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FAYETTE CROSS: Fayette sophomore Skylar Lantz took a step forward this season in qualifying for the regional cross country tournament, but he'll have to wait another year to move up one more step to the state competition.
Lantz turned in a time of 17:07 at the Ohio Div. III regional Saturday in Tiffin, but missed a trip to the state meet by 14 seconds.
Twenty runners crossed the finish line under 17 minutes, led by Columbus Grove senior John Graham who won the race with a 16:18. The last of the 16 state qualifiers finished at 16:53.
Lantz clipped more than a minute off his post-season best from a year ago and finished 2012 as the top runner among Buckeye Border Conference qualifiers.
MORENCI CROSS: Morenci will send its girls cross country team to the Michigan state finals for the first time since 2003, and they won't be making the trip to Michigan International Speedway alone. Three members of the Bulldog boys team qualified as individuals.
Seven Morenci runners posted career-best times Saturday at the Div. IV regional run at Hudson, but not all of the Bulldogs were at their best. Coach Brad Brown was growing doubtful about the girls' chances to advance as he watched the finishers, despite the third and fourth place finishes by juniors Tatyana Pless and Mariah Gillen.
In the end, the Bulldogs placed third to make the cut, topping fourth-place Addison 86-114. League foes Sand Creek and Britton-Deerfield were just behind with 118 and 121 points. Lutheran Westland won the meet with 55 points, just ahead of Pittsford with 60.
Brown said he was concerned when a couple runners didn't match their previous best, but that worry faded when he looked at the scoring.
"I made the mistake of underestimating how good they still are even when they don't run their best," he said.
Pless and Gillen both trailed Sand Creek's Natalie Perry after the first mile, but overtook her in the second section.
Pittsford sophomore Ruth Letherer won the race at 19:53, four seconds ahead of a Lutheran Westland runner. Pless crossed the line at 20:28 with Gillen closely behind at 20:35—her best time yet.
Morenci sophomore Madi Gleckler ran a 22:19 for 18th place, while sophomore Samantha Mikuski and senior Taylor Baugh battled it out for the next spots. Mikuski finished in 36th place at 23:53 with Taylor coming in 39th at 20:57—a minute better than a year ago at Hudson and a personal record.
Exchange student Maëlle Delhaise placed 50th at 24:48 and freshman Andy Mikuski ran a 26:21 for 67th place. Both were career best runs.
Three Morenci boys finished in the top 14 to qualify for the state meet, the most Bulldog qualifiers since the boys team advanced in 2009.
Senior Luke Spaulding placed ninth at 18:23 to lead Morenci, with junior Reagan Stowell posting a career best run at 18:26 to place 11th. Jake Spaulding, also a senior, took 14th at 18:35. Stowell cut more than a minute off his regional time a year ago at Hudson.
Freshman Adam Roseman ran his season best at 20:01 and senior Brandt Kelley also ran his best race at 21:36 for 62nd place.
Waldron junior Shane Baldwin won the race at 17:20 and Plymouth Christian took the team title with 54 points. Lutheran Westland was second with 75, followed by Sand Creek with 95. The Bulldogs placed sixth.
MORENCI VOLLEYBALL: Morenci's varsity volleyball team finished up the league season at Britton-Deerfield Oct. 23 in five sets. The teams went back and forth in wins until the Bulldogs finished it off with a 15-5 decision.
The victory left Morenci in third place with a 10-4 TCC record.
The Bulldogs took the opener 25-19, but the Patriots came back to win 25-23 as Morenci missed several serves. Morenci took a lop-sided 25-12 win, but fell behind 1-7 in the fourth game and never recovered, losing 23-25 game.
"In the fifth game the score was tied at three when Brooke [Bovee] began serving, when she finished we were up 14-4," coach Dennis Owens said. "There were a lot of different girls who made good plays."
The Bulldogs were without Taylor Schisler who was still nursing a sore back.
The Patriots gave a stronger showing than earlier in the season, Owens said, but he thinks the Bulldogs should have won in fewer than five.
"The really good news is we didn't get shook up by going to a fifth game and came out and took care of business," he said.
In many seasons, he added, the Bulldogs would have folded in that final game.
Statistics: Bovee, 30 kills, 2 blocks, 13 digs, 20/22 serving, with 5 aces and 15 points. Hannah Jeffers, 11 kills, 1 block, 11 digs, 23-26 serving, 2 aces and 17 points. Breanna Gilson, 8 kills, 22 assists, 11/13 serving with 1 ace. Emma Binegar, 23 assists, 11/13 serving with 1 ace.
Erin Vanderpool, 13 digs, 16/16 serving with 10 points. Jessica Storrs, 19/20 serving, 2 aces and 11 points. Ashley VanBrandt, 4 kills, 1 block. Hilary Falor, 1 kill. Allison Piercy, 1 block
HUDSON—Morenci won the Silver Bracket Saturday at the Hudson Invitational, finishing the tournament with a 3-1 record.
In pool play the Bulldogs defeated East Jackson 25-23, 25-13, then lost to county champion Blissfield in three games, 25-19, 14-25 and 4-15—delivering the Royals' only loss of the tournament.
In bracket play, Hudson was defeated 25-20, 25-11 and Whitmore Lake fell 25-17, 19-25 and 15-9.
Bovee, 56 kills, 41 digs, 29/31 serving, 5 aces and 17 service points. Jeffers, 16 kills, 3 blocks, 33 digs, 49/55 serving, 8 aces and 41 service points. Gilson, 10 kills, 2 blocks, 32 assists, 46/48 serving, 7 aces and 31 service points. Binegar, 40 assists, 17/18 serving, 1 ace, 8 service points.
Vanderpool, 21 digs, 17/19 serving, 1 ace and 11 service points. Storrs, 25/25 serving, 2 aces, 11 service points. Falor, 5 blocks, 2 kills. VanBrandt, 4 blocks, 1 kill. Schisler, 3 blocks, 3 kills. Piercy, 1 block, 1 kill.
Morenci claimed the opening match of the Class D district tournament by stopping Waldron in three games.
Play continues at 5 p.m. today (Wednesday) when the Bulldogs take on Lenawee Christian School, ranked no. 8 in Class D. Pittsford and Camden-Frontier play the second match of the night and the finals are set for 7 p.m. Friday. Morenci is the host site for the tournament.
The win against Waldron raised the Bulldogs' season record to 21-14-2—the second consecutive season with at least 20 wins and the third consecutive winning season.
Morenci downed the Spartans 25-10, 25-16 and 25-21.
The Bulldogs moved forward from a close 12-9 score in the opening game as Hannah Jeffers served 10 straight.
Erin Vanderpool gave Morenci a boost in the second set with five straight points, taking the Bulldogs out of a 13-14 deficit.
"In the third set, Jessica Storrs got us going serving seven straight points to give us a 10-3 lead that we never gave up," coach Dennis Owens said, "even though Waldron closed the gap to make it the closest score of the night."
Statistics: Brooke Bovee, 21 kills, 3 blocks, 5 digs, 10/10 serving, 2 aces, 6 service points. Jeffers, 9 kills, 9 digs, 22/25 serving, 2 aces, 19 service points. Breanna Gilson, 5 kills, 2 blocks, 5 digs, 13 assists, 11/11 serving, 1 ace, 7 service points.
Emma Binegar, 14 assists, 7/9 serving, 1 ace, 4 service points. Vanderpool, 11/11 service reception, 6 digs, 7/9 serving, 1 ace, 5 service points. Storrs, 11/11 serving, 3 aces, 7 service points. Taylor Schisler, 3 kills, 1 block. Chloe Molitierno,4/4 service reception, 2 digs.


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Indonesia's orangutan population, under threat from smog-producing forest fires this year, could be in graver danger in 2007 when dry El Nino conditions are expected to intensify in the region, an ecologist said on Monday.
JAKARTA Indonesia's orangutan population, under threat from smog-producing forest fires this year, could be in graver danger in 2007 when dry El Nino conditions are expected to intensify in the region, an ecologist said on Monday.
About 1,000 orangutans are estimated to have died in Indonesia during the dry season this year in which raging forest fires produced thick smoke across huge areas of Southeast Asia.
Willie Smits, founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, said if intentional burning of forest was not prevented, Indonesia would face a terrible haze season next year.
"If we are looking at an El Nino which has a cooling in the Indian Ocean and a warming up in the Pacific Ocean, these are exactly the conditions that occurred in 1982-83 and 1997-98. Those were the two worst El Nino disasters. Next year we could look at a new world record," he said.
"Having a rainy season is not going to solve it. We could look at new problems as early as April next year," he said. "If these orangutans are to survive, we better deal with the fire situation in the coming years."
The annual fires are often deliberately lit by timber and palm oil plantation firms or farmers in Borneo and Indonesia's Sumatra island to clear land for cultivation, many of them in the same forests where the orangutans live.
The worst fires in recent years occurred in 1997-98 during an intense El Nino that caused drought in parts of Southeast Asia, drying out forests and farmlands.
Vast areas burned for months, blanketing a large part of the region in thick haze and costing economies billions of dollars.
Jakarta said around 90 percent of this year's fires have been extinguished, but Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said he feared they could flare again should dry El Nino conditions intensify.
El Nino is a weather pattern caused by the warming of Pacific waters off South America and can disrupt global weather patterns, leading to drought in Southeast Asia and Australia and floods in parts of South America.
In 2002, it was estimated there were 56,000 orangutans left in Borneo and 7,000 in Sumatra, but conservationists say the population has dwindled at a rate of 6,000 a year.
Smits told a group of foreign journalists the mortality rate could be higher because of increased trafficking of the apes and other factors that are forcing orangutans to encroach upon human settlements.
"The (orangutan) populations are all extremely threatened because of the fragmentation of the forest," said Smits, who leads the Gibbon Foundation, a group dedicated to animal conservation in Indonesia, including its orangutans.
"The forest has to be intact in one big piece for a population as a total to survive."
Most of the fires disappeared after rains started in recent weeks and some of them were put out after two leased Russian water-bombers flew into action.
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A massive 84 per cent of "tech enthusiasts" think playing videogames has enhanced skills that help them in their everyday lives, according to research carried out by 2D and 3D graphics software developer Autodesk.
Hand-eye co-ordination, and faster reaction times and reflexes were just some of the skills that respondents thought playing videogames had helped them improve.
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That's right. Yamamoto turned the whole messy salt pile into an incredible and intricate maze:
He made it—as he makes all these installations—by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt.
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Cards reeling after another home loss
Pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro hit a run-scoring double in the eighth inning to cap a three-run rally and the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 Saturday night to win a series in St. Louis for the first time in nearly three years.
Matt Holliday homered for twice St. Louis, which lost its fourth in a row. Chicago won for the third time in four games.
The Cubs trailed 4-2 entering the eighth, but tied it 4-4 on Darwin Barney's two-out, two-run double by off reliever Trevor Rosenthal (1-3). Navarro followed with his fifth pinch-hit RBI of the season to give Chicago a 5-4 lead.
Blake Parker (1-1) picked up the victory for the Cubs, who last won a series in St. Louis on Sept. 13-15, 2010.
Kevin Gregg picked up his 25th save in 29 opportunities despite giving up Holliday's 15th homer of the season, a solo shot with one out in the ninth.


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The email was never sent, which had some secrecy advantages, but it meant that Petraeus had a shared gmail account with that woman, Ms. Broadwell.
FBI investigators were able to use the data trail left when Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Florida socialite who was family friends with Gen Petraeus, received emails allegedly warning her to stay away from the former CIA director. The data trail revealed that the emails were being sent by Mrs Broadwell from an anonymous email account, information which eventually brought the affair to light.Did Broadwell send the "harassing" emails from the account she shared with Petraeus?
If Petraeus had ended the affair, shouldn't he have deleted the shared account? Or could Broadwell have gotten in there first and excluded him? Maybe it was her gmail account, and she'd added him as an authorized user, giving her the power to cut off his access, with all his old letters in the draft folder, and with her ability to send email for whatever crazy purpose crossed her mind. But what did Broadwell think she was doing? Was she just an out-of-control, I-will-not-be-ignored ex-lover, or is there something more nefarious and political going on?
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Is the burden of compliance high on the list of your complaints?
If so, then financial advisors — most typically small-business owners — will find they have much in common with small-business owners as varied as painters, math tutors and DJs, who ranked the ease of regulatory compliance as the No. 1 issue across some dozen metrics in rating their state and city's business friendliness.
The third annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey, which purports to be the largest small-business survey of its kind, asked 12,632 small-business owners to rate their state and metropolitan area's responsiveness on the issues of greatest importance to them.
Regulatory issues such as the ease of meeting professional licensing requirements consistently ranked highest, notably above tax rates, which most survey respondents did not overly lament, saying rather that they were paying their "fair share."
The survey, conducted in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, drew its audience from businesses providing services on the Thumbtack site, which seeks to match consumers with professionals that can perform their desired projects.
(Related: 10 Best & Worst Tax States for Retirees)
Survey respondents were asked questions such as "Would you discourage or encourage someone from starting a new business where you live?"
The five best are first, followed by the five worst states:
5. Louisiana
Grade: A-
Business is booming down by the bayou—or at least the ease of doing business is on the rise. The state's biggest city rose from C- last year to B+ this year, scoring grades of A+ in the ease of hiring new workers and in the category of environmental regulations.
Said Thumback's chief economist, John Lieber: "Small business owners appreciate how friendly the regulations in New Orleans are towards them."
4. Virginia
Grade: A
The South is rising again. Richmond, the cradle of the Confederacy, is now displaying Yankee-style industriousness, ranking 6th best city nationwide for starting a business.
Small businesses gave Virginia's capital an A+ for the ease of starting a business, and Richmond excelled particularly in the category of licensing and in environmental regulations.
3. Texas
Grade: A+
The LoneStar State is 3 for 3 in making the Top 5 business friendly states, and the honor roll of best cities sounds like a roll call in the Texas state legislature.
Houston (No. 3), Austin (No. 4), Dallas (No. 6), Fort Worth (No. 7) and San Antonio (No. 8) took up half the spots among the Top 10 cities.
Said one business owner from a Houston suburb: "It is very easy to get information on starting and building your business."
2. Idaho
Grade: A+
They grow more than spuds up in Idaho, a three-for-three hall of famer.
The survey found that start-ups were twice as common in Boise as they were nationwide, with 23 percent of businesses reported that they had been operating for less than one year.
Indeed, the state capital and its largest metropolitan area ranked first among among all 82 cities surveyed in terms of the ease of starting a business.
1. Utah
Grade: A+
The Beehive State remains true to its reputation, a beehive of industry, according to survey respondents, where residents of the state's largest metro area, Salt Lake City, were particularly bullish on the outlook for the local economy.
The city notably has the second highest concentration of business owners with PhDs out of any city in the study.
Said one respondent, a personal trainer, about Utah
"I have not had any issues in getting a business license in my state. I believe the state has been very supportive of businesses in Utah."
5. New Jersey
Grade: C-
The Garden State is sandwiched between two poor performing metropolitan areas, New York City (which rates a C+) and Philadelphia (with a grade of D). Meanwhile, it's own largest city, Newark, gets a D, ranking near the bottom nationally for small business growth—with few Newark businesses seeing increased revenue over the past 12 months. Expectations for expansion in the coming year were duly pessimistic.
4. Connecticut
Grade: F
Small businesses in cities such as Bridgeport and New Haven are not feeling the love from the government in Hartford—or at least note the industrious Yankee values on which the New England state's prosperity was founded.
The state's largest city, Bridgeport, received an F grade—with the regulatory burden the chief concern of small businesses.
3. California
Grade: F
The golden state's tarnish may be rubbing off, having achieved the dubious distinction of making the Thumbtack's hall of shame (i.e., Bottom 5 states) for each of the three survey years.
Fittingly, perhaps, the worst-ranking of 82 cities was the state's capital, Sacramento, the bane of small businesses across the state's poor-performing cities such as San Diego (No. 78), Oxnard (No. 76 ) and Los Angeles (No. 74 ).
As a math tutor in a suburb of Sacramento put the problem:
"The government often makes changes in regulations that, although may have the best of intentions to 'help or protect' the average citizen, hurts honest, hardworking small-business owners."
2. Illinois
Grade: F
The Land of Lincoln is also the home state of the incumbent president, whose Obamacare mandates are not as burdensom with businesses in the state's largest city, Chicago, as elsewhere.
The city ranked sixth in readiness for implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
However, the city came in dead last—82 out of 82—when it came to optimism about the local economy.
1. Rhode Island
Grade: F
The New England state is famously the least in size, but according to small business owners it is also the least in business friendliness.
Starting a business and hiring new workers were the issues that most rankled survey respondents. Indeed, Rhode Island's capital city, Providence, ranked 80th out of 82 cities for business owners who would encourage others to start their own business there.
Like California, Rhode Island made the hall of shame of Bottom 5 states for each of the three years Thumbtack has conducted the survey.
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Strategists recognized the concept of branding as being powerful and influential. While traditional branding was associated with companies and products, the inception of LinkedIn took the concept of branding further to a personal and professional level.
An interview with the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, disclosed his insights pertinent to "how the start-up of you" is correlated with personal branding. Hoffman underpins the importance of a brand and justifies his thought with a number of reasons.
He states one should think about relating with people. They need to realize they "live in a networked world where people Google" them as they are surrounded by "relationships that exist over decades". People have started to think of an individual as someone "they come to with an opportunity" or "someone they come to for a quest on expertise". He further affirms that people consider whether a person is someone "they want to work with" or not.
Why a brand matters?
Hoffman stresses that there is substance behind a brand and not just the image. People consider one's capabilities, how one has succeeded, how one's relationships are with people and whether one has worked with them in good ways.
All these causes attribute to the fact that the "brand-of-you" is one part of "the-start-up-of-you". For more inspiration, here is the short clip:
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ABINGDON Road buses will continue to be diverted via Iffley Road today and there will be one train an hour travelling from Oxford and Didcot.
Oxford Bus Company's City X3, X13 and 300 park-and-ride service will continue to be diverted along Iffley Road, as they were yesterday. The city 35 will still be diverted via Bagley Wood Road, the ring road and Iffley Road.
Seacourt park-and-ride is expected to remain closed and the Thornhill park-and-ride 400 service will start and finish at Oxford Rail Station.
Company spokesman Phil Ashworth said services diverted along Iffley Road had been delayed up to half-an-hour yesterday.
He added: "Unless the situation deteriorates overnight, we hope to be able to run as good a service today as yesterday."
First Great Western said it would continue to run one train an hour between Oxford and Didcot, and four trains an hour between Didcot and London Paddington, compared with the usual 25 an hour.
Spokesman James Davis explained that traffic lights malfunctioning because of flooding are being manually operated, with trains running slower past those points.
He said the usual two services from Didcot to Bristol Temple Meads would run today every hour, but only one service an hour from Didcot to South Wales, reduced from two.
The company advised commuters they might find it easier to get to London by catching a Chiltern Railways service from Banbury to London Marylebone, which is not currently affected by flooding.
No-one from Stagecoach Oxfordshire was available for comment on diversions to its bus services in Oxford.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The night 45-year old Michael Dunn allegedly fired several bullets into a red Dodge Durango. 17-year-old Jordan Davis was killed and Tommie Stornes was injured.
John Phillips, attorney for the Davis family, said by phone that the passengers in the vehicle and their families are still in shock.
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"My understanding is they don't want to talk," said Phillips. "They're not ready. They need time to mourn."
Phillips said there will be time to tell the truthful side of Jordan Davis' story and to share his legacy.
First Coast News is still gathering information about the other passengers, but we have learned that last year Stornes had a run in with police.
In 2011, then 18, Stornes was arrested by Jacksonville police. He was charged with three counts of burglary. According to police, Stornes was seen loading up a speaker box and two subwoofers into a Dodge Durango.
Could it have been the same Durango that Stornes and Davis were riding in November 23rd during that fatal encounter with gun collector Michael Dunn?
Was Stornes the driver? We have yet to confirm.
But we do know that Stornes pleaded guilty to the burglary charges in 2011 and was placed on probation for 24 months.
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The Florida Department of Corrections confirmed to First Coast News that Stornes is still on active supervision, and that he has a curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
First Coast News is not sharing this information to justify the actions of Michael Dunn, but rather to give more insight into the people impacted by this fatal encounter.
Attorney Phillips said if an anonymous person had not followed Dunn's car as he sped away from the Gate gas station and captured his license number, would Dunn have reported the shooting to police?
Or would police still be looking for a suspect in the case?
Attorney Phillips asked if this is truly a Stand Your Ground case, why did he, Dunn, not stand his ground and wait for police?


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RIM Collapsing? BlackBerry Sales Drop 43% in a Quarter
Canadian tech giant Research in Motion, the beleaguered maker of BlackBerry phones and tablets, suffered what was arguably its worst hit yet Thursday.
The company revealed that sales were down a stunning 43% on the previous quarter — a loss per share of 28 cents.
How bad is that? Analysts, prepared by abstract warnings of bad news from CEO Thorston Heins, had been predicting dire outcomes, but few had gone higher than a 14 cent per share loss. The average was a 3-cent loss. (The company halted trading Wednesday afternoon before the earnings report was released; shares slid 18% in after-hours trading.)
RIM's share of the global smartphone market had dropped by half in the first quarter, according to analysts. To get itself back on track, the company says it has to save a billion dollars by slashing around 5,000 employees.
And if it was possible for the news to get worse than that, Heins also revealed that the company's saving technological grace — its BlackBerry 10 smartphone line, a much-needed reboot of the BlackBerry OS that has garnered tepid praise so far — would not arrive until 2013. He had previously pegged its arrival to the latter half of 2012.
But might that be too late? The company has one small factor on its side, at least: management isn't sugar-coating how much trouble it's in.
"I am not satisfied with these results," said Heins, "and continue to work aggressively with all areas of the organization and the Board to implement meaningful changes to address the challenges, including a thoughtful realignment of resources and honing focus within the company on areas that have the greatest opportunities."
That could be the sign of a sincere rethink of its disastrous strategy to avoid the consumer market (which is driving the enterprise market for smartphones now, not vice-versa as it was in RIM's heyday.) Or it could be the kind of business crisis jargon Heins thinks shareholders want to hear.
Splitting itself in two, as the company is reportedly thinking of doing, is a high risk strategy.
One thing is clear about its future: RIM cannot endure many more quarters like this without being permanently sidelined in the smartphone game.
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Twenty-five years after Chicago's last Stanley Cup victory, Bryan Bickell came into this world, and was raised in Orono, the town of 2,000. "I lived here until I was 16, so to bring the Stanley Cup back here to the people who have supported me through my whole hockey family is a great opportunity to celebrate with them," Bickell said. "It means a lot, being from Orono, living in Orono and playing for Orono."
With minutes left in the third period and Chicago up 3-3 in Game Six of the Stanley Cup final, the Blackhawks' management instructed players not dressed to pull on their equipment so they could join the on-ice celebration. "They had us put our gear on with five minutes left," said Bickell, the big Chicago winger. But then, with 3:59 remaining in regulation time, the Flyers scored to tie the game. Bryan chuckled, recalling, "We had to go hide in the corner between the third and overtime."
Patrick Kane ensured that Bickell and the boys didn't need to shed their equipment when he scored at 4:06 of overtime to earn the Stanley Cup championship for Chicago.
On Thursday, July 8, Bryan Bickell enjoyed his day with the Stanley Cup, greeting the trophy at his cottage, just south of Peterborough, at 8:00AM. Bryan loves to fish, and decided to take the Stanley Cup, wearing a lifejacket, out onto the Otonabee River in order to drown a few worms. "I want to be the first to put a fish in the Cup," explained Bryan. He and his girlfriend Amanda went out first, and in spite of his desperation to land a fish, he was unsuccessful. But Amanda was, catching a small bass.
The Cup was taken to the Bickell home in Orono, where Bryan's parents, Bill and Anne, helped their son host a lunch for about 350 people, who nibbled on sandwiches, fruit and vegetables while Bryan stood in the backyard and had his picture taken with everybody at the party.
A customized school bus took Bryan, his family and friends first to the local Co-op and then on to a parade the town had planned for him. Bryan and Amanda climbed aboard an antique firetruck, ironically, a Bickle Pumper, manufactured in 1933.
Under the scorching kind of day usually reserved for buzzards in Death Valley, Bryan was paraded through the town for 45 minutes, joined in the parade by several vintage cars and tractors, the Clarington Girls Hockey Association, the OMHA juvenile champion Orono Leafs, members of the afore-mentioned Orono Orphans as well as marching bands.
The parade concluded at the Orono Fairgrounds, and Bickell carried the Stanley Cup into the adjacent Orono Arena, where photos and trophies of local heroes reminded locals of the region's hockey legacy. Clarington mayor Jim Abernethy declared July 8, 2010 'Bryan Bickell Day' in the municipality, and presented Bryan with framed letters from Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. Bickell was also made an honourary firefighter, and was only mildly disappointed to learn that Clarington did not have a firepole he could slide down.
Bryan responded with a short speech of appreciation. "It is a great honour," he said. "I can't believe how many people turned out. The weather was hot, but it was the best thing ever!" He then took the Stanley Cup from section to section, greeting the minor league teams and other fans who waited in the heat to congratulate their local hero. Bickell then signed photos for any and all, with donations split between the Orono Athletic Association and the local food bank.
The big forward had more planned for his day. In a rented bus, he and a group of friends and family took the Stanley Cup to Peterborough, visiting a bar called The Trasheteria. Welcomed by about a thousand in the bar, with a portion of the admission donated to the Peterborough Humane Society, Bryan took the Cup upstairs to a V.I.P. area called the Blue Room, where his party had pictures taken with the iconic trophy. Bryan later filled the bowl with beer and poured the liquid out of the Cup in celebration for his friends. The combination of heat and excitement forced that legendary bowl to be filled over and over again.
It was quite a celebration; one that neither Bryan, nor Orono, will soon forget!
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Nick is not new to championships, having captained the Ottawa 67s when they collected the Memorial Cup in 1999. That team, by the way, also featured teammate Bryan Campbell, who was Boynton's defence partner.
In 1997, Nick had been drafted by the Washington Capitals, but re-entered the draft in 1999 and was plucked by the Boston Bruins, joining the team that fall. Boynton played six seasons with the Bruins (interrupted by a season playing in England during the NHL lock-out), and then gained journeyman status, joining the Phoenix Coyotes in 2006-07 and 2007-08 and the Florida Panthers in 2008-09. Nick started the 2009-10 season in Anaheim, but was traded to the Hawks for future considerations on March 2, 2010. Chicago was looking for veteran blueline presence, and when Bryan Campbell was injured, Boynton stepped into the line-up. He played 7 games during the regular season, and then was added to the roster during the final, playing the final three games of the season, Games 4, 5 and 6.
By early afternoon, Nick hopped into one of his vintage cars and took the Stanley Cup to the Dr. William Laceby Nobleton Arena and Community Centre, named after a local dentist who had contributed much to the community. There, Mayor Margaret Black hosted a reception in Boynton's honour, and began by stating that Nick was "an inspiration to all athletes and has made our community very proud." Other speakers included Paul Calandra, Member of Parliament for Oak Ridges-Markham, and Helena Jaczek, the Member of Provincial Parliament for Oak Ridges-Markham. Executives from the NobleKing Minor Hockey Association recalled with pride how Nick had played his minor hockey with Nobleton minor hockey before joining the Peewee Triple 'A' Richmond Hill-Vaughan Kings.
Nick Boynton is a unique hockey warrior. Diagnosed as diabetic at 19, Nick carries a device attached around his waist that pumps measured amounts of insulin into his body through a catheter under his skin. This pump allows his body to function just like anyone else. The Chicago trainers also monitor Nick carefully. During the celebration, some young boys approached Nick and told him he was their hero because he proved to them that diabetics can function normally, if not carefully, even as hockey players. "It never really stopped me from doing anything," he shrugged and smiled.
Back at the sod farm, a pig roast was underway, with 200 friends feasting on pork sandwiches, salads, fruits, vegetables and a Stanley Cup cake. Pigman, the farm's mascot (and in reality, Nick's brother) shows up to all the pig roasts, and this special occasion was no exception. The rubber-masked pig with a cigar in its mouth had its picture (or is that 'pig-ture'?) taken with hockey's heralded trophy.
A life-sized cardboard cut-out of 'The Most Interesting Man in the World' ("Stay thirsty, my friends!") also had his picture taken with the Cup, donning, at various times, a Blackhawks' jersey and a Boynton Brothers Sod Farm ball cap.
The Stanley Cup was uniquely displayed amidst the sod with a hockey net and corn stalks completing the picture.
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Price pitched 8 2-3 innings and left with the score 3-all.
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The city of Boston is interested in modernizing its fire alarm boxes, but how the city does that will be determined by which vendor submits the best idea.
The city, in conjunction with the Boston Fire Department, released a request for information for ideas on how the city can upgrade its current fire alarm system using new technologies. Boston is only soliciting ideas from private vendors "who are able to physically modify and upgrade the current fire alarm boxes." Submissions are due Feb. 22.
Justin Brown, the Fire Department's deputy commissioner, said the city's existing 2,200 street-corner fire alarms operate on an electric telegraph system, connected through miles of low-voltage copper wire running in loops. When someone pulls the lever on a fire alarm, a telegraph signal is sent to both the Fire Department's communications center, known as the Fire Alarm Office, and the local fire house.
But Brown said that because fire alarms only create one-way communication, the city wants to explore new ways to possibly expand beyond a single message from fire alarm boxes to the Fire Department.
"We're interested in having multiple communication types and really enhancing the ability to send more specific messages so that we can use them for both emergency and non-emergency purposes, but also get more specific messages," Brown said. "Is this actually a fire? Is this a law enforcement call? Do you need medical assistance? And maybe be able to communicate back and forth."
According to Boston CIO Bill Oates, the RFI is intentionally not too descriptive so that the city can gather a whole range of ideas.
"Lots of people have ideas, but we really felt that before we started to hone in on anything in particular, we would go out and see what other ideas folks might have on this," Oates said.
One of the more pressing concerns for the Fire Department, according to Brown, is the amount of money spent maintaining the existing fire alarm system. Because the system is expensive to maintain, particularly when fire alarms need to be replaced, Brown said the Fire Department would like to get more value from its investment.
Another major reason for the upgrade is the frequency of false alarms with the current system. Every time an alarm is pulled, it must be manually reset. According to Brown, between January and September of last year, each of the city's three busiest alarm boxes were pulled 10 times. Every one of those instances was a false alarm. Throughout the year, the Fire Department deals with false alarms roughly 90 percent of the time.
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Evan Davis has been announced as Jeremy Paxman's replacement on Newsnight.
Paxman bowed out of the BBC Two news programme after 25 years in June.
BBC director general Tony Hall said that Davis, best known for his role on Dragons' Den and Radio 4 flagship breakfast news show Today, would do an "outstanding" job.
The news comes after a turbulent period for Newsnight in which an investigation into Jimmy Savile's sex crimes was dropped and a separate story led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly accused of child abuse.
The show's female presenters, Laura Kuenssberg, Kirsty Wark and Emily Maitlis, had all been tipped for the plum role.
The director general said: "Evan is an outstanding journalist, an extraordinarily clever and intelligent interviewer.
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Davis said on Twitter: "I didn't believe it when I read about it in the papers but now it's official. I'll be leaving @BBCr4today and heading off to Newsnight.
"I had been determined to outlive John Humphrys on @BBCr4today so I have failed. But you can't turn down Newsnight."
Davis will be the anchor for the programme three nights a week from the autumn.
A former economics editor on the programme, he has been a Today programme host for six years. Kirsty Wark, Emily Maitlis and Laura Kuenssberg will all continue to present Newsnight.
The programme's editor Ian Katz said: "Evan brings a rare combination of curiosity, intelligence and mischief to his broadcasting - just the qualities I want Newsnight to be known for. I've admired him from afar as a listener and viewer for years, and I'm thrilled that he's joining us to help reinvent the show where he made his name in the 90s."
Davis - formerly an economist before joining the BBC - said of his new roles: "While it is a scary prospect, it will be an adventure and a challenge, and I hope the viewers will be happy with the result."
He pointed out that he felt "terribly sad" to leave his present role and he paid tribute to the team: "I have been there for over six years and those have been some of the most satisfying of my career.
"That programme is put together by remarkably few people, and I can't praise them highly enough for their professionalism and companionship," added the Oxford graduate.
Gwyneth Williams, the controller of Radio 4, said: "I would like to thank Evan for his inimitable contribution to Today, marked by intelligent enquiry, wit and the exposure of hubris. His loyal audience of seven million listeners will miss his take on modern Britain.
"I, personally, would like to wish him every possible success at Newsnight. And I am delighted that he continues to present our idiosyncratic business discussion programme, The Bottom Line, on Radio 4."
Davis's appointment ahead of Newsnight's Kuenssberg, Wark and Maitlis, came as the Trust pointed to a "continued gender imbalance in BBC output".
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After nine years and six children together, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have married in a secret ceremony in France over the weekend, a rep for the couple confirmed to WHO.
The wedding was held Saturday at the family's private estate, Chateau Miraval, in the village of Correns, where the couple first settled in 2008 and have since performed extensive renovations. The wine-growing estate has a 35-room main house, an ancient chapel and working vineyard spread over 1,100 acres.
The ceremony came two years after the couple's 2012 engagement, when Jolie, 39, first showed off the custom sparkler that Pitt, 50, designed for her.
Naturally, the pair's children were on hand to celebrate: Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, Zahara, 9, Shiloh, 8, and 6-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
According to reports, Jolie was walked down the aisle flanked by her two eldest sons, Maddox and Pax, while daughters Zahara and Vivienne served as flower girls. Shiloh and son Knox acted as ring bearers.
In May, Jolie spoke to WHO about the couple's low-key, kid-centric marriage plans.
"We're just waiting for it to be the right time with the kids, with work, when it feels right," she said. "We talk about it occasionally, and the kids talk about it with us.
"Which is verging on hysterical, how kids envision a wedding. They will in a way be the wedding planners. It's going to be Disney or paintball - one or the other! We've got a lot of different personalities in the house. They've got some strong opinions. It will be fun. That's the important thing. When we do it, it will feel like a great day for our family."
Jolie also spoke about how supportive Pitt had been through her 2013 double mastectomy and ensuing recovery.
"We've been through so much," she said. "We've gotten a lot closer, which I think naturally happens with raising a family together."
It has turned out to be an exceptionally big year for the couple, with Pitt filming his upcoming WWII drama Fury and Jolie directing her upcoming WWII drama Unbroken.
Although their diverging schedules often kept them on opposite sides of the world while shooting, Jolie recently revealed that the pair wrote each other love letters to stay connected.
"We decided to be of that time, when we could imagine he was in the European theater and I was in the Pacific theater," she said, "and we wrote handwritten letters to each other that were very connecting for us, thinking of the people that were separated for months, if not years, at a time back then."
And a little thing like a wedding isn't slowing down the perennially globe-trotting family: They're set to begin shooting an intimate, character-driven drama, By the Sea, in Malta - their first on-screen reunion since 2005's scorching Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
"I wrote something a few years ago for Brad and me," Jolie told WHO of her script for By the Sea. "Just for fun. Just an independent little art piece. Because we don't get to do those as much as we'd like. But it's something really small and experimental."
So maybe it will be a working honeymoon in Malta?
Congratulations to the newlyweds!
The news was first reported by the Associated Press.


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Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin reunite to benefit Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Massachusetts
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.--They first performed together when both were young, in an age when Broadway could still afford to take a chance on young talents who had yet to establish big names. That appearance in "Evita" propelled both toward meteoric careers that took them in different directions, but on Sunday, Oct. 14, Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will reunite in a gala, "Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin," to benefit the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass., and to honor founding board member John Hoyt Stookey.
The show includes choreography by fellow Broadway veteran Ann Reinking, who won a Best Choreography Tony Award for the revival of "Chicago," and piano accompaniment by music director Paul Ford.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance range from $75 (limited upper balcony seats) to $150 (for tickets and a tax deductible donation). There are additional opportunities for a post-show reception with the artists.
More than a cabaret act, this fully-staged production will be a unique musical love story told through the greatest songs ever written for the stage. Ms. LuPone, who has a home in Litchfield County, said in a recent telephone interview that the show is a production that changes at the will of the performers. "It's a constant evolution," she said. "If we get tired of a song, we change it. But even with the songs we have sung before, it is always a new audience that hasn't heard them before and we feed off the audience's energy."
There is a narrative woven by the songs. "Lovers find each other, lose each other and find each other again," she said.
Ms. LuPone said the show grew out of an initiative by a promoter of the new theater complex in Richardson, Tex., in 2002. "A presenter called my agent and said, 'We have Mandy, can we get Patti?' Then he called [Mandy's agent] and said, 'We have Patti, can we get Mandy? He didn't have either of us, but I thought it was incredibly clever. Mandy said he didn't want to do one of those shows where you sing and then I sing. So he and Paul Ford came up with this format. We've been doing it for 10 years."
She said their long friendship--which began in 1979 when they appeared together on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Weber's groundbreaking "Evita"--colors their performances in this production. "I think we would probably like to do this more than some of the other things we do," she said. "We trust each other, which is the meaning of collaboration. It means the show can continue to change and to be upgraded."
If they love working together so much, why haven't they done it more often? "I really don't know," said Ms. LuPone. "I've only worked with two or three actors more than once during my career. He went off and was doing movies, I was on stage--we were just going in different directions."
That did not diminish the friendship formed during "Evita," however. The actors, both graduates of Juilliard, were at school at the same time, but four years in age separated them, so they did not meet until they were both wee onstage professionally. Once the friendship was formed, however, it has been maintained steadily over the decades.
Their success, together and apart, has been considerable over those years. Both won Tony Awards for their performances in "Evita," and since then they have both shone on stage, in film, on television, and on the concert stage.
Among her many credits, Ms. LuPone, author of The New York Times best-selling autobiography, "Patti LuPone: A Memoir," most recently starred on Broadway in the musical "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." She swept the 2008 theater awards, winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance for her performance as Rose in the Broadway production of "Gypsy."
Her other recent stage credits include her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Weill-Brecht's "Mahagonny," the world premiere of Jake Heggie's opera "To Hell and Back" with San Francisco's Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra, and as Mrs. Lovett in the Broadway production of Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd"--for which she won Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre.
Her films include roles in "City By The Sea," David Mamet's "Heist" "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Witness," and she has appeared on such popular television series as "30 Rock," "Ugly Betty," NBC's "Will & Grace," "Frasier," "Law & Order," and in such PBS offerings as the Emmy Award-winning broadcasts of "Passion" and "Sweeney Todd,"
Mr. Patinkin's career is just as illustrious. Following his Tony Award-winning turn in "Evita," he was nominated in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, "Sunday in the Park with George." In 1991, he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical "The Secret Garden," and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man show, "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. His solo concerts, "Dress Casual," "Celebrating Sondheim" and "Mamaloshen" have been presented both on Broadway and off.
Some of his other stage credits include "Paradise Found" at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, "The Tempest," "The Wild Party" (2000 Tony nomination), "Falsettos," "The Winter's Tale," "The Knife," "Leave It to Beaver is Dead," "Rebel Women," and "Hamlet."
Feature film credits include, among others, "The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland," "Men with Guns," "The Princess Bride," "Yentl" (1984 Golden Globe nomination), "Ragtime" and "True Colors." He won a 1995 Emmy Award (as well as a Golden Globe nomination) for his critically acclaimed performance in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," and recently starred in the CBS series "Criminal Minds" as an FBI profiler. Just last week, his latest series, "Homeland," won six Emmys.
In 1989, he began his concert career, an event that coincided with the release of his first solo album, entitled "Mandy Patinkin." Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Canada, London and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. In all, he has recorded six albums.
The concert with Ms. LuPone has toured throughout the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
The Great Barrington gala will inaugurate the John Hoyt Stookey Fund for Programmatic Excellence, to support the Mahaiwe's efforts to bring major talents to the Berkshires on a year-round basis. Mr. Stookey was the first board member to join founder Lola Jaffe in 2002 when the nonprofit organization was formed, and he has been an active participant in its exhilarating decade ever since.
The Mahaiwe is located at 14 Castle St. in Great Barrington, Mass. For tickets and information, see the Web site at www.mahaiwe.org or call 413-528-0100.


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Remembering Michael Jackson as 'Thriller' turns 30
When Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released on Nov. 30, 1982, Quincy Jones' goal was not to produce the highest-selling album in history.
"Our underlying plan was to take disco out. That was the bottom line," Jones said last month while attending a fundraiser for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation in Denver, Colo.
Mission accomplished.
"I admired disco, don't get me wrong. I just thought that it had gone far enough," he said. "We needed to go someplace else."
They went places pop music had never gone before: A 14-minute music video that all but obliterated MTV's color line. The moonwalk dance craze. The Van Halen-infused "Beat It" guitar riff. The zombie line-dance that supplanted the hokey-pokey at cheesy wedding receptions for decades to come.
From the moment needle touched vinyl 30 years ago this month, dorm-room dance parties changed forever. No, check that. The utterly ordinary first single was the Paul McCartney duet, "The Girl Is Mine." No surprise that two months after its release, "Thriller" still hadn't reached No. 1.
It was the second single, "Billie Jean," that made Jackson the King of Pop and catapulted "Thriller" on its way to 104 million records sold, a figure unlikely ever to be touched in an industry that no longer subsists on album sales.
The first true multimedia album was "the ultimate crossover dream, a song both timely and out of its time," wrote The New York Times. And then there was that John Landis mini-movie takeoff on "An American Werewolf in London" that changed the way all pop songs would be crafted for the next decade. After "Thriller," every song would be conceived with its video in mind. And even though vids have long-since made way for slime-ball reality TV on MTV stations, the cultural impact of "Thriller" is still being felt worldwide.
"Everywhere we go," said Jones, "I don't care if it's Soweto or Cairo or Monte Carlo or Abu Dhabi or Shanghai, if we're at a disco at midnight, they still play that song."
"It's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark..."
Reece Livingstone was a zombie dancer in the "Thriller" video. You can see blood coming out of his mouth in a street-scene close-up. He went on to teach at-risk students at a South Central Los Angeles high school where Jackson visited a year after "Thriller" was released.
"One really angry black kid at the school thought Jackson was a sellout who was not content with the color of his skin," Livingstone said. Jackson shook the teen's hand that day, "and from that moment on, he was a different person. The one legacy I take from that whole experience was that, because of Michael Jackson, that kid is not dead."
It's hard to imagine that anyone under age 30 has no first-hand experience with the "Thriller" craze. Josh Gaffga does.
When he was growing up on Long Island, Gaffga and his brothers put on "Thriller" lip-sync shows for neighborhood kids, each sporting signature M.J. jackets. After Jackson died in 2009, Gaffga sent a vintage photo of the "pleather" trio to the Awkward Family Photos website. Now the Brothers Gaffga are featured in the franchise's board game, jigsaw puzzle, on Target birthday cards, and, most recently, on a T-shirt sold at Buckle clothing stores.
Murphy Funkhouser Capps lived overseas until she was 7, when her military father was assigned stateside.
"We came home in 1982, and the first thing I saw on TV was a Michael Jackson video," she said. "My first thought was, 'Whoa ... this is America? Awesome.' "
Army veteran John Paul Rojas of Denver was 9 and growing up in Sidney, Neb., when he caught the fever: "I remember sliding around on our shiny, linoleum floor in my onesies PJs with that album playing while my parents entertained their friends," he said.
The next year his parents bought Rojas a red M.J. jacket with a glittery glove for Christmas -- and a Broncos coat. "And I was teased more for the Broncos coat than for the M.J. jacket," he said.
1982 was a time when pop music was undergoing sonic changes, with dance music becoming more rock-oriented. Jackson's contemporaries included the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Elvis Costello, Roxy Music, Queen, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby and Peter Gabriel. But perhaps the biggest single of pre-"Thriller" 1982 was "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls.
"Thriller" had only nine songs, but four money tracks -- a rocking "Beat It"; a ballad ("Human Nature"); an R&B dance hit ("Wanna Be Starting Something"); and, of course, the title jam. But "Thriller" was not many critics' pick as the best album of 1982. Most preferred Prince's electro-sex-funk pioneering "1999" double-album.
Livingstone remembers Jackson as being "a little pissed" by the lack of artists of color on MTV at the time and said Jackson enjoyed obliterating that barrier.
Jones said the 30th anniversary of "Thriller" will likely pass without fanfare because of Jackson's death. He says he has been unable to come to any kind of meaningful resolution on Jackson's death.
"It's just tragic that somebody had to leave us at 50 years old," said Jones, who was in Luxembourg when Jackson died. "I was there at the invitation of the duke and duchess. There was a band that gave us a wonderful reception at the airport, and on the way into town, the duke told me, 'Oh, by the way, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon and Michael Jackson just died.' It just knocked me off my socks... .
"Michael had it all: Talent, grace, professionalism and dedication. He was the consummate entertainer, and his contributions and legacy will be felt forever."


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When I read the Ye Olde Republic's outline of the 32x32 building challenge, I became very excited. I've wanted to build something in the Dark Forest/Forestmen theme for some time and I thought the challenge would give me just the avenue to do it.
I recognize that my creation is not, strictly speaking, a full castle. However, I believe it meets the spirit of the challenge because it's supposed to be a ruin deep in the woods that the men of the forest have reoccupied.
Here are the pictures (note that the pictures are links):
I tried to make the edges of the cave "rough" to demonstrate that it's a cutaway from the mountain.
Here is a link to the Entire Gallery.
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Lui Eau de parfum
Lui, the fragrance for a new gender order.
Feminine. Masculine. Why choose? LUI is a fragrance that likes to blur the boundaries. Not entirely feminine, nor truly masculine, it is both at once. Inspired by a generation that is breaking free from gender norms, Guerlain had the idea of an unmistakably universal fragrance. Its ambiguous fragrance trail is based on benzoin: floral, spicy and woody in turn, this resin is revealed in all of its complexity as the composition created by perfumer Delphine Jelk unfolds. Fused with powdery and spicy carnation accents, they form an equally unexpected and harmonious blend. An elegant black-lacquered square with bevelled corners. A slender label on which three graphic Art Deco-inspired letters stand out. LUI's bottle borrows its aesthetic from a historic creation that is part of Guerlain's heritage: LIU, a sumptuous floral aldehyde created by Jacques Guerlain in 1929 that wrapped women's emancipation in the scent of freedom.
Spicy woody floral Unexpected. Sensuous. Contemporary.
Carnation - Benzoin - Leather
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Thierry Wasser and Delphine Jelk wanted to surprise us with an unexpected, gender-blending fragrance: LUI is ambivalent by nature, inherently complex. However, its character is best revealed on contact with the skin. A unique alchemy is created, sometimes distinguishing the scent with its enveloping powdery floral notes, and sometimes with the depth of its leathery, woody and spicy effects.


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Wild odyssey ending for Pete Carroll's last USC recruits
- Now fifth-year seniors%2C Pete Carroll%27s last recruits at USC have endured an odyssey since signing in 2009
- For USC%27s bowl game on Saturday%2C seniors will have the fifth head coach of their tenure with the Trojans
- Trojans are on the verge of a 10-win season after low point last year of a locker room fight after bowl loss
LOS ANGELES — Pete Carroll's last recruits are playing their last game for the University of Southern California on Saturday.
They are fifth-year seniors who were signed at USC in 2009 by Carroll, who told them he had no plans on leaving, and they all envisioned more of what Carroll had brought to the program in the previous seven years: Rose Bowls, BCS championship games and good times at practice, at games, after games.
None of them expected to see five USC head coaches during their five-year careers. None of them expected to play in zero Rose Bowls.
And certainly none of them expected to see teammates sparring with one another in the locker room after last year's season-ending 21-7 loss to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl, what many say was the low point in their Trojans careers.
"It was just pointless," fifth-year senior offensive lineman John Martinez says of the chaotic scene sparked by a rift between the veterans and younger players. "I really don't know who started it, but there was a lot of yelling, an awful lot of yelling, then the next thing I knew fists were flying. The coaches couldn't even break it up. It got so serious that Coach O (then-assistant coach Ed Orgeron), even with his loud voice, couldn't break it up."
The fight lasted a few minutes, he says, and no one was hurt. But the damage was palpable. Three years after the departure of Carroll, the once-mighty USC team was mediocre on the field and disgruntled off it.
"After that bowl game," offensive lineman Kevin Graf says, "we were very much a team divided."
How USC got to that low point — and how the Trojans emerged from another bizarre, strife-filled season this year to become a resurgent team on the verge of a 10-win season — is in large part the tale of Carroll's last recruits, this season's fifth-year seniors. There are eight of them, plus sixth-year senior Abe Markowitz, not counting walk-ons and transfers.
The Trojans who began their careers under Carroll and will end their careers Saturday in the Las Vegas Bowl against Fresno State have endured one of the most zany, unsettling, and even joyous, roller-coaster rides in recent college football memory.
"I don't know that anyone has gone through what we have," Graf says. "We've had four different head coaches in one season, a total of five different coaches since we've been here. It's been hard. It's been different. I feel like I could go through anything after what I've been through here."
Carroll to Kiffin
Devon Kennard was a high-school All-America defensive end in Phoenix who was drawn to the USC glory that preceded him. From 2002 to 2008, the Carroll-led Trojans won seven consecutive Pac-10 titles and appeared in seven consecutive BCS bowl games, winning six. The Trojans won two national championships, played for a third and won two Heisman trophies — Matt Leinart in 2004 and Reggie Bush in 2005.
Though the trophy case ultimately would be thinned considerably by the NCAA investigative findings that Bush and his family received improper benefits during his collegiate career, there was an aura of dominance at USC when these players were recruited.
But even before he signed at USC, Kennard felt things going amiss. In December 2008, Washington hired then-USC assistant Steve Sarkisian as its head coach. Sarkisian took USC's defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, Nick Holt, with him.
"I was a little concerned that Carroll might be leaving, even though he told me he wasn't going anywhere," Kennard says. "Then, just before signing day, my position coach (Holt) leaves. Then, a year later, Carroll left. I was kind of disappointed, but by then, I understood that college football was a business. And I came to USC to be a part of the university and carry on greatness, and that could still be accomplished with or without Carroll."
Carroll left USC for the Seattle Seahawks in January 2010. Then-athletic director Mike Garrett hired Lane Kiffin as his replacement.
The hire seemed a little strange to Kevin Greene, who was a redshirt freshman at the time.
"I grew up in Oakland, and all I knew about Kiffin is that he had coached the Raiders, and that had ended badly,"recalls Greene, now a fifth-year senior linebacker. "When he got hired here, it was sort of an eyebrow-raiser for me. I mean, I was a Raider fan, and those weren't the best of times when Kiffin was there."
Kiffin was hired amid uncertainty of impending NCAA sanctions. When they landed in June of that year, they were a shocker — a two-year bowl ban and a three-year scholarship penalty resulting in the loss of 30 total scholarships.
The penalties ultimately would cripple the program, but none of the effects were felt yet in 2010, which turned out be a 10-2 season in which the Trojans would have played in the Pac-12 title game if not for the sanctions. The players had a mix of emotions at season's end.
"It was a great year, but then we got punished for something that none of us had anything to do with," Graf says. "We were pretty mad about that. Why punish us?"
A season to forget
But there was plenty of hope for 2012, when they would be eligible again for a bowl game and a Pac-12 title, even a national championship. All of that seemed possible, especially after quarterback Matt Barkley, who had emerged as one of the top players in the country, announced he would return for his senior year to take care of what he called "unfinished business."
Instead, 2012 for USC became an unmitigated disaster. The Trojans became the first team to begin the season ranked No.1 in the Associated Press poll and finish it unranked. They lost five of their last six games. Barkley's Heisman Trophy campaign fell apart early, and he missed the last two games, including the Sun Bowl, with a shoulder injury.
The 14-point bowl loss to Georgia Tech would rank as one of USC's most humiliating for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the fact Georgia Tech had to get a waiver from the NCAA to even play in the game since it had a sub-.500 (6-7) record.
USC's performance on the field that day was as ugly as the postgame locker room scene.
"I felt like I saw a lot of the camaraderie we built at the start of the season just go to smithereens," Martinez says. "The seniors like Matt Barkley and Khaled Holmes and Curtis McNeal and T.J. McDonald had a standard they were trying to uphold. But I felt like all the other people kind of just checked out. A lot of guys just floated away."
There is a lack of consensus on what caused the collapse and who was to blame for it. As Graf says, it was a team divided.
"There was a lot of finger-pointing toward the coaches," Graf says. "When you have such amazing players and we aren't getting done what we want to, it's definitely going to go to the coaches."
The head coach?
"Yes," Graf says. "I don't want to blame (Kiffin), but I don't believe we had the correct leadership going for us. Coach Kiffin was doing what he thought was right. His style just didn't work for us."
Kennard, though, says he always supported Kiffin.
"I can't say he lost the team," Kennard says. "I was behind him 100%. It was just difficult times. The way I look at it is, no matter what the coaches are doing, it's up to the players to go make plays."
Kiffin's seemingly shaky job status was an ongoing issue, but athletics director Pat Haden stuck by him and even released a video in the summer saying Kiffin's job was not on the line in the 2013 season.
That all changed when the Trojans were embarrassed on the field early this season, first in a 10-7 loss to Washington State and then in a 62-41 loss to Arizona State that dropped the Trojans to 3-2 and tied a school record for points allowed.
Haden fired Kiffin late that night after the team returned to Los Angeles from Tempe, Ariz.
Orgeron to the rescue
The team had eight games left to play. Haden handed the reins to Orgeron, Kiffin's assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach who was known for his booming voice on the practice field and for being beloved by his defensive linemen.
Thus began probably the most surprising and enjoyable eight-week run of these fifth-year seniors' careers. Even though USC lost to Notre Dame and to UCLA in Orgeron's last game, the six victories and the turnaround in the atmosphere around the program would rekindle in some players the passion for playing football.
For eight weeks, it became pretty close to what they imagined it would be when they signed on in 2009, and they finished the regular season 9-4.
"Coach O is the ultimate player's coach," Graf says of Orgeron. "He was like, 'I want you guys to enjoy playing football again.' A lot of us had lost that. He brought it back for us. He made practice and meetings and film enjoyable. He made you want to be a better player. Coach O is one of those guys you don't want to disappoint. He's like your dad. When you have that attitude about your coach, that's when attitudes turn around and you can have a great team."
The highlight was a 20-17 upset of then-No.4 Stanford at the Coliseum. Some of the players and the news media began to feel that if the Trojans won out, Orgeron would get hired full time. But after the Trojans lost to UCLA, it didn't take long for Haden to hire Sarkisian.
Orgeron was asked to remain on staff but declined. He said goodbye to the players in an afternoon team meeting the day Sarkisian was hired, and it quickly became a sob session.
"Everybody was crying," Graf says. "The whole team felt guilty. You had guys yelling out, 'I'm sorry we couldn't do this for you.' We felt like we had Coach O's future in our hands, and we let him down."
That night, they met with Sarkisian, head coach No.4 for the fifth-year seniors.
"I think he'll be a great coach," Graf says. "At the team meeting, he was very energized. He really showed he loves this place. I think it was good for the players to see that, especially since we had grown so accustomed to Coach O showing how much he loves it here."
Haden picked offensive coordinator Clay Helton to prepare and run the team in the Las Vegas Bowl. That's head coach No.5.
It's not the BCS title game.
It's not the Rose Bowl.
There won't be any Heisman Trophy winners on the field.
But there probably won't be a postgame brawl in the locker room, either.
None of the players interviewed say they would have chosen another school in 2009 if they knew then what they know now.
And they all said there is a lot to play for Saturday.
"I feel like this is total redemption," Martinez says. "Coach O was always talking about that 10th win. That would be the win that puts the stamp on the season. We did it. We conquered it. We overcame it."


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