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TTC begins next stage of TTYSSE tunnel constructionWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) has entered the next stage of tunnel construction where two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) "Yorkie" and "Torkie" will create twin tunnels linking the site of the future Highway 407 Station to the Steeles West Station site.
"Our government has made significant investments to reduce gridlock, cut commute times and make public transit more convenient for commuters," said Lisa Raitt, minister of Labour and Member of Parliament for Halton. "This is the kind of smart urban transportation that will improve air quality, create good local jobs and long-term economic growth in the GTA."
The TBMs will bore a little more than one kilometer (.62 miles) of twin subway tunnels at a rate of approximately 15 meters (0.009 miles) a day, southeast from this launch location to an extraction site. "Holey," "Moley," "Yorkie" and "Torkie" are the official names of the four TBMs that are being used to build the tunnels for the TYSSE.
The TYSSE project is an 8.6-kilometer (5.3-mile) extension of the TTC's Yonge-University-Spadina subway line from its present terminus at Downsview Station to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre at Highway 7. It will have six new subway stations, including one at York University and three new commuter parking lots. The subway expansion will bring the line into York Region.
The TYSSE project is expected to improve transit service by supporting a multi-modal transportation network that is integrated with other transit systems within the Greater Toronto Area. This initiative will promote economic growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by helping take cars off the road and reduce travel times for commuters.
The TYSSE is expected to be completed by fall 2016 and will generate thousands of jobs from construction.
The government of Canada has committed up to CA$697 million (US$683 million) to the project, CA$622 million (US$610 million) through its Building Canada Fund. The remaining CA$75 million (US$73 milion) has already been transferred to the project under the Public Transit Capital Trust 2006.
The Province of Ontario has provided CA$870 million (US$853 million) towards the TYSSE project through the Move Ontario Trust. The city of Toronto is contributing CA$526 million (US$512 million) to the project and the regional municipality of York is contributing CA$352 million (US$345 million). The TTC is the project manager for the extension.


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Mike Trout vs. Ryan Braun
As tribute to his remarkable 2012 campaign, Trout is the rare 21-year-old that most expect to regress. No one is actually expecting him to better last year's .326/.399/.564 line, even though he's stronger now, having added muscle in the offseason, and the competition is weaker, with baseball's worst team, the Astros, having joined the AL West. I have him slipping in four categories, though just barely in runs, and adding one RBI to his 2012 total of 83. That's a nod to the likelihood that he plays 150+ games this year after his late-April callup limited him to 139 last season. In my estimation, what's left is still enough to make him the top outfielder and overall player on the board. He probably will need to steal 40 bases to stay there, but as adept as he is on the basepaths, I don't see why he wouldn't. – Matthew Pouliot (@matthewpouliot)
Here it is, the big debate. Unless you are a fan of Miguel Cabrera, chances are your decision will come down to these two if you have the No. 1 pick in a fantasy draft this spring. Coming off one of the best seasons in recent memory, it's very difficult to pass up on Trout. The 21-year-old was a monster in all categories last season, batting .326 with 30 home runs, 83 RBI, 49 stolen bases and 129 runs scored. And that's despite spending nearly the entire first month of the season in the minors. But setting the bar so high as a rookie also raises many questions. It's hard to believe that he could be better, so what could regression look like? For one, I'm skeptical that he'll be able to show the same power numbers if he can't increase his modest fly ball rate. And remember, speed is easier to find late in drafts (or on the waiver wire) than power. It's this level of uncertainty which causes me to go with Braun, who offers a lengthy track record and has produced multiple seasons of elite fantasy production. This includes back-to-back seasons with at least 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases. Perhaps Trout doesn't miss a beat in his sophomore season and largely replicates his ridiculous 2012 numbers, but we have a lot of evidence to suggest that Braun will leave you plenty satisfied if you prefer to err on the side of caution. - D.J. Short (@djshort)
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Why: When you have to go on an out-of-town trip, do you want your wife or girlfriend popping in a Johnny Holmes DVD and dreaming about 12 inches–or do you want her to be reaching for a perfect match to your johnson to get herself off? And how about those times when you've been out all night drinking with your buddies, or your favorite football team blew it in the 4th quarter, and your babe starts whining for sex? Hand her the clone and a tube of lube; and she'll never know the difference. I'm sure you can find many more equally creative ways to use a replica of your wanger.
Drawback: To get a good clone, you need to be able to hold a full erection for at least 5 minutes with your cock immersed in gooey, messy stuff. That might prove a little challenging for some of you – unless you have my Pet of the Year issue open while you let your dong make its impression on the goo.
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You can also display them in your glass cabinet and tell your naive friends they are a rare work of art by an abstract sculptor. Tell your female friends to go ahead and touch them because this glass art was meant to be functional, and see if they will want to try it out. Tell your most mentally deficient male friends that because they are "hand blown," they are great to use for oral sex.
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I do recommend that you get a stand to hang the swing on, rather than risk your partner's ass by dangling it from a hook drilled into your ceiling. Bringing the ceiling down on your heads as you bang away may terminate your desire for sex, as well as your lease. The Universal Sex Swing stand is compatible with any of the available swings and is rather easy to assemble.
Assembly takes 15-20 minutes and the pipes of the stand are rather bulky to store (and you would not want to leave the thing out when your mother-in-law visits!). If you want a simpler version of the swing, without the headaches of stands and ceiling hook-ups, I highly recommend the Door Swing. It is a fully adjustable harness that fits over your door and supports up to 200 pounds.
Warning: if you are not acrobatic or are susceptible to joint injuries, the swing can be a hazard. But if you and your partner are physically fit, reasonably flexible, and looking for something exotic to spice up a dull, boring sex life, try swinging your way to orgasm.
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Hey, Santa Blogs, You Fat Old Fraud:
And I don't care if you claim you're not a fraud, because that leaves you with a couple of words you can't deny. Remember me? I'm the one whose Mom keeps giving secondhand books, on your recommendation, and always about fuzzy bunnies and stuff instead of zombies or fanged, twinkling masters of the night. Bunnicula is not vampire enough for me: too fuzzy, and he never once eats anyone's brain. AND the books always have inscriptions from before I was born, like "To My Own Ducky Wucky on Her Seventh Birthday-Worthday, October 12, 1935." I can't get past stuff like that to the book anyway. Howzabout telling my mother there are NEW books out there, and how about some red meat for a real reader, Whipped Cream Face?
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Dear Wiki:
Remember you? With your vocabulary and tact, how could I forget you? Your skill at personal relations, even with so powerful an entity as Santa Blogs marks you as one of Earth's specials, Wiki: just like a lot of Book fair volunteers.
I've hinted this to you before, broccoli brittle, but you may have been too busy chewing the carpet to notice: people who get secondhand books as gifts tend to get more of them. It's economics, see—they cost less—and it's guilt, too. The buyer figures "Well, I'd better get a couple just in case she notices the dented corners or that the price on the endflap is $1.95."
And I do not understand your attitude to old inscriptions, turnip nog. Of course, I do not marvel at what "ducky-wucky" does to your digestion: that's probably why the poor dear got rid of the book in the first place. But inscriptions are like those vampires you admire so much, Wiki: they live through the ages, rising from the dark of your bookcase to recall that once there was a person who used the phrase "Birthday-Worthday". If that isn't horror, I don't know what is. (It also sounds rather New Age: dibs on the rights to a whole line of life-affirming cards along the lines of Happy Worthday.)
As you grow up, Wiki, you will learn that, as much as we would like it, life is not really all vampires and zombies. It's not fair, but that's just the way it is.
Speaking of unfair, I need to point out that this is the last blog of 2012. I am once again off to the wild west to see hills of snow, IF it has snowed and IF they've added any hills to that part of the west since I was there last. The library will be CLOSED for half of the time I will be away, and I would rather not find that you have packed the dock with banana boxes while I was away. Wait for January, when it will be more fun to watch the steam of my muttered comments as I labor outdoors.
Read books (on a Kindle or Nook, if you must), keep warm, and check this website in January for my thrilling report on What I Did On My Vacation. L'chaim!


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I don't know which forum would be best to ask or offer this, but here goes:
Is there any interest in a Latin group? How would I advertise it?
I would like to lead a group though Wheelock's or some other introductory text, and teach/tutor/mentor people so that they can learn Latin. I'd like it to be a textkit group, but I don't know to find people who may be interested.
I have taught Latin for two years, attended graduate school for classical languages and was mentored in the art of Latin pedagogy by Someone Famous, so I can assure you that I'd be good for this. I just want to volunteer and help out. So, is anyone interested? I have a good idea of how I would like to structure it, and I'm very comfortable teaching out of Wheelocks (as I have done so before) but would also like to use one of the free textbooks available here, to keep everything cheap.
I can also lead reading groups. I have a particular interest right now actually in reading Caesar.


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Here are some vintage 10" american made carbon steel chef knives. They don't make them like this anymore. I would say these were made in the 60's. They look like they may have been made by the same maker. Dimensions, shape, rivet pattern are identical. The rosewood would have been an upgrade and the lanyard hole more utilitarian. These will take a hair popping edge. There is no makers mark
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Sports are one of those things that can bridge the gap from one generation to another. Dads sit with their sons and teach them football while watching the game on TV. Moms teach their daughters how to throw a softball, or in this case a grandpa passes his love for basketball to his son, who passes it to his kids, including his daughter.
Jerry Russell's love for sports started with baseball, but when he became an extremely successful basketball coach at schools across northeast Missouri, son Shawn quickly found his passion.
Then as Shawn found himself the head coach of his alma mater the Kirksville Tigers, McKenzie quickly fell in love with the same sport.
Shawn, who is the all-time leading scorer in Kirksville high school basketball with 1657 points, found himself as shocked as his daughter on Dec. 14, when after hitting a jumper it was announced that McKenzie had just scored her 1000th point as a member of the Lady Tigers.
"To me it meant that all my hard work and dedication was paying off. I didn't even know that it was coming up it was a surprise when it happened, but it shows that if you set a goal you can accomplish it if you work hard," said McKenzie.
"Those kind of things are things we don't talk about or really focus on, even when I was in school I had no idea what the record was. I had no idea she was even coming up on her 1000th point that night until she did it. When you go out and compete everyday those kind of things will take care of themselves," said Shawn
One person who was quite aware of the upcoming milestone was Kirksville coach Sara Williams.
"All coaches want a player like McKenzie, who is going to come in and contribute to your program every time she steps on the floor. Its not just what she does for us on the floor, but for the program as a whole. And she truly loves basketball and there is nothing she rather be doing," said Williams.
Making the moment even more special is that it came in a victory over Fulton, and that McKenzie has already had so much success in her young career.
"What I'm most proud of her for is how much success she has in the classroom, and that she comes to compete everyday. I'm very proud that I was first team all-state and last year she was first team all-state. But I'm most happy that the team has had so much success," said Shawn.
It might be an old sports cliché, but this is one of the few times it rings true. Winning doesn't come easy and that has been passed from the top down.
"We have all kind of had sports feed to us. We were showed how to do things the right way, and were corrected when we didn't do them the right way, and that has made all of us very successful. Winning is everything. We can get through not winning and we can carry on and find out what we did wrong and how to make ourselves better," said Jerry.
In all the interviews a handful of words were always mentioned: winning of course, competing, and intensity.
"Even as a little kid in the YMCA league we always played hard. My dad always taught me to give 110 percent no matter if we're down or up by 20, and that every possession counts to becoming a better player. And my grandpa was always there with something so positive to say," said McKenzie.
When you are able to combine being talented and one of the hardest workers, that rubs off on your teammates.
"That's not just McKenzie on the basketball court, that's McKenzie anywhere she goes. That's her personality and she is definitely hyper and just always brings intensity and that's not something you can coach, it is something that has been instilled in her," said Williams.
"I know she has a great passion for winning, nobody likes to lose and that's the way I was and that's the way my dad was, but in sports you cant be the best every day. And the thing about McKenzie, no matter if she has a good game or a bad game she is going to give you 100 percent. She is one of those kids who that would almost rather fight you than lose," said Shawn.
Jerry has amassed over 500 coaching victories and among other great accomplishments by his children and grandchildren has seen two of them reach outstanding milestones at one school.
"I'm proud of the accomplishments that he [Shawn] provides as part of the team. The team doesn't have to be within the sport you're playing, but even in the classroom. How can we make our classmates better? Or when a ninth grader comes in and they are kind of shaky and eager, McKenzie shows she is one of the players on the team that the younger players can look up to," said Jerry.
The Lady Tigers are coming off a run to the Elite Eight of the state tournament and are having a season that looks as though they can find themselves right back in a similar spot this season.
And despite the records, that's what this family is really all about.
"She goes out everyday to be the best player on the floor. Records are great, don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of what I have accomplished, what my son has accomplished, but the team success is what I like to focus on. My son was a starter for a team that finished third in Kansas, my daughter was on a team that went to an Elite Eight, and I was never able to do any of that. So not only has she been successful, but the teams have been and that's what I'm most proud of," said Shawn.


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A fire caused by careless smoking on a couch late Thursday afternoon sent several tenants in two apartments running for safety from a three-story house in the 300 block of Mercer Street.
Quick action by Butler firefighters saved the house but forced the tenants in all three apartments to find temporary shelter elsewhere.
No one was hurt in the fire that started shortly after 5 p.m. in Joshua Norris' third-floor apartment.
"A friend visiting (Norris) was lying on the couch and smoking a cigarette when he realized he had caught the coach on fire," said Butler Fire Chief Nick Ban this morning.
The friend, Jahote Dorsey of Slippery Rock, admitted he was smoking and playing with a cigarette lighter at the time, Butler police said. The burning cigarette ignited the couch's foam padding.
After trying to put out the fire, Norris and Dorsey notified the four tenants on the second floor about the fire, and all the six occupants left. The first floor tenant was not home.
Firefighters within minutes were on the top floor and used compressed air foam to snuff out the blaze.
"The guys did a tremendous job," Ban said of his crew. "They contained the fire to the piece of furniture but the heat from it melted everything in the apartment."
He estimated damage to the structure at $25,000 and another $10,000 to contents in Norris' apartment.
Jim Martin of Stoneboro, Mercer County, owns the house.


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Valve head Gabe Newell is not a fan of Windows 8. "I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space," he said rather bluntly. "If that's true, it's going to be a good idea to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."
What is the cause for Newell's vitriol against Microsoft's next OS? He sees a movement away from open platforms to a closed one. Perhaps there's other reasons as well: Windows 8 brings about features like the built-in Windows Store app marketplace and Xbox Live integration--both which threaten Steam's stronghold in the PC gaming scene.
Newell argues that open platforms are important for innovation to thrive. "Valve wouldn't exist if it weren't for the PC," he said at Casual Connect (via VentureBeat). "Id Software, Epic, Zynga, Facebook, and Google wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform."
With both Apple and Microsoft increasingly focused on closed app store-based operating systems, Valve's increasing investment in Linux starts to make sense. The company recently launched Left 4 Dead 2 on the OS, and has bigger plans for its future. "We have to start finding ways that we can continue to make sure there are open platforms. So that involves a couple of different things. One, we're trying to make sure that Linux thrives."
"Our perception is that one of the big problems holding Linux back is the absence of games. I think that a lot of people--in their thinking about platforms--don't realize how critical games are as a consumer driver of purchases and usage," Newell said. "So we're going to continue working with the Linux distribution guys, shipping Steam, shipping our games, and making it as easy as possible for anybody who's engaged with us--putting their games on Steam and getting those running on Linux, as well."


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We are pleased to let you know about our recently launched IBM Storage Host Software Solutions Information Center!
In this information center, or IC, you can find the relevant documentation of all the solutions that we offer, including information of both past versions and the latest versions.
Whether our host software solution is for XIV, DS8000, Storwize, or any other IBM storage system – the release notes, user guide, or installation guide are available on the IC in either PDF or HTML format (whatever suits you best).
The solutions are categorized on the navigation tree under four main categories: business continuity, management, host connectivity, and virtualization. Keep in mind, however, that some solutions could belong in more than one category. For example, a solution such as IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter is placed under the virtualization category, but it may also be regarded as a powerful management solution. For another example, our XIV and SVC adapters for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, also placed under virtualization, may also be regarded as business continuity solutions.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Company officials say Mississippi's Margaritaville Casino & Restaurant will close on or before Sept. 19.
Margaritaville said in Monday's announcement that it will pay 371 employees up to Sept. 19, but could close before then.
Managers say the casino in Biloxi couldn't overcome an out-of-the-way location and lack of a hotel.
Owners of the casino had planned to invest $64 million to build a 250-room hotel and overhaul the rest of the casino, but said they couldn't resolve a dispute with a company that owns some of the land.
The casino opened in May 2012 and is the newest of 12 along Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Another investor group has started work on the Scarlet Pearl casino in D'Iberville.


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DOVER — Dover Community Senior Center news:
Current and new players are always welcome to join any of our on-going games: Cribbage, Bridge, Poker, Canasta, Pay Me, and Whist. Also looking for players who enjoy playing Bingo, Chess, Mahjongg & Scrabble. Pick up our newsletter to learn more about the games or our other groups & classes. Book club also meets once a month! We also have a walking group that meets on Tuesdays and Fridays at 9:30am.
There is still room in our fitness classes! We offer a wide range of classes specifically geared towards Seniors including Chair Yoga, Zumba Gold, Cardio and a Muscle Strength Range of Motion class. Pick up our newsletter or call (603)516-6436 for information on classes, times and cost for these programs. We are located in the McConnell Center at 61 Locust Street – enter Door # 1 to visit the Center!
Travel Update: All trips leave from the Dover Ice Arena "Park and Ride" lot unless noted
December 8th: Christmas Spectacular - The Fabulous Reagle Players! This trip is currently full – call for the waitlist.
December 11th: Bermuda Cruise information night! Join us at 3:30pm when a representative from Best of Times Travel will be here to tell us all about the Boston to Bermuda cruise we have planned for 2013! RSVP to Marcia at (603)516-6437.
Jan. 9: Foxwoods. $30.
February 1 - 16, 2013: Daytona Beach. Get out of the cold and enjoy 16 days in Florida! Flyers available at the Center - $1849/pp double occupancy.
NEWMARKET — Newmarket Senior Citizens Group News: Meetings are the first Wednesday of every month at 10 a.m. at 6 Beech St. Ext.
ROCHESTER — Area residents, aged 50 and older, are invited to join the GOOD OLE SPORTS at Spaulding High School cafeteria on Tuesday evenings for dinner. The cost for meals will be $7.00 per person this year.
This is a very active social group. There are no dues to pay, but there will be dinner, cribbage and dancing to both records and a DJ. Also available are door prize raffles and a 50/50 "pot-o-gold" raffle.
For more information and to make a reservation or to cancel a reservation, call (603) 948-1883, answering machine 24/7, and leave a clear message before 7:30 pm on Monday with your name, telephone number and how many will attend dinner.
In case the school is closed on the scheduled Tuesday, there will be no meeting of the Good Ole Sports.
ROCHESTER — Area Seniors news: Board of Directors meets on the first Wednesday of every month at noon. All members are welcome to attend the meetings. The Tea Party will then be held on the following Wednesday, at 1:00. Join us for some tea, coffee, goodies, cards and board games. Bring a friend or two. There is no charge or sign up necessary.
Our quilting group meets on Mondays at 11:30. Experienced and new quilters are welcomed. We offer Bingo for our members every Tuesday at 1:00. We have a lot of fun. Various crafts are on Thursdays. We also have a variety of books, movies and puzzles for you to borrow.
Our dinner meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of the month at noon. This month it will be Baked, stuffed chicken, salad, potato, vegetable, dessert, coffee and tea.Cost is still only $6.00 for members. You must call by noon on the Monday, before the meal, to cancel or add your name to the list. We must pay for all meals ordered.
Our monthly Wellness Clinic is on the same day before the meeting from 11:00-12:00. Nurse Sandy from the Rochester VNA will be here.
On the 4th Thursday of each month, Donna from Wentworth Home Care brings us lunch and information of interest to all Seniors. There is no charge, but you must sign up ahead of time.
The Senior Center Office is open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. We're located in the Community Center Building on Wakefield Street. Look for the red railings. Drop in and get a free copy of our latest newsletter, The Senior Scanner. It includes a calendar that lists all of our activities. Membership is open to all who are at least 50 years of age or more and you don't have to live in Rochester. Dues are still only $12.00 for the entire year.
SOUTH BERWICK — South Berwick Senior Center news:
"Home for the Holidays" A tribute to the famous Andrew sisters from the 1940s. Meal, entertainment and transportation for $85. Tuesday, December 4th.
Advanced line dancing classes are held on Fridays from 2:00 -3:00 p.m. Cost is $2 per class.
Don't forget Thursday lunch is a la carte. No reservations are required.
The senior center is located at the South Berwick Community Center on Norton Street. Stop by and pick up a Monthly Newsletter or call (207)384-3310 for more information.
WAKEFIELD — The Greater Wakefield Resource Center offers Bingo on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10 a.m., doors open at 9 a.m. A hot meal is served immediately following Bingo at noon. Attendees do not have to live in the area to participate. Donation requested of $2.75 for each meal. For a menu, visit http://www.greaterwakefieldresourcecenter.net. A monthly Blood Pressure clinic is held the second Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. The resource center is open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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LUBBOCK, Texas – Juniors Hanna Mar and Marianne Jodoin both dropped the first set in their respective singles matches, but rallied to lead the 15th-ranked Duke women's tennis team past No. 17 Texas Tech, 4-3, Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. With the win, the Blue Devils advance to the Round of 16 for the 21st time in the previous 25 tournaments, where they are slated to face top-seeded Florida May 17 in Urbana, Ill.
"It all started with our doubles play today," said head coach Jamie Ashworth. "Going into the match, we knew that doubles was definitely one of their stronger points, and I think that we stole the doubles point. I could tell that Texas Tech was a little bit nervous, and our girls took advantage and jumped on them right away. Singles was just a battle. For Hanna [Mar] and Marianne [Jodoin] to lose the first set, it kind of sums up our season. It shows how much heart we have, and how much pride our girls have in what they are doing. It was great to see."
The Blue Devils kicked off the match as the aggressor in doubles, claiming the doubles point for the second consecutive match. In the top position, the duo of Mar and senior Mary Clayton fell behind 3-4 to 16th-ranked Samantha Adams and Kenna Kilgo early after dropping consecutive serves, but responded by winning the next three to take a 5-4 advantage. Despite being down 15-40 in the next game, Clayton unleashed a number of serves to push the game into deuce, where the Blue Devil tandem was able to extend the lead to 6-4. After breaking serve, Mar slammed an overhead volley that ended up in the third-row of the stands and served out the rest of the game to claim the match, 8-4.
On court two, Jodoin and sophomore Annie Mulholland were level at 2-2 with Nikki Sanders and Rashmi Teltumbde, but took the lead when the Blue Devils were able to break serve. After Mulholland held, Duke was again able to break serve, taking a commanding 6-3 lead. After trading games, Mulholland served out the match, capped off by an outstanding drop shot by Jodoin to clinch the doubles point for Duke.
As singles play began, the enthusiastic crowd helped Texas Tech open up early leads on three of the five courts, temporarily turning the momentum in favor of the Lady Raiders. After senior Nicole Lipp fell in straight sets to Sanders, 6-0, 6-1, on court five, Texas Tech held a 2-1 lead.
Mulholland traded games early with Kilgo on court three, but was able to capitalize on a number of errors to break serve and take the first set, 6-2. In the second set, Mulholland and Kilgo found themselves level at 4-4, before Kilgo held serve to take a 5-4 advantage. Despite the setback, Mulholland rallied by winning consecutive games to close out the match, 6-2, 7-5.
In the second position, Clayton cruised through the first set against Teltumbde, 6-3, but was unable to carry that momentum into the second set, falling 2-6. In the third set, Clayton jumped out to a 2-0 lead after breaking serve, but dropped three consecutive games to give Teltumbde a 3-2 lead. Clayton, a 2013 All-ACC selection, responded by winning the next game, but in the end was unable to slow Teltumbde, eventually falling 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
With Texas Tech leading 3-2, the Blue Devils were forced to win both of the remaining matches to advance to the Round of 16. In the top position, 80th-ranked Adams came out hot against Mar, taking a 4-0 lead in the opening set. Despite a comeback from Mar to pull within one, Adams was able to close out the set, 6-4. In the second, it was Mar, a two-time All-ACC selection who grabbed the early lead, as the Burr Ridge, Ill., native cruised to take the set, 6-3. In the third and final set, Mar dropped serve early to fall behind 1-3, but won five consecutive games to claim an emotional match, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Following Mar's victory, all eyes turned to court four where Jodoin battled Elizabeth Ullathorne. Just two weeks ago, Jodoin was put in a similar position in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, where the Varennes, Quebec native claimed the first set 7-5 against Kelly Williford of Virginia Tech, but dropped the next two sets to lose the match, ending Duke's conference tournament. On Sunday, Jodoin used that match as motivation as she edged Ullathorne, 6-7 (4-6), 6-2, 6-3, to clinch the match for Duke.
"I'm really excited," Jodoin said. "Two weeks ago I was in the same situation at ACCs, and I am really, really proud of my team and of myself. You don't get the chance to be in the final match very often, and I got the chance to prove myself. As a tennis player, you want to be in that position so badly. Some people graduate never having that experience, and I have had it twice in two weeks. After my match at the ACC Championship, I just came into this final set with the attitude that I'm just going to do it. It got me really focused having that experience."
In the match, Ullathorne outlasted Jodoin, 7-6, in the opening set, but Jodoin responded by easily taking the second set, 6-2. In the third, Jodoin and Ullathorne traded games before Jodoin was able to break serve to take a 3-2 lead. After successfully holding serve, Jodoin took a 5-2 lead. After Ullathorne took the next game, Jodoin fell behind 15-30 but rallied to push the game into deuce. Ullathorne fended off one match point, but eventually Jodoin hit an outstanding forehand that Ullathorne sent just long, clinching the match.
"It's not a tennis thing with us," Ashworth said. "I told our team that after ACC's, it's just the attitude. We need to walk onto the court knowing that we belong there, and knowing that we're just as good as anybody. We went through a phase there where we lost some matches, and I think we lost some confidence. The two week break we had was great for us. We were able to kind of refocus and re-do what we need to do and get back to playing how we need to play. It's a great group of girls, and I told them the last couple of weeks that they deserve opportunities like this, and they took advantage of the opportunity here."
The Blue Devils will continue their NCAA Tournament when they face top-seeded Florida in the Round of 16 May 17 in Urbana, Ill.
NCAA Championships Second Round
#15 Duke 4, #17 Texas Tech 3
May 12, 2013 at Lubbock, Texas
(McLeod Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. #29 Hanna Mar (DUKE) def. #80 Samantha Adams (TT) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
2. Rashmi Teltumbde (TT) def. #106 Mary Clayton (DUKE) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
3. Annie Mulholland (DUKE) def. Kenna Kilgo (TT) 6-3, 7-5
4. Marianne Jodoin (DUKE) def. Elizabeth Ullathorne (TT) 6-7 (4-6), 6-2, 6-3
5. Nikki Sanders (TT) def. Nicole Lipp (DUKE) 6-0, 6-1
6. Caroline Starck (TT) def. No player (DUKE), by forfeit
Doubles competition
1. Mary Clayton/Hanna Mar (DUKE) def. #16 Samantha Adams/Kenna Kilgo (TT) 8-4
2. Marianne Jodoin/Annie Mulholland (DUKE) def. Nikki Sanders/Rashmi Teltumbde (TT) 8-4
3. Caroline Starck/Elizabeth Ullathorne (TT) def. No player/No player (DUKE), by forfeit
Match Notes:
Duke 16-9; National ranking #15
Texas Tech 20-7; National ranking #17
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (6,5,3,2,1,4)
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The Luther women's tennis team extended its win streak in the conference to three in a row with an 8-1 victory over Central in Pella, Iowa. The Norse grabbed all three doubles points and then won the bottom five singles slots to secure the road victory.
Jenna Myers and Olivia Heitz improved to 10-0 in dual meets this fall with an (8-2) win over Anna Bowser and Ashlyn Huegel at No. 2 doubles. Hailey Johnson and Lauren Welch partnered together for the first time at No. 3 and were (8-3) winners against Sarah Montgomery and Katie Todd. Maggie Helms and Caroline Treis had a much tougher match at No. 1, rallying to win (9-8 (8)) over Angie Allgood and Megan Davis to complete the doubles sweep.
Myers followed up her doubles performance with a (6-0, 6-0) dismantling of Huegel at No. 4 singles. Heitz was also on her game in singles, winning (6-3, 6-0) over Montgomery at No. 5. Megan Wachholz came out firing in a (6-1, 6-1) victory against Todd at No. 6. Treis was also a winner in straight sets at No. 3, defeating Bowser (6-4, 6-0). Adriana DePaolis tallied the final point for the Norse with a (4-6, 6-4, (11-9)) win over Davis at No. 2. The Dutch tallied its lone point at No. 1 where Allgood knocked off Helms (7-6 (6), 6-0)).
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BOULDER -- For the first time in Boulder County's 151-year history, all the members of its Board of County Commissioners are women.
Elise Jones, the newest member of the governing board, took her oath of office and her seat Tuesday morning, joining Commissioners Cindy Domenico and Deb Gardner.
Jones noted the all-female makeup of the panel later Tuesday morning, in her remarks to the residents and county staffers gathered for the swearing-in. She said Boulder County's all-female county board "says something important about equality and opportunity for everyone."
Said Jana Mendez, a county commissioner from 1995 through 2003: "It was a long time coming."
The 68-year-old Mendez, who now lives in Longmont, said she was hoping that Boulder County would one day have an all-women board, and "I'm glad I lived to see it."
Mendez and former Commissioners Josie Heath and Margaret "Maggie" Markey joined Domenico, Gardner and Jones for a luncheon celebration later Tuesday. Another former commissioner, Linda Jourgensen, could not attend but chatted with the others on a speaker phone.
"I guess I'm not surprised," said Markey, adding that the all-women board was bound to happen eventually.
Markey, 77, served on the Boulder County board from 1974 through 1981and is now a Castle Pines resident.
"This is historic," said Heath, a 75-year-old Boulder resident who served on the county board from 1982 through 1990 and now is president of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County.
Heath said of the three women now on the board: "Not one of them is a token. These are accomplished, capable professionals." Mendez agreed, saying, "They're all smart and caring and bright and talented."
Boulder resident Jones -- who until recently was the executive director of the Colorado Environmental Coalition -- succeeds Commissioner Will Toor in the county board's District 1 seat after having won election in November. Toor, who served eight years on the board, was term-limited and could not seek re-election.
Longmont resident Gardner, an accountant, was appointed to fill a vacancy in the board's District 2 seat a year ago after Commissioner Ben Pearlman resigned to become Boulder County attorney. Gardner won election to a full four-year term in November.
Lafayette resident Domenico, who represents District 3 on the board, is midway through a four-year term. She was Boulder County assessor before being appointed in July 2007 to fill the seat vacated by Commissioner Tom Mayer's death. She won election to the rest of Mayer's term in 2008 and won re-election in 2010.
Domenico, Gardner and Jones all are Democrats, as is Toor.
"I'm very excited" about working with both Jones and Domenico, Gardner said before Tuesday's meeting. She said the trio already has begun discussions of "strategic visioning" for what they'd like to see in county government's future.
Domenico, who was named by Jones and Gardner to continue as the board's chairwoman for the coming year, said that while Boulder County reportedly wasn't the first Colorado county to have an all-female board, it's believed to be the only one currently.
Domenico said that while she's also excited about serving with Jones and Gardner, she doesn't want to downplay the experiences she's had when two males -- Toor and Pearlman -- held the other two board seats.
"I really respect the colleagues I've served with," Domenico said.
Before the official swearing-in ceremonies witnessed by a standing-room-only crowd in downtown Boulder's old County Courthouse, Toor reviewed highlights from his eight years on the board. Toor starts work Friday as the director of transportation programs for the Boulder-based Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.
After Chief Boulder County District Judge Roxanne Bailin administered the oaths of office to Jones and Gardner, Domenico and Gardner delivered a "State of the County" presentation, reviewing what they said had been county government accomplishments during the past year.
Jones, meanwhile, said she looks forward to working with the other two board members on such Boulder County issues and challenges as oil-well fracking, climate change, the need for transit improvements, achieving healthy and sustainable food production on lands farmers lease from the county, and addressing problems like school students' achievement gaps and people who are living in poverty.
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The Seattle Times has the NPD's latest U.S. sales figures, showing game sales fell 28% in May (to $516.5 million), with hardware sales down 39% from 2011 ($138.9 million). The good news is this does not include digital sales, downloads, and microtransactions, and they say: "NPD estimates that digital sales were around $420 million, which would boost overall U.S. game spending to $1.17 billion." They also have a sales chart showing Diablo III at number one, and say: "A bright spot was PC game sales, which rose 230 percent, driven by the release of 'Diablo III.' It was the top-selling game in May, the first time a PC game topped the charts since July 2010, NPD said in its release."
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you know im reading this; and im thinking (generally NEVER a good thing) maybe another BIG AO meet would be cool. I dont know if anyone would be intrested; as sooo many of the meets seem to fart out these days; or be shams to get people to a starving feild.
Just a thought; and while not that old; i definatly have been roaming more than most on AO these days ( not as long as many of you however)
Tom was the last of a now extinct breed, a breed of players who build a community, a breed of owners who gave to the sport never taking more than what they deserved. I hope to see you at the feild again some day....
ahhhh my last post, sujesting another big meet; yeah it was post 666 for me, that cant be a good sign!
Well now we need to do it
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I was just wondering if you saw what happened to Maryland again this year.
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Yes. Rough year for the Terps. But our B-Ball team looks decent!Originally Posted by Automaggin2
I've been here for a while(joined soon after AGD takeover). Every once in a while I see a post I want to contribute to, but I've never been an extremely active poster.
Back to the top! Anyone else around.....
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i still read some posts here every once in awhile. cant believe that i still recognize some of the names.
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Don't know if I'm "old" enough to be an old timer... but I've been here awhile I think...
Talk about a damn necropost from hell though..... You went WAYYYYY back there 1DE!!!
Wow!!! I'm a spring chicken I spose.... 2004!!!! No way!! I swear I lurked here for much longer!!!
I joined in Jan/Feb of 2001, but then there was a database crash and a whole bunch of user names got lost. The site was down for like a month if I remember correctly.
That's why you see so many people with join dates of May 2001. They are most all recoveries from the db crash.
<---Should be banned for circumventing the cuss filter.
I read all those old posts from 05, and was like "woah, out of the wood work"
Then realized they were infact from 05...
2yrs later, and still terrible.
^^Same here. Took me 'til the second page.
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bless, support, and never forget the troops
God bless my cousin: Cprl. Peter J. Giannopoulos K.I.A. 11/11/04 in Latifiyah, Babil Provence, Iraq.
How cares.
Aw, the good ol' days...like when I got banned and had to meet TK to get out of it (and boy was he surprised when he met me)...oh well..
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No one drinks before 10...its a continuation from the night before. Any sleep lasting less than two hours is considered a nap...and, when you go to sleep drunk, then wake up drunk, its only a "break".
X-mag #10. Nuff said.
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Be True—Be Blue—Be Norse! Enjoy a full day of football, food, fellowship, and fun with Luther alumni, parents, and friends of the college.
Enjoy a picnic lunch-catered by U-2 BBQ-from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The picnic is sponsored by Bank of the West and the Luther Alumni Office.
At 1:00 p.m. the Luther football team matches up against Wheaton College.
Cost for the picnic and admission to the football game is $2.00 per adult; children are free. RSVP is required—you may register online, or by calling the Luther College Alumni Office 563-387-1861.
Kids can order a free "True. Blue. Norse." game pass t-shirt in advance of the event, which will allow free admission to all regular season Norse athletic events in the 2012-13 school year! Free t-shirts for the kids are sponsored by Bank of the West and Luther College. T-shirt orders must be received before Monday, September 10, 2012, and must be picked-up on game day at the picnic site.
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The University of Alabama has again seen a record-breaking year for student enrollment with 34,852 students arriving on campus this fall, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2012.
The University of Alabama has again seen a record-breaking year for student enrollment with 34,852 students arriving on campus this fall, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2012.
The enrollment figures released Thursday show an increase of 1,250 students from fall 2012. The student body this fall includes 29,443 undergraduates and 5,409 graduate and first professional students.
The record enrollment this fall continues a trend of rapid growth at UA during the past decade.
Enrollment in 2003 was 20,333, including 15,892 undergraduates and 4,441 graduate and first professional students, according to UA enrollment reports.
Boosting enrollment was among the 10-year strategic plan goals of UA System Chancellor Robert Witt, then president of UA, in 2003. At the time, Witt said he wanted UA's enrollment to be 28,000 by 2013. UA's administration also highlighted the academic talents of the student body.
The fall 2013 freshman class of 6,478 students includes 1,768 who had a 4.0 or higher GPA in high school and 1,741 who scored in the top 5 percent on the ACT, according to information released by UA. The average ACT score of 25.8 for the class was also a historic high for UA. The university has more than 600 National Merit Scholars, including 126 in the freshman class.
"The University of Alabama is attracting students who are successful both inside and outside the classroom," said UA President Judy Bonner. "Our incoming students are very well qualified. Many first-year students have already completed AP, International Baccalaureate or dual enrollment college courses, and we are pleased that they are choosing UA to pursue their goals."
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Huskers Swim Past Illini in Champaign
Champaign, Ill. - The Nebraska swimming and diving team defeated conference opponent Illinois 194-106 on Saturday at the Illini's ARC Pool. The Huskers improved to 11-1 on the season following the victory.
The Huskers started strong once again, winning the 200-yard medley relay by nearly four seconds. The team of Hayley Martin, Shannon Guy, Taryn Collura, and Ariel Weech finished in a time of 1:41.63.
Bailey Pons (10:22.01) and Morgan Flannigan (10:25.01) built off of that momentum, placing first and second, respectively, in the meet's second event, the 1,000-yard freestyle. Pons would later add a victory in the 500-yard freestyle, clocking in at 4:59.86.
Taryn Collura continued to shine in the sprint freestyle events, winning both the 50-yard (23.41) and 100-yard (51.03) freestyles.
Shannon Guy also added two victories on the day, winning the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.63) and 100-yard butterfly (56.56).
In the diving well, Amy Herman won both the one-meter (275.92) and three-meter (294.68) dives. Nicole Schwery and Kailey Harmon placed second and third, respectively, in both events.
The meet's final event saw Nebraska win the 400-yard freestyle relay in a time of 3:27.23. The team consisted of Taryn Collura, Hayley Martin, Shannon Guy, and Kelly Dunn.
Other Husker winners on the day were Hayley Martin in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.09) and Ellan Dufour in the 200-yard backstroke (2:02.26). Martin added a second place finish in the 100-yard freestyle while Dufour added one in the 100-yard backstroke.
Alison Meng, Kathleen Knight, Erica Lynn, and Sarah Sykstus were the four winners for Illinois on the day. The Illini fell to 2-4 on the season with the loss.
Overall, the Huskers won 12 of the meet's 16 events, improving to 2-4 all-time against the Illini.
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LONGMONT -- A pickup veered off Hygiene Road on Tuesday afternoon, struck a power pole and loosened a power line that snagged a bicycle atop the car of Longmont Mayor Dennis Coombs, who was traveling behind the pickup.
Coombs said he was traveling east on Hygiene Road just east of 75th Street when a pedestrian waved for him to slow his car. At that moment, Coombs felt a rough torque on his car. The power line, which had been hanging about 8 feet above the pavement, had caught Coombs' bicycle, which was on a rack on top of the mayor's 2002 Saturn L200.
He said the collision with the line damaged his bike rack and the roof of his car.
"I was more worried about my bike than the car," said Coombs, who was wearing his cycling gear and was returning from what he described as "an epic morning of mountain biking" at Hall Ranch. He was not injured in the accident.
According to Trooper Anthony Tarantino of Colorado State Patrol, a white Toyota Tacoma traveling east veered off the south side of the road and struck a power pole at about 1:30 p.m.
Jim Wright, who was doing maintenance work at a nearby church, said he heard a thud and then a grinding sound.
"I came running out when I heard the crash and the grinding," he told the Times-Call.
He said he checked on the driver of the truck and that "there wasn't a scratch on him." He said the man told him that he had fallen asleep at the wheel.
"At least he hit an inanimate object," Coombs said.
Authorities kept Hygiene Road closed while a Longmont Power & Communications crew repaired the line.
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Amon Hen 57
Amon Hen 57 is the fifty-seventh issue of the Amon Hen journal by The Tolkien Society. It was published in August 1982.
- Reprinted by kind permission of The Tolkien Society and the named cover artist(s) - all rights reserved.
See also
- Amon Hen, the Hill of Sight, the place the journal is named after
- List of Amon Hen issues
- Amon Hen cover art gallery
- Mallorn, another, and more academic, journal of The Tolkien Society


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We're just a few weeks from the trade deadline and this could be a big one. Although some teams will end up being neither buyers nor sellers, it's worth noting that generally franchises have more flexibility when it comes to trading players than ever before. The new CBA allows teams to keep some of a player's salary/cap hit when they part ways and it will be interesting to see how that impacts things and if we end up with more teams capable of taking on major players from struggling squads with big salaries.
Such moves are likely to alter many players' fantasy values, but for now, let's take a look at some of the moves you can make in the calm before the potential storm…
Justin Peters (G – Carolina Hurricanes) – When Peters was called up after Cam Ward sprained his MCL, it was assumed he would serve as Dan Ellis' understudy. However, Peters took advantage of an illness to Ellis early on and now has a 2.35 GAA and .926 save percentage in three starts. Peters will turn 27 in August, so it would be a bit of a stretch to call him a prospect, but he has been solid in the minors and in brief past NHL stints. Carolina is a strong team offensively this season, so it's worth it to grab Peters and see if he'll end up splitting the goaltending duties evenly with Ellis during Ward's absence.
Joffrey Lupul (LW/RW – Toronto Maple Leafs) – Lupul is a bit of a special case. He's owned in 49% of Yahoo! leagues, which makes him more popular than the guys I typically like to feature in this column. However, I consider Lupul a special case because he really should be owned in just about every standard league, so if he's floating around in the free agent market, now is the time to grab him. At the time of writing, he's probable for Saturday's game after missing nearly two months with an arm injury. Even if he doesn't end up playing on Saturday, he should return very soon. Lupul had 67 points in 66 games last season, in part because the Leafs gave him a chance to play on their top line with Phil Kessel. The fact that they felt Lupul was worthy of a five-year, $26.25 million extension suggests he's going to continue to get plenty of ice time in Toronto. Don't hesitate to take a chance on him as he could give you a nice boost at the end of the season. And if you do already own him and are like me, who likes to pick up a new player to stash your IR slot before you're forced to activate the current occupant, I suggest Vladimir Tarasenko if he's available. He's concussed, but the reports lately have been very encouraging.
Brent Burns (D – San Jose Sharks) – Here's an even bigger head scratcher for me: Burns is only owned in 30% of Yahoo! leagues. Granted, Burns has missed significant parts of this season, but he's healthy now – and playing as a forward! Let's put it this way: If the Sharks move him to back to the blueline, he'll be one of the better offensive defensemen in the league now that he's healthy. If he gets to continue playing as a forward while retaining eligibility as a defenseman, he's a steal.
Brad Boyes (C/RW – New York Islanders) – At this point, Boyes has to be one of the best overlooked players out there. He's only owned in 19% of Yahoo! Leagues, despite having seven goals and 23 points in 27 games. It's not hard to see why that is. Most people have forgotten his success in St. Louis and remember his disastrous 2011-12 campaign with the Buffalo Sabres. However, the Islanders have a knack for giving deserving forwards an opportunity to shine and Boyes is the latest to reward that trust. He's been given playing time with John Tavares and that's helped his resurgence. If you've been scared to pick him up because you assume he'll eventually cool off, don't be.
Adam Henrique (C – New Jersey Devils) – The Devils needed Adam Henrique to be a big part of their offense this season and for the most part, he hasn't let them down. He has nine goals and 13 points in 23 games, which are solid, but not glowing numbers, hence the fact that he's only owned in 21% of Yahoo! leagues. However, his point-per-game rate has been dragged down by a terrible stretch in late February that corresponded with the worst of the Devils' slump (he had just one point in eight games). He's bounced back in a big way with five goals and six points in eight games this month. He's worth taking as a short-term option if nothing else, but it certainly wouldn't be shocking if he ends up recording 0.7-0.8 points per game for the rest of the season as the Devils battle fiercely for a playoff spot and positioning.
Andrew Cogliano (C/LW – Anaheim Ducks) – Cogliano scored 18 goals and 45 points in 82 as a rookie and from a purely fantasy production perspective, his career has been a largely downhill slope ever since. This year, though, he's one of the causes of the Anaheim Ducks' success. He has 10 goals, 17 points, and a plus-15 rating in 26 games this season and his numbers look even better in March (five goals, eight points, plus-nine in eight contests). You can't count on him maintaining his season point-per-game pace, let alone his March level of production. Still, if you like to take a chance on guys who are riding a hot streak, you won't find many available who have done better than Cogliano lately.
Jake Muzzin (D – Los Angeles Kings) – The Kings gave Muzzin a shot this season and he's been running with it. Muzzin has five goals and 11 points in 23 games, with eight of those points coming this month. At worst, he's a hot defenseman to take a chance on as a short-term pickup, but it's worth remembering Muzzin put up solid numbers in the minors as well. He's also averaging a respectable 2:09 power-play minutes per game with the Kings, making him someone you might end up hanging onto for the remainder of the season.
Lars Eller (C – Montreal Canadiens) – As the season progresses, the Montreal Canadiens have been putting more and more faith in Eller. He's averaged 12:21, 14:17, and 16:17 minutes per game in January, February, and March, respectively. In turn, he's rewarded the Canadiens with increased production, especially in March, when he's scored two goals and six points in seven games. Eller is the type of player who will also provide you with a moderate number of PIMs, and – thanks to the Canadiens' overall success – a solid plus/minus rating. So while we don't expect him to get much more than 0.6 points per game for the rest of the season, he will still have some use to fantasy owners looking for a well-rounded forward.
Devin Setoguchi (RW – Minnesota Wild) – Setoguchi couldn't have gotten off to a worse of a start this season. He had just two assists in his first 10 games and spent some time on the fourth line as a result. However, he's put that behind him and for the first time in years, he's living up to expectations with seven goals and 12 points in his last 16 contests. He's been sharp for long enough now that we feel it's worth taking a shot on him in the hope that he'll provide you about 0.6 to 0.7 points per game for the rest of the season with half of them being goals. Just keep in mind he's unlikely to get much playing time with the Wild's big three of Dany Heatley, Zach Parise, and Mikko Koivu.
Patrick Wiercioch (D – Ottawa Senators) – Wiercioch is more of a mention for deeper leagues and particularly keeper leagues. He has quietly put up three goals and nine points in 23 games as a rookie. That comes after recording a strong 10 goals and 19 points in 32 AHL contests. Wiercioch also isn't afraid to fire the puck, as evidenced by his 42 shots on goal in 23 games with Ottawa and that's been paying off recently. Perhaps the most appealing stat is that Wiercioch is tied for the Senators' lead in power-play points with six. Look for him to get about 0.3 to 0.4 points per game for the rest of the season as long as he keeps getting opportunities with the man advantage.
Sergei Bobrovsky (G – Columbus Blue Jackets) – I'm not a believer in the Columbus Blue Jackets. I think lately they've been hot as opposed to having genuinely turned a corner. Consequently, I have a hard time putting too much faith into Bobrovsky. I'll say this, though: A hot goaltender on the free agent market is rare and they don't get any hotter than Bobrovsky lately. He's still available in 62% of Yahoo! leagues and if you need a goaltender – let's face it, most do – then he's at least worthy of a short-term pickup. Just don't expect a ton of wins out of him.
Magnus Paajarvi (RW – Edmonton Oilers) – If you're in the mood to take a chance on a youngster who might have turned a corner, Paajarvi is as good an option as any. The former 10th pick overall has been slow to establish himself with the Edmonton Oilers, but he held his own while playing in the AHL during the lockout and lately he's made some positive strides. He has three goals and five points in six games this season. Part of that can be attributed to him getting paired up with Sam Gagner, who has been tied to Paajarvi's last four points, but it might be more than that. If nothing else, he's worth keeping an eye on to see if this hot streak can turn into something more.


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2011 Two Part Riddles Contest Announced
May 01, 2011
For the fourth year running, the Contest Team has brought back its Two Part Riddles Contest over the months of May and June. This year, to make it even easier to remember when riddles will be posted, the Contest Team have started up a Facebook page. If you "like" the page, you will receive updates and reminders on your news feed.
Part One of the contest will take place during May and you are invited to
submit a riddle that relates to a person, place or thing found in the
Harry Potter books. You may submit
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e-mail to [email protected] by 25 May, 2011 at 11:59pm EDT with "2011 Riddle Entries" in the subject line. Please include either a real or Leaky Lounge name to be used for authorship.
The contest team will select the best riddles from the entries to have 10 riddles to post. The team will also write and post riddles to fill in any needs. From these 10 riddles, a new riddle will be posted in the Contest Corner and on the Facebook page each Monday and Friday at 9am EDT during the month of June, for Part Two of the contest.
In June, all answers must be e-mailed with "2011 Riddle # Answer" in the subject line to [email protected] before the next riddle is posted. Please also submit a name (real name or Leaky Lounge name) to be used for tracking and site announcement (if you should win) purposes. Please replace the # with the riddle number (e.g. Riddle 1 Answer, Riddle 2 Answer, etc). Please do not post your answer in any form or way on the Leaky Lounge and Facebook.
All contestants' riddle entries used in June (this excludes riddles created by the contest team) and all people who submit correct answers for all the riddles will be placed into a drawing for one of three Wizard Wood Wands.
You can find the full rules for both parts of the contest, the schedule for when the riddles will be posted and more details here on the 2011 Two Part Riddles Contest page.
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I used to get up early every summer morning to check my tomato plants for tell-tale signs of these tiny green eating machines. In those days, I bought in to all of the hype about how terrible Manduca sexta were, one of several in the moth family.
I used to get up early every summer morning to check my tomato plants for tell-tale signs of these tiny green eating machines. In those days, I bought in to all of the hype about how terrible Manduca sexta were, one of several in the moth family.
There are more than 1,200 species of these moths worldwide. Roughly 125 species can be seen regularly in North America. According to University of Missouri Extension, they are also called "hawk," "sphinx" and "hummingbird" moths. When in caterpillar stage, they are called hornworms.
For several weeks mid-summer, hornworm caterpillars consume large amounts of plant leaves including tomato, peppers, potatoes and sometimes eggplant, on their way to adulthood.
There are two hornworms often mistaken for each other. Tomato hornworms have eight V-shaped marks on each side of their body and a straight black horn on the rear. They are similar in appearance to tobacco hornworms, which have 7 diagonal white lines with a curved red horn. Both have a line of false eyes along their sides.
Once hornworm caterpillars reach around 4 inches, they drop into soil and hibernate in a pupa stage before turning into moths a few weeks later.
Hornworms are strong flyers, often visible daytime hovering in front of flowers to feed on flower nectar. When I first saw one, I thought it was a baby hummingbird. After taking several pictures, I noticed the lovely little "bird" had six legs instead of two.
I started to second-guess my habit of picking off caterpillars the summer I found a potted orange tree on my deck covered in what, at first, looked like bird poop. Once I had my glasses on, I saw those little brown and white mounds were actually Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars – dozens and dozens of them – eating the leaves.
Moths are butterfly's night cousins. Like butterflies and bees, they are also pollinators helping to maintain, and expand, flower populations.
According to the University of Florida Entomology Department, wasp houses can be added to product fields to help keep hornworm populations in check. Wasps, also important pollinators, lay eggs on caterpillars and larvae basically eat the hornworms as larvae evolves.
I can understand how someone could get distraught over prized tomatoes loosing all of their leaves to ravenous caterpillars that can grow up to 4 inches long. For the record, my tomato plants quickly recovered from their temporary defoliation. I did loose a few green tomatoes but I picked those off so they didn't stress the plants.
As more of their native habitat disappears, caterpillars like tobacco hornworms are going to turn to our handy tomato plants to survive. Now I plant extra tomato plants to make sure these caterpillars have enough to eat, and I look forward to seeing them flying among my flowers.
And in case you were wondering, I still seem to have enough tomato
plants, and tomatoes, to go around.
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is a certified gardener sharing gardening tips in a changing climate at http://www.gardeningcharlotte.com. Copyright 2013 used with permission by Rolla Daily News - St. James Leader Journal - Waynesville Daily Guide. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Contact Charlotte at email@example.com.


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Football Thursday is upon us, and most of this week's games are in December, so things are getting serious. Sorry for posting late on Thanksgiving and making things difficult, here's the best I could do to piece together last week's results: Jivaro 11-5, Batman 10-5 (you can take that win from last week, but this time I'm not sure who the "Queens" are), Blue 10-6, Cutter 9-6, and Creston 8-5.
Here goes for this week: Saints, Bears, Texans, Patriots, Bills, Lions, Panthers, Packers, 49ers, Jets, Broncos, Ravens, Bengals, Browns, Cowboys, and Giants.
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More than 30 years ago, Mitchell Energy (now part of Devon Energy Corp.) brought the C.W. Slay No. 1 well into production in Wise County, Texas, just north of Fort Worth. The well, considered the first production in the Barnett shale, marked the dawn of an unconventional era. The shale boom that the well heralded was made possible by technology in the form of three-dimensional seismic surveys, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing--all of which, in turn, depended on high-performance steel.
The steelmaking industry is now reaping the benefits of what it helped sow in the hard, dry soil of north Texas. The shale boom has made natural gas--the cleanest-burning fossil fuel--significantly less expensive, and orders of magnitude more plentiful than at any time since the hydrocarbon era began. With expectations that natural gas will be readily available and at a less-volatile price than in the past, steelmakers are planning new facilities to use natural gas directly at the burner tips, to fire electric power generation, and even as a source of carbon in melt.
For example, Nucor Corp.s $750-million, 2.5-million-ton-per-year direct-reduced iron (DRI) plant nearing completion in St. James Parish, La., will convert natural gas and iron ore pellets into DRI to be used by Nucors steel mills, along with recycled scrap, to produce sheet, plate and special bar steel. The DRI facility is the first of a multiphase plan that may include additional DRI facilities, a coke plant, a blast furnace, a pellet plant and a steel mill. The Charlotte, N.C.-based steelmakers total investment at the site could reach $3 billion and create as many as 1,250 jobs.
The DRI facility was chosen for the first phase of our project, in place of a blast furnace and coke-making facility, because it offers a carbon footprint that is one-third of that for the coke oven/blast furnace route for the same volume of output but at less than half the capital cost, Nucor said when it announced the plant in 2010. While there is some loss or penalty in the value in use that will occur from DRI at the steel plant vs. pig iron usage, the technology improvements that we have introduced and proven at our Trinidad and Tobago DRI plant have significantly reduced that typical penalty. The long-term uncertainty that currently exists on the carbon tax issues in Washington makes this decision a lower-risk option.
Not surprisingly, gas producers are thrilled by the triple dip--fuel, power and carbon benefits--that steel is bringing to gas demand.
We are pleased to see the resurgence in the steel industry, and are proud of the role that natural gas has played in this resurgence, said Daniel Whitten, vice president of strategic communications at Americas Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA). The steel industry is closely tied with the game-changing abundance of North American natural gas, both as a supplier of products used in the production and transmission of natural gas, and as a beneficiary of the broad availability of natural gas at stable and affordable prices.
The Potential Gas Committee (PGC) 2011 estimate of the United States natural gas reserves indicated that the country had a total resource base of 1,898 trillion cubic feet at the end of 2010--the highest resource evaluation in the groups 46-year history. Most of the increase resulted from the re-evaluation of shale gas plays in the Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain areas. At current consumption levels, those reserves represent a more-than-100-year supply, matching the century mark long held exclusively by coal.
Long-term estimates of robust natural gas supplies by the PGC, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the National Petroleum Council and others, as well as price outlooks, suggest growing supplies of natural gas, with increasing demand and stable prices through 2035, based on assurances that utilities, steelmakers and other manufacturers are making long-term decisions to build new facilities.
An in-depth analysis of the new gas-fired economics in manufacturing--including steel--was released by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in September. The findings might come short of a revelation to steelmakers. A lot of the stories in the steel industry to date have centered around labor costs, said Robert McCutcheon, U.S. industrial products leader at PwC, but labor may no longer be the controlling factor. Energy, transportation, access to talent, access to marketsÑthose all may be more important, along with regulation and taxation, of course. That is particularly true for heavy manufacturing, steel and chemicals, for example.
So steelmaking in North AmericaÑwith its ready access to talent, markets, economical energy and short supply chainsÑmight trump whatever labor, tax and regulatory advantages can be found in other global regions. This tsunami of shale gas has changed thinking about energy, manufacturing costs and logistics, McCutcheon said.
The first impulse of globalization might turn out to be wrong, or at least no longer valid, McCutcheon said. Chasing the lowest-cost supply chain has actually created risk. That is particularly true in North America, where energy is the No. 1 factor. By 2025, we found that North American industries, primarily metals and chemicals, can anticipate $11.5 billion in savings due to lower energy costs. That includes decreased volatility, not just low prices in absolute terms. Users of natural gas, either industrial or utilities, said they are not overly concerned about whether the price is $3, $4 or $6 per million British thermal units. What they need is consistency. The ability to control costs by securing either long-term contracts at fixed prices, or at least hedge supply costs within reasonable ranges, is far more important than a few dimes one way or the other on the absolute price.
And that might be the biggest structural change of the shale gas boom. Natural gas producers confirm that at $6 per million Btu, just about every gas field in the United States and most in Canada are profitable. That, in effect, has become the natural ceiling for gas prices in the foreseeable future--a soft ceiling, to be sure, and subject to extremes of weather and logistical problems. But the days of natural gas costing $3 per million Btu one day and $13 per million Btu six months later are thought to be a thing of the past.
As natural gas producers have concentrated on bringing vast new supplies to market, McCutcheon said, steelmakers have been diversifying their base manufacturing to take advantage of commodity cycles: ore, scrap, fuel and power. A blended portfolio, some blast furnace, some electric-arc furnace (EF) and some DRI, may turn out to be the most flexible and economical, he said. Local and regional variations will change that calculus, but the blended model is likely to become the ideal. It is fair to say that into the future, most market participants will have some blend.
Steelmakers themselves agree in general with the thrust of the natural gas emergence, but they have a slightly different perspective on the priorities.
My members see three advantages to cheap and plentiful natural gas, Steel Manufacturers Association president Thomas Danjczek said. First is the reduction in the direct cost to produce a ton of steel. Second is the overall capital costs, environmental and availability of power. Third is that we sell into the businessÑtubulars, of course, but many other forms as well.
Between an (electric-arc furnace) and reheat, steelmakers use about 3 million Btu per ton of steel. Even if gas is $5 per million Btu, as opposed to $10 per million Btu, as it has been in the past, that is a $15 per ton savings, Danjczek said. Sometimes our profit is not that good. That said, price is not the most important factor. It is the volatility. We dont do well with spikes.
What many people do not realize, Danjczek said, is that in the gas boom, steel in general and EF operators in particular dodged a bullet. We had been very concerned about the cost of an even availability of power. For arc-furnace operators, power is the second-greatest cost, after raw materials. Certainly the emergence of natural gas power plants has replaced the coal-fired units that have been shut down for environmental reasons. Now, power is readily available across the country. That is an absolute benefit of natural gas.
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Robert Downey Jr. has a daughter on the way.
"Yo. Susan. Me. Baby. Girl. November. Scorpio?" the actor tweeted Wednesday.
So ... I guess that means he and wife Susan Downey are expecting their second child together.
Either that, or they just hired a really young maid.
Married for nine years, the couple had son Exton Elias on Feb. 7, 2012. Downey also has a 20-year-old son, Indio, from his first marriage.
The "Iron Man" actor made the announcement on Facebook, too.
"Um. I don't know if it's a 'man's world', but I'm certain women run it. Susan and I are therefore delighted to announce we are expecting a baby. Girl. November. rdj"
Downey's rep confirmed the big news.
According to E! News, Downey talked about the kind of father he pictured himself being shortly after Exton was born.
"Do I want to be a hero to my son? No," Downey told Esquire. "I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. Hero, to me, is not applicable to the human experience."
Easy for Iron Man to say.
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One Million Pillowcase Challenge 3Q Featured Fabric 2011
We've put together a cheerful assortment of color options for Pillowcase Patterns 17 and 18. Ask for these featured fabrics at your local quilt shop!
Fabric Line: Body: Tan – Solids for MODA; Binding: American Banner Rose by Minick & Simpson -- Available in September 2011.
Westminster [4]
Fabric Line: Habitat by Jay McCarroll for Free Spirit
Northcott [7]
Fabric Line: Girlfriends At Sea by Jody Houghton – Available in September 2011.
Michael Miller [10]
Fabric Line: Body: Krystal; Binding: Nearby Floral
Paintbrush Studios [13]
Robert Kaufman [16]
Fabric Line: Mixmasters-Luminescence by Patrick Lose
Westminster [22]
Fabric Line: Fairlyte Garden by Melissa White for Rowan
Northcott [25]
Fabric Line: Mums the Word Metallic – Available in September 2011.
Michael Miller [27]
Fabric Line: Body: Hearts & Flowers; Band: Tiny Flowers and Mini Mikes - Tiny Gingham
To see more fabrics from Michael Miller, click here! [11] [28]
Paintbrush Studios [30]
Fabric Line: Love Grows by Sharon Holland Designs
Robert Kaufman [32]
Fabric Line: Treasures & Tidbits by Piece O' Cake Designs
Featured Designer – Art of Possibility Studios [35]
Jazz City for Free Spirit Fabrics
This pillowcase, donated to the 1 Million Pillowcase Project, journeyed its first three stories before reaching its recipient.
First, the "Jazz City" fabric itself is a story: designed from the fine art of a blind man and a deaf woman, both Art of Possibility artists, their creative communion resulted in a stunning 16-piece collection that puts the fun in funky. The artists, whose physical limitations strongly compromise their ability to contribute, are able to share their gifts in the visual arts with quilters and home sewers.
The next story is deeply personal: a story of friendship. When approached to donate a pillowcase, Art of Possibility founder Ketra Oberlander leaped at the idea of sharing. Blind herself, she understands both the marginalization of a physical barrier and the drive to participate. Unable to sew herself, she called a quilter friend. Her friend was quick to accept the offer of a sewing project, despite her own busy life. The handiwork that details this beautiful pillowcase is by Chris Koltermann.
Now, Chris runs a business, has a husband and two kids, sits on the school board, is active in her quilt guild and her kids' enrichment activities (including being a Girl Scout leader and project leader for 4H), and between the time Ketra asked and Chris completed the project, she logged thousands of miles on a family trip and confronted a dramatic, scary family medical emergency. Yet she sewed. And when she got up from the sewing machine, project completed, she wrote the preface for what will be the third story:
"You know, this would be a great 4H and Girl Scouts sewing project for the kids," Chris concluded.
Chris created this basic pillowcase using Jazz City fabric from Free Spirit.
For more information on this fabric, click here! [36]
Featured Designer – Mark Cesarik [39]
"This was a great project to be a part of, anytime you get to create something that goes towards a cause like this. I made this pillow with my fabric line Calypso Swing and hopefully it gets good use by someone in the future!"
Mark created a basic pillowcase using his Calypso Swing line for Free Spirit Fabric.
For more information on this fabric, click here! [40]