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Jan. 5, 2011
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The Schedule
Thursday, January 6, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. UC Davis (11-3, 1-1)
at UCSB's Thunderdome (6,000)
Series record vs. the Aggies - 11-6
Streak - Lost 3
Last time out vs. the Aggies - L, 63-53 in BW Tourn. (3/12/10)
Tickets available by clicking here
Game broadcast streaming live online by clicking here and on AM 990 KTMS
Live stats available via Gametracker
Live video available through BigWest.TV
Saturday, January 8, 2011, at 2:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. Pacific (4-11, 1-1)
at UCSB's Thunderdome (6,000)
Series record vs. the Tigers - 47-14
Streak - Won 3
Last time out vs. the Tigers - W, 82-54 in BW Tourn. (3/10/10)
Tickets available by clicking here
Game broadcast streaming live online by clicking here and on AM 990 KTMS
Live stats available via Gametracker
Live video available through BigWest.TV
On The Radio
All UC Santa Barbara basketball games are broadcast live in Santa Barbara on AM 990 KTMS and will stream live online by clicking here. Josh Suchon is the voice of the Gauchos, performing the play-by-play, while former Los Angeles Lakers and UCSB star Don Ford will handle the color commentary. On select road games, much to the chagrin of the listening audience, yours truly, Matt Hurst, will provide color commentary.
Conference Openers
By defeating Long Beach State, the Gauchos have won their Big West Conference openers in 15 of the past 16 seasons (with the lone exception in the 2006-07 season). UC Santa Barbara has won its Big West home opener in 20 successive seasons. The last time UCSB lost a conference home opener came on Jan. 5, 1989 in a 59-50 defeat to Cal State Fullerton.
Biggest in the Big West
Probable Starters - Quick Fact
G 10 Emilie Johnson - Has scored in double digits in six of her past seven games
G 24 Angelei Aguirre - Shooting 47.4% but hasn't scored more than 6 points in any game
G 2 Kelsey Adrian - Leads team with 24 three-pointers made; 34.8% from downtown
F 32 Margaret Johnson - Tied season-highs with 6 points, 7 rebounds @ LBSU
F 44 Mekia Valentine - Last two games is averaging 13.5 points, 5.5 rebounds
Probable Reserves - Quick Fact
F 1 Sweets Underwood - 8.1 rebounds per game is second in the Big West
G 3 Nicole Nesbit - Averaging 2.3 assists in just 18.5 average minutes
G 11 Stefanie Corgel - Has seen court time in each of last three games
F 15 Adaeze Okolie - Averaging 1.2 rebounds in 5.6 minutes of game action
G 22 Melissa Zornig - Has been held scoreless in 4 of her past 8 games
G 33 Destini Mason - Scored seven points in nine minutes at LBSU
The Gauchos have dominated the conference for more than a decade. Since the 1995-96 season, UCSB is 215-26 (.892) in Big West games.
Lights Out
In the Gauchos' past nine games - in which the team is 7-2 - UCSB is shooting 46.1% from the floor. This nine-game streak has risen Santa Barbara's overall shooting percentage from 35.0% before the streak, to its current 42.4%, also raising the team's ranking from last among Big West schools to the conference's best. In UCSB's past five victories, the team has shot no lower than 47.2%, including two games where the Gauchos hit on over 55% of their shots. The Gauchos have shot no lower than 42.9% in any of their wins this season.
Tenacious D
While the Gaucho offense has been en fuego, the defense should not be overlooked. UCSB's 34.7% field goal percentage defense is the best in the Big West and 25th-best in the nation. Seven times this season Santa Barbara hasn't allowed opponents to shoot over 35% from the floor, winning five of those games. In each of the past two seasons, UCSB has led the Big West in opponent's field goal percentage. Last season the squad ranked 31st in the nation with its 36.3% and in 2008-09 UCSB ranked eighth in the country with a 34.6% clip.
Swat Team
As a team, the Gauchos are averaging 5.3 blocked shots per game, easily the best mark among Big West schools and 19th in the nation. Despite not recording a blocked shot vs. Long Beach State, Mekia Valentine leads the league with 4.15 blocks per game, ranking her fourth in the country. Last season UCSB finished sixth in the nation with an average of 6.3 swats per game.
Mekia's Block Party
In her one-and-a-half seasons as a Gaucho, Valentine ranks fourth all-time in school history with 174 blocked shots, just six shy of Kris Grazzini (1992-96) for third and seven away from Jenna Green (2003-09) for second.
Countdown to 1,000
Mekia Valentine has scored 131 points this season, giving her 852 in her career between Wake Forest and UC Santa Barbara. While she will most likely hit 1,000 career points in her collegiate career, she will not be a member of UCSB's 1,000-point club since not all of her buckets came in the blue and gold (she scored 351 as a Demon Deacon). The next likely member to join the 22-person 1,000-point club is Emilie Johnson, who has scored 799 total points in her Gaucho career.
Double Dippers
There is a chance that two Gauchos could become the first to average a double-double since Erika Kienast had 15.9 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in 1991-92. Sweets Underwood is averaging 10.4 points and 8.1 rebounds per game while Mekia Valentine is averaging 10.1 points and 7.8 boards per contest. The duo rank 2-3 in the Big West in rebounds.
Not the Jumpman, but Em-J
Over her past seven games - in which she's hit double figures in six of them - Emilie Johnson is averaging 15.1 points per game. The junior guard leads the team in scoring with her 12.5 points per game - ranking her ninth in the Big West - and has led the Gauchos in scoring in seven games this season. Last year Johnson became the first sophomore to lead the team in scoring since Jenna Green did so in 2005-06.
Nothing But Net
Two Gauchos are challenging Kira Anthofer's school record shooting percentage of 59.6% in 1985-86. Mekia Valentine is leading the Big West with her 56.7% clip while Sweets Underwood is hitting on 59.3% of her shots. However, Underwood is currently not ranked since she doesn't meet the conference's minimum requirement of 4.0 made baskets per game. Last season Valentine shot 57.4%, which is the second-highest mark all-time at UCSB.
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Although the Gauchos hit on a season-high 54.5% of their three-point attempts in the win over Long Beach State, UCSB is making just 27.7% of its bonus bombs this year. The lowest three-point percentage by a Gaucho team was in 2005-06 when UCSB hit just 26.2% of its treys. Last season UCSB connected on only 28.3% of its bonus bombs, the sixth-lowest mark in school history.
Inside the Arc, Inside the Basket
Take away UCSB's 27.7 shooting percentage from downtown and the Gauchos are hitting 48.6% of their two-point field goals.
Rank and File
While UCSB has lost its two games vs. Top-25 opponents the Gauchos will next test their mettle vs. UC Davis on Jan. 6. The Aggies are rated No. 10 in the CollegeInsiders.com Top-25 Mid-Major poll, down two spots from the last poll. Also ranked among Gaucho opponents in the poll are UC Irvine (receiving votes), UC Riverside (receiving votes) St. Mary's (receiving votes) and Pepperdine (receiving votes).
Sweets Tooth
After averaging 3.2 points and 3.8 rebounds last season, earning her a spot on the All-Big West Freshman Team, Sweets Underwood is averaging 10.4 points and 8.1 rebounds this season. Only twice this season has the sophomore forward failed to grab at least six rebounds and she's scored in double figures in eight of the team's 13 games.
We're a Boarding School
Santa Barbara is averaging 40.8 rebounds per game, tying it for tops among Big West schools with Pacific. The Gauchos have been good at both ends of the rebounding spectrum, ranking third in the conference in offensive boards (13.9 per game) and first in defensive rebounds (26.9 per game) while UCSB's +0.6 rebounding margin is second in the conference.
RPI Report
In the first release of the Ratings Percentage Index by the NCAA, the Gauchos hold a No. 136 spot. While that sounds low, it is actually fourth-highest among Big West schools. Santa Barbara's opponents this week are UC Davis (No. 124) and Pacific (No. 302). UC Riverside is the highest-ranked Big West team with a 79 RPI.
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Five-foot-five Nicole Nesbit has been terrific over her last five games, averaging 9.0 points, 3.2 assists, 2.8 steals and 2.4 rebounds. Overall this season the Northridge, Calif. native is averaging 5.4 points, 2.3 assists,1.2 steals and 2.0 rebounds per game this season.
Yo Adrian!
Junior guard Kelsey Adrian leads the Gauchos with nine double-digit scoring games this season, however she has only led the team in scoring four times this year. The transfer from Cal is tied for second on the team with 10.4 points per game. Adrian is fifth among Big West players with 1.85 three-pointers per game and her 34.8% from downtown is ninth in the conference.
Dropping Dimes
Emilie Johnson (3.54) and Angelei Aguirre (2.92) rank fourth and seventh, respectively, in the Big West in assists per game. They are the second-best duo in handing out assists, falling just shy of Cal Poly's Desiray Johnston (3.75) and Rachel Clancy (2.92).
Sixty is Nifty
When scoring at least 60 points, the Gauchos are 7-2 this season.
The Lindsay Gottlieb File
Lindsay Gottlieb is in her third season as the Gauchos' head coach, and she is just the fourth head coach in UCSB women's basketball history. Last season Gottlieb guided the Gauchos to wins in seven of the squad's last eight games, taking a team that finished 9-7 in the Big West to the conference tournament's semifinals, keeping alive a streak of 20 years that UCSB had finished Big West play with a record above .500. In her first season at the helm, Gottlieb led the team to a 22-10 overall mark (15-1 in the Big West) and the Big West regular-season and tournament championships. Named the Big West Coach of the Year, Gottlieb became the first coach in Gaucho history to win at least 20 games and the Coach of the Year award in her first season - and one of only seven coaches nationwide to do so. Gottlieb led the Gauchos to their 14th consecutive postseason appearance and the team won 20 games for the 12th time in the past 14 years. In her first two seasons with the program, Gottlieb has guided the Gauchos to national prominence, leading the conference in field goal percentage defense both years while having her team set a school record in free throw percentage (08-09) and blocked shots in a season (09-10).. No stranger to success, Gottlieb was formerly the associate head coach at Cal, helping the team to a 68-28 (.708) overall mark in her time there. Prior to that, Gottlieb was an assistant at the University of Richmond, where she helped the Spiders to three straight 20-win seasons.
The Gaucho Fund, launched as part of the Dare to Be Great strategic plan, is UCSB Athletics' annual giving program to provide vital funding support for scholarships, academic success and leadership development for Gaucho student-athletes. The Gaucho Fund is the anchor to the Dare to Be Great campaign.
GKids is the official kids club of UCSB Athletics. Members receive a free GKids t-shirt, free admittance to tons of Gaucho games, opportunities to be ball boys and girls at games, a special birthday greeting from Olie (the GKids mascot) and much, much more! For more information on GKids, or to become a member, please click here.


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Reviewed by Danielle P. (age 8)
You should read the book because it tells you to stay in school and never be a bad person. In the book all sorts of things happen. In every chapter of the book they teach you a different lesson. For example, they teach you not to lie or join groups that are bad for you. This is why I think you should read this book and all the books by Ann M Martin. She is my favorite author.

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On May 19, the Stoops lost their home to a tornado at Steelman Estates. One month later to the day, one of their close friends lost his home to a fire.
On May 19, the Stoops lost their home to a tornado at Steelman Estates. One month later to the day, one of their close friends lost his home to a fire.
Craig Odem, of Newalla, spent hours helping prepare a new mobile home last week for his friends, Bill and Jamie Stoops of Steelman Estates, but when he returned home on Wednesday, he found his house filled with smoke.
The Stoops were in Oklahoma City on Wednesday with Don Ellis, of New Mexico, picking out furniture from the Furniture Bank when Jamie said Bill got a phone call.
"Everyone could immediately tell that it was something tragic," Jamie said.
She said Bill walked outside to talk to his friend, Odem, and came back in to tell everyone that Odem's house had been destroyed.
Ellis said Odem had been working 12-hour shifts at work, then coming to help renovate the home that was donated as a surprise to the Stoops family. He said Odem had worked three consecutive days without sleep to make sure the home was ready for the setup company to move the home to its new location.
"He has nothing at this point," Ellis said.
Jamie said she's upset because after Odem was going to work and spending his extra time helping her family and then something like this had to happen to him.
"You could see it in Bill's face," she said. "It was really hard for him."
Jamie said because Odem is a good friend to her husband, it made it harder to hear.
"It was almost reliving the tragedy again," she said.
Odem said he had to go in to work to do a few things, but had to grab some stuff from his house first. He picked some things up outside he needed then went to lock his door. That's when Odem said he saw the smoke.
"I walked in and looked down the hall and the back bedroom curtains were on fire," he said.
Odem said he ran outside and grabbed a paint bucket filled with recent rainwater and ran back inside to put the fire out. Once inside, Odem said he tripped and spilled the water in the floor.
"I went back out to see if I could get more water, but it was just too smoky to go back inside," he said.
That's when Odem said he called 911. When the fire department got there, Odem said it was too late and everything was gone. Ellis said the fire started after the transformer shorted out some wiring in the house.
Odem said for the past week, he would get off work at midnight then go out to work on the Stoops' home and get a few hours of sleep before doing it all over again.
"I slept at Bill's house last night," he said, but mainly he said he's just been "camping out" on his property.
Odem owns the property where his house was and his insurance paid off what he owed on loans.
"I was so glad I was so close to getting it paid off," he said.
Odem plans on staying on his property and doing what he can to get a new home. He said it's difficult to work so much and deal with everything else, but he said "at least the land is paid for."
"I don't even know…" he said, referring to what the future holds for his living situation.
He said he's glad he has a close friend to lean on during this time. Odem said he stayed up the night the house burned and just talked and joked with Bill.
"We're here for both of us," he said.


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Investors worried about Europe imploding may find solace in two new ETFs that launched Wednesday and offer portfolio protection against so-called black swan events.
Coined by economist and former derivatives trader Nassim Taleb, a black swan event is one that's highly improbable and unforeseen, like the 2008 financial crisis and Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster.
Horizons Universa Canadian Black Swan ETF and the Horizons Universa US Black Swan ETF track the S&P 500 (SPX) and Canada's benchmark TSX index respectively, just like a typical exchange traded fund. But these ETFs also buy "crash protection," through stock and commodities options that pay out handsomely if the broader market drops dramatically.
"If you're worried about the extreme events that have the potential to wipe out a big portion of your portfolio, the strategy used by the Black Swan ETF should help you to sleep a bit more easily," said Michael Johnson, a senior analyst with ETF Database.
But a good night's sleep comes at a price.
The fund charges management fees of roughly 1%. That's about four times as much as most ETFs, according to Morningstar analyst John Gabriel.
Investors will also pay performance fees similar to what hedge funds charge -- a rarity in the ETF world. Universa takes a 20% cut of any returns that beat either the S&P 500 or TSX indexes.
But Universa Chief Investment Officer Mark Spitznagel thinks investors will be willing to pay up for that so-called tail protection.
"Tail protection provides water in a drought, rather than in a flood, or capital for investing when buyers are scarce, and prices are attractive again," said Spitznagel. "This is ultimately the source of its long-term advantage."
Universa manages about $6 billion for its hedge funds clients who saw a tenfold return in 2008 -- the same year the S&P 500 slumped nearly 39%.
Investors in this ETF will also have a tenuous connection to Taleb, who's retired from day-to-day trading but still helps guide Universa's investing strategy.
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After some hands-on time with the Apple Watch, I've learned a few things. Perhaps the most important of which is that the majority of discussions regarding the Apple Watch by the traditional watch media have been rather misguided. I feel that people need to understand that the Apple Watch is not only a new type of product for Apple, but the first real "cross-over watch" that wades in both the waters of technology and horology. For a moment, I'd like people to put aside their criticisms and complaints, and consider what I believe to be a future inevitability: the dominance of the smartwatch as a necessary tool in the everyday lives of everyday people.
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I mention this important segue to suggest that the Apple Watch isn't just another gadget that Silicon Valley hopes might be its next cash cow. I instead think that the Apple Watch (which we debuted here with a lot more detail) is part of a larger evolution of how we integrate technology into our lives. The genesis of the Apple Watch is still something that Apple will not discuss at length. Apple is famously sly with their responses to product questions, but I gleaned enough information to determine why the Apple Watch has been in the works for years, just as many reports have suggested. At a time when naysayers all over the internet described the Apple Watch (then "iWatch") as a fiction, I wrote about how such a device was an inevitability, back in January of 2013. Nevertheless, I was proven somewhat wrong about when Apple would release a smartwatch product, as I privately guessed a September 2014 launch was too soon. It turns out that Apple was ready with a product sooner than expected, but still, I was partially correct in that the Apple Watch was still not ready for prime time.
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The price of the Apple Watch and where people can buy it is a topic of rich discussion. Apple hasn't announced the full price list because, it's my guess, they haven't settled on final prices yet. Apple has indicated that the Apple Watch will start at a price of $350, but that is for the most basic Apple Watch Sport models that come in aluminum cases, without all the "premium materials" available for the Apple Watch in steel or the Apple Watch Edition in gold. Apple pointed out to me that the Apple Watch will be initially available in six different finishes – which is a mixture of both case materials and colors. These finishes include two colors of aluminum, two colors of steel (polished and PVD black), and two forms of gold (18k yellow gold and 18k rose gold). That, of course, doesn't include the many strap and bracelet options.
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At $350, the Apple Watch Sport has an aluminum case, non-sapphire crystal, no ceramic parts, and a simple colorful strap that feels like something which is a mix of silicon and rubber. The strap is pretty great, actually, in regard to softness and wearing comfort. This is for the absolute base model. The Apple Watch in steel has a more durable case, sapphire crystal, as well as ceramic elements. I have hypothesized that it will be priced at around $500, but other sources have estimated that the steel Apple Watch will be priced as high as $1,000 – a price that would not surprise me. The Apple Watch Edition in 18k gold is another topic of hot debate. I have previously estimated that it may be priced at between $5,000 – $10,000. Others have estimated prices from about $1,500 – $10,000. That is a pretty big gap in estimated pricing for the Apple Watch Edition. On one hand, the watches do use 18k gold (which is expensive), but on the other hand, we aren't sure exactly how much gold is in the case and what type of deal Apple has – as they are a company famous for securing good pricing on components and materials. At this point, I would be surprised if the Apple Watch Edition was priced at over $5,000, but also surprised if it was priced at under $1,500 or $2,000.
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Yes, of course the Apple Watch is a "watch." Many people, especially in the watch community, have defended their love of traditional mechanical watches by segmenting the Apple Watch in a category of high-end gadgets versus "watches." While I understand and perhaps even empathize with this sentiment, I disagree. If anything, the Apple Watch is what the wrist watch is meant to be in the 21st century. You might not like that, but it is the truth, when it comes to wearable wrist technology. Traditional watch lovers know (and even relish the fact) that their timepieces employ antiquated technology. Such technology might be produced using the most modern construction equipment and with innovative materials, but at the end of the day, no one can argue that a mechanical wrist watch would be able to compete with the sheer utility of a computer.
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Those familiar with the world of high-end timepieces will notice an endless series of "watch-related" design cues, noises, materials, finishes, and features that Apple adopted from the traditional world of watches. Some things they improved upon, and some things were merely used in the overall performance of the Apple Watch. A good example of the latter is the alert noise. Apple could have chosen an endless array of sounds to use when the Apple Watch needs to alert its wearer of something. Instead, they used a chiming sound that is clearly inspired by the mechanical chimes present in complicated watches with musical minute repeater or sonnerie complications.
Forgive me for not going into every single detail of how Apple was inspired by the world of traditional watches for the Apple Watch – there are frankly too many to list. I do have confirmation that Apple dedicated a great deal of time to studying and surveying the watch industry, as well as engaging in copious amounts of research on websites dedicated to watches, including aBlogtoWatch. In an inadvertent way, a lot of our work likely helped influence how the current Apple Watch was designed, and where Apple will take the Apple Watch in the future.
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Having said that, the future of the connected wrist watch is about so much more than reading the time. Apple and its competitors are clearly dedicating huge amounts of resources into trying to discover what other features will best resonate with consumers. Still, the Apple Watch is very much about simply being able to glance at it and read the time – in a way that is both convenient and useful – just like a "real watch." In that regard, the Apple Watch doesn't try to reinvent the concept of a "wrist wearable" but begins with the concept of a traditional watch and develops it from there by adding functionality and connectivity. At its heart, I truly feel that the Apple Watch began life as just that… a watch. I don't necessarily feel that way for many of the currently available competitive products.
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Apple has not yet released a final version of the Apple Watch software, so there isn't a final user interface experience for people outside of Apple to test. However, we more-or-less know exactly what the user interface of the Apple Watch is going to be like, and after experiencing it first-hand, I can assure you it is pretty good. Apple was really (and I mean really) concerned that the screen size of something on your wrist would be far too small to properly interact with. The irony of the Apple Watch release date was that in addition to Apple releasing perhaps its smallest screened item yet, it also released its largest iPhone screen with the iPhone 6 Plus. As you probably know by now, the Apple Watch combines both a touchscreen and a crown, along with an additional pusher on the case. The touchscreen is not multi-touch, but it does have a cool system that is able to differentiate between a short tap and a long press. This is really important in how you select and adjust various functions.
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Can you type into the Apple Watch or is there a keyboard? That is a good question, and the answer is no. The Apple Watch employs Apple's Siri function, which is a powerful voice recognition system that allows you to operate many of the Apple Watch's features just by talking to it – we have also seen voice activation incorporated into Android Wear, Google's operating system that is tailored specifically for wearable devices. The Apple Watch also has a speaker built into it (in addition to the microphone). So speaking naturally to your wrist is going to be a lot more common in the coming years. This means that you can have a phone call with your Apple Watch, if you choose, and you can also listen to messages or watch videos on it.
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While an iPhone can live without an Apple Watch, all Apple Watches must have a host iPhone. None of this is because Apple is trying to make extra money by selling people two products: it is because the technology does not yet exist to allow for smartwatches to seriously live on their own and offer all the functionality of a phone and then some (yes, there are "stand alone" smartwatches, but in my experiences, none of them are particularly good or highly recommended by critics). However, that doesn't mean that the Apple Watch cannot be away from your phone for periods of time.
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Apple actually made clever use of the Apple Watch's relationship with the iPhone. Apple Watch users will install an Apple Watch app on their iPhone, which will be used to download apps onto the watch as well as likely manage Apple Watch settings. A user's iPhone is also used to help with computational demands. Apple cleverly pushes a lot of processor needs to the phone in order to preserve Apple Watch battery life. Thus, the Apple Watch is snappier, with longer battery life because a lot of tasks can be off-loaded to the host phone. Having said that, aside from installing apps, most things can be done from the watch itself (such as adjust settings, customize the interface, select watch dials, switch apps, etc…).
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I've seen some terrible $400 watches and some rather amazing ones. Watch lovers know that you can't always equate a specific price to a specific expected level of quality. Part of that has to do with economies of scale, meaning that lower production watches often have to charge more for less. This is something Apple does not need to worry about. In fact, given Apple's likely huge production of Apple Watches, consumers should be able to acquire amazingly feature-rich watches for prices highly uncommon in the watch industry. So with that said, I think it is important to state here and now, that for the money, the Apple Watch is going to be a force to be reckoned with.
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Going up the price ladder, the Apple Watch is still a viable competitor to existing traditional watches. What Apple did that was interesting, was to not only take inspiration from the traditional watch industry, but to improve upon some things. A good example is how they measure their watches. The 42mm Apple Watch (there is also a 38mm version) is measured from top to bottom (height as a function of lug-to-lug distance). In the watch industry, the basic measurement of a case is width, not height. Apple knows this, but ultimately decided to designate the "size" of their watches by height, but not width. Why?
Apple confirmed that there was an internal debate about this. Some people wanted to go with the traditional way of describing a watch's size, while others said that what was more important to assess a good fit was the height of a watch – such that the edges of the case do not extend past the boundaries of one's wrist. This is absolutely correct, and something I have been preaching for years. Apple decided that height was a better measurement, and thus decided to use that as a designation, arguably clarifying one of the more ambiguous areas of trying to size a watch without actually wearing it.
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Apple doesn't have the best track record of producing durable products – as evidenced by anyone you know who had excessive wear on the sides of their iPhone or a cracked screen. These issues indicate that not even working with more high-quality and expensive materials, like aluminum, is a guarantee for greater durability. So where does that leave the Apple Watch? I don't really know, to be honest, but I am told they have been designed to put up with one's daily life. I assume that means they can be at least dropped from time-to-time.
The steel-cased Apple Watch with its sapphire crystal will likely be the most durable version, but having said that, the very light-weight Apple Watch Sport in aluminum feels surprisingly solid as well. None of these devices use Gorilla Glass like other Apple products, and they are said to be designed with "impact" in mind. From a fit-and-finish standpoint, they are built excellently – in a manner far removed from other Apple products. While the Apple Watch no doubt feels like something from Apple, it exists in a totally new class, when it comes to use of materials as well as the overall concept of what it even is. There has never been an iPhone designed with a strap for you wrist, nor was it meant to look good with a suit. The Apple Watch was. The various bracelets and straps are not only clever, but really comfortable. The Milanese mesh metal bracelet is "infinitely adjustable" thanks to having a secure magnetic clasp, which is similar to the leather strap that also uses magnets. Unless competitors quickly step up their game, at launch, the Apple Watch could easily make other smartwatches appear primitive by comparison.
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John W. Halkias was selected as president and Eugene M. Cazantzes was selected as vice president of the Plain Local Schools Board of Education during the board's first meeting of the year.
John W. Halkias will serve as president of the Plain Local Schools Board of Education this year.
Halkias, who has served on the five-member board since 1999 and was re-elected in November, was selected for the post Thursday during the board's first meeting of the year. The board also selected Eugene M. Cazantzes, who was appointed to the board in 2012 and was elected in November, as its vice president, according to the district's website.
Halkias also was appointed to serve as the board's legislative liaison and Ambrose Perduk Jr. will serve as the student achievement liaison to the Ohio School Board Association.
The board also set its 2014 meeting dates. It will meet at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 19, March 19, April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, Sept. 25, Oct. 15 and Nov. 19. It also will meet at 6 p.m. Jan. 29, 7 a.m. Aug. 20 and at 12:15 p.m. Dec. 17. Special meetings also may be called as needed.
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Steve Perry On Journey's Neal Schon: 'We Probably Don't Like Each Other Very Much'
Steve Perry has been called a lot of things throughout his historical career with Journey, but being branded as the "Howard Hughes of rock and roll" really gave him a good chuckle.
Steve Spears of the 'St. Petersburg Times' had an energetic conversation with the former Journey lead singer in which he took Perry to task in a good natured way for his extended absence from music and made the Howard Hughes comparison. Laughing, Perry said "I've been called a lot of things, but that's a first."
Journey had a reputation as one of the hardest working bands in the business during the '80s, but it wasn't until they released 'Escape' that they were actually able to afford rooms "in a nice hotel." Prior to that, Perry remembers that it was a lot of hard work mixed with the hope that it would all eventually pay off.
"We never stopped. A day off wasn't a day off; it was a travel day. That's how you did it back then. It was like running for public office," Perry says. "We'd live on the bus and get a day room so that everyone could take a shower. And there wasn't enough towels to go around, so we'd have to use damp towels."
Working on the recent vinyl releases for Journey's 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' and their original 'Greatest Hits,' Perry allows that there will probably always be tension between him and Journey guitarist Neal Schon, but there will also be an eternal connection:
"Neal and I have had our problems over the years. We probably don't like each other very much, because we had a lot of time together. But I know we love each other. When I listen to those tracks, I get all messed up about it. We don't have to work together. It's in the tracks. It's in the grooves. There was something magical about that band."
After years of musical inactivity, Perry is taking steps to record music once again and recently began working on material for a possible new solo record.


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Why World War I Recordings Won't Enter The Public Domain Until 2049
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The bad news is that no sound recording made before 1972 has federal copyright protection. They are instead protected by state common law copyrights, and will not enter the public domain until in most cases 1 January 2049, regardless of when they were recorded. .... Note that state protection is afforded even to European recordings, most of which enter the public domain in their home country after 50 years.Understanding why this is really does highlight just how screwed up copyright law has become in this country, and how far it's come from its origins. That same discussion points people to Peter Jaszi's (a true expert on copyright and fair use) recent paper on pre-1972 sound recordings, where he details the history of all of this. In part, it's due to the fact that Congress did not include sound recordings in the 1909 Copyright Act. It's actually quite important to understand why they did not do so:
Although Congress subjected federal copyright protection to an overhaul by enacting the 1909 Copyright Act, it still failed to grant statutory copyright protection to sound recordings. Despite efforts by some members of Congress to raise the issue of sound recordings, the final bill declined to extend protection. Indeed, the report released with the Copyright Act expressly stated that Congress did not intend to protect sound recordings: "It is not the intention of the committee to extend the right of copyright to the mechanical reproductions themselves, but only to give the composer or copyright proprietor the control, in accordance with the provisions of the bill, of the manufacture and use of such devices." According to one commentator, Congress had two principal concerns about sound recordings, leading it to decline to protect them. First, Congress wondered about the constitutional validity of such protection. The Constitution allows Congress to protect "writings," and Congress was uncertain as to whether a sound recording could constitute a writing. Second, Congress worried that allowing producers to exclusively control both the musical notation and the sound recording could lead to the creation of a music monopoly.That seems like an important paragraph to show to folks who insist that copyright on sound recordings must obviously be covered by copyright and/or that it's a "natural right" to include sound recordings under copyright. Clearly, even Congress felt it was likely to be unconstitutional for quite some time.
Congress (under tremendous pressure from exactly who you would imagine) finally added protection to sound recordings in 1972, but in the meantime, some states had passed local laws to deal with unauthorized copying and distribution of sound recordings. While Federal Copyright law in the 70s was designed to totally pre-empt state copyright laws, a court ruling in Goldstein v. California (over bootlegging) found otherwise -- and said that state laws did apply to sound recordings published prior to 1972. The different state laws vary quite a bit, and apparently a bunch of them do exempt personal use from those laws.
But, either way, because of this little quirk of history, where Congress mostly believed that sound recordings could not be subject to copyright on a Constitutional basis, many such works are effectively locked up for much, much long than they would be if under federal copyright law.


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Chicken, brewers rice, brown rice, chicken meal, chicken fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols), corn gluten meal, oatmeal, beet pulp (sugar removed), natural chicken flavor, brewers yeast, lamb meal, dried eggs, fish oil, potassium chloride, salt, chicory extract, L-lysine, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, blueberries, taurine, glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulfate, zinc oxide, zinc proteinate, iron sulfate, manganous oxide, rosemary extract, calcium pantothenate, manganese proteinate, ascorbic acid (source of vitamin C), niacin supplement, copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), thiamine mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), copper proteinate, cinnamon, calcium iodate, riboflavin supplement (source of vitamin B2), vitamin D3 supplement, biotin, folic acid, selenium, vitamin B12 supplement.
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Crude Protein (minimum) 26%
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Vitamin E Not less than 400 IU/kg
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Glucosamine Hydrochloride* Not less than 240 ppm
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First and fourth ingredients are named meat products.
Insufficient meat products. Extensive use of cheap grains and other controversial fillers.
The first and fourth ingredients in this food are named meat products. Unfortunately, the first ingredient is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%). Despite the fourth ingredient being chicken meal (chicken exclusive of water content) this suggests that there is little actual meat product in the food. There is a further meat product in the food but this does not occur until 11th on the ingredient list, behind flavourings and brewers yeast. It is extremely unlikely that there are significant amounts of this ingredient in the food.
The main grain, and likely the main ingredient, in the food is Brewers rice. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and by-product. Brown rice is a good quality grain.
Corn gluten meal is filler, for which the AAFCO definition is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed. Brown rice is a decent quality grain.
Beet pulp is yet another controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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Arnel Pineda sat in the dark theater in Nashville with his hands partially covering his eyes. Occasionally, he would peek up at the screen, horror-movie style.
When the lights went up in Music City after the most important screening of "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey," Pineda could scarcely believe it was all true, his tale of being plucked from obscurity in 2008 to front the classic rock band Journey. Of how he had literally gone from rags — a homeless, high school dropout in his native Philippines — to riches — touring the globe singing huge hit songs like "Faithfully," "Open Arms," and, of course, "Don't Stop Believin,' " to full arenas. Pineda also wasn't crazy about the way he looked. "I was covering my eyes because I look like crap in some parts because I'd had no sleep and they were asking me questions," says the genial, soft-spoken singer, slightly sleepy on the phone from a New Zealand tour stop.
The story is true, however, and fortunately for director Ramona S. Diaz, Pineda got over it, or else she might not have had a movie. "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" opens at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Friday.
"That was the hardest audience I ever had to screen it for," says Diaz, who unspooled the documentary for Pineda and the rest of Journey — guitarist Neal Schon, keyboardist Jonathan Cain, bassist Ross Valory, and drummer Deen Castronovo — last February. "At that point, we hadn't signed off on music rights." In other words, if the members of Journey didn't like the film, which was financed by Diaz on credit cards, favors, family investments, wings and prayers, they could have shut it down by blocking her from using their music.
"Every fiber of my being was saying oh my God, we really could be royally screwed. But at the end," says Diaz, with a still audible sigh in her voice "they came through for us."
The film follows Pineda, who had toiled for many years in cover bands and original outfits in the Philippines and Hong Kong, from his initial audition for the band in San Francisco through the group's first tour with the new frontman they found on YouTube.
Diaz, an Emerson grad whose previous films include "Imelda," a 2003 documentary about former first lady Marcos of the Philippines, first caught wind of Pineda's story by e-mail.
"I'm Filipino-American and I'm plugged into the community and whenever something big happens in the community everyone knows about it," she says. "So there was this e-mail that was circulating that was written by the immigration officer who gave him his visa to go to the audition."
When Pineda first told an official the reason for his visit to the United States, he saw the man chuckling in disbelief. But then he turned to another officer, and this one had actually seen Pineda's band, Zoo, playing in local clubs and had heard him singing Journey songs. Pineda says he sang "Wheel in the Sky" on the spot and three days later he had his visa.
Disbelief was a recurring theme at the time. That Pineda had the presence of mind to film his audition with the band was a huge gift to Diaz. "He didn't think he was going to get the gig so he wanted to record it and show people — 'See I did audition for Journey' — because no one believed him. And he told me that like, as a matter-of-fact, 'Oh yeah, we filmed that.' You filmed what? Seriously?"
From there Diaz persuaded the band to shoot a rehearsal. And then another few days. Finally she gained enough of their trust that they invited her crew on tour to document Pineda's first year of adjusting to his new bandmates, huge venues and crowds, and dealing with the grueling tour schedule. Throughout it all, Pineda is even-keeled and philosophical. If it is possible to craft the "right" response to such an extraordinary circumstance, Pineda seems to display it: grateful, reverent, understandably overwhelmed but unfailingly fearless, even in the face of the ever unkind message board underbelly of the Internet, some of whose denizens did not take kindly to Pineda and let it be known.
"So much could've gone wrong," says Diaz, looking back. "He could've failed; he could've lost his voice, or his confidence. We'd still have a film but not the same film, obviously. That's why he was golden. Not only did he not miss a beat, but he was also very articulate about what was happening to him about his inner life, which is very rare to find that."
Pineda shrugs off the praise of his calm. "I was just being myself because I was tired all the time. Keeping up with what Ramona was doing and then keeping up with the tour, it's just too much information and too much responsibility to have."
Nearly five years on, it is a responsibility that he now feels more comfortable with even though he knows some fans will never accept him. Although Journey had two other singers (Steve Augeri and Jeff Scott Soto) between their most famous frontman, Steve Perry, and Pineda, in the film the band members make clear that Pineda is their man as long as he wants to be. (Perry and the group split acrimoniously in 1998 and Perry has said that he has no interest in returning.)
"No singer in this world can ever replace what Mr. Perry has accomplished with the band," Pineda says. "But right now the main objective is to continue sharing the message they have worked so hard for over the years. It's no competition. Right now, I can still feel the bitterness of a lot of Perry fans out there. But they don't really understand what's going on. They feel threatened that Mr. Perry is being dethroned of his place in the band. Nobody's trying to change that. I completely understand where they're coming from, but they shouldn't feel threatened, they should feel happy that the music is still relevant. A lot of people still come to the show to witness for themselves Journey in the 21st century."
For her part, Diaz, not a big fan previously, came away with a new respect for Journey — specifically her favorite song, "Stone in Love" — and the rock 'n' roll touring life in general.
"You know when rock stars are being interviewed on television and they're saying, 'You know, it's not all that glamorous,' and you're like, oh shut up ?" she says with a laugh. "I realized it isn't all glamorous. It's not at all. It's only glamorous those two hours onstage and everything is about those two hours and performing in front of 20,000 people, but it was tough because [the film crew was] still working those two hours. We did this on our own dime. People will think it's Journey, they must have helped. But we really wanted it to be independent. I didn't want a vanity project basically. I had final cut and that was very clear, but it wouldn't have been clear if they had funded it."
Which is why she was so relieved when they embraced her last year and gave her the greenlight on the music, of which the film features a great deal.
"I think people really need to see the film because, looking beyond my face, there's a story that's so great and so inspiring," says Pineda, who hopes to get to work on a solo album soon. "That made me realize I don't have to be ashamed that they're going to see my face on the big screen and see me really awkward."
"People ask me what I want people to take away from the film," says Diaz. "Just that good things still happen to good people."Sarah Rodman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Stocks to Watch at CES
Several tech companies, such as Qualcomm and Intel, may see their stocks move after they make presentations at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Polya Lesova reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.
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RR TV Network, Sponsors Join 'Rollin' On TV'
May 13, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on RR TV Network, Sponsors Join 'Rollin' On TV'
'Rollin' On TV' has added the RR TV network to its list of program carriers. RR TV airs in more than 20 million homes nationwide and can be watched on Direct TV (channel 354) and on various Comcast, Verizon and Capital cable systems across the country, according to a release.
Rollin' On feels that RR TV is a great match for RVing as the network's program format centers around recreation, vacation and real estate programs.
Rollin' On TV also has added SkyMed and Jayco Inc. to its family of sponsors and advertisers.
SkyMed, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has been a leader in providing emergency air evacuation membership services to the RV industry. Travel clubs including Winnebago, Airstream, Rambler, Jayco and dozens more recommend SkyMed to their membership.
SkyMed not only guarantees to take you home or to your health-care provider, but will also get your pet and RV back home.
Jayco, "makers of America's most liveable RVs," is Rollin' On TV's newest sponsor.
For more information on Rollin' On TV, including stations and times, visit their website at www.rollinontv.com .


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Chief Jerry Duffield came to DeSoto from Farmers Branch where he was a Battalion Chief and the department's training officer. Chief Duffield has also been a contracted and volunteer/combination Fire Chief developing and expanding departments with the cities of Celina and Pilot Point. In that regard, he developed and maintained partnerships with citizens, schools and developers for master plan development and has produced and directed emergency management plans and operations.
He also has teaching experience at the college level as an adjunct instructor. Chief Duffield is a graduate of the Texas Fire Chief's Academy and is currently in the Executive Fire Officer Program through the National Fire Academy. He is licensed as a paramedic, Master Firefighter and Master Instructor. He has been a member of both Texas and National Organizations of Fire Chiefs. He holds a Master's Degree in Executive Fire Service Leadership.
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A pacifist is not really a pacifist if he is unable to make a choice between violence and non-violence. A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence. He chooses peace. He must be able to make a choice. He must have the genuine ability to destroy his enemy and then choose not to. I have heard this excuse made. "I choose to be a pacifist before learning techniques so I do not need to learn the power of destruction." This shows no comprehension of the mind of the true warrior. This is just a rationalization to cover the fear of injury or hard training. The true warrior who chooses to be a pacifist is willing to stand and die for his principles. People claiming to be pacifists who rationalize to avoid hard training or injury will flee instead of standing and dying for principle. They are just cowards. Only a warrior who has tempered his spirit in conflict and who has confronted himself and his greatest fears can in my opinion make the choice to be a true pacifist.


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YORK, Pa. – The York College men's tennis team collected a 9-0 non-conference triumph over visiting Penn State Berks Monday afternoon in York. Closing out the regular season with the triumph, the Spartans improve to 10-7 on the season while Berks drops to 6-8.
The Green and White tallied all three available points in doubles play. Top pairing Philip Myers and James Villari captured an 8-5 triumph for their seventh win of the year. In the second slot, Tyler Cheatham and Nathaniel Hoskins improved to a Spartan-best 13-4 this season courtesy of an 8-3 result. Jake Greenstein and Tim DeYoung, combining for the first time this season, secured the third slot victory 8-1.
Singles play saw the Spartans nab each of the six available points, but not without some work. The first and second singles matches each went three sets and each went extra in that third set. In the top spot, Myers won for the 12th time this season courtesy of a 6-1, 3-6, 10-5 result. Villari, manning the second slot, posted a comeback victory 4-6, 7-6 (6-0), 10-6 to reach the double-digit plateau as he has now posted ten triumphs for his senior campaign.
In contrast to their tight first and second slot matches, the Green and White secured matches three through six in straight sets. Freshman Matthew Rosenkrantz picked up a 6-0, 6-0 victory at third singles as he now stands at a Spartan-best 13-5 in singles play this season.
Daniel Erk, Mario Herrera, and George Sosa each made their collegiate singles debuts against Berks and each tallied triumphs. Erk nabbed a 6-0, 6-2 victory at fourth singles while Herrera won 6-0, 6-0 in the fifth slot. Sosa tallied his first collegiate singles win by way of a 6-0, 6-0 result.
With the regular season now concluded, the Spartans await the upcoming Capital Athletic Conference Tournament. Visit www.ycpspartans.com for conference playoff information.
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Former Owner/Operators of Summit Accommodators in Bend Convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud Clients and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
PORTLAND, Ore. – A jury in federal court in Portland today convicted three former owner/operators of Summit Accommodators, Inc., of Bend, of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a 10-year fraud scheme. The defendants used $75 million of client funds for undisclosed personal investments in real estate, investments in businesses in the Bend area, and loans to business associates and family members. Sentencing in the case is scheduled for October 23, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown.
"Attorneys, certified public accountants and business executives who, motivated by greed, lie to clients to gain use of their money for personal purposes are especially deserving of prosecution and punishment," said U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall. "This office and our federal and state partners will do whatever it takes to bring dishonest professionals to justice."
After three weeks of trial and two and one-half days of deliberations the jury found CPA Mark A. Neuman and Attorney Lane D. Lyons, both of Bend, and Timothy D. Larkin, of Redmond, guilty of conspiring to defraud the clients of their former business, Summit Accommodators, Inc., by misrepresenting how they would hold and use client funds. Several thousand clients entrusted them with more than $1 billion from 1999 to 2008, when the business closed and filed for bankruptcy. Brian Stevens, another former owner/operator of Summit, previously pleaded guilty to identical charges and testified against his former partners.
Neuman and Stevens created Summit in 1991 to help customers take advantage of lawful federal income tax deferral transactions. In a typical transaction, a customer would sell income producing property, allow Summit to hold the proceeds of the sale, then buy another income producing property within 180 days. Federal income tax laws then allowed the customer to defer paying taxes on the profits from sale of the first property. Summit eventually opened affiliate offices in Texas, Washington, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Lake Oswego, Oregon.
In 2002, Neuman and Stevens hired Larkin as Summit's Chief Operating Officer. In 2005, Neuman and Stevens hired Lyons as Summit's in-house counsel. In 2006, Larkin and Lyons became equal partners in Summit with Neuman and Stevens.
The trial evidence showed that although Neuman and Stevens began using their clients' exchange funds for personal investments before 1999, they promised their clients their exchange funds would remain in Summit bank accounts and would only be used to complete their tax deferral exchanges. Neuman was responsible for creating Summit marketing brochures and Summit's website. Both falsely promised Summit would maintain client funds in bank accounts or in government securities.
From 2004 through October 2008, Summit held between $49 million and $109 million of its customers' money in a typical month. The defendants routinely transferred large amounts of client money to Inland Capital Corp., another company they owned and controlled. Through Inland, the conspirators used client funds for over 100 real estate projects in Central Oregon in which one or more of them had direct personal interests.
The co-conspirators hid the fraud scheme by concealing from most of Summit's employees and from most of the owner-operators of Summit's branch offices that the conspirators were using Summit customer money to invest in real estate and for loans to themselves and others. In February 2007, when Summit's clients and branch owner-operators began to express concern about the safety of Summit client money, the conspirators lied by saying that all Summit client money was deposited and maintained in financial institutions or invested in highly-secured short term notes. For 10 years, the conspirators intentionally concealed from clients that they used large amounts of client money to enrich themselves.
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CARSON, Calif. -- The LA Galaxy reserves played to a frustrating 1-1 draw with the Los Angeles Blues at StubHub Center on Saturday.
Charlie Rugg opened the scoring for the Galaxy in the first half, but the Blues equalized in the 90th minute with a strike from former MLS forward Carlos Cortez. Although LA dropped two points, several players earned substantial minutes as Todd Dunivant went 56 minutes in his first action back from a left leg strain while Jack McBean went 15 minutes in his first match back from his own injury. Meanwhile, Robbie Rogers made his longest shift in the Galaxy uniform by going 72 minutes for LA's reserves.
Following the match, Galaxy reserve team head coach Curt Onalfo admitted that LA dropped a major opportunity against the Blues.
"It's a game that we should of won. Giving up a goal late was upseting. We had chances especially in the first half to make sure that we had more than a one goal lead. At the end of the day, we just have to be better. We have to buckle down and do a better job of managing the game. That part we have to learn from," said Onalfo. " Every game is different, for me, in my opinion, it was inexperience that gave away two points and made us tie the game. We have young players, first and second year players, for the most part with an exception of a couple guys and you have to learn from those things. That's a game where you could clean your hands and walk away with three minutes, which we should have."


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So, I'm sat in this classroom today surrounded by people at least 40 years my senior and I couldn't help but think, 'How the hell did I end up here?'
I had to attend this class as part of the preparation for my hip surgery. They get a bunch of patients together who have upcoming hip replacements and a physio and member of the home care team talk to you about what to expect. It was actually rather interesting and informative, but it didn't stop the embarrassment of having to sit there whilst practically everyone stared at me wondering what I was doing there. Perhaps it's a little strange for older people to grasp that they are not the only ones who need surgery to replace dodgy joints. I almost felt as if they were thinking I had no right to be there, rather than passing me sympathetic looks. The same type of looks I get when I park in a disabled spot I guess. I do try and relate to these people but sometimes, like today when I'm feeling quite low anyway, I just want to scream 'it's none of your business what's wrong with me so stop making me feel uncomfortable!'
I got the same confused and arrogant response from the receptionist when I booked in. I had no idea what the appointment was for and I wasn't told it was a class so she stared at me and asked 'Do you know who your appointment is with?', 'No, sorry', I replied, 'I think the secretary said hip clinic..?'
'But that's only for patients having replacement surgery' she stared at me blankly.
'Yep, that's me,' I corrected her. What is wrong with these people?!
I left feeling that the whole experience was a bit surreal. Even though I know this is all happening, it doesn't quite feel like reality... maybe it's the ridiculous amount of painkillers I am on right now.
I had a nasty reminder this weekend of why I cannot drink anymore. I had some of my very best friends come visit and it's just sociable to have a drink, right? Well, one drink turned into quite a few and to be honest I was having a great time and found the whole evening hilarious. I sure as hell suffered for it. I was sick (a lot) and felt incredibly horrendous for the next couple of days (in fact I'm still feeling it now) but that's the price I have to pay if I want to join in with friends these days (and to be honest it was kinda worth it!)
I have realised that I shouldn't put my body through that, though, especially with everything that is going on at the moment. It was a bit of an escape at the weekend, having a drink to forget about all the crap that has come about. I do miss the days where the horrendous hangovers were fixed by the time I forced myself to eat a fry up (this isn't the case anymore, it totally messes up my whole body and I feel like I have flu for about a week afterwards).
Anyways, after a weekend of fun and the few days of hell that followed its back to reality... and trying to figure out how to run a business with a new hip. Answers on a postcard please.


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Cheating on Twilight with the Hunger Games
Can you believe that in 20 months of blogging Moon & I have never been gone at the same time? Well, we broke our streak of blogging perfection & we're BOTH gone this week. Moon is in Africa being selfless caring for kids & I'm sipping champy from a can on a beach in South Carolina (and meeting LTT friend @lula34 for the FIRST time in person!) We were tempted to hang up a "Gone Fishin' " sign this week and say "see ya next week" BUT… we resisted. We'll be bringing you fan letters, some fun posts & mostly just have a simple week. So rest up as we do too and we'll be back with you next week! Oh- pending comments will be approved but slower than usual- Moon has to send me an owl from Kenya then I use send a telegram to Stephenie Meyer asking her to approve new comments- she's the only one we trust. You're in good hands today- Obird Moon's favorite "boobs in the shoes" girl takes the reigns today and has a shocking confession!
Dear Twilight Saga,
I have a confession to make….you might want to buckle your seat belt. I am fully anticipating being shot at dawn for my crimes, but I have to come clean. The weight of my transgressions are just too much to carry and I just can't take the guilt any longer. So, here it is. I have been cheating on you. (ducking head to avoid the onslaught of flaming darts from the Twihards) But wait, before you break-up with me please hear me out….I mean we were "on a break" and all. Who was it you ask? Well, if you really MUST know it was Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Series. I couldn't help myself….actually, I blame Janetrigs and Lula with their "Real Books are the ONLY way jazz"….and when the two of them love a book and tell you to read it….YOU DO IT! How many times can one person read #PeetaOwnsMe on twitter and not be curious?? I'm only human after all. I mean even the Queen Bee herself has a gleaming review on the back of the book. I told myself I would just read a few chapters to see if I liked it. I seriously didn't even think I would like it….there aren't even any cool hands holding apples on the front cover….it's just some weird bird with an arrow in it's mouth. Alas, I was weak and it sucked me in with its amazingness from chapter one.
Now I know this might be a little premature because the Hunger Games trilogy is not yet complete (Mockingjay comes out 8/24/2010 count it down peeps), but I might go as far to say I think this series may be the "next Twilight". <—insert record screeching, car crashing, baby crying, woman screaming, apocalyptic mass hysteria etc. WAIT….don't leave….I'm not saying it will REPLACE Twilight, but it just might be the next in line to take the YA fandom by storm. So, being a major Twi fangirl fail I took to to my email to see if I was totally going crazy! Thank goodness I had both Lula and Freya to help me work through the guilt…..proceed with caution and an open mind. PS….slight spoilers ahead.
The first question Twi vs. Hunger Games……and GOOOOOO!!!
Lula: Twilight is the brooding romantic fluff that we all love, the other is young adult literature with a strong heroine & sensitive subject matter with a Sci-Fi bent. There is room for both!
Obird: I completely agree. I mean Twi will ALWAYS be very special, but I was so taken a back by how much I loved Hunger Games. It is the first set of books since Twilight that gave me that "special feeling"….twss.
Lula: Loving another series isn't a traitorous act. Like ebony & ivory, I don't see why Twilight and Hunger Games can't live together in perfect harmony.
Obird: I mean even SM loved them and couldn't put them down….If that is a "get out of jail free" pass, I don't know what is.
Then I pulled out the serious guns….aka my tweed jacket and brought Freya into the mix…..
Freya: The Twilight series were the right books at the right time for me. I needed an Edward in my life; that romantic, protective hero who would sacrifice anything for the one he loves. It was very satisfying, and I got hooked into the series.
Obird: Amen lady.
Freya: Hunger Games has not made me obsess like Twi did, but there are elements about it that are superior to Twi.
Obird: Well, I think I might have to join a support group, so give me an example.
Freya: Katniss. Katniss is extraordinary. Bella downplays any talents that she might have (although I do think that Bella is more interesting and talented than she gives herself credit for), but Katniss knows that there are things she can do that are better than others. She's not vain, she just has some confidence in herself.
Obird: Yes, I totally fangirl over her with the bow and arrows….I wish I had at least some sweet nunchuck skills!! Ok, I'm gonna hit below the belt ladies. Peeta vs. Edward.
Lula: When Katniss kisses Peeta and says that for the first time since they were in the cave together, in the first Games, she "felt that thing again…something stir deep inside. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind." That. Right there. That my friend did it for me….slayed me, completed me more than any meadow scene or cold breathy kisses. 'Cause that right there was freaking amazing….beautiful…frightening….HOT.
Freya: Edward vs. Peeta….Must I choose? They're so different. So I'll differentiate this way:
I would want Edward:
To do home renovations
To buy me presents
To be on my dodgeball team
To help me do math
I would want Peeta:
To snuggle with
To make secret plans with
To make decisions with (because I would get a say)
To go into business with
Obird: I guess I could settle for a Peeta/Edward sandwhich….heavy on the Peeta 'cause y'all know I'm a sucker for the carbs.
Well, fear not I will always love Twilight and nothing can take that away, but I must say I have enjoyed my torrid affair. Hey, I will even share! If you haven't read Hunger Games…..GO READ IT!! You will love it….and like Lula says….that's ok. There is room for both in your heart…I promise….you know ebony and ivory and all that jazz! If you have already read HG what are your thoughts??? Do you want a Peeta/Edward sammy??
Thanks to Freya and Lula for talking me off the ledge and making me want to play dodgeball at 1:30 am….you ladies rule.
Don't forget "WE WERE ON A BREAK"
So what say you? Do you feel like you're cheating on Twilight when you read and love other stuff or do you understand there's room for lots of great stories in your life? Who's read Hunger Games?
And hey… even though it's not true… what the heck:
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The interview is on a media player about halfway down the article. It's actually one of Wilson's better interviews, IMO.
Remember how Darrell Bevell nearly got the Bears HC job but lost it to some CFL coach? Well it turns out that CFL coach was the OC at NC State about 6 years ago, and was the very person responsible for getting Russell Wilson (a 2 star recruit) a football scholarship there. Quoted from Russell Wilson:
"(Trestman) was the guy that said, 'This guy can play.' I already knew that," Wilson told The McNeil and Spiegel Show. "I knew my ability, but he came up to me and he was the coach that said, 'This guy can play. We need to offer this guy (a scholarship) right now.' So, N.C. State offered me (a scholarship) right on the spot. Coach Trestman knew that I had the ability. I have a lot of respect for coach Trestman. I talk to him probably once a week, maybe a little bit less than that. I talk to him a good amount. We've always kept in touch over the years.
"A lot of guys thought I could play, but they didn't know if I could play just because of my height, but he knew that I could."
Anyone who recognized Wilson's greatness out of high school can't be that bad a coach. Hopefully he can keep the Bears competitive enough to prevent any more 15-1 Packers seasons from happening.


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One of Indiana's largest environmental groups said Friday it was concerned that this year's General Assembly may weaken Hoosiers' ability to protect themselves from pollution and other health risks.
Hoosier Environmental Council Executive Director Jesse Kharbanda said the group is trying to find out whether an executive order setting a moratorium on new regulations applies to rules regarding the environment and public health. Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed the order, which is intended to attract new business investment to Indiana, on his first day in office.
"If they are exempt we are less worried; if they are not exempt, we are very worried," Kharbanda said during a telephone conference with reporters. He said the group was in discussions with the administration trying to determine how broad the moratorium was.
The council is also wary of a measure that would require a cost/benefit analysis after the first three years of any new regulation, Kharbanda said. The costs of new regulations tend to be felt early, he said, while benefits such as improved health or safety don't become apparent until later.
"It presents a very skewed view of the benefits and cost of the regulation," he said.
The group also wants to make sure officials consider health benefits when they calculate a regulation's cost. And they want to make sure that any spending reductions don't impede the ability of the state Department of Environmental Management and Department of Natural Resources to do their jobs.
A spokeswoman for Pence did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Another raft of bills could strip local communities and individuals of the power to protect themselves from water pollution and related health risks, particularly those posed by massive industrial-style livestock farming, said Kim Ferraro, the council's director of water and agriculture policy.
The broadest measure is a bill pushed by Pence and authored by Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, that would make those on the losing end of lawsuits pay all of the legal fees. If passed, Ferraro said, such a rule could make residents endure water pollution, odor and other health risks rather than risk going broke fighting people with much deeper pockets.
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Other proposals apply specifically to concentrated animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs. One bill authored by Sen. Jim Banks, R-Columbia City, would effectively shut neighbors out of setting standards for such factory farms, Ferraro said. Instead, standards would be decided by Purdue University and industry representatives.
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Lying in the darkness on my simple cot, sweating beneath my mosquito net, I listen to the sound of families outside my door. They are preparing what little food they have over a small fire and getting ready to spend another night on thin, frayed straw mats spread out on the dirt.
The families at the Catholic Mission in the town of Bossangoa, Central African Republic (CAR), are some of the thousands of people who sought refuge here when armed rebels — made up of mostly Muslims and called Seleka — came through in late 2013, burning and looting homes and killing innocent civilians as they advanced toward Bangui, the country's capital. After they violently overturned the government, their atrocities were met with equal violence by mostly non-Muslim militia, called anti-Balaka. The conflict spiraled out of control and, although rooted in political and economic disparities, divided communities along religious lines.
At the height of the violence, the Catholic Mission in Bossangoa housed more than 40,000 people, who lived in cramped conditions with nothing more than what they escaped with the day of the attack. They, along with thousands of others in the surrounding villages, now face a critical time. If they don't plant their crops in the next few weeks, they will miss this year's harvest, putting them at great risk for starvation.
Catholic Relief Services, along with its local Caritas partner, is distributing seeds and tools to 10,000 families in the villages surrounding Bossangoa. CRS staff and Caritas volunteers are working 24/7 to get seeds to these families, overcoming tremendous logistical challenges. With the rainy season starting, dirt roads are often impassable, bridges washed out and fuel for trucks is in short supply. But with the clock ticking, these dedicated people do whatever it takes to reach these families and ensure their survival.
With so much need and hardship all around me as I walk through the church compound in Bossangoa and pass by the tiny villages along dirt roads, I can't help but notice the tremendous courage and resilience of Central Africans. Similarly, the Catholic Church is playing a courageous and prophetic role here. It is welcoming those made homeless and reaching out to people who have suffered horrible acts of violence and loss. At the same time, religious leaders of all faiths have come together to promote peace and stand with all those who have suffered, no matter their faith.
I consider them, as well as my dedicated CRS colleagues in CAR, true heroes. They literally "live with the poor" as the Holy Father would ask us to. They risk their own lives to protect others, and they provide the respect, dignity and humanitarian support to those who had nothing even before the conflict. It is a dangerous calling, but one that beckons all of us.
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Although I really like Bowyer, you locked yourself out of anymore bidding when you bid for him!!! Still, I think you have a great team!!!
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