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Great Lake Taupo - The Volcanic Wine and Craft Beer Region
Boutique vineyards, craft beer breweries and wine merchants are all to be found in the Great Lake Taupo region.
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Whether you're a seasoned wine or beer enthusiast or just like to enjoy a good glass or two, the Great Lake Taupo region will keep you happy with its boutique vineyards, craft beer breweries and wine and beer merchants.
The Taupo region's free-draining volcanic pumice soil, created by the eruption of the nearby volcanoes of Tongariro National Park over thousands of years, combines with the higher altitude and cooler climate to produce wines with a very distinctive bouquet. You'll find these wines in retail stores and restaurants throughout the region, but what better way to experience the region's wines than at the vineyards where they were grown.
Take a day to visit the region's beautiful vineyards and enjoy fine food and wine in a vineyard restaurant. The southern end of Lake Taupo is home to most of the region's vineyards.
Omori Estate lies in the southwestern corner of Lake Taupo in the village of Omori. The Estate grows olives, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris grapes, and its produce is available from restaurants and stores throughout the region. The Omori Estate Cellar Door is open for wine and olive oil tastings and light snacks from Christmas until Waitangi weekend (around 6 February). Bookings can be made outside of these times for group visits, tastings and special functions. The Estate hosts a Jazz/Blues concert each New Years Eve and holds a gourmet food market around Christmas time.
Floating Rock Vineyard and Café (Kuratau River Wines) is situated in Kuratau, at the southwestern end of Lake Taupo. Floating Rock prides itself on being accredited as 'Sustainable' by Sustainable Wines NZ. They produce an exclusive range of wines from Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris vines with distinctive varietal characteristics. The wines can be enjoyed in their winery and café which is open during school and public holiday periods from 9.30am – 4.00pm. Floating Rock also sells olive and lavender oils and has luxury accommodation available.
Wine Merchants
There are several places to buy and enjoy good wine in Taupo. If you want to pair good wine with gourmet food, try Vine Eatery and Bar on Tuwharetoa St. There are over 150 hand-picked wines on offer and the Eatery specialises in delicious tapas and platters to accompany your chosen tipple.
Café Pinot, situated within Huka Village, is another eatery that has a great selection of dishes to match with their well-balanced wine selection. The café is in a unique setting overlooking their beautiful vineyard with stunning views out to Mt Tauhara and beyond.
For all your wine and gourmet food purchases, head to The Merchant of Taupo on Spa Rd where you will find the Central North Island's largest range. The shelves are loaded with local and imported products with a great range of wine, beer and spirits to choose from. For a thoroughly relaxing afternoon activity, visit The Merchant to stock up on gourmet treats and your favourite wines and head down to the lake for a picnic.
Craft Beer Breweries
Taupo has two of its own craft beer breweries that are making their mark on the thriving craft beer scene.
Crafty Trout Brewing Co
The Crafty Trout Brewing Co is a boutique brewery making craft beer and cider. The brewery uses Lake Taupo's mineral waters formed through volcanic fire and glacial ice along with New Zealand's finest malts, hops and yeast. Visit their Bier Kafe on Tongariro St to experience the 7 beers and ciders available while soaking up the ambience of the Austrian alpine themed bar and cafe. The menu is beer infused and beer matched! Entertaining and interactive brewery tours are available daily with the Brewmaster who will show you the world's first fully automated Smartbrew system. Bottled beer and cider are available for purchase from the liquor outlet.
Lakeman Brewing Co
The Lakeman Brewing Co brews beer from Taupo's purest natural water and boasts malty, hoppy flavours. Lakeman beer is available from the Mole and Chicken, the Lakehouse, Vine Eatery & Bar, Rose on Roberts, Victoria's Café Kitchen and Bar and Huka Prawn Park. The Merchant of Taupo and Liquorland Taupo also sell Lakeman beer.


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BERLIN – Analysts may be expecting a relatively flat market through 2008, but that doesn't mean your portfolio has to stagnate.
A covered-call strategy tends to outperform outright equity investing in bearish, flat and moderately bullish markets (while underperforming in strong bull markets). It can also generate additional income from your equity positions without disrupting your long-term investment approach.
Here's how a covered call works: In exchange for the premium you receive from writing a covered call, you agree to sell the stock at a specific "strike" price for a fixed period of time. Say you own 100 shares of a stock trading at $35 a share. You might sell a six-month call option contract for a $200 premium ($2 per share) with a strike price of $40. If the stock stays below $40 during that six-month period, you'd keep the $200 premium and your stock position. If the stock drops, the $2 premium will partially offset its depreciation. If the stock price rises above the $40 strike price, you are obliged to sell the stock to the buyer of the contract, sacrificing any upside above $42 (the $40 strike price plus the $2 premium).
If for any reason your market outlook changes before expiration or assignment, you may be able to buy back the call option contract and close out your position.
Income-oriented investors sometimes use covered calls to supplement their dividend income and enhance their portfolio's yield. And investors with specific target prices often use covered calls to generate income through the premiums; in return, they agree to sell their shares at the strike price of the covered call, if the call owner elects to buy them.
Your financial advisor can run custom covered-call scenarios on a single stock or your entire portfolio. You can base these scenarios on your specific income goals or growth targets, and your financial advisor can provide you with a real-time income analysis and also tell you what the overall returns might be as well as the potential tradeoffs involved in the covered-call strategy.
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"Nothing ruins a dinner party like expertise."
~ from Eloisa James'
Seven Minutes in Heaven
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Amanda Bouchet
Fantasy Romance. Not only is
Catalia "Cat" Fisa the Kingmaker, who "hears the lie and knows the truth," she's also a runaway princess -- a secret she's kept for nearly a decade. Cat hoped she could leave all that behind and live with Griffin, her Sintan warlord lover, b
ut Griffin has discovered the truth of her identity, which could jeopardize their plans to unite the three realms of Thalyria.
Picking up where
Promise of Fire
left off,
Breath of Fire
is the 2nd volume of the Kingmaker Chronicles, which bolsters its central love story with an epic storyline and detailed world-building. Although this series is somewhat unusual for following one couple's developing relationship across (a projected) three books, its strong leads and emotional intensity should please romance fans.
Forged in Desire
Brenda Jackson
Multicultural Romantic Suspense. Jury duty isn't usually this exciting: soon after Margo Connelly and her fellow jurors deliver a guilty verdict, people involved in the trial start dying. Once the judge, the court clerk, and the bailiff are gunned down in cold blood outside the courthouse, it becomes clear that Margo needs protection, too. Tasked with protecting Margo from a crime boss' hired killer, bodyguard Lamar "Striker" Jennings must stay by her side, day and night. Naturally, Margo and Lamar get to know each other very, very well. But Lamar has reservations about a relationship: not only is Margo his mentor's niece, but Lamar fears that his law-breaking past may change her mind about him.
Forged in Desire
is the 1st book in the Protectors series.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Eloisa James
Regency Historical. Eugenia Snowe's professional reputation depends on supplying the upper classes with England's finest governesses. So when one of her placements proves unsuitable, she takes a personal interest in rectifying the situation. Edward "Ward" Reeve is desperate to find someone who can handle his rambunctious younger half-siblings, whose behavior threatens his status as their guardian. A witty and heartfelt tale of opposites attracting,
Seven Minutes in Heaven
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Desperate Duchesses
; Eugenia makes her debut as a teenager in
Duchess by Night
Beverly Jenkins
Multicultural Western Romance. Portia Carmichael's mother was a prostitute who abandoned Portia and her sister when they were children. Fortunately, her aunt and uncle (
's Eddy Carmichael and Rhine Fontaine) stepped in; thanks to them, Portia is now an Oberlin graduate who manages the finest hotel in the Arizona Territory. Due to her experiences, Portia has no desire to marry. But the return of an old family friend, Kent Randolph, soon has her rethinking her stance on romance -- despite his youthful reputation as a lady's man. As Kent patiently woos Portia, he must prove to her that he's matured into the kind of man she could marry.
Lady Claire Is All That: Keeping Up With the Cavendishes
Maya Rodale
Regency Historical. When Lady Claire Cavendish meets Maximilian Frederick DeVere, Lord Fox, she can't believe that he's truly interested in discussing mathematics. In fact, he isn't. Recently jilted, Fox has accepted a wager that he can transform bluestocking Claire into the belle of the ball. But as they get to know each other better, Fox realizes that some things are more important than winning. Although
Lady Claire Is All That
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Lady Bridget's Diary
Chasing Lady Amelia)
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Joanna Bourne
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My One and Only
Kristan Higgins
Contemporary Romance. Martha's Vineyard-based divorce attorney Harper James isn't exactly looking forward to a weekend in Montana, where her flighty stepsister, Willa, is getting married for the third time. She's even less thrilled when she learns that Willa's husband-to-be is the younger brother of Harper's ex-husband, Nick. Harper and Nick married young and divorced soon after, but neither has ever fully recovered from the heartbreak. When Harper's flight home is cancelled, Nick gallantly, if reluctantly, offers her a ride. The ensuing cross-country road trip forces them to examine what went wrong in their relationship as they take tentative steps towards rekindling their romance.
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Robin D. Owens
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Although scorned as a "half-blood," Jenni possesses rare abilities that could save the magical world she has rejected. Can Aric convince her to help a community that, as far as Jenni's concerned, has brought her nothing but grief?
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Enchanted Ever After
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Mary Jo Putney
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Not Quite a Wife
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Second Chance Summer
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Second Chance Summer
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My Kind of Wonderful
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Overview of Content Experiments
The Content Experiments Interface
Content Experiments has three main areas: the experiment-setup wizard, the list of experiments, and the individual reports for each experiment. In addition, you can also see data about your experiment in your Analytics view.
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If you have not created any experiments, when you open Content Experiments, you see the overview page for the experiment-setup wizard. To create an experiment from this page, click START EXPERIMENTING.
If you have already created other experiments, when you open Content Experiments, you see the experiments list.
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We've received multiple tips that ESPNcricinfo has been updated with a revamped interface. Instead of continuing to sport a rather dull and boring interface, the team behind the app has implemented a brand new design, better reflecting the modern UI that's utilised on Windows Phone and across the Microsoft ecosystem. What's more is the new look also brings the app up to speed with counterparts on iOS and Android.
Version 2 of ESPNcricinfo not only looks smart, but fast resume is finally working too. If you're not familiar with the app, it's a must-have for any cricket sports fan. Covering international matches, ICC tournaments and major domestic leagues including English county championships, Indian Premier League and Champions League, ESPN brings the latest cricket content to your Windows Phone.
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So, any football fans here? My favourite club is Feyenoord (Holland). They peform bad last years (financial problems). Also I follow the English and Spanish competition and several other European ones (Italy, Germany; Belgium, France a bit).
Transfer deadline is tonight and it's always very confusing. I mean look at this page
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Lady Gaga Concussion Update: MRI Reveals She is Fine
Lady Gaga sustained a concussion at her New Zealand show, thanks to an errant stage prop, which was mishandled by one of her dancers, causing it to go crashing into her head while performing. As perhaps a cautionary measure, the 'Marry the Night' songstress had an MRI, which revealed that she is fine. Better to be safe than sorry.
In a true display of that old adage "The show must go on," Gaga didn't even stop the gig after she got cracked in the noggin, but she did sustain a nasty black eye because of it. Of course she shared an image of her injury on Twitter.
She posted a note on Facebook, sharing that she had the MRI, writing: "Went for an MRI. No harm from the concussion but it appears my brain is just water and a large floating jellyfish."
What a creative pool of water and floating jellyfish it is, Mother Monster.
We are glad that Gaga is medically cleared and that she was not injured seriously. The head is a very tender and sensitive region, so anytime its bashed, it's always best to have a doctor look at it to make sure there is no further (and invisible to the naked eye) damage sustained. Remember, actress Natasha Richardson fell, hit her head and was seemingly fine afterwards but died a few days later due to the injury.
And a note to Gaga's backup dancers: Be careful. We can't have Gaga being hit in the head and suffering headaches or worse.
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copyright the Chronicle July 15, 2015
by Elizabeth Trail
WESTMORE — About 13,000 years ago, the last retreating glacier left a huge boulder, twice as tall as a person, overlooking Lake Willoughby near the top of the Hinton Hill Road in Westmore. Generations have watched sunsets from the rock, picnicked at its base, and gathered berries in the surrounding fields.
On July 11 the great rock, and the site of the old farmhouse that once stood nearby, became the focal points of Vermont's new Sentinel Rock State Park.
Vermont's newest state park was made possible by the generous gift of 356 acres by Windsor and Florence Wright. The Wrights summered in an old Victorian farmhouse on the site for decades after Mr. Wright's father bought the place in 1947, said Vermont State Parks Director Craig Whipple….To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle's stories, subscribe:
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A businessman has admitted providing $150,000 to straw donors who then contributed to candidates in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Utah.
Jeremy Johnson, a Utah businessman, stated in an affidavit, he laundered $50,000 through straw donors to the 2010 campaign of Sen. Mike Lee , R-Utah, and $100,000 to Mark Shurtleff, R-Utah, who was considering a 2010 Senate race, but later dropped out. It is illegal to give contributions in the names of others in federal elections.


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Today's article is about Disney-Pixar's animation film Wall-E and the memorable voice of the main little robot character. According to sound designer Ben Burtt, the robot voices are "like a toddler […] universal language of intonation. 'Oh', 'Hm?', 'Huh!', you know?"[44].
Ben Burtt explains how he did the voice of Wall-E here: "You start with the human voice input and record words or sounds and then it is taken into a computer and I worked out a unique program which allowed me to deconstruct the sound into its component parts.
I could reassemble the Wall-E vocals and perform it with a light pen on a tablet. You could change pitch by moving the pen or the pressure of the pen would sustain or stretch syllables or consonants and you could get an additional level of performance that way, kind of like playing a musical instrument.
Voices are the hardest because the audience listens to them with much more critical ears than sound effects. We are all experts at interpreting the nuances of speech, so anything that might be interpreted as a vocal or expression the audience really listens carefully."
Here's a little example of what I've been able to recreate in Kyma with my own voice:
Here's a very short and simple explanation of the Kyma patch that you can see at the bottom of this page:
As Ben Burtt simplified:
We all know how pictures are pixels now and you can rearrange pixels to change the picture. You kind of do the same thing with sound.
This is the very first post of my blog and as an introduction, I'd like to share the sound of my demo reel that you can watch at http://www.jedsound.com/. Type"kyma" for the password.
Everything started when I received a software called Kyma from Symbolic Sound. As I was reading Kyma X Revealed! by Carla Scaletti, I discovered many different ways to manipulate and process a sound that I never heard before. It took me over 6 months to dig into every aspect of the "prototypes" (the leaves of the big tree). Then I could build more complex patches (the branches of the tree) depending on my needs and write little scripts in kyma language to control my sounds algorithmically. For example, a sound can be just a parameter of another sound parameter that controls one parameter of a totally different sound. This was a very good learning experience that opened my mind on what a sound actually is: Frequencies and amplitudes are nothing else than a sequence of digits that can be modified mathematically.
So, I downloaded a few trailers I found interesting in terms of visual texture and dynamic, converted them into quicktime DV, brought them up in a ProTools session and started to record while performing my sounds in real time on picture.
I really wanted to go further and use some fresh sounds instead of picking up from my libraries. I was so influenced by all those talented and dedicated sound designers, such as Chuck Russom, Nathan Moody, Tim Prebble, Michael Raphael, David Steinwedel etc. sharing their sound effects on the web, that I decided to go in the field too…
I got a lot of fresh sound materials recorded at 96kHz/24b that received metadata within soundminer. This includes spring coils and slinkies, electromagnetic fields recorded with guitar pickups, neonodium magnets, motors, servos, gadgets and gizmos, metal impacts and underwater metal impacts, wobble boards, car doors, washing machines, sewing machines, dumpsters, bungee cords, elastics, slingshots, balloons, wine glasses, chairs, winds dragging bags on carpets etc. that I will talk about later in other articles on this blog.
From all that stuff, I built around 10GB of processed elements in Kyma, Metasynth, Michael Norris Suite, IRCAM's AudioSculpt and ProTools with Waves, Sound Toys, GRM Tools and Altiverb. Obviously, only a little percentage of that was used, because some of it was intended for some other projects.
For this article though, I'll stay focused on the sounds processed in Kyma… (read more!)


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One half of the incredible duo Fischli/Weiss, David Weiss succumbed to cancer this past month. Peter Fischli and David Weiss began collaborating in 1979, and they participated in the 1988 and 2008 Carnegie Internationals. Weiss was present at both exhibition openings, and I've heard very fond remembrances from many current and former CMA staff. Look for The Way Things Go (part of the CMA's collection, and called "one of the most acclaimed art films of the late 20th century," by the NYT's Roberta Smith) to be on view in our "Fountain Gallery" (outside the Scaife restrooms) in the coming month. You can read the Times's obituary here.
Tags: 1988 Carnegie International, 2008 Carnegie International, David Weiss, Peter Fischili


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Woodland in a Jar
A great time was had by all during our Woodland in a Jar program at The Gardens on Saturday! Kaul Wildflower Curator John Manion and Plant Adventures Program Specialist Brooke McMinn were joined by nine enthusiastic children, along with three equally eager adults, for an autumn adventure in terrarium building.
John and Brooke began the program by talking with the group about the definition and importance of ecosystems and what makes Alabama's ecosystems so special. The discussion also included a conversation about scale and how to select appropriate plants and objects for use in a terrarium. We then led the group on a walk through the Barber Alabama Woodlands garden to look at some of the plants we would be using for the terrariums and to collect some additional materials. Finally, we returned with the group to the Arrington Plant Adventure Zone where everyone carefully constructed their own unique terrarium ecosystem. Take a look some of the fabulous mini-versions of Alabama woodlands that participants took home!
Tags: Andrew Krebbs, Birmingham, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Blake Ells, Brooke McMinn, John Manion, The Gardens


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OCEAN CITY – A brief crime analysis of the 2007 summer season was given at a Police Commission meeting last week, with the conclusions the numbers were as expected.
Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino and Corporal Glen McIntyre, who will be acting as a crime analyst for the department, made the presentation to the Police Commission at last Thursday's meeting.
"Our numbers run concurrent with the population," McIntyre said.
According to the figures, the calls for service saw an increase this year, with 43,301 calls for service compared to 35,290 calls for service in 2006 and 2005 resulted in 36,336 calls for service. In the north district, which includes the areas north of 18th Street, there were 26,042 calls for service with 17,259 calls for service in the south district. McIntyre explained that the north district warrants more calls for service due to the larger area it covers and the inevitable traffic calls that result from that area.
McIntyre pointed out that the crime analysis provides the department with the ability to better track calls for transportation. It also provides a more detailed look at business checks done throughout the summer, showing the exact times and dates that business checks were performed.
"Although calls for service look like they are up, they're not really up," DiPino said, explaining that the new computer system allows them to capture more calls for service and include them in the data. "We don't feel like we have more than we did in past summers."
McIntyre pointed out the department saw a decrease in citizen calls for service.
"That means we're getting it before the citizen has to call us and notify us about it," DiPino said.
McIntyre added that 66.3 percent of calls for service were officer initiated.
Frequent offenses were analyzed as well, with 12 offenses, ranging from assault to theft, included in the analysis. The data revealed 641 assault offenses for 2007 compared to 550 in 2006. McIntyre pointed out increases in offenses seen in 2007 were due to an increased population, a result of favorable weather.
The disorderly conduct offenses were up from 3,648 last year to 3,814 in 2007. McIntyre pointed out that those numbers were consistent with the four-year average of 3,866 disorderly offenses.
The analysis showed that there were 2,536 arrests this summer season, with more than 170 arrests related to open container offenses. McIntyre showed the demographics of offenders were as expected, with adult males making up 70 percent of arrests and juveniles, 17 and under, making up 16.8 percent of arrests.
"Things went well [this summer] and the numbers were right were we expected them to be," McIntyre said.
DiPino added, "The system does help us and it does help to have someone break it down for us to see."
All the week's news will be available on The Dispatch's website on Friday morning as well as on the streets of Worcester County.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Behind MeShalon Moore's big hits and Shelby Wisdom's performance in the circle, UC Santa Barbara completed the series sweep at UC Riverside with a 5-3 win on Sunday.
Wisdom put in a complete game while only allowing two earned runs off three hits. The victory was her 21st of the season and 62nd of her career, which ties Sandy Ortigies for the most in program history. Ortigies has held the record since 1987.
The Gauchos have tied Long Beach State for first place in the league with a 13-5 record, while they improve to 33-18 overall. UC Riverside drops to 22-29 and 3-15 in conference play.
Out of the gates, Moore got UCSB's offense firing, as she ran in the game's first run with a double to left field in the first inning. Wisdom picked up a walk with two outs to get on base and was sent home on the next at bat thanks to her batterymate's double. With Moore on second, Kathryn Pilpil continued the scoring and dropped a single into center field to give the Gauchos a 2-0 lead.
Wisdom kept the Highlanders quiet on offense early, as she mowed through the first six batters through two innings. At the top of the third, Wisdom kept UCSB's offensive momentum going with a one out double. Again, Moore delivered an RBI and, this time, belted a single to right field to put Santa Barbara on top 3-0.
Riverside mustered up one run to get on the board by the time the fifth inning rolled around. However, the Gauchos continued to find success at the plate. Facing one out and both runners in scoring position, Emily Brucelas recorded a sacrifice fly to bring Moore in for the score, while Samantha Stark remained at second base. She wouldn't wait much longer, as Stacy Cavazos's single during the next at bat gave her the green light to cross home plate and give UCSB the 5-1 advantage.
The Highlanders tried to put together a late comeback, but the Gaucho defense proved too much. In the bottom of the seventh, Sommer Wilson led off with a single to left field. She eventually advanced to second on a groundout and scored off a double from Kris DeAnda. The run moved to 5-3, but that's as close as UCR would get.
With two runners in scoring position, Wisdom retired the final two batters of the game on back-to-back fly outs to seal the win.
UCSB will host Long Beach State next weekend in the final week of the regular season, as the teams will bout for the 2014 Big West title. The series will open with a doubleheader on Friday May 9 starting at 12 p.m. Tickets are available at the Ticketing Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building, over the phone at 805.893.UCSB, or online here.


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I keep wanting to write. I have occasional thoughts of "Oh, I should write about that!" only to get busy, or forget about it, or waste the thought on FB instead. My writing has fallen very low on the priority list. I remember when I just HAD to write or I would go crazy. And now? Time flees my grasp, my kids are growing, and I'm not capturing life as I would like to.
It all goes by so fast and my memory is so horrible that if I don't write it down, I eventually won't remember it. And I so want to remember this time in my kids' lives. In our lives. Even as it's hard and crazy and messy and loud, it's ours. And I have such a tenuous grasp on it all anyway. It floats through my fingers only to dissipate with barely a sound, a soft whisper of "You're going to miss this when it's gone," before it really IS gone.
I've always been an observer. A recorder. Whether it was on paper or via camera, I had a compulsion to document things. If I don't, then I'm afraid it didn't happen. Why am I so desperate to leave a record, an "I was here!" for future generations to see? I guess maybe I always wished that I had found an old diary of a distant relative from years past where I could have a glimpse into what her life was like. Her hopes, dreams, loves.
I guess I want my kids to know that there was so much more to their mom than changing diapers, driving them to school, kissing scraped knees, or being their jungle gym. Don't get me wrong – I love being that to them. But I am SO much more than that. I'm not quite sure what that is, because it's tough to define yourself as more when you're down in the trenches of mothering.
It starts by doing a better job of taking time for myself. I've been working a lot of hours recently and I haven't taken enough time to care for myself, my relationship with my husband, or my friendships. I'm working on changing that. And it actually starts this weekend, by going out with a girlfriend yesterday and spending some time writing today.
I still have a lot of work to catch up on. That hasn't changed. But I just have to know my limits. Wearing myself out isn't going to help me work better, nor is it going to help the quality of my work. And with recent health developments, it has become even more important that I take care of myself. So it starts now. Wish me luck.


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Code complexity is an important and valid metric. Its most common unit of measure is derived via cyclomatic complexity and is frequently referred to as the cyclomatic complexity number, or CCN. To be historically complete, the same measure was once known as "McCabe," because it was originally proposed by Tom McCabe in 1976. The CCN basically measures the number of possible execution paths through a piece of code, generally a function. So code with a single path (that is, no
if statements or loops) has a CCN of 1, the minimum possible value. The CCN rises with
if statements, looping constructs, and other code features that involve a test before deciding what code to execute.
Typically, it's desirable for routines to have a CCN below 10. Most tools that measure code quality get fairly noisy if they find CCNs above 20. The idea behind these guidelines is that the more complex code is, the harder it is to test and maintain. Code that is hard to test and maintain tends to be a honey pot for bugs.
Organizations that pay attention to quality metrics will often put in a place a system that refuses to allow check-ins of code in which the CCN surpasses a preset limit. This would work except for one imperfection in the CCN as it is measured today, namely that every
case statement in a
switch represents a different path and so raises the CCN. So, a routine with a
case statement containing more than 30 cases will have a CCN greater than 30 and be blocked at check in. There are ways around this, of course, but the
switch statement is designed precisely to reduce the complexity of large-scale multiway value-based decisions. There is no doubt that a 20-case
switch is less complex than code whose logic is 20 levels deep. This is a small defect in CCN computation, which otherwise is a good measure: It is simple to calculate, easy to evaluate, and universally deployed in QA tools.
However, for CCN to be useful, it needs to be applied correctly. Many people apply the CCN measure to a whole program or to an entire source file. This approach generates a meaningless number. The resulting number is the sum of the CCNs of the individual routines. This means that the more routines in the file, the higher the CCN. It says nothing about whether the code is complex or not. This misunderstanding is rife in our industry, which is why the CCN is far too often ignored. A recent example of this very thing, to my surprise, appears in VS 2012, as I noted in our recent review of the product. The VS 2012 code review option generates the data in the following box (see column 3):
Cyclomatic Complexity in Column 3 is the sum of CCNs of constituent functions.
As can be seen, the CCN is meaningless when computed this way. If taken at face value, all those entries are off-the-charts complex. A CCN of 137 for example (the highlighted item) is unimaginably complex code. But, in fact, the CCN in this dialog is the sum of the CCNs of the various methods in the class, which has 222 lines of code. Had Microsoft at least shown the average CCN per method, developers would have some sense of where to look for problems. But the right path would be to omit CCNs entirely from code at the class level, and to present a separate dialog listing the methods and functions with the highest CCNs. Then, developers could go in and fix the code if necessary.
The typical fixes for high-complexity code include refactoring the code, frequently into smaller functions or classes that break up the complexity. Highly complex code is often indicative of violations of the single responsibility principle (SRP) although not always. For example, parser code is frequently tagged with high CCNs and yet respects the SRP and is devilishly difficult to simplify. In such cases, adding comments is often a good path. This at least helps maintainers work their way through the code. Finally, occasional Dr. Dobb's author Andrew Glover points out that if you're committed to thorough testing, a good rule of thumb is that you should have, at minimum, one unit test for every increment in CCN. So a function with a CCN of 17 should have at least 17 unit tests one for each possible execution path.
Either way, if you rely on CCN as a useful code metric, and I believe you should, apply it correctly so that it delivers true value.
— Andrew Binstock
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FEEL GOOD FRIDAY: Number 522
Apparently, I am now number 522. For some unknown reason my stock took a nosedive today. I was up to 37, but not any more. My seven year old daughter informed me of this. Using some complicated and mysterious calculations, she ranks me. As she looked at me with pity and dismissal while telling me my new ranking, I shook my bowed head wondering where I went wrong. I never know what I did wrong. Her system of quantifying my value to her puzzles me. Only on rare and precious occasions do I break the top ten. I am usually deep in the hundreds. My wife remains solidly placed at number one and my son, my daughter's unrivaled nemesis, frequently ranks higher than me. I don't get it.
I am the one making blueberry pancakes that I don't eat. I construct lunches and brush hair and teeth. I play and read and talk. I say nice things. I tell her she's beautiful and smart and wonderful. Yet, I still trail an apparently large pack of others. My current ranking of 522 is strange. I don't think this little girl even knows 522 people. In this case, she must be ranking me behind people she doesn't even know. WTF…whatever…if 522 is where I am, fine.
While considering how or where she even began to think of ranking people, I had to look no further than my left ring finger. My wife, while not vocalizing my rank, wears my placement on her face. Where I stand with her is very obvious. The scale and severity of my indiscretion or error in judgment is detailed in her expression. She does know over 522 people and I am certain that I have done things resulting in a ranking below 522. I am not proud of these moments and the only explanation I can offer during these uncomfortable moments is that I am male. The degree to which a guy can screw up in the eyes of his ladies is immense. Trust me on this. I have tested it, exhaustively.
An illustration of this occurred today as my wife called me to let me know she missed her yoga class. This may or may not have been my fault. Upon answering the phone, I immediately went into defense mode by pointing out the various delays, besides me, that may have resulted in her tardiness. How well this went over became obvious after she hung up on me. It was not good. Being concerned about my new and likely deserved slide in ranking, I dove straight into damage control.
I cleaned the kitchen and swept the floor. I picked up my crap from the living room. I even picked up the kids' stuff. I, in a mild form of parental protest likely known only to me, rarely put their stuff away. I yell at them to clean it up, trying to impart some lesson on responsibility that goes largely in vain. I don't enjoy talking to myself, but I do a lot of it. The clincher on my amends making was my preparation of chicken enchiladas for dinner. Tonight was my wife's late night at work and understanding that the way to her heart truly is through her stomach, I knew that having a good meal ready for her when she walked in the door had the power to change the climate in my home.
It may not have been total magic, but it did soften the edges of her frown and she loosened the grip on her anger and disappointment. With each delectable bite, she unwound and I felt my rank creep higher. A hungry woman is an easy fix. My daughter is not so easily persuaded, but as all people do, I'm sure she has a trigger. I will keep searching and hoping that a soft spot is discovered. I will throw some chocolate chips in her pancakes and maybe add some whipped cream. I will scratch her back and rub her feet. I will serenade and dance. I will find her trigger…hopefully soon, because I don't know how much longer I can take being number 522.
[EDITOR'S NOTE:"Feel Good Friday" is a regular column written by Des Moines resident Dave Markwell, who extols to all neighbors: "Enjoy where we live. Put your feet on the pavement and truly feel how great it is to live here!" Also, you can "friend" Dave on Facebook here. Or work out with him at his new exercise company Waterland CrossFit!]


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Sandy Hook Elementary School students will find that volunteers have painted the walls of their new school green and white, their school colors. The movers set furniture, desks, computers and supplies in the same places as their old classrooms in Newtown. Volunteers pinned the same posters to new classroom walls.
The re-creation of Sandy Hook Elementary in a new location took hundreds of people in the past week. Locksmiths, plumbers, electricians, custodians, experts in fire suppression and security systems, as well as regular citizens armed with paint brushes, all volunteered time to create an around-the-clock renovation team, which peaked at 500.
Thanks to that effort, the surroundings will be familiar, including the school's mascot of three or four years — Shelley, a Red slider turtle that the students take turns feeding. She recently made the trip from Sandy Hook Elementary School to her new home in the library of a once-dormant Monroe school.
"They're going to come back, and if little Chaz had a desk near the window, he'll have the same desk by the window," said Steve Vavrek, Monroe's first selectman. "It's basically as close to how they left it."
After the Dec. 14 shooting that left 20 students and six women dead, Newtown officials decided that the Sandy Hook Elementary School students wouldn't return to the same building after the holidays. That's when Monroe offered the former Chalk Hill School, a middle school closed in 2011 and just months away from being named a community center and space for a local theater and ballet. Sandy Hook's new school is about 8 miles south of Newtown.
Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson, in an interview Friday, said most of the classes will remain intact, except the first grade, which lost the students in the attack. She said one of the school's three first-grade classes has just one remaining student.
Robinson said she expects most of the Sandy Hook teachers to be there when students begin classes at the former Chalk Hill school Jan. 3. Parents will have an opportunity on Jan. 2, the day when the rest of Newtown students return from their holiday break, to tour the school and reconnect with friends and teachers. The teachers will meet that morning.
"We're going to have a lot of support for them," Robinson said of the approximately 30 teachers and staff members from Sandy Hook. "Certainly, if they need more time, they can have more time. But I think many don't want their children — they own those children — they don't want them to be with a substitute. So I think most of them are going to try to come back."
Without offering specifics, Vavrek said the school will be the most secure in the United States.
"There's so many people from so many trades and walks of life," said Lt. Brian McCauley, Monroe's public information officer, who added that many of the contractors preferred to remain anonymous. "These people don't even know each other, but they're working like they've been partners for a long time."
Late last week, Vavrek said, he watched as dozens of teachers, students and their families walked into their new school to pick up their coats and book bags. "It's been gratifying to see their little faces," he said, adding that he saw many parents with tears in their eyes and that the kids eagerly hugged their classmates.
In transitioning the old school into an elementary school, the challenges were expected. After all, middle school kids are just bigger than elementary school children.
First, the urinals were too tall. So while the option of lowering them was considered, workers decided it was easier to build up the floor of the boy's bathroom. Another issue was having handrails low enough for the average kindergartner. Workers installed a shorter set of handrails below the existing ones.
Parent teacher organizations around the country are cutting and crafting paper snowflakes for the school, hoping to create a wintry scene for the students' return.
The move of an entire school from Newtown to Monroe, about 98 percent done by Thursday afternoon, was expedited by state and local officials. Late Saturday afternoon, eight or nine state and local officials walked through the halls and classrooms of Chalk Hill, which was closed a year ago because of declining enrollment and budget issues, Vavrek said.
The next morning, officials from both towns met to write up an agreement just before the sun rose. In 20 minutes, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy waived a state statute about transferring municipal property by invoking the state of emergency from storm Sandy that is still in effect.
The statute would have pushed back the process for weeks as mandated public notices and hearings delayed when volunteers could get started. Over that last hurdle, the crews began working. "This is how government should work," Vavrek said.
Monroe will run the outside of the school, the agreement dictated, and Newtown will take care of the inside, according to Vavrek. The move and renovation won't cost Newtown, he said.
Town crews moved the offices of Monroe's parks and recreation department, which inhabited the school along with the town's emergency medical technician since the school's closing. The EMTs will remain on site, just not in the music room anymore.
The gym is currently a holding area for equipment that still needs to be moved. "There's a room full of flowers that we don't know what to do with right now," Vavrek said.
And there's one more project they need to complete before the students arrive: changing the sign out front from "Chalk Hill School" to "Sandy Hook Elementary School."
An Associated Press report is included in this article.


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Shopping + Gifts enables tracking of your shopping and gift lists for work or home. Includes items, sizes, quantities, prices, stores (sellers), gifts to give, gifts received, and coupons.
Some people like to shop and some people dread nothing more. No matter how you feel about it, you'll love the Shopping + Gifts topic. This topic allows you to do much more than create a grocery list — it allows you to build a collection of products that you buy for your home or business. It helps you to organize the information for the products you buy, the stores you frequent, coupons and the gifts you give and receive — all in context with everything else you do in your daily life.
Alerts, reminders and calendar items help you to stay on top of the products you need to buy. With the Near Me view, powered by foursquare®, search for food, shops and businesses near you. If you wish, you can convert these businesses to Places, Sellers, Banks or Service Providers in your LightArrow app directly from the Near Me view. This way, the seller's information is always at your fingertips. And if you use online sellers, you can keep track of your usernames and passwords, which are secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
Through the power of integration, your shopping information is available across topics. For example, the items you need to buy for any events you are planning in the Events topic automatically show up in your Shopping lists. The result is much better organized views of everything you buy, need to buy, or had bought for you and where you shop.
Events + Appointments
Get your schedule under control and plan superior events
The Events + Appointments topic enables tracking of events and appointments you are organizing or attending. Events include dates, co-hosts, invitees, locations, and context tags. Associate tasks, shopping items, reminders, notes, checklists, photos, and more with events.
Organizing events and appointments can be difficult with traditional calendars. The Events + Appointments topic helps you to easily set up appointments, reminders, events, iOS events and iOS reminders — all from one view. They also work seamlessly with your iOS calendars and other calendars that your iOS devices supports.
The Events + Appointments topic delivers powerful out-of-the-box capabilities beyond anything you would expect from an event planning application. In addition to handling basic event information like event date, location, invitees and co-hosts, seamless integration with other topics enables access to all the related information you have already captured elsewhere including contacts, shopping lists, tasks, photos and projects. You can also email all your co-hosts or invitees from one view, which makes discussing event details with guests, coworkers and co-hosts easy. Are you planning a wedding, birthday party or other event that requires RSVPs? Mark those who have confirmed their response in a few simple taps.
Once your events are created, you can view everything on your LightArrow app and your device calendars. This spares you from time-consuming data entry and gives you more time to plan your events. Best of all, this integration is two-way.
Travel + Places
Simplify your trip and vacation planning
The Travel + Places topic allows you to track trips you plan to take or the visitors you will be receiving. It includes dates, destinations, companions, context tags, and locations. Associate tasks, shopping items, appointments, reminders, notes, photos, video, and more with trips and visits.
When you take trips for work or pleasure or when family and friends come to visit you, you know that everything goes more smoothly with preparation. If only you had a solution in the palm of your hands that would make all that planning easier. Enter the Travel + Places topic.
For all your trips and visits, the Travel + Places topic lets you easily track the start date, end date and description, lets you set reminders and notes and has touchpoints into every other relevant topic. It also helps you take note of places of interest to you in your day-to-day life — your favorite restaurants, the best yoga studios, fun attractions, etc.
With the Travel + Places bookmarks, you can always find the websites associated with your hotel, transportation, airline and reservations — and the associated usernames and passwords for those websites, which are secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The result is more organized and enjoyable trips and visits and more personal time with less effort.
Contacts + Services
Manage services and customer or personal relationships
The Contacts + Services enables organization of contact information for customer relationship management or for personal contacts. It includes tracking of the services you receive including account information, service dates, bills, and payment information. Track service providers from whom you receive services, including ratings. It also leverages your device's Contacts application.
Many of us have numerous contacts for service providers, clients, prospects, friends, family and organizations that we keep track of every day. The Contacts + Services topic helps you to manage professional relationships; doctors, dentists and fitness professionals for your health; legal, banking and investment professionals for your financial management; utilities and domestics for your household maintenance; and more.
If you are running a small or micro business or freelancing, you most likely have a variety of prospects and clients that you visit and manage. This topic provides powerful customer relationship management features for keeping track of many aspects of your prospects and clients — all while on the go. Organize contacts into groups; read their Tweets and Facebook posts directly from their contact record; add custom fields to contacts (in-app purchase); use GTD® context tags; and associate appointment, tasks, reminders, files and more with your contacts. Furthermore, you can communicate via email or text to an entire group, or connect with individuals via phone, text, email or social media via their contact record — directly from your LightArrow app.
Contacts + Services dramatically extends the usefulness of your device's contacts manager by giving you the ability to keep track of relevant information — such as ratings and referral information for service providers, service and account information associated with each of your service providers and more. You have the option of creating custom forms and fields for contacts; managing contacts in a spreadsheet-like view; importing contacts; and associating tasks, appointments, reminders and more to contacts.
Health + Goals
Optimize your success and health
The Health + Goals topic provides you with a single source for recording all your goals, health, fitness and wellness stats. Track any user-defined goal, such as "Improve Sales by 20%" or "Run a Marathon," and log multiple items for it. Keep track of health statistics such as weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and body fat; your medications and prescriptions; and your health history such as procedures, treatments and wellness.
Tracking your goals, health, activities and fitness pushes you to stay focused on your personal, business and fitness goals. Self-tracking helps you to know what is working, and it also helps you to decide when to adjust your plan.
The Health + Goals topic provides you with a single source for recording all your goals, health, fitness and wellness stats. Track any user-defined goal, such as "Improve Sales by 20%" or "Run a Marathon," and log multiple items for it. Keep track of health statistics such as weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and body fat; your medications and prescriptions; and your health history such as procedures, treatments and wellness. Robust logging capabilities track your food and drink intake, your workout activities, your insurance providers and regular health checkups. Useful charts with metrics let you see trends and view progress.
Smart integration with other topics means that as you are entering information for a health procedure, for example, you can enter associated tasks, shopping items and providers, and that information will show up automatically in the Tasks + Projects and Contacts + Services topics.
Bring clarity to your finances
The Finances topic enables tracking of your financial information. It includes expenses, payments, accounts, banking information, service payment templates, charitable donations, financial asset management, and financial notes.
Most people find that managing their money can be difficult, which is where the Finances topic comes in. It lets you track all the accounts for all your financial institutions — checking, savings and money market accounts; credit and debit cards; CD's, etc. You can record the recurring bill payments for all the services you utilize and the one-time payments you make to others, and can show you all of these payments in a timeline view.
With the Finances topic, you can also create Service Payment Templates for billing purposes — keeping track of the recipient, type of service, amount and payment type. This topic lets you track expenses and has touchpoints into other topics so that you can view or edit, for example, your charitable donations, your investments, or your financial research, online services and more. The result is the capacity for better money management.
Get a complete view of your assets
The Assets topic allows you to track what you own or rent. Includes vendors, purchase dates and prices, current values, manufacturers, model numbers, serial numbers, insurance, maintenance and repairs, and warranty services.
Keeping track of what you own is a very wise idea. Whether your desire is to be fully prepared for insurance reasons, or to gain an accurate understanding of your overall financial situation, you need to know what you own and what it's worth. But managing all this information can be time-consuming — unless you have the Assets topic.
This topic lets you track all the important information you want to track for your assets, including acquisition date and price, vendor, serial number or vehicle identification number, manufacturer, model number and SKU. It even has a touchpoint into Contacts + Services so you can maintain warranty and insurance information for your assets. The result is a better understanding of all your possessions.
Turbocharge your knowledge and learning
Education tracks information related to your schooling and personal growth. Includes subjects, assignments, education projects, and education notes. Associate tasks, notes, appointments, reminders, bookmarks, and more with subjects and education projects.
When you have things you desire to learn, you want to focus your time and energy on that, not on logistics. The Education topic makes learning easier by providing you with robust organizational capabilities for all your education-related data. With the Education topic, you can track Education projects, classes you are taking and your assignments. Alerts, reminders and calendar items help you to stay on top of your assignments.
The Education topic is integrated with other topics. Create your class notes in the Notes + Files topic or associate your class notes to subjects or assignments from Evernote® or Toodledo® online services. You can also access related documents and resources for school, work or personal growth subject areas from Dropbox™, OneDrive™, Box™ and Google Drive™. The result is better learning with less time and effort — and while on the go.
Notes + Files, Lists
Access your notes, files and todo lists anywhere
Notes + Files, Lists allows access to notes you have created in your LightArrow app or from online services, and to create checklists and to-do lists. Create notes with text, create handwritten notes, add audio, video, and photos. Associate bookmarks, tasks, reminders checklists, and files with notes.
One of the most powerful features of your mobile device is its ability to keep you connected. Notes + Files, Lists leverages this connectivity to give you unprecedented mobile access to your electronic information no matter where you are. With the dynamic note taking capabilities, you can create text, audio, video, photos or handwritten drawings and notes, which lets you gather notes and journal entries anywhere you go.
With the Notes + Files topic, create single use or reusable checklists and to-do lists for items such as things to do daily or anything else you can possibly imagine through the impressive checklist and to-do list capabilities. If you are a user of Evernote® or Toodledo® notes, sync those hosted notes with your LightArrow app notes. Or, create LightArrow app notes directly in your LightArrow app and view and edit them from those services. Access online files from Dropbox™, OneDrive™, Box™ and Google Drive™ and associate these files to topic items, such as projects, events and more. You can also save hosted documents on your local device for safekeeping so that you can access these files later when you are offline.
The Notes + Files, Lists topic integrates with other topics so you can, for example, access your electronic resources from within the Education or Travel + Places topics. The result is information that is always available.
Organize your digital media
Media allows you to track your media, media services, and equipment, and to manage your photos, audio clips, drawings, and video clips. Create media bookmarks, media services, media assets, and media projects.
Your device has been designed specifically to support multiple types of media, including audio, video and photos. And while its applications for playing songs, watching video and looking at photos allow you to perform some organization, what you really want to be able to do is to associate media items such as audio, photos, videos and handwritten notes/drawings with items in the context of topics, such as Task + Projects, Travel + Places, Home + Assets, etc. This is precisely what you can do in the Media topic.
Bookmarks + Lockers
Organize online information, private information and passwords
Bookmarks + Lockers allows you to organize and remember all the websites that you frequently visit, to manage the usernames and passwords that you use, and to secure private information.
If you've been dreaming of an app that helps you remember all the websites that you frequently visit; keeps track of the usernames and passwords that you use; and keeps private information private, then your dreams have come true with the Bookmarks + Lockers topics.
Browse the web directly in the app and simply save the web pages that you frequent in one simple click. Bookmarks make it simple to get back to your favorite locations and once you save a Bookmark you can associate it with items such as projects, events, trips and more.
If you set up passwords for hosted email, shopping sites and other bookmarked websites, simply save your username and password in the Bookmarks + Lockers topic and access them when visiting the site after typing your secret PIN. All secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
With Lockers, keep private information private by saving secret information for data you wish to secure. Lockers support text, photos and audio. Common uses include storage of photos of credit cards, passports, secret receipts, as well as sensitive audio files and PINs.


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Mitt: No more Obama's Mr. Nice Guy
Mitt Romney's declaration that President Barack Obama is leading a campaign of "anger and hate" marked a new phase of the campaign — one in which he's willing to attack Obama in personal terms.
Romney spent nearly a year talking about how Obama is a "nice guy" who just doesn't understand how the economy works because he has no private-sector experience. But as the campaign grew more intense and the attacks more personal, Romney dropped the idea that he has any admiration for Obama. In its place is a description of Obama as the purveyor of a campaign not worthy of the office.
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The strategy counters what the Romney camp views as the Obama team's sustained maligning of the former Massachusetts governor. Aides and advisers are quick to mention one Obama adviser's 2011 comment to POLITICO that the president's team would need to " kill Romney" to win reelection amid a struggling economy.
The new language, which Romney has been ramping up in the past month, took a far harsher tone Tuesday night after a day marked by negativity on both sides. Vice President Joe Biden warned during a morning rally in Virginia that Romney would return to a deregulated Wall Street. "They're going to put y'all back in chains," he said.
Romney then blasted Obama in his most personal attack to date.
"This president has pushed Republicans and Democrats as far apart as they can go," Romney said Tuesday night in Chillicothe, Ohio. "And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces. If an American president wins that way, we all lose. But he won't win that way."
A Romney adviser said his tough speech was being planned before Biden's "chains" comment sparked outrage from Republicans. On Wednesday, Romney continued his new line of attack and blasted Biden as well.
"The president is diminishing the presidency and the comments yesterday by the vice president - this takes the White House another level lower," Romney told donors in Charlotte, N.C. "I think this is a time for us to elevate the nation and I don't think the president is able to talk about that because it's what he spoke about four years ago. He was going to take us with this campaign of hope and change, and elevate us, get our economy going. If he says those words again, people will say, that's what we heard four years ago. It didn't work."
Romney continued: "Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the United States of America. So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America."
Like Romney, Obama has evolved in how he portrays his opponent.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A trio of high school hurlers have signed national letters of intent to join the Lipscomb baseball team for the 2014 season as announced by the school on Tuesday.
Hunter Anglin, Caleb Herndon and John Pryor are set to bolster the Bisons pitching staff.
"All three of these guys are extremely talented and we look forward to getting them on campus," said Lipscomb head coach Jeff Forehand.
Coached by former Bison Jeff Guy for East Cobb during the summer, Anglin is a product of Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Ga., where he has compiled a record of 23-5 over the past three seasons including 14 complete games. The righthander is also a three-time All-Region selection by the Gainesville Times.
"Hunter is a guy who loves to compete and wants the ball in his hand," said Forehand. "He is going to help strengthen our bullpen early in his career coming out of the highly competitive middle Georgia area."
A local southpaw from Antioch, Herndon has excelled for Ezell Harding Christian School under former Bison pitcher Wes Wilkerson and thrown for Legends Baseball during the summers.
"We have had the opportunity to watch Caleb for the past few years," said Forehand. "It has been a pleasure seeing him develop. He is the guy that every coach is looking for, a great student and has the potential to make an impact on the mound."
Ranked as the No. 4 prospect in the state of Minnesota and one of the top-50 lefties nationally by Perfect Game, Pryor was named to the 2012 All-State team by the Pioneer Press after a junior season that saw him post a 0.80 ERA and fan 93 batters in 66 innings of work for Minnehaha Academy.
"John is extremely talented and has the chance to make an early impact for the Bisons," said Forehand. "His athletic ability and knowledge of the game are exciting and he is an excellent student off the field. He will be a great fit for us and our tradition of having great lefties come through the program."
Look for more announcements as the Bisons announce more members of the 2014 signing class.