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As previously said, I am a flight attendant with JetBlue Airways. Today, I did something that I could not wait to get home and tell the McCoven.
For starters, I went to work very hung over from a beer and scotch binge. On my first flight of the day, I was trying so hard to not let out any of the toxic fumes that were brewing in my innards.
As my flight from Syracuse to New York City was boarding I saw some jack-ass wearing a UCLA football shirt and Dodgers hat.
"You have to remove that hat, sir."
"It's an FAA regulation."
"No, it's not."
"I know. But I'm a Giants fan, and your face makes me want to vommit."
I didn't say that last part but I wanted to. I did tell him I am Giants fan, however.
I didn't talk to him ever again in the flight. I didn't ask him if he wanted a snack, or drink or anything. And he didn't ask to get one. It was as if he accepted the fact that I was a Giants fan, it's my flight, and Dodger fans are not appreciated. But there's more...
When I was walking through the cabin collecting trash a foul wind was afoot. I saw the tasteless and offensive blue cap was only a few rows ahead. I held my stench in for a few more seconds, and as soon as I took one step past him, I let 'er rip. My ass was directly in his ear, and I let out a good one. I didn't look back to see if he noticed. My guess is he did not notice initially because he was watching TV and his head phones probably muffled my fart, but if my bomb was even HALF the mega-tonage of my previous expulsions, he could not have helped but taste it.


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Just got off the phone with NASA, the earth actually moved on it's axis sat night, be careful the apocalypse may be upon us. I was truly convinced that Fedor was going to get out of that triangle choke, and when he didn't my jaw dropped, I was silent and I couldn't believe Fedor had lost. After fighting a submission guy like Nog and going a decade without losing, I think even Fedor thought he was invincible as he jumped right into Werdum's guard. He had to of, he was the one throwing the punches, he had to have known he didn't connect with that flurry the sent Werdum back onto is backside. I've always said I don't see anyone beating Brock at this point, and really had the hopes that we'd see and undefeated Fedor face Brock sometime next year. Now I hope and pray that Shane Carwin leaves Brock bloody and battered in the cage on sat. So what happened? What would have happened if Fedor hadn't have jumped into Werdum's guard? Where does this leave Fedor? More importantly, where does strikeforce and M-1 go from here?
I had a feeling that Fedor would be just as gracious in defeat as he always is in victory, but deep down he had to have been very disappointed. Just last week he had mentioned retiring without being beaten was a goal of his. Now his goal has to be not only to beat Werdum in a rematch, and beat him handily, but to go to the UFC and beat the best they have to offer. Fedor's legacy is built over years of domination in Pride, but those former legends haven't fared to well here on American soil, and now Fedor loses to a guy that was cut from the UFC. Fedor claim to not care about things like standings and records, but why mention retiring without being beaten? From my stand point, it is imperative for him to prove he is still the best in the world and if he is no longer, to go out trying to prove he is.
As for the rest of the card, it wasn't too bad. The Healy/Thomson fight was close, and if elbows were allowed on the ground, Heally would have ended it in the first. Thompson showed heart and came back nicely. The ground work, submission attempts and transitions were great in that match. The women's match shoulda been stopped numerous times, but I had no problem with it continuing as Finnie showed tremendous heart and the will to stay in the fight. Cung Le dominated Smith again, but it means nothing to anyone except Cung Le. By the standards that I watch mma at, he's mediocre at best! Go try that flashy kicking shit with someone who is actually good and that doesn't make their living being a human punching bag that happens to be able to throw a hard punch once in a while. Overall, not a bad night of fights, but I'm still convinced that showtime could put on a few less shows a year and stack them a bit more. The funniest news this weekend to me was Nick Diaz saying he won't be involved in a MW tournament if Jake Shields is still around...Nick, lay off the reefer man, something tells me that if Jake is still around, they won't need a tournament to crown a new champion. Take it away fellas!


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Glue dots and lines (available in various sizes in the scrapbooking or tape and glue aisles of craft stores) have made fixing one material to another as simple as peeling and sticking. Here, we've used them to decorate dyed, hard-boiled eggs with colored sand. So go ahead and break the mold when decorating your eggs this year -- and have an eggs-traordinary time in the process.
Dye your hard-boiled eggs and allow them to dry completely.
Pour the colored sand into bowls.
Apply glue dots or lines to one half of your egg, then gently roll that side in the sand, covering the glue completely. Be careful not to let the glue stick to any surfaces, or you could have a hard time freeing your egg!
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Safety and Survival Sidebar: Chicago Fire Department Conducts High-Rise Drill
The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) completely revamped its response and procedures to be followed for high-rise fires as a result of a tragic downtown fire in which six lives were lost in 2003. Notably, a top-to-bottom revision of CFD tactics, including...
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The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) completely revamped its response and procedures to be followed for high-rise fires as a result of a tragic downtown fire in which six lives were lost in 2003. Notably, a top-to-bottom revision of CFD tactics, including a new Strategic Operating Plan (SOP), was developed and implemented in 2004. The SOP included increasing the initial response for a telephone alarm from two engines, two trucks and a battalion chief to four engines, four trucks, a squad, three battalion chiefs, an advanced life support (ALS) ambulance and an EMS paramedic field chief.
During the ensuing years, the SOP worked well but, not unexpectedly, a major issue revolved around communications. Effective communications inside a high-rise building continues to be an issue of great concern.
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Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago has risen through the ranks to achieve every position within the Chicago Fire Department, from firefighter to commissioner. At one point, he was chief of District 1, which includes the downtown "Loop" and surrounding areas. In November 2012, the CFD and the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) placed an entirely new radio system into operation with multiple-frequency capabilities. One of the many objectives of this new system was to relieve the overloading of the one fireground frequency, used heretofore, by providing multiple new frequencies.
Recently, Santiago and Deputy Fire Commissioner John McNicholas embarked on a plan to conduct a full-scale high-rise drill with the goal of evaluating the new communications system and review the effectiveness of the nine-year-old SOP. Finding a building with an owner and a building manager interested in supporting this plan was not easy. Fortunately, Chicago is home to the AON Building at 200 East Randolph St. The 83-story building opened in 1973 and was originally named the Standard Oil Building. The building was retrofitted with automatic sprinklers in 1983 and is essentially a vertical city with 10,000 tenant employees and visitors daily. Thomas W. Begg Jr., director of security and life safety of Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (Illinois), the building manager, coordinated the effort with the CFD for the drill, which took place on June 2, 2013. The plan was to put in place a mock fire scenario on the 75th floor that involved 17 mock victims, artificial smoke and a 2-11 (second alarm) response.
The demand for resources at a fire in a high-rise building is more severe than the typical building fire at ground level. CFD's heavy initial response is unusual, but necessary due to the exposure of life and property in a high-rise. Having adequate resources on the initial alarm can make all the difference between success and failure. District Chief William Vogt was assigned the task of pulling this entire drill together. The goal was to begin with an "automatic-alarm" assignment (one engine, one truck and a battalion chief) and escalate the incident from there to a 2-11 alarm.
A drill of this magnitude required multiple staff chiefs located throughout the operation to evaluate the effectiveness of the practices, procedures and communications. Eighteen evaluators were stationed throughout the drill from the staging area to victim removal and triage. Their assignment was to provide objective views on which practices worked well and which practices need review.
The drill begins
At about 9:15 A.M., Engine 13, Truck 6 and Battalion 1, Chief Mike Gubricki, were dispatched to an "automatic alarm" in the AON Building. Gubricki assumed the position of incident commander in the lobby and the two companies, after consulting the alarm panel and meeting building management, proceeded as the Fire Investigation Team (FIT). The FIT gained control of the elevators and then responded three floors below the reported location of the fire, per protocol. After exiting the elevators on Floor 72, they went up the stairwell designated as the fire attack stairwell to Floor 75. Upon arrival at the fire floor, they reported "smoke," which necessitated Battalion 1 requesting a "full still" alarm, bringing four engines, four ladders, Squad 1, a communications van, three battalion chiefs plus EMS, consisting of one ALS ambulance and an EMS paramedic field chief.
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Using Spot Starters
Can someone make a bit more sense of this for me. The Pirates have no days off for 20 days, so they are going to use some spot starters. Now regardless of how many games you play in a row, typically your starters still get the same amount of rest....so wouldn't you want more arms in the pen, not in the rotation?


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January 17, 2013
The United States says it's ready to send surveillance drones to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the African state despite the government of Rwanda's objections from its new rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council. The U.S. also supports the plan to use drones to increase surveillance capacity in other African countries.
December 28, 2012
"Haiti may have many problems but until 2010 cholera was not one of them. In fact, the country had no known history of the disease at all," the Al Jazeera host explains. In October 2010, the first of now 8,000 Haitians died of cholera introduced to Haiti by U.N. peacekeeping troops from Nepal and the U.N.'s negligence in allowing their untreated waste to poison a major river.
December 27, 2012
Ingabire returned to her native Rwanda from the Netherlands in January 2010 to stand for the presidency against incumbent President Paul Kagame, but she was not allowed to run and was imprisoned on charges of terrorism and genocide ideology. A court sentenced her to eight years, and her lawyers have filed an appeal with the Rwandan Supreme Court.
December 19, 2012
The Obama administration was on the defensive about the U.S. relationship with Rwanda and its U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice at the Dec. 11, 2012, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Two days after the hearing, Rice withdrew her name from consideration to become secretary of state. In President Obama's statement on Susan Rice, issued the same day, he praised her work but did not mention Rwanda, Uganda or Congo.
December 12, 2012
The deadly conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo continues, as leaders of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwandan and Ugandan M23 militia fighting in Congo gather in Uganda's capital for peace talks, which members of the Congolese political opposition are boycotting.
December 9, 2012
Congolese problems should have Congolese solutions. We ask that the United States of America and the United Kingdom immediately withdraw all forms of financial and military aid to Rwanda that is a state sponsor of terrorism in Africa. We must pledge to ourselves that we will never again betray our people and ourselves by staying quiet and passive.
December 5, 2012
Over the last 16 years, more than 6 million lives have been lost in Congo – and the major perpetrators of those atrocities have been U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda. The majority of victims have been children under the age of 5. Subsequent U.S. administrations have provided aid to the Rwandan and Ugandan regimes. The U.S. remains one of the top two donors of aid to Rwanda today.
November 25, 2012
Terry Collins, co-founder of KPOO 89.5FM, and Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View, blessed the airwaves last Tuesday afternoon with a warm and revealing discussion of life and resistance and the upcoming Black Media Appreciation Night, honoring the champions of independent Black media. Black Media Appreciation Night is this Monday, Nov. 26, 8 p.m., at Yoshi's, 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland. For tickets and more information, go to http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/3104.
November 12, 2012
On Thursday a U.K. Parliament Select Committee held the first of two hearings to reconsider budget support to Rwanda. The committee scheduled the hearings in response to U.N. investigators' reports that Rwanda is arming, sending soldiers and even commanding the M23 militia fighting in eastern Congo.
November 9, 2012
Earlier this week, a court in Kigali, Rwanda found Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire guilty of treason and denying the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. KPFA's Ann Garrison spoke to Ingabire's daughter, Raissa Ujeneza. Ujeneza is a student of international and European law in the Netherlands.
November 6, 2012
A now famous quote from Ernesto Che Guevara says, "At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."
The legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has proven this repeatedly, even though the city in which the party was born continues to shower those who struggle within her boundaries with the most heinous disrespect.
September 24, 2012
It's time for dialogue between Rwandan and Congolese people of like mind to finally end the 16-year war between our two armies and their various ancillary or surrogate militias. The vast majority of both of our people need democracy, political space, economic opportunity and a common share in their countries' resource wealth.
August 4, 2012
In July 2010, Victoire Ingabire told Womens' International News Gathering Service that the warring that followed refugees from Rwanda into eastern Congo must be brought to an end with dialogue, not invasion: "The stumbling block is the refugees issue," she says.
July 21, 2012
The State Department announced today that the U.S. "has cut this year's planned military assistance to Rwanda amid concerns that the government in Kigali is supporting rebel movements in neighboring Congo," according to the Washington Post. A three-year campaign by advocates for peace in the Congo and an end to the plundering of its mineral riches culminates successfully in today's announcement. They have been pressing for implementation of the only law sponsored by then Sen. Obama allowing denial of aid to Congo's neighbors that destabilize the Congo.
May 19, 2012
On May 12, Sonoma State University awarded honorary doctorates in humane letters to former Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill and his wife Joan, paid for with a $12 million "donation." On the same day, William Penn University awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, despite his army's atrocities in Rwanda and Congo.
May 9, 2012
Congolese people have seen an estimated 6 million of their citizens perish in an unjust war. They have witnessed how the perpetrators of these crimes still roam the streets of their country or are given humanitarian awards and accolades. We hope that all justice seekers around the world will join us in working to deliver justice to the Congolese people.
April 4, 2012
The Oakland International Film Festival is Friday-Sunday, April 6-8, at the Oakland Museum of California, 10th and Oak Street, Oakland. Visit http://www.oiff.org/2012schedule.pdf. This year's headliner is one of the most controversial independent films ever made, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." Watch it again here.
February 28, 2012
A vicious land grab is being carried out in Uganda, pairing the country's dictator with an 'investor,' and the targets are the Acholi, genocide survivors who live in the northern part of the East African country, on abundant, fertile and mineral-rich land.
February 4, 2012
This is the month we wear our Blackness with pride – so walk on, walk on. I want to thank Rhodessa Jones, Shaka Jamal, Pat Jamison, Elaine Lee, Walter Turner, Vera Nobles and Elouise Burrell for your leads and references for South Africa.
January 22, 2012
According to Mickey Huff, the corporate media are serving up a diet of "junk-food news to avoid telling the public what is really going on at home and abroad"; for example, Ann Garrison discloses that pilotless drones are fast becoming the dominant means of delivering explosives from the air.


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McCanns' relatives to testify on 'damage' book inflicted
Relatives of Kate and Gerry McCann are expected to give evidence at the libel trial of Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.
Mr McCann's cousin Michael Wright is expected to be among those giving evidence relating to the "damage" caused by Mr Amaral's book.
Private investigator Dave Edgar, who assisted with the search for the missing child, is also part of proceedings.


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6.14 and 6.15 Aisha Tyler In Kirkland
The star of Archer, The Talk, A Podcast, Who's Line Is It Anyway?, comes to Laugh's In Kirkland on June 14 and 15th. Listen to Callahan's Interview Here
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Bark For Your Park
If there is one thing on every dog owner's wish list, it is for more off-leash dog parks. Now Kirkland residents have an opportunity to make that dream a reality.
This Weekend: Kevin Meaney
What a freak! He'll be at Laughs in Kirkland this Friday and Saturday. Here' a vintage clip of him on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Drive-by Celebrity Spotting
American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar got busted for speeding on I-405 in Kirkland early Tuesday morning – The Washington State Patrol says Malakar was clocked at 110 miles per hour. He received a $411 ticket […]


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Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment —a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.


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SNEAK PEEK: The Dawn of Christmas by Cindy Woodsmall
This Christmas, experience learning to trust alongside the Plain folk of Apple Ridge, Pennsylvania in this heart-warming tale of second chances.
Click here to download chapter one of The Dawn of Christmas.
Sadie enjoys her freedom away from home and her mission trips to Peru, but after four years, her Old Order Amish family insists it's time to come home and settle down. Levi, a bachelor who distrusts women after a family heartbreak, also has no desire for romance. To keep their families from meddling in their lives, Sadie and Levi devise a plan—but soon discover that the walls around their hearts are breaking down. Can they let go of their prejudices, learn to trust each other, and embrace a future together?
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But as Rhoda uses her gift to unpack an old secret with her Englisch neighbors, it is not her beau but an unlikely ally that cheers her on. With the orchard on shaky ground and Jacob's plans in question, Rhoda is determined to see things through to harvest. But can she trust her insight to direct her path in matters of the heart? – See more at: http://waterbrookmultnomah.com/catalog.php?work=208964#sthash.iEe3za7V.dpuf
SNEAK PEEK: For Every Season by Cindy Woodsmall
Working hard to develop a new Amish community outside of Unity, Maine, Rhoda Byler is fully committed to rehabilitating an orchard with business partner Samuel King.
Click here to download chapter one of For Every Season.
But an impulsive decision has created an unexpected strain in her relationship with her beau, Samuel's brother, Jacob, threatening plans for the orchard. Amidst mounting tension in matters of the heart and business, Rhoda finds that this fledging settlement feels like the home she has always longed for, and she begins to embrace the God-given, heightened intuition that has always felt like a burden to her.
Click here to download chapter one of For Every Season.
SNEAK PEEK: The Winnowing Season by Cindy Woodsmall
Will this new beginning lead to more ruin and heartbreak?
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The tornado that devastated Kings' Orchard pushed Rhoda, Samuel, and Jacob to make a new start in Maine. Are they strong enough to withstand the challenges of establishing an Amish community—and brave enough to face the secrets that move with them?
On the eve of their departure to begin a new Old Order Amish community outside of Unity, Maine, Rhoda Byler is shocked to discover that choices made by her business partner and friend, Samuel King, have placed her and her unusual gifts directly into the path of her district's bishop and preachers. She is furious with Samuel and is fearful that the Kings will be influenced by the way her leaders see her, and not what they know to be true—that Rhoda's intuition is a gift from God.
Click here to download chapter one of The Winnowing Season.
SNEAK PEEK: A Season for Tending by Cindy Woodsmall
In a community where conformity flourishes, seeds of Rhoda's odd behavior were planted long ago. Can she cultivate her relationships with the same care and tenderness that she gives her beloved garden?
Click here to download an excerpt from A Season for Tending.
Rebuffed by her Old Amish Order community due to her unexplained "gifts," intuitive Rhoda Byler prefers to be in her garden—alone. But when circumstances introduce her to apple-grower Samuel King, life begins to open up unexpectedly. Can Rhoda escape the guilt and stigma she's carried for so long and really start over?
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Steve Gatfield leaves Naked Communications
By Ian Darby, campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 17 September 2012 03:02PM
Steve Gatfield, the co-chairman of Naked Communications, has stepped down from his role at the agency.
Gatfield leaves Naked, which is owned by the Australia-based group Enero, with immediate effect.
He joined Naked in May 2011 to work alongside Naked founder Jon Wilkins at the helm of the company. Wilkins will continue as chairman.
Enero, previously know as Photon Group prior to a rebrand in July, also announced that Gatfield has stepped down as the executive director of the group.
The departure of the former Lowe Worldwide chief executive follows other senior changes this year. Three months ago Phil Hayden, the chief executive of Naked in Asia-Pacific left and Paul Woolmington, the founding partner of Naked New York, departed in April after six years.
Enero has struggled to grow the Naked network outside of its key markets and in its full-year results announcement in August described Naked as "a work in progrees" that was impacted by "closures of non-core offices." In London, the agency operates as Hypernaked following its merger with digital agency Hyper in 2011. Brad Fairhead leads the agency as its managing director
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It was announced late this evening that the Toronto Blue Jays will be moving their AAA farm club from Las Vegas, Nevada to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia effective immediately.
Head Coach Chad Mottola views this as a positive move for the aspiring major league baseball players, "In Vegas the boys have learned how to roll the dice and give things their best shot, but now they are ready to take the next step in their development, apply discipline and develop an approach at the plate and in life".
Top prospect, Travis Snider, is excited about raking under the moon. Adeiny Hechevarria, seen practicing in the new stadium, "The Sandpit", under the shadow of the palace of King Abdullah, admitted that he may need to wear a camelback in order to keep hydrated was enthusiastic about introducing another culture to the nuances of baseball. His slick-as-oil defending is sure to be a hit in this soccer-mad nation. Anthony Gose is eagerly anticipating the effect that training in sand dunes will have on his 60 yard dash timings. Newly appointed team captain, Yan Gomes, informed the media thhrough a fog of shisha smoke that he saw the red-eye flights between Riyadh and their opponents' parks in America as a chance for bonding and developing a team identity. He added that Travis d'Arnaud has accepted his role as back-up catcher to Gomes graciously and expects that the two of them will push each other to great success under the desert sun.
General Manager, Alex Anthopolous could not be reached for comment as he was being entertained by Saudi dignatories. Spokesman Michael McCoy, newly appointed 'traveling consultant' for the Riyadh Blue Camels said that AA had worked his magic yet again to insure that the AAA Jays received the best possible baseball education. He added that the major league Jays are sure to soon sheikh the label of also-rans, "We are doing all that we can to define baseball in the East".


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Black Monday has come in gone. Where should the change come in Dallas.
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An uncertain future lies ahead for Tony Romo, built by his past of insecure and unpredictable play.
What transpired Sunday was so painful to watch, even after a month of painful personal tragedy on my part, and it was the natural conclusion to a season that started so well in the Meadowlands, and then soured so quickly at Qwest Field in Seattle. Nine teams made sweeping changes in the head coach and/or GM position yesterday, and Dallas has made just as many headlines by making neither of the two. The lesson of the season should be obvious:
- The offense has become susceptible to random mistakes, by Tony Romo and others like DeMarco Murray, and opposing defenses have learned how to exploit them. The interceptions on Sunday were just as much due to Washington knowing how to intercept a Romo pass, as they were about Romo choosing to throw one. Romo's defenders can say anything they want, but he handed the keys back to Shanahan in the first half, and that set up the next point. . .
- Despite what Jason Garrett and Romo stated with such self assurance only two weeks ago, it is wrong to believe that if the Cowboys are behind by one or two scores late in the 4th quarter that they are then at their best. Maybe they think they function better, but the objective is always to win a game, and to win it with authority, not to subject yourself to the maximum pressure time after time. A comeback win may be thrilling, but a team that plays 55 minutes of awful football and then 5 minutes of miraculous spectacles can't be called successful, it can only consider itself lucky that even reached .500.
- A great defense means a physically intimidating roster. One that has starters on the IR for over half of the season (Sean Lee and Jay Ratliff), and substitutes getting injured as well (Ernie Sims) is of course not even good on paper. The improvement of the secondary on Sunday against the pass (RG3 went 9-18 on passing with no passing TDs as opposed to 19-25 with four TDs) was completely cancelled out by a run defense that completely evapourated in the second half.
So come the draft in April, and the free agent season, I expect a grand departure on the roster from what we've seen, even compared to 2012's revamp of the secondary. As fans, we should be just as scared as we are hopeful, because as far as anyone can tell the person in charge of those changes is the same person who has been until now, JJ. So here are the main departments, not in order of importance:
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Center Phil Costa. One holdover from 2011 whose final day in a Dallas uniform should be behind him.
Tony Romo was sacked 36 times in 2012, exactly the number he suffered in 2011. Every quarterback has to take some sacks, and some of those who are, let's just admit it, much better than him like Aaron Rodgers, have taken just as many or more both seasons. The issue that's unique here is that Romo has such a high incidence of interceptions, tied with Drew Brees for the lead and ahead of such luminaries as Mark Sanchez, Brandon Weeden, and Phil Rivers, that at least some of those have to be attributed to pressure put on him by blown blocking.
It is possible to succeed in the NFL with either a pocket passer like Warren Moon, a short passer like Joe Montana, or even someone whose best attribute is his mobility like Randall Cunningham. But in each case the player has to be surrounded by a good offensive line. Even a mobile QB like Michael Vick (rumoured to be headed to several teams after the disastrous Eagles season) cannot survive without a good front five.
Every player on the Dallas O-line has his drawbacks. None of them have ever made a Pro Bowl, while Doug Free has been a penalty disaster and Phil Costa earned notoriety not just for the same reason but also for his poor understanding of Romo's snap cadence.
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Anthony Spencer is a UFA this season. Who may replace him, and what are the chances of him staying?
On paper the Cowboys' front in the 3-4 alignment should be among the best in the NFL, featuring Jason Hatcher, Anthony Spencer, and 4 time Pro Bowler Jay Ratliff, with rookie Tyrone Crawford, Marcus Spears, and Sean Lissemore as the main backups. But Ratliff had a well-publicized injury prone 2012 that included an alleged verbal argument with JJ.
Jason Hatcher made headlines in the 2012 off-season by not answering the question of who are the locker room leaders for the Cowboys. "That's a good question. I really don't know. . ." What is surprising is that there was never a real rebuttal to Hatcher's non-response. At one point current Denver Broncos linebacker was the on-field leader of the defense, but he did have something of a performance drop-off. Some would say that ILB Sean Lee has stepped into Brooking's shoes, but he was also hampered by injuries this season.
As somebody who isn't a draft pundit or a free agency expert, I cannot propose exactly who will be the best fit to supplement Dallas' D-Line. Among the most recognizable names are Richard Seymour of Oakland and Dwight Freeney (recently converted to linebacker) of the Colts, both of whom are up there in years. Those two would be able to add some leadership in the locker room though.
Running back
Buyer beware. Peyton Hillis (KC) may be a cheap acquisition this time, and for good reason. After a stellar 2010 in Cleveland, Hillis played keep-away with the front office over a contract extension dooming their season, then signed with Kansas City and registered only 309 yards in 2012. So he could be a good power back if Dallas changes his attitude.
DeMarco Murray may have the threat quality that Dallas needs, but not we could certainly use either a lighter back or a heavier blocking back. Lawrence Vickers, their current FB, is used mostly in blocking and short pass situations, and has played well as such. A number of attractive ball carriers are coming on market now, such as Jackie Battle of San Diego, and Rashard Mendenhall of Pittsburgh. Battle was at one point a practice squad player in Dallas, so keep your eyes peeled.
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The frenzy for the young passer who will be the next Russel Wilson or RG3 has begun.
No, the above photo of Collin Klein isn't an endorsement of drafting the senior Kansas State QB. It's just that with my poor vision the highlights of him passing in that purple and silver uniform while I'm passing by a TV sometimes seem like visions of a Dallas QB.
Tony Romo isn't spent as an NFL quarterback. His back-up, Kyle Orton, also had more gas in the tank but has the stigma of his disastrous end in Denver attached to him. It is hard to get people to forget you're the "guy that Tebow replaced", especially given the hilarious viral video series. It is unfortunate therefore that neither of them are going to have any public confidence going into next season's training camp. At the very least Garrett and JJ should have an open competition for the starting spot between Orton and Romo (assuming they're both still in Dallas come August), and somebody else. Russell Wilson was not anointed the starter at draft time, but rather beat out Matt Flynn and Tarvaris Jackson.
I know a lot of you Romo fanatics will crucify me since I've called for his replacement since starting my fan posts in 2010. You've always said that the media is unfair to Romo. Well, the game of football is unfair, just ask Lovie Smith after he lost his job following another winning season. Romo hasn't led Dallas to a winning season since 2009, and other lingering QB's with past success, like Carson Palmer, aren't getting any better. As I stated above, his comeback victories only mask the fact that Dallas has no system to its play, and is built to depend on 11th hour heroics from an otherwise erratic leader. So topen competition is the fair decision.
Potential competitors abound: Matt Barkley, Johnny Manziel, Collin Klein, Michael Vick, blah blah blah. At this point speculation is pointless. But Tony Romo, despite all of his statistical accomplishments is the Dallas QB with the longest tenure at starter with the least post-season accolades. So the status quo cannot continue.
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Ozzie Newsome and John Elway. Two former stars who became front office assets to their franchises.
The autocratic regime of Jerry Jones has received plenty of criticism in the past three years, especially given the fact that Cowboys Stadium resembles a football version of Sacha Baron Cohen's palace in The Dictator. The clamouring for a real GM for the first time since Gil Brandt in 1988 has reached a crescendo, yet Jerry continues to hold on to power despite his own admission that that with his personnel selection record he would have been fired by himself already. It can only be assumed that Garrett will be back next year after he survived Black Monday.
Will Dallas ever have a GM, and how fast could that happen? It should be remembered though that every team besides Dallas has a non-owner GM, even the Raiders since the passing of Al Davis, yet plenty of them have been chronic failures. Just look at Mike Tannenbaum of the Jets who drafted Mark Sanchez following his junior year and then neglected to equip him with almost any offensive tools, or Buddy Nix of Buffalo who signed the pedestrian Ryan Fitzpatrick to a lavish contract but also failed to hold on to Marshawn Lynch. Here are some possible sources of talent for the GM department:
- Prior Experience: There certainly is a wealth of people in this department, from the recently fired Marty Hurney and Scott Pioli to the legendary Ron Wolf and Bill Polian. The current crop of fired GM's isn't that impressive, but the whole logic of hiring an experienced GM is that they usually have good contacts and can win over players or staff from their prior clubs.
- Subordinate to Head Coach or no GM: This isn't happening in Dallas, but in many cases like Andy Reid's Eagles and Bill Belichick in New England the GM position is almost a personnel advisory role to the coach. The main advantage of this working system is that the coach's system becomes completely synchronized with the personnel decisions, and there is no overlap of responsibility or clash of minds. Until this season the Redskins' Mike Shanahan's version of this (he is also VP of player personnel) seemed to be a dud until he hit the jackpot with RG3, Alfred Morris, and Pierre Garcon. But no one is under any illusion that this could happen with Jason Garrett in Dallas.
- Former Coach or Player's Redux as GM: This is often done in order to boost fan interest. A lot of times the owner will give a player a "consultant" role that is basically nothing but a corner office with a phone. Coming from Cleveland, this happens all the time with Jim Brown and Bernie Kosar. Both of those guys were edged out by former Seahawks all-powerful Mike Holmgren, himself an ex-coach, who was unceremoniously axed mid-season this year. But others were handed real responsibilities and brought results. Ozzie Newsome and John Elway were both brought in by their former bosses and have become respected personalities with perennial playoff teams. They had different roles, with Newsome having one of the best minds for the draft and bringing in such mainstays as Ray Lewis, Ray Rice, and Haloti Ngata. Elway is more of a senior executive with greater overall influence. He nevertheless has used his clout to pull off such blockbusters as the hiring of John Fox, the trading of Tebow to the Jets, and the signing of Peyton Manning. Other former players who were put in leading positions like GM didn't fair so well. Remember the Fire (Matt) Millen movement in Detroit?
So buckle up Dallasites. We're not gonna be looking at the same faces come August.


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Senate to consider amendment that would eliminate ethanol subsidy
The U.S. Senate may vote as early as today on an amendment that would eliminate one of the major government subsidies for the production of corn-based ethanol.
Obama hints at unemployment extension push
During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again with congressional leaders.
Weekly unemployment claims up again
Just when the weekly unemployment claims were starting to go back down after a three-week spike, this week's new claims jumped up to 424,000. That's 10,000 more than last week. The four-week average now stands at 438,500.
Supreme Court rejects fast track for health care reform challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to immediately hear a legal challenge to President Obama's health care reform bill without allowing the appeals court to hear the case first.
Unemployment extension meeting scheduled for Thursday on Capitol Hill
The meeting that House GOP leaders said they would have with the two legislators who are pushing for the establishment of a Tier 5 for unemployment insurance that would give an additional 14 weeks of benefits for the long-term jobless will happen on Thursday.
American Lung Association speaks out against restrictions on EPA
The American Lung Association is speaking out strongly against a bill that would remove the EPA's ability to regulate activities that produce greenhouse gases, including an amendment offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow that would eliminate that regulation for two years.
House passes unemployment and tax cut extensions, Fla. delegation mostly in favor
The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Obama's compromise bill to extend the Bush tax cuts in full for two years and federal unemployment benefits for one year late last night after first rejecting an amendment to change the estate tax provisions of the agreement.
Poll: Strong support for unemployment extension
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found strong public support for most of the elements of President Obama's compromise deal with Republicans that would extend the Bush tax cuts and federal unemployment benefits — particularly the unemployment extension, which was favored by more than a 2-1 margin.
Unemployment benefits extension: What happens now?
With the Christmas recess and the seating of a new Congress looming, the Senate will kick off what should be a make-or-break week for the prospect of extending unemployment benefits and tax cuts by holding a cloture vote at 3 p.m. today.
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Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 37.1 (March 2013)
Publication date: 27 July 2013
Let me begin this editorial column by announcing further changes in the editorial board of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies. Anne-Marie Musschoot
(Ghent), one of our longest-standing editorial board members, decided
to stand down and we would like to extend our profound gratitude for her
longstanding support of the journal. Simultaneously we welcome Yves T'Sjoen, senior lecturer in modern Dutch literature and Afrikaans, also at Ghent, and Phil van Schalkwyk,
associate professor at Northwestern University (Potchefstroom), on the
editorial board. Their specialisms in textual scholarship, modern poetry
and prose of the Low Countries, and Afrikaans literature in South
Africa will complement and strengthen the existing expertise on the
editorial board and reflect our intention to widen the scope of Dutch
Crossing to include the distinct but closely related Afrikaans language
and literature, one of the rich and plentiful colours of the 'rainbow
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Beacon for Public Engagement Award for Dutch Walks in London
Publication date: 23 July 2013
Ulrich Tiedau has been awarded a 2013 UCL Beacon for Public Engagement Award for a project that will develop and publish, in close dialogue with the historically interested public, a set of Dutch (and Flemish) walks through London, directed at an audience interested in Anglo-Dutch exchanges over the centuries.
Each walk, or cycle-route, will be derived from and informed by research by members of the UCL Dutch department or the larger Low Countries Studies community in London and themed by either time period or subject. The walks will be created with a view to raising awareness of the manifold connections and exchanges between London and the Low Countries, and to engage with the wider public who will not only be able to follow the walks but also to contribute user-generated content.
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Professor Rachel Bowlby's new book reviewed in Times Higher Education
Publication date: 12 July 2013
Professor Rachel Bowlby (UCL English) has recently written a fascinating new book A Child of One's Own: Parental Stories. This compelling commentary offers fresh angels and arguments for thinking about parenthood today.
Bryony Randall (Times Higher Education) reviews the book and says 'Bowlby's eye for detail is hawk-like, and she does not give up until she has wrung every drop of potential from her readings. From the observation that a moment of parental recognition is the subject of the only moment of nostalgic remembering in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, to the elegant suggestion that James' Maisie "has" parents as people usually "have" children, there are new discoveries about these familiar texts at every turn.'
Read the full review on the Times Higher Education website.
New deadline for UCL & I.B. Tauris Publishing Competition
Publication date: 9 July 2013
We are pleased to announce that the deadline for this competition has been extended and the new deadline is now 14 September 2013.
Faculty Administrative Scholarships 2013-14
Publication date: 9 July 2013
We are pleased to announce that the Faculty Administrative Scholarships have been awarded for 2013-14.
These scholarships are for staff in the Faculties of Arts & Humanities, and Social & Historical Sciences, and aim to recognise the commitment and skills of administrative colleagues.
Bas Aarts awarded AHRC Grant
Publication date: 1 July 2013
Aarts was awarded a Follow-on Funding Grant by the AHRC for the project Extending
the Englicious Platform for Primary English. During the project
a team at the Survey of English Usage will work with the National Association
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London to extend the English language teaching platform Englicious
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Once next generation NVM arrives, the interface will change; that is a product implementation decision that is outside the scope of the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Working Group, Pappas said.
For example, one popular method that is already being used in multiple products today is connecting NVM directly to the PCI Express (PCIe) bus, which is usually directly connected to the processor.
Solid-state memory vendor Fusion-io is among more than a half dozen companies selling NAND flash PCIe cards for servers and storage arrays. The company has also been working on software development kits and hardware products that will eventually allow its NAND flash cards to be used as system memory and mass storage in the same way SNIA's specifications will for the industry at large.
Microsoft and Fusion-io have been working to develop APIs enabling SQL databases to use what Fusion-io calls its Virtual Storage Layer (VSL), which in turn allows developers to optimize applications for Fusion's ioMemory PCIe cards. Like any OS, SQL Server still uses NAND flash like spinning media, using a buffer and writing data twice to ensure resiliency.
Fusion-io calls its interface effort the Atomic Multi-block Writes API. The API is an extension to the MySQL InnoDB storage engine that eliminates the need for a buffer or redundant writes, giving the application direct access to -- and control of -- the NAND flash media.
"If we architect it to act like memory, and not like disk, we can do block I/O [reads and writes] and memory-based access," said Gary Orenstein, senior vice president of products at Fusion-io. "The APIs say to SQL, 'You have more capability than you think you have."
The result is a 30 percent to 40 percent improvement in SQL database performance, half the number of writes, and twice the life for the NAND flash because it is storing half of the data it typically would, Orenstein said.
"We're not saying flash will replace every instance of DRAM, but developers will have 10 times the capacity of DRAM at a little less performance and a fraction of the cost and power," Orenstein said.
Products using the Atomic Multi-block Writes API are expected within a year, Orenstein said.
How NVM has affected data centers
To understand the impact of NVM in a data center, it helps to look at what was there before it: hard drives and volatile system memory or DRAM. DRAM is extremely expensive and is volatile, meaning it loses all data when powered off unless it has a battery backup.
DRAM has about six orders of magnitude the performance of hard drives, or about one million times, according to Pappas. In 1987, when NAND flash entered the picture, it offered a middle ground with about three orders of magnitude better performance than of disk drives, or about 1,000 times faster, Pappas said. Until recently, however, flash was not cheap enough to use as a mass storage device in servers and arrays. Now that it is, its popularity is soaring.
Hardware manufacturers now use NAND flash as an additional tier of mass storage that provides faster performance for I/O-hungry applications such as online transaction processing and virtual desktop infrastructures. But NAND flash is typically not used as system memory, meaning a CPU does not access it as directly as it does DRAM memory.
Today, storage infrastructures are built based on the performance of hard disk drives. SNIA's efforts will promote an infrastructure that supports the type of performance that NVM can offer.


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4:00pm Friday 28th March 2014 in News By Emma Cruces, Education reporter
A BURNLEY high school, previously rated as good, has been told it 'requires improvement' by Ofsted.
Standards in English at Sir John Thursby, was said to be 'well below the national average', according to inspectors.
However headteacher David Burton said they had highly positive feedback from inspectors, who acknowledged their good results last year.
The Ofsted report said the most able Year 11 students were not doing as well in English than similar students in other schools.
Lead inspector Derek Davies said: "Not enough teaching is consistently good and outstanding. The level of challenge in lessons is not always appropriate for some students and work is sometimes too easy.
"There are insufficient opportunities for students to think for themselves and extend their ideas in writing; consequently, the quality and quantity of work for too many students is not as good as it should be."
Last year the school achieved a 10 per cent increase in GCSE results, the school's best ever results and the biggest increase in the area.
Ofsted said last year's results were better than similar pupils nationally but that standards this year are set to decline.
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Alabama Football: What To Watch at Crimson Tide's A-Day Game
A nice write-up on players to watch tomorrow from the Bleacher Report, but what I really love is his description of the scene at the '07 game. I was there and it still amazes me!
In Nick Saban's first spring Alabama fans without any advanced planning or intent filled Bryant Denny Stadium to its capacity. In fact estimates are that over 10,000 fans were turned away and flowed over the campus like a tidal wave.
Other schools have attempted to duplicate this feat via planning and marketing. Alabama fans did this spontaneously and without notice.
For those who witnessed the events of that day it is spoken of with reverence, like former hippies speak of Woodstock. It was amazing to watch administrators open one section after another as they filled to capacity. Soon word came through the stands that they had to shut the doors and folks were still coming.
When Nick Saban emerged with his team from the locker room it was pretty much like a fall game day crowed. When Nick took the Alabama job I think he viewed it simply as his next job. On that day, I believe he began to realize that he might be in a special place, at a special time. I believe the events of the last two years have confirmed that for everyone.
Also on that day most of what would become Alabama's first number one rated recruiting class were on hand to witness this explosion of fan enthusiasm. It affected each and every one of them. Just a few years later they were all standing in Pasadena with the National Championship trophy.
The coaches and players earned it all, but on that day I believe the fans themselves made a difference in how the next few years would go and in a small way they helped earn that National Championship.
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6Everybody's Mad at Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga! What did you do this time? Was it another shitty music video? Did you say something ridiculously pretentious again? What could it be?
Oh, you tweeted about how pop stars don't eat? That's cool.
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Lady Gaga has always stood for self-acceptance, encouraging her fans (a.k.a. her Little Monsters) to love themselves for who they are. She's even spoken out against "the dieting wars."
So the pop star, 26, caused quite a stir when she Tweeted a message about not eating to her 22.7 million followers.
"Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger #PopSingersDontEat #IWasBornThisWay," Gaga Tweeted Tuesday.
What's more, the singer has admitted to struggling with an eating disorder herself. Asked about body confidence at a California high school conference, Gaga revealed that she "used to throw up all the time in high school."
"The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off," she said at the time. "Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age – and it's making girls sick."
Her recent Tweet drew loads of criticism from Twitter users, including the National Eating Disorders Association, which replied, "Huh? This is the same person who recently implored girls to stop dieting?"
While some fans defended Gaga, saying she was just Tweeting in jest, others were upset by the message.
"I don't care if Lady Gaga's #popstarsdonteat tweet is ironic," wrote @carolyngreg. "still sends the wrong msg to her MILLIONS of teen girl fans."
Well, whatever, basically. Lady Gaga still hasn't addressed this whole mess, and if she ever does, I'm sure it will be some wordy, "heartfelt" statement about bullying or whatever. Poor Lady Gaga! She's so aware that she has millions of impressionable young fans that follow her and her anti-bullying, self-acceptance talk and she lets them know that pop stars don't eat, and now people are calling her out on it! Bless her heart!
Personally, I don't care. I don't have the energy anymore to get super upset over stupid things that Lady Gaga says, but I can see where other people would. Even if her statement was a little tongue-in-cheek, she probably should have known better. She's bound to have quite a few younger fans who do want to be pop stars and who already have eating disorders or self esteem issues, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few teenagers skipped some meals this week because of this.
So let's stop taking Lady Gaga so seriously now, all right, everyone?
April 14, 2012 at 11:30 am by Emily
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Can we just take up a collection and hire a midget to punch her in the wiener?
Uhm i think you are just mad or jealous because lady gaga is a pop star and your not, everyone needs to stop judging lady gaga because truely she is a great and taleneted person who loves to defend her fans in the bullying or gay community, and the comment you posted is dumb
Hardly John…. You gaga zealots are nothing more than a giant bag of dicks! Besides, what's funnier than junk-punching midgets?
I used to find her edgy and now I'm just in a whatever phase about her. Her music is as catchy as it always was, though.
So excercizing & eating salads, eating healthy sends the wrong message? Yes lets all eat cheeseburgers daily & forget about living past the age of 48. Oh thats right it's 2012, the world will end soon anyway… sheesh.
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Tiger Softball Rolls To Second Straight Victory, 6-1, Over FIUBox Score
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MIAMI -- The Auburn softball team rolled to its second straight victory at the Diamond Fun & Sun Classic Saturday, defeating tournament host Florida International, 6-1, at the University Park Softball Field.
Auburn starter Holly Currie led the Tigers from the plate and the circle, throwing seven innings, allowing two hits while tying a career-high with nine strikeouts. The Pisgah, Ala., native also contributed offensively with a 3-for-3 effort with three runs batted in. Currie improved to 2-1 on the young season while raising her batting average to .545.
"Holly threw a magnificent game for us tonight," Auburn head coach Tina Deese said. "She was hitting her spots and making the FIU batters guess. And she had a great game from the batter's box, providing an offensive spark for us."
Currie started the Tigers (3-1) off on the right foot from the batter's box, driving in two runs in the first inning. With Lauren Walton at second and Sara Dean at first, Currie took a pitch from Florida International (4-2) starter Kerri Houck and hit the top of the center field wall, narrowly missing her second home run of the season.
After a solo run in the third courtesy of a Currie single, driving in Lauren Walton, for the pitcher's third RBI of the game, the Tigers put three more across the board in the fourth inning. Kristina McCain drove in two runs with a single off reliever Sarah Belanger, driving in Nicole Russo and Lolani Alvarez. McCain scored two batters later with Sara Dean at the plate. On a double steal with Walton, McCain stole home while Walton, who began at first base on the play, was thrown out at third.
Walton went 3-for-3 in the win, her first career three-hit game. She singled in each of her three at bats and led the Tigers with two runs scored.
"We had two great efforts offensively today," Deese said in regards to the team's victories over Kentucky and FIU. "It was important for us to establish our offense early in the season at such a high-caliber tournament. We definitely want to keep hitting the ball well on Sunday."
Deomni Murray earned Florida International's only two hits, singling in the fourth to break up Currie's no-hitter, then singling again in the seventh. She scored the Golden Panthers' only run in the game on an error in the seventh.
Auburn is now scheduled to play Sunday at 10 a.m. CT as the tournament's No. 1 seed. The Tigers are set to play the winner of the No. 4 Illinois State-No. 5 Kentucky game approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of that game. However, if the Redbirds defeat the Wildcats, Auburn will earn a bye until the 2 p.m. CT Championship game due to Illinois State's travel itinerary.
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TIGER NOTES: Auburn played as the home team for the second game in a row, even though the Tigers were situated in the third base dugout ... Holly Currie struck out the side in the second inning, forcing Marleah Stapf, Jennifer Powell and Tabitha Embry to all go down swinging ... Currie threw 3 1/3 no hit innings, allowing her first hit to Deomni Murray in the fourth ... It's the second time in her three games this season Currie has gone deep into the game without allowing a hit ... Against Illinois State Friday, Currie did not give up a hit until the seventh but eventually got the loss in the Redbirds' 3-2 eight-inning victory ... Lolani Alvarez reached base her first two times at the plate, but was hit by a pitch both times ... The Tigers failed to hit a home run for the first time in the tournament ... Auburn had one each in its previous three games ... Other games on Sunday in the championship round of the Diamond Fun & Sun Classic include No. 5 seed Kentucky (0-4 tournament record) vs. No. 4 Illinois State (2-2) at 9 a.m. EST and No. 3 South Florida (2-2) vs. No. 2 Florida International (3-1) at 1 p.m. EST.


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2014 Sacramento State Piano Festival: Saturday, February 22–Monday, February 24
Capistrano Recital Hall and Capistrano 151 at Sacramento State.
• The Valencia Young Pianist Competition - Generously sponsored annually by Edward McGrath, the preliminary round of this competition will be held on Saturday, February 22 (not open to the public). Open to young artists ages 15-22, the competition will award three prizes of $200, $300, and $500. A maximum of six finalists will be chosen to perform in the Final Round on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 at 7:30pm, in front of an audience at Capistrano Music Recital Hall. This recital is free and open to the public. Download the application and information sheet (pdf).
• Guest Artist Performance -Timothy Smith will be performing on Saturday, February 22 at 7:30pm. His recital will include Mussorgsky's "Pictures at and Exhibition". Smith, who has been described as "A pianist who interlaces grace with bursts of power and color" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, is Professor of Piano and head of Piano Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Smith began private piano studies at age five, and at ten was accepted into the Pre-College division of the Juilliard School. He made his orchestral debut at the age of 15. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Washington in Seattle, with Bela Siki, where Smith received numerous awards and scholarships. He continued graduate study as a scholarship student of Martin Canin at Juilliard where he received his Master of Music degree, and later at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, again with Martin Canin, where he was awarded the Doctorate of Musical Arts in 1985. Dr. Smith has won major prizes and recognition in international competitions, including the Casadesus (5th prize), Gina Bachauer (4th prize), Washington, D.C. International (3rd prize), Queen Elizabeth (Brussels) (semi-finalist), among others. As a winner of the Artists International Competition, Smith made his New York recital debut in Carnegie Recital Hall.
• Master Classes will be held on Sunday, Feb. 23th at Noon, 2:00pm and 4:00pm (Capistrano Hall 151). Given by Sacramento State's piano faculty Richard Cionco, Kirsten Smith and guest artist Lino Rivera, these are free and open to the public. The master classes will feature performances by the Valencia Competition finalists.
• Other Piano Series Recitals - For more on the Piano Series Recitals for the 2013-2014 season, visit the Piano Series page.


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House and the team take on the case of a 22-year-old minor league hockey player who collapsed while coughing up blood after a fight on the ice. Meanwhile, House drops a bomb on Wilson, and Chase offers to help Park change her living arrangement.
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Maldon could get millions of pounds for road improvements (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Maldon could get millions of pounds for road improvements
11:30am Saturday 12th July 2014 in Local News
Maldon could be in line for £44million for road improvements.
The Government has awarded the South East Local Enterprise Partnership £442.2million for projects across Essex, Kent and Sussex.
The LEP's actual plans cost £10billion, and it is bidding for extra funding, but include:
* £40million for the Heybridge relief road. Work is hoped to start in 2016/17 and end in 2018/19.
* £4million for the B1022 Colchester to Maldon and £4million for the A414 Maldon to Chelmsford, including congestion relief and safety measures. Work is due to start on the B1022 in 2017 and be finished by 2020, and improvements to the A414 will start in 2016 and be complete by 2018.
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I'm pretty sure the movie is in 2 parts and the Hobbit has to be spread out over 2 unless they gut a lot of it.
I mean, the Battle of Smog, the Dwarves and the Eagles would have to be in the second movie right?
It looks dour like LotR which to me would be a fucking travesty. Martin Freeman is awesome and I hope they don't make him play Bilbo, outwardly neurotic yet actually brave and thrill seeking, like what they did with Frodo.
Consider, though: they WANT the audience that made LotR a mega-hit, so they're gonna want this first trailer to echo it. If it seems more like LotR than you expected, I'm gonna bet it's just the smart marketing approach. Adding the stuff from the appendices - especially Gandalf and company investigating "the Necromancer" in Mirkwood - may add some darker moments, but overall I have little doubt there's gonna be some goofy and fun shit with the dwarves and Bilbo.
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The less it looks like the Hobbit, the more interested I am.
Thank you so much! Is this PG or PG-13? I really want to take my then 4 year-old to see it.Originally Posted by Spidey616
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EDIT: I was going to do something about Bill Musgrave's praise of Joe Webb, but it appears that DM_Purp already has us covered on that front. Nicely done, sir!
Nothing really extra terrestrially new here, but first I've heard someone other than Frazier reciprocate information about Webb. Our new OC seems to think about the same as all of us here at the DN feel about Webb: Lots of bi-winning, he'll win some here, win some there, but is he winning? like winning winning or like winning winning? , We'll see if the mental part of the game translates or if he'll just be a droopy-eyed armless child. Anyways, here's the Quotes. Enjoy
Musgrave has been impressed with Webb after spending a lot of time studying film of the rookie quarterback's limited performances last season.
"I've been impressed with Joe," he said. "He's a great athlete and looks like he's got some composure and poise to him as well. He made some good decisions and some good judgments. I like the way he climbs up in the pocket, keeping his eyes downfield."
Musgrave also liked Webb's scrambling ability.
"Defensive coordinators have a tough time accounting for quarterbacks that can make plays with their legs," Musgrave said. "He seems to have that demeanor that you look for. I think the team gravitates towards him. I've enjoyed visiting with him so far on the phone in the short time that we've been here."
Musgrave added, "What is very tough for a young quarterback is reading the defenses in the NFL because they are distinctly different than college defenses, so it's quite a jump and quite an adjustment."


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The band's lead singer, Trent Reznor, is a former New Orleans resident who was given keys to the city when the band played a free, post-Hurricane Katrina concert at Voodoo Fest in 2005. Nine Inch Nails has played the festival three times previously.
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1. What a beautiful DAY IT IS.
2. AM I right?
3. It's no surprise, WE ALL KNOW THAT WE ARE CUTE (chos!).
4. HAVING NO EXTRA INCOME wasn't easy, but WE'RE HANDLING IT SMOOTHLY.
5. I like to try BUNGIE JUMPING (yeah right! as if I'm not scared of heights, hahaha!).
6. "DON'T STOP BELIEVING" by Glee is one of my most favorite songs!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to WATCH A MOVIE MARATHON WITH HUBBY & SIL (HERLOCK HOLMES 1&2), tomorrow my plans include STAYING AT HOME LIKE ALL THE SAME DAY and Sunday, I want to BE FULLY OKAY. I HAVE A COLD.


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As a money manager and investment advisor, I earn a living by discerning trends and taking advantage of them before they are evident to others. Trends are often preceded by seemingly innocuous anomalies. These anomalies can be detected by insightful observation. Telltale signs consist of a change in momentum, a variance to correlation, the divergence from a standard ratio, or an out-of-character human event.
My trend intuition meter was pegged on Sunday, October 14, 2013, because of events that occurred during the Million Vet March. I'll be watching to determine if this occurrence is an outlier or if the protest expands to become a defining political event. I believe this single protest has the potential to escalate into a bigger movement. Why? Three things were different about this march when compared to other non-Left protests.
The first anomaly was REAL diversity, as opposed to the phony broad optics choreographed into most political events. The demographics of the protectors was telling. The "veterans" were represented by black and white, young and old, male and female, healthy and disabled, suits and blue colors, bikers and truckers. Judging by the slogans on the signs and banners, they were a mix of the political Center, Right, and Libertarian persuasion. There were clearly non-veterans involved, as evidenced by the presence of the very young.
Secondly, the "veterans" were openly defiant from the start with arguably premeditated intent on civil disobedience beyond simple protest and trespassing. Sam Adams could not have staged a better disturbance. This was not a peaceful feel-good kumbaya demonstration promulgated by typical milquetoast establishment Republicans. The participants were authentic, mad as hell, and surprisingly festive.
They moved barriers to gain access to closed monuments and then defiantly carried the blockades to the White House. Some were even bold enough to scale the White House fence, apparently with enough righteous indignation to not care about Homeland Security rooftop snipers.
At a minimum, their actions included inciting a riot, trespassing, theft, and destruction of government property. All in plain sight of armed authorities and a watchful media. While defiant and destructive demonstrations are not uncommon among the Left, they are rare, or more accurately nonexistent, among the "silent majority" Center Right middle class.
Up until this point, similar antigovernment demonstrations organized by factions like the TEA Party have purposely avoided even the appearance of confrontation. TEA Party demonstrators may have acted irreverent but even when provoked they were restrained and peaceful. Special effort was made to clean up demonstration areas so that the sites were left free of litter and unmolested. This was not the case for the Million Vet March.
Lastly, what is most and amazingly unique about this event was that the protesters were not motivated by a self-serving reward. The Veterans were not demanding benefits, money, healthcare or any tangible compensation for themselves. This was not a covetous protest or a polarizing single issue stance like abortion, gay, or religion rights. It was something more nuanced than that, something quite esoteric that generally does not result in so much anger and aggressive behavior.
Citizens were belligerently reacting to what they perceived as the cynical closing of open space monuments. Closings that required more expenditure of government funds to restrict than to be left open and unguarded. The President provokingly closed and barricaded national monuments to send a message that the government could and would go out of its way to inconvenience ordinary people.
The vindictive bureaucrat-in-chief furloughed safety inspectors at nuclear power plants but found money in the budget to barricade memorials. The people perceived this as a brown shirt thug tactic, not to be tolerated by an otherwise peace-loving if not apathetic public.
Obama was thumbing his nose at flyover country but the Veterans defiantly waved a one finger salute back. This was a rare display of disrespect to the Executive Branch, an office these patriotic people otherwise revere. Perhaps this is an awakening of the middle class.
The elite should be very concerned. The Veterans' point in all this was not to simply have access to the monuments. Remember, not only did they remove barriers, they then went out of their way to dispose of the obstructions in front of the White House. The motive was not access. It was rebellion. Intended to publically MOCK the regime. The anointed hate to be ridiculed.
The Veterans taunted the riot gear clad police and played to the media's cameras. They held up clever homemade signs (my favorite: "Mr. President, tear down this wall!") and even proudly held up pilfered official signs stating, "ALL NATIONAL PARKS ARE CLOSED". Unmasked and unafraid with broad smiling faces, unarmed citizens pushed back against tyranny. And the despot did nothing.
Inaction on the part of a bully foretells impotence. These common people were fearless and serendipitous. Not to be deterred by the threat of future IRS audits or ATF harassment. They simply did not care about intrusive police state extortion. Such bold insolence scares the governing elite.
What can the cowardly effeminates do when intimidation fails to keep the masses in check? The only thing they fear more than mocking is lack of power. When mind control of the sheeple is over, the governing elites' game is up. And they know it.
What will the Statists do? They will try to downplay the success of the Million Vet March and to conceal their fear. The media will help them make the protesters out to be crazies, extremists. They will do everything within their power to prevent copycat defiance.
They will also step up efforts to intimidate and extort. But to what avail? What are they going to do to masses of middle class protesters? Put grandmothers in jail?
So, where does the game changing trend come in? If normally complacent middle class Americans are willing to charge the barricades and climb the White House fence, then it's apparent that the people have been pushed beyond their limits and know that the tyrant has no clothes. An emboldened middle class will not tolerate the inevitable outcomes of Obamacare- rationing, lack of choice, black market healthcare, needless suffering and death. The coalition of the unhappy will not be a narrow minority special interest group that can easily be bought off.
If this trend plays out, the upcoming mid-term election year may be more volatile than the 1964 Democratic Convention. A prudent citizen will watch for warning signs and take appropriate action.


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Ridgefield Police charged Sean Riley, 18, of Silverbrook Road, with evading responsibility, engaging in pursuit and reckless driving after callers told police there was a man driving erratically on North Salem Road Jan. 12 at 1:30 a.m. Police said they saw Riley on North Salem Road and on Ridgebury Road, but he wouldn't stop. They found him again on Ridgebury Road and on Spring Valley Road, and he wouldn't stop. Police found him at home and charged him with the above crimes. He was released on a $500 bond for an appearance in Danbury Superior Court on Friday.
In an unrelated incident, Ridgefield Police charged a juvenile with possession of drug paraphernalia at 8:20 p.m. Jan. 16 at Bennetts Farm State Park. Police said they were on routine patrol when they saw the youth parked in a car with another person. Police found a pipe with marijuana residue in it. He was issued a juvenile summons for possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released to the custody of his parents with a response date to juvenile court on Jan. 28.
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Sydney electro-pop up-and-comers East Of Ely have dropped a video for last year's attention-grabbing single "Came Without." According to the band, the track is about "making change in the present while living for the future." The video, which tells the tale of a modern-day DIY Frankenstein, is a visual representation of that concept. Give it a watch above, and keep an eye out for their debut EP, out later this year.
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Craft, North defense produce big upset over home team HHS
Fri. September 13, 2013 at 11:50 p.m. | By Brittany Jackson
North Henderson's Dalton Whitaker (11) catches the ball as Hendersonville's Victor Mendoza (7) tries to tackle him during a game at Dietz Field on Friday. (Photo by PATRICK SULLIVAN/ TIMES-NEWS)
For the first time in a long time, North Henderson is eyeing the county championship title, and deservedly so.
Not only did they lose the top quarterback in Western North Carolina to injury earlier this week, but the Knights also saw their backup quarterback go down in the first few minutes of play Friday night at Dietz Field.
All the more reason to rally for the win.
The Knights, led by quality defensive play and a stellar performance from sophomore quarterback Trevor Craft in his first varsity start, scored four unanswered touchdowns for the 27-6 win.
"It's what we instill in them year-round. We try to instill mental and physical toughness, and that's what expected of them every day in practice. We don't practice easy; we get after it. We put them in adverse situations in practice so they can come out and do this," said North head coach Jason Dinwiddie.
"Trevor (Craft), I can't say enough about that young man, my goodness."
North's defense kept the Bearcats from scoring a touchdown, as Sawyer Heery kicked two straight field goals in the first and third quarters for a 6-0 HHS lead. But even up against four fumbles (two lost), the Knights didn't let up.
Craft (14-of-25 for 210 yards) connected with Dalton Whitaker (five catches for 53 yards) early in the third quarter for a 14-yard touchdown pass, then Craft kicked the extra point for the 7-6 North lead.
Just a couple plays later after the kickoff Hendersonville fumbled the ball and the Knights recovered it. Craft immediately connected with Whitaker again for the 16-yard touchdown pass to put North up 14-6.
Tyler Heaton came up with Cole Cleary's fourth interception of the night in the fourth quarter, and ran the ball back 60 yards for the touchdown. Minutes later it was Zach Cannon who came up with the interception and scored the Knights' final touchdown of the night.
"I think our kids were just ready to step up and play the type of defensive game I knew they had in them," Dinwiddie said. "It means a lot to me but it means more to this school, this community and this program. We're on our way. It's exciting to me."
The Knights (1-2) will host Robbinsville next week while the Bearcats (2-2) travel to Christ School.


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Camelot credit union launched in Chard (From Yeovil Express)
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6:00am Monday 3rd March 2014 in News By Hannah Green
FAMILIES who are struggling financially can access help closer to home after the launch of a Chard credit union.
Father Jeff Williams, of the Good Shepherd Church in Furnham, has worked alongside others in the town to bring the credit union for South Somerset – Camelot – to Chard.
Credit unions help people who may not be able to get credit in banks manage their money through affordable loans and opportunities to save with savers counted as members.
Every member has a say in how their credit union is run.
The service point will operate from the vicarage in Furnham Road on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month between 2pm and 4pm, starting this week.
Clients can join up there, pay in savings or collect application forms for a loan, which will be forwarded to the Camelot office at Unity Hall, Central Road, Yeovil.
For further details call Camelot on 01935-413038.
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Sorry to be petty, but tomorrow is 4th March and is the FIRST Tuesday of the month!
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