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Angel70 on 12/29/2013 4:48:00 PM more reviews by Angel70
Age: 36-43 Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium Hair: Other, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
I am a "cosmetic-counter skeptic" on steroids usually, but in an effort to get my skin nice before I celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary at 43, I thought "why not?" So I've been diligently using Neutrogena's Anti-Wrinkle/Anti-Blemish treatment and Neutrogena's Rapid Wrinkle Repair Serum. I have had some promising results at the 2-week mark here. I am usually very oily and blemish-prone. This is the best moisturizer as it provides a protective barrier against acne-causing bacteria. I have tried so many treatments and ended it with little to no effects. I am very happy and will be continuing this for some long time to come. I think I can ditch the foundation now!
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*TOP REVIEWER* ckb on 8/9/2013 1:05:00 AM more reviews by ckb
Age: 36-43 Skin: Dry, Fair, Neutral Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Blue
I like putting this on my bare skin at night. I let it absorb for a few minutes, then apply moisturizer. I finished the entire bottle after a few months of nightly use. I don't see a dramatic difference in my fine lines, but I noticed that my skin felt smoother and brighter in the morning. Whatever it's meant to do -- it worked for me. I would purchase this again.
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Twizzz on 4/3/2013 11:29:00 AM more reviews by Twizzz
Age: 36-43 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Absolutely love this serum, use it every day morning, put my advanced restoratives spf 30 over it in the morning and my makeup glides smoothly over it, find I need less makeup, my skin tone is greatly improved, my pores are smaller and clearer, and I simply adore this serum. I use a different serum at night (Clinique radiance renewer)....I hope they never stop making this serum!
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exer2b4 on 12/4/2012 3:01:00 PM more reviews by exer2b4
Age: 36-43 Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
I bought product to help primary for wrinkles on forehead. Have now almost completed entire container with absolutely no results. It definitely does not do what advertisement and packaging claim.
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*TOP REVIEWER* adara260 on 11/27/2012 11:23:00 AM more reviews by adara260
Age: 25-29 Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
I've been using this product now for two weeks and I had to write a review because I've seen a noticeable difference in skin tone and clarity. Last night I glanced my face in a window reflection and did a double take because my skin looked like I had foundation on it! Thats HOW GOOD THE RESULTS ARE!
Some background, I've used several Neutrogena retinol products and prescription retinol products to treat my acne which is caused by clogged pores. I find the retinol chemically exfoliates my skin eliminating my blackheads and or making them much easier to extract. I've found awesome success with various Neutrogena products, check out my other reviews.
This product has worked the quickest for me. The other Neutrogena products took a month to see results. This serum is scented, but it doesn't bother me. It's not moisturizing in the least so you will need to put a moisturizer over it if your skin is dry. It actually dries down to a really dry texture, so if you have really oily skin like me you'll love it.
Overall: You will see rapid results with this product. This product helped with my blackheads and has improved my blemish/scar ridden complexion. I thought I had foundation on, and did a double take! The packaging is superior to the other Neutrogena products I've used. It protects its efficacy and is sanitary. LOVE!
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*TOP REVIEWER* chinadoll13 on 11/19/2012 2:50:00 PM more reviews by chinadoll13
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse Eyes: Hazel
Pls see my reviews for the night and day moisturizer....same goes for the serum it's really great!!! A+++++
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Cestsibon on 8/31/2012 11:14:00 PM more reviews by Cestsibon
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
Nice smell, if you like florals. Non-greasy and leaves skin with a nice, very sutble natural looking pearl radiance. No breakouts or sensitivity. I liked this product, but sadly I did not see any improvement after 8 weeks of use.
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Susisu on 7/18/2012 4:07:00 AM more reviews by Susisu
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Hazel
So far I've been using this for 5 days, but had to write a review because I'm already seeing a nice difference in my skin.
I'd been using the Roc from Costco for ages, and didn't really get results from that, so was feeling like retinol was a bit hocus pocus.
Enter this serum (which I decided to try based on reviews here, thank you!!). I've seriously noticed a difference already!! My skin feels very very smooth to the touch. I have exfoliated regularly in the past, stopping now so that I don't traumatize my skin too much, but have never had smoothness like this from exfoliation. On top of that, my wrinkles are reduced, and my skin tone looks very good.
We'll see how it goes, but for now, this is awesome.
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peacefuldusk on 7/13/2012 3:58:00 AM more reviews by peacefuldusk
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral Hair: Red, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
This is my first time using a retinol product. I have only used it for a week and have seen a HUGE difference. I have forehead wrinkles that are pretty deep for my age on one side of my face. I saw a difference after the first day of use, in reduced wrinkle depth and a more even skin tone. After a week they are at least 75% reduced. The overall smoothness and pigmentation of my skin is much more even. I normally use alpha hyrdox 10% serum which is great for keeping my acne away, but I wanted something stronger for wrinkles since I am in my 30s now. I have not experienced any break outs with the Neutrogena and I am very prone to acne. I have experienced minimal redness under my eye and sensitivity after about four days of using in a row. I highly recommend. I am so impressed I may buy again or even try to find something stronger.
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nb55 on 6/1/2012 1:27:00 AM more reviews by nb55
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
This has a shimmery quality which means you can use it as a kind of wrinkle filler/concealer during the day because it doesn't absorb into the skin that well. I don't think it made a difference at all, I tried both this and the actual Rapid Wrinkle Repair (night product) and I feel like it was wasted money. I feel like it would be better to invest in a better product.
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Director of rugby Steve Hill insists he has never seen a more spirited Richmond in his time at the helm than he did as they battled to a draw with Blackheath on Saturday, writes Robert Horgan.
With less than a minute on the clock Richmond were staring at an SSE National League One defeat as Blackheath led 31-24 thanks to a David Allen double and scores for Peter Homan and Matthew Shields.
But Hill's men refused to lie down and after Harrison had dotted down, Rob Kirby held his nerve to kick the conversion to earn his side a draw.
And after battling right to the final whistle, Hill admits that his troops showed him something he has never witnessed before in his four years in charge.
"I'm really pleased for the guys to come back, we looked like we were dead and buried when we had a man in the bin and then they scored," he said.
"And then with two minutes to go we messed up on the line and that allowed them into our half and it looked over.
"I just said to the guys, in the four years I've been at Richmond I've never seen a spirit that these guys demonstrated in that game.
"Last week up in Wharfedale, we played right to the end and we got the try that won us the game, and again we just wouldn't give up and if we continue to show that kind of spirit then we will get to a point where we're still in this league next year.
"It was important to come away with three points, rather than just one point and that might prove to be crucial in the upcoming weeks so we're very pleased with how the game ended."
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This is a true beer geek - beer lovers place. No bull shit. The place is run by Ronaldo Rossi, quite a character. He is also a chef and a brewer. So you got to try his Riff bier, a very good hand crafted IPA.
The place is small, but this may give some charm to it. Don't be disappointed with the decoration, this is a place for good beers with real beer people. You can come here and get good advices for pairing beer with food, hear some beer stories, and take home some of the privileged beers he gets from his brewer friends such as Urbana and Nunes&Levy. He is part of a small crowd that it is helping with the craft beer revolution in Brazil.
Prices are fair, meaning being under Sampa average crafted beer prices, that is a little steep comparing to other countries.
In summary, it is certaintly a place you must stop by if visiting Sao Paulo.
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The beer library? Indeed so....
Cervejoteca is a small beer store in between Vila Mariana and Moema. You will need to park on the street, and beware that parking can be hard to find, this is São Paulo after all. Very intimate and a little cluttered inside with empty beer boxes. There's a small patio outside where one can enjoy a beer.
A few of the bottles I saw were dusty, and one of the beers I bought was cutting it close to the sell-by date. Otherwise, the condition of the beers is solid. Most of the bottles sit at store temperature, with a small cooler of cold bottles. There is a selection of glassware that is available to buy, as well as to drink with any cold beer you purchase and drink at Cervejoteca.
Cool guy watching the shop. Price tags on every commercial beer they sell. I like that. And with more than 300 bottles to choose, plus non-commercial beers (more details to come), Cervejoteca has a selection that can rival any bar or store in São Paulo. Let the naming of brands begin: Sauber Beer, Palm, Spitfire, Malheur, Boostels, Marstons, Bierland, Achel, Westmalle, Rogue, Falke, Karavelle, Dama, Meantime, BrewDog, Bamberg, Backer. I even found Nanny State here! As for the non-commerical beers, Cervejoteca has good relations with homebrewers/non-registered breweries, and you can find bottled stuff made by them, such as Brix and Urbana.
Don't be fooled by its exterior, Cervejoteca is a must stop in São Paulo. Um grande abraço pra Sergio, who told and brought me to this treasure chest of a store. Uau!
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A Busy Developer's Guide to RESTful Services in Java
The beauty of JAX-RS is that it is almost entirely driven by annotations. This means you can turn almost any class into a RESTful service. You can simply turn a POJO into a REST endpoint by annotating it with JSR 311 annotations. Such an annotated POJOs is called a resource class in JAX-RS terms.
Some of the JAX-RS annotations are at the class level, some at the method level and others at the method parameter level. Some are available both at class and method levels. Ultimately the annotations combine to make a given Java method into a RESTful endpoint accessible at an HTTP-based URL. The annotations must specify the following elements:
- The relative path of the Java method - this is accomplished with @Path annotation.
- What the HTTP verb is, i.e. what CRUD operation is being performed - this is done by specifying one of @GET, @PUT, @POST or @DELETE annotations.
- The media type accepted (i.e. the representation format) - @Consumes annotation.
- The media type returned - @Produces annotation.
The two last ones are optional. If omitted, then all media types are assumed possible. Let's look at a simple example and take it apart:
import javax.ws.rs.*; @Path("/mail") @Produces("application/json") public class EmailService { @POST @Path("/new") public String sendEmail(@FormParam("subject") String subject, @FormParam("to") String to, @FormParam("body") String body) { return "new email sent"; } @GET @Path("/new") public String getUnread() { return "[]"; } @DELETE @Path("/{id}") public String deleteEmail(@PathParam("id") int emailid) { return "delete " + id; } @GET @Path("/export") @Produces("text/html") public String exportHtml(@QueryParam("searchString") @DefaultValue("") String search) { return "

...

"; } }
The class define a RESTful interface for a hypothetical HTTP-based email service. The top-level path mail is relative to the root application path. The root application path is associated with the JAX-RS javax.ws.rs.core.Application that you extend to plugin into the runtime environment. Then we've declared with the @Produces annotation that all methods in that service produce JSON. This is just a class-default that one can override for individual methods like we've done in the exportHtml method. The sendMail method defines a typical HTTP post where the content is sent as an HTML form. The intent here would be to post to http://myserver.com/mail/new a form for a new email that should be sent out. As you can see, the API allows you to bind each separate form field to a method parameter. Note also that you have a different method for the exact same path.
If you do
an HTTP get at /mail/new, the Java method annotated with @GET will be called instead. Presumably the semantics of get /mail/new would be to obtain the list of unread emails. Next, note how the path of the deleteEmail
method is parametarized by an integer id of the email to delete. The
curly braces indicate that "id" is actually a parameter. The value of
that parameter is bound to the whatever is annotated with @PathParam("id"). Thus if we do an HTTP delete at http://myserver.com/mail/453 we would be calling the deleteEmail method with argument emailid=453. Finally, the exportHtml method demonstrates how we can get a handle on query parameters. When you annotate a parameter with @QueryParam("x") the value is taken from the HTTP query parameter named x. The @DefaultValue annotation provides a default in case that query parameter is missing. So, calling http://myserver.org/mail/export?searchString=RESTful will call the exportHtml method with a parameter search="RESTful".
To expose this service, first we need to write an implementation of javax.ws.rs.core.Application. That's just a few lines:
public class MyRestApp extends javax.ws.rs.core.Application { public Set>Class> getClasses() { HashSet S = new HashSet(); S.add(EmailService.class); return S; } }
How this gets plugged into your server depends on your JAX-RS
implementation. Before we leave the API, I should mentioned that there's
more to it. You do have access to a Request and Response objects. You
have annotations to access other contextual information and metadata
like HTTP headers, cookies etc. And you can provide custom serialization
and deserialization between media types and Java objects.
Finally, one must categorize business operation as one of GET, PUT, POST and DELETE. This is probably a bit less intuitive, but it's just a matter of getting used to. For example, instead of thinking about a "Checkout Shopping Cart" operation, think about POSTing a new order. Instead of thinking about a "Login User" operation think about GETing an authentication token. In general, every business operation manipulates some data in some way. Therefore, every business operation can fit into this crude CRUD model. Clearly, most read-only operations should be a GET. However, sometimes you have to send a large chunk of data to the server in which case you should use POST. For example you could post some very time consuming query that require a lot of text to specify. Then the resource you are creating is for example the query result. Another way to decide if you should POST or no is if you have a unique resource identifier. If not, then use POST. Obviously, operations that cause some data to be removed should be a DELETE. The operations that "store" data are PUT and again POST. Deciding between those two is easy: use PUT whenever you are modifying an existing resource for which you have an identifier. Otherwise, use POST.
- The Wikipedia article on REST is not in very good shape, but still a starting point if you want to dig deeper into the conceptual framework.
- Refcard from Dzone.com: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/rest-foundations-restful#refcard-download-social-buttons-display
- Wink's User Guide seems well written. Since it's an implementation of JAX-RS, it's a good documentation of that technology.
- http://java.dzone.com/articles/putting-java-rest: A fairly good show-and-tell introduction to the JAX-RS API, with a link in there to a more in-depth description of REST concepts by the same author. Worth the read.
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311: The official JSR 311 page. Download the specification and API Javadocs from there.
- http://jsr311.java.net/nonav/javadoc/index.html: Online access of JSR 311 Javadocs.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Billy Clark replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 7:16am
Thanks for distilling things, really appreciated!
Your distinction between PUT's and POST's seems both counterintuitive and contrary to specs...I thought PUT's represent the creation of new data and POST's represent a change to existing data.
Is something shifting in those concepts or did you simply get them mixed up?
Again, thanks for taking the time to hit the high points!
Borislav Iordanov replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 10:03am in response to: Billy Clark
Hi Billy,
Thanks for the nice comments. However, I'd have to disagree that I've mixed up PUT and POST. If something must be added, it's that PUT can be used for creation when the ID of the resource is known. According to the HTTP spec, which is the closest I know to a spec we have for REST, POST creates and PUT updates or creates. The key difference being that in the case of PUT (1) you have to supply the full identifier of the identity being update (or created) and (2) the operation is idempotent which means it can be repeated to the same effect. Both (1) and (2) are important in choosing between PUT and POST. From the, it follows the PUT will create a new resource with the supplied id if one doesn't already exist, and it will do an update of a resource if one already exists. In a POST, on the other hand, usually the identifier of the enclosing resource is specified (e.g. a collection of entities) and if repeated it's not expected to be idempotent. I guess POST can be used to update, yes, for example by updating multiple "child" resources.
In sum, while the distinction may be a bit fuzzy in some cases, in general, given constraints (1) and (2) above, it seems to me that logically PUT is the U while POST is the C of CRUD.
Borislav Iordanov replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 10:53am in response to: Romain Manni-bucau
Jorge Simao replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 11:15am
Answer: AJAX assumes JavaScript...If you don't want to assume that -- i.e. make the webapp work from the functional point-of-view (even if without some sexy features). than doing the work on the server side is better. That is, if you want the application to "degrade gracefully" without JavaScript, or conversely to be "progressively enhanced" with JavaScript.
Good article...
Comparison between different frameworks would also be great..
Billy Clark replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 11:39am in response to: Borislav Iordanov
Richard Youngkin replied on Wed, 2012/10/31 - 8:44pm in response to: Borislav Iordanov
Here is an excellent article describing the semantics of PUT vs. POST - http://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/put-or-post-the-rest-of-the-story.
To elaborate on your explanation a little bit, PUT is a complete replacement of a resource whereas POST can be used to update part of a resource and does not have to be a full replacement. There are also implications WRT web behaviors specified by the HTTP protocol such as caching. But the article above covers all that...
Henry Kuhl replied on Wed, 2013/01/09 - 10:47am
Hi Borislav!
Nice article on Restful services. I've been reading random stuff about REST during the last weeks. And in almost every talk and every article, the "architects" state, that HYPERMEDIA aka HATEOAS is one of the key-constraints when designing REST-Services.
Did you miss that point on purpose?
Kind regards
Borislav Iordanov replied on Wed, 2013/01/09 - 11:31am in response to: Henry Kuhl
Hi Henry,
I don't really understand that constraint. When you are designing a REST interface, what do you do to satisfy it? If you retrieve a resource representation in, say, XML that contains some information about another resource not necessarily in the form of a URI, but enough so that the client can construct a URI, does that qualify as hypermedia? In the readings and talks that you've come across, is there an example of a design that doesn't follow the practice and explains how that's bad, then shows the correct version with a good argument why it's better?
Henry Kuhl replied on Wed, 2013/01/09 - 1:06pm in response to: Borislav Iordanov
Hi Boris,
the main idea of HATEOAS IMHO (this looks funny :-) is: you're not hard coding the client against fixed URI's but against relations/resources. These are provided by the server in the header of the response. Applying this to your example, the GET-request to the "/new"-URI would provide information, what other operations are possible from that node.
Watch this talk by Oliver Gierke...it's getting the hypermedia-constraint pretty straight forward.
Additionally, there is something going on regarding an architecture, that is not only RESTful but resource-oriented even on the client side! Here: ROCA-style
Kind regards


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While Rowell recovers from his wounds at Palmetto Health Richland hospital, four people have now been arrested in the shooting and are being held at the Lexington County Detention Center: Courtney Lynn Posey, 20, of Pelion, a former love interest of Rowell, is charged with conspiracy, authorities said; alleged shooter Bobby George Sightler, 19 of Gaston, is charged with attempted murder and possessing a weapon during commission of a violence crime; alleged shooter Jody James Stukes, 32, of Gaston, is charged with attempted murder and possessing a weapon during commission of a violence crime; and, Xanthe Amanda Smith, 26, of West Columbia, is charged with obstructing justice for allegedly hiding the gun used in the shooting.
The victim was known to all four suspects, and although Courtney Lynn Posey had been involved with Rowell, the motive for the shooting remains under investigation, Metts said.
Posey, Sightler, and Stukes were ordered by a Lexington County magistrate held without bail until trial. Smith was being held on bail totaling $27,130.
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A friend asked whether I had taken a good look at the responsibility one has to another, friend or foe. So I thought I would dwell upon that target in this week's column.
First off, let me tell you there have been times when I shirked my responsibility, and paid for it with not only pain but also with losing a friend. That is not good.
We all have some sort of responsibility to another, such as family, friends, even those we have never met. It would not do any justice to open those doors once opened. The pain will swell to a size that could not come out of those doors.
As children, we learn responsibility from our elders, and we use it to embark on a life of doing what is right. Our parents are and were the bearers of responsibility to the children they brought into the world. Our teachers are next in line, responsible to those children who are starting to show what they have learned.
Our higher learning takes us to a level of being responsible to a business or firm, where all must pull their own weight. You can't just sit back with your feet on the desk and expect to get the job done.
In our cities, there are many who are responsible to those who elected them to office, and it seems like they have already set in with feet on the desk and a paycheck on its way to their pockets. In the states, we have governors who line up their buddies and put them in positions of responsibility with no training, except as friends. In the federal government, there are levels of responsibility and incompetent leaders sitting back and getting a paycheck for doing nothing.
I am not talking about any certain holders of those areas of responsibility, as most of us know without asking who is doing the job and who is jobbing us. So when we talk about people being responsible, we have to take a good look both close up and far away, and tell ourselves we are being responsible for electing those who are not acting responsible or willing to do anything for the betterment of our beloved USA. Maybe we need to hold up on their checks each pay period, and even tell them to go home and stay there.
Who is responsible for all those who sneak across our borders and take our jobs? Now, don't get me wrong, my friends. I have a lot of friends who came over, got their citizenship papers and took their vows as Americans who will go by the Constitution of the USA and live free with rights set down by that Constitution. But we have good old Americans sitting in our chairs of government who really ought to be replaced or have their pay adjusted for what they get done for us. Doing that to them would put them down to the pay that our middle class tries to live on.
I am an old man who believes that if you were elected to do a job, it should be done as best as possible. That is the responsibility that they owe us.
We go on being responsible for the things we do, yet not for the results, which is a shame. So let's just say that we reap what we sow. Responsibility is a practice of action.
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Chiefs ink TE Fasano to four-year deal
The Chiefs and former Dolphins TE Anthony Fasano agreed to terms on a four-year deal on Tuesday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Chiefs add CB Robinson
Arguably no team in the league has gotten a better head start on free agency than the Chiefs, who continued their spending spree Friday by signing former Falcons CB Dunta Robinson, as first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Kansas City Chiefs: 2013 team needs
We highlight the top three needs on offense and defense for the Kansas City Chiefs, and take a look back at their 2012 draft class.
Chiefs release ORT Winston
The Chiefs released ORT Eric Winston, the team announced Thursday.
Chiefs tag Albert; re-sign Bowe, Colquitt
The Chiefs applied the franchise tag to OLT Branden Albert and re-signed WR Dwayne Bowe and P Dustin Colquitt to long-term deals.
Three takeaways from Smith deal
Instead of declaring a winner in a trade that won't become official for two weeks, Arthur Arkush offers three takeaways from San Fran sending Alex Smith to K.C.
Report: 49ers trade QB Alex Smith to Chiefs
The 49ers have agreed to trade QB Alex Smith to the Chiefs, Fox Sports' Jay Glazer first reported. The deal is not official until March 12.
Chiefs' Dorsey eyes '333 players' for first pick
New Chiefs GM John Dorsey was evasive when talking about his options for the first overall pick, plus his own impending free agents.
Reid: Chiefs open to trading top pick
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said the possibility exists that the team could trade its top overall draft pick.
Chiefs release WR Breaston, TE Boss
The Chiefs released WR Steve Breaston and TE Kevin Boss on Tuesday, the team announced.
Chiefs add WR Gilyard, DL Dixon, TE Brock
The Chiefs signed WR Mardy Gilyard, DL Marcus Dixon and TE Kevin Brock on Monday, according to the NFL's transactions.
Signs point to TE involvement, success in Chiefs offense
History tells us that Andy Reid's arrival in Kansas City should bode well for the Chiefs' tight ends, writes contributor Herbie Teope.
On the clock: Chiefs consider options at top of draft
Holders of the No. 1 overall pick in April's draft, Andy Reid and the Chiefs are beginning to consider their options in re-stocking the K.C. roster.
Chiefs add Toub to coaching staff
The Chiefs announced Tuesday the hiring of Dave Toub as the team's new special-teams coordinator.
Autopsy: Belcher drunk at time of murder-suicide
Jovan Belcher had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he shot his girlfriend nine times and then killed himself, an autopsy showed.
A person familiar with the deal says the Kansas City Chiefs have signed kicker Ryan Succop to a $14 million, five-year contract extension. ESPN.com, citing anonymous sources, first reported the deal.||||||| The contract includes a $2 million signing bonus, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press late Friday because an official announcement had not been made. Succop was tagged with the "Mr. Irrelevant" nickname when he was the final pick of the 2009 draft. But he's been quite relevant for the Chiefs this season, hitting 24 of 29 field goal attempts, including 22 straight to match a franchise record.
Succop can move atop the franchise list for consecutive made field goals if he hits two more on Saturday against Oakland.||||||| After a rough start to the season, Succop has made 21 in a row. Pete Stoyanovich has the franchise mark of 22 straight, ahead of such greats as Hall of Famer Jan Stenerud, Nick Lowery and Morten Anderson, the NFL's all-time leading scorer. Succop was 4 for 4 last Sunday against Green Bay, helping the Chiefs knock off the previously unbeaten Packers 19-14. He also kicked the winner in overtime earlier this season against San Diego.
Succop was perfect on five field-goal attempts and the Chiefs held on to beat the Vikings 22-17 on Sunday.||||||| Succop entered Sunday's game with two field goals on five attempts.
Cuccop missed a 38-yard field goal in the Chiefs' 31-10 win over San Francisco on Sunday. He made a 32-yard field goal and three extra points.||||||| Fantasy owners have to hope that the missed field goal was merely a hiccup for Succop.
The Chiefs have signed Succop, one of the team's three seventh-round draft picks.||||||| Succop, taken with the 256th overall pick in last month's NFL draft, played 50 games in four seasons at South Carolina, hitting 71 percent of his field goals with a long of 55 yards. He hit 66 percent his senior season and converted all 30 of his PATs. The 6-foot-2 Succop worked out with the Chiefs during offseason practices and is expected to compete with second-year kicker Connor Barth for the starting job.


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Actually that was Vedek Win and keiko at the end of season one.
That was not an episode that I liked. It was a very FORCED plot that was attempting to mirror reality with the Dovor Trials.
But this was a Bajoran Station, In Bajoran Space, under Bajoran jurisidiction...Winn had every right as spiritual leader to ask for certain concessions from Keiko and she was obstinately opposed attempting to force Federation values upon bajoran children yet according to the Prime Directive they're not to interfere with their development and internal affairs. It wasn't for Keiko to dictate terms to the Bajorans. Just as star fleet officers are required to submit to the laws of the planets they visit so too with Keiko's school.
Bajoran and Federation values aren't the same and she really had no right to dictate terms. But it was her school. But I wouldn't have thought it a shame to have the school shut down but thankfully it didn't come to that. LIke most Trek episodes alls-well-it-ends-well.
My point is...the separation of Church and state work well for the United States.
But success tends to make one arrogant. Many people believe it's the only way. But it's really not our place to decided what other sovereignties do within their own borders Quark wasn't far off when he said the Federation is more insidious than the Borg but that's an American ideal aswell.
There maybe many different ways to advance as a civilization, The Bajorans had space flight while man was in the Bronze Age. Let them do it like they wish.
'If the Apocalypse starts, beep me!' - Buffy Summers
'The sky's the limit.....' Jean-Luc Picard, 'All Good Things'
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And even if we ignore Winn and her lust for power (the end of DS9 should make it crystal clear that she didn't believe in the Prophets), the Federation didn't force any values upon the kids in the school, Keiko just did ordinary classes.
There weren't just Bajoran children in Keiko's school so if the Bajorans wanted religious tuition they could have done it it as an extra in the school for the Bajoran kids.
I was educated in such a school system (while religion is more relevant in the US than in Europe at least in Germany religion and state are less formally seperated than in the US) and while I did not really enjoy my Catholic propaganda classes there was at least the alternative to go into Ethics class for non-Catholic and non-Protestant folks and above all there was no anti-science nonsense like in religious schools.
When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job, means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?" And I've long since learned that to be a follower to the Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. And my bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. - MLK, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
Quark: You were looking for me? Don't tell me; there's a Bajoran convention on the station I didn't know about? Thanks Odo! I need to call in more Dabo girls.
Odo: It's not a convention. They're from an orthodox spiritual order coming to support Vedek Winn's efforts to keep the Bajoran children out of school.
Odo: Orthodox? In that case, I'll need twice as many Dabo girls. These spiritual types love those Dabo girls.
I also liked this conversation between Bereil and Sisko:
Vedek Bareil: Today I am only a vedek. If the Prophets will it, someday I may be Kai. And I can be a better friend to you then.
Commander Sisko: In other words, being my friend now might hurt your chances?
Vedek Bareil: The Prophets teach us patience.
Commander Sisko: It appears they also teach you politics.
My favorite diolog from this episode though is Sisko's speak that goes:
"The Bajorans who have lived with us on this station, who have worked with us for months, who helped us move this station to protect the wormhole, who joined us to explore the Gamma Quadrant, who have begun to build the future of Bajor with us. These people know that we are neither the enemy nor the devil. We don't always agree. We have some damn good fights, in fact. But we always come away from them with a little better understanding and appreciation of the other. You won't succeed here. The school will reopen. And when your rhetoric gets old, the Bajoran parents will bring their children back."
The only problem being, I cannot recall what episode it was.
'If the Apocalypse starts, beep me!' - Buffy Summers
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"During the preparation for the First Battle of Deep Space 9, in 2372, Quark expressed to Garak the direness being stuck on the station, stating that "the worst part is, my only hope for salvation is the Federation." Quark went on to introduce Garak to the Earth concoction of root beer, which Quark went on to describe as being "bubbly and cloying and happy. Just like the Federation," adding, "but you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you start to like it." Garak, who disliked the taste of the "vile" beverage, added too, that it was "insidious", to which Quark added, "Just like the Federation." Garak finally takes a moment to embrace the Federation, inquiring to Quark in he thought they would "be able to save us?" The defeated Quark responded, "I hope so."
Concerning the article, I agree with you that the author is a bit condescending towards other religions. But, without intending to defend him, he also recognizes the kind side of Trek or Christianity (I guess we could also simply call it common decency). So I'd say he is a Dark Jedi, caught between the Light and the Dark side.
Concerning abortion, I entirely agree with you. If the religious folks who are against abortion wouldn't be against contraceptives like the Pope or against sex education like the American Evangelicals I would take them more seriously.
Then again there are may moderate and liberal Christians who rightly emphasize the sanctity of life and that women who consider to abort need psychological council.
Basically the question of abortion boils down to a trade-off between the rights of the woman and of the embryo / fetus. I don't feel qualified to define when life starts and as a man I lack the phenomological insights of pregnancy (and the ensuing question of whether you could really claim that a woman and her fetus are seperate entities) and that's why I am perfectly happy with allowing abortion under certain conditions (it should be early enough, there should be a social, medical or criminal reason for it). I certainly don't think that anybody has the right to tell a woman who has been raped or who might give birth to a seriously handicapped child that she must not kill her soon-to-be baby.
The great George Carlin also has some nice insights into abortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvF1Q3UidWM
About religious schools, I don't think that we have any over here, probably because religious tuition is integrated into the normal school system. I think that any private school needs to receive public funds so one might have to ask more principal questions. Should there be religious schools (your article shows the Dark Side and Dawkins has also dug up some ugly sh*t in British religious schools) or, that's the lefty in me, should there be private schools at all? In my opinion the school system should have an integrating and not a seperating function.
About Quark, I think he talked several times about the problems of the Federation. I faintly him talking about the UFP to Sisko when they were on a planet during the Dominion War.
When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job, means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?" And I've long since learned that to be a follower to the Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. And my bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. - MLK, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
Remember the ENDING and how she died. She came around.
Sure it is a wormhole and their is nothing wrong with calling it that because it describes a phenomena. But what does the Federation know about whether the Prophets are ALIEN to bajor or not? The Prophets say they are of Bajor. The Federation propaganda is for the purpose of dismissing the prophets not for being factual.
I think the separation is a good idea because the church gets carried away but the separation is partially illusionary as the representatives are allowed to make legislation that follows their own values instead of the people the represent which is why people vote in people of like beliefs. So religion still makes it in. That the idea behind the conservative label.
I understand his perspective if extreme.
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About the Prophets saying that they are from Bajor, I have the crazy idea that they are future Bajorans or rather, as they are timeless, the final stage of Bajoran evolution. It is basically a small scale version of Omega Point theory, i.e. the idea that we all might evolve one day into God(s) and become the structuring force of the universe. The inherent causality paradox is not unlike what happens e.g. in First Contact, future humans care for humans in the present and give Cochrane and Lily a prophecy of a better future.
What I like about such admittedly slightly lunatic ideas is that they broaden the concept of God and combine it with the old sci-fi gimmick of causality paradoxes ... or is it really a sci-fi invention? When Christians talk about Christ's death being a remedy for sin don't they mean something similar? The idea is after all not that he has "erased our debt" in order that we can mess up again but rather that he has opened the space of possibility for redemption. Just like Picard opens the space of possibility for a meaningful life for Cochrane.
I think that in Calvinism you have a similar paradox, there is predestination but it's not the the old Pagan destiny thing because you are also free. Freedom (not the strawberry- vs. apple-pie consumer freedom) is always paradoxical, e.g. you cannot be forced to love as love is probably the freest act that exists but you nonetheless fall in love, you can't help it, it feels like you are destined to love this particular person.
When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job, means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?" And I've long since learned that to be a follower to the Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. And my bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. - MLK, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
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Thoughts From Across The Pond 02.09.13: José Aldo: Dominance Misunderstood
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José Aldo retained his featherweight title at UFC 156, but the validity of the judges' decision has been questioned! 411's Alex Watt takes a look at how another Aldo win has been incorrectly labelled another controversial Frankie Edgar loss!
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José Aldo: The Most Underrated and Misunderstood Dominant Performance Ever?
On Saturday night
José Aldo
made his sixth defence (including two inside the WEC cage) of the UFC Featherweight Championship. Securing a largely dominant win over former UFC Lightweight champ
Frankie Edgar
via a deserved unanimous judges' verdict, Aldo's performance should have been held up as continued evidence of his status as one of the pound for pound best fighters in the sport.
Instead, after the judges' scores of 49-46, 48-47, 49-46 were revealed, we were forced once again to debate whether we had witnessed yet another controversial judging call.
Frankie Edgar has a now infamous knack for becoming embroiled in close, controversial judging decisions. He himself acknowledged that fact after the fight saying,
"It was a close fight, and I keep finding myself in these situations. It is what it is."
Nevertheless, this loss to Aldo was nowhere near as close as Edgar's narrow win over
BJ Penn
at UFC 112, his UFC 125 draw with
Gray Maynard
or the New Jerseyan's loss to
Benson Henderson
in their UFC 150 rematch. The fact that some fans and pundits believe his UFC 156 loss was as controversial as those bouts, is a credit to Edgar's busy striking style and plucky underdog moniker.
And, make no mistake, it is to Edgar's immense credit that he fought his way back into the much anticipated super-fight following his typical slow start in the opening two rounds, which saw the talented Brazilian thoroughly pick "The Answer" apart using his clean boxing combinations and savage leg kicks, a fact accentuated by Frankie's bloodied nose and bruised thigh. Edgar, in rounds 3, 4 and 5 made a real contest out of the UFC 156 main event by capitalising on Aldo's slowing pace and by adapting his strategy and footwork in intelligent fashion.
Unquestionably, Edgar won the fourth round by finally landing some of his combinations and securing an, admittedly brief, takedown. However, the rounds which are causing controversy amongst some onlookers are the third and the fifth.
The third stanza was the closest round of the fight. After a dominant opening two rounds, Aldo began to slow down. At first there was a worry from some viewers that the Brazilian was beginning to gas, but it seems more likely that "Scarface" was conserving his energy in the knowledge that the fight was likely going to go the distance with the iron chinned Edgar. Some scored that middle round in Edgar's favour (including myself on first viewing, I must admit) but the
back up Aldo edging it, and the front kick he landed to the face of the American may well have been what ultimately swayed the minds of two of the three judges at Octagon-side.
However, the amount of fans and – astonishingly – respected MMA journalists who have pointed to the fifth and final round as an undisputable 10-9 in favour of Frankie Edgar is, quite frankly, baffling. Edgar's striking output in that last stanza was impressive, as it always is considering the man's phenomenal conditioning, but it was Aldo who was landing the harder, crisper strikes and defending Edgar's takedowns at will. A showy superman punch off the cage wall was the icing on the cake for an impressive counter-striking round for the defending champ.
Those who scored that final round in the favour of the challenger – an opinion which was surely swayed by the misleading colour commentary of
Joe Rogan
during the final five minutes – would be best served to analyse the judging criteria once again. A round is scored based on
aggression and
Octagon control. As such, although anyone has to concede that Edgar landed more strikes in that fifth round, the more effective striking – and, indeed, grappling since Aldo was defending Edgar's takedowns – was firmly in the champion's favour.
Remarkably, even UFC President
Dana White
questioned the validity of the two 49-46 scores in his interview with Ariel Helwani after the main event. It seems that even when the judges score a fight correctly, they cannot escape criticism.
Despite the questionable outcry regarding the UFC 156 main event, it should be noted that the contest was a highly entertaining one which took home the official
Fight of the Night
honours, and deservedly so. This was an example of a super-fight very much living up to the hype that preceded it, with Aldo displaying almost every facet of his striking and Edgar once again proving his tenacity and unparalleled ability to adapt his strategy and footwork mid-fight.
Edgar will find much success at featherweight, there is no doubt about that. With another win or two he can expect himself to find himself challenging for the belt again.
The apparent dilemma for Dana White and co- of who will challenge José Aldo next was cleared up remarkably quickly. Although
Ricardo Lamas
Chan Sung Jung
seemed the most likely next contenders for Aldo, the UFC was thrown a much welcome curveball when
Anthony Pettis
texted Dana White immediately after the conclusion of UFC 156 to announce his desire to drop to 145lbs and challenge the brilliant Brazilian.
On Tuesday it was confirmed that Aldo and Pettis will meet on August 3rd for the UFC Featherweight Championship. The prospect of two strikers of Aldo and Pettis' quality battling over a potential five rounds is a mouth-watering one for MMA fans and is a dream match-up that is very welcome, given the relative lack of options for Aldo at present.
Some will complain about "Showtime" jumping the queue ahead of the aforementioned Lamas and Jung but, in reality, "The Korean Zombie" is still injured, whilst Lamas, in spite of his impressive TKO win over
Erik Koch
at UFC on FOX two weeks ago, is simply not well known by the UFC audience at large. Perhaps if the UFC had possessed the foresight to place his fight, and subsequent career making win, over
Hatsu Hioki
last June, on the main card of UFC on FX, as opposed to the preliminary portion of the event then things may be different.
What will be very interesting to see as August rolls into view, is how exactly José Aldo will be received by the fans and promoted by the UFC. His win over Frankie Edgar was a fairly dominant one and yet many will cling to the assertion that "The Answer" has once again been cheated out of a title win. This opinion, exacerbated by the Goldberg-Rogan commentary and then furthered by MMA journalists who should know better, may hurt Aldo's credibility and marketability in the long run.
Let's hope not. José Aldo is one of the best fighters in the sport today. So, let's stop with the conspiracy theories and just appreciate the talented UFC Featherweight Champion. And let's appreciate how good his fight with "Showtime" promises to be, for good measure!
For more on José Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar and why the judges got it right, check out
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Samer Kadi
go into even more detail on this week's fantastic
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Quotes of the Week
"I'll say my piece on Randy Couture, and after today, I'll never mention him again. The bottom-line is this: When that whole thing went down with Randy years ago, we weren't on the best of terms. Now, before that happened, Randy Couture was on the Matt Hughes, Chuck Liddell deal. He was getting a salary, he was in with the company, he was one of those guys. Then he tries to do all this stuff, pull all this bulls*** with Affliction, loses and comes back. So, it took me a long time to warm up to him. His lawyer, who I can't stand, calling our lawyer every day, saying, 'We want to come back, we want that job again, we want to work for the UFC,' and all this stuff. Finally, I just say, 'yes,' and give him the FOX deal. He doesn't even finish his contract -- he's got one more fight left -- and he bails on the contract to go do this. Randy Couture has this 'Captain America' image and stuff like that, but he is not a good guy. He has never been a good guy. And I'm actually, and I mean this, I couldn't mean it any more: I am happy that he went there. I'm happy he is there. I never have to deal with Randy Couture ever again. . . . Talk to 99 percent of the people who know him and you'll see [he's not what people perceive him to be]."
Dana White
's latest rant; this time on Randy Couture and the former two division champ signing with Spike TV.
"I had some rather interesting and classic texts that came to my phone. This was kind of a couple weeks ago when things started leaking. . . . I'm happy to not have to put up with and keep my mouth shut and deal with Dana as well. It goes both ways. I have a ton of respect for the UFC. In a lot of ways, I still have respect for Dana and the passion that he has for the sport and the things that him and Lorenzo have managed to do for the sport over the course of their tenure since 2000. . . . Certainly there's plenty of things I don't agree with. . . . At the end of the day, [the UFC have] never shied away from competition and I think that's what's got them on their heels a little bit now and Dana especially, is that I think they see Viacom and this whole platform as a threat and serious competition to them being considered the only brand in the marketplace in this sport."
Randy Couture
gives his side of the story.
"I'll explain why I'd believed [that Silva would win]. First, Silva is a big tough guy with a huge heart who had demolished Fedor and he needs no better reference than that, and Alistair hugely underestimated him and belittled him with his arrogant statements, so this mobilized Silva in the best possible way. Second, Silva is a natural heavyweight, and Alistair – for the first time since way back in 2007, when he began to gain huge weight – fought without the drugs he had used constantly for years, including testosterone and all the other s*** that goes with it. Watching the weigh-in, I saw that his muscle mass was nowhere near his usual. He had the weight, but he wasn't nearly as carved out and defined, since he couldn't take anything because he was watched by the Athletic Commission. This also reflects on the psyche of a man who's been using stuff to increase his strength, endurance, pain tolerance and aggressiveness for years, and now there was none of that. Alistair is an excellent fighter, but he still owes that excellence to something that's dirty and unpermitted, and, in the end, very dangerous to health. I don't think he was concerned by that, he wanted success at any cost. And the third thing is Alistair had behaved so arrogantly that someone needed to put him back in his place. His belittling of Silva was repulsive, saying that after beating up Silva he'd go for the belt, and at the weigh-in and entering the arena he acted like he invented the fighting sport, and he's been behaving with so much arrogance lately that I'm glad Silva put him back in his place and taught him a lesson! Congratulations Silva, from the heart!"
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic
is very happy that "Bigfoot" beat Overeem.
"My reaction was like, 'Really?! You're an idiot.' He said that Condit really did beat Nick Diaz, know what I'm saying? He said, 'I'm fighting the true number one contender Carlos Condit,' and now, he's going backtracking and saying, 'Well, I think [Hendricks] lost.' Who cares? You don't get to decide. He's not a judge. He's not a judge. He's a fighter. He's paid to fight and he's paid to fight me. The fact that he was able to ask and get this request [to fight Diaz], the only thing this is, is it gives me more drive. It's not like I didn't have enough but what's gonna happen is, whenever I look across the cage, he's not going to see fear. He's not gonna see anything. All I want to do is I want to fight him. I want to look across and see GSP and that might be something he's not used to. I don't know. I don't know why he didn't take the fight but I guess I wouldn't want to fight me as well."
Johny Hendricks
is not impressed with Georges St. Pierre's assessment of him.
Pound for Pound Rankings
José Aldo is still the No. 4 pound for pound fighter following his win over Frankie Edgar last weekend. Edgar, with the loss, falls to No. 10. Rashad Evans' shocking performance against "Little Nog" sees him lose his No. 13 spot and, in fact, fall out of the top 15 entirely. As a result, Joseph Benavidez re-enters the list at No. 15 following his win over Ian McCall a fortnight ago.
1. Anderson Silva (33-4)
2. Georges St. Pierre (23-2)
3. Jon Jones (17-1)
4. José Aldo (22-1)
5. Benson Henderson (18-2)
6. Cain Velasquez (11-1)
7. Dan Henderson (29-8)
8. Ronda Rousey (6-0)
9. Demetrious Johnson (16-2-1)
10. Frankie Edgar (14-4-1)
11. Carlos Condit (28-6)
12. Gilbert Melendez (21-2)
13. Renan Barão (29-1, 1NC)
14. Junior Dos Santos (15-2)
15. Joseph Benavidez (17-3)
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La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
volleyball team earned a 3-2 (25-23, 21-25, 13-25, 26-24, 16-14)
victory over UW-Oshkosh Tuesday night in Mitchell Hall in the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Tournament First Round. The
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season at 22-11.
UW-L advances to the WIAC Tournament Semifinals for the first time since 2008. The Eagles will play at top-seeded UW-Stevens Point in the WIAC Tournament Semifinals Friday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m.
UW-L fell in the 2008 semifinals to UW-Oshkosh, but came back to defeat UW-Whitewater in the third-place match. The Eagles earned a bid to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships in 2008, finishing 1-1.
In Tuesday's match, UW-L raced out to an early 6-3 lead in the opening set. The Eagles later led 16-10 and 18-13, but the Titans cut the deficit to 21-19. UW-Oshkosh could get no closer than two points the rest of the set.
UW-Oshkosh took the next two sets to take a 2-1 advantage. After the Eagles scored the first point of the second set, the Titans went on a 7-0 run. UW-L trailed 16-10, but scored five straight points to cut the lead to one. The set was tied at 17-17, 19-19 and 20-20 before UW-Oshkosh scored five of the final six points to earn the win.
The Titans led 6-2 and 10-4 in the third set and the Eagles could get no closer than four points the rest of the set.
UW-L led 10-5 in the fourth set, but UW-Oshkosh scored seven consecutive points to lead 12-10. The set was tied 20-20 after UW-L scored three straight points. The Eagles led 24-22 when the Titans tied the set with two straight points, but UW-L scored the final two to earn the win.
UW-Oshkosh scored the first three points of the fifth and deciding set before UW-L scored the next three. The fifth set was tied three times, including 10-10 when the Titans took a 12-10 lead. After UW-L cut the lead to 12-11, UW-Oshkosh scored the next point for a two-point advantage. The Eagles then tied it with two points, but the Titans went ahead 14-13 and serving for the match. UW-L then tallied the final three points to earn the victory.
Crystal Ziegler led UW-L with 19 kills, including the final point of the match. Leah Putzier recorded nine kills for the Eagles while Jill Entinger finished with eighth. Lauren Probst and Kayla Ashland each had six. Cassie Raduka recorded 42 assists as the Eagles hit .080 for the match.
Lauren Rosowski had a team-high 14 digs while Courtney Geisler finished with 13 and Raduka 11. Putzier and Entinger each had 4.0 blocks.
Katelyn Malcheski led UW-Oshkosh with 21 kills while Mikala Sebastian recorded eight and Jessica Fischer seven. Alison Tomczyk had 19 assists and Morgan Cizauskas 14 as the Titans hit .163.
Mandy Trautmann recorded 29 digs while Danielle Stoppenbach finished with 11 and Cizauskas 10. Nerissa Vogt had 5.0 blocks.
The teams combined for 26 service aces (UW-L with 15; UW-Oshkosh with 11).
UW-L returns to action Friday, November 8 at UW-Stevens Point in the WIAC Tournament Semifinals.
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MANATEE -- A 51-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty as a result of an investigation prompted earlier this month when deputies seized several animals from an abandoned house in Bradenton, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Mauro Cantos was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with 13 counts of unlawful confinement/abandonment of animals, five counts of cruelty to animals and four counts of fighting or baiting animals.
He is being held at the Manatee County jail on bonds totaling $12,000. He will appear before a Manatee County judge Thursday afternoon if he doesn't bond out before.
Sheriff's deputies responded Jan. 15 to a complaint of several animals neglected at an abandoned house in the 3800 block of 38th Avenue East, Bradenton. Cantos was one of the listed property owners, according to the Manatee Property Appraiser's website.
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The dogs are now being sheltered at Manatee County Animal Services, and the livestock is at the Manatee County jail's farm.
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After seizing the animals, investigators tried to interview Cantos.
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'It's scary not being able to contain your PR – we're just not in control anymore…"
So said a company CEO to me last week in discussing the impact of the social media revolution.
Not too long ago, companies communicated with their customers and would-be customers via slick advertising and marketing campaigns and invited them to speak back to them by calling their "customer care" line or sending an e-mail. Their response would be a carefully crafted concoction of corporate platitudes along the lines of "we apologise for the inconvenience" and my personal favourite: "We've received no other complaints of this nature."
But gone are the days when companies contain an issue by dealing with consumers individually.
Blogs, Facebook and Twitter have obliterated all hope of such containment – in a matter of hours it's "out there" for all to read and add their comments. The power is now firmly in the hands of the people, which is a good thing in many ways, because, as I know only too well, there's nothing like the public airing of an issue to motivate a company to do the right thing.
Sadly, for some, being seen to do the right thing is more important than doing the right thing.
But the general lack of rules and etiquette in this space – and the fact that you can post anonymously – has given rise to a considerable amount of abuse.
Richard Boorman, Vodacom's acting chief officer of corporate affairs, spoke to Consumer Watch about this last week, sharing some of what he termed "just a few choice messages posted to us on Twitter". Predictably, some hard core swear words feature strongly, but there's also the disturbing use of the word "rape".
As in "I would rape all your families for the s***iest service ever, but thank you", and (from another tweeter): "GSMed for 6 hours last night. I hope the CEO gets raped."
And this, from a subscriber who was battling to send someone an SMS: "F*** you into another galaxy you sack of stinking abortion excuse for a network."
Such "repulsive" threats are a daily occurance, Boorman says.
"We understand people's very personal 24/7 relationship with their cellphone and internet connectivity, and we fully understand that it's hugely frustrating when things don't go right," Boorman said. "The nature of the technology is that it has limitations and cannot meet the expectation of nothing-less-than-perfection all the time.
"It's natural that when people get frustrated, they vent their anger on social media and we try not to take it personally. Having said that, there is clear line between expressing frustration and outright abuse and threats. The people sitting in the social media team, just like our call centre agents, are human beings who react the same way as anyone else when faced with a barrage of abuse."
The company is considering legal action to protect its staff, Boorman says. "It is sad when common sense, and common decency, suggests that a polite, if firm, approach is the best way to get a resolution."
It's easy to be nasty to someone when you can't see their face, says Jessie Rudd, data analyst with PBT, a company specialising in "sentiment analysis" of social networks as a form of business intelligence.
"Human connection gets lost in the great big nothingness of the internet."
Punctuation and proper spelling, too, alas.
The last year has seen a massive rise in the uptake and infiltration of social networks, blogs, microblogs and forums by businesses, Judd says, with 55% of South African businesses using websites such as Twitter to engage and inform existing customers. "Sentiment analysis" locates and analyses digital content in real time across multiple channels – in other words, it tracks public sentiment about a particular company or brand.
"Companies need to build social media as part of their marketing campaigns, so that they're proactive, rather than just reactive," Rudd says. "They need to counterbalance what's being put out there by consumers and thus manage their brand reputation."
It's something Woolworths is painfully aware of in the wake of the Frankies furore.
Naturally, corporates resent having to spend time and energy responding to what they regard as irresponsible, misleading social media comments about their business. This is especially true in the case of recalls.
A classic example was last year's recall of a batch of banana-flavoured baby food made by Nestlé only for the French market, after a single piece of glass was found in one jar of the product, in France.
There's little more sensational than the thought of glass in baby food and as a result, messages began circulating on the internet, introducing the brand name Gerber (a US-based subsidiary of Nestlé, unconnected to the French recall) giving the impression that the recall was global.
Dr Corine van Erkom Schurink, PBT's analytics team lead, throws out a fascinating statistic: of the world's 6 billion people, 4.8 billion have a phone which gives them access to the internet, as opposed to 4.2 billion who have a toothbrush.
Apparently a lack of attention to personal hygiene is no barrier to having your say about anything or anyone on an international platform.
Of course, being on top of what your customers are saying about you on the net is one thing – having the skills and suss to respond appropriately is another.
Bongi Thabede of Durban ordered a birthday cake – for her son's fifth birthday party at his school – from her local Spar a few months ago. She stipulated that it should be a "photo cake" and supplied a photo of the boy for this purpose.
No problem, she was told.
Naturally, she was expecting a cake decorated with an edible image of her son. What she got instead was a cake with the actual photo – inedible, naturally – plopped on top of the icing, but because she'd fetched it at the last minute, to rush it to the school, she had no choice but to pay up and take the strange-looking cake.
Furious, she later had a vent on her Facebook wall, which attracted a fair amount of "can't believe it!" type comments from her friends. Among the comments was one from Spar, a company she'd "befriended" on Facebook some time earlier.
"They apologised and asked me to forward my story to their service department and supplied me with an e-mail address – which I did," she said.
"The service department contacted me straight away and assured me that Gateway Spar would respond within seven days.
"Ten days went by and no one contacted me, so I posted on Spar's wall, telling them how dissatisfied I was and the next day the store manager phoned me, listened to my story and apologised."
Too little, too late, if you ask me.
The social media response was impressively fast, but the old-fashioned follow-up was lacking.
The two need to work hand-in-hand.
Bokomo Foods get the Marmite label right
"Thanks to you and your informative column, we now watch our labels, perhaps too closely," wrote Mike Dallas of Plumstead, Cape Town.
He went on to question what he thought was either a change in Marmite's formulation, or a relabelling in order to comply with the new food labelling regulations which come into effect on March 1 and compel manufacturers to disclose a lot more.
He could track the changes, by comparing the labelling of an older bottle of Marmite with a current one.
"It looks and tastes the same, but the new label's ingredients list includes anti-foaming agent and stabiliser, and some of the 100g proportions have changed.
"We are just concerned that they are substituting ingredients to make it more profitable for them," he said.
He sent an e-mail to Bokomo Foods (part of Pioneer Foods), but had no response in a week, which is when he e-mailed me. (Corporates, take note.)
The label on the jar he bought last June lists the ingredients as: "Yeast extract, salt, natural flavourant and spices. No artificial flavour or preservatives."
The jar bought last month has a list which goes like this: "Water, yeast extract, salt, anti-foaming agent, stabiliser, flavouring, spices. Free from preservatives and colourants."
Interestingly, Dallas also spotted that the salt content of the newer jar was 12% more than that of the old one.
Marmite's makers responded to my e-mail within a day.
In short, Marmite has not been reformulated at all. A large proportion of Marmite is yeast extract (but water is the main ingredient, which we now know, thanks to the new label) which is a natural product supplied by breweries around the country, and nutritional content varies from batch to batch, hence the difference in the salt content of those two jars. So there you have it!
Oh, as for Pioneer Foods failure to respond to Dallas's e-mail within a week, a company spokesman told me: "We are in the process of following up with the call centre as to why the consumer has not received a response yet and will rectify that shortly."
I checked and they did.
Dallas got a call that evening, apologising for the lack of response, followed up by a letter, answering all his questions in detail, the following day.
Check and recheck numbers before doing EFTs
When you're doing an electronic funds transfer (EFT), or supplying your bank details to someone for them to make an EFT payment into your account, please be particularly pedantic about the account number.
Because if your money lands up in someone else's account, it's entirely up to them whether they pay it back to you, or decide to keep their unexpected windfall.
Many consumers appear to believe that account details need to be an exact match for an EFT payment to be successful – in other words, that the name of the account holder, the branch code and the account number, all need to be correct.
This is sadly not the case – as long as the chosen bank has the account number entered, the transfer will go through.
And if the intended recipient develops selective morality and finds some way of justifying why they are entitled to keep the money, there is no way your bank can force them – also their customer – to give up the money, or go into their account and whip out the money. You are entirely at the mercy of that person.
I'm sure many do choose to do the right thing, but I only hear about the cases when they don't.
In the most recent, a woman on maternity leave with her first child mistakenly gave an insurance company the number of the savings account she closed some years ago. As a result, the R7 500 pay-out from the "top up" insurance she'd taken out to pay the difference between her doctor's bills and her medical aid payments landed up in the hands of the woman to whom the bank has since allocated that savings account number.
She initially said she'd spent some of the money, but would transfer the rest to the new mother, but that was weeks ago, and no money has been forthcoming.
When you're paying one of your regular beneficiaries via EFT, make very sure that you've clicked on the right one – I once paid Truworths instead of Telkom! – and delete any which are no longer valid to cut down on your chances of making a mistake.
And if it's a one-off payment, take time to triple check that you've got those numbers right.
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