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Numarks Flagship NS7III DJ Controller is a premier four-deck controller for Serato DJ. Featuring three high-resolution color screens with a stackable waveform display and an interactive control surface, the NS7III forges a kinetic—no, make that radioactive— connection between the audience and your music.
The NS7III is the ONLY motorized controller on the market today that gives the dedicated turntablist a true and authentic mixing and spinning experience. With an exclusive 3 full color LCD screens, dedicated to allowing you to focus 100% of you attention on your mix, your controller, your audience, and your craft. While competitors might still be chasing that dream, Numark has arrived!
This controller offers features and performance that sets it way above conventional DJ controllers, even other companies' so-called "top-of the line" units. This is the Big Daddy of controllers. If you're serious about your performance, this is where you want to be.
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Schlafly Endorses Oberweis for
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2, 2014
CONTACT: Glyn Wright, (202) 544-0353
Washington, D.C. — Eagle Forum PAC, a conservative public policy organization founded by pro-family leader Phyllis Schlafly, is proud to endorse Jim Oberweis for the United States Senate.
"Jim Oberweis would make a great senator," said Schlafly. "He is always ready to take on the Establishment and provide leadership for the pro-family agenda."
"Dick Durbin exemplifies all that is wrong in Washington," added Schlafly. "From taxes to immigration to national security, he supports policies that weaken our country and undermine families struggling to get ahead. It's clear that his priority is cheerleading for President Obama instead of helping the citizens of Illinois."
"Jim Oberweis will help solve the problems we face as a country," continued Schlafly. "He knows that Americans don't need government to make decisions for them. He will work to restore control of education to parents and local communities, not bureaucrats and special interests. In contrast to Senator Durbin's pining for open borders, Jim recognizes that amnesty would undermine the rule of law. He stands up for the rights of the unborn."
"Defeating Dick Durbin would shock liberals everywhere," concluded Schlafly. "Jim Oberweis can get the job done, and will make Illinois proud in the Senate."
Eagle Forum PAC supports candidates who are committed to a conservative philosophy of limited government, national sovereignty and traditional values.

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ALEX toy sales are always very popular so I thought I would let you all know that Zulily is having a really nice one right now, with prices starting at only $7.99!
Can I just tell you that I'm totally loving this Fantasy Shrinky Dinks Kits! My oldest couldn't get enough of Shrinky Dinks when she was younger…but seriously, what do you do with all of them?! I think this tree is an awesome storage and display solution. 😉 Right now it's on sale for $12.99 (down from $22).
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What is it: Single Point Lesson (SPL), or also known as the one point check sheet, are used to point out a single point task at a work station usually but not always associated with a quality concern. Single Point Lessons are short visual presentations on a single point with the following purposes:
Team leaders and members who have acquired special skills or knowledge need a way to share their knowledge with their teammates. Rather then merely repeating what they have learned, they should put it in a form that suits their workplace. Single Point Lessons translate knowledge into practical information that teammates can use to effectively perform their jobs.
Why use it: Single Point lessons are a simple yet powerful learning and operational tool. When applied systematically throughout the work site, Single Point Lessons provide many benefits. They can help deploy just-in-time knowledge and skills across an organization. They also positively affect employees' abilities to perform daily tasks as well as improve an organization's cost efficiency and product quality. As an aid for spreading best practices company wide, Single Point Lessons can support and enhance improvement efforts such as Lean Management, Just-In-Time (JIT) Production, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
A Single Point Lesson is a learning tool for communicating standards, problems, and improvements about work processes and equipment. Workers and supervisors use one-point lessons to provide key information about everyday work and improvement opportunities. Thus, SIngle Point Lessons may contain information on a wide range of topics.
Where to use it: Examples where Single Point Lessons may be applied are:
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In other words, whenever workers need key information to perform their jobs, Single Point Lessons can be an effective tool for delivering that information.


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Thursday, June 13 marks the sixth anniversary of Beaumont, Royal Oak's Farmers Market. The growing success of the farmers market has been a joy to watch over the past few years. Our market has attracted more shoppers, vendors and a greater variety of goods each year and 2013 will be no different.
Taking place each Thursday (through October) outside the South Tower entrance, the Beaumont market has a diverse group of products and vendors – from fresh produce to homemade desserts to bath and body products and much more. The market is open to visitors, patients, Beaumont employees and the entire community.
Starting tomorrow, Beaumont Hospital, Troy will host their first farmers market as well. Every Tuesday through October, from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., join vendors on the ground level outside of the parking deck (under the covered walkway).
Currently in season are a variety of leafy greens, herbs, asparagus, snap peas and hydroponically-grown tomatoes. If you're looking for lunch, Ned's TravelBurger food truck will be back and if you're just looking for a quick snack, Mystic Kettle will be popping fresh kettle corn at each market.


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Downhole image logs help geologists identify and analyze reservoir features such as fractures, folds and faults. Stratigraphic features, including paleotransport direction and the presence of bioturbation, clasts and scours, can also be seen in image logs. Acquiring quality images in oil-base mud systems has been more difficult because oil and mudcake often render conductivity-based imaging tools ineffective. A newly introduced imaging tool provides photorealistic quality images even in oil-base mud environments.
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Free Online Web Crawler ToolsFriday, February 24, 2017
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With the increasing demand for data, more and more people began crawling web pages to get access to oceans of data. Therefore, Web Crawling is serving as an ascendingly important role to help people with data needs to fetch data meeting their requirements. Till now, there are three most common methods for people to crawl web data - Utilizing the public APIs provided by the target websites; Programming and build crawler on your own; Using some automated web crawler tools. Based on my user experience, I will mainly discuss several free online web crawler tools in the following section for the reference of web crawler beginners.
Before my introduction about the online web crawler tools, we should learn first about what is the web crawler meant for? Well, the web crawler tool is designed to scrape or crawl data from websites. We can also call them web harvesting tools or extraction tools. It can automate the crawling process at a faster speed and harvest data on a large scale. People who use it are not required to know any coding skills. They just need to learn the configuration rules related to different crawler tools. More advanced, the online web crawlers are useful if users would like to gather the information and have it put into a useable form. The URL list can be stored in a spreadsheet and expanded in a dataset over time in the Cloud-Platform. That means the scraped data can be merged into an existing database by using the online web service. Here, I'd like to propose several free online web crawlers for your reference. Anyway, what I propose is just suggestions. Anyone who's going to choose a web crawler tool should learn about its respective detailed functionalities first and select the one based on your requirements.
Octoparse is known as a Windows desktop web crawler application, which provides reliable online crawling service as well. For their Cloud-based service, Octoparse can offer at least 6 Cloud servers which can run users' task concurrently. It also supports Cloud Data Storage and more advanced options for Cloud service. Its UI is very user-friendly and there are lots of related tutorials on their website for users to learn how to configure the tasks and make crawler on their own.
Import.io provides online web scraper service now. The data storage and related techniques are all based on Cloud-based Platform. To activate its function, the user needs to add a web browser extension to enable this tool. The user interface of Import.io is easy to handle, users can click and select the data fields to crawl the data they need. For more detailed instructions, users can visit their official website for more tutorials and assistance. The Import.io can customize a dataset for pages with no data in the existing IO library by getting access to the Cloud-based library of API's.
Its Cloud Service provides data storage and related data processing control options in the Cloud-Platform. One can add it to an existing database. Libraries and etc.
Scraper Wiki has set their free online accounts to a fixed maximum of datasets. Good news to all users, their free service provides the same elegant service as the paid service. They have also made a commitment to providing journalists premium accounts without cost. Their free online web scraper has added a new feature that PDF table is available. However, this PDF format doesn't work well, since it will be practically hard if users would like to make cutting and pasting. The Scraper Wiki also added other more advanced options. Like, they released some other editions of their application developed in a different programming language, like Python, Ruby, and Php, for better flexibility in different operating system platforms.
CloudScrape Cloud Scraping Service in Dexi.io is meant for regular web users to operate on. It always commits itself in providing high-quality Cloud Service Scraping. It provides users with IP Proxy and in-built CAPTCHA resolving features which can help users scrape most of the websites. Users can learn how to use CloudScrape by clicking and pointing easily, even for beginners or amateurs. Cloud hosting makes possible all the scraped data to be stored in the Cloud. API allows monitoring and remotely managing web robots. It's CAPTCHA solving option sets CloudScrape apart from services like Import.io or Kimono. The service provides a vast variety of data integrations, so that extracted data might automatically be uploaded thru (S)FTP or into your Google Drive, DropBox, Box or AWS. The data integration can be completed seamlessly.
Apart from some of those free online web crawler tools, there are other reliable web crawler tools providing online service which may charge for their service though.
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The most important news for Monday, June 15th, 2009…..
Cities throughout Iran have erupted with violence and massive protests in the wake of "questionable" election results which show President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with an overwhelming majority of the vote in Iran's presidential election.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declining to guarantee the safety of his defeated rival Mir Hossein Moussavi. Should we be surprised by this?
The Huffington Post has published a disturbing article that calls evangelical Christianity the number one source of domestic terrorism in the United States and that calls on the Secret Service and the FBI to investigate and "infiltrate" pro-life and evangelical Christian groups.
A CBS News writer is asking this question: "Isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?" I don't know about you, but when journalists talk about "rounding up" certain groups, it makes me look over my shoulder to see if the brownshirts are coming.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly endorsed an independent Palestinian state during his major foreign policy speech over the weekend. What in the world is Netanyahu thinking?
Scientists fear that Ug99, a devastating wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could potentially wipe out over 80 percent of the world's wheat crop as it spreads from Africa.
China's growing middle class is increasingly challenging the country's one-child policy. More of them are having two or more children than ever before. Good for them!
The Obama administration says that a big step towards fixing our financial problems is to give the Federal Reserve dramatically increased powers. Isn't this kind of like fixing a fire by pouring gasoline on it?
The sick and deluded regime of dictator Kim Jong-il says that it is now in the "early phase of all-out confrontation with the U.S." How will Barack Obama respond to this threat?
A Japanese company has invented a car that runs on water. Why isn't this technology being promoted in the United States?
The swine flu is sweeping across Australia, and health experts there are becoming very, very concerned.
A great new documentary on how we produce what we eat entitled "Food, Inc." opens this week. After you watch it, however, you may never look at your dinner the same way again.
The CDC is ramping up for a massive swine flu immunization program. Oh goody!
NASA is making a special effort to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) "Pride" Month.
A growing number of churches across the United States are now facing foreclosure because of hard economic times.
Dozens of cities throughout the United States may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of a new "shrink to survive" proposal being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
Lastly, a prom held recently at Boston City Hall that was open to children apparently as young as 12 years old was described as a "prom from sexual hell". It reportedly featured crossdressers, homosexual heavy petting, suspected drug use and a leather-clad doorman who teaches sexual bondage classes.


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Repeating an annual ritual, the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the country was tantamount to genocide.
For the 21st year, the assembly's vote was overwhelming, with 188 nations - including most of Washington's closest allies - supporting the embargo resolution, a result virtually unchanged from last year.
Israel, heavily dependent on US backing in the Middle East, and the tiny Pacific state of Palau were the only two countries that supported the United States in opposing the non-binding resolution in the 193-nation assembly. The Pacific states of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained.
President Barack Obama further loosened curbs last year on US travel and remittances to Cuba. He had said he was ready to change Cuba policy but was still waiting for signals from Havana, such as the release of political prisoners and guarantees of basic human rights.
But Obama has not lifted the five-decade-old trade embargo, and the imprisonment of a US contractor in Cuba has halted the thaw in Cuban-US relations.
Havana's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told the assembly that Cuba had high hopes for Obama when he was first elected in 2008 and welcomed his calls for change. But he said the result had been disappointing.
The reality is that the last four years have been characterized by the persistent tightening of ... the embargo, he said.
Rodriguez said the extraterritoriality of the blockade measures - the fact that Washington pressures other countries to adhere to the US embargo - violates international law. He added that the blockade is not in US interests and harms its credibility.
It leads the US to adopt costly double standards, he said, adding that the embargo has failed to achieve its objectives of pressuring the government to introduce economic and political freedoms and comply with international human rights standards.
There is no legitimate or moral reason to maintain this embargo that is anchored in the Cold War, he said.
US envoy Ronald Godard rejected the resolution's call for ending the blockade and Cuba's allegation that the United States was to blame for Cuban financial difficulties. He added that the government in Havana was putting the brakes on Cuba's further development, not the United States.
It is the Cuban government that continues to deprive them of that aspiration, he said, adding that Cuba was seeking an external scapegoat for the island's economic problems.
Godard said Washington was not punishing the Cuban people. He said 2 billion dollars in remittances were sent from the United States to Cuba last year, while Washington had authorized over 1.2 billion in humanitarian assistance.
He repeated Washington's calls for Cuba to "immediately release Mr (Alan) Gross," a US contractor serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba for setting up Internet networks, work that a judge said was a crime against the Cuban state.
whose foreign minister said the blockade against the country was tantamount to "genocide".
Why do these people use such emotive and unrepresentative comments? All it does is weaken their case (which is VERY good) by trying to make it into a bigger drama.
Should the Falklands now turn around to (Cuba's friend) Argentina and accuse them of genocide for their economic blockade?
Cant abide this overly-dramatic form of diplomacy..its puerile.
Having said that: shame on the USA.
Cuba seems to be attempting to move into the present day with baby steps. When the Castros die it will change completely but they are at least making a start now. What better time for the US to open trade. (Even better would have been to hold out the hand of trade when the Soviet Union dissolved).
They should start with selling toilet paper. A friend emailed me yesterday to tell me there is a terrible shortage and they are rationed to ten sheets per day. Make a note if anyone intends to holiday there. Pack toilet paper!
Even acorns have to grow,
cuba needs to drag its self into the 21st century.
as for the Americans, sadly you cant demand anything, they do what they wish to do, and no doubt when they decide to lift the trade embargo they will, until then the cubans will just have to carry on.
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Making a hash of it: The (diminishing?) power of words
At the risk of sounding like an Edwardian school boy, I think Twitter is magic. I mean this in the supernatural sense (fitting, as it was Halloween last weekend). The mysteries of the internet have always struck me as evidence of occult intervention somewhere - some particularly intuitive websites send my eyes scouring the page for evidence of pentagons - but Twitter really takes the biscuit.
Twitter gives words the sort of power that has traditionally been associated with witchcraft. When a tweeter writes a particular formula, their words create a genuine effect. However, ancient runes have been replaced by a very modern symbol: the hashtag. This tool bridges the divide between words that communicate and words that perform an action. The hashtag may have originated as a way for participants to organize material on Twitter, but it has developed real power.
When Livestrong wanted to raise awareness of cancer, they tweeted the words #beatcancer. Each time the hashtag was consequently repeated, PayPal and SWAGG donated $0.05 to cancer charities. Suddenly, words didn't just say something, they did it. Formerly only magic users have been attributed the power to use words to such tangible effect.
It could be that this unprecedented power is a symptom of larger scale decline. For a time the internet was fertile ground for writers. Text-only blogs abounded as technological restrictions limited communication to text. Now however, many brands use text merely as a gateway into a multimedia experience. Thus we come to another use of the hashtag. Recently, an Orange campaign offered to record certain hashtagged tweets as songs. In doing so, the campaign reduced text to the status of prototype; not quite the real thing.
Of course, there are benefits to an increasingly visual online experience. Key examples are increased usability and ease of access. Firstly, in contrast to a dense paragraph of text, video narratives require less initial commitment from the user. Thus, in using visual media, designers and developers are reacting to the requirements of casual web users. Another instance of these benefits is something we at Open CC have developed with the Whitechapel Gallery. We have enriched an exhibition with additional text, images and film which are accessible to smart phones. This is enabled by QR Codes - 2D barcodes which, when scanned, circumnavigate the need for a textual URL. The aim is to provide the user with engaging content immediately - without the requirement to type an address on a fiddly keypad interface. The reward, without the effort.
All this goes some way to explaining why, when I read media blogs, I am often struck by the apparent consensus that text will soon be obsolete. The future, we are told, lies in digital rich media - brimming with images, videos and interaction. We have seen that whilst text is used increasingly as a tool for linking one source to another (rather than as a reliable documenter itself), it may soon become redundant even for this purpose. Perhaps, then, the magical power of the hashtag is not only a triumph, but a swansong.
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Why study Psychology?
Because Psychology is a powerful therapeutic tool, catering to a wide range of emotional, behavioral and educational problems, assisting us in better understanding our families, our environment and ourselves. The market demand for psychologists of all disciplines is constantly increasing, and there is a growing need for personal, family, organizational and social therapists.
Why study Psychology at Bar-Ilan?
Because of our department
Bar-Ilan University's Department of Psychology is well recognized as a realm of unparalleled professional and academic excellence, offering a wide variety of innovative, exciting study Programs. Courses are held in small groups, providing close and personal guidance by top lecturers, in a manner befitting the high standards of academics and professionalism.
The Department offers B.A. studies as a major or a minor, and Graduate Degree Programs in five different study tracks:
1. Clinical psychology
2. Child-Clinical psychology
3. Clinical-Rehabilitation psychology
4. Social-Organizational psychology
5. Experimental psychology
Because of our faculty members
The faculty of the Department of Psychology includes prominent professors and researchers, among which are Israel's most renowned therapists. Many of our faculty members come from world-leading academic institutions, and have published highly profiled researches and articles. The faculty holds a large number of professional conventions and workshops, generating great interest, and invites the students to participate and take part in the activities.
Because of the practical experience
Teaching in the Department is based on the "researcher-therapist" model, offering students practical experience in the various Clinics operated by the department in the framework of community outreach Programs. This way, students get to acquire a hands-on experience as part of their professional training, while working in collaboration and under the close guidance of our top researchers and therapists.
Because of the emphasis on research
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The technology revolution ensures that everyone has a use for the internet. Computer costs and casual use have since facilitated the growth of cyber cafes. People mainly use cyber cafes for browsing the internet, checking their mail and chatting.
The first important rule is to never tell the cyber cafe owner (or anyone else for that matter) your email ID and password to check your mail. This may sound dumb but keep in mind that many old folks and small kids have no idea about the risks of spam and information theft. Email IDs and passwords should always be entered by their owners. At most, they should ask for guidance to the log-in screen to enter their details personally. Another important rule is the practice of people coming with their floppies, CDs or pen-drives to send their resumes via email. Usually, the individual computers have neither floppy nor CD drives (and some places prohibit independent use of pen- drives for security reasons). The media is hence run through the server itself before being transferred to the relevant individual's PC. After sending these documents, the user forgets about deleting the documents on the original server. More than simply emptying the Recycle Bin, you should ensure the cyber cafe has a file shredder program to properly delete the files. Resumes contain many personal details, and you should avoid all risk of these being exposed.
Other options you should be aware of when surfing include disabling the option for "Remember my ID on this Computer" when surfing. Make sure to turn off the autocomplete option in the browser. This can be done by accessing the Tools > Internet Options > Autocomplete tab in Internet Explorer and Tools > Options > Privacy > Password tab in Firefox. There are also options to clear your private history / temporary internet files while surfing in case you don't want your browsing history known.
Always make sure to logout properly when using messenger software or mail accounts. Some people make the mistake with IM software in simply closing the program, which does not shut it down but minimizes it into the system tray. This should be taken care of to ensure the next user doesn't use your IM account as he wishes. As specified above, make sure the options for remembering passwords or IDs is disabled. You should also take care to disable options that allow archiving of messages as text files. This helps in keeping conversations private and personal info usually shared online safe. Finally, whenever you go to a cyber cafe, ensure it has the most up-to date anti-virus and spyware definitions. These will help root out Trojan horses and keyloggers responsible for tracking your activity and recording your passwords/IDs.


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(JUN 2008) — To correspond with the release of version 8.5 of the LumenVox speech recognition software, we have completely revamped our extennsive online help system.
The new help site is available at www.lumenvox.com/help and includes a host of new features to better aid our users.
In addition to the better search and indexing detailed below, the help system also sports a brand new look that should make it easier to navigate, on both Linux and Windows and with multiple Web browsers.
One of the key features of the new help system is a Google–powered search. In addition to being able search through all of the speech recognition tips, white papers, and other articles on LumenVox.com, you can search specific help content for all of our products.
This should make it much easier to find the specific content you're looking for. But if you prefer to browse, the table of contents now render correctly on all major modern browsers.
The 8.5 release of our products is now available.
This software includes the changes mentioned in the March Tech Bulletin, such as the ability to uninstall licenses and a new Linux installation structure.
As long as your software maintenance is current, LumenVox 8.5 can be downloaded from the "My Downloads" section of your LumenVox.com account.
Last month, BroadSoft certified the LumenVox Speech Engine as being compliant with its BroadWorks Platform.
Full details on the integration are available on the LumenVox Web site.
Another new feature of the LumenVox Web site is our Speech Solution Showcase, a section of the site that includes audio files of our speech recognition software in action.
While you can always call our speech recognition demonstration to try our software for yourself, the audio files in the Solution Showcase present a larger selection of real production applications built by our partners.
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Notes from a beginning gardener with sprinkles of poetry and philosophic musings
Friday, October 7, 2011
Post Season Garden Awards: 2011
This year's Silver Slugger Award goes to--drum roll, please--the Hyacinth Bean Vine! For the non-baseball fan, the Silver Slugger is awarded to the player with the most impressive offensive stats, such as batting average and on-base-percentage. Despite adverse conditions this year, the Hyacinth Bean never went into a slump. Its sheer size made it an imposing figure at the plate, looking more like an offensive lineman than a first baseman. In fact, it might have also been awarded the Golden Glove for fielding percentage, except that it had a habit of running into other players on the field. Its enthusiasm at times had to be curbed by the manager.
Hyacinth Bean's home run stats were off the charts, producing beautiful purple blossoms like this throughout the season as well as the shiny purple bean pods this fall. A free agent, it was signed to only a one-year contract while the head office debated a permanent replacement at this position, possibly a clematis or another climbing rose like the one on the other side of the arbor trellis. But its performance as well as the devoted fan base of hummingbirds this season may warrant a contract extension.
In professional sports there are no walk-ons. But if there were, Cleome would be the clear winner of the Walk-On Award. One cleome plant in the lily bed last year, pulled in late September, resulted in many seedlings in the same area this year. At first, their appearance wasn't welcome, since the roster was already full and they seemed to upset the team chemistry. But when the rest of the position players went into a slump in August, the Cleomes stepped up to the plate and carried the team through the late season. They've developed quite a fan following, too, especially the bees. ( By the way, if you notice a brown blur in the background, that's the assistant manager giving some motivational words to the benchwarmers.)
There were so many candidates for Rookie of the Year this season that it was almost difficult to choose a winner. The Beautyberry was a strong contender, especially since several of the new shrubs purchased this year had a disappointing season. It is hoped that another year of maturity will produce better results with them, but the Beautyberry was a consistent performer all season long, finishing strong with these beautiful purple berries.
Incidentally, last year's Rookie winner was a no-show this year. 'Wendy's Wish' Salvia apparently signed with a team in Oklahoma, because she was unavailable for contract negotiations this spring. (I've notified local agents, i.e., garden centers, to please stock her next year!)
Despite the number of candidates, the clear-cut choice for Rookie of the Year in 2011 goes to the Agastache 'Heat Wave.' This newcomer started out as a scrawny seedling in May and quickly put on bulk to grow to three feet tall and at least the same width. It began blooming some time in mid-July and has dazzled everyone since with its showy pink/purple flowers. Besides being a unanimous choice of the judges, it's been a hands-down favorites of the fans as well--bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds swarm it for autographs every day.
This superstar laughed at droughty field conditions and took the heat of late summer in stride. In fact, it was also a strong contender for the MVP award as well. While a few players have won both the Rookie of the Year and the MVP award in the MLB, it's rather unusual. In 'Heat Wave's' case, the only barrier to its receiving both awards is a concern whether it can repeat its stellar performance next year. Some research on Agastaches has revealed that they aren't particularly fond of the wet, cold winters common to Illinois, so we must wait and see whether it returns for another season. If it doesn't, the general manager has assured us there will a contract extended to a new 'Heat Wave' (or three) next year.
And now for the most coveted award of all--the MVP of the 2011 season. Last year's winner, 'Lucky Lemon Creme' Lantana, was replaced this year with a more colorful player .... (sorry, its name on the roster is illegible). It performed every bit as well as last year's winner and has been signed to a long-term contract for the lily bed border. However, its playing time was reduced somewhat due to salary demands. In garden language, that means that while I was able to buy a flat of lantana seedlings last year, this year all the varieties of lantana I found were available only in 4-inch pots. Trying to plant the same number as last year would have meant spending five times as much, so I opted for a smaller section of lantana with Profusion zinnias filling in the rest of the border. Next year I'm going to scout in more places for the flats so that I can have a full border of these butterfly magnets.
Another candidate for MVP would have to be the Shasta daisy 'Becky.' It is one of those solid performers that often go overlooked, but deserves praise for its consistency. A little more encouragement this year (i.e., more frequent deadheading) has resulted in non-stop blooms from June through October.
Another possible choice for this award might be the hostas. Veterans of the shade garden, they avoid the glare of the spotlight, unlike some of the other more colorful members of the team. But they were the Cal Ripkens of the garden, bringing their A-game every single day from May through September. Only now, as the season winds down, are they beginning to show a few signs of exhaustion.
It was a close race, but the winner of this year's MVP Award goes to the Hydrangea 'Limelight.' Some voters were a little upset, charging that those of us who selected 'Limelight' were fickle and thinking only of what looked good now, rather than all season. There might be an element of truth in that claim because it has only been blooming for two months. But baseball fans still remember "Mr. October," and 'Limelight' will no doubt also linger in garden fans' memories through the long off-season. Besides, it was a superstar compared to all the other hydrangeas on the team who produced very few hits this year. And to be honest, there was somewhat of a sympathy vote here, as 'Limelight' survived what could have been a life-threatening injury when a large limb fell on it as the groundskeeper was trimming a nearby locust tree. Thankfully, it was still intact when the limb was removed and the chainsaw-wielding groundskeeper properly chastised. It continues to impress the crowds today with its white blooms turning to a lovely shade of pink.
I'm sure other garden managers have their own candidates for awards, and I'd love to hear about the choices. As for me, the season may not be over yet, but I'm already heading off for spring training-----planting tulips and daffodils!
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You've missed your calling as a game announcer! Great plants and I enjoyed the discourse with them very much. That 'Limelight' is such a great shrub-well deserved!ReplyDelete
Rose, You are clever. Loved all your award winners. Agastaches are the clear winners in my garden this droughty summer! Nothing stopped them and the pollinators were in heaven. have fun with the bulbs! xogailReplyDelete
LOVE that agastache. I don't follow baseball at all, but I love the idea of post-season awards in the garden. P.S. I am all for developing a weed eating beetle. Let's apply for research grants on that right away!ReplyDelete
P.P.S. Are you noticing how I'm keeping up on blogging for a good whole TWO WEEKS now?!?!?! ha!
This was so inventive! A very creative way to sum up what worked in the garden, and you had me entertained through the whole post. I absolutely love your MVP. Limelight has been recommended by so many, and now, with this prestigious post season award, I know I must get one. Thanks for the good time today : )ReplyDelete
There are some mighty fine players on your roster! Rosester? I like that Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' ... I may have to sign her to my team!ReplyDelete
You mentioned a Katy player on the Illinois football team. Katy High School's team has won more than a few state championships so I'm not surprised. He may have a hard time adjusting to playing in cold weather, though!
Your garden scored a home run with me! I loved that bit about the hummingbird fan base. Happy digging!ReplyDelete
The Bean Vine and Hydrangea get my vote :-)ReplyDelete
I so enjoy this write up about your garden Rose. I look forward to it every year. I am even going to encourage my DB to read it. I think he would get a hoot out of it. He even knows some of the players.ReplyDelete
That was very fun to read (and I'm not even a baseball fan!). I have got to remember that vine next spring --it just looks amazing.ReplyDelete
You've fielded a great team this year! (If only our baseball teams could say the same :). I'm so jealous of how well your hyacinth bean did! Mine was a disappointment for the second straight year. It might be sent back to the minors.ReplyDelete
I love your baseball analogy! So many bloggers have mentioned Beautyberry and Hyacinth Bean Vine. They are spectacular! I think I'm going to have to find spots for both in the garden--they're showstoppers! Beautiful plants in your autumn garden!ReplyDelete
You had some great contenders this year, but I have to say I agree on your MVP choice. I'm a bit biased when it comes to 'Limelight', afterall it's always been a MVP in my garden. :)ReplyDelete
Tina, Thanks; 'Limelight' has done so well, not at all as picky as the other hydrangeas.ReplyDelete
Gail, Agastaches are now on my must-have list for next year! I think I've found a new favorite plant:)
Monica, Yes, I'm impressed--and so glad! That research grant sounds interesting--I have connections in the entymology dept. here at the U of I if need be:)
Laurrie, 'Limelight' would work well in your new driveway border. It does have a more freewheeling tendency than some panicle hydrangeas, though.
Cindy, I am hoping next year to find 'Wendy's Wish' again; it was such a great plant and would probably be a perennial in your garden. I'm not sure how we stole a football player out of TX, but I hope he has a warm winter coat:)
Sarah, The hummingbirds were thrilled with my choice of plants this year. I'm a big fan of hummers, too!
Suburbia, Thanks; both of these are hard to miss in my garden.ReplyDelete
Lisa, Thank you--I hope DB enjoys it. The Brewers and the Cardinals both won last night, so we'll be watching a little more baseball than I thought.
Renee, This vine reminded me of Jack's beanstalk; it grew so fast. Of course, I must have planted half a dozen seeds just to make sure one germinated.
Rose, Sometimes a player does so much better for another team; the Cubs are notorious for trading away good players:) This was my first attempt at planting the hyacinth bean, so I was impressed.
Plantpostings, I've envied the Beautyberry on other blogs for a few years, so that's why I planted one this year. I've been really pleased with it.
Racquel, I'm not surprised--you were my main inspiration for planting 'Limelight'!
Love the hyacinth bean plant and the lantana. Most of these things would be described as exotic house plants in our neck of the woods.ReplyDelete
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Was anyone put on leave due to injuries? What a great post. I like the arbor in the first photo. Is it something you made or bought?ReplyDelete
What lovely photos! They all look so beautiful. The shasta daisy is especially fresh and crisp looking.ReplyDelete
Ha! Sounds like you should be a sports announcer. LOL!
Hi Rose,ReplyDelete
Not understanding baseball at all, I didn't quite get some of it. None-the-less it is a fabulous post.
I saw Heat Wave in a local nursery recently and was taken with it. I did not buy any but now that I have seen yours, I feel sure it will be added next year. Agastache generally does really well here.....
Limelight is another favourite of mine. I have been so pleased with it's performance.....I think it was seeing it on your blog, that encouraged me to buy one :)
BTW your garden is looking lovely.
As a fellow long suffering Cub fan and a sports fan in general, I love love love this post! The baseball analogies were dead on and I running right out to sign the Heat Wave for my own team!ReplyDelete
I have the Limelight and it is still stunning, I agree.
(how 'bout those Illini!? Next week, stripe the field!!)
What a beautiful flowers. About the Hyacinth Beanplant will she surviveReplyDelete
the winter?
A lovely sunday.
Maggie, Both of these may look exotic, but they're very easy to grow here. The lantana is pretty much a plant it and forget it kind of plant.ReplyDelete
Humble, Unfortunately, there were several on the injury list. I'm waiting to see if they come back for next season or if their careers have ended:) I bought the arbor bench; no way am I talented enough to make something like this!
Wendy, My family would laugh at the thought that I could be a sports announcer:) I've just been a baseball fan since I was a young girl.
Cheryl, I'm glad your 'Limelight' is doing so well! Agastache has become a new favorite, and I've discovered it comes in so many colors. I'm just waiting to see how it fares here over the winter.
Sissy, I would definitely sign up 'Heat Wave'! Really looking forward to next week's game--it will be the real test for the Illini, I think. Thank goodness, our section is supposed to wear orange.
Marijke, Thank you. No, the hyacinth bean won't survive the winter. But it's so easy to plant from seed, and you can see how much in grows in just one season.
While no baseball fan, I did enjoy your award presentation. Very clever and that agastache deserves a chance in my garden. I will give it a go.ReplyDelete
what a cute cute posting!! I am not a baseball fan but very much appreciated the awards. Your Hyacinth Bean photos are beautiful. I am super jealous of your agastache.....mine died. (of all things!!!) Will hope for a better place to put some after the garden is better ammended.ReplyDelete
Hard to choose from so many 'winners', Rose. But boy do I love those Hyacinth Bean photos!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed your use of baseball as a theme for your awards. I, too, am a huge fan of Hydrangea Limelight. It outperforms so many other blooms in the garden. From its start as bright white to its green stage and to its pink stage. It simply amazes...ReplyDelete
Now that's what I call an educational post - being a complete dunce when it comes to baseball, I have learnt some new terms as well as enjoying hearing what has performed well for you this year. The agastache, hydrangea and lantana are my personal favourites.ReplyDelete
What a fun post! I am not really a big sports fan, but I enjoyed all the baseball references and awards! Your writing is perfect, right down to ending with spring training. I noted the Agastache 'Heat Wave' to add to my spring roster. Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
What a fun post! I think all of your winners are worthy of their awards. I think I would have trouble making decisions about which of mine would be the winners.ReplyDelete
I did think the agastaches were going to remain spindly, and was wondering if they were worth having in their spot, but once they took off, they didn't stop performing.
Thanks for stopping by. I love to hear from you, so please leave a comment. I'll try to reply here, but I'll definitely return the visit.


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By: Leah Morrigan Special to The Star
November 1, nine pedestrian collisions took place in Toronto, two causing death. Nineteen pedestrians have been killed this year, and according to Ontario's Deputy Chief Coroner, Toronto averages five pedestrian accidents per day.
A report from CBC's Metro morning cited weather conditions, driver and pedestrian distraction, rushing, and shorter daylight hours as the main causes of increased accidents at this time of year.
I'm always thinking about colour and as we move into winter, there's less of it, because colour is light, and there's simply less light during the season. Black, in fact, isn't actually a colour at all; it is the absence of light.
Dark, saturated colours absorb light, making us less visible to motorists and vice-versa. Driving.ca says the safest coloured car on the road is a white one, day or night. Black and grey cars have an increased risk of daytime accidents, and when the sun goes down, grey cars are at a 25% higher risk of accidents, while the risk for black vehicles rises an astounding 47%.
And Toronto seems comfortable with blotting itself out -- when the temperature drops, the city opens its closet and reaches for black.
Out of love, laziness, or a lack of courage to wear something different, this city loves black or a dark facsimile in the winter. We disappear into the darkness, and we don't always make wise decisions when we're rushing to get to appointments.
Entrepreneurs are all pedestrians sometimes, and adding a splash of colour to our outerwear can draw a driver's eye to an otherwise unnoticeable ensemble.
It's simple with eye-catching accessories – hats, scarves, and gloves in bright contrast to dark coats. The eye is drawn to the brightest point in its field of vision, and coloured gloves that move as we walk can catch a driver's attention. Bright bags also make us more visible and add a sense of freshness to drab winter clothes – a friend of mine wears a cheery yellow bag strapped across his chest when he's out walking or biking; it's fabulous and obvious.
Whites, yellows (fishermen, rain gear), and yellow-greens are the most visible colours for the city, with bright reds, fuchsias, and oranges coming in second.
Casual entrepreneurs have the widest colour selection because their clothes can be sporty, and they have a larger choice in style and fabric. And you can add flair to your wardrobe with more than just accessories -- brightly coloured outdoor coats are out there as well.
That said, understated, formal entrepreneurs often have a subtle and sophisticated colour selection for their winter accessories with little room for colour flexibility (i.e. mandatory black leather gloves), so the addition of a high contrast scarf does best – i.e. a fine wool yellow, light grey, or cream scarf with a charcoal overcoat.
Toronto, the addition of colour to your winter clothes may actually save your life. That's an amazing little insurance policy. Colour is a wonderful sight in the dead of winter, and every little bit helps because, come February, we're all a whiter shade of pale.
Leah Morrigan is the first woman in Canada to specialize in men's image. She's a certified image consultant with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre design and studies in fashion design; an uncommon blend of costume designer, social researcher, colourist, textile junkie, and transformer of men. Leah is also the vice-president of the Irish Association of Toronto and a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011.
For more information, please visit her website: transformyourself.ca.


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The Sorry Saga of a Past Glory
The Sorry Saga of a Past Glory - The Plight of Asia's First Tyre Factory Estate, Dunlop, Sahaganj, Hooghly
The Sorry Saga of a Past Glory - The Plight of Asia's First Tyre Factory Estate, Dunlop, Sahaganj, Hooghly
The workers of that foundry works in long 12 hours shifts or even more sometimes in the skin burning heat.
Aberrance is an introspective and interpersonal look on the inextricable relationship within fragmented nature and artifice, and the human role within this dialectic. Meandering through the Cloud Forest at Singapore transformed my perception.
Fort in Jaipur (Rajasthan) IN, photo essay by Sergey Poteryaev Mughals, British crown, modernity. India has chewed and thrown away. All she needed she had kept inside. Attitude to sex, religion, habits and custom always saved, whoever was in power in the country. Even tourists are changing just the tip...
Taiwan is one of the most watched countries in the world. It has one of the highest densities of CCTV cameras per square meter.
Pisa, Italy - January 2012. The signs on the back of Egon left by bandages to compress the breast, obtained by sewing together the bandages of sport horses. The Egon project, photo essay by Sara Casna Transsexual: it is not easy explaining a word buried in commonplaces. A term which means...
People that now live in cardboard shelters with no water or electricity, working ten hours per day for less than four euros per hour. People that had to lose their identity and become tomato pickers…
The road, the crash, before a deafening noise of nothingness, the nothingness from which they are precipitated indefinite duration in people in a vegetative state, victims of road accidents.
In recent years, Port Hope (Ontario, Canada) has undergone a significant radioactive waste remediation and removal process. Houses, farms, and public property have been identified for the removal of radioactive waste.
I traveled to a rough suburb 20 miles outside San Salvador and spent some time with a police captain and units charged with patrolling this particularly troubled area where both the M18 gang and MS-13 gang live and operate.
Their lives are consequences of families who couldn't express their emotionality since childhood, this loss of emotionality bought them to psychic sufferings and periods in sanitary structures.
These images are a journey into the isolated alleyways that exist between the past and the present and articulate a dreary silence.
These photos tell a story about our lives. Even though the children and grandchildren are not in them, they and others in our family are in photos and object in the background of this pictures.
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Final journey of 135 Hindus from Pakistan ends after 40 yearsBy ANI
Thursday, February 17, 2011
ATTARI - A twelve-member delegation of Hindus from Pakistan on Thursday returned to Pakistan after performing last rituals at Haridwar of 135 dead relatives. The ashes of these 135 persons had to wait for the last rituals in Pakistan due to visa restrains.
For last 40 years the members of the Hindu community have been trying to convince the authorities in India and Pakistan to let them take the ashes to Ganga.
All the members of the delegations are from Karachi and the delegation was led by Ramnath Mishra, the mahant of Panch Mukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi. The delegation left for Pakistan through Samjhauta Express.
The members of the delegation have urged the Government of India and Pakistan to ease the visa norms for the religious purpose.
Talking to Asian New International, Ramnath said that it took about three years for them to get the final nod from the Governments of India and Pakistan to perform the last rituals of the 135 persons who died in Pakistan.
He urged for the visa relaxation from both the Governments for the religious purpose.
Kamla Devi another member of the delegation informed that as there is no place in Pakistan to perform the rituals so they have no other place than Haridwar. She appealed the government of India to make necessary amendments in the Visa procedure to facilitate the minority community in Pakistan. By Ravinder Singh Robin (ANI)


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I've been hanging onto this one for a little while!! I couldn't wait to share it with you though, so here it is!! It doesn't get much better than this folks, at least not when we are talking unbearable retro cool! Everything in the Palm Springs Ace Hotel is salvaged... the building, the furniture....
"When Seattle friends Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel and Doug Herrick initially dreamed of opening a hotel, they had a very specific idea of what they wanted—and it didn't fit with the standard hotel business plan. Their idea was to create a place their friends and acquaintances would want to stay—DJs, artists, magazine creators, graphic designers, musicians—the creative types who have been behind the evolving cultural renaissance of the Pacific Northwest of the last decade, and who aren't, generally speaking, awash with cash.
The recipe involved taking an old building in an emerging location, a small budget requiring lateral thinking and some clever industrial salvage, a design aesthetic that mixes uncluttered comfort with a bohemian vibe, and the experience that comes from being a seasoned traveler and knowing what you do and don't need when it comes to resting your weary head. They also wanted their hotel to be linked to the local culture, a living part of the community—like the experience of staying with friends who are plugged into the local scene."
Indoor/Outdoor Communal Area
Recycled Trailers serve a purpose as hotel outbuildings.
The tented (using sustainable hemp fabric) walls are meant to give a boho chic camping feel. The floors are concrete.
The diner is an old Denny's diner. They ripped up the floor to discover a beautiful terazzo.
I have been told by many that I need to visit Palm Springs. Well, when I do, I'm so staying here!
P.S. - If you like what you see you'll get to see a little more in next month's issue of Pure Green Living Magazine! Stay tuned.


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Paolo Bacigalupi's The Doubt Factory is a YA thriller that is long on lesson, riddled with romance, and occasionally over-the-top with its action.
For those of us familiar with Bacigalupi from his sci-fi books The Windup Girl and Pump Six and Other Stories, this book is definitely a departure, though it's definitely not unusual for an author to cross genres or target audiences. I do think it's important to note, however, that readers who love his sci-fi, might be very disappointed.
How do you write a book that you want to read like a Hollywood blockbuster and you want to hit home a message? This might be the textbook example.
Alix Banks attends a private academy, on her way to an Ivy League college once she graduates high school. She's mostly a typical, wealthy young lady, not too different from all the other co-eds at the school. Except that she's being stalked. Alix notices the African-American man in the school courtyard staring at her, looking very much out of place. But rather than being scared, Alix is curious, and perhaps just a little bit attracted to the young man. But the young man, known as '2.0' when he's creating havoc against businesses, has plans for Alix.
2.0 (also known as Moses) kidnaps Alix to get her father's attention and, because Moses believes that she isn't the simpering airhead that most of her classmates are, he's hoping that she'll come to understand and even believe in his cause. Moses is fighting against big businesses and medical companies that put unsafe drugs on the market. His coterie of cohorts are all youths, like himself, who have lost family (or even parts of themselves) to unsafe drugs. Moses admits to Alix that they were all recipients of a class-action settlement, but no amount of money can replace a parent, and many of the companies still have their drugs on the market.
And how does Alix fit in to all this?
Alix's father runs a company known in specific, small circles, as The Doubt Factory. His job is to confuse the courts and the media. To plant enough doubt about the safety of a product, with purchased testimony from scientists and others, that the big businesses can keep their materials on the market. If Moses can gain access to Mr. Banks' files, he believes his can find proof of the obfuscation and bring the crimes to light. But for Alix it means turning her back on everything she believed in, including her father, and trusting the word of a man who kidnapped her.
The book is a relatively quick and easy read, and there is plenty of action and teen-appropriate thrills. And while the message about how big companies get away with murder (literally) is important, and certain to rile up our youth, I did feel that this book was extremely didactic in this sense, hitting us over the head with the message.
I also never ever bought the relationship between Moses and Alix. I never understood what either saw in the other, and while we often hear that opposites attract, and these two couldn't be much more opposite, the attraction was just never there. And without the attraction, we also have a hard time buying in to Alix's actions and motivations.
I've read elsewhere that this reads like a made-for-tv movie, and I would have to agree. It moves from moment to moment without a lot of investment into the characters.
I mildly enjoyed the read while in it, but it doesn't last long and it falls apart when you think too much about it.
Looking for a good book? Teens looking for a 'cause' to fight for, might well buy in to this YA thriller, The Doubt Factory, by Paolo Bacigalupi.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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The Doubt Factory
author: Paolo Bacigalupi
publisher: Little, Brown Book for Young Readers
hardcover, 496 pages


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In a congress that is about as dysfunctional as it can get, they were able to come together to support arming rebels half-way across the world to fight ISIS. If this sounds familiar that's because it is. Our country has a long history of making short term friends, only to have them become future adversaries. Why do we keep doing this? Sometimes it is because we have to, other times it's because we don't look at what will happen in the future. I honestly don't know what will happen 10 or 20 years from now as a result of giving weapons to rebels, but I would be surprised if it doesn't come back to bite us.
In World War 2, we became allies with the Soviet Union. It wasn't a pleasant or warm alliance, but it was a necessary one. The Soviets suffered heavy losses from fighting the Nazi's and we needed their help to free Europe. After the war many post-war disputes started the Cold War. The Cold War continued for nearly half a century. I have no doubt that even with the Cold War looming, it was necessary to ally ourselves with the Soviet Union.
Towards the end of the Cold War history repeated itself again. We secretly agreed to help Afghan rebels push back a Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. The Taliban were even at the White House in the 1980's. The same theme resurfaced from WW2, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." We spent money and weaponry to help the Afghans and it was used against us years later. There has been a suggestion that if we had helped developed the country, they wouldn't turn against us. I honestly don't know if that is true, but there is no doubt our decision to help them in the 1980's hurt us about a decade later.
All of that brings us to today. Al Qaeda has been decimated but a new threat has emerged. ISIS threatens to further destabilize the Middle East, and spread. It may not be a threat to us now but it could be in the near future. In a very similar move from the Soviet-Afghan war, we are once again giving weapons and aid to a rebel group we don't know. I don't know for sure what will happen but it concerns me given our history.
Foreign Policy isn't an easy thing to calculate by a long shot. In many cases we don't know what will happen if we intervene somewhere. There isn't always a right thing to do. Almost 12 years ago we decided to attack a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. President Bush invaded a country without considering what would happen after the invasion. He also did it without examining Iraq's history or what could be done politically to stabilize Iraq. What President Obama is doing right now is similar to Bush in some ways but different. It is similar because we are getting involved in an area without thinking of the consequences down the road. It is different because this time, some U.S. citizens have been brutally murdered. We need a long-term strategy for ISIS or we will be fighting another war in the not too distant future, possibly with a foe we helped train and arm.


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Cowen analyst Doug Creutz reckon that Saints Row 2 publisher THQ is "likely miss its guidance" of breaking even for the second half of its March 09 fiscal year.
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February 10, 2009
Madness doesn''t officially begin for another month, but it is never too early to start crunching the numbers.
By nearly every indicator, the Mississippi State women''s basketball team has done enough to put itself squarely on the bubble for NCAA tournament consideration.
The Lady Bulldogs could take a huge step toward securing a bid to the NCAAs on Thursday when the travel to Oxford to face archrival Ole Miss (15-9, 4-5 Southeastern Conference).
A victory would move MSU (18-6, 5-4) another step closer to two benchmarks that typically ensure NCAA entry.
And if things play out according to plan, MSU will be favored to win two more SEC games that could push it to 21 victories and give it eight wins in the league.
We''re not even counting what the team could do in the SEC tournament on March 5-8 in North Little Rock, Ark.
Now that you know MSU is close to earning its first NCAA bid since the 2002-03 season, let the fun begin.
All across the Internet, various experts have been tabulating numbers and making their best guesses as to which teams will be in the final field of 64.
According to collegerpi.com, MSU''s victories last week against then-No. 20 Vanderbilt and LSU helped it move from 59th in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) to 42. The Lady Bulldogs also moved from 90th in Strength of Schedule (SOS) to 77.
The RPI and SOS are two factors used by the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine which at-large teams will round out the field after all of the automatic bids are awarded to conference champions.
The committee also will factor in a team''s performance in its last 10 games, its results in its conference tournament, and records against teams in the top 25, 50, 100, and so on.
Now that you have your primer, there also is a subjective element to the equation.
With that said, several SEC coaches were asked how many teams from the conference they think will receive bids to the NCAA tournament.
"The bottom teams have all gotten better and the top teams aren''t as dominating," said Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb, whose team lost to MSU 66-61 on Thursday. "I think you''re going to see even more upsets as this (season) continues.
"I think the Big 12 has so many teams ranked and I think that hurts us this time of year that we don''t have as many teams ranked because we probably didn''t win as many games out of conference to have those programs ranked."
The Big 12 (six) has more teams ranked in this week''s Associated Press Top 25 poll than the SEC (four).
But members of the media -- including myself -- vote on the poll. The coaches have their poll -- the ESPN/USA Today poll -- but neither one will have much of an impact when the selection committee goes to work.
That''s why it''s so much fun to juggle the numbers and to listen to coaches lobby for their teams, or for their conference.
"The bottom has gotten better and the top is young," Balcomb said of the SEC. "We are all kind of all in the middle and we could beat each other up really bad this year."
LSU coach Van Chancellor, whose team lost to MSU for the second time this season Sunday, still thinks many teams have time to decide their fate.
It''s not surprising Chancellor would say that given that his team is 12-9 and 5-4 in the SEC.
The Lady Tigers also are 40th in the RPI and have a SOS that is 12th best in the nation, according to collegerpi.com.
So LSU''s strong RPI and SOS should make it a lock for the NCAA tournament?
Chancellor knows that isn''t the case.
"I think it is what you do the rest of the way," Chancellor said. "I think you have got to have some significant wins. I still have Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee."
MSU has only two victories (LSU) against teams with RPIs in the top 50. The Lady Bulldogs have six victories against teams with RPIs from 50-100.
While they lack a eye-opening victory against a team like Tennessee or Maryland, MSU has the opportunity to change that. It plays host to Auburn, which climbed to No. 5 in this week''s AP poll, on Sunday and it travels on Feb. 22 to Knoxville, Tenn., to face Tennessee.
Victories in either game likely would secure a bid to the NCAA tournament for the Lady Bulldogs, provided they don''t stub their toe and lose to South Carolina or Alabama.
MSU coach Sharon Fanning votes in the ESPN/USA Today poll, so she is familiar with all of the numbers and with which team has defeated another and by how much.
But Fanning has been in this business long enough to know that even when you think you have done enough -- like finishing .500 in the SEC -- sometimes you aren''t invited to March Madness.
Fanning is a little more optimistic this season. Still, she won''t be convinced until she hears her team announced on the NCAA tournament selection show.
"You say a minimum of four a maximum of seven (teams from the SEC will get into the NCAA tournament)," Fanning said. "I am hoping there will be seven or eight on the board. I think there should be in our league. There is a lot of parity nationally, but I think the SEC is a strong league. I think it is strongest in the middle than it has ever been."
The SEC has earned five NCAA bids three of the past four seasons. The league received seven bids0 in 2001-02 and 2003-04.
Seven bids this season might be pushing it, especially with MSU''s sweep of LSU.
A victory by the Lady Bulldogs on Thursday would make seven even less likely.
Don''t you think that is a number MSU would only be too happy to crunch?
Adam Minichino is sports editor of The Commercial Dispatch. He can be reached at [email protected]
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