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Admission to undergraduate programs is granted by the USC Office of Admission. This office receives and processes all applications, evaluates credentials, and mails letters of acceptance to applicants who qualify for entrance. Admission to the university's degree programs must be granted in all cases by the USC Office of Admission and the appropriate selection committees. Only a letter from the Office of Admission grants official admission. The academic records of international applicants are also evaluated by the Office of Admission.
The University of Southern California admits qualified men and women as students regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, handicap, sexual orientation or status as a disabled veteran. After admission, students are accorded equal rights to participate in all university-sponsored programs and activities. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, handicap, sexual orientation or status as a disabled veteran in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics and other student activities.
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Application ProceduresApplication forms may be obtained by mail, online or in person from the Office of Admission. A non-refundable fee must be sent with the completed application. For specific application deadlines and requirements, refer to the Undergraduate Application for Admission, available from the Office of Admission. Mail application requests to: Application Requests, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0911 or visit www.usc.edu/admission.
Credentials for admission must include complete records of all previous high school and college or university work and the required test scores. Consult the admission application for the procedure to forward official records directly to the Office of Admission and to request the testing agencies to forward appropriate scores.
USC does not undertake the collection of these credentials. The application for admission and complete credentials should be mailed to the Office of Admission by the deadlines stated on the application. Certain schools and departments do have different application deadlines.
A student is accepted only for the semester and program specified in the letter of admission. If a different semester is desired or if the student cannot arrive on campus in time for the specified semester, the student may seek to defer admission by contacting the office of the Director of Undergraduate Admission. This does not, however, guarantee readmission. Those deferring their entrance must meet all appropriate deadlines for admission to selected majors, financial aid, scholarships and housing.
As a private university, USC seeks a wide geographical distribution among its student body, and evaluates its out-of-state applicants using the same criteria as those used for California residents. Tuition and fees are the same for all students, regardless of state or country of residence.
School and Department Application RequirementsBecause of high competition for admission, several schools and academic departments require supplementary application materials and may employ separate deadlines.
Leventhal School of Accounting Applicants for the B.S. degree in accounting offered through the USC Leventhal School of Accounting must first be admitted to the Marshall School of Business. In some cases, high school students who have demonstrated exceptional scholastic aptitude for the accounting major will be considered for admission as freshmen. For more information, write or call the USC Marshall School of Business, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0805, (213) 740-8885, email email@example.com or consult USCweb (www.marshall.usc.edu/lsoa).
School of Architecture (B.Arch., B.L.Arch., B.S., Architectural Studies) Transfer students should note that the core curriculum will take five years to complete. A portfolio is required of all applicants. For more information, write or call the USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291, (213) 740-2420, email firstname.lastname@example.com or consult USCweb (arch.usc.edu).
Marshall School of Business Students may be admitted as incoming freshmen, as USC undergraduates transferring from another major or as students transferring from another college or university. Transfer students will be considered for admission to the Marshall School of Business once they have completed the prerequisite courses (college writing, macro and micro economics, business calculus). Students should contact the Marshall School for a detailed list of equivalent courses. For further information, write or call the USC Marshall School of Business, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0805, (213) 740-8885, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com or consult USCweb (www.marshall.usc.edu).
School of Cinematic Arts (Animation and Digital Arts, Critical Studies, Interactive Entertainment, Production, and Writing for Screen and Television) Supplemental materials are due December 10. Transfer students applying to the writing program should note that the core curriculum takes four years to complete. For specific instructions on applications and required supplementary material, contact the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Student Affairs Office, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211, (213) 740-2911, email email@example.com or visit cinema.usc.edu.
School of Dentistry (Dental Hygiene) All prerequisite and general education course work must be completed prior to entering dental hygiene classes, which begin in the fall of the student's junior year. Contact the department about completing necessary courses at USC or elsewhere. Admission is for the fall semester only. The supplemental application deadline is March 1.
For further information and a supplemental application, write or call the School of Dentistry, Office of Admissions and Student Affairs, 925 West 34th Street, Room 201, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0641, (213) 740-2841 or visit the Web site (www.usc.edu/hsc/dental).
Roski School of Fine Arts (B.F.A. and B.A.) A supplemental application and slide portfolios are required of all applicants to the B.F.A. and B.A. (Studio Arts) programs. Supplemental applications may be downloaded from the school's Web site (finarts.usc.edu). Applicants may contact the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Watt Hall 104, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292, (213) 740-2787, for questions about applications and required supplementary materials.
School of Journalism (includes majors in broadcast journalism, print journalism and public relations). A one-page statement of intent is required in addition to the main essay. The statement should discuss thoroughly the applicant's background and interest in pursuing an education and a career in journalism. Statements are read with great attention to commitment and literacy. Students whose first language is not English and whose secondary school instruction was not in English must submit TOEFL results. For more information, contact the USC Annenberg School for Communication, Recruitment Office, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, (213) 821-0770, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the Web site (ascweb.usc.edu).
Thornton School of Music An audition is required for most majors and a supplementary application form is required for all majors. Audition requirements, audition dates and supplementary application forms can be found at the school's Web site (www.usc.edu/music) or by contacting the Thornton School of Music Office of Admission, University Park, UUC 218, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2991, (213) 740-8986. Applicants are urged to apply as early as possible.
Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy The major in occupational therapy leading to the bachelor of science degree is open to USC students only. Students should apply to USC in an undergraduate major of their choice and list Pre-Occupational Therapy (POT) as their pre-professional emphasis. Applications to the major may be submitted to the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Division at any time. Admission to the program is competitive. Students are required to obtain a master's degree in occupational therapy in order to practice in the profession. For detailed information and the departmental application form write or call the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, 1540 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003, (866) 385-4250 or visit the department's Web site (www.usc.edu/schools/ihp/ot).
School of Pharmacy Applicants are admitted to fall semester only. Information about pre-pharmacy course requirements and admission directly from high school (TAP: Trojan Admission Pre-Pharmacy program) is provided here. All applicants should contact the School of Pharmacy for instructions and a separate application by writing or calling the USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121, (323) 442-1466 or visiting the Web site (www.usc.edu/schools/pharmacy).
School of Theatre (B.F.A. and B.A.) A supplementary application form must be obtained from and returned to the USC School of Theatre, Academic Services Office, DRC 107, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0791, (213) 740-1286. An audition/interview is required for admission to the B.F.A. program; applicants must submit the supplementary application before scheduling an audition/interview. Applications for the B.F.A. program are accepted for the fall semester only; the deadline for returning the supplementary application is January 10. The deadline for applying to the B.A. program is January 10 for fall semester. Additional information is available on the school's Web site (theatre.usc.edu).
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General Academic RequirementsEvidence of intellectual promise for admission to freshman standing will be furnished by the excellence of the applicant's high school academic record and appropriate strength on the SAT Reasoning Test of the College Entrance Examination Board or the assessment of the American College Testing (ACT) Program.
Consideration will be given to students presenting records with a pattern of selecting challenging academic courses, a strong trend in grades and leadership in co-curricular and community activities. The university will determine in each case the adequacy of the academic evidence presented.
Evidence that the student has completed high school (a diploma) is necessary prior to enrolling at USC.
Unit RequirementsAlthough no single pattern of courses is required, a minimum of 16 year-long courses in the following is necessary: 13 year-long courses in English, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences and foreign languages; three additional year-long courses may be taken in the previous areas or in computer science, theatre (except acting or technical theatre), fine arts (except first-year studio art), journalism (except newspaper or yearbook production), music (except ensembles), and speech (except debate or forensics). USC does not recognize in its admission process grades earned in courses other than those listed.
The willingness of the Committee on Admission to consider any variation from the recommended program will depend upon the applicant's promise of academic success and the quality of the total record.
Standardized Test RequirementAll applicants for admission as freshmen are required to take either the SAT Reasoning Test of the College Entrance Examination Board or the assessment of the American College Testing Program (ACT) with the optional writing component. These tests are given several times each year on the USC campus and at many other test centers throughout the country. If test information and application forms are not readily available, write to the Educational Testing Service, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 or the American College Testing Program, P.O. Box 414, Iowa City, IA 52240. For the SAT, visit www.collegeboard.com; for the ACT visit www.act.org.
The Office of Admission encourages applicants to take three SAT Subject Tests administered by the College Board and have the test results sent to USC.
For students who are home schooled or who attend high schools that are not recognized by one of the regional accrediting associations, test scores will be most important to the application process. These students are required to submit three SAT Subject Tests scores, including one in math.
Credit by ExaminationStudents may establish a total of 32 semester units of credit toward their bachelor's degree by examination. Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate credit is granted at USC and will be evaluated solely according to USC's Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate policies. Such credit may be established as listed below. Students who have also earned credit for college courses taken while in high school should refer to College Courses Taken During High School Enrollment.
Advanced Placement Examinations (AP)USC grants college credit for high school advanced placement courses which have been validated by the Advanced Placement Examinations of the Educational Testing Service. A student may be granted four semester units of credit for most AP tests with scores of three, four or five. For specific AP credit information call the Office of Admission, (213) 740-1111 or visit www.usc.edu/articulation.
International BaccalaureateUSC grants either 20 units of credit to students who earn the International Baccalaureate diploma with a score of 30 or higher, or six units for each score of 5, 6 or 7 on the IB Higher Level exams, for a maximum of four exams, whichever is higher. International Baccalaureate results should be forwarded to University of Southern California, Articulation Office, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0912. For more information, visit www.usc.edu/articulation.
Subject Credit by Special ExaminationSee the Subject Credit by Special Examination for further information.
College Level Examination Program (CLEP)USC does not grant credit on the basis of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP).
Admission from Colleges and UniversitiesAn applicant may be admitted by transfer from a fully accredited college, university or community college, under the following conditions: (1) if the applicant has completed 30 or more transferable college semester units with an appropriately strong grade point average in an academically rigorous selection of courses; (2) if the applicant is not under the penalty of academic or disciplinary disqualification at any college or university previously attended and is entitled to an honorable dismissal; and (3) if proof of high school graduation on a high school transcript has been provided as part of the application materials. If fewer than 30 transferable semester units have been completed at the time of application, the applicant must submit -- in addition to the high school transcript -- the results of the SAT or the ACT assessment, which will be considered along with the college work.
Students intending to transfer to USC should refer to the brochure Transferring to USC for detailed information about the university's transfer, admission and credit policies. Call the USC Office of Admission at (213) 740-1111 or go to www.usc.edu/admission.
The amount of advanced standing granted to a student transferring from another institution is determined in each individual case by the Office of Academic Records and Registrar. A minimum of 64 units toward the bachelor's degree must be earned in residence at USC. For a degree in Architecture, a minimum of 80 units must be earned in residence at USC. For students in Engineering's "3-2" Program, at least 48 units must be earned in residence at USC.
It is the student's responsibility to report all college-level course work completed outside USC to the Office of Admission when completing the application form. Omitting such information constitutes a violation of the applicant's affidavit and may result in the revocation of admission to the university.
Records of all courses including correspondence study, extension or summer session courses taken in other institutions after the student's admission to USC must also be filed with the Office of Academic Records and Registrar immediately following the completion of the work.
Admission of International Students
The University of Southern California has an outstanding record of commitment to international education. From a small presence during our early history, our international enrollment grew to an average of 200 students by the 1930s. After declining international enrollments in the years surrounding World War II, USC began rebuilding and in 1951 began providing specialized admission services to international students. By 1964, more than 1,000 international students were enrolled at USC. Today, the Office of Admission serves thousands of prospective students each year by providing both general and specialized information and by maintaining the expertise necessary to evaluate academic records from the various educational systems around the world. The Office of Admission also issues the required eligibility certificates for students to enter the United States.
At USC, an international student is an individual of foreign nationality who will be entering or has already entered the United States with a student visa. However, students already residing in the U.S. and holding other non-immigrant visas (such as E2, H2 or L2) are also international students. International students do not qualify for need-based financial aid. U.S. permanent residents, naturalized U.S. citizens and U.S. citizens residing abroad and attending school outside the United States are not considered to be international students and are eligible for need-based financial aid.
For complete information, see Admission of International Students.


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I had been practicing vipassana in the tradition of S.N.Goenka. I took 2 courses and I loved it. I have practiced for some time and slowly got out of track. Now I am almost not practicing at all.
I have plans to go a course soon. Set a deadline to start practicing before i go for the course, BUT not able to do. I have 1 yr old kid. and you all know how attachments rockets esp when you have baby.
I am NOT much determined to go. BUT most of these days -ve thinking linger in my mind for quite some time. some time depression too. I started practicing YOGA and bit of meditation 30 mins each a day, which gives relief to some extent.
SOme times I feel:
Do I really need to go and stress in 10day course.
Don't/ can't I practice other forms of bhuddist meditation?
but when i become depressed and when i come out of it, I feel Yes i Should do a 10 day course NO matter what.....
what do you suggest???
Anyways I love vipassana but worrying thing is I am not practicing....

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good video for beginners like me ... thanks for sharing
Hi all its been a while,
Heres a video of various uses to own a windows box
Postgres-Nmap-Nessus-Metasploit-Autopwn-Sql_ping and so on...
Regards dee
good video for beginners like me ... thanks for sharing
not bad, I liked the metasploit sql stuff. It reminded me of playing with metasploitable.
Could have had more explanations
thanks all,
I usually do caption and list all comms and why they are used but the video was rather long so left it out.
Kind regards Dee
can i see yr website Pentest09?
Great vid Pentest09, Mad skills in scripting after looking at your other projects.
I would like to have a explaination on
db_autopwn -e -t -r -x -p
and also
what is /etc/init.d/postgresql/ thing what is that?
thank you
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
which starts his postgresql database server
db_autopwn is a metasploit command;
msf > db_autopwn -h
[*] Usage: db_autopwn [options]
-h Display this help text
-t Show all matching exploit modules
-x Select modules based on vulnerability references
-p Select modules based on open ports
-e Launch exploits against all matched targets
-r Use a reverse connect shell
-b Use a bind shell on a random port (default)
-q Disable exploit module output
-R [rank] Only run modules with a minimal rank
-I [range] Only exploit hosts inside this range
-X [range] Always exclude hosts inside this range
-PI [range] Only exploit hosts with these ports open
-PX [range] Always exclude hosts with these ports open
-m [regex] Only run modules whose name matches the regex
-T [secs] Maximum runtime for any exploit in seconds
Bear in mind these are options reflected from an older 3.X whatever version of MSF from backtrack4r2. I just pulled it from my old tutorial from the BT4 forum section


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Born to run? Bills fail to prove it all night [8:58 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'This was supposed to be a statement game, a chance to answer some of the critics' questions, an opportunity for the Bills to show the nation and their NFL peers that they are worthy of consideration as a Super Bowl contender. Instead, the loss renewed lingering doubts about this team.'
Dolphins, Surtain let defense do the talking [8:58 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Surtain refrained from gloating over the victory or his team's success at keeping Moulds from being a factor. But it was obvious that Surtain will savor this game for a while.'
Grading the Bills [8:57 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Halfback option??? That awful call blew up worse than last week's fake punt. It took away Bills' chance at big momentum.'
Grading the Dolphins [8:57 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Give play-caller Norv Turner credit. He kept hammering away with Ricky and dominated time of possession.'
Dolphins, with power of Williams, vanquish Bills [5:28 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'It was a debacle.'
Time to think inside the box [5:27 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: '4.6 -- Drew Bledsoe�s quarterback rating in the first half, about 140 points below his final rating last week.'
That AFC title will take some work [5:26 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'A junior high ploy to get Moulds off his game? Perhaps, but it worked.'
Buffalo Bills report card [5:25 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'When Drew Bledsoe is good, he�s very good, and when he�s bad, well, he�s very bad.'
Making Bills pay [5:24 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'The heroics were enough to overcome an offense that gave away almost as many points as it scored and tried to give the game away.'
Secondary stands out [5:23 AM]
Miami Herald reports: '''Sam and Pat and Brock and those guys really played football tonight,'' Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt said. ``[That was] as outstanding a defensive effort as I've been around in a long time.'''
Ricky gets carried away [5:22 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Seemingly growing strong as the game went on, Williams added 69 yards on 14 carries in the fourth quarter.'
Bills defender gives Fiedler fits [5:21 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Against a Bills unit that came into the game ranked eighth in the NFL in total defense and eighth against the pass, Fiedler held his own, even though it took a while to move the offense early.'
Angry defense gets its man [5:20 AM]
Miami Herald reports: '''They changed their scheme for us, but we made mistakes and didn't make plays,'' Moulds said. ``They double-teamed all game and basically said I wasn't going to be the guy to beat them. I didn't make plays when I had a chance to. It hurt us.'''
Longest 5 yards of Fiedler's life? You be the judge [5:19 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Makes you wonder, too, having seen how overwhelming Miami's defense was: How in the world did these Dolphins ever lose to the Houston Texans?'
Buffalo discovers Miami's faithful never give up [5:18 AM]
Miami Herald reports: '''A true heavyweight fight on both sides,'' coach Dave Wannstedt called this nose-to-nose savagery. Say this: The Bills never quit trying or trash-talking.'
'Heavyweight fight' leaves both teams bruised, bloody [5:17 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'A true heavyweight fight, yes. But a TKO, the loser with eyes swollen, beaten shut.'
Greg Cote and Dan Le Batard break down Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills [5:16 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Buffalo hasnt been slowed this way all season, and Miami reduced Drew Bledsoe and his band of merry men to a pile of dust and rubble. The Bills couldnt run, couldnt get open, couldnt breathe, and that suffocation started with the carnivores up front. Travis Henry was a Pro Bowler last year. Miami's D-line made him look like a pro bowler.'
Key matchup No. 1 [5:15 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Play: FS Marion intercepts a pass by Bills QB Drew Bledsoe in the end zone on third-and-goal from the Miami 8-yard line. The play stopped the second of two strong scoring threats by Buffalo in the first half as the Dolphins defense didn't allow the Bills to score an offensive point. What happened: This was a terrific bit of defense and a very poor bit of work by Bledsoe. The Dolphins were excellent in bracketing WR Josh Reed on the right side and forcing Bledsoe to stare down Moulds. Bledsoe made life worse for himself by staring at Moulds and holding the ball. Marion deftly moved in from underneath to snare the ball before Moulds had a chance.'
Bledsoe starts slow, gets worse [5:14 AM]
Miami Herald reports: '''Miami did a great job of changing things up,'' Bledsoe said. ``They threw things at us we have never seen them do. But we have to respond to the situation.'''
Royals still not back in fans' good graces [5:13 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'Although Royals averaged a relatively decent 42 yards on three punts in the first half, the attempts were not exactly impressive.'
Dolphins stymie Bills behind Williams [5:12 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'Buffalo quarterback Drew Bledsoe was intercepted twice and sacked four times while throwing for only 98 yards in a 10-for-25 outing.'
Heavy dose of Ricky is the plan [5:11 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'The Bills eventually wore down from trying to stop Williams. He had 45 yards at halftime on 18 carries and two receptions, touching the ball on 59 percent of the Dolphins' plays.'
Bills' offense doesn't get much time to do its job [5:10 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'By working Williams overtime, the Dolphins were able to maintain possession for 40:50, leaving Bledsoe only 19:10 to work. The Bills came in averaging 32:30 and 346.5 yards in their first three games and had scored 69 points.'
A useful grudge is back -- no spit [5:09 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'It wasn't all Surtain. It was Jason Taylor jawing at Moulds as he broke the huddle. It was Marion standing over him on the Bills' first series of the third quarter, when he couldn't pull in a pass slightly in front of him. It was any other Dolphin you could think of trying to get a word in. It was a team that acted like one, guys taking up for their teammate.'
Dolphins defense full of fury [5:08 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'Buffalo quarterback Drew Bledsoe came off like Nancy Drew, completing 10 of 25 passes for 98 yards and a handle-with-tweezers 18.4 rating (he entered the game with a 112.5 rating). Even that overstates his night. Before its final drive, the Bills had more penalty yardage (84) than total offense (67).'
Familiarity no help to Rogers [5:07 AM]
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reports: 'Rogers is familiar with Buffalo special teams coach Danny Smith and much of his personnel. Smith and the Bills also are familiar with Rogers, who had a down year in 2002.'
Lights out for Bills [5:06 AM]
Palm Beach Post reports: '"This isn't shocking, this is pleasing," said defensive end Adewale Ogunleye, who had two sacks. "Drew is a future Hall of Fame quarterback. But man, we've got players all over the locker room, too."'
Ricky's special Sunday sealed with a kiss [5:05 AM]
Palm Beach Post reports: '"He's the best back in the league," Buffalo coach Gregg Williams said. "He was the best back in the league last year, and he's the best back in the league now."'
Fiedler the fighter perfect fit for Dolphins [5:04 AM]
Palm Beach Post reports: 'Look at the Buffalo Bills, hottest team in the AFC East. Last week they scored 38 points at Jacksonville, this week at Pro Player Stadium the only touchdown they get is provided by the defense and Miami gives them a 17-7 plunking.'
Buffalo's offense disappears [5:03 AM]
Palm Beach Post reports: 'Instead, the Bills quarterback had one of the worst days of his career, completing 10-of-25 passes for 98 yards and two interceptions -- numbers actually padded by a four-completion drive good for 40 yards in the final moments of the game.'
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The following courses cover material that may be tested during the Multistate Essay Examination, part of the Uniform Bar Examination used by the Washington Bar. Not all subjects will be tested during any one administration of the Bar exam, and other courses in the curriculum may cover pertinent topics.
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Kearns • Emery starting pitcher Carson Healy got the call to pitch the Spartans to the state championship game Friday afternoon.
Talk about pressure.
Actually, not really. Healy's teammates had his back. There's nothing like an eight-run lead before you take the mound.
Emery scored in every inning, and the Spartans had earned their spot in Saturday's state Class 2A state title game after a 19-1 whipping of Kanab in five innings.
"We talked about how it helped him to pitch with a 10-12 run lead," Emery coach Steve Gordon said about Healy. "It helped him pitch with more confidence. He was hitting his spots and had everything working today. Our goal was to come in and score early, and our guys responded well today. One through nine we hit it. Everyone's approach at the plate was great."
Emery came out swinging to take all the suspense out of the game.
Tappen Draper got the first inning going with a single. Tyson Roper singled and Tanner Drexler then doubled before Dillon Wilstead reached base on an error.
Marco Mota kept the hit parade going with a double, and Gavin McDermott walked. Ethan Tuttle singled to end the offensive outburst.
The Spartans came back for four more runs in the second, two in the third and four more in the fourth.
Meanwhile, Healy was having a good old time. He lost his shutout in the fourth when Merrill Terry came up with one of just three Kanab hits then scored on a sacrifice fly by Brandon Jenson.
Roper and Mota had three hits apiece to pace Emery, which will play for the 2A title game at 11 a.m. Saturday at Kearns High School.
Kanab will play Parowan at 9 a.m. If the Cowboys can win that game, they will get another shot at Emery. But they will need to beat the Spartans twice to win the title.
That's no easy task since Emery will start Wilstead, who is 8-0 this season.
Class 2A state title game
at Kearns High School
Championship game
11 a.m. • Emery vs. Winner of 9 a.m. game*
Losers bracket
9 a.m. • Kanab vs. Parowan
* a second title game will be played 15 minutes after the conclusion of the first game if Emery loses the game


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Virtuix CEO Jan Goetgeluk '10 appeared on the television program Shark Tank December 6 to pitch the Omni, a virtual reality treadmill. ABC's business-themed reality series features the sharks — tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons — who give budding entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true and potentially secure business deals that could make them millionaires.Jan took a moment to share his experience on the show.
"I applied for SharkTank in the spring through a quick email submission and, a few months later, received an email stating that Virtuix had been selected to continue to the next round. However, that round required filling out lots of paperwork and preparing a short video. I re-evaluated our participation and decided not to apply, taking into consideration that we were a serious and visible company with an established community (through Kickstarter), and ultimately not the right fit for a reality TV show."After letting the deadline expire without sending in the paperwork, he received a phone call from a producer who expressed deep disappointment that they did not apply and urged them to reconsider. "At that point, I realized this was a good opportunity that should not be ignored. I filled out the paperwork and made a video in a matter of days, and submitted our application. We got approved and in September of this year we traveled to LA for the taping of the show."Shark Tank aired last Friday night, and Jan was thrilled with the exposure. "Mission accomplished, great marketing, great response. The key is to approach it the right way. Going in we knew we weren't the right fit for these investors. It was the marketing value we were looking for. The marketing value alone is undeniable, but the producers do a lot of editing. From 45 minutes of great discussion, great debates, great questions to six minutes of great reality TV. It's a fast-paced production but even with that the product received really positive feedback from the sharks." The benefit is already showing itself. "There has been a spike in preorders, in interest, messages through the website. It's all been positive. People are expressing their excitement about the product, even giving us ideas. Overall it was a great experience."To read more about Jan's journey with the Omni, see the article below from the fall 2013 issue of the Jones Journal. To learn more about Jan's company, Virtuix, visit http://www.virtuix.com/The following article is from the Fall 2013 issue of Jones Journal
Jan Goetgeluk '10 Kickstarts into Virtual Reality
For Jan Goetgeluk, a normal work day begins around 8 a.m.
and, with limited breaks, ends sometime between 1 a.m. and
2 a.m. the following morning. In most cases, the founder and
CEO of Houston-based Virtuix keeps the same hectic routine
through the weekend, a mentally and physically demanding
pace that he wouldn't change if he could. "I may be from
Belgium, but this is my opportunity to live the American
dream," Goetgeluk said. With $1.1 million raised by tapping
into the public's imagination and a unique device just months
away from delivery, he's well on his way.
Goetgeluk's pursuit of that dream began six years ago, when
he was transferred to Houston to serve as a project manager
for a Belgian petrochemical company. When the project was
completed, he decided to stay in Houston and pursue his
MBA at the Jones School. Well before he graduated in 2010,
Goetgeluk knew where his career path would eventually lead.
"I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. That's one of the
reasons I came to the states," he explained. "At Rice, I took
all the entrepreneurship classes and graduated with an
entrepreneurship concentration, even though I was the president
of the finance club and was going into investment banking."
After graduation, Goetgeluk took a job with J.P. Morgan's Oil
& Gas Investment Banking Division. During breaks in his long
hours of work, he would look for opportunities to strike out
on his own. "I promised myself that, before four years were
up, I would start a business."
Eventually, he found an area where he believed he could
make his goal a reality — the virtual world. "It started with
a conversation with a classmate of mine at Rice about twoand-
a-half years ago," he said. "Microsoft had just come out
with the Kinect, which is an optical camera that tracks your whole body. I thought it was an incredible device that
would make a big impact on virtual reality, and I wanted
to find a way to take part in what I thought would be a
virtual reality revolution."
Goetgeluk said the combination of improved technology
and the interest of people captivated by the idea helped him
realize that virtual reality was no longer a niche industry,
but the next big thing. With the idea of creating the ability
for users to be fully immersed in a virtual reality world,
Goetgeluk began work on the Omni, a platform that would
allow users to stand and walk around in a virtual world.
He took the idea for the Omni to Kickstarter.com for support
and donations from the public for the project, and rapidly
raised more than $1.1 million from more than 3,000 donors.
"The sales pitch was easy because our product speaks to the
imagination of a large audience," he said simply. With the
help of seven full-time employees and a couple of part-time
employees, Goetgeluk is on schedule to ship the first Omnis
in early 2014. There's already a backlog: Virtuix has sold
nearly 3,000 Omnis before the first one goes out the door.
While most of the $499 Omnis have been sold to individuals,
Goetgeluk explained that he has been contacted by a wide
variety of potential customers looking to use the device in
ways that go well beyond gaming.
"We get calls from corporations every day who want to
use the Omni for a wide variety of uses, from oil and gas
simulations to military applications to the construction
industry who want to use the Omni to virtually walk
around a design before they build it," he said. "We've had
talks with large conglomerates, gaming companies, so
there are a lot of opportunities. A big health care company
reached out to us and they want to use the Omni for
Alzheimer's research."
While Goetgeluk closes in on his objective of becoming a
major player in virtual reality, his actual reality has also
become more interesting. He married Erica Cedeno, a 2012
Rice MBA, in May — just as the Omni project began to take
off. "I am 100 percent immersed in my work, but Erica
understands every facet of my business, so I can talk to
her about anything and that helps a lot."
— Mark Passwaters
Jan recently spoke at the 2013 TEDx Houston held on Rice
University campus on October 12, 2013. To see a video from
his live demonstration at the River Oaks Theater earlier this
year, visit business.rice.edu/jan.


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1553, from L. inexorabilis "that cannot be moved by entreaty," from in- "not" + exorabilis "able to be entreated," from exorare "to prevail upon," from ex- "out" + orare "pray."
From englishverse.com:
William Drummond
MY thoughts hold mortal strife;
I do detest my life,
And with lamenting cries
Peace to my soul to bring
Oft call that prince which here doth monarchise:
—But he, grim-grinning King,
Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise,
Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb,
Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.
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Teenager Killed Trying to Enter Her Own House: Police
(NEWSER) – Tragedy in Colorado: A man shot and killed his stepdaughter before dawn today, probably mistaking her for a burglar as she sneaked back into the house, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. "The initial call came in as a burglary-in-progress," a police spokesman said. Officers found the unidentified 14-year-old with a chest wound and had her taken to the hospital, where she died. Police scanner traffic suggests that the girl had entered through the window, KOAA reports.


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2016 Civic Learning Awards
Seniors at High Tech High North County get the opportunity to take part in an internship and project program that provides them with real-world experience in the work environment of their local community. Students work in public schools, a local assembly member's office, and several community-based internships. Their government and politics class focuses on civil discourse and community engagement through active involvement with school issues and research projects. These opportunities work in tandem with High Tech High's Humanities class, which focuses on US history and American literature and helps to foster critical thinking skills within the context of historical trends and current community issues.
Tina Chavez
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The transfer pricing (TP) methodology for research and development (R&D) services has been under the microscope of the Indian Revenue of late, with the Indian Revenue often trying to disregard a "contract R&D service provider" structure with a cost plus model; and substituting the same with the profit split method (PSM). This approach by the Indian Revenue has been on the ground – that the Indian R&D centre had been developing the intangibles through the R&D functions virtually on its own; and thus should be entitled to the entrepreneurial related returns related to the intangibles (e.g. patents).
In view of the increasing dispute and litigation with TP matters surrounding the characterization and remuneration model of the contract R&D service providers, the Rangachary Committee (Committee) was inter alia mandated by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to introduce guidelines for the Indian Revenue and taxpayers.


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CHICAGO -- The Amusement and Music Operators Association and the American Amusement Machine Association have adopted a joint fundraising target of $100,000 to assist with disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
In an early step toward that effort, the board of AMOA's Coin-Op Cares Education & Charitable Foundation on Nov. 1 approved a $10,000 donation to the American Red Cross. AAMA will mobilize its fundraising effort through the American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation.
AMOA president Andy Shaffer, Shaffer Services (Columbus, OH), said he had obtained "substantial pledges" from TouchTunes, Incredible Technologies and Firestone Financial Corp., among others, that when combined with the Coin-Op Cares donation brought the amount raised by Nov. 1 to more than $40,000. Shaffer asked industry members to make donations by Friday, Nov. 16.
Both AMOA and AAMA's charities are 501(c)3 registered, so all donations directed through them are tax deductible. Call AMOA at (800) YES-AMOA and AAMA at (847) 290-9088 for information on contributing.
Sandy made landfall on Monday, Oct. 29, at approximately 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, NJ. Devastation was widespread and initial estimates say insured losses will be about $20 billion and the economic damages could exceed $50 billion. Amusement companies in the area were severely affected by power losses, flooding and storm damage. | SEE STORY
The amusement industry has a strong tradition of rallying to assist disaster victims; AMOA and AAMA have led the trade's support campaigns in the aftermath of such tragedies as 2005's Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and 2010's earthquake in Haiti.


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Canada 5 - Italy 1
MANNHEIM, Germany _ There were a few tentative first steps for a young Canadian team at the IIHF World
Hockey Championship.
Italy arrived at this tournament with vastly different goals than Canada _ namely, avoiding relegation _ but provided a surprising amount of pushback early on. The 15th-ranked hockey nation managed to force several turnovers in the opening minutes and generated some quality scoring chances.
Canada went ahead for good at 19:12 of the first period, when Kris Russell took a nice cross-ice pass from Whitney and beat Italian goalie Adam Russo to make it 2-1. Whitney then hooked up with Matt Duchene at 5:57 of the middle frame and Canada never looked back. Corey Perry, Steven Stamkos and Rene Bourque also scored for Canada, which faces Latvia on Monday. Michele Strazzabosco replied for Italy.
Italian coach Rick Cornacchia figured his team had a chance if it could keep the game close in the opening 10 minutes and they managed to do it.
Perry opened the scoring for Canada at 2:43 by knocking in the rebound off a Stamkos shot, but Strazzabosco tied it just over 10 minutes later when his big blast from the point beat a screened Chris Mason.
In fact, the Italians could have been ahead at that stage of the game. Captain Roland Ramoser saw his hard shot glance off Mason's arm and bounce around on the goal-line before the Canadian goalie could sweep the puck to safety. Video review confirmed that it stayed out. Mason improved his career world championship record to 5-0 and had a little more work than he might have been expecting. He stopped Nicola Fontanive on a short-handed rush in the first period before standing tall and denying Stefano Margoni, who was left alone in front.
Overall, it was the kind of tentative opening game Canada often plays at events like these. With only one exhibition contest before the tournament, the players appeared to be feeling one another out. The Whitney-Duchene-John Tavares trio appeared to have some chemistry while Stamkos, Perry and Bourque seemed to click as well. Canadian coach Craig MacTavish has said he'll actively tinker with his units, just as Mike Babcock did at the Vancouver Olympics. The world championship opener was the first game for a senior men's national team since Sidney Crosby's golden goal in Vancouver and the setting was completely different. There was very little atmosphere in SAP Arena, a venue that holds more than 13,000 and was a little more than half full.
Notes: Whitney celebrated his 38th birthday on Saturday. He's the oldest player on the Canadian team ... Bourque, Francois Beauchemin, Chad Johnson, Kyle Cumiskey and Rich Peverley all dressed for their first game with a Canadian national team ... Ryan Smyth appeared in his record 60th world championship game for Canada _ and 39th as captain ... The Italian roster features nine players who were born in Canada.


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The Center of Hope's 13th Annual NYS Missing Persons Day is at the NYS Museum today, Saturday, April 5. The morning session is reserved for families and friends of missing people to have an opportunity for discussion on ways to cope and how to keep HOPE alive, according to Center founders Doug & Mary Lyall. The Ballston Spa couple's daughter Suzanne went missing in 1998 while getting off a bus at UAlbany's uptown campus.
Families will be able to submit their DNA samples for comparison to unidentified decedents. Information tables and knowledgeable people in the field will be available, including the New York State Police and the New York State Division of Criminal Justice.
At 1:00 p.m., the program will open to the public. It will include inspirational speakers, music and the presentation of the HOPE award. The featured presenter will be Carol Ryan who will speak on nurturing hope and supporting a victim family. She has contacted nearly 6,000 families through her efforts as a consultant with Team Hope, a parent support program of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Additionally, The Center for HOPE will present a check to the Rensselaer County "Search and Rescue" to cover the cost of adding Mavis, a bloodhound, to their team. Also, there will be a demonstration of the bloodhound's ability to locate a missing person. The closing ceremony, including the bloodhound demonstration, will be at the Missing Persons Remembrance monument adjacent to the museum.


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A Rare Revival of Berlioz's LES TROYENS Opens 12/13 at the Met
Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi will lead a rare revival of Berlioz's Les Troyens beginning December 13. Francesca Zambello's production, critically acclaimed when it premiered at the Met in 2003, will star Marcello Giordani in his house role debut as Aeneas, the central character in the grand tragedy, which travels from the crumbling walls of Troy to the North African kingdom of Carthage. Deborah Voigt will reprise her performance of the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, a role she debuted in the premiere of Zambello's production, and Susan Graham will sing her first Met performances of Dido, the lovesick queen of Carthage. The cast also features Julie Boulianneas Aeneas's son, Ascanio; Karen Cargill as Dido's devoted sister, Anna; Paul Appleby as the young sailor Hylas; Eric Cutler as Dido's court poet, Iopas; Richard Bernstein as the Trojan priest Pantheus; DWayne Croft as Cassandra's fiancé, Coroebus; and Kwangchul Youn as Narbal, Dido's trusted advisor. The Saturday, January 5 matinee performance of Les Troyens will be transmitted worldwide as part of the Met's Live in HD series, which is now seen in more than 1,900 movie theaters in 64 countries around the world.
Fabio Luisi is only the fourth conductor in Met history to lead Les Troyens, which had its Met premiere in 1973 under the baton of Rafael Kubelik and has also been led by John Nelson and Met Music Director James Levine. This season at the Met, Luisi also conducts the new production of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, a revival of Verdi's Aida, and three complete cycles of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. His past Met performances include Verdi's Don Carlo, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, and La Traviata; Richard Strauss's Die Ägyptische Helena, Elektra,and Ariadne auf Naxos; Puccini's Turandot, Tosca, and La Bohème; Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni; Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel; Berg's Lulu; and Massenet's Manon.
Marcello Giordani's numerous Met appearances include two major Berlioz roles, the title character in the Met premiere of Benvenuto Celliniand Faust in the 2008 new production premiere of La Damnation de Faust. He made his Met debut in 1995 as Rodolfo in La Bohème and has since sung more than 200 performances of 24 roles, most frequently Rodolfo, Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Alfredo in La Traviata, Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra, Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera, the title role in Verdi's Ernani, and Cavaradossi in Tosca. Earlier this season, he sang Calàf in Turandot, and this spring he will sing Paolo in Zandonai's rarely heard masterpiece Francesca da Rimini. In 2008, he sang Aeneas with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Met Music Director James Levine, in a cast that also included Eric Cutler, DWayne Croft, and Kwangchul Youn in the roles they sing in this season's performances.
Deborah Voigt starred as Cassandra in the 2003 premiere of Zambello's production. She has sung more than 230 performances with the Met in a varied repertory that encompasses major Wagner roles, including Brünnhilde and Sieglinde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Elsa in Lohengrin, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, and Isolde in Tristan und Isolde; Richard Strauss roles, such as the title characters in Die Ägyptische Helena and Ariadne auf Naxos, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Chrysothemis in Elektra; and Verdi heroines like Amelia inUn Ballo in Maschera, Leonora in La Forza del Destino, and the title role in Aida. This spring, Voigt will reprise her Brünnhilde in two completeRing cycles conducted by Luisi.


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue to Lucy Yarlott Othermedicine a patent in fee to the following-described lands allotted to her on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana: The west half of the northeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 22, and lot 3 of section 10, township 9 south, range 34 east, Montana principal meridian. The prior disposition of the homestead land of Lucy Yarlott Othermedicine is hereby ratified and confirmed.
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Larger Than Life: An Interview with Will SelfBy Jacques Testard
Last August, I interviewed Will Self—whose latest novel Umbrella has just been long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize—in his London home. I had been given two weeks to prepare and I was quite terrified. My terror was warranted; I had spent the last ten days immersed in his hallucinatory fictional worlds, composed of seven novels, three novellas, and countless short stories. Through these parallel and often overlapping fictions, Self has constructed a relentless critique of our institutional failings, hypocritical cultural mores, and political inadequacies. My fears, notwithstanding being intellectually dwarfed, were largely to do with the sheer madness of many of his writings. Here was the writer who, over the years, had invented:
1. A man who wakes up with a vagina behind his left knee and has an affair with his (male) GP (Bull: A Farce);
2. A parallel Earth populated by nymphomaniacal and exhibitionist apes seen through the eyes of its most prominent experimental psychiatrists (Great Apes);
3. The afterlife taking place in the purgatorial London district of "Dulston," a suburb populated uniquely by senseless, chain-smoking dead people, haunted by their aborted fetuses and old neuroses, and living out the rest of infinity in dire office jobs (How the Dead Live);
4. A postapocalyptic London governed by a religion based on a cab driver named Dave's insane writings to his estranged son in the 2000s (The Book of Dave).
And then there was the public figure—an acerbic satirist of towering intellect, a giant man of letters with a rhetorical bite strong enough to tear a lesser being apart. By the time I rang on the doorbell, Will Self had, to my mind, transmogrified into The Fat Controller—the Mephistophelian antihero in his My Idea of Fun—ready to shred me from limb to limb for my idiotic questions and inadequate readings.


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Kurtz criticizes Game Change sourcing; will anyone defend Halperin & Heilemann?
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Last week, Bob Franken led the charge in criticizing the sourcing rules Mark Halperin and John Heilemann devised for Game Change, calling their explanation of those rules "the most convoluted explanation I've heard in a long time" and adding: "There's one thing that you have to remember in Washington: You don't burn sources."
Now Washington Post/CNN media critic Howard Kurtz joins in:
"Game Change" caused an immediate furor by quoting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as having said "privately" that Obama could win the presidency because he was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro dialect." Reid apologized for the clumsy remarks, which his office confirmed he made to Halperin and Heilemann. But even with their source admitting the conversation, the authors refuse to confirm that they interviewed Reid. It's not "in the public interest," Halperin argues, for them to "get on the slippery slope" of acknowledging interviews.
Deep background means that you can describe someone's thinking or reconstruct verbatim dialogue when you're writing about events involving that person. As an author who has used the technique, I don't believe it entitles you to directly quote what someone said to you, which effectively puts it on the record, and several other journalists have said they agree.
I have not, however, seen a single journalist offer an unqualified defense of the sourcing techniques Halperin and Heilemann used. If anyone has an example, please let me know in the comments.
UPDATE: A reader points out that in an article by Politico's Michael Calderone, several journalists -- including Bob Woodward and Jonathan Alter -- broadly defended the use of anonymous sources. None, however, defended Halperin/Heilemann's treatment of the Reid quote, or the specifics of the way Game Change relied upon unnamed sources.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados held their annual Blue-White Scrimmage Friday afternoon at Rosman High School. The team consisting of the first team offense/defense defeated the squad of the second team offense/defense, 28-0.
After a false start by the 1s on offense on the first play, Michael Crumbaker led that group on an eight play 70 yard drive for a touchdown. The quarterback carried the ball 3 times for 10 yards on the possession. He was 2-3 through the air for 33 yards, including a 22 yard touchdown pass to Richard Bush on a play action pass. Neville Bryce added a 21 yard catch and an 11 yard run on the drive as well. The drive took 3:31.
The first team defense held the two's on offense to a three and out on their first series. Richard Ray sacked Clay Hughes on second down and Stanley Jones broke up a third down pass for Coach Brumett's unit.
Crumbaker led the first offense on another touchdown drive that featured a steady dose of John Compton. The senior carried the ball 3 times for 36 yards, including a 25 yard run up the middle as well as a three yard touchdown scamper, to put the first team up 14-0. Crumbaker started the drive with a 15 yard run to the right. Justin Fleming also had 2 carries for 9 yards. Chase Henry connected on his second extra point of the day to cap off a seven play 70 yard drive that took 3:07 off the clock. The team was able to overcome two delay of game penalties during the drive.
The first team defense contiuned its good work, forcing another three and out. Austin Williams broke up a pass in single coverage on third down. To get more reps the defense stayed on the field. Travis Flynn plugged the middle on a run and Ray made his second sack to force a punt.
On a later series Matthew Gaines led the first team offense and found a hole in the middle of the defense for a 27 yard run to the two yard line. Compton found the end zone from there for his second touchdown of the first half. Henry made the extra point to put the score at 21-0.
Penn Thompkins made a solid effort at a "coffin corner" punt that grazed the right pylon for a touchback.
Brett Lilly got reps at QB with the second team offense. He hooked up with Lawrence Martin twice for 60 yards, including a 47 yard deep ball that excited the crowd. That drive ended with a missed 27 yard field goal from the right hash. In a later series Lilly threw a nice ball to Eric Watts for a 25 yard completion.
The first half ended with the first team on offense practicing a "hurry up" situation with 1:30 on the clock and the ball at their 30 yard line. Crumbaker found Jamal Hall for 10 yards. He kept the ball on an option for 14 yards. After a delay of game and an incompletion, Crumbaker threw to Shaton Pratt for 25 yards but the clock ran out before the Tornados could try a field goal.
The third and fourth quarters were 12 minutes each with a running clock. Ray recorded another sack for the first team defense on its first series of the second half.
Gaines threw to Fleming for a 55 yard touchdown. Henry made another PAT and the led 28-0.
Dwayne White made a good break on the ball on an interception. Coach Gaines was also happy with Rashad Dirton's play at safety.
Following the scrimmage the Tornados received feedback from the officials. They saw improvement in blocking techniques from the first scrimmage. They advised BC on the nuances of the play clock. During a series the team will have 40 seconds to snap the ball once it has been marked after a play. The first play of a new drive has a 25 second play clock.
Coach Hamilton expressed satisfaction with the effort he saw but still wants more precision. "We're not there yet but we have another week to work," he told the players.
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One of the new products that I found at the the SuperZoo Pet Expo last month is the new eco-friendly pulp scratch lounger from Bergan Pet Products. As you can see, Ando is enjoying the lounger that Bergan sent us to test out. He approves.
This unique scratcher/lounger is made from paper pulp, like the kind of material egg crates are made of. It's no wonder Ando loves the lounger, egg crates are one of his most favorite things! He loves to chew them to bits and shoot little pieces all over the place. Because of that, I was worried that he would immediately destroy the Bergan lounger, but he only took one little bite (he has to taste everything), then settled down to enjoy the curvy lounging surface. I think he has a little more respect for it that he would have for a plain old egg crate.
So there are some really exciting things about this product. First, it is the perfect size for the cats to sit on (as Ando demostrates) and the textures seem to be really attractive to cats. Second, it is an extremely eco-friendly product. The paper pulp is made from 100% postconsumer waste, which, according to Bergan, is "fiber from paper that has been used for its intended end purpose, including office waste paper, magazines, and newsprint." Did you know that forty percent of garbage is paper? That's a lot of material that can be diverted from the landfill to make these scratchers! And Bergan assures us that the scratcher/lounger is made using no harmful glues or chemicals. And finally, another super-terrific thing about this product — it's $9.99! I'm not sure they are going to be able to make these fast enough.
I think the natural eco-friendly texture of paper pulp and the simple lines of the scratcher/lounger would fit in nicely with any decorating style, especially an eco-chic mod interior. At this price, even if the cats shred the thing in a couple of months, it's easy to toss it in the recycling bin and get a replacement.
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Advice: He's my soul mate but can a believer and non-believer make it work?
Published 11:21 am, Monday, February 25, 2013
Dear Carolyn:
My boyfriend of three years proposed to me 10 months ago. I wasn't ready; he's been patient. He's now eager to know one way or the other and neither of us wants to waste more time (early 30s), but I am completely torn.
I feel like he is my soul mate, and we connect on an otherworldly level. In a vacuum, this would be bliss.
But I hesitate to commit fully because I am religious and he does not want to participate, even for my sake. I am also very spiritual and have a hard time saying yes to a life where I know I will not grow and connect spiritually/religiously with my spouse.
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I've tried therapy, we've tried giving each other space, and we've tried living our lives together until I arrive at an eventual conclusion, none of which has worked. This is tearing us apart, as individuals and as a couple. What now?
-- To Commit, or Not to Commit?
Since you've tried everything else, the only remaining choice is to leave for good -- not "give each other space," but exit decisively enough for you both to start healing and building new lives without each other.
For the sake of argument, though: You say, "we connect on an otherworldly level" -- and then, "I know I will not grow and connect spiritually/religiously with my spouse." Which is it?
"On an otherworldly level" and "spiritually" sound like the same connection to me. That would mean your sole disconnection is organized religion -- and while that's clearly no small thing to you, it's also not fair to assume spiritual growth with him is a nonstarter. But then, I don't believe people need religion to be spiritual; if you believe otherwise, then we're back to Paragraph 1.
You are correct in equating "otherworldly" and "spiritual" connections. I think it boils down to two issues I can't get past: I feel like I am not getting the spiritual nourishment I need to deepen my faith and live a more fulfilling life, plus there's the prospect of being the only parent providing a religious example and education for future kids.
But are those enough to end an otherwise wonderful relationship?
-- Commit or Not, again
If he was raised in a church community and then encouraged to decide for himself, maybe he'd agree to the same for your kids. He'd need to figure out where conscientious child-rearing leaves off and faking it begins, but it's worth exploring.
You'd also have to prepare for these someday kids to opt out of your beliefs, but every parent faces that prospect, with any belief.
On the connection issue: Every marriage leaves some hunger unsatisfied -- religious, intellectual, physical, or just a compatible definition of fun. It's not realistic to expect everything from one person; we can only hold out for our priorities and do without the things we won't miss too badly.
And we can decide whether it's realistic to seek this missing nourishment outside the marriage. If you're literature-starved, you join a book group; if you're sex-starved, your choices aren't quite so straightforward.
Ultimately, though, it's about being true to yourself and fair to him; it's a tough decision, it's yours to make, and your grace period is up.


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Who gets the 40-man spot left by Zumaya?
Zumaya's recent injury means the Twins will now have spot open on their 40-man roster for the beginning of the 2012 season. The team will release Zumaya or put him on 60-day DL, which will open up a spot for an outlying player to make the jump to the 40-man roster. There are a variety of candidates in camp for the Twins who would be more than willing to get one step closer to being on the 25-man roster for the organization.
Here are some brief profiles on a few of the candidates but there is always a chance of another player proving his worth in the rest of spring training.
Sean Burroughs, 3B: The former first-round pick has been on quite the roller coaster ride during the last few seasons. After getting mixed up with drugs and alcohol in the mid-2000s, he found himself completely out of baseball and struggling with life. He has overcome those problems and he made his way back to the big leagues with the Diamondbacks in 2011. Burroughs has a chance to challenge Danny Valencia for playing time at third but at this point that could be a long shot. In 2011 Gardenhire seemed to put Valencia in the doghouse on multiple occasions and Burroughs could be waiting in the wings if that happens again this season. He could also provide a veteran bat off of the bench and this could be his last chance to succeed on baseball's biggest stage.
Brian Dozier, SS-2B: After a break-out minor league season in 2011, the Twins and their fans have been keeping a close eye on Dozier so far this spring. With a pitching staff composed of "pitch-to-contact" pitchers, the Twins saw in 2011 how important defense up the middle can be for the success of the team. There have been some questions about whether Dozier will be able to stick at shortstop for the long-term but it looks like the Twins will give him every opportunity to succeed at that position this spring. Jamey Carroll was brought in on a two-year contract to fill the gap at shortstop but a hot start from Dozier could leave the Twins with little choice but to bring him to Minnesota. Dozier isn't required to go on the 40-man roster until the end of the 2012 season but there are good odds he will be making his debut in the coming year.
Jared Burton, RHP: If the Twins want to fill Zumaya's roster spot with a right-handed pitcher, there are plenty of options in camp for the Twins. One of those options comes in the form of Jared Burton who joins the Twins out of the Reds organization. He has seen some success in the past by posting a 2.92 ERA with a 1.289 WHIP and 94 strikeouts from 2007-2008. The last couple of seasons have been spent trying to recover from injuries such as a thyroid dysfunction, a strained oblique, and a shoulder problem. Now he has a clean bill of health and the Twins will be looking for plenty of arms to step-up and earn a spot in the 2012 bullpen. Even if Burton doesn't make the squad when the team leaves Fort Myers, he could be one of the first options to join the team when there is an injury.
The Twins won't be forced to make this decision on this 40-man roster spot for at least a couple more weeks. This will give each of the above listed players plenty of time to prove they belong one step closer to the big leagues for 2012. With everything he has gone through, the sentimental pick might be the Burroughs comeback story. But the team did struggle to find bullpen options last year, so Burton or another pitcher could be given a chance to start the year. Dozier would be the long-shot at this point; but if the team thinks they will add him later this year, the odds could swing more in his favor.
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- JimCrikket said...
I know we've all pretty much given up on this possibility, but it does give Terry Ryan the option of filling the spot from outside the organization, as well. They're obviously going to give the 379 pitchers in camp (well, it SEEMS like they have that many) every opportunity first, but if nobody steps up, they could make a deal before Opening Day. It also gives them similar flexibility in case there's an injury during ST and they need to fill another spot from outside.
- March 7, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- TT said...
"The Twins won't be forced to make this decision on this 40-man roster spot for at least a couple more weeks."
You have the cart before the horse. The Twins will never be "forced" to make this decision. They don't need to take Zumya off the 40 player roster until they have someone who needs the roster spot.
Its possible, maybe even likely, that they will have several roster spots open up when they establish the 25 player roster and players who are out of options will be waived. So they might not need Zumya's spot for very a long time.
- March 7, 2012 at 9:41 AM
I am not sure how this works, if they keep Zumaya on the 40 man roster, will they be forced to pay him the $1.8 million? Or just the $400,000? Will Zumaya have to be released to avoid paying him the full amount? Maybe they can negotiate a new deal? If anybody knows I would be interested.
- March 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- thrylos98 said...
Just to make one procedural thing clear: If Zumaya is still in the Twins' roster (60-day DL or not) after they break camp, he is owed an extra $450K per his contract. This might be a problem for the Twins, or it might not.
I think that the extra sport will go to a pitcher, unless they decide to go with 3 catchers and Towles wins the job. On the other hand, Gray's 40-man spot does not look too secure these days as well, so there might be some additional flexibility there
- March 7, 2012 at 3:41 PM
- PK said...
Based on the first few games and his two appearances, it looks like Jared Burton is the front-runner, but there is a long way to go to opening day. I'm guessing Zumaya will eventually be put on the 60-day DL.
- March 7, 2012 at 4:07 PM
- TT said...
If thrylo88 is right about owing him the additional $450K, then the Twins will release him unless they can negotiate something for next season.But either way it is irrelevant to the roster discussion.
As I said earlier, there are likely to be several openings on the 40 player roster at the end of spring training. I believe Maloney, Burnett and Gray are out of options. Its hard to imagine all three on the active roster in addition to Terry Doyle, the rule 5 guy who will be sent back if he doesn't make the 25 player roster. And I doubt there will be four players not on the roster now who head north with the team.
- March 7, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Is Burnett out of options? I thought I had read elsewhere that he had an option left. I think TT is largely correct, Zumaya's spot on the 40 man roster isn't likely to be a big deal. Gray, Maloney and Doyle won't all make the 25 man roster. If Burroughs were to make the roster instead of Hughes, Hughes would still have to be passed through waivers. There are a number of things the Twins can do at the edge of the roster.
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A beautiful cloak woven from flax and kiwi feathers might seem like an unusual piece of sports memorabilia, but in 1889 this is exactly what the museum acquired from the visiting New Zealand Native rugby team. This team toured Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles as a money-making venture at the height of international fascination in the exotic colonies, giving the world their first glimpse of New Zealand's now-renowned rugby talent.
ANU scholar Keren Ruki recently completed a one-month internship in MV's Indigenous Cultures department examining and researching the cloak and other collection objects from New Zealand. The cloak is exquisitely made and in beautiful condition but was largely undocumented. Keren's research means we now know much more about the cloak and its story.
Keren Ruki with the kiwi feather cloak housed for more than a century in Museum Victoria's collection.Image: Rod StartSource: Museum Victoria
Keren first visited Museum Victoria several years ago when she was researching Māori cloak construction for her own art practice. Born in New Zealand but raised in Australia, Keren describes feeling somewhere between the two cultures and drawn to the weaving techniques of her ancestors. "I felt a big urge to go home to find out who I was," she says, explaining her trips back to New Zealand to learn how to weave. Some weaving techniques have been lost in time but keen detective work helps to recover them and keep them alive. "Cloaks in collections teach me how things are made. If you've got an object, it's never dead. You can relearn how to make it."
Now embarking upon a master's degree in liberal arts, an 1854 Student Scholarship helped bring her back to Melbourne for a closer look at this cloak in particular. It was woven top to bottom using an off-loom weaving technique that is unique to Māori weavers called whatu. In a laborious process, the maker(s) used mussel shells to extract fibre from the native flax plants, drew the fibre out into string, and wove the string across the warp, locking each kiwi feather in place. It would have been highly prized when it was made and thus chosen to accompany the New Zealand Native team on their tour.
This kiwi feather cloak was purchased by the museum in June 1889. Image: Rod Start Source: Museum Victoria.
The 1888-1889 rugby tour was a triumph for the New Zealanders. They won 78 of their 107 games. As Keren puts it, "They took the game back to the masters and flogged them at it. The rugby field was one of those places where we could have a fair go. It was a great equaliser in a sense, even though it was a colonial game." The players wore black shirts with a fern motif, later adopted as the national team colours and still used today. It was also the first time that the haka was performed at the rugby, perhaps even while wearing this cloak.
The tour coincided with the Great Exhibition movement when the world was hungry for objects from faraway places. "Cloaks and the Māori were such a novelty, that's why the team came here – there was a market for them," explains Keren. However the tour was not as lucrative as the captain and organiser Joseph Warbrick had hoped. It was expensive to feed and transport 26 players and there were injuries due to the gruelling schedule of games. Cultural items were sold off to museums as the team returned to New Zealand. This cloak was bought by the (then) National Museum of Victoria on 10 June 1889, the day before the New Zealand Natives slaughtered the Victorian team in a rugby match. Another cloak was purchased by the Australian Museum.
1888-1889 New Zealand Natives football team before playing Queensland in July 1889.Source: In the public doman, sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
Keren's research is not complete; she's still hoping to uncover the whakapapa or ancestry of the cloak – who made it and where it came from. "It's from the Ngati Kahungunu tribe from the Kaimanawa Ranges in the North Island. There might be other ways to follow the threads of cloak through cloaks in other collections. The maker might be a Warbrick relative."
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In the 1980s, Larry Sultan and Tina Barney reinvigorated portraiture by turning their lenses on their own families to document their personal histories. These images record intimate moments these artists have elected to share and offer a glimpse into the private world most choose to reserve behind closed doors. The familiarity of these photographs belies a more elaborate process behind the lens. Having a parent, spouse, or sibling who is a photographer means living with the constant presence of the camera. These subjects are accustomed to an observer who is also an inseparable part of their daily lives.
Close to Home presents photographs made during the past three decades by both established and emerging artists. It features thirty-two color and black-and-white photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection by nine contemporary photographers: Tina Barney, Virginia Beahan, Christopher Dawson, Muriel Hasbun, Martina Lopez, Elaine O'Neil, Larry Sultan, Margaret Strickland, and Carrie Will. The exhibition includes many new acquisitions, which will be on view at the museum for the first time. Toby Jurovics, formerly the museum's curator of photography, selected the photographs in the installation.
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Washington City Paper, April 8, 2011, "'Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families' at Smithsonian American Art Museum" by Louis Jacobson
Slate, February 9, 2011, "Don't Look for Smiles: When the camera is trained on an artist's own family, expect a struggle" by Sarah Boxer
Smithsonian magazine, February 8, 2011, Around the Mall, "Family Pictures: Close to Home @ Smithsonian American Art Museum" by Jeff Campagna
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