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FSU Volleyball Release
This Weekend... #2-Seed Florida State Aims For ACC Title In Conference Tournament At Raleigh #2 FSU vs. #7 Virginia * Friday, November 21 at 6:00 pm #2 FSU vs. #3 Georgia Tech/#6 North Carolina * Saturday, November 22 at 6:00 pm ACC Tournament Championship * Sunday, November 23 at 3:30 pm Raleigh, North Carolina * Reynolds Coliseum (5,000) Championship Match Live on the Sunshine Network FLORIDA STATE Lady Seminoles
Florida State rolled past the Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem 3-0 behind a .727 hitting %age from Susan Hawks & 11 kills from Holly Schneider.
An emotional 3-2 victory propelled FSU to the #2 finish in the regular season conference standings at 11-5. Four players registered double-doubles. Aisha Thornton had a career-high 8 block assists.
* Sunday's 13-15, 15-7, 15-7, 14-16, 15-10 victory at Duke to clinch the runner-up position in the ACC was the first five-game match for the Lady Seminoles this season. For the most part,Florida State has made quick work of its opponents game-wise with 14 sweeps and nine 3-1 victories. FSU has, however, played several marathon matches. 11 FSU conference matches have lasted over 2 hours including a 2:40 battle with UNC. The Lady Seminoles' quickest match was a 53-minute rout of Georgia Southern in September.HEMLEPP'S BACK
* FSU rookie outside hitter Kate Hemlepp returned to the starting lineup last Saturday against Wake Forest. She had been sidelined since the UNC match with patellar tendonitis in her right knee.WERRICK ROLLS ON
* Three-time ACC Rookie of the Week Jennifer Werrick continues to post impressive performances against conference opponents adding double-doubles against Maryland and Virginia over the weekend. In 7 ACC contests, Werrick is averaging 15.0 kills & 12.3 digs permatch and 4.0 kills & 3.3 digs per game.ROOKIE AWARDS PILE UP * Florida State's freshman class has wowed the Atlantic Coast Conference this season. Outside hitters Kate Hemlepp and Jennifer Werrick have garnered 6 of the 12 ACC Rookie of the Week awards this year.
* The Lady Seminoles are currently #31 in the latest AVCA/USA Today Volleyball Coaches Poll released Tuesday. FSU has received votes in eight of the thirteen weeks this season, peaking at #30 prior to its match with Florida in late September. Maryland was the only ACC team in the Top 25 this week at #16.ADD A THOUSAND
* Florida State once again topped the 1,000 mark in attendance on Friday, October 10th as 1,127 Lady Seminole fans watched FSU defeat Clemson 3-1. The 2,782 fans in a standing room only crowd for FSU's match with Florida earlier this season set a new attendance record for the Lady Seminoles in Tully Gym. "It's always been a goal to get the fire marshal in here," said head coach Cecile Reynaud. Tully Gym's capacity is listed as 2,500.
* With its victory over North Carolina on Halloween Night, Florida State earned its twentieth win of the season. It marked the first time since 1993 that the Lady Seminoles had reached the 20-win plateau. In her 22 years as head coach, Cecile Reynaud has recorded 18 20-win seasons. Reynaud is now 563-237 overall at Florida State.
* In just her third match back from injury, Fiona Bolten broke a Florida State record for assistsin a match with 75 against North Carolina on Halloween night. Jennifer McCall held the previous record of 74 against South Florida in 1993. Bolten also registered the first triple-double by a Lady Seminole this season with then career-highs in assists (65), kills (10), and digs (20) along with 2 blocks and 2 service aces in FSU's 3-1 victory at Clemson on October 26th.
* Junior Holly Schneider has taken charge on both offense and defense for the Lady Seminoles lately. Schneider has posted double-doubles in 9 of her last 10 ACC matches notching 20 or more digs in half. During the 10-match stretch, she is averaging 14.2 kills and 15.6 digs per contest.
* After an uncharacteristic blocking performance at Florida, FSU has averaged almost 10 team blocks including a 14.25 block assist per match mark over its last four conference matches.Throughout the 1997 season, the Lady Seminoles have come up big at the net in victories registering more block assists than their opponent in 22 of their 24 wins this year. Overall,Florida State leads opponents 376-235 in block assists through 31 matches.
* Florida State is making each kill count this season. Thus far, the Lady Seminoles have a .270 hitting percentage. Opponents, on the other hand, are averaging almost 100 points less than FSU at .172. In the ACC, Florida State leads its foes .243-.198.NO MERCY
* Florida State has had little mercy for its opponents in 1997. The Lady Seminoles have outscored their opponents 1215-850 thus far this season. Florida State also holds a 862-511 edge over visitors to Tully Gym in 16 home matches.
* Florida State swept four conference opponents this season enroute to its most ACC wins (11) in its 7 seasons in the conference and its #2 seed heading into the ACC Tournament. The Lady Seminoles completed regular season sweeps of Clemson, NC State, and Virginia, and Wake Forest in 1997. FSU was the second seed in the 1992 conference tournament (6-1 ACC regular season).
* Only two players have competed in every game of every match for the Lady Seminoles this season. Senior Christy Minko has tallied 241 digs, second-best on the team, during her 107 games of action. Junior Holly Schneider leads the team with 354 kills, 54 service aces, and 353 digs during her 107-game run. Dating back to 1996, Schneider has now played in 195 consecutive FSU games.
* Florida State rolled to victory in its first 12 matches of 1997 marking the best start in program history. FSU also nabbed tournament championships in its own FSU Classic, the All-Sport Michigan Challenge, and the Florida Atlantic Tournament. The Lady Seminoles previous best start came in the 1982 season when FSU opened up 8-0.
* FSU's 1997 September record is quite a turnaround from a year ago. The Lady Seminoles finished at 10-2 last month. In 1996, Florida State was a lowly 1-10 in the month of September.
* In winning 36 of their first 37 games this season, the Lady Seminoles compiled an impressive 27-game winning streak. The 27-game streak is the second longest in school history. FSU won 36 games during a 21-match winning streak in 1981.IT TAKES TWENTY
* After cruising through games 2 and 3 for 15-5, 15-6 victories, Florida State needed 20 points to put away the Clemson in the fourth and final game on October 26th. Since 1976, FSU has posted 20 or more points in a game against 4 opponents: 1979 Nicholls State W 15-6, 20-18 1988 LSU L 10-15, 9-15, 22-20, 10-15 1991 Loyola Marymount W 18-16, 13-15, 20-18, 17-15 1994 Virginia W 15-8, 15-12, 4-15, 14-16, 20-18
FSU in the ACC Tournament
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Last month Tesla announced that it had kicked off its plan to offer free fast charging (30 minutes) at select locations throughout the U.S. The Superchargers are powered by solar technology, developed by solar installer SolarCity (Tesla CEO Elon Musk also is an investor and the Chairman of SolarCity). The chargers will enable Model S owners to drive from San Francisco to L.A., or the Bay Area to Tahoe, just stopping once to charge for 30 minutes.
Musk has been discussing the idea of a Tesla-bankrolled Supercharger for almost a year and I first heard about the plan back in November 2011. The idea is that because the market for electric cars is so new, Tesla wants (and needs) to help build out the charging infrastructure, which is one of the industry's biggest barriers.
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For someone with celiac disease or gluten intolerance, eating well can be a struggle. And even today, with many gluten-free products on the grocery store shelves, a crusty baguette might seem only a far-off dream.
Luckily, Chef Robert Landolphi has answers to those problems in a new cookbook entitled Quick-Fix Gluten Free.
In his second volume on gluten-free cooking, Landolphi not only shortens the time it takes to prepare a satisfying variety of gluten-free foods; but offers recipes for hard-to-find homemade favorites such as crepes, corn dogs, pizza crust, Thanksgiving stuffing and, yes, a rosemary-garlic baguette.
Landolphi is culinary operations manager at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he has helped build a state-of-the art gluten-free menu for its students and faculty. He is a recognized national expert on gluten-free cuisine and knows what it means to live a gluten-free life.
In the late 1990s, Landolphi's wife Angela was diagnosed with celiac disease -- an ailment that for years had brought her misery in many forms: headaches, hair loss, joint pain, fatigue, and nearly a decade of heart-breaking infertility.
Celiac disease is an immune system disorder triggered by the presence of gluten in the digestive tract. It causes the tiny villi in the intestine to lose their ability to absorb nutrients, leading to a variety of symptoms associated with malnutrition. The disorder affects an estimated three million Americans; and experts suspect that gluten intolerance unrelated to celiac disease affects ten times that number. There is no cure, per se, but a gluten-free diet can bring a dramatic turn-around in the sufferer's health.
The diagnosis was a revelation to the Landolphis and the beginning of a gluten-free lifestyle that restored Angela's health and brought the couple the three young sons they have today. They reluctantly sold The Sugar Shack -- their popular bakery café near the UConn campus – and Rob began his "personal mission" to perfect a collection of gluten-free recipes of the highest standard.
Quick-Fix Gluten Free, available as of Aug. 23, offers more than 100 dishes– none of which take more than 30 minutes of preparation time. (Some leavened baked goods need time to rise or bake, of course.) Landolphi starts with breakfast and works has way through eight other categories of food, including appetizers, salads, international items, battered and fried dishes, breads and sweets.
Most of the recipes were inspired by the fans of his first, the Gluten-Free Every Day Cookbook, written in 2009. (It, like Quick Fix, is published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.) They told him of the foods they had been missing since starting their gluten-free lives. They also told him how grateful they were that his recipes and lessons could restore their ability to eat like their gluten-using counterparts.
Landolphi's sugar-glazed cinnamon roll recipe, for example, was created for his wife, who otherwise would have to go through life without them or their wonderful aroma in the morning. A reader from the South asked for help creating chicken and dumpling soup like her grandmother used to make. Landolphi obliged with dumplings made of rice flour and egg.
Landolphi's version of a Thanksgiving stuffing – another fan request -- has an Italian spin with pancetta, sausage and mozzarella. It relies on Udi's Whole Grain Bread – one line of brand-name gluten-free products he says produces good results in his recipes. There are others identified throughout the book to help the gluten-free cook with the shopping.
As for those baguettes, another food his wife missed in particular, Landolphi relies on a blend of non-gluten flours to create a dough that can be leavened with yeast and also produce the crunchy crust that gives artisan bread its special character.
The chef spends a lot of time in the book instructing the home baker on how to handle doughs – even pizza crust – that don't have the benefit of gluten to give them strength.
Quick Fix Gluten-Free is, in fact, more than a collection of recipes and Landolphi's personal anecdotes about what inspired them. It is also a manual of principles, techniques and equipment that greatly expand the home cook's ability to create original gluten-free dishes of his or her own.
In a section called "The gluten free pantry," Landolphi itemizes and explains the wide variety of wheat-flour substitutes useful in his kind of cooking.
His recipes for waffles and pancakes start with a blend of tapioca, corn and white rice flour, for example. These are some fairly common binders, as are as arrowroot, guar gum, cornstarch and soy flour. But there are others he uses like black bean flour, teff flour, sorghum flour, and sweet potato flour. Landolphi embraces them all and teaches the at-home cook how to make homemade flour blends that have the correct properties for binding and flavoring other ingredients.
Landolphi, who got his culinary training at Johnson & Wales, also shares his years secrets for building layers of flavor into dishes and baked goods – using processed potato chips or ground coffee mixed with herbs as crusting agents on meat, for example.
It's cooking knowledge that is a powerful asset for recipes – gluten-free or otherwise.


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I received the following article about how Dell is using Twitter to engage customers and solidify their brand. It had some good tips so I thought I'd share. (Reprinted with permission.)
Dell Demonstrates Twitter's "Soft" ROI
Not many companies can boast a $1 million return on investment with Twitter. Dell can do that and more. Beyond driving sales through its 28 Twitter accounts – including @DellOutlet, @Alienware and @DellSmBizOffers – the PC-maker is driving a return that's not as easy to measure but may be worth millions to the brand name.
Indeed, the value of connecting with customers and building relationships can pay dividends for decades to come. And that's just what Dell is doing with its growing Twitter following. @DellOutlet has nearly 30,000 followers, and its other accounts combined total almost as many.
For Dell, it's not about winning followers; it's about starting conversations, fostering relationships and building communities. In doing so, the company is building a positive brand awareness in the social media world.
Of course, the return of investment of branding efforts is at best squishy and at worst nearly impossible to quantify. Add the social media element to the mix and it gets even more difficult to peg. Drill down to the Twitter level and some may say it's impossible. But not for Dell.
Addressing Consumer Concerns
"We have resolved hundreds of thousands of customer issues through social media," says Richard Binhammer, Dell's social media guru. "People talk on the Web, and we've discovered you don't have to wait until negative comments are reported in the media to address them."
Binhammer offers product issues as one example. Every technology vendor has them, but many times you read stories in online tech magazines that include customer rants and lawsuit threats gathered from message boards and blogs.
By monitoring activity on Twitter, Facebook and blogging, Binhammer says the company has become aware of product issues quickly and can make moves to satisfy customer concerns before a tidal wave of negative backlash threatens the brand.
Gaining Share of Mind
Establishing a strong brand presence on Twitter also offers Dell payback in the form of staying top of mind with its followers. Dell posts tweets about twice a week to keep its followers informed of special promotions or upcoming products, as well as to launch surveys and offer value-added content.
But, as Binhammer noted, Dell also engages in conversation with its followers on Twitter every day. That ongoing conversation benefits the brand by breeding more familiarity, greater trust, developing a positive emotional connection and instilling brand loyalty. Although Dell has not gathered any specific metrics on these attributes, the company is convinced that its soft ROI on Twitter enhances its documented financial ROI.
How Dell Avoids Twitter Mistakes
Jeremiah Owyang, a social media analyst at Forrester Research, noted eight reasons why brands are unsuccessful in Twitter. He mentioned how brands were slow to the party and lost their unique brand name to some Twitter-squatter who thought it convenient to sign up for @disney or @marlboro.
Other brands, he says, have registered their brand name but sit silently on the sidelines. Still other brands fail to produce relevant content, don't get personal enough or get too personal. Owyang also cites the ROI question and relates it to determining the ROI of a conversation in real life.
Perhaps Dell succeeds on Twitter because it doesn't make all the mistakes Owyang noted. Dell's objectives don't include increasing the number of comments each month, or even driving up its follower numbers by a certain margin each week. Dell doesn't obsess over tools that measure Twitter influence, like Twitter Search, Monitter, or Twinfluence. Dell doesn't buy ads on Twitter users' profiles and track the impact. Dell just engages with its customers.
"Our goal with Twitter and other social media sites is to gain share of mind and branding with influencers," says says Ricardo Guererro, Dell's Global Online Project Manager and "Twitter Dude." "We are creating a channel of communication with consumers and that's important from a branding perspective."
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What can be said? Dell is smart to incorporate Twitter into their marketing agenda. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Thanks for reading and for all the feedback.
Twitter is an amazing tool to reach out to customers and increase recognition of (and respect for) your brand…if used properly. Look out for my upcoming posts on social media best practices, which includes a primer on Twitter.
Satisfying customers needs means happier and contented buyers. Every company should learn from Dell.
Dell is just is surprisingly good in utilizing today's trend in getting contacts. They are just showing how they handle strategies in connection with the social media. I think this could be a wise move for big businesses nowadays.
Twitter has become so huge. It's easy to see more and more companies following Dell into this stream of marketing.


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I am new to this board as well as to bodybuilding. I am 18 years old, and have played sports for most of my life, mainly basketball and baseball. I trained extremely hard for baseball at least 4-5 times a week before I quit playing 2 years ago.
I've been very inactive for awhile, and have grown tired of it. My weight inflated 25 pounds and lost most of my muscle. I'm 6'2 216lbs. right now which is only because I've been training in the gym in addition to only consuming 1500-1700 calories a day for a month now (I was 224 a month ago).
Obviously I want to lose fat, but gain muscle at the same time. It's hard to find info for my scenario because most info I find is generally geared towards skinny people trying to gain mass, etc. Because of baseball I'm really high on running, and include a half hour of cardio everyday after my 30-40 minutes of weightlifting. Is this a good idea?
I've broken up my workouts into:
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I do abs everyday...
I am a beginner and am just now finding the appropriate excercises for what I want to accomplish. If you guys have any advice for me that could help me along based on what I've told you it'd be greatly appreciated. Books to read, websites to look on for information, personal advice, etc...
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Post your complete routine here and you diet in the diet sections.
Be ready to stay committed and realize that changes take time, they don't and won't come right away. Also realize that with dedication you CAN change.
I will post my dietary and work out plans soon...I'm still trying to decide what is truly realistic for me by getting a feel for everything.
Is a half hour of running/walking at a high rate a good idea along with your workout? Will it slow down my muscle growth? I know it will speed up my fat loss...
I wouldn't do it everyday... but cardio, in general, is a good idea.
Squats work better than supplements.
"You know, if I thought like that, I'd never put more than one plate on the bar for anything, I'd never use bands or chains, I'd never squat to parallel or below, and I'd never let out the slightest grunt when I lift. At some point in your lifting career (assuming you're planning on getting reasonably strong and big), you're going to have to accept that most people think you are some kind of freak." -Sensei
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Small muscle groups can be worked more than major ones (calves, forearms, abs.(slow twitch fibers)
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On NBC's Meet the Press, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, told Tom Brokaw that the Catholic Church does not have a definitive teaching on when life begins, and that, therefore, abortion may be considered permissible. "Over the history of the church," she said, "this is an issue of controversy." She attempted to prove her claim by quoting the fifth century bishop and theologian, St. Augustine of Hippo.
"In our own generation, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states it with succinct precision," writes Slattery. "'Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.'"
Fr. Williams wrote that being a pro-abortion Catholic is akin to being a Muslim who believes in more than one god, or an environmentalist who supports the seal slaughter. From a logical point of view, he said, the ideas of being pro-abortion and an "ardent" Catholic, as Pelosi claimed to be, are mutually exclusive."Polytheism is not an Islamic thing. An environmentalist who patronizes anti-ecological activities is not an environmentalist at all, but a subversive." Similarly, Pelosi's position as a "pro-choice" Catholic is logically insupportable.The speaker's attempts to squeeze abortion rights into Catholic moral teaching were no more credible than trying to pass apartheid off as a legitimate goal of the civil rights movement. "Being Catholic" he wrote, "is no different. The title 'Catholic' presumes a whole string of basic beliefs."
"Over the history of the church," she said, "this is an issue of controversy."
This particular assertion is referring to the church's history, not its contemporary doctrine.
He quotes one of the earliest known Christian works, the Didache, or "The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," in which first century Christians read, "Do not kill a foetus by abortion, or commit infanticide."
McQ, are you really suggesting that a single cite of a single authority, from a time when quite possibly there wasn't yet even a conception of a "Christian church", is somehow satisfactory to prove that there's been no controversy over the entire history of Catholicism?
Fourth, unless you are one of those hierarchs, you don't need to carry their water for them.
What she did say is something that is a historical fact—that Catholic theologians have over the centuries seriously disagreed among themselves as to when "life" begins.
And, since I'm not even a Catholic, I know I'm not.
Your "Third" is a little misleading. The pope is presumed infallible when he is speaking on matters of faith and morals. By definition, he cannot be wrong.
And the final ruling he gave was Pelosi was okay and still could be considered a good Catholic even if her view is 180 degrees from the official Church view.
Even if the Didache dates "only" to the third or fourth century CE, that still is plenty early enough for purposes of this discussion
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There were very few on-field missteps in the football career of former Oklahoma Sooners' great Billy Sims. Sims' high-stepping, breathtaking runs made the 1978 Heisman Trophy winning running back a legend both on the college and NFL gridirons.
Off the field, the 55-year-old Sims has had his share of missteps that have received ample notoriety, from bad investments to personal strife but Sims appears to have once again hit his high-stepping stride with the success of Billy Sims Barbecue. He's bringing his own version of a tailgate party to Enid when the Billy Sims Barbecue Ultimate Tailgate Tour stops at United Supermarket located at 4110 W. Owen K. Garriott beginning Thursday and running through Sunday. Sims will host autograph sessions on Friday and Saturday.
The tour consists of two custom-built trailers that include a mobile museum of memorabilia from Sims' high school, collegiate and professional career in football as well as a 50-foot kitchen offering a taste of the barbecue that has made Sims' venture a success. But don't expect to see Sims huddled over the grill.
"I stay out of the kitchen and let the real pros do their job. I can run, but I can't cook worth a darn," said Sims when discussing his upcoming stop in Enid. The success of his restaurant chain has been a pleasant surprise for Sims.
"I was real leery at first of doing this with my name on it," Sims said, looking back on when his latest enterprise was launched eight years ago. "But it has really turned out well. People love the food. I never imagined we would have 17 stores."
The tour is into its fifth week with recent stops in Broken Bow and Woodward where Sims has enjoyed meeting his fans and talking football.
"Enid is a great football town and I always enjoy visiting there," Sims said. "I was there last year with Jason White and Steve Owens and remember when Enid had an arena football team and I did autograph signings there. I always enjoy my time in Enid."
A 1995 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Sims rushed for 4,118 yards and 53 touchdowns in his storied Sooners career and retains fond memories of his days as a Sooner. But if it weren't for a surprise halftime telephone call from Barry Switzer, he likely would have been a Baylor Bear.
"I was headed to Baylor to play for Grant Teaff," Sims recalls. "My grandmother fell in love with Teaff. They were Baptist, we're Baptist, so I was going to Baylor." Until Switzer called during halftime of the Sooners' blowout win over Colorado.
In a story Sims enjoys recounting, the native of Hooks, Texas, who now splits his time between Dallas and Norman, was working pumping gas when a co-worker told him he had a phone call and it was Barry Switzer.
"I thought they were pulling my leg," Sims recalls with a laugh. "I mean, what coach in their right mind would call a kid in the middle of a football game? I was listening to the game on the radio. But it was him. Remember, this was on a pay phone in those days. I asked him why he was calling me in the middle of a game and he tells me Oklahoma is up by 30 points and he didn't really have anything more to say to the team. Then I actually heard the ref come in and tell him he had to get back out on the field because the second half was about to begin.
"He made me two promises. He said I would get my degree and I would win a Heisman and I did both."
Quite a promise to make to a young player. "Except he made the same promise to Thomas Lott and Kenny King," Sims recalls with a chuckle.
Sims went on to become one of the most prolific running backs in collegiate football history, winning the Hesiman in 1978 and finishing as Heisman runner-up in 1979.
But Sims says winning was more important than the Heisman.
"Nobody knew I was going to win the Heisman," Sims said. "There was no preseason buildup. I just had a great supporting cast."
That 1978 Sooners team finished the season 11-1 after an Orange Bowl victory over Nebraska that avenged the Sooners' only loss.
Sims rushed for 1,896 yards in 1978 and was Heisman runner-up to USC's Charles White in 1979 despite rushing for 1,670 yards, and nearly 600 yards in his final two games but by that time the votes had already been cast for the Heisman.
Sims stays in touch with Switzer and remains a loyal fan of the Sooners and believes the Sooners are primed to continue their longstanding history of success.
"I always say Bud Wilkinson created the monster and Barry Switzer continued it and I think (current OU coach) Bob Stoops is doing a great job in continuing that tradition," Sims said. "The tradition lives on forever."
Sims was drafted No. 1 by the Detroit Lions after his spectacular Sooners career and despite having his career shortened by a knee injury, still rushed for 5,106 yards and was named to the Pro Bowl three straight years, from 1980-1982 before retiring in 1985.
"I think the Lions were wondering at first if they made a mistake drafting me," Sims said. "In college we just ran the ball. You know, we ran the wishbone. Here I was, having to learn things like reading defenses, study snap counts. But it all came together and I think we were both relieved," Sims said with a laugh.
While he never made it to a Super Bowl, Sims has few regrets about his pro career.
"It was good while it lasted," Sims said. "Detroit and fans in the state of Michigan are some of the greatest fans out there and they really deserve a winner. I think they have the makings of something good there now, especially if they can keep their quarterback (Matthew Stafford) healthy."
Sims, who got his degree from OU in recreation therapy after being inspired by his late brother Darrell, who died in a car accident during Sims' rookie NFL season, has advice for young players being recruited to play college football.
"At the end of the day, let your choice be your choice," Sims advised. "Visit the campus and talk to the players – also the players who don't get a lot of playing time."
Sims enjoys chatting with aspiring athletes and his fans and looks forward to his stop in Enid.
"You don't have to be a Sooners fan, just be a fan of barbecue," said Sims of his upcoming visit. "Come on out, give me a thumbs up and enjoy something good."
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WAYNESBORO-- On Monday night, the city council will be considering changing the city's noise ordinance.
Currently, the law states that music can't be heard from 50 feet away. The change would would make the distance 200 feet, and enforceable at any time.
Sgt. Brian Edwards, from the Waynesboro Police Dept., said the law would be enforced as a primary offense, so people could get pulled over if their music is too loud.
Edwards said this is a quality of life issue, and that the change could also help in cracking down on drunk drivers. "No statistical information to back this up, but anecdotally, officers find a lot of intoxicated drivers from loud music. I guess when a person is intoxicated, and they're driving, they feel the need to rev up the music really loud," he said.
The council is hosting a public hearing on Monday night at 7 p.m. at the city chambers.


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Standard RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Superior Room, 1 King Bed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Superior Room, 2 Double Beds, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking, Ocean ViewMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
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4.5-star luxury hotel in Cairns (Cairns) near Esplanade Lagoon
This luxury hotel is located in the heart of Cairns, walking distance from Cairns Esplanade and Esplanade Lagoon. Also nearby are Kick Contemporary Arts and Center of Contemporary Arts.
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In addition to a restaurant, Holiday Inn Cairns features an outdoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a rooftop terrace.
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Televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature wireless Internet access (surcharge), air conditioning, and climate control.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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- General
In addition to an outdoor pool and a children's pool, Holiday Inn Cairns provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Business-related amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a business center and a meeting/conference room. This luxury hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, barbecue grills, and multilingual staff.
- Total number of rooms - 237
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of floors - 7
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Elevator/lift
- Bar/lounge
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
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- Business center
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- One meeting room
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
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- Multilingual staff
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- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa tub
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- Outdoor pool
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Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge
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- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Climate control
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
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- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Desk
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Dining
Sirocco Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Accepted at this hotel: Diners Club, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Carte Blanche
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: between AUD 18 and AUD 23 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: AUD 12.95 per hour (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: AUD 5 per night
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- A Green / Sustainable Property - Third Party CertifiedThis property participates in Green Globe Certification, a third-party certification program that has been independently certified. Third-party certification measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. An objective assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed at this property by an auditor who is independent of the third-party certification program.
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Crozier Cautiously Optimistic in Aftermath of Oil Spill
By DAVID RAINER
For the past 40 years, Dr. George Crozier has been monitoring the amazing ecosystem called the Gulf of Mexico from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. He's witnessed the peaks and valleys, usually dished out by Mother Nature, but also from human interaction.
And, Crozier admits he played a role in what he now believes was an overreaction to impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The Gulf of Mexico, Crozier insists, is accustomed to dining on oil tidbits. However, when the well was not capped soon after the disaster, he feared the Gulf's capacity to deal with an influx of oil of this magnitude would overwhelm the ecosystem. Not to minimize the impact of the spill, he realizes now that restraint would have been the better course of response.
"This is not and never was the death of the Gulf of Mexico," Crozier said of the spill, estimated at 4.9 million barrels. "That's a simple fact. And I have to admit that in the initial stages of this I and everybody else contributed to the problem.
"We created the disaster beyond the bounds that it should have been articulated. Hindsight is as cheap as dirt."
For the last two months Crozier has been making presentations to groups like Rotary clubs, Kiwanis clubs and other groups and now is fully aware of the impact the media coverage created.
I even went to Gulf Distributing, the beverage people," he said. "People all along the I-10 corridor are very concerned. They have seen problems with their business. I told them the weekend before for the first time in probably 15 years I drove from I-10 to Gulf Shores in less than 30 minutes. So don't tell me it hasn't had an impact on business on the Gulf Coast."
As anyone who has spent any time on Gulf beaches knows, tar balls wash up on the beaches from time to time, indicating oil seeps into the Gulf from the sea floor on occasion.
"Here's the beauty of what we've seen so far," Crozier said. "We know the Gulf, especially the north central Gulf has the capacity to deal with the oil spill. The most recent report indicates that the Gulf receives 500,000 barrels of oil every year from natural seeps at 600 different sites. So there is a microbial community out there and the Gulf of Mexico eats oil like we eat pretzels. We had the capacity to deal with it from the beginning. Ixtoc (Bay of Campeche) was a huge spill that impacted a 100 miles of the south Texas Coast. Most of the people who worked on the Ixtoc spill told us that within three years essentially the ecosystem was recovered in that period time."
Crozier, however, doesn't want to give the impression the oil spill hasn't had and will continue to have a significant negative impact on life in and along the Gulf of Mexico. Some toxic components will affect the Gulf for years and will have to be closely monitored.
"What we're looking at is possibly three to five years here," he said. "This is the goofy thing about scientists – in about a 30-second period of time, the local scientists will turn from a hair-on-fire, wild, environmentally concerned scientist to the curious scientist. You want to say you've got Jekyll and Hyde here. What we think we think we're dealing with is we've dodged a bullet, perhaps. But the north central Gulf of Mexico is not 500,000 barrels from 600 seeps all over the Gulf. It is one place in the Gulf, 60,000 barrels a day, poorly estimated and poorly understood.
"The second thing, this was some of the crudest stuff I've ever seen and there was methane gas. One of the clichés that came as a shock to me was 'water and oil don't mix.' That's true if it's vegetable oil. It's not true of crude oil. Crude oil is composed of three to four broad classes (of components) and the worst of them are soluble in water. As soon as the stuff hit the water 5,000 feet below the surface, benzene and other toxic materials in this family are going into solution the moment it hit the ocean 5,000 feet down. So a lot of that didn't get to the surface, so it wasn't measured at the surface."
Crozier said some of the toxic components disappeared in the water column on its way to the surface, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about how much is still out there and how that will affect the ecosystem in the future.
"The good news is the things that were soluble are not bio-accumulated," he said. "They will kill eggs and larvae. Dr. Bob Shipp (head of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama) thinks we're going to have a hit on the snapper population before they enter the harvest. What we're assuming right now is we're going to have a limited harvest in 2012, because the babies are getting hit with these toxics in our part of the Gulf."
Crozier said ecosystem studies started when an LNG facility was proposed off the Alabama several years ago will help marine scientists better understand the impact of the oil spill. The research sites start in Mobile Bay and end 35 miles south of Dauphin Island.
"We will know, hopefully within a couple of months, if the samples we are taking are showing the impacts at those sites 35 miles south of Dauphin Island," he said. "We will be able to give some projections of the problem at that point in time.
"What we've seen on the island, Mobile Bay is going to be much more appreciated after this. The river flow, as little as it is right now, has protected Dauphin Island, Petit Bois Island and, to some extent, Horn Island. The water that exits the bay turns right because of the rotation of the earth. Even we haven't been able to screw up the rotation of the earth, yet."
Soon after the magnitude of the spill became apparent, BP started applying dispersant on the surface and at the wellhead 5,000 feet below the surface. Crozier immediately expressed his concerns, which continue today.
"When it gets to the surface, the sun breaks down a lot of the components of crude oil," he said. "The microbial community that eats the oil has lots of oxygen to do that with. At the surface, a lot of good things can happen. We can boom it. We can skim it. If you boom it successfully, you can burn it. But if you use dispersant, and those who play poker will love this, you've gone 'all in' on the microbial community. The tools of skimming, burning and natural oxidation have been damaged. I will tell you that the science behind dispersant use is logical. The idea is that if you make little tiny droplets, the bacteria can get at it more easily. The concept here is going to lead and has successfully led to the rapid degradation of the oil.
"We seem to be over the hill on the surface. The problem I've had since they started applying dispersant 5,000 feet down, it formed a microscopically small droplet, but it became neutrally buoyant. So that means it's stuck somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. And no one has been able to tell me yet where are the toxic components."
Crozier said anyone who has ever had an aquarium knows that after detergent is applied, the aquarium must be rinsed repeatedly before the fish are reintroduced. He sees a correlation with the use of the dispersant Corexit.
"The detergent nature of the Corexit is as big a problem as any component," he said. "The membranes of the phytoplankton, the zooplankton and the eggs could be disrupted. It's always the eggs and babies that are always affected by this – the adults not so much. If the larval white shrimp don't show up in the grass beds in the Delta and the bays in December and January, we'll know there was a problem with the young. I don't think there is a problem with adults. It's always the eggs and babies that are vulnerable.
"But the ecosystem is very resilient. I hope I make that clear. The comparisons to Exxon Valdez are not valid. It's very cold up there. We have, obviously, a warmer climate so everything happens faster here. We also have an extraordinarily complex ecosystem. In other words, if one species was severely impacted, another one would take its place. We have a very resilient, very flexible ecosystem."
While the beaches can be easily cleaned, Crozier contends any effort to clean the marshes, grass beds and oyster reefs would be a big mistake.
"We'd better leave them alone and let the natural system do that," he said. "Beaches are dry land, at least at low tide. Mostly they grow tourists. And they will come back. I guarantee you that the beaches from the Panhandle to the Mississippi barrier islands will be fine next year."
Crozier does expect the Gulf's adaptation to the oil spill to take a significant amount of time.
"I think we're going to have to deal with enormous uncertainty over the long haul," he said. "We're going to see some impact on the young-of-the-year, whether it be shrimp or red snapper or whatever. There are going to be problems in a couple of years. We're going to see a diminishing of our normal catch. I think that is possible. We will be able to tell you within a couple of months. We will be able to make some semi-intelligent prognostications.
"The challenge for us – the community from the Mississippi River to Cape San Blas (Fla.) – is we're going to have to do something to restore the confidence of the country in Gulf seafood. There have not been issues of fish kills from the oil spill. Fish are not stupid. Because the pressure is off, I expect fishing to be good everywhere. The issue of contaminated or tainted fish is a long-term issue of uncertainty that the scientific community and the government regulatory agencies will be struggling to deal with. Meanwhile, for the immediate future, there is simply no reason to be concerned about the fish."
In other good news, the catch-and-release restrictions in Alabama coastal waters north of Dauphin Island and west of Dauphin Island Bridge have been lifted. After fish, shrimp and oyster samples were collected and tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the normal bag limit was re-instated for fish and shrimp. The restrictions on crabs are still in place. The Alabama Department of Public Health reopened the private oyster reefs for harvest effective 6 a.m. on August 10. The public reefs remain closed to oystering by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for management purposes.
PHOTOS: (by David Rainer) Now that the well has been capped at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, boats rigged to skim oil are anchored with no activity expected. Meanwhile, the vessels of opportunity that deployed the miles of boom along the Alabama Gulf Coast are now taking up the material, which will stored should another spill affect the area.


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PERU — Peru Central School Board will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, for its annual reorganizational meeting.
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"Santa forced to outsource; Christmas canceled"
North Pole Kristofer Kringle, aka "Santa," the CEO of the world's largest toy distributor Santa Claus, Inc., announced Monday that Christmas has officially been canceled this year. "He just couldn't compete this Christmas," stated Santa's button-nosed and visibly melting senior spokesman, Fross T. Snowman, at a press conference in front of Santa's Los Angeles factory. A statement released to the press from Santa stated, "I must regretfully inform the world that Christmas has officially been canceled this year. I will be moving my factories out of the United States and back to the North Pole after the New Year to reduce the strain the federal tax code places on our competitiveness. I am confident that the North Pole's vastly more favorable FairTax system will better position the company to become a leader in the industry once again." Mr. Snowman went on to denounce any speculation concerning the deteriorating health of Santa, but did reveal that Mr. Claus was quite unjolly at the moment.
While millions around the world are surely shocked by the news, analysts closely following Santa Claus, Inc. are not. The Wall Street Journal reported lower than average July numbers and the layoff of over 25,000 union elves after last year's peak season as evidence of Santa's decline. Advisors close to Santa have said that a main culprit for the decision was the federal tax system, which was killing his competitiveness and driving up consumer prices. Economists have shown that the current federal tax code places as high as a 22 percent price disadvantage on American products over their foreign competitors. This is because foreign products bear no federal tax burden when imported here, while exported American products bear both the costs of our federal taxes and foreign taxation.
Although this is the first time Christmas has been canceled, the long history of close calls is well known. Most notably, the Great Fog of 1964 in which Rudy R. Nose, now head of logistics for Santa, was nearly dismissed from Santa's fleet after being charged with "aggravated assault while reindeer gaming." Mr. Nose, however, was subsequently recalled as an emergency light specialist and credited with saving Christmas in 1964. Other close calls include the Miracle on 34th Street in 1947 when Santa was held up in judicial matters and also in 1897 when Santa grew ill from children's lack of believing; the New York Sun's editorial "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus" gathered the needed support to save Christmas.
As Christmas lovers everywhere are sure to be devastated by the news, there are still some pleased by the cancellation. Tax lobbyist and year-round Christmas loather Mr. Grinch was overjoyed when the news hit, saying, "I have been waiting for this all my life; it's a dream come true. I've tried old-fashioned sabotage schemes but nothing has worked. This year I got a wonderfully awful idea. You want to know my great Grinchy trick to kill Christmas and make money doing it? Why, by lobbying of course!" Manipulation of the tax code is, of course, big business and the most powerful of the power games in Washington, where roughly half of all lobbyists are said to be tax lobbyists. Others happy about the cancellation of Christmas include Black Bart, who was on Santa's naughty list and expecting coal anyway; old man Scrooge, who is looking forward to another cold and cranky day of work; and foreign toy manufacturers, who are sure to see sales skyrocket. Hope for Christmas still looms as the president has ordered Congress to hold a special session next week to discuss how to save Christmas.
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Twitter Publishes IPO Filing as 'TWTR'
Financial documents filed with SEC contain in-depth profile of company.
Social media giant Twitter made public its S-1 documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late Thursday, revealing details about the company to help the government review its bid to transition from a privately- owned to publicly-traded company.
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The filing reveals Twitter had revenues of $253.6 million for the first six months of 2013 but that it lost $69.3 million during the period. The company lost money last year also, reporting a net loss of $79 million. The tech company plans to use the ticker symbol "TWTR," but didn't specify what stock exchange it would be available on.
The tech titan proved its influence by announcing that it had filed S-1 papers with the SEC in a post on its own website at 5 p.m. EDT, on Sept. 12. Those filings, available online contain details including its earnings reports for the company and the user traffic on its website.
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