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As Cassidy Rice, 25, got ready for Stanford Law School's formal, she decided to treat herself and rent a $1,500 Hervé Léger dress from the dress rental company Rent the Runway. Her total cost, including insurance, delivery and taxes, was $180. "I loved the dress – it fit like a glove and flattered my figure immensely, and I could tell that it was extremely well made and worth a lot of money," says the rising second-year student.
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Jennifer Burrell, owner of The Frock Shop in Chicago, says she got the idea for her company after cleaning out her closet and noticing all the beautiful dresses, from prom gowns to her wedding dress, that she only wore once. "The dresses are in perfectly good condition, and it's a total waste of money. I thought, 'There has to be a way for women to look great for events we have to attend without breaking the bank.'" After all, she adds, "Men rent tuxedos, so why can't women rent dresses?"
Burrell had that revelation three years ago, and her business has grown ever since. The Frock Shop also rents handbags and jewelry. "A few years ago, people would say, 'I've never heard of renting a dress before.' Now, people think of renting before they'd pay a lot of money to buy one and wear it once," she says.
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Sarah Porreca and Jennifer Rosen, president and vice president, respectively, of another rental site, Tampa-based Lending Luxury, launched their company in August 2010 and have seen their business double every year since. "During prom season, we tend to cater to prom girls, and then we also see young business professionals and a group of older women that come in for mother-of-the-bride dresses. They don't want to spend $800 when they're only going to be in the dress for four hours," Porreca says.
Lending Luxury also rents designer suits for big interviews. "It's great for college grads going into the business world," Porreca says. "They can nail that power suit for a big interview."
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Ullian says the fashion rental space is taking off, partly because of what she calls "new consumer acceptance to renting unlike we have ever seen before." She adds, "We are just at the infancy stage of this new way of consuming, and I think it's going to explode." While many rental companies currently focus on women's dresses and accessories, she points out that men are also starting to rent items such as iPad covers, briefcases, messenger bags and watches.
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The Frock Shop's Burrell attributes the popularity of renting partly to the explosion of celebrity culture. "Today, a lot of customers value real designer items instead of knock-offs, and a lot of that is because of reality television and celebrities. We find that the average teenage girl in the Midwest knows what a Sherri Hill dress is, because the Kardashian sisters wear Sherri Hill, or she knows what a Birkin bag is. [With renting], you can wear these aspirational brands for a fraction of the price," Burrell says.


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"If you have a bad race, you can say it is your fault if you look at it from an individual perspective," said Houston, a senior for Dalton this fall. "But as a team, you are supporting each other. You are warming up together, and you train every day all together, and it is a big team dynamic spending all that time together."
But when the race begins, neither Houston nor Pacheco is on the same level with the rest of their teams. In fact, they are on another plateau altogether.
Houston has consistently been the top female running in the area, finishing fifth overall in the Region 7-4A meet and posting a 24th-place finish at the state meet in Carrollton. She has not been beaten by anyone this year, and along the way, she broke her own personal goal of finishing under 19 minutes in the 5K competitions.
For the second year in a row, North Murray's Pacheco was a step ahead of the area's competition. Pacheco, who was second in Region 7-2A last season, moved into the top spot and finished as the individual Region 5-3A champion this year with a time of 16:40. He was first at the Pickens Invitational with a time of 16:51, and he finished 41st overall at the Class 3A state meet.
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They are joined on the all-area team by Northwest Whitfield twins Brady and Parker Cook, Dalton's Francisco Perez and Murray County's Servio Martinez for the boys. For the girls team, Northwest's Natalie Williams and Shelby Wilson are joined by Murray County's Nayeli Jacobo and Dalton's Ashley Parham. All-area honors were selected by The Daily Citizen sports staff with input from area coaches.
Houston ended her cross country career as one of the area's most decorated runners, and according to coach Karen Galyon, as the accolades accumulated, so did Houston's leadership skills.
"Leadership, more than anything is what she had excelled at this season," Galyon said. "She started running junior varsity in the eighth grade because we don't have a middle school team, and we kind of started saying to her to just do the best you can. As she got stronger and more confident she had a lot more pressure on her."
But with that pressure came more responsibility to the team as well. While she was already leading the team as a runner, she took on more of a role as the team's leader in other areas.
"She was really quiet when she first started and let others take the lead, but as she has gotten older, she has gotten to the point where she gives advice to the other runners and encourages them," Galyon said. "She always makes sure the others are giving their best and doesn't leave anyone out there."
The team dynamic is what Houston said she will miss the most. With the Lady Catamounts not making the state meet as a team, Houston was by herself in Carrollton for her final cross country race in high school. Without her teammates, it was a different experience.
"At state, it is a little different if you are there without your team," she said. "But I got to warm up with Northwest Whitfield's runners, and I prayed with them before the race and it was a special experience."
But it wasn't the performance she wanted. After making previous trips to west Georgia for state, the GHSA altered the course this year.
"I didn't do as well as I wanted to at state," she said. "It is a really hilly course, and this year it was really cold. They changed the course and added a few more hills to the course."
Still, despite her finish, which was 10 places behind her time as a junior, Houston said she met most of her goals.
"I knew I wanted it to be my best season, and I had high expectations with times and places and finishes," she said. "It definitely added to the pressure. I got to break 19 minutes. I guess I was a little tired this year by the time we got to state."
Houston's senior year was a culmination of just one part of what she hopes is a lifetime of running and enjoyment.
"It has been my whole life," she said. "I plan my life around my running. I plan what I eat or whether I am going to bed early based on when I am running. It is a big part of my life. I do it for fun and stress relief and just to enjoy it.
"I played softball and basketball in middle school, and I was on the swim team," she said. "I have tried a lot — tennis and golf — but running has just stuck. The feeling when I am running is just great. I am just drawn to running more than anything else. Not much hand-eye coordination is involved, but I guess the runner's high is there and it is a stress relief. I can do it forever, and it is something I want to do for a long, long time."
An avid cookie eater before a big race — "Chocolate chip, but only four" — Houston plans to run in college and is seriously considering a scholarship offer from North Georgia. She has also been invited to walk on at the University of Georgia.
Either way, Galyon knows her runner is headed in the right direction.
"She has been really a strong runner for four years, and she just gets better and better," Galyon said. "She runs all year, and pretty much whatever it takes to get better, she does. She is not satisfied."
Pacheco wasn't satisfied with his senior season either. Despite some terrific times, he finished a disappointing 41st in a time of 18:21 at Carrollton. Moving up from Class 2A the previous season, he said his unfamiliarity with the runners in Class 3A hurt him in the race on the hilly course.
"I started off very fast at state, but that was a big mistake," Pacheco said. "I went off with the wrong pack. But I gave it what I had and I finished the race, but was very tired at the end of it."
It was the end of the distance season, but he has plenty more competition left in both high school and ahead in college. He plans on attending Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., and says he will leave North Murray pleased, but not satisfied, with his final season.
"I wanted this to be my best year. In some ways it was," he said. "I definitely ran better times this year, and had a better start. I got sick midway through the year, but I was pretty happy with the way I ran, and I am looking forward to next season."
It is the future that Pacheco is more excited about. On Saturday, he finished first in the 10-miler in Varnell and has competed in half marathons across the country. He was second overall in the Dalton Half Marathon with a time of 1:14.04, but he bettered that time with a third-place finish (1:12.56) in Baltimore.
"They say you are supposed to do your best your senior year, but I feel like I have gotten better and will get better over the years," he said. "My training has been continuous, and I am looking at running in the long term. I would really like to run and compete professionally, but I want to do half marathons and full marathons. I feel like I can make a very good anaerobic runner."
North Murray coach Matt Chambers doesn't doubt Pacheco.
"He just has what I like to call a young wisdom," Chambers said. "He sees the end game, and a lot of kids don't see that. He can see where he can possibly go, and he works so much harder just for the chance to get there. He has dedication, and few can duplicate what he does."
Like Houston, running isn't a hobby or an activity for Pacheco. It is his life, and his future.
"I wake up every day and run. I will do it twice a day when we are out of school, and three times during the summer," he said. "When I am running, I really don't think of anything. I feel like I am the same person, but you get stronger. I don't think any differently when I run. Now and then I will do some math, but it is about pace and how to improve my times."
No doubt, those times for both will get lower and lower — the solitary work and goals getting bigger and stronger and within reach.
Here's a look at the rest of this year's all-area lineup:
Boys team
• Parker Cook, Northwest: If it seems like Cook and his brother Brody were joined at the hip, they were the entire season. Parker was the leader for the Bruins the entire year, and the duo were the only two runners in the area to go under 18 minutes in Carrollton at the state meet. Parker, a senior, finished fourth in the Region 7-4A meet, and the duo seemed to feed off of each other going back and forth all year with their places. At the Big Harry Run at Lakeshore Park, Parker was third overall with Brody first by three seconds. Parker was 23rd overall at the state meet with a time of 17:41. This is the second year Parker Cook has made the all-area team after being named honorable mention as a junior.
• Brody Cook, Northwest: Ditto, almost. Brody was the top finisher at the Big Harry and was fifth at the Region 7-4A meet. At the state meet in Carrollton, Brody was 24th overall right behind his brother in a time of 17:41. This is Brody's third straight selection to the team, and it continues a strong family tradition as well. Older sister Jordi Cook was named All-Area Runner of the Year as a freshman in 2006. The Cooks were a big reason why Northwest finished 12th at state, three slots ahead of the rival Catamounts.
• Francisco Perez, Dalton: Perez was the best of a three-headed monster of pack racing that Dalton used to qualify for the state meet and post impressive numbers all year. Along with Brandon Pineda and Noel Salaices, Perez led the way at region with a seventh-place finish, while Pineda was eighth, and the pair flipped at state with Perez 46th in 18:22 and Pineda 43rd in 18:20. Perez, a junior, had the best time of the year for Dalton with a 16:41, 13 seconds faster than his teammate. This is the second straight all-area selection for Perez.
• Servio Martinez, Murray County: A junior, Martinez was the true leader of quite a strong pack. The Indians finished second at region and seventh overall at the Class 2A state meet in Carrollton. Martinez had a pair of second-place finishes in meets, with a third and fifth as well. At the region meet, he qualified for state with a sixth-place finish. He was 27th overall at state (18:56), and his season-best time was 17:46. This is Martinez's second selection to the team after being named honorable mention last year.
• Honorable mention: Coahulla Creek — Junior Villereal, Missael Fraire; Dalton — Brandon Pineda, Noel Salaices; Murray County — Ivan Delgado; Northwest Whitfield — Henson Gibbs.
Girls team
• Natalie Williams, Northwest: Williams was the second-fastest local runner at the state meet, a mere seven seconds behind Houston. Williams was 26th overall in a time of 21:43. The Lady Bruins finished seventh at the state meet off of the strength of Williams' performance. Her state meet was her best race of the season after finishing second on the team most of the year behind Shelby Wilson. This is her second straight first-team selection and third year on the team overall.
• Shelby Wilson, Northwest: The senior has been a four-year standout in cross country and track. An honorable mention as a freshman, this is Wilson's third year on the all-area team, and her senior year was even more impressive than the others. Locally, only Houston was better than Wilson, who posted the area's third-fastest time at the state meet (21:59). With the exception of the state meet, she was the top finisher for Northwest all season long. She finished third in the Powerade Invitational with a season-best 21:59.
• Ashley Parham, Dalton: A sophomore, Parham was a solid No. 2 behind Houston and even more will be expected from her next season on coach Galyon's squad. She was the fourth-fastest local runner at the Region 7-4A meet with a time of 22:23, but she didn't qualify for the state meet. She posted a 23:39 to finish sixth at the Big Harry Run. This is Parham's first selection to the all-area team.
• Nayeli Jacobo, Murray County: You want to talk about a lone competitor? Jacobo was the only runner for the Lady Indians at the region meet and was three spots shy of making the state meet after finishing seventh in a very competitive Region 7-2A. A senior, she had six top-10 finishes this season. A senior, this is her second year on the all-area team.
• Honorable mention: Coahulla Creek — Bethany Goodwin; Northwest Whitfield — Caroline Duffy, Nancy Williams, Karli Williams. Southeast — Isabel Salinas.
(Video by Matt Hamilton/The Daily Citizen; editing by Devin Golden/The Daily Citizen)


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Easy Database Backups with Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL
Zmanda offers packages for Debian, RPM and Solaris/OpenSolaris systems and their derivatives on its Web site. A source package also is available. Because I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, I downloaded the latest stable Debian package (mysql-zrm_2.2.0_all.deb at the time of this writing) from the ZRM download page.
ZRM requires the libxml-parser-perl and libdbi-perl packages, the mariadb-client or mysql-client package, and something that allows it to send e-mail messages (for notifying the correct people of a backup's success or failure). If you are running ZRM on the same server as your database, the Perl and client packages likely already will be installed. If you elect to do what I did and run ZRM from a dedicated backup server, these will need to be installed:
apt-get install libxml-parser-perl libdbi-perl \ mariadb-client bsd-mailx
When mailx is installed on Ubuntu, it also will install postfix (unless you already have a different MTA installed), but other MTAs (mail transport agents) may be the default on your distribution. During the installation of the postfix package, I chose the basic "Internet site" setting, which provides just enough of a configuration to allow the server to send e-mail.
The ZRM package expects a user named "mysql" to exist. This user typically is created when MySQL or MariaDB is installed, but because my backup server has only the mariadb-client package installed, the mysql user didn't exist, so I needed to create it. I also chose to give the new user the same home directory that the user would have had if the user had been created as part of an Ubuntu mariadb-server installation:
sudo adduser --system --group --home="/var/lib/mysql" mysql
With dependencies finally out of the way, I was ready to install Zmanda Recovery Manager. I installed it like so:
dpkg -i mysql-zrm_2.2.0_all.deb
The installation itself is pretty boring, and it looks no different from any other package install:
me@backuphost:~$ sudo dpkg -i mysql-zrm_2.2.0_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package mysql-zrm. (Reading database ... 42938 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mysql-zrm (from mysql-zrm_2.2.0_all.deb) ... Setting up mysql-zrm (2.2.0) ... Updating ownership of previously backed up data sets Processing triggers for man-db ... me@backuphost:~$
So what did the package install? A look at the output of dpkg -L mysql-zrm reveals that the package installs several Perl scripts into the /usr/bin/ folder and creates the following directories:
/usr/share/mysql-zrm — a "plugins" folder with several Perl scripts inside.
/usr/share/doc/mysql-zrm — various docs and README files.
/usr/lib/mysql-zrm — various Perl modules.
/etc/mysql-zrm — configuration files.
/var/log/mysql-zrm — empty directory for log files.
/var/lib/mysql-zrm — the folder where backups go (initially empty).
The package also installs man pages for the scripts and config files, and xinetd and logrotate config files.
Now I was ready to set up some backups. ZRM uses the concept of "backup sets" to refer to backup settings for a single server or backup job. To create a new backup set, you create a new directory under /etc/mysql-zrm/ and copy the default configuration file into the new directory, like so:
cd /etc/mysql-zrm mkdir -v backupsetname cp -vi mysql-zrm.conf backupsetname/
The folder can have any name you want. The mysql-zrm.conf file is, by default, completely commented out. The file has inline documentation for each configuration directive, and it is pretty easy to read. For my project, I wanted compressed and encrypted logical backups, so the lines I customized and uncommented were these:
backup-mode=logical backup-type=regular retention-policy=30D compress=1 compress-plugin=/bin/gzip encrypt=1 encrypt-plugin="/usr/share/mysql-zrm/plugins/encrypt.pl" all-databases=1 user="backup-user" password="examplepassword" host="db1.example.org" mailto="firstname.lastname@example.com"
The user and password in the set of variables above is a MariaDB database user, not a system user. This user is created like other database users using the mysql command-line tool and a GRANT statement. Here's the GRANT statement Zmanda recommends:
GRANT select, show view, create view, insert, update, create, drop, reload, shutdown, alter, super, lock tables, replication client on *.* to 'backup-user'@'backuphost' identified by 'examplepassword';
If you set up ZRM on the host it is backing up, backuphost in the above statement would be changed to localhost. At this point, I also needed to configure one of our database servers to allow remote logins. This is done by setting the bind-address variable in the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to the IP address of the database server and then restarting mysqld.
Backups can be either "raw" or "logical". Raw backups are actual copies of the database files. Logical backups are a dump (using mysqldump) of the contents of your database in SQL. Raw backups can be restored only to a server running the same version of MariaDB or MySQL. Logical backups do not have this restriction and can be loaded successfully onto servers running older or newer MariaDB/MySQL versions (depending on whether the new server to which you're restoring supports the same features that the old one did).
Backup types are "regular" and "quick". The quick type applies only to raw backups and only if your database is stored on an LVM logical volume. A raw+regular backup is a copy of your MariaDB/MySQL data files made using mysqlhotcopy. A raw+quick backup is an LVM snapshot of those data files. If you are doing a logical backup, the quick backup type is not available.
The retention-policy variable tells ZRM how long you want to keep backups. The default is 10W, which stands for ten weeks. Other suffixes you can specify include D for days, M for months or Y for years.
ZRM uses "plugins" to extend its functionality. Several plugins come with ZRM, including a couple that can be used to copy backups from a remote database server to the server running ZRM, and a plugin to encrypt backups. Some plugins are just wrapper scripts, like the encryption plugin, which is a wrapper around GPG. Other plugins are just system binaries. For example, the default "compress" plugin is just the gzip program, no wrapper script required. Any or all of these can be replaced with your own preferred solutions.
Configuration and setup varies per plugin. The encryption plugin, for example, requires the creation of a file named .passphrase in the /etc/mysql-zrm/ folder. This file contains the password used when encrypting backups. The steps I followed when creating this file are:
touch /etc/mysql-zrm/.passphrase echo 'mysupercoolhardtoguesspassword' > /etc/mysql-zrm/.passphrase chmod -v 700 /etc/mysql-zrm/.passphrase
Furthermore, because the encryption plugin uses GPG, the .gnupg folder needs to be present in the root user's home directory (the backups are spawned by root). It wasn't present for me, so I created it:
mkdir -v /root/.gnupg chmod -v 600 /root/.gnupg
Finally, I was ready to perform some backups. Running a manual backup is pretty easy:
mysql-zrm-scheduler --backup-set backupsetname \ --backup-level 0 --now
Scheduling backups also is easy. Like running a manual backup, to schedule backups, you use the mysql-zrm-scheduler script, but instead of having the backup start "now" you set an interval and a start time, like so:
sudo mysql-zrm-scheduler --add --backup-set backupsetname \ --backup-level 0 \ --interval daily --start-time 01:00
The above backup will run every day starting at 1am. You can view the schedule with mysql-zrm-scheduler --query, or because ZRM schedules backups using cron, you simply can query the root crontab with crontab -l (running the command as root).
When you add your first schedule, ZRM also will add a cronjob for running the "purge" action for removing backups that are older than the retention period.
To check that your backup data hasn't been corrupted since the backup was made, use the mysql-zrm script with the verify-backup action:
mysql-zrm --action verify-backup --backup-set backupsetname
To view stats on recent backups, the mysql-zrm-reporter can help:
mysql-zrm-reporter --show backup-performance-info
If disaster strikes and you need to restore a backup to a server, the first thing is to determine the location of the most recent successful backup, and then to use it. The mysql-zrm-reporter script is an easy way to reveal the location:
mysql-zrm-reporter --show restore-info \ --where backup-set=backupsetname
In the output, look for the backup_directory of the most recent backup where the backup_status is "Backup succeeded". The backup_directory path will look something like this:
With this information, you can perform a restore, like so:
backup_dir=/var/lib/mysql-zrm/backupsetname/20100607141122 mysql-zrm-restore --backup-set backupsetname \ --source-directory $backup_dir
Expect restores to take a while, depending on the size of your database. In my testing setup, after the restore completed, I verified the data as described in the Setting up a Test Environment sidebar, and everything checked out.
A few questions...
I enjoyed reading your article and hope that ZRM will solve a problem I have.
I sometimes have the desire to restore just a single table from a backup set, particularly, if I can restore it into a new table. Do you know if Zmanda can do that?
On the website, I see a few screenshots of a scheduling utility. I assume that I'm looking at the Enterprise version, right?
Is it safe to assume that with Zmanda, I'll still be using shell script, but the tools will just be better?
Finally, would you like to take a few sentences to make a case for me to try MariaDB? I currently have a MM replicated Mysql DB.
Mike Diehl.
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It begins six years ago in her hometown of Elizabethton, Tenn., with one of those moments when a woman does something against her better judgment.
Alexandra, 46, was visiting the home of an acquaintance and it was there she saw a filthy, hollow-eyed toddler sitting on the floor, playing with two mismatched shoes. The girl's mother was clearly an addict, and it was easy to guess the boarding house was a makeshift meth lab, due to the smell and black trash bags taped over the windows.
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She'd also go through it all again with Rain, who came with her share of health problems. She only spoke a few words and was occasionally violent due to issues with post traumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder.
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David slays Goliath
No. 6 Lady Falcons shock No. 2 Lady Lions in Class AA girls hoops semifinal
By John D'Onofrio
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The tears flowed freely down the face of veteran Niagara-Wheatfield head coach Diane Fegatilli.
A Niagara Frontier League and Section VI second fiddle to Lockport for more than a decade and losers twice this past NFL season by a combined 49 points to the league unbeaten, the No. 6 Lady Falcons were the deserved underdogs to the No. 2 Lady Lions yet again — and things weren't expected to change for at least another long year.
But everything, including the venue, changed in Friday night's Section VI Class AA girls basketball semifinal in the neutral Kenmore West gymnasium, where the Lady Falcons out-worked Lockport for four quarters and stunned the defending VI champions, 50-47.
"This is amazing. I can't believe we did it," beamed Lady Falcons senior co-captain Rachel Pawlak, whose game-high 25 points, including three 3-point baskets, fueled the win. "We prepared really well. We really studied the films and we had a good game plan."
Added senior co-captain Melissa Smith (18 points, 4 assists), "We've played together for three years, Rachel and I, and we've known each other since we were 12. I can't believe it!"
The Lady Falcons (15-6) earned a trip to Tuesday night's 8 p.m. AA final against top-seeded Jamestown (17-3) by doing exactly as Fegatilli told the Union-Sun & Journal on Thursday, "rebound and eliminate second shots."
N-W sophomore center Allyson Czaja (5 points, 14 rebounds), junior forward Kirsten Klettke (7 rebounds) and junior forward Melissa Elnicki (2 points, 4 rebounds) combined for 25 rebounds as the Lady Falcons ruled the boards at both ends throughout and made all the clutch shots.
"We beat Lockport early in my career, but it's been a long time," Fegatilli said, wiping away tears, getting hugs from everyone. "We had a good game plan and we stuck to it. Melissa and Rachel did everything they needed to do, scoring points, and Klettke, Czaja and Elnicki got the big rebounds. We out-rebounded them."
The Lady Falcons opened the scoring and led for most of the first quarter as Pawlak led the way with 10 points in the opening stanza, but Lockport senior Lexi Cheatham (20 points, 2 assists, 3 steals) canned the first of her four 3-point baskets and junior forward Sara Franco (17 points, 9 rebounds) added two inside buckets as the teams headed to the second tied 15-15.
Pawlak opened the second quarter with a tre and that seemed to ignite the Lady Falcons' offense as they proceeded to out-score Lockport 11-0 in the first three minutes to lead 26-15. Moments later, Pawlak swished her second tre of the stanza and N-W had its biggest lead of the game at 13, 29-16.
But Franco owned the second half of the second quarter, canning four inside buckets, including a buzzer beater off a nice feed from senior Carly Kane (4 rebounds) as the Lady Lions finished with an 11-2 run to trail by just four at halftime, 31-27.
Quick buckets by freshman Gretta Dry (6 points, 3 assists, 3 steals) and senior Allie Cavagnaro (2 points, 2 rebounds) quickly tied the game, but Smith hit three buckets after that and Pawlak launched another 3-pointer as the Lady Falcons rolled to a 42-37 lead after three.
Cheatham was a one-women scoring machine in the fourth, scoring all of Lockport's 10 points with a pair of tres, but Smith's clutch 3-pointer down the stretch broke a 47-47 tie with over a minute to go and neither team could find the basket after that.
Dry's running one hander down the lane was rebounded by Czaja as the clock hit 0:00 and a wild Niagara-Wheatfield celebration ensued.
"They came out hard. It's hard beating a team three straight times. They weren't going to go down a third time," said Kane, who along with Cheatham and Cavagnaro played their final basketball games for Lockport (17-3).
Added retiring Lady Lions head coach Bill Shaw, "We didn't deserve to win. This is two games in a row where we didn't play well and we didn't execute well. You're going to get beat when you don't play well."
Friday's AA girls semifinals were moved to Ken West after a leak broke out in the Sweet Home gymnasium late last week, forcing the venue change. No. 1 Jamestown defeated No. 5 Williamsville North 78-37, in the late semifinal game Friday night.
GAME NOTES: Get well soon, Leah Sobieraski. Everyone at the game said they were thinking of you ... Broadcasting the game for Lockport WLVL Radio were Norm and Becky Palmer and also covering the game was Lockport Community Television with announcers Jim Slowey and Danny Sheehan ... Among the many coaches from both schools in attendance was former Falcons football coach Al Pogel ... Athletics directors from both schools attended the game, Mark DiFilippo (N-W) and Patrick Burke (LHS).


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A special thanks goes to Jon Schindehette, art director for Dungeon Magazine, plus artists and cartographers David Rapoza, Michael Franchina, Lucas Graciano, Sean MacDonald, Evan Shipard, John Stanko, Matias Tapia, William O'Connor, and Mike Schley.


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An historic event for the State of New York took place right here in Nassau County earlier today.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled to the home of village residents James and Janet Gannon to sign a bill authorizing a property tax cap in New York. Assemb. Brian Curran, R-Lynbrook, and Lynbrook Mayor Bill Hendrick were on hand for the signing.
"For decades, taxpayers across New York state have been burdened by back-breaking property taxes that have crippled businesses and families," Cuomo said. "It is appropriate to sign this property tax cap at the Gannon household, as millions of homeowners like them have had the deck stacked against them for too long. This tax cap is a critical step toward New York's economic recovery, and will set our state on a path to prosperity."
Under the cap, property tax increases will be limited to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. Municipalities, such as school districts, could override the cap with 60 percent of voters participating in an election.
"For Nassau residents, a long-overdue property tax cap is among the most important accomplishments of Governor Cuomo's first six months," added County Executive Ed Mangano.


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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japanese stocks fell Friday as utilities declined on uncertainty over the future of the power sector, while Indian shares climbed as engineering major Larsen & Toubro Ltd. jumped for a second straight day after issuing a robust sales forecast.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK -0.63% finished 0.1% lower, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO -1.36% fell 0.5% and Taiwan's Taiex gave up 0.6%.
China's Shanghai Composite /quotes/zigman/1859015/delayed CN:SHCOMP -0.74% ended little changed, South Korea's Kospi rose 0.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index /quotes/zigman/2622475/delayed HK:HSI -0.91% inched up 0.2% and, in afternoon trading, India's Sensex rose 1.4%.
In Tokyo, there were concerns over the size of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s compensation to those affected by radiation leaks from its earthquake- and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, and over the loans owed by the utility to banks.
Uncertainty over issues ranging from a possible breakup of energy companies to problems in containing the nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant also served to keep investors on edge.
"It's very unpredictable because it's a government policy-related issue and the current government is indecisive. A lot of discussions are still going on so it'll probably take a while to come to a decision," said Yoji Takeda, head of Asian equities at RBC Investment.
Tepco /quotes/zigman/198657/delayed JP:9501 -1.23% /quotes/zigman/527598/delayed/quotes/nls/tkecy TKECY +3.32% itself ended 2.5% higher after a volatile session ahead of its annual results, but Tohoku Electric Power Co. /quotes/zigman/198589/delayed JP:9506 +3.17% lost 5.8%, and Chubu Electric Power Co. /quotes/zigman/192257/delayed JP:9502 +3.69% fell 4.7%.
At the end of the day's trading, Tepco announced a record loss of 1.25 trillion yen ($15.3 billion) for the year ended March 31, crushed by charges related to the ongoing nuclear crisis.
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Japanese banks also fell as investors fretted over loans they made to Tepco before the earthquake and tsunami, sending Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/310742/delayed JP:8316 -0.42% /quotes/zigman/1557301/delayed/quotes/nls/smfg SMFG -1.44% down by 2% and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/392753/delayed/quotes/nls/mtu MTU -1.17% /quotes/zigman/267078/delayed JP:8306 +0.44% lower by 0.8%.
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Many regional markets struggled for direction during the session despite gains on Wall Street, with investors remaining cautious as commodity prices fell overnight and ahead of the weekend.
"We're seeing a classic Friday session. With the market showing weekly gains of roughly 1% through Thursday's close, traders have looked to take some profits, especially given this will be the first positive week in four weeks," said IG Markets strategist Ben Potter, referring to the Australian market.
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NEWBURYPORT — Today is the last day to submit entries in a photo contest sponsored by Postmaster Paul Bolas.
The theme is winter, and those postmarked by the end of the day will be included in the upcoming judging.
Entries can be submitted to: Winter in Newburyport, PO Box #5, Newburyport, MA 01950-9998.
Bolas said the photo must be taken in Newbury, Newburyport or Salisbury. Key requirement: The subject must be a matter of local interest.
The winners in two categories, adult and young adult (16 and under), will each receive a $50 gift certificate, organizers say.
In addition, the winning photos will be placed in lobby of the local Postal Service at 61 Pleasant St. The best photos will remain on the wall for a year until new winners are chosen.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trade in Thursday's session are Kroger, Pier 1 Imports and Smithfield Foods.
Grocery chain Kroger /quotes/zigman/231658/delayed/quotes/nls/kr KR -0.67% is slated to report its fiscal-first-quarter results before the opening bell. The company is expected to earn 72 cents a share on revenue of $29.16 billion, according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet Research. Same-store sales are seen rising 4.9%.
Pier 1 /quotes/zigman/238377/delayed/quotes/nls/pir PIR +1.58% should post a profit of 16 cents a share with sales of $361 million if Wall Street's best guess on the specialty retailer is on the mark.
Meat producer Smithfield is expected to record earnings of 53 cents a share with sales of $3.25 billion.
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October 24, 2013
By DAVID RAINER
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Although the Game Check harvest-information program is now voluntary, Chuck Sykes is hopeful that Alabama hunters understand its great importance and will embrace it as a new hunting season is beginning.
Sykes, Director of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, championed the program when it was unveiled as a mandatory program with a 24-hour reporting period earlier this year. After careful consideration, Conservation Commissioner N. Gunter Guy Jr., with the full support of the Alabama Conservation Advisory Board, decided to withdraw the mandatory Game Check regulation and implement voluntary compliance.
Sykes admits he is disappointed that the program was not implemented as originally planned, considering that deer and turkeys are the main drivers in the state's hunting industry, a $1.2-billion economic engine for Alabama.
"I still support the decision of the Commissioner (Guy) and the advisory board for the 24-hour mandatory reporting, because I feel that's where we're going to get the best information," Sykes said. "With that being said, I'm hoping the public relations campaign and all of the attention that Game Check has received will give us all the data we will need."
Earlier this year, Commissioner Guy, Sykes and field staff from across the state conducted a series of town hall-type meetings throughout the state to explain the Game Check program and answered questions from the public.
"The response at the town hall meetings that we attended from one end of the state to the other was extremely encouraging after we cleared up misconceptions about Game Check," Sykes said. "By the time I left, even if people didn't want to do it, they were going to comply because they understood how valuable that information is to us to allow us to do our job.
"Game Check is important because every decision we make in life is based on data, whether it's what you're going to have for supper or what your career is going to be. The more information you have, the better decision you can make."
The Game Check program was designed to give the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) data on the harvest of white-tailed deer and wild turkeys to assist in crucial wildlife management decisions. If enough hunters voluntarily comply, Game Check will provide the information needed for season and bag limit recommendations. It will also give the Enforcement Division the ability to check on compliance with harvest limits for deer and turkeys.
Some of the misconceptions that Sykes, Commissioner Guy and staff were able to debunk included one that maintained that Game Check would cost Alabama hunters more money.
The funding for the entire project comes from the budget of the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. Game Check does not increase license costs for Alabama hunters. Other than small Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases, which were approved by the State Legislature, resident hunting license fees have only been increased five times during the 106-year history of the Department.
Another misconception was that the information gathered would only be available to WFF. Anyone can visit www.outdooralabama.com and view the same information that WFF personnel have access to.
Currently, Alabama has abundant deer-hunting opportunities from a deer herd that is estimated at 1.5 million animals. But that is just an estimate. Game Check would provide support for making those estimates. Because Alabama's geography changes so dramatically from the Appalachian Mountains to the coastal plains, Sykes has mentioned before that wildlife management in the state is not "one-size-fits-all." Compliance with Game Check will allow biologists to monitor deer harvest in each county.
"We just want the information to do our jobs better," Sykes said. "Harvest data on a county-by-county basis and sex basis is better information than we've ever had. It's not an end-all, be-all. As a biologist, I want more. But this is a step, a foundation for us to start building sound management plans."
For several years now, the "Note It Before You Tote It" regulation has been in place. Hunters are required to record their buck and turkey harvests before the animal is moved. While there were numerous complaints when that regulation was adopted, hunters have adapted and compliance is high. That regulation is unchanged. Because of Game Check, there are spaces on hunting licenses to record the harvest of unantlered deer. Although it is now voluntary, the recording of that information will assist WFF biologists greatly if hunters will report the harvests through Game Check.
For those who have lifetime licenses or those who are exempt (65 and over, under 16, or property owners) and want to report a harvest, a HELP (Hunter Exempt License Privilege) number will allow them to participate in Game Check. It's available free online at www.outdooralabama.com or wherever licenses are sold.
"Game Check just gives us a much better picture of what is going on in terms of hunting success," Sykes said. "Think about it, we've got the February season extension in southwest Alabama. What better way to track the success or failure of that program than through Game Check. Now how are we really going to know if it's going to accomplish what the hunters wanted?"
The only way hunters and WFF biologists will know if these changes to the deer season are working is if Alabama hunters participate in the voluntary system.
"That's going to be the key," Sykes said. "At least half the people have smartphones. It's extremely easy to comply with a smartphone."
Speaking of smartphones, I attended a dove hunt in central Alabama earlier this year and was talking to one of my fellow hunters about Game Check.
"How is this going to work?" he asked.
"Got a smartphone?" I asked.
"Yep, it's an Android, I think," he said.
"OK, go to wherever you get your apps and look for Outdoor Alabama," I said.
Within a couple of minutes, he said. "OK, I've found it."
"Install it and then open it up," I responded.
A couple of minutes later, he opened the application and started exploring.
"Hey, here it is," he said. "'Report your harvest.' And there's all this other information, too. You can even find out what WMA (Wildlife Management Area) is near you.
"That was easy."
Sykes is optimistic that compliance will be higher than what skeptics expect.
"I believe a lot more people will comply because, quite honestly, I've had a lot more complaints when it went voluntary than I did when it was 24 hours to comply," he said. "There are a lot of people out there who wanted this to happen. Those people are going to participate in Game Check.
"But again, it's a voluntary program. If we had a voluntary 70 mph speed limit, how well do you think that would go? That's just human nature. Everybody is not going to do it for the right reasons. I wish that was the case, but it's just not. I really hope I'm pleasantly surprised with the participation in Game Check."


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Updated Nov 28, 2012 - 3:27 pm
Arizona Cardinals QB Kevin Kolb on injured ribs: 'They feel good'
Kolb suffered rib and shoulder injuries, and has only recently returned to the practice field in a limited capacity.
With his health improving, though, people are starting to wonder when he'll be ready take the field again.
"They feel good," he said of his ribs. "I think the biggest thing is what level can I actually go and play at right now.
"That's what I'm trying to work through, is getting all the way back to, I can't say 100 percent, but trying to get back to where velocity is there and all that kind of stuff."
Kolb passed for 1,169 yards and eight touchdowns with just three interceptions this season, guiding the Cardinals to a 3-2 record as a starter.
The Cardinals have not won since he went down, though, and with the team's continued struggles at the quarterback position, the hope is he'll be able to return in the very near future.
That will not happen until he -- or at least, his ribs -- can handle the beating that comes with being an NFL quarterback.
"There's a number of certain things that bother it," Kolb said of the injury. "And it's not just bothering it, but it's affecting my performance."
When that is not the case you can expect to see Kolb back on the field. However, there is no set date or time frame for when that will happen, and it's worth noting he would not rule out being able to go Sunday against the Jets.
"We're not sure yet, it's open-ended," he said, adding that was about to talk with the training staff to get their thoughts on his progression.
"It obviously hurts where the injury happened, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily a pain thing that you can't play through," he added. "Is it healed enough to take that shot without re-breaking it or whatever.
"And like I said, going out there and being able to play at a high level."
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As I waited for the Middle Creek team to enter the field, I noticed Caulk and her fellow cheerleaders working to prevent the large banner they had made from breaking apart and flying away as a brisk wind whipped across the field. I used a 50mm lens and used the back of the banner as a natural frame.
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The sale of the HSBC retail branches in upstate New York could have a dramatic impact on the status of the remaining local banking powers. If any one of the remaining top three banks in the region - M&T, First Niagara and Key Bank - buy the HSBC branches, that bank will catapult to No. 1 in the region. Rumors and unnamed sources maintain that all three banks are talkign to HSBC about buying some of the branches.
When times get tough, it seems the boat is the first thing to go. Are marinas say that while they are busy this summer season, a softening of the the boating industry is apparent. Reasons abound for empty dock spaces at some marinas - but boat sales are sagging nationwide. Still, as several local mariners pointed out, boating remains an affordable luxury around here.
The state Insurance Department is making inquiries at life insurance companies about how those companies determine when a policy holder has died. It seems come companies are very quick to note a death to cease annuity payments, but are not so fast to note a death when policy benefits must be paid out.
Dickie's Donuts was a local chain long before Tim Hortons and Dunkin' dominated the landscape. The homey chain of franchisee-owned shops reached 19 at its peak. But as competition mounted, the Dickie's shops slowly shut down. On Saturday the final Dickie's Donuts closed. Dave Costanzo, 61, hung up his apron on Saturday after making the doughnuts for 30 years. No word yet on what the shop on Dingens Street near Ogden will become.
The Small Business Administration's monthly report card shows that M&T Bank continues to loan the most money to small businesses through the federal SBA program. Overall, more loans are being made, which is a good sign for the local economy.
Recent local real estate transactions...
HSBC branches sought after, some boaters staying ashore, life insurance trickery...
July 18, 2011 - 9:15 AM
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