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What could be a life-saving idea for a New Year's resolution comes from Dan Wensell of Spartanburg. "We sometimes have a hard time keeping a New Year's resolution, like losing weight, but several years ago I made one that I am proud of, and I kept it to this day and will keep on going with it," he says.
What could be a life-saving idea for a New Year's resolution comes from Dan Wensell of Spartanburg. "We sometimes have a hard time keeping a New Year's resolution, like losing weight, but several years ago I made one that I am proud of, and I kept it to this day and will keep on going with it," he says. "It's simple. Put your seat belt on. Buckle it! Since that day I made that commitment, I don't even think about it anymore. I get in the car and ... click. I don't even realize I am doing it sometimes because it has become natural. Please people, if you don't have a New Year's resolution, try this one, and after time it becomes a habit. Last year in South Carolina, 58 percent of the people killed in automobile accidents weren't wearing seat belts. Remember that the accident doesn't have to be your fault in order to get hurt."
QUIPS KEITH LEE of Inman: "Good news! A federal court ruled that President Barack Obama's Department of Justice is liable for a portion of South Carolina's cost of $3,500,000 spent on voter ID. Bad news! President Obama already spent the money on his Hawaiian vacation."
OOPS!: A couple expecting their first child agreed to participate in a new experiment that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pains to the father. The doctor set the dial on the machine to transfer 10 percent of the pain, but it was nothing to the father. The doctor increased it to 20 percent, and the father still felt fine. After bumping it up to 50 percent, the father amazingly felt quite well. Since it was obviously helping his wife through delivery, the husband insisted on having all of her pain transferred to him. She delivered a healthy baby and never had a pain. The couple were ecstatic, until they got home and found the mailman passed out on their porch.
ODDS AND ENDS: The upcoming Super Bowl Chili and Vegetable Soup Lunch at Central United Methodist Church in Spartanburg will be Altrusa's 17th chili-making fundraiser, and no Super Bowl gathering should be without chili this good. The fundraiser will take place Feb. 1, so mark your calendars. You can dine in from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; takeout hours are from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For seven bucks, you'll get either chili or soup, plus corn bread, beverage and dessert. And you can order the chili or soup by the gallon or half gallon by calling 529-0129. u Let's recycle those Christmas cards by sending them to St. Jude's Ranch for Children. The recycled cards will be sold to help continue work for abused, abandoned and neglected children. Send your cards to St. Jude's Ranch for Children, Recycled Card Program, 100 St. Jude's St., Boulder City, NV, 89005. You can order recycled cards from St. Jude's by calling 877-977-7572.


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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical SciencesVolume 2003 (2003), Issue 10, Pages 607-616doi:10.1155/S0161171203206086
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Families of maps on the lattice of all antichains of a finite
bounded poset that extend the blocker, deletion, and contraction
maps on clutters are considered. Influence of the parameters of
the maps is investigated. Order-theoretic extensions of some
principal relations for the set-theoretic blocker, deletion, and
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Remember the bad old days of copying contacts from your phone memory to your SIM card and back again when you got a new phone? Then came syncing with your computer and now, blissfully, we've moved almost all of this to the cloud.
The problem of backing-up the content of a smartphone is now largely behind us, thanks to a wide range of features and services which use the cloud. Android users can now take for granted that, for the most part, Google has them covered.
But SMS messages are still something of an oddity, sitting outside this loop. Sometimes you'll find a device service or network service that will move these messages for you, but wouldn't you like to take care of these things yourself?
SMS Backup+
- Platform
- Android
- Price
- Free
- Where
- Google Play
For some, the humble SMS message is all but redundant, resigned to telling your beloved that you're on the train, or a reminder to buy milk.
For others, however, there are any number of SMS messages that contain vital information: a phone number, meeting place or confirmation of a booking. If you're in the latter group then SMS Backup+, might be just the app for you.
SMS Backup+ is a clever app because it lets you back-up your SMS, MMS and call logs. This is the information that normally falls through the net on a typical smartphone.
It's the method that we like, as it turns those items into Gmail items with their own label. So once you've registered with your Google account, you'll have your messages backed-up in Gmail. This brings with it several benefits.
First, if you have to hard reset your phone, lose it or just get a new handset, you can still get to those messages. The idea is that you can then restore them using the app, or do a fresh install of the app on a new device.
In practise the process works well, and we were able to collate messages from several different phones on to one. If you use multiple handsets, or often switch handsets, you'll immediately see the benefit in this.
Second, you can also look-up your messages through your Gmail account, either on your PC or Android device. This has some uses too, but with the restore option working so well, you'll probably never want to do it.
The app is simple enough, letting you define how regularly it backs-up and to restrict it to Wi-Fi only, but that's about it. Aside from the scheduled back-ups you can push the buttons to back-up or restore whenever you like.
SMS Backup+ isn't the most exciting app in the world, but if you need to move your messages or keep a log of them, it certainly makes it easy.


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As the 1973 weirdie Love Me Deadly opens, we find blonde big-haired hottie Lindsey Finch (Mary Wilcox) sitting in the back row at a funeral home, dressed in mourning and sporting a FABULOUS black hat-and-veil ensemble. The sumptuousness of her attire leads one to believe she might be the widow here, but once the service is over she pointedly refuses to be escorted up to the coffin to pay her last respects. Once the organ music stops and the chapel is empty, however, she makes her deliberate way up to the front and stares lovingly at the bearded corpse in the open casket. A strange fire burns behind her eyes, and in a moment she leans down, lifts her veil, and plants a passionate kiss on the dead guy's lips! Roll credits!
Yes, Lindsey is the walking definition of "special needs." In addition to her uncontrollable attraction to room-temperature hunks of man-flesh, she's also got some rather serious Daddy issues, as illustrated wonderfully by the sepia-toned credit-sequence flashbacks showing an innocent young Lindsey playing with her rugged father, riding in the car, going fishing, and rolling in the grass (but in a loving and not-at-all creepy way). Clear out the dresser drawers, this girl has a lot of baggage to unpack.
(That credit sequence, by the way, rolls out under an AMAZING title song a la Goldfinger and other James Bond spy ballads. Check out some of these lyrics:
"Love me deadly...kiss me deadly
This very special love can never be...
Touch me deadly...hold me deadly...
Look in my eyes and tell me what you see..."
They just don't write 'em like that anymore, folks. Also, because the font color used in the credits is yellow and presumably wouldn't show up well against the sepia-tones of the father-daughter flashback, every time text is on the screen the memory scene goes TECHNICOLOR, totally jarring you out of the "innocent nostalgia" vibe it's meant to foster. But I digress.)
Jacques LaCerte's credit fades away, we're suddenly at a groovy cocktail party where pastel blue-gowned Lindsey is playing quarters with the guests. (The height of her hair here is directly proportional to the depth of her plunging neckline.) She trades some flirtation with buff feather-haired muscle-boy Wade (Christopher Stone) before going upstairs to toss back some uppers with bourbon.
Wade follows, and before you know it the two are rasslin' on the bed; but when Lindsey tries to call it off in mid-dry hump, things get a little rapey and she ends up having to claw his face like a cat to get Wade to take no for an answer. Afterward she childishly cradles a teddy bear, which we see via helpful sepia flashback was a gift from her father in one of those idyllic montages. Oh, if only she could find a man like Dad!
Or a dead one. Either's good.
On the other, seedier side of town, mortician Fred (Timothy Scott, sporting a completely convincing Peter Tork hairdo) is trolling for some action. He passes up a flamingly gay man-ho for a more butch, angry looking hustler, and quickly begins drilling him...for information ! The ingenue admits he doesn't live around there and has no family--not the best move in his line of work, it seems to me. Fred suggests they drive to "his office" to do the deed, for which the hustler demands the princely sum of $25. He drives a HARD BARGAIN, IYKWIM...
suddenly his false nose wrinkles under her caresses, because it's built entirely of mortician's wax! Her mojo gone, she flees the chapel only to run into the waiting arms of Lyle Waggoner! As the corpse's brother, Lyle is only too keen to talk about the bang-up job the morticians did considering how bad the car crash was, but Lindsey is still freaking and runs off into the night.
Back at Fred's office, things take a turn for the even more icky, as he convinces the hustler to lie naked on the table (he tells the young guy it's a vet's office) and soon has the hapless man-whore strapped down, naked and totally vulnerable. It a disturbing and frankly hard-to-watch scene, Fred meticulously starts pumping embalming fluid into the struggling, screaming young man's arm, then opens up his neck to stick in the exit needle! Most of this is done from a mid-range shot showing the hustler side-on while Fred works around him, highlighting Fred's detachment as well as his victim's helplessness. (There are a few splattery close-ups as Fred cuts into the boy's neck, though, which should make you wince.) It's a chilling, unflinching scene, and Fred's emotionless non-reactions to the hustler's suffering left me feeling a bit sullied, I don't mind telling you.
The next day Lindsey follows Lyle the the funeral, and later back to the art gallery he owns. As she looks at him longingly, his image is superimposed on sepia shots of her father, letting us know exactly where she's at in her attraction to this living, breathing bohunkus. LaCerte never leaves you wondering about HER latent psychology, that's for sure--it's all RIGHT THERE.
"The word is NECROPHILIA. We're quite normal people, just with different passions. You're not alone. In our group we have several members who participate...I can notify you if you care to join us."
After another scene with Fred finding a female hooker to embalm (a scene that I think intentionally parallels Lindsey's search for thrills in a much darker way), Lindsey makes one more attempt at a normal sex life with Wade, only to fail tragically at the goodnight kiss. Weighed down by her desires, she sends him away and heads out to the nightly meeting of the Dead Joy Fuck Club.
Lindsey creeps into the seemingly abandoned mortuary, and we get some rather nice creepy hand-held shots as she tip-toes through the shadows, discovers an empty coffin in the chapel (much to her disappointment), and walks slowly through the display room where more empty caskets yawn at her like sleepy Gabbon Vipers. As she gets closer to Fred's "workroom" she hears groans and screams emanating from behind the locked metal door, but not to be dissuaded she presses on through--to discover a very cult-like tableau of naked necrophiliac swingers standing around a partially dissected corpse! Chalk another one up for Jacques LaCerte on the "disturbing image" tally.
Lindsey freaks and runs out, but bare-chested Fred runs after her to calm her down. "What did you expect?" he asks, but then sees a solution. "A novice can't be expected to appreciate total involvment...Perhaps I can arrange a more private time in the future." Warning her to keep their secret or else, Fred lets the orgy-shocked Lindsey go back home.
Resolving once again to put her corpse-loving ways behind her, Lindsey cons Wade into taking her to Lyle's art gallery so that she can get a load of his Father-Figure Fitness. In a pretty amazing sequence that plays out entirely in dumb show under a jaunty, comical score, Lyle mimes interest in Lindsey, Wade tries to keep himself between them, but eventually gets shoved out and moves on to more receptive chicks. Before you know it they're double-dating at a Japanese steakhouse! Then the jaunty music gives way to a more plaintive, romantic tune, and we get (still in dumb show) a falling in-love montage! Lyle and Lindsey run through the rain, play in a stream, walk through the park, obviously now the happy couple--and not a single line of dialogue has been exchanged!
It's a strange narrative choice, as if LaCerte wanted to get through this crap as quickly as possible in order to get to the next bout of deceased-molestation, and with Waggoner's presence it can't help but remind our more worldly-wise (i.e. old) viewers of some of the actor's comedy routines from his years on the Carol Burnett Show. However, the scene's jarring incongruity made it more than a little charming to me--it's a scene from a different, nicer, goofier movie, thrown in at no extra charge.
Next thing you know Lindsey and Lyle are engaged to be married, but her longing gaze after a hearse that passes them at a streetside cafe lets you know she's not yet over her necro-leaning feelings. This is driven home further when, after more montagery and an AMAZING K-TEL FIRESIDE LOVEMAKING ATTEMPT that ends in EPIC FAIL, Lyle intones in exasperation, "What the hell do you want me to do, Lindsey?" I'm thinking the answer is "Drop dead," Lyle!
CURSED FATE would have it, Wade sees her go by on the street and follows her. You just know THAT'S not going to end well.
Fred is true to his word, delivering Lindsey to a private room where her slightly dumpy but irresistably DEAD lover awaits. She strips off and starts going at it, a look of joy on her face we haven't seen before, unless you count the innocent joy of the little girl in sepia tone playing with her daddy. Eeew.
Unfortunately Lyle has made his way into the Sanctum Moritorium, and stops in the embalming room to ask the sullen worker from the movie's opening if he's seen Lindsey go by. Irritated at being bothered while he's aspirating a corpse, the sullen dude yanks out the 2-foot-long embalming needle and STABS WADE IN THE GUT WITH IT, spilling intestines on the floor and interrupting Lindsey once again in flagrante de muerto. She rushes out, sees Wade dead in a pool of his own digestive system, and screams. Then, in a weird, borderline surreal transition, Wade's arms begin to move, coming together to cross at the wrists, which then fades to a shot of him being hoisted into a vertical position while the naked, now clearly coven-like group of necro-orgiasts dance around him, stripping his clothes off in slow-motion and double-exposure. It's very creepy and strange, and then...Lindsey wakes up! Wait, WHAT?
Before we can figure out whether the whole thing was a nightmare or just the part after Wade's sticking, Lyle's back and proposing to Lindsey, and in the VERY NEXT EDIT (almost a jump-cut, really), she's in a bride's gown and saying "I do!" LaCerte CLEARLY has no patience for the romantic part of the story--he's got deader fish to fry. More emotive music and then the honeymoon, where Lindsey's frigidity puts the ixnay on the onsummation-cay. "You KNEW I had difficulties!" she sobs, to which Lyle replies, "But Lindsey...WE. ARE. MARRIED!" Flustered, Lyle goes to sleep on the couch and presumably masturbate like a wild monkey, leaving Lindsey alone and dreaming of Dad.
more emotive music, another Benny Hill-style dumb show at the gallery, and terribly sappy overacting from both Lyle and Lindsey. When the previously unseen housekeeper (with one of the top 5 WORST Irish accents ever committed to film) tells Lyle that Lindsey spends an unusual amount of time at her father's grave, the worried husband goes to investigate--and finds his wife, her hair in pigtails, singing childish nursery rhymes while dancing around the tombstone, promising to be a "good girl"! Which I'm sure is NOT sexy, even for someone as deprived as Lyle.
Then, when Lindsey begs off a trip to Lyle's mother's, but seems strangely insistent that HE go, he decides to double back and trail her, which of course leads him right to the mortuary and the dark dealings going on within.
After losing some steam and hilarity in the soap opera segment, Love Me Deadly finishes strong with another cult meeting in the embalming room, Lindsey now a fully participating member, mounting a corpse while her fellow necros stand around chanting and holding candles. Lyle busts in on the scene, bellows in disbelief (his best bit of acting in the whole flick) and is stabbed to death by Fred as Lindsey watches from her post-mortem perch.
Back at her own house Fred informs her, "I've brought Alex home...he's across the hall in his room. And I've prepared him for you...he'll be yours now, for always, and forever." Ick.
But LaCerte isnt' done yet, as a drugged-up Lindsey starts having more disturbing flashbacks about her father's death, leading to an almost nonsensical but still strangely effective finale that left me feeling more than a little squicked out. (Suffice to say it turns out Lindsey has her reasons for being so screwed up.) The final image, with cherub-faced Lindsey snuggling up happily under the covers with the corpse of her husband, FINALLY able to consummate the marriage--well, it's got some power, I have to admit.
Love Me Deadly is not particularly well-made, as far as it goes--the cinematography is pedestrian, the acting sub-daytime TV levels even for the 70s, and the sometimes hilariously cheesy score is so overbearing that it often does more of the dramatic heavy lifting than the actors. And there are plot holes a-plenty. The necro cult is never fully explored as more than a tossed-off plot device, although the rituals do account for many of the movie's genuine chills. Not one police officer EVER shows his face, despite multiple murders, corpse desecrations, and the disappearance of well-known and popular characters who would definitely be missed. (Wade is presented as quite the ladies' man and party animal, but once he's gone no one ever mentions him again--especially strange since he was one of the main characters in the first 2/3rds of the flick.)
Still, the movie managed to shock me with that hard-to-watch initial torture/murder scene in the mortuary, and Lindsey's whole psychology, from the sexual dysfunction to necrophiliac desires to her inability to let go of her daddy's memory infuses the whole thing with an odd sense of wrongness and discomfort, which makes the frankly badly-edited ending sequence (even the soundtracks between cuts don't line up) still able to pack an emotional punch. At the end of the movie I was cringing more than I was laughing, which in this case is definitely a complement.
So while I can't fully recommend Love Me Deadly as a lost masterpiece, I still think it's worth seeing. The cheesiness and strange comedic sequences are entertaining in their own right, and if you find necrophilia and Daddy worship the slightest bit creepy, then chances are it'll get under your skin more than a little. So 2 thumbs for this surprisingly sick little flick from the 70s. Watch it with someone you love--who's dead.
Note: I watched an antique format-sourced version of the flick, and a new uncut DVD has just been released which chances are has even more necro-ickiness and nudity. So if that's the kind of thing you're into, you're in luck!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Love Me Deadly (1973): or, A Dead Man is Good to Find
As the 1973 weirdie Love Me Deadly opens, we find blonde big-haired hottie Lindsey Finch (Mary Wilcox) sitting in the back row at a funeral home, dressed in mourning and sporting a FABULOUS black hat-and-veil ensemble. The sumptuousness of her attire leads one to believe she might be the widow here, but once the service is over she pointedly refuses to be escorted up to the coffin to pay her last respects. Once the organ music stops and the chapel is empty, however, she makes her deliberate way up to the front and stares lovingly at the bearded corpse in the open casket. A strange fire burns behind her eyes, and in a moment she leans down, lifts her veil, and plants a passionate kiss on the dead guy's lips! Roll credits!
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 4:39 PM
Labels: '70s, Devil Worship, Necrophilia, Psycho Killer
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"Oh, if only she could find a man like Dad!...Or a dead one. Either's good."
I laughed til I cried at those lines. I still can't read 'em without falling apart. Too f*cking funny!
- October 17, 2008 at 8:35 PM
- Tenebrous Kate said...
Oh man--this sounds like Must-See Stuff, Vicar! I've had this movie on my radar for a while, but traumatic exposure to the works of Jörg Buttgereit has had me doing the Approach-Avoid boogie around this flick since I discovered its existence. If this movie is as creepy-comedic as you've described it, I suspect it borders on genius. Thanks for another superb write-up, sir!
- October 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Fred said...
I'm surprised she wasn't wearing a merry widow when she was banging Lyle's corpse at the end.
By the way, I wonder if Lyle discussed this film when he was backstage at the Carol Burnett show when Harvey Korman was mentioning his work on Blazing Saddles and Tim Conway was discussing the Apple Dumpling Gang. I would pay to see Ken Berry's face when watching his pal Lyle in this one!
- October 21, 2008 at 2:43 PM
- jenn said...
I'm surprised I've never heard of this one before, then again maybe not? lol
- October 21, 2008 at 11:32 PM


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Today on my way home from the library I was driving up Watt Avenue just past the small mall with the big Macy's store when I noticed a gray-haired woman at least 60 years old standing on the sidewalk holding up a cardboard sign. It read "Need money for medicine – Cancer." Ah, my heart missed a beat as the automotive caravan rolled by her.
It has been my habit to keep a few dollar bills in the car to hand out on such occasions as this but today I was driving in the third lane over and could not easily segue across two lanes. Just as I was deciding how to maneuver to the far right and perhaps making a turn into the mall parking lot I saw second person holding a sign with the same message – "Need money for medicine – Cancer."
This second sign holder was an old man – probably her husband – who was sitting in a folding metal chair with a portable oxygen tank with a thin plastic tube running from the tank to his nose. By the next red light I had turned into the parking lot and then drove down the exit road directly beside the sitting man. After pressing the button that rolled down the far window I held out a few dollars. He got up from his metal chair, stumbled over to the car, accepted my donation and thanked me.
I could see that he was not used to this give and take of the street corners for he did not have the smooth "Thank you and God bless" of more practiced petitioners. Rather than the full eyes-on-eyes exchange of war veterans, homeless men or drug addicts, I saw in the quick glance from him, eyes that held embarrassment, resignation and futility.
As I drove back into the mainstream of traffic a sob escaped as I thought, "It's a good thing we're in a Great Recession instead of the Great Depression. It's a good thing we're one of the richest countries in the world and don't need socialized medicine. It's a good thing our politicians are honest and our bankers humanitarians."
It was clear this elderly couple had once been a part of the now disappearing middle class. They looked like people who had paid mortgages and gone to church and quietly made plans for an uneventful retirement.
What had they said to each other last night as they prepared for today? What had they thought when they used the big black markers to make their signs? And tonight when they go home – wherever that might be – how will they feel when they count the money given to them by strangers? Will this money pay for chemotherapy? Buy another tank of oxygen? Will the medical establishment or insurance companies dole out another day or week of life?
I hope that today they have received much more than the money they requested. I hope that they have realized there is no shame in asking for help and that they are not alone. I hope tonight they will have great comfort in being together and as they go to sleep they will feel they are loved and cared for in this unknowable universe.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,
When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,
Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Songs of the Great Depression: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,"
lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931)
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Somebody Tell Me What All These People Are in Line For
No, Apple didn't release an iPhone just for China. Instead, all these people were waiting in line for the Meizu M9, the Android 2.2-powered successor to the Meizu M8. Pretty impressive turnout for something that once started as a ripjob.


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PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), accusing the world's largest retailer of failing to reasonably accommodate an employee with a disability at its Peoria, Arizona, store. The suit is EEOC's 16th legal action nationwide against Wal-Mart for violating the employment provisions of the ADA.
EEOC's latest lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart discriminated against Alice Rehberg by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation for her disability; Ms. Rehberg is severely limited in her ability to stand for extended periods. According to the suit, Wal-Mart refused Ms. Rehberg's request for permission to occasionally sit down while performing her duties as a People Greeter, failed to engage in the interactive process required by the ADA, and constructively discharged Ms. Rehberg from her position. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, seeks compensatory and punitive damages, reinstatement, injunctive relief, and a court order requiring Wal-Mart to conduct training that will prevent further violations of the ADA.
"By now, it should be clear that employers may not flagrantly disregard laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace on the basis of disability," said C. Emanuel Smith, acting regional attorney of EEOC's Phoenix District Office, which filed the suit. "By denying Ms. Rehberg a reasonable accommodation, Wal-Mart limited its focus to her disability instead of her ability and success in the position. Despite representations to the contrary, Wal-Mart has consistently violated the rights of individuals with disabilities, and EEOC will hold the company accountable for doing so."
Today's suit marks EEOC's 16th court action against Wal-Mart for violating the ADA. Currently, EEOC has 11 ADA suits pending nationwide against the retail giant. Last week, Arizona District Court Judge William D. Browning ordered Wal-Mart to pay sanctions totaling $750,200 for violating key provisions of a Consent Decree it voluntarily entered into with EEOC and the Arizona Center for Disability Law resolving an ADA suit on behalf of two deaf individuals.
In addition to the monetary sanction, Judge Browning further ordered Wal-Mart to provide training it had previously agreed to provide and to prepare an explanatory television advertisement to air in major media markets in Arizona. The TV ad will state that Wal-Mart has in the past violated the ADA and refer people who believe they have been discriminated against on the basis of disability to the EEOC or the Arizona Center for Disability Law.
EEOC also has won several jury verdicts against Wal-Mart in disability discrimination suits, including significant 1997 verdicts in Albuquerque, N.M. In one case, a jury found that Wal-Mart intentionally refused to hire an applicant as a cashier because he used a wheelchair, and awarded him more than $3.5 million in damages (which was subsequently reduced by the court to comply with the ADA's statutory caps). In another case, a jury awarded $157,500 to an applicant due to Wal-Mart's unlawful pre-employment inquiry and refusal to hire him because of his disability, an amputated arm. The verdict included a $100,000 punitive damage award, the largest ever levied against a company for asking an unlawful medical question under the ADA.
With regard to all employers covered by the ADA, since July 1992, when Title I of the ADA became effective, EEOC has obtained approximately $325 million under the ADA on behalf of more than 20,000 individuals through its enforcement efforts including settlements, conciliations, mediation, and litigation. In addition, EEOC has obtained non-monetary benefits for over 10,000 individuals, including reasonable accommodation, policy changes, training and education, job referrals, union membership, and the posting of EEO notices at job sites.
Title I of the ADA prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, discharge, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms and conditions of employment. In addition to enforcing the ADA, EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Equal Pay Act; prohibitions against discrimination affecting individuals with disabilities in the federal government; and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available on its Web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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CB Richard Ellis Memphis' Mary Sharp never has a dull day as the chief operating officer and head of the company's Asset Services division.
She leads a team of 15 real estate professionals that manages and/or leases 24 million square feet (and growing) of commercial real estate space throughout the Mid-South.
"We have the player-coach model here at CBRE, so our leaders also have a line of business they support," said Sharp, whose duties overseeing the Asset Services division encompass all industrial, office and retail property management and leasing assignments within the company's portfolio, including oversight of owner and tenant relations.
Sharp's division also handles project management, including capital projects at buildings, and tenant improvements, and is currently working with Finard Properties LLC on the rehabilitation of the Poplar Plaza.
Sharp first became involved with commercial real estate in the mid-1990s. She wanted to take on a new challenge after being a stay-at-home mom for many years, so she went back to school at the University of Memphis, and earned her master's degree in real estate. After completing school, she joined CBRE in 1994 as an assistant property manager.
Over the past 19 years, her titles at the company have included senior vice president in charge of property management, director of operations and on-site property manager for several properties with direct responsibility for budget development, fiscal reporting and vendor contracts.
Sharp said she sees the local CRE market improving right now, as activity seems to be picking up across all sectors.
"The market is definitely improving. We are seeing a lot of activity in all segments: office, retail and industrial. It is definitely more active than it was a year ago," said Sharp, who also handles the business operations of the Memphis office, including business planning, human resources and marketing. "We are also seeing more investor interest in Memphis, especially on the industrial side."
Sharp noted that there seems to be more confidence today to get deals done, where in the past there might have been reluctance due to uncertainty with the economy.
"Class A office space has been very active, with a high occupancy rate. There are not many large blocks available, so there is beginning to be more interest in Class B space," said Sharp, who sees the same thing happening with industrial space, with not many large blocks on the market and new spec buildings going up. And there are new retailers looking at Memphis, which is a good sign."
This year Sharp is the president of Memphis Commercial Real Estate Women, which is part of a national organization dedicated to advancing the achievements of women in commercial real estate.
"I like to be involved with projects that benefit the community that I am a part of," said
Sharp, who has been involved with Memphis CREW for nearly six years. "One of the main things we do is mentoring of young women who are trying to enter the commercial real estate field. I think it is important for the industry to help other women achieve success in their careers."
She also currently serves on the board for the Red Cross Mid-South chapter.
"I really believe in the work they are doing every day for our community," she said. "Everyone thinks of the Red Cross in terms of major disasters, but every day they are assisting fire victims in Memphis. They respond to every house fire to assist families who are burned out of their homes, at an average of three fires per day.
"If we do have a major disaster here in Memphis, we have a lot of buildings we could be working with. They will need help, and I know the Red Cross will be there to help."
Away from work, Sharp enjoys practicing yoga and spending time with her family at their house on the Tennessee River.
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Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the Obama Administration's "red line" on Syria and the risk of a broader Mideast conflict. Photo: Getty Images
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On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill. Several other independent scientists also performed similar measurements at about the same time. These several measurements were all in the ball park of 20,000-100,000 barrels per day--greatly in excess of the estimates provided by BP of 5,000 barrels per day. The unforeseen effect of these first independent flow rate calculations was to bring the issue of oil flow rate to the fore. Wereley was subsequently appointed to a government task force called the Flow Rate Technical Group to calculate an official government flow rate estimate. The group arrived at an official, government-sanctioned estimate of 35,000-60,000 barrels of oil per day after requesting and receiving better quality and longer videos of the oil flow. This presentation/discussion will center on those calculations, their limitations, their improvement and their future uses in this on-going disaster.
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We like turbos at MotoIQ. Why? In the phrase made famous by Tim Allen, "more power!" In order for a turbo to cram air into an engine, it has a pair of wheels and a shaft spinning at incredible speeds. Depending on the size of the turbo, they can spin anywhere from 100,000 rpm (big turbos) to 300,000 rpm (small turbos). 300,000 rpm equals 5000 revs a second. Put another way, if you rolled a compressor wheel on the ground, it would go about six football fields a second. That's about 1.7 times the speed of sound. Wrap your head around that! The rotating assembly consisting of the shaft, turbine wheel, and compressor wheel encounter axial and radial loads that want to push the wheels into the housings and rub parts together. To keep the rotating assembly supported and freely spinning, turbos currently either use a journal or ball bearing system. There are variations on each theme, but we're going to go over the most common designs. First, we need to discuss the loads they encounter.
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Dana Elementary students and staff gathered in the school's gymnasium Tuesday to celebrate the school's National School Change Award, given by the National Principals Leadership Institute.
Dana Elementary students and staff gathered in the school's gymnasium Tuesday to celebrate the school's National School Change Award, given by the National Principals Leadership Institute.
Dana was one of three schools in the country to receive the award. In the 14 years the NPLI has been issuing the awards, 850 schools have competed for the honor, but only 81 have been chosen, said Dr. Lew Smith, director of the NPLI and author of "Schools that Change: Evidence-based Improvement and Effective Change Leadership."
"Dana is only the second school in North Carolina to win," Smith said with a smile.
The institute annually selects a few schools to recognize for having "significantly changed" over time, according to 16 criteria. They include:
--Changes in the school that are evident in decisions about instruction, organization governance and accountability.
--The overall quality of teaching has improved as measure by observations, peer evaluations, self-assessments, student feedback and outcomes.
--A sharp increase in achievement among all students as measured by in-school assessments.
From the 2007-08 school year to the 2011-12 year, End of Grade scores rose from 54 percent of students being proficient in reading to 82.2 percent. During that same time period, math proficiency scores rose from 79 percent to more than 95 percent. Reading scores for limited-English students rose from 13 percent to 74.5 percent.
Elizabeth Steele, exceptional children's teacher at Dana, spoke about how the staff and students managed to achieve the improvements. It started with a "change vision."
"We began with the end in mind. All students now. No excuses," she said. "First we tackled math and increased student communication, on top of implementing a master schedule, book studies, teams of all sorts, mission statements, healthy snacks (and) grant writing. The list goes on. We basically focused on everything."
Test scores began to improve, "but more importantly our students felt more confident — especially in math — and they could explain their thinking," she continued. "And from there it spiraled ... our culture began to change; each success empowered us to raise the bar higher."
Smith said he was very proud of the staff and students at Dana.
"This is a school that went from teachers operating in isolated corners ... doing their own thing, to working together," he said.
Smith presented school officials with a plaque they can hang to celebrate the distinction, but in July, Principal Kelly Schofield and another staff member will travel to New York City, where the institute is based, to accept the formal award from the institute and the U.S. Department of Education.
"This is an effort we all made together, and we are very proud of this award," Schofield said.
Also during Tuesday's celebration, school staff also recognized three teachers who have been chosen to attend the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in New Jersey for a week this summer. Second-grade teachers Amber Ballard and Annie Jones and third-grade teacher Amber Wollner received the all-expenses paid trips and were nominated by their students.
The Teachers Academy is for third- to fifth-grade teachers who are joined by math and science experts from the National Science Teachers Association and Math Solutions. During the academy, teachers and experts discuss fun ways to teach math and science to elementary students.


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WASHINGTON – A campaign to erect billboards throughout the nation raising questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to serve in the White House has raised $45,000 in its first five days, encouraging the organizer that the president will have to come clean about his elusive birth certificate.
"This is the way the truth will win in the end," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND. "The lawsuits have failed so far. It's going to take public awareness – people asking simple questions – to get the media and the controlling legal authorities to take another look at this issue."
Farah launched a petition campaign several months ago that has collected nearly 400,000 names of Americans demanding answers as to Obama's eligibility. Last week he called for financial support of a new campaign to erect billboards around the country asking the simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
In just five days, the billboard campaign has been backed by about $45,000 in donations.
Likewise, Farah points out, the nearly 400,000 petitioners represents more people than live in any of the following U.S. cities:
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Tampa, Florida
- Anaheim, California
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Toledo, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Newark, New Jersey
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Orlando, Florida
- Reno, Nevada
- Richmond, Virginia
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Kansas City, Kansas
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Springfield, Illinois
- Berkeley, California
- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Both efforts are part of what Farah calls an independent "truth and transparency campaign."
The money is being used to erect billboards around the country that ask a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
The first such sign to be posted under the 5-day-old campaign, a digital, electronic one, is up and online on Highway 165 in Ball, La. In addition, based on the heavy volume of financial donations in the first two days of the campaign, WND was able to commit to leasing two more standard billboards – one in Los Angeles and the other in Pennsylvania. It will take several weeks to get those billboards up because of the vinyl printing and shipping involved.
Birth certificate question being raised in Ball, La.
The "Certification of Live Birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information like the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.
"I know now, because of the sensational response to this idea from WND viewers, that this national campaign is going to be big and long-lasting," said Farah. "I want to thank all of those who have pitched in and contributed – with either cash donations or, in some cases, space donations. But the need for money continues."
While the campaign is off to a great start, many viewers have asked why Obama's name is not included in the billboard. Farah said the matter was carefully considered.
"There are several reasons we chose the message: 'Where's the birth certificate?'" he explained. "There is only one birth certificate controversy in this country today – despite the near-total absence of this issue from coverage in the non-WND media. This is a grass-roots issue that resonates around the country, as our own online petition with nearly 400,000 signers suggests. In addition, I like the simplicity of the message. I like the fact that the message will cause some people to ask themselves or others about the meaning of the message. It will stir curiosity. It will create a buzz. I'm assuming when these billboards are springing up all over the country, it might even make some in the news media curious. And there's one more factor that persuaded me this was the way to go.
"Come 2012, campaign laws will pose restrictions on political advertising mentioning the names of presidential candidates. This one clearly doesn't. I would like to see the federal government make the case that this is somehow a political ad," he said.
Farah said the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama's background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.
"As Obama transforms this country from self-governing constitutional republic to one governed by a central ruling elite, the simple fact remains that no controlling legal authority has established that he is indeed a 'natural born citizen' as the Constitution requires," Farah said. "Obama's promises of transparency have become a bad joke as he continues to hide simple, innocuous documents like his birth certificate and his student records."
The idea behind the billboard campaign is to make sure Obama cannot avoid this question any longer. He must be asked to produce it at every turn, Farah says. Billboard space is currently being hunted in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Sacramento, San Francisco, New York-New Jersey, Des Moines, Seattle and other metro areas.
Farah said another early target for the campaign would be billboards in Honolulu – allegedly Obama's birthplace.
"Is it unusual for a news agency to launch such a campaign?" asks Farah. "Yes it is. But we live in very unusual times. The founding fathers built special protections into the First Amendment for the free press. The reason they did that is because they understood a vibrant 'Fourth Estate' was necessary as an independent watchdog on government. It is in that tradition that WND assumes this role – since nobody else in the press will do it."
WND previously launched a petition campaign that has collected more than 375,000 names demanding Obama's eligibility be verified and demonstrated publicly. That campaign continues. That list has been shared with members of the Electoral College and the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I wish such a campaign were not absolutely necessary," said Farah. "I wish there were checks and balances in our political and electoral systems to ensure that constitutional eligibility of presidential candidates was established before politicians could assume the highest office in the land. I wish my colleagues in the news media believed the Constitution really means what it says and pressed this issue as hard as we have pressed it at WND. I wish radio talk-show hosts were bold enough to ask this question. But wishing is not enough. It's time to raise the visibility of this issue vital to the rule of law in America. I ask everyone to pitch in and help WND make a simple yet profound statement: The Constitution still matters."
Your donation – from as little as $5 to as much as $1,000 – can be made online at the WND SuperStore. (Donations are not tax-deductible. Donations of amounts greater than $1,000 can be arranged by calling either 541-474-1776 or 1-800-4WND.COM. If you would prefer to mail in your contributions, they should be directed to WND, P.O. Box 1627, Medford, Oregon, 97501. Be sure to specify the purpose of the donation by writing "billboard" on the check. In addition, donations of billboard space will be accepted, as will significant contributions specifically targeted for geographic locations.)
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Out of an atmosphere of economic uncertainty came a refocus by Lexington leaders on business recruitment, both internally and through partnerships with others.
In August 2012, the country was in the midst of a financial meltdown, and the unemployment rate in Davidson County was at 10.4 percent. The Lexington City Council and business leaders were concerned to save the local economy that had long depended on the textile and furniture industry that had moved overseas.
Out of that atmosphere came a refocus by the city on business recruitment, both internally and through partnerships with others.
The city council began to tackle economic development by creating a list of the Top 10 goals it wanted to accomplish. Defining a new economic direction was second only to developing the proposed Depot District. This new economic direction focused on new business start-ups and recruitment and supporting existing businesses in job creation and increasing the tax base. The council identified restructuring and renaming the Lexington Community Development Office to the Lexington Business and Community Development Office and dedicating its resources toward recruitment efforts as one of the key areas.
Tammy Absher, director of the renamed office, said changing the name of the community development office to include a focus on business created a new avenue of resources for budding entrepreneurs and businesses.
"Just giving it that title gave people a place to call," Absher said. "They might have had an idea before, but they didn't know where to go to get started."
In the following years, bringing jobs back to the area has been a top goal of the city council, and since several organization were already in the process of economic development, the logical conclusion was to combine these efforts and create a cooperative that could approach the process on different fronts. The result was the creation of the Lexington Business Development Consortium in March 2013.
"It was very strategic," Absher said. "The idea was for everyone to bring their talents to the table and to put together a comprehensive program that would work. None of the agencies were territorial; it was all about who could do what the best."
Getting down to business
The members of the business development consortium are the business and community development office; the Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce; Davidson County Community College Small Business Center; Davidson County Economic Development Commission; and ElectriCities of North Carolina. Each member focuses on a different area of business development and serves as a resource to direct entrepreneurs to the appropriate branch that will benefit their needs.
For the past 27 years, the Davidson County Economic Development Commission has been the taxpayer-funded authority for recruiting and promoting industry in the county. Its role involves luring the larger and more lucrative industries into Davidson County that bring a higher job count and increased tax base. Absher said the advantage the EDC brings to the consortium is a reciprocal relationship that benefits the entire community.
"It is almost a chicken and the egg syndrome," Absher said. "The EDC can recruit jobs that give people more disposable income that they can spend at retail establishments, which in turn recruits more retail and commercial businesses. On the flip side, if we recruit new businesses here, then it makes the area more attractive to industrial development. It is mutually beneficial."
The Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce is responsible for supporting existing companies to make sure that they receive updated information and continued education as it relates to owning a business. It facilitates by hosting programs, seminars and other programs geared toward the small businesses owners. Burr Sullivan, president of the Lexington chamber, said the goal is to identify the needs of the community and to provide the tools for existing businesses to succeed.
"We have been trying to answer questions and explore opportunities," Sullivan said. "We are just getting started in our effort, but I am very encouraged with the cooperation of all the partners bringing their expertise to work closely with small businesses. We are gaining momentum around the county and developing a better framework to work within. It took some real foresight for the city council to look ahead and will optimally pay dividends."
The Small Business Center at Davidson County Community College offers the educational component to this partnership, assisting new businesses with developing a sustainable business plan and offering retraining for employees who may need a fresh start. Martha Larson, director of the Small Business Center, said its role is to make sure new businesses are given all the tools to succeed.
"Our function is to make businesses bankable," Larson said. "We work on different portions of their business plan that includes a description of the business, marketing plans and financial analysis. The process is to work with them to see if the business is feasible."
Besides providing technical and data support, ElectriCities also assists the consortium with recruiting franchise businesses and national chains. Absher said ElectriCities has sought the assistance of Lacy Beasley, a professional retail recruiter, who is not only introducing the key players to each other but is also teaching the consortium members how to go about creating a network of contacts for future franchise recruitment.
"She (Beasley) is teaching us how to fish," Absher said. "When you start talking to franchises, they have very specific thresholds. They want a certain population within a certain number of miles with a certain amount of disposable income. If you don't meet those thresholds, then they won't even look at you."
Absher said one of the tools that the recruiter has taught them is how to tell prospective businesses variables about the community that may tip the scale in favor of Lexington, such as a population that is just outside the city limits or the benefits of having Interstate 85 running through the county.
The business and community development office focuses mainly on developing commercial and retail businesses. Absher said the office provides potential businesses and existing businesses that are looking to expand with as much demographic information as possible so owners can make an informed decision about when and where to locate their businesses.
"It includes everything from building codes, to location and landscaping all the way to signage and parking places," Absher said. "We are not doing it for them, but we are providing them with the information for them to get to A to Z."
Why doesn't the city have more big names?
Although it would be easy to open the door to any and all interested parties, Absher warns that developing new businesses is a slow process that takes deliberate consideration on what can be sustained by the community.
"You have to work it up incrementally," Absher said. "Our job is to tell interested parties about Lexington and to pick the ones that are appropriate. It has to be very strategic because what you don't want to happen is to land something that comes here and fails. That sends a very bad message to others about our community."
The biggest asset that comes from the development of the business consortium is the creation of a well-functioning referral system that leads entrepreneurs through every aspect of opening a new establishment. A person who has an idea about opening a new business can start with the city business office, which in turn may refer them to the Small Business Center to develop a solid business plan. Or a small business owner who may need a loan may work with the chamber of commerce.
"I am very encouraged with the cooperation between the partners," Sullivan said. "Everyone is bringing their expertise to work closely with these businesses. It needs to be strategic because sometimes recruiting can be a complicated matter, and all the players are getting together to interact with businesses that are looking for a new location."
Absher said the teamwork has been essential for the success of the business consortium, and every piece supports and strengthens the other areas.
"It is a beautiful referral system where the information is going back and forth nicely," Absher said. "Everyone has such an important role, if one piece wasn't there it would not land us where we want to be."
Signs of success exist
In the year and a half since the city council developed this new concentration on economic development, Lexington has seen new commercial and retail businesses. The Cinema 8 movie theater reopened, and Magic Mart moved into a vacant space at Parkway Plaza. The city has also seen the addition of franchise chain Godfather's Pizza.
But the biggest influx has been the numerous small businesses that have been popping up all over the city. Several new locally owned businesses such as Top Hat Comics, Rhythms Spa and Wellness Center, Posh Boutique, Moco's Men's Wear and Crossroads Music have opened in just the past six months. Absher said these grass roots businesses are the heart and soul of economic development.
"Local homegrown business are a very important piece because that is where you get the most growth," Absher said. "Franchise and industrial recruitment is very important, but these local businesses can't be ignored. When we invest our energy into growing a business from within, we know that the profit is not going back to some corporate headquarters in another state. This is just a sector that can't be ignored."
Most recently, economic developers, including the City of Lexington, have worked on a proposed 500-acre industrial park to be built off of Interstate 85 in Linwood that could bring hundreds of new jobs to the county.
The future of economic development in Davidson County is looking brighter in 2014. The county unemployment rate in November was 7.3 percent, which is a 2.5 percentage point drop from November 2012 when the unemployment rate was 9.8 percent. More businesses seem to be taking the chance on expanding or opening new locations, and members of the consortium are starting to see the effects of their work.
"I feel good about where we are," Sullivan said. "There is more work to be done, and we need to get out there and toot our own horn, but we have been gaining some momentum."
Larson said that the development of the consortium has been something that has brought value to all the participants.
"If nothing else it is a benefit to work together and to have a common goal," Larson said. "We are forming partnerships through the program and working together to get more done. I think it is doing a great service."
But for Absher the most rewarding part is seeing the work starting to show results.
"We have always been a department that helps walk developers through the process. The primary difference is that now we are a portal for people who have an idea but don't know where to start," Absher said. "Every incremental step in the right direction is creating a new Lexington. I think people are starting to see that, and our homework is starting to pay off."
Sharon Myers can be reached at 249-3981, ext, 228 or at email@example.com.


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Poteau offense scores three TDs in Red-White Scrimmage
Going into Friday afternoon's Red-White Scrimmage at Costner Stadium, new Poteau Football Coach Greg Werner knew there would be some inconsistencies on offense. While there were things like dropped passes, there were three scores (or plays which would have been scores under normal game-like conditions) by the time the final snap of the interteam scrimmage.The three scores happened in the latter stages of the scrimmage. Kaydon Evans scored the first touchdown on about a 20-yard carry.Then, in the final series of snaps, quarterback Jace Pitchford hit Tyler Tustin over the middle on a play which would have been about an 80-yard TD pass, then Pitchford ended the scrimmage on a run up the middle on a carry which would have been about a 50-yard touchdown run."We got better," Werner said. "From the first play to the last play, we got a lot better."Some other bright spots on offense was the fact that both quarterbacks, Pitchford and Dayton Martinez, had good games. Pitchford connected on four passes for 115 yards and a touchdown, while Martinez hit on three passes for 40 yards — 20 of which came on a throw to Hunter Bradshaw.Tustin had the one 80-yard TD pass, while Jarrett Lowrimore had a 15-yard recpetion from Pitchford in the last series of snaps. Dylan Stone, Dylan Wiles, Dylan Gregory and Mason Jones all had 10-yard receptions.As for rushing, Evans had a 10-yard and a 15-yard carry to go with his 20-yard touchdown run, while Michael Reynolds had a pair of 10-yard runs and a 20-yard carry.Some other things caught the new coach's attention."I thought we played a lot harder the more the scrimmage went on," Warner said. "The first couple of series, I didn't think we played hard. As the scrimmage went along, we played a lot harder. I thought the hitting was good, and it got better as we moved along in the scrimmage."But there were still some things which Werner wants to see corrected."We have to learn our assignments," he said. "The learning curve is huge right now. We've had only six practices, so everything is new. Every day will be a new day. We're going to get better. It's just going to take time."If there was a major goal to achieve in Friday afternoon's scrimmage, it was to get the players on film and begin the evaluation process — and some positive things caught Werner's eyes."I'm excited now," he said. "The main thing is we've got film. We can start watching film now, and pick up on things we've got to do better. It's going to take a while, but we're going to get there."


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Fast Facts!
What is Room Lottery?
· This is your opportunity to keep your current room or choose a different room for next year.
Why do I have to be at Room Lottery? What do I do?
1. Complete a Residence Life Survey
2. Sign a housing contract for 2019/20
3. Verify you are keeping your current room OR pick a new room for next year, 2019/20
Can I send someone in my place to room lottery?
You can send a representative to act on your behalf. However, you must still sign a housing contract to secure your space in the halls for 2019/20.
Your representative's choice is valid. Please be explicit when instructing your representative.
Do I have to pick a new room in the same hall I am currently living in?
· No. You can pick any room that is not occupied in Murphy or Grace Hall.
· You can choose a suite in Smith only if you will be junior or senior level student, or have lived on campus for 4 semesters, and have at least 2 other students that you will be living in the suite with.
Can I pick a single room?
· Those currently in singles get first priority if they choose to "squat", or keep, their space. Anyone who does not squat their space, or who is graduating, will release their single and it will be open and available to pick. Specific single rooms will be known at Room Lottery. There will be floor plans to view that show which spaces are open.
Can I pick a single room in Grace Hall?
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What if my current roommate and I both want our space but we do not want to be roommates next year?
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What if I do not "squat" or keep my room and someone else picks it at Room Lottery. Can I get my room back?
· No. You have until the stated deadline to squat your room. If you do not squat your space per Room Lottery instructions, your space will be made available at Room Lottery.
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· You can choose a single OR
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What if I am not sure if I am coming back to the halls? I might get a house off campus.
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Secretary Rokita Elected to National Leadership Position on Executive Board of Election Standards Group
Contact: Heather Willis
Washington, D.C. - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita was elected yesterday to serve on the national nine-member Executive Board of the Federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Standards Board. The Standards Board, created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), is a bi-partisan 110-member group composed of state and local election officials from around the country. Secretary Rokita serves along with Democratic LaPorte County Circuit Court Clerk Lynne Spevak as Indiana's two members to the EAC Standards Board.
The Standards Board is charged with assisting the Election Assistance Commission in reviewing voting systems guidelines and best practices recommendations for facilitating military and overseas voting. The nine-member Executive Board is composed of five state election officials and five local election officials from around the country.
"I am honored to be elected by fellow election officials to serve in this leadership capacity, and I look forward to continuing to work with election officials from around the nation to address important election reform issues. Indiana continues to be an example for the nation, from our Military and Overseas Voter Guide to our accessibility surveys in 2004, both of which received national attention," said Rokita. "I look forward to the opportunity for sharing Indiana's successes with the rest of the country and continuing to improve elections here at home."
HAVA requires, among other things, the replacement of all punch card and lever voting machines, the creation of one single, statewide voter registration system, and the provision of polling places that are accessible to the disabled, including at least one disabled accessible voting machine in each polling place by 2006. In addition, it further attempts to facilitate voting for military and overseas voters, who face additional obstacles to voting.
The Indiana Secretary of State's Office has distributed to date approximately $17 million in voting systems reimbursements to Indiana counties for replacing outdated voting equipment. Indiana has recently received recognition for developing an extensive Military and Overseas Voter Guide, which was named as a best practice by both the Federal Voting Assistance Program and the Election Assistance Commission. To help county officials provide accessible polling places, the Secretary of State's office, in conjunction with the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities, conducted a survey of all polling places in the state during the 2004 elections and provided the resulting information to the counties, a process which also received national attention.


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Internet and small-cap shares rallied while the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record today. The technology-heavy Nasdaq (CME:NDM14) index jumped 1.4 percent today. Voters in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions backed plans to secede, Russia's state-run RIA Novosti said late yesterday. Chinese shares surged on speculation the government will take steps to bolster equities.
Commodities: Silver (COMEX:SIM14) is up exactly $.50 as of this writing to $19.62, outpacing gold (COMEX:GCM14), which is up $11 to $1,299. Silver has tested the waters near 2014 lows multiple times, and now could be poised for a run higher above $20. AUG14 feeder cattle continues to surge higher, today up $.1775 to $1.93150. Will it make a run for the $2 level? Perhaps it might get close. Copper really rocketed higher this morning as well, as it seems like the global markets are believing strongly about the strength of the global economy. Copper is up $.06 to $3.14. We would not at all be surprised to see copper run higher, possibly a lot higher.
Equities: The E-mini S&P 500 (CME:ESM!$) is up 15 points to 1888.50, getting closer towards the next key target of 1900. 1867 has been our key line in the sand recently, and it looks like the market has not been able to hold below there. 1902 is actually our next key market profile target for the emini SP500. We could see buy stops hit above 1900 potentially causing even more buying above 1900. The E-mini Dow futures hit a record today, and are up 111 ticks to 16638. Is 17000 next?
Bonds: The U.S. bonds are down 12 ticks to 135'12. 136'11 is the first key resistance level above today's pivot level of 135'29. With the stock market rallying today, perhaps the market is in a risk-on mode and finding fixed income less attractive. The bonds have still not broken down through any major uptrend support lines, but are closer today to that. It will be very interesting to see how the stock market reacts if the bonds do start to drop a lot and higher rates ensue.
Currencies: The Swiss Franc is down 4 ticks to 112.70. We believe that the Franc does have potential to head to 110, if not lower. The EUR/CHF has rallied each of the past 2 sessions, as losses in the Franc have outpaced those of the JUN14 Euro. We would not be surprised to see the EURCHF rally further. The JUN14 Aussie is up 7 ticks to 93.39. The Aussie has been strong recently, and this could be due to the market thinking China's economy will be supported by their government and monetary policy.


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BOSTON (December 9, 2013) – Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, in conjunction with the Atlanta Sports Council and Kennesaw State University, announced Fifth Third Bank Stadium, in Kennesaw, Ga., as the venue for the 2014 MLL Championship Game on August 23.
"We are thrilled to return to Fifth Third Bank Stadium and the Atlanta region," said MLL Commissioner David Gross. "We believe in the growth of the sport in the area and having the Championship Game there is the next step as we contemplate future expansion."
Last season, over four thousand fans traveled to Fifth Third Bank Stadium to witness the Rochester Rattlers take on the Boston Cannons in the first ever MLL game in Georgia. The game's success paved the way for the League to entertain bringing one of its marquee events back to the area as it looks to expand.
"What a great compliment it is for Major League Lacrosse to think that highly of our facility, staff and community to want to host the Championship Game in Kennesaw," said Vaughn Williams, Athletic Director at KSU. "We are excited and honored to be a part of the MLL season finale."
The 2014 MLL Championship Game in the Atlanta region is a joint effort of MLL, the Atlanta Sports Council a division of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, the Cobb Sports Alliance and the local business community.
The Atlanta Sports Council has played a role in helping to attract and support more than 50 major sporting events to the Atlanta region, including Super Bowls XXVIII and XXXIV, the Centennial Olympic Games, two NCAA Women's Final Fours and three NCAA Men's Final Fours.
"Metro Atlanta has a strong affinity for lacrosse, both at the participant and fan levels, so it's only fitting that Kennesaw State University hosts the 2014 MLL championship game," said Dan Corso, executive director of the Atlanta Sports Council. "We are excited to play a role in organizing the event and look forward to a terrific game."
Formed in 2013, the Cobb Sports Alliance is a division of Cobb Travel & Tourism. Its mission is to create and support a complete sports, visitor, and community experience, thereby enhancing economic impact.
"Lacrosse has a large following in our community and the Cobb Sports Alliance, a division of Cobb Travel & Tourism, is very excited to be a part of the Major League Lacrosse Championship game," said Holly Bass, CEO of Cobb Travel & Tourism. "This is a fantastic opportunity for Cobb County, and we look forward to working with lacrosse at all levels to build an excellent fan experience."
The Atlanta region business community has also embraced the event, especially The Coca-Cola Company, whose strong commitment to sports and Major League Lacrosse is well documented.
"At Coca-Cola we strive to inspire people to come together and be inspired to get active," said Sharon Byers, SVP Sports, Entertainment & Community Marketing, Coca-Cola North America. "Major League Lacrosse players are the embodiment of healthy, active living and demonstrate the joy of athletic competition. We are excited to bring people together with the 2014 MLL Championship Game in our very own hometown."
Tickets for the event will go on sale Friday, December 13. For more information on the 2014 MLL Championship Game and all MLL-related events visit
About Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse (MLL), the premier professional outdoor lacrosse League, was founded by Jake Steinfeld and is headquartered in Boston. Major League Lacrosse commenced play in June 2001 and will embark on its fourteenth season. MLL has continued to lead the sport of lacrosse into the mainstream of competitive team sports. The league is made up of eight teams: The Boston Cannons, Charlotte Hounds, Chesapeake Bayhawks, Denver Outlaws, Florida Launch, New York Lizards, Ohio Machine and Rochester Rattlers. More information about the league can be found at
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The 2014 Collegiate Draft will be held on Friday, January 10, 2014 in Philadelphia and the fourteenth season will commence the weekend of April 26. The 2014 MLL All-Star Game will be held at Harvard Stadium on June 26. Tickets for the event are on sale now by calling the Boston Cannons office at 617-746-9933
About the Atlanta Sports Council
The Atlanta Sports Council promotes the value of sports growth in Atlanta and Georgia by acting as an authority on the economic impact, visibility and quality of life issues associated with sports. Its mission is to lead, organize and support sports development. The Atlanta Sports Council was created in 1985 under the original name of Sports 2000, and is a division of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. For more information, visit
About the Cobb Sports Alliance
The Cobb Sports Alliance mission is to create and support a complete sports, visitor, and community experience, thereby enhancing economic impact. The Cobb Sports Alliance was created in 2013, and is a division of Cobb Travel & Tourism. Cobb Travel & Tourism represents Atlanta's sweet spot, Cobb County. Charming. Delightful. And truly alive with personality. Learn all about what Cobb has to offer by visiting
About Fifth Third Bank Stadium
Fifth Third Bank Stadium is an 8,300-seat state-of-the-art stadium built in 2010 in partnership with the former Women's Professional Soccer team Atlanta Beat, designed to showcase a variety of events. It has hosted Major League Soccer, KSU Soccer and Lacrosse, the Southern Lacrosse Showdown, NCAA Women's College Cup, concerts and music festivals. Situated within a beautiful 88-acre KSU Sports and Recreation Park, the facility is conveniently located just one mile from both I-75 and I-575 in Cobb County, which is often referred to as Atlanta's
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About Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University is the third-largest university in Georgia, offering more than 80 graduate and undergraduate degrees, including doctorates in education, business and nursing and a new Ph.D. in international conflict management. A member of the University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of more than 24,600 from 130 countries.KSU Athletics attained NCAA Division I status in 2006, and its 16 sports (7 men's, 9 women's) compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference.


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UFC 'Lasts'
(The last time Big Daddy got paid on time and in full.)
By Cage Potato contributor Chris Colemon
Only 17 years removed from its inaugural bout, the UFC is just now exiting its awkward teen years and developing into a suave, sophisticated adult. After an extended bout of growing pains that at times threatened the sport's very existence, MMA is finally coming into its own. Today's fans witness seemingly daily achievements and milestones that speak to the sport's rapid expansion. In 2010 alone, the UFC held its first events in Abu Dhabi and Australia, opened offices in China, set a new North American attendance record for an MMA event, crowned its first Mexican heavyweight champion, and launched their first attack in the Battle for New York.
But the UFC's epic tale is not unlike any other in that each chapter begins where another one ends. For every historic first, there is an all but forgotten last.
Here is a short list of some of the UFC's important lasts – the rules and regulations sacrificed in the fight for our sport's survival.
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CUDA Training in Seattle, WA
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Event Details
GPU acceleration is awesome, but writing fast CUDA can be challenging. This comprehensive two day course will enable you to become proficient in writing and optimizing applications for GPU acceleration.
Partnering closely with NVIDIA, AccelerEyes CUDA training courses are the fastest way for you to become proficient at CUDA programming for NVIDIA GPUs. AccelerEyes is uniquely equipped to provide training for NVIDIA CUDA GPUs due to our extensive experience programming ArrayFire. We have helped thousands of organizations speedup their code and our primary objective is to help you increase productivity while maximizing the return on your hardware.
Course Goodie Bag
All training courses include the following:
- Instruction by an excellent and interesting expert. Many hands-on exercises
- Use of a laptop with CUDA capable GPU
- Choice of Linux or Windows operating system
- Printed manual of lecture material
- Electronic copy of programming exercises
- Certificate of Completion
CUDA Training Course Syllabus
Day 1: Introduction to CUDA
- GPU Computing Overview
- The CUDA Programming Model
- Basic Dataset Mapping Techniques
- CUDA Libraries, ArrayFire
- Asynchronous Operation
- Profiling Tools
- A Simple CUDA Kernel
- Equivalent ArrayFire Example
- Using CUDA Libraries
- Monte Carlo Pi Estimation
- Timing CUDA and ArrayFire
- Debugging CUDA Code
Day 2: CUDA Optimization
- CUDA Architecture: Grids,Blocks,and Threads
- CUDA Memory Model: Global,Shared and Constant Memory
- Advanced Mapping Techniques
- CUDA Streams: Asynchronos Launches and Concurrent Execution
- ArrayFire: Lazy Evaluation and Code Vectorization
- Matrix Transpose
- Optimization Using Shared Memory
- Median Filter
- Optimization Using Constant Memory
- CUDA Stream Example
- ArrayFire Example: Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
When & Where
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM
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