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Together we make New York City public for all
Unlocking the potential of NYC's public spaces.
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We saved the High Line from demolition.
Learn about ways to work with us on a project.
Andrea Woodner–a sculptor trained as an architect and a native New Yorker–has a vision for an organization that can transform the life of the city by connecting city agencies with the burgeoning design community. She names it "Design Trust for Public Space" to reflect the mission of bringing design expertise and design thinking to the public realm.
The Design Trust's inaugural project – conducted in partnership with the NYC Department of Design & Construction and Brooklyn Public Library – focused on bringing design excellence to each and every branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system.
Three projects are selected from our first Request-for-Proposals: Designing for Children, Designing for Security, and the Diego Beekman Houses Design Workshop.
Eight years before PlaNYC, the Design Trust produces a set of high performance guidelines to make city buildings more energy-efficient and environmentally-responsible.
The South Jamaica Branch Library was the first building designed and constructed using the Design Trust's High Performance Building Guidelines.
The High Line is a derelict piece of urban infrastructure scheduled for demolition. Our feasibility study leads to the City's decision to preserve and transform the elevated railway into public open space.
The winners of the first Photo Urbanism fellowship are the photography team of Cook+Jenshel, who focus on documenting the city's waterfront.
Due in part to the Design Trust's Housing & Open Space project,75% of the community gardens in Bronx Community Board 3 are preserved by an agreement between Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the Bloomberg administration. Read the article.
Ten months after we released our feasibility study for the High Line, Mayor Bloomberg's administration requests a Certificate of Interim Use to railbank the High Line, effectively rescinding the outstanding demolition order.
As a result of our Diego Beekman project, tenants take ownership of 38 buildings in the South Bronx, billed as "the largest tenant takeover of a federal housing project in the country."
Problems & Possibilities outlines practical
solutions to the chaotic conditions and traffic congestion plaguing Times
Square, spurring a radical transformation of the "Crossroads of the World."
Our High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines led to the City of New York establishing its commitment to green building practices by passing one of the country's first green building laws, Local Law 86 (LL86).
Garnering over 100,000 visitors in just 12 days, the Taxi 07 exhibit demonstrates to the world that it's time to bring design innovation to New York City's taxi fleet.
With an intimate talk between writers Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnick at the Museum of Modern Art, the Design Trust launches the Design Trust Council, a new leadership circle.
As a direct result of the Design Trust's Taxi 07 project, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission launches the Taxi of Tomorrow program, soliciting responses from automakers around the world to create a new, purpose-built taxi exclusively for New York City.
A new program of pop-up dinner parties in public space is born with the first "Public Space Potluck" in the center of Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.
With our Made in Midtown study, we succeed in shifting the debate about the Garment District, resulting in the City's decision to put their plan to force garment production out of the District on hold.
Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City establishes the nation's first set of metrics to measure the benefits of urban agriculture and recommends ways to expand urban agriculture in NYC.
The first-ever list celebrating 100 national leaders and organizations working at the intersection of design and service includes the Design Trust at spot #13!
After two years of design and development, the first Taxi of Tomorrow vehicles hit the streets of NYC on October 31st, delighting passengers and drivers alike.
The Energetic City request for proposals attracts over 90 proposals to give life to the city by connecting people through innovative design informed by the needs and aspirations of community users.
The Boogie Down Booth, our temporary installation below the elevated 2/5 subway tracks in the Bronx, is honored by MAS as one of the three "Projects that Ignite!" at their Jane Jacobs Forum.
The Design Trust issues the groundbreaking policy principles and research, Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities, unleashing the tremendous potential of the millions of square feet below elevated transit infrastructure in NYC.
The Taxi of Tomorrow becomes NYC's yellow cab standard. Read more.
Design Trust celebrates 20 years of innovative work and our 20/20 Public Space Champions, who have been dedicated to improving the daily life of all New Yorkers. Read more.
We received the Olmsted Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The newly formed Flushing Meadows Corona Park Alliance, and corresponding Community Advisory Board, includes our Community Advisors from The World's Park – a Design Trust project to foster planning, design, and stewardship skills for the community to improve and maintain the park.
Design Trust, in partnership with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, issues Laying the Groundwork, the first comprehensive design guidelines for retail and other ground-floor uses in affordable housing developments.
Design Trust played a major role in building support for the Intro. 1109 Pedestrian Plaza Legislation. The new bill gives the NYC Department of Transportation the authority to manage and regulate pedestrian plazas throughout the city, without banning any category of activity.
We received the Frederic Schwartz Community Development Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York State.
We received the Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award of the 2017 National Design Awards from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.


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1 "flagpole" apple tree. This one occupies about 4 sq feet of ground space, and is 8 feet tall. The fruit are good, but not very produtive. I need to work on my pruning methods. Last year there were about 25 apples on this tree.
1 muiltigraft pear. The multigraft allows for pear production without having to buy a pollinating tree We have been eating pears for the past 2 weeks, every day.
5 sweet cherry trees. My partner loves cherries, and eats them by the bowl-full.
5 grape vines on an arbor. This takes almost no garden space, since the arbor covers a pre-existing deck. Another vine over a gate, again occupies essentially no garden space.
Multiple berry bushes and plants.
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No Black Mission. I have King, White Marseilles (Lattarula, Blanche), Petite negri, Brunswick (Magnolia), and Hardy Chicago. Most of them I grew from cuttings.
A lot of the information on growing figs came from a Georgia website.
I have some plum seeds planted, but no idea about what will happen with them.
I'm double posting this pic because the comment thread is transient, and it's relevant here. Sweet cherries are either in bloom, or about to. This year they have the most flowers ever. Here is the maintenance pruning I did July 18th -
I took off about 3 or 4 feet of new growth, leaving about 6 inches on each branch. I also cleared some center growth because, unlike California, we don't get so much sun here in SW Washington. When I do this, I always think "I've ruined the trees for next year's crop". But here they are now. The L tree is not quite in full bloom. The right tree branches are covered with flower bud clusters - the most ever.
Similar, this Hollywood plum. I don't know if it will get many or any fruit - we had frost when it was in bloom. The flowers are beautiful, pink flowers. The leaves and plums are maroon. Even the plum juice is maroon. They are so much better than grocery plums, they don't seem like the same species.
This is my little backyard orchard, or part of it. The trees in bloom include a 5-variety grafted pear, another sweet cherry, and a 3-variety grafted sweet cherry. The multi's take some special care but have the advantage of various ripening times, different fruit varieties, and superior pollination. Horticulturalists pan them as gimmicks. I have several and I like them, but they take care not to allow a vigorous branch to dominate the less vigorous.
Below is a 3-variety grafted Asian pear. Asian pears are SO GOOD. And like the plums, the grocery varieties are no competition. This tree is in its 4th year.
I'm keeping my mulberry pruned small - not more than 7 or 8 feet tall once it gets to that. Currently is is only 3 years old and 4 feet tall. I prune it to train for a well branched, open center tree. That way, I can cover with a net to keep birds out, and I can reach all of the berries without a ladder. That's my theory - I'm not aware this has been done. It works with figs, which are distant cousins. And with many other fruit trees.
Monica, thanks! Home orchards are great! You can get such good fruit, you'll never want grocery fruit again.
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Although not well known in the United States, the French black metal/alternative metal band Blut Aus Nord have enjoyed a small underground cult following in Western Europe since the mid-'90s. Blut Aus Nord, unlike many bands in the European death metal/black metal scene, do not govern by brute force alone; while they can be loud, dissonant, intense, and forceful, they are also moody, darkly haunting, and relatively melodic. Atmospherics are quite important to Blut Aus Nord, who thrive on an eerie, gloomy sort of ambience. Blut Aus Nord bring an interesting variety of influences to their work -- some metal, some industrial, some goth. The band has frequently been compared to Neurosis, and other influences (either direct or indirect) range from Cradle of Filth and Godflesh to Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, and the infamous Slayer (whose innovations have affected just about every death metal or black metal band imaginable in some way or another). Blut Aus Nord were never a goth rock band in the strict sense; however, the dusky, shadowy elements in their black metal and alternative metal do show some awareness of goth icons like Bauhaus and the Sisters of Mercy.
Blut Aus Nord are the creation of Vindsval, a singer/guitarist who got the ball rolling in Mondeville, France in 1993. At first, Vindsval's creation was known as Vlad -- as in Vlad the Impaler -- and for a few years Vindsval had more of a project than an actual band. Thanks to technology and a thing called overdubbing, Vindsval was able to record two demos by himself as Vlad (In the Mist in 1993 and Yggdrasil in 1994) and function as a "one-man band" in the studio. After about a year, Vindsval changed his project's name from Vlad to Blut Aus Nord -- and when labels started showing some interest, Vindsval began to employ some other musicians, and gradually turned his project into an actual band. After working with various session players on Blut Aus Nord's albums, Vindsval ended up with a regular lineup that consisted of himself on lead vocals and guitar, Ghost on bass, and W.D. Feld on drums and keyboards.
Ultima Thulle, Blut Aus Nord's first official full-length album, was released in 1995 on Impure Creation Records (a small French label that later changed its name to Velvet Music International). Subsequent European releases included Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age (which came out in 1996 on the ICR label) and 2002's The Mystical Beast of Rebellion. None of those '90s or early-2000s discs were released in the United States -- they were only sold in North American stores as imports -- but in 2004, Blut Aus Nord finally enjoyed some North American distribution when The Work Which Transforms God (which had come out in Europe in 2003) was released in the U.S. by Candlelight (a British label with an office in the Philadelphia suburbs).
Due to critical and commercial success (relative to black metal, of course), Blut Aus Nord's back catalog was reissued in the United States in 2004 and 2005. Their new material, beginning with 2005's Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity mini-album, became increasingly experimental, relying on layers of textured, industrial, and ambient sounds, as well as a more open musical environment. Indeed, 2006's MoRT was considered -- even by many fans -- to leave the realm of black metal entirely and become alternative with its elongated dissonant tones, shimmering backdrops, murky vocals, and deliberate absence of blastbeats. While the album was heralded by many for its innovation, it was considered too far off the beaten path for some.
They furthered their experimental reputation with the decidedly heavier Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination, in 2007 and 2008's near-progressive Dialogue with the Stars. In 2009, the band re-released Dialogue as a double-disc package with a brand-new record, a follow-up of sorts to Memoria Vetusta I, simply entitled Memoria Vetusta II. Listening to both recordings, it's easy to hear that Blut Aus Nord had created a new, all but trademarked form of extreme avant-rock.
The band began to issue a series of experimental EPs in their "existential series" that was scheduled to run parallel to their main body of work. The first one, What Once Was... Liber I, initially appeared as a limited edition in 2010. The idea was taken to the next level with a trilogy of album-length recordings set around the number 777. The pummeling 777 Sect(s) (allegedly the long-rumored sequel to The Work Which Transforms God) was issued in April of 2011, followed in November by 777: The Desanctification, a much more atmospheric and ambient -- yet no less blackened -- entry in that album series of November of that year. What Once Was...Liber II appeared in the spring of 2012, as did 777: Cosmosophy, the final chapter of that album series, in October of 2012. The next entry in the EP series, What Once Was...Liber III, was issued in November of 2013, as were the reissues of its first two volumes. As a next step, the group issued Triunity in June of 2014, a split with French industrial doom metallers P.H.O.B.O.S. In October, Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry was released on Debemur Morti. The following year saw two separate retrospective volumes called The Candlelight Years. Codex Obscura Nomina, a split album with American blackened death metal band Ævangelist appeared in the early summer of 2016. BAN's half featured a four-track suite entitled "Sonic Waves (The Sound Is an Organic Matter)." In late 2017, the band issued the doomy full-length Deus Salutis Meæ (God of My Salvation). ~ Alex Henderson & Thom Jurek
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The Eastern Texas News. (Palestine, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 23, 1881
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Why is big data analytics important?
Big data analytics helps organizations harness their data and use it to identify new opportunities. That, in turn, leads to smarter business moves, more efficient operations, higher profits and happier customers. In his report Big Data in Big Companies, IIA Director of Research Tom Davenport interviewed more than 50 businesses to understand how they used big data. He found they got value in the following ways:
- Cost reduction. Big data technologies such as Hadoop and cloud-based analytics bring significant cost advantages when it comes to storing large amounts of data – plus they can identify more efficient ways of doing business.
- Faster, better decision making. With the speed of Hadoop and in-memory analytics, combined with the ability to analyze new sources of data, businesses are able to analyze information immediately – and make decisions based on what they've learned.
- New products and services. With the ability to gauge customer needs and satisfaction through analytics comes the power to give customers what they want. Davenport points out that with big data analytics, more companies are creating new products to meet customers' needs.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was respecting the formal review process before taking a stand on the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
Pipeline company TransCanada said last month it was waiting for the U.S. State Department to publish its draft environmental assessment of Keystone XL, meant to carry crude oil 1,700 miles from Canada to southern U.S. refineries.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman in January said he was satisfied a revised route for the tar sands pipeline avoided the sensitive Sand Hills area of the state, removing one of the last hurdles for the pipeline's approval. A U.S. federal decision is needed because the pipeline would cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he expected to make a decision in the "near term."
"We have a legitimate process that is underway, and I intend to honor that," he said following a Friday meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird.
The pipeline is viewed by supporters as a way to ensure North American energy independence. Detractors say the environmental risks associated with Canadian crude oil are too great to ignore.
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How do we react to the tragic school shootings in Connecticut? Parents are struggling to explain a senseless, unfathomable act to their children while asking themselves, "could it happen here?"
In the aftermath of the shootings that killed 20 children and six adult victims, local school districts are making parents aware of their security plans and the services available to students and families.
In the Waterloo School District, which covers Atwater and Randolph in southern Portage County, Supterintendent Andrew Hill wrote parents that the Portage County Sheriff's Office would be making more of a presence at rural districts.
"We thank Sheriff (David) Doak and those in his department for their assistance in our district. Their presence is yet another deterrent to those looking to cause problems," Hill wrote in a letter to parents Monday.
Hill also said parents could ask that a child is having a difficult time in response to the tragedy speak with a school counselor.
"Our teachers are keeping a watchful eye on all of their students as well, in case they feel someone needs some additional assistance," Hill wrote.
In Twinsburg, police are increasing their presence at schools as a precaution.
"Police officers have provided some low-profile attention to our buildings and will continue to do so this week," Superintendent Kathryn Powers said. "Basically, just reassuring our community that they are available for assistance if necessary."
"We've increased our presence in and around the schools," Twinsburg Police Chief Chris Noga added. "We understand that everybody's at a heightened sense of anxiety."
Like other districts, visitors to Waterloo schools must be buzzed in through locked doors during the school day. The district spent months updating its safety and security plans with input from school staff, local fire departments, the Ohio Highway Patrol, Doak and members of his staff, Hill said.
Many districts in Portage have adopted the ALICE program (for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate). The program, devised after the 1999 Columbine, Colo., shooting, teaches students and staff how to respond to armed threats.
Reporter Conner Howard of the Twinsburg Bulletin contributed to this story.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) Merrick Bremner of South Africa birdied six of his first nine holes, shooting an 8-under 64 Thursday to tie the course record in the opening round of the South African Open.
He's two shots ahead of Sweden's Henrik Stenson and South Africa's Matthew Carvell at Serengeti Golf and Wildlife Estate on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel recovered from a double-bogey 5 on his third hole at the 12th for a 68. Former top-ranked player Martin Kaymer shot 70, while Branden Grace was even par.
Bremner consolidated his outstanding start with two more birdies on the back nine. His bogey-free round raised hopes of a first European Tour title at his home event.


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|A/V Receivers 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
|Monday, 22 November 2010
Page 1 of 3The holidays are a great time to get your friends and family gifts that they really want. The giving season also grants you the opportunity to provide your loved ones with something they need – even if they didn't know they needed it. Whether you're upgrading your own home theater or helping out someone on your list, we've got the receivers for you.
Entry Level
Just because you're spending less than $500 doesn't mean you can't get a solid receiver from a great brand. For those getting their first receiver or those that want a secondary setup, an entry level A/V receiver is more than enough.
Harman/Kardon AVR1600
Harman isn't especially well known for entry level gear, but the AVR1600 is a solid receiver with a retail price of just $499. It's designed to not only provide high-quality sound, but to simplify some of the more complex parts of home theater setup.
Harman's AVR1600 is a 7.1 channel receiver that decodes the latest Blu-ray audio formats and even enhances the sound of your MP3s. It packs EzSet/EQ which automatically adjusts the receiver to match the acoustics of your room. The 1600 is also boasts that Harman/Kardon minimalist design, giving it the same look as the company's high-end receivers.
Yamaha neoHD YMC-500
The neoHD is a decidedly different receiver and not just because of the very unusual aesthetics. It's a line created by Yamaha for folks that aren't entirely comfortable with receivers. They feature automated setup, an incredibly simple interface for control and a remote with less buttons than the average TV remote.
The 5.1 channel YMC-500 is the less expensive of these two beginner's receivers and just got a price drop to $299 making it that much more attractive. It's still fairly feature packed, including decoding of DTS Digital Surround and Dolby TrueHD as well as the Compressed Music Enhancer to breathe life back into your MP3s.
Marantz NR1501
If you're looking for something to power your main viewing room, the NR1501 probably isn't for you. It packs 50 watts of power per channel which is a bit weak for massive floor standing speakers. In a bedroom though, or an office, it works incredibly well.
Part of the appeal of the 1501 is that it stands just four inches high, making it the slimmest receiver currently offered by Marantz. It's got plenty of inputs, including five HDMI and two component. The 1501 also boasts an auto-calibration feature, something that's become much more common in receivers in recent years.
Onkyo TX-SR608
For plenty of features at a low price, the SR608 from Onkyo is a great way to go. It's at the top of Onkyo's SR line, but offers many of the features found in higher end NR receivers. Unlike the rest of the SR line, for example, the 608 sports Faroudja DCDi Cinema upscaling and THX Select2Plus certification.
The SR608 includes Audyssey Dynamic EQ which makes sure you still get great sound at low volumes and Dynamic Volume which eliminates huge jumps in sound levels. It's also a 7.2 channel receiver, which means you can add a second subwoofer into the mix, which can make a huge difference in your listening experience.


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Corporation tax cut 'not credible'
Alex Salmond's flagship plans to cut corporation tax in an independent Scotland have come under fire, with pro-UK campaigners arguing the cost of such a move would pay the wages of 13,000 nurses.
Better Together claims reducing the levy to 3p lower than the rest of the UK would cost £385 million.
The cross-party group said that with the estimated cost of employing a nurse amounting to just over £29,700, that would be enough to pay for 12,950 nurses a year.
The SNP leader has argued that cutting the tax would create 27,000 jobs and help boost GDP by more than 1% over the medium term.
But Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said a recent paper from one of the First Minister's economic advisers, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, revealed the "lack of economic credibility" behind the proposal.
In a paper published in May, Prof Stiglitz argued that "there are some tax-avoiding jurisdictions, such as Ireland, that are competing in a race to the bottom by offering low tax rates, so much so that money kept abroad can almost escape taxation".
In the research, which was focused on the US, the economics expert said it was a "misunderstanding" that cutting corporation tax would provide firms with an incentive to create jobs.
"At the current time, it is not lack of funds that is holding back investment. It is not even a weak and dysfunctional financial sector," Prof. Stiglitz said.
"What is holding back investment, especially by large corporations, is the lack of demand for their products. If there were demand, firms would respond, as they always have, even when tax rates were far, far higher than they are now (as they were until 1980).
"It is demand that creates jobs, and it is our current system's high level of inequality that accordingly is destroying jobs."
A spokesman for Mr Salmond said: " Corporation tax rates remain an important tool for securing competitive advantage and for offsetting competitive advantages enjoyed by other parts of the UK, notably London."
Ms Lamont said Prof Stiglitz's paper was a " big embarrassment for Alex Salmond and exposes his lack of economic credibility".
She said: " When even Alex Salmond's own adviser thinks his tax cut for big business would lead to a race to the bottom, you know he's in trouble. It's difficult for the First Minister to say that Professor Stiglitz is scaremongering given that he has spent the last year telling us how much they both agree on economics.
"Alex Salmond wants to turn the nations of the UK into competitors, with the risks to jobs and conditions that would involve. We have a much bigger and more positive vision for Scotland than that.
"We can have the best of both worlds for Scotland as part of the UK. We can have more decisions about tax and welfare made right here in Scotland, and we can benefit from the strength, security and stability that comes from being part of the larger UK. We can say no thanks to putting that at risk in September.
"The nationalists want us to believe that we can have American levels of taxation and Scandinavian public services. It just doesn't add up, and Scots can see through this. That's why more and more people here are rejecting independence."
In the paper Prof Stiglitz proposes an alternative set of reforms, which "would be simpler, more effective in promoting efficiency, growth and job creation, and would actually increase revenues".
They include raising the rate of corporation tax, but providing generous tax credits for companies making investment and creating jobs.
The First Minister's spokesman said: " Independence will provide the Scottish Parliament and Government with the powers to set tax rates which are right for Scotland, allowing Scottish ministers to develop policies that will deliver sustainable economic growth and a fair society.
"For the first time ever, there would be a guarantee that taxes will be set by a government that has the support of the people of Scotland."
He added: "T his Government plans to set out a timescale for reducing corporation tax by up to three percentage points below the prevailing UK rate. Modelling suggests that such a cut could increase the level of output by 1.4%, boost overall employment in Scotland by 1.1% (equivalent to 27,000 jobs) and raise overall investment in the Scottish economy by 1.9% after 20 years."


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Hirscher turns in fast final run to beat Ligety in GS
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Marcel Hirscher of Austria turned in a blazing final run to overtake Ted Ligety and win a World Cup giant slalom on Sunday.
Hirscher finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 38.45 seconds, holding off Ligety by 0.16 seconds. Fritz Dopfer of Germany was third for his first podium finish.
Ligety held a slim 0.21-second advantage after a flawless opening run, but he couldn't duplicate the performance on his final pass. Ligety, who won the GS at this venue last season, made a big bobble near the end that cost him valuable time.
"I was a little bit soft with my turn, instead of being confident," he said. "I'm not disappointed. But I'd be much happier if I had won."
Ligety's tiny mistake opened the door for Hirscher, who had a smooth and steady run to earn his fourth World Cup win.
"It's great because to be Mr. GS is for me very important because in Austria, Ted is unbreakable," Hirscher said. "It's a pretty big success for me to beat him today. But we'll see. I think Teddy will be back."
And with a little revenge on his mind, especially after losing on the closest thing the Americans have to a home hill.
The skiers will return to the Birds of Prey hill Tuesday for another giant slalom, the first of three events – including a women's super-G race on Wednesday – moved to this location because of a lack of snow in Val d'Isere, France.
An advantage for Ligety?
"We all have a little more information on how the hill is running," Ligety said. "Everyone is going to be making a little adjustment."
Bode Miller had a ragged first run and didn't make the top 30. His go-for-broke approach caused him to make a huge mistake early, costing him valuable time. Even more, he tweaked his back in that section, which threw him off the rest of the way as he finished 3.34 seconds behind Ligety.
"A little tweak," Miller said. "It was enough that my leg felt really weak for a while. I kept chattering on that left foot, which didn't help. I didn't need that added on to everything else. Just a misjudgment."
Miller hasn't been training much for the giant slalom, electing to focus on the speed events. It paid off with a downhill win on Friday, but hurt him Sunday.
On those rare occasions when Miller has squeezed in some GS runs, it's been on icy conditions. So his setup was off for this type of course, since the snow was more grippy and aggressive.
His day done early, Miller's plan was to head over to nearby Vail and take a few runs in order to get used to this type of snow conditions to prepare for Tuesday.
Ligety looked effortless in his opening run, kicking up little snow in his wake as he carved through the course. His easygoing form is why he's one of the elite GS skiers in the world.
It's an enviable form.
"His style is such that it doesn't demand a lot of risk. He gets so much done above the gate, his turns have a nice flow to them," Miller said. "He fixes a lot of those mistakes before they happen. It's a real good way to ski."
Lately, Ligety has found himself in the middle of a spat with International Ski Federation over changes to the GS skis set to go into effect next season.
Ligety is upset over the fact the FIS is altering the hourglass shape of the skis.
Already so dialed in with his Head equipment, it could take away some of Ligety's built-in advantage. He's been lashing out at skiing's governing body, even saying the changes will ruin his discipline.
"It's such a ridiculous rule change that makes no sense safety-wise or evolution of the sport-wise. It can't go through," Ligety recently said. "I'm living my life as if it's not on the horizon."
He rebelled again Sunday, wearing a black "censored" sticker on his goggles strap as a protest over a rule limiting the size of logos on equipment.
"I feel if you're one of the leading guys, you should stand up for what you believe in," said Ligety, who captured the season-opening GS in Soelden, Austria, on Oct. 23.
So dominant has Ligety been that his competitors are even studying video of him for tips. Dopfer is taking that approach in order to help close the gap.
On Sunday, Dopfer was in awe of just being on the podium, especially when it looked as if he might be bumped down to fourth. Austria's Benny Raich was skiing so well before making a late mistake and veering off the course.
"This was a big surprise," Dopfer said at a news conference. "(Ted) is like a role model for me in GS. It's just amazing to watch him and be on the podium together with him. It's just crazy."
Just then, Ligety leaned over a table and responded, "Thanks, dude."
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text: Westeros #1 Posted July 23, 2010 The Wall Street Journal has published an article about the cable studios and their costly productions. HBO's Game of Thrones is mentioned only in passing, as one example of the high-end epics that are coming, but it's interesting to look at the figures that have been batted around for other productions in light of what we know of Game of Thrones's budget. The one that surprised me most was that was the claim (unsourced, mind you) that Starz's Camelot was in the region of $7 million an episode. That's half again the projected per episode budget of Game of Thrones, from a much smaller cable provider.This leads us to wonder ... Camelot was announced after Game of Thrones went into production and likely had its budget projections made. Is it possible that some of the reshoots—reshoots which GRRM calls, in some cases, an attempt to do things even better—are motivated by HBO opening up the purse strings and increasing the show's budget to be more in line with the latest crop of costume dramas? Assuming, that is, that Camelot's alleged budget isn't a lot of hype over substance. The figure bandied about in the article is certainly a substantial leap up in production budget for the show compared to Starz's previous original costume piece, such as Spartacus: Blood and Sand.Visit the Site! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Welcome to the Cisco Networking Professionals Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn how you can extend your remote access VPN capabilities to the various Apple IOS devices, including the iPad, iPhone, and iTouch with Cisco expert Jason Gervia. Jason is a Customer Support Engineer at the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in North Carolina, where he has been for almost four years. He is currently team lead of the VPN technology team. His area of expertise is in the VPN and security realm, including Cisco IOS IPSec VPNs, public key infrastructures, Cisco IOS SSL VPN, and Cisco Security Manager. Jason holds CCIE Security certification 26894.
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If your line of work has you traveling to places where knife wielding miscreants may want to harm you, you'd be well advised to look into PPSS's line of cut resistant clothing. Made from a new fabric called Cut-Tex® PRO, these garments protect you from a surprising level of knife slashes. They apparently exceed strict ISO standards for such things (we didn't know these existed, to be honest), and will keep you intact possibly long enough for you to either get away or reach for a sidearm. Keep in mind that there are two important words here: resistant and slashes. This means they are not completely impossible to cut, so if you want to test them by hugging a running chainsaw, you're gonna have a bad time. And if someone stabs at you (as opposed to a slash)… well, tough luck. The knife will likely go inside of you, maybe with some of the clothing wrapped around it. Still, some protection is better than no protection, and PPSS has seen success selling these garments outside of the personal security industry, focusing on the flat glass, sheet metal, and automotive field where workers can get cut on a regular basis. To give you an idea of the price, a sweater is said to run around $315.
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March 6: Roadkill Appreciation Day (North America & Australia)
- 3500 BC - In the first recorded instance of roadkill, Egyptian Pharoah Ramses IV hits a small cat with his chariot.
- 1869 - The first historical instance of so-called "cannibal roadkill" occurs when a horse-drawn buggy strikes a horse pulling a second buggy.
- 1934 - Hitler runs over a small ferret in his Volkswagen, precipitating his later invasion of Poland
- 1962 - Julia Childs releases a groundbreaking roadkill culinary masterpiece titled Treadmarks and Tarragon.
- 1969 - President Nixon continues the Road Kill bombing over Vietnam.
- 1990 - Road Kill is offically the new Mystery Meat in School Lunches.
- 1995 - Steve Ballmer runs over my dog after yelling at the top of his lungs "I'm going to fucking bury that dog. I've done it before and I will do it again. I'm going to Fucking Kill that dog".
- 2009 - First human Road Killer has been discovered in Western China. Government official still denies the fact that it was a young Usain Bolt at his best, pwned Tyson Gay.


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On Sundays I like to stay at home. I usually wake up early, make myself some breakfast and after I go for a run. When I'm home again I take a long shower and cook something for lunch. Today I made this easy spaghetti dish.
During the week, I don't have that much time to cook. I eat a lot of salads, wraps or a sandwich. Things that are healthy but also easy to bring to work. So I really enjoy it when I have time to try out new things in the kitchen.
~ spaghetti with prawns and zucchini ~
for 1 person
80g whole wheat spaghetti
1 medium zucchini
100g frozen or fresh prawns
2 gloves garlic
fresh parsley
olive oil
Chop the zucchini and the garlic. In a bowl, mix the prawns, zucchini, garlic, pepper, paprika and a little olive oil. Set aside for about 10 - 15 minutes (the longer, the better). In the meantime chop the parsley and heat up the water for the spaghettis. When the water boils, add the spaghetti and cook for about 10 minutes or until al dente.
Use a large skillet to sauté the prawns and zucchini. Add the spaghetti to the prawns and mix it. If they are to dry just add a little bit of the spaghetti water.
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Rolen to the DL. Wells back from the DL. Litsch up, Parrish down. Shannon Stewart let loose on an ice
Does any of this matter at this point?
The Jays had a great opportunity this weekend to make some hay and beat up on one of the weaker teams in the league in Cleveland, and they looked flat out awful at the plate the entire series. Sometime around the sixth inning of Sunday's game, we nearly pitched ourselves over the railing from the 500 section, which is reason enough for us never to sit there again.
We wish we could get jazzed about yesterday's win over the Tigers, but we're just a little too depressed to even care.


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I woke up from a dead sleep last night convinced I had a ton of better ideas for a Packers-based reality show than 'Cheeseheads' that may be airing on TBS sometime in the future. Seriously? How long did it take to come up with that title? Probably about the same amount of time it takes for one of the meatheads on The Jersey Shore to get into a drunken brawl. My potential shows don't even require talentless moneygrubbers to make a sex tape before being cast…I cannot confirm or deny this will be the case for the TBS show.
My shows:
1) "Athletic Supporters" – 8 rookie equipment managers are followed through the Packers' season, beginning with initial training and continuing through OTA's, training camp, and the regular season. Cast members are given challenges and evaluated by grizzled veterans of the equipment manager trade. Packers' players vote and gradually the Athletic Supporters are eliminated one by one. The winning Supporter gets a permanent job on the Packers equipment staff. "Athletic Supporters" has high potential for product placement and sponsorship by sporting goods companies; it should be easy to sell to a network.
2) "Keeping Up With the Joneses" – This is the true story of three Packers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped. Find out what happens when the Joneses stop being polite and start getting real. Okay, there are probably trademark issues with using that as the intro, but it just sounds so cool…or at least it did 20 years ago. Not so much now. Also the title, which of course refers to trying equal and/or surpass your neighbor's social status through the accumulation of material goods, is effectively ruined by the aforementioned amateur adult film star with no discernible talents reality show. Basic premise of this program is you put James Jones, Brad Jones, and recent draft pick Datone Jones in a house and film their exploits over the course of the season. This is pretty much cookie-cutter reality TV, but I'd rather watch this than having to suffer through Packers fans getting annihilated in Lambeau parking lots prior to games. Plus, Brad Jones plays the viola, so that's cool.
3) "Ball Buster" – This show would follow the exploits of Packers' Vice President of Football Administration/Player Finance, Russ Ball. Mr. Ball stays very much out of the spotlight, so any glimpse behind the curtain into his work as the Wizard of 1265 would make for fascinating TV. He has a pretty broad scope of work with the Packers, including supervision of various departments. One of which being Equipment, so he could probably be added as a guest judge on "Athletic Supporters" at some point. Seeing how these departments function would be interesting to say the least, but the real drama would come when Mr. Ball is negotiating player contracts, hence the name of the program. Seriously, how exciting and informative would it be to see Russ negotiating with agents? I mean this guy just negotiated the biggest contract in NFL history. I think networks could make this program pay-per-view and charge whatever they wanted, and I would still watch it. Plus, the name is pretty cool.
4) "Top Chef: Tailgate" – I'm not sure Padma Lakshmi has ever been to Green Bay, but I can absolutely picture her and Tom Colicchio strolling the parking lots of Lambeau sampling chef contestants pre-game entrees. Various competitions could include creating tailgate beverages…mmmm, bloody Marys…appetizers, entrees, etc, etc. Picture this: contestants are provided a grill, a piece of beef and tongs and are tasked with a Quickfire Challenge of grilling up a tasty slab of beef before the guest judges make it to the front of the porta-potty line. Or this: each contestant must use an RV kitchen to create an entire tailgate spread for 30 people. Man, my mouth started watering just thinking of porkbelly sliders accompanied by a spicy horseradish bloody Mary. (I, of course, would be a weekly judge). The winner of Top Chef: Tailgate would be able to create one menu item featured at all Lambeau Field Concession stands and wpould take over Curly's Pub and design and execute a gourmet quality menu for restaurant. It probably could use it.
5) "Sausage Race" – This is obviously a hat-tip to the Sausage Races at Miller Park, however, this is actually a race. On a road. In cars. Shaped like sausages. Contestants begin the season in the Lambeau Field parking lot and race each other to the following week's Packers' game. Picture Cannonball Run in Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles. Obviously, the safety of other drivers on the roads and highways would be put in jeopardy by this race. However, sometimes the best defense is a good offense, so if you see one of these Sausagemobiles flying by, feel free to spray them with ketchup and mustard, or throw cans of sauerkraut at them. All's fair in love and sausage. Each race team would receive two tickets to that week's game except the team who arrived last. They would be eliminated and forced to find their own way home sans sausage vehicle. The season's winning Sausage team would be given a set of Packers' season tickets and allowed to keep their Sausagemobile. I actually think I may remove myself from any sort of development credit on this program, so as to be eligible to participate. I've seen enough Vin Diesel to know I could win this.
6) I have one more idea. Well, I have a bunch more ideas, but this one is more of my pet project than anything. Robert and I will probably execute it in my basement regardless of the potential to sell it to ESPN Reality (That's probably going to be a thing at some point. You know it. I know it.) I've always thought that it would be highly entertaining to watch games with an alternate or additional commentary than that of the T.V. or radio. Robert and I would DVR a game and then rewatch part of it adding our own commentary on top of the TV announcers. If you've ever watched "Mystery Science Theater 3,000", you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, I feel sorry for you, and you should close this and head here. The potential material is endless…think of the Fail Mary game and what could have been added to the bungling refs and Pete Carroll running onto the field like a crazed moron. I can't tell if I'm more excited to see a finished "Packer Ranter Theatre 4,371" episode or to sit in my basement and drink beers and watch old Packer games with Robert. Like I said, pet project….
If you have any other ideas for Packers reality T.V. shows, please share in the comments below. You will be given full producer credits.


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Sen. Tom Coburn: I'm Willing to Accept Tax Increases
(NEW YORK) -- Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Sunday on ABC News' "This Week" that he is willing to accept tax rate increases as a component of a fiscal cliff deal, as long as Democrats put "significant entitlement reform" on the table.
"What we ought to be working on is the other 93 percent, because even if you do what [Obama] wants to do on tax rates, you only affect 7 percent of the deficit," Coburn said. "What we have done is spend ourselves into a hole, and we're not going to raise taxes and borrow money and get out of it."
"And so will I accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? Yes," he said.
But his Republican colleague in the House, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), disagreed.
He said that Republicans shouldn't vote for a tax increase that they believe will harm the economy.
"No Republican wants to vote for a rate tax increase," Hensarling said. "I mean, what that is going to do, according to the National Federation of Independent Business that commissioned a study by Ernst & Young, is cost 700,000 Americans to go from having paychecks to unemployment checks."
Hensarling said that President Obama pulled a "bait and switch" on Congressional Republicans by adding a demand for tax rate increases after the election. In 2011 Obama had suggested that $1.2 trillion could be raised by closing loopholes and pursuing tax reform alone, without raising rates.
"The president, again … if he would do what he said before the election, as opposed to the bait-and-switch, what Republicans feel like is a little bit like Charlie Brown running to kick the football and Lucy pulls it away," Hensarling said.
He added that Obama's proposal to eliminate future Congressional votes to authorize an increase in the debt ceiling was "surprising."
"I must admit, I didn't know the president could surprise me once again, but to say that he no longer wants to have a debt ceiling — in other words, we no longer need even a speed bump on the — on the highway to bankruptcy — I mean, let's look at Greece," Hensarling said. "Greece has been very adept at increasing their debt ceiling. And now they have 25 percent unemployment, 50 percent youth unemployment."
Democrats on the panel, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) maintained that entitlement reform should be addressed only after tax cuts are extended for middle class families.
"Right now, the only thing I hear, the only thing we see is middle-class families being asked over and over again to be the ones who have the burden in solving this problem," Stabenow said. "And we're saying no."
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George Galloway puts himself about as energetically as ever. MP for the English constituency of Bradford, and therefore an English MP (a description at which he takes great offence!) and leader of a minority party, Respect, he seems to find his constituency and Westminster duties so undemanding that he finds loads of time to tour Scotland campaigning against independence – not exactly a minister without portfolio but more opportunist with a carpetbag.
On this second of the Newsnicht specials, he and Jim Sillars are interviewed by three of BBC Scotland's finest – Isabel Fraser, Gary Robertson and Laura Bicker, BBC network news correspondent based in Scotland who will be part of the new team for Scotland 2014, Newsnight's replacement for the Referendum.
What can one usefully say about Galloway? He is unfailingly entertaining, the more so since he has lost any real relevance he ever had to British politics, and this doubtless explain the "thousands – thousands – who pay to hear me speak!", as he boasts vaingloriously here.
In this intimate studio session, he fails to adapt his mass meeting style – loud blustering, hectoring – and totally inappropriate to such a setting – and trots out all the old rhetorical tricks, failed mantras and soundbytes in his trademark style of faux internationalist socialism that is as dead as the dodo. (It is now the stock-in-trade of the right-wing Labour Party that replaced the People's Party around 1951, and achieved its apotheosis under Blair, Brown and Mandelson.)
Galloway is not only wrong, he "is wrong at the top of his voice".
Jim Sillars retains his calm, and his considerable dignity in the face of Galloway's Monkland's Labour-backroom-style interruptions and attempts at point-scoring, and wins hands down in intellectual terms. Sillars' reputation is secure in Scotland, as is his place in Scotland's history. Galloway, in contrast, will be a footnote in UK history.
He can, of course, aspire to replace Tony Benn as a national treasure of the Old Left, to be patronised by people he affects to despise, but I think the affection quotient for this politician - who squandered his formidable oratorical talents in my view - will be sadly lacking.


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Lucky Tree Farm, Inc.
We have a family business in the agriculture/nursery industry. Have been in the business since 1996 and have thus been successful. Looking to gain a logo that is classy and unique. As most logos in this business they include a tree. I have found a tree that I would like to work with on a hat. I have taken a picture of it.
My husband is a graduate of Texas A&M and has been in agriculture all of his life. We grow container landscape trees and shrubs in southeast Texas. Our farm continues to grow as does our family, we now have 5 children.
We would like to use this logo for our website as well as advertising material and promotions.
Our market consists of landcapers and growers. We are a wholesale company and looking to gain more attention through advertising and show.
I like creative, I like conservative. We would like to see ideas that are simply and elegant/classy. We have found a tree designed by the Life is Good co. Love the design on this hat. Our name Lucky Tree Farm should be incorparated in the logo. (Inc. is questionable??) I like texture in a logo- does that make sense?? Something that stands out.... Like in the picture of the tree I like that the thread overlays each other.
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As you know we are in fiscal session. While debating the budget issues, the biggest controversy is the appropriation bill for the Arkansas Private Option. It passed the Senate last week but after several votes has not passed the House.
According to reports, the House speaker said the House would vote every day on the legislation until passed. If this bill does not pass, the budget that the governor submitted will have to be revamped.
SB139 passed the Senate that will give the option to the governor to determine whether a special election for a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor must occur if the vacancy occurs less than ten months before the next general election.
The state auditor reported that the amount of unclaimed property claims have gone up 84 percent. Every year the auditor administers the Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt, a promotion designed to make people aware of any unclaimed property they may be entitled to. People claimed money and stocks from old safety deposit boxes, refunds from utilities, proceeds from mineral rights they had forgotten they owned and such. Now, claims can be filed online, rather than in paper forms. You can go to the state auditor's website to see lists.
The Arkansas Lottery Commission has revised downward its revenue estimates for the current year, from $89.5 million to $82.8 million. If the decline continues, the amounts of college scholarships may have to be lowered. The decline in sales has been in scratch off tickets. The Legislature has twice had to restructure scholarships amounts in response to declining lottery sales, which used to be closer to $100 million a year. The lottery commissions studying possible methods to boost lottery sales, such as allowing consumers to use a debit card instead of cash.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission approved the expenditure of a down payment for an appraisal and other initial costs for a 42-acre tract of land north of Jasper. It is proposed to use the area as a new education and recreation facility. The property has a three-acre spring fed lake and mountainous areas that could be used for hiking trails. The land also has several small cabins.
If they do acquire the land, the administrators will likely move their centers of operations in Jasper to the new site. They currently rent a piece of property in Jasper.
If you would like to contact me, email me at email@example.com or call the office at (479) 650-1884 or write me at P.O. Box 2387, Greenwood, AR 72936.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was apparently worried he would lose his baby and money to his longtime girlfriend before fatally shooting her and killing himself, according to newly released police reports.
Belcher also complained about Kasandra Perkins, the mother of the couple's 3-month-old daughter, in conversations and text messages sent to a woman he was dating on the side, the reports show.
In one text message sent in late October or early November, Belcher wrote he "would shoot" Perkins "if she didn't leave him alone." The girlfriend told police that Belcher said "his child's mother threatened to take all his money and his child if they split up" and "knew exactly how to press his buttons and make him angry."
Belcher shot Perkins multiple times in their home on Dec. 1 and then drove to team headquarters, where he killed himself in front of his coach and general manager after telling them he "wasn't able to get enough help."
The night before the killings, Belcher went to a club with the woman he was dating while Perkins attended a concert with her friends, the reports said. The police report said that after Belcher kissed his girlfriend and she went inside her apartment, he fell asleep in his car.
About two hours later, police roused Belcher after someone called 911 to report his idling Bentley as suspicious. The report said Belcher was legally parked and didn't smell of alcohol, but officers asked if he could stay inside the apartment for the night.
Upon arriving at the home he shared with Perkins the next morning, the couple began arguing over "one or both of them going out as in to a club or partying," said Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd, who had moved in with them about two weeks earlier.
When Shepherd heard multiple gunshots, she ran to the bedroom and saw Belcher kneeling next to Perkins' body, saying he was sorry. After kissing Perkins, his baby daughter and his mother, Belcher drove to Arrowhead Stadium, the police report said.
Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli saw Belcher holding a gun to his head and jumped out of his vehicle so he could find out what was happening.
"I've done a bad thing to my girlfriend already," Belcher told Pioli, according to the report, adding that he wanted to talk with Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel and defensive coordinator Gary Gibbs.
When Crennel arrived, Belcher said, "You know that I've been having some major problems at home and with my girlfriend. I need help! I wasn't able to get enough help. I appreciate everything you all have done for me with trying to help … but it wasn't enough. I have hurt my girl already and I can't go back now."
The Chiefs staff pleaded with Belcher to put down his gun, but he only lowered it to load a round.
As a police officer approached, Belcher knelt behind a vehicle, saying, "Guys, I have to do this. … I got to go, can't be here and take care of my daughter." He made the sign of the cross on his chest and fired a bullet into his head, the report said.


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Ian4 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
CityCast.tv produces daily videos for online stockbrokers, forex dealers, and financial spread betting firms.
CityCast.tv makes daily online videos for online stockbrokers. our videos feature female presenters, stood in a virtual studio, talking about what's happening on the stock market that day.
For CityCast.tv, I'd like a logo that combines the financial sector (perhaps city skyscrapers, a stock market graph?) with the idea of broadcasting / video.
My customers are the online stockbrokers themselves. The things these guys are excited about are financial trading, and online video, so the logo needs to reflect both those.
The logo must contain the word 'CityCast.tv'
Thanks and good luck!
P.S. If you go to CityCast.tv you might see the logo I created myself there. Please don't copy this - it's just something I did myself in 5 minutes :-) I'm hoping you can do much better.
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The mission of the Department of Technology is to provide programs and services which prepare student graduates
for a variety of responsible technology management, and applied engineering positions in industry, business, and
government. The Department commits to the responsibility of preparing students in quality technology
programs for careers in building construction technology; computer technology; electronic technology; and architectural drafting technology. Accordingly, the Department commits, through its academic programs to fostering within students
an intristic feeling of self worth that allows them to be best persons possible, as well as the best technologists.


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A Washington woman was left "stunned" when a black bear ran out of the forest and hit her car, according to ABC affiliate KATU.
Marilyn Harker, of Vancouver, Wash., was driving her Honda Civic along an interstate highway when a bear suddenly ran onto the road and slammed its head into her front passenger door Wednesday afternoon, KATU reported.
"There was nothing I could do. I was just stunned. I just sat in my car," Harker told KATU.
The bear died before police arrived on the scene, according to KATU.
"I'd heard so many stories about animals that get hit and they roll and run off into the woods, and I was really hoping that would happen," Harker told KATU.
The animal was 3 to 5 years old and weighed 100 pounds, according to KATU.
ABCNews.com's attempts to reach Harker directly were unsuccessful.
It is not unusual for bears and people to cross paths in the Pacific Northwest this time of year.
"During the month of June we get the most bear sightings," Craig Bartlett, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife told ABC News.
However, Bartlett added, "It is the first bear death caused by an automobile we've seen this year."
It is rare for bears to stray near interstate highways.
"When food is scarce, bears will occasionally venture out into populated areas, like residential communities. We call these bears 'nuisance bears,'" Bartlett said. "Bears are notoriously near-sighted. They don't have a good sense of their surroundings. But for a bear to wander so fatally close to a highway, that is unusual."
"As of June 6, our office has had approximately 192 reports of bear sightings," Bartlett said.
Last week, KATU reported, a Vancouver teenager shot video of a black bear running down a residential street and into a private backyard.
Earlier in the summer, a black bear evaded officials for weeks in the suburb of Camas, Ore., before it was tranquilized and relocated to a national forest, Bartlett told ABC News.


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Freebetinfo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Our website has been running for almost 4 years, and provides bookmaker reviews and information on free bets and promotions available to Australians through bookmakers based in Australia.
We target people looking for free bets and places to bet on sports and racing.
We need the logo to look vibrant and colourful. The current logo is quite drab, but we like reds, blues, yellows as that's the current scheme of the site. Feel free to experiment with colours though.
As we deal with sports betting, and we're based in Australia, sports icons or sports balls from Australian Rules, Rugby League, Basketball, Soccer etc could be added. In addition, racing could be included if possible. You'll notice the current logo has sports balls included, which we like the idea of.
Also, as we offer promotions and free bets to new customers, the inclusion of money (must be Australian Dollars) would be a good idea.
Size wise, we'd prefer a wider, thinner logo.
We'd like a graphic in addition to text. Currently the logo is just text with a graphic stuck on the end, but we need something more readily identifiable for business cards etc.
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Blizzard has released a small update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v1.11.1 update addresses softlock issues affecting some users at login and during battlegrounds.
To install this patch, unzip the contents into the World of Warcraft directory and run the file "Blizzard Updater.exe".
Changes in v1.11.1: General * Fixed a soft lock that some players were experiencing within the game or while logging in. Changes in v1.11.0: Floating above the Plaguelands, the necropolis known as Naxxramas serves as the seat of one of the Lich King's most powerful officers, the dreaded lich Kel'Thuzad. Horrors of the past and new terrors yet to be unleashed are gathering inside the necropolis as the Lich King's servants prepare their assault. The Scourge marches again... Naxxramas is the new 40-man raid dungeon that will present even the most experienced and powerful players with an epic challenge. General - The cost to unlearn talents will now decay over time. This cost will be reduced by a rate of 5 gold per month to a minimum of 10 gold. - After a disconnect from the server, it is now possible to log back in immediately, instead of receiving the message, "A character with that name already exists." - Chain targeted spells and abilities (e.g. Multi-shot, Cleave, Chain Lightning) will no longer hit stealthed or invisible units unless visible to the caster. - Fear: The calculations to determine if Fear effects should break due to receiving damage have been changed. The old calculation used the base damage of the ability. The new calculation uses the final amount of damage dealt, after all modifiers. In addition, the chance for a damage over time spell to break Fear is now significantly lower. Note that Fear continues to be roughly three times as likely to break on player targets as on non-player targets. In addition, Intimidating Shout now follows that player versus non-player distinction, while previously it did not. - Periodic Healing: Spells which do periodic healing will now have their strength determined at the moment they are cast. Changing the amount of bonus healing you have during the duration of the periodic spell will have no impact on how much it heals for. - Reflection: Effects which cause reflection will no longer reflect triggered effects separately from their base effects (eg. Impact, Improved Shadow Bolt, Aftermath, etc.) - Optimization code known as "M2Faster" is now enabled by default. M2Faster can improve performance in crowded scenes when "Vertex Animation Shaders" is turned on. Battlegrounds - Alterac Valley o Most of the NPC guard units have been removed. o Players now drop more quest items. o Creatures that remain in Alterac Valley have had their hit points reduced. o The buff that is periodically cast by each faction's Captain has been changed to a flat 20% hit point buff. o Upgrading troops through armor scrap turn-ins will also now result in your team's General enabling a periodic buff to your melee and spell damage. o This buff scales from 10% at the Seasoned unit level, 20% at the Veteran unit level, and 30% at the Champion unit level. Druids - Innervate: This spell is now a base ability for all Druids, trainable at level 40. Any Druid who formerly had the Innervate talent now has the Swiftmend talent instead. - Nature's Grace: You will no longer consume this effect when casting a spell which was made instant by Nature's Swiftness. - Swiftmend: This new talent has been added to the Druid Restoration tree, replacing Innervate as the 31 point ultimate talent. It consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth aura to produce an instant heal. - Enrage: Tooltip edited to clarify functionality. Hunters - Counterattack (Survival Talent) - All ranks of this talent will now share the same cooldown. - Scorpid Poison: Duration slightly lengthened. - Changed the way hunter pet family armor bonuses and penalties are applied to allow the exact value from the Natural Armor talent to be applied correctly. This may result in a very slight loss of armor to some pets (less than a third of a percent). - Improved Scorpid Sting: The aura from this Sting will now be removed (as intended) when a different Sting aura is placed on the victim. Mages - Due to significant talent changes, mages will have all talent points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced. - Arcane Explosion is now instant cast and will no longer remove the Presence of Mind effect when used. - Evocation - Is now available to all mages (via trainer), starting at level 20. - Conjure Food now has a new rank (Rank 7) available in Stratholme. - Frost Ward now has a new rank (Rank 5) available as item loot in dungeons. - Mana Shield - Damage taken will now be absorbed by other absorb spells (e.g. Ice Barrier, Power Word: Shield) before being absorbed by Mana Shield. - Dampen Magic - Damage and healing reduction increased on ranks 3 through 5. - Amplify Magic - Damage and healing bonus increased on ranks 2 through 4. - Counterspell - Fixed a bug that made Counterspell unresistable. - Winter's Chill - Changed to increase crit chance by 1% per stack, but stacks up to 10 times. - Improved Scorch - Duration of Fire Vulnerability increased to 30 seconds. - Blast Wave: The bonus this spell receives from effects that increase spell damage has been increased. - Cold Snap: This talent will now always clear the cooldown for Frost Ward, even if the cooldown was triggered by casting Fire Ward. - Cone of Cold: The bonus this spell receives from effects that increase spell damage has been increased. - Fire Ward: The amount of damage absorbed by this ward was increased substantially on all ranks. - Frost Ward: The amount of damage absorbed by this ward was increased substantially on all ranks. - Arcane Power: This ability will no longer stack with Power Infusion. If you gain both at the same time, Arcane Power will take precedence. - Added a new level 60 quest available from Archmage Xylem in Azshara for mages. - Fire Ruby now has a sell value and can be disenchanted. Paladins - Benediction: This talent will no longer incorrectly provide a double discount to Seal of Justice. - Blessing of Light: It is no longer possible for a target to appear to have multiple ranks of Blessing of Light. These multiple auras had no beneficial effect, merely causing confusion. Problems with targeting the spell when the caster has Blessing of Light effect on them have also been fixed. - Divine Favor: It is no longer possible to cast this immediately after a healing spell and "retroactively" make it a critical hit. - Illumination: When several critical effect healing spells are cast very quickly, you will now receive the correct mana refund for each one. - Judgement of Command: Now consumes a charge of the Zandalarian Hero Charm. In addition, when this spell is resisted it will no longer erroneously still do damage. - Judgement of Righteousness: Now consumes a charge of the Zandalarian Hero Charm. - Seal of Command: Clarified tooltip. - Vengeance: Seal of Command critical hits can now trigger this ability. - Vindication: This effect will no longer be absorbed by Grounding Totem. Priests - Lightwell - Casting time reduced. Lightwell object increased in size to make it easier to click; relative click radius decreased slightly. - Mind Control: If you cast Power Word: Shield while Mind Controlling a target, the Recently Shielded aura will now appear on the correct target instead of yourself. - Shadowguard: This Troll Priest racial spell now works with Vampiric Embrace, Blackout, and Shadow Weaving. In addition, the damage from Shadowguard will now consume charges of the Zandalarian Hero Charm's Unstable Power aura. - Spirit of Redemption: This spell has a number of fixes: Priests prematurely leaving battlegrounds with this aura on will now receive the Deserter debuff (as intended); Priests in Spirit of Redemption form at the completion of a battleground will have the aura removed without dying; It will now work correctly with the Darkmoon Card Twisting Nether item, resurrecting you after Spirit of Redemption has run its course; If you should die underwater the Spirit of Redemption will no longer have a breath bar appear; the Warlock Drain Soul spell will terminate producing 1 shard when the Priest switches to Spirit of Redemption form; You will no longer have to wait 30 seconds for graveyard resurrection upon your first death while using Spirit of Redemption. - Vampiric Embrace: This ability will no longer heal for damage caused when the target had no life remaining. Rogues - Detect Traps is now a passive skill. - Pick Pocket: This ability will no longer trigger effects on your target. - Slice and Dice: This ability will no longer play its sound effect twice. - Vanish: Cancelling your Stealth aura while Vanish is running will now cause Vanish to be canceled as well. Warlocks - Shadow Ward now has a new rank (Rank 5) available as item loot in dungeons. The amount of damage absorbed by this ward was increased substantially on all ranks. - Curse of Agony: The damage from this spell will now continue even if the caster dies or leaves the area. - Emberstorm: This talent will now correctly increase the damage the Warlock takes from Hellfire. - Hellfire: Aftermath can now be triggered by this spell. - Improved Shadowbolt: Periodic damage spells and non-damaging spells will no longer consume charges of Shadow Vulnerability. - Shadowburn: If you cast Drain Soul while this aura is on the victim, you will no longer receive two soul shards upon the victim's death. - Soul Link: If your pet is banished, it will now break the Soul Link. In addition, Soul Link's tooltip has been clarified to indicate it only works with your imp, voidwalker, succubus, or felhunter. Shaman - Due to significant talent changes, Shaman will have all talent points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced. - Searing Totem - Mana cost reduced. - Disease Cleansing Totem - Duration increased. - Fire Resistance Totem - Duration increased. - Flametongue Totem - Duration increased. - Frost Resistance Totem - Duration increased. - Grace of Air Totem - Duration of ranks 1 and 2 increased. - Nature Resistance Totem - Duration increased. - Poison Cleansing Totem - Duration increased. - Stoneskin Totem - Duration increased. - Strength of Earth Totem - Duration of ranks 1 through 4 increased. - Tremor Totem - Duration increased. - Windfury Totem - Duration increased. - Windwall Totem - Duration increased. - Mana Spring Totem - Mana cost reduced. - Healing Stream Totem - Mana cost reduced. - Two-Handed Axes/Maces (Enhancement Talent) - Skill levels gained with these two weapons will now be retained if you decide to unspend this talent point and return to it later. - Flame Shock - Damage over time portion of all ranks slightly increased. Mana cost of ranks 3 through 5 decreased. In addition, a new rank is available (Rank 6) from Upper Blackrock Spire. - Improved Reincarnation (Restoration Talent) - Fixed a bug where rank 1 of this talent was not decreasing the cooldown properly. - Rockbiter, Frostbrand, Flametongue and Windfury Weapon mana costs reduced. - Elemental Fury: Tooltip now indicates it increases the critical damage for Searing Totem, Magma Totem, and Fire Nova Totem. - Fire Nova Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage. - Grounding Totem: This totem will no longer reflect the Mage talent Combustion back onto the Mage. - Healing Wave Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's healing. - Lightning Bolt: Mana cost reduced approximately 17%. - Magma Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage. - Searing Totem: This totem now receives increased damage from effects that increase the Shaman's spell damage. Warriors - Improved Revenge - Chance to stun at each rank changed to 15/30/45%. - Bloodrage - Fixed a bug that caused Bloodrage to cost twice the intended health - Sweeping Strikes: This spell has a number of fixes: When used in conjunction with Execute and the second victim is below 20% health, they will be hit with the full Execute amount. If the second victim is not below 20% health, they will be hit with normal melee swing damage; If the ability you are using does not deal damage, it will not use a charge of Sweeping Strikes; The extra attack it generates when used with Whirlwind now has the correct damage range; The additional attacks generated by this ability will now properly take into account the armor of the second target. - Whirlwind - When this ability is used with Sweeping Strikes, it will burn only one charge of Sweeping Strikes and will generate only one additional attack. - Retaliation - This ability will now function correctly at full melee range. - Intimidating Shout - The cowering in fear effect will no longer be applied when the target resists this shout. - Shield Slam: This ability now costs 20 rage to use and the damage it does is modified by attack power (normalized to 2.2 speed). However, the base damage has been reduced. It generates more threat per rage and more damage per rage than it did previously. - Flurry - The tooltip for this talent has been adjusted to indicate it only works on normal melee swings. And ranks 1 through 4 of this talent will now activate correctly again. Your haste will now last only the intended next 3 swings. Items - Key rings have been added to the game. o Level 1-39 = 4 slots o Level 40-49 = 8 slots o Level 50-60 = 12 slots - Stack sizes have been updated: Stacks of 20 o Leather (Light, Medium, etc.) o Cured Hides (Light, Medium, etc.) o Shards (Small Brilliant, etc.) o Enchanting Dusts (Strange, Illusion, etc.) o Flash Powder o Rogue Poisons (Instant, Crippling, etc.) o Rogue Poison Reagents (Essence of Pain, Deathweed, etc.) Stacks of 10 o Hides (Light, Medium, etc.) - We have re-evaluated the mechanics of consumable items in the game and concluded that these should work in a more intuitive manner. As such, most items that can not be equipped with right click abilities have been streamlined into one of three categories. Using an item of a particular category will trigger a shared cooldown among all other items in the same category. The categories break down as follows with category cooldowns as listed. o Potions 2 minutes: This includes items such as Health Potion, Mana Potion, Invisibility Potion and Mighty Rage Potion. o Aggressive 1 minute: This includes items such as explosives, Really Sticky Glue and Discombobulator Ray. o Non-Aggresive 2 minutes: This includes items such as Healthstone, Night Dragon's Breath, Whipper Root Tuber and Target Dummy. - Many items that can be equipped have had their cooldown category removed and will be controlled exclusively by the item's self cooldown. For example, the Gnomish Mind Control Cap should no longer trigger the cooldown of the Talisman of Arathor. - We have re-evauluated the class specific quest rewards for both Zul'Gurub and Ahn'Qiraj Ruins. To bring them more in line with the effort required to attain them we have upgraded the superior items to epic quality. - All food/drink can be eaten while silenced. Previously some food/drink could not be consumed when under the effect of a silence. - The Gnomish Mind Control Cap may now only be used on targets that are not in combat. - An updated set of armor rewards have been added to vendors for Honor ranks 7, 8, and 10. - The armor rewards for Honor ranks 12 and 13 have been increased in level and stat point allocation. Professions - Four new nature resist cloth armor recipes have been added to the merchants at Cenarion Hold for those with high Cenarion Circle reputation. - Three new nature resist leather armor recipes have been added to the ghost leatherworker of Silithus for those with high Cenarion Circle reputation. - Three new nature resist plate recipes have been added to the merchants at Cenarion Hold for those with high Cenarion Circle reputation. - The two-handed agility Enchanting recipe now provides a green glow on those weapons. - When a paladin is replaced by their Evil Twin due to transporter malfunction, they can no longer revert to their normal self using divine shield. - Tranquil Mechanical Yetis are no longer unique. Quests - Light's Hope Chapel has been revamped and is now a fully functional quest hub. o A new mailbox has been added. o The chapel is now flagged as an inn. o A guard system is in place. o New vendors have been added. - Dozens of new quests have been added to Light's Hope. - New quests available in Zul'Gurub and Light's Hope Chapel for head and leg resistance enchantments. - Several new tradeskill quests have been added to assist players in obtaining frost resistance armor and items. - A new LEGENDARY item quest has been added! Casters rejoice (and druids too)! Raids and Dungeons - Zul'Gurub o Class specific armor quests given by the Zandalarian trolls of Yojamba Isle no longer require Bijous or Coins for completion. Armor quests now only require a Primal Hakkari piece and appropriate faction with Zandalar. o Class specific enchantments given by Zanza the Restless no longer require Arcanum (Librams) from Dire Maul. The requirements have been changed to items found within Zul'Gurub. Speak with Zanza the Restless for more information. o The various clan speakers (Bloodscalp Speaker, Sandfury Speaker, etc) have had their hit points reduced considerably. o Zandalarian Armor Replacement - Because of the changes made to the armor rewards from the Paragons of Power quests, the trolls of Yojamba Isle will now offer to replace pieces of armor that have been lost or deleted. o After careful consideration we have decided to add an additional loot table to the High Priests of Zul'Gurub. Players should now see two items in addition to the tokens when slaying these bosses. - Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj o Ossirian the Unscarred - There is a new crystal that will be visible before the encounter begins. Players can use this crystal just like any other crystal in the encounter, but it cannot come back up during the encounter. o Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj Class Set Reward Replacement - Because of the changes made to the rewards from the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj class set quests, players can obtain replacements for lost or deleted quest rewards from Warden Haro, Keyl Swiftclaw, and Windcaller Yessendra in Cenarion Hold. User Interface - Text that a raid leader sends to chat will now be displayed in a different color and will have the [Raid Leader] label. - There is now a new raid warning chat channel available to raid leaders and assistants. Text that is sent to this channel will appear in the center of the screen for all players in the raid. The channel is called raid warning and text can be sent to it with "/rw" - Raid leaders now have a Ready Check button on their raid interface. This can also be sent with /readycheck from the chat line. A ready check sends an "Are you ready?" Yes/No dialogue to all players in the raid. The raid leader will get feedback in 30 seconds on all the players who were not ready or who did not respond. - Players now have a Raid Info button on their raid interface that functions the same way /raidinfo worked before. This function will display a pane showing all of the raid instances that a player is saved to, rather than displaying it to the chat window. - Players in a party may now select an option that allows them to reset an instance. o You only get the reset instance option if you are a party leader. o The UI option appears if you are a party leader, you have one or more instances open, and you are not currently in an instance. o The UI option is a right-click option off of your own portrait (like party loot options). o You get a warning dialogue when you select this option asking if you really want to reset all instances. o If you select reset all instances, all non-raid instances will be reset to their starting condition. World Environment - New flight paths can be found at Ratchet and Marshall's Refuge, Un'Goro Crater. - Flight paths added between: o Morgan's Vigil - Lakeshire o Revantusk Village - Light's Hope Chapel o Aerie Peak - Chillwind Point o Stonetalon Peak - Nijel's Point o Cenarion Hold - Feathermoon Stronghold o Cenarion Hold - Camp Mojache o Cenarion Hold - Un'Goro Crater o Gadgetzan - Un'Goro Crater o Crossroads - Ratchet o Theramore - Ratchet o Ratchet - Talendris Point o Moonglade - Talonbranch o Splintertree - Valormok o Hammerfall - Revantusk Village o Camp Mojache - Freewind Post
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 6, 2009) Attorney General Terry Goddard today visited El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson to award a grant of $783,423 to the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers. The funds will be used by the centers to provide prescription medications to low-income, disabled and elderly patients.
The award was accepted by Joseph Coatsworth, Chief Executive Officer of the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers, and Kathy Byrne, Executive Director of El Rio Community Health Center. Executives from community health centers across Arizona were also present.
The funds for this grant come as a result of two multi-state consumer fraud settlements the Attorney General's Office reached in 2008 with two of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits management companies, CaremarkRx LLC and Express Scripts, Inc. A total of $850,000 of the settlement money recovered in these cases was designated by the court to be used for the direct benefit of low-income, disabled or elderly consumers of prescription medications and to promote lower drug costs for state residents.
"Today's award makes sure that, out of the manipulative and anti-consumer practices of these pharmacy benefit managers, Arizona reaps some tangible benefit for those least able to pay for health care," Goddard said.
"The benefits of this funding will make an immense difference in the lives of many of our most indigent and needy patients, and we are especially grateful for this assistance from the Office of the Attorney General and to Terry Goddard for his continued leadership," Coatsworth said.
The Arizona Association of Community Health Centers is a non profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization that works to improve the health status of Arizona's indigent and medically underserved. It manages numerous health related programs, including a network of more than 100 primary care locations throughout Arizona. The association's goal is to improve the health status of individuals and families who need primary care services and may not have the financial resources or health insurance to pay for them.
El Rio Community Health Center provides comprehensive health care to more than 75,000 members of the Tucson community each year. As a member of the association, El Rio will receive $180,970 for prescription medications through today's grant.
In addition to today's award, the Arizona Attorney General's Office awarded a $67,000 grant to John C. Lincoln Hospital's Desert Mission Health Center in Phoenix.


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Word of the Day
Conundrum kuh-NUN-drum (noun) A riddle whose answer is or involves a pun; an intricate and difficult problem -- www.merriam-webster.com
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The mission of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks that are in the public domain. In addition to reference and academic material, the site has a large selection of works from familiar authors, including Austen, Shakespeare, Wilde and more.
Number to Know
87: Number of people killed on this date in 1980 when a fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.


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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
Gameday Central
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – A second chance. That's what the Tennessee Tech men's basketball team has waiting for it on Saturday evening when the Golden Eagles lay out the welcome wagon to in-state rival Belmont in a 7:30 p.m. CT rematch of this season's earlier meeting between the two programs.
Belmont narrowly escaped Tech in Nashville earlier in the season, squeaking by with a 64-62 win as a last second jumper by the Golden Eagles just bounced off the rim. The Bruins sit in first play in the Ohio Valley Conference, owning an 8-1 record in league play. The Golden Eagles, who have lost its last four contests and sit at 3-5 in the conference, will look to right the ship and get back in the hunt for a spot in the OVC tournament.
Tennessee Tech (10-13, 3-5) vs. Belmont (17-7, 8-1)
Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014
7:30 p.m. CT
Eblen Center (9,280) – Cookeville, Tenn.
The Broadcasts
TV: WCTE (Buddy Pearson and Frank Harrell)
Radio: 106.1 The Eagle (Roger Ealey)
Webcast: OVC Digital Network (Buddy Pearson and Frank Harrell)
Since joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 2012-13, Belmont has proven to be a tough in-state rival for the Golden Eagles, winning all three contests against the boys from Cookeville.
Prior to the Bruin's arrival in the league, Tech owned the series without even a remote hiccup, leading 11-0 since 1956.
A late jumper and a last second put-back attempt couldn't quite find the bottom of the net as the Tennessee Tech men's basketball was dealt its first Ohio Valley Conference loss of the season, falling to the Belmont Bruins, 64-62, at the Curb Event Center in Nashville.
Trailing by 16 points with just under 12 minutes to play, the Golden Eagles clawed their way back to a one-possession game behind stout defensive play and clutch buckets from senior Jeremiah Samarrippas and junior Javon McKay.
With 1:06 left in regulation and the Bruins holding to a 64-59 advantage, junior Ladon Carter made a clutch steal, forcing Craig Bradshaw into a turnover after Belmont had come away with two consecutive offensive rebounds. Carter kicked the ball up the court to freshman guard Shirmane Thomas who then found McKay in the right corner for one of the biggest treys of the guard's career at Tech. McKay buried the three to bring Tech within two points with 58 seconds left on the clock.
Trying to run out the clock, Belmont moved the ball around the top of key while attempting to prevent the Golden Eagle defense from getting to close and forcing a five-second call. In an attempt to get away from the Tech pressure, the Bruin's Bradshaw made a spin move, but Samarrippas picked his pocket clean, knocking the rock free and diving on the loose ball before calling a quick timeout.
Twenty-four second remained and the Golden Eagles had the last possession. Or so they thought.
In an attempt to get the ball across the paint, a pass from Ty Allen got deflected by his teammate, Dwan Caldwell back over the half court line for an over-and-back call. The turnover, with just six seconds remaining, seemed to doom the Golden Eagles chances at finalizing the comeback.
But once again, not everything was quite as it seemed.
With an inbounds all but separating the Bruins from a 2-0 start, Reece Chamberlain took the ball and looked for J.J. Mann to seal Tech's fate. But the junior and senior miscommunicated and Chamberlain's pass sailed out-of-bounds all the way back by Tech's baseline, giving the Golden Eagles one final chance at glory.
The Golden Eagles knew the ball had to go through their hottest player's hands and with 16 second-half points, Samarrippas was the man. The Bartow, Fla. native took control of the ball and quickly moved to his left at the top of the key, with two defenders bearing down on him, he quickly dribble up the lane to open space. Samarrippas threw up a pump fake before getting a decent look at the rim with less than three seconds to play. The ball just rattled off the rim and a tip-in attempt by McKay just missed its mark.
With the 64-62 loss, the Tech squad moved to 8-9 overall and 1-1 in OVC play on the season. Samarrippas led the Golden Eagle scoring effort, finishing with 16 points as well as two dimes and three steals. Dennis Ogbe had a solid game, scoring 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting while also leading Tech with seven rebounds.
Bradshaw led all scorers with 17 points on the night and Mann followed with 14 of his own. Both Mann and Chamberlain grabbed six rebounds apiece. Evan Bradds also finished in double-figures, notching 10.
Senior Dennis Ogbe ranks second on the Tech squad in scoring, averaging 10.0 point per contest. He also leads the Golden Eagles in rebounds, pulling down 6.0 per game.
Junior Dwan Caldwell has played a key role as the big man in the paint for the Golden Eagles. He is leading Tech in scoring, averaging 10.1 points per game while grabbing 5.4 boards per contest. He also blocks 1.0 shots per game.
Point guard Jeremiah Samarrippas is the lead dog in assists for the Golden Eagles, averaging 4.1 per game while also leading the way with 40 steals. He tacks on 9.4 points per game as well. In OVC play, he is shooting an impressive 39.2 percent from beyond the arc while leading Tech with 12.1 points and 4.9 assists per game.
Ladon Carter provides great depth off the bench for Tech, ranking third in the OVC in field goal percentage with a .634 mark while scoring 7.3 points per game and pulling down 5.3 rebounds.
Redshirt sophomore Josiah Moore is one of six Golden Eagles averaging at least seven points this season, scoring 7.3 per contest.
JUCO transfer Jordan Johnson collected his eighth consecutive start of the season against Tennessee State. In eight OVC games he is shooting 40.0 percent from 3-point range.