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Krasnaya Polyana, Russia • Ted Ligety did not just win the giant slalom at the Sochi Olympics.
He owned it.
Dominated it.
Krasnaya Polyana, Russia • Ted Ligety did not just win the giant slalom at the Sochi Olympics.
He owned it.
Dominated it.
Yanked it away from everybody else, stamped his name across the front and hung it out his living room window.
In his last real chance to medal here, the greatest giant slalom skier of his generation faced down all the pressure that came with his sparkling resume two-time world champion in the event, four-time World Cup champion, three-time Olympian and coolly used his unique style and a "flawless" first run, in the words of coach Sasha Rearick, to carve out a signature victory in his signature event on Wednesday.
"There's no question who's the best GS skier right now," teammate Bode Miller said.
You think?
The 29-year-old Park City native won by 0.48 seconds, a big margin in ski racing that wasn't four times as large only because Ligety skied his second run more conservatively, with a massive lead and a course that featured several dangerous spots that could have taken him out.
His performance delivered his first Olympic medal since winning a surprise gold in the combined at the 2006 Turin Games he's the first American to win an Olympic giant slalom and made up for a disappointing performance at the 2010 Vancouver Games, where he failed to win a medal.
"It was a huge relief," he said. "I've been wanting to win this medal my whole life. Even moreso … the last few years.
"All season long, everybody talks about the Olympics, the Olympics, the Olympics," he added. "At a certain point, I was just like, 'Let's do it already. Let's get this thing over with so we can stop talking about the pressure and everything with it.' So it's awesome to be able to come here and be able to compete and finally do it and get the monkey off the back, I guess."
France's Steve Missillier and Alexis Pinturault claimed silver and bronze Miller finished 20th in the last Olympic race of his illustrious career but that was a battle unto itself.
Ligety is so strong in giant slalom that the race for gold was over almost before it began.
Top rival Marcel Hirscher of Austria had given himself "no chance" to win if Ligety skied perfectly, and he was out of the picture as soon as Ligety took his brilliant first run down a course he had skied many times, by virtue of a U.S. Ski Team partnership with the Russians.
Using his unmatched ability to carve smoother curves and maintain his speed by staying lower and turning wider around the gates, Ligety finished his first run 0.93 seconds faster than journeyman Ondrej Bank of the Czech Republic, who later faded to fifth.
Fellow American Tim Jitloff said it was all over, right there.
"It just reminded me of too many races where I've been like, 'OK, he's got a big lead and he's going to do what he usually does,' which is ski just solid and clean and he'll come down and win by a large amount which is what he did," Jitloff said.
"It reminds me of when [tennis star Roger Federer] was so dominant there for about four years," he added. "Everyone's like, 'What do you do? How do you beat him?' I don't know."
Indeed, the second run felt more like a coronation than a competition.
Rival after rival came down the hill, unable to come close to challenging Ligety and then trying to explain what makes him so good. Ligety has won 20 World Cup races in giant slalom, as well as four of the past six World Cup titles and the past two world championships.
"Last four or five years," Austria's Benjamin Raich pondered, "unbelievable."
Raich is the man from whom Ligety assumed the mantle of best giant slalom skier in the world, having won Olympic gold in the event in 2006, as well as two World Cup titles before Ligety came along.
But here, he was just another spectator, in the shadow of greatness.
Ligety was so far ahead after his first run, he needed only the 14th-fastest second run to win by the biggest margin since the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics and make up for his off-the-podium performances here in the super-combined and super-G the other two events he won at the world championships last year. He also said he plans to compete at least through the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics in Korea.
Oh, one more example of his dominance?
Missillier skied the fastest time of the second run, and it was still nearly two seconds slower than Ligety's first run.
"I knew there was a lot of pressure on today and I really wanted to perform and ski the way I knew I could ski," Ligety said. "To be able to perform and do what I wanted to on skis and have it equal a gold medal is truly awesome."
Golden Ted
Park City's Ted Ligety has a tremendous resume:
Two Olympic gold medals, in combined at 2006 Turin Games and giant slalom at 2014 Sochi Games.
Four giant slalom World Cup titles, in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013.
Four world championships, in the giant slalom in 2011 and the giant slalom, super-G and super-combined in 2013.


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Valero Texas Open interview: Rory McIlroyApril 04, 2013
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Q. Not the kind of consistency I imagine you were looking for?
RORY MCILROY: No, not really. I started off well, 2‑under; then I threw in a couple of those silly mistakes that I was talking about trying to eliminate last week. Made two bogeys on the par‑5s and made a bogey with a wedge in my hand. So you eliminate those and it's not a bad score.
But, yeah, I mean, I hit the ball okay. Not my best, but it was tricky out there. The conditions were pretty tough. You get this course with a bit of wind, and it's always going to be a tough challenge.
Q. You have some curious splits this year, and it is very early in the season. You haven't gotten in that many rounds. But your last round of the tournament is always better than the first. It's as though you build momentum as you go along. Any reason for that?
RORY MCILROY: I'm not sure. I think I'm still to break par in the first round this year. It would have been nice, but. Yeah, you just gain a little bit of confidence as you go through the week, I guess. I'm not sure. I've played well at Doral, obviously, which is a good score. Then you get used to the course as well, and you get to know it better each round that you play.
Q. Even par is still going to be in touch with the leader. This is a difficult track when the wind blows?
RORY MCILROY: Yeah, it is for sure. It's hard to make a lot of birdies out there, especially when the conditions are like they are today. It's nice now, but it was very cold this morning. But, yeah, I'll go out tomorrow afternoon and try to post a good one and get myself in there for the weekend.
Q. Rory McIlroy wanted to know what he would do with a scorecard in his hand this week. So tell me about course management which was the number one thing that you wanted to have this week? How did you feel you did on day one?
RORY MCILROY: I did okay. I still threw in a couple of silly mistakes. I'm making bogey on 18, the par‑5. Making two bogies on two par‑5s isn't very good. And I made a bogey on the first with a wedge in my hand. So still a little bit of work to do in that department.
But, overall, even par wasn't that bad a score. I thought managed my game out there pretty well.
Q. Throw bogeys in a row there including the two par‑5s. Then what did you tell yourself to clean it up and salvage a good round?
RORY MCILROY: Yeah, I was just trying to get back to what I was doing at the start of the round. Trying to hit fairways, trying to hit greens, and trying to take a few chances when I could. Luckily, I was able to do that on the front nine. Doesn't pay to finish with a bogey. Would have been nice to finish under par, but even par isn't a disaster, and I'm still in a good position going into tomorrow.
Q. Overall, on a course you didn't know this week, what did you learn today that you can implement going into the last few rounds?
RORY MCILROY: You've got to stay below pins here and really watch where the pins are and put it at the right level on the greens. Pretty self‑explanatory off the tee. You've just got to try to hit it on the fairway. From there, if you're smart with your second shot, you're going to create some chances for yourself.
Q. Can you talk about the course and being here and what day one was like?
RORY MCILROY: Yeah, it was good. The way I started the round I would have hoped for a little bit better. But I'm relatively pleased with the way I played. It could have been a little better, but it could have been a little worse too. So, hopefully, I'll just go out tomorrow and try to shoot a good number and get myself in position for the weekend.
Q. The mental mistakes, are they mental or physical?
RORY MCILROY: More mental than anything else. I guess I felt like I hit a good shot into the 18th, and it came back into the water. Then I think that sort of got to me and that's why I bogeyed the 1st and hit a bad shot at the 2nd. But once I started to regroup, I started to play pretty well on the way in.
Yeah, it's just about limiting those mistakes and limiting‑‑ it's definitely a more mental mistakes than it is physical.
Q. How do you clean it up?
RORY MCILROY: I don't know. Just stop doing them. It's hard to explain. I guess it just comes with play, and it comes with play and that's why I'm here this week, just to play and get some more competitive rounds.


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SOURCE: Heritage Bank of Commerce
December 04, 2012 13:30 ET
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 4, 2012) - Heritage Bank of Commerce, the operating bank of Heritage Commerce Corp (NASDAQ: HTBK), today announced the addition of Andrea Head as Senior Vice President/Real Estate Lending at the Bank's Danville regional office. Andrea will be responsible for relationship management and real estate and construction lending, with a strong emphasis on the East Bay market.
"Andrea brings a wealth of knowledge to the position with nearly 30 years of banking experience throughout the East Bay, primarily focused in construction and real estate lending along with community banking across a broad range of industries," stated Walt Kaczmarek, President and CEO. "We are excited to welcome her aboard and look forward to leveraging her vast skill set to better serve the needs of our customers."
Prior to joining the team at Heritage, Andrea served as Executive Vice President at Summit Bank in Oakland, Senior Managing Director-Relationship Management at First Republic Bank in Walnut Creek and with the Bank of Walnut Creek (Acquired by First Republic Bank) as Executive Vice President, Real Estate Division. Andrea is a long-time Walnut Creek resident with strong ties to the community including support of local education foundations, bond measures and volunteering. Andrea is married with two college-age children.
Heritage Commerce Corp, a bank holding company established in February 1998, is the parent company of Heritage Bank of Commerce, established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose with full-service branches in Danville, Fremont, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Pleasanton, and Walnut Creek. Heritage Bank of Commerce is an SBA Preferred Lender with an additional Loan Production Office in Santa Rosa, California. For more information, please visit www.heritagecommercecorp.com.
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I'll be the first to admit that for a long time I avoided shopping at discount department stores like Marshall's, TJ Maxx, and Ross because I didn't have the patience to wade through the racks to find the great scores. A few months ago, though, I found some time one afternoon to browse through Ross and I was instantly hooked. Merrell sneakers for my first grader for $19.99 instead of $45? Yes, please.
These days I stop in my local Marshall's and TJ Maxx at least twice a month to see what I can find. Some recent bargain sightings:
- Thomas Wooden Railway trains and track sets for at least 40% off the regular prices
- Melissa & Doug puzzles and play food sets for $10 and under
- Kids' Crocs for $12.99 (real Crocs, not knockoffs!)
- Zutano onesies and soft pants for $6 each
- Tommee Tippee and Baby Brezza feeding accessories at 50% off
The infant section is usually so well-stocked that a bargain-hunting expectant mom could probably buy her whole layette. I always see crib bedding, muslin receiving blankets, Boppies and their covers, baby bathtubs and towels, baby grooming sets, and a ton of onesies and sleepers.
Plus, for the truly patient shopper, there are racks and racks of babies' and kids' clothes and shoes. Some of the brands I've spotted are Ralph Lauren, Hurley, Roxy and Stride Rite. Occasionally I find something for myself, like the Adrianna Papell dress I'd seen at Nordstrom for $158 … for $59.99. The catch is that there is no guarantee you will find a specific item you are looking for, or even that the same items will be available between one week and the next.
I'd love to hear from other discount store addicts: what are some of your best finds?


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Guilford to close Cobleskill, NY, site
September 18, 2001,
Greensboro, NC — Hard times continue for American mills, and the latest news from Guilford Mills is no exception. The mill, based here, last week announced the closing of its Cobleskill, NY, facility.
The facility, which will shut its doors on Nov. 8 and employs approximately 500 people, manufactures stretch knit intimate apparel, swimwear fabrics, apparel lace and lace for its home textiles arm, Guilford Home Fashions, which is based in New York. Until its closing, the factory will continue to service remaining orders, the company said, and will assist in transitioning its customers to new suppliers. It is possible, the company also said, that the facility could be sold.
Briggs also said that any home fashions products that were being produced in the facility would be sourced either domestically on a pieced goods basis or from various countries offshore.
Ironically, Guilford had recently consolidated several operations from other facilities into the Cobleskill operation. The company had also recently closed two other facilities.
John Emrich, president and ceo of Guilford Mills, cited declining sales and margins as well as the increasing uncertainty of the viability of the operation as factors that played a role in the decision to shut down the Cobleskill plant.
"The growing apparel imports, strong U.S. dollar and weak economy have resulted in significant financial loses," Emrich said. "These factors, combined with the tightened credit in the domestic textile industry, make it impossible for the company to sustain apparel dyeing and finishing in the U.S. We believe that we have taken every reasonable action to make Cobleskill successful. Unfortunately, we were at such a disadvantage that our efforts were insufficient."
In addition to the closing, Guilford plans to cuts its domestic apparel business selling and administrative staff by 70 percent. Corporate cuts are also expected.
Emrich went on to say that the company's strategies regarding its direct-to-retail home fashions business and its automotive and industrial fabrics businesses remained unchanged.
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Semi carrying 21 tons of meat gets stuck in Kirksville
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:15:24 GMT —
A tractor-trailer driver in Kirksville found himself in a predicament late Tuesday afternoon.
He was trying to get gas, but he told KTVO he made a wrong turn.
Then, he turned too sharply as he was trying to get to the gas station.
The back wheels of his trailer left the pavement and sank deeply into the saturated ditch in front of the Auto Plaza Collision Center on North Baltimore Street.
That caused the whole unit to tip toward the ditch and raised the wheels of the tractor four to five feet off the pavement.
Most of the rig was sticking out into Baltimore Street blocking traffic.
This all happened around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The Kirksville Police Department and Adair County Sheriff's Office blocked off that section of the street and rerouted traffic while two tow trucks were brought in to get the big rig back on all wheels.
The wheels on the back corner of the trailer were buried so deeply in the mud you could barely see the top of the tires.
The driver from Kansas City told us he was hauling 42,000 pounds of meat he had just picked up at the Adair Foods plant.
The meat was not damaged because the engine was left running to keep the trailerâ??s refrigeration system operating.
Uprighting the truck was very uneventful as the tow trucks used a big strap, cables and hydraulics to slowly get the tractor-trailer back on its wheels.
The section of Baltimore Street was closed for two hours and 15 minutes.
Traffic was flowing again at 7:45 p.m.


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Me, a grown man, enjoying a cake pop
North Park treats for graduation, wedding, Easter
Ian Anderson 9:30 a.m., Sept. 24
With the recent repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the San Diego LGBT Pride organization, promoters of the annual Pride parade and festival, are preparing a contingent to march in the city's Veteran's Day Parade.
"With the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, LGBT servicemembers and veterans can at last walk openly with their families to receive the full support of their community, and the recognition they have earned with their service to our country," says the group's website, which is soliciting participants to join the group.
Those interested in marching are asked to wear clothing denoting the branch the service where they or their loved ones have served, though a caution is issued to check military regulations before deciding the join the group in uniform.


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As Derrick has shown, the Tea Party movement has upset the Republican Party establishment, ruthlessly Zerging their way through the 2010 primaries and elections into 2011. Whether the Tea Party's Zerg tactics have the stuff to match [DEM] in the 2012 Diamond League remains to be seen.
On paper, [DEM] would seem to have all the advantages: an energized clan base coming out of the 2008 general election, no primary opponents, and a wizard clan leader [OBM] who demonstrated his micro to flawless effect, easily defeating [HIL] and [MCN] to top the ladder.
But how have [OBM] and [DEM] spent the past three years since revolutionizing the way politics is played? Have they neglected the essentials in favor of booming toward the end game? That may well be.
Ask any veteran Starcraft player and he'll tell you that it's a different game at the top of the ladder. You have to know not just the common strategies, but to be prepared, in advance, to adjust to patches and changes in game balance. And in order to react, you need to have the funadmentals memorized to the point where they're second nature. This means balancing offense with defense where required. And defense means towers at the base perimeter, else how are you going to survive that newbie Zerg rush as you boom to battlecruisers?
Before [OBM] came along, the [DEM] clan had been hurting. They'd lost track of the fundamentals, which had been drummed into their heads by former clan leader [BIL], in favor of easily countered stunt attacks like those favored by ANSWER and Code Pink, or been distracted by what they should have seen were feints, like the time in 2004 when Swiftboat microed [DEM] into wasting the entire midgame chasing one Protoss Zealot half-way around the map. By endgame Cheney had built a wave of High Templars, and it was no contest.
While [BIL] could be erratic in the endgame, his mastery of fundamentals, and of defense, enabled him to survive everything [GOP] threw at him. Defense, in politics, means a strong economy. So how is [OBM] set for 2012, compared to where [BIL] sat in 1996, the last time the [DEM] clan defended a Diamond League level tournament?
Not too pretty.
Where [BIL] enjoyed a sound economy, with a balanced budget and unemployment at or below 5%, in other words, a strong base ringed with towers and lots of resources gatherers at the close of the early game, [OBM] has squandered a good start in an attempt to boom straight to battlecruisers. He passed an extravagant health care law that the country can't afford while already engaged in two wars. He pushed for a stimulus plan that was wildly unpopular, hoping that it would allow him to jumpstart his tech. He's left his base wide open and undefended, and utterly neglected his economy. Where [BIL] could afford to stunt around with Lewinsky in the endgame of a second term, [OBM] will be lucky to have an unemployment rate below 9% in 2012.
With no economy and no defenses, [DEM] is in serious trouble. A fleet of six battlecruisers can annihilate a ground attack of twelve ultralisks, but they can't kill zerglings any faster due to slow rate of fire. And [GOP], amateur as they are, will be sweeping through the [DEM] base with dozens of zerglings.
Why has this happened? It's a dirty little secret that [OBM], who demonstated pro-level micro and mastery of the fundamentals when we were all playing original Starcraft, didn't get around to buying Starcraft 2 until September 2011.
He's been fucking around with World of Warcraft instead. And he's an awful WoW player.
Naturally, as a member of a minority group, Obama gravitated to Horde. No pussy night elves or shit-eating gnomes, thank you very much. He started strong too, leading a raid into Stormwind on a pvp server that killed the human king in 2008. This happened hours before Wrath came out, when the city was packed with veteran level 70 Alliance players trying to form or rejoin guilds or auction off herbs before the rush on Northrend. He got a lot of recognition for it too, because the raid ganked so many old-timers who'd griefed Horde n00bs in the past, like John Kerry and Al Gore. He even earned a title for killing George W. Bush in record time.
But he hasn't moved his game past that. While the raids these days are focusing on new content in Cataclysm, Obama is STILL hanging around in Orgrimmar, typing "/strtin raid 2 kill gwb – no n00bs!!! – checkin gearscore!" every thirty seconds, and getting no replies. The Horde has killed GWB hundreds of times since 2008. They've moved on to new content.
Maybe the most pathetic thing about Obama is that as he doesn't realize the reason he gets so few replies in Orgrimmar is that lots of Horde have dropped out of the game. He's convinced the reason is that he's schooled the n00bs, like Kosguild, into silence, and Horde who aren't srsly hardcore, like the Bluedogs of Thunder Bluff, onto carebear servers.
In fact, they've given up on WoW entirely, in no small part because they can't enjoy the game with Obama shouting LOLNOOB! any time anyone says anything in /general, /pvp or even /trade. They won't be playing mmos at all until the Diablo 3 beta ends, in November 2016.
Can Obama be bothered to stop bunny-hopping in the Orgrimmar auction house, and dust off what used to be ninja-level Starcraft skillz? [DEM] had better hope so, because they only have one other top-level player: [BIL] has retired and [HIL] has made it clear she's waiting for Diablo 3.
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|2009 World Vision Classic
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Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284)
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Date: Friday-Sunday, Nov. 27-29, 2009
Location: Waco, Texas
Arena: Ferrell Center (10,284)
Four Lady Bears are averaging double-digit scoring. Freshman post Brittney Griner leads the team with 15.0 points a game while junior guard Melissa Jones tallies 14.0, the team's lone senior Morghan Medlock is averaging 11.3 points and sophomore post Ashley Field comes off the bench to score 10.5 an outing.
BU freshman post Brittney Griner became just the seventh female to dunk in a regular-season NCAA contest when she threw one down against Jacksonville State on Nov. 24. She is also a defensive threat as a shot blocker with her 88" wing span.
Baylor players are dishing it out this season. In its last two games, Baylor has collected assists on 50 of the team's 68 field goals with 25 assists on 30 field goals against Cal and 25 assists on 38 makes against Jacksonville State. On the season, the Lady Bears have registered assists on 80 of its 124 field goals made.
Ten of Baylor's 12 active players have dished out three or more assists on the season. Point guard Kelli Griffin leads the squad with 22, followed by Melissa Jones' 13.
In 10 seasons under head coach Kim Mulkey, Baylor is 240-67 (.782), which ranks her No. 4 nationally in winning percentage. In addition, the Lady Bear program ranks No. 6 among the NCAA Division I's winningest teams over that span. Shanay Washington was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for her performances from Nov. 16-22.
Only two Baylor players, juniors Melissa Jones and Kelli Griffin, have two or more years in the Lady Bear system. Morghan Medlock, a senior, transferred last season from Southern California and junior Whitney Zachariason has half a season in the system after transferring from Arkansas. All the rest of the squad are freshmen and sophomores.
Baylor returns one starter (Kelli Griffin) and eight letterwinners from its 2009 NCAA Sweet 16 team which finished the season 29-6.
Baylor was tabbed the favorite in the 2009-10 Big 12 Women's Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll.
Against eighth-ranked Tennessee, eight of the 10 players that saw game action got on the scoreboard. In fact, all five freshmen played with four (Griner 15, Jordan Madden 6, Shanay Washington and Kimetria Hayden 3 each) popping in points. All 13 players saw extensive playing time against Tennessee Tech and everyone scored. Freshman Jordan Madden led all scorers with 21. As a group the freshmen combined for 50 points, 24 rebounds, nine blocks, nine assists and eight steals.
Freshman post Brittney Griner, the nation's consensus No. 1 recruit, was named Preseason Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year by the league's coaches and to the Naismith Trophy's Preseason Watch List.
5-10 guard Melissa Jones' 210 rebounds as a sophomore rank her No. 7 on Baylor's sophomore class list, tying her with former 6-3 Lady Bear post Danielle Wilson.
The Idaho Vandals enter the contest with an 0-3 mark. They have two home losses, an 80-57 loss to Gonzaga in the season opener and most recently, a 70-58 loss to Montana State. They lost on the road to Eastern Washington in overtime, 54-51.
Head coach John Newlee is in his second season along the Idaho sideline and sports a 13-18 record. He is in his eighth season as an NCAA Division I head coach with a career record of 106-100.
Three Vandals average double-digit scoring. Junior guard Bianca Cheever leads the team with 12.0 points a contest, Shaena Kuehu, a sophomore guard, follows with 10.7 an outing and junior guard Rachele Kloke manages 10.0 a game. Cheever and freshman post Jessica Graham share rebounding honors with 7.0 each.
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, from Lafayette, La., enter the tournament at 1-1 on the season with a victory over Texas Southern, 64-57, and a loss to Southern University, 62-51.
Head coach Errol Rogers is in his third season at Louisiana and sports a 12-50 record.
The Ragin' Cajuns have one player averaging double-digit scoring, sophomore forward Mercedes Johnson scores 14.5 a game. Senior forward Alexis Green is the team's top rebounder with 6.0 a contest.
The Lamar Cardinals are 3-1 on the season with wins over Grambling, 62-60, Alcorn State, 94-62, and Tennessee-Martin, 84-54. The Cardinals' lone loss came in the season opener at Minnesota, 84-45.
Head coach Larry Tidwell, a former Baylor assistant coach (1992-98), is in his third season at Lamar and is 42-25 at the school.
Freshman guard/forward Kalis Loyd leads the Cardinals with 13.8 points a game while Ang Green, a sophomore guard, completes Lamar's double-digit scoring with 13.0 a contest. Trashanna Smith, a junior forward, is the team's top reebounder at 6.5 a game while senior forward Darika Hill follows closely with 6.0 a contest.


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The Maple Grove Crimson handed Rogers a defeat 25-19, 22-25, 25-16, 25-18 on Thursday evening in Rogers.
The Royals had a tough time blocking with 25 errors, while the Crimson were strong on serve receive as Rogers served 72-for-79 with just four aces.
Erica Folk and Lindsay Dorr had eight kills each for Rogers (1-1). Folk had 15 digs and Tiffany Smith 12.
The Royals will play at Monticello on Thursday, Sept. 5.


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PERTH, Aug 30 (Reuters) - East Timor is offering to invest $800 million to build a pipeline to take gas from the Timor Sea to the tiny nation, as it makes a new pitch to resolve a dispute with Australia's Woodside Petroleum over how to develop huge fields in the area.
East Timor has insisted for a decade that a liquefied natural gas plant to process gas from the Greater Sunrise fields should be built on its shores, bringing with it much-needed development. Woodside says the plan is uneconomical and wants to use a floating LNG plant.
Industry insiders say the chance of a near-term breakthrough remains slim, despite the new gambit. That is partly because East Timor also wants to unpick a revenue-sharing agreement after accusing Australia of engaging in espionage when the treaty was struck.
Australia will not confirm or deny the allegations, but has said the accusation is not new.
East Timor has filed for arbitration and if it overturns the treaty, it could open up discussions on a disputed maritime border, risking further delays to the project.
East Timor Secretary of State for Natural Resources Alfredo Pires said Dili is prepared to invest $800 million in a pipeline to help move things forward, using funds from its $14 billion Petroleum Fund.
"It's an indication of our willingness to take on some of the risks of the project," Pires said by telephone, adding it would be a commercial investment and could return around 7 percent, above the 2 to 3 percent the fund is currently seeing.
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text: Greenville, Tex., Jan. 5.--Charley Shepherd, the 14-year-old son of Mr. A. D. Shepherd, died yesterday of injuries received by a runaway horse and was buried to-day. He was leading the horse to water, when the animal took fright, and entangling the young man's body in the rope, dragged him a considerable distance, inflicting serious injuries about the head, which resulted in death.


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With the mining industry's current peak metal prices, copper
and gold enjoying some of the highest increases, and the
tremendous amount of consolidation occurring within the
industry, many of the large companies have assimilated the
smaller ones resulting in a distribution that tends towards
either extreme. And it was in this milieu that William H.
Myckatyn, CEO and director, and Paul M. Blythe, president
and director, created Quadra Mining Ltd. in May 2002.
Quadra was forged specifically to fit an emerging niche
opportunity. With only around a dozen junior to mid-tier,
small cap companies in existence, Myckatyn and Blythe
formed Quadra in an effort to take advantage of the paucity
of companies in that range and, at the same time, make the
most of the available opportunities out there for that sector.
"There are assets out there that just don't fit the profile for
the huge companies," explained Myckatyn. "These projects
appear to be perfectly good businesses but they just don't
fit the bill." It's a niche with many opportunities and a different
level of competition for these properties that fly below
the radar of the majors. For Quadra, it seems like it's about
finding that optimal fit.
Myckatyn and Blythe initially became friends working
together at Gibraltar and a number of other projects. "In
2002," Myckatyn reminisced, "we sat around and looked at
the mining scene. Copper was hovering at the 75 to 85 cent
range when we started. We also saw a lack of projects on the
drawing board. That's when we started Quadra and, working
from our homes, went looking for a mine to buy."
Becoming a mid-tier player was an intrinsic part of their business
plan. They planned to focus their attention on North
America, South America, and Australia, the geographic areas
they have had the most experience with. "We had a good
match of skill sets and combination of technical expertise and
market exposure," said Myckatyn. Whether it was due to their
complementary talents or Quadra's fit with the industry, they
raised CAN$145 million in 2004, one of the largest financings
in the resource sector that year.
The Robinson mine in eastern
Nevada was the property Quadra
was founded on. That area has
known mining since the early
1900s, having produced in the area
of four billion pounds of copper and
2.7 million ounces of gold between
1908 and 1978. Initially,
Magma Copper started construction
of the project in the mid-1990s
when copper was at $1.20. BHP
Copper Inc. subsequently acquired
Magma during the construction.
Three years later when the mine
was shut down, copper and gold
prices were $0.64 per pound and
$261.00 per ounce, respectively.
The facility, reportedly, cost $480
million to build. BHP kept it on care
and maintenance for five years until it was acquired by
Quadra for $14 million in 2004.
"We got the mine restarted in record time. We began with
a contractor to help us start and were mining within six
weeks of acquiring the asset," said Myckatyn. "We went
from zero to 100 miles an hour in about nine months."
Starting in April with 10 people on site and growing to 400
employees by the end of August, Quadra started the mill
and produced their first load of concentrate in October, and
got paid for their first shipment in December. In 2005, their
first full year of production, they produced 126 million
pounds of copper and 81,000 ounces of gold.
Myckatyn describes that period as a time of huge achievements.
"We had been able to secure basically a new mining
fleet – trucks, shovels, and drills – in the very competitive
market. We scrambled to get people and took over mining
from the contractor in August 2005. When we started producing
our first concentrate in 2004, we realized there was molybdenum
in the concentrate and on top of it all the other startup
activities, we launched into a feasibility study."
A molybdenum recovery circuit was designed, permitted, and
constructed by the end of 2005 at a cost of just under $8 million.
This year, based on rough estimates, they could recover
up to 1.6 million pounds of molybdenum with 30 per cent less
in the following years.
Recent recalculations have increased the Robinson mine's expected mine life to 10.3 years based on reasonably conservative costs of copper and gold of $1.15 a pound and
$425.00 an ounce. Quadra is currently operating at 200 million
pounds a year of copper equivalent with their Robinson
mine, and with their outlined aggressive growth plan expect to
more than double that in the next couple years.
Copyright 2011 - Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. All Rights Reserved


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text: Diagnosis By Mayo Clinic Staff Print Doctors can usually diagnose swimmer's ear during an office visit. If your infection is at an advanced stage or persists, you may need further evaluation. Initial testingYour doctor will likely diagnose swimmer's ear based on symptoms you report, questions he or she asks, and an office examination. You probably won't need a lab test at your first visit. Your doctor's initial evaluation will usually include: Examination of your ear canal with a lighted instrument (otoscope). Your ear canal may appear red, swollen and scaly. Flakes of skin and other debris may be present in the ear canal. Visualization of your eardrum (tympanic membrane) to be sure it isn't torn or damaged. If the view of your eardrum is blocked, your doctor will clear your ear canal with a small suction device or an instrument with a tiny loop or scoop on the end (ear curette). Further testingDepending on the initial assessment, symptom severity or the stage of your swimmer's ear, your doctor may recommend additional evaluation. If your eardrum is damaged or torn, your doctor will likely refer you to an ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT). The specialist will examine the condition of your middle ear to determine if that's the primary site of infection. This examination is important because some treatments intended for an infection in the outer ear canal aren't appropriate for treating the middle ear. If your infection doesn't respond to treatment, your doctor may take a sample of discharge or debris from your ear at a later appointment and send it to a lab to identify the exact microorganism causing your infection. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Symptoms & causesTreatment May 05, 2016 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Goguen LA. External otitis: Pathogenesis, clinical features and diagnosis. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. Goguen LA. External otitis: Treatment. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. Lalwani AK. Diving medicine. In: Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery. 3rd ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2012. http://www.accessmedicine.com. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. Swimmer's ear: Otitis externa. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/rwi/illnesses/swimmers-ear.html. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. Papadakis MA, et al., eds. Ear, nose, & throat disorders. In: Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2016. 55th ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2016. http://www.accessmedicine.com. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. Rosenfeld RM, et al. Clinical practice guideline: Acute otitis external. In: Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. 2014;150:S1. Swimmer's ear. American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery. http://www.entnet.org/content/swimmers-ear. Accessed Feb. 3, 2016. RelatedChildren's swimmingSymptom Checker Swimmer's earOverviewSymptoms & causesDiagnosis & treatmentDiagnosisTreatmentPreparing for your appointmentSelf-managementMore aboutIn-DepthMultimediaNews from Mayo Clinic Advertisement Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. Advertising & Sponsorship Policy Opportunities Ad Choices Mayo Clinic Store Check out these best-sellers and special offers on books and newsletters from Mayo Clinic. The Last Diet You'll Ever Need4 Simple Steps to a Joy-Filled LifePain Management Strategies from Mayo ClinicStop Osteoporosis in its TracksProtect and Preserve Your Vision Diagnosis & treatmentRequest an AppointmentDiagnosisTreatmentPreparing for your appointment CON-20164010 Patient Care & Health Information Diseases & Conditions Swimmer's ear


text: Former President Jimmy Carter touched down in Haiti for the first time since his freelance diplomatic efforts in September persuaded the country's ruling junta to leave. Carter, who oversaw Haiti's first democratic vote in 1990, plans to help in preparations for the country's next round of elections in June. He'll be joined in Port-au-Prince Friday by the other members of the U.S. negotiating trio, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Still, the former president is less than popular in Haiti, where many resent the fact that he allowed the dictators to remain in power for a month, then slip into exile. Both supporters of Haitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide and wealthy backers of the former military regime now fear that mobs may turn on them when U.S. forces hand over security duty to U.N. troops at the end of March. Carter, Powell and Nunn hope instead to keep the democratic process on track.


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Weather watch: Fishing inshore during the winter can be tough because of fluctuating weather and water conditions. Monitor weather conditions and patterns to determine the best days and times to go. Choosing areas protected from heavy wind is key. Residential canals, the lee side of mangrove islands, rivers, creeks, and protected shallow grass flats can be productive spots. Never venture into unprotected waters when conditions are deemed unsafe.
Tide watch: Tidal activity should be monitored as well. Low, low tides will concentrate fish into deep pockets or holes. Check tide charts and find the tides that are below mean low water. They will be signified with a minus sign and usually occur around the new and full moon periods.
Technique watch: Everything slows in winter, and your technique should, too. Productive artificial baits are the ones that typically are slow movers to begin with. MirrOlures (No. 52M18), D.O.A. shrimp (color 368) and light jigs (quarter-ounce and less) are deadly. Remember this: If you think you're moving your bait too slowly, slow it more. Live shrimp hooked through the tail are great winter bait, too. For best results, rig the shrimp without weight and let it swim naturally.
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Facebook 'stalking' is a beloved activity of many. It's our peephole into the apparently interesting lives of others; visual porn (or vaudeville) revealing who's doing what - and often who – and when and where they're doing it. And we can peek in private.
Until, that is, this new feature comes into effect or unless, of course, we're sharing our peephole with friends, arguably enhancing the viewing experience - especially if we're peering at the wall of a prospective romantic partner.
It has become so ubiquitous that we barely bat an eyelid at it. In fact, according to one survey, as many as 88 per cent of people 'stalk' their ex on the site.
Curiosity and checking people out is natural, says Dr Troy McEwan of Monash University and Melbourne's Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, which treats up to 100 'real' stalkers a year. While one study found that "there is a kernel of truth to the popular term 'Facebook stalking,'" for the most part, McEwan points out, it's not really 'stalking.' She defines stalking as "any behaviour that is repeated and unwanted and causes distress."
"Checking someone's facebook persistently... is arguably not stalking," she says. "It's not necessarily a healthy behaviour, but it's probably not stalking unless you are also doing other things that would cause the victim concern if they knew you were doing it."
While Facebook 'stalking' may be common, she says that "ordinary people really stalk too." Mental illness is sometimes, but not always, involved, and stalkers are often people who experience emotion but are unable to express it appropriately, McEwan says.
Either way, "research from the UK has shown that in the majority of cases where online stalking is occurring, offline stalking also happens."
Scary stuff. But, at what point do ordinary people slip from harmless, if unhealthy, behaviour to conduct that is compulsive and crazy?
"It's a blurry line," McEwan admits.
What is clear is that a lot of people are crossing that line. In Australia, stalking happens to around 600,000 people a year, McEwan says. 80 to 85 per cent of perpetrators are male and are generally known to the victim, even if only as an acquaintance. And they can be dangerous. Three weeks ago, Hannah Truelove was found dead. Unconfirmed reports by the Daily Mail say officials believe she may have been murdered by a stalker who was known to her. "I got me an uglyass stalker'" she tweeted, followed by another, the week before her death, saying: "So scared right now."
There are three stalking profiles, McEwan says. Physical stalkers who are pursuing a relationship "that has broken down or one they want"; stalkers who have a grievance they want to communicate or who want revenge and, last but not least, sexually motivated stalkers, who are the least likely to make contact, because anonymity is part of their sexually deviant pattern.
"It's [often] ordinary people and ordinary behaviour taken to the extreme," McEwan explains. "Everyone can cling onto the end of a relationship [for instance], or make a lot of complaints if they're not happy about something." And they can convince themselves that their persistence will pay off. "There's an idea that it's romantic - that if you love someone you keep trying and eventually [the other person] will say 'yes'."
While sometimes that works if the recipient is happy with the attention, McEwan says it's also the reasoning many of her clients give to justify inappropriate contact or behaviour. The stalker, she says, rarely realises their behaviour is wrong. "People justify it. And because of their particular attitudes or beliefs, think 'this is ok to do.'"
Compounding the problem is the fact that the internet makes stalking (online or off) even easier.
Getting information about people "is easy," says Ken Gamble, Executive Chairman of the Internet Fraud Watchdog. Much of it is "publically available if you know where to look... or you are technically savvy."
He says, for example, that someone with "sniffing" software can access passwords and other information of people in the vicinity. This is less common, however, than stalkers accessing information that we readily put in the public domain.
"The moment [people] are prepared to put their [private] information out in public, they're asking for trouble," says John Bracey, president of the Australian Institute of Private Detectives. "There are ratbags out there who will always try and do [the wrong thing]."
Gamble agrees. Some people are happy to 'check in' everywhere they go and post personal information on Facebook or Twitter. While this is not bad if you're not being targeted, it's "not a great practise to be posting all your personal stuff." He suggests checking your privacy settings and changing passwords.
If you are being stalked - online or off - Bracey says, "go to the police. They have the power to get a phone bugged and track down who's doing it."
Stalking is a crime in all states in Australia, but unless the victim is assertive and collects information, it's a struggle to use those laws, says McEwan. She suggests changing your travel routes and getting a restraining order - a useful deterrent in low-risk situations - and when that's broken (which it is "more often than not") the person can be arrested.
Bracey, Gamble and McEwan all agree that the key is not responding to the stalker or getting anyone else (but the police) to respond on your behalf. After making yourself clear once, telling them you don't want contact, ignore them. "The stalker wants a reaction - positive or negative," McEwan says. "If they call you 50 times and you pick up and tell them to 'bugger off' next time they'll wait 51 times because they'll know what your limit is.
"Tell others – get help to deal with it, stalking can be incredibly isolating and psychologically damaging so it's important to seek help."
Facebook 'stalking' may be a term we bandy around playfully. But, the worrying truth is that technology makes the line between harmless and scary all too easy for 'real' stalkers to cross.
For further information or support, go to WIRE, Police NSW or Lifeline.


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Are the Indiana Pacers a bad, good team or a good, bad team?
There's a difference, and unfortunately for Pacers fans, it appears to be the latter.
The way Indiana has played over the last few weeks, they may not deserve even that extra little bit of credit.
Despite their 16-23 record, the Pacers have won just seven of 23 games since the start of December. That's after a respectable 9-7 start that gave them enough padding to still hold onto the eight playoff spot despite their sub-standard play. It's stunning Indiana is even near a postseason berth but the once-hot Philadelphia 76ers have slowed and the Milwaukee Bucks are trying to get through an injury to point guard Brandon Jennings.
Otherwise, there isn't much competition down in the cellar of the Eastern Conference, and while the Pacers may not traditionally "deserve" a playoff appearance, they may get one due to attrition.
Leading the way is Danny Granger with his 21.5 points a game, down from last year's 24.1 (and the previous season's 25.8).
Indiana has five players averaging double figures but all are under 15 a night and closer to 10 (Darren Collison, Roy Hibbert, Brandon Rush and Mike Dunleavy). Hibbert, in particular, has slowed considerably after a mostly impressive November, an inconsistent December and a poor January in which he's averaged 7.3 points a game. Neither Tyler Hansbrough nor Josh McRoberts has been able to pick up the slack inside as a starting power forward. Earlier in the year, the starts went to McRoberts but more recently it's been Hansbrough as Coach Jim O'Brien looks for a combination that will work.
Over the past two months, the Pacers have looked worse than last year's team that won just 32 games.
"We've certainly played at a lower tempo to start this year," said O'Brien. "You can see it from point production. It's because we traded Troy Murphy so with a bigger lineup, we're not able to space the court as much. We're trying to bring Hibbert and Hansbrough and Josh McRoberts along as big players. We're going more to a smaller lineup now to space the court so we can be a little bit more difficult to guard. We still want to try to score in six seconds if we could but we're not willing to take a bad shot or give that up. Then we try to have a balance of inside/outside but frankly we're struggling with our post game so we need to go outside."
That's mean more time with Granger (6'8", 228 pounds) at the four.
"We were not playing Danny Granger any at the power forward spot up until about two weeks ago. That was our best lineup last year. We tried to be more of a traditional team with a big lineup," said O'Brien. "So we're still starting what you would consider a traditional lineup with a center and a power forward but at different times in a game in both halves you're going to see a pretty decent amount of minutes where you have Granger, point guard, center and two wings that can space the court and shoot the three."
Granger in a power position can be a double-edged sword.
"They have a lot of shooters. Danny Granger is a very difficult cover," said Del Negro on Monday when the Pacers visited the Los Angeles Clipper. "They run some good stuff . . . they spread you out."
Of course, it has its drawbacks defensively. Rookie Blake Griffin dropped 47 points on the Pacers, although Granger was rarely matched up against the Clipper star. Veteran Jeff Foster seemed to take the most minutes (and punishment) against Blake.
Danny doesn't think it hurts the team defensively when the Pacers go small.
"No matter how big they are, you get to their legs and push them so they can't jump," said Granger. "It just gives us a different look I think on the offensive end. When you go small, teams change their lineups. I think it's just a coaching strategy that [we] use just to switch things up a little bit."
The team hopes that moving Granger to the four will help to get more out of point guard Darren Collison, who is averaging just 4.7 assists per game.
"It opens up the game for Collison. It opens up the game for Granger when you have a center or power forward who can't space the court, there's really no driving opportunities there. The middle is not open," said O'Brien. "So we're trying to attempt to open up the middle, so when somebody is playing Granger or Collison and they know they have two teammates waiting in the paint for them and they can under their chin and make life difficult for them. When you can't do that, and you space the court, it opens up the court for the perimeter guys."
Collison said he sees a difference.
"It helps my game because you have another shooter on the court. [Granger's] ability to score the ball helps stretch the court out a little bit more," said Collison. "Any time I'm coming off pick and rolls, you don't want to leave him and if you do, I can set him up for a jump shot."
Darren doesn't want to point fingers, remaining protective of current starter Hansbrough.
"Tyler's coming along. He can hit that 15-foot jump shot. Any time he can hit that 15-foot jump shot, it's just like there's another shooter on the court," said Collison. "The difference between him and Danny is that Danny can hit the three-ball. It's more physical. It's more of a team thing when Tyler's in the lineup, he can rebound. He's explosive. Either way you want to go, it doesn't matter."
Despite the team's poor play recently, Collison has felt better about his game.
"Yeah. I feel like I'm getting a lot more comfortable," said Darren. "Especially running more pick and rolls in the system."
Against the Clippers, Collison scored a season-high 30 points. In Philadelphia a week prior, he dropped 13 assists along 21 points.
Through January, he's averaged 17.4 points a game and 6.4 assists.
Granger said he still thinks the Pacers can make the playoffs but they need to improve significantly.
"We need to establish a more consistent offensive flow for our game. We're really sporadic right now," said Granger. "Some games we shoot well. Most games we don't. That has to change for us to be in the playoffs."
The issue goes on just playing hard or well.
"Chemistry. Teams chemistry," said Granger. "We've just got to learn to play with each other better."
Unfortunately for the Pacers, it's not on the players. It's not on O'Brien, who more than one opposing coach has called privately "a difficult guy to go up against."
It's the player personnel department that hasn't done enough. Perhaps the blame falls on the shoulders of President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird or even former President Donnie Walsh, but the franchise is still trying to get through the rebuilding process from the Jermaine O'Neal, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson era.
The team will finally get out of their salary cap jam after this season after taking on the bloated contracts of Mike Dunleavy Jr. and Troy Murphy. Murphy has already been flipped for Collison and Dunleavy is expiring after this season.
Rebooting a franchise is rarely pretty.
The team will finally have financial flexibility but do they have the right building blocks in place to move forward?
Granger will be 28 years old in April. Collison represents the future with Hibbert, but the center's recent decline is certainly a concern.
Rookie Paul George hasn't had a strong year so far but he's loaded with potential. Both Hansbrough and McRoberts still have a lot to prove. Brandon Rush is somewhat solid, somewhat inconsistent.
The path for the team to take moving forward isn't clear. Granger will get $13 million a year for the next three seasons but looking at the team's prospects over the season or two, can they piece something viable together before Danny hits 30?
It may be time to consider trading Granger, "franchise player" or not, for additional assets in the same age range as Collison and Hibbert (both around 24/25).
The Pacers never fully embraced the rebuild. Now may be the time.
Indiana has plenty of expiring contracts to deal but there's no point in wasting that flexibility on veterans with multi-year deals just to make a token playoff appearance.
The youth movement is the way to go.
Instead, the team should look to use their $25.7 million in expiring contracts to try and get out of James Posey's extra year at $7.6 million, Dahntay Jones' two additional seasons at about $2.8 million each - while bringing in some a few more kids and/or draft considerations.
Trading Murphy for Collison was a step in the right direction.
Attendance at Pacer games has been poor, so keeping the fans in the seats can't and shouldn't be the top short-term priority.
It's time for Bird and management to do the real work of putting together a solid, youthful core and letting that winning chemistry happen organically . . . even if that means giving up on the current face of the franchise in Granger.


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From: Rupert Sawyer CEO
To: Channel 8 staff
Subject: Summer schedule
We have a phrase in Vietnam, "hindsight là một điều tuyệt vời", although there is no meaningful translation into the English language, it literally means "hindsight is a wonderful thing"… oh how true it is.
Despite my best attempts to stop it, this week, an unauthorised biography of my life (available now from Guardian Books at the special price of just £2.56 – ed) came to light. I knew it was a gamble allowing a journalist to spend time with me and my many lovers on my 5,000 acre paddy plantation near Ha Noi. Perhaps too, I should have thought more carefully before necking 14 Singapore slings with "the boys" on a hot day of interviewing … but in the spirit of "open journalism", I was always convinced, the truth would out. It didn't.
Instead, my competitors have taken this book as a green light to start vicious rumours about me; rumours and lies that have cost me the BBC director general job, which I applied for last week . Indeed, it was only hours after one of my competitors began serialising the book with headlines like "Saywer's sordid sausage sandwiches" and "Channel 8, full of hate and ready to mate … Meet Rupert Sawyer" that I received official news that the BBC was looking for a "less flamboyant" director general.
Well I have news for the BBC – you just missed out on the best thing since In-Porn Betting™. Because, whilst you're recklessly spending the peoples' cash on big events they're not interested in, taxis to get any half decent guests left to-and-from Manchester and hired guns to protect them whilst they're in Salford, I've been planning a Channel 8 summer schedule to remember. What's more it cost virtually nothing.
Lord Patten et al, behold – one day, all of this could have been yours:
Game of Thrones: Jubilee Special
25 eligible bachelors compete for the right to win Pippa Middleton's* hand in marriage in this most regal of years. Our randy royalists must woo the would-be queen of hearts by winning a series of challenges, including climbing the Diana Memorial Mountain, showing off their prince Alberts and successfully completing the Parisian paparazzi gunge plunge.
But they better watch out, because every step of the way they'll be pursued by Queen's Brian May*, and when he catches them, another one WILL bite the dust.
Think Total Wipeout (which I picked up the rights for after the BBC foolishly let them go) meets Take Me Out in Europe's largest polythene based man-made lake. This is a TV event worthy of a king, and believe me, there won't be a Huw Edwards or a David Dimbleby in sight.
*To be confirmed
EUFA Eurovision 2012: LIVE!
For the first time in television history, the annual EUFA pan-European all-comers karaoke championships will be beamed live into British living rooms – and YOU, the people will decide the winner.
Can Lionel Messi once again enchant the audience with his breathtaking interpretation of Babylon Zoo's Spaceman, or will John Terry exact revenge for last year's upset with another powerful delivery of The Four Non Blondes's What's Going On?
Forget what happens on the field - with €200 in prize money, and a free bar, THIS is the game you cannot afford to miss – and you can see every vocal run, lob and shimmy in glorious 3D.
The Londonderry 2012 Cara-lympics
Whilst the BBC are wasting their time and money on wall-to-wall coverage of a few leotard-sporting steroid-filled fools running about the nation's capital, Channel 8 will be where the real action is – at Northern Ireland's premier caravan convention.
Whether you've got a penchant for Elddis or you're swayed by the Scandanavian style of Sterling's 4-berth Challenger range, there really is something for everyone at this meet.
From the opening ceremony's star-studded Buccaneer parade, to the static caravan-hurling marathon right through to the prestigious Bürstner motorhome 4x4 relay, Channel 8's cameras and expert commentators will ensure this is an exhilarating TV event where there will only ever be one gold medal winner, the viewers.
Of course many of Channel 8's favourite shows will also return this summer, including a new series of smash hit fly-on-the-wall priest-u-mentary, God Squad, a return of Haggard and Hormonal and a whole new group of youngsters will enter the house in our groundbreaking social experiment, Guildford Gangbang.
Why don't you put that lot in your pipe and smoke it Lord Patten. I hope you choke.
Best wishes,
Your innovative leader,
Rupert Sawyer CEO


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PJ move to Saturday will happen Sept. 12
The move of the publication date of the Pioneer Journal from Thursdays to Saturdays will be completed Sept. 12, the same day other changes will also be made with the weekend publication of The Intercom.
The Pioneer Journal will publish its regular Thursday edition on Sept. 3, and will move to Saturday publication the following week, Pioneer Journal Editor and GM Steve Schulz said.
At the same time, the Intercom will become a so-called non-duplicated circulation paper. In short, it means readers who currently receive the Intercom won't notice any change, but readers who receive both the Pioneer Journal and the Intercom will now be home-delivered just one piece: the Pioneer Journal.
"That doesn't mean the PJ subscribers will miss anything, though," Schulz said. "All of the ads and all of the supplements and inserts currently being delivered in the Intercom will be in one big package in the Pioneer Journal."
As part of the goal of only delivering one publication to each household to eliminate duplication, the Intercom will no longer be delivered along New York Mills routes. Instead, any of the inserts from the Intercom will arrive with the Perham/New York Mills Contact. Readers in Deer Creek and Bluffton will now only receive the Intercom, and not the Contact.
Schulz said the move was necessary to cut costs in a challenging business environment.
"Our mission was to preserve all of our publications and keep our costs down so advertisers could afford to stick with us," he said. "The status quo isn't sustainable, so that couldn't be an option for us. Among the various options we considered, we felt this was the most positive one for our newspaper, our employees, our advertisers, and the communities we serve."


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I'm Your Vehicle
1. What kind of vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, whatever you have) do you currently drive? Make, model, year, color, personality, name, bumper stickers, rearview mirror/dashboard/rear window ornaments, if any.
I drive a dark blue 2011 Ford Edge which was Beast's company car for its first two years. It has lots of bells and whistle, including maps, XM, backup camera, blindspot sensors, seat warmers, and probably other things I can't remember or don't use. I don't decorate my car, nor do I usually name it. The only thing that's 'decor' is the box of cloth bags for shopping and emptying the book drop, and the box with jumper cables, bungies and flares; those are always in the car. Something I haven't done? Well, I haven't been caught in a blizzard in it nor even a snowbank, and I hope that continues.2. What are some of your favorite things about your vehicle?
I love the maps. And it's really comfortable with seats that adjust in a lot of different directions, plus OMG seat heaters!!3. What are some things you dislike about your vehicle or would change if you could?
It's bloody enormous! I'd make the center console more sensible. And I'd like better gas mileage. Generally, though, I don't have a huge problem with it.
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We visited family in Tennessee last March and drove through some of the Appalachian mountain backroads. Sparky had his first EVER bout of car-sickness, and once we looked at the map, it was pretty obvious why.5. What's something you've never done with your vehicle that you'd like to?
It'll be interesting to see if I can break the 200,000-mile barrier. When I started driving it, it already had at least 60,000 miles on. In 24 months. Yeah. Beast travels a lot.


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stc summer camp 2016
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Katie Donovan is a graduate of the theatre department at Salem State University. She then went on to complete the musical theatre summer intensive at the Circle in the Square School. Katie has trained with numerous studios and teachers including the Chiampa Dance Center, Justin Boccitto at Circle in the Square, the Broadway Dance Center, Studio 665, and the North Shore Music Theatre. She has experience in numerous styles of dance including tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern, Fosse, and ballroom. Katie choreographs for local community theaters including The Rocky Horror Show and Hair for STC. Her particular specialty, however, is in educational theatre. Past productions include Tom Sawyer, Young Frankenstein, Annie, Honk, Tarzan, Peter Pan, Grease, Bye Bye Birdie, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat won the award for best choreography at the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild's MET Musical Awards. Katie is the director of the Stoneham Central Middle School's Drama Club which recently premiered An 80s Night's Dream, her original adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Jake O'Hara has been teaching acting and theatre studies to young people for over a decade, in London and Boston, specializing in both physical theatre performance and vocal/speech development. In addition, Jake is the Head of Theatre Studies at the Corwin-Russell School in Sudbury. He has worked extensively with high schools and universities in the Boston and Metro-west area as a coach and visiting director, and in addition as a costume designer and hair and makeup artist. He frequently teaches masterclasses for the Massachusetts Education Theatre guild, and was the 2016 judge for their Hair/Makeup Design Competition. A frequent performer, he last appeared onstage as Dickon in The Secret Garden, Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Zach in A Chorus Line. Jake has trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Harvard University under Karen MacDonald, Will LeBow, Marcus Stern, and Scott Zigler.
Catherine M. Bertrand (Executive Artistic Director) returned to the helm at STC nearly two years after serving as Artistic Director from 2006-2009. Directorial credits with Salem Theatre include: Medea, The Rocky Horror Show, The Normal Heart, Crime and Punishment, Hair, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, No Exit, Proof, Book of Days, and All in the Timing. Other credits include The Longwood Players production of The Heidi Chronicles (DASH Award Nomination for Best Director and Best Production), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Endgame, and Twelve Angry Jurors (co-director; KCACTF Best Ensemble Award). Catherine has also directed pieces for several SLAMBoston Festivals and Boston Theatre Marathons. She is proud to have been a member of the inaugural group of directors chosen to attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, DC in 2003. Catherine was a also a 2009 participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in NYC. From 2011-2015 Catherine served as the co-director for the METG High School Drama Festival productions at the St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers. She is thrilled to bring Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches to the STC stage in June.


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|Soil Foodweb is an international soil biology group providing laboratory soil testing and soil biology consultancy services. It was founded by Dr Elaine Ingham, a leading international soil microbiologist. The systems developed by Dr Ingham have been designed to analyse the microbiology present in soil samples and to develop appropriate responses to achieve desired levels and balances of soil microbiology.
The two key reasons to use compost tea are:
The use of compost tea is recommended whenever the organisms in the soil or on the plants are not at optimum levels. SFI can analyse your soil and leaf samples so that you gain an overview as to whether the organisms in your soil/plant leaves are at optimum levels or not. Chemical-based pesticides, fumigants, herbicides and some synthetic fertilisers kill a range of the beneficial micro-organisms that encourage plant growth. On the other hand, compost teas improve the life in the soil and on plant surfaces. High quality compost tea will treat the leaf surface and soil with beneficial micro-organisms instead of destroying them.
Compost tea is a liquid produced by extracting bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes from compost. Compost tea production is a brewing process that is as simple to master as making a home brew. Just like perfecting your home brew, brewing compost tea may at times seem frustrating. However, if you concentrate on what you are doing and choose a suitable compost tea brewer that meets your specific needs, then creating a compost tea that will improve the health of your plants is relatively easy and well worth the effort.
If you want to introduce a highly beneficial group of bacteria and fungi, protozoa and possibly nematodes, buy good compost that has these organisms, and make Actively Aerated Compost Tea. There are a number of compost brewers available to choose from in the market. When purchasing a tea machine, you should ask the manufacturer to provide information on oxygen levels during the tea brewing cycle (the brewing process has to be aerobic) in addition to a standard food web analysis (molecular analysis of diversity, and total and active bacteria and fungi, and protozoa, present in the tea made under standard conditions).
The benefits of using a compost tea that contains ALL the food web organisms are:
Compost tea contains not only all the soluble nutrients extracted from the compost, but also contains all the species of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes that are present in the compost. Not all the organisms in the compost, but representatives of all of the species in the compost are found in the final compost tea brew. It is therefore imperative that the compost you use in your brewer contains only the beneficial species of organisms required.
Foods extracted from the compost, or added to the tea, grow beneficial organisms. Together, the beneficial bacteria and fungi growing on the compost foods, and on the added foods, result in a variety of many different species.
The method you choose to adopt when brewing is critical in ensuring your final brew contains the nutrients desired. In order to retain the organisms in the tea, brewing conditions must be closely monitored and maintained to produce the end product desired. The biological organisms that are active and performing a function will differ, depending on:
Aerobic organisms are the most beneficial as they promote the processes that a plant needs in order to grow without stress and with a greater resistance to disease. To enhance this community of beneficial's, the compost tea must remain aerobic (greater than 5.5ppm oxygen). Anaerobic conditions (below 2 to 4 mg oxygen per L for example) during brewing can result in the growth of some quite detrimental microbes and also produce some very detrimental metabolites. It is best to avoid extremely low oxygen concentrations during brewing. If low oxygen concentrations occur, brewing must continue until the organisms stop growing on the added foods, so that oxygen will diffuse back into the brew. The bacteria that cause human diseases almost invariably require anaerobic or reduced oxygen conditions in order to survive in competition with aerobic organisms. Only in reduced oxygen, or anaerobic conditions, can human disease-causing organisms out-compete the normal set of beneficial bacteria or fungi growing in soil, compost or compost tea. If you've done a good job choosing or making your compost, the compost will not contain any human disease organisms. The tea will not contain human pathogens if there were none in the compost.
The shelf life is short for a high quality compost tea with those active organisms necessary to attach firmly to leaf surfaces and not be easily washed off. In the research that we have done with 24 hour brewing cycles, after just 6 hours without any aeration the oxygen levels are lowered by over 300 %. If the compost tea is not used within that time, you need to aerate, agitate and add more food to the tea to feed the micro-organisms.


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By CHRISTINE L. PRATT
Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- The master, or president, of Valley College Grange, Miriam Zech remembers when she first started visiting the Grange hall, now the only remaining Grange-owned property in the county, when she was a young child.
Her grandfather was one of the early members, she said, pointing to a history in which there was a Grange organization in each township. Although primarily a farming organization, she said, her grandfather was not a farmer by trade, and became involved more because of the mutual casualty insurance offered by the organization. "If you wanted Grange insurance, you had to be a Granger. It was started by Grangers for Grangers."
But, there were other benefits.
"When you grew up in the country, it was what you did. Grange is a social organization that is also a service club," said Zech, who first became involved in Grange when she was only 5. She has fond memories of Junior Grange meetings -- plenty of kids and games -- that took place downstairs while the adults met on the upper floor.
Since that time, Zech, now an adult, said she has seen membership numbers dwindle, and of those remaining, fewer are "actual farmers."
"The National Grange is the nation's oldest national agricultural organization, with grass roots units established in 2,700 local communities in 40 states," according to http://www.nationalgrange.org. "Its 200,000 members provide service to agriculture and rural areas on a wide variety of issues, including economic development, education, family endeavors, and legislation designed to assure a strong and viable Rural America.
"It was formed in the years following the American Civil War to unite private citizens in improving the economic and social position of the nation's farm population. Over the past 143 years, it has evolved to include non-farm rural families and communities.
"The Grange is also a fraternal order known as the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, hence the 'P of H' on the organization's logo," according to the website. "Founding members determined that a fraternal organization would be best able to combine loyalty and democratic ideals to provide service to others. The National Grange was one of the first formal groups to admit women to membership on the basis of equality with men."
Membership for Zech is more about family tradition. "The service work is very good," she said, noting Grange nationwide has a philanthropic goal of aiding the deaf. To that end, Valley College continues to raise money by playing host to dinners and renting out the Grange Hall.
"For a lot of people that is a highlight of their week to go and see everybody," she said. But, times have changed. Families have gotten busier and entertainment has become more accessible.
The Nashville Grange is the only remaining Grange in Holmes County, said Pat Lang. Her husband, Larry, is master and a member since 1974. She joined in 1990.
"With legislative issues and lobbying, they still have a voice," she said, noting, "Grange is still very active in a lot of places."
But, she agrees that many of the members are aging and "it's hard to get younger folks involved. There are so many other things -- sports, family, movies."
Although not a lifelong member, Lang said she remembers growing up attending chicken barbecues and square dances at the old Nashville Grange Hall. The group now meets at various locations.
Many of the members, she said, are too old to attend, but those who can, enjoy potluck suppers, the occasional group dinner out, movie nights, snacks and bingo, in addition to programs, the topics for which include gardening, service, the history of Grange, the state, the county, the flag and more.
Sharon and Alan Kozak farm in rural Millersburg, but they're not Grangers. They have two children, who, in addition to their 850 cattle, 425 of which they milk twice daily, keep them running.
Nevertheless, Sharon recalls the Grange of her youth, which she spent on the West Coast.
"My grandparents were really involved in Grange. My grandfather was the Oregon Grange head master, and he went all over to recruit members when my dad was growing up and when we were, too," she said.
And, even though she and her family are still involved in farming, which is their sole source of income, "I guess that as the world has evolved, people have so many other things in their lives, they don't need that outlet."
"Farm Bureaus emerged more over time, and I think they do that more (on the education and legislative functions previously provided by Grange), and it got harder and harder to get younger members into Grange."
"The need for it isn't so much any more. It really outdated itself and it never really evolved. It just became one more commitment people would have to make," she said, adding that like Zech she does carry with her fond memories of being a Junior Granger, enjoying Grange activities and camp.
For youth, she said, 4-H and Extension have filled that role and "encompass even more." And, by offering a broadened base, the emergent organizations have better involved non-farmers in their activities. "Grange was more exclusive. Now look at the number of kids in town who are in 4-H."
Farming in the area has become a narrow field, with fewer and fewer small farms surviving. "You either have to be really big or in some kind of niche," she said.
But, Zech said, she still sees value to Grange, which may better now draw on a different target audience. "I know everybody says you need the families, and I know parents are running all over with their kids," she said, adding that perhaps those more attracted to the group may be "people with older children or empty nesters who are interested in community service work or a way to socialize."
Anyone interested in getting involved in their local Grange, Zech said, should simply contact any Granger and watch the newspaper for notice of upcoming meetings.
Reporter Christine L. Pratt can be reached at 330-674-5676 or email@example.com.