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By Lindsey Blom and Tim Blom
You will have some very interesting stories at the end of this season, and many of them will involve encounters with your players. We cannot cover all the unique personalities that may be a part of your team, but we can give you tips for dealing with some common player personalities that require a unique approach. In general, remember to have fun, and try to enjoy the differences among the children. Avoid the tendency to make a kid run or do push-ups for not fitting the typical player model. This may work in the military, but it is not a great solution for youth soccer. Besides, your practice sessions would be boring if all the children were exactly the same!
Shy Sammy Sammy probably does not want to participate in some of the drills or interact much with the other players. No problem; just let him work things out at his own pace. There is no need to force him to participate or make him run laps for not following directions. Ask Sammy and his parents what would help him feel more comfortable. Sammy may not be able to identify anything that will help, and if he cannot, allow him to sit on the side (where you can see him), and tell him to join you when he is ready. Sammy probably needs to feel out the situation before playing. Meet his needs, and put your time into the players who are ready to play.
Chatty Cathy Cathy has something to say all the time. You won't get her to be quiet in your short time together, so channel her energy in another fashion. It is important to get players to communicate on the field. See if you can get her to communicate, productively, to her teammates. For example, she can tell them, "Good job," or give instructions about who to pass to or when to shoot. Respect her energy; find ways to use it to the team's advantage.
Wimpy Wally Wally wants to play soccer! He can't wait for practice. He has his socks and shin guards on at 4:00 even though soccer doesn't start until 5:30, but when it comes time to actually run around on the field and risk falling down, getting dirty, or bumping into someone, he is not interested. Wally is not ready to risk hurting himself, so he will not put himself in that situation. This is a challenging player to coach in a game that involves contact. Let him participate on his own terms, and avoid drawing attention to his wimpy outbreaks. Instead, cheer and praise him when he does take a risk-any risk. If he fails, tell him, "Good work!" for trying the activity. When he plays hard, give him a high five . . . but not too hard!
Helpful Henry If there were a pitcher's helper in soccer, it would be Henry. He wants to be right by your side, assisting you with everything you do. You could shoo him away as if he were a sand gnat buzzing around your ear, or you could think, Perfect. I need an assistant coach to help with the little things, and allow him to help you. He can pick up the balls, lay down cones, fill the cups, or get the pinnies when you need more. Keep him busy, and he will be a happy camper.
Misfit Maggie Poor Maggie doesn't seem to fit in on your team. She probably feels like this in most situations. It may be because she acts differently or even looks different from the other kids on your team. Regardless of her soccer skills, work to include her, and model the way the kids should treat her. If you have a player who is nice to everyone, ask this player to befriend her. Peer pressure can work negatively and positively, so this time, use it to your advantage. This is also a good argument for not letting players pick their partners during partner activities. You can avoid isolating Maggie by rotating partners and placing her with teammates who will accept her. Also, focus on what she does bring to the team instead of what she lacks. When she does something helpful or good, be sure to point it out to the team so they begin to appreciate her.
Out-of-Shape Oscar Unfortunately, many kids do not get regular physical activity, and their fitness levels are poor. It would be easy to put Oscar on the sideline or make him run laps by himself, but neither will help him progress athletically. Ideally, you want to help him improve his fitness level and feel good about physical activity. His next coach will thank you. Avoid highlighting his weaknesses, and focus on his strengths. Does he want to be the goalkeeper? Can he take the goal kicks because of his strength? Even if Oscar is just a nice kid, that is still a plus. Allow him to participate as he feels comfortable, but also get him to push himself a little more each practice. You can even set goals with him. For example, at the beginning of the season he may be able to play for only 10 minutes without needing a break. Challenge him to increase that time to 15 minutes in two weeks. Set a goal that you know he can achieve, so that when he does he'll be motivated to keep improving.
Tattletale Tina Tina is the team police officer. She is going to keep track of all the misbehaviors of her team members. You will have to address this behavior early in the season. Tell her that you appreciate her feedback, but you want her to tell you about the other players' behavior only when someone might get hurt. Another approach is to inform her that she can tell you about someone else's behavior only twice at each practice, and once the two times are up, she cannot tell you about any more situations. Hopefully she will then want to use her two times wisely, so she will spend her time processing whether she will tell you. If she persists in reporting to you, ask her to tell you about the good things that happen.
Keep in mind that nicknames are a fun way for kids to feel special. The general rule is to catch them being good, thereby reinforcing when they do things well, rather than spend your time telling them to behave or punishing them. You won't win many points with the kids or their parents if you actually call Terry "Temper Tantrum Terry." So if you assign a goofy nickname to a challenging personality, just make sure to use good judgment when you decide whether it is a nickname to use with the kids or just one to laugh about on your own to keep you sane.
This is an excerpt from Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer.
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This paper addresses significant gaps in existing knowledge about the Internet banking landscape. Using information drawn from a survey of national bank examiners, we find that while only 20 percent of national banks offered Internet banking in Q3 1999, these transactional Internet banks accounted for almost 90 percent of national banking system assets and 84 percent of the total number of small deposit accounts. All of the largest national banks offered Internet banking, but only about 7 percent of the smallest banks offered it. Among institutions offering Internet banking, large banks are more likely than small banks to offer a broad range of services on the Internet. Matching call report data to the examiner survey information, we also find that banks in all size categories offering Internet banking tend to rely less on interest-yielding activities and deposits than do non-Internet banks, and institutions with Internet banking outperformed non-Internet banks in terms of profitability. Excepted from the superior performance of Internet banks versus non-Internet banks are de novo Internet banks, which were less profitable and less efficient than non-Internet de novos. Projections based on banks' plans as of Q3 1999 indicate that 45 percent of all national banks will be offering Internet banking by the beginning of 2001. While most of the growth in new Internet banking will be due to small banks coming online, almost half of all national banks had no plans to offer Internet banking. Large banks have more aggressive plans to offer business Internet banking services in the future than small institutions.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
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I bet god has multiplied her money and cars and clothes, like he did the loaves and fishes, too.
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I think this is the "Great Filter" that Ruth so wisely discussed. Human beings get to the point where they can destroy life as we know it, and out of fear, a huge proportion of the country takes the words of religioun seriously. Instead of it being part of our historical past, it becomes the definer of our demise.
In some cases people like this are frauds because of the greed for money that they get out of the gullible, and they want to "multiply" that money and keep it coming in. So, they start lying! Believers will pick up on this as someone else "being more favored by God" and they start lying too, so the "lie" continues whether money is to be gained or not. It's sort of like one person not wanting to be outdone by the other. At this point the two lies meet and become one "lie" of tall tails and fables about "who is the most favored." This same phenomena can be seen in a non-religious way also when you listen to conversations about how many pain killers it takes to get rid of a headache! (Susie cannot take aspirin and takes another brand, but it takes 6 tablets for her.) The unfortunate thing is that everyone starts believing it.
I once saw a commercial on TV for a Christian exercise program, and the man says "it was like Jesus was right there taking the exercise with him." I laughed out loud! Gimme a break.
Scientology founder's grandson says invent a religion if you want to become a millionaire.
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Bristol Switches to StarOffice
by Jono Bacon
In southwest England lies Bristol, England's eighth most populous city. With more than 390,000 residents, Bristol is well populated with strong local government representation. The Bristol City Council, a large and comprehensive administration, runs the town. The council uses thousands of computers for a variety of tasks, one of the most fundamental being office productivity and document creation.
As a user of a range of software solutions, Bristol's council has always committed itself to finding the right solution for the right problem and trying to deliver that solution at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) possible. As a primary user of Microsoft Office, the council saw the change in licensing policy at Microsoft as an opportunity to explore the options available to possibly unify its computing into a software standard.
There were two main drivers for its work on a new office software standard--one internal, one external. Within the council, staff responded to a survey about what standards they should incorporate--part of a Best Value Review of information and communication technologies (ICT)--and the top issue the respondents asked the council to fix was the mixed environment of Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, and Microsoft Office. Users complained of spending too much time on converting documents, even for internal sharing, and without a corporate licensing agreement there were many versions of each product in use. Many of these tools did not support the newer features of Microsoft Office, which made collaborating with partners more difficult.
The obvious solution was to standardize on Microsoft Office, but that is where the external driver came in. Microsoft's changes to its volume licensing terms removed upgrade rights and introduced Software Assurance. The council assessed the impact of this new policy and discovered that it would increase its costs significantly.
A New Direction
Gavin Beckett, Bristol City Council's IT strategy manager, took up the challenge of building a business case to determine whether and how Bristol's 5,500 computers could migrate to an alternative office suite. Open source software had become a prominent option, and Beckett was keen to identify what open source could potentially offer.
Ultimately, the council decided to move over to Sun's StarOffice suite. Based on the open source OpenOffice.org suite, StarOffice provides a complete, supported, cross-platform office solution. Although StarOffice itself is not available under the same Open source license as its OpenOffice.org brethren, the move to StarOffice signaled a key win for open source supporters. StarOffice not only opens the door to open source, but it also firmly closes the door to the dreaded vendor lock-in that plagues its closed source counterparts. This vendor lock-in is evident in closed source file formats (such as those of Word and Excel) and would help to keep the user base locked into those applications to continue to be able to open the files. StarOffice and OpenOffice.org's support for the OASIS-standardized Open Document Format (ODF) and adoption of that software in Bristol eliminates vendor lock-in.
The attraction to open source came in a few forms. "Clearly the cost of procuring Microsoft Office for the whole council was a major reason for our interest in low-cost or freely licensed software," Beckett says. "We knew that the council would have to find a large amount of money to invest in the migration project from the mixed environment to a new standard. If the standard product also came with a high purchase cost, we would find it very difficult, or even impossible, to find the budget for it. Our council had frozen Council Tax for three years running, and capital reserves were being used to fund essential services to vulnerable people--if we could provide a good-quality office suite within existing budgets, and invest in staff training and support at the same time, that had to be a better solution."
Despite the potential of a low-cost solution, Beckett was also eager to explore open standards. "If short-term cost was the overriding factor, it wasn't the only one. Bristol has been using open standards and open source for years in our web server infrastructure, and more recently in our work on e-trading. We recognized the value of avoiding proprietary lock-in, and saw the XML file format used by StarOffice/OpenOffice.org as a key to this. We think that the move to Open Document Format and the support for XForms within StarOffice 8 will provide significant opportunities for integration and interorganization messaging over the next couple of years. We didn't make this a key part of the business case, unlike Massachusetts, but their arguments make sense to us too. Government bodies are not the same as commercial organizations--we have far greater and longer lasting responsibilities to the public for the information we hold on them."
Beckett had difficulty finding negative reasons that related specifically to the open source basis of StarOffice, but identified mind-set as the most compelling problem. "Our biggest challenge was encouraging staff to be open-minded about anything that wasn't MS Office. Microsoft have become so dominant and ubiquitous that the default assumption for many people is that everything else is inferior and that the only way to accomplish work is to do it in the exact way that an MS Office product does it. When you combine this with the idea of software that doesn't cost money, you end up with comments like 'If it's cheap, it must be nasty.'" Beckett believes that part of the solution to this problem was to provide some peace of mind for his users. "We had to face a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt; do a lot of listening; and show people what StarOffice could do before they began to relax. Sun were very supportive during this process (as you would expect!), and I think the council needed the reassurance of a big IT vendor behind the product. They worked with us on a large-scale pilot in the local housing offices, and put in lots of engineering resources to follow up and fix the issues we found."
The Numbers Game
Although Beckett identified that cost was only one of many issues to consider in the business plan, TCO was a large factor that affected which way to move. It was apparent, however, that StarOffice was a compelling solution. "Clearly, having weighed up all of the relevant costs, we decided that the TCO of StarOffice was lower than Microsoft Office; otherwise we wouldn't have recommended the council adopt it. If you look at our Open Source Academy report on Building a Business Case for StarOffice, you can see that we looked at a very wide range of TCO elements. We based our evaluation on the Gartner office automation migration cost model but decided that some factors should be excluded, as they were effectively neutral between the two options."
Talking to organizations about moving over to open source typically identifies support and training as the key costs involved in a migration. Beckett needed to consider these factors too. "It was difficult to be certain about some of the costs relating to support and training, so we erred on the pessimistic side, assuming that StarOffice would involve higher costs and that existing Microsoft Office users would not require any training at all." He continues, "You could say that we stacked the deck in favor of Microsoft Office to reflect users' views. Despite this approach, we found that the TCO calculations favored StarOffice. So far, the experience of migrating users has proved that the cost of migration is low and ease of use is high. We now have concrete evidence that less effort is required to deploy the software [and] support and train users than we estimated. We have provided information on our approach through the Open Source Academy in our Deployment and Training Packs for other councils to use in their planning."
In winning large contracts, it is common to see fierce competition between different vendors. It was no different in Bristol. "Clearly, Microsoft didn't want to lose out to Sun, and they were very keen to persuade us that we should choose MS Office as our new standard. We met with them and discussed the concerns we had, around cost and lock-in, and listened to their point of view. They tried very hard to convince us that every penny we spent with them could result in greater savings from efficiencies down the road. Ultimately, although Microsoft were able to show us the best way to procure licenses at the lowest cost under the nationally agreed OGC terms, they simply did not respond to our key point--that each MS Office license was 12 times more expensive than the equivalent StarOffice license for the public sector. This isn't the case in education, where the academic license is only three times as much, but Microsoft wouldn't or couldn't extend this to us."
Beckett is keen to point out that the discussion period was as open as possible to all vendors. "We made sure that Microsoft had the opportunity to contribute information to the decision-making process. Our discussions were amicable, and we made it clear that Microsoft would continue to be an important supplier to Bristol even if MS Office wasn't chosen. They've recently provided some input to a project that will roll out Windows XP across the council."
A Difficult Position
In recent months, the migration case in Massachusetts has gripped the industry. This huge case study not only grabbed headlines because it was a huge rollout of the Open Document Format, but it also sparked interest in the behavior and pressure certain vendors placed on the man doing much of the work, Peter Quinn. With so much controversy, Quinn later resigned. There has been much speculation as to why he resigned and how it affects the move to open standards in Massachusetts.
I asked Beckett if he had a similar experience to Quinn as someone in a comparable position. "No, not the same degree of public, commercial, and press attention," he said, "but I do get a sense of deja vu when I read what's happening in Massachusetts. Remember, Massachusetts aren't migrating to OpenOffice.org, they are proposing to standardize on the OASIS Open Document Format. If Microsoft decide to provide support for ODF within Microsoft Office, Massachusetts won't need to move off it (although they will face the cost of migrating to a new version--which would be massive across their 50,000 desktops)."
Beckett feels that the accessibility aspect to the migration was an important issue. "Although we are ten times smaller than them, we share many similarities. One of the most important is that our community of disabled staff was also very concerned about the accessibility issues involved. We've worked closely with them over the last 12 months and have developed a range of measures that support them. Basically, the assistive technologies that have been designed for Windows and MS Office just don't work effectively with StarOffice/OpenOffice.org--[for example], the JAWS screen reader or Dragon voice control/dictation software. It's a very emotive area; many disabled people have to fight hard for their access rights and jobs, and fear technology change that may sweep away their security. They trust the specialist vendors but had never heard of Sun."
Beckett also defends the position of Sun on accessibility. "Ironically, Sun are world leaders in the development of accessible technology. They were awarded the Helen Keller award for their contributions to GNOME accessibility. They have developed a robust, API-based approach that provides a much richer set of hooks and cues for assistive technology and is less prone to breaking when software is upgraded. [See Peter Korn's Weblog for more details.] Unfortunately, this doesn't help our disabled users on Windows, because the key software vendors have so far been unwilling to develop full integration with the Java Accessibility API." Beckett feels this is an important area in which to raise awareness. "The events in Massachusetts over the last year have been instrumental in raising the profile of this area, and we know that more resources will be directed to solving these issues now."
When Beckett and his team made the decision to move to StarOffice, the story was certainly not over. "We had many intense debates about the proposal and eventual decision to use StarOffice. Many people questioned the sense of the decision, and wanted to know that we had considered all angles. On a smaller scale, we had to provide answers and engage in similar discussions, but whereas Peter Quinn and MA's ITD have had to deal with live blogging and podcasts of their every word, we had the luxury of conducting our debates internally."
Beckett was keen to ensure that his group conducted every step of the process with the utmost care and attention to keep the proposal on track. "We took care to consider all of the objections and concerns, to investigate them and provide answers, and to build consensus at all levels of management. Once the corporate management team had approved the proposal, we sought and received political approval from our executive member, the council equivalent of a minister. Our business case was centered on the costs and savings rather than the wider open standards issues, and ultimately this proved compelling."
Implementing StarOffice
With the proposal to move to StarOffice accepted, the next step was to perform the actual migration. This process in itself is a complex and time-consuming job, and it continues, but Beckett is pleased with the progress. "I'm pleased to say that it's been smooth so far, in large part due to an able project manager and a very hard-working and skilled support team. We attracted some excellent people and have built a small team that includes some long-term council IT officers with some newer recruits. The combination results in a team with energy and experience; I keep hearing positive comments from users about the quality of support they're getting. Overall, we've found the council's staff are willing to work with us, and once we get to visit them and sit side by side, looking at StarOffice on their PCs, people are open to trying it out."
Beckett shared some of the techniques, activities, and methods in which he has helped to ease the migration process. "We spend a lot of time preparing before arriving on site. We gather information about the team locations [and] names of staff, and use various tools to scan and analyze their files--looking for potential issues that will need technical support. We communicate with the team in a variety of ways, and work with them on any complex document conversions. We provide half-day familiarization courses for key users, and help managers to decide who else to book on longer training courses. A lot of this has been documented in our Deployment & Migration, Communication and Training Packs for the Open Source Academy."
As with any migration plan, naturally some difficulties arose in Bristol's migration too. "Of course there are hiccups and challenges--we are interrupting the operational flow of activities in service delivery teams, which sometimes means that users don't get round to telling us about all the important documents before we arrive, or aren't available on the day they are due for their 1-1 session. But none of these things have seriously affected the migration process. We expected some surprises, and planned in 'mop-up' weeks between migration phases, in which we book return visits and finish off document conversions. This has worked well so far, and we've migrated over 2,000 staff. One thing we've had to manage carefully is our exceptions process--which exists to enable people to register their need to retain Microsoft Office, if for instance they have to complete Central Government financial returns in Excel that use VBA. We set a target of no more than 15 percent exceptions across the city, and so far it's well below that. Quite a few of these exceptions relate to users of business systems that currently use Microsoft Office for letter production or data analysis, and our disabled staff whose assistive technology doesn't work with StarOffice. We've been working with several of the big local government system vendors to develop and test StarOffice integration. You'll see more information about this from the Open Source Academy later in 2006."
With Beckett's experience on the front line in migrating a council over to an alternative platform, he believes that other councils can make the move depending on their circumstances. "Councils will benefit most if they share many similarities with our context--a mixed software environment, significant financial constraints, a recognized need for more user training in IT. We have reflected on this at more length in the Building a Business Case report."
With such experience behind him, where does Beckett feel like the process could be improved? "We aren't waiting for the next project to improve our migration processes--each section of the council that we have migrated has an end-of-stage report, which details what we have done for them and identifies any issues. Alongside this, the project team review what went well and what could be improved. We've made small changes here and there to our approach; for instance, we are going to start distributing our getting-started guides when we first visit the team to gather basic information, rather than waiting until we arrive on site for the 1-1s."
Moving Forward
The Bristol case study has been a superb example of a migration performed sensibly. From speaking to Beckett on the phone and via email, it is clear that he has a great degree of patience and time to ensure that the research, proposals, migration, and retraining is as smooth and supportive as possible. In some other cases, the migration team has taken a less patient and understanding approach to its users--it's good to see Beckett has employed some grounding to his work. Another impressive aspect in this particular case study is that the migration team has worked to produce a number of supporting documents and research papers that outline its findings and work. As such, Bristol has not only developed a sound migratory path, but also has documented the process, providing feature comparisons, business cases, and more for the benefit of other people in similar positions.
What is in store for Bristol? Is it going to move other parts of its organization to open source? "I recall reading an article last year which made the point that you need to treat the use of open source for strategic purposes with the same discipline and rigor as you would use for commercial solutions," says Beckett. "That's essentially how we approach it. We're very open to open source, but it has to meet the same criteria as anything else--things like functionality, robustness, sustainability, interoperability. In a sense, every area of the ICT infrastructure and business applications that might be reviewed in the future could be a candidate for open source solutions. For instance, we're reviewing our ICT strategy and technical architecture over the next six months, and this will include looking at how we provide file and print services, email, application servers, the desktop OS, and more. In each of these areas we'll take a hard look at the options."
An obvious choice for migration is its Netware solution. "Our current file/print server platform is Netware, which everyone knows will be gradually phased out by Novell as they ramp up their Linux-based OS services. So we will look at whether our next step is to Novell SUSE Linux, or another Linux, or Windows Server, or even Solaris. I don't know what the answer will be yet--but we'll consider all factors in our decision, just as we did with the office suite."
Jono Bacon has been working as a full-time writer and technology consultant/developer since 2000 and has worked for a variety of publishers and companies.


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BUIES CREEK, N.C. (March 8, 2008) - The ETSU baseball team dropped two games to Campbell at Taylor Field in Buies Creek, N.C. Saturday as the Bucs fell just short of a comeback in the first game, 4-3, and would lose the second game, 5-1.
ETSU (1-10, 1-4) received good starts from Brandon Langston (
In game one, the Bucs would come up short as
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In the bottom of the fourth an RBI triple by Carlton Floyd tripled to right center driving in another run, but Anthony Russell would make an outstanding play doubling up Floyd at the plate on a throw falling away from the infield.
ETSU would make the score 4-2 as Belcher would hit his second home run of the season on a solo shot to left field. Russell would add another run on a solo shot of his own in the seventh as the home run was his third of the season.
The Bucs would get two runners on in the ninth, but would not be able to scratch across a run as
Langston had a great outing pitching eight innings only allowing four runs on ten hits striking out two with no walks in the loss.
In the second game,
Campbell would score three more in the fifth on an RBI singles by Graham Fronk and Causey and a grounder to short by Ellis Lowe to give the Camels a 4-1 lead. The Camels would score again in the seventh on an RBI single by Scott.
The ETSU bats would go cold as the
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Game 1: Campbell 4, ETSU 3 (March 8, 2008 at
ETSU............ 001 001 100 - 3 10 1 (1-9, 1-3 A-Sun)
CU.................300 100 00x - 4 10 0 (4-5, 2-2 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Brandon Langston
CU - Justin Lilly; Hunter Ford (8)
Win - Justin Lilly (1-0) Loss - Brandon Langston (0-3)
HR: ETSU - Nick Belcher (2); Anthony Russell (3)
Game 2:
ETSU............ 010 000 000 - 1 4 1 (1-10, 1-4 A-Sun)
CU.................100 030 10x - 5 8 0 (5-5, 3-2 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Ty Sarchet; Dustin Plumlee (6)
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There were a few relatively balmy days over the first week-and-a-half of March, but when the girls of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy took to the field for their first interscholastic lacrosse outing last Thursday, it definitely felt like the calendar had been flipped back a few pages.
Into the second half of the game-situation scrimmage, the Blue Devils' offense was almost as cold as the weather, and visiting Abington High School built up an 8-4 advantage. Over the last 19 minutes the hosts heated up, and they emerged with an 11-10 margin on the scoreboard.
The Devils are under new management this spring, although rookie head coach Allison Thomas had previously been an instructor at lacrosse camps run by the school. A product of a strong Conestoga High School program, Thomas went on to Lehigh University, where she was a first team All-Patriot League selection as a junior and a senior. After her playing career ended in 2011, she spent last spring as a member of the Mountain Hawks' coaching staff.
Her assistant with the SCH varsity this season is 2012 University of Delaware graduate Kalyn McDermott, and there are fresh faces on the sidelines for the JV team, as well. Stephanie Bianco, who wielded a stick for Indiana University of Pennsylvania up until last spring, is joined by
Megan Cippoloni, who was co-coach of the SCH field hockey team last fall.
Six seniors graduated from the Blue Devils' 2012 lacrosse squad, but there are eight on this year's roster. Duke University signee Kitty Morrissey will serve as the club's lynchpin at center, and the other senior who has her college plans in place is Taylor Wrubel, an offensive midfielder who will attend Trinity College.
For last week's scrimmage, Jennie Lukoff and Maud Simms were at the top of the attack and back at deep defense, respectively, with classmate Vanessa Pierce performing in the midfield. Senior Shelby Jackson is a goaltender for the Blue Devils along with freshman Elsa Rall, and the other two upperclassmen are Jackie Willits and Gianna Pownall. Pownall is a newcomer to the sport, but the first team All-Inter-Ac basketball guard has been picking up the game very quickly, and she started on defense against Abington.
The SCH varsity roster includes just one junior, Winter Chernak, but there is a healthy supply of sophomores and freshman. The Blue Devils' top squash player, 10th-grader Francesca Fabiani, proved as adept with her crosse as with her racquet in last Thursday's foray, while her classmate Sinead Brierly reprised her starting role from a year ago. Maddie Aslansan, Sarah Mathes, and Carlin Rode round out the sophomore contingent.
Goalkeeper Rall was already a varsity player last year as an eighth-grader, as were two more current freshmen, Natalie Schwartz and Mikaela Watson. The other ninth-graders who have made the first team are Remi Fillipini and soccer scorer supreme Megan McCool.
After Abington's opening goal was matched by the Devils' Fabiani at the start of Thursday's trial run, the Ghosts went ahead again and continued on to a 5-3 halftime advantage. Morrissey netted the second SCH goal, then Brierly charged right down from the following draw to score the third.
Watson got SCH back within one point with her strike in the opening minute of the second half, but the visitors banged in three in a row to go up 8-4.
Over the last 19 minutes McCool would net all of her team-high three goals. Abington answered her first goal within half-a-minute to make it 9-5, but then Wrubel started SCH off on a decisive 6-0 run. The string included two more markers by McCool and one each for Watson, Morrissey, and Fabiani.
Abington closed it up to 11-10 with four minutes remaining, but the Devils hung onto their slim lead the rest of the way.


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This arc is miles above the last one, but I felt they could've done a little more with this intriguing storyline...having it so short makes me wonder if they could match this one with their next, especially what happened with the Nanamine arc.
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Bakuman's gotten better again, and in this chapter, I just couldn't help but notice that they brought back what made Ashirogi Muto so good in the first place: the fact that Shuujin and Saikou are always on the same wavelength. How they got their new idea from something that happened to them irl and put it in writing is also something that made Bakiman good, and that was also how they came up with PCP to begin with, so it was really nice to see that again.
P.S. Kaya's looking better and better every chapter
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It seems like the arcs lately have been short in general. I'm fine with that. Glad we're getting something about Eiji again and also Ashirogi Muto facing serious adversity like we've become accustomed to. Nanamine never felt like any real threat. Don't think this arcs over. I think we'll still see the criminal's response and something has to come of Eiji reaching #1. Part of me doubts he'll be able to maintain it consistently.
We also haven't heard from Iwase or +Natural in a long time. Maybe because she's not that popular, and they've wisely opted to give more time to Hiramaru instead.
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Dude, FUCK THE MANGA-KA (and that's saying something cause Nakai aside they're all awesome characters)
YOSHIDA-SHI IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE CHARACTER! He's always fucking with Hiramaru in the most roundabout, manipulative ways in order to get shit done, and now he's doing it with Nakai, it's HILARIOUS!!!
Also Obata's art is still tops. Originally I was dissapointed in his more pared down style but it's drawn excellently and his layout and storytelling flows very well. Tite Kubo aside, he's the best artist in Jump now.
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.When yarnbombers wrap a tree in a thick blanket of knitting I always worry about if the tree is going to like it. I felt that the tree wouldn't object to a knitted piece of jewelry though – so I knitted up a bunch of i – cord on my little knitting machine and made this sash .
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This is a very small yarnbomb , just a gesture , but it is part of the idea of yarnbombing the bannisters , furniture and garden of a museum. We go to a museum to see art and so we look at the paintings and sculpture and we think " OH – Art ! '.
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|In a small warehouse in the Lower East Side featuring Dave Choe, Invader, Ian Francis, and more.
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This past week Steve Lazarides brought the A-team, street, crust, drip, cubery, destructor, taxidermist and etc. artist to New York City to take up residence in some raw as mini warehouse on the lower east side. Many of you might be hating on the Laz establishment for one reason or another. Known as a 'Street Movement' operation catering to the super wealthy, raising the bar and the pounds. We have heard about the inflated market value prices and have heard rumors of media savvy tricks, but let's take a step back for a minute, shall we.
Generally a gallery is in the art scene to make money. And we all know that publicity gets you seen so isn't that all part of the high gallery gig. I mean this is the same guy who reps the big Banksy and I am willing to bet that it was not by the grace of god that the UK press has turned Banksy into a household name in just a few short years. Perhaps a series of carefully crafted publicity stunts with Laz. pulling the strings. Now before the hate mail pours in, this is all based on my keen sense of logic. Nothing here is based on fact, except that the NYC show went off in major way and killed, no doubt.
All that meaningless and non-factual information aside, I think it is my obligation to tell you how incredible this Laz. show is. Let me start by saying Conor Harrington is a bad-ass! We've all seen his stuff online and in print but nothing compares to in person. The color and blending mixed with the void of elemental details, yet focusing on the needed ones is genius. Truly iconic painting coming out of this guy, and he is just getting started. Fecal Face also loves Ian Francis who is surely a cut above the rest. Then there is the recently migrate to New York work of David Choe. His fast and furious yet color ridden antiestablishment political style, is startlingly good. There was Antony Micallef with his gigantic Hollywood number. A large (15 footer) Faile piece greeted you as you entered the front door on the left. The photographic styling of JR was in more than a few spots. BAST, Space Invader, and the twisted body illustrations of Mode 2. Plus so many more!
Not to mention the grimy feel of this 'pop up' unfinished gallery space was a perfect backdrop for the street steeze oozing out of these heavy weights. If you can make it, I highly recommend seeing this show, which runs through October 12th.
Tripped out for a minute, thinking about some Ian Francis and Antony Micallef paintings.
Got it together pretty quick seeing the real light, which was a huge JR wall (store front) banger.
Sometimes to get to the light you have to travel through some darkness.
Tim was not so secretly admiring the Faile piece as if he was dreaming of a girl in far away land. This is already beginning to feel like the Faile antics and show of 2007.
The ground level was occupied.
Conor Harrington, keep your eye out round this here Fecal Face!
Can you say laser cut halftone Photoshop file with colored lights. Cool but not impressed. Um, I know you had it made for you!
Oh yes, Ian Francis, Mode 2, Choe... Just getting started ladies and gentleman.
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Mode2 with a make shift public toilet marker.
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And BAST is getting nasty, literally.
And another wicked Harrington, with some JR.
More BAST, Choe, Todd James / Reas
Conor Harrinton, having some words and David Choe having a moment.
This would be a big David Choe wall.
The Choe relocation project (busted pipes)... Could it be, more urine Choe pieces, call your art dealer...!
Ian Francis and Zevs, hmmm Zevs!?
Invader transformations.
Some more Invade-her.
Detail with some space.
A big dirty ass Antony Micalleff, so stoked to lay eyes on this one. Most likely a billion dollars. He came up some serious in the last 5 years!
Vhils and his strategic demo work.
Mode 2 in it's very own colorful dark corner.
The taxidermy rabbit work of Polly Morgan... Wallace would not be happy about this piece!
Jonathan Yeo with a portrait job, plus raw brick and pipe
This was one spook-tastic table.
You got to love these 'pop up' small warehouse shows.
A rusty ass metal job by Vhils (5 footer)... Nice!
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And I am out the door. Choe and Harrington custom paint job.
Saying goodbye to some Conor Harrington, out-the-door detail.
DKNY can eat it, either way, but the trademark mural is holding up nice. Don't know when it went up but it's still got the Trade Center in it.
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Take a tour through the vivid, colorful world of nature created by Billy Hassell, Fort Worth-based artist, at the new fall exhibit "Billy Hassell: Migration" at Texas A&M International University's Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) Gallery starting Thursday, Aug. 28 – Thursday, Oct. 9. A reception will be held Thursday, Sept. 4 from 5 – 8 p.m.
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The artist began his excursions into nature as a young boy, where he says he found wonder in the beauty of patterns created by natural forms and environments.
"Growing up in the Dallas area, not far from White Rock Lake in a time when the region was still undeveloped, the young artist experienced the wilderness seen under rocks and in creeks, and overhead in large cedars that stretched into the sky. It was a place where movement, energy, and textures collided in the mind of a curious and wandering boy. Since those childhood days, Hassell has maintained a close relationship with the natural world," according to the Museum's press release.
Hassell's work can be seen in numerous public and private collections including the Menil in Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art. His work supports the efforts of both the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy of Texas. Most recently, Hassell completed a mosaic design of a mockingbird that is 20 feet in diameter for the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, International Terminal.
After the show wraps at TAMIU, it will be stored at the Museum until fall 2009, when it will be on display at the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, Texas.
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Bye, bye, side braid. Farewell, hair feather. Right now the cool kids are carried away with vibrant color.
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"I totally believe that there is a shift in the economy," he says. "So hair color isn't so dark … when things were bad, designers were making clothes that were a little tougher, stronger … Pastel colors and those kinds of whimsical interpretations I think allude to the fact that there's an upswing in the economy."
But it's celebrities including color queens Gaga, Perry and Minaj who've really introduced the color craze to the masses. "Especially now, I think Hollywood fairly dictates what's happening in fashion as well as what's happening in hair — specifically this trend about color," Gibson says.
Indeed, a gaggle of mainstream celebs including Rachel McAdams, Kate Bosworth, Selena Gomez, Sienna Miller, Emma Watson, Lauren Conrad, Carrie Underwood and even Joan Rivers have all opted in on deliciously dyed hair.
The trend has even gone to the dogs: Model Allesandra Abrosio was censured by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) recently when she was seen with her small dog, who was resplendent in ombred shades of purple and pink unseen since the 1950s trend of poodle-dying.
This trend of color, color everywhere is fantasy fun but needs to be handled with caution. Permanent hair dye can strip natural color. Semi-permanent only deposits color. "So, in order to get these really bright colors [if you want to actually dye it] and you're a brunet you have to bleach your hair, start with a clean slate, otherwise it's going to look muddy," says Jennifer J., owner of the Juan Juan salons in Beverly Hills and Brentwood and the colorist who gave January Jones her bubble-gum pink hair. "At a proper salon the tips are perfectly dyed, we can add highlights or lowlights … the color looks intentional. Not like a mistake." Doing it yourself can risk breakage, bad roots, faded or unwanted colors and worse.
But P&G Wella Professionals beauty scientist Teca Lewellyn says, "Chemistry has come a long way to make sure that you can remove that melanin [pigment] without totally frying your hair."
She says it depends how damaged or previously processed the hair is, but that generally, "You can safely lighten up to seven shades, which is kind of a lot. But I'm not saying that you're going to be someone with dark beautiful Asian hair and come out being a towhead after being in the salon for a while." Lewellyn recommends Wella Professionals Blondor to lighten hair. (It's won the Stylist Choice Awards for favorite bleach lightener 12 consecutive years.)
The newest looks don't involve dying the entire head of hair.
"The ombre trend [darker hair at the root and lighter hair at the ends] is still around, but it's sort of morphing into different versions of it like the dip-dye trend [dipping just the tips of your hair in a bright color]," Jennifer J. says. "People started doing rainbow color for the dip-dye where you dip the tips of your hair in several different colors."
Color should make you feel great. "I personally love purple, magenta, deep blue, turquoise — those kind of jewel tones on brunets and lighter colors on blonds: pink, yellow, peach, rose gold," Jennifer J. says. "Even Kelly Osbourne, I don't love the gray, but when it's gray with a little bit of lavender, I'm like 'OK, I love it.'"
Jennifer J. says vibrant hair color brightness only lasts about two to three weeks. She recommends using a deep conditioner once a week, applying a hair gloss between services and using a color depositing shampoo recommended by your stylist. "You don't want to ruin the color or cover the highlights you just spent hundreds of dollars on," she says.
To minimize fade, Lewellyn recommends being careful about washing. "The one thing I always say is the No. 1 reason your hair color fades is because of water … it's literally about the H2O molecules. Wash your hair, rinse it out and be done. And only use a matching shampoo and conditioner made specifically for color-treated hair."
If dye sounds extreme, there are temporary ways to get the look, by using hair extensions or trying hair chalking, in which the color is rubbed on with chalk. (See accompanying story.)
But you might find you like color so much you never turn back. That's what happened to L.A. designer Tarina Tarantino, who dyed her hair fuchsia 15 years ago. "I did it one day and I just loved it so much I've always kept it this color," she says. Upkeep is a lot of work (and she credits her colorist Janine Jarman at Hairroin salon on Cahuenga Boulevard, who uses a blend of colors by Special Effects, with keeping it in shape.) But there are no regrets and the bold color has become her signature.
"I remember when I first saw myself in the mirror, it was like that moment in 'The Wizard of Oz' when it switches from black and white," Tarantino says. "It was just so amazing … color is an inspiration."


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It looks like she's way off course. If that is the case, it could be the death knell. If I had to speculate at this point, it could be Mel & Mike and Linda & Steve competing for the 9th spot in the race. But as we all know, never judge by the promo.
Could you imagine how that would change what we expect to happen if Mark & Michael were elimianted?
I would be more then shocked.
Quote from: mswood on February 16, 2009, 05:31:31 PMI would be more then shocked. Wouldn't be the first time I was shocked .....this week
I hope it's Linda and Steve that are eliminated. I like J/C!
Quote from: Michael on February 16, 2009, 05:36:55 PMI hope it's Linda and Steve that are eliminated. I like J/C!Oh, no. Thats it they're done.
I think Linda is cute. Ashe! leave her alone. She is crying because Steve was a bit cruel and I feel for her!
Quote from: Kiwi Jay on February 17, 2009, 02:03:45 AMI think Linda is cute. Ashe! leave her alone. She is crying because Steve was a bit cruel and I feel for her!I don't. If all she could do to defend herself was cry, then she really shouldn't be here. I was totally on Steve's side that you have to go FAST in this game.
Margie and Luke may have made a big error in choosing the cake task (If it was a choice), since 99% of their communication relies on vision.Reading somebody's signing isn't the easiest thing in the world when you have a face full of cake, especially if some of it gets in your eyes.And LOVED the eye roll Luke gives us all.
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Chiropractic & Foot Orthotics: A Great Combination for Back Pain!
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When treating patients with low back pain (LBP), doctors of chiropractic have three common goals: 1) pain management; 2) posture alignment or correction; and 3) prevention. When warranted, the use of corrective prescription foot orthotics can help achieve all three goals. In a 2017 study, researchers recruited 225 adult subjects with chronic low back pain [..]


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Assemblywoman Sandy Galef (D-Ossining) thinks the state's sexual harassment policy needs an overhaul.
Galef is introducing legislation that would create a uniform policy for all state government employees and elected officials in the legislature. The proposal comes in the wake of numerous high profile men, including Matt Lauer, Louis CK, and Senator Al Franken being accused of sexual misconduct.
Galef's legislation would task the Division of Human Rights to develop and implement a standard complaint reporting requirement and investigation procedure for all employees of state agencies, offices, departments, including the Executive Office, as well the members and employees of the State Assembly and Senate.
"Sexual harassment has no place in society, much less in our state government," Galef said. "We are at a watershed moment in our country where actions that might have been 'normal' behavior in the past are no longer acceptable and cannot be tolerated. As more people come forward to report their abuse, there is an even greater need to have clear-cut strategies to carry out thorough investigations that bring timely justice to either the rightful accuser or the wrongly accused."
In the bill, investigations would take no more than 90 days to complete after the initial complaint report, with a final determination by the Division of Human Rights to be handed down within 30 days thereafter. The legislation also throws out nondisclosure agreements.
"In order to preserve the public's trust in government, we must be transparent about our dealings and transactions," continued Galef. "These confidentiality agreements are designed to protect the harassers, not the harassed. It gives perpetrators who actually engaged in inappropriate conduct the cover to continue their abuse elsewhere because they were never called out for their actions."
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We are only caretakers of the treasures and collections we keep.We must enjoy them, and most of all, take care of them knowing that someday we will pass them on to new caretakers.
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I do a variety of styles, collaged, assemblaged, sometimes ecclectic,and on occassion my cards are reflections of my warped, disturbed, and hopefully somewhat whitty sense of humour.My mediums vary daily, from a disgarded foil gum wrapper to the most equisite hand made ceramic beads. I do favor recycling anything!I use paper, photos, paint, fabric, leather, buttons, trinkets, beads, buttons, coins and real money and even bits of string.
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* Ends opening round two shots off pace (Updates at end of round)
Jan 10 (Reuters) - Scott Piercy took an encouraging step forward in his aim of becoming a multiple PGA Tour winner this year by charging into contention in the opening round of the Sony Open in Hawaii on Thursday.
The long-hitting American fired a flawless six-under-par 64 on the tight, tree-lined layout at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu to finish level with South African Tim Clark, two strokes behind pacesetting rookie Scott Langley.
Russell Henley, like fellow American Langley launching his maiden season on the U.S. circuit, started out with an eight-birdie 63 to trail by just one after a breezy, mainly overcast, day.
Piercy, who tied for 13th at the PGA Tour's windswept season-opening Tournament of Champions at Kapalua on Tuesday, was delighted with his improved putting at Waialae.
"I struck the ball well last week but I didn't feel like I rolled the ball well putting," the 34-year-old American told reporters after recording three birdies either side of the turn. "I made a couple of little changes and I rolled it better today.
"The wind wasn't even blowing today compared to last week," said Piercy, referring to the continual gusts of over 40mph (64.4 kph) which prevented play over the first three scheduled days at Kapalua.
"I just played solid today, hit it in a lot of fairways, hit a lot of greens, made two fairly key putts and took care of the par fives."
Piercy, who won his second PGA Tour title at last year's Canadian Open, has set his sights on at least doubling his career tally of wins on the U.S. circuit by the end of 2013.
"You always want to win and for it to be a good year, I think I have to win more than once," he said. "Obviously a major is a goal.
"When you're first out here you feel like you're always on the defensive so you don't lose your (tour) card, where now I feel like I can be aggressive to see how good I really can be."
Langley, who earned his 2013 PGA Tour card after finishing joint 17th at the qualifying school, was still pinching himself after compiling a superb round that included six birdies and an eagle at the ninth.
"To go bogey-free my first event as a full member of the Tour ... wow!" the 23-year-old smiled. "I was pretty nervous starting out, and kind of settled down after three or four holes.
"I made some nice birdies early, and that kind of got me in a nice rhythm for the day.
"Russell and I were walking up the 16th fairway ... you could see the ocean behind, PGA Tour signs everywhere. We looked at each other and realised this is pretty cool."
Dustin Johnson, who powered to victory by three shots at the Tournament of Champions on Tuesday, bogeyed his last two holes to open with a 70 while U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson carded a 66.
Fellow American Johnson Wagner launched his title defence with a four-bogey 71 in the PGA Tour's first full-field event of the season. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Alastair Himmer)
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Wilson Holds Strong to the Lead Audi Melges 20 Bacardi Miami Sailing Week
9 March 2013
Miami, FL - The second day of the Audi Melges 20 Bacardi Miami Sailing week organized by STUDIOMILANO was met with stronger breeze allowing for three completed races for the day. The weather was beautiful with clear skies and 75 degree temperatures setting the stage for a perfect day of racing.
After a short on land postponement, the first race of the day got off to a NASCAR kind of start with a massive pile up of OCSs. Amongst those involved was overnight leader James Wilson on Oleander who struggled throughout the race to keep up the pace and maintain a relatively decent score. 2010 Gold Cup Champion Alesandro Rombelli proved he still has the magic touch as he turned the corner first in his beautifully metallic stroked Audi Melges 20 STIG. Rombelli commanded the lead taking the win, continually challenged by Michael Kiss' Bacio and Russ Lucas' Shimmer who finished second and third respectively.
The breeze continued to shift right for the start of race two with top all-amateur team Marcus Eagan aboard Cajun Underwriting finding the right lane eventually holding off the rest of the fleet to take the win. Wilson's Oleander was on Eagan's stern for the entirety of the race finishing second which proved to be huge for Wilson helping the team nabb the overnight lead heading into the final day of racing.
Sam Rogers commented on today's racing after winning yesterday, "Tomorrow (Saturday) isn't just a matter of doing it all over again, It is not easy out there and we have to remain confident in our team". The confidence and teamwork paid off as Wilson continues to dominate at Bacardi.
The third and final race of the day went to third place finisher in race two, Davies' Section 16. The finish of race three was nail biting to say the least. Rob Butler's Touch2Play ended the day on a high note with a second place finish after struggling early on in the series jumping up in the rankings. Robert Hughes' Heartbreaker rounded out the top three.
The Corinthian Division had an action packed day with Brian Hill's Atlas finding a spot on the podium jumping from fifth to second overall. John Arendshorst's Blink 20/20 is now on the podium as well in third heading into the final day of racing.
Teams rounded out the day on the lawn at Coconut Grove Sailing Club chit chatting about the day's racing, but also warming up the next great challenge — The Melges Rocks Party! Everyone that attended the Melges Performance Sailing DeBrief presented by EFG Bank received an awesome Melges Rocks t-shirt. Mr. Moe's was packed — standing room only for teams that love their Melges boats and simply can't get enough of the greatest sportboat competition in the world! The U.S. Melges 24 Class Association sends special thanks to our friends in Zenda as well as Bacardi Rum for providing the great refreshments at the Melges Rocks Party! What an awesome party!
As with many previous Audi Melges 20 events in North America and around the world, racing updates will be posted online at the Official Class Blog. Tune-in regularly for the latest developments, conditions and results. Stay close to the Official Audi Melges 20 Facebook Page for photos and further commentary. Race reports, press releases and photos will be available online each day post racing at melges20.com.
TOP 10 RESULTS (After One Race)
1.) James Wilson, Oleander; 1-14-2-6=23
2.) Paul Reilly, Red Sky Sailing Team; 5-4-9-10=28
3.) Russell Lucas, Shimmer; 14-3-4-8=29
4.) Richard Davies, Section 16; 10-16-3-1=30
5.) Michael Kiss, Bacio; 6-2-8-15=31
6.) Alessandro Rombelli, STIG; 9-1-18-4=32
7.) Marc Hollerbach, Fu; 4-11-16-7=38
8.) John Taylor, Ninkasi; 11-24-5-9=49
9.) Camille Rasdal, Odin; 13-7-10-24=54
10.) Robert Hughes, Heartbreaker; 26-12-15-3=56
TOP 5 CORINTHIANS (After One Race)
1.) Marcus Eagan, Cajun Underwriting; 3-51/ocs-1-5=60
2.) Brian Hill, Atlas; 22-20-13-28=83
3.) John Arendshorst, Blink 20/20; 19-18-12-51/DFN=100
4.) Erwyn Naidoo, Bohica; 30-32-24-17=103
5.) Danny Shea, Diamante; 15-21-34-39=109
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DIY Damien Hirst Style Wall Panel Using Paint Chips
Last week a reader named Sue wrote in with a good question. She was seeking more info on a photo of then unidentified artwork that she really likes. Of course, the brilliant Apartment Therapy community came through in a jiffy in the comment section, identifying the artist and even brainstorming some ideas on how to produce something inspired by the original as a DIY …
A reader, Debbie, was inspired and tacked the project herself this weekend. She sent in photos and info on how she put in together along with the impressive end result. Here's the scoop directly from Debbie:
The "canvas" is a 6 x 2 ft. hollow-core closet door from Home Depot (the guy who was helping me load the car thought I was nuts when I told him we needed to put it into my Honda Civic with my daughter in the backseat – but it fit no problem). I also bought some black matte paint and I took about 50-60 paint chips. I asked them if it was alright, and they didn't care. Then I bought a 2-inch hole punch and started punching out circles.
After painting the door, I built a jig so that I could measure out the spacing of the circles. I just nailed a yardstick to a block of wood to make my own version of a t-square and marked the correct spacing for the circles onto the yardstick. After checking the measurements and the alignment, I started gluing on the circles. Spray adhesive worked very well (other types of glue made the colored circles curl up and warp).
I'm very pleased with how the project came out, and all for well under $50! (The hole punch was almost $10 of that, and it was on sale.)
Super smart tim on the custom t-square for making the grid – thanks, Debbie!
• Can Anyone Identify this Wonderful Wall Art?
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Schneider Electric and Orange County Choppers to build hybrid motorcycle
Schneider Electric is partnering with custom motorcyclemanufacturer Orange County Choppers (OCC) to design and build the first hybridmotorcycle in OCC history. Designed through a collaboration of SchneiderElectric employees and the OCC design team, Schneider Electric says the customchopper is planned to help exemplify the company's efforts to make energysolutions safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green.
"This hybrid motorcycle will employ a built-inintelligent energymanagementsystem that will allow it to be more efficient and productive by consideringmultiple variables to select the best energy source available," said AmeliaHuntington, president, Schneider Electric U.S. "As one of the premier buildersof custom motorcycles, Orange County Choppers will bring an unprecedented levelof expertise and creativity to showcasing our mission (of energy efficientmanagement methodology) through their design."
Once the Schneider Electric custom motorcycle is complete,Schneider Electric, along with Paul Teutul, Sr., will kick-off a road show thatwill give Schneider Electric electrical contractor partners a sneak preview ofthe theme bike before the scheduled American Chopper episode airs on TLC in2010.
In related news, APC by Schneider Electric, a provider ofintegrated critical power and cooling services, will be giving away OrangeCounty Choppers production bikes to eight electrical contracting firms in the United States and Canada. Full details of thepromotion will be revealed during the Schneider Electric theme bike roadshowlater this year.
See related story about Orange County Choppers and Siemens teaming up to develop and all-electric chopper.
Access other Control Engineering contentrelated to hybrid vehicles:
- ZBBEnergy plans advanced energy storage manufacturing facility
- Controland simulation technologies play key role in EcoCAR challenge
- 'Tri-brid'motor vehicle developed
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Trevor Jackson: Song Stealer on 'Austin & Ally'!
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Saudi Arabia rejects Maliki's charges on funding Iraqi militants
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia on Monday rejected accusations by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Riyadh and Qatar are funding Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in Iraq's western Anbar province.
Maliki's remarks to France 24 television late on Saturday appeared to play to Iraqi fears of meddling by Sunni Arab states as he tries to burnish his image as a defender of Shi'ite-majority Iraq before elections next month.
Iraqi forces have been fighting insurgents of the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Anbar's two main cities since January 1. ISIL overran Falluja and parts of Ramadi after a tribal revolt provoked by the arrest of a Sunni lawmaker and the clearing of an anti-government protest camp.
An official source quoted by the state Saudi Press Agency (SPA) expressed the kingdom's "disapproval and surprise at the Iraqi prime minister's hostile and irresponsible comments".
"Nuri al-Maliki, before anyone else, knows very well the kingdom's clear and unequivocal position against terrorism in all its forms," the source said.
Instead of blaming others, the source said, Maliki should adopt policies that would end the violence in Iraq.
Qatar has not commented on Maliki's remarks so far.
Violence in Iraq has worsened in the past year, with ISIL launching a devastating bombing campaign in mid-2013.
More than 700 people died in violence in February, not including nearly 300 reported deaths in Anbar. Last year was the deadliest since 2008 with nearly 8,000 civilians killed.
"It is clear that the purpose of these remarks is to try and twist the facts and place the blame on others to cover up the Iraqi prime minister's shortcomings internally that have put Iraq at the service of regional factions who have stoked the fire of sectarian strife," the Saudi source told SPA.
The source did not identify the "regional factions" but Saudi Arabia has previously accused its regional arch-rival Iran of stoking sectarian tensions in Iraq and elsewhere.
Maliki has long had chilly ties with the Gulf states, which view him as too close to Shi'ite Iran, suspecting them of funding Sunni militants fighting his Shi'ite-led government.
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Cary Williams, CB, Baltimore Ravens
Former Chaminade-Madonna product Cary Williams had a good second season as a starter statistically for the Ravens, contributing 75 tackles, one sack and four interceptions. But he was picked on often by opposing quarterbacks, who completed 65.7 percent of their passes against him for 938 yards and six touchdowns.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Needed: used 019 phone Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Needed: used 019 phone Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Buy/Sell/Trade Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message jellobeanJoined: 14 Mar 2006 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: Needed: used 019 phone I know they are a bit out of date and out of fashion, but I'd like to keep my phone number. Although I know the name on my account, the person has since moved back home from Korea so they won't let me change the name on the account. I can, however, switch from one used phone to another. So if you have a used 019 phone you would like to get rid of, please let me know. Thanks. Back to top peppermintJoined: 13 May 2003Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness. Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: If you can hold out for about a month, I'll be selling mine. it's about a year old, color screen, English menu and camera. Back to top jellobeanJoined: 14 Mar 2006 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: Not sure how long I can hold out, but I'll wait as long as I have to (I do not want to change my number) and I'm not sure if I'll find anything sooner. Back to top Pyongshin SangjaJoined: 20 Apr 2003Location: I love baby! Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: Go to Yongsan and ask for 019 "ju-eun-goh pon." -Used phones. You should easily find one for W30,000. Millions, frankly. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Buy/Sell/Trade Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe