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Had a chance if we had one decent quarter from Stat and JR.
Had a chance if we had one decent quarter from Stat and JR.
50+ points for Clip bench...Knick bench...FOOK ALL!!!!!
Amare -19
Smith -18
Novak -12
Too early to panic about playoffs but damn that was just a woeful no show from nearly every Knick.
JC the show stealer sended msg to JR which was nothing but mess in this game. There was only one team inthis game . MELO and Felton was playing others was crap. Tirico says CP3 will be FA this summer does it mean this guy still wana play for Knicks? but who is tradable for Knicks? Copeland ? Prigioni? Novak? Shump?
This team need Sheed
all what i hate most is totaly not prepared shots by JR and Shump
Brewer is not playing i dont rememebr when he was playing full game last time.
Free brewer! We need a hard working & defense & boards ...chandlers, melo, brewer, shump/kidd ,& felton as starting lineup
"I'm more concern how Melo is gonna play with Lin" Joe Budden
This is all basketball IQ and unfortunately we don't have a ton of it on the team. Amare is supposed to carry himself like a top player in the league but he rarely commands the ball. Think back to when Ewing use to demand the ball at points in the game because he had the ultimate confidence in his playing ability. The biggest issue though would be the defense. This team has gone from top 10 to bottom 5 in a matter of weeks. They don't understand how to guard the pick and roll and EVERYONE helps on defense even when they don't have to.
I remember in a recent game where Melo was guarding someone (can't remember the exact game) but he blocked his shot attempt inside. The next time down the court, Felton went to help Melo and left the shooter open for 3. Why the hell would Melo need help when he has proven that he can (at least for the moment) guard this guy???? I hate the defense right now and if Woodson keeps putting all the blame on himself then he'll start feeling the fire of NYC. Watch how fast he starts throwing players under the bus then.
Also, i'm tired of hearing about the lack of practice time. Sorry but thats BS! These Knicks don't even give maximum effort half the time on defense. How is practice going to help effort??? If you don't have that mentality this far into the season then you're just playing for fun.
Real Talk
Melo played better than anyone and you post **** like this, stop it, your agenda has no substance, he's our best player, his shots came in the flow of the game, if someone besides Ray stepped up we might have won but they didn't, he also played great D on Blake but you dont know that do you
grow the hell up and stop with the stupid ass Melo bashing


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Authorities said the fatal crash happened Tuesday on Arkansas Highway 226 in Jackson County. Authorities said the crash remains under investigation, but a Mack truck collided head on with an SUV driven by Andrea Benham, 22.
Benham was killed in the crash, along with her passenger, Felecia Davis, 25. Both women were from Manila.
Authorities said a 7-month-old boy and a 2-year-old boy who were in the SUV were injured and taken to a hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
The truck's driver was not injured in the collision.

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text: Here in NorCal our Combo season will be starting soon. Here's an extract from an email, asking captains to consider playing at a higher-than-required level in the spirit of fair competition... hah! Does your team have self-rated players who have improved during the Adult league season? Maybe your players were 2.5s this Spring, but with any match play during the Adult League season, they are likely to be 3.0s now. In fairness to your opponents, please consider changing your team's level from 5.5 to 6.5. League play is about fair competition, not total domination. The same applies to any self rated player who played successfully in the Adult league. His/her place now is at the higher level. Just send us an email and we can easily change your team's level.


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"Here's another example of
human barbarism – the hamster cannon. Now that's just plain mean!"
Bam! A hamster is fired
across the room and sticks on the velcro-looking
target on the wall. Mean? Oh yes. Funny – in a guilty sort
of way.
Whiplash is a pending
release from Eidos Interaction and Crystal
Dynamics and is slated for release on the PlayStation2 and Xbox. The game was
demonstrated at E3 in Los Angeles and follows the adventures of
Spanx and Redmond who have escaped from forced
labor in a animal product-testing lab and are bent
on escape. Not only are they trying to get free, but they are trying to get as
many of their fellow animals freed as well.
There is just one hitch –
they are chained together, and hence the program gets its title. Players
perform as Spanx, a demented weasel-looking
character. The foil and disgruntled tool is Redmond, a rabbit that is abused
likely more than the product testers ever dreamed. Spanx
using the chain that bind them to whip Redmond
through obstacles and into enemies.
Game features include a
variety of puzzles and enemies, including lab technicians, crooked
rent-a-cops, and the corrupt CEO of the corporation. If successful, you can
drive the company into bankruptcy.
Graphically this game is
very good, with solid effects and smooth animation. The sound is also well
The charm of this game is in
the frenetic action of the principal characters. Reactions
from lab techs being clubbed by the whipped Redmond (who is also used to clog
a toilet on occasion to flood a level) is wonderful. This game is a humane
society's nightmare, but it plants tongue firmly in cheek, disregards
conventions and has a good time.
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Using Visual Studio 2010 professional - usings openmp 2.0
The following is my C++ code.
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#pragma omp parallel for schedule(dynamic,1)
for (int j = 0; j < ncells; j++ ){
double elemsum_1 = 0.0;
for (int k = 0; k < n; k++){
Radial r(Point[j],C[k]);
elemsum_1 += Level[k] * methods::Kernel(r,Subset); // static member function of class methods
double elemsum_2 = 0.0;
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Radial r(Point[j],C[k+n]);
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#pragma omp critical
double dv =elemsum_1 + elemsum_2;
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Religious hate group Westboro Baptist Church had their tires slashed while protesting at the funeral of a soldier in Tulsa.
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Your thoughts on the pick?
He will compliment Melo and STAT
Your thoughts on the pick?
He will compliment Melo and STAT
lol that was fast knicksfansince92
We got a guy that will have to guard Wade, Ray Allen, and other punk ass faggit shooting guards that think them and there team are beatin us
**** this guy
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
a 6-5 atheltic defender on the perimeter is a good thing..
Could be a good pick depending on how he did in workouts and if we plan on trading.
Sig made by Sons of Thunder
Turrible, if the Knicks were going to reach I would have preferred to reach for a need like Faried for his rebounding.
He won't make Knicks roster. D-League next and forever..
Well...... He's a good defender at least.
Let's give this guy a chance. Big guys could turn out to be busts, look at Thabeet. Maybe he had the most impressive workout.
Sig made by Sons of Thunder
this guy is in no way better than singleton..did they draft him cause he's a GUARD
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BERLIN – Tragedy struck in an otherwise calm and peaceful Berlin neighborhood early yesterday morning when a local man was beaten to death, reportedly with a baseball bat, while attending a party for Stephen Decatur High School students who graduated earlier on Wednesday night.
According to police, Michael Harry Mitchell, 19, of Henry Rd. in Berlin, was attending a graduation party in the Decatur Farms community along Route 113 in Berlin early Tuesday morning when he and a group he was in were approached by another group of individuals in a vehicle. An altercation broke out between the two groups during which Mitchell was struck with a blunt object, reportedly a baseball bat, and died from the injuries he sustained in the attack.
According to police reports, the suspect or suspects then fled the scene in their vehicle. Another unnamed victim was also assaulted during the altercation and was transported to nearby Atlantic General Hospital, although his condition was not available as of late yesterday.
It's uncertain whether the attack was random or premeditated, according to police reports. However, sources indicated the attack was not random and that the individuals involved knew the victims and that something unknown sparked the assault. Sources said the victim was not a member of this year's Decatur graduating class.
Members of the Berlin Police Department were first to arrive on the scene early yesterday morning and quickly handed the case over to the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI), according to Berlin Police Chief Arnold Downing.
WCBI is currently working on the investigation with the help of the Berlin Police Department. Some suspects and persons of interest have been identified by detectives and efforts to locate those individuals were ongoing as of late yesterday.
Anyone with additional information about the case is urged to contact WCBI at 410-352-3476 and ask to speak to Detective/Cpl. Mumford.


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"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."
"It is probably the most unethical and dishonorable thing I've ever seen done here. I find it absolutely ironic that an organization that is set up to protect the contracts of its members would make a decision to turn around and declare null and void the contract it signed with its employee."
"But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be punished in another, and contrast him with the inflexible soldier who does his duty faithfully, notwithstanding it occasionally wars with his private feelings. The conduct of one will be venerated and emulated, the other detested as a satire upon soldiership and honor."
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Green Success: The J.M. Smucker Company Practices Sustainable Demolition
For more than 115 years, The J. M. Smucker Company has been a leading marketer and manufacturer of fruit spreads, retail packaged coffee, peanut butter, shortening and oils. The company's leading peanut butter brand, JIF®, is produced at the company's Lexington plant, which is the largest peanut butter-producing facility in the world.
The Lexington site is on 28 acres, which included eight or nine older buildings recently purchased from a neighboring lumber yard. In order to facilitate an expansion of the plant, Smucker was looking for an environmentally friendly way to remove the buildings from the property.
Environmental responsibility is a natural part of the Smucker Company's heritage. In Lexington, Smucker is a member of KY EXCEL, the Commonwealth's voluntary environmental leadership program. In addition, LEED design and construction has been at the forefront of the company's expansion projects. To date, five of the company's buildings have achieved LEED certification, including the JIF Learning Center in Lexington. Continuing with this focus on sustainability, it was important to the company to remove the buildings in a way that would have the least impact on the environment, plant operations and neighboring residents.
Scott Rose, Operations Safety Leader for Smucker, said the company obtained demolition permits for the salvage company that was hired to remove the buildings piece by piece and reuse as many materials as possible. One of the buildings was built of concrete blocks and had a wooden roof. The concrete blocks were ground up and the wood reused.
"The buildings had several roll-up garage doors and light fixtures," said Larry Agee, plant engineer. "We reused everything except for one shingled roof. Only seven 40-yard dumpsters of material were sent to the landfill. Since 50,000 square feet of buildings were demolished, we drastically minimized the amount of material that went to the landfill."
Though the cost was more than the conventional way of bulldozing structures and hauling the material to a landfill, Smucker wanted the removal to be done in an environmentally sound manner.
Materials were reused as much as possible, sometimes being sold and bringing in funds. For example, metal siding was sold to individuals to build barns in another county.
"We do things because we feel that it is the right thing to do," said Agee.
"Sustainability is always at the forefront of everything we do," says Agee. "Working together with our contractor, we were able to successfully prepare our property in Lexington for expansion, while also remaining mindful of our impact on the environment and our neighbors."
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text: Submitted by rscholfield on Wed, 2013-09-18 10:25 Colorado TU Vote Up Down +315 + Sprucelakebrookie.jpg A typical brookie in the lower lake where we worked in Weminuche Wilderness. By Kevin Terry Colorado is blessed by an abundance of public land and spectacular mountain landscapes. This is the reason many of us live here to begin with. A significant part of this public playground is preserved by designation as wilderness. In southern Colorado, the Weminuche wilderness is the state's largest at 487,912 acres. First designated in 1975, the Weminuche lies in the San Juan Mountains and houses the headwaters of several of the West's most notable rivers, including the Rio Grande, and the San Juan. The Continental Divide splits the Weminuche, separating these rivers and creating the boundary that separated the Rio Grande Cutthroat from the Colorado River Cutthroat in evolutionary time. I have had the privilege to explore this area on both sides for almost a decade. The diversity of fishing opportunities is incredible, and there is always a new adventure awaiting. A few years ago, I was playing around with my mapping software, planning a three-day backpack trip for my wife and me. I decided to go for a loop hike in the headwaters of the South Fork of the Rio Grande with lakeside camping both nights. The first lake was just as expected, right off the trail and packed with Brookies. The second night was more of an adventure, as the two lakes we were going to camp at were, as it turned out, off the trail a little bit. My wife would probably tell it a little different, but after convincing her to have faith in my homemade map and trusty GPS, we stumbled upon two remarkable lakes that were truly "hidden" gems. I mean, this is the kind of place that is truly wild, right? Well, it turns out that the answer is yes and no in this case. While the lakes are in a spot that must have held natural water based on the topography, both lakes also have dams that enhanced the storage capacity substantially in each—and also created two tremendous fishing lakes. There wasn't any signage or any other indicator of who had done this work and when. This is, after all, Wilderness, right? Yes, a quick check of the map showed that indeed, we were within the boundaries. Well, it remained a mystery, at least for a couple of years. Fast forward to the summer of 2013. I have just started my new job with Trout Unlimited as the Rio Grande Basin project manager, and I am trying to make new contacts in the area the best way I know how, on a boat on the Rio Grande. I've met a new fishing buddy, and as fate would have it, he begins to tell me about a problem his friend has way up in the Weminuche Wilderness with two lakes that his family first built in 1926. He goes on to say that the lakes were rehabbed sometime in the1940s, but that there are now some problems with the dams according to the State Engineers Office. I quickly connect the dots and, to his surprise, name these mystery lakes right off. Well, it turns out that the lakes are now part of a partnership called the Conservation Pool Program with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The program works by keeping some lakes full for the purpose of fishing, while the farmers' water rights from them are transferred to another reservoir and delivered to their farms. This program is particularly good for this situation, as the remote location and restrictions of the Wilderness designation would make water delivery and ditch maintenance very challenging. This is a win-all agreement that has a benefit to every stakeholder, including the USFS, CPW, the farmers, and the general public. However, the water right holders have the sole responsibility to maintain the dams to state standards. So how do they maintain this infrastructure in the middle of the wilderness? That's a good question, and one that started me on my first project with Trout Unlimited. After all, I knew that these lakes were valuable fisheries available to the public and that these folks needed help from someone to maintain them. The first step was to meet with the farmers and look through the state engineer's latest inspection reports. The partners included Rick Davie of the Davie Ranch, David Colville of the Corset Ranch and Harold Peck of HSP farms. These gentlemen and their families own the water rights and have been ranching and farming the Rio Grande for generations. They are very busy, hard-working people and they were all relieved to have TU step up and offer a hand. We took a collective look at the reports and listed the major actions required to bring the dams into compliance and maintain the current full storage level. The primary duty was to remove decades of waterlogged trees that have fallen into the lakes and drifted onto the surface of the dams and in the spillways. This area has been hit hard by beetle kill in the last 10 years—over 100 logs needed to be removed in the lower lake alone. Another requirement was to inspect the outlet pipes visually, and to service the outlet wheel works that open and close the pipes in case the lakes need to be drained for an emergency. We determined that we would do our best with horses and hands and give it a shot. I was tasked with getting something together for the pipe inspection and bringing some good old TU volunteers. The farmers were responsible for the horses and to bring some of that ingenuity that allowed their forefathers to persevere in the first place. As we were restricted by Wilderness rules, banning mechanized equipment, this would be a significant task. Over the next couple of weeks we talked occasionally and finally decided on a date for the trip. Sprucehorses.jpg Ranchers brought draft horses to help with the heavy lifting . . . For the inspection, we rented a high tech video camera attached to an apparatus much like a sewer snake, which allowed us to record our inspection of the pipe works. We used an inverter to allow the use of DC power from a battery and we had solar chargers in place to keep the power flowing. For the logs, the farmers brought in a team of draft horses that were gargantuan by my standards of very limited experience with horses, as well as a few come-a-long hand winches and plenty of muscled ranch hands to crank them. We threw in an inflatable boat to help with the logs by floating some of them up lake to drag onto shore by hand or to tie in with other log debris to maintain and create fish habitat. After a couple of long hard days, we had done our best to comply with the required actions, and the work accomplished was astonishing. Everyone truly came together to get the job done and preserve something special. After the work was done, TU's crew went to work fishing for dinner. This was a simple task in the upper lake, which is teeming with 8-12 inch brook trout. A reward for almost every cast. The lower lake is another story, as densities are lower and the average size greater. A bonus in the lower lake is the presence of big Rio Grande Cutthroat. We caught one at 19 inches that avoided a picture, and we saw another well over 20 inches lurking around in the shallows. Next time we'll get them! I repeatedly failed to mention the names of these lakes throughout this blog. The clues are in place and finding them will not be a challenge, if you are so inclined. It is an unforgettable adventure that I highly recommend to anyone who likes remote fishing lakes and peace and quiet. Hopefully the work we have done will preserve this opportunity well into the future. It's a feel-good situation to have been a part of this project, and I am proud to be part of a group like Trout Unlimited that enables projects like this and encourages partnerships that protect fisheries. A huge thank you goes out to the five TU volunteers who hiked 14 miles and worked their butts off for this effort: Matt Pelletier, Doug Manley, Eric Peterson, Matt Peterson, and Andrew Terry. They are the essence of TU and our cause. Kevin Terry is TU's Rio Grande River Basin project manager. Sprucevolunteers.jpg TU volunteers (from left): Matt Pelletier, Matt Peterson, Kevin Terry, Eric Peterson, Andrew Terry, and Doug Manley. Many thanks, gents! Log in or register to post comments


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Giants 6, Reds 3: Buster and Freddy back on the field
Don't worry, Matt Cain. We still love you.
When Cain left the bullpen Friday and walked onto the field at Scottsdale Stadium, he was greeted by huge roar from the Giants fans.
"I thought everybody really loved me," Cain quipped. "And then I looked behind me and saw Buster."
Buster Posey returned to live action for the first time since May 25 of last year, catching Cain two innings and flying out to right in his lone at-bat in the Giants' win over the Reds.
"It was fun," Posey said. "I've put in a lot of work. Even though it was only two innings, it was nice to be out there."
Posey will get Saturday off, then return Sunday to catch four inning, according to manager Bruce Bochy.
"It was good to see Buster back out there playing again," Bochy said. "I know he was excited. It was great to see the ovation he got when he walked out to the bullpen. … Everyone was happy to see Buster playing again."
Well, that's for sure. And it was also good to see Freddy Sanchez, too.
Sanchez went 1 for 4 as the Giants designated hitter Friday in his first game since a shoulder injury ended his season last June. But the big test will come Monday, when he plays his first game at second base.
"Playing defense will be a big stepping stone for me," said Sanchez, who will DH again on Saturday and Sunday. "I feel like I'm getting a little stronger each day."
- Matt Cain pitched three scoreless innings, giving up three hits, no walks and striking out four. He has not allowed a run in five innings this spring.
- OF Melky Cabrera continues to rake. He went 2 for 3 with a two-run homer in the third inning. He's hitting .588.
- Aubrey Huff made his first spring start in left field. He went 0 for 3 and is hitting .214 this spring.
- Meanwhile, Brandon Belt came off the bench and replaced Nate Schierholtz in right field. He went 2 for 2 with a double and an eighth-inning home run. He's hitting .389.
The Giants play split-squad games on Saturday. Barry Zito will start at Scottsdale against the Brewers, where he won't have Prince Fielder to throw at anymore. Right-hander Shane Loux gets the start in Tempe against the Angels.


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Ice sheets at both of Earth's poles are melting rapidly, and the rate of loss has increased since the 1990s, a new NASA-sponsored study shows.
The study, which combines extensive data from aircraft and satellites, is believed to be the most precise assessment of its kind.
And it is helping clear up previous confusion about whether Antarctica is gaining or losing ice.
While eastern Antarctica might be increasing its ice mass, ice is being lost in the west and on the Antarctic Peninsula. Overall, both Antarctica in the south and Greenland in the north show a significant loss over the past 20 years.
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets combined also are losing more than three times as much ice per year as they were in the 1990s.
Two-thirds of the loss was measured in Greenland, where ice is melting faster, the rest in Antarctica.
Greenland's ice loss, in fact, is five times faster than it was in the mid 1990s, while Antarctica overall has lost ice more steadily, the rate increasing by half over the past 10 years.
And the melting has raised sea levels by nearly half an inch since 1992, scientists estimate – a fifth of global sea level rise during the same period.
"Based upon what we see in Greenland, we might expect to see yet faster ice loss in coming decades," said research scientist Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, who helped coordinate the study. "All the data points toward that. For Antarctica, we are less certain."
The study was funded by NASA and the European Space Agency and published last week in the research journal, Science. It involved 47 scientists from 26 laboratories around the world in a collaboration known as the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise.
Among them were UC Irvine ice experts Eric Rignot and Isabella Velicogna.
Rignot, who has spent years measuring changes in polar ice, said the loss of ice in Greenland is clearly linked to a general warming of the planet over decades.
"In Greenland, we are fairly certain this is the result of warmer air temperature and warmer ocean temperatures," he said.
The situation is a bit more ambiguous, however, in Antarctica. While some influence from planetary warming is likely impinging on the Antarctic continent – mainly shifts in ocean and wind circulation patterns – the continent's relative isolation makes a strong link to global warming elusive.
"Some of what we see is consistent with a warming world, and Antarctica not warming as fast," Rignot said. "But to exactly pinpoint some of the processes along the coast and say this is a direct signature of climate warming is difficult. It will require more studies."
Ivins said warming is likely a significant factor, however, for the Antarctic Peninsula.
"We know we have lost ice shelves" on the peninsula, he said. "That allowed outlet glaciers to speed up, and that's related to global warming."
Data from 10 different satellites were included in the study, among them radar readings of both the height of ice and how fast it flows toward coasts.
Subtle changes in gravity also were measured by NASA's twin GRACE satellites.
Larger or smaller amounts of mass over time show up as gravitational jiggles upward or downward; that can be used to measure thickening or thinning of ice.
The scientists involved in the study recast data they had collected over years to reconcile differences in time periods and geographical areas examined.
"We have these completely independent research groups that went and reanalyzed their data," Ivins said. "We agreed on a time frame, and the space over which to analyze the data, and came up with this level of consistency in the results.
The study also will likely help sharpen the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the first portion due out next year.
While the study's findings fall within the estimates in the previous assessment, released in 2007, those estimates were not precise enough to reveal whether Antarctic ice was increasing or decreasing.
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The Hospice of Montezuma has selected Mary Ramsay for its annual Janet McCabe Outstanding Volunteer Award.
Volunteers provide companionship to patients and respite for caregivers.
"Mary has been a Hospice volunteer since March of 2014 and has proven to be a very dependable and willing volunteer," according to Ronda Lancaster, volunteer and fundraising coordinator at the Hospice. Ramsay has been a volunteer since March, and though she has a full-time job, she spent her Saturdays and after hours with patients.
"Hospice volunteers are the cream of the crop, and Mary certainly fits into that description," Lancaster said. "Mary is always willing to meet a patient, spending time doing whatever the patient would like to do, and allowing families to run errands or spend time doing what the family needs to do."
Hospice of Montezuma offers individualized training to fit the schedule of volunteers. After the required 20-hour course, one hour a week can make a difference to a Hospice patient and their family.
Call 565-4400 to learn about becoming a volunteer.


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I'm particularly dazzled by his lashes :)
Hair, jaw, eyes - what's your fave?
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@ Irene, omg I thought the same thing LoL ;)
I love it ^.^
Love the jaw and eyes....
Not such a fan with the greasy hair.....I like it better either when it's Edward Hair or when it's messy from running his hands through it!


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Afternoon: Prior to dinner, please meet your fellow Road Scholar participants in the Conference Room at 4:30pm. This orientation will be facilitated by your Group Leader and an updated schedule will be reviewed. Join us as we prepare you for a fun-filled and educational visit to Delaware!
Dinner: Dinner will be delivered to us this evening! Enjoy a buffet style dinner offering 2 entree choices and delicious sides. Water, Iced Tea and Coffee beverages included.
Evening: In "Women Who Spied", storyteller Marie Gormley-Tarleton presents first-person narrative of three women spies--one who spied for the colonists during the American Revolution, a Union spy during the Civil War, and one who may have spied during World War I.
Activity note: Walking over rough terrain/sand at Fort Miles and limited mobility while exploring WWII bunker.
Breakfast: Breakfast will be served provided by the hotel. Assorted hot breakfast items to enjoy with water, coffee and tea included.
Morning: Lecture on the part Delaware played during WW-II
Lunch: Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant on the main street of Lewes.
Afternoon: Guided field trip to the WW-II Bunker at Fort Miles in Cape Henlope State Park. Lewes, Delaware - reveals its pivotal role during WW-II. The Bunker was a key piece in the nation's coastal defense at that time.
Dinner: After a short rest back a the hotel, we will gather to walk 4 blocks to a local restaurant, serving delicious Mexican cuisine.
Activity note: Sitting for up to an hour on the Delaware Tech bus. Afternoon walking tour is outside, so prepare for weather. Tour will require standing for up to an hour and walking up to 2 miles along sidewalks and small streets.
Breakfast: Breakfast will be served provided by the hotel. Assorted hot breakfast items to enjoy with water, coffee and tea included.
Morning: Field trip to the Air Mobility Command Museum. During WWII, the 4146 Base Unit was involved in secret rocket development at what was then known as Dover Army Airfield. The building complex where these military secret operations took place was Hangar 1301. From the 1950s to the 1970s, various fighter squadrons called the hangar home. In the 1990s after restoration and placement on the National Register of Historic Places, Hangar 1301 was given new life as the home of the Air Mobility Command Museum.
Lunch: Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in Dover, Delaware's capital.
Afternoon: Step back in time during a "Maritime Walking Tour" provided by the Lewes Historical Society. This 60 minute tour will provide an overview of the history of Lewes as influenced by the maritime factors.
Dinner: Catered Buffet style dinner served in the hotel prior to our evening entertainment.
Evening: Musical Entertainment: Tap your toes and drift back in time as you enjoy songs and stories from WWII.
Breakfast: Breakfast will be served provided by the hotel. Assorted hot breakfast items to enjoy with water, coffee and tea included.
Morning: Our last lectures of the program will focus on the role the Navy served in Delaware's War: * "The Navy at Cape Henlopen: A Century of Service"- This presentation documents the presence of the U.S. Navy on Cape Henlopen from 1898 to 1996. It highlights the principal U.S. Navy installations that were on the Cape, illustrates what the facilities looked like when they were operational and what the locations look like today. * "Submarines at the Cape: Friend and Foe" U.S. Navy submarines operated in the vicinity of Cape Henlopen from the early 1900s to the late 1970s. Many did so, either on the way to war or returning to the reserve fleet. Others conducted trials and testing in the waters off the Cape, usually with success, but things did not always go so well. Several accidents and what the Navy has called "…one of the great tales of submarine rescues at sea." are highlighted. In addition, German submarine operations in coastal waters and at the Cape in both World War I and II are recounted. Their successes against U.S. shipping and the Navy's response are described in detail.


text: ALMOST HUMAN: Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner J.J. Abrams and creator J.H. Wyman and starring Michael Ealy, ALMOST HUMAN is a high-tech, high-stakes action drama set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. An unlikely partnership is forged when a part-machine cop (Urban) is forced to pair with a part-human robot (Ealy) as they fight crime and investigate a deeper cover-up in a futuristic new world. The high-tech, high-stakes action drama premieres late fall on FOX. ©2013 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Kharen Hill/FOX


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"Buddhist sutras were translated into literary Chinese, a dead language by that time."Astus wrote:Buddhist sutras were translated into literary Chinese, a dead language by that time. Same can be said about Sanskrit. Latin, of course, is not that popular now as those were in their respective cultural spheres. Still, there is some beauty in Latin. Even two volumes of Harry Potter were translated to Latin (and one volume to ancient Greek).Dharma Atma wrote:But why to translate them in the dead languages...
If you mean that literary Chinese was dead at the time the Buddhist sutras were translated, I would have to disagree with you very strongly.
Even to this day, a fair percentage of Chinese Buddhists can still read these translations without too much difficulty.
Classical Chinese is still taught at most levels of education in Taiwan, for example, and plenty of people can read and recite some classics from memory.
It's not dead today, let alone 1500 years ago.
~~ Huifeng


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William G. Morgan Papers
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Rachael A. Salyer
August 2010
Shelf space occupied .5 linear feet
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This collection documents some of the early life and achievements of William G. Morgan (1870-1942), who graduated from the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1894, and who created the game of volleyball at the Holyoke YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895. The materials within this collection relate primarily to Morgan's connections to Springfield College and Western Massachusetts and to his creation of volleyball. Items within the collection include photographs, Morgan's original application to the International YMCA Training School, articles about Morgan and early volleyball, correspondence with Morgan's daughter, a video entitled ―The William G. Morgan Story,‖ and a certificate of appreciation presented to Morgan by the United States Volley Ball Association.
The collection is organized into a single series.
The collection has no original order, so the materials have been arranged by type and—wherever possible—chronologically._____________________________________________________________________________________________
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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information (in addition to any other information required by the citation style being used):
William G. Morgan Papers, box #, folder #, Archives and Special Collections, Springfield College, Springfield, Mass.
Most of the materials within this collection—including Morgan's application to the School, alumni correspondence, and news articles—are Springfield College records.
Collection processed and arranged by Rachael A. Salyer, July-August 2010.
In Archives and Special Collections, Springfield College, Springfield, Mass.:
Athletic Department: Volleyball Team Papers. http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives
Dearing, Joel B. The Untold Story of William G. Morgan – Inventor of Volleyball. Livermore, CA: WingSpan Press, 2007. (autographed copy)
James Naismith Papers, MS 506. http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives
Luther Halsey Gulick Papers, MS 503. http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives
YMCA Hall of Fame Papers, RG 103. http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives
Class Materials: Class of 1894 – Class Histories – William Morgan Autobiography. http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives
In other collections:
―William G. Morgan.‖ Volleyball Hall of Fame. http://www.volleyhall.org/morgan.html.
Northfield Mount Herman School Archives. http://www.nmhschool.org/academics-library-nmh-archives _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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William George Morgan was born on January 23, 1870. His father, George Henry Morgan, emigrated from Wales to the United States in 1861 and founded the Morgan Brothers Boat Building Company in Lockport, New York. Morgan's mother, Nancy Chatfield, was a native of Northfield, Vermont, and William G. Morgan was the oldest son of six siblings.
Morgan initially left school at the age of 15 to work on a canal boat, but he eventually recognized the value of earning an education and decided that he wanted to pursue a career as an engineer. With this in mind, he applied to and was accepted at the Mount Hermon School for Boys—founded by D.L. Moody in Gill, Massachusetts—in the winter of 1890-1891. While at the Mt. Hermon School, Morgan joined a singing quartet whose accompanist, Mary King Caldwell—a student at the nearby Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in Northfield, Massachusetts—eventually became Morgan's wife.
Morgan also served as class chaplain, and he played center on the Mt. Hermon football team. On October 21, 1892, the Mt. Herman Football team faced the team from the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College. The International YMCA Training School's team was led by player/coach James Naismith—who had created the game of basketball at the Training School in 1891. By the fall of 1892, Naismith had taken over as the School's football coach from Amos Alonzo Stagg—who later became known as the ―Grand Old Man of Football‖ and who had just left the Training School to take a coaching position at the newly-formed University of Chicago. Although the Training School defeated the Mt. Hermon School, it seems likely that Morgan's football abilities impressed Naismith, because ―records at Mount Hermon indicate that Morgan interrupted his course of study by withdrawing from the school on October 25, 1892—just four days after meeting Naismith's team on the field, […] and the October 1892 International Association Training School Notes, a monthly bulletin, lists William G. Morgan as a junior and the ‗center' on the football team.‖ The International YMCA Training School's records for 1892-1893 list Morgan as a junior in the Physical Department, and he is also pictured in several of the Schools team photographs from those years.
As a student in the Training School's Physical Department, Morgan was trained to become a physical director for the YMCA. He took his first position in Auburn, Maine after marrying Mary King Caldwell on October 7, 1893 and graduating from the Training School in 1894. By 1895, William had returned to Western Massachusetts to work at the Holyoke YMCA. That same fall, Morgan developed a new game for the local businessmen who attended the Holyoke YMCA. Morgan felt that other Y sports like basketball were sometimes ―a bit too rough and rowdy,‖ so there was a need for a less strenuous game. Morgan stretched a tennis net across the gymnasium, divided the players into two teams, and instructed them to bat the ball—which was made from the inflated bladder of a basketball—back and forth over the net. He called his new game ―mintonette.‖
Soon after this, Luther Halsey Gulick—who was then head of the Physical Department at the International YMCA Training School—invited Morgan to present mintonette to the participants _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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of the Physical Director's Conference to take place on July 7, 1896. This game took place in the East Gymnasium of the School, and one of Morgan's former professors, A.T. Halsted suggested that a more appropriate name for this game would be ‗volley ball,' since the players were constantly volleying the ball back and forth to each other and across the net. Morgan quickly agreed to this suggestion, and mintonette became known as volley ball.
The first rules for volleyball were printed that same year in the July 1896 edition of Physical Education, published by the Triangle Publishing Company which had been founded several years earlier by Luther H. Gulick and other members of the Physical Department at the International YMCA Training School. Some of Morgan's original rules—including ―the initiation of each play with a serve, the net separating the opponents, and the size of the ball‖—are still used today, despite the many changes the game has undergone since its creation.
Like basketball before it, volleyball quickly became a popular sport, first in YMCAs and then across the United States and around the world. As volleyball's popularity was spreading, Morgan left his YMCA career and returned with his family to his hometown, Lockport, New York. Apart from a brief, unsuccessful move to the Galveston, Texas area, Morgan remained in Lockport, where he and his wife raised their five children, for the rest of his life. After leaving the YMCA, Morgan worked first as a salesman at the General Electric and Westinghouse, and in 1920, he became an inspector at the Harrison Radiator Division of the General Motors Corporation.
Morgan apparently returned to Springfield College only once—on March 1, 1938—after moving back to Lockport and giving up YMCA work. In addition, on March 22, 1939, Morgan received a varsity ―S‖ sweater from the College at a dinner reception held in his honor in Lockport. Morgan retired that same year and died just a few years later on December 12, 1942 at the age of 72.
During his lifetime, Morgan witnessed the publishing of the first official volleyball rule book in 1916, the inclusion of volleyball in the recreation programs of the American armed forces in World War I, and the founding of the United States Volley Ball Association (USVBA) in 1928. In 1985, he was posthumously inducted as the very first member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame, located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Morgan's legacy as the originator of volleyball also lives on in the ―Morgan Trophy Award,‖ which is presented annually by the William G. Morgan Foundation (founded in 1995) to the most outstanding male and female collegiate volleyball players in the United States.
The materials within this collection relate primarily to William G. Morgan, his connections to Springfield College and Western Massachusetts, and his creation of the game of volleyball.
The collection contains Morgan's original application to the Physical Department at the International YMCA Training School dated December 12, 1892. Additionally, there is some correspondence from Morgan's daughter, Lillian Morgan Hewitt, which relates to Morgan's _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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induction into the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978. The collection also includes an undated ―biographical sketch‖ or timeline of Morgan's life and a memo dated March 2, 1938 from George O. Draper which documents discussions he had just had with Morgan on the previous day about the creation of volleyball and his early life, etc. Beyond this, the collection contains several articles about early volleyball (1896) and about Morgan's visit to Springfield College in 1938.
Also of note are several images of Morgan, including a cabinet card dating to the 1890s, portraits of the Training School football teams, and a lantern slide—which shows portraits of both James Naismith (Class of 1891) and Morgan (Class of 1894). There are also two copies of another, later image of Morgan. In addition to these images, the collection contains a video entitled ―The William G. Morgan Story‖ which describes Morgan's early life (e.g. his childhood in Lockport, New York, his time at the Mount Hermon School, the International YMCA Training School, and the Holyoke YMCA, etc.) and which documents the creation of volleyball.
The collection also includes a framed certificate of appreciation dated May 8, 1951 and signed by George J Fisher, President of the USVBA, and Harold T. Friermood, Secretary of the USVBA. Part of the inscription reads ―To William G. Morgan, founder of Volley Ball while physical director at Holyoke YMCA and to the College which inspired him the United States Volley Ball Association extends high tribute in appreciation of his notable and generous contribution.‖
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The following terms represent persons, organizations, and topics documented in this collection.
Morgan, William G.
Volleyball—United States
Volleyball—United States—History
Springfield College
School for Christian Workers
Young Men's Christian Association (Springfield, Mass.). Training School
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Dearing, Joel B. The Untold Story of William G. Morgan – Inventor of Volleyball. Livermore, CA: WingSpan Press, 2007.
Doggett, Lawrence L. Man and a School: Pioneering in Higher Education at Springfield College. New York: Association Press, 1943.
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William G. Morgan Papers, 1892-2000
Morgan – Photographs
Morgan – Biographical Information
Undated, 1938
Morgan – Springfield College Application for Admission
Morgan – Springfield College Alumni File with Correspondence
1938, 1979
―Volley Ball‖ – Article in Physical Education (photocopy)
Newspaper Articles, etc.
1933, 1942, 1985
Video (VHS) – ―The William G. Morgan Story‖
Framed Certificate of Appreciation from the US Volleyball Association
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Sri Lanka
major macro economic indicators
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- Diversified agricultural production (tea, rice, coconut, rubber)
- Reduction of poverty
- Human development and governance indicators higher than those of its South-East Asian neighbours
- Indian and Chinese interests
- Tourism growing strongly
- Marked dependence on the textile sector
- Lack of infrastructure
- Low levels of public capital spending because of the heavy burden of debt servicing
- Vulnerability linked to dependence on short-term external financing
Growth expected to remain strong
After showing a slight increase in 2016, growth is expected to remain firm in 2017. The industrial sector should remain well positioned despite the monetary tightening initiated by the Central Bank. Construction should continue to benefit from the development of tourist facilities and infrastructure which is profiting from a USD 3bn loan from the Asian Development Bank. Tourism growth is likely to continue driving the whole range of service activities, which now account for over 60% of GDP.
However, the country has announced a fiscal consolidation programme, which could put pressure on the economy. The authorities have, in particular, decided to raise VAT from 11 to 16%, which is likely to hit household consumption, while expatriate remittances could decline, because many Sri Lankan workers are expatriates in the Gulf region, which is adversely affected by the low oil prices. Finally, in order to control the growth of credit and alleviate the downward pressure on the rupee, Sri Lanka's Central Bank has begun a process of gradual hikes in its key rates, which could have a gentle impact on household demand and investment. Nonetheless, after being deterred by the political uncertainties surrounding the two elections in 2015, foreign investment could rebound. Lastly, poor export performance by some agricultural products (tea and rubber especially) will be offset by good results for exports of cereals, coconuts and vegetables.
Inflation is likely to continue rising in 2017. Inflationary pressures will be fuelled by the fall of the rupee, higher VAT and slight upturn in commodity prices.
The public finances remain weak
The government's efforts to restore the health of the public finances have, to date, not gone far enough. However, in 2017, the budget deficit and the public debt are expected to fall, thanks to the fiscal consolidation programme put in place jointly with the IMF. The priority of these reforms is, notably, to improve the collection of taxes. However, the public debt will remain high and the country's budget vulnerability will still be substantial.
The current account deficit is expected to deteriorate because of the slight increase in oil prices and rising imports of consumer goods. This trade balance deficit will, in part, be offset by rising tourism revenues and substantial private transfers. Meanwhile, despite expected growth, FDIs will remain weak compared with those in neighbouring countries. As a result, the rupee is likely to remain under pressure against a background of expected US monetary tightening. The Central Bank's room for manoeuvre to contain downward pressure on the currency is limited: foreign exchange reserves cover hardly more than 3 months of imports.
Peaceful changeover in political power but there is considerable dissension within the new leadership team
2015 was marked by two elections which redrew the country's political landscape. To ensure his re-election for a 3rd term, President Rajapakse (Freedom Party) called early presidential elections in January 2015. Much to everyone's surprise, Maithripala Sirisena (former minister who joined the New Democratic Front following the announcement of elections) won the poll. Following the August 2015 parliamentary elections, Ranil Wickremesinghe (Freedom Party) became prime minister. Despite their wish to work together, numerous disagreements have surfaced between the prime minister and the president, both from different parties, and this alliance is fragile. 2017 will be marked by local elections which will test the unit of the prime minister's party.
Meanwhile, tensions between the Buddhist majority and the Muslim minority (9% of the population) remain acute. Furthermore, Sri Lanka is facing international pressure under the aegis of the United Nations ending recognition by the government of human rights violations and the adoption of recommendations enabling permanent reconciliation between Tamils and Sinhalese.
Finally, improving the business climate is one of the government's priorities, but accusations of favouritism and de corruption are sometimes levelled against the leaders.
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Speaking of wanting a chick to have more air time: Every time I see the hot babe in this ad, I hope the director had put in a shot of her slowly walking away. Also wish I had a case to hire her services.
Just saw this commercial. Absolutely love the first chick.
Saw this Payless spot earlier today and, for some reason, thought of Rex Ryan. I would love to go to a holiday party with all these babes, especially the gorgeous chick in the white dress.
Cute wife hiding gifts from her husband. I usually don't like short hair but it definitely works on her.
Saw this earlier today. Was laughing through the copy until I realized how cute some of these rumps looked. Love the first chick in purple's posterior and the overall hotness of the stacked blonde.
The women in this spot are stunning.
Great legs & butt.
Kim eats!
Saw the :30 spot on TV the other day and was stunned by the beauty of this brunette. Her face and body are unbelievably perfect.
YouTube does not have the shorter ad, so forward to 1:43-2:18 to see the woman I'm referencing (she's the female in the thumbnail image) You won't ever see more beautiful eyes.
The two "guys" in the commercial are complete tools, but the chicks are sexy and gorgeous. Wish I could have cast and directed this spot.
I don't know if this was already posted, I saw it last night. Pure wholesomeness (obviously older girl), wish they showed her for a few more seconds. A very effective commercial as well.


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chandler is still having a rough time out there so far.
he just cant buy a basket. i like that hes staying aggressive though
chandler is still having a rough time out there so far.
he just cant buy a basket. i like that hes staying aggressive though
STAT's been working on those post moves, and that is exactly what we need from him offensively.
He's also rebounding better.
If Amar'e wants playoffs, he will find them on the glass.
Gallo has looked sharp of late.
Wilson still stuck in his own head - could say the same for Felton.
Fields exemplary as usual.
Feelin' good about this game.
Knicks must think other teams don't like shooting layups or something.
Couple of drives to the basket from STAT and Gallo on the last two possessions are encouraging though.
win. wizards winless on the road, continues tonight. 30 plus for stat.
gallo looks good early... somethings up with Chandler, he looks really uncomfortable
We're playing well so far. Felton and Amare getting valuable rest
the booing has begun smh
we have no buisness letting these guys hang around like this.
does anyone happen to no a link to stream this game?
another terrible defensive effort. we suck on the perimeter and in transition
how do you give up 62 points despite forcing 13 first half turnovers smh


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A2CT's new show is a 'Bedroom Farce'
Photo by Mark Stein.
"The director who proposed the show had to move to L.A.," said Paul Bianchi. "He was only here in Ann Arbor temporarily, and he and his wife ended up going back early. So Civic sent a notice to the director email list that they needed a director. I made a proposal, and they chose me to direct it."
The wildly prolific Alan Ayckbourn—who's written and produced more than 70 full-length plays, including "The Norman Conquests" trilogy and "House and Garden"—first unveiled "Bedroom Farce" in 1975.
'Bedroom Farce'
- Who: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
- What: Alan Ayckbourn stage comedy.
- Where: Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin Ave.
- When: 8 p.m. Jan. 24-26; 2 p.m. Jan. 27.
- How much: $17-$22 (students, $11). Tickets available at 734-971-2228 or www.a2ct.org.
"Susannah seeks marital advice from Trevor's mother (Delia)," explained Bianchi. "And Trevor tries to set circumstances right."
But with all this romantic discontent at the heart of "Bedroom Farce," you might wonder if Ayckbourn is ultimately cynical about love.
"Not at all," said Bianchi. " There's still overall a positive message that we're all human, and that marriage is something you have to work at."
In addition to assuming directing duties, Bianchi has also had to design the set for "Bedroom Farce"—which has proved challenging, to say the least, since the play requires three bedrooms, and the Arthur Miller Theatre has a thrust stage.
"The thrust isn't big enough for three bedrooms," said Bianchi, who also explored the possibility of doing the show in-the-round. " It's like, 24 feet by 24 feet. But we ended up putting one bedroom downstage, one at midstage, and one on the proscenium."
Of course, the key to farce is timing, so Bianchi has tried to focus most of his attention on that while working with a cast of actors who are mostly new to A2CT.
"It jumps from bedroom to bedroom, with no blackouts - it's all crossfading," said Bianchi. "One thing I did that was different than before was, the first week, we read the play and talked about it. We did that for four or five rehearsals, just so the actors could hear the flow of the play, and to reinforce that jump-jump-jump feeling, and talk about the characters and the stakes. That was our base coat.
" What I'm emphasizing now is tightening up everything, and taking the air out of it. I couldn't ask for a better cast. I'm excited for audiences to see them."
Here's a short video about the show.
Jenn McKee is the entertainment digital journalist for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at email@example.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.


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Travis Lee of the Eggs. He is a guy who really saves his infielders a number of errors and RA and SH are not good at picking throws and neither is tall(Lee is 6'3"). With the need for not having a great offensive 1B if they don't plan to move Dunn to 1b I would strongly consider dealing for a quality defensive 1b expecially with a number of infielders who will test the ability of the 1b to field throws.
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Only UCLA has more NCAA team titles than Stanford and there's not another Division I university that can match Stanford's consecutive academic school years with at least one NCAA title. The Cardinal has recorded at least one championship in each of the previous 34 years. The school owned the record at 21 and has been adding on every year since.
Stanford waited until May to win a national title last year, with the men's volleyball doing the honors. A week later, women's tennis earned the school's 99th title.
Men's gymnastics takes its turn this weekend at Ohio State in Columbus. The preliminaries were held Thursday night. The team finals take place Friday night.
Stanford entered the meet as the overall No. 2 qualifier based on a four-meet average of scores during the regular season. That's a little deceiving, though, as the Cardinal won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title earlier this month, beating both top-ranked Oklahoma and third-ranked California.
The Cardinal enters the meet as the nation's top-ranked team on rings and the horizontal bar. Stanford ranks second in the floor exercise and the vault, third in the parallel bars and tied for fourth in the pommel horse.
Stanford seniors Alex Buscaglia, Josh Dixon, Tim Gentry and Ryan Lieberman possess plenty of experience at the national level, having helped win the title two years ago and helped finish as the national runnerup last season.
Dixon has Stanford's top all-around score this season of 88.600 and was also the MPSF champion in the floor exercise where he is ranked No. 3 in the nation. He ranks in the top 11 nationally in four events and made the U.S. national team earlier this season.
Lieberman placed third in the all-around at the MPSF Championships and is the defending NCAA champion in the parallel bars.
Gentry and Buscaglia are among the favorites for NCAA individual titles. Buscaglia is the national leader on high bar. Gentry is the MPSF champion in the still rings and ranks third nationally in the event. He was named the MPSF Co-Gymnast of the Year.
The Cardinal can also turn to other veterans like redshirt senior Nicholas Noone, a four-time All-American.
Abhinav Ramani, Cameron Foreman and Eddie Penev are also expected to compete in multiple events, while John Martin and Jordan Nolff will specialize in one event. James Fosco, Paul Hichwa, Jason Stevens and Chris Turner will each make their NCAA debut.
Women's golf
Stanford plays at the Pac-10 Championships beginning Sunday at Karsten Course in Tempe, Ariz.
Stanford is looking to win its first conference title since 1999 and first individual title since Mhairi McKay won in 1997. Those are the only titles the Cardinal has won in conference tournament play, though McKay still holds the record for the lowest 56-hole total in Pac-10 history.
Stanford has been fairly successful when the Pac-10s are played at Karsten, having placed second in 2001 and third in 1992 in previous championships there.
Stanford junior shortstop Ashley Hansen is among the 25 finalists for USA Softball's Collegiate Player of the Year award, announced Wednesday by the Amateur Softball Association of America.
Hansen currently leads the nation with a .541 batting average. She also leads the Pac-10 in on-base percentage (.604) and doubles (19), while ranking second with 59 hits, a .908 slugging percentage and three triples.
Stanford (2-4, 27-8) won its first Pac-10 Conference series of the year last weekend, taking two out of three at No. 6 UCLA. The lone loss was a 14-inning affair.
Hansen and Teagan Gerhart earned Pac-10 Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week honors for their efforts.
The Cardinal, which beat San Jose State 3-1 Tuesday, continues conference play this weekend against Oregon State at Smith Family Stadium, beginning with Friday's game at 7 p.m.
Track and field
The Stanford men will be gunning for their fifth straight title while the women will be out to start a new win streak when the Cardinal takes on rival California in the 117th Big Meet on Saturday at Cobb Track and Angell Field. Field events begin at 11:50 a.m., with running events starting at 2 p.m. Admission is free.
The Stanford men won their fourth straight Big Meet last season, 93 1/2 to 69 1/2. The Cardinal, however, didn't clinch until late in the meet. The Stanford women, meanwhile, saw their streak of 10 straight wins end in a close 84-79 loss in Berkeley.
Stanford will be well-equipped to sweep at home with solid performers in all events. The meet will include three Stanford recordholders — Kori Carter in the women's 100 hurdles, Amaechi Morton in the men's 400 hurdles and Katerina Stefanidi in the women's pole vault.
Carter, the only freshman on the team to currently hold school and freshman records with the same mark, has broken the 100 hurdles' record twice this season. Her fastest time of 13.38 ranks her No. 10 among all collegians this season with wind-legal times.
The versatile Morton can run the 110 highs, 400 intermediates and has gone 21.28 in the 200 and 46.66 in the open 400 meters. He holds the school record in the 400 IH of 48.94 and placed third in the event at last year's NCAA meet.
Stefanidi raised her school mark in the pole vault to 14-6 this season and also has cleared 14-4 to show her consistency.
Men's volleyball
Fourth-ranked Stanford completes its regular-season schedule at Pacific on Saturday at 7 p.m.
The Cardinal (14-7, 18-8) clinched the No. 3 seed for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament with a victory over UCLA last weekend and will host the to-be-determined sixth seed when the tourney opens April 23.
With a victory, Stanford can match its conference record from last year when it went on to win both the MPSF and NCAA championships.
The top remaining seed after the first round will play host to the conference semifinals and final. The MPSF tournament champion receives an automatic berth into the four-team NCAA tournament, though a second MPSF team will likely receive an at-large.
Women's water polo
It all comes down to The Big Splash. Neither Stanford nor California would want it any other way.
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regular-season title and the top seed in the upcoming conference tournament is at stake when the top-ranked Cardinal (5-0, 21-0) meets the second-ranked Bears (6-0, 21-3) Saturday at 7 p.m. in Berkeley.
Stanford beat Hawaii, 10-8, last weekend. The Cardinal scored four of the final six goals over the final 6:50 to break a 6-6 tie.
Annika Dries scored three goals to lead all players while Kaley Dodson, Jillian Garton and Melissa Seidemann each scored twice and Menlo School grad Kim Krueger added a goal.
California is paced by the play of Breda Vosters (52 goals) along with Dana Ochsner (33 goals), Ashley Young (32) and Emily Csikos (24).
In the cage, goalie Stephanie Peckham leads the MPSF with 10.46 saves per game and ranks seventh with a goals-against average of 6.42. Fellow goalie Lindsay Dorst, a Menlo-Atherton grad, ranks third in the MPSF with a 4.86 goals-against average.
Stanford carries a 29-game winning streak against California into Saturday's meeting, a run that includes one win already this season.
The Cardinal has six different players with at least 20 goals, led by 47 from Dries. The list also includes Seidemann (35), Alyssa Lo (31), Krueger (25), Dodson (22) and Sacred Heart Prep grad Pallavi Menon (21).
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Aylesbury stages its very own Olympics today - for schoolchildren.
Youngsters from across the county will take part in the Sainsbury's School Games, now in its third year, which features 14 sports across five venues.
The event is a county-wide sports festival that acts as the grand finale of a year of competitions both within and between schools.
More than 1,300 children aged between seven and 16 will take part on the day which begins with an opening ceremony at Stoke Mandevillle Stadium.
The ceremony is set to feature performances from dance troops and gymnasts as well as a race between the mascots representing the eight different school games areas.
Young athletes will also read oaths while there will be a speech from Oliver Lines, national 100 metres butterfly swimming champion.
The event is being organised by LEAP, formerly known as the Bucks & Milton Keynes Sport and Activity Partnership.
Marketing and Communications Officer Kirsty Ingham said: "My role is co-ordinating the day which includes arranging the competitions and ensuring there are enough volunteers.
"Teams have to qualify for the event and to do that they compete firstly against people from their own school, and then against children from other schools.
"The winning schools then get the chance to compete in this event."
The teams of children compete in their chosen event with the winners awarded medals.
The day features athletics, panathlon (a multisport disability event), swimming and badminton at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.
Aylesbury Tennis Club hosts tennis and table tennis.
Girls football, tag rugby and touch rugby take place at Fairford Leys Playing Fields.
Rounders, netball and cycling will be held at Bedgrove Park while hockey and tri-golf are being held at Meadowcroft Astroturf.


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Cubs knock six doubles to clinch road series
SEATTLE -- Before Sunday's game, Cubs manager Dale Sveum joked that he may use outfielder Brian Bogusevic as a reliever because the bullpen was a little taxed.
Sveum didn't need to resort to that, and Bogusevic chipped in with one of six doubles in the game as the Cubs held on for a 7-6 Interleague victory over the Mariners. Anthony Rizzo drove in two runs to back Edwin Jackson as Chicago won its second straight road series.Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- Before Sunday's game, Cubs manager Dale Sveum joked that he may use outfielder Brian Bogusevic as a reliever because the bullpen was a little taxed.
Sveum didn't need to resort to that, and Bogusevic chipped in with one of six doubles in the game as the Cubs held on for a 7-6 Interleague victory over the Mariners. Anthony Rizzo drove in two runs to back Edwin Jackson as Chicago won its second straight road series.Full Game Coverage
Jackson gave the Cubs the innings they needed after back-to-back extra inning games. Sveum had a longer list of pitchers unavailable than ones who were on call.
"If we could get back to Little League days [and play seven innings], we'd be OK," Sveum said.
After blowing his first save of the season on Saturday, Kevin Gregg converted his 13th save to seal the win with a 1-2-3 ninth.
"He ended up having his best velocity of the year today," Sveum said of the right-hander.
"I thought my fastball was coming out all right [Saturday], and it was even better today," Gregg said. "I got back into a groove today using my fastball more than I have in the last couple outings."
Was it important to get in another game quickly after the blown save Saturday?
"I want to pitch every day," Gregg said. "Coming off a blown save yesterday, I want to get right back out there. I don't want to sit at all."
Jackson struck out six and scattered seven hits, including Jason Bay's solo homer, over six-plus innings. The right-hander's best outing of the season had been his shortest and didn't count. He faced eight batters on May 28 against the White Sox, struck out three, and gave up one hit before rain washed out the game.
"It's been a very inconsistent first half," Sveum said of Jackson. "The fastball command, the velocity are what bothers me as much as anything. Some days it comes out 97-[mph], and other days it comes out 90, 92. We need that guy to let it go."
Jackson did hit 97-mph on the radar gun on Sunday.
"For me, [velocity] is [velocity]," Jackson said. "I've had games when I've come out and hit 96, 97, and gotten hit. It's the best of both worlds. If you can come out and have the velo and have the location with it, it's great. The days you can come out and let it go, it's definitely not a problem to have. You can come out and attack hitters."
Jackson did what the Cubs needed, which was keep the Mariners in check and go six innings. The right-hander, who signed a four-year, $52 million deal this offseason, had high expectations in his first year with the Cubs. At the halfway point, he's 4-10 with a 5.75 ERA.
"It hasn't been quite how I planned," Jackson said, "but it's a marathon, not a race. We still have a lot of baseball left, and I still feel confident in myself that I can go out and give our team a chance to win. I just have to keep throwing. You're going to have your ups and downs. You look at every great pitcher, and they've had their ups and downs. The ones who come back from it and continue to have success are the ones who are still playing."
He got plenty of offense in the beginning. Alfonso Soriano doubled to open the second against Jeremy Bonderman, and scored on Rizzo's double. One out later, Rizzo tallied on Bogusevic's double, and he scored on Darwin Barney's double. The Cubs hit four doubles in one inning for the first time since Aug. 17, 2008, when they did so at Florida.
The Mariners tallied in the third on a run-scoring groundout by Nick Franklin, but Barney doubled to open the fourth and scored on third baseman Kyle Seager's error. One out later, Starlin Castro hit an RBI single to chase Bonderman. Soriano added another RBI double and scored on Rizzo's single for a 7-1 lead.
Chicago now leads the National League with 166 doubles.
"Maybe we're lucky," Barney said. "I think we would trade some of those doubles for more hits with runners in scoring position. Doubles are good, runs are better."
The Mariners proved that true as they closed the gap. Raul Ibanez hit a solo home run and Seager hit a two-run blast in the eighth off Shawn Camp to close to 7-6.
"At this level, you can't assume [it's over]," Barney said.
Rule 5 pick Hector Rondon finished the eighth, and Gregg took over in the ninth. This is the first time the Cubs have won back-to-back series on a road trip since last September, when they did so against the Pirates and Astros.
The Mariners made it tough on themselves.
"This team, for whatever reason, we do the hard part well," Ibanez said. "We score late in the game, and that's the hard part. The hard part is hitting against setup [pitchers], closers late in the game, and I think we do that part well. We're good at coming back. I think if, offensively, we can hit collectively in the first six innings the way we do in the last three, we'll be a really good team."
The Cubs head into Monday's off-day feeling good.
"An ugly win is better than a pretty loss any day," Jackson said.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


text: The purpose of F501 is to teach students to read Old French, to prepare them to use historical and literary documents and to prepare them for a broader study of Old French literature. We read all of Marie de France's Lais and we read approximately 2000 lines of the Chanson de Roland. Close attention is given to forms of grammar and Old French syntax. Additional readings and discussion involve texts basic to an understanding of the Middle Ages: Prudentius' Psychomachia, Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy, Einhardt's Life of Charlemagne, Augustine's On Christian Doctrine. Each day some time is given to reading, some to commentary, and some to lecture and discussion. Usually there is a term paper and one exam. Cross-listed with Medieval Studies.


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Our personal clouds today are mostly made of passive data. Some is our stuff: words, pictures, data, other digital objects we create and then share online in public or in private. This stuff represents us to the world. It forms our web identities.
Then there's other people's stuff: words, pictures, data, other objects that refer to our stuff and so to us. When our stuff connects with their stuff, those connections represent us to the world in another way. They form our web reputations.
We can't manage or control the data clouds that form our own identities as well as we'd like. The active services that will put us in charge of our stuff mostly don't exist yet. But they'll come, and our personal clouds will be more than just passive stores of data. Agents in the cloud will protect our data, mediate access to it, help us form our identities, and -- in collaboration with agents that manage other personal clouds -- help us form our reputations.
I'm thinking it'll be a while yet until that agent ecosystem boots up. (Ask AT&T, they tried to get things going in 1997.) Meanwhile, though, our personal clouds needn't be purely passive. When we infuse passive data with active intention we begin to develop agency.
Some nice examples of that kind of intention emerged last week, during my mini-residency at Virginia Tech. Here's one. For a class on Internet law, I was asked to discuss intellectual property on the web and the uses of Creative Commons licensing. To prepare for the class I reviewed my own web presences. In most cases I have intended what the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses say. You're free -- indeed encouraged -- to share my stuff with attribution. If you'd asked me, I'd have said that my WordPress blog, my Flickr account, my YouTube account, and my Slideshare account did say that. But they didn't. If you want to wrap Creative Commons licenses around your stuff, you have to declare that intention. I hadn't. Now I have.
In another class I mentioned the following experiment. Coin a word that isn't yet indexed by any Internet search engine, and post it in a public document. Wait a while, then search for the new word. You'll find your own document, which now extends your identity, and perhaps also other documents that cite yours and expand your reputation. One student, lisskane, took my advice:
When it comes to the World Wide Web, our imagination is our only limit. We decide what we want to make. Who we want to share it with and what we want it to mean. Take words for example. Dackolupatoni: when you Google that, nothing comes up. But here is our experiment. Let's search it in a few hours and probably this will come up. Which is recursion. And then that person can be linked to this. And it goes on and on. Now isn't that cool?
Yep. Lisskane's identity has now grown a new aspect. It's she who coined that lovely word, and then used it to explore a deeply magical property of the web. She has also influenced her reputation, insofar as others who have now used the word acknowledge and reflect on her experiment.
We can always at least say what we mean. And sometimes we can agree with others to mean the same thing. In my town, for example, another experiment is in progress. The city government has launched a tagging initiative. And it has made an agreement with the local newspaper, The city's data cloud and the newspaper's data cloud will intersect at certain points. One point of intersection is the tag WestStDamKeene, which finds both newspaper articles and city documents about the same public issue.
Semantic markup is another way to say what we mean. I used to talk about microcontent, then there were microformats, now there's schema.org. The idea was always to master our own search indexes. Technologists love to wrangle about the best way to do that. Microformats? RDF? RDFa? Schema.org? I no longer care how it happens. I only care that it happens. I want everyone to understand that we can use our personal (and organizational) clouds to express our intentions in ways that shape our identities and reputations.


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Giving to the Law Firm Challenge
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 — Monday, May 31, 2010
The Law Firm Challenge reconnects alumni to USD School of Law and promotes charitable giving to the law school. Law firms, companies and organizations with three or more alumni are encouraged to participate. The Challenge's success is dependent upon the dedication of volunteers at each firm who encourage colleagues to make donations to the law school, come to law school events, and to stay involved. Detailed information about the Challenge, participating firms and organizations, and how to get involved can be found online here.
Throughout the year law school staff work with each volunteer on a customized outreach program for their firm. Volunteers are asked to forward monthly update emails to their alumni colleagues throughout the fall and winter. From March 1 to May 31 the focus of the Challenge program shifts to fundraising and volunteers are asked to encourage their fellow alumni to support the law school. Although the fundraising period is a brief three months, all gifts received during the current fiscal year are included in the totals.
In addition to raising the profile of participating law firms and organizations and building a stronger alumni network, the Law Firm Challenge provides an opportunity for alumni to make a difference collectively to the school.
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Following Cory Monteith's July death, girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele has maintained much of her silence, but on the eve of Monteith's Glee tribute episode, the actress finally opened up to TV Week Australia about the actor's death. Michele shared details about filming the episode, which takes place a few weeks after Finn's death (no reason is given on the show), and explained how the cast grieved together as a family. Here are excerpts from the interview:
On celebrating both Cory and Finn: "I feel like, for me personally, I've lost two people: Cory and Finn. We had a beautiful memorial for Cory in the auditorium and some of the cast members sang and people spoke about him. It only felt right that we would do the same thing for Finn, so I felt it was very therapeutic."
On continuing with the show: "Everyone is asking: 'Is it hard to do this? Is it hard to be back at work?', but the truth is it's no harder at work than it is in life so we might as well all be together as a family supporting each other to get through this together."
On what it felt like to be with Monteith: "I really woke up every single day feeling like I was being in some sort of spell or something, that I was lucky enough to have him in my life…There was no greater man than Cory, so for the time we spent together I consider myself very lucky."
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by Portfolio Grader | April 4, 2014 1:15 pm
Basic materials stocks rose broadly on Wall Street so far on Friday, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.4%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1%, the Nasdaq declined 0.5% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.1%.
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By Mike Monroe
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tim Duncan found a tactful way to characterize the personality of once-and-future teammate Stephen Jackson.
Jackson is "a little rough around the edges," according to the Spurs' captain.
All-Star point guard Tony Parker was more direct in recalling Jackson's previous stint in silver and black: "He was crazy, but it was a good crazy for us."
Both stars welcome what Jackson will bring to the Spurs, who traded Richard Jefferson, T.J. Ford and a conditional 2012 first-round draft pick to the Warriors to acquire a player who was an integral part of their 2003 title team.
"He's a little rough around the edges but that's the kind of edge that we like and we're going to need," Duncan said. "That's an aspect we're going to want from him. Pop's going to have to rein it in at some point and talk to him and change a couple things that he does. But all in all, that's the kind of edge that we want from him."
Though their personalities would seem to clash, Jackson and the low-key Duncan became good friends when the two last played together.
"He's a die-hard teammate," he said. "He's a guy who lays it on the line for his team. He plays with no fear out there and he's a very smart basketball player.
"I'm excited about Jack being here. Obviously, last time he was here we made a decent run. We want to get back to that point, hopefully, and when he's healthy and he's out there he really makes a difference for us and we hope he can bring that back to the table."
Parker, whose rookie season in 2001-02 coincided with Jackson's first campaign with the Spurs, also likes the forward's ability to make big plays.
"He's the type of player who will do stuff to change the course of a game," he said. "He will hit a big shot, make a big play. Defensively, he was good, too. I think he's going to help us."
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich offered his take.
"He's been a Boy Scout throughout his entire career," he said. "I look forward to his humor and many conversations with Stephen."
Dawson returns: Forward Eric Dawson, the former Sam Houston High star, was signed to a second 10-day contract and the reason was evident: A brutal schedule of four games in five nights that commences on Wednesday.
With their first back-to-back-to-back set beginning Friday and encompassing the length of Dawson's deal, the big man will be available should Popovich opt to sit Duncan at any point.
"We've only had the four bigs all year," Popovich said. "It helps when we do have a practice and we want to get a look at Eric. He's done a fine job for the (Austin) Toros. It's a little bit of a reward for him, too."
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But observers note the move isn't binding on Connecticut's Department of Transportation, while area rail advocates and railfans question the efficiency gains and cost-effectiveness of the proposal.
Running roughly 28 miles north to south, Waterbury Branch links its namesake municipality with Metro-North's electrified New Haven Line (part of the Northeast Corridor) east of Stratford, Conn. , with most trains terminating in Bridgeport, where transfers are available to either New Haven or (more often) Stamford and New York.
The bill also calls for electrification of Metro-North's shorter Danbury Branch, linking Danbury North Station with Norwalk, Conn., the latter also on the New Haven Line. Connecticut DOT last month published an Environmental Assessment Technical Summary report updating Phase 2 study of electrification feasibility for the Danbury Branch, which began in 2007.
Numerous Connecticut-area rail advocates and railfans appear skeptical of the proposal, however, particularly for the Waterbury Branch. One critic, posting on the website railroad.net, noted the state already has evaluated the prospects for electrifcation in a "Waterbury and New Canaan Needs and Feasibility Study," last updated May 7, 2013, concluded that electrification yielded only minimal travel time savings on the Waterbury Branch. (The 8.2-mile New Canaan Branch already is electrified.)


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Mel Gibson should not look to fellow action star Arnold Schwarzenegger to break his stunning fall from the Hollywood mountaintop.
Schwarzenegger made the "Mad Max" star, who is embroiled in the ugliest custody battle in recent memory, the butt of a joke to a group of utility commissioners in Sacramento, comparing him to a national disaster.
"The good news is that BP has contained the oil leak," Schwarzenegger said in a video posted by kcra.com. "That is good news. Finally. Finally. The bad news is that no one has figured out how to contain Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson no one knows how to contain. So, this is why I want to ask all of you to just please turn off your cell phones because we are expecting a call from him."
Angry tirades from a voice purported to be Gibson's have been released via radaronline as the actor fights with former flame Oksana Grigorieva over custody of their seven-month-old daughter. The LA Sheriff's Department is investigating her claims of abuse against Gibson, as well as his accusation she was extorting money from him after their breakup.
Gibson spokesman Alan Nierob says he is happy to hear that Schwarzenegger is maintaining a sense of humor, adding, "He's obviously paving the way for a return to showbiz."
And not only did Schwarzenegger take on one of his Hollywood brethren, he also leveled a joke at fellow Republican Rush Limbaugh.
Saying he still works out for an hour a day, the 62-year-old former bodybuilding champ boasted that, "Just last week, I lifted 375 pounds," he said. "Yup, 375 pounds. I lifted Rush Limbaugh out of the chair."


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PLYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Two former wives of a man who Massachusetts officials say owes $481,000 in child support joined to find him and are eager for his trial to begin, they say.
Stephen W. Cantrell's court appearance this week in Plymouth County Court on six felony counts of failure to pay child support may include a guilty plea resulting in a reduced sentence, said Bridget Norton Middleton, spokeswoman for County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
Cantrell is facing a maximum sentence of 40 years in jail and a $40,000 fine, the Boston Herald reported Monday.
Ex-wives Cindy Cassidy and Sharon Cantrell worked together to find Cantrell, a 10-year exercise that eventually located him in North Carolina, the newspaper said.
"I'm furious. He says he wants to get out of jail so he can get back to work and start paying his child support, but we can't take him at his word," said Cassidy, adding, "Every time we found something we'd turn it over to the state, but nothing ever happened."
Ann DuFresne, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, said Cantrell is one of 23,848 non-custodial parents in the state who are at least a year behind in child support payments. Collectively the group owes $1.6 billion, she said.