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HONOLULU, Hawai'i– Melissa Zornig's career-high 28 points weren't enough against Hawai'i as UC Santa Barbara fell 73-60 at the Stan Sheriff Center on Thursday night.
UCSB falls to 8-20 on the season, while also sliding to 3-12 in conference play. The Rainbow Wahine improve to 16-11 overall and now own a 10-5 Big West record.
Zornig shot an efficient 11-of-20 from the field to lead the game in scoring and also pulled down a team-best six boards, while Nicole Nesbit was the only other Gaucho to reach double figures with 11.
Hawai'i has proven to be one of the top defensive teams in the league, but the biggest difference in the game with UCSB proved to be with the offensive rebounds. The Rainbow Wahine reeled in 17 offensive boards and capitalized on their second chances with 25 points. In the same category, UCSB only put up seven.
In the early goings of the game, the Gauchos played Hawai'i close as there were five lead changes and five tied scores after eight and a half minutes of play.
At the 11:31 mark, Hawai'i broke the 13-13 tie when Morgan Mason sunk her first three-pointer of the night. Mason would go on to finish second on the team with 16 points.
The Rainbow Wahine improved on the lead and went up 35-21 going into the halftime break.
After being outrebounded 22-to-10 in the first half, Santa Barbara was stronger on the boards in the second half in picking up 13 rebounds to the Rainbow Wahine's seven through the first 13 minutes.
The Gauchos made their move for a comeback in the opening eight minutes of the half by limiting Hawai'i to only two rebounds. During that span, UCSB chipped away at the double-digit deficit by scoring 15 points.
Destini Mason got the Gauchos started with five straight points, first off a three-point play after she attacked her way through the right side of the key. She followed that play with a baseline jumper. The senior completed the game with nine points and four rebounds.
By the 7:07 mark, UCSB trailed by 10 points but soon made a run at the Hawai'i lead.
After the media timeout, Mason picked up a steal at half court after the Gauchos put pressure on the Rainbow Wahine's backcourt. Zornig finished the play on the other end by finishing with the transition layup, making the score 58-50.
In the second half, the Gauchos came up with six of its game-total seven steals. UCSB took those takeaways to the hoop for eight total points.
The Gauchos came within seven points with 3:34 remaining in the game after a 6-2 run. All three seniors added two points each in the scoring affair as Nesbit and Mason knocked down jumpers, while Zornig made a perfect 2-for-2 trip to the foul line.
Hawai'i went on to answer than run with five consecutive points of their own and played their way to the 73-60 final score.
UCSB will be back in action this Saturday when they host Cal Poly in the Thunderdome at 2 p.m. The game will be the last time the three Gaucho seniors will play at home, and they will be honored before tip-off during the Senior Day ceremonies.


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Did you ever wonder how someone becomes Mrs. Illinois? What exactly are her duties? We talked with the newly crowned Mrs. Illinois International 2012 Christine Garcia--who was crowned in a ceremony at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn--fresh off her victory to find out:
Q: So did you always want to be Mrs. Illinois?
A: No! My husband casually mentioned it to me after I'd lost the baby weight from my fourth daughter. He said, "You look great. You should apply for it."
Q: How did you lose the baby weight?
A: It was harder with my fourth but I did Weight Watchers and exercised every day. Sometimes I did two workouts a day. I really wanted to be healthy.
Q: How does someone go about entering this pageant?
A: You have to send in a photo and fill out an application. They want you to have a platform that shows you are involved in your community and an active volunteer.
Q: Your platform is "character education." What is that exactly?
A: In my community we have something called "Character Counts," which highlights the six pillars of character—trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. These help build and form a solid foundation for our youth. We do this in Elmhurst with children who range from pre-school age to high school and every month we have free workshops that focus on each pillar. So it helps them understand how good grades help and what it means to be a team player and respecting each other. It's giving kids examples of positive character. That's what I want for my own kids so I hope to spread this to other communities.
Q: Will this be your full time job now? Do you get paid?
A: I don't get to quit my job for this, no. I will still be keeping my job running a public relations company, be a mom to my kids, a wife, and I'll do appearances or talks on the side. I promised to have a plan of action of trying to get "Character Counts" throughout the state so I have to contact different schools and reach out to anyone who will listen. And next year, I will compete in Mrs. Illinois International which will have people from every state represented so that will be very exciting.
Q: Where you nervous during the pageant?
A: Yes! Being up on that stage in front of a crowd was really intimidating. There were five female judges, three of the five were former title holders—so I was very nervous because they're going to be the toughest ones. But I got to meet with them afterwords and they were very nice.
Q: What did your husband say?
A: He crowned me. The husbands had to go through crowning school, which was a 15-minute crash course on learning how to put it on the right way.
Q: And your daughters?
A: They keep asking to take turns wearing the crown.
Q: Do you worry this is sending a negative message to your daughters about beauty and setting standards that might be hard to reach?
A: I'm showing them how hard work pays off. I have had such support from everyone—my family, my neighbors, or fellow moms. They see me running in the community, and they know I worked hard to get back in shape. Being a healthy mom and a healthy wife it makes me feel better—so hopefully it's more of an inspiration.
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It's nearly over!
It's true what they say... "time flies when you're having fun" -
I've only been 'officially' blogging since June,
so it hasn't been an actual "year",
but I've had the most fun sharing with and learning from all of you!
In the spirit of Rhoda's "Best Of..." party, here's my "year" in review:
June brought the Princess Chair thrift store redo:
In July I made over this garage sale table to show off her great gams:
August brought the official "Fall-ification" of the house...
In September I shared my Chalkboard Cooler
and the serving tray I repurposed from a wine crate with some hardware and a bit of cork:
October gave us Miss L's Bow Board
And November was a busy month with the Drop Cloth Curtains
and creating a custom monogram pinecone "wreath"
And Oh, December.
I made outdoor wreaths out of ice,
and celebrated Christmas with the people I love the most.
So thank you for stopping by, for coming back, and for being so darn neat-o.
I'm looking forward to what fun and exciting things we'll create in 2011!


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Darwin's odd musings on circumcision: Believe whatever you like ... he certainly did
Friend Malcolm Chisholm, who is "finding that the Darwin we have been taught about is not the same as Darwin in his own words" has been reading Darwin's odd musings on circumcision, from the second edition (1875) of Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, which he is "wading through." Of this book, he notes,
It was first published in 1868, but the second edition has the chapter on Pangenesis largely rewritten. Since Darwin died in 1882, this is pretty much as close as we get to the synthesis of his life of thought and final positions.And what were these? Well, certainly not what the Darwin cult will tell you ...
First, he found, Darwin confirms himself as definitely Lamarckian. That is,
He absolutely believes that if a part of the body falls into disuse - or is removed - an inherited effect will reduce the appearance of this part of the body in subsequent generations. The mechanism he proposes for this is "Pangenesis" whereby every bit of the organism is responsible for getting itself inherited into the next generation.Now, why does this matter? Because the Darwin fanatics attribute magical powers to natural selection (survival of the fittest) to produce major changes - and typically denounce Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics).
He sees this being achieved via "gemmules" - units of inheritance that each cell (or maybe part of the body) passes on to succeeding generations, where they cause the same character to be expressed. If a bit of the body is removed, it cannot send its signal via the gemmules to the next generation, and so disappears. If a bit of the body falls into disuse, it produces fewer gemmules, so is less well expressed in succeeding generations.
Now, Lamarck (the early French biologist who gave his name to Lamarckism) and Darwin might be right about the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Generations of environmentalists have worried that they are - that eggs and sperm may be damaged by environmental effects, for example, thus introducing acquired characteristics to inheritance. But Lamarckism is nonetheless Bad Thought, Wrong Thought, as you doubtless learned from your Darwinist biology texts.
From what Chisholm has discovered, Darwin himself wouldn't have agreed with those texts. But with the Founder safely dead, the cult carries on regardless.
Which brings us to circumcision. Darwin had given careful thought to the practice, often a religious obligation, and in that case usually performed in early infancy.
Chisholm writes,
If the foreskin is removed, according to Darwin's Lamarckian view, it should be reduced or missing in descendents. No foreskin means it cannot pass on its gemmules. The problem is that foreskins are still with us.In some Muslim traditions, circumcision is performed in infancy, but in others around seven (traditionally, the "age of reason") and in still others, at puberty. Chisholm notes that there is "quite a bit of sophistry in this writing, allowing Darwin a lot of wiggle room while apparently building his case" - which becomes very difficult when he addresses the Jews because Jewish circumcision is performed on the eighth day.
Let's review how Darwin tackles this difficult problem.
(a) He craftily dismisses Mohammedan circumcision in an indirect manner as being practiced "at a later age than the Jews".
But, trying to have it both ways, he notes that Dr. Riedel, Assistant Resident in the North Celebes, "writes to me that the boys there go naked until from six to ten years old; and he has observed that many of them, though not all, have their prepuces (foreskin, removed at circumcision) much reduced in length, and this he attributes to the inherited effects of the operation".
(b) The situation of the Jews is a lot more difficult for Darwin. He recognizes this as follows: "With respect to Jews, I have been assured by three medical men of the Jewish faith that circumcision, which has been practised for so many ages, has produced no inherited effect."Unconvinced? I gather that Chisholm was too, for he writes,
Even so, Darwin is still able to find empirical evidence for his view: "Blumenbach, however, asserts (12/57. 'Philosoph. Mag.' volume 4 1799 page 5.) that Jews are often born in Germany in a condition rendering circumcision difficult, so that a name is given them signifying "born circumcised;" and Professor Preyer informs me that this is the case in Bonn, such children being considered the special favourites of Jehovah."
Darwin continues: "I have also heard from Dr. A. Newman, of Guy's Hospital, of the grandson of a circumcised Jew, the father not having been circumcised, in a similar condition. But it is possible that all these cases may be accidental coincidence, for Sir J. Paget has seen five sons of a lady and one son of her sister with adherent prepuces; and one of these boys was affected in a manner "which might be considered like that commonly produced by circumcision;" yet there was no suspicion of Jewish blood in the family of these two sisters."
(c) Just in case the reader is still baffled by all of this, Darwin immediately disposes of any uncertainty by stating at the beginning of the next paragraph: "Notwithstanding the above several negative cases, we now possess conclusive evidence that the effects of operations are sometimes inherited."Do we?
(d) Later on, Darwin is forced to return to the problem as he expounds on the gemmules:In other words, based on almost no serious evidence, Darwin insisted on a Lamarckian interpretation of circumcision (why?) And insisted on having both ways. If the evidence didn't support him, it really did.
"But it appears at first sight a fatal objection to our hypothesis that a part or organ may be removed during several successive generations, and if the operation be not followed by disease, the lost part reappears in the offspring."
A few lines later: "Circumcision has been practised by the Jews from a remote period, and in most cases the effects of the operation are not visible in the offspring; though some maintain that an inherited effect does occasionally appear."
Immediately following this he says: "If inheritance depends on the presence of disseminated gemmules derived from all the units of the body, why does not the amputation or mutilation of a part, especially if effected on both sexes, invariably affect the offspring? The answer in accordance with our hypothesis probably is that gemmules multiply and are transmitted during a long series of generations--as we see in the reappearance of zebrine stripes on the horse-in the reappearance of muscles and other structures in man which are proper to his lowly organised progenitors, and in many other such cases. Therefore the long-continued inheritance of a part which has been removed during many generations is no real anomaly, for gemmules formerly derived from the part are multiplied and transmitted from generation to generation."
Hence the continued appearance of foreskins actually supports Darwin's Lamarckianism based on Pangenesis implemented through gemmules.
And this is the Great Prophet of evolution?
Chisholm adds,
This stuff is very significant. "The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication" was intended by Darwin to show how evolution works in detail and provide evidence for it. What is does show is that Darwin had views very different from those attributed to him today, but it was these views that created the foundation - at least in Darwin's mind - for the Theory of Evolution.Maybe in Darwin's mind. But when Richard Dawkins reverently whispers that "whispers that Darwin's Origin of Species is "not just the most precious book in my library, but the most precious book in the library of our species," he does not have in mind a real book. The real book, Origin of Species, like Variation, which Chisholm has been reading, is just an old book about a theory about how species originate that is now slowly being disconfirmed for most of the cases cited.
The book that materialist atheists like Dawkins read and adore is not an earthly book, it is a heavenly book - the creation story that shows how they slowly ascended from gibbering apes to gullible devotees.
Oh and, by the way, here's one of Richard Dawkins's "Four Horsemen" of atheism, Christopher Hitchens, carrying on against circumcision. Hat tip to Mariano at Life and Doctrinaire Atheism blog.
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Peter S. Carmichael, Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College
This seminar explores the many ways that teachers can utilize artifacts, photographs, and historical sites as a means to understand the revolutionary experiences and consequences of the Civil War. Participants will divide their time between the classroom, the Gettysburg battlefield, and various historic sites in town. Special attention will be given to the ways that the "stuff of the past" can communicate how historical people made different meanings and memories of the Civil War. We will visit the sites where some of the most famous photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield were taken, stand before monuments of great symbolic importance, and read primary documents on the very ground where they were written nearly 150 years ago. These field excursions, combined with lectures and small group discussions, promise to offer teachers new methods and materials that can in turn be used to inform and engage students of all ages and learning styles.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Civil War Institute.
Readings are sent by the Institute to seminar participants. Readings may include:
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
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Gettysburg College is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The closest and most convenient airports are Harrisburg International Airport (a 45-minute drive) and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (a 75-minute drive). The college provides shuttle service to campus from many of the major transportation hubs in the area. Call Transportation Services, 717-337-6923, to make arrangements.
The Harrisburg Amtrak Station is about 45 minutes from campus, and Penn Station in Baltimore is about 75 minutes away. Again, the college provides shuttle service so long as you call ahead.
If you plan to drive, the Gettysburg College website will provide you with detailed instructions.
Workshop participants will be housed in on-campus housing, in a private bedroom with a shared common bathroom and common space. The rooms are air-conditioned. The college will provide you with sheets, a blanket, a pillow, and one towel. You are welcome to bring your own fitted sheets. Please note that participants should plan to bring alarm clocks, hangers, irons, hair dryers, and shower shoes.
Meals will be served in a college cafeteria in space shared by other programs. All on-campus meals will be paid for by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Participants traveling internationally or from Alaska and Hawaii receive a $500 stipend in lieu of reimbursement upon completion of the seminar. Applicants to seminars should note that supplements will not be given in cases where the $400 allowance is insufficient to cover all travel expenses. Our reimbursement policy has changed from previous years. For more information on our policy click here.
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A CAUTION TO READERS: Objectionable language is discussed in this post. Those of you with delicate sensibilities may wish to give it a pass.
One of the linguistic aspects of the George Zimmerman trial is the dispute over the meaning of the word cracker. Some observers call it a racial slur, while others say that it is an affectionate term for a native Floridian.
I suspect that Trayvon Martin, in referring to the man following him as a "creepy-ass cracker," was not being affectionate toward a native Floridian, but neither do I think that cracker should be ranked among vile racist terms, though some dictionaries label it "racist."
Cracker is surely derogatory, and always has been as a label for poor white residents of the South. The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from a letter of 1766 from George Cochrane: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia; who often change their places of abode."
The boasting comes from an earlier sense of the word from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, when is was a term for a braggart or liar. (Thus the common belief that the term derives from cracker barrel is merely a folk etymology.)
My sense is that cracker as a slur is akin to rube, bumpkin, yokel, or hillbilly (which I occasionally heard in the variant hill jack when I lived in Cincinnati).* I leave it open for discussion whether it is more or less derogatory than the twentieth-century African-American ofay for white people, which appears to have fallen into disuse.
Should you call me a cracker, you would be spot on. I descend from several generations of not-particularly-prosperous white people in Fleming County, Kentucky, one of the counties included in Appalachia, and I myself am about as pasty white as it is possible to get this side of albinism.
Moreover, I have been called worse.
*For a bona fide racist term, you should probably look for white as an adjective modifying a polysyllable.


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DEAR BRUCE: It may seem trivial to be asking this question, as there are so many people out there having such a hard time, but I do have a concern about my granddaughter. When she turns 18, her trust will expire, at which time she will be able to withdraw in excess of $1 million that was left to her by her deceased father. Obviously, my daughter doesn't want her to have immediate access to this money and blow it; she would like to know how to invest it for her. Any suggestions? — Reader, via email
DEAR READER: Leaving this amount of money to someone at the tender age of 18 was an incredible exercise in poor judgment. Far too many times, kids who are left with excessive amounts of money when they are little grow up to be young adults who you wish could not get their hands on the money.
For example, if the money was left to them when they were 10 and they spent the next eight years hanging out with the wrong crowd, stealing, doing drugs, etc., there's a whole list of things that could go wrong. The last thing you'd want is for kids like this to have this kind of money.
You, your daughter and your granddaughter should sit down with a trained and recommended financial adviser. You will have to trust the adviser to know where the money should go. That is the best thing for all parties. I wish you well.
DEAR BRUCE: My husband and I are 82, and we don't have a will. My husband has refused to get one, and I don't think at this late date I'm going to convince him otherwise.
If we both die without a will, will our children have any problem getting our home and our bank account? We don't have any bills, and our home and automobiles are paid for. — Reader, via email
DEAR READER: The answer to your question is: Yes! You bet they will have problems! You are talking about leaving your home with undivided interest to more than one child, which is always a mistake.
For goodness' sake, you should have simple reciprocal wills, one to the other and one to your surviving children. At the very least, one of you will have to be appointed administrator of the estate by the probate court, which will involve some expense.
I have written many columns on this subject, expressing my well-defined view that there always should be a personal rep or administrator (which you currently don't have) and instructions to them in a will that the home should be disposed of and the monies divided. Not having a will is a huge disservice to the people you leave behind.
DEAR BRUCE: Friends of mine won a million dollars in the lottery. Would they be better off taking the lump sum or taking payments of $32,000 a year for 20 years? — P.S., via email
DEAR P.S.: Congratulations to your friends.
I have never seen a situation where taking the annual payments made any sense. Lotteries advertise these huge payouts, but then when it comes time to pay a winner, they actually pay a much smaller amount in cash as a lump sum. The other option is to make annuity payments stretched out over 20 years — sometimes longer.
Other things being equal, unless the recipients have some type of a problem such as liens — huge debts that would immediately be attached — the cash payout is to their advantage. Spendthrifts might opt for the payouts over 20 years because they know they will blow through the lump sum payment. But on balance, I would take the lump sum.
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Whether running a marathon or a relay, the London 2012 networking team turned in a platinum medal-winning performance
What's the most precious commodity in any major project? Ask anyone who's ever managed a large-scale international undertaking against an immovable deadline and you'll get a single answer: time.
You certainly can't buy it—but you can create it. Tim Boden and his colleagues saw that strict attention to testing in the London 2012 project's early stages would release resources later when the pressure was really on.
And so it turned out. Unanimous praise for BT from London 2012 stakeholders was as much about its people's unruffled attention to their needs in the run-up to the Games as it was about technical excellence.
It's inconceivable that we could have delivered the 2012 Games without BT on board. We needed someone we could trust and who could provide the technical know-how and the creative solutions to ensure the London 2012 Games were the very best they could be. BT gave us all of this."
- Sebastian Coe, Chair, LOCOG
What's the most appropriate sporting metaphor for the Olympic Games infrastructure project? It's a seven-year marathon, that's for sure. But it's also a relay, with the baton needing to be safely and surely passed from planning and design to installation, testing, and finally in-life operations. And ultimately it's a team game too—played out under the public spotlight's glare.
"To be candid, one of the primary goals is simply to not trip up when you're out on the track," Howard Dickel, London 2012 Delivery Director at BT Global Services, says wryly, "as there's nothing newscasters find more entertaining than someone falling flat on their face." The opposite and much more rewarding side of that coin is that when the entire event is a flawless success, as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games assuredly was, the media is fulsome in its praise.
So, viewed from a networking perspective, what were the vital ingredients that contributed to that happy outcome? "In a project of this nature," continues Howard Dickel, "risk management and delivery focus are key attributes for a winning team."
The appointment of BT as official communications services partner, from among other service providers claiming to be able to fulfil the London 2012 brief, was one of the first and most important risk management decisions taken by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) team.
When the BT Global Services team swung into action, its leaders set core risk management principles and posted logical milestones along the route leading to 2012. Among those core principles was the fact that only tried and tested technology would be used; while the milestones included a moratorium on design changes before the Games opened, as well as rigidly-prescribed testing schedules. "While the Olympic Games are certainly all about heroics," says Tim Boden, London 2012 Business Technology Director at BT Global Services, "the Olympic Games networking project is definitely not."
London 2012 was previewed as the most connected Olympic and Paralympic Games ever, a prediction that proved more than true. There's a thread of DNA running down the years, right the way back to 1896, and it's normal for succeeding Games teams to learn from their predecessors. BT Global Services certainly did that, but with technology evolving at such a rapid pace, it also knew how and why things had moved on.
At Beijing 2008, for instance, a private network was provided for photographers' images to be copied back to the main press centre (MPC) for editing and transmission. At London 2012 they would be sent across the BT infrastructure wirelessly and in real time direct from cameras as well as via laptops. That affected planning assumptions for Olympic network capacity between venues and the MPC and took considerable optimisation and testing efforts. But London 2012 would serve up other unique communications challenges, which meant planning for the art of the possible while expecting the unexpected too.
For example, if one thing is certain about journalists and broadcasters it's that they'll always act unpredictably. So while it's possible to plan for likely usage profiles, one can't guarantee that that's how the media will use the network facilities when they arrive. And vital clues weren't available from pre-Olympic test events because the global press were largely uninvolved in those.
"One can't impose a vanilla solution on the media," says Tim Boden, "because they're always innovating and one has to learn along with them. So there was heavy help desk interaction when they turned up at the beginning of the Games."
Security enhancement was a classic case: the BT Global Services network had been taught to look out for anomalous behaviours. So when press photographers moved around venues to get the best shots, connecting into different network zones, the network thought hackers were at large and closed the suspect ports down. Elsewhere, a major broadcaster wanted to run video multicasts to its entire staff in all venues, but hadn't requested the facility in advance. "Our job was to provide guidance and find fixes," adds Tim. "Most times tuning the network configuration; other times working with the customer to find more effective ways of working."
In addition, BT Global Services had to co-operate with and co-ordinate the activities of eleven other technology partner companies. "Some of those relationships ran like clockwork," says Howard Dickel, "while others were less easy. One company had to refer every single decision to its corporate headquarters, which meant we were constantly chasing answers."
But how does one manage in such a fluid and dynamic environment? Normal programme management frameworks tend to impose a straitjacket. While they're important in the planning and implementation phases, a more agile way of acting upon day-to-day issues is required.
"The principles for success are flexibility and continuous learning," says Gary Symes, London 2012 Service Management Director in BT Global Services. "During the run-up to London 2102, the practical approach was a daily call at 07.30 to go through a key issues list and share ideas. That practice continued into Games-time too."
Another London 2012 discipline was to not make major network configuration changes while the Games were taking place. Doing that overnight meant essential testing procedures were followed to the letter. Of course, however, the BT team offered turnarounds measured in minutes for simple help desk requests such as changing international call barring.
Across a network designed to handle up to 60Gbps of traffic, the maximum measured throughput was nearly 7Gbps, of which a quarter was internet traffic. Not surprisingly, the media placed the greatest demands upon the infrastructure, while public and LOCOG traffic was a comparatively small proportion. "Did we over-provide?" asks Gary Symes. "Not if you think for a moment about the alternative. Our risk management principles required us to take account of all possible eventualities, and the fact that we were well within our planned capacity is a testament to that."
One initially puzzling consequence was a large number of help desk calls, taken early in the Games, from photographers complaining that their pictures weren't being transmitted. On investigation the problem was found to be that the coloured bar on their screens—showing how long the wireless transfer would take, and normally creeping along—was gone before they'd even had time to register it.
Core network availability was 100 per cent: in terms of Severity Level 1 faults—categorised as affecting an entire venue or a major facility such as the IPC—there were precisely zero. In fact, across all 94 venues only minor service-affecting incidents were reported over the 19 days of the Olympic Games and 12 days of the Paralympic Games, of which many were down to mis-operation or the attempted use of non-standard equipment, and all were cleared within the two-hour service level agreement.
That's even more remarkable when taken against London 2012 as the most connected Olympic Games ever—its complexity underlined by the statistical read-out.
For example, the networking team clocked up one million hours delivering the communications infrastructure, along the way installing more than 5,500 kilometres of optical fibre in the 94 venues. There were 11,500 fixed telephones originating and answering 500,000 calls between them. The number of BT Wi-fi hotspots reached 500,000 in the London area including, in the Olympic Park, the largest ever high-density Wi-fi installation. A total of 961 terabytes of information was carried over the network, while the london2012.com website recorded more than 20 billion page views.
Not only the most connected ever, London 2012 was also the most digital Olympic Games ever, with the amount of video and other internet content carried on Britain's mobile networks surpassing all records. When Bradley Wiggins won cycling gold it saw more data carried over mobile operators' networks per second than past peaks marked by the Royal Wedding and New Year's Eve 2011. Usain Bolt becoming the first Olympian to retain both his sprint titles by winning the 200 metres, also made digital history by generating 80,000 tweets per minute. The BBC reported that of the 106 million requests for online Olympic video content received during the Games, 12 million were from smart phones.
Tim Boden says: "Returning to risk management, our testing methodologies included critical design reviews and the design definition environment at Adastral Park. In addition there were test events at places like Wimbledon and the London Marathon, as well as mandatory IOC technical rehearsals."
The sheer thoroughness of that preparation bought precious time for BT Global Services, simply because there were no major problems. "Believe me," adds Howard Dickel, "more than anything you're judged on how you respond to stakeholders during the six-week run-up to Games-time. We'd given ourselves the bandwidth to focus on customers' issues and everyone appreciated that."
Another factor in that equation was that BT adapted its standard order-handling systems and processes for London 2012, meaning that there were no teething problems to attend to in that area either. In fact, Tim Boden says: "Among others, staff at several major global broadcasters remarked to me that London 2012 was easily the best Olympic Games service they'd experienced." Along the way, NBC had its highest-ever viewing figures for an Olympic Games opening ceremony.
In terms of security, most nuisance incidents were picked up and dealt with by website and network perimeter defences, while others were false alarms caused by end users attempting to employ rogue equipment. Only one co-ordinated attack was identified during Games-time, and that was easily handled by provisions built into London 2012 hardware and processes.
Surely there must have been some things that went wrong? "Well," admits Gary Symes, "there was some concern raised when we saw cellular traffic congestion during the cycling road race. There was no way that the infrastructure would be able to stand up when Bradley Wiggins competed in the time trial. So, within just 24 hours, we had to install new broadband links for extra timing points on the course."
The legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will not just live long in terms of the permanent uplift to a substantial area of east London, vitally important though that is. This time around, technology was seen to have a profound effect on how people interacted with the Games. BT believes that this will impact normal office environments by accelerating demands for new operating models such as bring-your-own-device, along with greater mobility and more flexible working.
"A total of 850 people are returning to BT ready to apply newfound skills and experience to challenging major projects," says Howard Dickel. "Meanwhile new systems and processes designed for and honed at London 2012 will not only provide competitive advantage, but also potentially benefit other Olympic Games teams in the future."
Sebastian Coe, LOCOG Chair, concludes: "It's inconceivable that we could have delivered the 2012 Games without BT on board. We needed someone we could trust and who could provide the technical know-how and the creative solutions to ensure the London 2012 Games were the very best they could be. BT gave us all of this."


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There are a couple of exercises on the order of adjectives here: https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/index.php
Student or Learner
Hi everyone,
Does somebody know where I can get some exercises on the formation and/or order of adjectives on the web. I'd like to exercise myself constructing the sentences in English and then translating them into French.
Thank you for you help.
There are a couple of exercises on the order of adjectives here: https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/index.php
Thank you TDOL for the tip!Hela
The order of adjectives is a grammatical topic of the recommended FCE preparation syllabus; therefore most coursebooks contain a chapter devoted to it, not only with some good exercises, but also with a generous amount of explanation.
I'm not sure whether you can get hold of some FCE coursebooks; if so, please check 'First Certificate Gold' or 'Think First Certificate'.
Good luck!
Tee Kay
Re: order of adjectives on the webOriginally Posted by hela
Go to your search engine and do a search under Royal Order of Adjectives. There's a great page at webster commnet.
Thanks Casiopea, I'll do that right now!
By the way, what's the meaning of "Casiopea"?
You're welcome.Originally Posted by hela
The name Casiopea is taken from a constellation, but the name of the constellation is spelled differently.
Thank you for the information Casiopea.
See you soon,
You're welcome.


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Rascal Flatts is bringing their "Changed Tour 2013" to the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach on June 8, which you knew. The opening act is young Grammy winners The Band Perry, which you also knew. But news to us, though perhaps you knew this, is the opening-opening act is our own Cassadee Pope, once the lead singer of on-hiatus West Palm rockers Hey Monday and most recently the champion on that little NBC show called "The Voice."
Pope, now based in Los Angeles, won "The Voice" as a member of country star Blake Shelton's team and seemed strongest on her covers of songs by Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Faith Hill and Miranda Lambert. The 23-year-old Pope recently signed with the Republic Nashville record label and is performing music from a forthcoming album on the tour. Below is her Times Square New Year's Eve take on Rascal Flatts' "Stand."
Tickets for the show, on sale 10 a.m. Friday, are $29.75-$65.25, with four-pack lawn tickets available for $99. Get them at LiveNation.com, all Ticketmaster locations and at 800-745-3000.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 4, 2005) - Several East Tennessee State baseball players were honored in the 2005 college preview issues of Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball, on newsstands now.
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Crowe transferred to ETSU after three seasons at the
Church was ETSU's best run producer in 2004, batting .353 with eight home runs and a team-high 53 RBIs. He also led the team with a .989 fielding percentage, committing just five errors in 442 chances.
Moore was named as a first-team preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball while Crowe, Church and junior outfielder Shane Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) were listed as "top players to watch" in the SoCon in 2005.
Byrne has a great all-around season in 2004, hitting .330 with six home runs and 39 RBIs. He also stole 13 bases, scored 51 runs and possesses one of the strongest outfield arms in the conference.
"Our players are very well deserving of these preseason honors," said Buccaneer head coach Tony Skole. "It is a great testament to their hard work and dedication to be the best they can possibly be. I am looking forward to watching our ballclub compete this season."
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So I was on my way to the store this morning, and A Prairie Home Companion was on the radio. Long show, short trip, so I may have missed some context, but a song begins. It was simple, it was cheerful, and the audience was encouraged to sing along at one point, but I had never heard it before. Oddly enough, if I had written the lyrics myself, I'd have rejected them as too simplistic in their one-dimensional and insulting portrayal of believers. But here, without a trace of irony, they were singing what I have since learned is a christian campfire song: "I wanna be a sheep".
Now, I understand the metaphor of Jesus as shepherd; I had always assumed that it was sort of a "given that we are lost sheep, isn't it nice to have a shepherd watching over us" metaphor. I had never considered the "hey, isn't it great to be a sheep, a mindless member of a herd!" interpretation. But it turns out there are quite a few versions (the one at that last link is bizarre) of the song up on YouTube.
Frightening. I assume the multiple watermarks on the photos are there ironically, since good christian sheep would never steal.
I wanna be a drone (mmmmmmmmmmmmm)
I wanna be a drone (mmmmmmmmmmmmm)
Don't ever wanna have a thought of my own
I just wanna be a drone (mmmmmmmmmmmm)
Don't wanna be a cuttlefish (cuttlefish-noise)
Don't wanna be a cuttlefish (cuttlefish-noise)
Cos they're too subtle fish
Don't wanna be a cuttlefish (cuttlefish-noise)
Don't wanna be… oh, I can't go on.


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The word patience is really starting to annoy me. It has been thrown around Winnipeg sport franchises like no other as of late, and it has me really questioning how much longer fans in the city have to deal with it. The misconception that "just having a team back" is enough should really be wearing off soon, but it seems as if Chevy & Co. are going to hold on to it for as long as the majority of the fan base finds it acceptable. Therefore, I ask you – Do the Jets really deserve our patience any longer, or is it time to expect winning and playoff births from this team?
(To be fair, I cannot recall a direct time in which anyone within the Jets franchise has asked for patience from fans, but it seems to be the feeling "leaked out" via a lot of the Winnipeg media)
Why They (Chevy) Deserve Patience
Kevin Cheveldayoff has only had two-ish years to work with this team
Let's be honest here. TNSE, Kevin Cheveldayoff and everyone involved with this team really did adopt a bit of a mess. No real prospects developing, only 1 playoff appearance in franchise history, the "loss" of the franchise leader in almost every scoring category for little immediate benefit… things weren't exactly peachy when the Thrashers moved. Lots needed to be done to fix the apparent disaster that Winnipeg inherited. Despite the overwhelmingly long "to do" list, things were extremely rushed going into the 2011-12 season and the lockout took out a large chunk of the 2012-13 campaign. It could easily be argued that Kevin Cheveldayoff has still not had a complete "normal" season to properly evaluate the team and do his work. Certainly he deserves a little patience (in the term of one full season) to do something, right?
His Prospects need time to develop
I've always held a belief that it isn't fair to completely evaluate and dismiss a general manager before a few of their prospects have developed. As I mentioned before, the franchise wasn't exactly bursting at the seems with potential upon their arrival. With the number seven pick overall in the 2011 draft the yet-to-be-named Winnipeg franchise selected Mark Scheifele, a player who has yet to break into the NHL. It was very clear with that pick that the Jets were ready to take a slower approach in terms of prospect development as they left players like Sean Couturier and Dougie Hamilton (who were without a doubt more NHL-ready and have seen consistent NHL time already) on the board to take Mark. Scheif has seemingly come along very nicely, and 2012 first round pick Jacob Trouba has become a superstar in Winnipeg already, so I have a hard time completely dismissing Chevy until we can see how they perform with the big boys. That is of course assuming at least one of them can make that jump within the next year or two.
It is also worth mentioning how highly praised the franchise has been for their draft class this year. The Jets had one of the best overall drafts this year, leading many to believe that the future of this team could be quite successful. Maybe we should all just be patient enough for that crop of players to grow and develop?
Why They (Chevy) Don't Deserve Any More Patience
Chevy has already had two-ish years with this team
And what has he really done with it? The Winnipeg Jets of today look a lot like the Atlanta Thrashers of 2010-11, and still have many of the same organizational problems. Despite this years solid draft, there are many of the same "types" of players throughout the organization, with minimal internal competition. Sure Michael Frolik and Matt Halischuk are both likely upgrades to the 3rd and 4th lines, but there is still very little risk of either of them losing a spot to a better player. Especially when most of the players that have been brought into Winnipeg have done so via the waiver wire. Yes, he brought in Devin Setoguchi to address the severe lack of talent at right wing, but he also brought in an aging, declining Olli Jokinen that likely resulted in the loss of Alex Burmistrov to the KHL. Speaking of Alex, it turns out that it was not only the issues with Coach Noel (who Chevy hired) that caused him to want out, but also the organizations requests to have him play in the AHL rather than back home in Russia.
It has been seen this offseason how a new general manager can have an immediate impact with his team. Jim Nill of the Dallas Stars has put his stamp on the team already via the acquisition of players like Tyler Seguin, Sergei Gonchar, Rich Peverley and Shawn Horcoff. New Oilers GM Craig MacTavish put his stamp all over his new team this summer adding David Perron, addressing goaltending depth problems by signing Jason Labarbera, and attempting to bolster a weak defensive group by bringing in Lee Moffie and signing Andrew Ference, Anton Belov, Denis Grebeshkov, Brad Hunt, and Taylor Feduin to deals. Yet in two-ish years Chevy has yet to really put his stamp on this team at all. Instead he has played around with the bottom two lines, acquired "free" players that other teams no longer wanted, addressed an issue at right wing, brought in an aging center, and lost a prospect. Patience. Right.
The timing required for this years draft class
Yes, the Jets had a great draft this year. But if we are being completely honest, the majority of those players are not going to be NHL ready for another 3-5 years. In that time, the current "core" group that I mentioned above will also be 3-5 years older and many of which will either be on new contracts, or in the process of negotiating new ones. So what is expected of this? A "fresh start" to the Jets five year plan? Patience is one thing but asking a fan base to wait almost ten years for a winning group, at which point would be filled with aging core players, is ridiculous.
The franchise has lost assets for nothing
Let me bring you back to Alex Burmistrov for a second. It was well known around the trade deadline that there were problems between Alex and Claude Noel. Yet rather than being proactive and really working towards moving him for something beneficial, the "wait and see" approach was taken. We all know how that turned out. This is hardly the first time a young player has clashed with his first team, and the past has shown us that sometimes moving to a new location can do wonders. Take the 2012 trade between the Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres for example, involving players Cody Hodgson and Zach Kassian. Both players were having problems and were probably put into inappropriate roles with their original teams. One trade later and both have began to thrive and are looking much more like the players they were expected to become.
Ron Hainsey provides another example of what was a valuable asset being allowed to walk for nothing. Once again, at the trade deadline it was apparent that there was a good chance of Ron leaving town at the end of the season (we now know that Chevy put little attempt in bringing him back). Yet Chevy decided to take the chance of losing him for a run at the playoffs, which ultimately did not work out. This decision was made despite the absolutely absurd rate at which depth and veteran defensemen were being acquired for (Douglas Murray was traded for a pair of second round picks for goodness sake), hinting to me that the Jets no longer desire patience and believe they can win now.
They have kept the same core for big money
If Kevin Cheveldayoff did not have faith that this core group of players (Ladd, Kane, Wheeler, Little, Bogosian, Enstrom and Byfuglien) were capable of winning now, this summer was his chance to really do something about it. Wheeler, Little and Bogo all required new contracts this summer, and moving their negotiating rights really could have brought a new look, feel, and direction to the Jets franchise. Ladd, Enstrom and Byfuglien all have long term contracts and are players that would draw huge interest and great returns from opposing teams should the Jets decide to move them. Yet Kevin Cheveldayoff decided that this group of players, a group put together by previous general managers and a group that has yet to prove themselves as playoff caliber, is worth a cap hit of just over $36 million dollars until at least 2016. One can't help but wonder what an addition like Mikhail Grabovski could have brought, in combination with any direct assets from moving Bryan Little? Or potentially a goaltender, prospects, depth players, etc. for a Dustin Byfuglien or Tobias Enstrom? At this point, any of this seems like nothing more than a pipe dream.
If the Jets really are banking on the patience of fans, they really are taking advantage of it with the "stand pat and hope these guys get better" method. It could work, I guess. In fact, Evander Kane still has his best years in front of him, Zach Bogosian is expected to truly take off as a star soon, and a healthy season from Enstrom would likely do wonders for the team. Yet with the overall lack of depth and strong supporting players it doesn't matter who your core is, and now the Jets look to be right up against the salary cap for years to come without much help coming to those vital roles.
To Conclude
In case it's not obvious already, I believe that patience is a gift we as fans should no longer provide to the Winnipeg Jets. Despite what many believe in regards to the time Chevy has had and the work he has done draft wise, in reality this team has changed on a very minor level from its first arrival. In fact, not only has it not changed but the group has been rewarded with big money, long term deals alongside a big vote of confidence despite no playoff appearances. I try to hold on to the belief that it takes a well used five-ish years for a general manager to properly bring together a team that can contend. But in order to do so there usually needs to be some sort of change and player movement, of which Winnipeg is really yet to see. This Jets team is nothing more than a slightly altered Atlanta Thrashers, and until that changes I seriously doubt they will see much success. Moving into what will likely be a much more difficult conference next year may be the wake up call that Kevin Cheveldayoff needs to start creating change. The problem is, I fear it may come a year too late.


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The Third Ecumenical Council was held in Ephesus, Asia Minor in 431 under Emperor Theodosius II, grandson of Theodosius the Great. Approximately 200 Bishops were present, though procedings began in haste before the arrival of the bishops from the west. The procedings were conducted in a heated atmosphere of confrontation and recriminations. It was the third of the Ecumenical Councils, and was chiefly concerned with Nestorianism.
Christological Controversies
According to the Council, Nestorianism overemphasized the human nature of Christ at the expense of the divine. The Council denounced Patriarch Nestorius' teaching as erroneous. Nestorius taught that the Virgin Mary gave birth to a man, Jesus Christ, not God the Logos. The Logos only dwelled in Christ, as in a Temple (Christ, therefore, was only Theophoros: The "Bearer of God".) Consequently, the Virgin Mary should be called "Christotokos," Mother of Christ and not "Theotokos, "Mother of God."
The Council decreed that Christ was one person, not two separate "people": fully God and fully man, with a rational soul and body. The Virgin Mary is "Theotokos" because she gave birth not to man but to God as a man. The union of the two natures of Christ took place in such a fashion that one did not disturb the other.
The Council also declared the text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed to be complete and forbade any additional change to it. In addition, it condemned Pelagianism.


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For its next-generation Nexus phone, the unlocked Nexus S made by Samsung (but usually sold with a T-Mobile subsidy for $199.99), Google has produced what can be best described as an advanced basic smartphone. It features some bleeding-edge technologies such as a 4-inch AMOLED screen, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, NFC tag reading, a front-facing camera, and both tethering and mobile hotspot capabilities. These advanced features are undercut, however, by its lack of soon-to-be-standard features for smartphones of its ilk, such as high-definition video recording, HSPA+ 4G to fuel its mobile hotspot, and no pre-installed video chatting app. It makes a fine introduction to Android, but is unlikely to appeal to more advanced users moving to their second or third smartphones.
Features and design
If the Nexus S looks vaguely familiar – that's because it's a slightly redesigned version of Samsung's Galaxy S phone for T-Mobile, the Vibrant. The Nexus S is molded with slightly rounder corners, lacks Vibrant's silver perimeter band, and moves the microUSB and the headphone jack from the top to the bottom of the phone. They both have a distinctive rear bump on the bottom, and a 4-inch Super AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) screen. This one is brighter and more colorful, although it does tend toward the greener part of the spectrum. Otherwise, physically, they're the same phone.
Inside, while both sport a 1GHz processor, the Nexus S runs Google's latest and fastest Android OS, v2.3 Gingerbread, while Vibrant runs 2.2 Froyo. Both phones include a 5-megapixel camera, but the Nexus S includes an LED flash. The Vibrant includes 720p high-definition recording, while the Nexus S mysteriously records only 720 x 480.
The phone's singular breakthrough is the inclusion of NFC, near field communication. Wave the Nexus S over an NFC tag, such as an RFID (radio frequency identification) code, from an inch or two away to initiate or perform all manner of functions. NFC can be used as electronic money, sort of like a Blink credit card. An NFC-endowed phone can be used as a ticket, a hotel room key, or for information exchange between devices. It can be used to quickly pair a Bluetooth headset. It can link you to a Web site or activate a function or download.
In other words, there are lots of potential NFC usages, and one day all cellphones will be so endowed. But right now, there are few NFC tags to be read anywhere in the U.S. (Google has initiated a pilot program in Portland, OR). By the time NFC tags become ubiquitous, the Nexus S will be an ancient smartphone.
Similarly undercut is the Nexus S' front-facing VGA camera, by the lack of QIK or other video-chatting software preinstalled. While there is 16GB of memory built in, like the iPhone, the Nexus S lacks a microSD slot for additional memory.
Multimedia capabilities
With its bright, crystalline Super AMOLED screen, the Nexus S makes a wonderful video viewer. YouTube videos load automatically in full screen at high quality. Out only quibble is the screen's slight green-or-yellowish discoloration, sort of like the tint you see on old displays. Fortunately, it isn't nearly as bad as the gray sheen that seems to overlay all images on Vibrant.
Google supplements output from the earpiece with a small but loud speaker on the rear. It's got a tiny guard over the grille, which means music still sounds loud with only a hint of muffling when the phone is placed on its back.
Sound quality
The Nexus S provides plenty of volume, but voices sounded muted and muffled at both ends of cell-to-cell calls, a little less on calls to and from land lines. The excellent rear speaker provides just as much volume for voice as it does for music, lying face up or face-down.


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Bathgate wrote:Not certain, but I believe Recchi still lives in Pittsburgh during the off-season, having married a Pittsburgh girl. Does anybody know which community? Do you think he will bring the Cup here during his day with it? Do you even want it here when it's not celebrating a Pens' championship? I'm okay with it as long as his team did not beat the Pens in the finals, like Lucic possibly taking the Cup back to his hometown of Vancouver.
Mongoose87 wrote:There's tons of revisionist history going on here. Suddenly, Jagr is an offensive juggernaut that always missed Pittsburgh and is a total cancer who was never particularly good.
Statement from Recchis agent Rick Curran via radio
The victim in this case - Mark Recchi
Regarding the nasty comments about [b]Mark made by media ans fans all over the world:[/b]
Regretfully, we are compelled to vigorously respond to numerous and false statements being made about Mr.Recchi.
Mr.Recchi was recognized as hockey genius as a child. His life and development were devoted to cultivating his hockey skills and extraordinary tactical gifts. Discipline, hard work, and a desire to win and better teams through his creativity were emphasized throughout his youth.
It was recognized very early that Mr.Recchi talents and genius could generate many millions of dollars to him and the clubs who hired him. From the time he signed his first contract others have sought to exploit and take advantage of his creative talent and innovative mindset.
Throughout his career, Mr.Recchis desire to create and help our world has been subjected to efforts to exploit, undermine and take advantage of this giving human being.
Mr.Recchi lives in a world where his privacy is continually violated.
Hate fuels hate and Mr.Recchi now realizes that he needs to fight back. Mr.Reechi will fight back against all those so called fans who now tries to besmudge his reputation.
We will not tolerate this, these are serious accusations, about Mark being a cry baby and lockerroom cancer.
I managed to get some direct quotes too:
"We are going to retaliate, and I´ve been given full authority to. We will land on you like a ton of bricks, we will land on you like a hammer. If anyone does anything to in some way hurt Mr.Recchis, there will be vengance."
"If someone does anything to intrude on the private matters any way thats actionable, we will unleash a hell like you´re never seen before."
"Point is you can not abuse and you can not spread untrue rumours about Mark Recchi."
"I´m here to tell you right now that Mr.Recchi are going to fight these attacks with every resource he has. I´m here to tell you right now that we will not be afraid to use ugly measurs in terms of defending Mr.Recchi and his family."
"I will tell you right now that there is no way that we will stand for this kind of defamation, there is no way these people will get away with their vicious attacks against Mark"
"These evil human beings are going to have to watch they´re backs at all times, and they should be frightened, because we will seek payback, and it will not be pretty"
"Mark Recchi is a future hall of famer and does not deserve to go through all of this."
JS© wrote:The Rug will be playing in this year's Alumni game.
No word if recchi plans on covering his bald head of the ice and then on the ice when his helmet flips of his balding head is exposed ala Newman asking to try on a new hat recently bought from a flea market while trying to pick up a woman complimenting the hat
KennyTheKangaroo wrote:is that a question?
BrianG wrote:isotopes014 wrote:does mark recchi cover his bald head of the ice and then on the ice when his helmet flips of his balding head is exposed ala Newman asking to try on a new hat recently bought from a flea market while trying to pick up a woman complimenting the hat
POTW Material
This made my day!
the wicked child wrote:What is Recchi's doctorate in? Rugs?
the wicked child wrote:What is Recchi's doctorate in? Rugs?
I'm pretty sure it came from after the chara hit on pacioretty, pacioretty tweeted he was at a movie. recchi said he couldn't have been that injured/concussed if he's going to movies. hence him giving medical advice, him earning an honourary phd.
The Doc made some comment about how Pacioretty should not be going to the movies like two days after getting such severe injuries
Kaizer wrote:no, theres no special reason to bump. just doin' it.
Kaizer wrote:I feel like that article just infected my computer
JS© wrote:http://www.free-press-release.com/news-flip-up-helmet-searching-for-information-on-flip-up-helmets-1263462271.html
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- to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- to attach or suspend so as to allow free movement: to hang a pendulum.
- to place in position or fasten so as to allow easy or ready movement.
- to put to death by suspending by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, yardarm, or the like.
- to suspend (oneself) by the neck until dead: He hanged himself from a beam in the attic.
- to fasten to a cross; crucify.
- to furnish or decorate with something suspended: to hang a room with pictures.
- to fasten into position; fix at a proper angle: to hang a scythe.
- to fasten or attach (wallpaper, pictures, etc.) to a wall: to hang pictures in a room.
- to suspend (something) in front of anything: to hang curtains on a window.
- Fine Arts.
- to exhibit (a painting or group of paintings): The gallery hung his paintings in a small corner.
- to put the paintings of (an art exhibition) on the wall of a gallery: They hung the show that morning.
- to attach or annex as an addition: to hang a rider on a bill.
- to attach (a door or the like) to its frame by means of hinges.
- to make (an idea, form, etc.) dependent on a situation, structure, concept, or the like, usually derived from another source: He hung the meaning of his puns on the current political scene.
- (of a juror) to keep (a jury) from rendering a verdict by refusing to agree with the others.
- Informal. to cause (a nickname, epithet, etc.) to become associated with a person: Friends hung that nickname on him.
- Slang. to hit with (a fist, blow, punch, etc.): He hung a left on his opponent's jaw.
- Baseball. to throw (a pitch) so that it fails to break, as a curve.
- Nautical. to steady (a boat) in one place against a wind or current by thrusting a pole or the like into the bottom under the boat and allowing the wind or current to push the boat side-on against the pole.
- (used in mild curses and emphatic expressions, often as a euphemism for damn): I'll be hanged if I do. Hang it all!
- to be suspended; dangle.
- to swing freely, as on a hinge.
- to incline downward, jut out, or lean over or forward: The tree hung over the edge of the lake.
- to be suspended by the neck, as from a gallows, and suffer death in this way.
- to be crucified.
- to be conditioned or contingent; be dependent: His future hangs on the outcome of their discussion.
- to be doubtful or undecided; waver or hesitate: He hung between staying and going.
- to remain unfinished or undecided; be delayed: Let that matter hang until our next meeting.
- to linger, remain, or persist: He hung by her side, unwilling to leave.
- to float or hover in the air: Fog hung over the city.
- to be oppressive, burdensome, or tedious: guilt that hangs on one's conscience.
- to remain in attention or consideration (often followed by on or upon): They hung on his every word.
- to fit or drape in graceful lines: That coat hangs well in back.
- Fine Arts.
- to be exhibited: His works hang in most major museums.
- to have one's works on display: Rembrandt hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Informal. to hang out.
- the way in which a thing hangs.
- Informal. the precise manner of doing, using, etc., something; knack: to get the hang of a tool.
- Informal. meaning or thought: to get the hang of a subject.
- Nautical.
- loss of way due to adverse wind or current.
- a rake, as of a mast.
- the least degree of care, concern, etc. (used in mild curses and emphatic expressions as a euphemism for damn): He doesn't give a hang about those things.
- hang around/about, Informal.
- to spend time in a certain place or in certain company: He hangs around with an older crowd.
- to linger about; loiter: They had stopped working and were just hanging around to talk.
- hang back,
- to be reluctant to proceed or move forward: The older pupils went straight to the podium, but the younger ones hung back out of shyness.
- to refrain from taking action; hesitate: A forward pass would have been the best call, but the quarterback hung back because his last pass had been intercepted.
- hang in, Slang. to persevere: She has managed to hang in despite years of bad luck.Also hang in there.
- hang on,
- to hold fast; cling to.
- to continue with effort; persevere: If you can hang on for a month longer, you will be eligible for the bonus.
- to be sustained to the point of danger, tedium, etc.: coughs that hang on for months.
- to keep a telephone line open: Hang on, I'll see if she's here.
- to wait briefly; keep calm.
- hang out,
- to lean or be suspended through an opening.
- Informal.to frequent a particular place, especially in idling away one's free time: to hang out in a bar.
- Informal.to loiter in public places: nothing to do on Saturday night but hang out.
- Informal.to consort or appear in public with: Who's she been hanging out with?
- Slang.to calm down: Hang out, Mom, I'm OK.
- to wait, especially briefly: Hang out a minute while I get my backpack.
- to suspend in open view; display: to hang out the flag.
- hang over,
- to remain to be settled; be postponed: They will probably let the final decision hang over until next year.
- to be imminent or foreboding; threaten: Economic ruin hangs over the town.
- hang up,
- to suspend by placing on a hook, peg, or hanger.
- to cause or encounter delay; suspend or slow the progress of: The accident hung up the traffic for several hours.
- to break a telephone connection by replacing the receiver on the hook: She received an anonymous call, but the party hung up when she threatened to call the police.
- to cause a hang-up or hang-ups in: The experience hung her up for years.
- hang a left/right, Slang. to make a left (or right) turn, as while driving an automobile: Hang a right at the next corner.
- hang five, to ride a surfboard with the weight of the body forward and the toes of the forward foot curled over the front edge of the surfboard.
- hang in the balance, to be in a precarious state or condition: The wounded man's life hung in the balance.
- hang it up, Informal. to quit, resign, give up, etc.: The chief engineer is hanging it up after 40 years with the company.
- hang loose, Slang. to remain relaxed or calm: Try to hang loose and don't let it bother you.
- hang one on, Slang.
- to hit: He hung one on the bully and knocked him down.
- to become extremely drunk: Every payday he hangs one on.
- hang one's head. head(def 66).
- hang ten, to ride a surfboard with the weight of the body as far forward as possible and the toes of both feet curled over the front edge of the surfboard.
- hang together,
- to be loyal to one another; remain united: "We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
- to cohere: This pancake batter doesn't hang together.
- to be logical or consistent: His version of the story does not hang together.
- hang tough, Slang. to remain unyielding, stubborn, or inflexible: He's hanging tough and won't change his mind.
- let it all hang out, Slang.
- to be completely candid in expressing one's feelings, opinions, etc.: She's never been one to let it all hang out.
- to act or live without restraint or inhibitions.
Origin of hang
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Related Words for hang inunrelenting, uncompromising, inexorable, ferocious, harsh, implacable, ruthless, rigorous, unyielding, determined, fierce, dogged, unforgiving, single-minded, unstoppable, proceed, pursue, endure, persist, anticipate
hang in
- (intr, preposition) informal to persistjust hang in there for a bit longer
- to fasten or be fastened from above, esp by a cord, chain, etc; suspendthe picture hung on the wall; to hang laundry
- to place or be placed in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement around or at the place of suspensionto hang a door
- (intr sometimes foll by over) to be suspended or poised; hovera pall of smoke hung over the city
- (intr sometimes foll by over) to be imminent; threaten
- (intr) to be or remain doubtful or unresolved (esp in the phrase hang in the balance)
- (past tense and past participle hanged) to suspend or be suspended by the neck until dead
- (tr) to fasten, fix, or attach in position or at an appropriate angleto hang a scythe to its handle
- (tr) to decorate, furnish, or cover with something suspended or fastenedto hang a wall with tapestry
- (tr) to fasten to or suspend from a wallto hang wallpaper
- to exhibit (a picture or pictures) by (a particular painter, printmaker, etc) or (of a picture or a painter, etc) to be exhibited in an art gallery, etc
- to fall or droop or allow to fall or droopto hang one's head in shame
- (of cloth, clothing, etc) to drape, fall, or flow, esp in a specified mannerher skirt hangs well
- (tr) to suspend (game such as pheasant) so that it becomes slightly decomposed and therefore more tender and tasty
- (of a jury) to prevent or be prevented from reaching a verdict
- (past tense and past participle hanged) slang to damn or be damned: used in mild curses or interjectionsI'll be hanged before I'll go out in that storm
- (intr) to pass slowly (esp in the phrase time hangs heavily)
- hang fire
- to be delayed
- to procrastinateSee also fire (def. 16)
- hang tough See tough (def. 10)
- the way in which something hangs
- (usually used with a negative) slang a damnI don't care a hang for what you say
- get the hang of informal
- to understand the technique of doing something
- to perceive the meaning or significance of
Word Origin for hang
a fusion of Old English hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, past participle hangen), and Old English hangian (weak, intransitive, past tense hangode) "be suspended;" also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from Proto-Germanic *khang- (cf. Old Frisian hangia, Dutch hangen, German hängen), from PIE *kank- "to hang" (cf. Gothic hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Sanskrit sankate "wavers," Latin cunctari "to delay;" see also second element in Stonehenge). As a method of execution, in late Old English (but originally specifically of crucifixion).
Hung emerged as past participle 16c. in northern England dialect, and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged). Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1811. Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge. To let it all hang out "be relaxed and uninhibited" is from 1967.
late 15c., "a sling," from hang (v.). Meaning "a curtain" is from c.1500; that of "the way cloth hangs" is from 1797. To get the hang of (something) "become capable" is from 1834, American English. Perhaps originally in reference to a certain tool or feat, but, if so, its origin has been forgotten. It doesn't seem to have been originally associated with drapery or any other special use of hang.
'To get the hang of a thing,' is to get the knack, or habitual facility of doing it well. A low expression frequently heard among us. In the Craven Dialect of England is the word hank, a habit; from which this word hang may perhaps be derived. [John Russell Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," New York, 1848]
hang in
Also, hang in there. Keep at something, persevere. For example, We decided to hang in until we had figured out why the experiment failed, or Hang in there! You'll soon catch on to the language. [Slang; mid-1900s]


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Apple has released a small update for Verizon iPhone 5 users after it was discovered that the iPhone 5 may be using cellular data even if the device is connected to a Wi-Fi network. The update started rolling out last night and was in response to a number of complaints from Verizon iPhone 5 users who noticed that their data allowances were shrinking even when using a Wi-Fi data connection.
This carrier settings update resolves an issue in which, under certain circumstances, iPhone 5 may use Verizon cellular data while the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Follow these instructions to install the update.
Once the update has installed, you need to restart your iPhone 5 for the changes to take effect. To confirm that the update completed successfully, got to Settings> Genaral> About and make sure under Carrier that Verizon13.1 is shown.
If you are on Verizon, it may be worth checking that you haven't been consuming all of your cellular data allowance whist connected to Wi-Fi. If you have, it may be worth while giving Verizon a call to discuss what can be done to get back some of that data allowance. If you have been affected by the data glitch, let us know in the comments.
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At Work
Paul Hornschemeier on 'Life with Mr. Dangerous'By Nicole Rudick
Forlorn Funnies, the title of cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier's periodical of short prose comics, aptly characterizes all of his work: bleak subjects leavened by drollery and gags reigned-in by finely drawn anxieties. The author of the graphic novels Mother, Come Home (2003) and The Three Paradoxes (2007) and two collections of shorter work, Hornschemeier recently published Life with Mr. Dangerous, a graphic novel he began serializing in Fantagraphics's comics anthology, Mome, in 2005. The story concluded last winter, and the novel, which tells the story of a young woman adrift in bad relationships and obsessed with a little-known cartoon show, appeared in book form last month. I spoke with Hornschemeier from his home in Evanston, Illinois.
The story was serialized in Mome over a period of five years. Was the story whole in your mind when you started, or did you create it as you went along?
With most of my stories, I have key scenes in mind and I almost always have the beginning and end done right from the start. With this one, I definitely had key emotional notes I wanted to hit, and I knew how it ended and the set up. But it was strange in that I was both writing it as I was going, and, as it was coming out in Mome, I was going back and editing the story and inserting new pages. So in the book, there are thirty pages that weren't in the serialized format.
What was needed that wasn't already there?
I could see there were beats I hadn't hit that I wanted to go back and reemphasize, pacing issues and characterization issues that I wanted to resolve. I produced that graphic novel really differently than my other graphic novels. Mother, Come Home was very act 1, act 2, act 3, and they were written very much as acts by themselves. And The Three Paradoxes was as close as possible to what a full screenplay would be, because it was so complex, with interlocking narratives. But this one was just a huge, jumbled mess.


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We traveled to a cold Milwaukee, WI a few months back to get an ending shot for Harley's 'Roll Your Own' national campaign spot. Here's a behind the scenes look at the process.
The whole spot from H-D is below.
Last June we had the privilege of shooting Harley-Davidson's 2015 line of bikes. We knew it would be a shoot worth getting some behind the scenes footage for, so we threw a Sony NEX5-N on our helmet cam rig. Here's a fun little video of our journey shown from BJ's perspective.
The MLB All-Star game came through Minneapolis this year and we had the opportunity to collaborate with the Twins organization on a couple short clips to recap the big events. Having all-access passes to an event of this magnitude was quite the experience for our crew and nothing short of a dream. The Twins organization and Target field did a remarkable job of putting on the weeks' events and if you were there, you realized how lucky we are to live in a city with such a great ballpark and community that supports baseball. Enjoy a couple clips we produced around the events and a few behind the scenes photos of our crew in action.
Back in August we had the chance to shoot part of an SC Featured story on the Mendota, CA high school football season. In the midst of countless community challenges, their team provided hope for a better future. We had the opportunity to shoot aerial footage of the area, follow students throughout opening game day and cover the beginning of a season they will never forget. We were proud to play a part in telling their story.
A little over a month ago we got a call from Target asking if we could be interested in collaborating on a new creative venture called the The Art of the Everyday. The idea was to take everyday essentials - things like Ziploc bags, Bounty Paper Towels and Kleenex Tissues and turn them into art. Teaming up with one of Target's creative teams, we put together 3 videos for social media that will be part of a longer series. Below you will find a short behind the scenes clip as well as the spot that went online for Bounty.
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Legends of the Star – Michael Irvin
Michael Irvin was the greatest wide receiver ever to don the uniform of the Dallas Cowboys. The "Playmaker" as he was sometimes called started out his career playing for the University of Miami, where he was heavily recruited. While he was with the Hurricanes, he set school record for receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions. He was part of the Hurricane's 1987 National Team.
In 1988 Irvin entered the NFL Draft and was selected 11th overall by the Dallas Cowboys. In his very first game, he started and caught his first touchdown pass, which was something that hadn't been done by a Cowboy in 20 years. He immediately became one of the teams best players in his rookie year and he led all wide receivers with a 20.4 yards per catch average. He quickly became one of the most exciting receivers in the league and his ability to make the big plays made him one of the biggest stars in the game. His ability to push off a defender and surpass them with such ease, caused many opposing teams to employ new strategies to try and stop him from beating them.
From 1991 through 1998, he was the leagues best wide receiver, and racked up an impressive 10,265 yards in that span. He helped lead his team to four straight NFC Championship games and three Super Bowl titles. In Super Bowl XXVII, he caught 6 passes for 114 yards and 2 second quarter touchdowns that occurred in a span 18 seconds, the fastest pair of touchdowns ever scored in a Super Bowl. In 1995 he had one of the most remarkable seasons ever for a wide receiver when he set team records with 111 receptions, 1,603 yards, and 10 touchdown receptions.
Michael Irvin had some scuffs with the law during his playing years and also after he retired as a player, but when he was on the field, there was nobody better. For you trivia buffs out there, Irvin is the only player to play for the first four coaches of the Dallas Cowboys.
Irvin finished his career with 750 receptions, 11,904 yards and 65 touchdowns. He was selected to five Pro Bowls, and was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor on September 19, 2005. Two years later, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Legends of the Star is an exclusive weekly feature found only on StarStruck. Each week we will profile one of the many interesting personalities that have played for the Dallas Cowboys.