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Log on for a Late Night Librarian
A project that gives health professionals late-night access to librarians' expertise by using an instant messaging (IM) link between the UK and Australia has won a prestigious International Information Industry Award.
'Chasing the Sun', a partnership between South West Information for Clinican Effectiveness (SWICE) and South Australian Health Services Libraries' Consortium (SAHSLC), allows clinicians in one country with urgent questions about patient care to page an online librarian in the other at times of the night when the library would normally be shut.
Although only two locales are currently participating, the program hopes to expand in scope to include additional countries, for example Canada and New Zealand. Story from E-Health Insider.


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Every Wednesday we will give away a new book. For a chance to win, just fill out the form at the bottom of the page and you'll be entered into a drawing. The drawing will run from Wednesday through 11:59 PM Friday and winners will be announced on Mondays. (Note: you must be a Fresno County resident to be eligible for Win it Wednesdays.)
Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the World by Bill Nye the Science Guy & Gregory Mone
Jack and his foster siblings Ava and Matt are not your typical kind of orphans--they're geniuses. Well, Ava and Matt are, anyway. Ava speaks multiple languages and builds robots for fun, and Matt is into astronomy and is a whiz at math. As for Jack, it's hard to stand out when he's surrounded by geniuses all the time. Things get even more complicated when the trio starts working for Dr. Hank Witherspoon, one of the world's leading scientists. The siblings travel to Antarctica with Hank for a prestigious award ceremony, but they quickly find that all is not as it seems: A scientist has gone missing, and it's up to Jack, Ava, and Matt to find her and discover who's behind it.
Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the World, the first installment of an exciting new series created by science educator Bill Nye, weaves real-world science with action, adventure, and a mystery that will have readers guessing until the very end.
Update: Jordan H. is this drawing's lucky winner!

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There are many things that we do in our lives. Some of these things would be good for our future while some would not be so good. Regardless of the consequence, we know that saving money is one important task that needs to be done in order to make sure that we don't face unnecessary situations in the future. Children are a delight. As parents, we always strive to make sure that our children lead a life that is fruitful. Other than saving for yourself, you need to remember that it is important that you save for your children as well. Children do not have and financial support as they do not work and earn. Therefore, you will solely be the person they will depend on. If you are still new to parenthood and do not have an idea as to why you need to start saving for your children, the following reasons will enlighten you.
Unlike old times, education could be very expensive. Despite having people such as an learning experience design services who could help you out to design a course for your child online, you need to understand that none of these courses come cheap. Education is expensive and that is no secret. Therefore, if you are parent who is looking to provide your child with the best education available, you need to understand that you need to have money to that. Therefore, you need to make sure that you start saving in order to provide your child with the best education out there. You can speak to institutes and get an idea of how much it will cost for you to send your child to a particular institute. This will help you gain a basic idea about how much you need to save. Therefore, this is one of the main reasons why you need to save for your child.
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The Surprising Lie About Motivation ?
In the new world of work, we are (supposedly) all free, all mobile, all connected. But is it really true?
In his book "Drive", the author Dan Pink tells us "the surprising truth about motivation": What really gets us up in the morning is not capitalistic benefits packages, but a search for purpose, mastery and autonomy. Gone are the days of my grandmother dragging herself to a factory to scrape a penny together to survive. Now that we have everything we need we can work on what is important to us, to develop ourselves and because we want to. This is motivation 3.0.
But is it truly so awesome that IT professionals working for a ROWE company can punctuate their programming work with surf sessions on a beach in Thailand? Or is it rather absolutely bloody terrible that when they take a holiday the other side of the world, they can't stop thinking about their jobs and never switch off? Addicted to their iPhone (laptop, iPad) and mobile internet-based you-can-work-anywhere-anytime work ethic, they work in their "free time" to avoid Information Deprivation Disorder.
And many "engaged" American white collar (no collar?) workers today work far more than they ever did before: The amount of work required to survive a week in medieval times has not at all been replaced in the 21st century by Tim Ferris' best-selling notion of the "4-Hour Work Week". And despite office conditions being more ergonomic, open-spaced, ping-pong-table friendly, more and more workers suffer from burnout, depression and stress.
Fashionable HR gurus like Nigel Marsh continue to talk about work-life balance, the need for "engagement" and the joy of working from home. I train new leaders on the same topics. But has our quality of life actually improved or is it just work propaganda that has everyone has "sold" (including the people in HR closing the sale)?
In her book "Get Real: How to see through the hype, spin and lies of modern life", author Eliane Glaser tells us that much of what we are asked to believe about our wonderful life today is actually some form of covert ideology. This "soft power" is designed to get us to believe that we, the people, are doing better. But in reality, the invisible hand pushing many of these modern models of freedom of choice and people-power simply aims to reinforce the same kinds of class-control that have always existed: Politicians who are supposed to "listen to the people" outsource market-research sessions with their "customers" in order to find better ways to tell them whatever they want to hear, whilst they continue to eat 5-course meals in Harvard and Eton; the Britain's Got Talent "everyone can succeed" dream of Susan Boyle hitting the big-time conceals the fact that the majority of people are watching this dream at home on a credit-paid oversized TV, no better off than they ever were before. Regardless of what policies may or may not actually be implemented by our politicians and regardless of the inability of the majority to rise above the mundane, we continue to believe that we actually have a say and can all become famous.
When it comes to new forms of motivation for work, Eliane Glaser suggests that whilst we are encouraged to want it more-and-more, work actually gives us less-and-less. Work seems more purposeful (yet relaxed) but its concealed demands are greater than ever.
I interviewed Eliane Glaser recently to get an in-depth look at this idea and find out if it's true that I work 60 hours a week because I've been sold a lie, or if we really can find purpose and enjoyment at work…
DAN: What made you start thinking that this new motivation story was not all it seemed to be?
ELIANE: According to 'Motivation 3.0' as I believe it's called, we are no longer wage slaves oppressed by authoritarian bosses, but we now work because we want to, because it fulfills us. We don't just work to live, we live to work. The new language of management – and, incidentally, of marketing – is all about 'engagement', 'two-way conversations', and authenticity. Workplaces offer free food and drink and install 'break-out' or 'chill-out' areas with bean-bags and table football. But, as I argue in my book, I believe that this funky, pseudo-spiritual language of empowerment really masks a new power-grab by employers and financial elites more generally. In an age where people are working longer hours than ever before, where union rights are being eroded, where job security is diminishing and wags are stagnating, this rhetoric about fulfillment and ownership functions as a kind of fig-leaf or window-dressing for what's really going on. And in many work sectors, for example creative and journalistic work, there's a new notion that you don't just work for money, you work 'for the love of it', as if working for money is some narrow, materialistic endeavour. The internet is awash with utopian promises of freedom, democratisation and empowerment for ordinary people, but if you are not paid for your work, you simply cannot afford to do it, unless you are lucky enough to be independently wealthy. Which is not very egalitarian after all.
DAN: You say that we now "live to work". I remember when it used to be fashionable to say exactly the opposite: Work was ONLY about what it could give you outside – more partying, more holidays, more "stuff"… Surely if we've all been "sold" something else, we must have been ready to buy it? What is it in the working population that made us ready to switch to "the engagement ideal"?
ELIANE: I think that we all have a desire and a need for community, camaraderie, and meaningful individual and shared goals. Employers have realised that if these desires and needs can be situated in the workplace, this will result in greater investment by employees. By offering on-site free food, social events, social spaces, and away-days etc, corporations and other employers encourage workers to find what they need at work. Furthermore, opportunities for social and community participation and idealism outside of the workplace have declined: there are fewer opportunities for civic and community engagement, or contact with networks of neighbours or extended family. The rise of new technologies, commuting, consumer culture, and long working hours themselves – all these developments are eroding the opportunities for finding satisfaction and meaning outside work.
DAN: In your book, you talk about politicians who no longer talk honestly and openly about their own ideals, oil giants who position themselves as "green" and mass-produced brands who pretend to be artisanal and ethical. What would you say to the readers who brush off your ideas as cynical and simply "anti-establishment"?
ELIANE: I think there is an assumption that cynicism and optimism are opposed; that to be cynical is not to be constructive. But I think that questioning belief-systems and being critical is an underrated activity. By critiquing the deceptions and illusions in our politics and culture we can start to see things as they really are and start to influence things in a real way. So actually I am pretty optimistic, because I believe that by pushing concealed agendas out in the open, we can start to have a proper explicit debate about the kind of world we want to live in. I'm not sure that I'm anti-establishment, but I am critical of the elites in our society that unfairly monopolise power and resources. The gap between rich and poor, powerful and powerless in our societies is getting ever wider. It's also ironic that those elites regularly adopt anti-establishment language themselves – for example that 'radical' Yahoo slogan: 'The internet is under new management: Yours' and the funky T-Mobile 'flash-mob dance-athon' ad campaign. Big corporations and political leaders are exploiting anti-establishment imagery in order to claim that they are not themselves the establishment.
DAN: Back to motivation: The evolution of motivation/work seems to have gone from "get up and do what you need to do to live" (caveman) to "do it for someone else, provided they give you enough pay" (basic "carrot" work model) to "do what gives you a sense of purpose, autonomy and freedom, whilst getting paid for it" ("motivation 3.0", the subject of this interview). What do you see as the next trend in motivation/work? How will things change in the future?
ELIANE: I'm quite pessimistic about work in the future, in the sense that I think there are big changes ahead and that existing ways of doing things are going to break down. In the age of austerity and economic contraction, unemployment is high and job prospects are poor. Those management values of motivation 3.0 are increasingly being applied in the low-pay, low-status sector: in call-centres and vast dehumanised Amazon warehouses. Our pay is stagnating and our job security is being eroded, but the management language is getting more and more focused on "fulfillment". This is creating a kind of tragic irony. The other big change that's happening is that a great deal of professional and creative work, like journalism and writing, is going online, and those workers are not being paid for their work. They are supposed to produce their creative or journalistic work for the love of it. This I regard as a really corrosive trend, because fulfillment is increasingly regarded not as a counterpart to pay, but as a replacement for it.
Eliane Glaser is a writer for the Guardian and others, BBC producer, associate research fellow at Birkbeck and the author of "Get Real: How to see through the hype, spin and lies of modern life" which is published by Fourth Estate. She is based in London, UK and you can read see her press cuttings here: http://elianeglaser.blogspot.co.uk/p/press-cuttings.html
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Posted on March 7, 2013, in Leadership, Self-Effectiveness and tagged 4 hour work week, @danielpink, @dan_steer, @ElianeGlaser, dan pink, Dan Steer, daniel pink, drive, Eliane Glaser, Get Real, Get Real: How to See Through the Hype, information deprivation disorder, motivation 3.0, Nigel Marsh, Philo-Psych, rowe, Spin and Lies of Modern Life, THe Surprising Lie About Motivation, The Surprising Truth About Motivation, Tim Ferris, work life balance. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
Dan, extremely well written and researched. As a small business owner myself, my take is that financial rewards are still tied to both intelligence (a thoroughly researched topic) and a propensity for risk taking. That said, many people do not like to take financial risks involving their livelihood, so they are willing to take "safe" jobs (such as working in a call center) for a lower, but predictable financial reward. There is nothing wrong or elitist about this. Given it's recurrence as an economic theme for thousand of years, one could almost say it's more a social condition of the human species than anything. If employers can add emotional well-being and meaning (motivation 3.0) to the equation, than what is the harm?
I do agree with Eliane that the economic gap between the haves and have nots is growing and troublesome. At the same time, the barriers for people from any walk of life to start their own businesses – the very best way to succeed financially – have never been lower.
Just my take!
I'm curious how you think the ideas presented in this interview would apply to the coaching of martial arts, self-defense, or physical fitness? I wrote about how the book Drive might apply to those concepts in a review here:
Hey Dan,
really well written, I agree with Paul that 99 people on 100 are not familiar with risk taking.
I strongly advocate that values and doing good to people will come back in one form or another and treating paople right (eg. your employes) is worth in terms of feelings, respect and in living a better day togheter every day.
I'm also a business owner and I'v been an employee for some times


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Learn From the Experts: Leading a Bible Study: Part 2
This is part 2 of learning from the experts on leading a Bible study. The experts are Donna Streufert, founder of the Women's Leadership Institute and Deb Burma, author of the Bible study, Living a Chocolate Life (CPH)
To access Part 1 of this series, click here.
Donna: Here are my steps for preparation:
- Spend time in fervent prayer.
- Work through the lesson as I expect group members to do.
- Be open to new insights God is teaching me through this lesson.
- Refer to the Leader's Guide and/or commentaries or other resources to extend my understanding.
- Review or draw out the Central Truth and the objectives of this lesson. Consider printing these out for participants.
- Think through how I will use the time allotted for the session.
- Consider using a story, personal experience or object to catch attention as we begin the lesson.
- Plan for prayer and/or singing to close the lesson.
Deb: I prepare for each study with a read-through of the session and the Bible passages, often pausing to do a little research on the Scripture text, with the help of my Study Bible notes or other trusted sources. Then I go through the session and Scriptures again, this time more thoroughly, answering the questions myself as a participant would. If a video is included with the study, I view it once or twice, making notes to apply to group discussion while viewing it. Finally, I read over the session's questions again and consider alternate or additional questions that may be especially relevant to our group and its unique needs. Throughout my preparation, I pray for God's guidance, for humility and grace in leadership, and for clear direction.
For some studies, I prepare a fun activity as an opener or ice breaker. I may prepare simple props or handouts or provide a take-home idea to encourage the women to apply the lesson to life. (For example, a Scripture card with the theme verse that each participant can post in a prominent place for aid in memorization or a note card and envelope, so each can send a word of encouragement to someone outside the study.)
Donna: The Holy Spirit is the teacher/leader. I am a tool. God is the one who changes hearts and lives. I am no more important than each member of this group. I don't have all the answers. I am a learner, too. God is working in my heart and life just as he is in the other members of the group. We are all members of Christ's body.
Deb: I think one of the most important things I need to remember is that I'm still learning too and I should humbly communicate that to those whom I'm leading. I need to remember that every woman in the room matters, and so does her input. I also need to remember not to be so hard on myself as a leader. By God's grace, I'm able to communicate the saving love of Christ to every participant as I share His Word and trust that He works through me, by the power of the Holy Spirit, despite my shortcomings and mistakes.
Donna: The blessings of group Bible study include a closer, more supportive relationship among members of God's family. As trust grows, participants are free to open their hearts to one another. Some are more comfortable with sharing than others. Early on, I make a point of stating clearly that what we share of our personal lives remains confidential. I ask the group if they can agree to that. I may remind them later, also.
Sometimes I model the openness I want to foster by telling parts of my own story, my own spiritual journey, my personal experiences.
Shy or reserved people may simply need "permission" to talk about themselves. In this case I might say: "Betty, you've been through something similar. Would you be comfortable sharing your thoughts with us?" Often, this is all that's needed.
Deb: I encourage women to share by sharing openly myself. I often begin with lighter lead-in discussion questions that break the ice, enabling women to feel comfortable with one another. I think it's vitally important to affirm, encourage, and thank each woman when she does share, helping her to see that she has something of value to offer that others may gain from, and communicating that I care about what she has to say. I'm amazed at how quickly women begin to feel comfortable in sharing when others, including their leader, are courageously doing so. I'm often amazed at the insight a new participant brings to the table, as we discuss a given passage or topic that others (including myself!) wouldn't have thought of. Our discussions are richer and deeper when group members become comfortable and begin to share. Relationships develop and trust grows as we grow together in the Word and grow in faith.
Deb: So many little fun and funny scenarios have happened during Bible study over the years, and I've been able to laugh at myself as I've admitted my own foibles while making a point in the midst of a study, which often serves to further remind others of God's amazing grace in Christ! Once I boldly recited an entire passage, only to look up and find forty women staring quizzically at me because I had shared the correct chapter and verses, but was reading from the wrong Book of the Bible. (How could I have not realized my mistake when I'd prepared the lesson?!)
Donna: I am changed as the Holy Spirit works through God's Word among God's people. I am a learner first.
I grow through the witness, insights, wisdom and Christian life styles of my friends and fellow believers in group Bible study.
I have discovered my God-given gifts of teaching and leading. And this is a good thing. All thanks and glory to God.
Deb: We often hear people say that the teacher learns even more than the students in the preparation and process of teaching. I believe this to be true in the specific educational area of leading Bible studies! I've grown in my desire to seek greater depth and detail from the Word of God as a result of my opportunities to lead others in study. In preparation, I delve in more deeply than I might if I was studying on my own, knowing that I'll be sharing with others and they'll likely take away more from the study if I'm a good steward with my preparation time as a leader; God may use my enthusiasm and passion for the study of His Word to ignite a fire in others to do likewise.
Leading Bible studies has also opened my eyes to recognize that while I'm digging in, learning, and leading, I have SO MUCH MORE to learn; there are so many ways in which I desire to grow. I am humbled to learn how often a participant knows more than I do on a given subject and I'm thrilled to learn from her! I am humbled by my own shortcomings and limitations, but trust that the Holy Spirit works through every Word of Scripture and in the hearts of His people as we continue to learn together.
Many thanks to Donna and Deb for sharing their insights gleaned from years of leading Bible studies! Their experience in choosing materials, leading discussions, and handling tricky situations is invaluable.
We pray that you will grow in faith and trust as you develop your ability to lead others in God's Word. May all the participants be blessed through your leadership.
For more great articles like the one you just read, explore the EQUIP page of our website. Get inspired to lead by reading through the ENCOURAGE page, then visit one of our campus EVENTS near you. Stay connected by following us on FACEBOOK and TWITTER.WLI


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WY Preference Point ?Contributors to this thread:
Twinetickler 11-Oct-18
Scoot 11-Oct-18
Twinetickler 11-Oct-18
WapitiBob 11-Oct-18
midwest 11-Oct-18
Mule Power 11-Oct-18
IdyllwildArcher 11-Oct-18
Scoot 11-Oct-18
Rgiesey 12-Oct-18
midwest 13-Oct-18
Mule Power 13-Oct-18
Muley 15-Oct-18
Trial153 15-Oct-18
IdyllwildArcher 16-Oct-18
From: Twinetickler
I haven't been able to find if a party of 3 puts in with one guy having 1 point do they round everybody up to .5 a point? Thanks for any help!
From: Scoot
We need more info to answer your question. If one guy has 1 point do the other 2 guys have 0 points? How many points does each guy have?
If the answer is 1 0 and 0 then the answer to your question is .33 points for the group. It would put you in the greater than 0 point preference group.
From: Twinetickler
Thanks Scoot and yes so one guy with 1 point and two guys with 0 points would be the scenario I'm looking at. I appreciate your help.
From: WapitiBob
You would have .3333 points.
There is no "greater than 0" point group. The computer rounds to 4 places, the demand reports are formatted to reduce the size and don't show all point groups.
From: midwest
Yep, you would draw ahead of guys with less than .3333 points in the initial PP draw.
From: Mule Power
And behind applicants with .5
From: IdyllwildArcher
Which will net you nothing.
From: Scoot
Yep above info is correct. No actual group but I lump them all together in my head, but technically no actual group.
From: Rgiesey
From: midwest
Quit being a Debbie Downer, Ike.
From: Mule Power
He's being a realist Midwest! :^\
From: Muley
So if I have 7 points right now for elk and I wait 2 years to put in with my son who will be age 12 then, with no points. How will that work in the draw?
From: Trial153
You each will have 3.5 points. Howevr you buy a point next year you will have 8. The following year if you both put in on the same app, you will have 4 each.
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Potential Humans
We have two embryos maturing into what we hope will become full-fledged human beings. They're currently as healthy as these things can be said to be–good heart rates and the proper size, etc–but we're still a long way from babies.
We're excited, of course. When the IVF nurse who was performing the ultrasound said "you've got a baby," I almost asked her to repeat it just to be sure I'd heard it right, and when she turned the speaker on so we could hear the heartbeat, I grinned like a damned fool, clutching Amy's hand and beaming down at her. And then a second one–both embryos had made it this far!–and we grinned even harder.
This was the first time that it's really felt real–the pregnancy test two weeks ago was promising, but this is more solid than a voice on the other end of the phone giving us a test result. And that period between implantation and the first visible evidence that the embryo has tunneled in to the side of the uterus is a Schrodinger's box of uncertainty (and if I'm misusing that metaphor, please remember that I'm a poet and not a physicist). Lots of morulas and blastocysts make their way into a uterus and never mature into anything more substantial. (We named the first morula we sent into what Amy has termed a "murderworld" Kobayashi, as in Kobayashi Morula. Nerds will appreciate this.)
But these two, currently named Cobrahead and Gütküttr (the better to survive in such violent and dangerous territory) are thriving, or at least are holding their own. We'll go back in two more weeks and see if they're still there, never taking anything for granted, because if there's one thing that's certain about childbirth, it's that it's dangerous for everyone involved. Less so for the dad. I'm not likely to die from anything in this process, but one or both of the embryos and/or Amy could, very easily. Nothing about this is safe.
So I'm excited but cautious. For now, two potential humans are in there growing, like in Alien but grosser and more terrifying. I'll keep you posted.
Guns and Cowardice and George Zimmerman
I had trouble sleeping last night after the George Zimmerman verdict was announced. I don't generally say things like "the jury got it wrong," because I trust in the idea that if I'm not in the courtroom and don't see all the evidence, then I can't really know that. But I'm willing to do it here based on one simple piece of unchallenged evidence. George Zimmerman started the chain of events that led to Trayvon Martin's death. It doesn't matter if he meant to, or if he had malice in his heart–he confronted a young man who was doing nothing more than returning to his home, and that young man died at his hand. That he will be considered, in the eyes of the law, innocent, is a great travesty.
I don't own a gun. I almost bought one once, when I was living on a farm in rural Louisiana where wild dogs occasionally came onto the property and harassed the cows. When I asked the pawn shop guy for suggestions, he said "buy a 20 gauge. A 12 gauge will kill them and then you have to clean up the body. A 20-gauge will kill them, but they won't die until they've limped off into the woods." I think it was the callous casualness with which he said that which made me decide not to buy one. I know now that I'll never own one. I refuse to own a machine whose primary function is to kill something or someone.
I have my father's temper, and I try to keep it in check the way he tried, but there are times when I can feel the rage build and I want to explode. It's like one of those old cartoons where the character's head becomes a tea kettle, and the skin color changes to red and moves from bottom to top until a whistle forms out of his forehead and the chaos begins, all flailing arms and sound effects. I usually manage to calm down without breaking something, but I can feel it in there, lurking–the desire to do violence is potent, and in a rage, the potential consequences just don't matter. It's also because of that temper that I refuse to own a gun. I'm scared of myself, of what I might do if I had access to something other than my body in a moment of rage.
A gun is a weapon of cowardice. It's a range weapon, one which allows the inflicter of violence to do damage without coming into direct danger, unless the potential victim has a gun as well. Carrying a gun is an act of aggression. It is a warning that says "I can harm you with deadly force before you get close enough to lay a finger on me." Unless you're carrying a concealed weapon. Then you're not trying to deter violence–you're waiting for a moment to inflict it.
One of my favorite movie moments from one of my favorite movies is the scene from Mystery Men where the "heroes" of the film are confronted outside the bar where they've just been celebrating their first victory by the Disco Boys. (If I could find the clip on YouTube I'd post it.) The Disco Boys are pointing guns at them, and even while the unnamed super team is cowering from the guns, they're still mocking the Disco Boys, because guns are a weak-ass super power. You use a gun because you have nothing else. And this is coming from a team who features a guy with a shovel, a guy who throws silverware, a guy who farts on command, a woman with a bowling ball with her dad's skull in it, and a kid who only turns invisible when no one is looking at him. Oh, and Ben Stiller. That's harsh.
George Zimmerman was and is a coward, so scared of his own shadow that he carried a gun with him in order to feel protected in a world where he had little, relatively speaking, to fear. And now he gets to carry his gun once again. And now more people, just as scared as George Zimmerman, will feel emboldened to carry and use their guns any time they're frightened. We should all be afraid of that.


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Explore Manali
Postcard perfect!
Apple Orchards, Sky-high Mountain Passes, Age-Old Castles and a river that runs through it, Manali is a travellers dream and it lives upto its ever burgeoning reputation as a premier Himalayan hill station in all aspects a tourist or a traveller may want.
Visit to Naggar - A fascinating township known famously for the Naggar Castle and cute bakeries run by Israelis, Russians and Germans, now residents of this town. Also look up some of the local fish farms around Naggar and understand the process by which the locals breed one of the main food attractions of the city – the delectable Rainbow Trout.
Rohtang Pass - An early morning road trip to the Rohtang Pass, perched at 13,054 feet– about 45 kms away from Manali is a must do. Drive up through the narrow curving roads and through the clouds, feasting your eyes on the rays of the sun cutting through the towering snow capped peaks. This is a drive not for the faint hearted but one that is truly worth it.
Old Manali - If interested in visiting narrow alleys, colorful Israeli cafes, upbeat restaurants with live music, and several flee market shops selling local items, visit the by lanes of Old Manali.
Hadimba Temple - Located close to the Mall Road in Main Manali, the Hadimba temple was built in honor to Hadimba Devi, wife of Bhima and mother of Ghatothkach. Surrounded by the thick pine & cedar forests, the shrine was built on a rock believed to be representative of Goddess Hadimba herself.
Hot Springs, Manikaran & Vashisht - Although 75 kms away from the Resort and located along the Parbati river, the Manikaran hot springs attract tourists from all across the country. Spread across a distance of 1.3 kms, these are in fact a collection of hot springs active at different points.
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School News
Fox Creek School Christmas Concert
Posted on December 12th, 2017
It's a wonderful time of year at Fox Creek School. Tonight come and join our students and staff for an evening of fun, laughter and performances by our K to 6 students. The performance will begin at 7 pm sharp.


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It appears that the economy is improving, but many homeowners in Florida have yet to see it. Across the country, nearly 9.1 million homeowners owe more than 25 percent of what their home is worth. Further, many of these families are behind on their mortgage payments to the point where foreclosure is imminent. Filing for bankruptcy could provide homeowners with the time and space they need to make some decisions regarding their homes.
When a bankruptcy is filed, all collection activities, including lawsuits such as foreclosures, are put on hold, pending the further order of the Bankruptcy Court. Mortgage lenders may ultimately be able to proceed with a foreclosure if they receive permission from the court, but that takes time. That time can be used to make another attempt at keeping a home or to make the decision to walk away, depending upon which Chapter of the Bankruptcy Code has been selected.
Individuals most often file one of two types of bankruptcy — Chapter 7 or Chapter 13. Chapter 7 bankruptcies typically liquidate debts, and the filer may ultimately receive a discharge concerning any unsecured debts. Chapter 13 bankruptcies allow the filer to reorganize his or her debts under a court-monitored repayment plan. Lenders must halt foreclosures in both types of bankruptcy, but the reprieve is temporary in a Chapter 7. As long as payments are being made under an approved Chapter 13 plan, foreclosures are frozen.
Filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy could provide a homeowner who wants to keep his or her home with the income needed to resume making mortgage payments. In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the home could potentially be sold in order to pay the filer's debts unless the homeowner qualifies for the Florida homestead exemption. Generally, a home cannot exceed a certain size, and the homeowner must have owned the home for a minimum of 1,215 days. If the home has not been owned for at least that long, only $146,450 of the home's value is exempt. Of course, there are exceptions to the homestead exemption, so a thorough review of an individual's circumstances is necessary.
Source: The Huffington Post, "Bankruptcy: The Foreclosure Kill Switch", Jorge Newbery, April 22, 2014


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We have been really crap at communicating the next scikit-learn coding sprint. It's next week!
The coding sprint will take place the 8 and 9 September at INRIA Saclay, near Paris, in the room K110 (building K).
For those who cannot make it, it will be possible to participate using the IRC chan (#scikit-learn on irc.freenode.net).
We will start at 9am (Paris time), and a sketch of the planning can be found here. In particular:
- More docs! we still need tutorials: features selection, model selection, cross-validation, etc..
- Make the pipeline object really work + illustration in different contexts.
- Clean up and doc for bayesian approaches.
- Implementation of PCA (fit + transform).
- FastICA (adapt the CanICA code)
- LDA : Covariance estimators (Ledoit-Wolf) and add transform.
- Preprocessing routines (center, standardize) with fit transform.
- Anything that you have a particular interest in.
Do not hesitate to send on the mailing list some advices on this (incomplete…) list, and see you next week!
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Cabaye moved to Selhurst Park in July but was regularly linked with Arsenal and went close to joining the north London side two years ago.
The Frenchman refused to play for Newcastle in August 2013 as Arsenal looked to be closing in on the midfielder but the Magpies rejected a bid and the transfer never materialised.
Palace host Arsenal on Sunday and Cabaye is likely to start after scoring on his Eagles debut in a 3-1 win at Norwich last weekend.
"Two years ago Yohan wouldn't play (for Newcastle) at Manchester City because he thought he was going to Arsenal so it's quite ironic he's now here with us at Crystal Palace," Pardew said.
"He's a fantastic player, we're honoured to have him and he's definitely the level of Arsenal players.
"I don't think Arsene Wenger or anyone at Arsenal would disagree with that.
"We have a player who could definitely play in their team and that's a nice feeling for us."
Cabaye eventually left Newcastle for Paris St Germain in January 2014 but he struggled to establish himself in the first team at the Parc des Princes.
"He was just not getting on the pitch," Pardew said.
"He was actually playing quite well when he did get on the pitch but the competition was immense.
"He didn't really have a tough time there, he was just frustrated he didn't get enough first-team games."
Pardew added: "I think the lads here have taken him under their wing - they understand he is the benchmark for our playing staff."
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The Graduate Course is designed to provide everything you need to teach your child at a more advanced level. It consists of more than forty hours of lectures, demonstrations and practical application in advanced concepts of child brain development.
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The physical staff will instruct you on how to teach your baby (or child) to swim. This is a perfect opportunity to get your physical questions answered and to strengthen and improve running, gymnastics, and any physical activity that your child does or wants to do in the future.
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5 Seconds of Summer vs. Alex & Sierra – Pop Clashby Maggie Malach | PopCrush
5 Seconds of Summer's 'Amnesia' breaks our hearts a little every time we hear it, but it's quickly proving to be a fan favorite. For the third week in a row, the Aussies have snagged the Pop Clash title, most recently beating out Iggy Azalea's 'Fancy.' This round, 5SOS is up against 'The X Factor' stars Alex & Sierra's 'Scarecrow.' Who do you think should win Pop Clash?
Although 5 Seconds of Summer burst onto radio waves with their bombastic 'She Looks So Perfect,' we can't resist the heartbreakingly honest lyrics of 'Amnesia.' Listening to 5SOS wish away their happy memories is enough to make anyone tear up a little. However, the ballad proves the guys are just as amazing stripped-down than they are in a punk-pop anthem like 'Don't Stop.'
On the other hand, we can't help but start tapping our toes the second Alex & Sierra's 'Scarecrow' comes on. With its upbeat rhythm, sunny harmony and — of course — amazing vocals, music like this is exactly why the duo won 'The X Factor.' Like 5SOS, Alex & Sierra possess an uncanny ability to tap into a specific emotion. In this case, it gives us a glimmer of hope.
Who should win this week's Pop Clash? You can vote for 5SOS or Alex & Sierra once an hour until the polls close at 3PM ET on July 28.
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Berkeley police released video Thursday of roving bands of black-clad vandals who smashed the windshields of 21 city vehicles, setting one blaze, during a violent weekend clash between anti-fascist and anti-Marxist protesters.
At least 20 people were arrested, many armed with a variety of weapons, at Sunday's "No to Marxism in America 2" rally. During the height of the violent confrontation, a group of masked persons dressed in black clothing used hammers to vandalize 21 City of Berkeley vehicles parked in an off-street parking lot.
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Standing on the axis of Shoreditch, Islington, Farringdon and the City, The Atlas Building is a portfolio of exquisite apartments with spectacular cityscape views accommodated over 38 residential floors. Designed by MAKE Architect, the building epitomise the area's creativity, culture, energy and entrepreneurship. The vibrant bars, restaurants and nightlife in Shoreditch makes Atlas a perfect place to live, work and play. The Atlas Building will become one of the tallest building in London's Tech City / Silicon Roundabout with investment from companies such as Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel and McKinsey & Co., sitting alongside San Francisco and New York as one of the largest technology clusters in the world.
As part of the new collection at The Atlas Building, Constellation located on 30th to 38th floor will offer outstanding finishes with unbeatable view of the city.
Residence will also benefit from 24-hour concierge, gymnasium, private screening room, swimming pool along with many exciting and interesting shops and dining options in the area.
Located right next to Old Street Underground station, residents can travel to the West End, City and international airports quickly and easily. The transport network will be further enhanced with the arrival of Crossrail in 2019^. Just a short walk in any direction and you will discover endless entertainment as chic cocktail bars, classic pubs and various eateries lined along the bustling streets. There is a generous piazza with a mix of shops and cafés offering an inviting public space to unwind at the base of The Atlas building.
The development is located in the area once known as "City Fringe" which has transformed to become an established part of the London commercial and residential market. There is also a range of outstanding education options in the area including City University of London (6 mins* via the tube), LSE and King's College (12mins* via the tube).
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At the heart of any great university is a great library...
ASU Library's greatness consists of its ambition and commitment to deliver information resources, in any format, to faculty and students as swiftly and seamlessly as possible.
Work we're passionate about
At Arizona State University, we are building a new library for the 21st century – one that is as inspiring as it is welcoming, both an incubator of creativity and a monument to human complexity. As new technologies, disciplines and opportunities for discovery continue to emerge, the learning and research needs of ASU students and faculty demand a library that is both agile and robust, community-centered and service-minded, imaginative and engaged, and equipped to support a growing and dynamic New American University.
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Exactly how libraries will be transformed by the digital age has yet to be answered – but it's a question we're tackling with gusto through our Future of Print initiative, which aims to develop new approaches to the sustainable and meaningful management of print collections in a landscape immersed in digital.
Active learning and creativity are the hallmarks of any makerspace and an integral part of the ASU Library mkrservices mission. Our 'mkrspace' is just one of a growing number of spaces across ASU offering access to 3-D printers, sewing machines, vinyl cutters, book scanning, and film and studio production space.
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Distinctive collections are what set libraries apart. Our distinctive collections embody the history of our state and represent the university's deep roots in Arizona, such as the Chicano Research Collection, the largest repository in Arizona for Mexican-American history.
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Impact crusher using impact energy to break the material.
The whole Raymond mill machine is a three-dimensional structure.
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Tileset Gen it's a tool to make easier draw tilesets!
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Lower School Open House on July 8th – Spread the Word!
Please encourage your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to check out Roeper at our Summer Open House!
DATE: Tuesday, July 8th
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Back to life pre-bob! Jennifer Aniston shocked fans of her famous locks in early November 2013, when she chopped off her hair into an angular bob. But on Jan. 31, the 44-year-old actress appeared to have abandoned the edgy look and return to her long, wavy hair.
Leaving Portia De Rossi's 41st birthday party, Aniston was sporting long, wavy hair extensions while wearing a black top, black blazer, and jeans.
Back in November, Justin Theroux's fiancee told Vogue that she had decided to do "a big old chop just to get it really healthy, to repair all the [damage from] hair coloring and stuff like that."
The Friends star is known for her famous shoulder-length haircut known as "The Rachel" and has rocked several influential looks over the years, including the daring middle part.
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This is the less-creamy, more tangy version of your standard coconut rice. Lemongrass and ginger are always fun. Plus you get to infuse something here, and that makes everyone feel much more culinarily-empowered.
2 cups of vegetable stock (recipe coming soon)
2 lemongrass stalks, chopped
2-inch piece of ginger, chopped
1 cup of jasmine rice
splash of coconut milk
salt to taste
- Heat stock in a sauce pot. Add ginger and lemongrass. Simmer for 15 minutes.
- Strain Stock. Add rice to pot with infused stock. Bring to boil.
- Once it comes to a boil, cover and turn off heat. Let steam for 20 minutes.
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The Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center at the University of Florida has been cultivating the exchange of education and information among real estate researchers, academics, students and industry leaders for more than 30 years. You will also need to provide your social security number, a background check and your fingerprints to the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC). I spoke to the lawyer who is handling my Uncles' Estate and explained that Dads' Estate probably wouldn't have to go through probate if this disbursement didn't go to his Estate. He recently acted for the University of Central Florida on the $160 million development, alongside joint venture partner HCA, of a teaching hospital in the Lake Nona region. The funeral arrangements are the responsibility of the executor of the estate named in her will. Someone has to apply to the court to be appointed as administrator of his estate.
Work highlights Acted for Florida East Coast Industries in connection with the $198.6 million financing of projects relating to a new mass transit rail line linking Miami and Orlando. This exam manual is the most comprehensive study tool available for both sales associate students and broker exam candidates and is updated annually. The judge executor has told the beneficiaries that the pictures do not form part of the estate and that we need to get these final releases signed. Aaron Gorovitz impresses with his handling of a broad range of transactional real estate matters.
The rest of the estate is still being dealt with by the executor but I have received no list of assets or accounting and have not seen or signed a release. With years of enthusiastic student reviews and successful pass rates after attending its popular weekend state exam prep course for salesperson and broker, real estate schools and colleges will refer their pre-license students to IFREC to ensure passing the state exam. In 1920, Florida became the popular U.S. destination/residence for people who don't like the cold.
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In the absence of strong investment returns, higher contributions or reduced benefits, a lower active-to-retired ratio reduces a pension plan's funding ratio and increases the liquidity requirements of the plan. With transactions ranging from a Buildable Lot in Marathon to a Magnificent Custom Ocean Estate on Grassy Key, and sales ranging from Key Largo to Middle Torch Key in the South, the scope of properties has been really fun to work on. Martin Schwartz offers a broad real estate practice with a particular focus on the condominium space.


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PAINESVILLE, Ohio— The Lake Erie College baseball team picked up a pair of Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) wins Saturday (May 2) at home against Hillsdale College.
The Storm won game one 10-8 and game two 5-3.
After Sean Mathews (Washington, Mich./Warren De La Salle) was walked to lead off the bottom of the first, Lucas Raley (Hinckley, Ohio/Medina Highland) hit a two-run shot to right field. Zak DeCamp (Gahanna, Ohio/St. Francis DeSales) and Aaron Lindgren (Willoughby, Ohio/Willoughby South) reached safely to follow up the homerun. Louie Peterlin (Mentor, Ohio/Lake Catholic) advanced the runners with a sac bunt. Cale Giddings (Pickerington, Ohio/Pickerington North/Akron) doubled to left center to bring them home. With the bases loaded later in the inning, Mathews was walked for a second time, bringing Giddings home to give the Storm a 5-0 lead.
In the second, DeCamp reached on an error and advanced to third on a Lindgren double down the right field line. Peterlin was walked to load the bases. Ruter Luebke (Medina, Ohio/Medina) hit a sac fly to right field, scoring DeCamp. Giddings hit a deep fly ball to center, bringing Lindgren home.
In the third, DeCamp hit a two-run homerun to right field, scoring Mathews.
The Chargers plated five runs in the fourth.
Lindgren led off the sixth with a solo shot to right field to increase the lead to five.
The Chargers cut the lead to two in the ninth but Brandon Grunda (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria) came in for the final two outs to pick up the save.
Giddings led the Storm with three RBIs while DeCamp and Raley had two. Lindgren had three runs and three hits. DeCamp also came across the plate three times.
Heath Kelley (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor) picked up the win on the mound, going six innings, giving up five runs while striking out four.
With the Storm trailing by two in the second, Peterlin led off with a double. After Luebke reached via error, Darren Sackett (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland) brought Peterlin home on a sac fly to cut the lead to one.
After Mathews led off the third with a double DeCamp hit his second homerun of the game to give the Storm a 3-2 lead.
With Sackett on first in the bottom of the seventh, Austin Bovenzi (Fairport, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit) hit a double down the right field line, bringing in Sackett and extending the lead to two. With Bovenzi at third, Raley hit a sac fly to center to give the Storm a 5-2 lead.
The Chargers threatened in the top of the ninth, scoring one run, but was unable to overcome the Storm advantage.
Brian Bullock (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland) picked up the win for the Storm, going 6.2 innings, giving up just runs. Grunda picked up his second save of the day, going 2.1 innings.
DeCamp had two RBIs to lead the Storm while Raley had two hits.
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Orbital ATK obviously isn't a company to let one (major) setback hold it back.
Just over a year after Orbital's Antares rocket thundered majestically off a launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia and then rather unceremoniously exploded six seconds later, Orbital is about to launch another rocket loaded with supplies for the International Space Station.
Orbital is planning on launching its Cygnus spacecraft during a 30-minute window that starts at 4:55 p.m. on Thursday. Unlike the last ill-fated resupply mission, this time around Orbital is going a little old school, launching from the Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. That's probably for the best considering there's a lot about this particular resupply mission that could raise eyebrows, since everything from the Cygnus to the rocket it's launching on has been changed since Orbital's last messy try in October 2014.
This will be the first time out for Orbital's "enhanced variant" of the Cygnus spacecraft, which now is bigger and has new fuel tanks. The Cygnus previously could only carry about 5,000 pounds of equipment to the ISS, but in the past year the craft has been expanded to allow it to tote even more stuff. During this mission the craft will carry more than 7,000 pounds of things, including science and research equipment, vehicle hardware needed to conduct research and experiments aboard the ISS and crew supplies.
Meanwhile, NASA itself has already stated that there are concerns about Orbital getting back to the launchpad so quickly. For one thing, NASA hasn't had the best track record lately when it comes to its commercial resupply partners. The Orbital explosion might not have been such a huge deal except that it was followed by another mishap the following June when SpaceX's Falcon 9 disintegrated over Florida.
The two explosions together meant that NASA was stuck without a way to get supplies to ISS crew using a rocket launched from U.S. soil. It really made the whole commercial spaceflight endeavor look questionable, despite NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's official stance that NASA's future in space exploration depends on these commercial space companies (he reiterated NASA's commercial space fixation when he dropped by Spacecom in Houston two weeks ago) .
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But not everyone at NASA has been thrilled with the reality of the commercial spaceflight partnership. In September, NASA's Office of the Inspector General came out with a scathing report on the Orbital explosion, contending that Orbital's plans to get itself up and running again in order to fulfill it's $1.9 billion contract with NASA by the end of 2016 isn't the best. Orbital employees are currently working hard to swap out the engine of its Antares rocket and get the thing up and running again, despite the fact that this actually is, you know, rocket science: One wrong tweak could see the Antares rocket once again become an expensive firework display on the launchpad during Orbital's next scheduled launch in March 2016.
The NASA report also pointed out that the plans for this Orbital launch aren't to NASA's liking. Since the Antares isn't ready for this launch, Orbital is having the Cygnus piggy-back on the United Launch Alliance (the federal government's main launch provider for military satellites and complex science missions) Atlas V rocket. All of this rushing is pretty much exactly the sort of thing that NASA doesn't like to do with its launches (NASA is an agency devoted to rigorous testing and procedure, which makes sense since NASA folks have experienced some of the most wrenching worst-case scenarios about what can go wrong when you're launching supplies — or astronauts — into space). As was noted in the report, Orbital's Cygnus has never been launched on the Atlas V before, and the rush to get this launch done by December didn't leave time for testing and doing all the things that need to be done to prevent another very expensive rocket explosion.
But despite NASA's reservations and the lack of testing, the Orbital is set to launch this Thursday. If everything goes off without a hitch, (i.e. doesn't go boom) the Cygnus will arrive at the ISS on Sunday. It'll be docked at the space station for about a month before the astronauts aboard send it back toward Earth where it will disintegrate during it's re-entry into Earth's atmosphere along with about 3,000 pounds of trash.
And then Orbital will get ready to launch again in March, and we'll get to find out if the rejiggered Antares can, well, actually fly.


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Thursday, May 12, 2011
I'm presenting at the Agile Conference 2011
This is an interesting experience for me, as it is the first paper, and the first conference participation. It happened to be the best Agile conference in the world.
My paper is titled: "Process Increments: An Agile Approach to Software Process Improvement". You can browse the abstract and the conference proposal at this link.
See you there inshaAllah!
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Height: 6'2″
Weight: 240 lbs
A former 5-star recruit who got buried on the defensive depth chart at Ohio State, McMillan got his chance to shine in 2015 where he won the Butkus award for best linebacker and was again in the running for it in 2016. A solid 6'2″ and 240lbs, Raekwon is the prototypical size of an NFL linebacker who can move and excels at cleaning up the play. Not the flashiest player by any means but McMillan has the instincts and vision to read and react. he boasts a prowess to read a QBs eyes and clog the passing lane.
His tackles dipped in 2016 but that's because he dropped back into zone coverage more than in asked previously. He finishing the season with 5 deflected passes and 2 forced fumbles.
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Typically, Raekwon gets the upper hand on the block because of his quickness off the line. Landing the block with his hands and extended arms lends himself to a good frame to work from. He is also equipped with the ability to read the QBs eyes to react and fill passing lanes as well as recognize key blocks to clog running lanes.
A solid frame and the strength-to-size to go with it, Raekwon is the desired LB specimen by NFL standards to clog the middle lanes, especially in 4-3 schemes. His size prevents him from being muscled around and overtaken while engaged in blocks.
He showed good signs against passing attacks in his junior year at OSU but is better left to zone coverage rather than covering the man. Tight hips lead to delayed reactions actions against quick-twitch runners as well as stop-start movements. He is good with his hands and arm extension but tends to block on top rather than underneath pushing to the wrong side of the block leading to difficulty in breaking the block for a tackle.
Best case scenario for McMillan is landing in a 4-3 scheme playing middle-strong side as a solid LB streaming option for your IDP squad. He won't put up elite numbers but he will be a dependable piece to get you tackles and occasionally deflect passes. You can rely on him for an LB3-4 after a year or two in the pros after you draft him around the top of the third round of rookie drafts.


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