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In Australia, 2013 is lining up to be a record-breaking year for simultaneous weather extremes involving historic heat waves, decades-long drought across parts of the Australian terrain, the sum of 100 or more wildfires and the second unprecedented flood in two years.
This week, according to CNN coverage, flood waters from torrential rain in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Oswald rapidly swamped areas near the east coast of Queensland with 2 ½ feet of rushing water, catching residents of communities like Bundaberg and Brisbane by surprise.
The floods, which peaked on Tuesday, have killed four people, including a 3-year-old boy, caused the evacuation of countless thousands and forced a hospital to airlift several newborn babies, elderly and critical patients to safety.
More than 2,000 homes in Bundaberg were swamped with water and approximately 7,000 residents fled to higher ground and safer havens. They won't be able to return to their homes until the water recedes, which could take days.
Experts are calling it a 1,000-year flood and the worst on record, even more devastating than the last 1,000-year flood, which was only two years ago. But that disaster, caused by Cyclone Tasha, was deadlier in the end, killing 35 people.
Occurring simultaneously with the floods are wildfires, most predominately in recent days around the area of Tasmania, where bushfires have been blazing out of control for days. Bushfires sweep rapidly through brush and undergrowth.
While the United States has been experiencing record snowstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes, Australia is in the middle of its summer. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology reports that moisture-sucking heat waves have been unprecedented. The heat has never been as intense, widespread or long-lasting as what Australians are currently experiencing. Jan. 7 was the warmest day recorded in 103 years, with the hottest temperature of 118 degrees.
Similarly, 2012 was the hottest year on record in the US, but global warming, which is often considered a misnomer in terms, causes changes in weather patterns due, in part, to melting sea ice and the rise of ocean temperatures. These changing patterns are increasingly causing wildly different and more extreme weather events around the globe.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been directly involved in helping residents that have been displaced by recent flooding and she deployed 100 military personnel to Bundaberg, where the Burnett River peaked at water levels that broke the 1942 record.
In New South Wales, Grafton residents, thought to have escaped the worst of the flood, were also ordered to evacuate in an abundance of caution as the Clarence River rose to new levels. Grafton is located 370 miles north of Sydney.
Unfortunately, more communities are expected to face flooding later in the week as inflated rivers and tributaries make their way toward the coast.
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Chart 7: Taiwan and worldwide LCD TV shipments, 2009-2013 (k units)
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If you follow linuxaria you know that some days ago we had a contest and the first prize was the last Humble Indie Bundle, the winner has been Geor Pribil, that has been so kind to write a review of the games, these are his opinions after some "testing" :
First of all, the Installation:
Using Steam and/or Desura, it's quite simple. Just add the code, and download the games. If you are using Desura for Linux, you'll have to join the Desura group on Desura (yep, its strange, i know), and you need to be accepted that takes about 1 1/2 days, after that you can add the games, but for Frozen Synapse, you'll have to pick the HIB version, or it will charge you for the game.
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Canon just needs to fix the EOS-M. We don't need another line-up of cameras.
You're still missing my point! When you compare the OM1 to the OM-D EM5 (sidenote: why not just call it the OM-D1?), the additional thickness caused by the mirrorbox is not all that great. The bizzare thing is that small differences in overall dimensions don't seem to be as important in determining bulkiness as other design factors. The OM1 and OM-D EM5 aren't that much smaller than the Rebel, but they both appear to be so (to me at least) because of their cleaner lines. With prime lenses and careful design DSLRs needn't be anything like as bulky a system as they currently are.
Perhaps Canon could make a smaller DSLR as a modular system (like the OM1 popularised back in the '70s), or even a modular EOS-M series with hand/battery grip options and something like the Sony LAEA2 adaptor (with moving mirror and a pentaprism -go on Canon, take up the challenge!). This latter option would be a good way of enticing EOS system users to buy into the EOS-M system as well: use EF-M lenses without the adaptor when you need maximum compactness, or swap in the adaptor, battery grip and EF(-S) mount lenses when you need performance (the elephant in the room is full-frame and whether Sony will make a full frame NEX stills camera...)
The comparison between the Rebel and the OM-D was made because I could find side by side comparison photos of them and I could also find side by side shots comparing the OM1 to the OM-D, but I couldn't find any shots comparing the Rebel to the OM1. If you can find the latter, or are willing to photograph them yourself (assuming you own a Rebel), I would be most grateful if you could share the photo.


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Yesterday was a day to take stock of the blessings in our lives and celebrate those things with loved ones. Today will find some of us returning to work, some out bargain hunting and some already decorating for Christmas.
It doesn't take long to shift from holiday to holiday and I'm troubled that it is not difficult for the season of thankfulness to be quickly eclipsed by the season of want.
Spending time shopping for others begins as a selfless activity. Yet, I find that as I am exposed to clothes and gadgets that once I didn't even know existed, I want them.
You see, when I set aside time to appreciate my family, my friends, the food on the table and the roof over my head, I feel blessed.
But, honestly, I'm not always so magnanimous in my appreciation and sometimes I'm downright whiny when it comes to day-to-day life.
There was a bit on SNL a few weeks ago in which griping iphone5 users were forced to complain directly to the Chinese factory workers who made their phones. I laughed hysterically, but I caught glimpses of myself in those disgruntled techies.
I spend a few hours each week teaching English to immigrants and refugees. Lots of them have no home country any more. As a matter of fact, many of them never knew life apart from a refugee camp and then the U.S. They are working hard to improve their opportunities in the country that is now their home and they don't have much in the way of material possessions.
And every Thursday when I leave the Global Refugee Center, I examine my life circumstances. I think about what I've been grumbling about during the week, and it gives me perspective.
I've been trying to teach this outlook to my children. I want them to realize that, no matter how bad they think they have it, there is so much worse out there.
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Problem #1: There is not much storage in my kitchen, therefore when I bulk buy, I have to put some stuff downstairs in my laundry room.
OK, first of all, I have enough food available to me that I can't store it all. That's embarrassing to say aloud. And I have a downstairs. And a laundry room. With a washer and dryer.
Problem #2: My husband has a variable schedule that doesn't allow us to plan more than a few weeks in advance.
First, I am extremely thankful that my husband has a job. We know lots of people who are not so fortunate right now. Also, he does have days off, so we can plan a little bit and I have a spouse who I want to spend time with. Those are all good things.
Problem #3: I don't like my cell phone.
I am a holdout on the smart phone - not because I don't want one but because I really can't justify the extra $40 per month for a data plan as a stay at home mom. Reality is, I can still be in contact with whomever I need, whenever I need, and not having Instagram has not stunted my social life.
As Thanksgiving transitions to Christmas, I desire that hearts of my family continue to be filled with gratitude. I want us to be focused on giving and the Giver and not ourselves.
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Information is power and never more so than in the world of drug development. For a pharmaceutical company, having detailed knowledge of how a drug candidate is metabolized as early as possible in the drug development process is crucial. It can save time, precious resources, and maximize return-on-investment. The final selection of a successful drug candidate relies enormously on the metabolism studies that are performed in vitro and in vivo.
Mass spectrometry is a key analytical tool used for metabolism studies because it can identify the metabolites and the sites at which metabolism occurs. Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has become the technique of choice for drug metabolite identification because of its sensitivity and ability to analyze complex mixtures. But while analytical sensitivity has improved over the past decade, detecting and identifying metabolites in the presence of complex biological matrices remains a challenge.
Recent advances in both mass spectrometry hardware and software have helped in this ongoing challenge. Coupling a Thermo Scientific Orbitrap mass analyzer (www. thermo.com) to a linear ion trap mass spectrometer, for example, simplifies metabolite identification, making it faster, more sensitive, more precise (with resolution higher than 100K and mass accuracies better than three ppm) and capable of revealing rich structural information.
With high-resolution and accurate mass data, researchers can resolve and identify metabolite peaks from background matrix ions. New data-processing techniques, such as mass defect filtering, can be used to remove the vast majority of matrix-related background ions and reduce the number of false-positives, providing a more confident result.
This tutorial describes how the combination of innovative mass spectrometry with mass defect filtering software leads to fast and accurate metabolite identification.
High-resolution mass spectrometry enables post-acquisition data-refinement techniques that are otherwise not possible with nominal-resolution instruments. One of them is mass defect filtering (MDF), which is remarkably successful in improving the signal-to-noise ratio by cleaning up metabolite spectra and filtering out the vast majority of background ions.
Mass defect refers to the difference between the exact mass of an element (or a compound) and its closest integer value (Table). The mass defect of metabolites usually lies within a relatively narrow range. Based on the molecular weight of the parent drug, researchers can estimate the range of molecular weight and the range of mass defect in which these metabolites will fall. An MDF is then used to exclude all ions that fall outside the expected range.
This data-reduction technique allows users to focus solely on the analysis of species that are potential drug metabolite candidates. It is also a powerful and sophisticated way of using high-resolution mass data to obtain a smaller, more refined data set for review. The method can also be extended to include multiple mass defect filters (MMDFs), in which several filters are used to identify metabolites of interest over a wide range of mass defects.
Metabolite identification was performed by applying MMDFs to data collected with an LTQ Orbitrap XL™ hybrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific. The mass spectrometer features a collision cell in which fragmentation is performed using higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD; Figure 1), which provides complementary fragmentation pathways in addition to the collision-induced dissociation available in the linear ion trap.
Ions are accelerated as they leave the C-trap (Figure 1) and then fragmented in a nitrogen-filled HCD collision cell. The resulting fragments are returned to the C-trap and then detected in the instrument's mass analyzer. This technique produces rich triple-quadrupole-like fragmentation patterns, including fragments in the low m/z range that are useful for elucidating the structure of metabolites.
Rat hepatocyte incubation samples of Irinotecan—a drug that is approved for use in the treatment of colon and rectum cancer—were analyzed using an LTQ Orbitrap XL with HCD functionality. Both collision-induced dissociation (CID) and high-energy collision-induced dissociation (HCD) mass spectra were collected for the potential metabolites and MMDFs were then used to process the raw data.
Incubation was carried out using hepatocytes pooled from one male and one female rat, with a cell density of 0.5 million/mL and 10 µM of Irinotecan in the final 1 mL incubation solution. The solution was shaken overnight and quenched using dry ice, after which 200 µL of chilled acetonitrile was added and the solution was vortexed and centrifuged. From the 1 mL of supernatant, 10 µL was directly injected for each LC-MS/MS run.
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This beautiful meditation CD features ancient prayers and Sanskrit mantras sung by Buddhist monk Ven. Tenzin Priadarshi. The Buddhist chanting is performed in Sanskrit, the sacred language of the great scholars and practitioners of the famed Nalanda University. Included among the Buddhist chants are the Refuge and Bodhichitta, the 100 Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva, the long Mantra of 1000 Armed Avalokiteshvara, the short Medicine Buddha Mantra, and more.
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I have a story in mind ,it is much of my fantasies molded by several animes i watched ,it has been 5 years since i started thinking about this story ,i just need to know what is the procedure to present my story to manga site, Please help me with this
Here is some free advice:
Don't bother approaching ANY publisher or studio until you've full on written and completed something. Anything really. Work on your story, gradually, incrementally, day by day, for months, maybe even years until you HAVE a finished project sitting on your desk.
Once you're story is finished (whether it's a script or light novel), THEN take the next step toward selling your work to someone.
People just starting off tend to want to do that. They jump ahead to the part where they're published or they're selling their work. But skipping ahead is a surefire way to fail. You have to actually write something, something good and fully formatted....
That is the best advice I could give you...

I'm assuming your at a young age in wanting to do these things. If so, good, that means you've got time.

If you want to be a writer, you need to work WRITE AND FINISH the script or novel, THEN make a publishing plan.

If you don't have a written out and finished story, you won't be able to sell ANYTHING.

If you want to submit to a publisher, they appreciate 2 things and 2 things only: Hard work and finished projets. It really makes their job a lot easier.

If you want REAL credit and glory, don't aim to be an "idea man". Everyone wants to be an idea man or pitch man/woman, but those kinds of jobs only happen to a lucky, obscenely lucky few. You're better off putting in the hard work and writing the actual story as a script or light novel, with a beginning, middle, and end, unless it's a short story.

Also, polish and polish until your story is as good as you can possibly make it. You will submit it and it will be turned down, but then you go over it again polish it more then send it out again. No matter what you have to keep trying. Even if they don't accept your first attempt. Polish the next as well as you can and sent that out. I you are serious and not just fantasizing it will take alot of work. So Be prepared to go the distance and not stop after the tries. Not all your stories will sell so be prepared for stories, not just one story.
You'll need to be prepared to edit. But also to set your story aside. When you finish the story set it aside for a while so that when you begin to edit you'll be able to look at it with a fresh eye. then you set it aside again to cool off for a while. Things that might sound great at the time might not once time has passed. While the one story is cooling work on writing another. When I write I have more than one story going so that if I get stuck with one I cane set it aside, work on another, then come back to the first when I might find the idea to get it moving toward the end.
Lastly, do what works for you as far as the writing goes. If plotting and outlining before your write works for you, do it. If it works better for you to just start writing and figure the story out along the way, do that. Check the Library and the Book Stores for books on the craft of writing. Information on publishing in these books might become dated but perfecting your craft never becomes dated. Read Writer's Digerst, Writer's Journal and The Writer. All three magazines will be helpful. Writer's Digest Books has a catalog of books on writing and on genre. There are other lines as well. Concentrate your reading on books and magazine articles on fiction writing and on the genre in which you intend to write. Not all fiction books will deal with genre, read them for the craft anyway then read then ones on genre. I prefer books but if you like ebooks see what's available.
Do Not, Do Not, DO NOT! give up.


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"I've made a career out of doing things that I should not be doing. I wasn't cool about it," he says. "Because being cool would have meant I passed up on those opportunities. If you do that, it's because you're afraid. And what are you afraid of? You know?"
The triple-threat also feels that he can't be characterized by a specific album, sketch, or film in his career.
"I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment," he says. "It's on to the next."
And what's next for Timberlake is his 20/20 Experience solo tour, which he kicked off Nov. 6, and a film by the Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, out in theaters Dec. 6.
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It's a judged sport. Anyone who wins anything does so because the judges like his or her skating.
It's a judged sport. Anyone who wins anything does so because the judges like his or her skating.
But here's how I see it. The claim that Yu-na Kim has some sort of magic power over the judges is so absurd on its face that it hardly bears discussion. What is the theory? That Brian Orser bribed David Dore to offer the Lithuanian judge an appointment to an ISU committee if she inflated Kim's scores?
As for Mai Asada, I m not losing too much sleep over what she says or doesn't say about her sister's rival. If it were my baby sister I'd have something to say, too.
Perhaps there is a cultural difference here?
Because if I had a baby sister or an older sister (which I don't), I'd expect her to be on my side
In the US I have it on the authority of NBC News that we love nepotism
Or as Mayor Daley of Chicago said:
What kind of society is this, where youre afraid to appoint your nephew or your son or your relative, for fear of what might be said?!? Chicagos Richard J. Daley (father of the present mayor) famously screamed at his City Council. That must be the only omission from this book, whose author surveys three thousand years of anecdotal cases about the generational continuity of power and influence
Look at Sarah Hughes. Sarah Hughes never made even the slightest question about whether or not Michelle Kwan deserved to go to the Olympics in 2006. And I think actually that part of the reason that she never made such a comment was that she knew the Michelle Kwan fans would never forgive her. Of course Sarah would be biased for Emily, but it wouldn't have been appropriate for her to, for example, question whether or not Michelle Kwan was really healthy and capable of being competitive at the Olympics, because the beneficiary, if the question was debated and the answer was no, was Emily.
Eh I still maintain that fans are making a mountain out of a mole hill. I'm sorry, but Mai's comment just didn't bother me that much. I don't think it's terrible to say that judges like Yuna or her skating and how that might influence the scores. We say stuff like this all the time on GS, so why is a big deal that Mai say the same thing?
She wasn't brought on as a skating analyst. The conversation was clearly lighthearted, it's not like Mai was saying "Yuna is over scored! How dare they." Sure she could have gone into a big analysis about the scores, but clearly that wasn't the place for it.
And I don't really see it as Mai politicking for Mao. Quite frankly, Mao doesn't need it since, as numerous posters have pointed out here, she's still winning competitions with just three triples or whatever.
And the big scheme of things, I doubt Mai's comments will matter that much.
Ok, let's chill out and get back on topic and STOP INSULTING EACH OTHER AND OTHER CULTURES. How hard is it to stick to the topic. It's just desperate when you bring in childish insults. Posts have been unapproved and if this behavior continues warnings and infractions will be issued. Get back on topic, folks. If there's any confusion, review the guidelines.
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Since it seems that the mods deleted my last post, I'll say again that I'm sorry if I've aroused any problems here. Maybe I should've stuck only to translating the video and not mention any personal thoughts on that matter.
Anyways, it's hard to predict how Sochi will end up not just now; both Yuna and Mao seems to have their weak points, not to mention there are lots of other ladies who have better skills and artistry since Vancouver. But I do think Yuna came back in quite good shape, and will get better by next season. All the same can be said for Mao I assume, but IMHO she would have to get her 3-3 or 3A back in order to beat Yuna. She intends to get either or both of them back by Worlds this season according to interviews, but I'm not sure if she can manage them perfectly so soon. At this point, I have to admit that Yuna may be top candidate for winning Worlds, as she does have the best toe-jumps to say the least. The only thing which bothers me is that she's skipping 4CC...it would've been a perfect chance for her to get used to intl competitions once again. I suppose she wanted to spend her time practicing rather than entering 4CC, but jumping off to Worlds seems a bit risky even with her high techs. I know Yuna is a gutsy gal, and she's very strong mentally, but some of the mistakes she made in the past 2 competitions are probabaly the results of her absence. That's why I'm not certain whether skipping 4CC is the right choice for her...your thoughts?
Don't feel bad about expressing your opinion. But my general policy, and it makes my life easier, is not to talk about the boards or other posters but just stick to the topic at hand. That way I don't have to worry about accidentally attacking posters. (Tonichelle, I also appreciate your efforts to moderate the conversation as well!).
Anyway, going back to your point.
I'm also not sure what Yuna has to gain by skipping out on 4CC. The competition is in Osaka, so it's not like she would have to make some big trip to compete. I think it would be a great tune-up for her and a good chance to face the top Japanese skaters at least once before Worlds. Also it would be good to get some feedback before Worlds too. (Of course, I'm not sure how much feedback she got at NRW. I know that judges give extensive feedback at GPF and the such; is similar feedback available at a competition at NRW?).
I don't have a clue if similar feedback is given in B-intls as in GFP....In the first place, some say B-intl scores are known to be a bit generous and it's unofficial anyway, but I personally think they can't be totally ignored either. Esp since they set the minimum score rule, more and more top skaters will be entering B-intls. I used to think that B-intls were scored generously in order to sort of encourage future top skaters and feedbacks would be given accordingly, but if you're already one of the top I don't think they'd bother to do that. However, I do think the judges tend to score a performance based on relative value, comparing them with other performances in the same competition. So, when you have a top class skater in a B-intl, I assume it will be easier for them to get higher scores than in major intl competitions which makes it seem like the skater's already doing fine in most elements. I'm against this cause I think that judged sport should always be based on absolute scales. If they do not judge according to absolute scales, in theory we can never compare scores amongst different competitions. But from all I've seen in the past, most judges do not seem to care less about scoring on absolute scales, so I'm not even sure if they give proper feedback in any competitions to be honest.
OTOH, while Yuna is skipping 4CC, Akiko is entering another national competition! I have never heard of a Jpnse skater enter 2 GPS, Finals, Nats, 4CC and Worlds along with this particular national competition which really doesn't have much status. I think it's too much for her. Akiko's case is totally like the opposite of Yuna's. I guess we'll just have to see whether entering as many competitions as possible or entering as less competitions as possible beforehand is better when competing at Worlds. I'm quite sure that unless Yuna messes up big time she'll rank higher than Akiko anyways, but which of them will be able to perform up to their full potential at Worlds is the thing I'm really interested in.
Well, I heard Yuna would not be able to take part in 4CC since she was already scheduled to attend an important event on the same day or the period, the Special Olympics, perhaps? So it is not that she decided not to compete there.
As for Sochi I think it is no longer about Yuna and Mao. I can now see more than two contenders in ladies field. Sure, Yuna is a front runner as of now but younger skaters are coming to the front as well. Russia has Liza, Adelina and Julia to name a few, Canada has Kaetlyn and America has GG. Ashley will be there and I cannot overlook Carolina, Akiko, Mirai or Kanako. All of them have potential of either maturing or declining (due to their age) by the time. 2013-2014 will be so exciting for FS fans!
As for Yuna and Mao, I cannot tell who is a better skater and find it less important to cut one out. Yuna has a great Lutz and her expressions are beautiful to watch while Mao has grown up to be more all-around skater. I enjoy both of them though I prefer Maos airy skating. Some may suspect she has lost her jumps and no longer belongs to the elite group, but to me she seems to be on a right track. She is getting her jumps back.
I heard she was planning to put 3A in her short program, possibly in 4CC. It would be a risky strategy if her ultimate goal were to win the World this year. Since I do not think it is, I would say go for it if 3A is what motivates her best. My, this girl can never stop aiming at improving herself!
Akiko attended Kokutai, the national sports fest, last year too? As 4CC is in Japan and there will be no competition for her at all in the event, I think she takes it as another opportunity to skate in a competitive but less tensive atmosphere? Hopefully she was not forced to attend it by her federation. I am looking forward to seeing her skate both programs clean!
I tried to find if there is a button to un-register myself from this forum but to no avail. Can you admin un-register me please?
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Hers are some articles about Yuna's participation in the Special Olympics.
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That was a Japanese show aired by Japanese TV. The majority of its viewers were Japanese FS fans. Mai was the one who was put into a difficult situation, where she could make one side happy and the other unhappy. So she just chose to make herself look like an idiot who cannot tell the system of scoring, then went to bring the question to an end, in a very friendly manner, by saying that she would better not make any further comment on it. I think she handled it fair enough.
I found the translation Laughing Man offered is accurate and her explanation about Japanese language is too. Woops it is gone? But my take goes with Laughing Man. I thought she meant that Judges appreciate what Yuna does on ice and place a high value on it. Well, Mai did not say she was satisfied with it. Some could take it as if she implied she had been dissatisfied with it, but who knows? She did not say it either. Since it is up to viewers mind set how to take what is unsaid (due to a nature of Japanese language), I am afraid this argument would go no where near an agreement. So I find it better for both sides to get over from it and move on.
BTW upon Yuna's comeback I saw many reports that showed her great 3-3 and other clean jumps (and no falls). Most of the reports said that she was very impressive in both of the competitions and that she would be the strongest contender for Sochi. Japanese media sucks and they may obsesse about Yuna a little too much, but most times they are fair on Yuna, or..at least they are not mean to her.
I am sorry, Mods, if I went against the rules of this forum by getting back to the controversial topic. If that is the case, please feel free to delete this post. Thanks.
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The Cardinals now have won four straight under the guidance of second-year head coach Pete Lembo for the first time since the 2008 season.
"It doesn't get any better than this," said Lembo. "Our guys just hang in there and keep battling. We're not a great team, but we're a team. We're together. We ride out the highs and lows and we keep believing.
"I thought we had a great gameplan coming in. We overcame three turnovers and that's hard to do whether it's at home, on the road or against a team that's this good."
Sophomore running back Jahwan Edwards ran for a 15-yard score with 1:43 left on the clock to put the Cardinals ahead by a touchdown. The Cardinals defense then forced the Rockets to turn the ball over on downs to secure the win.
Edwards exceeded 100 yards for the fourth straight game as he went over 1,000 yards for the season. Junior quarterback Keith Wenning threw three touchdowns for the fifth time this year and now has 20 TD tosses on the season for the third-most in school history.
Defensively senior linebacker Travis Freeman and teammate sophomore defensive end Nick Miles led the team with 11 tackles. Miles also had a sack and a tackle for loss.
The game went down to the fourth quarter, as Toledo took its first lead of the game at 27-24 with 14:56 to play when Terrance Owens crossed the goal line. It didn't take long for Ball State to tie the game back up at 27-27 on its next possession with a 30-yard field goal from senior kicker Steven Schott.
Wenning threw two of his touchdown passes to junior receiver Jamill Smith, who scored on the first possession of both halves.
His second-half TD grab broke a 17-17 tie at the break to put the Cardinals on top 24-17. Toledo then scored on a 22-yard field goal from kicker Jeremiah Detmer to make it a 24-20 ball game before Owens' TD run and Schott's field goal.
The win for Ball State was its first over a ranked opponent since the 2001 season. That win also came against Toledo.
The Cardinals started off strong in the first quarter Tuesday when Wenning hit on 12 of his first 13 passes with two touchdowns. Smith and Connor Ryan both caught TDs to give Ball State an early 14-0 advantage.
The Rockets got on the board at the 1:30 mark in the first period after Owens threw a 24-yard TD pass to Bernard Reedy. Toledo continued to carry its momentum into the second quarter when Detmer kicked a 29-yard field goal to make the score 14-10.
The Cardinals were held to only a field goal in the second quarter, which came after Ball State linebacker Tony Martin returned a Rocket fumble 54 yards. Toledo ended the half with a Cassius McDowell 4-yard touchdown with 54 seconds on the clock.
The Ball State defense then forced Toledo to go three-and-out twice and turn the ball over on downs twice on its six possessions in the second half.
Ball State football will play Ohio University in its last home game of the season Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2 or ESPNU.
First Quarter
Ball State 7, Toledo 0
10:50 - Keith Wenning 6-yard touchdown pass to Jamill Smith. Steven Schott kick good.
11 plays, 82 yards, 4:10
Ball State 14, Toledo 0
4:21 - Keith Wenning 25-yard touchdown pass to Connor Ryan. Steven Schott kick good.
7 plays, 87 yards, 3:12
Ball State 14, Toledo 7
1:30 - Terrance Owens 24-yard touchdown pass to Bernard Reedy. Jeremiah Detmer kick good.
Second Quarter
Ball State 14, Toledo 10
12:33 - Jeremiah Detmer 29-yard field goal.
8 plays, 66 yards, 3:04
Ball State 17, Toledo 10
4:13- Steven Schott 24-yard field goal.
6 plays, 4 yards, 2:33
Ball State 17, Toledo 17
:54- Cassius McDowell 4-yard touchdown run. Jeremiah Detmer kick good.
8 plays, 84 yards, 3:13
Third Quarter
Ball State 24, Toledo 17
9:15- Keith Wenning 3-yard touchdown pass to Jamill Smith. Steven Schott kick good.
10 plays, 61 yards, 4:30
Ball State 24, Toledo 20
1:52- Jeremiah Detmer 22-yard field goal.
14 plays, 75 yards, 5:11
Fourth Quarter
Toledo 27, Ball State 24
14:56- Terrance Owens 4-yard touchdown run. Jeremiah Detmer kick good.
4 plays, 25 yards, 1:45
Ball State 27, Toledo 27
9:41- Steven Schott 30-yard field goal.
12 plays, 58 yards, 5:11
Ball State 34, Toledo 27
1:43- Jahwan Edwards 15-yard touchdown run. Steven Schott kick good.
11 plays, 86 yards, 4:19


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|Practice Your English
Event Type: Literacy
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 5/4/2013
Start Time: 10:30 AM
End Time: 12:00 PM
Lively informal conversation on everyday topics for all levels of English learners.Library: Parker Map to Parker Library
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on February 10, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Helpful neighbors make Buffalo great
I have lived in Buffalo for about three years now and have met a vast variety of wonderful people. I have visited many neighborhoods and have always felt a feeling of being welcome. My family and I moved here from a small community in North Carolina, a village where everybody knew each other or was related. But here in Buffalo, whether in my own community or around the city, there has never been a time in my life that things felt so familiar.
Last week, after we were surprised with a cumulative amount of snow for only the second time this winter, I truly saw the reality of the City of Good Neighbors. I decided to take a walk to the market wearing only sneakers. I already had it in my mind that I would walk in the street. The temperature was mild and the snow was still falling. To my surprise, I walked upon the sidewalk the entire way.
We have a collection of different folks living here and not everybody has a snow blower or the good health to shovel, yet all the way to the market, the sidewalks were clear. Neighbors shoveled and cleared their neighbors' walks and driveways. I heard the bells at the church ringing and saw for myself how the people in Buffalo take care of their neighbors who cannot do it all by themselves. I am blessed to call Buffalo home.
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The 24-year-old driver of a Ford Mustang who eluded the Nevada Highway Patrol Saturday night has been captured by Fallon Police within the city limits.
Sgt. Dave Cox, supervisor of the Nevada Highway Patrol's Fallon District office, said the FPD apprehended Tyler Leggett of San Diego about nine blocks from the area where police and sheriff deputies conducted a house-to-house search Saturday night on Colorado and Noel lanes and Dani Street. Capt. Vern Ulrich of the FPD said officers nabbed Leggett on Taylor Street and Williams Avenue. He said law enforcment officers searched all night for Leggett and had received photos of him from Oregon.
Cox said the NHP began pursuing a Ford Mustang 18 miles north of Hawthorne shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday after it passed another vehicle in a double-yellow stretch of U.S. Highway 95. An NHP trooper attempted to stop the Mustang, but Leggett sped off, heading toward Churchill County. Cox said the NHP trooper radioed ahead.
According to additional police reports, the Walker River Tribal Police joined the chase and tried to stop the vehicle with spike strips, which did not work. The driver continued to lead officers on a chase with speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.
As the car traveled toward Fallon, Cox said both the Fallon Police and CCSO laid down spike strips, which punctured all four tires. Ulrich said the vehicle traveled through Fallon at speeds of 60-70 mph and finally stopped at Colorado lane and Taylor Street.
Cox said Leggett and his female passenger, Ashley Robinson, 30, also of San Diego, left the vehicle on foot, but the NHP soon arrested her. After her capture, Robinson gave the name of the driver to troopers. Ulrich said police officers, the Churchill County Sheriff Department and the NHP immediately conducted their search of the neighborhood. Ulrich said no one was injured in the pursuit, and there were no accidents within the city.
Cox said Leggett was transported to Mineral County, where the initial pursuit occurred, but Robinson will remain in Churchill County since she did not commit a crime in the neighboring county.
Cox said Leggett is being charged with speeding, felony eluding an officer, failure to maintain a control device (double yellow line) and resisting arrest. Cox did not have specific charges against Robinson.
Cox said the NHP is still investigating the incident.
This is the third high-speed chase to occur in Churchill County since June 2011.
On June 3, 2011, two people died as a result of a chase that began in Mineral County and ended with a gun battle in a Fallon residential area.
Before gunfire was exchanged on South Taylor Street (U.S. Highway 95), a head-on crash between two compact vehicles occurred near the intersection of U.S. Highway 50, killing a 75-year-old Missouri man.
In late August of the same year, a man led law enforcement officers on a two-hour-long high-speed chase through Mineral, Churchill and Lyon counties.
Churchill and Lyon county deputies, Fallon police and the NHP chased Mark Trindidad Cuellar of Las Vegas for nearly two hours. He was captured with the assistance from five different agencies including the Washoe County K-9 unit and the RAVEN helicopter.


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