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Posted 11 May 2010 - 06:24 AM
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I've uploaded a video so that you can get the idea without downloading it from svn..
At this stage it is not very useful for newbie users as a source of documentation but I hope that more experienced users will join us and help providing new examples.
I suggest you to open the video directly from youtube and expand it so you can see it 1:1
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Posted 12 May 2010 - 02:38 PM
Enjoying Yii? Star us at github: 1.1 and 2.0.
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Posted 03 June 2010 - 04:25 PM
I am new to YII and like to study it with playground. I svned the code and can not make it work. Can your guys help me to install the playground step by step? Thanks
Posted 03 June 2010 - 04:34 PM
after you downloaded the source you just have to do a couple of steps:
- copy the index-dist.php to index.php
- edit the index.php file and set the path to your yii.php script (line #4)
at this point it should work if you still get any error feel free to ask.
please not that at this moment there aren't a lot of available examples as the project is quite new but I hope you'll still find it useful
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Posted 03 June 2010 - 06:27 PM
Thanks for your reply. It works great. But I met one error when I clicked zii dialog:
PHP Error
Undefined variable: title
Source File
00007: * Declares class-based actions.
00008: */
00009: public function actions()
00010: {
00011: }
00014: public function actionIndex() {
00015: $this->render('index');
00016: }
00018: public function actionZiiDialog() {
00019: $this->render('zii_dialog', array('dialog_title'=>$title));
00020: }
00022: /**
00023: * Zii Datepicker widget
00024: */
00025: public function actionZiiDatePicker() {
00026: $this->render('zii_datepicker');
00027: }
00029: }
Stack Trace
#0 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\actions\CInlineAction.php(32): JuiController->actionZiiDialog()
#1 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\CController.php(300): CInlineAction->run()
#2 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\CController.php(278): JuiController->runAction()
#3 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\CController.php(257): JuiController->runActionWithFilters()
#4 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\CWebApplication.php(320): JuiController->run()
#5 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\web\CWebApplication.php(120): CWebApplication->runController()
#6 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\framework\base\CApplication.php(135): CWebApplication->processRequest()
#7 D:\MyProjects\YII\source\yiiplayground\index.php(11): CWebApplication->run()
Posted 04 June 2010 - 06:51 AM
that was a bug due to dead code
if you svn update it now, it should work
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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:20 AM
now two more examples are available: tabs and autocomplete!
The autocomplete tabs also uses the sqlite database to fetch data via ajax request; but of course the database (DAO and AR) is a topic that will be covered with more specific examples.
also added a first version of the CGridView demo
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Posted 14 June 2010 - 04:17 PM
Today PoL and Jaz Manister have just added to the project a couple of demos that are already available also on the live website. (Advanced ajax request and javascript callback for the JuiDialog!) And.. as I wrote editing my previous message you can also see a CGridView demo.
On the wiki you can also find a new page with some information on how to join/getting started.
don't forget to vote the poll attached to this thread
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Posted 03 July 2010 - 05:23 PM
phazei, on 23 June 2010 - 06:46 PM, said:
Thanks for your feedback and of course your help will be more than welcome! This project to be successful needs to be reviewed, fine-tuned, extended from the community so it will always be up-to-date and then useful.
As I wrote on my other post, I think that now the structure is "feature-complete" that means that you can now organize examples and code in a way that should be maintainable during the evolving of the application, while of course there is still room for improvement but we can now focus on examples. Some takes very few time to be developed. The one that took me more time is the one about datetime i18n formats and I'm still looking for get some feedback about that cause is a topic that imho is a bit underestimated..
Now that we are starting to have something useful, I'm also going to put a snapshot available to download (and other will follow as the app grows) on the google code page: http://code.google.c.../downloads/list so users will be able to get the code without having to use svn.
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 03:47 AM
could you do me a favor!
i can't download from google code because it's forbidden for me
upload to another svn repo
it can be a mirror to googlecode svn
Posted 14 July 2010 - 12:41 PM
during July I'll have less time to dedicate to this project so I hope the project will also get some new examples from people who joined and that other new users will join too
Other users can also suggest new topic to be covered.. for example I'd like to make a couple of examples about form validation and then move to the security topic (file upload / xss, csrf, and so on..) but other users can do it too if they have few free time
Also.. another minor task I plan to do is to update the widget based on CJuiWidget to use default theme from config using the new Yii 1.1.3 feature.
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Posted 13 August 2010 - 08:57 PM
Giovanni and I have noticed the following behavior:
After upgrading Yiiplayground to Yii 1.1.3 and setting up the new widgetfactory property (default global prefs), our DatePicker example stopped showing the custom theme and always show the theme defined in the global prefs
In the config file;
// Common Jui Widget preferences: $jui_prefs =array( 'themeUrl'=>'css/jui/', 'theme'=>'base', ); ... ... ... 'components'=>array( 'widgetFactory' => array( 'widgets' => array( 'CJuiDialog' => $jui_prefs, 'CJuiTabs' => $jui_prefs, 'CJuiDatePicker' => $jui_prefs, 'CJuiAutoComplete' => $jui_prefs, ), ), ... ... ...
in modules/UiModule/view/jui/zii_datepicker.php
$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDatePicker', array( ... /* optional: change visual * themeUrl: "where the themes for this widget are located?" * theme: theme name. Note that there must be a folder under themeUrl with the theme name * cssFile: specifies the css file name under the theme folder. You may specify a * single filename or an array of filenames * try http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ */ 'themeUrl' => Yii::app()->baseUrl.'/css/jui' , 'theme'=>'pool', //try 'bee' also to see the changes 'cssFile'=>array('jquery-ui.css' /*,anotherfile.css, etc.css*/), ....
The reason for this is the rendered HTML code, which inserts both the global and custom css files in the view:
<link href="/css/jui/pool/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="css/jui//base/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
Shouldn't Yii respect our custom "pool" theme and overwrite the global in this case? I mean, shouldn't the custom theme be used instead of the "base" global theme in this case?
Or even, shouldn't Yii render the base theme first and after the custom widget css theme?
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Posted 19 October 2010 - 03:29 PM
I've put online a screencast that shows how to get started with the Yii Playground project! We need your help to keep this project active and make it grow, so if you have some experience with Yii that you want to share with other users please join!!
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Posted 20 October 2010 - 06:14 AM
If you are not (yet ) a contributor of this project, you can anyway help us by posting here your wishlist: what examples would you like to see available on yii playground? How can we improve the existing ones? ..
Thanks, and please consider joining this project if you have some experience with Yii. I saw that the snapshot of source code available on the google code page raised more than 750 downloads and this is a good sign but this project must be the result of the collaboration between many users in order to be successful
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I just tried to send PM to "Virtual DarKness" but I got error about that message cant be sent as this user doesn't accept messages.
How could I join to Yii playground project in other way?


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INDIANAPOLIS — The NASCAR Truck Series stop at Eldora Speedway this week created a lot of buzz that still hasn't died down.
The Ohio race was the first for NASCAR on a dirt track since Sept. 30 1970. Some drivers in Indianapolis for this weekend's Brickyard race were talking Friday about a possible Sprint Cup series race at the track — someday.
Clint Bowyer was part of the broadcast of Wednesday night's event on Speed TV. A part of him wanted to be in Eldora racing.
"Basically, I was stuck in a cage in there in the Hollywood Hotel with my world racing out there and it was really hard to sit there and watch," he said. "I thought the racing was good. Everybody was thinking, 'Man, why is the track so dry-slick?' It led to good racing."
Jeff Gordon watched every minute of it, too. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was on his way to New York and didn't get to see the finish.
He never got to see Austin Dillon capture the win but a sold-out crowd at the half-mile dirt track owned by Tony Stewart saw everything. So did 1.4 million viewers on TV.
"It was entertaining and exciting and something that was something that I hope to see more of," Earnhardt added.
The race was a hit for everyone.
"Everywhere I've gone this week I've had people that are huge NASCAR fans and people that aren't big NASCAR fans at all that watched it," Gordon said. "And they were blown away. They did not expect it to go the way that it did."
And with the excitement that surrounded the race brings up a question: Is there a future at Eldora with NASCAR?
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Get the 5Dc for nice flesh tones and nice DoF.
However the other big advantage of FF is ISO performance... in that regard it is no better than the T2i... add to that no Auto ISO... So the only real advante over an older Rebel is shallow DoF...
I say get a 5Dii... thats a big jump over the T2i and 5Dc.
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But there's a good thread to read here, especially the last posts on the second page, that has put me off a bit.
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Damn those images do look nice though.
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I was completely considering getting a 1Ds2 but after reading that link, maaan I'm sure glad my heart is set on the 5Dc (well, it's like 75%. I still need more views from people.) I still have my WinXP machine, but It's so damn old and I don't know if I have a firewire cable to change stuff on the camera itself. Thanks so much for the warning, and you are right. Those images look soo nice from the camera.
Sounds like someone doesn't want the 5Dc getting too much interest, so the price will fall, so they can pick one up for themselves cheap
No, but good guess!!! I am patiently awaiting my 7D MK II. It will come.
Haha nice save just kidding. I thought that the 6D would be the replacement for the 7D, but lo and behold, it' replaced the 5DmkII :[ Why has canon not been helpful for the APS-C photographers. The T4i is mainly targeted at budget filmmakers. Why can't they make a dedicated photography camera that doesn't have a video mode anymore.
1DS2 is a little bit better than 5Dc in almost all aspects except LCD size. In fact if you compare 5D2 and 1DS2, 5D2 is just a little bit better. If you don't need to work that much in low-light I'd say 5D2 is almost the same as 1DS2. I'm waiting for 6D. If it turns out that it's not too good, I might resort to 1DS2 since I usually don't take shots in low-light. Just as 5Dc, your only gripe with 1DS2 would be the LCD. Currently 1DS2 is selling a lot cheaper than 5D2 in my place. I'm expecting the price to go down more for both so maybe next year, we'll see.
I like the 1Ds2, but from what Dr. Croubie said, I got a majorly turned off from the camera. I do work a lot in low light though, I can't really shoot in the day because of college so I'm out shooting at around 5:00pm - 6:00pm (good think the Sun doesn't set till like 8:00pm in California ) I also don't like how HUGE a 1D series camera is. I'm not a sports photographer, so I don't know if I can handle all of the extra weight from that behemoth of a camera.
(My T1i is gripped though... is that the same weight as a 1D camera?)


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In a book I recently read (Deaf Sentence, David Lodge), the main character is dealing with his growing deafness and age-related body failings, as well as his father's onset of dementia and refusal to leave the house he's lived in all his married life.
In my 20s, reading the book would be a look into someone's life and no more. In my 40s, reading the book makes me anxious and a little worried about growing old. Welcome to middle age.
One makes a choice to not marry and not have children, and it's the right choice, but descriptions of old age homes or senior homes or growing old alone do little to make one feel like the twilight years will be easy.
I'm not afraid to be alone when I have my faculties, a body that works, and the ability to support myself comfortably well. But what if I have no one to care when I need it? There's the usual fear of choking on a chicken bone with only the cat as a witness – getting found days later with maybe a few teethmarks around the soft parts, and the detritus of dish mountain attracting flies in the kitchen. A snapshot for a stranger of a lonely life, even if it didn't feel that way for the one living it.
I've made some pacts – buying our own nursing home with friends, marrying a friend at 70, or ingratiating myself with my niece and nephews. But the reality is that I may grow old alone and in a town where I have lots of friends right now and no family, but over time, who knows?
It's not nice to think about old age – about dementia (which somehow scares me more than anything, since I'm a very brain-oriented person), about incontinence, about being one of those stubborn old people who doesn't tell anyone that I fell down the stairs in case they make me give up my house and be with the "old sick people" in a home.
Scarier though, is the idea that there would be no one to tell.
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(CNN/CCTV) - The world's fastest supercomputer will be put into use in big projects later this year, its Chinese designer has said.
The supercomputer Tianhe-2, or Milky Way, which is capable of operating as fast as 33.86 petaflops per second, was ranked on Monday as the world's fastest computing system by TOP500, a project ranking the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world.
It overtook Titan, installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is now ranked No. 2 with a performance of 17.59 petaflops per second.
Tianhe-2 marks China's return to the No. 1 position of the TOP500 list since November 2010, when Tianhe-1A was the top system. Tianhe-1A is now the No. 10 system on the list.
Developed by China's National University of Defense Technology in central China's city of Changsha and costing 100 million U.S. dollars, Tianhe-2 is expected to become operational later this year, according to its designers.
Li Nan, deputy head of the Tianhe-2 Project, said the supercomputer will be mainly used in big projects like developing airplanes, building nuclear power plants, and oil exploration.
"It takes a computer to perform simulations in the big scientific projects like manned space flight and lunar exploration program. As the simulation becomes more complex, more powerful computing power is needed. So many big projects now cannot operate without supercomputers," Li said.
He said complex projects like car designing used to take years; but supercomputers can complete the job in a fraction of the time.
"Previously, it would take two to three years to design a new car with the traditional methods. Now, with the auxiliary design by such a high performance computer, it will take as little as three months to roll out a new car model. So you can see that the introduction of new types of cars has become very quick. It used to take two to three years to upgrade a car, but now new generation cars can be seen in half a year. Very quick," Li said.
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At LATimes.com, the future is now
In a time of gloom-and-doom around the newspaper industry, I often hear people from newsrooms ask, "is anyone working on a new business model or a different way of doing things?" From now on, I'll point to LATimes.com for evidence that, yes, someone is working on a new way of doing things.
There you'll find a world-renowned copy desk that is a one-stop web publishing shop and award-winning reporters and editors who are skilled in cultivating online communities and reaching out, developing additional content from outsiders. They are even making plans to use the web content management system to publish the newspaper.
"We don't have three years to figure this stuff out, we have a matter of months," Rob Barrett told an audience of about 200 at the Westin Hotel in Seattle today as part of the Kelsey Group's Local Marketplaces conference. "But we have to make this transition while remaining a trusted source of information."
Barrett is Senior Vice President of Interactive Media for LATimes.com, a $75 million operation that has experienced 25-30% growth in unique users and page views during the past 12 months. A one-time journalist at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., Barrett has also worked at PrimeMedia, ABCNews.com and Time.com. He's been at LATimes.com for three years.
"Most of what I'm working on is not visible online now," Barrett said. "We're restructuring the business and undergoing a fairly fundamental paradigm shift to change the way we think, and to change the technology."
Armed with a staff of 25 in 2005, he now has more than 200, including a Chief Technology Officer and someone with a PhD. in computer user experience who has a researcher that works for him. Their daily focus is observing regular users and how they get their information online. In all, Barrett and his team hired online staff mostly from non-newspaper web sites and brought in people who focused on product strategy, customer, and revenue.
"We had to justify the additional expenditure of resources in a resource-constrained environment," Barrett said. So he and his team developed audience and revenue projections that suggested online operations could supply 50% of the company's cash flow by 2011. "And we feel those projections are fairly conservative," he added.
This forced some serious content and strategy discussions for the newspaper. Barrett said that since there are certain things that are "California and LA," the organization needed to "double down" in those content areas, (entertainment, regional travel, autos). The organization also came to the realization that people need more than the newsroom can produce so they decided to aggregate and develop other local content sources.
"The readers trust us to curate. They want us to add what's not there. We want to be a trusted guide and look at areas where we can have an impact," Barrett said, adding that reporters and editors are working with local experts on a paid and unpaid basis to provide more context, comment and criticism to staff-produced content.
"Our reporters and editors are now skilled at outreach and managing contributions from outsiders. That was something that was not part of their job before," Barrett said. "We're combining L.A. Times content with industry insiders who we've invited in and seeded the site with. These are people who used to appear only in quotes in the newspaper.
"Newspaper articles don't cut it online," Barrett also said. So LATimes.com adds aggregated third-party content, interaction and other voices to increase the engagement with readers. That is why rebuilding the technology that powers LATimes.com is a huge part of this undertaking.
Us "new media types" like to talk about the importance of new skills combined with a significant culture change for news organizations trying to survive and thrive. They are still critical, and many newsrooms are making good progress in these areas. So it is becoming increasingly apparent that technology and the platforms many of us operate on are in serious need for redevelopment and enhancement.
"The site will be fairly unrecognizable by the end of the year," Barrett said, noting that it will feature different topic areas than the newsroom has traditionally focused on and be highlighted by conversations, community, and aggregated content.
Next up for LATimes.com: HollywoodBacklot.com, which is scheduled to launch Tuesday. It will offer behind-the-scenes photos from the sets of Hollywood's films and TV shows and will build on relationships with industry-insider bloggers and others. And like The Envelope, the LATimes.com's year-round entertainment awards niche site, content created for online will be published in print. Content from The Envelope, in fact, powered 15 special print sections last year with remarkable cash-flow margins.
If you work for a newspaper (or are hoping to someday), the fact that one of the largest news organizations in the U.S. is rapidly innovating is a positive bellwether for the industry. Sure, only a handful of newspapers could ramp up their online staffing at the same rate, but where LATimes.com finds success in innovation, it will show the way for other news publishers and lower the barrier to entry for the next models of revenue and content.
As I said in my book: "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. The future is now." And I'm so impressed with how well - and how quickly - LATimes.com is embracing the future.
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Defensive tackle Anthony Laurenzi has been kicked off the Washington State football team, the university confirmed to SWX on Thursday.
First-year head coach Mike Leach reportedly met Laurenzi Thursday, after returning home from Pac-12 media day in Southern California Wednesday night.
Laurenzi allegedly stole a pair of headphones from Wal*Mart, and was arrested for shoplifting on Sunday.
His dismissal leaves a hole on WSU's defensive line, where Laurenzi was expected to be a starter heading into fall camp, which begins in exactly one week.


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News about Doping, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Aug. 14, 2014
Former world champion runner Amantle Montsho of Botswana faces two-year suspension for testing positive for banned substance at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. MORE
Aug. 11, 2014
Joe Drape On Horse Racing column notes that Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills Phipps says his organization will seek federal legislation to empower United States Anti-Doping Agency to rewrite horse racing's drug rules, upgrade its testing and come up with stiff and meaningful penalties for horsemen who break the rules; holds it is important that Club concedes sport needs someone from outside to restore law and order. MORE
Aug. 6, 2014
Alex Rodriguez has abandoned highly combative tone and strategy that made headlines for long period following his year-long doping suspension; new conciliatory approach, exemplified in his hiring of measured and respected criminal lawyer Jim Sharp, indicates that Rodriguez is now seeking a more amicable relationship with the New York Yankees and MLB's leaders. MORE
Aug. 6, 2014
Anthony P Bosch, founder of Biogenesis and troubled businessman at center of South Florida doping scandal, surrenders to Drug Enforcement Administration agents; prosecutors charge Bosch and a half-dozen of his associates with distributing anabolic steroid testosterone to hundreds of people, including high school athletes and multimillionaire superstars. MORE
Jul. 23, 2014
Sprinter Usain Bolt says antidoping officials sent bad message by giving American runner Tyson Gray only one-year ban after positive test for anabolic steroid. MORE
Jul. 23, 2014
Estimate, racehorse owned by Queen Elizabeth II that won Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013, tests positive for banned substance morphine. MORE
Jul. 22, 2014
Viktor Troicki beats Dominic Thiem in first round of the Swiss Open tennis tournament, his first since returning from one-year ban for doping rules violation. MORE
Jul. 18, 2014
Lawyer for Lance Armstrong says his client spoke for several hours with cycling investigators about doping in the sport's past. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
NFL suspends Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Spencer Nealy for the first four games of the coming season for violating rules against performance enhancing drugs. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
New book Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis and the Quest to End Baseball by Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts reveals that during Alex Rodriguez's MVP season in 2007, the New York Yankees slugger took performance-enhancing drug testosterone with the blessing of the doctor who oversaw Major League Baseball's drug-testing program; disclosure raises new questions about how baseball's therapeutic use exemptions are granted. MORE
Jun. 27, 2014
International Athletics Federation will not appeal American sprinter Tyson Gay's reduced one-year ban for doping, saying American antidoping authorities properly handled his case. MORE
Jun. 27, 2014
British Horseracing Authority plans to adopt a tougher policy on anabolic steroids. MORE
Jun. 25, 2014
Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell will compete in July only days before his doping hearing at sport's highest court; tested positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine in the Jamaica trials in 2013. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports Of The Times Column mocks FIFA's claim that not a single player at the World Cup has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, arguing that such a 'perfect record' is deeply suspicious; contends that governing body has closed its eyes to the issue, much as it has with other endemic soccer problems like match fixing, racism and head injuries. MORE
Jun. 4, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports Of The Times column observes that doping continues to cast a dark shadow over horse racing despite fragmented efforts to combat widespread drug use; contends that it may be time for sport to bring in the United States Antidoping Agency. MORE
Jun. 4, 2014
American sprinter Tyson Gay will return from his one-year doping ban at July meet in Lausanne, Switzerland. MORE
Jun. 3, 2014
Russia is at risk of being suspended from international swimming competition after a series of positive doping tests. MORE
Jun. 3, 2014
Rail horse racing column; as another quest for racing's elusive Triple Crown culminates at the Belmont Stakes, Lasix, diuretic that reduces bleeding in horses' respiratory systems and is widely regarded as a masking agent for doping, is at the center of a struggle pitting owners and breeders against trainers and veterinarians. MORE
May. 29, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column deplores USA Track & Field decision to name Dennis Mitchell, who has a history of doping, the leader of its sprint teams at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas; says Mitchell has never publicly atoned for his doping or even attempted to prove to the fans that he has been reformed. MORE
May. 22, 2014
Mexico's World Cup players are barred from eating beef, move aimed at avoiding positive doping tests from meat contaminated with muscle-building drug clenbuterol; other soccer news noted. MORE
May. 20, 2014
Lance Armstrong is ordered by a Texas arbitration panel to give sworn videotaped testimony about using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven times; he is being sued by a Texas company seeking the return of about $12 million in bonuses. MORE
May. 17, 2014
Indianapolis Colts linebacker Robert Mathis is suspended for four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. MORE
May. 3, 2014
Joe Drape On Horse Racing column notes that 140th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place against backdrop of scandal, with prominent trainer Steve Asmussen under investigation for cruelty to his horses; notes that while there has been progress on doping and abuse, racing fans are still awaiting day when they can enjoy the derby while feeling confident that the horses are well taken care of. MORE
May. 2, 2014
Major League Baseball fires some members of its investigative team and moves to restructure the unit; move comes in wake of Alex Rodriguez doping case, which drew accusations of unethical behavior. MORE
Apr. 26, 2014
Andrea Wickerham, former vice president of National Center for Drug Free Sport, claims in lawsuit that she was fired after she voiced concerns about handling of a football player's positive drug test; company oversees drug testing for NCAA, NFL, NBA, MLB and several other top sports organizations. MORE
Apr. 24, 2014
Australian cyclist Michael Rogers can race again after cycling's governing body accepts that meat he ate in China before the Japan Cup likely caused his positive doping test. MORE
Apr. 23, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports Of The Times column finds hypocrisy in fact that Lance Armstrong can never compete in an Olympic sport, while three of the people who helped facilitate doping in the peloton will be allowed to return to professional bicycling in eight years or less; holds that Johan Bruyneel, Pepe Marti and Pedro Celaya represent greater threat to sport's integrity than Armstrong did. MORE
Apr. 15, 2014
Ogden Mills Phipps, chairman of the Jockey Club, calls for the veterinary records of every horse competing in this year's Triple Crown races to be made public immediately; move is intended to ensure that the horses were sound and not under the influence of unnecessary drugs and that the races were run safely and fairly. MORE
Apr. 11, 2014
Jamaican disciplinary panel bars former 100-meter world-record sprinter Asafa Powell from the sport for 18 months after testing positive for a banned stimulant in June 2013. MORE
Apr. 11, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column holds that in a roundabout way, Lance Armstrong may have done something to help clean up the sport of cycling by naming names in a lawsuit about doping. MORE
Apr. 9, 2014
Jamaican Olympic sprinter Sherone Simpson is barred from support until December after testing positive for banned stimulant. MORE
Apr. 6, 2014
Editorial supports Jockey Club's endorsement of federal legislation to put United States Anti-Doping Agency in charge of cleaning up horse racing industry; holds that move, while extreme, is justifiable and overdue given widespread use of doping and other destructive methods for boosting racehorse performance. MORE
Apr. 2, 2014
Nigerian federation bans former Olympic champion Lee Evans from coaching for four years for providing a minor with performance-enhancing substances. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
Major League Baseball and the players association agree to the most significant toughening of antidrug rules in eight years; length of suspensions for performance-enhancing drug violations will increase and players suspended during the season will not be eligible for that year's postseason. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
Jockey Club, one of horse racing's most influential groups, says it will support federal legislation to put the United States Anti-Doping Agency in charge of eradicating pervasive drug culture in horse racing; group concedes that efforts to reform the sport from within have moved too slowly. MORE
Mar. 27, 2014
Major League Baseball and its Players Association are working toward agreement that will again increase penalties for use of performance-enhancing substances; are considering increasing penalties to 80-game ban for first offense and 162 games for a second. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Eureka column by Warren Cornwall examines work of Scottish physiologist Yannis Pitsiladis, who is at the forefront of effort to revolutionize the hunt for dopers in sports by scouring his subjects' blood cells for a distinctive, long-lasting genetic 'fingerprint' left by the drug. MORE
Mar. 2, 2014
Excerpts from Juliet Macur's book, Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong, examines his historic rise and ignoble fall, illuminating the roles of those closest to him and those involved in his clandestine doping. MORE
Feb. 22, 2014
Olympics Roundup; German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Italian boblsedder William Frullani are kicked out of the Olympics for doping, first known violations of the Sochi Games; other Olympics news noted. MORE
Feb. 21, 2014
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column notes that Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has reported to spring training camp after serving a 65-game suspension for using banned substances. MORE
Feb. 20, 2014
Major League Baseball withdraws its lawsuit against Biogenesis, anti-aging clinic in Miami at the center of scandal involving use of banned substances by players, including Alex Rodriguez. MORE
Feb. 11, 2014
Robert Hutchins, of Sandy, Utah, is second person sentenced for sending a threatening email to Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, over its sanctions against Lance Armstrong. MORE
Feb. 8, 2014
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez effectively ends his yearlong battle with Major League Baseball, dropping lawsuits against league and players union over his doping suspension; move means that Rodriguez has accepted his yearlong suspension, longest in sport's history for the use of performance-enhancing drugs. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
Wolfgang Pichler, a prominent coach of the Russian biathlon team, says he knew that at least one Russian athlete was doping as far back as November 2013, more than two months before she and another Russian biathlete were suspended for doping violations; positive tests, right before the Sochi Olympics, have cast a shadow over the biathlon, a signature Russian sport that combines cross-country skiing with sharpshooting. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column holds that doping remains a scourge of endurance sports like cross-country skiing and biathlon, where testing and suspensions seem to be no match for temptation; sports remain the Winter Games' version of cycling, which for generations has been mired in the doping problems that are rife in endurance sports. MORE
Jan. 31, 2014
Irina Starykh, a biathlete who was one of Russia's brightest hopes for an Olympic medal in Sochi, announces that she is stepping down from the team because of a doping violation. MORE
Jan. 30, 2014
Top Russian biathlete Irina Starykh, reigning women's European champion, is suspended for a doping violation; deals blow to Olympics host country and casts pall over one of its signature sports. MORE
Jan. 29, 2014
Major League Baseball is seeking dismissal of a suit by New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez that challenges his season-long doping suspension. MORE
Jan. 20, 2014
Editorial asserts that Major League Baseball cannot be held entirely responsible for failing to detect doping by New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez and others with its testing methods; says advances in technology, which have begun to improve detection, have also been used to help players evade it; opines testing alone will never be sufficient and that investigations by journalists or league will always play role. MORE
Jan. 19, 2014
Richard Sandomir Sports Business column notes that there was a time when Alex Rodriguez was an easy-to-market athlete, regionally and nationally; says no one was ready for his reputation to fall into tatters; now, it appears, Rodriguez has almost nothing to pitch; some deals eventually ended and some companies chose not to renew their ties to him. MORE
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Wes Welker Suspended Four Games Over a Banned Substance
According to persons familiar with the league's drug-testing results, the Denver Broncos' wide receiver Wes Welker tested positive for a banned amphetamine.
September 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Football , Doping (Sports) , Welker, Wes , Denver Broncos , National Football League
Contador Grabs Lead
Alberto Contador took control of the Vuelta a España after the former leader Nairo Quintana crashed and lost valuable time during the 10th stage, a time trial won by Tony Martin.
September 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Bicycles and Bicycling , Vuelta a Espana (Bicycle Race) , Contador, Alberto , Quintana, Nairo , Martin, Tony , International Cycling Union , Doping (Sports)
Runner Faces Ban for Drug Violation
Amantle Montsho of Botswana, a former world champion in the 400 meters, faces a two-year suspension after testing positive for a banned substance, track and field officials said.
August 14, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Running , Doping (Sports) , Montsho, Amantle , Commonwealth Games , World Anti-Doping Agency
With History of Drug Problems, Sport Seeks Intervention
Faced with frequent scandals, horse racing has turned to Congress in an effort to fortify its policies against those who break the rules.
August 11, 2014, Monday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Horse Racing , Doping (Sports) , Jockey Club, The , United States Anti-Doping Agency , Phipps, Ogden Mills , Sports Injuries
Alex Rodriguez Tries a New Legal Approach: Conciliation
Rodriguez's new conciliatory approach is personified by Jim Sharp, his measured and respected criminal lawyer.
August 6, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Steroids , Rodriguez, Alex , Doping (Sports) , Major League Baseball , New York Yankees , Baseball , Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation
Biogenesis Founder Surrenders to D.E.A.
Anthony P. Bosch was charged on Tuesday with distributing the anabolic steroid testosterone to hundreds of people, including high school athletes and professional athletes.
August 6, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Baseball , Bosch, Anthony P , Biogenesis of America LLC , Drug Enforcement Administration , Doping (Sports) , Rodriguez, Alex
Runner From Botswana Fails Doping Test
Amantle Montsho of Botswana tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine after finishing fourth in the women's 400-meter final.
August 3, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Doping (Sports) , Montsho, Amantle , Track and Field
Nigerian Weight Lifter Stripped of Gold
Chika Amalaha of Nigeria was stripped of her Commonwealth Games gold medal because of a positive doping test.
August 2, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Doping (Sports) , Commonwealth Games
Also Missing: Explanation for an Absence
After Dustin Johnson took a leave of absence from golf, the PGA Tour was mostly silent about the news, casting a spotlight on the opacity of the tour's drug policy.
August 2, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON DOPING AND: PGA Tour Inc , Drug Abuse and Traffic , Doping (Sports) , Golf , Johnson, Dustin , Tests (Drug Use)
Brewers Fans Forgive as Braun's Bat Heats Up
Fans in Milwaukee appear to have forgiven Ryan Braun for his use of performance-enhancing drugs, and Braun had a 12-game hitting streak entering Friday.
July 26, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON DOPING AND: Milwaukee Brewers , Baseball , Doping (Sports) , Braun, Ryan
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Telling Congress About the Rigged Research Game (Cont'd)
Editor's note: TheStreet.com columnist Adam Lashinsky is testifying today before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. The committee is investigating the quality of equity research and reporting available to the average U.S. investor. We are running Lashinsky's testimony in full and in three parts. This is the second part. Be sure to read part one and part three.
As I began to understand how Wall Street works, I made it a standard practice in my reporting to point out these conflicts. Just because an analyst worked for the investment bank that took public a company I was covering didn't mean I wouldn't talk to the analyst about the stock. I just wanted to be sure my readers understood the pros and cons of this analyst's perspective. After all, while the analyst might be predisposed to be positive about his client, he also tended to know the company better than an analyst who didn't have extensive access. These are trade-offs.
TheStreet.com started in late 1996 with the same principles I already was using. From the beginning it was standard operating procedure to mention any investment banking conflicts any time an analyst commented on a stock. The goal, according to Dave Kansas, former editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com, was to make sure the reader understood that an analyst was "not some disinterested professor pontificating from the ivory tower" about a stock. That didn't make the person a bad source, just one colored by their experiences, as are we all.TheStreet.com didn't get everything right. We shined a bright light on analysts. But at the same time we did our share to hype the momentum stocks of the era. We created the Red Hot Index -- notice that it hasn't been mentioned much lately -- which tracked the performance of the sizzling technology stocks of the late 1990s. And we wrote favorably about IPOs on the assumption that new offerings would continue doubling, tripling and quadrupling upon their introduction. Our own shares rose nearly fourfold on their first day of trading in May, 1999, so we benefited from the phenomenon we were covering. Other financial news outlets also pointed out analyst conflicts, but none with the formulaic and purposeful attention of TheStreet.com. Most financial news media quoted stock analysts the same way I did when I first started covering business in the late 1980s: Analysts who returned phone calls were the most valuable.
Star Search for AnalystsThe diligence or oversights of print or online journalists, however, paled in comparison to the influence of broadcast journalism, especially CNBC. For years, CNBC acted as if conflicts of interest simply didn't exist. Analysts weren't questioned on their conflicts; fund managers weren't asked their positions in stocks they discussed. Yes, CNBC humorously pilloried flip-flopping analysts by comparing them to penguins. But no institution, in my opinion, did more to sell hyped-up stocks to poorly informed individual investors than CNBC during the late 1990s. By the way, there is undoubtedly a correlation between bullish hype and ratings. It always was in CNBC's interests to hype stocks because rising stocks meant greater viewership. In sum, the media in general failed the investing public by failing to provide skeptical analysis about the stock market. After all, an investment bank's job is to sell. The media are supposed to scrutinize. If the financial media had been as critical of Wall Street as political reporters are of Congress, it's possible, though unlikely, that the bubble wouldn't have become as inflated as it did. Many skeptical journalists have much to be proud of for their work during the bubble era. But many should be ashamed of strapping on their pompoms and simply cheerleading along with the salesmen. Please continue reading Lashinsky's testimony in part three. To return to the first part, click here.
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LONE GROVE, OK-- Progress is flowing in one of its biggest projects for the year for the City of Lone Grove.
Been submitted for the construction of the city's new waste water treatment plant.
Officials tell us after several months of planning, they are moving forward with in bid process. The city is working to make sure the cost for the project is effective for it's residents.
The new plant will allow businesses and households to operate on city sewer lines and would help add value to the city by fixing many waste water treatment concerns.
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Don't smoke 'em if you got 'em | Coming ban in England stadia another blow to terrace nostalgia
Before the links between smoking and lung cancer, before the elimination, in the United States, on 1 Jan 1971 of cigarette ads on TV and radio, smoking by athletes themselves was not a shocking sight. Arsenal players puff away in the 1940 feature The Arsenal Stadium Mystery. UK poet Simon Armitage crafts verse in heroic terms of the goalkeeper who smokes in seeming defiance of mainstream images of professional fitness and discipline. "Goalkeeper with a Cigarette"—published in The Shout: Selected Poems (Harcourt, 2005)—lauds the man "who stubs his reefers on the post / and kicks his heels in the stud-marks and butts, / lighting the next from the last, in one breath / making the save of the year with his legs …" This goalkeeper of the imagination seems allied with those who take a "sideways view" of life. He has "no neat message for the nation" and lacks in histrionics, unlike captains and coaches
effing and jeffing at backs and forwards,
talking steam, screaming exhausting orders,
that's not breath coming from my bloke, it's smoke.
Pro-smoking group Forest, according to the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone, has compiled an all-smoking fantasy team, including Brazilian legend Sócrates with Paul Gascoigne on the bench ("He Shoots, He Scores, He Lights Another Fag …," 7 Jul 06). Forest might also have included France midfield artiste and new UEFA president Michel Platini, an "enthusiastic smoker" sometimes seen puffing at Juventus training sessions at the height of his playing career. Hattenstone alludes as well to Zinédine Zidane's surreptitious tokes at the 2006 World Cup finals, captured via telephoto lens before the semifinal with Portugal: "Eyes closed, cheeks squeezed in tight, index finger stroking his upper lip, he seemed to be in heaven."
Fir Park, home to Motherwell in the Scottish Premier League, includes anti-smoking messages such as the one above. The full text reads, "Keep Cigarettes Away from the Match." Another sign, according to "Tartan Red on Tour," asks, "Is this the closest you have got to exercise all week?" On 16 Apr 06, Tartan Red "perused these health-conscious signs as I polished off my scotch pie." (tartanredontour.blogspot.com)
Such earthy pleasures likely will not be able to counteract the turns in attitude toward smoking, especially in public. France, too, has passed legislation banning smoking in schools and offices; in 2008, the ban broadens to bars, restaurants, cafés. Turkey, home to the cliché "smokes like a Turk," in 2006 strengthened hodgepodge anti-smoking laws, causing writers at "The Round Ball in Ankara" to mourn loss of the blissful trifecta of "Efes beer, Tekel 2000 cigarettes and football" ("Civilization Going to Pot," 5 Mar 06).
At least in the UK, stadium authorities are not playing around. Glasgow Rangers has tossed more than 100 fans since the Scotland ban came in force in Mar 06 ("Sneak Smokers Face Football Ban," BBC News, Mar 14). Nationwide, smokers caught flaunting the law in banned areas face fines of £50 per infraction.
Tobacco's influence has even been challenged in emerging markets such as China and India. Newscasters in China as of 1999 no longer could refer to football's top division in that country as the Marlboro Chinese Premier League. Sponsorship was acquired by Pepsi.
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As part of the deal that sent Darrelle Revis from the New York Jets to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Bucs signed a six-year, $96 million dollar contract with the cornerback, making him the highest paid defensive back in NFL history.
There's a catch, however. Revis' new contract does not include any guaranteed money, an unusual move for a player of Revis' talent level. It's a smart move for the Bucs, though, as they won't be on the hook for anything if Revis is hit by injuries again. He's currently rehabbing from a torn ACL.
Details of the contract are now emerging -- Revis will earn $16 million per year; $13 million of that is the base salary, with the rest coming in roster and workout bonuses.
Each year of Revis six-year contract: $1.5 roster bonus, $1.5 million workout bonus, $13 million base salary— Gary Myers (@garymyersNYDN) April 21, 2013
The Bucs finalized their trade of Revis on Sunday, ending months of speculation. They gave up their 2013 first-round pick and a conditional 2014 pick. It's a potential steal of a trade if Revis can get healthy and perform like an elite CB again.
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Maine Business School alumnus Themis Violaris, founder and managing director of Monarch, a satellite communication services company based in Cyprus, returned to campus last October to speak to graduate students in Assistant Professor Anne Canabal's international business class.
It was the first time that Violaris, 43, had been on campus since he was a student at MBS, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1992 and an M.B.A. in 1994.
"I came here because I wanted to share my experiences in the international business environment over the last decade with you," he told the class, which included students from France, Egypt and Germany.
With his direct and engaging manner, Violaris, a native of Cyprus, immediately captured students' attention as he talked about Monarch, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications for the shipping industry, with customers mostly from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
"We're very strong in the market," said Violaris, who started Monarch in 2007. "We're now considered one of the big players in the Middle East. People know us and like what we do. We have agreements with companies worldwide. Our partners are from New York, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany —everywhere. Shipping is global; it never stops and it never sleeps."
An avowed technophile with an adventurous spirit who enjoys the excitement and ever-changing nature of his job in which he gets to meet new people and see the world, Violaris had some pithy advice for students: Be willing to start at the bottom. Don't be afraid to change jobs and, above all, love what you do."
"You'll spend more hours at work than at home, so if you don't love what you do, get out immediately because it will be too much of a burden," he said. "And don't think as soon as you leave school you're going to become vice president or CEO. You don't want that. Practice plus experience is what makes you a good manager. Don't be afraid to go out there and start from the bottom. That way you'll be respected and end up on top.
"And don't worry about changing jobs. Change is good. I changed jobs seven times to reach where I am today. I have been a marketing and human resource manager at a hospital, an international sales representative at a welding company, a marketing manager for a hygiene company, and a general manager of a soccer club. But none of these were fun. Still, I gained experience from every job I had. I remembered things, I met people. Doors opened because of these jobs."
Doing business in the Middle East is much different than in Western Europe or the U.S., Violaris told students. "Culture, history, tradition and religion are important in the Middle East," he said. "You have to understand their working times and adapt to their ways. They're not going to work during Ramadan. And their weekend is Thursday and Friday, and sometimes Saturday.
"To be successful, you have to respect and appreciate the Arab world – you can't go there and tell them what to do. You have to listen – open your ears and let them talk to you."
Violaris offered a number of strategies that he uses as he does business in the Middle East, but that also hold true in general: Don't show off or be loud; follow up with after-sales service; keep your promises; be punctual; be genuine; take time to prove yourself and build trust; give credit to your team and the people you work with; and learn about and understand your customers.
"In the Middle East you don't go in with a three-piece suit," he told students.
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"The most important thing," he said, "is to get the job done. It doesn't matter how – it's up to you to figure that out. Just get the job done."
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• The eighth-grade Oakridge Middle School girls basketball team dominated Banks Trail on Dec. 9, winning 31-11. The Lady Golden Eagles led wire to wire in a game that involved outstanding defense, hustle and hard work. Every Lady Golden Eagle contributed to this win. Leading the way for Oakridge were: Madison Lybrand,12 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists; Amber Lipscomb, 11 points, 9 steals, 6 rebounds; Brenna Allen, 2 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals; J'Menii Isaac, 2 points, 1 rebound, 1 steal, 1 assist; Emily Tsiukes, 2 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals; Megan Hanson, 2 points, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; and Krystal Nielsen, defense locking up the point guard all day long and forcing double digit turnovers.
• The eighth-grade boys basketball team lost a hard fought game Dec. 9 to Banks Trail, 38-21. Oakridge played better than in their first game – communicating well, playing tough defense and moving the ball well on the offensive end. Unfortunately, the Golden Eagles' shots were not falling. Contributing for the Golden Eagles: Jonathan Harris, 5 points, 6 rebounds; Hunter Walden, 5 points, 6 rebounds; Kendall Strout, 4 points, 3 rebounds; David Saleeba, 4 points; Austin Gunnels , 2 points, 3 rebounds; and Luke Darling, 1 point.
• The seventh-grade boys lost to Banks Trail on Dec. 9, 47-22. The team showed improvement offensively. The Golden Eagles were led by Camden Largen with 9 points and Blake Keffer with 5 points. James Linn, Heze Massey, Jackson Zinser, Wade Birkenbach and Taylor Stoneburner also contributed points to the effort.
• On Dec. 9, OMS seventh-grade girls lost to a strong Banks Trail team, 21-17. The team battled for four quarters playing excellent defense throughout creating 18 steals. Contributing for the Golden Eagles were: Tiona Walls, 6 points, 5 rebounds, 7 steals; Tiffany Domingue, 5 points, 4 rebounds, 6 steals; Sarah King, 4 pts, 5 rebounds, 2 steals; Madison McMullan, 2 points, 1 steal; Megan Bailey, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; Kenzie Cook, 1 rebound; Emma Johnson, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; and Deylonn Harkey, 2 rebounds.
• The seventh-grade OMS boys basketball team lost a heartbreaker on Dec. 12, 24-22, on a three-pointer with nine seconds to go in the game. The boys played hard but had difficulty finding the bottom of the net. The team was led by Camden Largen, 6 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals; and Collin Schmolze, 6 points, 4 rebounds. Blake Heffer, 4 points, 4 rebounds; Heze Massey, 4 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals; Alex McClure, 3 rebounds, 2 steals; and Julian Taleferrio, 2 points.
• Fort Mill made two free throws with one-tenth of a second left on the clock to beat the Oakridge seventh-grade girls basketball team, 23-22, on Dec. 12. The girls played good defense, but couldn't get shots to fall. The team had 21 steals on the night. Contributing on both sides of the ball were Emma Johnson, Tiffany Domingue, Tiona Walls, Megan Bailey, Madison McMullan, Kenzie Cook, Shia Jones, Deylan Harkey, Taylor Blake and Sarah King.
• The eighth-grade boys lost in a close game Dec. 12 to Fort Mill with a final score of 29-24. The game was tied going into the fourth quarter, but missed free throws and late turnovers gave Fort Mill the upper hand in the end. Contributing for Oakridge were: Austin Gunnels, 8 points; Kendall Strout, 5 points, 6 rebounds; David Saleeba, 4 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals; Hunter Walden, 3 points; Colby Ratliff, 2 points, 4 rebounds, 4 steals; Alex Raine, 2 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and he played incredible defense on Fort Mill's best player the entire game.
• The eighth-grade girls played their best overall game of the season Dec. 12, dominating Fort Mill 41-9. The Lady Golden Eagles jumped out to a 9-2 lead after the first period of play and never looked back. Oakridge was sharp on both ends of the court all night and received contributions from all players on the team, with everyone logging several minutes. Leading the way for the Lady Golden Eagles were: Madison Lybrand, 15 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals, 4 assists; Brenna Allen, 12 points, 11 rebounds, 3 steals; Amber Lipscomb, 9 points, 8 steals, 2 rebounds; Jackie Van Slambrook, 2 points, 1 rebound, 1 steal; Emily Tsiukes, 5 steals; Taylor Copley, 1 rebound, 1 block, 1 assist; Ashley Atkinson, 1 rebound, 1 steal; Annie Erven, 1 rebound; and J'Menii Isaac, 1 assist.
On Dec. 10, OMS wrestling fell to York Middle School 70-12. Winning for the Golden Eagles during the match were Bent Prikker and Owen Johnson. Winning in the preliminaries were Britt Myers and Connor Kilpatrick.
Games start at 5 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
• Dec. 17 vs. Sullivan, home
• Jan. 7 vs. Dutchman Creek, away
• Jan. 11 vs. Fort Mill Qualifier, away, 8 p.m.
• Jan. 14 vs. Clover, home
• Jan. 18 vs. Carolina Open, away, 8 p.m.
• Jan. 22 vs. Castle Heights, away
• Jan. 28 vs. Saluda Trail, home
• Feb. 1 Conference Tournament at Castle Heights, 8 p.m.
Head coach: Timothy Lee
Assistant coach: Wayne Richardson
Boys' basketball
• Dec. 19 vs. Gold Hill, away
• Jan. 9 vs. Springfield, away
• Jan. 13 vs. Banks Trail, home
• Jan. 16 vs. York, away
• Jan. 23 vs. Fort Mill, away
• Jan. 27 vs. Clover, away
• Jan. 30 vs. Gold Hill, home
• Feb. 3 Conference Game, seventh
• Feb. 5 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Feb. 6 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Feb. 10 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Feb. 11 Conference Tourney, eighth
Eighth-grade coach: Dan Kozlowski
Seventh-grade coach: Jeff Rolf
Assistant coach: Craig Elliott
Girls' basketball
• Dec. 19 vs. Gold Hill, home
• Jan. 9 vs. Springfield, home
• Jan. 13 vs. Banks Trail, away
• Jan. 16 vs. York, home
• Jan. 23 vs. Fort Mill, home
• Jan. 27 vs. Clover, home
• Jan. 30 vs. Gold Hill, away
• Feb. 3 Conference Game, seventh
• Feb. 5 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Jan. 6 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Feb. 10 Conference Tourney, eighth
• Feb. 11 Conference Tourney, eighth
Eighth-grade head coach: Don Pitts
Seventh-grade head coach: Khrys Dundr
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CATEGORIES Awards, Awards, CinematicalAt this point, we may end up seeing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawnas a surfer movie. The Teen Choice Awards were held last night (the ceremony that, for some reason, hands out surf boards), and The Twilight Saga once again rules the school.
The vampire phenomenon got all the usual wins for New Moon, plus a whole bunch more because these guys think up awards for everything: Liplock AND Chemistry for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (because, apparently, one lust-based category isn't enough), Male Scene Stealer (Kellan Lutz), Female Scene Stealer (Ashley Greene), Villain (Rachelle Lefevre), and any award in the Fantasy category: Choice Movie, Choice Actor (Taylor Lautner), and Choice Actress (Stewart). Oh, but that's not all. Before Eclipse gets to compete next year, the Ceremony handed the film Choice Summer Movie Star nods for both Pattinson and Stewart, plus Choice Summer Movie. And there's more. In special categories, Lautner won Choice Smile and --surprise, surprise -- Twi-hards won for Most Fanatic Fans.
But since things are broken up by genre, there were many, many other awards to give out. Basically, if the Oscars had an awards list this big, the ceremony would be a month long. You can probably imagine most of them, though some goodies make it in as well. And don't try to understand the yearly constraints -- New Moon was all over the place, but Toy Story 3 got in there as well. Hit the jump for the rest of the lucky surfers.
Science Fiction
Choice Movie: Avatar
Choice Actress: Zoe Saldana
Choice Actor: Sam Worthington
Action Adventure
Choice Movie: Sherlock Holmes
Choice Actress: Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes)
Choice Actor: Channing Tatum (GI Joe)
Romantic Comedy
Choice Movie: Valentine's Day
Choice Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Proposal)
Choice Actor: Ashton Kutcher (Valentine's Day)
Choice Movie: The Blind Side
Choice Actress: Sandra Bullock (Blind Side)
Choice Actor: Robert Pattinson (Remember Me)
Choice Movie: Date Night
Choice Actress: Tina Fey (Date Night)
Choice Actor: Ashton Kutcher (Killers)
Choice Movie: Paranormal Activity
Choice Actress: Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body)
Choice Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island)
Choice Animated: Toy Story 3
Male Breakout: Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song)
Female Breakout: Taylor Swift (Valentine's Day)
Fight: Alice v. The Jabberwocky (Alice in Wonderland)
Hissy Fit: Miley Cyrus (The Last Song)
Dance: Sandra Bullock and Betty White (The Proposal)
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Nobody's perfect. There's a story here at Reader's Digest about one former editor-in-chief who read the manuscript of Kathryn Hulme's book The Nun's Story and declared categorically that there wasn't a person on the face of the earth who would be interested. It went on to inspire a hugely successful film starring Audrey Hepburn, and it was our most popular title for a span of roughly 40 years.
Of course, critics have been wrong before (and they'll surely be wrong again). Here's one of my favorites from an 1867 Atlantic: "It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards." Ouch!
For more missed calls, check out "'Fitzgerald Deserves a Good Shaking': Scathing Reviews of Classic Novels," a collection of misguided reviews that proves that hindsight really is 20/20.
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Tucson Police have released the identity of the suspect in an armed robbery of a midtown smoke shop on Nov. 12.
Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Adrian Pride, 18. They say Pride allegedly robbed the Maui Smoke Shop located at 1099 East Broadway Boulevard.
Anyone with information about Pride's whereabouts is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
Police say Pride allegedly held up a clerk at the shop at gunpoint, but the clerk refused to give him money, and the suspect left the store.
A few hours later, police said Pride came back and allegedly threatened the clerk at gunpoint again.
Police say Pride fled on foot, chased by the clerk. Pride allegedly fired several shots at the clerk as he left the area in a white 4-door passenger vehicle, according to police.
No one was injured in the incident.
Pride is described as Hispanic, 18 years old, about 5'8" tall and weighs between 140 and 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a navy blue "Rolling Stones" shirt with a tongue on it, navy blue basketball shorts, blue and black tennis shoes, black sunglasses and a gray hooded sweatshirt, police said.
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Welcome to the forums, aloksharmaseo.
Please do a search beforee posting a new question, as you'll often find it's been asked and answered before. There are already several threads discussing how to increase traffic.
I suggest you read the sticky threads at the top of this forum, and any other threads which interest you. These will provide you with a great deal of information. I would also recommend you download and read Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. After that, if you still have any specific questions, then please feel free to post again. Meanwhile, I am closing this thread, as your question is too general to attract any meaningful answers.


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Drew Robb, freelance writer.
In the quest to improve efficiency and per formance of gas turbine engines, manufacturersover the past few decades have steadily altered their designs to increase turbine inlet airtemperatures. Although this achieves the desired result, it produces the side ef fect ofover heating the blades - and that leads to low cycle fatigue failures. But with oil pricesfluctuating and the industr y accepting the reality of the need to reduce carbon emissions,the tendency toward higher turbine inlet temperature continues unabated. This posesconsiderable challenges for the analysis and design of turbine cooling schemes.
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