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Perhaps the simpliest way to describe Punahou would be look up the definition for 'Excellent'. As a former student who has taught and coached all over the Pacific Northwest, I can confidently say Punahou stands head and shoulders above. Some schools may be comparable athletically, academically, or even in terms of faciilities. However, there is no one school in Hawaii, nor in the nation which can compare to the Punahou experience. I was challenged mentally and physically at Punahou. Medocrity is definitely not rewarded. In most schools it's uncool to learn, but not at Punahou. It's cool to be the 3 Sport Athlete, but also be taking AP classes. I'm thankful and proud for the opportunity to have gone to such a excellent school. Punahou gave the tools to succeed in college, must most importantly life.
I'm going to agree that Punahou is an excellent school. As someone mentioned before, it is not a school for everyone. It takes a certain person to thrive in the environment Punahou has created. Students are expected to excel and participate in a number of different activities all at once. Having only been there one year, and graduating next year I'm sorry that I didn't get more time to involve myself in everything that school has to offer, but I would recommend it to students who really want to dig into their education.
Our children attened Puanhou School for 13 years each (K-12) and we have always felt that 13 years is not enough time for these students to take advantage of everything Puanhou has to offer. Students are encouraged to question the world around them, critically think, challenge themselves, be confident to speak up, have confidence in themselves, be true to their values, and to be caring members in the world in which they live. To graduate and be contributing members to society.
While attending Punahou from grades 10-12, I found the academics and teachers excellent. Opportunities to partcipate in extra-curricular clubs are many. Since most reviews here are glowing, I want to emphasize that Punahou is not for everyone. Having attended excellent public schools prior to moving to Hawaii, I did not find the level of teaching significantly better. Socially, I found it an unusual environment. While I had many interesting, positive friends in several interest groups, students were generally aloof. While difficult to quantify, there seemed to be a higher than normal amount of substance abuse, eating disorders, and stress related maladies. Punahou tends to be a school that supports 'specialists,' students who excel in one or two areas rather than the well-rounded student.
As I turn the corner and drive up Piper's Pali every school morning, I say a prayer of thanks to God that my son has the opportunity to attend such a phenomenal school. He is recieving the best education there is to offer in this state!
Excellent school with first rate education. This school is expensive and difficult to get in to but worth every penny.
This is a phenomenal school!
Punahou has done so much to shape me as a person and a man. I owe so much to that school and only hope I can send my children there one day. I went to Punahou from grades 9 through 12 and it truly was the best time of my life. I have lived a quite a few countries and in that time been to 11 different schools. All of which pride themselves on being the top schools in their area. None of them, however, come close to what Punahou has to offer in every facet of life.
I went to Punahou from 9th to 12th grade. It was an excellent experience for me and made a huge impact on my future. It was academically challenging and offered many extracurricular activities that allowed me to really learn more about my interests and strengths. Of the various schools I have gone to I consider my time at Punahou a changing point in my life.
I went to Punahou from 6th grade through 12th. It was challenging that's for sure, but it was also wonderful. It gave me a great base for College and the future in general. I was involved in extracurricular events, as were the majority of my friends. It truly prepared me for life. I would encourage parents with driven children to take advantage of this opportunity. When I have children if I were to be living in Hawaii at the time, I would totally send my children to Punahou. I am a proud alumni.
Punahou School is the finest college prepatory school I have encountered. The sutdents' motviation is very high and the teachers are superb. All of them have many years of study in their target subject. The students challenge themselves and take advantage of their school's multi-million dollar facilities. Punahou not only has outstanding academia, but also excellent sports. They still hold the curent record for state championships in the nation and largest number of student clubs. Punahou also shows its rich appreciation for the Hawaiian culture through the curriculum and the Academy's (high school) Holoku pageant. Many famous people have graduated from Punahou in the past years, such as Steve Case. Punahou continues to challenge their students' minds as they prepare them for the future. Advanced technology is used for instructional purposes at all geade levels.
Academically, Punahou stands out among the finest in the nation. Their civic-minded programs are equalled only by the social calendar and superior sports regimen. The entire staff is totally dedicated to the highest levels of education.
Punahou School provided a great education.The teaching staff were remarkable in their efforts. They were all so encouraging and supportive. A wonderful environment where the parents and students volunteered their time freely to enhance their school.
Speaking as a former student, my years at Punahou formed the foundation of a future of realized opportunities and dreams fulfilled. Punahou is in a standing all its own among K-12 learning institutions. Melding the newest modes of pedagogy with the best existential traditions, with passionate teachers that inspire its learning communities of youth with active and pure theory, and excelling in the rounded social and physical development of its students via sports and extra-curricular activities, Punahou is the best K-12 in North America in my opinion.
This school has been a fantastic influence on our children. Not only were their respective transitions to college easy but the school equipped them with all the necessary study skills to excell in their undergrad and post graduate studies.
this school is the cream of the crop. for overall education it is as good as any of the top schools in the nation. the facilities are kept in great shape and maintained constantly. there are buildings on campus that are well over 100 years old. this school was founded in 1841 and has been the premiere learning center in hawaii ever since. to send your child to this school would be one the best things you could do for him or her. I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend this truly fine school. I give thanks to my parents for the sacrifices they made so that I had the chance to attend punahou.
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Folic Acid May Cut Autism Risk By Almost Half
A study out of Norway suggests that folic acid supplements prevent more than just birth defects like spina bifida
Women are told to take folic acid—even before they become pregnant—as a way to prevent neural tube defects in their babies. But should this advice be revised to also include reducing risk for autism? A new study from Norway says taking a folic acid supplement starting a month before pregnancy and continuing into the early first trimester may cut a child's chances of being diagnosed with autism by almost half.
As ABC New reports, Norwegian researchers followed over 85,000 babies born between 2002 and 2008 to determine whether or not folic acid supplementation during pregnancy had any effect on autism rates. Checking back in with the children and moms in 2012, researchers found that those women who took folic acid, beginning four weeks before they became pregnant and continuing until at least the eighth week of pregnancy, had a 40 percent lower risk of giving birth to a child later diagnosed with childhood autism (classic autism) compared to moms who didn't take a folic acid supplement during pregnancy.
What's so special about folic acid? The B vitamin is essential for the construction and repair of DNA molecules, the genetic material which controls all body cells, including brain cells. Getting enough folic acid during early pregnancy is now known to prevent neural tube defects in developing babies, including spina bifida. The March of Dimes recommends that all women of childbearing age get 400 micrograms of folic acid daily from a multivitamin. Pregnant women should continue taking 400 mcg of folic acid through early pregnancy as a way to prevent a deficiency.
"We know that folic acid deficiency leads to defects in the development of the nervous system [in the form of spina bifida and neural tube defects]," Dr. Ari Brown, a pediatrician in Texas, who was not involved in the study, tells ABC News. "So it would not be surprising that a deficiency might also affect brain development in other ways."
It's also important to note that it is folic acid, not folate, the unsynthesized form of the vitamin found abundantly in leafy green vegetables and other foods, that matters here.
"It appears that the reduced risk of childhood autism only reflects folic acid supplements, not food or other supplements…," Dr Pål Surén, primary author of the paper and researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, stresses in a statement.
Timing also matters. For example, the study found that—in terms of autism risk—folic acid supplements don't seem to have any impact past the 22nd week of pregnancy. As Surén adds, "the crucial time interval is from four weeks before conception to eight weeks into pregnancy." This is similar to the "critical window" for neural tube development.
With 1 out of 88 children now diagnosed with autism, according to Autism Speaks, this kind of news is encouraging, and let's hope further research will turn up even more about the connection between folic acid and autism.
But what if you're in your third trimester and are now worried because you didn't start taking folic acid until you found you were pregnant—or relied on vegetables in your diet to provide you with ample folate? Or what if you have a child with autism and can remember times you forgot to take your prenatal vitamin?
What has become clear in the past decade is that the cause of autism lies in a complex web of underlying genetic and environmental factors—there really is no one "smoking gun." And as Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a senior medical contributor to ABC News, explains, the message for all moms here should be: don't feel guilty.
"Society can sometimes do a really good job of laying blame and guilt, and when there is no medical proof that it is the mother's fault," she says.
"I usually tell women pregnancy is no different than parenting. There are never 100 percent guarantees of anything."

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Gregory Broughton
Associate professor, voice
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
B.S. in Music Education, University of Tennessee
Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Michigan
Senior Faculty Teaching Fellow, 2004
Photo shot on location at UGA's Hugh Hodgson Performing Arts Center by Andrew Davis Tucker
"I tell my students here at Georgia, the ones who want to be performers, that they must be a cut above, and they must seek to be so well-informed that they can educate from the stage rather than just simply entertain. The music ed majors I work with at Georgia, I tell them they must be a cut above the stage performer because they are shaping the minds of young people for the future. And they are training and cultivating the minds of the audience for the entertainer."
—Tenor Gregory Broughton, who also directs the African American Choral Ensemble at UGA


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Outward Decay, Inward Renewal - Part 1
- Wednesday, May 23, 2007
She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
—George Gordon Byron
Every woman wants to elicit this kind of rhapsodic response from a man. That's the second reason right there: "every woman wants." Perhaps I would be more honest to say "craves" or "lusts after." As Joshua Harris writes, "A man is created to pursue and finds even the pursuit stimulating; a woman is made to want to be pursued and finds even being pursued stimulating. . . . Lust blurs and bends true masculinity and femininity in harmful ways. It makes a man's good desire to pursue all about 'capturing' and 'using,' and a woman's good desire to be beautiful all about 'seduction' and 'manipulation.' In general it seems that men and women are tempted by lust in two unique ways: men are tempted by the pleasure that lust offers, while women are tempted by the power lust promises."
Let's drive home that point by expanding that thought: "Women are tempted by the power lust promises to attract other people's husbands." You might say you don't want that kind of attention from married men. Good—I hope so! But let's face it: if we want lots of interest from many single men, we actually want to lure men who probably will be other women's husbands in the future. If these men were already married, I trust we would not want their attentions. So why do we want them now? Because we sinfully enjoy the self-centered power and attention of being attractive to others, even when we can't possibly follow through on the interest we've raised. You may think from reading that statement that I have known this kind of allure personally. I have—in my heart and in my daydreams. If these are our desires, it doesn't matter whether or not we could actually attract hordes of men. I know a woman who honestly confessed one of her leading motives for losing a lot of weight was to be able to fit into slinkier, immodest clothes and draw lots of attention to herself. She is a godly woman, but she was right to be concerned about her motives for being thin.
Adapted from Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred by Carolyn McCulley. © 2004 by Carolyn McCulley. Published by Crossway Books, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission.
Carolyn McCulley works for Sovereign Grace Ministries in church and ministry relations. She is also an author ( Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred) and blogger (solofemininity.blogs.com). Carolyn is also a member of Covenant Life Church where one of her favorite ministries is the single women's discipleship program. She highly recommends the resources for singles from the New Attitude conference and blog.
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Frank Ocean Featured In Pitchforks Top 100 Tracks of 2012
Frank Ocean is featured two times in Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2012 with his singles, "Pyramids" & "Thinking About You".
02. Frank Ocean: "Pyramids" [Def Jam]
If you'd have told anyone at the beginning of 2012 that one of the year's most exhilarating singles would be a 10-minute-long R&B burner with three movements and a scorching John Mayer guitar solo so arena-courting that you can almost hear the hydraulic lift whirring under his feet, they'd probably be all: "Oh, nice-- undiscovered Michael Jackson track?"
Listeners got something much better with Channel Orange, a debut of such unusual quality and breadth that it spawned arguments about which of its songs was actually the standout, or which of a handful of soul, funk, and R&B giants was Ocean's truest inspiration.
"Pyramids" makes the case for Ocean as a proto-Prince, its alternately wet and starry arrangements shifting in and out of focus while Ocean expertly piles on verses that sketch out a story of "Cleopatra" through perspectives and eras; first as the revered pharaoh, then as a modern day stripper living under a pimp's watch, then as a lust object, as admired by her powerless boyfriend.
That such an ambitious lyric could succinctly nail the master-and-servant dynamic from so many angles proves Ocean's talent as a storyteller; that he could do so while also shading the word "cheetah" with three different meanings (animal, West Coast strip club chain, adulterer) proves his wit; that all of this happens in a song that's light, hooky, and epic all at the same time explains why folks are losing their minds for him.
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The furloughs of park police staff and officers are scheduled to end June 1st. They were put in place in response to forced federal spending cuts that started taking effect in March.


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GSIM is being adopted to specify, design, and implement components that = will easily integrate into =E2=80=9Cplug=E2=80=99n=E2=80=99play=E2=80=9D so= lution architectures and seamlessly link to standard exchange formats (e.g.= DDI, SDMX). It is important to note that GSIM does not make assumptions ab= out the standards or technologies used to implement the model, which leaves= the Agency room to determine its own implementation strategy.=20
Statistics Canada is beginning to use GSIM=E2=80=99s Concepts a= nd Structures Groups as the main classifiers of metadata. These gr= oups contain the conceptual and structural metadata objects, respect= ively, that are used as inputs and outputs in a statistical business proces= s. The Structures group defines the terms used in relation to data= and their structure. The Concepts group defines the meaning of da= ta, providing an understanding of what the data are measuring.=20
Work focuses on aligning the new GSIM-based classification with other in= ternal metadata classification models currently in use. For instance, IBSP = identifies the following types of metadata:=20
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- Quality metad= ata: Quality evaluation of a dataset or individual records; helps users= assess the fitness of associated data for their specific purposes. E.g., C= V, rolling estimates, analysts comments about the quality of a set of recor= ds.=20
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Metadata use is not uniform across = all GSBPM phases. IMDB metadata, consisting mostly of GSIM = Concepts and Business objects, is used for survey design (pha= se 2) and dissemination (phase 7). Survey managers use the IMDB to id= entify existing variables for reuse. New variables and related questions wi= ll be soon documented and stored during questionnaire design as well, which= will then be used by collection processes across the Agency. In the = dissemination phase, the IMDB is the primary source of summary texts descri= bing surveys, definitions of variables, related methodology, and data quali= ty and questionnaire images. Most products on the Statistics Canada w= ebsite offer a link to the related IMDB survey records.
The Sy= stem of National Accounts (SNA) creates and uses metadata (classifications)= for the data integration sub-process (5.1) of the GSBPM. In particular, th= e SNA creates the Input-Output Industry Codes (IOIC), Commodity Codes (IOCC= ) and Institutional Sectors classifications. They are mainly used for the G= DP surveys (annual, quarterly and monthly). SNA classifications are being e= xported to the IMDB and integrated into data warehouses for analysis via a = classification web service[1]). In addition, concordances to NAICS, NA= PCS and other international classifications will be maintained in a Classif= ication Management and Coding System (CMCS).
The Social Survey= Processing Environment (SSPE) has its own metadata repository (see Section= IV-B) which is used from design through dissemination, including survey an= d questionnaire metadata, codesets and codebooks. The SSPE repository does = not use the same metadata objects that are in the GSIM Business or= Structures groups.
Underlying the GSBPM is the implicit ne= ed for common semantics which require some degree of harmonization and main= tenance across all phases. Even common concepts like questionnaire= , survey, or classification mean different things across = the Agency. Enterprise Architecture Services (EAS), Methodology= and Subject Matter areas have worked collaboratively to make progress in s= emantics work for the IBSP on a number of topics, including:=20
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The Donegal rock climbing guidebook came out in App format in 2013. It is a select guide to the county of Donegal with over 1000 routes. The definitive guides to Donegal are hosted on http://www.uniqueascent.ie/undiscovered_donegal as free PDF downloads to accompany the select guide.
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Morning Report: Back to work
I have the flu, which makes this partially a full week of vacation and partially the worst week of my life. And you people are still here. So let's keep this going like nothing is happening and I didn't sleep in until 10 o'clock and the dog didn't eat all the cat toys and barf up the stuffing, that sitting on the couch reading Game of Thrones is a productive way to spend the day, and that the mere fact that we're even talking about a "fiscal cliff" doesn't prove that this country is being run by a bunch of complete f***-ups who couldn't find their asses with both hands, naked with a map.
1. George H. W. Bush is in the hospital under care for a persistent fever that has left him unable to eat. While our prayers are with the former President and his family in this difficult time, a great deal of the Internet is wishing for his death, possibly because our public school system has so fully degraded that they have no idea who he is.
2. Taxes for Americans will go up half a trillion if we go over the Fiscal Cliff, which is good news, because we've maxed out our $16 trillion dollar credit card.
3. The War on Drugs has been so effective, particularly in Dianne Feinstein's home state of California, that she's introduced a detailed plan to begin America's War on Guns. The good news? Nearly the entire bill is based on research done in the 1990s, so you can be assured that all assessments of today's sophisticated market in fake Chinese handguns is taken into consideration. Or not.
4. There's a petition with 60,000 signatures calling on the White House to deport CNN talk show host Piers Morgan. The only problem? There's another petition from the UK, with about as many signatures, requesting that the US either keep him or give him his own island where he can interview monkeys and talk to plants, given that they spent 40 years trying to get rid of him.
5. Barack Obama told Barbara Walters that he ran for President a second time so that men with guns would continue to protect his daughters. But not yours. Because yours aren't important.
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EVERYTHING EVERGREENS (FOX SPORTS WAUSAU-WSAU) - The high school academic year is over, and so is my play-by-play season for D.C. Everest sports.
I've looked back at my season as the 'Voice of the Evergreens'. I covered 84 D.C. Everest athletics events in the 2013-14 season between football, hockey and basketball.
I've looked at my driving records, and I logged more than 4,300 miles covering those games. Two trips to the Milwaukee-area (hockey at University School and Marquette; basketball at the Bradley Center) rolled up more mileage than usual.
My number-one job is morning newscasts on WSAU, and it's still the job I'm best at and enjoy the most. But high school sports is pure fun -- it's the most enjoyable "second job" I've ever had. For fans and parents who've had kind words over the last year, thank you. And to the many high school athletes I've watched, it's been wonderful watching you play.
Chris Conley
The Everything Evergreens site will stay active between now and the start of the football season in August. I'll have weekly posts, usually on Mondays or Tuesdays.The football opens in a scant 11 weeks.


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I'm trying to use a stored proc with execute as owner to enable standard users to do something they can't normally do. But it's giving me error 916 when I try to execute it.
Here's the stored proc:
The idea is to copy in any Departments from the other database that we don't have in this one. When I execute it I get this error message:
I'm stumped. sa is a member of the sysadmin role and I haven't denied it anything. sa owns both databases and is in the dbowner role in both databases. Both tables belong to the dbo schema. I'm logged in as myself and I'm a member of the sysadmin role.
I've tried a bit of diagnostics. I added some selects to see what 'owner' means at runtime and here are the results: suser_name() and suser_sname() return 'sa' while user_name() returns 'dbo'. That seems OK. I tried changing it to "with execute as 'sa'" but that gives me this error when I try to run the CREATE PROC:
This looks wrong. I'm a sysadmin.
The only things I'm finding about error 916 are strange things about SSMS bugs and unticking the Collation column in Object Explorer Details. I even tried that but it didn't change anything.What am I not understanding? Please help!
asked Sep 11, 2012 at 07:42 AM in Default
David Wimbush
edited Sep 11, 2012 at 07:58 AM
Hi David,
Are you creating the Membership_DepartmentSync proc in a database other than golfer? I ask as you are referencing tblDepartment as explicitly being in the golfer database.
from http://www.sommarskog.se/grantperm.html#EXECUTE_AS
I think this may be at least part of your issue.
There is a fuller explanation by Dan Guzman of a similar issue at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlsecurity/thread/319601a0-196a-4422-ad34-044ff7ad4363 and in BOL at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188304(SQL.105).aspx. The latter article also explains how you can change the scope if you need to do this.
Hope that helps,
answered Sep 11, 2012 at 08:03 AM
Dave_Green ♦
And another veil is lifted! Thanks, Dave.
Sep 11, 2012 at 09:17 AM David Wimbush
Has the current database, or the 'golfer' database been restored?Are there any insert triggers firing on dbo.Membership_Department?
answered Sep 11, 2012 at 08:05 AM
Kev Riley ♦♦
Thanks, Kev. The answers are no and no but I think Dave's put me on the right track.
Sep 11, 2012 at 09:15 AM David Wimbush


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|Thu, 11-15-2012 - 4:22pm
How do you find your way back? It's been 7 plus years honestly i don't really remember what life was before, my kids were babies now they are 7 and 10. Seven years my every day has consisted of him, every moment how sad.
|Thu, 11-15-2012 - 8:16pm
Maybe we are not meant to find our way back, but find our way forward anew? I'm sixt...err 37 years old...and I look back at different people in my life, with whom I spent oodles and boodles of time with, and for whatever reason, they were no longer in my life. That made room for new people, places and things...and off I went into another direction and my life would be full once again.
I know that I mentioned to you before about becoming involved with new projects/activities...and I guess that'll work two-fold...to slowly distance yourself from socializing with xAP and wife, but also will open up the door to new experiences and new opportunities.
Get a little proactive and get moving in a new direction. Just one new thing can lead to another...and to another...and to another...
|Fri, 11-16-2012 - 5:27am
Hi Happy! I'm not very good at remembering quotes, but there's a couple of things that I remind myself of when I start to reminisce about the past ... one is that those times in the past for me with xAP did not bring me happiness, and I am in charge of creating my own happiness now here in the present. The other is that life is only understood backwards but must be lived forwards, and so we learn from our past and use what we have learned to move forwards.
Your children are just little Happy, and I know myself that for the 2 years I was involved in my A I was absent from my children's lives, which is tragic. And now that I am free from all that trauma and am re-engaged with real life, I am fully present in my children's lives and their development into men, they are changing almost daily, physically and emotionally, and I am with them, not hiding in the toilet texting xAP or telling them to stop pestering me because I'm daydreaming about my "fantasy life", I am asking them about their day, enjoying their company.
Real life is to be embraced, cherished and appreciated, as are all the people in it.
Big hugs to you and much love, Soglad x o x
|Fri, 11-16-2012 - 11:29am
You are struggling with what so many do after the A ends. So many of us wrapped our days around xAP and checked out of many other Rs in our daily lives. Ending the A does not mean we can all just plug bac into our Rs with no wobblies.
As others have mentioned, the exciting news is it does not have to be the same. What type of R do you want to have with your kids? What is your passion? What healthy outlets would you like to pursue? You get to decide that Happy. It can be scary and exciting at the same time. Scary because it is uncertain yet exciting because you have a say in it. Embrace what you are feeling and know that many others have felt the same.
Try taking on something small like planning to do something with your kids. What can you plan to do with them that you weren't fully present to do when you were in the A? It could be something simple like reading to them (or them reading to you). Maybe a project? Watching a movie with them and really focusing on them and the movie (not dwelling on xAP)?
If you can do some small things that make new memories, I hope it will encourage you to see the possibilities and the bigger picture.


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With the sweep of Alaska-Anchorage last weekend, UMD now finds itself on an eight-game unbeaten streak (6-0-2), helping them climb into a second-place tie in the WCHA standings. The Bulldogs have only given up four goals in their last five games, outscoring opponents 16-4 during that run. After this weekend, UMD won't play in Duluth again until Alabama-Huntsville comes to town in late-January. Minnesota State comes to Duluth for their first visit to Amsoil Arena with a roster full of injuries – four players are on the shelf. Despite the bad luck, the Mavericks have been able to play better hockey lately, getting their first and second WCHA wins in the last two weekends. However, MSU has one of the toughest conference schedules before the New Year, with games in Duluth and Minneapolis leading up to a series in Mankato against Colorado College just before Christmas.
Records and Rankings:
UMD – 7-3-2 overall, 5-2-1 WCHA; ranked eight in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls.
Minnesota State – 2-7-0 overall, 2-4-0 WCHA; unranked in both polls.
Players to Watch: During UMD's current eight-game unbeaten streak, Jack Connolly and Travis Oleksuk have combined for 22 points to lead the Bulldog offense. Connolly is tied for third in the country with 17 points, while Oleksuk's 11 goals put him in a tie for second-most in the NCAA. MSU will have to counter the Bulldog attack with great play from goalie Austin Lee and rookie defenseman Zach Palmquist. Lee has all of the Mavericks wins to his credit, and holds a .926 saves percentage in eight games. In addition to his steadiness in his own end, Palmquist adds an offensive spark for the Mavericks, too – he ranks second on the team with six points.
Key Numbers:
5 – The number of years it's been since Minnesota State last won in Duluth. The Mavericks 7-1 triumph on January 28, 2006 was their last win at the DECC.
10 – Games in a row in which Connolly has at least one point. His career-long streak of 11 games came last season.
146 – Shots UMD goalie Kenny Reiter has faced in the last five games, 142 of which he's stopped. He has three shutouts during those games, too.
Elsewhere in the WCHA: Wisconsin at Colorado College; Nebraska-Omaha at Denver; Michigan Tech at Alaska-Anchorage; North Dakota at Bemidji State (Saturday/Sunday); Minnesota at St. Cloud State (Friday); St. Cloud State at Minnesota (Saturday).


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Nowak gained international attention on February 5, 2007, when she was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, who was romantically involved with astronaut William Oefelein. Nowak was released on bail, and initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included attempted kidnapping, burglary with assault, and battery. Her assignment to the space agency as an astronaut was terminated by NASA effective March 8, 2007. On November 10, 2009, Nowak agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to charges of felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery.
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Alec Holland, a scientist working in the Louisiana swamps on a secret bio-restorative formula "that can make forests out of deserts". Holland is killed by a bomb planted by agents of the mysterious Mr. E, who wants the formula. Splashed with burning chemicals in the massive fire, Holland runs from the lab and falls into the muck-filled swamp, after which a creature resembling a humanoid plant appears some time later.
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John Constantine first met Swamp Thing in 1985 after being interested with the creature. John later acts as the Swamp Thing's protector, guide, and voice of omen, even teaching the Thing to amplify his powers. Both would have further adventure with each other, such as John introducing the Thing to the Parliament of Trees, Thing using John's body to make love to his wife and father a child named Tefe, and fighting off the Damnation Army from summoning the Anti-Christ. Both carries a dull, but nevertheless fruitful friendship with each other. Constantine even invites Swamp Thing to his 40th birthday and assures the Thing he'll try not to bother him again. (Hellblazer issue 63)
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Designer uses strips of his own skin to craft this ring.
Talk about exotic materials—if alligator or crocodile skin is just not rare enough for your exquisite taste in fashion, you're in luck. A designer is taking things to the next level by crafting jewelry out of his own skin. Yes, it's creepy.
Austrian designer Sruli Recht made the Forget Me Knot ring from a strip of his own skin, which was removed from his stomach during a recent surgery, reports the Daily Mail. And If that's not outrageous enough, consider the price tag. The ring costs a whopping $500,000.
But let's consider what you are getting for that price tag—the strip of flesh (which was salted and tanned before being laid over the gold ring) is over 4 inches in length and even has some of the designer's original hairs attached to it. It also comes with a DNA certificate just to prove it's authenticity (yuck.)
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The new Cinderella Broadway Musical is a delightfully romantic take on the ultimate makeover story and promises some hilarious new twists! Discover Cinderella's sassier side in this outrageously fun Broadway musical for dreamers of all ages. This is the classic tale you know and love about a young woman overcoming her wicked stepmother and stepsisters to make her dreams of becoming a princess come true with a little help of her Fairy Godmother. But this isn't your mom and dad's version of Cinderella. This version comes with wild surprises nobody sees coming that perfectly complements such wonderful songs as "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible," "Ten Minutes Ago" and "Stepsister's Lament."
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Using Fabric To Transform A Cabinet
An inherited furniture piece from her in-laws, Heidi always liked this cabinet but wanted to make it her own. In order to spruce up her homes entryway, Heidi decided to transform the piece into a retro beauty. But it's not just the paint color that helps make this before and after so cool.
Heidi used fabric from Tonic Living--a chic retro print that matches the paint color almost exactly. Heidi attached the fabric by using spray adhesive (which is easy to remove) in case she ever wants to change the look of the cabinet. The cabinet also gets an upgrade with stainless steel knobs from Lee Valley.
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verrrry cute! i often cringe when wood is painted over but wow i really like this! it's giving me ideas.... :)
WOw nice. I just moved into a new apartment where the only closet is a standalone veneered "maple" monstrosity, and apart from that, the previous tenant's kid stuck two stickers on two of the doors that could only have been designed by a fan of Brick from Anchorman - they read "I love robe". Um, okayyy. I'd love to try something like this. Can I ask how the edges were attached to the doors? Did the person glue down teh front surfaces and wrap the edges around the back and staple down?
Thank you Beth for posting pics of my latest creative endeavor! I'm so honoured!
'summerinbrooklyn', I did wrap the side edges around the back. Staples didn't seem necessary, as the spray adhesive does a pretty good job itself. The top and bottom edges are NOT wrapped around, since they would eventually become frayed through friction against the wood slot. These edge were just trimmed right along the edge. You don't see the raw edge because they are hidden in the lower and upper groove.
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I highly recommend looking around your house for a piece that is just waiting to be brought to life with designer fabric or paper!
I've got a bog-standard chest of drawers in the bedroom that doesn't go with the other pieces and have been toying with the idea of using fabric to cover it (since painting it is out of the question) but, as it came with the flat, I wasn't sure how to do it so that I could remove the fabric again, when necessary! Never thought of looking for a water-soluble glue for the job... "Duh" as you might say!
Great cabinet btw!!!


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In initial performance testing, this 1996 Jetta, "Project Black Dog," required 167 ft to stop from 60 mph. That was a record: We had never tested a car that approached that distance. Right after the ability to turn, I desperately needed to help this car stop. The Corrado G60's 280mm front disc brakes are among the largest ever installed on a compact platform. They are a natural upgrade for any Volkswagen with lesser brakes from the factory, and are also the basis for aftermarket upgrades for many other marques.
Autotech Sport Tuning provides brake upgrade conversion kits for virtually any watercooled Volkswagen, using all-new parts exclusively from O.E. suppliers to ensure the highest quality. Autotech's options range from vented-rotor conversions for MkIs to a 334mm upgrade for MkIVs. For Project Black Dog, we used Autotech's MkIII kit that upgrades four-cylinder models to Corrado-spec front brakes. It includes 280mm vented rotors, calipers, carriers and Mintex pads. I chose Autotech's SportTuned cross-drilled rotor option, as well as Autotech's braided stainless-steel brake lines, which further improve pedal feel and the driver's ability to modulate effort. The lines were a simple addition and little extra work was required once the system was opened and bleeding was made necessary.
Autotech's 280mm upgrade kit requires the use of at least 15-in. wheels that are compatible with a Corrado G60. Black Dog's 16-in. Kosei K1s provided more than enough clearance. The Jetta came equipped with rear drum brakes. They are far from ideal and easily swapped out for the factory disc setup, but I focused on the front brakes, which do most of the work, for the first round of improvements.
Installation was completely straightforward, consisting simply of removing the stock parts and reinstalling different stock Volkswagen parts. Be sure the fasteners you use meet Volkswagen's standards, and consult the Bentley manual for procedures and torque specs. The braided stainless-steel brake lines were the only part of the job that was not transparent, with a slightly different form on the inboard ends in front. No problem resulted. (I have never seen an aftermarket braided stainless brake line that exactly matched the factory line it was meant to replace.) The rears were more challenging, and the driver's side rear would have required the removal of so many parts to access it that I decided to leave the stock line in place.
After bleeding the system and torquing the wheel lug bolts, I bedded in the new pads according to Mintex's instructions before returning the vehicle to its owner. With the significant increase in braking ability, it was soon determined that the Kumho Ecsta Supra 712 tires were insufficient. The owner complained of locking up the fronts. I drove the car, and agreed that though braking effort was easy to modulate, the tires simply ran out of grip at a moderate level of effort. This echoed past experiences with the tires; one example is a Miata keeping up with a Porsche fitted with Supra 712s on a mountain road.


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Before. Miles Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
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Heitinga Happy At Blues
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Everton defender John Heitinga has spoken exclusively to evertonfc.com to assure supporters that he is fully committed to the Blue cause.
Quotes attributed to Heitinga appeared in a national newspaper over the weekend and suggested that he was far from happy at Goodison Park. The player is keen to put the comments into context.
"I did an interview a couple of weeks ago with a Dutch newspaper and I was happy with the way they presented it," he explained.
"However, the paper in England selected only some of the quotes and put them next to questions that I wasn't asked. I did the interview in Holland with a smile on my face and it is unfortunate that these things happen when players do interviews on international duty.
"Of course, I want to play. I always want to play and especially here at Everton, where I am delighted with the way the supporters have taken to me. I am like every footballer – I want to play regularly and I get frustrated when I am not able to play and help the team."
Heitinga, who was an ever-present in the Dutch side en-route to the World Cup final last summer, acknowledges that not being in the team at times is part and parcel of being a footballer.
"The manager can only select 11 players to start each game and I am like every other professional footballer in that I want to be in the team. I have confidence in my own ability in the same way as the other players do at Everton.
"Every player thinks he should be playing and every player thinks he's better than the competition. If you don't then it shows a lack of self-belief.
"All I can say is that I love playing at Everton and I love playing for the manager. I am not happy when I am not playing but I haven't met many footballers who are happy when they're not involved.
"The manager has told all the players here that we will get playing time and it's up to us to make the most of it and to take the opportunity. I am nothing less than 100% committed to Everton Football Club and will continue to be the same every time I play."
Heitinga spoke to evertonfc.com from the Dutch training base ahead of Tuesday evening's European Championship qualifier against Hungary.
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The Occupy Wall Street march was endorsed by a coalition of labor groups including the Transport Workers Union, National Nurses United, SEIU 1199, and the United Federation of Teachers. We hear the voices of union leaders addressing the boisterous crowd at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan before the march headed to the Financial District. [includes rush transcript]Oct 06, 2011 | Story
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In part two of our conversation with journalist and author Naomi Klein, she discusses how her book, "The Shock Doctrine," focuses in part on Chile, where the 1973 coup led to the privatization of education and now Chilean students are protesting in the streets. Klein talks about their demands and dismisses the critique that the related Occupy Wall Street movement lacks its own clear set of demands. [includes rush transcript]Oct 06, 2011 | Web Exclusive
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