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Entertainment marketers are increasingly looking to Instagram to promote upcoming releases.
For its upcoming feature comedy "The Perfect Match," Codeblack Films, a subsidiary of Lionsgate, released a game show starring popular influencers on Instagram. The series, also called "The Perfect Match," was made in the style of the classic '80s game show "The Newlywed Game," in which couples compete to see who is the perfect match out of the group. Spanning eight 15-second episodes, it starred popular Instagram personalities like Draya Michele (4.5 million followers) and Lira Mercer (2.5 million followers).
Launched on Saturday, March 5, across the accounts of the six Instagram influencers that appear in "The Perfect Match," the series has garnered more than 106,000 likes on the platform. It has also captured more than 37.5 million earned impressions there, according to Codeblack.
Typically, movie studios create social accounts for each movie and spend millions of dollars to draw attention to upcoming releases.
"That doesn't make sense to me," said Jeff Clanagan, CEO and president of Codeblack Entertainment, which focuses on producing films for the African American consumer market. "You're spending all this money to build pages that you will abandon after the movie comes out. I'm focused on a niche market, and it was important for me to grow a community on Instagram and Facebook that I can come back to every time."
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For Codeblack, Clanagan has built a network of Facebook pages that reach millions of fans, including Codeblack Life (1.5 million followers) and Codeblack Comedy (3.6 million followers). Clanagan has also incubated a network of Instagram influencers that collectively reaches more than 20 million followers on the platform.
"Now all I have to do is flip a switch, because I have an active audience," said Clanagan. (Clanagan is also comedian Kevin Hart's producing partner at HartBeat Productions, and Codeblack is behind the comedian's chart-topping stand-up specials like "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain.")
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This socially driven approach is doubly important for labels like Codeblack. Unlike a major studio release, films like "The Perfect Match" don't have big marketing budgets. A more targeted marketing strategy that makes use of finding and reaching the right audiences on social platforms has helped previous Codeblack films like "Addicted," which made $7.6 million during its opening weekend even though it was only distributed across 846 screens.
This is the first time the studio has used Instagram as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. While the game show cost less than $10,000 to produce, Clanagan believes it has already earned several times that in marketing value.
Codeblack Entertainment isn't the first studio to employ Instagram for marketing an upcoming release. The team behind Paramount's "Zoolander 2" also took to the photo- and video-sharing platform in a variety of ways. For instance, star Kyle Mooney's character Don Atari has his own Instagram account, offering a peek inside the life of a typically vapid fashion designer. Here he is having "instabrunch" with Man Repeller's Leandra Medine and Instagram's head of fashion partnerships Eva Chen:
Had the BEST #instabrunch 🍽 🍳 🍩mad love to my all time #instafam @manrepeller @mrstreetpeeper @evachen212 you fools are #squad for #life shoutout to my top social plat4m @instagram for setting this up #donatari #nomnomnom #eggsatarisideup #JEALOUS? #youjealous
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Overall, entertainment marketers are increasingly going to Instagram for influencer-driven campaigns. Nearly half of the 100-plus deals theAmplify, an agency focused on Instagram, Snapchat and influencers, did in 2015 were for movie studios on Instagram, according to CEO Justin Rezvani.
"Views of a trailer on YouTube and Facebook matter a lot for studios, but when it comes to influencers, Instagram is the most important platform for studios," said Rezvani. "They can do a lot on their owned-and-operated channels on YouTube and Facebook, but Instagram is still a challenge for many."
Clanagan is a believer. "We are going to create a lot more original content like this," he said. "For other movies we are developing, one of the things I've asked writers is to create prequels for the movies [for Instagram]. Instagram is going to be a major part of our efforts going forward."


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The Year in Music
Hey, Ann—
So, does Eminem get to do the Super Bowl halftime show? I mean, what's left besides a White House drop-by? Which might not be all that far-fetched, given the warmth of the mainstream's embrace of Mr. Mathers. There are precedents: Gun-toting Elvis' visit with Nixon, Michael Jackson's photo op with Reagan. And the Eminem story—or the movie version that unfolded in 8 Mile—is an echt Republican story, one about pulling yourself up and overcoming your circumstances while your pathetic single mom waits around for a handout. Anyway, Eminem is the pop-music story of 2002, isn't he? Who since Nirvana has had a year like this? I guess that's the place to start. Me, I'd like to thank him for helping to re-establish music as a really popular art form (9 million units sold domestically this year and counting), and for dropping two of the year's knockout singles—"Cleanin Out My Closet" and "Lose Yourself." The Eminem Show and 8 Mile's soundtrack mostly bored me, though: tired beats and lazy, crazy rants about his status as a hunted cultural terrorist (way exaggerated), along with his bathos and his still not all-that-worked-through misogyny. I wonder how many of the boomers who'll remember 2002 as the year they made their peace with Em have listened closely to "Drips"? I used to listen to him for his unschooled poetic skill and his remarkable descriptions of just-this-side-of-welfare life in America during the Boom, but that's not where he's coming from anymore.
The other big pop-music story of 2002 is the rise of neo-garage rock, or whatever: the four bands with simple plural-noun names and not-so-simple but carefully spare guitar-driven songs. How does this music sound in Seattle, the city that gave us the last rock breakthrough? And what does a great student of alt-rock like yourself make of it? I have to agree with Chris Morris' suggestion in Billboard this week—the Strokes and Hives and Vines and White Stripes are at this point more a media-driven story than a commercial phenomenon. (Although taken together, they have sold a couple of million records, which is not too shabby.) That said, I saw no more exhilarating show this year than the White Stripes and Strokes at Radio City, and I am rooting for them—actually I am rooting for Jack White to get beyond his conceptual art phase and get himself a real band. These bands are not simply a throwback to the '80s—that distinction is reserved for techno-pop, the epiphenomenon of 2002, at least here in New York. Did you ever imagine we'd live to see a Human League revival? Someone's going to have to get Susan Sontag to write notes on meta-camp or something.
Finally, in this broad-brush rendering of the year in pop music—I figure it's better to work toward, rather than begin with, our Top 10 album lists—I'd like to crawl out on a limb and offer what I think is the big pop-music story of the year, as it will look 10 years from now: This is the year that saw the triumph of a new generation of producers. Beck released his best album, and a lot of the credit for it goes, or should go, to its producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's very own George-Martin-style " fifth member" and a brilliant creator of vast aural spaces and rich sonic textures. I didn't much like Bruce Springsteen's The Rising—the lyrics were mostly empty clichés, whatever the Boss' good intentions—but I did like the new, thick guitar sound of the E Street Band, woven by producer Brendan O'Brien. And how about Jim O'Rourke's work at the mixing board with Wilco, on their very fine Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?
Then there's the Virginia Beach contingent: the production team of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka the Neptunes, are the bomb, in their own stuff, with N.E.R.D., and in their producing of singles for—God, who can keep count? They did some of their best work on Justin Timberlake's solo debut, Justified; track for track, beat for beat, it's a better album than either of Eminem's. Timbaland produced a few songs for Timberlake too, and I suspect that in 10 years' time people will be talking about Timbaland as a pop genius. He is experimenting at the top of the Billboard charts in a way no one has since Brian Wilson in the '60s. I mean, listen to Missy Elliott's Work It, which was produced by Timbaland and is the most adventurous hit single since her (and his) last one. If pop music's history is that of sound, not song, as I believe it is, Timbaland is the one pushing things forward.
Hey, but you're the one immersed in history and sound every day at that remarkable museum of yours, the Experience Music Project. Can you imagine a show 10 years from now, "Virginia Beach: Turn-of-the-Century Music Capital"?

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Aristides Pittas, Chairman and CEO of Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA), an owner and operator of drybulk carriers and container vessels, commented on the container market in their press release this morning:
"The container market has been witnessing a significant correction during the last six months and has now entered into the traditionally low period which usually lasts until after the Chinese new year (end of January for 2012) when volumes start to pick up again. We had four vessels opening up during this challenging period. We are happy to have been able to extend the time charter on the Despina P and our decision to accelerate the scheduled dry docking of the Captain Costas reflects our belief that we can utilize currently idle time so that the ship will not need to lose time in the summer when we expect to see improvements in the market. We have also been able to fix employment for the containership Jonathan P for a minimum of 21 to a maximum of 70 days so the only vessel currently idle is the containership Marinos (ex YM Port Kelang). We continue to believe that provided the world economy grows at levels close to the 4% mark we should see a reversal of the fortunes of the container sector as of Q2 2012. We also think that the presently soft market may offer us opportunities to buy further vessels in both the container and drybulk sectors at depressed prices and we continue to scan the markets accordingly."
Euroseas announced today that one of their subsidiaries has extended for approximately one year (until March 1, 2013) its time charter agreement, for the vessel Despina P, a 1932 teu, 1990 built Handysize containership, at a gross daily rate of $7,000. The new rate will commence on January 19, 2012.
Following the above mentioned charter, approximately 30% of Euroseas' total container fleet days for 2012 and approximately 6% in 2013 are secured under period charters.
Furthermore, the Company has decided to accelerate the scheduled dry docking of the containership Captain Costas and perform it during this challenging period. The dry docking was originally scheduled for the summer of 2012.
About Euroseas Ltd.
Euroseas Ltd. was formed on May 5, 2005 under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to consolidate the ship owning interests of the Pittas family of Athens, Greece, which has been in the shipping business over the past 136 years. Euroseas trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker ESEA since January 31, 2007.
Euroseas operates in the dry cargo, drybulk and container shipping markets. Euroseas' operations are managed by Eurobulk Ltd., an ISO 9001:2000 certified affiliated ship management company, which is responsible for the day-to-day commercial and technical management and operations of the vessels. Euroseas employs its vessels on spot and period charters and through pool arrangements.
The Company has a fleet of 16 vessels, including 4 Panamax drybulk carriers and 1 Handymax drybulk carrier, 3 Intermediate containership, 5 Handysize containerships, 2 Feeder containerships and a multipurpose dry cargo vessel. Euroseas` 5 drybulk carriers have a total cargo capacity of 331,808 dwt, its 10 containerships have a cargo capacity of 17,787 teu and its multipurpose vessel has a cargo capacity of 22,568 dwt or 950 teu.


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Intrusion Detection Tools
Intrusion Detection on Hosts and Networks
Assuming you got your system into a reasonable state, you would like to keep it there. Or, at least you would like to know if it is changed!
SIEM or Security Information Event Management is the current buzzword in the field.
File System Change Detection
is the best-known solution.
They also offer products to check router configurations
and modules used by a web server to detect unwanted
content change and serve out a "Temporarily unavailable"
page in its place.
(Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)
is a free replacement for Tripwire, included in
many Linux distributions.
are alternatives to AIDE.
Osiris Samhain
Host Intrusion Detection Systems
SNARE - System iNtrusion Analysis &
Reporting Environment
provides host-based intrusion detection for
Linux, Solaris, and Windows including graphical configuration,
monitoring, and reporting tools.
SNARE Snare Agents for Linux, Solaris, OS X, Windows
Network Intrusion Detection
Note carefully that most "network intrustion detection" system really detect an attack and not an intrusion. Still possibly useful, just make sure you understand what a tool really does.
Also be somewhat skeptical of the real need for NID. If you are running BSD, do you really care that someone on the other side of the planet is trying to exploit a risk only found on Microsoft SQL Server? Is it appropriate to waste your time being "warned" about this complete non-risk? Aggressive NID can be a denial-of-service attack against yourself!
Snort is a great tool that detects and diagnoses scans, probes, and attempted attacks.
There are many tools to automatically analyze audit trails for suspicious events. Splunk, Hewlett-Packard's ArcSight, and IBM's QRadar are the big names in the field.
Also see Purdue's CERIAS group for current research in this challenging area.


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The Doctor will once again face off against some of his oldest enemies. The Cybermen are returning to "Doctor Who" in 2013 in an episode written by fantasy author Neil Gaiman, BBC announced Wednesday.
Gaiman's episode will be directed by Stephen Woolfenden, who served as assistant director for four of the eight "Harry Potter" films. The episode will take the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his new companion (Jenna-Louise Coleman) to another planet, where they meet a band of misfits portrayed by Warwick Davis ("Life's too Short," "Harry Potter" and "Willow"), Tamzin Outhwaite ("Hotel Babylon") and Jason Watkins ("Being Human").
The Cybermen have been around for nearly as long as the show itself, debuting in 1966's "The Tenth Planet" opposite the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell in his last episode before regenerating. In the series, Cybermen are people whose bodies have been replaced with artificial parts and whose emotions have been deleted, leaving a race of cold, calculating and deadly cyborgs.
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"Cybermen were always the monsters that scared me the most," the show's lead writer Steven Moffat said in the announcement. "Not just because they were an awesome military force, but because sometimes they could be sleek and silver and right behind you without you even knowing."
The 2013 Cybermen episode marks the second venture into "Doctor Who" for Gaiman, whose previous episode — 2011's "The Doctor's Wife" — won a Hugo Award and a Ray Bradbury Award.
"I saw my first Cybermen watching Moonbase, as Jamie thought the Piper was coming for him (scary). Then Tomb of the Cybermen terrified me," Gaiman tweeted, referring to two 1967 episodes starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor.
When a Twitter follower asked Gaiman if his iteration of the classic "Doctor Who" villains would be scary, Gaiman responded, "I hope so."
"Doctor Who" returns to television Dec. 25 after a three-month break following "The Angels Take Manhattan," the heartbreaking end to the Doctor's travels with Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill). The regular series, including Gaiman's episode, returns in spring 2013.
Check out the trailer for the Christmas special above, and let us know what you think of the Cybermen's return in the comments.
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Again the answer to this is probably staring me right in the face, but how do you get reverb to affect DSPs? I have a nice waterfall sound that needs to be used in a cave but all I get through the Reverb wet is my dry (no filters) noise sound.
This is in FMOD Designer BTW.
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There is a technical reason this isn't enabled by default, but for select events, the programmer can use FMOD_EVENT_EFFECTS_AFFECT_REVERB flag when getting the event handle, and the reverb will apply to the effect.
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A World in Transformation
Mini Teaser: The world we know is changing. The result is an uneasy mixture of the traditional Westphalian state system and the forces of globalization. Until we find a balance between them, this is a recipe for drift, transition and increasing chaos.
THIS SPECIAL issue of The National Interest is particularly timely because we are living in a world that we know and that has shaped our thinking, but that world is in a process of transformation. We are struggling with institutions and practices of an Old World when that Old World is fading. This issue explores this global transformation, and I commend to you the articles contained here under the rubric of the "Crisis of the Old Order."
I would like to share some of my own thoughts on this global transformation. When the Cold War ended during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, I was serving as the president's national-security adviser. I thought at the time that the end of the Cold War marked the end of a period of history, one that began with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The European system that had dominated the world for so long was washed away.
What followed that war was a period of instability and the rise of challenges to traditional societal organizations in the forms of fascism and communism. These ideologies took serious root in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. The United States soon realized it had to step up to the challenges posed by these threats to our concept of democracy. After World War II, America restored a balance of power in the early nuclear age, one that saved Western Europe from the Soviet threat and brought a measure of peace and stability to the world.
When that system crumbled with the end of the Soviet Union and its empire, we in the Bush administration may have realized the end of the Cold War marked the end of a period of history, but we did not completely visualize what the emerging new era would look like. We sought to help Europe fashion itself into a more congenial, unified system. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, we were determined to reverse that aggression, consciously seeking to do it in a way that would help establish new international rules dealing with conflict in this post–Cold War world. President Bush spoke of a "new world order." And it was true that we in the administration knew the situation called for some kind of new global vision. But we were essentially feeling our way in the dark. We sought to empower the UN Security Council's operations in the manner its founders had visualized and to organize an international coalition of forces to implement Security Council resolutions.
Then something truly fundamental became apparent, and it deeply affected the whole system. I refer to globalization, the inexorable convergence of markets, nation-states, peoples, technologies and forms of communication across national borders. It actually began during the Cold War but was slowed by that divided world. This is a significant force, working at base to undermine the old Westphalian state system that for so long dominated most of world thinking—particularly Western thinking. That venerable system was based on the concept of the sovereignty of the nation-state, territoriality and freedom of nation-states from internal interference by other nations. This concept—underpinned by industrialization, which greatly strengthened the power of the state itself—was embraced over centuries by nearly all nations, a notable exception being China. It spawned the nationalism that flowered particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Whereas industrialization strengthened the power of the state, globalization erodes national boundaries. More and more, things that need to be done in the world can only be done across national borders through cooperation between and among nations. The world is now operating under an uneasy mixture of the traditional Westphalian system and this new, globalized model intent on pushing things in a different direction.
Take as an example the financial crisis of 2008. The crisis demonstrated that we had a single worldwide financial system in which a crisis in one area could quickly spread throughout the world. But the world clearly had no single global way to deal with that crisis. This was far different even from the end of World War II, when a preeminent nation—the United States—could lead the free world in crafting a unified system for dealing with global economic problems. The result was the Bretton Woods agreement, establishing a system of monetary- and economic-policy management among nations so the industrial world could have rules governing commercial and financial relations. The postwar leaders set up the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to develop rules of the road. The new G-20 is but a pale reflection of that once-brilliant institution building.
Those of us who studied world politics long ago in graduate school recall that nearly every textbook had a chapter entitled something like, "The Elements of National Power." And we went through those elements one at a time. But power is different now. In fact, the very nature of power is being transformed. It is not based to the same extent on how many people are under arms or the strength of the national economy but instead on more subtle attributes and levers of influence. Partly as a result, it is increasingly doubtful there will be in the foreseeable future the kinds of great-power conflicts we have seen in our lifetimes.Image: Pullquote: Once, we were viewed as trying to do what was best for everybody; now, we are seen as being preoccupied with our own narrow interests. We have appeared sometimes to be seeking to dominate rather than to lead.Essay Types: Essay


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Jessica Alba & Honor Warren: Paris Playground Playtime!
Jessica Alba and daughter Honor Warren take a stroll through the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris before stopping at a park to play on the seesaw on Wednesday (June 30).
Jessica premiered her new thriller The Killer Inside Me in Paris last week.
Also last week, the trailer for Little Fockers was released! Jessica joins Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro and co. in the third installment of the series.
FYI: Jess is wearing Ralph Lauren Collection gold aviators.
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Development Pathway
The key activities for the proposed development of a Cymerus™ product can be summarised into the four critical areas described in more detail below. The Company will seek, wherever possible, to secure further intellectual property protection over any developments made in the course of conducting the development plan.
(i) Regulatory Strategy:
The Company has engaged regulatory experts to assist in defining a regulatory strategy and negotiating the complicated regulatory path for allogeneic cell-based therapeutic products. The initial objective of this work been met through the approval of a Phase 1 clinical trial with CYP-001, Cynata's lead Cymerus™ therapeutic product.
Cynata has had successful and productive interactions with regulators in key jurisdictions, and will continue to do so as the development programs progress.
(ii) Product Manufacture, Manufacturing Process and Controls:
In February 2014, Cynata announced it had partnered with Waisman Biomanufacturing to undertake process development, scale-up and clinical-grade manufacture of Cynata's proprietary Cymerus™ MSCs. Waisman is a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-compliant facility that was specifically designed to manufacture of cellular therapies, gene therapies and other biologicals products. In February 2015, Cynata announced that the transfer and scale up of the process to a GMP-compliant manufacturing facility (Waisman Biomanufacturing) had been successfully completed. In addition to manufacturing MSCs using the Cymerus™ process, Waisman and other accredited laboratories subjected the MSCs to an extensive range of tests, to confirm that the cells have the characteristics required of MSCs for therapeutic use. The results of these tests form a key part of Cynata's dossier that supported regulatory approval of its proposed clinical trial program.
(iii) Pre-clinical Testing:
Before use in human subjects, a potential Cymerus™ product must be tested to the satisfaction of the oversight authorities. The nature of the required tests vary, depending upon the choice of indication, availability of suitable test methods and the relevant regulations. Ultimately the goal of the pre-clinical program is to demonstrate the sterility, purity, potency, stability, safety and indicative efficacy of Cymerus™ MSCs.
Cynata has generated positive data in a number of studies of Cymerus™ MSCs in animal models of disease, including graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) critical limb ischaemia and asthma. Each of these studies showed that the MSCs had a profound effect, and no safety concerns were identified. Further studies are ongoing in models of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and cardiovascular disorders, with additional proof of concept studies in the planning stage.
(iv) Clinical safety and efficacy:
It is necessary to demonstrate both safety and efficacy of Cynata's potential products before approval for commercial sale may be sought. This will involve the conduct of a series of clinical tests (clinical trials).
Cynata has received regulatory approval to conduct the first Phase 1 clinical trial with Cymerus™ MSCs in patients with graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). This disease often follows a bone marrow transplant procedure and occurs when the immune cells in the donor material (the graft) attack the recipient's tissues (the host) as "foreign". Bone marrow transplants are used in the treatment of certain cancers including leukaemia.
Steroids are currently the first line treatment for GvHD, but this treatment is often unsuccessful. Additionally, some patients are unable to tolerate side effects caused by long term steroid treatment. When steroid treatment fails, the prognosis is very poor, with as many as 80% of patients dying from "steroid-refractory" GvHD.
MSCs have the ability to modulate a recipient's immune response: consequently, MSCs may be useful treatments for diseases resulting from an immune response, such as GvHD. Numerous clinical trials of MSCs as a GvHD treatment have been conducted, most with very positive results.
Ultimately, Cynata expects the GvHD clinical program to pave the way for clinical trials in other indications, which may be conducted by either Cynata or its partners.


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Christmas will come before you know it. I'm excited to talk to all of you! Hopefully I'll be in Brazil by then and hopefully I can skype. President doesn't allow skyping here in this mission. I don't know why. So if I'm still here it'll just be a phone call but that's better than nothing! September is flying by and pretty soon it'll be December and I'll have been out for 6 months! That's so crazy!
Well this week was extremely long. We had a lot of people drop us. But when one door closes another one opens and we found 3 new potential investigators this week. People who seem really solid. Monday for p-day we went to Young's Dairy Farm with Jackie, Whitney, and Sister Miller and their families. It was so fun! And they had goats there that I fed. It was awesome. Smelled just like home. Sister Miller's daughter is crazy haha she's almost 18 months and we had ice cream and she was hugging the cone and wouldn't let Sister Miller have any of it. It was hilarious! I'm sure she put pictures on facebook.
We had a dinner with a less active that night and she told us some amazing spiritual experiences she's had. She can't come to church because she works every Sunday but we challenged her to read the Book of Mormon everyday and pray for Heavenly Father to give her an opportunity to go to church. She has home and visiting teachers and I can tell she really has a desire to come back. She just works a lot. She is the nicest lady! Afterwards I got the prompting to go see Amber, a potential investigator and she was home! And we were able to set up a chapel tour with her! She then cancelled right before the tour on Thursday but still we haven't been able to get hold of her and I'm glad I listened to the spirit!
Tuesday was a weird day. We were out tracting and every street we chose we knocked on one door and then looked at the rest of the street and had a super strong feeling it would be unproductive. Later that night we were tracting around a member's home and then we found our new investigator Nikki! So we had two streets of members in mind and we were going to pick the other member but a lady in the ward texted us and told us to tell Brother Richardson that she was in the hospital. So we picked the Richardson's house to tract around instead of the other member and then we found Nikki! And then we felt like we didn't need to knock on anyone else's door because we found who were supposed to find. The Lord works in mysterious ways. So we had a chapel tour with Nikki and she came to church!
Thursday night we had a lesson with Jessica and we found that she doesn't really have any faith in Christ. We are backing way up and basically starting over with her. We have to take it really slow with her and we told her that she needs to read the BoM. We read her Alma 37:9 and said she has to do her part to gain that faith. We really can't teach her anything else until she gets a desire to know. Friday not one of our lessons fell through! We saw Reggie who just finished up finals for nursing. It went so well and he really wants to grow up and start changing his life. Then we had dinner with Sister Floyd's friend Mariola. It was so good! Her husband says he has a lot of questions so we're going to go back and answer them and teach them more! Mariola and Joel go to all of the church activities and she goes to Super Saturday and she taught a Relief Society enrichment night even! They're catholic and pretty active in their church but I want to teach them so bad! They are wonderful people. We were saying goodbye to them and I reached out to shake Joel's hand and he says "we hug people after we meet them" so he hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek! I didn't know what to do since we're not supposed to hug males. But that's how their culture is so I just went with it.
Oh Saturday was a day of new experiences! I got my first door slammed in my face. He was atheist. And then we almost got hit by a car! We were at a stop sign and this lady wasn't paying attention and turned left but turned too sharp and almost hit us head on. Ohio drivers are worse than Utah drivers. Sunday afternoon we decided to tract the Floyd's neighborhood. We got two return appointments! The first guy was WAY nice and he was like "the Floyd's are really good examples and I want to learn more about their church, do you have any literature?" WHAT?! We told him Sister Floyd would bring him a BoM and we're teaching him next week. I never knew the impact we have on our neighbors or people we know. Everyone notices us and as long as we are the best examples of the savior that we can be, we'll help bring others closer to Christ and the gospel. Don't be afraid to share it with people!
Well I love you a lot! I always look forward to your emails.Sister Clark


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Extremely hot, dry weather could mean milling troubles for some of the Arkansas rice crop.
"It's been rather dry in north-central Arkansas for a while," said Karen Moldenhauer, University of Arkansas rice breeder, at the recent Cache River Valley Seed field day near Cash, Ark. "In the southern part of the state, though, there has been a lot of moisture — more rain in July than I can ever recall in the 25 years I've been here."
Now, however, it's turned hot and dry — even at night. That, says Moldenhauer, points to problems with milling.
"The early rice that was planted in March came through the cold, is doing very well and will likely have good milling yields. However, any rice that was heading just prior to or during this hot weather, or rice which was still grain filling during this hot weather, will probably have more milling problems.
"Anytime temperatures are above 72 degrees at night, the rice plant has to work to stay alive. It gets no rest and some of the starch that should be going into the grain is being used to keep the plant alive at night.
"It's true there have been plenty of days when, for a very short period during the morning, temperatures reached 76 or 77. But at 10 p.m., the temperature is still around 90. That means this will probably be a poor milling year."
Moldenhauer said there are exciting new varieties and lines in development. One that's getting a lot of interest is CL 171AR, a Clearfield variety.
"This is much like CL 161 because it has the same kind of yield potential, same kind of milling, same color. But its big benefit is the disease package."
Over a dozen new Clearfield lines are being grown in plots around the state. "I'm just waiting on data from those tests to see which lines are best to keep in the testing program."
Parentage of the lines includes CL 161 crossed with Drew, Francis and Wells. "Then there are lines I selected out of the initial Wells/CL 161 cross — not necessarily CL 171-AR — that were crossed with Drew and Francis. That's the kind of material we're looking at."
In last year's test, the experimental lines had much higher yields than any of the traditional lines.
"We'll see how they do this year. But they do have better yield potential than CL 161, CL 171, CL 131 and CL 151. Unfortunately, we don't have CL 131 or CL 151 for comparison this year."
Some of the lines being studied have excellent milling yields. "We think of CL 161 as having great milling yields but some of these are much better.
"One of the advantages of having late-planted tests last year was the milling yields were effected. Things we'd expect to yield very well like, CL 161 or CL 171, milled in the mid-50s. But there were lines milling in the low- to mid-60s. That's why we're very interested in those lines."
CL 161 has been around for five years and will continue to be on the market, promised HorizonAg's Lance Schmidt. The key to CL 161 is sheath blight management and seeding rates.
As for CL 171-AR, "characteristics seem to fit well with what the rice industry needs: improved disease tolerance, much better blast and sheath blight resistance," said Schmidt, whose company is responsible for bringing Clearfield varieties to market. "Yield-wise, the potential is very good. I've seen fields of it that are impressive. I'm anxious to see the yields they produce."
Some of the data coming out of Louisiana's harvest "is very good — better even than CL 161, one of the better milling varieties on the market."
John Greer, manager of the Burns Seed Farm near Cash, said CL 171-AR has done well in a "more problematic field with high pH and sodium. Problems can show up in the advanced seedling stage.
"When a new variety comes along, I plant it in areas where I've had problems to see if there's any response. This field doesn't do well in Wells or Cocodrie."
However, CL 171-AR is showing tremendous tolerance. "It isn't a cure-all, but compared to the other two varieties, CL 171-AR is doing very well."
Moldenhauer's colleague, UA rice breeder James Gibbons, is currently working with delayed harvest. That's because "we want to make sure we have better-milling varieties in the future. Delayed harvest is one way to do that. If we can leave it in the field longer, we can find out how it'll mill under many different conditions.
"(Gibbons) has techniques where he can take samples, put them in moisture, dry them and then get data on delayed harvest."
Gibbons is also looking at indica lines. The indicas are from Asia and don't have the same cooking quality as rice grown here. But he's working to get that cooking quality combined with the indicas' better disease resistance and high yields.
"It's important for us to get material from other countries and bring it here," said Moldenhauer. "Rice isn't native to the United States. If we want to get the most out of rice, we need to have a good exchange system with other countries. (Gibbons) is working very hard on opening up exchange routes. He's brought in some very good germ plasm."
For several years Moldenhauer has also worked with some experimental lines in attempts to obtain blast resistance.
"We're finally getting some early lines out of that work. Those early lines are probably 63 to 67 days — very early. For comparison, Spring is around 73 days and Trenasse is around 77 days."
Some of the very early lines have good cooking quality and blast resistance. "We're trying to get a not-too-tall plant height with good blast resistance and early characteristics.
"We've crossed those to Francis, Wells and other later varieties with high yield potential."
As for medium grain rice, Bengal is on about 9 percent of Arkansas' rice acreage this year. Jupiter appears to be better than Bengal on disease resistance.
"Last year, Kellogg's said it would accept Jupiter. That's one possible line farmers may be looking at in the future. I think Kellogg's will continue to like Jupiter. I certainly hope so."
On 37 percent of Arkansas' rice acreage, Wells is the major variety in the state. Francis is on 12 percent, CL 161 is on 10 percent, and Bengal is on 9 percent. After that, many varieties take small bites of the state's acreage. Added all together, the Clearfield lines are on about 20 percent of the acreage.


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Seahawks win it in second half
Seattle Seahawks 28, New York Jets 7
When: 1:05 PST, Sunday, November 11, 2012
Where: CenturyLink Field, Seattle, Washington
What started out as an awful first half of football by both teams, lead to a second half of football that was the most complete half of the 2012 season for the Seattle Seahawks.
The Seahawks showed that they are mean, they are nasty, and they have the attitude that they don't want to just beat their opponent, they want to dominate them.
Russell Wilson #3
Of course, it was not all butterflies and rainbows for the young quarterback. He was sacked on back to back plays in the first quarter, he should have thrown the ball away on both plays.
The second sack led to a fumble that the Jets returned for a game tying touchdown, 7-7.
As a rookie, I don't expect him to be perfect, I don't even expect him to be near the quarterback he is. There are many things Russell Wilson did on Sunday that impressed me, but I would like to specifically write about a couple:
During pre-pre-game warm ups when he was throwing a pass to Doug Baldwin, who was running a slant route: Wilson delivered a nice ball, but apparently saw something in the route that wasn't up to Wilson's standards and he wanted to be perfect.
Russell jogged over to Baldwin and started talking to him about the route, I couldn't hear the conversation but body language and hand signals made it pretty clear, Wilson was making sure that he was making sure that both players were on the same page.
After the the other quarterbacks and receivers came out of the locker room: Wilson watched the receivers running their routes religiously while Matt Flynn and Josh Portis were taking reps.
The impressive thing is that during simple warm up stuff, the same thing they do every day, he takes every mental rep he can. You simply cannot outwork the young man.
Before the game I tweeted that it was clear to me that Wilson is the best quarterback the Seahawks have on their roster.
Despite two fumbles during the game, and a couple sacks he didn't need to take, I completely stand behind my tweet. The Seahawks are his football team now, there is no doubt about that.
Marshawn Lynch #24
I know it seems like Marshawn is always on this list, but he earns it every time. For the fourth week in a row, 6th time this season, Marshawn Lynch eclipsed the century mark.
Lynch is one of only two running backs who have rushed for over 1,000 yards this season, he is also averaging over 100 yards per game.
At his current rate, he will have the best year a Seahawks running back has had since 2005, the Super Bowl season.
Lynch needs 199-yards to tie his single season career high.
Richard Sherman #25
This was easily the easiest choice I had this week. On Wednesday, Richard Sherman was named the NFC Defensive Player of the week, an honor he definitely deserved.
Richard Sherman took points of the board when he intercepted a Mark Sanchez pass at the goal line. Sherman is now tied for third place in the NFL in interception this season.
Later in the game, he sacked Sanchez and forced a fumble. To be honest, Sanchez just dropped the ball, but Sherman still gets credit for a forced fumble and he now has the second most forced fumbles by a cornerback in the NFL.
Bruce Irvin #51
BBBBRRRRRUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE! Was heard being chanted by the 12th man a couple times on Sunday, as Irvin had his third multiple sack game of the season.
Interesting to note, every game that Bruce Irvin has had 0.5 sacks or more, the Seahawks have gone on to win.
Bruce Irvin now has the most sacks of anyone out of the 2012 NFL Draft Class, and he is currently tied for 10th in the NFL with 7.0 sacks this season.
Golden Tate #81
Golden Tate has been an extremely frustrating player over the last couple seasons. Everyone could see flashes of the skills that he possessed but he was unable to make that translate on the field.
In his third season, that has changed. I know, 2 receptions for 51-yards is not a great stat, but that is only a small piece of the puzzle.
Every time Tate gets his hands on the football, defenses have to worry about him breaking a big one. He possesses the type of ability that gives opposing defensive coordinators nightmares.
During the week leading up to the game, there is no doubt that Mike Pettine (Jets Defensive Coordinator), and Rex Ryan (Jets defensive-minded Head Coach) showed the Jets defense the play that Tate had against Minnesota, where he made a couple people miss, then leaped over a defender for a touchdown.
While showing the film, there is no doubt they reminded the players how big of a threat he was when he had the ball and coached them to converge on him.
That worked like a charm, for the Seahawks, when Darrell Bevell called Golden's number on an end-around pass to Sidney Rice.
The Jets' defense was so focused on Golden Tate that when he stopped to throw the ball, Sidney Rice was open in the end zone for an easy touchdown.
Tate had a receiving touchdown of his own earlier in the game.
On The Seahawks Horizon
Next week this piece will not be written, because of the bye week, but I will be writing other Seahawks pieces throughout the week to replace it.
I know that it is tough to survive a week without Seahawks football, but it gives the players a chance to rest their bodies as well as their minds so that they are prepared to make a big playoff push.
I have been hesitant to say it, but this is a playoff caliber team, even with a rookie quarterback.
Of course it doesn't hurt when your rookie quarterback prepares like a veteran and learns from every mistake he makes.
Go Seahawks!


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Word on the celeb gossip grapevine is that former hot couple Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom are DOING IT again!
Is that a "whaaaaaaat" we hear over your way? We had the same reaction. Leaving the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty together last month, these two are apparently doing the dirty! According to a source speaking to OK! Magazine, Miranda and Orlando are "enjoying hooking up whenever the mood and opportunity strike."
"They also claim the that this arrangement is good for their son!" The source continued.
Despite splitting up in 2013, the pair have remained on good terms with one another...this may in fact be the most amicable celebrity break-up and hook-up we've ever heard of!
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The birth and death of fermum
Waking up to a Boom and a Crash, all around him a bright white light our hero was really scared.
He looked up, why where there bubble astronaut people around him, this is all very strange.
The weird bubble astronauts looked evil, Fermium had to do something about this!
Our hero is a tight position, he can stay in hiding spot of he can try out his maybe super power, which he dosent know what it is or what it does yet.
Fermium chooses to be brave, what if these astrnauts try to hurt others? He comes out of his hidding spot, the evil people werent looking and they werent aware, somehow, someway Fermium managed to defeat the evil astronauts!


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In our last entry, we featured a Polish restaurant in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. This time, we head a bit north (or south, cuisine-wise) to a Czech and Slovak restaurant called Zlata Praha in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens.
Zlata Praha is a relatively little-known restaurant that does, however, attract famous Czechs (such as the former NHL hockey player Dominik Hasek) when they happen to be in town. The atmosphere is old-Europe, and the menu items reflect this, with such entrees as sauerbraten, papirkash, goulash, boiled beef, stuffed cabbage rollentine, fruit dumplings, and breaded cauliflower. Prices are reasonable, with main dishes generally being well under $20.
If you have been to Zlata Praha in the Astoria section of Queens, please let us know by posting a comment here. Thanks!
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A Mother's Memoir - Madeline Sharples
Today, I have the honor of an interview with a woman, whom I admire greatly, Madeline Sharples. In the face of unspeakable tragedy, Madeline has found a way to help others. Her gift to the world is the ability to expess herself in ways that touch the hearts and minds of others.
Madeline's new book, Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family, whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline, an author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her own well of grief to describe her anger, frustration and guilt. She describes many attempts -- some successful, some not -- to have her son committed to hospital and to keep him on his medication. The book also charts her and her family's redemption, how she considered suicide herself, and ultimately, her decision live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother and writer.
What does the title of the book mean?
At first I believed—my magical thinking—that if I left the hall light on, if we didn't move away from our house, if we didn't change our telephone number, Paul would know how to make his way back. Paul would know we were still here waiting for him. For a long time, I waited for that familiar sound of his Volvo coming into the garage, the sound of the door from the garage slamming as he entered the house and went down the hall to his room, the sound of him walking around the house at night, the sound of the door opening and closing as he went in and out of the house. In fact, for a while I thought I heard those sounds. I, also, left most of the things in his room and closet alone for fear of removing his presence there. For a long time, I refused to give away his things in case he would need them when he came back. Once those sounds in my imagination and my magical thinking fell away, my need to keep the hall light on became another one of the things that helped me get through my grief. We left the hall light on for him when he was home. I just couldn't break that routine.
What were the warning signs when your son first began to experience symptoms of bipolar disorder?
Just before his first manic break in February 1993, he had traveled from New York where he was attending college at the New School to attend my mother's 85th birthday celebration. I have a wonderful photo of him playing Happy Birthday on the piano with her sitting beside him. He was perfectly normal. He was calm, loving. He talked easily to everyone and readily smiled as he posed for a photo with his brother and cousins. For the two nights he was with us, he slept easily in his childhood bedroom, and kissed and hugged me when I said goodbye to him at the airport.
Two weeks later, he was calling us up every few minutes, writing all over his apartment walls with a blue felt-tipped marker, and saying people were lurking in doorways out to get him and poisoning his food and cigarettes. His clothes were strewn all over the place, his dishes were stacked up—all behaviors so foreign to the orderly and neat guy he normally was. Most important, he was a jazz musician no longer able to sit still long enough at the piano to play a song through from the beginning to end.
In those two weeks after he returned to New York City, he played three successive gigs with some older musicians in Brooklyn, rather than with his own group, and had not slept for at least two nights in a row. He, also, drank heavily during these performances. So, it is possible that this burgeoning jazz man lifestyle of little sleep, little food, and lots of booze sent Paul over the edge. He was, also, so affected by the news of the heroin-overdose death of one of his classmates he became unintelligible and had to be taken from his school to the hospital.
How do you give support and comfort to a person who doesn't want support or comfort?
We were in a hopeless situation. Because Paul was an adult child, we had no control. We couldn't help him unless he let us. We felt like our hands were tied behind our backs—and by him. Paul was the driver—it was all up to him. We were out of touch and out of control at his choosing. All we could do was hope for the best, that somehow he would integrate what everyone had been telling him for so long—that his survival and recovery were up to him.
At the same time, we concluded no matter what, he was our son and our responsibility. We would never turn him out into the streets. No matter how painful it was being with him, having him living with us, experiencing the effects of his illness on him and our family, we would take care of him for as long as he needed us to.
How did you maintain your sanity after your son's suicide?
A long list of things helped: friends and family, getting back on my exercise program, pampering myself, writing in my journal and taking writing workshops, attending the Survivors After Suicide meetings at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services organization, finding a job outside my home, and being respectful of each other as a family. We stuck together as a family, we moved through our grief in our own way and in our own time, and we came out the other side as a family closer than ever before.
What can a person do to help and comfort a family that has experienced a suicide or other tragedy?
My greatest comfort after our son's death came from my next-door neighbor, Patty. She offered to put up out-of-town relatives, she brought over bagels and cream cheese in the morning, and she supplied the coffee for the open house after the funeral. The word "suicide" didn't make her back off.
Before the first Thanksgiving after Paul's death, Patty left a basket on my doorstep. Her note said that she dreaded the holidays after her mother died, so she gathered a few things to ease the holiday season for me. As I read her note and looked through the basket, I cried, not only out of the dread of being without Paul on Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and his New Year's Eve birthday, but for the generosity and caring of a person I hardly knew. In such a quiet and unassuming way, she showed me real human compassion and understanding. She never asked me a lot of questions, and she didn't intrude on my privacy. She just let me know she was there for me if I needed her.
Among the items inside was a poetry book about coping with the loss of a loved one—she knew I wrote poetry. She also included a journal, a sweet smelling candle, a box of absolutely delicious, chocolate-covered graham crackers, and a smooth gray stone.
This stone became my biggest comfort. Just large enough to fit in the palm of my hand, it feels the perfect size when I close my hand around it. One edge is round and the other is triangular. One side is plain; the other has the word "son" carved into it. Right after Patty left the basket on my doorstep, my little stone became my nighttime friend.
I got into the habit of going to bed with it. Once settled, I held it on my chest just between my breasts. I liked its coldness on my aching heart. It helped me relax. Holding it in my hand and reading the word with my thumb, also helped. I carried it around in my pocket for a while. I wanted to feel it there for me. Then, I began to wonder about my own sanity. Was I trying to exchange my son for a stone?
When I got myself more together and began to feel better, I let go of it and let it rest on another item from that basket—a little, silk-covered, sachet pillow that smells of lavender with butterflies and the word "heal" painted on the silk. These two gifts from Patty are still there on my bedside table after all these years.
What advice do you have for families that have been affected by mental illness or suicide?
First, I recommend families find out as much about bipolar disorder as you can—the best doctors, hospitals, medications available, and how to get to them. Also, know about suicide prevention. What I didn't know when our son was diagnosed is that bipolar can be a killer disease—especially in young men. Then, try to give your loved one with the disease the facts. That way he/she will feel less stigmatized and will be more likely to accept help.
Second, I would want people affected by suicide to know that it is possible to survive and be productive after the death of a child. I would advise them to:
- Take your time—don't let anyone tell you that the time for grief should be over
- Take good care of your health: workout, eat healthy, get enough rest, meditate, travel, and be open to new friends and new experiences
- Pamper yourself: stay in shape physically, get massages, facials, and manicures and pedicures
- Pretend you're feeling better by putting on a smiley face and pretty soon you will feel better (I call it playacting)
- Find an artistic outlet and other diversions to take your mind off of it
Many thanks to Madeline for sharing her story and her wisdom. I encourage all my readers to get a copy of her book.
Madeline Sharples studied journalism in high school and college and wrote for the high school newspaper, but only started to fulfill her dream to work as a creative writer and journalist, late in life. Her memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide, was released in a hardback edition in 2011 and has just been released in paperback and eBook editions by Dream of Things. It tells the steps she took in living with the loss of her oldest son, first and foremost that she chose to live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother, and writer. She hopes that her story will inspire others to find ways to survive their own tragic experiences.
She also co-authored Blue-Collar Women: Trailblazing Women Take on Men-Only Jobs (New Horizon Press, 1994), co-edited the poetry anthology, The Great American Poetry Show, Volumes 1 and 2, and wrote the poems for two photography books, The Emerging Goddess and Intimacy (Paul Blieden, photographer). Her poems have also appeared online and in print magazines.


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March 3, 2007
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Sacred Heart vs. Mount St. Mary's - NEC Tournament Quarterfinals Post Game Notes
The Pioneers advanced to the NEC Semifinals for the 4th straight season by defeating Mount St. Mary's for the 13th-straight time Saturday afternoon. SHU is 2-1 against the Mountaineers in the postseason also knocking them out in the 2005 tournament.
The Pioneers, who now own a season-best six-game winning streak, will host their seventh-straight NEC Tournament game on Tuesday night when the #5 seed Monmouth comes to Fairfield for a 7 pm tip. The Hawks edged the #4 seeded Quinnipiac Bobcats 63-58 earlier in the day. The Pioneers get the home game via #8 St. Francis-NY 61-51 upset over top-seeded Long Island.
The last SHU lost to Mount St. Mary's came during the 2001 season when the Mountaineers handed SHU a 50-45 loss in that season's tournament semifinal. The Pioneers are 14-3 all-time versus the Mount.
The Pioneers are 8-6 all-time in the NEC Tournament, advancing into the second round six of their eight years in the field. SHU improves to 6-2 at home in the postseason.
Senior Amanda Pape became the first player in Sacred Heart history and the third in NEC annals to record 2,000 career points. Pape needed 24 coming in and hit that number on the head with a pair of free throws with 3:42 left. Jess Zinobile from Saint Francis (PA) is the league's all-time leader with 2,338 points and Beth Swink, also of the Red Flash is second with 2,127.
Pape finished with 20 or more points for the sixth-straight game and eighth in the last 10. She played all 40 minutes for the third-straight outing.
Senior Jasmine Walker continued her dominant inside play with her third-straight and seventh double double in the last eight ball games with 23 points and 11 rebounds. Walker's 23 points is a season high and matches her career high set against Long Island last season. Walker posted her 11th double double of the season and 27th of her career.
For the second time this season, sophomore Kaitlin Sowinski flirted with a triple double scoring 12 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and blocking eight shots. Sowinski's 12 rebounds matches her career high set at Yale earlier this year. This was just the second double double of her career.
Before Saturday's game, Sacred Heart seniors Amanda Pape and Jasmine Walker were presented with their plaques for garnering All-NEC honors by league commissioner Brenda Weare. The team was honored with a plaque as well for earning a share of the regular season title.


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If you had a partner Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Wife, Husband, etc. You get the picture, but anwyay someone that LOVED going to concerts, and thats all you did, as a couple, and dating together, would you be okay with that? Or would you end up saying "There's more to life than concerts" and suggest that you guys do other things, like go to the beach, mall, ice skating, go kart racing, mini golf, etc. But a good portion of the time, it would be the both of you going to concerts. What are your thoughts on this?
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I'd be saying there's more to life than concerts but yes a good portion of time would be going to concerts.
I have an ex (metalhead) that I had to drag to a FREE laibach concert (and no, they are not nacis), I find this story odd (so why not share it?)


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It is not just the economy. From the role of government to abortion, we bring you the key issues that divide Barack Obama from Mitt Romney – as America prepares to go to the polls.
Republicans want to repeal much of Barack Obama's affordable care act, his flagship accomplishment, which has extended healthcare provision to millions more Americans.
Mitt Romney says the state is overstepping its boundaries by mandating all citizens to purchase some kind of medical insurance or face a fine. He says he would overturn the law on day one, although he has now pledged to keep some of the most popular clauses.
Obama tried to pass a law called the DREAM act, allowing children of illegal immigrants a path to US citizenship, which was defeated by house Republicans. However, Obama managed to bypass the defeat, under a homeland security directive effectively granting the same rights.
Romney has called for much tougher border security and suggested that immigrants should be encouraged to "self-deport". He also lent his support for tough measures which Arizona tried to introduce to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Women's issues, specifically abortion, have been a hot political issue this election cycle, given the rise of social conservatives on the right. Things came to a head in the debate over Obama's healthcare reforms, and a move to force religious organisations to provide coverage for contraception. Obama was forced to drop the measure, amid the right wing backlash.
Conservatives, including Romney, also want to cut off funding to the women's health organisation Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion services. The Democrats have dubbed Republican attitudes on choice issues as part of a "war on women".
The choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate seems to signify a determination to slash the large proportion of federal spending on entitlements, principally social security and Medicare.
Democrats say the Republicans essentially want to privatise the system and turn it into vouchers: they say individuals would be encouraged to buy it on the private market instead.
However, Obama has failed to call a halt to payroll tax cuts that were designed to help fund future social security payouts – critics say this has left a $100bn shortfall.
This is by far and away the biggest election issue, from the $16tr deficit to the state of the banking and financial system. Rancour between the two parties over stimulus spending versus sweeping budget cuts have caused gridlock and political stalemate in congress, which has still failed to pass a budget for 2012.
Obama signed into law a $768bn package of stimulus spending and tax cuts, to help boost the economy. He wants to extend the Bush era tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 a year, but wants to increase the tax rate paid by the wealthiest.
Republicans want to prioritise slashing the deficit, mostly by sweeping cuts in federal and state spending, along with other tax cuts they say will prompt more private investment in the economy.
The widening gap between Democrats and Republicans is best illustrated by their differences over the role of government. Democrats see it as an essential safety net for those unable to help themselves, and believe strongly in regulation, building infrastructure, and helping to boost employment.
Obama's healthcare reforms have increased the state's role in providing healthcare, and he has also used federal funds to bail out the auto industry and to protect the economy from bank failures.
Romney wants to repeal the regulations on Wall Street and banks imposed in 2010, wants fewer federal employees, and lower taxes across the board. He has also said the government should not be involved with issues like same-sex marriage or abortion limits.
President Obama has ended US military operations in Iraq and is working towards a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2014. His major success came with the death of Osama bin Laden, although the violent uprisings in Libya and Syria continue to present further challenges.
Republicans have accused him of weakness abroad, of failing to lead the international response to Syria and Iran, and of kowtowing to economic pressure from China.
Many of Romney's foreign policy pledges are not substantially different, although he has said it is "unacceptable" for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon and has refused to rule out a military option.


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The former Sevilla coach claimed the north London side have to live up to their enormous history.
"Tottenham is a big club. On one side, the history of the club is enormous. But on the other, is the reality of the results," he said.
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Luke Fickell is a big deal now. His longtime friend Mike Vrabel can tell.
Luke Fickell is a big deal now. His longtime friend Mike Vrabel can tell.
For 12 years, the two have hosted the FUNdamentals Football Camp for kids in Hilliard, along with former Ohio State football teammate Ryan Miller. The event is a fundraiser for their Second and Seven foundation, which distributes books and promotes reading in public schools.
When Vrabel was part of three Super Bowl-winning teams at New England, the attendance at the three-day camp skyrocketed, testing its capacity of about 300 children.
But Vrabel said he's never seen anything like what he witnessed late yesterday morning during the final camp session at Weaver Middle School. It wasn't that the crowd of children was larger, but when Fickell stepped up to speak, there was silence.
"Today, they sat in front of the tent, and I didn't see grass flying up in the air, I didn't see guys turning around, I didn't see somebody smacking somebody next to them," Vrabel said. "So that tells me at least there is a presence there that they recognize, that he's the head coach at Ohio State."
Fickell had a similar experience three hours earlier Downtown when he made his first major public appearance as the successor to Jim Tressel, who resigned under pressure on May30 in the wake of an NCAA investigation. Fickell took part in the Greater Columbus Sports Commission's annual Morning Sports Report in the Hyatt Regency ballroom.
"Right now, you see all the support you've got, which is interesting and uplifting," Fickell said. "Instead of just hearing the negative things, you get to see the people who really do care."
Or perhaps, like those kids at his camp, the people were showing respect for the position. Blue Jackets star Rick Nash, the marquee attraction at the Hyatt event, suggested as much.
"He obviously is taking over the biggest job in college sports," Nash said.
Nash grew up in Canada, so, naturally, he used a hockey analogy.
"I just always think of Toronto Maple Leafs coaches growing up, and it's amazing when a switch happens how big a deal it is," Nash said. "Those guys live and die by the sword. Through the high times, they will be the highest, and through the lows, they'll get kicked around a bit.
"It's the only way I can relate it to Ohio State football, is that one second, you can be a hero, and the next, you can be a goat."
Greg Williams of Gahanna sees Fickell as a hero. He took his sons Reid, 12, and Drew, 10, to the breakfast, the highlight coming when they got an autograph from Fickell just before it started.
"I think he is very polished, and I think he is going to do a great job," Williams said. "I think he is the right guy for the job, and I wish him very well."
But as yesterday morning's schedule showed, Fickell's life has grown more complicated in less than a month. There will be demands from the public that he never faced as linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator.
"When thrust into those situations in the past, though, I never hesitated," Fickell said. "It's like recruiting. It's always been enjoyable to me because it's socialization, getting to know people and making sure they get to know who you are.
"The guys in my profession who maybe don't enjoy that kind of move on to the NFL. If you're in college football, that's a big part of the job, and it's a part I enjoy."
Another part he'll have to get used to, however, is turning down some requests. Along with being head coach at a program that has gone through a tumultuous time, Fickell and his wife, Amy, have four children younger than 10.
"One of the things I am starting to realize is you've got to be able to say no on occasion, you've got to make sure you don't lose focus on what's important, and my family is as important every bit as much as any of it," Fickell said.
With that in mind, he was sort of at home when he arrived at Weaver yesterday. His oldest son, Landon, was out there in one of the many speedball games with other campers. His daughter, Luca, was playing with her cousins, and twin boys Aydon and Ashton were tumbling around on the side with other children.
Yet Fickell, like Vrabel and Miller, kept his eyes on the action as their volunteer coaches - including OSU players John Simon, Zach Boren, Corey Brown and Etienne Sabino - put the campers through their paces.
"It really reminds you of why you coach," Fickell said. "Sometimes, we might forget that, when you deal with 19-, 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds, the level at which we're at and the standards by which we're evaluated.
"All of a sudden, you come back out here and remind yourself there is a humanistic side to this; it's about helping kids see the value in working together, and about helping them become better people, not just better football players."


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I was so busy having my own house painted last year, I completely missed these barns and shed getting a new look. The last time I saw them the little on on the right was white and the two bigger barns were brown. The property has changed hands and the new owners are making it their own.
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