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- Kaycie said...
Is it from dear Lizzie ?! I'm here this weekend so I want to try this best cupcake ever!
- June 24, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Autumn said...
Cute kitty :)
- June 25, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- Laura Elizabeth said...
I think the animal cracker is a wombat. My first thought was polar bear but I guess bear is already covered. Then I will go with womabt. It's got the same squat body shape.
I miss having cats clamber all over my work space while I try and work!
- June 25, 2011 at 1:29 AM
- Dani said...
okay... that animal cracker is UNIDENTIFIABLE....... <- (spelled that wrong) But seriously.... I just lamely spent about 5 minutes trying to fathom what kind of animal that is with no luck!
- June 25, 2011 at 3:00 AM
- .Candy. said...
Cute fox print! Don't see a lot of those around here
- June 25, 2011 at 3:15 AM
- Grace said...
Cute foxes :D
The cupcake makes me hungry ;)
- June 25, 2011 at 4:14 AM
- brooke field said...
i seriously have a draft version saved for tomorrow titled "snapshots of the week" haha
- June 25, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- The Bookness said...
I see where you get your inspiration from. Im thinking of doing this too.
- June 25, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Julie A. said...
Slightly jealous of your cupcake. I haven't been in there in forever. And I won't be surprised if I don't ever go back in (I don't want to make a trip just for a cupcake!). Plus, no one cool works there anymore, right?
- June 25, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Rorie said...
Love the cupcake and the kitty!!
- June 25, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- Nicole said...
Cupcakes! Caught my eye with that picture!
- June 25, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Ria said...
Such a cute kitty! Yummmmm cupcakes.
- June 25, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- A Lost Feather said...
hmm maybe an elephant animal cracker? i just don't know haha
and man, i wish i HAD a neighborhood cupcake shop :) yummmyyyy
- June 25, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- Hayley said...
YUM to cupcakes! adorable pictures!
- June 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- aki! said...
Fox print is very unique... and I think that cracker has to be a ... cat? Bear?
- June 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- Ashley Sloan said...
Haha I love how we are all not smart enough to know the animal hahah so funny. And that fox shirt is cute! Where did you get it? Did you get that cupcake at Sweet Tooth Fairy or Cocoa Bean!?
Ashley Sloan
- June 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM
- Priscilla Natalie said...
What a sweet blog!
Just found the way to your blog, I really liked it (:
xx from Brasil
- June 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
CUTE CUTE CUTE. I think that animal cracker may be a moose. Maybe? So confusing.
- June 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- Young People in Love said...
These pics are so so awesome all together! Why is instagram so amazing????
- June 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM


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Winning isn't everything for Mariner's girls basketball team
The bond they forged as teammates has been irreplaceable for the seven seniors on the Mariner High girls basketball team, which has won just once in past two seasons
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Bianca Bayas (left) gives a speech during a Jan. 31 ceremony recognizing her fellow Mariner girls basketball senior players, which include (from left) Kylie Aio, Arnela Grebovic, Naomi Eastland, Diana Dinh, Veronica Flores and Realene Nicolas.
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Seniors Bianca Bayas (left) and Kylie Aio hug during a Jan. 31 ceremony recognizing the Mariner girls basketball team�s seven senior players.
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Arnela Grebovic hugs Mariner girls basketball head coach Corey Gibb during a Jan. 31 ceremony recognizing the team�s seven senior players before their final game of the season.
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Zena Camara signs posters for the senior players on the Mariner girls basketball team, during a ceremony recognizing the seniors before their final game of the season.
Just ask any of the 700,000 people who crammed into downtown Seattle earlier this week to celebrate a pro franchise's first Super Bowl championship. A winner can galvanize a city, a town, a school.
But for every winner there's a loser. A player who might have to shoulder the blame, a team that couldn't get it done in the clutch, a set of fans who won't be celebrating. That's a far lonelier place.
A few hours after the Seahawks paraded around Seattle, throwing Skittles at fans and showing off their new hardware, the Mariner High School girls basketball team quietly played its last game of the season, losing by 50 points to the No. 1-ranked team in the state. It was loss No. 19 in a season full of struggles. It was the end of an era for seven seniors, who went 1-39 in their two seasons leading the Marauders.
But this isn't pro sports, or even college sports. There's no high-priced contracts or full-ride scholarships on the line. This is high school sports. This is about student-athletes who get up while it's still dark to go to something called "zero" period; who take honors classes and pass them with flying colors; who sacrifice time, energy and money to play a game that, frankly, they're not very gifted at.
This is about a group of girls who play basketball not because it might get them into college, but because they can't think of doing anything else after school. This is about a group of girls who fought through the shame that comes with losing by an average of 35 points per game because they actually look forward to practice. This is about group that battled a lack of support from family and the ridicule of classmates because it hurts worse to quit on each other.
Something about basketball
Kylie Aio still remembers trying to recruit her friend Diana Dinh to play basketball. The two were fourth-graders and Dinh wasn't all that interested in sports.
"She just wanted to play on the monkey bars," Aio said.
Eventually Dinh relented and Aio taught her the basics of the game. Dribbling between the legs was a particularly tough thing for Dinh to pick up as she would just kick her leg straight forward off the ground and throw the ball under it. It was an inauspicious beginning.
Three years later, in seventh grade, the two recruited classmates Realene Nicolas, Naomi Eastland, Bianca Bayas and Veronica Flores to play on the Voyager Middle School team. A year later, Arnela Grebovic joined them from rival Explorer Middle School and the seven girls became inseparable. They were friends on and off the court.
"We thought it would be fun to try out sports," Bayas said. "We tried volleyball and track, but they never clicked like basketball."
Though basketball clicked, the Voyager teams the girls played on weren't known for winning any more than the Mariner teams. At a time when most kids start playing organized sports in first or second grade, starting in the seventh grade puts one woefully behind. The girls battled as underclassmen on the freshman and junior-varsity teams and learned to stick together from their JV coach, Walt Antoncich, a man they called "Grandpa Walt."
Like Mariner's student body, the seven girls have diverse backgrounds. Nicolas and Flores are Filipino, Grebovic is Russian, Eastland is part African-American. They're all different. Flores dreams of becoming a flight attendant. Aio plans to go into the Navy to become a pilot. Eastland wants to be an athletic trainer; Bayas a pediatric oncologist. All seven plan to go college.
Despite the losses, the girls grew closer, knitted together by basketball.
"I feel that without basketball, we might not be friends, but I'm glad we are," Grebovic said.
Last year as juniors, the seven girls were asked by coach Corey Gibb to be leaders and contributors on the varsity team. Things didn't go well, however, as the team lost every game and was competitive in just a handful.
"Last year was really hard. It was how we lost, too," Bayas said. "It was hard, but having my teammates for support ... that's why I stayed. Something about basketball just keeps bringing us back."
Things were not going to get better this year. Gibb knew that even if his players put in maximum effort to get better over the offseason, the other girls in the league, already more talented, would get better as well.
"How many of our kids could go play at Jackson? Maybe one," Gibb said. "We're asked to throw out four more that wouldn't make any other team in the league. These are smart girls, they get it. We just ask them to control what they can control."
It didn't help that Grandpa Walt left. The assistant coach who had guided them through their freshman and sophomore years took an assistant coaching job at Jackson, the basketball hotbed just across freeway.
"He really believed in us. He was the first one to inspire us to stick together," Grebovic said. "We depended on him a lot."
Changing the culture
The history of sports at Mariner High School, which opened in 1970, has been mixed. For years, the Marauders were a powerhouse in many sports, both boys and girls. Recently the football team has had success under longtime head coach John Ondriezek, going to the playoffs and producing one of the best recruits in the state of Washington in KeiVarae Russell just two years ago. The boys soccer team was a state participant last season and the wrestling team just finished second in league.
But girls athletics at Mariner have struggled mightily in recent years. The girls basketball team has actually done the best, with seven wins in three years. The girls soccer team hasn't won a game in the past six seasons and often gives up double-digit goals. The volleyball team has won four matches in three seasons, the softball team one game in three years.
Part of the problem is the fact that with open enrollment in the Mukilteo School District, many of the best athletes choose to attend Kamiak High School because of factors that include prestige and better facilities. It's a problem coaches at Mariner have struggled with since Kamiak opened in 1993.
"A lot of basketball talent revolves around money because you have your camps and individualized training," Gibb said. "They've definitely built a tradition of stronger basketball teams. But until you have some of those kids and parents who say we don't necessarily need the winning all the time but want the academics and supportive culture, you're going to struggle."
With six years at Mariner, Gibb is one of the longest-tenured girls coaches at the school. First-year Mariner athletic director Nate DuChesne is still trying to get a grasp on what his school's strengths and weaknesses are, but he understands that it starts with coaching.
"While some of our sports programs have had some stability, many of them, particularly our girls teams, have had a high turnover in coaches," DuChesne said. "This makes it very difficult to develop a total program.
"Coaches have a big impact on the culture of athletics, and Mariner has some very good coaches who are committed to the student-athletes we have here," DuChesne continued. "Other coaches here will need to decide whether they want to put in the time and energy to tackle the challenges we are facing."
One of the first steps DuChesne took was to implement a year-round strength and conditioning program free to all Mariner athletes. Kevin Anderson, a former college trainer and a trainer at IRG Performance and Fitness in Everett, is heading up the program. A similar program run by IRG coordinated strength and conditioned drills last summer for the Mariner football team.
"We need to figure out ways to access these resources if we are to close the gap," DuChesne said.
Another concern is parent involvement. Unwilling to comment on other sports, Gibb said that his experience with Mariner parents is completely different from his time at Arlington. Instead of dealing with parents angry over their child's playing time, he's just trying to get parents involved.
A few years ago one of his parents called him speaking loudly in Vietnamese. Since he didn't speak Vietnamese and she didn't speak English, the two simply yelled back and forth for a few minutes before the parent got flustered and hung up. It's an example of the miscommunication that is inherent with being a coach at a school with such cultural diversity.
"We've reached out to parents, but there's a lot of cultural differences at Mariner so I don't know if it's cultural or they're just busy," Gibb said. "There are a lot of benefits to playing sports and I think some parents don't know the benefits. They just think that a kid's going to be gone for two hours tonight when they could have a job or be babysitting."
Gibb said he met some of the parents of his senior players for the first time last week on Senior Night.
A basketball family
In September, The Atlantic magazine ran a story that asked the question: "Are high school sports bad for students?" The basic premise of the article was that all the time, money and effort American high school students spend on athletics takes away from academics and has helped American students lag behind the rest of the world academically.
Don't tell that to those playing on Mariner High's girls basketball team.
"Basketball keeps us in check," Nicolas said. "Being close with these girls, we keep each other in check and make sure we have good grades so that we can play."
Besides keeping their grades up, the girls have learned life lessons on the court — lessons many people don't learn until well into adulthood: How to lose gracefully, how to get up over and over again after getting knocked down, how to work as a team even in the face of insurmountable odds. No member of the Mariner girls basketball team ever quit despite the fact they went into just about every game with no realistic chance of winning.
"We understand that compared to other teams we're not as skilled, we're not as tall ... that's something we understand," Grebovic said. "And I'm competitive, so losing is hard. But it's good to learn that you can't win at everything. I think when it comes to school and volunteering, we're the winners there. On the basketball court it's a way to learn how to handle tough situations and still work through that."
When he took over the Mariner girls basketball program six years ago, Gibb didn't know what he'd gotten himself into. Coming from a successful program with plenty of parental support like Arlington, Gibb was surprised when a little more than 20 kids turned out that first year and there was little excitement around the program. But slowly, despite the losing, he's built a program that saw 60 girls turn out this past season. The girls credit Gibb with changing the culture.
"Gibb is like our dad," Nicolas said. "I have a home family and then I have a basketball family. Gibb is really caring on and off the court. Even if it's not related to basketball we can always go and talk to him. I think the other students see that and want to be a part of that."
Gibb admitted that the losing can be tough. "At one point in time in my career the winning and losing was the most important thing. It's secondary now," he said. More important now is seeing the girls give their all. That is a legacy far more important to leave behind than winning.
During a recent game against Cascade, despite being down by close to 20 points, the Mariner girls battled hard in the game's final minutes, diving for loose balls, taking charges, making the extra pass, and lost by 10. Nobody talked about moral victories. It was just another game. Another loss.
"They'll be down 50 and they're still running hard and we're still calling timeouts," Gibb said. "I want to give them the full experience. They've always been that way. I've never had to ask for them to give more effort."
Amanda Anderson, who played at Mariner and for Gibb from 2008-09, said her former coach's perseverance has been the key to bringing stability to a program that is helping mold young people.
"When I look back, I think I had a different coach for every season of every sport. It's hard to maintain coaches when you're not winning," Anderson said. "It's hard to find someone who is willing to stay. Coach Gibb has stuck it out."
Anderson is now a special education office assistant at Mariner and volunteers to help the team she used to play on.
Legacy of hard work
Unlike last season, this year's Mariner girls team tasted victory. The Marauders jumped out to a lead and held off Seattle Academy, a small private school, 46-34, in a non-league game. After the game, the girls patiently shook hands with their opponent and then sprinted to the locker room, where they unleashed a giant group scream.
"We were like 'OK guys, we have to act like we've done this before,'" Dinh said. "So we ran to the locker room and we waited until everyone got there and just cheered and cheered."
The victory made all of the ridicule from classmates and opponents melt away.
"It felt so nice," Eastland said. "We've lost hundreds of games. It felt nice to prove people who said we couldn't win wrong."
Winning won't be the legacy this team leaves behind. Instead it'll be the early-morning practices the girls showed up to despite the fact they knew their next game wasn't going to be a victory. It'll be the piling into cars to head to Arlington to cheer on the young son of coach Gibb during one of his youth games. It'll be the sisterhood they've created that will last much longer than the four years they spent in school.
On Wednesday, the girls played their final game of the season and lost to Lynnwood 68-18. The game was never competitive and afterward the girls cried together and said their good-byes to coaches and each other. Gibb said that on Thursday he received a text from one of the players around the team's usual practice time that said, in essence, I don't know what to do.
Everything considered, the conclusion of Mariner High basketball careers is more of a beginning than an end.
"It's not the end of anything," Grebovic said. "Our friendship will continue and that's the most important thing we'll take with us. We won't remember the scores in 20 or 30 years, but we'll remember who we spent time with."
Gibb said that despite the lopsided scores and the lack of a league victory this season, he couldn't be prouder of his seven seniors.
"It was a proud moment," Gibb said of the final game. "Just the fact these girls made it four years. I told them afterwards you don't get to go back and do it again. They left it all out there on the court. They started it and finished it they way they wanted to. Their legacy is hard work and effort, and they can be happy with that."
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Results vs. @Columbia Union (2007-12-18 19:00:00)
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|Washington, D.C.--Adversity has come at the Pfeiffer University men's basketball team from so many different angles this season, it is hard to keep track. Tuesday night in came in the form of Craig Thomas getting sick and playing just and few minutes, and a knee injury that knocked Clyde Chapman out of the game and possibly longer. The 2007-08 Falcons again found a way, in a 102-88 win over Columbia Union in Washington DC.
Thomas Carr made five 3-pointers and scored 21 points and Chapman had 18 points on only eight shots in 16 minutes before being injured. Logan Call continues his tear with 14 points and 12 rebounds and freshman Chris Woods bounces back from a tough outing vs. Davis and Elkins in his last game to score 16 points and pull down eight rebounds. Freshman point guard Quintel Maxwell, who has been thrown into the fire due to injuries to several key players had 10 points, five rebounds and four assists.
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One should always understand other people's customs before making commitments. Unfortunately, Rito Yuki had no idea the planet Develuke even existed when their Princess Lala teleported naked into his bathtub, let alone that touching a girl's breasts is how they propose marriage!
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I bought these tires last summer because my wife drives down our rough dirt road fast sometimes. So I told the tire salesman I wanted a rugged tread & so he recommended these tires to me. When I 1st bought them I had to get used to the new handling. Tires sounded like an off road tire when driving on the highway, plus you have to hold the steering wheel a little tighter than my last tires. After a while you get used to these tires so ride noise steering and handling are no longer of a concern. Well we had lot's of snow this winter plus mud too. I was very pleased with the tires. If you have to drive on icy roads often, I recommend getting your drive tires studded if your vehicle is 2wd. Well these tires do what there supposed to do, excellent in the snow. They are not wearing out fast either. If I lived in a big city where it almost never snowed with nice paved roads, I'd probably choose another tire. But because I live in a small town with lot's of rough dirt roads surrounded by mountains and much snow, this is the tire for me.
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The tires are a month old on my car and we've experienced our first major snowfall yesterday. With my corolla, I was able to plow through fresh snow and compacted snow! I parked on the side street and my car was trapped within a snow bank after a snow plow passed and by golly, I was out of there like there was no snow. On dry pavement, the handling is slightly worse than my all-seasons, but by far, in the snow, it handles so well: I steer with one hand on fresh or compacted snow alike. Braking under snowy conditions is excellent! I failed to see a stop sign once, and suddenly braked; I was pleasantly surprised that the car stopped in a jiffy. I would've easily shot through that stopped sign had I not have these tires on. I never expected to like these tires as much as I liked my Blizzaks WS70 but I must say, I'm beyond impressed. I would buy another set right now if I have to.
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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. - Mount Olive College shot 45% from the field en route to a 73-60 victory over Pfeiffer University in Conference Carolinas women's basketball action on Wednesday night. The Trojans move to 16-5 overall, 10-2 in league play while the Lady Falcons fall to 11-10, 6-6.
After a Shelley Reese three and layup by Vontenea Williams, Pfeiffer found themselves up six, 16-10, just seven minutes in. Mount Olive's Andrea Jones turned around and helped give the Trojans a lead going up as much as six of their own with 9:01 before the break. A following pair of Williams free throws at the 6:38 mark would start a 9-0 run that would send the visitors up seven, 33-26, with just under five to play. An ensuing 8-0 run by Mount Olive would erase the lead as the Trojans carried a one-point, 36-35, lead into the break.
Out of the intermission, the Trojans bolted out on a 14-5 run to start the second going up 10, 50-40, in the first 6:48 of the second. Another lapse in the second half came past the midway point as Mount Olive took their largest lead of the night at 21 with 6:58 to play holding on by 13 at the final buzzer.
Tamara Nesmith led the way with 20 points and 15 rebounds for Mount Olive converting 10 of her 16 shots from the field. Jones followed with 19 as the Trojans outscored Pfeiffer 34-12 in the paint. Cox led the Lady Falcons once again with 18 while Reese finished with 11.
Pfeiffer will return to action on Saturday heading to Erskine for a 5:30 p.m. tip with the Flying Fleet. Live stats and video will be available through http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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Comic Con 2012: Family Guy Back to the Metaverse developer interview
GameZone's own Vito Gesualdi swung by the Family Guy bus for an exclusive interview the producer of Back to the Multiverse, a new co-op multiplayer game set in the wacky Family Guy universe. Get a look at two of the game's worlds, with crippled enemies, Irish bad guys, and plenty of hilarious nods to the series. Giant chicken? Wacky waving arm tube man? Absolutely!


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One of the top complaints of an air-traveling techie is the FAA requirement of turning off electronic devices for takeoff and landing. It's inconvenient to power down and put them away, and doesn't seem like our modern electronic devices are capable of causing any type of flight disturbance. Last month, the FAA approved use of iPads in the cockpit in all phases of flight. This means that the pilots flying the airplane can be on an iPad when the passengers are disallowed.
It may seem counter-intuitive to give a tech gadget to the pilots in the cockpit, adding one more item to monitor in an already complicated cockpit. However, as a pilot wife blogger, as well as a tech blogger, I'd like to talk about how this is an exceptionally helpful move on the FAA's part.
On the actual airplane, the flight deck has everything required to fly the plane – throttles, yokes, gauges and switches. It is the responsibility of the flight crew to be prepared for all contingencies. When you see a pilot walking around an airport, he usually has a large case like this hooked onto his suitcase. Inside the case, there are flight operations manuals, maps, charts, headsets, earplugs, writing utensils, calculators and anything else he or she may need while in flight. Depending on the amount of charts and manuals the pilot is required to have at all times, the flight case alone can easily weigh over 50 pounds.
Once in the cockpit, the maps and charts needed for flight are taken out of the case for accessibility in flight. There are thousands of pages in the flight manuals, and they must be updated regularly. My husband spends hours of his layovers on his "revisions," pulling out pages and replacing them. It's time consuming and annoying for the pilots, and expensive for the airlines to constantly print and distribute these important updates. Airlines have been trying to find a suitable alternative for an electronic flight bag for several years.
In early 2011, the FAA approved the Apple iPad, with a specified software application, as an approved alternative to paper charts. Not only has the iPad been approved for aviation use, it requires no major design changes. The FAA approval process included demonstrating that an iPad could endure a rapid decompression from a simulated altitude of 51,000 feet and still provide critical navigation data. Not only is the iPad portable, durable, and lightweight, chart revisions are instantaneous and it only weighs 1.8 pounds.
Throughout 2011, several airlines began testing the iPad in the cockpit during certain phases of flight, and the feedback from the flight crews has been overwhelmingly positive. Now that the FAA has approved use of the iPad from takeoff to touchdown, I believe there will be a high percentage of iPad integration throughout the industry. If full adoption of the iPad (or a similar future device) occurs, it's very likely that the bulky flight bag will be a thing of the past.


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Lenalee Lee is a very kind 16-year-old Exorcist from China. Her parents were killed by an akuma when she was very young. Due to her ability to use the Innocence, Lenalee Lee was forced to become an Exorcist to use her strength. Because she was separated from her single, remaining family member at a young age, she went insane and had to be restrained due to repeated attempts of escape. During that time, she witnessed experiments involving implanting Innocence into non-accommodators, and Rouvelier became a source of fear. However, her brother Komui joined the Order, easing her loneliness. Therefore, sanity restored, she fights for her brother as well as her friends as she knows she has a home to return.
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|Introduction | Much more light | About resolution | Vignetting at wide apertures | Lateral chromatic aberration | Distortion | So… who is this lens good for?
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If we look at this phenomenon in detail, we notice a pronounced loss of 2 EV at any focal length between f/4 and f/5.6, except at 24 and 28mm, where the loss is present until f/8, and at 85mm where it peaks again at approximately f/6.3.
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LIBERTY – Liberty High faithful were left with a disappointing end to a night filled with homecoming festivities Friday night.
After a shootout with Landrum in the team's second region contest of the year, the Liberty High football team found itself drawing the short end of the stick as the seconds ticked down in Friday's 38-33 loss.
The Red Devils now sit at a disappointing 0-5 on the season.
"It's frustrating when you're right there," head coach Kyle Stewart said of his team's winless record. "You're talking about one or two little things here and there that would have completely changed the outcome of this ball game and several others we have played this year. I just hate it for these kids."
Liberty found itself needing two late scores in the fourth quarter to complete a dramatic comeback over Landrum, and it nearly happened.
A liberty touchdown narrowed the gap to 38-33 with several minutes remaining, and a defensive stop would have given the Red Devils the ball with a relatively short field to maneuver. A few late controversial calls, however, allowed Landrum to simply run out the clock.
"I won't comment on officiating," Stewart said. "Our kids fought their butts off and I cannot ask anything more of them other than what they are giving me. They're working hard, paying attention and getting after it. Sometimes things that happen are out of your control."
Stewart said the losses are frustrating for a team he believes is working hard.
"I know what these kids are putting in and it's obvious this team is improving week to week," Stewart said. "I just want them to keep focused and understand it's a matter of time and things are going to go their way. There's no way things could continue to not go their way all year."
Stewart said his team showed the grit needed to win games several times during Friday night's loss.
"We were down by more than 10 a couple of times and it would be very easy to be negative and kind of phone it in, but they don't do that," Stewart said. "That's got to be what I'm most proud of."
Looking ahead, the head coach said his team will need to fine tune a few things on defense if they are going to have success at Chesnee this week.
"We've just got to fine tune some things," Stewart said. "We'll look at tape and try to find what will give us the best opportunity to win and that's what we'll focus on."
"There's nothing bad I can say about those boys in red shirts," he said. "The heartbreaking thing for me is, I see how much they put in and they deserve a reward for how hard they've played these last few ball games."
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Doberman wrote:You're missing the point here: Orlando is actually TRYING to keep him. They have and will continue to try until their time runs out - which won't be til 2013. Denver didn't trade Carmelo until they were in the same situation (his contract was expiring). We're not there yet Dwight.
Again, you fail to address the fact that Williams was moved midseason in a similar situation: Utah needed to rebuild. Orlando will move Dwight now if they find the right package.
Doberman wrote:Yes. 2013. Not today like you're trying to make it sound.
I'm not doing anything of the sort. I'm not sure why you continue to display this arrogance but it's extremely irritating and you're truly tempting me to give you an official warning for baiting me.
Doberman wrote:You're avoiding mine just the same as I've addressed this many times now: Orlando WANTS TO KEEP HIM.
This is something you've just started to say. You've been pointing out that they would move him for expiring contracts. This is a new argument that I would be willing to debate.
Doberman wrote: They're not trying to trade him right now. He's NOT ON THE MARKET right now. I'm not sure why you won't accept this. You're proposing deals in a situation that doesn't exist. Howard won't be a FA in 2012, he will be in 2013. Therefore he won't be traded until then. It's that simple.
You asked for something, I provided it and now you're changing your story. I'm proposing deals that asked me to propose. You wanted examples, I provided them and now they're useless because you said so? Okay then.
Doberman wrote:It's not either or. Nothing says he can't have both which is what he'll be aiming for (all athletes do). Him playing out his contract doesn't preclude him from being traded to LA.
No it doesn't, but time is a factor whether you want to admit it or not. The faster he's in LA the more time he has to build those business opportunities that he's looking for. Wait a season and you never know what could happen that could keep him out of LA.
Doberman wrote:Yours fail to account for fundamental factors of the situation (i.e. big market, top tier contender, 2013 plan). And I've already made my proposal, which is the whole reason you're posting right now.
No they don't, they're just as feasible as yours was if not more. Your proposal is also full of presumptions, as any proposal made by a fan is. It's the nature of being a fan and not being a GM or legal council. That is my point.
Doberman wrote:Simple math and logic. $19 million and 8% raises for the next for years or about $15 million and 4.5% raises in the next 4 years. Which would you choose? And please don't come back with "he'll make up the difference in endosements", because as I already said, he can have the big contract and still come to LA for the big market.
Last warning: I will not stand to be talked down to. Your arrogance does not promote discussion it promotes anger which is by definition baiting. Enough. Either debate like an adult, or don't do it all.
You're damn straight I'll come back with he'll earn more through endorsements. And it's not four years, it's one year. No matter what he does, his next contract is going to be signed under the new CBA. If he doesn't opt out, he gets his 19,536,360 million. Then he signs a four year deal somewhere under the new CBA. However, he could choose to opt out, sign in LA for (your estimated) 15 million. He'd immediately be a marketing juggernaut. He may not make up 4 million immediately, but endorsements would roll in like there's no tomorrow. I don't know the numbers from 2010-2011, but just a few years ago Kobe was making over 20 million a year in endorsements alone. I'm sure Dwight is getting something massive for his endorsements already, but there'd be an insane boost in those numbers just from being in LA. Say he wins a couple rings here and that number just went up even more. The sooner he gets to LA the better, why wait for an extra 4 million when he can come to LA and get 10s of millions.
Doberman wrote:Because they want to keep him as long as possible, and if they can't, they can still get expiring contracts. They have no reason to rush. You want to believe they must only because you want to believe the deal will happen ASAP.
I don't believe this deal is going to happen at all. I think it SHOULD happen, that it COULD happen, but not that it necessarily will. Either now or in the future. But again, why wait? Why prolong the inevitable?
Doberman wrote:With just Durant and Howard they have a good foundation. But no, unless they're deep, they're not going to win it all.
If I remember correctly I left them with two stars and basically all their role players still. Not to mention their strong front lineup still. They'd do extremely well considering they've made great runs the way they are now.
Doberman wrote:Miami's big 3 was a bigger juggernaut and they lost to a team that was more loaded. You're not going to get it done with JUST two stars.
Just two stars? Did Dallas have more than that? Nowitski and...Kidd? Who else is a star on that team? They had a team where they all knew their roles. That's it. The Magic in 09 made it to Finals with only one real star. It's not that far fetched. The Heat weren't built well at all as a team, that's why they lost.
Doberman wrote:That doesn't match his criteria. Denver is out.
Doberman wrote:I've replied succinctly and factually to all your points. If you think I'm giving you attitude, I don't know what to say. That's simply your inference and not the reality of the matter, but I also find it ironic since it was your first response to me that was pretty snide, yet I ignored it and simply addressed your points. You've also admitted that you're letting yourself get worked up on the matter, so I don't think you're being entirely fair right now and letting your emotions get the best of you.
As Alcindor pointed out, your arrogance has upset me. You will either stop or be warned for baiting.
Doberman wrote:If Okl can net another star, then maybe. But not to the Denver deal. A "good run" is not good enough for him.
I was unaware that you knew Dwight's thoughts on the matter. You don't know if Denver could be a destination or not. If the situation looked good, why wouldn't he? He wants to win and Denver could potentially be that team depending on how things shake out.
Doberman wrote:Denver? Really?
Doberman wrote:Orlando wouldn't accept the deal, or ANY deal this year, because they don't have to move him. They'll keep him as long as they can.
That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I do not agree.


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I have to confess that I haven't actually beaten Dragon Age yet. I am really close to the ending. However, I made a choice much earlier that will mean I will not get the ending I want. In addition, I have a problem in that I did some quest that required me to turn in 20 health potions, and now I don't have enough potions remaining to beat the fight currently blocking me.
My first thought was to go back to an earlier saved game, but I realized that I hadn't made a backup save in the timeframe I wanted. I'd have to redo a large section of the game.
It occurred to me that Saved Game systems are rather primitive. Most games have a couple of autosaves, a quicksave, and some manual saves. I think saving progress could be done much better.
For example, you could take a cue from various archival schemes. Consider a scheme where you saved the last 5 quicksaves, then retained every fifth quicksave after that. That would give you a solid history of saved games, while not wasting that much space.
Or since the "important events" tend to be known in a game, you could make a save after each section of the game is completed. This would make it much easier to go back to an earlier point and continue on.
I think saving games could be more automated. Relying on the player to keep correct saves is brittle. A game developer should look at saves more like the creation of a history of that playthrough. Of course, the difficulty part would be accounting for forks in that history.
Perhaps representing the saved game timeline as a tree would be interesting. A player could move through the tree to pick the point she wants to start a new branch. Older, or stubby, branches which did not go anywhere could be pruned away to save space.
Or perhaps just use a linear time model, with dense amount of saves closer to the present, and a sparser amount of saves in past. After all, there's only one instance of an individual playthrough running at any one point in time.
Whichever way, I think save game schemes could be better than the current standards.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Archival Saves
I have to confess that I haven't actually beaten Dragon Age yet. I am really close to the ending. However, I made a choice much earlier that will mean I will not get the ending I want. In addition, I have a problem in that I did some quest that required me to turn in 20 health potions, and now I don't have enough potions remaining to beat the fight currently blocking me.
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- Spinks said...
I like the idea of displaying the timeline with saved games. So you could imagine a timeline with important events marked on it, and you could choose at what point you wanted to resume from your last save.
- 11:55 PM, January 07, 2010
- Kring said...
If the game is designed to have non-revertible changes, isn't it kind of cheating if you return to an old save game to change a non-revertible event?
Isn't it a failed design if you revert to cheating because the game isn't fun if played in the way it was designed to be played?
Maybe they should allow you to revisit your decisions, if that is what the player want.
- 2:20 AM, January 08, 2010
- Wilz said...
Tree-based saves FTW!
- 3:14 AM, January 08, 2010
- Green Armadillo said...
Like Kring, I think this is actually an intentional design in the case of the Bioware games. As I've written this week on my own blog, there's a conflict here between gameplay - not fun to have to replay half the game because of a consequence you could not have forseen when you made the choice - and role playing/story.
The cynic might agrue that Bioware A) does not want you to know how few changes actually change the course of the game and B) wants you to perceive lots of unused story potential so they can sell you upcoming paid expansions for use on a new character.
- 4:18 AM, January 08, 2010
- darthregis said...
I actually like having my own saved games. Maybe I'm an old fart and hate change, but really, while having the game keep a certain amount of autosaves may not take up that much of a systems resource; having me manage my own saved games doesn't take up that much of my own resources. It's really not that taxing.
Heck, I'm playing Batman: Arkham Asylum right now and sure, it saves at every certain number of checkpoints... but every now and again, I'm like, "Man, I'd just like to save it here so I can go do X instead of having to get myself to the next autosave point."
@ Kring
It's not necessarily cheating. It's also not part of the design where if you reach an impass, that the developer says, "You suck, start over." Part of the design is to let you take your "wrong" path and eventually correct it without having to repeat everything. They know that the gamers out there are relatively fickle and impatient and unlikely wanting to repeat EVERYTHING to have to finish the game.
- 7:34 AM, January 08, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Crazy idea, Just go to the Dailish zone find the merchant, Buy a bucket load of Elfroot and make as many Health pots as you like. Problem solved.
- 3:53 PM, January 08, 2010


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The Red Wings were mired in an 0-2-2 slump when it hit the road last week. Detroit began the swing with a win in Vancouver to halt its four-game slide and then notched victories in Calgary and Edmonton to improve its road record this season to 6-2-0.
After posting a 4-3 regulation win against the Flames on Friday, the Red Wings breezed to a 5-0 triumph the following night in Edmonton. Petr Mrazek earned his first NHL shutout and Detroit continued its mastery of the Oilers.
Mrazek, in his third NHL game and first this season, faced only 14 shots and the Red Wings received goals from five different players to earn at least a point against the Oilers for the 14th straight game (12-0-2).
They are 8-0-5 in Edmonton since their last regulation loss in the city on Oct. 21, 2006. The Red Wings received goals from Darren Helm, Tomas Tatar, Jakub Kindl, Joakim Andersson and Todd Bertuzzi in Saturday's rout.
"I thought we were professional. I thought we played real well here today," said Babcock.
Detroit forward Johan Franzen sat out Saturday's game with flu-like symptoms and is questionable for Monday. Franzen missed Wednesday's game in Vancouver with an upper-body injury and returned to action Friday against Calgary before leaving the game in the first period with an illness.
Following the completion of their road trip on Monday, the Red Wings will return home for a four-game stay at Joe Louis Arena. The homestand is set to begin Thursday evening against Dallas.
The Jets enter Monday on a down note, having lost three straight in regulation to give them a 1-4-2 record over the past seven games.
Winnipeg's most recent outing ended in a rout, as Chicago overcame an early 1-0 deficit to record a 5-1 road victory at MTS Centre. The Blackhawks scored five unanswered goals, including three in a 4:55 span early in the second period to chase Winnipeg starting goaltender Ondrej Pavelec.
Tobias Enstrom had the lone goal for the Jets, who fell to 3-5-1 on home ice this season. Al Montoya stopped 10 shots in relief of Pavelec, who left the game after yielding four goals on 14 shots.
"We said in the room (after the second period) we have to go after them and don't quit, but they didn't give up much," Jets forward Michael Frolik said.
Monday's game marks the first time the Jets are hosting the Red Wings since the franchise relocated from Atlanta to Winnipeg prior to the 2011-12 campaign. Detroit posted a 7-1 home win over the Jets on Dec. 10, 2011 in the only game between the teams since the move.
The Red Wings have won three of the last five meetings against the franchise formerly known as the Atlanta Thrashers and Detroit holds a 10-4-0 record over the 14 all-time matchups in this series.


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February 2, 2011
HIGH POINT, N.C. - Conference Carolinas hosted its third annual student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC) weekend retreat in High Point, NC on Friday January 28 & Saturday January 29. The event brought together two student-athletes and an athletic administrator from each member school to share ideas about improving themselves in all aspects of their lives. The 'Know Thyself' leadership theme was a success as 24 student-athletes attended the event and were joined by nearly a dozen other administrators and coaches from Conference Carolinas schools. Sarah Hebberd, Blake Dowdle and Rachel Hebberd, along with advisor Micki Thompson, all represented the Falcons at the two-day event.
"Often athletes are mistakenly viewed as one dimensional," stated Commissioner Alan Patterson. "After one weekend of interaction with Conference Carolinas student-athletes, one is totally aware of the intelligence, creativity, and sense of responsibility demonstrated. I am pleased that these outstanding athletes represent Conference Carolinas."
After Friday's ice breaking opening session, sports psychologist Dr. Erik Dunlap "took it to the next level" with his presentation of developing critical mental skills for success on the field, in the classroom, and in life. Dr. Dunlap discussed 'SMART' goal setting action plans, self-confidence, self-image, and creating positive mental attitudes to challenge participants to grow in their everyday walk as a student-athlete.
Representatives were treated to a social dinner on Friday night followed by group discussion over dessert discussing next year's league initiatives in the "Pass It Forward" roll-out campaign. The movement will challenge SAAC groups to work within current objectives of sportsmanship, official's appreciation, and community service to encompass all of the different attributes that individual schools value on their own campuses. "We want our SAAC groups to continue to build on past initiatives, but also give them more freedom to build on all the different successful programs they are currently working toward while also being able to pass it forward to those they inspire," stated Associate League Commissioner Brook Patterson.
Saturday's events featured guest presenter Dr. Lizzie Lange who had a very interactive presentation for the group focusing on "Team Cohesion Activities." The activities had participants working within teambuilding programs that included a series of group challenges of emotional, physical, mental and interpersonal tasks.
Pfeiffer University's Assistant Athletic Director Micki Thompson shared some of her thoughts about the retreat. "The entire weekend was very exciting and we were so grateful that our student-athlete leaders learned more about themselves and the missions that they can take back to campus. We want to put the things we have learned from the weekend into motion for Pfeiffer and again are really energized about the success of the weekend."
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