coming up from Washington, D.C. It just so happens that Harrop had just given her sister the cast album from the show. Now, little sis gets to see it live.
Bailey is an actor and nanny who, with his husband, tried to land tickets to see the show about 50 times.
"My husband and I more or less refer to it as 'Let's-go-lose-the-lottery-and-have-dinner,"' he joked. "We're very excited to have finally won something."
It was actually Bailey's husband, a teacher, who learned by email that he'd won a pair of seats to "The Book of Mormon" but wasn't sure he'd be able to take the time off from work.
"I was thinking of threatening divorce," Bailey said laughing.
Then Bailey also won, meaning the couple has a wealth of seats.
"We have four tickets, so we're bringing two of our best friends, one of which happens to be my boss, which helped me get out of work," he said.
The musical is the brainchild of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of "South Park," and Robert Lopez, who co-wrote "Avenue Q." It is an offensive yet good-natured look at two missionaries who arrive in Uganda and get way more than they bargained for, including gun-toting warlords.
But Wednesday's show marks the final one for one of the quartet of stars who have led the show over the past year: Josh Gad, who earned a Tony nomination as the awkward missionary Elder Cunningham, is leaving.
The atmosphere on Wednesday is sure to be electric. But after all the buzz and the dashed hopes at the lottery, might some ticket winners now actually find the show to be a let-down?
"I would be flabbergasted if I showed up and hated it," said Bailey. "I just don't think that's going to happen. Regardless, it's free theater. You can't argue with free theater."


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It turns out you can launch a crappy 1970s Datsun across a 65 foot dirt gap jump. You shouldn't, but you can.
Apparently the car took off at a face-crunching, spleen-ejecting, dental-record-warranting 80 kph, or just under 50 miles an hour. Here's the video caption, for those interested in what makes a person engage in this kind of astoundingly bad decision making:
The boys said i would not make it so i just hit it as fast as the old girl would go
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I found these Clif Nectar Bars on sale the other day at Whole Foods for $.99, so I decided it was time to try one. I double checked to make sure that it was GF, and it was. I chose the Dark Chocolate Walnut flavor and was not disappointed. This bar kind of reminded me of a Lara Bar, but honestly, I think I liked it better! Awesome flavor in every bite and chunks of walnuts. YUM! The nutritional stats are great, too:
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Eat More Lightning. Crap More Thunder.
Not long ago, Franklin and his ladyfriend came to a pivotal, potential game-changing moment in their relationship. They were about to donate some gently used items to their local thrift store. As they were strapping boxes to his hog, Franklin noticed a stack of records and among them, the Rocky IV soundtrack. Obviously, he had not packed that particular box.
Now, at mere the sight of such an atrocity, some men in Franklin's shoes probably would've gone ballistic in the parking lot, causing a scene so wild and furious the neighbors would've been streaming the event live to the Youtubes under the title "crazy neighbors!! wtf!!" Not Franklin. After cracking two Spotted Cows, he sat down and had a long heart-to-heart, explaining that this wasn't just the greatest soundtrack of all time, it was symbolic of a man – a man who had nothing in this cruel world but heart – a heart so strong it was only surpassed by his courage – courage to defy enormous odds – odds stacked up so high you'd need an elevator. But this man didn't have a magic elevator. Just some turtles. But that's beside the point, which is that the man in question wasn't a man at all – that man was AMERICA!
I can only assume a very sincere apology and epic make-out session took place afterwards. I couldn't tell you because after Franklin said "America" something inside me clicked and I just started running through the streets humming the choruses of those lengendary tracks (…There's no easy way out…BOM-BOM. There's no short-cut ho-ome!... BOM-BOM!…), shadow punching, dipping and dodging along the way.
Being the smallest market in the NFL but with a fiercely loyal fan base, (Green Bay and) the Packers will always have some ol' Rock in them. (That's despite what Philly may argue.) Our progress from nobody underdogs to champion over the last 20 years speaks to this. However, we seem to be somewhat stuck in a holding pattern of having mostly very good teams that, for whatever reason, don't take it to the next and highest level. In other words, we're like the well-groomed Rocky with the money, the mansion and the badass robot Paulie wants to nail. Our team is downright sexy – like Cindy Crawford circa 1990 wearing nothing but a string cheese bikini. Who's hungry? WOOF!
Trading passion for glory and losing the dreams on the past and basically everything else that Survivor says can happen. Not saying it has, but it can. I have full faith that we have the talent and personnel to get this done – I think most people are in the same Trans Am. But a little more fight in the dog; a little more us against the world mentality never hurt. In fact, it can bring world peace. I've seen it.
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- Snap!! aka Pashaww!!April 13, 2010 at 1:02 PM
Only one soundtrack is more precious than Rocky IV, and that is Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.ReplyDelete
We will all benefit from more Casper Van Dien.
I question the foundation of any relationship that doesn't respect these bodies of work.
Our relationship is as rock solid as Stallone's chiseled abs.ReplyDelete
I recently had a chance to see Marauder, and I must admit, the emerging themes in the 3rd installment of this sci-fi classic were way deeper than: "KILL ALL THE BUGS!"
- Pashaww!April 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM
I admire any relationship that can take that kind of punishment. Are slurred words and stunted acting also integral to the relationship or just a fringe benefit?ReplyDelete
Just teasing. A relationship girded in American flag shorts is beyond reproach.
On Marauder:
While the intricate quilt of social themes go deeper than, "KILL ALL THE BUGS!" the essence of the overall message remains. It's important to note that the thematic complexity approaches the brink, but pulls back from overwhelming the underlying subtext.
I.e. KILL ALL THE BUGS!
Kill all the bugs is a clear metaphor for jingoistic cronyism. In the parlance of our times that is.
Woof!! Woof!! Woof!!ReplyDelete
- PashawwApril 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Indeed, sir.ReplyDelete
I can relate to those abs for sure.ReplyDelete
Where the PHUK do you guys find these pictures? Too damn funny, man.ReplyDelete


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2. The report, however, needs to be completed by the end of the month.
4. It is, nevertheless, going to be cancelled.
4. It happened on Monday, May 6, 1776.
3. My sister Irene received her broker's license in 1985. (or sister, Irene,)
5. You can fly from Miami, Florida to Bogota, Colombia in under four hours.
4. Mrs. Conhagen, our teacher, is the lecturer.
5. Mr. Butler, the last actor who played the part, will be honored this evening.
1. Sarah noted several glaring grammatical errors in the manuscript.
2. There stands a happy outgoing person!
3. They planned a surprise happy birthday party
5. Mrs. Williams won a handsome gold pen at the office party.
2. In the opinion of several of my colleagues, who have gone over the material, these units would be welcomed by salesmanship teachers throughout the country.
1. The office manager reported to the vice president, and the treasurer reported to the president.
2. The typewriter is a valuable instrument of communication, but the telephone is faster.
4. Our offer was made in good faith(,) and we trust that you will give it full consideration.
5. Our Research Department analyzed current consumer demands(,) and found that there is no market for such a product.
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sharlene bence necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
looking for a clean design for our medical oncology stationary, business cards, logo. like the theme using peacocks as that is a sign of good luck in India and dr patel our founder is from India.
needs to say our name, Andrews & Patel Associates, P.C.
specialist in medical oncology and hematology and have our addresses and contact info. doctors names on stationary.
Andrews & Patel Associates, P.C.
we specialize in oncology and hematology medical care. our 2offices are in community based settings and are designed to look like homes, not a hospital. they are warm and welcoming, we have survivors gardens, bird feeding areas, lots of art work, paintings on the walls of garden themes. we like peacocks and have a large stained glass in each office with peacocks, also have used a theme of daffodils for the american cancer society.
our doctors have been together since 1979 in practice and have home grown this practice from a 2 physician practice to an 8 physician practice with multiple sites.
we have a website, http://www.andrewspatel.com so you can look and see some of the photos of our office.
- Item 1...nice clean design. like some color.
- andrews & patel associates, p.c.
- specialist in oncology and hematology
- 3912 trindle road, camp hill, pa. 17011
- phone 717.761.8740 fax 9792
- 4518 union deposit road, harrisburg, pa. 17111
- phone 717.526.1030 fax1032
- doctors names; a.thomas andrews md, shashikant b. patel md, kathryn peroutka md, margarita gareis md, mary a simmonds md, robert a gordon md, roy a williams jr. md, rajesh surapaneni md.
- Item 1...rainbows, multiple colors, like a simple theme, maybe cream background with slate gray font,
- like to see something with a peacock graphic.


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It's only fitting that for an NFL season punctuated by such a scramble at the regular-season finish line, settling on picks for the annual awards is a wide-open affair.
A quick example: Who's the Coach of the Year? You can make a strong case for at least a half-dozen candidates — and none would be a wrong answer. It's the deepest competition for that honor in years.
POWER RANKINGS: Who's No. 1 ... and 32?
The mission to recognize excellence includes the nod to historical greatness in naming the awards.
The envelopes …
Johnny Unitas Award: For league MVP, it's tough to argue against a 37-year-old who set single-season records for passing yards (5,477) and TD passes (55). And soon enough, Peyton Manning will officially earn his record fifth MVP award. Unitas was the first quarterback to win multiple MVP honors after the award was established in 1961. And Johnny U still holds a share of the record for leading the NFL for TD passes four times — a mark that Manning now holds a slice of, too.
Jackie Slater Unsung Hero Award: Props are well-deserved for Chip Kelly, Nick Foles and LeSean McCoy for the Philadelphia Eagles' turnaround, but beyond the big names, hail to left tackle Jason Peters. What a comeback. He missed the 2012 season after tearing an Achilles tendon. Now he's back on an all-pro level anchoring perhaps the NFL's best offensive line – crucial to Philly's NFL-best 5.1 yards per rush.
Bill Polian Award: For NFL Executive of the Year, kudos to new Arizona Cardinals general manaer Steve Keim, who worked his way up the ladder over 15 years in the team's personnel department. Teaming with new coach Bruce Arians, the Cards made 193 roster moves in improving from 5-11 in 2012 to a 10-6 squad that nearly made the playoffs. The hits included: Karlos Dansby, John Abraham, Tyrann Mathieu, Andre Ellington, Eric Winston and Carson Palmer. Polian, by the way, won The Sporting News' highly-respected version of the award, based on a poll of peers, a record six times.
Tom Dempsey Award: You'd think that Denver's Matt Prater would be a shoe-in here. He set at NFL record first established by Dempsey with a 64-yard field goal and had an NFL-best .962 field-goal-success rate (25 of 26). But I'll go with Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who was under much more pressure to repeatedly bail out a team with an underachieving offense. At one point, Tucker had a streak of 33 consecutive field goals that included his 6-for-6 night at Detroit in Week 15, when he won the game with a 61-yard kick.
Prime Time Award: Seahawks star Richard Sherman, like Deion Sanders did during his heyday, talks the talk and walks the walk. He gets the nod as the league's best shutdown corner. That Sherman led the NFL with eight interceptions is more impressive when considering how opponents often shy away from throwing his way. Since entering the NFL as a fifth-round pick in 2011, Sherman has collected 20 picks — most during that span.
Barry Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award: Raw numbers only begin to define the impact of Tony Gonzalez: 17 seasons, two missed games, 1,325 receptions, 15,127 yards, 111 TDs. Like Sanders, the former Lions megastar, Gonzalez never won a Super Bowl ring — and stands as proof that it doesn't matter in measuring his greatness. Canton calls in five years.
Jeff Hostetler Award: Josh McCown, take a bow. The Bears backup quarterback was phenomenal in the absence of an injured Jay Cutler. And now with Chicago left to watch Green Bay advance in the playoffs as NFC North champs, the debate of whether coach Marc Trestman erred in keeping his word and putting Cutler back into the lineup upon his return will add spice to the offseason. Who knows? Maybe McCown could have been another Hostetler, who once replaced an injured Phil Simms and quarterbacked the Giants to the Super Bowl. Then again, those G-men had a defense that was so different than the injury-stung unit that let down the Bears.
Eric Dickerson Award: Close call. Packers running back Eddie Lacy gets the nod as offensive rookie of the year, having set the franchise record for rushing yards by a rookie with 1,178 yards. Yet San Diego's Keenan Allen set franchise rookie marks, too, with 1,046 receiving yards on 71 catches. Allen, chosen 76th overall, has proved to be quite the bargain as he led all rookies in receptions and TD catches. Yet Lacy had to help carry an offense down the stretch that was without an injured Aaron Rodgers, and led all rookies with 11 TDs.
Bill Belichick Award: Many have suggested that this has been Belichick's best coaching job yet. Maybe so. The season started with the sad saga of Aaron Hernandez and murder charges. Then add the football-related losses of Vince Wilfork, Rob Gronkowski and Jerrod Mayo. And New England still won its 10th AFC East title in 11 years. But his best job yet? That's fashionable enough, but don't forget 2001, when Belichick took a team loaded with free agents that lost its quarterback (Drew Bledsoe), then shocked the heavily-favored St. Louis Rams in the Super Bowl. So I'll just name the award for Belichick, and go with Carolina's Ron Rivera, who got off the hot seat as his team won the NFC South after starting 1-3. Arians. Kelly. Belichick. Andy Reid. Pete Carroll. Marvin Lewis. Mike McCarthy? If there were odds for NFL Coach of the Year about now, it might read: Pick 'em.
Alan Page Award: Maybe this honor, for the defensive player of the year, should be tabled until the playoffs are completed. So many of the candidates — linebackers NaVorro Bowman, Luke Kuechly and Vontaze Burfict, and safety Earl Thomas among them — are in the playoff mix. So, too, is my pick, Colts linebacker Robert Mathis, who led the NFL with 191/2 sacks. Mathis won the sack crown by edging out emerging Rams defensive end Robert Quinn by a half-sack. But Mathis' impact is also impressive when considering his switch last season to outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme after playing defensive end — and in the shadow of Dwight Freeney — for nine years. Page, by the way, was the first of only two defensive players (the other being Lawrence Taylor) to win MVP honors, as leader of the Vikings' Purple People Eaters in the '70s.
Fritz Shurmur Award: For excellence by an assistant coach, Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer produced another top-10 defense. But it's deeper than that. He had to mix and match through an assortment of injuries, including the season-ending losses of the unit's best player, Geno Atkins, and best cornerback, Leon Hall. Despite that, the Bengals ranked third in the NFL for yards allowed — the best ever for a Zimmer unit — and tied for fifth in allowing 19 points per game. Zimmer's name will again surface this year to get his crack for his first NFL head coaching job. Shurmur, who won a Super Bowl XXXI ring with the Packers, never became an NFL head coach but was respected for innovation during the 1980s and '90s that included the "Big Nickel" package.
Jim Brown Award: For offensive player of the year (non-quarterback division), McCoy makes such a strong case after becoming the first Eagles running back to win the NFL rushing title since Steve Van Buren in 1949. McCoy rushed for 1,607 yards and led the league with 2,146 yards from scrimmage. That's enough to win almost any award. Then consider where the Chiefs would not be without Jamaal Charles. Not in the playoffs. Charles ranked second to McCoy with 1,980 yards from scrimmage and led the league with 19 TDs. And no player had a larger share of his team's yards from scrimmage this season than Charles, who accounted for 36.7% of the Chiefs' total — which is what ultimately separated him in this case.
Dick (Night Train) Lane Award: Choosing the top rookie defender could come down to a matter of taste. Like a tackling machine linebacker? Buffalo's Kiko Alonso is your guy. A centerfield safety to flow seamlessly with one of the NFL's best defenses? San Francisco safety Eric Reid, behind that wonderful front seven, surely made his mark. A comeback player? Tyrann Mathieu, once known as the "Honey Badger," came with some key questions after missing his final year at LSU due to a drug-related suspension. But there were no off-the-field issues as he made the jump, only a knee injury that cut short an otherwise splendid debut season. My pick, though, leans with a stud in the trenches, New York Jets defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson — whose athleticism was also demonstrated as a goal-line plunger who scored two TDs. The mark Lane left as a Rams rookie in 1952, though, still deserves appreciation. His 14 interceptions remains the league's single-season record.
Jim Thorpe Award: For rookie versatility, let's hear it for Minnesota Vikings receiver and returner Cordarrelle Patterson, whose nine TDs ranked second to Lacy (11) among rookies. Yet consider how Patterson scored: He produced three rushing TDs, four receiving TDs and two kick-return TDs — including a 109-yarder that was the longest in NFL history.
GALLERY: MVPs for each team


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Is it litter or a bomb?
One man is in custody after a suspicious package left at the corner of College Street and Major Drive in Beaumont caused a brief bomb scare.
Beaumont Fire Department spokesman Brad Pennison said police, SWAT and K-9 units received the call about 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 24, and were securing the scene soon after.
"Port Arthur has a K-9 unit that they use for explosives so they were able to respond out here with us," Pennison said. "We used the K-9 to check it out and determined it was not explosive, just a suitcase full of trash."
The aqua-colored suitcase discarded at the street corner contained items such as an old cigar box, shotgun shells, an old Zippo lighter and other miscellaneous items along with family photos.
The man who police say left the suitcase was later taken into custody on an unrelated warrant out of Port Arthur.
Pennison said police are still investigating and could file additional charges.


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Sanford, Fla., investigators taunted George Zimmerman in a post-shooting interview as they forced him to listen to the 911 call he made the night he shot teenager Trayvon Martin.
The call makes it sound like Zimmerman was chasing 17-year-old Martin, but Zimmerman claims the sound was just wind.
"It sounds like he's running to get away from you," Sanford Police lead investigator Chris Serino told Zimmerman.
"You basically jumped out of the car to see where he was going? That's not fear. That's going to be a problem."
Recordings from Zimmerman's post-shooting interviews with police were recently made available on his legal defense site.
In the 911 call, Zimmerman can be heard saying "These assholes always get away."
Zimmerman can also be heard saying "These fucking punks," as he reportedly pursued Martin.
"He wasn't a fucking punk," Serino said.
While police were initially sympathetic to Zimmerman's plight during the Feb. 29 interview, officers became increasingly hostile as Zimmerman failed to answer questions in precise detail.
He answered at least half of investigators' questions by saying he didn't know or couldn't remember how things happened the night he shot Martin.
Throughout the course of the hours-long interview, police repeatedly asked why Zimmerman left his vehicle in the first place, why he pursued Martin, and if he went looking for the teenager or whether Martin found him while Zimmerman was walking back to his vehicle.
"It sounds like you're looking for him," Serino said. "You wanted to catch him. You wanted to catch the bad guy."
In the emergency call, Zimmerman said Martin "looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something. Something's wrong with him."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Serino asked Zimmerman.
"I don't know," Zimmerman quietly replied.


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"One More Thing"
by ANDREW ZORNOZA
Last weekend, Zack Kushner climbed the mountain of life and stood at the top. His crossword puzzle, "One More Thing," appeared in the NYT: the Sunday edition. How did he get there? What follows is an interview with Mr. Kushner. . . .
Really a fun puzzle Zack. Are you a cruciverbalist, constructor or other?
Thanks. I'm going to go with cruciverbalist, but they're really the same thing. Cruciverbalist just sounds better at parties. According to the definition, anyone who "enjoys crosswords" is a cruciverbalist, but in its normal usage (as if anyone uses the word normally) it means a constructor of crossword puzzles, or more literally, a "crosser of words."
How does it feel knowing that thousands of people all across the globe are poring over your work?
Odd. To be honest, it hasn't really sunk in yet. It was such a long journey to get this puzzle published that having it actually sitting in front of me in the Sunday Magazine is just, well, odd. Also, being in Australia, most of the reactions are coming from far away. I don't have much chance of seeing someone at the next table working on it. I started constructing with the goal of publishing a Sunday Times crossword, and now I've done it. I suppose I'll have to find a new goal, now. . . .
Many writers feel the pull of their profession at a young age. Of course, we all start as readers. How did the transformation from solver to creator happen to you?
With love, of course! I'd been solving puzzles for a long time, but the first puzzle I ever constructed was for my then-girlfriend, now-wife. It was an interesting experience sitting on the other side of the desk, but not one I immediately found addictive. My favorite clue/answer was: "The worst kind of souvenir? / EBOLA". It wasn't until Wordplay came out in '06 that I got it into my head to create a puzzle I could sell. It took me a year of hacking around until I really got the basics of cruciverbalism and another year until I put together a puzzle that met the NY Times standards.
Can you give us some idea of your journey to the New York Times?
Outside of the puzzle I just mentioned, my next attempt was pretty ghastly. I tried to do a rebus puzzle using Greek letters. I wasn't quite clear on all the rules of puzzle making and ended up with something that was unprofessional at best. Too many black squares, bad "fill" (the words in the puzzle that aren't theme answers), etc. It was only after I finished it that I saw how unacceptable it was and so I shelved it and started again. My next attempt wasn't as shoddy, a puzzle that included the names of the Rat Pack in the theme answers (i.e. SITS IN A TRANCE). This one I actually sent in, waited a few months, then got the rejection email. In retrospect, my theme answers weren't quality; while SITS IN A TRANCE makes sense, it's not really "in the language." If it's not a recognizable phrase, it won't please editors. FALLS IN A TRANCE, for example, would be better, but still not as good as FALLS INTO A TRANCE. Try doing a Google search of all three terms in quotes and you'll see what I mean. The more hits returned, the more common the phrase, the more "in the language."
Sometime around this point, I realized I was an idiot for not using the specialized software available to cruciverbalists. Software that helps you create a grid, keep symmetry, clue, and most importantly, fill. I use Crossword Compiler but there are others. I also joined the cruciverb.com mailing list and started to soak up the knowledge.
Two years after first having a real go, I met with success. I've sold three puzzles so far: one to the LA Times, one to Simon & Schuster for Mega Crosswords 8, and this one to the NY Times.I'm securely in the novice-professional category. All are Sunday puzzles, which means they're 21x21 instead of the weekday normal 15x15.
You've mentioned your Grandfather as an early influence. He would certainly be proud.
I used to watch him do the Times puzzles in ink, and that always impressed me. It's hard to imagine how he would have reacted to seeing my puzzle in the Sunday Times. He was a quiet man, not overly affectionate. He probably would have made a few jokes about it, hugged me, and told everyone he met on the street.
How much of a personal expression is a single puzzle? Can you bend the clues to express more than a simple theme? Or does the puzzle have a mind of its own?
The way that a puzzle shows its personality is in the theme answers/clues and in the words you choose for the fill. For example, I liked the word CARJACK and worked to keep that in the fill. Someone else might have liked the name of an opera star or a baseball player. While the clues you choose do reflect your personality, it's important to remember that the editor will change a mess of them. In my NY Times puzzle, the editor changed about half my clues including a bunch of theme clues.
Can you take me through some of these? How about 23 Across: Rachael Ray activity eliciting oohs and aahs?
I got some grief in the crossword puzzle blogs for this clue, even though it wasn't one I wrote. My original clue was "Thrilling grilling?" Apparently people aren't too fond of Rachael Ray, but I've no idea who she is. . . .
30 Across: Pantywaist
WUSS just sort of fit the bill in this corner. My original clue was "97-pound weakling."
45 Across: Spacesuit worry
I liked this one too. Finally one of my original clues! TEAR can mean so many things and cluing a word like that is sometimes dull. You end up choosing between one of 100 standard clues (there's a database of clues that have been published which you can pull from). In this case, I had a bit of brainstorm and found an original way to clue a standard word.
38 Down: "I don't get no respect" to Rodney Dangerfield
A fun answer. A nice Yiddish word to get in the puzzle!
above, the novice-professional Cruciverbalist soaking up the knowledge
Will Shortz has said his favorite crossword clue of all-time is "it might turn into a different story." The answer being "SPIRALSTAIRCASE." Your favorite all-time clue?
Well, I certainly haven't seen all of them, but one I recall is "Pole vault units" / ZLOTYS. I like the fun wordplay there. It's the same kind of thing I was trying to do with "Ones concealing their aims" / SNIPERS.
You live in Australia. I was told that Aussie children wear ice-cream containers on their heads to protect themselves from the attacks of magpies. True?
Hah! I haven't seen that, but I'd believe it. My wife says as a child she used to have to carry an umbrella to protect herself from dive-bombing birds.
Any taboos in your puzzle making?
Nope. I try to avoid crappy fill, like all cruciverbalists, but constructing a puzzle is very difficult and I've always been stuck with one or two words I wish I could have avoided (like REGRAB, ugh).
Last question. Scrabble. Are you formidable?
It's all relative, I guess. I play a bunch and I'm good, but I'm not competitive and haven't memorized all those weird words one needs to be a true Scrabble ninja.
I prefer to have fun with it.
Zack Kushner is a transplanted American in Oz. When he is not creating puzzles for the enjoyment of thousands, he pilots the helm of xZackly Copywriting.
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Cosplayer Envel > Costume of Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
- Most Recent Photo
- 06-10-2017
- Series
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Character
- Utena Tenjou
- Special Variation:
- Shadow Princess
- Year Completed:
- 2013
- Construction Difficulty:
- Difficult
- Awards
- Best in Show - FanimeCon 2013
- Costume worn at:
- Anime Weekend Atlanta 2013
- FanimeCon 2013
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
So, I've had many conversations with many of my friends about Disney princesses. The conversation inevitably ends with me saying, "I'd love to be a princess one day, but I just don't like ANY of Disney's designs... I just want to be a princess in a ridiculous cupcake dress!"
After a while, I realized this was probably never going to change. The design is always too boring, a style I don't like, a color I don't like, or a princess I'm not crazy about. But I wanted my cupcake dress! My friend Sumikins had made Utena's manga uniform variant for Katsucon the year prior, and it got me to thinking... "Wait, didn't Utena have a princess dress in the shadow flashbacks?"
Yes, yes she did! And it was JUST the perfect combination of pretty, ridiculous (i.e., pretty ridiculous), and cupcake. I immediately had my heart set on this dress, though I didn't know exactly when and where I would want to debut it. I expressed my feelings to Sumikins about how I'd finally found "my" princess that I wanted to do and she got SUPER excited and said if I made the dress, she'd be Dios with me! After much plotting, debating, and consideration, she reluctantly asked me to make the dress for Fanime 2013, which, at the time, was only 2-3 months away, which left me with significantly less time than I typically have to plan and collect supplies, much less do both of things on TOP of making a whole new (large) costume. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I immediately started looking around for the fabric and wig I wanted. Luckily, I had been thinking about a regular Utena cosplay for some time and had already picked out Arda's rose pink for the color. The Luthien was perfect to trim and style into the shadow princess variant, so picking out the wig was quick and painless!
I had originally wanted a yellow rose jacquard/brocade fabric for the dress... But after I looked for 2-3 weeks and didn't even find anything REMOTELY close to what I wanted, I started to get worried I wouldn't find anything I liked. Sumikins suggested if I couldn't find a textured fabric I liked, I should make my own... By doing a lace overlay on top of a flat fabric. I wasn't so sure how I felt about that idea at first, but when I saw JoAnn's Casa Collection was 50% off, making the fabric only $4 a yard (plus my employee discount), I realized there was no way in high heaven I'd find a deal better than that on the ridiculous amount of yardage I needed. (12 yards of each, by the way... And I used every single bit of it!) With that, I had my biggest hurdle out of the way. Once I had my yellow beast on the way, I hurriedly collected the rest of my materials; fuschia rose brocade, which I cut into strips and hand-made the bias tape for the entire dress, about 20 yards of it! (Just took one yard of the brocade to make that much too, whew!)
I patterned out the bodice of the dress by Frankenstein-ing a few patterns I already had together, enlarging the sleeve to almost the size of a decent skirt, and altering the bodice to be two pieces instead of one for ease of washing and to get the bottom half of the bodice to match the fit of the custom corset I made to wear underneath the dress.
I already had an A-line Civil War hoopskirt I'd used for Shaman Nina, so to make the top of it fuller, more cupcake-like, I bought 25 yards of netting and hand gathered it into a few layers of tight ruffles onto a wide waistband. Once I had my "cupcake topper" completed, I started the fitting and layering of all my skirt pieces.
The skirt is in two pieces, the top piece being the part with the petals/scallops, and the bottom being a full skirt with a large center ruffle and the shorter ruffle at the bottom. For each and every piece of yellow in this costume, I first cut out the satin pieces, then I laid lace over each piece, pinned it as well as I could, and basted all of it on the edges. I ironed each piece with its lace before any sewing so I could make sure everything laid nicely once it was complete.
I simply top-stitched all of the bias tape in place and finished the bottom of the ruffles by facing them with matching ribbon, since I liked the look of that much more than simply serging it then turning it under.
The collar has peltex super stiff interfacing inside and the collar and cape are both lined with a beautiful mint colored silk-textured taffeta. I hot-fixed and E6000'd rhinestones across the top instead of doing an eyelet because I wanted to dress it up (no pun intended) a bit.
The crown was made from a simple piece of Worbla. I cut out and figured the shape with some posterboard, then after I cut out the Worbla piece, I used puff paint to put all the raised designs on it, and a few extra rhinestones for some extra OOMPH, using Sumikins' Mytho crown as inspiration. I also made the prince's crown so we would both match.
Fun fact: The fuschia rose brocade I used for my bias tape is also used in light pink for the inside of prince Utena's pants and sleeves, and in red for Dios's cape lining! Tokidoki Loki and Sumikins each made their own outfits.
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