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Police are on the lookout for a man who tried to kidnap a 7-year-old girl from an apartment complex.
It happened over the weekend in Albertville.
Certainly a scary situation for both the young girl and her mother, but local police said she did everything right.
Albertville Police said the 7-year-old girl was approached around 7:30 p.m. Saturday just outside the Colony apartment complex.
Assistant Chief Jamie Smith said the man came out of the woods and grabbed her.
The young girl then began kicking and screaming and the man fled back into the woods, which were adjacent to the apartment complex.
Smith said her actions helped avoid a child abduction.
"Anytime they're approached by a stranger, whether there were gestures made toward the child or not, but you know, get away from them, make a scene, draw some attention to yourself to get people looking at you," said Smith.
The man is described as a black male around 5'5" around 150 pounds and was wearing a T-shirt, blue jeans, and had some facial hair possibly a goatee.
If anyone has any information about this crime, contact Albertville Police.
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Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - D'Andre Bell led five players in double-figures with 16 points, as 22nd-ranked Georgia Tech earned a 79-58 win over ACC rival Wake Forest at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
Gani Lawal donated 14 points and nine rebounds, while Brian Oliver poured in 13 points for Georgia Tech (15-5, 4-3 ACC), which was able to regroup after suffering a 68-66 loss to conference foe Florida State on Sunday. The Yellow Jackets have won four of their last six. Derrick Favors had a well-rounded game with 11 points, nine boards and five blocks in the win.
Al-Farouq Aminu finished with 15 points and eight rebounds for Wake Forest (14-5, 4-3), which was coming off impressive wins over North Carolina and Virginia. The Demon Deacons have split their last six games overall. Ishmael Smith chipped in with 12 points and five steals, but committed five costly turnovers in defeat.
Wake Forest set the pace in the early going, taking a 17-10 lead six minutes into the contest after a Tony Woods layup. Then trailing by five, Lawal's dunk started a Georgia Tech 11-2 run over the next several minutes and Iman Shumpert's 1-of-2 effort from the free-throw line put the Yellow Jackets in front 26-22 with 6:18 left in the half.
Georgia Tech closed the opening 20 minutes out strong and took a 35-29 lead into the locker room.
The Demon Deacons came out for the second half and scored the first four points to make it a one-point game, but Georgia Tech quickly responded. Bell's four free throws book-ended a 19-2 run to put the hosts up by a commanding 54-35 advantage with just under 12 minutes play.
Georgia Tech maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way.
The Yellow Jackets have won four of the last five meetings, but Wake Forest still leads the all-time series with a 35-33 record...Shumpert finished with 11 points, five rebounds and two steals.

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Mayor Kimberley Driscoll announced Tuesday night that she has assembled a working group of state and local officials to help manage the future development of the Salem Power Plant.
The good news is that , which owns the plant, has agreed to join the group.
At the first public hearing on the future of the plant, the mayor worried out loud that her greatest "nightmare" was that Dominion would not cooperate with the city and just walk away from a padlocked polluted industrial site when it .
Dominion allowed the city-hired consultants to tour the plant for a couple of hours two weeks ago and, according to the mayor, has been entertaining potential buyers, mostly companies that might build natural gas power plants on a small portion of the site.
Dominion itself has no interest in re-developing the 53-acre site on the Salem waterfront.
A team of consultants, paid for by a state grant to the city, outlined in more detail the challenges and opportunities the city faces in finding economically viable uses for the site.
Being on the waterfront, the site is closely regulated by the state Department of Environmental Protection . In addition, the site is designated as a port, which means most of the potential uses must have a marine component.
"Now the real work begins," Driscoll told the crowd that gathered at the She described the process and phased development of the site as "tricky."
The consultants are finishing the final report on the potential uses of the site. The working group of state and local officials with the cooperation of Dominion can then begin identifying what uses should be pursued.
"I am excited to get this work done," Driscoll said to the consultants.
The most controversial proposed use was for Dominion to sell 10 to 15 acres to another energy firm or a consortium of municipalities to build a natural gas generating plant. A natural gas plant could produce as much energy – 745 megawatts – as the current coal-fired plant in a much smaller area.
Financially, it would be hard for a private firm to build a successful natural gas plant, said Patty Richards with La Capra Energy Consultants.
A consortium of municipalities would be able to finance a natural gas plant cheaper and thus make it work financially, she said.
A power plant would be allowed by the state under its guidelines, the consultants said.
Several members of the public, including two from Marblehead, objected to building another fossil fuel plant on the site. But others in the audience said they were resigned to having a natural gas plant on the site.
The mayor said the city would like to develop a cruise ship industry. She said the city is actively pursuing a small cruise ship to use the Salem Wharf at Blaney Street. She seemed to like the idea of a larger cruise ship docking at a redeveloped power plant site. There is a growing cruise ship industry linking New York City up the New England coast and through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Montreal.
Two neighbors questioned if the cruise ships would create noise and odors that would be unpleasant for nearby residents.
The consultants outlined a tentative plan to divide the site into two major parts, divided by an extended Webb Street. The southern portion would be more commercial, anchored by an extended Blaney Street wharf.
"You have to start somewhere," said James Miner with Sasaki Associates.
The northern portion would be allocated to heavy industrial, a potential power plant and marine industrial uses. The consultants said they were not sure what those uses might be.
The consultants were sure that the project faced a long list of challenges, headed by the government regulations of the site and the poor ground transportation access to the site.
The biggest challenge was the cost of cleaning up the site ($5 to $20 million) and demolishing the buildings ($60 million and up). The consultants estimated that the total remediation of the site would be about $75 million.
A portion of the costs would be recouped by selling off the scrap metal, the consultants said.
Much of the cost would be demolishing the plant itself. That led several speakers to suggest that the city consider developing all the site around the plant, but leaving the plant itself.
Dick Pabich, a resident, proposed that the city "turn the power plant into public art" and leave it.
Driscoll was stunned at the suggestion.
"Just when I think I will never be surprised again at a public hearing (I am)," she said.


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OAK RIDGE (WATE) - Two men are being held on charges related to a series of break-ins over the last two weeks in an Oak Ridge neighborhood.
Chase Davis, 19, and Bryson Higgins, 18, were arrested early Thursday after a search of their Tara Hills apartment.
Oak Ridge police say a substantial amount of stolen property recovered in the search appears to be connected to several burglaries in the last two weeks.
Sporting equipment, electronic equipment, and women's accessories were some of the items recovered.
Many of the thefts and burglaries took place in cars and homes in the Briarcliff neighborhood, which is a few blocks away from the Tara Hills apartment complex.
Police say the investigation that lead to the arrests started from a tip about a stolen handgun taken from a vehicle in Knoxville.
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So a month ago I posted a rather lengthy diatribe about race, white privilege, and my thoughts on the matter. It was mostly born out of my inability to effectively express myself in my day to day life. Which is a refrain that the internet is all to familiar with at this point. Likely none but the strongest luddites among us would be shocked to discover that the internet is full of twenty-something's screaming their creative frustrations into the void.
But there is something to be said for the frustrations of the rare, though ever increasing, political nerd. Not a nerd whose main passion is politics, but the nerd whose passion is the traditional nerdscape but lively hood is derived from the political realm. The man writing policy papers by day and generating elven archers by night. There is a certain heaviness in that. It's that heaviness that spawned my attempt to add to our political discourse.
Not that being a political bureaucrat is inherently difficult or because nerdiness isn't accepted by the general population. It's because of what being a nerd entails, especially If your interests swing towards the fantasy/gaming ends of the nerd spectrum.
You see fantasy teaches us that there are good guys and bad guys. The good guys dress in white, fight the dragons, and save the kingdom. The bad guys torture, rob, and kidnap princesses. There is almost always a clear demarcation. Sure, Game of Thrones mixes it up a bit but on the whole it's paladins and wizards vs. warlords and liches. Three rounds. No holds barred. Team good guy may lose a couple of people along the way, but by and large you're going to end up with a clear win for the pillars of light at the end of the day.
Now you may be thinking that this is how our storytelling culture works in every genre. You would be right. 99.9% of the stories we tell are of good triumphing over evil. But there's a distinct difference when the evil is a undead hellbeast as opposed to evil CEO #7. The CEO is just a man. He's mortal. He's vulnerable. He's beatable. The hellbeast? That's something more. It's our greatest fears come to life. Something ethereal, nightmarish, and inhuman.
We understand the CEO. We get his motivations. Beating that is possible and expected. But where the wheels come off the wagon for the nerd is when you can imagine slaying the dragon. Thinking that you can beat the monsters too. It makes reality more difficult to handle. In politics the monsters aren't dragons or liches, they're problems like poverty and education funding. Believing that those monsters can be slain by any mortal, or even group of mortals can drive anyone to scream into the void.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Columbus, Georgia ŌĆöHeckler & Koch USA has teamed with Chris Kyle, veteran Navy SEAL and author of the best seller ŌĆ£American Sniper,ŌĆØ to support the FITCO Cares Foundation Heroes Project. FITCO Cares is a charity established to provide free, in-home fitness equipment, donated health club memberships and other support programs to veterans in-need with disabilities and others suffering from PTSD.
According to the Department of Defense, almost 50,000 U.S. service men and women have been wounded in military operation during the past decade. These men and women suffer from a wide range of injuries that can make it difficult, uncomfortable or even impossible to get to a therapy center or gym to exercise in a manner that allows and encourages healing. This is where organizations like FITCO Cares are needed.
ŌĆ£When I got back from overseas and left the military, I was depressed, I
quit working out and was drinking too much. Getting back into shape and
working out helped me sort out a lot of my problems and I figured something similar might help other returning veterans, especially some of the guys and gals who were wounded and couldnŌĆÖt go to a regular gym or health clubsŌĆöfor whatever reason,ŌĆØ said Chris Kyle.
ŌĆ£Finding a company like FITCO and a guy like FITCOŌĆÖs president Jason Kos,
also a fellow veteran, to help launch the Heroes Project was more than I
could have ever hoped for. My work with the Heroes Project provides a
concrete way for me to give back to those that served and sacrificed,ŌĆØ said
Kyle. FITCO, a commercial fitness equipment sales and design center based in Texas helped Chris Kyle start the charity.
FITCOŌĆÖs Jason Kos and HK-USA President Wayne Weber recently appeared with Chris Kyle in the national premier episode of the ŌĆ£Sons of GunsŌĆØ TV series in which the staff of Red Jacket Firearms of Baton Rouge created a
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Dozens of major U.S. companies have come out in support of marriage equality, including Apple, Facebook, eBay, and Intel. In legal briefings submitted to help overturn California's ballot initiative, Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage unconstitutional, the companies argue that "recognizing the rights of same-sex couples to marry is more than a constitutional issue. It is a business imperative." The document submitted in support of the legal teams, known as an amicus brief, explains: "By singling out a group for less favorable treatment, Proposition 8 impedes businesses from achieving the market's ideal of efficient operations — particularly in recruiting, hiring, and retaining talented people who are in the best position to operate at their highest capacity. Amici are competing domestically and internationally with companies inside and outside the United States in places where all couples, regardless of whether they are of the same sex, are afforded equal access to marriage."
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Before the upgrade, you used to be able to click on the icon to the left of the post and be taken to the first post in the thread instead of clicking the main link to be taken to the last. That icon isn't there any more.
As bizzare as it may seem, I don't spend every waking hour on here and always being taken to the last post of a thread is a bit of a pain because you either have to find the last post you read or the first post. Can the links on the front take you to the first unread post of the thread (don't know if phpBB has that facility?) or at the very least, can we have the icon which takes you to the first post back?


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Our vision is to raise happy livestock the way God intended: with fresh grass, natural grains and minerals, and lots of sunshine. We give our animals the best so they can give us the best. On Laughing Chicken Farm, the chickens really do laugh.
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Laughing Chicken Farm grows and sells its products locally.
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As the popularity of our products grows, more and more of you are discovering "shopping" at the farm. Some of the advantages are:
1)You have the opportunity to purchase fresh not frozen meats.
2)You don't have to wait until market day to stock up.
3)You get first choice of all the products (what doesn't sell at the farm goes to market)
4)You can purchase any quantity you wish at the farm. There is no limit on our free range eggs.
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IMPORTANT! Due to the amount of work that takes place on the farm every day; farm visits are by appointments only! No Exceptions! Unlike factory style poultry farms, we love to have visitors come and see us. We have nothing to hide, in fact several farmers have visited us to learn the style of rotational grazing that we use. But we have to give Joel Salatin of the Polyface Farm in Virginia, the credit for first helping us!
There are couple of things you will need to do before coming out though. The first is to email us and let us know who you are, how many people are in your party, and when you would like to visit.
The State of Florida just passed an Agritourism law that became effective on July 1st, 2013 that releases farmers from liability if a farm visitor is injured on the farm. This is the second requirement. All visitors must read, sign and date the release form below. If you are bringing a group like the Cub Scouts or a homeschool group, We need a completed form from each person attending including a parent's signature for their child in that group.
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Laughing Chicken Farm has been featured in the Gainesville Examiner! Writer Daniel Eddy tried our chicken roasted and paired with several selections of Chardonnay. He did a wonderful job!
A free-range roast chicken and Chardonnay pairing comparison
Daniel has written another fine article about our chicken.
Laughing Chicken and Amarone for Christmas Dinner 2010
...And yet another article (Thank you Daniel)
Laughing Chicken roasted leg quarters and Vega Sindoa El Chapparal Garnacha
Thanks Daniel, this becoming a habit...a pleasant one I must admit :)
Laughing Chicken Farm for the conscientious carnivore locavore
Thanks to Kimberly Howard of GTN TV in Gainesville for an informative interview and funny video about our Thanksgiving 2011 turkeys.
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Check out these numbers, if you will, from the Suns' first 38 games compared to their most recent 39. As you'll see, 38 games into the season there was no doubt about the focal point of Phoenix's attack. Nash led the team in minutes and usage rate, and by a wide margin in player efficiency rating.
Minutes Usage Rate PER First 38 games Nash 1,320 25.66 24.53 Stoudemire 1,281 24.51 20.52 Last 39 games Nash 1,128 19.67 18.37 Stoudemire 1,376 23.88 24.25
Since then, however, two things have happened. First, Nash's balky back has turned on him a bit. Second, Amare Stoudemire has become much more comfortable after playing his way back into shape in the first half of the season (he couldn't train over the summer while he recovered from a detached retina).
As that has happened, Phoenix has shifted from a Nash offense to an Amare offense. Over the past 39 games, Stoudemire -- not Nash -- is the Suns' leader in minutes, usage rate and PER. He's passed Nash on the PER charts despite being miles behind at midseason, and has a chance to pass him in usage rate, too.
That's from John Hollinger's latest article on how the Suns are by far the most efficient offense one again this year, and the third best all time, by his metrics. Reading this backed up what I had already suspected: Amare has been playing better and better and getting back to his dominant ways.
Now, I haven't done the research to take a really good look at this question, but I hope some people have the relevant stats to discuss it fully. For now, I'll just go with my subjective impressions. Bosh is better at posting up and facing up, but with Rose's lack of three point shooting, he might not get as much space as he would on another team. Amare on the other hand is better at finishing around the basket and finishing on pick and rolls, which with Rose would form a truly deadly combo.
Also Amare has played seemingly his best ball this year with Robin Lopez, who does a lot of similar things to Noah (except worse) which makes me think they will mesh nicely.
I believe Bosh is the better defender, and that might hurt be a strike against him, but with Deng, Noah and Hinrich (hopefully we'll improve over him, but for now) we should have a good defense either way.
Another, selfish reason is that I just don't like Bosh's game very much and I love Amare's rim rattling, posterizing attitude. This has nothing to do with whether he's a better fit or not, but if they're close to even, I'd rather go with the player that will be more fun to watch for the next 6 years.
I'm very open to the possibility that I'm very wrong on this, I more just want to start the discussion and see where it leads. At worst, I think people are underestimating how good Amare could be as a consolation prize if we miss out on Bosh (or Wade, etc.)


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1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
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1 cup small broccoli florets
1 can (15 ounces) red beans
1 cup frozen, thawed, or canned cream-style corn
8-12 ounces shrimp, peeled, deveined
Saut� the onion, thyme, marjoram, and crushed red pepper in butter in a large saucepan until the onion is tender, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the flour, and cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the milk and potato, and heat to boiling. Reduce the heat, and simmer, covered, 5 minutes.
Add the broccoli, beans, and corn, and simmer, covered, until the vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes, adding shrimp during the last 5 minutes.
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Total fat: 6g
Cholesterol: 99mg
Sodium: 857mg
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Spring Breakers was released March 22nd, 2013 and stars James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Gucci Mane, Heather Morris, Ashley Lendzion. The film is directed by Harmony Korine.
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@bawnian-dexeus I guess that is true... not sure I want to draw a picture of Jesus in fecal matter... That's what we have MonkeyIron 2.0 for...
@mcleve02 None for me
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@bawnian-dexeus I will take two of whatever he is on...
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@paulington The face of Christ in a sh*t stain... ??? dafuq?
This is Harmony Korine. Its at least gotta be interesting. The face of Christ in a sh*t stain...
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@bawnian-dexeus agreed! What the hell is wrong with a 13 year old girl who would go out drinking with a 30 year old ghetto thug and expect to not be used up...
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@bawnian-dexeus so in other words today's teenage girls... need I bring up Rebecca Black with her classic cult sh*tty hit "It's Friday"
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Members of the 2011 Leadership Hays class raised $5,560 during the month of June to benefit two very important youth programs in Hays and Ellis County. Members of the class sold tickets to win an "Instant Wine Cellar" to raise funds to purchase new breast pumps and supplies for the Hays LaLeche League chapter and I Spy books for the High Plains Mental Health Center.
Angela Smitherman from Ellis was the lucky winner. Her winning ticket was drawn Saturday night at the Wild West Festival in Hays.
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Since inadequate planning time seems to be the greatest impediment to making writing assignments, a handy list of tips to cut grading time should be a tremendous help. Because I gathered these over the years, I have lost track of their sources, and I apologize to their originators for not acknowledging their ideas. For a general background on grading student papers, check A Method for Grading Essays in Any Course but don't be scared off by it! In-depth grading is not necessary on all writing assignments or even in all courses.
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Asking students to evaluate their own and their peers' writing with rubrics is an amazingly effective teaching technique, and one which is easily incorporated into cooperative learning lesson plans. One interesting activity is to have students evaluate their team members' papers using a rubric and then select their team's best paper to read aloud. I've never seen students edit as ambitiously as when they are preparing to read their papers to the rest of the class. It is, perhaps, even more gratifying to hear students complain about one another's writing using terms you have struggled to make them learn.
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Image via WikipediaThis week the Fighting Sioux play the Maine Black Bears and the Sioux have had some bad luck against Maine and Boston College as of late, I broke the numbers down in this article. [Inside Hockey]
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I was trying to purify some ChIP DNA following several histone modification IPs. After reverse crosslinking the DNA fragments, I added RNaseA to it, incubated for at least 30 minutes, added Proteinase K with Tris and EDTA and incubated at 45C for over 2 hours. This procedure/sequence of steps has worked before and it's the protocol I follow. Following this, I did a phenol:chloroform:Isoamyl alcohol extraction, followed by a chlorofom extraction. Then I proceeded to precipitate the DNA using glycogen (2µL at 5µg/µL) and 2.5 volume of 100% EtOH. I saw goop precipitating in some of the tubes I was working with. I treated all the tubes exactly the same, so I cannot comprehend why some of the tubes formed this goo precipitate where as the rest did not. After centrifuging, I removed the EtOH supernatant from the tubes and let the pellet dissolve in 0.1X TE. I'm thinking about repeating the RNase A, Proteinase K treatment and the Phenol chlorofom extraction. My question is, when repeating the process again, should I be adding more glycogen for the DNA to precipitate, more salt, etc.?! How else do you think I can recover my DNA fragments? Will repeating any of the process I listed above affect my yield?!
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Sometime in the last couple of years, an artist named "Iyaz" recorded a song called "Solo". You could hear people singing to themselves the catchy tune everywhere you went (and understandably, it was pretty damn catchy). The song does not bring much to the table besides the jingle, but it does have one specific line that related to the life of a Knick fan (in the past):
I was so high, and now I am so low
The rest of the song might as well be mush, but that line was remain the motto for Knicks fans for a very long time. Why, might you ask?
It's because a) sports are unpredictable as hell, b) the Knicks had a tendency to get your hopes up, only to eventually let down those expectations and c) Isiah Thomas. Those days are numbered though.
That is because the Knicks recently acquired Carmelo Anthony, but for some reason, they are still unable to beat the Cavs and, even more recently, the Pacers. Good teams beat bad teams. Get it through your head, Knickerbockers. It's sickening because I've written it so many times my hand hurts.
I've written it before Anthony was acquired and again after. But time and time again, they manage to lose against teams they should, on paper, beat.
I get it. This machine needs to be oiled out. The pieces need to fit together.
Come on though, THIS IS THE CAVS AND THE PACERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The problem is that the new Knicks, as a whole, play up or down to their competition. And maybe that's actually a good thing, come playoff time. For one, they will be better rested, and two, they'll play "up" to those upper-echelon teams of the East, like the Celtics and Bulls. On the contrary though, I'd feel a lot more secure (and confident) in my favorite basketball team if they would bother to get easy wins when they could. In sports you obviously don't add and subtract wins and losses, but turn those two Cavs games into wins, and the Knicks are suddenly 36-29, not 34-31.
The reason for the old motto ("I was so high, now I'm so low") is because it happened a lot. I don't want to make the pain sting too bad, so here's one simple one that was stretched out over the course of a season.
Going back a couple of years to recent history, I was as excited as any Knick fan could be entering the infamous Larry Brown season. Pumped. Jacked. Let's do this. Then the team pulls out a grandeur 23 wins. They weren't making any MSG commercials like these back in those days because there was literally nothing to get excited about (less Stephon Marbury, but look how he turned out).
I though, am proposing a brand new motto for Knicks fans. See if you can figure it out based on these examples...
- Andy Rautins was selected with the 38th pick in the 2010 NBA Draft by the Knicks. Right now that seems to make Knicks fans undeniably "low".
- Then, moments later, the Knicks selected Landry Fields with the 39th pick. Fortunately, there is no denying that he is the best "pure rookie" in the league.
- The world claims that Amar'e Stoudemire will suck as a New York Knick.
- Stoudemire proves the world wrong... up to today. *KNOCKS ON WOOD*
- The Knicks dropped a scrimmage to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- The Knicks followed it up with a win over the Miami Heat.
- The Knicks dropped another scrimmage to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- The Knicks followed it up with three wins over the Hawks, Jazz, and Grizzlies.
Based on the evidence above, I can only see one outcome for tomorrow night's game against the Pacers... a win. Similarly, the four examples above provide for a new moto for Knicks fans everywhere: so low, then so high.
Dan Miranda is the writer/editor of Knicks Vision, a Knicks blog filled with useful information, news, and analysis on your favorite New York basketball team. To get more of Dan (and more NYK info), follow him on Twitter.


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I'm Travis Chance, a freelance photographer currently residing in Washington DC. I graduated from University of North Carolina at Greensboro where I played baseball & an eagerness for an urban lifestyle brought me to the nation's capital. My wife, Cameo and I have two children, Camryn & Kellan. Outside of my family, career & photography, I played 3 seasons of minor league professional football & am curently active in developing local high school baseball players.
I embraced photography in the latter part of 2008 after realizing that I could creatively share the way I see with world with others. While modern technology has opened doors beyond the limitations of cameras, I strive to create artistic interpretations of real subjects using techniques that preserve reality of the image.
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On a hot day where my AC went out the guys on the farm managed to go 2-3. Bad pitching was the culprit in Gwinnett though they got some power of their own. A surprise player delivers the offense for Mississippi and Lynchburg.
Gwinnett Braves 4, Durham Bulls 7
- Mauro Gomez 1B - 2-4, HR(14), 2 K, .294 Avg
- Brandon Hicks SS - 2-4, HR(12), 2 RBI, K, .266 Avg
- Eric Cordier 2.1 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 3 BB, 2 K, 4.81 ERA
Cordier couldn't get it done tonight despite a couple of homers from the infield and the Braves drop back even with the Bulls in the division. Brandon Hicks has four homers in his last ten games but fourteen strikeouts in that span. There is a give and take there.
Todd Redmond attempts to take the division back from the Bulls tomorrow.
Mississippi Braves 6, Huntsville Stars 2
- Mycal Jones CF - 1-5, 2B, .216 Avg
- Ernesto Mejia 1B - 1-4, 2B, .295 Avg
- Sean Henry LF - 3-4, 2B, BB, .375 Avg
- Cory Harrilchak RF - 3-4, 2B, HR(5), 4 RBI, BB, .232 Avg
- Paul Clemens 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R(1 ER), 3 BB, 4 K, 3.29 ERA
Paul Clemens picked up his sixth win of the season in his first start after the All Star break. He appears to have settled into a middle ground of sorts after the starting the year hot and leading the Southern League in ERA and then giving up fifteen runs over the course of two starts. Since the second of those starts he has given up two or three runs in each of his last four outings. Cory Harrilchak has had a rough season so far though he was moderately better in June. Hopefully his show tonight will get he ball rolling for the guy that was our best OF prospect before the season started.
Myrtle Beach Pelicans 3, Lynchburg Hillcats 5
- Andrelton Simmons SS - 2-4, .297 Avg
- Joey Terdoslavich 1B - 1-2, 2B, 2 BB, K, .261 Avg
- Joe Leonard 3B - 2-4, HR(4), 4 RBI, .263 Avg
- Christian Bethancourt DH - 2-4, RBI, CS(1), .258 Avg
- David Hale 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 5.13 ERA
The Hillcats take the second straight game from the Pelicans behind the bat of Joe Leonard and good pitching from a smorgasbord of relief pitchers. Leonard got the offense started with a three run bomb in the first inning and he tacked on another RBI in the fourth. Terdoslavich reached base three times as well. Today was Hale's first start of the season and it went pretty well. I don't know if he is going remain in that role and he has not succeeded as a starter in the past but he may get one more shot to see if his above average stuff can stick in the rotation.
Zeke Spruill will take the mound tomorrow against Myrtle Beach.
Charleston RiverDogs 4, Rome Braves 2
- Tommy La Stella 2B - 1-2, 2 BB, SB(1), .184 Avg
- Edward Salcedo 3B - 0-4, K, .275 Avg
- Chris Garcia 1B - 1-2, 2B, RBI, BB, E(4), .354 Avg
- David Rohm RF - 2-4, 2 2B, K, .273 Avg
Three days into July and David Rohm has already matched his double total from last month. He is hitting .538 in his first three games this month and .429 over his last 10. As good as Salcedo has been recently Rohm has been the best hitter on this team and maybe in the entire Sally League over the last couple of weeks.
Burlington Royals 5, Danville Braves 1
- Brandon Drury DH - HR(1), .311 Avg
- Lucas La Point 5 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 K, 2.65 ERA
Brandon Drury - CHOO CHOO!!!
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News: Tony Yayo Promises Big Guns Popping In "S.W.A.T. 2", "It's Going To Be A Lot Of Shooting"
Monday, May 24, 2010 10:36PM
G-Unit's Tony Yayo recently chopped it up about his upcoming flick, S.W.A.T. 2 and promised plenty of action.
Portraying a villain, the "Talk of New York" shared some on-set details of the film.
"I'm just a bad guy. I'm from the streets, and I do what bad guys do. I play Carlos," he explained in an interview. "I'm definitely a bad guy. I don't have a problem playing a bad guy, 'cause everybody looks at me as that anyway. It was real easy. ... It's going to be a lot of shooting and stuff in the movie, it's great. There's real S.W.A.T. in the movie and they real S.W.A.T...I met this guy, I forget his name, he's the head S.W.A.T. guy for Detroit. He's directing the actors on what to do. It's S.W.A.T. in [the film who] obviously know what to do. It's amazing to meet real S.W.A.T. They are really in the movie. It gets crazy in the movie!" (MTV)
Reports of Yayo's involvement on the movie project landed online earlier this month.
The movie centers around a Los Angeles SWAT officer who is sent to train the Detroit SWAT team with new anti-terrorism techniques. As Lt. Paul Cutler attempt to train the new team he locks horns with his new captain, while encountering resistance from the team he is training. Enter Tony Yayo. A source confirmed with AllHipHop.com that the G-Unit member would be "taking hostages." His character is named "Carlos," in the movie, which also stars Robert Patrick, Giancarlo Esposito, Kim Byers and others. (All Hip Hop)
Ya later confirmed his role in the film.
"[This] is a real big, big look," he said in an interview. "It's a big movie. It's gonna be crazy." Yayo is currently shooting in Detroit, playing a villainous character named Carlos, where he will perform his own stunts. "I can't tell you everything, but I can tell you I'm definitely one of the bad guys," he shared. "I fit the part...It feels good to play the bad guy. And it's definitely gonna be me against the police." (XXL Mag)
Earlier this year, the rapper talked about beginning a movie career.
"And I'm looking to get into one of those movies, shouts-out 50, put me in one of those movies man! You cut my part in [Before I] Self Destruct, it's cool...I haven't had an album in five years, and financially, it's nothing to complain about...[50] gives us the opportunity to go out and get money, a lot of n*ggas don't have that. Like, when you see the situations like Jay-Z and [Beanie] Sigel -- or Fat Joe and Remy Ma, I remember Remy used to complain, 'Yo, this n*gga's giving me a thousand dollars,' what kind of sh*t is that?" (Vlad TV)
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Hunted a new area
I got to bow hunt a new area yesterday and all I can say is wow on how many deer we saw! It's a double secret location and I can only go to when my daughter's boyfriend is allowed to go. We saw about a dozen deer on way in and I saw about 1/2 dozen just in the morning. None were close enough for a shot.
I'm hoping to go again next weekend. :D
If you were just a little closer I might have to bug you for a map of the area! :D Lol
Good Luck!
Sounds like you have a honey hole there, good luck!
Well, the reason I can only sometimes and with my daughter's boyfriend is that it's a military base and he's in the reserves and trains there. So it's not open to everyone. Only those that have permission and a guest. Him and my daughter have take 3 deer out of there already. My daughter's first deer too during firearms season.
Where we were seeing a bunch of deer, there aren't any good trees for a tree stand, so sitting back off the clear cuts, and there are a lot of those, on the ground is about all you can do.
Have you ever hunted out of a pop-up blind? Sounds like the ticket for bowhunting the place , just brush it real good to break up the outline of it. Good luck.
Where we did see some deer, I did see a bunch of seed pods from locust trees on the ground. So, they are probably hitting them for food.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The JU women's basketball team has named Jason Senuta assistant coach, head coach Melissa Taketa announced Tuesday. Senuta, a former Maryland-Baltimore County assistant, has seven years of coaching experience, including five at the high school and AAU levels.
Senuta joins the Dolphin staff after serving as an assistant at UMBC the past two seasons. Last season the Retrievers advanced to the Northeast Conference Championship game. Senuta helped guide senior guard Shalayna Johnson to Second-Team All-NEC honors by averaging 21.9 points per game last season, guards Jessie Brown and Matea Pender earn All-NEC honors during the 2001-02 season.
Senuta will assist in all fascets of the women's basketball program, including recruiting, individual workouts, travel planning, conditioning and monitoring the student-athletes' academic progress.
"We are excited to have Jason join the staff," said Taketa, who is entering her fifth season at JU. "His knowledge of the game and enthusiasm will be a great addition to our team."
Prior to UMBC, Senuta led the Blue Ridge Force to the 2001 Maryland AAU State Championship (15-and-under). He also coached at Walkersville (Md.) High from 1997-2001, serving as associate head coach for the girls' varsity during the 2000-01 season and as head coach for the junior varsity from 1997-2000.
Senuta, a native of Walkersville, Md., earned his B.S. in elementary education from St. Francis (Pa.) College in 1997. He was a student assistant for the St. Francis women's team from 1994-96 and began his coaching career at Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Junior High in 1996. Senuta and his wife, Lynde, now reside in Jacksonville.


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In its final major legislative action before shutting down and hitting the campaign trail ahead of the November elections, Congress has passed a measure to fund the federal government for the next two months, CNN reports.
According to the news provider, the House voted 228-194 and the Senate voted 69-30 in favor of a stop-gap effort that would allow for the continuation of major federal programs and agencies until December 3.
A congressional aide explained to the news source that the 64-day funding will decrease the overall budget in the new fiscal year by $219 billion.<
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The U.S. Congress recently passed a law that will increase safety on commercial flights, the first piece of major legislation aimed at improving airline safety standards in the past twenty years.
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June 21st, 2013 10:33 AM #11
It's not boring at all! I think it's pretty & quite charming.♂ Ellis Christopher / Asher Estlin / Seth Joshua / Gordon Thomas / Russell Joseph ♂
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I really, really love it! It is not boring at all!Current Favorites:
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I think it's a lovely name. I haven't met many Hazel's, so it's certainly not boring to me.My Top 10 Girls Names: Astrid, Elara, Evelyn, Hannah, Hester, Lorna, Megan, Ophelia, Sylvia, Tabitha
My Top 10 Boys Names: Alistair, Andrew, Graeme, Hamish, Leopold, Martin, Peter, Rupert, Tobias, William
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Thanks, ladies! I'm feeling quite good about Hazel Elisabeth Grace atm. @cvdutch31 - meh, it doesn't really bug me--I've never really been that into YA fiction, and by the time I have children (not to mention when they're old enough to have heard of the book), I doubt it'll be much of an issue. I doubt I'll have kids for five years, at least, if not closer to 10.
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I don't think it's boring, I think it's absolutely charming, I adore it.♥ Margaret Mary ♥
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i believe we see Vince Young come out with somewhere close to 2,500 yrds passing with a 90.5 qb rating with 13 tds. i see CJ2K with 1,414 yrds rushing and 12 tds. i predict Randy Moss as a Titan will see 500yrds and 3 tds. Defensively i see Jason Jones finishing up with 5scks. Jason Babin rounds off with 10 sacks. Dave Ball gets 8.5. Then i see Michael Griffin coming out with 6INTS and ATV getting 4ints and Jason McCourty with 3.


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Keyshia Cole lets love take her higher in the TAJ-directed video for "Take Me Away," a mid-tempo groove off her fourth album Calling All Hearts. In the beachy clip, Keysh hits the sand for a choreographed dance number, later heading back to the crib where she indulges in a back massage and bath. Escape to paradise with the R&B songstress.
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BrightSource's Energy Co.'s prospects appear to be dimming, Bloomberg reported on April 3.
PG&E Corp. , California's largest utility, canceled plans to buy power from BrightSource's Hidden Valley project the same day that BrightSource asked the California Energy Commission to suspend permitting for the proposed $2.7 billion endeavor, the news service said. The project had been proposed in Inyo County, near the Nevada border.
A BrightSource spokesman told Bloomberg the two companies "mutually agreed to terminate" the Hidden Valley contracts because of "uncertainty around the timing of transmission upgrades."
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So I just got my first vehicle (pretty psyched). I am planning on getting a cap for the back and building up the floor in the bed to create storage and a sleeping/living space which i will be occupying for extended periods of time. I'm sure you all have had some experience in this and i am looking for some advice, pictures, plans, whatever... --- Invalid image id: 106161454 ---
I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for but it should give you some good ideas. www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=563313&msg=5>>> Don't forget the disco ball and rotating bed!
I've tricked out a number of vehicles, including a truck w/ topper and a couple of vans. When I set up my truck for living, I built a bed on top of the wheel wells, used my crash pad for a mat and built a giant box/drawer underneath that pulled out and had all of my stuff in it. I've seen a number of people do the drawer thing and it works best with wheels. My buddy put roller blade wheels on his to make it super easy to pull out. I also installed a power inverter, strung LED lights in the topper and put in some drapes. If you can afford it, the topper to get is one that pops up because you get a ton of headroom for living/hanging out. Here's a link to what we did to our most recent van, which may give you some ideas. The awning is something I had also intended to do to my truck and it's one of my favorite features of our van. Have fun.
Here's one you can do for less the $100. If you can find some scrap lumber you can do it for the price of a couple of cam straps. Notes: Use a hight top shell. Headroom is nice but the taller back window is crucial. The boards sit on top of the lip of the shell so there is enough room to slide in the big action packers. Split the bed length-wise and you can get 2 bikes in the back. Stack the boards and sit low with the bed as a table if the weather is bad. The whole thing is attached with 2 cam straps. It comes out in 30 seconds. Get a gsff or make one with a window washing pole (doubles as a clip stick) and a painter's hook. You can pull things out of the front without crawling in. Make sure your cab has a "contractors" window on the side. They flip up like the tailgate window and make for easy access to the stuff in the front. If the contractor's window is on the right, make the fixed side of the bed on the left. I think setting up the bed on the wheel wells to get more head room is over rated. Unless you're planning on spending a lot of non-sleep time in the back you're much better off with better storage underneath. On most of my road trips everything is under the bed. If you have the cash, get a MSR Parawing (www.trailspace.com/gear/msr/19-parawing/). It's the best piece of nylon I've ever had and refuses to blow down (Cheaper nylon tarps will blow down.) if it's staked well (I nail it down with 2' pieces of rebar.). I set it up and back the tail of the truck under it and have sun and rain protection. Good luck and post up some pictures whe it's done. Mal Edit: I found a cool LED light bar for $15 that velcros to the carpet liner on the shell (important! It's the grey stuff that lines the topper. Don't buy a bare shell.) It'll stick anywhere inside and I glued a couple of patches of velcro to the top of the tailgate glass and I stick it there for when I'm cooking. Lights up the whole tailgate. I've also added some Yakima side rails because I have a platform top rack now. These are bolted through the topper and I put bolt hangers on the inside to clip stuff to. Yes, that is a bottle opened screwed to the bed post and, yes, that is an old chalk bag hanging there to catch the bottle caps.
www.trucknutz.com/ anyone that drives a truck needs a set of these. i put them on my tercel. doesn't work quite as well
This guy pretty much has it as dialed as you're going to find with good directions too... www.bajataco.com/bajataco.html
when i graduated from college, i also bought a toyota, and built a topper out of plywood, 2x4's and fiberglass. it was pretty awesome because: 1) it drew a lot of attention - people actually remembered meeting me, or even seeing my truck in different states, and i was always gawked at on the highway. 2) lots of headroom 3) i got to build all kinds of custom features that you just can't get in a van or with a normal fiberglass topper. 4) toyotas are amazingly reliable, repairs are easy, and parts are cheap. and it sucked because: 1) it drew a lot of attention - my rule for my journey was that i never paid for sleep. this meant trying to go stealth in a big eye-catcher. the crazy appearance put me in a couple of unfortunate situations that i think may not have happened if it had been a more subdued vehicle. 2) it was too big, and i carried way too much shit in it. i was always rummaging through crap that i rarely used. if i was to do it again, id use a large fiberglass topper, carefully weather-sealed, and id build a sleeping shelf on top of the wheel wells. in my mind, the most important thing is only having what you need to make you comfortable, and nothing more. for me, this does not include: a cooler, a light source in back (bring a headlamp), tv, stereo, stacks of books, sixteen extra t-shirts, etc. it does include a stove, a spare selection of kitchen instruments, and a bottle of biodegradable kitchen soap. fill a small sealable container of spices and a well-sealed bottle of olive oil. keep everything clean and organized. the only thing to go crazy on is extra blankets. embrace libraries and two dollar theaters for books and movies, and hit up local bars for a cheap beer and tv watching. sit at the bar, and you'll meet a lot of cool people who you wouldn't have met hanging out at climbing areas. deciding whether to build it as a two person sleeper is tough. if you just built the half shelf, you'd have more space to hang out back there on rainy days, id maybe build a little chair to sit on. id be tempted to just put in a single, but then i was always extremely happy to have the double when i did have a guest. good luck and make sure to post what you end up doing.
I vote for malcolm's set up. It's fast, cheap and you're going to need all the money you can get for GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've lived out of a few vehicles (my preference is toyo vans) in the last 12 years and my only advice is: don't bring too much stuff. have fun
Oh come on...you don't think you need a camera to monitor the undercarriage of your truck with a mini LCD screen inside? I don't know what crack you guys climb but you need some better stuff.
i recently installed the half-deck (as dumb as it sounds, inspired by steph davis' set-up: www.highinfatuation.com)...awesome! put a half deck in the cab end, sleep on pads underneath --- you have a table, plenty of room to hang out in crappy weather, still lots of storage (when on the road) and usuable space (when not on the road), still very stealth. i like the set up.
sweet, i have the same truck (an 02?) just to let you know caps from newer s-10's also fit pretty well as long as you put an old bike inner tube across the top of the bed near the cab(otherwise water can seep in) and there are cheap one's floating around since they don't make s10's anymore. truckbedz has a website with 70$ inflatable beds to fit the tacoma. good luck
Make sure you include some of the amenities that this traveling vehicle has: www.urbanclimbermag.tv/videos/videoInfo.php?video=914
For "drawers" under the bed deck, the easiest thing I have come up with is six Rubbermaid platic bins with cord strung through the handles. I clip them together with old 'biners so that they can be easily pulled out. In my short bed, full-size pick up I can still slide two sets of skiis down the middle and put fuel etc. behind the wheel wells. I find I can pack almost all my gear under the deck and have my bed set up. It also makes the truck look empty-- so less chance of a break in. For a bed I used "surplus" closed cell foam with a three inch open cell pad on top. Fit it out with sheets and a nice pillow and it's better than the bed at home. Also, a magnetic LED work light that plugs into the lighter plug can be "stuck" anywhere on the outside of the vehicle for cooking.
The bottle opener is definitely a nice touch!
if you have a 6ft bed a futon mattress will fit perfectly on the back. Consider getting one of the toppers with a higher roof so you can have some head room during rainstorms. Next keep your eye out a good will and buy one of those monster 1980's walmart roof boxes and store things like stove, cooler etc in there. Cost is next to nothing and sleeps two well. This is what I live out of in the winter and its great. Another thing to consider when getting a topper is if your doing winter stuff get the topper lined with that carpet or whatever it is to keep in the heat.
you must use the rocking motion to your advantage and make all of your friends sleeping by themselves in bivy sacks jealous.
Atta boy Joshua!
How about this? www.toyotamotorhomes.com/4x4_bandit.htm
I know this doesn't help the new truck owner but I just love my car. It's a Pontiac Aztek. In the top 10 ugliest cars in history but the tent makes up for it.
If your truck is rocking here's what to do (maybe we're getting too far into Yotatech.com here but... EDIT #0- check tire pressure #1- Replace the stock rubber sway bar bushings with polyurethane ones (lubed to keep from possible squeaking). Its the cheapest and easiest troubleshooting not to mention it can work! if that doesn't stop it go to #2 #2- Replace your REAR shocks with stiffer ones. This will cost more money but isn't that bad. Many brands to choose from and once again, dead easy to do. Id strongly recommend leaving the front suspension stock. Id be surprised if you still have sway after this. Good luck!


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Not only can you attend from anywhere, the price is right ... FREE!
But, free doesn't really mean much if the content isn't worth your time. The conference has a great line-up of speakers and topics. Here is the full agenda: Discovery Conference. There are regular speaker sessions, as well as, chat sessions.
Like regular conferences, there will be an Expo center and a networking room in addition to the sessions. They will even be giving away prizes including a $5000 Discovery grant to a credit union, an iPad, an iPod Touch and much more. The prizes are enough reason to at least check it out, right?
I'm not being paid to write about this conference, I just think this is a great learning opportunity for credit unions. Check out the sessions and bring in specific staff members for one or two sessions. Or, attend all day. I've seen many of the speakers before and they are top-notch and you will learn something new.
If you aren't sure how a virtual conference works, here is a youtube video explaining the set up. Watch it below. Here are also the provided conference tips.
What are you waiting for ... REGISTER!
Due to the Discovery Conference, there won't be a new CU Chat Up this week, but the show will be returning next Wednesday at the new time of NOON CT about Rewards Checking and whether it is a sustainable pricing model or not.
If you didn't register in time or are reading this after November 3rd, the sessions will be archived and available for viewing for 90 days. (I will post link after the event)
I hope to see lots of CU Chatters in the networking room!