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- Oct 31:
- Northeast Plains Outreach Team reaching out to flood victims
- Oct 19:
- Disaster Recovery Center closing today
- Oct 16:
- Fellowship of Christian Farmers providing support for those affected by the flood
- Oct 10:
- Parks, Library and Recreation board hears update on flood damage
- Oct 8:
- Flood refunds announced for rifle seasons, property updates
- Oct 4:
- Non-profits, local governments invited to briefing
- Northeastern Junior College reflects on handling of flood situation
- Sep 30:
- FEMA: Disaster Recovery Center still open
- Museum accepting donations to help with recovery
- Sep 28:
- Flood-damaged county roads remain closed
- Center for FEMA, agencies offers 'one stop'
- Sep 27:
- Sterling Livestock helps raise funds for flood relief
- Sep 26:
- Living Center residents happy to return home
- Sep 25:
- A call for Love
- Sep 24:
- Agencies providing aid, info for those affected by the flood
- Safety hazards remain even after water recedes
- Free legal assistance for flood victims
- RE-1 Valley Board of Education hears update on flood issues
- Sep 23:
- City of Sterling resumes normal operations
- A funeral in the time of the flood
- Sep 21:
- Flood upate: no flush order in effect through weekend
- INFORMATION EXTENSION: Food safety information after a flood
- Sep 20:
- Flood update: Highway 6 reopens as residents take stock
- Flood update: Temporary pipe helping relieve pressure on sewer system
- Flood update: no flush restriction still in effect
- Help available for residents, businesses
- Flood postpones Christ United Methodist Church anniversary celebration
- Gov. Hickenlooper: We will rebuild and come out stronger
- Sep 19:
- Merino Fire Department offering free showers from 6 to 10 p.m. today
- Care facilities coping with flood's impact
- Scam artists exploiting Colorado floods
- Sep 18:
- RE-1 Valley School District superintendent gives details about decision to cancel classes
- City of Sterling says wastewater pumps still not operating
- Northeast Colorado Health Department receiving TD vaccine
- Salvation Army providing canteen truck at Sterling Middle School
- Cancellations and closings due to the flooding
- Sandbags wanted downstream
- Sep 17:
- Northeast Colorado Health Department working to get more personal camp toilets, portable toilets
- Flood issues causing closings and postponements
- Damage to wastewater system forces closure of facilities
- Crook evacuated as river threatens
- RE-1 Valley School District, St. Anthony Catholic School, Northeastern Junior College cancel classes, close campus for rest of the week
- Sep 16:
- Lions Club helping with disaster relief for flood victims
- Community rises to help displaced pets
- Colorado flood map 2013 of rain totals
- Sep 15:
- South Platte river-bottom residents take shelter
- Updated: The river has not reached Sterling yet
- Sep 14:
- Southwestern Logan County under flash flood warning until 10:45 p.m.
- Flooding brings tales of rescues, improvisation
- Colorado floods: "Unaccounted for" fluid, now totals 584
- Colorado floods: Infrastructure repairs a steep climb
- Weather postpones many weekend contests
STERLING — — The Logan County Courthouse echoed Wednesday night with voices of those needing help, and those offering it.
The Disaster Assistance Center occupied three floors of the building, with information tables set up around the rotunda and in separate offices.
Present were representatives for governmental agencies from every level — local, regional, state and federal — as well as some non-governmental organizations, including Cooperating Ministry of Logan County, Catholic Charities, the American Red Cross and Northeast Colorado Housing Inc.
At nearly every station, a sign was posted to ensure residents knew the evacuation orders for the South Platte River basin from Sterling to the Sedgwick County line had been lifted.
The 3 p.m. announcement from the Office of Emergency Management warned residents to be careful when entering flood damaged properties.
"Flood waters may still be a hazard, please use caution when entering properties," the release from the OEM states.
Resources available are not limited to those living in one of the estimated 180 Logan County residences damaged or destroyed in the flood. Information was available on services for those who lost work or income due to the no flush order that closed down restaurants, hotels and other businesses in Sterling for a week. In a first floor conference room, representatives from the Small Business Development Center and Sterling Workforce Center were urging business owners and employees affected by the order to register for disaster unemployment benefits, which unlike regular unemployment also apply to self-employed workers. There's no time to delay, they said, because the deadline for file claims is Oct. 25. The SBDC is also working with the Small Business Administration to offer disaster loans for affected businesses, both for physical damages as well as loss of income.
Agricultural resources were also located on the first floor. The CSU Extension Office had a number of fact sheets and flyers on issues such as flood-damaged feed and forage and labs in the state that can test for contaminants, as well as food safety concerns with flooded gardens or produce crops.
Family and Consumer Sciences Coordinator Linda Dettmer said she has had a number of people call with about food-safety questions, and while it is hard for her to tell people to throw everything away, she'd feel even worse if someone got sick from contaminated food.
Downstairs, the Logan County Human Services department had information and applications available for public assistance services such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP). They also had applications for the Miracle Letter Program Flood Relief fund. Staff from the department also planned to visit businesses affected by the no flush order to ensure that employees had the information they needed about the programs available.
On the second floor, Joyce Evans from Northeast Colorado Housing, Inc. was giving out flyers and applications for down payment assistance or low-interest loans for repairs. The non-profit's aid is based on household income, and can be used to rehabilitate homes with health and safety issues, which definitely applies to those affected by flood waters, Evans said.
Also on that level was the Northeast Colorado Health Department, which was handing out water sample bottles for residential wells that were flooded. The health department is offering free testing, and will accept samples on Friday this week. Results are returned within 24 hours, and the NCHD has information available about how to decontaminate wells if needed. They've also provided free tetanus shots to about 100 people who were exposed to the flood water or are cleaning up debris, according to Trish McClain, and planned to hold a clinic today in Merino, and Friday in Weldona. Residents can also come to the Sterling office to get a shot.
Information from FEMA, state and other agencies will also be available at the Disaster Recovery Center opening today at the Gary DeSoto Building at the Logan County Fairgrounds. One Red Cross representative said she was collecting as much information as she could from the other agencies on site Wednesday night so it is available to those who visit the center.
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By Ilona French
Imagine you're doing about $1 million in sales. You're the go-to person when Saturday night racers bang up their vehicles at your local track. All those years of hard work have paid off. Business has never been better. You're on an upward swing.
That is, until all of a sudden your local track closes its doors, and those grassroots racers—who competed locally because, obviously, it's closer to home where they can race, drive home and sleep in their own beds—have nowhere to go, so they simply stop racing.
What would you do? Might that mean the end to your speed shop?
Unfortunately, Jeff Schrader from Racecar Factory in Irwindale, California, found himself in this predicament when Irwindale Speedway cancelled its 2012 season and closed its doors, thereby obliterating about 75 percent of his business.
Rather than close shop, Schrader was determined to keep going.
About 15 percent of those local, Saturday night racers decided to travel to other venues, which continued to support businesses like Racecar Factory, as competitors bought parts and needed repair/fabrication work. Schrader had to make ends meet, so when his customers traveled, he went with them. "From a business standpoint, we made the best of the situation, and when we went on the road, traveling with customers and clients, and racing, we exposed ourselves to a new customer base that we could reach out to and try and get business from," he said. "We probably got 5–10 percent of the business from other venues that we wouldn't have had had we not gone out racing on the road, so to speak."
Schrader also had to downsize staff and lay off employees last year—as well as diversify and branch into other markets of fabrication, such as hot rods and drag racing, which were not necessarily his forte. "We didn't really have a lot of background in that, but fabrication is fabrication," said Schrader. "That ended up filling up 25 percent more of what we had lost with Irwindale being gone. That's how we survived. It was very challenging, and now that they've built a new track in Bakersfield, with Kern Raceway scheduled to open in April, and Irwindale Speedway has a new management group and they're going to re-open that, business has picked up a little bit as far as consumable stuff. The fabrication hasn't picked up yet because nobody has gone out and crashed their cars yet…. When they crash, they need fenders and chassis work and whatnot.
"So that's, in a nutshell, how my business went from doing $1 million a year in sales to doing $400,000–$450,000," he said. "It took a big hit, but we survived and we got creative."
Minimizing expenses during good times is key to enduring lean times. When the tides turned and Schrader's business came to a crawl, all of his equipment was already paid off and he had minimal debt, so he essentially only had rent and payroll to deal with.
Also, when the race track closed, Schrader examined how to become more efficient. "We've outsourced a lot more of our products to the laser cutting and waterjet industry to produce the same product cheaper and quicker than some of the older school fabrication methods," he said. "Getting a part on a band saw and drilling holes in it with a drill bit are a thing of the past now. We try to laser cut almost everything, so it's premade and the repeatability is enormously better. Going to laser cut, waterjet cut parts obviously reduces your overhead because you're not paying a guy to stand there and drill holes into the part…. The laser will work way more efficiently than a human being does."
In order to outsource, Racecar Factory aligned itself with two laser cutting shops. "Between the two vendors, they take care of all my parts now," said Schrader, adding that Racecar Factory simply doesn't have enough volume to make it worthwhile to purchase a laser. "As a small company, I just went to a good laser outfit, established a working relationship with the guy that runs the laser machine, and I email him a picture of what I need cut—and two days later, my parts are cut, very reasonably priced, and exactly the same every time. So I didn't have to buy the laser; I just basically buy laser time."
The parts are delivered to Racecar Factory's doorstep, usually via UPS; although sometimes Schrader picks up the bigger items. "That has reduced a lot of the man hours that are required to build race car chassis, and we build our own spindles and build a lot of our own components now because we can laser cut them," said Schrader.
Landing More Business
Many business owners would agree that procuring customers can be a huge challenge. There's a seemingly limitless pool of racers out there, but actually getting drivers to shop at your store and request your services is another thing. In an attempt to gain exposure, Joe Wood from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-based Pathfinder Chassis came up with a unique promotional campaign: a swap meet held right at his shop. "There's a lot of racers that try to sell their used parts and pieces and update them," said Wood. "And then there's a lot of racers that can't afford the parts, so they need the best deal to buy the used ones from the other racers." And that's what the swap meet was designed to do: help racers buy and sell affordable equipment.
For the swap meet, Pathfinder Chassis charged vendors $20 per table. "We're not making any money on that," said Wood. "It gets customers in our door, and we have a lot of customers that will sell their used parts, and then they'd come to us and then buy new parts with the money that they sold their stuff for…. It worked well for us."
In addition to racers manning their own tables, vendors included manufacturers showcasing their new products. Pathfinder didn't make a commission off anything the vendors sold. "We didn't keep track of any of that stuff," said Wood. "Whatever they sold, that's what they got. There's a lot of auctions, where you take your parts to auctions and then you pay to put it in the auction and then when you sell it, you've got to pay another commission. We didn't want to do that. We wanted to keep it so that it didn't cost the racer a bunch of money to try to sell his own parts."
The swap meet included 25–30 vendors (made up of racers and manufacturers), and 200–250 people came through the door throughout the day—some of which were new faces that had never before visited the shop. To promote the swap meet, Pathfinder handed out fliers and advertised the event on its Facebook page and website. This year, Wood plans on ramping up the promotion by taking plenty of fliers to the big end-of-the-season races.
Hands-On Approach
Some might argue that anybody with talent can do fabrication work. But it's going the extra step and consistently being available at the track and on the phone that really sets successful race businesses apart from others. "Our customers always know that if they have a problem, they can call seven days a week," said Lynne Hansen, from Montclair, California-based Hansen Race Cars, which has earned a reputation for doing things right. The company has done virtually no advertising and relies solely on word-of-mouth leads, yet cars are always in the shop. Two years ago, however, the company did downsize to a 1000-square-foot smaller building to cut overhead and allow for easier manageability.
"We run our business like a business and not like a hobby shop," said Hansen. "There are a lot of places that don't get work in and out. You can't make money if you don't get the work in and out."
Hansen Race Cars has been in business for 26 years and caters to NHRA drag racers. In the last year, Hansen has seen a big improvement in racers' willingness to spend more money. "The Canadian dollar is pretty close to our dollar, so we have a lot of Canadian customers that bring their work to us," she said. "They drive their trucks and trailers down here and leave them here until their cars are done, and then fly down, pick them up and take them. We always have had a lot of Canadian customers, but at one time we had nine cars in our shop—it was probably a month and a half ago—and five of them were Canadian cars. It's the dollar; when the dollar gets even with theirs, that's when they cut loose with their money."
The availability of racers' discretionary income can indicate how racing businesses fare. For example, Hansen noted, "99 percent of our customers are business owners. So when they start spending money, that means to me that their people are spending money with their business also." As the economy strengthens and businesses outside of racing grow, spending picks up, which trickles down to motorsports shops.
Risk Taking
To be successful in a race fabrication business, sometimes you've just got to take a chance on your dream. "When myself and Jason started the business, a lot of people told us we were foolish for starting it," said Wood. "At the time it wasn't a big deal for me to do it, but then looking back, it was a big risk.
"The biggest thing is just work hard," he said. "If you work hard at anything, you usually can survive, as long you're putting 100 percent effort into it."

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Published November 20, 2014
Temple University may not have to go far to fill its vacant head football coaching position.
According to the Daily News on Friday, sources indicate that former offensive coordinator Matt Rhule -- who spent six years on the Owls' staff before leaving this season to take a post with the New York Giants -- can be named to the position as early as Monday.
Rhule is believed to be one of only two men considered for the post, along with former Temple defensive coordinator Mark D'Onofrio, who left with Al Golden when the latter became Miami-Florida head coach.
Steve Addazio, who finished 13-11 in his two seasons as head coach, departed to take the same job at Boston College on Dec. 4.


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- Egyptian visual artist Nermine Hammam is exhibiting her first solo show in the UK
- She says Egypt's revolution has made her extraordinarily productive
- She has taken more than 70,000 photos of events in Tahrir Square for her work
- It remains to be seen whether there will be an artistic revival in the new Egypt, she says
The tumultuous months since January 2011 have confronted Egyptians with uncertainty, triumph and despair on an almost daily basis.
But for one Cairo-based artist, the violence, disruptions and ambiguities of the revolution have also inspired a burst of unprecedented productivity.
Cairo, Year One -- Nermine Hammam's first solo show in the United Kingdom -- contains just a portion of the work she has produced in reckoning with the upheaval reshaping her country.
"Any artist, wherever they are, responds to their surroundings," she said. "It just happens to be that what is happening here is a revolution."
The year following the revolution saw her produce five different bodies of work -- combining elements of photography and painting -- incorporating images from the 70,000 or so snapshots she has taken of events in Tahrir Square and the surrounding neighborhoods.
"I have never done five bodies of work over such a short period, I don't think many people have," she said. "I was responding to each and every feeling I was getting, because everything is moving very quickly. One day you think there's no hope, the next you think there's a lot."
Hammam initially went out every day with her camera, "plunging" herself into Tahrir to document the turmoil playing out around her: "The army, the people taking care of the people on the street."
After that, she said, "when the police were beating up people in the street," she turned to sourcing images of the revolution from the internet. She placed the images incongruously against utopian, postcard scenes from nature -- mountains, flowers and green fields -- or against backdrops modeled on the stylized landscapes of traditional Japanese screens.
Her goal with some of the works was to "conjure harmony" and hope, she said.
Hammam said the momentous events of the revolution were something every Egyptian artist would be drawn to address in their own way, either explicitly or implicitly.
"If other artists haven't yet, they will," she said. "Even if they don't do it directly, psychologically things will change."
But she added that it was too early to say whether the revolution would trigger a lasting artistic revival in her homeland.
Hammam's work was censored under the old regime -- "I took some pictures of the state-run mental asylum and they didn't like that," she said -- and she believed it remained to be seen whether there would be greater space in the new Egypt for artistic expression.
"Maybe perhaps now things will be different; maybe the idea of democracy will allow people to express how they feel," she said. "But for the time being, we have no clue."
The exhibition runs until August 24 at the Mosaic Rooms, London.
Follow the Inside the Middle East team on Twitter. Presenter Rima Maktabi: @rimamaktabi, producer Jon Jensen: @jonjensen, producer Schams Elwazer: @SchamsCNN, writer Tim Hume: @tim_hume and digital producer Mairi Mackay: @mairicnn.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner is gaining ground on his Democratic rivals in the race for New York City Mayor, according to a new poll.
Weiner, who resigned from office two years ago in a sexting scandal, had the support of 19 percent of Democrats in a Marist poll released on Tuesday. That puts him six points behind early frontrunner City Council speaker Christine Quinn, who had support of 25 percent of Democrats.
A separate poll released on May 22, the day that Weiner formally declared his candidacy, had shown Quinn, who would be the city's first female and lesbian mayor, with a wider 10 point lead.
Another 22 percent of voters told Marist pollsters said they were yet undecided, while 12 percent backed Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and 11 percent were with former city comptroller Bill Thompson, who ran unsuccessfully against Bloomberg four years ago. John Liu, the city's current comptroller, follows with 8 percent.
Weiner, once a popular six-term Congressman representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens, resigned from Congress after admitting he had sent a lewd picture over Twitter and then lied about it repeatedly. He launched his campaign last Wednesday, saying he hoped voters would give him a second chance and pledging to be an advocate for the working class.
More than half of registered voters said Weiner deserves a second chance, while nearly 40 percent said Weiner does not have the character to be mayor, the poll found.
The candidates are due to face off in a Democratic primary in September. If no candidate wins more than 40 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will compete in a run-off election. The winning candidate will face the Republican candidate in November.
"He's a major factor in this race, he's made a run-off all but inevitable and he can't be overlooked," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
All of the Republican contenders, including businessman John Catsimatidis and Joe Lhota, the former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are regarded as long-shots.
Miringoff said that voters appear to be open to a Weiner candidacy, though Weiner is still hampered by heavy disapproval ratings. He noted that Quinn is viewed favorably by 60 percent of registered Democrats.
"She remains the most popular of all of the candidates," Miringoff said.
The poll was released hours before Weiner is due to participate in his first mayoral debate. Quinn, who has attended dozens of such forums in recent months, has said she will not attend.
The telephone survey of 1,001 New York City adults was conducted May 22 through May 24. There poll included 810 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points, and 492 Democrats, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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I have had make an advent calendar on my to-do list for a couple weeks now, yesterday I realized I better get a'crackin' because the countdown begins tomorrow! I love having an advent calendar for the sake of tradition, especially for my children. It's always those long standing traditions I look back on with the fondest of memories. It can also be a lovely decoration as well. Check out these links links to some of my favorite advent calendars here, here and here.
For this one I just printed out some date cards, used a date stamp, envelopes, a few wrapped up goodies and strung it all up on my wall. I filled the envelopes with chocolates, stickers, a couple of giftcards to the best book store ever, so that we could use them on an outing to go buy each other a book for christmas. I also included a few other little goodies; but I didn't fill each day with a gift, for some of the days I declared an activity to do later in the day, such as: drink hot cocoa with lots of marshmallows, or watch The Polar Express whilst eating popcorn balls. Others I placed an action that each of us could do for each other - like, leave a (nice) surprise for everyone under their pillow; say what you love most about yourself and everyone else in the room, or do something to help someone out that day. Personally I love giving and receiving with equal fervor and I want my kids to know the joy and value in both as well. It's a good exercise for me too! You can download the advent stars with numbers here and the advent circles with numbers here.
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As mentioned a couple weeks ago, what is being reported in the media is probably worse than the reality of the drought and its effect on the U.S. corn crop. There will be corn fields in west central Illinois that yield 175 bu./acre. And there will be many fields yielding less than 50 bu./acre. The best looking fields of corn are in the few areas where the corn was planted in late March and received timely rains. Corn that followed a 2011 corn crop will yield one-fourth of the 2011 yield and one-third of what it would have yielded if it had followed a 2011 soybean crop.
A neighbor chopped a field of corn for silage that was likely to be a low grain yielding field. That neighbor left some yield test strips for the crop insurance adjusters to determine grain yield. I would estimate the yield to range from 80 bu./acre to zero in some areas of the field.
I think the U.S. corn yield will be in the high 120 bu./acre range, which is 20-25% below an expected 2012 corn yield.
Even the deepest rooted plants around are rolling their leaves mid-day to conserve moisture. I have driven by these trees (do not know what kind they are) for many years and have never seen them look so thirsty. The newest leaves roll up every afternoon that it is hotter than 90 degrees, which is frequent. Any hand tool that gets left in the sun is too hot to handle by noon.
The non-agricultural media leads its followers to believe that there will be almost no corn at harvest time. I have already read suggestive solution like stop eating things with high-fructose corn syrup as an ingredient. This nonsense is supposed to solve many problems like making more corn available for ethanol, fewer obese people, less diabetes, less mercury in our blood, and more lovin' for everybody.
But then, nothing compares to having Christmas trees with odd shaped tops 10 years from now due to the drought's effect on Christmas tree seedlings. Kent yawns after watching this. http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/30/3732775/for-christmas-trees-a-crispy-end.html
There are several similar reports from around the Midwest creating worry about the odd shaped Christmas trees that we are likely to find 8 to 10 years from now. As a corn and cattle farmer, I am disgusted by the waste of time and digital storage space on such an unimportant topic as Christmas tree shapes in the future.
Marie had a good week at the National Jr. Hereford Show in Nebraska. She placed 6th in senior showmanship, and her heifer Foxy was division champion. Carol was there to cheer her on while Renee and I stayed home and cooked eggs outside.


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Just purchased CC. It looks great running on the PSP in full screen mode. Played for about an hour and seems like an awesome game. I may still pick up CT. Is it bad to play CC before CT?
If anything I would add that playing CC before playing CT is actually probably the "best" way to experience it. I missed CT on the SNES and didn't wind up playing it until its PSOne port; having played CC first. Going CC to CT makes the final cutscene of CT more of a "Oh hey, that's pretty cool!" rather than a "Um...what's this about?"
Got a PSN card over the holidays and not sure what to get any suggestions fellow gamers? I have Chrono Cross and have considered FFV, VI and was also looking for a really good strategy game. Tactics Ogre and Jeanne de arc is still pretty expensive $20or more while the physical copies are only $10 or $15 in the store. I have all the Ys titles and Lunar but don't know what else to get. I really have been away from the game scene the last couple of years with only short visits here and there.
I second that. No idea why it took so long for them to put it up; aside from the fact that the game is rather notorious for giving software which shant be named glitches galore. Maybe it took them this long to iron out the bugs.


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Dec 23
Match Preview: Ulster Rugby vs. Connacht Rugby
The Guinness PRO12's busy Christmas schedule kicks off on Friday when Ulster welcome their inter-provincial rivals Connacht to the Kingspan Stadium.
Ulster have only lost once in their last nine games in Belfast but welcome a Connacht side buoyed by last-gasp victory over Wasps in Europe last weekend.
Ulster, meanwhile, slipped to defeat against Clermont having beaten the French giants the week before.
What's at stake?
Ulster's win over the Cardiff Blues in round 10 of the Guinness PRO12...
Dec 16
Match Preview: ASM Clermont Auvergne vs. Ulster Rugby
Ulster ace Charles Piutau says he is relishing the chance to take on Clermont Auvergne in their European Rugby Champions Cup encounter in France.The Irish province will be hoping to make it back-to-back Pool 5 wins against Clermont after claiming a famous 39-32 success in Belfast last weekend.
A second victory in eight days could see Ulster top the pool going into 2017, if Bordeaux-Begles fail to beat Exeter Chiefs on Saturday.
New Zealand Full-back Piutau said: "Clermont's stadium is one of...
Nov 4
Match Preview: Edinburgh Rugby vs. Ulster Rugby
Rob Lyttle has burst onto the scene for Ulster this season and the winger admits he would love nothing more than to help his side head into the Guinness PRO12 break with a win after a patchy run of form.
Lyttle makes his second-ever Guinness PRO12 start for Ulster – having scored in last week's defeat to Munster – is a new addition to the starting backline alongside centre Sam Windsor and fly-half Brett Herron.
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Whoever decided interpros should be the same week as we're preparing for a Test against the All Blacks needs a stern talking to.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Paul McCartney played the FedExForum Sunday night and during one of his several
soliloquies to the sold-out crowd he marveled at the cross-generational audiences that come to hear him play, a phenomenon that transcends time and age to create a seemingly eternal, ethereal world.
Inside the same arena Monday night, another traveling road show continued to manipulate their own timelines of age and accomplishment. The San Antonio Spurs aren't quite working on a half-century of brilliance like Sir Paul, but in sports years, the Gregg Popovich–Tim Duncan partnership is as apt a comparison as one will find in the modern sports world.
Think about it. When they won their first title in 1999, today's college freshmen were in kindergarten. Teenagers then now have their own kids wearing Duncan's No. 21 jersey just as they did. This is as unique as it gets: A transcendent player and a gruff, no-nonsense coach — add a crafty and clever general manager in R.C. Buford who helps to draft Tony Parker late in the first round and Manu Ginobili late in the second — and all these years later it's the same as it ever was, the Spurs back in the NBA Finals like it was, well, yesterday.
Duncan and Pop will vie for a fifth championship in 15 seasons and a fourth comprised as the Big Three. They finished the job with a 93-86 win for a sweep of the overmatched Memphis Grizzlies in their maiden voyage to the Western Conference finals.
"To get over that hump and get back into the Finals is just an amazing feeling, honestly," said the 37-year-old Duncan after going for 15 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots. "Nothing's promised. Teams continue to change. Teams continue to get better every year and we seem to make minimal changes and we continue to play and compete a high level."
Too high for a Memphis team that is now, having completed a 12th season here, truly attracting a generation of its own basketball fans that cut their teeth with a college team that plays in the same building.
These four straight losses came entirely unsuspectingly after the Grizz took out the Los Angeles Clippers in six and then top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in five. But it can't diminish the wild success of this group during a drama-filled season, and the 17th consecutive playoff sellout crowd that encouraged their blue-collar club to the final buzzer proved it by standing and loudly cheering them off into the abrupt offseason.
Coach Lionel Hollins, who has molded this team in his own manly image of how basketball should be played — tough, physical, resolute and from the inside out, stood on the floor after all his players had walked off as if to soak it all in. He unfastened the mic he wore for television, handed it to Grizzlies PR director Jason Wallace and slowly headed into the tunnel as the crowd continued to cheer.
Waving yellow rally towels that read "We Don't Bluff," they had to be wondering if Hollins was truly walking into the Memphis sunset.
He entered the season in the final year of his contract and an extension never came as new ownership and management took over the operation just as the season was getting under way. They shook up the roster with a couple of trades that included shipping out leading scorer Rudy Gay.
The core of Zach Randolph, Mike Conley, Tony Allen and Marc Gasol carried the club the rest of the way, securing a franchise-best 56 wins. They caught a break facing OKC without injured All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook and grinded their way to this unprecedented point.
And now it's up to the new management team, led by CEO Jason Levien, to make the right call on several critical fronts, starting with Hollins, whose contract expires at the end of next month. He will have suitors and likely some — the Nets and Clippers — willing to pay a premium. One member of the Grizzlies' large, new ownership group acknowledged that Hollins will be a hot commodity for several vacancies in the league, but added "We'll have first shot."
Then there's free agents. At the top of the agenda is the team's heart-and-soul, the creator of grit-and-grind, Tony Allen. Jerryd Bayless is likely to opt out of his contract. And what will this new group want to do with Randolph, who turns 32 in July, and his remaining $34.3 million owed him over the next two seasons?
If there was any doubt as to where Allen and Randolph hope to be when training camp opens come October all one had to do was look into their bloodshot eyes and hear their cracking voices.
"I bleed blue. This is where I want to be," Allen said. "I don't want to cry right now, but you know, it's just a great season. I love the fight in all my guys."
Randolph carried the team in the first two rounds, but couldn't get anything going against the Spurs, who keyed on him with swarming defense every time he touched the ball in the post.
"You never know," said Randolph, wiping moist eyes. "Just seeing this core, where we went. This is where I want to be, whether I get traded or not. I would like to retire a Grizzly and be here."
Hollins didn't want to discuss his future after the game. But before it, he gave a sense of what coaching these players and putting his stamp on this team — a 24-win outfit in 2008-09 when he took over for the fired Marc Iavorani with 39 games left– has meant to him. Randolph said it all starts with Hollins.
"What I'm proud of is that I was blessed to have a group that wanted to win," Hollins said. "They didn't know how. They were young and they didn't know how to work hard because they never had to, and I just tried to show them the way and put them in an environment that they could be successful.
"I'm proud of them because they wanted it and they went and did everything that I pushed them to do. They could have quit as well, but they chose to fight, and they're reaping the rewards for us right now."


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Clattenburg has no case to answer
Southampton's complaint against Mark Clattenburg has been struck out by referees bosses.
The Saints wrote to the referees' governing body the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) on New Year's Eve, objecting to referee Clattenburg's conduct towards Adam Lallana in the 2-1 defeat at Everton on December 29.
Southampton objected to Clattenburg's conduct in an exchange with the England midfielder.
But after a review the PGMOL has ruled there is no case to answer.
In a letter seen by Press Association Sport, Southampton claimed Clattenburg told Lallana: "You are very different now, since you've played for England - you never used to be like this."
The PGMOL has since confirmed it will take no further action on the matter, and Clattenburg is free to continue officiating as planned.
A statement reads: "PGMOL is committed to constructive dialogue and communication with clubs, managers and players.
"On December 31 PGMOL received a letter from Southampton who raised concerns about the conduct of Mark Clattenburg following their game with Everton on December 29.
"In a written response to Southampton PGMOL acknowledge that their complaint has been considered in full.
"However, given the nature of the conversation with the player, having reviewed the footage and spoken to the team of officials as well as the Premier League Match Delegate it has been found that there is no case to answer.
"Mark has the full support of PGMOL Management and will be considered for selection for all and any matches going forward in the usual way."
Clattenburg is scheduled to referee the third round FA Cup tie between Arsenal and Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday evening.
After the PGMOL threw out Southampton's claims, he will now continue to officiate that game.
Clattenburg is no stranger to controversy, after Chelsea accused him of racially abusing midfielder John Mikel Obi last season in a hot-tempered Barclays Premier League clash with Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
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Animal hybrids — real or completely imagined — are a topic of endless fascination, especially on the internet. Let's take a stroll through several of the craziest ever imagined and clarify once and for all whether they are works of fiction or something you should lie awake at night thinking about. First up: Bearsharktopus.
Yes, it's a Photoshop by UPROXX's own Matt Ufford, and it's biologically impossible. On the other hand, imagine rolling out of your sleeping back and seeing this thing closing in on your campsite. Yes, pants would need to be changed.
Immortalized — AMC's original series brings viewers into the captivating and provocative world of creative and competitive taxidermy. In this competition, you have to bring your own game. Premieres Feb 14, Thursdays 10/9c. Only on AMC.
Polar bears and grizzly bears are interbreeding as polar bears are being forced south thanks to global warming. Over time this may result in a bear that has no fear of humans, can survive very extreme conditions, and is incredibly aggressive. So basically, it'll sound awesome until they start invading human settlements en masse and eating everyone.
Man, we're grateful this one is fake. Although Floridians might argue the point.
The idea of a rabbit with the actual horns of a deer is, as you may have guessed, false, but the concept of a rabbit with horns is, believe it or not, 100% real.
It's caused by Shope papilloma virus, a disease that causes tumors to grow out of a rabbit's face. And, yes, that includes on the top of the head, so there are jackalopes out there. They're just horrible disease victims instead of hybrids.
You thought they only existed in Napoleon Dynamite, but lion and tiger crossbreeds are not only real, but actually relatively common. They come from a male lion and a female tiger reproducing and, oh yeah, they're bigger than either species. Also they can reproduce, unlike some hybrids. Fortunately, they only appear in captivity. For now.
You know, we don't want to know how the idea for this one got started.
That's not a kitten: Leopard and puma crossbreeds are prone to dwarfism, possibly marking the first time in natural history that a hybrid spawned something consistently adorable.
But it'll still eat your face. Just saying.
Courtesy of respected fine artist Takeshi Yamada, the "sea gerbil" is supposedly a fuzzy little rodent who lives under the sea, complete with devil horns and webbed feet. This is actually a careful mixture of organic and inorganic materials to create a convincing specimen: Yamada specializes in "rogue taxidermy", a form of sculpture where taxidermists mix and match parts to create fanciful creatures.
No, it is not named Sandy.
The Cama is thankfully only possible through artificial insemination. The idea was to create an animal that creates soft wool and is far less surly than the notoriously douchey camel.
Instead the fur is rough and if anything it's even more contrary and ticked off. Great in theory, crappy in execution.
So an iguana that can only survive on land interbred with an iguana that can only survive in the water in the Galapagos, spawning an iguana that can survive on either and has freaking razor-sharp claws.
Ever think Mother Nature is a big fan of making things more terrifying?
Al Gore may have been superserial about it, but Manbearpig does do some pretty serious damage, especially when it escapes into the real world. Then again, he is ultimately defeated by a bunch of fourth graders, so maybe he's not as badass as advertised.
Killer bees are noted for their ferocity, swarming nature, and general terrifying defensiveness of the hive. And it all started in 1957, when the careful work of biologist Warwick Kerr was undone by some idiot randomly walking by and messing with his hives, releasing twenty-seven African honeybee queens into the wild.
Since then, the African queens have taken over, invading complacent honeybee hives, killing the queen, and filling it with bees that will not stop stinging you. A killer bee swarm is a pretty horrible way to die, albeit somewhat unlikely.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - As part of its current six-game winning streak the UC Santa Barbara women's team has clinched a home court game for the first round of the ampm Big West Tournament on Tuesday, March 8.
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La Roux's Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid
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And The GRAMMY Went To ... La Roux
(In the coming weeks GRAMMY.com will feature information and video highlights on winners from the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, held Feb. 13 in Los Angeles. Each installment will offer the winning or related video and some pertinent, and not so pertinent, information about the track and the artists.)
Album: La Roux (iTunes>)
Artists: La Roux
Won for: Best Electronic/Dance Album
Previous wins: None
Did you know?: It was their self-titled debut that earned London-based synth pop duo La Roux (French for red-haired one) their first GRAMMY at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Comprising the duo is singer/songwriter Elly Jackson and keyboardist/producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson is the daughter of actress Trudie Goodwin and is also responsible for the group's namesake — a moniker she reportedly found in a book of baby names. After collaborating in 2006, the duo formed a project titled Automan, writing mostly acoustic music before transitioning into the David Bowie- and Prince-inspired sounds of La Roux. They released their debut single "Quiksand" in 2008 and toured in support of GRAMMY-nominated artist Lily Allen the following year. "In For The Kill," the duo's first single off their 2009 self-titled debut, also earned the duo a Best Dance Recording nomination. Their second single "Bulletproof" topped the UK singles chart in 2009 and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010.
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Wild Beasts, The Count and Sinden, Sons and Daughters, Jon Hopkins and Eugene McGuinness | 23/03/09
Happy to announce that Domino will be hosting a night at this year's Hinterland Festival which runs from 30th April – 1st May across a number of venues in Glasgow. Billed as 'an adventure in music and art', Hinterland is the first of its kind in Glasgow and follows a similar set up to SXSW in Texas and the Camden Crawl in London, where one wristband grants access to a variety of venues.
The Domino event will feature performances from Domino and Double Six artists and will take place on Friday May 1st at a special venue to be announced on the day. Eugene McGuinness will be performing tracks from his recent eponymous and critically acclaimed Domino debut, and will be followed by a set from Jon Hopkins, whose album, Insides, is due for release via Double Six in May. Headlining the night will be Wild Beasts, who will be previewing songs from their much anticipated second LP due for release later this year.
Elsewhere at Hinterland, Sons and Daughters will be performing, as well as The Count & Sinden, who will be manning the decks alongside Simian Mobile Disco. Once again, venues for these shows will be announced on the day.
For more information on the festival and how to get tickets, visit the Hinterland website.
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MattA necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
We need brochures and booth graphics for our financial services startup, FinFolio. We want it to fit in with our web site, logo, and business card.
FinFolio is a financial services startup that is building portfolio management software for investment advisors. We used 99 designs for our logo and business card and have been very impressed--you guys rock.
We need two brochures, (1) an 8x11" two-page (front &back) brochure, and (2) an 11x17" four-page brochure that will befolded in half. And we need a trade show booth, which is a large "backdrop" and podium (like this).
VERY IMPORTANT -- We set up a web page (here) with a more detailed summary of the contest.
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I assume that you are coming to study for one year.
If your fee is £5500 for one year, then you will need around £600 per month accommodation for one year, that mean 600x12=£7200
Here, accommodation 7200+ 5500 fee = 12500
£12500 is around 15 Lakh Nepali Rupees against what you said 8 Lakh above.
To give you accurate information, please provide more information.
Working to make money to study will be very very hard path to go through. I dont recommend anyone to chose this path, specially in current UK climate. Finding part time job is not difficult but part time job only help you to pay for accommodation, food and transport. So you will have to struggle to pay fee. Some lucky people find good job with enough hours when they are in vacation and pay their fee easily but many are suffering.
If you can bring money from Nepal to pay fee, then you can manage life. If you find good job and make money here, then you can pay back your family but depending solely on work in the UK to pay fee is not advisable and at one point everyone regret.
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The Raiders confirmed the signing of running back Rock Cartwright Wednesday on their Web site, adding depth to a thin corps of running backs.
Cartwright was at the facility and will participate in the minicamp this weekend. The Raiders are looking for a third running back to team with Darren McFadden and Michael Bush after cutting Justin Fargas in the offseason. Cartwright has extensive fill-in duty as a member of the Washington Redskins.


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The implementation of voluntary benefits is both good for your company and appreciated by your employees. When it comes to LegalShield, Colonial Life, and more, VISICOR is your single source provider for implementation, communication, enrollment services, and administration.
With more than 100 years of combined experience, the VISICOR team delivers the expertise and specialization essential to navigate today's increasingly complex employee benefits marketplace.
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Not all employee benefits brokerage and consulting firms are created equal. VISICOR combines cutting edge resources with detailed claims analysis and a creative approach to deliver real results.
Insurance is complicated. Most employees do not understand or appreciate their employee benefits. At VISICOR, we solve the benefits communication challenge.
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The VISICOR team is a phenomenal resource for our organization. Their expertise and responsiveness to both individual inquiries and our school's needs is simply first rate." ─ B.M.; Head of School
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I've had the pleasure of working closely with Ed Oravetz and the VISICOR team for over five years now. In addition to helping us offer excellent benefits at a reasonable cost, the VISICOR staff has educated our employees so they fully understand their benefits and know how to use them effectively. They are always willing to assist employees with a difficult claim or any other problem. We have had tremendous positive feedback from our employees regarding VISICORs prompt, friendly and […]
The employee benefits consulting and analysis services provided by the VISICOR team provided the clarity and results needed by our benefits committee to make our 2011 benefits decisions. After months of confusion with a previous consultant, the VISICOR team delivered the results we were looking for and did so under very difficult timeline restrictions. I appreciate the professional and honest approach delivered by the VISICOR staff." ─ H. W.; Human Resources / Risk Manager
Visicor offers services that we have not seen from previous brokers. The services they offer cuts the time we spend assisting our employees by more than half and provides added value directly to our employees." ─ T. S.; Human Resources
I have worked with the VISICOR team through two open enrollment periods and a change in providers. Thanks to VISICOR and the information they provided to us and our employees we were able to make a smooth transition. Additionally, Ed and his team have always been available to answer questions regarding employee health insurance and to resolve any issues with our health insurance bills and claims quickly and efficiently." ─ C. L.; Benefits Administrator
Visicor has been a tremendous help to us as we continually work to improve employee benefits. Our employees find the custom benefits booklets provided by Visicor as well as the open enrollment meetings very informative! Visicor has also been very helpful as the liaison between the insurance companies and employees throughout the plan year when issues arise." ─ C. P.; HR Specialist
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Early in September 2009, we found ourselves in a bind with our previous insurance broker/consultant. Our employee benefits renewal was October 1st so needless to say, we were in a panic. We advertised and held an open meeting giving several brokers the opportunity to speak and present their views to our committee members on what they could offer us. One consultant stood out the most. A vote was taken at the conclusion of the meeting and it was unanimous that […]
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Rapper 2 Chainz was acquitted of drug charges Wednesday following his February arrest on suspicion of possession of marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia.
The Grammy-nominated "No Lie" rapper, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, was arrested on Valentine's Day after police said they observed his 2013 Ford E-350 van speeding en route to a concert at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He and the six other occupants were ordered out of the vehicle when cops reportedly smelled marijuana in the van. Police said 2 Chainz was arrested after they found a marijuana grinder and traces of marijuana in a bag he said he owned, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Epps, 35, was cited for having drug paraphernalia and marijuana and was released, but not before he posed for a photo with Maryland police officers.
At the time and during the trial, Harold Folsome Jr., a security guard, took responsibility for the grinder, which was found in a gray bag inside Epps' bag, according to the Star Democrat. Still, Folsome said the device did not belong to him. He was responsible for packing Epps' bag and put the gray bag in it, he said, but three other people were in the same hotel suite gathering items before the group hurriedly headed out to the performance.
"Whoever left it in the room, I guess that's who it belonged to," Folsome said during the trial. "When I saw what it was, I knew what I did."
Epps' defense attorney said that there was no evidence to prove the gray bag belonged to his client.
A judge in Easton, Md., then found the rapper not guilty on both charges. Epps also was found not guilty of possession of paraphernalia.
"Boxing gloves I beat the trial," 2 Chainz later tweeted.


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March 14, 2012 - Larry DeHays
Gas prices have gone nuts, as we all know, mostly because we allow gamblers to speculate with oil futures (in my humble opinion), but the point is that we need to protect ourselves from this gouging by reducing our consumption. As Americans, we're not very good at that. Europeans and Asians have had $5.00 gas for decades, and that's why they make economical cars. We like to emphasize massive horsepower in our cars, so that's what Detroit specializes in. Having more horsepower than you need wastes fuel. Driving a powerful car slowly is not the same as driving a less powerful car. Corvettes cannot get the miles per gallon of a volkswagen. The technical reason is that internal combustion engines are most efficient when they are producing their most horsepower, and when they go slower, they are less efficient. It's that lack of efficiency that wastes gas. A smaller engine running harder makes better use of fuel. So the first step is to buy cars with smaller engines. Sounds un-American, I know. When the Detroit Big Three first tried their hand at it, they half heartedly gave us the Pinto, the Vega, and the Horizon. They figured if we wanted economical cars we would also want cheap cars. Welcome, Toyota, to the Promised Land. Welcome, Detroit, to bankruptcy. If you think they've learned their lesson, watch current advertisements for American cars, and see if they advertise economy or horsepower. Welcome Kia, welcome Hyundai, welcome all the other European and Asian car makers. There seems to be some demand in this country for economy and quality in the same car. Detroit doesn't get it.
The next step is to drive more efficiently. Slower accellerations, longer coasts to a stop, lower top speed. Out of all the things that are using up your fuel, the largest by far is aerodynamic drag. The faster you go, the harder it is to push the air out of the way, therefore using more fuel per mile. 55 mph is much more efficient than 75 or 80 mph. A few other tips; leaving the air conditioning off is usually less efficient, because opening the windows causes more aerodynamic drag. Using premium fuel in cars designed for regular fuel wastes gas. The higher octane is not used by these engines, and just blows out of the tail pipe. Forget about the miracle devices sold to improve mileage. It's just snake oil salesmen still plying their trade. Don't tamper with the emission control devices, they now help fuel economy. Keep tire pressures near the high end of their rating. Hard tires roll much easier than soft tires do.
Finally, lets talk about the fuel. Most now contains alchohol. You've probably heard that it can cause problems in older cars. It can do that, and it can also cause problems in everything from cars to trucks to boats, because it has a shorter storage life. The alchohol attracts water, which is OK if you burn it quickly, but if left in the tank for months, it turns to a gel that won't burn, and will seriously plug up a fuel system. Stabilizers are sold which can be added to the fuel to help this problem, and should most definitely be used before storing these alchohol-gasoline blends. Once it spoils it has to be disposed of, and that wastes gas.
When the price of fuel, or anything else is too high, we have to either produce more or consume less to make the market bring the price down. You and I don't have much control over production, but we can cut consumption, and that will get the attention of some sheiks, and maybe even the wall street bandits. Probably the same ones who robbed our retirement accounts, but that's another story.
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It seems to be a never–ending source of surprise and distress to system builders that one data model, one message format, one message transport—in fact, exactly one of any major architectural component, policy or stance—won't serve all parts of the business equally well. Of course: an enterprise ( "enterprise" is red flag #1) big enough to worry about how many different "Account" tables will impact system building next decade is most likely too big and diverse for one "Account" table to do the job anyway.
In technical domains we can force uniqueness. Very convenient for us. In business domains the inconsistent, multi–faceted, fuzzy, messy world intrudes. Worse yet, business doesn't even deal with "the world", it deals with people's opinions about aspects of situations in parts of the world. One response is to deem the domain to be technical and apply a unique solution by fiat. But reality is that which does not go away when one stops believing in it, and the messiness always returns as the business evolves. Thus are born enterprise data teams, and so forth, who spend all their (very expensive) time trying to tame existential dread through DTD wrangling. Paying customers tend to find the level of responsiveness that comes form this somewhat unsatisfactory.
Why not face up to the reality of a messy world and allow multiple, inconsistent, overlapping representations, services, solutions? As technologists we recoil in horror form this. We imagine terrifying scenarios: inconsistent updates, maintenance overhead, spaghetti–plates of dependencies to manage. But let's take a hint from the world of data warehousing. The schemata data marts are often (relationally) denormalized, mix imported and calculated values arbitrarily, and present a very different view of the data than the underlying databases. And the sky does not fall because of the non–functional properties of a mart. The ETL process sits at the boundary of two very different worlds, typically transaction versus analytical processing. These have very different rates of update and query, very different throughput, different rates of change of design, perhaps very different volumes. This is the key: sufficiently different non–functional properties of a sub–system create a boundary across which managing inconsistent representations is tractable.
Don't go duplicating representations, or having multiple transports just for the fun of it, but do always consider the possibility that decomposition of your system by non–functional parameters may reveal opportunities to allow diverse solutions to your customers' advantage.
By Keith Braithwaite


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JPWheelr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
This is an established, woman owned business that takes furniture and other wood items, and refinishes them. Her principle colors she would like to use are a process red/pink and turquoise. if you are looking for hex colors to best match I would say is #ff71f7 for the pink and #5bfff5 for the turquoise. We are not married to these colors, but she prefers them. It could be a challenging project. Read full description for more details
Wood Refinishing by Sue Wheeler
As the brief noted, we only have a color premise and business to work with. Everything is in the air. Standard pages should be accounted for - About us, Contact, gallery, services, main, etc
So in your design please allot for at least the indicated links.
The logo can be located at suewheelerstl.com
The domains to be used for this site are suewheelerstl.com and scootersue.com - if that is of any help.
Final design needs to be delivered as a layered .psd, include fonts
As always, we have had great success with Sitepoint Contests, 99Designs; so we can safely and assuredly guarantee a winner
In the event we just can't work with anything, a 10% partial prize will still be awarded to our greatest influence.
(yes, layered PSD, thanks for the catch!)
- She would love to use the colors previously mentioned in the site. It is not mandatory, but certainly requested.
- To display the business in some aspect or another in the design and on the site. We have many images of before and after if that would help. Please PM and we will assemble a ZIP to send.
- To stay light, fun, and feminine but keep the business aspect
- To allow for the mentioning of the company name and logo on the pages "Wood Refinishing by Sue Wheeler"
- The logo can be found at http://www.suewheelerstl.com
- simple and effective can be key
- No pre-made templates (that's why we are here and not template monster)
- Nothing to masculine
- Nothing missing character (no cold corporate)
- stock vectors are fine, in moderation


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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Keith Price threw a career-best five touchdown passes and Washington overcame a slow start to whip hapless Colorado 38-3 on Saturday for the Huskies' fourth straight win.
Bishop Sankey atoned for a first-half fumble at the 1 by running through Colorado's defense for 139 yards and collecting 48 more on four receptions as the Huskies (7-4, 5-3 Pac-10) won consecutive road games for just the second time in the last decade.
The Huskies can secure their first eight-win season since 2001 with a win at Washington State next week.
After committing five costly turnovers in this one, the Buffaloes (1-10, 1-7) will have to beat Utah on Friday to avoid the worst record in school history and their first winless season at home since 1920.
Price completed 22 of 29 passes for 248 yards with no interceptions.
The Buffaloes held an opponent scoreless in the first quarter for the first time this season but still trailed 7-0 at halftime after running their own scoreless streak at Folsom Field to eight quarters.
Two big blunders by the Buffs led to 14 quick points and ended hopes of an upset in a stadium that was mostly empty with the campus on Thanksgiving break and the program in a downward spiral under second-year coach Jon Embree.
A punt hit Colorado's Nelson Spruce, and Will Shamburger recovered for Washington at the Colorado 35 after a save by teammate Kevin Smith as the ball was bouncing out of bounds. Three plays later, Price found Kasen Williams in the end zone for a 17-yard TD.
Huskies tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, playing defensive end on third downs with Washington's defensive line riddled with injuries, then recovered a fumble after Josh Shirley's sack-strip of Colorado's Jordan Webb. Fifteen seconds later, Price hit Kendyl Taylor for a 23-yard touchdown and a 21-0 lead.
Marques Mosley returned the ensuing kickoff 59 yards, setting up Will Oliver's 37-yard field goal that snapped the Buffs' home scoring drought, which had dated to the first half of a game against Arizona State on Oct. 11. They were subsequently shut out 48-0 by Stanford.
The Huskies responded with a 17-point blitz that included TD passes from Price of 3 yards to Seferian-Jenkins and 18 yards to Jaydon Mickens.
Sophomore Connor Wood got his first start for the Buffs but was replaced by Webb, who started the first nine games, after throwing two interceptions in five drives that netted 50 yards. Things didn't get much better - Webb ran a quarterback sneak on first down in an apparent miscommunication from the sideline.
The Huskies caught the first big break of the game when Marcus Peters pressured Wood into a poor pass that Shaq Thompson intercepted at midfield. After reaching the Colorado 13, however, the drive stalled and on fourth-and-10, Travis Coons banged the ball off the left upright.
He later was good from 25 yards out.
Later, Buffs linebacker Doug Rippy stripped Sankey at the 1 and Jon Major recovered for Colorado. Wood quickly followed with his second interception, this one picked off by safety Sean Parker.
Price found Cody Bruns with a 3-yard TD toss with 1:02 left in the first half for a 7-0 halftime lead.
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Brain and spinal cancer can be a devastating disease that affects both the patient and his or her family members. The Medical Center offers the Brain and Spine Tumor Support Group for individuals who have or have had brain and spine tumors. The meetings include education on a variety of topics as well as support from health professionals and individuals who have had brain and spine tumors.
The group meets the second Tuesday of each month at The Medical Center Health & Wellness Center from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Health & Wellness Center is located at 1857 Tucker Way off Cave Mill Road in Chandler Park. See our calendar of events for upcoming support group meetings.


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Going Green: Furnishings in Verdant Shades
Green is having a moment. Since emerald became Pantone's 2013 Color of the Year, this vibrant shade, and others on the same spectrum, have been popping up all over the home furnishings world. Green is somehow invigorating and calming at the same time, and with versions from mint to olive to forest, there's a green for everyone.
1. S Moda
2. Sketch 42
3. Mimou via Decor8.
4. The Decorista
5. My Scandinavian Home
6. Skona Hem via Pink Wallpaper
7. Splendid Sass
8. La Maison d'Anna G
9. Milk Magazine
10. Pink Mascara
(Images: as linked above)