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The UFC's Canadian office was hit by massive layoffs on Wednesday, with an estimated 80% of the Toronto employees being let go.
Most prominent among the Canadian layoffs was Tom Wright, the UFC's executive vice president and general manager of operations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
While Wright was never the most outspoken executive on the UFC's payroll, the former CFL commissioner played a massive part in the company's international expansion and will go down as one of the more influential figures in Canadian mixed martial arts.
His time with the UFC began in 2010, and during Wright's six years with the company he was instrumental in helping get MMA legalized in Ontario, paving the way for multiple events in Toronto and Ottawa.
He'd later help bring UFC shows to new Canadian markets including Halifax, Calgary and Saskatoon, and was heavily involved in the company's expansion into the Canadian market.
Wright's firing was just the latest in a series of layoffs by the UFC, which was bought by WME-IMG in the summer for US$4 billion.
On Tuesday, layoffs hit the UFC's Las Vegas office, as well as departments in Europe, Brazil and Latin America, with sources telling MMAFighting.com that between 60 and 80 employees would be let go by the company.
As the layoffs were happening on Tuesday, UFC staff — including Wright — were busy making the media rounds in Toronto with Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, who will headline UFC 206 at the Air Canada Centre in December.
Only two days after Georges St. Pierre publicly declared himself a 'free agent,' his lawyer spoke with MMAFighting.com about the Canadian fighter's situation.
The UFC made it clear in a statement Monday night that the company still considered St. Pierre to be under contract to fight with them, but attorney James Quinn was bullish when he spoke to the website about his client's future.
Quinn, of New York Firm Weil, Gotshal and Manges, referred to St. Pierre's contract with the UFC as being "something out of the 1940s."
"They're basically tying him up for life," Quinn said. "They have no rights and they own all of his licensing and all the other things. It's unheard of in the other professional sports and they won't get away with it forever."
Quinn has significant experience dealing with professional sports organizations, as he has been involved in cases with both the NFL and NBA.
While the public nature of St. Pierre's declaration suggests it's unlikely he'll ever fight with the UFC again, Quinn said the relationship between the two sides could be repaired, at least from St. Pierre's view.
A couple weeks ago, Jose Aldo said he wanted to be released from his contract with the UFC and that he was finished with fighting professionally.
On Wednesday, the longtime featherweight champion met with UFC officials in Las Vegas but came out of the meeting insisting that he hadn't had a change of heart.
"I always had my mind made up," Aldo told MMAJunkie.com. "When I said something, it was never a bluff. I have an idea in my head and it's what I always wanted.
"It's what we talked about, there was no offer, nothing to think. I just gave my point of view. The esteem that I have for them and that they have for me is cool, but I think we need to go our own ways."
Aldo initially chose to walk away from the sport after being promised a rematch with 145-pound king Conor McGregor, who knocked the Brazilian out in 13 seconds when they fought last December.
Aldo beat Frankie Edgar for the interim featherweight belt at UFC 200 in July, but instead of booking a match between McGregor and Aldo, the UFC opted to pit the Irishman against Eddie Alvarez in a lightweight title fight at next month's UFC 205 card in New York City.
Canadian Alexis Davis is set to return to the UFC in December. The women's bantamweight contender was ranked in the top-5 last year, but took an 18-month break from the sport to have her first child. She'll take on Sara McMann at The Ultimate Fighter 24 Finale on Dec. 3 … It has been rumoured for weeks, but Bellator formally announced that Chael Sonnen will be making his debut in the promotion in a fight with Tito Ortiz on Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. Neither guy is a top-10 fighter anymore, but they're big names and make no mistake, this is a big fight …. Urijah Faber is set to fight Brad Pickett in his hometown of Sacramento, Calif., on Dec. 17, and don't be surprised to hear plenty of speculation about it being the last time Faber fights professionally. The guy's got plenty of opportunities outside of fighting, and there will be lots of people hoping he pursues those options instead of continuing to take damage in the octagon.


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WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court resumed its examination of same-sex marriage Wednesday, this time considering the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Justice Anthony Kennedy indicated the act, known as DOMA, violated states' rights and four other judges indicated they considered it a gay-rights issue, a tweet by Scotusblog.com said.
"#scotus 80% likely to strike down #doma," the tweet said "J [Justice] Kennedy suggests it violates states' rights; 4 other Justices see as gay rights."
Before getting to the merits of the case, the court spent about an hour discussing whether the matter was properly brought before it, The Washington Post reported. The Obama administration has said that it would not defend the law, and lower courts have ruled DOMA unconstitutional but the administration has said it would enforce the law until the Supreme Court rules.
During Wednesday's oral arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia commented on the contradictory positions, saying it was a "new world" when the attorney general could decide a law is unconstitutional but still enforce it, Post said.
Kennedy, considered a potential swing vote in the case, called it a "questionable practice."
Chief Justice John Roberts criticized the administration's decision, saying he didn't understand why Obama "doesn't have the courage of his convictions" and refuse to apply the statute.
Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan said Obama was trying to show respect for Congress by enforcing the law until the high court could rule on its constitutionality.
Arguments focused on one section of the 1996 act that states a range of federal benefits and considerations for married couples apply only to heterosexual unions.
Kennedy told the advocate defending the law it did promote "uniformity" in federal law, noting that there were 1,100 references to marriage in the federal code, and that the definition of a married person is "intertwined with daily life." Kennedy questioned whether the federal government may impose its view of marriage, which has "always thought to be" the domain of the state.
Nine states and the District of Columbia permit same-sex couples to marry.
Paul D. Clement, representing Republican House leaders who are defending the law, said Congress wasn't discriminating but keeping hands off experiments by the states on same-sex marriage.
The law does not punish states for allowing such unions, but allows the federal government to decide how it chooses to allocate its benefits, he said.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said federal rules that apply to married couples are so enveloping that in states allowing same-sex marriages, married same-sex couples can't get the federal benefits available to heterosexual couples, which creates "a skim milk marriage."
In the underlying case, Edith Schlain Windsor, an 84-year-old New Yorker, married her same-sex partner of 40 years, Thea Spyer, in 2007 in Canada. When Spyer died in 2009 of multiple sclerosis, she left her estate to Windsor.
As executor of Spyer's estate, Windsor paid approximately $363,000 in federal estate taxes, but filed a refund claim under a federal statute that says "property that passes from a decedent to a surviving spouse may generally pass free of federal estate taxes." The Internal Revenue Service denied the claim on the ground that Windsor is not a "spouse" within the meaning of DOMA Section 3 and thus not a "surviving spouse" within the meaning of the statute.
A federal appeals court ruled in her favor.
The justices heard arguments Tuesday on California's Proposition 8, a referendum that stripped same-sex couples of the right to marry. California voters approved Proposition 8, the California Marriage Protection Act, in 2008 with slightly more than 52 percent for, nearly 48 percent against but a federal judge declared Prop 8 unconstitutional and a three-judge appeals court panel in San Francisco agreed.

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(Editor's Note: This is the second in a four part series on the Uranium Industry in southeast Utah. Last week, the history and legacy of the boom years of the 1950's and 1960's (locally) were examined. In subsequent weeks what is happening in San Juan County and the world currently will be examined and then we will explore the economic juggernaut uranium appears to be for the future of this area.)
I stated in last week's installment that if ever southeast Utah had tied itself to a dazzling economic star, uranium may be it. San Juan County sits squarely in the middle of a worldwide renaissance.
Ore trucks rumble through our small communities from every direction each day. They haul tons of ore to the only federally licensed uranium reduction mill in the U. S. at White Mesa, six miles south of Blanding.
This visible daily occurrence is simply the tip of the iceburg in what is happening across the Colorado Plateau in the uranium industry. New mines are opening regularly. At least two new mills are scheduled to be licensed and operating before the end of this decade. The price of uranium continues to set new records.
Nationwide attention is being focused on this area with full-page newspaper ads appearing in national publications touting the uranium investments available in southeast Utah. Large blocks of claims are being bought and sold and most of us are not even aware of it.
These aspects of the new boom will be examined in detail in subsequent weeks. This week we will examine what has created this boom.
There are presently 103 operating nuclear power plants in the United States. These plants generate 20 percent of the electricity used in the nation and they do it for much less per kilowatt hour than their fossil-fuel cousins. They were all built prior to the Three Mile Island disaster in Pennsylvania in 1970. Actually, no one was killed at Three Mile Island.
Very little radiation escaped, but opponents to nuclear power, who viewed nuclear power generation as the evil stepchild of the atomic bomb, used the incident as a "what-might-have-happened-event" and effectively shut down power plant construction nation wide.
The Chernoble meltdown in Russia in 1982 was a debacle. Such a disaster could not happen in the U. S. because the reactors used here are completely different than the early ones built by the Soviets.
Nevertheless, Chernoble was great ammunition for the anti-nuclear forces worldwide and effectively sealed the coffin for the next two decades on further development in the United States and most of the rest of the industrialized world.
France and Japan had no alternative fuels. They continued with their nuclear programs out of necessity. Today both countries get about 80 percent of their electrical generation from the atom. They are also the world leaders in the construction and sale of new nuclear reactors. Nuclear technology and hardware is France's single largest export.
The global warming fears of recent years have turned all eyes on the "culprits" causing the problem, i.e. fossil fueled power plants. Coal-fired and other fossil fuel power plants pour more carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than any other single source, including all the world's automobiles.
In many nations, including the U.S., there is now almost as much sentiment against building new coal burning power plants as there used to be for building nuclear plants. Fifty percent of all the power generation in the America is currently generated by coal burning plants.
Much attention has been focused recently on renewable sources of energy such as wind, water and solar. Let's take a thimble's eye look at each:
Solar: Productive only when the sun shines. Takes large tracts of land for large projects. Cost per megawatt still far above fossil or nuclear. Could not compete without tax credits and other subsidies.
Wind: Productive only when the wind blows. Takes huge tracts of land. Some towers are now 650 feet high and are considered unsightly and noisy by locals and environmentalists. Cost per megawatt similar to solar.
Water: While power generation from water behind dams is the cheapest, cleanest source of power, most of the desirable dam sites in this country have already been developed. From an environmental standpoint, it would be almost impossible to get support for large-scale dam construction in this county.
Wind and solar together create less than three percent of current U.S. power generation. Hydro-electric dams generate more than wind and solar, but still less than 10 percent of total production.
Now let's compare the two principle power generation sources currently feeding the U. S. power grid:
1000 Megawatt Coal Plant: Requires a ton of coal per minute to keep this size plant running at full capacity. Each ton of burned coal puts up to three tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
America now burns one billion tons of coal a year---up from 500 million in 1976. Coal alone produces 40 percent of the world's greenhouse gases and 20 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
1000 Megawatt Nuclear Reactor: Every two years a flatbed truck pulls up to the reactor to deliver fuel rods. These rods are mildly radioactive and can be handled with gloves. When inserted into the reactor core the rods will last for six years. One third of the rods are replaced every two years.
The spent rods are taken to a storage pool in a containment structure on site for storage. As long as they are in at least three feet of water they emit no radiation whatsoever. They can remain there indefinitely. There is no air, water or ground pollution. The only emission from a nuclear generation plant is steam from the water cooling towers.
There is the problem of the eventual disposal of the highly radioactive spent fuel rods.
The French have developed technology wherein they are able to reprocess spent fuel rods which provides yet more fuel and greatly decreases the danger and need to store them in expensive underground repositories such as the one being built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This new technology has contributed to the overall desirability of nuclear power generation.
In the political battles of this election year, Republicans and Democrats agree on two things: 1.) greenhouse gas emissions must be curtailed; and 2.) the United States must become energy independent as soon as possible.
Looking at the relative benefits between fossil fuel power generation and nuclear power generation in the light of these two critical national goals, the future of the uranium industry look brighter than it ever has.
The new national energy policy signed into law last year, government leadership, the liberal left, converted anti-nuclear activists, and clear thinking Americans in ever growing numbers are bedfellows in a coalition which advocates the resurgence of large scale nuclear power generation.
And where do San Juan County and the Colorado Plateau fit into this change of attitude toward nuclear power generation
Next week we will examine the exciting things happening locally and internationally in the third installment of this series. Stay tuned. firstname.lastname@example.com .


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Maybe you've forgotten that it's election season, what with all the superstorms swirling around the planet, but that's totally okay because vandals in Virginia were on hand to remind the nation that politics can be really gross by spray painting "Baby Killer" on the campaign office of Wayne Powell, the (pro-choice) Democrat challenging Rep. Eric Cantor (R. Va) for his congressional seat in Virginia's 7th District.
According to the Huffington Post, vandals struck Powell's campaign headquarters in Midlothian, but, in case that wasn't enough stomach-churning awfulness for one morning, a Powell spokesperson also confirmed that staffers reported that someone had demonstrated his or her proclivity for racism by spray painting "N—- Lover" on a sign in front another Powell office in Henrico (police departments in both counties have been contacted).
Cantor, alas, has his talons deeply dug into Virginia's 7th District, but that just goes to show you how poorly some people handle winning. And racial equality. And reproductive freedom. And not mouth-breathing on all the Dixie Forever mud flaps in Walmart. [via HuffPo]
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Who would you guess is the most conservative member of the Kansas delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Most people in northwest Kansas automatically would believe it to be our own Big First representative, Tim Huelskamp. The Fowler farmer would deserve your reply, given his very public preoccupation with federal spending and social issues.
Courtesy of the franking privileges accorded members of Congress, most everybody in the area recently should have received a four-page, full-color mailer from the Republican politician.
The piece highlights what Huelskamp believes are the most important issues to Kansans. He touts his attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman under the headline "Preserving Kansas Values."
He then follows up with a query about topics that are most important to you and your family. Options to check include: "Preventing tax increases, Repeal President Obama's health care law, Stopping burdensome regulations, Protecting gun rights, Pushing for a balanced budget amendment, Defending traditional marriage and the right to life, All of the above, Other."
Sounds like a list that could have been produced at the Heritage Foundation or one of the many Koch Brothers-directed organizations. It's the conservative wish list (with the notable exception of "Protecting our border").
Willing to double-down on your bet that Huelskamp is Kansas' most conservative House member?
You'd be foolish if you did. As it turns out, Huelskamp is the least conservative. According to a ranking in the National Journal, a non-partisan news organization, the tea party favorite doesn't hold a candle to the other three House members -- or the two senators as well.
The Journal used 116 key votes from each chamber in 2012 that revealed ideological distinctions between members. House members fell in this order: Mike Pompeo tied for 10th most conservative member with a composite score of 94.3; Lynn Jenkins was 22nd with a 91.2; Kevin Yoder tied for 59th with an 83.8; and, bringing up the rear, Tim Huelskamp was the 180th most conservative with a score of 59.8. Both senators had higher scores. Pat Roberts was 26th most conservative member of the Senate with a 73.8 and Jerry Moran was 29th with a 72.3.
The year before, Huelskamp was the least conservative of the Kansas bunch but at least he scored above 80 (barely, at 80.2) and was in the top 75.
Could it be the representative of the Big First has taken either his constituents or his quickly established conservative credentials for granted?
Even though he's only stood one U.S. House re-election campaign thus far, he does appear to be the only member of the Kansas delegation who won't draw an opponent in the 2014 races.
We would venture that Huelskamp is not trending liberal, even though his latest score is closer to Dan Boren, D-Okla., than it is to any of his fellow Kansas Republicans.
Huelskamp's score is skewed by the fact he's so far out of favor with the GOP leadership, he tends to vote the opposite of his own caucus. His self-inflicted isolation is putting him in no-man's land, where he can be ignored by Republicans and Democrats alike.
The First District of Kansas deserves better. We need somebody to represent us, not himself. And since it appears nobody from either party plans to run against Tim Huelskamp, we must ask him instead.
Mr. Huelskamp, the people of the Big First humbly request that you act as our representative. Please.
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LG's Flagship Arena Handset Offers 8GB of Internal Storage, Using SanDisk's iNAND Device for Both Storage and System Boot
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, HALL 8, Booth #8C 129, Barcelona, Spain, February 17, 2009 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that LG Electronics' latest fully loaded LG Arena (LG-KM900) multimedia handset will include SanDisk's iNAND™ 8 gigabyte1 (GB) Embedded Flash Drive (EFD). The iNAND storage device will be utilized by the handset as both a boot and data storage device, eliminating the need for a separate boot device.
Announced at the 2009 Mobile World Congress exhibition, the LG Arena multimedia handset is the company's flagship model for the first half of 2009, featuring greatly enhanced audio and video technologies as well as LG's new 3D S-Class user interface. SanDisk's iNAND EFDs are designed specifically for advanced multimedia handsets such as the LG Arena, providing a fast and reliable storage solution in a small and power efficient package.
In addition to high capacity MLC NAND flash based storage, iNAND is fully capable of storing system boot code. Using iNAND as a system boot device means there is no need for the additional boot code storage device used in traditional designs. This conserves precious board space, reduces handset design complexity, lowers handset power consumption and saves the cost of an otherwise needed separate boot device. SanDisk's flash based EFDs have been catering to personal storage and boot needs based on NAND MLC flash since 2003.
"LG is amongst the leading figures of the mobile industry, quick to embrace new technologies ahead of the game. The advanced storage architecture of the LG Arena handset is no exception and SanDisk is proud to be a part of this ongoing success," said Dan Inbar, senior vice president, OEM group, SanDisk. "SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drives act as two devices in one, with both storage and boot capabilities, reducing the number of storage devices required in the handset. Optimizing storage architecture in this manner gives handset designers like LG an edge in the highly competitive mobile landscape."
"Fast and reliable digital storage is essential to LG's mobile multimedia user experience," said Mr. Kwak Woo Young, Executive Vice President of LG Electronics Mobile Handset R&D Center. "Because of this, we've chosen top-of-the-line SanDisk memory for our new LG Arena multimedia phone."
SanDisk iNAND EFDs come in a wide range of storage capacities, utilizing eSD and eMMC standard interfaces and packages for quick integration into handset designs. With managed physical partitions, customizable attributes and power failure immunity, SanDisk iNAND features a highly reliable code storage and boot device in addition to being a mass storage solution. iNAND offers design flexibility to OEMs through its ability to scale up from 1GB to 32GB and more, in both discrete and multi chip package configurations.
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Bucs make final road trip of regular season before coming home for second ACC opponent
MACON, Ga. (October 21, 2011) – The ETSU men's soccer team takes to the road for the last time in the 2011 regular season, as the Buccaneers travel to Macon, Ga. on Saturday to face Mercer before heading back to Johnson City for a Monday night matchup against ACC foe Clemson.
Both contests will take place at 7 p.m., with Saturday night's match against Mercer being held at Bear Field and Monday night's game versus Clemson to reside at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
ETSU (8-4-2. 2-3-1 A-Sun) is coming off its biggest win of the season, as the Bucs were victorious against previously undefeated Florida Gulf Coast, 2-1, last Sunday. The Eagles were off to a 3-0 start in conference play, but squandered a 1-0 halftime lead by giving up two goals in a span of less than five minutes in the second half.
Redshirt freshman Nick Dykes (Nashville, Tenn.) put in the first Buccaneer goal of the match, heading in an Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) corner kick past FGCU's Adam Glick. The goal was Dykes' first of his young collegiate career, as the in-state product went on to receive A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Sophomore David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) struck a few minutes after Dykes' equalizer to put ETSU up for good. Fellow classmate Blaike Woodruff (Georgetown, Texas) found Geno with a cross into the box, and the Bucs' leading goal-scorer connected in midair with a shot past Glick for the eventual game-winner.
Heading into this weekend, Geno and senior Aaron Schoenfeld (Knoxville, Tenn.) have each scored six goals, with Schoenfeld edging the sophomore 3-2 in assists to lead the team with 15 points.
Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) recorded his conference-leading seventh shutout of the season last week, needing just one more to tie for third all-time in the A-Sun in single-season shutouts. Coulter's carries a 1.08 GAA while making 54 saves through a .771 save percentage.
The Bucs currently sit in a tie for sixth place with Stetson in the A-Sun standings at seven points, but are just two points back of second place FGCU.
Mercer (6-6-2, 1-3-1 A-Sun) is one of the two teams behind ETSU in the conference standings, as the Bears have acquired just four points thus far. The Bears began conference play with a, 2-0, win over North Florida, but dropped their next three A-Sun matches before playing USC Upstate to a, 0-0, draw on Wednesday.
The Bears are led offensively by Will Betts, who has registered 12 points off five goals and two assists. Betts' five goals lead teammates Josh Shutter and Ehjayson Henry by two for the team lead. Mercer has not scored in conference play since October 7, when they lost in overtime, 2-1, to FGCU.
Clemson (4-8-0. 2-4-0 ACC) has had a rough go through the 2011 season and head into the weekend having lost four of its last five contests. Their most recent loss came on Tuesday against No. 23 Furman, falling, 3-2, to a team which ETSU tied, 0-0, in late September.
Bryniar Benediktsson heads the Tigers' goal scoring, having netted five goals off 18 shots. Benediktsson has also added three assists to lead Clemson with 13 points, four points ahead of teammate Austin Savage.
Struggling at the net, Clemson's goalkeeper Cody Mizell has given up 19 goals for a GAA of 1.66. Mizell boasts a .732 save percentage with 52 saves and just two shutouts.
The Bucs have played Mercer to a 1-1-1 all-time record while having defeated Clemson in their only meeting, 1-0, in double overtime on September 6 of last year. Former Buccaneer Guilherme Reis scored the game-winner for ETSU off a penalty kick in the 116th minute.
Live stats will be provided for Saturday night's matchup courtesy of MercerBears.com, and for Monday night's contest with Clemson courtesy of ETSUBucs.com. Live video will be provided for both matches courtesy of ASun.TV.
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Both Chad Fonville and Mike Smith tried to fight off tears during their induction speech Saturday at the Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission Hall of Fame banquet.
Both Chad Fonville and Mike Smith tried to fight off tears during their induction speeches Saturday at the Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission Hall of Fame banquet.
Their induction at the Jacksonville Country Club meant a lot to both men.
It really meant a lot.
�A very, very special moment, especially now that it�s here,� Smith said before his induction.
Fonville also said his induction was special.
�It�s just an honor,� he said. �Growing up in a small town like this, it�s an honor being in with a lot of great people, not just athletic, but great people in the community. It�s a special day and I couldn�t ask for anything better.�
Both Fonville and Smith join the hall of fame after each has contributed to area sports over the years.
The 70-year-old Smith has spent most of his professional life in this area, serving as athletic director at Lejeune High and Northside before he retired in 2009 after 41 years as a teacher, coach and AD.
The 42-year-old Fonville was a standout athlete at White Oak before a five-year Major League Baseball career. He is mostly known for playing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
�Both have returned to give back to the community,� said Mike Carter, chairman of the JOSC board of directors.
Smith and Fonville took different paths en route to the hall of fame.
Smith was a football and baseball player at Lejeune before graduating from the school in 1961. He then attended Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., before joining the Marine Corps in 1965.
After being wounded in Vietnam and being discharged from the Marines after four years of service, Smith begun working at Lejeune as a teacher and coach.
He spent 33 years at Lejeune before becoming the first AD at Northside in 2001. He retired in 2009, but continues to volunteer his time at the school in different roles, ranging from operating the scoreboard at games or doing work on the fields.
�Why I am here (in the hall of fame), I honestly don�t know,� Smith said in his speech.
Current Northside AD Angela Buchanan, however, does know why Smith made the hall of fame.
�We call him the godfather of ADs. He has a wealth of knowledge,� Buchanan said. �He has put in blood, sweat and tears on the field.�
Yet what stands out the most for Smith are the relationships he�s gained by being a coach and teacher.
�When you see the young people you�ve worked with, both in the classroom and on the athletic fields, come back and you have a chance to visit with them and see what they�re doing, that�s the biggest thing,� Smith said.
Smith isn�t a coach known for winning many games or championships, but it doesn�t matter. His efforts being the face of athletics at Lejeune and Northside while as an AD speak for themselves.
�One word that best describes dad is selflessness,� said son Scott Smith during a video tribute of Smith.
Added son Kevin Smith: �I want to thank you for a wonderful work ethic.�
Meanwhile, Fonville was inducted after a standout athletic career at White Oak, a career in Major League Baseball and his present duty as assistant baseball coach at Lejeune.
Fonville played baseball, basketball and soccer at White Oak from 1988-90, helping the Vikings to a soccer state title in 1989.
�Chad was a winner,� said former White Oak baseball coach Steve Brooks during the video tribute to Fonville. �He never wanted to lose. He just wanted to be on the field.�
Fonville went to Louisburg College, a two-year school, before being drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 1992. Fonville later landed with the Dodgers, helping the team win a division crown in 1995.
He played his final big league game in 1999 while with the Boston Red Sox.
�Just the hard work I put in to get to that spot,� Fonville said when asked what stood out about his career. �I always told myself to keep working hard. Just to make it to the show, that was a blessing.
�Thank you to all my coaches who believed in me and to my family. It�s been a good ride.�
Since returning home to Jacksonville in 2006, Fonville has helped coached the basketball and baseball teams at Lejeune. He also was an assistant baseball coach at White Oak for two years.
Fonville now works for the Special Education Department at Lejeune and continues to help coach baseball at the school.
�I think he�s done a great job with the kids,� Lejeune baseball coach Doug Erny said. �There�s nobody that I know who is more deserving than him.�


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As observers of a meteor that crashed in Russia's Chelyabinsk region today can attest, near-earth objects that enter the earth's atmosphere can wreak destruction. But these objects, which also include comets and asteroids, also provide clues to the solar system's origins and could someday serve as stepping-stones to space exploration. In this podcast, Manager of NASA's Near-Earth Objects program, Donald Yeomans, discusses the ongoing quest to find near-earth objects before they find us. The "Frontiers in Astrophysics" event took place at the Museum on January 14, 2013.


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Ebenezer offers his space to colleague Donald Moore. You'll see in the "Dottings" column March 9, 1935, that Ebenezer offers his own take on the Closer Union Federation. If there are to be any changes in or of the present system of government which has been, and is still, a system of futility," Moore wrote, "then let those changes be the elimination of said system and a government as given to the Irish, take its place for the general progress of the islands and their people."
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NEIGHBORHOOD: The Quarries, Schuyler
SIZE: 2,348 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 21 acres
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LISTED BY: Martha DeJarnette, Pace Real Estate Associates, 817-7223
It's always surprising to find a house with cutting-edge design in a remote location. One somehow expects creativity and novelty to migrate city-ward.
And many houses in the small Nelson County burg of Schuyler do show their farmhouse origins with narrow rooms and steep staircases. But this week's one-story house was intended from the beginning to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The house sits at the end of a long driveway on a site chosen for minimal disturbance to the parcel's 21 acres in The Quarries– a subdivision committed to sustainable, eco-friendly home-building practices and named for the soapstone quarries that made Schuyler world famous. The house also has DSL Internet access, an indoor pool, and a media room wired for surround sound.
Interested buyers will have to appreciate contemporary architecture, visible in the wedge-shaped profile, sloped roof, and large windows. The form of the house has been dictated by its owner-comforting functions: the pitched ceiling's slope is oriented to take advantage of passive solar heat, and the floors are concrete to allow inset water pipes to distribute radiant heat.
This means one side of the house has lots of windows and a high ceiling, while the roof comes down to create spaces of a more traditional height on the opposite side. Because the house is currently empty, echoes from the high ceiling and concrete floor make the space seem cavernous, but that should change when new owners move in with all their belongings.
The contrast between the window-studded front and low-ceiling back of the house is most noticeable in the main area that ties together kitchen, dining room, and living area. A stone fireplace salvaged from an 1800s tavern makes for a cozy sitting space across from the kitchen's high windows and modern appliances. The kitchen– with soapstone countertops, naturally– represents a compromise between the living area's intimacy and the dining area's modernity next to the front windows.
In the master bedroom, the pitch of the roof has created an interesting effect where a window near the ceiling provides illumination but insures privacy. Below, dual closets that don't extend all the way to the ceiling– effectively, built-in wardrobes– support indirect lighting that makes for an unusually terraced visual design. A second bedroom next door is smaller, positioned along the back wall of the house with more traditional windows.
Two rooms on the opposite side of the house were last used as offices, and took advantage of the data network wired into the house.
They could just as easily serve as two additional bedrooms with the addition of a shower in the nearby half bath, which won't be hard since the owners added a shower connection to the WC and there's thus no need to run plumbing through the concrete floor.
Two full bathrooms are located back by the master bedroom: a master bath with a double vanity and ADA-compliant features like lowered countertops and an accessible shower stall. A row of recycled glass tiles near the top of the shower is a pretty decorative accent. Sitting between the pool and the rest of the house, the master bath and its neighboring guest bath provide places to change into swimsuits even as they provide the only interior access to the pool.
The indoor "endless" pool is perhaps the most surprising feature here. While some conservationists might argue for a better use for so much water, its hydrotherapy jets and swim current allow exercisers to swim in place, using less space to provide the workout provided by laps in a larger pool. The room also has a Japanese-style soaking tub.
All this infrastructure means that unlike, say, converting a study to a bedroom, prospective buyers will need to make some serious changes if they want to redesign this room for another use. The media room— off the living area at the center of the house— has been built with the same single-minded purpose. Its surround sound, dark walls, and lone narrow window make it unsuitable for almost any other use.
A far cry from the typical houses out here, this place manages to stand out thanks to its contemporary designs and ideas. Its remote location makes it a good spot for people who want to get away from it all without leaving anything behind.
Each week, a brave local seller invites the Hook to provide an impartial, warts-and-all look at their real estate listing. E-mail yours today!


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I would like to make my own scenario one day too, i have some great imagination. I already downloaded Weland and i'm trying to make maps, though it's not much of a succes.
Anyway that's me, i hope i'l be a fun Pfhorum-visitor (not sure if that's the right term but i think you got what i meant right?)


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Visitors Guide to Pere Marquette State Park
Located 5 miles west of Grafton in Jersey County, Pere Marquette State Park comprises 8,050 acres making it Illinois' largest state park. The Park is famous for the beauty of its fall colors and as a home for bald eagles in the winter. In addition to the spectacular views of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers from several scenic overlooks, visitors can take advantage of a variety of year-round recreational activities, including hiking, biking, horseback riding, camping, fishing, boating, and taking part in interpretative programs.
Pere Marquette State Park was named for Jacques Marquette, a French missionary who was a member of a European expedition led by Louis Joliet. In 1673, Marquette and Joliet traveled down the Mississippi River as far as the Arkansas River. They were the first Europeans to reach the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. A large stone cross located east of the main Park entrance along Route 100 commemorates their historic landing.
The region's history of animal and human habitation goes back to prehistoric times. Fossils can found in the strata, stripped bare by millions of years of erosion. At the foot of McAdams Peak, twin springs flow from Ordovician-Silurian rocks deposited 350 million years ago. Loess (pronounced 'less'), the vertical banks of yellow clay seen along the road to the bluff-tops, is a windblown dust laid down a million years ago during the last Great Ice Age. This material covers all the ridges in the area and is topped by the rich black topsoil that supports the present flora.
The Park is dotted with over 150 small Native American burial mounds and the Illini Confederacy occupied the area when the Joliet and Marquette made their journey. A number of archaeological studies have been conducted here, most notably at the location of the Pere Marquette Lodge. Prior to its construction in the 1930's and again during the lodge's expansion in 1985, evidence that the location was a prehistoric habitation site was uncovered.
In the 1930s, with the advent of the Great Depression and with the nation's natural resources in jeopardy due to poor environmental practices, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was created. At Pere Marquette, the CCC built many buildings and shelters, fences, bridges, water reservoirs, foot and horse trails, riprap and streambank protection. Work was also done to create parking areas, campgrounds, and the clearing of overlooks and vistas. In addition, archeological and other types of surveying activities were conducted. Many of these CCC structures are still standing.
Today, Pere Marquette State Park offers its visitors diverse recreational and educational opportunities that encompass the past, present and future. The new Visitors Center provides displays that cover the region's history and the types of environments the visitor can encounter as well as housing informative interpretative programs. The Lodge consists of both new facilities as well as those constructed by the CCC. All this and more makes Pere Marquette State Park a great place to explore!


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Well, it looks like the "choices! choices! choices!" mind set in WoW development has manifested itself quite obviously when it comes to choosing glyphs for Disc Priest PvP in Mists of Pandaria. Where PvE Holy Priest glyphs are in a famine state, there are (arguably) around 17 choices for glyphs for PvP'ing as a Disc Priest.
In this post, I'm going to go over these choices and explain why having a glut of glyphs might not be so daunting after all. After all, we're lucky to have so much choice, right?
So the way I look at it is that each of these glyphs are going to be extremely situational and choosing between them will require some planning, data, information, and guess work. The main thing we're going to have to suss out is what comps are popular for Arena and Rated Battlegrounds - this forthcoming information (i.e. what you end up seeing when you queue up after September 25th) will allow us to set some parameters within which we can decide on which glyphs to use.
I actually dipped my toes into the two new Battlegrounds this week and got absolutely stomped all over. Couldn't kill anything, couldn't stay alive - I think I'd forgotten that first week of expac PvP is all Glads vs. me in zero resilience. I bet I looked tasty. In any case, most of my glyph choices didn't matter because things were...a little crazy.
In any case, here are the glyphs that are looking viable for this season's Disc PvP:
Glyph of Desperation: This is one of my top choices in any PvP situation, and it has proved to be invaluable, especially in 2s. An obvious good choice - and after this week's BGs, where I felt like every class has a stun now, I would definitely make this one of my #1 glyphs. This glyph remains unchanged from Cata.
Glyph of Dispel Magic: As with the other dispel glyph, these usually are too understated to have any real impact. I had 362k hp in epic PvP gear at level 90 on Beta - 4.9k isn't much of a dent. Only pro is that offensive dispels don't have the same cooldown as defensive dispels now have, so it's ostensibly spammable.
Glyph of Fade: Damage reduction is always good - this is high on my list now that mana burn is out, since instead of burns/cc's, I assume healers will be focused even more now. In addition, if your arena/RBG team doesn't require you to take a tier 1 CC talent (because you have other CC'ers) then this would be great in conjunction with the tier 1 talent, Phantasm.
Glyph of Fear Ward: Same as in Cataclysm - while this may have been vaguely useable in the past, taking up a precious glyph slot may not be worth it.
Glyph of Holy Nova: I found Holy Nova pretty useful in Arena against Death Knights who were trying to catch me with a Dark Simulacrum! But, like the Fear Ward glyph, I'd say this probably isn't great at this point.
Glyph of Inner Fire: In season 11, I swapped from using Inner Will to Inner Fire because, among other reasons, I was having trouble surviving against melee and thought a little armour might help me - if this remains the case in Season 12, this might be a useful glyph but...probably not.
Glyph of Inner Focus: MUST HAVE. I cannot stress this enough - please glyph Inner Focus. This is the only problem I have with the new talent system - lots of awesome tidbits that were originally baked into priest talents have been removed, like this beauty.
Glyph of Inner Sanctum: Depending on which comps are popular, the spell damage reduction may prove useful - also this is dependent on you using inner will, so if you don't...don't glyph it. With the new movement talents, the movement speed portion of this is arguably not required anymore.
Glyph of Leap of Faith: I have been frustrated in the past (mostly in RBGs) that I will LG someone and they won't move because they are under a movement impairing effect - this is, of course, my own fault but I was always of the opinion that Leap of Faith should just freaking move you regardless. This glyph will give you that. If you aren't running with a paladin, this one is probably a good idea - it's basically a 2 minute Hand of Freedom for priests!
Glyph of Levitate: I think for this glyph to be worth of an entire slot, you'd have to be willing to spam Levitate - will probably end up being a waste of globals. Also after some testing today, this glyph is self only. Not worth it for that miniscule increase.
Glyph of Mass Dispel: Obviously, an amazingly useful glyph - reduces base cast time of MD to 0.5 secs. I have been stuck without this glyph in arena a few times (due to my own idiocy) and sorely missed it.
Glyph of Penance: This is the celebrity-status new glyph for MOP for disc priests. Penance while moving?! Yes please! I think this may end up being a required glyph in arena at 90, although I didn't use it for the last two weeks of arena at 85. Since Penance also causes Atonement healing when used offensively, this glyph basically triples its effectiveness. I can't wait to play around with this one!
Glyph of Power Word: Shield: Kind of a no-brainer - you're going to be shielding people anyways, best to have it give an instant heal as well.
Glyph of Prayer of Mending: For me, this glyph (and it's Cata iteration) is a favourite - I rely heavily on PoM, and cast it on cooldown. This glyph makes that very worthwhile.
Glyph of Purify: Like glyph of dispel magic, I'd argue this 3% is too small to have any real effect.
Glyph of Reflective Shield: Replaces a talent that no one took anyways.
Glyph of Renew: Glyphing renew for Disc PvP is something I've always done because I rely on instant heals almost exclusively when Inner Focus is on cooldown. At specific haste breakpoints, this will still be worth glyphing (see Derevka's Haste Breakpoint Chart and further discussion on the renew glyph at Tales of a Priest.)
I have omitted the Atonement buffing glyphs (Smite, Holy Fire, etc) although things may change as we get more gear with resilience.
And a final note: ABSOLUTELY NEVER USE THE MINOR GLYPH HOLY RESURRECTION IN PVP! Might as well wear a "Kick Me" sign.
Good luck in the new PvP season!


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My sassy mango lassi ( a lassi with a little twist)
" I close my eyes, I know you're there,
addicted to this liquid love affair,
tall, bright and a frosty yellow,
"pour me another" you burly fellow.
A virgin drink, yet so nutritious,
I cannot stop! you're so delicious,
So here's to you, you aim to please,
quit being such a bloody tease!"
Normally, a lassi ( Indian mango yogurt drink) is made by blending mangoes, yogurt, milk and cardamom. I love a tiny bit of fizz in mine, so I changed the recipe just a little. Please use organic ingredients when possible.
- 1 c superfine sugar
- 11/2 c water
- 1/2 c lemon juice ( fresh)
- 2 c vanilla yogurt
- 1 can mango pulp( see above for my personal best brand)
- 1 bottle lemon sparkling mineral water( Target)
- 1 mango
Method for the yogurt and lemon sorbet:Boil 11/2 c water with the sugar until the mixture just boils. remove from hot plate and cool and then refrigerate for about half an hour. Add the lemon juice, stir and place in the freezer for about 1 hour. Remove and then whisk in the yogurt, grate some fresh mango on the fine side of the grater and add to this and then either freeze in ice cube trays or just a container until you can scrape with an ice cream scoop.
OR if you do not want to cook anything on the stove top: just buy a pint of lemon sorbet from the market, let it melt and whisk in the yogurt, add the grated fresh mango and then freeze and proceed to follow the directions below to make the lassi.
To make the drink:Blend some of the frozen yogurt lemon sorbet with the mango pulp ( or fresh mangoes), add just a little lemon mineral water to this mixture not too much( you just want a bit of a fizz) and blend again until incorporated. Pour into pretty glasses with ice cubes and also garnish with more of the lemon yogurt sorbet cubes.
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Thanks so much to Dr. Jim from StoryTellERdoc for being a guest on Doctor Anonymous Show 148 last night. The StoryTellERdoc blog won the Best Literary MedBlog Award last week from the 2009 Medgadget Medblog Awards. We had a great conversation about how he chose emergency medicine as a career. We also talked about how he is part of a small "writing group" and how they encouraged him to start his blog.
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1. Week 3: Golden Tate's touchdown.
Call it the Fail Mary of the Inaccurate Reception. Call it the moment that ended the referee standoff. Call it the most indelible moment of the 2012 season. After the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers with Tate's controversial grab, I wrote it would live in infamy for as long as the NFL played games. Five weeks of hindsight haven't changed anything. This one will be tough to top.
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2. Week 5: Indianapolis Colts win one for Chuck
Andrew Luck and Reggie Wayne (212 yards) put on a show to come back from a 21-3 halftime deficit against the Green Bay Packers in the best game -- and perhaps biggest upset -- of the season. That it happened one week after the Colts learned of head coach Chuck Pagano's leukemia diagnosis made it one of the most special wins in the Colts' proud history.
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3. Week 8: The hand of Dez
Big hands are usually viewed as a good thing for a wide receiver. Not, apparently, in the final seconds of a close matchup with the New York Giants. The size of Dez Bryant's mitts was the latest candidate in the Dallas Cowboys' season-long quest to find the most excruciating way possible to lose a football game.
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4. Week 6: Peyton's comeback
The strangest part of the Peyton Manning-led 35-point second half explosion that helped the Denver Broncos overcome a 24-0 halftime deficit and beat the San Diego Chargers? Not the scoring outburst, but the fact that a division was won in Week 6.
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5. Week 7: Eli-to-Cruz beats Robert Griffin III
RG3 made Jason Pierre-Paul miss on a wild fourth-down completion, then lofted a beautiful touch pass to Santana Moss to give the Washington Redskins the lead against the New York Giants with less than two minutes to go in the Meadowlands. And then Eli Manning and Victor Cruz topped him, with the help of the leaky Redskins defense.
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6. Week 6: Craziest 11 seconds of the year
At No. 6, we actually have three plays in one: Russell Wilson's bomb to help the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots; Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely's missed field goal, which blew a win against the Buffalo Bills; and Robert Griffin III's 76-yard touchdown sprint to help the Redskins bury the Minnesota Vikings.
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7. Week 3: Torrey Smith shows his heart
Smith learned of the death of his younger brother on the morning of Sept. 23. That night, he led the Baltimore Ravens with six receptions for 127 yards and two touchdowns in a comeback win over the New England Patriots. Shaky moments from the replacement refs also raised tensions that would explode the following night in Seattle.
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8. Week 4: Atlanta Falcons drive from the 1-yard line vs. Carolina Panthers
When Matt Ryan got the ball on his own 1-yard line, the Atlanta Falcons were down a point and had no timeouts with 59 seconds left. One play later, he was on the Carolina Panthers' 40-yard line. Four plays after that, the game was over. Ryan's late-game heroics have helped define the first half for the undefeated Falcons.
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9. Week 5: Drew Brees breaks Johnny Unitas' TD record
This should have felt like a bigger deal, Brees breaking Unitas' mark for consecutive games with a touchdown pass, but it didn't, because the Saints were 0-4 and Brees had just set another big record to end last season. (And because Tom Brady will likely also "break" both records.) The best part about the game: Brees pulled off a huge comeback against his former team, the San Diego Chargers.
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10. Week 9: Andrew Luck breaks the rookie quarterback yardage record
Luck made more ridiculous throws against the Miami Dolphins than some quarterbacks have made all season, and finished with 433 passing yards, the most ever for a rookie in a single game. It's the type of win that earns Offensive Rookie of the Year votes.
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11. Week 7: New Orleans Saints hang tough
New Orleans Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins' sprint to catch Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Vincent Jackson from behind was one of the all-time NFL hustle plays, reminiscent of Ben Watson's sprint-and-strip of Champ Bailey in the 2006 playoffs. New Orleans' ensuing goal-line stand was the difference in a win in Tampa.
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12. Week 4: Chicago Bears pick off Tony Romo five times
The Chicago Bears' insanely prolific touchdown-scoring defense had to be represented on this list, and their Monday night massacre of the Cowboys was a better choice than the Bears sending Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams into a blind rage in Week 9.
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13. Week 4: Arizona Cardinals over Miami Dolphins in OT
A strange choice, perhaps, but this was one of my favorite games of the year. Clutch Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb hit a fourth-and-long touchdown to force overtime. Ryan Tannehill looked like the franchise quarterback Miami Dolphins fans have been waiting for. Dolphins receiver Brian Hartline went bananas. Plus, it's fun to remember the days when the Cardinals were 4-0.
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14. Week 6: Aaron Rodgers goes off on Houston Texans
Just when the vultures had started circling around the 2-3 Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers put together the single best quarterback performance of the year on the road, tossing six touchdown passes to turn around Green Bay's season.
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15. Week 2: Atlanta Falcons pick off Peyton Manning three times in first half
Admit it: You thought Peyton Manning was done as an elite NFL quarterback before halftime of Week 2. We're including this here just to remind everyone how long the NFL season (or half a season) can be.
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16. Week 1: RG3's debut vs. the New Orleans Saints
You thought you knew about Robert Griffin III, but you didn't know for sure until the Washington Redskins' season opener. After roughly one quarter, you knew.
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