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The Forrester Research Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US) indicates that nearly 40% of US mobile phone owners will become mobile phone shoppers by 2017. While this statistic sounds impressive, it means that the majority of consumers will be reluctant to purchase products on their mobile phones. Why aren't all customers attracted to the unprecedented convenience of anywhere, anytime mobile shopping?
Forrester's Consumer Technographics® data shows that while consumers use the mobile channel to research competitive product pricing while they're in a store, they often prefer to purchase their desired product off the shelf, even if the physical item in front of them is not the cheapest option. Consumers are driven by convenience, sometimes at the expense of price:
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"How can you reinvent your brand to appeal to younger consumers?" This is the million-dollar question, and the contestant sitting in the hot seat is you. But don't panic; why not use a lifeline? Ask the audience! That was the approach car manufacturer Buick recently took when designing the 2013 Encore luxury model.
Striving to portray a more fun, contemporary side of the established auto brand and win loyalty among younger consumers, Buick promoted its "Pinterest to Dashboard" contest by calling on participants to create Pinterest boards that spoke to personal styles and passions. The Buick design team selected a winning collection to become the inspiration for the interior and exterior designs of the automobile. While this new look is not yet available on the market, Buick managed to connect with younger consumers in an exciting and relevant way. Through Pinterest, the company engaged 10 extremely influential bloggers (the winner of the competition has nearly 4 million Pinterest followers), dozens of lifestyle editors from media and publication companies, and millions of Pinterest users whose online responses indicated the winning pinboard.
Forrester's Consumer Technographics® data suggests that Buick certainly chose the right platform to reach its desired market. Launched only three years ago, Pinterest is currently the third-largest social media platform in the US behind Facebook and Twitter. Of those 5.5 million US online adults who use Pinterest to research products for purchase, 65% are younger than 35 and 33% have an average household income of more than $100,000.


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I've played SP for prob ~3 years (sometimes hardcore sometimes on and off). I know how things go I hope and am pretty experienced. I was the 7th person to achieve the moon rank in the english version I believe and currently have all my cards (earth) at lvl 7 with decent skills. Once again, if you have questions, post and I'll answer them if no one else can. Good gaming.
I only know about things dealing with in-game stuff. Start-ups and things dealing with outside interference, I have no idea how to help.

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I was wondering if anyone could help me sort out which courses are reputable and dependable. I am currently in my final year at university and will complete my Bachelor's degree in May 2008. I would like to teach English as a Foreign Language in Greece during the 2008-2009 school year. When should I take a course in order to achieve this? I have been looking at courses offered through Oxford Seminars and the Anglo-Hellenic Teacher Recruitment (Via Lingua course in Corinth) as well as the online i-to-i course. Does anyone know which of these courses would be best? Are there other programs out there that would guarantee my employment?
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Property Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2017
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Property Taxation
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Article 2. Procedure to Claim Exemptions
Section 252.1
252.1. Veterans' exemption; transmittal of duplicate. Among other facts, the veterans' exemption affidavit shall contain a statement, showing the claimant's residence. When the affidavit is filed in county other than the county of the claimant's residence, it shall be filed in duplicate and the assessor shall transmit the duplicate copy to the assessor of the county of residence.
History.—Added by Stats. 1943, p. 1988, in effect August 4, 1943. Stats. 1974, Ch. 1107, p. 2368, in effect September 23, 1974, operative with respect to the 1974–75 fiscal year and thereafter renumbered the section which was formerly numbered 255.5, and substituted "the veterans' exemption affidavit" for "the affidavit" in the first sentence.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by webz, Jul 2, 2012.
Another double double? What a boss.
Great article here with some awesome tidbits: Detroit Pistons' Andre Drummond has found a time-tested mentor in teammate Corey Maggette | MLive.com Most key for me were these two quotes: Maggette's seems a pretty potent way to put in perspective what it's like for a kid to be playing in the NBA, and the bit about Frank having to give Drummond a "tongue-lashing" for his "light-heartedness" indicates that the coaches and staff realize that, if Drummond is ever going to grow up, he needs to learn to work hard and treat this as a job. This, to me, is the crux of the reason that they're really hesitant about starting him; they want him to get better, and they know his attitude has to be more consistently "adult" before his game can get as good as it's going to be. In other words, they're not treating him with kid gloves, they're treating him like an adult while knowing - but not accepting - that he's still a kid. This all isn't about talent development so much as about attitude development; I've never seen it done outright before at this level, I'm floored that they're doing it, and I absolutely love that they are. (It really helps that everyone on the team seems to be on the same page with this.)
Thanks for posting that. It's the part of a player that the coaches see and the fans don't. I trust that LFrank will do the right things... whereas I would have been very suspicious of Brown (overbearing), Flip (underbearing), Curry (overwhelmed), and Kuester (wrong personality). While it's really boring watching Maxiell playing out of position, the coach has to manage the development of a teenager carefully. That probably means making Drummond earn minutes by playing AND acting the right way. The key to that system is coming through with the rewards when the player does the right things.
I have some leadership responsibilities in my job. I always lead from the position of "I assume that you can do what I ask of you perfectly until you prove to me otherwise". I think that it's inhibiting to people when you come at it from the perspective of "You're new and your probably an idiot. I'm gonna take it really slow with you until you show me that you can handle the expectations that I have for you". I've found that having a little faith and some high expectations really shortens the learning curve with new people. Start him. What's the worst thing that can happen?
This was so hard for me to learn. Leading became enjoyable and much less stressful once I realized it. I think we have a built in bias to tighten up when the stakes get high. And even the perception of high stakes creates a lot of extra stress which hurts things like being able to think clearly, react logically, exercise patience. It's very hard to overcome that basic animal programming but totally awesome when we can.
It's worked well for me and I think my team appreciates it. Responsibility really empowers people and can be one of the most motivational elements to a person. As a manager, you have to be pretty perceptive of your team. I can pretty much tell if someone has what it takes by the questions that they ask and the approach to problem solving that they use. If someone askes me a question about a project a week into it that should have been asked the first day, I know we're in trouble and I need to get them some help. As long as Andre askes the right questions and makes mistakes that a rookie NBA Center is expected to make, I have no problems putting him out there. It sounds simplistic but the more minutes he gets, the more experiences he'll have. I'd rather him have some negative experiences than no experiences at all.
Am I the only one who is concerned that the primary mentor for our prized rookie is an expiring contract which we may or may not deal before the season is over?
How many teenagers do you have working for you, and how many millions of people are microjudging every success and failure that those team members make?
I work with teenagers all the time and it works awesome with them. As far as the judges, who cares? You can't do anything about what other people think. You can only do your best, whether a million, one or no one is watching.
19 year olds are fairly crazy. Drummond seems like he's way above average in terms of maturity though. Here is how he did in the pre-season: 2nd in pts/36 at 19.6. (behind Maggette, who had small sample size) 1st in FG% at .623 1st in rebounding at 12.8 (way ahead of everybody else) 2nd to last in assist rate (just ahead of Maxiell!) middle of the pack in steals 1st in block rate (6 times higher rate than Monroe) very low turnovers average 6 personal fouls per 36 min (same as Daye, Maxiell, and Russian Gentleman...Jerebko was also close behind) So, pros to starting him: Scoring, efficiency, rebounding, shot blocking cons: high foul rate, need to break him emotionally before rebuilding him or trading him
Bring along gradually is a general way to raise a professional and assume good until prove otherwise is a general way to filter people.
This is the strategy that I will use for the 3 rookies on my fantasy Keeper League team. They will ride the pine for the first half of the season. They will have to earn their playing time in practice.
As a teacher and coach, I also work with teenagers all the time, and you're right - treating them like adults works awesome. However, professional basketball is a different world from anything we're used to. If a teen cares and makes a mistake where you work, I'm sure you'll agree that you can pat them on the back and tell them that as long as they don't do it again, caring is what counts - and they'll get better. That's not the case with the NBA; these guys aren't working menial, low-wage, low-responsibility jobs. Teens (and, admittedly, many adults) can be emotionally fragile, and while it's easy to say "you can't do anything about what other people think," remember back to when you were in high school and think about how much you assumed everyone cared about everything you did all the time. Now imagine that same self in a world where everyone actually did care about you, where your agent and your publicist are telling you to interact with your fans on Twitter in order to build your brand, where you are the next great hope for a team with championship pedigree. Imagine going out and being the starting center, and having a bad game where you get schooled by Kevin Garnett, grabbing 4 points and 3 boards and fouling out in 22 minutes of play after shooting 1-6 on FTs. Imagine what it would be like for you knowing that the team is counting on you and that you let them down. You want to be accepted and respected by these guys that are mostly older than you, you want to do them right, and you fail. You get fans calling you "soft" or "lazy." You got Garnett in your ear - a guy that you've looked up to for years - telling you that you suck, that you're weak, that you should just "go home, little kid, this is a man's game." You start to doubt yourself. Meanwhile, your team is counting on you, and by playing you is telling you that you are where they expect you to be. But as a teenager you've never dealt with this stuff on this level before. You magnify your own mistakes - that's what teenagers do. You start to overcorrect on your free throws. You take an extra split second on your defensive positioning. You go up for a layup and it's blocked, so you don't go up as hard next time. You can see where I'm going with this. I'm not saying that Detroit should treat him with "kid gloves," but they do have a better understanding of whether or not he's emotionally ready to be the focal point of a multi-hundred million dollar business. Is he physically capable? I don't think there's any doubt that he is, and he'll play. But is he ready to be "the man"? I don't think so. Is he physically ready to go head-to-head for 30 minutes a game against the best in the business? Yes. Is he emotionally ready? I don't know. The Pistons' brass seems to believe that he isn't, otherwise he would start. They want him to be a harder worker than he ever has been before, and that is a personality trait that takes time to develop. If their goals are for him to go out and be a solid 10/10/2 starter that will help them get to the playoffs, well, he's there right now and they should start him. But if their goals are for him to be a 20/15/3 superstar that can put the team on his back and help lead them to a championship, then he you need to make sure he can handle it; if he has yet to develop the emotional fortitude and the initiative to do it on his own, then you need a carrot to dangle in front of him until he picks it up himself. I'm glad that the Pistons aren't expecting him to figure it out himself. I don't want them to bring him along slowly - I want them to tell him where he needs to be and then hold that line and wait for him to get there. In the meantime, yes, he needs to fine-tune a lot of his game, and he can do that getting 15-20 minutes a night off the bench. They can take that film and experience and go over it with him, and they can point to the vets (hopefully) and say so-and-so is starting because he's doing such-and-such. Points and boards and blocks aren't enough in a league where the talent gap is so small and where a single missed shot opportunity in the second quarter can be the difference in the outcome of the game. If you want Drummond to be where you expect that he can go, you tell him what you want out of him, show him how to do it, give him a taste of what he'll get when he gets there, and hold those expectations. That's what I see the Pistons doing, and I like it.
Hmmm, what would inspire a 19 year old 7-footer? ...Hearing Mason yelling your name in pre-game intros as fireworks are shooting off behind you?; ...Hearing the crowd go crazy as you run on to the floor and high-five your teamates? ...Knowing that your coach expects that you're gonna make some mistakes but he still thinks that you can hold your own against Omer Asik? or Sitting on the bench watching your fellow rookie classmates get a head start on their careers while you try to earn some tablescraps of playing time in practice. I don't think Andre will be emotionally damaged if Kevin Garnett gets in his grill. I think being stoked that your coach has enough faith in you to check a hall-of-famer would more than outweigh any Austin Daye-like wussyness. If you're afraid of a player being THAT emotionally weak, you shouldn't have drafted him in the first place. Andre Drummond should start tonight.
I don't know if we've had a rookie with the same impact and Drummond since Dumars became GM. Monroe took a while to get acclimated and Knight - you could see the potential as he took his licks on the floor. I think both are good prospects but Drummond does something for this team and fits a certain chemistry that he should start sooner than later. Starting from the get go? I'm personally not going that far but I don't want to wait 2 months for an injury to thrust him into an already weak front court.
There's nobody in the team that brings what Drummond does to the team. I fully expect him to earn the starting spot by Christmas.
Judging on the pre-season only, we don't have any player that provides the same impact as Drummond.
I don't think Frank starting Max over Dre is because he considers Max to bring more wins, but because of the work ethic reasons Laimbrane mentioned. I'm fine with this as long as it is for these reasons and he gets 20+ mins a game.
You're right. I expect that the Pistons hope that all of that stuff motivate him to work hard and earn it.
Maxiell was really good tonight btw. Until Drummond takes the starting spot, the good news is that we always will have at least one real center on the floor that is a threat at both ends.
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It has been a long time since the Sunnyboys rocked The Playroom at Tallebudgera.
Now for the first time in 21 years all four original members of this Aussie post punk outfit will reunite in front of a home crowd at the Coolangatta Hotel on their 'Home At Last' Tour.
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text: We got out of church last night and the snow was falling hard. :shock:By the time we got to delivering fudge down the Sandy River I was wondering if we were going to get out. :?Kids ran out in the dark to make a snowman. When it is 38 out you got to get on that in a hurry!Luvin, we are inland just a piece. It goes Pacific Ocean, coast range, Willamette valley, Cascades. I am at the base of Mt Hood in the Valley. Nice place to live, Coast range drys the air some but the Cascades keeps her from getting too dry.You cheese heads are nuts! You got to be crazy to grow up there. Well after 18 yrs of it I joined the Navy and never went back for more than a week. I lived by the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee WI and my dad had us shovel all the walks of the old people around us. I hope somebody is helping them now.Yup still got part of the accent. :laugh:


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text: The best internet options for watching Worlds appear to be: Universal Sports (9.95$) or Ice Network (4.95$ charged on top of the Season Pass) in the US (and Canada, I assume?). ISU Web TV in the countries listed in the other thread (Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa and loads of other countries, where figure skating isn't present - doesn't include US or the EBU countries). In Sweden, you can watch SVT, which shows everything (other than Preliminary Rounds, sadly) but it most likely is going to be geo-blocked for anybody outside of Sweden (that was the case during Europeans). What are the options for European fans then? And I am talking about comprehensive coverage and not internet broadcasts of tv channels, showing only small parts of the events. Unless there is something I'm not aware of (if there is, please let us know!), I guess the best option is going to be tvteka.tv? It includes a very big selection of Russian channels (as well as Russian Eurosport) and costs 10$ for a monthly subscription. Anybody knows details of Russian coverage? If you do, please share. I just had a look on the websites of the channels I know and Russia 1 and Russia 2 (and its related channels) aren't showing any Worlds. So I assume that NTV has the rights? I just had a look on the NTV website but it's only showing the schedule until Sunday, 24th April (today). :/


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I am an inhabitant of planet Earth who was born in 1930 and has lived through one horror after another. In the 1940s, well educated German men smashed the heads of Jewish babies, japanese soldiers raped thousands in Nanking, hundreds of Negroes were lynched in the American South, the massacres in Rwanda, and so on and so on. Name a continent, name a region of the world and one is certain to be able to cite this massacre of that one. A week ago in the country of Guinea, thousands of people peacefully gathered to express their views about failure to have a democratic election. Suddenly, soldiers went wild, shooting point blank into the crowd and then grabbing women and raping them in broad daylight!
'I was 57 and they stripped me naked. I saw soldiers putting their rifles into women's private parts." The Minister of Health in Guinea denies any rape took place and insists only a few people were killed although independent sources place the figure at about 150. How in this day and age could soldiers attack their own women! How could they rape women in daylight and in full view of cameras? On which planet do I live?
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LAS VEGAS -- Your best bulk idea could win you $300. The National Bulk Vendors Association's seminar program at the upcoming Amusement Expo here will offer a chance to win $300. The Most Innovative Operator award will be presented on the spot.
The contest is the brainchild of seminar chairman Matt Miller of Marzs Vending (Stephenville, TX), who is also the moderator of the Most Innovative Operator-Best Ideas seminar, which will be held at 2:45 p.m. All NBVA seminars will take place on Mar. 25 at the Las Vegas Hotel in Pavilion 6. The program kicks off at 9 a.m. with a welcome address from NBVA president Steve Schechner.
According to Miller, who was last year's winner, an award-winner idea could address a wide variety of subjects. Last year's presentations included how to employ price points to increase margins and revenues. Miller's winning talk focused on getting back to more wholesome merchandise. Once again, seminar participants will vote for the best idea.
"The idea is to get operators up there to share what they've been doing and pass on the best practices to others," Miller told Vending Times.
Miller has also expressed enthusiasm for this year's complete lineup of seminars. "It's going to be the most comprehensive seminar schedule we've ever had," he said. "This year, they've been given enough time to be a huge part of the conference. Operators can not only learn about the latest and greatest products on the show floor, but they can also learn how to do what they do more profitably."
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At the beginning of each week, members of the New York Jets wander over to a computer in the player's lounge and select video clips they'd like to review ahead of the next game. But rather than burning these clips to a DVD they'll watch on their laptops or sitting in a darkened room staring at a screen, players have the films sent to their Apple iPads.
The Jets are but one example of how the ubiquitous tablets are changing how teams throughout the National Football League prepare for, and review, games. The iPad is quickly replacing traditional "films" and even printed playbooks in the NFL, much like it is replacing charts in many airliners. A growing number of teams find the devices are faster, cheaper and easier than ripping thousands of DVDs and compiling reams of paper. Tablets also provide far greater flexibility in when, where and how players and coaches prep for upcoming games, allowing them to, say, review annotated game clips or new plays just about anywhere.
"All the video that our players want to see, whether it's all the third downs that the Patriots ran or all their red-zone plays, they'll have all that stuff on their iPads," said Jets video director Tim Tubito.
The Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have purchased 120 and 150 64-gigabyte iPad 2s, respectively, in recent months and transferred their playbooks to the devices. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals love the technology, which also is making inroads in collegiate football. It remains to be seen how deeply the iPad will penetrate the NFL, but it is emerging as a versatile, and vital, tool within the league. Five teams outlined to Wired.com exactly how they have embraced the devices. Another dozen said they use the devices but declined to explain in detail exactly how.
The ability to edit and watch game day video from virtually any location — one team's defensive coordinator kept up with team practices from his hospital bed — is among the iPad's greatest selling points for the NFL, and it is changing how players, coaches and support staff prepare for games. As soon as the iPad was introduced, the Jets were using third-party applications to transfer files from DVDs onto tablets. Now it uses Hudl, a system developed by Agile Sports that allows professional and collegiate teams to view game film clips, also known as cutups, on a secure online network. Players can select the videos they want using a password-protected computer in the player's lounge. The team also sent video of every practice to offensive consultant Tom Moore, who lived in Hilton Head, South Carolina, before recently relocating to northern New Jersey.
The team has since 2006 been searching for ways to ease its dependence on DVDs. First it used SD cards to put game footage on PlayStation's PSP portable gaming devices. Then it began using iPods — a method Major League Baseball has used for years — before trying Archos, a software company specializing in Android-powered tablets that also was used by the Ravens. Tubito can't say yet whether the team has saved any money by ditching DVDs, but he did say he would have ordered as many as 6,000 DVDs so far this season. The team's embrace of the iPad means he needs a fraction of that number to satisfy any Luddites on the team.
The Jaguars also have embraced tablets. Players and coaches break down game tape on their iPads using XOS Digital's Lightning program. The software allows teams to study practices and games using features such as fast forward and rewind controls and visual tools like arrows in order to diagram plays. The program also features text so coaches can add notes and other information. It's proven so popular that 54 players and 34 coaches and administrators use it, even though it meant buying their own iPads.
Shuttle, a similar software application developed by DVSport, is another option. Shuttle, like Lightning, gives users full control options with which to view practice and game footage. Craig Davis, vice president of sales and marketing for DVSport, said such features are invaluable to coaches, who may watch a single play a dozen times in succession.
"If you sat in a room and watched a coach watch video, they'll go through that video 15, 20 times," Davis said. "They'll be on play 15 and they'll watch that running back go through that hole, then they'll watch what the linemen do [on the same play], then they'll watch what the quarterback does. They'll watch that four seconds of play –- we call it 'scrubbing' -– five, six, seven, eight, nine times until they get the information they want from it."
The speed and accuracy with which coaches can tailor videos to specific needs or players makes the iPad an appealing tool. A spokesman for the Arizona Cardinals acknowledged the team uses iPads for playbooks, scouting reports and video editing. The Indianapolis Colts use the devices in a similar fashion, and wide receivers coach Frank Reich makes sure his players have the team playbook, gameplan and schedule on their tablets. The San Francisco 49ers recently partnered with Ironworks Sports to use its video player for distributing and viewing game film.
Different teams want different things from their iPads, which is why third-party vendors like Ironworks Sports tailor their software to each customer. Ironworks writes its own code to ensure teams get exactly what they want.
"There is a very specific way that teams pull in their video and attach statistics to it," said Ironworks' founder Charlie Denison. "There's also a very specific way that they edit the video and also a very specific way they want to look at the video. So, if people are just basically using the QuickTime player and just kind of throwing some stuff on top of that, that doesn't provide the optimum experience for how teams want to look at video."
By writing its code from the first line, Ironworks boasts it can provide a level of accuracy and speed better than anything on the market. It's the speed and accuracy of the video and its delivery that quickly made DVDs, whiteboards and written documents like scouting reports suddenly seem antiquated.
For instance, the Jaguars estimate they spend roughly $50,000 per year to produce written scouting reports. Mike Stoeber, the team's assistant director of football technology, said the weekly scouting report given to each player typically runs 1,200 pages long. Before the start of the current season, the Jaguars decided to give each player video edits, or cutups, of games and practices via XOS's Lightning program. Now players can study their weekly film work while being treated in the training room or relaxing at home. Interim head coach Mel Tucker used his iPad to study film while in the hospital recuperating from knee surgery in late September.
"We used DropBox and put all the scouting reports for him up there, so his iPad was his office," Stoeber said.
Cutups are as far as many teams say they've gone with tablets. The jump to digital playbooks has been slower, but it is expected to occur within a few seasons.
"If we don't do it next year, it'll probably be very soon [thereafter]," the Jets' Tim Tubito said.
Security is the biggest impediment to widespread adoption of digital playbooks. Teams like the Jaguars are trying to determine how best to protect their playbooks, while others are looking to the league to lead the way.
"They're not going to let us put something out there in cyberspace without investigating and saying, 'This is what kind of encryption you need,'" said the video director of one AFC team who did not want to be identified discussing a potentially sensitive topic. "You [also] have the ability to wipe out iPads if something happens."
For what it's worth, an NFL spokesman says the league allows each team to determine its own security measures for playbooks, be they digital or printed.
Security is a top concern even for more routine things like films. Every team that has embraced the iPad has fitted the tablets with so-called time bombs, which allow IT personnel to remotely wipe the information on a tablet if the device is lost or stolen — or if the player is cut, traded or becomes a free agent. The Buccaneers, for example, upload weekly playbook installments and videos to the team's in-house network. If an iPad disappears, the IT department clears the data remotely. If the iPad is recovered, it must be physically connected to a computer to restore the data.
The Ravens give its players three attempts to enter passwords. After the third try, the tablet wipes itself clean, taking any video clips, team info and league policies with it. The team keeps its playbook and other information on Rackspace, a hosting and cloud computing firm. Players have a four-day window in which to download that week's gameplan. (Gameplans live on the server indefinitely on the coaches' accounts.) Once the clock strikes midnight on the Monday following a game –- or on Tuesday following a Monday nighter –- the gameplan for that contest is wiped out.
Nick Fusee, the Ravens' IT director, noted head coach John Harbaugh wasn't thrilled about putting team information in the cloud. But the upside is it eliminates the hassle and expense of maintaining servers.
Switching to iPads also saves money, he said. Perhaps not up front, but by the third year the team will save a "significant" sum. He declined to offer specifics, but said dropping the cost of printing master playbooks — those 500-plus page beasts assigned to players in training camp — and in-season scouting reports and gameplans "is a game changer."
"The upfront cost of the iPads and developing the app as well as other costs involved are negated in two years of use," Fusee said. "Even if we do a hardware refresh after two years, we will still be ahead of the game in terms of what we would have spent on printing for three years. Even with doing a hardware refresh every two years, we are able to save money. If we can wait to do a refresh after three seasons, then we save a good deal of money."
Teams are still discovering ways to use the iPad, and possibilities are abundant. Several franchises have begun using a DVSport application feature called "'hot folder." It uses the iPad's Wi-Fi capability to provide instant updates from the team's video coordinator –- often new cutups. When an update is available, the file is transcoded, moved to the hot folder and sent to each player's iPad. This way, players can leave their tablets just about anywhere in the practice facility, hit the field or the weight room and return to find them loaded with new cutups and other info.
Other software programs allow coaches to diagram cutups, much like commentators scribble over TV replays. Coach's Office, a football software outfit in Holder, Florida, is slated to release DrawOnSlides by February. The app lets teams upload pages from a playbook and re-diagram them within an iPad's photo album. Virtually any part of the playbook can be assessed and, possibly, altered.
"With this, they already have the play drawn up, or maybe just the formation –- the offense and the coverages," said Stan Webber, founder of Coach's Office. "Instead of being at that whiteboard and drawing that stuff up first and then putting in the play, they can already be there."
The season's not even over, and already many teams are looking ahead to next year to determine how to more tightly integrate the iPad into their training regimens.
"We want to find an app that's functional, that really allows a player to treat it like a playbook," said the Jets' Tim Tubito. "It's going to give him the ability to make notes and it's going to give them access to any kinds of changes they can make, where it's not a stale image they can't do anything with. A lot of guys takes notes in their playbooks. We want to be able to give them a full playbook feel."
One thing he'd like to see is a feature that allows coaches to send voice notes with each cutup. Dwan Edwards, a defensive end for the Buffalo Bills, would like to see similar advancements, and believes the convenience and ease of tablets provides players with additional motivation to do their homework.
"Having an iPad, for some guys, might increase the amount of time they watch film," Edwards said.
Still, don't expect to see iPads on the sidelines anytime soon. NFL rules bar electronic communication devices from coaches' booths, sidelines, locker rooms and any other team-controlled area on game day. For now, coaches will have to rely upon conventional photographs to analyze on-field formations and their opponents' tactics. But Brian Rolapp, the chief marketing officer at NFL Media, admitted in-game analysis technology can evolve.
"If you want to get a snapshot of the formation down to your offensive coordinator who happens to be on the sideline, why do you have someone running a Polaroid down?" he said. "Why can't it be instantaneously put on the sideline?"
Such a chance can only happen, he said, with the proper security measures and professional guidelines in place to maintain "integrity of the game." He also noted that bringing new technology to the field depends upon finding the right technology partner. The NFL's contract with Motorola expires at the end of this season. Could Apple be ready to take the field? Rolapp wouldn't say, and Apple declined to comment.
Rolapp emphasized that the league's five-year-old digital media committee, co-chaired by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and Patriots CEO Jonathan Kraft, will continue to think of ways in which on-field technology can be enhanced. Considering the zest NFL teams have for absorbing information as efficiently as possible, a rapid acceleration in the iPad's use throughout the NFL isn't long off.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Midvale • The Utah High School Activities Association's (UHSAA) Board of Trustees convened for the final time of the 2012-13 calendar year Thursday morning in Midvale, and the ever-important catastrophic injury and insurance topic was the primary goal of the meeting.
Wells Fargo insurance broker David Nielson addressed the board members regarding potential options of how to protect student-athletes under the UHSAA athletic umbrella and after hours of deliberation, the board voted unanimously to go sign back on Mutual of Omaha.
The new deal will feature an eventual two-year contract with Mutual of Omaha with an opportunity to opt out after the first year with a $75,000 deductible and a raised $3.75 per-athlete premium. The payout remains at $1 million dollar in catastrophic injury scenarios, UHSAA executive director Rob Cuff said.
The new deal will cap medical expenses at $750,000 and will have $250,000 "catastrophic cash" for potential severe injuries to get a head start on becoming accustomed to the impairment.
"In case of paraplegic and quadriplegic [injuries], it gives them money to get going as far as buying a car or other things," Cuff said.
The option voted upon unanimously by the Board of Trustees was one of four presented by Nielson and the Mutual of Omaha, an insurance company that was carried by the UHSAA up until six years ago.
The per-athlete premium will jump a quarter in the new deal the previous deal was $3.50 per athlete and it began to become a drain on the UHSAA endowment fund. According to Cuff, between the UHSAA budget and the UHSAA foundation for endowment games, the total subsidized will be at least $130,00, which is the current cost of the policy.
The new deal and new premiums and deductibles come on the heels of two catastrophic injuries in the last two years in which Wasatch High School wrestler Dale Lawrence was paralyzed in a wrestling practice in January 2011, while South Summit High School football player Porter Hancock was left paralyzed after a making a tackle on a special teams play in October 2011.
"We know the bottom-line is the premiums have been raised because of the amount of recent claims," Cuff said to the board.
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Who knows, but it's a thought sure to pass through Derek Dooley's mind soon, along with numerous others, wondering how it came to this and how so quickly.
The second Tyler Bray's pass sailed into the hands of Kentucky defensive back Taiedo Smith last November, a year of patience evaporated.
Nearly 12 months and six more Southeastern Conference losses later and the InsideTennessee staff is brainstorming for a list of head-coaching candidates.
In nearly every way possible, Dooley has done exactly what he was hired to do — except win at a double-digit-per-year pace in the country's premier collegiate football league.
The guy left Louisiana Tech for Knoxville and inherited attrition levels worse than most programs fresh off probation, an NCAA black cloud, one of the toughest schedules in the country and a wounded fan base.
Lane Kiffin's news that he was taking his "dream job" at Southern California over what Peyton Manning calls a "destination job" on Rocky Top put his replacement in the batter's box with two strikes against him.
Picking up the pieces following the departure of a coach that was the complete opposite of Phillip Fulmer just 407 days into the job left then-AD Mike Hamilton filling up voice mailboxes instead of talking contract terms with the top of the list.
Still, in spite of mattresses still smoldering on Johnny Majors Drive, Dooley pounced all over the opportunity, knowing the Tennessee job is one loaded with rich tradition, elite facilities and a challenge that could leave a guy remembered forever (for the right reasons).
"If you're going to look for sound bites and things from me that's going to attack other programs and disparage people, that's just not how I am," said Dooley at his opening press conference back on Jan. 15, 2010, coincidentally showing the hand gestures and head movement of a man he holds the utmost respect for — Nick Saban.
Dooley's conservative, lawyer-like approach to things was just what the doctor ordered to keep five-star prospects that hold up fellow students off the roster and well-rounded young people at its core.
Is he going to draw up an exotic blitz at halftime to rattle A.J. McCarron's cage from the back-side and raise the eyebrows of Dick LeBeau?
|The Music City Bowl loss in Derek Dooley's first season in Knoxville put a negative wrap on that season.
|(Danny Parker/InsideTennessee.com)
Are the Vols going to emerge from the Peyton Manning Locker Room looking like they're ready to unleash a thunderstorm of pain following a stunning pregame speech?
Is he going to get with adidas to design a snazzy black jersey and satin helmet that's going to get his 20-year-olds pumped?
"There's nothing more important than an institution's culture and an institution's tradition," Dooley said from the beginning.
Back on Oct. 2, 2010, Dooley should have earned his signature win with the Vols poised to take down his former employer, LSU, in their own back yard. Alas, too many men on the field snatched victory away.
With an opportunity to enter that winter on a momentous upswing with a Music City Bowl victory, North Carolina found a way to stop the clock with 17 men on the field and get a kick off with 1 second showing. Then, an interception in overtime sealed Tennessee's fate and the 30-27 defeat is one of a host of the "snake bites" Big Orange Country is growing accustomed to.
Regardless of how close the Vols have come over the last three seasons, results speak volumes and it's been the "same ole song and dance in the SEC games."
Dooley does not provide a schematic advantage to the defensive side of the football. As he mentioned in Columbia just weeks ago, few head men can bring a leg up to all three phases: "I spend all my hours on offense and special teams. I don't know anybody that can do all three. I want to meet him if he can — Superman."
Timeouts were not used to stop the clock at the end of the first half this year against Alabama or at the end of regulation while tied versus Missouri. Plentiful timeouts were burned because of too many or not enough men on the field on special teams units.
He has his own philosophies on things, and he hasn't been afraid to voice them, such as consistently asking the NCAA to allow more coaches on football staffs.
He has his reasons for hosting a majority of the organization's official visitors when the season is over just like he has his reasons for not attending high school games on Friday nights.
What if Dooley is relieved of his duties or steps aside and Jon Gruden is not the next head coach on Rocky Top? The seed of Chucky has spread so deeply into Big Orange Country already, one has to wonder if Dooley or the next guy will be given a fair shake.
|The Tennessee job is much more appealing in Nov. 2012 than it was Jan. 2010 for a candidate like former Volunteer GA Jon Gruden.
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Still, depending on who all exits early for the NFL Draft, the Tennessee roster is in much better condition that it has been in years and construction on the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center expansion will be complete in mere weeks. Thus, this job is much more appealing than the one for which Dooley signed on.
Followers of recruiting talk about how hamstrung Tennessee is with the lack of in-state talent and with Memphis always being a wild card, but Atlanta, Charlotte and Louisville are all within five hours drive time. And, at least a few airlines fly to select cities in Florida from Alcoa for extremely cheap rates.
The losses to rivals have taken away the swagger of Vol Nation in water cooler talk but there's no embarrassment from the head coach getting caught straddling his chopper through the Smokies with a coed in tow and there aren't any rumors of duffle bags of cash on prospect's doorsteps or families being told to hit certain casinos with the knowledge that they'll walk out big winners.
At 15-20, the spenders that frequent Neyland Stadium haven't seen a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement — A.K.A. victories.
A fourth coach in six seasons doesn't sound attractive in any way to Big Orange Country and it's going to take a skyscraper loaded with dough to get a lead guy that worries Nick Saban, but it's what must be done.
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(East Cleveland) Members of Black on Black Crime and about 50 men helped search for missing women in abandoned houses. The search party went through vacant homes Wednesday afternoon in the Shaw and Hayden Avenues neighborhood. That's the area three women; 38-year-old Angela Deskins, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley, and 18-year-old Shirellda Terry were found dead, there bodies wrapped in garbage bags last weekend.
The suspect in the women's murders, 35-year-old Michael Madison, is being charged with rape and aggravated murder. He's being held on a $6 million dollar bond.
The search party was looking for clues that may lead them to more missing women. One of the men found a bone in one of the vacant houses, it's not known whether the bone is from a human.
Man holding a bone found in a vacant house. Photo Courtesy of Kathy Davis WTAM News
At 5:00, a Stop the Violence Against Women Rally is being held at the corner of Shaw and Hayden Avenues.
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Nextdoor.com Allows Deputies To Interact With Neighborhoods Countywide
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A private social network just for your neighborhood -- that's what Nextdoor.com offers. Only one other county in California uses it and Thursday the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department launched the site.
"It allows you to have the kind of information you would pass around at a community roundtable, but it's password-protected and it's accessible anytime, so rather than information on the Internet where anyone can access it, you have to verify that you're a member of that neighborhood and it only goes to members of that neighborhood," said Deputy Ryan Kennedy, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department public information officer.
Kennedy said there are times the department needs to send a message out to a specific neighborhood, like be on the lookouts, or a spike in crimes. The site will allow them to efficiently get the word directly to those who need to know.
"A lot of times when analyzing crime or just getting to know our community better, it's very helpful to have an Internet-based product," said Kennedy.
There are 63 different communities in the County of Santa Cruz. The goal for the Sheriff's Department is to get all of those neighborhoods actively involved on the site.
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On the site neighbors can post about yard sales, lost pets, anything relevant to their community. Deputies will use it to tie a stronger bond with the community they serve.
"Using Nextdoor is a move to personalize it again, bring it right back to your neighborhood, and that's what we want to do," said Kennedy.
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oakenspirit wrote:Altered top of GIANT SQUID to make it less... well... apparently some folks were seeing things not intended... so...
protip: the top of the squid wasn't the problem. you have a hard probe approaching a fleshy orifice.
just sayin'
j5 wrote:protip: the top of the squid wasn't the problem. you have a hard probe approaching a fleshy orifice.
just sayin'
This is why I am a naive elementary teacher... ...
I guess Ill take this second one down then as to not confuse votes... Thanks for enlightening me...
In fact, J5... You should be my editor... I will pay you in my wife's brownies...
Re: Odysseus's Grecian Positioning System v1.0
Would love without the boat! Hang on to the waves and dragons for another derby.
Re: The Raven
My first ever derby vote goes to this beautiful design. Very nice!
Re: Jabberwocky
I love this so very very much. That doesn't happen to me too often.
Great stuff. Love the way the scattered cards add movement. Bonus (as mentioned) vorpal sword. Frabjous : )
Re: Alice in Wonderland - White Rabbit
A different kind of procrastinator's shirt. Like the details : )
Re: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and fun
Re: The Art of War
Looking good...
very nice take on a too frequently seen bird, simple + different.
Re: Frankenstein
loving it! +1
i will get one when its printed! +1
Re: Welcome To The Inferno
@Spirit - Thanks! Wasn't sure if I'd have time to finish all of them, but I liked the axe guy so much I figured I'd finish. :x
@spazzyhilo - Thanks!
@Diana - Thanks! Took awhile but it was worth it, I think. Where have you been? I finally come back and your cuteness is absent. D:
Re: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Larger view
Hope you like it :D
I really like this one. Good job!
Re: Nevermore
Thank you, gentlemen!
scrabblefish wrote:Embarrassed to admit just how long it took me to find the "hidden wolf".
You just help her to found the wolf ;)
kevlar51 wrote:excellent concept and execution--very creative!
Thanks for your kind words.
thepinkpirate78 wrote:I love the simple elegance. Good luck!
oakenspirit wrote:In fact, J5... You should be my editor... I will pay you in my wife's brownies...
tabaddon wrote:I really like the looseness of the artwork. Not fussy, not totally structured, like it could all disappear in a wild flurry of sparks.
For what it's worth, it also reminds me of The Black Stallion, though those books were published much later. Fire imagery (and names like Firetail and Bonfire) figures into several of the books.
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FlyingMouse365 wrote:"Little Red Riding Hood".
This is super awesome!!!!!! PRINT!!!!
harzack wrote:Larger view
Hope you like it :D
This is such amazing drawing, such great one, LOVE it!!!
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Re: Pooh Bear
I would love this one in a sweatshirt and tote. It is so cute.
I was wondering when were you going to submit this. Awesome art!
Re: History is Written by the Victors (3 Little Pigs)
nice pig.
BUT I believe rules say no text . you might want to amend your design.
ceagee wrote:nice pig.
BUT I believe rules say no text . you might want to amend your design.
my brain is fried. sorry. read it wrong. text fine with design. It gets so confusing with no sleep.
so off I go.
Someone just brought the awesome sauce. Very cool.
Re: Treasure Island
fishbiscuit5 wrote:Amazing detail on this one!
Thank you very much fishbiscuit, *u*
midnightnerfherder wrote:My first ever derby vote goes to this beautiful design. Very nice!
Thank you! So proud of caught your attention OuO
Re: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
I've never liked the type based designs but I have to admit that you have a cool-personal style, and a clever sense of humor!
Great one!
Re: Alice In Wonderland - Wrong Rabbit
I really like the monster bunny, but the disney-esque Alice doesn't work as well for me. :/
So glad to see you two back! I was hoping someone would do a Jabberwocky, and this is perfect
Re: long way home
inspired by the Odysseus , 3 colors on white
This shirt is the bee's knees +1 for sure
fuacka wrote:I've never liked the type based designs but I have to admit that you have a cool-personal style, and a clever sense of humor!
Great one!
Thanks! I love words on my shirt so I usally end up designing something I really want to wear. :D
Re: Cheshire Cat
I came in a little late on this derby, but I had to make a shirt of my favorite famous cat before Grumpy came along. I hope you guys like it
Re: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Beautiful colors and clean style!
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AUDIO: Cedar Point addresses HalloWeekends traffic jam
(Sandusky)– A nightmare situation at Cedar Point this weekend had nothing to do with the spooks at HalloWeekends…but rather what happened after.
When the park closed at Midnight Saturday, there was a huge traffic jam that left some people trapped for more than four hours trying to exit the parking lot.
Amy Ford tells Newsradio WTAM 1100's Darren Toms that she and her college roommate left Cedar Point at 10:45 PM. It took them four hours to get to a main road and up to speed.
Ford says it was so crowded at HalloWeekends that the two had to walk arm-in-arm to avoid getting separated.
When they left, the parking lot attendant did not let them turn left into traffic leaving Cedar Point. Instead, Ford says they drove four miles north and THEN joined the southbound traffic.
Ford says they were two 19-year-old girls stopped in pitch black with dying cell phones and worried about gasoline.
Many took to social media with their complaints.
Park owner Cedar Fair released the following statement:
On Saturday, October 12, Cedar Point experienced a large crowd with the combination of perfect weather, the Columbus Day holiday and our annual HalloWeekends event.
While guests were attempting to park their vehicles, and subsequently, leave the park at the end of their day, they experienced a longer than normal delay in our parking lot and on our causeway. Like sporting events, concerts and other events where large crowds gather, guests leave around the same time creating a backup.
Our current parking procedures and traffic patterns are in place to safely direct vehicles in and out of our parking lot, as safety is our primary concern. However, we are aware that the delay on Saturday, October 12 was not normal.
We are currently reviewing our parking and traffic procedures in an effort to deliver a better guest experience.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder English department will host an international scholarly conference on contemporary or urban legends from May 21 to May 24 at the Hotel Boulderado.
About 30 members of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research will meet for the 15th annual Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Conference to present research papers and seminars on current studies. Meetings will be in the Alpine Room of the Hotel Boulderado from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. On Saturday the conference will meet at 1215 Spruce St. from 8 a.m. to noon.
Contemporary or urban legends have been described as false tales told as true, but research has revealed that many are partly true. Their true significance lies in their cautionary nature, and most are fablelike warnings.
The conference provides scholars with a forum for the exchange of ideas on so-called urban or modern legends, and on the legend tradition that continues worldwide now as in the past.
Participants will come from Finland, Denmark, France, England and Canada and many areas of the United States for the multidisciplinary conference on understanding contemporary legends. Those attending are academics in literature, languages, sociology, folklore and anthropology.
Many participants are published authors and respected leaders in their field, including conference organizers Michael Preston and Cathy Preston of the CU-Boulder English department, who have published on various aspects of contemporary legends.
Seminar topics will include the Bigfoot legend, haunted houses, kidney heists, computer viruses, race-related legends, cultural implications of legends and their circulation by word-of-mouth and electronically over the World Wide Web and Internet.
Popular interest in and awareness of contemporary legends is at its height, but this conference is about understanding the phenomenon from the viewpoints of many different disciplines, said Michael Preston. The conference is for academics to get together to make sense of the current research in the field.
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A 5-year-old boy went to visit his grandmother one day.
Playing with his toys in her bedroom while grandma was dusting, he looked up
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'Grandma, how come you don't have a boyfriend now that Grandpa went to
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The minister said, 'Hello son, is your Grandma home?'
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The train was quite crowded, so a U.S. Marine walked the entire length
looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well
dressed, middle-aged, French woman's poodle. The war-weary Marine asked, 'Ma'am, may I have that seat?'
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'Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat.'
The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was
under that dog. 'Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired.' She
snorted, 'Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!'
This time the Marine didn't say a word; he just picked up the little
dog, tossed it out the train window, and sat down. The woman shrieked,
'Someone must defend my honour! Put this American in his place!'
An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up, 'Sir, you Americans
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Marc Morrone was born in 1960 in the Bronx and, when he was 2, his family moved to Long Beach, where he quickly became enchanted with the natural world of the seahore. This is when he started to keep any pet that he could get his hands on: It mattered not if it was an insect, fish, amphibian, bird or mammal.
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Austin committed to Ed Cooley and Providence on Monday, according to his travel team coach Lonnie Lowry. He picked the Friars over strong interest from Connecticut and Texas.
Austin, who stands 6-foot-6, is an athletic wing prospect with a long, wiry frame. He impressed this summer on Team Philly and at camps, where he was able to showcase his athleticism, improved skill and ability to defend and rebound.
Austin is regarded as a four-star prospect. He checks in at No. 39 overall in the 2013 class.
According to AAU Coach Lonnie Lowry the decision came down to Austin's relationship with Providence boss Ed Cooley.
"I would say his relationship with Coach Cooley was the difference," said Austin. "I think he really trusts Coach Cooley and everything he is saying."
He continued, "Texas was just too far. He really liked Texas, but it was too far."
Providence now has a pair of commitments in 2013. Austin joins three-star prospect Rodney Bullock to make up their current recruiting class.
This is the second year in a row Cooley has landed a top 50 prospect. In fact, in 2012 Providence reeled a pair of top 50 recruits.
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The Canisius College men's and women's cross country teams will make their first appearance at the fifth annual Father Laurence O'Neil, S.J. Invitational hosted by fellow MAAC opponent Fairfield University on Saturday morning.
The women's 5K-race will begin at 10:30 a.m. followed by the men's 8K-race at approximately 11:15 a.m.
Previously known as the Fairfield Invitational, the Father Laurence O'Neil, S.J. Invitational was rededicated in honor of the late Stags' chaplain in 2010. Serving as a counselor to student-athletes, Father O'Neil passed away in October 2009.
This year's field will include nine women's teams and ten men's teams. In addition to host and regining men's and women's O'Neil Invitational champion Fairfield, the field will be comprised of the Golden Griffins, Colgate University, University of Hartford, Siena College, Wagner University, the University of Bridgeport, City College of New York, Molloy College, and the University of New Haven.
The Golden Griffins are coming off a solid showing at the 39th annual Brooks Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pa. on Sept. 28. The Golden Griffin men recorded their strongest performance in the Brown race with a program-best finish of second overall, while the women placed 23rd.
Making their eighth appearance at the race, the Golden Griffin men secured their best-team finish of second overall in a field of 33 teams. Leading the way for the Griffs for the third consecutive race was sophomore Chad Maloy. The sophomore recorded the program's best individual-finish of eighth overall with a time of 25:34. Besides Maloy, four of the Griffs' top-five finishers placed in the top-50.
On women's side, the Golden Griffins placed 23rd among 39 teams in the field. The Griffs placed ahead of MAAC members Niagara in 31st place and Manhattan in 35th place. Junior Mikelle Cala led the Griffs in their third straight race, finishing 33rd overall in a time of 22:53, tying a personal best at the course from her freshman year in 2010.


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Emerging research suggests outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with mental health problems — and saves taxpayers money to boot.
Researchers looked at the extent to which treating mental illness can keep people with mental health problems out of trouble with the law.
"This study shows that providing mental health care is not only in the best interest of people with mental illness, but in the best interests of society," said Sarah Desmarais, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and coauthor of the paper.
It is well-established that people with mental health problems — such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder — make up a disproportionate percentage of defendants, inmates and others who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
…."It costs about $10 less per day to provide treatment and prevent crime. That's a good investment," Desmarais said.
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Gunners get to grips with sitting volleyball
Arsenal players got into the Paralympic spirit on Friday, when they were given a unique opportunity to get involved with one of the London 2012 Paralympic Games' most exciting sports - sitting volleyball.
Men's sitting volleyball was first introduced to the Paralympic Games in 1980 and has grown to become one of the more popular Paralympic sports due to its fast-paced nature and thrilling action. The rules of sitting volleyball are very similar to its Olympic counterpart with six players per side; however a part of an athlete's body between the buttocks and the shoulder must be in contact with the court whenever a shot, or attempt at a shot, is made.
After being taught the basics by Volleyball England coaches at the Club's training base at London Colney, Carl Jenkinson, Abou Diaby, Vito Mannone and Francis Coquelin quickly got to grips with the sport and took part in a closely-fought game alongside more seasoned competitors.
After completing the short contest, Carl Jenkinson admitted that he had found the activity harder than expected: "It was good fun but really hard work as your hands are in the air the whole time and it gives your core a real workout. I have a lot of respect for the guys who are doing this at the Paralympics and I wish them all the best during the Games."
Goalkeeper Vito Mannone also enjoyed the experience: "We play a few other sports like table tennis and basketball when we have a bit of free time but this is really fun. The other guys aren't used to using their hands so maybe I had a bit of an advantage today!"
The session was set up by Arsenal in the Community, in conjunction with Volleyball England and London Lynx Volleyball Club, as part of the department's drive to expand both its Premier League 4 Sport and Disability programmes. PL4S aims to encourage more young people to get involved with Olympic sports and sees Premier League clubs acting as hubs linked to community sports clubs and facilities, which in turn are connected to local secondary schools to create satellite sports centres.
Arsenal in the Community is currently looking to create a disability specific satellite club, linking to all of its local Hub Clubs in the sports of sitting volleyball, badminton, table tennis and more. The department currently organises sessions and teams in blind and deaf (hard of hearing) football and by recruiting and training new coaches and volunteers, it is hoped that the programmes will continue to develop and capitalise on the success of London 2012.


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Arsène Wenger admits he has always been baffled by the suggestion that playing away from home is a hindrance.
The Frenchman takes his side to White Hart Lane on Sunday for an eagerly-awaited North London derby and a chance to secure a second consecutive win in the Premier League.
But regardless of whether the game is at Spurs or Emirates Stadium, Wenger insists his side will stick to their guns.
"Never in my life could I understand the difference between away and home," he said. "For me it is a football match and no matter where we play you try to play well.
"The next game against Tottenham is always a test of course."
Arsenal have won their last three matches in all competitions following Wednesday night's Champions League win over Olympiacos, and the manager believes his team is growing in stature with every positive result.
"Every win makes you stronger, especially when you come from a difficult period," he said. "For us it's important to get wins together and get the confidence back."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Jennie was born in Sansego, Italy, She came to West Seattle at the age of four, where she resided all of her life, She attended Holy Rosary Catholic School. Beloved wife of Dominic for almost 60 Years. Loving mother of Janice Caso, Jimmy (Janet), and Mitch (Prescilla). A caring grandmother and great grandmother to Dominic (Kerma), Jimmy (Kelli), Gina, Krista (Collin), Jeff, Devan, Ryan, Tori, Taylor, Jacob and Jimmy. Jennie is also survived by her sister, Nellie and her husband Jim Atwell of Sunnyvale CA. and their five children. A visitation will be held on Wednesday March 1, 2006. from 1 to 7PM where a Vigil Service will begin a 7PM at the Howden-Kennedy Funeral (3909 SW Alaska) of West Seattle. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10AM on Thursday March 2, 2006 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church (4139 42nd Ave. SW) of West Seattle. Interment with comittial services at Calvary Cemetery in Seattle. Please visit our online Guestbook at www.howden-kennedy.com


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This year we initiate the first annual Turkey Awards to individuals who have displayed incompetence, evil, and nastiness during the course of the year. We also identify the people who have endued persecution and oppression during the year. Individuals are placed in either one of three categories:
The Schmuck is the one who piles the tray with too many bowls of soup, the Schlemiel is the one who trips and spills the soups, the Schlamazel is the one who has the soup spilled on him/her.
GEORGE BUSH His punishment is spending eternity locked in a hotel room with Rumsfeld and Osama bin Laden swapping war stories.
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe–He is forced to parade in full military regalia in the Ms. Zimbabwe beauty contest and then recite his stories of olden heroism.
Military Junta of Myanmar: Placed in a cave with hungry tigers outside while they write another new Constitution.
Omar Bashir of Sudan: He has women from Darfur shove sticks up his ass.
President Ahmadinejad –He awakes one morning to discover he is an Orthodox Jew.
Taliban Leaders — They are forced to live in a gay community in Afghanistan and partake of the daily sexual activities.
Turkish Men Who Beat Wives: They must dress in a burka for a year and pretend they are women.
Dick Cheney: He sits in a dark room in Guantanamo prison gazing at nothing for ten years.
Sarah Palin: She spends the next ten years as Mayor Of Harlem and gives daily talks about how wonderful it is to be in the real America.
John McCain: He is forced to write a thousand times: "I conducted the worst campaign in political history."
Detroit Car Executives: They will fly in their private jets for a year and there will be no executive toilet on the planes.
Joe The Plumber: He will fix toilets in outhouses for the next five years so he can waddle in the shit he speaks at Republican rallies.
Silvio Berlusconi: He will spend the next five years in a Roma camp where he can give identify tatoos to the men.
Vladmir Putin: He will become a professional wrestling promoter who spends his time fixing wrestling matches.
Chinese Leaders: They will spend two years in a Tibetan monastery contemplating their navels.
Anti-Gay Voter In California: They will be exiled to a gay community on the island of Tahiti.
Condi Rice: She will become a cleaning woman at Stanford University so she can clean up the dirt she has left around the world.
British Academics Who Wanted To Boycott Israel: They will visit the Congo, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and other bastions of academic freedom they don't believe should be boycotted.
The American Public who got lied to and bamboozled by George Bush.
People of Zimbabwe who have been oppressed for too long.
Chicago Cub baseball fans who last attended a world series game about eighty years ago.
People of Burma who deserve some decency in their lives.
Muslim women in nations like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia who are entitled to be treated as human beings with equal rights to men.
Children attending schools throughout the world who have to endure the endless babble of boring teachers.
People of Tibet who just want a bit of respect for their dignity as humans from the Chinese government.
Russian people who have longed throughout history for real democracy.
The people of the Congo who are forgotten by the world.
Gays and Lesbians all over the world who just want to be left in peace.


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New data released today by the Minnesota Department of Education shows significant improvements at a number of previously low performing schools. They had been labelled as "priority" or "focus" schools, meaning the lowest 5% in achievement and the 10% of schools with the largest achievement gap. The new figures mean 27 schools in the state no longer carry that status.
Red Lake High School and Cass Lake-Bena Secondary were among the schools that showed enough improvement to be lifted from the "priority" list.
The numbers are based upon the 2013 Multiple Measurement Ratings which combines several factors such as graduation rates, teacher proficiency, and student achievement to assess particular schools. Those ratings are part of Minnesota's new system replacing the federal No Child Left Behind program.