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I have always believed BYU can compete with the best. I have no idea what can be done to make the world of sports more fair. It would be fantastic to see BYU playing with more top tier schools!!! I am annoyed with schools, programs and athletes that think they are entitled--so let's give every school a chance to compete, earn and reach their potential! I believe BYU has earned that right! Your article is very thought provoking!!!
- 6:21 p.m. May 22, 2014
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@Chris B
Please provide your evidence that BYU is not one of top 64 athletic programs in the nation, and therefore not deserving of inclusion.
Losing to Utah is not evidence, if it were so then by virtue of Utah's loss to Colorado they do not deserve to be included as well.
- 7:31 p.m. May 22, 2014
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Jazzsmack - "@SoonerUte provide evidence that BYU is not one of top 64
athletic programs in the nation, and therefore not deserving of
If you are building a list of the top 64 athletic programs - regardless of conference affiliation -- one can make the case that BYU is in that list.
But what good does that do you?
Nobody is ranking the top 64 teams and drawing a line and saying "this is the new division". The division is based on the SCHEDULE you play. You will never have a convincing argument that BYU plays a major schedule until they schedule 9 teams from the major conferences. "On paper" is not good enough. We prove things on the field now.
Imagine 3 unbeaten teams, Ohio State, Oregon, and Alabama, but Alabama has played BYU's 2014 schedule. Which two teams earned the right to play for the National Title?
(Hint: Not Alabama)
If BYU is not included, your complaint is with Tom Holmoe for not creating a major schedule.
And would you really want that? Look what happened to UU and TCU when they started major schedules. Such would be BYU's fate. On field results say so.
- 8:01 p.m. May 22, 2014
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Those of you who say just win and everything will be ok are WRONG.
BYU wins more games than 80% of the teams out there - and things are NOT ok. We are easily one of the top 64 teams, but we ARE NOT one of the top 20 teams and with restrictions we face in recruiting, never will be.
Boise State won and won and won and where did it get them? What makes you think BYU is any different?
BYU faces several problems. One is bigotry, like it or not. Look at the majority of Christians that claim we are not "one of them". You think they are predisposed to letting BYU join their conference? The second is geography. We don't fit any major conference, except the PAC10, and we know we are not going there. Third is Sunday play - a huge problem which we know BYU will never give in on.
So are you willing to simply sit back and HOPE that we get invited to the dance? As this article points out, we should scream, holler and do what it takes to get what we deserve. Otherwise, we will be left out, mark it down.
- 8:09 p.m. May 22, 2014
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@Chris B.
I know that you know that BYU would have received an invite if we weren't a faith based institution. Obviously the PAC-12 would rather of had Utah and BYU rather than Colorado. The reason BYU wasn't invited was because ALL of the schools already in the conference have to vote for the college to be accepted. There are a number of schools (Stanford, Cal) who would never vote BYU in due to our religious affiliation. Also you mention that no Power-5 conference wants BYU. If I remember correctly the BIG-12 wanted BYU and it was a done deal until BYU said no to giving up T.V. rights.
BYU is definitely better than at least half of the teams in the Power-5 conferences. I do think BYU will join a conference eventually. The BIG-12 makes the most sense, as the PAC-12's liberal schools would never accept BYU.
- 8:20 p.m. May 22, 2014
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US News & World Report: BYU #62, U. of Utah #121
Forbes: BYU #75, U. of Utah #143
- 8:22 p.m. May 22, 2014
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Here are the facts.
BYU was not invited to join the Big 12
Very few, if any conversations were even held
BYU was strongly considered at one time to join the PAC
BYU was recruited by the SWC but would not bail on Utah
Sunday play was not part of the Big 12 not taking BYU as BYU was never in the running
TV was not in part of the Big 12 not taking BYU as BYU was never in the running
The arrogance of BYU being dissed by the Big 12 is a myth conjured up by the BYU haters
BYU is a top perennial top 25 athletic school and has been for years
BYU was not taken by the PAC 12 because of Cultural differences
PAC 12 admission is by unanimous vote of school presidents
The majority of PAC 12 school presidents would take BYU but that is not in play
MWC member schools hated BYU as evidenced by Gary Patterson's and other schools hateful comments and attitudes
BYU was used and abused by the MWC
BYU was prepared for many years to move to independence
BYU's independence move was NOT a knee jerk reaction
- 8:27 p.m. May 22, 2014
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P5 Teams who have never won a national championship: Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, West Virginia, Iowa State, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Arizona, Arizona State, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and (wait for it) Utah. And there are several P5's (Like Cal and Stanford) who won their NC in the 1920s (just for anyone who is saying 1984 was so long ago.) This isn't a question of whether or not BYU is relevant in college football. Of course they are. They also have a Heisman Trophy in their case as well. This is an issue of not wanting to share money. I can't imagine any true college football fan who wants to shut our half of the FBS teams from competing.
- 8:35 p.m. May 22, 2014
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CougarColby said it perfectly:
re: A1194:"If the P5 schools want to create a bigger D1 league without BYU...then we need to play better so they have to include us." We are 2-12 against ranked opponents-our product isn't there NOW-who cares about 1984. The kids playing now weren't even born!
"I honestly believe that BYU will be in the FCS division in the coming years because football isn't the most important thing at BYU." I hope sports arent dropped all together ala BYU Hawaii and Ricks...
I ask you-if we were in the PAC where would we finish? Honestly. 10th? (we being member 13) ahd of Wash St, Cal, Colorado?
Wash-no lost
Utah-no lost
OSU- no
take your heart out of it...anyone diagree? if so u rank em
- 9:10 p.m. May 22, 2014
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It seems that a lot of Utah "fans" simply are not getting the point. The author of the article used facts that can be easily verified for why BYU should be given a chance to compete for a NC as part of a P5 conference or at least get a Notre Dame "exception." If I remember correctly, when Utah broke into the BCS in 2004 and especially in 2008, wasn't there a lot of Utah fans that were complaining about how the BCS was unfair and the team should have been given a shot at the national championship? Yes, BYU hasn't won a BCS game, but again, as stated in the article, BYU's resume speaks for itself. As I've stated in other posts, I think Utah "fans" are happy about BYU's struggles simply because its BYU. If it were almost any other team or even Utah themselves, Ute "fans" would more than likely be saying the same things a lot of BYU fans are saying now.
- 9:27 p.m. May 22, 2014
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So what? Yale and Army both dwarf anything BYU has done in terms of awards. Should they be considered a P5 opponent?
If BYU wants respect, schedule a P5 schedule and WIN. Using the courts to manufacture respect for your football program will not work.
- 9:57 p.m. May 22, 2014
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I can stand up all I want and scream "I won't take it anymore," but
all that is going to happen is my wife will tell me to be quiet, she is trying
to sleep.
To be heard, BYU has to win games and have a phenomenal season. They have not done that recently.
- 10:29 p.m. May 22, 2014
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@You are "Kidding, "Please do us all a favor. Please provide us with
the empirical evidence that justified Utah's inclusion in AND BYU's
exclusion from a P5 conference based on "on the field" performance"
and from the article"Can anyone make an argument that BYU does not possess a
…. top 60 football program?"
Consider the following:
1. Majority of the "experts" would rank TCU and Utah ahead of BYU in the years prior to their admission to the PAC-12 and Big 12. (Consider the 20 years prior – not the period 40-20 years prior. A question of what have you done recently)
2.Both TCU and Utah have struggled in the 3 years of current conference membership.
3.BYU fans are quick to say Utah is "bottom-dweller" of PAC-12 and are "grouped with teams they consider the lowest of the major conferences. (names mentioned include Iowa State, Vanderbuilt, etc)
4.Yet Utah has beaten the Y 9 of the last 12 years and the last 4.
(to be continued)
- 10:42 p.m. May 22, 2014
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Folks, there is nothing to panic about. We're scheduling great games out into the future. Many other big teams will continue to play us because we travel well and because they get to be seen on ESPN when they play in Provo. We even play in bowl games every year; not every team can say that. ;)
- 10:45 p.m. May 22, 2014
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5.Is BYU better than most fans and"experts" believe? For the past two years (at least) BYU has won the number of games predicted in Preseason. Last year they played 7 teams from the 5 top conferences. They defeated Texas! (a 5 loss Texas team). However that "good" win was more than offset by the inexplicable loss to Virginia.
6.They have no chance to win a big game this year that would make a case for them being better than people believe. Why – because of a strength of schedule in the mid-nineties (Not 1 of the Big 5 conference members will play a schedule any where as weak as this one)they are favored in 11 of their games with Texas being a "toss-up" (So no chance to impress as Utah did when they defeated then #5 Stanford last season and Alabama in '08 Sugar Bowl)
This is just an "argument" that BYU doe not have a top 60 football team. However, If Utah is as bad as many BYU fans say they are applying logic to the past 3 years results leads to a plausible position.
- 10:46 p.m. May 22, 2014
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Unfortunately the author of this article shares the same sentiment as other BYU
fans. They "deserve" and "belong." Sounds selfish and
Sorry, it does not work that way. Pouting and calling out major conferences only widens the gap between you and them.
- 12:00 a.m. May 23, 2014
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SPANISH FORK, UT said:
"The big picture is about discrimination of other college programs in the NCAA. What right does certain conferences have to create a monopoly of college football for the intent to control the direction of money channeled in the college football industry? ….."
Because they can. The major conferences are fast approaching a time when they will have the power to break away from NCAA authority. And when they do, the tv contracts, money and fans will follow.
- 12:02 a.m. May 23, 2014
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Did you Utah "fans" even read the article? If you did, you would know that, like the author wrote, no one can honestly give a good reason as to why BYU shouldn't be given the chance to "play with the big boys." Because you think BYU doesn't deserve a chance, does that mean the rankings the author used like the Director's Cup ranking, ESPN's all-time college football prestige ranking, and Sports Illustrated's "Program Pecking Order" mean nothing? Do the people who work for ESPN and Sports Illustrated know nothing about college football? I think some Utah "fans" are just upset that BYU is ranked higher than Utah in several polls and ranking systems by people who know what they are talking about. Let the excuses fly!
- 12:11 a.m. May 23, 2014
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Saint George, UT
@MyPerspective said:
"Utah's academics are not better than BYU's. Each school has certain programs and certain schools that are better, but overall they are essentially equal. The Pac 12 got the salt lake market while not having to bringing in a church school. Anyone who followed expansion knows there was no chance BYU would be invited to the pac because of their association with the Mormon church."
Sorry but you need to do more research. The PAC 12 has a set of criteria to join. Yes it's true that to some degree that BYU was not invited because it's a religious school. BYU fans need to remember here that when Texas, Oklahoma and the others were invited. Some politicians demanded that Baylor be part of the deal. The PAC 12 said no. Baylor is also a religious school, and actually brings little to the table as far as research and academics. So please stop playing the LDS discrimination card when talking about the PAC 12.
- 12:12 a.m. May 23, 2014
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Centerville, UT said:
"P5 Teams who have never won a national championship: Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, West Virginia, Iowa State, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Arizona, Arizona State, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and (wait for it) Utah. And there are several P5's (Like Cal and Stanford) who won their NC in the 1920s (just for anyone who is saying 1984 was so long ago.) This isn't a question of whether or not BYU is relevant in college football. Of course they are. They also have a Heisman Trophy in their case as well. This is an issue of not wanting to share money. I can't imagine any true college football fan who wants to shut our half of the FBS teams from competing."
Yeah never mind the fact that Kansas is a basketball power, UA & ASU have won NCAA titles in several sports. Oregon State has college world series titles, Duke & N. Carolina are also basketball powers. There are other national titles with the schools you listed. Why do you only bring up Football?
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I'm using Grails 2.0 and trying to add a status update messages to a gsp associated with a form where the processing of the form could take up to a few minutes. I've reviewed numerous examples and it seems pretty straightforward but it's still not working.
I've included the following in main.gsp:
<g:javascript library="jquery" />
Here's the form with the status message field just before it:

<g:formRemote name="importForm" update="statusUpdates"
url="[controller: 'importSession', action:'save']">
I issue numerous status updates in the save action of the controller:
render "Connecting to server"
render "Logging in"
But nothing ever shows up inside the div. I've looked at viewSource on the page and see these fragments:

<meta name="layout" content="main">

<form onsubmit="jQuery.ajax({type:'POST',data:jQuery(this).serialize(), url:'/PepperIn/importSession/save',success:function(data,textStatus){jQuery('#statusUpdates').html(data);},error:function(XMLHttpRequest,textStatus,errorThrown){}});return false" method="post" action="/PepperIn/importSession/save" id="importForm">
<fieldset class="form">
Any suggestions on where to look next?


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Just weeks before Mike died, Julia was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer (what Mike called her "sympathy cancer"), and within days of burying her brother she underwent a radical hysterectomy, beginning her own journey through "the International House of Cancer".
Drawing from these Job-like travails, Julia wrote this remarkably funny and touching monologue about a family that managed to persevere with humor, grace, and love.
There's lots more Julia Sweeney available at Audible®! Just click here to download In the Family Way, her appearances on This American Life, her Un-Cabaret performances, and other great programs.
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"A grand achievement...a lesson in love and tolerance." (USA Today)
"Sweeney offers living proof that laughter is the only revenge." (The San Francisco Chronicle)
humorist and author
"Laugh out loud from start to finish"
I was sitting behind my husband on a long motorcycle ride and we were each listening to our own thing thru our helmets. He was listening to The Economist, and I was listening to Julia Sweeney. Guess who kept laughing out loud the whole way home!
"So Touching and Funny"
Julia Sweeney is an amazing storyteller and comedian. She can take you on a journey through some big issues and make you laugh along the way. The beautiful thing is that the laughs are real, but they do not take anything away from the gravity of the events in the story. She's an amazing talent.
In this particular piece of work Julia takes us through the trials of her brother dying of cancer, being diagnosed with cancer herself, and having her parents come to live with her. It's both touching and hilarious in a way that I don't think many other artists could create.
"Cancer why me?"
She is taking a not so funny Life experience, and turning it into a laughable thing.
no sorry...
I share some of this experience. If it is not one thing It is another, and could empathize..It seems when trouble comes it really multiplies!
"Ok, never great"
It was reasonably entertaining, but never really, really sad or really, really funny. I don't regret buying it, but after listening to it, I decided I did not need to listen to her other books.
amateur ethnomusicologist
"Spend yer money on this!"
Julia Sweeney is VERY funny, and this remembrance of her life is mostly funny. When it isn't funny, it's touching. We were on a long trip as a family & the teenagers & the adults all really enjoyed it. The only reason this doesn't get 5 stars is that it isn't long enough! So don't spend a whole credit, but DO spend yer money on this.
"Never look at religion the same again."
Julia goes through her life and what led to her decision to laugh at God. My advice is if your not ready to see the wizard behind the curtain then stay away. If you want a look at life differently then this is for you.
"Terrible Quality Recording-but darkly funny"
There are long empty spaces on this recording. The speaker is not pausing, there are at least half a dozen blank spots on the recording, no background sound. Weird. The the story is pretty good and very funny at times if you like dark humor.
My preference for a good story is something totally unusual and not run of the mill stuff. Give me something I haven't heard before.
"Feeling good about being down..."
This is a bit more sober than Letting Go of God, but still keeps an up lift through it all. I see the lesson in keeping one's humor in the dull light of hell on earth. Life is tough enough, keep up the wit and sly grins, Julia. We all should.
loved it; absolutely loved it
"Highly authentic and enterntaining"
I love the way she tells the story, she makes you laugh at the same time she shares her life experiences and how she overcame what she had to go through and go on with her life. Truly enjoyable.
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Place most of your weight on your right leg and draw your left heel to the inner thigh of the right leg.
Steady your gaze and connect with your breath.
Keep the left knee turning out, and gently tuck your tailbone, as you extend out throughout the crown of the head.
With the hands in prayer position, press the palms together, at the same time press the inner thigh and the sole of the foot together.
Extend a line of energy all the way through the top of the head down through the standing leg.


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Big Ten Tales: Kicking it with Morten Andersen
What would it be like to move to a new country, play one year of high school football, and then go on to become one of the greatest placekickers in NFL history? That's exactly what happened with former Michigan State All-American kicker Morten Andersen. I recently spoke with Andersen and asked him to share some of his best, untold stories during his playing days at Michigan State.


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Bayh's Filibuster Reform Proposals
Evan Bayh, on his way out the door, has a variety of ideas for making the Senate work better. Most interesting are his filibuster proposals:
[F]ilibusters should require 35 senators to sign a public petition and make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.
Filibusters should also be limited to no more than one for any piece of legislation. Currently, the decision to begin debate on a bill can be filibustered, followed by another filibuster on each amendment, followed by yet another filibuster before a final vote. This leads to multiple legislative delays and effectively grinds the Senate to a halt.
What's more, the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
The middle paragraph highlights a point that I think doesn't get enough attention—the amount of time-consuming delay that a minority smaller than 40 can create under the current rules. As for the rest, these are good ideas but I would prefer instead an alternative in use in the Maryland State Senate, the Assemblé National of France, the Virginia House of Delegates, the United Nations General Assembly, and the US House of Representatives where you count the "yes" votes and you count the "no" votes and the side with more votes wins. It's a pretty good decision-procedure! Especially for a system that has a number of other veto points.
But it's good to see Bayh taking these issues up. I wish he would stay in the Senate and fight for his ideas as tenaciously as he's fought for lower taxes on the children of multi-millionaires.


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Released: Sep 01st, 1997
Running Time: 140
Company: Anabolic Video
Cast: Tony Montana, Woody Long, Jon Dough, Suzy (I), Christophe Clark, Jennifer (I), Sylvia (I), Erica Bella, Bambi (I), Jay Cobb, Tom Byron, Jennifer (II), Mark Davis, Mickey G.
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo
For those who like unadorned, straight ahead, basic, hardcore sex, Anabolic delivers again. There are six scenes here, three threesomes and three couples. Things get off to a good start as Bambi, a blonde bombshell with an awesome, heat-seeking ass, takes on four guys. After getting it in every hole from every angle – and from every guy – she finishes the scene by licking their spent jizz off a sheet of glass. (The camera catches it all from the other side.)
The outstanding scene is the last, featuring angelic blonde Czech Sylvia, who takes on Vince Vouyer and Mark Davis in a blistering three-way that includes two dicks in her ass at once. Ouch! Then a double facial. Yes!
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Friends of Murray Library at Messiah College was formed in 1993 for the following purposes:
- To stimulate interest in the collections and facilities of Murray Library.
- To provide an opportunity for those interested in the library to participate in exhibits, programs, and volunteer activities.
- To attract gifts of books, manuscripts, and other materials for the library's enrichment.
- To encourage and receive financial contributions for needs beyond the library budget, such as building special collections.
Friends of Murray Library Bylaws
- To review bylaws click here.
Special Collections
Each of Murray Library's four special collections traces its beginning to Friends of Murray Library.
- Artists' Books - Visually exciting and intellectually provocative, artists' books push to the outermost limits our assumed definition of what a book is, and turn the practice of reading into a novel experience. Simply defined, artists' books are a hybrid art form in which books and art intersect. Many of the over 100 artists' books in Murray Library's collection are the work of well-known book artists, including works by Messiah College art faculty. Friends funds new acquisitions to the collection each year, enhancing its use as an interdisciplinary teaching resource. To view an online brochure of the Artists' Books collection, click here
- Ruth E. Engle Memorial Collection of Children's Book Illustration - Dedicated in April 2004, this collection of original picture-book art by award-winning illustrators was established with gifts given to Friends of Murray Library in memory of Ruth Engle, a charter member who also served on its board. New artworks are added to the collection annually, funded by Friends and gifts from donors. Currently, more than two dozen artworks are on display, reflecting a variety of media, styles and subjects and including works by illustrators from Australia, China, Korea, Mali and Russia, as well as the USA. View the online portfolio featuring 15 of the more than 30 works currently in the collection. For a list of other illustrators represented in the collection, click here. Better still, visit the collection, free of charge, during library hours.
- Canadian Literature - Friends committed more than $10,000 to establish this special collection, currently consisting of more than 800 titles by such influential Canadian authors as Margaret Atwood, Rudy Wiebe, Robertson Davies, Leonard Cohen and Alice Munro, each identified by a Friends-commissioned bookplate. The collection is being expanded to include poetry, plays, critical and other non-fiction works.
- W. Jim Neidhardt Collection on Religion and Science - Dr. W. Jim Neidhardt's keen interest in the relationship between modern science and the Christian faith, as well as the presence of several longtime friends at Messiah College, led him to give his extensive personal library of Murray Library. Subject areas in the collection are astonishingly diverse, ranging from physics, engineering and theology to cybernetics, chaos theory and aesthetics. A Friends-commissioned bookplate bearing Neidhardt's likeness portrays aspects of his lifework and identifies volumes in the collection.
- Friends 14th Annual Dinner & Program takes place Thursday evening, 24 September 2015, in the Hollinger Atrium Lounge of the Jordan Science Center.
This year's speaker is Dr. Francis Bremer, Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Bremer has extensively researched and written about John Winthrop and John Davenport and the connections between Puritanism and the formation of New England and the colonial American culture. His most recent book to be published is Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism, released in March 2015.
- 14th Annual Library Research Grants to be awarded - These competitive grants support academic research at other libraries for an independent study project or honor's thesis by Messiah students. Up to $750 per grantee will be awarded in November 2015 for the 2015-16 academic year. Application deadline: Wednesday, 21 October 2015. Application details. Awards announced Wednesday, 11 November 2015.
- Friends Annual Used Book Sale For the foreseeable future, Friends of Murray Library
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well as other space and venue constraints. Friends Board extends
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Future book donations may be made to any local library; it is suggested you call ahead for donation guidelines. Advanced Global Literature--a York-based organization that ships literature to India--will accept encyclopedia sets, National Geographic magazines, and Bibles in any language or translation. Contact Ty Hartman, (717) 225-4487 or (717) 880-9402.
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I want to use a class I got from iosframeworks.com called
UIImage+ProportionalFill. I know it's a category extending
UIImage, but when I try to use one of its methods in another class I get a message saying
no visible @interface for UIImage declares the selector 'nameOfWhateverMethodIWantToUse'. I'm not surprised to get an error, since there must be more to using it than dropping it into XCode, but how do I make the methods in the new category/class available to other classes?
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I want to use a class I got from iosframeworks.com called
You just need to import your category in the class you like to use it...
I usually do this in the header file.
The compiler needs to be able to see the declaration of the methods, which should be in the category's header file. You must import the header file wherever you want to use the methods.
You need to
Note tha the methos should be prefixed; i.e.
Note also that adding categories to framework classes willy nilly can easily lead to a rather awfully architected application that becomes difficult to refactor/maintain.
Based on what you said, I think you just forgot to import it.
Write it on the top of the .h file of the class where you want to use the method.


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The website www.occupy-northpole.com features daily updates from the ONP movement and allow ONP to provide information, tips and news to its followers. In addition to designing the ONP website, Studiobanks is providing social media integration to allow ONP to expand its reach. "When ONP approached us, we were more than happy to donate our services to the cause," said Banks Wilson, president and creative director of Studiobanks. "Studiobanks has long been pro-cookie and we're honored to have been chosen to bring awareness to the paucity of cookies in the elf community."
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The Michigan Wolverines and the Oklahoma Sooners have scheduled a home-and-home football series for 2025 and 2026, both schools announced today.
In the first game of the series, Michigan will travel to face Oklahoma in Norman on Sept. 6, 2025. The Wolverines will then host the Sooners in Ann Arbor on Sept. 12, 2026 Arbor to complete the series.
"We remain committed to playing games that celebrate the history and excitement of college football," said OU Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione. "We're grateful for head coach Bob Stoops, who shares that commitment. Oklahoma and Michigan represent two of the most iconic names in American sport and we look forward to a series that will be marked by mutual respect and admiration."
In their first and only meeting, Oklahoma defeated Michigan 14-6 in the 1976 Orange Bowl in Miami.
"We are excited to reach an agreement to play Oklahoma, one of the storied programs in college football history," said Dave Brandon, the Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics. "I appreciate Joe (Castiglione) and his team's effort to make this series a possibility. Oklahoma and Michigan have always been regarded as two of the top programs in college football, and creating this type of matchup is great for fans of both programs and the game of college football."
Both schools continue to strengthen their future football schedules with the College Football Playoff just ahead. Michigan now has games set vs. Utah, BYU, UCF, Florida (at Arlington, TX), Cincinnati, Arkansas, Virginia Tech, UCLA, Oklahoma and others.
Oklahoma also has a stellar lineup of future non-conference games, including Tennessee, Ohio State, UCLA, Nebraska, Michigan, and LSU.
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I would get excited about this match up but in 10yrs anything can happen to this game.
Big Blue had to go with the backup option after Houston Baptist wouldn't return their call
This is an exciting matchup to me!
Wooooh 2025!!! Really hope this series gets pushed to an earlier date.
After the fiasco in 2006, I doubt OU schedules Oregon any time soon.. haha. Plus I think 2023 & 2024 are when the LSU matchups will be moved for OU.
How about an Oregon-Oklahoma home-and-home series for 2023 & 2024?
UO vs OU!
And in 2022 how about Alabama-Oregon at a neutral site (Phoenix or Arlington)


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Hi all,
Just installed Black Label (multimedia theme). However, I cannot remove the sidebars and footer from the home page to get just the menu and image as the demo shows (http://themeforest.net/item/black-label-fullscreen-video-image-background/full_screen_preview/336949) . I have removed all the widgets from the side bar and footer spaces in the admin options but when I go to the front of the website it's still there. I'd like to be able to remove it completely from the home page and customise what appears in it on the other pages.
I'm new to wordpress and website creation.
Any guidance much appreciated.


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I think you first need to reveal more about the machine and your 7 ultimate install. I find many of today's owners to install 7 but forget or didn't know to install drivers for the motherboard. In your case that teracom MIGHT BE that USB broadband stick which you get the drivers for from it's provider.
But you first.
i have two OS install in my PC. one is win xp in c:\ drive and another is win 7 ultimate 64 bit OS in e:\ drive.my modem is teracom. from my windows xp i could successfully set up broadband connection and could connect internet but when i try to establish internet connection from win 7 then i am getting error like modem not recognize. i search Google lot to fix this problem but got not useful result. so please tell me someone how could i setup internet connection in my win 7 64 bit OS. my modem is teracom. please discuss in detail.


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Deceased Man's Treasured Maps Go To L.A. Library
A Los Angeles real estate agent clearing out the house of a man who died found tens of thousands of maps, stuffed in cabinets and closets, even inside a stereo. One was from 1592, the L.A. Times reports. The collection of the late John Feathers has now been donated to the L.A. Central Library — more maps than the library collected in 100 years.


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Why Your Nest Is Not Your Nest Egg
A house isn't a stock.
To be sure, you probably don't regularly confuse the bricks and mortar you occupy with the investments listed on your brokerage statement.
Yet thinking about the differences between the two helps explain why folks love owning real estate -- but also why some homeowners are in such trouble today. Here are five key ways that homes differ from stocks and stock mutual funds.
1. You don't know the price until you sell. With a few minutes of spare time and an Internet connection, you can find out the share price of every stock and stock fund you own. But you don't really know what your house is worth until a buyer makes an offer.
This leaves ample room for mental mischief. You can happily imagine that your house is a wonderfully stable investment, because -- unlike your stocks -- you aren't receiving continuous price updates. You can also happily imagine that your home sports some grand valuation.
But if you are a seller in today's rocky housing market, a happy imagination can be a big drawback. If you insist on getting a lofty price, you likely won't find a buyer. Indeed, if you have already moved and your house is sitting empty, your stubbornness could cost you big bucks.
2. The expense ratio is huge. What big bucks? Think of your home as a stock fund with an exorbitant expense ratio. Each year, between maintenance costs, property taxes and homeowners insurance, you might be paying a sum equal to 3% or 3.5% of your home's value.
In addition, you will have utilities and probably mortgage payments. These costs don't seem so dreadful if you're getting good use from your home. But if you have an unoccupied house you are aiming to unload, these costs mean you're bleeding money every month that goes by without a buyer.
3. You will pay a hefty commission to sell. Real estate isn't just costly to hold. It's also moderately expensive to buy -- and horribly expensive to sell.
Purchasing a property can involve home-inspection costs, lawyers' fees, title insurance, moving costs and mortgage-application fees. Selling can also mean moving costs and lawyers' fees. But the big hit is the real-estate commission, which might snag 5% or 6% of your home's selling price.
Trading stocks, on the other hand, is fairly cheap if you use a discount broker.
In fact, you can avoid all trading costs if you favor no-load mutual funds and deal directly with the fund companies involved.
4. You can't get a margin call. It's common to take out a mortgage to buy a house, while only aggressive investors use a margin account to buy stocks. This isn't a big surprise. Buying real estate with borrowed money is a whole lot safer than buying stocks with borrowed money.
How so? If the stock market plunges and you own shares on margin, you could receive a margin call from your broker, asking that you add more cash or securities to your account. If you don't pony up, part or all of your holdings will be sold, locking in your losses.
By contrast, as long as you make your mortgage payments, your neighborhood mortgage banker can't force you to cough up more cash or sell your home, no matter how far your home's price plunges. This ensures you won't be bulldozed into a snap decision. Still, because homeowners don't receive margin calls, it makes it easier to procrastinate over selling and to entertain fanciful ideas about your home's value.
5. The dividend is impressive -- but it isn't in cash. If you buy a collection of U.S. stocks today, you might notch a 2% dividend yield. Clearly, the hope is that you will do far better than that, thanks to handsome share-price gains.
Meanwhile, with a home, you shouldn't expect much in home-price appreciation. According to home-finance corporation Freddie Mac, home prices have climbed at less than 6% a year over the past 30 years, versus 4% for inflation.
Moreover, even if you notch this sort of price gain, much of it will be offset by the 3% or 3.5% "expense ratio" mentioned above.
Instead, with real estate, the biggest part of your gain should come from the dividend, which is the rent you receive. Most of us, of course, don't have tenants. Rather, we live in our own homes and effectively rent to ourselves.
The good news is, this "imputed" rent is pretty valuable. If you rented out your house, you might collect rent equal to 7% of your home's value each year. That's an indication of how much value you're getting from living in your own home.
An added bonus: It's tax efficient to rent to yourself, because you don't have to pay tax on this imputed rent.
So what's the bad news? You may be getting real value from your home -- but you aren't getting your dividend in cash.
The implication: You want to own a home that's the right size for you and your family, but no bigger. What if you purchase a house that's much larger than you really need? It's like renting a mansion -- and living in just two rooms.
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Serbia Government Has 3 Interested Bidders for Steel Plant
Ukraine's Donetskstal-Metallurgical Plant, Russia's Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Co OJSC and Luxembourg-based United Group SA may bid to become a strategic partner for Serbia's only steel plant Zelezara Smederevo d.o.o.
The Luxembourg-based holding United Group comprises Pilsen Steel Sro and Baummash OJSC. The three companies applied for tender documents on April 27, said the government in an e-mailed statement today.
Serbia has set a May 4 deadline to select the new strategic partner for the unprofitable plant, which works at half capacity of 2.2 million tons of crude steel a year and which the government bought back in January from U.S. Steel Corp. for $1.
Qualifying bidders need to be involved in mining, minerals, steel or similar businesses and with 2012 revenue of more than 1 billion euros ($1.32 billion).
Steel exports fell 63 percent in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the same period a year earlier, to 88.4 million euros, according to foreign trade figures released by the statistics office today.
Serbia is trying to avoid a second recession in three years as the nation prepares to vote for a new president, parliament and local governments on May 6.
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic's cabinet, fighting for re-election, ends its term in office with an unemployment rate of 24 percent and the dinar at its lowest in a decade.
U.S. Steel bought Serbia's sole steelworks for $23 million in 2003 and sold it back to the government in January as it could no longer cope with weaker-than-expected recovery in the Balkan region and pressure from low-priced imports.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — I have a fondness for ferns. I find something about their green lushness to be calming and soothing. They blend harmoniously with all other plants and always look right at home as long as the site is to their liking. And, if you find a spot to their liking, they live for years and become better each season.
I've been experimenting with growing hardy ferns in my dry, shaded Ozark hillside garden for 20 years and have learned a few things from the experience. I've learned most ferns do best in cool, moist shaded but bright locations in highly organic, acidic soils. Many will grow in soils and conditions less optimum than those described above but their size and performance will suffer.
Because hardy ferns tend to be long lived, the most successful ones will be those that tolerate the soil conditions that occur in your site because over time, no matter how much organic matter you incorporate, it will eventually break down and the ferns will have to survive with what was originally there.
Another thing I learned is that ferns test your patience. Don't expect them to look like much the first year or two after planting. They take time to establish and it may be four or five years before you really get to see what a species has to offer. Unlike many flowering perennials that begin to slip after a few years, ferns only get better over time. Patience is a good thing.
Four ferns have done remarkably well in my shade garden. Two of these belong to the genus Dryopteris, a group of about 250 species of northern temperate ferns going by the common name of the woodferns. Of these I think D. erythrosa, the autumn fern from Asia, is the best landscape plant. I like it because it is evergreen and tough as nails. For me it grows about 16 inches tall and forms strong, 2-foot wide clumps. It gets its common name from the new springtime growth that is maroon red in color.
This fern has done well in dry shade, even growing at the base of an American elm for almost 20 years. The extreme heat and drought of 2011 and 2012 finally killed off the planting beneath the elm but the stand at the base of a post oak is still going strong. This species is happy in my garden, reproducing here and there by spores at the base of retaining walls.
Dryopteris ludoviciana, Southern woodfern, has done well in my dry shade, growing 24 to 30 inches tall and wide. In a moist site with deep, rich soil it can reach 4 feet in height. It is a handsome plant that is technically evergreen but the fronds lie flat on the ground during much of the winter so the effect is lost. D. marginata, the marginal woodfern native throughout the state has done well for me in dry shade planted in unamended soil, but plants are only about half as tall as the southern woodfern. I've tried 20 other Dryopteris and have found them to be easy to grow and adaptable of general garden conditions.
Another easy-to-grow group of ferns is in the genus Athyrium, the lady ferns. A. filix-femina, the true lady fern, is a variable plant popular during the Victorian fern craze. A number of dissected and oddly formed frond types are available. These fanciful forms are fun to grow and come true from spores, but probably the typical type is more useful in the average landscape. Lady in Red is most commonly offered with maroon-tinted stems when it emerges in the spring but is not much different than the species. It is an easy-to-grow, long-lived clump forming deciduous plant growing about 2 feet tall and wide in my dry shade.
But, as nice as our native lady fern is, its Japanese cousin, Athyrium nipponicum pictum — the Japanese painted fern — is really a better landscape plant. This fern looks too good to be true with its white-splashed fronds but it is incredibly easy to grow. It too is deciduous but its more showy fronds make it great in the shade garden where it brightens up dark corners. Use it as a mass planting for best effect. Japanese painted fern is not well suited to deep shade where it grows about 16 inches tall. This fern has spread about in my garden by spores so it is definitely happy.
The Ghost fern, a hybrid between the lady fern and the Japanese painted fern, is one of my favorite ferns. It has the neat, symmetrical form of the lady fern but the gray-white fronds of the Japanese painted fern. It's kind of pricy, but I can imagine a large bed of this plant would make an eye-popping display.
For more information about horticulture, or to see other Plant of the Week columns, visit extension's website,www.arhomeandgarden.org/plant_week.htm, or contact a county extension agent.


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