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Leadership Phelps County is currently taking applications for its 10th class. This program is intended to help new and existing community leaders build skills while learning more about issues facing Phelps County.
Among the goals and objectives of Leadership Phelps County include personal growth and effectiveness, commitment to the community, increased community knowledge and enhanced leadership skills.
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The program is open to anyone age 21 and over who is a resident or is employed in Phelps County.
Tuition for the program is $350. Application forms are available at the University of Missouri Extension office located in the Phelps County Courthouse, 200 N. Main St., Rolla, on the Extension website www.extension.missouri.edu/phelps, or from the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce website, http://www.rollachamber.org.
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|2012-09-05, 17:53
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I really don't why everyone's got their panties in a knot. Kakashi asked "How come until now...?" he didn't say why are you planning to destroy the shinobi world. Sounds like Kakashi was going to ask something like "How come until now we didn't know you were alive" not what everyone thinks. Akatsuki didn't really mobilize till naruto returned to the village; which was what? roughly 19-20 yrs (just a guess) after I'll say obito's body was left in the rock pile. So Obito crushed and Tobi was revealed with a 19-20 yrs spread and you think that a girl/love dying alone would cause someone to go about the way he has? No. I think he answered "Because you let Rin die" as a way of saying to Kakashi that he doesn't care for him anymore.
As for Madara and Obito's relations it's interesting and I don't think it's Izuna because Madara would respect his brother more than to call him Obito considering the character doesn't care about what he is called. I'm more curious as to what happened to the Kages, they pass out again from the flower Lol?
Watch now Orochimaru and Sasuke and gang will show up and it will just turn into a three way fight or some crazy thing involving ridiculous fight scenes and various flashbacks to the point where Naruto comes out on top or dies along with sasuke .
Also anyone have an idea what the fire tech obito used is translated in english?
|2012-09-05, 18:15
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In the magical land of Moonswell pass
Age: 23
No matter what anyone says it seems like a pretty pathetic reasoning on Obito's part especially after he saw firsthand that even when you have the genius Kakashi on your team and the future Hokage you still take losses. For him to just go from "My crush from when I was a 13 year old died" to "I'm going to start a war that kills thousands, ruin peoples lives and create an illusion on the entire world so no wars can happen" is just a little retarded.
It gets even worse because Obito hadn't shown any mental instability to even make that jump, every other villain has a bit of instability to them: Sasuke, Itachi, Madara, Nagato, Orochimaru, Gaara, Akatsuki etc...
Also he kept the anger of his 13 year old crush dying for over 15 years with a very long term goal of destroying the world, over 1 girl. I know it's your friend and your crush but that's life in general it should be more common in a ninja world. At least Sasuke and Nagato had their families killed to fuel their anger.
I literally just can't see an understandable way the bridges the motivation and the end goal, seems too pathetic and if it was just talk-no-jutsu it would annoy me even more. I hope its just something like Madara implanted some of his soul in Obito or resurrected him and sealed his other emotions or some BS like that.
|2012-09-05, 18:31
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|2012-09-05, 21:55
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Join Date: May 2004
"Virginity, didn't know it could f**k the world up! XD
Probably in the end the one who killed Rin was Madara. My guess then that Madara did something to Obito thru the "Hyperbolic Time Chamber"
|2012-09-05, 22:30
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|2012-09-05, 23:41
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Join Date: Nov 2011
also, i think naruto and bee fighting madara is the best option there too. madara with a chance to control both the 9 and 8 tails. i'm sure kurama would like to talk to him a little. and it's the fight sasuke would enter if/when he arrives. i'm guessing it's going to take a naruto/sasuke combo to defeat madara. according to kishi, madara has no weaknesses...
|2012-09-06, 00:12
|Link #129
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
I'm still on page 3 of this forum, so I apologize if someone's already said this and brought this up.
But since this is apparently obito... The student of minato, who was the student of jiraiya the sannin... How exactly did he give nagato the rinnegan, since nagato got his rinnegan before he offically became the student of jiraiya who was not praised as a sannin yet.
Basicalllyyy time travel has to be involved somehow for tobito to be doing things that are technically happening before he was born, or at least when he was still in diapers and still a naruto-jr (give or take a few years)
Also, I swear kakashi was the one that told naruto that talknojutsu won't work on tobi cuz unlike nagato, he's pure evil LOOL le irony
|2012-09-06, 00:35
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Join Date: May 2007
Maybe Obito will see Sakura and she'll remind him of Rin? She is just as ugly.
|2012-09-06, 01:27
|Link #131
lost ronin
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: in the recesses of my convoluted mind...
like i said, i won't be surprised if kishi tries to justify the timeline inconsistencies by giving obito a time-traveling jutsu. he'd probably explain it by saying obito has the power to manipulate the space-time continuum or something.
|2012-09-06, 03:09
|Link #132
start thinkin bout clones
can we back up a minute and talk about how madara arrived?
the man looked like he was fired from a rocket aiming directly at the ground lol did he not have any other way to just walk into the scene? I just found it funny how he was pretty much BOOM!...sup.
|2012-09-06, 06:00
|Link #138
Join Date: Jan 2012
Obito is the re-incarnation of izuna.obtio most probably might be the son that madara never knew?Madara might only have shown up at the point when obito got crushed and he revealed everything.
Anyways this chapter was boring.the only awesome part is when madara arrives and poses like a model.that was epic.now we can only hope for sasuke to change his mind and both sasuke and oro join the fight to help naruto
|2012-09-06, 06:14
|Link #139
lost ronin
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: in the recesses of my convoluted mind...
|2012-09-06, 06:35
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Behind You!
Age: 28
The reason why I think its stupid is because it would make Obito the most powerful ninja in their world.
time travelling is the most powerful weapon.
you can go back in time to kill Madara when he was still a kid.
he can save Rin if he has time travelling powers.
he can save kakashi much better if he has time travelling powers.
thats why the time travelling power is stupid and will never happen,
even if it happen, Kishimoto will be stupid too
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COOKEVILLE, TENN. (Nov. 19, 2004) - Behind a 25 point effort from guard B.J. Banjo (Baltimore, Md.) including a 14-15 showing from the free throw line, the Lady Bucs basketball team (1-0) defeated the Tennessee Tech Eagles (1-0) tonight 81-77 in the opening game of the 2004-2005 season. Senior forward Tiffani Mayes (Sumter, S.C.) added 22 points and five rebounds for the Bucs in 38 minutes of play.
The Bucs and Eagles battled point for point until mid-way through the first half when ETSU's Brooke Wilhoit (Sevierville, Tenn.) dropped an unassisted lay-up to give the Bucs the 22-18 lead. ETSU managed to keep the lead throughout the remainder of the first half taking the 42-29 lead into the half-time intermission. Banjo had a team-high 15 points in the first half while Mayes posted 10 points and Candace Gibson (Warner Robbins, Ga.) went a perfect 3-3 from the floor with six points in the half.
Both teams shot well during the first half, ETSU managed to shoot 56.3 percent overall including 40.0 percent from beyond the arc, while the Eagles went 7-15 from three point range in the half. TTU shot 46.7 percent from three-point range and 53.8 percent overall in the half. The Lady Bucs out-rebounded TTU in the first half 16-12 while TTU had 10 turnovers compared to the eight of ETSU.
The second half started with ETSU extending it's lead 56-51 before two three-pointers from TTU's Kendall Cavin gave the Eagles the slight 57-56 advantage. After a Lady Bucs timeout the two teams went point for point until the Lady Bucs took the 66-62 advantage at the 4:37 mark in the second half. After two Gibson blocks, and a continued effort from the free throw line from Banjo, the Lady Bucs took the 72-66 lead that TTU would never overcome as ETSU captured the 81-77 win.
"I am extremely pleased with the effort of the team in tonight's victory," Lady Bucs head coach Karen Kemp said. "It is always very tough opening the season on the road and everyone played very hard pulling together in the end for the win."
Gibson lead the Bucs with three blocks adding 10 points in the win, while Banjo posted a team-high 25 points and six rebounds for the night. All five Lady Bucs starters posted double figures in the balanced effort from the floor with Holly Moring (Irmo, S.C.) finishing with 10 points and two steals on the night, while Wilhoit posted 10 points and five assists for ETSU.
The Lady Bucs will continue opening weekend action tomorrow night when they face Tennessee State in Nashville, game time is slated for 7:00 p.m. (cst.). The game can be heard on the Buccaneer Sports Network with pre-game analysis starting at 6:00 p.m. (cst.) from Don Helman and continuing throughout the game. Visit ETSUBucs.com for details.


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G-Technology's G-Drive Slim is the latest in a trend of ultrathin USB 3.0-based portable external hard drives on the market, directly competing with Seagate's
And the new G-Drive is indeed very slim, almost as thin as the GoFlex, but it's clearly wider and longer than the My Passport Edge. Still, it definitely belongs to the small group of compact portable drives currently on the market. The new drive supports USB 3.0 and showed very good performance in my testing. That, plus its sturdy build and the affordable price of around $90 for 500GB, makes it an excellent buy for mobile users, especially MacBook Air owners.
But you can use the G-Drive Slim with any computer, including Windows machines, as long as you know how to reformat it. If you want a drive to use with Windows right out of the box, I'd recommend the GoFlex Slim or the My Passport Edge.
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|Windows 2000 or later (reformatting required), Mac OS 10.4 or later
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The G-Drive certainly is slim, at 0.39 inch, and it looks thinner than it actually is. The G-Drive's aluminum chassis looks good, and matches the design of the MacBook Air.
On one side, the G-Drive Slim has one Micro-USB 3.0 port. This port works both for data and power. All you need is a standard Micro-USB 3.0 cable (a foot-long cable is included) to make the drive work. Being bus-powered is now a standard feature on USB portable drives. The G-Drive supports USB 3.0 but also works with USB 2.0. I tried it with many ports on many different computers, and all of them were able to power the drive and get it connected to the host computer.
The G-Drive Slim is designed for Mac and is preformatted in the HFS+ file system. Once plugged into a Mac running OS 10.4 or later, the drive works immediately, and it supports Time Machine. In my trials, it worked with Windows computers, too, though as I mentioned, I needed to reformat it into NTFS, which took a few seconds. Otherwise, plugging it in is the only thing you need to do in terms of setting it up.


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When pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in Syria this spring, President Obama offered Syrian President Bashar Assad one more chance to embrace reform. "He can lead that transition [to democracy] or get out of the way," Obama said in May.
Now, almost two months after Obama's statement, U.S. officials have concluded that their hopes for Assad — never high in the first place — were misplaced. The Syrian dictator hasn't led, and he hasn't gotten out of the way. Instead, he has tried to wear down the opposition with a combination of fierce repression and sporadic tolerance. (It's a strategy that has worked for the autocratic regime in Iran, which sent advisors to Damascus to help Assad stay in power.)
Assad has made an outward show of willingness to change, allowing some opposition groups to meet in public and inviting them to join a government-run "National Dialogue" that's scheduled to convene in Damascus on Sunday. But at the same time, he has unleashed his brutal security forces against demonstrators, killing more than 1,500 and arresting hundreds more.
It is a matter of growing frustration to human rights activists that the Obama administration still hasn't bluntly called on Assad to step down. Instead, U.S. officials have continued to issue warnings. "The Syrian government is running out of time," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said earlier this month. "They must begin a genuine transition to democracy." But the U.S. still stops short of declaring Syria's dictator illegitimate.
Why? The answer is a lesson in the limits of American power and the dilemmas of promoting regime change in a volatile part of the world.
U.S. officials have concluded that Assad's regime is unlikely to survive, but they're not sure how long it will take for him to fall. Publicly demanding his ouster could raise unfounded expectations of direct U.S. intervention, a step the administration is far from ready to take. And if Obama were to call on Assad to quit with no result, that would leave the United States looking weak, a lesson that Western powers have learned again in Libya this summer.
The United States and its allies have imposed economic sanctions on Syria, and the administration is asking Russia and European countries to do more. But those measures are unlikely to have an immediate or decisive impact. Determined dictators rarely fall from power merely because of economic misery. (Think of North Korea and Zimbabwe.)
Instead, unsurprisingly, the most important actors in the Syrian drama are Syrians. Can the government remain cohesive despite what looks like uncertainty and vacillation at the top? And will the opposition remain committed and even grow, especially in the Sunni Muslim centers of Damascus and Aleppo, where the government still has many supporters?
Ordinary Syrians have braved bullets and truncheons to demonstrate against the regime. But so far the opposition is still disorganized, a constellation of mostly local committees that reflect Syria's fragmentation among ethnic groups and religious sects. "They have improved vastly, but they are still organizing themselves," said a U.S. official who has been talking with opposition figures.
The opposition has been careful not to name individual leaders, in part out of fear that the regime would quickly eliminate them. If Assad fell tomorrow, it's not clear who would succeed him, or how.
So the focus of American policy has turned to practical ways to help the opposition succeed. That has included efforts to provide Syrians with more access to the Internet free from government surveillance. It has also included increasing pressure on the Syrian government to allow opposition meetings and demonstrations.
"What we're trying to do is push the Syrian government toward allowing space for dialogue, credible dialogue; to allow the opposition to have coordination meetings; to create forums where people can talk," the official said.
On Friday, for example, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus, Robert S. Ford, did something daring for a diplomat: He drove to the opposition-dominated city of Hama and met with demonstrators before their weekly protest. The move was intended in part to deter the regime from shooting at the demonstrators, and, in fact, no shootings were reported.
More controversially, perhaps, the administration is still hoping that Sunday's government-opposition dialogue sponsored by the Assad regime could turn into something useful. "A dialogue has to be attempted. It has to be tried," the official said.
The United States essentially is trying to help arrange a slow unraveling of the Syrian regime rather than an abrupt collapse. In that sense, Syria is very different from Tunisia or Egypt, where the Obama administration endorsed revolutions that were already well under way, or Libya, where it has backed an armed uprising that started without U.S. help.
Even some activists in Syria's opposition agree that a public U.S. demand for Assad to step down is not the top item on their wish lists.
"This is a secondary thing," said Radwan Ziadeh, a Washington-based opposition member. "A clearer statement from Obama would be good … but the most important thing for us is more international pressure, more sanctions with teeth."
Such a statement is likely to come eventually if Assad gets closer to falling — and the opposition looks more prepared to take over.
"It's something we actively debate," the U.S. official said. "But it has to be with the lead of the Syrian people."
This isn't exactly leading from behind; it's more like helping from offstage. But one of the lessons of Tunis, Cairo and Tripoli has been that White House statements aren't as important as they look. It's what happens on the ground that counts.


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Within four years, the elementary building's "School Improvement Status"—assigned by the Ohio Department of Education because of poor student performance—was replaced with "Excellent," and the district received its first-ever "Excellent with Distinction," the state's highest rating.
"Teachers rely on A+ to help struggling and credit deficient students, leading to an increase in the rate of on-time graduation. We also use A+ in working with advanced students, either during regular class time, intervention or "no-new-instruction" periods," said Danielle Prohaska, the district's director of teaching and learning.
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In addition, the district's Performance Index—which indicates the number of students who score proficient or higher in state assessments—grew significantly. "Since the implementation of A+ in 2007, our Performance Index has steadily increased from 91.4 in 2006-2007 to 95.7 in 2008-2009 and 100.6 in 2010-2011," said Prohaska, who noted the state mean is 90 and the top number is 120.
The A+ courseware includes more than 5,000 lessons, plus assessment, alignment and curriculum management tools. The web-based program is based on research and objectives and aligns with state and national standards, and Mechanicsburg uses a variety of courses, including Learning Letter Sounds, Math and Social Studies.
At the high school, the A+ curriculum is used by students to supplement in-school study, for credit recovery, and for summer school intervention or practice. For grades K-12, lessons are integrated into traditional classrooms or used in learning centers and intervention periods during the school day.
"A+ supports the district's vision for instruction: prioritizing learning for all students," Prohaska said. "A+ fits perfectly in our system of daily intervention based on student data and need. And it supports our high-achieving students, as well."
It also saves the district time and resources by providing targeted learning without requiring teachers to individualize every lesson plan. A+ assesses students and matches them with appropriate content.
"These features help teachers feel supported in the classroom and enable them to provide differentiated instruction, create small study groups, assign appropriate independent learning and challenge students who are advanced," Prohaska said.
She said widespread use of A+ makes it easy for any student, regardless of ability, to work at his or her own pace with confidence and dignity.
"A+ is part of every student's regular school routine," Prohaska said. "So a student who is struggling could use A+ to go over lessons already reviewed, and an advanced student could be learning something new, all while the teacher is working one-on-one with someone else."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Maggie Yang of William Penn (Iowa) has been named the NAIA National Women's Golfer of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Yang was selected based on her performances from March 19 – 25 and was chosen out of a poll of conference/independent/unaffiliated group golfer of the week selections.
Yang, a freshman from Chino, Calif., led the Lady Statesmen to their third-consecutive team title, while also claiming the individual crown, at the Iowa Intercollegiate Championships held March 23 – 24 in Moravia, Iowa. She opened the tournament with a round-one 76, before breaking the William Penn 18-hole record with a 3-over 75 in round two. Yang's total score of 151 also broke the program record for lowest 36-hole score.
On the season, Yang owns a 79.7 scoring average over 14 rounds and has finished in the top ten in 6-of-7 events.
The next Women's Golfer of the Week will be announced on April 4.
Nominees: Liz Stephens, Cumberlands (Ky.); Morgan McComish, Corban (Ore.); Kendra Collins, South Carolina Beaufort (SC); Ann Nahl, Mobile (Ala.); Katie Horn, Union (Ky.); Hannah Mason, Southwestern (Kan.); Connie Pitenis, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Sara Molyneux, Concordia (Ore.); Sarah Crofcheck, Northwest Christian (Ore.).
2012 Composite Award Winners
Week 1: Jessica Schiele, Oklahoma City
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Lack of sleep in obese teens predicts heart disease risk
Low levels of sleep — fewer than 8 1/2 hours — is a significant predictor of cardiometabolic risk in obese teens, U.S. researchers say.
Lead author Heidi IglayReger, supervisor of the Physical Activity Laboratory at the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center, part of the University of Michigan Health System, and colleagues at Baylor University studied 37 obese adolescents, ages 11 to 17.
The researchers measured for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk factors such as fasting cholesterol, blood sugar, waist circumference, body mass index and blood pressure.
The teens were fitted with a physical activity monitor, which they worn 24-hours a day for seven days to measure typical patterns of physical activity and sleep.
One-third of the study participants met the minimum recommendation of being physically active at least 60 minutes a day, while most participants slept approximately 7 hours each night — usually waking up at least once. Only five of the participants met the minimal recommended 8 1/2 hours of sleep per night.
The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, found even after controlling for factors that might impact cardiometabolic risk, such as BMI and physical activity, low levels of sleep remained a significant predictor of cardiometabolic risk in obese teens.
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USTR Only Wants To Hear From You If Some Foreign Country Isn't Maximalist Enough
from the biasing-the-comments dept
Three years ago, we actually tried participating in the open comment period and submitted a comment highlighting the value of not creating a monoculture of maximalism around the globe on these issues, and why merely stamping the industry's claims as legit was probably not a good idea. The end result? The same exact crap as before. Given that this seems to be standard operating procedure for the USTR (and, it's only gotten worse with things like ACTA and TPP), I've not even bothered to submit comments any more. However, if anyone would care to try, the comment period is open through Friday... but it's interesting to note that the instructions for commenting already show that the USTR doesn't want to hear from you. It's really quite incredible. The very explanation of what they're asking for pre-supposes a whole bunch of things, and effectively says "only use this to complain about countries who haven't done enough to help your industry -- that's all we want to hear about."
USTR requests that interested persons identify those countries that deny adequate and effective protection for intellectual property rights or deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. persons who rely on intellectual property protection.What about comments from people pointing out countries whose copyright and patent policies are too protective? Not wanted?
Written comments should include a description of the problems that the submitter has experienced and the effect of the acts, policies, and practices on U.S. industry.Not the US public. Not on US culture. Just on US industry. Yes, the USTR is focused on industry, but the very purpose of copyright and patent law is supposed to be to benefit the public. Shouldn't their interests matter?
In other words, the USTR doesn't care about the public or your interests. All it wants to know is how it can better force other countries into over-protectionist policies that benefit a few legacy industries. You can still submit your own comments, but it seems pretty clear that they don't want to hear from you.


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CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Following their narrow 1-0 loss on Friday night, the King University men's soccer team found their offense early in their match with Shorter University on Saturday evening. The Tornado netted three goals in a six minute span, two from Kendal Liburd, to grab an early lead. However, the Hawks came back and tied the game in the 88th minute and the game eventually ended in a 3-3 tie.
The Tornado (0-1-1) didn't waste any time getting on the board as King ripped a shot that was saved by Shorter's keeper in the ninth minute. However, the save deflected off one of the Hawk defenders and into the net to give King the early 1-0 lead.
Only three minutes later, the Tornado struck again, this time it was Kendale Liburd, who netted his first goal in scarlet and navy. The sophomore placed his shot from the near right wing over the keeper to push the King lead to 2-0.
Liburd struck again in the 16th minute as he took a pass in the box from Eric Wilkening and ripped a one-timer into the back of the net for his second tally of the day, and the Tornado led 3-0.
In the 30th minute, the Hawks (0-0-1) got on the board as Diego Gonzalez took a corner kick and Robert Ocheing headed past King goalkeeper Cameron Sauro to cut the deficit to two. Shorter looked to cut that deficit in half in the 43rd minute as Lucas Cavenco had a penalty kick. However, Sauro turned his shot away to keep the score 3-1 King at the half.
Shorter moved play to the other end of the field in the second half, and finally netted another goal on a corner kick in the 70th minute. Gonzalez again put a ball in the box that Cavenco headed into the net to make the score 3-2.
It looked as though the Tornado would hold on for the 3-2 win, but Shorter evened the score in the 88th minute on an own goal, sending the game to overtime.
In the first overtime period, Shorter got the first scoring chance in the 97th minute as goalkeeper Kari Sveinsson turned away a shot from Ocheing. The Tornado then had three chances in the final two minutes as Chris Hicks had a shot blocked from the top if the box and Eli Carrasco followed with a shot off the rebound that was saved by Nicolas Ferringo, the Hawks' keeper. Carrasco had another chanced in the 100th minute, but his shot went wide, sending the game to another extra session.
Just as in the first overtime period, the Hawks pressured King early, this time with three corner kicks and one shot that went wide of the goal in the first four minutes. The Hawks kept pressure on the Tornado and Sveinsson came up with a big save on a shot in the 109th minute to keep the game tied. Following that shot, Shorter took a penalty kick, but the attempt went wide. In a last stitch effort, the Hawks ripped a shot in the 110th minute that sailed right of the goal, ending the game in a 3-3 tie.
"We played a superb first 30 minutes today against a good Shorter team. Unfortunately a combination of injuries, inexperience, and tired legs allowed Shorter back in the game," head coach John Miglarese said.
"We have to learn from our mistakes this weekend. Two poor second halves resulted in us not getting a win in either game. We have a lot of youth on the field and we are learning each game."
Shorter outshot King 28-9, but King placed all nine shots on gfoal while Shorter had 13 shots on goal. The Hawks also had 12 corner kicks to King's two. However, the King keepers registered 10 save while Shorter registered six saves.
Both Sauro and Sveinsson recorded five saves in the game. Liburd tallied two goals to lead the Tornado offense while Wilkening dished out his first career assist.
King will be in action again on Wednesday when they host Tusculum College in their home opener. Kickoff is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at Parks Field.


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What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?
Editor's note: You may also download Parts 1-3 in PDF format here (320 kb).
One week last October, Bill Evans, the assistant principal of South Hadley High School in Massachusetts, chose two students to read public service announcements over the loudspeaker as part of the school's participation in National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week. In selecting kids to read the PSAs, Evans thought about who would be a spokesperson that other kids would believe was speaking sincerely. He chose Sean Mulveyhill, a senior and star of the football team. "He was a natural selection—the kind of kid who would seek out someone having difficulty just to help him," Evans says.
In his PSA, Sean laid out four steps that victims of cyberbullying can take: Don't return nasty texts or IMs. Make copies of them. Set up filters to block the bully from sending more. Talk to a caring adult. Sean's message ended: "Remember that when you are targeted by a person or group of people, whether online or face-to-face, you are not alone and you can take action to make it stop."
"Sean read it. I think he meant it," Evans says.
Six months later, Sean Mulveyhill became one of five South Hadley students facing serious criminal charges for bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old ninth grader who came to the town from Ireland in September and killed herself in January. (Sean and a sixth student, Austin Renaud, were also charged with statutory rape.) The charges turned the six students into international symbols of callow teenage evil. Their names and pictures appeared on the evening news and on the national morning shows. They were kicked out of school. Sean lost a football scholarship to college. They are all facing pretrial proceedings in September, with the possibility of prison time if they're convicted.
If you've read about the death of Phoebe Prince and its aftermath in People magazine or the Boston Globe or Boston Herald or the Irish Independent, or watched TV segments about the case, the image of Sean reading an anti-bullying message might seem like further evidence that bad kids were running the show at South Hadley High. But what if that's wrong? What if Sean was in fact a strong kid who had looked out for weaker ones? What if there was no pack of untouchable mean girls ruling the halls of South Hadley High, as the Boston Globe column that kicked off national coverage of the case suggested?
I've been reporting in South Hadley since February, as part of a series on cyberbullying. There is no question that some of the teenagers facing criminal charges treated Phoebe cruelly. But not all of them did. And it's hard to see how any of the kids going to trial this fall ever could have anticipated the consequences of their actions, for Phoebe or for themselves. Should we send teenagers to prison for being nasty to one another? Is it really fair to lay the burden of Phoebe's suicide on these kids?
District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel believes it is. The most serious charge against five of the teenagers—Sean, Ashley Longe, Kayla Narey, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, and Flannery Mullins—is civil rights violation with bodily injury. Defense lawyers expect Scheibel to argue that Phoebe's civil rights were violated because she was called an "Irish slut"—a denigration of her national origin—and because the bullying interfered with her right to an education. The bodily injury, the defense lawyers say, is Phoebe's death by suicide. The maximum penalty for this charge is 10 years in prison. The teens are also charged with other crimes, including criminal harassment and stalking. All six teens have pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Emily Bazelon discusses the case on NBC's Today show.
My investigation into the events that gave rise to Phoebe's death, based on extensive interviews and review of law enforcement records, reveals the uncomfortable fact that Phoebe helped set in motion the conflicts with other students that ended in them turning on her. Her death was tragic, and she shouldn't have been bullied. But she was deeply troubled long before she ever met the six defendants. And her own behavior made other students understandably upset.
I've wrestled with how much of this information to publish. Phoebe's family has suffered terribly. But when the D.A. charged kids with causing Phoebe's death and threatened them with prison, she invited an inquiry into other potential causes. The whole story is a lot more complicated than anyone has publicly allowed for. The events that led to Phoebe's death show how hard it is for kids, parents, and schools to cope with bullying, especially when the victim is psychologically vulnerable. The charges against the students show how strong the impulse is to point fingers after a suicide, how hard it is to assess blame fairly, and how ill-suited police and prosecutors can be to punishing bullies.
Phoebe Prince moved to South Hadley last fall from a tiny seaside hamlet in County Clare, Ireland, where she'd lived since she was 2. South Hadley, a town of 17,000, has a sizable Irish population. It is home to Mt. Holyoke College, and Hampshire, Smith, and UMass are all nearby. But the academics tend to live in Amherst and Northampton. The parents in South Hadley are more likely to own their own businesses or work as nurses or teachers or cops. The town has a median income of about $77,000 and is 94 percent white.
Phoebe came to South Hadley with her mother, who is a secondary school teacher, and her then-12-year-old sister. Phoebe's parents were separating; her father, a writer who'd gone into advertising, stayed behind. Phoebe missed him. In an essay for English class written in October, you can feel her longing for her father: "I curl up on a chair adjacent from my father making sure to be cosily tucked in near the fire. He puts down his book and says, 'Now what is on your mind tonight my dear?' … No subject is off limits with me and my father."
Last fall, Phoebe went to the school library to find Dante's Inferno for a school report. When the librarian apologized for having only an old, inaccessible translation, Phoebe said her father could help her because he knew Latin and some Italian. But when she wrote about a book for English in October, she chose not a classic but Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation, by the lecturer and psychotherapist Steven Levenkron. In her essay, she wrestled with the discussion of emotional pain in the book: "From a personal point of view I can see that Levenkron does truly understand the concept of self mutilation and how it's not about suicide in most cases it's about trying to transfer the pain from emotional to physical pain which is a lot easier to deal with for most adolescents who most likely don't even understand how they're feeling."
Phoebe's mother, Anne O'Brien, told the police that her daughter started cutting herself in 2008, while she was at a private Irish boarding school. A close friend of Phoebe's in Ireland told the police that she and Phoebe both had trouble with other girls because they were dating older boys. "Phoebe said she couldn't take the other girls … at her every night," O'Brien told the police. "Phoebe was the type of kid who would never fight back."
When Phoebe's parents learned about the cutting, they pulled Phoebe out of boarding school and enrolled her locally at Mary Immaculate Secondary School, where O'Brien taught, according to the Irish Independent. There, too, Phoebe had a falling out with a girl over a boy. "Eventually it got so bad that Phoebe went through three or four months where none of the girls would talk to her," her mother said. By February 2009, Phoebe was cutting herself again, and in May she started taking Prozac, O'Brien told the police. (I tried to reach Phoebe's parents through a family friend and through their lawyers. One of the lawyers, Robert Leonard, called me back and said: "I would like to make clear our opposition to the publication of any non-public information concerning the decedent," meaning Phoebe.)
In South Hadley, Phoebe got a new start. Kids liked her. "She was really easy to make friends with, very sociable," a boy who was a ninth grader last year told me. "She hung out with whoever she wanted right away." She also thrived academically. "I thought I had my old Phoebe back," O'Brien told the police. "She was talking and participating and writing. She was excited that in this country you could talk and express yourself in class."
The narrative that's emerged since Phoebe's death is that because she was new to the school and popular with boys, a pack of jealous, predatory kids—"the South Hadley Six"—went after her en masse. But that's not the story the police interviews tell, and it's not how many of the students I talked to see it. Even kids who are relieved that Phoebe's death has pushed the school to do more to prevent bullying don't recognize the storyline that took hold in the media. "I'm upset and angry that bullying wasn't taken more seriously here before this," says Nina, almost 16, who was taunted for being a "poseur" by a group of girls in middle school. (I have changed the names of kids who talked to me but have not already been identified in the press.) But Phoebe's death "has been turned into this Lifetime movie plot. It's so unlike what actually happened."
What actually happened, in the eyes of many of the students I've talked to, is that Phoebe got into separate conflicts with different kids. That doesn't excuse the other kids' bad behavior in response to Phoebe's actions. But it was one source of the trouble. Social scientists generally define bullying as repeated acts of abuse that involve a power imbalance. Is that what happened to Phoebe? "In the end you can call it bullying," says one adult at the school. "But to the other kids, Phoebe was the one with the power. She was attracting guys away from relationships." (Because of the hyper-publicity surrounding this case, I was able to talk to staff at the school only on condition of anonymity.)
The problems with other kids in South Hadley started around November. By then, Phoebe had met Sean Mulveyhill, now 18, who would give her rides to school. Sean was drawn to Phoebe. "I think Phoebe appealed to Sean because she seemed to gravitate toward deep conversations—let's talk about life," another adult at the school says. But Sean had previously dated 17-year-old Kayla Narey, a field hockey player who'd lost her father, a master plumber, two years earlier. Sean and Kayla were talking about getting back together. "It was a complicated thing," Sean told the police in late January. "Kayla and I were talking, but we weren't dating, I also was not dating Phoebe, but we were friends" who were intimately involved. In a statement that's typical of the positions the accused students' lawyers have taken publically, Colin Keefe, defense counsel for Ashley, said in April: "When all the details become known, I am certain that my client will be cleared of these charges.")
Around the same time, O'Brien was letting Phoebe spend one night a week alone in their small apartment, while she and her younger daughter went to her sister's house in Springfield. After one weekend, O'Brien found out from a neighbor about a party Phoebe had hosted while she was away. Phoebe admitted that some of the kids brought alcohol and were smoking pot. She said she had smoked hash. The police were called, some kids said in their police interviews after her death. O'Brien said she stopped letting Phoebe stay alone after that.
Also in November, O'Brien renewed Phoebe's prescription for Prozac and took her to be evaluated at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, where a doctor prescribed Seroquel. The drug is used to treat mood disorders. A week or so later, Sean tried to break off his relationship with Phoebe. On the Friday after Thanksgiving, he drove to her house and they talked in her garage. Afterward Phoebe came into the living room and told her mother she'd swallowed the bottle of Seroquel. O'Brien drove her to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, talking to her daughter to keep her awake. Phoebe was hospitalized for the next week. A counselor at the school told the police she had gone into organ failure (which, according to psychiatrists I talked to, suggests she might have also overdosed on a medication like Tylenol).
In the beginning of December, Sean and Kayla started dating exclusively. About a week later, Phoebe came up to Kayla in school. She said that she knew Sean had told Kayla that he and Phoebe had had sex, and she was sorry. But Kayla hadn't known. She texted a breakup message to Sean. But she didn't turn on Phoebe at this point. "I thought it was brave of Phoebe to tell me that, seeing that she was new to the school and a freshman," Kayla told the police.
Sean and Kayla soon got back together, but Sean was angry with Phoebe; he thought she'd tried to derail his relationship. When Phoebe came up to him in the hallway, he turned around and walked the other way. After that, he stopped talking to her.
In December, Phoebe became interested in another senior football player, 18-year-old Austin Renaud. His father had died suddenly a few years earlier, and that made him a good listener for Phoebe. "Austin was sensitive to Phoebe being depressed," says Christine, now 18, a friend of Sean's and Austin's. "She talked to him about it. They had a short-lived relationship and after that they were still friends." Austin told the police that he and Phoebe didn't have sex, but that she talked to him about her November suicide attempt. "She told me about her problems," he said. "She said she missed her father."
The problem with Phoebe's involvement with Austin was that he had a serious girlfriend—Flannery Mullins, now 17. Flannery mattered a great deal to Austin, students and adults say. "Austin was an angry kid for a long time," one of the adults at the school says. "But he had really come a long way. He was poised to get his diploma at the end of the summer. This thing with Phoebe, it appeared to throw him. Because he seemed really committed to Flannery. She was pretty well grounded and she had good connections in school with other adults. I think she was good for Austin."
One night in early January, Flannery made an apparent reference to Phoebe on her Facebook page. In an exchange with another girl who brought up an event they'd both attended, Flannery replied, "Hahaha best night of my life :) ya we kick it with the true irish not the gross slutter poser ones :)." A third girl asked if she counted as cute and Irish, and a fourth one chimed in "like meeee :)." Flannery answered, "Yes I love you … I think you no who im talking about :)." A couple of girls replied with a chorus of "hahas."
There is one corroborated eyewitness account of Flannery and Phoebe directly interacting. A friend of Phoebe's said that one day after the tension started over Austin, she asked Flannery not to go into a school bathroom because Phoebe was in there. Flannery went in anyway. (Other students said they saw this too.) The friend followed. Flannery was standing by the sink. Phoebe walked out of the stall without making eye contact. Flannery didn't say anything to her. The girls left the bathroom separately, Phoebe's friend said. (Other girls who implicated Flannery to the police give secondhand descriptions of alleged incidents that they didn't see. A couple of these girls had themselves called Phoebe names on Facebook and Twitter, according to the police interviews.) "It doesn't appear that Flannery said anything to Phoebe in the bathroom," Flannery's lawyer, Alfred Chamberland, told me. "Everything Flannery was alleged to have said was never directly to Phoebe."
On Jan. 7, a gym teacher overheard Flannery venting about Phoebe during class in a way that made him think a fight was looming. The teacher told Bill Evans, the assistant principal, who, according to his interview with the police, talked to both Phoebe and Flannery, giving Flannery a verbal warning and counseling both girls to stay away from each other. After that, according to the school, Flannery steered clear of Phoebe. Nothing in the police records suggests otherwise. And yet Flannery is facing the same serious charges for bullying as the other kids.
Austin, for his part, isn't accused of bullying Phoebe—but the statutory rape charge he and Sean face carries a maximum three-year prison sentence. In Massachusetts the age of consent is 16. The state rarely charges 17- and 18-year-olds like Austin and Sean for having sex with a 15-year-old like Phoebe. But this time, Scheibel did just that. Why is Austin facing a statutory rape charge if he denies having had sex with her? I tried to ask Scheibel this question, but she didn't call me back.One of her deputies, Elizabeth Dunphy-Farris, said, "I'm not going to comment on any specific evidence. It's a pending investigation."
After Christmas break, Phoebe's problems at school worsened. On Jan. 6, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, now 17, who was in Flannery's chemistry class and saw Flannery as a friend, called Phoebe a "whore" in the cafeteria and "told her to stay away from 'people's men,' " according to student witnesses who spoke to the police. A few minutes later, before the bell rang for class, Sharon walked into a classroom where Phoebe was sitting and loudly berated her again. The teacher, who was sitting across the room, told the police she couldn't hear exactly what Sharon said, but saw that Phoebe was upset. She comforted Phoebe and reported Sharon, who received a two-day suspension. After Sharon was indicted, her mother, Angeles Chanon, told the Boston Herald of her daughter's interaction with Phoebe: "She exchanged a couple of words with her. "My daughter never fought with her or said, 'Go harm yourself,' or 'I hate you.' "
Sharon's behavior and the school's reaction shows that while publicly calling out a girl as a slut wasn't condoned at South Hadley High, it wasn't entirely beyond the pale either. A few of the kids the police interviewed reported similar incidents of kids "flipping out" on one another. One 18-year-old said she heard Kayla privately call Phoebe a "whore who wanted attention." "I didn't take what Kayla said that seriously because girls in my school get in 'bitch fights' all the time," she told the police.
Though Flannery and Sharon stayed away from Phoebe after the first week of January, the conflict with Kayla, Sean, and a friend of Sean's, 17-year-old Ashley Longe, flared up again. Around Jan. 11 or 12, according to several students, Kayla wrote something on Facebook to the effect of:Know what I hate? Irish sluts. At this point, Phoebe was spending a lot of time with a third senior boy. He showed her Kayla's post, and he told the police that Phoebe responded to it, using his Facebook account, because she didn't have one. The post read something like you shouldn't say that; you don't know her.
Phoebe also showed this boy her cuts. "She lifted up her hoodie and showed cuts on her chest above her bra and all the way down to her hips," he told the police. "I really didn't look too long. I found it to be very painful. This was someone I cared about and she was harming herself. Phoebe asked for help healing them. I told her to use Neosporin but I wasn't too sure." Phoebe had chosen a confidant who didn't really know how to help her.
On Jan. 14, Phoebe came to school with a mark on her upper chest, visible above her shirt. She went to see the nurse and told her that she'd been smoking pot a few days earlier, and had dropped a hot pipe on her chest. The nurse didn't think Phoebe's story matched the mark, and she called Sally Watson-Menkel, a licensed social worker and the school adjustment counselor (she worked in the special education department but was available to other students with problems). Watson-Menkel had been in regular contact with Phoebe and her mother since the middle of November, she told the police, and she didn't believe Phoebe's story either. They talked about how to cover the mark for the school cotillion, which was two days away. Watson-Menkel told Phoebe they had to call her mother. "Phoebe said she was doing well and had made up her work and if I called her mom, she might not be able to go to Ireland"—an upcoming trip that was planned. When she and Watson-Menkel called O'Brien, Phoebe told her mother the story about the pipe and the pot and asked if they could talk more about it when she got home. (Watson-Menkel declined to comment for this article.)
But Phoebe didn't speak to her mother again. When school got out at 2 p.m., she was subjected to a series of taunts from Sean, Kayla, and Ashley. This is the worst behavior described in the police interviews. It came entirely from three kids, not six—on this point, the D.A., students, and administrators agree.
Phoebe went to the library during lunch. She sat with a girl she was friends with and a senior boy who was helping her with math. At another table were Sean, Kayla, and Ashley. One of them wrote "Irish bitch is a Cunt" next to Phoebe's name in the library sign-up sheet. According to several students Ashley yelled "whore" at Phoebe and "close your legs" and "I hate stupid sluts."
At the end of the school day, Phoebe encountered Sean, Kayla, and Ashley again outside the auditorium on her way to the parking lot. According to student witnesses, Sean said, "Here she comes," and then Ashley called Phoebe a whore. Sean and Kayla laughed. A few minutes later, as Phoebe walked home, Ashley drove by her in a friend's car, yelled "whore" out the window, and threw an empty drink can at her. Phoebe cried as she kept walking.
About two hours before she died, Phoebe texted with the boy she'd sat with that day in the library. In one of several messages that speak to her feelings of desperation, she wrote: "I cant do it anymore … im literally hme cryn, my scar on my chest is potentially permanent, my bodies fukd up wht mre du they want frm me? Du I hav to fukn od!" The boy wrote back, reassuring her that he would talk to Sean and Ashley and make them stop. "Who cares what other people think phoebe I know you're a good person," he wrote.
At home in her bedroom, Phoebe plugged in her cell phone to recharge it, perhaps because she hadn't entirely absorbed what she was about to do. Soon after, she hung herself in the stairwell with a black scarf woven with multicolor thread. Her sister had given it to her. After Phoebe's death, the police found several of her drawings. One of them shows a human figure with a noose around the neck. In a note drawn as if it was pinned to the body, Phoebe asked for forgiveness.
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The Next Web: "Google has also been working with Samsung to launch a 10-inch tablet, confirming leaks which suggested Google had teamed up with the Korean manufacturer for another device. Our source tells us that internally the tablet goes under the name 'Codename Manta', runs Google's new Android 4.2 operating system (previously referred to as Key Lime Pie, but is set to retain the Jelly Bean branding), and will offer a 2560x1600 pixel (10:16) resolution, which we believe will offer around 300 pixels per inch compared to the new iPad's 264 PPI." Between the iPad and this supposed Android tablet... Poor Surface. Poor, poor Surface.
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RE[3]: Why the focus on screen resolution?
by ricegf on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 02:36 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Why the focus on screen resolution?"
I use an iPad regularly (though I'm not a fan), and the large screen is very nice for reading and browsing - 10" tablets rock for that. The downsides are limited portability (I carry my N900 everywhere and love it) and anything requiring typing (for which I use my Ubuntu net book).
I'd buy a 7" Android tablet if I was shopping today. YMMV.


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Consider the following code, which prints out the name of uniforms in a program:
Code :GLint numUniforms; glGetProgramiv(program, GL_ACTIVE_UNIFORMS, &numUniforms); std::cout << "Num uniforms: " << numUniforms << "\n"; for(int ix = 0; ix < numUniforms; ++ix) { GLint length; glGetActiveUniformsiv(program, 1, (GLuint*)&ix, GL_UNIFORM_NAME_LENGTH, &length); std::vector<GLchar> str(length); glGetActiveUniformName(program, ix, length, NULL, &str[0]); std::string name(str.begin(), str.end()); std::cout << ix << ":\t" << name << "\n"; }
Now considering the following Vertex Shader:
Code :#version 330 uniform BlockName { float a_name; } instance_name; uniform float a_name; in vec3 position; void main() { gl_Position.xyz = position.xyz * a_name * instance_name.a_name; gl_Position.w = 1.0; }
If the fragment shader has no other uniforms, we would expect to see 2 uniforms come out of this code. And on both NVIDIA and AMD drivers, I do. The problem is what they're named.
On AMD, they're called "a_name" and "instance_name.a_name". On NVIDIA, they're called "a_name" and "BlockName.a_name".
I'm fairly sure NVIDIA is correct here, but I can't say that they are because... the actual OpenGL spec does not say. Or if it does, I certainly can't find it.
So one of them is wrong. Or maybe both are. I don't know. Does anyone know? Will the ARB ever bother clarifying it?


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Just ran across a web site developed in 2013. Titled: B Burton Webb Strategic Business Advisors. Now instead of being a log home manufacturer, he is a business consultant. I believe this fellow is the former owner of Tennessee Log Homes. This business went bankrupt. I have found court issues where a loan , over a million dollars was defaulted on. He was fired from working with the Mayor of Knoxville. His home at the Tamarack Resort in Idaho, was sold on a short sale. His home in Athens TN, was foreclosed. There was some type of indictment issued for him, in Ky. On this web site he has the photo of the home he use to own, in Idaho. So why in the world would anyone go to this man for any type of consulting??? I have seen log home companies go out of business, and regroup, and use another name, and go back into the log home industry, but this one is a first. His phone for his business is a cell, and he uses a PO Box. Buyer Beware, I wouldn't use him for anything. The things people try and get away with. It just boggles the mind!
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I just did a search, and from all my searches, there is no record of Tennessee Log Homes ever filing bankruptcy, so the poster obviously has an axe to grind. Also, mention that the person that filed the indictment in Kentucky is facing twenty years in prison, so the poster probably should be careful who's side they take!
Check the BBB records. No ax to grind. Everything is on the world wide web.
Case # 12-15751 Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed 11/05/2012
If Burton Webb , is in any business venture* (log home or whatever) * (after everything I have found on the internet) I would do business elsewhere. Just google log home lawsuits, burton webb, tennessee log home litigation, use any type of wording, and pages and pages of stuff comes up. Once things go to court, or any type of record gets recorded, it is public record, for anyones viewing. I wish I would of had access to the internet, many moons ago, it can sure save a body a lot of headache. Now everything is at your fingertips, good or bad, it is there. Very helpful in many situations! Good Log Home consumer, there are good companies out there, you just have to do your research, and use common sense!
Someone is selling mobile homes now, can we guess who???
Now he is a real estate agent out of Knoxville, TN. (hope he read the code of ethics) Well good thing there are plenty of real estate people around, I am sure a honest one can be found.
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Amerks return to First Niagara Center on Dec. 28
The emptiness at the foot of Washington Street will again be replaced by the Rochester Americans.
The Sabres' minor-league affiliate announced Wednesday that it is moving another game to Buffalo. The Amerks will host the Lake Erie Monsters, the affiliate for the Colorado Avalanche, at 7 p.m. Dec. 28 in First Niagara Center.
The Amerks hosted Hamilton in Buffalo on Oct. 23 and drew 10,936 for the Tuesday night game. The contest against the team from Cleveland will be on a Friday night.
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday at the arena box office and Tickets.com, and will range from $15 to $25. There will also be a family pack, which includes four 300 Level tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and four popcorns for $79.
The game will be held regardless of whether the NHL and its players' association come together on a new collective bargaining agreement. NHL games are canceled only through Dec. 14, but Dec. 28 was an open date for Buffalo's arena. Rochester was set to host four games in six days.
The game will be televised in Buffalo and Rochester on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel.
In Wednesday's game at Blue Cross Arena, the San Antonio Rampage handed the Amerks a 4-2 loss. Evan Rankin and Frederick Roy scored for Rochester.
Despite having only one game on their arena's schedule, the Sabres do not currently plan a reduction in staff or salaries.
With little to do because of the lack of hockey, the Minnesota Wild has announced it will cut employees' pay 20 percent next month and have them work four-day, 32-hour weeks.
The NHL imposed similar rules on its workers last month, while Calgary, Florida, St. Louis, Columbus and Ottawa have also implemented rollbacks since the lockout began Sept. 16.
The Sabres have not discussed trimming hours or employees. If the labor dispute between the league and the NHL Players' Association eliminates the 2012-13 season, it's possible the workforce would be re-examined.
In place of their normal hockey-related jobs, Sabres employees have spent time doing charity work or learning how the organization works. They built wooden benches Tuesday for Heritage Center in Cheektowaga and helped package meals for Western New York and Hurricane Sandy-affected families earlier this month. They also attended "Sabres University," a program of classes taught by employees in the team's various departments.
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With the pending release of Android 2.2 (FroYo), Google has pretty much addressed all the core features the community was asking for. So what is the main focus for the next version of Android? According to TechCrunch, the Android team is "laser focused" on improving the user experience for the next release (codenamed Gingerbread).
In the early days of Android, Google encouraged handset makers to add their own customizations and the result was the UI layers like HTC's Sense, Motorola's Motoblur, and Samsung's TouchWiz. Now Google wants to improve the user experience to a point that ends the desire for handset manufacturers and carriers to create their own.
Whether you love or hate the custom UI skins, I think we can all agree that they slow down the update process when a new version of Android is released by Google. It took HTC around six months to upgrade their Sense UI phones to Android 2.1 and we are still waiting on Motorola to send out the Android 2.1 upgrade for all their Motoblur devices.
Another reason to focus on the user experience is all the non-smartphone devices that are targeting a release later this year. Tablets, TVs, and other gadgets will feature displays much larger (or smaller) than a phone and the user interface needs to adapt accordingly.
Overall I'm quite happy with the user experience delivered in Android 2.2, but I would like to see a release that allows handset makers to modify the look and feel of Android without having to change the underlying framework. I don't want to see custom skins disappear, but we need a better system that allows users to receive firmware updates in a timely manner without waiting on the handset maker to update their code.
What user experience changes would you like to see implemented in the next release of Android?


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Goal reached: $2.2 million raised!
Happy Holidays, everyone! We have some very exciting news. Thanks to our wonderful community events, our annual dinner auction, support from our corporate sponsors and gamers around the world, we have reached our 2011 goal of $2,000,000! Not only did we meet it, but we crushed it by over $200,000 with a few weeks left of our drive! Thanks to you, kids all over the world will have to think a little bit less about being sick and get to think a little bit more about being a kid.
As our hospital network grows, so has your generosity.The consoles, games, toys and books every year are met with profound thanks from the hospitals we benefit, and it's all because of the kindness of the gaming community. Every day we read stories of how Child's Play impacts actual lives, and I'd like to encourage you to take a minute and read about how these donations help kids and families through the scary, painful, and overwhelming experience of illness and hospitalization.
It goes without saying, but we're on track yet again to surpass our previous year's $2.3 million record. There's still time to make a donation and brighten the holidays for a sick child. Donate through Paypal, choose an item from a wishlist on Amazon, or simply pick up your phone and text to donate $5- each and every contribution makes a profound impact.


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Chapter 5: Natural selection
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973)
Understanding natural selection is crucial to understanding wildlife ecology and practically any other topic in biology. This chapter gives you the basic concepts of natural selection so that you will be able to apply this important principle throughout this course, as well as in your day-to-day life.
Natural selection is the process by which the organisms in a population that are best adapted to the environment increase in frequency relative to less well-adapted forms, over a number of generations. The consequence of natural selection is that through time species (generally) develop characteristics that make them increasingly well-adapted to their environments, ultimately resulting in a world filled with a fascinating diversity of life forms. Natural selection is a simple but immensely powerful concept, and is a pillar of our understanding of biology at all organizational scales. This process commonly is summed up as "the survival of the fittest" in popular culture, although this simplification leaves out some of the important subtleties of natural selection, as described below.
Four general conditions necessary for natural selection to occur are:
A. More organisms are born than can survive.
B. Organisms vary in their characteristics, even within a species.
C. Variation is inherited.
D. Differences in reproduction and survival are due to variation among organisms.
If all four of these conditions occur, which they commonly do in both natural and human-influenced ecological systems, then natural selection will occur. If any of these is not true, then natural selection cannot occur. Let's consider each of these in a bit more detail.
If every individual organism born were to survive and reproduce to its maximum ability, we would expect explosive exponential growth in populations to occur regularly. The fact that this rarely happens (and never continues for long) indicates that there are many individuals born into the world with low probabilities of survival and reproduction. Let's illustrate this concept with rabbits and assume they have an average litter size of 10 offspring (5 males, 5 females) and a generation time of approximately 4 months. Starting with a single female rabbit, and keeping track of just female organisms for the sake of simplicity, we will have 5 new female rabbits in 4 months. In four more months those new female rabbits will be reproducing, and we will have approximately 5×5=25 new female offspring. Those 25 rabbits will in turn produce 25×5=625 offspring in 4 months, and the process will continue so that after 10 generations, a mere 40 months, the number of new female rabbits born would be 50 billion! There is of course not enough space or food for this many rabbits in the real world and in a natural ecosystem forces such as competition, disease, predators, and harsh abiotic (physical) conditions prevent such exponential growth from occurring for long. Competition, disease, predation, and abiotic conditions are among the most important limiting factors in ecological systems, and they quite often shape the path of natural selection.
Variation among individual organisms of the same species has been well documented, and you can illustrate this to yourself by thinking of the range of differences in physical appearance and aptitudes that exists among people you know. Of course, variation among individuals occurs in other species as well and this variation fuels the process of natural selection because it gives natural selection something to "act on." That is, if a faster gazelle were better able to elude the claws of a cheetah, then this gazelle would be more likely to survive. If all of the organisms within a population were completely identical, it would not be possible for natural selection to occur; if all gazelles ran the same speed, then there would be no "faster" individuals to avoid the clutches of predators. There are biomechanical limits, of course, to just how fast a gazelle can run and eventually all healthy adult gazelles will be able to run at the same maximum speed. However, natural selection also acts on other factors, such as the ability to dodge back and forth or to detect the predator from further away. Meanwhile, natural selection also favors cheetahs that can overcome the speed and agility of gazelles. When you start to realize that each species varies in hundreds of different ways and has to constantly adapt to changing conditions (including behavior of its predators or of its prey), you begin to understand how the complex and often bizarre life on this planet has developed through time.
In general the causes behind variation in organisms can be divided into two categories, environmental and heritable. Environmental variation is that which has no genetic basis, but is the result of the conditions under which an individual lives. For example, our generation tends to have a diet higher in protein than that of our grandparents and in general we grow taller than our grandparents did. This is due to the food we consume, not to any underlying genetic superiority. If you prefer a more "natural" example, imagine predators existing in sites rich vs. poor in prey species. If a predator is raised in a site rich in prey, it likely will eat more and grow larger. On the other hand, if raised in a place where prey are limiting, they would be more likely to remain smaller when fully mature, simply because they could not acquire sufficient food. Only when variation among organisms is inherited from the previous generation, i.e. it has a genetic basis, will natural selection be able to occur. Natural selection cannot act on variation that is due purely to environmental conditions. In reality, variation among organisms often is the result of a combination of environmental and heritable causes, as illustrated by the variation in height among humans. People may be short because they have short parents who possess genes for short stature that they have passed down to their offspring. However, people may also be short if they did not receive proper nutrition when they were in their growing years, even if they do possess genes for a tall stature. The first cause for shortness is heritable, whereas the second is environmental, but natural selection would only be able to act on height to the degree that it is in fact heritable.
It is widely observed that the probability of survival and reproduction often varies tremendously among organisms. Furthermore, differences in the traits of organisms will often be the cause of their differences in survival and reproduction. It is readily apparent that the organisms with the highest rates of survival and reproduction will be those that have their genes best represented in the next generation, and hence natural selection occurs whenever variation in survival and reproduction is at least partially caused by a heritable trait that varies among organisms.
Let's look at the example of tule perch to demonstrate this. Tule perch are small (4-6 inch long) fish that occur only in the fresh waters of Central California. Each female tule perch gives birth to 15-40 young, which are essentially miniature adults (which swim away after being born). It turns out that the number and size of young produced by a female is an inherited trait and is an adaptation to the environment in which the perch live. Thus female tule perch that live in the Russian River produce 25-35 small young and typically become pregnant in their first year of life. In contrast, tule perch in Clear Lake typically produce 15-20 large young and wait until their second year to become pregnant. The reason for the striking difference in life histories of the two populations is the nature of the environments. The Russian River is a large, isolated coastal stream that fluctuates enormously in flow from year to year; in this harsh system each adult female has a relatively low probability of survival from year to year so natural selection has favored females that produce a lot of young quickly. Clear Lake, in contrast, is a relatively benign environment where each adult female has a fairly high probability of survival from year to year, provided they are large enough to escape predators. Thus natural selection favors females that produce large young and that devote all their energy in the first year to becoming even larger. If both forms were brought into laboratory aquaria and raised under identical conditions, the Russian River fish would still produce lots of small young and Clear Lake fish would still produce comparatively small numbers of large young.
Table of Contents
1. Roots of the modern environmental dilemma: A brief history of the relationship between humans and wildlife
2. A history of wildlife in North America
3. Climatic determinants of global patterns of biodiversity
4. Biodiversity
5. Natural selection
6. Principles of ecology
7. Niche and habitat
8. Conservation biology
9. Conservation in the USA: legislative milestones
10. Alien invaders
11. Wildlife and Pollution
12. What you can do to save wildlife
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Wild Films ~ To The Ends of the Earth
- Library Hall
At the North Pole, the sun returns after six months of darkness. At the other end of our planet, the Antarctic begins in the Southern Ocean, where surfing penguins struggle to escape a hungry sea lion and teams of orcas create giant waves to wash seals from ice floes - a filming first.
Winner! Best Cinematography and Best Animal Behavior at the 2012 Intenational Wildlife Film Festival
About the film
David Attenborough travels to the end of the Earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet, North and South. The Arctic and Antarctic are the greatest and least known wildernesses of all - magical ice worlds inhabited by the most bizarre and hardy creatures on Earth.
Our journey begins with David at the North Pole, as the sun returns after six months of darkness. We follow a pair of courting polar bears, which reveal a surprisingly tender side. Next stop is the giant Greenland ice cap, where waterfalls plunge into the heart of the ice and a colossal iceberg carves into the sea. Humpback whales join the largest gathering of seabirds on Earth to feast in rich Alaskan waters. Further south, the tree line marks the start of the taiga forest, containing one third of all trees on earth. Here, 25 of the world's largest wolves take on formidable bison prey.
At the other end of our planet, the Antarctic begins in the Southern Ocean, where surfing penguins struggle to escape a hungry sea lion and teams of orcas create giant waves to wash seals from ice floes - a filming first. Diving below the ice, we discover prehistoric giants, including terrifying sea spiders and woodlice the size of dinner plates. Above ground, crystal caverns ring the summit of Erebus, the most southerly volcano on earth. From here, we retrace the routes of early explorers across the formidable Antarctic ice cap - the largest expanse of ice on our planet. Finally, we rejoin David at the South Pole, exactly one hundred years after Amundsen, then Scott, were the first humans to stand there.
Watch clips from To the Ends of the Earth here.
Run time: 60min.
WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.


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Laced China Skirt
Added Feb 6, 2013
by BugsDesign
Frisco, Colorado...
As with many of the things I make, I start out with a vague idea that then morphs into the final product. This skirt looked very different before I started working on it. I decided not to put in a zipper and use the lacing. I also added little pleats at the bottom of each of the five seams, which are not very visible in the pictures so I added the close-up of them. It's a good skirt to dress up or down. I love the fabric and it reminds me of traditional Eastern European china.
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Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 29th Jan 2009 01:18 UTC
Calm down, calm down. It was simply a manner of speech. No, they haven't developed the all too popular garments that render the wearer invisible, but we are about to take a look at some pretty spiffy technology that will doubtlessly save you some space in the family room as well as give you something to brag about to your somewhat less technologically inclined friends: "invisible" speakers.
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RE[2]: This is mono, right?
by Soulbender on Thu 29th Jan 2009 12:29 UTC in reply to "RE: This is mono, right?"
RE[3]: This is mono, right?
by JPowers on Thu 29th Jan 2009 15:17 in reply to "RE[2]: This is mono, right?"
No, No, No...
You look at the middle screen. You just need 2 17" screens for the left and right tweeter plus your main 23" screen for the subwoofer.
Think of it this way; for home audio you could purchase "Picture Frames" with build in speakers (you'll need to supply your own artwork) which you would then locate around the room for surround sound. The Big Screen TV becomes the subwoofer. I don't see any issues with this setup.
Anything is better then the tinny mono speaker found in most laptops.
PS: This can't be used with a touchscreen. (It could but touching the screen would mute the sound).