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The outside world never seems to affect Tim Duncan as much it does you and me. He doesn't furrow his brow or snarl. His whole bearing suggests a sort of aloof, unrelatable mastery—of his talents, of his emotions, of his image, of everything around him. Which is why it was so hard to watch him last night in the moments after he fell just short of his fifth NBA title.
Sitting behind a podium in his characteristic oversized collared shirt and jeans, Duncan, now 37, cradled his head in his enormous hands, his eyes downcast as he answered to the assembled media.
"To be in a Game 7 or to be in a Game 6, up one and two chances to win an NBA championship and not do it—that's tough to swallow," he said.
Minutes earlier, Duncan had had a chance to tie the game. He'd wheeled past Shane Battier and missed a short push shot off the back of the rim—"a shot Tim Duncan usually makes eight out of 10 times," according to Battier.
"Probably Game 7 is always going to haunt me," Duncan went on, and he began listing the reasons, as though confessing his sins: "Missing a layup to tie the game. Making a bad decision down the stretch. Just unable to stop Dwyane and LeBron."
Even the reporters seemed to handle him with extra care, as though stunned to see a player as implacable as Duncan so conspicuously mourning his only finals loss in five tries.
Had the Spurs won, Duncan almost certainly would have collected his fourth finals MVP. The numbers don't leap off the page, though 19 points and 12 rebounds per game is an amazing stat line for a player of Duncan's age. Duncan wasn't the high scorer in any of the Spurs' three wins. In fact, someone else was the hero of each win: Danny Green erupting and razing the Heat defense to rubble, Manu Ginobili momentarily regaining his ability to manipulate space-time, Tony Parker drilling step-back jumpers. But no Spur, save perhaps Kawhi Leonard, was as consistent as Duncan.
When his team needed to pick up the pace of play so as to attack before Miami's defense could set up, Duncan ran the floor like a young man. When James and Wade pouted after no-calls, Duncan ran his old ass off to get up court; the object wasn't really for him to score, but to force the Heat to pay attention to him so his teammates would face less resistance.
Duncan blocks shots without jumping. He isn't especially graceful anymore, not even in the post. He relies on canted leaners and what's become an almost tactical awkwardness to catch the defense off guard. He does all his work on the downbeats of a sequence, after he's faked a guy into the rafters. The flashiest thing he does is throw really awesome outlet passes.
But as the series wore on, and one by one his teammates began to falter and fail, Duncan's often subtle brilliance became plain. Parker was stymied by injury and could not elude James. Ginobili started throwing the ball all over the arena. Danny Green and Gary Neal, having smacked into their glass ceilings, spent Games 6 and 7 plummeting to earth.
At the end—as at the beginning of the Spurs' 14-year run—what was left was Duncan on the low block. He averaged 27 points and 14.5 rebounds in the last two games. He twisted his way past Chris Bosh and manhandled Chris Anderson; he was a diminished player who'd adapted, and there was something poignant in all of it that even a casual fan outside of Texas could see. Maybe Duncan's finals failure, the one in which he pushed LeBron James to even higher levels of magnificence, will make people better appreciate the ones he did win.
After he missed that fateful layup over Battier, Duncan finally cracked. As the Heat moved the ball up court and called timeout, Duncan, enraged, slapped the floor with both hands. It was as demonstrative as Duncan has ever been on the court.
"That's just frustration," Duncan explained, in his way. Dreams frustrated; hopes dashed. Who can't relate to that?
Beckley Mason writes about basketball for HoopSpeak, The New York Times, and other places. You can follow him on twitter @BeckleyMason.
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What do you mean "My kid isn't perfect"??!!1 comments Posted by Unknown at 19:50
Yesterday was the first time that I was not excited to get home to see my girls. The reason that I was less than enthusiastic about my homecoming was that I was coming home to be the enforcer. The admistering agent of righteous retribution. We don't spank much. However, on this occasion we wanted to make a big impression. She, Rylee, was told that I would give her a spanking when I got home. Us thinking that the punishment might mean more coming from "Dad" and maybe waiting for it all day would make her think a little more about her behavior. I suppose that you are wondering what her crime was.
Behavior at school was the problem. We found out yesterday that for the last three weeks Rylee has been hiding under her desk and not coming out when she didn't want to do something. She was not getting spanked for that. She has also been screaming out at the top of her lungs, often, when she gets angry about something. She was not getting spanked for that either. At lunch yesterday she wanted Chantal's cookie. Up till now Chantal has been Rylee's good friend. Rylee had asked her several times if she could have her cookie and Chantal told her "No." So Rylee screamed and hit her. That was what got her a couple of swats on the rump.
I am troubled by a couple of things. Why has this been going on for three weeks and this is the first that we are hearing of it? How is it that our lovely, polite, well behaved little girl is now having these issues? Last month her teacher told us that she wished that she could clone Rylee, that she was a near perfect student. Now she sounds like sort of a little brat. What has changed?
Anyway, I felt a little sick all the way home. I had to keep rewinding my book on tape because my mind kept drifting to "How are you going to handle THIS one Mark?" Should I put on "stern" right away? Should I give her a hug? I had been gone for nearly a week so I had to get my hug. And I wanted her to know that I love her no matter what. BUT she was still in trouble.
So when I walked in the door I got the usual "DADDY!!! Daddy is home!" from three of the girls. I pretty much expected that. I got my hugs and kisses from them and then turned my attention to Rylee. She was sitting at the kitchen table looking somewhat glum. I expected that too. "Can I have a hug please?" I asked. She nodded. I gave her a big hug "I missed you. I love you very much." I told her.
"I love you too." she said. "You are going to spank me." she said in a sort of matter of fact way.
"Yes, I am. We will talk about that in a minute." I was thinking of putting it off for a little longer. Mostly because I just didn't want to do it. But then thought it would be better for all of us to just get it over with. "Come with me. I want to talk to you first." She hopped down and followed me into the bed room.
"Dad, could you spank me first?" she asked. I didn't expect that. I supposed she had the same thing on her mind. Let's get this over with as soon as possible.
"No, I want to talk to you first." I said as I sat her on the bed and squatted down to talk to her eye to eye. "Do you know why you are getting a spanking?" I asked.
"Because I hit Chantal."
"That is right. The only time that it is ever okay to hit is if someone is trying to hurt you and won't stop. You have the right to defend yourself. But you hit someone because they wouldn't give you their cookie. Over a cookie! That is not okay. Ever.
Ms. Mayl called us today and told us that you have been hidding under your desk and not coming out when things arn't going your way AND that you have been screaming when you get angry. That is unacceptable. You are not getting spanked for that, but it better not continue." Here I gave her the serious stink eye. She didn't even blink. I wasn't sure if that was because she was paying close attention or if she was totally unfazed. "Mom and I are very disapointed. And embarrassed. Do you know what this makes Ms. Mayl think?" I asked.
"What?" she asked with big doe eyes.
"She thinks that we aren't good parents. She thinks that we didn't teach you good manners. And that isn't true. You dissapointed Ms. Mayl too. You were doing so good, you were her favorite student... So you...will...not...act...like...that...anymore. Okay?"
So she took her punishment and walked stoically out of the bed room without even a tear. And I started thinking "Uh oh, what am I going to do if that had no effect at all?" But then she burst into tears and ran up to her room. I let her sulk for a little while and then went up to make sure that she knew that her punishment was over and she didn't have to go sulk anymore.
Sometimes the parenting thing is difficult.


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To Rent or to Buy and How to Decide
Mortgage rates are moving around and housing prices are rising. The perennial question of whether to rent or buy seems more complicated. Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia, joins the News Hub to weigh in on the question. Photo: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... the tutorial question does it make more sense to buy all reigns ... with you always rates moving around so much ... due to the Fed had to do the talking to this point ... housing prices rising the question seems more complicated ... the next guests who spends a lot of time crunching numbers from the housing market is here tells this still makes a lot of sense to buy ... did Kolko is chief economist at real estate site truly a ... good morning to ... do more to ... do that you're most welcome ... why a ... it could depress prices up by a ... moat asylum would think that all up it's it's it's more specific but bar and bought ... were still that fall behind ... in terms of the buys the crisis that stemmed ... its delightful most is that the conventions process ... it's less affordable to buy this year than it was last year ... prices are up more than ten percent nationally outrage for more than a point ... but we really compare ... the overall cost of buying versus renting taking into account ... your mortgage payment on the other costs of buying like renovations insurance maintenance ... and I expected price appreciation we all ate into account ... at current rates and prices it still looks thirty five percent cheaper to buy than to rent nationally now that's if you stay put for several years ... and how long you stay put ... as a big effect because you can spread your closing costs or more years ... it also depends whether itemizing or tax deductions and one bracket ... and the demand on water Street you can get a word assuming a four point eight percent mortgage rate ... that's a lot higher than last year's rate now ... thirty five percent cheaper ... to buy than to rent nationally ... the year was forty five percent cheaper to buy than to rent Nash said the gap is narrowing ... even though the gap still think ... that is the still seems a good bead estimates that ... loan ... will ... cause rates could go up as well which was to shift around ... but to um what's on Tuesday he mentioned that there is a price appreciation assumptions and of course that was of a fight that assumption to have for the crisis ... what assumptions Uniting and in that regard ... so we use a pretty conservative assumption ... of what will happen with prices we assume that prices will rise on nominal prices not real ... home prices ... will rise between two and three percent the year ... and is much lower than ... the rate which the rising now is slower than the historical average over the past twenty or thirty years one people start out with a conservative assumption ... of price appreciation ... but we also today launched a new calculator which you know don't take our word for these assumptions ... and as much as you want your site ... you can actually putting in ... all of a low price the level of Brent ... and choose your own assumption about price appreciation ... the hat trick you actually the doctor taxes that the more tricky to get ... into for yourself whether mentor of mine makes more sense to the unity looking since rolled out a bit of money ... you know what what do you see happening with which it says it is and what what has been a public response that that the rates rose in advance of this to ... expected between ... then and now ladies and out ... we saw that the rate spike start on in early May which is even before the Fed's June announcement ... that they would ... consider tapering in September to begin prior ... to the June announcement ... no we start saw the beginning of the rate spike know it's like the reach of the higher year from now than they are today ... tapering is still a question of when ... not not if ... and as the economy strengthens ... rates are likely to rise ... high sow prices and rates are both likely be higher in after them they are today ... which will again confusion close that gap ... between the cost of buying the cost of renting ... and we expect to see that some nature of this ... how will tip in favor of renting ... so right now ... if rates get out ... of four to five point two percent ... it would start to be cheaper to rent than to buy in Santa say ... hi if retail with a six percent ... Stephen Sysco in Honolulu also to ... New York tips tight union sevens so ... they're big difference across the country about how much it costs rent versus buy ... and how high rates have to get going on before it starts to make more


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Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette and Hana Flake Sea Salt
The beauty of salt is that it's full of bounty. Every salt offers food … and affords your eyes, nose and mouth an experience all its own. The right salt at the right time diminishes bitter and sour tastes and accents sweet and umami sensations. Whenever you're salting your food, it works best to think of salt as a strategic ingredient – what do I want to accomplish with this dish, and what salt can help accomplish that best? When you salt strategically, you unravel the majesty, unlock the flavor, and enhance the vibrancy of your food.
Flake salt with salad is a revelation. Salt flakes are typically wide and thin, giving them a much larger surface area than fleur de sel, sel gris, or traditional salts to disperse their seasoning. As a result, flake salts release a bright, quick, snap of salt without overwhelming delicate greens. When you take a bite, the flakes explode and vanish, like all-natural Pop rocks.
Did you know that salt was actually the original salad dressing? The word "salad" comes from Latin salata, short for herba salsata "salted vegetables," and salad is still one of the foods that benefit most from salting. Finish your salad with a flake and you hold all the power; you can unlock the create a layered and dynamic experience. The pyramidal crystals pop against delicate greens and chopped vegetables with intense but fleeting flavor – a lacework of flaky salt dancing across the surface.
The best salads are ones that are dressed with a homemade dressing or vinaigrette and united as one with veggies fresh from the garden, and deliberately salted by hand with the best flake salt. A well-balanced vinaigrette, with just enough acidity from the vinegar to counter the velvet luxury of the olive oil, and just the right tang from the mustard to counter the heat from the pepper, is crucial here. Most recipes call for a? 3 to 1 ratio of fat to oil. Sometimes I like my vinaigrette a tinge more acidic, and so my proportions often tend toward 2 to 1. Play around with the basic and you're bound to find what suits you.
Hana Flake is a balanced, icy white Japanese salt that is particularly well suited for salads; a sprinkle of this salt on top will have your vegetables shimmering like glass, beautiful and sparkling, the snappy citrus vinaigrette popping with salt, and the delicate lettuce begging for more. Hana Flake is also beautifully suited to ceviche, foie gras, poached white fish (like halibut or cod) and cold soups like gazpacho, as its flattened pyramidal texture has a light, fresh Arctic air taste, cutting through foods like buttered glass.
Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette and Hana Flake Sea Salt
Serves 4
For the salad:
1 grapefruit, cut into segments
1 avocado, sliced or cubed
1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
1 head of green leaf or other lettuce
For the vinaigrette:
1 small garlic clove, minced
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp grapefruit juice
Crack of Parameswaran's pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
Peel and mince the garlic. Place in small bowl or mason jar. Splash in the vinegar, squeeze in the grapefruit juice, then spoon in the Dijon mustard and stir to combine. Crack in some pepper, then slowly whisk in the olive oil, drizzling little by little until the dressing becomes smooth and thick.
To serve the salad, tear your lettuce and place in large bowl. the onion, avocado, and grapefruit. Drizzle your dressing over the salad and toss to coat. Serve on individual plates and sprinkle with Hana Flake right before eating.
You can find Hana Flake and other finishing salts for salad like Alaska Pure Flake and Halen Mon Silver at The Meadow's online shop.
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Carl Helfried Barbé
Russian, 19th century
Snuff box, c. 1818–1864
gold, grey agate
2 x 9.7 x 7 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Dr. Stephen Brown
Objet d'art, Decorative Arts Silver
Europeans first encountered snuff in the 1490s with the discovery of the New World. Snuff soon established itself in Europe for more than its medicinal powers, becoming a pleasurable undertaking and a staple of the royal and upper classes. Snuff boxes logically followed, mirroring the fashionable qualities of the contents they held. Carl Helfried Barbé was living in St. Petersburg in 1806, the year he joined the Foreigners' Guild, a guild deemed necessary given the sheer number of foreign craftsmen working in the Russian capital, a recognized centre for manufacture. In 1811 Barbé was admitted into the Russian Guild, reflecting his reputation as one of Russia's most prominent craftsmen and gold box makers. A true piece of luxury, this gold snuff box is inset with an agate cameo carved in the classical style.
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These sleek control surfaces are scaled just right for producing news and voiceovers. Like the LX-24, the L-8/L-12 have all the latest goodies plus are hot swappable down to the individual fader.
These cousins to the popular LX-24 are big in capability but scaled for news production, voiceover work and all those applications requiring a solid control surface that will deliver under deadline. The L-8 and L-12 are based on all the same design principles as the LX-24 – precision-built, low-profile, tabletop IP control surfaces with hot-swappable individual fader modules that offer assignable sources to any fader.
Each fader can access four stereo output busses, a stereo cue bus, and its own individual Bus-Minus. An OLED source name display, an A/B source selector, and one programmable soft button are also provided, and a SET button gives access to assignable controls in the master section. Snapshots of the L-8 or L-12 configuration can be saved and recalled at the touch of a button, making setup for different working sessions a snap.
The L-8/L-12 meter bridge features three sets of bright, high resolution LED meters. A digital timer is also included. The console has control room and headphone outputs with level controls and source selection, as well as an independent studio monitor output. The L-12 also has a built-in cue speaker.
These are designed for use with the WheatNet-IP Intelligent Network. An IP88CBL Console Audio BLADE provides the audio mix functionality as well as power to the L-8 (the L-12 has a dedicated power supply); additional BLADEs can be added for inputs and outputs in a variety of digital and analog formats.These new IP consoles are sleek, versatile, and low profile (no tabletop cutout needed). Just plug the L-8 or L-12 into your WheatNet-IP Intelligent Network, and quickly assign any source of any type from anywhere in your network to any channel fader.
Gorgeous high-definition OLED displays on every channel are dynamic to give you exactly the information you need.
WheatNet-IP Extends L-8/L-12's Power
With WheatNet-IP BLADE-3s, you get a virtual rack room in a 1-rack space box. They handle all the I/O (AES/EBU, SPDIF, AOIP, MADI, SDI and AES 67) and provide full routing capabilities. Each BLADE-3 gives you two 8x2 utility mixers, 12 universal GPI/O ports, 128 software logic ports, silence detection, built-in audio clip player, stereo multi-band audio processing, and much more, assignable anywhere on the network. With it you can create workflows that would require a ton of third-party gear.
- Low-profile, tabletop form factor allows clear sight lines and requires no furniture cutouts
- Any source to any fader
- Four stereo busses
- A/B dual input switching
- Bus Minus (N-1) on each input channel
- Hot-swappable fader modules
- Event preset recall
- Built-in headphone amplifier and level control
- Built-in Cue speaker on L-12
- Includes IP88CBL Console Audio BLADE
Cool Stuff About the L-8 and L-12
Modular Architecture
Source Select
Any channel can be assigned to one or more of the four program output busses, making your material available to an on-air feed as well as an internet stream, for instance.
Any input can be called up on any channel on the L-8/L-12. This means, for instance, the feed you've got plugged into input 7 on the back of the Console BLADE (or ANY BLADE I/O Interface) can show up on channel 2…or any other channel. Same with any input.
Not only that, you can assign a backup or different source to the same channel and switch on the fly by using the SOURCE A/B buttons. As if this isn't cool enough by itself, think about the flexibility if/when you decide to link the L-8/L-12 up to a network. Imagine having any source on the network at your fingertips, with no patching.
Modular Construction
We've built the L-8/L-12 (in New Bern, NC USA, by the way) to be easily accessed by you. No 'one-surface, gotta take the whole thing apart construction' here. If you need access to a channel, all it takes is two screws and you're in. Makes it a breeze to service or simply swap out a module.
Mix-Minus/Direct Output/Talkback
Each fader has a dedicated Mix-Minus output that includes all active faders on its selected source bus, except for itself. These auto generated monaural Mix-Minus signals may be routed to feed telephone hybrids or other devices as required. Alternately, these outputs may be set to provide a separate direct output from that channel only, consisting of the source assigned to that channel. Each channel has a talkback that will interrupt the feed to that mix-minus.
It Couldn't Be Easier...
2. Plug some of your own audio sources into the Console Audio BLADE.
Take the output of the BLADE to wherever you want your audio.
3. Turn it on and start mixing! That's it!
A/B SET One press of this button toggles between the channel's A and B source inputs. Press and hold (SET) to program the channel's source signals and to access PAN and MODE functions.
SOFT A programmable one-press button; typically used to access hot source preset selection or channel mode settings.
ASSIGN Assign the channel's signal to the four console output busses: Program, Audition, Auxiliary and Utility.
INFO An OLED color display that shows the channel's signal source, fader and mode settings.
TB A momentary switch that activates talkback to the bus-minus/IFB output associated with the channel's source signal.
CUE Places the channel's signal on the console's cue bus.
FADER A long-throw Penny + Giles fader sets the channel's output level.
ON/OFF These switches turn the channel signal on and off. Can trigger external source feeds.
Control Room
FUNCTION A rotary encoder that scrolls through various control choices whenever a SET button is pressed on the console.
TAKE Once the function control has selected the desired result (source, mode, pan, event, etc.) pressing the TAKE button activates that choice.
PAN Pans the selected channel's signal in the stereo field.
MODE Sets the selected channel's signal as left, right, stereo or mono.
EVENT The L-8 console can store 8 named events (console control surface snapshots) for instant recall. INFO Displays information associated with a SET button – input panels, events, etc.
CR/HDPN Five source select buttons (EXT, PGM, AUD, AUX, UTIL) that determine the control room/headphone monitor feed.
HDPN Sets the output level of the built-in headphone amp (output jack located in the righthand console endpiece).
SPLIT CUE Sums the current monitor source L+R and sends it to the right channel; CUE appears in the left channel.
INFO Displays source and location information for the current CR/HDPN monitor signal, as well as bargraph indicators for the headphone and CR output levels.
CONTROL RM The level control for the control room monitor output signal.
METER Similar to the CR/HDPN source select switchbank. Determines the monitor source for the console's switched meter pair.
TIMER Start/Stop toggle or RESET (press and hold) for the meterbridge digital timer. The AUTO switch starts the timer from zero when a programmed input channel's ON switch is pressed.
METER/CLK Displays the switched meter pair's signal info; includes a time of day digital clock.
STUDIO Similar to the CR/HDPN source switchbank.
CUE Sets the master level of the console's CUE bus.
TB A momentary action switch that sends the console operator's microphone signal to the studio monitor output.
INFO Displays source and location information for the studio monitor signal, as well as bargraph indicators for cue and studio monitor output levels.
STUDIO The level control for the studio monitor output signal.
Front to back 16-1/4"
Front height 1-1/2"
Rear height 4-1/4
Width 16-5/8"
Front to back 16-1/4"
Front height 1-1/2"
Rear height 4-1/4
Width 25 5/8"
Ethernet: RJ-45
Headphone: TRS 1/4" phone
Power: DC connector jack w/locking ring
IP-88CB Console Audio BLADE
The IP88CBL provides powerful interface options, including four AES inputs, four stereo analog inputs, four AES outputs, and four stereo analog outputs on RJ45s; control room and studio stereo analog outputs on XLRs, two mic level inputs with gain trim and switchable phantom power on XLRs; cue and headphone outputs on both RJ45 and 1/4" TRS, and 12 GPI logic ports on RJ45.
There is an integral power supply DC out the for L-8.
The L-12 utilizes an IP-88CB and a compact external power supply.


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Archive for June, 2016
Inclusivity, Gestalt Principles, and Plain Language in Document Design2016–06–29 | 3 comments
In Brief: Good design makes documents easier to use, helps documents stand out from other pieces of information, and lends credibility to document creators. Librarians across library types and departments provide instruction and training materials to co-workers and library users. For these materials to be readable and accessible, they must follow guidelines for usable document design….


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Despite a career-high 17 saves from sophomore goalie Craig Frehill (Norwell, Mass.), a goal by Riley Baxter with 5:47 left in the fourth quarter proved to be the deciding goal as the third-seeded Corsairs of UMass Dartmouth defeated lacrosse by the final of 6-5 Tuesday evening in the first round of the Little East Conference tournament.
With Tuesday's loss the Beacons end the 2014 season with an 8-10 record overall, making it the most successful season for four year head Tyler Low. The Corsairs advance to the conference tournament semi-final where they will face the second-seeded Warriors of Eastern Connecticut State University on Friday at 7 p.m. in Mansfield, CT.
In just the second meeting between the two intra-state rivals in the LEC tournament, the Beacons played perhaps their best game of the year. Just four days after being handed an 11-5 loss, the Beacons went toe-to-toe with the Corsairs.
John Powers (Marshfield, Mass.) led the attack with a pair of goals, while Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) picked-up a pair of assists in the postseason loss. Jordan McPherson, Adam Niden, and Baxter each recorded a pair of goals to lead the Corsairs.
The opening quarter was controlled by UMass Dartmouth as they jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first nine minutes of play. MacPherson struck first for the Corsairs, followed by Niden, who scored on a man-up goal. Dom Fichera (Scituate, Mass.) netted UMB's first goal of the day at the 4:10 mark on an unassisted play to make it 2-1 in favor of the home team.
The Corsairs then pushed their lead back to two on a goal by Baxter with 2:31 left in the opening quarter. In the second, MacPherson scored the second man-up goal for UMass Dartmouth at 9:14 to make it a three-goal contest. Powers fired home his first goal of the evening off of a Delpha assist less than a minute later to make it 4-2 before the halftime break.
Neither team would find the back of their opponents cage for the remainder of the second as Frehill and his UMass Dartmouth counterpart Nick Thayer made save after save to keep the game close.
After the break, Niden gave the Corsairs some breathing room with his second goal of the night. However the Beacons responded with a pair of goals to make it 5-4 with a full quarter left to play.
In the fourth the two teams would battle back-and-forth all over the turf, but it would be the Beacons who scored first to tie the game at 5-5. Nick Tangherlini (Cohasset, Mass.) scored his lone goal of the day to shift the momentum in favor of the Beacons.
On the ensuing the face-off, which was won by the Corsairs, UMass Dartmouth would turn the ball over, with Derek Froio (Cohasset, Mass.) collecting the loose groundball. He would then work the ball up the field where it ended up in the stick of Tangherlini which he fired on goal. Unfortunately, Thayer managed to come-up with save giving the Corsairs the ball back with less than seven minutes to play in regulation.
Following a good clear, the Corsairs called a timeout with 6:17 to play to set-up the next play. This would pay off as Baxter scored his 24th goal of the year at 5:47 to make it 6-5 in favor of UMD.
The Corsairs would then maintain possession throughout the final minutes of the contest, with the lone Beacons shot coming from Ellis with 36 seconds left in the contest. Thayer would end Tuesday's contest with a combined nine saves.
Froio closed out the game with a team-best four groundballs, while Bo Prozinski, who was named the LEC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, collected a game-high six groundballs, but did not register a point in the first round game.
On the face-off "X" UMass Boston went 7-for-15, with Phil Truong (Quincy, Mass.) winning six of the opening draws.


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Even though Kourtney and Kim Take New York may have just hit the airwaves, another reality show featuring one of the famous celebrity sisters is about to get the greenlight for production.
E! may be setting up a show to focus on the upcoming nuptial drama between Kourtney and her long-term boyfriend Scott Disick, reports PopEater.
According to the PopEater account, Kardashian family matron Kris Jenner is the driving force behind the new spinoff, working with the network to conceptualize the show which will follow the couple on their path to the alter.
Another show will feature Khloe Kardashian and her husband, Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom, bringing the total number of Kardashian-focused reality shows to four.


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Modern Kitchen With Wood Cabinetry & Stone Eat-in Island
Wood cabinetry paired with stainless steel elements create a great modern look in this kitchen. The tall stone island provides space to prep and cook on the stovetop as well as an eat-in space with leather bar chairs. Recessed lighting and two pendant lights brighten the space.
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Blue Contemporary Sitting Room With Dog
Often, luxe materials are also durable and easy to clean. Case in point: this sitting room's green velvet sectional and simple-to-wipe-down, marble-topped coffee table.
Small Patio With Decorative Privacy Panel
A decorative window provides privacy without offending your neighbors or blocking out natural light the way a full-blown wall would. This stylish DIY idea from Lowe's costs less than $100, and you can customize the glass with any stencil design you like.
Yellow Desk Garden Container
This vintage desk garden container is sure to be an eye catcher and conversation starter at any social gathering.
Chic Living Room in Gray & Neutral tones
A soothing palette of gray and neutral, this updated living space feels chic and sophisticated. Different patterns and textures add dimension and interest to the space.
Rustic Master Bedroom Suite
A neutral palette is used throughout this Texas ranch home to create a warm, welcoming environment. To create a space that is visually interesting, a mix of natural textures, from the rustic woods to the knubby fabrics, is used.
Kitchen Desk Area With White Cabinets and Hardwood Floor
This custom-designed kitchen desk area features plenty of storage, granite countertops and a corkboard "backsplash."
Living Room With Chevron Rug and Coral Accents
Soothing beige walls contribute to this living room's calming ambiance. The color coral is put to good use here via the throw pillows and armchair, keeping the room from feeling too neutral. A chevron rug adds a quirky final touch to the space.
Barn Home in the County: Formal Dining Room
The formal dining room of the renovated barn home was designed to host people with it's 17 foot custom-made farm table and accented with custom wall art, as seen on HGTV's Fixer Upper.
Neutral Transitional Living Room With Striped Sectional Sofa
This beachside living room beckons with stunning views and family-friendly furnishings.
Neutral Rustic Home Office with White Chairs
The office/studio of Christina Anstead's newly renovated home, as seen on Christina on the Coast.
Tropical Blue Home Exterior with Neutral Wood Door
The natural, wood front door is a beautiful contrast to the dark blue home.
Patterned Wallpaper Updates Transitional Dining Room
A caged chandelier, textured buffet table and striped rug put a fresh spin on the formal dining room. Patterned wallpaper balances out the wainscoting and helps bring the space into the present as well.
Mediterranean Exterior in Evening
The home sits on just over half an acre of land on Carmel's Quail Lodge and Golf Course and overlooks the fourth fairway.
Modern Great Room With Reclaimed Wood Ceiling
This great room can easily accommodate a crowd, what with its open kitchen, formal dining space and nearby sitting area. Wood paneling overhead draws the eye to the mountain views and helps the modern interior feel a little more connected to the wilderness.
Neutral Family Room With Gray Armchair
Designers toned down jewel tones in this family room and replaced them with soothing neutrals, like gray and aqua. A sectional ups the amount of seating without taking up a ton of floor space.
Rooftop Outdoor Dining Room With Pergola
This rooftop terrace's meticulous landscaping, designed by Halsted Welles, feels miles away from New York City's urban jungle. And yet there's that amazing view!
Country Kitchen With Wood Island
White walls, large windows and a pretty pendant ensure that this kitchen is bright and airy for meal prep. Meanwhile, a cheerful blue accent wall, wood island and plaid stool all give the space a charming country touch.
Contemporary Whit Combined Kitchen and Dining Room
With the duplex's dividing wall removed, the newly combined floor plan brings together the kitchen and living and dining spaces for a large and open common area.


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However, comics are also about getting people excited, or, to be a bit more to the point, about marketing. Those of us in the business try to generate enthusiasm about the product we're producing any way we can so these stories have a fair shot to make their impression.
When it comes to solicitations, Rickey works tirelessly on the words side of the equation and does a great job of it, but no question, when you're dealing with stuff as far out as he is, the images help a lot. No question, a great cover can draw somebody in to read a comic they might not have otherwise given a second look.
(Hey, I totally just spent three hours in the ER because I was having chest pains. Turns out it was just bad indigestion, but it hurt like hell. Right back blogging though--HARDCORE)
The major companies released their solicits for February 2010 last week, and because I dig things that are pretty (and am kinda lazy), I figured I'd throw together a little gallery of the covers that caught my eye. Roll tape...


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Question Of The Week: What Are Your Top Five Story Songs?
I've always admired songwriters who can tell an entire story, sometimes even an epic one, in two or three short minutes. Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue" might be the greatest story song ever written. But it's a lot to digest at six minutes long, with more lyrics than anyone can remember (and Dylan is always changing them in live performances). I prefer tidier tales that cover more ground with less movement.
For this week's nerd-debate question, we want to know your top five story songs.
1. Grandaddy: "Jed The Humanoid"
It's sort of a darker, 21st century version of "Puff The Magic Dragon." But instead of a little boy who outgrows his own innocence and imagination, the focus here is a group of M.I.T. students who build a robot in their kitchen, grow tired of it and break its robot heart. Also, Puff lives alone in his cave at the end while Grandaddy's robot drinks itself to death. But you get the idea.
2. Villagers: "27 Strangers"
My favorite stories are the ones where it seems like nothing is happening but really everything is happening. Raymond Carver, my favorite author, was a genius at doing this. Not much transpires in "27 Strangers," but it perfectly captures the malaise of modern living in a few simple details: An endless loop of fluorescent lights, shop fronts, staring faces and a bus that offers the hope of escape before breaking down. Brilliant.
3. Tom Waits: "The Fall Of Troy"
Waits is, without a doubt, one of the all-time greatest story song writers. It's hard to pick just one, but "The Fall Of Troy" is pure genius. An exasperated narrator questions the point of doing anything in a world of failed dreams and disappointments, crime, violence, poverty and death. And yet, the troubled characters Waits sings about keep slogging ever onward, if not upward. This song also gets the prize for one of the greatest closing lines: "The well is full of pennies." So much desperation and hope tied up in that one little image.
4. The Beatles: "She's Leaving Home"
The melody is lovely but lonely as McCartney sings about a girl who runs away from home, breaking her parents' hearts. While it's a simple little tale, it speaks volumes about the culture clash that was happening at the time between generations, when disillusioned youth fled the shackles of overbearing and baffled parents. I love how the "bye bye" at the end sounds like the "amen" of a hymn.
5. Richard Thompson: "Vincent Black Lightning 1952"
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. This one is another classic heartbreaker that touches on everything from fleeting youth and impetuous love, to a dangerous man, the woman who falls for the bad boy and tragic death. Also, what's with Thompson's finger picking on this cut? It's sick!
Tell us your own favorite story songs in the comments section.
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Window Maker: a Low Calorie Ubuntu
Window Maker is an alternative to the Gnome Desktop. The real purpose of Window Maker is to explore an alternative to the heavy weight Gnome which uses a lot of resources from your machine. How much, well in a test we did with Window Maker we found that it used only 4.5% of the resources, RAM and CPU, that are typically used by Gnome, a very significant difference.
Here is a list of Resource Comparison with other window managers that you could use.
Gnome is a hog, it uses a lot of resources. If you would rather save your resources for a faster more efficient Desktop test out Window Maker. For directions on how to test out an alternative Desktop CLICK HERE.
Window Maker can run any of the applications you have installed on Ubuntu. It is highly configurable, lightweight and great looking.
A great source of information for Window Maker can be found at the site. Here is a project that has documentation that will help you use Window Maker efficiently.
Here is a link to the User Guide
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Why Use Podcasts for Education in an iPad Classroom?
Podcasts allow students with iPads to share their learning and to learn from others. A podcast is a valuable educational tool that students can use to distribute audio or video files they create. Podcasts can also be subscribed to, meaning that they can be automatically downloaded to your iPad or other device.
So . . . why podcast?
The obvious response is partly that you can. Vocal presentation skills have always been important, but now technology allows students to easily record, submit, and share podcasts. It's an ideal way for students to develop their abilities to express themselves verbally. In an era where you can chat or video call anyone in the world for a few cents, cultivating verbal presentation skills has become even more important.
Podcasts can be published and shared. You can opt to share podcasts within your local school community or even a worldwide audience. Traditionally, work was given to a single teacher. It's amazing how much it motivates students to know that they are producing work for an audience.
Podcasting is an effective collaborative activity. Different group members can focus on skills such as research, planning, media, presentation, and more. Podcasting can also be cross-curricular.
Podcasts offer the opportunity to shatter that one-size-fits-all model of education. Some students are better writers, and others are more effective speakers. Give them an opportunity to develop their talents by occasionally allowing them to create podcasts instead of the traditional written assignment. Remember that opportunity can still include a written component such as research and scripts.
You can podcast from anywhere. The places are almost endless from a school sporting event, an interview with someone in the community, a school or family trip . . . anywhere you can take your mobile device.
Most conversations in class are dominated by the same handful of students. Podcasting, which can be kept private and within the class, is a simple way to allow all students to voice opinions and showcase their talents.
Podcasting is a process that involves preparation, recording, editing, publishing, and even possibly responding to comments and reactions. There's a tendency to think of podcasting as a brief activity where someone sits down with a recording device and randomly records a short audio snippet. But it encompasses a variety of skills and can be a compelling educational activity for any group of students.
Podcasting is fun. Have some fun and distribute student work as a podcast every now and again. You can incorporate some of the content or skills required in a mini lesson before giving them their work.
Podcasting is a great tool for any type of language lesson. Whether students are learning English or English speakers are learning a foreign language, having them practice speech is the most difficult part to incorporate in class.
It's natural to shy to speak in a language until comfortable using it. Podcasting is an excellent opportunity to have students practice their speaking skills, and it can incorporate learning new vocabulary, writing skills, and more.


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Part 2 - Convicted murderer Steven Avery (Making a Murderer (2015)) is interviewed, via telephone, from behind bars.
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show, Dr. Phil continues to deal with real issues in his blunt style. Written by Anonymous
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show, Dr. Phil continues to deal with real issues in his blunt style. Written by Anonymous
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show, Dr. Phil continues to deal with real issues in his blunt style. Written by Anonymous
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show, Dr. Phil continues to deal with real issues in his blunt style. Written by Anonymous
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's show draws on his 25 years of experience in psychology, sociology and observation. Beginning his TV career as the resident expert on human behavior on Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show, Dr. Phil continues to deal with real issues in his blunt style. Written by Anonymous
Part 1 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
Part 2 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
While filming a show about being an uncontrollable teen, Danielle steals a Dr. Phil (2002) crew member's car; Barbara Ann wants to turn 13-year-old Danielle over to authorities.
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A family is concerned about their brother's erratic behavior, which includes setting his own house on fire.
Suzanne's manipulative, mooching young boyfriend was online friends with her twin sister, who passed away, leaving him some big-ticket items in her will.
Inconsistencies pile up in the saga of young Ryan, his girlfriend Suzanne, and her twin sister's will; Dr. Phil uncovers a massive secret that changes everything.
Joelle says her 28-year-old former high school cheerleader daughter, Kaitlin, is now six months pregnant with her third child and addicted to heroin; the young woman's sister blames their mother.
Following her heated appearance on the show last year, millions of people viewed content related to 13-year-old Danielle's behavior; why her mom asks for Dr. Phil's help once again.
Kala Brown, who made national headlines when she was discovered alive last month, after she mysteriously disappeared in South Carolina, speaks out for the first time in an exclusive interview about her life in captivity.
After spending more than two months locked in a metal storage container, Kala Brown continues to tell her story of captivity, her fight to survive and her dramatic rescue.
Blake, 26, throws his college education to the wayside to sit around all day and smoke pot in the rent-free house his mother has put him up in; his mother and sister say he is verbally abusive, disrespectful and refuses to work.
After Dr. Phil tells Brittany what his team has learned about her and asks hear to prove that she is pregnant, she storms off the stage and has an emotional backstage conversation with him.
Part 3 of an interview with 29-year-old Burke Ramsey, brother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey.
Madison's parents say she now corrupts her 13-year-old sister, who has harsh words for them as emotions run high.
Former teen heartthrob David Cassidy sits down with Dr. Phil to discuss his announcement that he is battling dementia and address rumors that he was intoxicated during a recent performance.
College student Austin Harrouff, accused of murdering a couple and stabbing a neighbor who tried to help, speaks out for the first time.
Bobby calls his ex-wife, Andrea, a liar, a thief and a sex addict who exposes their 6-year-old son to her lifestyle; Andrea and her current boyfriend call Bobby a deadbeat father who harasses her and accuses him of slashing her tires.
A workout instructor claims she's being stalked by a former employee.
Kristen says that even though her boyfriend beats her and has been arrested for it, she refuses to press charges because she loves him and he is such a great father to her children.
Claire loves the thrill of shoplifting so much that she continues to risk going to jail or having her four young children taken away; Jeanine rarely lets her children leave home because of her fear of germs; how to boost the immune system.
Caitlin hopes to save her seven-year marriage to Robert, who she claims has been abusive since they were teens.
Terese calls her 32-year-old daughter an alcoholic, who stays drunk for six to seven weeks straight; the woman says drinking makes her feel empowered.
Matthew's mother and grandmother say his much-older girlfriend has brainwashed him into thinking he was abused throughout his childhood.
Kendall says her parents sold her at birth to a powerful international sex trafficker, and since her escape three years ago, she has heard that the man who owns her will find her and bring her back.
Defense attorney Jerry Buting, former prosecutor Ken Kratz and co-lead investigator Tom Fassbender reunite to discuss the case that inspired the Netflix docuseries, Making a Murderer (2015).
Jack says his wife's extreme religious beliefs cause problems in their marriage, while his wife says she just wants to be treated with dignity and respect.
Brandi's dreams of a perfect marriage shatter following revelations that her husband cheated on her more times than he can even count, he says.
Mischa Barton (The O.C. (2003)) discusses headlines that a secret recording of her having sex is being shopped to porn sites and that a video shows her ranting incoherently in her backyard.
Part 1. The parents of a missing boy believe his stepmother is withholding information about his disappearance.
Hope, who wanders the streets of Hollywood as a sex worker, planning to earn enough money to complete her transition to female, has a rocky reunion with family members.
Teen Tanyadawn struggles to find her way, while juggling a newborn baby, school and criminal probation for a violent felony charge.
Ninety-year-old Pearl kicks out her son and his overseas wife, who have no place to live; updates on some of the most talked-about guests over the years.
Amy says that reaching out to her troubled adoptive son's birth mother has backfired terribly, and that the woman is trying to sabotage her relationship with her son and turn him against her family.
Young Morgan tells Dr. Phil she desperately needs help because her mother moved her registered sex offender boyfriend into their house.
Emily opens her life of self-harm to the world, becoming an internet celebrity and gaining followers and critics, who call her a danger to others who are prone to cutting themselves.
Karla says her husband has lied to and manipulated her throughout their 38-year-old --- usually so subtly that she thought she was the problem.
Camma and Brandon's 10-year-old daughter claims Camma's fiancé, Andrew, sexually abused her, but Andrew's family says he is innocent and is just collateral damage in the custody battle between the child's parents.
Deepak Chopra confronts a man who has become obsessed in his quest for enlightenment.
Former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal (book, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World)) discusses being outed by her white parents for leading others to believe she is a black woman.
Part 2. The stepmother of a missing boy discusses what she believes might have happened to him and gives her own insight into his behavior, before he disapproved.
Krystina says her out-of-control teen daughter is pregnant by a 33-year-old man; the young woman says her mother was always too busy or drunk to care for her growing up; Dr. Travis Stork (The Doctors (2008)) weighs in.
Stephanie, 26, says her divorced mother demands daily attention, has no sense of boundaries and is trying to destroy her relationship with her boyfriend.
Steve says his ex coached his 12-year-old daughter to falsely accuse him of sexual abuse, so he does not want to pay her child support; author Ann-Margaret Carrozza (Love and Money) weighs in.
Sandi says she feels like she has to choose between her 15-year-old daughter and her husband, who despises the girl and who always sides with his mother, who stirs the pot.
Cindi's teen daughters tell her that her father raped one of them and molested the other; their extended family blames her for sending him to prison, and her husband considers a divorce.
Despite being a registered nurse, Jennifer says she failed to see the signs that her 10-year-old son was seriously ill and did not immediately take him to the hospital, leading to his death and a charge of first-degree criminal abuse against her. Written by anonymous
Dr. Phil reunites two young people, whose adoptive parents were convicted of child endangerment and abuse for their parenting tactics.
Terry keeps his wife and mistress, and their children, secret from each other; he claims he has memory loss and does not recollect many details about his affairs.
Authorities say Roxanne's boyfriend was caught on home-surveillance cameras causing life-ending injuries to her baby son; she speaks out.
Marcia fears that her 19-year-old daughter is living in a motel, with a pimp and a prostitute, who she thinks have taken her under their wing.
Addison, 17, says her older brother has molested her on two occasions, but their parents did nothing about it.
Teen Darbi's father, mother and mother's wife debate about which one of them is to blame for the girl's drug, overly sexual behavior and habit of running away.
Teen Darbi tells why she left home and what happened during her time on the run.
Eleven-year-old Tysen's mother finds him hanging in his bedroom closet, after his girlfriend fakes her own death.
Kelly says that when she was a child, her father made her do the housework, prepare dinner, have sex with him and give birth to his children; her mother suspected Kelly was being abused, but gave up trying to get custody because it was too hard. Written by anonymous
In a tense in-studio showdown, Julianne confronts her daughter's boyfriend, who, she says, has lied his way through life, and her daughter, whom he has turned into a liar, con artist and drug-user like himself.
Crystal says she met a homeless man in a bar and invited him and his teen son to come live with her and her young children, then realized she has a stalker living in her home.
Despite nearly dying, Bethany still uses heroin several times a day and has other dark secrets she is keeping from her family.
Aaron Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanne Jenkins-Hernandez, speaks out for the very first time, since the football star's shocking prison suicide.
A couple with a troubled marriage seek advice from Dr. Phil. Also: the husband releases a secret he's been withholding from his wife.
Dr. Phil's exclusive interview continues with the fiancée of former football star Aaron Hernandez: Shayanne Jenkins-Hernandez responds to questions about his sexuality and rumored relationship with a fellow inmate.
Teen princess Cherylyn admits to spending tens of thousands of other people's dollars on living the high life, designer items and pampering; her boyfriend gives her an ultimatum; her mother says her spending has left a trail of devastation. Written by anonymous
Kristine wants her estranged husband to stop sending money to random women he meets online, depleting their finances and endangering the family home; he says she is physically abusive.
A woman pleas with her son's pregnant girlfriend to leave him, as she accuses him of being a con artist.
Steve says his daughters, age 20 and 25, make self-destructive decisions and allow men to take advantage of them; the young women say they have not gotten the love and connection they have needed from their father lately.
A woman's harsh parenting tactics are blamed for her own son murdering her mother.
A young man leaves his family and heads to California with the hopes of becoming a hip-hop star. Meanwhile, his family claim he is living on the streets and worry about his well-being.
A woman claims that her own father sexually molested her when she was a child. A polygraph test is administered to him.
An interview with the fiancée of convicted killer Steven Avery (Making a Murderer (2015)).
Part 2 - Convicted murderer Steven Avery (Making a Murderer (2015)) is interviewed, via telephone, from behind bars.
A teenage girl caught in a custody battle between her father and grandmother. Also: Dr. Art Markman discusses his book, Brain Briefs: Answers to the Most (And Least) Pressing Questions About Your Mind.
Grace claims her sister, Ashlan, abandoned her 14-month-old son and her priorities are stripping and partying; Ashlan doesn't think she's a bad mom and wants Grace to stop making such accusations because she says she only strips to support her son. Written by anonymous
New information comes to light, seven years after a girl goes missing during spring break.
Two parents battle over custody of their two teenage daughters. Robin and Daniel's daughters, ages 12 and 14, say they have been torn between both parents for years; Daniel reveals a heavy accusation against his ex-wife.
Twin 16-year-old sisters say they may only have a few months to live, due to their deadly eating disorder; their father blames their mother and says he is ashamed to be seen with them.
Dr. Phil interviews the man sentenced to prison for stalking and harassing actress Brooke Shields. He claims he was wrongly convicted of the crime.
A woman accuses her sister of choosing her boyfriend over her own children.
The focus in on a female teacher, who had an alleged relationship with a 17-year-old student.
A teenager's family is concerned about her infatuation with a man in Argentina, that she met through a video-game.
A woman is accused of creating her own health issues, in order to monopolize her daughter's time.
Dr. Phil assists a mother and her transgender teenager, who are facing issues with their relationship.
A man and his wife downplay his anger management issues, even though he has been arrested 15 times for domestic violence and once for aggravated child abuse that left his stepdaughter with a fractured skull and all three daughters in foster care. Written by anonymous
Brandon and Danielle trade accusations, in an ongoing custody battle for their 10-year-old daughter.
Brandon and Danielle continue trading accusations in their custody battle for their 10-year-old daughter.
Three sisters want their mother to acknowledge that one of them was sexually abused multiple times as a child and that their mother's current husband exposed himself to her toddler grandson.
All charges have been dismissed against the man convicted of killing D.C. intern Chandra Levy in 2001; former Rep. Gary Condit, said to have had an affair with the young woman, breaks his silence.
Pamela's husband, who used to be a priest, left her and their two teen sons for a massage therapist, then their 15-year-old son committed suicide.
Pamela says her husband abandoned her and their two teen sons for a massage therapist, causing one of their boys to commit suicide; the ex-husband and his sister counter with their own accusations.
Irina, 78, says the man, she met online and fell in love with, is stranded in Nigeria, and she has sent him her life savings to help him return; Dr. Phil investigates.
Haley, who insists she is pregnant and about to give birth to Jesus, the Son of God, learns the results of her ultrasound.
Vicki accuses her daughter of abusing her granddaughter, causing bruises and calling the child worthless and stupid.
Cindy says she still loves her husband, despite their marriage being full of fights, assault and calls to the police; a violent incident happened between her husband and their oldest son, the day before the show taped.
Niki goes from being a straight-A college student to living in a van and shooting up drugs every day.
Niki, eight months pregnant, lives in a van and shoots up heroin five or six times a day.
Amber Hilberling, a young woman accused of the murder of her husband, is found dead in her prison cell.
Megyn Kelly (The Kelly File (2013); book, Settle for More) discusses Donald J. Trump and Roger Ailes.
Amanda says she was forced to have sex with both of her parents, from age 11 to 13; her mother says her husband forced her to partake in the exploitation of their daughter.
Marks says he sent hundreds of thousands of dollars overseas to help a woman he met online; Dr. Phil conducts a global investigation.
Todd Herzog, winner of Survivor: China, fights for his life.
Christie severs communications with her family because her adult brother lives with their parents, has no steady job, smokes marijuana, and gets rides to a methadone clinic.
Sonia's mean, hateful speech causes her to be estranged from her daughters and grandson.
Kristi tries to make her in-laws choose between herself and her sister-in-law, who she says is a manipulative, lying drug addict.
Teen Bo faces two felony DUI charges, accused of running over someone and of wrecking his car after blacking out; he and his parents meet Janelle, who has lived with loss after one reckless, selfish act.
When a struggling singer and her landscaper husband accuse each other of creating their debt, they feud over creating a post-nuptial agreement.
Dr. Phil tries to cure a woman whose hoarding has taken over her life and has caused her to lose her home.
Nikki ships her child 2,000 miles away to live with friends, so she can engage in a wild lifestyle; Pastor T.D. Jakes gives her a heartfelt message.
Jemma's adult daughters say she mentally and physically abused them, but she has no memory of it and that they are using her as a scapegoat.
Danielle says her unborn baby's father is explosive, controlling, verbally abusing, and has smashed things during his rages; he says he does not care if she leaves him.
Linda and Gary say their 24-year-old daughter has stolen thousands of dollars, refuses to move out of their home and has put on about 100 pounds since high school; Dr. Travis Stork (The Doctors (2008)) gives advice to the family.
Lisa has custody of her grandchildren because, she says, her daughter is an unfit mother with a drug problem.
MacKenzie, 9, has been hospitalized numerous times and has been on 19 different medications because she hits people, break appliances, harms animals, attempted to harm a neighbor's child, and sits in the road, waiting for a car to hit and kill her. Written by anonymous
Families say a company, that claimed to train service dogs to detect glucose levels in diabetics, was a scam that left them with expensive pets who were not equipped to save lives.
The family of a 6-year-old murdered by her mother's boyfriend has difficulty dealing with the loss.
Lisa's daughter has lived with her since her granddaughter's birth, and she wants Dr. Phil's help to decide whether to keep helping her or to kick her out; Heather Dubrow (The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006)) and Dr. Terry J. Dubrow (Botched (2014)).
Jessica believes Jason, Tank D from Redneck Island (2012), cheated on her with a co-star.
Cathy's severe anxiety is causing problems with her daughter and sister.
Victims of an attorney, convicted of charges related to hypnotizing and sexually assaulting them, speak out.
Christina believes the wrong person was convicted of killing her son, Steffin.
Parents want help for their teen daughter, who they say is doing drugs and prostituting herself for money; the girl's aunt and uncle blame the parents and fear the teen may die.
A man admits he is struggling but refuses to give legal custody of his 2-year-old son to his parents, who say the child is homeless, living on milk and crackers, wearing filthy clothes and drinking from a moldy sippy cup.
Crystal says her ex-husband is violent, hears voices and is so erratic she will not allow their children near him; the father and his new wife say Crystal is the problem and is using the children as a weapon to get money.
A 2-year-old girl's young mother is dating a registered sex offender, and the child's grandparents say they will seek custody, if the pair do not breakup.
Missy and her husband fought for custody of their two young nieces to keep them safe from their parents, who are homeless and addicted to heroin and severely neglected them.
A woman, who is living on the streets, thinks that Michael Jackson wrote his hit song, Smooth Criminal, about her and that she is going to cash in on the royalties to the song; Michael Jackson's former sound/audio engineer reveals the truth. Written by anonymous
Eight-year-old Michael's stepmother says he is a troubled child with behavior problems and could be a serial killer in the making; the child's mother, who lost custody, provides a videotape she says is evidence the stepmother is coaching him. Written by anonymous
Tabitha says she has no problem with her husband Gary being a self-proclaimed virtuous pedophile; his former foster daughter, who was just 10 years old when she lived with Gary, comes face to face with him and makes some shocking accusations. Written by anonymous
Mercedes, a wife and a mother of two, recently revealed on social media that she was leading a double life as an escort; her husband just learned that he is not the father of their younger child -- Mercedes' former client is.
Lauren struggles to regain control of her life, after being held captive and tortured by her mother and stepfather, from the age of 2 to 8 years old and now suffers from flashbacks, nightmares and night terrors.
Blake tells of being the older sister of a child kept captive and abused by their mother and stepfather for six years and says she has carried the guilt for not rescuing her little sister.
Krissie says her 23-year-old son, Justin, has stolen thousands of dollars in cash, credit cards and personal items from her and her husband; Justin says they are to blame for the person he has become.
Kalli, 19, dates older men for money and gifts, and her family fears for her safety, saying she also shoplifts and has disturbing fantasies about torture and control.
Josh says he has very specific and high demands for his future wife, Rebecca, and she is not ready to walk down the aisle yet; Rebecca says Josh is too controlling and feels nothing she ever does is good enough for him.
Marna, who admits she's a liar, reveals to Dr. Phil the outrageous falsehoods she says she's been telling everyone, including her fiancé, Mark, the secret that shocks everyone, including Dr. Phil.
The young woman who said she was pregnant with baby Jesus, swore Eminem was her father and said she was a contestant on American Idol (2002) has been in treatment, but her family says she may be more delusional and paranoid than ever.
Haley, the teen who was convinced she was pregnant with baby Jesus, now says she realizes her pregnancy wasn't real, but she stills hears voices and has pulled a knife on her neighbors.


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Cook the Book: 'Good Meat'
When it comes to purchasing local, organically raised produce, the answer is relatively straightforward—head to your local farmers' market and buy directly from the farmers. But meat is a little more complicated. Finding an alternative to factory-farmed meat isn't nearly as simple as pulling up to a roadside farmstand for a few ears of corn and a bushel of peaches. Seeking out humanely and sustainably raised meat seems like the next obvious step in eating more responsibly but is one that might be daunting for those of us who are used to one-stop shopping and shrink-wrapped packages of ground beef from the supermarket.
For those of you who are ready to take the plunge into the infinitely more delicious and guilt-free world of sustainably raised meat Deborah Krasner has written a guide to understanding, sourcing, and cooking what she refers to as Good Meat. Good Meat is a guide to responsible meat eating on all levels, from pasture to table. And since cooking and eating 'good meat' differs greatly from industrial meat, Krasner is ready with tips and wonderful recipes to help you enjoy your sustainably sourced proteins.
Each day this week we will be sharing recipes from Good Meat, including a simply prepared Top Sirloin with Baby Spinach and Home Fries, homemade Beef Jerky, and a Do-It-Yourself Ham made from pasture-raised pork.
Win 'Good Meat'
Thanks to the generous folks over at Stewart, Tabori & Chang, we are giving away five (5) copies of Good Meat this week. All you have to do is tell us about how you've been eating more consciously in the comments section below.
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The '07 FIA GT3 season was an epic battle between the top supercar manufacturers in the world. Each of the ten races saw a minimum of 35 competitors supported by manufacturers including Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin, Ascari, and Lamborghini. You'll notice our omission of the Corvette, as it was the only car not directly supported by its manufacturer.
Callaway Competition didn't let this lack of corporate backing stop it from designing and building the fabulous Z06.R GT3 Corvette. In 2006, with the help of private sponsors, the Callaway folks purchased several street Z06s and removed the interiors, windows, and suspension. Next, they added complete rollcages, coilovers, adjustable antiroll bars, open exhausts, upgraded transmissions, and rearend coolers. In addition, the revised Z06s received wider carbon-fiber fender flares, hood vents, and a wind-tunnel-tested aero package that included a new front splitter and a rear wing from the C5-R.
The completed car was tested extensively by the FIA to determine if it would be competitive in GT3. Guess what? It was too competitive, so FIA officials mandated that the Z06.Rs be fitted with a 10mm air restrictor, hard-compound tires, and 132 pounds of extra weight.
Six Z06.Rs were built initially, and two teams were formed with three cars each. For 2007, these teams were Martini-Callaway and Team Riverside. After a hectic season, both crews headed to Dubai for the last two GT3 races of the year. Martini-Callaway was in second place in both the team and drivers championships, while Team Riverside's No. 19 Corvette drivers, James Ruffier and Arnaud Peyroles, were a close third in the drivers championship race.
The team championship is awarded to the team that accumulates the highest finishing-points total, among all three of its cars, over the course of the season. At Dubai, only two teams were fighting for that honor: the Kessel Racing Ferraris and the Martini-Callaway Corvettes. The first race was won by the Nicola Bulgari-owned No. 18 Z06.R, driven by Luca Pirri and Jff,rgen von Gartzen. The second Martini-Callaway team car finished Fourth, and the third car was Fourteenth. This performance moved the Martini-Callaway team into a three-point lead with only one race remaining.
Von Gartzen qualified the No. 18 Bulgari Z06.R in third in the final race, behind the No. 19 Riverside Z06.R and the pole-winning Aston Martin. The other two Martini-Callaway team entries were eleventh and thirteenth on the grid. The pressure was on Pirri/von Gartzen to place ahead of Ferrari drivers Henri Moser and Gilles Vannelet and salt away the championship.
Moser, driving the No. 38 Kessel Ferrari 430, qualified fifth. He started the race at a good pace and maintained his position just two spots back from von Gartzen. This continued until the No. 16 Martini-Callaway Z06.R, driven by Klaus Ludwig, slipped by Moser to take fifth position. Moser began losing time behind Ludwig, so the team called him into the pits early. When co-driver Gilles Vannelet left the pits too early, the Ferrari was given a stop-and-go penalty. Pirri, meanwhile, was second after the driver change, behind the No. 26 Hexis Racing Aston. If he and von Gartzen could maintain this position, they would be champions.
At this point, the No. 38 Ferrari was lying in seventh position. But with around 15 minutes left in the one-hour race, the Kessel team No. 39 430 spun out. Unable to start, the wounded Ferrari completely blocked the track, bringing out the safety car.
"This safety car was a gift for us," Vannelet said later. "I had nothing to lose. When the green fell, I pushed as much as I could." He managed to overtake five cars, including Luca Pirri's Corvette. Pirri's hard-compound Michelin tires had cooled during the safety-car period, and when the green flag finally fell, he had trouble maintaining traction.
By the end of the race, Vannelet's inspired driving had landed the No. 38 Ferrari in Second Place, behind the winning No. 23 Aston. Pirri finished Fourth, Skula/Matzke's No. 17 Z06.R was Fifteenth, and Berberich-Martini/Ludwig's No. 16 Vette was Sixteenth. These finishes were better than the Kessel team entries', giving Martini-Callaway a one-point win in the team championship. Sadly, Pirri and von Gartzen missed the drivers championship by one point and finished Second.
"Of course we are disappointed we did not win the drivers' championship," said von Gartzen. "But we won the team championship, which is important for Martini-Callaway Racing." In a down-to-the-wire season, the hardworking Martini-Callaway team overcame significant hurdles to propel its privateer Corvettes to the coveted GT3 team championship. Those of us fortunate enough to witness it were treated to a truly amazing performance.
Getting By With A Little Help
Team Riverside manager Jean Perrin had a dilemma. One of his three Corvettes had broken its steering rack during qualifying, and even though the team had brought a truckload of spare parts from France to the race, a new rack was not among them. So, when Perrin noticed several members of the Dubai Corvette Club drooling over the Riverside Z06.Rs, he decided to make a last-ditch appeal to charity: Did anyone have a C6 Z06 they might be willing to part with for a few hours? Club president Steve Roberts did, and he offered up his own '06 as a temporary donor car.
Roberts pulled his Z into the Riverside garage, and the crew began the job of dismantling the front end. Other crewmembers, meanwhile, labored to remove the faulty rack from the stricken No. 20 racer. With the borrowed rack installed, No. 20 was able to participate in the final race of the year. When the race was over, the Riverside crew reinstalled the rack in Roberts' Z, and he was on his way. Even half a world away, no automobile enjoys a more enthusiastic, tight-knit following than America's favorite sports car.


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Obstetricians across the country are hoping that Tom Cruise will decide to back out of his latest acting gig — ultrasound technician.
In a recent television interview for Barbara Walters' annual show on the year's most fascinating people, Cruise said he has purchased an ultrasound machine to use during the pregnancy of girlfriend Katie Holmes.
He said medical technicians are helping the couple use the device and that they will donate it to a hospital after the baby is born.
Ultrasounds, or sonograms, have been widely used during pregnancy since the 1970s. To obtain images of the fetus, obstetricians or technicians — many of whom complete 18 months of training in the practice — use a transducer to send a stream of high-frequency sound waves into the body and detect their echoes as they bounce off internal structures. The sound waves are then converted to electric impulses that are processed to form an image displayed on a computer monitor.
Safety concerns
Sonograms have become standard practice in many obstetrics practices to help doctors and parents learn important information about the fetus before birth, including size, position in the uterus and even the presence of some birth defects.
Experts say no significant health risks to a baby who has undergone ultrasound at the low levels approved for obstetrics use have been shown. According to the Food and Drug Administration, which must approve ultrasound devices before they are sold in the United States, the only consistent finding has been a slight increase in left-handedness among boys.
But according to the American College of Radiology, which offers guidelines on sonography, laboratory studies have shown that some levels of ultrasound can produce physical effects in tissue, such as vibrations and a rise in temperature, especially when used for a prolonged period of time.
In response to Cruise's personal tech acquisition, the ACR issued a release saying the group supports the view of the FDA that fetal ultrasound be performed only for medical purposes, by certified technologists and with a prescription from a physician.
ACR president Dr. Carol Rumack says she is concerned that a potential problem could be missed or that something routine could be misinterpreted as a problem, causing unneeded worry for the parents. Another worry is that the fetus could be exposed to a greater intensity of sound waves than recommended.
The FDA says that while prenatal sonograms are generally done at very low power levels, current machines, which range in price from $15,000 to $200,000, can produce sound wave intensities eight times higher than a decade ago and at that level, especially if used for prolonged periods, there could be a real risk to the developing fetus.
"We have no idea what kind of machine Tom Cruise purchased,'' says Dr. Joshua Copel, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Yale University.
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The actor's publicist says Cruise has no further comment on the matter.
Not just "for fun"
The FDA has investigated non-medically supervised ultrasound exams over the last few years because of the proliferation of "sonogram studios," many in shopping malls across the country with names such as "Fetal Fotos" and "Womb with a View."
Slideshow: Top gun In fact, Cruise's purchase may even be illegal. In 2002, the FDA said that anyone conducting ultrasound testing without a medical prescription from a physician is breaking the law.
But doctors also acknowledge that Cruise's purchase is likely just anticipation run amok. "I think his decision is well-intentioned, but misguided,'' says Dr. Michael Ross, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. "Using the equipment for fun is not what it's intended for.''
Copel agrees: "If Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes want their child to be a film star, they should wait until he or she is born."
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Within the last two weeks, I've read two Navy SEAL books: Marcus Luttrell's Service: A Navy SEAL at War and Chris Kyle's American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.
The books have a lot of similarities, separate from the fact that both are books about SEALS seeing service in Iraq during and before the Anbar awakening. Luttrell and Kyle are both Texas boys (who, unsurprisingly, are friends); they both value the triumvirate of Country, God, and Family, although not necessarily in that order; they both have a superhuman capacity for exertion and suffering, which is a necessity for a SEAL; they both describe the devastating long-term effects on their bodies from constant training and battle, hardships they willingly endure because they love their jobs and their country; and they both are fiercely, almost fanatically devoted to the SEALS.
What's different about the books, and what makes it worthwhile to read both, is tone. Despite being a Texas good ol' boy, Luttrell's view of the SEALS is almost reverent. His SEALS don't come across as choir boys, but they are remarkably close to the PG-rated, family-loving, lite beer-drinking SEALS in Act of Valor. After his Afghanistan ordeal, Luttrell's subsequent service in Iraq comes close to a martyrdom, as he struggles against debilitating physical injury in order to be out there with his Teams.
Kyle adores the SEALs, but has no reverence. These are hard charging men who drink, brawl, and haze each other with cheerful, impartial brutality. When they're off duty, and have nothing else to do, they play computer games and watch porn. These are the R-rated SEALS. These are men who naturally have testosterone infusing their testosterone. I have a suspicion that they're closer to the real deal than are Luttrell's SEALS, who seem to have come out of central casting, circa the John Wayne era. Kyle clearly loves war. He's no sadist, but there is pleasure for him in defeating an enemy he describes as "savage" and "barbarian."
I've been wondering about the different approach these two men take to describing their comrades. Are Luttrell and Kyle so different in personality that they simply see their team members through a different filter? Or are they writing for very different audiences? Luttrell gained national prominence because of his experiences in Afghanistan, whereas Kyle may be more of a military phenomenon. This means that Luttrell has to appeal to — and is selling the SEALS to — a broader spectrum of Americans than Kyle.
The books are a perfectly matched set (and you know how I love my matched sets), so I recommend reading both. Combining Luttrell's more cerebral approach with Kyle's earthier stories gives a well-rounded view of the brave and slightly insane (in a very good way) men who willingly engage in uncomfortable, brutal, and dangerous warfare so that the majority of Americans can live out their lives in comfort and safety. I have inordinate admiration for these men, but I do get the feeling that you have to be as tough as they are to function around them.
Also, both books offer a good insight into the chasm between actual fighting in the field, and the political fighting at home that so often handicapped them. Frustration is the name-of-the-game for front line fighters who have the enemy in their sights and are constrained by almost arbitrary rules of engagement. The theory behind the rules of engagement is to leave a loving population behind. But war is not loving, and things would probably have gone better if the government had trusted the troops a little more, and allowed them to wage a quick, clean-ish war, rather than a slow, enervating war.


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Wren proud of the Braves' athleticism and speed
ATLANTA -- Through the early days of the regular season, the Braves have maintained their reputation as a team that can hit a lot of home runs and compile a high number of strikeouts.
While addressing a group of fans during a luncheon at the 755 Club on Thursday afternoon, general manager Frank Wren provided the reminder that his club can also produce runs with the speed that was added with the offseason signings of the Upton brothers.
"I believe athleticism and speed are two of the best assets we have," Wren said.
Jason Heyward and the Uptons all have shown the potential to hit at least 20 home runs and record at least 20 stolen bases in a season. More important, since the start of the Grapefruit League season, each outfielder has shown a willingness to be aggressive by taking extra bases whenever possible.
"There are going to be some nights when we're going to get thrown out with nobody out or make the third out at third," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "But for the most part, over a 162-game season, we're going to push the envelope a little bit."


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2012-13 Season: Was one of only two Hornet golfers to play in all 11 tournaments during the year…ranked third on the team with an average of 75.70 in 33 rounds…shot 221 in three tournaments to set his career bests…the first occurance came at the Pacific Invitational during the fall…matched that total at the Fresno State Lexus Classic and the Sacramento State Invitational in back-to-back weeks…had three rounds of 71 during the season to mark his low.
2011-12 Season: Was in the lineup for five tournaments and played as an individual in another…finished with an average of 75.50 in posted a 2-under par 70 in the final round of the Hartford Hawks Invitational for his career low…best 54-hole total was 224 at the Palouse Cougar Invitational.
Lowest Rounds
70 - Hartford Hawks Invitational, 3rd Round (Sept. 27, 2011)
71 - Saint Mary's Invitational, 3rd Round (Sept. 25, 2012)
71 - Pacific Invitational, 2nd Round (Oct. 30, 2012)
71 - America Sky Championships, 2nd Round (April 30, 2013)
Lowest 54-Hole Scores
221 - Pacific Invitational (Oct. 29-31, 2012)
221 - Fresno State Lexus Classic (March 4-5, 2013)
221 - Sacramento State Invitational (March 11-12, 2013)