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Can a fed-up corporate executive forfeit his pole position in the rat race, build a $500 smokehouse out in the country . . . and rapidly begin earning more than $2,000 a month selling home-cured fish to bars and restaurants? Yep. Buck Taylor, a Florida man, has done just that . . . and he insists that others (maybe you) can do it too! All it takes, he says, to get started in this do-it-yourself business is a large oven, a load of fresh fish, some hickory and oak logs, and an overriding desire to . . .
I've finally come full circle.
I started out, you see, as a healthy outdoorsman . . . but-lured by promises of "super-money", I quickly sold my soul for admittance into The Land Of The Corporate Executive. The Management Team. Where, I eventually learned, the money was not nearly as good as I had been led to believe . . . but where the hours were long and the pressure was tremendous.
As a result, I became just another frustrated pencil pusher. My mental attitude soured. Bags appeared under my eyes. I became chronically tired. My family life suffered. I was rapidly becoming just another pale candidate for ulcers or a heart attack. And then . . .
And then I got a grip on myself, hurled myself right off that "prestige" treadmill to oblivion . . . and began to "smoke" my way back to the freedom, independence, and healthful outdoor life that I had originally known.
"Smoking" ..... as in Fish
The lucrative enterprise which has given me back my life is nothing but the smoking and selling of fish to bars, restaurants, and individuals here in Miami. And, believe it or not, I didn't know a thing about my new profession when I first plunged in.
All I was really sure of back then was that I desperately wanted out of Executive Row. I had, in fact, already made several false (and costly) starts toward the freedom I so eagerly craved. I was, to put it another way, something of a drowning man clutching at straws at that point in my life . . . when some chance conversations with seemingly successful people in the field directed my attention to the smoking business.
Little wonder then that, although I knew nothing about smoke-curing fish at the time, I was what you'd call "highly motivated" to give the occupation a try. I optimistically figured I could learn what I needed to know as I went along. And I did! The thoughts of at last being self-employed (which danced through my head like visions of sugarplums) made working out the details of my new life a pleasure.
Initial Planning
I started laying the foundation for my mini-enterprise by visiting the smokehouses owned by other people who were already in the fish curing and marketing business. Soon, based on the information I picked up from these trips, I [1] was reasonably sure that my longed-for occupation could support my family, [2] had made an informed guess that our savings account contained barely enough cash to set me up in the smoking business, [3] knew of and had checked out sources for the raw fish I'd need, and [4] was finishing construction drawings for a smokehouse of my own .
Starting a Fish Smoking Business
All well and good . . . on paper. But just as I was ready to dash off and build that smokehouse . . . I realized that I didn't have any place to put the structure!
What I wanted, of course, was a fair-sized piece of land on the side of a well-traveled road with clear approaches from both directions so that [A] large numbers of passing motorists could [ B] see my operation early enough to [C] give potential customers the time they'd need to [D] pull into my parking lot and [E] buy the large quantities of cured fish I expected to sell!
Unfortunately, the ideal, and rather expansive, piece of property I had in mind proved to be a lot harder to find and a great deal more expensive to rent than I had anticipated. What I had to settle for, when I came right down to it, was a few square feet on an out-of-the-way farm located off a back road several miles from town.
Still, that remote rural location did have some worthwhile features all its own. First, it was very inexpensive. Second, the license I needed for my business was both easier to obtain and less costly way out there in the country than it would have been if I'd tried to set my smokehouse up in either the city or along a main road close to Miami. Third, it was almost a sure bet that sooner or later some of my urban neighbors would [A] object to the light wisps of smoke from my operation or [B] try to break into the smokehouse and steal its contents if I built the structure in town. And it was just as sure a bet that no one would ever give me either kind of trouble if I set the house up out there in the sticks.
For obvious reasons, I quickly decided to establish my business on that backwoods farm . . . and, with the sometime help of a few friends, I began construction of the smokehouse the very next weekend. None of us really knew what we were doing but the building wasn't too complicated and five weekends and $500 in materials later, it was substantially completed. Then, while finishing touches were still being made on the structure, we immediately "fired up" the oven for the first time and began curing 50 pounds of whiting fillets.
Surprisingly enough, that initial batch of fish turned out pretty well. A bit undercooked, perhaps, but the taste we were after was definitely there. I got a lot of compliments on the samples I distributed and two bars agreed, on the spot, to buy my fish if I'd smoke the fillets a little longer and make them somewhat saltier.
I enjoyed even more success the following weekend . . . when I actually sold half my "samples" and began taking orders for a third batch of fish. And that was only the beginning: Within six weeks, I had recovered the $500 that the materials for my smokehouse had cost and I was already getting prepared to quit my office job and go into the specialty food business full time!
I've been "on my own" ever since, arid I can't tell you how good it feels. How can you compare a boss' cigar smoke to the delicate aroma of catfish cooking over hickory and oak logs!
You Can do it Too!
Yes, I'm convinced that you can do just as well in this field as I have . . . maybe even better. Study the market in your area. If there aren't scads of commercial smokehouses already fighting for the attention of every potential customer, your chances can be considered excellent.
Shop around. Find out where you can obtain a steady supply of fish at a reasonable price (well below a dollar a pound). Or, if smoked seafood is not particularly popular where you live, look into the possibility of curing hams, turkeys, cheese, or sausage. Even though this article concentrates on fish, the basics that I cover can be applied to any smoked food (as proof of that fact, I even run off an occasional batch of other meats or cheese in my own oven).
Once you're sure that you've lined up a steady supply of raw materials at an acceptable price, examine your financial situation (as I did) and decide if you want to set your smoker up on a well-traveled and expensive boulevard, or (as I was forced to do) out in the sticks. My feeling is still that a good roadside location is worth its price, if you can swing it.
Next visit your city's or county's license bureau, the pollution control people (if necessary), and any other officials who legally have anything to say about how you house and operate this business in your area. Find out what it takes to keep these people smiling . . . and do it.
And finally, after you've done the above homework, you've built your smokehouse, and you've run off a sample batch or two of your specialty—the only thing left for you to do is to distribute samples to a few potential customers. And if that last step in the establishment of this enterprise worries you, just remember one thing: My experience leads me to believe that smoked fish and other such specialties will sell to restaurants and bars anywhere . . . IF you produce a quality product.
How to Build a Smokehouse
I won't say that you have to build your smoker exactly the way I built mine (if I learned anything from those initial visits to other seafood-smoking establishments, it was that there are at least 1,003 different ways to construct a smokehouse). Just so you will have an idea of what the task involves, however, I'll take you through the steps I followed in constructing my smoker. (A floor plan is shown in Fig. 1.)
[1] First we removed all rocks, stumps, etc., from the ground we had chosen for our construction site and we leveled the area. Then we built a 12' X 20' foundation form out of 2 X 4's, crisscrossed the space within the form with hog wire and steel rods (for reinforcement), and poured the 12' X 20' four-inch-thick slab of concrete on a sunny day. (Figure on about 3-1/2 cubic yards of mix for a slab this size.)
[2] After the foundation had cured for 48 hours, we were ready to put up the walls for our smokehouse. To do that, we laid four rows of block (which made a wall 32" high), sealed the top course with concrete, and then framed the structure on up eight feet tall in front and seven in the back with 2 X 4's. The building was finished with window screen all around to keep out insects and topped with the least expensive galvanized roofing we could buy.
[3] The attached oven was constructed a little differently. Its walls are block all the way to the top (nine rows, or 72"), topped with a three-inch-thick poured concrete roof. Although the outside dimensions of our oven measure approximately five by seven feet, I think the unit would be a lot handier to use if we'd have made it six feet wide. Use your own judgment.
Whatever you do, though, don't forget to leave the 16"square opening on the floor of the oven's outside or "back" wall (so you'll have a way to slide the firebox in and out). Nor should you forget to allow for a large—say 4' X 5' main door (through which you'll load and unload fish) between the oven and the smokehouse . . . or to leave an 18"-square hole right in the center of the oven's roof (for a chimney).
The firebox door can be framed in with 2 X 4's and closed with a close-fitting cover (a 2 X 4 frame faced on the outside with 3/8" or 1/2" plywood, packed with insulation, and faced on the inside to protect it from the flame's heat, with ungalvanized metal) that is hinged along its top. The main loading door (also a 2 X 4 frame faced on the outside with 3/8" or 1/2" plywood, packed with insulation, and faced on the inside with ungalvanized metal) should be hinged on its left edge so that it'll swing flat against the smokehouse wall as shown in the drawing with this article. And the chimney is made of three solid rows of a concrete block and a half each, topped by four spaced blocks, covered with a sheet of metal (to keep the rain out), and topped again by four spaced blocks (to hold the piece of metal in place).
If you lay a sheet of plastic over the form for the oven's roof, by the way, the finished ceiling will be plenty smooth enough to use with no further work. (Do remember, however, to peel away the plastic before you cure your first batch of fish!) The inside of the oven's walls should be painted with a coat or two of water mixed with cement to seal the pores in the blocks.
[4] The firebox that sits on the oven's floor is simply a 3/16" sheet steel container that measures one foot high, one foot across, and five feet long. Mount a handle on one end of the box and make a stick (a broom handle with a hook screwed into one end will do) that you can use to grab the handle and pull the box out with when it's hot.
[5] A flat sheet of steel must be suspended over the firebox to spread its blaze and keep the flames from burning the fish that will be loaded into the oven. We cut our spreader plate from 1/4" steel so that when the sheet of metal was supported at each corner on upturned concrete blocks, there was a six-inch gap on all four sides between the edges of the steel plate and the walls of the oven.
[6] The wooden stand which holds our fish as they're being smoked was made to fit quite snugly inside the finished oven. The rack contains five shelves spaced 10" apart vertically . . . although this vertical spacing is not terribly important. What is important is the frame's legs: if they're made of wood, keep them as far as possible from the oven's firebox (so that even the most violent "back-draft" down the smoker's chimney can't force flames over against the legs and ignite them). An even better bet, of course, is to use angle iron for your rack's main structural members.
[7] The trays (ten of them) which rest on the wooden stand each measure 2' X 3' and they fit two to a rack. We made ours from scrap 1 X 2's with 1 "-by 2"-grid wire stapled (stapling is easier than nailing) across their tops. NOTE: Use only plain, uncoated wire on these trays. The galvanized mesh of hardware cloth will give off toxic fumes when heated.
[8] We built the cleaning and work tables in our smokehouse very quickly and easily by mounting half sheets of plywood on 2 X 4 frames. And we were sure to give that plywood several coats of good varnish. (The tables do get drenched with brine and fish juice and, left unprotected, the wood wouldn't last long.) The cleaning table was slanted slightly toward a hole cut into its out-of-the-way end. And there was a particular reason for that.
The preparation of smoked fish produces two types of waste. The first, an accumulation of heads, backbones, and entrails, must be packaged, hauled away, and dumped. There's no getting around it. The second kind of waste, though - the hundreds of tiny bits 'and slivers that appear as you slice the fish for the oven (especially after they've soaked overnight in brine) - can be disposed of somewhat easier. You can either [A] push them to the back of your cleaning table, scrape them off into a trap mounted under that hole mentioned in the last paragraph, and then dump them into a garbage pail, or [B] flush the particles through that same hole into a drainpipe connected to a 12-foot-deep dry well dug just outside the smokehouse . . . and simply let the little bits of fish, brine, and cleaning water all percolate away into the soil. (That's what I did, and I've found that this method of doing away with such waste won't taint a nearby water well, as long as it's ten or more feet away from the percolation hole.)
[9] An old five-foot-long porcelain bathtub, as long as it's not cracked or chipped, makes an ideal brine tank. Mount it on a simple frame that both holds it steady and tilts it slightly toward a drainpipe connected to the same dry well that drains the cleaning table.
[10] And finally, you must find a way to get water to your smokehouse . . . even if you have to bring it in through a hose. Electricity is not absolutely essential, since the sun can provide natural lighting if you work only during the day and, more likely than not, you'll want to keep your storage refrigerator at home. But you will use water at the smokehouse in large quantities and frequently.
Odds and Ends
Once you have your smokehouse up and finished, you'll need only a few other pieces of equipment to put you in the fish-curing business. Probably the most expensive is a really big refrigerator (remember, you'll be able to process 500 pounds of meat at a time in the smoker I've just described). I bought my commercial-sized reefer secondhand at a restaurant supply house, and I recommend that you check out the same source (or sources) in your area.
And while you're there, look around for a heavy-duty oven thermometer with a temperature range of at least 50° F to 225° F (0° to 300° F is even better). An adequate thermometer can be purchased for about $35, but don't hesitate to spend more for one of exceptional quality. That thermometer, mounted in the center of your oven's main door, with its probe sticking several inches into the curing chamber, is probably the single piece of equipment most critical to the success of your whole operation.
The last major item you'll need is a trailer of some sort in which to haul 750 to 1,000 pounds of fresh fish at a time in from the docks. (Remember, once you're rolling, you'll make your money by keeping that oven full. ) Of course this doesn't mean that your trailer has to be anything fancy. A homemade rig with a 4' X 8' plywood floor, 3' sides, and a plywood lid to keep the sun off does the job for me. On the other hand, if you have to bring your fish in from a long distance away, you'd be well advised to carry the iced seafood in a watertight trailer that's insulated with 3/4" styrofoam and painted silver on the outside . . . and such a rig will, naturally, cost you more than mine cost me.
The remaining supplies you'll need for your new business can all be bought or scrounged fairly inexpensively. They include:
[1] A good quality cleaning knife, 10" blade or longer.
Keep this baby sharp.
[2] A hose and nozzle for washing down fish, brine tank, floor, and oven.
[3] A paintbrush - four inches wide - for coating fish trays with oil.
[4] A wire brush with which to clean the smoker trays after a batch of fish has been processed.
[5] A wooden tablespoon, for measuring and stirring.
[6] A clock, for timing the high- and low-temperature phases of the cure.
[7] Bleach, which is used to swab the floor daily (to eliminate bug traffic).
[8] Cooking oil, non-iodized salt, spices, and firewood.
About that very last item: I use Australian pine as well as oak in my oven. Hickory is almost impossible to get here in southern Florida and commands a ridiculous price when you can find it. No matter what kind of firewood you decide to use, and as you can see from the accompanying table, there are many varieties to choose from, don't pick one that's heavy with sap. For example, common yellow pine can ruin your smoked fish by imparting the less-than-delicate flavor of turpentine to the fillets!
Keep your firewood covered and dry when not in use. This will ensure that the fuel burns uniformly and will make your fires a lot easier to start.
EDITOR S NOTE: This has been the first half of a two-part article. In Part Two, Mr. Taylor will describe how he cleans and smokes the fish that he sells.
Smoking for Dollars: Profit
All right. You've chatted with fish dealers, checked out locations, given it some careful thought, and decided you just may want to try your hand at selling smoked fish. Great! Now you're probably wondering - and rightly so—what kind of money a person can really, truly make in this business.
Well, one man knows the answer to that as well as anyone, and that one man is Buck Taylor of Miami, Florida. Buck, who began his operation with no special knowledge or experience, has been "smoking" for a living, full time, since April of 1975 . . . and he now regularly earns $600 per week (and more). "It's a super nice do-it-yourself enterprise," says Buck, "if you don't mind getting your hands dirty a couple of days a week."
With regard to the business of running a smokehouse, Buck Taylor has this advice to offer MOTHER's readers:
"First of all, in establishing your price structure, consider the audience you're selling to. Will they buy at $3.00 a pound? If so, fine . . . but in any case, you should charge a minimum of $2.00 a pound for your product (more, if you decide to add a few spices and label it gourmet food). An ovenload of fish - approximately 500 pounds - at that price should bring in over $1,000.
"When you calculate your expenses, don't forget that at least 30% of the weight of an uncleaned fish eventually ends up as waste. The average is more like 40% and you'll lose over 50% when you clean some species, such as amberjack. In addition, still more weight loss occurs in the oven. It does help to leave the skins on fillets . . . but even so, a good 20% of an ovenload will drip onto the fire-shield or simply 'go up in smoke'.
"Let's consider a typical situation. Suppose you bought 1,000 pounds of kingfish at 50¢ per. This half ton of uncleaned fish will actually 'fillet out' at around 600 oven-ready pounds. Another 180 pounds (30%) will disappear in cooking, leaving you with 420 pounds of cured fish for which, in its raw form, you paid $500. Taking into account wood, spices, gas for the truck, etc., your expenses thus far total, say, $510.
"Now, if you sell those 420 pounds of cured fish for $2.00 per pound, then your gross income will be $840 . . . and the net profit comes to $840 minus $510, or a nifty $330. Not bad for a day and a half of work! This is assuming that you sell all of what you cook. Note, however, that if you had paid 75¢ a pound for the raw fish, you would only have come out ahead $80 for the whole ovenload. In this instance, the thing to do would be to raise the selling price to $2.25 or $2.50."
Are big game fish where the big money is in the fish smoking biz?
"Interestingly enough, my best-selling items are little two-ounce packages of hard-cooked strips. Bars, and corner groceries that sell beer, buy these by the hundreds and resell for a modest profit, knowing full well that the salt in them makes customers crave beer! Naturally, there's a good bit more labor in cutting out the small strips than in preparing large fillets for the oven. However, the little packs bring me 35¢ each, or $2.80 a pound, and man, do they sell!
"Another lucrative area is custom smoking for fishermen. Once you're established, outdoorsmen will occasionally bring all or part of their catch to you for curing. The advantages to this are that you get paid in advance and bear no real added costs if you were going to smoke an ovenload anyway.
"I charge a fee of 45¢ per pound for whole fish, while headless fish go into the oven for 55¢ a pound, and fillets 65¢. It's a good idea to set some sort of size limit for raw fish: say, nothing under ten pounds. This way you save yourself a lot of unnecessary labor . . . and a fisherman isn't likely to be disappointed when he sees how tiny his catch is as it emerges from the oven. Those smaller fish really shrink during cooking!
"At holiday time, you can pick up a sizable sales bonus by smoking turkeys. The big birds must stay in the oven longer than most fish do, but they take a delicious cure and sell easily."
Taylor is quick to point out that there's more to making it with your own fish-smoking enterprise than merely having the requisite desire, a place to work, and a boundless supply of fish and hickory.
"Don't get caught without the proper pieces of paper. If you're located outside city limits as I am, chances are all you'll need is a $5.00 vendor's license. However, city governments differ widely in their requirements, so about all I can say is be sure you satisfy all local ordinances.
"Saltwater fish are usually the easiest to come by in quantity, so make certain you know which species, if any, are illegal to sell in your area. Also, a Fish & Game permit is often needed before you can handle freshwater fish products. This costs five bucks but is generally well worth the money since some freshwater species-channel catfish in particular just can't be beat after they've been smoked for hours over a slow-burning fire!
"About location: I can't emphasize too strongly that a boulevard location with plenty of road and foot traffic is a real plus. Of course, you can always go out and hustle bars and restaurants for a steady income . . . but, with walk-in business, that won't even be necessary. A good location on the highway will set you back more for rent than a rural operation, and may present more problems with zoning laws, but is, nonetheless, something that you should consider carefully."


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For future reference the Wikitravel:CIA World Factbook 2002 import can be found at Talk:Estonia/CIA World Factbook 2002 import.
Health and safety - ticks?[edit]
Should something be added about ticks? They're a real problem and one that travellers might want to be aware of, especially with all the talk about enjoying the forests and wild nature. Mustikas 03:32, 12 May 2012 (EDT)
I heard that Canadians are not "blacklisted" from the list of favoured nations for residing in Estonia for some time. Would be good if someone could check this.
Fixed to the Euro?[edit]
How could the Estonian currency be fixed to the Euro since 1993, since (I think) the Euro is not that old? --Jonboy 08:15, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
Sektsioon "Respect" on rõve ja ebameeldiv, paatoslik ning nilbe ja lipitsev (enda ees!) propaganda, mis tuleb kiiremas korras ümber kirjutada. The section "Respect" is exaggerated propaganda which should be re-written.
I think 15 provinces is too much for a country as small as Estonia. Any ideas for sensible regions? Jpatokal 12:04, 22 October 2009 (EDT)
→ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_NUTS_of_Estonia ? Execept in might be an idea to treat Saaremaa and Hiiuma as seperate regions from western estonia. --Stefan (sertmann) talk 12:24, 22 October 2009 (EDT)
I propose to use just 4: North & Tallinn, East, South, West & The Islands. That's how Estonian Tourism Board sees Estonia so - cultural-wise it makes sense to me too. East could also be included in North. --Visitestonia


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Lady Antebellum, the Band Perry Have Not Signed On to Obama's List
Two of country's biggest trios -- Lady Antebellum and the Band Perry -- are listed among nearly 200 names of people that President Obama hopes will endorse his re-election bid. The list of surrogates includes figures from the sports, entertainment and celebrity worlds that the President and his team would like to come aboard to support him publicly.
The Tennesseean did a little sleuthing and found out that neither Lady A nor the Perry siblings have agreed to offer their hoped for support. Furthermore, neither threesome looks to be doing so in the future, either.
Lady A's PR rep told the paper that "the members of Lady Antebellum did not submit their name for inclusion on the surrogate list for Obama's campaign." She also expressed surprise, since "the band has never commented on their political affiliations nor do they plan to in the future." The same goes for the Band Perry, who performed at the White House on Nov. 21, but have not publicly endorsed any candidates -- nor will they.
Even so, the surrogate list is merely a wish list for the campaign. Just because a band's name or a person's name appears on it does not mean that they have agreed to participate or have even been contacted.
Addie Whisenant, an Obama campaign spokeswoman, clarified that fact, saying, "This was a wish list of people and groups who may be asked to participate in a campaign event." She also stated that "not everyone on this list has been contacted or agreed to help the campaign. We've already received robust support and participation from surrogates across the country, and that will only ramp up in 2012."
Whisenant did not reveal who is confirmed, who has passed or who has been approached to support the campaign. But it appears that there are two names that can already be crossed off the list.


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Wayzata goaltender Aaron Dingmann and Trojans defenseman Alec Hemenway track the flight of an incoming puck. Photo by Brian Nelson
Benilde-St. Margaret's forward Grant Besse, a product of Wayzata youth hockey, walked between two lines of jubilant Trojans' fans after Saturday's game and exclaimed, "That stunk."
Not much more needed to be said. Wayzata unloaded on Benilde-St. Margaret's, building a six-goal lead in the second period en route to a 7-1 victory in the Holiday Hockey Classic championship game played at the St. Louis Park Recreation Center.
If Akash Batra's goal 20 seconds into the game caught defending Class 2A state champion Benilde-St. Margaret's off guard, the No. 5 Red Knights (8-3-0) would be floored in the second period.
No. 3 Wayzata (10-1-0) erupted for five goals, the first four scored within a four-minute span. The Trojans spread the wealth. Chad Olson's power-play tally made it 2-0 at 4:41. Jack Sorensen, Max Zimmer and Brian Machut added goals during the next 3 minutes and 32 seconds. Chase Haller later scored to make it 6-0.
"Did I think we were going to win 7-1 tonight? No," Trojans coach Pat O'Leary said. "But at the same time, you could feel the energy going with us. Some of those goals came on really skilled plays."
Wayzata has found success stifling the opposition so far this season. Saturday marked the Trojans' ninth consecutive victory and they gave up two or more goals only three times during that span. Senior goaltender Aaron Dingmann stood tall, stopping 39 of 40 Red Knights' shots.
Wayzata set an early tone Saturday by killing a Benilde-St. Margaret's 5-minute major penalty in the first period. The Red Knights managed six shots – the same number Wayzata blocked.
"We did a good job on their power play in the first period and I think that was the difference in the game," O'Leary said.
Said Red Knights coach Ken Pauly of the failed power play: "They planted their flag and said, 'We're playing our game tonight.' We didn't bring our flag."
The Red Knights won't have long to wait for a shot at redemption The teams meet again Jan. 3.
"We ran in to a good team tonight and the truth is I think we were exposed a little bit," Pauly said. "We better let this loss go down the drain but not the lesson."
-- David La Vaque, Star Tribune staff writer
Grant Besse, right, scored the lone goal for Benilde-St. Margaret's in a 7-1 loss to Wayzata in the championship game of the Sports Authority Holiday Hockey Classic. Photo by Brian Nelson
Wayzata is not flashy. This is not a team brimming with flair.
The Trojans clog shooting lanes. They block shots. They clear rebounds. They backcheck with abandon.
The style may be snooze-inducing from a fan's perspective, but entering Saturday night's Sports Authority Holiday Hockey Classic title game against defending state Class 2A champion Benilde-St. Margaret's it had resulted in nine wins in 10 games and a No. 3 state ranking.
Funny thing about boring. Sometimes it takes a night off.
Yes, that was Wayzata scoring with rat-a-tat frequency. Scoring on 2-on-1s, on backdoor passing plays, on one-timers. Four of the goals came in a span of 3 minutes, 32 seconds in the second period of the Trojans' stunningly lopsided 7-1 triumph over the No. 5 Red Knights.
"Our guys can score, it has just taken some time," Wayzata coach Pat O'Leary said. That's our M O, we haven't put a lot of pucks in the net. We've been good defensively."
The puck gets past Benilde-St. Margaret's goaltender Paul Lundberg for a third-period goal for Wayzata. Photo by Brian Nelson
The No. 3-ranked Trojans (10-1-0) entered Saturday's game with 29 goals in their first 10 games. By comparison, Benilde-St. Margaret's duo of Grant Besse and Spencer Naas had combined for 35 goals.
The No. 5 Red Knights (8-3-0) figured to be the team to run up the score with tic-tac-toe passing and laser-guided shooting.
But, oh yes, that was the Trojans' scoring five goals in the second period. Junior Chad Olson opened the second-period scoring 4:41 into the session by firing a low shot past Benilde-St. Margaret's goaltender Andrew Sprang. The Trojans scored 75 seconds later when sophomore Matthew Freytag hit junior Jack Sorensen for a one-timer.
Bang. Bang.
And the goals kept coming, each one prettier than the last. The beatdown was so lopsided it had a Harlem Globetrotters versus Washington Generals feel, almost as if the whole thing had been choreographed.
"It was great," Freytag said about the second-period scoring burst. "The feeling is indescribable. They just keep going in, and there's no way to stop it."
Freytag had four assists while serving as the Trojans' primary setup man. Wayzata had seven goal scorers, including freshman Max Zimmer who converted a nifty touch pass from Jalen Wahl on a perfectly executed 2-on-1.
"We like to play defense first, but we know we have the skill to put home goals," Sorensen said.
Wayzata's previous high for goals in a game this season was six in a Holiday Classic quarterfinal blowout of Bloomington Jefferson. Before that, the Trojans' hadn't scored more than four goals in a game. Mostly, their victories have been of the 2-1 and 3-2 variety.
Against the Red Knights, the goals came so fast, so frequently that O'Leary had trouble keeping track of them all.
"I can't remember all the goals exactly, right off the top of my head, but some of them were pretty skilled plays," he said. "Some nice goals. Good for our kids to show that.
"Was I a little surprised? Absolutely."
Senior Chase Haller shouted, "We shocked the world!" as he headed to the locker room but, nah, the Trojans didn't seem to stunned by the outcome.
"We know we are a top-five team in the state," Sorensen said. "It's nothing unusual. That's Haller that said, 'Shock the world.' He likes to say that."
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
1. Matthew Freytag, Wayzata
The sophomore forward, Wayzata's leading goal scorer with nine, flashed some playmaking ability -- again and again and again and again. Freytag helped set up four of four of the Trojans' five second-period goals, and several of his passes were of the pinpoint variety that led to one-timers into an open net.
2. Aaron Dingmann, Wayzata
The big senior goaltender sat out much of last season with injury problems but has been a wall of granite this season for the Trojans. Dingmann says he enjoys facing teams loaded with sharpshooters – Benilde-St. Margaret's fits that description – and his 39-save performance has to rank among the best of his career.
3. Kyle Olson, Wayzata
Have to pick a Trojans' defenseman as having a star-worthy performance and Olson, a senior co-captain, accounted for six of his team's stunning 27 blocked shots.
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
Wayzata senior goaltender Aaron Dingmann made 39 saves against Benilde-St. Margaret's. Photo by Brian Nelson


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The goal of Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company is to produce great works while providing an exciting atmosphere in which our students can expand their repertoire of various styles of theatre. After this season's previous classical musical and play, the Conservatory Theatre Company is proud to present Allen Boretz and John Murray's farce, Room Service.
In this classic screwball comedy, an unscrupulous Broadway producer tries to find a backer for his new show. Holed up in a Times Square hotel room with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction with an outlandish plan. Can their new play open on Broadway, or will they be evicted for their outrageous room service bill before the curtain has a chance to rise? This beloved, zany comedy about the lengths some people will go for their art is sure to have audiences laughing from beginning to end.
Room Service was originally produced and directed by George Abbott at the Cort Theatre in New York City on May 19, 1937. In addition to numerous revivals on- and off-Broadway, the play was also adapted into a film in 1938 starring the Marx brothers and Lucille Ball.
The production runs January 22-31 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18-20 and can be purchased by calling the box office at 412.621.4445 or online at www.pittsburghplayhouse.com.
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METAIRIE -- Like many other players who have made it in the NFL as a free agent, Fakhir Brown's six-year career has been anything but a smooth journey.
Brown, a former Grambling State standout, went from being a starter with the San Diego Chargers to being a castoff in two short years. Then, in three years he climbed from the bottom of the New Orleans Saints depth chart to the top of it last season -- only to tumble again in May by his own doing.
An ill-advised attempt to renegotiate the two-year contract he signed in March 2004, which will pay him $540,000 this season, only landed him in coach Jim Haslett's doghouse and put him behind veterans Jason Craft and Fred Thomas on the depth chart.
In boycotting the team's "voluntary" coaching sessions, a series of 14 practices in May and June, Brown handed valuable repetitions to Craft and Thomas. That put Brown behind in the race for the starting right cornerback spot even though he returned for a June minicamp -- without a new contract.
"Things aren't always going to go the way you want them to," Brown said when asked if he regretted missing the coaching sessions. "It was just how I felt at the time. It could have been good or bad, but right now, things are good. You have to keep working for it, and eventually it will come."
Luckily for Brown, Haslett didn't hold a grudge. When the Saints reported to training camp on July 28, Brown learned in team meetings that night that he would be working with the first-team defense the next day.
So while he didn't gain anything monetarily, at least not until he becomes an unrestricted free agent in March, his boycott didn't cost him his starting job opposite left cornerback Mike McKenzie.
It turned out to be a good move for the Saints. According to Saints coaches, Brown has had an excellent training camp so far and has seemingly cemented his place with the defense.
"(Brown) has had a great camp. He and Mike (McKenzie) played extremely well the other day," Haslett said after evaluating tapes of the Saints' 34-15 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the exhibition opener.
But Haslett isn't the only one praising Brown's play. Greg Brown, who coaches the Saints cornerbacks, is among those who've been impressed with Fakhir Brown's play so far.
"Fakhir has picked up right where he left off last year," said Greg Brown. "He's been consistent, he's executing his plays and assignments, and he's playing with good technique. It was a real positive to get him back here in camp on time."
Haslett and Greg Brown said they weren't at all surprised to see Fakhir Brown return to the form that helped him earn a starting job for the final 10 games of last season.
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TV Station Apologizes For Running 'P.F. Chang' Graphic With Olympics Story
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No way this was on TV this morning! How does this happen? pic.twitter.com/R88Xp6KZBd— David Kaplan (@thekapman) February 11, 2018
A TV station in Chicago had to apologize after they inadvertently aired an Olympics graphic that said "P.F. Chang 2018," instead of Pyeongchang, the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
According to Fox News, the graphic was used during an Olympic update on ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago on Saturday. Weekend anchor Mark Rivera read some of the top stories from the opening weekend of the Winter Games with the incorrect graphic sitting to the right of his head.
The station issued a statement apologizing for the mix-up. They said the graphic that was erroneously used during the sports update was created for a satirical piece that aired last Friday.
P.F. Chang's thought it was funny, and sent a tweet reminding people "Contrary to this broadcast, we're not hosting the games."
Contrary to this broadcast, we're not hosting the games. 🙂 https://t.co/3HW694pE4J— P.F. Chang's (@PFChangs) February 11, 2018


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50. Grace Kelly
"When you looked at that picture, you were not looking at her. You were looking at the illusion of her," theatre director Don Richardson has said of the future Grace of Monaco. "The camera did more than love her. It was insane about her – just like I was." Just as the world would be once her career really began. Rear Window truly kicked her phenomenon into high gear, but Kelly was, and always will be, more than just a blonde.
Sexiest Role: To Catch A Thief is hard to beat.
Stroke of Charm: A less posed image, taken in Jamaica.
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Sexiest Role: Robert Rodriguez proved she could combine strength with sexiness as Gail in Sin City. But she's also incredibly slinky, and unexpectedly dangerous, in Trance.
Stroke of Charm: Spoofing Telenovelas to help get out the vote.
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Sexiest Role: Either of her ingénue performances in Two Moon Junction or Return To The Blue Lagoon count, but we also enjoyed her as Katinka Ingabogovinanana in Zoolander.
Stroke of Charm: Charming the audience on Jimmy Kimmel's show.
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Sexiest Role: We'll always love Captain America's Peggy Carter but The Duchess' Bess Foster wins this one by a corset.
Stroke of Charm: Best. Party trick. Ever.
46. Isla Fisher
Funny goes a long way with us, and Isla Fisher definitely has the comedy chops – although it helps that she's also perky, friendly and gorgeous with it. While she's largely stuck to laugh-grabbing roles in the likes of Hot Rod, Confessions Of A Shopaholic and, most famously, Wedding Crashers, she's also gotten dramatic for The Great Gatsby and is looking to do more.
Sexiest Role: One of her dramatic roles, as ex-stripper Luvlee Lemons in The Lookout, sees her channelling her perkiness into smooth sexuality.
Stroke of Charm: Getting funny being interviewed by Ryan Reynolds.
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45. Rachel McAdams
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Sexiest Role: She makes for a plucky Irene Adler in the Sherlock Holmes films but we find her sexiest as Della Frye in State Of Play.
Stroke of Charm: She takes her hockey seriously.
44. Jennifer Connelly
After first hitting the public's awareness in Labyrinth – where she charmed not only a horde of Muppet types but also bewitched David Bowie – Jennifer Connelly has grown into the sort of measured, Oscar-scoring actress who works as consistently as she likes. With raven hair and onyx eyes that see straight through you, she's always the focus of attention on screen, even in small roles.
Sexiest Role: She's cheeky and fun in Inventing The Abbotts, but let's not count out Mulholland Falls and Higher Learning.
Stroke of Charm: A fun flashback to her audition for Labyrinth.
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43. Eva Mendes
The dark eyes, like deep pools. The full lips. The sultry nature. Eva Mendes has a lot to like about her, and has slowly made her way up the acting ranks to jobs that let her work with her beauty and sometimes play against it. She's proved she can handle comedy, but seems at her best when she's tackling something dramatic, as in Training Day. She can even handle the ultra-surrealism of Holy Motors, so top marks for that.
Sexiest Role: She breaks hearts in We Own The Night and is deeply attractive to Will Ferrell (and everyone else) in The Other Guys.
Stroke of Charm: The Eva Mendes sex tape you never knew you wanted.
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With her classically sculpted features, Cate Blanchett sometimes seems like a Golden Age Hollywood star more than an actress of today. She has a smile that can light up a building, let alone a room, and passion that cuts through her apparent iciness. She plays conflicted well, but when she's allowed to be funny, it just adds to her charm.
Sexiest Role: Her ethereal, glowing Galadriel in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy (and now the Hobbit) is a highlight, but we really like her as Kate Wheeler in Bandits.
Stroke of Charm: Talking stunt bottoms on the Graham Norton show.
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Sexiest Role: A tough choice between The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot's Sugar, but Hot takes it for that entrance, one of the most memorable in cinema history. It's like jello on springs.
Stroke of Charm: It wasn't all vulnerable sexiness or power. She could clown around when she wanted.
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40. Cameron Diaz
Few actresses get the impactful start that Cameron Diaz enjoyed thanks to her flirty-yet-sweet appearance in The Mask. And she quickly capitalised on it, proving herself with drama The Last Summer and going full Farrelly for There's Something About Mary, the first of many screwball roles. But though she'll often be cast simply as the beauty, Diaz has shown an admirable ability to play other sides, including Being John Malkovich's weird Lotte Schwartz.
Sexiest Role: The film might not be Danny Boyle's best, but she's charm personified in A Life Less Ordinary. And let's not forget her foulmouthed educator in Bad Teacher. Still we have a feeling the upcoming Counsellor from Ridley Scott may top them all.
Stroke of Charm: Rapping with Gwyneth Paltrow like a gangsta.
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Sexiest Role: Needy in Jennifer's Body is surprisingly sexy for all her goofiness, but we'll take her conniving con artist in Chloe.
Stroke of Charm: Hear her be funny and fun on our own Podcast.
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A teen beauty queen, Halle Berry has showed a real willingness to work against her own gorgeousness when the job requires it (as in her big break, Spike Lee's Jungle Fever). She's carved out a career in drama, scored an Oscar for her role in Monster's Ball and proved to be a match for Bond as Jinx in Die Another Day, chalking up one of cinema's more iconic bikini shots in the process. She's been unafraid to play the sex bomb card when necessary, though she's tended more towards dramas that challenge her these days.
Sexiest Role: Swordfish's Ginger Knowles is a highlight in an otherwise disposable movie, and she's sexy as Miss Stone in The Flintstones.
Stroke of Charm: Like Sandra Bullock, Berry is a good sport at the Razzies.
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37. Monica Bellucci
Boasting a combination of classically stunning looks and the sort of laser concentration that you can't help but be attracted to, she's conquered roles both in Europe and across the pond. Whether she's gracing blockbusters or small Euro-indies, she seems equally at home. And it doesn't hurt that she often has a European approach to clothing, too…
Sexiest Role: Malèna Scordia finds herself the focus of attention for a whole village in 2000's Malèna.
Stroke of Charm: Vintage beauty from her modelling days.
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36. Anna Kendrick
In recent years, Kendrick has been embraced as the epitome of sweet-natured sass, with her adorable brunette locks and pixie face. She's proved she's got more to offer than that, though, stealing scenes in Scott Pilgrim and 50/50 and becoming a bona fide sensation thanks to Pitch Perfect. She's also loveable sharing the screen with George Clooney and Vera Farmiga as Natalie in Up In The Air.
Sexiest Role: Rocket Science's Ginny Ryerson showcased her nerd appeal to perfection.
Stroke of Charm: She's the ruling queen of Instagram.
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The name Olga might not traditionally spark images of glamour and lithe sex appeal, but Kurylenko certainly manages to embody both. Whether she's playing it tough, as in Centurion, or slinking around as one of the few Bond girls to resist the hero's charms in Quantum Of Solace. More recently, she's been Tom Cruise's dream girl in Oblivion, the one person who can make him turn away from Andrea Riseborough.
Sexiest Role: She manages to escape both Hitman and Max Payne with some measure of dignity and whole lot of sexiness.
Stroke of Charm: Matching Craig Ferguson for entertainment value, which is no easy task.
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34. Rachel Weisz
Just when we thought Rachel Weisz might get trapped in the web of action movie token-totty roles or random dramas, she broke out via her spirited Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy and it's been all fun and all uphill from there – so much so that we desperately missed her in The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. Weisz blends sex appeal with brains and classic looks, which might hold a clue as to why she's a Bond girl in real life.
Sexiest Role: Evy is tough to beat, and she's great in the heartbreaking The Deep Blue Sea, but there's also her great turn in Beautiful Creatures.
Stroke of Charm: Posing as Snow White. Because she can.
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33. Helena Bonham Carter
These days, she's better known for putting quirk before beauty, yet her features still shine through even when she's dressing in odd costumes for Tim Burton with through-a-hedge-backwards hair and/or creating trouble for Harry Potter. Carter rose through the costume drama ranks to become one of our most respected – and attractive – actresses, comfortable in Shakespeare's world or larking about as Madame Thénardier in Les Mis.
Sexiest Role: As the laidback, scheming Marla Singer in Fight Club, she's rarely been naughtier or more likely to rip us off, but we can't resist her.
Stroke of Charm: How to parent, Bellatrix-style.
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32. Christina Hendricks
'Impish' is perhaps not the first word that comes to mind to describe why Christina Hendricks has made such an impact in such a short space of time, but the devilish twinkle in her eyes is a definite plus. Whether putting the Mad Men in their place on TV or playing someone seriously out of their depth in Drive, she's always one to watch. Also, she's curvaceous as all get-out.
Sexiest Role: Joan Harris has become a small-screen icon, but we'll go further back in her career and cite Firefly's scheming Saffron.
Stroke of Charm: Has arrows, can use them. Hunger Games, eat your heart out.
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31. Kate Winslet
You might not have suspected that the take-no-crap tomboy from TV's Dark Season would grow up into one of Britain's most recognised sex icons. But while she's certainly lovely, curvy and able to rock a costume drama dress, Winslet is more than just some wilting English rose. She's funny, outspoken, romantic, and brings everything together when she finds the right role, as demonstrated with Clementine in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless mind.
Sexiest Role: Titanic made her a worldwide name, but her riskier roles in Hideous Kinky and Little Children really stand out.
Stroke of Charm: Tales of Improv from Inside The Actor's Studio.
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30. Ellen Page
She's too easily written off as merely cute or a bit of a tomboy, but there's much more to Ellen Page. She's proved herself a versatile actress between the tough Hard Candy and the witty Juno, and in between has been a superhero AND a sidekick (in X-Men: The Last Stand and Super).
Sexiest Role: We'd go for her tough chick in Whip It. She rocks those roller boots.
Stroke of Charm: Incredibly bad jokes on Twitter and the guts to own up to them.
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29. Sandra Bullock
An authentic leading lady and one of the most consistently popular stars in Hollywood, Bullock initially broke through in Demolition Man, as enthusiastic future cop Lenina Huxley, a woman obsessed with the tough guys of the past. Since then, she's hung with several of them, notching up Speed before moving into more grown-up comedies and dramas. These days, she lets her adorability creep through nervy straight-woman roles, though The Proposal proved she can still bring the laughs.
Sexiest Role: Speed's Annie is still among her sexy highpoints, even if she does spend most of the movie panicking. See also: The Net.
Stroke of Charm: When she wins a Razzie, she turns up.
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With her famous curves providing an undeniable sizzle, Salma Hayek has long been one of the most beautiful women gracing our screens, and of course that Mexican accent doesn't hurt. And she's tough to boot: just watch her making Benicio del Toro cower in Savages, for example.
Sexiest Role: She portrays the iconic, show-stopping Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn, and choreographed her own dance for it.
Stroke of Charm: Got milk?
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27. Carey Mulligan
We may have spotted her in TV's Bleak House or Trial & Retribution, or even as Kitty in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice. But we can pinpoint the moment we all fell for Carey Mulligan thanks to two words: Sally Sparrow. Her appearance in the time-twisting Doctor Who episode Blink cemented her appeal, and she's built from there with beautiful work in Public Enemies, Drive and The Great Gatsby.
Sexiest Role: An Education saw her Oscar nominated as defiant schoolgirl Jenny Mellor in a role that seemed made for her. But there's also her troubled chanteuse in Shame…
Stroke of Charm: Joining Stephen Colbert's book club. It's Gif-tastic.
Watch An Education online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
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26. Julianne Moore
Power. It's what Julianne Moore has in spades – and she uses her fame for good. Preferring to lend her talents to indie character work over blockbuster fare, she's always been electrifying on screen, challenging us even as she charms in movies such as Short Cuts, Benny & Joon, The End Of The Affair and The Kids Are All Right.
Sexiest Role: In a film filled with standout performances, it's hard not to notice Maude Lebowski, the art-crafting Valkyrie sex goddess who wins over The Dude.
Stroke of Charm: Here she is (tastefully) nude with, er, lion cubs as fashion accessories?
Stream The Big Lebowski now with Amazon Video
25. Amber Heard
Whether she's in traditionally sexy mode for The Informers or The Rum Diary, or mixing things up in Zombieland (as the world's cutest zombie you'd still have to kill) and convincing as a school girl Seth Rogen would fall for, Amber Heard has quickly established herself as a go-to bombshell. In her future? A lethal beauty queen role in Machete Kills.
Sexiest Role: It's hard to beat The Informers for pure sex appeal, though she's also great in The Ward and Never Back Down.
Stroke of Charm: Heard tells her favourite joke.
Buy The Informers now on Amazon
24. Jessica Alba
For years, Jessica Alba seemed locked into as either the good girl or the spunky heroine of Dark Angel. Then she had fun blending both for Sin City's Nancy Callahan – and suddenly it wasn't only Nancy we noticed had grown up. She's kept things OTT thanks to Robert Rodriguez's Machete (and she'll return in its sequel) but has also been a superhero and a sexy singleton. Adaptable, that one.
Sexiest Role: Bikini-sporting treasure hunter Sam made pulses race in Into The Blue, but there's also her saintly dancer in Honey.
Stroke of Charm: Jessica Alba engages in a staring contest.
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Stream Honey now with Amazon Video
23. Jessica Chastain
Since suddenly breaking out everywhere, Chastain has taken roles that could seem frosty and infused them with warmth and heart. She makes characters feel real and is never afraid to swap glamour for struggle. But when she does dress up, she looks incredible. It's difficult to take your eyes off her when she's on screen and even in smaller roles, such as The Help, she's noticeable.
Sexiest Role: Her onscreen partnership with Tom Hardy in Lawless had everyone mesmerised, and she's also great as Rachel in The Debt – one of the few people who could conceivably be a young Helen Mirren.
Stroke of Charm: Jessica Chastain meets Jessica Chastain...
Watch Lawless online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
Watch The Debt online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
22. Zooey Deschanel
The whole "adorkable", quirky-cute thing aside, Zooey Deschanel can be seriously sexy when she wants to be, and admirable funny at other times. She plays up her wackier angles, but in reality comes across as a sweet, talented type who is always creating something. She's great as Trillian in the 2005 version of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and even makes a complicated woman like (500) Days Of Summer's titular character work.
Sexiest Role: She always bends sweetness with the sexiness, but never to more devastating effect than in Elf, which makes you want to be Will Ferrell and sing along with her in the shower.
Stroke of Charm: Putting a spell on anyone within a three-mile radius.
Stream Elf now with Amazon Video
21. Emily Blunt
She can rock a period dress, play a young royal, spit venom in the world of fashion, charm the likes of Matt Damon and Ewan McGregor and survive sci-fi in Looper. Emily Blunt can do anything and look good at the same time. She's always entertaining and manages to make it all look effortless while winning us over.
Sexiest Role: One of her earliest roles, in My Summer Of Love, had her falling for Natalie Press's Mona, for a romance that's hard to forget. But she also makes the sweetly ordinary Iris in Your Sister's Sister seemed damned attractive.
Stroke of Charm: She competes in a Nice-Off with Jason Segel.
Buy My Summer Of Love now on Amazon
Watch Your Sister's Sister online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
20. Gemma Arterton
Arterton has only been appearing in our cinemas since 2007, but she's made a heck of an impact. Starting with the can't-lose combo of insouciance and sex appeal in the otherwise dodgy St. Trinian's, she quickly graduated to crime with RocknRolla and became a Bond girl in Quantum Of Solace. She hasn't had the best luck with her blockbusters, but she's always charming on screen.
Sexiest Role: She's rarely been more lovely than when winning over an entire village in Tamara Drewe.
Stroke of Charm: She even looks good on a blustery day.
Stream Tamara Drewe now with Amazon Video
19. Kate Beckinsale
Beckinsale first hit the screen as Hero in the 1993 version of Much Ado, but for most she entered our big screen consciousness as the cheeky, quick Georgie in Shooting Fish. Since then, she's graduated to indie goddess with The Last Days Of Disco, blockbuster glamour with Pearl Harbor and vampire action icon thanks to the Underworld series' Selene and that catsuit.
Sexiest Role: There's the go-getting Ava Gardener in The Aviator, perhaps. But that catsuited vampire is hard to ignore.
Stroke of Charm: Who doesn't love a good blooper?
Stream The Aviator now with Amazon Video
18. Keira Knightley
With sharp-edged features and a cutting ability to be both ladylike and outrageous, Knightley seems equally at home in corseted costume dramas or edgy indies. Whether she's breaking our hearts in Atonement or threatening to break our faces for Domino, she's got that certain something, that spark beneath the model-level face that just works.
Sexiest Role: Andrew Lincoln – for all his weird stalker ways – had it right in Love Actually, when she played the beautiful Juliet. Though there's also something about her role in Silk...
Stroke of Charm: Getting adorable on Jimmy Fallon's talk show.
Stream Love Actually now with Amazon Video
Buy Silk now on Amazon
17. Olivia Wilde
Often described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, it's not tough to see why Olivia Wilde has been in demand recently. Whether she's playing the spunky living program Quorra in Tron: Legacy (and making a pageboy wig look good against a shiny catsuit) or proving to be the most watchable thing in Cowboys & Aliens or Burt Wonderstone, she always stands out. She's also humble and funny, which only adds to the appeal.
Sexiest Role: A great blend of her funny and sexy sides, she impressed in little-seen indie Butter as a stripper with a heart of gold and a vengeful streak a mile wide.
Stroke of Charm: Telling it like it is to Justin bloody Bieber.
16. Amy Adams
Cute seems to the easiest label applied to Adams' looks, especially given her standout roles in Enchanted and as Mary in The Muppets. But there's far more to her appeal, including an inner steeliness that belies a sweet nature, as shown in The Fighter. She also came up through comedy, especially in her film debut, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and her funniness just adds to her appeal. She was even a fine Lois Lane in Man Of Steel – we just wish she'd had more to do.
Sexiest Role: She's surprisingly sexy in Charlie Wilson's War, but talking of Sorkin (or at least his creation), you should see her as farm girl Cathy in The West Wing' s 20 Hours In America: Part 1.
Stroke of Charm: Getting unscripted with Muppet co-stars Jason Segel, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
Stream Charlie Wilson's War now with Amazon Video
Stream The West Wing now with Amazon Video
15. Charlize Theron
Blessed with the iconic, leggy blonde looks of a supermodel, Theron wormed her way into our affections with an astonishing variety of roles. From her early, siren work in 2 Days In The Valley to more rewarding – yet still astonishingly lovely – turns in The Yards and The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, she makes sexy seem effortless while also possessing the acting power to get the job done.
Sexiest Role: Squeezing into a tight-fitting catsuit for Aeon Flux certainly made the three people who saw take notice, and she was somehow still hot as hot mess Mavis Gary in Young Adult.
Stroke of Charm: It can be tough to upstage Michael Fassbender. But Theron manages it here.
Stream Aeon Flux now with Amazon Video
Stream Young Adult now with Amazon Video
14. Eva Green
Great strength, astounding beauty and real vulnerability in one role; perhaps that's why so many fell for Eva Green in Casino Royale. But she'd already made us weak at the knees with a risqué performance in The Dreamers and we'd seen her tough side in Kingdom Of Heaven's Sibylla. Green has also proved the best thing in movies that don't necessarily work, chewing the scenery in Dark Shadows and out-weirding Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton film. Who knew that was possible?
Sexiest Role: She sizzles with Ewan McGregor in Perfect Sense.
Stroke of Charm: Sexy. And she loves her dog, too.
Stream Perfect Sense now with Amazon Video
13. Marion Cotillard
A classic French beauty, Marion Cotillard is possessed of, as the French say, a certain I-don't-know-what. Whether she's being utterly charming in A Good Year or remarkably sexy in Midnight In Paris, it's hard to take your eyes off her. She even brings some warmth to the usually chilly world of Christopher Nolan, even if we all knew we couldn't trust her in The Dark Knight Rises.
Sexiest Role: She's great wooing the pants off Johnny Depp in Public Enemies. And Jean-Pierre Jeunet makes her look amazing in A Very Long Engagement.
Stroke of Charm: Uh, fellas? They're up there.
Stream Public Enemies now with Amazon Video
Stream A Very Long Engagement now with Amazon Video
12. Penelope Cruz
First noticed in Pedro Almodovar's Jamon Jamon, Cruz became his regular collaborator. It's not hard to see why, given her effortless, sultry beauty and ability to slip between humour and seduction. Though she's never been shy about disrobing, she's proved herself more than just a lovely woman, and is one of the few actors picked to play the same role twice – in Abre Los Ojos and again in Cameron Crowe's remake, Vanilla Sky.
Sexiest Role: She's incredibly appealing in Vicky Cristina Barcelona as the ultra-high-maintenance but completely irresistible Maria Elena.
Stroke of Charm: Here she is playing Super Mario with her near-identical sister Monica.
Watch Vicky Cristina Barcelona online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
11. Megan Fox
She gets a bad rap for being a Michael Bay fantasy icon in Transformers, and while she hasn't yet found the perfect role where she doesn't simply rely on her looks, she's done decent supporting work riffing on her own hotness in This Is 40, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People and Friends With Kids. Plus, while the film itself didn't quite gel, Jennifer's Body gave her more of a chance to do something different – and she embraced it.
Sexiest Role: She's sassy as Lilah in Jonah Hex, though we'd still pick Jennifer's Body for her slinky, OTT performance.
Stroke of Charm: This behind-the-scenes video from This Is 40 is pretty cute.
Stream Jonah Hex now with Amazon Video
Stream Jennifer's Body now with Amazon Video
10. Zoe Saldana
Holding her own against the guys in Star Trek is no easy feat, but it's one that Saldana has managed with aplomb as the capable, intelligent Uhura. She was a dancer before she became an actress and her lithe figure has always been part of her appeal. But she combines funny with sexy, and has carved out a niche as one of the believable action icons, no matter whether she's blue and animated (for Avatar) or green (for the upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy).
Sexiest Role: Tough to chose between Cataleya in Colombiana and the rough-and-tumble Aisha in Losers.
Stroke of Charm: She plays the idiot sometimes.
Buy Colombiana now on Amazon
Watch The Losers online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
9. Angelina Jolie
Tattooed tough girl one moment, all-action kick-ass spy the next, then beautiful and refined woman who is so far out of your league you can't even afford tickets to the game. Jolie channels old school Hollywood with iconic good looks, but matches it all with range and effortless style – and has an Oscar to prove her abilities. Her appeal isn't diminished even when she's voicing a tiger in DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda franchise. Wait, is that just us?
Sexiest Role: TV movie Gia still holds a lot of people rapt, and she shows her impossibly gorgeous, Brad-grabbing side in Mr. And Mrs. Smith.
Stroke of Charm: Something a little less predictable in a Marie Claire photo shoot.
Stream Gia now with Amazon Video
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8. Natalie Portman
Whether working in period togs (The Other Boleyn Girl) or futuristic clobber (the Star Wars prequels), Natalie Portman has always been blessed with a certain spirit, something that shines through no matter what she's doing. She matches looks with brains and chooses a wide variety of work to keep things interesting. From her breakthrough as a would-be assassin to her Oscar win, there's no danger of her becoming stuck in a rut.
Sexiest Role: Many liked her as the damaged, yet still sexy Nina Sayers in Black Swan, but she defined a genre in Zach Braff's Garden State as Sam, at the forefront of the pixie dream girl movement – though she works on a level beyond it.
Stroke of Charm: Portman and Rashida Jones explain what's really important in life.
Stream Black Swan now with Amazon Video
Buy Garden State now on Amazon
7. Mila Kunis
"Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is pushing it down everyone's throat." Words to live by from Mila Kunis, who combines adorability with plenty of acting talent and who is fluent in Russian. Voted Woman Of The Year by more than one publication, her on-screen persona is an intoxicating combo of hopelessly sexy and entirely relatable. Oh, and she's also a huge Star Trek fan. How do you say "perfect" in Klingon, again?
Sexiest Role: Charming Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a highlight (and bikini-tastic), but we're going for her pairing with Justin Timberlake in Friends With Benefits.
Stroke of Charm: Hanging with the Sesame Street crew. Like you do.
Stream Forgetting Sarah Marshall now with Amazon Video
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6. Emma Stone
Not every young actress can combine looks with actual funniness, but Emma Stone is genuinely witty both on and off screen. Admirably centred in her career and personal life, she's gorgeous and gregarious but also capable of bring thoughtful in the likes of Crazy, Stupid, Love. She can even battle the undead, as she showed in Zombieland, so she's the first person we want around in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
Sexiest Role: Her Gwen Stacy won over Spider-Man (and, in real-life, Andrew Garfield), but her ballsy, whip-smart high schooler Olive in Easy A was the perfect role.
Stroke of Charm: No one is safe from her photo bombing. Not even her boyfriend.
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Stream Easy A now with Amazon Video
5. Anne Hathaway
We're puzzled by the backlash that swamped Hathaway during the run-up to this year's Oscars, where she capped months of awards with a golden baldie. Hathaway has always come across as sweet, funny, real and, it almost goes without saying, beautiful. She also has a backbone and a set of pipes to die for. Presumably everyone was basically jealous; there's no other explanation.
Sexiest Role: Whether battling it out with Christian Bale, or setting up smug senators, her Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises was definitely one to watch.
Stroke of Charm: A sad-off with Samuel L. Jackson.
Watch The Dark Knight Rises online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
4. Kristen Stewart
Twilight's Bella might have been the role that launched her to the next level of superstardom, but Stewart is more than simply a girl with a weakness for sparkly vampires. She's proved herself capable of much more, in films like On The Road and even Snow White And The Huntsman – who doesn't love a woman that can swing a sword likes she means it?
Sexiest Role: We'd plump for Adventureland's Em Lewin, where she charms Jesse Eisenberg with her sarcastic appeal and quick wit.
Stroke of Charm: Outing her fame-whoring dad (with love) on Conan.
Stream Adventureland now with Amazon Video
3. Jennifer Lawrence
Emerging to awards acclaim with Winter's Bone, Lawrence has quickly cemented a reputation as a natural, down-to-earth beauty who can also turn her hand to any role going, shining in big ensemble films like X-Men: First Class or being the focus as with The Hunger Games. In real life, she's by turns a goofball and one of the more beautiful women to walk a red carpet – a pretty irresistible combination.
Sexiest Role: It's not tough, for someone who looks like she does, to be sexy in Mystique's blue body paint, but she's also hot and Oscar winning in Silver Linings Playbook.
Stroke of Charm: Did you hear about her holiday? It was un-Belizeable.
Stream X-Men now with Amazon Video
Stream Silver Linings Playbook now with Amazon Video
2. Scarlett Johansson
Johansson graces perfume ads and fashion shoots – which seems inherently unlikely for someone who broke through to the big time thanks to Ghost World. But it's her brains and that husky voice that really put her ahead. Impressively, she can make anything from her Black Widow bodysuit to thick glasses and awkward gawkiness seem sexy.
Sexiest Role: Working with Woody Allen brought out something great in her, particularly when she was paired with Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Stroke of Charm: Making with the funny at a Cosmopolitan photoshoot in 2004.
Watch Vicky Cristina Barcelona online now with Amazon Prime – 30 days free
1. Emma Watson
Combining smarts with beauty, Emma Watson's been a favourite for years, even back in the days when people really shouldn't have been thinking that way about young Hermione. But since leaving Hogwarts she's blossomed into a fine young actress, playing roles from teen thief to music nerd, and even having fun as herself in This Is The End.
Sexiest Role: Her later Potter days might have hit the pop culture heights, but she's charming, self-possessed and full of spark in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower as Sam.
Stroke of Charm: Talking Santa and more with our Chris Hewitt at Cannes.
Stream The Perks Of Being A Wallflower now with Amazon Video


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Topic: ViEmu Output Window and :ls
In VS 2010 with ViEmu 2.5.14, when I use :ls to list the currently open buffers, ViEmu switches to the output tab. However, if the output tab was last used to show output from a different function (e.g. build, or a debug run), then although it switches to the output tab, it doesn't show the output from the ViEmu command, but rather what was previously shown. To view the ViEmu output, I have to manually select ViEmu from the "Show output from" dropdown.
Also it would be nice if each time I did an :ls, ViEmu cleared its output buffer so that the output of previous :ls commands were not visible (I use :ls a lot for buffer management and switching!).


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Ferguson hails Van Persie on sad day
Robin van Persie revealed the sad postscript to his 17th goal of the season for Manchester United.
Van Persie struck in the final minute to seal a 2-0 win for West Brom before lifting his shirt to reveal the message: `rip tchuna we will never forget you` and it was confirmed the message related to a close friend of the Dutchman, who died on Friday.
"He is a fantastic player. He came on and changed the game for us," said Ferguson of Van Persie. "Every time the ball came up to him he got hold of it and turned on them. They were having to go back to their box all the time and he has done well."
The United boss added: "They were a very resilient, stubborn team. They worked really hard on their defending and closed all their ranks. You have to deal with that but the slowness of the pitch killed our speed a bit."
Former United keeper Ben Foster kept United at bay in the first half, making a superb save to deny Ashley Young.
Not that West Brom boss Steve Clarke was surprised at such heroics.
"Ben Foster made some good saves," said Clarke. "That's why we spent our whole transfer budget on Ben in the summer."
After a difficult first half, the visitors came to life after the break, triggering United into a tactical change, with Chris Smalling dropping into central defence alongside outstanding skipper Nemanja Vidic and Chris Smalling following Van Persie's introduction.
"It is not demoralising," said Clarke of Van Persie's introduction.
"The fact they had to bring some of their big guns off the bench shows how well we were doing. In the first we were too timid. We spoke at half-time about being too respectful and in the end, the scoreline doesn't reflect the way we played."


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California Department of Transportation
District 7 - Los Angeles
Maria Raptis
April 30, 2010
La Canada Flintridge – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) today announced the completion of a project that replaced worn down sections of the Foothill Freeway (SR-210) between the Angeles Crest Highway in La Canada Flintridge and Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena. The $363,000 project was financed primarily through President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). This stimulus project and many others around the state are completing construction sooner than expected thanks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to expedite Recovery Act funding.
"My Administration is working hand-in-hand with President Obama's team to ensure stimulus dollars are pumped into California quickly and responsibly to stimulate the economy and in this instance - invest in the future of California's transportation infrastructure," said Governor Schwarzenegger.
Over the years, individual segments of I-210 have been damaged by the constant flow of traffic and by the weather. The new freeway segments will provide a safer, smoother ride for more than 110,000 motorists who regularly travel I-210 between the Angeles Crest Highway and Fair Oaks Avenue.
"We are committed to providing safe and reliable roads for La Canada Flintridge and all of Southern California. This project is a great example of how the stimulus is bringing in the cash we need to improve the Foothill Freeway, while at the same time supporting much-needed jobs," said Caltrans Chief Deputy Director Cindy McKim.
"In these tough economic times, projects like this help keep our people on the payroll," said Doug Bougs, Vice-President of Peterson-Chase General Engineering Construction, Incorporated, the project's contractor.
Under Governor Schwarzenegger's leadership, California leads the nation with $2.53 billion in Recovery Act funding obligated to 915 highway, local street, and job training transportation projects statewide. For more information on the Recovery Act, visit: http://recovery.ca.gov/.


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Networking Breakfast - University of Nairobi, KenyaActivity by Leonidah Kerubo Omosa | added on Jan 09, 2011 | Kenya
Sponsor(s): PACN
Women in Chemistry; lecturers, students, alumni and role models in the field; will get together on Tuesday, 18th January, 2011 to discuss a number of topics including the importance of chemistry in life and the pivotal role of Marie Curie in Chemistry.
The women in chemistry, University of Nairobi, Kenya are organizing a breakfast at the School of Physical Sciences (SPS), Chiromo campus boardroom to network with other countries to celebrate the IYC and also to commemorate the Marie Curie's pivotal role in chemistry. There will be power point presentations, discussions and video footage on the events of the day. The discussion will include; chemistry in life, women's struggle in the field of Chemistry, challenges in the awareness and hence growth of chemistry as compared to other subjects and Marie Curie's pivotal role in chemistry. The event will be attended by academic members of staff, undergraduates and postgraduate students, alumni and role models in the field. The breakfast will be held on Tuesday, 18th February, 2011 between 9.00-1.00 GMT to be in harmony with other breakfast meetings.
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Break Cyber
- Publisher: YUE HUA NI
- Genre: Puzzle
- Released: 17 Jul, 2012
- Size: 10.6 MB
- Price: FREE!
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DescriptionWhy can't you stop playing this amazing Break Cyber?
Why are you so addicted to this glorious Cyber everyday?
Here it is! Break Cyber!
Boost your fun with breaking more blocks and Multipliers. Break as many as you can to reach higher score. Challenge your friends to beat your highest score. Own the top spot on your daily leader board. Fill your stats to become the ultimate Break Star master and earn bragging rights galore.
How to Play:
- Just tap two or more blocks of the same color.
- There is no time limit, but each stage has target points to proceed to next stage.
Tips on Scoring:
- Remember just two rules below:
1. The more blocks you break, the more score you get
2. Try to clear all blocks, which brings you a lot bonus.
Example of Rule 1
(Formula: Score = Blocks * Blocks * 5)
2 Blocks = 20
3 Blocks = 45...
Example of Rule 2
(Formula: Bonus = 2000 - Blocks * Blocks * 20)
10 Blocks Left = 0
9 Blocks Left = 380
All Block Cleared = 2000


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A while ago it was discovered that the Earth's inner core was a bit more complicated than first thought. Our picture of the inner core was pretty simple—a lump of solid iron, made up of microcrystals with some defects and soft boundaries. However, recent measurements of seismic waves revealed that sound waves travel faster through the inner core along the Earth's axis. Looking even closer revealed that the speed up didn't begin immediately on entering the inner core, but began a few kilometers below the interface between the outer and inner cores. The last nail in the coffin of our cozy understanding was discovering that the interface was thicker in one hemisphere.
To explain the anisotropic speed of sound in the inner core, some researchers had proposed that the inner core was, in fact, a single giant crystal with the hexagonal structure pictured to the far right. The hexagonal structure is justified because experiments and calculations have revealed it to be the stable structure adopted by iron under high pressure and temperature. If this crystal was oriented along the Earth's axis and had lots of defects near the surface it might explain the observations. Considering that the Earth has had a few billion years to slowly cool, it is not so far-fetched to imagine a single large crystal in the center of the Earth... No, really, it isn't... The problem is that we can't easily replicate the conditions experienced by the iron in the inner core. We can manage the temperature or the pressure fairly easily—explaining why scientists proposed the hexagonal structure in the first place—but not both simultaneously, making it difficult to figure out if hexagonal iron has the right properties to explain the seismic observations. The single hexagonal theory was dealt a serious blow when calculations showed that although the hexagonal structure is stable at high pressure and temperature, it is also isotropic, meaning that sound has the same speed along every orientation.
Enter some new molecular dynamics calculations on the properties of iron. This time, researchers from Sweden and China carried out calculations on a body centered cubic structure (left picture). Although body centered structures are highly symmetric, they are also strongly anisotropic because, unlike a hexagonal structure, a single atom has 14 neighbors that are not equidistant from it. This makes the crystal more rigid in some orientations, compared to others, meaning that sound propagates faster in some directions compared to others.
The researchers calculated the speed of sound for single body centered cubic and hexagonal crystals under varying temperatures and pressures. They found that the body centered cubic structure was more anisotropic than the hexagonal structure. However, the anisotropy is too big to allow for a single, oriented crystal to be sitting in the Earth's inner core, leading them to conclude that the Earth's inner core is made up of microcrystals. They found that they could replicate the measured anisotropy with just 30 percent of the crystals aligned. So far, we have only discussed the measured difference between the speed of sound along each crystal orientation, and not the absolute speed. Amazingly, the speed of sound in body centered cubic iron is much closer to measured data than the calculated values for hexagonal iron, completing the trifecta.
This is a lovely piece of research because it shows how an awkward, but sort-of works, solution can be replaced in one step. We started out needing to assume a single, oriented crystal in the Earth's core and replaced it with a morass of crystals, with only a minority of them aligned. In doing so, two unexplained observations were explained: the speed of sound, and its anisotropy in the Earth's inner core.
Science, 2008, DOI: 10.1126/science.1150302


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AMERICUS - This Saturday (Apr. 7) the Georgia Southwestern Athletics Department is holding its first "Mascot Day" on campus.
Surge, the Hurricanes mascot presented by Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, and his friends will be visiting the GSW baseball and softball games that afternoon.
The mascots will throw out a first pitch at Hurricane Stadium at 1 p.m. as the baseball team prepares to face Peach Belt Conference West Division-leading Georgia College. After visiting with fans and taking part in a few between-inning competitions, the mascots will head over to Lady 'Canes Field and kick off the softball doubleheader against PBC foe Columbus State at 2 p.m.
In addition, the GSW Student Government Association will be offering free face painting for fans of all ages.
Confirmed attendees to "Mascot Day" include the 2Duke's Bar-B-Que pig, the Q-Cup from Quiznos and the panther from Americus Sumter High School.
WHO: Surge (the GSW mascot) and several of his friends
WHAT: Mascot Day
WHEN: April 7 from 12:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Hurricane Stadium (baseball) and Lady Canes Field (softball)
If your organization has a mascot that would like to join the festivities, contact the GSW Sports Marketing office at 229-931-2217.