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Oceans in the Spotlight at COP16
Oceana marine scientist Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb is at the UN climate negotiations in Cancun this week.
This weekend at COP16 started off with style (or perhaps lack thereof) at the NGO party at Señor Frog's – an infamous nightclub catering to 20-something American spring-breakers in Cancun. The NGO party is a great event that lets the climate community put on their party clothes and let off a little steam - before heading into the second very grueling week of negotiations.
Saturday was Oceans Day, an all-day event that focused on the issues facing the oceans due to increasing carbon dioxide levels. On the agenda this year were ocean acidification (a panel including myself, Carol Turley and Tony Haymet), blue carbon and coastal adaptation.
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Days 3-5 at COP16
Oceana marine scientist Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb is at the COP16 climate negotiations in Cancun.
Last week I decided to take a break from the negotiations and attend a workshop by Google where they released their new technology platform Google Earth Engine.
This is a very exciting development that could be incredibly useful to scientists, NGOs and the general community in monitoring and measuring changes in earth systems. This platform will have reams and reams of satellite imagery data than can then be analyzed with various tools, including statistical and modeling programs. Computations will be done in the "cloud" so that work that would have previously taken many hours to days or even years can be done over very short time periods.
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Ocean Acidification: The Untold Stories
As the first week of the sixteenth meeting of the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico (COP 16) draws to a close, Oceana is releasing a new report on climate change's evil twin: ocean acidification.
Ocean Acidification: The Untold Stories details new findings for many different species of marine life that will be affected by a more acidic ocean. Coral reef ecosystems will be some of the first casualties of an acidified ocean; impacts to these beautiful and important habitats could have huge consequences for a quarter of the entire biological diversity of the oceans that depend on coral reefs for food and shelter.
Marine life ranging from the smallest plankton to the largest whale may be affected by ocean acidification. Shellfish such as sea urchins, lobsters, sea stars and brittle stars are some prime examples of creatures that could be affected. More acidic oceans are expected to lead to a shortage of carbonate, a key building block that these animals need to build their shells and skeletons.
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Ted Danson: A Return to Common Sense for Our Coasts
Ted Danson is a member of Oceana's board of directors, and has been active in the fight against offshore drilling for decades. This guest post originally appeared on The Huffington Post.
I haven't heard news this good in a long time. The Obama administration's announcement to protect the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and both U.S. coasts from offshore drilling as part of the next five-year plan is a massive win for our oceans and every living thing that relies on them.
What's more, the administration said it would reconsider Shell's proposal to drill in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea, a sign that the president's commitment to science and preparedness were not just lip service.
The decision is a reversal of the plans President Obama announced in March -- before the largest environmental disaster in our nation's history began staining the Gulf of Mexico black.
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Day 2 at COP16
Oceana marine scientist Ellycia Harrould Kolieb is at the COP16 climate negotiations in Cancun.
Even at this early stage in the negotiations, countries are proving unwilling to come to the table on some issues. Day two saw Japan announce that it will not, under any circumstances, inscribe targets in a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Japan is committed to killing the Kyoto protocol, which is kind of ironic since it was born in Japan.
Also on the agenda for day two was a discussion on whether the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) should undertake a review of the impacts of a 1.5oC temperature rise. This would bring forward the latest science and help to inform negotiations as to the real and immediate threats facing many nations from a less than 2 oC increase in temperatures.
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Oceana Arrives at COP16
Oceana marine scientist Ellycia Harrould Kolieb is at the COP16 climate negotiations in Cancun for the next few weeks.
Here we are again at the international climate change negotiations, this time in Cancun, Mexico. The weather is nice, but it is yet to be seen if the negotiations will be equally sunny. This is the 16th conference of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and we had hoped that by now the international community would be a bit further along at coming to a binding agreement.
Despite the lack of optimism around a meaningful agreement coming out of this meeting, positive steps can (and should) be made to move the process along, hopefully allowing for an agreement to be made next year in South Africa. This meeting has the potential to provide a clear path forward that can lead to a legally binding agreement, one that will require countries to meet their pledges and truly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
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Belize's Reef Fails Health Class
Last week in Belize, reef scientists, conservationists and managers gathered at the Belize Reef Summit to discuss the impacts of increasing ocean temperatures and ocean acidification.
Belize is home to the second largest barrier reef in the world. The 2010 Belize Reef Report Card, which was released at the meeting, reveals that 60% of this protected reef is in poor to critical condition with only 8% considered in good condition. This staggering statistic is unfortunately the case for many coral reefs worldwide.
On the final day of the summit, hundreds of Belizeans and international supporters gathered on an island on the Barrier Reef off of Belize City to create a living work of art to raise awareness about the effect of climate change on the oceans. This striking photograph was a call for world leaders to take strong action against climate change and ocean acidification at COP 16, the UN Climate Talks in Cancun that begin November 29th.
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Kill The Drill, Not The Bill
Some call the U.S. Senate "the place good ideas go to die." Those of us that live and breathe energy policy have already witnessed the death of the climate bill this year. Now, we are sitting at the bedside of the Senate's oil spill response bill. And in spite of what the President called the worst environmental disaster in US history, the "Spill Bill" is on life support as Congress winds to a close.
In the wake of BP's unparalleled Gulf of Mexico disaster some lawmakers recognized the urgent need to overhaul offshore drilling regulations. In July, the House of Representatives passed a bill to tighten safety requirements and make companies pay for damages. Since then, all eyes have been on the Senate to reciprocate. Yet seven months after the blowout, with just a few weeks left in this Congress, we are still waiting.
There is no shortage of facts about the perils of offshore drilling.
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New Oceana Report: Shipping Solutions
We've told you this before, but in case you need a reminder: If global shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Only the United States, China, Russia, India and Japan emit more carbon dioxide than the world's shipping fleet. Nevertheless, this country-sized amount of carbon dioxide remains unregulated.
Like all modes of transportation that use fossil fuels, ships produce carbon dioxide emissions that significantly contribute to global climate change and ocean acidification. Besides carbon dioxide, ships also release a handful of other pollutants that contribute to environmental degradation. More than three percent of global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to ocean-going ships, a number that can be greatly reduced if emission regulations were set.
Oceana recently released a new report called Shipping Solutions - just in time for the Sustainable Shipping meeting in October. At the meeting, Oceana's senior campaign director Jackie Savitz spoke to a room full of shipping industry executives to call for increased shipping emission regulations, and present the many different ways these reductions can be achieved.
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Do One Green Thing: Transportation
This is the fifth in a series of posts about how to green your life, step by step. Instead of burning out on fossil fuels, Will advises taking it easy on yourself and the planet.
Like the final chapter of Mindy Pennybacker's book Do One Green Thing, my final entry of this blog series is about transportation, which is responsible for 28 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. This is by far the hardest area to tackle when going green. Technology and demand are helping to drive energy alternatives, but at the moment, for an average Joe like myself, it is tough to replace oil.
For an individual, breaking the addiction to fossil fuels can be overwhelming if you try to do it all at once. However, as I have learned from Do One Green Thing, change is possible, but easiest—and most sustainable— in moderation.
Here are some simple steps:
*Did you know that not driving one day a week can reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by about 400 pounds a year?
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- Photos: Oceana in Belize Exposes Belizean Youth to the Wonder of the Sea Posted Wed, August 27, 2014
- Conservation Groups Plan Lawsuit to Protect Sperm Whales Posted Fri, August 29, 2014
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Bengal Brasserie suffer defeat in final of Hampshire Junior B Cup
8:00pm Tuesday 29th April 2014 in Football By Peter Raynbird
BENGAL Brasserie suffered final heartbreak in the Hampshire Junior B Cup, losing 4-1 to Bembridge at AFC Portchester on Saturday.
The Basingstoke and District Saturday League outfit took the lead on 13 minutes, Kye Buckland latching on to Adam Hooper's pass before sliding the ball under the Bembridge goalkeeper.
However, Hooper then conceded a penalty and while Dean Elesgood managed to save the spot-kick, he was unable to keep out the rebound.
Tom Langley hit the post for Bengal, while Buckland also went close before the break, but Bembridge went ahead five minutes into the second period. They extended their advantage with 20 minutes to go and made the game safe in the closing stages.
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Fire ripped through a DeKalb County apartment complex on Saturday, leaving four families without a home. The blaze sparked at the Villas of Arbor Hill apartments on Chamblee Tucker-Road near Interstate 285. Authorities say everyone managed to get out of the building safely, but the entire building was left uninhabitable by smoke and water damage. The Red Cross is working to help the families affected by the fire.
A fifth arrest has been made in connection with the murder of a 13-year-old in his own bedroom on Sunday.
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MITCHELL COUNTY, Iowa (KTTC) -- A 37-year-old Osage, Iowa woman was shot to death by her 13-year-old son.
According to the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office, a 911 call came in around 7:30 p.m. from a home on the 3500 block of Cameo Avenue in rural Mitchell county. The teenager is the one who made the call to authorities.
Deputy Greg Beaver with the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office says, "The emotions of the young man from what I've been told is his demeanor was very calm and kind of stoic. Almost like he was in shock also."
37-year-old Gretchen Crooks was found inside the home. Investigators say she died from multiple gunshot wounds.
The teen was transported to the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Waterloo, Iowa. His name will not be released. He was a student at Osage Middle School where grief counselors were available to help the students through their questions.
Superintendent Steve Bass says, "There's not always an answer that does make sense. It's tough on the kids cause they're wondering why did it happen?"
Crooks grew up in nearby Mason City and worked as a critical care nurse at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa.
Lynnette Kenne, the leader of Crooks critical care unit says Crooks compassionate nature is going to be sadly missed, "Gretchen is one of our amazing critical care nurses and she was also one of our house supervisors. She was just a very good nurse. Very caring, compassionate and had amazing skills and knowledge. It's definitely a loss to our organization and everyone that works here. Definitely extend our condolences to her family and friends."
The investigation into exactly what happened is still ongoing. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is helping.
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News: Los & LoLa Monroe's Baby Is A Taylor Gang-Reppin' Bad Boy
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 10:45AM
Bad Boy Records' Los recently talked about welcoming in new life with girlfriend LoLa Monroe and how their respective record label statuses are already shaping their baby boy.
Los credited both his Bad Boy affiliation and LoLa's Taylor Gang home as having influences on baby Brixton Royal.
"He came up in the whole essence of the whole Taylor [Gang] thing with Lola over there, so she's Taylor's up. I'm a Bad Boy, he's a Bad Boy. So he got the best of both worlds. He's good. He got two strong families on either side," Los told MTV News last week when he sat with us to talk about his upcoming mixtape Becoming King. Brixton was born just a month after Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose welcomed their first son, Sebastian "Bash" Taylor Thomaz, into the world and a little more than five months after Tyga's son, King Cairo Stevenson, was born. The way Los sees it, all the newborns will kick it together in play dates with luxurious toys like baby Maseratis. "They're gonna hang, but it's gonna be so futuristic how they hang. We ain't gonna be able to keep up," Los said. (MTV)
The hip-hop couple welcomed in their first child together last month.
It's a boy for LoLa Monroe! The Taylor Gang rapper welcomed her first child with Bad Boy MC King Los on Tuesday. The new mom shared the joyous news with her fans on Twitter. "To God be the Glory!!!!! Our royal gift has arrived!!! I just gave birth to our baby....!!!! LOVE," tweeted LoLa. The baby's father was by her side for the delivery. "A KING IS BORN!!!!!" tweeted an excited Los. "God did some amazing things for us today !!!!!" LoLa's Taylor Gang family sent well wishes to the new parents. "congrats to @iamKingLos & @Thee_LoLaMonroe on their newborn," said Juicy J. (Rap-Up)
Earlier the same month, LoLa publicly thanked Los' Bad Boy labelmate Cassie for putting together a baby shower for her.
"Thaank u @CassieSuper 4 being so special n throwing me such a beautiful baby shower!!ur such a great friend #Rare #Genuine Love u so much!," she tweeted March 2nd.
"So much love today...friends and family..in town to the ones that flew in. Thank you for joining us to be apart of something special."
"My mommy was there w/ me ? ... Amazing couldn't even begin to describe her. God took his time with her." (LoLa Monroe's Twitter)
Buzz behind the rapper's pregnancy surfaced online in late December.
Tis' the season for family and if you're part of the Taylor Gang crew, that probably means you're expecting some new additions to the family. Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are expecting their first child shortly, and on Christmas day Lola Monroe and bad boy rapper Los revealed that their first child is on the way as well. Los took to Twitter on December 25 to post a photo of himself with the 26-year-old who signed with Taylor Gang in October 2011. The photo, which showed the couple standing in front of the Christmas tree while holding onto their baby bump was captioned, "Christmas 2012 with @thee_lolamonroe + 1...Best gift of all!!" (RapFix)


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|Orton appears set to start for Cowboys
|Wednesday, December 25, 2013 9:09 PM
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Kyle Orton and Jon Kitna sat at opposite ends of a couch in the Dallas Cowboys' locker room Wednesday, turned toward each other and started chatting.
They probably were talking about Dallas' offense.
Orton will make his first start at quarterback in his two seasons with the Cowboys on Sunday night, unless Tony Romo can recover from a herniated disc. Dallas will be playing a winner-take-all game at home against the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC East title and a playoff berth.
Romo was nowhere to be seen in any of the public areas at Valley Ranch. He did not practice and didn't attend a morning offensive meeting, according to coach Jason Garrett.
"I'm just excited," Orton said. "I think the guys have got a lot of confidence in me. I've got a lot of confidence in myself. I can fall back on my experience. I've played a lot of games in this league. I don't feel I have to do too much with the ball, just get it to 29 (DeMarco Murray), 82 (Jason Witten) and 88 (Dez Bryant)."
Garrett still hasn't ruled out Romo.
"I saw him briefly today. He's fighting through it. He's doing everything he can to get back. He's going through the rehab process," Garrett explained. "We'll evaluate him day to day, the same as most players who are injured."
Orton's most recent start was in Week 17 of 2011 for Kansas City in a 7-3 victory over the Denver Broncos. He had started the season with Denver but was released after losing the starting job to Tim Tebow, who led the Broncos to the playoffs.
The 31-year-old Orton has a 35-34 record in 69 starts in nine NFL seasons.
For Dallas, Orton has appeared in three games, completing 12-of-15 passes for 129 yards.
Garrett said even that limited experience was valuable.
Romo has been an active participant in preparing game plans and Garrett said Orton's input would be welcomed.
Orton said until this week he hadn't taken any in-season snaps with the first-team offense but believes the starters are comfortable with him.
"I was fortunate to get a lot of reps during OTAs (when Romo was recovering from back surgery)," Orton said. "I've been here a couple of years, so I've had plenty of experience with these guys."
Kitna arrived back at Valley Ranch on Wednesday, also for the first time in two years, as the No. 3 quarterback or as Orton's backup.
Garrett said Kitna's job would be to run the scout team, simulating the Eagles' offense.
He's familiar with that role because for the last two years he has been running the scout team for Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash., where he is head coach.
The 41-year-old Kitna had retired from the Cowboys after going on injured reserve because of a back injury.
The 15-year veteran also missed most of the 2008 season because of a herniated disc.
Quarterbacks David Carr, Tyler Thigpen, John Skelton, Caleb Hanie and Richard Bartel worked out for the Cowboys on Tuesday but Garrett added the deciding factor was Kitna's experience and familiarity with Dallas' offensive system.
NOTES: Injured cornerback Morris Claiborne and wide receiver/kick returner Dwayne Harris returned to practice Wednesday after missing Sunday's game because of hamstring injuries. LBs Kyle Wilber and DeVonte Holloman, who left the game at Washington, also practiced. LBs Sean Lee (neck) and Ernie Sims (groin) remained out.


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By Jade Bulecza - bio | email LOWNDES COUNTY, GA (WALB) –Health officials and animal control officers are stressing the dangers of rabies.
Over the last few months, several people in Lowndes County have been bitten by possibly rabid animals.
None of those people got sick, but health officials want this to serve as a reminder to vaccinate your pets and to report all bites.
Lowndes County Environmentalists have investigated more than 20 cases of humans bitten by animals in the last six months, none of the cases resulted in rabies. Two wild animals did test positive for the disease.
"There was a bat and a fox that tested positive for rabies," said Lowndes County Animal Shelter Director Linda Patelski.
Each year people are bitten by wildlife.
"Most of them, nothing ever comes out of it but every once in awhile something's going to happen where the animal turns up to be positive for rabies," said Patelski.
Domesticated animals are less likely to have rabies but health officials say pet owners should vaccinate horses, livestock, or any animal that is frequently in contact with people.
Between 2003 and 2009 in Lowndes County six foxes, three raccoons, three bats, one otter, and one cat tested positive for rabies.
"The virus is transmitted through the saliva of an animal and when an animal is in the final stages of having rabies, it can act differently depending upon the animal," said Lowndes County Environmental Manager Galen Baxter.
Patelski says if your own dog bites you, you still need to report your dog has bitten especially if they're not updated on all their rabies vaccinations.
If you're bitten by a dog cat or ferret for instance you know is healthy, that animal still has to be quarantined for ten days to be monitored for rabies.
"If it is rabid within that 10-day period it would die," said Baxter.
Baxter says to spay and neuter your pet because that reduces the number of stray animals and can reduce the number of animals and people to rabies.
The pets shown in this video are healthy and up for adoption at the Lowndes County Animal Shelter.
The South Health District says to follow these tips to reduce the risk of exposure to rabies from wildlife:
œIf possible, don't feed or water your pets outside. Even empty bowls will attract wild and stray animals.
œKeep your garbage securely covered. Open garbage will attract wild or stray animals.
œDo not keep wild animals as pets.
œEnjoy wild animals from afar - teach children to never handle unfamiliar animals, even if they appear friendly.
œIf you see a wild animal acting strangely report it to LowndesCounty Animal Control.
œBat-proof your home in the fall and winter.
You can also contact the Lowndes County Health Department at (229) 245-2314 to report a bite or for more information on rabies.
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text: That's the Gazzetta headline, in English, Lombardia's going up the Muro di Sormano. As this year's Worlds are looking likely to take away Lombardia's claim to be hilly bastard race of the autumn, the Giro di Lombardia organisers have struck back and included this legendary beast, the Wall of Sormano. 1.7km at an average of 17%, but reaching up to 25%, barely 2 metres wide and painted with the names and times of the fastest riders. Here's a nice blog post with lots of photos, otherwise enjoy the video below.


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Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor (B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley); social and cultural history of Renaissance Italy; gender and sexuality in early modern Europe; social history of medicine in premodern Europe. Author of Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence (1992) and Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence (2009), which won the 2010 Marraro Prize awarded by the American Catholic Historical Association for the best book in Italian history.
Currently I'm working on two projects, both of which offer important reappraisals of how gender functioned in the organization and provision of early modern healthcare. The first project, titled Agents of Health: Women, Knowledge and Healing in Late Renaissance Italy, is a book-length study examining women as agents of health and healing in Italy from 1500 to 1650. Hard times and new diseases like syphilis ravaged sixteenth-century Italian cities, increasing demand for medical care and diverse charitable services. Much of this demand was met by female religious and laywomen, who served the urban public as skilled apothecaries, nursing staff, hospital administrators, and neighborhood liaisons within increasingly coordinated networks of care. At the same time, changing disease environments and the globalization of the pharmaceutical trade broadened the reach of households, convents and princely courts as nodes of knowledge production operating outside traditional frameworks of university and guild. Focusing on Florence, Venice, Bologna and Rome, I argue that emerging structures of public health, new social welfare projects, and the expansion of pharmacy after 1500 created innovative opportunities for women within the Italian urban healthcare system while enhancing the circulation of experiential medical knowledge.
I'm also editing a special issue of Renaissance Studies (forthcoming 2014) that offers fresh perspectives on women's healthcare activities in early modern Europe. Written by an international team of scholars and drawing on original research, these seven essays challenge conventional notions that medical professionalization marginalized women from the European medical arena between 1500 and 1800, and demonstrate instead women's centrality to the provision of care and emerging structures of public health across Europe.


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My favorite climb at the Overlook.
Start over at the East walk down. As I recall, where the trail comes by a small nose of rock (this is before you hit the base) you step onto the rock and away you go. It seemed like one of those obvious and fortuitous starts. Like it was a route that was suppose to be there. This first section, until you are out and around the first corner (where you can first see the full cliff band), has some pretty challenging 5.10 stuff. I recall it being 2 or so pitches to get around that first corner (which was great, good exposure, sudden view of the area, etc...)
I suspect there is almost certainly 5.10 climbing.
Standard rack, lots of 5 ft runners very handy. Leave your sport rack at home, short quick draws will mostly be a waste of weight. You'll need to be able to work tricky gear at times w/ opposition placements, etc... Keep an eye on the sideway pulls of the rope on the gear.


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ALHAMBRA (CNS) – A San Gabriel man pleaded not guilty today to a murder charge stemming from last month's shooting death of an Alhambra resident gunned down in his garage.
Xia Lin, 26, is charged in the death of Quin-Jin Fang, 43, who was shot multiple times about 10:30 p.m. Sept. 22 while sitting in a vehicle in his garage in the 300 block of North Monterey Street.
The murder charge includes gang and gun allegations.
A loaded handgun believed to be the murder weapon was recovered a short distance from the victim's home, police said.
Lin remains jailed and is due back in Alhambra Superior Court Dec. 4, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require him to stand trial.
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I see a lot of arguments based on what players should be drafted where. Certain players are pegged within a 5-pick continuum. Draft value at a particular position (say Trufant at #12) is highly debated - players who are a "reach" or a "steal". We seem to have a notion of what a player is worth. Hell, I'm guilty of it myself - it's fun to debate what a player is worth. But why? Does anybody else find this a bit absurd? Here's the thing, NO ONE KNOWS. Not Kiper, McShay, NFL GM's, Mayock, Kevin Nogle, me, you, or Alpha's live-in boyfriend. NO ONE. Am I crazy to think of the draft as more of a lottery than a science? Let me elaborate.
Here's my point: every single year, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, someone from the 5th round and beyond turns into one of the elite players in the NFL. Every single year, someone from the 1st round turns bad, sometimes even the #1 overall pick turns out to completely suck. That's why people who are paid millions of dollars, have been around football their whole life, wake up at 4 a.m. to watch tape, and are a part of a committee of scouts, personnel evaluators, psychologists, and so on that does some of the most exhaustive research of any enterprise of any company in the entire world CAN GET IT WRONG. Why? Why might you ask? They have privvy to the most sophisticated statistics, matrices, metrics, family background, college/high school coach interviews, personal interviews, personal workouts, pro days, the Combine, etc.. No matter how scientific we want this process to be, you cannot measure what is inside a person: their will to succeed, the chip on their shoulder, their leadership, etc.. By virtue of not being measurable, it is not scientific. But we so desperately want it to be.
Which brings me back to the lottery. I think this is the paradigm to view the draft. None of this is science, as much as draft experts want you to believe and the millions spent on the industry suggests, because why would you watch somebody claim this and that if they couldn't base their assertions on science? If it were all a big guess, then nobody would care about what the "experts" think, much the same as there is not fantasy "Pick 4" or fantasy "MegaMillions" advice from Ed McMahon. But in the back of our mind, we all know it's true. We know it's a big lottery. How else do you explain the crazy circumstances that have arisen from the draft? It's luck. Say it with me. You think New England did more research on Tom Brady than any other team? You think Miami was the only ballsy team in the NFL willing to draft an undersized LB from Texas Tech in the 5th round? Want more recent evidence? Just look at the top-10 in the 2009 NFL draft. Other than Stafford, who else was worthy of a top-10 pick (Crabtree, maybe)? And yet in this very same draft, the following players were selected: Brian Cushing, Clay Matthews, Percy Harvin, Hakeem Nicks, Jairus Byrd (now into the 2nd round players),
Pat White, Andy Levitre, Lesean McCoy, Sebastian Vollmer, Louis Vasquez (now into the 3rd round players), Mike Wallace, Lardarius Webb, Jared Cook, Brian Hartline (now into the 4th round players)...you see my point? It doesn't matter who you draft where, it just matters that you get the player right. And whether you get the player right has a high degree of luck and a little bit of marriage with what you have seen on film, the research you have gathered (I'm not willing to admit that science has NOTHING to do with it, just very, very little), and how he fits with your schemes and locker room. You might reasonably predict how they mesh with a scheme, but you almost never know how they will mesh with the locker room. And you can NEVER know what kind of productivity you will get, no matter how many of the stars are aligned.
So how do you get the best players if it's not all science? The same way you increase the likelihood of winning a lottery game: you get more lottery tickets. In our case, you get as many draft picks as you can. Here's what we do know: in every draft, there will be a few Pro Bowl Players, there might even be a couple of Hall-of-Fame players, a small percentage will be starters, a decent percentage will be quality depth and eventual starters, but MOST players will never pan out and never be relevant. Of course, you rationalize, we should get as many 1st-round picks so we can get those Pro Bowlers and Hall-of-Famers, Sutton! Consider the following:
Of the 319 first-round picks taken in the last 10 years (I should clarify, this considers the 2002-2011 draft), 98 made at least one Pro Bowl (31%); 55 made multiple Pro Bowls (17%).
So less than 1 in 3 Round 1 prospects get even 1 Pro Bowl; less than 1 in 5 make it to Hawaii even twice. If you assume that a 1st rounder is a can't-miss, you are fooling yourself, because only 5 or 6 teams on average get that caliber of player in the 1st round. In other words, only 5 or 6 teams will draft a 1st rounder that lives up to expectations. When you consider position-by-position (for 1 Pro Bowl), it ranges from Safety 56.2% (9 of 16) to Defensive End 17% (7 of 41). Quarterback, you ask? 9 of 30, for 30%. When you consider position-by-position for multiple Pro Bowls, it ranges from Guard 42.8% (3 of 7) to Tight End 7.6% (1 of 13). The 4 positions with the most players selected in these 10 drafts were DE, CB, OT, and WR, none of which fared well at all in terms of producing Pro Bowl Players. Quarterback, again, you ask? 80% of those selected in the 1st round will not go to multiple Pro Bowls. Regardless of position, the chances of finding a Pro Bowl player, let alone a multiple Pro Bowl player, is very, very lucky. I'm sorry for using math and science to disprove that science is stupid. I'm sure it's full of round-about logic (like killing people to show that killing people is wrong) and frustrates you stone-cold logicians out there, but I had to make a point that you would understand. I used science to show that science doesn't cut it when it comes to the NFL draft. So sue me. Getting a good player in the draft has little to do with pre-draft rankings, it's really, mostly, luck. Sorry.
Which brings me back to the lottery. Although 1st rounders do better at achieving Pro Bowl status, it is not as disproportionate as you would think compared to the other rounds. This is essentially a quantity vs. quality argument, because the only thing we can do is get as many picks as we can and hope that we get the Pro Bowl or Hall-of-Fame franchise-changing player that we want. If 26 or 27 out of the 32 NFL teams picking get it wrong in the 1st round, year after year, then it's most prudent to get the most picks that you can and hope that you get it right. Just compare San Francisco's 15 picks with the Colts' 6. Assuming they put in relatively the same research and no team has more clairvoyance than the other, the 49ers have 9 more chances of getting it "right", 9 more lottery numbers in trying to reveal that elusive Pro Bowler. The 49ers have roughly 1 in every 21 picks in the draft (15 picks out of 324 total picks), whereas an average team would have approximately 8 picks in that same time frame (or 1 in 40 picks). Would you rather have a lottery ticket where your chance of winning was 1 in 21, or 1 in 40?
This doesn't even include the undrafted players who make it in the league like James Harrison, Davone Bess, and, oh, what's his name, Kurt Warner. Holy crap! The same team misses out on a player SEVERAL times. Remember that 2009 draft I was talking about? The Bills 1st selection? Aaron Maybin. Their 2 2nd rounders? Andy Levitre and Jairus Byrd. San Diego's 1st rounder? Larry English. Their 3rd rounder? Louis Vasquez. My point? Every team makes mistakes, but sometimes redeem themselves later. Some teams get it right in the 1st, and strike out everywhere else. Some teams just strike out, period. But with a ton of picks, the chances of getting some good players just get a little bit better. The NFL draft makes no sense, ESPECIALLY when you look at it in hindsight. What the hell were teams thinking? Were there scouts any worse than the others? Was their GM that much more Yoda-like than the others? The most brilliant GM's have made some ridiculous picks, and ridiculous GM's have made some brilliant picks. That's the nature of the NFL draft: it's erratic, it follows no order or logic, it's essentially chaotic. In other words, it's the lottery.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - There are less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, when millions of Americans will be hitting the roads on the way to visit family.
It is one of the busiest travel holidays of the year.
There may be good news for drivers, as gas prices look to be cooperating right now, and have fallen for the last several weeks.
Sunday's average in Knoxville is $3.12 for a gallon of regular gas, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report. That is down from $3.55 just one month ago.
Locals said they are enjoying the savings, but would like to see those numbers drop even more.
One of the cheapest prices 6 News found Sunday was at an Exxon in North Knoxville, charging just $3.05 a gallon for regular. The national average is $3.43 per gallon.
"I fill up my tank at least once or twice a week," Joyce Neal of Knoxville said. "I always fill up here because the prices are lower."
People are happy to keep more cash in their wallet, rather than pouring it into their gas tank.
"It does make a lot of difference. Gives you more money to buy your food with," Neal said.
Gas prices have been high for most of this year, which adds up for local families.
"It's a lot of money," Kerry Trinchera of Knoxville said. "It's probably about $100 a week."
This recent drop is welcomed, especially by folks like Bill Lunsford.
"I've got a lot of cars to buy gas for because I'm a car dealer, so I just put a little bit in at a time, but we use quite a bit in a years time," Lunsford said. "When it's high, we buy less, and when it's cheaper, we tend to fill up more."
AAA of Tennessee said the drop in prices is a direct result of the most basic of economic factors.
"It is a drop in demand," Don Lindsey from AAA of Tennessee said. "We've been seeing very low demand all this year compared to previous years, but it really starts to go down in the fall."
Drivers hopes prices continue to fall, but recall a time when prices were much lower.
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Lindsey said drivers may see more price drops in the future.
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The youngest drivers, who pay most for comprehensive insurance, enjoyed the biggest dips in premiums in the first part of this year, with the cost for 17 to 22-year-olds coming down 20.5% compared with the first three months of last year and 23 to 29-year-olds getting a 19.9% fall.
Regionally, the north west of England saw the biggest dip - of 20.9% in premiums at the beginning of this year, while Anglia had the smallest decrease - 13.3%. However, the AA warned that this could be the end of the good news for motorists.
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Sure, 2013 just rolled in, but all the savvy fashionistas and industry pundits are making rounds at the biggest fashion weeks around the globe. The one in London just took place, with collections from Givenchy, McQueen, and Vivienne Westwood wowing audiences the world over. The collections also had a thing or two to say about the future of women's shoes—and we were there to absorb it all and summarize it, for your convenience.
Sky-High Stilettos
A staple of eighties fashion, stilettos are one type of women shoes that we seemingly can't get enough of. For the upcoming season, all the major designers decided to give them a well-deserved face lift. While the trademark pointed toe is still there, apt to raise a few brows from women who find them uncomfortable, that's not all stilettos have to say in matters of comfort. Thought 7-inch heels were a bit extreme? Then buckle up for some stilettos with heels that would make your longest, thinnest, sharpest pencil weep in shame. And 'buckle-up' is not a phrase we use arbitrarily, for these babies will be seeing lots of trimmings, spikes, bows, and buckles in 2013 fall/winter trends.
Velvet Shoes
Velvet shoes are actually part of the classic dress-code for men's attire on black-tie event nights. However, we haven't seen too many of these opera slippers, as they are formally known, in recent times. We did see them on the 2013 fall/winter runways, both as flats as well as heels. And, might we say, they look like a hugely comfortable option for early fall-wear.
Bye-Bye, Platforms
The platform first hit us in the seventies, the time of disco-era madness, when bodysuits and sequins were all the rage. When disco was officially buried, come the late eighties, the entire world assumed this would mark the end of the uncomfortable, heavy shoe. Not quite, said the Spice Girls and an entire cohort of other girl pop bands in the mid-nineties. After that bout of sartorial hysteria was over and done with, platform shoes, sandals, and boots made their way back into our shoe closets in 2011. However, it seems that they're finally being put to rest next season, in favor of the more subdued chunky heel.
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Ankle boots are also a trend born in the eighties, although their origins can be traced far back in the history of fashion. Yes, they were in style during the interwar era, but think as far back as Elizabethan England to identify where they came from. And it looks they're here to stay for at least one another season. For fall/winter 2013, ankle booties get versatile and veer a little toward biker boots, full of spikes and buckles, as well as heels of various lengths and styles.
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Remember back in the late 2000s, when ballerina flats first exploded onto the scene, after decades of high-heeled shoe supremacy. A couple of seasons later, everyone had had quite enough of them, yet this versatile, comfy little shoe decided it had more staying power than anyone had ever presumed. Next season, expect these unassuming items of footwear to get bolder and braver than ever before, in loud colors and funky patterns.


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This is something that I wanted to write for a while ever since I heard about the Nik Lentz vs Tyson Griffin match being made at UFC 123, but the recent cut of Gerald Harris by the UFC has kind of forced my hand. One of the great things about other sports (such as the NFL) is that the team owners (and even the league commissioner) have the ability to run the team without making decisions based on personal feelings. Now there are times that this is not true (See Bud Adams and Vince Young or the Vikings and Brett Favre) and when it does happen, you can see the negative consequences it has. Thus is not the case in the UFC. Personnel moves are based primarily on the thoughts and whims of Dana White and the Fertitta Brothers.
You can look at some recent cuts made by the UFC to highlight exactly what I am speaking of. Todd Duffee, an exciting Heavyweight prospect, was recently cut basically for what has been said is a "bad attitude". Now, Terrell Owens has been cut for a bad attitude before and Randy Moss has been traded 3 times for such, but those guys were a distraction to the team, Todd Duffee complaining that the UFC was joking about him working at Dairy Queen did not. Bringing back Karo Parisyan was clearly a decision marred by personal feelings. Karo was clearly not ready to be in the UFC, he was out of shape and seemingly not there mentally. I am not against giving guys 2nd (or in his case 4th) chances, but the guy flaked out on your twice already, the latest time less than a year ago. Allowing Chuck Liddell to fight again after the Shogun fight was another personal personnel decision. After stating emphatically that Chuck would never fight again, he was allowed to and was again brutally knocked out. I don't know if it was to squeeze another buyrate out of him, but I believe it was primarily because Dana White and Chuck have been friends for so long that he couldn't say no.
So we come to Gerald Harris which is the current iteration of this phenomenon. Even going back to the beginning of his association with the UFC, he was on The Ultimate Fighter and lost to the eventual winner Amir Sadollah. You would expect that he would've gotten a fight on the Finale. Nope. So Harris goes out on the independent circuit and racks up several victories in a row and is finally offered a UFC contract. He puts on good exciting winning fights even scoring an ESPN Top Ten Plays of the Week winning KO slam against Dave Branch at UFC 116 and two KO of the night awards. He puts on one boring performance and he's cut. I repeat, a two-time KO of the Night winner and a guy who's slam KO was repeated on ESPN giving the UFC cache and even had Lebron James getting in on MMA got cut for one bad performance. Someone tell me how that happens.
Now, I'm sure Ariel Helwani or someone will catch up to Dana White and he'll have some explanation of Harris having a bad attitude or something, but the facts remain. Gerald Harris was cut after going 3-1 in the top MMA organization in the world. Cutting someone because of "boring" performance (which is subjective) is not the way a so-called sport works. I would wager that if Harris had been choked out in the 1st round, he would still have a job. This whole thing seems like a "I put you on the main card and this is how you repay me? With a boring fight?" type personnel move. Doesn't seem like the right way to run a business. Now, in the big picture, the Harris cut seems insignificant, but moves like these add up over time.
The Harris cut for a "boring" fight also ties into my other point of vindictive booking. Let me state outright vindictive booking has no place in any sport. The NFL or NBA schedulers don't make matchups trying to obtain a certain outcome. It seems like the UFC is doing this more and more. The most obvious recent case of this was the Nik Lentz/Tyson Griffin fight. It was obvious to anyone with sense that fight was booked with the hopes of Tyson being too much for Nik and defeating him, thus allowing the UFC to cut Lentz after a loss. Why? Because Nik Lentz got in trouble with the law badmouthed the company had the audacity to put on a boring fight on national television. I can't wrap my head around that train of thought. He won. Right. The goal of any sport is to win and he formulated a gameplan to win and did. Yet, because his method was "boring", he's seen as a pariah and booked to lose. Well, he didn't lose and the guy who he beat has now lost 3 in a row.
Some question the BJ Penn/Jon Fitch matchup as well. It was made almost instantaneously (reminiscent of White cornering Shogun in the locker room and pressing him to fight Chuck Liddell) after BJ's devastating KO of Matt Hughes. We are all aware of the history between the UFC and Jon Fitch. He is a "boring fighter", however he is a "winning fighter" and has the best win percentage right behind Anderson SIlva with his only loss coming at the hands of the champion. Now the UFC has delayed giving him a rematch for as long as possible (I don't necessarily agree that he deserves one right now, but his fight at UFC 117 was a number one contender fight) primarily because of his style. I have almost 100% certainty that the UFC would cut Jon Fitch after his next loss. You can't put him on the prelims, so he makes the main show "stinking it up". Not only that but he's killing all the prospects for GSP. And he won't even do what the UFC says and fight his own teammate in Josh Koscheck. Enter BJ Penn.
It's a win-win situation for the UFC. BJ won't allow for a boring fight, win or lose. He also has good enough takedown defense to prevent Fitch from grapplefucking him for 3 rounds. He also has extremely good BJJ so he will be threatening Fitch with submissions and sweeps at all times. He also clearly is a far better fighter on the feet than Fitch is. If Penn wins, it allows the UFC the legal ability to cut their losses with Fitch and release him. It also builds Penn up for a potential title shot. If Fitch wins, he finally won a non-boring fight and beat a top name in BJ, giving him more credit in his title shot (if he ever gets one). Penn's draw isn't going to be hurt by the loss, but it's certain that the inside circles of the UFC would be hoping that he win.
While personal personnel moves and vindictive bookings aren't as tangentially harmful as Joe Rogan's slur usage, their effects can be far greater. With each passing move, you lose credibility. Credibility with your hardcore fans and eventually credibility with casual fans and media. Imagine if UFC cuts were covered as closely as NFL cuts. Could you imagine if an exciting QB was cut from a team following a loss where he went 23-37 for 198 yards all short little slants and outs after several games of exciting winning gameplay? There would be an uproar. As we move towards mainstream appeal, we will get mainstream coverage and that means that things like this that aren't examined by the current MMA "media" won't be overlooked.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (12/18/13) - Public and private schools in Fayette County collected more than 43,000 pounds of food valued at well over $72,000 in the fall 2013 "Kids Can Fight Hunger" drive for God's Pantry Food Bank. Awards were presented at a Dec. 10 reception, with Deep Springs Elementary, Sandersville Elementary and Lafayette High School topping their respective divisions.
This year, God's Pantry accepted monetary donations counting toward a school's overall total pounds at a conversion rate of $20 = 124 pounds. Schools were placed in four divisions based on total enrollment, and each group's winner received $500.
Two schools earned special honors: Jessie Clark Middle School collected the most pounds of food, and Sandersville Elementary raised the most money.
Also new in 2013, schools participated in a food box decorating contest for a $250 grand prize. Photos of the entries were displayed on the food bank's Facebook page, and Edythe J. Hayes Middle School received the most "likes."
In addition, elementary and middle school students were invited to compete in a coloring contest illustrating the theme "Together we can solve hunger." First place ($25 gift card) went to Luke Sylvester of Glendover Elementary, the runner-up ($15) was Kevin Diaz of Glendover, and Kacie Hughes from Edythe J. Hayes Middle took third place ($10).
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He could dunk. He could rebound. He could dive for loose balls. He had the heart of a lion but was trapped inside the body of a ....smaller lion?
The crowd muttered with dissatisfaction as Marc Gasol took Hickson to work in the post, repeatedly. Marc Gasol had been abusing him all game.
Hickson had tried his hardest. He tried his best to stop the unstoppable force of Gasol, but Hickson isn't exactly what you would call an immovable object.
He was in a contract year, he knew people would think he was playing for a contract.
But, deep inside, he felt a stirring inside. The people of Portland, so passionate, so amazing, were unlike anything Hickson had ever heard before. Hickson would put his soul into the Rose Garden, and they would give back.
Matthews the steal! Up ahead to Hickson! Nobody will catch him! Hickson's gonna score!!!!
Irving the shot, missed, rebound Aldridge, up ahead to Lillard. Damian, now bounce to Hickson trailing the play trying to dunk and he did!!!! And he's fouled by Gee!! Oh, Alonzo Gee, Smile, you've been POSTERIZED!!!
Hickson smiled to himself, knowing he had been able to pump the crowd up to the max. Alonzo gee sat on the floor, with a sheepish grin on his face, knowing he had just been served up a platter of disrespect.
Hickson, we will always remember you for your relentless onslaught of dunks and energetic rebounds, some you chased so hard after that you ripped them from your teammates hands. I wish other Blazers had your heart.
I also wish you were 2 inches taller and were a good defender.
We would have been willing to triple what Denver just paid you.
Good luck in Denver, we will never forget you.
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Some interpret the ancient Mayan calendar as saying the world will end in 2012. For Lubbock electric customers the date to cause worry & fear might be closer to March 31, 2019. That's when Xcel Energy will, for the most part, stop selling wholesale power in the greater Lubbock area.
Xcel Says No Thanks
If one were to ask Lubbock's Electric Utility Board Chairman, W.R. Collier, "What happens in 2019?" he would immediately recognize the question and his answer would be "our contract for wholesale power expires."
Will Xcel negotiate a new contract for Lubbock Power & Light? "They won't do it," Collier says.
"We are not currently negotiating any new contracts [for wholesale power]," says Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves.
"If it's not on the books now it won't be added," Reeves says.
LP&L actually does have a portion of its needs already on the books with Xcel for after 2019.
Collier says, "They gave us a contract that expires in 2045 for 170 megawatts." That's enough power to meet the needs of customers who were switched to LP&L in the recent buyout of Xcel's Lubbock assets. Beyond that, Xcel is pulling the plug.
Finding New Partners
LP&L is now turning to its partners, the West Texas Municipal Power Agency. WTMPA is comprised of Lubbock, Floydada, Tulia and Brownfield. The four towns together anticipate an unmet need of 372 megawatts in 2019, which accounts for the 170 mw of Xcel power plus 220 mw from power plants LP&L owns in Lubbock.
So will WTMPA build or buy a new power plant?
"If you're gonna build one you better get started. If you're gonna buy one, well they don't come on the market every day," Collier says.
WTMPA created a separate agency called High Plains Diversified Energy Corporation which is working on buying two natural gas plants in the Odessa area for roughly $520 million. HPDEC has been praised for negotiating a deal to get power plants for "roughly 40 cents on the dollar," according to sources. But HPDEC is criticized for choosing power plants roughly 150 miles away from Lubbock. The cost of running transmission lines can run $1 million per mile.
HPDEC has also been criticized for allegations of conflict of interest and not opening its records for public inspection.
SPEC Also Looking For Power
South Plains Electric Co-op, with 11,000 meters inside the City of Lubbock, is not immune to March 31, 2019.
SPEC General Manager James Driver is also the Board Chairman for Golden Spread Electric Cooperative. Driver says, "We're [Golden Spread] out building plants to meet our needs and finding other resources."
Driver says, "We're building a plant now in Abernathy at the TUCO interchange." The plant will supplement wind power in those times when the wind goes down.
So how much will this cost SPEC customers? "We've got it estimated to be about the same. It depends on the price of natural gas."
The Abernathy project is not enough. Driver says, "We'll need additional capacity and I can't talk about that yet."
The HPDEC deals in Odessa are not finalized yet either. Should Lubbock be concerned? Collier says, "Sure, I'm concerned about it. Anyone who wants electricity should be concerned."
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service for the mountains and deserts of East County, especially Borrego Springs, as heavy rains from thunderstorms extended near Julian to Campo.
"It's pouring hard," an Anza Borrego Desert State Park staffer said from Borrego Springs about 2:20 p.m. "We had flooding in the south end of the park down along Highway S2 earlier today."
"We don't have a lot of visitors in the park in the desert this time of year," the park staffer said.
The east side of the state park was dry, the staffer said.
The flash flood warning was issued at 1:20 p.m. and was to remain in effect until 4:15 p.m., the NWS said.
"We have heavy rain with some lightning developing in the Laguna and Cuyamaca mountains extending toward Campo," forecaster Brandt Maxwell said.
"The storms are capable of producing flash flooding and debris flows in the burn area of the Chariot Fire near Mount Laguna, and also near Pine Valley near Interstate 8 and along Highway 94 west of Campo," the NWS said."Those areas will be prone to flash flooding."
The NWS cautioned drivers to avoid areas "where water covers the roadway as water depth may be too great to allow cars to cross safely. Move to higher ground."
Showers and isolated thunderstorms that began today in San Diego County's mountains and deserts were expected to last through Monday night or even into Tuesday, a weather forecaster said.
Maxwell said rain "could make it into some of the inland valleys."
Monsoon conditions aren't expected to linger past Tuesday.
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Dutch Silverstripe Meetup welcomes speaker Aram Balakjian from SSbits.com
12 November 2010 at 10:37pm
I would like to proudly announce the first Dutch Silverstripe Meetup at Thursday 25 November in Utrecht!
Aram Balakjian from SSbits.com has confirmed that he will speak on the first Meetup.
The first Meetup will be free of charge thanks to Dertig Media who will sponsor us the location and the drinks and Axyr Media who sponsors the Meetup Group and the flight for our first speaker on our first Meetup!
There is still room for some presentations, so if your coming and would like to share some of your Silverstripe secrets with us, let us know.
We did not yet arranged the snacks, so if someone would like to sponsor that, you are more then welcome .
See the announcement on Meetup.com for more details and to sign up for this meeting:
Feel free to get in contact with me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com, if you have any questions and/or suggestions.
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Focus Areas: Hispanic Consumer Insights; Research Practices; Acculturation; Census and Demographic Trends; Census; Media Consumption Trends
Previous Speaking Engagements: Symphony IRI Group Summit, Walmart-Univision Presentation, ANA Conference, M15 Video Game Marketing Conference
Elizabeth Ellers is executive vice president of the Corporate Research Division at Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America. She leads the consumer insights and primary research efforts for the Company, including the Univision Networks, Univision Local Media and Univision Interactive Media. She is charged with insuring the Company's research efforts are at the pinnacle of the industry and stewarding the next generation of media and consumer research capabilities making Univision the leading source of knowledge and insight on the Hispanic consumer in the United States.
Ms. Ellers brings more than 20 years of experience leading consumer research and corporate strategic plan development for advertising agencies and interactive organizations. In addition, she has developed, managed and executed research projects at information services companies, including The Bases Group and Yankelovich.
Prior to joining Univision, Ms. Ellers provided strategic consulting to the CEO and senior management team at Ziff Davis Media as a member of their board of directors. Before this, she was senior vice president of Brand Development and Consumer Research at AOL, where she helped guide the transition of the company from a subscription base to an advertising driven model and where she was a member of Time Warner's Research Council. Prior to that role, she was at Grey Worldwide, Inc. as executive vice president and managing partner. Ms. Ellers began her career at The BASES Group and then joined Yankelovich Partners.
Ms. Ellers received her undergraduate degree from Goucher College and her MBA from the University of Chicago.


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You cannot book the flagship quad-core phone from Micromax, the Micromax Canvas HD A116 now.
We have found that the pre-booking option which was there on the Micromax website is no more available. (See the screenshot above) So for the lucky few who could get a chance to pre-order the phone online, others will have to wait.
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First, this is not asking who should get dropped. I think we can all agree Aurilla should have been DFA'd months ago. We're asking who will get released/sent down. Along with that, please post what the quote will be from the Giants brass to justify the move.
If I had to vote, I'd probably guess Bowker. Sending Fransden down leaves only 1 back up who can play up the middle, so I think he stays. Everyone else would have to clear waivers I believe, so I think that makes them safe. So I think Bowkermania will stop running wild. If so, I hope he comes back as nWo Hulk next time he is called up.


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Dr. Lima received her doctoral degree from the University of Virginia. Her broad area of interest is teaching and learning, as informed by the perspectives of cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology. Her current research focuses on preschoolers' word learning in the school setting, and her classes include Lifespan Development, Child Psychology, and Statistics. Beyond Augie, she is most closely involved with the development of her son Gabriel and daughter Sophia.
Dr. Elizabeth Babcock
Dr. Babcock received her doctoral degree from Michigan State University. She is interested in how cognitive abilities (memory, attention and learning) are affected by real-world task demands, and how normal cognitive aging changes memory and attention abilities. In particular, she has investigated the effects of Internet ads on attention, and how people can improve their abilities to learn names. Her courses include Cognitive Psychology, Research Methods, and Human Lifespan Development. She enjoys taking early morning walks with her husband and Labrador retriever (Seager), testing out new recipes, and continuing to hone her fledgling knitting skills.
Dr. Casey Trainor
Dr. Trainor received his doctoral degree from the University of Arkansas. His classes include General Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. His research interests focus primarily on anxiety and anxiety disorders. Specifically he is interested in the factors that contribute to the development of anxiety, the relationship between anxiety and sleep, and the relationship between anxiety and substance use. Outside of Augustana, he is a big football fan (Go Vikings!) and enjoys taking time to relax with his wife, his dog, Wolf, and his cat, Hershey.
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The clock is ticking.
In just a few months, millions of Americans all across the country will head to the polls picking the presidential candidate they feel is the best for the job.
Looking ahead to the 2012 election, Pastor Jay Bailey in Midland is taking his sermons at Solid Rock Church to new heights by explaining how a person's faith can and should impact their politics.
"I really wanted to do a series of messages to inform, empower, and educate our people as to the urgency and to the mandate to involve oneself in the political process," Bailey said.
His sermon series, called "The Patriots Path," may be viewed as controversial to some, but Pastor Jay said he's preaching about the constitution and power of the people in this "one nation under God."
"We are in this for the uplift of America so that everyone can succeed and pursue their dreams according to the dictates of their own arts," Bailey said.
Both President Barack Obama and GOP opponent Mitt Romney have expressed their religious beliefs but don't typically mix them with their political agendas. Pastor Jay said that religious beliefs help shape political opinion.
Still, some say politics and religion are like vinegar and oil and shouldn't go together at all. Pastor Jay, a native Jamaican, says his main goal is to help people make smart decisions for the United States.
"It grieves me to see the struggle and despair in Americans trying to make a living, trying to raise their children," Bailey said. "Americans want to live in peace and they want to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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Best RG3 pro day footage ive found so far Hail!
JC: "One thing coach has me working on is pushing the ball back at the end of my drop so I don't have such a windup on some of my throws. The Ball comes out a lot quicker. Right now it feels a little awkward but I can see a major difference when the ball comes out and it's something I'm going to keep pushing and working on it."
Greg Blache: 'We have a talented group, but talent alone is nothing. Prisons are full of talent. You need passion and selflessness.' How can you not love Greg Blache?
Jon Jansen sits down with Larry Michael. He believes the starting tackle job is his and he is out to prove it.
Campbell responds to the Sanchez interview at his golf tournament yesterday. Clinton Portis's sunglasses are awesome, and he tells it like it is.
Coach Zorn talks about 3rd round pick Kevin Barnes. "He's a decent tackler...uh...when he has to tackle a running back" I think Zorn has no idea who this kid is..which is fine. Maybe the Skins should let Cerrato handle the media for the 2nd day draft picks.
Devin Thomas highlight video put together by a Titans fan (who wants him, but doesn't get him; he's ours). Some naughty language in the background music may make it NSFW. Also a good amount of choppy video, but the pertinent point gets across: Devin Thomas is a bad ass wide receiver.
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Photo courtesy Samphan Usher
Every Friday, Samphan Usher boards the 5.30 am train in Kingston and travels three hours to Union Station here in Toronto. Her destination? A painting class at 10 am at the AGO's Gallery School.
A long-time member of the AGO, Samphan began art lessons here after
visiting the AGO's Modigliani: Beyond the Myth exhibition in 2004,
when she was intrigued by notice of a class to study
portrait-painting with Atsmon Ganor in Modigliani's style.
Born in Bangkok, Samphan met her Canadian husband while they were both
working with the United Nations in her native city. They travelled a
great deal in connection with his work, giving Samphan a chance to
study art in many places. She began painting in Vancouver in 1971,
and continued her studies with teachers in Palo Alto, Kuala Lumpur,
Oxford, Tokyo and Toronto. Samphan has exhibited in Bangkok, Oslo,
Toronto and Vancouver – as well as in her current hometown,
Kingston. Her next exhibition will be in Kingston in August 2007. A
full-time mother of Ann and David, Samphan also taught Chinese
painting to children and adults for three decades. She has a gallery
at home, works at the Art Rental Department of the Agnes Etherington
Art Centre at Queen's University, and shows regularly at Studio 22 in
"Studying at the Gallery School has been a wonderful experience," says
Samphan. "It's great fun to be painting in a huge hall with five
classes taught simultaneously – one can peek from time to time at
what the other students are doing – and to study in the AGO, having
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I have a j2me player programm(jar file) in my mobile. i have two issues please solve this.
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Injury Collision on Happy Top Road in Powell County
Date of News Release: 08/12/2011
(Morehead, Ky.) -- At 6:17 p.m. Kentucky State Police Morehead received a call for service from Powell County Dispatch in reference to a two vehicle accident on Happy Top Road in Powell County. Kentucky State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer Dennis Johnson responded to the scene. Nicole Otokitchi-Baker was traveling eastbound on Happy Top Road when she failed to negotiate a curve striking a vehicle driven by James Hall. Mrs. Otokitchi-Baker's vehicle crossed the center line striking Mr. Hall's vehicle on the driver's side with the front of her vehicle. A passenger in the vehicle Shawn Baker was taken to Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital along with Mrs. Otokitchi-Baker. Mr. Baker was later transported via ambulance to the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY with non life-threatening injuries to his head. Mrs. Otokitchi-Baker was treated and released at Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital. Mr. Hall was treated and released at the scene with minor injuries. The accident remains under investigation by Kentucky State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement.


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NSF CAREER Workshop
Join the Office of Research and learn about the the National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award. Learn how a CAREER proposal differs from other NSF proposals and how to write a successful one. Tips on the Education Component and avoiding common mistakes in the Project Description will be shared. Dr. Stephen Landowne and Dr. Karen Eck will be joined by Dr. Yaohang Li, Associate Professor in Computer Science and NSF CAREER awardee, who will provide insight on his experience and answer questions.
Thursday, February 13
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Shilpa Shetty's home production film delayed
Fans of Shilpa Shetty have to wait more as the actress' comeback movie has got some hurdles on the way. Report says, the home production movie of Shilpa has seen some last minute change in the cast and got postpone till it is able to find second male lead actor.
The film which stars Harman Baweja in the lead is much awaited comeback film of Shilpa as a producer, after she gave birth to a lovely baby boy Viaan last year. The film is 70 percent complete, however the report says the second male lead post is still vacant.
There were buzz that Sanjay Dutt was approached to play lead in the flick, but owing to date issue he could not manage to sign the film. A source also said, "The film also has a new girl whose identity is not being revealed right now."
The home production film is co-produced by Raj Kundra, businessman husband of Shilpa Shetty. She says, "We are in the process of completing the film. Once another hero is finalized, we will complete the last schedule." The 70 percent of the film has been shot in Mumbai and Muscat.
We just hope that Shilpa gets all her issues sorted out and that her film sees the light of the day soon!