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LEWISBURG, Pa. — A Bucknell University student group has received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis.
The "Light the Way" project will provide solar-powered lamps to students in rural Ninglang County in China, listed as one of the poorest counties in the country. The sophomore students involved in the project are Sean Xu, a political science and economics major; Yili Jiang, a computer science and engineering major; Melissa Dunne, education and history; and Maxy Xiao, international relations.
"The main goal of the lamp distribution program is to improve students' study conditions," said Xu. "Many elementary schools in Ninglang County have no electricity so students can study only until the sun sets, and must go outside on cloudy or rainy days, a practice which can cause myopia."
Ninglang County is located in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province at a relatively high altitude, making solar energy abundant. The solar-powered lamps can be purchased online in China for $11 each; the rechargeable batteries can store electricity for nearly eight hours.
"The project aims to help around 520 students," said Xu, who traveled to China last summer with Jiang to meet with elementary school principals to discuss the project, which will begin this summer during a 20-day trip. || Related Bucknell news story: Xu and Xiao created Bucknell's first-ever service-learning trip to China
During the program, the group will visit schools, distribute the lamps and teach students to create artwork illustrating how the lamps have inspired their education. This artwork will be displayed online and sold to sustain next year's program.
This is the seventh year Bucknell has participated in the Projects for Peace program. As a Davis United World College Scholars Program partner school, Bucknell is invited to nominate student projects for the program.
Bucknell students have worked on providing clean drinking water in South America; establishing a sewing co-op in Guatemala; designing a water pumping station in Nicaragua; making a documentary about the plight of banana workers in Nicaragua; establishing a bicycle co-op for two villages in northern Uganda, a project that has become Bicycles Against Poverty. Dick Muyambi '12, cofounder of Bicycles Against Poverty, was a speaker at Clinton Global Initiative University in April 2013.
Last year, two groups received funding to raise awareness of social problems in Puerto Rico and a government-funded healthcare program in Sierra Leone. The Bucknell groups received an additional $10,000 grant last year in honor of the late Reverend James Richard Leo, a 1956 Bucknell graduate.
The Projects for Peace program honors philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who launched the initiative on her 100th birthday in 2007. Each of the 100 projects selected are designed to encourage and support motivated youth to create and implement their ideas for building peace throughout the world in the 21st century.
"I want to use my birthday to once again help young people launch some initiatives that will bring new energy and ideas to the prospects of peace in the world," said Davis. "My many years have taught me that there will always be conflict. It's part of human nature. But love, kindness and support are also part of human nature, and my challenge to these young people is to bring about a mindset of preparing for peace instead of preparing for war."
A complete list of the participating schools and projects, as well as a summary of all previous projects and a video interview with Davis from 2006, is available on the program's website.
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We work with the high school team to put together a strong instructional curriculum that will serve as the basis for each practice. The curriculum will be based on a program the United States Field Hockey Association recommends for younger players. The high school players are very excited about the opportunity to instruct your child and are developing additional fun activities to make this a memorable experience for all involved.
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Each registered paid player will receive a t-shirt that will serve as their game jersey. Each team member will have the same color shirt. Be sure to fill out your daughter's t-shirt size when you register her on the website. This way the shirts will be ready for the first night of practice.
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We will be practicing and playing on the Middle School field hockey field.
The entire program will offer three levels of training for the upcoming season.
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Note: Girls entering 7th grade for the 2015-2016 school year can try out for the Northwestern Lehigh Middle School Field Hockey Team.
The following information is designed to make sure that your child is ready for the upcoming field hockey season. NYAA field hockey will provide most of the items your child will need for the upcoming season. The remaining items you will either need to purchase or borrow from someone.
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You are under no obligation to purchase anything from Sticks 'n Flicks, however it is an outstanding store for all of your field hockey needs. Your child will receive proper attention when it comes to outfitting her properly.
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5014 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38117
Permit Cost: $3.1 million
Project Cost: TBA
Permit Date: Applied April 2013
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Owner: Whole Foods Market Inc.
5014 Poplar Ave. • Memphis, TN 38117
Tenant: Whole Foods Market
Architect: GreenbergFarrow
Contractor: Smith Doyle Contractors Inc.
Details: Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market Inc. has filed a $3.1 million building permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement to renovate its lone local store on Poplar Avenue in East Memphis.
The company announced plans last year to close its 25,000-square-foot store at 5022 Poplar and move into the adjacent space at 5014 Poplar, formerly home to Office Depot before that store moved down the street.
Whole Foods' new store will be roughly 40,000 square feet, with construction set to begin this year.
Smith Doyle Contractors Inc. is listed as the project's general contractor and GreenbergFarrow is listed as the architect.
Built in 1963, the building that houses Whole Foods sits on 6.1 acres along the north side of Poplar Avenue between Mendenhall and White Station roads. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $5.3 million.
The building's ownership is composed of Pearlco LP and B.W. and L.S. Cannon.
3049 Davies Plantation Road
Lakeland, TN 38002
Sale Amount: $1.5 million
Sale Date: April 23, 2013
Buyer: Golf Nation LLC
Seller: SPE GO Holdings Inc.
Loan Amount: $1.2 million
Loan Date: April 29, 2013
Maturity Date: N/A
Borrower: Golf Nation LLC
Lender: Bank of Bartlett
Details: The Stonebridge Golf Club at 3049 Davies Plantation Road between U.S. 64 and Interstate 40 in Lakeland has sold for $1.5 million.
Golf Nation LLC, whose members are listed as Mark Lovell and Robert Mears, bought five parcels that compose the sprawling golf course in an April 23 special warranty deed from SPE GO Holdings Inc. of Vienna, Va.
The first and main parcel of the course, listed as 3049 Davies Plantation Road, contains 98 acres, course holes and also Stonebridge's clubhouse, an 18,928-square-foot facility built in 1975. That parcel has a 2013 appraised value of $893,400, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property.
The remaining parcels, which contain only course holes and are zoned residential, are dotted among neighboring homes.
The 9570 El Hill Road parcel is 20.3 acres with an appraised value of $136,800. The 9579 El Hill Road parcel is 7.1 acres with an appraised value of $53,000. The 3130 Davies Plantation Road parcel is 30.2 acres with an appraised value of $204,300. And the 9221 Fletcher Trace Parkway parcel is 23.6 acres with an appraised value of $171,200.
In conjunction with the purchase, Golf Nation filed a $1.2 million deed of trust through Bank of Bartlett. Lovell and Mears signed the trust deed as members of Golf Nation.
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Germantown, TN 38138
Loan Amount: $8.3 million
Maturity Date: Aug. 1, 2050
Borrower: The Gardens of Germantown LLC
Lender: Walker & Dunlop LLC
Details: The owner of Gardens of Germantown assisted living community at 3179 Professional Plaza Drive in Germantown has filed an $8.3 million loan on the property.
The Gardens of Germantown LLC filed the deed of trust on the 31,065-square-foot facility April 29 through Walker & Dunlop LLC, an affiliate of the Bethesda, Md.-based commercial real estate finance company Walker & Dunlop Inc.
Michael G. Alexander signed the trust deed as president of The Gardens of Germantown, which is affiliated with Alexander's namesake company, Gardens developer Alexander Enterprises.
Built in 2011, the nursing home sits on 2.3 acres on the west side of Professional Plaza Drive, between Poplar Avenue and Old Poplar Pike.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal of the property is $3.5 million.
2192 Central Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
Loan Amount: $2.4 million
Loan Date: May 1, 2013
Maturity Date: June 5, 2039
Borrower: Midtown Animal Land LLC
Lender: Live Oak Banking Co.
Details: Central Animal Hospital at 2192 Central Ave. in Midtown has filed a $2.4 million loan on its property.
Operating as Midtown Animal Land LLC, the full-service veterinary clinic filed the deed of trust May 1 through Live Oak Banking Co.
Jennifer H. Karnes and Stephen B. Karnes signed the trust deed as members of Midtown Animal Land, which acquired the property in a 2010 quitclaim deed from a related entity, Midtown Animal LLC, in an internal transfer. Prior to that, Midtown Animal bought the property in 2005 for $100,000.
Built in 1946, the 3,411-square-foot veterinary clinic sits on 0.3 acres along the north side of Central Avenue east of its intersection with South Cooper Street.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $167,200.
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John Daly at the British Open, July 15, 2010. (Getty Images)
If clothes make the man, what the heck is John Daly supposed to be?
For years, golfers dressed like a breed apart: white shoes, white belt, pants featuring the mashie family tartan.
But Mr. Daly, he dresses like the last of an endangered species.
At the opening round of the British Open on Thursday, it was pastels — pretty much what you expect as you look at the TV and long for the days of black and white — but those trousers.
While Daly is distracting the world with his acid trip, day-glo wardrobe, the U.S. golfer is sneaking up on tournament favorites.
Coming out of nowhere with a six-under par 66 score in the first round, Daly has become a contender for the win behind current leader Rory McIlroy.
Daly's golf game is on the rise at the Open, and he has been greeted by adoring fans with signs that read "Daly for President." All good things for the underdog American golfer.
Daly with Harrington, Woods, Roberto De Vicenzo and Tom Watson at the British Open. (Getty Images)
His style, however, is hard to swallow.
On Wednesday, past winners of the tournament gathered for a drip and grin.
Daly, who won in 1995, stood out like a sore thumb in a tragedy of a sports coat next to the dapper suits worn by the likes of Padraig Harrington, Tiger Woods and Bill Rogers.
Think his style is unique, rather than an eye-sore? You can dress for success just like Daly through his clothing line, Loudmouth Golf.
Available through online order on his website, Loudmouth Golf features an electric combination of shirts, pants and ties. Show up to the tee box wearing these, and you might just get kicked out of the country club.
Oddly enough, also available at the merchandise store on Daly's website is his CD. Yes, Daly has released an album, "I Only Know One Way," featuring the single of the same name, co-written by Daly and Darius Rucker.
And yes, that would be Hootie.
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* Extract :
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SpotCommander is an open source web-based remote control for the GNU/Linux version of Spotify. The application is written in PHP and HTML5, and thus optimized especially for mobile devices, like smartphones or tablets. It has a visual appealing, responsive and intuitive user interface.
The application offers amongst others the following features:
- Launch and quit Spotify
- Now playing
- Control playback
- Change Spotify's volume
- Toggle shuffle and repeat
- Browse playlists, albums and starred items
- Search for tracks
- Recently played
- Queue
- Gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
Install Apache web server
- To be able to use SpotCommander, it is neccessary to have an Apache web server installed on the device, which should be controlled remotely later. Apache and PHP can be installed this way:
$ pacman -S apache php php-apache
See the LAMP article for more detailed information about Apache.
Configuration of Apache
- Configure Apache. In
AddType text/cache-manifest .appcache <Directory "/srv/http/spotcommander"> AllowOverride All ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds" </Directory>
- To be able to run the application, the sqlite extension of PHP is required. First, install the package:
$ pacman -S php-sqlite
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extension=curl.so ... extension=openssl.so ... extension=pdo_sqlite.so ... extension=sqlite3.so
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To make this change take effect, a reboot is needed.
Other required packages
- In addition the following packages need to be installed:
$ pacman -S qt4 inotify-tools xautomation wmctrl
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- Go into the web server root directory:
$ cd /srv/http/
- Download the tar.bz2 file:
$ wget -N http://www.olejon.net/code/spotcommander/files/spotcommander-8.6.tar.bz2
- Extract and remove it:
$ tar -jxvf spotcommander-8.6.tar.bz2 && rm spotcommander-8.6.tar.bz2
- Go into the spotcommander folder:
$ cd spotcommander
- Set the correct file permissions:
$ chmod 755 . && chmod 755 bin/* && chmod 777 cache/* && chmod -R 777 db/ && chmod 666 run/*
- Create a symlink, to be able to execute the SpotCommander daemon easily:
$ ln -fs $(pwd)/bin/spotcommander /usr/local/bin/spotcommander
- Start the daemon. Run this command in a desktop terminal as the desktop user running Spotify:
$ spotcommander start
- If you have followed the instructions carefully, you should be able to open SpotCommander under http://localhost/spotcommander now.
Add daemon to startup (optional)
Create the file
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It is not necessary to configure anything, but in the config.php file there are some options you can change.
After you have set up the server successfully, every device in your local network should be able to access SpotCommander under the ip adress of the server. For example, if the server would have the ip 192.168.0.24:
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Is the NFC East Still the Toughest Division in Football?
Heading into every NFL season we hear about how tough it will be to win the NFC East, but is it really a marquee division these days?
When you hear "NFC East" you think about some of the great rivalries in football (Giants-Eagles, Redskins-Cowboys). The division has more Super Bowl victories (12) than anyone, and more NFC Championships (20), making it the most successful division since the 1970 merger.
Right now, though, three of the four teams have losing records—and little playoff hope.
Lately—with the exception of the New York Giants (6-4 this year, and winners of last year's Super Bowl)—the NFC East hasn't done a whole lot. The Dallas Cowboys (4-5) haven't won the division since 2009 and haven't even made the playoffs since then. The Cowboys last Super Bowl came in 1995.
The Philadelphia Eagles (3-6) showed some real promise even up to a couple years ago, but the last two seasons have been very disappointing. And, as no Eagles fan needs reminding, they've never won a Super Bowl. Andy Reid, the longest-tenured coach in the NFL, may even get the boot soon.
The Washington Redskins (3-6) have been pretty much irrelevant for some time now, but at least RG3 is providing their fans with some excitement.


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Including their flagship Endurance line, Vulcan ranges and hot plates offer solutions for both heavy- and medium-duty requirements. Electric and gas ranges are available in all popular sizes from 24- up to 70-inch widths, with many combinations of griddles and burners available to suit your kitchen's specific needs. In addition to the top configuration, you have the choice between standard and convection ovens. All standard ovens feature a baker's depth, which allows sheet pans to be inserted front-to-back or side-to-side to enable serious baking.


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His website invites you to purchase other jams, such as "Crazy Powder" and "Take Me Higher." I invite you to visit his website and look at all the pictures of Rony with tweaked-out-of-their-faces revelers. [RonySeikaly.com]


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Chris Pollard became the Duke Blue Devils' 25th head baseball coach in June of 2012, taking over the reins of the program after successful stints at Pfeiffer University and Appalachian State University.
Pollard led Duke to an at-large bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, ending the program's drought of 55 years without making the postseason event. After beginning the season 10-13 (1-7 ACC), the Blue Devils went 23-9 over their final 32 regular season games, including a 13-8 ACC record. During that span, Duke went 9-7 against Top 20 RPI teams, collected series victories over Georgia Tech, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Florida State and Pitt, and posted a perfect 10-0 mark in non-conference play.
With 30 wins this past season, Duke reached the 30-win mark for the fourth straight year, marking the program's first stretch of four-straight 30-win seasons since the Blue Devils compiled a run of seven consecutive 30-win seasons from 1992-98.
Pollard registered his 500th career win May 1, 2016 at NC State. In addition, he became the fastest Duke head coach to reach 100 wins with the Blue Devils, recording his 100th victory at Duke March 15, 2016 against UMES. He is the only Blue Devil head coach to guide the team to three 30-win seasons in his first four campaigns.
During Pollard's tenure, 13 Blue Devils have been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft, including five in 2015 in junior RHP Michael Matuella (3rd Round | No. 78 Overall | Texas Rangers), senior RHP Sarkis Ohanian (9th Round | No. 265 Overall | Cincinnati Reds), junior RHP Kenny Koplove (17th Round | No. 504 Overall | Philadelphia Phillies), senior RHP Andrew Istler (23rd Round | No. 702 | Los Angeles Dodgers) and redshirt sophomore James Marvel (36th Round | No. 1,087 Overall | Pittsburgh Pirates). Duke's five current players selected was the team's highest total since seven Blue Devils were taken in the 2009 MLB Draft, while Matuella and Ohanian became the first Duke teammates picked in the first 10 rounds of the draft since 2002.
In just his second season in Durham, Pollard led the 2014 Blue Devils to the ACC Tournament for the first time since 2009 as Duke finished fourth overall in the league standings. Duke's 16 ACC wins in 2014 tied the program record while the Blue Devils finished in the top four in the conference standings for the first time since 1994. The Blue Devils cemented their status as one of the top teams in the North Carolina, finishing the season 8-1 against in-state ACC rivals North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest.
Duke finished the 2014 season with 33 wins, surpassing the 30-win plateau for the first time since 2009 and 11th time in program history. In addition, the Blue Devils entered the national rankings, earning the No. 30 spot in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper national poll May 6. The 2014 Blue Devils earned a spot in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's rankings for the first time since the organization began its poll in 1998.
Under Pollard's guidance, three Blue Devils heard their names called during the 2014 MLB Draft and three Duke players garnered All-ACC accolades, the most since 2009.
Pollard began the task of revitalizing the program and his effect was felt immediately as the 2013 Blue Devils eclipsed their win total from the previous season, securing 26 victories for their first-year head coach. Duke's 26 victories during Pollard's inaugural campaign marked the most by a Blue Devil head coach in his first season in school history.
Duke began the ACC slate by taking two-of-three from No. 24 Miami, marking the team's first series victory over a ranked opponent since 2010. The Blue Devils would go on to shut out one of the nation's top offenses in No. 15 Georgia Tech twice in a three-game series at Jack Coombs Field, becoming the first team to blank the Yellow Jackets twice in the same series since Georgia accomplished the feat in 1955.
Pollard's first season at Duke culminated with All-ACC honors for junior third baseman Jordan Betts and sophomore second baseman Andy Perez. The duo became the first Duke position players to earn all-conference honors since Nate Freiman and Jeremy Gould appeared on the second team in 2009. In addition, Betts was the first Blue Devil third baseman named all-league since Jeff Becker in 1999, while Perez was the first Duke second baseman tabbed All-ACC since Quinton McCracken in 1992.
At Appalachian State (2005-12): Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Duke, Pollard successfully transformed an Appalachian State program saddled with back-to-back 10-win seasons into a team on the verge of the College World Series.
Pollard garnered 2012 Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors after leading Appalachian State to its most accomplished season in the program's 109-year history as the Mountaineers set a school record for victories with a 41-18 overall record in addition to winning the Southern Conference championship with a 21-9 league mark. Appalachian State earned a berth to the 2012 NCAA Championship and advanced to the championship round of the Charlottesville Regional with victories over national powers Virginia and Oklahoma.
In addition, the 2012 Mountaineers won their first conference championship since 1987, advanced to NCAA postseason play for the first time since 1986 and won their first NCAA Tournament game since 1973. Appalachian State also claimed four wins over nationally-ranked opponents and spent six weeks in the national rankings. Prior to the record-breaking 2012 campaign, the Mountaineers boasted just one win over a nationally-ranked team since 1982 and one appearance in a major college baseball poll.
Pollard took the helm of the Mountaineer program in 2004 and guided ASU to 24 wins, four more than the previous two seasons combined, in his second season with the program. Six consecutive 30-win seasons would follow as the Mountaineers won at least one Southern Conference Tournament game every season and finished among the top 50 teams in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) rankings twice during that span.
Pollard's tenure at Appalachian State was punctuated by his ability to recruit top-notch talent. After Appalachian State went without a Major League Baseball draftee for a dozen years, three members of Pollard's initial ASU recruiting class were selected in the first 12 rounds of the 2008 MLB Draft. In total, Appalachian State produced 13 MLB draftees under Pollard's watch, including a school-record four in both 2008 and 2012.
At Pfeiffer University (2000-04): Prior to his arrival at Appalachian, Pollard served as the head coach at Pfeiffer University from 2000-04. In his final year at Pfeiffer, he coached the Falcons to the winningest season in school history, a 41-14 campaign that culminated with Pfeiffer's second straight Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference regular season championship and a berth in the 2004 NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional. In addition, Pfeiffer reached as high as No. 2 in the South Atlantic Regional rankings and No. 9 in the national polls according to Collegiate Baseball newspaper. Pollard was named the 2004 CVAC Coach of the Year both by the league's coaches and the American Baseball Coaches Association for his efforts.
The 2004 Falcons' baseball team was inducted into the Pfeiffer Sports Hall of Fame Sept. 23, 2017.
Similar to his time at Appalachian State, Pollard took over a Pfeiffer squad which had suffered three losing seasons in the four years prior to his arrival and began a rebuilding project that led to the Falcons' record improving in each of his five seasons as head coach. In addition, he also served as Pfeiffer's director of athletics for the 2003-04 year, overseeing the daily supervision of the school's 16 varsity sports, including NCAA compliance, budget and salary management, public relations, fundraising and facility oversight.
At Davidson: Before his stint at Pfeiffer, Pollard served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Davidson College. His primary responsibilities for the Wildcat staff included serving as the team's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.
Pollard also gained coaching experience in the NCAA-certified Coastal Plain Summer League as the head coach of the Durham Braves in 1998 and pitching coach with the Rocky Mount Rock Fish in 1997.
As a player at Davidson from 1993-96, Pollard became just the third pitcher in program history to win 20 games for a career. He ranks among the top 10 in Davidson history with 20 wins (3rd), 168 strikeouts (8th), 59 appearances (t-7th), 309 innings pitched (4th), 39 starts (6th) 18 complete games (t-7th) and two shutouts (t-3rd). As a sophomore, Pollard defeated both No. 1 Georgia Tech and No. 25 Western Carolina before tying an NCAA record by earning victories in both ends of a doubleheader versus Georgia Southern as a junior.
Personal: Pollard graduated from Davidson in 1996, earning a B.A. in psychology with a concentration in child and adolescent development. He played professionally in both the Western League and the Northern League before returning to Davidson to begin his coaching career.
Pollard also received a Master's degree in physical education/health education from Mississippi State in 2004.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Keith McDougald scored 19 points and hit the game-winning layup with 20 seconds left to propel Jacksonville over Stetson 71-70 Thursday night.
Kordario Fleming added 16 points and Jarvis Haywood 11 for Jacksonville (12-11, 7-3), which moved into a three-way tie with Florida Gulf Coast and USC Upstate for first place in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
There were 14 lead changes and eight ties before Fleming converted a three-point play to give Jacksonville a 69-68 advantage with 54 seconds remaining. Stetson regained the lead on Chris Perez's basket 8 seconds later but McDougald's layup sealed it as the Hatters missed two jumpers on their final possession.
Jacksonville outshot Stetson 48.6 percent (17 of 35) to 43.8 percent (14 of 32) in the second half and forced the Hatters to miss all eight 3-point attempts in the frame.
Perez paced Stetson (9-12, 6-4) with 32 points and seven rebounds.


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Replay/Format details
The following is a detailed analysis of replay files as used in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Due to similar programming, this article may be partially applicable to replay files for Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
- 1 Description
- 1.1 Data blocks
- 1.1.1 Block 0: End of file
- 1.1.2 Block 1: Vehicle1
- 1.1.3 Block 2: Vehicle2
- 1.1.4 Block 3: Player data
- 1.1.5 Block 4: Ped
- 1.1.6 Block 5: Camera
- 1.1.7 Block 6: Day time
- 1.1.8 Block 7: Weather
- 1.1.9 Block 8: End of scene
- 1.1.10 Block 9: Scene timing
- 1.1.11 Block 10: Unknown
- 1.1.12 Block 11: Unknown
- 1.1.13 Block 12: Unknown
- 1.1.14 Block 13: Unknown
- 1.1.15 Block 14: Unknown
- 1.1.16 Block 15: Unknown vehicle
- 1.1.17 Block 16: Unknown vehicle
- 1.1.18 Block 17: Unknown vehicle
- 1.1.19 Block 18: Unknown
- 1.1.20 Block 19: Clothes
- 1.1 Data blocks
- 2 Tools
Replays are the sequence of the scenes and actions recorded and stored in the
replay.rep file. In GTA San Andreas, this file is located in the User Files directory.
Each .rep file consists of a header string and variable amount of 'scenes' (or 'frames'). A scene is a copy of important game information at given moment of time (actors, vehicles positions, weather, clothes, etc). Following one after another, the scenes create an illusion of a movie when played. The most of scenes contains a same set of blocks and ends with Block 8.
The .rep file itself consist of a header string which is simply the text GtaSA29 and up to 8 parts, size of each one is 100,000 bytes, depending on the replay length. So, the maximum size of a replay file is 800,008 bytes (including 8 bytes of the header string). If the replay length is that it does not match 100,000 bytes boundary being less, the rest of the file is filled with useless data (commonly the previous replay data).
Data blocks
Each block consists of a byte denoting its type and some data as described below. A number in a block name is the data type stored in the first byte of the block. Reading this byte, the game detects what block follows.
Block 0: End of file
This block denotes the end of replay data. It consists only of a data type. After this block the game stops reading the replay file.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 byte data type (0x00) 0x01 (end)
Block 1: Vehicle1
size 52 bytes
Block 2: Vehicle2
size 56 bytes
Block 3: Player data
Common information about player ped.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 byte data type (0x03) 0x01 byte index (handle?) 0x02 WORD modelID 0x04 byte ped type 0x05 byte[3] (align) 0x08 (end)
Block 4: Ped
size 52 bytes
Block 5: Camera
size 88 bytes
Block 6: Day time
This block contains information about current day time during a scene.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 byte data type (0x06) 0x01 byte currentHour 0x02 byte currentMinute 0x03 byte (align) 0x04 end
Block 7: Weather
size 8 bytes
Block 8: End of scene
This block denotes the end of the current scene (frame). It consists only of a data type.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 byte data type (0x00) 0x01 (end)
Block 9: Scene timing
This block contains value of the global game timer. The replay play length could be found by using this block.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 byte data type (0x09) 0x01 byte[3] (align) 0x04 DWORD timer 0x08 (end)
Block 10: Unknown
size 28 bytes
Block 11: Unknown
size 20 bytes
Block 12: Unknown
size 16 bytes
Block 13: Unknown
size 4 bytes; same as Block 8?
Block 14: Unknown
size 4 bytes; same as Block 8?
Block 15: Unknown vehicle
size 56 bytes; same as Block 2?
Block 16: Unknown vehicle
size 56 bytes; same as Block 2?
Block 17: Unknown vehicle
size 60 bytes
Block 18: Unknown
size 76 bytes
Block 19: Clothes
This block contains information on the current clothes of the player. The block structure is identical to the one in the Player structure in a save file.
OFFSET TYPE DESCRIPTION 0x00 DWORD[10] modelCRCs 0x28 DWORD[18] textureCRCs 0x70 WORD Fat 0x72 WORD Muscle;
There is a template for 010 Editor, made by Seemann. It allows to edit different replay data: http://sannybuilder.com/dev/Replay.rar


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Study Looks at College's Impact on Reservation
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) - Representatives from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology are participating in a U.S. Department of Education research study that examines the university's impact on the Red Cloud School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Two Mines' Youth Programs representatives are traveling to Pine Ridge on Wednesday to be interviewed by the Department of Education about the impact of its summer camps on reservation youth. Information provided by the School of Mines will be used in the study and also in a national guide.
The two Mines' representatives will also make a presentation about the School of Mines to high school students.
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Although everyone is fussing over your new baby, you need special care during the first six weeks postpartum, too. Here's advice from Paul Gluck, M.D., an obstetrician- gynecologist and chairman of the Baptist/South Miami Hospital Foundation in Miami, on how to care for yourself after delivery.
Episiotomy During the first week or so, spritz the area with warm water mixed with a diluted iodine solution (no more than 50 percent iodine) in a squirt bottle whenever you use the toilet. Or sit in a warm Epsom salt bath several times a day. Use toilet paper gingerly — wipe from front to back to avoid fecal contamination. If constipation or bowel movements cause pain, ask your obstetrician about using an over-the-counter stool softener.
Lochia For three to four weeks after delivery — either vaginal or Cesarean — you'll experience a discharge called lochia. It starts out bloody but turns yellowish in about two weeks. Use pads rather than tampons; the latter can irritate the area and increase your risk of infection. And although you might be tempted to douche, don't — douching can introduce bacteria and lead to infection.
Bleeding If you notice a significant increase in vaginal bleeding or if it's more profuse than a heavy period, you may be doing too much too soon. When bleeding increases, Gluck says, "The first thing I tell a patient is to get off her feet and rest." Keep in mind, however, that your bleeding may increase slightly after breastfeeding, which releases hormones that cause the uterus to contract. Rest will often help here, too.
Cesarean section incision Avoid strenuous activity for a month. "I recommend that the mother lift nothing heavier than her baby during that time," Gluck says. Slow walks are fine if you feel comfortable (see "How Soon Can I ... ?"), but avoid driving or running errands for two weeks. As your incision heals, it may itch or feel numb. This is normal.
Breasts Wash your breasts and nipples with a mild soap. If your nipples crack or bleed, see your doctor or a lactation consultant. Don't use any creams or lotions not recommended by a health professional. Painful breasts can be caused by infections or clogged milk ducts; see your doctor if you have pain or fever.
Nutritional needs Finding time for healthful cooking can be difficult when you have a newborn, but eating well is crucial, especially if you're breastfeeding. Elizabeth M. Ward, R.D., author of Pregnancy Nutrition: Good Health for You and Your Baby (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998), recommends filling your kitchen with healthful food that's easy to grab and requires little preparation: low-fat yogurt and cheese slices, pre-cut fresh fruits and vegetables, salads, peanut butter, hard-boiled eggs, water-packed tuna, single-serving bottles of vegetable and fruit juice, and whole-grain breads, cereals and rolls.
Relationships For many couples, the stresses and demands of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for a newborn can strain a relationship. You and your husband may be too tired for sex. Set aside time for each other at least once a week to go on a date, even if it takes place at the dining room table while the baby sleeps. Hugs, kisses and other expressions of affection are never off limits, but intercourse is verboten for four to six weeks because it takes about that long for the cervix to close fully and block contaminants that could cause infection. Ask your doctor about this before you leave the hospital.


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On the rocky ironshore just south of George Town, the Sunset House offers moderately priced accommodations with a relaxed, low-key atmosphere.
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The hotel staff was very efficient and quick to tell us our room was ready. We arrived several hours before check-in and were concerned we would have to wait-we were glad we didn't have to wait. The front desk staff were extremely friendly, giving us a quick run-down of the resort and directed us to our room.
Comfortable. The room was clean, air conditioned, and had all the basic amenities. The rooms do not have a hair dryer, but we were told you could ask the front desk for one. Also, there is not an iron-the resort is a dive resort and really, you don't need one. We had ordered a refridgerator ahead of time to have sodas, water, etc available and it worked well. I had read on-line that the "towels were small and scratchy", so we brought our own-not needed, the towels were fine. Also, for being in the Caribbean, we did not see any bugs in the room, which was a nice surprise.
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"My Bar"-what a great menu. It has all of the usual (grouper sandwiches, burgers, fries, salads) and then the suprise was the Indian food. The curries were outstanding. The Naan bread was homemade and definitely, the best I have ever had eaten. My husband had the blackened grouper sandwich three times during our stay, only because it was so good. The stir fry chicken was way too much food-we could have easily shared it. The made to order breakfast was good-bacon or sausage with eggs, Western omelet, fruit salad were a few items we ate during our stay. A hearty breakfast prior to diving. The alcoholic mixed drinks were strong (cheers!)and the beers cold.
There is no beach at Sunset House, but is very close to Smith's Cove. We walked to Smith's Cove in 10 minutes. Nice beach, great snorkelling, public restrooms were very basic with an outdoor shower. Sunset House is for divers and diving was fantastic. Easy access in/out of the water. There is a sea pool to practice in, which we used on Day 1. Otherwise, the reef is an easy dive. The grounds of the property were well kept and the rooster was a great way to be woken up to for early morning dives.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
As I mentioned, we were there to dive, so that's what we did. We did 2 tank boat dives for four days. The dive staff made the trip. They were very experienced, offered us several pointers, built up our confidence (we were new at the time), never went to the same dive site, pointed out different fish, and were simply the best. I would not recommend the resort for non-divers, but we met several people that did not dive, but enjoyed the pool and location of the resort. Georgetown is a 15 minute walk, so it was easy to meander into town for shopping and going to other restaraunts.
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Sunset House is a great place to go, if you are going to dive. It offers some of the best diving in the Caribbean with some of the friendliest/best dive staff. It is clearly not the Ritz, but is clean and well-kept for a 50 year old resort. We will not hesitate to return on a future dive trip.


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Friday, July 9, 2010
A Chapter Turns: Minnesota Wild Enforcer Derek Boogaard Signs with New York Rangers
It must be saying something when a guy who hasn't scored a goal in 4 years signs somewhere else as a free agent and it impacts that former team. Former Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard officially became a part of the New York Rangers last week when he signed a 4 year, $6.5 million deal. Derek Boogaard became a household name with Minnesota Wild fans, as he racked up 544 penalty minutes in 5 seasons with the team. His merchandise was usually a top 3 seller on the team and it's accurate to say he was obviously a fan favorite. Even though he only scored 2 goals and 12 assists in 255 games, his presence was felt with his rough play and ability to protect the finesse players. As a Minnesota Wild fan, we'll miss you "Boogey." For any Wild preseason or regular season tickets check out Ticket King.
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McDonalds Have Just Announced The Weirdest Menu Item EVER
McDonalds in Japan has taken their menu to the next level.
They are releasing pumpkin spice and chocolate fries next week, which basically proves nothing is off bounds.
2016年に1月に大人気だったマックチョコポテトが、進化して帰ってきます!!……なんと今回はハロウィンバージョン👻このヤバイ色、パンプキン&チョコソースです!#ハロウィンチョコポテト#9月28日から pic.twitter.com/OygxYXjvAT— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) September 21, 2016
They announced the new team on Twitter saying it's a variation of their beloved 'McChocolate Potatoes', or just chocolate-covered fries, that they brought to the menu in January.
We really don't know what to make of this but if someone wants to buy me some.. I am not complaining.
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"Mom, did you know that sea cucumbers come in herds of thousands?"
How I kept a straight face, I'll never know.
"Is that so?"
I was cool as a cucumber - of the vegetable variety - even though I was coming apart at the seams inside.
If it wasn't the most hilarious thing I'd ever heard, the visual I got was, by far, the most bizarre.
It makes sense, though, that a creature with the name of a vegetable
that was so ugly it would freeze Medusa, would need to travel in herds
for protection. I imagine all the other sea critters would tease them
Still... a herd? Of sea cucumbers? They couldn't possibly move fast enough to be considered a herd.
There were once huge herds of bison that covered the Midwest. They were dangerous when startled because they would stampede.
Does a sea cucumber become startled? Ever? And could a mass movement
of sea cucumbers be considered a stampede? After all, they don't rampage
as one unit in fear and anger as much as ooze languorously in one
Who knows what might motivate a slug-like vegetable/animal to herd or stampede?
I have dust bunnies that live on my ceiling fans all winter that are motivated by turning the fan on high.
Those dust bunnies don't arrive in a herd as much as a horde. They
fly down by the millions and wander around my carpet until they find a
nice place to light.
Dust bunnies may come down in a horde, but after their descent, they
are basically solitary creatures. One gobbles up another when they
wander into each other's territory.
One day, after many years, I might look behind my sofa, under a bed
or between my washer and dryer, and find dust bunnies that have lived
with us so long they have developed a personality.
My daughter had seven of them living behind her dresser that she
named Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy, Sleepy, Fuzzy, Sloppy and Spock. (She likes
Star Trek... and naming dirt.) Now she has only six because Grumpy ate
Once they have a personality, though, it's immoral to vacuum them up.
Much easier when they are just a speck. The question is: If I know they
will eventually be full-fledged dust bunnies someday, should I really
be vacuuming my specks?
I guess the answer would depend on whether you are a liberal or a
conservative. Or whether you're in the business of cleaning houses or
encouraging life in alien species.
Does PETA involve itself with dust bunny control or sea cucumber stampedes? I have some questions...
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Whole wheat bread with freshly milled Massachusetts wheat
I'm back with new tools. Ever since Andy (ananda) started posting about baking with local wheat, I've had it in the back of my mind. However, local in my case means New England, which isn't exactly known as the American bread basket. In fact I more or less assumed that Massachusetts wheat was an oxymoron. I did however, keep my eyes open, and found several farms in the area that grew wheat. The closest however, were not that close, and I had no mill, and, and, and... But time goes on and new opportunities arise. With my birthday coming up, my DH asked me what I wanted and I said a mixer. I picked out a fancy one and was ready to pull the trigger, when I realized that I simply didn't need such high capacity, and would do quite well with a much more modestly priced model. That meant that I had "saved" a lot of money, so my husband decided to throw in a mill. With a new mill coming, I needed wheat. In fact I needed Massachusetts grown wheat.
I called a friend and convinced her that she absolutely needed to drive west with me to see the leaves (and incidentally buy wheat.) She agreed that was absolutely necessary, so the other day we went west. That is 3/4 of the way across Massachusetts to the little town of Gill, where lies a farm called Upinngil, which sells its own wheat. I tried calling beforehand to see what they had available, but no dice - they didn't answer. When we got there, true they had 50 lb sacks of wheat in their store, but they were soft red winter wheat, and hard white winter wheat, neither of which were what I had in mind. One of the nice women there said that I should come back in two weeks. That was hardly possible, as my first trip out there had already strained the limits of practicality. Fortunately at that moment in walked Mr. Hatch, the farmer. Told of my plight, he said, no problem. I have some hard red winter wheat out at the cleaner (not the cleaners). I'll just drive over to the field and pick some up for you. Phew! So with a 50 pound sack of wheat in my trunk, mission accomplished. And yes, the leaves were lovely as well.
Yesterday the mill and the mixer (Bosch compact) arrived and needed to be put to use. So I got my starter going, and today started milling and baking. Not knowing my mill very well yet, I milled pretty coarse, and wanting to get to know the wheat, I decided to make all the flour in the final dough my fresh ground whole wheat. This meant over 75% coarsely ground whole wheat, which is not something that I'm all that familiar baking with, as I usually keep whole grains to 30% or below.
I have just cut and tasted, and who knew that Massachusetts wheat would be so good. Mr. Hatch said that he had been growing it as feed for 20 years, but only in the last 10 has he started selling it to bakers who are interested in local foods. He also told me that a CSA near me makes regular trips out to his farm for milk, cheese, etc. So it may be that in the future, I won't have to make the trek if I can meet up with them.
In any case, I think my whole wheat baking needs work, and I am excited to learn more.
The third new tool I used for this bake was a single edge razor for scoring, taking a tip from breadsong. I love the control it gives.
Of course that's not quite as exciting as the KoMo Fidibus 21 shown here resting after it's first milling.
Here's to local farms:
and local wheat:
I used my WFO today probably for the last time of the season. Now I need to wrap it up tight so it can get through Sandy unharmed.
And finally, I'll close with the a bit of Autumn splendor: first Tartarian Asters (over 7 feet tall)
and mums which can't really compete with the leaves this time of year:
Update: Just changed the title of this post from ...freshly ground... to ...freshly milled... It ain't coffee after all.


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On a recent Wednesday afternoon, dozens of volunteers worked to paint an 80-foot mural on the side of a former Memphis Area Transit Authority bus.
A Memphis Area Transit Authority bus has been transformed into a rolling deliverer of healthy foods for the city's neediest areas.
Students from Hollis Price Leadership Academy High School and other volunteers from the Memphis Grizzlies, St. Patrick's Church and the University of Memphis graduate program in City and Regional Planning painted a colorful wellness-inspired mural that combines Memphis' musical roots with fruits, vegetables and a message of healthy living.
The lime green bus, The Green Machine Mobile Food Market, will create access to healthy food for areas of Memphis that don't have ready access to traditional supermarkets. Just seven out of 77 low-income census tracks in and around Downtown Memphis have access to a full-service supermarket, said Kenneth Reardon, professor and director of the graduate program of City and Regional Planning.
The mobile food market will begin making stops at 15 city locations beginning May 6 to sell fresh, affordable produce supplied by Easy-Way Produce Stores. More than 80 percent of the products sold on the bus will be grown within a 200-mile radius of Memphis. One-third of the mobile market will feature health and wellness education and sample food preparation ideas such as how to make a Capri salad with tomato, mozzarella, basil and olive oil.
"One of the problems is that these neighborhoods have been without good food sources for so long that people have stopped preparing these items," Reardon said. "A lot of the younger parents have never prepared these foods."
But that doesn't mean people in the neighborhoods don't want access to healthy food. In July 2011, the city invited the Vance Avenue Collaborative and the U of M graduate program in City and Regional Planning to meet with residents to identify key neighborhood challenges.
"We were expecting people to talk about crime, lack of living wage jobs, and housing, but before they got to any of those things, the overwhelming sentiment – particularly with young women with children and older women – was complete access to decent food," Reardon said. "They asked us, can you help us get a grocery?"
While that remains a long-term goal, Reardon says the mobile food market will provide ready access to healthy foods until local stores decide to modify their offerings or retailers decide to open full-service grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods.
–Kenneth Reardon University of Memphis graduate program in City and Regional Planning
While the exterior of the bus is complete, volunteers and carpenters continue the process of retrofitting the interior of the former MATA bus to make it market ready. Antonio Raciti, a U of M visiting professor in city and regional planning, created the overall design and detailed construction plans for transforming the bus into a retail sales environment.
"The bus will be covered with shelves, and we will have a front desk with a counter and a scale," he said. "It's not an easy thing to transform a city bus."
Green Machine shoppers also can watch 1-minute health tips produced by Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and WMC-TV featuring Memphis news anchor Joe Birch. The video spots will feature tips for eating well with diabetes, arthritis, obesity and other common health ailments.
"One third of the bus is educational," Reardon said. "It's not enough for it to be there. People have to understand the connection between the food and the health status of themselves and their kids."
Raciti, who also helped spearhead the external mural, said he opted to get the community and nonprofit groups involved, rather than hiring a commercial company to design an external wrap for the bus. Students from Hollis Price Leadership Academy High School, who also helped paint the mural for the South Memphis Farmers Market, were excited to continue promoting healthy living, he said. Many local businesses also contributed to the effort.
"Working with our students on such an important project has been a transformative learning experience highlighting the critical role design can make in addressing human needs," he said.
With most of the design work complete, the bus is ready to begin rolling on May 6 – with just one last step. Reardon said they continue to seek commercially licensed bus drivers to operate the Green Machine Mobile Food Market.
The mobile food market will be operated by staff hired by Saint Patrick Community Outreach in cooperation with the Vance Avenue Collaborative and the U of M graduate program in City and Regional Planning. MATA is renting the bus to Saint Patrick Community Outreach for $1 a year.
Reardon and Raciti said they hope the bus also will demonstrate vibrant urban consumer markets to the private sector.
"This wouldn't be needed if the market hadn't completely failed for fresh foods in the inner city," Reardon said. "We'd happily work ourselves out of business."
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Some of the best memories of my time at Cisco are of the people. I was fortunate enough to be at Cisco at a time when the company was truly on fire and experiencing hyper-growth. The atmosphere was all "can do" and satisfied my key drivers – feed my intellectual curiosity (keep learning!), leave things better than I found them (contribution) and work with a team that just keeps hitting the ball out of the park.
One of the people who truly left an impression was Chuck Pease – Chuck was a sales professional in New York and had some of the largest accounts in NYC as his beat.
He was awesome! He was interested in deeply understanding the customer's needs and figuring out how to provide them with solutions that met their needs. This was at a time where customer understanding of network technology was still evolving and as a result, placed a lot of demands for rapid development of new product.
Chuck was a consummate salesman – not just externally to the customer but internally as well. He knew how to make his case, how to get people on his side and how to give credit and kudos to all the unseen players when we won business.
Working with Chuck and my marketing counterpart was one of my best experiences of synergy between sales, marketing and engineering – all focused on the customer and their need.
Chuck knew about the unseen players and deeply appreciated the role they played. So from time to time, he would Fedex a big shipment of New York's finest bagels and schmears to California – bagels for EVERYONE in Cisco California. You could tell when they arrived… you'd see all the people in the building eating bagels and telling their friends, "Hey, Chuck sent us some bagels!" His simple gesture spoke more than words could ever have done – folks knew that what they did was appreciated!
On one visit to California, Chuck came into my office with a CD – "Hey Stu, you gotta listen to this!"… The CD was Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti.
The track was "Boogie with Stu".
I'm listening to that track as I write this and I can see Chuck's grin as if he was here in my office today.
Sadly Chuck passed away suddenly last week at 53 years young.
Keep the Boogie going Chuck – we all miss you. The world lost a very Uncommon Man.


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Kat Dennings is having a moment -- it's just not the moment she might have predicted.
On Monday night -- just as her television show "2 Broke Girls" was airing on CBS -- the actress walked the red carpet to promote her new movie "Thor: The Dark World." A few hours later, it was announced that she and her sitcom costar Beth Behrs will host the upcoming People's Choice Awards, that big barometer of the American mainstream.
That Dennings, 27, has become a go-to girl in all kinds of broad entertainment is more than a little unexpected. Just five years ago she was viewed as an indie world reliable, one on a short list of Manic Pixie Dream Girls, as the old meme goes. After starring in, and receiving good reviews for, the low-budget romance "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" in 2008, Dennings seemed on the road to plenty more festival quirkfests.
But her career took a different turn. After a couple of forgettable parts, in the spring of 2011 Dennings landed on movie screens as Natalie Portman's scientist sidekick in the superhero blockbuster "Thor." A few months later she popped up on TV as the sassy Max on CBS' "2 Broke Girls," a populist hit on the most populist of networks, and a far cry from the Sundance shoegazers of her early 20s. She's been a mainstay of prime-time television ever since.
And starting Friday, she'll reprise her role as Darcy in the new "Thor" picture.
How has Dennings responded to this surprise turn in the road? By making some choices she never thought she'd have to make, for one thing.
"I can't do anything," she said referring to her restrictive sitcom schedule, which has her shooting for the better part of nine months. "It's always funny when [filmmakers] are like, 'Let's do something fun. We could figure something out!' But it's like, 'For when? With what time?'," Dennings added as she stood outside Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre on Monday before the premiere of the "Thor" sequel.
That A-list schedule will continue. If "The Dark World" is a hit at the box office -- and it almost certainly will be -- the actress will likely be locked into a third "Thor" film in the near future.
But she's still trying to carve out some space outside of commercial Hollywood.
"I did an indie film over my last summer break which was really fun, and it kind of felt like coming home," she said, an apparent reference to the supernaturally themed indie "Suburban Gothic," in which she plays a tough-minded small-town bartender. "On the Marvel films, we're all really close and good friends. But going to another big film where I didn't know anyone would feel a little bit daunting at this point."


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Annette Funicello Dies At 70 [VIDEO]
Utica native Annette Funicello has died.
The famed Mickey Mouse Club member and star of 1960s teen beach movies such as "Beach Party" and "Beach Blanket Bingo" had been hospitalized in Bakersfield, California due to complications from multiple sclerosis, which she battled for years.
Funicello was 70 years old.
She was born in Utica, New York on October 22, 1942 before moving to California when she was four years old.
Funicello was discovered at 12 years old by Walt Disney during a dance recital.
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Alex's Alleged Secret Deal With Bachelor Producers
Alex Nation is currently the favourite to win Richie's heart and take home the final rose but her standing in the top five may not all be down to chance (or romance).
New Idea are reporting that the mother-of-one made a deal before appearing on the show, guaranteeing her a place in the top five as she would have to be away from her son, Elijah for so long.
The deal means that regardless of if she found love, Alex would be one step closer to building a public profile and increase her chances at an acting career.
"She had told some friends that because she would be away from her son, she insisted the producers make it worth her while, and made a deal that she would make the final five," a source revealed to the publication.
"So even if she didn't win, it would help her profile and acting aspirations."
Close friends also said Alex's ex-boyfriend of 15 months and long time friend, Tom Barbour, was 'blindsided' when the 24-year-old ended their relationship before The Bachelor began filming.
The blonde beauty had gone as far as renovating her house so it was accessible to the 23-year-old during their relationship, who was left paraplegic after falling nine metres on a construction site.
"He'd fallen nine metres and severed his spinal cord, but we fell madly in love and I renovated my house so he could move in with me," Alex had admitted previously.
"[He was] probably the first person (I) ever loved," she continued, despite having been married before.
The final two episodes of The Bachelor are set to air on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Will Alex's persistence pay off? Only time will tell.


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WASHINGTON (Nov. 14, 2012) – The military's plans to expand its use of biofuels in planes, ships and other vehicles would generate at least about $10 billion in economic activity and create more than 14,000 jobs by 2020, according to a report commissioned by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).
Just as importantly, if the Department of Defense is able to expand its use of advanced biofuels like it has said it wants to do, it would jump-start the biofuel market, which in turn would speed adoption of biofuel by commercial airlines, vehicle fleets and other users, according to the report.
Led by the Navy and Air Force, the Department of Defense wants to reduce its dependence on oil by getting as much as 50 percent of its fuel from biofuels by 2020. DoD's top leaders have said reducing the military's use of oil is essential to national security, troop safety and avoiding fuel price spikes.
But under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that Congress is expected to take up in the next several weeks, the military – the nation's biggest user of oil and gasoline - would be prohibited from expanding its use of biofuels.
"The military often leads major economic transitions in our country – think about aviation, communications or the Internet," said Nicole Lederer, co-founder of E2, whose 800-plus members include business executives and investors who advocate for sound environmental policy that can lead to economic prosperity.
"Yet right now in Washington, some shortsighted lawmakers are poised to block a potentially major transformation of our national energy supply - and also hold back the significant economic growth and job gains that would come with it," she said.
Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn (US Navy-RET), president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), said:
"ACORE recognizes the important national security and energy security benefits of the U.S. military's increased use of biofuels. This report from E2 also highlights the tremendous economic potential of the defense biofuels program. It has already attracted private capital for technological innovation and commercial-scale biorefinery construction, thereby creating geographically-diverse jobs.
"Most importantly, this initiative accelerates America's move to a more diverse and secure energy portfolio" McGinn said.
Russ Teall, president and founder of biorefinery builder Biodico, which recently signed an agreement to provide advanced biofuels to the U.S. Navy, said:
"The military is the biggest driver of the biofuels industry right now. If Congress stops the military from doing what the military knows is best, Congress also could threaten the growth of the Made-in-America biofuels industry."
E2 commissioned High Road Strategies, an industrial, economic and energy consulting firm, to conduct the study, which is based on biofuels goals previously announced by DoD. According to the report:
For the complete report and for more information about E2's work on military issues, please see www.e2.org
- Executive Summary can be found here: http://www.e2.org/ext/doc/E2MilitaryBiofuelSynopsis.pdf
- Full Report can be found here: http://www.e2.org/ext/doc/HRS-E2MiltaryBiofuelsReporNov2012.pdf
- Press Call recording can be found here: https://www.box.com/s/hyzlkrlpy8a7shx8q1ev


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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge ruled on Wednesday that the state's execution procedures were unconstitutional because they do not allow inmates proper access to the courts when it comes to the drugs used in lethal injections.
County district court judge Patricia Parrish ruled that the state violated due process protections in the U.S. Constitution by not providing the name of the drug supplier, the combination of chemicals and the dosages used in implementing the death penalty.
The judgment comes as more states have trouble obtaining the lethal chemicals used in executions because of restrictions placed on their sale by drugmakers. It also strengthens the arguments made by lawyers that untested chemicals may could cause undo suffering.
The Oklahoma case was brought by lawyers for two inmates, Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, who were due to be executed this month but their sentences were pushed back until April because the state said it could not obtain the drugs it has used for years in its lethal cocktail.
In response, Oklahoma last week proposed a protocol that would allow the Department of Corrections to choose from five potential lethal injection combinations to be used in executions, according to court documents.
Oklahoma had been using three main drugs to carry out executions - the sedative pentobarbital, vecuronium bromide, which stops respiration, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart - according to the state's department of corrections.
Lawyers for the inmates argued the untested and undisclosed combinations could cause undo suffering, violating the U.S. Constitution's protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
The lawyers were seeking to know what drugs would be used and who would provide the chemicals.
Several U.S. states, including Missouri, Ohio, Florida and Georgia have been turning to lightly regulated compounding pharmacies for drugs to use in lethal injections, after pharmaceutical companies stopped allowing sales of their drugs for executions.
Reporting by Heide Brandes; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; editing by Gunna Dickson


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It's been said that 50% of all advertising is effective, and the other 50% isn't. But the problem is that no one can guess which 50% is which.
While it's a tidy little axiom that makes excuses for why ad campaigns fail to generate expected results, it's still a little off.
In my last post, I talked about things that writers have no control over, and a few things they do.
One of the things you do have a measure of control over is your Internet presence.
Brand-building and name-recognition are important for authors. Once we sell a novel to a publisher, we have to sell it to readers. If they like the book, they become brand-loyal, and we become an automatic purchase.
For that to happen, readers first have to know a book exists, then they have to read it, and finally, they have to like it enough to buy the next one.
Publishing, as a model, functions very much like an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. There are a certain number of items for consumption, and personal taste and quality dictate which items move the fastest.
Of course the most important aspect--getting on the table in the first place--plays the biggest role. The bigger the quantity, the more restaurants a food appears in, the more it will be consumed.
We writers don't have much control over how big our print runs are, or how wide our distribution is. That wonderful food that buffet-goers might love to devour must be available first. Sadly, most books don't get big print runs and distribution, which limits the amount of people they can reach.
Writers have some control over a book's quality, but who likes the book and wants to keep reading the author is largely subjective, and also beyond a writer's control.
So how can a writer brand themselves when distribution and quality are crapshoots?
They can follow advertising's lead, and discover on their own what people want and what works by conducting studies, comparison, and analyzing data.
Here are some tools and I use and ways I measure my cyber-effectiveness.
What I Want to Know - Do people like my writing?
Tools Used- Email, personal appearances, message boards, blog comments, reviews.
How I Know How I'm Doing - Fan email can be an indicator of how well people are responding to your book. In this day and age, if someone emails you about your writing, this is a huge coup. It isn't like a reader can press a button embedded in a book and immediately contact an author. So those who do this have a compulsion to do so, which implies passion. To read a book and like it so much that one logs onto the Internet, Googles an author, and writes them a personal message, is a powerful indicator of how much that book affected them.
Frequency of email depends on distribution/print run, naturally, but it also can measure a book's effectiveness. Divide your print run by the number of people who contact you.
You can also browse Amazon.com, GoodReads.com, Shelfari.com, and many other sites where readers post reviews. Got a lot of reviews that you didn't directly solicit? Then your book is striking a chord.
If you have any sort of crowd at a signing or appearance, your writing is important to people.
If people are discussing your books in a forum, listserv, Yahoo Group, or message board, that indicates passion, and passion in one person often means passion in many, which indicates you're doing something right.
If I divide my sales by the number of people who somehow reach me or talk about me, I get around ten to fifteen percent feedback.
This is high. But the number is skewed. Much of the feedback comes from people who have read several of my titles, and may contact me/review me after each title. But if you know you've sold ten thousand books, and you've only gotten two hundred people offering feedback, you should know that your writing isn't as effective as it could be.
Remember that being contacted is it's own form of distribution. The more places/easier it is to contact/review you, the more you're going to be contacted/reviewed.
Beside email and this blog, I make it easy for people to find me using the many billboards and social networking sites I've listed in the sidebar. I have a forum, and use polls on my website, and maintain Facebook and MySpace pages, doing all I can to facilitate feedback.
If people aren't contacting you, make it easier for them to do so, and make sure both your writing and persona encourages it.
What I Want to Know - Are people finding me on the net?
Tools Used - Hit counters, download trackers, social networking.
How I Know How I'm Doing - First of all, content is king. People on the Internet are looking for two things, information and entertainment. As a writer, you're uniquely suited to provide both.
The more you provide, the more Googleable you become. The words I'm writing right now will be searchable a decade from now, still drawing people to this post. Some drawn here will read, some readers will seek out my books, some of those people will become fans, and some of those fans will become buyers. It's a trickle down effect, but it works.
You control your content. If you're a blogger, are you blogging about something people are interested in? Timely topics may get hits in the short run, but universal topics tend to keep finding viewers long after they've been posted.
This blog has its share of both timely and universal posts. Newbie writers come here from around the world, as evidenced by my Feedjit Live Traffic Map widget in the sidebar. This widget shows me, at a glance, how universal my posts are.
For a more specific demographic breakdown, I use Statcounter.com, which lets me know who is visiting and how long they stay, among other valuable info. I can see what topics generate the most hits.
My website has many free downloads. By offering books (entertainment) for free, I'm basically like a buffet restaurant that offers free samples--a certain percentage will like the sample, then come in and eat.
I use bfnsoftware.com to track my downloads. People have downloaded about twenty thousand copies of my ebooks since I began tracking. A huge number? No. But these books keep attracting new visitors, and creating new fans, with no real ongoing effort on my part.
Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, among many other social networking sites, allow you to reach out to people, and vice versa. The reason I have a lot of online "friends" on these sites is because I put in the time to find them. The higher your friend count, the more people you can potentially reach with announcements.
But like your website and blog, this is all about content. What you have to offer dictates how many people on these sites will care when you do have an announcement like a signing, new book release, or contest.
If they really like you, you become prominently displayed on their social networking page. This is free advertising, leading others to you.
What I Want to Know - Are people linking to me on the net?
Tools Used - Other blogs and websites, search engine rankings, Google Alerts, link exchanges.
How I Know How I'm Doing - When writers ask me about blogs, or MySpace, or websites, they think these are magic bullets and all they must do is open an account for the traffic to come pouring in and name-recognition to blossom.
Well, no. As I've mentioned many times, you have to give people what they want if you want them to visit, and they want information and entertainment. You also have to make an effort trying to find these people.
If you're just starting out, one thing to do is visit popular sites, contribute information and entertainment, and offer a link back to your site. Say something smart or funny on another person's blog or message board, and people will check your profile, and your site, and if they like what they see they'll bookmark you or link to you.
If you're already established, offer content to other sites for free. Guest blogging, doing interviews, and providing short stories are all ways to spread name-recognition.
One of the ways to judge if people are talking about you (rather than to you) is by using marketleap.com. This free site allows you to check your search engine saturation, and how many other sites link to you.
Technorati.com, Digg.com, Delicious, and other social bookmarking sites allow people to point you out to even more people. Making it easy for folks to bookmark you, link to you, subscribe to your feed, or tell others about you, means more people will find you. Hence the two new widgets you see on the bottom of this post.
I've set up Google Alerts for JA Konrath and Jack Kilborn. This isn't out of vanity. It's so I can see what I'm doing that is important enough for people to mention. If you Google Alert yourself and you don't get any hits for several days, you aren't doing enough online. I average 4 to 10 alerts a day. That's more than many authors, not nearly as many as some. How do I know? You can set up Google Alerts to search for any term, including your peers' names. Marketleap.com allows the same thing.
You should NEVER compare yourself to other authors when it comes to things out of your control: advances, print runs, publicity, awards, reviews, etc. But you can and should see how effective your branding and name-recognition techniques are compared to theirs. Not for bragging rights, but as a learning tool.
I know I've written an effective blog post if a lot of people link to it and comment. The more people who link to you, the more traffic you get. It isn't by chance that both my blog and website have lots of links.
Links not only bring in traffic, they also raise your search engine ranking. Remember that your ultimate goal is to become known to complete strangers. The more places you appear, in person and in cyberspace, the better your chances at being discovered, read, and bought.
Sales are not the only indicator of how well we're doing as writers. They're just one statistic. While sales may be the ultimate goal, and that goal may be influenced by factors beyond your control (like print run, distribution, and publisher marketing dollars), you can and should be influencing the other statistics I mentioned here.
You can write a book, cross your fingers, and hope your publisher pushes it.
You can write a book, cross your fingers, and hope it magically catches on with the public.
Or you can write a book and put in the time to make people aware of your book, which will perhaps influence how well it catches on with the public, and maybe even prompt your publisher into pushing it.
Landing a book deal is luck. Becoming a bestseller is luck. Getting 50,000 hits on Google when someone searches for your name is hard work.
Becoming cyber-effective is within your control. All it takes is time, savvy, and attention to content. And as writers, you should be paying attention to content in the first place.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Recently, GoDuke.com sat down with senior Haley Peters to learn more about the Red Bank, N.J., native.
GoDuke.com: Who would you trade places with for a day?
Haley Peters: Beyonce. I just admire her, and I think that she is really successful, and she makes good music.
GoDuke.com: Who is someone you model your game after?
HP: I'd say Larry Bird. He was my favorite player; that's why I wear 33. He always played hard and he was really skilled.
GoDuke.com: Which Duke home sporting event other than your own do you like to attend?
HP: We go to a lot of them. I like to go to the women's soccer games and football and the volleyball games.
GoDuke.com: What is your favorite home-cooked meal?
HP: My mom makes chili and cornbread. That's my favorite.
GoDuke.com: What is your favorite part of being a Duke student-athlete?
HP: I'd say the student-athlete community here. Everyone is really close and everybody supports all the other teams and goes to one another's games.
GoDuke.com: What song do you like to listen to before a game?
HP: It depends on the game, I listen to a really wide range.
GoDuke.com: What is your dream job?
HP: I'd probably be a writer. I want to be a successful writer. I also kind of want to be a doctor, so we'll see.
GoDuke.com: Describe yourself in three words.
HP: I'd say passionate, hard-working, and optimistic.