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Last year, when Apple unveiled iOS 5, it revealed its native integration with Twitter… and left us all wondering, why not Facebook? There were a number of theories as to why the two digital superpowers didn't combine forces, but now all the hypothetical situations will be squashed by iOS 6. According to TechCrunch, the latest iteration of Apple's mobile OS will natively tie in the world's largest social network.
Assuming that the system works as Twitter integration does, when you create content or use an app on the iPhone, you will have the option to automatically post it to Facebook. This would also mean signing into Facebook would be an much-improved, streamlined process. We also wouldn't be surprising to see the Facebook Camera app somehow woven into the built-in iPhone camera app.
So what happened to move the Facebook-Apple relationship along? It really might just be time. There were whispers that some technical issues were holding up a partnership, but the even louder whispers were indicating that the fallout over the failed deal between Facebook and Ping still left a sour taste in Apple's mouth and thus, Twitter was the more attractive client.
Now that even more time has passed and Apple is under new leadership a la Tim Cook, it's time to revisit the idea of a baked-in approach to Facebook and the iPhone.
Because of this, some will be quick to assume that a Facebook phone is dead in the water: Why would Facebook partner with the manufacturer of the world's most popular smartphone for native integration if it were planning to introduce its own handset? A native mobile experience with the social network is the only thing Facebook would have to leverage – especially if it partners with a lower-tier handset maker.
We wouldn't be too quick to write off a "Facebook phone" just yet, however. Facebook needs to make a big mobile push, and this could be a just one avenue it's taking, and a nice short-term fix. Integrating natively with iOS 6 gives it a bump; the next iPhone would obviously increase said bump; and then an all-Facebook, all-the-time handset would be yet another layer of users on top. Integrating with iOS 6 would also mean that Facebook wouldn't have to rely on the success of its own smartphone, which to be honest, has the odds stacked against it. Smartphones featuring Facebook integration as their main selling point have failed to massively pique market interest.
Facebook shouldn't put all its eggs in one basket when it comes to mobile, something it might have still been mulling over when iOS 5 debuted with Twitter integration. It's older and wiser now, and its mobile roadmap is priority number one.
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A street view of his grandmother's Portland, Ore., home shows her sitting on her stoop while reading the newspaper.
Moore decided to share the remarkable photo of his Grandma Alice with the Reddit community. He said he believes it is one of the last photos taken of his beloved grandma, taken less than a year before she passed away.
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"I thought it was such an uplifting and awesome picture because it showed just how laid back and awesome she was," Moore wrote Wednesday. "Might not mean much to anyone else, I just thought I would share."
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Chicago, IL – Nick Hundley smashed a three-run home run and Carlos Quentin had a solo shot and three RBI as the San Diego Padres defeated the Chicago Cubs, 13-7, in the second installment of a four-game set.
Yonder Alonso had a two-run blast and Jedd Gyorko also drove in two runs for the Padres, who evened the series at 1-1.
"You know, when you get a combination of power and two-out hits, all the way up and down the lineup," said Hundley. "Everybody got involved, so everybody's dropping in runs and it's contagious."
Padres starter Edinson Volquez (2-3) had an RBI while allowing four runs on seven hits and three walks over 5 2/3 innings.
Luis Valbuena and Starlin Castro both hit two-run homers while David DeJesus and Cody Ransom each had solo shots for the Cubs, who saw starter Edwin Jackson (0-4) surrender eight runs on 11 hits in 4 2/3 innings.
"We got guys swinging the bats pretty good," said Cubs manager Dale Sveum. "We just got to get our right-handed hitters going against right-handed pitching."
Gyorko smacked a two-run double that scored Alonso and Mark Kotsay in the second. An inning later, Quentin hit a sacrifice fly that plated Everth Cabrera.
The Padres scored five runs in the fifth. Cabrera hit a triple to lead off the inning. After Chris Denorfia grounded out, Chase Headley and Quentin hit back- to-back doubles to make it a 5-0 game. Alonso then homered deep into left scoring Quentin. Following the home run, Mark Kotsay drew a walk and three batters later, Volquez delivered a single, scoring Kotsay.
In the bottom of the inning, Castillo smacked a leadoff double, setting up Valbuena's two-run blast. Darwin Barney doubled next and Castro homered three batters later, cutting the deficit to 8-4.
Quentin responded with a two-out solo shot in the sixth. The Padres tacked on another run in the seventh when Denorfia delivered a single that plated Hundley.
DeJesus homered to lead off the bottom of the frame for the Cubs.
Quentin opened up the eighth with a double and Gyorko walked with two outs, setting up Hundley's three-run shot that sailed over the center field wall.
Robbie Erlin came to pitch in the ninth for the Padres. He gave up a home run to Ransom and a two-out RBI double by Rizzo, but got Dave Sappelt to fly out to end the game.
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The Padres were 8-for-20 with runners in scoring position and left eight runners on base ... Alonso had a stolen base ... Rizzo has 20 RBI, second-most by a Cubs left-handed hitter in April, behind only Billy Williams' 25 in 1970 ... Entering the game, the Cubs had their first 25 games this season decided by four runs or less, a franchise record and the second-longest streak in major league history.


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Let it be known: Jesse Lacey still mows his own lawn. His band, Brand New, has toured the world and sold over a million albums, but the 31-year-old doesn't have any qualms about yard maintenance.
Well, except for one thing: "Noon in the middle of July isn't the best time to mow your lawn, I've realized," he admits over the phone from his Long Island, NY home. "You have to get up earlier."
Lacey's days of afternoon chores will end soon, though. Brand New's fourth album, Daisy, drops Sept. 22, and the quartet will kick off a 38-date North American tour one week later, a jaunt that will wrap with a Thanksgiving weekend homecoming/headline show at Nassau Coliseum, the 18,000-seat arena that hosted some of the first concerts they ever attended (Lacey's dad took him to see Springsteen when he was 11). But it's not quite a pinch-yourself moment, at least for the band. "I think [headlining the Coliseum] is a bigger deal for a lot of our friends and our family at this point and that's what gets us excited about it," he says.
In our interview below -- his first with an American publication in nearly three years -- Lacey talks about the making of Daisy and looks back on a decade of making music with Brand New.
When you saw Springsteen at the Coliseum as a kid, did you imagine at all what it might be like to stand where he was standing?
No, actually. I never even really thought about playing music until I was older. It was more like a natural thing, where suddenly, after six or seven years of playing music, I realized that it's what I did. My parents raised us with music in the house. There was always a record playing, and good music, too: the Beatles, Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen. They were also hip to new music at that time, when Michael Jackson put a record out or the Cure. I remember my dad listening to the Cure when I was younger, and I think he battled over the fact that he was listening to stuff by a guy that wore makeup.
What was markedly different about the recording process for this album?
Every other record, we always started off in a more traditional way: getting a producer, going into a studio. But we always ended up leaving that situation and recording the record on our own for the most part. For this one, we just decided to do the whole thing by ourselves. Our friend Mike Sapone produced the record -- he's been our partner as far as writing and recording since way before this band even started... He lives about a mile and a half from the house that I grew up in, in a town called Bethpage, so it's the same thing. It's suburbia. He's got two kids, lives with his wife with a pool in the backyard, and that's home for us.
You played a lot of solo shows in the past year. Did they influence your songwriting at all?
One or two of the songs that I wrote were written on one of those tours, during a soundcheck. A lot of our songs have always been written like that. Me and [guitarist Vincent Accardi] were kind of laughing at ourselves one day, because of the records we've put out, so few songs were actually written on electric guitar. And they're all performed that way. We just find it really funny that it's always just one of us and an acoustic guitar -- that's how the songs get written. It's weird that it never ends up sounding, for the most part, anything like it sounded in my room, in my living room, when I first wrote the song.
That's probably why they're so easily converted to that solo setting.
Yeah. I mean, it's funny, because I'm not really any kind of folk writer, and I'm not really a very good guitarist. For the most part, I'm playing power chords on an acoustic guitar, which I feel foolish doing, especially playing with someone like Kevin Devine, who's my best friend -- he can pick up a guitar and just make it sound beautiful. He knows his chords, his fingers are just comfortable with that, and I never feel like that. So when I do go back and strip those songs back down, it's kind of embarrassing a little bit to be like, "Well, this is how I wrote this, this is what it sounds like by itself."
One interesting aspect of the album is that archival-sounding recording that opens and closes the record. What is that, where does it come from?
It's called "On Life's Highway" [written by Bertrand Brown]. I collect weird things -- I bought some tapes from an estate sale, and there were some old sermons from a Baptist minister in Texas back in the '60s, and that hymn was on it, and it was a hymn that I remembered from when I was younger going to church. We've always been interested in putting strange things on the albums. We don't do it as much as we would like. I think if we had our way we'd just make a half-hour mix of sound bites and things like that.
Make a mixtape or something, and just put it up for free.
We probably should start doing that. It's a good idea.
When you're bored on the road, just mix some stuff together, keep compiling it, and then just give it away.
Yeah, kind of like a terrible, post-rock version of hip-hop mix tapes or something.
Back to the real album. There's a track called "Daisy" and the album's called Daisy -- is there any significance behind that choice for the album title?
We were going to name the record Daisy, and then we weren't going to name the record Daisy and after Vin decided to name a song "Daisy," we re-decided to name the record Daisy again. [Laughs]
So then it was Vin's kind of brainchild to some degree?
Yeah, I mean, a lot of the songs are Vin's brainchild. I'd say a majority of the music on this album is written by Vin. I was actually surprised at how so much of the music he wrote was parallel to something that I would write. It just reminded me how close we are, and how much we shared in the last 10 years, growing up together, coming into adulthood together, and sharing so many experiences -- we're very similar in so many ways. It's nice when he would bring a song to me and we would listen to it and I would say to myself, "You know, that's amazing. That's something that I would have said," or "That's something that I would have liked to say but I never would have been able to say in that way." It made the band stronger.
Are there any particular songs that you're particularly proud of, or feel like exciting developments in what Brand New sounds like?
I never really feel proud, per se, of songs. I'm always kind of more like, "Oh, this is interesting to me." When you put 10 songs on a record, you're kind of looking at it like, "How is anyone willing to listen to this?" It seems to me the band has become more and more selfish with what interests us when we're recording. Our goal is really to make ourselves happy and to fulfill the ideas that we have in our head. When you go at it like that, it's hard to imagine that anyone else is going to be interested in it.
Clearly that's not the case for you guys. People are interested. But is there a new song that you're particularly happy with, or that you're excited to play live?
Yeah. A song like "Gasoline," which is completely written by Vin -- when I play that song, it's kind of this odd feeling where I almost feel like I'm playing a cover because I just had no hand in writing it, so I'm able to look at it very objectively, almost like a fan would look at it. "Vices," on the other hand, was completely written by me on the bass. When I played it for the band, just on bass guitar, there was no way for me to explain how I wanted the rest of the song to be. I'm playing this bass line, and I think they just kind of all heard this really nature-y, strange kind of chord progression. I was just trying to explain myself the best way I could possibly imagine, using all these weird adjectives and drumming my hands on the desk. Eventually, that song turned out identically to the way I heard it in my head. There's nothing better than that, there's nothing I could ask for more than that. That one hit the spot.
Your albums have progressively gotten more intense and a little bit heavier, subject matter-wise. How does it feel now to perform songs that you wrote almost a decade ago, like "Sic Transit Gloria" and "Tommy Gun" and "Jude Law," and to fit those in with the newer material?
It's funny that you mention those songs, because I feel like a song like "Shower Scene," which is literally the first song we ever wrote, is more in the vein of our new album musically, with the exception of the lyrics. It's a pretty straightforward, loud, drop-beat rock song and it's got this weird, like, off-kilter bridge, and it's pretty much exactly the way we'd want to write a song now. But, yeah, the songs like "Tommy Gun" and all those other songs on the record, it took us 10 years to reach the point where we're okay with it. You do something early on, and inevitably that's going to be something that you're either embarrassed about or that you don't feel connected to. I felt all of those things about music that we did in the past, but we had to realize that we're in a very unique situation. We literally have a documentation of our lives on record. You listen to our music consecutively, in chronological order, you can literally hear us growing into men.
And I always say, I'm just astonished at how much you learn as you grow older and how it never stops. When I was 21, I realized that I didn't know anything at 17, and then at 25, I realized I didn't know anything at 21, and now at 31, I realized I didn't know anything at 25. But it doesn't seem to be slowing down. I'm always wondering if when I'm 80, am I gonna be looking back to when I was 75 and going, you know, "That person didn't know anything?" When does that process of growing stop?
When I listen back to all of that stuff, I see mistakes I made, but also the sparks of something I was doing that was eventually going to be great. It's all very strange. We talk about it a lot. When we're just sitting around alone, the four of us -- we think about how this whole thing is so strange, and it just never stops being completely weird. [Laughs]
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Published March 17, 2005, in issue 0411 of the Hook
Eli Cook
If I weren't so concerned with the moral decline of society born of uncaring media and outrageous consumerism, I would put together a 17-word string of explicatives to describe and honor my first experience seeing 17-year-old blues guitarist Eli Cook and his Red House Blues Band.
Their performance at Fellini's No. 9 last Saturday night was quite literally one of the best– if not the best– musical experience I've ever had in Charlottesville. Cook doesn't just play exceptionally well for someone his age, he plays exceptionally well for someone of any age, in any age. He's a prodigy, with enough soul in him now to match someone with years of experience, and the chops to flaunt it.
Except for a few stuttered guitar notes and what I believe was the sound of Cook dropping his A string to D (called drop D, it allows the guitar to be played in a different fashion than standard tuning), Fellini's was quiet right up until Cook et al. began their blitzkrieg. Then suddenly the lights went low, and with a bang, the trio was off.
On the first tune, a shuffling blues instrumental, Cook began his guitar slinging slowly, following the main riff and speeding up his dancing fingers as well as their placement on the fretbord. Finding a bass player who could complement Cook's virtuosity must have been quite a feat, but the musician definitely got his man. As he teased the scales of the instrument, there was nothing more you could ask him to contribute to the trio's sound.
On the next tune, a more standard blues piece, Cook took on the vocal duties, and from the first syllable, all heads turned to the stage with looks of amazement. The 17-year-old's deep baritone, with its slightly slurred country nuances, is phenomenal, and its broken-in quality was completely unexpected in someone so young.
Hendrix would be a major touchstone when attempting a description of Cook's voice, but the latter's is more pleasing to the ear, and seemed to be more flexible in its range. Cook employed every trick in the blues book for his solos, even edging on '80s shredding at certain points, but without losing the deep sad vibe he seems to know so well.
Chuck Berry's "Riding Along In My Automobile" was another highlight of the set, Cook laying down even more complex and colorful blues lead work between the vocal lines than the master. Cook pulled the song off, no question, his southern twang coming out in full force here. Later in the set, Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" made an outstanding transition from piano to Cook's guitar antics, keeping all the fire of the original.
Without swearing, it's hard to get across the utter amazement that overcame me last Saturday night. You need to see this guy before time takes him away from us into the bright lights of the big time.
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Recently, the ASBMB MAC undertook an initiative to identify the perceived barriers faced by underrepresented minority faculty applying for extramural funding
• Takita Felder Sumter, Winthrop University (Chair)
• Sonia C. Flores, University of Colorado Denver
• Regina Stevens-Truss, Kalamazoo College
• Craig Cameron, The Pennsylvania State University
• Squire Booker, The Pennsylvania State University
• Thomas Landefeld, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Barbara Gordon, ASBMB
• Gail Pinder, ASBMB
Despite concerted national efforts to increase the participation of minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the number of underrepresented individuals in these fields remains disproportionately low. To help counteract this trend, federal funding agencies have introduced several initiatives to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority investigators participating in competitions for basic research support; nevertheless, minorities still submit only a small fraction of the total applications for federal funding.
To help address this problem, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Minority Affairs Committee recently undertook an initiative to identify perceived barriers faced by biochemistry, cellular biology and molecular biology faculty members from underrepresented groups or from minority-serving institutions when applying for extramural funding. We conducted a detailed assessment using surveys, interviews and a convened focus group discussion in an effort to identify accurately the perceived barriers for URM investigators in securing research funding. The ASBMB MAC working group engaged the strategy consulting firm AltshulerGray for these purposes; the working group sought to include perspectives of faculty, institutional administrators and program officers in the assessment.
Principal investigators who submitted grants to funding agencies and who self-identified as belonging to an underrepresented group or from an MSI received an explanation of the project and an invitation to participate in an online survey. Of the 159 investigators who were invited, 82 (52 percent) responded. Survey demographics indicated that respondents represented a wide range of institutions and career stages. The consultants conducted interviews of university administrators and program officers; survey respondents then participated in a two-and-a-half day focus group-style workshop. We hope that the results of the surveys, interviews and focus group discussions will provide key information for the general academic community, scientific societies and funding agencies. In general, adequate mentoring was identified as an underlying need for all faculty participants, and a formal mentoring plan of action that impacts URM audiences is imperative.
1. Ineffective communication streams between URMs and funding agenciesThe survey indicated that knowledge about available funding opportunities is lacking. The group felt that more user-friendly websites with a central repository of information would improve their awareness of funding opportunities. In addition to funding newsletters published by the sponsoring agencies, the group suggested that professional societies like ASBMB should develop a road map for new investigators to use to navigate the web of extramural funding. This document should describe the various funding and review processes, explain the requirements for grant submissions and provide tips for structuring successful applications.
2. Lack of support networks for minority PIsLack of a strong network was identified as a major obstacle. Faculty members at large research institutions often are in environments with few minority peers, while faculty at smaller schools and MSIs have few colleagues who can serve as role models and mentors; the quality of applications reflects these deficiencies. Workshop participants suggested annual or semi-annual mentoring panels with program directors and senior investigators focusing on grant writing. To build upon the networks created by these workshops, an online community of minority scientists should be created. This social network would maintain regular mentor-protégé dialogues and provide resources via web seminars on topics like how to choose a good mentor and how to navigate the funding process.
3. Funding agencies have a review process that is less than clearFor URM faculty who do submit proposals to federal funding agencies, the review process often seems frustratingly opaque; as a result, faculty members become frustrated and therefore less likely to reapply. To address this, the group expressed the need for a user-friendly flow chart clearly detailing review and award criteria and a presubmission process for applications. The group also expressed the need for continued efforts on behalf of faculty, professional societies and funding agencies to engage URMs as proposal reviewers.
4. Leaky pipeline of minority talentThe current pipeline of minority talent in academia is leaking at all stages, negatively affecting the entire research enterprise. These leaks reduce the number of minorities who ultimately pursue scientific careers and hamper the success of URM scientists. With too few minority students pursuing scientific studies, minority PIs, particularly those at smaller institutions and MSIs, often lack the trainees necessary to conduct research effectively. Ultimately, the number of applications funding agencies receive from minorities is limited by the number of URMs in STEM disciplines. Workshop participants offered several innovative ways for making science exciting and relevant for K – 12 students in an effort to foster the interests of the next generation of scientists.
5. Lack of URM-directed initiativesThe group argued that additional URM-directed initiatives and nondirected funding opportunities should exist; however, simply making more targeted money available was not considered a panacea. Rather, any new grants must be structured for success and prepare grantees to enter the general funding pool. Thus, funding agencies could increase the length of seed awards and allow time for faculty to produce results, an issue particularly relevant at smaller institutions. Moreover, the need for awards targeting critical career stages (e.g., postdoctoral fellow to independent researcher and junior faculty to mid-career researcher) was highlighted. At the same time, applicants' work should be held to high standards that, though taking into account the unique circumstances at MSIs, encourage minority faculty to perform research that will sustain their competitiveness for future funding.
The problem of minority underrepresentation in the sciences is complex. It will take a concerted effort from all stakeholders to reverse this trend. However, there are opportunities for scientific societies, academic institutions, federal funding agencies and individual minority investigators to work together to increase the number of URM scientists actively and successfully participating in the national research enterprise. The MAC historically has employed an aggressive and multifaceted approach to increasing the representation, participation, visibility and contributions of minorities in the molecular life science disciplines and will continue these efforts.
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You don't know me...but your sister-in-law, Jen Drue, is great friends with my wife, Heather Clifton, now Heather Smith. Jen told me about your blog a while back and I have been checking it out...I'm running my first marathon ever...Chicago in October...so if you have any advice for a first timer, let me know.
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This race was my first Ultra (I did the 50K)... The mud on the second lap was really hard to deal with, but I survived (which was my only goal). It was a great race...
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Tema Stauffer is a photographer and writer and a curator for Culturehall. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 and received a MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. Her work has been exhibited at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Jen Bekman Gallery, and Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery in New York, as well as galleries and institutions nationally and internationally. She currently teaches at Ramapo College and the College of Staten Island and co-taught a photography workshop at Toxico Cultura in Mexico City. In 2010, she was awarded an AOL 25 for 25 Grant for innovation in the arts. She is the recipient of the 2012 Women in Photography - LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant and her work is currently included in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Biography: Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father is of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother is of Irish ancestry (she converted to Judaism). It's not surprising that Ben has followed in his family's footsteps: his parents ......


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Features Section 14 of The Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh's most prestigious neighborhood. Situated on one of the highest hills of the cemetery, Section 14 is the permanent residence of the Heinz, Benedum, Frick, Mellon families, and other prominent citizens of the 19th and 20th centuries. The monuments of Section 14 feature examples of 19th century architecture, ironwork, stained glass, sculpture and landscape design of a quality hard to find in the living city. Taking It With You is an hour long and features biographical information as well as discussion of the monuments and landscape.Schedule Tour
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Explores the symbolism found in American memorial art and landscapes. The focus on symbolism allows for a discussion of the many different classes, cultures, and religions found among the 70,000 people who have made The Homewood Cemetery their final home. From a turn of the century Chinese cemetery to a forty-foot pyramid, Angels and Obelisks offers a unique opportunity to examine some of the most intriguing works of art in Pittsburgh.Schedule Tour
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The campus hosted two preview events this semester to set the stage for the main event at University Park. Each featured live talks and recorded videos that explored a variety of topics, ranging from gender issues to social media concepts, which encouraged discourse among participants.
At the final event, which begins promptly at 9:30 a.m. and lasts until 5:30 p.m., attendees will watch live TED videos and presentations being streamed directly from University Park and will be encouraged to respond via twitter (@TedxPSU) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TEDxPSU).
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TUKWILA, Wash. (May 27, 2014) – The Washington Youth Soccer Elite Player Development (EPD) program held its first camp for the 2002 and 2003 boys and girls birth years this past weekend at Northwest Soccer Park in Bellingham. The camp brought together the top 02 and 03 players from around the state for training and games with Washington Youth Soccer EPD staff and guest coaches.
Players went through morning and afternoon training sessions, with evening scrimmages against older sides from Whatcom Rangers FC. The EPD program, part of the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP), is the original ODP development and identification program, and is designed to mimic the U.S. National Team program where the top players are brought together from their club teams to train and compete alongside each other. Just five months into the year, 13 current and former Washington Youth Soccer EPD players have been called into Youth National Team camps in 2014. In 2013, nine EPD players were called into U.S. camps, including three players that were a part of the U-17 Girls World Cup Qualifying squad. Sounders FC also signed two additional homegrown players earlier this year, both products of the EPD program.
Along with EPD staff coaches, guest coaches were brought in to help lead the camp, headlined by U.S. Soccer Director of Development and U-14 Girls National Team Head Coach April Kater. Michael Ndoumbe, US Youth Soccer Region IV ODP Head Coach and former World Cup participant, and Lauren Hanson, former Women's National Team player and current San Jose State University Women's Head Coach, were also on-hand to help guide the players.
Both Kater and Ndoumbe addressed the players and parents after Saturday's session. A common concern from parents was the convoluted landscape of youth soccer, with numerous options of leagues, programs and camps that are available. Kater and Ndoumbe both reinforced the benefit of participating in EPD, which tests players and pushes them to develop their game by putting players into high-level training with unfamiliar teammates and coaches. However, both also stressed that no one path is perfect for every player, and that each family should seek to find the best environment of teammates, coaches and club that fits their needs, and also emphasized an ideal training situation that fits into the families' schedule of time and travel requirements.
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Dr. Carmen Muntean's primary field of interest is Periodontics (Gum Disease treatment) and she has completed extensive courses in Periodontal Therapy. As the current medical standards-of -care shift to mandate multi-disciplinary management of compromising medical conditions, Dr. Carmen Muntean is continuously adjusting our treatment protocols by introducing the latest advances in this rapidly changing dental arena. With 60 percent of the adult population being affected by some stage of Periodontal Disease and with an increasing number of medical diseases being related to the presence of chronic oral infections, Dr. Muntean is elevating her practice to these new medical standards, through ongoing continuing education for the benefits of our ever increasing patient base.
Dr. Krizia Garcia was raised in the Orange County area most of her life and currently resides in Irvine. She earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 2009 and worked as a dental assistant while applying for dental school to gain experience. She completed her dental education at the University of California, San Francisco – School of Dentistry. While studying dentistry at UCSF, she started a student organization aimed to helping the less fortunate in the community, and participated in several international mission trips focused on local undeserved children. She truly cares about the health and well-being of her patients and enjoys teaching her patients how to take care of their oral health at home. Dr. Garcia is always eager to learn and stay on top of the new techniques, materials and technologies available to her, to better serve her patients. At Lincoln Dental Care we appreciate her professionalism, rigorous attention to detail and excellent dental work.
When she's not working, Dr. Garcia enjoys traveling as much as she can, both within in the United States and internationally. She has also started to go camping within the last few years, and is always taking suggestions for amazing hikes and campgrounds she can visit. While at home she is usually watching movies or baking pastries to share with her friends and family. The baking it is done while listening to the Beatles on repeat. Her friends always tell her she has an old soul because she enjoys listening to older music artists and watching old Hollywood movies from the 1940's and 50's such as any Frank Capra movie or any Cary Grant or Audrey Hepburn movie.
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The Emmanuel College Men's Basketball Team wrapped up their impressive 33-4 season, which included a 21-game winning streak, and finish as second in the nation as they fell 70-65 to Vanguard University (Calif.) in the championship game last night at the 2014 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division 1 Men's Basketball Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
This was Emmanuel's first appearance in the championship game in its fourth all-time appearance in the NAIA tournament.
"Vanguard was the better team—they played really good basketball," says EC Head Coach T.J. Rosene. "They guarded our guard penetration and were quicker to the ball. We have to give them a lot of credit."
Two EC players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Michael Stanley from Mobile, Ala., led the way for the EC Lions with 19 points and 13 rebounds. Adrian Justice, a senior from Miami, Fla., made a key three-point play late in the game to bring Emmanuel within two points with 3:51 remaining in this closely matched contest.
Stanley also scored in double figures for the 10th-straight game and posted his third double-double in five tournament games. Forward Patrick McCrary from Danielsville, Ga., also added 10 points and nine rebounds.
Coach Rosene was named the winner of the Charles A. Krigel Award. It is given to coach of the team who best exhibits respect, civility, integrity and fair play, the qualities that define sportsmanship.
The day before, Coach Rosene had emailed this message back to campus:
Dear Emmanuel Family,
I cannot tell you how thankful we are for all of your support. We are humbled to be able to represent this great college and our King on a stage like this.
Everyday we have strived to represent our team, college and most of all Jesus Christ in a manner which is honoring to Him. Win or lose tomorrow, we are thankful for the stage the Lord has provided for us to share who Emmanuel College is—a place with a mighty name and an even greater mission.
Once again, we are so thankful for all of your support. We are all on this mission together.
It's a great to be a Lion!
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I've noticed a disturbing trend on Stack Overflow lately, questions on Stack Overflow get bumped from the front page in usually less than an hour after submitting them. Two questions of mine, and plenty of others on the front page are likely to go unanswered as well resulting from the traffic on Stack Overflow. My thoughts on how to resolve:
Featured questions are great, but I don't have enough reputation yet and I'd like to think my questions are as good as anyone else's. Maybe allow us to buy reputation JUST for the purpose of putting up as a featured question? Bought reputation wouldn't affect moderator/privilege status however, and cap the amount of buyable reputation per purchaser over time to ensure that it can't be overused.
Maybe randomize the front page questions amongst the unanswered ones instead of first in, first out of the front page?
Continue to spin off from Stack Overflow and open up more Stack Exchange boards.
Don't know what else can be done but it's not fun watching my questions just go flying by before they've really had a chance to be seen...
EDIT FOR ANOTHER THOUGHT: How about allowing some of the bounty reputation to be taken from other Stack Exchange sites? So if I have a better reputation on SuperUser.com, I can slice off some (up to a fixed point) for a question on StackOverflow...thoughts?


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OLINALA, Mexico — After decades making another life in the United States, Nestora Salgado found herself back home in southern Mexico's mountains, leading scores of mostly male volunteer police against gangsters and officials alike.
Salgado, 42, was elected commander this spring of the community police in Olinala (oh-lee-nah-LAH), an artisan and cattle town buried deep in the Pacific coast range of Guerrero state.
She's one of many women joining vigilante militias this year as Mexico's drug war grinds on, in nearly seven years claiming more than 70,000 lives and "disappearing" many thousands more. Just like their beleaguered brothers, husbands and sons, women across this region are arming themselves with low-caliber weapons and popular ire against criminal abuse and official inaction.
But Salgado now occupies a federal prison cell in a distant state, following her arrest by soldiers and state police on Aug. 21. She's charged with the kidnapping of four teenage girls detained by her officers for selling drugs and of a local official accused of stealing a murdered peasant's cow.
If convicted, Salgado could face decades in prison.
"Returning to where she was born and seeing injustice, she wanted to do something to help," said Jose Luis Avila, Nestora's husband, speaking from their Seattle home after returning last week from a 15-day hunger strike in New York City and at the White House demanding her freedom. "She has realized here what real justice is."
Women long ago broke through to the upper ranks of male-dominated Mexican society. They've served for years as lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and cabinet secretaries and even presidential candidates.
But only recently have they gained a beachhead in more remote, rural corners, where machismo often still prevails.
Described by many as headstrong and self-assured, Salgado proved a natural leader in this turbulent and often rebellious patch of Mexico.
"She has more guts than any man," Marisela Jimenez, a member of Olinala's community police movement, said. "She was the one who had the courage to take charge."
The youngest of seven children of a small plot farmer, Salgado migrated to the US Northwest at age 18, the only one of her siblings to risk the journey. She labored for years as a maid and nanny for an American family, her husband says, later working waitress jobs while raising three daughters.
Salgado returned home more frequently after gaining her US citizenship six years ago. She used her savings to build a three-story house near the center of Olinala. The community police members have been gathering for meetings on the home's covered roof deck, fomenting activism.
"She talked to the women a lot, telling us how to work," said Cleotilde Salgado, 54, Nestora's oldest sibling. "She taught us the value we have as women."
Turbulent town
Olinala means "place of earthquakes" in the tongue of the Aztecs. The town and surrounding mountains certainly have been roiling of late.
Olinala's people have endured several years of kidnappings, extortion and drug dealing by about a dozen officially tolerated thugs. Late last October, after the kidnap-murder of a taxi driver, the people rose up.
False rumors spread through the crowd attending the man's funeral that another taxi driver had been kidnapped. Someone rang the town's church bells in alarm and thousands filled the plaza.
An armed crowd converged on the house where the gangsters stayed, sending them fleeing. Residents seized a young man suspected of being one of the gang's lookouts and grew more furious when police quickly released him.
Salgado was in town caring for her ailing father. Caught up by the crowd's rage, she commandeered a police car and cruised through the narrow streets calling for popular revolt over a megaphone.
"Leave the fear in your homes! Come out! Come out to defend your town!" Salgado urged, according to witnesses. Thousands more residents responded.
Armed men and women took up round-the-clock checkpoints at the entrances to Olinala, guarding against the gangsters' threatened return.
The town's longtime police chief, widely suspected of collusion with the criminals, was forced to flee. Olinala's 156 community police, including just a handful of women, began patrolling downtown and outlying hamlets.
After serving on an organizing committee that includes farmers and artisans, merchants and school teachers, Salgado eventually was named chief of the volunteer police.
"We are fed up with what is happening in our towns, in our lands," Salgado told a community police rally in a nearby town, videos of which are posted on YouTube. "Get out and defend your children.
"We must confront this situation. It's better to die on our feet."
As with many such movements, internal feuding began. Once soldiers and marines took over security in Olinala, many of the committee's moderate leaders dropped out, arguing there's no need for the volunteer peacekeepers.
Salgado and other remaining leaders decided to join a more radical branch of Guerrero state's officially recognized community police system, the CRAC, which administers parallel justice in heavily indigenous areas. Many of those arrested by Salgado's volunteer officers were sent for trial to the radicals' "House of Justice" in a town an eight-hour drive away.
"These groups act like anarchists, they consider themselves the law," said Juan Rendon, 69, a jovial merchant who was an early leader of the movement but turned against Salgado. "We had to act, but it needed to be in a civilized manner. They were leading us to armed conflict."
Leftist guerrilla struggles have flowered in recent decades across the mountains that include Olinala. State and federal officials fear members of the more radical community police "have a wider agenda and can't be controlled," said Vidulfo Rosales, a human rights lawyer representing Salgado.
"Theirs was a more revolutionary discourse. It awakens much more concern in the government and military," Rosales said.
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In that atmosphere, both Salgado's rising profile and confrontational style proved her undoing, Salgado's critics and supporters agree.
"What she did wasn't wrong, but she made bad political calculations," Rosales said. "Because of her time outside Mexico she didn't have … a political understanding of things in our state, of how much power these people have and how they would react."
Rosales says that by charging Salgado with kidnapping, the government aims to divide and neutralize community self-defense organizations like Olinala's through fear of similar retribution.
Officials argue the groups in Olinala and elsewhere simply have gone too far.
"What I can't permit as governor is that they continue with these kinds of practices," Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre told a Mexico City radio interviewer this month. "We aren't going to live by the law of the jungle."


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A team of 12 EC students and two faculty/staff members worked with local churches in Nicaragua in the cities of Chinindega and Chichigualpa from March 9-17 during their Spring Break.
The trip was the project of Jazmin Konnick as she fulfills her duties as the current Miss Emmanuel and is her fourth time serving in the country of Nicaragua.
"When I first thought about doing Nicaragua as my service project for Miss Emmanuel, I had a plan. But God had something else in store," Konnick said. "Every door, every connection to the trip, every dollar we've raised points to God."
The team partnered with a local pastor and his family to work in churches he has planted. "We picked up trash off the side of the road, and we did a construction type of day where we leveled out some dirt so they could build a foundation for a school. Mostly, we worked in feeding stations. In the evenings we would play soccer or basketball with some of the locals and do street ministry," she said.
Many of the students on trip had never been to Nicaragua, and some had never been on a mission trip.
"This was His trip, and we were His servants" Konnick added. "I wanted to go to Nicaragua because it's a place that has captured my heart for the past four years and just seeing the joy and love that the people have, especially when they have nothing. But they have everything because they have Jesus, and that's all they need."
Team members were (pictured above; back row) Haley Wyles, Coach Ben Hall, Jazmin Konnick, Tucker Hilley, Jonah Holbert, Melly Huhn, Curtis Ayers, Joshua Thorton, Dr. Mark Trump, Clarke Sowell; (front) Megan Hart, Lauren Cunningham, Haley Huhn, Kiara Hernandez.


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California-based food market chain Bristol Farms announced on Tuesday that they are renaming all of their ultra-premium stores to better reflect the Bristol Farms shopping experience. "We did a study of what the average customer spends in Bristol Farms, and the number we hit was $999," Trillionaire CEO Oswald Cumber stated at a press conference held aboard his flying aircraft carrier. "Whether you buy a roll of eco-friendly recycled Icelandic toilet paper and a stick of Tibetan Yeti butter, or 2 pounds of Sidney Kangaroo meat and a bottle of 100 year-old Columbian agave, you're paying $999. We don't fully understand how, but that's what the numbers are telling us."
Cumber hopes that the new name will better inform customers of what to expect at checkout, and hopefully keep the riffraff out. "Some of our customers have been upset with the rise in the number of American cars in the parking lot," Cumber observed.
Many employees applaud the change. "I'm tired of customers coming in here and complaining about the prices," Manager Preston Williamson IV complained. "Yeah the bill is $999. How? The $770 chicken you're buying lived in a Pasadena mansion and had a name. Philip Gunderson. And Philip Gunderson wasn't chopped up in some giant slaughter house, but died honorably in a duel with Samurai, using a 1200 year old Hatori Hanzo sword. And the $200 corn? Duh. It's totally hormone free, makes you immune to cancer, and was pissed on by Chumash Shaman! You think you'll find that at Ralphs? No. What you'll find at Ralphs is cheap diseased corn being gnawed on by rats."
Not everyone is happy with the name change. Beverly Hills based Bristol shopper Morgana LeCarte is very agitated. "I'm very stressed about this name change thing. It's taken me years to train my maid Genesis not to go to that horrible Vons place when I send her out with ten Benjamins for my mid-day platinum-infused Pomegranate yogurt and Bald Eagle Soup, and I'm afraid this new name thingy is gonna confuse her. Does this mean she has to take a different bus?"


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A cheek swab solved a mystery for a man whose only known background was in the southern United States.
Jack Kane, a Wisconsin computer programmer, completed a DNA test two years ago. His father, Gordon, was abandoned as a toddler in a New York City office building in 1926 and later adopted. Gordon Kane, now 82, had no information about his biological family until Jack made a strong match with Karsen two months ago.
Karsen and the younger Kane are likely cousins, but testing can't determine how many generations back the connection was made.
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Bob Dylan obliges annoying fan in Berkeley by actually playing 'Free Bird'
You've seen that guy.
He emerges from some dark corner of the audience, maybe drunk, gawkily shoving his way through the crowd as the audience stands contented, mesmerized by the rock god onstage. He leans forward next to your ear, brutishly disturbing your daydream with a shrill, piercing shout:
Eyes roll in the audience. The man's face snarls with wretched delight. He is the only one laughing.
But just before your disgust impels you to jam your elbow into this troll's ribcage, a guitar rings out. Everyone turns to the stage.
Wow! Bob Dylan is actually playing "Free Bird."
To the shock of a Berkeley audience, Dylan closed out his set at the Greek Theater last week — which featured covers of some of Frank Sinatra's most famous songs from his newest album "Fallen Angels" — with a take on Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 hit "Free Bird."
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I know what you're thinking: How can it be that it's Black History Month again, already? It seems to come up faster with each passing year. No sooner do I finish cleaning up all the gift wrap and decorations from 2009's BHM festivities when – BAM! – time to break 'em out again for 2010.
But I am excited! I love draping my house in the traditional BHM crushed-velvet flour sacks, heated bear skins, and twinkling, sapphire, mailboxes. We gather together around the hot oil printing press and sing BHM carols, get tipsy on Pancake-Sausage Nog, and remind each other, with love in our hearts, not to forget to turn off the air conditioner before leaving the house. Oh, joy! Oh sweet, unmitigated joy!
Of all these rituals, my favorite is the singing of the carols. I thought I'd share some of them with you, and invite you to sing along with me! Just click on a song below and belt one out. If you're at work, or reading this on your iPhone while standing in the check-out line at Trader Joe's, or simultaneously looking at Internet porn (way to multi-task!) – no matter! Sing all the louder! Let everyone know: You're Black and You're Proud!


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