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Did you remember to Spring Forward? I went to bed at 8:30 last night in hopes of catching that hour of sleep I was going to lose. No, seriously, I was worn out from my 9 mile run and studying. This week the weather is predicted to be awesome – 60s and 70s? Yes, please! The sun is out and there is not a cloud in the sky right now. What a great way to start the week!
Have you guys ever tried these San-J sauces?
I have always been a fan of their tamari sauce and Thai peanut sauce, but haven't tried the Asian BBQ yet. Aaron just tried the Thai peanut for the first time and he can't get enough of it! He has made chicken stir fry a few times since I received these samples and it looks like I may need to be buying more now! I hope to make a recipe this week using the Asian BBQ either with salmon or this Asian Green Tea BBQ Wild Rice.
Asian Green Tea BBQ Wild Rice
Created by: Amie Valpone
12 ounces fresh cranberries
1 ½ cups brewed green tea, chilled
1 small red onion, finely chopped
1 cup fresh kale, chopped
1 ½ cups wild rice
3 cups apple cider
2 large plum tomatoes, diced
2 celery ribs, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 cup soy nuts
1/4 cup San-J Asian BBQ Sauce
1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 350°F. Plump the cranberries in brewed green tea for 30 minutes. Drain cranberries and set aside; transfer liquid to a large pot over medium heat. Add onions; cook until translucent. Add kale, cook for another 4 minutes.
In a large sauce pot, bring the wild rice and apple cider to a boil. Transfer mixture to a deep baking dish. Add onion mixture; mix well to combine. Bake in the oven for 1 hour 30 minutes or until the rice absorbs all liquid. Remove from oven.
In a large serving bowl, gently toss cooked wild rice with cranberries. Add plum tomatoes, celery, olive oil, soy nuts, San-J Asian BBQ Sauce and pepper. Garnish with cilantro.
Serves 4.
***It is important to note that not all of the San-J products are gluten-free. The gluten-free products will be clearly marked.
Sunday – Rotisserie chicken, Asian green tea BBQ wild rice and salad
Monday – Bison burgers, baked sweet potato, steamed broccoli & salad
Tuesday – Easy enchilada bake and salad
Wednesday – Chicken stir fry w/ Thai peanut sauce, brown rice & salad
Thursday – Chipotle take-out
Friday – Dinner with family
Saturday – Dinner with family
Don't forget to enter to win the So Lucky "So Active" Box giveaway. It ends Monday night!
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**The sauces mentioned above were sent to me free of charge for review purposes.


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17 Buckthorn Way D. Graziano, 133-sq.-ft. remodel to a single-family residence, $35,000
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224 Marmona Drive H. & J. Abbis, bath remodel, $18,000
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1140 O'Brien Drive O'Brien Drive Portfolio LLC, commercial alteration to a food research lab to install Type 1 hood, build one wall, $20,000
300 Sand Hill Circle #301 H. Itskovitz, balcony dry-rot deck repair, $8,500
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4 Whitney Court L. Rafield, re-route storm-drain pipe, $7,400
400 Ravenswood Ave. #3 M. & A. Chan, upgrade subpanel from fuses to circuit breakers, $1,000
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130 Forest Lane F. Rose, replace furnace, $6,500
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A child's first birthday is something special to celebrate.
We marked this first occasion for my son last weekend with a family party at our house. Did we go overboard? Absolutely. Did we stress out and put way too much thought into it? Probably.
However, now that it has come and gone, I can say honestly I wouldn't have wanted to do it any other way.
In the past, while attending birthday parties for little ones, I have always wondered to myself why the parents go to such great lengths to celebrate these early milestones. As a non-parent, my feeling was always the child is not going to remember any of it so why go to such trouble.
Of course, now as a parent, I understand. No matter how much you try to restrain yourself and not get carried away, it all comes down to the fact it's your child and he only turns 1 year old once. It deserves a big celebration and with that inevitably comes a little bit of stress.
The highlight of the party for me was watching Beckett devour his little cake, which was more like a cupcake actually. He was a little slow to get going with this tradition. He seemed at first more interested in the large candle in the shape of the number '1'. Maybe it was all the eyes on him and the shouts of encouragement that deterred him from getting into it immediately. However, thanks to a few fingers of icing from his mother, serving as a jumpstart, and further encouragement, it didn't take long for him to get in the act.
Of course, I was standing nearby (too close more than likely) to catch it all on video, while his mom-moms and uncle were filling the role of photographers.
Once he found his groove, his face was eventually covered with white and blue icing. It was everywhere. He had it in his hair, his eyebrows, his ears and up his nose. He made quite a mess of himself and the immediate surrounding area. That's exactly how it should have been.
Although we celebrated the party with family last Saturday, his actual birthday was Tuesday. With the big party behind us, the day of his birthday was sort of anti-climatic at his age. It served more as an opportunity for my wife and I to reflect back over the last year and all that has transpired since he joined us in this world.
In the days leading up to his birth, there was a lot of planning and waiting. All the preparations had been long made. What you thought you would need as far as essentials go in welcoming a baby into the house had already been procured. The nursery was ready. Some advice books on how to handle the transition had been read or at least flipped through for the gist. We were full of anticipation and hoping the agonizing wait would end soon.
Once our son arrived, life was forever changed. From that point on, everything took on a new meaning. Life was all about this precious, little soul that made us a family. His wants and needs dominated everything and on most levels were found to be more important than our own. That's pretty much how it remains today with a 1-year-old child, and we would have it no other way.
However, a birthday is special because it provides an opportunity to relive all that's transpired. Although I have only been a father for a year, it's easy for me to say raising a child has been the most enjoyable experience of my life. Sure, there have been a few sleepless nights along the way, but it's funny how that's not what you remember. There have been so many wonderful memories, none of which have anything to do with sleep.
As I look back and review the last year since Beckett was born, it's difficult not to do so without experiencing a wave of tremendous emotion. When I think about how much he has changed and developed since May 12, 2008, I can't help but inevitably be overwhelmed with feelings of pride and admiration.
I have never discussed this here, but Beckett had a rough beginning. He spent a couple weeks in the hospital after he was born and those were terribly difficult for his mother and I. Days seemed like weeks and hours like days as we watched and waited for our son to open his eyes and be removed from all that hospital equipment. For any parent, it's beyond words to see your child struggle and not have the ability to help. My wife and I felt that pain within the first days of his life. Perhaps that explains why those feelings of pride come with such heavy emotions. At least that helps me justify a little bit why I am so moved when I think about my son and how he has progressed throughout his first year.
Beckett is now considered a toddler, and most of his attention is directed at walking on his own. He has not quite mastered it, but the daily improvements are obvious. He seems to have the necessary strength but needs a little help with his balance, relying mostly on his walker toys or a trusty hand from one of his parents. We expect any day he will just take off on his own. We thought he might be ready by his birthday, but that was not to be.
Now that all the first birthday stuff has passed, I completely understand why parents go crazy over birthdays. For parents, a child's birthday is a reminder of one of life's greatest miracles, and that's worth a grand celebration and even all the headaches and stress that may or may not come with it.


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Taylor Swift knows a lot of things, she told us midway through her headlining set Saturday at the first night of KIIS-FM's first-ever expanded Jingle Ball – and not all of those things have to do with how to write hit song after hit song about bad boyfriend after bad boyfriend.
"I know that Los Angeles is one of the best places you could ever play a concert," Swift told the adoring crowd inside the sold-out Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. "Because you are incredibly loud."
Truer words, as the old saying goes, were never spoken, even more so for these holiday extravaganzas, which collect a half-dozen or more of the most popular acts on the station's playlist and present them in half-hour, hit-filled sets. For KIIS, that meant a night that included Swift, Ne-Yo, Jonas Brothers, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Sammy Adams and an unannounced DJ set by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.
Plenty there to get fans screaming and shouting and singing along during this 3½-hour show, inspiring us to run down the evening's performances in rough order of audible adulation.
• Taylor Swift – The country-pop crossover superstar strolled out to cap the night wearing a sparkly red top and red shoes – her new album is named after the color – and we're guessing the meters on the soundboard spiked well into the red, too, as fans shrieked in excitement.
After scoring her first chart-topper on the Billboard Hot 100 this fall with "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and selling 1.2 million copies of her latest disc in the first week of release, the singer-songwriter, who turns 23 this month, is riding a big wave of popularity as she matures into an all-around pop star, adding new flavors to her country roots with each new release.
She opened with "State of Grace," off the new album, but really brought the crowd into singalong mode with "You Belong with Me," a No. 1 country hit, No. 2 on the pop charts in 2009. "Love Story," another older tune, was sweetly delivered as artificial snow fell on stage, adding an appropriate touch to the holiday show.
"This thing happened to me and I wrote a song about it and I'm wondering if it ever happened to you," Swift said at one point, perfectly illustrating one of the reasons she's been so successful – because, yes, in fact many of the things she writes about have happened to her fans.
That bit led into "Trouble," her newest single, one that rocked harder than most other tunes. But after "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," which had everyone chanting on the chorus, she was done.
• Jonas Brothers – You might think of the JBs as yesterday's model, but you'd be wrong. The moment Nick, Joe and Kevin walked on stage and started to play "SOS," the theater erupted in ear-piercing squeals every bit as loud as what we heard in 2008 when the band hit its first peak of popularity.
That song, a catchy bit of power pop, was as infectious as ever. You'd figure the trio would stick to hits for its set, yet you'd be wrong, for after playing "Paranoid," another earlier number, the band played three songs in a row from its not-yet-finished new album. "Let's Go" was solid, a bit more rock 'n' roll than what you'd expect, but the two ballads that followed were at least one too many. The set was saved, though, by the final tune, "Burning Up," another of their most upbeat pieces.
• Ne-Yo – Neither I nor my 11-year-old daughter and deputy reviewer Anna Lily expected to like Ne-Yo's set all that much, but we ended up pleasantly surprised by the cheerful swagger of the R&B star. He opened with "Let's Go," a hit from earlier this year with Calvin Harris, and played a handful of new and older cuts, including "Don't Make 'Em Like You" and "So Sick," his smash from 2006.
His seven-song set suffered from a sound mix that often let the booming bass overwhelm his vocals, but tracks like Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," for which he'd added vocals, and "Let Me Love You" had fans up and dancing for his half-hour turn.
• will.i.am – The Black Eyed Peas' leader wasn't listed on the bill and apparently was recruited at the last minute to replace the promised "secret superstar group." Early in the show several KIIS DJs popped up on screens chatting backstage with James Valentine and P.J. Morton of Maroon 5, who said they were supposed to be the surprise act but lead singer Adam Levine woke up Saturday with strep throat, so they had to cancel.
Nothing against will.i.am, but hearing him sing over his DJ kit wasn't quite the same as getting 30 minutes of favorites from Maroon 5. Even so, his mix of tunes from his own group, Usher and Britney Spears, among others, provided a 20-minute dance club interlude before Swift arrived on stage.
• Ellie Goulding and OneRepublic – The English singer-songwriter and the Colorado band brought gentler sounds. Goulding, who played Coachella a year ago but found bigger success on KIIS this year, sang songs such as "Figure 8," "Only You" and her biggest hit yet, "Lights," a highlight along with "Anything Could Happen."
OneRepublic opened with an older bit, "Secrets," which found singer Ryan Tedder accompanied by Brett Kutzle on cello and Zach Filkins on viola to lovely effect. Their seven selections included other radio staples (like "Apologize" and "Good Life") and they wrapped up with their latest single, "Feel Again," from their third album, Native, due early next year.
• Sammy Adams – The newcomer kicked off the night with a set of generic party rap. But one part we enjoyed was hearing him sing (in "All Night Longer") about "ladies basically naked" and how "tequila shots are the dopest" while parents sent text messages such as "Happy sixth birthday Cassie!" to scroll across the screen above him.
KIIS-FM's sold-out Jingle Ball continues Dec. 3 with sets from Justin Bieber, Ke$ha, Flo Rida and more.
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Following a recent exposé of the modular HX750W, another PSU from Corsair caught us by surprise: the HX850W. This one comes near-identical to the HX750W, in terms of its built, and the cable connectivity on offer, except for that it offers a higher DC output at 850W continuous. Its standard features include compliance with ATX12V v2.3 and EPS12V 2.91 standards, double forward switching circuitry that offers stellar efficiency of up to 90%, 105 °C industrial-grade capacitors, and flat-modular cables. This model also fills that little gap that existed between the HX750W and HX1000W, by offering nearly the same features as its cousin from the TX series (TX850W), with the advantage of modularity. TechConnect Magazine also disclosed its price to be £140 (around US $210) in the UK.
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OCEAN CITY – Ocean City might not just be an escape for tourists anymore, as it's starting to be considered a viable "culinary destination."
Several local establishments received nods of recognition when the nominations for the 2009 Restaurant Association of Maryland "Stars of the Industry" Awards Gala were recently announced, and one local businessman could walk away with the association's highest honor.
Leighton Moore, owner of Seacrets niteclub and restaurant, has been nominated for "Restaurateur of the Year," which came as quite a surprise to Moore who spoke via phone interview on his nomination.
"When most people think of Seacrets, they think of the niteclub and for the liquor, but people forget sometimes that we have great food and great service, said Moore. "So, to be nominated as a restaurant is visionary on the association's part, and it's a huge honor to be recognized finally for our food."
Seacrets took home the award for "Favorite Bar and Tavern" in past years, but Moore said that being recognized for the food would be an even greater honor.
"Enjoying too much food is never against the law, and we have always had good food. There may be fancier places, but people who come to Seacrets one night might come for the band, and then be back a day later to enjoy dinner, and then be back the following week for drinks. There is just as much quality in what we do as there is quantity, and I'm tickled and honored to be recognized for that," he said.
Two Ocean City establishments got nods for "Favorite Bar and Tavern" as Fager's Island and the Greene Turtle will go up against Canton mainstay Nacho Mama's and two others for this year's award.
Fager's General Manager Kevin Myers said that the recognition is a true testament to the staff at Fager's Island.
"It's a big thrill to be nominated and it certainly ratifies a lot of what we do here, said Myers, "but what it comes down to is our bar staff, and their longevity and their loyalty. We have seven people that have been here for over 20 years, and four or five others that have worked here for 10-15 years. In this industry, that kind of loyalty is very rare."
Myers agreed that the fact that so many establishments from Ocean City were nominated shows that the word is starting to spread that the town is no longer just a 10 mile-stretch of buffets.
"People know that they can get value in Ocean City, but they are starting to realize the amount of quality that is here, and it's growing, and that trend will make it better for everyone," he said.
Fager's Island is no stranger to these awards as Myers cited that owner John Fager won "Restaurateur of the Year" 10 years ago and praised the town for helping to extend the town's appeal throughout the year.
"It's not just Memorial Day to Labor Day anymore, and the town has done a great job in trying to draw more people here in the off-season," said Myers.
Marlin Moon Grille was nominated again for "Favorite Restaurant" in the state and owner Gary Beach says that whether they win or lose, the nomination will not go to his head.
"I'm not one to have a huge ego, said Beach, "but it would certainly be a nice thing if we won, but I believe you have to compete against yourself and always try to get better at what you do. It's a great honor to just be nominated."
Moore said that Ocean City restaurants face a tougher challenge than other restaurants throughout the state due to the town's seasonal attributes.
"I'd like to see any of the other restaurants nominated make their money essentially three months out of the year, and then either break even or lose money the other nine. You have to be a special type of entrepreneur to make your business work in these conditions, and it's a testament to the quality of businesses and businessmen in this area to have so many people nominated," said Moore.
Another local establishment up for an award is Liquid Assets, who was nominated for the "Wine and Beverage Program of the Year."
Liquid Assets owner John Trader said that the bar's unique setting mixes well with great service and a large product inventory.
"We have 1,600 different types of wine at all price points, but when people come here for the first time, they don't know what to think, and an hour later, it's their favorite place, said Trader. "We are proud of our program and we've never been fortunate enough to win, so to be nominated by our peers is very exciting."
Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association Executive Director Susan Jones said the recognition of the town as culinary destination is overdue.
"It's about time so many of our local businesses made the list. The restaurant association represents more than 3,000 restaurants statewide, so there is stiff competition, but I believe that Ocean City has finally made a mark," she said.
The awards dinner will be held at Martin's West in Baltimore on March 23, 2009, and more information on the event can be found at www.marylandrestaurants.com


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By Allan Muir
While most pointed to an ill-timed pinch by Dion Phaneuf as the backbreaker in Wednesday's crushing Game 4 loss to the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle looked instead at goaltender James Reimer and challenged him to be better.
With his team's season on the line, the young star delivered, helping Toronto edge the Bruins 2-1 to extend their series to a sixth game at the Air Canada Centre on Sunday night.
Reimer wasn't alone, of course. Through 40 minutes, the Leafs put together one of their finest efforts of the season, blitzing the Bruins early before a pair of individual efforts by Tyler Bozak and Clarke MacArthur gave Toronto a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
If not for the heroics of Boston netminder Tuukka Rask, who matched Reimer save for save, it could have been over early.
Some thoughts and observations on Game 5:
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• Playing with a desperation befitting their situation, the Leafs came at the Bruins in waves from the opening face-off. Rask was called on early and often, setting the tone with a spectacular glove stop on MacArthur, whose slap shot he denied from point-blank range, before smothering a smart backhand bid by Nazem Kadri and an in-tight chance by Mikhail Grabovksi as part of a 19-save first period.
• It was also Grabovski, mired in a 20-game scoring slump, who authored the play of the game. Handling the puck behind Boston's net, he flipped the puck up and over the head of covering defender Johnny Boychuk, then bolted to the crease where he batted it out of mid-air, forcing Rask to make another glove stop. Grabovski's stick was high when it made contact, so the shot might not have counted even if it had beaten Rask. But it was a clever gambit, one that suggested his skid won't last much longer.
• The Leafs were unable to sustain the pressure into the second period, although the Bruins seemed perfectly willing to let them keep coming. So much for Boston's killer instinct. Surviving a period like the first should have served as a wake-up call. Instead, the B's desultory play continued until late in the frame when their belated sense of urgency finally arrived.
And that's when Reimer proved his worth.
He'd been burned by his habit of coughing up generous rebounds through the first four games. Tonight, finally, he got them under control, either directing them harmlessly into the corner, or smothering them before an encroaching Bruin could pounce.
• But there was one that got away, and it led to the save of the series. Possibly the playoffs. Midway through the second period, Boston's Patrice Bergeron found himself alone to the side of Reimer when the puck landed on his stick. The empty net, and an unlikely Bruins lead, beckoned, but Reimer slid across in time to get a toe on the shot and send it skittering wide. Larcenous.
• Not long after that, the Leafs got on the board. While killing a penalty, Bozak beat Andrew Ference to a loose puck at the blueline, then outlegged the Boston defender before beating Rask with a wrister. It was only the second shorthander that Toronto had scored all season. The other, a virtual carbon copy of this one, was also scored by Bozak.
MacArthur made it 2-0 early in the third, fooling Rask into dropping early, then driving around him to bury a backhander into a gaping cage.
• After that, it was white-knuckle time for the Leafs as the Bruins turned the Toronto zone into a shooting gallery, launching 27 of the game's final 32 shots. Zdeno Chara finally broke through with a 40-foot wrister midway through the frame, but Reimer shut the door, denying Tyler Seguin -- Boston's snakebitten counterpart to Grabovski -- several times, and then Jaromir Jagr in the dying moments.


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sfPHPOpenIDPlugin is a Symfony plugin which can be used by Symfony applications to authenticate users using OpenID system. With this plugin Symfony applications become OpenID consumer (or relying party). It uses the PHP OpenID library (http://openidenabled.com/php-openid) which brings support for OpenID 1.0 and 2.0 specifications with Simple Registration, Attribute Exchange and PAPE extensions.
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sfPHPOpenIDPlugin is a Symfony plugin which can be used by Symfony applications to authenticate users using OpenID system. With this plugin Symfony applications become OpenID consumer (or relying party). It uses the PHP OpenID library (http://openidenabled.com/php-openid) which brings support for OpenID 1.0 and 2.0 specifications with Simple Registration, Attribute Exchange and PAPE extensions.
Based on sfPHPOpenIDExtPlugin v1.0.1.
See the CHANGELOG file.
For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
Install the plugin
From Symfony official channel:
php symfony plugin:install sfPHPOpenIdPlugin
or from a downloaded archive:
php symfony plugin:install /home/path/to/downloads/sfPHPOpenIdPlugin-1.1.0.tgz
You must tell to the plugin where is the lib. So edit the file /yourProject/apps/yourApp/config/app.yml and add the following lines:
<other app specific data>
lib_path: %SF_ROOT_DIR%/lib/php-openid
Don't forget to adapt the last line to your installation.
Version 1.1 introduces many changes in the code. So update from version 1.0 requires a bit of tweaking. Here are a few guidelines to help you.
There's no longer the need to enable sfPHPOpenIDAuth module. So remove the corresponding line in yourApp/config/settings.yml.
openid_signin and openid_autosignin routes and corresponding actions are no longer defined inside the plugin. Briefly, in v1.0, your OpenID form submitted data directly to openid_signin and the corresponding plugin action displayed a waiting message ('Authentication in progress') with HTML redirect code. Now, to allow customization of waiting message, the form needs to submit data to another action in your app. This action will call method getRedirectHtml($theOpenIDURL) which will return html redirect code that you need to include in whatever template you want. It is the same principle for autosignin. See below for more details.
The plugin define a special action class (BasesfPHPOpenIDAuthActions) that handles all the OpenID authentification steps. To use the plugin, you have to create a new module (let's call it authModule) in your app (yourApp). The action class of this module should inherit from the plugin class BasesfPHPOpenIDAuthActions: edit authModule/actions/actions.class.php so that it looks like in the following lines:
class authModuleActions extends BasesfPHPOpenIDAuthActions {
// Some code
The next steps will focus on modifying this action class.
The plugin uses a few predefined routes to redirect the user during the authentication procedure. Your app must define these routes in yourApp/config/routing.yml. This is the list of needed routes: homepage, openid_finishauth and openid_error. Your routing file should look like this:
url: /authModule/finish
param: { module: authModule, action: finish }
url: /authModule/openidError
param: { module: authModule, action: openidError }
As you can see, these routes are binded to actions of authModule. So let's talk a bit about these actions.
As said earlier, authModule's action class inherit from the class BasesfPHPOpenIDAuthActions. This base class already define one needed action: executeFinish(). Most of the time you won't have to override this method unless you have specific needs. The action openidError is not defined in BasesfPHPOpenIDAuthActions, so you have to write it. This action will be called by the plugin when an error occurs while authenticating a user (wrong password, user cancelling). Here's an example of code you can write in this action:
public function executeOpenidError() {
$this->error = $this->getRequest()->getErrors();
You'll probably want to create a template for this action (openidErrorSuccess) to display the error message.
Now that we're sure these actions are defined, we have to override another method: openIDCallback. These method is called when a user is successfully authenticated. This is the perfect place to do any action needed by your app (setting cookies, displaying welcome message). You have two choices for this action: you can forward or redirect to another action (go to the homepage for example). The other option is to let it return without any redirection. If you do so, you'll have to create a finishSuccess.php template in your authModule (because openIDCallback is in fact called by executeFinish action). Here's an example of openIDCallback code:
public function openIDCallback($openid_validation_result)
$back = '@homepage';
As you can see, the method is given an attribute ($openid_validation_result) containing information about the authenticated user. Its content is:
'result' => 'result code',
'message' => 'an optional message',
'identity' => 'the user's identity (http://misterx.myopenid.com)',
'userData' => 'array of user fields values ('fullname' => array('the fullname', 'another fullname'), 'email' => array('the email'), ...)'}
'PAPEResp' => 'a Auth_OpenID_PAPE_Response object (null if the provider didn't send a PAPE response)'
Now that we have defined the routing and actions, we must focus on the way to use it in our app. The classical workflow when using OpenID is to ask the user to fill a form with his OpenID (http://misterx.myopenidprovider.com for example). The user then submit the form. It gets redirect to his provider, tries to authenticate and gets back to the application. For the first step, just create a form wherever in your application. The form will submit the data to one of your app action. The plugin comes with an openID validator (sfPHPOpenIdValidator) to check openid urls. It takes no specific options and may throw 'invalid' or 'required' error messages.
In the action where the form submit the OpenID URL, you have to call a plugin method named "getRedirectHtml". This method check the given OpenID and returns html code for redirection if the identity is valid. It takes the following arguments:
@param $identity The OpenID the user want to login with
@param $immediate Should this be an immediate login (ie provider should answer yes or no without showing any form, used for autosignin)
And it returns the following value:
'success' => true or false,
'error' => An error message if success is false,
'htmlCode' => The html code performing redirection (html link or form, hidden if javascript is on). To be included in the template. Empty if success is false.
'url' => 'If redirecting using GET method, contains the url you need to redirect the user to (it is the one used to generate htmlCode,
provided for convenience if you want to make the redirection yourself).'
The only thing you have to do is including the htmlCode in your template (unless success is false). Once this is done, you have completed the first step of the OpenID workflow. The user will be redirected to his provider. Redirection is done using GET method or POST method. In the GET case, you can insert the htmlCode in your template as it contains some javascript to do the redirection. However if you want to speed up a bit this step, you can use the 'url' parameter to do a redirection from your action:
if (!empty($getRedirectHtmlResult['url']) && !$request->isXmlHttpRequest())
Don't forget that this won't work in AJAX requests: in this case, you'll have to use the htmlCode provided by getRedirectHtml.
The next step is when the provider gets the user back to our application after user authentication (successful or not). The action invoked in this step is openid_finishauth, which is already defined in the plugin. In case of success, it calls your openIDCallback method to let you do your app specific treatments. On failure, it redirects to openid_error route.
After a successful OpenID authentication, the user gets automatically redirected to the openid_finishauth route. However, you might want after this step to bring back the user to the page he was viewing before the authentication procedure. A possible solution to this problem is the following. First, in authModule actions file, before calling getRedirectHtml method, insert the following code:
$this->getUser()->setAttribute('openid_real_back_url', $this->getRequest()->getReferer());
The previous page url will be stored in user's session. The only thing to do after this is to modify your openIDCallback to redirect the user to this url:
public function openIDCallback($openid_validation_result)
// ...App specific code...
$back = $this->getUser()->getAttribute('openid_real_back_url');
if (empty($back))
$back = '@homepage';
For the moment we have only talked about authenticating for a single session. But the user might want to automatically signin with his OpenID every time he visits your application. To do this, we're going to use cookies and a special type of OpenID request. OpenID provides a way to ask a provider an instant response for a user authentication. Usually, a user can ask his OpenID provider to remember him and to always allow your application to access his profile. When asking an instant response, we send to the provider the OpenID of the user. The provider will then try to authenticate the user without any interaction from him. If it needs more info (like a password), it will not ask the user but simply get back to the application with a corresponding response code. This is how we can use this procedure in our application : upon a successful authentication, in your openIDCallback method, store the user's OpenID identity in a cookie:
Now suppose the user goes away and come back a few days later. We found his identity in the 'known_openid_identity' cookie. So your application can use it and ask the provider to authenticate the user transparently. This check must be done on every page the user may visit. So we're going to use a filter to do this treatment. Add the following code to yourApp/lib/rememberFilter.class.php:
class rememberFilter extends sfFilter
public function execute($filterChain)
// Filters don't have direct access to the request and user objects.
// You will need to use the context object to get them
$request = $this->getContext()->getRequest();
$user = $this->getContext()->getUser();
// Execute this filter only once
if ($this->isFirstCall() && !$user->isAuthenticated() && ($user->getAttribute('openid_triedAutoLog') != 'yes'))
$user->setAttribute('openid_triedAutoLog', 'yes'); // Don't come back here anymore for this session
$cookie = $request->getCookie('known_openid_identity');
if (!empty($cookie)) {
$user->setAttribute('openid_url', $cookie);
return $this->getContext()->getController()->forward('authModule', 'autoSignin');
// Execute next filter
Notice that when we try to auto signin, we use the autoSignin action from authModule. This action needs to be defined in your app. It should be quite similar to signin action except getRedirectHtml method should be called with $immediate argument set to true. Now activate this filter by editing yourApp/config/filters.yml:
class: rememberFilter
rendering: ~
security: ~
# insert your own filters here
cache: ~
common: ~
execution: ~
We have to be sure that we don't try to automatically signin when not needed. So upon logout, we should delete the cookie (in your logout action):
$this->getResponse()->setCookie('known_openid_identity', '');
The same line should be added to your authModule's openidError action too: there is no need to retry endlessly to automatically signin when it has already failed.
The default behaviour of this plugin is to ask user's fullname and email with the Simple Registration (SREG) and Attribute Exchange (AX) specifications. However, you might want to get other user's data (date of birth, nickname, ...) using SREG or AX. You might also want to use PAPE extension to specify an authentication method. All of this can be done with this plugin. The only thing to do is to override a method in your authModule action class: setOpenIDRequestParameters(sfPHPOpenID $openid_object). In this method, you get a sfPHPOpenID object as parameter which can be used to change the OpenID request. These are the methods you can call on this object:
getAvailablePAPEPolicies() -> Returns an array of available PAPE policy URIs
setPAPEPolicies($uris) -> Set the PAPE policy URIs (adding to the ones already set)
setRequestFields($fields) -> Sets the fields that should be retrieved from the user openid account.
For more detail on these methods, look at the code in sfPHPOpenIDPlugin/lib/sfPHPOpenId.class.php.
For example, in the following example, we ask for another user data: his nickname.
protected function setOpenIDRequestParameters(sfPHPOpenID $openid_object) {


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One of the last frontiers with the potential to change the way people around the world live their daily lives is that of genetics. With different bits of DNA and genes scientists are moving towards being able to create artificial organisms in their labs to carry out different sorts of tasks.
The tasks these synthetic organisms may be designed to carry out could be as beneficial as producing medications or a new type of fuel to break us free of our reliance on petroleum to nefarious uses like cobbling together synthetic viruses and pathogens into the sort of super-virus Stephen King envision in his book, The Stand.
One scientist, Craig Venter, says he and his team are on the verge of creating an artificial organism, and some rumors say that his team has actually created the organism and is merely waiting for a scientific paper to be published to reveal their work.
Venter says the artificial organism would be simple, consisting of only a few hundred genes, yet he goes on to tell Business Week, "it will be one of the bright milestones in human history, changing our conceptual view of life."
Venter also stands to make fantastical sums of money with patents that he and his company have filed that are generating lots of controversy. Venter imagines creating organisms covered by these patents worth billions or trillions of dollars.
The ETC Group, a watchdog organization in Canada, attacked Venter for his wide-ranging patent applications accusing him of trying to create a "Microbesoft" monopoly of synthetic biology. However, many feel that if Venter's research can break us free of our reliance on polluting petroleum fuels the risk is worth the gain.
However, even ETC feels that Venter's discovery will be more important than the discoveries of scientists who have cloned animals, like the Korean team who cloned a dog in December of 2006.
The ability to create synthetic organisms also has a potentially dark and lethal side as well where terrorist groups could buy DNA strands they can combine to create lethal pathogens to use as weapons. David C. Magnus, Stanford University's center for Biomedical Ethics director, tells Business Week, "There are plenty of people lying awake worrying about this."


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After a six-month preview, Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its Outlook.com webmail service is open for business. The new offering escalates Redmond's attempts to lure users away from Google's email and search products, and to rebrand its consumer-oriented portfolio. Microsoft claims that Outlook.com had 60 million active users by the end of the preview period.
Outlook.com hopes to entice more users with a modern interface that infuses email with social media. By allowing users to hook into Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the service is designed to automatically detect changes to a contact's information and make necessary revisions to the address book. It also allows users to keep tabs on friends' social media activity, such as status updates or new photos, from within the Outlook.com interface. Other features include Sweep, which allows users to clear thousands of messages with a few clicks, and Sky Drive integration that allows users to share media content, including large video files.
Now that Outlook.com is live, Microsoft will begin migrating Hotmail accounts to the new service. The plan has been in the works since the preview period was announced, and Redmond says that users should experience no disruptions as their contacts, emails, folders and passwords are transferred. The transition is slated to be completed by this summer.
Microsoft states that Outlook.com offers 60% fewer ads than competing services, a stat ostensibly aimed at Google. Redmond recently launched an aggressive ad campaign attacking the search giant's handling of user data in generating targeted ads. The official debut of Outlook.com furthers this effort.
[ Is an IE10 update imminent? Read Microsoft Hints At IE10 Release With New Toolkit. ]
Though Microsoft neglected Hotmail for stretches in the past, the company will enjoy a massive user base once all accounts have been migrated. Microsoft claimed 360 million unique monthly users in July 2011, and if that figure remotely portends the user influx that will soon hit Outlook.com, Redmond will have dramatically increased its webmail presence.
In June, Google announced it had become the world's biggest email supplier with 425 million active users. It's worth noting that analytics firm comScore regularly detects fewer users than either Microsoft or Google has claimed; in December, the most recent month for which data is available, comScore found that Gmail led the field with 306 million users, followed by Yahoo with 293 million and Hotmail with 267 million.
If Microsoft can attract Gmail users, it can eat away at its rival's search empire. Bing has yet to become a meaningful challenger in this regard; according to comScore, Google accounted for 67% of searches in December while Microsoft's search engine accounted for only 16.5%. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose company relies on Bing for its search services, has said Redmond's project needs to produce better results.
Microsoft claims that one-third of Outlook's 60 million preview users also use Gmail, suggesting that Microsoft is effectively reaching its target audience. Still, with many users already invested in Google Drive and other facets of the Google ecosystem, it remains to be seen how many users will permanently defect.
Outlook.com appears to be off to a good start, though. According to a post on the service's Twitter account, 1.5 million new users signed up within 12 hours of the official launch.
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Nursing through Stress
D. Melanie Walsh-Fraser
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From: NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 23 No. 2, March-April 2006, pp. 62-63
When I was pregnant with my first child, I prepared myself by reading all I could about pregnancy and childbirth. I was determined to have a non-medicated delivery and, thankfully, my wish came true. After Elliott was born I was amazed he was so alert and ready to breastfeed! He latched on well right away and nursed almost constantly during our short hospital stay.
Once we arrived home, I grappled with feelings of exhaustion. While new mother blues set in, I tried to cope with Elliott's crying. Even though I was nursing on demand for as long and as often as my son desired, he seemed to cry often and sleep little. I remember calling my local La Leche League Leader and a lactation consultant for support. The best advice I ever got was to lie down with my baby to nurse. Why hadn't I thought of this before? Sadly, I realized that in my preparation for delivery, I hadn't read enough of the right books about breastfeeding, so my friend loaned me a copy of THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING. As I read it, the clouds seemed to lift. Rather than micromanage every aspect of my child's nursing and sleeping, I needed to relax and get to know my baby. Instead of reading parenting books, I needed to read my baby. Once I did this, things seemed to get easier and responding to my baby's cues became second nature.
Unfortunately, I couldn't attend La Leche League meetings because the time conflicted with my part-time private teaching schedule. However, I frequently went online to the LLL Web site for information and to gain support from other mothers' stories.
When Elliott was a happy 15-month-old nursling, I discovered a lump in my right breast. My doctor advised that I go home, wean my son, and come back in six weeks for tests. In shock, I went home and cried. Elliott and I had worked so hard to establish this loving connection. He was an intense, high need toddler whom I couldn't imagine weaning. I called a lactation consultant who insisted that weaning was not a necessity in this situation and that ultrasounds and mammograms could be performed on nursing mothers. She brought me printed material from the LLL BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK and recommended that I not delay in returning to my doctor to ask for further tests.
Armed with conviction and my LLL information, I went back to my doctor, who ordered the ultrasound and mammogram. As I waited for test results, I found the stress and anxiety to be agonizing, but nursing my son comforted me. The tests revealed a solid mass and my surgeon recommended removal. He understood how important breastfeeding was to me and did not suggest weaning. I was concerned that surgery would affect my ability to care for and breastfeed my son, but everything went unbelievably well. The lump was removed under general anesthesia, and I woke up in the recovery room feeling great and needed no pain medication. Soon after, I returned home and nursed my son right away on the affected side with no problems at all. My recovery was speedy and breastfeeding continued with no difficulties. As it turned out, the lump was a lactational adenoma, a benign growth in the breast of a lactating woman. I was so thankful that I hadn't blindly followed my doctor's recommendation to wean, but sought a second opinion. Elliott nursed happily until he weaned himself at 21 months old.
Now as I nurse my baby daughter, Ellen, I look down at the scar on my right breast. It's a constant reminder of how my son and I maintained our nursing relationship, even in the face of a potentially serious condition. And recently the simple act of breastfeeding Ellen has been a comfort for me as we deal with the loss of my dear mother-in-law. Long stressful visiting hours at the funeral home were made bearable as they were punctuated with meeting my daughter's breastfeeding needs. When Ellen was five months old, I attended my first LLL meeting. I regularly attend monthly meetings and am so thankful for the vision and mothering model this organization promotes. I have learned so much from LLL Leaders, publications, the Web site, and other mothers. I thank La Leche League for supporting me and my family through the stresses of mothering and life.


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This is my first ever attempt at creating a doll house. My wife said she wanted one and I knew she has always wanted a log home. The chimney is built from sandstone shale, the logs and cedar shakes from western rough cedar. Home is wired for electricity with all wires hidden. I know my wife is chomping at the bit to get started on adding furniture. I have kept her waiting for 5 months while I have worked on this project a bit at a time. Ryobi tools were used extensively throughout this project from impact screw gun to router bits and more. Great quality for a value price. Can't beat 'em.
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NAMI Family-to-Family course in Londonderry
The course will cover information about the major mental illnesses, coping skills such as handling crisis and relapse, basic information about medications, listening and communication techniques, problem-solving skills, recovery and rehabilitation and self-care around worry and stress. The course is a unique evidence-based curriculum that has been written by an experienced family member/mental health professional and will be taught by NAMI Vermont family member volunteers who have taken intensive training as course instructors.
"[This course] balances basic psychoeducation and skill-training with emotional support, self-care and empowerment. We hope families with relatives who have mental health challenges will take advantage of this unique opportunity," says Program Director, Laurie Emerson. The course is designed specifically for parents, siblings, spouses, adult children and significant others of people with severe and persistent mental illness. The course is not appropriate for individuals who themselves suffer from one of the major mental illnesses.
The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Course is free and is made possible in part by a grant from the Department of Mental Health. For more information or to register, call Laurie Emerson, Program Director at 800-639-6480 x102, or email email@example.com.
NAMI Vermont is the state chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
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If you're going to be in the Portland are on 06/05/08, I'd like to invite you to check out the triumphant return of Respectable Citizen, with whom I (Byron H Diel) will be laying down some psychoelectronic percussions at the Station (2410 N Mississippi, Portland, OR). There's also some DJ's and my RC compatriots will be doing really twisted...
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Here's my newly almost finished song entitled The Jackal of All Trades." The AV quality is a bit questionable, as this is cell phone footage. Let me know if you love/hate or are ambivalent.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 12, 2007, 9:48 AM
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a resident of Alamo
on Oct 15, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Oh, Natalie, I so like vamping, especially when we are so close to Halloween and the possibility of art deco costumes and all. Re-vamping simply repeats so much of a good thing.
As a former Menlodian and a patron of Draeger's, we now have the venue to vamp our way to gourmet delight.
Happy new year,
Forest "Fore" Warn
a resident of Danville
on Oct 19, 2007 at 11:46 am
Loved the new Dragers. A bit too crowded for me last weekend, but intend to go back and do some specialty shopping. This is an exciting time for Blackhawk Plaza. I can't wait for all the other stores to open.
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Connecticut Sun guard Renee Montgomery has been selected as the WNBA's Sixth Woman of the Year.
Montgomery was named the top reserve after receiving 23 of the 41 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.
The UConn product averaged 11.6 points and 3.4 assists this season, her fourth as a professional.
San Antonio's Danielle Adams and Jia Perkins finished second and third in the balloting with nine and six votes, respectively.


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Exhale. And unplug the fax machine.
Signing classes from across the country are present and accounted for -- unless your prospect's mom stole the letter of intent -- and now it is time to rush to judgment as to which programs had the best and worst of National Signing Day.
The winners on the day were clear and stood out from the pack, while the losers were less and sometimes in relative terms.
Classes listed in alphabetical order.
Rumors of the class' death were greatly exaggerated. After two months of uncertainty and conjecture, Gus Malzahn capped a fantastic close to the class of 2013. At the top of the class, the Tigers kept a five-star in Carl Lawson and added another in Montravius Adams. The coups did not stop there. Four-star defensive end Elijah Daniel flipped from Ole Miss, while four-star offensive guard Deon Mix jumped the Mississippi State ship and joined Auburn. The class also added Mackenro Alexander to its secondary. Alexander is listed as a three-star prospect but has a major chip on his shoulder because of it and could become a nasty force for the program.
The Buckeyes' class ran neck-and-neck with many powers in the SEC atop the Rivals.com national team rankings this season, and the last couple of days continued the push upwards. Urban Meyer closed with five-star safety Vonn Bell out of Georgia and four-star receiver James Clark from Florida. They also got four-star running back Dontre Wilson on Monday. What may have been icing on the top was that with a midday announcement the program retained the pledge of running back Ezekiel Elliott -- the top player from the state of Missouri. Elliott was promised early in the process that he would be the only back recruited in the class, and when Wilson was approached it gave pause to Elliott. He responded by visiting Missouri just before signing day. Keeping everyone in the class and adding Bell, Clark and Wilson late was impressive.
Despite being the worst-kept secret in recruiting, Ole Miss landed the signature of Robert Nkemdiche -- the No. 1 prospect in the Rivals100. Later in the day, the team added Laremy Tunsil -- the top-rated offensive tackle -- to join the nation's best receiver, Laquon Treadwell. If that wasn't enough, the program stole four-star offensive lineman Austin Golson from Florida State and added the No. 2 player from Mississippi to the class when Antonio Conner faxed his letter. The cumulative effect is easily the best class for Ole Miss in the history of Rivals.com and a sure reason to celebrate in Oxford.
The departure of Chip Kelly to the NFL sent the Oregon class into a shake-up, but when the faxes came in there was barely any damage done, outside of losing Dontre Wilson. The ability to protect five-star Thomas Tyner and four-star twins Tyree Robinson and Tyrell Robinson was a major victory for the remaining staff. That alone could have been considered a victory, but that was not all. Oregon flipped Rivals250 offensive lineman Cameron Hunt from California and followed by absolutely stealing Rivals250 defensive end Torrodney Prevot from USC. All told, the period after Kelly left may have been more active and productive than the time from the end of the regular season until the announcement was made.
The Nittany Lions did not gain a single commitment after Dec. 14, but they were a major winner on signing day because of the calm they kept throughout. Bill O'Brien and his staff did one of the best under-the-radar recruiting jobs in the country, working in the face of major sanctions to keep three four-star players on board with a five-star quarterback. Christian Hackenberg, Adam Breneman, Garrett Sickels and Brendan Mahon were the first four players to buy into the program, and all four made it to the finish line. While some will point to the middle-of-the-pack finish in national recruiting, this class is a victory because it could have been much worse.
The Aggies were relatively inactive on National Signing Day, but a top 10 finish nationally is a signal that this class could merge nicely with the young talent already in College Station. Daeshon Hall was a four-star defensive end addition on Wednesday, but the real work was already done. Kevin Sumlin was fiercely active on the defensive side of the ball, landing four-star defensive tackles Justin Manning, Hardreck Walker and Isaiah Golden to go with Hall. The four are joined by four-stars Kameron Miles and Noel Ellis in the secondary, and each could play an important role in overhauling a unit that was bent, and at times broken, this past season.
It has been a four-star close for Jim Mora Jr. and the staff, and it continued to the wire. The run started in early December and carried through National Signing Day as UCLA added Alex Redmond and Caleb Benenoch to its offensive line in December and went on a run of skill-position players. Receivers Eldridge Massington and Thomas Duarte were next in the fold, followed by defensive backs Johnny Johnson, Tyler Foreman and Tahaan Goodman. The day before signing day, UCLA swooped in on for USC pledge Kylie Fitts and was locked in a battle to keep Priest Willis away from the Trojans. Mora landed his potential quarterback of the future by getting Asiantii Woulard to commit. The staff has made UCLA a real destination for kids in Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California. This program looks prepared to battle with the Trojans for more top-tier players.
This is the peak of situational losing. Georgia is sitting just outside of the top 10 in national recruiting, it yet is being considered among the losers on signing day. The program signed 32 prospects and averaged 3.47 stars per player, but it could not fend off many raiders inside of its own borders. In a year in which the state produced four five-star players -- five if you count Reuben Foster because he transferred out of state as a senior -- the Bulldogs landed none. They protected only two of the top 15 players within the state. Carl Lawson reaffirmed his commitment to Auburn, Montravius Adams joined him, Vonn Bell went to Ohio State and Laremy Tunsil -- an offensive lineman from Florida whom the staff felt great about -- chose Ole Miss. While the class is solid, and if other schools had this list it could represent a major victory, it is a tale of what could have been.
If Bill Snyder doesn't care about star ratings, why should we, right? The Wildcats are coming off back-to-back great seasons -- this recent one ended with a BCS bowl berth -- but the class has only 19 players and a four-to-one ratio of two-star to four-star players. It is a comically bad class for a program that should theoretically be on the rise in recruiting. This is a relative-speaking loss because Kansas State has never been a major player for elite recruits and Snyder has shown that he can pressure diamonds from lumps of coal, but in the world of jumping the gun this is a wasted opportunity.
Written about ad nauseum, this is a tough class to call a winner or a loser but the optimism coming into National Signing Day ended with a thud. Miami bungled the recruitment of Denver Kirkland and lost him to Arkansas. It likely pushed away five-star Matthew Thomas as well. Alex Collins' mom tried to make the former commit sign with the school, but it appears he is headed to Arkansas as well, with former 'Canes coach Randy Shannon dipping back into the South Florida market. The day was not all a loss, though, because the program landed four-star linebacker Jermaine Grace and four-star receiver Stacy Coley. There are major questions about the defensive line, which went relatively unaddressed in this class, and even with the backdrop of self-sanctioning many people expected more than this.
Welcome to the SEC; act accordingly. Missouri was a disaster in recruiting, barely finishing inside of the top 50 and easily at the bottom of the conference. In a year when the team had moments of looking lifeless, this was not an inspiring performance in the living room to make anyone believe in future gains. The class has one four-star player in Chase Abbington, who is also the only skill-position player to be clocked under a mid-4.5 time in the 40- yard dash. With a cracked window to maybe land Ezekiel Elliott when he was upset that Ohio State was taking another running back, the program was unable to close on him. Topping it off, the Tigers lost a great recruiter in quarterback coach Dave Yost. All in all, a clear loss on the class and the day.
The Longhorns did not receive the memo that recruiting is now a year-round process, apparently. Texas ended the season with just 15 commitments, and only four of them were gained in the last eight months. It lost in-state five-star A'Shawn Robinson in the last weeks of the process. There was very little that went right in this cycle, and positive reflection would be really stretching for a silver lining. The school is bringing in six of its 15 players as three-star players. If all of that were not bad enough, it is juxtaposed with Texas A&M, which is building a monster with a high-paced offense and a dynamic head coach who emphasizes the grind of recruiting and believes in the process. A loss this year could turn into the norm if it Texas does not stem the tide.
The caveat with every negative to the USC class failure is the top-end success. USC signed more five-star players than any other program, landing five elite-level players. The problem is that it also saw a bevy of them de-commit. The Trojans lost five-star players Max Redfield, Jalen Ramsey and Eddie Vanderdoes, as well as four-star prospects Kylie Fitts, Torrodney Prevot and Jason Hatcher. They could not backfill with five-star Matthew Thomas and then failed in the attempt to land four-star defensive backs Priest Willis and Tahaan Goodman from UCLA as a package. After what looked like a class that many would call one of the best of all-time, it trickled down to a 12-man crew that wound up outside the top 10 nationally and limped to the finish with just four-star Quinton Powell coming aboard. Depth was an issue for USC this past season and, with a limited class like this, it could be again.
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If Canada's dramatic overtime win over the United States in Sochi was Hayley Wickenheiser's swan song, there's arguably no better way to go out.
If the 35-year-old who calls Calgary home still has another four years in the tank, the face of women's hockey in Canada could sling a fifth-straight gold medal around her neck in 2018 in South Korea.
"Right now, I feel like I could go another four (years)," Wickenheiser said Tuesday night after arriving home at the Calgary airport. "Right now, I've got everything set up the way I need it to be. I love to play and I still feel like I've got lots left, but right now I think I need a holiday."
It's a rest well-deserved and earned.
The national team played 52 games since it began its Olympic journey 11 months ago, tangling with local midget and junior teams as it barnstormed across Alberta in preparation for Sochi.
The players trained as hard as any other professional team and travelled extensively.
The idea was that everything would be so difficult before the Olympics that by the time they took the Sochi ice, they were battle-hardened warriors.
It's something Wickenheiser credits to helping Team Canada to the dramatic 3-2 overtime win in the gold-medal game, which saw the Red & White erase a late, two-goal deficit before winning in the extra frame.
"Our team became resilient and mentally tough," Wickenheiser said. "That game could have gone either way. We have no illusions about it, but I think at the end of the day we put ourselves in a good position to be successful and that's what ended up happening. When you stick with something, I think you create your own luck. With everything our team has been through this year, we've had so much adversity, I just think there are so many players in that room that just wouldn't concede the gold medal. We just didn't want to come home with the silver."
Many players in that room have Wickenheiser to thank for that resiliency.
Meaghan Mikkelson was 12 when she attended a summer camp that Wickenheiser helped run in Calgary.
"She was one of my idols," said Mikkelson, who assisted on Canada's first goal of the game. "To be on a team with her, to see the way that she handles herself both on and off the ice, she's a true professional. We're very lucky to have her on our team as a teammate and as a friend."
Rebecca Johnston, now 24, also idolized Wickenheiser.
"She was definitely someone I looked up to and wanted to be and to be able to play in the Olympics with," Johnston said. "It's just been amazing. She's really taught us a lot, especially taught me a lot. It's great being able to play with her."
But now, Wickenheiser and the next crop of the nation's best women's hockey players have another goal to score — to promote the game, to get more involved in the sport and to increase exposure.
"The reality is that every four years the world watches women's hockey and we need to get that changed," Wickenheiser said. "We need to have more people engaged, and I think after that game, hopefully that provides a stepping stone to an entertainment value that's out there for the women's game."