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14 storylines from Sochi Olympic Alpine competition
The Sochi Winter Olympics presented 10 days of thrilling competition in Alpine skiing. Here is a look back at 14 of the big storylines to play out in the mountains of Rosa Khutor.
Star of the Games
Perhaps no one entered Sochi with more to prove than Slovenia's Tina Maze. After a record-obliterating 2013 World Cup season, in which she eclipsed every meaningful statistical metric including overall points with 2,414, her pre-Olympic buildup had comparatively been a flop, with just four podiums and one victory. Her Sochi experience could have easily taken a sour turn south after she finished fourth in the super-combined, a medal-miss that left her in tears afterward. But Maze rediscovered her resolve and scored an historic tie for gold in the women's downhill, and added a second gold in her signature event, the giant slalom. She was the only skier in Sochi to win more than one event.
Embedded video_content_type: Tina Maze wins second gold medal of 2014 Olympics
Honorable mention
While Maze was clearly Alpine's star of the Games, in keeping with Sochi's penchant for ties – there was shared gold in the women's downhill and shared bronze in the men's super-G – we have a 3-way deadlock for silver in the star-turn category.
Kjetil Jansrud emerged as the unexpected star of Team Norway. The 28-year-old strung together the best two weeks of skiing of his career, winning bronze in the downhill, gold in the super-G, and nearly another bronze in the super-combined, where he finished fourth. He did all of this one year after tearing his ACL at the World Championships in Schladming.
Embedded video_content_type: Kjetil Jansrud wins men's super-G gold
After a disappointing Olympic debut in 2010, when she left Vancouver without a medal, Anna Fenninger of Austria fulfilled her great promise with a gold medal in the women's super-G and a silver medal in the giant slalom. She did so with one of the coolest-looking race helmets at the Games, and raised tons of awareness for the plight of endangered cheetahs.
Embedded video_content_type: Fenninger leaves field in her 'cheetah dust'
And who could leave Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch off any list of top performers. The overall World Cup leader showcased her spectacular all-around skills by winning a second straight gold medal in the women's super-combined, joining Janica Kostelic of Croatia (combined, 2002-06), Deborah Compagnoni of Italy (giant slalom, 1994-98) and Katja Seizinger of Germany (downhill, 1994-98) as the only women to repeat as Olympic champions. Hoefl-Riesch added a silver medal, the fourth medal of her career, in the super-G.
Embedded video_content_type: Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch gold again
Biggest surprise
Sandro Viletta's gold in the men's super-combined for Switzerland was an absolute stunner. The 28-year-old has won only one World Cup race in his career, a super-G in Beaver Creek, Colo., in December 2011. His best super-combined result came in Wengen, Switzerland, last month when he was fourth. After finishing 14th in the downhill run, he found the perfect line in deteriorating slalom conditions and blistered into the lead and history books. "I didn't expect to win," Viletta said afterward, "but in super-combined ... you never know what is possible."
Embedded video_content_type: Sandro Viletta takes surprising gold in super combined
Feel good story
Perhaps no medalist in Sochi faced longer odds than American Andrew Weibrecht. After his surprising bronze medal in super-G in Vancouver, he was consumed by injuries – in 2010 it was right shoulder and left ankle; in 2011 it was his left shoulder; in 2012 he had right ankle reconstruction; and in 2013 more ankle issues – hurt so often that he lost his sponsors and was dropped to the U.S. "B" team, meaning he had to pay his own way for training and to races. Yet the 27-year-old found his way back on to the Olympic team, and made the most of his second chance. Despite a crummy starting bib (29), Weibrecht benefited from a course report by teammate Bode Miller, who also lent him a pair of his skis for the race, and then sped past Miller into silver-medal position in the super-G. Now the man who in 95 career World Cup races has never finished higher than ninth, has two Olympic medals, same as U.S. skiing icons Lindsey Vonn and Picabo Street.
Embedded video_content_type: Andrew Weibrecht wins surprising silver in men's super-G
Best race
The women's downhill produced the first tie for gold in the history of Olympic Alpine racing when Dominique Gisin of Switzerland and Tina Mazeof Slovenia finished with identical times of 1:41.57. Gisin, who became her country's first Olympic downhill champion in 30 years, set the early time standard from start Bib 8 and watched a legion of contenders come down the Rosa Khutor slower. Then came Maze with Bib 21, and she continued to build on Gisin's time intervals, from 0.02 ahead at the first time check, up to 0.09 at the second, ahead 0.13 at third, and building to 0.38 at the fourth. When she crossed, the clock showed 0.00 indicating a tie. The previous closest finish at the Games came in Nagano in 1998 when Picabo Street edged Austria's Michaela Dorfmeister by .01 for super-G gold.
Embedded video_content_type: Sochi women's downhill: Gold medal mashup
Biggest gaffe
In the men's giant slalom, Germany's Stefan Luitz appeared to have put himself in striking distance of American Ted Ligety – something no other skier managed to do – in the first run of the men's giant slalom. But in the closing moments, the 21-year-old straddled the final gate with his right ski just feet from the finish line, resulting in a disqualification. Afterward, only one thought crossed his mind. "You idiot," he said.
Embedded video_content_type: Stefan Luitz's heartbreaking disqualification in giant slalom
Most memorable moment
Through the years, American Bode Miller has proclaimed his main motivation to be the ethereal quality of his performances rather than the medals they did or did not yield. But in Sochi, perhaps sensing his own athletic mortality at age 36 and having missed a golden opportunity – literally – when he finished 8th in the downhill as an overwhelming favorite, that changed. After winning bronze in the super-G, the sixth medal of his storied career, the usually-stoic Miller cried when asked in an interview by NBC's Christin Cooper about his brother, Chelone, who passed away last year from an apparent seizure. The younger Miller was a longshot to qualify for Sochi in snowboard, and the two had talked and dreamed about competing together at the Games. "Losing my brother this year was really hard for myself, my family, our sort of whole community," Miller said. "I have been a focal point for them over the years — my racing. It was just — yeah, a lot of emotion. To have things go well today, as well as they did, I felt very fortunate to come out with a medal. Just, um, everything felt pretty raw and pretty connected. It was a lot for me."
Embedded video_content_type: Bode Miller's flood of emotion
Clutch performer
There has been no skier better on the big stage for Team USA than Julia Mancuso. After struggling mightily throughout the World Cup season, Mancuso came to the Games, and like so many times before, found her groove. In the super-combined, Mancuso recorded the fastest run of downhill and then survived a difficult slalom course to finish third and win a bronze medal. Her four medals are the most ever by a U.S. female skier and second-most all-time behind Bode Miller's six. Mancuso, who has just seven World Cup wins in her career, is the only American woman to win medals of every color in Alpine skiing (she won giant slalom gold in Torino and silvers in super-combined and downhill in Vancouver), and joined speed skaters Bonnie Blair and Apolo Ohno as the only American Winter Games athletes to win individual medals at three Games. "Nothing matters but the Olympics," Mancuso said. "The Olympics is always my redemption, the moment when I can make my season better."
Embedded video_content_type: Slope sounds: What Julia Mancuso hears
Most disappointing
Expectations were high for Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal coming into Sochi. In Vancouver he won three medals, gold in super-G, silver in downhill, and bronze in giant slalom. At the World Championships last year, he won downhill gold and super-G bronze. He is the World Cup standings leader in the downhill and super-G. The 31-year-old was unable, however, to translate that success at these Games. He finished just outside the medals in the downhill, taking fourth, finished tied for eighth in the super-combined, and took seventh in the super-G. Rather than compete in the giant slalom, Svindal withdrew from the Olympics, citing allergies, and returned home to prepare for the conclusion of the World Cup season.
Embedded video_content_type: All of Aksel Lund Svindal's races at 2014 Sochi Games
Biggest vindication
In 2006, Ted Ligety won gold in the combined in Torino at a point in his career when he hadn't even tasted victory on the World Cup circuit. He carried expectations into the Vancouver Games four years ago but went home to Utah empty-handed, but mostly feeling like he didn't lay it all on the line. It was that feeling that motivated him over the latest quadrennial. Ligety came into his third Olympics with even loftier expectations, having won three golds at the 2013 Worlds and having seven years of domination in the men's giant slalom under his belt. He validated those achievements at these Games, racing to a monster lead in the first run and surviving a rutted course in the second to win gold by nearly a half-second. Ligety became the first American to win Olympic gold in the giant slalom and the first U.S. man with two Alpine gold medals. "Today," Ligety said, "was awesome. There's really no other way to put it."
Embedded video_content_type: Ted Ligety as good as gold in giant slalom
Age only a number
A trio of athletes defied their ages, both young and old, to win Alpine skiing medals in Sochi and set new standards for what is deemed possible. American slalom prodigy Mikaela Shiffrin, who the U.S. national championship at 16, won her first World Cup race, her first World Cup globe and first world championship at 17, added Olympic gold to that resume at the tender age of 18. Using a unique combination of confidence and skill, Shiffrin won the first slalom gold medal for the U.S. since the 1984 Sarajevo Games, where twins Phil and Steve Mahre win gold and silver, and the first for an American woman since 1972, when Barbara Cochran won in Sapporo.
Embedded video_content_type: Side-by-side: How Shiffrin won slalom gold
In the same slalom race, Austria's Marlies Schild became the first woman to win three Olympic medals in the same event when she picked up silver behind Shiffrin. At 32, Schild became the oldest slalom medalist in Olympic history. Ole Kristian Furuseth of Norway was 31 when he won silver at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Embedded video_content_type: Marlies Schild earns silver in women's slalom
In the men's super-G, Bode Miller tied for bronze, his sixth career Olympic medal, to become the oldest Alpine medalist in Olympic history. In the men's slalom, Mario Matt (34 years, 319 days) of Austria became the oldest gold medalist and 19-year-old Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway became the youngest male medalist in Alpine history. Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt had been the oldest alpine medalist and champion, winning super-G gold in Torino in 2006 at 34 years, 169 days old.
Embedded video_content_type: Mario Matt wins men's slalom gold
Redemption story
To call Austria's turn at the Vancouver Olympics and abomination might be underselling the performance. For the first time in history, it's men's Alpine team went home without a single medal, akin to Brazil losing all of its soccer matches at the World Cup or the U.S. Dream Team pulling an 0-fer in basketball at the Olympics. Only super-G gold by Andrea Fischbacher, downhill and giant slalom bronze by Elisabeth Goergl and slalom silver by Marlies Schild salvaged the 2010 Games. For four years, the Austrians lived with the sting of 2010, but resumed their place atop the Alpine world with nine medals in Sochi. The team got on the board early when 24-year-old Matthias Mayer won the men's downhill, almost immediately restoring a sense of pride. On the women's side, Anna Fenninger scoredgold in the super-G on a difficult course and silver in the giant slalom; Nicole Hosp earned super-combined silver and super-G bronze; Schild and Kathrin Zettel won silver and bronze in the slalom; and Mario Matt and Marcel Hirscher won gold and silver in the men's slalom. Needless to say, Alpine's Big Red Machine is back.
Embedded video_content_type: Matthias Mayer delivers gold in men's downhill
Impact injuries
The competitive landscape in Sochi was impacted dramatically by a pair of injuries. On the women's side, Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein suffered a bone bruise to her knee and leg during a crash in the fourth downhill training run. The injury left her on crutches and her competition status in doubt. She scratched from the women's downhill and attempted to warm-up for the super-G but was in too much pain to compete. She subsequently withdrew from the Games in which she was a three-event medal contender, a heartbreaking blow for an athlete who has comeback from four knee injuries to make it back near the top of the World Cup standings. On the men's side, Felix Neureuther of Germany crashed his car in Munich on his way to the airport to fly to Sochi. He missed the flight to receive medical treatment, but the lingering affects of whiplash were evident. He finished eighth in the giant slalom and did not finish the slalom.
Embedded video_content_type: Neureuther DNFs final slalom run
Back of pack to forefront
Perhaps more so than at any recent Winter Olympics, the back stories of skiers from non-traditional winter sports countries captivate a broad audience. Two of those stories actually went viral. The first was of Hubertus von Hohenlohe, the Mexican-born prince of German descent, who competed at the Games for the sixth time, wearing a mariachi-themed uniform, and at age 55 became the second-oldest Winter Olympian in history. In addition to his royal blood, Hohenlohe is also a musician, a business man, a photographer, and an heir to the Fiat fortune, and has been dubbed "The Most Interesting Olympian in the World." He crashed out of the first run of slalom.
Embedded video_content_type: Hubertus von Hohenlohe DNF in men's slalom, but all smiles
The second story belongs to Lebanon's Jackie Chamoun, who overcame long odds to make it from Beirut to her second Olympics in Sochi. Last year, she and former Lebanese Olympian Chirine Njeim were models in one of Hohenlohe's calendar photo shoots and appeared topless but shielded, on the slopes of Faraya in their home country. A behind-the-scenes video from that shoot, which left little to the imagination, was leaked in conservative Lebanon during the Games and Chamoun drew intense scrutiny from a government minister. The fallout drew Chamoun wide-ranging support from free speech and women's rights groups, as well as companies and sparked the Twitter and Facebook hashtag #StripForJackie. Chamoun was not barred from competing at the Games and finished 47th in the slalom.
Embedded video_content_type: Lebanese skier Chamoun finishes 47th in slalom
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Just want to thank the Panthers Organization and the city of Charlotte for drafting me and making this home for me the last 3 years! Clausen tweeted Saturday morning.
Clausen, who leading up to Saturday was expected to be released, was designated as waived/injured because of a shoulder injury he suffered Thursday night against Pittsburgh, and teams cannot outright cut a player who is injured.
Clausen, a 2010 second-round draft pick, had a good training camp but could never overtake former Pro Bowler Derek Anderson for the job of primary backup to Cam Newton. Should he go through waivers unclaimed, Clausen will revert to the teams injured reserve Monday and could stay there until an injury settlement is reached.
Clausen went 14 for 25 for 119 yards, zero touchdowns and zero interceptions in four preseason games. He mostly played with the third-team offense in exhibitions, and Thursday night after the Panthers 25-10 win against Pittsburgh, coach Ron Rivera said he would have liked to see more from Clausen with a better supporting cast.
The unfortunate thing for Jimmy is, hes working in with the third and fourth guys and thats always tough, so you have to take that with a grain of salt, Rivera said. You wish you could present him with some better opportunities as far as the guys on the field with him.
Clausen has been inactive for every regular season game since his 2010 rookie year. He started 10 games that season and went 1-9. He had a 52.2 completion percentage, three touchdowns, nine interceptions, nine fumbles and 33 sacks.
But Clausen wasnt the only well-known player to learn his fate in Charlotte Saturday. Wide receiver David Gettis was waived/injured and veteran cornerback Drayton Florence was released.
Gettis has suffered leg-related injuries an ACL tear in 2011, a hamstring injury in 2012 each year since his 2010 rookie season that saw him catch 37 balls for 508 yards. He injured his hamstring before Thursdays game, and he would also revert to the IR should no one claim him Sunday.
His recent injury history, combined with the preseason emergence of Ted Ginn Jr. and fellow wide receiver Domenik Hixon getting healthy all likely played a role in that decision.
The release of Florence was not as expected. Florence, an 11-year veteran, came to Carolina as a free agent in March, and it took less than a week into training camp before he began running with the first team.
But Florence didnt have a great preseason. He returned an interception 71 yards for a touchdown, but that highlight came one week after he was on the wrong side of a SportsCenter top play when Philadelphias LeSean McCoys juke move left Florence with a knee on the ground and McCoy 21 yards down the field.
The Panthers also liked what they saw from young cornerbacks like undrafted rookie Melvin White, third-year player Josh Thomas and second-year player Josh Norman, who led the NFL with four preseason interceptions.
It will be tough because a lot of guys came in and did a lot of nice things for us, Rivera said of cuts on Thursday. I think the thing that really showed is we have some good young backups. We have an opportunity to see those guys play today and they played very well against a very tough, physical Pittsburgh Steelers team so anytime your backups play a team like this with quality backups, it shows weve gotten better.
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My wife and our 5 kids just spent a week in what I would call the most relaxing home. This home has it all, Kitchen with everything needed to fix any meal... to 5 bedrooms with 3 Full Bathrooms.
Plus the best views in Maine. This was our third stay in three years and we will be back next year.
This area in Maine has so much to offer to great restaurants.. York Harbor Inn is a must for a romantic dinner to Bob's Clam Hut. for the best fried Clams and lobster rolls. All the shopping, just a hour drive to Freeport LL Bean to Portsmouth N. H... Great place to shop. I did say my wife came along....
We have looked at other places around and no place even comes close to this house..it's location can not be beat and extra's like the Washer and Dryer, to Hair Dryers in the bathrooms to the working Fireplace...
I would recommend this house.. you will love it..
Colleen is the best to work with....
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This property was absolutely beautiful!! It was the best vacation we have had, the rooms are very generous in size, and the layout of the home is perfect for a family reunion. The children (and parents) enjoyed their stay, and home was filled with all the amenities that anyone could ask for. Very clean and well maintained. Best experience and worth the extra money.
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January 14, 2002
DALLAS (SMU) -- Southern Methodist Universitys Perkins School of Theology will present its Distinguished Alumni Award to former General Secretary of the World Methodist Council The Rev. Joseph Joe Rice Hale at a special presentation at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom, 3140 Dyer St.
Hale began his ministry just out of high school, conducting evangelistic meetings in small churches. He served the Sunset Circuit in the North Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church while he was a seminary student at Perkins School of Theology. After graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1960, he was named to the staff of the General Board of Evangelism of The Methodist Church in Nashville, where he served for 15 years. He came to the board as the first national missioner of a newly formed Department of Evangelists. While on this staff, he conducted more than 400 New Life Missions in churches across the country, with some assignments in Africa, Europe and Asia. He was later named Director of Ecumenical Evangelism for the board. The book, Design for Evangelism, was among several he wrote.
In the early 1970s, Hale helped plan and was registrar for a world evangelism conference in Jerusalem that attracted 2,400 participants. He also served five years as a member of the executive committee of Key 73, a national evangelism emphasis involving 140 Christian denominations and groups in the United States.
He was elected the third general secretary of the World Methodist Council at its 1976 Conference in Dublin, Ireland, a position he served in for 25 years. He retired in July 2001 at the 18th World Conference in Brighton, England where he was surprised with the presentation of the 2001 World Methodist Peace Award, an award which had been presented the previous year to Dr. Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa. The Council was organized in London in 1881 and today links 78 member Methodist/Wesleyan and United Church denominations and churches in 130 nations with membership of 36 million people worldwide.
Hale served as chairman of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions from 1982 to 1986. The international conference, comprising general secretaries and senior officials of more than 20 world families of churches, meets annually and includes Roman Catholic and Orthodox representatives as well as the secretaries of bodies such as the Anglican Communion, Baptist World Alliance and the Lutheran World Federation.
Hale has won numerous awards including the Great Cross of Merit of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a Catholic decoration presented in Vienna in 1992, for his concern and initiatives on behalf of the people of the Holy Land. In 1994, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church gave him its Distinguished Service Award for ecumenical relations. The General Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns of The United Methodist Church also recognized him in 2000. In 1998 he received the Philip Award from the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists, and late last year was named Distinguished Evangelist of The United Methodist Church for the Year 2001 by the Foundation for Evangelism, an affiliate of The United Methodist General Board of discipleship.


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rss 293 weeks ago
slow down with the new stuff, im dizzy!!!!
no really, awesome additions to the fury guys!
slow down with the new stuff, im dizzy!!!!
no really, awesome additions to the fury guys!
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jesuschrist293 weeks agoThanks! its been a busy few days around here, but the dust is settling a bit. Be sure to click on "My Account" when you are logged in and fill out your "About Me" section - it will show up on your profile page (click on my avatar or username to see mine).
You can use HTML in your bios to spice things up a bit. Also I will update the people section with search, and sort by name, etc. right now its sorted by recently active.
And of course the much requested Tee Archive - we went back and forth on showing the old comments with the old tees (some comments are nicer than others (in fact you can still comment on old tees now if you wold like)
Enjoy the new stuff - shoot me a note or post in the forum if something is acting werid and we will get it fixed asap. ;)
peppersagooddog293 weeks agodude i had my profile all fixed up before you even got the archives posted ;)
but now that i have had a chance to look around in archives,
that just BLOWS woot away, best archive on a teeshirt site yet.
the only site that can rival it is shirtwhat
(created by the same chap that made teetrade )
i knew even before you guys finally launched that first jimishirt i was gonna dig this joint. this is now hands down my top shirt site of them all.
*that is way too much nice for pepper in one day expect no more of that for a while*
***also: the server for those sites is currently down with a major malfunction, please try back another time if you havent been to either of them yet!
jecrt293 weeks agowhoa - I didn't even notice all the new stuff until now. Good job Layne and company!!
Crushem293 weeks agoAwesome work on the additions. I now have everything I could ask for in Tee Fury :)
In my opinion Tee Fury is now a bigger deal than the wheel!
WonderBunny293 weeks agoLove the additions! The people page is very cool by the way. Nice to see the community here is valued.
Can we edit posts yet? Pretty PLEASE.
snarkygal293 weeks agoAWESOME additions dudes!!!!! TeeFury rules them all!
eludingsun293 weeks agoi love the new stuff, this site is growing so much since i've joined. i love it.
wotto293 weeks agowell done layne, the profile is a real nice touch
2thFairy293 weeks agoWow! All the new additions are great. It's going to take awhile to get through everything. Very nice!
mrdavenport293 weeks agosuch cool additions layne! great job. one thing that i thought might be cool would be (like on anothersite or dbh) to add how many prints the artists have had on teefury and maybe a link to the ones that they have done in the archive section.
also, do you have to become an artist (on teefury) to send in submissions?
Andy47240293 weeks agoGreat job with the site. Wonderful improvements.
Can't wait to have something else printed here! :)
IAmTheBorg293 weeks agoYeah, this site is awesome. My offer for marriage still stands, Layne. :)
icecube293 weeks ago:o, sweet new additions!
Stormink293 weeks agoAwesome additions! I freaked out when I loaded the site at first and saw more buttonz!!! BUTTONZ!
Hehe. Diggin the archive so I could finally see one of my fav' shirts back in there that was around before I got here.
I like the HTML capabilities. Could have fun with that.
matt2kool293 weeks agolove the new features. the archive and user profiles are great additions. I think one of the next things should be "tee fury shirts I have" so each user can see which shirts other users have bought.
bleou293 weeks ago**hearts the fury even more**
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A pre-orientation program for first-year international students and families
This optional pre-orientation program gives international students an opportunity to get to know the College and each other before the arrival of the rest of the first-year students.
A series of workshops provides information on making the transition to life at Connecticut College as smooth as possible. A special session is held on immigration and visa regulations.
Odyssey takes place Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Participation is voluntary but encouraged.
If you would like to attend this program, please complete the reservation form that will be emailed to you by the International Student Adviser and return it by July 20.
You will have access to your room on Aug. 20. Parents are encouraged to stay to participate in Odyssey and the activities of Arrival Day, Friday, Aug. 22.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- There are events planned all across the region to salute veterans this weekend.
Charleston's annual Veterans Day Parade is set for Saturday, November 10 at 10 a.m. The parade will be followed by a ceremony at the Schoenbaum Stage at Haddad Riverfront Park.
The Veterans Day National Committee has selected Charleston as one of 62 regional sites for major celebrations this year.
The parade will include more than 60 units, including elected leaders, school bands, groups of veterans, first responders and other organizations that support veterans.
The ceremony will feature Commander Adam D. Palmer, Commanding Officer of the USS West Virginia, according to a news release.
The parade route will start at the intersection of Kanawha Boulevard and Leon Sullivan Way then head north on Leon Sullivan Way, west on Quarrier Street, south on Truslow Street and then east on Kanawha Boulevard to Haddad Park.
Organizers are asking people to line Quarrier Street to demonstrate their support for veterans.
The ceremony at Haddad Park is expected to begin about 11 a.m.
The city will close Kanawha Boulevard from Brooks Street to Clendenin Street from 7 a.m. Saturday until the parade moves through town. Qruarrier Street between Leon Sullivan to Truslow will also be closed during that time.


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Developing a college football schedule is difficult enough, but it will get even trickier when the College Football Playoff system begins in 2014.
The top four teams will meet in a three-game playoff to determine a national champion. Those teams will be selected by some type of committee and it would seem that strength of schedule should be a major factor.
West Virginia Director of Athletics Oliver Luck, who was in Princeton on Wednesday for the WVU Coaches Caravan, knows just how tricky it can be to build a competitive, but reasonable non-conference slate around the nine Big 12 games that the Mountaineers play on an annual basis.
"Schedules get made in advance and we have to look our schedules as we go forward and see if we should be able to upgrade the quality of our opponents," Luck said. "At the same time, the Big 12 is a grind. Kansas has struggled in football, but everybody else is pretty darn good and certainly gave us good games.
"We have to be a little bit careful where we won't end up with 12 powerhouse games like an NFL schedule."
Much of it is simply perception. Even though West Virginia must continue on with Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State in the Big 12, there will be critics who will point to non-conference games — such as FBS schools William & Mary and Georgia State this year — as a reason why the Mountaineers shouldn't be included in the top 4.
It works the same with just about any school. Alabama has to play in the toughest league/division in the nation, but there are plenty of naysayers who point to the Crimson Tide usually playing two FCS foes each season.
"My sense is that all the so-called power top-5 conferences will be upgrading their out-of-conference schedules. Most conferences will be going to nine conference games and three out-of-conference games," Luck said. "At some point there could be some policy where you can't play (FCS) schools.
"I think there is a trend toward upgrading that out-of-conference schedule and I am starting to see that and hear that from talking to other AD's. I think the good news is with a college playoff, you can lose a game, maybe even two games and still be among the best four in the country."
That is especially true in the 14-team Southeastern Conference where many of its coaches are fighting a proposed move to nine conference games largely because of the difficulty of the regular league slate.
"The SEC is a tough conference and if I had to vote I would say they are number one," Luck said. "It is a grind, having said that they have gone to 14 (teams) now. The more you have, the more that the chance there are a couple of games that may not be as difficult as playing Alabama or Florida or LSU.
"I don't want to criticize their scheduling, they want to do it for a particular reason…I can understand why the SEC coaches feel that."
It isn't just the SEC. Nearly all the power conference teams have one or two games against 'lesser' opponents that are needed to fill the schedule. Yet, it can be a difficult proposition because the perception of a selection committee could be that a particular team made the non-league slate a little too easy. Luck has tried to improve the slate with the addition of Alabama in 2014 and Brigham Young two years later.
"If you are loading up the schedule with Alabama like we are next year, what if we beat Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma in the same season, that is the trifecta, but I do think we will see the out-of-conference schedules get a little a bit tougher and that is good news," Luck said.
The move to the Big 12 costs West Virginia its rivalry game with Pittsburgh, and the Mountaineers only have Maryland remaining as a natural non-league rival, and that could end when the Terrapins may the questionable move to the Big 10.
"I would love to get Pitt back on the schedule, I would love to get (Virginia) Tech back on the schedule, I would to get UVa back on the schedule, another school that we used to play a lot, and even Penn State," Luck said. "Is that possible? Well, it takes two to tango, but I think the good news is we will see some stronger non-conference schedules as we go forward."
Yet, like every other athletic director dreaming of challenging for the biggest prize of all, Luck knows it won't be easy to find the perfect schedule, which results in wins, while pleasing those who will decide the four teams to play for the national championship.
"I am going to have to see how we can fit some of these schools in without overdoing it and coming into the week nine and 10 and being absolutely beat up because the Big 12 is a grind," said Luck, who said there are discussions of matching Big 12 schools up with teams from the ACC on a regular basis. "I do think it is gradually moving and evolving toward tougher non-conference schedule.
"In college football, there is no revolution, it is all evolution, it takes a while, but I do think there is more discussion about that which is good."
Luck said there are no plans to expand the Big 12 from 10 teams. The Big 12 is the only one of the five power conferences that doesn't have a conference championship game, which could also be used against the league. It could also help them without that extra game being played.
Alabama nearly lost its shot at a national title last year when the Crimson Tide barely held off Georgia in the SEC Championship Game.
"It hasn't come up in our recent meetings. I think we are happy with 10," Luck said. "I think it is going to be very interesting as this new playoff system comes to see what happens with these five conferences. You have got the Big 12 with 10, the Pac 12 with 12 and then you have the other three with 14 and the ACC has Notre Dame so that is like 14 1⁄2.
"The question really is who is better off? The ultimate goal is to get as many teams from your conference as you can in one of the four playoff spots. Are we better of with 10 and playing a true round robin schedule?"
That is a question that must also be answered by the committee in another year. Luck mentioned Wisconsin, which doesn't play Big 10 powers Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State or Penn State in 2014. How will that slate to be perceived if the Badgers are in contention at the end?
"The Big 10 is a great conference, good football teams, but if you miss all the big boys because of a scheduling quirk, is that really fair," Luck said. "I don't know, it is going to be very interesting to see as we go into the new playoff system how that affects the five power conferences..."
There is another idea that was discussed by Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who was actually on the coaching staff at West Virginia when Luck was a quarterback for the Mountaineers.
"I have heard Coach Saban — a good West Virginian and a former coach of mine way back in my old days — I think Nick said we should just really play amongst ourselves, the five power conferences…," Luck said. "If we are serious about this let's all scrap it up and play 12 tough games. That has some merit as well."
—Brian Woodson is the sports editor for the Daily Telegraph. He encourages feedback at bwoodson@bdtonline
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Teen craft day
ELK RAPIDS — Teens are invited to create craft projects "as seen on Pintrest" on Saturday, Feb. 8.
The event will be held from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Elk Rapids District Library, 300 Isle of Pines. Space is limited; reservations are requested. For details or reservations, call the library, 264-9979, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Craft Bazaar
TRAVERSE CITY — Scrap TC, a nonprofit organization with the mission to inspire creative reuse and promote environmentally sustainable behavior by providing education programs and affordable materials, will host a Valentine's Day Craft Bazaar fundraiser.
Bazaar hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Scrap TC, 821 S. Garfield Ave., in the Garfield Centre. New this year, vendors will be featured in the space next to the store. Scrap TC also will be open for business during the event. Admission is free; all ages are welcome.
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ELK RAPIDS — The Elk Rapids Lions are taking applications for grants to fund community projects from organizations serving residents in the Elk Rapids area.
The application deadline is Friday, Feb. 28. For an application, contact Elk Rapids Lions Finance Committee Chairman Bob Bassett, 409-0333 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Applications also are available at http://e-clubhouse.org/sites/elkrapids/page-6.php
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MAPLE CITY — Leelanau Outdoor Center's Snowshoe Stampede will be held Saturday, Feb. 15.
The 5K stampede and one-mile Snowflake Race for ages 12 and younger both start at 10:30 a.m. at the outdoor center, 1653 Port Oneida Road. A $20 registration fee includes lunch and rentals will be available onsite for an additional fee.
Net proceeds benefit the tuition assistance program at the outdoor center. For details, call 334-3808.
Benefit Concert
INTERLOCHEN — The Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra will give a Concerto Concert to benefit the Friends of the Interlochen Public Library.
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in Corson Auditorium at Interlochen Center for the Arts, M-137. The program features music by Mozart and Stravinsky, plus Haydn's Cello Concerto in D with soloist Tianlu Jerry Xu.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens. They may be purchased at the library, 9700 Riley Road, by calling the library, 276-6767, or through Interlochen Center for the Arts, https://tickets.interlochen.org, 276-7800 or (800) 681-5920.


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BRIDGEPORT -- Housatonic Community College will hold a two-day workshop on the basics of art and artifact handling Saturday, Dec. 8 and Sunday, Dec. 9.
The workshop will cover museum best practices of handling various pieces of art and artifacts. It is designed for individuals seeking a career opportunity within the museum industry as well as staff members of museums and commercial fine art companies, regionally and nationally.
Program topics include history of collection care, basic principles and practices of collection care, conservation: handling 2- and 3-dimensional objects, materials commonly used in protecting objects, and the proper equipment to use.
The program is being instructed by Brent Powell, the chairman of the Preparation, Art Handling, and Collections Care Information Network (PACCIN), with which he has been involved for over 20 years. In that time, he has created and run programs covering the best methods for art handling and written for numerous publications in the museum industry.
The Dec. 8 workshop will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (followed by a networking dinner) while the Dec. 9 workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The attendance fee is $195 and the deadline to register is Dec. 3. To register over the phone, call (203) 332-5057 with credit card information on hand.
Mail and fax registration forms can be found at HCC's website at www.housatonic.edu. Hotel accommodations with conference rates are also available.


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By Geoff Gehman '80
Two dozen spectators in a Kirby Hall lecture room are watching a video of two basketballs passed by a half dozen people. After the video ends they're asked to count the number of passes. Their answers range wildly, from 11 to 26.
Then they're asked if they noticed the person in the gorilla suit who sauntered into the video, stopping to beat his or her chest before leaving the frame. Only half raise their hands.
Amy Herman '88 uses this exercise to remind the audience that most viewers overlook the most obvious facts, especially when they're confronted by conflicting information. Teaching people how to read complex scenes more accurately is a key component of "The Art of Perception," her program aimed at improving observation and communication for people in positions of high responsibility. For 11 years the trained art historian and "recovering" lawyer has used pictures, particularly of works of art, to help everyone from nurses to law-enforcement officers create a sharper portrait of "the big picture."
Herman's 2011 Reunion College lecture is a condensed version of her three-hour seminar. She sets a few ground rules, asking spectators to analyze pictures without saying "clearly" or "obviously." Then, with the enthusiasm of a motivational speaker, she coaches them as they compare pairs of similar paintings by the same artists. No one, she points out, notices that a woman in an Edward Hopper work has only one glove. No one mentions that just because Paul Cezanne's men are holding playing cards means they are actually playing cards.
Paying close attention to body language is important to art historians, and critical to criminal investigators. Herman notes that body language led to the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a female graduate student at Yale University. An investigator grew suspicious when the suspect, a male lab technician, kept blocking her view of a box of sanitary wipes stained by blood.
"People speak volumes about themselves without opening their mouths," says Herman. "Small details make a big difference. Small details solve big problems and crimes."
Herman launched "The Art of Perception" in 2000 to help medical students treat patients more carefully. Her tools were paintings at the Frick Collection in Manhattan, where she assisted the museum's director. Prompted by a friend, and prodded by the memory of a scary police patrol run as a law student, she decided to expand her clientele to law-enforcement officers.
Six months after offering her services to the New York City Police Academy, Herman began teaching NYPD captains at the Frick. After the Wall Street Journal ran a 2005 story on her system of aesthetic forensics, she received invitations to work with the Secret Service and the FBI. Since then she has collaborated with the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and Metropolitan Police of Scotland Yard.
Herman faces plenty of obstacles. Her rivals range from cocky cops skeptical of advice from "any museum lady" to educated professionals who make the most absurd assumptions. Herman recalls an attendee at a government-security exposition who insisted a bearded cellist in a painting was Jewish because, after all, "all musicians are Jewish."
According to Herman, many mistakes involve race biases. As proof, she screens a photograph of a woman of color holding a Caucasian infant. Many viewers, she says, assume the pair are biologically related "because it's politically correct." No one has detected that the boy in the picture is actually Herman's son, and the woman is his Trinidadian nanny.
Herman left her audience with a list of suggestions. Don't avoid the ultra-sensitive elements of race and gender. Avoid using the vague term "middle age." Observe before you infer; gather as many facts as you can before you judge. "As long as you can account for what you say," she says, "it's okay to be wrong."


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More than a year after daytime television soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live went off the air when they were cancelled by ABC, production company Prospect Park has announced it will revive the shows online, as the anchor programs for The Online Network (TOLN).
Prospect Park, the production company behind the hit USA network show, Royal Pains, and the F/X show Wilfred, was founded in 2008 by Rich Frank, a former executive at Walt Disney Television, and Jeff Kwatinetz, the former CEO of Hollywood talent agency, The Firm.
Prospect Park announced today that it has confirmed deals with the unions – a sticking point in negotiations a year ago which led to the deal falling through. This time however, SAG and AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are officially on board, as well as the DGA (Directors Guild of America). Talks are ongoing with the WGA (Writers Guild of America).
AMC's and OLTL's legendary creator, Agnes Nixon, has agreed to have "active involvement with the shows" as a consultant. Three actors (Vincent Irizarry, Lindsay Hartley and Debbi Morgan) have already signed on to reprise their AMC roles. No casting news was available for OLTL yet. Production is set to start in Stamford, Connecticut in February. No premiere dates have been announced.
The shows are rumored to be moving from 60 minutes to 30 minutes, with fewer ad breaks.
Once a staple of everyday life, first on radio, then on television, soaps were originally intended as a vehicle for soap manufacturers to sell their products, hence the nickname "soaps." At the height of their popularity in the early 1970's, there were 19 soaps broadcast every day, with the highest rated soap, As the World Turns, receiving a 13.6 in the ratings.
In recent years, thanks to declining ratings and more alternative media options (cable TV, YouTube, Facebook) vying for a limited number of consumer eyeballs, only four network soaps remain. The current number one rated soap, The Young and the Restless, averaged a 3.5 in the ratings for the 2011-2012 TV season.
Soap fans remain a vocal and viable block for advertisers. Thanks to widespread fan outrage over the cancellation of AMC and OLTL in 2011 – and their threats to boycott ABC – advertisers took note. Vacuum maker Hoover even pulled all of their ads from ABC, citing disappointment over the dropped soaps.
Continuing fan interest in the cancelled shows' fate is one reason Prospect Park cited in its press release announcing the deal today. Owners Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz said:
"We thank the loyal audience and new generation of fans of both shows who have demonstrated that passion and exciting story lines are not just reserved for traditional television. Their enduring support encouraged us to move forward each and every day. We look forward to sharing more details including our launch air date and additional specifics in the coming weeks."
It remains to be seen whether viewers will follow from television to an online format, but the move seems a smart bet as viewing habits change.
With more forms of media come more ways to view it. According to a recent study cited in Ad Week, only 40% of adults between 18-24 watch television programs at their broadcast scheduled times. In the same article, Nielsen Media said "the 25-to-34 demo spends about 28 hours each week watching traditional TV, compared to 41 hours from those aged 50 to 65 and 32.47 hours for all U.S. viewers."
With Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Smart phones, Tablets, Facebook, and Twitter giving fans more options to discover, consume, share, and discuss their favorite shows, Prospect Park has the opportunity to do online what can't be done through traditional broadcast distribution channels. With online video, a show is only a click away from the social media streams of every consumer. The social media-equipped consumer becomes the distributor.
If Prospect Park's gambit proves a success, the next time any show goes off the air – whether daytime or primetime – its move online may not be seen as the show's death knell, but as a sign of the new media life to come.
Thank you Forbes for covering the resurrection of both serial dramas. This is wonderful news. Fans not only were outraged, but they persistently fought to make it very clear not just to ABC, but to Prospect Park, that these shows are in demand, viable, and have an audience. Nielsen ratings are not the way to judge an audience given the rise of alternate viewing platforms such as DVRs and online streaming. I am very happy for One Life to Live and All My Children to return, and I hope that as the article posits, fans that in the future face a cancelation of their show, will seek out alternative viewing outlets for the show to find a new home.
My sincere thanks to all the soap fans who would not give up their four decades of inspiring, iconic programming and who fought tirelessly for nearly two years to see All My Children & One Life to Live revived. Very special thanks to Forbes for providing continuing coverage of fans' efforts to return these shows to production. At its core the story of these soaps' cancellations and now their rebirth was always a "business/financial" story about the future of entertainment. Were we going to lose our original, scripted programming to cheaper, "reality" fare? Would viewers/consumers and advertisers accept this shift? Was there another model that might work as new frontiers of program distribution were explored? Thank you Forbes for continuing to bring us the full story as it unfolded, and I look forward to much more as we watch this bold experiment progress. I hope these "old" soaps that were cast aside by Disney/ABC can truly lead us into a new frontier for entertainment distribution.
To follow up on Spin's comment, whether future shows end up on different platforms or not, I hope this news gives fans of WHATEVER genre hope that they have a choice in their entertainment
I Agree and all I can say is "THANK YOU" for all who contributed to the relaunch of AMC & OLTL..Millions of fans are so Happy with this news!!! Paitiently awaiting for the first continuing show of both. I will buy every product that sponsers this re awakening of our SOAPS..and us the Soap Fans.. and "Thats a fact". borrowed from 'John Black' #Days .. TY,TY, Thank You…CC.
PGP would be insane not to revive As the Word Turns and the rest of their former hits should TOLN prove viable. Web-based platforms mixed with social media should do wonders for niche programming such as soaps because one can assume that today's social networks are like-minded when it comes to interests.
Also, PP is changing the television production model by using the old factory space in CT. Once upon this sort of thing was unthinkable, and no 'star' would work under such conditions.
Indie films took off like wildfire in the 1990s. We are now about to live in the era of indie TV and I predict some great product.
This is wonderful! I'm so excited about this not only for getting our soaps back, but what this could mean for the future of online entertainment. Very excited.
Thank you so much Forbes for supporting The Soap Movement. Needless to say how elated we all are and just can't wait to revisit our old friends from AMC & OLTL. Almost 2 yrs have gone by but it just goes to prove, when there is a will there is a way.
I'm very happy that AMC and OLTL will be coming back. I really hope the rumors about them airing on a cable network are true too! I'd like to be able to watch their return!
I have been a loyal viewer of OLTL since the early 70′s..I'm very happy to have it back and will be watching…:)


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Back during a previous life, when I was still in school learning to be some kind of software engineer, I worked to pay the my tuition and other bills by providing IT support in a medium sized corporation.
If you've never done it, you might not realize the amount of patience it takes to be an effective IT support tech. You deal with the most mundane issues on a day to day basis, along with some of the most complicated and technical problems that large networks can encounter.
Along with that, you're usually interacting with people who are impatient, frustrated, and expect you to solve all their problems at a moments notice, regardless of your workload or the reality of the issues at hand.
This makes for some very dicey situations, and requires real professionalism and skill under high-pressure situations. I am not exaggerating when I say it was one of the best experiences of my life.
Because of that, I've kept a special place in my heart for those folks who do this work on a daily basis, and make life so much easier for all of us involved. Even more technically adept (one hopes) folks like myself would be lost without high-quality IT support.
I guess I've been thinking on this recently since talking to an old school friend who now works for an excellent IT support company in England (check them out here for IT Support Reading). I love my work currently, but my hat's off to those who keep the backbone solid.
The main difference between what I do as a software engineer and coder and what IT support people do is that it's very unusual for me to have to deal with pressure like they face. I pull an all nighter here and there even now. But, broken networks with the CTO breathing down my neck…no thank you.
I don't know if you're familiar with the SEO Zen product from Source Wave Marketing, or if you even do any internet marketing at all. I do some as a sideline, not as a full-time income. It's very challenging, but it provides me with a little extra income and is always interesting.
One thing you learn real quickly (or at least you should) in internet marketing is that time savers are crucial. Whether it's building links to your websites, creating content, or building sites themselves, the more quickly you can get things done the sooner you can test a concept or keyword and find out if it's a viable long-term direction you should pursue.
That's one of the reasons that I like Source Wave and their strategies, particularly the "skilo" site ideas that they promote. Basically, the idea is to create a kind of test site for a certain niche, with relevant YouTube videos and textual content.
These skilo sites let you test your niche and keywords with one to three high PR links to see if they'll rank easily, and are worth investing more time into. This is a fantastic idea, as one of the most dispiriting things about IM in general is putting a bunch of time into a niche or idea, only to find out it's way too hard to rank for.
So, the Alex Becker SEO Zen tool recently released is another great step towards making this whole process easier and quicker, so you can test your ideas fast and either move on to the next thing or invest further time and energy.
You should really check it out yourself to get the full picture, but basically what SEO Zen does is automatically create these skilos with the correct site structure, relevant content based on your keywords, adds YouTube videos, and even montetizes your site with your own affiliate links.
Another slam dunk from Becker, I think, but definitely check it out for yourself.
I've been dealing with a really bad flea infestation in my home recently. I probably picked it up, or I should say by dog picked them up, at the local dog park.
We both love the dog park. Chico (my dog) gets to socialize with old and new friends, and I get to enjoy a nice fall day and talk to some folks I've seen there for years.
But, the fleas he picked up have been a beast of a nightmare to deal with. I usually treat Chico every month with Frontline, which works pretty well. Then I use sprays or flea bombs in my house to kill the fleas that the Frontline doesn't kill.
This time though, it's been tough. I've tried all the usual methods, and the fleas are still around and driving both me and Chico nuts. Actually, he at least has the benefit of the Frontline. I'm thinking about trying that on myself. Well, maybe not.
Anyway, I broke down and bought one of these electronic flea repellers to see how well it would work. So far, not much of a difference, but I'm probably pushing the limits of it's potential with this nasty infestation I have.
I'm not sure what more to do, other than maybe burn my house down and start from scratch. If you've ever had a bad flea infestation, you know how miserable it can make you.
I have probably 200 bites on my legs just below the knee. I tend to be pretty allergic to bites too, so it ain't pretty.
I'll post back here again with an update on the electronic repeller though. Maybe it's working and I just haven't seen the evidence yet. We shall see. All I know is something has to be done.
Of course, fall is here and winter is on its way, so that should do the trick. I hope.
I don't know about you, but I tend to collect a lot of cell phones. I'm a shameful early adopter, for one thing, so I tend to want the latest iPhone as soon as it comes out, regardless of whether my current phone is still perfectly fine (which it usually is).
I also tend to collect electronics of all kinds; cell phones, old computers, old game consoles, etc. Partly this is due to the fact that I have an open invitation with friends and acquaintances to bring me their old stuff when they're done with it, and partly it's because I collect stuff like this all the time.
While I'm normally very much a minimalist, when it comes to old tech stuff I geek out big time. I have been known to buy truly archaic and ridiculous stuff at flea markets, thrift stores and yard sales. I buy old phones all the time too. Mainly I use these for their controller parts, but it's also just a weird, pathological trait of mine.
So, when I ran across this video, it gave me some ideas about what else I might be able to do with old cell phones, as well as old circuit boards and other electronic parts. Namely, dig out the gold and other precious parts and sell them to an online gold buyer.
This is a pretty interesting video, so check it out. I probably have about fifty old cell phones in a drawer under my work bench, and I might have to dig those out next weekend and see what's what.
But, what to do after you dig out the gold? Selling it online seems to be the best bet. Granted, there are tons of those We Buy Gold stores around. But, from what I've heard, those tend to be a rip off.
The best way to sell gold is to an online buyer that will send you a shipping envelop, insure your gold on the way to them, and then guarantee you can refuse their offer and have your gold returned if they don't offer you what your gold is worth.
Of course, it's good to have an idea of what your gold is worth beforehand too, so don't forget to figure out the approximate value before you send it off.
If you've spent any time at all building websites, or even thinking about building a website, you've probably come across the blog/CMS platform called WordPress.
WordPress began ten years ago in 2003, and has been growing by leaps and bounds ever since. It began its life as mostly a blog platform, but has since grown to become a full-featured CMS, capable of eCommerce, large-scale publishing, and much more.
By last count, there are about 60 million websites running on WordPress, which is pretty amazing if you think about it. More and more sites are launched every day with WordPress due to its ease of use and extendability.
This very site runs on WordPress, and I love it. Although I've been a coder for years, I haven't done much to change this particular site from the free (but attractive) theme I found to use.
But, for basic web design on up, it's hard to beat. You can install WP in about five minutes, and there are a huge number of free and premium themes you can use to customize the look and feel. I actually like the default 2012 and 2013 themes quite a bit, but I decided to change this one up a bit, just for kicks.
There are a few caveats to be aware of when developing a new website with WordPress though. For one, if you have any kind of decent traffic to your site, WP can run a bit slow unless you implement some caching of some kind. There are several good caching plugins you can use. Probably the two most popular are WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.
Both of these plugins work quite well, and I personally use W3 Total Cache because I find it to be a bit more customizable and suits my needs better.
One of my favorite technologies for the future is robotics. I've done some software design and coding for a couple robotics startups, so I'm a little bit familiar with how tricky even the most basic control software can be.
Check out this video of the University of Pennsylvania's X-RHex Lite, as it's goes through it's paces.
I has a pretty remarkable ability to navigate rough terrain, hence the reference to parkour in the title of this post.
The six-legged robot can run, jump, and climb over small obstacles with relative ease, which is quite something if you've got any experience with developing robots. Those NASA rovers currently traversing Mars are pretty awesome, but at a cost of a couple hundred million dollars.
Here's another example of the RHex doing its thing.
Interestingly, the RHex used to have a tail, much like a cat's, in earlier verions. This was used as balance on rough surfaces, and to help it right itself when it flipped over.
It's not easy to build a robot that can flip itself over, and then back again. Obviously, that's the key to being autonomous and sustainable when nobody's around to help it back on its feet.
So, while we're still a long way from Isaac Asimov level robotics, the pace of development is increasing. Oddly enough, the first robots came onto the scene back in the 60s, mainly to operate in environments that were highly unfriendly to humans, such as steel and manufacturing plants.
Of course, there are probably a lot of union auto workers that weren't too happy to be displaced by robots that never asked for high wages and health care. I'm not trying to make light of their plight; it's a serious issue with robotics, and technology in general.
It does beg the question though of how these new technological innovations are going to shape our world, and change it in ways that are not always particularly positive.
In this economy, many are struggling, and the industrial and manufacturing sectors have been hammered for years.
I personally expect to see the United States becoming a bit more isolationist in the decades ahead, as financial problems, our declining economic relevance, and high energy costs force us to take care of things at home.
It's likely to be a painful process, but one that will be positive in the long-term, I think.
Whatever you might think about Google Glass, and it's potential to perhaps be the most invasive technology publicly available (not including what the NSA has here), there's no denying it's pretty remarkable.
Check out this video of a TED Talk Sergey Brin gave back in March on his brainchild.
I'm not sure the Nigerian prince joke was the best opener. That's a bit played out, Sergey. I think even Carrot Top stopped doing his bit back in about 2005.
I think what we're seeing here with with Google Glass is the very first implementation of "augmented reality," not virtual reality as envisioned by people like Jaron Lanier and Mark Pesce.
Although they might make you look like a dork (well, there might not be any "might" about it), the ability to free up one's hands this way, and transmit sound directly through the head bones, is pretty impressive.
Oddly enough, Sergey claims that the original prototypes of Google Glass didn't even have cameras, which seems like an interesting oversight. Considering how much people currently love to use their phones for photos and video, I wonder what they were thinking.
At the time of the video, Google Glass was available to early adopters (hipsters) for $1500, but apparently selling on eBay for $15,000. Some power sellers were making some good coin off those, I'm sure.
One of the funniest moments comes towards the end of the video, when the host asks Sergey what his wife thinks of him wearing his dork-wear, which are clearly just as intrusive, if not as obvious, as smart phones.
An interesting take away from this is as an example of how Google continues to pioneer and explore outside their traditional search engine space.
Let's face it, they have massive advertising dollars at their disposal, and the ability to hire the very best minds in the world. Great pay, free sushi, and the freedom to explore (with funding) some of the most interesting technological problems is going to attract some amazing folks. Let's see what else the Gorg will bring us in the near future.


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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Opening and closing
As always, here's a rundown of art exhibits that are opening and closing this week:
"Governor's Award in Support of the Arts: 25 Year Retrospective" at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts on Tuesday.
"As Time Goes By" at Katie Gingrass Gallery on Thursday.
Joseph Sinness and Erika Olson at The Armoury Gallery on Friday.
The Flyover Report, art by Annuschka Peck at Spackle Gallery on Friday.
Stanford Art Gallery and Studios opening in Menomonee Falls on Sunday.
"Collector's Choice Benefit" at the Francis Hardy Center for the Arts in Ephraim on Monday.
"Coming Together through the art of John Lennon" at the Waukesha County Museum on Monday.
"Gilbert and George" at Milwaukee Art Museum on Monday.
Joyce Gust show at Jura Silverman Gallery in Spring Green on Friday.
Joe Simon show at Milwaukee Gay Arts Center on Friday.
"Culture and Agriculture" at New Visions Gallery in Marshfield on Saturday.
Patrick McFarlin show at Dean Jenson Gallery on Saturday.
"Flesh, Metal, Ink" and Walker's Point Center for the Arts on Saturday.
"Vested Interest" at John Michael Kohler Arts Center on Sunday.
Charles Winstanley Thwaites exhibition at Museum of Wisconsin Art on Sunday.
"A Shared Taste" at Chazen Museum of Art in Madison on Sunday.
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|Geologic History in our Backyard
Whether sculpted by bulldozers or the forces of plate tectonics and erosion, the surface of the Earth is always changing. Sometimes, as in the excavation for the Museum's new wing, we have the opportunity to see evidence of geologic events which is usually hidden under the ground beneath our feet.
Museum Curator of Paleontology Dr. Tom Deméré interprets what is now visible in the pit: "What we have is layer cake geology exposed in the excavation. A lower light colored sequence of soft fine-grained sandstones is overlaid by a reddish unit of weakly cemented coarse-grained sandstones and cobble conglomerates. These sedimentary rock layers record portions of our local geologic history from about 500 thousand to 3 million years ago. Some portions of this time interval are missing here from the geologic record due to uplift and erosion. Fossils found in the older rock unit clearly indicate marine conditions, with deposition of fine sand on an ancient continental shelf. Those fossils are now in our research collections."
The layers of sandstone, now visible behind the Museum, reveal that a very different environment was here in years past. Two to three million years ago, the location of Balboa Park was underwater. The Museum's location was well beyond the surf zone, as indicated by the fine sediments and species of fossil mollusks found here. (See A Tale of Two Excavations: Fossil Discoveries in the Museum Pit)
With the Pacific Plate sliding past the North American Plate, the west coast was uplifted and the shoreline receded. The top layer of sandstone, reddish, coarse-grained, and loaded with cobbles, reveals a history of sandy beaches and a coastal river flood plain.
Lindavista and San Diego Formations visible in the excavation for the new wing of the museum.
See larger drawings of the geologic formations of
In the top layer of coarse-grained sandstone, rounded reddish cobbles provide evidence of another, much older, part of our local geologic history -- one that extends back almost 50 million years. The cobbles are called rhyolite, and they are from Sonora, Mexico. How did they get here?
Drawing of the geologic formations by Brad Riney 1999


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A study of the major accounting subsystems prevalent in small and medium sized businesses. Emphasis will be placed on the architecture and integration of these subsystems within the business environment. Management and control of the various subsystems will be a major emphasis in this course.


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NORMAN — Robert Rush "Bob" Wolf died Wednesday morning, Oct. 30, 2013, at the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Norman after a long illness. He was born at Norman Municipal Hospital on June 16, 1929, to Leland and Lena (Allen) Wolf.
After graduating from Noble High School, he enlisted in the Army and served in combat in Korea. Upon his return, he married Dorothy Jean "Jeanie" Morris and, thanks to the GI Bill, became the first member of his family to earn a college degree.
As a young man, he worked as a ranch hand, rodeo rider, truck driver, furniture mover, sign painter and carpenter. He spent most of his professional career organizing and publicizing community economic development projects throughout Oklahoma. After he retired, he operated several businesses of his own.
He knew a little bit about pretty much everything and a whole lot about a few things, including music, history, meteorology, vegetable gardening, politics and telling a good story.
Bob is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Leland "Butch" and Candace of Columbia, Mo.; sons Joe and Paul and daughter-in-law Elaine, all of Norman; daughters Kathy (Kay) Easley of Sulphur and Kelley of Arlington Heights, Ill.; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Friends are invited to share their memories at 2 p.m. Sunday at The Deli, 309 White St. in Norman.
A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Monday at the West Wind Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 1309 W. Boyd St. in Norman.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the Oklahoma Democratic Party, Disabled American Veterans and Second Chance Animal Sanctuary.
Norman Transcript, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013


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WESTMOORE 8, MUSKOGEE 0 – The Roughers suffered their first defeat of the season to the Jaguars.
Tyler Bowden (0-1) got the start for Muskogee (1-1) and took the loss.
CHECOTAH GRABS TWO – The Checotah Wildcats downed the Wagoner Bulldogs 7-4 and Claremore Sequoyah 12-1 in the three-way festival in Wagoner on Saturday.
In the win over Wagoner, Kameron Elrick got the victory while Caleb Knight earned the save as the duo combined for 13 strikeouts. Wyatt Hatridge led the way going 2-for-4 with one run batted in.
Hatridge started the second game on teh mound and go tthe win, tossing a complete game with seven strikeouts.Tyler Addy, Cade Christian and Andrew Fands all went 2-for-3 with Addy and Christian scoring twice and Fands once.
HORNET IS FIRST — Hilldale High School's Wesley Wiseman took first place in the 132-pound division to lead the Hornets to a second-place team finish with 99 points at the regional powerlifting meet at Cleveland High School on Friday.
Kaden Weaver (132) and Josh Giem (220) placed second, while Justin Sanders (198), Blake Lyons (275) and Trandon Boylan (Heavyweight) were third, Garrett Ford (181) took fourth and Jamaul Cullom (181) was fifth.


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Soviet off-road vehicle sim Spintires sells 100,000 copies
Here's a heartwarming tale: as of now, 100,000 people have enjoyed the unique pleasures of driving Soviet trucks through inhospitable terrain. That's because Spintires, the Kickstarter-funded truck driving simulator, has managed to sell an impressive 100,000 copies. Never before has getting bogged in Siberia been more popular, with the Kickstarter-funded title managing to retain a Steam Top 10 position since its release last month.


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New Zealand filmmaker Andrew Dominik raised eyebrows and garnered attention when he delivered the epic tragedy The Asassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which garnered Oscar nominations for cinematographer Roger Deakins and co-star Casey Affleck. Now he's back up to bat for another shot at Oscar gold with camera guru Deakins, and the star of the Jesse James film Brad Pitt. The film is a mob tale of crime and redemption called Killing Them Softly, which sounds like an oxymoron from the get-go. Although Brad Pitt has long been a performer whose name is more synonymous with "movie star," he has been edging along in upgrading his credentials to "actor." Beginning with his work for Quentin Tarantino in Inglorious Basterds, and continuing through the aforementioned Jesse James film, and last year's Moneyball, Pitt has seemed to be moving out of the "movie star" shadow by delivering some really risky performances where they might not be expected.
It's always an annual treat when Cincinnati World Cinema brings in the current Lunafest collection. This long-running series of short films by and about women is an excellent way for budding filmmakers to get noticed, and also do some good in the process. As always, a portion of the proceeds from these showings will go to the national Breast Cancer Fund, and locally, to the Eva G. Farris Education Center in Covington.
In any collection of short films, reactions will be different for different people. You may find some inspiring, some funny, some ho-hum. But that's the luck of the draw, and just like with the British commercial programs, there's always something new just around the corner. The shortest film is three-and-a-half minutes; the longest eighteen.
If you thought you never liked chamber music, put those thoughts aside for a couple of hours and see the new film A Late Quartet. After 25 years of worldwide fame, this quartet is coming to a crossroads. The cellist, whose wife died not too long ago, is diagnosed with Parkinson's, which spells the end of his career. The husband-wife duo of second violin and viola are having relationship difficulties, and the first violinist refuses to relinquish any portion of his first-chair duties so that the second violist might have a chance to shine a bit.
Columbus, Ohio, native Josh Radnor is best known for his lead role in the TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." But in his spare time, Radnor also indulges in multi-faceted filmmaking. Liberal Arts, his second film, has his name all over the credits as writer, co-producer, director and star of this tale of coming to grips with how your life has turned out after college, and how his character, and others in the film, deal with the disappointment and loneliness of it all. Virtually every character in this exploration is angst-ridden and looking for something different.
Other than politics of late, the other conversation-starter is always the release of the latest James Bond film. Everyone has opinions about the best and worst of the entire series, which now encompasses 23 films over the past 50 years. It doesn't matter if you are staunch supporters of Sean Connery, or Roger Moore, or Pierce Brosnan or any of the others. All Bond fans are ready to sway you to their point of view.


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Qingshen County is titled as "Homeland of Chinese Peng Madarin Orange" by National Specialty Committee. Peng Madarin Orange, a newly hybrid fruit whose skin is like that of tangerines and flesh is like that of mandarin oranges.
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