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In a competition traditionally dominated by larger schools, senior Mason Drumm snatched the title of Oklahoma's Outstanding University Jazz Musician of the Year.
Drumm is a Bible major at Oklahoma Christian University and has not only the gift of ministry, but also the gift of music. When asked about his motivations, Drumm speaks of a love for God partnered with a love for people that keeps him wanting to teach wherever he plays. Although he has played in many venues, including with a live band, Drumms' primary passion is clear.
"Even though I'm a musician, I feel like God is calling me to focus my attention more on ministry," Drumm said. "What's great about ministry is that it can be done anywhere and everywhere, and it should."
Drumm is devoted to the cause of Christ.
"As I'm out on a gig I'm also building relationships," Drumm said. "And my hope is that through drumming I might be able to talk with people about Jesus. This is especially needed in the music culture that I'm a part of. Plus, I love drumming for God."
Drumm has been playing the drums since he was 11 years old and has a special appreciation for jazz music.
"The history of [jazz]—the artists, the culture and, of course, the music itself—I think I liked it because it offered me something different," Drumm said. "Most drummers, especially young ones, think drumming is all about playing loud and fast. Jazz sort of flips that idea on its head, and drumming becomes part of making music instead of trying to be impressive."
Drumm was "discovered" at his middle school by Oklahoma Christian Professor of Music Heath Jones, who was also a clinician working with school bands.
"[Drumm] was a strong Christian when I met him," Jones said. "[Drumm] said, 'You work at a Christian university? … I always wanted to go to a Christian university.' I said, 'Well, look no further,' and he came as soon as he was able to. This shows what kind of a person Mason is, a strong Christian and a great musician."
The work ethic Drumm maintains toward ministry is the same kind of energy he brings to his music career. Consequently, Drumm won the title of college jazz musician of the year, an honor given by Oklahoma Music Educator's Convention to the most qualified student musician in the state.
Every year Oklahoma educators meet at a music convention and select the student they believe to be the best for multiple age ranges. Drumm's election as best university musician is not only a great honor for him, but is also a first in Oklahoma Christian history.
This is the first time an Oklahoma Christian student has won the statewide award.
The area's larger bands have historically dominated the title, but this year Drumm beat them all.
Usually Oklahoma Christian's jazz band performs at the high school competition as an exhibition group, creating feedback for Drumm's musicianship.
Drumm wants to encourage people to follow their own musical dreams.
"Do it," Drumm said. "Music is different. If you want to go play football or something that's great—but in 30 years will you still be playing? Probably not. But with music, I know guys that are over 70 years old and they still play. It's a special … experience that lasts a lifetime."
Drumm recognizes where his abilities originated.
"My talents and the opportunities and experiences that have opened up to me have all been through the grace of God," Drumm said.
For those contemplating their next step, etiher in music or in ministry, Drumm offered guidance.
"My best advice would be to stay humble and remember Proverbs 3:6, 'In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight,'" Drumm said.
Drumm encourages those who are striving to become better in their ministry.
"Remember where you place your identity," Drumm said. "Your value is based not on how good or bad you are at this or that. Your value comes from being loved by God. Your identity is found in Christ."
By Monica Williams, courtesy of The Talon


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The Nebraska men's golf team announced the addition of Calvin Freeman on Thursday after he signed his national letter of intent for the Huskers.
"He is a strong player with a tremendous work ethic," Head Coach Bill Spangler said. "He has improved greatly the last few years. We look forward to Calvin having an immediate impact here."
Freeman is finishing up his second season at Southeast Community College under the direction of Head Coach Bill Campbell. Last season Freeman finished sixth at nationals to earn first-team All-America honors as a freshman. He also won the Regional IX individual title. This season Freeman helped guide the Storm to the team crown at the SCC Spring Invite, where he won a three-way playoff for individual medalist honors. He added a tie for fourth at the Midland Spring Invite, April 15-16.
Freeman attended high school at Humboldt-Table Rock-Steinauer and finished in the top 10 of the state tournament all four years. At the weather-shortened Class C Championship in 2011, he fired a 72 before losing in a playoff to finish second. Freeman took runner-up honors in 2010 as well, where he shot 144 over two rounds at Kearney Country Club. Freeman finished 10th in both 2009 and 2008, competing at Meadowlark Hills and Kearney Country Club, respectively.


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Huskers Ready for Boost in Competition
Lincoln- The Nebraska cross country team will continue its 2013 season Saturday morning at the Roy Griak Invitational in St. Paul, Minn. The Huskers will compete against more than 30 of the top schools around the country, stretching from coast to coast. The meet will begin at 12:20 p.m. with the NCAA Division 1 schools running first, followed by the women's race.
With teams competing from all around the country, Head Coach David Harris believes Saturday's meet will be a very good test for both the Huskers men's team and women's team.
"I think each meet has led to the next one, I think this is the biggest meet on our schedule." Harris said, "Obviously this isn't the most important one, that is the Big Ten Championships, but as far as a major meet with schools around the countries competing this should be a good test for us. I think the newness and the excitement has definitely caught the attention of the team."
With the Husker men's team opening up with two team victories already this season and the women's team showing an increase in talent, Harris still doesn't quite have a feel for how both teams will fare this season as the competition gets harder. Noting that he does believe both teams are improving from last year's results.
"I think the Woody Greeno gave us a much better indication that we are a much better team than we were last year. The women's team has improved too, but I would feel a lot better if senior Sarah Plambeck was running (injury)." Harris said, "in terms of the men I think we took a step up last week, but we need to forget that and take this week as a new challenge. This is really going to test us, both men's and women's."
Isabel Andrade Looks to Keep Leading the Women's Team
Senior co-captain Isabel Andrade is off to an excellent start to her 2013 season, leading the Husker women at both the Augustana Twilight and the Woody Greeno Invitational.
Andrade placed fourth overall at the Augustana Twilight, running a time of 16:55.70 to help guide the Husker women's team to a second place finish. Then at the Woody Greeno this past weekend, Andrade followed up a valiant performance with yet another tremendous performance in front of the Huskers home crowd. Andrade finished 11th at the Woody Greeno, running a blistering time of 22:48.50.
Coach Harris has taken note of Andrade's performance early on in the 2013 season, crediting Isabel's summer workouts and dedication to the team, which in turn has made her a top runner for the team so far this season.
"I think Isabel's reflection on the season so far is that she put in a lot of hard work during the summer and it is starting to pay off. She is doing exactly what she needs to be doing, which is being a front runner for our women's team." Harris said, "Go out in front, attack the opening part of the race, and hope that the rest of the team goes with her."
Freshmen Joseph Harter and Christian Martin off to a Hot Start
Two freshman that have really stepped their game up so far this season for the Husker men's team are Joseph Harter and Christian Martin. Both have been top-seven runners so far this season, and don't expect that to change as the season moves along.
The reigning Gatorade High School Cross Country Runner of the Year in Nebraska, Harter, has especially impressed Harris this season. As Harris noted, he believes the summer work Harter put in added to his already talented set of skills.
"After we recruited him, I felt like he could definitely help us, whether that was being our third runner, fifth runner, or seventh runner I just felt like he could help us." Harris said, "First of all, he has a lot of talent, and he was willing to work this summer to build on that talent and get better. He is talented enough to be in our top five, and stay in our top five, and he has made a major impact on our team as a freshman."
The Littleton, Colo. native, Martin also has stepped up in a huge way for the Huskers this season, adding valuable depth in the top seven rotation for Nebraska.
"Christian has stepped up his running, which is really big for us. (He) absolutely surprised me with how well he did at the Woody Greeno." Harris said, "Christian was 26 flat, you can call it, and when anytime a freshman runs close to 25 minutes in an 8k, it is really good."
Check back here at Huskers.com for a full meet recap as the Huskers travel to St. Paul, Minn., to compete at the Roy Griak Invitational held by Minnesota University. Results will be posted following the competition on Saturday.


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When the baseball field is too wet to play on, teams are forced to explore other options.
If you play for the Macks Creek Pirates, it means playing in the school parking lot.
That's right.
Blacktop baseball.
"As far as getting outside, we take advantage of the sun when we have it," head coach Jason Trusty said. "If we can get outside and do some throwing, stretch the arms out and do a little drill work with the infield and outfield, it's better than being stuck inside on a gym floor."
With the outfield being in less than desirable playing conditions, the team works their way through fielding drills on the asphalt, practicing in any way they can to prepare for the upcoming season.
"Gym practices suck," senior third basemen Bricker Berry said. "We prefer playing in the parking lot, but we really want to get out on the field more than anything."
The Pirates current "field" brings a new set of challenges, which the team has adjusted to.
"It's very different," Brodi Kinney said. "The ball moves differently, if you fall down, you get pretty scraped up. We've had a lot of falls, scraped legs."
Not to mention avoiding the bus windows.
But the team has accepted the challenges, and seem pleased just to be outside playing the game they love.
Coach Trusty took over the program four years ago, meaning this year's senior class is the first to spend their high school career in his program.
"Before he got here, it wasn't really team," Austin Hufferd said. "We had a different coach every year."
"It was a culture shock when he came," Kinney added. "It's always been a basketball school, and our team had one win in three years. In his first year here, we doubled that."
And this season, the team is prepped and ready, gearing up for the coming season. The team's first game is Tuesday, March 19 against Tuscumbia, and the seniors say they have been rained out of each one of their Tuscumbia games in the past three years.
The team has a number of goals for the season, but they also want to be rational with their expectations.
"I think everyone wants an undefeated season, but I think we can come out with 16 or 17 wins," Kinney said.
"We have to think realistically," Berry said. "I mean, some of the teams we play are tough, and we lost our ace, who moved to Oregon."
But the overall goals are within reach. With the whole season ahead of them, the team's number one hope is to win the district title.
"My boys work hard," Trusty said. "I'd say. right now, that defense will be our bread and butter. We like to play defense-that's my big thing. Offensively, I'm hoping that we flip-flop last year's .263 batting average. Pitching-wise, we'll play whoever has got the hot hand."
Their district is an interesting one, as they will face a tough Stoutland team, who has had the team's number in the past. Also on the lineup is St. Elizabeth, Newburg, Crocker and Tuscumbia.
Whatever the case may, and whatever the season may bring, one thing is certain: Trusty and his Pirates are going to be tough competitors.
They're the pirates of the pavement, able to adapt to any field.


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Read that dripping with sarcasm...
Actually, it was the complete opposite. Looking back, this was probably the fastest thought-up, designed, and executed closet of all time. I'll give props to my wonderful husband for that. More on that in a moment...
Honestly, when we moved into our new home we had some different plans for the closet area. To live with the current closet system in our master bedroom and make it work for both of us for the time being. However, in our new home there is an odd little room (which is meant to be a bedroom) adjacent to our master bedroom. It's far away from the other bedrooms in the house and has no bathroom attached or close-by. It was just a funny little space right next to ours. Maybe meant for a nursery?
We knew we wouldn't want to use that room for a nursery because there is an AWESOME room we have some major nursery plans for in the future... Don't get excited just yet. I'll keep you guys posted when that's on the horizon!
Anyway, literally a few days before we moved in, my husband came up with an idea... "Hey, let's turn that little room next to ours into your closet."
Don't get me wrong, I was excited he was into it. But I've never been a fan of making another non-closet room into a closet. Why? Because usually it's unhandy and obviously a bedroom (ahem, not a closet). But it almost instantly kind of clicked... WHYYY had I not thought of that before??
Like I said, it's adjacent to our room, not near any other bedrooms, and in the little area of our master bedroom entry. Which means it is SUPER handy. Plus, the size of the room is perfect for a walk-in. It just made sense. Honestly, it's closer to the entry of the bedroom than the actual master closet (It's sort of behind the bathroom near our vanity areas).
Plus, it was kind of nice to think I would have plenty of room to film in the closet again!
If any of you have been here since the beginning, you may remember me filming in my walk-in closet of our first place when I started my YouTube channel 5 YEARS AGO! Wow, time files... Anyway, back then, people were a little weirded out by me filming in there. It was seriously the most talked about thing where my channel was concerned. Seems the idea kind of grew on people after a while and it became sort of my "thing". Then when we moved to our last place, people really missed it! Truthfully, I really did too. So now I'm so excited to be back in there. It just feels right again.
So I have all of my filming stuff in there as well. See, when you get a closet like this pulled together in 3 days, something suffers a bit. And my vanity/filming area would be it...haha. I decided to focus on the area that would actually be seen in videos. I actually did set up all my makeup in my Alex 6-drawer storage units I showed a while back in my Makeup Organization & Collection video. It's all organized exactly the same.
So back to the closet...
When we then started brainstorming closet systems. I knew if we were going to do it, we were going to do it right. Hiring someone to come install a custom closet system of that size would have cost a small fortune, so we knew we were going to tackle it ourselves. Because most stores do not carry anything like what we wanted, we knew it was going to be tricky. Then Ikea saved the day... Doesn't it always?
You may or may not know that Ikea is definitely not one of our favorite places. They have AWESOME stuff. But I HATE... I HAAATE...going there. My husband may have some stronger words for his feelings about it. So one evening, we trekked to Ikea and loaded up the closet system.
We chose the Pax system. Before going to the store, we measured the area and compared to the measurements of the pieces of the Pax system online. We planned the whole thing from home, figured out the pieces we needed, and went into the store armed and ready with our little handy list.
Not going to bore you with the details of that trip, but lets just say I loaded up my half of the system (all 300lbs of it) on my cart... which broke half way to the checkout line. Think square wheels. Complete cart breakdown.
So long story short... Brad is a trooper and put the whole thing together in two nights. And it is perfect.
Waylon decided to oversee the project.
...and sometimes, fell asleep on the job.
Overall, I think he was pleased with the result. ...and the chandelier.
I'm also LOVING that we were able to use my old office cabinets that I love, but wasn't really feeling in the new office space here.
My Hemnes glass door cabinet now works PERFECTLY as purse storage...
The two Hemnes bookcases on either side work perfectly for sweaters, jeans, scarves, anything.
Oh and alllll the shoe storage...
Since there's so much space in the middle of the room, I'm thinking of maybe adding a storage island or something. Not sure yet. But I'll keep you updated!
Who doesn't love a pup in an armoire?
Here's a little handy resource list of where other items are from you may be curious about:
Jewelry armoire: Pier 1
Mirrored jewelry box: Z Gallerie
Chandelier: Home Depot
Glass necklace dome: Pottery Barn
White mirror: Target
Vanity: Pier 1
Mannequin: Pottery Barn Teen
Rug: Overstock
For a FULL TOUR of the entire closet, don't miss my video tour below!
Hope you guys love it :)


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The White County Board unanimously passed a resolution of support for the Illinois Oil and Gas Industry and its use of fracking in the Illinois Oil Basin during its regular meeting Tuesday night.
The White County Board unanimously passed a resolution of support for the Illinois Oil and Gas Industry and its use of fracking in the Illinois Oil Basin during its regular meeting Tuesday night.
A representative of the industry, Kevin Raymer, made a presentation to the board that explained how hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," works in drilling for oil and natural gas. He explained new technologies that will allow the drillers to now drill horizontally, not just vertically, which will greatly increase the amount of resources removed from the ground.
Raymer requested the board pass a resolution of support for the industry so it could be sent to the Illinois Legislature to show the members southern Illinois supports the industry and its use of fracking.
Raymer fielded a number of questions from board members. One board member asked about increased truck traffic on county roads when water is hauled in for this process. He recommended the county highway engineer meet with the individual drillers and work out an agreement to be passed by the board for any damages that may occur from increased traffic in a given area.
He also addressed claims made by some that the process will pollute the water table. Raymer disputed those claims and said sworn testimony to the U.S. Congress by an EPA analyst revealed that the agency could not link any one cause to water table pollutants.
He also told the board the industry brought more than 60,000 jobs to rural Pennsylvania where many gas reserves are found and was hopeful southern Illinois would see the kind of employment and revenue gains that were realized in Pennsylvania.
Raymer said the new type of wells take a lot of technology and science to operate and can cost as much as $12 million to drill one well. However, unlike vertical drilling, where a series of wells are often drilled that cover a lot of ground, only one new type of well is needed for every 640 acres of ground.
In other county board news, Sheriff Doug Maier was asked by board member Mike Ray about a $4,000 expense for a new water heater at the jail. Maier explained the old unit had been in place since the jail was built and recently quit working, though it exceeded its expected lifetime.
Maier said the heater is a very large unit and they normally cost around $7,000, but the sheriff credited Jail Administrator Sgt. Randy Cobb with shopping around until he found a unit for much less money.
In his monthly report submitted in writing to the board, it was noted the jail generated $175,514.39 in revenue last month, with just more than $166,000 being paid by the federal government for federal prisoner keep and just more than $4,600 from Gallatin County for housing their prisoners.
The board also approved the appointment of Owen Garner to Hawthorne Drainage District 2 and the reappointment of David Port, David Campbell, Roy Kissel and Steve Hartsock to the Greater Wabash Regional Planning Commission.
The board also approved a federal aid agreement for work on a bridge in Gray Township about 1.5 miles north of Calvin over French Creek.


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Cloudera has announced the general availability of Cloudera Search and an accompanying add-on RTS (Real-time Search) subscription. This product represents the first fully integrated search engine for interactive exploration of data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Apache HBase.
NOTE: Apache HBase is the Hadoop database and as such is a distributed big data store.
Cloudera suggests that "for years now" we have seen databases attempting to provide "search as a feature" in their platforms — although the company says that this approach was largely abandoned in favor of acquiring independent search products that require their own infrastructure, integration, and expertise.
But, and it's a big but, Hadoop's flexibility makes it well suited for search, and consequently, a better general-purpose platform for data exploration than relational databases.
VP of produts at Cloudera Charles Zedlewski explains that Cloudera Search enables natural language keyword searches and "faceted navigation" without additional training or advanced programming knowledge.
Key features include scalable Index Storage in HDFS, batch Indexing via MapReduce for scalable index creation of data stored in HDFS, and HBase comparable to MapReduce. There is also real-time indexing at collection, which makes events searchable as if they are stored in HDFS and HBase through near real-time indexing features, powered by Apache Flume and the Lily HBase Indexer.
"We've taken what was once a relatively complicated and involved freestanding system, requiring its own hardware and operational model, and turned it into a feature of a larger, more ubiquitous open source platform — CDH. We believe this integrated approach represents a big step forward for users of both Solr and Hadoop," said Zedlewski.
NOTE: The RTS (Real-time Search) subscription is a means of getting technical support, legal indemnification, and "continual influence" over the development of the open source projects involved here.
Also featured is simplified field extraction and cross-platform data processing to enable field extraction of any data that is stored in HDFS using optimized Hadoop file formats, such as Apache Avro . Users can "avoid the pain" that many standalone search solutions impose, by promoting reusable configurations and processing activities with the new processing framework, Cloudera Morphlines.
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As much as I value pre-draft evaluations, the prospect's landing spot is a pivotal part of the process. Few talents can transcend any scheme and impact their team's success. In fact, plenty of starters and contributors at the NFL level only fill certain roles and might not be considered a long term starter at that position. It is all about figuring out where a player wins and giving them a chance to succeed in that area. In this series I will take a look at prospects selected on the third day that could offer an immediate impact thanks to their strengths and situations. I will never call myself an expert on the coverages and schemes that are included, but I am working hard to learn, so feel free to (politely) point me in the right direction. With that said, I cannot recommend this defensive write-up by Jene Bramel enough.
Plenty has been made of Chip Kelly's entrance into the NFL coaching ranks. Outside of the up-tempo offensive style, the finer points of his team's philosophy are still relative unknowns at this point in the process. With Billy Davis set to run the defense, many have pegged the Eagles as a "3-4" team. While 4-3 and 3-4 are general blanket terms, not every three man front is created equal.
When Davis was with the Cardinals, he said this about the team's defensive scheme: "Everybody puts us in that 3-4 category, but what we are is an 'under front, a 4-3 'under' defense. The 'under' is almost a 3-4. As 3-4 [defenses] go, it's not really what we do here."
As Davis explained, the Cardinals' front seven most often resembled an under front (which is explained well here and here). The two obviously have their similarities but there are important distinctions, as those links discuss. Now, does that mean the Eagles will follow that same logic in 2013? No, but expect to see a variety of alignments in the front half of the team's defense. Once again, it is tough to predict Kelly's input on the general philosophy of that side of the ball, so this is can be termed an educated guess.
With that discussion focusing on the front seven, what should we expect from the Eagles coverage-wise? I can only guess based on the moves they have made throughout the offseason. Expect to see some zone concepts with Cary Williams, Bradley Fletcher, Brandon Boykin and Jordan Poyer, but a strict zone system is tough to universally conclude with Curtis Marsh in the picture. I do think, above all, Davis and Kelly will want strong tacklers in their defensive backfield. Basic, yes, but an important trait nonetheless.
Enter fifth-round rookie safety Earl Wolff, a prospect I ranked No. 85 overall prior to the draft. General Manager Howie Roseman has already said he expects Wolff to focus on special teams while learning the safety spot during his rookie year. Because of that, Wolff's impact on the defense might not be immediate, but my expectations are a little higher. I think he showed the tools of a future starter while at N.C. State.
On the point of tackling, Wolff loves to throw his body around, especially when lining up his target on the edge. That same physicality can be seen when closing in coverage, extending his arms to disrupt the catch point and cause an incompletion. Despite those flashes of violence, Wolff also understands when a conservative angle is necessary, specifically when working as the last line of defense from a single high alignment. There are areas of improvement as a tackler, including not recognizing crack back or seal blocks to open the edge, but Wolff is willing and showed a controlled aggression when dipping under blocks or working through trash.
In coverage, Wolff lined up as a pure strong and free safety, showing pre-snap movement when getting in position for each. He will not be the type to press targets at the line of scrimmage, as Wolff tends to keep an arm's length distance when forced to work in man coverage. There were times where this became an issue, as Wolff occasionally bit inside on multiple breaking routes or allowed a completion, albeit with minimal yards after the catch, when tight coverage could have prevented it.
His best work is in zone, since Wolff is very aware of his positioning in short to intermediate passing lanes. On numerous occasions I saw Wolff keep himself on a string and watch the quarterback's eyes to stay in front of an intended receiver and force a second or third read. The Wolfpack safety's lateral recovery speed is much better than when tested vertically, but Wolff understands the shortest distance between two spots is a straight-line and that is evident when he undercuts passes by locking on to the catch point.
The Eagles signed Patrick Chung to a three year deal, but there's a reason he only played three snaps in the Patriots' final two postseason games. He can be frustrating with his lack of awareness and positioning. Kenny Phillips is another big name at the position, but he has had trouble staying on the field and is only on a one year contract. Wolff is a physical and reliable tackler with awareness to disrupt throwing lanes in zone coverage. That might seem vague and somewhat minimal when discussing a potential starting safety, but as I stated before, we are kind of in the dark with the Eagles' defensive scheme. As more information becomes available my expectations could change, but for now I would be surprised if Wolff's career is mostly spent on special teams.


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WASHINGTON — The president of the National Congress of American Indians urged the House on Thursday to pass the Violence Against Women Act so Native Americans and Alaska Natives can "protect their own people and surrounding communities against brutality."
Jefferson Keel's appeal followed Senate passage on Tuesday of the act that continues to allow funding for domestic violence programs and victims support. The bill, which the Senate approved on a 78-22 vote, would allow American Indian courts to prosecute and sentence suspects in domestic violence cases who are not American Indians.
Keel made the remark in the State of the Indian Nations address at the Newseum in Washington. The annual address followed President Barack Obama's delivery Tuesday of the State of the Union. Obama also urged the House to pass the Violence Against Women Act in his speech.
"There is nothing more important to tribal leaders than the safety and well-being of tribal citizens," said Keel, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
House Republican leaders are working on their own version of the act, which expired in 2011.
Urgency for passage of the legislation is captured in the statistics that show high rates of sexual assault and domestic violence against Native American women and that almost 60 percent are married to men who are not Native American or Alaska Natives, Keel said. Such suspects in crimes can't be prosecuted in tribal courts, local authorities other than tribal officials often lack resources to respond to the crimes and federal authorities also have declined to prosecute many of the crimes, he said.
"Congress must allow tribes, like all governments, to protect their own people and surrounding communities, from brutality," Keel said to applause.
Washington Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, who now chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee following the retirement of former Sen. Daniel Akaka, echoed Keel's appeal in her follow-up "response from Congress."
Keel delivered a largely upbeat message saying Indian Country has benefited from the Obama administration's commitment to tribal sovereignty. That has helped many tribes develop and manage their businesses and resources, "instead of managing poverty programs."
Despite the progress, a quarter of native people live in poverty and unemployment for some tribes can be double the national average, Keel said. Many tribes rely on government funding to operate health centers, schools and other programs and facilities. The National Congress of American Indians had hoped tribes would be exempt from automatic funding cuts should they go into effect in two weeks because of the ongoing budget fight in Congress. But it appears that is unlikely.
Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined how the automatic cuts might affect Native Americans and Alaska Natives in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
In the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Salazar said tribes would lose almost $130 billion in funding from the department. Cuts would be made to funding for human services, law enforcement, schools, economic development and natural resources.
Some of the effects of the funding cuts are:
Monthly general assistance payments to about 2,400 needy American Indians would stop.
Bureau of Indian Affairs schools would have to reduce staff, services or the number of days in the school year.
Funds that offset tribal management of federal programs would be reduced.
"Some people in some places are struggling already, it (the cuts) will worsen that," Keel said.
Also in the speech, Keel said tribes should play a role in shaping immigration legislation because nearly 40 tribal governments are located at or near the nation's borders with Mexico and Canada and have jurisdiction over some of the areas. He said tribes believe "the arc of justice must stretch from the first Americans, to the newest Americans."
Online: National Congress of American Indians: http://www.ncai.org


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TRAINING: Working every day with Brazilian Top Team
When and why did you start training for fighting? In 1999. It was when I started watching Royce Gracie fights on some tapes. Then I saw that the UFC brought professionalism to MMA, so I saw the sport as the chance of my life.
What ranks and titles have you held? I won the Face to Face in 2011, the Trophy Brazil of the ADCC in 2012 and the Belt of the Bitetti Combat in 2012.
Do you have any heroes? My mother, for sure, Mrs. Carmelha Martins. And coach Eraldo Paes, who passed away last year.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's a chance of a lifetime, not only for me, but for my family too. Martial Arts was my school, my college. Getting to the UFC it means like I'm getting a job to be an executive director.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I finished High School then I went to "MMA College"
What was your job before you started fighting? I did a bunch of things, everything to help my family. I have worked as a waiter, security, driver, taxi driver, fixing cars as a mechanic.
Favorite grappling technique: Leg Locks and anaconda choke
Favorite Striking technique: Low Kicks
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PITTSFORD � Playing in its first game in three weeks, the Pittsford High School girls basketball team couldn't get on track.
A slow start and cold shooting in the fourth quarter hindered the Wildcats in a 39-26 loss to Pioneer North Central (Ohio) in a non-conference game Monday.
Pittsford (4-3) was playing its first game since Dec. 17. The teams were originally scheduled to play Dec. 20, but the game was postponed to Monday. The Wildcats' rust was evident early on, as North Central jumped to a 13-4 lead in the opening quarter.
"It's hard to get back into it, and they played a three-quarter court trap," Pittsford coach Chris Hodos said. "Once we slowed down we were able to get into our offense. I'm glad we played a non-conference game tonight to get our legs back."
Pittsford matched baskets with North Central during an even second quarter and trailed 23-14 at halftime. The Wildcats gained momentum in the third quarter and pulled to within four by the end of the frame, then a basket in the opening minute of the fourth quarter brought them to within 28-26.
The Wildcats would go cold from the floor after that, and North Central scored the game's final 11 points to take the win.
"We got better as we went along, but we had some wide-open shots that we didn't hit," Hodos said.
Laura Clark scored nine points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the Wildcats. Laura Smith had seven points and three steals, while Bianca Wright grabbed six rebounds and handed out four assists.
Pittsford returns to Southern Central Athletic Association play tonight at home against North Adams-Jerome. The Wildcats will conclude the week Friday at Jackson Christian.
"After a long layoff, we're looking forward to start playing again," Hodos said.
Layoff hurts Wildcats in loss


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Awesome music here with Adrian Symphony
Awesome music here with Adrian Symphony
To the editor,
On Friday, Nov. 9, I attended one of the best symphony concerts right here in Adrian at Dawson Auditorium and every single person who enjoys listening to music should have been there.
How many times have several of us traveled to Ann Arbor, Toledo or Detroit to hear fantastic music and would pay an arm and a leg to get there? Goodness, we even pay big bucks to travel to Las Vegas to see a live musical performance or hear someone famous sing when, people, we have it right here in our own back yard!
Along with this concert was an additional treat, singer Helen Welch. She and the Adrian Symphony Orchestra entertained the audience beyond any entertainment I have seen in bigger cities. Again, this is in our own back yard and we need to recognize this for what it is … a very talented group of musicians and one very talented man heading this group, John Thomas Dodson.
What has to be done so the people in Lenawee County and surrounding counties are aware of what we have? You have to understand, I am a person who thoroughly enjoys listening to good music but truly cannot carry a tune. But know what I enjoy hearing and the Adrian Symphony Orchestra is something I enjoy listening to, and I know you would also.
As an interested listener to good music, I am writing this letter to let everyone know if you are not attending these concerts you are truly missing out on something great right here in Adrian!
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Taft scores five runs over final two innings to win
Sometimes a close game could be a good thing. That was the situation the Taft varsity softball team found themselves in for most of their game Friday afternoon before they pulled away to defeat the Cesar Chavez Titans 10-3 in Taft.
With the victory, Taft is 4-0 in league play.
Cesar Chavez struck first with a home run to lead off the first inning.
Taft countered in their half of the first with Halle Neher's single and Haylee Tracy's two run home run. After a quiet period, the Lady Titans offense came alive in the third highlighted by a pair of singles to take their last lead of the game at 3-2.
Led by Caitlyn Emberson's double the Lady Wildcats bounced back in the bottom of the third inning with three runs. Taft added another run in the fifth before the Lady Wildcat offense exploded with four runs in the sixth highlighted by Tracy's second home run.
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So if shot quality exists in the long term, team-wide sense, we'd expect to see certain teams shoot at a relatively higher rate over the long term and multiple seasons and teams that lack the ability to generate high quality chances have lower shooting percentages. But that's not the case:
http://canucksarmy.com/2011/11/9/can-te ... lity-shots
To really see if shot quality matters offensively, we'd want to look at the entire league, over a period of years. Thanks to Behind the Net, we can do that – we have four years of 5-on-5 shooting data, from 2007-08 to 2010-11. We'll run mathematical correlations, to see the relationship from one year to the next – a score of 1 represents a perfect correlation, a score of zero shows no correlation whatsoever.
2007-08 to 2008-09 correlation: 0.179
2008-09 to 2009-10 correlation: -0.067
2009-10 to 2010-11 correlation: -0.121
Average year-to-year correlation: -0.003
The average correlation is actually slightly negative over these years, but it's very, very close to exactly zero. In other words, there seems to be no connection between how good a team's shooting percentage is from one year to the next. This is a significant argument that there is no major difference between individual NHL teams in their ability to score on any given shot – over the big picture, shot quality in 5-on-5 situations evens out.
But you know what does have some correlation year over year: shot generation.
While a team's shot quality seems to bounce around erratically from year to year, the same is not true of the number of shots that they take. Here are the same correlations, but this time instead of looking at team shooting percentage, we will look at team shooting rates (shots/60) in 5-on-5 situations:
2007-08 to 2008-09 correlation: 0.578
2008-09 to 2009-10 correlation: 0.453
2009-10 to 2010-11 correlation: 0.462
Average year-to-year correlation: 0.498
That's not a perfect correlation by any means, but there's clearly a relationship between how teams perform from one year to the next – something we didn't find when we looked at shot quality.
Why? If a team is capable of generating higher shot quality chances, why is there no connection between a team's shooting percentage one year to the next?
Because the real driver is the ability to maintain puck possession and generate shots in general. More shots leads to more quality chances leads to more goals:
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Travis-Y ... ZBjHLUp-So
"The overarching point: a game can be stolen by a goaltender, and a game can be stolen by forwards shooting at a ridiculous percentage clip. But, over time, luck will wash it all out. And, shot quality -- one of the last bastions of old-time hockey -- simply doesn't play the role many wrongfully assumed, self-included, in producing consistent, winning hockey. "
mikey287 wrote:We really still think save percentage isn't a team stat at this point with modern defending...? Yeesh...
Brodeur sucks, Rask is the greatest goaltender in history and Ottawa has three of the eight best goalies in hockey...I'm sold.
It's such a beautiful game...
On the flip side, if "team defensive systems" are capable of influencing shot quality to the point that save percentage is irrelevant to the point that you don't care about it as you told me, we'd expect that when a goalie plays Season 1 with Team X and Season 2 with Team Y, there should some pretty significant swings in save%, right? As you said, save% is a team-specific stat – which, by the way, makes it all the more hilarious that you would reject save% as it relates to Reimer of all people, who is playing behind one of the worst defensive corps in the NHL. You specifically pointed to Bryzgalov here, and the history of Boston goaltenders as supposed evidence that goalies switching teams or arriving on teams with defensive systems that suppress shot quality as "proof" that save% isn't a very valuable metric for evaluating goalies, so I would assume you'd agree that looking at year-over-year goalie moves from team to team should show significant changes.
Guess what, they don't at all:
http://vhockey.blogspot.com/2009/07/sho ... ntasy.html
The thinking was that if teams were the ones impacting the save percentage, it would reveal itself when the goalies switched squads. I'm giving the same idea a more rigorous test here.
And the universe [he means random; he built a model based on coin flips and ran it 100 times per goalie who qualified] requires that the EVsave% change as the goalie moves from team to team, if shot quality doesn't exist at all, well it will average .0122. With these 66 goalies it averages .0133. There is nowhere near enough veracity to even declare that a difference in shot quality exists at all, but again the distribution is a smidge wider with the real than it is with the random, so I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that, on average, the difference in shot quality from any two teams selected at random ... the expected difference will be 2 goals on the season.
If shot quality exists such that it influences save%, why doesn't this show up in the 66 goalies who qualified [min. 300 EV shots against per season]? The difference between a completely random expected change in save% from year to year and what actually happened is nearly identical. Please explain how that can be if save% is a "team-based" statistic? Citing a single instance – Bryzgalov – is meaningless (and I haven't looked at how PHX v. PHI plays in terms of S/A, times shorthanded, etc., plus soft factors, like Bryz is a headcase who thrived in a low-pressure hockey environment but broke down in a place that eats goalies alive like PHI).
More specifically as it relates to save%:
The average change in a goalie's save percentage from year to year when he stays with the same team is just 0.0005 larger than simple random chance would predict, and when a goalie changes teams the sv% difference is just 0.0011 larger than random chance. The best shot-quality-influencing system of this era (Jacques Lemaire's) reduced Fenwick shooting percentages by about 0.0015. The result is that any team effect on a goalie's save percentage doesn't add up to more than a goal or two per season.
The point is not: "All teams face the same shots, so ignore shot quality completely."
The point is: "Differences in shot locations are small and require a very large data set to overcome noise, so you won't be wrong by much if you ignore them."
http://nhlnumbers.com/2012/7/3/shot-qua ... t-how-much
So yes, you very much should start paying attention to a goalie's save% in evaluating them. Good team defensive system's reduce shots against as a whole; limit special teams opportunities; and drive possession themselves by possessing the puck and taking more shots than the other team (and having a good goalie who bails them because he's talented and makes a lot of saves -- and as a result, horror of horrors, posts a high save%).
The sum total is that shot quality exists on a shot to shot basis, and certain players generate higher quality chances because they are talented enough to generate shots in the first instance. Individual players can drive shooting percentages, but its not big enough that its driving team outcomes and/or save%. Most peg shot quality as maybe 5-10 percent of outcomes in the long term.
You'll no doubt dismiss this as "garbage in, garbage out" or some other such nonsense because it challenges your pre-conceived notions about the game. If you'd pay attention, you'd notice just how rigorous and valuable this information is.
mikey287 wrote:Stat community: "We don't want human subjectivity to get in the way of player evaluation...so, we'll use these statistics based on human subjectivity from humans that may or may not know even less about the game than we do to eliminate this subjectivity..."
I mean, how does shot quality not exist? Because it can't be quantified, therefore it's attacked? That seems too convenient.
The real issue here is that quote above. You seem to think that people who "like" statistical analysis somehow believe that the "traditional" means of player evaluation are useless and should be discarded. You completely invented that part of your post; I never said that. Its a complete and utter strawman and you shouldn't have written it.
Shot quality can be quantified -- imperfectly sure, but we're at a point that we have enough data and enough independant charting of scoring chances and shot charts that this isn't the "crap" you're disingenuously making it out to be.
The people building these fantastically complex models and thinking creatively about how to utilize the data generated by a hockey game don't think that human analysis should be removed either. I can look at a player's Corsi or QualComp or Usage Chart as a way to tell me about that player and his value; it doesn't tell me WHY he is good/bad according to analytics. Maybe it's his skating ability; maybe it's positioning and hockey sense; maybe its passing. I can look at player X and have a decent idea of his value, but I can't provide the same expertise about the nuts and bolts of why like you can. But to pretend that "stats" are this boogeyman; man, you are being left behind. It happened in baseball in the 2000's and its happening in hockey now. Its the exact same thing I was reading on FJM then; pre-conceived notions challenged ---> traditional thinkers get very nervous, say things like DERP DO YOU EVEN WATCH THE GAMES YOU LIVE IN YOUR MOTHERS BASEMENT YOU WANT THEM PLAYED BY ROBOTS YOU DONT WANT THE HUMAN ELEMENT -----> eventually everyone comes to their sense and realizes that like every other highly competitive industry, information -- and the ability to process it effectively -- is power. John Davidson(!) hired a GM who said this:
'Stats are facts...In the long run they hardly ever lie. Thorough analytical work, like that done by Hockey Prospectus, is needed to make a proper evaluation of them."
- Jarmo Kekalainen
There's no "magic stat" that I can give you to tell you who is the "best" goalie or center or coach. What I can give you is a bunch of data generated by the actual players playing the actual games that reflects their performance, and that is processed to take into account many, many variables like competition, context, special teams, linemates, score effects, home arena bias, etc. Combined with experience and knowledge, that's a pretty good picture of a player's ability.
There's a lot more to address your posts (Reimer in particular) and I will eventually, but this is a good starting point. If you disagree, try to do better than "because I say so." I am genuinely interested.


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I would like to speak to you all seriously about a very important topic.
Unfortunately, I can't think of one. So instead, we're going to consider those old family pictures you don't know how to handle.
I have–coincidentally, I'm sure—received two collections of family pictures this year. They weren't huge, but each involved a dozen or more photographs. One was fairly concentrated in the 1920s and 1930s; the other clearly covered about sixty years.
This happens accidentally all the time, of course: people stick their pictures in books and forget about them. In one case, I had a family which never invested in a photo album at all, but simply stuck pictures into whatever book was handy. I found myself with over 200 photographs that time: grandpa's baseball team in 1913, somebody's dog in 1947, and so on. I called up the family and asked, and got a cry of, "Oh no! We thought we pulled all those out! Keep 'em!" I wonder how many there were to begin with.
But these donors knew they were handing pictures over. What they did NOT know was why they had them in the first place. "Can't be MY family: they look too Presbyterian!" said one. In the other case, the pictures were of people who were an entirely different color. Both people theorized that it was a matter of neighbors sharing graduation pictures and such but then moving away. After a few decades the identity of the people in the pictures–of course unlabeled–has been lost.
Y'know, there are almost certainly caches of these things all over the Greater Chicago Area. So I thought I might pass along some guidelines about which pictures might be worth money in the online market, either so you can feel less guilty about sending them to me, or sell them INSTEAD of sending them to me. Watch for pictures of:
Vehicles: I once sold two massive scrapbooks on eBay simply on the strength of one photo of the owner's brother with his 1939 Harley. If the car or bike or boat shows up really well, someone out there wants it.
Halloween Costumes: There is an army of collectors for mementoes of what parents do to their children when they're being ingenious. Sorry-looking toddlers in droopy bunny ears, little boys in pinafores, and anything else that would leave serious psychological damage is highly collectible.
Cute Puppies and Kitties: These are perennial. If you have to ask, you're in the wrong blog.
Decade-Specific Clothes: Not just those jeans you never changed throughout the 60s. I mean something so solidly of its age you can't mistake it: the four-inch platform shoes, the bell-bottoms that flare eight inches from the ankle, the ruffled blouse…and if you had a mustache too, that's perfect.
Mistakes: There is a market out there for photographic mistakes. You've seen the picture where everybody's head moved just as the shutter clicked, the one the photographer took before anyone had time to smile, the wedding picture where the dove flew right in front of the bride's face…. Back in the pre-digital age, you couldn't delete these groaners, and that's what makes them special today.
I could go on, but maybe you get the idea. Anything that lends a bit of unusual interest—be it a hat, a banjo, or a calico kitten—can sell an unidentified photograph. Young Presbyterian-looking men holding diplomas, college-bound coeds standing next to a suitcase, middle-aged couples pointing at their motel just outside of Zap, South Dakota, on the other hand, are worth selling only if you can PROVE they killed somebody.
It's the way of the world.


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A former McLoud elementary school teacher entered a no contest plea Wednesday to 31 counts in a child exploitation case involving her students while a retired professor also charged in the case pleaded guilty to 20 counts and was sentenced to life in prison.
A former McLoud elementary school teacher entered a no contest plea Wednesday to 31 counts in a child exploitation case involving her students while a retired professor also charged in the case pleaded guilty to 20 counts and was sentenced to life in prison.
Kimberly Ann Crain, 49, Shawnee, and Gary J. Doby, 66, Bloomsburg, Pa., were both set for jury trials next week, but instead chose to enter pleas Wednesday in Pottawatomie County District Court.
Both defendants faced 18 counts of sexual exploitation of a child under age 12, one count of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation and one count of lewd molestation. Crain also faced 11 counts of possession of juvenile pornography.
Doby, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced by District Judge John Canavan and received 18 life sentences in the exploitation counts, 10 years on the conspiracy charge and 20 years on the lewd molestation count. The sentences run concurrently.
A life sentence is considered to be 45 years by the Department of Corrections and Doby must serve 85 percent of that term, which is about 39 years. District Attorney Richard Smothermon said Doby will spend be the rest of his life in prison.
"He'll have to live to the ripe old age of 104 in order to be eligible for parole," Smothermon said, adding the only justice in this case is that both never get out of prison.
Defense Attorney Robert Butler, who represented Doby, said his client chose to enter the guilty plea.
"He is very apologetic to the victims," Butler said. "He didn't want to put his family through the rigors of a trial."
Smothermon, who said Doby stood up and took accountability in the case, said Crain chose a different path by pleading no contest. Crain entered a blind plea before the judge, Smothermon said, which means the state has no recommendation for sentencing, which will be up to the judge. Crain could face numerous life sentences, but even with just one count, faces a minimum sentence of 25 years.
She is scheduled for a pre-sentence and formal sentencing on March 22.
Smothermon said Wednesday's pleas ensure the young students in this case won't have to testify at two separate trials and he's very thankful for that.
Crain taught third grade at McLoud Elementary School until she resigned amid an ongoing investigation on Nov. 28, 2011. Prosecutors alleged Crain, while working as a teacher, took photos of as many as 14 young girls while they were changing clothes, some in her classroom and others while at her home. She then shared those images with Doby, a former Oklahoma Baptist University professor who lived in Pennsylvania.
The students, who called Doby "Uncle G," also would video chat with him on Skype while at school.
The students, at preliminary hearing, testified about chatting on the Internet with Doby and doing dances for him, with Doby also telling some of the girls they were "pretty."
Some of the girls testified about changing clothes behind a trash-bag or blanket-type tent that was set up in Crain's classroom so they could get their toenails painted by Crain behind her desk.
Smothermon, who said the investigation by law enforcement into this case was "outstanding," praised the courage of the young children and their testimony during preliminary hearing last May.
Smothermon said it was apparent those students were willing to testify again at trial this month but that was avoided through the investigative efforts in this case.
"The evidence was overwhelming — it would have been a huge risk to place themselves in the hands of a Pottawatomie County jury," Smothermon said.
A message seeking comment from Cregg Webb, the defense attorney for Crain, was not returned Wednesday.


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The Boulder County Farmers' Markets are in need of a new executive director for the second time in two seasons, after officials with the markets this week announced that the board of directors "made the decision to release Shanan Olson from her responsibilities."
Olson, who previously served as president of the markets' board of directors, served as interim executive director last year before taking on the role full time this year. She took over from Bob D'Alessandro, whom the board dismissed in January 2012.
Acting as a spokeswoman for the markets, Sylvia Tawse, who co-owns market vendor, Pastures of Plenty, said that the board decided a national search should be launched for an executive director at its June 17 meeting. Some members met with Olson the next day to offer her a "transitional position" with the market, which she declined, Tawse said. The board informed market members Olson would no longer be with the nonprofit organization on June 27.
Board president, Kristy Anderson this week stressed that Olson was not fired.
"It was a respectfully derived, mutual decision," Anderson said, emphasizing her gratitude for Olson's hard work and dedication.
A statement about Olson issued on behalf of the board this week echoed that gratitude, saying, "We wish to be on record for our appreciation for all the hard work and commitment Shanan demonstrated during a time of profound and important transition for our Boulder County Farmers' Markets."
The statement indicated the split with Olson stemmed from the need for an executive director to help the markets achieve long-term planning goals.
"As BCFM has grown in both revenues and challenges, it has been apparent to our Board and Staff that we must continue to evolve our organization so we remain relevant to our mission, to our members, and to our stakeholders," the statement read. "Change is never easy. And, still, change is vitally important to BCFM, especially as we begin our long- range planning this fall. We are confident we will continue to thrive with the same hard work ethic and decisions that protect and promote BCFM as we navigate its future."
Olson, in an email on Saturday, expressed support for the farmers' markets and their members, as well as surprise at her being asked to leave her role as executive director. She indicated the split was the result of "irreconcilable differences."
"I LOVE Farmers Markets and the opportunity that they provide for our farmers, our earth crafters, to share themselves and their life with community," Olson wrote in the email. " There is a special magic space, almost a gateway it seems, that is created as each tent pops up and the food gets unloaded. I intend that this magic be shared and that gateway stay alive for infinity; if ever I can be helpful to that end I will strive to be."
Olson, who was affiliated with the markets for 10 years—first as a member farmer, then as a volunteer board member and finally as an employee--noted she brought a unique perspective and style to her position that is "a deep and genuine match for some and uncomfortable for others."
She encouraged the board to remember they are helping steward more than 150 small businesses when they undertake their long-term planning.
She also criticized the decision to remove her.
"This change in heart is abrupt and lacks depth and follow through in thinking and understanding. I believe there to be a lot of vendors who feel the same way; I wish them voice and organization," she wrote.
According to the board's statement, Olson contributed ideas to detailed job description for the next executive director. The board's executive and finance committee will conduct the interview process.
Some vendors at the Boulder market on Saturday expressed surprise at the mid-season leadership change.
"I'm not sure exactly what happened. I guess it depends on who you talk to," said Frank Silva with Natural Homestead Beef. "I've been good with Shanan. She was fine. She was here today so there must not bee too much tension."
Regan Waddle co-owns 2 R's Farm with her husband Randy. They have been market members for 26 years and both have previously served on the board with Randy serving as a previous president, Waddle said.
"It's sad," Waddle said of Olson's ouster, noting she first heard about it via email. "I think it's silly that they let her go in the middle of the season. From what I know, she was doing a good job and I think they should have tried to figure something out for the remainder of the season."
Eva Teague, owner of Plowshares Community Farm, is in her second year with the market this year. In her opinion, the market has lost some of its agricultural focus this year and she had heard many farmers say sales were down this season.
"I honestly think it just wasn't working for the market as a whole," Teague said of Olson's leadership. "There were a lot of changes that were made very quickly. This market is where tons of farmers get their livelihood, or try to, and you have to be really careful in any change that you make."
Wyatt Barnes, co-owner of Red Wagon Organic Farm, left his position on the markets' board in April, citing differences in opinion over where the market is headed.
He said that despite the recent leadership changes, the market is still about the farmers and the customers they provide fresh produce and other items to on a weekly basis. That will not change anytime soon, he said.
"The biggest thing to me is there is all this drama, but the farmers are still here. Everyone is producing a great product and selling it," Barnes said. "We're just not that affected by it. We're just selling our products and the customers would never know the difference."
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RALEIGH, N.C.- Junior Laura Weinberg, freshman Cassie Pecht and sophomore Katie Trees each tallied a goals to lead the fifth-ranked Duke women's soccer team past N.C. State in a difficult road test on Thursday in Raleigh, N.C. With the goal, Weinberg now owns 15 this year and inches closer to the Duke single-season record of 18 goals in a season.
"I didn't think we were as sharp as we had been the last couple of games," said Duke head coach Robbie Church about the team's performance tonight. "We have been really been playing well. Let's give N.C. State a lot of credit. They worked hard, hustled and they were focused the whole game. I didn't think we were as sharp in our decision making and we didn't have the same movement off the ball that we have had the last couple of games. We stayed with it and had our chances."
With the victory, the Blue Devils improved to 11-3-1 overall and 5-2-1 in ACC action, while N.C. State dropped to 5-10, 0-6.
"Anytime you can get a road win in the ACC, my gosh we will take it and a shutout to go with it. We will take it," said Church.
The Blue Devils started the match as the aggressor, pressuring the Wolfpack every time they touched the ball and created a number of turnovers. Despite keeping possession for a majority of the first half, most of the Blue Devils serious opportunities came out of these turnovers.
Just minutes into the game, junior Gilda Doria played a long through-ball to Weinberg, who flicked the bouncing ball over the Wolfpack goalkeeper Madison Shaw. The N.C. State defense was able to clear the ball out, but Pecht, who was waiting just outside the box, intercepted the ball and fired a low shot that missed the net by inches.
The Wolfpack's most dangerous chance of the half came just eight minutes into the game when a long pass was played in behind the Blue Devil defense to Brittany Stanko. Junior Mollie Pathman was able to out run Stanko and shield the ball so senior Tara Campbell could charge out of the goal to make the save.
With 13 minutes remaining in the half, junior Kaitlyn Kerr chipped a ball through to a running Weinberg, who tried to flick the bouncing ball over the charging Wolfpack goalkeeper. Shaw was just able to get a hand on the ball to prevent Weinberg from collecting the ball in front of an empty net, keeping the game level at 0-0.
The Blue Devils finally broke the tie with eight minutes remaining in the first half when Pecht collected the ball at mid field and started the counter attack for Duke. Pecht, who is out of Mechanicsburg, Pa., found a running Pathman on the left flank, who played a dangerous ball across the front of the goal. After bouncing around in the traffic, junior Kim DeCesare tapped the ball out the Pecht, who was waiting around the penalty spot and fired a shot into the right corner. The goal continued an outstanding freshman campaign for Pecht, who now has five goals and nine assists on the year.
At the end of the first half, Duke held a 9-4 shot advantage.
As the play resumed in the second half, N.C. State started possessing the ball and put pressure on the Blue Devil defense on a number of occasions, however the strong defense of seniors Erin Koballa, Libby Jandl and Maddy Haller as well as junior Natasha Anasi were able to keep them out of the net, preserving Campbell's third shutout of the year and 30th of her career.
"I thought when we made a sub Maddy Haller really played well for us at left back," said Church. "Katie Trees, who scored the third goal, played really well to for us. It was a tough game. It is always close when we play here."
With 17 minutes remaining in the game, Campbell sent a long goal kick to DeCesare, who flicked a ball on with her head to Weinberg. The Boca Raton, Fla., product collected the ball and dribbled into the box where she was able to out run her defender, tuck the ball into the near-post and put the Blue Devils up, 2-0.
Weinberg now owns 35 points on the season, which ranks tied for third-best on the Blue Devil single-season charts. Her 15 goals are also tied for third. The 5-9 forward owns 33 career tallies and 77 points over her three years at Duke. Weinberg has scored goals in nine out of last 11 matches.
"We came out a little flat tonight in the first half, but we were able to regroup at halftime and come out with some momentum," said Weinberg. "We talked about how big this game was in practice all week and we needed to get these three points."
Sophomore Katy Colas crossed the ball in front of the Wolfpack net in the waning moments of the match and after bouncing around, Trees was able to calmly put the ball into the back of the net to give the Blue Devils a commanding 3-0 lead.
The Blue Devils outshot N.C. State by a margin of 18-4 on the match as Weinberg led everyone with six attempts, while Pecht added four and Callie Simpkins came off the bench to produce three late.
In goal for the Blue Devils, Campbell registered two saves over 90 minutes of action. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Campbell is now only four shutouts away from matching the Duke career mark of 34 held by Melissa Carr.
The Blue Devils will return home on Sunday, Oct. 14 as Duke will host Wake Forest at 1:00 p.m., at Koskinen Stadium. The match will be Duke's "Pin" day as the Blue Devils will wear pink jerseys and will raise money for the Blue Devils vs. Cancer student group. There will be an auction prior to and during the match.
Duke Notes
- The Blue Devils have scored 10 goals over the last three matches.
- Cassie Pecht tallied her first career game-winning goal on the night. She owns 19 points on the season to rank tied for ninth on the freshman single-season points list.
• Duke owns 47 goals on the season, which ranks tied for ninth on Duke's single-season list, while the 145 points is seventh.


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Ugly Christmas Sweater Gifts for Holiday Season
With 'ugly Christmas sweater' party invitations winging their way across the country, thousands will soon be on the lookout for this Christmas' most quirky designs. However, thanks to a new online store, Granny has them covered.
MyChristmasSweater.com stocks hundreds of quirky novelty Christmas sweaters. Bearing all of the designs that would make Granny proud, the store is the perfect haven for those looking to stand out this festive season.
The British store's US expansion comes following the opening of a dedicated distribution center in New Jersey. Now providing same-day dispatch on home soil, picking up one of Granny's latest designs is easier than ever.
"Our store boasts the largest range of Christmas sweaters in the world," Says Rafael Fernandez, Founder of the family-run company.
He continues, "They make the perfect gift, an unusual 'secret Santa' addition and guarantee a grand entrance into any ugly sweater party."
The store's range of festive and men's knitwear has already taken Europe by storm. With the Irish particularly taking a liking to Granny's needlework, it is hoped that the USA will embrace their Celtic friends' spirit this December.
MyChristmasSweater.com stocks a huge range of Christmas sweaters and other festive knitwear.
With everything available for same-day dispatch and fast delivery, the family-owned website is proving a hit among the general public and the media alike.
"We regularly supply our products to the Irish film and television market. With our new US distribution center, Americans can live out their heritage in style - just as Granny would have wanted," Fernandez adds.
Each sweater is produced in premium quality yarn. Thick and chunky - Granny's quirky sweaters can ensure a warm and attention-grabbing festive season for anyone who chooses to wear them.
With stocks strictly limited, interested parties are urged to log onto the website and order their sweater before Granny puts down her needles in place of a glass of sherry.
To purchase today, visit: www.mychristmassweater.com


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Brussels, 7 December 2005
Driving and rest times for professional drivers: Europe updates the social rules in road haulage
The European Parliament and the Council agreed yesterday on the draft European legislation to improve driving times and rest periods for professional drivers and step up checks on lorries. Drivers will have at least two full days off every two weeks and a longer rest period each day. These new rules will bring the practices of the different EU Member Statescloser together and contribute to road safety. "Opening up new markets has to go hand in hand with rules that apply to everyone to ensure fair working conditions. These European social rules create new rights for workers and protect against social dumping", said Jacques Barrot, Commission Vice-President responsible for transport.
There is a whole raft of European social legislation covering the various modes of transport. In recent years, for example, Europe has strengthened the maritime professions by adopting rules on training and working conditions. The Commission's proposals on certification of engine drivers and aircraft cabin crew are also aimed at harmonising the social rules.
The new package[1] concluded yesterday complements the working time legislation and strengthens the social rules in the road transport sector. Member States will still be free to apply even stricter rules in the case of road transport carried out entirely within their own territory, but they will not be allowed to fall short of the minimum rules laid down in the European legislation. This amounts to a major social advance in certain countries and will serve to prevent social dumping.
The package brings in an obligatory minimum daily rest of 9 hours for drivers (instead of the present 8 hours) and an obligatory rest of at least 45 consecutive hours every two weeks. This "weekend off" for professional drivers, in the form of a real rest for two full days at least every fortnight, is unknown in most Member States.
Another measure is the reduction of maximum driving time for professional drivers. At present they can drive for up to 74 hours a week. When this instrument comes into force, no professional driver in Europe will be allowed to drive for more than 56 hours a week. Several Member States will have to review their legislation to incorporate this social advance. It complements the legislation already in force since 23 March that limits the working time for professional drivers to an average of 48 hours a week over a four-month period.
The draft legislation provides that it will be the drivers' employers (sharing liability with the shippers) and no longer drivers themselves who will be held responsible in the case of infringement. The fault will no longer lie with the hard-pressed drivers. All the players involved will have to bear their share of the responsibility.
One Member State will be able to penalise infringements committed in another Member State. This extraterritoriality of penalties and prosecutions is a major innovation. With the introduction of the more accurate and tamper-proof digital tachograph,[2] it will be possible for inspectors to check drivers' driving times over the previous 28 days and to take the vehicle off the road immediately in the case of a serious infringement.
These new rules will be accompanied by a gradual increase in the number of checks from 1% to 3% of days worked by drivers as well as a tripling of the number of operations carried out jointly by Member States. The checks should serve to verify that the social rules are being applied and enable action against 'cowboy hauliers' who put their drivers and European citizens at risk. They are a means of ensuring fair competition in Europe.
To this end, besides the minimum requirements as regards training and equipment, an electronic information exchange system will be set up to facilitate cooperation between the national authorities responsible for carrying out the checks.
The new legislative package will now have to be approved separately by each institution (Council and Parliament) before it is published in the Official Journal and enters into force throughout the EU.
1. Objective of the proposals of the Commission
2 . Sensitivities and political importance
These two proposals, the Regulation dating from October 2001, the Directive from October 2003, have become a closely linked package and were discussed at the same time in the conciliation. The dossier is highly sensitive as the entry into force of both legislative instruments will have significant consequences for the transport sector, not only within the Union, but also outside the Union, where negotiations will now start to align the equivalent United Nations/Economic Council of Europe agreement, the AETR[3]. This agreement has been ratified by all Member States and most other European countries, including Russia and Turkey. The impact will therefore be extensive.
3. New Gains (see also attached table)
Some of the key gains of the new Regulation include:
Key gains of the new Directive include
[1] Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport (COM/2001/573).
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on minimum conditions for the implementation of Directive 2002/15/EC and Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 3820/85 and 3821/85 concerning social legislation relating to road transport activities.
[2] On-board device which records drivers' driving and rest periods.
[3] The European Agreement concerning the work of crews of vehicles engaged in International road transport.
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I wanna go so much with my bf but i cant find tickets. i want to go to the mansfield showing cuz i live in whitman. i need to go cuz my brothers been to a concert before. i need to see for myself.
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Yes, thanks for the samples, Alex, studying those did the trick for me...
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call venue directly you can always get VIP no always better thou.... july not getting here fast enough can't wait to have whiplash 4 weeks!!!
How do you get VIP tickets?
How do you get VIP tickets? oh, i see they are going to be included in the presale.
found tickets thanks for
found tickets thanks for input ...I've never been to this venue and am slightly disabled use cane to walk getting vip seats 4 sure just wondering if any advice on keepin safe when i go place has terrible reviews is Hartford,CT a better venue ???? pls looking 4 great time
whos gonna be playing with
whos gonna be playing with them there?
Just keep checking back.
Just keep checking back. Typically they will go on sale about 2-3 months prior to the show date so anytime now. You can also check the ticket agency websites to see when tickets will be going on sale for certain events as well. Sorry that I don't have an exact date for you, but i'll do some research and see what I can find.
Also, if any fans want to meet up at the MA or CT show and have some beers feel free to shoot me an email at email@example.com
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can anyone give me idea on when able to buy tickets neither Mansfield ,Ma or Hartford ,Ct have them in the line up of up coming shows???? dying to see them never been to either and love both!!!
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definitely going
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tickets are very fair priced - maybe 30-60 bucks?
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fucking disturbed at mayhem fest!!!! yeah i cant wait guys, headlining for the second time yeah cant wait too see you there
does anyone know how much a
does anyone know how much a ticket will cost so i can start saving up for it
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after the 3 maaw5 shows.....i can't friggin wait for this
I went to the Mayhem Festival
I went to the Mayhem Festival at the comcast center a few years back or so. they had a lot of great bands playing and the venue is enormous so no concerns there. Saw Disturbed last week at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and then the next night in Portland ME. The show in Portland was absolutely insane... anyone living even remotely close to the comcast center should go... the venue is amazing. you can't miss out on this tour it is absolutely insane.
they add additional stages on
they add additional stages on the grounds
anyone else concerned on how
anyone else concerned on how this is gonna work? Comcast center only has one stage, a bit difficult to hold a 3 stage show


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"A Prince of a Frog"
There is a princess in distress on Sesame Street! She cannot meet her prince without kissing a frog, but the frog keeps hopping away! Elmo and Abby try to help by learning a little more about frogs on Alan's computer. The first thing they learn is that frogs are amphibians and like to gather in groups and croak together. Abby and Elmo pretend to be croaking frogs to attract the frog. D
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The Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Advisory Board recently held an open house-style meeting to share information and receive feedback on developing use policies for the city's first dog park.
The Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks Advisory Board recently held an open house-style meeting to share information and receive feedback on developing use policies for the city's first dog park.
Later at the Board's meeting, Board members discussed various issues, including signs and the relocation of the New China Palace.
Recreation and Parks Director Josh Collins said about 30 people attended the open house prior to the Parks Board's scheduled meeting.
"Basically, (visitors) were walked through the rules and site plans for the park," he said.
The Dog Park is being proposed in the Big Turtle Park area near the playground and Katie Hunter Field.
Bridgette Ellis, chairwoman of the Dog Park Committee, said the feedback from the open house was positive, but the committee might need to look over the rules and ordinances again before sending them to City Council for approval.
"We want to try to accommodate everyone," said Ellis, adding the Committee hopes the city can break ground at the park by late summer or early fall.
In its business meeting, the Parks Board discussed sign usage along the city's greenways and decided the board would have a representative who could work with the city's Community Development staff and the Planning Commission to address appropriate options for signs.
Member Dan Robbins addressed the board as the chairman of Greenways Oak Ridge, starting the conversation. He had asked the board to "go on record" to oppose reader board signs along greenways.
Recreation and Parks Director Josh Collins also reported the latest waterfront development issue pertaining to the New China Place move and the rental agreement the city had signed with Adventures Outdoors for bicycle and kayak rental.
He said the New China Palace should be in its new space on Central Avenue by July and would vacate its current facility in May.
Adventures Outdoors could begin operating in April with a "limited inventory." He said the company could, "down the road," add canoes and paddle boats.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.


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Santa Cruz resident Tobin Ortenblad scored a top-25 finish in a United States Gran Prix Cyclocross race at the Derby City Cup in Louisville, Ky., last weekend.
Ortenblad [California Giant Berry Farms] followed up his 30th-place finish on Saturday with a 22nd-place finish in the men's pro/Cat 1 division Sunday. He crossed the finish line in 58 minutes, 51 seconds.
Jeremy Powers [RAPHA-FOCUS] of Easthampton, Mass., won the race in 55:12.
Following Ortenblad's finish in the Cup, he sits in fifth place in the USGP standings in the Under-23 division.
Results included in this report are from the USA Cycling results page.