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steeleblue necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
My client needs a NEW website design face their site (we NEED to get away from the template look!)
It's time for an upgrade- the current site (http://www.USASold.com) is needing help!
New site needs to be web 2.0 and clean. This site is for a real estate office and not one agent in particular.
Burbach Realty Services, Inc. | http://www.USASold.com / http://www.FlaSold.com
This site is for an independent (read: "lean" and independent from a national franchise) Real Estate Brokerage / Office. We are all young & tech savvy (think web 2.0 & Blackberrys), and we want to portray a fun yet professional appearance.
Viewers of the site will be (obviously) people looking to buy or sell properties, but we also want the site to have valuable community information. We really need a place to lend credibility to our other marketing efforts (Print, Direct Mail, etc).
The logo and company colors can be viewed at this link (http://tinyurl.com/7556111). UPDATE: THERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF MY CLIENT'S CURRENT MARKETING EFFORTS
AT THIS LINK . This can help get you started on coming up with a design... once I see some design(s) that compliment the example given I might guarantee the contest.
To give an example of a template site (like ours) WITHOUT outside customization, you can view this link (this is a sister company and this site isn't used much).
An example of this template site WITH a custom face can be found at this link.
(NOTE: The reference to these sites is ONLY so the designer can understand the drastic difference between these options. These are NOT necessarily references of designs we like or want to borrow from!)
Our company's tagline is "Ahead of the Curve" and that's a good way to sum up what kind of site we're looking for.
The sitemap for main navigation will be: Home, About Us, Buy, Sell, Invest, Finance, Build, Blog.
- 1) Must have a decent amount of room for content in the layout
- 2) Need a place to showcase a small # of "featured properties" on the home page
- 3) Need custom buttons/links on home page (apart from the nav bar) for: "Buy", "Sell", "Invest", "Finance" and possibly "Community Info"
- 4) Need a testimonial area on home page
- 5) Basic Listings Search on home page
- 6) "Free Home Value Estimate" link on home page
- 7) Blog box showing recent posts (on home page)
- 8) Newsletter / Daily Listings Update sign up box
- No Big City / Skyscraper laden images; we're in an area between suburban and slightly rural... not a "podunk theme" just not "extreme urban" either...
- Heavy / hard to read or navigate designs- keep it clean!


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Blackhawks Buzz: Jan. 11, 2014 at Montreal Canadiensby Brad Boron / Chicago Blackhawks
When the Blackhawks hit the ice against the Canadiens at Bell Centre tomorrow night, it likely won't be long before they have to contend with the Habs' top defenseman, P.K. Subban. The reigning Norris Trophy winner is known as one of the most exciting, entertaining and occasionally divisive players in the league, but there's no doubt how effective he is on the ice: He leads his team in points, assists, plus/minus rating and power-play points. Subban brings puck possession and offensive production while also being physically tough and tenacious in his own right.
If Subban and defensive partner Andrei Markov are the Canadiens' first line of defense, 2014 Olympic goaltender Carey Price has been a staunch last line this year. Though the 26-year-old netminder has shouldered one of the NHL's heaviest workloads, starting 35 of 45 games this season, Price has remained remarkably consistent; he's allowed just over two goals per game while also posting one of the league's best save percentages (.928). Price hasn't lost a game in regulation since Dec. 19, a span of seven appearances.
Both Chicago (10 games) and Montreal (4) had point streaks broken with regulation losses on Wednesday night—the Blackhawks fell 3-2 to the New York Rangers, and Montreal suffered a 3-1 loss at Philadelphia. The Blackhawks are just 1-1-2 in the new year and 5-1-4 in their last 10 games. Eleven of the team's remaining 14 games before the Olympic break are against Western Conference opponents, but the team is 11-2-3 against the East so far this season, so this contest is a crucial chance to grab two points and maintain their lofty place in the West.
Even though the Blackhawks haven't visited the home of the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge very often lately, it might be for the best; the Hawks have an all-time record of just 54-174-48-3 in their travels to Montreal. Granted, much of this record was accumulated in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, when the Habs featured a lineup full of Hall of Famers and were seemingly winning Stanley Cups at will, but regardless, Chicago hasn't won on Habs ice since Dec. 3, 2001. While the Blackhawks are a solid 14-5-3 on the road this season, the Bell Centre is one of the league's most hostile environments, with 21,000-plus fans who get loud at the first note of "O Canada" and don't stop until the final horn.
Head Coach Joel Quenneville announced at practice on Thursday that Marcus Kruger would likely start Saturday's game at second-line center between Kris Versteeg and Patrick Kane. Kruger's speed and improved faceoff abilities—his 56.8 winning percentage matches Jonathan Toews for the team lead—could prove to be a good fit with the two playmakers he'll skate between. Kruger has four goals and 14 assists this year while skating primarily with the team's fourth line.
Montreal is one of the NHL's stingiest teams in terms of goals allowed (2.29 goals per game, fourth-best in the league), and their 86.3 penalty-killing percentage will put goals at a premium in tonight's game. However, they also rank in the league's bottom 10 in terms of goals scored per game. If one side gets even a two-goal lead early on, that may be enough to seal the victory for either team.

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The Atlanta Falcons have been looking for a pass rusher ever since parting ways with John Abraham. How about Osi Umenyiora?
ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Friday the Falcons are making a "strong push" to sign the free-agent edge rusher before the end of weekend.
Umenyiora, 31, visited the Falcons on Wednesday and took a physical on Thursday.
With the Miami Dolphins also reportedly intrigued by the defensive end, Umenyiora finally is generating some interest. But with Elvis Dumervil, Dwight Freeney and Abraham still on the open market, he isn't going to make the money he hoped for.
Atlanta makes plenty of sense as a landing spot. Umenyiora is three years younger than Abraham and would make for a solid pairing with Kroy Biermann. It also would give Osi the chance to play for a contender, but the Falcons aren't about to break the bank to make that happen.
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On a side, not sure which SE site this question would best fit. The rational I am taking in count is that I am trying to think about the user's perspective (the people that may potentially receive the invitation).


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second time this season, senior co-captain Ellen Macadam of the Harvard softball team has been named Ivy League Player of the Week, the league announced Wednesday. The award is the third Player of the Week accolade given to Harvard player this season.
Macadam played a huge role in helping Harvard to a 4-1 record on the week and a sweep of conference rival Yale. For the week, she batted .600 and slugged .850, ripping 12 hits, scoring eight runs and collecting six RBI.
The senior went 2 for 4 with a run and RBI in Game 1 against Yale Sunday and followed with a 3 for 4 showing in Game 2, scoring two runs and driving in a pair with a double. In Tuesday's first game, Macadam went 3 for 5 with a triple, two runs scored and the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the seventh to fend off Yale, 12-11. She capped her week with a 3 for 4 showing in the final game of the series, recording another triple, three runs scored and two RBI.
Her 45 runs scored on the season is a Harvard record, and she is just four hits behind the all-time leader with 67 on the season. Her 22 multi-hit games on the season is also a team-high total.
The Crimson looks to wrap up the Ivy League North Division title and clinch home-field advantage for the Ivy League Championship Series this weekend in a pair of doubleheaders against Dartmouth.


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Who can do the math?
(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published Sept. 7, 2003.)
We have come to the time of year when we remove the video-game controls -- by surgery, if necessary -- from the hands of our children, and send them back to school. And if they complain that school is a boring waste of time, we smack them firmly yet lovingly with a roofing timber and remind them of the words of our first president, Benjamin Franklin, who said: ``There is nothing more valuable in life than an education, except of course money or a nice car.''
Those words are every bit as true today as they were in 1935, when ''Porgy and Bess'' was first performed. Knowledge is our nation's most precious resource, after agriculture and Ray Charles. Yet study after study shows that American children are not learning as well as children from foreign countries such as Sweden and Hawaii. On standardized tests, most American 12th-graders are unable to correctly answer such basic academic questions as:
1. When you wear a baseball-style cap, which part is supposed to go in the front?
2. What is the difference between ''hip-hop'' and ``music''?
3. Who is Dick Cheney?
(ANSWERS: 1. The front part. 2. Plenty. 3. None of your business.)
Why do our children perform so poorly on standardized tests? Does the fault lie with our teachers? With our school administrators? With our political leaders? Can we, as concerned parents, sue somebody about this and obtain millions of dollars?
Or maybe it's time that we parents stopped ''passing the buck'' on education. Maybe instead of ''pointing the finger'' at everybody else, we should take a hard look at ourselves in the mirror, and place the blame for our children's lousy test scores where it clearly belongs: on our children. They have a terrible attitude. I have here a letter, which I am not making up, from a teacher named Robin Walden of Kilgore, Texas, who states:
``I teach math to eighth-grade students. This is an unnecessary task because they are all going to be professional basketball players, professional NASCAR racecar drivers, professional bass fisher people or marine biologists who will never need to actually use math.''
This is a sad commentary on the unrealistic expectations of today's students. Because the harsh statistical truth is that, in any given group of 10 young people, only a third of them, or 22 percent, will actually succeed as professional bass fishers. The rest will wind up in the ''real world,'' where, like it or not, they will need a practical knowledge of math.
For example, I recently found myself in a situation at a bank where suddenly, without warning, I had to add up four three-digit numbers by hand. Fortunately, I went to elementary school in the 1950s, when we were in the Cold War, and American children were forced to learn addition, because the Russians were making THEIR children learn addition. Thanks to that training, I knew that, to get the correct answer, I had to ''carry'' some numbers. Unfortunately, I could not remember how to do this.
For some reason, I COULD remember that ''pi'' is the ratio of circumference to diameter, but that did not help me in this case. (To be honest, it has never helped me.) But addition had leaked out of my brain, along with subtraction, multiplication, long division, the ''cosine,'' the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, and most of the other things I learned in school, although of course my brain has carefully preserved the jingle for Brylcreem hair ointment:
''Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya/Brylcreem, you'll look so debonair/ But watch out, the gals'll all pursue ya/ They'll love to get their fingers in your hair!'' Which is a total lie: Touching Brylcreemed hair is like sticking your hand into the nostril of a sick pig.
But I digress. My point is that I finally gave up on adding my numbers and asked the bank teller, who added them with a calculator, which uses computer chips, which were invented during the Cold War, which we won. I'm not saying this was TOTALLY because of my mathematics training; I'm just saying it was a factor. And that is why we must stress to our children how important education is. We must tell them: Study hard! Learn as much as you can! Because we, your parents, are getting stupider by the day. We're experiencing massive brain leakage. Soon even the commercial jingles will be gone, and our heads will actually implode.
Before that happens, we need to get out of the driver's seat, and turn the wheel over to you, the younger generation.
Don't ask us what we did with the car keys.
(c) Dave Barry
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Using the DI approach, students are placed in flexible, homogeneous groups for reading, language, and math. Students are expected to score 90% or higher on daily and weekly assessments. Skills are taught in a way that builds upon previous learning; 85% of each lesson reviews previously taught skills and 15% of instruction is introducing new skills. Students advance through the program only after they have demonstrated mastery of the concepts. Students who show exceptional progress can fast-cycle through lessons if they show continued mastery of concepts. Students are individually assessed every five to 10 lessons, and their progress is meticulously tracked by the teacher.
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Basketball nirvana descended into Viking Gym Friday night.
From an intriguing girls matchup that featured two of the state�s best junior players, to a boys barnburner that went down to the wire, Kinston High�s sweep of 3A powerhouse West Craven was definitely a night to remember.
Basketball nirvana descended into Viking Gym Friday night.
From an intriguing girls matchup that featured two of the state�s best junior players, to a boys barnburner that went down to the wire, Kinston High�s sweep of 3A powerhouse West Craven was definitely a night to remember.
In the girls game, Brittany Drumgoole outplayed UNC commit Jamie Cherry, and the Kinston supporting cast proved much superior in an 80-56 victory.
The Vikings boys blew a double digit first-half lead and then rallied late to pull out a heart-stopping 74-72 win.
On a night of eye-opening performances, it was Drumgoole�s brilliant all-around effort that truly stood out.
The Kinston junior dominated throughout, pouring in 35 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, dishing out seven assists and also contributing three steals and a blocked shot.
�Brittany always shows up for the big games,� Kinston coach Hubert Quinerly said. �She was just fantastic tonight. There�s no other way to describe it.�
Occasionally brilliant offensively and always unselfish, Drumgoole turned up her scoring several notches to counteract the Eagles� unstoppable Cherry, who entered the game averaging 25 points a contest and led her team to a 29-1 record last season.
Cherry, who�s already verbally committed to the Tar Heels, did her usual thing, erupting for 33 points, but her overall play was no match for Drumgoole.
Playing in front of a member of UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell�s staff, Drumgoole connected on 11 of 19 shots from the floor, including 4 of 9 from beyond the 3-point line.
Her three consecutive treys and 13 second quarter points helped Kinston build a 41-28 halftime lead.
�We didn�t ask any more of Brittany than normal, but she knew she would need to score more to offset number 10 (Cherry),� Quinerly said. �She played an outstanding game, but so did everyone else. It was a total team effort.�
Indeed, Drumgoole and the Vikings received plenty of help, especially from Monique Lofton (20 points) and Lydia Rivers (15 points, 12 boards, five blocks, two steals).
Lofton drained 6 of 13 3-pointers and had at least one bucket from downtown in each quarter.
�Monique hit a lot of big shots for us,� Quinerly said. �She really sparked us, especiall in the first half.
Rivers, who continues to pile up double-doubles, showed a newly-found offensive aggressiveness that Quinerly found exciting.
�Lydia has gotten better each game,� he said. �She was always a good rebounder and defensive player, but our coaches deserve a lot of credit for continuing to develop her all-around game.�
Kinston also received solid performances from Alexis Williams (five points, four rebounds and three assists) and Takerian Harper (four points, six rebounds, two steals).
Only one other player, Kaylee Koerperich, reached double figures in scoring for the Eagles.
�We knew Cherry would get her points so our goal was to limit the damage from her supporting cast,� Quinerly said. �I thought we did an excellent job in that area.�
Four free throws from Brandon Ingram and Josh Dawson in the final 38 seconds helped Kinston seal a hard-fought victory over a West Craven team that claimed the Coastal 3A Conference regular-season and tournament titles last season and is again the favorite to win that rugged league.
�It was a great win against a very good basketball team,� Kinston coach Perry Tyndall said. �To be tested like this early and come away with the victory is a good measuring stick for our team.�
Even with leading scorer Ingram on the bench with two fouls for most of the first half, Kinston was able to build a 16-point lead before settling for a 37-30 margin at halftime.
Dawson then picked up his fourth foul in the third period, and with Kinston�s senior leader on the sideline, West Craven roared back behind Demetres Abrams (28 points) and Josh Cuthbertson (26).
A steal and layup by Abrams gave the Eagles their first lead of the game, 41-39, with 4:32 left in the third quarter.
The game was a see-saw affair until Darnell Dunn started a 6-0 Vikings run with a layup off a brilliant VeQuain Joyner feed at the 1:29 mark of the final period.
That bucket put Kinston ahead 68-67 and was followed by a Denzel Keyes layup and a pair of free throws by Ingram that made the score 72-67 with 38.9 seconds left.
After a trey by the Eagles� Tyrone Powell, Dawson�s two free throws closed out the Kinston scoring with 16.6 ticks remaining.
�They have some incredible shooters that helped them get back in the game,� Tyndall said. �To our credit, we didn�t panic. We calmed down and had a couple of easy buckets there at the end. We didn�t settle for jump shots when we could have.�
Keyes blistered the Eagles for a team-high 26 points and was joined in double figures by Dawson with 16, Ingram with 12, and Dunn, who added 11 points to go with eight rebounds.
Thirteen of Dawson�s points came in the first half and all of Ingram�s came in the second.
�We got some key guys in foul trouble, but we had some others step up big time,� Tyndall said. �Winning a game like this against a team like this will only help us down the road.�
That road continues today as the Vikings turned right around and host 4A power Raleigh Milbrook. The junior varsity boys contest starts at 4:30 p.m.
West Craven 13 17 25 17�72
Kinston 21 16 18 19�74
EAGLES (2-2) � Demetres Abrams 28, Josh Cuthbertson 26, Tyrone Brown 10, Z. Cuthbertson 6, Harley 2, Reid, Monk, Green, Oates.
VIKINGS (4-0) � Denzel Keyes 26, Josh Dawson 16, Brandon Ingram 12, Darnell Dunn 11, Taylor 5, Joyner 4, White, Hart, Jones, Williams, Canady.
West Craven 15 13 18 10�56
Kinston 22 19 21 18�80
EAGLES (2-2) � Jamie Cherry 33, Kaylee Koerperich 10, Raynor 6, Roundtree 4, Brown 2, Lewis 1, Wetherington, Cox, Dixon, Meadows-Cox.
VIKINGS (5-0) � Brittany Drumgoole 35, Monique Lofton 20, Lydia Rivers 15, Williams 5, Harper 4, Washington 1, Addison, Thi, Vermillion, Clark.


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China yesterday said it let two US B-52 bombers fly unhindered through its newly declared air defense zone in the East China Sea on Tuesday, despite its earlier threat to take defensive measures against unidentified foreign aircraft.
The US flights, which tested the Chinese zone for the first time since it was declared on Saturday, raised questions about Beijing's determination to enforce its requirement that foreign aircraft identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions. China's lack of any action suggested that it was merely playing out a diplomatic game to establish ownership over the area rather than provoke an international incident.
The flights followed days of angry rhetoric and accusations over Beijing's move, designed to assert Chinese claims to a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan.
The US and Japan have said they do not acknowledge the zone, and Taiwan and South Korea have also rejected it.
A Chinese Ministry of National Defense statement said the US planes were detected and monitored as they flew through the area for 2 hours and 22 minutes. It said all aircraft flying through the zone would be monitored and that "China has the capability to exercise effective control over the relevant airspace."
Asked repeatedly about the incident at a regularly scheduled briefing, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Qin Gang (秦剛) said it had been handled according to procedures laid out in the Saturday statement, but offered no specifics.
"Different situations will be dealt with according to that statement," Qin said.
The US, which has hundreds of military aircraft based in the region, described the flights as a training mission unrelated to China's announcement of the zone.
US officials said the two unarmed B-52 bombers took off from their home base in Guam around midday and were in the zone that encompasses the disputed islands for less than an hour before returning to their base, adding that the aircraft encountered no problems.
The bomber flights came after US Department of State spokeswoman Jen Psaki said China's move appeared to be an attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea.
"This will raise regional tensions and increase the risk of miscalculation, confrontation and accidents," she told reporters.
Beijing's move fits a pattern of putting teeth behind its territorial claims and is seen as potentially leading to dangerous encounters depending on how vigorously China enforces it — and how cautious it is when intercepting aircraft from Japan, the US and other countries.
Chinese reaction to the US bomber flights was predictably angry, with some recalling the 2001 collision between a Chinese fighter and a US surveillance plane in international airspace off China's southeastern coast — the kind of accident some fear China's new policy could make more likely.
The Chinese pilot, Wang Wei (王偉), was killed in the crash and the US crew forced to make a landing on Hainan island, where they were held for 10 days and repeatedly interrogated before being released.
"Let's not repeat the humiliation of Wang Wei. Make good preparations to counterattack," wrote Zheng Daojin (鄭道錦), a reporter with Xinhua news agency on his Weibo microblog.
Others criticized the government's handling of what they termed a battle of psychological pressure and international public opinion.


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As you prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus with your family, think about what life will hold for your children long after the toys they unwrap this year have been thrown on the scrap heap. Imagine where they will be one day. Consider what you can do to prepare them for the life they are intended to live.
As I watched my son run and play with his friends during his fifth birthday party Sunday, a memory crossed my mind.
As if it had happened only moments before, I remembered when the nurses brought him to our room, only a few days old, stuffed inside a large Christmas stocking.
From that memory of him five years ago, my mind wandered as I considered how he might change in five more years.
What will life hold for him in 15 years?
Will he be in college? Will he be married?
A Christmas carol interrupted my prescience. My reverie came to another birthday we are preparing to celebrate.
My thoughts wandered to the Christ child.
His mother and earthly father were filled with faith in what their child would be. But when did they first see what he would become?
Did the swaddling clothes in a borrowed manger foretell the shroud he would wear in a borrowed tomb 33 years later? He would only spend a few days in each.
When they watched him run and play as a child, could they have fully understood what life would hold for him? I can't imagine their fear and concern, knowing what was foretold, yet not knowing how those events would be carried out.
I wonder if his wisdom belied his age as he taught in the temple while other children were still learning stories of faith passed down through the generations.
How did they feel when he left the carpenter's shop and began his ministry at the age of 30? Did they join the band of followers or did they stay home and quietly hope that their son would not anger the Roman rulers and speed the fulfillment of the final prophecies surrounding his life?
When my son unwrapped his presents, I recalled that Jesus received presents, as well. The needy family from Nazareth was found in Bethlehem, where they had traveled to take part in a census.
Astronomers from hundreds of miles away brought him gifts. They brought gold in recognition of his status as King of Kings; frankincense to symbolize his position as a priest to bring man and God closer together; and myrrh, a salve used in embalming the dead, which hinted at his ultimate fate.
As you prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus with your family, think about what life will hold for your children long after the toys they unwrap this year have been thrown on the scrap heap. Imagine where they will be one day. Consider what you can do to prepare them for the life they are intended to live.
But also take time to remember God's Christmas present to the world. Contemplate the baby in the manger, but also recall the life of the man he would become.
Finally, be thankful for the gift he gave us on the cross. After all, if it weren't for the cross, the manger would have meant nothing.
In John 20:31, the apostle tells why the story of Jesus was important, "These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
The story of Jesus began in a manger. Christmas is a celebration of those humble beginnings. But the final chapter is the part of the story we should celebrate.
When you wish someone Merry Christmas, remember that we all received the greatest gift on that first Christmas Day.
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Q- What is a typical Charity Elliott practice like?
GASKIN - We run. We jump. We dribble. We shoot at a metal cylinder. And every so often we bang into each other.
I figure it's like the way most practices are for basketball teams with a supportive coaching staff. It's intense, when we get in the gym we get as much work done as possible by going hard, and we work on execution because that's what we need in the games. Other than a few seconds for water breaks, it's none stop, which keeps up in top shape.
Q- Your scoring and rebounding averages are higher this year than previous years. Did you work on a particular part of your game during the offseason?
GASKIN - During the offseason (spring and summer), I tried to improve my all around game, starting with my strength and speed. I wanted to come back in shape so that I could focus on the other aspects of my game once we started back together. I also worked on moves away from the basket, as well as my outside jumper.
Q- The team has played in two tournaments so far in
Q- UCSD travels to
GASKIN - Well if we have some downtime, I'm excited about shopping on the Strip and since Vegas is known for its spectacular shows, I'm really excited to see a particular one.
Q- Which teammate of yours is the toughest to guard? Who has the best outside shot?
GASKIN - I would have to say Marla. I give her a hard time about being short, but it does work to her advantage because she's so low and has amazing speed. As for the best outside shot, that's a hard one because I feel that any one of our shooters are the best at what they do. Mezzetta, Bull, Osier...the list can go on and on because they all are great shooters and are a threat on the court, which makes us a tough team to guard.
Q- Is there a funny story you can share that involves the team and the coaching staff?
GASKIN - Our freshmen have given us some great stories. But they're great sports about it...one that comes to mind is when one of our freshmen came in with a bunch of bruises, and we were all proud because we thought she was getting them in practice. They were her æbattle wounds'. But then she admitted that they were actually from her falling off her bike on campus while text messaging. So we gave her a hard time with that. Oh and we are always entertained with Coach Elliott's phrases.
Q- Being from Vacaville, what are some of your likes and dislikes about northern and southern
GASKIN - I do enjoy the weather down here. And being in a big city down, it's nice having so much to do and not having to drive so far away. But I do enjoy the small town feel of home every once in a while. And I'm kind of an impatient person, so the traffic down in southern
Q- You also lettered in track and field in high school. Did you ever consider trying some field events at UCSD?
GASKIN - Not really, once I knew how much time and commitment one sport required and how tough this school is, I knew that I wouldn't be able to stretch myself for another.
Q- What do you enjoy doing with your time outside of basketball?
GASKIN - Not a lot of people know this about me, but origami is a real passion of mine. I'm also an active member of the local chapter of SIBAA (Ships-in-Bottles Association of
Q- What would you like to do with your Human Biology major?
GASKIN - Since my entire summer was ruined by the MCAT, I figure I'll try going to medical school. If that doesn't work out, I'll start knitting and open a quilt shop with my roommate.
Q- Is there much of an athletic background in your family?
GASKIN - I have a cousin who plays football for the
Q- What has been your favorite class at UCSD?
GASKIN - Any psych class with Amanda
Previous Q&A Articles
Aubrey Panis (Women's Swimming) December 2, 2007
Andrew Hatch (Men's Basketball) November 26, 2007
Kevin Klein (Men's Cross Country) November 12, 2007
Kim Adams (Women's Volleyball) November 7, 2007
Ben Miller (Men's Water Polo) October 31, 2007
Alie Avina (Women's Soccer) October 19, 2007
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball Head Coach) October 15, 2007
Jason Le (Men's Soccer ) October 3, 2007
Rebecca Bailey (Women's Volleyball) September 18, 2007
Amanda Burkhardt (Women's Cross Country) September 10, 2007
Curtis Williamson (Men's Water Polo) September 4, 2007
Ali Lai (Women's Soccer) August 25, 2007
Nate Garcia (Head Coach of Cross Country) August 13, 2007
Tony Choi (Men's Soccer) July 25, 2007
Natalie Facchini (Women's Volleyball) July 9, 2007
Chris Carlson (Head Coach of Men's Basketball) June 22, 2007
Madeleine Flint (Women's Track and Field) April 30, 2007
Leah Llach (Women's Crew) April 22, 2007
Natalie Hockett (Women's Water Polo) April 9, 2007
Jenny Maze (women's softball) April 2, 2007
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R&B star John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen have wed in Italy.
The couple exchanged vows in an intimate ceremony in Lake Como on Saturday in front of family and close friends, including rapper Kanye West and model/actress Brooklyn Decker, who served as Teigen's maid of honor.
The bride walked down the aisle in a white Vera Wang dress and they celebrated the nuptials at a reception with hip-hop veteran Biz Markie as DJ, according to UsMagazine.com.
Legend previously revealed he was considering serenading his bride with a special performance at the wedding, although it is not yet known if he decided to step up to the mic.
Earlier this summer, he told Q magazine, "I'm getting married soon… The wedding won't be small but not too large, it's mostly family. I just have a big family. Am I playing? I'll probably do a song or two. Do I take requests? No, I'm not into wedding bands."
The singer, 34, began dating the Sports Illustrated beauty, 27, in 2007 and proposed during a festive vacation in the Maldives in 2011.
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- Valdosta, Ga. - March 22, 2012 -
The controversy over the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL has spurred protests across the country including in Valdosta.
Outside the Old Courthouse downtown, protesters waved fists and umbrellas. The rain in Valdosta wasn't nearly enough to damper their outrage.
"Not since then have I seen that kind of interest in one single case as I have this one and I'm sure you will agree," Reverend Floyd Rose announced from the podium.
Several protesters wore hooded sweat shirts, held boxes of Skittles and cans of iced tea. That's what Trayvon Martin was wearing and carrying the night he was killed. Protesters ask if these items make them appear suspicious as well.
"That this was not just a Civil Rights violation. This was a human rights violation. That young man was a human," concerned resident J.C. Cunningham told Eyewitness News reporter Greg Gullberg.
"That this community and every community in this country will continue to press for Mr. Zimmerman's arrest and conviction," Rev. Rose told Gullberg.
The news that Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee temporarily stepped down sparked new life into the rally.
"We all know that he botched the investigation. He did not even arrest Mr. Zimmerman, which would have been standard practice," said Rev. Rose.
"I think the story is still kind of broad right now, people want to know what's happened. So I'm actually happy about the crowd that came out today," Valdosta State University NAACP Chapter President DeAndre Jones told Gullberg.
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The estate of an Amherst teenager who was fatally struck by a car in 2011 has settled its lawsuit against a country club that served alcohol to the driver, Dr. James G. Corasanti, before the crash.
The wrongful-death lawsuit is still moving ahead against Corasanti, a Getzville physician who was driving the BMW that hit and killed Alexandria "Alix" Rice, 18, as she rode a longboard along Heim Road the night of July 8.
Terms of the agreement with Transit Valley Country Club were not made public.
"The settlement that was reached between the club and the family of Alix Rice was a confidential settlement," said Lisa Coppola, an attorney representing Transit Valley.
She declined to comment further.
Terrence M. Connors, who is representing the estate of Alix Rice, also declined to discuss a dollar amount. "The terms of it require me to say only that it's confidential," he said.
Both Corasanti, 57, and Transit Valley were named as defendants in the original wrongful-death lawsuit filed about five weeks after Alix's death.
Alix's mother, Tammy A. Schueler, filed the lawsuit as the person appointed to handle the estate.
It alleged that Transit Valley served alcohol to Corasanti at a "martini golf" outing when the doctor was visibly intoxicated.
While Transit Valley will no longer be a defendant in the case, a civil trial against Corasanti is set to begin Sept. 3 in front of State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski.
"Our focus in this litigation has always been on the conduct of Dr. Corasanti that evening, and that is the focus of the family, as well," Connors said.
In a 2012 verdict that stirred public outrage, Corasanti was convicted of misdemeanor drunken driving but acquitted of felony charges, including manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. He served about eight months in jail before being released in April to resume his medical career.
The country club's role in the case wasn't a primary concern, said Richard J. Rice, Alix's father, who plans to sit through the civil trial and wants to see Corasanti held more accountable for his actions.
"I want to see justice finally served in some degree," he said.
"He has not paid a price for killing Alexandria. He only served a little time in jail for being a drunk driver."
The wrongful-death lawsuit was complicated by a Surrogate's Court dispute between Alix's parents.
The couple divorced a year after Alix's birth, and although Schueler was sole custodial parent for most of Alix's life, Alix had been living with her father in the weeks before her death.
To resolve the dispute, Erie County Surrogate Barbara Howe appointed Connors to represent the estate instead of Christopher J. O'Brien, the attorney Schueler had hired.
Rice said Thursday that he and Schueler were in agreement on the current litigation and that "outside forces" created the earlier friction.
"Those forces are no longer an issue," he said. "I don't know that we ever were not on the same page."
Schueler could not be reached to comment.
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WiMax modems. The phrase doesn't generally conjure gadget lust, which is why I'm so confused looking at these better than well designed WiMax modems from Moto. The silver and droid-like CPEi300 is a desktop modem based on Intel's 2250 Rosedale 2 chipset, compatible with 802.16e-2005, which TG Daily spells out as the 2.3, 2.5 and 3.5 Ghz bands, or WiMax mobile. It'll be out in Q4 for $200. The much nicer looking CPEi800 has WiFi, 4 ethernet ports, two analog line jacks, and external antenna jacks, and will be out in the second half of 2008. Question — Why are they so big? More photos over at TG Daily. [TG Daily]
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Got gas? Scientist finds both problem and solution in Horseshoe Lake greenhouse gas
While the ghostly white trees hovering around stark Horseshoe Lake may unnerve some people, a Massachusetts scientist found the greenhouse gas that strangled them could actually lead to a solution to climate change problems.
Working under a four-year, $2.3 million grant from the Department of Energy, Dr. Bruno Marino came to Mammoth last week, hoping to refine a high-tech laser he believes will some day soon be absolutely critical in the fight against climate change.
That's because the same gas that is creating a warmer planet, carbon dioxide, has a very unusual quality when it comes from magmatic sources (like at Horseshoe) which gives scientists the perfect laboratory in trying to find solutions to climate change.
"The carbon coming up from deep underground at Horseshoe Lake contains very small amounts of carbon-14, the rarest form of carbon, a kind found only when fossil fuels burn or from natural magmatic sources like the vents at Horseshoe Lake," he said.
"The concentration of carbon-14 in the carbon dioxide coming out of the geologic formation is the exact same as that coming out of a coal-burning power plant."
Lake is valuable testing ground
That makes the lake a valuable place to test the million-dollar laser that the company he founded and owns, Planetary Emissions Management, Inc., hopes will soon be ready to deploy commercially. His goal is to monitor human-made carbon emissions in the air or in underground reservoirs where the carbon has been intentionally injected.
This carbon injection technology, called carbon capture and sequestration, is one possible way to slow the warming climate juggernaut down, he believes.
But that's only if the carbon stored underground can be identified as to its source and adequately monitored for long periods of time to detect any leakage that may occur.
"While leakage is expected to be small or zero, field methods that are sensitive enough to locate and quantify any leaks are essential," he said.
Monitoring carbon dioxide emissions is critical, one for obvious safety reasons, the other for business reasons, he said.
He notes that the high "leakage" of carbon dioxide from the Horseshoe Lake site does not represent any known problems from a sequestration project but Horseshoe is a good test site.
"Right now, sequestration projects are very safe, but in 50 years, if there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the ground, citizens are going to need to be aware it's there and we are going to have to have effective monitoring of the sites," he said.
"We are looking to the future."
Track it, manage it
This ability to monitor is also critical from a business standpoint, because the move to commercialize the storage of carbon, to a so-called "cap and trade" economy, is dependent on assigning carbon a real number and given an origin.
"When monitoring, verification and accounting are applied to carbon, you get both sides of the carbon coin, management and trading," he said.
"Once you can track something, you can manage it."
But with carbon, that hasn't been possible on a wide scale, due to the extreme difficulty and high cost in detecting carbon-14 using traditional approaches.
Since carbon-14 is only a "signal" of only fossil fuel burning or of magmatic origins, it can be used as a tracer, allowing scientists and businesses to determine whose carbon is whose and how much was emitted by each party.
Emissions dropping
Marino wasn't the only scientist out at Horseshoe last week.
Jennifer Lewicki, a geological research scientist with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is under a subcontract with the DOE to provide field support for Marino's project.
It's not her first time out measuring the gas, which is why she was helping Marino.
She's been measuring carbon dioxide emissions there off and on since the late 1990s. She's hoping to help develop a baseline emissions number, information she shares with local officials and U.S. Geological Survey, all of whom watch Horseshoe Lake like worried mother bears.
But they may finally be a little less worried than they were.
"I'd say there is about one third less carbon dioxide coming through the ground than there was in the mid-nineties," she said.
"That's a rough estimate, but it is certainly going down."
It's possible the rock formations over the magma body below the earth that is emitting the gas are closing the gas off from the surface, or it is possible the gas chamber itself is being depleted, she said.
That's good news to Mammoth's Inyo National Forest Recreation Officer John Kazmierski.
He just finished propping up some fences, adding some new signs and generally trying to make the area safer, as winter approaches.
"Winter is the time when people need to take extra care, because the gas doesn't dissipate as easily, due to the snow. It gets trapped in low lying areas, where concentrations can be dangerous," he said.
He's heard a lot lately on the issue. An assessment of recreation in the Lakes Basin is under way right now, and Horseshoe is at the top of many people's list.
"We have heard a strong message that we need better interpretive signs out there."
That will happen next year, when the forest service installs two new kiosks at the lake, he said.


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Spanish Style Pork Chops with Chorizo and Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Green Beans
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 4 servings
- Total: 30 min
- Prep: 10 min
- Cook: 20 min
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, plus some for drizzling
4 large, boneless center-cut pork chops, 1 1/2-inches thick
1/2 tablespoon paprika or smoked sweet paprika, half a palm full
Salt and pepper
1/4 pound chorizo, casing removed, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 small yellow onion, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped thyme leaves, 4 sprigs
1 (16-ounce) jar pequillo peppers or roasted red peppers, drained
1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley, a couple of generous handfuls
1/4 cup dry sherry or dry white wine, eyeball it
1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed, available ready-prepped in sacks at many markets
1 lemon
Marcona almonds or sliced almonds toasted in butter, your choice
Cheesy Rice, recipe follows, optional
Crusty bread, to pass at table
Manchego Cheesy Rice:
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 cups white rice
3 cups chicken stock
Handful flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
1 cup grated Manchego cheese
Salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high to high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan. Season the chops with paprika, salt, and pepper. Place chops in skillet and sear meat to caramelize, about 2 minutes each side. Transfer the chops to a cookie sheet and place in the oven to finish off, 8 to 10 minutes, or until meat is firm to touch, but not tough. Remove from the oven and let the chops rest covered with a piece of aluminum foil for a few minutes.
- While the chops are in the oven, return the skillet to the cook top over medium heat. Add the diced chorizo and cook stirring frequently for 2 minutes. Add the garlic, onion, thyme, salt, and pepper. Cook meat and onions for about 3 minutes.
- Bring 1 to 2 inches of water to a boil in another skillet with a lid.
- Grind the peppers and parsley in a food processor until smooth. Add the sherry or wine to the sausage and onions and stir, then stir in the ground peppers. Cook another minute or 2 or until the peppers are heated through.
- Place green beans in boiling water. Salt it and cook 2 to 3 minutes. Drain and dress with a squeeze of lemon, a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and salt and pepper.
- Place a chop on each dinner plate and top with the chorizo-roasted pepper sauce. Serve with green beans, garnished with Marcona or toasted almonds, Cheesy Rice and/or crusty bread, for plate-mopping.
Manchego Cheesy Rice:
- Melt butter over medium heat in a medium sauce pot. Add rice and toast in butter 2 minutes. Add stock and bring rice up to a boil. Cook rice 17 to 18 minutes until tender and liquids are absorbed. Remove from heat, fluff rice with fork, then stir in the parsley and cheese. Season the rice with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Yield: 4 servings
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Ease of preparation: easy


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
Hi there, I need a logo that will work nicely across our blog and TV shows. I need the design to be bold and reasonably simple so that it'll work on multiple media: The web, video, clothing, printed materials. My site tracks news and opinion across the IT sector, specifically blades (very fast computer servers), cloud and virtualization.
I'd like a graphic alongside some text saying 'Bladewatch'. Since we're a technology blog, I'd like to see a blog typeface and a distinctive graphic. Perhaps something along the lines of a server / computer / network / gadget or similar.
The text and graphic should be one, two or three colours with a clean design on a white background.
You can see the site at http://www.bladewatch.com
Our target audience are senior employees -- VPs, CEOs, senior managers -- working in the enterprise IT sector.
Our logo is principally for the web but we'll want to use it on an array of items -- brochures, business cards, T-Shirts.
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- Typeface -- we usually prefer bold, easy to read, easy to identify typefaces but we'd welcome your suggestions
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- The entire logo should able to work in black and white too
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Continued solid airline financial returns could keep the current boom in cabin retrofit demand going, feedback from interiors specialist B/E Aerospace (BEA) suggests.
"We had really strong retrofit sales in the quarter," BEA CEO Amin Khoury told analysts on a Jan. 30 earnings call, adding that the recent uptick hasn't slowed the pace of new inquiries.
"We are having significant ongoing discussions with our customers about retrofit programs in the future," Khoury says. "I would say there is a step-up in activity."
BEA grabbed the lion's share of a $770 million Delta Air Lines cabin upgrade project announced in early January that will include 225 in-service aircraft. Other carriers with major cabin upgrades in progress include Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines, which, like Delta's, include some capacity-boosting thanks to slimline seats. United Airlines also is in the midst of a multi-year upgrade effort that focuses on premium seating up front and adding Wi-Fi.
Last week American Airlines added some color to plans revealed last summer to put more seats on certain models. It confirmed plans to boost Boeing 737-800 capacity by either 10 or 14 seats and put at least 13 seats—and potentially more—on Boeing 777-200s (Aviation DAILY, Jan. 29).
After netting an estimated $13 billion in 2013, airlines are on track to net nearly $20 billion in profits in 2014, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) projects (Aviation DAILY, Dec. 16, 2013). North American carriers will deliver the bulk of 2014 profits, at about $8.3 billion.
While the aircraft manufacturers are getting their fair share of the profits—Airbus and Boeing combined to deliver 1,274 aircraft in 2013, with each setting new output records—carriers clearly are not skimping on their existing fleets.
Canaccord Genuity expects "overall modifications spending" to rise more than 10% in 2014. "Much of this will be focused on the interior segment, driven by increased inflight entertainment spending and weight-savings opportunities," wrote analyst Ken Herbert in a mid-January research note.
Meanwhile, B/E Aerospace continues to benefit from the new aircraft boom. The company boosted full-year revenues 16% in 2013, led by a 15% jump in its commercial aircraft segment, which provides seats, galleys, and other interiors products for both new and in-service models. Commercial revenues were $1.8 billion for the year, up from $1.6 billion 2012.
The company's business jet segment overcame a flat fourth quarter to boost annual revenue by 15%, to $419 million from $363 million.
"Fourth-quarter business jet segment revenues were adversely impacted by customer requests to pull forward previously scheduled fourth-quarter deliveries into the third quarter to meet customers' requirements," Khoury explains.
The segment is expected to snap back and post year-over-year sales gains both for the first quarter and all of 2014.


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All-wheel drive cars and Crossovers, are equipped with the maximum configuration (depending on the car brand), including a full drive, a lower gear, a differential lock. In many luxury SUVs, these functions are automatically connected and electronically controlled.
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David Kristjanson-GuralProfessor of Economics
Professor Kristjanson-Gural is currently Senior Fellow of the Social Justice College at Bucknell as well as editor of Spilling Ink which features popular writing in support of social justice.
Educational Background
- Ph.D. University of Massachusetts- Amherst
- M.A. University of Manitoba, Canada
- B.A. University of Manitoba, Canada
Research Interests
- How demand conditions are integrated into Marxian theories of values and prices
- How money acts to express the value of commodities in a labor-value framework
- How Marx's dialectical methodology allows new contingencies to be incorporated into the labor value analysis
Professor Kristjanson-Gural's work is published in Rethinking Marxism, Research in Political Economy, Historical Materialism and Marx, Engels, Marximus Forshung.


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From Blowing Air To Singing In His Ear; Responses To A Rude Recliner
Wednesday's post about the brouhaha this week aboard a Ghana-bound flight that began when one passenger reclined his seat and the person behind responded with a smack (and not the kissing kind), generated many comments with tips about how to handle that sort of situation.
For one expert's suggestions, check out the conversation that Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan had with Scott McCartney of The Wall Street Journal's Middle Seat Terminal blog.
But we want to give notice to some of The Two-Way comments that stood out, beginning with the one that got the most "recommends":
"I turn the air conditioning nozzle on their head and open it all the way. This is particularly effective for bald men — a large percentage of the offenders." From mary Reynolds (carrey).
There were several that suggested ... how do we put this politely? ... that a bit of breaking of the wind might convince the person in front to return to an upright position.
And several said something like this, from carl Hull (Calhoon): "I have a simple solution. I just put my face near the back of the morons head and start coughing. works every time."
(Side note: The Two-Way is not endorsing the spreading of germs!)
Timothy Tyckoson (Tyctim) has an interesting strategy: "I slip on the headphones and start to sing along with the Musicals channel on the provided XM radio. (if there is no XM, I use my mp3 player). I don't sing loudly, only loud enough for the offender to hear."
And gerd rauter (gRAU) was among several commenters who said a little courtesy goes a long way: "I tap them on the shoulder and whisper into their ear-which by now is so close to my face: '---when you lower your seatback next time-can you do it more slowly so i can move my knees out of the way? ---' And I alert the person behind me by doing the maneuvre in increments. ... The airline could encourage such considerate behavior."
And then there was what may be the best story. Michelle LaPointe (EMShinn) wrote:
"I will sometimes ask the person in front of me to move their seat up a little, and they usually comply. I'm always polite, though, because of something that happened to me years ago. When my daughter was not yet two years old, we were traveling to my sister-in-law's wedding. Our plane was stuck on the tarmac for almost two hours before the flight even took off. We could not get up or remove our seat belts, and my daughter was on my lap.
"No matter how hard my husband and I tried, it was almost impossible to keep our toddler still the entire time, and several times, while squirming, she kicked the seat of the lady in front of me, a couple of times quite hard. I felt terrible, apologized, and the lady graciously said she understood.
"Once we took off, our daughter fell asleep and all was well, but in baggage claim I again thanked the lady for her patience, and she was again very kind.
"That night, at the rehearsal dinner, I was introduced to the mother of the groom — the very same woman my daughter had been kicking on the plane. I was too astonished to say anything, but she had exactly the right words: 'Aren't we glad we were both nice to each other this afternoon?' The lesson stuck."
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Joseph Simcox Finds Seeds and Tradition in The Hills Of Italy
April 8, 2014 | 12:34 pm
Italy evokes a swell of emotions. The country is an endless immersion in passion. Wherever one goes, the bustle of life echoes the traditions of the past. Recently I had the good fortune to find myself back in the land of the "vita dolcé" (the good life). My first visit was to an alpine village in the Tyrol region. There a good friend of mine, Otto Werth, and his family, live in a house that Otto's ancestors founded in 1638, it has been continuously inhabited for more than 350 years. Otto's stone and timber chalet stands magnificently above a slope that winds its way several miles down until it arrives to the flat valley below. Planted on the slopes all around his home, Otto's gardens are full of living traditions—old varieties that have been replanted for decades if not hundreds of years. One of these old heirlooms is what the family affectionately calls: Altrei Coffee. Altrei Coffee is also called Lupine café, it is made from the roasted seeds of a variety of lupine that is apparently only known to be grown in Altrei.
I myself was introduced to the unique story of Altrei Coffee by my friend Klaus Pistrick of the famous Gatersleben Seedbank in Germany. Many years ago on a cold winter day, I sat in Klaus's office, the shelves stuffed with every imaginable botanical book. Klaus reached into a little jar and pulled out three seeds and told me to open my hand. As he placed the seeds in my hand, he winked and said these are more exciting than the beans that Jack-in-the-Beanstalk had. After hearing the story from him about this mysterious little known tradition of Altrei—that of making a coffee from lupines, I decided to track down someone who knew of the tradition and grew these seeds.
That was years ago, and I can still remember driving up to the village on that first visit. The Commune (the equivalent of the local mayor's office) was my first stop. I showed them the three lupine seeds in my hand and asked them in Italian: "Che la possibilita che tu puo mi spiegare dove posso incontrare il signore che produce questi?" (Is there the possibility that you can tell me where I can find the person that produces these?) The office clerk, seemingly proud that some odd American had made it all the way to this little obscure remote village searching for "their" coffee, explained to me that a few hundred feet down the street, on the same side of the road, there is the house of a certain Mr. Otto. There you will find your coffee beans.
I dashed out the door and jumped into my car—excited that I had almost arrived. I eagerly ran up to the door and knocked, it was not long before a friendly looking woman came to the door. She must have been taken aback… In those days I had bleached white hair and looked like a rock star of some sort, I explained my mission, which was too precise to her circumstances to be contrived, and with that she invited me in. She said that her husband Otto was in the barn milking cows, "We produce most of our own food here, everything from milk, meat, eggs, chickens and fruit and vegetables and we even harvest wild mushrooms and berries in the woods." she was proud of that.
When I asked about the café, she chuckled, "Yes, yes, we have that tradition too. It goes back before anyone remembers." Finally Otto came in. He was obviously proud that a long family tradition was finally getting the attention that it deserved. "Now everyone wants to know about our coffee." He said, "In the last two months, six people have come to my door. We are happy that people are interested because if they were not, this tradition could have died out. Now, because of all the publicity, we have six families once again growing the lupine. And I trust now that it will grow, as more people discover how good our coffee is!"
Altrei Coffee actually has nothing to do with the coffee bean we know. Altrei Coffee is a lupine that is found growing throughout the Mediterranean region. As far as I know, Altrei Coffee is the unique use of this seed for coffee. It may be that someone long ago discovered that it could be roasted and used for a drink. Whatever the case, Altrei Coffee is amazing. In the years since I first met Otto, I have returned several times. Each time I am rewarded by the family's incredible hospitality and generosity. This time, Otto gives me a large bag of the seeds, and he asks me to share them with other gardeners so that the tradition will not be lost. Italy is made of traditions that are made by people, and as I think about that I ask, "Should the whole world not be that way?"


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HE SAID: Almost 5% of men said real men never cry, no matter what. About 39% felt crying should only be in response to tragedies, like the death of a loved one, while 27% said it's okay for a man to get emotional at any time. The remaining 29% say it's okay to for a guy to cry whenever, so long as it's not publicly.
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The newest ride at Splish Splash is, well, making quite a splash.
Bootlegger's Run is a two-minute screamer's delight at the Calverton water adventure park. The multimillion-dollar water roller coaster, with a top height of 235 feet, starts with a 47-foot (almost five-story) drop. It hits speeds of 30 miles an hour with hairpin turns through open air and enclosed tubes before sliding back into its starting spot.
"It's a little bit of everything, so it will definitely be our crown jewel," says general manager Mike Bengtson.
Luc Perigaut braved Bootlegger's Run on its inaugural weekend earlier this month like a champ.
"Your stomach feels like it's flying," said the 10-year-old from East Setauket. "I think it's one of my favorite rides."
Bootlegger's Run uses hydromagnetic technology -- the first water ride in the state to do so, according to park officials. Magnets propel the four-person rubber rafts forward and up the inclines.
Like many of the park's more thrilling attractions, riders must be at least 42 inches tall (and accompanied by an adult if 42-48 inches). There's a limit of 700 pounds of weight per four-person raft.
The ride begins and ends at ground level, a boon for people who have trouble climbing stairs.
Parkgoers loved the ride on its first weekend, with the only complaint being that it should be longer.
"You don't notice the height, and then it just drops," Robert Pagan, 31, of Queens, said after taking his first spin.
Four girlfriends who came off the ride dripping wet were heading right back on the line.
"I like that it feels like a real roller coaster," said Shaina Katz, 19, of West Hempstead. Her friend Rivka Apfel, 19, also of West Hempstead, said she had to be cajoled by her friends to try it but was heading back on line for thrill ride number two.
Bootlegger's Run joins 20 other rides at the water park, a favorite summertime hangout for families and teens. The 96-acre park also has two wave pools and a 1,300-foot-long lazy river.
Also new at Splish Splash: the H2Go Pass. Much like Disney World's skip-the-line pass system, H2Go holds your place in line and gives you an estimated return time for specific attractions with long line times. Passes cost $30 on weekdays and $35 on weekends, and a limited number are sold each day.
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There's also a new spray park opening in Wyandanch. The grand opening is on July 13 from 10 a.m.-noon at Geiger Lake Park, Grand Boulevard, between West 24th Street and Lake Avenue, Wyandanch
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While not the high-pitched thrill scream ride of the Bootlegger's Run, there are loads of spray parks on Long Island, with the latest one opening next month at a park straddling Deer Park and Wyandanch.
The Geiger Lake Park spray park has a "Tree of Life" theme, highlighted by a bridge with water slides between two large trees, multiple water cannons and a rope climb net. A large spider and snake feature will have several twisting, spiraling slides. There is also an area for smaller children.
The grand opening July 13 will include music, prizes and family activities.
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[UPDATE: Looks like this was bogus - The Riddler is NOT the villain in Batman 3]
When you think of director Christopher Nolan and his consistently awesome movies, you no doubt will recognize and appreciate the loyalty he demonstrates to his incredibly talented casts. Nolan is not shy of using the same actors from film to film and with Batman 3, we may be getting another example of this quality.
Our friends at First Showing were sent the casting grid for Batman 3 from an inside source which confirms that the somewhat-unsurprising revelation that The Riddler will be a villain in the sequel to The Dark Knight. But along with the character name, the grid also lists Joseph Gordon-Levitt as "interested."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been a rumored candidate for the role for quite sometime because of his association with Nolan having worked with him in Inception. It just makes sense and I think most of us can agree that he's a perfect choice for the part.
The casting info states that they're looking for an actor aged 35-45 and while JGL currently sites 6 years under the lower bracket, I doubt that'll interfere with his involvement should he be the leading choice for the role.
The Riddler was played by Jim Carrey in Joel Schumacher's 1995 Batman Forever which infamously lead the franchise in the wrong another direction. If we do see Edward Nigma aka The Riddler in Nolan's Batman 3, don't expect him to put on a solo show. There will very likely be another villain (or several) in the film and the common rumors and speculation point towards Catwoman and the Penguin. I've even heard talk of Killer Croc.
If you remember way back in 2006, it was at Comic-Con where Heath Ledger was confirmed to be playing the Joker in The Dark Knight. With Warner Bros. conducting a heavy-loaded panel presentation on Saturday, which of course includes Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern alongside Sucker Punch and Harry Potter, it's almost expected that there will be at least some special announcement regarding other upcoming DC Entertainment properties.
We know Batman 3 and Superman are coming in 2012 so could we get a villain casting announcement here? Could we also/instead be getting confirmation about The Flash or Justice League? Marvel Studios will be doing everything they can to "win" the convention in terms of generating buzz and excitement so I'm excited to see what Warner Bros. may bring to the table. That being said, Batman 3 is way off so they may not even touch on the subject.
This news breaks on the heels of this morning's report that Batman 3 could be shot entirely in IMAX. I can't wait!
We'll be reporting live at SDCC so if we hear anything from the Warner Bros. panel, we'll have it for you as it happens so follow us on Twitter @rob_keyes and @screenrant and let us know your thoughts.
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)
Directed by Matt WolfGenres - Culture & Society, Music | Sub-Genres - Biography, Music History | Release Date - Sep 26, 2008 (USA - Limited) | Run Time - 70 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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With his documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, director Matt Wolf etches out a biographical portrait of avant-garde musician, artist, and disco producer Arthur Russell, who died of AIDS at age 40 in 1992. Though Russell was a classically trained composer and cellist with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of indigenous Indian music, this performer quickly branched off in a more offbeat and unusual direction. The Oskaloosa, IA, native fixated on such counterculture icons as John Cage and Timothy Leary at an early age, then ran away from home during adolescence and joined a Frisco-based Buddhist group. Russell became acquainted and associated with poet Allen Ginsberg, then moved to New York City, where (like Cage) he established himself as a veritable fixture in the underground music scene and worked as the music director for The Kitchen. By the mid-'70s, Russell began producing prescient disco records in the pre-Gibb days, under colorful pseudonyms such as Indian Ocean and Loose Joints. Unfortunately, he never culled the devoted following that he deserved until about 15 years after his death. Wolf employs a fractured film-essay style throughout the film, intercutting such materials as archival footage, extracts of musical compositions by Russell, and revealing interviews with Russell's family. Thematically, the director uses the tale of Russell's colorful life as a springboard into investigations of broader subjects and themes including gay lifestyles in the early AIDS era, the sociocultural landscape of Manhattan (and the cultural underground) during the 1970s and '80s, and the importance of staking out new directions in art and music for an innovative mind such as Russell's.
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Fredona Manderfield Gartlan, a longtime advocate for those suffering from mental illness, died April 22, 2013 at her home in Mason Neck. She was 85 and had suffered in recent years from Alzheimer's Disease. The cause of death was an apparent heart attack.
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music's greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star.
"For anyone already curious, THE FILM DELIVERS THE GOODS." – Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
"A deserved tribute that puts us inside the music, and the head space, of a great, lost band. A well-sourced account of a perfect, broken dream." – Nicholas Rapold, NY Times
"The filmmakers find the perfect tone for the band's story, and Nothing Can Hurt Me is as warm and melancholy as a setting sun... an overdue but fitting epitaph" – Lindsay Zoladz, Pitchfork
"The film is almost as perfect as the music. I give it my highest recommendation." – Whitney Matheson, USA Today
"A fine documentary on the classic-rock era's greatest cult band." – Will Hermes, Rolling Stone
"A HEARTFELT TRIBUTE TO THE CRIMINALLY OVERLOOKED BAND." – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly


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After I recently started using KnockoutJS, the awesome MV-VM Javascript library, I came across several samples which serve as a great reference for real-world scenarios to solve specific UI problems. Because it's hard to get to when I wanted to take quick look at, thought of making a list. This is an evolving list, so will keep adding samples as I find them.
I am sure you will find them useful.
The reference samples are created by community and are mostly on the JSFiddle.net
- ObservableArray Manipulation, providing own mappings for ko.mapping Plugin
- Defining a customBinder
- Nested Comments Sample
- applyBindingsToNode, reapply bindings
- Data binding html element's attributes like Title, Class etc
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"Because I do what the facts tell me, Captain…"
- Capt. Richard Davenport from A Soldier's Play (1981)
The true importance of any political endorsement is debatable. But this one is big, since it involves America's most recognizable military hero declaring a preference that could help undecided centrist Republicans and independents make up their minds. Barack Obama himself took stock of the endorsement Sunday, fittingly, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to Fort Bragg, the world's largest military installation: "Today I am beyond honored; I am deeply humbled to have the support of General Colin Powell."
Powell—former secretary of state, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, architect of Powell Doctrine and infantry combat officer in Vietnam—appeared on Meet the Press yesterday and declared his support for Obama's presidential bid. That Powell stepped forward to endorse Obama and not McCain, the candidate closer to him in age, party affiliation and career military service, underscores the stakes involved: the primacy, in Powell's opinion, of the United States "restoring a sense of purpose, a sense of confidence in the American people and, in the international community, in America."
As Obama widens his lead in most national polls over McCain, one of the remaining indecipherables is whether Obama's support among moderate swing voters will hold through Election Day, and whether or not the so-called "Bradley Effect"—a lower percentage of white voters actually voting for a black candidate than the percentage reflected in polling data—will influence the outcome of the election. But Powell, an African-American Republican respected by whites and blacks, and by Republicans and Democrats, provides Obama with the all-American imprimatur of trustworthiness among an important slice of the electorate that remains uncommitted.
The timing of Powell's endorsement, with just two weeks left before Election Day, suggests that Powell has been waiting, through the conventions and all of the debates, to see whether Obama or McCain would emerge as the more viable leader. "Over the last six or seven weeks, as both of them have really taken a final exam," Powell said, Obama has passed the test while McCain has not. Obama, he said, "has a definitive way of doing business that would serve us well."
In terms of the election horse race, it would be hard to overstate how effectively Obama's campaign endorsements have been deployed over the course of the campaign season: the early endorsements of Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry lent instant Democratic Party credibility to Obama; during the height of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement helped Obama turn the page within his own campaign narrative; and now, just when McCain seems to have found his core audience in the form of "Joe the Plumber," Obama can use Powell's endorsement to send the message that he, and not John McCain, is driving the conversation this year.
Powell was comprehensive in his explanation about how he arrived at his choice, preferring Obama's "intellectual vigor" to McCain's "maverick aspects." He told Meet the Press moderator Tom Brokaw he "would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court" that would result from a McCain presidency. Powell described McCain as a friend, but took him to task for making Bill Ayers a centerpiece of his campaign instead of engaging Americans on important policy issues. And Powell was unequivocal that Sarah Palin is unprepared to serve as vice president, and that McCain showed poor judgment by selecting her as his running mate.
Although most of Powell's remarks were fairly clinical—a clear-eyed and balanced assessment of the relative qualities of the two presidential candidates—perhaps the most moving portion of the interview was Powell expressing his dismay at the Republican campaign's willingness to impugn Muslims in this country with a broad brush. He challenged the repeated and incorrect labeling of Obama as a Muslim by his opponents as a way of portraying him as un-American, and asked, "Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?" stating, "The answer is, no," before going on to describe his feelings about seeing a photo of the mother of Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan at his grave in Arlington National Cemetery, refuting the destructive notion that being a Muslim is some kind of disqualifier to being a genuine, patriotic American.
A few weeks ago I polled my uncles, Vietnam veterans, on their perceptions of Barack Obama and John McCain as prospective commanders in chief. Their opinions varied on how war shaped their views on today's politics, but each of the them zeroed in on the difference between veterans who believe that America should exert its military power preemptively, and those whose experiences lead them to the conclude that war should be a last resort. In the broadest terms, Powell's support for Obama reflects that dichotomy.
We may hear cynical insinuations from the conservative commentariat that Powell's endorsement was predictable based on race. But Powell preempted this thinking, noting that with regard to the prospect of a first African American president, "all Americans should be proud, not just African Americans." The signature link between Powell and Obama is not race. It is their shared belief that even a superpower with the most capable and best equipped military in the world is wise to use its military power only after diplomacy has been applied and exhausted. It's an outlook that rejects the "attack first, discuss later" preemption doctrine (take note, Gov. Palin) espoused by the Bush administration and embraced by McCain.
If Americans elect Obama in November, Powell's endorsement won't be the primary reason. But because of who he is, and the strength of the case that he made for an Obama presidency, Powell's support for Obama will not only shape the final days of the campaign, but perhaps provide momentum for an Obama doctrine of governance, helping to define a key mission for whoever is the next president—strengthening the United States by reaching out to the world.


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If you have been living under a rock, you may not know that there is a $540 $640 million lottery jackpot to be won tonight.
Although there may be better odds of being killed by a plane dropping soda machines in the next 24 hours, it's fun to consider how you might spend the cash if the odds wind up in your favor.
What car /truck /van /motorcycle /boat /plane will you be buying if you somehow hit the jackpot?
For me, there is only one choice: the Aston Martin V12 Zagato.
I am a little obsessed with this car. From the way it looks to the way it sounds, everything about it is absolutely sublime.
But if I buy that, I guess I'll also have to move. Parking a $500,000 Aston on the street in NJ might not be the best decision.
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Battle of the BBQ Brethren: Call for entries
Think your barbecue is hot stuff? Prove it at the Battle of the BBQ Brethren. Long Island's longest-running barbecue competition. Now in its seventh year, the battle is joined over the weekend of Aug. 3 and 4 at The Maples in Manorville.
On Saturday, there will be a grilling competition open to any and all comers. Backyard warriors will have to turn in an appetizer, two "chef's choices" and a dessert. The top finishers will go head-to-head against a surprise celebrity BBQ chef in an iron-chef-ish "mystery basket" shootout.
Sunday is the main event, when teams will compete in four categories: chicken, pork ribs, pork shoulder and brisket. Not only is this a New York State championship, it is a qualifying round for both the American Royal World Series of Barbecue in Kansas City and the Jack Daniels Invitational Barbecue World Championship in Lynchburg, Tenn.
Last year's competition awarded more than $17,000 in prizes, with the grand BBQ champion receiving $1,800 and the grilling champion, $500 (plus bragging rights.)
Entrance fees are $250 for the BBQ competition, $50 for grilling. All net proceeds go to The John Theissen Childrens Foundation. For more details and to download applications, go to bbqbattleli.com.
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text: Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. He is also a nephew to the great Former Feather Weight Champion of the World, the late Sandy Saddler. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop/rap artists to be so honored.