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From Dwight Howard to Andrew Bynum to Amar'e Stoudemire and now, Joakim Noah, they have all found their way to one of the all-time greats for outside training on the art of mastering the low post.
Hakeem Olajuwon has tutored many of the current game's big men, and others as well. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar worked with Bynum early in his career, is in the midst of developing a relationship with new Lakers big man Howard and taught the master class that Noah attended this summer in Los Angeles.
It was a two-week crash course, per K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, and one that included not just on-court skill work but also some tips on how best to prepare yourself for the rigors of the life in the NBA and beyond.
The best part of the Abdul-Jabbar-Noah pairing is the fact that these kindred spirits, both men have no problems straying from the conformist's path and doing their own thing, connected immediately:
"It was very humbling," Noah said. "I feel a lot more polished offensively. Just because I worked with Kareem doesn't mean I'm going to be throwing in sky hooks from everywhere. But I learned a lot from him."
This knowledge extended off the court. Noah said Abdul-Jabbar shared pointers on yoga for offseason preparation and community service.
"He's a very interesting guy," Noah said.
This experience couldn't take place until Noah's gruesomely sprained left ankle fully healed. Despite warming up before the season-ending Game 6 of the Bulls-76ers playoff series, Noah admitted he had no chance of playing because he didn't feel 100 percent until "about a month ago." He added that "ankle rehab is something I think I will have to do the rest of my career."
This justified his painful decision to skip France's participation in the London Olympics.
"We had to fight really hard just to get into the Olympics (at the 2011 European Championships), so I know the country was really proud," Noah said. "To have to sit out was very disappointing. But I knew it was the right decision."
There are very few justifiable circumstances for choosing self over country when it comes to Olympic competition. But Noah did the right thing.
The fact that Noah will have to do rehabilitation work on his ankle for the rest of his career is proof that there was no need to risk further damage in the Olympics. If you're going to miss out on that opportunity, you might as well cash in with a summer spent learning from one of the men who helped define the art of big man play.
Noah admitted that Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook is "still nice," even at 65.
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In an effort to rebrand, the Lingerie Football League has changed its name to the "Legends Football League."
The LFL, which took a season off, will return in the spring of 2013 with its new name. So what will be different about the league?
First of all, there will be no more lingerie. According to the LFL's press release, "performance wear" will replace the current lingerie uniforms. Also, the "sexy woman" logos will all be replaced, and the league's tagline will switch from "True Fantasy Football," to "Women of the Gridiron."
As far as we know, the rules will all stay the same.
Basically, the LFL is taking the sexy side of the league away and focusing on sport and athleticism instead of the women's bodies. Kudos!
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Here's part of LFL's statement:
"This is the next step in the maturation of our now global sport. While the Lingerie Football League name has drawn great media attention allowing us to showcase the sport to millions, we have now reached a crossroad of gaining credibility as a sport or continuing to be viewed as a gimmick. In the coming years we will further establish this sport in the US, Australia, Europe and Asia as the most known form of American football globally. In order to reach the next milestone, we feel the focus has to be the sport and our amazing athletes", said Mitchell S. Mortaza, Founder & Chairman, Lingerie Football League, LLC.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- It has been a whirlwind of a season for the Tennessee Tech baseball team, full of record-breaking performances, emotional moments, signature wins, and plenty of awards and recognition to go around.
The Golden Eagle players have recieved so much recognition, in fact, that frankly, it's been a whirlwind in itself just keeping track of all the honors and awards they have received. Several different members of the 2013 squad have been recognized throughout the season, on both the conference level and nationally. As the team steams into the final week of the regular season, it's a great time to look back on the long list of recognitions that have been bestowed upon coach Matt Bragga's players.
It all started in December, a time of the year when the last thing on the minds of the sports world is baseball. It was then that Tech fans were able to catch a glimpse of what this season might hold. Junior slugger Zach Stephens earned preseason All-America third-team honors from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), one of the premier college baseball organizations in the country.
Stephens has done more than enough to live up to those great expectations, ranking first in the OVC in both home runs (13) and RBI (60) while leading the Golden Eagles to unprecedented levels of success. Tech has already won 36 games, the second-highest total in program history and just three behind the Tech record of 39 set by the 1997 squad. The team also owns 22 Ohio Valley Conference wins with three to play, the most in school history and second-most in league history behind the 2008 Jacksonville State squad's 23 victories.
The Golden Eagles also pulled off the biggest win in program history this season, upsetting then-ranked No. 2 Vanderbilt in Nashville, 10-9. The victory over the Commodores, who were recently ranked the No. 1 team in the nation, marked the first over a top 10 opponent in program history. Vanderbilt is also the highest-ranked opponent that any Tech program has beaten.
Tech's success has been far from a one-man operation, however, as the team ranks nationally in several statistical categories including second in strikeouts per nine innings (8.9), fifth in slugging percentage (.469), 10th in fielding percentage (.980), and 13th in scoring (7.2 runs/game).
Tech leads the OVC in batting average (.306), slugging percentage (.469), on base percentage (.401), runs (362), hits (530), RBI (332), doubles (112), home runs (47), sacrifice flies (34), strikeouts (433), fielding percentage (.980), and fewest errors (37). The Golden Eagles' ability to lead nearly every major offensive category, plus several pitching and fielding categories, has come from a balanced attack across the board.
This balanced attack has been awarded multiple times as five different Golden Eagles have earned adidas OVC Player or Pitcher of the Week. Among the recipients have been Stephens, junior designated hitter Brandon Thomasson (twice), sophomore right handed pitcher Jacob Honea, senior ace Tristan Archer, and junior third baseman Daniel Miles (twice).
Miles was so good one week that he garnered not just adidas OVC Player of the Week, but also Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week from both Collegiate Baseball newspaper and CollegeBaseballInsider.com.
The most recent honors have been especially impressive as they have ranked Tech players among the nation's best among their respective positions.
After spending his entire freshman campaign at second base, sophomore Dylan Bosheers has done more than just transition over to shortstop for the Golden Eagles. His ability to not just hit the ball, but man the shortstop position has led to his inclusion on the Brooks Wallace Shortstop of the Year Watch List, sponsored by Mizuno.
He's not the only player being recognized for his defensive skills as junior catcher Jordan Parris earned a place on the 2013 Johnny Bench Award Watch List presented by BaseballSavings.com. Only the nation's best catchers get named to the list as the award has gone to players such as last season's first round pick of the Seattle Marineers, Mike Zunino, and 2012 National League MVP, Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants.
Also being recognized as one of the best in the nation at his position has been sophomore closer Seth Lucio. In just his first season of anchoring the Tech bullpen, Lucio has already racked up a Golden Eagle single-season record of 10 saves and is just two behind the career record of 12. He is on pace to post the first sub 1.00 ERA in program history as he currently sits at a mark of 0.96 this season. He has yet to surrender a home run in 2013 and owns a 12.29 strikeouts per nine innings mark. Combine all of the that and you get a reliever who clearly earned his spot on the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Mid-Season Watch List.
The Golden Eagles have accomplished much this season and will put it all on the line on Thursday as the team will take on second place Belmont in an OVC series to decide the regular season championship. With two wins, Tech would clinch outright its first regular season title since 2010 as well as set a new league record for conference wins in a season. First pitch for Thursday and Friday's contests is set for 6 p.m. CDT.
Take a closer look at the honors and awards earned by the 2013 Golden Eagles so far:
Michael Morris - Preseason All-OVC Second-Team
College Sports Madness
Zach Stephens - 2013 Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America H.M.
Zach Stephens - Preseason All-America Third-Team
Zach Stephens - Preseason All-OVC First-Team
College Sports Madness
Zach Stephens - Preseason All-OVC First-Team
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Zach Stephens - Preseason co-Player of the Year
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Austin Wulf - Preseason All-OVC Second-Team
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Brandon Thomasson - adidas® OVC Player of the Week
Ohio Valley Conference
Brandon Thomasson - OVC Player of the Week
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Tristan Archer - adidas® OVC Pitcher of the Week
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Tristan Archer - OVC Player of the Week
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Daniel Miles - adidas® OVC Player of the Week
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Daniel Miles - Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week
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Daniel Miles - Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week
Brandon Thomasson - adidas® OVC Player of the Week
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Jacob Honea - adidas® co-OVC Pitcher of the Week
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Daniel Miles - adidas® co-OVC Player of the Week
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Dylan Bosheers - Brooks Wallace Shortstop of the Year Watch List
Seth Lucio - Stopper of the Year Mid-Season Watch List
Zach Stephens - adidas® OVC Player of the Week
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Zach Stephens - OVC Player of the Week
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Jordan Parris - 2013 Johnny Bench Award Watch List


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This article deals with so-called core utilities on a GNU/Linux system, such as less, ls, and grep. The scope of this article includes, but is not limited to, those utilities included with the GNU coreutils package. What follows are various tips and tricks and other helpful information related to these utilities.
cat (catenate) is a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files.
- As cat is not a shell built-in, in many occasions you may find more convenient to use a redirection, for example in scripts, or if you care a lot about performance. In fact
< filedoes the same of
cat file.
- To append multiple lines to a file a construct like this one is used:
$ cat << EOF >> path/file first line ... last line EOF
- If you need to cat file lines in reverse order, there is a utility called tac (cat reversed).
grep (from ed's g/re/p, global/regular expression/print) is a command line text search utility originally written for Unix. The grep command searches files or standard input globally for lines matching a given regular expression, and prints them to the program's standard output.
- Remember that grep handles files, so a construct like
$ cat file | grep patternis replaceable with
$ grep pattern file
- If you have to grep VCS source code, there is an optimized utility written in Perl and called ack. See the official web site.
Colored output
Beyond aesthetics, grep's color output is immensely useful for learning regexp and grep's functionality.
To use the default colors for grep, write the following entry to your shell configuration file, e.g. if using Bash:
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
Alternatively, you can set the
GREP_OPTIONS environment variable bearing in mind this may break some scripts that use grep [1]:
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
To include file line numbers in the output, add
alias grep='grep -n --color=auto'
The environment variable
GREP_COLORS may be used to specify different colors than the defaults.
ifconfig (interface configuration) is a system administration utility in Unix-like operating systems to configure, control, and query TCP/IP network interface parameters from a command line interface (CLI) or in system configuration scripts.
It is deprecated: the alternative is called ip.
less is a terminal pager program used to view the contents of a text file one screen at a time. Whilst similar to other pages such as more and pg, less offers a more advanced interface and complete feature-set.
Colored output through environment variables
Add the following lines to your shell configuration file:
export LESS=-R export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf '\e[0m') export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf '\e[0m') export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf '\e[0m') export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf '\e[1;32m') export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf '\e[1;34m') export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf '\e[1;32m') export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf '\e[1;44;1m')
Change values as you like. References: ANSI escape code.
Colored output through wrappers
You can enable code syntax coloring in less. First, install source-highlight, then add these lines to your shell configuration file:
export LESSOPEN="| /usr/bin/source-highlight-esc.sh %s" export LESS='-R '
Frequent users of the command line interface might want to install lesspipe.
Users may now list the compressed files inside of an archive using their pager:
$ less compressed_file.tar.gz
==> use tar_file:contained_file to view a file in the archive -rw------- username/group 695 2008-01-04 19:24 compressed_file/content1 -rw------- username/group 43 2007-11-07 11:17 compressed_file/content2 compressed_file.tar.gz (END)
lesspipe also grants less the ability of interfacing with files other than archives, serving as an alternative for the specific command associated for that file-type (such as viewing HTML via html2text).
Re-login after installing lesspipe in order to activate it, or source
Vim as alternative pager
Vim (visual editor improved) has a script to view the content of text files, compressed files, binaries, directories. Add the following line to your shell configuration file to use it as a pager:
alias less='/usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.sh'
ls (list) is a command to list files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
Colored output can be enabled with a simple alias. File
~/.bashrc should already have the following entry copied from
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
The next step will further enhance the colored ls output; for example, broken (orphan) symlinks will start showing in a red hue. Add the following to your shell configuration file:
eval $(dircolors -b)
man (manual page) is a form of online software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and even abstract concepts. See Man Pages.
mkdir (make directory) is a command to create directories. To create a directory and its whole hierarchy,
-p switch is used, if not a error is printed. As users are supposed to know what they want,
-p switch may be used as a default.
alias mkdir='mkdir -p -v'
-v switch make it verbose.
mktemp -p.
mv (move) is a command to move and rename files and directories. It can be very dangerous so it is prudent to limit its scope:
alias mv=' timeout 8 mv -iv'
This alias suspends mv after eight seconds, asks confirmation to delete three or more files, lists the operations in progress and does not store itself in the shell history file if the shell is configured to ignore space starting commands.
rm (remove) is a command to delete files and directories. It can be very dangerous so it is prudent to limit its scope:
alias rm=' timeout 3 rm -Iv --one-file-system'
This alias suspends rm after three seconds, asks confirmation to delete three or more files, lists the operations in progress, does not involve more than one file systems and does not store itself in the shell history file if the shell is configured to ignore space starting commands. Substitute
-I with
-i if you prefer to confirm even for one file.
sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text.
Here is a handy list of sed one-liners examples.
seq (sequence) is a utility for generating a sequence of numbers. Shell built-in alternatives are available, so it is good practice to use them as explained on Wikipedia.
shred is a command to securely delete files and directories. It can be very dangerous so it is prudent to limit its scope:
alias shred=' timeout 3 shred -v'
This alias suspends shred after three seconds, lists the operations in progress, and does not store itself in the shell history file if the shell is configured to ignore space starting commands.
Sudo (as superuser do) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root). See Sudo.
See also
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The teams will be among the more than 260 top US Youth Soccer Boys and Girls teams from the 15 US Youth Soccer State Associations competing for the regional title, June 26-July 1 at the US Youth Soccer Region I Championships at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, R.I. Daily reports and complete results from the tournament will be available on http://championships.usyouthsoccer.org/regionI.
The Region I Championships feature top teams in the Under-12 through Under-19 age groups beginning with round robin games Friday, June 27, through Sunday, June 29. Following a rest day, semifinal matches will be played Monday, June 30 and the Region I Champions will be crowned following final games on July 1.
US Youth Soccer State Cup champions and select runners-up from 15 US Youth Soccer State Associations in Region I, including host Soccer Rhode Island will participate. The other State Associations represented are Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York West, Pennsylvania West, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. Regional winners of the Under-13 through Under-19 age groups earn a berth to the 2014 US Youth Soccer National Championships, presented by the National Guard, July 21-27, at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown, Md. One of the 14 national crowns awarded is the James P. McGuire Cup, the oldest trophy in youth sports, dating back to 1935 with the inaugural youth championships.
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2014 US Youth Soccer Region I Championships | Kingston, RI
University of Rhode Island
Opening Ceremony: June 26
Round Robin: June 27-29
Semis: June 30
Finals: July 1
2014 US Youth Soccer Region II Championships | Beavercreek, OH
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Round Robin: June 21-23
Semis: June 24
Finals: June 25
2014 US Youth Soccer Region III Championships | Baton Rouge, LA
BREC Burbank-Soccer Complex
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Round Robin: June 20- 22
Quarters: June 23 (U14, U15, U16)
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Finals/Semis: June 25 (Finals U13 & U19/ Semis U14-U18)
Finals: June 26 (Finals U14-U18)
2014 US Youth Soccer Region IV Championships | Albuquerque, NM
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Quarters: June 20
Semis: June 21
Finals: June 22
2014 US Youth Soccer National Championships | Germantown, MD
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Player Luncheon: July 21
Round Robin: July 22-24
Semis: July 26 (U14-U18)
Finals: July 26 (U13 & U19); July 27 (U14-U18)
For more information on the US Youth Soccer National Championships visit http://championships.usyouthsoccer.org, the online home for the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series providing the latest in news, information and more. Get all US Youth Soccer National Championship Series updates are on Twitter @usysncs.


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NM Tech Professor Lara's Latest Book Published
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 17, 2007 – New Mexico Tech Associate Professor of Humanities Rafael Lara-Martínez's latest book, Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory, recently was published by the University of New Mexico Press.
The book is about the massacre of thousands of peasants in El Salvador that took place in 1932, and how those events are remembered from differing political perspectives. The 429-page book is comprised of six chapters and 24 appendices.
Lara-Martínez sees the potential for this publication to be used as a textbook. He explains, "The book describes the complexity of Salvadoran history and reveals the difficulty in restoring an event in a neutral manner."
The first three chapters of the paperbound book cover the history of El Salvador prior to the 1932 massacre, as well as that of Roque Dalton, prior to his meeting Miguel Mármol (a Salvadoran communist who participated in the associated 1932 peasant uprising).
The fourth chapter of the book examines Dalton's timeline and activities after he came into contact with Mármol. The remaining two chapters of the book look at how the different political sides recall the events that took place during the 1932 massacre.
The book's appendices include several English translations of the notebook Dalton kept during his time with Mármol, notes of the events from both political sides, and letters sent to the Soviets and Caribbean Bureau of Investigation.
Lara-Martínez wrote the book in collaboration with co-authors Fordham University Professor of History Héctor Lindo-Fuentes and Furman University Associate Professor of History Erik Ching.
Lara-Martínez, who originally is from El Salvador, is also considered an authority on Roque Dalton. He describes Dalton as "a very important, influential, and complex writer."
Among his other books, Lara-Martínez compiled the very first anthology on Dalton that was allowed to be published in El Salvador after the end of that Central American country's civil war in 1992. He was also able to access the Dalton archives.
Lindo-Fuentes is a professor of Latin America and Central American economic history. Ching traveled to the Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly known as the Soviet Union or USSR) to obtain information that was sent to the Soviets from the Salvadorans. Ching also worked to make certain that the English of the book was uniform.
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador is currently available from UNM Press (www.unmpress.com). It will soon be available at bookstores and other sources by mid- to late-September.


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5-30-08 Baby Love Child
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Today is not my wedding anniversary. But today is the day that Basil and I will be celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary. You see, when we picked our wedding date, Basil failed to mention that it was going to fall during the Stanley Cup finals every. single. year! This year since the Red Wings are in the playoffs (as they have been for the past 17 years!!, Go Wings *ahem*) we have to celebrate on a non-game night. Our actual anniversary is on June 2nd, Monday night; Game 5 between the Penguins. These are the kinds of things you overlook for the love of your life. Look at those eyes. How could I ever say no to that man?
So, today we are spending the day leisurely making our way to Asheville, where we will be having dinner at Laughing Seed Cafe and then spending the night at my mother's place in Hendersonville. A whole day alone together with no work, planning, or distractions. Yippee!
Happy 7th Anniversary, baby. I love you.
This is the song that was playing during our first dance as husband and wife. Baby Love Child by Pizzacato Five.


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Congenital heart defects are often diagnosed in infancy, or even before birth. But some defects are harder to detect than others and may not be diagnosed until much later in childhood or even adulthood.
Diagnostic Evaluation
In each of the sections on specific congenital heart problems, regular follow-up with a cardiologist is recommended. This section describes the types of tests that often will be performed. Cardiologists will take your medical history and perform a physical exam. They may also order an electrocardiogram (called an EKG or ECG), chest X-ray, or an echocardiogram (ultrasound movie of the heart). Blood tests are particularly important in patients with cyanosis and single ventricle hearts treated with Fontan operations.
The cardiology staff will talk to you about each test. Don't hesitate to ask the cardiologist, nurse or technician to explain these tests. After your tests are completed, your cardiologist will explain the results and whether further care is needed.
Sometimes the initial tests don't provide enough information for a complete diagnosis and more tests may be needed. These include cardiac catheterization and angiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT scanning, Holter recording and stress testing.
Diagnosing Children
Severe heart disease generally becomes evident during the first few months after birth. Some babies are blue or have very low blood pressure shortly after birth. Other defects cause breathing difficulties, feeding problems, or poor weight gain. Minor defects are most often diagnosed on a routine medical check up. Minor defects rarely cause symptoms. While most heart murmurs in children are normal, some may be due to defects.
If the heart problem is significant, your child's pediatrician or family physician will likely refer your child to a pediatric cardiologist. Pediatric cardiologists are trained to diagnose and treat heart problems in infants, children and young adults. They have the training and equipment to find out what tests and treatments your child will need, and how often your child will need heart checkups in the future.
Learn the common tests associated with congenital heart defects.


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June 12, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Five future UC Santa Barbara volleyball players were named to Volleyball Magazine's 2009 Fab 50, highlighting the top 50 boys high school volleyball players in the nation.
On the magazine's list of the top 50 players nationwide are middle blocker Dylan Davis, setter Oliver Deutschman, outside hitter Paul Goodman, middle blocker Evan Licht and libero Evan Mottram.
The five UCSB players honored tied for the most from one university among the magazine's list. Ohio State and BYU were the only other schools to have five players on the Fab 50 list. Defending national champion UC Irvine had three on the list and runner-up USC had four.
These five players are also part of head coach Rick McLaughlin's first recruiting class at UCSB.
Currently a senior at Corona del Mar High, the six-foot-eight Davis is widely considered the nation's top class of 2009 middle blocker and one of the top two recruits in the country at any position. As a junior, he earned All-CIF Southern Section Division II Third Team and All-Pacific Coast League First Team honors with the Sea Kings.
In club ball, Davis' highly-ranked Balboa Bay team won a silver medal in the 17-and-under division at the 2008 Junior Olympics, where Davis was tabbed a First Team All-American. He was also a starter on the U.S. Youth National Team that won gold at the 2008 NORCECA Championships and qualified for the 2009 Youth National World Championships in Italy this coming summer. In early 2008, Balboa Bay placed first at the Southern California Volleyball Association Boys Invitational. Davis earned MVP accolades at the 2007 Junior Olympics in Atlanta after his team won gold in the 16-and-under division.
Heralded as the top setter in the country from the class of 2009, Deutschman is currently in his senior year at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, Calif. With Pacific Palisades Volleyball Club, Deutschman won gold at the 2008 Junior Olympics, topping Davis' Balboa Bay squad in the 17-and-under title match. Like Davis, the six-foot-four Deutschman was named a First Team All-American following the tournament. He was also a starter, along with Davis, on the U.S. Youth National Team that won the 2008 NORCECA title and qualified to compete at the 2009 Youth National World Championships in Italy.
Licht is a senior captain at his high school, Mira Costa, was a Second Team All-CIF in Division I as a junior when his high school team won the state title. He was the MVP of the 2009 Redondo Varsity Classic Tournament while being named to the 2009 Karch Kiraly All-Tournament Team in Santa Barbara and the 2009 Best of the West All-Tournament Team. In 2007 Licht won a bronze medal with the USA Junior Olympic team.
Goodman, who is in his senior season at Irvine's Beckman High, is a 4-year varsity letterman and a two-time Pacific Coast League honoree. He has won a bronze and a silver medal at the 2006 and 2008 Junior Olympics. Goodman was named to the All Tournament team in 2008 while playing for the Balboa Bay 18 Quiksilver club team. He also won the bronze medal and named Best Attacker at the 2008 USA High Performance Championships.
Mottram, who is a senior at Quartz Hill High, joined Davis and Deutschman on Team USA's Youth National volleyball team and was part of the gold-medal winning team in the 2008 Junior Olympics and was named to the All-Tournament Team.


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New Targets Bring New Challenges
A new drug to block HIV at a new point in its lifecycle will be a welcome development. But approving a new drug from a new chemical class will also bring great uncertainties. It's not enough to simply be active against HIV, the new drug will also have to leave host functions alone and meet all of the other criteria for a medicine that is tolerable, easy to take, safe, and affordable. That's a lot to ask for a first time at bat. Advanced lead screening techniques and early use of better toxicity assays will hopefully accelerate the pace of developing the next generation of drugs. Still, the first wave of new-target drugs may go through a few false starts before they become useful medicines used in seamless combination with the older, more refined PI and RT inhibitors. Here's hoping one of these can knock the ball out of the park.
Information on new antiretroviral (ARV) drugs entering human trials was somewhat thin at this year's 9th Annual Retrovirus Conference in Seattle, but a few items stand out. Maybe the most encouraging news is that drug development is alive and chugging away on new products. Despite doomsday warnings by pharmaceutical executives about having to pull out of HIV research if political pressure for affordable access to medicine threatens industry profits, there was evidence of commitments to develop new drugs for new HIV targets from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK), Schering and Merck.
Researchers from Shionogi & Co., a Japanese pharmaceutical firm, presented a new inhibitor of integrase, an HIV protein that performs an essential step in the viral lifecycle. Integrase is one of the unique-to-HIV targets that have yet to be attacked with an effective drug. The big news in this presentation was the "GSK" logo that appeared in the corner of the slide. This means that HIV pharmaceutical leader Glaxo has joined the hunt for a novel integrase inhibitor... and if anyone has the capacity and know how to get an AIDS drug developed and moved through the pipeline, it's Glaxo. The drug is currently called S-1360. It is a diketo acid compound that has shown in vitro synergy with approved ARV drugs from every class. Merck also has a diketo acid integrase inhibitor that has previously been reported susceptible to site mutations in the enzyme; additional resistance mutations were also reported at this conference. Has the Shionogi compound gotten around this? S-1360 is proceeding with first human trials in a small number of HIV-infected individuals.
History shows that a new drug might enjoy glowing reports at one year's conference then never be heard from again; it's wise to reserve enthusiasm for agents that have at least entered full Phase II clinical development. In an example of the subtle scientific sniping that goes on at these conferences, a Merck researcher stood up after the Shionogi presentation and inquired about plasma protein binding for S-1360. Drug molecules can become gummed-up with proteins in the blood such as albumin. Protein-bound drugs aren't able to cross into the cells where they need to be and are ultimately eliminated from the bloodstream; too much susceptibility to protein binding in the body can eclipse a drug that shines in the test tube. Yes, S-1360 is highly protein bound, the Shionogi scientist admitted. Dare we hope that Merck has a new integrase inhibitor in the works that overcomes these problems?
The outlook for entry inhibitors is also looking better. T-20 from Trimeris/Roche is likely to be the first of this new class of drugs to be approved, although that may be up to a year from now. T-20 works by blocking HIV as it tries to insert itself into new cells. While a few posters filled out the clinical picture of what to expect from T-20, one detail incidentally slipped out in an unrelated talk by a BMS executive about their new entry inhibitor. Apparently the generic name for T-20 has been settled; initially known as pentafuside, T-20 will now be called enfuvirtide. (See "A T-20 Diary" in this issue.)
The new BMS entry inhibitor was another welcome surprise. Currently called BMS-806, the drug was discovered by screening a library of several hundred thousand variations on a chemical theme to detect potent anti-HIV activity. Eventually a few promising leads were narrowed down to number 806 which showed viral inhibition at concentrations that were not toxic to cells. The molecule is said to be highly specific for binding to the gp120 HIV envelope protein and probably interferes with attachment to cellular CD4. A green light so far, but experience with antibodies against the highly changeable gp120 protein tells us that the evolution of resistance may quickly become a problem. And in case you were wondering, BMS-806 is not highly bound by plasma proteins.
The other prominent entry inhibitors discussed at Retrovirus take a different approach to blocking viral attachment. Instead of sticking to the virus, they bind to receptors on a cell's surface that HIV uses to gain entry. Schering's SCH-C is in human trials and moving through a series of doses to find the best balance between activity and toxicity. Work is proceeding carefully because of abnormalities in a cardiac rhythmic parameter called QTc observed after volunteers received a single 600 mg dose. A ten-day study of 25 mg twice daily in 12 HIV-positive persons has been completed and a 50 mg study is underway. At this point it seems that a slight prolongation of the QTc interval predictably occurs with increasing drug exposure, but it is too soon to say if this effect will doom the drug. After 10 days of SCH-C monotherapy at the 25 mg twice-daily dose, mean viral load for the 12 patients had dropped by over 0.5 log.
SCH-C stops HIV from using the R5 receptor to infect new cells. A more virulent strain of HIV employs the X4 receptor, and is not inhibited by SCH-C. One fear is that using the drug could favor the evolution of X4-using mutants and actually accelerate disease progression. So far there is no evidence from test tube or animal studies that this occurs, but experience in human trials is the test that matters.
AMD-3100 is an entry inhibitor that acts on the X4 cellular receptor -- the one that SCH-C doesn't attack. Although anti-HIV activity was noted in early clinical trials of the drug, studies were stopped a year ago after failing to meet targets for reducing viral load. A look back at the data from those trials and a new analysis of the volunteers' viral genotypes suggest that some patients may have turned in a poor performance on AMD-3100 because they harbored a mixed population of X4 and R5 viral strains. The single individual infected solely with the X4 strain experienced respectable viral suppression. One question: If AMD-3100 acts on the viral phenotype that SCH-C does not, could one drug rescue the other in a synergistic fashion? In another AMD-3100 study presented at Retrovirus, increased heart rates combined with a lack of significant activity at the highest doses caused researchers to take pause. A new oral formulation will hopefully address toxicity problems seen with earlier infused versions of the drug. AMD-3100 may not be dead yet but its tiny biotech developer will surely have to partner with one of the big companies if this drug is to move forward.
For in-depth reports and more background, visit:
Abstracts, posters and video from the 9th Annual Retrovirus Conference are available online at http://www.retroconference.org.
T. Yoshinaga, et al. Persistence of Transmitted Drug Resistance Among Subjects With Primary HIV Infection Not Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 8.
M. Witvrouw, et al. Novel Mutations in HIV-1 Integrase Associated With Resistance to Diketo Acids. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 573.
P-F Lin, et al. Identification and Characterization of a Novel Inhibitor of HIV-1 Entry -- II: Mechanism of Action. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 10.
J. Reynes, et al. SCH-C: Safety and Antiviral Effects of a CCR5 Receptor Antagonist in HIV-1-Infected Subjects. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 1.
D. Schols, et al. AMD-3100, a CXCR4 Antagonist, Reduced HIV Viral Load and X4 Virus Levels in Humans. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 2.
C. Hendrix, et al. AMD-3100 CXCR4 Receptor Blocker Fails to Reduce HIV Viral Load by >1 Log Following 10-Day Continuous Infusion. 9th Retrovirus Conference, Seattle, 2002. Abstract 391.
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Standard ECMA-164
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN)
- Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol - Name Identification Supplementary
Services (QSIG-NA)
4th edition (December 2001)
This Standard specifies the signalling protocol for the support of name identification supplementary services at the Q reference point between Private Integrated services Network eXchanges (PINXs) connected together within a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN). The name identification supplementary services are Calling Name Identification Presentation (SS-CNIP) and Connected Name Identification Presentation (SS-CONP).
Calling Name Identification Presentation (CNIP) is a supplementary service which is offered to the called user and which provides the name of the calling user (calling party name) to the called user.
Connected Name Identification Presentation (CONP) is a supplementary service which is offered to the calling user and which provides to the calling user the following:
The supplementary service Calling/connected Name Identification Restriction (CNIR) has no impact on the signalling at Q reference point.
Provision of a user's name to the PISN is outside the scope of this Standard.
The Q reference point is defined in ECMA-133.
Service specifications are produced in three stages according to the method specified in ETS 300 387. This Standard contains the stage 3 specification for the Q reference point and satisfies the requirements identified by the stage 1 and stage 2 specifications in ECMA-163.
The signalling protocol for SS-CNIP and SS-CONP operates on top of the signalling protocol for basic circuit switched call control, as specified in ECMA-143, and uses certain aspects of the generic procedures for the control of supplementary services specified in ECMA-165.
This Standard also specifies additional signalling protocol requirements for the support of interactions at Q reference point between name identification supplementary services and other supplementary services and ANFs.
This Standard is applicable to PINXs which can be interconnected to form a PISN.
The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the
PSS1 protocol (informally known as QSIG).
The following file can be freely downloaded:
This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 13868.
The previous replaced "historical" editions of this Ecma Standard are available here.


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Steel ABS A6W Fitness App - All You Need Is One Mat
Most fitness instructors/trainers will agree that you don't need a sophisticated home workout room or an expensive gym membership to achieve the body your want. Steel ABS is an app that walks users through a 45-day ab routine that can be done anywhere and promises results shortly after getting started.
The app has a cartoonish design and style, and is centered around the character Ivan, a stereotypical Russian personal trainer who is a little condescending to the shape of Americans (we deserve it), but offers six easy ab exercises that when done correctly over 6 weeks, will help you achieve the goal of sexier abs. I'm assuming the idea is to break you down, to build you back up?
All of the exercises are ab-based, and the app shows you animations on how to do the exercises correctly when you start your workout. Each workout takes about 30-45 minutes to complete, but suggests 30-60 seconds of rest between exercises so you can get through the workout (you can adjust the amount of rest time to your liking). The training schedule starts out slow, but quickly picks up in amount of reps and sets as the days progress. In other words, you don't have to be in tip-top shape to get started, but professionals can jump right in to maintain their fitness. You can also set up notifications to remind you how much time has lapsed after your previous workout.
The animations that show users how to do the exercises could be a little more clearer, but other than that, Steel ABS A6W for $0.99 seems like a helpful app that encourages fitness no matter where you are - If you have a flat surface and/or a mat, you can use the app to achieve that washboard stomach you've always wanted.


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Previously, I wrote about my mother's sewing basket and how I love to go through it and relive memories associated with some of the items inside. Well, I've recently come to possess still another sewing basket, this one once belonging to my Great-Grandmother (CROW) HAYES.
After the passing of Great-Uncle Ben Hayes earlier this year, his sister Ruth was tasked with going through his personal effects. Ben lived in Tennessess and Ruth lives in Arizona. Shortly after she received his possessions and started going through them, I received a call from her.
Ruth informed me that she would be sending me a quantity of scarves and doilies that belonged to my great-grandmother because I would be able to clean, starch, iron and sort them. She asked me to then split them with my sister.
She mentioned in passing that Ben also had a lot of family photographs that needed sorting, but that she intended to send them to one of my aunts to handle that instead. It was all I could do to keep myself from asking for the photos too. I didn't want to be greedy.
Well, a couple of weeks later, a large box was waiting for me at the post office. When I got it home and started going through the contents, I realized I had a treasure chest indeed. Many of the items are quite stained and since my great-uncle smoked, they all need to be cleaned thoroughly. But the package Ruth sent had much more than doilies and scarves in need of a washing:


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Select Sires Introduces Summer Interns
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, May 31, 2013 - Select Sires Inc. welcomes six interns into their summer internship program. Kelsey Paras, Duane Shawk, Marc Bolen, Maggie Dean, Michael Liszeski and Jacquelyn Sherry will be interning with North America's largest A.I. organization this summer.
"Both practical work experience within the industry and networking are extremely important to help college students prepare for full-time employment beyond graduation," says David Thorbahn, Select Sires president and C.E.O. "That's why Select Sires offers hands-on internship opportunities to work with trained professionals each year. This program helps to expand their knowledge of the industry, while allowing these students to contribute to the day-to-day operations of the Select Sires federation."
Kelsey Paras has been selected as the 2013 veterinary intern. Paras is from Lakewood, Ohio and is currently enrolled at The Ohio State University where she is majoring in veterinary medicine. She became interested in agriculture while working at the University of Delaware farm and is now involved in the Food Animal Club, Theriogenology Club and International Veterinary Student Association.
Beef intern, Duane Shawk, grew up on a beef and crop farm in Bucyrus, Ohio. In May 2012, Shawk earned his associate degree at Allen Community College in Iola, Kan. He is currently attending The Ohio State University where he is majoring in agricultural business and applied economics with a minor in animal science. He is active in The Ohio State Livestock Judging Team, Alpha Gamma Sigma fraternity and Saddle and Sirloin Club.
Marc Bolen of Fremont, Ohio hails from a Jersey farm and is the 2013 dairy sire marketing summer intern. Bolen is a May 2013 graduate from The Ohio State University where he majored in animal science and minored in agricultural business. Bolen was on the 2012 Ohio State Dairy Judging Team where he was named an All-American at World Dairy Expo, and was active in the Buckeye Dairy Club, serving as the chairman for the Buckeye Classic Jersey Sale.
Select Sires Inc. welcomes back Maggie Dean, Michael Liszeski and Jacquelyn Sherry as interns this summer. Dean, from Marion, Ohio, is returning in the semen processing lab. She will be a junior in animal science at the University of Findlay. Spending another summer as the livestock technician intern is Liszeski of Ostrander, Ohio. He will be a sophomore at the University of Findlay majoring in animal science and pre-veterinary science. Sherry, of Greenville, Ohio, is continuing as the 2013 corporate communications intern. She will be a senior at The Ohio State University double-majoring in animal science and agricultural communication.
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of nine farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.


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Forms in Nature from Yeray Lopez Portillo on Vimeo.
Artists/design team Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz collaborated to create, Forms in Nature, a chandelier which, when alight, creates shadows in any (reasonably sized) room that appear to be intertwined tree branches or entire root system. Describing their collaborative process as combining "existing cultural icons and basic elements, which they transform and modify to tamper with the common perception", the duo essentially reconnects modern technology to more primitive, natural elements.
The creators say of the piece, "The shadows engulf the room and transforms the walls into unruly shadows of branches, bushes, and gnarled trees. Mirrorings are thrown out upon the walls and ceilings and provide weak Rorschach-like hints of faces, life and flow of consciousness." (via mymodernmet)


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Two hundred dollars was taken from the register at Whitmore's nursery and flower shop on Montauk Highway between Friday and Saturday, according to Chini Alarco. Several people in the store and a few employees had access to the drawer with the money in it during that time.
East Hampton
A mailbox valued at $70 joined five others clustered on Ely Brook to Hand's Creek Road in being knocked down last Thursday, Gail Meyers of Short Lane reported. She said she heard a long banging of metal and two men laughing.
Charges totaling $433.87 were made on a Suffolk County National Bank card belonging to Jeanne McGuire of Glade Road between Friday and Sunday. Two charges were made at a B.J.'s discount store in Maryland, and two others were made at a mini-mart also in that state. Ms. McGuire said she does not know anyone in Maryland.
The rear window of Monica Guillen's car was shattered on July 13. The car was parked in her yard on Queen's Lane. She estimated the damage at $250.
A man came to Michael Angel's house on Alewife Brook Road on Friday and called him "a fag," he told police. The incident concerned an alleged lack of a building permit. After yelling and using profanity, the man left.
East Hampton Village
David Sandberg of Westhampton tried to get on a train through an open window as the train was pulling away from the station on Railroad Avenue on July 13. Police said he was intoxicated, but Mr. Sandberg was allowed to board the next train.
Two pieces of 4-by-8-foot plywood, together valued at $36, were taken from the rear door area of the UPS store on Newtown Lane on July 11, the store manager, Greg Simmons, reported.
A car alarm sounded all day on July 13 on Lumber Lane, complained Kenneth Lockard, who lives on nearby Pleasant Lane. Police alerted the taxi company that owns the 2001 Dodge Caravan.
Several youths were pointing a laser at people on Ocean Avenue, Suzanne Driscoll of Squires Path, East Hampton, told police on Friday. When police arrived, the perpetrators were nowhere to be found.
A yellow cab was picking up fares without a permit on Main Street on Friday. The cab was gone by the time police arrived.
A man reported illegally posted yard sale signs on Newtown Lane on Saturday. Police spoke to Victor Borisov and he removed the signs.
Oscar Cascante said a man driving a mail truck sped up and almost hit him as he left the post office on Gay Lane on Saturday. Mr. Cascante's car was parked at the CVS pharmacy at the time.
Jeffrey Goldstein of Manhattan and East Hampton was selling and giving away flip-flops and other items outside his business on the Circle on Saturday. Police spoke to him about the zoning code and told him to stop.
Joseph Palazzolo reported fireworks going off near his house on David's Lane on Sunday.
Someone swiped $4 off the counter at a store on Main Street on Sunday and ran out the door, Christina Albronda reported. When police arrived the cash had been returned.
Ben Hogan of Bethgate Road told police that someone dumped bags of garbage on Montauk Highway near his property line sometime between June 27 and July 4. An address in Smithtown was retrieved from an envelope in the trash.
Maria Quiguri of East Gate Road left the keys in her unlocked car and someone drove it between Saturday and Sunday. The car was returned covered in mud and with trash inside it.


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I would like to propose a new interface for the mixed precision routines (ds/zc)GESV, (ds/zc)POSV and others that MAGMA also contains. Actually is not a proposal of changing the interface of the existing functions, but create newer ones. My suggestion is adding a new input argument in order to control if the double precision computation will be executed if the refinement process fails. Now, this LAPACK functions always switch to the double precision algorithm to solve the problem. I'm thinking, for example, in cases that the GPU is single precision powerful, but has only poor performance in double. In such cases, if the mixed precision fails the operator may want to solve the problem in double using the CPU only, as it is probably faster than a non high-end GPU. So I propose the new input argument can adopt two values: 0 or not 0. When the value is 0 and the mixed algorithm fails, the function runs as the classical one and uses the double precision function to solve the task. But if not 0 is passed and the mixed algorithm fails, the function returns and is the responsibility of the programmer by inspecting the *info and *iter output arguments to call the double precision function for completing the task. The function declaration (for dsgesv_stop, or whatever other name) could be:
where 'magma_int_t stop' is the proposed argument
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magma_dsgesv_stop_gpu(char trans, magma_int_t n, magma_int_t nrhs,
double *dA, magma_int_t ldda,
magma_int_t *ipiv, magma_int_t *dipiv,
double *dB, magma_int_t lddb,
double *dX, magma_int_t lddx,
double *dworkd, float *dworks,
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TMC wrote:migya wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote:uptempo wrote:How about the "Golden State Warriors of Oakland?"
Angel fans, please chime in...
Oakland Warriors should be the name as it gives distinction to the city as it should!
But I'm cool with the Golden State name. I can't see a single reason why it should be changed.
Because Golden Sate is the name for the state of Clifornia and with four teams, no one team represents California! The Warriors should be called Oakland or Bay area Warriors if San Fransico is also represented by them
And that's a bad thing why?. Golden State is their traditional name and I think they should stick to it. No need to change names for... what?. More recognizement for the city?. Screw it. Better keep the team's identity.
Changing the name to Oakland or Bay Area Warriors gives the team and franchise far more identity! It signifies the city comletely and not the whole state which makes no sense!


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Much of the attention being paid to this week's Windows 8 launch focuses on the new Metro-style interface and the fact that Microsoft is extending its desktop OS to tablets and smartphones. But for enterprises, the real story is the way Microsoft has integrated Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an unmatched system for running virtualised environments.
Combined, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 represent the biggest changes we've seen from Microsoft in a decade, with the company training its guns on virtualised Linux vendors such as Red Hat, as well as hypervisor market leader VMware.
Both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 sport the new Metro-style GUI, but we found that it's not as radical a change as has been reported. Indeed the bemoaned missing "Start" button and menus already have a dozen replacements being offered freely (or almost freely). If you know about Windows 7 or Windows Server, the menu makeovers are rapidly obvious, we found.
Although we have some minor reservations about Windows Server, both philosophically and in practice, we found the Windows Server/Windows 8 Enterprise combination to be far ahead of its peers for large enterprise deployments and management. And that's not even counting the additional management functionality available from Microsoft System Center 2012.
Inside the Windows Server 2012 platform is a shift towards the kind of programmability first envisioned by Bill Gates when he declared that Windows would run on BASIC as a programming environment. That was an allusion towards the Visual BASIC scripting that became popularised in inter-application/platform custom coding efforts.
These efforts allowed organisations to integrate custom code with Microsoft Office apps, and web development efforts then became centered around Microsoft SharePoint services. While these "departmental" and populist development efforts continue, Microsoft has now evolved its PowerShell "cmdlets" in a way that both mimics scripting and inter-platform communications, but in vastly more powerful ways.
The goal is to give the Windows platform as much potential for programmability and customization as Linux distributions.
Windows 8 Enterprise
Pre-release criticisms have focused around a number of changes that appear to alter the character of Windows-as-we-know-it. We don't think so. Windows 8 (see preview) has a new user-interface, but the changes are no more radical than those we've seen from Apple, Canonical, and others. Microsoft is trying to get unstuck from the success of Windows XP; and the new user interface - once apps are built - might just do it.
There are more differences than limitations, and there are just three different versions of Windows 8 to choose from, Home, Professional, and Enterprise. Each edition gradient has differing feature sets, and Enterprise is differentiated by its ability to be activated via Windows 2012 Key Management Services that can dole activation keys as needed.
Professional/Enterprise can be considered the analog to Windows 7 Ultimate; these replace up to nine different versions in Windows 7.
You get the Hyper-V hypervisor in Professional/Enterprise (we'll call it W8E) that's the same version shipped with Windows 2012 Server, and it replaces Windows Vista/Windows 7 Virtual PC to serve as a bare metal-type hypervisor.
Ostensibly, it's used to run a prior version that you upgraded from, like Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7. You can have your old apps in other ways, too. You can host Windows 8 instances as VMs on Windows 2012 Hyper-V, VMware, or other hypervisors, too.
Microsoft's application virtualiser, App-V, has been upgraded and now has a physical-to-virtual feature, although we didn't test it. App-V V5 allows, like prior versions, a Remote FX-based GUI connection to an application that's executing someplace else. It appears as though the application launching, manipulation, and execution are happening locally, but these are actually communication broker stubs that link to the application on a server somewhere else.


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Field Report: Battlefield 3 PC single-player
We're still working on our Battlefield 3 review, but here are our first impressions of the first few missions found in the game on PC. So far, we've experienced a number of strange glitches.
DICE has made no secret that their efforts have been focused on making Battlefield 3 a great PC game, with high-end graphics and a slew of features geared toward PC players. After playing the game on PS3 during PAX 2011, the results of their PC efforts are immediately evident. It looks better. Controls better. Feels better.
Activating my pre-ordered copy on Origin, I jumped into the game's single-player mode. While I will jump into the online multiplayer as well for my upcoming review, my initial impressions have me worried.
Simply launching the game was a mission of its own. I was immediately met with issues with EA's new platform, Origin. Originally, the plugin required to launch the game via its web-based Battlelog wouldn't launch. My solution? Instead of using Chrome, I installed a new web browser (Firefox 7) in order to get it to work. It was a hassle, but since then, I have had zero issues with the client.
Running the game on the highest settings possible and with the latest drivers (my PC specs can be found here), I loaded the game's first mission. Simply put, Battlefield 3 is gorgeous. Character models, save for those seen in cutscenes, look fantastic. (For some reason, the cinematic models are blocky and awkwardly animated.)
While the game's mysterious opening scene grabbed me immediately, my impressions went sour not too shortly afterwards. A cutscene plays where Staff Sergeant Henry Blackburn is explaining what had happened to him after an earthquake hits the frontlines. After he tells two mysterious interrogators that he "saw" something when he regained consciousness, the scene flashes back to Blackburn trapped under debris.
And then the scene stopped in the middle of a sentence. A load screen hit. "Next level coming up," I thought to myself. Instead the previous scene where Blackburn is explaining the situation plays again. The flashback hits again. A few extra seconds of Blackburn trapped under the debris plays and it shifts to a load screen. "That was weird," I think, "but the next level is loading."
It doesn't. Instead the previous cutscene plays a third time. Eventually, third time is a charm and the next level loads.
In the next level, Blackburn must hug the side of a raised fault line and crawl through an open pipe and into a building in search of a weapon before heading out to an extraction zone. On my way around a corner nearing the pipe I spot a US marine character model, standing arms spread with an expressionless face (essentially, it's doing the same thing as infamously seen in the NBA Elite 2011 demo). As I inch closer to the character model, he disappears and reappears falling out of a destroyed humvee. Heading closer to the pipe, I spot a pair of men standing over what appears to be a map. What they should be doing is examining the map and discussing strategies, instead they both stand face-to-face, arms spread in the same pose as seen earlier.
The issue appears to be an error in the multiple scripted set pieces attached to the beginning of the level. Perhaps the earlier glitch with the cutscene didn't properly load the level, breaking preset character animations.
I reloaded the level and the cutscene played a single time, the marine fell out of the truck as he was intended to do, and the two men stood arguing and pointing at the map.
There are other issues I have with the game thus far, like the AI being aggressively linked to animations. For instance, as my team sets up around a door, each member is preset to a certain position in the environment in order to execute an "open and clear" command. If he's standing in their spot, the AI will simply push the playable out of the way. It doesn't recognize his position and compensate for it. This wasn't a big problem initially (this happens in a lot of games) but in the first level where I was dodging sniper fire, I crouched too closely near my allies who began crawling around a corner, which pushed me directly in front of the sniper's scope.
Not to be completely negative, though, the game's next mission--controlling the gun of a jet fighter--looks and plays perfectly. It's exciting and a ton of fun.
There are issues here, but I'm hoping that I ran into a few rare snags. For example, while I think it controls beautifully with a mouse and keyboard, testing it on a gamepad revealed some issues. There are multiple "Quick Time Event-style" moments in the game and I couldn't get them to work using a wired Xbox 360 controller. (But that's certainly not the way I'd expect many PC gamers to play the title.)
Also, I think it's pretty clear that the majority of people dying to play Battlefield 3 are specifically focused on the multiplayer modes of the game, which I have yet to play outside of the alpha and beta tests. Still, single-player exists. It's a mode that took time and resources to produce, and so far, it's been riddled with bugs.
I'm going to be extremely thorough with the review for Battlefield 3, examining both the PC and console version of the game. We certainly wish we could have had a timely review available for the Shacknews community, but we didn't have the ability to play the game prior to release. Look for our review of Battlefield 3 on PC and Xbox 360 some time next week.
Field Reports provide our first-hand experience with the latest games, but should not be considered a review.
Xav de Matos posted a new article, Field Report: Battlefield 3 PC single-player.
We're still working on our Battlefield 3 review, but here are our first impressions of the first few missions found in the game on PC. So far, we've experienced a number of strange glitches.
I got Chrome to work for Battlelog once I enabled plugins to run automatically on [*.]battlefield.com (by default I have click to play on).
I haven't come across any of the bugs mentioned here in the single player campaign myself, with just 3 missions left. It is linear, but cinematic and an audio-visual treat. Actually, I haven't come across any bugs at all, apart from a weird graphical anomaly that reloading fixed. The main problems would basically be personal due to design issues. It is very CoD, and I'm okay with that - I know I'm going to play through the entire thing at least. I'm ripping through it before I get sucked into the multiplayer (and Uncharted 3 once it gets delivered this week...).
I think it's possible that many people are just falling into the natural rhythm/expected pathing they just want you to take. Especially if you've been watching all the trailers and recreating those viewpoints yourself.
If in doubt, I think it plays well if you hang back and let your squad lead you most of the time.
I haven't experienced those SP bugs, but I agree with the other guys. The SP isn't bad, but it's painfully linear. That said, I don't feel that it's much different from the MW games. I'm having the exact types of frustrations as with those games.
On the whole, none of these games' single player experiences are very deep, but they do make for some very pretty and neat setpieces.
I have yet to be able to play single or multiplayer. Multi tells me there's an error on the EA backend when I try to quickjoin and I'm unable to join any games, single player is an unplayable mess of stutter (I think triggered when a new sound fires, even the intro videos stutter constantly).
Neither of these were present in Alpha or Beta :/
I fucked with it for about 3 hours this morning and couldn't find any solutions. I have installed new audio drivers (but had to run to work before testing it) and will try to forward some ports this evening. Those are my best leads so far.
Framerate is fine for the 3-5 seconds of gameplay I get between pause/stutters, mouse feels pretty floaty though, and tweaking the sensitivity slider didn't seem to make a lot of difference. It's a pretty frustrating way to start out with a game, but I really can't form any serious opinions about it until I get the thing running.
it keeps crashing in operation guillotine for no reason, it makes the video driver crash. i tried every damn game, benchmark, diagnostic tool, to see if my video card was broken, but it's perfect, it's just a bug from what i see, no matter which video driver i install, i can't get past that mission, it keeps crashing in the same spot (hd6970, btw)


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Grand Canyon University (GCU), a nearly 60-year-old college started by Arizona Baptists, is in the forefront of a trend to turn Christian education into a profit-making enterprise.
Phoenix-based GCU was saved from bankruptcy last year when the school's board of directors sold the institution to a group of Christian investors. Significant Education LLC agreed to buy GCU in January 2004, with plans to transform it into the first for-profit Christian college in the U.S.
Michael K. Clifford, one of GCU's new vice chairmen, said he and other investors were attracted to GCU's "great reputation" and believed they could turn the school into a money-making venture.
"The educational industry is a robust industry on Wall Street," Clifford said. "The eight publicly traded companies are actually doing very well." He hopes to grow the school to rival the University of Phoenix and DeVry University, two of the largest for-profit educational institutions in the United States.
Clifford's recovery plan for GCU includes getting top Christian leaders to affiliate themselves with the school. GCU's college of business was renamed for management consultant and author Ken Blanchard. The school of applied psychology has been named for psychologist Kevin Leman. The new management team has also spent more than $6 million on advertising, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has rapidly expanded online educational programs.
Since the sale, online enrollment has jumped from 1,500 students to 2,900. On-campus enrollment is also up, to 1,750 students from 1,600. The school also has plans to offer online courses to Fortune 500 companies to boost online enrollment.
"We offer values-based education," Clifford said, "and Wall Street needs values."
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Watch how to make this recipe.
Heat 3 inches of the oil in a deep fryer to 325 degrees F. Alternatively, use a deep heavy skillet.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into chips (that is, fries) about the size of your index finger. Put the potatoes in a fryer basket and lower into the oil. Fry the chips for 2 to 3 minutes; they should not be crisp or fully cooked at this point. Remove the chips to a paper towel-lined platter to drain.
Crank the oil temperature up to 375 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and pepper. Combine soda water and egg and pour into the flour mixture. Whisk to a smooth batter. Spread the rice flour on a plate. Dredge the fish pieces in the rice flour and then dip them into the batter, letting the excess drip off.
Put the chips in the bottom of the fryer basket and carefully submerge in the hot oil. Carefully lower the battered fish into the bubbling oil on top of the chips. Fry the fish and chips for 4 to 5 minutes until crispy and brown. Remove the basket and drain the fish and chips on paper towels; season lightly with salt. Serve wrapped in a newspaper cone with malt vinegar and/or tartar sauce.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- No. 2-seeded Jelena Jankovic battled for 3 hours Tuesday before escaping with a first-round win at the BMA Malaysian Open tennis tournament.
Jankovic edged past Caroline Garcia 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 7-6 (7-2) in a match in which both players won 113 points. Jankovic needed two breaks in the third set to get into the final tiebreaker.
She dropped serve five times on the day while Garcia suffered four breaks.
Third-seeded Peng Shuai and No. 4-seeded Jarmila Gajdosova were also pushed to three sets. Peng dropped serve three times in the second set of a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Yvonne Meusburger while Gajdosova played for about 2 1/2 hours in a 1-6, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 win over Kathrin Woerle.
No. 6-seeded Ayumi Morita defeated Nudnida Luangnam 6-4, 6-0 while losing just four points on serve in the second set, but Hsieh Su-Wei eliminated eighth-seeded Anne Keothavong 6-4, 7-5.
Also Tuesday Karolina Pliskova topped Chang Kai-Chen 6-3, 6-2; Casey Dellacqua beat Bojana Jovanovski 6-0, 6-2; Eleni Daniilidou got past Sania Mirza 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Jill Craybas advanced with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 decision over Yurika Sema; and Krystyna Pliskova, Karolina's twin sister, defeated Iryna Bremond 6-0, 6-2.


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Calls made referenced nonexistent threats at KHS, South Lenoir
Making prank 911 calls led to arrests for four Kinston High School students Monday.
Officers with the Kinston Department of Public Safety arrested Jacquell Lawson and Alexis Whitfield, both 16, and two 15-year-old juveniles, charging them with misdemeanor misuse of the 911 system. The Lawson and Whitfield received $500 bonds.
�Two juvenile suspects have been served with juvenile petitions,� a KDPS statement said.
Friday, the Lenoir County 911 center received several calls reporting gunfire at KHS. Police responded and began investigating the incident, tracing the calls to KHS.
The four are also implicated in multiple 911 calls made at the same time alleging a stabbing, a shooting and a bomb at South Lenoir High School.
The Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office announced intentions to prosecute the perpetrators Friday, after discovering the calls were untrue.
�These false calls created a disruption at the school, put fear in the hearts of students, parents, and staff, and endanger our responding officers who are rapidly trying to get to the school,�LCSO Chief Deputy Chris Hill said at the time.
Charges are pending as the investigation continues in the South Lenoir case.
Lawson and Whitfield are due in Lenoir County District Court April 15.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.


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Unlocked Pro features in Business Calendar 2!
Pozadavky: Android 4.1 a vyssi
Popis: Your favorite calendar app for complex, versatile time management just got even better.
What's in this version:
- option "Show day numbers on top" for month view now is standard for new users, for existing installs you manually have to change the option (in Settings --> Month) if you want to show the month numbers on top
- fixed some bugs and crashes
Vice info:
Kód: Vybrat vše
Kód: Vybrat vše
Your favorite calendar app for complex, versatile time management just got even better. We've re-built Business Calendar from the ground, improving everything in the process.
▪ enjoy the new interface, optimized for efficiency
▪ fluidly move from months to days
▪ create tasks and lists with plenty of options
▪ events, tasks & weather - everything that matters in one view
The all-new Business Calendar has been designed and optimized for functionality, efficiency and solid synchronization. The new, beautiful interface gives you a better overview, lets you add events faster and keep on top of your busy schedule. To get the calendar that's just right for you, customize almost everything as you please.
Business Calendar is free and offers a lot of features in it's basic version. Additionally you can get even more unique features by upgrading BC 2 directly within the app. Users of the old BC Pro also can access the pro features of BC 2 as long as the old BC Pro app is installed.
A better bird's-eye view
▪ new day view with weather and integrated tasks
▪ quick day view to peek at your events from the month view
▪ a widget generator with plenty of options
▪ year, month, week, day or agenda: each purposefully optimized
▪ switch quickly between simple bars or detailed text
▪ new live search feature
▪ heat map in the year view
Fill the blanks: Scan for free spots
▪ show and hide calendars with the Favorite Bar
▪ finetune your view with simple gestures, zoom in or see multiple days
▪ move multiple events out of the way with a quick drag
Make your day: Add events & tasks
▪ add events from everywhere in the app, with lots of details when you need them
▪ integrated tasks tool for all your to-dos
▪ import & export calendar data (.ical, .ics)
▪ use custom event templates
▪ event history & location auto-completion
▪ link contacts to events
Personalize everything
▪ lots of settings for optimizing the appearance and functionality of your widgets, events, tasks and reminders
▪ adapt the different views (day, week, month, year, agenda) the way you need them
▪ go black with a dark theme
Get help:
▪ built-in help system
▪ quickly search our knowledge base if you have any questions


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Welcome to the CRG Discussion Forum!Forum registration problems: Make sure you enter your email correctly and you check your spam box first. *Then* email KurtS2@gmail for help.Classified ads are not allowed on the forum.
As promised, here are a few pics of my brother's 69 A sedan car. It was built in the early 70s by Dick Fisher of Wisconsin. I believe it ran its first AS race in 72, Central Division. He won Cen-Div in this car in 1976. This car is also registered with the Historic TA group. TA-025, if I recall. This car will be for sale in the coming months.klvn8r
The car is painted "as raced" in '72-76... Dick Fischer built/owned/drove... It won Cen-Div Championship in '76. Was usually #18 or 81. Was listed for sale in Autoweek after championship.... without the logbook in front of me, other owners were ( probably out of order) Dr. Norm Hoeffleur (sp?) O.M. Malsbree, Dan Beatty, who brought it to Texas, painted it red w/ white stripes #70 I may be forgetting one, too.... Ken
I'm away from all my materials, but the "photocopy" of the front of the trophy that Dick Fischer sent me reads something like " 1976 Central Division A-Sedan Champion" with drawings and names of the tracks... I don't think Mr. Fischer ventured to any "national" races. The ad in Autoweek with the checkered flag photo reads basically the same thing... I'm sure it was a "points total" regional Championship. Ken


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Joy Arnett
GPS Gifted Education Website
My role as a gifted instructional coach consists of:
Curriculum Supporter – Locating information and resources to support standards-based, differentiated instruction for the gifted learner so he/she may attain academic growth. Developing and supporting teachers' knowledge of the academic and social-emotional needs of the verbal, quantitative and nonverbally gifted learner.
Instructional Supporter – Modeling and/or co-teaching standards-based lessons that encompass differentiation in content, product and process. In addition, support teachers in selecting effective, research-based instructional and engagement strategies to meet the varied learning needs of gifted students.
Data Coach – Assisting teachers in looking at a variety of data to drive instructional decisions at the classroom level.
Professional Learning Facilitator – Coordinating, designing and/or facilitating, standards-based professional development aligned with the needs of the gifted learner. This includes professional development for both new and seasoned teachers focused on increasing rigor and complexity in all content areas, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, project-based learning, enrichment and acceleration, engagement strategies, and the social/emotional needs of the gifted child.
About Me
This is my 24th year of teaching/coaching in GPS. I have a degree in Early Childhood Education, a Master's in Elementary Education and am gifted endorsed.
I'm the mother of 5 good and hilarious children and the grandmother to 20 extremely gifted grandchildren. J
I love working with students and teachers. Teaching is a noble profession of which I'm extremely blessed to be a part of.


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Israel and Hamas accept Egypt's proposal of a 72-hour temporary ceasefire
Gaza City (CNN) — Israel and Hamas have accepted a 72-hour cease-fire proposed by Egypt, Israeli government officials and a Hamas official told CNN on Sunday.
The temporary cease-fire would allow for negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, Egypt's Foreign Ministry and senior Hamas official Izzat Risheq said.
Egypt is "inviting" both sides to resume a cease-fire at midnight local time tonight (5 p.m. ET Sunday) so that both sides can "use the opportunity" to resume indirect talks in Cairo, as well as to allow for humanitarian help to get to the victims of the fighting, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bader Abdelatty said.
Israel has resisted in-depth talks as long as Gaza rockets continue to head toward its territory.
The rockets have been met with Israeli airstrikes in recent days, dimming hopes of a cease-fire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict that has raged for more than a month.
Israeli negotiators left talks last week. On Sunday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said they would not return until rockets from Gaza stop. "We will not negotiate under fire," he said.
Palestinians said an Israeli no-show means they are walking away, too.
"If the Israelis do not come, we will leave to consult with our leadership," said Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of the Palestinian negotiation team. "We gave our demands to the Egyptian delegation seven days ago. We have not have received any official response yet."
Hamas, the Islamic militant group and political party that controls Gaza, has said it will not settle.
"We will not return to the status quo," it said in a statement on its website. "The resistance will continue in all its strength and we will not stop pushing for our people's demands."
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, which brokered recent talks, has said the parties had reached an agreement on most issues. Those not agreed upon were few and limited, the ministry said in a statement.
History of deadlock
Still, there's too much history between the two sides, an agreement on some issues will not necessarily lead to a grander breakthrough.
Palestinians have asked for Israel to lift its blockade on Gaza and to re-open the air and seaports, a negotiator who spoke on condition of anonymity said. Israeli authorities fear Hamas could import weapons by sea and maintains a ship blockade off Gaza's shores.
Palestinians also wanted Israel to extend Gaza's fishing zone in the Mediterranean from three miles off the coast to 20. Fishing is a keystone of Gazan livelihoods. But Israel was willing to extend fishing rights to only six miles off the coast, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
With the latest failed cease-fire quickly becoming a distant memory, the two sides in the Israel-Gaza conflict traded blame, rockets and airstrikes on Saturday.
There have been efforts to halt the bloodshed as well as to broach some of the thorny issues related to it. And there have been some breakthroughs, including a few cease-fires.
Yet none of those peacemaking attempts, so far, has stuck.
Death toll's rise slows
The death toll's climb has slowed since the IDF announced overnight into Saturday an end of its ground incursion in Gaza — even as it continued to strike from the air. Israeli forces say troops redeployed after completing their mission of destroying Hamas' tunnels.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the operation continues.
"At no stage did we announce its end," he said. "The operation will continue until we complete its aims – the return of quiet for a continuous period of time."
Still, while there weren't scores of dead Saturday as has been true many other days over the past few weeks, the total carnage remains significant.
According to el-Qedra, at least 1,911 in Gaza have died since the conflict began, in addition to just under 10,000 injured.
On Sunday, a 17-year-old boy was added to the dead, and several others were wounded in an Israeli strike the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said.
It's unclear how many casualties were militants: The United Nations estimates that about 70% of the dead were civilians, or about 1,340. IDF, meanwhile says about 900 militants have been killed, which would put the civilian death toll at around 1,000.
IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said that that number was a preliminary estimate based on field reports from troops returning from battle.
Israeli officials say 64 Israeli soldiers have died, and three civilians were killed in Israel. The Iron Dome missile defense system has intercepted many of the rockets Gazan militants have fired at populated areas of the country.


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Berkeley Electronic Press
This new publisher, started by several faculty members at U.C. Berkeley, is innovative in many different ways. They currently offer three economics journals: The B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics , The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics and The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy . All processing is electronic, and they claim to have the time from submission to publication as short as eight weeks. They rank papers by their perceived importance by placing them in different sections of each of their journals ("Frontiers, Advances. Contributions, Topics"). Thus, authors do not have to make the difficult judgment of what journal to submit a paper to, and then have to wait months for a decision. Perhaps the most interesting feature is their "Authors and Reviewers' Bank." Referees receive a credit, while submitters (if they pay no optional submission fee) receive a debt. That debt can be repaid by reviewing, but in the extreme the submitter will have to make a payment (although this is certainly not the desired outcome).


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Hoenshell, Seward nab CHA weekly honors
Hoenshell, Seward nab CHA weekly honors
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State women's hockey forward Hannah Hoenshell (Plano, Texas) and defender Kelly Seward (Williamsville, N.Y.) were named College Hockey America's Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, on Monday (Oct. 7).
A crafty forward with incredible stick skills, Hoenshell propelled Penn State to an undefeated weekend at Vermont, supplying three points and a game-high plus-four rating in Saturday's 4-2 win. Hoenshell was involved in three of Penn State's four goals, tallying a goal and two assists. Her goal was her second career game-winning goal.
Seward was fantastic on both sides of the ice this weekend as she tallied two goals, which ties for the team high after two games. Seward posted a plus-two rating and seven blocked shots for the weekend as well. In both games, Seward scored Penn State's first goal. On Friday it was a power-play tally and Saturday it was a game-tying goal in the first period.
Penn State went 1-0-1 during its opening weekend at Vermont with a 3-3 tie on Friday and a 4-2 win on Saturday. Despite giving up five goals, Penn State answered four of those Vermont tallies with goals of its own within five minutes. In the case of Hoenshell's game-winning goal on Saturday, it took her just six seconds to respond.
The Nittany Lions hit the road again this weekend by traveling to Quinnipiac, the host of the 2014 Women's Frozen Four. The Bobcats went 1-0-1 at St. Cloud State last week. The opening faceoff is set for 7 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday.