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Lewis was asked his thoughts about the "lasts" of his career this week. "I think honestly that I have already put it aside. I promise you that is the last thing on my mind: Is this the last? Is this the last? The most important thing for me is to be the leader that I am for my team, and really go out and try to win this football game. That is really the only thing on my mind right now."
Lewis was a member of the 2000 Ravens team that won the Super Bowl under then coach Brian Billick. He was asked what advice he had for his teammates leading up to the big game on Sunday.
"You have to be real honest with them, and lay it out. What are we really here for? The bottom line is, we are here to win a game, and there are only two teams left. For us to be where we are right now, we have to finish what we started the whole year. For me, that was one thing when we came here in 2000, there were so many guys who were so dialed in and so focused. It's the same thing I am trying to spread to this team. What is our focus? Why are we really here in New Orleans? I know it's a lot of things going on, there are a lot of things you could be doing outside, but the bottom line is that we are here for a business trip."
Since he is considered the dean of the defensive unit, he was asked what he thought the sense of his team was right now. "The thing I sense the most about our team is that we are so loose as a core, but it is so beautiful when we step on the practice field. Coach (Harbaugh) never has to dictate practice, we kind of dictate practice. He will tell us to slow down in walkthrough practice, and we will pick it back up ourselves. Anytime you have that type of chemistry, the level of wisdom, talent and leadership we have, it's a real great thing to have on our team. I think that's why our team is so focused right now."
Lewis said a lot of his teammates have been trying ever since he announced this would be his last year to reconsider. A torn pectoral muscle he suffered earlier in the year may have played a role in his decision, though he points to raising his family as the biggest factor.
"I get it every day. The guys ask me, 'Are you really going to walk away?' I have so much to do, I really do. I have to go home and be a father to my kids; my community is definitely calling in many other ways. And I have run my course in the game. My ultimate was always to, with this core of men that I have, was to get back to a Super Bowl, and we are back. We're here, and I always wanted to experience that with Ed (Reed), with a Terrell Suggs, with a Ray Rice, and with a Joe Flacco. I wanted to experience that with those guys, and now that I am here experiencing that with them, it's awesome. But, the bottom line, like I told them, I'm here because I want them to feel what that confetti feels like. So, for me to feel that, listen, it's real with me when I say, 'I'm done,' because coming back is a totally different thought process. I would rub a lot of people wrong, most importantly my kids. I don't want to take them through that anymore."
"I think the beautiful part of coming back (to the Super Bowl) now, is that my youngest baby is 10 years old, and my oldest son is 17. Now, I get all of my kids to be here, my mom will be here, my dad will be here, so I complete it now. Everything is complete now. My entire family will be here actually watching this game, outside of my grandmother, who is very ill. But, my entire family will be here. Anytime you can finish a career with your whole family right there by your side, I think that is the way you should always do it. There is no greater reward than the relationship I have with my father right now, and the things we went through when I was younger. For me and him to look at each other, I just need to hear his voice sometimes. I need to hear him tell me a joke, or whatever it is. For us to be together this week, it is going to be an awesome time."
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One of the stock market's most beloved leaders is now a laggard: Apple. The mood has now turned from optimism and euphoria to anxiety and fear.
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When Apple broke below $564 on November 7 everything changed. It marked an official 20% bear market decline in the stock from its $705 high. It also added to the technical damage in Apple's once beautiful charts. Will the fear of Apple's fall turn to panic and eventually capitulation? How fast things change.
Just a few months ago, here were the rosy headlines:
"Wall Street Analysts Increasingly Bullish as Apple Hits Fresh Highs." - Wall Street Journal on 8/27/12"Apple seen as 'trillion dollar baby'" - MarketWatch on 8/21/12"Apple could be worth a trillion in one year" - The Atlantic Wire on 9/23/12"Apple: $1,111 per share and a $1 trillion market cap next year." - All Things D on 4/26/12
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Tech ImpactLeadership (or lack of it) is an important factor for the broader stock market (NYSEARCA:VTI). From 2000-02, the technology sector (Nasdaq:QQQ) led the market lower. During the 2008-09 credit crisis, bank and financial stocks (NYSEARCA:XLF) sank the market.
Industry sectors that contain stocks with large market capitalizations (size) always dominate the performance and volatility of major indexes. The 78 technology stocks within the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:IVV) now represent a jumbo sized 22.23% of the index. And if we drill down into the top 10 holdings of popular technology ETFs like the Technology Sector SPDR (NYSEARCA:XLK), the concentration in just a handful of stocks gets extreme. (See Figure 1) Say whatever foul things you want to say about diversification, but concentration always works like a charm, until one day when it suddenly doesn't. This time around, concentration is proving to be a double-edged sword for Cupertino groupies. Along with Apple - IBM and Google's deteriorating performance has been a drag.
Live by the Bellwether, Die by It Markets fall faster than they rise. It's one of those uncomfortable truths of stock market investing. And Apple-mania is our finest case study yet.
It took Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) four months to rally 20% (Jun-Oct 2012) but just a little over one month to drop 20%. (Sep-Oct 2012) Right as Apple was topping, we alerted our subscribers with this 9/19/12 update:
"In the short-run, technology ETFs look overstretched, so a pullback to $63-66 zone for QQQ, $27-29 for XLK wouldn't be out of order."
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If suddenly you feel like you see a new home being built every time you turn around in Gulf County, you�re not crazy.
If suddenly you feel like you see a new home being built every time you turn around in Gulf County, you�re not crazy.
According to numbers provided by the Gulf County Building Department, 60 single family home building permits have been issued so far this year with a $16.5 million valuation, up from last year�s 38 total permits totaling $9.5 million.
�There�s a marked increase in permits, and it�s going to keep going,� said Steve Newman, managing member of Big Fish Construction. �One of the reasons is the pin-up demand and every aspect of building a home is cheaper now.�
Natalie Shoaf, a realtor with the Gulf the Coast Real Estate Group agreed.
�It�s up,� she said. �It�s easier to get lot loans. Some local banks are doing them and it makes life a lot easier.�
Shoaf said that so far in 2013, lot sales were currently at 214 sold, up from last year�s 203 with an average price tag of $61,000-$78,000 for Gulf County.
�St. Joe Beach is up and we�re selling more in WindMark,� said Shoaf.
Shoaf reported that the highest lot price this year checked in at $1.8 million.
According to numbers provided by Shoaf, lots in St. Joe Beach, Mexico Beach and Beacon Hill were up in number of sales but down in average price for the area with 59 sold between the three areas and an average price of $63,000.
This is an increase from last year�s 47 lots, but a lower price tag than the $68,000 average in 2012.
In Cape San Blas, South Gulf County and Indian Pass there was a slight decrease in the number of lots sales but prices have risen and 2013 saw 112 sales between the three areas with an average price of $111,000.
In 2012 the area had 115 sales and the average price was on the low side with $73,000.
Shoaf reported a decline in both lot sales and prices within Port St. Joe, falling from 26 to 14 this year and the average price sank from $27,000 to $17,000.
Wewahitchka was up in sales and price, the 2013 total showing 29 sales with an average price of $14,000, up from last year�s 15 lot sales and $13,000 average.
Gulf County wasn�t hit only by the economic downturn of 2008 but also by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Bo Spring, managing member of Big Fish Construction and president of the Forgotten Coast Builders Association said that the 18 months following the oil spill were full of uncertainty and the number of local construction companies had dwindled down to five.
Spring said that things are beginning to climb again and said that in addition to Big Fish, there are now 8-9 companies serving Gulf and Franklin counties.
Zach Childs at 98 Real Estate Group concurred with the growth in sales, and said that home purchases in the area have started moving into the recovery phase as well.
�In general, the closer a property is to white sand, the more of a recovery in value it is seeing,� said Childs. �The number of single family homes on the market has seen the biggest reduction and most demand.
�This has been great for builders as many people looking for homes in the area find they can build a brand new home for less than an existing one in some situations.�
Childs reported 453 home sales so far in 2013 and is on track to have the most closings of any year since 2005. He said that markets like North Gulf County have yet to see much of a rebound but a high sales volume will drive the number of properties on the market down and value up.
�Now is the time to buy a lot and build your beach house,� said Newman.
He added that raw material and lumber costs are down, but fluctuate with the market, making for an ideal time to begin construction.
Of the projects completed in 2013 by Big Fish, 100 percent of buyers were also end users who planned to live in the home for at least several months out of the year. Newman said that 100 percent of homes were also within walking distance of the water.
�People go to Destin and Panama City and in the end they want that old Forgotten Coast style of living,� said Spring. �This is the Florida vacation they remember from their childhood.�
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When it comes to storage, Western Digital and Seagate are perhaps the two most recognisable brands in the market. They rival each other in nearly every segment of the storage market and try to outdo each other with innovations in ease of use and power efficiency. We've pitched these two storage giants against each other and taken a look at some of the key differences between their products.
Internal Storage
Both Western Digital and Seagate started out making internal hard drives, so it only makes sense that the contest begins here. Hard drives have evolved immensely: storage capacities have increased by 50 times in the last decade alone and speed and power efficiency have also improved. Different segments of the market have emerged (consumer, enthusiast/enterprise, AV) to cater to different classes of user; those who require greater speed as opposed to capacity, for example. When it comes to internal storage power efficiency certainly plays a part, but it essentially comes down to whether you want space or speed.
Western Digital was one of the first to offer up to 2 terabytes of space in its internal hard drives as part of its energy-saving Caviar Green range. Seagate was comparatively slow to release such a big drive, but now offers its Barracuda LP drives with the same capacity. With the move to 2TB both companies have focussed on power efficiency, reducing power consumption compared to conventional consumer internal hard drives by up to half. The Seagate Barracuda LP is the faster of the two, but the WD Caviar Green 2TB drive wins out on energy efficiency and is generally cheaper than the Barracuda. We'd pick Western Digital's Caviar Green for those on a budget, but if you can afford to fork out the cash then the Seagate drive is certainly enticing.
If you want even better performance from a 2TB hard drive Western Digital also offers an enterprise flavour offers greater reliability than both the Caviar Green and Barracuda LP drives, as well as improved performance without sacrificing power efficiency.
Both companies offer speedy drives designed to access and write your data as fast as possible. Western Digital offers the lauded VelociRaptor range; it's a drive PC World uses in its benchmark tests. However, Seagate's equivalent — the aptly named Cheetah 15K.6 — has superior capacity (up to 450GB), server-focussed connectivity and better performance overall. You won't be putting the Cheetah 15.6K hard drive into a conventional desktop PC without a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host, but this drive certainly surpasses Western Digital's option when it comes to speed.
Solid State
Western Digital and Seagate have both been fairly reluctant to invest into the comparatively new solid-state drive field. Seagate has gone as far as claiming that SSD drives aren't worth the price and effort. The tide is slowly turning, however. Last month Western Digital finally entered the consumer market with its SiliconDrive III range of SSDs, available in 30-120GB capacities. The debate still rages as to whether or not SSDs are the future, but if you're hell-bent on getting one then Western Digital's new offering is your only choice when it comes to these two companies.
Winner: Western Digital
Seagate currently offers the best performance for internal storage but Western Digital ultimately provides a wider range of options and better value for money in the higher capacity drives.
External Storage
External storage is great for backing up personal and corporate data, as well as for transporting large amounts of information from one computer to another. The better choice in this case is a matter of who provides the best security, largest capacities and best choice of connectivity.
Western Digital and Seagate both offer a variety of pocket external hard drives with differences in capacity and connectivity. We prefer the book-like design on Western Digital's My Passport range to the FreeAgent Go case. However, unless you need a FireWire 800 connection we would pick the Maxtor BlackArmor (Maxtor is a subsidiary of Seagate). This Maxtor portable hard drive provides government-grade encryption to ensure your data doesn't get into the wrong hands. We are yet to see anything from Western Digital to match this level of security.
Western Digital wins out when it comes to larger capacities, offering its My Book Studio Edition II with 4TB of storage in either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration, along with plenty of connectivity. By contrast, the best Seagate can muster is 2TB of storage from the single-drive FreeAgent Desk. Though Seagate's offering excelled in our USB 2.0 file transfer tests, the eSATA port on the My Book Studio Edition II provides nearly double the throughput of the FreeAgent Desk.
Network-attached storage
Like solid-state drives, NAS devices appear somewhat of an afterthought for Seagate and Western Digital. Still, both companies compete in this market, with Western Digital's Sharespace and Seagate's BlackArmor NAS 440 going head to head. Though undeniably uglier, the BlackArmor 440 NAS device is ultimately the better choice of the two, providing better connectivity and configuration options compared to Western Digital's SMB-focussed NAS device.
Winner: Seagate
Western Digital rules the coop when it comes to the larger external hard drives, but Seagate's pocket hard drive and NAS devices provide better security and configuration options over the competition.
Home Theatre
The latest battlefield between Western Digital and Seagate is the lounge room, thanks to the relatively recent introduction of the WD TV and FreeAgent Theatre. Both allow you to play media from an external hard drive on your TV, but the differences between the two are immediately noticeable. You can plug any USB external hard drive (formatted to HFS+, NTFS or FAT32) into the WD TV, but Seagate's FreeAgent Theatre uses a mini-USB connection that is positioned in such a way that it is essentially only compatible with the company's own FreeAgent Go external hard drives.
The FreeAgent Theatre has no HDMI port and media format support is limited. The WD TV, on the other hand, has HDMI and support for pretty much in media format you can throw at it, with more support continually being added through firmware updates. If you are looking for a basic slideshow or audio player to go with your FreeAgent Go, the FreeAgent Theatre might suffice, but for everything else the WD TV wins hands down.
Winner: Western Digital
There are better media players and streamers available, but the WD TV does a good job of connecting your external storage to the TV. Media support is comprehensive and the inclusion of HDMI makes it a much better choice than Seagate's current offering.


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Liberty News
Wrestling team wins conference title; 14 advance to nationals
Liberty University's wrestling team took down top schools to win the Mid-Atlantic Conference Championship at home on Saturday, Feb. 25. Beyond having 14 wrestlers qualify for nationals and taking first place in seven weight classes, the team also ended the tournament with conference recognition for its head coach and captain.
Coach Jesse Castro was named Coach of the Year. Senior and captain Scottie Clymer was named the conference's Most Valuable Wrestler.
The Flames came into the tournament ranked No. 1 in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association's Coaches Poll. The team is now looking forward to the NCWA National Championships March 8-10 in Daytona Beach, Fla. On Saturday, 14 of the Flames qualified to wrestle in this event that will determine individual, national champions.
The Flames have already had success on a national scale. The team took home the NCWA National Duals trophy in January in Dalton, Ga.
Liberty is in its first year of NCWA membership after reclassifying its NCAA Division I program to a club sport at the end of last season. The change was due to Title IX, the law that requires equal opportunities for men and women to participate in educational programs that are federally funded. About 30 percent of Liberty's wrestlers remained with the team.
Wrestling has been offered at Liberty since 1973 and is one of the 29 Club Sports programs.
- View results for the Mid-Atlantic Conference Championship here.


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Here is brother Jesse Duplantis' live services from his beautiful church in New Orleans
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Okay, Apostle G. Maldonado had a great message today on "ORDER" and I loved it. Find his Miami, Florida Church here at King Jesus International Ministry.
I watched "Answers With Bayless Conley" this morning on www.tbn.org as they just began a new series on answered prayer. Or his church services at Cotton Wood http://cottonwood.churchonline.org/
Here is one I just found on facebook called "CenterPoint" in Mississippi
Here is my newest addition to our "Let's Have Church" family with Dr. Mike Murdock and all his good teachers over there at the "Wisdom Center" In Texas!
Here is my home town pastor Randy Brodhagen at Glory To God Church in my beloved Palm Springs, CA.
This one is called "The Journey" Church and they are not "Live" but I am hoping that one day they will start letting the live services go online. I have been there in person and it is an awesome church. Watch their archived programs right here.
And here is another one that just has podcasts for now but they are a nice group of young and energetic people over there who love the Lord at www.DayBreakChurch.org in Carlsbad, CA.
The first Sunday of May I was blessed to find this wonderful Christian radio station KRDU1130AM Central California Christian Talk with "LIVE" church services on it. They were really busy trying to rally up support and funds to rescue the recent tornado victims in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama. The bible text they used for reference was from 2 Corinthians 8 about the Macedonians generosity. The service I listened to was a 10:30AM Pacific time on May 4th. They mentioned Convoy Of Hope that were ministering to the tornado victims too.
I saw an archive sermon of today's message by Pastor Paula White has an anointing of prophesy and you will enjoy her services here at New Destiny Christian Center.
Dr Mark Chironna from Orlando, FL has great prophetic words in his LIVE services.
The Rock Church is another great church of San Diego. Watch it life several times on Sunday.
I love God in this Man and I HIGHLY recommend Steve Munsey' for his Prophetic & HOLY word at Family Christian Center. He is the first one who taught me about the Passover offering. I have been honoring the Passover & the other two Holy Feasts every year since. Hallelujah! That was one of the most revelatory changes that God made in my life ever! I have seen the word of God manifested in places of my health just like Exodus 23 promises and all the other promises too!
One of the first internet live services that I went to was with my spiritual father and I HIGHLY recommend the Worlds greatest Pastor Rod Parsley at World Harvest Church. He holds live services Sunday morning at 10:AM and check his schedule for other live events. I consider Pastor Rod Parsley my spiritual father for over 22 yrs now to date of July 2012.
Pastor Ron Carpenter of Greenville, NC at RWOC Live weekly.
Hank & Brenda Kunneman From Lord of Hosts in Omaha, Nebraska at 10 AM Central Standard Time Sunday Mornings.
For all those on the other side of the world you may enjoy Joseph Prince at New Creation Church who has a huge church in Singapore. I promise you will love him regardless of your lifestyle or where you live.
I've been to Without Walls International Church in Tampa when Pastor Paula & Pastor Randy White were there and I loved it! You can see them live there weekly! On the 3rd week of June 2012 Pastor Randy White became the bishop of Without Walls International Church. So glad he is back! We don't need any famine of the word of God nor any other kind of famine!
The Revolutionary Preacher of So Cal an awesome Pastor & teacher of faith! See @PastorSergio also known as Pastor Sergio De La Mora of Cornerstone church in National City ( a suburban area of San Diego) I began watching him when I stilled lived in Mid Missouri after www.tbn.org had Pastor Sergio on as a guest.
Have you ever been to church at the largest church in America? Or been to church with the nicest Pastor in America? Come and see Joel Osteen Lakewood live Services at 8:30 AM. And Joel is the reason that I created this website so his fathers inheritance of "top of the barrel" is still at work. And find them on Twitter at joelosteenmin.
To start you Sabbath rest off perfectly try having live services on Saturday night 4:30 & 6:30 P.M. Pacific Time. And Sunday mornings 9, 11:15 AM and 4:30, and 6:30 PM. Then with Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback. Or Find them on Twitter SOC_tweet
Danny Chambers is a great Ball of fire preacher from NASHVILLE, TN. Find the Oasis church of Nashville here.
Now there are three Friday night live services that I went to on Friday September 18, 2009 because Kim Clement (ProphetKim) on Twitter was ministering Live at an assembly in Humble, Texas.
And Christian Harfouche Ministries always has a Friday night, Sunday AM & PM, Wed. PM services too.
And sometime I still go to Keith Moore's live services in Branson.
My newest favorite Televised and internet minister (as of December 7th 2009) is Matt Sorger Ministries out of New York. He is a fireball revival preacher and my spiritual & natural life appear to be much like how he describes his own. I have seen and heard him preach and I can attest to the power of God mightily upon his life. He recently held some live services on January 8th through the 10th and He has a weekly program: Watch POWER FOR LIFE with MATT SORGER The Church Channel, Wed 11:30 pm. National Providers: DIRECTV channel 371 DISH NETWORK channel 258 SKY ANGEL channel 134 GLORYSTAR channel 115 Or Watch Matt Sorger on GOD TV ALSO ON DIRECT TV, CHANNEL 365 North America / United Kingdom Monday, 8:30 AM, EST CHICAGO CHICAGO AREA, WJYS-TV 62 Sunday, 8:00 PM CST LONG ISLAND LOCAL LONG ISLAND CABLEVISION, CHANNEL 20 Riverhead Wednesday, 10:30 PM Hauppauge Friday, 2:00AM CONNECTICUT LOCAL CT CABLEVISION, CHANNEL 88 Thursday, 7:30 PM Serving Darien, Easton, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Redding, Stamford, Westport, Weston & Wilton
I would love to visit all of the services in Person too! Also Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, Calif. has live services on Sunday morning.
Just like Saddleback services are on Pacific time so are Jubilee. So When Joel Osteen's services are over you can head on over to Rick Warren in Southern Calif. or Pastor Dick at Jubilee in San Jose in North California.
Here at the Lake of The Ozarks "Walk On Water Faith Church"at 11:30 Central there is a beautiful church that is my favorite place to see Christmas at. It is right on the Lake of the Ozarks with a prayer room inside of the wonderful lighthouse at Walk on Water Faith Church in beautiful Osage Beach, Mo. where my parents brought me every summer as a child. At Christmas Dr. Larry Ollison and his lovely wife Loretta have my friend Penny decorate the church with four foot tall toy soldiers on the third floor main church entry overlooking the atrium on the second floor. It is so pretty that I don't even know how to describe how majestic it is. Especially for a Winter wonder White Christmas that Missouri is famous for!
And I love to go to the former Jewish Temple near Orlando with Psychologist Dr. Mark Chironna on Sunday at 9AM & 11AM or Tuesday evening 7:PM
Last but certainly not least is my all time favorite place to get and keep revival. And that is none other than Trinity broadcasting Network www.tbn.org the "Praise The Lord" Program at 9:00 PM CST Weekdays
You can also visit Christian Harfouche Ministries live internet services from the Pensacola, Florida or Jubilee Christian Center live services from San Jose, Calif. or Kim Clement has live services every Saturday night. Occasionally on Friday nights and on Sunday mornings too
Church of His Presence in Daphne, and at the Mobile Convention Center with a great man of God that I HIGHLY recommend Pastor John Kilpatrick as he comes with a prophetic voice.
And what I like to call "Spit Fire Preaching" I also enjoy listening to Bishop Eddie Long from New Birth church in GA. He also gives great words of prophetic encouragement by the spirit of the Lord.
Pastor Robert Tilton in Miami Is the pastor who taught me to tithe and to have believe!
Pastor Rich Wilkerson is in Miami Florida and is doing much good work all over the Southern border of the U.S. in the direction of Haiti. Thank you Pastor Rich! And Pastor Rich Wilkerson has live services weekly from Miami at Trinity Church.
Here is another one that I HIGHLY recommend At Free Chapel it is Pastor Jentezen Franklin and he is also on the radio.
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The Melges 24.
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The reputation of the Melges 24® precedes itself. Best known for its very competitive disposition and easy-to-sail personality, this modern sportboat maintains its status as a leader in high-performance, one design yachting. With more than 850 boats sold, it continues a humbling tradition of America's Cup, Olympic Medallists, Volvo Ocean Race recruitment. Looking to improve on tactics and boat handling skills? The Melges 24 builds better sailors.
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Park Features
"Considered the most unique park, combining natural beauty and solitude"
The park offers a natural environment for family gatherings. One of our nature trails was constructed by our Park Rangers and is approximately one mile long.
- Plant Life
Eastern Hemlock, Butternut, Tamarack, Black Willow, Norway Spruce, Black Locust, Northern White Cedar, Witch Hazel, Big Tooth Aspen, Eastern White Pine, Red Pine, Scots Pine, Black Cherry, White Ash, Yellow Ash, Yellow Birch, Beech, Sugar Maple, American Elm, American Basswood, American Hornbeam. In addition, there are ferns, moss/lichens, and Thistle.
- Mammals
White Tail Deer, Rabbits, Skunks, Raccoons, Squirrels.
- Birds
Herons, Jays, Owls, and Woodpeckers.
- Summer
Hike through the self-guided mapped nature trail or walk through the lush greenery along Cazenovia Creek. Plan a picnic and grill at our spacious shelters. Kids love the playground area, as well as playing ball at our diamonds, using one of our 6 tennis courts, bicycling on the paved winding roads or playing the 18 Hole Black Diamond Disc Golf Course (www.nrdg.org).
- Winter:
Warm up to the cozy fireplaces at the ski lodge after skiing or snowshoeing through the trails. Snowmobile trails are marked. T- Bar operates from 11:00 AM- 7:00 PM on weekends and holidays, and from 4 PM- 8 PM on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (weather permitting). Skiing is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. For weekday winter sports/ activities updates, please call 858-8513. Downhill skiing at Emery will close at 6:30 pm (when open) until the end of the 2018 season. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding in this matter.
Park Facilities
Josiah Emery owned 175 acres of land in the Town of Aurora; his descendants lived and worked on this land for over one hundred years. In 1925, The Parks Commission purchased the land from Helen B. Emery, forming Emery Park. Emery Park had an abundance of attractions from the beginning- a rock garden, an amphitheatre (original capacity 600), formal gardens, stone arch footbridge and Emery Inn (Est. 1926,used as a museum & restaurant but was the former home of the Emery family). The Park contains sixty-nine structures, 95% of the structures built in or before 1935. Emery Park has evolved into a 489-acre park.
Park Information
2084 Emery Road | South Wales, NY 14139 | (716) 652-1380
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - On Tuesday morning, a judge ordered former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson to report to jail by 2 p.m. Tuesday. Officials say he turned himself into a deputy, who escorted him to the parish prison. He was booked back into jail at 2:10 p.m.
Jefferson "looked shocked" as the judge made his ruling Tuesday morning.
District Judge Chip Moore ruled that with Jefferson's arrest last week on drug charges, he violated the terms of his bond related to an arrest last year. Jefferson was charged with simple battery after a fight at Shady's Bar in Baton Rouge in 2011.
While both charges are misdemeanors, it is the overall situation that landed Jefferson in jail.
"This is what [Judge Moore] does in every case unless there is some outstanding reason for him not to do so. I think what he made clear today, regardless of who he, is that this is how he does business for people who are re-arrested," said Hillar Moore.
"We respect the decision of the court," said Lance Unglesby, Jefferson's defense attorney. "We expected this decision that was made by Judge Moore. Mr. Jordan is here to honor any and all obligations imposed upon him. He has tremendous respect for the court and my opinion of Jordan remains the same. He's a fine young man. And I look forward to, over time, that being apparent to everyone."
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore would not comment specifically on the Jefferson case but did talk about the process. "When someone is on bond and they re-offended obviously the judge that sets the bond will take a look at the reasoning behind it," says Moore. "Everyone is presumed innocent, even on a re-arrest."
He may have to remain in jail until his next court hearing, which is scheduled for Dec. 12. However, he is undergoing a substance abuse evaluation and could be released sooner. Reports indicate that will likely happen.
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U.S. Charges Boston Bomb Suspect, and More
What's News: Federal Prosecutors charge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. CBS takes a minority stake in SyncBak. BMW expects slower sales growth in China. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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Santa Barbara police have concluded their investigation into Harding University Partnership School's principal and forwarded the case to the District Attorney's Office, spokesman Sgt. Riley Harwood said Thursday.
He said the Police Department is not recommending that any criminal charges be filed.
Principal Nuh Kimbwala, who is still on paid administrative leave, was investigated for an allegation of misdemeanor child abuse of a non-sexual nature.
The incident — which Harwood would not discuss in detail — was initially reported to Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Services, which then recommended that the school file a police report instead.
The investigation was handled by the Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit, which interviewed involved parties and witnesses, Harwood said.
"We have not made any recommendations to the DA's Office in regard to filing, but we have sent it over to them," he said. "What we want is for the DA's Office to review our investigation objectively and then make a decision as to whether they want to pursue a charge."
Senior Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter said no decision has been made yet.
Kimbwala started work Aug. 6 after being unanimously recommended by an 11-member panel and approved by the Board of Education. He replaced well-loved leader Sally Kingston, who left for a job with the Carpinteria Unified School District.
Kimbwala previously worked as principal for Bloomington Middle School in the Colton Joint Unified School District for four years.
He was placed on leave for undisclosed reasons in mid-November, the same week the above incident allegedly occurred. Assistant Principal Vanesha Davis has been serving as principal in his absence.
Harding parents have expressed their concerns about Kimbwala to the district since the beginning of the school year, mostly related to communication issues.
A group of parents sent a letter to the district in October, particularly concerned that no Spanish-language interpreters were available for back-to-school nights and that school-related organizations had not been meeting with any regularity.


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Just print out these cute Bookmarks to make for Mom on Mother's Day or anyday. Just print, cut, laminate and add a ribbon or yarn.
Items needed:
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It is always tougher to repeat, and the Phillies aren't boasting of slicing through the Dodgers in five games as they did last autumn.
"Believe me, we came back here to win," said Philllies manager Charlie Manuel. "I have more determination probably than I had last year, and I mean that from the fact that that's how much I want it, and I think I know how much our players want it."
The Phillies are trying to become the first repeat champions since Joe Torre's Yankees won three straight, 1998-2000.
"When you repeat, you basically have to go through a tougher season to get there," said Torre, now manager of the Dodgers. "You've got a bull's-eye on your back. Everyone seems to put on their Sunday best to play you. You always get the best pitchers matching up."
In at match-up of lefthanders, Clayton Kershaw starts for the Dodgers against Cole Hamels.
Kershaw lost twice to the Phillies this season, but he said he'll still attempt to be aggressive.
Kershaw was 0-2 against the Phillies in the regular season, but he plans an aggressive approach.
"I'm not trying to sit up there and walk people or try and pitch around someone else," Kershaw said. "You can't go out there with that mindset. They've got a great lineup. But the pitcher's job is just to go right after them with your best stuff."


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Gentoo uses a BSD ports-like system called
With Gentoo you can build your entire system from source, using your choice of
optimizations. You have complete control over what packages are or aren't
installed. Gentoo provides you with numerous choices, so you can install Gentoo
to your own preferences, which is why Gentoo is called a
Gentoo is actively developed. The entire distribution uses a rapid pace development style: patches to the packages are quickly integrated in the mainline tree, documentation is updated on daily basis, portage features are added frequently, and official releases occur twice per year.
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Korea's change of heart on scientific whaling is welcome
The announcement yesterday (12 July) by Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, that his South Korean counterpart, Mr Kim Sung-hwan, had indicated plans for scientific whaling would not proceed was a welcome development.
The Korean government's change of heart has come within a week of the announcement at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting that Korea was intending to start a 'scientific' whaling programme.
The Korean government's U-turn had already been hinted at by a senior Korean official the day before, and while no further official announcements have been made by Korea, it seems the plans are on hold for the time being at least.
IFAW welcomes the recognition by the Korean government that so-called 'scientific' whaling is not the way forward. As IFAW, many other organisations, scientists and governments the world over have pointed out, there are in fact plenty of non-lethal alternatives for studying whales.
The question of course is why Korea's plans got off the ground in the first place, only to be unceremoniously dumped within days. As the Korean representative at the IWC outlined when making the announcement, pressure from fisheries interests in certain parts of Korea has driven the issue. When these fisheries constituencies combine with Korean domestic politics in advance of December national elections it is a potent partnership.
However, there is a deeper and more troubling motive. Throughout the failed "compromise" package deal discussions in recent years at the IWC, there was a general feeling loudly expressed by Korea that they were being penalised for implementing and abiding by the IWC moratorium while Japan, Norway and Iceland were to be rewarded for circumventing the moratorium with newly legitimised whaling quotas if the package deal had gone through. This sentiment is understandable and the legitimisation that would have been rewarded to countries contravening the moratorium was one of the many reasons IFAW opposed the deal.
But what we have seen this year at the IWC, with Korea suggesting it would start scientific whaling, was the folly of the approach taken by certain usually conservation-minded countries in pushing that deal. All it has done has encouraged Korea to pursue its own whaling agenda as it looked across the Sea of Japan at its recalcitrant neighbour potentially being rewarded. We can only hope that countries who supported the deal last time will think twice about implications of any future "compromise" suggestions.
Nonetheless, we must congratulate all governments who spoke out against Korea's plans. Undoubtedly the swift and vociferous reaction by Prime Ministers, governments, NGOs and media, both outside and inside Korea, has had an impact. As in other whaling countries, while it may be the fisheries agencies who announce the policies, it is the Foreign Affairs departments who have to deal with the aftermath. Clearly the Korean Foreign Minister saw this as an issue simply not worth the hassle and opprobrium that is routinely received by his counterparts in other whaling nations.
Interestingly, Korea has recently initiated a big push in Australia to advertise itself as a tourist destination. Announcing a plan to go whaling at the same time probably wasn't included in the Korean tourist board's marketing strategy.
But we also have to hope that the Korean change of heart is being driven by economics and science. The Korean government must be acutely aware of the failures by Japan and Iceland to find successful markets for the meat from their own scientific whaling or to produce scientific findings of any value from killing whales. Nor has the IWC's Scientific Committee identified any issues that might require lethal takes of whales in the North Pacific. Hence any scientific justification by Korea is likely to be very weak and not in line with any research needs identified by the Committee
The Korean government must also be aware that the combination of commercial catches up to 1986, ongoing bycatch in fishing gear and illegal whaling have caused substantial depletion of minke whales around Korea. The IWC Scientific Committee is still in the process of reviewing North Pacific minke whale populations but all the evidence indicates serious depletion regardless of current debates about population structure. It is possible that the ongoing combination of bycatch and illegal takes is still causing serious problems for a small population (estimated at between 550 and 900 minke whales for waters east of the Korean Peninsula and between 700-1500 west of the Korean Peninsula). Although these abundance estimates are minimum numbers, the current estimated deaths are still around 10% of these populations. Any whaling by Korea would be in addition to these already serious concerns and could have drastic conservation implications.
In light of these ongoing concerns, it is important that Korea abandons any future consideration of scientific whaling. Let us hope that last week's dipping of the toe in the water isn't heralding a process whereby Korea continuously floats the idea in the hope that when it actually transpires the world will just accept it.
IFAW certainly won't. We will continue to urge Korea to turn its back on whaling for good and protect its whales for future generations. There is simply no humane way to kill a whale. Responsible whale watching offers a humane and economically viable alternative that is better for whales and provides more sustainable livelihoods for coastal communities.
Korea has a choice; continue to try and defend the indefensible or invest in its fledgling whale watching industry and join the emerging global consensus for whale conservation.


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GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) - The population of the Oklahoma town of Guthrie is expected to quadruple in size this weekend as more than 35,000 people descend on the area to watch British rockers Mumford & Sons perform on the second of three U.S. stops in the Gentlemen of the Road concert series.
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) � The population of the Oklahoma town of Guthrie is expected to quadruple in size this weekend as more than 35,000 people descend on the area to watch British rockers Mumford & Sons perform on the second of three U.S. stops in the Gentlemen of the Road concert series.
In addition to the folk rock band, other performers include Alabama Shakes, indie folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and English indie rock band The Vaccines.
The main performances are taking place just a few blocks from historic downtown Guthrie, in an area called Cottonwood Flats. Thousands of concert-goers are expected to spend the weekend camping out in tents nearby.
Other performances and a festival are taking place in downtown Guthrie. Roads have been closed and British flags and signs welcoming concert-goers are draped all over the community.
Local hotels have been booked for months and other communities are expected to see an overflow, said Guthrie City Manager Sereniah Breland. Thousands of campers have been registered as well. Breland said concert tickets have been sold in nearly every state and a handful of other countries. The two-day event is expected to contribute $300,000 in sales tax revenue for the town.
So why was Guthrie selected for a stop?
Don Sullivan, vice president of concert promoter Jam Productions, said Mumford & Sons was interested in trying to do something in Oklahoma. Looking at Google Maps, the concert promoters discovered that Guthrie, with a population of 10,000 people, looked similar to previous concert stops last year. The promoters and the band's U.S. management team then toured the area multiple times and met with local government officials.
"For Guthrie, it was obvious to us that we were welcomed with open arms by the city, and the town has a unique charm that we felt matched previous stopovers and that the band and their fans would enjoy," Sullivan said.
Guthrie was the capital of Oklahoma from 1907 to 1910. A portion of the downtown district has been designated a National Historic Landmark and several of its historic buildings and architecture still stand today. Many people travel to the town to see and experience a historic piece of Oklahoma.
Troy, Ohio, hosted the series' first stop last weekend. St. Augustine, Fla., will be the site of the third and final U.S. stop next weekend.
Businesses in Guthrie are preparing for the influx of customers by staying open longer and stocking up on merchandise, Breland said.
Windi Potter, owner of Ella Rose Boutique in downtown Guthrie, said she wasn't sure what to expect but is planning to stay open until about midnight on Friday and Saturday night. The store usually closes at 5:30 p.m. She'll also open on Sunday, which is typically a day off for her.
Potter has hung several signs in the store windows welcoming fans and showing off merchandise.
Kristen Lancette, 33, drove with her friend Mickey Ormsby, 32, from the Minneapolis area to attend the stopover. The pair broke up the 12-hour drive into two days and spent Friday morning shopping in downtown Guthrie.
"It's the cutest town ever," Lancette said. "Everybody is so friendly and welcoming us with open arms."
Like thousands of others, the two are camping out near the concert grounds. But with overnight temperatures in the 70s, Ormsby said the first night was "steamy" and they expect it to only get worse as more people arrive and crowd into the area.
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I can't hate Nadal, he and Federer have pushed the game to new levels. I'm glad Nadal earned his way to the top and is finally in the # 1 spot. He is the counterbalance to Federer... He's a little quirky, but hey Nadal's got a solid game. As much as I like Roger, without Nadal, players wouldn't progress as fast. It's not often to get two superstar players battling for 1st place... They are very interesting to watch.
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MIAMI — On the set of Univision's live morning show, the hosts don goofy wigs to sing and perform outlandish skits, while a Chihuahua named Honey Berry scampers underfoot.
"She almost got stepped on this morning," a Univision executive said as the dog, which has its own Twitter account, disappeared behind sound equipment.
Univision's zany "Despierta America" has experienced a Cuban coffee-like jolt in the ratings. Ratings for the four-hour daily news and variety show, whose name means "Wake up America" have jumped 28% compared with last season, boosted by younger viewers coveted by major broadcast networks.
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"If you are going to watch TV in the morning, you want to wake up to something that makes you laugh and feel good," said Gloria Constanza, chief contact strategist for the advertising agency D'Exposito & Partners. "'Despierta's' format is so friendly, people feel like it is inviting them in."
Morning shows are big business and are sometimes a network's most profitable show. Last year, morning programs on broadcast and cable TV raked in a combined $1.4 billion in advertising revenue, according to Kantar Media.
But fortunes have been shifting. NBC's "Today" lost its No. 1 perch to rival ABC's "Good Morning America" last year amid revelations of behind-the-scenes back-stabbing at NBC and the tearful exit of co-host Ann Curry. The long-dominant morning show is down 12% in viewers compared with last season, while "Good Morning America" is up 8%. The revamped "CBS This Morning," led by Charlie Rose, has climbed 11%.
In Los Angeles, "Despierta America" is the third-most-watched morning show, behind "GMA" and KTLA-TV Channel 5's newscast. Among viewers ages 18 to 49, "Despierta" beats the shows on ABC, NBC and CBS.
Advertising revenue from "Despierta America" shot up 52% to $163 million in 2012, according to Kantar Media. This year, the show is expected to capture even more, and it is helping the network boost its overall ad sales nearly 17% during the industry's annual sales bazaar.
"'Despierta' is totally different from how the other networks program their morning shows," said Lia Silkworth, senior vice president of Tapestry, a Chicago ad agency. "It is more lively — it feels like a party. And its growth shows the importance of connecting with viewers and being culturally relevant."
On a recent morning, the set at Univision's headquarters in west Miami was controlled chaos as stagehands rushed to shift props, potted plants and furniture during commercial breaks while a news anchor read headlines and a stylist prepared to reveal a beauty makeover. In a regular feature called the "Soap Opera Club," the male hosts and guests comically analyzed plot twists from telenovelas that Univision aired the night before.
The vibe is "Good Morning America" meets "The Carol Burnett Show." On a recent morning, the hosts spray-painted a male colleague's hair green to celebrate a Mexican soccer team. In one skit, a prominent Miami stylist shrieked in mock horror after having his hair chemically fried by his own brand of hair product. (It was just a wig.)
"You don't need coffee in the morning with this show," talent manager Emilio Estefan, the husband of singer Gloria Estefan, said after appearing on the show.
In the last year, trying to increase their exposure with Latino audiences, A-list stars have trooped to the Miami set, among them Mark Wahlberg, Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell and Halle Berry (she was so smitten with the Chihuahua, then named Honey, that the dog was renamed Honey Berry).
"The big stars don't always speak Spanish, but they do like the fun of the show," said Karla Martinez, one of the hosts.
The show's growth spurt came after Univision Communications Inc. Chief Executive Randy Falco, a former top NBC executive, felt the show had stalled and was not doing enough to tap its revenue potential.
He installed a new executive producer. Then last fall, Univision brought in Alberto Ciurana, a top executive from Mexico's dominant entertainment company, Grupo Televisa, to be Univision's chief programmer.
"During my first meeting with Randy in New York, he told me, "We need to fix 'Despierta,'" Ciurana recalled in an interview. "It has been a big priority — and we needed to do a lot."
The pacing changed. Segments were shortened. The sleek European-looking white-and-lavender set was replaced by bright red, gold, tan and even fuchsia furniture.
"It was too cold, it was not reflective of our Hispanic community," Ciurana said. "We are a colorful community, and now we have a lot of warmth and colors."
The cast also got a makeover. Alan Tacher was brought over from "Hoy," Televisa's top morning program from Mexico City. He joined two other recent additions: Johnny Lozada, who in the 1980s was a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo; and Ana Patricia González, a beauty pageant winner from a small town in northern Mexico.
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Two veterans stayed on. Martinez, who was born in Mexico and grew up in Texas, joined the network nearly 18 years ago as a news correspondent in El Paso and landed a spot on the morning show in 2006.
The show's longest serving host is Raul González, a Venezuelan who came to the U.S. 19 years ago and joined "Despierta" in 2002. He created a sketch comedy character, Dona Meche, a loud-mouthed Colombian housekeeper in sensible white shoes known for flirting campily when Hollywood actors — Gerard Butler was a recent example — appear on the show.
As the disruptive anchor changes at "Today" demonstrated, such casting decisions are crucial for morning shows, TV experts say, because the frequency of the programs — five days a week — encourages viewers to consider the hosts as extended family.
"The new cast has chemistry, and they connect with the audience in a humble and genuine way," Constanza said. "And they share their own personal stories. It feels like a family."
Raul Gonzalez discussed his ongoing struggles with his weight. Ana Patricia Gonzalez shed tears during a marriage counseling segment and revealed her six-year marriage was breaking up. Martinez and her young twin daughters had their long tresses cut — live on the air — to support the charity Locks of Love.
Even Cuban propman Alfredo Anaya, who began appearing on camera as a regular in the "Soap Opera Club" segment about six months ago, has become a local celebrity. Anaya, who had no previous on-air experience, now gets autograph requests when fans see him on the street.
"This is a mirror of how Latino people live," said Luz Maria Doria, the show's director and executive producer. "We have fun, we cry, we sing and dance and we cook — but we want to get skinny — and we are always looking for others to help."
Tapestry's Silkworth said it will be interesting to see whether "Despierta America" is a wake-up call for English-language networks that might borrow some of the show's elements in an effort to chase the increasingly important Latino audience.
"This might be the future of morning TV," she said.
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The NSA's Lockbox Has No Lock
from the like-that-won't-be-abused? dept
Except... what they conveniently left out, is that the court doesn't review any of this. It appears that it probably set some very basic rules up front when it gave the okay on collecting the data, which no one else gets to know about, and no one carefully checks up on the NSA later to see if they really follow any of those rules. What the claims most certainly do not mean, is that the NSA needs to get a court order to search the database. Senator Dianne Feinstein admitted as much directly:
Q: Is a court order necessary to query the metadata database?And yet, as the article notes, most of the defenders of the program strongly imply otherwise, highlighting the "court-approved" process that people need to go through to query the database. But if there's no real oversight, and no court reviewing each query, then, as Saletan points out, there is no lockbox.
Feinstein: Is a court order necessary to query—
Q: The metadata database under 215. An individual court order for each query.
Feinstein: A court order—well, I don't know what you mean by a query. A court order—
Q: To search the database.
Feinstein: To search the database, you have to have reasonable, articulable cause—
Q: Certified by a judge?
Feinstein: —to believe that that individual is connected to a terrorist group. You cannot—
Q: But does that have to be determined by a judge?
Feinstein: Could I answer? You may not like it, but I'll answer. Then you can query the numbers. The only numbers you have—there's no content. You have the name and the number called, whether it's one number or two numbers. That's all you have. Then you can get the numbers. If you want to collect content, then you get a court order.
Q: So you don't need a court order for the query itself.
Feinstein: That's my understanding.
There's no lock on the lockbox.If there's no public standard, and no official oversight or review process, then the probability that the database is being abused approaches one very, very quickly.
That hasn't stopped current and former government officials from repeating the lockbox line. Yesterday Rogers used it again on Face the Nation. Dick Cheney, appearing on Fox News Sunday, backed him up. On Meet the Press, Michael Hayden, the guy who ran the NSA when it began collecting phone records, assured Rep. Bobby Scott, (D-Va.,) "The only way you can access the metadata is through a terrorist predicate." When Scott asked, "Where is that written?" Hayden replied: "It's in the court order." Really? Where's the court order? When is it applied, and how?
If the court isn't screening data requests, that leaves two possibilities. One is that nobody's screening them. The other is that some other, unknown entity is doing it in a way that nobody has explained. Either way, the answers we're getting are unacceptable. They betray privacy, public trust, and national security.


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Like most sophomores, Leah Chance two years ago didn't quite know what her future held.
Like most sophomores, Leah Chance two years ago didn't quite know what her future held.
"We started out at the Civic Center and we were running out ... and I asked Leah, 'Do you want to run in college?' Oak Ridge coach Allen Etheridge recalled. Her reported reply: "We'll, I'm not sure."
Now as a senior fresh off a top five Region II Meet finish and a top 25 finish in the State Championship Meet, the usually subdued and quiet runner, had a firm grasp on what she wanted to do and a smile to prove it.
Chance signed on Wednesday to join the cross country team at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens.
"I am very excited," Chance said, grinning from ear to ear.
Chance will join Oak Ridge teammate Mariah Zawisza and former harrier on the boys cross country team Thomas Potok as a member of the TWC Bulldogs. Zawisza signed last month to join the NAIA school.
"She's a huge addition to the team," said coach TWC Shawn Jakubowksi said. "I look at her coming in and I see possibly her being top three in the conference and qualifying for nationals. She and Mariah are a big one-two punch."
The signing almost wasn't, Chance admitted, but after a visit and practice with the team and coach Jakubowksi, things felt right.
"I was tired of school honestly," Chance said. "I really liked how small it was. (Coach Jakubowksi) really paid attention to anything I was worried about. I wasn't the only one trying to figure out if I fit there. He tried to figure that out too (to make sure it was the best fit).
Chance said she hopes to follow in her parents' footsteps and major in Sports Nutrition and Fitness while at the Athens, Tenn., school. She said she has helped them with their clients in the past running with them and giving tips. However, that has been mostly quiet help.
"I know so much already about it now that I might as well get a major in it," Chance said. "I've never been the most talkative person on the team. I'm the one that just goes out and does it."
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HANOVER, Ind. - The nationally-ranked No. 10 MIT women's cross country team captured first place out of a field of 16 teams from across the country at the Division III Pre-National Cross Country meet, hosted by Hanover College on the site of the 2008 NCAA Cross Country championships. The Engineers edged Bethel University by two points for the best team finish at a national meet in the program's history.
Junior Jacqui Wentz paced Tech, finishing the six-kilometer course in 22:47, good for seventh overall. Anna Holt-Gosselin (23:05) led a group of three straight MIT finishers, placing 13th. Andrea Bradshaw and Janice O'Brien were next across the finish line.
Tania Morimoto placed 29th running a 23:58, Alicia Kaestli was just behind her with a time of 24:00. Katy Gordon rounded out the scoring for the Engineers, finishing 37th.
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Spitzer Goes After Nasty Spyware Firm
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Spyware maker Direct Revenue has been known for a long time as one of the nastier company's in the space. The whole litany of complaints includes sneaky installs (of course), regular name changes to escape reputation, and uninstalling competitors' adware (not sure why they didn't just stick to that, which people would have liked). Last year a class-action lawsuit was filed against the company, though it's not clear how effective that would be, given that most of the time it's the law firm looking for a payday. Finally, it looks like the book will be thrown at the company as NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has announced a lawsuit against them. Spitzer already won a big judgment against Intermix, and he should have no problem doing the same here. Fines and legal fees are becoming just another cost of business for these companies -- if anyone has the power and will to get these guys shut down, it's Spitzer.