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PARIS — One five-set French Open sleepover wrapped up Monday, when Frenchman Gael Monfils had to wait 18 hours and fight some major close out nerves, to finish up his 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, 1-6, 8-6 win over No. 7 seed David Ferrer of Spain.
Another sleepover, this one involving No. 4 seed Andy Murray of Great Britain and No. 15 Viktor Troicki of Serbia, will simmer overnight before the two combatants return Tuesday for a fifth and deciding set to determine the final quarter-finalist on the men's side.
The others are set.
Tuesday, No. 3 seed Roger Federer will face Monfils and a stadium full of supporters the flashy, purple-clad Frenchman no doubt will try to whip into delirium.
"He's not being talked about much, but I think he's been ripping up his opponents since the beginning of the tournament, and that it will maybe be even be tougher than the matches I've had in the past with him," Monfils said. "The media hasn't talked about him much, but I had the opportunity to talk with him at the start of the tournament and see his matches. He's in great form and I think he has quite a few things to prove."
That will be the only men's quarter-final on tap Tuesday, after the Italian Fabio Fognini held a news conference to announce the leg injury that added so much extra spice to his marathon five-set win over Albert Montanes Sunday would prevent him from playing Serb Novak Djokovic.
Fognini said it was a Grade 1 tear of the rectus femoris muscle, part of the quadriceps. He could have tried to play, but the medical advice the Italian received was that he could cause far more serious damage.
So Djokovic receives a walkover into the semifinals, which won't be played until Friday. But a walkover doesn't count as a victory, so the Serb's unbeaten streak remains at 41.
On the women's side, Maria Sharapova erased deficits in both sets against No. 12 seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland on Monday, winning 7-6, 7-5 after Radwanska had a 5-4 lead and 40-15 on her own serve to close out the second set.
Sharapova won five straight points to break back, and eight of the last nine points to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final since the 2009 French Open.
There were more firsts.
No. 6 seed Li Na became the first Chinese player to reach a French Open quarter-final with her 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over No. 9 seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.
"Yeah. I mean, even myself, I didn't believe I can come back, because she has a huge big serve," said the always-entertaining Li, whose husband/hitting partner left the stadium when she was down 0-3 in the third set. "So I don't know what happened. Maybe just my husband left and I can win six games in a row."
No. 15 seed Andrea Petkovic of Germany defeated No. 25 seed Maria Kirilenko of Russia 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to move into her first career Grand Slam quarter-final.
Petkovic will play Sharapova and Li will face No. 4 seed Victoria Azarenka on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli, seeded No. 10, will meet No. 13 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia (the 2009 champion) Tuesday.
Defending champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy will open up proceedings on Court Philippe Chatrier against the only teenager left in the final eight, No. 14 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.
Canadian Daniel Nestor and partner Max Mirnyi, the no. 2 seeds in men's doubles, get a Court Philippe Chatrier slot for their quarter-final match against No. 9 seeds Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Horia Tecau of Romania.
Vancouver's Filip Peliwo, a 17-year-old who trains at the national centre in Montreal, plays American Bjorn Fratangelo in the second round of boys' singles.
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Human Brain Not God Produces All Religious Experience
Clip: Michael Shermer argues that perceived spiritual experiences do actually exist, but asserts that they aren't miraculous acts of God. Shermer believes that the human brain is the origin of religious experiences.
Does Religion or Science Create Human Morality?
Clip: The debaters argue whether it is religion or science that is the source of human morality.
Actress Andie MacDowell: Can Science Create Life?
Clip: Actress Andie MacDowell questions whether science can explain the existence of organic life like the orchid. MacDowell further asks whether science has the capability of creating the living orchid.
D'Souza: Science Can't Answer Key Questions About Life
Clip: Author Dinesh D'Souza asserts that science cannot refute God because it cannot answer life's greatest questions regarding existence and death.
Can You Be a Scientist and Believe in God?
Clip: Debaters argue the motion "Science Refutes God ."
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On the fundamental question--evolution or creation?--Americans are on the fence. According to one survey, while 61% of Americans believe we have evolved over time, 22% believe this evolution was guided by a higher power, with another 31% on the side of creationism. For some, modern science debunks many of religion's core beliefs, but for others, questions like "Why are we here?" and "How did it all come about?" can only be answered through a belief in the existence of God. Can science and religion co-exist?
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Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist. He is the Director of the Origins Project and Professor of Physics at the School... Read More
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University... Read More
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Ian Hutchinson
Ian Hutchinson is a physicist and Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his research... Read More
Dinesh D'Souza
A New York Times bestselling author, Dinesh DSouza, has had a distinguished 25-year career as a writer, scholar and intellectual. A former Policy... Read More
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- Why does there have to be an entity to explain the universe? To say that God created the universe doesn't explain anything—it's simply a placeholder that could be filled with any number of things.
- Darwin's theory of evolution disproves the story of creation in the book of Genesis. We can see from evidence around us that the world is a Darwinian place where death and disease are constantly present and chaos seems to rule. This goes against the teaching of the world as a creation of a completely benevolent and all-powerful God. Either God is not all good, or not powerful enough stop these forces.
- A belief in miracles goes against the facts and spirit of science.
- We know that religions are man-made because they are culturally bound. They have evolved as a mechanism for social cohesion. If Religion is supposed to reveal "universal truths," why do they all assert conflicting "truths," i.e., there is no salvation except through Christ, Jews are God's "chosen people," Mohammed is God's one true messenger, etc.?
- The existence of God is outside the realm of science. Science exists within the boundaries of time and space, within God's creation and God's plan.
- God, as the infinite "transcendent other" can never be fully comprehended by a finite individual.
- The idea that religion is antithetical to science is absurd. Evolution asserts that God made the universe and created life—it does not say how. It is perfectly compatible with science.
- Miracles are inherently one-off events; science is incapable of investigating them.
- For science to refute religion, it needs to come up with something better, and it hasn't. Science cannot disprove the existence of God, life after death, and a soul.
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In 2008, voters under 30 preferred Barack Obama over John McCain by a 66 to 32 percent margin. Among older voters, Obama led McCain, 50-49.
How has Obama paid back the Millennial generation, which provided almost all his margin of victory? With what American Interest superblogger Walter Russell Mead calls "Obama's war on the young."
Mead is not a tea party crazy or Ayn Rand zealot. He is a history professor at Bard College and an expert on American foreign policy. He voted for Obama in 2008, and he's not wild about Mitt Romney now.
Nevertheless, he argues persuasively that America is undergoing a "transformation from a late-stage industrial society to an early-stage information society (that) is disruptive and painful but ultimately liberating and benign."
Post-World War II America was a nation of big units: the leaders of big government, big business and big labor made decisions and provided security for those in their organizations.
If you went to college, you could go into management or a profession and expect a lifetime of good earnings and a comfy pension. If you got a factory job, it was for life, and unions bargained for ever-higher wages and benefits.
That's not the America we live in anymore. Government has grown bigger. But, public policies haven't changed.
Every year government transfers increasing amounts from working-age taxpayers to the elderly through Social Security and Medicare. Obamacare amplifies this by requiring young workers to buy expensive insurance far beyond their needs.
In the meantime, the collective impact of Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and the fiscal cliff we are headed toward have cut job growth below the rate of population increase.
At the same time, Obama vows to resist any changes in Medicare, which is on a trajectory to welsh on its obligations well before the first Millennial turns 65.
For the young, Obama promises to expand college loans. But just as housing policies college loan policies have created a higher education bubble. The flood of money has been captured by colleges and universities through above-inflation tuition increases and administrative bloat.
Obama doesn't crack down on them, but on graduates or dropouts with thousands in college loan debt they can't escape through bankruptcy.
Overall, Obama stands for maintaining and expanding the welfare state that operated tolerably well in the big unit America of half a century ago but is coming apart in our early-stage information society today.
His favorite high-tech project is to build enormously expensive high-speed rail lines like the one Jerry Brown is pushing in California.
Meanwhile, Google is developing self-driving cars that will be able to move faster and more efficiently than current cars because their 21st century technology, like the 19th century technology of fixed rails, effectively prevents cars from colliding.
Nineteenth century fixed rails take you where the railroad, or its government subsidizer, wants you to go. Self-driving cars will take you where you want to go, with as many stops as you like along the way.
That's in line with the way Millennials lead their lives. The iPod/Facebook generation fashions its own playlists and friends lists, rather than let central decisionmakers choose for them.
Obama's policies, from Obamacare to high-speed rail, treat people as identical cogs in a very large machine, part of a mindless mass that would not be able to get along without government guidance.
In the information age, these industrial age policies have prevented the vibrant economic growth which gives young people the opportunity to shape their own world and choose their own future.


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Researcher: LeBron James' Ads Could Sell Billion Spoonfuls of Sugar
(NEW YORK) -- NBA star LeBron James' ads might be responsible for selling a billion spoonfuls of sugar through his endorsement deals with Coca-Cola and McDonalds, according to a Columbia University researcher, who suggested James drop the ads that are largely aimed at his legion of young fans.
And since megastar Beyonce just signed a $50 million deal to be the face of Pepsi, social epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed suggested she also reconsider.
"We all know Beyonce and Lebron aren't walking around eating McDonalds and drinking soda every day," El-Sayed told ABC News. "They couldn't perform the way they perform night in and night out. The companies take full advantage of it."
El-Sayed penned an open letter to James earlier this week on The 2x2 Project, a health news website run by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
He broke down James' $16 million, six-year deal with Coca-Cola and determined that if Coca-Cola recoups its investment in him, at minimum, then he will have been responsible for having sold 54.4 million 20-ounce Sprites over the course of his contract.
"Now, each one of those 20-ounce Sprites has 16 spoons of sugar in it, so LeBron, you're responsible for selling over a billion spoons of sugar. Not to mention all of the McDonald's grease you're selling," El-Sayed wrote.
He cited a study in the journal Obesity Reports that found a clear link between watching advertisements for unhealthy foods and the number of snacks children ate on a daily basis. A second study, from the European Journal of Public Health, found that eliminating unhealthy advertising to children could reduce the obesity rate by as much as 18 percent.
"If you have someone as famous as Beyonce saying, 'I recognize these products are causing harm in society and I don't want to be a part of it,' it would raise the conversation about these products," El-Sayed said. "If we were to take away these endorsements, in the end I would hope it would be the kind of thing where their sales wouldn't grow in the way they do and in the long term, these fall out as mainstays in our society."
Pepsi declined to comment. A representative of James referred comments to his sponsors. Representatives for Knowles, along with Coca-Cola and McDonald's, did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Stephanie Shin capped off her strong sophomore season when she placed 20th in epee at the NCAA Fencing National Championship held this past weekend at Ohio State University. As a team, MIT tied for 24th-place out 27 squads, sharing the ranking with Boston College and Stevens Institute of Technology. Shin notched the second-highest finish among Division III participants in the weapon as Haverford College's Emma Buckingham captured 15th. In addition, she posted the third-best epee performance in the program's history coming after Nora Szasz (14th, 1999) and Lucy Mendel (19th, 2003 and 2004).


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Do you like to vote for things? Do you like kicky jams? Then you will probably like this political ad for Henry Heng, who is running for office in Australia, apparently.
This video comes to us via Tracy Lien, and I'm just gonna leave it here for you to ponder.
Feel free to discuss Henry, voting, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, see you tomorrow.


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RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Monday an attack that killed the Pakistani Taliban leader was justifiable but added Washington was sensitive to Pakistan's concerns, after Islamabad denounced the raid as a blow to peace talks.
Hakimullah Mehsud, who took over as the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban in 2009, was killed on Friday, along with three others, in a U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan, security and Taliban sources said.
The Pakistani government denounced Mehsud's killing as a U.S bid to derail peace talks and summoned the U.S. ambassador on Saturday to complain. Some politicians called for blocking U.S. military supply lines into Afghanistan.
Speaking at a news conference on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Kerry said he would not confirm or comment on reports that a U.S. drone had killed the Taliban leader.
But he said of Mehsud: "This is a man who absolutely is known to have targeted and killed many Americans, many Afghans and many Pakistanis. A huge number of Pakistanis have died at the hands of Mehsud and his terrorist organisation."
"Pakistan has been deeply threatened by this insurgency in Pakistan."
Kerry added: "... we are sensitive to the concerns of the country and we look forward to working very closely with the government of Pakistan."
"We intend to continue to work together with them (Pakistanis) through the strategic dialogue that we have established in order to work through these kinds of challenges." (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by William Maclean and Robin Pomeroy)
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Writing for the Guardian's green-living blog, Peter Walkers looks back at 20 years of clipless pedals.
It's 20 years since Shimano took cleats, or clip-in technology, from the world of road racing to the everyday commute. Next time you're in the office and a newly arrived cycling colleague walks past making a faint click-clack noise as they go, they've either mistakenly put on their tap shoes or – a better bet – they are among the many devotees of the cleat, or clip-in pedal.
In the years I've been riding, fewer people ask me about my shoes; unless, I'm wearing booties and then they want to know what's going on with the elf boots.
This bucket of pedals I snapped at TrekWorld earlier this year, contained many of the pedals in Speedplay's timeline.
Myself I'm a Time guy – what pedals do you use and have used?


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Large companies are making a concerted push to transform themselves from followers to leaders in digital. But does that include a plan for leadership in data security? Does it rally the organization's security resources around the parts of the digital business that need it most? Is the push backed by a real security mindset among the executive team?
For business leaders everywhere, the next three years will be about accelerating the organization's pace in the digital race—and its place in the new digital world. Backed by their deep resources, enormous scale and process discipline, global enterprises such as GE, Tesco, Disney and Procter & Gamble are rewriting entire chapters of the digital playbook. The first movers are poised to take advantage of technology in ways that will upend the expectations of industry observers and consumers alike.
The Technology Vision 2014 report from Accenture Technology Labs highlights six themes that reflect the shifts emerging now among the digital power brokers of tomorrow—themes that range from the push for architected resilience to the blurring between the digital and physical worlds. It provides a richly detailed view from which business leaders in every industry can draw insight, inspiration and excitement about where digital technologies can take their organizations.
Each of the themes comes with significant challenges, and each requires deeper perspectives to sharpen the focus on how security must evolve to help the business take advantage of digital disruption. In an environment where any organization can fall prey to cyber threats and where most find they are unprepared to deal with rapidly blurring enterprise boundaries, security organizations need to continue partnering with the business and IT if they are to actively manage the risks.
The six themes emerging among digital players are as follows:
Digital-Physical Blur—The physical world is coming online as objects, devices and machines acquire more digital intelligence.
From Workforce to Crowdsource—Leading companies are starting to think in terms of an expanded workforce—one that is not on the payroll and that can deftly handle almost any task an organization needs done.
Data Supply Chain—Data ecosystems are complex and littered with data silos, limiting the value that organizations can get out of their own data by making it difficult to access.
Harnessing Hyperscale—After at least a decade out of the spotlight, the hardware world is once again a hotbed of new development as demand soars for bigger, faster, lower-cost data centers.
Business of Applications—The way that businesses build software is changing: mimicking the shift in the consumer world, more and more organizations are rapidly moving from enterprise applications to apps.
Architecting Resilience—Downtime in data centers costs 41 percent more than it did just four years ago, underscoring the argument for engineering resilience into IT systems.


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I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
welcome to the peace, the love, the beauty and the struggle of the orthodox Christian life.
Nice. I wonder whether there are any catechumens of this forum left I can think about during the litany for them.
Thanks everyone. And Many Years to you, Tgebar.So... any suggestions for what I should do next? I asked my confessor and he pretty much said, "the rest of your new life" which is great but I was thinking more along the lines of some good reading suggestions or something.On another note I have just had my first post-fast bacon sandwich. Mmm...
Thanks mabsoota, I'll take your suggestions on board. I already have The Way of a Pilgrim on my list but it's always good to have some more ideas.
i started the way of the pilgrim. i am finding it a bit heavy and i have been orthodox 3 years!i think if i understood the russian orthodox tradition better, it would be easier, but i am not well acquainted with this; having only been to one russian service.
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^ HUNTLEY '3'o«frfe VOLUME 15 — NUMBER 37 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1974 — PHONB — U9Sai — If No AMwer *S9-S9n 45M4M 10 PAGES I Touch Tone Starts Monday niinods Befi Monday, Dec. 16 will begin offering Toudh-Tooe service to some 1,000 HutiCey ouatomers served by the 669 prefix. The Touidh-Tone phone transmits musical tomes, instead of the pulses sent by a rotary ddal, to tell the telephone switching equipment where to nxite the caM. "In addition, you can 'dial' a caU much fasteip with Touoh-Tone push¬ buttons becaose there's no wiaiting for the dial to return to position," Illinois BeU Manager Don Legner siaid. Steps to nmke Touch-Tone service available to customers induded a December 2, eqiapment oonversdion ¦wliich produced changes in the sound a( tho dSal tone and the ring¬ ing signal. Huntley custoners can order Tcuidh-Tone frfiones by callirtg their Illinois BeU service represerttative. The number for residential cusKom- ers is 428-9981 Busdr>ess customers can call 858-9981. Police Report Dec. 6, 1974, 9:00 p.m. Police nesponded to a theft from Disco gas sitation. It vfas reported two subjects stole mtmey bags from the biislnesses. TVo men were appre¬ hended and chairged. Investi^aJtion is 8t»U conitiniiing Charged with theft is Oharies Coatroras (23) Oar- pentersviKle and Henry Montana (21) Elgin. Dec. 7, 1974, 11:00 a.m. Police responded to an accident in a local paridng area. An aoddeinit r^xwt was made out and no tickets were issued. Dee. 7, 1974, 11:30 p.m. PoHce located an open door to a area business. A check was made of the building after the awi»er was no¬ tified - and a clos« waltoh was made thixw^Kxit the night. Doc. 8, 1974, 2:40 a.m. Police were caUed to investigate a crim¬ inal damage complaint. It was re¬ ported persoii<s) unknown had let the air out of a tiiie of a resident. Dc^c. 8, 1974, 3:30 a.m. Police re¬ sponded to assist Kane Oounty Sher. iffs deputies in reference to some¬ one stealing plywood south of tovni. Polico arrived at the scene and waited until Kane Counlty arrived. Dec. 8, 1974, 5:10 a.m. Assistance was asked by the IU. State Poiice in stopping a veWcile suspected of being involved in an armed rob¬ bery. Hurttley police assktod in the apprehension of the subjects in question. Dec. 8, 1974 8:00 p.m. McHenry County Sheriff Depaitment report while on routine patrol an aiito with defective mufflers and the roar license piate bent up South¬ bound on J(^nson Rd., near Ple- sant Grove Rd., ^ Marengo and sitopped it to investigate. In ihe possesabn of the driver, Boniald ¦rtmm, 17, 14141 HeamHo^en Rd., Huntley, was foiuvd a quantity of anphetamine as well as oamnabis and gum ammunition as weli as an uscncased gun/ i>eing tnanEpotted in the vehicie, resdltinig in Wks ar¬ rest for Possesaton of Oontrolied Sdiystence; Possession of Oannabis, Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor; Unlaiwftd Use of Wea¬ pons; transporting a loaded unceasr ed in an aioto; defective exhaust system and improper disptey of registration, with bond set at $5550 for couift appareurance January 20, 1975. His juvenile oompanton was found to be in possession of con¬ trolled a\A>3t ance, and was re¬ leased to tbe custody of his parente aiul tbe matter refored to iuvenile tttiKuiUes. PO 192 HUNTLEY. ILL •VS SUSM TOU ARE BIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD" — David Crockett 19 ccata par Mpf Chief Nelson Dead Riidiard Neteon, former Chief of Police in Himtley, died Tuesday, December Id Nelson was CJiief of Police In Huntley from 1963 to January 1st of this year. VisitaKiion will be from alter 5 on Wedtiesday and cdl day Thure¬ day at the Mee and Baynee Funeral Iiome 3918 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago. Services wiU be at 1 p.m. on Friday December 13 with burial at Mt. Emblem Cemetetiy, Grand and Wolf near Elmhuret C Robertshaw Promoted Officer Carroll Robertshaw has recentiy been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. ODficer Robei^tphaw bas been with the Huntley Police for the past eight yeare. Prior to ooming to Huntley Sergeant Robert- stew was a member of his home town Palace Dept for 8 yeans and the Sheriff's Dept. fior 2 ycare. He has taken numerous courses in law enfoaxemeirts. 1st Congregational Annual Church Christmas Concert Dec 15 The AnraiaS Ovristmias Choir Oom. cort of the First Congregational Church of Huntley viiill be held: December ISth at 7:30 p.m. The Carol Choir will sing Christ¬ mas Bells and '"What C^n I Give Him?" They wiB be directed by Bobbie Sue Tesamer and EUen. Er¬ vin. The Orusader Cboir, under the direction of Janis Parisek and Dawn Workowski, wiB sing "When Ughte Are Lit on Ohrristonas Eve" and "What Is This?" and piay "We Three Kings" on the handbells. The Chapel Choir will sdng "Ha^enl Swiftly, Hasten Softly" and "Little Lord," oonduoted by" Maay Low Hiardy They wifl play a Oiriabnas Miedley on the handibells and the Sth Grade giris wiH play an ar¬ rangement of "Silent Ni^" The Chancel Choir, under the direotkHi of Bfll Leggee, will sin«: "Oome Christmas Momi^," "Go Teil K on the Mountain," "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly > light," "God for Man k Bom" aai "Jes«s Oirist, Our Sajviour is jftonv." All ohoire vnH combine to sing "Chrfe»n»^ Glory," "As Lately We Watched, and "OBudeamus," floJtow- ed by a cand9e1ij^ service. A free wiE offering will be taken 'Snd refreshments wiU t>e served by the C«tas. The piMit is invited to attend WSe QaistaaaK Ooncert. Christmas Party To Be Held December 21 Ohristmias is nearing very fast children and parents. It's just <Mie more week before Santa oomes to town. Remember! Mark your cal¬ endar to join in at Sarita's Party. Santa's Party is sponsored by our Huntley Bustness people and friends and is held for ail our HunMey chil¬ dren, their parents and all Sendor CHtizens. .Following is the programs set-up for all ages: Date, Dec. 21st. Saturday. Place - Village Sqoare Time - 1:00 to 3:30 fior all chil¬ dren uip thru 5th grade. 9:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. for all Jr. High and High School Students. We wiH beg-in wl*h crowning our Snow Prince and Snow Princess, who will then lead the parade a- TV>i;.M the Square. FoU'^n? thorn win be S•l••^a Ol'*;!?. our HI* Sch^i"^ Band pr<A the Fire TnK-ks. The na- nade wiH proceed to the Fire Sta¬ tion, where SarM will be on hand to talk to the Mttie ones and pass f>i«t his treats to all. RefroShmenlts will then be served to aH and oar- toons will be shown the rest of the ei'itenvxsi till 3:30. A dance flor all Jr. High and Hi^ School Students will be held at Ihe Fire aafcten after the hask^thaU game tnm 9:00 pjn. to 11:30 p.m. Remember kdids, refreshments will be served at ttie dance, so save some room. , The patty fior ajl Senior Citizens will be heid Fridiay,' Dec. 27 at the Social Hall of the OoagregsMianai ChiircJi. "This party wiH be heW from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A luncheon will be served and enter¬ tainment for aU fWllowJng. Remem- bcir all Sr. Oifcerts! Mark your cal¬ endar for this date. We want to see a big tum out for each gnoup of events! Remember these parties are for the benefit of you, our cWldren and parents and Senior Cttizens! Village Store Contest Winner Santa's Party Donations Followii^ Is the Hst of the mer- ohanlbs and friends who have so gradously donated to Santa's Par¬ ty. We wBj corttinue to print the names of donors up to Jan. 1st Harry's Grocery, M&H Dairy Mart, Hansen Heating & PlumWng, Lemon Tree Boutique, Oofls Inc. Jake Richards, Huntley State Blank, Marges Beauty Strop, Weil Supply, Ron Reh, UWe Amerioa, Pineerest Country Club, Huntley Super Mar¬ ket, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lansen, Jerry James, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Blankenship, Richard Berker, Mr. and Mrs. Qem Haitman, Jack Faith, Mr. and Mrs. ^ugh .Sweeney, Daisy Kuikke. Mr. and Mrs. RObett Bckmian, Loops CIti), James O'Laughlin DJ5A, Tures Nitfsery, Hanstord Cfaenrrolet, Foly Plastic Inc., Pox ViaBey Grease,' Bakley COnstruc- tino, Gary Bakley, Wdtden Coon- tty Store, HnnUey Restaurant, Hen- ly Wdls, Ptoteide Tap, PatrWl- Huns, Oolemanls T^, Town Tap belts Insunance, J. H. Pattetisoii VUlage Store, Mre. Pete PetenBOo. Mr. and Mrs, Jim Gromer, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schefler, Oefies Ti^, Oback's Bart>er Shop, Mir. and Mre. Jiames O'Connor, Huntley Shoe Box, 'Village Inn, Clarence's Baiher Shop. The Huntiey Fannstd* Newspc^er. "TbuA You," ooe end afi for your gweroitty. Mrs John Thorp of Church St., is shown In her home witb the Color Television which had just been presented to ber by Mr. lajnes NoIaM, owner of the ViUage Store. The TV was the first i^tce ol tfae store's Pre-Xmas Contest. Penny bad a total of 92,679 pofaits. Other winlMn were Doris BaU, Don McCune, Toni Soper, Gail Hayes, and Pox Vallejr Grease. SheUtoy HM Village Board BMen and Joan IPfaff, Rt 47, Huntley, appeared beflore the Hurt- ley Boatd to secure a Ucense to operate the tavern now known as COieman's Tavern. They hc4>e to be able to opiate by Jan. 1. The otostacle is the fact that in the Vil¬ lage Ordinanoe a tavern owner or the one who operates the tavern mast Uve in HiHitley. TTie PfSafTs outside of Huntley Mayor Don Ensatrom and Trustee Robert Fnank pointed out to Pfaff that if he were incorporated he oould then aprioint a manager who Mves in Huntley to operate his establishment. Mr. Pfaff does t»t wish to incorporate, if he can do it any other way. He stated that he plans to live above the tavern in pertaps 3 years. The Board voted to give the license contingent upon Mr. P8aff beconang a corporation. He plans to call his new enter¬ prise PfaflTs Pub. In artother matter the Board voted to allow a per diem of $25 per meeting as compensation for Vil¬ lage Board of Trustees instead of the present $25.00. Tlie deadline for Ihe spring election is Feb. 10. The Clerk's salary is $550. There was some objection to the police using an unmarked car for the potice work. Only oue of the two police cars Is marked. Chief of Police Dziewior stated that he tries to use the unmarked oar occasion- aliy so that the n»arked car will have a rest. The patrolling of the school dur- the basketball games or other ac- ti'Tities was discussed. Mayor En- eti)om said he he could not see plac¬ ing a man in constant siKveilance iati games because poiice have oth- en duties. The same is true of the ©•ssing guard servioe at 3:30. He said that if the school needed such service that they ooutd hire an att Hy" pcAiceman and pay him as Unloo-Spectal Machiae Company does. * .pan ZMer, President at tbe School Board and Chuck Ruth, Trus¬ tee, appeared asking for a cross¬ walk at Cfaurch and Douglas streets. It was approved. Alfred Joidi requested that the Village pay part of a bill ctf f271 'Which he was changed by Bakley for the repair of Hs sewer wMch hack¬ ed up in 1970, He says that the bvttk oocured in tbs liiM of way and therefore is the City's respon¬ sibility. The Board' voted to pay half of the hilL The oMtioB was tttade hy l\lr. Ron SbneMipe, seooniifld by Mr. Heib Eggen. Raymond and Richamd Cole re¬ quested a permit aUo«4ng them to fill land which is looated on Mill St. across from the Dean CSmpany. Mayor Donenstrom stated that ihe land is in the flood plane and that the floods there drains into the Kishwaukee River. He said that there are strict rules regBixibg fiffl- ing in flood plane land now. There are 13.7 acres in the pro¬ perty and the brothers ¦wish to use fin from a factory which is said to be composed of clay and sfflkl and has been fired to remove metal. Mr. Randy Woodman, Village engineer was requested to study the matter and to report back. The Vfl¬ lage will pay for thds inveaaigation, but they plan to make an otdinance which will require the petitioner to pay tor such a survey or chemdoai analysis for possible pollution. There is a five acre slough in the property and fear vras expressed that if this was filled In tliat it would cause the water to diialn off on the adjacent property. It looks like the polling pond connected with the sewerage dis¬ posal plant is necessary in the Hundley sewerage ^sposal plant plans. This will not cost the vil¬ lage much as Engineer Randy Woodman said that he stiH has the plans that he made in 1968 (which were never used). Huntley is niKnber 113 on the list to get Federal funds which, hopefiJiy, wMl be forth cmning soon. VILLAGE BOARD ContiiwM on Page Six Snow Prince & Princess To Be Selected Parents, don't target, if jraur child b between the ages of 4 y«t. ttm 8 yrs. odd, they are e&t^e to en¬ ter for Huntley's Snow Prince and- Snow Pi^ncess. Tliey witt reign over Santa's Party, Dec. list held fttxa 1:00 pjn. to 3:30 p.m. at the Vfl¬ lage Square and Pfa-e Ststion. Bal¬ lot boxes are placod at, (he varioai mencitants tor signing up. » Deadbne for eotettog is Deb. 20th. DiDnt watt Wl the la* nfak- ute, sign up yoar son or dw#«bn'
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OT: The last OT Friday Open Thread of the OT Season
Well, we made it. This time a week from now there will be College Football to discuss. Tomorrow (or sunday, or whatever) starts Game Week.
As such, here is the last Friday Open Thread and I'm getting it started early. What was the best memory of your summer? What 1 play would make you happiest going into the season? Best new beer you tried this summer? Favorite Tailgate food?
And the big question that's a little more on topic:
Where will you be watching Michigan Football in 7 days and change??? (MGoShoe Countdown goes here)


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On Saturday, Felicia and I spent the day down in Canon City. We attended the monthly Warm The World meeting and then went to lunch with the founder, Nan. Felicia wrote a great post about our day here. If you have anything you can donate, please consider Warm The World. All of their yarn is donated. They have no budget to purchase yarn. Even a gift card to a craft store (Hobby Lobby, Joann, Michael's) would be a huge help.
My Emerald socks are coming along:
I was hoping to knit these faster, but I hate ribbing. I really hate it. With the fire of a thousand suns. I need to just knit it and get it over with.
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Feb. 6, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's fencing team emerged with a 2-3 ledger in the MIT-Brandeis Invitational on Sunday. The Engineers (13-4) opened the day with a 21-6 loss to Pennsylvania State University. Following back-to-back wins against Yeshiva University (27-0) and Sacred Heart University (21-6), Tech fell to Haverford College (17-10) and New York University (19-8).
The epee squad posted the best record of the day with a total of 25-20 as all four members finished with winning records. Matt Gethers led the way with a mark of 8-6 while Michael Beregovsky and Trevor Chang both finished at 8-7. In addition, Lukas Schmitt won the only bout he participated in.
A 10-5 ledger by Spencer Sugimoto helped lead the foil team to a 24-21 total. The sabre team notched a pair of 9-0 wins en route to a mark of 23-22. Igor Kopylov and Brian Quattrochi both tallied totals of 8-7.


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Securities and Exchange Commission
Litigation Release No. 18548 / January 21, 2004
Former High-Ranking Attorney at Cambridge Biotech Company Sentenced to Year and a Day in Prison in Insider Trading Case
United States v. Andrew S. Marks (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, No. 03-10297 (DPW) (D.Mass.)
The Commission announced today that, on January 12, 2004, a federal judge sentenced attorney Andrew S. Marks, of Wayland, Massachusetts, to a year and a day in prison in connection with insider trading charges brought by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. On October 3, 2003, Marks, formerly the highest-ranking attorney at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Cambridge-based biotechnology company, pled guilty to a one-count information filed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts charging him with unlawful insider trading in connection with his September 2001 sale of Vertex stock. The criminal information alleged that, on September 20, 2001, Marks learned that Vertex planned to announce the suspension of clinical trials of one of its promising drugs on September 24. According to the information, on September 21, Marks liquidated all of his Vertex stock despite having previously acknowledged in writing that the impending release would not be viewed favorably by Wall Street and that he should not sell his Vertex shares.
According to the criminal information, at the time he traded, Marks was the designated attorney for employees to contact regarding compliance with Vertex's employee securities trading policy. In that capacity, the information alleged, Marks wrote Vertex's CEO an email on September 20, advising him to make sure that an employee who had requested permission to trade had no knowledge of the impending press release. According to the information, Marks' email went on to say:
. . . I guess I am troubled about any employee trading prior to that release because it is likely to have an effect on the stock (looks like I can't sell any shares) and, depending on the degree of that effect, could create the perception of insider trading. . . .
The criminal information alleged that, on September 21, less than 24 hours after writing this email to the CEO, Marks sold 20,900 shares of Vertex at an average price of $22.81 per share, receiving $476,765. According to the information, Marks traded in breach of a fiduciary duty not to trade in Vertex's stock while in possession of material, nonpublic information regarding Vertex. As a result of the conduct described in the information, the U.S. Attorney charged Marks with criminal violations of the antifraud provisions of federal securities laws, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. Marks was also sentenced to two years of supervised release following his incarceration, and to pay a $3,000 fine.
On December 3, 2002, the Commission filed a complaint against Marks in connection with the same conduct in Massachusetts federal court. The Commission's complaint alleged that Marks violated Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933. In that action, which is still pending, the Commission seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement plus prejudgment interest, and civil penalties, and further seeks an order barring Marks from acting as an officer or director of any publicly-traded company. For further information, see Litigation Release Nos. 17871 (December 3, 2002), 18360 (September 24, 2003) and 18409 (October 14, 2003).


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) announced the selections for the National Academic squad on Thursday and MIT picked up seven individual honorees, while the entire team was also recognized for its academic success. As a team, the Engineers finished with a cumulative grade point average of 3.36, to earn the National Academic Team Award for the eighth consecutive season.
Seniors Priscilla Army, Ekavali Mishra and Nirupama Yechoor closed their careers with the accolades, which were the third such honors for Army and Mishra and second straight for Yechoor. Keri Dixon, Jessica Oleinik, Danielle Smith and Alex Wright were MIT's other selections, all of whom were also named to the squad in 2009.
Tech was one of seven New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) teams to be honored by the NFHCA, as Springfield College recorded the highest team GPA in all of Division III.


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Location: First Congregational Church of Berkeley
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An Evening with ALICE WALKER
"The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens (Essays) & "The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers" (New Poems)
Hosted by Brian Edwards Tiekert
$15 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/412879 :: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway's, Moe's Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times ($18 door)
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Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and many volumes of essays and poetry. She's best known for The Color Purple, the 1983 novel for which she won the Pulitzer Prize—the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction—and the National Book Award. The award-winning novel served as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1985 film and was adapted for the stage, opening at New York City's Broadway Theatre in 2005, and capturing a Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical in 2006.
Walker has written many additional best sellers; among them, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), which detailed the devastating effects of female genital mutilation and led to the 1993 documentary "Warrior Marks," a collaboration with the British-Indian filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, and We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness.(2009). Her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and her books have sold more than fifteen million copies. Along with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Walker's awards and fellowships include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a residency at Yaddo. In 2006, she was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the California Hall of Fame. In 2007, her archives were opened to the public at Emory University. In 2010 she presented the key note address at The 11th Annual Steve Biko Lecture at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and was awarded the Lennon/Ono Peace Grant in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Walker donated this latter award to an orphanage for the children of AIDS victims in East Africa.) She served as jurist (2010 and 2012) for two sessions of The Russell Tribunal on Palestine. In Cape Town, South Africa, and New York City, New York. Recent works include: Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel; Hard Times Require Furious Dancing; The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. .
An activist all of her adult life, Walker believes that learning to extend the range of our compassion is activity available to all. She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of all living beings. She is one of the world's most prolific writers, yet tirelessly continues to travel the world to literally stand on the side of the poor, and the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed. She also stands, however, on the side of the revolutionaries, teachers and leaders who seek change and transformation of the world.
When she returned from Gaza in 2008, Walker said, "Going to Gaza was our opportunity to remind the people of Gaza and ourselves that we belong to the same world: the world where grief is not only acknowledged, but shared; where we see injustice and call it by its name; where we see suffering and know the one who stands and sees is also harmed, but not nearly so much as the one who stands and sees and says and does nothing."
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Candidates for Bluffton's County Council District 7 stand far apart on November's referendums and their attitudes toward development.
Cynthia Bensch carries the official Republican Party seal in a district mostly bound by Buck Island Road to the east and S.C. 170 to the west. But Dan Duryea, who identifies with the party but was bounced from the primary over paperwork, is challenging her as a petition candidate.
Bensch is a former S.C. Election Commissioner who spent decades in real estate and development with her homebuilder husband. She opposes both the $25 million bond referendum for land preservation and the measure to change the county's government to council-manager, which would eliminate elections for auditor and treasurer, leaving those jobs for appointment by County Administrator Gary Kubic.
Land preservation
Elected officials have lauded the environmental and economic effects of past land preservation bonds, the most recent of which authorized $50 million by a 3-to-1 vote and helped the county reach about 20,400 acres of conserved space.
With some residents paying fines because they can't pay amenity fees in their communities and the state of the market already discouraging excessive development, now isn't the time for more taxpayer-funded debt, Bensch argues.
"I just don't think it's fair right now to the taxpayers to burden them," she said.
More integral to improving waterways is fast-tracking septic tank removal in older Bluffton neighborhoods outside planned unit developments such as Palmetto Bluff.
"I'm concerned that we've left out the most vital thing we could do for Bluffton, which is water and sewer," she said.
But that responsibility lies with the town of Bluffton, not County Council, Duryea says. He argues the value of further preservation outweighs the cost - an additional $38 a year for an owner-occupied home valued at $250,000 - and current generations owe it to those to come.
"We as a society have a responsibility to preserve these special places within our communities for future generations to benefit from the knowledge base of what occurred in these areas, to understand why they're suggested to be preserved," he said.
Council-manager referendum
Supporters of the referendum placing appointment authority for treasurer and auditor with the county administrator point to the missing $210,000 under former treasurer Joy Logan's watch as an example of failure in accountability. Detractors argue that accountability lies with the voters.
"I think that new alternative gives too much opportunity for less transparency and oversight," Bensch said. "I think the more checks and balances, the better."
Duryea said he agreed with Bensch at first, but now argues the county's top executive could better vet candidates working directly under him.
"As in any other formal corporate entity, the chief executive officer should have the ability to prequalify those positions - determine the specific skill sets, certifications and professional background - and have the right, since they have full responsibility over those positions, to hire and fire," he said.
County development
Bensch argues her career in development gives her a unique perspective on building an economy driven largely by tourism and high-end homes.
"You understand what ordinances help you maintain what you need to continue growing, and yet you have to balance that with the working class," she said.
She said she believes an anti-developer climate hangs in the air today and hurts the county's prospects.
"The idea of developers has almost been like an ugly word," she said. "You're anti-environmentally friendly. It's like the two are enemies, and they're not."
Duryea, a 14-year Belfair employee who's run facilities as well as finances, said he divides development into commercial and residential, which he welcomes more openly.
"I think that commercial development, while it creates some jobs, there are expenses through tax loopholes from municipalities, town and counties to these big box stores," he said. "On a per-job basis, that's very expensive."
He's adamantly opposed to the Bluffton Parkway 5B realignment, which he said he considers a costly and unnecessary mistake driven by the interests of developer John Reed.
Supporters have argued the realignment, which straightens the parkway from Buckwalter to Buck Island, opens another development center and strengthens hurricane evacuation routes.
"If you were to tell me the town of Bluffton, the developer and county share the costs equally, and in realignment we'll create light manufacturing and more CareCore-type tech jobs that would put people to work, I might be able to swallow that," he said.


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Bernard M. Markstein, Norcross, Ga.-based Reed Construction Data's chief economist, recently offered a revised prediction, which includes a recession scenario, for the firm's economic forecast. "In our recession scenario, the current (third) quarter is subpar, with growth barely above zero," Markstein writes. "The next four quarters then exhibit decline, with the first and second quarters of 2012 down the most. Fourth quarter 2012 is mildly positive, with stronger growth in 2013."
For more on the revised forecast, visit the Reed Construction Data website.
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The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English
Ed. by Kortmann, Bernd / Lunkenheimer, Kerstin
- eBook (PDF)
- Publication Date:
- January 2013
- Copyright year:
- 2013
- 978-3-11-028012-8
- WAVE is unique in its coverage of variation in English: The number of grammatical features and the number of varieties covered exceeds those treated in any previous publication on the topic
- The Atlas serves as an indispensable research tool for specialists in many different fields of linguistics, including pidgin and creole studies, dialectology, microsyntactic variation, language change, language typology, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, the study of World Englishes, and learner Englishes
- The Atlas offers perspectivizing accounts of the 74 data sets as well as large-scale comparisons across the individual variety types and Anglophone world regions
- Maps are complemented by extensive text chapters written by the major experts in the respective fields
- Very attractive combination with the open access resource eWAVE: extensive supplementary materials are available at www.ewave-atlas.org
- Complements the Handbook of Varieties of English
Aims and Scope
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.
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- approx. 120 maps
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Dictionary
- Keyword(s):
- English; Variation; Atlas
- Subjects
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines > Dialectology
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Germanic Languages > English
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John H. Justice Jr. 1951 - 2011 De Soto
A memorial service for John H. Justice Jr., 59, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at De Soto United Methodist Church.
Mr. Justice died Sunday, March 13, 2011.
He was born April 11, 1951. He grew up in Kansas City, Kan., and later resided in both Bonner Springs and Tonganoxie. He was a member of the Tonganoxie Police Department, a retired Teamster, and a member of the Wyandotte Three Masonic Lodge and the Abdallah Shrine. He drove for P.I.E., K & R, Signal, Quality Carriers and Shock Transfer. He owned the Outback Shop and Justice Firearms. He was an adventurer and enjoyed hunting, fishing, traveling, motorcycling, sky diving, museums and scuba diving.
He is survived by his wife, Jan; six children; eight grandchildren; one great-grandson; and two sisters.
Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at De Soto United Methodist Church.
Memorials may be sent to the church at 8760 Kill Creek Road, P.O. Box 400, De Soto, KS, 66018.
Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, (913)-422-4074, handled arrangements.
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A Love Story Between Third Graders
By: Janet Borrus
Some people look to their parents as relationship role models. I look to my daughter Maya and her man Axel.
They've been together since kindergarten. Everyone thought it would last a year, maybe two. But they're into their fourth and are tighter than ever.
Maya is eight. Axel nine.
In many ways, it's a case of opposites attract. He's guileless, affable, easily hurt. She's fierce, shy, and stoic. Named for a Nordic folk hero, Axel is tall and blonde. Maya was born in western China and has caramel skin and delicate features. She reads better; he has a firmer grip on socially appropriate behavior. Maya is the one who says "penis" too loudly at In 'n Out Burger. Axel takes her hand on the ride home and muses, "Isn't this nice?"
They have pet names. He's Apple. She's Mango. When Maya becomes "Kitty" Axel goes by "Wolfy."
The last time I called my husband "Padrino" we were on our honeymoon.
Depending on how many dishes are in the sink, the two of us can go from sweet to snippy in a matter of seconds. Maya's play dates with Axel, on the other hand, are free of petty squabbles. They disappear into make-believe games like Endangered Species, in which Maya is a rare mouse and Axel the wolf determined to make her extinct. In Powerboosters, played on the swings, they become airborne to escape Motorcycle Man and his lethal super sucker. At other times, they build veterinary hospitals out of pillows and heal Maya's myriad stuffed animals.
They do have different interests, but patiently indulge each other's obsessions. Maya will spend hours operating Axel's remote helicopters and hovercraft. Given a little popcorn, he's happy to sit through the feature-length nature videos she loves.
They do not finish each other's sentences. Or cut each other off. Their third-grade expertise in taking turns is enviable. Recently, Axel bought himself a motorized scooter. He eagerly let Maya try it, with no warnings about potential scratches and no panicked outburst when she nearly trashed it on a concrete retaining wall.
"Ya know Kitty, I think maybe you need to weigh a little more to work this thing," was all he said.
If only my husband would stay that calm whenever I back our Honda into the gum tree.
I email him calendar items and to-do lists. Maya and Axel write each other love notes. This summer we went to visit my family in New Jersey. I came upon the following trail of texts on my iPhone ten days into the trip:
Axel: (next to photo of him with a tray of firecrackers) "Happy 4thof July, Maya!"
Maya: (next to photo of her stuffed camel wearing my glasses) "School is better on the Jersey shore!"
Axel: "Ha, ha, Maya. I hope you're having fun. I miss you; when are you coming back? XOXO Axel"
Maya: "I am coming back on Wensday (sic). Secret, I love you! Your friend, Maya."
Axel: "I can't wait to see you! (photo of his latest batch of polished rocks) Look at my beautiful rocks. I polished them. I love you too. Axel."
After they've been apart, they surprise each other with trinkets and news of their travels. And are never disappointed. When Maya gave Axel a bag of chocolate-covered nuts from Toronto, I overheard this from her bedroom:
Axel: "Gee, thanks for the moose poop from Canada, Maya! Did you see some moose?"
Maya (slightly downcast): "No just a reindeer and some lightning."
Axel: "Hey, that's better than moose!"
Even sleepovers go smoothly. Last weekend they wanted to camp out in the living room. When I explained that this would mean sharing a double blow-up bed Axel looked at me with utter sincerity and said "You know, Janet, I've always dreamed of sleeping in the same bed as Maya." What mother gets such honesty from her daughter's boyfriend?
They no longer share baths, but snuggle freely and greet the dawn with an interpretive pas de deux to the funk sample on our electric piano. Videotaping, I make a mental note to sign up for couples salsa at Arthur Murray.
In quieter moments, Axel and Maya reflect on their relationship and consider where they're headed. When my husband jokingly referred to Axel as his future son-in-law, my daughter told him, "Me and Axel discussed this. We have a couple of options. We could get married or we could not get married and be friends. We crossed out live alone."
At school their closeness has threatened some and confounded others. They draw stares from both classmates and parents when — as Kitty and Wolfy — they hug (and sometimes paw) each other goodbye at the end of the day. But they refuse to be shamed. When older boys tell them they should be playing with kids of their own gender, Maya says, "It's none of your business." If they persist they get "It's none of your beeswax."
For a while I thought their bond could be broken by a force even stronger than public opinion: the competitive younger brother. Oskar, age six, seizes every opportunity to discredit Axel and up his own intimacy with Maya. He delights in showing off his superior burping skills, teases Axel about his occasional thumb sucking, and will lunge across his booster seat to cover Maya with sticky kisses. She occasionally finds his antics amusing, but her heart is true. Maya knows the value of the unconditional love Axel gives her. And so do I. Because I get the same thing from her dad.
Watching her with Axel helps me remember that.
Janet Borrus is a writer, actor and arts educator living in Los Angeles. She has written several plays and screenplays, and portrayed a variety of evil moms on television and film. At home, she is better behaved.
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1. OTP G3 Dream Series Barrel Kit. Very good used condition, some marks on insert threads but all thread just fine. Insert sizes are.681, .688, .691, .693. Would like to get $45 Shipped.
2. BT Apex 2 Barrel, got in a lot and I have never used, looks like new. $35. SOLD ON MCB
3. Lapco Apex Ready Big Shot, also like new except for some slight wear on the edge where the Apex 2 mounts. $40 SOLD ON MCB
4. Purple CP Feedneck, good shape, $15. SOLD
5. Bob Long Feedneck, brand new in package, $12.
6. Brand New NXE Elevation Tank Cover in size small(somewhere around 45-50 ci). $20.
7. T2W Gas through stock, $75. SPF
8. Custom ULE'ed Mag Rail, $50. SPF
9. CF Mag Grip with Smart Parts wood grips, VGC, $50.
10. Orangeish Red Bike Grip, $15. SPF
11. Classic Valve, LVL 7, $45.
12. AGD Delrin Super Bolt, $40
13. A.N.S. Venturi Bolt, $15.
14. WGP Drop Forward & on/orr ASA, $15.
15. CP Flame Drop, Free with and other purchase.
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So, here goes my first MAC mascara review!
PLEASE let me know if you liked this review or found it helpful in any way :)
Before writing this review, I used the mascara every day for a little more than a week.
If you want to know more about what my MA(C)scara experiment is, take a look at my first post about it.
What I like in a mascara
I figured it'd be best to start out by talking a little bit about my own lashes and what I like in a mascara, so that it'll be easier for you to know why or why not I like what mascaras I do.
I find that mascara is one of the most personal makeup products, and it's very hard to find a mascara that everyone loves.
Why is that?
Part of the reason is that everyone's lashes are different. If you have really long lashes, a mascara that gives volume is probably going to work better for you than ones that give length and vice versa.
Another thing to consider is HOW you apply the mascara and how much you like to work with it. If you like something that's quick and easy you don't want to go with the types of mascara that are super buildable, since you're probably not going to have the patience to apply it anyway.
Now, my lashes are pretty average, I guess. I don't have a lot of either natural length or volume but they're not super sparse either.
I do find it quite hard to photograph them though, since they're very light in color. Please keep this in mind when you look at the before and after pictures :)
I usually don't have the patience to work with clumpy mascaras, since I'd just rather spend the time applying false lashes if I have to spend 5 frustrating minutes (or more) putting on mascara anyway!
I tend to use mascaras that are easy and quick, but I do love dramatic lashes, so I don't mind having to apply more than one layer - again as long as it doesn't clump!
I really don't like the clumpy mascara look, so I just don't want to deal with clumpy mascaras!
As for my bottom lashes, I usually like to keep them pretty "simple". I do like to give them some color but I hate when they get too long or start sticking together or clump.
When it comes to the mascara wand, I usually prefer either really small ones so that it's super easy to get all the hairs, or really big ones (like DiorShow or Maybelline Colossal) because they tend to coat the lashes nicely.
Now, onto the review!
The review
As I mentioned in my first post, the mascaras were given to all the MAC retail artists (in Denmark, at least) so that we could try them out and fill out a "mascara evaluation journal" which has some questions in it about each mascara. I won't be using the evaluation journal for the reviews though - I don't think it says enough about the product, and it's more geared towards how you would sell each mascara/who you would sell it to.
I'm aqtually quite happy with this mascara!
I've tried Fibre Rich at the MAC counter a couple of times (with the disposable wands) but was never really impressed with it, so I didn't expect much from it.
I have to mention though, that I haven't used any other fiber mascaras before, but I have heard both good and bad things about them.
Mascara facts
- Fibre Rich Lash is only available in black (All Black)
- Contains 9.0 g/0.31 US OZ of product
- The price is US $13.00 or DKK 125 where I live
The wand is pretty average in size, but what differs from your regular mascara wand is the way the bristles alternate between small and long. MAC claims that this design makes the product apply evenly without clumping even though it is a fiber mascara. In my experience, this is true. It didn't clump with a couple of coats and it did cover the lashes evenly - but that's what you'd expect, isn't it?!
I don't love the wand but I don't hate it either. It works, but it's nothing to get excited about.
The consistency
Since this IS a fiber mascara, it contains little nylon fibers that are meant to coat each lash to build up both length and volume. I've read reviews saying that this mascara was dry and flaky, so I was afraid it was going to be exactly that, but I actually had no problems with flaking when using it!
You can see the little fibers on the wand(see picture above), but once you apply the product, the fibers seem to apply nicely and disappear onto the lash.
Ease of use
As I mentioned above, I strongly prefer mascaras that are easy to use and don't clump. Fibre Rich Lash is OK but not perfect in this area. It didn't clump on me, so that's a plus. However, it did take a little work and a couple of coats to get to the look that I wanted. Nothing too frustrating though, since there were no clumps to worry about.
This mascara is very buildable though, so if you like working with your mascara this is a great one!
The best about it
Even though it is one of those buildable fiber mascaras it didn't clump on me, but still gave me both volume and length!
The worst about it
It didn't make my lashes look amazing and it did take a couple of coats. Not my usual "I only spend two seconds applying mascara" mascara ;)
Before and After
(please keep in mind, that my lashes are naturally very light in color, so it's hard to see them, but they're there!)
More information:
MAC Fibre Rich lash reviews on makeupalley
Fibre Rich lash on MACcosmetics.com
PLEASE let me know if you liked the review and found it helpful! :)
Next week's review is going to be on Mascara X!


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The long-running debate about violence in video games was rekindled over the weekend with reports that an 8-year-old boy who police say shot and killed his elderly caregiver had been playing "Grand Theft Auto IV," a game rated as appropriate for adults.
To be sure, there's plenty of content in video games that's not for kids. Virtually everyone agrees on that, and there's an industry-created ratings system in place to help parents decide which games are appropriate and which ones aren't.
The ratings, like those at a movie theater, provide guidelines and create rules for game retailers. (California's law, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 2011, would have judged games differently though, making it a crime if a retailer doesn't follow them.)
But even the current ratings system was born out of controversy. And, as games get more graphic and complex, it hasn't stemmed the tide of complaints about some titles.
Studies have been inconclusive about what role, if any, video games play in encouraging real-world violence. But the argument isn't new.
In light of this week's shooting, here's a look at 10 video games that sparked controversy with their violent content -- and what it was that made them so polarizing.
1. 'Death Race' (1976)
At this point, it's downright quaint.
But when it hit arcades more than three decades ago, "Death Race" (based on the cult movie "Death Race 2000") may have been the first video game to spark controversy for its violence.
In the chunky, black-and-white pixilated graphics of the time, players ran down "gremlins" in their vehicles. The targets squealed and cried, and were then replaced by tombstones on the screen. It didn't help when word leaked that the working title had been "Pedestrian."
It was enough to prompt the National Safety Council to call the game "morbid" and earn it a spot in a "60 Minutes" segment on violence in games.
2. 'Mortal Kombat' (1992)
The '90s classic has spawned innumerable sequels that have found themselves pretty well in the middle of the pack in terms of fighting-game violence.
But when it hit arcades in 1992 and home consoles the next year, "Mortal Kombat" jumped out because of the gore it depicted in digitized graphics.
Brandishing severed heads, ripping out hearts and spines and the like helped put "Mortal Kombat" at the head of a pack of games that prompted hearings in Congress and, eventually, led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
The gore also helped it to become one of the most popular video games of all time.
This year's reboot (often called "Mortal Kombat 9") does its best to uphold the tradition. Options include eating an opponent's head, pulling out their stomach after spitting acid down their throat and slicing them in half with a buzz saw.
3. 'Doom' (1993)
From the same gaming class as "Mortal Kombat" came "Doom."
"Doom" was the first time many people had seen a first-person shooter game.
It might not have been the original first-person shooter game, but "Doom" certainly popularized the style. And there was something about seeing the violence from the viewpoint of the shooter that really got to folks.
There was also blood and gore, shotguns and chainsaws. And when it emerged that the shooters in the 1999 Columbine High School tragedy were avid "Doom" players, it was pretty much assured that the game would move to the forefront of the controversy of the time.
4. 'Grand Theft Auto' (1997)
If any one game inherited the mantle of violent game poster child from "Mortal Kombat" and "Doom," it was "Grand Theft Auto."
The game was controversial from its very earliest incarnation because it let players do just about anything as they portrayed criminals.
But it really ramped up with 2001's "Grand Theft Auto III," when improved graphics made the chaos even more realistic. Players could kill police officers, hire (and subsequently kill) prostitutes and perform any number of other unsavory acts.
In 2003, the family of two shooting victims filed the first of what would become several lawsuits against the series. That case was quickly dismissed.
5. 'Silent Hill' (1999)
When Konami released it in 1999, no one had seen anything quite like "Silent Hill." A creepy survival shooter, it took horror-movie style visuals to a new level, complete with cut scenes that included disemboweled and crucified bodies.
"Silent Hill" and its sequels use music, sound and sight for a horror-movie feel.
Future installments in the series kept it up, using music, sound and visual advances to boost the creepiness factor.
For the original, a monster called "The Grey Child" -- a small, naked creature encountered near a school -- had to be redesigned before the game could be released in North America. The monster was eventually taken out of the European release altogether.
6. 'Postal 2' (2003)
"Postal 2" figures heavily in Monday's Supreme Court ruling.
The game, in which the player goes on a rampage as "The Postal Dude," was cited by California's lawyers as an example of why a law was needed. Since Monday, the game's creators have celebrated the ruling as a victory for free speech.
But while other game creators try to reflect or explain away criticism, the makers of the "Postal" franchise have wallowed in it. To be honest, their offering is pretty much what the harshest critics see in their heads when they imagine violent video games.
Abusing and killing cats. Killing people who cut ahead of you in line at the bank. Urinating on the corpses of victims. All are allowed, and much more.
(And if you forget exactly how much your character has urinated throughout the game, don't worry, its scoring system will keep track for you, in gallons, right alongside stats like "Number of People Murdered," "People Roasted" and "Heads Exploded by Shotgun").
In a move that probably seemed clever to someone, you can even kill people protesting against violent video games. Get it?
"Postal 2" was referenced repeatedly by lawyers when the California case was heard by the Supreme Court, particularly a scene in which the player can slam a woman in the face with a shovel until she's decapitated.
The game was banned in Australia and, in what we'll call another condemnation of sorts, is featured in the Black Eyed Peas video for "Where is the Love?"
7. 'MadWorld' (2009)
Let's be honest; Nintendo's Wii didn't become the best-selling console in the world appealing to hardcore fans of hack-and-slash-and-shoot.
"MadWorld" caught flak for being on the family-friendly Wii console.
"MadWorld" caught flak for being on the family-friendly Wii console.
But "MadWorld" was an effort to reach out to those folks and break away from the Wii's largely family-friendly lineup.
When we say the violence in "MadWorld" is cartoonish, we mean it literally. Think "Sin City." The concept is straight out of a cartoon as well; you're on a game show in which you earn points for slaughtering people.
"The release of MadWorld for the Wii brings violent video games to a once family-friendly platform," Dr. David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and the Family, said in a press release at the time.
The response from the guys over at Kotaku: "Hopefully, though, concerned parents will notice the 'M for Mature' rating on the cover, just to the left of the dude wielding a bloodied chainsaw."
8. 'Bioshock' (2007)
"Bioshock" was a massive hit with gaming critics, and for good reason.
It is visually sumptuous, thought-provoking and puts the player in a mind-bending, futuristic world that has gone very, very wrong.
None of that kept the complaints from coming, though, when word got out that the game gives players the chance to kill little girls for in-game rewards.
OK, so technically they're little mutated monsters that used to be girls. But, still ...
"Bioshock" players face a moral dilemma: Kill the creepy "little sisters" or try to save them.
The little sisters got the game all sorts of media attention that had nothing to do with its multiple awards. The game's creators said the criticism oversimplified what they were trying to do.
"What we want to do is create a game which deals with moral shades of gray and doesn't try and patronize us with two-dimensional cutouts -- like a Disney take on what is right and what is wrong," Irrational Games' Joe McDonagh told gaming site IGN. "I hope very much that people do focus on that with the little sisters and not try and reduce it to something that I really don't think it is."
9. 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' (2009)
The level of violence in the massively popular "Call of Duty" title is probably what any experienced gamer would expect from a combat title.
But it was the nature of that violence that turned heads. Set in the "near future," the shooter puts the player in firefights in Afghanistan and, at least once, lets them join forces with terrorists. One scene puts the player in the position of deciding whether to join in as an ally guns down innocent civilians in an airport.
In fairness, that mission, called "No Russian," is optional and players are warned of "disturbing content" beforehand. But plenty of mainstream-media critics condemned it, particularly with its release coming around the time of the November 5, 2009, shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people.
In Japan and Germany, the game was altered to end if a player killed civilians.
10. 'Bulletstorm' (2011)
This one created a bit of a fracas earlier this year and may speak, in its own way, to what the dialogue on violent video games can devolve into.
Before it was even released, the website for a certain cable news channel (hint: not this one) ran a story under the headline "Is 'Bulletstorm' the worst video game in the world?"
"The damage could be significant," if a child plays the game, one psychiatrist said in the article (which does not say whether the psychiatrist had seen the game).
Another told the site that an "increase in rapes" could be attributed to sexual scenes in video games like "Bulletstorm." Significant detail: There is no sex in "Bulletstorm." (Sexually suggestive language, yes. Sex, no.)
To be sure, "Bulletstorm" revels in a stream of nonstop profanity and rewards grisly "skill kills" that include impaling opponents on a cactus and chopping them in half. But the worst game in the world?
"I think of it as a teenage shooter game that tries to get attention by being gross, obscene and sexually charged," CNN.com video-game contributor Larry Frum wrote when it was released. "It is funny at first, but after a while, it becomes tired."


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By George Ankers
Southampton's decision to sack Nigel Adkins on Friday is as inexplicable as it was sudden. Scrap that, it is foolish, reprehensible and desperately depressing.
There had been rumblings earlier in the season that the 47-year-old's job was at risk. After two promotions in two years, the Saints suffered in the opening fixtures though still impressed many despite defeats to both Manchester sides.
In the build-up to November 17's clash with QPR, they were speaking of 'El Sackico'. Adkins laughed – not in derision but because he loved the joke. Then he won. Southampton beat the Rs 3-1, Mark Hughes soon got the chop and the Saints went from strength to strength.
Now they are on a run of only two defeats in 12 matches, including draws against first Arsenal and then, on Wednesday night, away at Chelsea in a brilliant comeback. They sit 15th in the Premier League, three points clear of safety and playing visibly better than many of their relegation rivals.
That alone is a run of form worthy of respect. Adkins has done well to turn things around despite a squad with some obvious weaknesses.
15. So'ton
16. Newcastle
17. Wigan
18. Aston Villa
19. Reading
When he replaced Alan Pardew (whose sacking was itself a very poor decision at the time) in September 2010, Southampton's plan was to rise from League One to the Premier League in five years. Adkins did it in two.
He did so not by luck or skulduggery; During their single-season campaign through the Championship, the Saints never once left the top two. They played, by all accounts, a serious – if not the only – candidate for the most entertaining football in the division. It was an approach that translated better to the top flight than some might have expected.
When the whispers grew loudest in November that Adkins might be let go, the supporters at St Mary's Stadium loudly made their feelings clear and have done at every home game since. Few bosses have been so beloved on the south coast.
It is an affection borne not only of incredible results but also of the perfect fit of personality. Taking charge at a time when the club were only just getting to grips with just how low they were ebbing, his relentless optimism and warmth brought a genuine feel-good factor back to St Mary's.
Soaring back to their rightful place in English football was made all the better for having done it with a smile on their faces.
Since inheriting power at Southampton following the tragic death of saviour investor Markus Liebherr just before hiring Adkins, chairman Nicola Cortese has always been feared as a Roman Abramovich-style disaster waiting to happen. Indeed, the only reason that he got away with sacking Pardew over a personality clash was because Adkins injected such joy into the club.
The warnings had been there over the summer that Cortese 'got it'. Though Adkins had indicated his desire to bolster the defence and sign sensibly, the Italian's hand was all over the rash move to throw £12 million and huge wages at Gaston Ramirez.
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Indeed, if it had not been for the ahead-of-schedule emergence of Luke Shaw as an astonishingly mature left-back, the Saints' defensive malaise might still be a topic of emergency. For this, Cortese can take no credit.
His decision to fire Adkins is based on a belief that he is "dithering" in the transfer market, that he has not got the contacts to attract continental talent as Michael Laudrup can at Swansea City.
That may well be true but it is only a suspicion - a minor one, at that, considering how well Adkins has worked the domestic market thus far. The chance to let him build a reputation abroad through honest achievement is squandered.
To override two-and-a-half years of truly exceptional achievement over such a hunch, one that breaks the hearts of all who hold the club dear, is risible.
It will alienate huge swathes of the support, many of whom genuinely felt that it would be better to be relegated this season and hang on to Adkins than get rid. The atmosphere will not turn as foul towards new boss Mauricio Pochettino as Stamford Bridge did towards Rafa Benitez but the urge to boycott St Mary's will be high.
The playing squad, as well, will surely be disrupted. An inspirational father figure, Adkins will be missed just as much by them. What had seemed a strong chance of avoiding relegation is now seriously threatened.
On April 28, 2012, when Southampton confirmed their miraculous return to the Premier League after a nightmarishly close brush with financial finality, this author wrote that the joy of that day might never be matched in a lifetime of support. Adkins' sacking is the opposite, a perfect storm of fury.
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Nvidia paid the right amount for 3dfx, court affirms
Long-dead GPU brand exhumed, swiftly re-interred
Here's a blast from the past: graphics card maker 3dfx. The long defunct brandname - once the acme of computer graphics - briefly rose from the dead this month when erstwhile shareholders' failed to get $100m out of Nvidia.
Nvidia, long-term Register readers may recall, acquired its one-time arch-rival seven years ago after a bitter legal battle over patents. The 3D graphics pioneer ran out of cash in 2000 having burned through its resources trying to get its top-of-the-line Voodoo 5 card family to market, the enormous, power-hungry Voodoo 5 6000 in particular.
First, 3dfx announced it would stop making graphics cards to focus on chip design. Then it declared bankruptcy, and Nvidia stepped in to acquire its intellectual property and other assets for $112m. The deal went through early in 2001.
Enter one of the collapsed company's trustees, who subsequently sued Nvidia, alleging the GPU giant hadn't paid what 3dfx's mortal remains were truly worth, in turn harming the collapsed firm's creditors. It sought damages of at least $100m.
The case eventually went to trial in the US District Court of Northern California, bankruptcy division, and Nvidia this month confirmed the verdict: the case had gone its way.
The trustee may yet appeal against the verdict - if it does, Nvidia will fight on, the company pledged.


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SAN DIEGO—With the exception of some nice alley-oop slam dunks early on, there wasn't much pretty about San Diego State's victory against Air Force.
Then again, the win was all that mattered.
Jamaal Franklin had 12 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Aztecs to a 58-51 victory on Wednesday night and avenge a loss to the Falcons from earlier in the season.
JJ O'Brien also had 12 points, while Xavier Thames had 11 and Chase Tapley 10, for the Aztecs (21-8, 9-6 Mountain West), who are trying to hold onto the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament next week in Las Vegas. They finish the regular season at Boise State on Saturday.
Another loss to the Falcons would have pushed the Aztecs closer to the NCAA tournament bubble.
"This was a tough, physical, sweet victory for us," coach Steve Fisher said. "You can look at the numbers and say, 'Man, it was an ugly game.' But it was a tough, hard-fought, highly competitive, aggressive, great victory for San Diego State. It was a game we had to win, against a team that beat us at their place."
San Diego State shot only 33.9 percent (20 of 59) while the Falcons were at 33.3 percent (16 of 48). Air Force had 14 turnovers, the Aztecs eight.
Tapley is one of six players who were honored on Senior Night. Although Franklin is a junior, he might have been playing his final home game if he opts to declare for the NBA draft.
Michael Lyons scored 10 points for Air Force (16-12, 7-8) before fouling out. The Falcons beat the Aztecs 70-67 in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Feb. 2.
Franklin and Tapley put on a show in the opening minutes to give SDSU an early lead. Franklin threw an alley-oop pass to Tapley for a slam dunk. Tapley returned the favor when he threw an alley-oop pass to Franklin on the baseline for a reverse dunk and a 12-7 lead.
SDSU led 23-18 after a poor-shooting half by both teams. Air Force then went on a 5-0 run, including a three-point play by DeLovell Earls, to tie it at 23. The Falcons tied it again at 29 on a 3-pointer by Marek Olesinski but could never take the lead.
Air Force stayed within two points before Tapley made two free throws and then hit a 3-pointer from the right corner to give SDSU a 41-34 lead with 8:40 to play. The Aztecs extended the lead to 45-36 on a three-point play by DeShawn Stephens with 7:37 left. Stephens missed the free throw, but an Air Force player was whistled for goaltending.