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The reports:
I've reproduced two reports on the passing away of Mr Moo Soon Chong, the founding principal of the Singapore Sports School.
One of them is from The Straits Times, and the other from Lianhe Zaobao, which I edited after getting it translated through Google.
I did this becaue I felt the two reports, when combined together, help to give the full flavour of the man and the extent of his massive impact on Singapore sport.
Truly, Singapore sport owes a huge debt to Mr Moo for all he has done to enable young sporting talents to realise their sporting dreams without having to sacrifice their studies. Without his vision, there would be no Sports School today, and no emergence of some of the brightest young sporting talents that we have witnessed in the past four years.
I would like to express my deepest condolences to his family.
Sports School's founding principal dies of cancer
(The Straits Times, 17 March 2010)
He was a pioneer in creating a curriculum to nurture student-athletes
By Yeo Shang Long
THE founding principal of the Singapore Sports School, Mr Moo Soon Chong, died yesterday morning, about two years after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Mr Moo, who had celebrated his 63rd birthday last month, saw through the first batch of students at the Sports School before retiring in January 2008. He became ill shortly after.
It was his passion for nurturing talent in sports alongside schoolwork that perhaps made Mr Moo the ideal candidate to lead the Sports School.
In 1994, at a time when other educators were focused on academics, he, as the principal of Anglican High, pioneered a flexible curriculum that accommodated the training needs of student-athletes.
A table tennis player in his schooldays, he once explained that the Sports School was set up as many schools found it difficult to make concessions for student-athletes to pursue their sporting and academic goals together.
'We are here to develop a student who can compete successfully in the international sporting arena and can handle the academic rigours of Singapore's education system,' he said.
Dr Irwin Seet, who worked with Mr Moo as director of sports at the school from its opening in 2004, remembers Mr Moo as 'a visionary who dared to take up the challenge of setting up the Sports School'.
During his term as principal, the school produced three world champions, two Asian Games gold medallists, two South-east Asian Games gold medallists and a Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
Sailor Joel Pang, 19, a Sports School alumnus, said he would remember Mr Moo as 'a mentor and a fatherly figure' who made a difference by putting the needs of students first.
After Mr Moo retired, he worked as an education consultant and director of Yellowbox Education Services, which he set up with his son Errol.
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
A funeral service will be held today at 8pm at Sengkang Methodist Church.
"Former Sports School and Anglican High principal dies"
(Lianhe Zaobao, 17 March 2010)
Mr Moo Soon Chong, the founding principal of the Singapore Sports School, died in his home yesterday morning after a lengthy battle with colon cancer and liver disease, He was 63.
Mr Moo and his wife had two sons. His eldest, Errol Moo, 35, revealed that the doctors had originally given his father just nine months to live after diagnosing him with cancer in 2008. However, Mr Moo battled the disease for two years.
Said Errol: "Our family prayed daily for my father and thanked God every day for the blessings He gave to him."
Mr Moo seemed to have battled his cancer successfully at first. After undergoing chemotherapy, scans in June 2009 showed that the cancer cells had been wiped out.
"We were, of course, very happy when we received the news," said Errol. "Unfortunately, another scan five months later showed that the cancer had returned aggressively."
Errol added that Mr Moo spent the last few months playing with his 14-month-old grand-daughter, and had even seemed better during this last week.
"We are just grateful that we managed to share many good times as a family during these last two years," he said. "I am also glad that my father got to see his grand-daughter grow. In fact, he even managed to take her swimming in January.
"He also went on many overseas trips with my mother.
Errol said that Mr Moo's cancer was not the reason for his retirement as Sports School principal at the end of 2007.
"He felt it was time to step down because he had finally found his successor in Mrs Deborah Tan. Also, the school's students had been doing well in international competitions," he said.
"When (swimmer) Tao Li won the women's 50m butterfly at the 2006 Asian Games, my father started to think that his task at the Sports School was more or less done, and that it was time for him to start preparing to retire."
Sports School business manager Bernard Tan said he was shocked by the news of Mr Moo's death. "It was just last April that Mr Moo came back to the school for its fifth anniversary celebrations. We even organized a tree-planting event for him," he said.
"And he sounded quite strong when I spoke with him on the phone three weeks back. Some of my colleagues and me were hoping to visit him during Chinese New Year but he said it wasn't convenient. Infact, we were hoping to visit him next week."
Sports School academic dean Raymond Mak said Mr Moo was a father figure to him. "What I respected most about him was his courage to take risks," said Mak who was a teacher at Anglican High when Mr Moo was still the principal at the school.
"Setting up the Sports School was a huge challenge but he rose to it. He has been a role model to me. I owe him too much."
Rest in peace, Mr Moo.
Yours in sport
Singapore Sports Fan


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…there was lunch in the larger, first floor cafeteria where, in the corner, on a small stage there was a man, playing a guitar, who looked like an aging singer-songwriter Mae's parents listened to.
"Is that….?"
"It is," Annie said, not breaking her stride. "There's someone every day. Musicians, comedians, writers….We book them a year ahead. We have to fight them off."
The singer-songwriter was signing passionately…but the vast majority of the cafeteria was paying little to no attention.
"I can't imagine the budget for that, " Mae said.
"Oh god, we don't pay them."
The Circle, by Dave Eggers
Since MTP started in 2006, we have focused primarily on artist rights. Whether the topic is fair royalties, brand sponsored piracy or a lack of respect for the human rights of artists, the basic theme is that the hyper commoditization of music and artists is dehumanizing and has sucked both the creativity and value out of generations of musicians and artists, particularly recording artists.
But what I want to emphasize is that what Google has been doing for a decade to the private property right of copyright Google are doing at an increasing rate to the most private of all property rights: Your right to privacy and even your right to your own persona.
Who Guards the Commoditizers?
In a prescient 2008 book review of Nicholas Carr's The Google Enigma (entitled "Google the Destroyer"), antitrust scholar Jim DeLong gives an elegant explanation:
Carr's Google Enigma made a familiar business strategy point: companies that provide one component of a system love to commoditize the other components, the complements to their own products, because that leaves more of the value of the total stack available for the commoditizer….Carr noted that Google is unusual because of the large number of products and services that can be complements to the search function, including basic production of content and its distribution, along with anything else that can be used to gather eyeballs for advertising. Google's incentives to reduce the costs of complements so as to harvest more eyeballs to view advertising are immense….This point is indeed true, and so is an additional point. In most circumstances, the commoditizer's goal is restrained by knowledge that enough money must be left in the system to support the creation of the complements….
Google is in a different position. Its major complements already exist, and it need not worry in the short term about continuing the flow. For content, we have decades of music and movies that can be digitized and then distributed, with advertising attached. A wealth of other works await digitizing – books, maps, visual arts, and so on. If these run out, Google and other Internet companies have hit on the concept of user-generated content and social networks, in which the users are sold to each other, with yet more advertising attached.
So, on the whole, Google can continue to do well even if leaves providers of is complements gasping like fish on a beach.
Broadly speaking, Google have turned this commodization into a science, no pun intended. Or as David Lowery said, meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. When Google's Eric Schmidt tells the Congress that the company has learned from its "corporate predecessors", that's one lesson it hasn't learned.
No tech company personifies this commoditization of artists more fully than Google–Google's realization of this massive rip off is near complete. From photography, illustrations and other visual images in its Google Image Search, to books in its horrific "fair use" Google Books, to YouTube, to its monopoly search engine that receives over 500,000 take down notices a day for driving traffic to pirate sites where it often sells advertising, to its advertising platforms that monetize all of its commoditizing activities and allow it to mine the data it collects from traffic to all of these honey pots that other people made popular.
Like their cousins in "black pools," advertising platforms that include real time bidding desks and a labyrinth of hidden financial transactions that seem designed to accomplish one goal–to disguise the hands that feed the pirate economy while leaving brands open to criticism and now criminal investigations in some countries. Not to mention disguise from artists who earn a share of advertising revenue on various Google platforms the true sums earned by Google from the artist's efforts, not just the portion that Google unilaterally decides to attribute to those efforts behind the curtain (a common complaint of ad publishers in general if you can get them to talk about it at all).
But it is not just artists who are being commoditized by Google–it is actually all of us. Whether it is through Gmail, YouTube, even Google Apps for Education, our rights to our persona, our interests and our communications with others–and those of our children–are being sliced and diced and commoditized, all for the benefit of Google.
Together we will look more closely at all this theft of our personal information, our personal property, and try to understand together what Google's end game is–we certainly have seen it at work in the music and movie business. First, though, let me tell you who I think we are dealing with and then inform you of who you actually are dealing with when it comes to Google. It's too facile to just say "Google did it"–Google, like any other company, is people.
It's just that in Google's case, through a very calculated corporate structure of voting control through its Class B common stock, Google actually is only a handful of people. So when we say "Google", we are actually talking about three people: Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergei Brin. This is the way they want it, so this is the way they'll get it. We will call them The Controllers, because that's how they roll.
The Lessons of Our Corporate Predecessors
When Eric Schmidt, one of The Controllers testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, there were many comparisons in the press to Microsoft's encounter with the Senate years before. In fact, Schmidt alluded to that encounter in his opening statement:
I'm here today carrying a long history in the technology business and a very short message about our company.
We get it.
By that I mean that we get the lessons of our corporate predecessors.
We don't think he was only referring to Microsoft. We think there were a few other corporate predecessors of Google that all featured in Google's business far more than Microsoft does. Companies like Halliburton, Enron, General Electric, Drexel Burnham Lambert. And given the Controllers unprecedented lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill as recently documented in Amazon's Washington Post, Ottawa, the capitals of Europe, Japan, individual state houses and state governments, we think that the Controllers learned one lesson above all others:
Getting away with it.
Whether it's paying off a criminal prosecution of their senior executive team (including Sheryl Sandburg, now at Facebook) for violating the Controlled Substances Act with $500,000,000 of the stockholders money, profiting from the proceeds of crime as evidenced in advertising for the sale of counterfeit Olympics tickets, or devising a complex scheme of advertising payments through intermediaries to avoid the unseemly act of Google actually handing money to a thief (and having to send the thief a 1099),
Yes, the Controllers at Google seem to have learned how to get away with it.
So far.
But remember–if you had walked into a room of MBAs in 1985 and told them that in a few years time, their hero Michael Milken the Master of the Universe would be in prison and the sainted Drexel would be bankrupted, you would have been laughed out of the room.
And all he did was a little garden variety insider trading. Milken never helped sell pills to kids.
How Do The Controllers Keep Control
This is a good time to start focusing on the Controllers because Google recently had a stock split–a very particular kind of stock split. (This was a "forward" stock split, one in which the current stockholders get additional shares, which is almost always of the same class of stock, usually common stock.)
But remember–before the split, Google had two classes of common stock: Class A and Class B. Class A is what you could buy from your stock broker and traded under the symbol GOOG. Class A shares had customary voting rights, one share one vote. Voting on issues like, say a new board of directors who might do something like…fire the executive team. Sounds fair, right?
What about the Class B shares?
There were certain rules about the Class B shares. According to a pre-split filing with the SEC, Google disclosed that:
Our Board of Directors has authorized two classes of common stock, Class A and Class B. At December 31, 2009, there were 6,000,000,000 and 3,000,000,000 shares authorized and there were 243,611,368 and 74,160,683 shares legally outstanding of Class A and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote per share. Each share of Class B common stock is entitled to 10 votes per share. Shares of Class B common stock may be converted at any time at the option of the stockholder and automatically convert upon sale or transfer to Class A common stock. We refer to Class A and Class B common stock as common stock throughout the notes to these financial statements, unless otherwise noted.
Very Googlely: The rights of the holders of Class A and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting.
So the rights are identical except they're not. Do you call "identical" having 10 times the voting power of the other class?
And how do you get to own Class B shares? You have to be named Eric Schmidt, Larry Page or Sergei Brin. And when one of these guys wants to raise a little cash to, say soundproof a lair in New York for a little entertaining, you would convert the unregistered Class B to registered Class A–so no one outside the control group would ever be able to get the 10x voting power.
Because, you know, some animals are more equal than others.
Page and Brin each own about 15% of Google's outstanding stock, but they hold 56% of shareholder voting power because of the 10x power boost of their Class B stock.
So the Controllers came up with a plan to issue nonvoting Class C shares in Google–say that again–nonvoting stock. This means that anyone who buys a share of Series C will never be able to vote on something like whether the company should spend $500,000,000 to keep the Series B holders–the Controllers–from being indicted.
Of course it should. What are you thinking?
And here's the added bit of transparency–the new Series C will trade under the ticker symbol GOOG. That was the same ticker symbol that was used from inception for the voting–but gelded–Series A. The old Series A will trade under a new ticker symbol, GOOGL. In fact, the S&P will shortly remove the GOOG ticker–Series A–from the indices and replace it with GOOGL, the nonvoting Series C.
Meaning that if you said, I think I'll buy some of the Google stock I've heard so much about, it's entirely possible that you would buy GOOG without any idea that you were just handing over your money to Google. Because after two years of litigation with its stockholders over the fact that Google has never paid a dividend of the billions it is sitting on top of, the split IS the dividend.
So how did they get away with it again? Very Googley:
The Class C stock was proposed by Page and Brin and it was reviewed by a special committee of independent directors, according to court documents. The lawyers for the plaintiffs had argued that the special committee never really considered rejecting the plan.
The settlement comes after the judge overseeing the case, Leo Strine, said he would be looking closely at whether the special committee members were overly chummy with the founders. "During the negotiations, were they arranging a fishing trip to Alaska? That stuff is actually, can actually be substantively relevant," Strine said, according to a court transcript.
Many of the court filings were heavily redacted, leading some to question whether Google settled to avoid putting its founders on the witness stand.
Gee–wonder what was in the evidence? Tips on souvenir stands in Sitka?
Whatever The Controllers Want, The Controllers Get, and Little Person, the Controllers Want Your Data
You can see then, that when we speak of "Google", we really mean Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergei Brin. They have done about all that can be done in the clubby atmosphere of Silicon Valley with its overlapping boards and vast piles of monopoly rents to keep absolute control over the company that is so much a part of the Internet that for many users, Google essentially is the Internet.
And there is a revolving door for Google the government contractor, whether it's hiring the head of DARPA (presumably to advise Google about competing for no-bid government contracts), controlling NASA's iconic Moffett Field hangar for the Controllers' private jets, or placing a former Googler in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office from which she can affect U.S. intellectual property policy both foreign and domestic.
I am not saying that Google does nothing good, although that's kind of like what Catholics call an "indulgence". No, the Controllers get the praise for the good things Google does.
But they also get the blame for the bad things it does. And maybe one day they will also get prosecuted for the very, very bad things it does.


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- Director
- Vlado Iresch
- Studio
- Staxus
- Released
- 2006
- Starring
- Carey Lexes , Collin Richardson , David Dave , Dennis Reed , Elliot Gass , Frodo Kaspy , Gery Rake , Joe Kean , Johny Hunter , Kent Roth , Lubor Turek , Tack Cool , Thomas Dyk
- Categories
- Bareback Sex ⋅ Czech Boys ⋅ Oral Sex ⋅ Twinks, International ⋅ Horsehung ⋅ Outdoor Sex ⋅ Cum Eating ⋅ Camping / Scouts ⋅
Thomas Dyk's Wild Road Trip with Tony Koch
Is life a universe of emotions and sexual action, devoid of any ethical guidance? The characters in Eurocreme's Bareback Road Trip, as in previous entries like Raw Tricks or Bare Encounters, seem to follow the creed that emotions never lie, so use the power of your position to get what you want from someone.
Some people will find the scenes of this film incredibly arousing, while others may find them oddly disturbing.
Carey Lexes and Elliot Gass
Thomas Dyk and Tony Koch enjoy a frisky afternoon at home, getting naked and undressing. Pulling down their underwear, they play with each other's cocks. Porn star Thomas Dyk was starting his lengthy movie career at this time, his supple and ripe body already drawing considerable star attention.
Koch is nothing to sneeze at either. They tangle in a hot sixty-nine, backlit by sunlight from windows outdoors, much like a picture perfect Bel Ami postcard.
Their romantic scene stops at oral sex, then they stand on the bed and squirt out nice money shots. This is as tender as Bareback Road Trip gets. From then on the scenes are about hitchhikers, and the potentially jeopardizing situations they land in.
Dyk and Koch are picked up by the tall Joe Kean (Bareback Chalet Boys). While making an impromptu pitstop, Kean follows Dyk out into the forest, pinning him down and fucking him in the ass.
Dyk carries one of the most beautiful butts in the biz. So nothing Dyk does or says makes the top stop. Stomach down on the ground and gasping, Koch pumps him hard. Although reluctant at first, Kean asks him if he likes it, to which Dyk answers Yes!.
Koch eventually shows up to see what is going on. He finds his boyfriend getting fucked hard by their driver. His response? He stands aside and quietly watches, followed by playing with himself.
He watches Kean pull his huge cock out of his boyfriend's ass, shoot a ton of cum, and stick it back inside for some post-orgasm fucking.
Of course, Kean can't stop with just screwing half of the relationship. He leans Koch up against a tree and pulls down the bottom boy's pants. Keeping his shirt on, Koch's boy buns inhale the top's big dick. Kean tops him until he pulls out and shoots a big load of cum onto Koch's backside.
Next, Colin Richardson's car breaks down on the road. Richardson, the hot Brit top from World Soccer Orgy, finds Tack Cool camping nearby, who seems eager for some warm bundling to help him through the night. Pulling off his Dolce & Gabanna underwear, Richardson inserts his bare cock into Cool from the side.
Cool gets banged on his back, his erect cock sticking up the entire time. This is an extremely hot tent sex scene, enhanced with the fact that the models do it while wearing their shirts.
Carey Lexes Gasses UpAfter this, blondie Carey Lexes discovers Elliot Gass wanking in an empty house. Lexes is impressed by the size of Gass' cock. After mutual cock sucking, Lexes really gets a feel of his new friend's size by sitting down on it. He rides Gass' bucking lap at length.
After getting doggie fucked, they cum in each other's mouths.
On another stretch of highway, soldiers Johny Hunter and Kent Roth give up trying to thumb down a passing car. Kent Roth decides to take a wiz at the rest stop bathroom, where cleaning crew Denis Reed and David Dave decide to wash his pipes. All four models in this episode look as cute as a button. (The brunet Dave especially because of his enchanting smile and even more enchanting cock)
Reed slides his hard cock into bent over soldier boy Roth. Meanwhile Dave sits his ass down onto Hunter's juicy meat. They both screw side by side in a double your pleasure, double your fun moment.
In a nice switch the tops trade partners, so it's the military men humping in one corner as the civilian laborers shag in the other. In a hot visual, Reed pulls his cock out of Dave's hole, and moves up to his mouth for some tasty semen swallowing.
Meanwhile, Roth's olive colored shirt gets splattered with cum.
Frodo's Bareback Road TripBareback Twink Street 2) gets arrested and manhandled by two overbearing police officers: Gery Rake and Lubor Turek. It is a sequence like the earlier Dyk / Kean episode where the bottom gets fucked by the guys in power despite any initial objections.
Both the policemen are beefy and tall, easily dominating their diminutive catch of the day. Actually the tops look like the just stepped off of a straight porn set, and perhaps they did. Both fuck Kaspy like two dudes sharing a chick.
Bent over a table, they simultaneously plow Kaspy's chicken ass and drill his mouth. Rake has a very thick cock, and he uses lots of lube to ram the boy. The two switch off culminating with Rake shooting his cum into Kaspy's mouth and pushing it in with his fingers as if he's brushing the bottom's teeth.
"Did you like it?" the cops ask. "Yeah," responds Kaspy.
"Well next time have your driver's license with you." Is Kaspy taking that as incentive to continue leaving his license at home? No matter what, in the end he's satisfying the cops' wishes. So ends the film that was too steamy for the British censors.
Bareback Road Trip is a five scene movie tied together by young guys meeting adventure and jeopardy on the road of life.
Starring the sexual dynamo Thomas Dyk, it's easy to see why Eurocreme recently made him one of their most promoted porn stars.
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First off, note that I am not doing this recovery because of any actual problem, I'm just testing it. I'm running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2, and using Windows Server Backup to a remote file share for the backups. I have to assume I'm doing something wrong because all of the documentation I've found hasn't helped me.
I back up the 2 separate volumes that I store database files and log files on. I use Windows Server Backup to restore a given EDB file and it's corresponding log files to an alternate location. Normally I would assume I can then create a new recovery database, specifying the location of these restored files, and I could then mount it to try to restore specific mail. However, it always gives me errors because it's in a "Dirty Shutdown" state. Running eseutil /mh shows me this state. From what I've found online, it seems as though this state should only appear if there is a genuine corruption. The backups are supposed to be Exchange-aware, so I would imagine this should not be the state the database is in after recovery. I've tried to go through the whole repair process suggested when there's corruption, but this always destroys all the data I need.
Am I doing something wrong with the backup, or something with the restore? Should the database be in this "Dirty Shutdown" state after restoring?


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Big Ideas for the City: Billboard Strategies
Billboards in public spaces are ugly and offensive. They block views of the mountains, distract drivers and allow private individuals to profit from publicly funded spaces. Furthermore, over 50% of outdoor advertising billboards in Vancouver do not meet present bylaw guidelines. Emerging digital signage technology promises to make outdoor advertising still more intrusive and needs to be addressed. A lengthy review process was initiated a number of years ago and yet non-compliant billboards remain and new digital signage has been installed at BC Place, the Burrard and Lions Gate Bridges and elsewhere in the city.
Given these propositions, the VPSN suggests that the City of Vancouver remove or repurpose existing non-compliant billboards and facilitate a comprehensive plan for both digital and ordinary billboards. The VPSN is asking for:
1. Enforcement of existing Sign Bylaw to remove non-compliant billboards
2. Broad, inclusive public consultation/review of proposed revisions to the Sign Bylaw
3. Consideration on the place of digital signage and other emerging technologies in the city.
If a neighbour was playing obnoxiously loud music, would you be offended? The likely answer is yes. You may ask them to turn it down, or perhaps phone the City to stop the racket. This is noise pollution and collectively we have agreed that certain rules should be followed in order to make everyone a little happier.
What about visual pollution? Would you complain if your view of the mountains was blocked by an advertisement for yogurt or a new juice? The answer is likely yes. Unknown to many people is the fact that the City of Vancouver has a sign bylaw limiting the size, brightness and location of billboards.
Also unknown to many people more than half of all billboards in Vancouver are non-compliant; they are located too close to residential areas, adjacent to bridges or public transit or are too big or too bright, too often. It's just as if we are surrounded by neighbours playing loud music and the enforcement officers are not answering the phone.
In 2003 the City of Vancouver approved a tough new sign by-law that would limit the number and location of billboards in public space. Included in this bylaw was a five year time limit for removing non-compliant billboards. In 2008 this limit expired and rather than issuing violations the City decided to suspend and review the sign bylaw following the 2010 Olympics.
This review should be complete sometime this year. However, in the interim new outdoor advertising technology has entered the market including programmable digital billboards. How should these technologies be allowed in public space? How could citizens and the city derive public benefits? Who should own these spaces?
Like loud music at concerts, there is perhaps a time and place for billboards and digital signage in the city. However, that time and place needs to be decided on by the citizens of Vancouver, not by private or corporate interests. Civic authorities need to enforce existing rules and consider how to integrate outdoor signage into a vibrant and beautiful city.
The Big Ideas are 12 Priority Areas we see as an early release of the VPSN Manifesto on public space policy. We've made online access to the Routemap 2012-2014 and the original Manifesto 2008-2011.To learn more about this initiative and to get involved, please write us an email.


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The Islanders set a franchise record on Thursday night after beating the Penguins 4-3 in overtime, extending their points streak to 16 consecutive games, breaking the mark set in 1982.
They went down early, as Evengi Malkin scored a little over a minute into the first period to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead. But with 4:48 left in the first period, Scott Mayfield tied the game at 1-1 on a Matthew Barzal assist.
Early in the second period, the Islanders went down again when Bryan Rust scored for the Penguins on an unassisted slap shot to take a 2-1 lead. Anthony Beauvillier scored with 8:22 left in the second period to tie the game, thanks to assists by Derick Brassard and Ryan Pulock.


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It was a long time ago when the old man was a child and played with his friends.
He watched his old photo album and he started to remember the time when he was a child. Some memories were good and some were really sad and bad.
When he and his friends were kids, they were searching for something interesting and they did not find anything. But they continued searching and finally they found the map of the mysterious treasure and they were so happy.
It looked like the map was showing the way to the treasure.The treasure was buried between two big pine trees. And the kids decided to go and find the treasure.
They took a compass to find the location of the treasure. They also took digging tools and binoculars.
They started looking for the treasure. First they had to go past the castle. Then they had to go through the big woods. When they found it they were so happy because they succeeded.
They were so happy that they did not even notice that there was no treasure. Surprisingly, the chest was full of brand new costumes. They were still happy because they found the costumes.
They were having a great time with costumes. The boy was the legendary dragon with a broom in hand, instead of the sword. The girl was an Indian with a crown of feathers and with the umbrella, instead the spear. The bear was a pirate with a pirate's eye.
The old man also remembered the time when he became the mad scientist. He had the idea to find the real treasure. He spent years and years to find the best way for hunting for a treasure.
He was so obsessed. He was spending days and nights in his laboratory. He got the idea to find the treasure and that idea was to cut all trees around the treasure. He was sure that the treasure must be in one of the trees or under one.
He bought dredges, drilling machines and he hired a lot of workers who destroyed the whole forest and dug it up. All animals in the forest had to run away because they were scared for their lives. It was very sad. When he saw what he had done he started to cry and felt very ashamed of himself. From that moment, he decided to be a better person.
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We are pleased to be offering today this beautiful five piece Victorian burl walnut parlor set that is in our California warehouse. It is a beautiful set that dates from the 1890s. Someone has redone the upholstery in the past and the framework is all beautiful and original with the burl walnut panels and incise carving. Whoever did the upholstery, picked out a colorful and expensive fabric that was buttoned and tufted. The set consists of a sofa or loveseat that is 62 inches wide, 22 inches deep and 43 inches high. A master arm chair that is 25 wide by 23 deep and 42 inches high and three lady's or side chairs that are 19 inches by 18 inches by 37 inches high. This is a beautiful set in person. The upholstery was done in likely the last 5 years or so. The set is all ready to use right out of an estate in northern California. The cost to ship is $425 if you are in our normal area. Please contact us prior to purchase to confirm that you are in our normal delivery area.


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Idaho's open gubernatorial race is right around the corner in 2018.
The Idaho Republican Party will have a competitive primary in May next year with three strong contenders: 1) Lt. Gov. Brad Little, 2) Rep. Raul Labrador, and 3) Boise businessman Tommy Ahlquist.
And, let's not forget that A.J. Balukoff, who put in over $3 million of his own money, is moving forward on the Democratic side.
The conventional wisdom, for the Republican race, has been that Labrador is the front-runner because of his high visibility in Congress. Little is widely known for his role at Gov. Otter's side. And, Ahlquist is the guy with the deep pockets and lots of early organizing activity. Both Little and Ahlquist have been active fundraisers with Labrador trailing considerably in that department.
The last round of polling showed Labrador leading Little by a bit with Ahlquist coming up the rear. Rumor is that Ahlquist has moved up since. The next round of public numbers will be informative.
There may be more than the conventional narrative has captured to this point.
Last week Little released some details connected with his personal finances. The key number is that he has assets of $12 million to $24 million --- with no debt. That was a bit of surprise. He has always been known as well off but not nearly to that degree.
That significant net worth means that Little has the capability to stand toe-to-toe with Ahlquist in terms of personal financing of his campaign . . . if he chooses to do so.
That potential could upend the race.
Consider a conceivable scenario where both Ahlquist and Little dominate the race on air and online, squeezing out Labrador's ability to get his own message out.
And, either has the ability at any time to nuke Labrador with a massive negative barrage.
That doesn't take into account other groups. Already, reports are flying of so-called Super PAC groups that might support at least two of the gubernatorial candidates, Labrador and Ahlquist.
Either Ahlquist or Little can operate independently of any such groups because of their resources. And, if they are attacked they can respond aggressively and powerfully with the resources controlled by their campaign.
But, Labrador is in a much tougher spot. If his fundraising does not ramp up significantly his campaign is likely to be left with a fraction of the resources of his main opponents. A friendly Super PAC might help to some degree. But such groups carry risk when they do things inconsistent with campaign's messaging or become the story itself.
The biggest danger to Labrador is that someone attacks him early. He would be hard pressed right now to respond adequately through advertising. If he is still near the front of the polling at the first of the year, he is likely to face incoming fire. If not dealt with adequately, he is likely to fall back.
I am comfortable in predicting that the 2018 campaign for Idaho governor will set a new state spending record. Right now I would guess it is on course to be a $10-15 million race. It could easily blow past that point. Expect to see tons of TV, radio, print and online ads from all of the candidates starting in the next couple of months.


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Whoah, God,
My head is swimming with notes and details and new beginnings
and settling and everything else in between.
Give me breath.
Remind me, to rest in moments, to be all here now,
and to let go when I need to just shelf things
and listen to Mary Chapin Carpenter and Rhiannon Giddens
while I lace up my shoes for a walk, even if it is just around a block.
Or four.
What richness in this day, in this hour, in this moment.
I am beyond grateful, with a healthy dose of trepidation.
You are my Source, THE Source, the weight and the center and the lightness.
Thank you. Amen.
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Earth Law
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Climate change and other global threats are increasingly illustrating the limits of our existing environmental laws to stem degradation. This course posits that environmental declines will continue until we address a fundamental assumption underlying our legal system: that humans are separate from the natural world and may treat it as property to be exploited, rather than as a connected ecological partner. The course will critically examine the sources of this assumption and its impacts on preventing us from achieving a healthy, thriving planet. It will then describe legal, economic, and other governance systems that recognize the inherent rights of the natural world to exist, thrive, and evolve, and it will discuss how such systems can be implemented to advance lasting sustainability. Specific applications will be highlighted, debated, and practiced.


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Multiple records fall in strong home performance
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – The Plymouth State University women's indoor track & field team broke multiple program records on the way to a fourth place finish at the PSU Winter Classic at the George E. Davis '63 Track in the Bank of New Hampshire Field House in ALLWell North on Saturday.
NCAA Division II school Franklin Pierce University took home the team title with 144 points, with Fitchburg State (134.5) and D-II Southern New Hampshire University (114.5) rounding out the top three. Plymouth State took fourth with 104 points to top University of Massachusetts Lowell Club (29 points), Colby-Sawyer College (29 points), Northern Essex Track Club (5 points) and Lyndon State College (5 points).
"I'd estimate 75% of our women are ahead of where we left off last year at this time," said Ostler. "Nabbing so many wins and PRs in this meet helps keep us hungry and focused over winter break."
Junior Haley Dennis (Coventry, R.I.) was one of four Panthers to set new program bests. Dennis finished fifth in the 3000m run in a time of 11:26.51, shattering the old program mark of 11:41.23 by 14.72 seconds. Dennis crossed the finish line just behind her twin sister, Ashley, who was competing for SNHU. Classmate Lora Giguere (Tolland, Conn.) finished seventh in the 3000m in 11:36.40, also surpassing the old record by nearly five seconds.
Senior Rileigh Goulette (Saint Albans, Vt.) took first in the 1000m run, posting a time of 3:18.75.
"Haley [Dennis] and Rileigh [Goulette] picked up right where they left off in cross country with fine openers," added Ostler.
Junior Jillian Edwards (Exeter, N.H.) set a new PSU mark in the weight throw with a distance of 11.40 meter and classmate Kayla Gould (Orford, N.H.) equaled her program-best mark of 2.45 meters in the pole vault, a record she set last February.
The 4x200m relay team of junior Amanda Bomely (Middletown, Conn.), senior Allbanie Anderson (Somersworth, N.H.), freshman Jenna Parsons (Windham, N.H.) and junior Diana Perez (Cranston, R.I.) teamed up for a top time of 1:55.31.
Perez had another solid day all-around, also finishing second in the long jump (4.95 meters) and taking fourth in the 60m dash in 8.60 seconds.
Junior Nora Robichaud (Hampstead, N.H.) took second overall in the 400m dash. Her time of 1:06.61 was the fastest among D-III competitors, and freshman Paige Dunleavy (Hampton, N.H.) had another strong showing in the high jump. Her 1.45 meters cleared was just shy of the school record of 1.47 meters.
"We'll have a more balanced attack in the field events with Jill [Edwards], who broke the weight throw school record, and Paige [Dunleavy], who was the high jump champ," Ostler added. "We have a long way to go to be ready for championships, but it was nice to mix it up with a couple regional rivals."
PSU will enjoy a lengthy break before its next competition, the Panther Invitational, on Saturday, Jan. 20.
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I'm not usually the type who likes to take group tours. I've been on a few and between the obnoxious know-it-all loudmouth tourists and the limitations on how far I can stray from the group it's usually just not my cup of tea. But rules are made to be broken and I'm glad I broke my ban on tours just this once for a really great local tour.
Sometimes businesses come up with unique and brilliant ways of marketing. For a local credit union the idea was to show potential customers how the institution was supporting the local community and small business owners. And so they developed a monthly tour that takes guests through the northern Andes and shows them the operations that are benefiting from their loans.
So at 8:30 on Friday morning I, along with 15 other expats and a few bank employees boarded a small private bus and set off. We traveled through the countryside on back roads that I've never been on before. That's one of the only downsides of not owning a vehicle is that I can't explore the areas beyond the major thoroughfares.
First we stopped at a small farm near the community of Imantag where they grew beans but made most of their money from honey production. We didn't get too close to the hives, but the woman who owns the farm was happy to tell us about her business and how the credit union's loans have helped her.
We continued on towards Itubi to see a large tomato farm, but first we stopped for magnificent photo ops.
Even though I've lived here for three and a half years I am still stunned by the natural beauty around every turn in the road. To make it even better the weather gods shone down on us (literally) after several days of rain which simply accentuated the brilliance of the vistas.
In Salinas we stopped for snacks and a bathroom break and a look at the train station. There is a stretch of railroad that is still in use between Otavalo and Salinas (though it used to continue on down to the coast until the nearby river rose and ruined the tracks). Today the train is used for tourism purposes and when it stops in Salinas the passengers are greeted with dancing by the local Afro-Ecuatoriano population. We were not so lucky and the town was dead as can be since most residents work elsewhere.
Interestingly at the snack bar inside the train station there was a sign advertising "Helados de Tuna." In Spanish helado is ice cream, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out the tuna part. I was fairly positive they weren't referring to the fish as a). no one in their right mind would want fish ice cream and b). in Spanish the word for tuna is atun. I was perplexed for the next few hours until I overheard one of the bank employees talking about tunas. Turns out it's the fruit that grows on the prickly pear cactus which are numerous in that area. Mystery solved, but now I regret not sampling the ice cream.
In the town of Mira we stopped for lunch which was a delicious catered meal. The appetizer was a plate of shrimp with some sort of sauce drizzled over it. I wouldn't know how it was as I'm shrimp intolerant, but the rest of the group seemed happy with them.
The main course came with a salad mixed with fruit, mashed yucca, seasoned rice with raisins, and chicken cordon blue. The vegetarians in the group were given a falafel type patty which I'm told was rather good. I was stuffed at the end, but managed to make room for the vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce which was served at the end.
After gorging ourselves we headed over to check out a large farm nearby. When I say large, I mean by Ecuador standards, not the massive corporate farms that you see these days in the U.S. This is something that one family can manage by themselves with maybe hiring seasonal workers to help during the harvest.
Anyhow, this man had acres and acres of avocado trees bordered by coffee plants. As the trees grow they'll provide shade for the coffee making a nice symbiotic relationship. On the far end of his property were greenhouses for tomatoes and at the other end were rows of young peach trees. He also owned another nearby plot of land where he grew hundreds of orange and mandarina (tangerine) trees and we were all encouraged to pick and eat any ripe ones we could find. I guess the loss of a few dozen oranges is nothing when your trees are producing tens of thousands.
This was the second tour the credit union had put on and they were told by the first group that it was too long as that tour lasted eleven hours. We skipped a couple of stops that were on the original tour and ours still lasted ten hours. I won't complain as I think it was worth every minute. The bus was roomy and comfortable, my fellow tour attendees were great, and I got to see a large portion of Imbabura province and the neighboring Carchi that I would have never known existed.
To top it off when we returned we were asked into the office for a moment. Of course they made a little spiel about how they would like us to invest our money with them. (It didn't bother me in the least though as David and I have already put money in a CD at this institution where we're earning close to 9% APR – personally I think it's a great deal.) But the speech didn't last long and then we were presented with baskets full of goodies from the small businesses that are supported by the credit union.
Each basket included a small bottle of avocado oil, a small bottle of artisan sugar cane liquor, a bag of mandarinas, a bag of tomatoes, a small container of moras (blackberries), a box of chocolates, and a frozen trout.
Oh, and did I mention that the entire thing was free? That's right. No charge for the tour, no charge for the bus, no cost for the food, nothing. 100% free. They say you get what you pay for, but in this case we got far more!
Check out some of the fabulous foods being grown in my neck of the woods!


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there are a great number of student groups on campus, and generally, most of students' social lives revolve around the groups that they are involved with. for the most part, though this is not entirely true, the most socially active people are those that are involved in greek life or those that are on a sports team. of course this is just a sweeping generalization and i have friends that love to go out as much as i do that are not involved in either of those groups. over the past few years, fraternity popularity has gone down for some reason (new membership went down significantly this past year compared to other years... it could be due to people finding other social avenues or just the types of people being admitted to rochester have changed over the years/gotten more competitive). the administration is definitely cracking down on fraternities, and i keep hearing stories about "how much better this event used to be before the administration started being so strict about it." i am a new fraternity member and i really enjoy it. it has helped me meet new people and is continually a source of fun. sorority popularity/numbers are still relatively high. greeks are not exclusive at all; many of my friends are not involved with greek life and it doesn't hold me back from making new friends outside of the frat house. if people "go out," its usually to the frat quad or to bar nights ("bar nights" take place at bars/clubs, are hosted by some campus organization, and are usually over/under. these are usually very popular and there is 1 or 2 per week during the week on a tuesday or thursday). the social life is not fantastic compared to other huge party schools, but if i wanted a huge party school, i wouldn't be at rochester in he first place. the social life is what you make of it, and i manage to have a good time just about all the time. one great thing about rochester that i really liked is that adjusting to college early freshman year was not as hard as it could have been because all of the freshman live in the same freshman-only buildings and the school makes an effort to force you to meet other people. my best friends are from my freshman floor and in the fraternity that i joined, and i spend a lot of time with both.
As with any university, student groups play a major role at UR. Some of the most popular ones that come to mind are the musical groups (orchestra, percussion ensemble, jazz band, a Capella groups, etc.), activist/political groups (GreenSpace, College Dems/Repubs, etc.), media groups (Campus Times, the student-run radio station and record label, etc.), and club/intramural sports. Ok, so a few of those were personal plugs. I'm the Publisher for the Campus Times (CT, our student newspaper), and have been working with the CT since freshman year. It's easy to get involved with the CT either a little or a lot, in everything from graphics and web design to writing to photojournalism. It's also a great opportunity to meet new people, especially for a science major like me. What to say about the social scene at UR... as with everything else, there's a lot going on and it's highly varied. Some students prefer the fraternity/sorority scene -- if you find your niche there, you can find a party to go to pretty much any night from Wasted Wednesday to Smashed Saturday. If you're more like me though, most of your social interaction comes through smaller parties, organized at the houses/apartments of your friends or out at the bars in the city. If you're not into drinking, you won't be pressured to. People don't want to buy beer for you if you don't want to drink it, trust me. At least in my experience, people are welcomed into the social scene whether they drink or not. I'm sure you're all completely focused on academics and so have no interest in the dating scene, but just in case any of you are interested in any extracurriculars, I'm happy with the pool of singles at UR. Most of your dates will come out of people you meet through class or student groups, so just put yourself out there and don't try too hard. There's plenty of nice, attractive guys/gals looking for the same thing you are. In the city, some popular social activities include checking out some of our indie movie theaters (well-kept secrets), concerts, checking out the bar scene, hanging in parks, hitting up restaurants, heading up to the beach for the day (~20 minute drive), and just urban exploring in general.
Some of the more known organizations are the A Capella groups, the dance groups, the sports teams. There are many speakers that come to campus that include famous entrepreneurs (Russell Simmons,) comedians (Drew Carey, Curb Your Enthusiasm cast, Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black,) and politicians (Colin Powell.) Those events are quite popular and I think are a great addition to the life here. The freshman dorms are very social and that is how most people meet their first friends or girlfriends and this makes it pretty easy to find a group of friends you like when you first get here because of the diverse selection of cliques. If I'm up at 2am on a tuesday, I am studying. That is something that is still disappointing here because I was somewhat of a trouble maker in high school and there simply isn't anything going on late at night here because everyone is so studious. Every year there are many very highly advertised events such as listed above and there is an event called Dandelion Day which is in the spring and the school brings in a big name band and many different activities around campus and its a fun day before finals start where everyone gets to have a good time. Partying is up to the student but most weeks there are 4 days a week where you can go and have a good time, two of those being during the week at bar parties that are sponsored by sororities or other groups. If you aren't on a sports team I think that fraternities and sororities are pretty important. About 25% of the school pledges but keep in mind that about half the school never goes out so that leaves you with half the people that go out are in some kind of frat/sorority. You don't have to live in the frat house and it gives you the chance to participate in the mixers (parties between a fraternity and a sorority that is closed to the public) and its a good way to socialize. Every Saturday night there will be an activity on campus that doesn't involve drinking. Last weekend it was a dance party hosted by a famous DJ that the university brought in and next weekend it is a concert by one of the musical groups.
I already talked a little bit about this, but let me talk about night life. The party scene at Rochester is variable. When it is warm out, the parties can be great. The only parties on campus are from Fraternities, but there are a lot of them so it works out. The parties that are publicized can get really big and chaotic, but usually controlled. I prefer parties with only about 20-30 people in a suite in one of the residence halls, but those can get broken up. Only about 20-25% of the school actually goes out on the weekends, so you usually see the same people out. During the winter, it can get difficult to get the energy up to go out. There are bar parties by sororities and fraternities, and since those are inside, they usually get more attendance. During freshman year, people who do go out usually go out about 3-4 nights a week, and that slowly decreases as age increases. When I was a senior, I went out once or twice a week, and usually went out to the bars. If you don't drink, there are always campus activities having events. There are also a lot of local cafes and stuff to hang out in. There is a group on campus called Campus Cinema Group, and they usually have showings of recent movies in our movie theatre for a cheap price. It can get depressing sometimes if you don't go out, but I think people find something to do . If you do want to go out, I highly recommend joining a sorority or fraternity. My social life quadrupled when I joined my sorority. It makes it so much easier to make connections and network with other people in the Rochester community. I made my best friends on my freshman hall, but most of my other friends are the girls in my sorority. Not only that, joining my sorority made me a leader in my school and among my friends. It developed my self confidence and my interpersonal skills which are essential for the real world. It is your friends and social life that prepare you for the real world in college, not the academics, so make the most of it.
Usually the most popular events on campus are basketball games and fraternity parties. Our basketball program was ranked number one in the nation for D3 sports this year. Although our girls and boys teams had the exact same record this year, mostly everyone just shows up for the boys games, which is normal. I myself played on JV this year and went to pretty much all of the games that I could make- boys and girls. A lot of students leave their doors open in the halls; pretty much the only time I did though was to have dance parties with myself and blast the music. Pretty much everyone dates on campus, not so much dates but hooks up even if they really never did before. Its just such a chance to be free. Like if you want to go out and meet up with someone at 3 am on a Monday.. you can do it.. and you don't have to tell anyone where you're going. My closest friends are all from basketball or are a couple girls in my hall.. my roommate in particular. I didn't really like her much at first but now she's actually the best friend I've ever had. I'm going back to Rochester next weekend to visit her and stay with her. I would suggest rooming randomly and not with a friend or someone you met online. Everyone who got a roommate randomly wound up having a great time while the others usually had more problems. If I'm awake at 2 am on a Tuesday, it's probably because me and my roommate were going crazy and just talking all night. The biggest tradition each year is D-Day. It's basically a day where you wake up and start drinking. Pretty much everyone is passed out by like 4 pm. It's really awesome, but we actually almost lost it this year, but we got it back. People party pretty much only the weekends, although by the end of the year more people party during the week. Saturday nights you can still go out and not drink, there is always music and dancing so it would never really be weird. Off campus there are bar parties that are hosted by frats or sororities and you can get in over or under.
Everyone at Rochester is friendly and you can always find someone to hang out with. In dorms, the doors are always open and people always smile and want to meet new people. Anything you could want to do, we have a club for and if we don't, it is easy to make one. Athletics are not very popular to watch except for our basketball games because those teams are actually good! Guest speakers (like Bill Nye!!) are always well attended and so are our performance (theater, singing, dancing, etc.) groups. Every year we have various festivals like Yellow Jacket Weekend (carnival rides, free food, cool free stuff, bands, etc.), Meliora Weekend (homecoming, alumni, and parents weekend all in one), and Dandelion Day (carnival rides, bands, free food, and drinking starting at 8am). They are all lots of fun and great traditions. There are parties every week. The frat quad is usually open with free beer (at some schools you have to buy cups at parties or are charged an entrance fee, etc. but at our frat quad and off campus frats, the drinks, music, and fun are all free!) and bar parties at clubs for 18 and older are thrown by groups and sororities weekly. You can always take a bus or taxi out to a bar or club if you want. There are things to do if you don't want to party too. There are performances, guest speakers, big bands, $2 movies, and the city to go into (restaurants, college coffee cafes, the Eastman School of Music and all of their performances, the Museum of Play, concerts/events in the city, etc.)
THE BIGGEST THING ABOUT COLLEGE, your social life. Yeah, everyone goes to school to get a good education and graduate, but theres much more time than you think to do, SOMETHING other than study and go to classes. (MAKE SURE YOU GO TO YOUR CLASSES AND STUDY THOUGH). "You will learn so much more outside of the classroom, on day to day interactions with other people,than you will ever learn in a classroom while your in college". Humans are social beings, and college is one of the quintessential aspects of a young adults social life. Everyone likes to have fun, and everyone likes to have friends. Simply put, if you want to drink in college, You WILL drink much more than you ever thought you could or should. If you want to hook up with someone, play your cards right the opportunity is there. Mommy and Daddy are no longer around watching your every move. You want go to church and worship you can. Basically you can do anything you want to, just know that every action has a consequence whether good or bad. But if your in this University you already know that or will definitely find out soon enough, but we are all adults so have fun, take care of your business and enjoy the ride. Its time to see who you really are, and who you will shape out to be. COLLEGE IS GREAT, just find you niche, whether it be with a mate, a sport, a club, a group of friends, a combination of different things. Whatever, you find your niche' and you'll have the time of your life! FOR REAL
Everyone is extremely friendly at Rochester and the events and programs going on are almost always well attended. 's great because everyone, although we spent so much of our time in the library studying, are the kind of people that really like to get up and do things. 2 am on a Tuesday is an extremely busy time. Most people are still awake, studying perhaps, but maybe having a cooking party in someone's kitchen, watching a movie, or if it's nice outside, taking a midnight stroll. There were many groups of friends on my floor but everyone was friendly, and I became really close with a small group including one of my roommates. Some of my best friends also came from people someone else introduced me to, and through dance. I do wish people were more enthusiastic about meeting people in class. I have made a couple in that sort of a setting, but it is difficult with the big classes. I am part of the D'motions Dance Group, it takes up almost all of my time, at least half the year, and I love it. I have always loved to dance but haven't ever really done that much seriously before and this is the perfect setting. It is a very focused group, practice is imortant, and we are all reallly passionate about the dancing. However it is most focused on bringing people together and enjoying dance. The way it is set up was exactly what I was looking for.
Im in a fraternity, good bad whatever, the partying at U of R dissapears in the winter, no one wants to go out or do anything, when its nice out some people come out but mainly just friends of people in my fraternity. There is a no drinking games policy...no beirut/beer pong, but thats fairly loosly enforced, but on campus there is a ban on kegs, so that really limits the ability of a fraternity to provide alcohol, and attract party goers. Kids leave their rooms unlocked alot, and occasionally get stuff stolen. No one really goes to athletic events other then maybe basketball games, but then its just mainly the baseball/football team there and then some sorority girls. The school brings in some D list speakers who no one really goes to see, the arts program here is flat out pathetic espetially the preforming arts. Im nocturnal, so I stay up late all the time, I like to play video games and watch sports center late at night, often with my buddies. This past year the school decided to stop funding our only school wide event , d-day, citing some rediculous reasons, but really they just want us all to be robots. The fraternities on campus that dont completly comply to rules get in trouble and get removed, one of the 8 frats that had been there for atleast 100 years lost their charter last year and cant rejoin campus, the beginning of the end...
Since I've covered a lot of these topics in my other answers, I guess I will cover the dating scene. I made a big mistake. I went to the same college as my high school sweetheart. This can work out once in a great while--I've seen it work! However, as a result, I spent most of my freshman year sheltered and bored. So, if you do happen to be single, I can only give you advice about dating from your sophomore year onward. First, being single is usually a good thing in college. Unless you meet the perfect person that treats you the way you deserve to be treated, don't get into a relationship. That being said, do not be promiscuous either. UR is a smaller school than many, and word travels fast. You will probably end up hooking up with or dating so-and-so's ex, and you will probably run into so-and-so on campus more than you like. You will see your past hookups almost daily--or maybe not at all, depending on your schedule. Here's how hookups often happen. You are at a party, you're reallllly drunk, and you and a classmate from writing class end up dancing. You end up making out, you go back to the room...you get the picture. It might become more than a one-time thing, but probably not. Men at UR do not take girls on a lot of dates. If they do, it is probably because they needed a date to their frat formal.


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