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JAY – As another Maine community ski area shakes out the doormat and prepares to spin its chair lifts up in Greenville, the folks at Squaw Mountain could take a page from Spruce Mountain's storybook.
After two years of sitting idle, the Greenville ski area is preparing to open thanks to a crew of volunteers and donors, just as soon as some natural snow arrives. Meanwhile in Jay, the local band of "White Knights" is rallying around its tiny mountain this week to make snow free of charge in order to provide youth a place to play.
Events like the dance that will be held in two weeks help pay for the cost of the fuel to make snow. Four to five volunteers make it happen.
"We do it for the kids," said mountain manager Rene Cloutier, one of two locals who split the one full-time job at Spruce Mountain.
Run primarily on the backs of volunteers, Spruce has kept its doors open for more than 50 years despite hard and lean times. Certainly, volunteer-run ski areas are not unusual in Maine, but they're not plentiful either, especially in these difficult times.
Yet Spruce Mountain in Jay has endured with a shoestring budget, a scaled-down snack bar, a robust army of volunteers, and an unusual communal passion for the mountain's buttery-good grilled cheese sandwich … and we can see why.
"When a call comes in, within 20 minutes there are guys here trying to figure out how to fix whatever broke," said local parent and volunteer Nelson DiPompo. "We do well under pressure."
On a Sunday made quiet by one very big football game and a lack of natural snow, just six youths showed to take some runs. That's all Cloutier needed.
As he barrelled through the lodge doors he found only Jan Kirkland and her daughter, Ashley. And without a second lost, Cloutier asked if the lone parent could run the concession stand.
"What do I do?" Kirkland asked.
"Just do candy and soda. I wouldn't bother with the hot dog machine. You can fire up the grill if you want," Cloutier suggested.
And with that, Spruce Mountain was open for business on a Sunday in the middle of winter. Lift tickets: Just $10.
Make no mistake, there are few amenities here. The three rope-tow hill has just three slopes plus a patch of glades that, all told, make up eight trails.
In the lodge there are bathrooms, benches, shelves for gear, picnic tables and a concession selection of fewer than 10 items, all priced between $1 to $3.
The people in this old, defunct mill town keep it simple and find great value in that. Certainly, the superstar status of Spruce's grilled cheese serves as testament to that.
Nothing at the snack bar sells better than this sweet, white-cheese goodness, which we think deserves the cult following it's got.
"There's a certain way to make them. They teach you when you volunteer," Kirkland explained as she flipped two on the grill.
With six board members, 10 volunteers who run the snack bar, about half as many snowmakers, the mountain's chores all get done — though sometimes Spruce skiers wonder how.
The cost to operate the ski area runs anywhere from $40,000 to $50,000 a year, depending on natural snow. And between lift tickets and fundraisers, the locals manage to stay out of the red, said board president Rick Couture, a volunteer for 28 years.
The crowd at the mountain is not what it was 30 years ago when a few hundred would show, Cloutier said. But he for one still thinks the work is worth it.
"On a good day, we get 30 to 40. What with the economy, people don't ski as much. And it's almost like kids don't go outside anymore. But for the kids that do, this gives them a place to go," Cloutier said.
Jillian Buote, 13, learned to snowboard at Spruce Mountain, and might not have learned if it weren't for the mountain just minutes from her home. Were it not for Spruce, Buote might not know the joy of riding her board down toward the Androscoggin River, where on a sunny day bald eagles soar above the mountain.
"I fell on my face a lot when I started out. But now I'm comfortable. I can hit jumps here," Buote said proudly.
In this place where the painted signs are as old as the lift shacks and the rope tow engines are older than anyone, the key to staying open is a constant turnover in the volunteers.
Somehow at Spruce that tradition has never wavered.
"It depends a lot on the volunteers. It's more work than I thought when I started three years ago. In the fall they always need more, to cut the brush, get the mountain ready. But some volunteers stay long after their kids are grown," DiPompo said.
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England will offer a glimpse of the future in their final World Cup match against Costa Rica, with manager Roy Hodgson planning sweeping changes for the clash.
The Three Lions' elimination has already been confirmed following defeats to Italy and Uruguay and Costa Rica's victories over both of those sides.
It means England have fallen at the group stage for the first time in 56 years and Hodgson will use Tuesday's clash against Los Ticos to give his squad players a run out.
Frank Lampard, James Milner and Rickie Lambert are likely to start in Belo Horizonte, as well as younger members of the squad like Ross Barkley, Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones.
"I will be picking it with a view to making certain that all the players, if possible, that have been with us here get some minutes on the field of play," Hodgson said.
"I shall be changing the team. It will be a team which will give people that haven't had much of a chance in the first two games (the chance) to show what they can do.
"If you interpret that as planning for the future, I can understand, but basically not purely planning for the future and it certainly is not purely sentiment.
"It is making certain that the group of players that I personally believe have done everything they possibly could for me and my coaching team to give us success on the field get a chance to go home from this World Cup far too early, bitterly disappointed, but at least being able to say I wasn't there just for the ride, I wasn't there to make up the numbers. I actually took part."
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Every mom has the occasional bad day, right? Especially a mom with two toddlers running around the house. It's a tough gig, no doubt. That said, I can't imagine what level of havoc a 1-year-old and 3-year-old could possibly wreak that would be terrible enough to make their mom call 911. Requesting a police officer to come, and I quote, "Scare the sh*t out of my kids." That's exactly what 27-year-old Melissa Townsend of Florida did this week, however, explaining to the (presumably horrified and/or bewildered) dispatcher that police intervention was required because her children were "not listening to me and they need to learn respect. They need to learn that lesson."
Oh, dear. Of course the authorities did indeed pay a visit to Townsend's home, and it's probably a good thing they did ...
Because instead of outrageously unruly tots, what police officers found was a drunk and disorderly mom. Who "kicked an officer in the groin multiple times" when they tried to arrest her. Townsend was booked on various charges including child neglect and battery on a law enforcement officer; her kids are reportedly staying with relatives.
Okay. So, obviously what this mom did was incredibly messed up and scary and makes one worry for the safety and future of those two kids. But didn't anyone around her see this kind of episode coming? Clearly Townsend is unstable and most likely has been for some time -- you don't just go from being completely sane and centered to calling the cops on your toddlers overnight. I'm not trying to make excuses for the woman, but I'm willing to bet she could use a little more support in life. Fine, a lot more.
From the sound of her voice in this video, she does not sound anywhere close to okay:
Hopefully some good will come of this incident -- hopefully, Townsend will get help. Whatever happens, I just hope her kids stay safe.
Can you imagine calling 911 on your toddlers?
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Radford University is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by using more green technology for transportation. Here are some of the efforts undertaken:
- Radford Transit offers free bus rides to faculty, staff and students to places around campus and in the New River Valley.
- Radford University purchased six battery-electric vehicles during the 2008 summer. By not producing tailpipe emissions, this helps improve the environment and makes them an excellent transportation solution around campus.
- Ride your bicycle (Campus Bike Map) - there are three bike Fixit Stations throughout campus (the Fixit includes all the tools necessary to perform basic reparis and maintenance).
- The Enterprise Carshare program is an alternative to car ownership. Students over the age of 18 can rent a vehicle for short trips for as low as $9/hour.


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An oil spill from a ruptured onshore pipeline that fouled beaches and threatened wildlife along a scenic stretch of the California coast spread across 9 miles of ocean Wednesday and officials said up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked out.
Up to a fifth of that amount — 21,000 gallons — reached the sea, according to estimates.
Federal regulators were investigating the leak as workers in protective suits raked and shoveled stinky black goo off the beaches, and boats towed booms into place to corral the two slicks off the Santa Barbara coast.
The coastline was the scene of a much larger spill in 1969 — the largest in U.S. waters at the time — that is credited with giving...


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Wall Street Eyeing China Manufacturing Pullback
Emma Moody takes a look at the markets, including three stocks to watch today. Photo: Getty Images.
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A Study to Demonstrate That Anti-HIV Drug Therapy Can be Stopped Without Causing Viral Resistance, and to Characterize Drug Elimination From the Body
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00029341
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 11, 2002
Last Update Posted : July 30, 2008
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
The purpose of this study is to find out if anti-HIV drugs can be stopped without the virus becoming resistant to the drugs. The study will also examine how fast anti-HIV drugs leave the body.
Not all HIV-infected patients may require continuous and indefinite anti-HIV therapy. There is evidence that stopping anti-HIV therapy will not make the virus resistant to efavirenz (EFV), an anti-HIV drug that remains in the body longer than most treatment drugs. In another study, patients were treated with EFV, zidovudine (ZDV), and lamivudine (3TC). The patients' virus was controlled despite the fact that some patients missed medication dosages. Many patients stop anti-HIV therapy because of negative effects. This study will examine the body's ability to fight and control virus in patients who stop therapy.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Behavioral: Treatment Interruption
|Phase 2
The concept that all patients with HIV-1 infection require continuous and indefinite antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been questioned. There are both theoretical reasons and supporting empiric evidence that suggest that discontinuing ART should not select for EFV-resistance. In Dupont Protocol 006, antiretroviral-naive patients were randomized to receive EFV, ZDV, and 3TC. This regimen was associated with an excellent and sustained virologic response. It is certain that many patients in this study were able to maintain sustained suppression of HIV-1 RNA to below limits of detection despite missing occasional doses of all medications. Since therapy with ZDV and 3TC alone is unlikely to maintain virologic control, emergence of substantial high-level EFV resistance should have led to virologic failure. The fact that there were relatively few virologic failures in that study provides indirect but strong evidence that simultaneous discontinuation of EFV, ZDV, and 3TC is unlikely to be associated with emergence of EFV resistance. Many individuals discontinue antiretroviral therapy because of adverse effects. This study provides the opportunity to determine whether the virologic response of patients who discontinue antiretroviral therapy will be compromised.
Participants will discontinue their EFV. Other antiretroviral drugs in the patients' regimens may be continued for up to three days after the last EFV dose. Patients will not resume EFV or other antiretroviral agents for at least 28 days after stopping EFV, unless the CD4 cell count declines to a level that indicates the need to resume therapy. Throughout the study, patients will have blood drawn on specified days for plasma EFV assays, intracellular NRTI-TP assays, and demonstration of EFV resistance. After patients have been off their antiretrovirals for at least four weeks, they may choose to restart their ART, start a new regimen, or discontinue their ART. Patients who restart their ART need to come to the clinic seven days after restarting to have blood drawn. After plasma EFV assays have been completed and HIV resistance has not been demonstrated, three patients will have a clonal analysis performed.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|36 participants
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study to Demonstrate That Therapy With Efavirenz (EFV) and Other Antiretroviral Drugs Can Be Interrupted Without Selecting for EFV-Resistant Virus, and Relation to Kinetics of Drug Elimination
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Are on EFV and at least 2 other anti-HIV drugs.
- Are HIV-infected.
- Have a CD4 cell count greater than 350 cells/mm3 within 21 days of study entry.
- Have a viral load less than 50 copies/ml within 21 days of study entry.
- Have an estimated creatinine clearance greater than 30 ml/minute within 21 days of study entry.
- Have a negative pregnancy test if female. All patients able to have children must agree not to become pregnant or to impregnate or agree to use 2 reliable methods of contraception, including a barrier method.
- Are planning to stop anti-HIV drugs as part of another study, not solely to participate in this study.
- (This study has been changed. In an earlier version, EFV plus lamivudine plus zidovudine or stavudine was required.)
Exclusion Criteria
Patients may not be eligible for this study if they:
- Had a serious illness and have not finished therapy for the illness or become stable on the therapy.
- Abuse alcohol or drugs.
- Have taken any nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor other than EFV.
- (This study has been changed. In an earlier version, patients were ineligible if they had taken certain anti-HIV agents or stopped treatment for more than 7 days in a row before the study.)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00029341
|United States, California
|San Francisco General Hosp
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Colorado
|Univ of Colorado Health Sciences Ctr
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Ohio
|Univ of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 452670405
|United States, Rhode Island
|Rhode Island Hosp
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|Stanley Street Treatment and Resource
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|The Miriam Hosp
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|United States, Tennessee
|Comprehensive Care Clinic
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|Study Chair:
|David Haas
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00029341 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 11, 2002 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 30, 2008
|Last Verified:
|January 2005
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Drug Therapy, Combination
Drug Administration Schedule
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Viral Load
Treatment Interruption
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers


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Something spectacular is happening 2 billion light years away in the constellation Hercules.
A composite image of the elliptical radio galaxy Hercules A, captured in the optical and radio wavelengths, shows two jets of cosmic rays—subatomic particles—and magnetic fields streaming from a supermassive black hole into the interstellar and intercluster media, or the space between stars and galaxies.
The resulting image of radio galaxy Hercules A was released Nov. 29 by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which runs the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope.
"It's both beautiful and fascinating to look at," says Stefi Baum, director and professor, the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Baum and Chris O'Dea, professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at RIT, collaborated with Rick Perley and William Cotton at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on the multiwavelength study. Their technique gleans information from more than one wavelength along the electromagnetic spectrum and gives them more data about Hercules A, or 3C 348, one of the brightest known extragalactic objects emitting at radio wavelengths.
"This has always been an interesting galaxy from the radio perspective because the two sides of the source look very different," Baum says. "It's a source for which there have been many theories proposed as to why the radio morphology is this way. Our data will provide more information, but not solve the problem completely. This is the nature of astrophysics research, each new observation sheds light on the physics at work and slowly a coherent model and picture emerges."
Prior to this study, Baum and O'Dea had used the Hubble to take "snapshots" of the elliptical galaxy and noted unusual dust wisps. They recently used the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to re-capture the elliptical galaxy in much greater sensitivity and detail. The team combined the data with a deep image of the same source captured by the newly upgraded Very Large Array radio telescope.
The superimposed images revealed a discrepancy the team had not predicted: The dust morphology on the two sides of galaxy appears differently in the optical and radio wavelengths.
"One side has dusty filaments of cold gas that lie along the edges of the radio jet, suggesting they have been dragged along, or entrained, by the outflowing radio plasma; but the other side of the source shows dusty filaments which resemble two bubbles," Baum says of the Hubble data.
The radio data reveals the reverse. "The side that has the dust bubbles is the side with the normal looking collimated jet and the side with what looks like more entrained dust is the side that has the very unusual bubbles in the radio," she adds. "We're perplexed so far."
The differences in the structure of the radio jets on the two sides might be due to the way the outflows are generated by the supermassive black hole or how they interact with their environments as they travel outward away from the galaxy, O'Dea says.
"If the Hubble data showed that the morphology of the cold gas and dust mimicked that of the radio jet on the same side, that would be consistent with the idea that the differences were established on small scales," O'Dea adds. "However, the fact that the cold gas and dust has a different morphology than the radio emission on the same side supports the idea that the differences in radio properties are established on larger scales as the jets interact with their environments."
The multiwavelength image was released prior to the complete analysis of the radio data. Additional analysis will likely provide information that constrains and refines the astronomical models predicting the radio morphology in the galaxy.
Baum and O'Dea are members of the Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astronomy in RIT's College of Science. The laboratory consolidates related research by likeminded faculty, staff and students who participate in RIT's Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D. program.


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EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced today the addition of Georgetown University to its group of educational leaders who are focused on providing a category-leading, quality higher education experience to the global online community.
"It is a privilege to partner with edX and this extraordinary collection of universities," said Dr. John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University. "Our Catholic and Jesuit identity compels us to work at the frontiers of excellence in higher education, and we see in this partnership an exciting opportunity to more fully realize this mission. Not only will it enrich our capacity to serve our global family–beyond our campuses here in Washington, D.C.–but it will also allow us to extend the applications of our research and our scholarship."
Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university, is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions, offering a unique educational experience that prepares the next generation of global citizens to lead and make a difference in the world. Students receive a world-class learning experience focused on educating the whole person through exposure to different faiths, cultures and beliefs. Georgetown University will provide a series of GeorgetownX courses to the open source platform and broaden the course offerings available on edx.org.
"We welcome Georgetown University to edX," said Anant Agarwal, President of edX. "Georgetown has a long history of research and educational excellence, with a demonstrated commitment to the arts and sciences, foreign service, law, medicine, public policy, business, and nursing and health studies. Georgetown, with its distinguished presence around the world including a School of Foreign Service campus in Qatar, shares with edX a global perspective and a mission to expand educational opportunities."
Through edX, the "X Universities" will provide interactive education wherever there is access to the Internet. They will enhance teaching and learning through research about how students learn, and how technologies and game-like experiences can facilitate effective teaching both on-campus and online. The University of California, Berkeley joined edX in July, the University of Texas System joined in October, and Wellesley College joined earlier in December.
"Georgetown University is an excellent addition to edX," said MIT President L. Rafael Reif.
"It brings important strength in many areas of scholarship and has long had an especially powerful voice in public life and discourse. The edX community stands to benefit greatly from what Georgetown will offer."
"EdX is an innovation that will expand access to high-quality educational content for millions around the world while helping us better understand how technology can improve the academic experience for students in classrooms across our campuses," said Harvard President Drew Faust. "Georgetown's commitment to technology enhanced learning, its excellence in education, and its long history as an institution dedicated to public service make it a welcome addition to edX."
GeorgetownX will offer courses on edX beginning in the fall of 2013. All of the courses will be hosted from edX's innovative platform at www.edx.org.


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During your Accepted Student Day visit, you will be immersed in the Wittenberg community. You'll tour and experience Wittenberg's beautiful campus, widely acclaimed for its beauty and award-winning architecture, meet and connect with our community of award-winning faculty and engaged students, get questions answered about scholarships, the FAFSA, and financing options, and learn about the next steps to take.
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Taken individually, the headlines aren't earth shattering: Aster Data has improved support for in-database analytic processing; Kognitio has landed GroupM as a major new customer; ParAccel has partnered with Fusion-io to support flash-memory-supercharged processing; Vertica has upgraded its query workload and resource management features. But taken together, the announcements underscore that the data warehousing universe is expanding, with alternative providers getting stronger despite the pressures of a weak global economy.
Competition has been stable at the top of the data warehousing market for years, with Teradata, Oracle and IBM once again topping the "leaders' quadrant" in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) report for data warehousing, released earlier this month. Microsoft and Sybase are in the leaders' quadrant, too, but the upstarts are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Netezza. The only alternative provider that has made it into the top-right corner of Gartner's report, Netezza has used the combination of competitive pricing and fast query performance to win more than 300 customers to date.
Growth in data warehousing is being fueled by the so-called "big-data era." With Web sites, enterprise applications and networks cranking out data by the terabytes per day (and sometimes per hour), it seems there's more than enough room for up-and-coming vendors promising high performance and petabyte-level scalability at a lower cost -- at least compared to what Teradata, Oracle or IBM might charge.
Aster Data, among the newest additions to Gartner's MQ, today announced Aster Data nCluster 4.5, an upgrade of its core product featuring a combined SQL/MapReduce visual development environment, a suite of prebuilt analytics modules, support for Fusion-io flash-memory drives, and a new management console for optimizing query performance.
Popularlized by Google, MapReduce has quickly become the default choice for many kinds of data transformations and analytic processes while SQL remains the prevailing query language. Aster Data isn't the only vendor to support MapReduce -- Greenplum and Cloudera also support the approach -- but by offering a unified, visual environment for both SQL and MapReduce development, Aster is hoping to win over the many firms that combine the two approaches.
Aster Data's calling card is in-database analytic processing, an increasingly popular approach that speeds processing by running applications next to the data rather than extracting data and processing in the application environment. Teradata and Netezza have led the way in making in-database processing a reality, but Gartner says Aster's four-tier architecture is particularly well suited to the approach.
Citing the example of an online gaming site, Aster Data says it helped the customer move a java-based risk-analysis application inside nCluster for faster and more complete analysis.
"It used to take them 90 minutes to do the analysis on a subset of the data," says Sharmila Mulligan, executive vice president of global marketing at Aster Data. "The app now runs every 15 minutes against the entire data set, and it returns results within 90 seconds."


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Their bond in mental connection will indeed grow stronger in this arc, and another thing, that monster in season the one where Ruby's master used that forbidden magic to transform into a huge monster, i was comparing it's size to Alucard's because of how big they showed it in season one, it looked like it was easily the size of a skyscraper, but if i had to say anything, i think Alucard is bigger.
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None as of yet, though Muda may be hurting for staff right now too since 46 was done by only 2 of the staff, the translator and one other. Also the quality of this month's raws sucked, so it's only natural that it's taking so long with only 1 or 2 people working on it.
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...damn Wong... 0.o Certainly is his grandfather's grandchild - he just became one of he beautiful people in this chapter... Why, WHY is Ikeda-sensei drawing them so pretty now... DO YOU SEE THIS TWILIGHT!? THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!! WHO CAN KICK ASS!!!
...but really, Ikeda-sensei...stop drawing Wong's face so pretty, it's disconcerting... >.>
*goes back to look at Moka* ... aaaahh, pretty~
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Wow, the delay was very long but it shouldn't be so surprising its the holidays and its getting close to christmas, but indeed a good chapter, Fong-Fong needs some spotlight time, however i find it interesting on how the characters are now saying that the fate of the world is in Tsukune's hands, i guess we know what that means.....
As for Gyokuro, i love her tanned skin, but i hope Akasha gets her chance to kick her @$$, Gyokuro will get herself killed because of her evil ways.
So that girl was the 4th subdivision leader, and i'm guessing Sai-Lung Miu is also one of the subdivision leaders, meaning once defeated that leaves 3 left (still excluding Miyabi of course), this might go a little faster than we thought.
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Well, after reading the scans, I have to say that Gyokuro is going to fail in awakening Alucard, since she thinks that she is going to win the battle, which hasn't been resolved yet, which is a classic error that overconfident antagonists make.
So now I'm actually waiting for Gyokuro's expression when her plans are going to fail in pieces.
And just like we had seen from the raws Fong Fong can actually fight as well, although I have to say that maybe defeating a cute girl with a chainsaw isn't something to be proud off - after all out of the entire group Kokoa is one of the "weaker" characters in the Newspaper club, at least compared to the other members that currently belong in the Newspaper club.
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Anybody wanna bet that Tokyo MewMew family leader there is the 3rd division leader? I hope they keep rushing through them like this, just return to the good ol days of school life harem antics please ;__;.
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Oh man Fong Fong actually looked pretty damn cool. And whoa, I always had a feeling that Yukari and him were a potential couple from some chapters back but it looks like it'll probably happen. Makes sense considering she's the least important of the heroines
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Mass. man charged in Stonington with stealing $50,000 worth of NBA, NFL hats
Stonington — Police have charged a Lynn, Mass., man with stealing approximately $50,000 worth of Adidas hats with NBA and NFL logos from a Pawcatuck company.
Stalin Medina, 28, had been apprehended by East Providence, R.I., police who saw there had been a warrant issued for his arrest in December and took him to the Adult Correctional Institute in Warwick, Mass. That's where Stonington police took custody of him on Tuesday and charged him with first-degree larceny. He was released on a promise to appear in New London Superior Court on Feb. 14.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of stealing the 1,803 hats, which sell for $24 and $28 each.
According to the warrant for Medina's arrest, police began investigating the theft last May after Westerly police helped South Kingstown, R.I., police serve an arrest warrant at 87 Bowling Lane. During the arrest of the man, they found the hats still in their packaging and questioned the man and his girlfriend about the hats. They said a neighbor had given them the hats.
Police seized the hats and determined they had come from Fabrigraphics of Pawcatuck. When police contacted the owner of the company, he discovered the hats had been stolen from his warehouse. After taking an inventory of the hats, Stonington police returned them to Fabrigraphics.
Police then found that Medina, who goes by the street name of "Priezt," or "P" for short, and his brother, Brian "Lazy" Fraticelli of Bradford, had both worked at Northeast Marine Liquidation, which is located in the same building as Fabrigraphics. The owner of Northeast Marine Liquidation told police the brothers suddenly quit about the time Westerly police seized the hats. The Fabrigraphics owner said he had not given Medina permission to go into his workspace or take any items.
Police interviewed Medina's girlfriend, who said that when they were living at 81 Bowling Lane last May, she saw the hats and asked Medina where they had come from. He told her, "My boys had given them to me to sell."
She described the hats as baseball caps with sports team logos on them with price tags still attached.
When police tried to call the girlfriend in October, and Medina answered the phone, Medina appeared shocked that police knew who he was and used an expletive before hanging up.
Police also interviewed the man who lived at the apartment where Westerly police seized the hats. He said the brothers asked him to store the hats overnight because Medina did not want his children to get into them. In exchange, the man could keep 100 of the hats.
The brothers said they planned to pick up the hats the next day and bring them to Lynn, Mass., to sell. When the man asked the brothers if the hats were stolen, they said they were not.
The brothers never got the chance to pick up the hats because the next day, Westerly police came to the man's house to arrest him and found the hats.
Fraticelli was arrested on Jan. 6 and also charged with first-degree larceny. He was released on a promise to appear in New London Superior Court on March 25.
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Each season, the Atlanta Braves Foundation hosts Foundation Weekend, one of the Foundation's signature fundraisers. The 2016 event will be held June 10-12.
From the time the gates open until the end of the game, fans can visit the Hank Aaron Room at Aisle 128 to purchase unique and valuable memorabilia from the Atlanta Braves, other Major League Baseball teams, local professional and collegiate sports teams, and celebrities. The event also includes a silent auction.


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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Spousal Support
Spousal Support
Married 11 years, I know first hand the importance of a supportive spouse. Even if your partner's healthy resolve leaves much to be desired, with the right approach you can find the support you need and improve your partnership in the process. Consider variations on these four phrases when cultivating the interpersonal support you need to reach your health and fitness goals and bring you closer in the process.
1. "I couldn't do this without you!": Let your partner know how important their help and support is to you. Everyone wants to feel needed. There's nothing more important to your relationship than helping the other person feel like THEY are the center of your universe. Be careful that you don't spend too much time gushing about all the new people or the new lifestyle you're discovering. Make your partner understand that that he/she is always most important. Feeling better about yourself happens when you make other people feel important and needed and no where is that more important than with your significant other.
2. "Want to go for a walk with me?" Even if the likelihood of it happening is slim, frequently invite your partner to join you on a walk, a swim, bike ride or a fitness class. Let him or her to pick the workout and you might just get a 'yes'. Ask often and ask with the intent to spend more time together, not to "change" their habits, even if ultimately that's what happens. If Sunday morning tradition has been coffee, donuts and the paper, try establishing some new ones. No one wants to feel judged or told what to do. Make sure your first priority is spending time together and that fitness become something you share.
3. "Thank you!": Express your appreciation for even the smallest gesture that helps you to reach your goal, even if it's just re-arranging their schedule so you can get to your workouts. Thank your partner for not tempting you with a trip to 31 Flavors, or by eating the one food you cant resist (mine is those pink frosted animal cookies with the little tiny sprinkles) in front of you. Rather than dismissing compliments, thank your partner for noticing even the slightest change. Regularly remind your significant other how much you appreciate their help.
4. "Wanna get busy?": Even if your partner doesn't yet share your healthy resolve, you both profit from your commitment. Communicate the mutual benefits of fitness, including improved energy, a boost in self-esteem, a better mood, a tighter body, lower cholesterol, a boost in stamina, better health and yes, better sex!
5. "Let's make a deal.": Don't expect your partner to abruptly change his/her dining habits because you are. No one likes to be forced into doing something. Most of us need to do things on our own terms and when "we" are ready. So, make a deal. Offer to do something nice (or naughty) in exchange for his/her promise to "eat in" for the next 10 days - 30 days..whatever it takes. In exchange for going on a nice long walk with you, promise to assume one of his or her normal household responsibilities.
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- rachel said...
This is so great... I especially love the part about going for walks... not only is it good for your health, its incredible for your relationship. You talk about things on a walk you wouldn't normally, and there is no rush or reason to not be open and honest... it's just a great bridge of communication.
Hi Chalene, I caught the last 15 mts. of the new infomercial: AWESOME! just like I expected. You & your husband make an beautiful couple....he looks like Josh Dummell and you're gorgeous. Looking forward to feeling better and getting back into the Jam.
Love & miss ya,
- Italianskickbutt said...
Hi Chalene
I just wanted to say i think you are amazing and inspiring. I have all ur workout dvds and i hope you have more in store. I have never done a live workout but i hope one day i can. I think you kick butt.
I thought you had died because you haven't posted in such a long time. I'm so happy to see you're still alive. Keep posting...I love reading what you have to write.
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- Maja Cole said...
Hi Chalene,
I m so in LOVE with your turbo Jam!!
My name is Maja and I am from Indonesia. I used to be a student here in Chicago. I graduated and met my husband and just had a baby 2 months ago. I am a very active and I love to excercise but since I had a baby I tried to find excercise dvd so I can do it from home. After so many dvds finally I found yours and i LOVE it!!!
I saw your comercial when I breastfed my baby at the middle of the night and since then you always make my day. I love every single movement and I don't know how but your excercise makes me so happy too.
Thanks to you!!!


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By Mike Handley
Had 14-year-old Sabrina Nisly's tennis practice not been canceled because of the rain on Sept. 13, 2012, she might have ended her first-ever deer season with a big fat "love."
But rain it did. And because her father, Joe, decided a few raindrops never hurt anybody, Sabrina wound up winning the world cup of deer hunting.
Sabrina, a student at Haven High School in Partridge, Kan., and the oldest of four Nisly children, begged for two years for her father to take her deer hunting, but he didn't listen until 2012. As soon as he saw the .243 in the sporting goods store, he decided it was time.
The Sunflower State's youth season opened on a Saturday, Sept. 8. They went out that weekend, had no luck, and then the girl's after-school commitments — she's a multi-talented athlete — kept her out of the woods on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday would've been out of the question, too, if it hadn't been raining.
About 5 p.m. that day, father and daughter went to a quarter-section of land where they'd erected an 18-foot-tall double ladder stand in August. The stand leans against a straight elm beside a creek that splits 160 acres of CRP.
The 75-yard-wide strip of trees is a main travel corridor for deer filtering out of the CRP to the neighbor's bean field across the road and to the south.
Joe dropped Sabrina off on the road, at the creek, so she could walk to the stand while he drove on to the corner of the property to park well away from the crossing. He then walked in and joined her.
The rain lessened to a drizzle, and it stopped altogether about 6:30. They'd seen nothing to that point, but spotted a couple of does wafting through the trees not long afterward.
About 7:30, Joe saw a nice 8-pointer at 200 yards, pointed it out, and then told his daughter to get ready.
"I was thinking, Okay, this is the PERFECT deer for Sabrina," he said.
When Sabrina turned to look and raise her rifle, she spotted a second and much larger buck about 30 yards behind the 4x4. A screen of trees prevented any kind of shot until the deer was to Sabrina's left. She had to twist hard 90 degrees to aim, while both bucks were still moving.
Not satisfied, the girl eventually stood to aim, but the deer never slowed. They were actually circling the Nislys' setup.
By the time Sabrina could actually acquire the big buck in her sights, it was to their right. She'd done an almost complete 360 before taking the broadside shot at the deer only 25 yards distant.
Joe didn't see the buck's reaction. His eyes had been closed, and he'd had his hands over his ears, since Sabrina's rifle barrel was about 45 degrees from his face. When he did look up, he saw a buck running away and thought she'd missed.
So caught up in the desire for his daughter to take her first buck, his mind immediately shifted back to the 8-pointer, and he wanted her to shoot it.
It wasn't until Sabrina nudged him and pointed that he realized the big deer was still out there, and it had stopped only 40 yards from them. A tree was blocking its vitals, however.
"I could feel Dad shaking," she said. "I was shaking, too.
"When the deer turned and began walking away, I told myself to count to three before squeezing the trigger," she continued. She did just that, and the deer fled after the shot.
Both of the bucks ran in the same direction, but one veered off, its white tail waving goodbye.
"I'd planned to wait awhile before getting down, but I just couldn't do it," Joe said. "I had to know … We had to know."
The buck had managed to run only 60 yards before collapsing.
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The Bryan Fischer Award is given to those who display a staggering lack of self-awareness, accusing their opponents of their own worst actions and attributes. Laura Ingraham has surely earned that award by applying a double standard while pretending to expose a double standard.
The December 5 edition of conservative pundit Laura Ingraham's newsletter attacked President Obama for recently meeting with MSNBC personalities, claiming that "if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy" the press "would have been rightly outraged." But President Bush did meet with a group of Fox News and conservative personalities at the White House — including Laura Ingraham…
The New York Times reported in October 2006 that Bush hosted a group of conservative personalities including Ingraham, Fox News host Sean Hannity (who also met with Bush at the White House the following year), and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher. During the hour and a half meeting, which was part of a campaign "to reclaim and re-energize a crucial army of supporters that is not as likely to walk in lockstep with the White House as it has in the past," Bush "discussed his case for the war in Iraq, his immigration proposals and even the personality of his Scottish terrier Barney, who scratched on the door during the session until the president relented and let him into the office, according to several hosts who attended."
Naturally, her spokesperson says that "the circumstances of her meeting the president were quite different." And they were. They met with a white president, which is totally different.


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At Pinehurst No. 2, danger lurks in plain sight
Pinehurst, N.C. -- If there's one defining image in the U.S. Open, it's a frustrated golfer tromping through thick, ankle-high rough searching for his ball. Or that same player, with begrudging resignation, chopping his ball sideways out of this imposing rough.
Even the most storied shot in Open history, Tom Watson's 71st-hole chip-in to win at Pebble Beach in 1982, required him digging his ball out of the thick stuff.
So why does Pinehurst No. 2 look like a golf course from another planet?
This week's Open will unfold on a layout unlike any in the previous 113 editions of this tournament. Pinehurst officials, encouraged by the U.S. Golf Association, removed 40 acres of lush, Bermuda-grass rough in favor of the original sandy waste areas used by famed architect Donald Ross.
Here's the thing: It works. Fabulously.
Television spectators need to remain open-minded as the images flash across their screen the next four days. They must accept splotches of brown along the edges of Pinehurst's fairways and resist the temptation to think this is all just too weird.
"I think there will be some of that," USGA executive director Mike Davis said Wednesday. "People are going to turn it on and say, 'Did I tune into a British Open? What is this I'm looking at?' "
They're looking at a rustic, distinctive twist on America's national championship. Fear not, those who are weary of the modern power game: Accuracy still matters. Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and their long-hitting colleagues still fervently want to keep tee shots in the fairway.
But if those shots stray off path, the ball could find a wide variety of resting places. The terrain along the fairways is natural hardpan with clumps of nasty wiregrass, native plants/vegetation and pine needles. It's a patchwork collection of unpredictable challenges.
And that's the point.
Consider No. 1, a mostly benign 402-yard par-4. The fairway pinches at 300 yards, where most players will hit the ball if they use a driver. A tall, scruffy mound looms on the right, surrounded by the obstacles described above.
A player might get fortunate and draw a clean lie with a chance to advance the ball. Or he might find himself stuck behind one of those clumps of wiregrass.
Then, around the green, architects Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore - who restored Pinehurst to its long-ago look in 2010 and '11 - left swaths of closely mowed grass. Players will have many options on chips and pitch shots to the course's signature, domed greens.
"It is unusual," Rory McIlroy said. "You think of a U.S. Open and you think of tight fairways and thick rough. ... You used to miss the green by 3 or 4 yards, you're hacking out of cabbage."
Now players are not automatically hacking. They need to contemplate how to execute recovery shots, exactly what the USGA's Davis wants. He loves making players think during the Open, not robotically hit the same shots over and over.
(Side note: Removing the rough allowed Pinehurst to reduce water use by 40 percent. That's important, given the golf industry's struggles to attract players and make efficient use of limited resources.)
It will be fascinating to see how the world's top players cope with such an uncommon Open course. Mickelson discovered one challenge during his practice round Tuesday with Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas.
Fowler found himself in the hardpan sand adjacent to one fairway. He expected the ball to come out "heavy," and instead it took off - sailing over the green and hopping into the grandstands.
"It would have been 70 yards over the green had it not hit the grandstands," Mickelson said of Fowler's shot. "... The challenge of those areas is that you have sand and you also have kind of a wiry grass. The sand will make the ball come out dead with a lot of spin, and wiry grass will make the ball come shooting out."
There's a chance, then, for crazy-good recovery shots - and crazy-bad recovery shots. Pinehurst No. 2 might not have rough anymore, but it still has teeth.
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At court, groups gather to await Zimmerman verdict
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — As jurors deliberated for a second day in George Zimmerman's murder trial, there was little understanding between two camps assembled outside the Seminole County Courthouse to await a verdict.
"He deserves some respect and appreciation," Casey David Kole Sr., 66, shouted about the former neighborhood watch leader. "It's a tragedy."
Patricia Dalton, 60, yelled back: "It's a tragedy that could have been avoided!"
Dalton, like most of the 100 or so people at the suburban Orlando courthouse, says she's there in support of the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black teen from Miami who Zimmerman fatally shot last year. In Saturday's strong Florida sun, some people wore hoodies, as Martin had when he died. One woman lay in the grass, her arms spread, in a re-creation of Martin's death. Those in the smaller pro-Zimmerman camp held small signs, saying things like "We love you George" and "George got hit you must acquit."
Joseph Uy of Longwood was among an even smaller group: the few who said they had no opinion on whether Zimmerman was guilty. He said he came because he was "just curious."
"I'm neutral," he said, while cradling his three tiny Chihuahuas in his arms.
By mid-afternoon, people rallied in the heat and chanted slogans as a looming thundercloud threatened a downpour.
"Justice for Trayvon," some shouted. Others yelled, "Convict George Zimmerman."
Last year, people protested in Sanford and across the country when authorities waited 44 days before arresting Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic.
Over three weeks, the jury has heard dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Martin because he feared for his life.
Zimmerman, 29, has claimed self-defense in the February 2012 confrontation in a gated community where Martin was visiting his father and father's fiancee.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder, but the jury also is allowed to consider manslaughter.
The judge's decision to allow that consideration was a potential blow to the defense: It could give jurors who aren't convinced the shooting amounted to murder a way to hold Zimmerman responsible for the killing.
To win a manslaughter conviction, prosecutors must show only that Zimmerman killed without lawful justification.
Zimmerman faces a maximum prison sentence of life for second-degree murder and 30 years if convicted of manslaughter, due to extra sentencing guidelines for committing a crime with a gun.
The sequestered jury of six women must sort through conflicting testimony from police, neighbors, friends and family members.
Jurors deliberated for three and a half hours when they decided to stop Friday evening. They reconvened Saturday morning, deliberated for three hours and then broke for lunch. They resumed their discussions about 1 p.m. Saturday. Jurors are being sequestered, and their identities are kept anonymous — they are identified only by number.
Police and civic leaders have pleaded for calm in Sanford and across the country if Zimmerman is convicted.
"There is no party in this case who wants to see any violence," Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said. "We have an expectation upon this announcement that our community will continue to act peacefully."
In New York on Saturday, the Rev. Al Sharpton said that no matter the verdict, any demonstrations that follow it must be peaceful.
"We do not want to smear Trayvon Martin's name with violence," the civil rights leader said. "He is a victim of violence."
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Martin's family, said the parents are emotional but doing as well as expected as they await a verdict.
″(Jurors) staying out longer and considering the evidence and testimony is a good thing for us arriving at a just verdict," Crump said.
On Saturday morning, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, shared on Twitter what she called her favorite Bible verse: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
Associated Press writers Kyle Hightower, Mike Schneider and Tony Winton in Sanford and Colleen Long in New York contributed to this report.
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Although a grant for the proposed wooden bridge in downtown Courtenay was turned down, project supporters say they won't give up.
"We're moving forward in getting the funding to make it happen," Phillipa Atwood, president elect for the Rotary Club of Strathcona Sunrise, told Courtenay council Monday, adding fundraising will likely play a big role in generating the money. "We want to work to make this happen."
The City of Courtenay applied for a $1.9-million grant under the Gas Tax Innovation Fund in May, but was notified late last month that the application was unsuccessful.
The City's application to the Gas Tax General Strategic Priorities Fund for $1.75 million to recoat the Fifth Street Bridge was also unsuccessful.
Courtenay spent $70,000 on a feasibility study for the proposed wooden bridge project — which would see a pedestrian/cyclist bridge built across the Courtenay River between Simms Millennium Park and Sixth Street — but council voted unanimously Monday to stop City spending on the project there.
Staff will still be available to lend their expertise to the project.
According to a report from Kevin Lagan, Courtenay's director of operational services, the project is feasible and the estimated cost of construction is $2.8 million, not including geotechnical considerations.
However, "This estimate was generated as a 'retail value' cost of construction and does not include any reductions in costs that may be generated through the Courtenay River People Bridge Steering Committee," wrote Lagan in his report.
A letter to council from Harry Holland, chair of the steering committee, noted other similar community bridge building projects saw organizations, businesses and individuals donate funding, goods and services and other contributions.
Also, the Timber Framers Guild, a non-profit educational association, is still keen on overseeing construction, according to a letter to council from the association's Randy Churchill.
"In Courtenay I have roughly planned for the active involvement on the project of approximately 500 to 600 people, including about 100 professional volunteers from around the world," he added in his letter. "This will result in national attention and lots of goodwill for the community to enjoy for years, not to mention the creation of a valuable tangible asset for very small relative expense."
Because of the guild's involvement and various community contributions, Holland expects the actual cost of the project to be much lower.
"We feel the total project costs would equate to 50 per cent of the feasibility study projection," he added in his letter.
Holland also noted the $2.8-million estimate is for a modified burr arch-truss design, while the estimate for a burr arch design is $3.71 million.
Atwood noted the lower cost design, which could feature a mix of wood and other materials, may be a good way to go.
She added the four local Rotary Clubs — Strathcona Sunrise, Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland — support the bridge, and consider it a "fabulous project." The Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association, and a number of other local groups and organizations have also voiced their support for the project.
Atwood said the steering committee will continue to look into other possible revenue sources, like grants, but supporters are prepared to fundraise 100 per cent of the costs if needed.
Because there is plenty of fundraising to do, she said the project timeline is up in the air.
Mayor Larry Jangula asked if another location could be considered, noting some community members are unhappy with the proposed crossing at Simms and Sixth Street. Atwood responded that the steering committee could look into it.


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WINTER PARK, Fla. --Barry's Adrian English and Tampa's Eric Luksishave been named Sunshine State Conference Baseball Players of the Week presented by VALIC.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK -- Barry junior 2B Adrian English (Miami, Fla.) batted .615 with 10 RBI and three runs to lead the Buccaneers to a three-game sweep of Georgia Southwestern. English notched multiple hits in each contest and had two doubles in both the series opener and finale. He came up particularly big in Barry's 7-6 win in a 14-inning marathon on Saturday, going 4-for-5 with four RBI. He concluded the series with a .923 slugging percentage and .684 on-base percentage. English did not commit an error in the field.
PITCHER OF THE WEEK -- Tampa senior Eric Luksis (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) allowed just one hit and one walk in six scoreless innings of a 6-0 shutout against Bentley. Luksis struck out five batters.
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Border War Saturday
(University of Wyoming release) It's the Border War and Battle for the Bronze Boot between Wyoming and Colorado State. The series resumes for the 105th time this Saturday. Kickoff is set for noon in Wyoming's War Memorial Stadium.
The series is the oldest rivalry for both schools. Wyoming has won the last four meetings in the series, accomplishing something that it hadn't achieved since 1970-73.
The Border War series has been played in three different centuries, dating back to Nov. 30, 1899, when CSU won the first meeting 12-0 in Fort Collins, Colo. This year is the 114th anniversary of that first meeting.
UW trails in the overall "Border War" series 44-55-5. But since the end of World War II, the Cowboys hold a 39-28-0 lead in the last 67 consecutive meetings since the series was renewed in 1946. There was a three-year break in the series in 1943, `44 and `45 due to World War II. Saturday's game will mark the 68th straight year the two archrivals will meet on the football field.
This year's meeting will be the 46th time the two schools have battled for the Bronze Boot. The Bronze Boot traveling trophy was introduced to the series in 1968. It was an actual boot worn in Vietnam by CSU alum Dan Romero. Wyoming leads the "Bronze Boot" portion of the series 24-21.
For the second consecutive season, the game is being played in Laramie, Wyo. The game has not been played in Laramie in consecutive years since the 1963 and `64 seasons.
Head coach Dave Christensen and his Cowboys have gotten off to a strong start this season, going 4-2 and 2-0 in the Mountain West Conference to lead the Mountain Division. This is the third Dave Christensen-coached team to begin a season 4-2. The 2009 and 2011 teams also began 4-2 and earned New Mexico Bowl bids. The 2011 Cowboys began the season 5-2 on way to an 8-5 record.
The Cowboys have begun the Mountain West Conference race 2-0 this season. The last time a Wyoming team began conference play 3-0 was back in 1998 in Wyoming's final year as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. The Cowboys posted a 6-0 conference start that season, before losing its final two conference games of the year. Wyoming has never begun conference play 3-0 since it has been a member of the Mountain West.
UW is 3-0 at home in War Memorial Stadium this season. The last time a Wyoming team moved to 4-0 at home was the 2004 campaign. The 2004 Cowboys improved to 5-0, before losing the final home game of the season to a No. 7 ranked Utah team. The 2004 Cowboys went on to earn a bid in the Las Vegas Bowl and defeat UCLA 24-21.
In the Cowboys' most recent victory last week versus New Mexico, Wyoming's defense forced three turnovers by the Lobos, playing a key role in the Cowboys' victory. Two of those turnovers forced by the defense led to scores on the ensuing drives by the Pokes.
Wyoming junior quarterback Brett Smith continues to receive national recognition this season. Smith, who ranks No. 3 in the nation in total offense, averaging 379.0 yards per game, was added to the Maxwell Award Watch list this past week. The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the outstanding collegiate football player in America. The Award has been presented every year since 1937 and is named in honor of Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell.
One of the aspects of the Wyoming-Colorado State rivalry that makes it great are the numerous players who hail from the states of Wyoming and Colorado and in many cases have played against one another since their high school years. There are nine players on the 2013 Wyoming roster who came to UW from the state of Wyoming and 22 who hail from Colorado. Of the 22 Colorado Cowboys, 12 have starting experience. Spencer Bruce is the one Wyoming native who has starting experience for the Cowboys. CSU has 46 players listed on its roster from Colorado but none from Wyoming this season.
Saturday's game will be televised live by ROOT Sports beginning at Noon, Mountain Time. Saturday's 105th Border War will also be broadcast on radio over the Cowboy Sports Network, beginning with the pregame show at 11 a.m.


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Flicker, the independent horror thriller shot here in Albuquerque by director Aaron Hendren, should be available on DVD starting this Friday, Jan. 29. It's a perfect opportunity for lovers of offbeat slasher films to support local cinema. You can pick up a copy through Amazon.com. For more info, log on to eggmurders.com.
Film Review
Do I really have any interest in discussing the symbolic use of firewood as a weapon? ... No. No, I don't.
Sometimes, I think Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier is a genius (The Kingdom, for example). Other times, I think he's just an asshole (let's go with Dogville). His newest film, the controversy-baiting horror whatsit Antichrist, is a coin toss.
Film Review
Why don't more films choose God as the villain?
Angels with machine guns: Doesn't that sound bad-ass? It's like tigers with switchblades. Or sharks with lasers. It's awesomeness squared. And it's pretty much the entire concept behind the action/horror/fantasy Legion. Unfortunately, this idea of diminishing returns makes for a wicked-cool poster, a mildly intriguing trailer and an incredibly mediocre film.
Idiot Box
Big Bang Theory
"Human Target" on FOX
You probably don't recognize "Human Target" from its original comic book run. (That's OK; it was an obscure back-up strip in '70s-era DC stuff like The Brave and the Bold and Detective Comics). You may not remember "Human Target" from its brief, two-month stint in the summer of 1992 as an action drama starring Rick Springfield. (Trust me, it sounded like a good idea at the time.) But you might want to get familiar with it now that FOX has revived the concept as a splashy, explosion-filled weekly series.


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Hunters and NASCAR fans surely overlap, and the Pocono Raceway is holding a contest on that premise.
The raceway announced its first "Show Us Yer Rack Trophy Contest," a fan-generated competition where hunters can share images of their harvested racks.
The largest harvested racks will be eligible for a grand prize package and the largest homegrown Pennsylvania buck will set a limited-time ticket discount, open to all race fans.
The grand prize, which will be for the largest overall harvested rack, will win two Terrace Bistro tickets to a 2013 race of choice at Pocono Raceway. In order to be eligible for this prize, submitted photos must include a Pocono Raceway item or sign. This can come in the form of a Raceway shirt, hat or, even as simple as a piece of paper with the words "Pocono Raceway 2012 Show Us Yer Rack Contest" on it.
The largest homegrown rack, which would be the largest rack harvested in Pennsylvania, will determine a ticket discount percentage available to all fans.
When submitting photos the Pennsylvania hunting tag must be visible in the photo to be eligible to set the discount. Discount will be set, up to 20 percent off, for select seats to the Pocono 400 and the Pennsylvania 400.
The consolation prize will be randomly selected from all of the entries to win two tickets to a 2013 Pocono Raceway event of choice, no matter the size of the trophy.
For more information, including how to submit and view photos, visit poconoraceway.com/rackcontest.
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(Another dull "meet the family" plot)
The synopsis and previews looked like just another "meet the family" movie, and that's just what "Peeples" is.
My attraction to the film was Kerry Washington, the beautiful, talented actress who was so good in "Django Unchained" and mesmerizes me every week in the TV series "Scandal." Alas, she is wasted as Grace Peeples, the daughter of a wealthy judge (David Alan Grier) and girlfriend of Wade Walker, a poor children's entertainer (Craig Robinson).
Grace keeps her relationship with Wade a secret from her family. When she goes to the Hamptons for a family gathering, Wade decides to follow her and propose in front of the family. Daddy thinks his daughter is too good for Wade. Wade screws up at every turn, making matters worse.
To top it off, Wade discovers and exposes a number of family secrets, including the actions of the judge. All this leads to a very dumb and predictable ending to a terrible movie. What was Kerry Washington thinking?
Rated PG-13, with some sex, profanity and drug use.


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A benefit for Terry Hurtgam will be held on Saturday, June 15, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the 3F Club, 904 Swann Road in Lewiston.
Hurtgam a long-time resident of Ransomville and employee at Kitchen World, was recently diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease.
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The Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (PARF) 2010 Annual Conference will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College, PA from Monday, September 20 to Thursday, September 23.
This year's annual conference – 2010 and Beyond: Changing Rhythms of Rehabilitation features three keynote presentations, an annual meeting of PARF members, an awards luncheon and forty-five conference sessions. Annie Harris will be one of those Keynote speakers!
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Digital marketing in the pharmaceutical & healthcare industry is reaching boiling point. After six or seven years of interest, it's going mainstream – and instead of "should we go digital?", pharma & healthcare companies are now asking "how do we do it successfully?". We think the next seven years, leading up to 2020, will be crucial in this endeavour.
Featuring the views and experiences of industry experts from inside and outside of pharma & healthcare, this series of four white papers from PharmiWeb Solutions looks at how pharma can make the right decisions about the technologies, devices and skills necessary to develop effective and measurable digital strategies. This will be the key to gaining competitive advantage – from now, to 2020, and beyond.
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- Diamond Hill Challenge obstacle run takes place October 19, benefits Cumberland youth programs
CUMBERLAND --- Ever since organizations such as Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and Warrior Dash burst onto the scene in 2010, obstacle racing has become the rage and the 'to-do' activity for runners and non-athletes alike in this country and overseas.
Runners would try to complete a race - from your average 5K to a marathon - on a trail course that has its share of mud, ponds, and rocks and is littered with obstacles, ranging from climbing over walls to crossing balance beams, crawling under barbed wire, and jumping over fire pits.
But while obstacle racing's popularity is currently at an all-time high, it does have some folks in the local sports community, such as Mike Crawley, the director of the Cumberland Parks & Recreation Department, scratching their heads.
"I'm not sure why this took off," said Crawley. "It's just one of those things that's a challenge, and I think people want to complete a challenge like this. But for the life of me, I don't understand why so many people took to it."
Crawley may have his questions about the sport, but on Saturday, Oct. 19, he and his hard-working staff will answer the call for a local obstacle race when the inaugural Diamond Hill Challenge Obstacle Run invades Diamond Hill Park.
The 3.1-mile race, which proceeds will benefit the town's youth programs, will take place in the middle of the Haunted Hill schedule that started this past weekend and will run every Friday and Saturday night until halloween male wigs, as well as two Sunday nights, Oct. 13 and 27.
The Haunted Hill trail walk, complete with its outdoor attractions, from its killer scarecrows to famous movie killers on the route, has been a popular fall venue for children and adults alike for more than a decade, but this year, Crawley and his staff are adding an extra event with their obstacle race.
Crawley tabbed it "a piece of cake" race, that unlike the universally popular Spartan Dash or Tough Mudder, won't feature barbed wire or dangling live electrical wires to dodge, but a tough hill on the first mile, and some walls, tunnels, and mud among the 13 obstacles to overcome.
It also won't feature the pricey fees that the larger organizations force their participants to shell out, which sometimes can exceed $100. For $45 until Oct. 13 (and $50 after that until race day), anyone can try their hand at this race, and even get a race t-shirt if they sign up early.
"And we're doing our race with a Halloween twist to it, make it something a little bit different," added Crawley, who plans to have a "blood-filled pond" and "psychos" along the Haunted Hill course that include Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Michael Myers from Halloween.
There will be nine different waves of runners going off every half hour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and runners will be required to check in a half hour before their scheduled starts. The top male and finisher in each wave will receive an award, as will those who sport the best individual and group costumes.
"Right now, we have about 100 (registrants), and I just got a call from a lady who has a group of 15 that's going to be signing up," offered Crawley. "I'm hoping within the next couple of weeks we get a little bit of a push here."
And what if this first-time race turns into a huge success?
"If it is a success, we'll definitely look to do another one in the spring, and maybe even another one in the summer," said Crawley. "I still can't put my finger on why this is the fad that's out there, but if we do a good job, people will come back."
For more information, call the Parks & Recreation Department at 334-9996 or visit the web site www.hauntedhill.net. To register for the race, visit the site www.runrhody.com.
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Today, I got a message from GHC that always amuses me. Why? Because the message makes feel like GHC is poor little Dorothy, stuck at the fork in the road, confused by the Scarecrow's advice that some people go both ways.
Here's a simplified version of the program:
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances, OverloadedStrings #-}In response, GHC complains:
import qualified Data.Text as T
class Argh a where
toArgh :: a -> Char
instance Argh T.Text where
toArgh = T.head
instance Argh [Char] where
toArgh = head
x :: Char
x = toArgh "Argh!"
Ambiguous type variable `a0' in the constraints:Funny, no? It's amusing to me because the directive OverloadedStrings is designed to make it easy on the programmer in the time of many string types, letting you use the quoted string to produce either [Char] or Text, depending on the context. But in this case, both contexts occur in the same place, since the class Argh has instances for both types.
(Data.String.IsString a0)
arising from the literal `"Argh!"' at Argh.hs:14:12-18
(Argh a0) arising from a use of `toArgh' at Argh.hs:14:5-10
Probable fix: add a type signature that fixes these type variable(s)
In the first argument of `toArgh', namely `"Argh!"'
In the expression: toArgh "Argh!"
In an equation for `x': x = toArgh "Argh!"
Failed, modules loaded: none.
Now, if GHC were psychic, it could see that all roads lead to Rome. Or the Emerald City. Or something like that. The result is the same, either path it chooses. But I'm just as happy that it doesn't choose for me. I'm just as happy to either remove the OverloadedStrings directive or put in a an explicit type declaration and move on. After a little chuckle thinking about the Scarecrow.


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Athletics 6, Rockies 5
Rockies manager Walt Weiss hopes he gets more out of Jhoulys
Chacin on Opening Day than he did with the right-hander's final
start of spring training.
Chacin, who will make his first career opening day start Monday
in Milwaukee, was roughed up mainly by reserves and minor leaguers
in a 6-5 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
He allowed six runs on 10 hits in five innings, walked one and
struck out four. He gave up a solo home run in the fourth inning to
Jeremy Barfield and picked a man off first base in the second.
Chacin left the ballpark after coming out of the game and did
not meet with the media.
Weiss didn't seem concerned about Chacin's outing.
"I am confident he will get command of his stuff on Monday,"
Weiss said. "Jhoulys wasn't as sharp (on Wednesday) as he has been
at times this spring. He worked trying to get out of trouble …
his change-up has been a great pitch for him, but it was not
working the way he likes. His pitches were a little up."
Chacin had been scratched from his previous scheduled start
Friday due to back issues but pitched two innings of relief
Saturday. He missed 97 games due to shoulder inflammation in 2012
and was 3-5 in 14 starts.
Oakland first baseman Nate Freiman, claimed off waivers from
Houston on Saturday, hit a two-run double off Chacin to put the A's
ahead 6-5 with two outs in the fifth. The ball went off the glove
of Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler.
Fowler hit two home runs to lead off the first and fifth innings
against Oakland starter Jarrod Parker. Chris Nelson also homered
off Parker and Troy Tulowitzki went deep against reliever Hideki
Fowler had three hits, raising his average to .388. Tulowitzki
also had three hits to climb to .286.
Asked if Fowler is locked in with his hitting approach, Weiss
said, "He got us some quick runs. A lot of our guys are locked in
these last few days. It's a good sign."
The A's finished 6-0-1 over their last seven games, a good sign
to manager Bob Melvin.
"We played well at the end. That's what you want," he said.
"You want to ramp it up somewhat going into the season. We have
three more games with a little more intensity (against the Giants),
and then the season starts."
It was the final spring game in Arizona for the A's, who meet
the rival San Francisco Giants for three exhibition games in the
Bay Area starting Thursday. The Rockies wrap things up Thursday at
home in Scottsdale against the Milwaukee Brewers.
NOTES: LHP Tommy Milone will start the Thursday opener for
Oakland against the Giants, with RHP A. J. Griffin going in the
second game and RHP Dan Straily in the finale. … INF Hiro
Nakajima has a strained left hamstring and will be examined by
doctors in the Bay Area. Melvin said he is doubtful for the Giants
series. Nakajima is hitting just .167 in 17 games. … The Rockies
are expected to face Milwaukee RHP Kyle Lohse on Thursday. He
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BRUNSWICK, Maine – Nationally-ranked No. 3 MIT edged host Bowdoin College by two points in the team standings to take first place among a competitive 10-team field on Saturday at the Bowdoin Cross Country Invite. Freshman Stephanie Marzen (McLean, Va.) led the way for the Engineers with her seventh-place finish.
Marzen navigated the six-kilometer course, which will serve as the site of this year's New England Division III championship, in 23:37. Amelia Helmick (Eugene, Ore.) came through the chute in 10th-place with a time of 23:47. Cindy Huang's (San Jose, Calif.) time of 24:16 was good for 13th overall. Chandler Burfield (Naples, Fla.) was the first of three straight Tech harriers across the finish, coming through in 18th at 24:28. Janice O'Brien (Chester, N.J.) and Sarah Sprague (Marengo, Ill.) followed Burfield, as both posted times of 24:30.
The Engineers finished with a team score of 67, just ahead of Bowdoin's total of 69. Wellesley College was third with a score of 87.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Gyasi Zardes may have signed a Homegrown deal with the LA Galaxy in December, but he still got his SuperDraft moment in January as two other Homegrown players were presented at Thursday's 2013 MLS SuperDraft.
One of the top goal scorers in college soccer, Zardes notched 33 goals in 37 games with the Roadrunners over his four seasons at CSU Bakersfield. Although his Homegrown status prevented him from taking part in the draft day festivities, Zardes believes that he was far better off signing a deal for LA.
"It was a great decision to sign a Homegrown because I knew which club I was going to play for and prepare for," Zardes said, "as opposed to these guys [in the SuperDraft] – they're waiting and waiting. It just helped me prepare sooner than these guys"
When the Galaxy begin their preseason on Monday, Zardes is expected to challenge for a forward spot alongside LA's leading goal scorer from 2012, Robbie Keane. As he prepares to play alongside the talented Irishman, Zardes – who is proud of the "flair and style" in his game— admits that he's been taking notes on how he could fit alongside Keane.
"I'm excited to play alongside Robbie Keane and just learn as much as I possibly can," said Zardes. "I watch how many guys cram and defend Robbie Keane and I think to myself that I can make those kinds of runs to be open for the future."
But can Zardes step in during his first rookie season? Galaxy head coach and general manager Bruce Arena seems to think so.
"We sense that he's going to be able to help us a little bit this year," said Arena. "He's a very bright, articulate, confident kid and hopefully that translates a little bit on the field, where it counts."
And where does Zardes believe that he would have gone if he entered the draft?
"In my eyes, I think I would've gone No. 1," said Zardes with a smile.