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I Confess the Need for Building Standards and Worker Training
I was discussing an upcoming article with my colleagues at Home Energy magazine about the Standard Work Specifications (SWS) being developed by DOE for single home, multifamily, and manufactured housing retrofits, and it brought to mind an experience I had as teenager, the need for confession, and the importance of standards.
Here is my confession:
When I was in high school I worked after school and summers doing building maintenance at a local elementary school. (Brag warning—"Cleanest school in the county," said the health inspector.) One summer, a buddy of mine got us a part time gig working on Saturdays for a homebuilder.
One Saturday we installed a French drain for the builder; I didn't even know that's what they were called at the time. We dug a trench along the side of the foundation, dropped in some gravel, put a length of plastic pipe on top, and argued about whether the holes in the pipe should be facing up or down. I don't remember installing any kind of a filter around the pipe, or if we put more gravel on the pipe or just filled the trench with dirt. Were the drains built to carry water away from the foundation? I hope so.
Forgive me, families who have lived in that house; all quality homebuilders; the U.S. Department of Energy; the home performance community; and the planet. For I have sinned. I participated, unknowingly, in a building practice that didn't help a house one bit, and may have hurt it. I should have known better, even as a teenager. I wonder if the people who bought and lived in the house experienced flooding, a moldy basement, and rotting building materials. My only consolation is that it is just one house. But still.
My buddies and I could have used a lot of training and at least a Standard Work Specification on installing a French drain.
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Luther finished fifth at the Wartburg Spring Invitational held at the Par 72, 6,614 yard Centennial Oaks Country Club, Waverly, Iowa. This tournament was reduced to an 18-hole tournament due to weather conditions all day Sunday.
The Norse carded an 18-hole score of 306. Wartburg won the team title with a 298. Simpson was second at 300 followed by Kirkwood and the Wartburg Orage squad at 301.
Andrew Peter posted a top-10 finish. Peter shot 74 and finished in a five-way tie for eighth. Joel Bruns (T13 - 75), Matt Axelrod (T20 - 76), Tobias Kohl (T44 - 81) and Adam Turner (T44 - 81) completed the Norse five.
Ben Kerns (T36 - 79) and Sam Grotnes (T41 - 80) played as individuals.
The Norse return to action April 21-22 when they will play in the Gustavus Adolphus Invitational.
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Martin Luther King Jr Day Special: Seneca Village Tour
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La Junta High School's Taylor Maik took second place at the Class 3A State Wrestling Championship Saturday. Brandon Grasmick and Adam Baca both came home as individual champions in their weight divisions for Class 2A schools.
DENVER — La Junta High School's Taylor Maik finished in second place at the Class 3A State Wrestling Tournament at the Pepsi Center Saturday.
Maik faced defending state champion Micah Keys of Centauri in the final. Keys pinned Maik in 46 seconds to win his second straight state title.
Two other Tigers were place winners. Elias Altamirano finished fourth at 152 pounds and Hayden Bickel was fourth at 285.
La Junta tied for 13th place with 50 points.
Fowler, Rocky Ford crown champs
Two Otero County high school wrestlers won individual state championships at the Class 2A State Wrestling Tournament at the Pepsi Center Saturday.
Fowler High School's Brandon Grasmick won the 113-pound championship as he defeated Swink's Austin Coy by a 1-0 decision.
Grasmick was also named the Class 2A Outstanding Wrestler.
The other state title was won by Rocky Ford High School's Adam Baca. He took the 126-pound title with a 5-2 decision over Paonia's Bo Pipher.
Baca finished the season undefeated in 31 matches and it was his second straight championship.
In addition to Coy, Swink had three additional placers. Blake Denton took third place at 132 pounds, Bryan Denton placed fourth at 152 pounds and Anthony Mendoza was sixth at 170 pounds.
Other Rocky Ford placers included Jeremy Fraser, who was fourth at 106, Ricky Aragon, who was fifth at 138 and Aiden Stengel, who was sixth at 152.
Also placing for Fowler were Jeremy Burkey, who was third at 145 and Luke Holmquist, who was sixth at 182.
Rocky Ford finished sixth in the team standings with 70 points. Swink was ninth with 56 and Fowler was 12th with 54.


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Did Jodie Come Out?
Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Career Achievement Award, Jodie Foster publicly acknowledged one of Hollywood's least best-kept secrets.
"I'm just going to put it out there, loud and proud... I am, uh, single."
Well, she sort-of acknowledged that she's gay, though she never uttered the word.
"I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age," she said.
The actress was referring coming out to those in her private life. She acknowledged that it has never been said publicly before.
Then she ranted on about her privacy.
"Privacy - maybe someday in the future we'll look back and realize how beautiful it once was," she said.
The New York Times put it this way: "Ms. Foster, long reticent about her personal life, gave a brilliant, somewhat incomprehensible soliloquy that was almost a coming-out speech, but then veered away. (It was like Garbo talks, then Garbo is garbled.) "
Instead of directly acknowledging that she is gay, the actress, who has spent her entire life in the public eye, used the occasion to deride the reality-show consciousness that has become more and more obtrusive.
"I have given everything up there from the time I was three years old," she said. "That is reality enough."
"She did thank her ex-partner and co-parent, Cydney Bernard," the LA Times reported, "and suggested that she was embarking on Act 2 of her career. In some ways it sounded like a retirement speech. She seemed to say that, from now on, she will only take projects that tap into her creativity."
"I've had a weird career, and I get a lot of grief for it," she told Deadline Hollywood in an interview published earlier in the day. "What I choose is just really personal, especially as a director. I can't just go, 'I like scuba diving, so let's do a scuba diving movie.' It has to be something I would die for. And because it's the story of your life, there are the popular parts and the parts nobody likes and the parts people don't understand. But I have to make those movies, too."
In 2007 Foster first acknowledged her long-time business partner Bernard when she was accepting an award at a Women in Entertainment breakfast. She thanked her "beautiful Cydney... who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss."
According London's Daily Mall, "the couple met on the set of the film "Sommersby" in 1993 and are raising two sons, Charles, nine, and Kit, six, at their Malibu home."
Her sons were present at the Globes, sitting with her friend and collaborator Mel Gibson.
"Although she gave birth to both boys," the Mall reported, "Miss Foster has never revealed the identity of the father or the circumstances of their conception.
"As with most questions about her personal life, the actress has refused to comment on gossip that the father was an old university friend from Yale, who is also gay."


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- Feb 25:
- Another anti-fracking measure could be headed to November ballot
- Aug 9:
- Lafayette resident challenges validity of petitions seeking fracking ban
- Jul 26:
- Ballot initiative to ban fracking in Lafayette garners enough signatures to move forward
- Dec 13:
- Boulder County commissioners approve new oil, gas regulations
- With deputies on hand, anti-fracking forces remain civil at Boulder County hearing
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- Boulder County condemns 'mob harassment, cursing and intimidation' at fracking hearing
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- Anti-fracking demonstrators disrupt, delay Boulder County oil and gas hearing
It shall be unlawful for any corporation or any person using a corporation to engage in the extraction of gas or oil within the City of Lafayette, with the exception of wells active and producing at the time this Charter Provision is enacted, and with the restriction and prohibition against the activation of inactive wells and the prohibition against the use of extraction technologies not in use in existing and producing wells at the time of enactment of this Charter provision. It shall be unlawful for any corporation or any person using a corporation to deposit, store or transport waste water, "produced" water, "frack" water, brine or other materials, chemicals or by-products used in or resulting from the extraction of gas or oil, within, upon or through the land, air or waters of the City of Lafayette. Source: East Boulder County United
The petitioners, led by citizen group East Boulder County United, turned in 2,042 signatures in support of a citywide vote on the Lafayette Community Rights Act, which includes a ban on hydraulic fracturing within city limits and would prohibit the disposal of associated waste products inside Lafayette.
There needs to be 948 valid resident signatures out of the total collected for the measure to make it on to the ballot. City Clerk Susan Koster said her office has 15 business days to validate the signatures.
"Let's get in there, turn in these petitions and put this to a full community vote," said EBCU leader Cliff Willmeng, as his mother carried a stack of papers several inches thick up to the city clerk's office.
The signatures turned in Tuesday morning in Lafayette came 24 hours after an anti-fracking group in Loveland submitted thousands of signatures in favor of a ballot measure there that, if approved, would halt oil and gas development for two years while the city does further research into the industry's health and environmental impacts.
In the meantime, residents in Broomfield and Fort Collins have launched signature-gathering efforts to ban fracking – the practice of injecting a high-pressure mix of sand, water and chemicals into the ground to coax hard-to-access gas deposits from tight pockets in subterranean rock – for five years.
Boulder County commissioners in June extended a moratorium on any new oil and gas drilling activity for another 18 months after significant public outcry arose over the prospect of new well sites being established in the county.
Fracking opponents say the practice pollutes the air and runs the risk of contaminating ground water while the industry defends fracking as a safe and proven way to get at gas deposits with fewer drilling impacts at the surface.
Doug Flanders, director of policy with the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said proposing a ban on a product that everyone in Colorado relies on is "shortsighted."
"We look forward to having a robust debate about Lafayette's interdependence with oil and gas resources," Flanders said. "Oil and gas is the cornerstone of our way of life, from transportation of all goods and services to home heating, to every electronic and plastic product. Where would the proponents of this ban propose that their energy be produced?"
Lafayette faces the specter of lawsuits from the state and the industry if the ballot issue passes, as Longmont discovered after voters there banned fracking last year. Both COGA and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state agency that simultaneously promotes and regulates drilling in the state, have sued the city claiming it doesn't have the authority to regulate an activity that is under the auspices of the state.
The cases are still going through the courts. Flanders said COGA hasn't yet done a legal analysis of Lafayette's potential ballot measure and doesn't know if it might file suit against the city should it pass.
Willmeng said while he can't control who might sue the city over the measure, the issue is too important not to take up just because it may land Lafayette in court.
"We are told it's not allowable for a community to determine whether it's drilled or not," he said. "We're supposed to defer to the state government and COGA. We find that unacceptable."
It's not clear what kind of practical effect a drilling ban would have in Lafayette, given the fact that the city hasn't received an application for a new well pad in more than a decade. Most oil and gas drilling in Boulder County is occurring east of Lafayette – in particular Erie – which reaches further into the gas-rich Wattenberg Field.
There are 14 active gas wells in Lafayette, according to the COGCC. Those wells wouldn't be affected by the proposed ban.
Ann Griffin, an 18-year Lafayette resident, said she had never been politically active before but after learning about fracking felt the need to gather signatures in support of the Lafayette Community Rights Act.
"I was just overwhelmed by the potential of harm done to our Earth, to people, to our children," she said. "It seemed people were so helpless."
Tom Dowling, a Lafayette resident who spent 25 hours these last few weeks gathering signatures, said response to the campaign was largely positive.
"The message I was getting from Lafayette residents is that they definitely support a ban of fracking in the city," he said.


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Last Tuesday I dutifully reported to the Jefferson County Taj Mahal to serve as a juror. As it turned out, after a video and some introductory remarks, I was among the group of people who wouldn't be needed that day. So I, juror No. 1259, left the building having fulfilled my duty for the time being.
As Milton said, they also serve who only stand and wait.
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The Fund for Women at the Delaware Community Foundation has named Lynn W. Williams as this year's recipient of the First Founders' Award.
Each year, the Fund for Women bestows the First Founders' Award upon a member ("Founder") who has had a major impact on the community through her exemplary philanthropic efforts.
Williams, a Founder since 1995, has spent more than 50 years as a tireless champion for girls and women and for environmental causes in Delaware. She is best known as the founder and first president of the Delaware Nature Society, whose environmental educational programs have reached more than 1.3 million people since its establishment in the 1960s. Also in the 1960s, Williams was instrumental in protecting the 433-acre tract that became the Brandywine Creek State Park, which includes the first two nature preserves established in Delaware.
In the 1980s, when Williams served as president of the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council (GSCBC), she promoted use of the Grove Point Program Center to educate girls on the interrelationships of life in the bay.
Among her most recent achievements, Williams led the effort to establish Delaware's first platinum-certified "green" building, the Lynn W. Williams Science and Education Center for the GSCBC, which opened in Hockessin in 2010. In recent years, Williams also rallied the environmental community to establish the Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge and Environmental Education Center.
Williams, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women in 2009, has served on more than 15 boards, task forces, and councils, including Delaware's Open Space Council, the Woodlawn Trustees, Delaware Wild Lands, the Urban Environment Center, and the Christina Conservancy.
She has received numerous honors, including the Delaware Nature Society's Conservation Award, Preservation Pioneer Award, Woman of Distinction Award, Jefferson Award for Public Service, Governor's Volunteer Award, and the Delaware Audubon Society Conservation Award.
The Fund for Women's First Founders' Award memorializes the vision of the original Founders -- the "First Founders," those visionary women who started the Fund in 1993. Previous recipients are Sally Gore (2007), Linda Chick (2008), Eva Verplanck (2009), June Peterson (2010) and Jane Wilkie (2011).
"The lasting impact of Lynn's service to Delaware is truly remarkable," said Fund for Women Chair Laura Day. "Between her work for the Girl Scouts, the Delaware Nature Society, and innumerable other environmental causes, Lynn has created important science and nature educational opportunities for generations of girls."


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Rock slides close trail at Dinosaur National Monument
06/21/2013 6:49amThe National Park Service has closed the popular Jones Hole Trail and surrounding lands inside Dinosaur National Monument because of "an active rock slide."
Man held on $105K bail after church shooting
06/21/2013 7:11amAn Ogden man charged with shooting his father-in-law while the man attended church services will continue to be held on more than $100,000 cash-only bail.
'Cantastic' smells success cleaning stinky garbage cans
06/21/2013 7:39amA story that started with stinky garbage cans now smells like success for a unique Salt Lake company.
4 ways to go camping without pitching a tent
06/21/2013 8:41amThere are some among us who are happy to pitch a tent and sleep on the ground, but others prefer to enjoy nature from a real bed and be able to charge their cell phone. If your preferences align with the former and hoping to head to the great outdoors this weekend, check out reservations at any of these more luxurious camping spots.
Fire officials warn Utahns to heed firework restrictions, be smart
06/21/2013 8:58amFire authorities are warning residents of risks and restrictions associated with fireworks, especially as hot and dry weather continues.
Man arrested after early-morning standoff
06/21/2013 9:31amA man was arrested Friday morning after an early-morning standoff with police.
Fishermen work to catch carp, clear Utah Lake water by 2017
06/21/2013 9:33amUtah Lake isn't known for being the cleanest water in the Beehive State, but the Utah Lake Commission says it has a plan to make the lake crystal clear in less than five years.
Man allegedly beat grandmother to death in Sandy home
06/21/2013 9:34amPolice are investigating the death of an 86- year-old woman, who, police say, was beaten to death with a golf club.
Opinion: Congress must extend low rates for student loans
06/21/2013 11:48amThere has been significant discussion in Congress about access to affordable higher education, the role of the government in attaining it and the priorities our nation places on a highly educated workforce.
Layton man to serve 5 1/2 years in prison for double bank robbery
06/21/2013 12:11pmA Layton man pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing a Zions Bank and will serve 66 months in federal prison.
SLC doctor to perform 'healing poetry' at Utah Arts Festival
06/21/2013 1:57pmThe Utah Arts Festival takes place in Salt Lake City this weekend, and a Utah doctor is taking the stage as an unlikely performer.
Man injured in burglary made up story about stabbing
06/21/2013 2:00pmProvo police responded to a reported stabbing Friday morning only to arrest the alleged stabbing victim for an early morning burglary.
Free movies playing in the park this summer
06/21/2013 3:09pmSeveral cities in Utah are sponsoring free movie nights in the park this summer. Bring a blanket or folding chairs, a Costco-size tub of Red Vines, and watch a movie under the stars.
Swimsuit modesty speech sees viral rebuttal
06/21/2013 4:06pmA swimsuit designer's recent speech about swimwear and modesty sparked a viral blog post that rebuts the designer's claims.
'We're not going to let evil come in,' says wife of church shooting victim
06/21/2013 4:30pmCongregants and family of man shot Sunday find healing during liturgy of reparation held at the St. James the Just Catholic Church, Thursday.
Parent stops armed teen who allegedly threatened violence at school
06/21/2013 5:39pmA teenage boy is in police custody after witnesses say he walked into a South Jordan elementary school armed with two knives and threatened to kill people. Parents say they aren't happy with how the school handled the intruder.
Friends, neighbors remember Lake Powell victims
06/21/2013 5:40pmFriends, roommates and neighbors are remembering three women who were victims in a Lake Powell boating accident Thursday.
LDS missionary from Salt Lake killed in accidental electrocution
06/21/2013 6:14pmElder Siosiua Andrew Taufa, 20, of Salt Lake City, a missionary serving in the Guatemala Retalhuleu Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Wednesday after coming into contact with a high-voltage wire atop a building.
Technical problems hinder search for missing women in Lake Powell
06/21/2013 6:57pmA shortened second day of searching for the bodies of two women presumed dead in Lake Powell ended Friday with little success.
Man allegedly exposing himself to children at Lehi lemonade stands
06/21/2013 7:01pmPolice are searching for a man who has been targeting lemonade stands in a Lehi neighborhood and exposing himself to children.
SLC Council uphold $8 million tax increase despite mayor's veto
06/21/2013 7:01pmThe Salt Lake City Council convened Friday morning to override Mayor Ralph Becker's veto of the 2013-14 budget and accompanying 13.8 percent property tax increase, succeeding with a 5-2 supermajority vote.
Neighbors respond with kindness after teen with autism has bike stolen
06/21/2013 7:33pmA young man lost his freedom earlier this week when somebody stole his bicycle. The 18-year- old has autism and his bike was his link to the world away from home. When his neighbors found out, they made sure he still had something to ride.
Utahns donate $20K in spare change to homeless
06/21/2013 8:12pmFor the past two years, people walking throughout the downtown Salt Lake City area have been able to deposit their spare change into the refurbished red meters. The change has been counted and over $20,000 will go to the homeless.
Wendover airport gets $500K fire truck with help of FAA, local casinos
06/21/2013 10:10pmThe Federal Aviation Association wants smaller airports across the country to replace outdated emergency equipment in case of a tragedy. Wendover Airport wasn't sure how it would pay for a new fire truck until some local casinos stepped up to help.
Blind entrepreneur turns whip-making hobby into business
06/21/2013 10:17pmJeremiah S. Espinoza was never satisfied with the whips he could buy as a teenager, so he learned how to make his own. Now the Vernal man with Leber's optic neuropathy has turned his passion into a growing business.
Utah's own driverless car created by Cache County company
06/21/2013 10:39pmYou may soon be able to put your car on autopilot thanks to a Cache Valley company that's teamed up with Ford. Using motion sensors and GPS, they've created Utah's own driverless car.
Wildfire burns 10 acres in mountains above Cedar Hills
06/21/2013 11:06pmFirefighters were able to quickly get the upper hand on a small wildfire that started Friday afternoon in the mountains above Cedar Hills. Although the damage was minimal, the fear of more to come remains great.
Judge denies bail reduction for doctor accused of killing ex-wife
06/21/2013 11:20pmA judge ruled Friday that John Wall, who is charged with killing his ex-wife, Uta von Schwedler, will continue be held on $1.5 million cash-only bail.
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The University of Saint Mary women's basketball team is hosting a free hoops clinic for the children of active-duty military service members.
On Jan. 19, the event will be held from 9-11 a.m. at the Harney Sports Complex at Fort Leavenworth.
The clinic is for children ages 8-15. Available slots are limited. Send your child's name and age to email@example.com to RSVP. For more information, all 913-684-7526.
Attendees will learn key lessons in basketball fundamentals from Spires coaching staff and USM players.
Students participating in the clinic will also receive a free ticket to the team's home game versus Bethel College at 5 p.m. that night.
"We wanted to do something for the military families that sacrifice so much for us," Saint Mary coach Mike Basler said. "Through my time in the community, I know there are a lot of military families that don't always get to do things in the community because they move so often. We thought it would be great to go up there for a day and just give back.
"It's great for our players, too. When you're a college athlete you need to realize you're fortunate, and you need to give back and try to be somebody's hero."
Clinic participants should wear a T-shirt, shorts and basketball shoes, and bring a water bottle to the event.
USM women's basketball to host free clinic for children of active-duty military
The University of Saint Mary women's basketball team is hosting a free hoops clinic for the children of active-duty military service members.


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Professional Translator
Christine M. Grimm has translated more than 70 books
(including Hajo Banzhaf's Key Words for Astrology, Secrets of
Love and Partnership, and three of his Tarot books) from German into
English in her 30 years as a translator. She earned her B.A. in English
Literature and Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis on screenwriting from
UCLA Theater Arts, and then worked in the Los Angeles film industry.
After returning to Germany, she trained at the SDI language institute in
Munich and starting working as a freelance translator/editor following the
birth of her son in 1984. She has been an accredited member of the
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Andrew Clark (21.07.1969, Alnwick, England) first came across 'serious' astrology in 1988/9 and since that first encounter has spent much of his time studying different aspects of the subject, while also trying to understand its relationship to some of the central themes in philosophy, depth psychology (especially the ideas of C.G. Jung) and modern physics. He has been based in Tübingen, Germany since 1993, though spent much of the time between 1996 and 2001 in London studying at University College London, where he gained a BA followed by an MA in German Studies. One of his main concerns is to promote the cause of serious astrology outside of astrological circles - and he believes that Astrodienst is doing important work towards this end. He is also doing research which he hopes will make a valuable contribution to the growing body of astrological knowledge.
Andrew Clark has translated for Astrodienst:
- Chiron texts of the Horoscope Calendar
- Precession and Zodiac
- Love Horoscope
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If I was Pioli, I would make the following changes in an attempt to turn this thing around with what we already have on this roster:
Coaches -
HC: Jim Zorn
OC: Maurice Carthon
DC: Emmitt Thomas
Offense -
QB: Brady Quinn
RB: Shaun Draughn
FB: P. Hillis
C. : R. Hudson
LT: B. Albert
RT: E. Winston
LG: J. Allen
RG: D. Stephenson
TE: T. Moeaki
WR: J. Baldwin
WR: D. Bowe
Defense (back to 4-3) -
DT: D. Poe
DT: J. Powe
DE: G. Dorsey
DE: T. Jackson
LB: T. Hali
LB: J. Houston
LB: D. Johnson
SS. E. Berry
FS: A. Elam
CB: B. Flowers
CB: J. Arenas
Obviously, bring in Charles for Draughn when he is healthy, or use a combo of both. And, of course, get McCluster in there for 3 wide receiver sets, and maybe even to return kicks.
After 2 consecutive blowout losses - why not?


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Huskers Open Postseason Play with Ohio State
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State (13-4-1, 8-2-1 Big Ten)
Series History - Tied, 1-1-0
When - Wednesday, Oct. 31 (3:30 p.m. (CT))
Where - Bloomington, Ind. (Armstrong Field)
Live Stream - BTN.com
Live Stats - Huskers.com
Wednesday will mark the Huskers first neutral site game of the year, while NU is 4-5 on the season away from the Nebraska Soccer Field, including a 3-3 record during Big Ten play.
The Huskers and Buckeyes previously met in Lincoln this season on Oct. 14, with OSU posting a 4-0 victory to even the all-time series. Nebraska won the first ever meeting between the two programs, 3-2, last season in Columbus.
The Huskers and Buckeyes will play the third game of the tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 31, when the two squads take to the field at 3:30 p.m. (CT). The tournament is being hosted this year at Armstrong Field on the campus of Indiana University.
No. 4 Minnesota and No. 5 Illinois start the tournament at 9:30 a.m., while No.1 Penn State and No. 8 Iowa play at 12:30 p.m. Following Nebraska's game, No. 3 Michigan and No. 6 Wisconsin conclude the first day of the tournament at 6:30 p.m. If the Huskers win their opening-round game, they would face the winner of Michigan/Wisconsin winner.
All games on the first day will be streamed live on the Big Ten Digital Network (BTN.com), while the semifinals and finals will be shown on both the Big Ten Network and BTN2Go.com.
Looking at Ohio State
The Ohio State Buckeyes enter the Big Ten Tournament as the No. 2 seed after finishing two points ahead of Michigan.
The Buckeyes hold a 8-11-4 (.435) record all time at the Big Ten Tournament and have captured a pair of conference tournament titles (2002, 2004).
Last season they entered as the No. 7 seed and lost to No. 2 seed Illinois on penalty kicks. The Fighting Illini went on to win the tournament.
The 2012 Buckeyes are led offensively by Tiffany Cameron, who led the Big Ten in shots with 77 and ranked second during the regular season in goals with 18, one shy of Golden Gopher Taylor Uhl's 19 goals.
Cameron added five assists to rank second in the league in points with 41. Lauren Grandberg also ranked in the Big Ten top-10 in points, as she ranked eighth with 24 points on the season (8 goals, 8 assists).
In goal, Jillian McVicker has been as solid as they come with a .900 save percentage. The freshman goalie has 36 saves and allowed just four goals in 15 games over 733:37 of action.
Back in the Postseason
After not qualifying for the postseason for just the second time in program history last season, the Huskers will make their 15th conference tournament appearance in the past 17 seasons.
While a member of the Big 12 Conference from 1996 to 2010, the only year the Huskers did qualify for the conference tournament was 2007, when they finished tied for 10th.
Young Fire Power
Of the Huskers' 27 goals this season, 24 of the goals have been scored by freshmen or sophomores, including six from NU's freshmen class.
Senior Jordan Jackson and junior Stacy Bartels are the only juniors or seniors to score a goal in 2012.
Sophomore Mayme Conroy leads the team with 14 goals after scoring one as a true freshman last season.
Freshmen Katie Kraeutner and Jaylyn Odermann, along with sophomores Caroline Gray and Hannah Dittmar are tied for second on the team with two goals each, while freshmen Alex Massey and Caroline Flynn have each scored one goal.
Bartels has scored two goals on the year, with Jackson adding one.
Charting Saves
Junior goalie Emma Stevens entered the 2012 season ranked eighth on the Huskers all-time saves list with 110 saves.
The Corona, Calif., native moved to third place on the career list with 181 saves. She recently moved ahead of Jamie Klages (2005-06), who now sits in fourth on the list with 156 career saves.
Next up on the list is 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Karina LeBlanc, who totaled 206 saves during her four-year career from 1997 to 2000. Erin Miller holds the NU record with 239 career saves.
Earlier this season, Stevens set a personal best with 204:54 minutes of scoreless play in net over a four-game span. The streak started against Baylor on Friday, Aug. 31 and ended during the Northern Colorado game on Sunday, Sept. 16.
She Can Score
After scoring just one goal as a true freshman in 2011, sophomore Mayme Conroy has become the Huskers' top offensive threat with a team-high 14 goals.
Her 14 goals are the most for a NU sophomore since Morgan Marlborough notched 18 goals in 2010.
Fire Away
The Huskers have produced 30 shots twice this season. Only Penn State and Illinois have produced more shots in a game this season, as both teams have notched 31 shots in a game.
Nebraska first booted 30 shots in a 4-0 win over Southeast Missouri State on Sept. 8 and then did it again in a 1-1 double overtime tie with Northern Colorado on Sept. 16.
Last season, the Huskers also put up 30 shots in a 8-1 win over Northern Arizona on Sept. 4, 2011. Prior to the game with the Lumberjacks, the last time the Huskers posted 30 or more shots was on Sept. 21, 2008, when they posted 31 shots in a 2-1 win over Stephen F. Austin.
Don't Fall Behind
When the Huskers trail at halftime the outcome has not been good, as Nebraska is 0-6-1 on the year when trailing at intermission.
The only time the Huskers didn't lose when trailing at halftime was on Sept. 16 when they played Northern Colorado to a 1-1 double-overtime tie. The Bears struck in the first half, before Caroline Flynn tied the game in the second half.
NU is 3-1-0 on the season when leading at halftime and 4-4-0 when the teams are tied.
The Huskers only loss this season when leading at halftime came at home to Purdue on Sept. 21. NU led 1-0 at the half, before the Boilermakers tied the game in the second half and then won in overtime.
New Faces
All nine of Nebraska's true freshmen have seen action this season, including four who have started.
Katie Kraeutner and Jaylyn Odermann have each started all 19 games this season, while Caroline Flynn has started 17 games and Alex Massey has started three games.
Romero's Return
After missing the first five games of the season while playing for the Mexican National team at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Japan, junior Ari Romero returned to the Husker lineup on Sunday, Sept. 2, and started in NU's 2-1 win at Cincinnati.
In three games during group play at the tournament, Romero started each game and played all 270 minutes of the three contests. She also led the Mexicans in assists with two.
Romero and her teammates were one of eight teams to reach the second stage, but were eliminated in the first round following a 1-0 loss to Nigeria.
It marked the second straight U-20 World Cup that Mexico had advanced to the second stage, after failing to survive the group phase in 2002 (Canada), 2006 (Russia) and 2008 (Chile).
Olympic Glory
Former Huskers Brittany Timko and Karina LeBlanc each earned a bronze medal on Thursday, Aug. 9 at the 2012 Summer Olympics, as Canada defeated France, 1-0, in the women's soccer bronze-medal game at City of Coventry Stadium.
The win was Canada's first in a traditional team sport since the men's basketball team won silver at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
After losing to France 4-0 in last year's World Cup, the Canadians made the most of their first appearance in the medal round after finishing eighth in their Olympic debut four years ago in Beijing.


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LOWELL -- Retired Rev. Sigmund Podlozny has a unique skill for an ordained minister -- he can deliver a sermon from two vastly different eras.
Podlozny can usher his listeners effortlessly from 1775 to 2013, and right back again. He doesn't need a time machine. His specialty is historical re-enactment, and last year Fort Ticonderoga named the Lowell resident its volunteer of the year.
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A: It was 1972.
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Q: You learned all about this man's background, but have you ever met any of his descendants?
A: Yes, I have. I've done a living-history program at the Balch House in Danvers, and those are all his descendants. It's a little bit weird because I'm killing myth. They have grown up with all of these stories, and here I am saying, "No, it didn't happen that way." You would be asking me a question, and I would be in the first person: "I was there, madam, and I do not recall the incident you were talking about. I was actually at such-and-such a place. I couldn't be in two places at the same time." So I'm not sure I'll ever get invited back.
Q: What wisdom about acting in the first person would you give to someone who wants to try it?
A: There's a real fine line you have to watch about first person. A lot of people don't realize it. But if they're looking for 21st-century information, you have to be able to recognize that and come out of your character, otherwise all you will do is create frustration. So to get out of my persona, I'll say, "You have to excuse me for a moment -- I'm leaving the 18th century and going into your century to answer your question."
Q: How easy it is for you to slip in and out of centuries, of your character?
A: It's difficult. Sometimes I can answer it in the 18th century way with no problem at all. But then someone will ask me, "Where did you get your clothes?" They don't want to know which 18th century tailor made them. They actually want to know where I got my clothes. They want to know the 21st century answer of where I got my clothes or where I got my musket. You have to answer the question.
Q: Do all re-enactors share the same philosophy?
A: No, some of them just do first person. All it does is, it alienates the public, and you cannot do that, just staying in your century. I remember an incident from Old Sturbridge Village. This is the problem -- I'm an ordained minister. There are others playing the role of an ordained minister, and they come across as though they are ordained. I knew (a re-enactor) was talking to this young lady. I told him, "She wanted to know about seminary." So he's talking about where he went to seminary as a persona. So finally I just butt in, "You have to excuse me, but I'll answer the question you're looking for. He isn't ordained, he's just portraying a clergy person." I think there's a problem with someone portraying a profession like that. I think it's wrong because they can do more damage than good.
Q: What's a common mistake among re-enactors who play clergy members?
A: Some people that play clergy from that time period don't know that this isn't a fire-and-brimstone period. That comes later. This is where I'm just talking to you and delivering a sermon. I'm not screaming at you. I'm not yelling at you or damning you to hell. It's the Great Awakening. It's a time of renewal. Some of the ministers out there -- what are they thinking?
Q: Sell me on a trip to Fort Ticonderoga. What would you tell somebody who has never gone?
A: This is America's Fort. It's everyone's, and it is not under any government or park-services control. Children can go right up to the cannons and check them out. There's not many ropes you have to stand behind. Watching someone fire 250-year-old cannons -- pretty fun to watch.
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The Luther College women's cross country team placed ninth of 30 teams at the 20th annual Tori Neubauer Invitational hosted by UW-La Crosse. The 6,000 meter course was run at Maple Grove Golf Course, West Salem, Wis.
The Norse posted a team total of 279. Wartburg won the team title with 81 points, followed by University of Minnesota with 90 and UW-La Crosse with 100.
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Cedar Key Volunteer Fire & Rescue is once again making plans to honor our local men and women who are currently serving in the military. We had an overwhelming response from last year's project and would like to make this an annual event. Remember the feeling when you drove across the No. 4 Bridge and saw the flags and names of our local heroes?
We need to update our list and do not want to leave anyone off. We are asking that anyone who has family or friends currently serving in any branch of the military and who is from the Cedar Key/Rosewood area, contact the fire department with the name of service of each member. Email info to email@example.com, drop off at fire station or city hall, or call 352-543-5192. It's very important for us to receive this information in the next couple of days. Please go to www.cedarkeyfire.org and check the list of names to make sure your loved one is included.
Also, we have taken several hits from the weather. We have lost several flags and poles due to high winds breaking the brackets. Another donor has had A & M Manufacturing (at a reduced price) make heavy duty flag brackets to hopefully prevent further loss. The fire department could use additional funds to help replace lost flags. Anyone wishing to make a donation to this worth-while project can make a donation to the Cedar Key Fire Department.
We just want to say "thank you" to all of our service men and women for putting your lives on the line to protect ours. You are constantly in our prayers.
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Pig roast, auction raises more than $6,500.
Members of the Lincoln County 4-H program gathered with friends of 4-H and parents to host the 14th annual 4-H Pig Roast and Auction recently at the Agri-Civic Center in Chandler.
Members from across the county along with volunteers prepared a pork roast meal with all the fixin's. As the highlight of the evening, items that were donated by businesses from across the county were auctioned off to the highest bidder.
The proceeds from the sales and the meal will go to support the awards and trips program for the 4-H members for the 2014 program year. As a result, the members, parents and leaders raised $6,514 from the evening event.
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The gelada monkey, also known as the bleeding heart baboon, makes a gurgling noise or wobble sound that scientists say is close to human speech — at least in how much facial coordination it requires.
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So the monkey can vocalize, but is it saying anything? Gustison hopes to find out. With the help of a Young Explorers grant from the National Geographic Society, she's been going back and forth with her tape recorder to the University of Michigan gelada research site in the Simien Mountains National Park.
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This fluid social order is one of the most distinctive aspects of gelada society, and one that might unlock the key to their distinctive verbal agility. Socially speaking, geladas are like the urbanites of the primate world — always bumping into strangers. "And that's actually really rare," Benitez says. "For most nonhuman primates, you know every single person in your group."
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The peaceful scene of grass-chewing monkeys one encounters on an early-morning arrival doesn't remain peaceful for long. Geladas have the longest canines per body length of any mammal, and they're not used for eating. In their daily life, conflict is simmering just under the surface. Gelada males are polygamous; one male has many females, which leaves many frustrated unattached bachelors sending threatening calls and screams from the fringes.
"I call them frat boys," Benitez says, laughing. "They look hungover, they spend a lot of time together, and then all of a sudden they decide they're going to cause problems. And everyone's afraid of them, and no one wants them around."
Complicating this ritual machismo, geladas are a female-choice society, where the females decide whom to accept or rebuff.
It's a swirl of domestic drama where fights are bound to occur, and when they do, Gustison is ready with her tape recorder. Why? Because, she says, just after a disruption of the social order is when male geladas give voice to some of their most complex strings of sound, perhaps as a way of quickly restoring relationships. "The gelada may be saying something like, 'everything's all right, I'm cool, I'm not hurt,' " says Gustison, "basically calming down the situation."
Most primates achieve this emotional bonding with physical grooming. Gustison says geladas are capable of "vocal grooming." She compares it to being thrown into a cocktail party with lots of people you barely know. The specific meaning of the words you're speaking may not be as important as the relationships you're trying to build. Indeed, "vocal grooming" may suggest something about how our earliest ancestors evolved the ability to speak.
The Big Role Of Small Talk
"It broadens our ideas about the origins of language," Gustison says. Because while much research has focused on the referential side of language, she says, language is just as much about shoring up relationships as it is about expressing information.
"I'll get off the phone with my mother, and I can't remember half the things I say, but I do know that I remember whether or not it was good conversation," Gustison says. "So we want to see besides the semantics what else is important about complex vocal communication that could be a precursor to language."
Long before our early ancestors ever formed sentences, she says, we might have been limbering up our lips, throats and tongues to send each other sounds of comfort, warning and encouragement, like we do now with babies before they learn to talk.
Under that theory, Gustison says, early man's first attempts to speak might have aimed less to describe the outside world, than simply to make that world somewhat less frightening and less lonely.
Lots of animals communicate. Only humans have the ability to talk as we know it. Our closest evolutionary relatives, the primates, are largely confined to grunting and a few other basic noises, except, that is, for a rather chatty monkey in Ethiopia called the gelada. As NPR's Gregory Warner reports, it's giving scientists a peek back in time. It might reveal what drove our earliest ancestors to develop their verbal agility.
GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE: This sound represents a feat of facial coordination such that no nonhuman primate can pull it off, except for a monkey known as the gelada. This particular sound...
WARNER: ...is the wabble.
MORGAN GUSTISON: OK. So what's interesting with a wabble is they're smacking their lips together, they're changing their face, their facial structure and they're vocalizing at the same time.
WARNER: I reached Morgan Gustison at her office at the University of Michigan where she's getting her PhD in biopsychology because she's writing what might be called the first ever gelada dictionary.
GUSTISON: It's kind of like a dictionary because I would love to see if strings of sounds might mean different things.
WARNER: Which is particularly difficult since those strings of sounds don't use words as we know it. And so with the help of a grant from the National Geographic Society, she's been going back and forth with her tape recorder to the only place that geladas live, high in the mountains of Ethiopia. We're like 12,000 feet up, right?
WARNER: At their research site in the National Park, I meet Marcela Benitez, a colleague of Gustison.
MARCELA BENITEZ: Do you see them on the hill over there?
WARNER: Before I got here, my vague sense of what primate field research looked like involved a long trek through dense brush, delicately approaching a band, gradually winning their trust. Gelada research is nothing like that. You pull up in your car. You'll find hundreds of them out in the open hills munching on grass - hundreds. There's so many monkey families, the researchers have to name each family by letters and use radios to keep track.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Yes, (unintelligible)
WARNER: Which brings us to the most interesting thing about gelada society.
BENITEZ: Ds are by themselves over here. Cs are missing.
WARNER: When you have so many monkey families living in these shifting alliances...
BENITEZ: The other ones are down there with the Ns and the Js, which usually hang out with the Ms and the As.
WARNER: ...something takes place which might unlock the key to their verbal agility. Geladas are always encountering...
BENITEZ: Strangers.
WARNER: ...strangers.
BENITEZ: And that's actually really rare for most nonhuman primates, you know every single person in your group.
WARNER: There's a hierarchy.
BENITEZ: You know, he's more dominant than I am, therefore, I'm not going to fight anymore. He's really dominant. I'm going to mate with him. But if you are gelada and you live in these massive, massive social groups...
WARNER: Of up to 1,000 monkeys, that pecking order breaks down. You don't remember every face. So one of the theories these scientists are testing is that geladas use complex strings of sound rather like a guy on a soap box to quickly win over a crowd.
WARNER: Now, in order to get at this question, researchers first have to learn the social dynamics. Gelada males are polygamists. One male has many females, which leaves a lot of frustrated unattached bachelors sending threatening calls from the fringes. Benitez calls them...
BENITEZ: Frat boys.
WARNER: Frat boys.
BENITEZ: They look hungover, they spend a lot of time together, and then all of a sudden they decide they're going to cause problems. And everyone's afraid of them, and no one wants them around.
WARNER: Complicating this macho ritual, geladas are a female-choice society.
BENITEZ: He's trying to copulate with her.
WARNER: So the females decide who to accept and who to rebuff. She refused him?
BENITEZ: Yep. She walked away.
WARNER: And it's not only the frat boys that start the fights.
BENITEZ: Oh, yeah. It was a group of females who started this.
WARNER: The females started this.
BENITEZ: Yep. And the females are going at it and males are coming to their females defense. And behind the As, you can see that the females are now fighting behind the males.
WARNER: Two polygamist families are facing off. There's a lot of shouting, no actual fighting yet.
BENITEZ: You're hearing vocal screams. The ah, (unintelligible) vocal threats. They're more that than a vocal threat.
WARNER: Just as that storm of aggression mysteriously passes, the male returns to his females and he delivers a soliloquy.
BENITEZ: So he just came back to his females and gave vocal inhale, vocal exhale, a series of moans and a vocal inhale again.
WARNER: Whatever he said, it convinced the whole family to pick up and walk off together like nothing happened.
BENITEZ: Females came along with him. Tensions are down.
WARNER: If you listen as closely as Morgan Gustison has, she's videotaped hundreds of these post conflict soliloquies, what the male gelada might be doing is...
GUSTISON: Calming down the situation.
GUSTISON: Saying like, oh, everything's all right, I'm cool, I'm not hurt. Yeah, just not with words, but their showing it through their song.
WARNER: She says other primates will do this post conflict reconciliation with physical grooming. But geladas seem to get in a lot of emotional bonding by vocalizing, which suggests one way that our earliest ancestors might have evolved the ability to speak.
GUSTISON: It broadens our ideas about the origins of language, so a lot of us have focused on a referential side of language.
WARNER: Being able to say, good hunting here, this mushroom poisonous and so on. But long before our earliest ancestors ever formed sentences, Gustison says we might have been limbering up our lips and throats and tongues just to send each other sounds of comfort, of warning and of encouragement like we do now with babies before they learn to talk.
GUSTISON: Because we are a social species and our relationships are important, you know, like, I'll get off the phone with my mother and I can't remember half the things I say, but I do know that, you know, I remember whether or not it was good conversation. So that's kind of the point here is we want to see, you know, well, besides the semantics, what else is important about complex vocal communication that could be kind of like a precursor of language.
WARNER: She says, early man might have taken his first steps towards language as much to represent the outside world as just to find ways to relate to each other and make that big, strange world a little bit less lonely. Gregory Warner, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Grindr's Founder on Politics, Safe Sex & Allowing Users to Specify a Type
Whatever your personal feelings about it, there is no denying Grindr's influence on the gay community. Ever since the app made its debut nearly four years ago it has tremendously impacted how gay men interact with each other. It's made it easier than ever for guys to find whatever it is they are looking for, whether it be friends, dates, a quick chat or (most likely) a quickie.
Grindr's signature yellow grid that displays the nearest men who are on the prowl has made it, as it states on Grindr's website, "the world's biggest mobile network of guys." Grindr uses your smart phone's location-based service to show you the guys closest to you who are also on the app.
According to the company, 4.5 million men in 192 countries have downloaded the app, with nearly 1 million guys signed on at any given time. In a recent interview, Grindr's founder and chief executive officer Joel Simkhai told EDGE that he is rebuilding the app to accommodate such phenomenal growth and to ensure speed, stability and responsiveness. He promised that the new, improved Grindr would not only be faster but "a lot more fun."
The look and the way it is used will also change, he added. "We are adding communities and filters," Simkhai said. "Now, you can see everyone around you and you can only filter based on age. With new Grindr, you will be allowed to filter users based on ethnicity, body type, height, weight, relationship status and lots of other things."
Allowing Users to Specify the Type of Man
Simkhai said users will be able to search for guys based on one of 12 "communities," including HIV status.
"There are lots of different types of gay men," he said. "There are bears, there are daddies, there are twinks. There are all these sub-communities within our gay community. So we're going to allow you to select yourself of one of 12 communities, including HIV positive," he continued. "The idea is if you're looking to meet someone who is HIV positive, you can now do that and search for that person. We are very excited for that and it's going to make a big, big difference."
Grindr certainly has its critics. Simkhai expects it to be no different when he rolls out the new version. "We are filtering out the community. We are segmenting half the community, even more," he gleefully admitted. "There's pros and cons to it, unfortunately," he said. "It's what our users want."
He said he's only responding to users, who want to meet specific types of guys. "That's real life," he said. "There are specific types of bars. There's Latin night, bear night, Asian night, bars that are skewed older, bars that are skewed hipster, bars that are skewed twink. Do I like it? I don't know how I feel about it but it's natural and it's what our users want."
"I very much like the idea that Grindr just shows you everyone around you," he said. "But what we found is that people block a lot. Blocking is one of the most popular features on Grindr. They're just not interested in meeting them so it's telling me that they are being selective and choosing. So when the criticism comes that I'm segmenting the community, I'll probably have to agree with it."
Nor is Simkhai worried that the new features will close guys off from meeting new people or going outside of their comfort zone: "You are lowering your chances of randomly meeting someone. I can't control that though. I just know what my users want and its my job to give that to them," he said.
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Quentin Tarantino sued celebrity website Gawker on Monday for reportedly leaking excerpts of his new screenplay "The Hateful Eight."
TMZ reported Monday the suit — filed in Los Angeles — says "Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck. ... This time they went too far."
Tarantino reportedly discovered last week the script was leaked after his agent starting getting calls from actors wanting to be in the Western. The director called Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline and vented.
"I'm very, very depressed," Tarantino reportedly said. "I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."Just so he knows ... it was wasn't me.
"I gave it to one of the producers on 'Django Unchained,' Reggie Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it," Tarantino said. "That's a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn't end up with the script."
OK, so who else?
"I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth," Tarantino said. "The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these (expletive) agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."
Tarantino told Deadline he thinks Dern's CAA agent is behind the leak. Deadline spoke to sources at CAA who deny the leak came from their office. The CAA source told Fleming that Tarantino himself is probably behind the leak.
Maybe he'll end up suing himself.
Gawker published excerpts on its website, but apparently also published a link to the whole screenplay.
Tarantino is suing for copyright infringement.


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Senior Hayley Brock scored the final three goals to propel the No. 17 University of Maryland women's soccer team to a 4-2 come-from-behind victory over Villanova Monday night at Ludwig Field.
Maryland head coach Jonathan Morgan was pleased with the result, but just as importantly was pleased with the leadership and character his team displayed in the win.
"We've talked a lot about where our leadership was going to come from this season," said Morgan. "We lost a lot of leaders from last year's squad, but we had people step up and show their character and display leadership tonight. Our players were not going to settle for leaving this field tonight with a loss.
"We played a good Villanova team that came in with a good game plan, but in the end we showed the type of team chemistry and consistent effort for 90 minutes that it takes to be successful at this level."
The Terrapins (2-0-0) trailed 2-1 until the 83rd minute despite playing for much of the second half with a man advantage after Villanova's Kathryn Rayner was sent off with a red card after taking Brock down on a breakaway.
But in the 83rd minute sophomore Ashley Spivey settled a loose ball just outside the Villanova defensive third and lofted a pass for Brock over the Wildcats' back line. Villanova keeper Jami Kranich, who finished with eight saves in the match, came off of her line to get the ball, but Brock was too fast and got to it first and went around Kranich and finished into an empty Villanova goal to tie the match at 2-2.
Less than two minutes later Brock displayed a drive to win and some blazing speed to score the game-winning goal. She came back into the Maryland defensive side of the field to win the ball for the Terps and dribbled through the entire Villanova defense before finishing from the right side past Kranich into the lower left corner of the Wildcats' goal.
The Acton, Mass., native then capped off her natural hat trick outrunning the Nova defense onto a long ball played over the top by sophomore goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands. Once again Brock finished the play from the right side into the lower left corner.
"Hayley Brock's will to win and leadership really came through in her performance tonight from her voice to her work rate," said Morgan. "Earlier today Hayley led a meeting with all of the attacking players and, whatever was said in that meeting, the response of the field was noticible."
The first half saw the Terps dominate play with the Wildcats managing just two shots, but both found the net and resulted from defensive miscues by the Terps.
Villanova's Reanna Marino gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute converting on a Maryland turnover with a 1v1 chance and a hard low finish from inside the Terrapin 18.
The Nova lead grew to 2-0 in the 23rd minute when Katie Martin got past the Terps' backline and took advantage when Beanlands came off of her line and Martin was able to score from in close.
Maryland cut its deficit to just one goal in the 40th minute on junior Cory Ryan's first goal of the season. Sophomore Shannon Collins played the ball down the left slot and Ryan outran two Wildcat defenders to get to the ball. Ryan then got off a low-angle shot from in close that snuck past Villanova keeper Jami Kranich.
"While we're excited to get this win over a good Villanova team, we're going to put it behind us, go through our routine and get ready for George Mason on Friday," said Morgan. "We will learn from our mistakes and build off of what worked and get ready to give a solid effort for 90 minutes vs. a good George Mason team."
Maryland returns to action on Friday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. vs. George Mason at Ludwig Field. The match will be streamed live on TerpsTV.


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It was probably the story of a New Orleans boy and his little white dog named Snowball that changed evacuation policy for years to come.
Back in 2005, during the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, the Associated Press reported the story of a New Orleans boy who had to evacuate to the Superdome with his family. Officials took away his dog because it was not allowed at the evacuation center. He called "Snowball!," began crying, and threw up.
America's hearts were captured by the idea that not only were thousands of people forced from their homes, but they had to be suddenly separated from their beloved pets, not knowing if they'd ever see them again.
But during Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast this past October, things were drastically different.
Several Hudson County towns, including Jersey City, Hoboken, and North Bergen, offered at least one pet-friendly shelter. The Red Cross and other emergency agencies made provisions to allow people to hold onto their pets.
Was this a lesson learned from Katrina, or a coincidence?
PETS Act
After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act, a bipartisan way for the U.S. House of Representatives to require states that were seeking Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance to allow pets to evacuate with their owners.
It was authored by two congressmen – Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, and Christopher Shays, a Republican from Connecticut. The PETS Act was an amendment to the Robert Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which ensured that state and local emergency agencies would be sensitive to the needs of pet owners following a major disaster or emergency. Lantos said he wanted to do something for those who were forced to leave their pets behind during Katrina, including Snowball (who, it was reported, was eventually found at a shelter and reunited with his owner).
"One of the biggest lessons we learned from Katrina was that clients do bring their pets with them." – Dena Skelly
Hudson County protecting their beloved pets
During Tropical Storm Irene last year, and Hurricane Sandy this year, local towns appeared to have open minds and open hearts about pets.
Jersey City's shelter for people and their pets was at Pershing Field in The Heights. Jersey City Animal Control's Division was also prepared to accommodate the pets with the town's Office of Emergency Management's (OEM) Mobile Animal Rescue trailer.
Jersey City Spokesperson Jennifer Morrill said the pet evacuation trailer has its own generator that provides light inside and out, heat, air conditioning, a working sink, 30 built-in cages, and a seating area. Morrill also mentioned that it is stocked with enough food and water to accommodate 100 dogs and cats for a week.
"The trailer is always ready to deploy from the OEM compound, is stocked with 200 cardboard cat and small dog carriers, crates, muzzles, leashes, collars, blankets, cat litter, litter boxes, bowls for food and water, as well as some basic first aid supplies for pets," said Morrill. "Our Pet Readiness Plan allows us in a moment's notice to open up our pet-friendly shelter. If the pet is at risk to others or ill, [the town] will put the pet in the trailer, which is kept approximately 100 feet next to the pet friendly shelter."
Also, the County Animal Response Teams (CART), directed by the county OEM with the cooperation of the American Red Cross, have been working on a disaster plan for Hudson County's animals.
Jersey City did ask owners to provide a crate, carrier, or bed large enough for their pet, as well as food stored in a plastic air-tight container, water, pet toys, and medical records.
"Under the direction of Mayor Healy, Jersey City has an advanced OEM and is very progressive when it comes to animal-related issues," said Morrill. "Jersey City has had a Pet Evacuation and Disaster Readiness plan in place since 2009. We fully understand that there will be a situation that requires immediate evacuation and this is why we will assist our residents with needed supplies to keep their pets fed and comfortable."
Hoboken, much of which was underwater during Hurricane Sandy, had a pet-friendly shelter at the Wallace School.
"We allowed pets in our shelter like we did last year during Hurricane Irene," said spokesperson Juan Melli.
North Bergen's two shelters, at the high school and the John F. Kennedy School, allowed pets throughout Hurricane Sandy and during its aftermath.
According to North Bergen Spokesperson Phil Swibinski, the decision to allow pets was made after a few residents asked if they could bring them.
"Allowing pets was the humane thing to do and was an easy decision for township officials," he said. "It was more a common sense measure to allow pet owners to take care of their animals and not discourage them from using the shelters."
No animal left behind
"Katrina taught us so much," said Red Cross Sheltering Manager Mary Dooley last week. "We did learn people do bring their pets with them, especially for a mandatory evacuation."
Dooley said that during the recent storm, transportation companies were allowing passengers to bring their pets.
Another Red Cross Sheltering Manager, Dena Skelly, said the Red Cross has partnered with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), County Animal Response Teams (CARTs), Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), local veterinarians, and groomers who can shelter pets. Skelly said the Red Cross worked with the CART and CERTs for Hudson County.
"We were able to be co-located next to a shelter in one facility and in the hall of another," said Skelly. "This was very good for the recovery of clients as they could visit with their pets several times daily. It was a great partnership and is very much one of the many initiatives of the American Red Cross to make the best situation for our clients during disasters, which are even more stressful when you are worried about your pets."
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Thus, it is quite a shock when you hear of a person who is supposed to have an untarnished image and a pillar of goodness, compassion and honesty being talked about as being involved in funds misuse and abuse of power.
This good looking and popular celebrity GP who heads a big non profit organization NGO tasked to help the poor and underprivileged is allegedly engaged in malversation of funds --- the organization's funds for that matter. Sounds unthinkable and conflicting for GP's public persona. But there have been persistent and strong insider information that point to GP's extra curricular activities and misuse of these funds.
GP is well known for having a fastidious lifestyle. It was alleged that GP draws funds from the NGO to pay for personal credit card bills amounting to Php 300,000 to 500,000 per month! The scandalous figure sounds like the NGO is the one tasked to shoulder the fabulous lifestyle. And why not, even the monthly payment for the personal dance instructor aka DI allegedly comes from the NGO funds itself.
Do the regular donors of the NGO know where their hard-earned money is being squandered? Aren't these funds supposed to be used to take care of the poor and the oppressed in the first place? So many questions that need to be addressed immediately. Well, we can only hope and pray for the best.
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A Friday morning fire that may have caused as much as $200,000 in structural damage and displaced the residents of four apartments started around a kitchen range.
"The guys were super quick knocking the fire down," Rolla Fire Chief Robert Williams said of the nine firefighters who rushed to the fire at 2101 Vienna Road in two fire trucks at approximately 11:20 a.m. Friday.
Their quick response confined the fire to the kitchen, Williams said, but there was plenty of smoke and water damage to the rest of the building. He estimated total structural damage to be $150,000-$200,000 because of the amount of drywall and flooring that will have to be replaced. The chief estimated the damage to the contents at $25,000.
Because the water service to the building had to be turned off, the Red Cross was called to assist in finding temporary housing if necessary. Williams said the residents appeared to be a mix of students and working young people.
Williams and Assistant Chief Ron Smith were the two administrators who responded with the firefighters from both stations. Ladder 33 and Ladder 35 were the trucks dispatched to the fire; these trucks are called "quints" because each has five functions.
Adam Housewright owns the fourplex, and Smith said it is arranged with two apartments downstairs and two apartments upstairs. There was "significant" damage to the upstairs kitchen where the fire began, plus smoke damage throughout that apartment.
Water soaked the apartment below; the damage to the two apartments on the other side was "very little," Smith said.
None of the residents was home at the time, so there were no injuries, Smith said.
Chief Williams said the cause of the fire would go down in the records as accidental and undetermined. The fire began in or around an electrical smooth-top range.
"There were no pots or pans on it to indicate it was in use," he said. "We won't call the state fire marshal."
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The airport will be nuts. There's nothing you can do about that. The average person thinks it's a good idea to fly the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Don't be that person.
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year. Remember that bad experience you had at the airport that time? OK…now compound that with the fact that whether your luggage was lost or your flight was cancelled, they weren't dealing with their busiest day of the year. Think about what happens where you work on the busiest day of the year. No matter what you do, I would guess that only the highest of priorities are addressed. Most likely, things that would be easy for you to do normally are darn near impossible.
It's the same way for the airlines. Unlike many, I like air travel. Sure, I have my share of nightmare stories, but for the most part, the airlines, like any other service industry, only thrive when they value the customer. If you arrive late for your flight, you will be put on the next available flight to the same destination (for no charge most of the time). The problem is that on the busiest travel days, there is no "next available flight". (Well, there actually is, but it's the day after the holiday…defeating the purpose a bit.) You have to know that if, for any reason, you do not get on the flight on which you are booked, you fall into immediate danger of not getting home in time for the holiday. Remember, that next flight, the last one out at 9:45pm? It's overbooked with people, just like you, who absolutely must be on the plane that day. The next morning is not an option.
What can you do?
*Take the day off. Come on, we all get a few vacation days a year. Save one for the day before Thanksgiving. Save one for Christmas Eve. Yes, I know you have a four-day weekend and you think that's plenty. It isn't. The worst holiday travel happens when everyone who decided to save that vacation day ends up at the airport at the same time. Leaving the day before the masses will change your life. Airfare is cheaper the day before. Long-term parking may actually have a few spaces left. Tempers are in check because everyone has an extra day to get where they're going. Airlines have a much better chance to reschedule you in case of bad weather.
The key is figuring out when everyone else is going to want to fly and avoiding that time. If you can travel midday during the actual Holiday, that's the holy grail of timing. In fact, the cheapest trip you'll find to almost any destination is leaving Thanksgiving Day and returning on Saturday. Again…think of when most people are unlikely to be on the move.


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