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When others were sleeping off their hangovers, 48 men, women and children completed the third Resolution Ramble at Hunstanton on New Year's Day morning.
Starting from Hunstanton Sailing Club and running, walking or rambling to the Heacham gates and back, participants faced a head-wind on their way to Heacham and heavy rain on their return.
For the first time runners from March Athletic Club made the trip to Hunstanton to join locals in the event.
Martin Littlemore was the first home in a time of 35:43 followed by Justin Elvidge in 37:21 and Thomas Orr in 39:58.
The first lady was Suzanne Orr in a time of 47:05, closely followed by Fay Scrivener in 47:41.
Suzanne said: "I didn't expect to get anything; a number or a medal because the event was free to enter. It was really enjoyable despite the weather and Mick Ford's bacon rolls at the end were very tasty and great value!"
Enjoying the facilities of the newly-refurbished Sailing Club, Hunstanton Mayor Elaine Clutton said: "This is a lovely community event that's growing year by year. I'm really pleased that everyone can enjoy it."
One of the walkers, Hunstanton resident Susan Boxall was very pleased with her fitness, walking the distance six minutes faster than last year in a time of one hour sixteen minutes.
Organiser of the event, Cllr Richard Bird said: "I'd like to thank Mick Ford, the Commodore at Hunstanton Sailing Club and the club members who turned out early on New Year's Day to host and support this very special event.
"With community participation growing and clubs like March AC joining us, it's great to be able to use the fantastic facilities that the Sailing Club can offer.
"I can only see this event going from strength to strength. Thanks also to the Mayor Elaine Clutton who was our official starter today and Hunstanton Town Council and Hunstanton Town and Around for their sponsorship."
After a morning making bacon rolls and coffee Mick Ford said: "We are delighted to host the ramble which is getting better every year. With a bit of luck and some additional funding (please) we might be able to open up the first floor for next year's event."


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Nov. 15, 2010
All-America Candidate #94 Ryan Kerrigan
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue defensive end Ryan Kerrigan has been named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced.
An All-America candidate and semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award and Lott IMPACT Trophy, Kerrigan broke the Purdue and Big Ten career fumbles forced record, tied the NCAA mark and led a Purdue defensive effort that limited the high-powered Michigan offense well below its season averages in rushing, passing, total offense and points.
The Muncie, Ind., senior, who leads the Big Ten in both sacks and tackles for loss, had a monster individual game, finishing with a career-high 10 solo tackles, including career-highs with five for losses and a Purdue-record-tying four sacks. He also forced two fumbles and recovered one. Entering the game, the Wolverines had allowed just four total sacks in their previous nine games combined this season.
His first strip of the Wolverines broke the tie he shared with James Looney for the Purdue record and he snapped a three-way tie with Illinois' Simeon Rice and Iowa's Bob Sanders for the Big Ten mark on the second strip. His 14 career fumbles forced are tied for the all-time NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision record with Arizona State's Terrell Suggs, Cincinnati's Antwan Peek and Southern California's Kenechi Udeze.
Kerrigan is the first Purdue defensive player the week this season. Kerrigan himself was the last Boilermaker feted with the league's defensive weekly honor after racking up a team-best nine tackles, including four for loss and three sacks, and forcing two fumbles in an upset of seventh-ranked Ohio State last season.
Kerrigan and Boilermakers return to action Saturday when they head to East Lansing for a noon matchup with 11th-ranked Michigan State. The game will be shown live on the Big Ten Network.

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A STROUD pair will walk the length of the River Thames to raise money for Alzheimer's Society and mental health charity Mind.
Chris Cowcher, from Stonehouse and father-in-law David, from King's Stanley, will be celebrating their respective 30th and 60th birthdays in July and planned the walk to coincide.
They will begin the trek from the Thames Barrier in London on Saturday, June 28 and will walk 184 miles in just seven days to finish at the river's source just outside of Kemble in Gloucestershire on Friday, July 4.
Having suffered with depression Chris is hoping the challenge will raise awareness as well as money about mental health conditions.
He said: "If through this birthday challenge I can raise some funds and more help normalise the conversation about mental health illnesses then I can feel I've done some good."
David is completing the challenge for Alzheimer's Society in memory of his mother, who sadly passed away in 2007 following a long battle with the illness.
You can keep up to date with the pair's progress on Twitter @sixty_thirty. Donations can be made online to David at www.justgiving.com/DAVID-GRANT6060/ and Chris at www.justgiving.com/thamestochange


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The Hawkstone Park club in Shropshire will always be synonymous with Sandy Lyle, but the production line of talent does not stop with the former Open and Masters champion.
Ashley Chesters has got a fair way to go to emulate the great golfing feats of Lyle but the 24-year-old continues to make a name for himself.
On a decorated European Amateur Championship roll of honour that features the likes of Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Victor Dubuisson and Stephen Gallacher, Chesters now appears twice, having become the first player to successfully defend the crown. The young Englishman was in fine fettle at The Duke's course on the outskirts of St Andrews but things hadn't looked too healthy for him just a week earlier.
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"I was playing in the English Amateur Championship at Saunton," recalled Chesters, who will be part of the England team at this week's Home Internationals at Southerndown in Wales.
"I qualified for the knock-out stages but had to withdraw with some kind of sickness bug. I felt awful and went about three days without food."
His victory in the home of golf was just what the doctor ordered. If his European triumph in Barcelona a year ago was played out in heat that was "bloody boiling" then his St Andrews success was ground out in strong, menacing gusts that were "bloody horrendous".
Following the abandonment of Friday's third round due to thunder, lightning and torrential rain, Chesters had to complete his remaining 12 holes on Saturday morning before striding out again for the closing round in the bright, but boisterous, conditions.
Three ahead after 54 holes, Chesters cemented his place at the top with a controlled harnessing of the elements. Tee to green, he was terrific and it was only on the last two holes where things got slightly sloppy. He leaked three shots in that closing stretch, including a four-putt double-bogey on the tricky 17th, but such was the commanding advantage that he had forged, he could afford a late stumble over the line.
Chesters' one-over 72 for a two-under 282 left him as the only player under par and gave him a three-shot win over Germany's Max Roehrig and Irishman Gary Hurley. Chesters has already tasted the big time experience of the Open Championship, having earned his place in last month's showpiece at Hoylake by winning the European title in 2013. His win at The Duke's means he is pencilled into the Open field for the 2015 championship back here in St Andrews, provided he retains his amateur status.
Chesters has already stated that this neck of the wood is his favourite place for playing golf and the invitation to contest an Open on the Old Course would be "hard to turn down". With professional ambitions, though, and an assault on the European Tour's qualifying school looming on the horizon, he has plenty to ponder. "I'm going to have to have a big think about what I'll do," he admitted. "I'm still going to Q-School as an amateur and then we'll see after that."
While Chesters heads for Wales on international duty, two of Scotland's brightest prospects are on the other side of the Atlantic this week for the US Amateur Championship. Bradley Neil, the winner of June's Amateur Championship at Portrush, and St Andrews Links Trophy winner Grant Forrest line up at the Atlanta Athletic club in a field that also includes 13-year-old Will Thomson, who will become the youngest player to compete in the championship.


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Baby Registry Simplified
While having a baby brings immense amounts of joy, trying to figure out what to register for can bring immense amounts of stress. But fear not. We've got a trick that will keep you sane and make sure you have all of the necessary essentials for your nursery.
Sleeping time.
While everyone tells you baby won't be sleeping much, eventually you'll get into a rhythm with his or her schedule. Grab these essentials to make bedtime safe and cozy for your little one.
- Choose a crib that stands at a comfortable height for you and remember these safety essentials: there should be no space between the mattress and the crib walls, keep the crib empty with the exception of a fitted sheet on the mattress, and check the spacing of the bars to ensure that baby won't get any body parts stuck in between them.
- Get plenty of crib sheets. It's remarkable how quickly you'll go through them. The more the merrier.
- Keeping your baby swaddled is actually very soothing; it mimics the feeling of being in the womb and relaxes your little one. Swaddle blankets can help get them sleeping soundly or calm a frantic infant.
Story time.
It's never too early to develop a love of reading! Sitting down in a comfy spot with baby is great bonding time, plus it gives you a chance to share your favorite classic stories with your kids.
- Advice worth listening to: make sure you choose a comfortable rocking chair or glider. Yes, it's tempting to go with a trendy piece of furniture that makes a decorating statement. But trust us, you want something that you can comfortably sit in with your baby on your lap. There are comfortable AND stylish options, we promise.
- Even if you have overhead lighting, it's a good idea to invest in small lamps throughout the nursery; it creates softer mood lighting and is perfect for when you're ready to curl up with a good book.
- Books, books, and more books. Instead of large, hard-to-store toys or play gyms, encourage relatives to give classic children's books to your little one. Have them write something inside and your baby has a keepsake for years to come.
Changing time.
A changing area is another essential zone to remember on your nursery baby registry. The right set up will allow you to replace a diaper quickly and easily no matter what time of day or night it needs to be done.
- A changing table is one of the most essential pieces of nursery furniture and also needs to be assessed for safety, just like a crib. Make sure it has a safety strap to keep a squirmy baby on the table.
- Save yourself the headache, and invest in plenty of changing pad covers. You'll be amazed at how quickly you'll go through them.
As you can see, designing a nursery doesn't have to be overwhelming. Thinking about what you will need to do with your baby will help you figure out what you need to get for your baby.


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AUBURN, Alabama -- Overhauled again in the offseason, the new-look Auburn men's basketball team is only starting to get to know each other as practices begin for the team's August trip to the Bahamas to play a few exhibition games.
But so far, Allen Payne and K.T. Harrell see something in this group of guys that wasn't there last season.
A team trying to mesh the old with the new already seems to have a head start on at least one crucial aspect.
"They have talent, they have good size this year, but we've had that in the past and we weren't able to put that all together," Payne, a senior, said. "I think the missing piece was chemistry. That actual brotherhood that we have this year, it'll just take us a little bit farther."
Auburn head coach Tony Barbee only hinted at locker-room problems last season during the Tigers' skid that left Auburn at 9-23 overall and just 3-15 in the SEC, including losses in 16 of its last 17 games.
Both Harrell and Payne think chemistry was the missing link for a roster that showed flashes in a five-game stretch in early January.
"Everybody wasn't bought into it," said Harrell, a transfer from Virginia who sat out last season but played extensively in practice. "I can't say everybody was competitive (last year), but now we've got a group of guys that want to win. That's a big difference on this team."
Barbee is starting to see signs of improving chemistry as the Tigers buckle down in practice sessions for their trip to the Bahamas. With all but two of his signees on campus -- Lithuanian center Benas Griciunas is working through international travel issues, Barbee said, and center Ronald Delph's academic eligibility is still up in the air -- Auburn's fourth-year head coach has been pleased with the atmosphere surrounding practices.
"It's still early," Barbee said. "It's still developing, but the energy and the camaraderie in the practices has been night and day from what it has been."
Both Payne and Harrell will likely be key leaders for the Tigers this season.
Both think the team's camaraderie could be key to putting the disaster of last season behind them.
"Even though it is July, it's on such a different level right now," Payne said. "We're doing stuff. We're not having to force guys to be with each other off the floor. We all like each other, and we all respect each other."
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Defence barrister Simon Ray used his closing address to accuse the prosecution of resorting to "name calling" to cover up holes in its case.
Mr Ray told Southwark Crown Court that "making allegations loudly and forcefully does not make them true".
Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC, he suggested, had "sneered" at problems in the crown's case which created "unavoidable doubt".
"One thing is certain, Mr Harris's reputation has effectively been trashed and will never be the same again," Mr Ray told jurors, adding their own childhood memories may have been altered.
"But after all of that, when you take a step back, have the prosecution come close to satisfying you (of his guilt)?
"You may conclude they have fallen a long way short."
The main complainant in the case is a childhood friend of Harris's daughter Bindi who claims the entertainer first abused her in 1978. She was 13 at the time.
But Mr Ray on Monday said the alleged victim made up the story in the mid-1990s when confronted by her parents over her heavy drinking.
It was a desperate attempt to excuse the sad state of her life, the barrister said.
The complainant's brother in May told the court that when he confronted Harris in the mid-1990s the Australian replied: "It takes two to tango".
Mr Ray admitted that would be an extraordinary thing to say if talking about child abuse.
However, it made sense if Harris was referring to a consenting adult relationship that started when Bindi's friend was 18.
A 1997 letter the artist wrote to the alleged victim's father could also be consistent with that version of events.
Ms Wass last week said it was effectively a confession of child abuse but Mr Ray argued it was more a confession of a "regrettable and ill-judged affair".
He asked why, if Bindi's friend was so terrified of Harris, she continued to see him into her late 20s.
The prosecution argues she was groomed and psychologically dominated so that she performed "like a prostitute".
But Mr Ray said there was no evidence to support that theory.
Rather, he argued, the pair had "a sporadic, illicit, somewhat low-rent adult relationship that ended in embarrassment" but didn't involve criminal behaviour.
"A residual sense of shame and embarrassment ... doesn't equal guilt".
Harris admitted to a second affair during the trial with Mr Ray on Monday stating: "He has been punished for his infidelity by, effectively, public humiliation."
The defence barrister said it was "incredible" to suggest Harris assaulted the main complainant while Bindi slept in the same room unaware.
If his daughter did see something it was "unthinkable" she'd now support her famous father.
Mr Ray said it was a "cheap shot" for the prosecution to make public a mid-2012 email that Bindi sent to Harris asking if she was the sole inheritor of his STG11 million ($A20 million) estate.
"Whatever happens in this court case is not going to prevent Bindi getting her inheritance," the barrister said.
Mr Ray argued a second complainant, Australian woman Tonya Lee, appeared to enjoy the fame she'd acquired by selling her story to Woman's Day and A Current Affair.
He told the court she was untruthful as revealed by "the ease with which she has lied in the past ... well and convincingly".
During the trial Harris said he'd never been to Cambridge - where a third complainant says she was assaulted in the 1970s - until three or four years ago.
But video subsequently emerged of him participating in Star Games which was filmed in the university city in 1978.
Ms Wass accused Harris of lying but Mr Ray said if the Australian had any recollection of the event he wouldn't have issued a blanket denial.
"No defendant would be that stupid," Mr Ray told the jury.
"Mr Harris didn't lie, he forgot."
The fourth and final complainant says she was groped as a seven or eight year old at a community centre near Portsmouth in the late 1960s.
But Mr Ray said she may have seen someone else performing one of Harris's songs and thought it was the singer himself.
"She could honestly believe what she's saying but still be wrong."
Justice Nigel Sweeney will sum up the case on Tuesday with the jury then "almost undoubtedly" retiring on Wednesday to consider its verdict.


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What is a Hurricane
A hurricane by definition is a storm with winds at more than 74 mph!
How is it formed
To create a hurricane you need 3 things to happen
1. The water has to be warm enough
2. The water vapor must collide with the heat
3. It must be near the ocean
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the most costly hurricane in history. It flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and destroyed more than 100,000 homes
For such a devastating Hurricane, Katrina's wind speed when it hit land was only about the strength of a strong category 1 hurricane
Many of today's big hurricanes including Katrina are not formed in the deep tropics like other past legendary hurricanes, but much closer to the States
Before Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi did not have minimum statewide building codes
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Hurricanes are the most destructive natural weather occurrences on Earth
Hurricanes have male and female names, but at one point only female names were used
Most hurricanes rage harmlessly in the sea
Australians call hurricanes, willy-willies
The New England Hurricane of 1938 is reported to have the fastest forward speed for a hurricane at 70 mph. The forward speed for an average hurricane is less than 20 mph
Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean runs from June 1 to November 30
The word hurricane comes from the Taino Native American word, hurucane, meaning evil spirit of the wind
The first time anyone flew into a hurricane happened in 1943 in the middle of World War II
A tropical storm is classified as a hurricane once winds goes up to 74 miles per hour or higher
Hurricanes are the only weather disasters that have been given their own names
All hurricanes begin life in a warm moist atmosphere over tropical ocean waters
A typical hurricane can dump 6 inches to a foot of rain across a region
The most violent winds and heaviest rains take place in the eye wall, the ring of clouds and thunderstorms closely surrounding the eye
Every second, a large hurricane releases the energy of 10 atomic bombs
Hurricanes can also produce tornadoes. They are not as strong as regular tornadoes and last only a few minutes
Slow moving hurricanes produce more rainfall and can cause more damage from flooding than faster-moving, more powerful hurricanes
Hurricane Floyd was barely a category I hurricane, but it still managed to mow down 19 million trees and caused over a billion dollars in damage
Most people who die in hurricanes are killed by the towering walls of sea water that comes inland
In the Pacific Ocean, Hurricanes are generally known as typhoons. In the Indian Ocean they are called tropical cyclones
The man who first gave names to hurricanes was an Australian weather forecaster named C. Wragge in the early 1900s
The first hurricane of the year is given a name beginning with the letter "A"
Hurricane season is from June to November when the seas are at their warmest and most humid, which are ripe conditions for a hurricane to develop
The planet Jupiter has a hurricane which has been going on for over 300 years. It can be seen as a red spot on the planet. This hurricane on Jupiter is bigger than the Earth itself
In the 1950's and 1960's, people went to Hurricane parties with party-goers to watch hurricanes rather than flee from danger. There were claims that in 1969, Hurricane Camille wrecked a hotel where a hurricane party was being held and killed 8 people. Some survivors who were at the hotel at the time claim there was never a hurricane party there and that the actual number of fatalities were not accurate. Nevertheless, a hollywood movie was created out of this story
Hurricanes didn't start having boys' names until 1979
Most hurricanes die at sea when they pass over areas of cooler water
In 1967, a hurricane in Texas caused more than 140 twisters
The worst hurricane damage is often caused by a storm surge. A storm surge is like a giant wall of water pushed onshore by hurricane winds
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo completely destroyed several forests in South Carolina
In 1971, Hurricane Ginger lasted for over three weeks
In 1970, a hurricane in Pakistan killed more than 300,000 people
When a hurricane is especially devastating, its name is permanently retired and another name replaces it
In 1944, the US Navy's Pacific fleet was crushed by Typhoon Cobra, which sank three destroyers and damaged many ships
Bangladesh was a country that was created from a hurricane. In 1970, this region of Pakistan was struck by a cyclone and 500,000 people died. The people felt their government did not do enough to help after the disaster so in 1971, they voted to be independent of Pakistan and Bangladesh was born
Hurricanes do not occur in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the waters are too cold for them to form
Plants have developed different ways of protecting themselves from powerful winds. Palm trees trow mainly in tropical parts of the world where hurricanes sometimes occur. Their flexible trunks bend and spring back in high winds but rarely break
Taping your windows in preparation for a hurricane is a waste of time and money. Tape does not strengthening the glass. Flying debris will smash a taped window as if the tape wasn't there
Hurricane Fox was the first storm to be named in an official weather bureau advisory
Two hurricanes were named Alice in 1954. One in June and one in December
The first hurricane with a male's name was Hurricane Bob which hit near New Orleans in July 1979
The first hurricane to hit the American Colonies happened on August 25, 1635


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What Your Favorite Print Says About You
Esther Adams, Vogue
Reread any of the illustrated storybooks of our youth, from Rudyard Kipling's How The Camel Got His Hump ("But uglier yet is the hump we get from having too little to do") to Aesop's fables like The Frog and the Ox
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Garcia has coached or taught at every high school in the William S. Hart Union High School District except for Golden Valley. She became West Ranch High's athletic director when both schools opened at the same time in 2004.
Forget stumping her with local sports trivia.
Garcia kept stat books for some of the valley's best football teams for Brian Stiman at Valencia High and Harry Welch at Canyon High.
She's part of a host of local teachers, coaches and administrators who grew up in the area and have come back to spread the passion for sports they found as student-athletes.
And they do more than recollect history.
They continue to shape it, leaving a legacy that seems to perpetuate itself.
Garcia can rattle off several names she's had in her classroom or on the court who now roam the sidelines with their own teams.
"That's what happens when you're old," she says with a laugh.
Garcia saw Nate Sparks' vertical leap in her 11th-grade physical education class at Valencia High in 2002, and she suggested he try out for the junior varsity volleyball team, which she coached.
He eventually earned a spot on the varsity squad that won a CIF title the following year.
"We had a really good team my senior year," Sparks says. "I was probably one of the shortest middles in the CIF, but we were able to get the job done thanks to great teamwork all the way around."
Now he coaches both boys and girls volleyball at West Ranch.
Garcia also remembers watching Rocket Collins — who is now the varsity boys basketball coach at Valencia — while he was a player at The Master's College in the mid-'70s.
Back then, The Master's was known as Los Angeles Baptist College, and Garcia recalls asking for Collins' autograph as a star-struck teenager.
"It was a small town back then, and sporting events were a big deal," Garcia says. "He was one of my idols."
A reason to return
Many coaches have come back because they were so profoundly moved by their high school experience that they want to share the positive impact it had on their life.
Canyon boys basketball head coach Chad Phillips says two things stand out from his high school playing days.
"I think I played with one of the best players ever to play in the valley in Greg Minor, and I believe I played for the best coach around in Greg Hayes," he says.
Phillips adds that Hayes, Canyon's former head coach who is now on the coaching staff at Valencia, inspired Phillips to the profession because of the bonds he builds with his players.
"I think I'm the way I am today because of (Hayes)," Phillips says. "I would have run through a brick wall for him — any of us would have. He just had this presence (as our coach) where you just didn't want to let him down."
Phillips was fresh out of college when he returned to teach at his alma mater, and then he got a chance at the job he says he always wanted.
"It was meant to be," Phillips says. "I hate to say I walked into it. I was a teacher on campus, I was so young and naïve.
"I was so excited. I thought I was ready. I tell you I'm probably a 100-times better coach now than I was then."
He still managed to lead the Cowboys to a Foothill League title in his first year in 2001, a feat he duplicated in 2006.
The more things change
Phillips says he also remembers a 25-point upset loss to Hart his senior year against a team that featured current Hart girls basketball head coach Zach Koebel, who was a junior at the time.
Koebel remembers well, too.
"That was our big rivalry in the '90s. There was no Valencia, Golden Valley or West Ranch, and in 1994, Canyon had Greg Minor, Charles Woodard. … They were picked to be the team to beat," Koebel says. "We put the wax on them."
Koebel says that even though he's coached for both Canyon and Hart, rivalries and loyalties die hard.
"It was so long ago, but it's tough, you know," Koebel says. "The feelings don't go away. I still get more fired up as a coach to play Canyon than I do for any other team in the league, and I think it goes back to that."
Kevin Miner, Saugus' athletic director who played football there as well, says encouraging this type of school pride and sense of community among his students is one of his main goals as AD.
"I coached football this year, but going out to support the other sports, I think that's just something that I remember as an athlete at Saugus," Miner says. "We loved going and rooting on our classmates. That was something that I've tried to continue on, and gain that student body support."
The time, memories and dedication that go into playing sports help create a community with familial bonds, says Rich Gutierrez, Canyon's athletic director who also played football at Saugus.
He says he didn't necessarily grow up in the Santa Clarita Valley, since he used to live in Huntington Park.
After moving to the area to attend Saugus, he developed friendships with teammates and rivals, many of which continued as rivals became teammates when he played at Los Angeles Valley College.
Gutierrez describes a trench mentality that develops among teammates on football teams and a respect for opposition that develops.
"It's probably the camaraderie we build over the time we put in," Gutierrez says, referring to football. "I wouldn't want to take anything away from any sport, or put one sport over another, but you truly rely on everyone else to be successful.
"And I mean the conditioning. I mean every player regrets it, I know I did myself as an athlete, but you look back and that's what you remember — the sweat and the smell of the grass. I think that's why you come back. You want to create those same memories because it's so special to you."
A little help from friends
When it comes to hiring coaches, Miner says that if a candidate is an alumnus, there are no guarantees but it can help get a foot in the door.
"I think it's a little bit of an advantage," Miner says. "Do we give preference? Not necessarily. We're always looking for the best person in the best situation.
"When we did the hiring process for the boys soccer coach, (Seth Groller) was a guy we knew who was being groomed by (Nate Wright) to take over, so it was a slam dunk. But we still asked him the same questions we asked everyone else."
It also came up when a Saugus grad was hired as the baseball coach in 2005, he says.
"We knew John Maggiora was very interested," Miner says. "It came down to we had him and a gentleman from Crescenta Valley who were pretty neck-and-neck. But it was something that we did consider, because (Maggiora) knew the tradition of Saugus baseball and he knew how successful it has been."
He says coaches who have gone through a program have a unique understanding of these traditions and pride, which are invaluable team-building tools.
Mike Herrington, Hart's athletic director and head football coach, says more than half of his football staff is from the area or played at Hart.
That includes Herrington himself, who is a Hart alumnus.
He estimates about half of the coaches at the school are also local products.
That includes Pete Calzia, who played baseball at Hart and has coached football, baseball and golf over the years.
Calzia says his calling to come back home came from former Hart Principal Laurence Strauss in 1984.
Strauss remembered watching Calzia pitch for the Indians before Calzia left the area to play college baseball.
"(Strauss) called me up and said, 'I want to interview you for the math job, and I can tell you right now you're going to get it,'" Calzia says.
He added that the challenges that come with teaching in the classroom and coaching on the field have their own rewards that keep him coming back.
"When you teach high school and you coach at a high school, there are lots of things that go on every day. It's not a boring job," Calzia says. "If you've ever raised a teenager, you know."
The legacy lives on
Before Canyon and West Ranch faced off for the Foothill League girls basketball title on Feb. 11, a few of the Cowboys players recognized Garcia's name from stories.
As she introduced herself and wished the players good luck, one smiled and says, "Tell them who you really are."
As a 10th-grader, Garcia was the point guard on a team that won Canyon's last league championship in girls basketball in 1973. She still talks to several of her teammates from the squad, including Margaret Neill, who's now the athletic director at Paraclete.
"The things I remember most are the relationships," Garcia says. "I still stay in contact with a lot of athletes I've coached, and that's the part I like about passing the torch on to the next generation — having a positive impact. That's the reason we get into teaching in the first place."


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Thought I would throw together a few thoughts to test the redesign of RedState and see how many more bugs might be around.
It's been nearly a week since the switch-over and what a week it has been. After about day three, I was really missing the old RedState and wondering if things would ever be the same or at least come close. And conversely, my anger and frustration at losing access to all of the features that made RS so unique, turned into massive appreciation for just how wonderful RedState has been.
Gradually, I am starting to feel more at home and seeing that just maybe, when all the bugs are worked out, we will still have all of the features we had before. The ongoing problems with member diaries — most of which are all truncated and contain the wrong comments in the comments section — have left members feeling disoriented and perplexed wondering if the spaghetti-like mess will ever be sorted out. Some were so dismayed that they were actually accusing RS of dissing and demoting members and their diaries in favor of a more professional, business-like site that favored front-page writers and left the rest of us as an after-thought.
But that would be the wrong conclusion. RS would not be RS without all of its member's contributions. And for that, I want to say thank you to everyone at RS. My life has been so enriched by getting involved here and I am looking forward to many more years of the same.


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The author of this communication had her employment terminated whilst she was pregnant. The decision authorising termination made reference to her being a foreign worker. So many fora are now available for holding states to account for violations of one's human rights that it can be confusing for the potential author of a communication. The questions of which forum to choose – regional and/or international – is brought into focus in the communication submitted by Yilmaz-Dogan against the Netherlands to the UN Committee on Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination in 1984. A violation was found on, essentially, procedural grounds with little consideration of the substantial issues. The rewriting considers alternative fora available today for a complaint on the same point and the impact on the committee's opinion of having appropriately considered the sex discrimination dimension, something which was established in international human rights at the time of the complaint. A more intersectional analysis reveals multiple grounds of discrimination. Inevitably the opinion would still find an infringement of the treaty but by strengthening the reasoning and providing greater direction to the state party, it is hoped that the human rights situation in the state would be strengthened.
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Yilmaz-Dogan v The Netherlands (CERD): forum shopping and intersecting grounds of discrimination thirty years later
Rewriting Human Rights Decisions
Rhona Smith
Stefano Bianchini
The chapter summarizes the most relevant events that contributed to accelerating geopolitical changes in Europe far beyond the expectations of the warring parties during WWI by ultimately even affecting the decisions at the Paris Peace Conference.
The world's smallest virtuous circle: Estonia
Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-corruption
Valts Kalniņš
As in all transition countries, corruption has been and remains a concern for Estonia. Still, on the on hand the country is an obvious top achiever in comparison with the rest of the post-communist area. On the other hand, the 2000s has been a stable period, with levels of corruption almost unchanged and representing a certain plateau in development. The Estonian governance regime operates mostly in line with the principle of ethical universalism. Reportedly, all key elements of the state are subject to quite high formal standards of transparency. Correct functioning of the public procurement system is the rule, and violations, although common, are more of an exception. Estonia appears to have a high level of equity of access to its education and healthcare systems. The search for the causes of Estonia's success often focuses on cultural factors. The high general level of interpersonal trust in Estonian society is an unusual cultural feature of a post-Soviet society. In addition, civil society and a free media represent high normative constraints for corruption and particularism. It has been argued that at the beginning of the 1990s Estonia experienced the most radical replacement of the political elite compared with Latvia and Lithuania, where the old nomenklatura networks managed to perpetuate to a much larger extent. In contrast, the new Estonian elite was willing and ready for thorough reforms of the judiciary and public administration.
The work/personal interface
A Comparative Study
Gordon Anderson, Douglas Brodie and Joellen Riley
The employee's ability to maintain an autonomous private life alongside employment has long been contested territory in employment law. The rights to paid and unpaid leave to attend to illness and emergencies, and to undertake caring responsibilities and recreation, are the fruits of earlier industrial struggles; and where these rights appear in employment contracts, it is generally as a consequence of the influence of mandatory provisions in statutes or statutory instruments. Claims that employers must also accommodate an employee's freedom of expression have also been contentious. This chapter considers the interplay of common law and statutory influences in establishing contemporary boundaries between work and personal life. Keywords comparative employment law, contract of employment, work and personal life, freedom of employee expression
Women and children first: an inside look at the challenges to reforming family detention in the United States
Academics, Activists and Policy-makers
Dora Schriro
The US immigration system has long struggled with the practice of detaining immigrant families and many reform efforts have been thwarted repeatedly and others have fallen short of their anticipated outcomes. The chapter provides an inside look at how policymakers early in the Obama administration sought to roll back family detention and the fate of those efforts. It examines ambitious early reform efforts and subsequent challenges that spurred the administration to pursue more restrictive measures and significantly ramp up family detention. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the reasons for the rapid reversal of previous reforms and provides recommendations on how to reverse current trends. The need for renewed reform efforts is all the more acute under the Trump administration, which seeks to rapidly expand the country's deportation system.
Whither presumption of liberty? Constitutional law and immigration detention
Academics, Activists and Policy-makers
Daniel Wilsher
The protection of individual liberty against arbitrary detention by the state is one of the foundations of liberal jurisprudence. In common law countries like the United Kingdom, however, lengthy immigration detention on a large scale has become normal and has largely been held to be constitutional. Once judges accepted that the migration power entails a power to detain pending expulsion, courts in these countries have found it difficult to draw clear boundaries around detention. This has allowed governments to extensively expand detention facilities. By contrast, constitutions in continental Europe have viewed immigration detention as a heterodox exercise of police power requiring greater judicial control and legislative time limits.
Víctor Pérez-Centeno
This chapter brings to light seven neuroscience technologies that could be applied to entrepreneurship research. It argues that the use of these technologies in conjunction with an experimental approach is meaningful to entrepreneurship scholars because it facilitates a profound level of analysis, and some of these tools hold the potential to nurture and augment entrepreneurial behavior. The technologies were screened based on a threefold criteria: non-invasiveness, ability to collect data directly from the human brain, and a reasoned assessment of its potential to examine entrepreneurship enquiries. The identified techniques are as follows: electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic imaging resonance (fMRI), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and neurofeedback. Each technique is introduced in terms of its pros, cons, and applicability to delve into entrepreneurship research themes. Withal, the end of the chapter distils four criteria to guide the appropriate selection of a neuroscientific tool.
Eero Suoninen
It is a common challenge in today's families that children immerse themselves in media use and their parents try to motivate them to take responsibility for other important obligations. This chapter analyses the variation of the strategies parents and children are able to use when discussing the cessation or continuation of computer use. In order to identify the procedural features of the negotiations, the analysis focuses on one especially challenging negotiation process between a mother and her juvenile child. Both the parent's and child's participation are studied. The methodological approach combines the traditions of discourse analysis, frame analysis and conversation analysis. The aim is to examine the interaction progression as it unfolds turn by turn for the participants themselves. In order to analyse the variation in the participants' strategies, the analysis explicates the positions that participants take and the frameworks they orient towards in the course of the interaction process.
Waging accountability: why investigative journalism is both necessary and insufficient to transforming immigration detention
Academics, Activists and Policy-makers
Nina Bernstein
In the chapter, a reporter for the New York Times who has written extensively about immigration detention policies in various countries assesses the limits that investigative journalism faces in spurring detention reforms. She argues that while journalism occupies a privileged place in a democracy because it helps hold government to account, in practice it operates at a far messier intersection between the politics of reform and the contingencies and conventions of even the most robust news operation. The author focuses her analysis on the relationship between investigative journalism and the early efforts of the Barack Obama administration to overhaul immigration detention by creating "a truly civil detention system." Today, the US detention system is larger than ever, abuses remain endemic, the government has massively expanded its capacity to lock up mothers and children in "family residential centers," and the new administration is threatening to ramp up already record numbers of deportations.


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Did Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit call their last game together? If so Brent could not have picked a better one to leave on. FSU beat Auburn 34-31 in a game that saw the iconic broadcaster at his best.
It is very hard to believe that ESPN/ABC lead college play – by-play man will be turning 75 this year and many in the sports media business think that Musburger will retire.
I for one hopes that he keeps going as long as he wants to call the games.
He has been at ESPN since 1990 and he was the lead play by play man on college football at CBS during most of the 1980's.
ESPN is playing very close to vest on what they plan to do with Musburger, who will turn 75 in May. They could give him a two year extension, or make him the face of the SEC Network, he does live here in Florida. The network could also just choose not to renew his deal. That would leave the iconic broadcaster a free agent.
Make no mistake about it, Musburger is still a fine play by play man, but ESPN has a bit of a problem. Their two best young play by play men Chris Fowler and Rece Davis would like a chance to sit next to the network's lead analyst Kirk Herbstreit on the big game.
If ESPN does drop Musburger then look for Fowler to be their "A game," play by play man with Davis being promoted to GameDay. Hey if Musburger does choose to leave the booth he would be a great addition to Sports Talk Florida. Just saing….


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Want to break a world record?
CAPDM's id revamp
301's - the Steven Spielberg of web sites
Grow you business
CAPDM are one of Scotland's quiet success stories. Operating since 1996 in the blended and distance learning market, their products produce manageable learning programmes for colleges, universities and corporates. For example, CAPDM are responsible for one of the world's largest distance MBA programmes - at Edinburgh Business School.
After 10 years, they decided it was time for a identity facelift, and we've just completed a whole series of materials to help them spread the CAPDM message:New corporate logoCorporate brochureLetterhead and business cardsNew website design layoutWhite paper and publication templatesFlash animated presentationPowerpoint presentation templates As MD Martin Smith says, "Now we have the materials to pursue sales anywhere in the world".
A friend of ours recently asked a question that may be of interest to our readers. Google had indexed some web pages that were no longer on his site and had been replaced by pages with different names. He wanted the old pages to be replaced by the new ones in Google, Yahoo etc. Now this would happen naturally through time as the old pages could no longer be found and would be dropped, but he wanted it done as quickly as possible.
The answer is a '301 redirect' and we use it all the time when taking over new sites where important original pages have good rankings that we want to preserve. It acts as a 'director'. Whenever, a search engine or browser tries to access the old page, the 301 directs them to the new page.
Blot Design is a member of BNI, the most successful business networking group in the world.Each week we meet to exchange and refer business between our members. It's a great way of doing business. We're always looking for businesses to join our group (only one company from any business area can join, so there is no competition between members). We've just had a very successfull Visitors Day and six new member companies have applied to join because they can see the potential for their business. Currently we do still have vacancies for companies in these categories :
So if you'd like to grow your business, please get in touch.


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Actress Jennifer Lawrence Tops AskMen's 2013 'Most Desirable Women' List
Move over Sofia Vergara and Kim Kardashian, AskMen.com has crowned a new woman on their 2013 Top 99 Most Desirable Women list. Her name is actress Jennifer Lawrence.
The 22-year-old has had one helluva year. After achieving recognition for the role of heroine Katniss Everdeen in the highly touted film adaptation of The Hunger Games, she's been everywhere. Rolling Stone named her "the most talented young actress in America." Now, it seems, men worldwide want her, putting her atop AskMen.com's 2013 list.
Behind Lawrence is Esquire's reigning "Sexiest Woman Alive," Mila Kunis, who climbed to #2 from #13 on the 2012 list.
Kate Upton became the only Top 99 finalist to make the Top 3 two years in a row, coming in at #3, while her fellow Sports Illustrated Swimsuit collegue, Jessica Gomes, lands at #8.
Rihanna nabbed the #4 sport, actress Emma Stone came in at #5, model Miranda Kerr was at #6, Twilight's Kirsten Stewart earned #7, Jessica Pare comes in at #9, and 19-year-old Olympic hurdler Michelle Jenneke closes out the top 10.
Last year's winner, Sofia Vergara fell to #12 this year, while Kim Kardashian took a nose dive from #8 to #99 this year. Apparently, her appeal is wearing off?
Others notables down in the rankings include: Olivia Munn (#18), Katy Perry (#21), Beyonce (#32), Michelle Obama (#33), Azealia Banks (#49), Cassie (#77), Iggy Azalea (#81), and Rosci (#91).
Check out the full list over at AskMen.com.


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Press Release: Alcan, Inc. Joins Pew Center's Business Environmental Leadership Council
Press Release
October 18, 2005
Pew Center Contact: Katie Mandes, (703) 516-0606
Alcan, Inc. Contact: Anik Michaud, (514) 848-8151
Global Leader Joins Effort for Market-Based Solutions
Arlington, VA. -The Pew Center on Global Climate Change announced today that Alcan, Inc. has joined their Business Environmental Leadership Council and their efforts to address global climate change. Alcan is a multinational aluminum and packaging company based in Canada.
Alcan is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own operations through their GHG emissions reduction program, TARGET. Established in 2001, the TARGET program initially set a reduction goal of 575,000 (absolute) tons of CO2e. At the end of 2004, Alcan had recorded actual reductions of 2.9 million tons of CO2e. Since setting its target and launching its program to reduce emissions, Alcan has consistently outperformed the S&P Index.
"The companies we work with at the Pew Center recognize that the reality of operating in a carbon-constrained world is fast-approaching. We can all benefit from leaders such as Alcan, and we are looking forward to working with and learning from them," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Alcan has also been selected as one of two Canadian companies on the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2005 Climate Leadership Index. Comprised of only 60 companies worldwide, the Index is part of a CDP report that outlines the key features that make climate change a critical shareholder value issue for both investors and global corporations.
"By and large, leading companies are realizing the importance of climate change and its impact on the long-term sustainability of their businesses," said Travis Engen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alcan Inc. "The Pew Center has been instrumental in bringing business leaders together with policymakers in order to ensure a sustainable future; we are pleased to be a member."
Alcan is a multinational, market-driven company and a global leader in aluminum and packaging. With world-class operations in primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum as well as flexible and specialty packaging, aerospace applications, bauxite mining and alumina processing, today's Alcan is well positioned to meet and exceed its customers' needs for innovative solutions and service. Alcan employs almost 70,000 people and has operating facilities in 55 countries and regions.
The Business Environmental Leadership Council was established by thePew Center in 1998. The group is comprised of mainly Fortune 500 companies representing a diverse group of industries including energy, automobiles, manufacturing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, metals, mining, paper and forest products, consumer goods and appliances, telecommunications, and high technology. Individually and collectively, these companies are demonstrating that it is possible to take action to address climate change while maintaining competitive excellence, growth, and profitability. The companies together generate over $1.6 trillion in revenue and employ more than 3 million people.
The other members of the BELC are: ABB; Air Products and Chemicals; Alcoa; American Electric Power; Baxter International; Boeing; BP; California Portland Cement Co.; CH2M HILL; Cinergy Corp.; Cummins Inc.; Deutsche Telekom; DTE Energy; DuPont; Entergy; Exelon; GE; Georgia-Pacific; Hewlett-Packard Company; Holcim; IBM; Intel; Interface Inc.; John Hancock Financial Services; Lockheed Martin; Maytag; Novartis; Ontario Power Generation; PG&E Corporation; Rio Tinto; Rohm and Haas; Royal Dutch/Shell; SC Johnson; Sunoco; Toyota; TransAlta; United Technologies; Weyerhaeuser; Whirlpool; and Wisconsin Energy Corporation.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center and the BELC, visit www.c2es.org.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center and the BELC, visit www.c2es.org.
The Pew Center was established in May 1998 by The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the United States' largest philanthropies and an influential voice in efforts to improve the quality of the environment. The Pew Center is an independent, nonprofit, and non-partisan organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.


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Thomas Sleeper, conductor
Andres Jaime, conductor
Cecilia Huerta, cello
Frank Capoferri, alto saxophone
Bruce Hurley Johnson, guitar/composer
One of our most popular concerts of the season, the Frost Symphony Orchestra presents student competition finalists Cecilia Huerta performing the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 (one of the most difficult concerto works for cello), Frank Capoferri performing the ever-popular Creston Saxophone Concerto, and guitarist Bruce Hurley Johnson performing on his own composition winner, Concerto Blue. Professor Thomas Sleeper shares the podium with Columbian-born Andres Jaime, a doctoral conducting candidate at the UM Frost School of Music.
Adults $15 Seniors $10
UM Students Free with I.D., subject to availability on concert night
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Apparently sales aren't the only white-hot thing about Starcraft II. The game's menus, graphical lightweights though they are, don't have any maximum cap on their rendering cycles. That's right, Starcraft 2 is presently set to render those static blue menus at your video card's nearest neighbor to infinity frames per second. The glowing slag that [...]
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PSA: Starcraft II Can Melt Your Video Card
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PopCap Abandons Zombie Michael
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Score one more for jealous intellectual property hoarders. PopCap Games yesterday told MTV Multiplayer that they would be modifying the successful tower defense game, Plants vs. Zombies. Said PopCap, "The Estate of Michael Jackson objected to our use of the 'dancing zombie' in Plants vs. Zombies based on its view that the zombie too closely [...]
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Review: DeathSpank
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In one word, DeathSpank is staid. Heck, it might as well be a platonic form: the action-RPG-est action-RPG out there. Whether this will appeal to you is largely a matter of genre allegiance, because it's good for the polish and bad for the novelty. Either way, DeathSpank is a solid game if you're in the market to hit things and level up.
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Alien Swarm Is Also A FPS
July 23rd, 2010 Comments Off
You've probably already heard of Valve's free top-down shooter, Alien Swarm. What you may not know is that it's also a FPS. PCGamer broke the news from the steam forums. It just takes a few console commands to make a whole new game from the downloadable title: Go to Options > Keyboard > Enable developer [...]
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Nippon Ichi Looses Shirt
July 21st, 2010 Comments Off
The recession has hit all of us pretty hard, but this is ridiculous. Siliconera is reporting that Nippon Ichi has posted a precipitous drop in operating profits. The developer reported a 97% decrease excluding investments, tax, and arcade and mobile sales. The Japan-based developer is responsible for Disgaea, a popular strategy RPG noted for anime [...]
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Review: LIMBO
July 19th, 2010 Comments Off
Although it's a 2D platformer, LIMBO is a horror game, so come prepared. Whether you're fleeing a giant spider or succumbing to brain worms, the game is stark and disturbing. That makes it incredibly compelling. Add that to the black and white silhouette art, vivid animation, and precision platforming, and you have a great game. It's just not for the faint of heart.
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Double Fine Quadruples Games
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Double Fine, which previously developed Psychonauts and Brutal Legend has indirectly announced it is working on four new games. In a talk at the Develop conference, CEO and Monkey Island alum Tim Schafer mentioned that Brutal Legend 2 hadn't been signed by any publishers. So, keeping with the same logic that got them a 2-headed [...]
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Slow News Day: Hedonic Adaptation
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I normally prefer to post something topical from the news, but things are just dead this week. Fortunately, the hardworking folks at Gamasutra have wrangled some worthwhile reading. It's a cursory examination of hedonic adaptation, which sounds terribly sciency.
In truth the term just means "diminishing fun," and the phenomenon is equally simple. Think about your pants for a second and how you can feel them touching your leg. The fact that you couldn't feel them thirty seconds ago (and won't 30 seconds from now) is adaptation. Any consistent sensation becomes less acute over time. Your brain redefines it as normal, that is to say adapts, and stops paying any attention.
Sadly, the same principle applies to fun, which is where the hedonic part comes in. Psychologist Jamie Madigan argues that the embargo conditions for advance review copies have a negative impact on review scores. Lock yourself in a room for twenty hours to get a timely review, and hedonic adaptation sucks the fun out of the play and the value out of the score.
Madigan does miss the opportunity to examine the entirely testable hypothesis that longer games net lower average review scores than comparable shorter games. However the article is worth reading to see the argument unfold more completely.
Blizzard should disentangle Real ID from its Good IDeas
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With all the hubbub about Blizzard's reversed stance on the use of real names in the forums (for now), it's easy to forget that the Real ID system brings in a wide array of changes, most of which are staying in place. While much of the functionality is handy, the implementation of the system comes with significant drawbacks. After watching Facebook, Blizzard's new partner, get torn apart in the media over privacy concerns, one might think that Blizzard would be a bit more careful in implementing features that involve a player's real name. This week, we look at Blizzard's Real ID, and the pros and cons of the various aspects of the system.
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Blizzard Backs Down From Real ID, Settles For ID
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Blizzard has nixed their plan to attach a user's real name to the Real ID service. The decision came after a not entirely positive response from battle.net users. Although the abandoned feature earned a lot of attention for its role as troll deterrent, as USAtoday noted, the more significant role for real names would be [...]


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WASHINGTON — The Senate acted Wednesday to help thousands of military veterans enduring long wait times for VA medical care, as the FBI revealed it has opened a criminal investigation into a Veterans Affairs Department reeling from allegations of falsified records and inappropriate scheduling practices.
The Senate bill, approved 93-3, makes it easier for veterans who have encountered delays getting initial visits to receive VA-paid treatment from local doctors instead. The measure closely resembles a bill approved unanimously Tuesday in the House, prompting optimism among lawmakers from both parties that a compromise version could be on its way soon to President Barack Obama for his signature.
The Senate bill would authorize about $35 billion over three years to pay for outside care for veterans, as well as hire hundreds of doctors and nurses and lease 26 new health facilities in 17 states and Puerto Rico. The House bill would spend about $620 million in the same period.
The Veterans Affairs Department released an audit this week showing more than 57,000 veterans have had to wait at least three months for initial appointments. Another 64,000 veterans who asked for appointments in the past decade never got them.
The Senate vote came as the FBI revealed it has opened a criminal investigation into the VA. FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday the investigation was being led by the FBI's field office in Phoenix, which he described as the "primary locus of the original allegations" being investigated by the VA's Office of Inspector General.
The inspector general said in a report last month that 1,700 veterans seeking treatment at the Phoenix VA hospital were at risk of being "lost or forgotten." The VA has confirmed at least 35 veterans died while awaiting treatment in Phoenix, although officials say they do not know whether the deaths were related to long waiting times for appointments.


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Also, I posted that as I was still listening; wow to the George Hill part. At least a little bit. Hill wanted 7.5m a year, Pacers wanted him at 6m, so they'll wait until summer to figure that out.
Damn, no home-town discount eh? MLE type money is more than fair IMO.
Sittin on top of the world!
Under that approach Hill should just ask for $14M/year and expect to end up at $10M/year. You don't just split the difference if you feel the other party is being unreasonable. You pay what the market dictates.
Hill at $7.5M is unreasonable. He should be paid what guys like Lowry, Dudley, Lou Williams, Korver, and Reddick got, which is between $5M-$6M.
Guys, you can't really fault his agent for asking. There isn't a rush to get this done. It will play itself out, and I doubt he will get exactly what he is asking for.
As for Hill's play so far - He has done pretty well when you consider he is adjusting to a new team, coach and system. I look for him to keep getting better as the year goes along.
No more than Jarrett Jack money. I'll say it again... the Jack deal should have been matched. Bird dropped the ball on that one.
Remember the lockout? The owners and players dont bargain this way.
I said it when I heard he was just a one year contract, he's got an "under the table" deal to sign back with San Antonio. That's what my gut tells me. They both loved each other and I can see them saying, "Look, we have the opportunity to add Kawi but have to ship you out to make this team better. Go play in Indiana and next summer we will sign you back." Both parties then agreed. His heart is still in San Antonio. It's going to be a big dissapointment, but if it's not the Spurs, someone will overpay him and the Pacers won't match.
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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
I like Hill, but for that kind of money, I'd rather just put it toward an offer for EJ instead.
I always kind of assumed he would be. I still think he's not 100% thrilled to be here.
I'm purely speculating here, but at this point I don't think the market nets him 7.5/yr next summer. If it does, then somebody is foolishly overpaying him.
Money cures a lot of ailments.
Curse you, Sports Zone, and your $900 field rental!
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Roy and Falk are being smart. Roy's value has increased already this year. If he stays consistent and plays well in the postseason, his contract will be huge. Not Kevin Love level, but closer than I would have thought possible 2 months ago
With Hill, I don't know.
Cool, I think we'll get Hill for less than 6 million this summer, so I'm good with that.
IMO, Hill's salary will depend fully on how he plays in the playoffs.
Passion. Pride. Patience. Pacers
If Affalo(very similar players actually) can get 8.4 than some one will foolishly give Hill a similar deal and I hope to god we don't match. We should of just kept the draft picks this is the opposite of money ball very smart trade by the Spurs. I would of never guessed he would ask for 7.5m that is way too much. I guess the Spurs proablly talk to him about a new deal and the realized he wanted way too much so they dealt him.
If someone will give Hill a deal around 8.4, asking 7.5 isn't way too much. Lol
Hill is going to have to play much better this year to get 8+. And I don't care if he turns out to be a rental. Cap space is a reward in itself. I suspect we'll get a deal done, though.
No one is going to pay George that much. He is a good scorer, but he is undersized and he can't really play point as a starting point guard. So either he comes off the bench or he starts at shooting guard and is a liability on defense because of his size. Not that he is a bad defender, he is actually quite good, but he would get abused by tall guards like Paul George for instance.
I think 5MPY is the most he will get.
I want to keep Hill, but not at $7.5m per year.


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Mat Collishaw's Retrospectre at BFI
Check out Mat Collishaw's installation Retrospectre at the BFI from 26th February - 9th May 2010. Created to celebrate the film director and artist Sergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990), Collishaw's work has a mixture of antique items and contemporary forms. BFI Southbank will be celebrating the work of Paradjanov throughout the next month.
Official BFI press release below, along with an image of what the Collishaw commission will look like.
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Mat Collishaw: Retrospectre BFI Gallery, BFI Southbank, London, SE1 26 February – 9 May 2010 Press view: Thursday 25 February, 5.30-6.30pm Private view: Thursday 25 February, 6.30-9pm Admission free www.bfi.org.uk/gallery
Mat Collishaw has been a significant figure on the international art scene for over 20 years. His new commission for the BFI Gallery is in response to the visionary work of the late Georgian/Armenian film director Sergei Paradjanov. The project fuses sculpture and the moving image in an atmospheric work evoking the spirit of Paradjanov and forms part of the 2010 festival of his work and legacy. A season of Paradjanov films in the BFI Southbank cinemas complements the show. Mat Collishaw opens in the BFI Gallery on 26 February and runs until 9 May 2010.
Collishaw and Paradjanov share a perceptive understanding of the mechanics of beauty which they both exploit in their art – combining diverse cultural elements, using framing devices and employing a sensual use of colour. For this commission Collishaw is assembling original antique objects, abandoned windows and two way mirrors together with video footage, both existing and recently shot in Armenia. Paradjanov's trademark style of making films in which every shot resembles a collage is reflected in the piece. By projecting digitally manipulated images on to objects, Collishaw fuses the two dimensionality of the moving image with the three dimensionality of sculpture. The new installation, whilst being defined by Collishaw's very distinctive style, poetically conveys the spirit of Paradjanov's artistic endeavour, creating a fairytale world where good and evil, sacred and profane, love and violence merge.
Mat Collishaw was born in Nottingham in 1966 and studied at Goldsmith's College. He is renowned for his photographs and video installations which meld a style and technique reminiscent of much older art forms, with images and projections of fascinating and shocking beauty. He currently lives and works in London where his work has received increasing critical and public acclaim ever since he exhibited in the notorious Freeze exhibition in 1988. He took part in the infamous Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1997 and continues to exhibit both in the UK and internationally. About Sergei Paradjanov Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema. He was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and studied film in Moscow. He started making films in 1954 and is celebrated for his poetic and visionary films including Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1964), The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) and Ashik Kerib (1988). Despite his international celebrity, many of his films were banned or closed by the Soviet film administration and he spent several years in Soviet prisons and labour camps.
The exhibition forms part of 2010's Paradjanov Festival; details at www.paradjanov-festival.co.uk
Events and Screenings
Mat Collishaw in Conversation Tue 13 April 18:10 (tbc), NFT3 £5
Paradjanov Symposium Saturday 6 March 11:00 – 17:00, NFT3 £15.15, concs. £11.15 (Members pay £1.40 less)
A retrospective of Paradjanov films will be screened at BFI Southbank from 1-15 March. For further details www.bfi.org.uk/whatson
About BFI Southbank BFI Southbank (located between the National Theatre and the Royal Festival Hall) has the only London art gallery specifically dedicated to commissioning and showcasing artists' films and videos and the moving image in its most contemporary forms. There's more to discover about film and television through the BFI. Its world-renowned archival collections, cinemas, films, publications and learning resources are here to inspire everyone.
The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation and Singha Beer.
Listing details: BFI Gallery, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XT Gallery admission free Exhibition open Tuesday to Sundays (and Bank Holiday Mondays): 12 noon - 8pm Tel: DAILY INFO: 020 7633 0274 BOX OFFICE: 020 7928 3232 Tube/BR: Waterloo www.bfi.org.uk/gallery


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Hyderabad: The result of both I and II year Intermediate Public Advanced Supplementary Examinations, held during the month of May/ June, 2016, will be released at 9 AM today.
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This week's Westword cover story, by Andy Kopsa, reported that Denver-based WAIT Training managed to circumvent both Governor Ritter's rejection of federal abstinence-only funds and Colorado law requiring comprehensive sex education and obtain federal grant money through the Colorado State Board of Education. Westword also reported that in order to comply with state requirements regarding inclusiveness of gay and lesbian students, WAIT Training claimed that its curriculum was "vetted" by the American Psychiatric Association's Gay and Lesbian Issues Team even though the head of that team denies approving the curriculum. Moreover, WAIT Training was the only grant applicant that was also involved in the state's process of requesting federal abstinence-only funds, and WAIT Training received funding despite scoring the lowest of all Colorado applicants on the state's grant evaluation rubric.
As reported in the article, Ethics Watch believes the circumstances surrounding the WAIT Training grant should be investigated fully by the State Auditor to determine whether any improprieties occurred during the contracting process. Ethics Watch calls on the Legislative Audit Committee to direct the State Auditor to investigate the Board of Education's handling of the grant money.
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Interventional Radiologists pioneered modern medicine with the invention of Angioplasty in 1964. Today an array of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are performed. They use x-rays, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease non-surgically. Some of the more recent advances in interventional radiology include:
The Interventional Radiology Lab at GBMC offers over 170 procedures and performs 7,500 procedures annually. The lab is located on the 3rd floor of the main hospital.
The Interventional Radiology Lab at GBMC offers over 170 procedures and performs 7,500 procedures annually. The lab is located on the 3rd floor of the main hospital.
Computerized Tomography (CT)
In the early 1970's the first CT exams were performed. CT uses a rotating unit and computers to create cross sectional images of the patient's anatomy. CT has made huge leaps in technology over the last decade. The new technology offers greater detail with less motion in a shorter period of time. This technology allows imaging of the heart non-invasively to evaluate disease, imaging of the colon thorough virtual colonoscopy, biopsies, and 3D rendering of images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. The CT department at GBMC has both 16 slice and 64 slice CT scanners. They offer over 60 types of procedures and perform 35,000 procedures annually. CT is located on the 3rd floor of the main hospital.
Ultrasound (General, Vascular, and Echocardiography)
Diagnostic sonography became available in the early 1970's and was quickly adapted by many specialties: cardiology, vascular medicine, obstetrics and gynecology. It uses sound waves much like those used in Navy Sonar. No radiation is involved. High frequency sound waves are used to assess fetal development, internal organs, and circulation of blood vessels. The Ultrasound department at GBMC has 3 divisions, Diagnostic, Vascular, and Echo sonography. The Ultrasound department offers more than 80 types of procedures and performs 28,000 procedures annually. Ultrasound is located on the 1st and 3rd floor of the main hospital.
Nuclear Medicine
Whole-body scanning, in which the scanner uses an array of 10 scintillation detectors to scan the whole body, was introduced in 1953. The most common studies are myocardial perfusion, bone, lung, tumor, renal, hepabiliary and gastric. The Nuclear Medicine department at GBMC offers more than 50 types of procedures, and performs 8,500 procedures annually. The lab is located on the 1st floor of the main hospital.
In the mid 1990's Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) technology was born. In simple terms, PACs allows medical images to be stored and retrieved electronically, much like a digital camera. For more than 100 years, radiographic film has been the primary tool for capturing and interpreting disease processes. Over the past several decades, as new techniques and modalities have increasingly embraced digital imaging, including ultrasound, digital angiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance, a natural evolution to digital-based image management has become compelling. GBMC currently utilizes PACS technology to enhance the various services we offer.
In the 1980s Magnetic Resonance Imaging was adopted. This technology uses a gigantic magnet, can line up the protons -- or nuclei of hydrogen atoms -- in an object (or organism) to align with the north-south polarity of the magnet. A computer "reads" this to create an image in a process known as MRI, magnetic resonance imaging. MRI is excellent for observing soft tissues. GBMC and Medical Imaging of Baltimore have teamed together to provide MRI services. The MRI Center is located on the campus of GBMC.
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) machines, can reveal subtle metabolic processes such as tumor growth. In the year 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of a combination PET/CT machine, the first medical-imaging device that simultaneously and clearly reveals both anatomical details and metabolic processes within the body. PET also evaluates brain disease such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and early detection of stroke. GBMC and Medical Imaging of Baltimore have teamed together to provide PET/CT services located on the campus of GBMC.
School of Radiography
The School of Radiography has existed at GBMC since 1968. The Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) accredits the school, and Maryland Higher Education Commission approves the program. Entrance into the 23-month program is based on overall academic standing, interview process, and history of employment in a medical facility. The radiography program provides students with a mixture of clinical and academic instruction. While in the program, the students will be exposed to most of the modalities within the radiology department giving them a vast knowledge of what the department comprises. Upon graduation, students are prepared to sit for a national accreditation exam administered by ARRT. The school employs a Program Director, Clinical Instructor and several faculty members. An advisory committee provides direction regarding mission and vision, accreditation, status, tuition fees, etc, and governs the school.


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PARIS (Feb. 10)
French Jewish writer Alain Finkielkraut and French journalist Dominique Nora returned to Paris Friday night after Soviet authorities expelled them from the Soviet Union. The two were under house arrest at their Kiev hotel for two days after they met with several Jewish refuseniks.
Finkielkraut, 35, and Nora, who works for the French daily, Liberation, were accused by the Russians of having given one of the refuseniks unspecified "subversive" material and were accused of "belonging to an international Zionist organization."
Finkielkraut, who is the author of half a dozen books on Jewish subjects and the author of several philosophical essays, said after his arrival in Paris that the Soviet investigators threatened to have Nora raped and him beaten. One of the police investigators said, "If you don't cooperate with us, we shall not be able to guarantee your safety any longer. There are many hooligans in this country and Dominique Nora could end up raped and you yourself badly beaten."
Finkielkraut said the investigators wanted them to reveal the names of the people they had met and the contents of their conversation.
The two were taken to Kiev airport last Thursday night and kept in a separate room till the departure of a plane for East Berlin. From there they flew back to Paris.


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