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A few minutes into the second quarter of last Friday's Girls Inter-Ac League game, host Penn Charter held a comfortable 24-12 lead over the Academy of Notre Dame, but there would be plenty of anxious moments for the home crowd before the contest reached its conclusion.
Back within seven points by halftime, the visiting Irish trailed by just four (43-39) with a minute-and-a-half left to play, but solid free throw shooting helped the Quakers come away with a 49-42 victory.
Charter received key contributions from across the age spectrum. Center Dianna Thomas-Palmer posted 12 points and 10 rebounds and fellow senior Marykate O'Brien provided eight points, five rebounds, two assists, and two steals. The two eighth-graders who start at guard, Ayanna Matthews and Hannah Fox, furnished 13 and nine points, respectively. Matthews also recorded four rebounds and two assists, and the Quakers received five points from sophomore Christina Kubach and two from senior Danielle Sienko.
In their first meeting this season, the Irish had defeated the Quakers, 59-48, a few days before the holiday break.
"Having seen them once, we were better prepared," noted PC coach David Bass. "Going into this game, we were determined to make Fitzpatrick and McGurk work for every basket they got."
Bass was speaking of Notre Dame's junior guard tandem of Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Megan McGurk, proficient perimeter marksmen who netted 36 points between them in the December clash with Charter.
"Fitzpatrick is an outstanding shooter, and she lit us up the last time," Bass pointed out.
Last Friday Matthews guarded Fitzpatrick much of the evening, and the visiting gunhand finished with six points, netting just one three-pointer. The Irish still had three double-digit scorers to keep them close on the several occasions when PC threatened to pull away. McGurk put up seven of her team-high 11 points after halftime, and Molly Borgese and Kristen Carr added 10 points apiece.
The Irish don't have a lot of height at forward, but they're no slouches on the boards.
"Their girls really know how to read the basketball on the rebounds, and they go hard after the ball," Bass said. "We knew we had to try and match their intensity. Every once in awhile we slacked off, but we were able to come back and regroup in time to keep the lead."
After the teams were tied 10-10 in the opening minute of the second quarter, PC went ahead for good by reeling off a dozen points in a row.
Thomas-Palmer put in a three-pointer from the top of the key and a pair of lay-ups, while Fox also canned a "three," and Kubach contributed a lay-up. The sophomore came off the bench after Sienko picked up a pair of first-quarter fouls.
Notre Dame knows how to pressure opponents on their offensive transition, but despite the occasional turnover, the Quakers weathered the storm relatively well.
"The key was to be patient and make sure everyone comes to get the ball," Bass said. "We used Dee [the 6'1" Thomas-Palmer] a lot to alleviate the pressure, because the girls can find her and she's a good ballhandler. They trapped us a couple of times, so we still have to get better at handling the ball pressure."
An exchange of lay-ups made it 24-12 with 2:38 to go in the first half, but Notre Dame whittled away at the lead, scoring the final five points for a 24-17 tally at the interlude. The visitors' momentum carried over into the second half. Borgese, a 5'10" senior who can use her experience and quickness to outmaneuver bigger players down low, scored twice in the first two minutes and the Quakers found their lead had dwindled to just three points, 24-21.
O'Brien capitalized on a breakaway to revive the home team and the spirits of its fans. Next, the eighth-graders combined in transition, with Fox feeding Matthews for a lay-up. Charter kept rolling until it had put together a four-minute, 10-1 surge. However, as in the previous period, Notre Dame registered the final five points of the quarter. Fitzpatrick's baseline jumper with eight seconds to go – her first field goal of the game – set the score at 34-27 for the final frame.
Round four began with Borgese cashing in on a rebound to reduce the gap to five points, but then foul trouble began to catch up with the Irish, who already had seven team fouls. Violations eight and nine sent PC's Thomas-Palmer and O'Brien to the line for two points apiece. Fitzpatrick canned a three-pointer for the visitors, but just after that Thomas-Palmer hit one of two free throws as AND's Bailey McCue fouled out of the game. PC was back up by seven, 39-32.
McCue was out or action and other forwards for the Irish had foul problems, as well. PC post player Thomas-Palmer did not suffer her first foul call until more than three minutes into the fourth quarter. It was quickly followed by her second, but the only true whistle worries for the hosts involved Sienko, who said sayonara with her fifth foul with 1:07 remaining in the game.
Charter hit 15 of 19 free throws in the second half (netting 13 points in the fourth period alone), while the Irish were six-for-11 over the same 16 minutes.
Nevertheless, as the clock dropped below the two-minute mark a lay-up by Borgese and a productive one-and-one for McGurk had the visitors within four, 43-39. After PC turned the ball over on a 10-second half-court violation, Sienko's fifth foul gave the Irish another one-and-one, but they came away empty, missing the chance to make it a two-point affair.
Instead, Thomas-Palmer and O'Brien went to the line once again and produced four more PC points. McGurk hit a lay-up for the Irish but the Quakers' Kubach got one point back from the foul line with 19 seconds to go. After AND missed a three-point attempt from well beyond the arc, Fox also hit one of two free throws for the home team, which now led 49-41 with 10.7 on the ticker.
The final score went up in lights with 2.2 seconds left, as McGurk made her second foul shot on a double-bonus opportunity. So ended another edge-of-your-seat adventure for the Quakers, who are seeing even their youngest players develop into tested varsity performers.
"We knew from the get-go that our schedule was tough, and we've been in close games with good teams all season long," Bass pointed out. "Our young kids are seeing a lot of action, and they're gaining experience that most players don't have at their age."


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It's 8 a.m. Sunday and John Palyok, general manager of a Best Buy store in Burbank, is brandishing a $19.99 Dynex HDMI cable like a battle standard.
A group of 50 employees, mostly in their 20s, gather around him, gulping coffee and nodding slowly.
"It's about speed, velocity and execution," bellowed Palyok, his voice echoing through the store's cavernous, 45,000-square-foot interior.
"They, need, need this HDMI cable," Palyok said, slicing the thin blue box through the air like a battle-ax. "The absolute worst thing that could happen is if a customer goes home and doesn't know that it exists."
And Best Buy needs Black Friday and this holiday season to generate strong sales. The good news is that since at least Monday, customers have been setting up tents outside stores to be the first in line for the chain's big specials at its midnight opening Friday.
-- Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times

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My Little Collection of Odd & Offbeat Holiday SongsPosted: December 25, 2012 Filed under: open thread | Tags: blink 182, Eric Idle, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, julian casablancas, odd christmas songs, snoop dogg, Sufjan Stevens, The Pogues, The Pretenders, The Ronettes, The Waitresses, Tom Waits 11 Comments
So, this is an open thread as you've probably gathered by now. It's musical. It's full of holiday songs. It's full of really offbeat Christmas songs because I'm that sorta dakini. Blame Josh Barro and Dave Stringer Huge's Tolerable Christmas Playlist on Spotify. Some of them are very bluesy, some are punk rocky and some are outrageous and EXPLICIT.
From Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (what can I say … it's Tom Waits!!!)
The Pretenders: 2000 Miles (obscure and beautiful)
From Eric Idle: F%^k Christmas (yes,it's graphic)
Sufjan Stevens: That Was the Worst Christmas Ever (hauntingly beautiful and acoustic)
Fountains of Wayne: I want an Alien for Christmas (It's very neo Punk and fun!)
snoop dogg: santa claus goes straight to the ghetto (graphic, funky, and very socially aware rap)
The Kinks: Father Christmas (CLASSIC)
Blink 182: I won't be home for Christmas (Youngest Daughter was obsessed with this group 4evah!!! Rocky Neopunk and very dark humor lyrics)
Julian Casablancas: I wish it was Christmas today (Cross between the Kinks and the Ramones plus Julian is yummy!)
Jimmy Eat World: Last Christmas (It's an update to a song sung by Wham! and George Michael so yes, very pop, very 80s and could be covered by Justin Beiber … Highly CORNY.)
The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping (From my misspent punky youth … I loved this group for some reason)
The Ronettes: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Yes, it's the Wall of Sound, creepy Phil Spector and that very 1960s sound!)
The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl: New York Fairy Tale (A beautiful, haunting song with a very Irish sound and dark lyrics.)
I got a few more up my sleeve and I'll post them as the evening wears on and my wine glass refills.


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Wild Fall To Avs In Shootout After Furious Comeback
The Minnesota Wild rallied late in the third period for a pair of goals to tie the game and go to overtime, but ultimately fell 3-2 to the Colorado Avalanche in Denver.
The Avalanche led throughout the game, beginning with Gabriel Landeskog's ninth of the season at 2:22 of the first period. Nathan McKinnon's fifth of the year at 12:56 of the second period gave Colorado at 2-0 lead going into the final period.
With just over two minutes remaining in regulation, Matt Cooke found the back of the net for Minnesota to break the shutout and cut the Avs lead to 2-1.
Wild captain Mikko Koivu notched the equalizer at 19:54 of the third period to send the game to overtime, in which neither team scored. Colorado won the shootout 1-0.
Minnesota is now 15-8-5 on the season and will host the Philadelphia Flyers at Xcel Energy Center Monday night.


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City's assets are being drained by its benefits
Bill King says since 2002, Houston's financial health has been trending in a sickly manner when compared to the county's economic assessment.
Each year, all governmental entities in Texas are required to issue a financial statement that has been audited by an outside accounting firm. The report is called the comprehensive annual financial report, commonly referred to as the CAFR.
The CAFRs roughly track the traditional financial statement format you would see for a private company. But there are also significant differences. The accounting profession established the Governmental Standard Accounting Board (GASB), which has promulgated a separate set of accounting rules for governmental entities.
One of the fundamental measures which every governmental entity must report is its "net assets." This is the amount by which the assets owned by the governmental entity exceed the total amount that it owes.
On a personal financial statement this would equate to an individual's net worth, or on a company's financial statement its total equity. And as with an individual's net worth or a company's total equity, a governmental entity's net assets is a fundamental measurement of its overall financial health. It is especially important to see how an entity's net assets are changing over time. If the entity's net assets are stable or increasing, it probably is in pretty good financial shape. But if its net assets are declining, that is a red flag.
Unfortunately, that is the situation in which we find ourselves with respect to the city of Houston's finances. For most of the city's history, its net assets have increased. About half way through Lee Brown's administration, the city's net assets reached an all-time high of $9.4 billion. However, since that time, they have steadily declined.
In 2002, the GASB issued a major overhaul for how governmental entities had to account for their assets. For most entities this resulted in a significant write down in their net assets. In the city of Houston's case, its net assets went from $9.3 billion to $5.4 billion in one year. Unfortunately, this makes long-term comparison going back before 2002 difficult and misleading.
But if we just look at the trend in the city's net assets since 2002, the direction is disheartening. Since the 2002 restatement of the city's net assets, they have decreased every year. On average, the city has lost about $230 million each year, slightly over 5 percent annually. As of June, 2012, the city's net assets had slipped to just over $3 billion.
This may not seem all that alarming to you. We have become accustomed to local governments across the country struggling with their finances. And one frequently will hear city officials blame the city's financial woes on the recent recession.
But the city has been largely immune to the declining revenues which have plagued some other jurisdictions. The city's revenues increased in seven of the 10 years since 2002, growing by over 52 percent during that period. The average annual increase has been $136 million or about 4.5 percent. And Houston weathered the recent recession very well. Its revenues reached an all-time high in 2009 of just over $3.9 billion. They did decline by 3 percent in 2010, but have come roaring back since them. The revenues more than fully recovered by 2012 and are on a pace to set yet another record in 2013.
It is also instructive to compare the trend in the city's net assets to Harris County's. Obviously, the county was operating in the same general economic conditions as the city during this period. But in stark contrast, its net assets have grown from $8.9 billion to nearly $10.4 billion, a 17 percent increase over the same period that the city lost 42 percent of its net assets.
So how, you might ask, did the city lose nearly half its net assets in the last decade? The answer lies almost entirely in the obligations it has incurred in connection with the benefits it has promised retired employees. On the 2002 CAFR, the city showed no liability for these promises. By the 2012 CAFR, they had swelled to nearly $2.3 billion, just about the same amount that the city's net assets have declined over that period.
Unfortunately, this situation is about to get much worse. More on that next week.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - It is one of the most frequently asked questions in sport: Will Tiger Woods ever get back to the level he was when he utterly dominated golf?
For the 14-times major winner, the query is misplaced.
"I don't want it to be as good. That was never the intent," Woods told reporters on Saturday.
"I want it to be better".
Last year that comment might have been taken as little more than bravado. Woods was still working through a swing-change with coach Sean Foley and his talk was more about the mechanics of the game than the thrill of leading a field on a Sunday.
Instead of enthusing about birdies, Woods talked endlessly about "process".
But with a four-stroke lead heading into Sunday's final round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral, Woods, who already has a win at Torrey Pines under his belt this year, is clearly back in the zone.
It is visible in his body-language - the confident way he walks to the tee, addresses the ball and then, after blasting it down the middle, strides down the fairway.
It was evident on the greens, none more so than the 18th hole on Saturday where he drained an 16-foot putt for his 24th birdie in 54 holes.
The "process" may not be totally finished but Woods says the main work has been done and, thanks to his improved fitness as well, the crowds at the Blue Monster are witnessing something close to the final result of his work with Foley.
"I'm finally healthy and that has a lot to do with it. I've been able to make changes with Sean and those have been pretty much implemented," he said.
"We are just making fine tuning, each and every day you have little bitty adjustments here and there but the major overhauls are done.
"Now I have more time to dedicate myself to my short game and that's allowed me to win some golf tournaments last year and Torrey this year," he said.
The Blue Monster course has hardly been the toughest test of a top golfer and is incomparable with what awaits at Augusta next month but Woods looks likely to head there with at least one more win under his belt.
He has never lost a tournament when entering the final round with a lead of three strokes or more, and while the wind may get stronger and the greens will likely get harder and faster, the chasing pack know their chances will be limited on Sunday.
"Tiger played fantastic," said playing partner McDowell. "All respect to the way he handled himself today and the way he played. He is going to be a tough man to catch".
We might be hearing a little bit more of that kind of talk in the coming months.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I knew nothing of April Bloomfield until I began to work my way through the Gourmet Live list of Women Game Changers in Food last year. At that time she was executive chef of the Breslin and the Spotted Pig in New York City, and I decided to make the ricotta pancakes that had helped to make her eclectic style of cooking famous. I loved the pancakes, as did my family, so I began to clip her recipes whenever I came across one that could be made in a home kitchen. I tend to do a lot of Scandinavian cooking at this time of year, and in that stash of recipes I had been collecting was one for Jansen's Temptation, a Swedish potato gratin that is made with heavy cream and anchovies. I made the dish this past weekend and was really pleased with the results. As is my habit, first time through, a recipe is always made to the developer's specification. Theme and variation are saved for later performances. This is a delicious dish, but next time I prepare it, I'll use light cream or half-and-half to make the cream base in which the potatoes cook. While I found the gratin to be overly rich, the Silver Fox loved it, so, despite its creamy excess, it will again appear on my table, though in a somewhat lightened form. The flavor of the infused cream, which contains onions, anchovies and fennel, is a wonderful and the dish is not difficult to make. I hope you will give this remarkable recipe a try. I think you will be delighted with this Swedish classic. Here's how Jansen's Temptation is made.
Jansen's Temptation...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of April Bloomfield
2 cups cream
3 cloves garlic, quartered
2 tablespoons thyme, plus a little extra for garnish
1-3/4 ounces anchovy fillets, plus 4 extra for garnish
2/3 teaspoon ground fennel
4 tablespoons butter
2 peeled onions, sliced thinly
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
4 to 6 Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into sixths
Bread crumbs, as needed
1) Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2) To prepare cream base, bring cream, garlic, thyme, anchovies, and fennel to a boil. Remove from heat and let ingredients infuse for 10 minutes. Once cooled, purée in blender until smooth.
3) In a medium sauté pan add 2 tablespoons butter. Add onions and cook over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes. Add salt and remaining butter and continue cooking until onions are very soft, but not brown, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat and reserve until assembly.
4) Place potatoes in a large pot and cover with cold water. Heavily season water with salt and bring to a boil. Cook potatoes until very tender (there should be no resistance when pierced with a knife), about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on size of potatoes. Strain and set aside.
5) Assemble dish by placing a layer of cooked potatoes wedges in bottom of a 9-inch gratin dish. Follow with a layer made with half the onions. Top with remaining potato wedges and finally, remaining onions. Pour cream over layers until dish is full, and almost overflowing.
6) Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and fresh thyme. Top with 4 anchovy fillets and bake for 20 minutes. Allow to rest a minute or two, but serve hot. Yield: 4 servings.
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Rob_ski wrote:http://www.solder.net/stencilquik/default.asp
There are tutorials on the website explaining how to use them. I've placed 10 or so BGA's using those having an X-Ray of each one taken after reflow. Each one has come back near perfect.
Although I have a 5 zone convection reflow oven. I imagine this could be reflowed with a heat plate and an air gun
I was confusing my Mils with mm
Yeah, I looked into those stickons, and I assume they do work (looks like they should). Unfortunately, for a PCB like mine that has a few (7) BGA components on it, the cost of those 7 stickers is more than the cost of the assembly house to assemble the PCB. So yeah, it does let you "assemble at home", but it isn't cost effective. It is potentially "time effective", assuming you order the stickers long before your bare PCBs arrive. Last time I checked they cost $7 each, assuming you don't accidentally mess any of them up. That's $50 per PCB for my PCB, and more for PCBs with more BGAs. And that still doesn't solve the same problem with QFN components (unless maybe they now have QFN equivalents... don't know).
My goal was to find a cheap and permanent solution that works for all mini-pitch, hidden-contact components. That's what my device is. I'm sure the stickers make more sense for some people, like if they only make a couple/few PCBs per decade. For others, not so much. In my case I need to make 25 of my larger PCBs (with 7 BGAs and lots of QFN-like components) to prototype larger systems and to provide [development] samples to others. So for me, even this one project justifies the manual place device and a reasonable reflow oven.


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- 1. Define "law." Tell some of its sources. Describe functions it serves.
- 2. Discuss TWO of the following:
- a. The Justinian Code, The Code of Hammurabi, and the Magna Carta.
- b. The development of the jury system.
- c. Two famous trials in history.
- 3. Tell what civil law is; tell what criminal law is. Tell the main differences between them. Give examples of each.
- 4. Ask five people (not more than one from your immediate family) about the role of law enforcement officers in our society. Discuss their answers with them. Go to a law enforcement officer in your neighborhood and ask about his or her responsibilities and duties. Report your findings.
- 5. Tell about several laws that were passed to protect the consumer and the seller. Tell about several organizations that provide help to consumers and sellers.
- 6. Do ONE of the following:
- a. Attend a session of a civil or criminal court. Write 250 words or more on what you saw.
- b. Plan and conduct a mock trial with your troop or school class. After the trial is over, discuss it with the group.
- 7. Arrange a visit with a lawyer who works for a business, bank, title company, or government agency. Find out his or her duties and responsibilities. Report what you learned.
- 8. Explain the requirements for becoming a lawyer in your state. Describe how judges are selected in your state.
- 9. Make a list of 15 jobs which deal with some aspect of law or legal processes. Tell which you prefer. Why?
- 10. Tell where people can go to obtain the help of a lawyer if they are unable to pay for one. Tell what you can do if you can afford a lawyer but do not know of any in your area.
- 11. Discuss with your counselor the importance of TWO of the following areas of law that have recently emerged and are still developing:
- a. Environmental law
- b. Computers and the Internet
- c. Copyright and the Internet
- d. Space travel and satellites orbiting the earth
Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)
Merit Badge Worksheets can help Scouts organize notes, listen actively, and document their work. Many worksheets also contain links to free, online video instruction.
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Waiting For The Super Bowl – Hometown View
A little of this and a little of that as the month of January winds down
It is Super Bowl week in Indianapolis with the Patriots arriving Sunday and the Giants getting to town today. Super Bowl 46 is set for this coming Sunday evening and it will be an anxious week for Giants fans as the clock clicks towards kickoff.
Speaking of the Super Bowl…it was that game that really made Joe Namath's career. HBO is out with a documentary on the life of the former Jets great called Namath and in typical HBO fashion it is well done and well worth watching, even if you're not a big football fan.
Its possible Rutgers could have a new football coach in the next 24-48 hours to replace the departed Greg Schiano. Multiple reports say that the search is focusing on two candidates, interim Coach Kyle Flood and former Rutgers assistant Mario Cristobal, who has guided Florida International to back-to-back bowl games.
Got the movies twice this weekend. "Man on a Ledge" is over the top with a scenario and story line that is just plan ridiculous and preposterous. However if you can check your intelligence at the door it is pretty exciting and has plenty of twists and turns. The best description I heard for "The Grey" is its Jaws with wolves instead of sharks. Actually it's much more than that with a terrific performance by Liam Neeson. Don't go see this one if you are looking for something light and cheery….it's dark and serious but very well done and gripping.
Belated congratulations to Brick Memorial for adding to their record total by claiming their 13th Shore Conference Wrestling Tournament championship over the weekend. This one has a small asterisk next to it as top-seeded Jackson Memorial had to withdraw over the possibility that MRSA has hit members of the team. However give the Mustangs their due and at the same time credit Jackson with taking a proactive approach to a potential problem. Hopefully the Jaguars will get the green light to resume wrestling in a couple of days.
As a public service I would like to issue a report on something missing…WINTER. If you know where winter is please call meteorologist Alan Kasper. Mother Nature is so confused….grass is getting greener and some trees and bushes are starting to bloom. I'm not complaining.


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Opinion: Global Warming's Godfather Retires
WSJ Europe editorial writer Anne Jolis on the retirement of NASA climate alarmist James Hansen. Photo: Getty Images
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January 15, 2007
More than 200 print and electronic media members from 22 states and as far away as Germany are registered to participate in the Jan. 22-25 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Media Tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway.
The largest off-season media event in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing, the 24th edition of this annual season preview begins Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, and continues through Thursday afternoon, Jan. 25.
With support from sponsors Nextel and NASCAR, the Media Tour gives registered participants the opportunity to tour race shops; meet with drivers, crew chiefs and team owners; and discuss the latest developments and news with motorsports industry leaders.
"The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Media Tour allows journalists from around the world to take fans inside the sport as drivers and teams prepare for the new season," said H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway. "The tour is as important to the Fourth Estate as pre-season testing is to the race teams."
Journalists from New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Miami, Nashville, Toronto and Montreal are among those registered to participate, representing such media outlets as USA Today, The New York Times, TV Guide and The Associated Press.
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Toyota will bring its NEXTEL Cup drivers and team owners together for a gala dinner and the Media Tour will also make its annual visit to the NASCAR Research and Development Center where officials are expected to make several announcements. A groundbreaking ceremony for the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte is also part of the schedule.
The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Media Tour will be headquartered at the new Embassy Suites Hotel and Concord Convention Center on Speedway Blvd. near Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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Al Young
Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He attended the University of Michigan and received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.
His volumes of poetry include Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry (Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2008); Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006 (Angel City Press, 2006); The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000 (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001); Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-90 (1992), The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems (1982), Geography of the Near Past (1976), Some Recent Fiction (1974), The Song Turning Back into Itself (1971), and Dancing: Poems (1969), which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award.
He is the author of the novels Seduction by Light (1988), Ask Me Now (1980), Sitting Pretty (1976), Who Is Angelina? (1975), and Snakes: A Novel (1970). His memoirs include Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs (1995), Mingus-Mingus: Two Memoirs (1991, with Janet Coleman) Kind of Blue: Musical Memoirs (1984) and Bodies and Soul: Musical Memoirs (1981), which won the American Book Award.
Young has also served as the editor of a number of books, including African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (1995), and Yardbird Lives! (1978, with Ishmael Reed). His work has been widely anthologized and translated into many languages.
In the 1970s and eighties, Young co-founded the journals the Yardbird Reader and Quilt with poet-novelist Ishmael Reed. Among Young's numerous honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Al Young has lectured in creative writing at a number of colleges and universities. In 2005, he was appointed the Poet Laureate of California.
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The coming blunt force of sequestration will leave the Commerce Department's Census Bureau with a budget of $845 million, 13 percent less than the $970 million requested and a spending level that will risk the government's capacity to gauge economic conditions and formulate policy for both the public and private sectors, says a new paper.
In a compilation to be released on Thursday, the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress examines the effects on the decennial census of mandatory across-the-board cuts as well as cuts from the fiscal 2013 governmentwide spending bill. "At the same time, the American Community Survey, or ACS -- the annual sampling survey that replaced the 'long-form' census after the 2000 census -- is in the crosshairs of the House Republicans who last year voted to fundamentally alter and defund the survey," wrote CAP speechwriter Kristina Costa.
"Cutting the Census Bureau's budget and eviscerating the American Community Survey will lead to less-informed government and a more expensive decennial count in 2020, as well as endanger data sources essential to government, researchers, and businesses alike," she wrote.
The Census Bureau has been battling budget cuts for several years. Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank in March wrote to Congress saying that sequestration would force the agency to delay the economic census, the once-every-five-years survey that forms the basis for a wide range of economic indicators from gross domestic product to unemployment. Blank called the cuts "putting at risk our ability to take accurate stock of current economic conditions and well-being and potentially impacting policymaking and economic decisions in the private sector."
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Law enforcement lines up for his research
Most TV police dramas go something like this. An eyewitness scans a photo lineup and positively identifies the suspect. Faced with this evidence, the suspect admits guilt. Case closed. Unfortunately, in real life, eyewitness identification is rarely this cut and dried -- just ask Iowa State professor of psychology, Gary Wells.
Wells, Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Wendy and Mark Stavish Chair in Social Sciences, has dedicated years of his career to studying the reliability of eyewitness identification. His research has been featured in some of today's most highly regarded psychology journals, and he's made appearances on television shows like 48 Hours, Today, Rock Center, 60 Minutes and more. But even more impressive, an estimated 35 percent of the nation's law enforcement agencies have adopted new eyewitness identification procedures Wells has developed.
Recently, another one of Wells' studies has gained national attention, proving that sequential photo lineups (where witnesses view one photograph at a time) produce fewer mistaken eyewitness IDs than simultaneous photo lineups. When it comes to eyewitness identification, this is a landmark study. Said Wells, "It's a good study for reassuring police departments that they're not really going to lose suspect picks from it, but they will get fewer mistakes." Which is exactly what these departments want.
The adventurous minds at Iowa State are making their mark on the world through their research, whether that research is eyewitness identification, cyber security, or biofuel technology. And these professors are passing their knowledge along to every Iowa State student they teach -- so students have the skills they need to make their own mark on the world.
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In the end, a wrestling DVD is only as good as its matches. All the bonus features, whiz-bang graphics and cool packaging help, sure, but you'll only pop in the DVD for a second viewing if there's something great. To that end, TNA's Final Resolution delivers, while with Nevermore: Best of Raven, the matches are good but the bonus commentary steals the show.
Final Resolution was TNA's first PPV of 2005, and is headlined by Jeff Jarrett versus Monty Brown for the NWA world title. Brown got to the match by winning a Last Man Standing bout against Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash earlier in the show.
The Jarrett-Brown battle is good, but nowhere near great. Brown is still too light on his selling, and the devotion to guitar shots and chair shots gets downright silly. Having such a newcomer to the upper tiers of wrestling's main eventers work two matches in one night has to be questioned.
What people will really want the Final Resolution DVD for are the other two title matches.
The Ultimate X match, with Petey Williams defending against AJ Styles and Chris Sabin, is simply phenomenal, every pun intended. Styles just does a masterful job of selling an arm injury en route to the win, a fact reinforced by the best of the bonus features -- an aerial view of some of the greatest moments from the Ultimate X match.
The rest of Team Canada face America's Most Wanted in the other title match, a thrilling back-and-forth affair that was as solid as can be.
Most of the rest of the show was pretty forgettable, though all the matches had their moments: Jeff Hardy versus Elvis-lookalike Scott Hall with Roddy Piper hobbling around as the special referee; Raven versus Erik Watts; Dustin Rhodes versus Kid Kash; The 3Live Kru versus Christopher Daniels, Michael Shane & Frankie Kazarian; and Elix Skipper vs Sonjay Dutt.
The bonus features, as mentioned, are topped by a great viewed-from-above perspective of the Ultimate X match. The rest of the bonus features help round out characters a bit, perhaps, with pre-entrance cameras honed on Styles, Daniels, "Wildcat" Chris Harris, Shane & Kazarian and others. The part with Shane Douglas' son was cute though.
The word cute has never been used to describe Raven, however.
Nevermore: The Best of Raven is a hard-hitting, violent DVD that shows both his strengths in the ring -- creativity, aggressive, drive and colorful characteristics -- and his weaknesses -- repetition of moves, especially the chair and table spots and ref bumps / pulled from the ring. Of course, it really should be titled The Best of Raven in TNA, though, since the great stuff with Raven over the years is pretty well all owned by Mr. McMahon now. (A true Best of Raven from his his career would have had Scotty Polo using the hockey stick to help the Quebecers win the WWF tag titles and Scotty the Body promos from Portland!)
The matches take us right from Raven's TNA debut, through bouts with Sandman, Styles, Jarrett and his battles against Jim Mitchell's New Church, including his defrocking in a hair-vs-hair match against Shane Douglas. (The haircut itself is among the most gruesome things on the DVD; don't let Mitchell cut hair on TV again!) The two four-way matches -- Raven vs. The Truth vs. AJ Styles vs. Abyss; Deadly Draw for the NWA World Title: Raven vs. The Truth vs. AJ Styles vs. Chris Harris -- don't spotlight Raven quite as much, though they are enjoyable matches.
More true to the deviancy that we've come to expect from Raven is the buildup to, and the match with, the one and only Sabu. Raven's promos are masterful, and really shine because of the lack of them on the rest of the two-DVD set. His beatdown on Sonjay Dutt to provoke Sabu is gruesome and twisted. The Sabu-Raven match, however, is almost a let-down after the set-up.
While TNA announcers Mike Tenay and Don West do a good job explaining storylines and the matches in the ring on the DVD (Vince Russo's brief contribution is horrible however), it is the bonus feature with Raven and Terry Taylor calling matches that are the highlight of the DVD. The two chosen matches are Raven vs Chris Harris and Raven vs Styles, and they roll nicely into each other.
"Do you know what a scary, demented man I am?" Raven asks at one point. Raven veers all over the place on the often laugh-out-loud commentary:
Taylor's contribution is just enough too; he can keep Raven into the match while offering his own contributions and humor (especially in regards to Red Rooster-type moves).
The commentary (which sounds like it was recorded in a box) is pseudo kayfabe. They talk about the matches and strategy like it is legit, but then every so often, Raven lets the curtain hang open -- "Look at me selling that. I'm so talented" he brags after a shot to the announcers' table.
After the fun you'll have listening to Raven, it'll be impossible not to wonder why he wasn't heard more on the DVD.
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The End of the Trail
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
Some of you probably figured this out long before I did, but I have reached the end of the trail that I've been leaving with the Breadcrumbs Back to Omaha column. My love for the game is still as strong, and my desire to provide material that's of use to the community is still there, but the urge to write has been well and truly scratched. I know from my logs and your email that my writing skills haven't been the big draw around here anyway, so I think we can make this into a positive thing, since it frees me up to work on some other ideas.
The first couple of those are up on the site now, as you'll see if you go to the revised front page. One is the 2008 schedule for every team in a format that can easily be sucked into your favorite calendaring software, for those of us who live and die by Outlook or iCal. The other is a plea for more data as I make up my mind on who to vote for in this year's College Baseball Hall of Fame election.
Once the season starts, there are still a few of the old Breadcrumbs features that I want to keep going. There will be Pitch Count Watches and Tournament Watches published each week during the season, and I'll probably do the usual series of features leading up to selection time. All this is in addition to the same data feeds as always. Keep an eye out, and let me know what you want to see; we'll figure out together where the site goes from here.If you're interested in reprinting this or any other Boyd's World material for your publication or Web site, please read the reprint policy and contact me
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Yesterday when I went to retrieve India from her nap I noticed a strong odor eminating from her room. It was poop, to be sure, but the smell was just a bit more permeating than usual. I also noticed immediately that she was wearing a swim diaper under her dress instead of the old-school diaper she was wearing at the beginning of her nap. When I entered the room, she proudly informed me that she had changed her own diaper. "Mommy, look. I have my own fresh diaper". Trouble.
At first glance, there were no signs of the old poopy diaper. There was, however, some evidence of what had happened, namely a large area of wiped-up poop in the middle of her bed. I must say, she had done a stellar job of cleaning it up. But there was not a diaper or a wipe to be found, and her bottom, hands, and the new diaper were curiously clean.
After much searching, I finally found the old diaper in a drawer under her bed. But what had she used to clean everything up? I had this sinking feeling that there was something else in the room. And the smell. Good Lord, the smell. There had to be something else.
I set about cleaning her bed and sternly lecturing India on the importance of having adult supervision in her diaper-changing adventures. I also brazenly suggested that she start doing this business in the toilet, like her favorite puppet suggests to her every morning while she watches "Elmo's Potty Time". She seemed unenthusiastic about this prospect. In fact, I think her exact words were NO WAY. And despite my warnings, she remained pretty proud of her new diaper-changing skill.
I did a thorough search of her room. I opened drawers, looked behind the bed, and still, no sign of any remaining poop. I finally gave up, but just had this feeling there was more to come.
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In the middle of the night, I am feeding Karis, and go to change her diaper in the dark. I reach for a wipe, but there are none sticking out. I fumble with the box, and the contents spill out onto the floor as it opens.
About 20 soiled wipes have been placed back into the box.
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|Second Season
Josh Priester enters his third season on the track & field coaching staff at UCSB in 2010-2011. Priester is the coach for the men's and women's sprinters, hurdlers, horizontal jumpers and heptathletes.
Priester came to Santa Barbara from George Fox University, an NCAA Div. III program in Newberg, Oregon. Priester coached at his alma mater starting in 2006. He coached the sprints, hurdles and relays and co-coached the multi-event athletes.
During his time at GFU, the sprints and hurdles group had great success in the Northwest Conference. In 2008, GFU athletes won conference crowns in both the men's and women's 400 meters, 400m hurdles, 4x100m and the men's decathlon. At the national level, GFU qualified seven sprinters and hurdlers for the 2008 NCAA Div. III Championships.
In addition to coaching at George Fox, Priester also served as the athletic departments first Strength and Conditioning Coach, working with the majority of the varsity programs. He was an Assistant Professor of Health and Human Performance at both George Fox and Chemeketa Community College.
As an athlete, Priester was an NCAA Div. III All-American in the decathlon with a personal best of 7016. Priester earned his Master's degree in Sports Science from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Ala., and he earned his Bachelor's in Health and Human Performance from George Fox.
UCSB 2010 Profile
The 2010 season marked Priester's second year on staff at UCSB and athletes under his leadership continued to set new standards in the sprints, hurdles and jumps in Santa Barbara. Junior Barbara Nwaba went on to capture UCSB's first Big West Championship in the Women's Heptathlon with a score of 5,552 ec
lipsing her own school record from 2009 by more than 500 points. Nwaba went on to place 12th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships making her the first UCSB Heptathlete in school history to earn All American Honors. In June, Nwaba became the first Gaucho to represent UCSB in the women's heptathlon at the USA Outdoor National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to the heptathlon, Nwaba also captured the Big West Championship in the 400 meter hurdles.
The men's 4x400 relay team of Andre Pinon, Alvin Go, Jimmy Martin and Ryan Martin reached the NCAA quarterfinals in Austin, Texas and went on to break a 42 year old school record by running a 3:09.18. Freshman Jimmy Martin and Senior Drew Johnston represented UCSB at the First Round of the NCAA Championships in the 400 meter hurdles. Martin ended his freshman year with a time of 51.92. Johnston improved from 54.08 his junior year to 51.96 his senior year. The sophomore pair of Tamara Thomas and Tayler Williams made big strides in the women's triple jump in a year that saw the school record broken 6 times in that event. Williams went on to capture All Conference Honors by placing 3rd at the Big West Championships. Thomas finished the year with a new school and personal record jump of 41'03.25.
The women's 4x400 relay team broke a UCSB record at the Big West Championships by running a 3:43.59. The Gaucho relay team consisted of Barbara Nwaba (Junior), Jennifer Carey (Freshman), Cherelle McMillian (Freshman) and Sheneice Vargas (Junior). The women's heptathlon crew made big waves at the Big West Championships by amassing 17 points in the event after finishing 1st , 5th, and 6th. In all, 18 Gauchos earned spots on All Time UCSB lists in 2010.
UCSB 2009 Profile
In his first season with the Gauchos, Priester coached one Western Regional Qualifier, Three All-Big West Performances, and three school records. Sophomore Barbara Nwaba broke UCSB records in the heptathlon (5039 points), 100 meter hurdles (14.21) and the 400 meter hurdles (60.91). Nwaba went on to place second in the high jump at the Big West Championships with a regional qualifying jump of 1.75 meters; she also placed third at the Big West Conference meet in the heptathlon with 5000 points even. The Men's 4x400m squad improved to third place at the Big West Conference Championships running the second-fastest time in UCSB history. The team of Max Bellisimo, Jason Newland, Alvin Go and Ryan Martin ran 3:10.56. In the women's 4x400m, The Gauchos also took third at Conference with an improved time of 3:45.97. That relay consisted of Sheneice Vargas, Dominique Augustus, Lauren Kodama, and Barbara Nwaba.
Senior Jason Newland improved on the all-time UCSB top 10 list in the 100 meters and 200 meters to place fifth and second at the Big West Championship Meet. Newland ran 10.68 and 21.45 respectively. Thirteen Gauchos also earned places on the UCSB all-time top 10 List during the 2009 season.