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As a Junior in 2010-11: Saw action in 35 games…Recorded 13 points on five goals and eight assists…Scored her first goal of the season against Northeastern on 10/9 in a 4-0 win…Registered an assist on 11/2 in a 5-2 victory over Princeton…Assisted on the game-winning goal against Harvard on 11/12 in a 4-1 win…Scored the game-winning goal and registered an assist in a 4-0 victory over Colgate on 11/19…Registered a goal and an assist in a 9-1 win over Sacred Heart on 11/26…Tallied an assist against Brown on 12/3 in a 4-0 win…Scored a goal against Yale in a 3-1 win on 12/4…Collected two assist on 1/29 against St. Lawrence in a 4-2 victory…Scored the game's first goal in a 5-1 win over Rensselaer on 2/11…Earned an assist in the Semi-Finals game of the ECAC Hockey Tournament against Cornell on 3/3.
As a Sophomore: Played in 36 games...Registered a career high in points (nine) with one goal and eight assists...Assisted in back-to-back games on (10/30 - 10/31) against Union and RPI...Recorded an assist in a 3-3 tied against Cornell on 11/21...Assisted on the game winning goal against Wayne State on 1/22... Registered a career high with three points in a game (three assists) against Wayne State on 1/23 in a 4-1 win...Scored her first career goal on 2/20 against Brown in a 8-1 victory...Assisted on the game winning goal in a double overtime win in the tournament game against RPI on 2/26.
As a freshman in 2008-09: Played in all 34 games for the Bobcats as a defender/forward...Ranked third amongst rookies in points with 4 assists...Registered her first collegiate point early in the season when she assisted Brandice Moniz in the 5-3 loss to St. Cloud on Oct. 4...Dished out her second assist on teammate Evelina Husar's first career goal in the 5-1 loss to Boston University on Nov. 15...Assisted on the lone Bobcat goal by Elyse Cole against RPI on Dec. 5...Continued her point-streak onto the following night where she assisted Kallie Flor's goal in the 4-1 victory over Union on Dec. 6.
Before Quinnipiac: A four-year member of the Wasilla Boy's Varsity Hockey Team... Won three Regional Championships and finished fourth in the state during her four years with Boy's Varsity Team... Played for the Alaska Northstar U-19 team... A three-year member of the softball team that won two Regional Championships... Three-time captain in softball and served as assistant captain in hockey during her senior season... Named to the All-Region Team in hockey.
Personal: A native of Wasilla, Alaska... Daughter of Brent and Jessie Laub-Elkins... Father Brent played four years of varsity football at LSU... Has an older brother, James, and a younger sister Johnna...Majoring in broadcast journalism.


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"This sweet and spicy tenderloin recipe is super easy! Make it as spicy as you like by adding more or different types of chili peppers. This version is mild enough for my 4-year-old to enjoy. Two 1 pound tenderloins might only feed six because everyone will want seconds!"
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2 tablespoons
olive oil
2 pounds
pork tenderloin
1/2 cup
teriyaki sauce
1 cup
chicken broth
1/4 cup
brown sugar
4 cloves
garlic, chopped
fresh red chile pepper, finely chopped
1/2 large
onion, sliced
1/4 teaspoon
black pepper
Cook on low, not high. I followed the recipe to the letter other than the slow cooker temperature setting and it came out wonderfully. Four hours on low is plenty done. I used a roux to make a sauce out of the mixture
Dry, dry, dry. Maybe if the liquid completely covered the meat it wouldn't have been so dry. Or if I cooked it on low for 6 hours instead of on high for 3.5 hours. I put some of the liquid in a pot on the stove with some added sugar and cooked it down to make a sauce. That part was good.
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I don't brown for as long as they said too. ? I also heard from another reviewer that the juices didn't absorb as well...but then I break all the meat apart and make it like pulled pork.
I like a lot of sauce so I double or triple what's above because I like the sauce to be all around the meat while it's cooking. Or at least half way up the tenderloins. I do constantly spoon the liquid over, but you don't have too - esp if you make more liquid. I really go heavy on the teriyaki sauce! Basically, I used a large mixing bowl and filled it about half way full of stuff!
Cooking time - I was in a hurry the other day, so I cooked on high for three hours, maybe longer - just long enough to where when I took my fork I could tell the meat would shred easily. Then I removed about half of the liquid, and then shredded the meat. I did end up putting some of it back it, cuz like I said, I like sauce and I used enough to coat the meat + a little more. Then I cooked it on low for about an hour - but not too much longer as the meat is SOOO tender by this point. I have cooked it on low for the full 8 hours too, but still waiting to shred the meat until the last hour or so.
Ingredient alterations - the first time I used this, I used honey teriyaki, but just got regular stuff this time, and added 1/4 cup of honey. Also, I don't use fresh red chile pepper but will add touch of red pepper and some creole seasoning. The BEST is Tony Chacherie's original Creole Seasoning
This recipe is very good. I made it a few times for office parties and other pot luck parties because I get requests to bring them. What I love most about this dish is it is so easy to make. I just put the entire recipe in the slow cooker, set the time and it's ready in a few hours. I cook mine LOW for 8 hours just to make sure it's really soft and tender. I brown the pork if I have time but there are a few times where I didn't brown the pork and can honestly say, I can't tell the difference. Also, when I bring this dish to any gathering I buy a least expensive cut of pork or what is on sale and I cubed the pork, about 1/2 an inch or less, so I don't have to slice it and it's easier for people to eat. ***And if I want to bring want to bring up the recipe to a notch, you can add 1 sprig of fresh oregano, 1 bay leaf, and 2 star anise. ***And if I want to influence the dish with my Asian heritage, I add 1-1/2 tablespoon salted black beans (tausi).
I am soooo glad that so many of you you have enjoyed this recipe! It makes me laugh, though, every time someone "discovers" that it's better cooked on low--that's how I submitted the recipe :) I'm not sure what happened in translation. I just read a review where the cook used a pork shoulder roast--I'm gonna have to try that less-expensive version, 'cuz Lord knows I can't buy tenderloin all of the time! Thanks to you all for trying, saving & reviewing my recipe...I have enjoyed sharing your reviews with my husband, who always asks, "Why can't you just make plain 'ole meat?" Ha! Where's the fun in that???
Excellent! I made a few minor chages. Instead of red chili pepers I used a couple of drops of Red Hot Sauce. I also cooked it on LOW for 4 hours instead of on high. I thickened the sauce to serve with the meat. My family loved it!
My fiancee looooves anything smothered in teriyaki sauce and he loves pork tenderloin, so this was perfect! I substituted ground red pepper for the red chile peppers (as I'm not wild about spicy food anyway) and the result was divine! He loved the flavor and it was soooo juicy! We'll definately do this again! Maybe next time we'll throw some red potatoes and carrots in to cook with it.
This was delicious and very flavorful, but another reviewer said to cook it on low and I will try this next time because the meat fell apart when I tried to slice it. The aroma while it cooked was fantastic and it was very tasty. Either a cheaper cut of meat or cook on low next time, though.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Slow Cooker Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin
Serving Size: 1/8 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 175
** Calories from Fat: 55
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Just wondering with the impact Blizzard Champion plastic is having recently on the game if people think there should be weight limits for pro tourneys, am tourneys, etc.? Discuss.
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agreed.. there are already rules in place. PDGA approved already means something when stamped on a disc.
Evolution of the disc will keep giving us more distance with less form, power, skill... whatever you want to judge it by. Just like in ball golf with the drivers being made of new material or the balls having been made in a way for optimal shot selection. I think the only thing that will change from this new distance everyone will be having is the creation of longer courses.
As far as the being a weight limit, I say no. Yes you get added distance but you lose control in the wind.
Japan already has a weight limit on discs used over there, I believe its 159.9
This is to limit damage to people and objects, not to ensure more distance from the players.
There already are weight limits/requirements for discs. Do you mean minimum weights as well? If so what would be the point?
I don't know, I was curious to hear what people thought. For example, in track and field the discus has to weigh a certain weight and everyone throws the same weight. So, the discus itself gives no one an advantage over the other competitors. But, if lighter weights can be thrown further...just wondering if it gives an "unfair" advantage to the players with the lighter discs.
No because anyone can throw the lighter discs.
If everyone has equal access to the same product then it doesn't give anyone an unfair advantage.
Lighter weights can only be thrown further in certain conditions. The key is matching the mass of the disc with a person's ability to accelerate it. Since we are not throwing in a vacuum, there are several environmental variables in play. So, even if, in perfectly calm conditions one of us can throw a blizzard boss as far as Bradley rips his 171 SDS, he still has the advantage because that disc is going to behave similarly across a wider range of environmental conditions than the blizzard boss will.
Caveat: I am talking level golf shots, here. I am not talking about distance shots being thrown on a 45 degree trajectory. I am not sure if there is even a counter argument there, I just want to make sure it is avoided.
Lighter discs go farther under some conditions for some people than heavier discs. World records have always been thrown with discs lighter than max weight for the mold. The only thing special about Blizzard discs is that some molds haven't been able to be made much lighter in the past. Players are not throwing more accurately even if sometimes they can throw farther with a Blizzard disc than what they threw before. There's no threat of courses becoming obsolete due to occasional longer throws unless they develop a disc that hones in on the basket better at long distances.
The head of those Japanese leagues must have a weak arm. Lots of Japanese are really good pitchers in baseball. They must use a lighter ball over there. Tough adjustment coming to the states. I just hope they play by the same rules
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On Humphreys' thousands-of-years-old universe, in 1998 physicist Dave Thomas wrote that Humphreys "has his astronomy backwards - the Kuiper Belt contains the remains of the "volatile" (icy)planetesimals that were left over from the formation of the solar system - numbering in the hundreds of millions. If anything, it is the Kuiper Belt that supplies the more remote hypothesized Oort Cloud, as some icy chunks are occasionally flung far away by interactions with large planets."[8]
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Thomas also criticised Humphreys' idea that there is "not enough sodium in the sea" for a several billion year old sea, writing, "Humphreys finds estimates of oceanic salt accumulation and deposition that provide him the data to "set" an upper limit of 62 million years. But modern geologists do not use erratic processes like these for clocks. It's like someone noticing that (A) it's snowing at an inch per hour, (B) the snow outside is four feet deep, and then concluding that (C) the Earth is just 48 hours, or two days, in age. Snowfall is erratic; some snow can melt; and so on. The Earth is older than two days, so there must be a flaw with the "snow" dating method, just as there is with the "salt" method."[8]
[edit]Helium Problems
Geologist Kevin Henke has criticised Humphreys for stating that "zircons from the Fenton Hill rock cores... contain too much radiogenic helium to be billions of years old."[9][10] Henke wrote that the equations in Humphreys' work "are based on many false assumptions (isotropic diffusion, constant temperatures over time, etc.) and the vast majority of Humphreys et al.'s critical a, b, and Q/Q0 values that are used in these 'dating' equations are either missing, poorly defined, improperly measured or inaccurate."[9] Humphreys has replied to Henke's criticisms.[10][11]
[edit]Earth Cooling Model
Scientists Glenn Morton and George L Murphy have dismissed Humphreys' cooling model as "wrong" because "it is ineffective, it is falsified by observational data, and it is theologically flawed." First, in a classical model for a harmonic oscillator (like a particle oscillating in a crystal), "the particle does not lose energy to the cosmic expansion." Second, Humphreys' model "is too slow to be useful to the creationist agenda." Thirdly, "there would be visible effects in the spectra of light emitted during the Flood, including those from stars a few thousand light years away in our own galaxy. A change in the energy levels of atoms (which this idea would entail) would change the frequencies at which light is emitted in a fashion that would be observable. The lack of such observations rules out Humphreys' cooling mechanism as a reasonable possibility." Lastly, they criticized it for contradicting the theological foundation Humphreys uses in another publication.


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Chad Riley was named the 10th head coach of the Big Green on April 24, 2013.
In Riley's first season as the head coach of the Big Green men's soccer team. The team amassed a 6-7-4 record and began the season with a program-best eight-game unbeaten streak – its best since 1978. Senior Colin Skelly and junior Colin Heffron were named to the 2013 All-Ivy League Team. Skelly was also tabbed an All-Ivy Academic member.
Riley concluded his first season as the head coach of the Big Green men's soccer team. The team amassed a 6-7-4 record and began the season with a program-best eight-game unbeaten streak – its best since 1978. Senior Colin Skelly and junior Colin Heffron were named to the 2013 All-Ivy League Team. Skelly was also tabbed as an All-Ivy Academic member.
In 2012, Riley joined Jeff Cook's staff as an assistant coach. In his first season on the Big Green sidelines, Dartmouth took second place in the Ivy League standings and made Burnham Field a tough place to play by going undefeated for the second consecutive season.
Riley helped tutor five Big Green players to All-Ivy honors, including first-team selection in Kevin Dzierzawski and Alex Adelabu. Under Riley's watch, the Big Green also performed in the classroom with Teo Larsson Sax earning Academic All-Ivy honors and NSCAA Scholar All-Region honors. Kevin Dzierzawski also earned a spot on the Scholar All-Region team in 2012.
Riley comes to Dartmouth after spending the last six seasons at his alma mater, Notre Dame. While roaming the Irish sidelines, Riley has helped the Fighting Irish compile a 71-37-21 record with five NCAA Championship appearances and two Elite Eight appearances.
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Well don't you hear them chime?
What's that? You just hear loud wedding reception music and shout-talking from over-enthusiastic dancers? You must be at 10 Below's infamous Wedding Wednesday extravaganza, where the dress code is sequins or Vineyard Vines and the music is cheesy and awesome.
Before this week, I'd never been.
Let's just say that it was an experience.
8:38 p.m. All right, let's be honest: I'm a little bit scared. I haven't yet graced 10 Below with my presence in my yearlong stint as a 21-year-old, and I've heard… things.
Earlier, I took a casual poll to see what I might be in for on this evening of debauchery, and some of the more memorable responses were:
- "Loss of dignity."
- "A night of classic music and raunchy dancing followed up by sloppy sex."
- "It's like a basement party. A lot of groping."
So that sounds promising. And by promising I mean horrifying.
I have the sequins. I have the over-the-knee Steve Madden boots that I am secretly-not-so-secretly terrified of getting ruined via some epic sloppy stumble from another person that results in a lot of sour-smelling liquid being on my person. But this is 10 Below. I have to dress the part.
9:30 p.m. Headed over to my Wedding Wednesday sensei's house soon to begin my potentially scarring experience tonight. He's a tried-and-true Wedding Wednesdays vet, so hopefully he can guide me through this experience in a somewhat graceful fashion.
10:10 p.m. Sensei is drinking Natty Light and his roommate is blasting "Thrift Shop" at a volume that says, "I know it's Wednesday, but I'm pretending that it's Saturday." Weird.
10:21 p.m. Apparently 10 Below isn't poppin' until 11 or 11:30 p.m. when people leave FieldHouse after getting their fill of Wednesday night penny pitchers. And so we wait.
10:24 p.m. Sensei's roommate has been ironing his button-down for at least 15 minutes. The puff sounds his aerosol spray can of starch are making is almost louder than the music in their apartment. He just asked if Sensei wants to go half and half on a pants press. Where am I? What is this?
10:30 p.m. Sensei concedes that he's not nearly drunk enough to go to 10 Below. He knowingly informs me that everyone there is blacked out. I say that not everyone is blacked out; I will be sober. He says, "What, are you just going to sit there and watch?"
10:46 p.m. Discussion concerning the "Beer before liquor…" saying.
"It doesn't apply to us," Sensei's roommate says. "We're, like, trained."
Oh, college.
11:19 p.m. Headed to 10 Below. A quick prayer to Emma Stone that I survive this night.
11:24 p.m. You're just going to want to bypass Harpo's down to the creepy alley on the side of it. Yeah, the one that looks like it's a nice set up for sketchy drug deals.
Sensei knows the bouncer checking IDs, of course, and therefore he doesn't check any of our IDs (even though I've never met him).
The guy taking cover ($5), however, doesn't know Sensei, apparently, because he just pressured Sensei into paying for my cover as well by asking pointedly, "Is this just for you?"
Take note, men. You'll pay for the girl-who-is-not-your-girlfriend here whether you like it or not.
11:26 p.m. We enter. What is that smell? Is it supposed to smell like this? It smells like cats. I hate cats.
Now playing: "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield
11:28 p.m. Apparently sequins are out and Macklemore-inspired fur vests are in. Who knew?
11:36 p.m. Sensei and his roommate beelined for the closest bar — the ice bar, which is actually, you know, ice for a bar — but they seem all but ignored by the bartender. $1 wells seem to amend their angst.
Meanwhile, I am being repeatedly shoved by a man who doesn't seem aware of my presence behind him.
11:43 p.m. "Let me show you the place." Oh Sensei, you're too kind.
We move into the second room, which has two more bars that are much less crowded. It is very cave-like in that is dark, damp and has low ceilings. In fact, a lot of people are touching the ceilings. I remember my first beer.
Now playing: A decent mash-up of "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer and "Super Freak" by Rick James
12 a.m. Casual mingling in the cave room. Be prepared to be jostled. Sensei acknowledges that he is no longer "too sober for this."
12:03 a.m. Sometimes you just have to give your friend a lap dance on top of a booth in a dark bar, apparently. Because that's what is happening about seven feet away from me.
Now playing: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar
12:12 a.m. All sing-alongs, all the time.
Now playing: "Hurts So Good" by John Mellencamp
12:18 a.m. Fur vest solo dance time. I wonder if she knows her friends are taking video. Awkward.
Now playing: "Around the World" by Daft Punk
12:27 a.m. My lack of dancing, which I see no problem with, has been deemed unacceptable. I am unceremoniously pulled through the crowd of drunk dancing people.
Now playing: "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot
12:38 a.m. Why are you so sweaty?
Now playing: "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC
12:47 a.m. That awkward moment when a guy comes up to the guy you're dancing with, tells him you're his girlfriend ("Sorry dude"), and intercepts you for his own dance purposes.
Did that really just happen?
Does that happen a lot?
It was weird for everyone.
12:52 a.m. I spy with my little eye… at least four and a half sloppy makeout sessions. I think this is my cue to leave.
1:03 a.m. If you're going to yell at me and my friend in Spanish, guys outside 10 Below, I'll ask that you conjugate your verbs correctly. Better luck next time. Adios.
1:15 a.m. Made it to my well lit, high ceiling, dry home. But honestly, I actually had fun tonight. Sure, some things were awkward and it really was too dark in there, but if you want to dance at a place where no one is paying attention to how you're dancing or judging you (except the blog girl, of course, who is judging everyone), this would be the place to do it.
I am a little confused that I didn't hear "Cupid Shuffle" or "YMCA," though.


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1. Wipe Off Dust
Remember that leather is skin and will react the way skin does, so the most important thing you can do in caring for any piece of leather footwear is to KEEP IT FREE OF DUST. Dust will settle in the creases of boots and shoes. It acts like sandpaper; cutting at the finish with every step you take. Sooner or later, it will cut through not only the finish but the fiber itself and the leather will split. WIPE YOUR BOOTS OFTEN, not just before you shine them, but also every time you take them off. You don't need a special cloth or brush. Make it a habit to wipe them off with anything you have handy. You can't wipe boots too often.
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After you wipe them, clean your boots. You can use leather cleaner that cleans boots just as well as saddle soap. What's more, this cleaner has an oil base and is good for the leather.
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Leather conditioning is a lot like skin conditioning. You put in oils and conditioners to replace those that have dried up since the leather was originally tanned. Some leathers will need more than others. It needs to be done more often in dry climates or when leather is subjected to repeated dryings. If you shine your boots regularly, you don't have to use conditioner EVERY time you shine them. Try every other time. Apply the conditioner right after you clean them while the boots are still damp because moist leather absorbs more conditioner. Keep in mind, though, that the leather can only absorb so much. If you put too much on it, it just gets sticky and dull, a case of too much of a good thing.
4. Apply A Coat of Shoe Cream (Polish)
This is different from wash or liquid polish. It should match the color of the boot and should be rubbed into boots. Give the cream a few moments to dry and then brush or buff the boots to a shine.
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Care of Special Leathers
Distressed Leather (Apache Leather)
Distressed leathers have extra oils added just like oil-tanned leathers. Brush the boots off to get them clean, then apply a Distressed Leather Cleaner and Conditioner.
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A good wire brush and nubuck cleaner is all you need to care for nubuck leather. Not all stains and dirt will come out of nubuck leather.
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These boots have a lot of extra oils put into them at the start, but because of where and when they're usually worn, it gets pulled out. These boots will work hard for you but you have to care for them. Unlike the other leathers, you can use a HEAVY coat of oil on work boots. These leathers are prepared to soak it up. Pecard's oil is probably the best but there are many others. If work boots really get soaked in snow or water, clean them and oil them immediately. It slows the drying process, but helps get the oils down deep into the leather where they belong. Be sure to allow them to dry at room temperature -- speeding up the process will cause cracking. Oil tanned leather work boots are not purchased for their looks. The tanner has prepared them for rough wear and very little care. Boots made of this leather can withstand almost anything short of outright abuse.
Regardless of the style, boots are far from simple. Boots have a lengthy construction time, often necessitating dozens (if not hundreds) of individual steps until they are fully made. For instance, high quality hand crafted leather western boots can have about 300 individual steps from the time the leather is cut for the boot until the boots are inspected and boxed. This can mean dozens and hundreds of people are often involved in the production of every single boot. From stitching up vamp (front) of the boot to the counters (back) of the boot to attaching the outsole (bottom) of the boot: boots take teams of specialists. This can make the labor costs of producing a boot quite high. But, the cliche "you get what you pay for" really applies when it comes to boots.
Except for rubber boots, all the footwear we sell is leather. Leather is prepared in a number of different ways from nubuck to oil tanned. Each prepared style gives the boot quite a different look and feel. Some boots are also made with a combination of leather and strong Cordura nylon which makes the boots lighter and more breathable.
The Outsole is simply the bottom of the boot and gives your feet some "grip". The kind of work you do and the surfaces you walk on will determine the type of outsoles you need. Most outsoles are made of rubber or polyurethane or a combination of the two.
Insoles give your feet a little cushion to add some extra comfort. Different brands use different insoles. Each brand offers the latest technology and patented designs for their insoles. Sometimes insoles will be just a light EVA pad to cushion and form to your feet or it will be a multi-layered signature system by a leading brand name.
Construction often refers to how the outsole is attached to the boot. Outsoles are generally either pegged (or nailed), down or cemented onto the bottom of the boot. Outsoles that have been cemented or directly attached to the boot are generally more flexible to begin with, but often these boots can not be resoled. Outsoles that have been welted or pegged can usually be resoled.


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The Ridgway varsity Rockets are set to play Treasure Lake for the Cereal Bowl.
The Ridgway junior varsity Rockets are ready to play in the Cereal Bowl this Saturday against Treasure Lake.
Ridgway volleyball hosted St. Marys Tuesday night in a varsity volleyball match.
Locked in a 4-4 tie, Curwensville junior Cheyenne Geisler launched a second-chance shot into the net with 3:01 remaining in the second overtime period to give the Lady Tide a 5-4 win over Ridgway.
JOHNSONBURG – Playing on Johnsonburg's home field brought the same result as much of Ridgway's home matches at Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School.
A victory for the Lady Elkers.
Ridgway started strong and controlled play for much of the match in a 5-0 victory over the Brockway Lady Rovers Wednesday night at Memorial Field in Johnsonburg.
DuBOIS – The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader doubles duo of Laira Reuscher and Sophie Herzing, both seniors, defeated their cross-town rivals of Aubrey Wiesner and Chelsea Agosti from St. Marys Area 6-2, 6-1 to claim the District 9 Class AA doubles title on Tuesday afternoon at DuBois Area High School.
Tough scoring conditions met both Ridgway and Elk County Catholic but the Elkers were able to defeat the Crusaders 212-220 in action Tuesday afternoon at Laurel Mill Golf Course.
Josh Roselli of Ridgway was the medalist for the day with his score of 36.
"The scores were high for the two top teams in District 9 as Laurel Mill Golf Course played tough," Ridgway coach Dave Zawatski said. "Give Josh Roselli credit for being that guy that we have been searching for and going low to make the difference."
RIDGWAY — Ridgway cross country hosted the annual Ridgway Invitational Saturday morning at Francis S. Grandinetti Elementary School.
A new meet record was shattered in the girls varsity race as Regan Rome of Dallas finished with a time of 18:15, breaking the old record of 19:03 which was set by Dani Kocjancic of Kane in 2008. Kennedy Weisner of Elk County Catholic also would have broken the old meet record with her runner-up finish at 18:41.
Adair Gennocro of St. Marys was third at 19:04 and Victoria Dippold took fourth for ECC with a time of 19:37.
JOHNSONBURG – Johnsonburg football fans have been waiting two years to see a Ram football win at home.
The Rams delivered Friday night against an oldtime rival.
Johnsonburg held off a late Ridgway drive for a 13-12 victory Friday at Memorial Field in Johnsonburg.
After 108 meetings between the two teams, the series is tied 50-50-8.
"It feels great," Johnsonburg coach Jesse Schreiber said. "It's for the kids, they played extremely well. It's huge, it's a rivalry game. It doesn't matter what our record is. It's a rivalry game and it's big."
JOHNSONBURG – Johnsonburg volleyball won 3-1 (25-13, 26-24, 22-25, 25-19) over Curwensville Tuesday night at Johnsonburg Area High School.
"It was something that we needed as a team to play consistently enough to come ahead," Johnsonburg coach Bill Shuey said. "I thought sometimes we played well and some parts during the game we would fall asleep or our passing would leave us. I thought we did some good things."
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I've an xperia pro that frequently goes to having a blank screen. Not sure what causes this to happen, but it's been doing it on and off quite frequently over the past couple of weeks. Pushing the home or power buttons will cause the backlight to light up (with a blank screen) and the little light to go on by the home button). If somebody or texts, it rings or vibrates, but the screen remains blank. Trying to answer by swiping my finger at the bottom left to right does not pick up the call. Opening or closing the keyboard does not help.
Trying to :
- remove battery, reinsert after a few mins and restart, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Works more reliably if the phone has been off for longer (often has to be long enough so it forgets the time).
- full reset using the Sony PC software to go back to factory settings reduced the frequency for a bit, but now it's back at it. Does it at least once a day.
- starting up without any SIM card in it doesn't help
Phone has had no special modifications to it as it was purchased unlockd.
It appears to do this more after intensive use, i.e. downloading podcasts and/or long telephone conversation.
I understand that Sony warranties only work in your home country, and I won't be there for at least a few months. Part of the reason I got this model is that it can do 3G at home (US) and in much of Europe. That seems to have gone out the window now. Sending it back to the USA would not solve my problem because I'll be without a phone until I get back. Presently in UK and am here for a project.
It's a US version MK16A running on the O2 network in the UK, purchased unlocked in December. Ran fine for three months in England and Egypt, and started acting up only recently.
Anyone have any ideas on what to do ?
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I would suggest two solutions in this situation, first I would format the memory card using the a PC or using the handset.
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(Note: this is different from PC Companion).
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hi, i'm also experiencing this blank screen problem. i bought my xperia pro exactly a week and a day ago today and now the screen has gone blank and still hasnt come back up even right now since yesterday morning even though it shows the backlight for the keyboard and the hardware keys. it is driving me crazy, i have a lot of mails i need to respond to on the go and now i cant do that. kindly come up with a solution to this sooner rather than later. Also im trying to locate your local shop in Nigeria, the closest ive come is an ericsson shop, can i go to them to enforce my warranty or do i have to locate a sony shop. please respond as soon as possible. i need this resolved fast, thanks
did you tried the suggestion above? (SUS)
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
I reformated the memory card both on my PC and erased everything on the phone.
I then also did the SUS wipe of the phone.
That didn't work.
So I tried it again, using the SUS to reset the phone, did not put the memory card back into the phone, and let it sit on my table for a couple of days to see if it would do it again. Just to be sure it wouldn't update anything, I didn't log into google account or anything like that.
Sadly, it still does the blank screen. I take it i'm not the only one. I've bought some Sony products in the past that were very durable and long lasting. This one seems to have developed a fault less than three months.
you probably got a faulty unit, it happens, send it to Sony's repair center
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Hi, I have purchased the phone today itself and am facing this same issue. Is this kind of manufacturing issue in this model?
Please do let me know if this is fixable.
hi, I'd this problem, called Sony's technical support, sent the unit back to them, and they replaced the screen, after which this problem was fixed. I think this is therefore not a "fix it yourself" kind of problem.
Thanks, I think thats the best solution, will see the service station on monday the first thing.
Just unhappy that My phone didnt work even for 2 hours after purchase, and I need to see the service station


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Lewis Hamilton insists F1 will never be boring even if Sebastian Vettel continues to dominate until the end of the season.
Three-time World Champion Vettel increased his lead at the top of the standings to 46 points after he claimed another impressive victory at Spa over the weekend.
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Although his hopes of keeping up with Vettel in the race for the title suffered a setback in Belgium, Hamilton insists Mercedes should be proud of their achievements so far this season.
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The conventional wisdom that emerged from the crisis of the Great Depression dominated American ideology until almost 1980. Similarly, the reigning ideas that congeal in the next few weeks about the causes of this crash may determine the course of politics for decades to come.
The truth is, we were never as rich as we thought we were. The last decade's growth was largely driven by huge flows of lending dollars to dubious borrowers. At the bottom of an unknown but frightening number of convoluted new-fangled debt instruments were homebuyers who had no chance in hell of paying the mortgages back when the music stopped and the price of houses in California (and a few similar states) stopped heading toward infinity.
Federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data dug up by reader Tino suggests that the recent American Housing Bubble was, more than anything else, a Hispanic Housing bubble, as total mortgage dollars handed out to to Hispanics more than septupled from 1999 to 2006! (Is "septupled" even a word?)
Moreover, in 2006, according to Tino, 51% of subprime and other "higher priced" mortgages (for purchasing homes and for refinancing older mortgages) went to minorities. The higher priced mortgages are, of course, where most of the unexpected defaults have shown up.
UPDATE: Tino has added up all the subprime mortgage dollars for the entire disastrous 2004-2007 period. Among borrowers whose ethnicity is unambiguous, he comes up with $900 billion subprime dollars going to non-Hispanic whites, $887 billion to minorities. So, that's 50% of subprime dollars during the worst years of the Bubble went to minorities.
Someday, we'll get a count of defaulted dollars by race.
At their bubblicious peak, American homes were theoretically worth $24 trillion. The amount of wealth that has evaporated in the popping of the American real estate bubble so far appears to be in the $5 trillion range, to pick a very round number. Dr. Housing Bubble recently estimated the loss to be $4.68 trillion using Case-Shiller data. Another source estimates $6 trillion.
And we haven't necessarily hit bottom yet.
My very rough estimate is that half of the American loss in home values so far has occurred in California, with Florida being next in line.
How big is 5 trillion simoleons? How does it compare to the total wealth in the world?
At the peak, the total "assets under management" (i.e., financial instruments, but not including real estate, private businesses, and marketable luxury goods such as Van Goghs) globally reached $110 trillion, according to the Boston Consulting Group. In North America, "assets under management" were $39 trillion; let's figure $36 trillion in the U.S alone.
If we add $36 trillion in financial paper and $24 trillion in homes we get $60 trillion in wealth in America between them.
Compared to $60 trillion, a fall of $5 or $6 trillion doesn't sound so bad. But the problem is that literally countless trillions of these "assets under management" consisted of a mountain of leverage concocted by high IQ idiots on Wall Street balanced on a pebble of probability that recent mortgages handed out to Californians (and the like) would ever get paid back. The Clinton and Bush administrations were egging the lenders on to increase minority and low-income home ownership.
There were lots of other bubbles going on in the world, such as in Spain, England, and Iceland, but the California-centric American housing bubble was [Mixed Metaphor Alert!] the big enchilada that brought down the whole house of cards. [Actually, now that I think about it, the phrase isn't supposed to be Big Enchilada, it's supposed to be either Big Kahuna or Whole Enchilada. So, never mind ...]
The only way many recent borrowers could hope to get out from under their giant mortgages was if they found even Greater Fools to sell their houses to. In other words, California home prices had to grow to infinity for this movie to have a happy ending. CNN reported in 2006:
"More than 90 percent of homes in [Indianapolis] were affordable to families earning the median income for the area of about $65,100. In Los Angeles, the least affordable big metro area, only 1.9 percent of the homes sold were within the reach of families earning a median income for the city of $56,200."
By 2007, a 500 square foot one-bedroom house in Compton, CA, the spiritual home of gangsta rap but now majority Latino, went for $340,000.
Thus, a year or two ago, when the interest rate on adjustable subprime mortgages started to reset after the typical two year "teaser" period of low interest rates began ending, housing prices slowed, then started to fall as everybody rushed for the exits.
Granted, trillions were also lost in the popping of the Internet stock bubble in 2000, but the collateral damage was milder because shares in Pets.com were considered "investments." Ever since the New Deal there have been certain limits on how much you could leverage stock investments "on margin" since the presumption is that "investments" go up and down in value.
In contrast, a half million dollar loan for a house in a slummy California neighborhood handed out to a drywaller from Chiapas who obviously must have added an extra zero to his undocumented annual income on his mortgage application is considered an "obligation" and the presumption is that it will be paid back. Defaults on "obligations" are assumed to be the exception rather the rule. After all, as they would say in the City of London when figuring out where to park some Kuwaiti oil money, mortgages for Californians were "safe as houses."
Obviously, in reality, investing in Pets.com and lending a half mil to the drywaller were both equally stupid financial transactions, but, traditionally, they've been considered different breeds of activity.
Therefore, the Wall Street geniuses felt justified in constructing vast Rube Goldberg schemes of leverage on the back of this kind of "obligation." They had data showing that borrowers in 2004 and 2005 weren't defaulting on ridiculous mortgages, but that's because there were still Greater Fools around to hand the hot potato houses to. Ignoring that, the financial wizards attempted to obtain Reward Without Risk.
Well, you can't do that. You just can't.
Of course, they were simply delaying the return of Risk until it all came rushing back in at once this autumn, just like the "portfolio insurance" schemes of the mid-1980s led to the October 1987 one-day crash.
Underneath too many of these market insurance schemes that would take a 300 IQ to understand was the assumption that out in the slums of California, laborers with fifth grade educations would pay back $4000 per month for most of the rest of their lives. Maybe they would quit their day jobs, learn to read English, go to medical school, and become doctors. (We wouldn't want to be guilty of the "soft bigotry of low expectations," now would we?) Either that, or they would find a Greater Fool who would pay even more for the privilege of living in the barrio.
Over the last year, the world's financial institutions started to wake up to the reality that underlying some uncountable but possibly terrifying fraction of all the baroque financial instruments they had been selling each other were pieces of paper "obligating" drywallers to pay each month more than their monthly income for their cruddy California houses.
Today, nobody in the financial world has much of a clue who is solvent and who will crumble tomorrow, so nobody wants to lend to anybody.
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Bannished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
"The Price of Passion in Three Tragic Heroines of the Mid-Qing: Shuangqing, Lin Daiyu and Chen Yun," in Paolo Santangelo, ed., From Skin to Heart: Perceptions of Emotions and Bodily Sensations in Traditional Chinese Culture. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, pp. 203-228.
Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization . Editor and contributor of two essays, "Introduction," pp. ix-xx, and "The Distinctive Art of Chinese Fiction," pp. 309-34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Dissent in Early Modern China: "Ju-lin wai-shih" and Ch'ing Social Criticism . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
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