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With three sophomores and a freshman in the starting lineup, Estacado's rebuilding process has opened the door for the rest of District 2-3A.
Cooper has been more than happy to oblige the first week and a half of the district season.
The Pirates capped a tough week against two district rivals by maintaining their spot atop the league standings, withstanding an Estacado rally by hitting free throws down the stretch for a 56-48 victory over the Matadors Friday night at the Matador Gym.
Cooper (11-12, 3-0 in 2-3A) hit 10 of 12 free throws in the final three minutes of the game, turning a 44-43 deficit into the final margin of victory.
"Seminole (also 3-0) took care of their game, too, and we know it's an any-given-night deal in this district," Cooper coach Nate Bridges said. "We were fortunate to get a win by one point on Tuesday night and then come over here to Estacado and get a win. They have a great winning tradition and are well-coached. It was a great game and a great game to be a part of."
Estacado, experiencing an unusual rough season thanks to youth up and down the lineup, falls to 7-16 overall and 1-2 in district play.
The Pirates led 28-22 midway through the third quarter, and Estacado hadn't been able to cut into Cooper's lead significantly since the end of the first half. But Matadors sophomore reserve guard Jaleen Tennison almost single-handedly brought Estacado back.
He scored 10 straight points, seven of which came during a 10-0 run that put Estacado up 32-28 seconds before the end of the third quarter. His 3-pointer less than 30 seconds into the fourth gave Estacado a 35-32 lead.
But the Pirates regained control with a 7-0 run, capped by a Dalton Davis 3-pointer, to regain the lead at 39-35. Estacado answered with a Jalen McQueen turnaround jumper and Jesse Johns 3-pointer to go back in front, and the teams traded transition buckets from there, giving Estacado a 44-43 lead with 2:57 left in the game.
But it would be Estacado's last lead as the Pirates closed the game on a 13-4 run to end the game and seal the win. Cooper would finish the game 20 of 27 from the charity stripe.
"I thought the guys did a good job of making sure we got to the stripe at the end of the game," Bridges said. "We've focused on free throws because we've struggled with them the last few games. We did a good job of getting the opportunities from the line."
Keenan Lewis led the Pirates with 11 points and Dakota Folsom added 10.
Johns and Tennison each had 12 points to lead the Matadors.
The Matadors came out of the gate and looked like they would shoot themselves to a win. LaQhaunte Glosson and Jesse Johns each hit 3-pointers in the first 33 seconds of the contest for a quick 6-0 lead.
But Estacado would go cold from there, hitting just one basket the rest of the first quarter and just six baskets total in the first half. Estacado went the last five minutes of the first quarter and more than five minutes in the second quarter without a single point.
That allowed the Pirates to take control, getting some big buckets inside thanks to a dominant presence on the boards, then hitting some big shots in transition.
Trailing 8-4, Cooper scored the final seven points of the first quarter to lead 11-8, then hit the first bucket of the second quarter to push the lead to 13-8. After Estacado cut it to 13-12, the Pirates went on another run, this one a 10-0 spurt highlighted by five straight points from reserve guard Dalton Davis off the bench for a 23-12 lead.
The Mats, however, ended the first half with a 5-0 run to close to within six at 23-17 going into halftime.
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COOPER - Gilles 3 2-3 8, Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Davis 3 0-0 8, Carleton 0 2-2 2, Strickland 1 5-6 7, Lewis 2 7-8 11, Sanderson 2 0-1 4, Folsom 5 0-1 10, Ruble 1 0-0 2, Smitherman 0 4-6 4, Neudorf 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 20-27 56.
ESTACADO - Bascus 1 0-0 2, Glosson 1 0-0 3, Bennings 2 1-2 5, Woodruff 0 0-0 0, Johns 4 2-2 12, Reed 1 0-0 2, Courtney 0 1-2 1, McQueen 3 2-3 8, McKinney 1 1-1 3, Tennison 5 0-0 12. Totals 18 7-10 48.
3-point goals: Cooper 2 (Davis 2); Estacado 5 (Johns 2, Tennison 2, Glosson). Total fouls: Cooper 19, Estacado 19. Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: None. Records: Cooper 11-12, 3-0 in 2-3A; Estacado 7-16, 1-2.


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Paul Kalkbrenner has announced the Guten Tag tour, his first-ever solo North American tour that will see the German techno artist playing six live shows in December. The tour will kick off at New York's Webster Hall and will include stops at Chicago's Metro and Los Angeles' The Henry Fonda.
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- This election will be won not on the issues, but by the sound bites
- Tuning into a presidential debate hoping to see a cage fight says more about us than the candidates
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(CNN)Have you seen the signs?
They are starting to pop up in front yards all over America and they capture exactly what most of us are feeling right now about the presidential election: "EVERYBODY SUCKS 2016."
I laughed out loud the first time I saw one on someone's lawn in Natick, Massachusetts, on my way home from the airport last week. I noticed it because cars had pulled over and people were taking selfies with it.
Finally, someone had captured exactly how I feel about the presidential election.
I don't like either candidate. Neither does my husband. Our relatives, who run the gamut from hardcore Republicans to raging liberals, feel the same. And I believe that when the vast majority of Americans think about their choices this November, they agree with that sign: Everybody Sucks.
Recent polls show a neck-and-neck race, but I'm not sure that's accurate, because we aren't measuring apathy. In one Twitter poll, 90% of people believe a "hard to open pistachio" would make a better president than either of those two.
And one Minnesota town has just re-elected a dog as its mayor. If that's not a sign that people don't like politicians, send me another one.
If a pistachio can get 90% of the vote, I'd imagine that if "neither" was a choice on the ballot it might just get 100%.
In the past four months, I have conducted my own informal presidential poll of sorts as I've traveled around the world delivering speeches. On planes, in taxis, standing in line at buffets, drinking a beer at hotel bars and sitting with folks at breakfasts, luncheons and dinner events, I've been asking people from all walks of life and political leanings their opinions about the election.
There have been a number of things that strike me.
I haven't met a single person who seemed "excited" to vote for Clinton. I'd describe it as more of an "I have no other choice, and there's no way in hell I'm voting for Trump" sentiment.
I put myself in this camp. I think Trump would be a total disaster yet I still shudder at the thought of another career politician as president. And while I'm ecstatic to finally see a woman running, I just wish it was a woman I was truly excited about.
I've met lots of people who are voting for Trump, but most are quick to acknowledge the major problems he poses as candidate. Their excitement is rooted in the belief that maybe -- just maybe -- someone who is as offensive and belligerent as Trump might just blow up the government and thereby fix it. I understand why they feel this way.
From Texas to Kansas, Florida to Ohio, Arizona to Virginia and everywhere in between, people are shaking their heads at the thought that Clinton and Trump are our choices for president.
It's made for some pretty hilarious memes in my social media feed, like this one of Bernie sprinting with the caption "When you hear Hillary's health is fading."
The things we are prioritizing are also laughable: Clinton and Trump's health? Tax returns? Seriously, can we talk about the issues that actually matter? Even the NBC forum on the candidates' fitness to serve as Commander in Chief was a joke.
Trump is so "over the top" that he walked all over Matt Lauer instead of being called to the mat for trashing a Gold Star family or saying he knows more about ISIS than our generals. Never forget, Trump used five deferments to avoid the draft in Vietnam. Yet not a single question about it during the Commander in Chief forum. Will it hurt him? Not one bit.
Clinton was grilled and while she did an excellent job on the substance, she has since tripped on her own hubris -- and it may have just cost her the election. She normally takes the high road, but she stooped to calling millions of Americans' "deplorable" for supporting Trump.
Someone on her team might want to call Mitt Romney and see how well that strategy plays in a general election. At an event in Colorado last night, one gentleman introduced himself to me as "one of the deplorables ... hey, at least Trump is something different."
The reality is, this election will be won not on the issues, but by sound bites. And there's no one better than Trump at sound bites -- he files them faster than bankruptcies -- and they are zingers. His latest, "Today they build cars in Mexico and you can't drink the water in Flint," definitely got me thinking, "you know, he's right about that..."
And the sound bites are what we'll be tuning in for and talking about after the debate. I'm happy to admit that while I'm eager to hear the issues being debated (particularly the economy and North Korea's new nuclear capability), I can't wait to hear the zingers.
And I'm not alone. When it comes to media consumption and behavior, we are increasingly a sound-bite society.
According to a recent study by Columbia University, 59% of links shared on social media are never actually clicked on.
And even when we're not ill-informed, we're still arguing about politics and not listening to one another or discussing the issues.
TV anchor (and past debate moderator) Jim Lehrer told the New Yorker that "the more people are talking, even sometimes over the top, or ill-informed, the better," pointing out that even a debate some viewers find vulgar or unhinged "exposes and illuminates, and people get something out of that."
I disagree with Lehrer.
What are we getting out of "over the top" and "ill-informed" discourse by both our presidential candidates and ourselves? The answer is a race to the bottom.
I try to forget the candidates and think about the office and role itself. The office of the president should be one of substance. And things of substance are very often predictable, boring and stable. So, while I'm not excited by either candidate, I know who I'm voting for.
Tuning into a presidential debate hoping to see a cage fight is fun in the moment, but it says more about us than it says about the candidates who are insulting one other. And I am guilty as charged.


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Scary movie scores mimic sounds that naturally set people on edgeNovember 27th, 2010 - 5:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): A new research has found that the musical scores accompanying classic Hollywood horror and drama films tend to imitate sounds that naturally set people on edge.
Such music cues may resemble fuzzy static noise or even screams, said Daniel Blumstein, of the University of California.
Blumstein had a hunch about non-linear sounds, which can occur when a sound system pushes its limit and the sounds begin to break down - similar to when a stereo is turned up too loud or a singer pushes beyond his or her vocal range, reports Live Science.
Animals such as marmots (groundhogs) will use nonlinear sounds to grab attention, such as making fearful alarm calls that warn about possible predators.
"I don't think any composers were saying, 'Let's put nonlinearities in.' But they were tapping into people's inner marmot," said Blumstein.
Composers have a lot of musical instruments at their disposal to imitate nonlinear vocals, Blumstein and colleagues pointed out.
Besides the strained strings, there are also overblown brass or wind instruments and inharmonic, noisy sounds created by percussion such as gongs and cymbals.
Blumstein and his colleagues focused on 30-second iconographic scenes from 102 films that covered genres such as horror, drama, war and adventure.
They used computer programs to analyze the spectrograms of the film soundtracks showing frequencies of sounds over time and create a visual tapestry of the sounds. That allowed them to pick out the distinct patterns of nonlinear sounds whenever they appeared.
"For horror films, there were more screams and noise.
"For sad, dramatic scenes in dramas, there were more above-frequency transitions such as violin notes changing very quickly," he said.
Dramas also used more music in the foreground that often included many instruments playing slightly different notes - a way of imitating subharmonic sounds that fit the nonlinear pattern. (ANI)
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Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, John McCain (R-AZ) slammed the Obama administration's handling of the civil war threatening to disintegrate Iraq into three separate states, demanding that he replace his entire national security staff including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "I say to the President of the United States, get a new national security team in place," McCain said. "You have been ill-served by the national security team you have in place now."
In recent months the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has exploited the vacuum that followed the departure of U.S. forces from Iraq and the civil war in Syria and is moving toward its goal of creating an Islamic Caliphate across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria. ISIS used to be affiliated with al Qaeda but, according to Eli Lake of the Daily Beast, was "so extreme that al Qaeda disassociated itself from it."
As he entered a classified briefing about the situation in Iraq John McCain told reporters, "Everybody in his national security team, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ought to be replaced,"adding, "it's a colossal failure of American security policy."
After the briefing the Arizona Senator took to the Senate floor to blast Obama about the ISIS gains, blaming the President for pulling troops from Iraq and warning that he is about to do the same thing in Afghanistan. He called the Obama policy "withdrawal without victory." He added, "Because the President of the United States declares a conflict over does mean that in the eyes of the enemy it is over, conflicts end when the enemy is defeated."
McCain ended with a demand for a complete overhaul of the national security team:
"I say to the President of the United States, get a new national security team in place. You have been ill-served by the national security team you have in place now, and the decisions you have made. Have that new national security team come up with a strategy to do whatever we can to prevent this direct threat to the national security of this nation."


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He's amazing. And the relationship could easily have the background score of a heart-tugging romance movie. So how come you and your man aren't setting the bed a-blaze? It's not that he lacks skill or you two aren't destined to be together: more likely, you're not taking the time and effort it takes to get in synch with each other physically. 'Most couples assume that if they click romantically, they should instantly click in the bedroom too,' says US-based sex therapist, Dr Peter Kanaris. 'But it takes practice to get in sync with each other.' Read on for the four obstacles that may be plaguing you and your guy, plus simple solutions to help you can burn up the bed-springs.
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|'When my current guy and I first got naked, I assumed I'd 'wow' him with all the tricks that thrilled my ex,' recalls Jessica*, 22. 'But he wasn't impressed with my trusty repertoire – if I stroked one spot, he'd ask me to inch over a bit or press harder. We're still trying to smooth things out.'
Why are things not sizzling between Jessica and her boyfriend? Call it force-fed passion. 'A lot of new twosomes so badly want to connect during sex that they try too hard to impress each other, relying on manoeuvres that worked on a past partner or something they picked up watching a movie,' says Kanaris.
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My name is samantha and I am now six months pregnant. I got pregnant from a rape, and the plan B failed. Im a first time mother, college student, and worried. I am pregnant with a boy, and I dont know what im going to tell him when he gets older and starts to ask about his father. I feel thats a harsh truth to bestow upon a young kid, yet I dont want him to think badly of me, or feel that I am keeping his father away from him. I have a lot of family and they are all supportive, but they dont quite understand what im going through or how hard it is for me to carry my baby. I know its not the babys fault and I truly love him. I believe hes a gift, but its hard not to be saddened from the situation.
by Lckystarz82November 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM
hi samantha,
i cant begin to even imagine what your going through. im not sure there are many that would but talking about it may help. if you ever want to talk im here. i dont know what you would tell your son. the truth eventually but letting him know that you love him regardless how you had him.i hope it gets a little better for you. welcome to cafe mom
by amonkeymomNovember 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Welcome to the group! There are a couple of other moms who are, or have been, in a similar situation and I have a really good friend who's oldest daughter was similarly conceived.
I think the most important thing for your child to know is that however he came to be, he is loved, wanted and that you are grateful to have him in your life.
by rnchelle93November 14, 2012 at 1:17 PMHi Samantha. I am so sorry for what you've gone through and are going through. My name is Michelle, I'm 19, in college, single, and 15 weeks pregnant from rape. I'm struggling with everything. I don't feel a connection to the baby like you do. I have family, but they aren't too supportive. If you ever want to talk, please message me.
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Hi and welcome to the group.
He's not even here yet, so just go with the flow and enjoy yourself.
by Robsessed98November 14, 2012 at 10:05 PMThats an extremely tough situation to be in and I admire you greatly for choosing to have the baby and then to choose to raise him yourself. Is the father in jail or do you know where he is? If theres no way he will ever be able to come in and play a role in your ds life, I would tell him as a young child that his father is simply unavailable and that he will not be able to see or know him but that you love him enough for the both of you. When hes a teen or old and mature enough to understand, I think he would have a right to know what happened. It would be best to hear it from you because you wouldnt want to take a chance on him finding out from someone else. He wont blame you, but will more than likely love and respect you even more for what you went through and for choosing life for him.


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Laughing, and more than a bit surprised, my husband came after me. "Honey, what are you doing?" he said, as he slowly opened the door. I honestly didn't know. I just didn't know how to handle the broken glass. I felt I'd committed a horrible, thoughtless act.
Years later, I can join with Bob, Tom and Jan in laughing about my silly response.
But there are bits of this foolishness still lingering in my heart.
Just the other day, I hurt someone with a thoughtless comment. As her face reflected the impact of my words and she looked down in pain, I heard something shattering. I knew I'd broken something precious in our relationship.
I wanted to run and hide, but the Lord gave me grace to ask for forgiveness. All is well. She is a gracious, forgiving friend.
But that "run and hide" thing. It's something that goes back to the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:8-10). And it rises up in my own spirit more than I like to admit.
When I sin against the Lord—and really, isn't all sin against Him?—I try to hide. How?
- I hide when I keep so busy I don't have to think about or acknowledge my faults.
- I hide when I neglect a time alone with God, knowing I'll need to "fess up."
- I hide when I pretend everything is OK and keep on serving God. A good little Pharisee!
In her book, Everyday Grace, Jessica Thompson writes:
She's so right. One of the greatest hope-filled scriptures is 1 John 3:20:
"For when our heart condemns us,
God is greater than our heart, and He knows everything."
God knows EVERYTHING! Jesus knows I'm not perfect and won't be until I join Him in heaven. The Holy Spirit is ever-present to remind me when I don't live in truth.
When I continue to hide out, I'm really caught up in self-focused condemnation. It's a faulty focus!
God wants me to remember what Jesus did for me. My Savior is my Advocate. He intercedes for me; He doesn't condemn me (1 John 2:1-2; Romans 8:34). I don't have to justify myself because the Father has already declared me justified . . . righteous in Christ (Romans 3:24; 5:1; Titus 3:4-6).
Without the resurrection of Christ, I would still be in my sin—my faith would be worthless and ineffective (1 Corinthians 15:17)—but, praise the Lord, death had no power over Jesus (Romans 6:9). I will live with Him in glory (Ephesians 2:6)!
Paul calls true Christians to live this Resurrection life as spelled out in Colossians 3:1-5a:
- Seek heavenly, eternal things; set your mind on them.
- Remember that you died with Christ and you were also raised with Him.
- Therefore, your life is "hidden" with Him in glory.
- So "put to death" those earthly things that do not reflect your new life in Christ!
I especially love that part of verse three that says, "your life is hidden with Christ in God."
Because I am "hidden" in Him, there's no more need for hiding when I sin!
What a wondrous truth!
"Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow."
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(Muawad Mustafa Rashid – Najat Ahmed) African intelligence chiefs and experts from across Africa are scheduled started a workshop in Khartoum yesterday.
The Committee of the Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) workshop comes under the theme "The Phenomenon of Mercenary, Foreign Terrorist Fighters, Rogue NGOs, and their Impact on the Security and Stability in Africa.
Intelligence organs from 27 African countries will meet to address the many security threats to the continent, especially the spread of mercenaries.
The CISSA delegates will discuss the effects of the phenomena on the stability of the content.
The Khartoum meeting follows the recommendations of the 13th ordinary conference of CISSA in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, which also discussed the key security concerns on the entire continent.
Sudan will present a paper on mercenary operations and their impact, especially the Darfur movements fighting in Libya and South Sudan
It goes without saying that the mercenary phenomenon emerged in Africa in the sixtieth of last century and caused anarchy in several parts of the African continent i.e. Equatorial Guinea in 2004, Libya in 2011.
In recognition to the threats of the mercenaries on the independence and sovereignty of the African countries, the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) leaders signed and agreement on combating the mercenary in Africa on July 1977. Then the UN General Assembly endorsed in its 62nd round the decision 145/62 on using mercenaries as a tool to violate human rights and hindering the people from practicing their right in determining their fate.
On the foreign terrorist fighters some reports argue that most of the foreign terrorist fighters in the ISIS are holders of foreign passports which allow them enter the African countries without a need to an entry visa, while big numbers of the terrorist fighters in Libya and Syria are from African states, especially east, north and west Africa.
The intelligence services in some African states are monitoring the moves of the ISIS fighters towards the Sub-Saharan after their defeat in Iraq and Syria.
This means that the ISIS will try to cause anarchy in some parts of the African continent taking advantage of the weakness of monitoring in some parts which the ISIS will use for reassembling; and this is apparent from their announcement that they had established a branch in Burkina Faso.
The negative NGOs can become active partners for foreign intervention through planned projects to destabilize the country towards toppling the regime.
Some of the NGOs have become factors of conflicts and sources of fragmentation, while others engage in sabotaging the economy to implement some political agendas.
The workshop which will kick-off today will discuss and analyze the above phenomenon along with exchanging the information and experiences towards reaching practical constructive and reproducible recommendations.
As for the policy makers in the continent they can propose the necessary tools to overcome the challenges of mercenaries besides preparing the legal framework in controlling the private security and military companies.
Our African leaders could deal with the terrorist fighters besides providing CISSA with full support to enable it prepare a monitoring database to be exchanged among the member states.
It is high time to prepare a comprehensive legal and organizational framework nationally and regionally to confront the negative NGOs and setting strategies to contain its impacts.
We welcome African Intelligence Chiefs in Khartoum and wish them all the success in their noble mission.


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Novel system may help redefine International unit of temperatureJune 4th, 2008 - 3:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 4 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a new system that may help redefine the International unit of temperature.
The system relies on the noise of jiggling electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with extreme precision.
It is extremely precise in part because it is based on the predictable quantum effects of superconducting elements located between the dashed slits on the top and bottom of the chip .
The system is nearly precise enough now to help update some of the crucial underpinnings of science, including the 54-year-old definition of the Kelvin, the international unit of temperature.
NISTs Johnson noise thermometry (JNT) system represents a five-fold advance in the state of the art in noise thermometry thanks to its use of a unique quantum voltage source combined with recent reductions in systematic errors and uncertainty.
It is also simpler and more compact than other leading systems for measuring high temperatures, such as those based on the pressure and volume of gases.
Whats beautiful about our JNT system is that its so conceptually simple, said project leader Sam Benz. All the measurements are electricalthey dont require large volumes of gas and mechanical systems that change in different environmental conditions, he added.
As a thermometer, the JNT system will be most useful in the range from approximately 500 K (227 degrees C or 440 degrees F) to 1235 K (962 degrees C or 1763 degrees F).
Though its most obvious application is as a primary measurement standard (maintained at NIST and other national metrology labs for calibration of thermometers), but it also might be used directly in some industrial thermometry labs.
The recent JNT improvements are especially significant because they may contribute to a separate important measurement problem, the determination of Boltzmanns constant.
Several years from now, the international metrology community is expected to fix the value of the Boltzmann constant, used in scientific calculations to relate energy to temperature in particles.
The Boltzmann constant, in turn, would then be used to redefine the Kelvin as part of an international effort to link all units to fundamental constants, a more stable and reproducible approach than traditional measurement standards based on physical objects or substances.
According to Benz, the JNT system is the only electrical approach to determining the Boltzmann constant, and is currently among the top three thermometry systems competing for the redefinition, in terms of offering the lowest uncertainties. (ANI)
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text: Shemika S. Williams, 32, of Lubbock, passed away Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at U.M.C. She was born Nov. 15, 1979, to Gwendolyn Davis and Melvin Williams in Lubbock.She leaves to cherish her memory her daughter, Shemesha Tipton; two sons, Shamardric Tipton and Billy Price; her mother, Gwendolyn Joiner (John); father, Melvin Williams (Belinda); three sisters, Denise Williams, Monica Joiner Huges and Tammie Weatherspoon; two brothers, Rodrick Davis and Melvin Williams III; grandmother, Ruby Davis; grandfather, Robert Taylor; godmother, Lillie Townsend; special cousin and friend, Angie Davis and Drew Parson; and a host of other relatives and friends.Celebration of life services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at Community Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Resthaven Memorial Park under the direction of Griffin Mortuary. Family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. at Griffin Mortuary.


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Liverpool FC are currently undergoing a turbulent season, and it is no surprise that reports of manager Brendan Rodgers' job being in jeopardy are coming up.
Most recent reports suggest that the club owners are already looking at potential managers to replace the current Liverpool boss. Sports journalist for The Sunday Times, Sports Illustrated, Champions magazine, Goal, ONE World Sports and other media outlets, Duncan Castles told Bleacher Report UK that the Liverpool owners have begun looking at people to replace Rodgers.
According to him, Liverpool's American owners have already drawn up a shortlist of managers they could approach if Rodgers was to be sacked. Castles said, "It doesn't look good for Brendan Rodgers. What I know is that there has been contact with alternatives to replace him for at least a month now. It looks to me as though Fenway Sports Group are getting themselves in a position where if they need to make a change of managers, they have the alternatives ready. The fact that they are looking,means that Rodgers' job is not safe".
There were rumors some days back suggesting former Chelsea and Spurs boss Andre Villas Boas had been lined up as Rodgers' replacement. Castles said on the matter, "Villas Boas was one of the manager contacted, which is not a surprise as he was one of the managers on the list to replace Roy Hodgson, when Rodgers got the job. He has been sended out. He talked to the owners, but he is not interested in going back to the Premier League at the moment. You can essentially forget about him, unless he changes his mind."
Speaking about Rodgers' downfall at the club this season, Castles added, "The results this season have been terrible. To go from almost winning the league, even if that was an unusual season, to where they are at the moment- scoring less than a goal in home match at Anfield and getting knocked out of the CL by Ludogorets and Basel. Fenway Sports Group are not in charge of Liverpool for good football or their interest in the sport, they are in it for the money. When they allow a guy to spend 150m pounds, they expect results"
Castles said that FSG are likely to not make mid-season changes, and would want to end the season with Rodgers at the helm, giving him more time to sort his business out. But sacking him in between cannot be ruled out.
"When you've got such a situation, it is possible that Rodgers is sacked in the middle of the season. But I don't think that is the intention. I think they would like to get to the end of the season before changing the manager", said The Times journalist.
Reports of transfers and sackings do rounds all the time, which makes them very unreliable. But it is undisputed that Rodgers and Liverpool are struggling at the moment, and it is not an unfathomable possibility that the owners of the club are looking at alternatives.
Here is the interview where Castles speaks about Rodgers' situation at Liverpool.


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Santos is right in saying that Colombia is one of Latin America's strongest economies, and that it will probably grow even faster thanks to the government's heavy investments in infrastructure. But I am skeptical that peace by itself would bring about a flurry of foreign investments to Colombia.
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Josephine A. Jackson
Josephine A. Jackson, 91, Decatur, died Sunday, May 18, 2014, at Woodcrest Nursing Center.
Josephine was born Aug. 22, 1922, in Christian County, Ill., to the late E. Guy and Teresa (Richardson) McBride.
She married Richard L. Jackson June 23, 1945; he preceded her in death Sept. 19, 1991.
Josephine was a member of St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church and the Women of St. Mary's. She was a homemaker and a former owner of the Little Flower Beauty Shop.
She is survived by six sons, Dennis R. (Renae) Jackson of Decatur, Dr. Richard T. (Becky) Jackson of Bluffton, James L. Jackson of Ogden, Utah, Jerry L. (Kayanne) Jackson of Gold River, Calif., David E. (Melinda) Jackson of Montgomery, Ala. and Dan E. (Karin) Jackson of Huron, S.D.; a daughter, Mary Ann Meyer of Decatur; two sisters, Bernice Riley of Taylorville, Ill. and Genevieve (Henry) Burrus of Rosemond, Ill.; 15 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Julie A. Jackson-Johnson.
A prayer service will be held at 9:20 a.m. Saturday at Haggard-Sefton and Hirschy Funeral Home, followed by a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church. Father David Voors will be officiating.
Burial will be St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with reciting of the Holy Rosary at 3:30 p.m.
Preferred memorials are to St. Joseph Catholic School. Online condolences may be made at www.hshfuneralhome.com.


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You might think there is some sort of a success secret to promoting affiliate offers, but there isn't. There's no formula. No sauce. But there is a proven sequence that works every time. If you follow this sequence, you will be successful in your promotions.
The thing about this "Sequence of Success" is that it applies to anything in life. Once you learn it, you'll see how it's true everywhere.
The sequence has five phases and each one must come after the previous phase (it is sequential after all). If you try to skip to phase five first, you will fail. Even skipping to phases two through four are recipes for disaster.
I'll walk you through each of the five phases below.
The 5 Phases of Success in Affiliate Promotions
1. Belief
I mentioned earlier that this sequence of success is true for any area of your life, not just affiliate promotions. And everything in life begins with belief.
The default for far too many people today when they purchase something or try a product out is that it won't work for them. They literally press the buy button and say to themselves, "This won't work for me."
It sounds crazy but we've all done it. We assume that it might work for some other special person or that the seller is hyping up his claims. We spend money but we've set ourselves up for failure.
The key with anything you are promoting is to believe that it will work. Believe that your audience (and even you) will benefit from using the product.
Only promote things that you have a good feeling about. Promote things that are proven to work for others. In other words, don't promote crap and you'll be good here.
2. Proof
If you go into a promotion with the right attitude, it's not time to prove that something works.
Proof often says "It worked for me and it can work for you." But if a product is not right for you, but is right for your audience, it might mean talking to a customer or two about their experience ("It worked for Joe, it can work for you").
The great thing about proof and belief is that they feed each other. When you have belief, you look for reasons why something will work, not why they won't. You look for proof.
And when you get proof, it reinforces and increases your belief. It's a beautiful cycle.
3. Creativity
Now that you are armed with belief and proof working in tandem, the ideas for promoting something flow.
You suddenly have storylines and marketing copy galore. You can see your promotional plan in mapped out.
You write with ease and you are constantly thinking of new, creative ways to encourage your audience to purchase a product.
Your creativity is boundless, so much so that your ideas overflow to the point that you don't know which ones will work best.
Which leads to Phase Four…
4. Testing
Now it's time to find out what works.
What should you test?
In a word…everything. Here's a short list of things to test:
- Message tone (gushing review, skeptic turned raving fan, guide showing the way)
- Mediums (video, ebooks, webinars)
- What moves people (case studies, bonuses, exclusivity)
Some audiences respond better to webinars than ebooks, while others love case studies and don't care about bonuses.
You'll never know what works for sure until you test.
5. Systems
Once you learn what works, it's time to create systems to make future promotions rinse and repeat.
The first time you go through these phases, it might seem like a labor-intensive process. But over time, you get better and it gets easier.
Creating systems allows you to identify that works best for your audience. You'll know exactly what products to promote, what promotional methods to use, how to communicate with your audience, and how to close the sale.
One Last Note
You can apply these phases to your own products as well.
Believe that it will change lives.
Prove that it will with a small group.
Allow your creativity to flow.
Then test to see what works and systematize what does.
Question: Which of these five phases is the most difficult for you and why? You can leave a comment by clicking here.


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Two weeks ago my blog suddenly stopped publicising on facebook. I get the following message on the right hand side of my <edit post> page:
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2008 College Football season will demand a playoff in the future.August 19, 2008
2008 will without a doubt be the most memorable season of the century.
There are so many teams on the radar for that number one spot come early January, that you can't even count with two hands.
The Georgia Bulldogs are number one entering the season for the first time in school history. They are led by last year's freshman sensation, and upcoming sophomore Knowshon Moreno.
Georgia has a solid team on both sides of the ball, but playing through that schedule may effect Georgia's chances to play in Miami for the BCS Championship. That schedule is like walking through a mine field; you're highly unlikely to make it out in one piece.
We all know reigning Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow is hungry for a championship. The Florida Gator quarterback has a pretty strong supporting cast to win the SEC in Atlanta.
With the emergence of Chris Rainey and USC transfer Emmanuel Moody, the running game of Florida will be much more productive in 2008. This will lead to a healthier and stronger Tebow. If Percy Harvin can manage to get healthy, this offense will be scary.
Florida's only worry is the defense. If the defense makes a couple third down stops this season, the Florida Gators may win it all.
The Auburn Tigers look to beat out the 2007 BCS Champion LSU Tigers for the SEC West.
While that is taking place, Florida and Georgia will be battling in the East.
November 1st may be the biggest game of the Cocktail Party's history.
Looking at the West Coast, USC is coming into 2008 with arguably the best defense in the country. Led by linebacker Rey Maualuga, the Trojan defense plans to lead Southern Cal to glory.
Unfortunately the Trojans play another very well-rounded team on September 6th:
The Ohio State Buckeyes.
Led by Heisman hopeful running back Chris Wells and defensive force linebacker James Laurinaitis, the Buckeyes plan to make a statement by making their third straight appearence to the BCS Championship game and winning the Big 10.
Whoever wins on September 6th has a good chance of playing in Miami on January 8th.
The Sooners of Oklahoma seem to be the favorite of the Big 12. Quarterback Sam Bradford hopes to avoid the "sophomore slump" and lead his Sooners to an undefeated season.
The Big 12 is loaded this year, so Bradford will have some competition.
With the Harrell-Crabtree duo at Texas Tech and Chase Daniel-Jeremy Maclin show at Missouri, the Sooners don't have an easy road ahead of them.
Over in the ACC, the early favorite is Clemson. It doesn't look like anybody is going to put up a fight either.
The same situation exists in the Big East. West Virgina, led by quarterback Pat White seem to have a very explosive offense with the addition of Noel Devine, who will be entering his second season.
The only team who may sneak up on the Mountaineers will be the Pitt Panthers.
Another team that may send shockwaves is BYU. They may be the next Boise State or Hawaii.
This year in general may be the biggest year of college football.
So sit back and enjoy, its gonna be a long and exciting year of college football!


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Auroral emission at Jupiter, through Juno's UVS eyes
Grodent, Denis ; Bonfond, Bertrand ; et al
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Juno's orbit insertion around Jupiter will take place in little bit more than one year (July 2016). After a 107-day capture orbit (Oct. 2016), it will perform a series of 33 eleven-day science polar ... [more ▼]
Juno's orbit insertion around Jupiter will take place in little bit more than one year (July 2016). After a 107-day capture orbit (Oct. 2016), it will perform a series of 33 eleven-day science polar orbits offering unprecedented views of the auroral regions of Jupiter. The science payload of Juno includes an UltraViolet Spectrograph (UVS) that will characterize the UV auroral emissions of Jupiter over all science orbits. It will obtain high-resolution images and spectra that will provide context for Juno's in situ particles and fields measurements in the larger polar magnetosphere with Juno's JADE and JEDI detectors. At the same time, the MAG instrument will accurately constrain magnetic field models, which will provide the connection between Juno and its field line footprint in the Jovian aurora. The UVS instrument consists of a solar blind MCP detector with a "dog-bone" shape FOV of 0.2°x2.5°+0.025°x2°+0.2°x2.5° providing a spatial resolution of 125 km from 1RJ above the aurora and a spectral resolution of ~0.5 nm (~2 nm for extended sources). It is sensitive to EUV-FUV radiation ranging from 70 nm to 205 nm. Juno is a spin-stabilized spacecraft and is rotating at a frequency of 2 RPM. UVS will take advantage of this motion to scan the auroral regions in the direction perpendicular to the slit, while its steerable pickup mirror (±30° from the spin plane) will make it possible to point at specific regions of the aurora. Juno's highly eccentric science orbits have a perijove close to 1.05 RJ (~5000 km above cloud deck) and an apojove at ~38 RJ. These orbits approximately lie in the Dawn meridian plane and are such that each successive pass is at a Jovian longitude displaced by 204° from the previous perijove. At perijove, Juno's velocity will be ~60 km/s and about 20 km/s above the poles, meaning that the spacecraft will move over the northern and southern auroral regions in approximately two hours. In this study, we are using existing HST STIS time-tag sequences of Jupiter's UV aurorae in order to simulate the expected measurements through UVS FOV along Juno's predicted trajectory. The simulations account for realistic instrumental specifications and pointing and for the temporal and spatial variability of the aurora. We show the results of image reconstruction obtained from scanning the auroral region with UVS slit and provide some limits on the expected data quality as a function of the location of Juno along its orbit. We also suggest portions of the science orbits for which supporting HST observations will be necessary. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 53 (9 ULiège)
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Juno is the next NASA New Frontiers mission which will launch in August 2011. The mission is a solar powered spacecraft scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2016 and be placed into polar orbit around Jupiter. The goal of the Juno mission is to explore the origin and evolution of the planet Jupiter. Juno's science themes include (1) origin, (2) interior structure, (3) atmospheric composition and dynamics, and (4) polar magnetosphere and aurora. A total of nine instruments on-board provide specific measurements designed to investigate Juno's science themes. The primary objective of investigating the origin of Jupiter includes 1) determine Jupiter's internal mass distribution by measuring gravity with Doppler tracking, 2) determine the nature of its internal dynamo by measuring its magnetic fields with a magnetometer, and 3) determine the deep composition (in particular the global water abundance) and dynamics of the sub-cloud atmosphere around Jupiter, by measuring its thermal microwave emission. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 8 (2 ULiège)


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Croise History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Origins Available: English, French
Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It is derived from the family living as dwellers at a cross or crucifix. The surname Croise originally derived from the Old English word crosse, which means cross.
Early Origins of the Croise family
Lincolnshire. The name was first found to be in the southern English counties of Lincolnshire, Buckingham, and Oxfordshire, about the year 1250. By the year 1340 the most important branch of the name had moved northward to Lancashire, and established manors and estates at Crosse Hall, just outside Liverpool. This branch also moved into the Cross of Ledsham to the south in the county of Cheshire.
Early History of the Croise family
Another 147 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1718, 1606, 1683, 1664, 1738, 1700, 1762 and are included under the topic Early Croise History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Croise Spelling Variations
Anglo-Saxon surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. Changes in Anglo-Saxon names were influenced by the evolution of the English language, as it incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other languages. Although Medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, so it is common to find one person referred to by several different spellings of his surname, even the most literate people varied the spelling of their own names. Variations of the name Croise include Cross, Crosse, Croce, Crosce, Croise, Croice and others.
Early Notables of the Croise family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Croise family to Ireland
Some of the Croise family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Croise family to the New World and Oceana
Searching for a better life, many English families migrated to British colonies. Unfortunately, the majority of them traveled under extremely harsh conditions: overcrowding on the ships caused the majority of the immigrants to arrive diseased, famished, and destitute from the long journey across the ocean. For those families that arrived safely, modest prosperity was attainable, and many went on to make invaluable contributions to the development of the cultures of the new colonies. Research into the origins of individual families in North America revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Croise or a variant listed above: John Cross, who came from Ipswich, England, on the sailing ship the "Elizabeth" in 1634. Another John Cross settled a year later, also from Ipswich, and he became a freeman in Hampton in 1635. John Cross was constable of Wells, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1647. John Croos (same family) settled in Boston in 1633.
The Croise Motto
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Cruce dum spero fido
Motto Translation: Whilst I have breath I confide in the cross.
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Once upon a time (way back in 2004), you could only join Facebook if you had an .edu email address -- and the "right" .edu email address at that. Even with its Harvard University roots, I'm not sure you could ever call Facebook an academic network. It was always a social network.
And even when students did share information about their college experiences -- classes, activities, assignments, teams, parties and so on -- the impetus to do so (particularly information about parties) might have been diminished by the expansion of the Facebook membership beyond just the university campus. (Not to mention, of course, the ongoing concerns with Facebook privacy.)
But according toTechcrunch's Josh Constine [2], Facebook is piloting a new feature at a couple of universities that might serve to bring some of that ol' college life appeal back to the website.
Called "Groups at [University]," the new feature allows users to create Groups that are visible only to those with a university's .edu email address. Students are encouraged to create groups for their dorms, classes, clubs, intramural activities, parties and so on.
"Groups at Universities" functions much like other Facebook Groups do. That feature was rolled out late last year [3] in an attempt to add more granular controls over sharing on the site. In other words, rather than inviting all your Facebook friends to a party or to a discussion about your History 101 Final Exam, you can just communicate with those in a specific group. As with the standard Groups functionality, students will be able to make these groups open or closed or secret, and they'll be able to invite other students (with the right .edu email address on file, of course) to join.
Constine reports that Groups at Universities is being piloted at Brown and Vanderbilt. He notes that these universities were chosen in part because the schools use different email addresses for students versus alumni. "Only those with current student addresses can gain access, which keeps sketchy recent grads from crashing the party." (No word how the system keeps sketchy professors from crashing the party.)
I've asked Facebook to comment on the pilot program, but I haven't a response at the time of publishing. So there's no word if the company plans on expanding its higher ed efforts.
Doing so might put the company at odds with several education startups (such as Inigral [4], for example) that have built Facebook apps to help boost campus communication. And considering the recent decision at George Tech to restrict open access to the school's course-based wikis [5], Facebook might find itself on the receiving end of some FERPA complaints with this effort, a new twist on its privacy problems perhaps.
While some universities have adopted social media tools like Facebook to help with retention and recruitment, the Groups at Universities features could add another layer of interactivity for students. But will universities support students' ability to create their own campus-affiliated groups on Facebook? And will students choose to use the site this way?


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The Lync Server Dial Plan: An Introduction to Preparing for Implementation
The voice or telephony culture can vary considerably from enterprise to enterprise. Consequently, when provisioning a Lync Server dial plan and voice policy covering internal telephone extensions, enterprise telephony-based features/services, call routing access codes and more, it's important to take into account the enterprise's dialing habits and required calling privileges.
Access this resource for an overview of the configuration requirements that enforce calling privileges and call route selection, and discover how a voice policy is implemented.


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Snow water equivalent values (SWE) are mainly in the 1-2 inch range in these basins with higher amounts across higher terrain, and especially across the Tug Hill Region. This is above normal SWE for this mid-March. Snow pack was not completely melted in the Black River basin, with significant amounts of snow confined to higher terrain including the Tug Hill plateau and western Adirondacks. Recent snows have re- established snow pack across lower terrain, and added to an existing snow pack across higher terrain. As a result SWE is variable in the basin, but generally is near to a bit above normal for mid-March. Although it has been a snowy pattern with temperatures slightly above normal, nights have not been that cold and the higher March sun angle has helped limit ice from reforming on creeks and rivers. There is some patchy shore ice, but not thick enough to cause significant ice jam issues. The following is a summary of the conditions by basin as of early Thursday morning, March 15th: ...BUFFALO AREA CREEKS / LAKE ERIE BASIN... .SNOW COVER..........6 to 12 inches, up to 18 across higher terrain. .WATER EQUIVALENT....1-2 inches, up to 3 across higher terrain. .CREEK FLOWS.........Below normal. .CREEK ICE...........Patchy shore ice. .GROUND FROST........Less than 6 inches where frozen. .GROUND STATE........Variable, partially frozen or saturated. ...GENESEE RIVER BASIN / FINGER LAKES / ROCHESTER AREA... .SNOW COVER..........4 to 12 inches. .WATER EQUIVALENT....Mainly 1-2 inches, a bit less in some valleys. .RIVER/CREEK FLOWS...Below normal. .RIVER/CREEK ICE.....None. .GROUND FROST........Less than 6 inches where frozen. .GROUND STATE........Variable, partially frozen or saturated. ...ALLEGHENY RIVER BASIN... .SNOW COVER..........10 to 20 inches. .WATER EQUIVALENT....Around 2 inches. .RIVER/CREEK FLOWS...Below normal. .RIVER CREEK ICE.....None. .GROUND FROST........Less than 6 inches where frozen. .GROUND STATE........Variable, partially frozen or saturated. ...BLACK RIVER BASINS / TUG HILL... .SNOW COVER..........6 to 18 inches, except 2-3 feet on the Tug Hill and Adirondacks. .WATER EQUIVALENT....1-3 inches, except 4 to 10 inches on the Tug Hill and Adirondacks. .RIVER/CREEK FLOWS...Near normal. .RIVER/CREEK ICE.....Mainly open, some shore ice. .GROUND FROST........Mainly frozen, less than 6 inches. .GROUND STATE........Mainly frozen. ...TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK... Temperatures are likely to remain below normal for the next two weeks. Model guidance suggests an upper level low will remain across eastern Canada through the end of next week. This would maintain a generally cool northwesterly flow aloft with daytime highs in the 30s and 40s. There will be chances for precipitation in this pattern, but this will more likely than not fall as snow. Later in the outlook period, there is both increasing uncertainty and also a hint of a slightly warmer pattern. If there is a warm up with rain, it would likely be toward the end of March. The 8 to 14 day outlook is for below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation. ...FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK... The flood risk for the next two weeks is near normal. An above normal snow pack is offset by a pattern which will generally not be conducive to cause widespread flooding. The pattern should remain cold through at least the first week of the outlook period with precipitation likely to fall as snow. Despite below normal temperatures, expect that snow on the ground will gradually diminish but quickly enough to cause any issues. There is some risk of a warm up later in the outlook period, and if this does occur it would increase the risk for flooding which justifies the normal risk. However, it is also quite possible that the pattern will remain cold all the way through the end of the month. ...ADDITIONAL INFORMATION... Real time river information and probabilistic forecast for specific locations along rivers across Western New York can be found on the internet at www.weather.gov/buf. Since conditions can change, please refer to the latest flood watches, warnings, and statements for additional information. Thank you to all the observers and agencies which have helped gather data in support of this outlook. The next Winter/Spring Flood Outlook will be issued on March 29th. $$


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This time I made a lollipop card with the little cute unicorn from Magnolia. It's such a pretty guy. I coloured it with my Distress Inks. The Background I designed with my brand new Distress Oxide Inks. They are gorgeous. Well, I have to practice a little bit but for one of my first tries it's really pretty.
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, with confetti raining down on him and tears in his eyes, proudly lifted the national championship Coaches' Trophy above his ahead.
It is a quintessential image from FSU's 34-31 victory against Auburn in the BCS National Championship Game.
The moment occurred a little more than two months ago. While FSU's football program is still abuzz from its undefeated championship season, Fisher is pushing for his players to move on and focus on the future.


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The year was 1997, and an impassioned Zooey Deschanel had a bone to pick with the fashion magazine Vogue. Rather than sit idly by while the glossy pages filled with stick thin models gave the real women of the world the finger, Zooey put pen to paper.
At the age of 31, and now married to Death Cab for Cutie rocker Ben Gibbard, Zooey Deschanel stumbled across her Vogue rant of 14 years ago and shared the piece (which was published by the magazine in the letters to the editor column) with her Twitter fans:
"Why would you want to limit the spectrum of beauty to an 'ideal' when you, as a popular women's magazine, have the opportunity to expand it? I don't think any woman should have to feel as if she needs to shove herself into an 'ideal' to be beautiful.
"Beauty should be something that is celebrated and something that is enjoyable, not something that people should feel uncomfortable about achieving. Most of the women, and certainly most of the adolescent girls, in the United States do not feel completely secure with themselves, especially with their appearance; is insecurity something you want to advocate? As American women, we don't need discouragement, but inspiration."
Zooey then tweeted, "No hard feelings Vogue magazine, love your mag! I was a feisty 17," adding she is "proud of my feminist teen self."
Funny how, even 14 years later, Zooey Deschanel's words are still relevant. Smart kid!
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Facebook, the rapidly growing social network, this year began letting programmers write software applications that can run inside the members' home pages. More than 5,000 applications have been created, and they're being used millions of times a day.
The excitable pundits of Silicon Valley see a goldmine in Facebook's new "apps". Arguing that people could come to do most of their personal and even business computing within the site, they claim Facebook may be worth as much as $10bn (£5bn). There are rumours that Microsoft or Google may make a huge bid for the company.
So far, though, the most popular Facebook applications are the frivolous ones. X Me lets members "hug" and "tickle" each other virtually, Likeness lets them figure out which celebrities they resemble, and Booze Mail lets them reward one another with free "drinks". The more serious programs tend to be shunned by the students who make up the site's core audience.
My own favourite among the applications is something called Dramatic Whitespace. Written by Adam Bildersee, a college student, the program does, well, pretty much nothing. It simply drops a blank white square onto your page, which you can then expand to any size you want.
The application mystifies some Facebookers. "I don't get it," writes one student. But many love it. One member says that the block of whiteness is "like having an empty room in your cluttered house to relax in". Another calls Bildersee and his creation "the answer to all of our prayers". The Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag last week declared Dramatic Whitespace "the best app ever". Dramatic Whitespace is more than just a bit of silliness (though it's certainly that). It's a sly comment on the net's reigning design ethic: the cramming of as much stuff as possible into every bit of available space. The thought that a pixel might go to waste seems to fill site owners with dread.
The worst examples of data overload can be found inside the social networks themselves. At Facebook's main rival, MySpace, people seem to compete to create the densest, ugliest pages imaginable. Photographs, videos, music snippets, wacky fonts and assorted digital bling are thrown together into eye- and ear-assaulting jumbles.
But professional media sites are little better. Head to any online magazine or newspaper, and you'll almost certainly be confronted with a page full of dense-packed info-fragments. On a recent visit to the home page of this newspaper, the well-named Guardian Unlimited, I counted 204 links and 30 photographs. The New York Times home page had 316 links, 18 photos, and a dozen banner ads. The pages of technology publications are the worst. Even Google, which rose to fame with its blissfully austere search page, is giving in to the overload ethic. If you join its iGoogle service, the familiar white space is suddenly overwritten with ranks of headlines and other links.
There's more than a hint of desperation in all these chockablock sites. "Please don't go away," they seem to shout at us. "Look at all our wonderful data-baubles. There must be something here to hold your attention."
But the shouting's usually in vain. We may start out looking for some particular piece of information, but as often as not we end up miles away, our neurons frazzled, our original purpose forgotten.
Who's to blame here? Is it the cluttered sites that are driving us to distraction? Or are the site designers just catering to our scatter-brained capriciousness? That's hard to say. My guess is that we're caught in a vicious cycle that speeds up with every mouse click.
One thing's clear, though. In this age of endlessly abundant information, what's becoming most scarce is scarcity itself - the absence of data. That's why Dramatic Whitespace seems so compelling. It speaks to what we're most in need of today: a small, quiet clearing amid the digital brambles, a place where, to quote the poet Derek Mahon, "a thought might grow".
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Museum für Asiatische Kunst
From the mid-19th century on, Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, was an exotic destination that many a world traveller yearned to visit.
Starting in the 1860s, a number of photographic studios established themselves on the island, producing artistically ambitious photographs for an illustrious clientele. Among the most famous photographers from this era were William Louis Henry Skeen, Charles Thomas Scowen, as well as the Hamburg-born photographer Alfred William Amandus Plate, whose studio in the late 19th century expanded into a large-scale commercial enterprise that tried to satisfy the public's hunger for postcard images. The images produced by these photographers played a crucial role in spreading, to the far corners of the British Empire and beyond, the myth of Ceylon as an Arcadia-like tropical island.
Now, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Sri Lanka and Germany, the Museum für Asiatische Kunst is showing an exquisite selection of extremely rare landscape photographs from and of Ceylon. The vintage prints presented in the exhibition not only depict Arcadian landscapes, wildly romantic waterfalls, and exotic beaches but also the encroachment of civilization in the natural landscape, be it through extensive plantations or through settlement, whereby we witness the magnitude of the changes that were wrought to the 'island of dreams' even in the 19th century.
A richly illustrated, bilingual catalogue (English/German) has been released to accompany to the exhibition:
Raffael Dedo Gadebusch (ed.): Landscapes of Sri Lanka - Early Photography in Ceylon / Frühe Fotografie in Ceylon, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88609-745-6.
Curator: Raffael Dedo Gadebusch
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BA Music Records is a coop of the artists it represents. Sales proceeds go to them directly. Thanks for your support. ...................................................... Persian Music Hossein Alizâdeh, setar Madjid Khaladj, tombak, dayre & daf Homa Niknam, vocal ...... Austere Passionate Beauty, April 28, 2006 Reviewer: PBSF 'PB' (San Francisco, CA USA) It was this CD that served as my belated introduction to the rich and beautiful world of Persian Classical Music. And what an introduction it was. As noted, there's a pervasive feeling of austerity that's present throughout this music, a potent silence that underlies even it's most exclamatory moments. Add the passionate yet restrained lyricism that characterizes most of these pieces (which are really more like successive chapters within a single extended narrative), and you wind up with a musical counterpart of the same spirit that expresses itself in some of the best Persian poetry. The instrumentalists present on this CD, and especially Homa Nikham's vocals, are a perfect match for that expression. ---------------- Songs of freedom and devotion, January 4, 2004 Reviewer: 'nsabba' (Brookline, MA) In this CD, the Alizadeh and Khaladj duo extend their new interpretations of traditional Iranian musical systems. Their work demonstrates that the traditional system provides as much freedom in music composition as film has provided Iranian directors in the last 25 odd years, universal ideas expressed in a proven system. Maybe it has been easier for directors and visual artists to comment on social issues and freedom by creating visual allegories. Meanwhile, music, being the more restricted art in Islam, had remained focused on renewal of classical repertoires with little deviation from formalized types. Thus, composers rarely introduced new forms without violating the traditional dastgahs, or modes of music. Most attempts broke the system by too overt overlays of external forms. In this concert we hear one of the best of the successful works. This is a very thoughtful musical attempt at overtly focusing on current issues. They adapt poetry recitations in declamation form rather than the true goal of traditional singers of abstracting a nightingale, a Bird. This shift in poetry delivery allows the Alizadeh/Kkahladj duo, once again, to use modern interpretations of traditional Iranian musical stricture and refocus these diverse poems to new points of view. The compositions create a tension filled backdrop for the collage of poems from different centuries. These shift from suggestive love (mystic) melodies to militant chanting voices, and recalling many familiar linear folk compositions. The weaving and shifting produces a pregnant atmosphere in Horizon, composed as a pishdaramd (prelude). Homa Niknam enters and puts the exclamation mark to that prelude in the next cut, Birds. When birds can only watch the wind fly on, and virgin blossoms can only watch pure water flow by, it is hard to miss the political suggestions. Niknam's voice and the musical accompaniment are what brings out the strength of these poems to weaves them in a new tapestry. The totality is enlarged as the trio shows that is not necessary to borrow from the outside or even leave the modal system, but to reinterpret what is a vast history of music and poetry. They simply add indirect undertones of outside influences, such as familiar western march and dance cadences to underline the focus of their poems. Alizadeh's setar moves with Homa Niknam's smooth voice like reflections on water, and when the words stop, Alizadeh seems to take flight, taking us to all the corners of the given dastgah (compositional mode), and then return in time to open the space for her to bring the poem back into the foreground. All this is accompanied by Madjid Khaladj's mesmerizing percussion. His 'voice' is like a chorus 'chanting' on the daf and the tombak. His beat carries the emotions of the pieces like the steady hands of an old friend, entering and leaving at crucial moments with swiftness and resolve. It is difficult to believe that there is only a single percussionist here, but so is the mastery of Madjid Khaladj. His perfect timing and shifting rhythms emphasize 'flight and return' as the underlying theme of these compositions. The selected poems have, as always, universal themes. Here, the collage aptly focuses them onto current issues. To me, these diverse poets talk in one voice. Of freedom, in Birds, a poem by Azad, a contemporary poet - of justice in Fire, based on Majzoob Alishah's poem, 'burning of the reed' (18th century), and of redemption of the soul in Mowlana's 'as free as the moth', (11th century), in which the singed soul is urged to rise from the heart of the self-righteously set fire and accept life with humility. Homa Niknam's fresh approach to reciting classical poetry produces a strong rhetorical effect, even if you just listen to the music of her voice, aside from the words. Her work with the Moshtagh group, also based in Paris, opened many doors in Iran for female vocalists in the mid 90's. This work should help her strengthen her well deserved position in the expanding female vocal presence in the new era. Bringing art back to female singing is a welcome change from the cliché operatic westernizing, popular in the sixties and seventies Iran. Overall, you can enjoy the clear relationship between the vocalized words and the music, even if you don't understand Farsi. You can feel the built up and release of tension, freedom and lament, in this wonderfully composed and performed work. A must for serious music lover. ---------------------------------- Zarb, Tar, Setar, Tombak, Tonbak.
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It's that time of the year again: You're prepping to spend way too much time with the kin, maybe traveling across country to see them, and stressing the hell out about getting non-repulsive gifts for your loved ones. And if you have a special lady friend in your life, you may also be doubting every swipe of your credit card (or cricket sound coming from your bank account).
Because there's already way too much pressure on you, here are some tips on what to avoid getting your girl for the holidays, along with some gift ideas that will surely induce hugs and, "You're so sweet(s)!"
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This one's kind of a duh, as it's an annual sitcom-husband screw up during every Christmas special. She'll take it as a hint she's fat, blah blah blah. No matter how much she talks about wanting those Shape Up shoes, don't give in (they're garbage, anyway).
Exception: A super cute yoga mat if she's a Pilates or yoga enthusiast. The ones at the gym are gross.
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This category includes not only waffle makers and Day-Glo colored mixers, but also Fruit of the Month Clubs and bottles of liquor. (Unless you're 16, a pint of liquor is not too thrilling, sorry.) Even if she's a total foodie, anything falling into this realm is the opposite of personal. We may also interpret it as you telling us that you want cupcakes and quiches and we should be enthusiastic about making said snacks because the As Seen On TV-cupcake/quiche-making contraption is pink.
Exception: A couples cooking class or out-of-the-ordinary fancy-schmancy dinner. We'll also eat our faces off and get liquored up, it'll just be not douche-y.
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There is a reason why January is a prime-time for overpopulated shelters. Animals are not gifts. They are like mini, furry family members who we can't necessarily return for store credit when we figure out we don't have the time for 'em.
Exception: An awesome plant coupled with a personalized gift like a book, CD, or DVD. Perhaps we're just hippies around these parts. We're not familiar with a girl that doesn't like a green thing, though. Hey, they're alive, they brighten a room, and we won't feel like we're going to off ourselves when we accidentally kill them.
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Yack! Leave the Teddy Bears and cushy otters for your six year-old niece. Sure, we were jealous of that chick who got that Build-a-Bear donning a stupid felt Santa hat (but was made with so much adolescent love) when we were in eighth grade. Now? They just confuse us. They collect dust.
Exception: The Best Pillow Ever. Seriously. A big, down pillow. She will cuddle with that damn thing every night. It's like a stuffed animal, minus the creepiness.
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You'll risk picking the wrong size, which could be detrimental in so many ways. If it's not her style it'll just be awkward for her to wear it. (Remember, some of us are wary of picking out frocks for our friends of ten years, that's how fickle we can be about fashion). Plus, that is all our mom gets us.
Exception: Awesome lingerie, after checking our bra and panties drawer for sizes. That — our mom will not be getting us.
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Yes, we will probably use them. Gift certificates are the ultimate sign you gave up completely. Not swoon-worthy.
Exception: A spa certificate for a massage. Most likely something we wouldn't get ourselves but that we totally, totally want. It says, "I care about you feeling good," rather than, "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing."
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Har, har. We get it. You're broke. You want to do it, per usual, but with a red-and-glitter-clad twist. This will just not cut it. It is very obvious you scrambled around clueless and just stuck a ribbon on your dong at midnight on December 24th.
Exception: An "experience date," like a concert ticket. The gift is still spending time and creating a memory with you (aww). And if you really are broke: at least make us a damn mix CD.
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(Previously published on November 27, 2011.)


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KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Investigators have identified the two men killed in the crash of a home-built plane into Melton Hill Lake Saturday afternoon.
But they're still trying to figure out why it crashed.
The pilot was 40-year-old Bret Smith of Pleasant View. His passenger: 54-year-old Ron Siedentopf of Knoxville.
Dozens of people saw their plane crash. But only one, had a camera rolling, and caught it all.
Knox County authorities say the victims had been on a fun flight in advance of a party for the passenger's son.
A boater, Jonathan Shultz, trained his camera on it.
All through his video you hear him express concerns about how the pilot was flying his experimental aircraft.
"We basically, we literally watched two men die," says Jonathon Schultz.
Saturday June 6th was a day Schultz will probably never forget. What started out as a fun day of wake boarding on Melton Hill Lake turned into a real life theater of two men plunging to their death in an experimental aircraft.
Schultz says when he first saw the plane in the air, he wanted to email some video to his dad.
"I was like cool. I'll be able to send him this video of this sea plane landing on the water. This is going to be great," says Schultz.
But something concerned him about how 40-year-old Bret Smith was flying.
"He's going to crash. He doesn't know what he's doing! He's being incredibly unsafe."
Smith went on to land successfully before taking off again for the last time.
"It seemed to me any novice would look at this and say either this guy has too little airspeed or too little altitude," says Schultz.
As Smith banked for a left turn, the plane continued to roll over shooting straight into Melton Hill lake at a sixty degree angle.
"As soon as that plane hit the water it never came back up and it could never be seen," says Schultz.
That didn't stop Schultz and others from getting into water filled with airplane fuel not even thinking what a spark or a lit match could do.
"We were just like there were some guys here in trouble and we're going to jump out and see if we can do something. I don't know what that was," says Schultz.
Shultz says he was able to retrieve only some of the items that floated, including Smith's wallet.
His friend Carol kissing Smith's license before putting it back.
"I'd never seen that before and it's sad," says Schultz.
Schultz says he's really enjoys being on the lake wake boarding. But after this, he says he didn't think he could go back out today.