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Hunt the opening day of deer season here in the Lowcountry and you'll almost certainly have the chance to swat plenty of mosquitoes, accumulate a nice collection of chiggers and sweat off a few pounds of water weight.
But you also might accomplish a hunting feat possible in relatively few other areas of the country: Take a mature white-tailed buck in full velvet.
The hunting season for white-tailed deer (buck only) begins Thursday on private lands in Berkeley, Charleston and Colleton counties, with archery-only in Georgetown County until Sept. 1. (For complete regulations, go to dnr.sc.gov).
If you're not already obsessing over game cam pics and setting up excuses to miss work later this week, here are a few tips to get you fired up.
These tried-and-true tactics come from two of the Lowcountry's most die-hard hunters, biologist Don Hammond and son Scott Hammond, manager at Haddrell's Point Tackle and Supply in West Ashley.
The two of them log more than 120 deer hunts per season, collectively, on various tracts of private land. Over decades of hunting together, the pair has harvested hundreds of deer, including many trophy-class Lowcountry bucks.
Scott hunts almost exclusively with a bow, while Don uses a rifle (shoulder problems ended his archery days).
Deer stands
The Hammonds use a mix of climbing, lean-to and hang-on tree stands, which they customize extensively.
For his rifle stands, Don uses metal conduit tubing to fabricate large rifle rests. He also uses camo material to almost completely enclose each stand. "I want lots of darkness inside, with little chance for wind to blow through and carry scent."
Since Scott's tree stands must remain open to accommodate bow hunting, he adds extra camo to the tree trunk where the stand is attached.
"I'll cut pine samplings and zip-tie them up in the tree around me to give me a backdrop."
When picking stand locations, the Hammonds look for edges where two or more habitats converge, natural pinch points where deer movement becomes funneled, and well-used deer trails marked with rubs and scrapes.
"If you're looking for bucks, that's where you'll see more of them," Don said. "Especially if you can find a rather large tree that is being rubbed, or a large scrape that is fairly deep. That indicates that it's a historical scrape, one that's been used year after year.
"Scrapes are not used by just one buck — they are a general signpost. I've seen as may as four mature bucks work a scrape in the same evening. It's like they're trying to hide the odor or message from the previous buck."
Using feeders
The Hammonds use corn to concentrate deer, which is legal and commonplace throughout the Lowcountry. Over the years, they've developed tactics that go beyond simply piling cob corn on the ground. Most importantly, they use battery-operated feeders that distribute shelled corn (kernels) at pre-programmed times.
Such feeders are particularly useful at bowhunting stands. Scott sets his feeders to distribute corn at the first crack of daybreak and then an hour and a half before dark — at either time, he's already in the stand before deer come in to feed within bow range.
"If you just have a big corn pile sitting there, they can come in 24/7 whenever they want," he explained. "When I go into my bow stand, there's zero corn on the ground. Those deer have cleaned up from the evening feeding many hours ago. That allows me to get into my bow stands without spooking a lot of deer."
So what about rifle stands? How far away should hunters place a feeder?
"As far as you're comfortable shooting," according to Don.
A hunter who's honed his or her skill with a rifle could place a feeder up to 200 yards or more from a stand, he said. The farther away, the less chance of spooking deer.
Whatever the placement, hunters shouldn't expect giant bucks to simply walk out and stand under feeders.
"The last couple of years, all the deer that I have killed around corn have been does," Don said. "… The bucks don't necessarily come to the feeder. They're going to come into proximity so they can smell whether there are any does at the feeder.
"So you hunt the periphery, where these bucks will move."
Scent management
Though a variety of special soaps, sprays, clothes and gadgets can reduce human odor, "you are not going to fool a deer's nose," Scott said. "I do believe all that helps, but it's definitely not foolproof."
The best defense against getting busted, Scott said, is to maintain a disciplined approach to "hunting the wind."
"That's the single most important thing. I don't hunt that stand unless the wind's right. It took several years of bowhunting to get that ingrained in my head.
"No matter what's showing up on camera, no matter how much temptation you have, stay out. Because once that deer winds you from that stand, especially if it's a big buck or doe, they're on to you. Then instead coming right into that feeder the next time, they'll stop and loop all the way around until they get downwind of your stand. They'll scent-check to see if you're there."
Even when hunting with good wind, the Hammonds go to great lengths to mitigate scent.
"My hunting clothes are sitting in a Rubbermaid container with old dead leaves and stems in it," Don said. "And that's where they stay. I don't get dressed until I get ready to walk to my stand — not drive to my stand; I get dressed after I park."
Both hunters swear by tall rubber hunting boots, which they keep clean with baking soda wash-downs. Scott actually keeps two pairs, a working set and one just for hunting.
The Hammonds also take particular care when visiting the feeders and other hot zones around their stands. They use rubber gloves when checking game cameras and keep the trails into tree stands cleared of scent-trapping vegetation.
"You may think this is crazy, but on every single path into my bow stands, everything's trimmed back at least 4 feet wide so I don't brush up against any limbs that could hold my scent," Scott said. "Right before hunting season, I actually rake the paths into my bow stands."
Stay alert
Even the best hunters sometimes succumb to boredom in the tree stand and shift their attention to a smart phone, tablet or paperback.
Invariably, that's when the big buck makes an appearance.
"You talk to hunters who say, 'I always bring a good book to my stand.' " Don said. "Well, they're not going to be killing many deer. … If you're going hunting, you should be alert and paying attention from the time you get up in your stand."
Scott and Don both advise hunters to focus on looking for the subtle signs of a deer's presence.
"You don't look for a whole deer," Don said. "That's one of the biggest mistakes people make. They expect to see deer, but you really only see pieces and parts.
"Usually that is the first giveaway of a deer's presence: movement. Usually you're going to see a flicker of an ear or a flicker of a tail, or a discoloration of the brush that wasn't there before.
"Or you'll see a horizontal line (the line of a deer's back). A horizontal line in a vertical world is one of the big giveaways."
Spotting these clues is critical, Scott said, particularly when hunting thick cover with narrow shooting lanes.
"Hunters always say, 'Oh, he got by me before I got my gun up.' " Scott said. "But if you spot that flicker, you're already on pins and needles, you've already got your rifle up you're looking through the scope.
"Even if he's only in that shooting lane for two seconds, you've got him."
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DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are considering a proposal to provide driver's licenses for people who are in the country illegally.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected hear testimony and take a vote on the measure today.
Supporters of the bill say everyone would benefit if drivers who are currently unlicensed learn the rules of the road and get insurance. County sheriffs support the bill.
Republicans argue the bill goes too far and that state lawmakers should wait for action by the federal government.
But Republican Sen. Steve King says he's leaning toward voting yes. He says it could improve public safety.
New Mexico, Illinois, and Washington currently allow driver's licenses for those illegally in the country. Utah grants immigrants a driving permit that can't be used for identification.


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Community Development and Social Services Deputy Minister Ronald Banda noted that volunteers are critical and key towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Mr. Banda was speaking at the commemoration of the International Volunteer Day (IVD) in Lusaka today.
He said government places a lot of value on volunteerism because volunteers will aid community and national strides towards the attainment of MDGs.
He urged stakeholders to support volunteers so as to enable them participate in the enhancement of the national development.
Presently there over 20, 000 organised and thousands of unorganised volunteers are engaged in socio-economic development of the country.
The United Nations (UN) country representative Aeneas Chuma said the International Volunteer Day provides a unique opportunity to recognize the important contribution volunteers make in communities and towards national development.
Mr. Chuma noted that measures should be undertaken to ensure continuity of efforts to promote volunteerism through active participation and being proactive in achieving the spirit of volunteerism in Zambia.
He pointed out that there is need for stakeholders to partner with government in ensuring that the MDGs are meet by 2015.
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The iPhone 3G is mostly what we were hoping for in the second version of the too-popular-for-itself handset. Apple addressed call quality concerns, as well as demands for a faster Web experience via 3G and corporate email support, already making it a worthwhile upgrade for many first-gen iPhone owners. And while the addition of stereo Bluetooth and Assisted-GPS are mere catch-ups to other smartphones, the new App Store boosts it way ahead. We're a little disappointed that the iPhone 3G still lacks video recording, and we'd like a user-replaceable battery and expandable storage, but overall it's a thoroughly satisfying phone and iPod.
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Also check out our Apple iPhone Application Wishlist!
Look at it / What's New
The back of the iPhone 3G is now glossy plastic and is contoured, providing better ergonomics than its predecessor's aluminum back but also giving it a more slippery feel. The 16GB model comes in black or white, while the 8GB model is black only. The physical volume and power/lock buttons and ringer switch on the side and top are now polished aluminum. The original iPhone's recessed headphone jack (which sprouted a mini-market of adapters and headsets) is thankfully gone in favor of one that's flush with the phone's top.
Everything else is held over from the first iPhone, including a 3.5-inch multi-touch display (480 by 320 tightly packed pixels), speakers on the bottom, a SIM tray on top, and a 2-megapixel camera lens on the back. The front is interrupted only by an earpiece and a physical Home button.
Overall, this is a wickedly sexy phone. It gets completely covered in fingerprints, so Apple included a cleaning cloth. We're big fans of the shrunk-down AC power adapter, but the stock iPhone headset and USB cable remain unchanged, and there's no dock or dock adapter.
Network Specifications
The iPhone is quad-band on GSM/EDGE networks, but the major addition is tri-band 3G support (UMTS/HSDPA) for better call quality and faster data throughput in the US and abroad. Another key addition is Assisted GPS, which tracks your location via cell towers and WiFi networks as well as GPS satellites. The feature is tightly integrated with Google Maps, but it also supports third-party apps.
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Navigating the Interface
The iPhone 2.0 software is simply excellent. The multi-touch interface lets you swipe, pinch, expand, and tap around very quickly with no lags and top-notch accuracy. Rearranging icons on the home screen is now a piece of cake, which is important since you can add tons of apps and Web pages to it.
The intelligent virtual keyboard pops up when you need it, and over the last year or so of living with the previous iPhone, we're able to type way faster on it than we ever have on any phone's physical keyboard. That's partly because the iPhone's keyboard adjusts for the way you type on it, dynamically resizing touch zones for keys based on usage patterns. The predictive text feature works great, though you can disable it.
Calling Someone
Ultimately the iPhone is a phone. The original iPhone took a lot of heat for poor call quality, and thankfully the iPhone 3G's call quality is very good. The earpiece ad speakers could be a bit louder, but the clarity in both incoming and outgoing audio is excellent, especially via 3G.
As with the original model, the phone's accelerometer and proximity sensor respond very well, locking the screen at the appropriate times to prevent accidental button presses. And visual voicemail is still one of our favorite features.
The updated email client works with IMAP and POP3 accounts and has presets for Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, and Apple's MobileMe accounts, but the big story is Microsoft Exchange support, making the iPhone a viable business phone. MS Exchange ActiveSync also lets you wirelessly sync contacts and calendars, and you can receive email on the phone as soon as it hits the server. Setup is simplest if your company uses Exchange 2007, thanks to an Autodiscovery feature that automatically finds the server address for you.
The email client now lets you trash or move multiple messages at once, which is a big plus, but you still can't search email, which is often a major pain. (You can work around this by using your email provider's web-based client instead.) At least you can search you contacts, which is handy if you've got hundreds to choose from. Attachment support is solid: You can view PDF, JPEG, Word, Excel, and PPT files right in the email client.
The iPhone's threaded text-messaging app is easy to use and conveniently lets you pick up threads where you left off. Oddly, you still can't send picture or video messages; this is one of the features that we expected but never appeared. The again, we're just as happy sending our pictures directly from the camera app via email.
Taking Pics/Video
The iPhone's 2-megapixel camera appears to be identical in quality to the original, which is to say pretty good outdoors and somewhat iffier indoors. The GPS chip enables third-party apps like SnapMyLife to geotag your photos and share them locally.
Surfing the Web
Web surfing is noticeably faster with 3G than EDGE, and the network type the iPhone is currently using is displayed in the top left corner of the screen. AT&T's coverage isn't always consistent, but in New Orleans we usually got between 2 and 4 bars of 3G, only very occasionally running into EDGE territory.
With 2 to 3 bars of 3G, we experienced load times of 5 to 10 seconds for sites like CNN Mobile, Apple.com, Amazon.com, and Craiglist.org. Sites with lots of pictures on the front page, including DigitalTrends.com, NYTimes.com, and BBCnews.com took a bit longer, at 15 to 25 seconds. We haven't run into any site compatibility issues yet, but let us know in the forums.
Our favorite enhancement is the ability to touch and hold a picture on the Web and save it to your iPhone. Alas, there's still no cut and paste feature.
Third-Party Applications
The App Store is definitely a standout feature, offering about 1000 apps at the time of this writing. Although we wound up spending about $50 on apps just in the first day alone, about 200 of the apps in the store are free. The sheer number of developers combined with Apple's screening process lots of customer reviews make this the platform to write for.
Our favorite apps so far include Apple's own free Remote, which lets you control iTunes (and AirTunes) on your computer wirelessly, Pandora (an Internet radio service), Air Hockey, and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, a maddeningly addictive driving game that uses the iPhone's accelerometer. And they're easy to manage, showing up in iTunes as its own icon in the left pane, as well as in the new Applications tab when your iPhone is connected. We did, however, run into a few apps that wouldn't install, wouldn't load, or crashed the phone.
We're looking forward to seeing developers integrate the iPhone into multiroom audio systems, home theater systems, DVRs, game consoles, and other networked gear.
The Assisted-GPS feature uses data from satellites, WiFi networks, and cellular towers to locate you with very good accuracy. In our testing, the iPhone located us far more precisely when we had a clear view to the sky (and thus the satellites) than when we were indoors and it relied on cell and network data.
We found Google Maps and features like live traffic reliable in New Orleans and New York City, but accuracy may vary depending on where you are. You can also visit the App Store and pick up a third-party app like Where, which is a location-based social networking tool, or G-Spot — a GPS-based utility to help you remember where you parked.
Multimedia Playback and Bluetooth
The iPhone 3G is a killer iPod, with excellent browsing and playback capabilities. Audio format support includes WAV, Apple Lossless, MP3, AAC (protected and DRM-free), and Audible, while video is still limited to MP4, M4V, and MOV (all using either the H.264 or MPEG-4 codec).
Apple hasn't added much to this part of the interface since the original iPhone. The only significant enhancement is Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, which is important since the original iPhone lacked this feature unlike just about every other smartphone. We used several Bluetooth headsets with the iPhone 3G, and all worked fine, with no lag in the audio/video sync, and music pauses when a call comes in.
Battery Life
Unfortunately, 3G guzzles power, cutting battery life for talk time in half when you're talking or browsing — 10 hours of 2G versus 5 for 3G. Most iPhones will last around 12 hours with moderate use features like browsing, GPS, texting, and talking. If you're using a Bluetooth headset, WiFi, 3G voice, push email on your Exchange account, and the camera, you'll burn through the battery in about half a day.
The iPhone's battery is frustratingly not user-removable; you have to send it in to Apple for a total of about $85. If you're planning on using all of the phone's features heavily, consider an external battery pack — they should start hitting the market by August.
Who Will Dig it and Who Won't
We're hard pressed to find someone who doesn't want the iPhone 3G — a situation that has led to global shortages that are likely to continue for a few more months. If you are lucky enough to get your hands on one, it'll be well worth it for personal use given its versatility and extensibility. Just make sure you can live without video recording.
Business users should to check with their IT department about deployment, but the infrastructure appears to be solidly in place for the iPhone to start stealing market share from RIM's BlackBerry. Business users are also far more likely to run down the battery in less than a day, so keep that charger handy
• Very good call quality
• Faster Web browsing
• Excellent 3rd-party app support
• Improved email support
• Broad feature set
• Still no video recording or native MMS
• 3G drains battery quickly
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Regulatory flexibility committee
Sec. 9. (a) A regulatory flexibility committee established under IC 8-1-2.6-4 to monitor changes in the telephone industry shall also serve to monitor changes and competition in the energy utility industry.
(b) The commission shall before August 15 of each year prepare for presentation to the regulatory flexibility committee an analysis of the effects of competition or changes in the energy utility industry on service and on the pricing of all energy utility services under the jurisdiction of the commission.
(c) In addition to reviewing the commission report prepared under subsection (b), the regulatory flexibility committee shall also issue a report and recommendations to the legislative council before November 1 of each year that are based on a review of the following issues:
(1) The effects of competition or changes in the energy utility industry and the impact of the competition or changes on the residential rates.
(2) The status of modernization of the energy utility facilities in Indiana and the incentives required to further enhance this infrastructure.
(3) The effects on economic development of this modernization.
(4) The traditional method of regulating energy utilities and the method's effectiveness.
(5) The economic and social effectiveness of traditional energy utility service pricing.
(6) The effects of legislation enacted by the United States Congress.
(7) All other energy utility issues the committee considers appropriate; however, it is not the intent of this section to provide for the review of the statutes cited in section 11 of this chapter.
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Why you should use the open source model
Open source for MBAs: A primer
If you're neither a scientist, nor active in the open source community, it can be difficult to properly understand why people write open source software. Why would people just give away the products of so much hard work?
I fully understand why one would be wary of a free product with no apparent profit model. After all, it's only proper caution to check for Trojans when receiving a horse.
The trick with open source software is to think about it in different terms. Traditionally, if you needed a piece of software or documentation or some other product that can be copied or photocopied, you had two options:
- You could find something that met your needs and then pay per-seat or per-site for a version someone else had written.
- You could hire someone to create your own version from scratch.
Paying for an existing solution can get expensive if you need a lot of copies, but writing your own version from scratch usually costs even more.
Using someone else's solution makes you dependant on them for fixing bugs and writing new features, but writing and maintaining your own draws resources away from competing in whatever markets you occupy.
Open source provides a third option with a slightly different payment structure. Instead of money, open source vendors want you to pay for their software in externalities and, if they're lucky, maybe you'll chip in with a bug fix or a new feature to sweeten the pot for everyone.
One popular way is to set up a business to sell support contracts to businesses using the software in mission-critical places…often at prices lower than large companies who know they have you by the unmentionables.
Here are a few other examples of externalities that commonly motivate people to give away their code.
- If you write a piece of software to solve your own problems, up to 90% of the time and money you spend on it over its lifetime can be spent on maintenance. If it's not the "secret sauce" that makes your business competitive, then it's just an expense and sharing the code with the world is a non-taxable payment for good publicity and an air of progressiveness in the eyes of potential employees. It may also reduce the amount of money spent if someone else fixes a bug and submits the fix back to you.
- On a more individual level, we all like to be acknowledged. Contributing to an established open source project or founding one that becomes popular is one of the quickest and easiest ways to build a favourable reputation among your peers, expand your resumé, and gain portfolio pieces that aren't crippled by restrictive copyright terms.
- Why involve the overhead of charging for your software, collecting sales tax, and then paying the money to advertising agencies to set up "viral marketing" campaigns, when giving it away for free cuts out the middle-men and takes you straight to "If people use your software and like it, then they will tell their friends and co-workers.""(Genuine word-of-mouth advertising is also more sincere and, therefore, more lasting)
- If you run a successful open source project, nothing makes a better business card for your support services than letting potential customers use and customize your software for low-risk applications for free. Even big companies often use a variation on this technique when they allow a certain amount of illegal copying in order to get individuals hooked on and familiar with their products. Open source just introduces honesty and a better ethical and moral framework to the technique.
- If you give away your software for free, like many companies do with the "non-Pro" versions of their tools, people are dependant on you for any changes they need. Fixing bugs, adding features, etc. That's a heavy burden to carry and, if you fall behind, it's bad for your reputation. If you release the source code, you are granting skilled users and companies the ability to fix problems they encounter, and then to offer the fix to everyone without putting more pressure on you.
Just because open source developers and vendors aren't getting paid for their software in money doesn't mean they aren't getting paid. To an open source developer, their software is their business card, a pride-worthy piece of art they want to share with the world, a tool they crafted to fix their own problems, a foot in the door for related products and services, and the seed for a group of like-minded people to collaborate with.
Also, while it doesn't necessarily affect the bottom line, programmers often have a deep understanding of how easy it is to copy software, which makes one's job more satisfying if they know they're being paid for their time (which is a scarce commodity) rather than copies of their software (which are vanishingly cheap to make).
As a final acknowledgement, if you are considering sharing software that you've written yourself, there are a few hidden gotchas to getting a community to form and they all boil down to whether or not potential participants feel empowered. Here are the basic rules:
- Use an un-modified version of a popular license that people know and understand, like the Apache license or the GNU GPL or LGPL licenses. Legalese is scary and programmers aren't lawyers.
- Write clear instructions on how to compile a working program from your code. Make sure they actually work on a freshly installed machine. (I use VirtualBox for this.)
- Provide an easy-to-use system for filing bug reports and feature requests, and offering up contributions. There are many tools for this as well as sites which will host your project for free. (I suggest GitHub or BitBucket.)
- Strive to make participants feel that their concerns are being listened to.
In short, there needs to be a smooth learning curve that can take people from "just wandered in" all the way up to "respected participant."
This article was originally posted on Stephan Sokolow's blog under Creative Commons license.
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"Why would people just give away the products of so much hard work?"
Because 95% of people will give something back: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/interview-dr-love-paul-zak
It is not directly and obviously visible because it's not taught in schools. Does the Earth go around the Sun? It took Kepler and Tycho years to prove that out. Many things we assume to be direct and obvious really aren't. It's just that we had to memorize them in school. :)
This is a very nice and useful post that is being included in the daily free Open Source Everything Headlines that appear each evening at 2200 Eastern. Short URL to the stack is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL. Twitter hash is #openall.
Two comments:
first, we are long over-due for starting to teach everyone why we should be "all in" on the open source meme, open source software is much more valuable if it is part of an open source ecology that includes Open Cloud, Open Data, Open Innovation, Open Hardware, Open Standards, and on and on and on. I make this case in THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency Truth & Trust just released 5 June. The book page with free stuff is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele.
Second, MBAs are still not taught the art and science of decision-support or intelligence. Just as lawyers do not graduate from law school knowing how to be lawyers, only how to take tests about the law, so also are MBAs reaching the real-world without a grasp of true cost economics, ecologies of energy, water, and other inter-operable resources, or the craft of intelligence. They know how to deal with information that is presented to them, but they have no clue how to leverage crowd-sourcing (intellectual) or funding, no clue how to demand external research in 183 languages, focused on core information that is not in the 2% of the Internet that Google indexes, etc.
What is really happening here is that a couple of centuries of information asymmetries and unaccountable corruption are being flushed out by the Internet and the emergence of Blessed Unrest. It is no longer possible to get away with screwing the many for the benefit of the few, and the sooner MBA's "get" that real profit can only be found in sustainable processes that create a prosperous world at peace, the sooner they might actually be worth something to the public. IMHO.
Free software might be the foundation of your computing environment. Any contribution back to that shows a level of appreciation to all those who contributed before you. An open computing environment became possible through the pioneering efforts of Richard Stallman. If you, for example, use gcc to develop your program, it is only fitting and proper that you altruistically give something back in the hope that it will be useful to others - just like gcc was helpful to you. Otherwise, don't use free software and stay locked in the world of proprietary code.
Yes, but go further. Go all in. Every resource penny, second, or thought, should be going not just to open software,but also to open hardware, open cloud, open standards, etcetera.


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quote: I just assumed it was a bad dice roll. There's just no way to distinguish good quality nowadays without someone literally tearing down these products and posting a review online.
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University of Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraMusic major Harry Jamison performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Ted Zellers (BA '12) solos in Rimsky Korsakov's Trombone Concerto, and the orchestra will perform Kerrith Livengood's (PhD '12) The Land Vaguely Waving. 11/07/2012Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Driving Miss DaisyJewish Theatre of Pittsburgh presents Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The story takes place from 1948 to 1973 in Atlanta, GA, and deals with racial and anti-Semitic issues in a subtle manner. The relationship between Miss Daisy, a wealthy Jewish widow, and Hoke, a poor African-American worker, is beautifully drawn and deepens as the play progresses.11/07/2012 - 11/18/2012Time: variousLocation: Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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Cubs Trade Pitcher
The Cubs made a move today to clear some much needed....minor league roster space? Rotoworld says the Oakland Athletics have acquired pitcher Rocky Roquet for the ever popular player to be named later.
Roquet, a 26-year old right-hander was always a favorite of Arizona Phil and was a non-roster invitee to camp this spring. He pitched in the Arizona Fall League the last two years and Scout.com had him at #18 in their 2008 prospect rankings.
I'm not sure why the move was made unless the Cubs felt they were full at the minor league levels or Billy Beane really liked Roquet and promised a decent return for the Cubs on that ambiguous future player they'll eventually receive. Or the Cubs know they're going to have to bite the bullet on Chad Gaudin's salary and the deal will just end up being for cash...an unlikely but possible scenario.
UPDATE: Muskat also says the Cubs have released LHP Ed Campusano. I believe over the last month the Cubs have cut ties with their top picks from 2003-2005 (Ryan Harvey, Grant Johnson and Mark Pawelek), plus pitchers Ryan Acosta, Campusano, Micahel Cooper, Jim Henderson, Jordan Latham, John Muller, Audy Santana, Harol Tolentino, catchers Mario Mercedes and Tony Richie, 1B Bryan Jost and SS Erick Almonte.
UPDATE #2: The Cubs VP of Player Personnel Oneri Fleita says the trade was simply due to a minor league roster crunch.
"He's a great kid with a chance to pitch in the major leagues," Cubs Vice President of Player Personnel Oneri Fleita said of Roquet.
"We were simply full and had to create (minor league roster) space.
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I bet we get Eric Patterson out of this.
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Pawelek was let go on Sunday, Grant Johnson was let go last week. In other news the Cubs have signed another Korean, 18 year old outfield prospect Ok-suk Wang.
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Nice April Fool's.
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The Cubs also cut Ed Campusano. No comment? What is he, chopped liver?? or maybe I just missed it elsewhere...
I know Ed had Tommy John surgery and sat out 2007 so why cut him now after being an NRI to spring training? He's got talent. But maybe Lou put him on his hate list because of the 5 walks.
And I reeeeeeeeeeeeally don't understand dumping Rocky Roquet. His minor league averages speak sweetly (3.14 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 10.5 K's - 7.4 Hits - 0.5 HR's per 9 innings pitched). Can't the obviously depleted Cub organization use some of that??
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My TCR processing:
1) Read [poster's name]. 2) Read post.
1) Read [Navigator]. 2) Skip and move on to next post. 3) Dude, you're really negative.
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Did you see where the Cubs ranked with their farm system? Saying "so-and-so is one of the Cub's best pitching prospects" isn't saying a whole hell of a lot. Might as well shake things up.
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And, in other news, navigator is reeeeeaaaally negative, just about all the time...
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Wow. You beat me to it. What am I thinking about right now?
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I'm glad to see that the Cubs are cutting dead wood, if young ballplayers don't have a chance in hell of making the big club we shouldn't waste time or money developing them.
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Good idea.
Let's dump Vitters and Castillo too.
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"Good idea.
Let's dump Vitters and Castillo too."
This is where Rob comes in and suggests getting rid of Samninja too...
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The Cubs have clearly adapted the idea of a fire sale to their own philosophy. Rather than sell the declining, high-priced big leaguers for a bunch of talented and cheap minor leaguers, they are attempting to clear minor league roster payroll in the hopes of affording another star or at least someone paid like a star. $80k here, $120k there -- it adds up quickly people. Who knows, after we clear out the rest of Tennessee and Daytona's roster, we might be able to afford ... Bernie Williams? Frank Thomas? I don't know, I'm thinking big here.
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A sure sign that spring training this year is ENTIRELY too long--when Cubs fans get uptight about the departure of future hall-of-famer Rocky Roquet.
Nearly all of the Cubs' minor leaguers have zero big league talent. I'm struggling to identify ANY minor leaguer the Cubs have given up on over the last five years who has mattered a hill of beans. Ricky Nolasco is the only one I can think of, maybe Jerry Blevins too.
Clay Rapada was cut by the Tigers today, Scott Moore didn't make it with the Orioles. Orange Guy is back in the minors. Etc...
Frankly, I think the Cubs have been pretty darn good assessors of their minor league talent, or lack thereof, in recent years. No complaints on that end. I just wish they'd draft better in the first place. (Tyler Colvin rant deleted).
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Bummer for Murton.
He goes 3-for-30 with the A's last year, now back down to the minors at age 27. Rough.
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i dunno what the hell COL wants with him anyway. him...in that OF in COL? LF in wrigley was enough of a challenge for the guy.
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Actually, by most metrics, Murton was, at worst, a league average defensive left fielder for the Cubs.
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metrics measure him getting there...not the adventure to the resolution.
and OF in COL in any position you better know how to read a ball of the bat.
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100% agree, CRUNCH. I've seen his escapades in the OF in-person and on TV. He is below average, without a doubt.
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yeah...it's not that i dont think he could play OF somewhere...but expanding his OF coverage by putting him in the huge COL outfield is the main reason i find COL wanting him odd. that's a place where you can let guys score from 2nd on a single or let a guy turn a single into a double if you screw up out there.
Not sure its a huge loss
Roquet has a pretty good arm, but the Cubs have quite a few good prospects that are at least comparable in terms of likelihood of future success. Kevin Hart, for example, is better than Roquet. Alex Maestri, Esmalin (sp?) Caridad, Blake Parker, Marcus Mateo are other good right handed prospects. Plus Jeff Stevens (acquired from CLE in Derosa deal).
If we get something decent in return, particularly an OF, LHP or a low level 1B (each of which are places where we have a dearth of prospects), perhaps it will be a good trade.
I actually am more upset at cutting Pawelek and Campusano. But neither of them, nor Rocky Roquet, were people who I expected much from this coming season.
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paw's "dead arm" turned into a "where's your velocity, kid?"...
ever since he *cough cough* tripped over his playstation *cough cough* he's not been the same.
he's a 88-90mph fastball pitcher now and when he cranks it up he can hit the low 90s.
he's not a mid+90s kid anymore.
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Hmmmm...not sure why Jordan Latham was cut. He's someone I had my eye on at the lower levels.
Last year combined b/w Peoria (A) and Daytona (A+):
Career minor league HR/9 is 0.5, BB/9 is 3.7, K/9 is 8.6
He won't turn 23 until late September.
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Shit, Rob. Clearly you fucking hate him. I am so sick of you hating on our fucking minor league pitchers.
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Prob'ly BECAUSE you hate him!
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Latham's name stuck out to me, too. Not doubting Rob's source--I know he has great sources--just wanted to see it in print somewhere so I looked through all the BA transaction reports back to January and the Felix Pie deal. All of Rob's names except Latham and the very recent duo (Roquet and Campusano) are listed.
It's strange, if true. Latham is too new--his first season was short-season Boise in '07.
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Hey, Matt Bush is available! Who says there's no talent to be had?
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He's a Fort Wayne Tincap (Formerly Fort Wayne Wizards) alumni. He was real good at the low-A level. *rolls eyes*
By the way, likely no one will really care about this but I'll put a plug in anyways. Fort Wayne is building a new ball park for our local low-A Padres affiliate. The Fort Wayne Tincaps will play at Parkview Field downtown Fort Wayne:
Photos of the new facility:
I walked around the construction site last Saturday and I was surprised how little security there was. I was able to walk around the concourse and the place is gorgeous (can a straight guy use that word?). The facilities boast of having the largest jumbotron in low and high A baseball, there will be a park in centerfield for children to play (hopefully they don't get drilled in the head by a home run to CF.
SO if you are ever unlucky enough to be around Fort Wayne during the minor league season... stop in for a game.
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I am from Peoria and follow the Chiefs religiously. For the last 5 years, my father-in-law and I travel to the Midwest League All Star game. Last year it was in Midland, Michigan and the park was unbelievable! Unfortunately, it can be difficult to secure tickets, especially in a new venue. I understand that the 2010 MWL All Star game is in Fort Wayne! They usually reserve all the good seats for the season ticket holders and we have a difficult time getting anything other than general admission. Perhaps you have a source?
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Did it look more "done" on the inside? My son and I were at the library last week and decided to drive by the park. I thought no way it's ready in two weeks or whatever.
Does anyone know
why Zambrano came out after 3.1 innings? He only gave up 1 ER on 2 H and 2 BB, so I doubt (though its not impossible) that he was at the pitch limit.
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No way in hell Lou would allow that. That's one of those high-risk, zero reward moves.
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Check out Peavy's line today in his final tune-up for the season---5 innings, 0 runs, 0 bb, 4k's---it says 22 pitches, 22 strikes---he WILL look good in Cubbie Blue!!!
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Peavy was so November. This spring/summer, it's going to be the Halladay Show! Heads up, just based on talent, I'd rather have RH anyways; factor in the contracts, and it seems more than obvious.
Of course, if we did end up with Peavy, we could do a heck of a lot worse.
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Halladay is someone I could get on board with - we would still have the problem of too much $$ in the rotation, though. Z or Lilly would have to go, I think, to fit that big contract in.
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Sorry Rob G. but it was a leadoff error by Hoffpauir the run scored was not earned. Must be watching Comcast sports you got wrong again.
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Apology accepted peace out. See ya!
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Blown save for Smardypants. The no K, one unearned run inning got his ERA down to a stellar 7.63 ERA. I too don't understand why Iowa would need to make room for him on the roster. The only place that needs to make room for him is Cooperstown.
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seems someone has a mancrush on you rob.
you don't have to worry about watching your every move because your new friend here will.
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I don't know about you crunch, but I sense sexual tension.
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Rob, I'm beginning to think you really do hate Samardzija!
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bo jackson was so f'n awesome...
not a HOF'r...not a fringe HOF'r in waiting...and yes his media blitz was sickeningly annoying sometimes, but at least once a week he seemed to do something "wow." without even trying.
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Don't worry, they make these jet planes rain-proof nowadays. Apparently not bird-proof, but rain shouldn't be an issue.
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Heck, even if an unfortunate birdstrike occurred, Samardzija! could take over the plane and land it safely in a river...
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Or Fontenot can part the river, and Samninja can just land the plane on the flat rocky bottom.
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O'Hare Tower: "Alright Cactus League 1549. It's going to be a left. Traffic to runway 3-1."
Jeff Samardzija: "Unable. Rob G. doesn't think I can do it."
Tower: "OK, what do you need to land? Cactus League 1549, runway four is available if you want to make left traffic to runway four."
Jeff Samardzija: "I am not sure if we can make runway. Oh, what's that over to our right? Anything in Indiana, maybe Hammond?"
Tower: "OK yea, off to your right is Hammond airport. Do you want to try and go to Hammond?"
Jeff Samardzija: "Yes."
Tower: "Hammond, uh, O'Hare actually. Mesa departure got an emergency inbound.
Hammond: "OK, go ahead."
Tower: "Cactus League 1529, Over the Skyway Bridge wants to go to the airport right now."
Hammond: "He wants to go to our airport check. Does he need any assistance?"
Tower: "Ah, yes, he, ah, was a bird strike. Can I get him in for runway one?"
Hammond: "Runway one, that's good."
Tower: Cactus League 1529, turn right 2-8-0, you can land runway one at Hammond."
Jeff Samardzija: "We can't do it."
Tower: "OK, which runway would you like at Hammond?"
Jeff Samardzija: "We're gonna be in Iowa City."
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*golf clap*
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Ha! Great post, Wes!
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ah this made my morning
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Fuck you carlosrubi.
At least you COULD have used a different movie instead of the one every numbskull who thinks they're funny uses.
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It's a TCR tradition.
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i mean,
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Damn you, Carlos. Damn you...
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Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.


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FFA kicks off its annual Washington Leadership Conference
FFA kicks off its annual Washington Leadership Conference
The FFA is one of the nation's premier youth organizations and agriculture is blessed to have the organization training future leaders in our industry. The Washington Leadership Conference, one of the FFA's cornerstone programs, kicked off its annual series earlier this month.
Based in our nation's capital, more than 2,000 FFA members from across the country will be attending one of seven weeklong sessions that combine leadership and citizenship training. Trips to Arlington National Cemetery; the Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt memorials; and other historic sites give students a better appreciation for our country's heritage and set the stage for intensive leadership training. The conference also gives students the opportunity to visit the office of their local U.S. representative or senator which is a valuable experience for every young citizen. Reading the recent press release from the National FFA gave me a moment to reflect on my participation in the Washington Leadership Conference program in 1990.
About two decades ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the Washington Leadership Conference. It was the first trip in which I traveled over one state away from my family's dairy farm. The bus ride from Wisconsin to Washington D.C., was an adventure. For the first time, I got to see the great diversity of our country. Not only was I exposed to other FFA members and their ideas, but also, I was able to experience first-hand the courage that our forefathers took in founding this country by experiencing monuments dedicated to their foresight and courage. Seeing the many Washington-based memorials and going to historic Mount Vernon, the home of President George Washington, is something I will never forget. The conference honed my leadership skills for my senior year in high school and beyond. It definitely developed me into a better leader, speaker, and made me want to serve my fellow man by volunteering in other organizations as an adult.
If you are an FFA member, the Washington Leadership Conference should be placed squarely on your must-do list. If you would like to attend the Washington Leadership Conference, talk to your FFA advisor. Many chapters offer scholarships to help defray the costs.
To learn more about the FFA, go to www.ffa.org. The FFA has 7,487 local chapters throughout the United States and has over 523,000 members in grades seven through twelve.
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The Buffalo Museum of Science will present Body Worlds Vital from the Body Worlds series beginning May 31 for a limited engagement.
The exhibition features donated human specimens that allow visitors to examine anatomy, physiology and health through a process called Plastination.
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Women's Volleyball Announces 2014 Summer Camp Dates
The Ball State women's volleyball team announced its 2014 summer camp dates, starting with its annual Individual Skills Camp (July 6-8). The program will also host a Team Camp (July 11-13), as well as one day camps for Hitters/Setters (July 9) and Libero/General Skills (July 9)
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General Skills Camp: Ages: 9-18
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- Campers will also compete in camp competitions.
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Hitter Camp: The emphasis of this camp will be to develop stronger front court skills of attacking and blocking by reviewing fundamentals and focusing on approach and arm swing work, blocking techniques and decision making. Sessions will consist of individual skill work coupled with combined training with setters for attacking and transition work.
Setter Camp: Campers attending our Setter Camp will focus on all the skills needed to become a more effective setter. Although the majority of training will consist of footwork, hand contact and setting repetitions, campers will also work on defensive skills, blocking, decision making, and setting live attackers.
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Don Pardo, the longtime announcer for "Saturday Night Live," died Monday in Tucson, Arizona, according to published reports. He was 96 years old.
Pardo was with "Saturday Night Live" from the show's first episode in October 1975, and performed the introductions for 38 seasons, missing only Season 7.
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A small administrative centre built around a café-lined square, M'HAMID (also known as M'Hamid el Ghizlane) was once an important marketplace for nomadic and trans-Saharan trade, but of this role only a rather mundane Monday souk remains. Although M'Hamid is still more low-key than Zagora, you might be forgiven for thinking the village's main raison d'être these days is getting tourists onto camels – there are any number of operators, official and unofficial, who offer camel trips into the desert proper.
Erg Lehoudi
The most easily accessible of the dunes around M'Hamid are those at Erg Lehoudi ("Dunes of the Jews"), 8km north of town, which can be reached, with guidance, in a normal car via a piste just outside the village. They see more than their share of day-trippers (and their rubbish) and hustlers, and despite reaching a height of over a hundred metres, somehow feel rather mundane.
Erg Chigaga
The most dramatic dunes in the entire Zagora region lie some 60km southwest of M'Hamid, where the 300m-high crescents of the Erg Chigaga ripple away into the horizon. The expense and time involved in getting here – a return trip by camel takes around five days; by costly 4WD, you can get there in less than two hours – is well worth it, and with quieter dunes and more spaced-out camps, the desert experience is much more akin to how you might imagine it.


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LISBON - The Lisbon school district has a new bus supervisor after agreeing last month to share the position with the Columbiana County Educational Service Center.
School Superintendent Don Thompson reported at this week's school board meeting the new transportation supervisor is Jennifer Durno, who was recently hired by the ESC as its supervisor. The board voted at its October meeting to share the position with the ESC, which was also looking for a new supervisor.
Thompson said Lisbon's share of the cost for the year will be $30,490, which represents 60 percent of Durno's salary and is based on the fact Lisbon transports more students.
Lisbon was forced to look for a new supervisor following the October resignation of transportation supervisor Robert Marra, whose position cost the district $60,000 a year including benefits, which means the sharing arrangement will save the district about $30,000 a year. The administration has been investigating ways it can share services with other school districts to save money.
In other business:
- Thompson reported the heavy rains and high winds produced by Superstorm Sandy revealed that some roof sections needed repaired.
For that reason, the board voted to hire Roth Brothers of Youngstown to repair roofs as both schools for up to $17,171.
- The board issued the following coaching contracts: Jeff Padurean, assistant boy's varsity basketball coach; Megan Reynolds, junior high girls basketball coach; Sam Carpenter, fifth and sixth grade girls basketball coach; Doug Andric, head varsity baseball coach; Dave Crismon, head varsity softball coach.
- The board named the following people volunteer coaches: Mandy Flory, girls junior high basketball; and Rick Praso, girls basketball.
- The board promoted Beth Helman from substitute cafeteria worker to part-time status and granted family medical leave to teacher Patricia Stewart.
- The firm of Gardiner Trane of Solon, which oversee the school's energy efficiency program, was hired for $3,000 to determine if the changes are achieving the promised savings.
- Graduation was scheduled for 3 p.m. May 26 in the high school gymnasium, while the prom will be held from 7-11 p.m. May 3 at Avion on the Water in Canfield, followed by the after prom the next day at Swing N things in Olmstead Falls.
- The board heard from teachers Karly MacAleese, Becky McCullough and Lindsey Roush about a new teacher method being used at McKinley Elementary School. Students who participated in the demonstration were Asha Achberger, Joey Diludovico, Jaidynn Entrikin and Bobby Harris.
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The History Department at the University of Texas at Brownsville proudly sponsors the Alpha Alpha Mu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. Phi Alpha Theta is (in its own words) "a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of History through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among Historians. We seek to bring students, teachers and writers of History together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist Historical research and publication by our members in a variety of ways."
The Alpha Alpha Mu chapter has long been part of the experiences of history majors at UTB. We initiate new members at the start of the fall and spring semesters and meet regularly to discuss chapter activities, which can range from local trips to community service programs here in the Valley. A highlight of the year is the sponsorship of a guest speaker. Chosen because of his or her dedicated service to the study of history, the speaker gives a formal address to both the membership and interested individuals from the university and local community. In addition, the university recently (2009) accorded the chapter status as a student club with the right to participate in student activity events around campus while promoting the professional study of history.
For eligibility, undergraduate students must complete at least 12 semester hours in history (4 courses) with a GPA of at least 3.1 in history, and have a GPA of 3.0 or better overall, while graduate students should have completed a minimum of 12 semester hours towards their master's degree in history and have a GPA of better than 3.5.
The one-time initiation fee of $40.00 per student is payable at the time of initiation, after the UTB Student Activities office has formally verified eligibility. The fee includes a membership certificate and four issues of the journal, The Historian. Membership in Phi Alpha Theta is a lifetime membership.
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|Optical Metrology Lab Receives New Funding for Upgrades
The Optical Metrology Lab (OML) at the ALS is renowned for its precision and technical expertise in metrology of x-ray optics. It has achieved this notoriety with only two full-time staff members and extremely limited laboratory facilities. Now, with new funding from the DOE that provides $1.2M to build a new clean room laboratory with environmental controls, and the promise of $1.4M to upgrade and replace outdated instrumentation, the OML will be able to achieve an even higher level of excellence.
Valeriy Yashchuk, head of the OML and member of the Experimental Systems Group (ESG), says of his lab, "Our methods are some of the best in the world, but unfortunately, environmental conditions are not as good as they could be."
Plans for the funding include making a clean lab with high-temperature stability, allowing for more accurate, reliable, and efficient work. High-performance measurements could be taken 24 hours a day rather than just at night when the environmental conditions are more stable. A controls anteroom will facilitate remote operation of the metrology instrumentation in the clean room, avoiding temperature drifts like those caused by heat from unnecessary equipment and personnel in the lab. It will also serve for storage of optics, measurement instruments, and other equipment that draws foot traffic (and dirt) into the lab.
Funding will also help replace obsolete metrology instruments and improve existing state-of-the-art instrumentation. A Universal Test Mirror—an original system for the precise calibration of slope measuring profilers—is currently under development in collaboration with BESSY and PTB (Germany). "Thorough calibration and testing of metrology instrumentation is a key point for the state-of-the-art metrology of x-ray optics," says Yashchuk.
As the needs of the x-ray science community press the limits of x-ray optics, Yashchuk and colleague Wayne McKinney are also looking forward to using some of the new funding to hire staff to meet demand. In addition to the ALS, facilities like the LCLS, LLNL, SLAC and CXRO, send their x-ray optics to the OML for repair and metrology services. Additional staffing and funding will help to build the OML in to a true "West Coast Center for Metrology of X-Ray Optics."


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Thursday, July 10, 2014
College of Charleston infielder Gunnar Heidt has agreed to terms with the Toronto Blue Jays and will not return to College of Charleston for his senior season.
A native of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Heidt was drafted in the 13th round of this years MLB Draft, becoming the 14th player drafted under head coach Monte Lee in the last six seasons. He finalized his contract with the Blue Jays this week and will officially sign after the completion of a physical. The Cougar infielder was the fifth-highest draft pick out of the CAA this season.
Heidt was an All-CAA Preseason selection and lived up to his billing throughout the season until he was hit by a pitch in late April and has had to miss time with a broken hand. He returned to the starting lineup as the designated hitter against Texas Tech in the NCAA Super Regional opener.
He finished the season with a team-best .327 average with 30 RBIs, ranking seventh in the CAA in batting average. Heidts slugging percentage of .470 ranked on the squad, while his 15 stolen bases ranked third in the CAA despite him missing 19 games. He was named All-CAA First Team and was the CAA Player of the Week on April 14.
Last season, Heidt led the Cougars with a .349 batting average and 54 RBIs. He led the Southern Conference with seven triples and stole 13 bases. He was named the SoCon Player of the Month in March.
He finished his Cougar career with a .309 batting average and 105 RBIs. He knocked 40 doubles and slugged .456 with 35 steals.
College of Charleston signee Nick Wells was also drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays and signed earlier in the summer.
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"Daddy Cakes" was originally coined by two Dad's having fun for breakfast with their kids, family, and friends - it snowballed from there and they left their corporate jobs to make "Daddy Cakes" available to everyone. They trademarked the term "Daddy Cakes" and created Daddy Cakes International, LLC based in Newport Beach, California. They have a super cool line of baked goods mixes for todays generation, and sell housewares, apparel, and accessories. Most of their products are of limited release as they want their customers to have a somewhat unique experience. As far as I know, they are the one, the original, and only "Daddy Cakes" so it's a totally legit brand.
1) Check out her top, it's from Daddy Cakes. 2) That "Daddy Cakes" cupcake belt is da bomb! 3) These "Daddy Cakes" taste awesome! 4) Liberal Kansas enjoyed "Daddy Cakes" during International Pancake Day
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DaddyCakes are great baking mixes created by dads. Daddy Cakes are simple, often "Just Add Water" baking mixes created by Daddy Cakes International in Newport Beach
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por Daddy Cakes® 21 de Julho de 2008
DaddyCakes is what pancakes are called when made by Dad using great ingredients provided in a mix called Daddy Cakes. DaddyCake is the man behind the pancake - the conquerer of all that is evil in the world. Our Dad is DaddyCake.
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DaddyCake is when someone references just one of the two brothers who created Daddy Cakes® the brand of "Just Add Water" baking mixes and products sold in specialty stores and online.
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por Daddy Cakes 20 de Setembro de 2008
A term of endearment for a very special person.
Daddycakes, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I can wait until you are better.
I miss you so much, Daddycakes.
Daddycakes filed a leave from work to celebrate our 2nd Year Anniversary on 18th of May.
I miss you so much, Daddycakes.
Daddycakes filed a leave from work to celebrate our 2nd Year Anniversary on 18th of May.
por bearmonk 22 de Abril de 2009