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"The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world.
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The Center produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials. The Center conducts ethnographic and cultural heritage policy oriented research, maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, and provides educational and research opportunities through fellowships, internships, and training programs. The Center also produces major national cultural events consistent with its mission. In 2004 these included the National World War II Reunion and the First Americans Festival for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian."
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"Juilliard's graduate-level Historical Performance program was established in September 2009, achieving immediate recognition as one of the leading programs of its kind. The department's faculty members include many renowned performers, scholars, writers, and teachers in the field of period-instrument practice, as well as the members of Juilliard Baroque, one of four resident ensembles at Juilliard.
As a student in the tuition-free program, you will work closely with our dedicated faculty members and enjoy regular performance opportunities of a wide variety of repertoire for small and large ensembles and solo recitals in a number of public venues. Juilliard415, the School's student period-instrument ensemble, performs works from the 17th and 18th centuries in concert venues at Lincoln Center and beyond. You can also gain valuable interactive performance experience by participating in one of Juilliard's educational or community outreach programs.
NEW MAJORS OFFERED—Beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, Historical Performance is adding the following majors: Viola da gamba (Sarah Cunningham) and plucked instruments (Patrick O'Brien). Click here for audition requirements.
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"Statement of Purposes
- To provide a full-time Fellowship in research:
- Analysis of Bach's music and historical treatises pertaining to the roots and development of his form and structure.
- The influences of past cultural and religious traditions on his music and thought.
- His influence on contemporary composers and their productions.
The period of the Fellowship is to equal one to two semesters duration. Preference will be given but not limited to Fellows with newly-acquired Ph.D. degrees in Musicology, Performance, or Composition. This grant will also be available to established scholars of distinction.
- To provide a full-time Fellowship in research in disciplines other than music on the conceptual and/or structural relationships of these concepts in Bach's music and other disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and other scientific disciplines. This grant will be available solely for established international scholars. The period of the Fellowship is to equal one or two semesters duration.
- To further the studies of promising young performers:
- In multiple levels of technique in all media in solo instrumental, solo vocal, choral, and ensemble.
- In far-ranging musicological requirements in study of Bach's music.
- On period and contemporary instruments.
- To provide grants:
- For the continuing organization and completion of Rosalyn Tureck's numerous articles and essays. These grants will be available on application to graduate students working on their Ph.D. degrees or on their first year following the successful completion of their Ph.D. thesis.
- For the completion of Rosalyn Tureck's unfinished editions and books. The first of the grants has been awarded to Zachariah Mark Victor, a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Yale University School of Music.
These grants will be available to established scholars in cooperation with performers, where desirable.
- The awards for each of these Fellowships to be selected by the Tureck Bach Research Institute Musical Consultants and endorsed by chairmen of University departments of Performance, Musicology, and Composition.
- The Fellowships and Grants to be known as the Rosalyn Tureck Awards.
- To encourage the creation, promulgation and fund raising for a 'Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists' anywhere in the world, but particularly in the United States and Russia. …"
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"Language and Music for Life was born in Spring 1997 and is committed to providing training in both music and foreign languages to students of all ages, with a lower age limit of 10 years old for the main Summer course, from 3 to 10 years old for the Peter Pan Course and no upper age limit.
The first LMFL summer course was held in 1997 and has grown in size and quality ever since.
Our music and language project functions in a context which is rich in individual ability, motivation, language, culture and generations.
Learning is not to be restricted to its manifestation in performance, though this is an essential part, but is to be intimately linked to the dynamics of the whole individual who is able to learn while changing, and able to change while learning.
Our linguistic premise: a language is learned not just for its own sake but also for a purpose. Language is used to communicate, to organise music making with others, to facilitate professional development and because we want to enjoy exchanges with those whom we have chosen to be with, and like, and because we don't want to live like a "foreigner" in an English speaking environment.
We learn a language to live and, as the name of our organisation puts it, to survive. …"
LMFL offers summer music programmes with some early music instrument instruction. Visit the LFML website and summer workshop listings for more information. (ed.)
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"On February 19-21, 2010, the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM) convened on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. There, scholars from five continents representing the disciplines of music theory, ethnomusicology, musicology, cognitive psychology, computer science, and mathematics, as well as performers from a diverse array of musical cultures and traditions, came together with a common desire to engage in a unique cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, and in so doing, to promote and further enhance our collective understanding of the vast body of music we in the west commonly refer to as "world" music. What resulted was a compelling discourse that exceeded the expectations of all involved, and forcefully prompted the organizers to make the AAWM conference a biennial event. Indeed, plans are currently underway for the conference's second installment, which will occur at The University of British Columbia in May of 2012.
The creation of the online journal Analytical Approaches to World Music represents an attempt to capture, sustain, and further extend this remarkable dialogue in a written format that is easily accessible to the widest possible audience. Within its pages, we aim to deliver the same broad spectrum of approaches, repertories, and musical issues in the form of articles, book reviews, letters to the editors, critical forums, and the like. In addition, the journal website will also host online discussion boards, with which we seek to provide a valuable forum for more informal discourse that fosters a stimulating exchange of ideas amongst scholars and musicians from across the globe."
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"Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär is a conference group dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary work on the culture, politics, and society of German-speaking Central Europe during the early modern period. The group sponsors a triennial conference organized around a theme intended to explore and integrate current research interests in the disciplines of literature, history, the history of science and medicine, music, art history, and historical theology and the history of religion."
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- Ranked consistently in the top 5 English departments in British Universities (see University Guide 2011)
- An internationally diverse and vibrant cohort of expert staff
- Ranked third in The Guardian's teaching quality table in 2011
- A major base for research into comparative literary studies and offers distinctive and imaginative programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
- Scored a 100% at 4* (highest possible) rating for the department's 'Environment and Esteem' in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
- Established strengths in comparative European literatures, medieval and early modern studies, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, Romanticism, literature and gender, and literary and cultural theory
- More recent areas of focus include colonial and postcolonial studies, world literature, drama and performance, and contemporary writing
- Home to the Warwick Writing Programme, the largest and most comprehensive of its type in Europe
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"The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades. Complementing the Association's national and international activities are eleven regional chapters that carry out its programs on the local level.
MLA publishes the journal Notes, the world's leading journal in its field.
MLA's development program attracts individual and corporate donors whose financial support further the purposes of the Association —
- to promote the establishment, growth, and use of music libraries
- to encourage the collection of music and music literature in libraries
- to increase efficiency in music library service and administration
- to promote the profession of music librarianship"
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"The Gregorian Institute of Canada (GIC) undertakes research and education to promote the study and performance of Gregorian and other western chant repertoires in Canada.
- works with local churches of various denominations, with musicians and cantors, and with historians interested in medieval society.
- provides workshops, performances, and special study days encompassing the whole range of the Gregorian and other Western chant repertoire to develop the knowledge and teach the skills necessary to perform and critically appreciate monastic and secular chant in the western cultural tradition.
- organizes and runs 'field-trips' to parishes and monastic communities with living traditions of chant performance.
- supports and publishes research into the performance of various chant traditions, with a particular emphasis on current performance.
The Gregorian Institute of Canada is a not-for-profit corporation, licensed and authorized to provide official tax receipts for donations in support of its mission. Founded in 2004, GIC is a non-denominational association. GIC is affiliated with The School of the Arts, McMaster University."
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"Located in a hilltop medieval village in southern Tuscany, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi has been founded to provide a center of inspiration for musicians worldwide who have an interest in the harpsichord, its repertoire and its history.
The staff and trustees of the Piccola Accademia bring together significant experience in music, the broader arts, government, charitable foundation governance and business. We see our role as providing a platform from which teachers, students, performers and audiences can build an academy in Plato's sense of that word, meaning a place for developing and exchanging an advanced philosophy—which in our case is the philosophy of historic musical performance. We will ensure that resources are gathered and managed appropriately, balancing the economic health and stewardship of the Piccola Accademia with providing access to the broader musical and local community."
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French association promoting the " Orpheon Project", France-Orpheon seeks concert locations, expositions, financing and a location to establish the permanent residence of the Orpheon Foundation collection of historical string instruments in France.
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"Brepols Publishers is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities.
The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research.
Brepols Publishers' mission is to publish works with an outstanding academic reputation in the field of Europe's cultural roots and sphere of influence. Such publications fall mainly within the disciplines of history and archaeology, language and literature, music, art and architectural history."
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Headquartered in Geneva, the foundation "La Ménestrandie" is born of the last wishes of Helen Teysseire-Vuilleumier who wanted an institution bearing the name inherited from her collection of historical musical instruments, its library and its wealth so that her commitment to early music throughout her life is to be pursued through this institution.
Officials of the foundation are now trying to continue the work of Helen Teysseire, acquiring new instruments, restoring others and holding, each spring, concerts of early music in which several instruments from the collection are highlighted.
"La Ménestrandie" is a member of GEFAM (Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente, Zurich) www.gefam.ch.
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Musicologist in early music. Giulia Giovani holds a PhD is on Italian printed cantatas from 1620 to 1738. Main research topics: italian cantatas; history of printing and publishing in music.
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"Welcome to my pages with recorder fingerings! The largest page worldwide for recorder fingerings. - More than 523 charts on-line. .."
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"The Foundation aims are of the preservation and knowledge of ancient musical instruments and the coordination of events related to ancient music. "
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"The Society for Musicology in Ireland was established in 2003 to promote and foster musical scholarship in all its forms throughout Ireland, north and south. It provides a forum for everyone interested in musicology, whether professional, academic, postgraduate or undergraduate student, or just with an interest in the study of music.
The Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) has been established to promote and foster musical scholarship in all its forms. The Society seeks to provide a forum for the practice of musicology which reflects the gamut of musical research in Ireland, including ethnomusicology, historical musicology, analysis, performance practice, textual criticism, archival research, organology music technology, cultural and social history and critical discourse, to name some of the disciplines pursued by musicologists in this country. .."
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"Welcome to the Internet site of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, an independent academic and artistic organization which investigates and promotes the myriad of interactions between text and music. Lyrica was founded by Dr. Louis Auld, Professor of French Literature at Central Connecticut State University in 1981. Since then, it has grown to include nearly 500 members in North America, Europe, Turkey and Japan. After serving as Editor of our peer-reviewed journal, Ars Lyrica, and as Secretary-Treasurer for seventeen years, Professor Auld retired from those posts, but remains active as an advisor to the Society's Executive Board. Lyrica welcomes literary, musicological and performance-practice research into word-music issues crossing all historical periods, and enveloping all musical and literary genres and cultural frameworks. Chronologically through the academic calendar, the Society is present at the annual conventions of the American Musicological Society, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of Teachers for Singing, and the National Opera Association (alternating biennially), the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Comparative Literature Association, where our seminar explores a special topic each year.
Our annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard are held each spring. .."
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"IBMP is a non-profit organization to which anyone can join after payment of the annual social. With the support of the Culture of Regione Piemonte, Fondazione CRT and Compagnia di San Paolo performs work of promoting studies, research and documentation, publications and recordings related to culture and the musical culture of Piedmont. Organizes exhibitions, conferences, conventions, concerts. It also proposes to undertake an inventory, indexing and cataloging of bibliographic music of the Piedmont Region understanding both in the geographical sense and in its current broader sense of history." (Google Translate)
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"Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history. The RSA brings together members from many backgrounds who are interested in a wide variety of disciplines related to this period.
The RSA actively encourages the continued spread of learning about the Renaissance. The Society organizes an annual meeting every year, which features the most distinguished Renaissance scholars in North America and beyond. The Society further encourages scholarship by offering prizes and research grants of up to $3,000 in three categories (pre-doctoral scholars, junior scholars, and senior scholars).
The RSA sponsors many publications. The Society publishes the journal Renaissance Quarterly, its electronic counterpart, the online edition of Renaissance Quarterly, and the newsletter Renaissance News & Notes. The RSA also sponsors its own text, bibliography, and special purpose series (RTS), a reprint series (RSARTS), and the program of the annual meeting with abstracts of all the papers, and subsidizes editions, translations, and research tools published outside the RSA series. The RSA's Directory of members is available on this website. Finally, through its partnership with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the RSA helps to make access to information about Renaissance scholarship broadly accessible."
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"The Royal Dutch Society for Music (KVNM) is the national professional association for musicology. The KVNM existed since 1868 and is the oldest organization in the musicological world. The Association organizes seminars and publishes scientific works in the field of Dutch music. The biannual journal (TVNM) is authoritative and internationally.
This website provides information on activities, publications and history of the Association. You can also contact us, sign up as member and order publications." (Google Translate)
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"Karin Paulsmeier was born 1943 in Hamburg, Germany. She began her music studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB), receiving her diploma in 1968, and continuing her formation in musicology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
From 1970 to 2003 she taught "Notationskunde", the study of musical notation dating from the 12th to 18th centuries, at the SCB. Over the years she has gained international recognition as one of the most knowledgeable professionals in her field. Karin Paulsmeier's particular interest lies in the relationship between notation and musical style as they evolve over time, presenting a history of music through original sources. She frequently advises musicians on the interpretation and performance of music read directly from the original notation. .."
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"Godoy Music offers recorder lessons, Baroque and Renaissance ensembles, and Alexander Technique lessons in a warm, nurturing environment. We work with students of all levels to provide a course of study that matches their individual goals and needs. All lessons at Godoy Music are taught by Héloïse and Justin, professional musicians, and husband and wife with 10 years teaching experience between them. Teachers: Héloïse Degrugillier & Justin Godoy."
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"Founded in 1971, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) aims to promote, support and disseminate research on the eighteenth century. The Society is a bilingual and multidisciplinary organization interested in the overall cultural heritage of an era that has played a decisive role in constituting our modernity.
Each year, CSECS hosts a conference in one of Canada's various regions and publishes an issue of the scholarly journal Lumen. It awards a prize to the best graduate paper read at the conference (the Mark Madoff Award) and offers an annual fellowship (the D.W. Smith Research Fellowship).
CSECS fosters a particularly rich and invigorating scholarly sociability through its annual conference and its links with the international eighteenth-century studies community. It has, notably, delegates to the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Pascal Bastien), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Don Nichol), and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (April London)."
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"The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration."
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|2013-04-12, 09:00
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: earth
|2013-04-12, 09:39
|Link #11043
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
So it was indeed the gate, as was suspected. Hopefully that's the only place they'll be coming from (a two-pronged attack would be utterly disastrous)...
Good thinking with Crux.
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|2013-04-12, 09:57
|Link #11044
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: A Yellow Submarine
Age: 24
Interesting chapter... Now I can't wait for the next one again. But knowing the trend (of great chapter followed by a bad chapter, then a great chapter then a bad chapter again), maybe I shouldn't expect too much. But I don't see any way Mashima could possibly blow this one's climax.
While reading this chapter I was beginning to think that future Lucy's return to the past was for naught. But then if it wasn't for her Natsu and gang would still be imprisoned and present Lucy wouldn't be so close to the gate that she has a chance to close it. It's good to know that at least she didn't die in vain
EDIT: @Inept Forum User below me: Yup, I found out about it a split second before you posted Thanks
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|2013-04-12, 10:07
|Link #11045
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Just wondering, if Celestial Spirit Magic can be used now to close the gate, does this mean that the drain effect is off? Or would this type of magic work regardless?
Edit: Understood. Sorry about that.
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Ancient Red Dragon
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Poland
Age: 30
I see people thinking that dragons which raised dragonslayers will come and help fighting with those dragons, but .... Are they even alive ? I think all dragon slayers came to the future using eclipse gate on the day dragons "dissapeared" and because of that gate Lucy's mother died (either tried to close it or opened it). It can't coincidence that they dissapered on day when eclipse is "corrupted" like stated (if the translation is correct).
|2013-04-12, 11:16
|Link #11047
Second Stake of Sloth
Join Date: Jun 2010
Well, we saw what looked like Igneel's reaction to Natsu & Gajeel fighting Sting & Rouge, so I'm pretty sure he's alive. That means that Grandeeney should be alive too, if she didn't die during the last 7 years. That leaves only Metalicana, and I don't think it would make sense if he's dead while the other two are stilll alive.
|2013-04-12, 12:04
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Join Date: Aug 2012
damn, shit just got real as hell
Not going to put all my marbles in it, but I think Yukino will sacrifice herself to help close the gate.
EDIT: ruh oh, recall all the way back to the Laxus Arc. Gajeel and Natsu couldn't pass through Freed's runes because they were "older than 80" (they were supposed to contain Makarov only). Could it be that they were the ones who traveled back in time? ooo, good potential here.
Depending on how this arc closes, there's a possibility that I will declare Mashima a goddamned genius
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Dark Energy
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: United States
|2013-04-12, 14:41
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
|2013-04-12, 16:04
|Link #11054
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Puerto Rico
One whole chapter showing the Princess' guilt for falling for Shadow Rogue's lies? I could've saved ink by just writing, you done fucked up flatty. Next time you wanna listen to a pretty boy's words from the future, don't.
|2013-04-12, 16:38
|Link #11055
Know who you are
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Resides within the depths of Ned infested Glasgow
Thing now, is how they combat the dragons, for one, DS are now the most powerful weapon they have against the dragons consider they are dragon slayers(no matter how much weaker they are to certain other mages)
Should we see others like Erza, Jura, Gildartz beating down dragons cause they are stronger than Natsu?
Honestly, no I think we shouldn't.
Ok I'd maybe give if it was a large group of very powerful mages beating down 1 dragon but alone or in small groups, I don't think I'd accept seeing such characters beating a dragon by themselves.
It would kinda rule out DS as being DS really.
I think we'd have to see Natsu and fellow DS raise the bar by them taking out dragons with some ease in order for others to have that fighting chance imo.
Well I tell ya one thing, I rather enjoy Mashima's cheese filled moments in this tale, they make chuckle in a very good way
|2013-04-12, 18:16
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Anyway, surprise that Lucy had Cruz looking into things; always nice to see her using her spirits, especially the ones you think are forgotten. Natsu is getting up, and dragons are coming through.
Will Igneel, Grandeeny, and Metalicana show up? Maybe the light and shadow dragons? Will 10,000 dragons come through, or will they stop it and keep the dragons to a minimum? Maybe the dragons weren't wiped out 400 years ago, but instead came to the future, which is how Igneel knew he'd meet Grandeeny and the others here at this festival. But given how they had issues with Acnologia, it's not looking good for the people of this world, to deal with so many dragons. Gonna need a serious power boost, or serious teamwork.
|2013-04-12, 19:10
|Link #11060
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Finally caught up after months of being a bit too busy to have fun.
Anyway, seems to have been slightly slow, but I'm glad I came back when it's reaching the climax.
The tournament was something i never cared about much, but those final fights are going to be awesome when they're animated. Some of the power levels don't make a ton of sense, so I think Mashima should avoid writing rankings. Gray vs. Rufus was great, but it was weird that Jura went down so quickly. Erza vs. Minerva was also fine, but i thought it was weird how powerful Kagura was against some of her armors and how she went down. Orga being defeated didn't shock me though. He seems like the kind with a lot of power and little defense.
Who do you think those 4 Wizard Saints are?
In any case, I was always more interested in the Eclipse project. It seems like Hisui was tricked, but for what reason? What is this evil/possessed Rogue's intent? The dragons coming out of the gate seemed like a given to me though
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The girls on the team were also required to sign a commitment barring them from playing other sports that would get in the way. Improving skill, technique, and sportsmanship were all important in the club world, but so was winning, which was the only way for a team to move up a four-level league hierarchy, from Bronze to Gold. Over the next few years, more and more of my daughter's teammates "went club." By the time my daughter joined them at 12, the club's director noted that she'd "started late."
Between 30 million and 45 million American kids participate in some form of athletics each year. With fewer parents comfortable letting their children play outside unsupervised, it's no wonder that organized youth sports are more popular than ever. But that world has changed in troubling ways. Not only are players joining competitive leagues at ever younger ages, more and more of them are choosing to specialize, focus, and train intensively in only one sport. In 2009, for instance, the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship featured a category for boys under 6, the Amateur Athletic Union sponsored a national basketball championship for boys and girls under 8, the NCAA lowered the year at which a player could be considered a basketball "prospect" to seventh grade, and a 4-year-old tennis "prodigy" - Mia Lines - moved from Australia to south Florida to work with a professional coach.
These stories repeat in smaller, local ways across the nation, where 7- and 8-year-olds join year-round "travel teams," special kicking, batting, and running "coaches" advertise their services to parents of young players, and "sports gyms" offer youth programs "scientifically designed to improve speed, power, and agility." And there's no need to take time off between seasons: Thousands of camps offer hockey, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, baseball, football, and basketball players - as well as swimmers, runners, and wrestlers - the chance to spend school breaks working on their skills. Although these camps can be a godsend to working parents, there's something disturbing about this trend: Don't athletes need some downtime just to be kids, too?
"What we're seeing is the 'professionalization' of youth sports," says Daniel Gould, Ph.D., director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University. And, says former NBA player Bob Bigelow, this new world has one overriding belief system: "Getting better means training younger, training harder, training more."
But there are two big problems with this philosophy: It's a myth. And it's really bad for the kids.
Issue #1: Visions of Grandeur
Parents have accepted the professionalized youth-sports scene for a number of reasons, Gould notes, not the least of which is the promise of a hefty college scholarship to help with tuition bills that continue to skyrocket in the face of our humbled savings accounts. And while we all know that the chances of our kids actually becoming seriously well-paid professional athletes are slim to none, we can't help but think?maybe. Ego's involved, too: What parent isn't bursting with pride when a crowd of spectators erupts in cheers as her child makes a game-saving goal, hit, or catch? Finally, there's fear. The more we see other kids starting specialized training early, and investing in ever pricier equipment, the more we worry that if ours don't, they'll be left behind. "There's a constant buzzing among parents," says Helen Nicholson Kwan, a Bettendorf, IA, mother of five: What teams are your kids playing on? What camps are they in? Which pitching coach are you going to? "You start to think 'Have I chosen the right one? What if they won't be good enough?'" Kwan notes.
What's gotten lost in all the buzz and anxiety, however, is an awareness of the realities of child development. Children simply can't "get" certain sports skills until they're ready to learn them. "The motor skills required to play a sport continue to develop and fine-tune through childhood," says Paul Stricker, M.D., a pediatric and adolescent sports-medicine specialist and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Sports Medicine & Fitness. "For instance, the ability to track a moving object is immature until around nine. That's why T-ball is more appropriate for five- and six-year-olds. Over the years, there are changes in how kids respond to heat and dehydration. And no matter how much you push training, improving aerobic capacity beyond ten percent is difficult to accomplish until puberty." The same kind of ongoing development occurs in mental capabilities important to sports prowess, like the ability to process instructions, make rapid decisions, and handle tasks involving complex memory. "You can't teach an eight-year-old a long list of plays," says Dr. Stricker. "He won't be able to remember them."
Training a child with an eye on future greatness also fails to consider the fact that kids' bodies change enormously at puberty-and not always in ways that make them better players: The kid who's always been tallest and fastest may well be overtaken by the one who suddenly gains 30 pounds and shoots up a foot. "When Michael Jordan started high school at fifteen, he was only five nine and didn't make the varsity basketball team," says Bigelow. "There's no one in the world who can predict a future athlete's talent at age ten."
Issue #2: Limited Exposure
The current emphasis on having very young kids train exclusively in one sport is even more problematic. As a strategy for excellence, it rarely works. "Most elite athletes have a history of playing many different sports, and there's a reason for that," explains Gould. "Each teaches something different: Soccer gives you foot skills; baseball teaches you eye-hand coordination. If my daughter plays softball and learns how to throw, for instance, she'll have a better serve in tennis."
In fact, what early specialization and training does seem to do isn't pretty. It can leave behind the less coordinated, the kids who start later, those whose parents can't afford the extra expense, and those who need activity the most, the overweight. And it also puts physically talented kids, including some with the potential to go all the way, at high risk for premature burnout. Last year Jessica Takakjian's 11-year-old daughter was thrilled to be accepted by a highly competitive soccer team-but a grueling, relentless schedule quickly sapped the girl's enthusiasm. "There were practices four days a week, sometimes starting right after the school day ended, with a game every weekend and frequent tournaments," says the Los Angeles mom. "There was no time for my daughter to have friends over, take a dance class, play the piano, or do anything else, including homework. When the season ended, she told me, 'I don't want to play for this team anymore. I don't know if I want to play at all.'?" While the girl later changed her mind (and her team), other exhausted, overwhelmed kids simply give up by the time they're teenagers.
Issue #3 Serious Injury
Most alarming of all is the injury that's resulting from levels of training and play that the AAP has called extreme even for adults: 12-year-old baseball players throwing not just too many pitches but dangerous curveballs before their arms are mature enough, or 10-year-old girls playing five soccer games in just over 24 hours. Consider that "Tommy John" surgery - a complicated, expensive elbow tendon repair named for a former Major League Baseball pitcher who was the first to undergo it - is increasingly performed on high school boys. And journalist Michael Sokolove, author of Warrior Girls, details an epidemic of knee injuries among female soccer players that has left some hobbling like old women in their 20s.
"Everyone in sports medicine will tell you we're seeing more young kids, and as many injuries from overuse as from acute trauma," says Dr. Stricker. "They're coming in with tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, cartilage injuries, shoulder problems, ACL tears - injuries we used to see only in adults. I'm treating a seven-year-old runner with a stress fracture. We've seen runners with premature closure of the growth plates in their legs caused by repetitive-impact injury. As a result, their legs will be shorter than nature intended." Sokolove notes that virtually all the injured athletes he met while researching his book had one thing in common: They played one sport exclusively, beginning at age ten or younger.
Issue #4: Getting Real
An increasing number of pediatricians, sports-medicine doctors, athletes, and even sportswriters are speaking up about the dangers of "too often, too much, too soon" and putting pressure for change on the youth-sports system. Here and there are signs of improvement. The Little League has imposed strict restrictions on its young pitchers. And the Minnesota-based group Balance4Success, which calls itself a "grassroots initiative of parents," is urging families to reclaim their Sundays as "a sports-free day."
But true change will require parents to do some serious rethinking about what we want for our kids. A good start is being realistic, says Mark Hyman, author of Until It Hurts, whose own son, a pitcher, suffered an overuse injury. "The truth is, only a tiny percentage of athletic kids will win scholarships or go pro. Why not focus on what's attainable and in your child's long-term interest instead: gaining self- confidence, making friends, being active and competitive."
"Your job as a parent," adds Gould, "isn't to produce another Derek Jeter or Michael Phelps - it's to make sure your kids fall in love with activity in a lasting way so they become healthy adults." And if a child falls passionately in love with a sport and has a real talent for it, he or she will excel anyway, without the insanity of early training and competition.
Also important: Avoid early specialization. Encourage your kid "to try a variety of sports to build up a base of motor skills and see what he or she really enjoys playing," says Gould. Those kids "who participate in a variety of sports and specialize only after reaching the age of puberty tend to be more consistent performers, have fewer injuries, and adhere to sports play longer than those who specialize early," the AAP has emphasized in two position papers.
We need to listen to our children as well - and to our own instincts. When a child's play starts deteriorating or we can see he's limping or favoring an arm, he's not okay; he's hurt and needs a break. If a young player "starts making excuses to miss practice or claims to have repeated injuries even though the doctor can't find anything specific wrong," says Dr. Stricker, "it may be a red flag that although he's afraid to say so, he really wants out."
Most of all, we need to remember that we have the right to turn away. When Kwan's third daughter asked to join a travel softball team in the fifth grade, her parents refused. The girl, now in high school, swims, plays tennis, and is in the marching band. "A lot of people are overwhelmed by what's going on with kids' sports and don't like it but feel there's no alternative," she says. "You need the confidence to just say no."
Competition Done Right
So you've got a kid who's a sports nut and begging to move up the competitive ladder to the travel clubs. Should you give it a shot? Definitely - there are many social and emotional benefits connected with sports, says Megan Bartlett, director of research for Up2Us, a national coalition working to make sports programs more available to children. Research shows that kids who are involved in sports are less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and get involved in gangs, have a later onset of sexual activity, and are more likely to do better in school and have positive peer relationships. Make it a good experience for your child by:
- Choosing a reputable team. Talk to other parents, observe a practice and the coach in action, and check out the team website, recommends Gould. Look for a clearly stated league philosophy and parental code of conduct, and ask how much playing time your child can expect.
- Sticking to a sane practice schedule. The AAP recommends that training in one sport be limited to no more than five days a week-and, frankly, we think that sounds pretty extreme-with at least one day off a week from any organized activity. It also recommends that young athletes take a two- or three-month break from their primary sport each year.
- Steering clear of tyrannical coaches. Many coaches in children's sports leagues are just parents with a passion. They're usually well-meaning, but they don't always have formal training in the sport or in dealing with kids. Never put up with a coach who tells your child to "work through" any kind of pain or who appears to have anything less than your child's best interest at heart. Trust your gut about what feels appropriate, says Gould. Swearing, belittling, sexist remarks, or encouraging cheating never are.
- Putting your doctor on speed dial. Have your child monitored for any sign of overuse injuries and adequate nutrition. Don't ignore any low-grade or joint pain that persists for two weeks-it needs to be evaluated by a physician.
- Keeping perspective. Be positive and supportive, let the coach do the critiquing, and try to ask "Did you have fun?" more often than "Did you win?"
Carol Mithers is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her daughter recently gave up club soccer.


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A Parlee with Wahoo Fitness Bike Mount
At PressCamp now and that's a photo of a Wahoo Fitness Bike Case and Mount on a Parlee. Wahoo demo'd an app that tracked 3 attendees as they raced down and up the resort road. Like a Tour Tracker, they showed power, speed, location.
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Both Biologic and Wahoo have told us to expect SmartPhones to replace cyclocomputers within 5 years. Skeptical? They're already showing sales to prove it.
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I'll ride one of these Parlees tomorrow and test Wahoo's system too. Before that, will upload more photos from the Tern Bicycles launch and reports. As usual, follow along on Twitter and Flickr.
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I never attended a seminary, but come to think of it, I did do time in a convent! (It had become a British Airways Training School!) I have attended an awful lot of churches, for an awful lot of hours, over an awful lot of years, as a choir boy at York Minster, New College Chapel, Oxford, St James Palace and St Paul's Cathedral. And as a young actor, I played Jesus Christ's youngest brother in the play "Family Portrait", with the distinguished English actress, Fay Compton playing Mary, Mother of God…so I guess that makes me something of an expert, just kidding! Now that I've reached the ripe old age of 81, I've come to the conclusion that it's time to come out of the closet and confess it openly, I'm an atheist! I'd always felt that atheism was something of a dirty word, not something you could say, not aloud, not allowed! But so many people spend so much time and energy white-washing themselves, politicians in particular, especially here in the US, where they endeavor to outdo each other "No I'm more religious!" "No I'm more religious…the universe was created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago and men shared the planet with the dinosaurs and we're all miserable sinners because a snake talked Eve into talking Adam into eating that apple from the tree of knowledge" (Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the snake and the snake didn't have a leg to stand on!)
Rather than taking a lot of fables, myths and mantras unthinkingly on faith, how much better that we pause to think, reason and doubt. If any of that stuff had any proof, any evidence, well then maybe OK…but as we know, there isn't, not a shred, not a tittle. So I've ceased to say I'm an agnostic, not sure either way. That's just trying to play it safe. A sort of Celestial Insurance Policy, just in case all those Baptists and Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Hasidic Jews etc, etc , are right and I'm wrong.
When Baptists with their big behinds and barely any brains, brag that they believe every word of the Bible, I wonder if they've actually READ every word of the Bible, as I have…or are they simply "Cafeteria Christians", who pick and choose which bits to believe, or take on faith, selecting a few choice, inspiring verses to hang their hat on…pretending that the really horrible passages aren't there!
The Founding Fathers of these United States of America made it perfectly clear they were NOT founding a new nation based on any particular religion, but a country of religious FREEDOM, which included the right to be non religious. Whereas Abraham, the Founding Father of the Three Great Religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam…had no such Freedom of Thought in mind, of course!
So despite all those countless hours in Churches, Chapels, Cathedrals, Abbeys and Minsters as a choirboy, I never gave a great deal of thought to Christian dogma. It always seemed to me to be a bunch of weird stories that stretched my credulity to breaking point. The God of the Old Testament seemed to me to be the sort of old man I wanted nothing to do with. Far from being a kindly old gent with a long white beard, all my religious instruction classes led me to look on Him as not at all the kind of God I would ever want to worship: Bloodthirsty, brutal, narcissistic, condemnatory, jealous, judgmental and judging by some of his instructions, very possibly psychotic. And his Son, if he did in fact exist, is said to have said some very nice, profound remarks. Trouble is of course, the men who much later on wrote their confusing, contradictory tales about Him…never met the guy! And to be frank, I find it a bit fishy that His disciples were all fishermen, and we know how prone fishermen are to exaggeration! Especially about the one that got away!
So here I am to my surprise, living at present in the notorious Bible Belt of the American South, surrounded by 'good ol' boys', whose only explanation for their unbelievable beliefs is "It says so in the Bible!" which is why I've just produced a controversial book NO GOD! 400 FAMOUS ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS PLUS 60 INFAMOUS THEISTS! AN ANTIDOTE FOR AMERICA'S RELIGIOSITY! Available at Amazon UK.
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Wow great post! It's never too late to wake up. Welcome aboard, Mike.
I love it!
That was amazing to read Mike. I loved it! I am myself new to professing my Atheism. I really look forward to reading more of your posts. Check out the chat if you have time as well, we are a gentle sort of group, but with strong opinions, and a lot of times it's a lot of good laughs. I can't wait to get to know you better!
Thank you Sarah Jane for your nice words of encouragement. Also Diane and "Gallup's Mirror"
But these days, how do I know whether you (plural) are real women and not just electronic figments of my fevered imagination! I also have to keep in mind that I've been married for nearly 50 years! And why do I find myself in the Dreaded Bible Belt? To atone for my sins I guess! Also to help look after the two beautiful grandkids who are little angels...when they're not being little demons! Oh one small correction to my blog...it should have ended:(forget the UK bit) Available at Amazon. For further info please take a quick look at my website: DriftwoodBeachBooks.com
Gallup's Mirror is the odd one out - he's a guy. However, he's still quite interesting..... (ducks)
Welcome Mike and what an interesting story you got there
Well, what a way to come out--with a book and all! I have the greatest sympathy for your location, but at least you can give 'em hell. ;-) Glad to hear you're there with family. Your grandkids are lucky! And you can be a couter-influence to all the jebus-culture they'll unwittingly absorb.
Thanks Kairan...we hate the fact that the kids are being dragged by their father to the Baptist Church, but when they tell us that "Jesus is King of everyone" we say "Well that's what some people think"...But when you consider all the BS kids are fed about Santa and the Tooth Fairy, it's a wonder they believe anything adults tell 'em once they start to think and question. However, I was sent to Sunday School and endless church services, and it sure didn't make a Christian out of me! I used to be a dyslexic,insomniac agnostic....I used to lie awake at night...wondering if there was a dog!
Onyango, where in Africa are you from? I've traveled all over the continent, from Tripoli and Cairo to Khartoum and Kenya (where I met my wife)...to Zanzibar and Zambia, Victoria Falls, Harare, Bulawayo,Jo'burg, Durban and Cape Town, where we married nearly 50 years ago! And you?


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Hear a Live Friday XPN Free At Noon Concert at 12noon ET from WXPN and NPR Music
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Delta Spirit is a five-piece Americana band, and the youth of its members belies the classical folk sound of their collaboration. Jon Jameson (bass), Brandon Young (percussion), Matthew Vasquez (vocals/guitars), Kelly Winrich (multi-instrumentals) and Will McLaren (guitar) have created a sound that blends indie rock, folk, soul, and blues influences. They've been evolving and perfecting this sound since 2005 when the burgeoning group spotted Vasquez busking on a bench and brought him in. After their first EP in 2006, they've shared the stage with the likes of Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Dr. Dog. They've also had plenty of their work featured in various soundtracks (The Big C, Friday Night Lights), and taken their fair share of airtime here at XPN. They've been featured on World Cafe for two of their follow-ups, and even played a Live Friday Free At Noon in 2010. Now they're back for another performance, this time at Union Transfer, promoting their latest release.
Delta Spirit's third full-length is eponymous and nothing short of daring. Taking flight from their established brand of roots rock, the group incorporates electronic, hip-hop, and prog elements into their usual fare of trash-can percussion, rustic folk, and booming bass drums. The result is cathartic and appeasing, fully displaying the expressive, affecting songwriting that has brought Delta Spirit such a devoted fan base.
Don't miss Delta Spirit on Friday, March 30, and start off the weekend right with an XPN Free At Noon concert. Directions & Parking for (venue): Union Transfer
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Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson: Date Night with a Fan!
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pose for a photo with a fan while having a date night on Tuesday (March 19) at Ye Rustic Inn in Los Angeles.
"Rob and Kristen were having so much fun together," a source told E! News about the date. "They sat in the back of the bar in a booth and were laughing. At one point, they were standing at the bar and were just being normal, as any boyfriend and girlfriend would be with each other."
"They were touchy-feely. She was holding on to his jacket and had her hand on his back. They were just cute," the source added.
FYI: Robert is wearing a Levi's jacket.
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Alternate Names
MS - discharge
What to Expect at Home
Your doctor has told you that you have multiple sclerosis. This disease affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). Symptoms may vary with each attack. They may last days to months, then lessen or go away, and then come back after weeks, months, or sometimes years.
Over time, symptoms get worse, and it becomes more difficult to take care of yourself.
Exercise can help your muscles stay loose and help you keep your balance. It is good for your heart. It may also help you sleep better and have regular bowel movements.
- Ask your doctor or nurse what activity is safe for you.
- Try walking or jogging, if you can. Stationary bicycle riding is also good exercise.
Keep from getting overheated. Increased body temperature can make your symptoms worse.
- Exercise in the morning and the evening. Be careful not to wear too many layers of clothes.
- When taking baths and showers, avoid water that is too hot.
- Be careful in hot tubs or saunas. Make sure somebody is around to help you if you become overheated.
- Keep your house cool in the summer with air conditioning.
- Avoid hot drinks if you notice problems with swallowing, or other symptoms get worse.
If you have
Make sure your home is safe. Find out what you can do to
If you are having trouble moving around in your house easily, talk with your nurse or doctor about getting help.
Your doctor or nurse can refer you to a physical therapist to help with:
- Exercises for strength and moving around
- How to use your walker, cane, wheelchair, or other devices
- How to set up your home to safely move around
Bladder Care
You may have problems starting to urinate or emptying all of the urine out of your bladder. Your bladder may empty too often or at the wrong time. Your bladder may become too full, and you may leak urine out of an overfilled bladder.
Medication sometimes helps when your bladder is not working correctly. Some people with multiple sclerosis need to use a
Your doctor or nurse may also teach you
Urinary infections are common in people with multiple sclerosis. Learn to recognize the symptoms, such as burning when you urinate, fever, low back pain on one side, and a more frequent need to urinate.
Do not hold your urine. When you feel the urge to urinate, go to the bathroom. When you are not at home, take note of the location of the nearest bathroom.
Bowel Care
If you have multiple sclerosis, you may trouble controlling your bowels.
- Pick a regular time, such as after a meal or a warm bath, to try to have a bowel movement.
- Be patient. It may take 15- 45 minutes to have bowel movements.
- Try gently rubbing your stomach to help stool move through your colon.
Avoid constipation:
- Drink more fluids.
- Stay active or become more active.
- Eat a diet with lots of fiber.
Ask your doctor about medicines you, or your loved one, are taking that may cause constipation (such as some medicines for depression, pain, bladder control, and muscle spasms).
Skin Care
If you are in a wheelchair or bed most of the day, you need to check out your skin every day for signs of pressure sores. Look closely at:
- Heels
- Ankles
- Knees
- Hips
- Tailbone
- Elbows
- Shoulders and shoulder blades
- Back of your head
Staying Healthy
Keep up to date with your vaccinations. Get a flu shot every year. Ask your doctor if you need a pneumonia shot.
Ask your doctor about other checkups you may need, such as to test your cholesterol level, blood sugar level, and a bone scan for osteoporosis.
Eat a healthy diet and keep from becoming overweight.
Other Care
Learn to manage stress. Many patients with multiple sclerosis feel sad or depressed at times. Talk to friends or family about this. Ask your doctor about seeing a professional to help you with these feelings.
People with multiple sclerosis often get tired more easily than others. Pace yourself when you do activates that may be tiring or need a lot of concentration.
Your doctor may place you on different medicines to treat your multiple sclerosis and many of the problems that may come with it.
- Make sure you follow instructions. Do not stop taking medicines without first talking to your doctor.
- Know what to do if you miss a dose.
- Keep these and all other medicines stored in a cool, dry place and away from children.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor if you have:
- Problems taking drugs for muscle spasms
- Problems moving your joints (joint contracture)
- Problems moving around or getting out of your bed or chair
- Skin sores or redness
- Pain that is becoming worse
- Recent falls
- Choking or coughing when eating
- Signs of a bladder infection (fever, burning when you urinate, foul urine, cloudy urine, or frequent urination)
Calabresi P. Multiple sclerosis and demyelinating conditions of the central nervous system. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 419.
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Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Department of Anatomy at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Inc.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Playing for only the second time in program history and first as NEWMAC rivals, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Emerson College, 25-16, 25-11, 25-18, on Tuesday night. Senior Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) paced the Engineers' (20-10, 6-3 NEWMAC) balanced attack with nine kills and a .643 hitting percentage to go along with two blocks. Junior Kat Rice (Delmar, N.Y.) led the way for the Lions (15-11, 3-6 NEWMAC) with four kills to go along with two digs, an ace, and a block.
MIT jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the first set, but Emerson capitalized on a pair of errors, a kill from Rice, and an ace by freshman Jessica Hamilton (Altadena, Calif.) to come within one (6-5). An exchange of points ensued until a strike from freshman Megan Gebhard (Howell, Mich.) followed by an ace courtesy of senior Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), and a block by junior Nicole Gagnier (Atlanta, Ga.) and Bunker gave the Engineers a 12-6 advantage. After a timeout by the Lions, both sides traded side-outs, maintaining the six-point margin as late as 18-12. MIT responded by scoring seven of the last 11 points to take the win.
The Engineers registered the first five points of the second stanza; however, a block by Rice and junior Alex Lynn (Willington, Fla.) led to four straight points for Emerson, capped by a Rice ace. The visitors stayed close as a service error narrowed the gap to 8-6. A kill by Bunker on the ensuing rally ignited a 17-5 run that she completed with a strike for set point.
Emerson built a 4-2 edge in the final frame before four ties and a lead change moved the score to 7-7. Kills by Gebhard and Berger gave MIT some breathing room as it eventually went up, 21-12, on a Gagnier ace. The Lions continued to attack as sophomore Giuli Frendak's (Warrington, Pa.) ace along with several miscues by the Engineers trimmed the deficit to 21-18. Junior Jenny Astrachan's (Austin, Texas) kill thwarted the late rally attempt as the match ended with a trio of hitting errors.
Berger finished with 10 digs, nine kills, and four aces as Gebhard registered six kills and four digs. Seniors Emma Gargus (Columbus, Ohio) and Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) rounded out the attack with five and four kills, respectively. Senior Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.) collected seven digs as freshman Tori Wuthrich (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) added four of her own. Gagnier racked up 30 assists, six digs, four aces, and two blocks for the Cardinal and Gray.
Frendak totaled 10 assists and three digs for the Lions as senior Jamie Morgan (Maple Glen, Pa.) tallied a match-high 13 digs. Hamilton chipped in five digs while Lynn notched three blocks.
Both squads will wrap up the regular season on Saturday, Nov. 2. MIT will travel to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy while Emerson will host NEWMAC foe Clark University and Colby-Sawyer College.


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Robin Chase first became a big wheel in the realm of transportation innovation in 2000, when she founded Zipcar, a car-sharing company that has since taken an estimated 50,000 cars off the road by encouraging drivers to shed their privately owned vehicles.
Inspired by Zipcar's success, Chase, 50, launched GoLoco in April 2007, a national ride-share and social-networking Web site that has taken carpooling -- and carbon cutting -- to another level. Its popularity has soared, with some 10,000 users logging on to find someone to help them get to where they need to go.
The best part? Drivers and passengers can split the cost of traveling -- which makes those $3-plus gallons of gas a little easier to bear.
What inspired you to start GoLoco?
Cars contribute 20 percent of the country's CO2 emissions, and while we'd like to reduce that number, the fact is, some people are completely car-dependent. They simply can't find another viable transit option where they live. Realizing that technology could now support an online ride-sharing venture, I jumped on the idea. Now drivers can mitigate their impact on the planet and save a little cash to boot.
How does the site work?
With GoLoco, drivers log on and post trips they plan to take -- from a round-trip Boston-to-New York route to a quick run to the grocery store. Meanwhile, passengers can post or search for their desired destinations. The site enables these two groups to meet, and any sharing of expenses can take place online instead of in the car, so everything is paid before you take your trip.
What's the social-networking component?
It's perfect for existing affinity groups, such as churches or parents whose kids play the same sports. Many people who participate in GoLoco have similar values or interests; I got my gardening group to sign up. Ride-sharing becomes an opportunity to see your friends more, while encouraging smarter transportation habits. It's so much more casual than calling everyone, and it makes planning trips more efficient.
Do you have a down-the-road plan?
We're working on including bicycling and walking trips on the site and making them searchable the way drives are now. Personally, I'd like to inspire people to tell their elected officials that we want action on global warming as soon as possible.


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Game 3 of World Series makes for wild work day
ST. LOUIS -- Every World Series game has its own twists and turns, but Game 3 was one of a kind.
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ST. LOUIS -- Every World Series game has its own twists and turns, but Game 3 was one of a kind.
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Two years ago in Texas, the Cardinals thumped the Rangers, 16-7, in Game 3 as Albert Pujols propelled the Redbirds to victory with three home runs (joining Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the only players to do so). This year, Mike Matheny's squad won it on an already famous obstruction call (the first time a World Series game has ended that way).
The common denominator was the Cardinals, who participated in both of the World Series, the seven-game thriller in 2011 and what looks like a repeat here in 2013 vs. the Red Sox. Saturday night's stunner -- a 5-4 walk-off victory for St. Louis -- capped what had been an eventful day.
It started six hours before first pitch, which is when all the media arrive for World Series games. Don't fool yourself -- covering a game is no eight-hour job. Reporters arrive early and leave late -- really late. Most of the MLB.com crew arrived at the ballpark around 2 p.m. CT and did not depart until all the stories were filed 12 hours later.
First up are the mandatory news conferences. MLB requires teams to have the manager and the next game's starting pitcher (in most circumstances) available for questions prior to each game. On this day, that meant Matheny and Game 4 starter Lance Lynn for the Cardinals and manager John Farrell and starting pitcher Clay Buchholz for the Red Sox.
Then the media members make their way to the press box to write pregame stories, or go onto the field for batting practice. That's when they sometimes catch players for an interview or update social media.
On this day, many media swarmed back into the interview room for the presentation of the Roberto Clemente Award for service to Carlos Beltran. There to give Beltran his trophy were Vera Clemente, Roberto's widow, and Commissioner Bud Selig.
Part of this day's assignment was interviewing this year's Breaking Barriers winner, Missouri ninth-grader Jennifer Wayland, whose winning essay was a composition on body image. Wayland made a visit in the fourth inning to the Commissioner's suite, where she met Selig, MLB executive vice president of baseball development Frank Robinson and others.
But for a member of the MLB.com working media, the day was far from over. After poring over replays of the bizarre walk-off play, the day would end as it had begun: with news conferences. Not only did Farrell and Matheny hold court in the interview room, but due to the controversial nature of the game's last play, a joint conference was held with MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Joe Torre and several of the umpires.
All in all, it was one crazy, long day at the office.
Meggie Zahneis, winner of the 2011 Breaking Barriers essay contest, earned the job of youth correspondent for MLB.com in the fall of '11.


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Gaming is moving towards multiple screen gameplay. We've seen it with Apple devices and AirPlay, Microsoft has Smartglass, and of course Nintendo has the DS. Sony has dabbled with it before with Remote Play, though was simply projecting the image from the T.V. onto the screen of the handheld, but now it has taken it to the next level and shown what can be really done.
Still not sure about this. I thought it would be more of a second controller displaying the PS3 screen on your Vita, kinda like PSASBR. Not to say this is bad, just not what I was expecting.
Little big planet always makes the best use of sony's random out there features. It still makes some of the best use of the move controller.
I tried it out with my wife last night and it worked flawlessly. It was quite enloyable.
I know its too soon but has there been any levels that have made use of this feature? Might go back to LBP2 again.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Apr. 4, 2012) — After having Tuesday's game against Appalachian State washed out due to rain, the ETSU (14-12, 3-6 A-Sun) baseball team returns home for Atlantic Sun play as the Bucs host North Florida (18-13, 2-7 A-Sun) for a three-game set beginning on Thursday at Thomas Stadium.
Thursday's first pitch will begin at 3:05 p.m., which was moved up from the original 7:05 p.m. start. Friday's first pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. and will be the first game at Thomas Stadium under the lights. Saturday's series finale will begin at 1:05 p.m. Each game will be broadcasted live online at ETSUBucs.com with live stats also available.
The Bucs will send John Long (Anderson, S.C.) (4-3, 3.96 ERA) to the mound on Friday to face UNF lefty Tommy Organ (2-1, 3.71 ERA).
Friday's game will feature ETSU freshman righty Jimmy Nesselt (Plantation, Fla.) (2-2, 4.28 ERA) against UNF right-hander Kyle Westwood (2-3, 3.83 ERA).
ETSU will throw sophomore righty Jake Long (Anderson, S.C.) (2-2, 2.27 ERA) in Saturday's finale. UNF has not yet announced its starter for the series finale.
The Bucs made the short trip to Boone on Tuesday as the two squads were able to get two and a half innings completed before the bad weather moved into the area. ETSU got two solid innings out of starter Kuehl McEachern (Mt. Dora, Fla.) and a two-run homer from Matthew Scruggs (Knoxville, Tenn.) to give the Bucs a 2-0 lead. However, the stats will be wiped off the board as the makeup date between the two schools will start from the beginning.
ETSU heads into the weekend ranked second in the Atlantic Sun in slugging percentage (.436) and in home runs (30). The ETSU pitching staff has been solid throughout the season as they lead the league in opposing batting average (.238), while allowing the fewest hits (203) and fewest runs (116) in the conference.
North Florida heads into the weekend with momentum after upsetting No. 1-ranked Florida at home on Tuesday night, 10-5.
The Ospreys are one of the top hitting teams in the league as they rank near the top of the A-Sun in several categories including average (.295, second), slugging percentage (.435, third), runs scored (207, second), hits (324, first), RBI (182, second), doubles (63, second), home runs (25, third) and total bases (478, second).
Tyler Marincov leads the UNF attack at the plate with a team-best .379 average, while also leading the squad in home runs (5), RBI (27), total bases (66), slugging percentage (.569), on-base percentage (.449) and stolen bases (7). Marincov is one of seven Osprey regular starters batting over the .300 mark.
ETSU and UNF have met 19 times throughout the years with the Bucs owning a slight 11-8 advantage in the series. ETSU is coming off a series sweep over the Ospreys in Jacksonville last season.
For more information on ETSU baseball please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball link.


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Wishbone "Paw Prints of the Thieves" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, Joe nearly gets suspended when he helps the school lunch lady donate leftover food to a local shelter. D
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Cyberchase "The Snelfu Snafu (Pt. 1)" The long lost encryptor chip, the one computer component that can bring Motherboard back to full power, appears for sale on the popular cybersite U-WANT, U-BID! The CyberSquad has only a few days to save enough money to outbid Hacker for the precious chip. They win the auction, but are totally unprepared for what happens when they implant the chip into Motherboard - Hacker takes over Cyberspace!. D
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It's Sew Easy "The Fashionable Baby" It's never too early to inject a little style into life beginning with babies. What are the fashionable babies wearing today? You can be sure it's not boring disposable diapers. Meet Krista Tracy with a lesson on adding embroidery to custom diaper covers. D
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Best of Simply Painting: Across Europe "The Druid's Glen" Frank paints one of his favorite holes at Druids Glen, a golf course built near the site of an ancient Druid altar. D
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Chef's Life "Have Yourself Some Moonshine" Vivian visits Broad Slab Distillery, where they talk about the art and soul of white lightning. The restaurant's mixologist works moonshine into several new drinks, while the restaurant staff struggles through the holiday party season. They end the season with a party of their own at Ben and Vivian's new house, with AppleJack Moonshine cocktails making a guest appearance. D
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Pati's Mexican Table "My Three Favorite Boys" This episode is all about Pati's boys - it's time for a little mother-son bonding. First, Pati takes Alan, Sami and Juju to their favorite place to have fun. Then for lunch, the boys will pick their favorite dishes that their mom makes. D
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Ask This Old House "Celebrating 300 Episodes" In this special program, the guys celebrate 300 episodes of ASK THIS OLD HOUSE by looking back at some of their best moments and revealing some behind-the-scenes secrets. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Eastern Turkey" Rick experiences a Mount Ararat sunrise, visits Abraham's 4,000-year-old home town and tours one of the world's biggest dams.G
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Rudy Maxa's World "St. Petersburg, Russia" Rudy explores the former capital of Russia, from the splendors of Peterhof to the quiet grace of the canals.G
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Lidia's Kitchen "Classics with a Twist" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Forgotten Cookies" NULL
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "The Kernel of Deliciousness" The variety of corns available in Oaxaca boggles the mind and the taste buds. Rick introduces us to Amado Ramirez Leyva who believes that corn, domesticated some 9,000 years ago in Mexico, is the basis of Mexican culture. From championing the protection of ancient varieties, to cooking and grinding it into masa for tortillas, Amado just might be the corn guru of Oaxaca. D
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Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking "San Francisco, CA: Chefs Jeffrey Saad and Cortney Burns" Pete Evans travels south to San Francisco to cook a delightful international, spice-themed meal, as the chefs visit Tcho Chocolate Factory and Spice Ace to pick up fresh just-made chocolate and exotic spices such as galangal root. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Eastern Turkey" Rick experiences a Mount Ararat sunrise, visits Abraham's 4,000-year-old home town and tours one of the world's biggest dams.G


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Hi! I'm Gidget! I'm the very spoiled, only girl of the house. My parents joke that I'm their 'diva' because I like things my way! My favorite things to do are run on the beach and chase birds, sleep in the sunshine and boss around my brothers! I'm a very mature 6, but I still like to play like a puppy. I'm very clever and super independent. My parents don't usually have to worry about me! I know one of my mom's favorite things is when I bestow upon her one of my big doggy smiles!
*Special thanks to St. Augustine Humane Society (FL)*
I'm Sawyer! And I like to play and play and play! I'm almost always in trouble but then I put my ears down and put on my best puppy face and my parents can't help but smile! I really like to smile and chase my sister Gidget and share toys with my brother, Anders, and get belly rubs, and go for walks and sleep on the back of the couch and SNOW! I'm really a very lucky boy and I know it (well when I'm not busy playing ie. getting into trouble)
*Special thanks to Animal Life Savers Rescue (Palisades, NJ)*
Allee was adopted from a rescue in 2006 during a very rough time in my life, I had a lot of heath problems and needed something positive to keep me going, or so my husband thought. I tell people she rescued me because she is exactly what I needed. The most adorable puppy ever. She has become a huge part of our family. She is 2 years old now and is so well behaved. She enjoys the parks by our house, she just runs and plays with sticks and runs some more. She's with me and her "aunts" (my husbands parents dogs) all day everyday at work Everywhere we go, people say how ...
My mom came to Ohio to adopt me about a year after my big sister Maddie went to the Rainbow Bridge. She was a Chow mix too. My mom said I have helped her to heal her heart. I was a Buckeye but now I am a proud Spartan!
When my mom got me I was so little she said, "She is like Cindy Lu Who" so my mom named me "Miss Emme Lu Who". I am so playful, sweet and sometimes sassy! I am very smart and learned to go the doggie door at 10 weeks(after my mom put a brick by the door)
I love all the people and dogs I meet at our park. I am very happy love bug and