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It was only a few months ago that Donald R. Lindsay, chief executive officer of Teck Cominco Ltd., was lamenting the lack of opportunities in one segment of the steelmaking raw materials market. Teck would love to get into the iron ore business, he said in February, but the problem was there were no good properties available.
That analysis stills holds true today. The large majority of the traded iron ore market remains under the control of the three big producers Brazil's Vale and Anglo-Australian mining houses Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Enticed by a surging spot market and the prospect of big increases in contract prices, new entrants are rushing to bring ore to market, but a sale isn't on anyone's agenda.
In late July, Teck unveiled its solution to this dilemma Forget iron ore, go for coal instead. With its $13.8-billion bid for Fording Canadian Coal Trust (AMM, July 30), North America's biggest metallurgical coal exporter, Teck will become a major player in this market. When taken together with its presence in base and precious metals and its ownership of Canadian oil sands projects, it is looking to be one of the most diversified mining companies around.
Teck isn't the only North American company turned on to the value of coking coal. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. bid $10 billion for Alpha Natural Resources Inc. in July (AMM, July 16), while ArcelorMittal SA has been snapping up smaller producers throughout the summer. Further afield, ArcelorMittal is also battling it out with South Korean steelmaker Posco Ltd. and a Chinese investment firm for control of Australia's Macarthur Coal Ltd.
So why metallurgical coal, and why now? Partly it's due to sheer necessity Coal assets are available, for a price, while taking control of iron ore assets is an altogether more complex proposition, as BHP Billiton is discovering as its massive bid for Rio Tinto runs into regulatory problems in Europe.
But coking coal producers are an attractive target in their own right. In iron ore, the jury is out on whether the market will remain tight or whether the new projects that are coming online this year and next, together with a slight but appreciable slowdown in the pace of Chinese steel output, will finally cap the price gains of the last five years.
Metallurgical coal looks to be a more bullish prospect. While it might be true that a slowdown in Asian blast furnace production would hit demand for coking coal as much as it would for iron ore, the metallurgical coal market has received little of the attention—or investment dollars—that iron ore has since the Chinese boom began. To some extent, the market is now playing catch up Strong demand from China's mills and a transportation crunch in Australia have combined to send prices surging, with contract prices between Australian producers and Japanese steelmakers more than tripling earlier this year. North American producers are benefiting too Alpha's net income soared to $74.3 million in the second quarter, more than 15 times the year-earlier $4.7 million (AMM, July 30).
Those kind of numbers are guaranteed to attract attention. Rumors emerged in late July that ArcelorMittal might be mulling a counterbid for Alpha, or even for Cleveland-Cliffs itself. Meanwhile, Cliffs' largest shareholder, privately owned hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, greeted the news of the Alpha bid by pressing for Cliffs to put itself up for sale instead.
So Lindsay's lament about the lack of iron ore opportunities looks unlikely to be echoed in coking coal anytime soon. New opportunities are emerging, but only those with big wallets—and the stomach for a fight—need apply.
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Grading Out the NFL Draft with Jay Elsen of Midco Sports Network
On Overtime with Jeff Thurn, Jay Elsen of Midco Sports Network joined the show to talk about the NFL Draft, Jason Collins and more.
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A judge of the Supreme Court of NSW has strongly criticised KFC's submissions in its appeal against an order to pay $8 million in damages to a girl left severely brain damaged after eating a Twister chicken wrap.
In the supreme court in Sydney on Friday, Justice Clifton Hoeben told Michael Jones, SC, representing the fast food chain, that his submissions "don't come within a bull's roar of complying with the rules".
"I get very little assistance from the written submissions," Justice Hoeben said, adding there was "hardly any law there".
"They really read as submissions that should have been or probably were made at trial," he said.
"They are not in the form of submissions on appeal."
Last April, the court ordered KFC to pay $8 million in damages and legal costs to Monika Samaan.
Justice Stephen Rothman found a Twister bought by her father on October 24, 2005, was the source of salmonella poisoning which left the then seven-year-old severely disabled.
KFC has previously said the decision to appeal was difficult but necessary.
"We feel deeply for Monika Samaan and her family, but we continue to believe our food is perfectly safe and that the evidence in this case showed the incident was unrelated to our products," it said in a statement earlier this year.
Mr Jones said the grounds of appeal would include whether the Twister was purchased at all and the question of infection.
He accepted aspects of his submissions did not "strictly" comply with the rules of appeal.
Justice Hoeben said it was essential that lawyers for KFC "identify the factual errors" made by the trial judge.
He noted the case had spanned about 18 months and it was important to avoid a "long rambling appeal".
He ordered the parties to lodge submissions by March 22 next year and adjourned the matter to a later date.


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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather around the Mormon Salt Lake Temple at the 181st Annual General Conference of the church in Salt Lake City, Utah, in this April 3, 2011 file photo.
"On the contrary, our members supported Proposition 8 based on sincere beliefs in the value of traditional marriage for children, families, society, and our republican form of government. Only a demeaning view of religion and religious believers could dismiss our advocacy of Proposition 8 as ignorance, prejudice, or animus."
—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court last week, expressing support for California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.
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New York: Socialite and hotel heiress Paris Hilton has sparked outrage in the Middle East by opening a new store in Saudi Arabia's Holy city of Mecca.
Saudis took to Twitter to say Hilton, who once starred in a sex video, was ``insulting Mecca`` by bringing her business venture to the city.
Hundreds lashed out at the celebrity entrepreneur with their tweets, with some saying it was an ``affront`` to the ``principal sanctuary`` of Islam.
According to the New York Daily News, one person replied to her message, in which she announced the official opening on her Twitter feed last Thursday, by saying: "R u kidding?".
Another added: "Saudi claim there are other ways to allow for pilgrims, and if religiosity is of such importance, why is @ParisHilton being allowed a store in Mecca?"
A third person tweeted: "How can someone who made such a video open a store in the holy city next to the Grand Mosque?`` And a further added: "It is not acceptable to have such a woman open her store here."
But the 31-year-old remained undeterred by the comments and tweeted a picture of the store accompanied by the message: "Loving my beautiful new store that just opened at Mecca Mall in Saudi Arabia!"
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Christopher Columbus introduced Spain's old world wine to the new world in the 15th century.
Spain is planning a second wine discovery tour in the 21st century, retooling grape growing and winemaking traditions that date back 3,000 years to create new world wines for the largest wine market on the globe, the new world Columbus discovered in 1492.
Spain is not the only country coveting a piece of the upstart new world wine market.
Every wine producing country in the world wants a chunk of the U.S. wine market, now the largest in the world with sales of $30 billion annually. The dollars are attractive, but what really whets the palate of European, South American and South African wine grape growers and vintners is that Americans consume just 2.5 gallons of wine per year. For Europeans it is 10 to almost 20 gallons per year. If Americans even approached European wine consumption levels, oil super tankers would have to be diverted from the Middle East to haul wine to the U.S. instead of oil.
Wine imports started with Columbus and never stopped. The new world's premier wine growing region, California, has always had to compete with primarily European imports almost from the day Columbus showed up.
However, since the early 1970s, import sales have been steadily climbing. Sales skyrocketed after the famous 1991 French Paradox 20/20 broadcast when Americans learned wine was good for their health. Wine shipments have climbed by 142 million cases since that broadcast, an increase of 83 percent in just 16 years.
Last year almost 100 million cases of wine were imported into the U.S. representing about 30 percent of the total U.S. wine market.
Just as Columbus discovered the world was not flat, California wine grape growers and wineries are discovering wine is now a global commodity.
It has been a painful lesson of late with the importing of very cheap surplus bulk wine, primarily from Australia, Argentina and Chile by California wineries, for blending with California wine. It is marketed to unsuspecting consumers under an American appellation — same wine label on the box or bottle. However, the fine print now says America where it once said California because by law wineries can blend 25 percent foreign wine with U.S. wine and call it American wine.
It is a legal loophole that has California wine grape growers worried as they come out of one of the deepest economic downturns in decades.
Prices are strengthening for 2008 grapes with vines still in dormancy. It has been a long time since wineries were talking price before bud break. Last year when growers were anticipating stronger prices at harvest time, many wineries refused to pay improved prices and instead imported cheap bulk wine. Growers are fearful vintners will go looking in the global market for the cheapest product available rather than pay higher prices for California wine grapes.
And it has not been all cheap bulk imports. Bottled wine from around the world is heavily promoted and marketed in the U.S.
Therefore, at the annual Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, the breakdown of the world's bulk wine supply and prices was of major interest to grape growers who are struggling to come out of a deep economic depression that could be derailed by continued growth of bulk and bottled imports.
Growers have come to realize major California wineries will buy cheaper bulk wine in the world market rather than pay California grape prices they consider too high.
Glenn Proctor, partner in Ciatti Company, one of the world's leading bulk wine brokers, provided his company's overview of the current bulk supply situation at Unified, starting here at home where California bulk wine supplies are short of demand or balanced with demand, said Proctor. This should foster the higher wine grape prices for growers' 2008 crop.
In the California bulk market, Proctor said the Central Valley market is "showing signs of recovery" with Chardonnay supplies balanced to short. However, supplies of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are still long as they have been for several yeas, particularly since the big 2005 crush. The recovery has come on the backs of at least 125,000 acres of vines that have been plowed out since 1998 by growers to plant other crops due to low returns for grapes.
The Chardonnay bulk supply on the Central Coast is the same short position as in the valley. Pinot Noir continues to be in short supply. Buyers are returning to the coast but the volume is in older/inferior wine lots, said Proctor.
For Napa/Sonoma, the 2006-2007 wine inventories are quickly tightening with Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir supplies short to balanced. The only varietal in oversupply is Merlot and that is a statewide situation as well.
Australia was a major source for the American appellation wines over the past couple of years, but production there has dropped dramatically from 2.1 million tons in 2006 to 1.6 million tons last year and a projected crop of just 900,000 tons in 2008. All this was due to frost and drought. This has strengthened Australian grape prices, and those seeking cheap bulk are now looking toward Chile and Argentina.
Proctor said Argentina had a record 3.3-million-ton crop in 2007 and is expected to top that in 2008 with 3.5 million tons, about the same size as the U.S. wine grape crush.
Demand is high for Argentine wine. China, Australia, Russia and North America are the big buyers. The South American country is now considered the international value supplier.
Argentina is also after the U.S. concentrate business, exporting a record 40 million gallons last year, up 48 percent in two years. Sixty percent of that was to the U.S. in direct competition with U.S. concentrate producers. The situation is similar in Chile where the harvest was 1.3 million tons last year, only slightly smaller than the record crop of 2006. The 2008 crop is predicted to set another record. Inventories of Chilean bulk wine are low as demand increases due to the lack of surplus wine from Australia, said Proctor.
South Africa's 2008 crop is up 4 percent from 2007 to 1.5 million tons. Quality is good and that is creating good movement in both the bulk and bottled export market.
Wine consumption in Europe has dropped dramatically since the 1970s. The French government has grown weary of buying surplus wine, and the government there is now subsidizing vine removals.
However, the demand for French Pinot Noir and Italian Pinot Grigio in the U.S. market and elsewhere is easing the downturn in French consumption.
Crop sizes have fallen significantly in France, Italy, Spain and Germany with lowering consumption levels, and that has strengthened bulk prices there.
Old world style wines have lost favor internationally, said Proctor. The European governments are subsidizing efforts to increase quality to market wines internationally. Winemaking laws also are being liberalized to compete with New World wines.
A country all too familiar to producers of other U.S. commodities is now appearing on the wine radar screen. It's China, which now produces about 4 percent of the world's wine from an estimated 1 million acres of vineyards.
Proctor calls China "the country to watch." Like many have found with other commodities, it's hard to get a firm handle on what is planted and produced in China. Proctor believes China has the potential to plant as many as 1.5 million acres of vines.
"It will not all be wine. There are obviously table grapes in the picture," he said.
Proctor called China now a "major player" in the world wine market as a buyer. He expects China to become a major exporter of wine just like it has become with garlic, apples and other agricultural products.
"We all know China can be the low cost producer of just about anything," he said, adding that it will take some time for China to gain that reputation for wine grape production because it is still a highly fragmented industry with growers typically farming only two or three acres of grapes.
Australian and European winemakers and viticulturists are in China working with the industry to improve it.
"I think it will be five years or more before China becomes a major world wine seller," Proctor predicted. He added Ciatti has already sent some of its people into China to assess the market.
One of the things many expected to slow down or curtail wine imports into the U.S. was a weak U.S. dollar value. However, Proctor and others say it did not. Imports continue to take a bigger share of the U.S. market, even with the weak dollar making imports more costly.
His advice to California wine grape growers: "Don't get complacent; focus on competing in the global market."
He also heralded the cry of many others when he advocated expanding California wine exporting opportunities and building consumer demand for California wines.
"Focus on quality and value," he suggested. And he added his final caveat — the current outlook for the world wine market could turn the other way with a big 2008 crop in California or elsewhere in the world.


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Dave Wittenberg can't take the job because of his union as this dub is not union-supported, which is a shame. If he were to take the job of coming back to voice Teddie, he'd risk expulsion from his union and would lose access to higher paying jobs.
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It's not just Wittenberg they're replacing, either, given that. Isn't Dojima's VA union now as well?
It's going to be this horrid mix of new and old voices... I feel like if they were going to do something like this they should have redone the entire dub.
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Yui Horie sounded just like that and it was well received
the old English VA failed to express that "hyper" Chie, I think which is the reason many of the fans disliked the old english VA
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why are you surprised?
when did an Atlus rpg game ever had a dual audio option?
never (P4 Arena is not purely Atlus so it doesn't count and it's even an rpg)
fans requested for it for games like Catherine but we never got it
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And they will continue to lose customers as a result.
I wouldn't mind if the dubs were actually good (like Catherine's), but this... no, I can't call a Persona 4 without Dave Wittenberg's Teddie good. He's one reason I liked the game so much to begin with.
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Maybe someone can help me here.
I seriously want Persona 4 the Golden.
Problem is that I'm from EU. It's not even announced for us yet. Seems kinda unlikely for it to come over anytime soon. As I want this game for christmas (or at least my birthday which is in feb) I would immediately import it from NA.
My question is, I have a EU Vita, if there'd ever be DLC for it, I guess I'm not able to get them from NA (legal, without making a fake NA account which is kinda not so okay (here)). If there's going to be P4G in Europe too and we might get DLC as well, can I download that and use it with my NA game?
I'm not so knowledgeable about stuff like that so I hope someone here might be able to help me.
Of course, if there's never going to be any DLC then that's fine by me, but you never know so I'm kinda curious.
Thanks in advance :3
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@RRW, okay thanks xD
Anyone from EU here?
I'd like to know if someone ordered something from Video Games Plus (Persona 4 pre-order) and knows if this site is good/trustworthy.
As it has the game with pre-order bonus and the price sounds reasonable enough I wonder if I should import it from there to Germany. Anyone can recommend this website?
Any infos would be appreciated
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While we do love our better halves, we all agree that time apart from them is a good thing (time apart 'makes the heart grow fonder' blah blah blah). With that thought in mind, we opted to plan a guys only trip to hang out, catch up, and enoy some good beer.
Guys trip destination #1 - Denver.
Being a family of beer fans we know that Denver, and neighboring cities, have a high concentration of good breweries. We also knew that we would not be able to visit all of them during the four days we'd be in Colorado. We opted to canvass Denver and Fort Follins. We had also considered Boulder, but everything I read led me to believe they were still recovering from flood causing rain that hit Boulder the week prior to our visit.
In all, we visited the following breweries during our stay in Colorado:
- Great Divide Brewing Co.
- Wynkoop Brewing Co.
- Denver Brewing Co.
- Epic Brewing Co.
- New Belgium Brewing Co.
- Odell Brewing Co.
- Funkwerks Brewing Co.
- Oskar Blues Brewing Co.
Instead of going on about each of the breweries, allow me to share some of my favorite photos taken at each of them.
Great Divide Brewing Co.
Wynkoop Brewing Co.
Denver Brewing Co.
Epic Brewing Co.
New Belgium Brewing Co.
Odell Brewing Co.
Funkwerks Brewing Co.
Oskar Blues Brewing Company
- Favorite tour: Without a doubt New Belgium offered the best tour. The amount of love that their employees have for where they work is palpable. In addition, their brew houses, 'church of fermentation, and their packaging building are all incredibly impressive. Personally, I have never seen a brewery as large of theirs before. Our visit to New Belgium was truly eye opening.
- Favorite beer: a tie between sour cherry Old Chub (Oskar Blues), Woodcut # 7 (Odell), & habanero Ten Fidy (Oskar Blues)
- Greatest surprise: How much I enjoyed the Wynkoop's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout.
- Favorite brewery: Odell Brewing Company. Their beer garden/patio is quite spacious, their beer is fantastic, and their brewery is beautiful.


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Elmo III and Samantha Senter, Medicine Lodge, announce the birth of a daughter, Alyssa Dawn, at 8:39 p.m. Feb. 12, 2013, at Pratt Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.
She is welcomed by Auston, age 4.
Grandparents are Carol Chambers, Medicine Lodge, John Bohannon, Sawyer, and Elmo Dean Senter II, Pratt.


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Subsequent episodes of genocide in the contemporary world generate a continued need for education and a demand for teaching resources for this topic. As a public, comprehensive university that has been training teachers for over a century, West Chester University has always served the public by introducing important materials as well as providing excellent scholarly and pedagogical resources to students, teachers, and the wider community. The inclusion of this timely topic attests to the university's commitment to education. Below are links to various web resources that should prove to be invaluable resources for both students and teachers of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.


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The Texas state board of education is scheduled to hear testimony on the state's science standards on November 19, 2008, and the treatment of evolution is likely to be a contentious issue.
A video project from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology devotes a segment to discussing paleontology, evolution, and creationism. The thirty-three-minute video, entitled "We Are SVP," debuted on the society's website on October 29, 2008.
NCSE is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of Voices for Evolution. As NCSE deputy director Glenn Branch explains in his foreword, "Amid the dizzying panoply of creationist activity, what is gratifyingly constant is the thoughtful, balanced, and authoritative opposition from the scientific, educational, and civil liberties communities, as well from a considerable portion of the faith community. Organizations small and large, local, national, and international, have expressed their unflinching support for evolution education. Their statements are collected here, in Voices for Evolution."
After a long and contentious wrangle, the Florida state board of education voted 4-3 at its February 19, 2008, meeting to adopt a new set of state science standards in which evolution is presented as a "fundamental concept underlying all of biology." But now there are concerns that, due to a recent state law, the standards will have to be approved again.
The Evolution Learning Community at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, will be hosting "Darwin's Legacy: Evolution's Impact on Science and Culture" — a multidisciplinary student conference to be held March 19-21, 2009.
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"Recently, Brendan and I have been arguing about what can reasonably be expected from a multi-monitor OS (among other graphical stack things). We've reached the conclusion that nothing replaces real-world user data. So anyone interested, please answer this survey about multi-monitor setups and expectations ! (Results will be published here once the amount of answers has reached a steady state, I'd say in a month at worst)" (Source)


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November 4, 2010
A new month, a new bag...
It's not that I haven't got any - it's just that I like making them. Shopping totes, grocery bags, whatever bags, ... So, here's a new one. Denim, combined with linen for the outside and muslin for the inside. No leather this time but sturdy woven cotton straps. While in Belgium last week I went to my favorite store in Leuven, Hexagoon, and I stocked up on wide twill tape of different kinds. I haven't had the time yet to make pictures, but I certainly will. I got linen tape, wool tape and cotton. I'm not sure I bought enough though, as ideas keep popping up. I think you'll see lots of tape showing up in my projects as of now...
I whipped this bag together on Monday afternoon. It was an idea I had spinning around in my head for a while now. I like it and so do my girls! Our new favorite - the perfect bag to take the lunch boxes to school with in the morning!
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- Hashi said...
I like it too! Simple and classy!
- November 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- diplodoc said...
I like it very much!!s
- November 4, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- Andrea, the little collector said...
Geometric...simple...and very cool.
- November 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM
mooie tas.... gelukkige meisjes met zo'n mooie lunchbox tas, eenvoudig...en veel beter dan al die plastiekzakken tegenwoordeig! we zijn precies de plastiekzakken generatie geworden!!:-)
- November 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Lila said...
I love colors where you can where black, brown, or gray! Perfect for any outfit!
lila Ferraro
- November 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- Anisbee said...
Simple and original at the same time. I like this bag, so smart!
- November 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- blue moss said...
love the patchwork!!
i love your bags :)
- November 8, 2010 at 5:35 AM
- by night said...
as beautiful as always! So pure! I am always astonished with the simplicity but perfection of what you come up with!
- November 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- RosaMaría said...
love that bag!!!
simplicity is the best!!
hugs Pascale!!
- November 9, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- pablo said...
how do you make the patchwork?
- November 30, 2010 at 3:57 AM
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2011: Second Team All-Ivy… First Team All-New England… Two time Ivy Honor Roll… L.C. Stowell Award winner (Team MVP)… Christian Prince Award recipient (Team Defensive MVP)… Lowe's Senior Class Award Finalist… 7.30 GAA ranked 7th in Division I… .559 SP ranked 13th… Started all 14 games in net for the Bulldogs.
2010: Honorable mention All-Ivy... Had every decision in the Yale net and a .502 save percentage. His 8.54 GAA, tops in the Ivy, was 11th in Division I. He had double-digit saves in four of the last eight games. Falcone had a season-high of 15 saves at Dartmouth, while he held opponents to single-digits in goals in six of the last seven outings... Made 118 saves overall to bring his career total to 239 (17th at Yale).
2009: Started in 11 games while appearing in 12 on the season...Made 123 saves and collected 22 ground balls.
2008: Appeared in one game and made one save during his freshman season.
At Hunterdon: Three-year lacrosse letterman...Team captain senior year...Single season saves record (296) and career saves record (807)... All-sophomore team, Second-team all-conference, second-team all-division, honorable mention all-area, and team scholar-athlete sophomore year... Honorable mention all-state, first-team all-conference... First-team all-division... Second- team all-area junior year... New Jersey Goalie of the Year, All-American, first-team all-state, first-team all-conference, first-team all-division, first-team all-area, team spirit award winner, and team MVP senior year.
Personal: Johnathan Daniel Falcone, son of John and Pauline Falcone, is a member of Calhoun College... Economics major with a 3.84 GPA... Spent a summer at the London School of Economics and Political Science... Member of the Economics Undergraduate Student Advisory Committee... Elected as secretary of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity... Significant contributor to "Bulldog Buddies," a Yale community outreach program that has students serving as mentors to New Haven Public School children.


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DETROIT LIONS: Calvin Johnson sustained nerve damage in Week 4 WITH VIDEO
ALLEN PARK -- Calvin Johnson revealed for the first time on Thursday that he had nerve damage after sustaining the concussion in the loss to the Vikings on Sept. 30.
The Detroit Lions wide receiver hasn't been himself this season -- he has just one touchdown -- although he looked more familiar in the win on Sunday at Jacksonville.
He's had more drops than usual and maybe now we know why. Johnson has also been hampered by a knee injury.
"Actually I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little. Not to blame that, but I think that the concussion could have had something to do with some of that damage I had going on,'' Johnson said on Thursday.
The effects still linger. He agreed it is basically like a stinger with pain shooting down his arm.
"Taking those hits, they're real violent. They definitely have a lot of lingering impact on your neck or your head in Jahvid's case, it can do a lot of stuff,'' Johnson said. "It's definitely coming back and feeling a lot better, but it's the middle of the season.''
He also took a hard hit in that Vikings game in the second quarter courtesy of safety Harrison Smith.
"He's obviously been effective regardless. He's had a bunch of different things come up this year particularly his knees, but he goes out and affects the game the way he does,'' coach Jim Schwartz said. "That's no different than Adrian Peterson coming off an ACL and still finding a way to be effective, great players can do that.''
Johnson has still not caught a touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford this season. He came close on Sunday, getting to the one-yard line.
"Actually on that one I was grabbing the ball, it kind of slipped, it didn't grab in my hands. I (wanted to) reach out across the line, but I couldn't get a good grip on it,'' Johnson said.
He did not say that he had trouble with the grip because of the nerve damage.
This was the first time Johnson mentioned nerve damage. It was the second time he mentioned the concussion from that game. He was tested immediately after the fourth-quarter hit by Chad Greenway (who was fined $21,000 for the hit) for a concussion on the sideline at Ford Field. He passed and was allowed to continue playing.
Schwartz reiterated on Thursday that Johnson did not suffer a concussion that day.
Johnson didn't practice again on Thursday because of his knee. He missed practice all last week and played one of his best games of the season on Sunday in the win over the Jaguars.
"It's coming along, it's definitely feeling better than it was at this point last week so that's a positive,'' Johnson said.
"Without going into too much detail, I've been doing a lot of stuff in the weight room to strengthen the muscle around (the knee), get it so that it's firing correctly and I can be as best as I can be on Sunday,'' Johnson added.
He hopes that as the knee improves, he can at some point get back to practice.
"I don't want to not be out here practicing, I like to get a good look in practice but at the same time I do know what I need to do by Sunday,'' Johnson said.
Offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said Johnson's injuries have not tied his hands at calling plays.
"Calvin at any percent on the field is a bonus for me or anybody else,' Linehan said.
(Paula Pasche covers the Lions. Follow her on Twitter @PaulaPasche. Read her Lions Lowdown blog at oplions.blogspot.com.)


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A 'lucrative' sponsorship deal in which Matlock Town's ground has been renamed will benefit the game as well as the community – according to club bosses.
Matlock Town FC has signed a sponsorship deal with Autoworld, in which the Causeway Lane ground has been renamed the Autoworld Arena.
Chairman Tom Wright said: "I think it will have a positive effect on the town. I think when we are doing well it gives great publicity to Matlock."
He added that the deal, struck on Monday, will ensure financial stability for the club, as well as help from the Chesterfield firm.
"They want to get involved with the club to help make a difference," Tom said.
"They have got lots of ideas to help us to increase our income, which we will be putting in practice next season."
He said one example of how Autoworld was to help the club, was that at its sportsmans' dinner in April the firm will provide auction prizes including a trip to the Triumph motorcycle factory.
The new name came into effect immediately and Autoworld have agreed to sponsor the club for the rest of this season and for a further two years.
Keith Brown, chief executive for the football club, said: "Personally I'm thrilled. To get a major company like that involved is tremendous.
"Running a club at this level is very difficult without any shadow of a doubt, so when you get an investment like this it's tremendous.
"We obviously want to get promoted but to do that you've got to improve both your team and your facilities at the same time."
He said the money would allow the club to improve the pitch facilities, as well as invest in the grounds and the social club, which will be renamed Autoworld Lounge.
Keith added that the lounge is used by many local sports and community groups.
He said: "It benefits a whole variety of people not just the footballer club."


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Computer network upgrades will put Wayne State University researchers in the fast lane
DETROIT – Researchers at Wayne State University are about to experience a power surge in the ability to do their jobs, thanks to an upgraded computer network infrastructure supported by a federal grant.
David Cinabro, Ph.D., professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is principal investigator for the project, which comprises two major components and will be funded with a two-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (No. 1245719).
The first component builds a dedicated, very high-speed network that will enable WSU researchers to transmit and receive large amounts of data quickly, across the campus or around the world. Those researchers may include physicists who collaborate on international projects in particle, nuclear and astrophysics; computer scientists working on high-speed networking; and biomedical researchers sequencing genes.
The dedicated network, or "Science DMZ," as investigators call it, will be exclusive to scientific research and separate from the standard university network for day-to-day traffic. The new network is scheduled for completion around mid-2013.
Patrick Gossman, Ph.D., deputy chief information officer for Computing and Information Technology and a co-investigator for the grant, likened the Science DMZ to a dedicated lane on the freeway with a 700 mph speed limit.
The upgrade will use specialized monitoring equipment on each end of a connection to identify bottlenecks and help keep data moving. Bottlenecks are a huge problem for researchers, Gossman said, especially when they are moving images from telescopes, particle accelerator data, brain maps or DNA sequences.
"They need to move huge files here, where they have the computing power to analyze them, or send them to collaborators at other institutions," he said. "This upgrade will greatly speed up our researchers' ability to work, moving their research forward."
The second project component will upgrade the local network infrastructure in the physics building. This component will provide the necessary on-off ramps to the new Science DMZ as well as speed up their daily work.
"If you spend three days doing a calculation, you don't want to spend another three days waiting for it to download," Cinabro said. "With the new connection, that download could take just minutes."
In order to receive the grant, for which only 33 other institutions around the country were successful, WSU had to demonstrate a science-based need. The university's case was bolstered by the work of physicists with national and international research entities like the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Large Hadron Collider and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
"Without a science underpinning as to why we need a better computer network infrastructure, we wouldn't have gotten this done," Cinabro said.
In addition to the science, Gossman said, NSF officials also were interested in Wayne State's proposal because it includes exploration of software-defined (virtual) networking, which allows a physical network to be split into multiple separate networks, and because of the Science DMZ.
The new dedicated network includes 10-gigabit-per-second links between four buildings on campus: physics, Computing and Information Technology, computer science in the College of Engineering, and the Applied Genomics Technology Center at the School of Medicine, a tenfold improvement over current capacity. The Science DMZ can be extended to other critical research areas on campus for little additional cost, investigators said.
The Science DMZ also includes a 10 Gbps link to StarLight, a Chicago-based switch/router facility for access to high-performance national and global networks.
"It's very important that we have this fast link to StarLight and other Tier 1 data sites, because they have fast links to other places," Cinabro said. "We need access to that data to do this science, but we didn't have very good connections, and that was an impediment."
The future of science will involve collaborations using big data sets, he said. For example, the LSST, which he is working on, will photograph the entire available sky from northern Chile every few nights and thus produce terabytes of data daily. Additionally, some of his colleagues who collaborate internationally are trying to arrange it so researchers around the world can do things with Wayne State equipment.
"Without a fast, dedicated network, that's not even possible to contemplate," Cinabro said. "This is a great way to enable us to do more science — not just more of what we're already doing, but new kinds of things — and collaborate more directly in data-intensive activities."
Investigators are pleased the NSF has recognized the value of WSU research and the potential for accelerating it through this grant award. Once the network improvements are in place, future grant proposals can involve more data-intensive research and the possible creation of a WSU data farm, where large amounts of enhanced data drawn from larger hubs could reside for local use.
Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.


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What this country needs is not, as Woodrow Wilson's Vice President Thomas Marshall suggested, "a good 5-cent cigar," but a real energy policy that includes a strong commitment to renewable fuels, according to Jeff Dahlberg, research director, National Sorghum Producers, Lubbock, Texas.
Dahlberg discussed energy and its effects on the future of agriculture with FARM PRESS during the North American Grain Congress, a joint meeting of NGSP and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) held recently in San Antonio, Texas.
"Energy is one of the few domestic markets that offers a positive for farmers," Dahlberg said. "Currently, we have two markets for agricultural products: cheap food for domestic use and cheap food for export."
He said that situation puts increasing pressure on farmers to boost yields, which leads to more over-production and even lower prices. "Energy is a serious issue," he said. "Demand outside the United States, especially in China and India, has increased. Those two countries are taking a big chunk of energy and it will be a long time before we see cheap crude oil prices again. And oil is a limited resource."
He said oil reserves likely will not fail anytime soon, but insists that the sooner governments and researchers acknowledge that oil is a finite commodity, the sooner they begin exploring alternatives seriously.
"We consume 400 million gallons of gasoline in this country a day," he said. "That's 2 to 4 gallons per person every day. Replacing that much energy requires a lot of alternative fuels. Fortunately, we're increasing production of ethanol."
But supplying even a fraction of what's needed to make a dent in petroleum use will require more than grain-based ethanol.
"Plants will use other vegetative matter," he said. "Bio-mass will play a big role but we still have concerns about enzymes to break down cellulose. Sorghum varieties with high sugar content also hold promise. Sweet sorghums, sugar cane, and sugar beets will be options."
Emphasizing renewable fuels also stimulates rural economies, Dahlberg said. "Energy plants bring a big economic boom."
He said the plant would require from 20 to 40 high-paid employees. And the infrastructure to move grain and other materials into the plant and energy out employs even more.
The textile industry, as it used to be, offers a good example of how an energy plant benefits communities. The plant employs local workers and uses local crops for part of their raw material. A healthier economic base improves schools, infrastructure and quality of life.
"Energy is now an agricultural product," he said. "That's a real positive for the industry, a movement forward."
He said promoting energy production also elevates farmers in the public's eye. "We now have a cheap food policy and the general public does not understand where (groceries) come from. And many assume that farmers make tons of money."
He said surveys indicate most consumers would support farms as an energy source.
Renewable fuels also should be part of the country's security plan. "If we can keep fuel prices level and stop our dependence on foreign oil, we've helped," he said. "Farm equals fuel. That's a positive equation. Even if the price of grain does not go up a lot, this provides a positive for the country. We depend less on foreign oil and we can export to developing countries."
Dahlberg recommended governments mandate official vehicles use bio-diesel or other renewable fuel.
He said President Bush's goals for renewable fuel use will "be difficult to get to by 2025. We have to build pipelines to move ethanol." Currently ethanol is moved by truck.
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I won't debate whether Unity is an improvement. This article is simply
a "How To" for those who want to alter it.
We'll start by customizing Unity. We'll add and delete icons from the applications Launcher on the left-hand side of the screen, then we'll add icons and folders to the desktop. I'll introduce some Unity tweaking tools.
If these changes aren't enough for you, we'll move on to how to add elements of the older Ubuntu interface to Unity. We'll add a classic roll-over menu, permanently-visible window scrollbars, the System Monitor "applet" to the top panel, and the package managers Synaptic and GDebi. I'll also show how to disable Unity's global menu, the context-sensitive menu in the upper lefthand corner of the screen that appears as you move your mouse cursor over it, and disappears as you move the mouse away.
If all this doesn't alter Unity to your liking, we'll replace it entirely with alternatives like GNOME Classic, GNOME 3, Cinnamon, or other GUIs.
All you need to know beforehand is how to open a terminal to issue line commands. Either enter "terminal" into the Dashboard or the Head-Up Display (HUD), or press the hot key sequence CTRL + ALT + t.
How to Change the Launcher
Instead of GNOME's desktop icons and panel applets, in Ubuntu's
Unity interface, the
Launcher hosts the application icons. You can add any app icon to
this list permanently simply by
starting the application, then when its icon appears in the launcher,
right-click on it and select Add to
Launcher. Remove any icon from the Launcher by right-clicking on
it, then select Unlock From Launcher.
Auto-hide the Launcher by clicking on the System Settings icon in the Launcher, then selecting Personal -> Appearance. Now pick the Behavior tab, and click on the button to Auto-hide the Launcher.
How to Add Icons and Folders to the DesktopIn Unity you to use the Launcher to start programs, or Unity's two other main components, the Dashboard and HUD. Type application names or search phrases into either. The interface also relies on a global menu (with its disappearing, ever-changing context-sensitive menus) and hot keys (just like interfaces back in the 1980's).
Don't like this design? Modify it into a more traditional desktop. For example, to add icons to the desktop, go to the Dashboard and look at the "recently used" or "installed" applications. From there, you can drag and drop the icon for any app you want to the desktop. Then you need to ensure the app is executable, and change its ownership to that of your own user id. Do this by issuing these two commands through a terminal window:
sudo chown
If your user id were bobby, the second command would be: sudo chown bobby ~/Desktop/*.desktop
To create a new Folder on the desktop, right-click the mouse while over empty desktop space. This brings up a menu, the first option of which is to Create New Folder. Click on that and you'll have a new Folder with the cursor positioned so you can enter its name. You can drag and drop items into the Folder. If any app icon you add doesn't work, just issue the above commands to fix the file permission/ownership issue.
You can tailor Unity lots more, as described in the comprehensive Ubuntu Desktop Guide. To access the Guide, just hover the cursor over the top left panel bar when you have an empty desktop. The default hidden menu appears. Select Help on this menu and you'll see the Guide:
Tools for Tweaking UnityIf you're still not loving Unity, configure it further through interface-tweaking tools. Start with MyUnity, a utility that allows you to change aspects of the Launcher, Dash, panel, desktop, fonts, themes, and more. You can install it from the Ubuntu Software Center. Here's how it looks:
Next, configure Compiz with the CompizConfig Settings Manager. CCSM helps you change all sorts of desktop effects, image loading, accessibility options, window management, and more. Install it by these apt line commands:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Ubuntu Tweak was originally designed for GNOME, but has been updated for Unity. It's the best tool here to alter Unity 2D. You can change Unity's desktop appearance, startup options, Launcher and Dash, and more. Install it by:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
The first command accesses the Personal Package Archive or PPA repository containing the packages for the app. You might also see it as apt-add-repository instead of add-apt-repository -- either command does exactly the same thing. The last two lines update your package index and install the program. Here's the main Ubuntu Tweak panel:
Finally, the Unsettings tool allows you to change various behaviors for the Launcher, Dash, panel, fonts, windows, desktop, and themes. To install Unsettings enter:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unsettings
If you change some options, Unsettings will ask you whether you wish to apply them as you exit the tool. It may also tell you that some settings will only be changed after you reboot. Here's how Unsettings looks:
After you install any of these tweaking programs, you access them like any other Unity app. Select them from the list of "installed" or "recently used" applications, or type their names into Dash or HUD.
Add a Classic Menu
Ok, you've tried tweaking Unity but you still aren't happy with it.
Let's start adding elements to make Unity resemble the
2 interface of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Canonical may consider roll-over menus old hat, but they're quick and easy to use. They hierarchically organize choices so you can access them fast through short mouse motions. Menus are universal. You can be productive immediately with any operating system that employs them, even if you've never used that OS before.
Here's one way to add a classic roll-over menu to Unity:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator
To start using the menu, go to Dash or HUD and enter: classicmenu-indicator. The menu will appear off the top panel bar, as a drop-down from the little round Ubuntu symbol in the top center of this screen shot. The menus look as you remember them from Ubuntu's older GUI, and will be accessible every time you boot Ubuntu:
Unity does not allow you to add applets to its top panel bar like you did with GNOME 2 panels. However, you can add indicators like the Classic Menu Indicator. Many indicators perform functions just like the GNOME 2 panel's applets. From the user viewpoint, there is little difference beyond terminology.
Replace Hidden Scrollbars with Visible ScrollbarsAt the Senior Center I support everybody hates the hidden scrollbars in Unity's windows. They're tough to access with bifocals and less precise coordination. Use the Unsettings tool mentioned above to change back to permanently-visible scrollbars. Or, enter these line commands, then restart your computer:
echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
Changing screen resolution and the Universal Access tools don't fix this problem. Canonical, have some seniors test your product!
Disable the Global Menu
Unity's global menu allows
many applications to display their menu in Unity's panel bar, up
in the top left-hand corner of your screen. Like the hidden scrollbars,
the global menu appears
when you move your mouse cursor over it, and it disappears when
you move your mouse away. Global menu
contents change depending on which application is your current focus.
You can disable
the global menu with the Unsettings tool. Alternatively, enter this
command to disable the
global menu, then restart
Disable Firefox's global menu separately. Start Firefox, then go to: Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions. There you will see the Global Menu Bar Integration add-on. Just click to Disable it, then restart Firefox.
If you later decide you want to bring back the global menu, issue this command, then restart:
Add Synaptic Package Manager or GDebi
Ubuntu Software Center replaced the Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu
11.10 due to its friendlier, simpler interface. While the Software
Center is improved from its earliest incarnation, technophiles still
prefer the Synaptic Package Manager because it offers fine-grained
package management and better control.
To add Synaptic, just install it from the Software Center. Or open up a terminal and enter:
Some prefer installing .deb package files with GDebi. GDebi is also installable from the Software Center, or add it like this:
Add System Monitor to the Panel
If you liked having the GNOME 2 System Monitor applet visible on your
panel bar
in previous Ubuntu versions, you can add Unity's System Load Indicator
to the top panel
bar. It displays CPU, memory, network, swap, disk I/O, and system load
activity on the panel, just like the old system monitor applet. To
install it, either visit the Ubuntu Software Center, or else enter:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload
Like the Classic Menu Indicator, you need to initialize this program by going to Dash, entering indicator-multiload, and starting it up.
An alternative is to access the System Monitor through the roll-over menu of the Classic Menu Indicator of the previous tip (Menu Indicator Start Button -> System Tools -> System Monitor). Or, you might like to pin the System Monitor to the Launcher or add it to your desktop if you don't install the Classic Menu Indicator.
The Ubuntu Software Center offers other monitors, too. You can install KDE System Guard, a very comprehensive tool, or the GKrellM monitor, a single vertical panel that sits atop your desktop to give you real-time information. Conky is also installable with Synaptic Package Manager or through line commands.
Install GNOME to Replace Unity
Ok, so you've
tried tailoring Unity's desktop and find that you still
don't like it. Well, then, it's time to completely replace Unity
with either:
- GNOME Classic -- More accurately called GNOME Fallback, this is the GNOME fallback interface from previous Ubuntu releases. It is very similar to -- but not exactly the same -- as the GNOME interface shipped as the default in Ubuntu 10.04.
- GNOME 3 -- This is the GNOME Shell 3.4, as installed from the current Ubuntu repositories. GNOME 3 is way different than the GNOME 2 interface that Ubuntu used before Unity. If you don't like Unity, you probably won't like GNOME 3!
- Cinnamon -- This is
a GNOME 3 fork developed by the Linux Mint project. Cinnamon gives you
a GNOME 3 interface but with a GNOME
Classic panel at bottom, along with a menu and many other features
described here.
I recommend Cinnamon for those who want to replace Unity with a GNOME
To install GNOME 3:
To install Cinnamon:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
After installing any of these new interfaces, you select it from a drop-down list on the main login panel, just prior to logging in.
Tweaking GNOME
If you installed the GNOME 3 shell, you may wish to add the
gnome-shell's tweaking tool:
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
Ubuntu Tweak was originally designed for GNOME 2. It helps you change all sorts of GNOME desktop settings, fonts, themes, etc., including settings for the Metacity Window Manager, Compiz Fusion, and Nautilus file manager. See how to install it above.
Install A Different Ubuntu Family DistroRather than installing Ubuntu with Unity and then changing it, some simply install a different Ubuntu distro. This keeps you in the Ubuntu family but replaces Unity with any of these GUIs:
If you're so unhappy with Unity that you're giving up on Ubuntu altogether, I recommend Linux Mint. Mint version 13 offers the MATE and Cinnamon GUIs, both of which are traditional GNOME-like desktops with added features. With Mint you can install software from Ubuntu's repositories.
ConclusionYou have many options if you don't care for Ubuntu's Unity interface. You can either modify it, or replace it. I developed this document because some people I support really don't like Unity. I've found that it's easier to tailor it for them or install GNOME rather than to try to sell them on Unity or retrain them.
Good Resources (with Screen Shots)Top Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.04
Things to Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
Important Tweaks/Things to Do After Install of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
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Howard Fosdick (President, FCI) is an independent consultant who supports databases and operating systems. You might also be interested in his OS News article The Sins of Ubuntu. Read more of his articles here.


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CRESTVIEW � The Old Spanish Trail Rodeo, an Okaloosa County fixture, celebrates its silver anniversary next month.
This year's rodeo is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 11 and 12 at the Baker Area Recreation Association's Barnhill Arena. Advance and reserve tickets are available.
CRESTVIEW � The Old Spanish Trail Rodeo, an Okaloosa County fixture, celebrates its silver anniversary next month.
This year's rodeo is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 11 and 12 at the Baker Area Recreation Association's Barnhill Arena. Advance and reserve tickets are available.
"This is our 25th year, so it's kind of exciting just to reach that milestone," Mark Todd, the Baker Area Recreation Association's president, said. "From my perspective, it's a testament of all the board members, past and present. And the spectators that come and see us year after year.
"Those people have helped us get to this point � the 25-year milestone. Any time you can get to 25 years, you are doing something good."
While the rodeo is proud to reach the quarter-century mark, there will be no special ceremonies, Todd said.
'We will focus mainly on the entertainment aspect and the fact that we have a (Professional Cowboy Association) event again this year, which was new to us last year," he said. "We will focus more on the rodeo than the 25, but we are certainly going to announce in the paper and in the ads that this is our 25th anniversary."
Last year, the Old Spanish Trail Rodeo was ranked the No. 2 rodeo on the PCA circuit based on participants, prize money and attendance, among other factors, Todd said. It features traditional rodeo events such as saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, team roping, break away roping steer wrestling,
Longtime crowd favorites will be on hand to entertain rodeo fans between events.
Rodeo clown Rudy Burns, a rodeo fixture, for more than 15 years, returns. "Rudy is one of those individuals who has helped us build our rodeo into what it is today," Todd said. "Not only does he do a great job of entertaining as the rodeo clown, but (also) with the safety of the riders."
Veteran announcer Jim Poole will again call the action.
And, for the third consecutive year, the All-American Cowgirl Chicks return to delight fans with a top-notch show that includes music and trick riding.
"It's highly unusual for us to have an act in back-to-back years," Todd said. "But they do such a great job for us, not only from the entertainment in the middle of the rodeo, but (also) at the start of the rodeo. They come in a day or two in advance and promote and go to the radio stations with us. They will do meet and greet (events in the community). They just add a tremendous amount to the overall rodeo event."
The rodeo will recognize a Wounded Warrior each night and present the honoree with an American flag from that night's event.
Two new additions to this year's rodeo will be bull fighters performing each night. And Saturday night will be Breast Cancer Awareness Night.
"We are going to promote Saturday night as 'Be tough and wear pink,'" Todd said, adding that a portion of proceeds will benefit breast cancer awareness.
Meanwhile, the rodeo continues to look for sponsors. If you would like to know more about sponsorships or advance ticket sales, you can visit the rodeo website at www.bakerarena.com.
"We want to have a great rodeo not only for the spectators, but (also) for the participants, and equal," Todd said. "I want the people that come to this rodeo to be excited about it and enjoy their experience."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.
What: Old Spanish Trail Rodeo
When: 7:30 p.m. April 11-12; gates open at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Barnhill Arena, Baker
Cost: Reserve seating $20. General admission: Adults, $12 advance, $15 at gate; children ages 5-12, $7 advance, $10 gate; children under 5, free
Website: www.bakerarena.com


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I joined the "what to expect when your expecting preg club" when I got preg and still read the posts. This one has me so emotional right now. Not to spoil anyones day but I think you should read this. This is her post of the worst ever:
On Nov. 15th, God blessed us with a beautiful angel and on Dec. 10th he called our angel home.
I buried my daughter yesterday, and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my whole life. She was only 3 weeks old.
I'm posting because I want everyone to know of the dangers of sleeping with your baby. I want to try to prevent any one else from going through this awful pain.
I was trying to get some sleep (breastfeeding every 2 hrs is EXHAUSTING!) and my husband was watching our daughter. She was in her swing and began crying. She wanted her daddy, so he picked her up and layed with her on the couch. She fell asleep on his chest. It was about 2:30 am and my husband (whom was also exhausted from working double shifts all week long) feel asleep. Our baby rolled between him and the couch and suffocated. I didn't wake up until 6:30. I called 911 and immediatedly began CPR. The firestation came first and then EMS. In the ambulance, they hooked her up to a machine that breathed for her, but her heart still wasn't beating. It never did. Our baby was gone.
PLEASE, PLEASE don't fall asleep with your baby or let your baby sleep in your bed. My worst nightmare has come true and I want to help you all understand the dangers of sleeping with your infant.
I miss her soooooo much. She was supposed to be baby Jesus (and my husband and I were to be Mary and Joseph) at church that Sunday that she died. But now I know she's with him. (Jesus)
This is the picture of her that the hospital took a day after she was born.
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Intel's P45 Chipset was released this summer along with the P43, G43, and G45 Chipsets as the mainstream Eaglelake alternative to Intel's current flagship X48 Chipset. Though over the older X48 motherboards, the P45 has the advantages of using Intel's newer ICH10 / ICH10R Southbridge and support for up to 16GB of DDR2/DDR3 memory, which is double that of what's supported by the X48. Today we are looking at two Intel P45 motherboards compliments of Gigabyte with their EP45-DS3L and EP45T-DS3R. The EP45-DS3L and EP45T-DS3R are just two of Gigabyte's motherboards bearing the P45 Chipset but in total they have eight different motherboards using this version of the Eaglelake Chipset.
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Clarice 'June' Prince Guditus, 96, Neosho, died Dec. 7, 2012, at her home following a short illness.
Clarice 'June' Prince Guditus, 96, Neosho, died Dec. 7, 2012, at her home following a short illness.
June was born on Dec. 9, 1915, in Delphos, Iowa, the daughter of Floyd and Myrtle Patterson. She resided in Iowa until the age of 17, moving to Colorado in 1932 and married Brady Galyen in 1933. To this union, two children were born, Rose Marie and Larry.
She moved to Oregon during World War II and worked at an airplane factory, leaving Oregon to California to assist her father with the care of her mother until her death. Following the death of her mother, she moved from California to Ohio, where she obtained her cosmetology training and license, returning to California and owning and operating a beauty shop there. She moved to Joplin for a short time, returning to California to be near her sisters.
June met and married Joe Guditus in 1998 and he preceded her in death in 2005.
Following the death of Joe, June relocated to Neosho to be with her daughter Rose and husband, Mark, and June had a lovely home built for the three of them south of Neosho. June professed her faith as a Methodist in an Easter service in 2012 at the Neosho United Methodist Church. She was an exceptional woman, living 95 years in good health. She demonstrated kindness in her life and was admired and loved by all who knew her.
June is survived by her two children, son, Larry Galyen, Delta, Colo., daughter, Rose Marie and husband, Mark McClintock, Neosho; four grandchildren, Tim Etzler and wife, Mary, Swedesboro, N.J., Sheryl Block, Neosho, John Etzler and wife, Lisa, Wheaton, and June Adams and husband, Bill, Longview; seven great-grandchildren, Gwen Shockley, Dustin Etzler, Amanda Block, Chelsea Calvert, Samantha Etzler, Rachel Calvert, Britiny Calvert; one great- grandson, Brent Shockley; five step-grandchildren, Philip McClintock, Amanda McClintock-Sullivan, Chris, Jimmy and Julie; one sister, Mary Longberg, Willits, Calif.; two brothers, Billy Patterson and wife, Margo, Ukiah, Calif., and Elton Patterson and wife, Leona, Grand Junction, Colo.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Betty; and three brothers, Jack, Nelson and Johnnie.
The body has been taken for cremation and no services are planned.
Services are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.
Online condolences may be posted at www.clarkfuneralhomes.com.


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Total Care Dental
We are a Utah-based dental office looking to stand out online. We have won accolades for our service oriented approach to dentistry and we really are looking to help people see how much we care and appreciate our unique culture and attitude through our website. Everything we do is cutting edge. We work hard to stay ahead of trends and keep educated about our industry. If our clients ask a question, we'll have the answer.
**We are one of two dentists in the state of Utah that use "Durathins" a brand new safer and cleaner alternative to veneers.
**We are one of only three dentists in Utah who do Sedation Dentistry.
**We're recognized nation-wide as being a relationship based practice.
You can see our current website here and use anything you find there (and you can also see why we want a new one):
And you can see what was going to be the new version (we hate it) here:
Our website just doesn't show our professionalism and cleanliness. We really want people to find us online and immediately realize that they'll never want to go anywhere else for dental work.
We really appreciate your expertise and your talent in helping us design a site that we can be proud of.
We cater to the adult population. Though we will help children and won't turn away people looking for a family dentist, the majority of our patients are adults.
We do a lot of restorative dentistry and cosmetic dentistry so we solve almost every conceivable tooth problem you can imagine.
No coding, just design.
NAVIGATION: Clean CSS with two-level drop downs if possible. The site structure document is attached to help out.
LAYOUT: We'd like it to be light and have good clean white space. Here are a few examples of layouts that we like. The last one is our favorite layout:
STYLE: Classy but not too medical looking or too professional. It needs to be inviting and warm. Try and steer clear of Web 2.0 type designs. Also, we'd rather the design not be "boxy" but use good white space. The http://www.bhdentists.com site is a good layout but is still a bit boxy looking.
PAGES: Just 2 page concepts to be creative with.
- Home page
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COLORS: White, gold, yellow, taupe. As per the logo. White is good. What we didn't like in our old sites was all the taupe. White is good.
LOGO: The logo needs to stay relatively the same so there's no problem with using the logo as is. We would like to vectorize the logo and make it look clean and "digital" if possible, but it's not necessary. Download it here:


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Hillary and Di
What the princess could teach the first lady.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been devoted to Causes all her adult life. Apart from her family, improving the world (by her lights) is what she is about. For Princess Diana, Causes were more than a royal-lifestyle accessory but less than a lifelong passion. Each woman married into a huge opportunity to advance her Causes. And yet Hillary, the born Causenik, has been far less successful--both for her Causes and for herself.
As the official American representative at the princess's funeral, the first lady must have wondered why a small fraction of the outpouring of affection for England's most famous woman couldn't attach itself to this country's most famous woman. Millions of dollars and pounds pour in daily for Diana's favorite charities. Hillary, meanwhile, prepares to co-chair a new Conference on Child Care--a prospect that must make her feel at least a small fraction as weary as everyone else.
It is hard to remember while in the grip of posthumous amnesia, but Diana's press was often as lousy as Hillary's. The media mocked her outsized clothes budget, her downsized tank tops, her affairs, her various dysfunctions, her penchant for New Age cures. The National Enquirer pulled its "Di Was Sex Mad" cover off newsstands as soon as it could after the fatal crash. Even the nontabloid London Sunday Times had the headline "Diana on the Couch"--above a story questioning the princess's mental stability--in the edition that hit British doorsteps (too late to stop) a few hours after her death.
Both women suffered the indignity of a press obsession with their thighs. Photos from the Clintons' recent Martha's Vineyard vacation featured Hillary in a bathing suit with close-ups of her legs. You would think that the thighs of a woman of Diana's years would yield little in the way of news. But her gym sold photos of her gams to Fleet Street. Her dimpled cellulite was blown up to ghastly proportions and plastered on newsstands.
B ut Diana was wiser about how to transcend her tormenters. First, she knew not to trouble her pretty little head about matters of institutional power. It could only slow her down. When she successfully put land mines on the world's agenda, she didn't do it by going to the United Nations or 10 Downing St., but to the places where the mines had done their ghastly damage. She posed for the photographers, uttered some clichés, and shared her glamour. But it worked.
By contrast, Mrs. Clinton believed that this feminine approach was old-fashioned, and went after executive authority like the boys. She got bogged down in leading a 500-member Health Care Task Force and fighting with subcommittee chairmen on the Hill. And it's not a question of physical beauty: Eleanor Roosevelt also took the Diana approach and got results. When she wanted something to be done about conditions in the mines, she went to (and posed at) the mines, not to the Bureau of Mines.
Diana's second lesson for Hillary is the one she delivered to the royal family: Flex that upper lip. There was a great deal more sympathy for Diana's frailties, once she admitted to them, than the press--bad judges of how readers will process embarrassing revelations--predicted. At a particularly low point after the Squidgy tapes, Diana went on the BBC for a two-hour interview. Her private secretary was so appalled over it that he quit, and the media's assessment was summed up in one paper's headline, "Has She Gone Mad?" But politicians in trouble should pore over that tape for guidance in spin control. With that unfiltered performance, her triumph over the House of Windsor was ensured.
Hillary once made a similar appearance, one that has become known as the "press conference in pink." During the simultaneous controversies over the health care task force, her killing in cattle futures, and her alleged meddling in the White House travel office, she invited reporters into the East Room to hear her explain herself. But by giving absolutely no ground, she gained no sympathy: Everyone thought she was smart, but no one was reminded she was human. Bill Clinton has admitted to causing "pain in my marriage," but his wife has never given the slightest indication she feels any.
Of course, there's the fear that a woman--even a woman whose public role derives entirely from her husband--won't be taken seriously if her portfolio is more princess than prime minister. While Diana was more fame than substance, she accomplished a lot with her 15 minutes once she had it. Land mines made it onto the world's agenda because Diana put them there, using only the cameras and good will at her disposal. Meanwhile, in America, there are still 47 million people with no health insurance.


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Milan, Dec 5: Eliminated Zenit St. Petersburg beat a second-string AC Milan side 1-0 in the Champions League football to secure qualification for the Europa League.
Seven-time European champions Milan had already qualified for the Champions League knockout stages by finishing second in Group C, but Zenit had to outdo last-placed Anderlecht to advance to secure third place.
With the Belgians drawing 2-2 with group leaders Malaga in Spain, the Russians' passage was cemented Tuesday.
Zenit's Portuguese midfielder Miguel Danny scored what turned out to be the winning goal in the 35th minute, steering a loose ball into the corner after playing a neat one-two with Sergei Semak.
The results left Malaga top on 12 points, Milan second on eight, Zenit third on seven points and Anderlecht fourth on five.
Luciano Spalletti's side gain moderate revenge for a 3-2 home defeat by Milan in October, recording their second victory in the group stage after beating Anderlecht 1-0.
It was the Rossoneri's second loss after a 1-0 away defeat to Malaga.
Milan had to make do without first-team regulars Riccardo Montolivo and Daniele Bonera, and Massimiliano Allegri rested star striker Pato.
Zenit made a lively start but it was Milan who went closest early on.
Giampaolo Pazzini spurned the hosts' first real chance, flicking a point-blank effort over Vyacheslav Malafeev's goal.
Milan's Colombian defender Cristian Zapata was unable to keep his shot down from the resulting corner.
After Zenit had gone one up, Bojan Krkic tried an overhead scissor kick but sent his effort just wide.
There was controversy moments later, when Mathieu Flamini nearly equalised with Tomas Hubocan in need of treatment on the ground next to him. Malafeev did well to deflect the Frenchman's stinging drive from 20 yards.
Milan wasted their best chance up to that point on 53 minutes, when Malafeev stretched to his right to block a low shot from Pazzini.
The ball bounced towards the line but Alexander Anyukov cleared the danger.
Milan were having a hard time penetrating a Zenit back four protected by midfield enforcer Igor Denisov, who played a big part in keeping Kevin Prince Boateng and Krkic quiet.
It forced Milan coach Massimilano Allegri to bring on Brazilian forward Robinho in place of Algerian left-back Djamel Mesbah.
Milan instantly had a greater zip about their attack, and Anyukov had to make a desperate lunging tackle to deny Krkic a shot at goal on 74 minutes.
Brazil star Hulk had a torrid night as the lone striker for Zenit with top scorer Alexander Kerzhakov missing through injury.
He was substituted for Konstantin Zyryanov on 80 minutes as Spalletti looked to protect his lead.
Robinho was a whisker away from a equalising on 84 minutes, sending a wicked curling shot just wide of Malafeev's left-hand post.
Milan substitute Stephan El Shaarawy came even closer seconds later, losing Bruno Alves in the box but dragged just wide from 10 yards out.
Zyryanov could have made it 2-0 to Zenit on an injury-time counterattack but Christian Abbiati saved his half-volley.
With the win, Zenit get another crack the trophy they won in 2008, when it was known as the UEFA Cup, by beating Glasgow Rangers 2-0 in the final at the City of Manchester Stadium.


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The Real Story Behind the Term 'Red Herring'
If you've ever read a detective or spy novel, you're probably familiar with the term 'red herring.' A red herring is a clue or some piece of evidence that intentionally leads the investigator, or the reader, further away from the truth.
So, how exactly did this term come into existence?
A deceptive fish
Red herrings don't actually swim around in the ocean. You'll never come across a school of these crimson fish. Why, you may wonder, is that? Well, red herrings get their name from the color they turn after being salted and smoked. These swimmers are already trying to fool you, it seems, even before they've entered the literary scene.
Hounds and smelly fish
One possible explanation for the use of this term comes from the dated practice of using red herrings to train foxhounds. The fish would be dragged along the trail to teach the young pups how to follow a scent.
As a particular hound got better at following the smelly fish, the herrings would be used to confuse the dog, and throw it off the scent of the animal it was really supposed to be tracking. Eventually the hound would sort it all out, and become a better overall tracker.
Those wretched servants deserve what they get
There is some disagreement about the various theories behind the origins of this phrase. People who care about language do agree that the term as been around for a long time.
One of the most striking, and slightly cruel, accounts concerns Jasper Mayne, a rich English clergyman who died in 1672. He'd bequeathed a large trunk to one of his servants, to be opened upon his death.
The jokes on you
Jasper led the servant to believe that the trunk had something in it that would let him drink to his heart's content. Perhaps it was full of money to spend at the local tavern? Alas, the servant had no such luck. The truck was filled to the brim with salted red herrings. You've got to love those clergymen. They real know how to make a servant feel bad.


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STARKVILLE, MS (WAFB) - In the aftermath of a rocky first half, No. 10 LSU opened the throttle against Mississippi State in the second half and drove the Tigers (5-1, 2-1 SEC) to a 59-26 win over the Bulldogs (2-3, 0-2 SEC).
If you were looking for improvement in the LSU defense, you were no doubt disappointed. Instead of the blown assignments seen against the Bulldogs of Georgia, there was sloppy tackling against the Bulldogs of Mississippi State. And, there was not one sign of the Tigers having found a leader or an instinctive big playmaker.
During the first half, Mississippi State piled up 23 points, just one off of the 24 Georgia had at the break the week before. The defense gave up an alarming average of nine yards every snap.
"You have to make a determination that you are willing to do hard things for the length and time of the game to win it," said head coach Les Miles.
The re-emerging running game was not really a surprise because of the competition and LSU's re-commitment, including Kenny Hilliard's three touchdowns, more than the junior from Patterson had in his previous 14 games combined, and the homerun blow provided by running back Jeremy Hill's 69-yard strike when the home team was threatening to hand Miles back-to-back losses for only the second time since he arrived at LSU.
"We just got it going," said Hill. "And, I was so happy we got out momentum back that we had in a few other games this season."
Hill didn't say anything many people weren't thinking, at least for most of the game.
"We went in at halftime and said, 'You know what, it stops here,'" said Anthony "Freak" Johnson. "So, we came out and played our tails off."
The defense, which ranks last in the league in tackles for loss, just 21, is not nearly on pace for the 91 it had a year ago. Any kind of push up the middle or pressure from the edge would help a secondary reeling from the absence of experience and questionable communication, which cornerback Tre'Davious White can confirm.
An errant throw by Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott turned into an interception for White, sparking 31 unanswered points, precisely as the Tigers were playing more and more of their young guys.
"Me and Ego Ferguson can't play 70, 80 plays a game. I'm happy Christian LaCouture and Quinton Thomas came in and gave us great minutes," said Johnson.
Overshadowed by all of the concern over a defense that's been the staple of this program was the near flawless performance of Zach Mettenberger and the passing game.
"You're only as good as your next game and that's really the mindset that all of us have on offense," said Mettenberger. "It's something that Coach Cam's preached. We've done a lot of great things so far this season on offense, where we want to continue to get better. We're four completions away from having no balls dropped on the ground, which is something you always want to have."
And, while bookends Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry keep playing their super hero roles, Mettenberger's confidence is off the charts. Offensive coordinator Cam Cameron is clearly humbled when it comes to taking credit for shaping Mettenberger into the tougher, more competitive leader he's become.
"I think he's had that," said Cameron. "I've met his mom and his dad. I think they're tough people. I think they're tough-minded people. I think all our experiences make us tougher. Obviously, he's had some things that he's had to work through that have made him tougher. I take no credit for that. It starts at the top. If you're an LSU Tiger, you're tough or you're not going to be here long."
While the defense will continue to suffer some growing pains, especially without Craig Loston in the secondary, now there's concern for the offense. Jarvis Landry, one of the key receivers the Tigers count on, actually limped to the bus after the game wearing a walking boot.
The Tigers have a big opponent this week, as they face No. 17 Florida in Tiger Stadium. The Gators are known for their defense.
Kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The game will air on CBS.
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Part of a lineup celebrating the inaugural BET Experience, a three-day festival put on by the Viacom-owned network, the bill offered not only proof of a talented new generation rising in Los Angeles, but of its place as part of a continuum.
In fact, the evening became a virtual celebration of Southern California -- even if North Carolinian upstart J. Cole's mid-roster set was an impressive interruption.
I'll have a full review of the show later Sunday, but here are a few highlights of the five-artist -- and guest-heavy -- bill.
Schoolboy Q is best known for his 2012 anthem "Hands on the Wheel," which had the meager early crowd (the show started before sunset) chanting along. The Crenshaw High grad is part of the same Top Dawg Entertainment roster as Kendrick Lamar, who guested on Schoolboy's new single "Collard Greens." The song's not about sauteed veggies, though; it's about -- what else? -- smoking weed. His performance of it, sans Lamar unfortunately, was a portent. By the end of the night clouds of weed smoke and vapor were wafting up from the crowd -- and from the stage.
Miguel was the only non-rapper on the bill, but his blistering set felt like the main event while it was happening. The San Pedro crooner wore his hair coiffed high and held his heart in his hand. The ladies swooned as he grabbed his microphone stand like he was dipping a lover during a slow dance, a singer growing ever more secure on stage through dancing, seducing and letting loose with a pitch-perfect wail. He seems built to entertain on a mass scale, and made the giant Staples Center feel like a dinner club.
Walking onto the stage with wide eyes and a little smile on his face, J. Cole seemed wonderfully overwhelmed in front of the his fans. After performing a few tracks to a crowd standing and rhyming along, he got real. Listening in awe at the roars inside the sold-out home of the Lakers, he wondered, "Is this how Kobe be feeling?"
The crowd's response suggested the affirmative. Cole's just released a new album, "Born Sinner," that nearly outsold Kanye West's newest, but he's not nearly as surprising or daring as the Chicagoan -- even if Cole's gig for BET helped explain why he's got a devoted audience. He gives them what they want: well-enunciated, if lyrically insular, slices of life.
Kendrick Lamar explored the world with much more verbal curiousity, and his set was pure proof that the road can build a performer fast. He entered the stage seeming overjoyed and filled with artistic fury, words pent up in his head ready to spill.
He set was an announcement that a new boss is in town. Whether his instant L.A. classic "The Recipe," in which he celebrated his city by listing his favorite things about it: "women, weed and weather," or his singalong narrative, "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe," Lamar owned the arena. He was joined by compadre Jay Rock, but missing alongside him at this homecoming were fellow Black Hippy members Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, an absence probably due to scheduling.
How was Snoop? As funky and charismatic as ever, someone whose history is marked by so many impressive tracks that he could pull a Bruce Springsteen and go all night.
His guests were many, and included the man who helped put him on the map in the early 1990s, Dr. Dre. Also landing onstage at one point or another: members of his Dogg Pound posse; longtime compadre Warren G (and on the video screen above, the late Nate Dogg); and rappers Future, Trinidad James and Ace Hood.
Did he need the help? No. Snoop was transfixing on his own.
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