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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - On the heels of the program's first trip to the NCAA Tournament, the Georgia College & State University soccer team and head coach Juan Pablo Favero have announced six additions to the roster for the 2009 fall season.
The first full recruiting class for second-year head coach Favero, the newcomers will hope to cover the gap left by the team's four departing seniors.
"We are very excited and proud of our first full recruiting class," said Favero. "We feel we have added key players in two key ways: In positions where we lost key seniors, as well as in other areas where we did not have enough depth last year. All of these girls have been very successful at both the club and high school level and come well coached and well prepared for the challenges of the college game.
"With the hard work and commitment of our returning players and the addition of these talented student-athletes, we feel we will be ready for another excellent season in 2009."
Jamie Colcord (Marietta, Ga.) joins the squad from Lassiter High School where she was coached by John Asmussen. Colcord is a versatile player whose primary role is as a marking back, but she can also play as an outside midfielder and a forward.
A "great athlete with excellent technical ability" according to Favero, Colcord brings an ability to attack out of the back. Colcord also played for the 2007 State Finalist and 2008 Atlanta Cup Finalist North Atlanta Soccer Association club team under Eric Ritter.
Coming from what is widely considered one of the best club programs in the nation, Becky Knoll (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) joins the Bobcats from her Eclipse club squad under head coach Mike Nesci. The team earned an MRL Championship in 2008. She played for James B. Conant High, a two-time regional champ under head coach Jason Franco. Knoll earned all-conference last season.
"Her experience and excellent technical ability together with her composure and distribution makes her the kind of complete player we love to have," said Favero.
Filling perhaps the biggest need of the recruiting class was goalkeeper Taylor Mulryan (Roswell, Ga.). Mulryan joins the Bobcats from Blessed Trinity High under Gilbert Jean-Baptiste and is a "very hard-working, disciplined young lady with a great attitude". She also has very good physical attributes which are key to successful goal-keeping at this level, and "with her strong foundation technically we believe she will give us another excellent net-minder".
Bolstering the attack is Anna Wierzbicki (Fayetteville, Ga.) giving Georgia College more depth in two critical attacking roles. As a center-forward "she is excellent with her back to goal, shows well for her teammates, and has a knack for scoring goals". A member of the AFC Lightening Soccer Club, "her excellent technical ability and vision also help her in her secondary role as an attacking center midfielder. She has been very well coached by Andy Thompson and we believe she will be able to step in right away and make a positive impact for us" according to Favero.
Haley O'Hayer (Savannah, Ga.) is a versatile player from the Savannah Arts Academy under head coach Rob Priestley. O'Hayer gives the Bobcats the option to play her as a forward as well as an outside midfielder or an attacking marking back. A two-time all-region selection-twice making the A squad-she played her club ball with the Coastal Georgia Soccer Association, led by Hillary George.
"Her speed, relentless work ethic, and her great attitude make her stand out in the crowd," said Favero. "We also loved her confidence in taking defenders on and her ability to score goals, so we feel very good about what she brings to the team. We think Hailey will thrive in our environment and her potential is limitless."
A defensive center midfielder and the lone junior-college transfer, Sarah Young (Rome, Ga.) comes with two years of college experience from Middle Georgia College led by head coach Vincent Gill.
"Sarah is a great athlete and has the ability to win balls both on the ground with her tackles and in the air," said Favero. "Sarah has a great work-rate and besides her experience she also adds depth to the very important part of the midfield."
Visit www2.GCSU.edu/Bobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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5/9 "We have to play better"
We haven't put it together yet. This team, on paper, is a very good team but that goes all away once the season starts. We have to start playing better. It just hasn't come together where you've got pitching, defense, timely hitting for a whole series, back to back series, over and over again. When we're home, we're doing well. On the road, we've just lost it. We have to figure out a way to get back on track and quick.
— Marlon
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It is a long season and as long as you guys can keep it light and relax all should be well. I have a good feeling about this team I feel like it will come together and when it does you guys will be unstoppable.
It still feels like there are two strike zones sometimes, but you can't argue that can you?
Remember Cubs Fans are more foul weather fans than fair, we will be there until the last out of the season. you guys just go out and get them tomorrow.
haha, we are more foul weather fans because we have rarely seen fair weather..
You are right Marlon, this team DOES look good on paper. You have 7 players batting over .300! The problem is all the LOB's and the fact we have 7 pitchers over 5.0 ERA!
I dont want to give up hope already. I hope you guys can turn this boat around. But its getting harder and harder to keep my Cubs flag flying here in Tennessee!
Keep up the good work. You are giving me MAJOR points on my fantasy team. 🙂
We were at the game Sunday in Cincinnati. The problems are not all player problems. Lou & crew need to come up to the plate and make some decisions that will improve the outcome of the games. For instance, Sean Marshall was warmed up and should have come in regardless of how great the Dempster was feeling. He already had 110+ pitches.
As a side note, we were sitting 4 rows behind you guys. Around the 8th inning Derrek tossed a ball to my son, Noah, after I got his attention and pointed to my son. However, the fans @ GABP can get really pricky at times (this is our 5th trip there to see yous guys :D) and one of them was sitting next to Noah and basically took the ball right out of his hand when he was trying to catch it. I know this isn't the right protocol in order to help relieve Noah's emotional pain, but is there any way that a message can be passed to Derrek to maybe send a photo or something to Noah?
Chin up, Marlon. Through thick and thin, win and lose, you've still got a lot to be proud of, man!
Go Cubs!
Hi Marlon! My brother-in-law, Andy, was like "oh I can't believe Hendry signed another guy from Texas that only had one good year there." And I was like "no dude, I have a good feeling about this one." And he was like "yeah, we'll see…Milton Bradley." I was like "that's not fair." Anyways, Andy is now eating crow because you're the only consistent bat in the lineup!
On the other hand, Andy thinks we're making the playoffs this year and I think we're getting high draft pick. I only draw that conclusion because I think Cubs management is the worst of any team in baseball. I like you guys as personalities on the field but this is not a well-built team. But Andy says we're going to the playoffs and maybe, come October, I will have to eat a crow too.
Do you like listening to music? I like Counting Crows, but I don't like eating them.
Thanks Marlon, you're the man.
Marlon, You are a great player and I enjoy watching you night in and night out but this losing everynight is getting really old. Lets get this turned around!!! Day games the rest of the week. Lets hope the wind blows out and you guys can find the bleachers.
If everyone on the team played with your passion and finese, we'd be in great shape. We're SO glad to have you as a Cubbie!
Marlon, I am glad that you are part of this Cubs team. You do make a huge difference since you have proven to be a consistent player since day one. Also, I know almost every player in this team is a proven player in the majors and it will be awesome when you all start hitting and playing more consistent baseball and winning in bunches. Lets just remember that not all teams start winning and finish getting a spot in the playoffs. I will continue to root for you guys the same way I have done it since 1987.
M Love the way you play the game. Hustle and enthusiasm. Can't play better than that. Pete would be proud.
Marlon, i was just letting you know that im about half way there to getting your jersey. i have about 70$ saved up and once i get it im going to wear it to a game i hope i cant get there early enough to catch you to get you to sign it for me! keep up the great work and the enthusiasm….if we had a team full of Byrds we would probably never lose…i love the sense of urgency you play with and hustle… still my favorite cub this year! thank you for everything!
Peoria, IL
p.s. id rather scuffle now and come on very strong at the end when we make our push to the post season! i know youll be leading the team….thanks again!
Do you ever wake up in the morning in cold, smelly Chicago and say "Why didn't I sign with Saint Louis?"

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The neighbourhood of Lapa is right in the city centre of Rio: combine your sightseeing with a great night on the town. With its colonial aqueduct, colourful art projects, green parks and countless bars, Lapa is fun day and night.
The striking white Arcos da Lapa aqueduct – Lapa's landmark monument – is one of the few remnants from the Portuguese colonial era in Rio de Janeiro. Built in 1750, the aqueduct counts 48 arches and is more than 100 metres long. It was built to bring water from the Carioca River to the city. Today it no longer serves as an aqueduct, but is still an important reference point and popular tourist attraction.
"Passeio Público park with its tall trees is a charming oasis in the city"
One of Rio's loveliest city parks, the Passeio Público is also located in Lapa. Famous Brazilian sculptor Mestre Valentim designed the park in 1783, modelled after the design of a botanical garden in Lisbon. In 1860, the park was renovated by French landscape architect Glaziou. Thanks to the efforts of both gentlemen, the park is now a lovely oasis with tall trees, a huge pond with swans and a fountain in the shape of a crocodile.
Passeio Público, Rua do Passeio, Rio de Janeiro
The artistic highlight of Lapa is the colourful tiled staircase created by artist Jorge Selarón: the Escadaria Selarón. The Chilean artist came to Rio de Janeiro in 1983. In 1990, Selarón began covering the 250 steps of the staircase with colourful tiles. The entire staircase is decorated with hundreds of tiles from around the world. Selarón even included a tile with the image of former Dutch Queen Beatrix in his artwork. According to the artist, the staircase was never finished and he frequently replaced the mosaics. The stairs are still one of the biggest attractions in Lapa and connect the neighbourhood to the hillside district of Santa Teresa.
Rua Manuel Carneiro, Rio de Janeiro
Every weekend Lapa breaks out into a huge street party. The sounds of forró, choro, samba and axé vie for your attention as people dance in the street. If the streets get too crowded, seek refuge in Lapa's many bars or nightclubs. One of the trendiest clubs in Lapa is Rio Scenarium: dance to live Brazilian music and admire antiques such as baby strollers, mannequins and cuckoo clocks that adorn the walls of this former antique shop.
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This Short Final was written by Walt Burton, a dear friend of Deb McFarland's, as she recovers from surgery.
I send greetings from Statesboro, way down here in southeast Georgia. I wouldn't say that it's been hot here, but I did see two gnats fanning each other to stay cool. Fortunately, the air temperature up above our pattern altitude is in the 70s and that alone encourages us to go flying. Usually, flying requires a reason or a mission.
Sometimes, the reason is to practice takeoffs and landings, but it's no fun flying below pattern altitude because it's so hot. Also, it's no fun because on landing, our airplanes just skim along forever in the over-heated air above the runway. It's like they don't want to put their tires down on the hot asphalt until the last moment and we're almost out of runway.
So, we look for worthy missions — missions that will allow us to stay up in the cool air as long as possible. If we were somewhere else, we might fly for $100 hamburgers, but not here. Statesboro is uniquely located within reasonable flying time to barbecue (to us it's called 'Q) in South Carolina and North Carolina, so our missions are for $100 barbecue sandwiches.
We have much excellent 'Q to choose from in all the different regions of the Carolinas. The history of slow-cooking pork in the Carolinas goes all the way back to colonial days and some of the pit masters of today can trace the knowledge of their craft all the way back through their family trees to the original settlers.
Beef, cooked Texas style, and called barbecue by some non-natives, will definitely not be discussed from this point on. (I mention this so no one will be disappointed.)
While the pork cuts for 'Q and the cooking processes are more similar than different across the Carolinas, the 'Q sauces are another story altogether, a story that I'll probably mess up according to someone reading this. So please let me be clear right now. My scholarly reference is a book, "Holy Smoke," by John and Dale Reed.
The North Carolina 'Q sauce story is fairly simple. Divide North Carolina into a western third, a middle third and an eastern third. Expect to find tomato-based sauces in the western region, light tomato-based sauces in the middle region, and vinegar-based sauces in the eastern region out to the coast. Also, understand that there might be minor exceptions in any of the regions.
Both of the tomato-based sauces, regular and light, are the familiar sauces like the bottled sauces on the shelf in your grocery store. I'll say nothing about the vinegar-based 'Q sauces. You either like them or you don't and it only takes one try of a 'Q sandwich with a vinegar-based sauce to decide.
The state of South Carolina is a bit more complicated. Along the coast and for some distance inland there is a region of vinegar-based sauces. There is an exception, and a very important exception, in the Charleston area — one that I will revisit. Otherwise, regions in North Carolina extend into South Carolina across the top of the state. Western South Carolina is a region of tomato-based sauces. Then there is a region of light tomato-based sauces going eastward toward the region of vinegar-based sauces on the coast. South Carolina has a region of tomato-based sauces along the border with Georgia. That region extends on into Georgia, which itself is pretty much a region of so-so tomato-based sauces.
The exception of note in South Carolina is a finger-shaped region that starts on the coast at Charleston and follows the rivers north and west toward Columbia. This region is unique with its lesser-known mustard-based sauces. I am told that we have the early German settlers to thank for what some call "The Only" sauce for 'Q and what others refer to as simply unthinkable to put on anyone's slow-cooked pork. You can decide for yourself.
This might be a good place to mention that you can sketch out your own map of the 'Q sauce regions in the Carolinas. Dig up a Charlotte sectional chart and a yellow marker or a red marker if you are a fan of tomato-based sauce. Mark and label the regions of different 'Q sauces following the paragraphs above. Or, the next time you are experiencing the joy of a ramp check you could suggest to the FAA agents that Charlotte charts should be printed with the sauce regions marked and labeled for flight planning. We surely deserve as much for our tax dollars.
Now for a couple of suggestions of where you might go. Recently a flying buddy, John Rule, and I took in a plane and car show at the Walterboro Airport (RBW) in South Carolina. A 'Q vendor, in a trailer that said Duke's on the side, was handing out sandwiches that were almost as big as little-league baseball catcher's mitts. I had to have one (a sandwich, not a mitt). The sauce was mustard-based, a little on the sweet side and very good. I wasn't surprised. Walterboro is on the edge of the mustard-based sauce region toward Georgia.
A few weeks later I was visiting my brother in Pinehurst, N.C. Now, Pinehurst is a location known for an outstanding golf experience, but my mission was to sample 'Q. Louis had found a 'Q place called Pik-N-Pig that sits beside the runway at the Gilliam-McConnell Airport (5NC3) near Carthage, N.C.
The Pik-N-Pig treat came in two parts. First the 'Q was as good as Louis had promised. North Carolina pit masters honestly earn their stellar 'Q reputations. The sauce was, as expected, a light tomato based sauce.
The best-of-the-best 'Q sandwiches can differ a bit on details such as pickles and chips — but not the buns, which should be fresh, warm and as soft as a cumulus cloud in a summer sky. Rarely is one sandwich better than another at this level of excellence, just different. Pik-N-Pig was right up there with the best.
The second part of the treat was watching a flight of six RVs land at 5NC3. The arrival was a military-like drill. The RVs parked together on the ramp in a precise line and the pilots walked into the Pik-N-Pig with Charlotte charts in hand and chatting about their flight. Had they been wearing World War II flying suits and leather helmets, I would have believed that I was in the presence of a group of Yanks returning to England from a fighter escort mission over Germany. (For future reference, there is nothing like the aromas of burned oil, 100 octane avgas, and old sweat to whet an appetite for good 'Q.)
As an extra special treat on my Pinehurst trip, my sister-in-law loaned me a small paperback collection of true stories. There was a portrait on the cover of a woman wearing a 1930's leather flying helmet and goggles. Sister Cindy said something about the author living and flying in Africa. At that moment, I wondered what do they barbecue in Africa? Did German immigrants introduce mustard-based sauces in Africa too? I have read the book, but I've not found the answers to those questions.
The book was written by Beryl Markham in 1942. Turns out she was raised in Africa and became a horse trainer, a pilot and a writer. In 1936 she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean solo westward from England to North America non-stop — a trip made more difficult because of the prevailing Atlantic headwinds, which required more fuel and time than was required for an eastward journey from North America to England.
"West with the Night" is written in a wonderful story telling style seldom seen in contemporary prose. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad. All of the stories convey a sense of the feel of what it was like to fly an airplane back in the 1930s, day and night, without the instruments and charts for navigation that we take for granted today. These stories are perfect for reading while munching a good 'Q sandwich.
I mention "West with the Night" because the stories and the style of writing remind me so much of the writing style and the stories of our delightful and talented Deb McFarland, the resident wordsmith, who claims ownership of these column inches and who graciously loaned me her pen and paper to fill them.
Cool temperatures, dreams of Beryl Markham and Margaret Mitchell visiting, and good 'Q to you, Deb.


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Animated fantasy adventures are standard movie fare for family audiences. Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox teamed up to produce the colorful "Rio" and very successful "Ice Age" films. Along with director Chris Wedge, they turn up the production values in the lush visual feast of "Epic."
A hidden race of tiny people live in a beautiful enchanted forest. Brave leafmen ride on the backs of hummingbirds to patrol and protect their woodland. Their idyllic world is threatened by the invasion of nasty Boggans bent on destroying nature's bounty. The bad guys ride on crows with rats and bats as their allies. Stunning animation brings both sides to life.
It's a classic story of Good versus Evil that borrows from many other films. Aspects of "Alice in Wonderland" are obvious when magic shrinks a teenage girl down to the size of the leafmen. She enters the fray to defend the tiny ecosystem like a PG-rated "Avatar." Comic talking animals as sidekicks to the heroes come straight from the "Shrek" series.
It may be derivative, but it's a whole lot of exuberant family fun extolling the virtues of friendship, honor and responsibility.
Hungover, for real
Don't believe the hype — or the hope — that "The Hangover Part III" is as entertaining as its predecessors. Please, I've had real hangovers that were more fun.
Reunited for more misadventures, the Wolfpack of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis end up tangled in a rambling plot. No more side-splitting delights in men behaving badly until the final credits begin to roll.
Until that point, it's just men being predictably unlucky.
An ill-advised ride down OC's 73 Freeway sets off a chain of events and my eternal embarrassment for the writers. The biggest joke is that we'd think it was even remotely funny.
Kidnappings, break-ins, chases, mistreated animals, hookers and Vegas penthouses all factor into this total waste of time. Even the ubiquitous Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong), who now carries most of the film, wears out his welcome.
I waited patiently for laughs that wouldn't come. Cooper and Helms go through the motions of looking aghast at Galifianakis' erratic, self-indulgent behavior. The adorable Melissa McCarthy brings a much-needed spark in her brief scenes, but too little too late.
This series has made careers and made millions with its gross-out humor, but now it's like one of those "Saturday Night Live" skits that doesn't know when to quit.
And please, no more naked Mr. Chow. Ever.
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator. SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.


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This article is going to list three overvalued and undervalued
QBs based off of their average draft position (ADP) data from
Antsports. The ADP's in this piece are based off drafts
conducted in 12-team leagues.
Donovan McNabb, Philadelphia
Average Draft Position: 5:03
Someone in the projected top six (Peyton Manning, Tom Brady,
Drew Brees, Carson Palmer, Marc Bulger, McNabb) had to fall, so
the natural inclination is to pick on the QB coming off injury.
But wait, there's more. While there is still plenty of reason
to draft him as the #6 overall signal-caller, McNabb has three
potential issues working against him this season.
Matt Leinart, Arizona
Average Draft Position: 7:12
This is a hard pick to make for the simple fact that Leinart
has so many weapons to work with in the desert. That would typically
suggest he should be in the undervalued category. The problem
with him is that he is being drafted as a low-end #1 when he should
be taken as a high-end #2 QB. What should bring pause to his potential
owners is that new HC Ken Whisenhunt wants to run the ball 600
times if he has his way. While that number will turn out to be
a bit excessive, one only needs to look at Whisenhunt's former
employer to see that he guided Ben Roethlisberger to good but
not stellar fantasy numbers while in Pittsburgh.
Are Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald better than the WRs Pittsburgh
had in Roethlisberger's two seasons? Sure, but understand the
Cardinals have not a coach that was as stubborn with the running
game – and in this case, that's a good thing – as Whisenhunt since
they moved from St. Louis to Arizona. The general retort to that
argument will be since Arizona's defense is so bad, they will
be forced to abandon the run in almost every game they play. My
reply to that argument would be that Arizona has rarely stuck
to the ground game long enough to give their defense a rest. Understand
that each rush that is made against the opposing defense is one
fewer that is made against your defense - a particularly important
realization that will be made early in the season. The long and
short of it is that Leinart will be consistent – just as a healthy
Big Ben was - but he should not be going ahead of Philip Rivers
and Jay Cutler, as he is in early August.
Brett Favre, Green Bay
Average Draft Position: 9:11
This is more of a speculatory pick (but then again, aren't they
all?) However, this offense is a Donald Driver long-term injury
away from falling on its face. And as (bad) luck would have it,
Driver failed his physical upon his arrival to training camp.
It is a shoulder injury that has had nearly eight months to recover,
so the chances it gets better through the rigors of the preseason
are not good. Even with a healthy Driver, this WR depth isn't
all that great. So while Greg Jennings will improve on a pretty
fair rookie campaign, he is not ready to carry the #1 WR mantle
quite yet.
So, be happy that Favre had his ankle surgery and that he is
getting around better and more pain-free now than he has in a
while because if owners select him in front of Matt Schaub, J.P.
Losman and Jeff Garcia, they will be the ones feeling the pain
and, perhaps, a bit lighter in the wallet. It says here to draft
Favre as a mid-range #2 fantasy QB and move him up and down that
#2 list depending on the health of Driver. I'd rank him with Matt
Schaub right now – who is going three rounds later – and prefer
the upside of Jake Delhomme over the future Hall of Famer.
Marc Bulger,
St. Louis
Average Draft Position: 4:08
Name a more complete offense in the league…there isn't one, folks.
In charge of the play calls is one of the brightest offensive
minds in the game, HC Scott Linehan. The NFL saw what he did for
Daunte Culpepper in 2003-04 (64 TDs, 22 INTs in 30 starts) and
current Rams backup Gus Frerotte in Miami in 2005 (career-high
18 TDs), so it was hardly surprising when Bulger set career highs
almost across the board in 2006. About the only thing that dropped
a bit was his completion percentage (63%), down from 66 % in his
last two years with Mike Martz.
So, let us take inventory on what St. Louis did in the offseason.
The Rams have had another year to digest Linehan's playbook, LT
Orlando Pace returns after missing the final six games, WR Drew
Bennett signed on to give St. Louis a 6-5 slot WR and TE Randy
McMichael – who also experienced a career year with Linehan in
2005 – gives the Rams a threat in the middle of the field that
have not had in some time. In fact, expect McMichael to record
the finest numbers from a Rams TE since Pete Holohan in 1988 (59
catches, 640 yards). In short, Bulger could be sitting there in
the fourth round (after most owners have drafted two RBs and a
WR) and give his owners numbers similar to the ones Peyton Manning
and Carson Palmer will likely deliver. That my friends…is value.
Ben Roethlisberger,
Average Draft Position: 8:12
It took two words to switch my position on Roethlisberger from
nice #2 QB option to low-end #1 for this season. Bruce Arians.
Who is he, you ask? He's the Steelers new play-caller. And shortly
after he that was announced, Arians mentioned a few more words,
"three-and-four-wide". Folks, Arians likes to see the ball in
the air, something the Steelers last saw – with mixed results
– during the Tommy Gun years. While spreading the defense out
should raise Willie Parker's yards per carry a bit, it is highly
doubtful he will come very close to the number of rushing attempts
he had last season (337). What it could mean is that he has the
same amount of touches though (368) as Parker figures to be the
check-down receiver quite often. Regardless, the whole point is
that when a coordinators proposes that he spread defenses out,
they do it mostly with the intention of giving the QB more options
in the passing game and not as much for the benefit of the running
It should already be clear where this is going (and I'm not saying
it's a good thing for the team), Big Ben will fling the ball around
more this season than he ever has as a pro. Assuming he can avoid
the freakish series of injuries he endured last season, the Steeler
QB will throw well over 500 passes this season (roughly five more
attempts per game than 2006). I believe his INTs will come down
as a result of not trying to play through injuries (into the 15-18
range), but with 35 attempts/game, he will probably average 225
yards/game and make both Hines Ward (who is already a low-end
#1 fantasy WR) and Santonio Holmes viable starting options each
week in fantasy. It will make for an interesting season in Pittsburgh,
as former HC Bill Cowher dumped the Tommy Gun the last year after
it was "figured out" so Cowher could go back to his power running
game. Will new HC Mike Tomlin follow in his footsteps or is this
what the new head man has in mind to make the transition from
Cowher's team to HIS team? Either way, look for Roethlisberger
to set career highs across the board.
Jeff Garcia,
Tampa Bay
Average Draft Position: 13:03
Many people forget that it was not Jon Gruden that helped guide
Rich Gannon to his best year as a pro in 2002, it was Bill Callahan.
Semantics aside, Gannon was an unwanted journeyman who stepped
into the Oakland huddle in 1999 and became a four-time Pro Bowler,
with his first one coming at the age of 34. At age 37, Garcia
has seen three Pro Bowls already in his career, but he too has
become something of a journeyman. No, Garcia does not have two
legends at WR like Gannon did, but Gruden will get to dial up
the same plays for Garcia that he did for Gannon, as "Chucky"
has not had a savvy, mobile veteran QB since he arrived on the
scene in Tampa. Gruden understands how to use the mobile QB in
his system, which is why he has been so positively giddy about
having the former Eagle on his squad for the foreseeable future.
Even though it may not seem like it now (especially after last
season's debacle), the Bucs have some offensive weapons. Cadillac
Williams caught 30 balls in 2006 and should be in line for at
least that many – if not 10 more – this season. Maurice Stovall
should vault over the disappointing Michael Clayton on the depth
chart to give fellow WR Joey Galloway some relief from double
teams. TE Alex Smith – if he can hold off Jerramy Stevens – is
a fine mid-range option and the offensive line figures to be improved,
especially if LT Luke Petitgout can return to form after being
released from the Giants in a cap-related move, although a season-ending
leg injury may have had just as much to do with it. Garcia is
going quite late – the 25th QB to go, meaning he's not even on
a roster on in a number of 12-team leagues – in drafts but should
be a highly productive matchup fantasy QB at the very worst. Pair
him with a top starter in your draft and deal off the lesser of
the two QBs at midseason to address your most glaring weakness.
It's mildly surprising someone that will have his job security
and offensive scheme is being drafted behind the likes of Alex
Smith, JP Losman and Steve McNair.
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When conducted manually, penetration testing requires substantial knowledge of the systems being tested.Codenomicon's penetration testing toolkit utilizes a unique fuzz testing technique, which learns the tested system automatically enabling penetration testers to enter new domains such as VoIP assessment or to start testing industrial automation solutions and wireless technologies. Test automation increases the test coverage of penetration tests.
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OAKLAND — Union workers announced Saturday they had voted yes to ratify a no concessions, four-year contract with the Port of Oakland after the workers went on strike last month.
The next step for SEIU Local 1021 workers is to have the contract go to the Board of Port Commissioners for approval. Some of the tentative agreements highlighted by the union in the contract include a 2.5 percent cost of living increase in 2013 and 2014, a signing bonus of $3,500 for each employee and all economic takeaways withdrawn, among others.
More than 500 workers shut down the Port of Oakland on Nov. 19, and Oakland mayor Jean Quan brought both parties back to the bargaining table.
On Friday, union members voted to approve the contract after days of negotiations concluded.
Local 1021 represents more than 200 workers who maintain, secure, repair and do clerical work at the Oakland Airport and the Port of Oakland harbor.
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To maximize our time together for learning Angular 2, please take care of the following before the workshop. The total time to install the software should be less than an hour. If you have questions, please contact me via email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I just wanted to check to make sure it's okay for the girls to munch away on paperbags. They love their paperbags filled with hay, but my husband and daughter are sure that I'm making them sick by letting them chew the bags. I told them it was okay, but then started second-guessing myself.
If they are plain and untreated, it's fine. They love bags stuffed with hay.
Just a bit off topic, but paper towel and toliet paper tubes are also considered ok right?
Sometimes they seem to have a bit of glue on them still so I didn't know.
Sometimes they seem to have a bit of glue on them still so I didn't know.
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Yes, they love to eat the bags.
Yikes! Thanks for the warning.
I just put a box in my cage that I get coffee that I order in and now there is a war as to who gets to get in the box. I stuffed the bos with some hay and the girls are all fighting for it. In fact Maggie is standing and jumping on top of the box while Penelope is in it. I think she hopes Penelope will get mad and leave. Penelope does not give up that easy.
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Since I'm an agnostic queer and make no secret about it I suppose I don't qualify.
A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.
In other words, I don't see the difference between a person who identifies as "bisexual atheist" and one who identifies as "queer agnostic." In both cases, the feelings, attitudes, and actions are the same: an absence of an affirmative belief in the existence of deities or gods, and no gender preference in sexual and/or romantic partners.
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The use of a graphical tracking system is highly recommended for poinsettias. With similar day and night temperature setpoints, the need for chemical height control is minimal for many varieties. When day temperatures are more than 5°F higher than night temperatures, a Cycocel spray at 750 to 1,000 ppm one to four times after pinching is sufficient in Northern climates to control stem extension.
When day temperatures are greater than 80°F and night temperatures are greater than 70°F, spray a tank mix of Cycocel at 1,000 ppm plus B-Nine at 1,500 ppm one to three times, one to four weeks after pinching. Bonzi sprays can also be used at 5 to 10 ppm under these warm growing conditions. Proper growth regulation before and after the pinch, combined with high light conditions are critical to avoid early internode stretch and to build a sturdy plant. Avoid B-Nine and Bonzi sprays after flower initiation.
Florel. Florel plant growth regulator (PGR) applied at 500 ppm three to five days before and five to seven days after pinching leads to shorter internodes, more even branching, reduced stem breakage and a rounder finished plant. For optimum results, add CapSil, moisten the media, treat plants early in the morning and check for a good root system.
Mid-season Ultra-low-rate Bonzi Drench. Low-rate Bonzi drenches provides additional growth control without delaying color, distorting bracts or significantly reducing the bract size. The recommended drench rate after flower initiation and prior to 50 percent color is 0.05 to 0.1 ppm. For traditional late-season growth control, drench with Bonzi in the north at ¼ to ½ ppm (0.75 to 1.5 ounces/100 gallons) and in the south at ½ to 1 ppm (1.5 to 3 ounces/100 gallons). This can be done when the plants are about ½ to 1 inch below the desired height and/or one to two weeks (up to three weeks in the South) before shipping.
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Why Daylight Savings Could Be Messing With Your Health
While daylight savings means an automatic stretch in the evenings, the first few weeks can actually have a negative effect on your health.
That's because, with clocks jumping forward an hour, your alarm is probably going off in complete darkness again, which can cause something scientists call "social jetlag".
Dr Maree Barnes, a sleep expert, explains: "When the sun comes up in the morning, the light turns off or suppresses melatonin, which is the naturally occurring body hormone which helps us go to sleep.
"At the same time, our internal cortisol levels start to rise in the mornings. Cortisol is the same hormone that's released if you have a fright and get that jolt of energy."
So if you're getting up before the sun, that melatonin isn't being switched off - which can cause you to be more tired and moody during the day.
Granted, it won't be too much longer until the mornings start to feel the full effect of daylight savings, but if you're already struggling, Dr Barnes recommends investing in an illuminating alarm clock; since they gradually light up the room, you can actually trick your body into thinking the sun has risen.
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Up until last year, treatment for chronic acid reflux involved acid-suppressing drugs, but a new device fitted around a patient's esophagus is showing promising results to provide relief. A recent study through the Mayo Clinic shows that nearly all patients outfitted with the esophagus ring had lesser symptoms and many were able to stop taking their medicines. The device is made up of tiny magnetic titanium beads and works as replacement valve to stop acid leaking from the stomach up to the esophagus.
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|Wincenty Szerejko
|Wincenty Szerejko, 1931
We do have one clue that Marek picked up on that I did not. Look at the pins on Wincenty's lapel in the 1931 photo. Is one of those pins a hammer and sickle? What about the other pin? If anyone out there can positively identify either of those pins I'd love to hear from you. A Polish researcher that I spoke with at NERGC suggested I write to the military museum in Warsaw to ask about the pins.
After Wincenty was conscripted into the Russian army did he remain in Russia, perhaps after marrying a Russian girl? Clearly he survived World War I, but what happened to him after 1931? Was he killed in World War II or did he die before? None of the other brothers mention him in later letters. Another mystery for sure...
Special Thanks: To my cousin Marek for providing me with the ID photo of Wincenty and for his translation of my 1931 photo.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton WILL be the next President of the U.S. ... at least if Dustin Hoffman gets his way.
Dustin was out in DC yesterday when we asked if he'd ever co-star alongside Hillary in a movie ... now that she plans to leave her post as SoS -- and Dustin replied, "No ... because I think she'll be IN office."
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David Diehl started just nine games for the New York Giants at right tackle last year as an injured right knee limited him throughout the season.
Diehl sprained the MCL in his right knee in Week 3 and missed three games with the injury before easing back into the lineup. It took another two weeks before he regained his starting job. According to Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, Diehl recently had surgery on his right knee and has been going through rehab work at the Giants practice facility.
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Same here at CTIC various Open Data projects in Spain. I don't see any problem with adding JSON. Probably the only issue is that the document dates already back to more than a year ago, it's still a WD in progress (so to say since we didn't update it at all since then) and needs a review, an update and to be published as a Group Note. As usual, we would need IG volunteers to do so. -- Josema El 26/11/2010, a las 04:16, Jim Hendler escribió: > In fact, Data.gov also does this through the linked data stuff hosted at RPI - we use various combinations of JSON, HTML and straight RDF in the various mashups, > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 25, 2010, at 22:09, Ed Summers <email@example.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Chris Beer <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> True - should get a mention. Open standard too so no issues there. Example use case would be good too. >> >> I agree. JSON is another good example of a widely deployed web >> standard for data (RFC 4627) that really ought to be discussed in the >> context of best practices for web access to egov data. Some of the >> folks involved in data.gov.uk effort have worked specifically on using >> JSON to provide more familiar access to pools of RDF made available at >> SPARQL endpoints [1]. >> >> """ >> For some web developers the need to understand the RDF data model and >> associated serializations and query language (SPARQL) has proved a >> barrier to adoption of linked data. This project seeks to develop >> APIs, data formats and supporting tools to overcome this barrier. >> Including, but not limited to, accessing linked data via a >> developer-friendly JSON format. >> """ >> >> //Ed >> >> [1] http://purl.org/linked-data/api/project >> >Received on Friday, 26 November 2010 07:38:19 UTC
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Dominic Wilcox is a British artist whose works balance on the margins of bizarre, yet somehow very logical and poignant at the same time. His cutting-edge inventions vary from unbelievable tech-wizardry (GPS shoes), to everyday objects that would actually find a place in our household (tea cup with a fan). Despite often humorist approach, Wilcox crafts his devices until they look and work like intended.
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My mother is an alcoholic who has been in and out of AA (and sobriety) for many years. She first got sober when I was in my 40s. After rehab, but during her first year she called me without a heads up on what she wanted to talk about. She never mentioned "amends" per se. But she did formally apologize for a handful of things. She also wanted to know if I always knew that she loved me. (Carefully worded so I could say yes, without pointing out that I never FELT loved - but I did know it.)
A few months later she set up a time to meet with my father. She cancelled the meeting at the last minute and later send him an email saying she was sorry that things had gotten so bad between them, but they were just kids after all. He felt totally hurt and insulted.
She fell off the wagon about two years later, and has mostly failed to stay sober since then, but says she's been in AA again for the past two years. Of course there was a lot of the usual lying, stealing, abusing, drunk crap while she was drinking. If she's really working the steps again, should I expect another attempt at amends?
Here's my issue - the things she apologized for were NOT the things that scarred me. She didn't ask for any input, and I was caught off guard. I also wanted to respect that the call was about her process, not mine. But the experience left me with reopened wounds, as well as the feeling that she felt "cleansed" while I just felt ignored. And I then had to "keep the secrets" of how much she hurt my dad, and how much she lied and abused family members when she fell off the wagon. For myself, I doubt if my mom and I can have a real relationship until she learns/wants to listen. I'm not going to waste my emotional energy telling her stuff she's unwilling to hear, especially since it would cause her pain, at least until she creatively revised it into something she could explain away.
So my question is - in the amends process, doesnt the alcoholic need to somehow find out if they have addressed the things that actually hurt the recipient, or is it really just about what THEY think was hurtful? I get that it needs to be about her healing, and that my healing is my own responsibility. But it does seem like it leaves a huge blind spot.


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June 12 was Loving Day.
What's that? The day that, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision in Loving v. Virginia, finding the State of Virginia's law criminalizing interracial marriage to be in violation of the Constitution.
In the words of Chief Justice Earl Warren, "To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the state's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination."
On the evidence, the court concluded that the race-based provisions in the anti-miscegenation statute must be "measures designed to maintain White Supremacy." If only racism, here and abroad, had breathed its final breath that day.
In Sindiso's home country of South Africa, for example, the criminal statute against interracial marriage was not repealed until 1985. And, to our regret, our own experience as a recognizably interracial couple in both the United States and South Africa suggests racism's ongoing potency.
New Hampshire residents were confronted with this reality last month.
When Bob Copeland resigned his post as Wolfeboro police commissioner, many in the state breathed a collective sigh of relief. Copeland's vicious condemnation of President Obama had sparked a firestorm of media attention, threats of a boycott by well-heeled vacationers, and calls from local residents and town officials for his resignation.
To Copeland's fellow commissioner, Ron Goodgame, the hard-won resignation marked the end of an unfortunate saga for a town that is purportedly at peace with racial difference.
"Within a couple of weeks, I think the hate element will dissipate and go away, and I think there will be a healing," Goodgame said in an interview with the Concord Monitor. "I think it's going to happen on its own."
But do fading headlines "on their own" spell healing and reconciliation? If experience and demographics are anything to go by, the answer is likely no.
Experience teaches that racism cannot easily be overcome in a place of ethnic homogeneity. It requires human contact where people of different races interact as equals and differences are acknowledged but not valorized. Even in the age of Obama, such interactions are uncommon. Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education mandated racial desegregation of America's public schools, there are still scant few places where white, black and brown Americans meaningfully interact.
A Harvard University report found that merely one in seven white students attend multiracial schools at which three or more racial groups are represented. This racial segregation in schools firmly correlates with class and residential segregation.
In nine out of 10 highly segregated schools attended by black and Latino children, half or more of the student population is economically disadvantaged. These schools also show lower performance in terms of test scores, teachers' experience levels and fewer AP course options. The inverse is also true – integrated schools perform better on these and other key indicators, such as aspirational hopes and integrated lives.
We applaud the stand that the Wolfeboro residents took against then-commissioner Copeland and we, of course, do not want to make any excuses for his racist remarks. Yet, his words come out of a demographic context that does not naturally lend itself to mutual understanding across the color line. According to the 2012 Census, 3.5 percent of the Wolfeboro population is nonwhite. Just 5 (0.5 percent) of Wolfeboro's 2,838 residents are black.
Wolfeboro is not alone.
For Sindiso, who was raised in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, where racial segregation was brutally enforced, both socially and economically, under a system called apartheid (literally, 'separateness'), opportunities for genuine human interaction between members of different racial groups were similarly scarce.
It was getting to interact as equals on merit scholarships in graduate school in the United Kingdom that made it possible for us to truly contemplate a future with one another. As Dan has previously observed, it's one thing to tolerate a group of people who you believe, at a deeply subconscious level, to be inferior. That's just being decent. But it's quite another thing to see such people as equals and to ask a member of that group to be your wife, the mother of your children.
When it comes to the U.S. as a country, however, physical separation and economic or class inequality are not the only obstacles to effectively overcoming racism. Contrary to the Loving v. Virginia case we celebrate this month, the current Supreme Court majority has acted against policies and practices aimed at overcoming racial inequality. In fact, the court has all but banned public officials, school districts and colleges from taking race into account in enrollments, and lifted necessary protections against racial discrimination in voting.
Part of this trend can be attributed to the current Supreme Court majority's failing to appreciate that racism does not always take the most obvious forms – a la slavery and Jim Crow. The court's majority also subscribes to a faulty notion that treating people differently is always unjust and has made a premature and uncompromising commitment to an ideal of "color blindness."
Chief Justice John Roberts is now famed for writing, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
We, like Justice Sonya Sotomayor, would disagree. As she wrote in a recent judgment, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination."
In post-apartheid South African constitutional discourse, this is called (fair) differentiation, which corrects socioeconomic and politico-legal imbalances created by past injustice, as opposed to (unfair) discrimination, which is capricious, ungrounded and unjustifiable.
Disregarding race in our discussions and laws as a society will not stop "the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: 'I do not belong here' " of which Justice Sotomayor wrote – which Justice Roberts summarily dismissed.
Ex-commissioner Copeland's comment on President Obama handily demonstrates just how insidious those corrosive and historically rooted social ideas about black people's inadequacy and ineptitude are, even in the present.
Disregarding race – or being purportedly "color blind" – will also not improve the chances of children of color escaping the poverty trap into which they are disproportionately born, generation upon generation. In fact, empirical evidence suggests that the state of racial inequality is worsening under this misguided "color blind" ideal.
It is a problem rather than a victory then when, as found in a recent MTV survey, 68 percent of all millennials subscribe to the view that "focusing on race prevents society from becoming colorblind." This demographic's mass subscription to the "color blind" ideal is, no doubt, largely because only 37 percent of them (30 percent of white relative to 46 percent of minority youths) were raised in families that talk about race. This while 65 percent of minority millennials say that white people have more opportunities, and myriad studies confirm this.
Yet, still, 58 percent of all millennials believe that racism will become less of an issue as they age. We doubt that such socio-political progress can soon be made when so many Americans paradoxically recognize that racial inequality exists but insist that race itself is to be ignored.
On the facts, the millennials' views are sadly off the mark. So, we would argue, is Copeland's fellow commissioner Goodgame's well-meaning expectation (or, really, wish) that racism and its consequences in Wolfeboro will dissipate "on its own." Their widely shared approach to racism is not a sign of a "post-racial" society (a questionable aspiration in itself) but of a society in persistent denial of a challenging state of affairs.


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Strategy: Crisis Planning in Schools
Strategy Comprehensive crisis management policies prepare school administrators and staff to respond appropriately to violence, criminal acts on campus, . . .
Comprehensive crisis management policies prepare school administrators and staff to respond appropriately to violence, criminal acts on campus, and natural emergencies. The policies cover response after the fact, but also include prevention and intervention actions that should be taken by staff.
Community Problem Addressed
Unanticipated tragic events can quickly escalate into a school-wide catastrophe if not dealt with immediately and effectively. Knowing what to do when a crisis occurs can minimize the chaos, rumors, and the impact of the event on students and the community. The strategy addresses not only a school's preparedness to deal with natural disasters but also the disruption and chaos that can follow gang-related or other violent incidents, serious accidents, or suicides involving students. The crisis response plan can help avert escalation of violent incidents by ensuring that administrators address school security issues and the need for law enforcement or medical assistance in a rapid and efficient manner.
Key Components
Development of crisis policies usually includes three phases: organizing a crisis management team; establishing plans of action for the team during specific kinds of emergencies; and training for crisis teams, faculty, and students in how to respond in case of emergencies, including violent incidents on campus. The policies should cover such issues as the protocol for reporting incidents, designating safe places on campus, handling groups of students and providing for their safety, and notifying parents and others in the community as the situation warrants.
Most schools have well-understood policies for responses to such natural disasters as tornadoes or floods. However, many schools do not have policies that specify the roles and responsibilities of staff, parents, police, school boards, teens, and faculty in case of student abduction, gang violence, shooting incidents at the school, or large-scale fights among students. Such policies help ensure that faculty, staff, and students know how to report an incident and can locate safe places on campus or outside the building, and the school administrators and staff can mobilize the appropriate law enforcement and medical assistance. The policies may also include provision for counseling students and staff following violent incidents or deaths of students or staff. For the policy to be effective, all staff and students must be educated and trained. In addition, parents and others in the community must be aware of the policy and how they can contact the school in case of emergencies.
Key Partnerships
Local law enforcement, the school board, principals, teachers, parents, school staff, and student representatives all should play a role in designing the crisis management policy; determining training needs of staff who will use it; and setting guidelines for prevention, intervention, and post-crisis action.
Potential Obstacles
Some cities still feel immune from violence, believing their schools will not be affected. They may not emphasize crisis management planning for such incidents or they may be less than willing to develop such policies. Parent groups and teachers can convince reluctant administrators to pursue crisis management planning by reminding them that, while occurrences requiring use of the policy may be rare, rapid and effective response is as vital as in any natural disaster or emergency.
Examples of Success and Results
After a school shooting took place in a high school in their community in March 1998, the Nettleton School District, led by a crisis response team, formulated a crisis response plan to deal with any unanticipated tragic event in its schools. Taking the lessons learned during the Jonesboro, Arkansas [population 46,535], crisis, the crisis response team developed an in-depth plan that all staff members were thoroughly trained in. Included in the team are counselors, media representatives, the faith community, licensed child care providers, service providers such as caterers, and parents.
The plan defines roles of members of the crisis team, as well as other members of school staff. These roles include immediate responses (getting students out of danger, administering first aid, beginning a calling tree, etc.), deciding about scheduling changes, working with local police, and identifying counseling needs. The plan shows staff how to determine the nature and details of the crisis and provides guidelines for media relations. Agendas for staff meetings immediately following the crisis, as well as debriefing formats, are covered.
After being trained on the crisis plan, school staff feel much safer and more equipped to deal with any future crisis. Parents have the peace of mind that the school is ready for most tragedies, and students understand that the school is making an attempt to keep them safe in the face of disaster. The school district will revise the plan when needed and will train all new staff on the plan.


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The American Red Cross will hold the annual Turkey Trot race at Columbia Park in Kennewick from 7:30 a.m. to about noon on Nov. 28. The race begins at 9 a.m. This family-friendly 5k or 1 mile race can be walked or run. Fun kid activities will be available and top finishers will receive prizes.
The 1 mile race is only $15 if you register before Nov. 15, then it goes up to $25.
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The conference "Overcoming Youth marginalisation", organised by HRYO the 3rd May 2017, gathered judiciary experts, policy makers and first line practitioners to address the drama of young Europeans embracing violent extremism.
Tandem Project is an initiative that matches NGOs with refugees and asylum seekers that want to do a 2 weeks-voluntary service in Brussels
All over the continent, too many people, communities and societies still suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings. What can you do?
There are about 10 to 12 million Roma people in Europe and most are EU citizens. However, they have faced generations of social and institutional discrimination.
One out of every 33 persons in the world today is a migrant, as more and more people are on the move today than at any other point in human history.
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Martin Alltimes, head of European external development at Eidos, says: "Avalanche Studios offers a great fit to Eidos' product strategy of developing original content utilizing groundbreaking technology. Building on the excellent work to date, I am confident this relationship will produce an exceptional game."
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NEW ORLEANS – A federal jury has awarded a former employee of Boh Bros. Construction Co., L.L.C. $451,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
Following a two-and-a-half-day trial, the jury awarded Kerry Woods damages for the sexual harassment claim against the major construction firm, including $250,000 in punitive damages and $200,000 for emotional distress.
The EEOC's lawsuit charged that a superintendent harassed and taunted Woods, who worked for the company as an ironworker, by engaging in verbal abuse and taunting gestures of a sexual nature, and by exposing himself. The harassment took place on the I-10 Twin Span project over Lake Pontchartrain between Slidell and New Orleans, La. The EEOC presented evidence at trial that Woods's supervisor harassed him because he thought he was feminine and did not conform to the supervisor's gender stereotypes of a typical "rough ironworker."
The EEOC's lawsuit further claimed that the company retaliated against Woods after he reported the superintendent's harassment. Woods was transferred to another location, where he was paid less, and then "laid off," supposedly because there was less work available at the new location.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (EEOC v. Boh Brothers Construction Company, LLC (Civil Action No. 09-6460) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"All workers, male and female, are entitled to earn a living free from harassment based on sex or sex stereotypes," said EEOC General Counsel P. David Lopez. "The jury's verdict signals to employers the importance of having robust sexual harassment policies and training in place, including in predominantly male workplaces."
The EEOC established that Boh Brothers had no policy that defined or specifically prohibited sexual harassment. The superintendent testified that before this lawsuit, he had never received training on sexual harassment.
"The jury's verdict in this case vindicates the public interest and will benefit Boh Brothers' employees," said Jim Sacher, the EEOC's regional attorney for the Houston District Office, which oversees all litigation in Louisiana. "This case demonstrates the failure of this company to prevent and properly respond to a serious matter for the construction industry: male-on-male sexual harassment by a supervisor and under isolated working conditions."
Woods said of the verdict, "I am so grateful that the EEOC worked so hard for me, and that the jury paid so much attention to the evidence. I knew it wasn't right that the company should be able to treat people this way. No one should have to put up with that kind of abuse day after day." Woods testified during trial that he had pursued this case for so many years to see justice done.
This case is the third sexual harassment trial victory for the EEOC this year. The other two were EEOC v. Mid-American Specialties, in which a Memphis jury returned a verdict of $1.5 million, and EEOC v. Paul's Big M, in which a Syracuse jury awarded $1.25 million.
New Orleans-based Boh Brothers is a major construction contractor that operates in the New Orleans and Gulf South areas. According to company information, Boh Brothers employs more than 1,500 people on many projects, including publicly funded post-Katrina rebuilding, repair and expansion projects.
The EEOC was represented by trial attorneys Gregory T. Juge and Tanya L. Goldman.
The EEOC enforces federal law prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Lionel Richie has a long list of chart-topping hits to his credit, and his new album, Tuskegee, is attracting a lot of attention. That may cushion the blow of Tax Day for him, because in addition to what he owes this year, the IRS has slapped the singer with a $1.1 million lien for unpaid taxes in 2010.
Fret not if you're a fan of Richie's, though. He insists the situation is "being handled immediately." And he's hardly the first celebrity to run afoul of the taxman. Maybe he should team up with Willie Nelson for a benefit concert.


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Sivajan.kumaran necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 169 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
I have been contracting in the IT Software development industry for 10 years and have decided to start up my new consultancy. At the moment we have 8 people and will be expanding in the near future. We will be providing consultancy in the ERP are and we also be providing applications written in Objective-C (Iphone) and Java (Android and Blackberry).
We are targetting companies that use SAP and will be moving to the mobile market. Currently we have a couple of local governments as our clients.
Surian - This means 'Sun' in the Tamil language. I chose this name with the logo in mind and would like one which incorporates the sun in it. It doesn't need to be a circle but would like yellow to be used if possible. I also like black but not sure how this can be used. I want it to be elegant as this is a consultancy and needs to send out the right signal.
I also want this project to be the start of a partnership as i will need logo's and icons created for mobile handsets within the next month. I am looking for a designer i can use on future projects too.
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Quazza wrote:yer that's a great move by both teams
Man, you've got to be impressed with Presti.
Well, maybe not... we don't know how it was. Maybe it was Miami who called offering their pick to free up some more cap room for free agency. In that case, you only have to be impressed with Presti for not being a moron...
If, instead, he called Miami... well, it's one more smart move to his resumé.


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Poisson d'avrilApril 02, 2004
Yesterday's little prank seems to have gone over well. Interestingly, I never thought for a second we'd genuinely confuse anyone, but it sounds like a lot of that went around. Hard to say why it worked so well, I guess you take for granted a site's chrome once you've visited enough. Thanks for being good sports about it, it was plenty of fun.
Doug has followed up with a detailed account of the steps we took, so here are a few notes of my own.
The Idea
We did start discussing this in January. A quick attempt back then showed us that it wasn't impossible, but it would prove a little more difficult than simply swapping CSS files. And so it sat; busy lives, busy people.
We were supposed to take it further at SXSW, but between madly preparing for our Monday panels and the subsequent relief and enjoyment immediately following, we lost focus.
Cut to this past weekend, where we picked up again. I believe 'down to the wire' was the phrase that Doug originally used to describe our timeline. So true; I spent the past few evenings hacking imagery and swapping markup.
How did we go about it?
We initially thought about swapping CSS files. The net effect would have been a site-wide redesign for the day. Theoretically possible (you may not have realized it, but we're both big fans of separate structure and presentation), but it proved to be more time-consuming than either of us were prepared for. It's just a joke after all, not a critical business proposition, so we decided to minimize the time involved.
Instead we grabbed static archives of our home pages and hacked away. I caught myself modifying the markup structure quite a bit, and at one point almost decided to just drop my content in Doug's structure and be done with it. In the end I ended up with a hybrid mix between my site and his markup-wise, and the CSS files are completely customized for this little project alone.
I should note that while our markup structure is different, some of that is because I feel my own structure is inherently wrong in spots. (My heading order in particular: post titles are
<h3>'s, which just feels wrong now. Fixing that will have to wait for a redesign.) In other cases, we just have different pieces of content that demand different structure. You can't standardize that which isn't standard, after all.
I had to go back to my original .PSD files to re-create the graphics which was itself a challenge. The files go back to last year and due to gamma corrections and content adjustment along the way, they're terribly out of synch with what's currently on the site.
Another problem is my graphic editing policy, in that I have none. Editing one of the striped headers on the right involves opening up a previous one, blanking out the text, overlaying new text, and saving a new GIF. I have no problems with this process because I have a plethora of tricks to combat image degradation, but I know some of my processes are quirky and not conducive to later work by other designers. I ended up sending my original mockup PSD to Doug, for which I apologize: hey, if nothing else you got to see how bad it really is!
The home page redirect was easy. I added this to my root .htaccess file:
Redirect index.php
Which basically directed all requests for the home page on to the permanently archived 'cover' spoof page. Since all the links on that page pointed back to real content on the site, it effectively functioned as this site's home page for the day.
This is the way I've done it for past covers on Remembrance Day and Christmas last year. It's how I'll continue to do it for any covers in the future; I like the method because you can be sure as soon as seeing the page/URL that a) it's not the home page, and b) you can link to that page without expecting it'll change. Cool URIs don't change, after all.
We launched about 10:30pm West Coast time on the 30th. Doug had gone quite a bit further than I by spoofing his individual post/comments page too. Jumping from my spoofed home page to my 'real' comments page for the post was disorienting, because two different styles were going on. Doing the same on Doug's site was seamless. And jumping back and forth between two visually identical comments pages was too much. Clearly I had to do something.
A mad rush of CSS coding to pull the extra style back in for the forms (I stripped a bunch originally since it wasn't needed), and a ton of Googling to aid with the redirects, and I finally got my own comments page working around 11:30 or midnight or so. Some of you saw the comments page before this happened. Oh well.
The Movable Type setup to do that was actually pretty easy. I created a new individual entry archive, and in my weblog config I added it to the existing one — the key here is to realize that even though you only set one default archive template, MT generates all templates you've attached. I didn't know this until Doug told me how he set up his; it's going to come in handy for more than just this one project.
So once MT was generating two templates, one for 'regular' posts and one for 'April Fool's' posts (yes, this means I now have a second joke file for all 250-odd posts on my site I'll have to clean up), the trick was redirecting just the one post on to the new file. I looked into .htaccess again, which Doug was apparently able to use, but for whatever reason I couldn't get it working. In MT I threw into my standard template a custom PHP script that redirected if and only if the title of the post was 'Sickening'. That did the trick. I considered leaving that one post formatted with the spoof template from now on, but instead we've both archived the post pages.
No doubt what aided the confusion is the RSS variable. Because a lot of people are reading our sites from newsreaders instead of in a browser, we figured the joke would be perpetuated/lost on some if they didn't click through. We both worded the posts as salaciously as we could to encourage clicking. I ended up temporarily rigging MT to stop producing a new feed, and I hacked the URLs to point to the spoofed page as well. Some may not have got the full effect, and I'd hate to think there are some out there who now think Doug is a thief, albeit a highly-capable one, but I'd imagine it's safe to assume most are in on the joke by now.
And the last piece of the puzzle was taking it all down after 24 hours. Easy as anything — I removed the home page redirect, dropped the PHP from my templates, re-established the RSS feeds, and now we're back.
It was a fun little experiment, and if nothing else I've taken away the itch to finally finish the redesign I've had brewing for six months or so. We'll see how that goes. Thanks for the laughs, and a big thanks to Doug for playing along.
Reader Comments
I highly enjoyed the change, and reading the way you do your covers is great. It's probably much better then just switching the index.php for the day. :)
The reason it got me for 15 seconds was because I saw the post in an RSS reader. Out of context it was a little harder to get.
Nice write ups from both Doug and Dave on how they achieved their day of infamy. Good work in making sure things all worked 99% right.
Incidently, would it have been easier to transformed respective site's XHTML semantics from one to the other using XSL then applying "vanilla" CSS stylesheets making use of a CSS signature?
Amazing job, you two.
Yesterday, I completely skipped the header image because it looked so much alike as the "real" one, and I went on to reading the post… It wasn't obvious 'til I read Doug's post, which gave it away. Way to go!
What I find most interesting is that Doug's Mezzoblue'd StopDesign worked in IE6/Win, whereas your version does not.
Maybe you could borrow some of his CSS so your rollovers up top work correctly without forcing users like me to copy and paste a link from FeedDemon into FireFox.
Absolutely amazing! I nearly fell out of my chair laughing so hard.
You guys have me (and some of my friends) working up something for next year!
This definately caps off my list of April Fool's jokes: this was simple THE BEST!
Thanks for all the troubles – just for our benefit
"What I find most interesting is that Doug's Mezzoblue'd StopDesign worked in IE6/Win, whereas your version does not."
I've been meaning to write about this for a while. Thanks for the push, I'll do that sometime this weekend.
You RSS people think you've got it bad? The first time I saw the post, I was using Links (as in the terminal based text only browser). That was *really* confusing - whatever happened to making content accessible anyway? ;)
(Seriously, it was very well done. I'm pretty sure I would have given up when it proved to be more than trival to pull off)
Haha, I love it. Brilliant joke:P Though I truly liked the S in the Mezzodesign logo!
Very nicely done. You guys always impress. And thanks for the details on the work. Makes it that much more relevant to everyone in their own work!
I kind of wish you've kept Doug's design… I got more refers from your site yesterday using his presentation because the Links seemed to stand out more…. 8^)
It messed me up all day - I'd glance and see the blue and subconsciously think "dave". I don't know how many double takes I did during the day.
I, for one, am glad you guys switched back. It just felt… unnatural.
And thank you, Dave. It certainly was fun. As I mentioned, even *I* was disoriented a few times while reading the comments on each site. Reverting back *was* incredibly easy, given that we kept all our original templates intact, and used redirects/PHP to pass everyone on to the duplicate files.
But, oh, I'm sorry about this:
"(yes, this means I now have a second joke file for all 250-odd posts on my site I'll have to clean up)"
I should have mentioned that you could have generated the extra joke file for only that post just by going into MT and resaving the entry (rather than rebuilding all individual archives). Resaving the entry, even if you haven't made any changes to it, rebuilds all the associated files, including the addition of any new templates you've just added, without touching any non-associated entry files. Useless to Dave after the fact, I know. But thought this might be helpful for more people to know than just Dave, for avoiding this very scenario. Creating a duplicate individual archive file makes temporary testing for new changes possible. And saving one entry, instead of rebuilding the entire archive list, means you can limit the amount of new temp files created. Not to mention it's much faster to rebuild one or two files, than to rebuild hundreds.
One last note I'll add: There were actually quite a few things I learned from working with Dave's code and design. Some things that I wish the design and/or code on Stopdesign allowed, so it was more than just an April Fool's day joke. It was good learning experience all around.
Since I am trying to learn about all this, and just started my own thoughts page, I found this to be 'cool'.
I hadn't checked the pages for couple of days, so was surprised when my teacher asked me this morning to check. First I was shocked, thought, no, he wouldn't do that, then realized what was going on as I looked back through the days. Very cute.
Told my teacher, too bad I had not seen this in 'real' time, for surely I would have sent in a 'April Fool's page' for my project assignment with link to real one. Guess that will teach me to keep up-to-date with everything!
"Hard to say why it worked so well, I guess you take for granted a site's chrome once you've visited enough."
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Great gag, guys. :)
"Unnatural" is a good word. It was like my dad wearing a dress and my mom donning a suit.
Wait, that was last Thanksgiving. Never mind…
Great job. It's a pity that swapping CSS couldn't work but also predictable. I may have to use the redirected homepage trick in the future if you don't mind. I just KNOW there's some uses for it.
It was a great idea and very well implemented. I salute both of you :)
Being a loyal visitor to both blogs, I detected the change at once and burst into laughter, knowing it could only be a joke.
i really loved it.
Really cool one.


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