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SAN MATEO, Calif., June 11 -- Zimbra, the leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging software, today announced that it has joined The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (http://www.calconnect.org/) and will now be supporting the CalDAV standard for calendaring and scheduling interoperability, further demonstrating the company's commitment to open standards. Zimbra's flagship product, Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), provides a unique set of end-user and administrator benefits that make it a flexible client/server messaging solution for deployments of all sizes. ZCS provides cross-platform support for Mac, Windows and Linux desktop clients; Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers; and a rich offline-capable client through Zimbra Desktop; giving users the most choice and flexibility for their communication needs.
"We have been following the progress of the CalDAV standard for sometime as it promises to allow our users to share calendaring information both within our internal system and with outside organizations with more ease and flexibility than ever before," said Greg DeYoung, Associate Director for Campus Infrastructure Technology at Eastern Illinois University. "We are excited to see Zimbra prioritize support for this new standard and it is yet another example of how Zimbra actively incorporates customer feedback into their product roadmap."
"Our customers use a variety of desktop clients, and being able to offer them a solution that allows them to more easily and flexibly share calendaring information between disparate systems would be an enormous benefit," said Matthew Porter, CEO of Contegix, a Zimbra managed-hosting provider partner. "We are pleased to see Zimbra take a more active role in advancing the CalDAV standard, and look forward to rolling it out to our customer base."
"We are delighted that Zimbra has joined CalConnect," said Dave Thewlis, Executive Director of The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. "Our mission is to promote interoperable Calendaring and Scheduling, and by joining Zimbra is not only demonstrating its commitment to calendaring interoperability and to the open standards which make it possible, but to working with other calendaring vendors and customers to develop and enhance those standards."
"Zimbra's number one priority is to offer a modern-day messaging and collaboration solution that anyone can use anywhere -- regardless of technology platform, desktop client, mobile client or Internet connectivity -- and CalConnect's mission to make calendaring and scheduling interoperability a reality neatly fits with this mission," said Scott Dietzen, president and chief technology officer for Zimbra. "Based on strong community demand, it's clear that the time has come for CalDAV to be adopted into the mainstream, and we are excited to work with CalConnect to make this happen."
Zimbra is currently working to support the CalDAV standard as part of ZCS, and welcomes the community to help test and provide feedback through the Zimbra Forums.
The ZCS 4.5 Open Source Edition is free. The commercially supported ZCS Network Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra Website. ZCS 4.5 Network Edition is available at a significant educational discount by contacting email@example.com. The Network Edition includes product support as well as software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. ZCS is available on-premises or as a hosted service; for information about Zimbra On- Demand or Zimbra's hosting partner program, please visit http://www.zimbra.com/partners/. Users can discuss topics related to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite and provide feedback at http://www.zimbra.com/forums/.
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Boeing, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, Jet Propulsion Lab, Kerio Technologies, Marware, MIT, Mozilla Foundation, New York University, Novell, Open Source Applications Foundation, Oracle, PeopleCube, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rockliffe, Scalix, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, Trumba, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra.
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|DARE plans Fishing Derby
|Friday, September 06, 2013 12:00 AM
The eighth biannual Van Wert County DARE Fishing Derby will be held Sept. 14 and 15 at the Middle Point Quarry just east of the village of Middle Point on Middle Point Road.
Fishing starts at 7 a.m. and runs to 5 p.m.
The cost of the event is $50 for adults both days and $30 for one day. The cost for youth ages 10 to 17 is $25 for both days and $15 for one day.
Youth must have a release signed by parent or guardian, wear a life vest while on the water and must be with a parents, guardian or family member.
A rules waiver must be signed. There will be no fishing from the bank; boats only. No alcohol is permitted and life vests on the boat and trolling motors only.
All fish can be kept.
Prize money is $50 per day for the largest fish and total weight of five fish.
Proceeds benefit the Van Wert County DARE program.

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Bill O'Reilly Clashes With WashPost Writer on MSNBC's Ban of 'Extremist' Pat Buchanan
On The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday night, Bill O'Reilly took on MSNBC's apparent ban on their former contributor Pat Buchanan in obedience to left-wing lobbies like Color of Change, who wanted him removed form the airwaves. Cathy Areu, a contributor to The Washington Post Magazine, argued Buchanan was a "white extremist" and "white supremacist" who "absolutely" should be banned and fired.
O'Reilly shot back: "Okay, so if the litmus test is you fire extremists, MSNBC would have nobody on. Nobody on." Areu attempted to nudge O'Reilly about his friendly relationship with Rev. Al Sharpton. O'Reilly replied: "Wait, wait, so Pat Buchanan in an extremist, but Al Sharpton is not?"
Areu insisted "I don't think he's an extremist." Here's how the chat unfolded:
BILL O'REILLY: And in the "Impact Segment" tonight the very liberal MSNBC Network has taken Pat Buchanan off the air because of stuff he has written in a book called "Suicide of a Superpower". Mr. Buchanan believes that the decline of Christianity in America has led to a cultural collapse and the acceleration of minority immigration has damaged the political process. Here is what he said yesterday.
PAT BUCHANAN (WOR radio clip): We seem at war with one another. I think you've got huge numbers of folks, millions coming in every year from cultures and countries and civilizations that have never been assimilated. I think it could kill the United States of America.
O'REILLY: Joining us now from Washington, radio talk show host Sandy Rios and here in the studio Cathy Areu, an editor at The Washington Post Magazine. So I know you disagree with Mr. Buchanan. We'll get to that in a moment but I don't think he should have been taken off the
air at MSNBC because this isn't the first time he said this, he's been saying this for years. Right?
CATHY AREU: Right. Well, a lot of people were suspicious that he was a white supremacist, a white extremist and by writing this book now it's clear. So I think MSNBC –
O'REILLY: It's not clear to me. I read it, I don't think he's a white supremacist. I think that he's making a point that the melting pot, the "We are all one nation under God" is done and he believes that is weakening the nation. I don't think that he thinks that white people are better than black people or better than minorities. I didn't get that at all. So that's your opinion. You could think he is a white supremacist, you can think I'm a member of the Mickey Mouse Club. That's your opinion. But should MSNBC have taken the man off the air when he has said this stuff for years?
AREU: Well yes. But it was never so obvious. He hinted at it and it was kind of there. But by writing this book it's in black and white. It was written by -- I see it as a white extremist. And if I didn't know that he had written it, I would have thought that someone from the KKK had written it. Now you find out that this Pat Buchanan wrote this book –
O'REILLY: So you think that MSNBC is right to take him off the air.
AREU: He is an extremist. Yes.
O'REILLY: Should he get fired?
AREU: Absolutely. He's an extremist.
O'REILLY: Okay, so if the litmus test is you fire extremists.
AREU: Yes.
O'REILLY: MSNBC would have nobody on. Nobody on.
AREU: I don't agree with that. I think -- I think --
O'REILLY: They are not extremists over there?
AREU: I do not think so.
O'REILLY: Do you watch the network?
AREU: I do watch the network.
O'REILLY: Okay I mean --
AREU: I do -- Al Sharpton, people have said --
O'REILLY: Not an extremist?
AREU: I do not think he's an extremist.
O'REILLY: No?
AREU: No he's been here many times and I think that you all agree --
O'REILLY: So wait, so wait, wait, so Al Sharpton is not but Buchanan is.
AREU: You still have agreed many times on many topics.
O'REILLY: I agree -- I agree I'm trying to find common ground with everybody.
AREU: I don't think he's an extremist.
[Hat tip: Johnny Dollar's Place]
Earlier: Cathy Areu Tells O'Reilly That Sarah Palin is 'Larry the Cable Guy Minus the Class and Intelligence'
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It is beyond
Submitted by D. S. Hube on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:38am.... hysterical that M-BS-NBC would ax Buchanan ... but then give Al Sharpton his very own show. You just can't make stuff like this up.
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The real litmus test
Submitted by Okieflyover on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:00am.
Anyone watching al sharpton or Matthews is the litmus test for stupidity
I am so tired of hearing that a conservative view is going to drive away independents. Who is this woman reaching out to who isn't a far left nut job?
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I think it's a good idea to
Submitted by alberta43 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:38pm.
I think it's a good idea to watch/read the liberal point of view. How can an informed person just listen to one train of thought. I read both sides, and always am amazed at how far from reality the liberal left is. I then google their idiotic points of view and then dissect them one by one. How else can one discuss/argue against their views? Be aware, be informed and stay alert.
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I agree
Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:08pm.
I agree that one should listen to all sides of arguments and keep informed and to make the best judgment. Most of what the left says is just a rehash of the same things they always say with no real facts (or just half-truths) to back them up. Still, it is hard to discuss anything with them because they don't want to hear anything. They don't want to know the truth.
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Calling Jews "diamond merchants" is not extremist
Submitted by frank14 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:18am.
Helping to foment a riot at Crown Heights against Jews is not extremist. It's mainstream Democrat Party thought. Thank you Cathy Areu for clearing that up. Larry David, Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfus, are you listening?
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I looked her up
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:20am.
on google because i dont know who she is. She's mighty pretty to be this bloody stupid. Dont brains and looks go together in Liberal Land?
And I looked Sharpton up too. He's an uneducated and ignorant bum, and i'd like to tell him that to his face.
If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
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I didn't read the book
Submitted by dmacleo on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:39am.
only read excerpts but my take away was the melting pot itself has failed.
we now have latin community, black community, etc....but we cannot have a white community as thats racist.
we used to have...A COMMUNITY...people came here to become Americans. nothing more nothing less.
that was my take at least.
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The conservative. ..
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:54am.
commentor made that same point saying "we have a bunch of tribes " which Areu refused to accept.
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Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:03pm.
That was my take as well. I am of German heritage. But I do not call myself a "German American". I am an American. The "Old Country" is just that. The OLD country. America is MY country, and I embrace her traditions, culture, language, laws and yes, her CHRISTIAN heritage.
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Areu is an extremist.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:41am.
Extremely dishonest. Extremely ignorant. Extremely intolerant. In other words, a liberal progressive.
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Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:18pm.
She is NOT a "liberal", she is a LEFTIST. None of them are "liberal" -- they don't even know the meaning of the word. They are all control-freak, oppressive leftists who don't believe in freedom. We need to take back the word liberal as it was created from these rotten leftist propagandists, who pervert the meaning of words.
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Is it any surprise
Submitted by c5then on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:59am.
That with thinking like this in the media itself, the US has dropped to #27 on the "freedom of the press" list?
These stooges just want to silence anybody they disagree with and the consequenses be damned.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
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How may we define
Submitted by John B. on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:07pm.
How may we define 'extremist'? Where is the line drawn? According to MSNBC and Cathy Areu, an extremist is a person with whom they disagree.
Once you become an extremist, you lose your First Amendment right. Apparently, that is MSNBC's policy, and I would defy them to deny it. I would also defy Cathy Areu to deny she is an intolerant bigot who believes it is right to completely censor any opinion with which she disagrees.
What has become of America that we should now be saddled with these speech Nazis?
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Submitted by angelann1 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:15pm.
She is definitely an extremist!!!!
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O'Reilly's show
Submitted by hughg on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:01pm.
I don't even allow guests in my house to view trash like MSxxxxx. I'm a MAC OS X person , I don't run MS software except in a virtual shell. Like my taste in OS's , I filter heavily any MSM. I consider it as a virus on humanity's operating system. I reached a point in life that I said" There must be something better than Microsoft, if not I'll lay my computers down, for I have fought with buggy software for 20+ years".
I bought 1 and then 2 MACs. Bingo.
Just because NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and a trail of other progressives existed first, that doesn't give them the honor of good programming and especially judgment of others, including me. Orgs and institutions that judge when in the public eye have a certain responsibility for integrity.
The MSM lost it's integrity along with PBS's long ago. Truth is the rarest form of speech in America today.
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Areu, Dr. Marc Lamont Sanford Hill, and...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:08pm.
...Sally Kohn(head) are all reliable libertards that Bill uses as punching bags. The measure is if they can say something so stultifyingly, liberally, stoopid, that it makes you want to throw a brick at your flat screen, then they are in. Who-an Who-illiams is fairly tame compared to these others. Props to FNC for putting these far, far, left viewpoints on their network. As MESSDNC has shown by their treatment of Pat Buchannan, they are interested in debate as long as it is of the "bobble-head" variety.
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Extremist, not an extremist,
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:10pm.
Extremist, not an extremist, sounds like she has that hamster spinning pretty hard.
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Media has an agenda and taboo topics
Submitted by lrgon on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:48pm.
They are framing the argument around the thesis that anyone that has views as Pat Buchanan's will be labeled as a racist.
That dishonest label placed on Pat will stick on him and be repeated by every deadhead liberal with a mic and a tv show. He was labelled as such when he ran against Bush 41 and the label has stuck. They called him a Nazi and a Klansman but despite those labels he had a national audience.
Pat's worse sin was to call foreign interventionism and endless wars a policy crafted by fools like Bush I and II and now Obama.
Buchanan is being tar and featherd by liberal haters but they won't let up on the hate building propaganda until they come after all conservatives and Christians and anyone they deem an "enemy of the state."
Liberal TV pundits can't do it so it's all talk right? That they are yellow as a canary is ture enough but they are just part of the great American swindle to strip us of our rights as Americans. Congress will pass the laws and the already in place infrastructure will do the job these seething jealous liberal slobs daydream about doing to us.
The congress passed a few laws and built a bureaucratic infrastructure to accomplish that and with a fair amount of ease,the DHS armed now with NDAA "indefinite detention" power can begin the process of making America "safe from terrorism."
The super security junkies within the GOP and in the Democrat party pass laws to strip citizens of their citizenship and ship them off to Tortureland.It's all designed they tellus to make us safe.
Rush Limbaugh was correct when he said on his radio show that the reason "GITMO wasn't closed by Obama was to put us in there."
When the deportation truck arrives in your neighborhood remember the politicians on stage who said "we can't round up millions of illegals and deport them."
Is the NDAA a taboo topic here?
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people hear word tribes and assume racism
Submitted by dmacleo on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 6:34pm.
we all know only black people have tribes.
no indian ever lived in a tribe......
or something.
bastards look for a reason to be offended IMO.
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The Party of The Perpetually Offended
Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 6:50pm.
I refer to them as "The Party of The Perpetually Offended". These are the types that see racism, sexism and several other brands of -isms wherever they look. They live their lives at a slow simmer threatening, at the slightest provocation, to boil over into full blown OFFENDED mode.
These are the "folks", to use the Presidents vernacular, that would screech moan and beat their breasts if a Middle Aged White Man were to refer to "black' shoes and the President in the same sentence, as they would be certain that the use of the word 'black' by this particular White person was a not so subtle attempt to cast derision on the current President, despite the fact that the statement, 'The President was wearing black shoes', was nothing more than a statement of an observable fact
In other words...Kooks.
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The Dingbat from WaPo
Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:09pm.
doesn't care to hear what O'Reilly is saying...She doesn't want to hear the truth--she made up her mind that she is going to call Buchanan a white extremist no matter what anybody says. It is the way lefties think...they have no logic or reason.
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stupid twit
Submitted by Injest on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 3:33am.
AREU: I do not think so.
Well this is believable, she does not think, like we couldn't tell!
Uhm what ever happened to the lefts free speech moto
"The First Amendment really was designed to protect a debate at the fringes. You don't need the courts to protect speech that everybody agrees with, because that speech will be tolerated. You need a First Amendment to protect speech that people regard as intolerable or outrageous or offensive — because that is when the majority will wield its power to censor or suppress, and we have a First Amendment to prevent the government from doing that.
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I don't like Pat very much
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 2:08pm.
But what MSNBC did was evil. He has as much right to speak as the obscenely stupid liberal trainwrek that is the MSNBC propaganda mil. The hard left doesn't even hide it anymore, they lie without shame, deny truth with a sneer,..
They are openly at war with anyone who isn't in their inbred tribe of lunatics.
They push till they have nothing left to do, but.. and they lack the stones to go that far.. unless they can hire it done.
it's not a wonder they killed the concept of shame. God knows it was the last check on their antics, and now even that is gone.
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I'm always amazed when things actually work. So you can imagine my amazement when I actually got the demo shown in the Make: Magazine video below to work.
Diana, KC2UHB, used her lightbulb/antenna combo to demonstrate the principle of directional antennas by using a Yagi as her transmitting antenna. I didn't have a Yagi handy, so I used one of my home-made J-pole antennas.
Because the J-pole isn't directional, I obviously couldn't use it to demonstrate directionality, but it worked quite nicely to demonstrate the principle of polarization. All I had to do was to position the receiving antenna so that it was parallel to the J-pole and the light was nice and bright. Then, I rotated the antenna until it was perpendicular to the J-pole. The light got dimmer and dimmer until eventually you couldn't see it emitting any light at all. Rotate it back to perpendicular and the bulb burned brightly again.
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New London — Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio on Thursday announced a campaign to combat panhandling and loitering by adding signs and handing out tickets.
Finizio, in a written statement, said the increased enforcement is a response to complaints.
"Members of our City Center District have expressed concerns that aggressive panhandlers are hurting business and lowering the quality of life for downtown residents," Finizio said in the statement. "Visitors and residents need to know that our downtown is safe and welcoming."
Signs prohibiting panhandling and loitering have gone up in 15 different locations including Bank Street, State Street, Parade Plaza, 1 Ocean Ave., Broad Street and Montauk Avenue. New London Police have begun issuing $250 tickets to people who violate the city's anti-panhandling ordinance, he said.
"Word gets out quickly," said Deputy Police Chief Peter Reichard in the statement. "We're already seeing a decrease in downtown panhandling. This is proving to be an inexpensive but effective response to a long-standing problem."
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Linux for 30,000 PCs at Schools in India
The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) will be installing Suse Linux Enterprise on 30,000 desktops and 1880 servers at schools in the southern Indian state.
ELCOT is a government authority for IT services in Tamil Nadu, which has a population of over 70 million. Following a government decision in January 2007, the organization first migrated its own IT infrastructure from Microsoft Windows to Suse Linux. Leveraging the experiences gained in the migration phase, the authority then went on to work with teachers to identify the right Open Source applications for educational purposes. The applications will be installed along with the Linux operating system on every school PC. This followed an announcment by the authority that all state IT projects in Tamil Nadu were to be migrated to Open Source software.
In an interview C. Umashankar, the head of ELCOT, said that costs were the main reason for the change. And his expectations have been confirmed: "We estimate that moving to Linux has reduced our general hardware costs by nearly 25 percent. In the case of high-end servers, the savings could be as much as 80 percent." The Indian IT expert went on to say that benefits for students were even more important: " There is a growing trend towards the corporate adoption of Linux, both in India and elsewhere, so it will be a real advantage in the job market to have experience working with open source software."
The ELCOT has a "greenlist" of devices that the authority has tested with Linux and recommends for use. The neighboring state, Kerala, has also announced that it will be moving to free software.
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Is there a way through the West's bitter wild horse wars?
Activists push compromise as the controversial federal mustang management program reaches a breaking point, with more horses in captivity than roam the range.
Altered amphibians
Images of frogs deformed by a parasitic flatworm that flourishes in altered environments.
Costly new geothermal technology could edge out fossil fuels
A new form of geothermal energy has the potential to revolutionize U.S. power production, if costs come down.
What scientists are learning from wildfire in New Mexico
New Mexico's Gila National Forest is a good natural laboratory for studying the effects of wildfire.
Economics, not environmental regs, are battering coal power
If King Coal wants a boost, it should go after "Drill Baby Drill."
What are a bunch of hipsters doing in Green River, Utah?
The young founders of the Epicenter, a social services and design nonprofit, try to overcome the stigma of the well-intentioned outsider.
Editor's Note
The bastard child of the range
Wild horses are a touchy subjects for many Americans; the BLM's complex policies on mustang round-up and maintenance illustrates the point.
Legend of the gray-headed hunter
A 60-year-old Oregonian goes deer hunting for the first time
Dear Friends
Getting involved with the West
High Country News has a board meeting and schemes for more reader involvement; visitors from around the West.
Book Reviews
The violent story of our first national park: A review of Empire of Shadows
George Black's book details the violent history surrounding Yellowstone National Park.
A review of On Arctic Ground
The book On Arctic Ground: Tracking Time Through Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, advocates protecting wildlife in the reserve.


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ELVIS ON TOUR Featuring Thane Dunn and the Cadillac Kings
Saturday, May 26, 2012
7:00 pm
All tickets $37
Thane Dunn's All New Elvis on Tour
The tribute to Elvis that everyone's raving about is back by popular demand with an ALL NEW show. The"Winner of the World's Largest International Elvis tribute artist contest" Thane Dunn and his eight piece Cadillac Kings.
Regarded as one of the "World's Best" Elvis tributes, he has been called the complete package, from the looks, voice, moves to his incredible stage presence. He's been gifted with that same off-the-wall Presley sense of humour and is a fan favourite even among die-hard Elvis fans young and old. His act is so convincing people who actually saw the real Elvis live have said it was like seeing him all over again. He has performed from Memphis to Las Vegas, and has performed with Elvis' original back-up group the Imperials, as well as co-stars from Elvis' movie days like Darlene Thompkins from Blue Hawaii.
The new show feature's all your favorites from Love Me Tender to Suspicious Minds plus 80% all new songs such as fan favorites Kentucky Rain to A L'il Less Conversation. From Rock, Country and even Gospel you'll hear all your Presley favorites. All new exact replica jumpsuits which were popularized by Elvis in the early seventies. One suit even has an actual stud which came off Presley's suit April 16th,1972 during the filming of Elvis On Tour.No expense has been spared to give the audience the full "Elvis experience" with all the glitz and glam you would expect.
One lucky concert goer will receive Thane's guitar the nite of the show,just keep your ticket stub.
This show has become a highly anticipated yearly event and tickets make great Mothers Day gifts .If you love Elvis or just love to have fun,this is the show for you.Check out www.thanedunn.net to watch live clips.
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A classic introduction to the Needles. 5.9++. Descend into the main amphitheater and locate the first obvious crack system that splits the entire Witch ground to summit. This system is immediately right (and well below) the obvious traverse crack of Airy Interlude. P1: Climb a really long, sustained hand crack through bulges to a belay stance. 5.9+ P2: Climb a really long, sustained hand crack through bulges to a sloping ledge system. 5.9+ P3: Take off from the right end of the big, sloping ledge up a wild crack system that breaches a roof using jugs. Run this all the way to the summit on easier terrain. 5.9+ Descend north - see the Witch description for more info.
Double set of cams (possibly triples) to #3 Camalot.
This is one of the best 5.9s in the galaxy.
I have to second the previous statement. It was a blast!
The meaning of the route's name should become clear after a couple hundred moves.
Good news for climbers on a budget: with a little confidence, I'd say this route is easily done on a single set of cams. I brought doubles in the 1"-3" range, as suggested, but never used them. On the third pitch, I used almost entirely nuts. May not be the best idea, however, if you're not comfortable with the grade or not used to crack climbing. When I did it in fall, pitches 1 & 2 remained almost completely shaded (brrrrrrr) while pitch 3 got sun in the afternoon.
Standing at the bottom of pitch 3, it was hard to believe it was going to go at 5.9. But it did, and with good stances for placing pro.
P1 and P2 are really 5.8+ ... especially if you normalize the grades against the wild and wooly pitch 3. In my opinion the "correct" way to do the first pitches is to chain them together and have your belayer simulclimb for 10-20 feet as you finish the lead. Don't fall on the slippery slab move if you use this strategy. Whoever mentioned that P3 protects with almost exclusively nuts is spot on -- you barely need any cams, maybe a few 0.5" to 1" pieces if you like, for the last pitch. Just sack up and fire the moves and you will feel like a hero, especially if you are a 5.9 leader! A few brass nuts are helpful for some of the thinner placements towards the top of the 3rd pitch.
Actually... I found P1 and P2 to be the physical crux of the route. Perhaps I'm silly. P3, while cerainly a smorgasborg of steep jugs and jam-cracks, seemed to have myriad stances to rest and place gear. Of course, I'm not out to bicker about grades. The whole route is sustained, both in brilliance, location, and incentive (awesome summit). I agree with previous suggestions to double up on cams, and to bring a full set of nuts. P3 swallows stoppers. I think I only placed one or two cams on the entire pitch. Also, Margee made some unbelievable mint cookies that day.
I agree with Andy, I'd say the grades of all three pitches are about the same, and although you can do it on one, having the two sets isn't a horrible idea - especially if you want to do it in about two pitches. And, best of all, Margee is amazing as are her mint cookies.
Just for perspective, the FA party graded this route as 5.8 when they did it. The name of the route came from the lyric "Igor Unchained by his Baying Hounds" from the song "Monster Mash." IMO the crux is the bit on P1 where the crack gets shallow. Some folks find it to be the slabby section on P2, which is also kind of cruxy. I'd say the upper pitches are 5.8. I've soloed the upper pitches many times but never had any interest in being ropeless on the first two.
Most of the people that I've ever held a fall for on Igor, fell on that slippery bit before the ledge at the end of pitch 2 (end of pitch 1 if you simulclimb). It's hard to protect the part where people seem to grease off. The last pitch is intimidating, but in my opinion it is actually very hard to screw up. The blind reaches and big moves make everyone feel like a hero.
Each pitch had a distinct crux for me. The right leg pump on P1 burnt me out. The blank corner with so-so nuts on P2 was a little tricky, and P3 was full of thrills, with some very shallow finger locks being the toughest part. For pro (understanding I'm new to this game and like to feel comfy at all times) I would take double .5-.75 bd (especially handy on the last pitch) and triple 1-3 bd for the first pitch. One #4 was used on P1 and P2, and a single set of nuts sufficed. A few smaller cams were handy throughout, especially for setting up anchors when I didn't want to use up all my hand sized pieces. Pitch 3 was definitely the highlight- steep and burly, with amazing movement throughout, incredible exposure, and good gear. What a climb!
you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a stupendous route in this area. my wife linked the first 2 into a really long pitch. even with an 'oversized' 70m, i was just about to start simulclimbing when she yelled 'off belay'. she said it was, hands down, the best 9 she had ever done. there are several spots in the first 2 pitches that aren't particularly easy for the grade. for somebody at their limit on 5.9, this route would be a satisfying achievement that they wouldn't soon forget.
With a 70M rope and about 20' of simulclimbing, the first two pitches can be run together into a mega-classic enduro 250' pitch to the big ledge. Triples in hand-size gear is recommended for this.
Awesome, awesome route. Remember that people poo-poo'ing lots of gear aren't leading near their limit. Cams come out quicker when following on P3, which I appreciated. Triple #2 size was nice for the first pitch and use small cams down low to save your hand sizes. A #4 can be used on P1&2, but easy to get by without.
Triple #1s and #2s would be good, but I wouldn't bring more than 2 of anything else. Great route.
Possibly the best sandbag .9 in the world. Incredible!
First pitch felt like 5.9. Second - 5.8 with one or two 5.9 moves. Third was harder but nothing to be scared of. I'd give it 5.9+ - 10a. Eats nuts.
Had to pause once on this to let Michael Reardon solo in above from Airy Interlude. He stopped for a moment to changed tunes on his Ipod and say hi.
The Needles Novitiate Climbs Twas' not unchained by Igor nor slipped upon Thin Ice Fancy Free went with ease And Airy was just as nice
Under the category of 'ratings are totally subjective', I can't imagine how someone would find the last pitch harder than the first two, particularly the second. The first pitch is pretty straightforward, just a little weird in places. But the second, with the awkward wide bulge and the thin face moves to the belay I found substantially harder than anything on the third pitch. There, if you don't have a solid edge or a bomber jam, you aren't looking hard enough.


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G. Atmeh[1], F. Darwish[1], and Z. Hasan[2]
[1]Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
[2]Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
The present study focuses on the design and analysis of a single-engine, propeller-driven general aviation airplane. Initial weight estimation based on the initial sketch and the design mission profile is conducted. The estimated weight and other design parameters are used to define the external geometry of the fuselage, wing and tail. Conic lofting is utilized to render a layout of the design ...
Mixing of Liquids in Microfluidic Devices
B. Finlayson, A. Aditya, V. Brasher, L. Dahl, H. Dinh, A. Field, J. Flynn, C. Jenssen, D. Kress, F. Ninh, A. Nordmeier, H. Song, and C. Yuen
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
The mixing of liquids was characterized in thirteen different microfluidic devices. The goal was to characterize, in a uniform manner, the flow and mixing that occurred in slow, laminar flow and to present the results that allow quick designs. The mixing of a dilute chemical in another liquid during slow, laminar flow is a particularly difficult task, but the results showed that for ...
Implementation of the Finite Isotropic Linear Cosserat Models based on the Weak Form
J. Jeong[1], and H. Ramezani[2]
[1]Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics du Batiment et del'Industrie(ESTP), Cachan, France
[2]Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite d'Orleans CNRS/CRMD, Orleans, France
The Cosserat models fall into the group of the extended continuum media. They are capable of treating the size effects (characteristic length) in a natural manner using six material moduli for the isotropic elastic cases instead of two (and) for the classical continuum mechanics. This model involves two constitutive laws corresponding to two kinds of balance equation. The first one handles the ...
Numerical Study of Navier-Stokes Equations in Supersonic Flow over a Double Wedge Airfoil using Adaptive Grids
V. Gopal[1], R. Kolluru[1]
[1]BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Numerical study of aerodynamic characteristics in steady laminar supersonic flow over a double wedge airfoil is carried out using commercially available finite element based CFD tool COMSOL Multiphysics. The aerodynamic characteristics of double wedge airfoil like lift and drag are analyzed by solving Navier-Stokes equations in the flow field for various thickness to chord ratios (t_c) and angle ...
Electromagnetic and Thermal Modeling of Vacuum Distillation Furnace
Asif Ahmad Bhat[1], D. Sujish[1], Sourabh Agarwal[1], B. Muralidharan[1], G. Padmakumar[1], K. K. Rajan[1]
[1]Fast Reactor Technology Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India
Vacuum distillation furnaces (VDFs) are employed for purification and consolidation of heavy metals from their dendritic forms which are entrained with molten salts. The VDF is an induction heated furnace which is operated at a temperature of 700-1400 °C and at a pressure of 0.01-600 torr. To arrive at the adequate design of such type of furnace, magnetic field and temperature distribution need ...
Design of a MEMS Capacitive Comb-drive Accelerometer
T. Kaya[1], B. Shiari[2], K. Petsch[1], and D. Yates[2]
[1]Central Michigan University, School of Engineering and Technology, Mount Pleasant, MI
[2]University of Michigan, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI
In this work, a MEMS low-g accelerometer with three sensitive directions is designed for health monitoring applications. The accelerometer may have different sensitivity in different axes. The proof-mass of the device is suspended by four serpentine springs, and the comb drive structure is used to form the differential capacitor to measure the displacement of the proof-mass. The structure has an ...
Modeling and Analysis of Thermal Bimorph using COMSOL Multiphysics®
Rachita Shettar[1], Dr. B G. Sheparamatti[1]
[1]Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, Karanataka, India
In this paper modeling and simulation results of a thermal bimorph is capable of producing increased displacement for increasing temperatures are presented. Thermal bimorphs are popular actuation technology in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). Bimorph actuators consist of two materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion. The main objective of this work is to investigate the ...
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The proposed State of Charge (SOC) governed fast charging method for secondary lithium based batteries charges a battery many times faster than the normal Constant Current-Constant Voltage (CC-CV) charging and reduces the side-effects generally accompanied by various fast charging methods. The proposed charging algorithm takes into account the varying internal impedance of the battery at ...
Numerical Study of Local Density of States in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
A. Javadi[1], P. Lodahl[1]
[1]Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
In this contribution we study how a planar photonic crystal waveguide (PhCW), created by introducing a line defect in the photonic crystal, can modify the projected local density of states (LDOS) for a dipole emitter. We use the COMSOL Multiphysics® RF Module to carry out eigenvalue calculations studies on PhCW. When the dipole is in resonance with the waveguide mode, the enhancement Fp of ...
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[1]Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Faculty of Building Services, Bucharest, Romania
[2]University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest, Romania
A dynamic mathematical model, based on physical and transport properties and mass and energy balances, was developed for the simulation of unsteady convective drying of agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) in static bed conditions. The model utilizes water sorption isotherm equations and the change in solid density due to the shrinkage phenomenon. The aim of this article is to describe ...


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A new study shows that many Americans don't realize all the health problems that obesity can cause.
More than 7 in 10 out of the roughly 1,000 people surveyed said heart disease and diabetes are the most serious consequences of diabetes. Only seven percent mentioned maybe the most serious result of obesity, cancer.
Doctors say that fat increases the risk of developing concerns of the colon, breast, prostate and other areas. Regional West Doctor John Spethman says it's important to get a leg up on these diseases.
"It's going manage you, instead of you managing it and in the long term it maybe ends up what ends your life prematurely," says Spethman.
Only fiftee15% knew obesity contributes to arthritis, something Doctor Spethman says affects countless amounts of people each year.


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Cafe Etienne
423 10th Street
Gretna, LA 70053
Napoleon's Rating - ***/*****
One thing I love about the West Bank is the incredible range of eateries found deep in its diverse neighborhoods. Café Etienne is one such place, but the pleasant surprise here is not some exotic ethnic cuisine but rather bedrock New Orleans flavor. It's a mid-range restaurant specializing in generous renditions of down-home Creole classics with some interesting and creative twists.
Café Etienne is in the former home of Cottage Café in downtown Gretna, and it is indeed very much a cottage. Set back a bit from the street and fronted by a picket fence and garden, the place sets a homey tone right away. Inside, there is a large bar area and a series of dining rooms that are dimly lit, but in a handsome way. Local art adorns the walls and bud vases add color to each table. For a small place, there are plenty of private nooks suitable for business discussions over lunch. The West Bank has innumerable civic clubs and business groups, and many seem to meet here for luncheons.
One hallmark of a good family-run restaurant is the eager-to-please approach to service, and Café Etienne hits this mark squarely. The owner or his mother will usually welcome you, and likely one of these two will serve you. They leave no doubt that they are hoping you'll return. They're attentive and engaging without being overbearing.
While the set up is familiar at Café Etienne, creative touches help set its cooking apart. For instance, a recent appetizer special was a stuffed artichoke, but instead of the usual dressing crammed between the leaves, this steamed artichoke was hollowed and then filled with fried shrimp, catfish and chunks of artichoke heart all drizzled with cream sauce. It was original and fun. Some of the dishes have unusual names at Café Etienne, but you'll recognize the flavor concepts. "Sha Sha shrimp" is shrimp cocktail, and an exemplary version at that, with huge boiled shrimp perched around the rim of a martini glass. The same impressive shrimp get a bath of butter, pepper and lemon for BBQ shrimp, and it's worth sopping up every bit of the sauce.
Solid fundamentals and creative interpretations continue with the main courses. The chicken a la Lucien is a boneless cutlet propped up as a pillar, speckled with parsley and dusted with parmesan and stuffed with a meaty dressing of andouille and crawfish. The fried catfish is thin as a chip and mounded with seafood stuffing, then liberally coated by a lemon and wine sauce equally heavy on the garlic. Crab cakes are shaped like giant meatballs and feature exceptionally thick, crunchy crusts, though they are a bit short on actual crabmeat. Some dishes are excessively heavy, like a grilled tuna steak boasting three competing sauces when one would have made a better impression. The daily lunch specials follow a predictable local pattern, starting with red beans and rice on Monday and ending with fried seafood on Friday. There are usually other specials with more verve, like a recent pan-seared flounder with the unexpected Asian touches of a Thai-style peanut sauce and vegetable fried rice. Entrée salads, burgers and po-boys complete the menu, which also has kids meals.
Desserts tend toward the homey here. Cheesecake and pecan pie were fine, though anonymous, while the bread pudding had a memorable bourbon sauce and whole pecans in the mix.
There is a full bar. The basic wine list is typical of a neighborhood joint, but the pours are very generous. As mentioned above, of course, these are folks who want you to return.
Café Etienne is a moderately-priced restaurant, with most entrees in the mid-teens. Daily lunch specials are about $10. Most appetizers are between $8 and $10, but the portions are so large that solo diners might want to forego them. Two people can have full meals with drinks for about $60.
Café Etienne is essentially a neighborhood restaurant that features the classics while going above and beyond expectations both in creativity and sourcing (especially with seafood). Casual but professionally run, it's a versatile place, equally suitable for a weekday lunch or a laidback celebration. It's one of the better West Bank restaurants and it can hold its own against most of the neighborhood restaurants of New Orleans proper. It's worth seeking out and should be kept in mind next time you're hungry in Gretna.


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October 7, 2008
Linda Cohn Supports Homerism
ESPN's hockey heads gave their predictions on the NHL season today and while majority of them were sensible and seemed to be well-thought out, Linda Cohn had no issue making predictions while wearing her Mark Messier jersey.
I'm all for prediction making and throwing in some surprises, but I don't even think you'd find a Ranger fan who's believe they'd defeat the Red Wings in the Stanley Cup.
And Tampa Bay winning the Southeast? Somewhere in northern Florida right now, Barry Melrose is preparing a gift basket.
Posted by Sean Leahy at 10/07/2008 07:00:00 AM
Labels: 2008-09 NHL Preview, ESPN, Linda Cohn, Predictions
6 comments:
- tanya said...
not sure what cohn is taking but i want those pills too
- October 7, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- Milton Byron said...
OMG,,,, the RANGERS?????? I thought they moved into the AHL after losing so much in off season
- October 7, 2008 at 8:37 AM
- Scotty Hockey said...
If you can't believe your team will win the Cup at this point of the year, why bother watching?
- October 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- Going Five Hole said...
have you met fans in LA, Colorado, Long Island and St. Louis, Scotty?
- October 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Scotty Hockey said...
I didn't know Long Island had fans Sean ... hahahahahahahaha. Poor BMR Kev.
- October 7, 2008 at 9:53 PM
- penzrule said...
Tampa is in central Florida, not northern.
- October 8, 2008 at 10:20 AM
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As some Christians celebrate Christmas, we at TUSH.0 celebrate historical scholarship. We believe it should be spread far and wide, that the nights should be silent (so we can read and write) and that the study of history can bring peace on earth and good will to humans (well, that may be a little extreme). But if you are looking for the perfect Christmas gift for your US historian loved one: here it is - and FREE OF CHARGE.
Linford Fisher has posted essays from a graduate seminar at Brown University on Religion in the Early Modern Atlantic World on histororiography. If you are like me, you are thinking "hot damn, this is perfect; now I'll have something to distract me from my insane family. Is there a way I can sneak this into tonight's service? Maybe I can fold some pages into my church program."
We here at TUSH.0 like to think of ourselves as modern-day Magi ... following bright stars, bearing gifts, and hiding from imperial elites who want us to report back to them. Hope you are enjoying your mandatory days off.


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In Alberoni everything is within walking distance: the sandy beach, the WWF oasis, the golf course, the dam, the square on the lagoon where enjoy the sunset whit your favourite drink.
Everywhere you look you are hit by a majestic vegetation of tamarisk trees, pine trees, oleanders and birds flying among the tall poplar trees transmitting the sense of freedom and well-being that pervades this place of peace on the border between sea and lagoon.
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Penn, Clinton Campaign Simply Wrong About Obama's Electability
by Jonathan Singer, Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 02:49:09 PM EDT
The Clinton campaign is really grasping at straws these days.
On the Clinton call earlier, Mark Penn said, "We believe that [the Pennsylvania primary result] will show that Hillary is ready to win, and that Sen. Obama really can't win the general election."
He later revised it to say that losing Pennsylvania would raise question about Obama's ability to win.
But it's a pretty strong thing to say.
If this charge were not so absurd on its face it would merit a long-winded takedown, here and elsewhere. However, in short I'd point readers to a couple of things: One, state-by-state polling showing Barack Obama to be at least as strong a competitor to John McCain as Hillary Clinton, as well as national polling that quite consistently shows Obama either leading McCain or tied with him (and running at least as well as Clinton against McCain); and two, the analysis of non-partisan election tracker Marc Ambinder, who doesn't have a dog in this race and generally calls these things fairly and evenly.
Of course Obama can win the general election; it's illogical to generalize from the vote totals alone, as I and others have pointed out. Yes, Obama's Gary Hart-Jesse Jackson coalition is untested in modern general elections, but we live in hyperpartisan times, Democrats have an enormous partisan identification identification advantage, and Democrats are much more enthusiastic about their candidate than Republicans are. There's just no way to justify Penn's assertion from reading a poll.
With this in mind, the most sensible conclusion I seem to be able to infer from Penn's statements are that after the Clinton campaign gets done with Obama he won't be able to win a national election -- in other words a promise from the Clinton campaign to make Obama unelectable.
Don't get me wrong, there is definitely room for the two campaigns to hit one another on legitimate bones of contention or to make the case that their candidate is relatively stronger. And both candidates should be and need to be scrutinized so that the Democrats can put their best foot forward in November. But when a campaign begins lashing out senselessly, as appears to be the case in this instance, it simply must be put to a stop -- for the good of the party and for the good of the nation, which cannot afford to go through the third Bush term with a McCain presidency.
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COLVILLE, Wash- KHQ recently reported on two boys, ages ten and eleven who were apprehended at a local Colville elementary school with a gun and a knife in their possession.
Today KHQ received court documents that outlined the two boys entire plot and how they had figured it all out.
The two boys had planned to lure a fellow female classmate away from school and than stab her with the knife. After being apprehended the two boys were hastily interrogated. At first the two denied any knowledge of having the knife, but than shortly revealed their plot.
The 10-year old stated that the 11-year old was going to stab said girl while he handled the gun and kept anyone away who was going to "mess up" their plan.
The 10-year old stated that the reason for wanting to kill said girl was because, "she's rude and always makes fun of me and my friends." Total, there was six students on this list that were going to be targeted and killed.
The two boys had paid a fellow student to keep quiet about the plan.
One week from Wednesday, prosecutors are going to make an attempt to prove that the two boys deserve to receive charges of conspiracy to commit murder. Washington State Law states that children between the ages of eight and twelve do not have the mental capacity to have the intent to commit murder.
We will keep you updated as this story continues to unfold.
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Much has been made this week about the attrition of Storm Johnson and the acrimony between him, his papa (happy Father's Day to all, by the way), and the university. I'm already seeing rumblings about how great he and QB Jeff Godfrey are going to be in 2012 in Orlando. I even read a tweet from the editor of a not-to-be-named rival SBNation site about how UCF is going to be better than the U in 2012.....which comment does not even merit a retort as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe Storm was spoiled and didn't want to compete. Maybe he got into some things here which I don't need to mention that everybody knows what I'm talking about. I really have no idea, as the Canes have kept the root of the turmoil pretty well under wraps.
Or maybe he saw just how tough it would be to compete with the Canes' Lamar Miller for the starting job. Dunno, just tossing that out there.
Watching Miller tote the rock, it's tough to argue against that being at least a possibility. There's no doubt that Miller has good speed and the ability to get separation and rip off a big play. His KO return for TD vs Ohio State and 47-yard run against Virginia Tech are examples of that. What he possesses is the vision, agility, and cutback ability that former Cane greats possess. To the eye, he reminds me a bit of Clinton Portis with a bit more of a Frank Gore frame. He's very good at making his decision about where he's going to shift next after he gets through the first level of defenders, while keeping moving north and south. Not as much dancing as other backs, but more of a straight ahead style.
And that's what you want out a featured back. A guy who's going to run straight ahead, maximize gains on 1st-2nd downs, and not dance, keeping the offense out of negative plays and long down-and-distance situations.
The Canes had a plethora of options at tailback last year to be sure, but are now sans Johnson, Damien Berry,and Graig Cooper. It's the Lamar Miller and Mike James show now, with the Canes almost surely to lean on the former. When Miller was given the opportunity to get a lions' share of the touches, he turned in outstanding performances against Maryland (125yds on 22 carries) and the Hokies (163 yards on 15 carries). If the Canes want to flip the script on the -8 TO ratio and INT-fest that was 2010, Golden and Fisch will start by leaning on a running game and 300+ pound-laden offensive line with 4 returning starters and 9 of 10 on the O-line depth chart. And if they want to maximize the running game productivity, they'll give Miller 20+ carries regularly.
It's Lamar Miller's time to shine at the U now. Let's see how far he can go.


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Our CoacHclass Ambassador Sam Jones put in a Man of the Match performance in a huge 17 - 16 win for London Wasps over capital rivals Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop on Saturday evening. The result helped Wasps to retain 4th place position in the Aviva Premiership as we look forward to the visit of Gloucester Rugby this weekend. Click here to view the post-match interview with Sam Jones.
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This is one of those routes that is better to lead. You start at a gap between two large, leaning blocks. You can start on the outside or the inside. Either way, go up till you can squeeze through an opening (you can skip this and go straight up, but then you miss the dirty, fun, hand traverse). Step down and climb up an easy slab with a hand crack. Now the fun begins, place your pro with a long runner and hand traverse out from under the roof. Mantle up then low fifth to the top. For a better finish, traverse over to Mod 2 after the mantle and climb Mod 2's final roof.
Scramble up boulders just past the start of Gobbler's Cobbler and Turkey Sandwich. Mod 1 starts right between to large blocks that lean against the main rock. To descend, walk up, walk right, then scramble down boulders to your start.
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Swimming and Diving Announces 2012-13 Recruiting Class
FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU head swimming & diving coach Neal Studd announced on Tuesday the nine-member 2012-13 recruiting class that will help the Eagles defend their four-straight Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) titles next season.
"With such a talented group of seniors I was worried about replacing them, but I think we have done it again," said Studd. "In this group we have several athletes on national teams and with times that can come in and compete for a chance to go the NCAA championships. This is our best recruiting class to date as the team every year keeps moving forward. What's important here is not only are these athletes fast, but they are some great students and good people that share my vision for what is important in collegiate athletics. We are in a very fortunate place that so many great people want to come to our team."
The 2012-13 recruiting class includes, Sara Hamilton (Stonehaven, Scotland/Stonehaven), Julie Leth-Espensen (Vanloese, Copenhagen, Denmark), Jennifer Morgan (Edmonton, Canada), Samantha Rahael (Trinidad &Tobago/The Bolles School (Jacksonville, Fla.), Lani Cabrera (Miami, Fla./Davie Nadadores Swim Team), Kellie Roedig (Huntingdon Valley, Pa./Abington Senior HS), Meghan McGuirk (Hightstown, N.J./Peddie School) and two transfers in Megan Wolfe (Sebring, Fla./Sebring HS/Daytona State College) and Sarah Maraskine (Midland, Mich./Dow HS/Eastern Michigan).
Hamilton committed to the Eagles back in the early signing period on Nov. 29. She was ranked as high as No. 47, according to collegeswimming.com.
"Sara signed with us in the fall and is a very good sprinter from Scotland," said Studd. "She was a member of the Commonwealth Games team and made the semifinal at that very prestigious meet. With Sara, our sprint relays really become a big factor as we push to get more people qualified to nationals. Sara can also swim a great IM, backstroke and sprint fly. She can really contribute to the team in a number of areas."
Leth-Espensen is a talented Danish swimmer who can help the Eagles with her strong individual medley and breastroke times. Leth-Espensen has a 2.58 power index rating, which ranks her No. 47 on collegeswimming.com. She earned a first-place finish in the 200 breast at the Danish Championships in 2008 and a first-place finish in the 200 IM at the Portuguese Championships in 2009.
"Julie is an outstanding IM swimmer and with that she can swim a lot of different events for us but especially breastroke and butterfly," said Studd. "She is a member of the Danish National Senior Team. She is good friends with one of our former swimmers so FGCU was highly recommended to her. Julie has the ability to qualify for NCAA's and to be a huge part of the continued growth of FGCU. I am very excited to start working with her."
Morgan comes to the Green and Blue from Edmonton, Canada where she recently had a solid 2012 Olympic trail run. Morgan was part of a 200-free relay team that took the bronze medal and her 200-meter backstroke time of 2:17.73 was 16th in the country in an event that has one of the deepest fields in the world. She was named to the Canadian Junior national team for the North American Challenge Cup from July 30th till August 5th. Morgan has a 4.33 power index rating that puts her ranked No. 101, according to collegeswimming.com.
"Jennifer will come in as our top 200 backstroker and will swim the 100 back and 200 free," said Studd. "She will help the team tremendously on relays and is a very exciting prospect. She recently made finals at the Canadian Olympic Trials. Jennifer during her visit immediately felt part of the team and will fit in with our vision for the future here. She will have a shot at qualifying for NCAA championships. Jennifer picked FGCU over LSU and FIU."
Rahael brings a lot of international experience after a solid prep career at the Bolles program where current FGCU swimmers Regina Rodriguez and Danielle Beaubrun are alumni. Rahael was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's 2011 Swimmer of the Year back in February. She also has numerous achievements including, Trinidad and Tobago National Swim team member for Carifta Swimming Championship (2004-2010), Caribbean Island Swimming Championships (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010) and the captain of the Under-18 Trinidad and Tobago National Team (2008-09).
"Joining us from the great Bolles program we have high hopes for Sammy," said Studd. "The swimmers we have had from Bolles are always well coached and have a good team attitude and Sammy is no exception. When Sammy visited FGCU she committed on the visit as she liked it so much and felt right at home. She will really help us out in the IM and breastroke events. I am really excited to see what Sammy can do for us. She will also be working hard to qualify for international events for her home country like so many others have done here at FGCU."
Cabrera joins the Eagles after training with the Davie Nadadores Swim team and participated in the 2011 Pan American games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Cabrera represents Barbados internationally and holds five Barbados' records in the 200-meter free (2:06.52), 400-meter free (4:25.63), 800-meter free (9:00.09), 1500-meter free (17:16.87) and 400-meter IM (5:14.52).
"Lani has been improving fast all year as part of the very good Davie Navadores team," said Studd. "She is pushing hard for an Olympic Berth for Barbados this summer and has great range in the freestyles so she can help on relays but will focus on the distance events primarily. She can also swim some great 400 IM's. She swam at the Pan American Games in Mexico last fall and is a fierce competitor that can keep improving. Lani had a lot of options so I am delighted she will join the FGCU family."
Roedig comes to FGCU from Huntingdon Valley, Pa. where she finished third in the Middle Atlantic Senior Championships in the 1650 free (17:12.91). Roedig was ninth in the 100 free at the Middle Atlantic Senior Champioships with a time of 10:24.09. Roedig specializes in middle distance freestyler as she swims the 200 free, 500 free, 800 free, 1000 free and the 1650 free.
"Kellie is a great student-athlete that committed to us way back in September," said Studd. "She is an up-and-coming middle distance to distance freestyler who is very excited at coming to school in Florida. She is the type of person and student that we want at FGCU."
McGuirk swims a variety of events from the 100-yard free, 100 breast and 200 IM adding depth to the Eagles' roster. McGuirk placed fourth in the "A" final of the 200 IM at the 122th Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championships with a time of 2:08.59. In the same meet, she finished 15th in the 100 breast with a time of 1:09.12. According to collegeswimming.com, McGuirk is ranked 21st in the state of New Jersey.
"Another good student-athlete from a school with great coaching and tradition, Meghan is from the Peddie School," said Studd. "While at a training camp at FGCU, Meghan thought this might be a place she would like to go to school. After meeting with her I felt she would be a great fit for us. Meghan will add depth to our breastroke, IM and freestyle events. I believe as her coaches do that she is just scrapping the surface of her potential and we feel lucky we get to help her develop that here at FGCU."
Maraskine has one-year of eligibility left after enrolling into the Grad program here at FGCU. Maraskine was a three-year letter winner at Eastern Michigan as a backstroke specialist. In 2010, Maraskine was selected to the Mid-Major All-American Honorable Mention list and an Academic All-MAC honoree. She recorded the third fastest conference time in the 200 backstroke (2:02.07) and the fourth fastest conference time in the 100 backstroke (56.90).
"Going into graduate school, Sarah has one year of eligibility left as a transfer from EMU," said Studd. "A very good backstroke and freestyle specialist, she is looking to have one great last year. Sarah can really help us out not only in individual events but on relays too. She really liked the atmosphere and winning culture we have created at FGCU and I am sure she will do great things."
Lastly, Wolfe a transfer from Daytona State College can swim a variety of free style events for the Eagles. Wolf took third at Junior College Nationals in 2010 in the 50 free (23.83). She also swam in the 100 free with a time of 52.55, placing fifth. Wolfe will look to push FGCU's relay teams to the next level as they try to qualify for the NCAA Championships next season.
"Megan is a Daytona State transfer who placed third at Junior College Nationals in 2010 in the 50 free," said Studd. "She has had some injury problems but has been back in the pool and is back swimming fast again. I am excited to see what she can do at FGCU and the help she can give on our relays as we try to get the relays to the big show."
For more information about the FGCU women's swimming and diving team visit www.FGCUAthletics.com and follow @FGCUSwimandDive on Twitter for more updates.
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CATEGORIES MoviesJason Segel playing a slacker isn't exactly surprising; after all, he is part of the Judd Apatow clan. But before you roll your eyes at his latest endeavor, where he plays a man who lives in his mother's basement, give "Jeff, Who Lives At Home" a chance to explain itself.
Starring Segel as Jeff, a lazy, jobless adult who still lives at home, the film follows the character as he crosses paths with his brother Pat (Ed Helms), a semi-successful man struggling with a failed marriage. Together, the two try to help each other and make it through their respective life crises.
OK, on second thought, that synopsis does sound rather Apatow-ian. For actual proof, just watch the first trailer of the movie to see what "Jeff" is all about.
"Jeff, Who Lives At Home," which stars Segel, Helms, and Susan Sarandon, was directed by the Duplass brothers, the guys behind "Cyrus" -- another film that allowed an Apatow alum (Jonah Hill) to break out of his shell. It's set to hit theaters on March 16.
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