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Breezy tropical style and industrial flair meet in this distinctive dining chair, sure to make a statement in any space. Founded atop four metal hairpin legs finished in black, this pieces square seat and tall back are wrapped in woven rattan in a natural brown tone with open slats for a warm and airy look. Once this chair is assembled, it has the capacity to support up to 250 lbs. Main Material: Wicker/Rattan Main Material Details: Hairpin rattan weaving Weight Capacity: 250lb.
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Memory is a fickle thing, inherently wrong, yet personal in the greatest of ways. All of our memories are biased, based upon information our mind stores and corrupts. Stories we tell ourselves become memories, despite never happening. Things that happened turn out a different way when we think back on them.
Most personal to us all, and most telling of whom we will become, is our very first memory. The first bit of light our mind stores away for us in the world. These memories hide from us, little snippets of time. And then, like magic, a scent, or a sound, the touch of a familiar fabric, or the hum of a certain frequency reminds us, and it comes crashing back like nothing was ever missing at all.
The prickly poking of hay. The scent of his mother, soft and creamy like milk just warmed up, and the sound of his father's quiet voice. Later, Dirk would learn that the conversation was their first discussion about whether they should go back home to Thosfig, back to their tribe. His nose itched, and he rubbed his little fingers against it to make it go away.Noticing how sharp his little fingernails were, he curled them into his palms. Crickets chirped somewhere, and he could hear crackling, like fire. His eyes felt heavy, and he didn't want to sleep.
Pain. Yumil remembered pain first. A too-tight grip of an adult hand around a small wrist. The red of lines cut into child-soft skin by fingernails dyed with pigment from berries. Yumil remembers looking up at her, her tawny hair shining in the sunlight. She is beautiful, and frightful. She calls him a bad boy,voice hissing. Yumil feels his stomach twist and clench, fear climbing inside. She is angry, and to Yumil it's as if she has always been angry and will always be angry. He finds anger burning inside himself to match, hot and terrifyingly close to tears.
She can't remember the words anymore, but Eamon remembers the soft feeling of her mother's chest. Her cheek fits against it perfectly. She remembers the hard push of her sister's knee against her own leg, and the laugh in her mother's voice. She recalls the lines of her sister's hand and how it felt to rub her thumb along them until Lette shrieked with laughter, like it had tickled her. Eamon remembers how warm she felt, wrapped up in the two of them. A mix of flowers and cool water always brings this memory to her mind, and she smiles.
Grass tickling her nose, and a small round bug crawling along between the blades. Red like string scattering across her vision, as she was lifted from the earth. Her hand still reaching out for the little black bug, bigger hands tight against her ribs They squeezed a little painfully, but only enough to make her whine in the back of her throat. A murmur of her name, and Lette looks up. Her father's green eyes smile down at her like the water of a murky lake. She smiles back, and giggles. His hand, scratchy with callouses, brushes back her hair.
Blurs moving past him, dark things swimming around the edges of his vision. Espin remembers crying, crying so loud and so long that he was sure no one heard him. He remembers unpleasant smells, something he later knows is the smell of sickness and waste. He remembers the crying making it worse, stopping his nose and how panicked he felt. A cool hand on his forehead was all that kept him awake, and he cried, and cried. Sleep would be kinder. His stomach lurched, and he felt hotness sear his throat and splash out his lips. Nothing eases his pain.
Her big brother's back, warm and strong. Anelace was tied to it, she could feel the soft cloth against the back of her neck, feel the bounce of his step as he walked. He talked to her, telling her stories, and she burbled back to him. Her fingers found his coarse woven dreads, tugging for attention. She remembers how he smelt like sunshine and camels. He was so big, and strong, he carried her like she was smaller than an ant, and it made her feel small and she thought he must be the most powerful thing in the world.
She was always angry. So angry. His mother was angry at him, yelling and screaming, and Jorgan hated yelling. He wanted to hide and forget. It made him cry, which made her so much angrier. She called him hurtful things he can't remember later, things that might be true. Her palm struck his cheek, and his world went spinning. Pain blossomed in his jaw, his teeth rattling, as he toppled over. His cries came louder. The snap of a belt made his chest squeeze, and fear silenced him. His father's footsteps, shaky and unstable, curled him into a tight ball.
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This demonstration shows participants how to set up an exam in the Pollock Testing Center using the Canvas Learning Management System. Participants in this demonstration learn how to apply recommended and optional quiz settings.
This Training on Demand can be delivered online via Zoom or in-person as a 1 hour demonstration session.
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An overview of IBIS concepts, using CCOM to generate reports and complete financial processes.
This handout includes guidelines, techniques, and tools to produce accessible content in Word and PowerPoint.
NOTE: IT Learning and Development documentation that focuses on creating documents that meet the Accessibility guidelines of the PSU Accessibility Office.
This series of 1-hour demonstration sessions are scheduled online during a typical lunch hour. They deal with a variety of advanced topics in Canvas such as large enrollment classes, rubrics, and integrations. To view the upcoming session topics and course descriptions, visit the Learning Resource Network and search for "Canvas Brown Bag."
Penn State's Canvas Learning Center serves as a gateway for faculty and support staff to get the most out of using Canvas for teaching and learning. The learning path is housed within a Canvas course and designed to be your one-stop-shop for learning how to use Canvas, whether you do so at your own pace or through live training!
This Canvas module introduces students to Canvas at Penn State. Learn ways to import and customize the module for any Canvas course in the Canvas Learning Center.
Are you looking for a basic overview of Canvas (Penn State's Learning Management System)? This 1-hour demonstration session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Canvas at Penn State. You will walk away with best practices and resources for using Canvas to facilitate teaching and learning.
This course can be delivered online via Zoom or in-person as a 1 hour demonstration session.
Do you want to use multiple methods to measure students' mastery of your course content? This 2.5-hour hands-on session will prepare you to design and deliver a variety of assessments in Canvas. You will walk through the steps for creating assignments and quizzes and explore quiz settings that determine how students interact with questions and review and receive feedback.


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Flows into municipal-bond mutual funds and ETFs - a convenient barometer for investor sentiment about the muni market - strengthened in the latest week. Said funds reported a $320 million net inflow in the week ended Wednesday, per Lipper data, up from an $82 million inflow a week ago. Its the fifth net inflow of the past six weeks, before which muni funds had seen 33 straight weekly outflows. The average net inflow over the past four weeks is a relatively meager $127 million.
Similar data released yesterday by the Investment Company Institute measured muni fund losses from a week ago at $162 million, up from $146 million the previous week.
The iShares S&P National AMT-Free Muni Bond (MUB) ETF closed Thursday to $106.11, up 1 cent from where it was a week ago.


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So here is the vote: Your top 10 favourite games that were first released before the year 2000. First released means anywhere in the world. For example, Pokemon Gold and Silver were released in Europe and North America in 2000, but they were released in Japan in November 1999. That makes them eligible for this vote!
Voting will be open for 1 week (the duration of Retro Week) during which you are free to edit your votes, and then I'll close the thread and count up all the votes at the end before announcing the overall top 10!
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Pokemon Gold/Silver
- Super Mario 64
- Super Mario World
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Tetris
- Metal Gear Solid
- Goldeneye 007
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pylypuik needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Need a bright, clean looking logo for a new start-up company that will provide a hosted email marketing solution to assist sports, and entertainment companies sell their tickets.
Desired Color Scheme:
Designers discretion although I like Orange
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Web 2.0
I need the logo to incorporate a Web 2.0 feel. Colors to be used are at your discretion but should somehow tell the story about our service as tickets and email.
****I like the look and feel of the "intellicontact" logo found at:
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Latest News
3 Republicans demand special Libya probe; Democrats, Boehner say they have it covered
Three Republican senators on Wednesday demanded the creation of a special panel to investigate the September attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz,. joined Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., in saying the standard congressional committees aren't up to the task of unraveling the complex series of diplomatic, military and intelligence missteps tied to the tragedy in Benghazi.
"While we await the findings and recommendations of the (Obama) administration's internal review, it's essential for the Congress to conduct its own independent assessment," McCain said at a news conference. "There is no credibility amongst most of us considering the administration and the numerous controversies and contradictions that have been involved in their handling of this issue."
Obama said his administration is working with Congress and conducting its own "full-blown investigation" into the consulate assault in Benghazi, which came on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"It is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I'm happy to cooperate in any way Congress wants," Obama said at his first post-election news conference. "We have provided every bit of information that we have, and we will continue to provide information."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, rejected the need for a special panel and said her committee is adequate to probe the security lapses before and during the nighttime military-style raids on the consulate.
"We have spent a great deal of time on this," Feinstein told reporters. "We have arranged for three hearings on the intelligence aspects. We're the committee that should do it, we're the committee with responsibility for oversight and that has the authority to do it."
Feinstein said that former CIA head David Petraeus, who resigned the post last week because of an extramarital affair, had agreed to testify to her panel about the Benghazi attacks.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he didn't think a special committee is necessary.
"At this point, I think that the standing committees of the House, whether they be the (State Department) oversight committee or the intelligence committee, are working diligently on these issues," Boehner said.
Graham said that at least two other Senate panels – the Foreign Relations Committee and the Armed Services Committee, on which he sits – would also investigate the attacks.
"Four Americans are dead, the first (U.S.) ambassador is killed in 33 years in the line of duty," Graham said. "I think this is a symptom of a greater problem in the Middle East, quite frankly."
The U.S. consulate in Benghazi was based at a group of villas. A separate cluster of U.S.-leased villas just over a mile from the consulate housed a secret CIA mission, which came under sustained mortar attack hours after the initial hit on the consulate.
Graham and the senators cited previous select committees Congress set up to probe the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Watergate scandal and the Iran-Contra affair as models for a unified probe of the Benghazi attacks.
"Conspiracy theories are running rampant" about Benghazi, Graham said. "A segmented, stovepipe investigation, where you have three different committees going off in three different directions, not comparing notes, not being able to do this in an organized fashion, is going to lead to failure."
The separate congressional hearings, Graham said, would be unlikely "to hold people accountable for what I think is a national security debacle long in the making that should have been avoided."
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who often works with Republicans, said she isn't convinced a select committee is needed.
"Classified briefings are very important, and we should let those run their course," McCaskill told McClatchy. "It would appear to me we have aggressive oversight going on right now, and that's what we should continue to do."
It is unusual for Congress and a presidential administration to agree to the creation of a special committee to probe a major national security lapse.
Even after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans, President George W. Bush and some Republican allies in Congress resisted for months establishing a panel to investigate.
The 9/11 panel wasn't created until 14 months later. After 20 months of work, including interviews with 1,200 people in 10 countries and a review of several million documents, it released a report that blamed multiple random and systemic intelligence lapses for the tragedy.
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America Didn't Decline. It Went Global.
We've been obsessing over the decline or persistence of American power for more than three decades now. The latest example is a Gallup poll out Monday showing rising dissatisfaction with the United States' standing in the world — but it all started with a wave of declinism in the 1980s, set off by the rise of Japan. Then the doom and gloom suddenly vanished amid the triumphalism of the 1990s, which transformed the United States into the world's only superpower. After the Sept. 11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq, many thought "empire" was a better moniker, with the United States apparently able to reshape world order virtually at will. And then just a few years later — poof! — declinism returned with a vengeance, with American power supposedly crashing like the latest Hollywood reality queen. China supplanted Japan as a hegemon on the rise, and the biggest global financial crisis since 1929 — emanating from the United States itself — was allegedly the final nail in the coffin of the American century.
But really? Is it really possible for American power in the world to flip-flop so wildly over the decades? Surely, the economic underpinnings of national power run deeper than that? And throughout these waves of conventional wisdom over the decades, there have always been contrarians, including in the present. So how is it possible for commentators to look at the same data and come to completely opposite conclusions?
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The answer is that people are debating the wrong data, especially today. The traditional way of conceptualizing national power is to look at so-called national accounts — most of all gross domestic product, but also balance of trade, national debt, world share of manufacturing, etc. — relative to other nations or the world. So when Japanese GDP was rising rapidly from the 1960s to the 1980s, people equated this with the rise of Japanese economic power. This made sense in the era before globalization, when production was largely contained within national borders and firms would export their goods and services to compete abroad. So when made-in-Japan radios began flooding the American market in the 1960s, this was reflected not only in increasing Japanese GDP and exports but also in the increasing capacity of Japanese firms like Sony to outcompete American firms like RCA.
But in the age of globalization, as the world's largest transnational corporations now have vast operations across the globe, this equation between national accounts and national power begins to break down. China, for example, has been the world's largest electronics exporter since 2004, and yet this does not at all mean that Chinese firms are world leaders in electronics. Even though China has a virtual monopoly on the export of iPhones, for instance, it is Apple that reaps the majority of profits from iPhone sales. More broadly, more than three-quarters of the top 200 exporting firms from China are actually foreign, not Chinese. This is totally different from the prior rise of Japan, propelled by Japanese firms producing in Japan and exporting abroad.
In the age of globalization, then, the rise of Chinese national accounts could actually reflect the power of foreign transnational corporations, and we cannot know simply by looking at national accounts. Another example is the Chinese auto market, which has exploded to become the largest national auto market in the world since 2009. But again, in the age of globalization, this does not at all mean that Chinese firms are world leaders in automobiles. In fact, Chinese firms can't even compete within China, let alone abroad. There are more than 100 Chinese auto firms, and despite decades of state subsidies and protection, their combined market share in China is less than 30 percent. Foreign firms, dominated by General Motors and Volkswagen, make up the rest. This is totally different from the days when the Japanese and South Korean auto markets emerged, as the rise of their national markets reflected the rise of their national auto firms (Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, etc.), establishing a strong base from which to compete abroad.
So we can no longer rely on national accounts to determine national power. Rather, we have to investigate these corporations themselves to encompass their transnational operations — for which national accounts (conceived in the 1920s) are wholly inadequate. Once we analyze the world's top transnationals, a startling picture of economic power emerges. For one thing, national accounts seriously underestimate American power, and seriously overestimate Chinese power.


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Destiny throws two men together. How will they change each other's lives? This is a BL-story about Greek artist and German professor.
NB: All characters and their names are assumed.
Sketch-manga. Read from right to left.
Warning: it's a boys love story, 18+
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Tips for Gluten Free Dining
If you're looking for restaurants that offer gluten-free fare, you're in good company. Although only 1 in 133 people are estimated to experience Celiac disease, many more are seeking a gluten-free lifestyle for digestive issues, gluten intolerances or other health reasons.
The fame of gluten free is something restaurants have awakened to, and that's good news for you. They already realize their responsibility to accommodate the many on the gluten free path. National restaurant chains have done everything from adding gluten free sections to their menus (P.F. Chang's and Outback Steakhouse) to testing and revising ingredients to fit the category. You can find Heartland Gluten Free Pasta on the menus at Old Spaghetti Factory and Macaroni Grill.
It's easier than ever to enjoy gluten free restaurant cuisine. Follow these tips.
Check the internet. Before heading out to lunch or dinner, go online to any of several reliable websites that offer listings of restaurants, small and large, with gluten free options. For one, visit Gluten-Free Travel Site.
Download a smartphone app. Install a smartphone app from Gluten Free Registry, for example, and get the goods on nearby gluten free friendly restaurants while you're out and about.
Ask your server. Gluten free pasta has become quite popular and is an easy and delicious way restaurants have found to satisfy diners on gluten free diets. Ask your server about the restaurant's pasta choices.
Offer feedback. If you're happy with your restaurant's gluten free fare, offer encouragement by letting them know, either on their Facebook page or by filling out a customer comment card. (It may lead to more selections later!) If there are no gluten free options, speak up and make a difference.
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Vote Common Good Rallies are two-hour events designed to inspire you to engage the common good in concrete and meaningful ways through your vote, inform you about crucial issues, invite you to re-frame your political thoughts, and equip you to communicate those thoughts effectively to others. Each stop will have its own feel and vibe, but our they will have a consistent structure and one basic theme: Match your action to your beliefs. Vote Common Good.


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Josephjlong needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
These clothes are to be worn by mixed martial arts fighters, or Ultimate Fighting Championship type fighters. Edgy, macho, and cool. The slogan for the clothing line is Live Hard, Be Hard.
Spartan Fightwear
Live Hard, Be Hard
Desired Color Scheme:
black, crimson, gold
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The main sales item will be t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc. Focus on this and we can modify it for hats, shorts, etc.
Obviously, we are appealing to the macho side of these men, so a Spartan warrior is probably obligatory. They had a saying in Sparta: The mothers would hand their sons their shields and say, "With your shield or on it." It meant if you didn't come home with your shield, it meant you threw it away and were a coward. So mom would say if you don't come home with your shield, you better come home on it, which is how they carried the dead home. They also had a saying, "Molon Labe", which was Greek for "Come and take them". It was their war-cry when Xerxes told them he would spare their lives if Leonidas, the King of Sparta, would give up his weapons. All in all, if you have seen the movie, 300, you kind of understand what we are looking for.
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NYC Marathon runners fill unexpected free time
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sue Johnson refuses to give New York City any more money.
She preferred to shell out for the change fee to move her flight home to Pittsburgh up by 24 hours - leaving on the day she was supposed to run the New York City Marathon.
Many of the runners who had descended on the city from all over the globe worked out their frustrations with a jog Saturday through Central Park, site of a finish line that will never be crossed. Some scrambled to rebook return flights. Others made sightseeing plans for the unexpected free time.
Whether from Europe, South America or elsewhere, their sentiment was the same. Sympathy for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. Understanding of why city officials canceled Sunday's race. But bitterness that the decision was made Friday instead of earlier in the week, before they boarded planes.
And some, like Johnson, voiced suspicions that the last-minute announcement was a ploy by city officials to lure entrants to New York so they would still spend money at local businesses.
"They get the best of both worlds," she said after wrapping up a run Saturday.
The runners had dragged their bodies through months of training, often making preparations years in advance and saving money for what costs thousands of dollars for many international entrants.
Diego Pellegrino and his wife kept their plans to stay in New York through Friday. But he had imagined biking around, shopping and eating well all week with the sense of accomplishment of completing his first marathon.
"The illusion is broken," he said.
Pellegrino will still take part in a sporting event midday Sunday: With no race to run, he'll make his first visit to Madison Square Garden for an NBA game, cheering on fellow Argentine Pablo Prigioni of the Knicks against the Philadelphia 76ers.
On a crisp, sunny Saturday, Central Park looked the part of the usual telegenic backdrop to the marathon's final miles. Other than some downed branches, the runners who chugged along the paths saw no evidence of the storm that knocked out power and flooded homes all over the metropolitan area.
A block of sidewalk just outside the park was cordoned off, stacks and stacks of boxes of orange jackets originally intended for marathon volunteers waiting to be donated to shelters. On this Saturday, runners would usually carb load at Marathon Eve Dinner. That, too, was canceled.
More New Yorkers got electricity Saturday, but frustrations mounted over gasoline shortages as refueling sites turned into traffic jams of horn-honking confusion. Gas rationing went into effect in northern New Jersey, while crowds lined up at free fuel distribution sites in New York's boroughs.
The blue and orange structure above the finish line remained up, though nobody could run under it. Barricades kept people a few yards away, creating the feel of a tourist attraction: Runners stood against them to have their photo taken with "Finish" in the background. Many wore NYC Marathon gear, souvenirs from an event that never occurred.
Some runners organized their own impromptu marathon routes this weekend. Others will gather on Staten Island on Sunday morning as they would have for the marathon. They'll take off running -- to deliver supplies to residents devastated by the storm.
"We initially were bummed, but also saddened by the perception that runners were indifferent to the needs of other people," said Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine doctor in New York. "We wanted to turn a negative to a positive."
American star Meb Keflezighi, the 2009 men's champion, said some of the elite runners were considering entering upcoming marathons in Japan and Philadelphia to take advantage of their training. But he may take some time off.
For all the conspiracy theories from out-of-town runners, the city will take in far less than the estimated $340 million the marathon would have brought.
Anthony King, owner of the bar Finnegans Wake along the race course on Manhattan's East Side, had the mixed feelings of a New Yorker and a local businessman. He felt for other merchants who would lose much-needed revenue, but agreed with the mayor's ultimate decision.
"We're going to miss all the excitement," he said.
Race organizer New York Road Runners has cancellation insurance but must sort out the effects on contracts with elite runners, sponsors and broadcasters. NYRR President Mary Wittenberg said Friday that for now organizers were sticking with their policy of not refunding entry fees, but it would be reviewed.
Susan Bourque was in the car, halfway between Boston and New York, when her father called Friday evening to say the race was canceled. Still on the road, Bourque started researching whether she could enter a different marathon in the next couple weeks so as not to waste her training. Sure enough, Sunday's race in Manchester, N.H., had extended its registration deadline to attract jilted New York runners.
Bourque and her husband kept on driving because their two children had never been to the Big Apple. They arrived at 9:30 p.m. and squeezed in visits to the Empire State Building and Times Square before heading back to New England at midday Saturday, pleasantly surprised their hotel refunded the rate with their early departure.
Francesco Caielli, Mario Di Sabato and Luciano Sala were two hours from landing in New York on Friday when they saw the news on the plane's video screens. At least their trip was smooth: A friend whose initial flight was canceled flew from their native Italy to Hong Kong then New York, determined to make the marathon.
And now there's no race.
Di Sabato scoffed that if the same thing happened in his home country, outsiders would accuse the Italians of stereotypical disorganization. But this fiasco took place under the watch of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In his first comments since canceling the race, Bloomberg told WCBS-TV on Saturday his message to out-of-town runners was: "I'm sorry. I fought the battle, and sometimes things don't work out."
Runners signed up this year will be guaranteed entry into the 2013 marathon or the half-marathon in March, a valuable promise since it's so hard to get into the race. That could leave few spots next year for anyone else, though.
But some vowed to never again enter the NYC Marathon. Pia Nielsen, who flew in from Copenhagen, said city and race officials would have to regain her trust.
Lucy Marquez said she would come back, even as tears filled her eyes at the thought of the three young children she left at home in Mexico to race what would have been her first marathon.
"Shock. Denial. Rage," is how Marquez described the stages of digesting the news that the race had been scrapped. Twelve years ago, she watched her father run the course.
"I love New York City," she said. "This is the marathon I want to run."
Cara Anna, James Martinez and Karen Matthews contributed to this report.


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Edmunds Says
Although the Chevrolet Cobalt is the company's best small car in years, it's still well behind the class leaders in terms of handling, seat comfort and overall refinement.
What's New
The 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt receives minimal changes. A few new audio systems and wheel styles debut; a 3-spoke steering wheel replaces the former 4-spoker; and GM's remote vehicle start feature joins the options list.Read more
Respectable acceleration from all powertrains, smooth and quiet ride, good crash test scores.
Introduced a few years ago as a replacement to the aged Cavalier, the Chevrolet Cobalt presents a much more modern entry in the economy-car segment. Improvements over the Cavalier in the areas of performance, ride quality, cabin materials and crash tests should have strengthened the position of Chevy's import fighter. And yes, the Cobalt is without question a much better car than the Cavalier. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's enough to challenge the front-runners.
Don't get us wrong. The 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt has more than a few things going for it. Even the base model provides peppy performance and a quiet ride. And an extensive roster of dealer-installed options like a performance exhaust system and ground effects allow more personalization than most competitors. But buyers in this class are typically more interested in overall quality and a comfortable cabin than a snarling exhaust or racy body styling. Compared to the interior in the Honda Civic, for instance, the Cobalt's design seems rather bland and its materials low-grade. Seat comfort is another area where the Cobalt falls short -- although they offer some lateral bolstering, the seats are otherwise flat and offer little in the way of lumbar and under-thigh support.
As indicated in a 2005 Edmunds.com economy car comparison test, the Chevy Cobalt excels in acceleration but loses out in the handling area to more responsive and composed rivals such as the Mazda 3, Civic and Ford Focus. Standing apart from the other Cobalts, however, are the SS versions, which have more powerful engines (especially in the case of the Supercharged coupe) as well as tuned suspensions with larger wheels. These SS models are worth checking out, as they promise a more exciting and involving drive.
Examined in isolation, the non-SS versions of the 2007 Cobalt would be a satisfactory choice for most folks shopping for an economy car, but we obviously don't advise buying a car that way. With more than a few competitors offering superior handling dynamics (and hence a higher fun-to-drive factor), greater seat comfort and better build quality, we suggest cross-shopping before making a decision.
Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
The 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt is available as a compact coupe or sedan. Coupes come in LS, LT, SS and SS Supercharged trim, while sedans come in LS, LT, LTZ and SS versions. LS models feature 15-inch wheels, air-conditioning, a driver-seat height adjuster, a split-folding rear seat and a standard CD player. The LT, which is probably a better choice for most shoppers, adds cruise control, full power accessories, keyless entry, upgraded upholstery, alloy wheels and more interior lighting. The top-of-the-line LTZ sedan features leather seating, an upgraded sound system, chrome trim and 16-inch alloys. The sporty SS adds 17-inch alloy wheels, a rear spoiler, a more powerful engine, a sport-tuned suspension and unique fascias. The Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged coupe is the fastest model and features 18-inch alloys, a supercharged engine, an even firmer suspension tune, leather seats with color-keyed inserts and a boost gauge.
Powertrains and Performance
A 2.2-liter inline 4-cylinder engine powers LS, LT and LTZ Cobalt models. With 145 horsepower, 155 pound-feet of torque and a broad powerband, that engine makes the Cobalt one of the faster economy cars available. The SS features an even more potent 2.4-liter version with 171 hp and 163 lb-ft of torque. The SS Supercharged coupe has a supercharged 2.0-liter 4 good for 205 hp, 200 lb-ft of torque and a 7-second 0-60-mph time. The standard transmission is a 5-speed manual, with a 4-speed automatic available as an option. The automatic is standard on the LTZ, and not available on the SS Supercharged.
Antilock brakes are optional on LS models, and standard on all other Cobalts. Full-length side curtain airbags are optional across the board. All but the base LS model can be equipped with OnStar telematics. In side-impact crash testing performed by the IIHS, the Chevy Cobalt earned an "Acceptable" rating (second highest of four) when equipped with side curtain airbags and a "Poor" rating (the lowest possible) without them. Frontal offset testing by the IIHS resulted in a "Good" rating (the highest possible). NHTSA testing resulted in four stars out of five for the driver and a perfect five for the passenger in frontal-impact tests. In side-impact tests, a Cobalt sedan with the side curtain airbags garnered three stars (four for the coupe) up front and four stars in back, while a coupe without the airbags earned four stars for both the front and rear.
Interior Design and Special Features
Inside, attractive gauges and a full-featured stereo head unit give the 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt a modern feel. Still, the design is plain, unless you upgrade to the LTZ and its leather seats and wood grain trim, or one of the SS models, which have faux aluminum trim. Seat comfort is unimpressive (except in the SS Supercharged coupe), and is especially true in back where the bench is flat and low.
Driving Impressions
Choose any of the engines and you'll have ample power for just about any situation. Commuters will enjoy the Chevy Cobalt's smooth, quiet ride, but the car's handling is less impressive. The suspension allows too much body roll, and the electric steering is slow, with minimal feedback. The SS models offer tighter handling through the turns and rapid acceleration with the supercharged engine, but still fall short of the class leaders in terms of refinement.


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King Maker - Session 1: Welcome to the Stolen Lands!
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Capture bandits, slay kobolds, get... radishes? Profit!
24th of Cailstril:
12:00 - Four set out that day, each holding an exploration charter from the Lord Mayor of Restov, to go forth and explore the Stolen Lands. Oghren, the dwarven barbarian, does not understand much in the ways of the world, but he finds himself a purpose of honor to dispatch the thieving bandits of the Greenbelt. Erlarf the Fat, and Human Fighter, seeks to protect his company with his huge size and massive tower shield any way he can. Verin, the Orcish Cleric, though initially scorned by Oghren found no reason to start a fight seeing his own purpose in line with that of the dwarf, set out to forge an alliance with an unlikely companion. Drusilla, a Kitsune Rogue, seeks to aid the group only while drawing as little attention to herself as possible. The four set out from Restov to Olegs Trading Post, which was set to be a 4-day journey.
28th of Cailstril:
15:00 - Upon arrival at the trading post in the Greenbelt, they were greeted by Oleg Levetan and his wife Svetlana at the gate and immediately Oleg began questioning them about taking care of the bandit problem. Oghren, simple in nature, replying that the bandits were one of their tasks. Once Oleg briefed the group about the bandits past activities and their expect arrival the next morning, the party devised a plan of ambush to surprise the bandits when they returned to claim their taxes.
1st of Pharast:
6:00 - The next morning, their plan was well laid out. Oghren hid behind the guesthouse, greatsword in hand, and would wait for the bandits to pass. Erlarf climbed on top of the guesthouse with his massive tower shield and intended to perform a vertical shield bash on the nearest target. Verin hid behind the old broken cart, the same one he spent an hour the previous night fixing with his divine magic, with his greataxe at the ready. Finally, Drusilla posted herself on the palisade above the main gate and would pepper the thieves with arrows. The bandit arrived promptly just after the break of dawn, and beat on the door with intensity demanding entry. Oleg hesitated for a moment before opening the gate, making sure his little raiding party was in position. The bandits came strolling in like the owned the place, and Oleg slowly began to back away around the guesthouse. There were only four of them, and as soon as one of them progressed beyond the guesthouse, Oghren charged excitedly. Perhaps it was the rush of battle, or maybe a simple mistake, but his blade never found its mark. Drusilla was equally unlucky, as her bow failed to pick off the lieutenant from above. Verin, however, would strike the first blow. Charging in from behind the cart, he swung his long axe nearly cleaving a bandit in two, and sent him flying towards Oleg spraying blood all over him. The bandits, surprised by the ground assault, never saw the armored large man atop the guesthouse. Erlarf the Fat, leaped down from the guesthouse, spiked tower shield first, squashing a second bandit. The bandits tried to fight back, but they were severely outmatched and outflanked. Oghrens second attempt to slay his quarry proved more fortuitous, as he struck so hard as to split the body in half. The leader, seeing his subordinates all laying dead on the ground, attempted to flee but was caught and subdued by Verins divine power.
6:15 - Once the prisoner was conscious again, Verin and Drusilla were collectively able to extract the location of not just the Stag Lords Fort due south of the trading post, but also a camp staged along the river southwest of the post as well. Oghren, bound by his barbarian honor and pride, did not want to allow the cowardly bandit to live despite the promises of the Orc and the Kitsune. Oleg however, vengeful and angry, came up with an even worse fate for the thief. They decided he would hang outside the walls by his wrists, naked, without food until he starved to death. This satisfied the barbarian, as he sat in the grass for hours watching the bandit suffer while enjoying some venison, cheese, and ale all compliments of Olegs food stores.
7:00 - Oleg was so pleased that the four adventurers were so effective in dealing with the thieving wretches that he insisted on the four staying the remainder of the day as his guests so they could stock up and prepare for their journey through the Greentbelt. They traded some of the haul they acquired from the bandits to utilize Olegs cart with the help of the 6 horses the commandeered from the bandits.
2nd of Pharast:
6:00 - Seeking the bandit camp the prisoner spoke of, the four traveled southwest, and ended up finding a clearing in a forest that housed a large patch of a strange sort of radish.
10:00 This patch, however, was guarded by 5 well fed kobolds. Verin thought that the kobolds could be reasoned with while Oghren thought to just kill them all since Svetlana had asked for the radishes to make her special soup. Turns out that the kobolds wanted nothing to do with diplomacy and attacked the four after a few short exchanges of go away in draconic. The four made quick work of the kobolds, being weak creatures and standing no change against their mighty blows. Once the fight was done with, the four collectively decided that fresher radishes would be better so they loaded up the cart with as many radishes as they could find and set off back to the trading post to deliver them.
14:00 Upon arrival, Svetlana was more than pleased to get her radish supply so quickly. Then, seeing an opportunity to assault the bandit camp undercover of darkness, the four prepared to set back out into the wilds of the Greenbelt once again


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Not many upgrades provide more trail prowess than low gearing, and few gearing options can match the strength of an Offroad Design Doubler. The Doubler uses an NP205 transfer case, which is a gear-driven transfer case with an iron housing and adds the gear reduction half of an NP203 transfer case in front of it. This effectively doubles your low range, with the NP203 offering a 2:1 reduction and the NP205 providing 1.96:1 low range. Combined, they make 3.92:1 double low for increased torque multiplication and control.
ORD's Doubler has become common on fullsize Chevys used for hardcore trail use, and we wanted to put one into Raymond, the F-150 I entered in our Cheap Truck Challenge ("Raymond," Oct. '13), as part of the truck's extreme makeover at Nate's Precision. When we talked to ORD owner Stephen Watson about our plan, he asked if we already had the Ford NP203. "Well, not yet," we replied. "Call me back when you have one in your hands," he told us.
It turns out he was right. The most difficult part of putting the NP203 transfer case between our NP435 transmission and factory NP205 was finding a Ford NP203 transfer case with the appropriate 31-spline input gear. Chevy applications are typically 10-spline (SM465), 27-spline (TH350 and 700R4/4L60), or 32-spline (TH400 and NV4500) and are fairly common, with even new components available. That is not the case for the Ford NP203 transfer cases', which were only offered from '74 to '79, and even then they were far less common than the NP205.
Bayshore Truck eventually found us a Ford NP203 transfer case—but it was halfway across the country. Rather than eat the shipping on a 200-pound transfer case, we just purchased the Ford-specific input gear and installed it in a locally sourced (and more common) Chevy NP203 transfer case . Once we rounded up the appropriate input gear, the Doubler came together quickly with help from Offroad Design, Bayshore Truck, and Nate's Precision.


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I have been inspired by two of my fellow editors here at Everyday Health. David Flores just completed a half-marathon in support of leukemia and multiple myeloma. And after six months of training, Bryan Harris boarded a plane to Washington State and battled Mt. Rainier. Both David and Bryan set fitness goals, strived and sweated with their missions in mind, and broke their own barriers when the day arrived.
Me? I'm in a bit of a fitness slump. I just ended my gym membership after two tried-and-true years. I plan to join the yoga studio that recently opened across the street from my apartment, but weeks have passed, and assorted occurrences, occasions, or good TV shows keep me from actually joining (I really do plan to join next week!). Not to mention, the unseasonably rainy and chilly weather we've been having in New York – the coldest June since 1903 – makes staying in to watch the good TV shows even more enticing. But I know, and as I'm sure anyone reading this knows, these are all just excuses.
One recent yoga-membership-delaying event was a party I attended in celebration of the first annual 42Ride Bike Series. Sponsored by 42BELOW Vodka, 42 cyclists are journeying across America to raise money for the Alliance of Biking and Walking. (For any twitterers out there, you can support the cause by following welikebike42. If 100,000 people keep tabs on the journey, 42BELOW will make a $42K donation to the Alliance). Their ride westward began just this morning in New York City.
Riding my own bike always manages to spark my appetite for activity – even during this fitness slump. This city maintains a thriving bike culture, and I've been adapting to it quite nicely. (I also recently read in one of those weekly celeb mags that bike-riding is very "in" right now. All the stars are doing it. I hereby state for the record that I was riding my bike before it was the celeb trend-of-the-week).
But when I do ride, I'm pedaling to get where I'm going or for a nice way to spend my Saturday. I have only teetered into riding long distances. A couple of weekends ago, I rode to Brooklyn's Prospect Park with my boyfriend to see David Byrne's free concert. We found out when we got there that we had the wrong night (oy), but that's beside the point. All in all, we rode about 13 miles. At the end, I was really winded, but I felt great!
So – after being inspired by Bryan, David, and the 42 men and women currently cycling their way across the country – I have decided to set my own bike-riding-themed, fitness mini-goal. I will take my little blue wheels around the circumference of Manhattan – a distance of 22.96 miles. That may not sound like a lot to true biking buffs, but it's just a start. If all goes well, I'll map out a route that touches into all five boroughs of New York – Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. And if all goes well again, who knows where I'll pedal next! Maybe one day, I'll be right there in the pack of 42 bikers riding from New York, westward. We've all got to start somewhere.
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I cannot get my head around people who use this term, & often look at them with a confused expression when I hear 'rest in peace'. What do people mean by this, & why do they feel they need to say it?
To me & probably all of you, its an empty phrase, meaningless. But still, its branded about more than Angry Birds.
How do you feel with this phrase? & how do you react to it socially? Are you offended by it? Have you never really thought about it?
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Whenever I hear that or even say that saying, I give the implication "Rest In Peace = I hope grave robbers don't dig up the body and steal everything" or even "I hope no one does anything to the body" in general. Still waiting to read about the ventriloquist in the mortuary followed by the body being dug up and ransacked....
Rest in Peace is OK by me, as most people are buried, and it is all good, especially after a difficult death, or the person has been in a lot of pain. I am sending my body to a University, so the doctors can practice operations on me, BUT I will pray for you and god bless realllly cheese me off, and say don't worry about it, I am an atheist, and that is good fun.
It's annoying to hear people say it...
Yoda once told me "In god I believe not, may the schwartz be with you". But that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
If I have a tombstone to put that on I won't care. I'd like to be cremated. But if I happen to be under a tombstone I don't/won't care. I won't care about the connotation and I don't even have to think about that now. I won't have to think about it because it doesn't make a difference.
"People might think I was religious" I don't/won't care.
RIP doesn't sound right for a cremation! There's something about those flames.... :)
All my family were or will be cremated. None of us has, or will have tombstones. I have always considered a tombstone as something for the living, to provide them with comfort and to enable them to deal with the absence of a person who was in their lives; a kind of "cardboard cut-out" replacement. As we don't believe in "presence after absence", we just remember our loved ones and bring them back to us by talking about things they did or said in their lives that we can point at to relive the warmth of the place they held in our 'hearts'.
I've used it in the past when I was religious. To me, it has an underlying message that the "soul" remains after our bodies die. Now, we can't know for sure that when we die the energy that makes up our consciousness doesn't continue being conscious -- but we can't know it does either.
Bottom line, it seems harmless and likely meaningless.
I never have liked it partly because when I was a small child, before I learned about abbreviations and would see it on a gravestone i just thought it was saying rip as in rip paper. I know that is a silly reason not to like it but to me seeing that always makes me think what a crappy thing to put on a gravestone. Aside from that it is so unoriginal and it's nonsense. The person is dead not resting.
I wouldn't overanalyze it. It's just a customary thing to say. There are certain situations that call for customary idiomatic expressions. When someone is about to perform a drama, one says "Break a leg." If a misician is about to perform, associates might say "Knock 'em dead" or "Kill 'em." I don't wonder why people say these things. I don't think RIP is connected to religion because, after all, it seems to contradict the notion that the deceased life will continue, only on a different plane.
I shattered my leg and broke my back when I was younger. I can remember being in so much ripping pain I was begging the paramedics to put me to sleep so that I could wake up after the surgeries. But they couldn't. I had to be able to answer questions to the doctors once at the hospital and they needed to see my reaction as they poked and prodded me. One of the greater horrors of this was that they set my leg not once but twice without any anaesthetic. When they finally wheeled me into the operating room I smiled at a woman and said knowingly "you're going to put me to sleep aren't you?" and she nodded telling me to count down from 10...9.......8.....................
I imagine that some people experience life in general like the boy who was in so much pain he wanted nothing more to have induced unconsciousness. These people suffer greatly and see death as the ultimate pain killer and sleep, regardless of if there is an afterlife or not.


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1. Read the text of the banner carefully and summarize what it says in your own words. Look up the definition of democracy. Do you agree that America was not a democracy because it did not allow women to vote?
2. The women thought that preaching democracy abroad while denying half of the population the right to vote at home was hypocrisy. Do you think they were right? Explain your answers.
3. Bystanders tore the original banner down as soon as it appeared. Why do you think people were so angry about it?
4. National Woman's Party members soon returned with identical banners. Why do you think they would picket with the same banner when they knew what had happened to the first one?
5. What appears to be happening in Photo 3? How do the women holding the banner seem to be reacting? Why do you think the photo is so fuzzy?
6. Do you think the First Amendment protects banners like this? Why or why not? Which section of the amendment do you think applies?
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Dear OverDrive: did you *actually* listen to us?
In December, Ryan Claringbole and I wrote a post about his library's (the Chesapeake Public Library's) sub-standard selection catalog from OverDrive: "OverDrive Has Different eBook Catalogs for Different Libraries." eBooks that I could see in my library's OverDrive selection catalog to license were not available in his library's selection catalog.
I decided to follow up and browse through his library's OverDrive site and found that those very same authors titles that his library couldn't even license back in December were in fact now in their catalog for the public to check out.
Kathryn Stockett
- December – 0 titles
- February – oh look, The Help
Stieg Larsson
- December – 3 titles (all in Danish)
- February – the whole series in English
Janet Evanovich
- December – 0 titles
- February – several titles
Naturally I was confused. Something had changed. So I contacted both the Chesapeake Public Library (the Library Director) and OverDrive (email was sent to several contacts). Strangely, the Library Director never responded. OverDrive responded (quickly this time) with the following:
At the library's request, we recently met with an administrator at the Chesapeake Public Library to discuss the issues that led to the initial restriction on their catalog. We don't as a policy discuss publicly each partner library's terms of service, but suffice to say we were satisfied by the discussions and have since enabled full access to the catalog.
What do we take away from this story? What do you think happened here? Did the negative press and the library standing up for its users make a difference? Did OverDrive change the terms of their contract with the CPL? Did OverDrive change their policies so that they don't limit libraries' access to selection catalogs anymore? Did the publishers agree to new terms and change their contracts with OverDrive? Did OverDrive make an exception in this case? I don't know. I have my guesses, but I'm more curious to hear what yours are.
So…what do you think happened?
P.S. A Public Service Announcement: For public libraries, all of our contracts are public record by nature of being public agencies. So it's fine that OverDrive won't "discuss" terms of service — but here's a reminder to everyone…you, as the library, can discuss them. You can share your contracts with the world unless you signed a non-disclosure agreement, which you can't even legally do.


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Here's my predicament. One of several programs I've recently inherited is built with a horrible database on the backend. The esteemed creators of it apparently did not appreciate relational concepts. A table for each and every client, named as a unique client ID. Eighty-three cryptically named fields. The code is all procedural with dozens of concatenated inline SQL statements.
As we weren't provided with an important ancillary application that runs off the same database, I've been tasked with recreating it from scratch. I'm a sole developer, which isn't even my primary responsibility as at least half of my time is taken up by operations stuff. There's an unavoidable deadline set for 30 days from now.
Despite my inexperience, I'm certain I could have designed this database and existing application much better than they were, but I don't really think it's realistic for me to alter the database, adjust the existing application, and be sure I didn't break anything while needing to create the additional application this quickly.
So let's assume I am stuck with the terrible database. Needing to work with such a bad structure, would anything I write that conforms to it just add to the heaping pile of technical debt to be shelved away until something completely breaks or new functionality is needed? How could I approach this situation and get something good out of it besides a hopefully functional application?
edit: In case anyone's interested, we ended up scrapping this horrible database and the application that ran on it. We outsourced the creation of the ancillary application (I wasn't involved in setting this up) to ultimately two different contractors who both ended up falling through on us, accomplishing nothing. I ended up having to rush out a horrific, partially functional hack of a fix in three days that's still in use today.


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Protectionism and Free Trade
Thanks to trade with the Chinese, more Africans have access to safe food they would otherwise lack.
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Paul Krugman's latest missive in the New York Times is a nice example of his two recurrent themes, namely self-regard and world-weariness.
Ostensibly, the piece is about economists who in Krugman's view incorrectly predicted hyperinflation would result from the Fed's...
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Today's NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a ghazal. The GoodReads Quote begins with the letter J for the A to Z Challenge. Thanks to Alistair Forbes for hosting SPF as well.
"A Ghazal is a poem that is made up like an odd numbered chain of couplets, where each couplet is an independent poem. It should be natural to put a comma at the end of the first line. The Ghazal has a refrain of one to three words that repeat, and an inline rhyme that preceedes the refrain. Lines 1 and 2, then every second line, has this refrain and inline rhyme, and the last couplet should refer to the authors pen-name… The rhyming scheme is AA bA cA dA eA etc."
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"And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content." ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
The dragon boats arrive, the sea pulling them into shore,
Watching remotely from a distance, will he be on shore?
For many months they wandered, the boat their prized shelter,
Now they are home, the boat still floats, they're at the shore.
I'm afraid to see them, brothers, their friends, so dear to me changed,
I wave, my kin they come forward their eyes remote, onto shore.
They're gaunt, they're battle worn, they need food, steaming hot baths to soothe,
Once they settle, they talk, thick coats warm them on the shore.
My brothers, my childhood friends, have lost part of themselves,
On the ocean suffered, in baren lands they smote on the cold shore.
They've treasures, furs, they've jewels, silver, gold — they lost their life spark,
Gazing at my love, his face coated in grime, eyes dead on shore.
The days pass by, the village returns to normal almost,
Except the men who left; returned forever remote to shore.
I talk to him, I talk to my brothers, hearing how each piece,
Of their self died, no matter we doated on them on shore.
Time passes, I think I'm seeing things when his eyes alter,
Warmth returns, he takes my hand, away from the boat on shore.
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The Big Business of the NCAA
Money is flowing into college sports, in the form of a new league and a deal with ESPN, but as schools defect, questions of what tradition means arise. Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco joins Markets Hub.
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ASA will be rebranding and we announced a TV deal with ESPN are very far reaching very important deal with mostly national coverage or games ... on Tuesday ... awarded to be the football basketball we ... on the debt it again is the current big East ... basketball schools which broke off will eventually ... get the name big East in Oakville the obviously a basketball we ... entirely in the day hence news yesterday but ours was a Tuesday will also have ... a network deal The will announce fairly soon I can't ... say that we were to be real be very soon ... will be an Ironman is well I I packed and I think and pray that he has a high shelf all I can tell you know we not yell right in insisting on why the weeks leading up to the conference was explaining up with the kid becomes very confusing to a jury really does is you know there been several years there's been several years of conference realignment is really hard for people with her scorecard to figure out who's where times no question ... in the big East has been hit particularly hard by buying a realignment we've ... lost teams to the ACC to other conferences ... and so what what finally happened was the basketball only schools we have seven Catholic schools plus Notre who played only basketball ... decided that they really didn't want to be buffeted by the winds of realignment anymore are they really didn't involve basketball fall football and they they also have less commonality ... in the Northeast schemes like Syracuse unpaid Notre Dame and Wes for Kenya ... oh we're leaving or have laughed and same thing with the state ... so costly they finally decided that they just wanted to play basketball and in the near term you can control their own destiny ... and what we have now is a league that is better align we now have everybody playing football ... and basketball except maybe which ... will play football league beginning in fifteen ... an East Carolina which we expect to bring on is a full member and at some point so ... at this point we are we are aligned on we have a very very a ... good future in terms of our TV deal in terms of our league itself from the potential for change ... and the other we will play basketball I'm sure they'll have great successes how ... have you heard a lot from the IMF imagine the answer this question would be yes ... you heard a lot from the alumni and now what are they saying about all this well you know the schools here here from alumni and its Panama unsettling period there's no question about what we're trying to do is reassure people tell them that ... this is going to be our leaders going to be as from focused on Porsche as commissioner above the ... current big East which again will be renamed rebranded very soon ... or not ... you know what the Cadillac Ikea chair that when Noble agreed that the benefit of some of Fanem put the focus groups William think national focus group so to speak we haven't solicited it that you know get it out on Twitter no no as reclusive nation snow we love the publicity we love the fact that people are interested in this an interest in what what name will adopt and and also with every anyone out ... but you know or are alumni ... we want to reassure them that this is going to be a very strong football basketball League and that that that is something that frankly ... there was always and in the Oli that that ... would coldness or retention but there was always that ... you know what the situation we had best will only schools really ... of you know again football of cult brand the league but basketball was really would throw them and so now ... well the situation were full ... you know of both sports rule Felipe ROM on last question to question really can economists hope I can predicting the coffers Commissioner actively preventing one of book one of our eight schools prevails on the issue of oneness with little or as a top seed we expect them to do well ... la I'll be visiting various sites we've got two teams playing in Philadelphia that the teams along with the ... body team is very good number and a Hollywood better know when you come not and cannot be a will play the sheer so ... many that were or excited about Edna Eike Shaun McManus my old boss Corps runs CBS Sports' the oven and I caught two one always a close friend as well ... and I sat at some point you know I would probably be ... no break in or call swiping it to be in that studio because the vendor sixteen year debt and outdoor their visit with and today ... we're excited about the term starting Paul and I appreciate getting to the team I ... thank you so you can take it


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NAIA Women?s Soccer Players of the Week - No. 6
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Ilyssa Espiritu of The Master's (Calif.) has been named the NAIA National Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week and Mallory Rondeau of Grace (Ind.) has been tabbed National Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Espiritu and Rondeau were selected based on their performances from Oct. 1 - 7 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Espiritu, a goalkeeper from Bakersfield, Calif., pushed her shutout streak to 263:23 minutes with a blanking of then-No. 19 Concordia (Calif.), 2-0, on Oct. 3 and Hope International (Calif.), 4-0, on Oct. 6. The senior tallied 11 saves against the Eagles to give The Master's its second win against a ranked opponent this season. Against Hope International, Espiritu orchestrated a defensive effort that held the Royals to only three shots.
Espiritu has allowed only six goals in 1076:11 minutes of action this season for a 0.500 goals against average, which ranks eighth nationally. She owns five shutouts and is the third representative from the Golden State Athletic Conference to claim a women's soccer weekly award in 2012.
Rondeau, a forward from Lake, Ind., totaled eight points on four goals, helping the Lancers to a perfect 2-0 last week and put themselves into a tie for second in the Crossroads League standings. Against Bethel (Ind.) on Oct. 3, the freshman came off the bench to score two goals - 18th and 38th minute - and tally a team-best eight shots in Grace's 3-2 win. She continued her stellar play in the Lancers' 3-2 victory against then-No. 25 Indiana Wesleyan on Oct. 6, netting two goals, including the game-winner with five seconds remaining in regulation.
Rondeau's 11 goals lead the team and ranks 30th in the NAIA. She also paces the squad with 57 shots and 36 shots on goal this season.
For the highlight of Rondeau's last second game-winner against the Wildcats, click here (video provided by the Grace Sports Information Department).
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here. The next NAIA National Women's Soccer Players of the Week will be announced on Oct. 16.
Offensive Nominees: Paula Vicenzo, Oklahoma Baptist; Kelly Ross, Columbia (Mo.); Amanda Couch, Vanguard (Calif.); Ariel Morris, Bethel (Tenn.); Libby Storie, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Acacia Johnson, Northwest (Wash.); Courtney Richards, Doane (Neb.); Joy Reyes, Southwestern (Kan.); Kristina Stammer, Point Park (Pa.); Courtney Wilcut, Huston-Tillotson (Texas); Kelsey Langille, Cumberland (Tenn.); Katlyn Krysiak, Madonna (Mich.); Teagan Wood, Milligan (Tenn.); Kandice Kiernan, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Taryn Pardoe, Northwood (Fla.); Bethany Smith, Benedictine (Kan.); Christy Lachappelle, Mobile (Ala.); Florence Dadson, Robert Morris (Ill.); Kirsty Montignani, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Claudia Diaz, UC Merced (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Courtney Smith, Saint Mary (Neb.); Sarah Regalado, Texas at Brownsville; Felicia Reimann, Morningside (Iowa); McKenzie Guth, Viterbo (Wis.); Destinee Evans, Ottawa (Kan.); Kristen Morency, John Brown (Ark.); Michelle Marcus, Davenport (Mich.); Briana Carlin, Carroll (Mont.); Shelby Schiraldi, Baker (Kan.); Emily Kuehn, Shawnee State (Ohio); Stephanie Kirvan, William Woods (Mo.); Jamie Speidel, Indiana Wesleyan; Christina Salazar, St. Thomas (Fla.); Gillian McMahon, Mobile (Ala.); Amber Zukowski, St. Francis (Ill.); Caroline Mellard, Montreat (N.C.); Tori Talbutt, Concordia (Ore.); Kayla Cisneroz, Menlo (Calif.); Jennifer Loewen, Martin Methodist (Tenn.).
2012 Women's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1 (Sept. 4): Kelsey Langille, Cumberland (Tenn.); Indigo Recker, Concordia (Ore.)
Week 2 (Sept. 11): Jordan Davidson, Vanguard (Calif.); Helena Hansson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Week 3 (Sept. 18): Kirsty Montignani, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Bekah Garvin, Concordia (Calif.)
Week 4 (Sept. 25): Kelsey Langille, Cumberland (Tenn.); Mallory Conrad, Bethel (Ind.)
Week 5 (Oct. 2): Karly Linton, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Katie Zenz, Grand View (Iowa)
Week 6 (Oct. 9): Mallory Rondeau, Grace (Ind.); Ilyssa Espiritu, The Master's (Calif.)


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Michael Joseph Riley (b. July 6, 1953) is an American football coach and the current head coach of the Oregon State Beavers. Riley has also coached in several professional leagues, and is a former head coach of the San Diego Chargers of the NFL and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League .
Riley was born in Wallace, Idaho in 1953 and moved to Corvallis, Oregon in 1965. He grew up watching the Oregon State Beavers while his father, Bud Riley, served as defensive coordinator under legendary coach Dee Andros from 1965–1972. Riley was a hometown hero himself from his athletic days at Corvallis High School. Riley was the starting quarterback who led the Spartans to the state title game in both 1969 and in 1970. They came up short against Medford High School in 1969, 27–0, but avenged the loss the following season when they met Medford again and came out victorious 21–10.
He considers the college town of Corvallis, Oregon his hometown.