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|2007-04-13, 19:46
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Yeah you really have a show with so many characters that an amazing amount of pairings can be created out of it. Just a few pairings that I'm behind.
Hitsugaya x Hinamori
Another one of those childhood friends situations, though one where one of the friends tries to kill the other in a crazed rage. It's clear in terms of Hitsugaya's feelings on the matter. Following her after she left and becoming a Captain so he could better protect her. Hell even took on Aizen and Gin for her sake although one was more of a draw and the other was a loss. How things proceed there will depend on how she recovers from the betrayal, being stabbed, and having attacked her friend and disregarding everything she knew about him after all the time they spent together.
Ishida x Inoue
Like most I thought about this one more once the SS arc got going. Ishida really worked hard to protect her and took interest in what she had to say. While Inoue is still interested in Ichigo at least we got to see the interest on Ishida's side from the time they spent together. Taking on a Captain by himself to ensure that she would escape from harm. Even after the arc on their way home you could tell she understood him better after all of that. The sooner Ichigo pairs off the better since it doesn't seem like she'll notice Ishida in that way until after.
Other pairings that I like are:
Ichigo x Tatsuki (Just seeing her recent appearances in the show makes me wonder what'll happen there)
Yoruichi x Kisuke
and some others but nothing that important.
A few though that I'm not all that keen on:
Hitsugaya x Matsumoto
I do like their teamwork and they certainly do a good job together. Hitsugaya works as the serious captain doing the paperwork while his vice captain is more interested in drinking and having fun. While they have their quarrels, they both trust each other and know they can count on the other no matter what happens. When things get serious they are a great team. I don't see much romance coming between them but they are good friends I think.
Ishida x Nemu
It's just something I can never figure out. Yes they talked and didn't kill each other. But come on Nemu is completely loyal to Mayuri who allowed (thousands?) of Ishida's fellow Quincy to be killed and then having their souls multilated. If he ever sees that guy again he won't hesitate to try and kill him. Don't think Ishida could get along with someone like that. She's just too loyal to someone who would kill her without a thought. Plus being a death god she's just on his dislike list at any rate.
|2007-04-14, 16:51
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Although, I think Renji also has a sibling like connection with Ichigo too, the way they act around each other just gives it that feeling of brotherly affection. He cares alot of about Ichigo as he does Rukia, except he knows Ichigo is powerful enough to stand on his own alot of the time.
|2007-04-14, 17:36
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Awwww! How sweet!
Still, my fav cxouple is no doubt Ichi x Ruki
|2007-04-14, 17:40
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: shiranai
I think Ichigo and I would be good for each other
But, I'm wondering (just to tell you I'm watching the anime and I'm not reading it)
What if Orihime and Ichigo went together?!?!?!
Well, I highly doubt it because Ichigo just wants to protect Orihime...
poor Orihime... But i prefer Rukia with Ichigo
(again another slash of Orihime and Ichigo...)
also, What about Chad?!?!
He and ichigo are looking really close!
(if I am wrong don't tell me I am still in the process of watching)
Just to tell you I like many different bleach couples
and if i mention a relationship with two men
i am trying not to refer to gay people.
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|2007-04-15, 03:16
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Join Date: Jan 2007
I just find it sweet how he let her go for the sake of her happiness (well, that's what he thought) and how he's training hard to beat Byakuya in order to get her back. At first, he seemed like those tough guys like Ichigo, but he proved me wrong (in a good way) in episode 32.
|2007-04-15, 07:29
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Location: In past i lived in konoha but now-a-days..... well i can't tell you.... its a secret
Ichigo x orihime, i just like those 2....
rukia, no chance
Rangiku mastumoto x renji abarai
rukia x Kon or yachiru x kon (that would be funny)
but who would make a couple with Zaraki kenpachi ????
|2007-04-15, 12:30
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Hmmm... Zaraki and Yachiru...? I find it quite scary...
I think I should mention here my new favourite Bleach pairing -> see my sig
|2007-04-16, 01:03
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Location: In past i lived in konoha but now-a-days..... well i can't tell you.... its a secret
|2007-04-16, 16:45
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Aww ain't that cute Ichigo&Rukia. ichigo shows that he cares for rukia when he goes and saves rukia in the soul society arc and as inoue said "rukia helped change ichigo fate and life" and ichigo also shows that he likes her in the movie memories of nobody when ichigo trys to save rukia when shes being surrounded by enemies
|2007-04-16, 21:03
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Speaking of opposite attracts Ichigo and Rukia are so opposite attracts. Black Sun and White Moon, Life and Death, Black Zanpakuto and White Zanpakuto, Ying Yang etc.
Ichigo x Rukia x Renji love triangle rox!
|2007-04-16, 22:24
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But as much as I adore the Ren x Ruki pairing I'm more of a Ichi x Ruki girl *hides my signature*
|2007-04-17, 08:29
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 100 workers at a Chinese lighting factory have suffered suspected mass mercury poisoning in a case highlighting the lack of safeguards for China's factory workers, state media reported on Thursday.
The workers, with the China-listed Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co., had used liquid mercury on production lines at the plant in the China's southern manufacturing hub of the Pearl River Delta, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch is still not participating in the national anthem. Lynch took a seat on the bench during the anthem before Monday's game versus the L.A. Rams. He did the same all of last season, electing to sit as opposed to standing or kneeling. He made headlines last year when the Raiders played the Patriots in Mexico and he elected to stand for the Mexican Anthem, but sat for the Star-Spangled Banner. Donald Trump called the act disrespectful in a tweet sent last November. The NFL previously enacted a policy requiring players to stand for the anthem or stay in the locker room earlier this year, but that has since been shelved.
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To get the scoop on that stuff ahead of time, omg! talked to astrologist and founder of astrologyzone.com Susan Miller, who took a look at the baby's astrological chart based on her birthdate and the fact she was born in the morning. (In case you were clueless about this stuff like we were, you have to determine what sign was rising on the Eastern horizon as the baby was being born.) And sorry, Kimye haters, sounds like the stars (or in this case planets) have aligned for the world's newest Kardashian … and she'll have a lot going for her in life.
As luck would have it, she's lucky
"This baby is the luckiest little baby on the planet. This week is when the sun aligns with Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck. I call these the luckiest days of the year," Miller explains. "This gives prominence, money, an ability to travel far and wide. It allows you to elevate to the very top of your profession if you want to. There's a golden triangle in the heavens going on right now. When you get planets cooperating with each other, it just brings opportunity and it almost gives you plain dumb luck. This baby is just born with a lot of luck surrounding her." Figures!
Surprise, surprise. She'll be famous.
"At the very top of her chart, she has Neptune," explains Miller. "When you have Neptune so high up, your face is known to everyone. This is not a private baby," Miller continues. But doesn't that just have to do with the fact that her mother just happens to have multiple reality shows? Not necessarily, says our astrologist, who explains that while family environment does have something to do with the choices a person, she doesn't take into account the baby's background when reading the chart. Meaning Miller would the same thing if your sister or best friend's baby had been born at the same time.
She'll be a talker, a writer, a hard worker, and a money-maker
"She has the moon of Virgo, a sign of how superb she is at communicating and writing. When you have the moon in Virgo, you watch all the details and you get good with grammar and you hand in something polished. This baby cares, she's organized. This child is goal-oriented, knows what's she wants," explains Miller, who also says that Baby Kimye is also going to be able to parlay her communication skills into a nice paycheck. "She knows how to make money because Venus is in the solar second house with Mercury so the writing brings her the money. Venus is associated not just with love, but with money. She's born with a lot of energy and a lot of drive. And she'll be very sunny and happy and optimistic."
She'll have a good relationship with mom Kim … most of the time.
"Kim's going to get along great with her baby because Kim's a Libra and the baby will get along with her mother because Saturn and the moon are beautifully angle and Venus and the moon are nicely angled," she explains. But it's that pesky Mars that's not aligned with the moon that could cause trouble. "If she's going to have little arguments with anybody, it's her mother, but that's because her mother's there more."
This baby will be especially close with dad Kanye
Turns out Kanye has the same aspect of Jupiter aligned to the sun that his baby does … something that only happens once every 12 years. "Their outlook is so similar. That relationship will be incredibly strong," Miller insists. "He'll always take care of her and he will not be a father that's going to disappear, financially or any other way. He gets very attached to this baby and takes her to a lot of fun places. He's going to have a big effect on her."
She has something in common with a woman who's very un-Kardashian
Remember how we said baby Kimye came into the world during those few lucky days that only come along once a year? Well Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was born during that same time period back in 1954. Might we see Justice Kardashian-West presiding over the country's highest court 50 years from now? Never say never …


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Northern Europe in the 11th century was a place of turbulent politics, bitter rivalries and deadly betrayal… and at its heart was William, Duke of Normandy, the man who would famously conquer England.
David Churchill, pen name of an award-winning journalist with a lifelong passion for history, certainly knows his stuff and the second book in his enthralling The Leopards of Normandy trilogy tells William's story in all its brutal, exhilarating and action-packed drama.
As Churchill points out, there are very few reliable facts available about Norman politics in this period but it has been his joy to plug those glaring gaps with what is known of actual events and a brilliant elaboration of the wildly entertaining gossip at which those intrepid Normans excelled.
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In the first of the series, Devil, we witnessed the tumultuous events leading up to the birth of William the Bastard, the ignominious title of his early years, but now we join him as the nine-year-old duke growing up in Normandy and surrounded by a posse of guardians all jostling for power and advantage.
In 1037, William is surrounded by enemies and the men chosen to protect him are falling prey, one by one, to a conspiracy controlled and manipulated by Ralph de Gacé, a relative of the duke and a man who has spent a lifetime being mocked and ridiculed but now burns with the need to be feared and obeyed.
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Actress Shailene Woodley can understand fans' uproar over the controversial "One Sick Love Story" tagline featured on promotional posters for her new film adaptation of the "The Fault in Our Stars," because she had a "really strong response" to the ads too.
Teaser posters for the movie adaptation of John Green's bestselling novel, featuring "The Descendants" star as Hazel, a teenager who finds love with a fellow cancer patient, split devotees when it debuted online last week, with some branding the line inappropriate.
However, Woodley admits she was among those left shocked by the poster when she first saw it.
She tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "I had a really strong response to it. It's definitely… it's not a tagline that I probably would have chosen by any means.
"But I think that there's so many people who are so passionate about this book that there's nothing that will ever satisfy everyone. So I think it was
just up to the discretion of the marketing mavens…
"For me, it was… yeah, not something I would have chosen. But it seems like half the people love it and half the people don't like it."
Author Green said on his Tumblr about the tagline, "1. I did not write the tag line. To the many of you who love it, I say, "I did not write the tag line." To the many of you who don't, I say, "I did not write the tag line."
2. These things are not my decision. It's not my movie, or my poster. I don't know how to make movies or movie posters.
3. That said, I like the tag line. I found it dark and angry in the same way that Hazel is (at least at times) dark and angry in her humor. I mostly wanted something that said, "This is hopefully not going to be a gauzy, sentimental love story that romanticizes illness and further spreads the lie that the only reason sick people exist is so that healthy people can learn lessons." But that's not a very good tag line. I like the tag line because it says, literally, the sick can also have love stories. Love and joy and romance are not just things reserved for the well.
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Apple finally announced iCloud, reinforcing that the Cloud is ready for consumers. It validates some of the things we've been doing in Ubuntu and encourages us to think about how the trend will impact free software in the future.Cringley focuses on Apple targeting Microsoft by making the desktop category just like a device and moving everyone onto the Internet. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying:
"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device – just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch. We're going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud."
I don't know if this targets Microsoft, I do know that Apple has done as much as anyone to make the network a central part of our digital life.
It's clear that we all spend more time online – if you stand-back you can see see our increased dependence on the Web (we spend more time on-line than watching TV), along with how central some web apps are becoming to our lives (from Facebook to Google calendar). You might question how quickly this is happening or how widely spread: there's not much bandwidth in Africa, and I often find it surprising how poor connectivity is in rural areas. But, that's just a question of timing – large numbers of users already think of their computers and the Web as being synonymous.
The Web itself is rapidly becoming the standard development platform and storage medium for applications. With HTML5 and its' extended technologies we will see increasingly complex and capable web apps: this Financial Times HTML5 app is a nice example and tweaks Apple's tail! Even if the interface of everything can't be a Web front-end, then data storage is also moving in that direction: increasingly users think of their content as being 'available' everywhere – meaning online.
From a user perspective this means we all expect to access our favourite applications and our personal data at any point from a myriad of devices. The impact on Windows is that the field is being reset, both at a software and a hardware level. Microsoft is not a cherished consumer brand that everyone loves so they will have to start over. But, it equally impacts anyone that wants to create a general operating system – Ubuntu being my concern.
If everything is on the network, and the network provides many of the applications then there's going to be a fundamental set of shifts in how the system stack supports the user. Among the many areas, two things stand out for me.
The first theme is that we need to provide ways for users to store and access their content online. We've seen Apple's system, we're bound to see systems from all the titans of the industry as well at a lot of start-ups. This could be fantastic for users, but there's also potential for drawbacks if there's no standardisation – we don't want to go back to a world of locked in data.
But it's deeper than data, users don't think "I need my data" they think "I want my photos of Nancy the dog" which means we need to attach storage and applications together. That's why in Ubuntu One we talk about the personal cloud and we're providing both applications and API's to build on top of basic data storage and sync. Any data storage (including Ubuntu One) also needs to be available across multiple platforms so that our users can access their content whenever they want or need it. Importantly, to make the Cloud the central storage location it needs to be fully integrated and seamlessly part of the users experience – going to the 'Web folder' is a fail!
The second theme is that the operating system will be a window onto the Web, and this changes what it needs to present to the user and the services it provides to applications. From a user perspective we need to integrate the Web so that there's no difference between local and network applications. Moreover, some of the metaphors of the Web are impacting how users think about interacting with their computers, take search as an example.
For applications to be truly integrated it will mean that the system stack will need to provide services that web application developers can use. For example, rather than signing into a myriad of different web applications how can the system stack authenticate me to them seamlessly. Perhaps even the idea of local and web apps will need to disappear, if we can provide technologies that help web application developers create applications that work both locally and through the network.
A final thought, I said at the start that Apple has done as much as anyone to make the vision of a connected world real. But Unix and Linux has done even more – network computing is central to our technology, and distributed community is central to our ethos. For me this means Ubuntu has great strengths it can draw on as we create this future – Ubuntu can be the operating system for the rest of us in a connected world!
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I get it, it is called the Airik because it pumps air and is the size of a lipstik. Pity it sounds like in actuality it is a load of shiss.
A pump that fits in the palm of your hand? Capable of 130psi? Excuse my cynicism but we've been here before, on many occasions, and the outcome is more often that not the same: pump doesn't deliver. That's the case here, sadly.
The nicely-constructed Airik has a smooth barrel and is genuinely tiny, at just 12cm long. It's Presta only and the first problem is that it screws onto the second, wider thread on the valve: fine if you have a second thread, a major problem if you don't. The pump simply didn't function at all on 8 out of the 10 presta wheels in the office.
Assuming you've got the right inner tube then the pump screws on nice and snug and it's time to start pumping. You can forget about cramming 130psi into your tyres though. That might be possible on the blackboard or with some kind of beefy robot arm in the lab, but by the side of the road, in the rain, 90 miles in? I limited myself to 250 strokes which is more than you'd be prepared to throw at the problem on a ride, and the result was a just-about-get-you-home 65psi. We carried on for a bit and managed to squeak 80psi before our arm muscles gave out and there was a small crater in my palm from the end of the pump.
Not much to recommend this one I'm afraid. If it was any good then it would be great that it's so small, but that's the reason it isn't any good. Hey ho. If you want something tiny that'll blow up your tyres, get a CO2 inflator.
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Make and model: Xtreme Airik mini pump
Size tested: Black
Did you enjoy using the product? No
Would you consider buying the product? No
Would you recommend the product to a friend? No
About the tester
Age: 37 Height: 190cm Weight: 96kg
I usually ride: whatever I\\\'m testing... My best bike is: Genesis Equilibrium with Ultegra 6700
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling, track
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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According to the report, Wind Power - Global Market Size, Turbine Market Share, Installation Prices, Regulations and Investment Analysis to 2020, by research firm GlobalData, installed capacity increased at a compound annual growth rate of 25%. This translates into to a jump from 73.6GW in 2006 to 280.6GW in 2012.
There was a 7%, fall in annual additions in 2010 as major wind markets such as the US, Germany and Spain, faced economic problems following the global economic crisis.
China was the global leader in wind power in 2012 with the US coming second. The US lost out on the top spot due to the economic slowdown and uncertainties relating to the future of the industry because of a lack of long-term policies supporting the wind sector.
Offshore wind power installations accounted for 1.9% of the global wind power market in 2012.
GlobalData's forecasting from 2012 to 2020 sees the share of offshore wind in the global wind power market reaching 8.4% by 2020.
The research firm predicts the global offshore wind power market will grow significantly, seeing capacity reach 51.2GW in 2020, up from just 5.5GW in 2012, with the UK leading the installations.
US-based wind turbine manufacturer GE Energy dominated the global onshore wind market with 15.2% market share in 2012.
Denmark's Vestas was the second-largest in 2012, with Germany's Enercon the third-largest followed by Spain's Gamesa.
China will continue to be the largest wind power market in 2020, as it attempts to reduce its carbon footprint while increasing electricity production in rural areas, stated GlobalData.
Swati Singh, GlobalData's power sector analyst, said: "The outlook for the wind energy sector appears positive, although future growth is expected to slow down during the forecast period. This is mainly due to continuing uncertainties in the US and the maturing European wind power market."
Just seven countries — China, the US, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain and India - accounted for 74% of global install wind capacity in 2012.


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New job title: General manager at the Bohemian Hotel
Company: The Kessler Collection
Duties: Englund's duties as general manager include overseeing hotel operations, management of staff, budgeting, project management and ensuring elite guest interaction.
Related work experience: Englund served as general manager at Bristol Ventura on Panama's Pacific Coast, as well as management positions at Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, Four Seasons Resort Whistler, Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica and Four Seasons Mexico.
Education: Englund is a graduate of Washington State University with a B.A. in hotel and restaurant administration.
Savannah attorneys honored
Weiner Shearouse, a general practice law firm in Savannah, has announced that Georgia Trend will honor two Weiner Shearouse attorneys in the magazine's annual "Legal Elite" issue in December, which recognizes the top attorneys in the state of Georgia.
Attorneys earning the Legal Elite honor for 2012 include:
• Aron G. Weiner
• William W. Shearouse, Jr.


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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is new face of Guess Kids Presented by Fashion OneOn Tuesday, Guess Kids announced Dannielynn Birkhead as the face of its Spring-Summer 2013 collection. Peyton Edmonds, daughter of American musician Babyface, will also appear in the campaign.
The daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith has "the same playful spirit that her mother had on a set," says Paul Marciano, Guess's creative director. "She is a second-generation Guess girl, which makes this campaign a first for us."
The campaign was shot by Elliston Lutz on in Malibu.
Dannielynn Birkhead isn't the only celebrity offspring to become the face of a clothing line. Kaia Gerber, supermodel Cindy Crawford's daughter, is a Young Versace ambassador.


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Rare Tree Nursery specializes in the latest and greatest varieties of Japanese maples and dwarf conifers. Our plants are sold to the most discerning garden centers and landscape designers.
Landscape designers, retailers, plant collectors and gardeners. The average landscape designer is a high-end residential or urban designer with a keen eye for plant material. All visitors to the site are looking for the best of the best, the most unique plants, the best varieties, etc.
We want to attract discerning clients and businesses with a sleek website that is colorful and immediately showcases plant variety.
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Day one of the Omaha Challenge brought the burn for the Lipscomb baseball team as they competed in five individual events and one team event on Monday.
The first five events began the day in the weight room.
In the first event, Towel Hang, one player from each of the six teams lined up and competed to see how long they each could hold themselves up in the air without touching the ground before eventually slipping off.
Geordie Carlson had the best time of 1:49. Jacob Knott was second with a 1:37 mark. Tyler Bethune and John Pryor finished third with a time of 1:36. Pitchers must have strong arms and with this event that holds true as three of the top four finishers were hurlers.
The second event was Bench Press. All lifting scoring totals were based off body weight percentage; weight lifted divided by body weight. So lifting the most weight did not necessarily mean they won the event.
Grant Massey took first place after lifting a total of 365 lbs. Carlson was second with 290 while Weston Wolfe finished third after benching 365.
Drew Adams finished fifth but benched the most weight at 380 lbs. Of the seven players to bench over 300 lbs, three competed for the gray team; Massey, Tyson Ashcraft (325) and Cameron Bair (300).
After working the arms, the players advanced to event No. 3, Front Squat.
Squatting the most weight at 420 lbs., Ashcraft led all players and took first place. Wolfe finished second at 415 lbs. and Hunter Brothers was third after squatting 410. Adams was the only other player to squat 400+ lbs. He ended up sixth with a total of 410.
The fourth event was Hang Clean.
Johnathan Allison took home first place after lifting a total of 115 kilos. Dalton Curtis, the top pitcher, lifted the most weight at 125 kilos and finished second while Mike Korte was third with 100.
Three Rep Deadlift was the fifth and final individual event. Brothers and Ashcraft led the squad with 490 lbs. Will Blalock and Adams tied for third after lifting 455. Three of the top four were pitchers.
The Bisons ended the day one with the first team event, tug-of-war!
The yellow team went 3-0 to win the team event and also to finish day one in the lead with 581 points. The green team stands in second with 553 pts. Black and Gray are third and fourth, just four points apart (520-516). White's 481 puts them in fifth while Purple is sixth with 476.
Individually Carlson leads the field with 138 points. Ashcraft, just three points behind, is second with 135 and Wolfe is third with 130.
The top three pitchers are Brothers (128), Blalock (97) and Knott (91). The top three position players are Carlson, Ashcraft and Wolfe.
Day two will be held at Dugan Field beginning at 3 p.m. The list of events for Tuesday are (1) Perfect Push-up, (2) Captains of Crush, (3) Farmers Carry, (4) Slosh Pipe, (5) Speed & Agility and (6) Sled Pull.
All Bisons are welcomed to show up to show support and cheer on your Lipscomb Baseball team.


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Finally finished upgrading my main website. I did a clean install of Joomla 1.7 after testing on localhost, and finding compatible extensions. My main problem has been the family trees – the script I was using on 1.5 doesn't work with the latest GRAMPS, which is why I decided to upgrade. I tried Joaktree, and although it works brilliantly on localhost, it's too resource-hungry for my (free) web host. I've been hosting at Byethost for several years, and don't want to change, as they are reliable and helpful, and have no ads on the website itself. I finally decided to move my family trees to WorldConnect at RootsWeb.
I haven't looked at WorldConnect recently, in fact I'd forgetten it completely, but during the move I've found others who are researching the same families as me, so I'll look into that some more.
For my galleries I've switched to FW Gallery, which is basic but does all I need, and is easy to configure and use. It does need registration, but this is free, I've had no spam so far, and their website has excellent tutorials for this extension.
I've also installed Favicon. Favicons in Joomla usually need to be installed in the template – so if you change your template, you need to remember to move your favicon file. Favicon lets you install them outside the template folder, and choose which favicon you want on a particular page, or simply have one favicon on all pages.
I have also added JE Footer, which makes it easy to display a customised credit or copyright notice, plus additional text with with a link. On plain HTML websites I use javascript to display a start and end year in my copyright notices, and with this extension it's easy to do the same on a Joomla site.
My contact form is the same – S5 Quick Contact. All of these can be found in the Joomla Extensions Directory.
I tried several templates, including one that I loved but which was too complex for what I needed, and finally settled on one from Joomla Themes.
The upgrade was made much simpler with two excellent little extensions, j2xml and j2xml importer. These copy articles from 1.5, in my case to my PC, and then import them to 1.7 – I imported first to my localhost, and then to my live site. It doesn't copy menus, but if you haven't got too many it's not a serious problem. It does include pictures, sections and categories, plus ratings and trashed articles if you need them.


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Gov. Rick Perry held an impromptu press conference just off the Senate floor early Wednesday afternoon, after spending the better part of an hour in the chamber visiting Senators.
Whilst wearing black sneakers and what appeared to be pajama pants, accompanied by the Senate's mandated coat and tie — Perry spoke about the Senate's budget, using the Rainy Day Fund (see Peggy Fikac's post), and spat between his office and FEMA over fire relief.
Read a transcript of the press conference below.
Questions from reporters have been paraphrased. Perry's quotes are direct quotes.
Nolan Hicks, Chronicle/Express-News: What do you make of the budget the Senate passed out last night?
Perry: "It's a good step in the right direction."
Nolan Hicks, Chronicle/Express-News: Do you think it spends too much money?
Perry: "Oh, I don't know about that. Well, that's the reason we're sending it to conference. I won't judge it at this particular point in time. We know we've got to be fiscally conservative. My main concern at this particular juncture was to get the process moving, which they did. I do think it was wise that they recognized the people of the state of Texas don't want the Rainy Day Fund impacted anymore.
Dave Montgomery, Star-Telegram: A group of police chiefs are going to hold a press conference come out against the sanctuary cities bill. They're going to say it's going to add a burden to already overburdened police departments, what's your response?
Perry: "My response is that they, I hope, were paying attention on the second day of November of 2010 when the people of the state of Texas said pretty clearly that they wanted to have a sanctuary city prohibition in our statutes. I talked about it a lot during the campaign, it was one of the major issues during the campaign. Now, chiefs may not get elected but their City Councilors and their mayors do. So, I'd have them check back with the people that appoint them before I got crossways with the electorate.
Nolan Hicks, Chronicle/Express-News: You spoke a couple of minutes ago about the importance of not touching the Rainy Day Fund, but in 2003 and 2006/2007 you backed using the fund to create the Enterprise/Tech Funds and to pay for property tax relief. Why the change?
Perry: "Well, it's different times. If anybody can't see the difference in the times that we're in; I mean, the idea that you try to hold us to a particular position from 2003 to 2006 to 2011, is a little bit outta, out of the ordinary."
Peggy Fikac, Chronicle/Express-News: Did you ever call for liquidating the Rainy Day Fund?
Perry: "I did. If you'll recall, it was during a period of time when we had major surpluses. I don't see any reason to have huge amounts of money in a Rainy Day Fund when you have just massive surpluses. If you'll recall in 2005, we had a $10 billion budget surplus.
Chronicle/Express-News Austin Bureau chief Peggy Fikac reports that Perry's statement contradicts his staff's assertions on the issue from last week.
Peggy Fikac, Chronicle/Express-News: So you called for liquidating it in 2005?
Perry: "I don't know, you'll have to go back and look and see. You're asking me things that I can't give you specific answers to. I'll speak to your philosophically about what I was thinking about, which is 'why have a big stack of money sitting over to the side, when you have large budget surpluses.' Rainy Day Funds are for those events that occur when you don't have the money to cover the cost of them. As I've talked about, we've got a federal government right now that's not wanting to pay us disaster relief. If we're going to have to pick up the whole cost of these disasters, you put that on top of a hurricane season that's coming that the forecasters have said are going to be approaching 50% more hurricanes than forecast for last year, then we have a major storm come in the gulf and then it makes abundant sense. Listen, we, for two years stood up and said we're going to balance our budget within available revenue, not raise taxes and not get in the Rainy Day Fund. You coulda given that speech you heard it so often. And we had an election and the people of the state of Texas aren't confused about what's going on here. I would suggest to you the majority of the voters look at what the Senate did from the standpoint of not touching the Rainy Day Fund and salute it.
Dave Montgomery, Star-Telegram: Are you going to appeal FEMA's decision?
Perry: "I don't know yet. We're talking to the collective group that I discuss all these issues with; obviously, Nim Kidd, Steve McCraw, Ray Sullivan, Mike Morrisey, all of us sit down and look at all the different options that are in front of us."


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RIMINI, Italy, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Roberta Vinci's singles victory rallied Italy and her doubles win with Sara Errani Sunday lifted her country to a 3-2 Fed Cup decision over the United States.
Trailing 2-1 in the quarterfinal round entering Sunday's action, Italy kept its hopes alive when Vinci posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 decision over Jamie Hampton to force a fifth and deciding doubles rubber.
Then, with the match on the line, the Italians dropped their scheduled doubles duo of Nastassja Burnett and Karin Knapp and replaced them with Vinci and Errani -- a tandem that won last month's Australian Open title.
The move paid dividends when they breezed past the American team of Varvara Lepchenko and Liezel Huber 6-2, 6-2 to clinch the weekend series.
The victory moved Italy into April's Fed Cup semifinals against the defending champion Czech Republic, which moved on with a with a 4-0 triumph over Australia earlier Sunday.


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Horse dragged 100 yards behind truck
A horse that was tied to truck and dragged more than 100 yards down an asphalt road last month — scraping big chunks of hide from its side — is recovering at a rescue shelter, and authorities are searching for the man who drove the pickup.
Bastrop County is pursuing an animal cruelty case against Mariano Resendiz Villafuerta, 43, who has not been found. A previous warrant for cruelty was replaced Wednesday with a stiffer charge of cruelty to livestock animals by tripping, a state jail felony.
"This is something beyond horrible," said Darla Cherry, president and executive director of Meadow Haven Horse Rescue in Nixon, where the horse is recovering and doing well.
According to the Bastrop County sheriff's office, a deputy responded to a call of animal cruelty on Nov. 10 in Del Valle near Austin. A witness said he had spotted a lost horse on the road when a white Ford F-150 pickup truck pulled up. The driver, identified as Villafuerta, took control of the horse and tied it to the truck's hitch.
The driver took off and accelerated to a "high rate of speed with the horse still tied to the hitch of the truck," a sheriff's affidavit alleges. The horse had trouble keeping up, fell on its side, and was dragged about 100 yards.
The driver got out of the truck and kicked the horse in the neck until the animal stood up. He then grabbed the horse's lead rope and ran it down the driveway of a nearby house, the affidavit says.
Authorities are asking for the public's help in tracking down Villafuerta. The license plate of the Ford F-150 is BU1-3787.
Cherry, who cares for 88 abandoned and neglected horses at Meadow Haven, said the allegations of animal cruelty are among the worst she's heard.
"I mostly get starved horses, emancipated horses," Cherry said. "Those are pretty bad in their own right. But this is so horrific."
She estimated the male horse is about six or seven years old. Besides his torn hide, the animal also suffered a gash near its eye. But the wounds are healing.
Cherry said a few marks on the horse's head suggest a halter or bridle was pulled too hard in the past, and marks on the horse's back could mean a saddle was too tight. But there were no signs of injuries that were as bad as the scrape marks.
The horse isn't jittery around people and enjoys being washed and petted.
"We're going to rehabilitate him, then we'll evaluate him," Cherry said. "If he is sound enough, we'll adopt him out."
They don't know the horse's name. So Cherry's husband came up with a new nickname — Dragster.


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Nicholls State University head football coach Charlie Stubbs would like everyone leaving John L. Guidry Stadium today to have a smile on their face.
Nicholls State University head football coach Charlie Stubbs would like everyone leaving John L. Guidry Stadium today to have a smile on their face.
The Colonels host Division II Arkansas Tech in their homecoming game, and with alumni returning for the festivities, Stubbs said it is important for his team to play well and have everyone at the game feeling good about the Colonels.
Today's game is slated for 6 p.m. kickoff today on Manning Field and can be heard on KLRZ 100.3-RM, KLEB 1600-AM and KXOR 106.3-FM.
"The biggest thing it is an opportunity for alumni to return and renew acquaintances. A lot of times the football game is the focal point, and we want to represent the university and everyone well," Stubbs said. "The guys here want to show that we play hard and play well and show we do things right with character and work ethic. The ultimate goal is to win the football game, so everyone can leave the stadium with a smile on their face."
Even though Nicholls improved to 2-2 overall with a 42-22 win over NAIA Langston last week, Stubbs had no reason to smile.
While the Colonels only had one turnover, they did put the ball on the turf four times and committed 14 penalties for 109 yards, which Stubbs said he addressed during practice this week.
"As a head coach, I am proactive. It would be easy to say we won the football game and dismiss the things that we need to improve on because I can see down the road that will not cut it," Stubbs said. "Those mistakes will come back and cost us a game. One of the things we have to correct is pre-snap penalties. The next thing is seizing the momentum, but if there is a good part. In the two games we won, we had adversity and responded. In the past, we haven't responded, so to that was good."
The Colonels overcame their sloppy play against Langston with three scoring drives in the second half, and while mistakes were made, there were some positives.
Nicholls converted 7-of-12 on third-down attempts and were 6-for-6 in the red zone with all six possessions turning into touchdowns. The Colonels also had its best game rushing this season with 243 yards.
Stubbs said homecoming does bring distractions, but his players understand they need to reinforce the positives and work on the negatives. He doesn't believe they will lose any focus due to the week's activities.
"The good thing is the players realize the problems, and they are not deflecting it. They know we have to get better, and all those mistakes we really don't do it in practice. All of it has been covered and corrected, now it will be to reinforce it in practice," Stubbs said. "First of all, it is homecoming, and I do believe in tradition. I want the kids to enjoy the week but still get our work done. I'm not one of these coaches that hide them from anything. But, once we do get closer to the game, we will hone in and focus."
The Colonels will be honing in on the Wonder Boys today.
Arkansas Tech brings a 2-1 record into the game, but the Wonder Boys have played three Division II opponents.
Stubbs said it was easy to gauge Langston's talent due to the Lions playing tougher competition, but he does see a talented and confident team in Arkansas Tech.
"Winning breeds winning and they are used to winning. They are coming in here at 2-1 and looking at us as a feather in their cap," Stubbs said. "With Langston, they had played two (Football Championship Subdivision) teams, and we could look and measure things. We knew they had athletes. Arkansas Tech has athletes too, but you are trying to equate the level of competition, but no matter we have to be at our best. We learned a lot and we didn't take Langston lightly, and (Arkansas Tech) is very sound in what they do. They are well coached and you can tell what their schemes are, and there isn't much of the unknown."
With the Colonels having an open date next week, Stubbs said the goals for today are simple — win the game, come out healthy and give younger players experience in hopes of making the Colonels a better team when Southland Conference play begins on Oct. 12.
"First, the Colonels don't beat the Colonels, and I know you've heard that all year. I want to minimize the penalties and then I want us to take care of the football. Even though we had one turnover last week, we were sloppy with the football," Stubbs said. "I also want the defense to create negative plays and also take the ball away. I want to see us win the special teams, which we haven't done all year. If we win that phase, we should win field position, and we will definitely win this football game."
This is the firstmeeting between the two schools ... Nicholls will wear its all-black uniforms in today's game ... Arkansas Tech coach Raymond Monica started his college career at Nicholls and is a graduate of East St. John High School ... Monica's brother is former Nicholls assistant coach and current St. Charles Catholic coach Frank Monica ... The last time Nicholls had a winning record during a season was 2011 when it started 1-0 after beating Evangel University.


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On Tuesday, two of the seven open G.M. jobs were filled. On Wednesday, the Chargers could join the ranks of the teams no longer looking for General Managers.
Kevin Acee of U-T San Diego reports that Colts director of player personnel Tom Telesco is close to getting the job in San Diego. Though Acee explains that there's no "definitive word," he notes via Twitter that he's told "this is happening soon."
Telesco and Chargers director of player personnel Jimmy Raye are regarded as the favorites for the job. As Albert Breer of NFL Network pointed out earlier today, the Jets recently attempted to join the Telesco sweepstakes.


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J. Crew is being criticized for introducing new, smaller sizes to their clothes. The store now offers size 000 and xxxs.
Reataildive.com reports that some bloggers are claiming the new sizes are "part of the 'vanity sizing' J.Crew has been known for in the past. In vanity sizing, larger sizes are marked with lower numbers to cheer up customers and, presumably, nudge along a sale."
J.Crew's response is that the new sizes are due to the company's expansion in Asia, where the women are smaller.
According to racked.com, the new sizes are equivalent to a 32 in Italy, a 1 in Japan and a 0 in Australia.


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legacy (leg for short) ... finance manila (FM) occasional poster and desert storm (DS) chatroom member daily shares stock tidbits in DS's chatroom ... among those bits of info are the stocks in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) with the highest and lowest closing for the past 52-weeks ... with his permission .. id like to post here the stocks on their 52-week highs based on their closing prices as of FRIDAY, 08 APRIL 2016 ....
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Garden Gates
Gates have always been a big part—sometimes a bedeviling part—of my life. When I was a child, I learned to open and close those wobbly post-and-wire Texas gaps from horseback. I discovered that a little bump of the hip and a just-so lift would open those sagging metal gates on my grandfathers' farms wide enough to let the pickup truck through. And it was ingrained in me from an early age to make sure each gate was latched behind me to keep the dogs, horses or cattle that populated our lives and lands from escaping.
These days, however, the only gate I deal with is a fuss-free chain-link one that leads to the pen of our three-legged dog, Oscar. We learned the hard way that, despite his disability, Oscar is swift-footed and prone to dashing through an open gate, so I am thankful that it's an easy gate to manage. But I have been dreaming this winter of another kind of gate, one to welcome the world rather than keep something in or out—a garden gate.
Now gates, by nature, are supposed to be utilitarian. They were developed, according to historians, at the same time that humans began to erect walls for protection (no big surprise there, eh?), so gates originated as tools that controlled access or shut out the world.
While a garden gate may serve the very same functions—an outdoor doorway that provides access to the garden while also keeping out the riff-raff—it has the lovely advantage of also being an element of art in a landscape and has potential to be ever-so welcoming. A garden gate may provide a line of view into a garden or serve as a transition between outdoor "rooms," and it can be the focal point of your garden or landscape. It can be as simple or as complicated as you want, ranging from two sentinel posts with no real gate, to close to a trellis, to a roofed pergola and a bench for relaxing.
Function vs. Form
In researching my dream gate plan, the first thing I learned was that a garden gate needs to be functional as well as beautiful. If you are thinking of a gate for your own garden space, ask yourself the following questions. Does the gate need to keep animals—four-legged, three-legged or even two-legged—in or out? Does it need to be lockable to keep little two-legged critters from trespassing or escaping? Or, is its function more art than utility? Could it simply be an open arbor that defines an entryway, or does it need to provide a screen of privacy for your garden space? Does it need to match an existing fence or landscape design? And are there neighborhood rules and regulations that may dictate your gate style choices?
Answering these questions in advance allows you to choose a gate style that is appropriate for your needs. Once you have an idea of the use and style of gate you want, it's time to get into the details. One good idea I ran up on in my research is to take pictures of the garden or landscape from all sides and angles, including views from the house where the gate might be visible. My source suggests that black and white photos are better than color photos because black and white helps spot assets and flaws in the location or landscape design without the distraction of color.
Once you have picked the perfect spot of the gate, sketch a picture of your dream gate adding any details you may want to include, such as whimsical touches of lattice, stained glass, woodwork, metal embellishments or paint. And think about what you want to plant around the gate, such as climbing roses or other vines or shrubs that will compliment the design. If you're drawing impaired, collect photos of garden gates from magazines and books and use those as your blueprints.
Garden gates can be made of almost anything, from bamboo to metal, wood to PVC or chicken wire (though it may take a special creative flair to make the chicken wire and PVC aesthetically pleasing) to simply an airy entryway with side posts but no real gate at all.
Some people use recycled materials or pieces of old barn wood for their gates, or reuse antique wood or metal gates that they found at yard sales or antique and junk stores. Others have wood or metal artists design and create one-of-a-kind gates. Still others take the do-it-yourself route and build their own using pre-packaged garden gate plans or their own design-build talents. The options are limited only by your budget, talents and style needs.
The Technical Aspects
A garden gate should be at least three feet wide, and up to four feet in width. If you want a wider gate space, consider putting in a double-sided gate and definitely plan to provide extra support from the gate posts.
Gate posts should be sturdy, straight and plumb and should be sunk at least two feet into the ground—three feet for wider or heavier gates—and perhaps even reinforced with concrete footings. Make sure you use treated lumber if you are using wooden posts so they won't rot or be taken out by termites.
An abundance of gate building plans exist, so look for them in bookstores, garden centers, through your local Extension System office and on the Web. And plan to buy all your gate building supplies at one time so you won't be running back and forth to the store too often. This will also ensure that you have matched the hardware (hinges and latches) to the design and support needs of your gate.


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Dean and Professor Attend Episcopal Ordination at Ecumenical Patriarchate
March 20, 2011 • Off-Campus Event
On March 20, 2011, our dean, Fr. John Behr, and our assistant professor of Canon Law, Fr. Alexander Rentel, attended the ordination of Archmandrite Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis), to his episcopal position as Metropolitan of Proussa (now known as "Bursa"), in Istanbul, Turkey. His Eminence's consecration to the episcopacy was held at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George. In June 2010, Metropolitan Elpidophoros— former Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Great Church of Constantinople—honored our seminary by presenting a paper ("Greek Orthodox, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and the Church in the U.S.A.," published in St. Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly 54.3–4) during the international "Hellenism and Orthodoxy" symposium held on our campus.
During their visit, Frs. John and Alexander met with and received the blessing of the His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew, who received the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa from St. Vladimir's in 1997, and they presented him with an icon of the Holy and Great Prince Vladimir. They were also able to greet His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, who attended the ordination, along with a number of representatives from other local churches.
Both dean and professor reflected upon their exceptional visit. Fr. Alexander— whose doctoral work had examined the patriarchal liturgy of Constantinople in the fourteenth century—commented upon how wonderful it had been to experience first hand the same "taste of heaven" that the emissaries of the Holy Prince Vladimir had found in the patriarchal services in the 10th century.
Fr. John reflected on the catholicity of Orthodoxy that he had observed: "It is very important," he noted, "that Orthodoxy not only be local, but also one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. It is this particular synthesis of local and catholic, particular and universal, that we strive to represent here at St. Vladimir's Seminary. It was wonderful to have attended the event, and to see such Orthodoxy in action."


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By Keith Peters
Palo Alto Online Sports
Dave Winn may not have a degree in education, but that hasn't stopped him from teaching up a storm with his Palo Alto girls' volleyball team this season.
After winning last year's CIF Division I state championship with a gaudy 41-1 record, Winn knew that his team needed to be tested more in 2011 if the Vikings were to return to the state finals.
So, like some fiendish professor with a penchant for grading tests, Winn lined up the toughest schedule possible for his Vikings -- including an invitation to the prestigious Mitty Tournament plus nonleague matches with defending Division II state champ St. Francis and 2011 Division II state finalist Presentation.
Palo Alto came away from those six matches with just a 3-3 record, but the lessons learned from the competition -- and losses -- was invaluable.
"The Mitty Tournament was a real wakeup call," said Paly senior setter Kimmy Whitson. "It was the best thing that could happen to us. It was good for us to see how good we could be. It was a real turning point in the season."
Palo Alto bounced back from a 2-2 performance at Mitty to upend Presentation and then lose to St. Francis, both on the Vikings' court.
"It was great to be tested along the way," Whitson said.
Since that loss to St. Francis on Sept. 26, the Vikings haven't lost. They'll take a 20-match winning streak into Saturday's CIF Division I state championship finale against Marymount (Los Angeles) at Concordia University at 7 p.m.
The match will be televised by Comcast Sports Net Bay Area.
The defending champion Vikings bring a 35-3 record while Marymount is 33-4 after eliminating top-seeded Los Alamitos in the SoCal title match Tuesday, 21-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-21.
Marymount is ranked No. 20 in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 National Volleyball Rankings this week while Paly is No. 16. Los Alamitos was No. 14.
Palo Alto advanced to its second straight state final for the first time in school history by winning the NorCal title on Tuesday by sweeping visiting No. 3 seed Menlo-Atherton, 25-17, 25-7, 25-15.
"We're definitely going to be prepared for Marymount," said Winn. "We'll do our best from watching some limited video footage to understand what they do well and where they might have weaknesses. But, in a state championship, it's mostly about heart and belief. Both teams will be very skilled and experienced."
Experience is one big reason why Paly is knocking on the door of history once again.
"We knew we could do it again," Whitson said of reaching the state finals. "We were coming back with basically the same team (after losing two senior starters) and we just needed to build from there."
The Vikings return with eight seniors, five of them starters.
"We're doing such a great job this year leveraging our senior experience and our leadership to be resilient in any situation," Winn explained. "And the girls hold themselves to a very high standard of play. So, when we have a lead, it's not just about holding the lead; it's about extending it. And, when we're behind, it's not about IF we can come back, it's about HOW we will come back."
Against Menlo-Atherton, the Vikings trailed just twice -- 2-0 in the first set and 1-0 in the third. And, other than an 18-17 score in the opening set, Palo Alto maintained its control.
Everything worked in the Vikings favor, including the fact it was the seniors' final home match of their careers.
Palo Alto was aided in its title quest by the absence of M-A junior Ali Spindt, who missed three days of school this week with a virus. Spindt actually passed out at school on Monday.
"We were definitely thrown a curveball the day of the game when we found out Ali couldn't play," said M-A coach Jen Wilson. "She's been a staple in our lineup and is a valuable member of the team (as are all players). We worked on making some adjustments with the lineup to capitalize on our talent, and match up against Palo Alto's lineup. Given the situation, we knew the match would be a challenge and the team would have to step up.
"I am extremely proud of the girls for how they handled the adversity and stayed composed, working together as a team to play through the absence of Ali. People stepped up into positions they hadn't played all season and everyone made the effort. Although we didn't get the results we wanted, I don't feel as if it was a true showing of how good we can be as a team. I am definitely encouraged about next year."
Menlo-Atherton finished 31-7, setting a school record for single-season victories. Junior Katelyn Doherty had 11 kills and 18 digs while senior Sarah Collins added 18 assists and 13 digs.
"Without her (Spindt), it wasn't the same fight," said Winn, whose team beat the Bears for a third time this season. "(But) Our team played great tonight. It was like taking an exam, and they aced it."
Paly senior Maddie Kuppe had 14 kills and 13 digs while fellow senior Melanie Wade finished with 17 kills and five blocks, using her 6-foot-5 height to good advantage at the net. Whitson dished 36 assists and added four blocks while senior Jackie Koenig had eight digs and three aces. Senior Caroline Martin, junior Shelby Knowles and sophomore Becca Raffel also played significant roles in the clinching victory.
"It was one of our better matches," said Whitson. "It helped that we played so consistently."
Perhaps playing at home had a little to do with it. The Vikings have lost only twice at home in two years, once each season, and have gone 76-4 during that time.
"This was a great opportunity to have in our last match at home," said Kuppe, "Being able to have all our fans here was great."
Paly won its first-ever NorCal last season in Stockton. While that outcome was never a given, the Vikings expected to win this time around.
"Because we did so well last year, we expected to do as well this year," Kuppe said.
And the Vikings have.
"It couldn't have been a better way to go out," Wade said. "It was a huge crowd and it was really loud in here, and we came out and played how we want to. So, it was a great last home match."
Now it's time to have a great season-ending match, and
'Professor' Winn says he is very optimistic that his team is prepared.
"We will have studied all the materials and notes so we'll be ready to ace the test on Saturday," he said. "Even if our score is slightly lower then our opponent's, we will have no regrets about our preparation and effort. Of that, I am 100 percent confident."


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Last Song for Slain School Shooting Victim, Little Ana Marquez-Greene
NEWTOWN, Conn. – "She was kind, adorable; she loved to sing and was pretty and funny. She loved her family, her mother and father, and her brother. She was an excellent, excellent child."
This is how the Mayor of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, Jorge Márquez, in a voice heavy with sadness, remembers his grandniece, Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, 6, who died in the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre.
The funeral service will take place Saturday in Bloomfield, Conn.
Ana Grace was among the 27 people killed by gunman Adam Lanza, who last Friday shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and mercilessly opened fire, gunning down members of staff and students, who where only 6 and 7 years old.
The pictures of Ana Grace show a poised, lovely little girl, with a beautiful smile.
"Ana's love for singing was evident before she was able to talk," said her mother Nelba Márquez-Greene, in a statement released to the media. "In a musical family, her gift for melody, pitch and rhythm stood out remarkably."
"She danced to all the music she heard, whether in the air or in her head," she said. "Ana loved her God, loved to read the Bible and loved to sing and dance as acts of worship."
In a short statement posted on Facebook, Anna Grace's father, Jimmy Greene, a saxophonist, said: "Thank you for all of your prayers and kind words of support. As we work through this nightmare, we're reminded how much we are loved and supported on this earth and by our father in heaven. As much as she is needed here and missed by her mother, her brother and me, Ana beat us all to paradise. I love you sweetie girl."
Ana Grace's family had moved to the United States from Canada only two months before the shooting. Mayor Márquez said his niece had obtained a great job opportunity and she and her husband decided to relocate Ana and her brother Isaiah, 9, who was also in the school at the time of the shooting.
"They moved to a quiet town, it was beautiful countryside," he said.
But tragedy visited this countryside and forever changed the landscape of a society and a nation that now has extremely difficult questions to answer.
"This tragedy has united the nation and cries out for a call for peace. We must return to the basic principles," added the mayor.
In her statement, Ana's mother said that she hoped "the tragedy of the school shooting will bring greater awareness to mental health issues and to reduce the stigma attached to those with mental illness, perhaps preventing tragedies like the one that took Ana's life."
"Mental health is very important and it is not being given the importance that it deserves. This extends to Puerto Rico," Márquez said.
"If we do not love our children, like Jesus said 'Let the Little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these,' what are we as a nation and a society?"


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We just took our winter clothes out of storage, and our apartment looks like it exploded. This is unsettling, mostly because I don't work well in messy environs. It's like having a persistent itch somewhere you can't scratch. This is also unsettling because I feel like we just got the place fairly organized and have taken a step backwards.
This is one of the many things that happens when you have to downsize. Another thing that happens is you wind up putting half your possessions in storage (a.k.a. a kind friend's house all the way across town). So you spend 30 minutes looking for a book you know you own, and the only conclusion you reach is that it must be in storage. Oh well.
This is one area of my life I wish was a bit more streamlined. The "stuff" area. The main sticking point is books, but getting rid of books is fraught with difficulties. At least for me. Also, I just can't get on the e-book bandwagon. I know lots of people love them, and it means you don't have to devote a room in your house (or apartment) to books. But for me, until they can replicate the feel and smell and experience of reading a book, I'm not in.
This has nothing to do with soup, as far as I can tell, but the changing weather around here (and the reason we took our winter clothes out of storage--hence the discussion about "stuff") has me thinking along the lines of soup.
Soup is great because it's a vehicle for almost anything. Vegetables, meat, beans, grains, and even fruit. If you have ingredients, you can make soup. Of course, there are better and worse soups, but soup is generally the cook's friend. As long as you keep some full-flavored stock on hand, you're golden.
In this case, I needed a tasty way to use up a variety of root vegetables I got at the farmer's market, and I've done roasted root vegetables one too many times already this season. I ended up with a velvety, flavorful soup that I topped with brown butter and smoked paprika. It may not look like much, but it's soothing and delicious, and it may indeed become my go-to soup of the season.
I used coconut milk here because I love it as a milk alternative in cooking. Feel free to substitute milk or cream, but I promise the soup doesn't taste like coconut. You could also toast spices in the brown butter for a flavor boost. I don't think the soup needs it, but toasted cumin and coriander are usually nice additions to something like this.
Other articles you might enjoy: Gardener's Pie, Nettle Champ, Portuguese Greens Soup
Preheat the oven to 375˚F. Combine in a large roasting pan:
1 celery root, trimmed, peeled, and cut into large chunks
2 russet potatoes (about 1 pound), peeled and cut into chunks
4 parsnips (about 1/2 pound), peeled and cut into chunks
4 tablespoons butter, cubed
1/4 cup dry vermouth or white wine
1/2 cup water or stock
1 bay leaf
Cover with a sheet of foil or a piece of parchment (there's no need to create an airtight seal here--you're just preventing the vegetables from drying out) and roast until very tender, about 35 to 40 minutes.
Transfer the vegetables to a pot and add:
2 cups stock or broth (homemade is preferable)
1 cup coconut milk
Bring the liquid to a boil, then remove from the heat and purée using an immersion blender or a regular blender. Season to taste with:
Salt and pepper (don't be shy--this soup needs plenty of salt)
To brown the butter, heat over medium heat in a small saucepan:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter
The butter will melt, then start to sputter. There's no need to stir--just let it do its thing. Within 5 minutes or so, you'll see the milk solids start to brown in the bottom of the saucepan. When the butter smells nutty and delicious, take it off the heat. Scrape the brown bits off the bottom of the pan and spoon the butter over individual servings of the soup. Top with:
Smoked paprika
Chopped parsley


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Warning: Depending where you are when you are reading this, you might feel a tinge of envy, but let me preface this post by saying that this vacation is just what I am needing to recharge and 'smooth my feathers'... I am sitting on a beautiful sunny beach in Los Cabos, Baja Mexico sipping a Margarita and eating a pizza with Mexican hot sauce ....two weeks of bliss….with lots of time to waste away in Margaritaville. The resort I am staying at is situated on a magnificent private coral beach with 6 swimming pool, 3 restaurants, and a world famous Wine Therapy Spa with treatments called vinotherapy (more on that in another post.) I arrived late Sunday, and on Monday I did not leave the pool deck. I was totally mesmerized by the warm ocean breeze, the sound of the surf, and the reflections in the infinity pool.
Mexican Pizza with Hot Sauce & a Lime Margarita
The bird in the background was trying to get a bite of my pizza.
Wildlife at the pool.
This iguana has a good thing going. He slinks under the deck chairs and waits in prey for any unattended food that he can pilfer. The first time I noticed him (or may it is a 'her') he had a slice of tomato in his mouth, bigger than the size of his head, and was scurrying across the pool deck back to the safety of his rock to devour it. It quite shocked me the first time I saw him, but over the course of a few days the more I saw him the more familiar he became.
The resort is at the bottom of a high outcropping of rock. Walking back to my room these are some of the view corridors to the ocean. My favourite time of day is in the late afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky and casts dramatic shadows.
Shadows on the trunk of a palm tree
One of the restaurants is situated on the edge of the ocean and is lit entirely by candle light where Chef Gerardo Rivera reigns supreme. The service staff bring flashlights to look at the menu. For my main course I had the most delectable local Sea Bass firewood cooked with tomato chunks, lemon grass and cilantro accompanied by a glass of Chateau Camou, El Gran Divino", (Late Harvest). For dessert I waited patiently for the 20 minute cooking time for the Chocolate Bomba scented with Cardamom and Bitter Chocolate, which was baked in a wood oven. In Spanish - Bomba de chocolat amargo y cardomomo.
Chocolate Bomba baked in a wood oven.
One of the paths to the beach / Private deluxe beach cabanas
An early morning walk on the beach
The waves washing up on the beach (left) / The waves receding (right)
Coral Reef Beach
Wish you were here!!!!
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Reunion 2011 brought more than 1,300 alumnae and guests to campus for a weekend-long celebration of all things Barnard – in the classroom, on stage and around the world.
Alumnae attended a variety of lectures and discussions, including a presentation of "Reacting to the Past," an innovative teaching method developed at Barnard that brings history to life through elaborate games. Acclaimed author and Barnard English professor Mary Gordon '71 held a literary salon to discuss her latest novel The Love of My Youth and shared thoughts about the writing process. A panel discussion, "Are the Kids Alright? The Crisis of Education in America," brought together alumnae educators for a conversation on the current state of education and its far-reaching effects on the nation's future.
Hilary Link, Associate Provost and Dean for International Programs, hosted an event highlighting Barnard's global outreach efforts. Alumnae heard from Reni Calister '11, one of the student representatives to this year's Global Symposium "Women Changing Africa," as she talked about her experience working with high school students at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event also highlighted Barnard's Visiting International Students Program, which this year brought almost 60 students to campus from seven countries.
Other highlights of the weekend included a student performance showcasing Barnard's thriving dance program; June Omura '86 of the Mark Morris Dance Group also took to the stage. For the seventh year in a row, current students and alumnae participated in a Moth Storytelling event, reliving their Barnard experiences through tales of "Monsters, Muses and Mentors." And, on the occasion of their 50th Reunion year, members of the Class of 1961 heard from renowned writer Erica Jong, who shared thoughts on "agelessness."
For photos of the weekend and videos of all the panels and performances, visit the Alumnae Network.


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Q: Where can I find more information about specific disabilities?
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Other resources may include local community groups where individuals can find support from others who are facing similar issues. Counsel with priesthood and auxiliary leaders concerning specific needs and available resources.
The Internet can also provide helpful resources. When searching for resources on the Internet, be careful to ensure that the information is coming from a credible source. Consider the following criteria when identifying helpful online resources:
- Identify the purpose of the site. Personal websites or websites that sell a product may contain biased information.
- Identify the author of the site.
- Determine if the information is up-to-date and reliable.
- Be wary of sites that promote behaviors and activities that are not in harmony with gospel principles.
Q: Where can I find accessible Church materials?
A: Accessible Church materials can be found from the Accessible Materials page.


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