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I think your use of texture has improved a lot, however I think the image is static and has no emotion. If you changed the viewing point of the piece, as well as the location of the horizon line, it could have much more...oomph! if you know what i mean; a lot more power to the piece.
I do think it has a lovely style to it, and good choice of colors
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Great, thanks for the feedback hala.
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Mix up the robots in the background more to add some veriety... all of their legs should be in a different position, at least. And perhaps the background laser could be at a different angle. Love the style and coloring, though. Has an awesome feel and overall... er.. vibe.
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Thanks GrayMind, I definitely agree with you there. I'm reworking the image now...
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Hi there...Nice style..But i feel there is too much of empty space on the left side of the illustration..Perhaps you could something over there.buildings faded away into the background,more robots(perhaps moving to the direction of the main one)..but keep it subdued so that it doesn't grab too much attention..And i agree with GrayMind..Add more variation..It will make it more interesting...
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Like it its a fun illustration but for some reason the depth of field seems off to me
the robot seem ahead of the laser could be a scale thing or could be the lack of foreground reference, anyways thats my two cents


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Drinks her not-just-a-smoothie pina coladas in ALL CAPS in front of her preschoolers before she takes her CDs and goes home.
How much is too much & How long before not eating??
Ugghhh....I think I'm just having a breakdown.
Between all these ear infections and colds I am going batty!!!!!!!!
I did finally get an appointment Monday with a new pediatrician to see his ears and hopefully get a referral.
Anyway, the stomach bug is now going through our home.
David our 2 1/2 year old had it Starting Saturday night...threw up every 15 minutes and wouldn't really respond to us...ended up in the ER and they gave him something to stop his throwing up.
Myself, our 9.5 month old and my DH all got in on Monday!
First is was the baby...same thing...went to ER because he wasn't even wanting to nurse....I got it while we there and my DH got it back at home watching our 2.5 year old!
Crazy days...
Anyway, both DH and I are better but the kiddos seem to be taking longer.
My 2.5 year old will drink some but he has *maybe* eaten 1 slice of toast 1 cup of applesauce, few bites of cereal and a few bites of organic mac n cheese Since Sunday! When should I start being concerned about this??
And my 9.5 year old has diarrhea today every 15-20 minutes. He IS nursing and taking pedialyte but won't eat.
When should I be concerned about that? Like how much is too much before I should call his pediatrician??
Oh and note to self...don't give GRAPE pedialyte in a foggy state of mind. It turned his lips purple for a bit and I started freaking out until I realized...oh duh...the pedialyte!
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Re: How much is too much & How long before not eating??
Big hugs to you. I know how hard it is when it seems like someone is always sick with something.
I wouldn't be too concerned about a stomach virus unless they are showing signs of dehydration, infrequent urination, being lethargic, no tears when they cry. Here is a link: http://children.webmd.com/dehydration-children
As long as the 9 1/2 month old is nursing don't worry about regular food. He'll start eating again when he's feeling up to it. Kids tend to take longer to get over stomach viruses than adults in my experience. I would also suggest sticking with the BRATS diet with your older child until he's feeling well again. The BRATS diet is bananas, rice, applesauce, toast, and soup (but no cream soups). We also only give our kids water to drink, no juice, or milk.
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I put a call into the pediatrician just to see too and they told me to come right in, so I'm on the way Now I'm kind of worried...
But since he is happy and nursing and not lethargic I'm confused. I do think he is a bit dehydrated though despite the nursing and pedialyte. So maybe they can help?
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Kana Keoki.
The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Kana Keoki.
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Bathymetry and petrologic evidence indicated the presence of an active dacitic submarine volcano SW of Rendova Island (Taylor, 1987). Kana Keoki Seamount, located along the Ghizo Ridge south of the convergent margin between the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates, rises to within about 700 m of the surface from a depth of 3700 m and is surrounded by a volcaniclastic apron.
The Global Volcanism Program is not aware of any Holocene eruptions from Kana Keoki. If this volcano has had large eruptions (VEI >= 4) prior to 10,000 years ago, information might be found on the Kana Keoki page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).
The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Kana Keoki.
The Global Volcanism Program has no photographs available for Kana Keoki.
The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.
Exon N F, Johnson R W, 1986. The elusive Cook volcano and other submarine forearc volcanoes in the Solomon Islands. Aust Bur Min Resour Geol Geophys J, 10: 77-83.
Taylor B, 1987. A geophysical survey of the Woodlark-Solomons region. In: Taylor B and Exon N F (eds) {Marine Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry of the Woodlark Basin, Solomon Islands}, Circum-Pacific Council Energy Min Resour Earth Sci Ser, 7: 25-48.
Tiffin D L, Taylor B, Crook K A W, Sinton J, Frankel E, 1986. Surveys in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea using SEAMARC II--A Cruise Report of the R/V Moana Wave, November 29, 1985 - January 9, 1986. CCOP/SOPAC Cruise Rpt 117 (unpublished).


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The mail is delivered come rain or snow, but a dog is halting deliveries for about a dozen homes in Cedar Rapids.
The mail carrier assigned to that block feels threatened. A spokesman with the Postal Service said officials have no other choice but to stop mail delivery for the safety of the carrier.
It's a real concern for many postal workers. In 2012, the USPS said more than 5,000 workers were attacked by dogs.
This mail issue is impacting people on Walker Street Northeast.
"The dog has interfered, on a number of occasions, with the delivery of the mail in that particular neighborhood," said Postal Service Spokesman Richard Watkins.
The Post Office sent out letters saying after the mail carrier saw the dog unrestrained for the fifth time, the entire block's mail is on hold.
Elmer Kasey isn't happy.
"It's a bunch of poop. I think it's got stamps on it and it says to deliver it, they should deliver it," Kasey said.
Everyone on his block has to go to a nearby Post Office if they want their mail. The city's public safety spokesman said the dog at the center of this mail holdup is a Chihuahua mix. Guillermo Tellez defends his dog, saying it occasionally gets out but usually stays inside.
"It's a nice dog," Guillermo said.
He said the dog is friendly and plays nice with his children. The next-door neighbor, however, understands why the postal carrier feels threatened.
"We got chased a couple times just bringing groceries into our house in our own driveway. And then, we called Animal Control at that point and they did come and seize the dogs because it did not have its vaccines up to date. Two weeks later my five-year-old was bit in the leg in the back of our own yard," said neighbor Alyssa Taylor.
Many just want the situation resolved.
"I don't really care what they do. All I want is my mail back," Kasey said.
"Once we know that the dog owner has taken responsibility and make sure that dog is not running free in that neighborhood, the mail delivery will continue," Watkins said.
The city said animal control went to the home twice last summer because of that dog, once when the dog bit the child. An officer returned this week to discuss the matter with the family after neighbors called when the mail stopped. Police said owners will be cited if the dog is seen running around the neighborhood.
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Before the builder can torque down any bolt he must first scan the appropriate bar code for that set of bolts. This sets the torque wrench to the proper setting and prevents errors since the system won't allow the builder to scan the next fastener until the first ones have been scanned and torqued.
As we said, every torque operation is recorded by the computer and tied to that particular engine. If there was ever a failure, this serial number could be input and a complete history of this engine would pop up. In case you're curious, this is the 12th retail-production LS9 ever made.
At three different spots along the build line there's this symbol. If any step was missed, or if a bolt was torqued out of spec, the icon would be a sad red face. The computer checks, combined with the old school paint marks by the builders, ensures nothing is ever missed on an engine built at Wixom.
With the supercharger installed, the engine is sealed and pressure tested. Air is forced into the oil and water passages and the computer makes sure there are no leaks. If the pressure isn't held, the builder has to figure out where the leak is occurring, and fix it before the engine can move further down the line.
Once the LS9 passes the pressure test, the builder installs the flywheel and dual-disc clutch on the engine. A weight is taken—in this case, a svelte 530 pounds—then the LS9 is tested. It's run first by natural gas so it can be externally balanced. After that, it's hooked up to a DC motor and put through a 45-minute cold test.
When the engines are done, they are double-checked and sent offsite for 20-minute hot-test and dyno validation. It takes from 4.5 to 5 hours to build an LS9 at Wixom. This means they can churn out around 45 units a week. Will we ever see an LS7 or LS9 under the hood of a new Camaro? We'll keep our fingers crossed. If not, there's always the option of buying a crate engine and doing it ourselves.


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A previously unsuspected galaxy is orbiting our own on the far side of the Milky Way. The new galaxy, the 11th such satellite galaxy to be discovered, is by far the closest and is being ripped apart by the Milky Way's gravity.
Rodrigo Ibata, Mike Irwin and Gerry Gilmore of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge stumbled on the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal while observing stars in the central 'bulge' of the Milky Way with the UK Schmidt telescope in Australia. Of the million or so of stars whose spectra they measured, about 100 stood out as peculiar.
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Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Handicapping
Listed below are just a few, but certainly not all, of the most frequently asked questions posed to the Texas Golf Association. If you have a question and cant find the answer youre looking for, please click on the Handicap Resource Center link on the right for more information. If youre still looking for an answer after your search, please submit your question to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
How can I establish a USGA Handicap Index® and become a member of the TGA?
To ensure the integrity of the USGA Handicap System, the USGA Handicap rules require that you belong to a club of at least 10 individuals who have a reasonable and regular opportunity to play golf together. Club members must be able to return scores, and those scores must be available for review by fellow club members, which is also known as peer review.
When you establish a Handicap Index via a TGA Member Club, you automatically become a member of the TGA and are entitled to participate in TGA events, and receive all the many other benefits associated with membership. There are two ways to establish a Handicap Index and become a member of the TGA: 1) Join Through a TGA Member Club; 2) Establish Your Own Club.
1) Join Through a TGA Member Club: To locate a listing of current TGA Member Clubs on this web site, please look under Membership Services, and on the lower left, select Texas Golf Course Directory and then for GHIN Clubs, select Yes and run the search. You will find that we have many daily fee/semi-private member clubs. Note the fee to join varies. Some clubs require that you join the mens or womens association/league at their course and the handicap fee is included. It depends upon the club, so if you play at several different courses, check with each of them to see which one best fits your needs.
2) Establish Your Own Club: If you are unable to locate a club, the other option is to form your own club without real estate. Forming your own club will give you the benefits of a TGA membership plus the ability to maintain handicap indexes for your members via the GHIN service. The USGA Handicap System requires that a club meet the following requirements:
- Must have at least Ten MembersThis means you need to have at least nine other golfers that you have a reasonable and regular opportunity to play golf with in order to form your own club. A typical club would consist of people from the same workplace, church, or neighborhood.
- Requires Club Bylaws, Handicap Committee, Handicap Chairpersonthe TGA will provide you with a sample set of bylaws. These bylaws, which may also be customized (within reason), explain the structure of the group and guidelines to follow, as recommended by the USGA. Your club would also need to form a Handicap Committee, and elect officers, including a Handicap Chair. The Handicap Committee is responsible for making sure all requirements of the USGA Handicap System are met, as explained in Section 8 of the USGA Handicap System manual, of which the club should have a copy.
- Members must have a Reasonable and Regular Opportunity to Play Golf Togetheror Peer Review where club members can view the scoring records of other members of the club and be able to play golf with one another.
If you are interested in forming your own club, please contact the Texas Golf Association Mary Harrison in the North Region at 214.468.8942 to obtain additional information.
I signed up for GHIN and posted a couple of scores, but my scoring record shows NH. Why?
Establishing a USGA Handicap Index is not something that happens instantly. Many golfers not familiar with handicapping mistakenly believe that your Handicap Index should change every time you post a score, but that is simply not the case. According to the rules of the USGA Handicap System, first, you must first post five 18-hole scores or ten 9-hole scores to establish an indexUntil you have that quantity posted, your scoring record will show as NH or No Handicap. Second, you must also go through what we call a revision (or recalculation), as well. We revise (recalculate) Handicap Indexes on the 1st and 15th of every month according to the National Revision Schedule, which you may review via our web site www.txga.org (at the top, select handicapping/course rating and then on the subsequent page, along the right side, see the Quick Links section and the link titled Revision Schedule). There is also a stated cutoff time by which you must post for those scores to be included in the calculation. For example, if the next revision date is on the 15th, all scores must by posted by 11 pm cst , the night prior to the revision date, to be included in that recalculation. Basically, you will post scores and nothing changes until the handicaps are revised or recalculated on the 1st or 15th. In the meantime, even though your scoring record shows as NH, it does not mean your scores are not there. To review scores that have been posted, pull up your record by going to www.GHIN.com, and in the upper left select Handicap Lookup, enter your 7 digit TGA/GHIN# in the space provided (with no dashes) hit the Lookup button and once the subsequent screen comes up, click on the tab titled RECENT SCORES. There you can see scores posted since the last revision.
What is Equitable Stroke Control?
Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) is a procedure whereby abnormally high individual hole scores are adjusted downward prior to the score being posted. ESC sets a maximum number that a golfer can post on any hole, depending on the golfers Course Handicap (not his Handicap Index). Effective Feb. 1, 1998, individual hole scores will be adjusted for handicap purposes per the following table:
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|20 29
|30 39
|40 or more
What do the different letter(s) mean next to my scores?
The letter(s) immediately following each adjusted gross score indicate(s) specific aspects of a score within a players scoring record. The following is a list of possible score types:
A = Away
I = Internet
AI = Away Internet
P = Penalty
C = Combined Nines
T = Tournament
TI = Tournament Internet
CI = Combined Internet Scores (at least one nine posted via Internet)
What does an R mean next to my Handicap Index?
The R signifies that a reduction has been placed on your Handicap Index. The USGA has a section in its Handicap System that automatically reduces the Handicap Indexes of players who consistently score better in competitions than in informal play. To be used, the procedure requires that a player have two or more eligible tournament scores and a minimum of two tournament score differentials which are at least three strokes better than the players current USGA Handicap Index.
What most players dont realize is that an eligible tournament score under Section 10-3 of the USGA Handicap System Manual is a tournament score made within the current year or a tournament score contained within the players last twenty scores. All tournament scores posted will stay on a scoring record for a year from the date that they were shot. A tournament score may stay on a record longer if in a year it is still a part of the most recent twenty scores. The Handicap Committee at the golfers club, not the Texas Golf Association, may decide to override a reduction in certain cases.
For more information, visit the Handicapping section of the USGA website (usga.org).
How do I correct a wrong or duplicate score that has been posted to my handicap?
To correct or delete incorrect scores in your record, contact the handicap chairperson or the golf shop staff at your club. They will be able to make the corrections for you as the Texas Golf Association does not have the authority. This also applies to scores posted via the Internet. It may take a few days for the correction to become effective, because your club must make the change then send it to the GHIN server. Once this has been done, your handicap score history will be corrected. The scoring record, which appears online at www.ghin.com, will not be updated until the next Handicap Revision. However, if you click on Recent Scores the change will be reflected immediately.
Can I post scores via the Internet?
The USGA Handicap System allows individual clubs to decide whether or not they will permit their members to use the Internet option. Therefore, if the club does not allow GHIN Internet Posting, its members cannot use it. However, if a golfer is a member of a club that accepts Internet scores, scores can be posted directly to the Internet by clicking on the Post Online icon on the TGA website or by clicking on the Post Scores link at www.GHIN.com. The scores will immediately become part of the golfers scoring record and be included in the golfers USGA Handicap Index by the next revision. The scores will appear on the clubs handicap computer the next time the club connects to the GHIN network.
Can I lookup someones GHIN number?
To protect the security and privacy of our members, the Texas Golf Association nor GHIN gives out member numbers to the general public; therefore, you cannot find that number on either Web site. You can, however, search by name and state. The result will show all Association members with that name and the club they belong to. Please note that the search is nickname sensitive, so should you type in a first name of William and the member has been entered as Bill or Billy, no member information will appear. Once you select the member you will be able to view his or her current Handicap Index and scoring history, but you will not see a member number. If Club Professionals, Handicap Chairpersons or members themselves need to verify indexes, they may do so by calling the Texas Golf Association directly at 214.468.8942.
Can I view my score history and USGA Handicap Index via the Internet?
Yes. Visit www.GHIN.com to view the following information about your active GHIN account: the 20 scores that were used to compute your USGA Handicap Index, your USGA Handicap Index, and your most recent scores. Only the scores posted via the Internet and scores that have been transmitted (sent) from clubs to the GHIN server will be listed.
How many scores do I need to establish a USGA Handicap Index?
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By Jose de Jesus Ortiz | September 12, 2011 | Updated: September 12, 2011 11:43pm
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Teal Bunbury of Sporting Kansas City takes it on the chin as the Dynamo's Jermaine Taylor connects during Saturday's game.
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MLS record: 8-9-11.
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As if penance for Saturday's 3-0 loss in Kansas City, fate and an airplane's mechanical problems conspired to ruin the Dynamo's hopes of sleeping at home Sunday night.
Every Dynamo fan knows little goes well on the team's trips this season. So 14 hours after leaving their Kansas City hotel Sunday morning for the airport expecting to be in Houston by the afternoon, Brian Ching and Co. checked into a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, at 11 p.m.
"It made for a long day sitting in an airport for 10 hours," said Ching, who left Saturday's game at halftime with a sore groin. "It was just one of those trips."
Sadly for the Dynamo, having to fly back to the Kansas City airport after their plane's landing gear wouldn't close wasn't the only hiccup. They didn't fare much better Saturday.
"It was probably one of the worst games we've had in a long time," Ching said. "We have to focus on Columbus now. We cannot afford to dwell on Kansas City."
The road has been unkind this season to the Dynamo, MLS' only playoff contender without a win away from home. The performance at Livestrong Sporting Park was so bad coach Dominic Kinnear urged players to forget it.
How bad was it? Although Kinnear was adamant he didn't want to discuss the game Monday, he kept coming back to it during an interview.
"For us, honestly, I'm not going to talk about it," Kinnear said. "To the guys, it's over. It has to be over. We have to move on. If we continue to talk about this and dwell on this, we'll be sleepwalking and not prepare for Columbus. That's what I said in the locker room after the game."
Looking ahead, forward Carlo Costly will be unavailable Wednesday because he must serve a one-game suspension for Saturday's red card. And Ching isn't sure about playing Wednesday.
"It's just a little groin problem, just tweaked something in my groin," he said. "I'd say hopeful for Wednesday."
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It was love that moved Rosa to follow her handsome boyfriend from the Dominican Republic to New York, and betrayal that sent her to jail, while he was set free. Rosa could barley understand the judge's English words when he handed down the sentence that would take away her life for the next six years and end her relationship with her son, who had stayed behind.
Rosa met Sister Tisa in prison: Tisa routinely visited cells, one by one, as part of her work. Over a decade earlier, Tisa had founded Hour Children in Queens New York. She made it her ministry to keep incarcerated women and their children connected throughout the mother's sentence. Sister Tisa had learned through experience that when this bond was broken, children were at risk of growing up in foster care and that increased the chances of them serving time in prison as they them selves aged. Children born to women during their time inside a correctional facility are usually institutionalized at birth.
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The growing family continues to live within the Hour Children Community in an apartment complex for women who have grown to independence.
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Pasquale's Angel by Paul J. McAuley, Gollancz, pp 286, £15.99
If Leonardo da Vinci had been able to put some of his more advanced ideas into practice, the history of the past 400 years would have been somewhat different. Imagine early 16th-century Florence with steamboats, submarines and electric light. How would the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution have coped with each other?
Unfortunately, this is something that doesn't really come through in Paul J. McAuley's latest novel. All the elements are there - the politics, pageantry, costume and easy death of the Renaissance, and the technology (pollution included) of the 19th century - but it somehow doesn't mesh. Both were periods of new ideas, of excitement, of change; the combination should be electric, but Pasquale's Angel reads like a period detective story with the industrial elements imposed on top.
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The last time the Vancouver Canucks saw the Chicago Blackhawks, the Hawks were celebrating after eliminating them in the second round of the playoffs last spring on the way to the franchise's first Stanley Cup in 49 years.
The teams get together for the first time since that night in May when they meet at the United Center at 8:30 p.m. in one of four NHL games on Wednesday night's schedule.
The Hawks have won their last three games, including Monday's 3-2 overtime victory against St. Louis.
The night's action starts with two games at 7 p.m. ET. The Atlanta Thrashers return from a successful swing through California to host the struggling Buffalo Sabres, who haven't played since a 4-3 loss at Chicago on Saturday.
The Anaheim Ducks, coming off a 3-2 home win against Phoenix, start a road trip in Columbus. The Blue Jackets lost their home opener to Chicago on Friday but rebounded with a 3-2 victory at Minnesota the next night.
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Information reaching Foroyaa from the Defence Headquarters of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) in Banjul, has it that Lieutenant Serigne Jallow, an officer of GAF is currently under the detention of Military Police at the Yundum Barracks since his return from a peace keeping mission in Darfur, Sudan, almost 3 weeks ago. The information added that Lieutenant Jallow is already charged and could appear before a General Court Martial any day from now.
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I don't think him smoking marijuana in a private bathroom stall was going to hurt anyone. Just saying.
They guy was smoking weed. The only thing that I find stupid about this is that they don't specify it was marijuana. And I somehow doubt that a civilian was going to reach for a cops gun without genuinely believing that it was life or death either. I think it's a shame that it came to this over a guy smoking a joint on his break.
I see where you are coming from, but make no mistake, ABP is not a small business, it is a big cooperation and that cafe on it's own in less than a year was a multimillion dollar cafe. I saw it for myself with my own eyes.
That's good enough for me! Actually I used to work at that very ABP, I worked there for over a year. Let me tell you something about that terminal, that terminal has raccoons and possums living in it. The doors are open year round constantly and Au Bon Pain has no door closing it off from the ferry. Not to mention majority of the customers shop lifted most of the food they ate from the store anyway. Secondly, ABP pays for a manager to take over while they send him or her out to get their food handling certificates. That's one of the perks of being a manager there, they pay to get you certified, that manager was most likely getting his training. I can't say I'm totally defending the place, but seriously, what did you expect from a ferry terminal, OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO HAVE FLIES AND RODENTS, IT'S THE FREE STATEN ISLAND FERRY TERMINAL. Anyone who expects less shouldn't eat in dirty public transportation terminals, such as the ferry, or Penn Station, for example. And not to mention that I've bought one or two moldy Banana breads from the Water Edge Cafe and I haven't seen them shut down yet. My biggest concern is that they don't leave all those workers with nowhere to go after this all blows over.
At that rate just let them drown.
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Eleven All-America Certificates Highlight Day One of NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
March 27, 2008
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - The Indiana University men's swimming and diving team took home 11 All-America certificates for a strong day-one showing at the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships being held at the Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash. The Hoosiers are currently seventh with 72 points.
Leading the way was senior Todd Patrick who took third in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:44.55, the best finish by an IU swimmer in the event since Fred Tyler won the national title in 1975. Patrick avenged his second-place finish in the event at the Big Ten Championships by out-touching Big Ten winner Alex Vanderkaay by two one-hundredths of a second. Patrick qualified for the final when his prelim time of 1:44.74 was fourth-fastest in the morning session. That was also the third-fastest time in school history, with all three times held by Patrick. Steve Murry finished 47th with a time of 1:52.15.
"This is a guy that has never scored big in finals or even consolation finals at this meet ever (as an individual)," head coach Ray Looze said. "So it is nice to see him show up and get a third-place like that. He has grown up a lot and I think he is going to have a fantastic meet if he keeps doing what he is doing."
"It felt pretty good," Patrick said. "I didn't medal last year so to medal this year was a great accomplishment. It gives me confidence heading into the 400 IM tomorrow."
The quartet of Patrick, Matt Lenton, Ben Hesen and Ante Zoricic finished eighth in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:19.14. The team qualified for the championship final with a time of 1:18.45 in the prelims, just one one-hundredth of a second ahead of ninth-place finisher LSU. That is the second-fastest time in school history, just behind the mark of 1:18.34 they set at the Big Ten Championships. It is also the best-ever Indiana finish in the 200 free relay at the NCAA Championships.
"The 200 free relay, that is the biggest crapshoot in this meet," Looze said. "To get in there top eight, it has been awhile since we have done that. Historically it hasn't been a strong one (for us). It was a good accomplishment for the guys to get in there and get some big final points."
Indiana's 400 medley relay team of Hesen, Pat Penoyar, Patrick and Lenton qualified 10th with a time of 3:10.12 and finished second in the consolation final and 10th overall, bettering their time by more than a second at 3:09.09. Hesen's leadoff time of 45.72 in the backstroke in the morning prelims was the fastest backstroke split on the morning, while the team's championship time is the third fastest in school history.
"It was nice to see our medley relay drop a second from the morning," Looze said. "We didn't move up because Auburn was pretty good, but we were able to hold 10th place and that was a very good time for us this season. We just have to keep taking this a session at a time and be willing to scratch and claw our way through this competition because good things will happen if we can do that."
On the 1-meter springboard it was freshman Landon Marzullo moving up to finish fourth in the championship final with a score of 387.40. Taylor Roberts finished 12th with 330.95 in the consolation final, earning the second All-America honor of his career. Marzullo placed fourth in the prelims with a score of 333.50, while Roberts edged into the consolation final in 14th place with a score of 310.30. Just one-tenth of a point separated Taylor from Ohio State's Sean Moore who claimed the 16th and final spot.
"I couldn't be happier with my performance," Marzullo said. "I am only a freshman, so I have three more years to go. It gives me a lot of confidence going into the three meter tomorrow. I was really consistent and it sets me up for tomorrow."
"It was a great start to the meet and I am really looking forward to tomorrow," said head diving coach Dr. Jeff Huber. "I thought we did a lot of good things. Landon did a great job. Taylor did a great job of hanging in there after missing (a dive). Every dive after he missed his back he moved back up into the top 16 and then in the semifinals moved up another couple of spots. I am real pleased for today and am ready for tomorrow."
Competing in the 500 freestyle, senior John Kevin Koehler was the top IU finisher in 34th (4:23.92), while Alex Brunfeldt was 38th (4:25.40).
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Occupy Tampa spends second night in downtown park
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Even though Police in other cities, like Boston, are arresting people camping in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, activists in Tampa seem to be safe for now. Occupy Tampa camped out on the edge of downtownâs Curtis Hixon Park for the second consecutive night. This morning, Bettejo Indelicato was one of the twenty or so protesters lining Ashley Drive.
âWell we had 28 people actually sleep over and during the night there were varied amounts of people coming and going.â
Were you bothered by the police at all?
"No, you see this tape? We have to keep that space clear and as long as we keep that space clear the Tampa Police Department has said that we can stay between these barricades and that row of tape."
So is this planned, for now at least, to be every single night?
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She and more than twenty others spent the night on the sidewalk. This morning, she and others held signs and waved at passing traffic.
Some other local occupations are planned for this weekend. Occupy Lakeland is planning a demonstration Saturday at 11 a.m until 4 p.m. on South Florida Avenue at Munn Park.
Occupy St. Petersburg plans a waterfront gathering and general assembly this Saturday from 3:30 until 7 p.m. at 2nd Avenue North and Beach Drive.
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text: The Eternal Champions wiki last edited by TechiesRobo on 06/01/14 11:36PM View full history OverviewEternal Champions is a 2D fighting game developed by Sega Interactive Development Division and published by Sega for the Genesis on August 14, 1993. As one of nine warriors from different time periods, each of which had untimely and unjust deaths, players participate in a fighting tournament (in which, if they defeat the Eternal Champion, their fighter is brought back to change his/her fate and restore the good of mankind).The game received an enhanced version, titled Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side, for the Sega CD on February 5, 1995. This version added new characters, new game modes, video cutscenes, an enhanced soundtrack, and new deadly finishing moves (adding extremely graphic violence). The game also received two action-adventure spinoffs: X-Perts (a Genesis game starring Shadow Yamoto) and Chicago Syndicate (a Game Gear game starring Larcen Tyler).GameplayEternal Champions control scheme, and gameplay elements largely adopted from other popular fighting franchises. The control scheme (similar to Street Fighter 2) consisted of 3 punch, and 3 kick buttons. The major issue for the consumer being the original genesis controller consisted of 3 buttons, pressuring users to purchase a 6 button controller or joystick. With the 3 button control scheme, the user was required to awkwardly hit the start button to swap between punches and kicks.Depending on the distance of the opponent, a button press would automatically adjust for location. For example pressing A would result in a kick, but in close quarters the same button press would result in a knee. Each character had a large set of special moves. To prevent constant use of special moves (similar to The Art of Fighting), the game adopted a stamina system called "Inner Strength". An inner strength orb indicator appeared on screen as a Ying Yang symbol. Each special move would decrease the orb by a certain percentage. If the orb was depleted, the gamer had to fight without special moves until it completely recharged.Tridents Stage OverkillThe game also adopted stage fatalities of Mortal Kombat called Overkills. If an opponent was knocked down from the appropriate location, into the correct spot a stage specific overkill occurred. For example, in Tridents level the player was required to stand on the left hand side of the mermaid statue, knocking down their opponent facing them from the right. If done correctly the downed opponent would be hauled into the water by vines, losing their remaining life while only blood surfaced.CharactersShadow Yamoto (a Japanese ninja assassin from 1993 A.D.)Larcen Tyler (a Chicago mob burglar from 1920 A.D.)R.A.X. Coswell (a cyborg kickboxer from 2345 A.D.)"Slash" (a prehistoric hunter from 50,000 B.C.)"Trident" (an Atlantean gladiator from 110 B.C.)Mitchell Midleton Knight, "Midknight" (a London vampiric biochemist from 2100 A.D.)Xavier Pendragon (a Salem warlock/alchemist from 1692 A.D.)Jonathan Blade (a Syrian bounty hunter from 2030 A.D.)Jetta Maxx (a Russian circus acrobat from 1899 A.D.)Eternal Champion (final boss)


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Gentile met Merlino at least once: He was with Guarente when he stopped by the garage to talk about having work done on his car, according to a source who knows all three men.
Merlino and his crew were on the FBI's list of Gardner suspects in the 1990s, according to filings in federal court. The legal filings and FBI reports show that, by 1997, the FBI had inserted two informants in Merlino's operation. Over the next year, the informants reported that Merlino treated Guarente like a partner. They also reported that Merlino talked as if he might have access to the stolen art.
In one of the FBI reports, an informant said it appeared to him that Merlino "was getting the authorization to do something with the stolen paintings." A lawyer with knowledge of a variety of Gardner cases said the informant reports, collectively, suggest Merlino was trying to take possession of the paintings.
Merlino also was meeting, according to FBI reports and other legal documents, with two younger men: robbery suspect David Turner, who was Guarente's driver; and, less frequently, with Stephen Rossetti, Guarente's nephew. When he was questioned by the FBI, Gentile was asked to identify Turner from photographs, said a source familiar with the investigation.
While looking for the stolen paintings, the FBI learned that Merlino and the two younger men were planning to rob an armored car depot. Agents intercepted and arrested the men on their way to the depot in early 1999. An FBI agent later testified in court that, immediately after the depot arrests, he tried to question the three about the Gardner heist. They refused to talk.
The three robbers argued unsuccessfully that the FBI, through its informants, created a conspiracy to rob the depot to leverage them to talk about the stolen art. Gentile's lawyer failed when making the same claim in court about his drug and gun indictments.
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Guarente also introduced Gentile to Robert Luisi, the Boston mobster who a federal prosecutor said sponsored Gentile and Guarente for membership in the Philadelphia mafia — a city where the FBI said some of the stolen Gardner art was taken.
Luisi had tried to join, but was not accepted by, the New England mafia, an associate said. Philadelphia agreed to accept him when he reached out through a man he met in prison. He agreed and, according to court filings, became the boss, or capo, of the Philadelphia mob's Boston crew.
Guarente became Luisi's second in command and Gentile became a soldier in his crew, according to a prosecution court filing.
As it turned out, Philadelphia's Boston crew collapsed within months of being created. Within a year, Luisi had been indicted in a cocaine conspiracy. Worse for Gentile, Luisi agreed to cooperate with the government.
Gentile's lawyer said in court that Luisi lied to curry favor with the FBI.
During his interviews with the FBI, Luisi said Gentile and Guarente committed robberies together. He said they lived with him for a while in Waltham, Mass., while acting as his armed bodyguards.
Luisi told the FBI that Gentile always armed himself, usually with a snub nose .38-caliber revolver and a .22-caliber derringer. He said Gentile gave him a silencer for his own handgun.
The FBI found a half dozen silencers in Gentile's cellar, as well as two snub nose, .38-caliber revolvers and a .22-caliber derringer, according to a government legal filing.
Luisi said that, in the late 1990s, Gentile was planning the robbery of an armored car carrying cash from a casino in Ledyard and that Luisi had introduced him to a crew of Charlestown robbers who could help, a federal prosecutor said in court.
It was Luisi who told the FBI that said Gentile's nickname was "The Cook."
Gentile acknowledges using the name "The Cook," according to a government court filing. But his lawyer said he denies almost everything else.
He acknowledges working for Luisi, but said he was paid what amounted to small change for cooking and running card games, his lawyer said. Another source who knew Luisi in the late 1990s said "Luisi had apartment where they hung out and Gentile would cook. Gentile was the cook and the bodyguard."
Within a year of Gentile's alleged induction in the mafia, his network in Boston was in disarray.


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Emaya has really come under fire on the last few episodes of Pretty Little Liars ever since Emily (Shay Mitchell) caught Maya (Bianca Lawson) smoking pot outside Hanna's (Ashley Benson) house. And Maya's recent disappearance might cause Em to find solace in another girl's arms.
Paige (Lindsey Shaw), looking much more stylish than she did the last time we saw her, immediately turned her flirt on in last night's Season 2, Episode 21: "Breaking the Code." She convinced Emily to come with her to raise money for the swim team, and became a shoulder to cry on.
Even though Emily didn't immediately fall back into Paige's arms in last night's episode, there is clearly still a spark between them. And we have to agree with Paige's declaration that she's a more stable person in Emily's life — after all, they do go to the same school and she doesn't disappear for days on end like Maya.
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They may be relatively unknown and their subject matter may be a little dry, but the eight economists who comprise the Consensus Forecasting Group have a powerful role to play: They determine just how much money state government can expect.
As anyone who has ever put a budget together knows, it can be tough to predict what a year will bring. Their job, however, is even more difficult: They have to look more than 30 months ahead, to cover not just the two-year span for the budget but also the six additional months needed to prepare, pass and implement it.
For those of us who recall what it was like to have dinner regularly interrupted by unwanted telemarketers, late last month was a special time. It marked the 10th anniversary of the National Do Not Call Registry.
The program, not surprisingly, was an immediate hit, with 50 million phone numbers added in the first three months alone. Now, there are more than 221 million phone numbers on file, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Business networking and building professional relationships is what the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce is all about.
Last week, the Chamber had a wonderful Member Appreciation Picnic at the beautiful Camp Kysoc. Chamber members in attendance enjoyed great food, games and fellowship with fellow members.
Thank you to the Carroll County Detention Center for doing an excellent job with the food. Thank you to the local businesses and organizations for their donations for the drawing.
It seems like technology gets the best of us sometimes. The pace that things change and evolve seems to match the speed of light. While we all heard of the theory of relativity and the formula, E=MC2 do we really know what that means? Sometimes technology has that feeling. Libraries have to try to be on the front lines of technology and anticipate what and how our communities will embrace it.
As an athlete – and yes you are an athlete if you are exercising – you want to train hard, practice hard and be the best you can be, correct?
Do you find yourself making broad statements such as, 'I want to lose weight, body fat or I want to put on a little muscle?' Then I am sorry to be blunt, but those are not goals. These are, at best, a wish list.
An effective goal deals with specifics, and it must have a deadline. Without those parameters, goals are powerless and not effective. They will not get you where you want to be.
At the end of each legislative session, there is understandably a lot of discussion about what the General Assembly has passed.
Although not given as much fanfare, the early to middle part of summer is an important period as well, because – other than those relatively rare cases when there is a specific enactment date or an emergency clause – that is when all legislation actually takes effect. This year, that date fell on June 25.
Thirty-three years ago, I was born at Carroll County Memorial Hospital, and ever since that day I have been proud to call Carroll County my home. I went to law school in 2002 and graduated in 2005. That is the only period of time that I have not resided in Carroll County, but this has always been home.
Sure, I have had my share of frustrations living here — who hasn't? However, when I graduated law school, I knew this is where I wanted to come back to, where I wanted to work, live and raise my family.
It's that time of year again for good food, good times with family and friends, and great fireworks.
The Fourth of July is a special time for every American as we celebrate our freedoms in this great country. However, we need to remember that as spectacular as fireworks are to watch, they are extremely dangerous and account for numerous injuries, unintended fires, property damage and even accidental deaths.
Isn't the prospect of a trolley in Carrollton exciting? I do so hope this comes to pass. While not a great traveler, over the years, I have ridden on trolleys in Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass., Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; San Francisco (of course!); Panama City, Fla.; and yes, in Madison, Ind. In Chicago, Ill., I have ridden one of the many free trolleys that go all over the downtown area. They have been terrific modes of transportation in each place, sometimes part of a tour of the city and other times, just a way to get from point A to point B
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Ray Horton has no bitterness toward Arizona Cardinals
You'd think a guy who guided a successful defense for two seasons and then was passed over by that team for their vacant head coaching position would be pretty steamed, right?
If you thought that, you'd be wrong. Former Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton didn't land the job he deeply wanted when Ken Whisenhunt was fired. Instead, Horton has moved on to be the new defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns and Todd Bowles will lead the Arizona defense. But Horton has no bitterness toward the team that passed on his services.
"Mr. Bidwill, his position is to get the best guy for the team, in his opinion," Horton told Burns and Gambo Thursday on Arizona Sports 620. "I guarantee you, that's exactly what he did, in his opinion he got the best guy for the team, and I'm good with that. That's life, that's reality, that's what it is, and you move on."
After the announcement that Bruce Arians would be the next head coach, there were rumblings that Horton had a "heated discussion" with new general manager Steve Keim. Horton addressed that as well.
"Not true," he said. "The GM and I had not talked since Monday morning when we just sat down and had an open, honest communication and talk.
"I believe we have a great friendship, so there was no arguing, no yelling and no cursing. I respected the process that they went through and doing their due dilligence, and it was just time to move on."
Despite changing his work address, Horton still hopes for the best for his former colleague, Arians, and the team that gave him his first opportunity to be a coordinator in the league.
"Bruce is going to do a heck of a job. You watch, they're going to be averaging about 30 points per game and I believe Todd will continue to build upon what I did -- they're going to be winning games 30 to 10. They're going to be blowing people out."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Eight student-athletes on the 20th-ranked University of New Hampshire field hockey team received a total of 11 America East conference awards, including junior back Megan Bozek (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) as Defensive Player of the Year, the league announced Wednesday afternoon. Head coach Robin Balducci and her staff was voted Coaching Staff of the Year for the third consecutive year.
Balducci led the Wildcats, selected fourth in the America East Coaches' Preseason Poll back in mid-August, to a third consecutive conference regular-season title and tournament top seed with a perfect 5-0 record as part of an 11-7 overall record. The 22nd-year head coach of the 'Cats, whose staff includes assistant coaches Ross Gorham and Meg Shea, also received this accolade in 1998, 2000, 2010 and 2011.
UNH is the first program to receive three consecutive America East Coach of the Year awards and Balducci ties three other league coaches for most overall awards with five.
Bozek, the first UNH player to be named Defensive Player of the Year since its 2001 inception, was joined on the All-Conference First Team by senior midfielder and captain Emma Erler (New Hampton, N.H.) and junior midfielder Casey Pohlmeyer (Millersville, Md.); both Bozek and Pohlmeyer were unanimous selections.
Junior forward Hannah Richard (Hopkinton, N.H.) and sophomore midfielder Kellie Joyce (South Pomfret, Vt.) were voted to the All-Conference Second Team, while three 'Cats – Meg Flatley (Townsend, Mass.), Chandler Giese (Trappe, Pa.) and Lynne Lehman (Landisburg, Pa.) were All-Rookie Team honorees; Flatley and Giese were unanimous selections.
Erler was named to the All-Academic Team for the third consecutive year and Bozek received her third award with her second selection to the All-Academic Team in as many years.
Bozek, an All-Conference Second Team honoree last year who has a 3.35 grade-point-average in math education, started all 18 regular-season games. She recorded nine points and three assists for 21 points to rank second on the team in both goals and points. Bozek also has a team-best four defensive saves, which leads America East and is eighth-best in the country. In other statistics, she ranks sixth in the conference in goals per game and eighth in points per game.
Bozek tallied two goals and two assists for six points in five America East conference games; with those numbers, she ranked third in assists per game and sixth in points per game. Overall, Bozek recorded a point in 11 of 18 games with a goal in 8 of 18. Her other 2012 accolades include America East Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 17) and ECAC Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 18).
Erler, who has a 3.76 GPA in environmental horticulture, started all 18 regular-season games. She recorded three goals and six assists for 12 points to rank tied for second on the team in assists. Erler had a team-best four-game assist streak spanning Aug. 31 to Sept. 14 in which she tallied a total of five assists. Her season highlights include a one-goal, two-assist effort at Brown University (Aug. 31) in which she tied her personal bests in both assists and points (four). Erler is an integral part of UNH's success on the offensive penalty corner unit as the insert, and she is also a member of the defensive penalty corner unit.
Pohlmeyer also started all 18 regular-season games and recorded four goals and nine assists for 17 points; both the assist and point totals are personal single-season bests. She leads the team in assists and shots, and is fourth in points. In America East, Pohlmeyer ranks third in assists per game and sixth in shots per game. In five conference games, she recorded two goals and three assists for seven points, which puts her atop the leaderboard in assists per game, fourth in points per game and 10th in goals per game as well as fifth in shots per game.
Pohlmeyer's season highlights included a one-goal, two-assist performance against University of the Pacific (Sept. 14) to establish career highs in both assists and points (four). She also tallied two assists at 24th-ranked Boston College on Oct. 14. Pohlmeyer tallied four points in the last weekend of the regular season with a goal and an assist in the 2-1 victory at the University of Maine (Oct. 27) and an assist in the regular-season finale, a 5-4 overtime win at intrastate rival Dartmouth College. Like Bozek and Erler, she is a key component in both penalty corner units.
Richard, a two-time America East Player of the Week honoree in 2012, had a breakout junior season in which she recorded 14 goals and four assists for 32 points. The forward leads the 'Cats in goals and points, as well as shooting percentage (.424), and is tied atop the leaderboard in game-winning goals with three; furthermore, she is fourth in both assists and shots, and 27 of her 33 shots (81.8%) were on goal; as a reference, the team is at 62.2%. With those numbers, Richard ranks second in the conference in both goals and points per game.
Richard tallied four goals for eight points in five America East conference games to ranked second in goals per game and third in points per game. Her season highlights included a two-goal, one-assist effort at Brown to mark personal bests in both goal and points (five). She also scored two goals against Pacific, Fairfield University (Sept. 28) and Dartmouth.
Richard recorded a team-high seven-game points-scoring streak spanning Aug. 31 to Sept. 28 in which she recorded nine goals and four assists for 22 points, and a five-game goal-scoring streak was inclusive. Overall, she recorded a point in 11 of 18 games with a goal in 10 of 18.
Joyce, who also started all 18 games and was an All-Rookie Team selection in 2011, recorded five goals and six assists for 16 points, and all three totals exceeded lat year's rookie totals (2-3-7). The midfielder tied for the UNH lead in game-winning goals with three, including one in the regular-season finale at Dartmouth, and is also tied for second in assists; Joyce's other rankings include fourth in goals and fifth in points, as well as third in shots. In America East, she ranks fifth in assists per game.
Joyce's season highlights include a four-game points-scoring streak from Aug. 31 to Sept. 14 in which she tallied 10 points on four goals and two assists. She scored a career-high two goals at the College of the Holy Cross (Sept. 9) and recorded a personal-best two assists at 20th-ranked Drexel University (Sept. 30).
Flatley, who redshirted the 2011 season, recorded eight goals and two assists for 18 points to rank third on the squad in both goals and points; the forward also tied for the team lead in game-winning goals and ranked second in shooting percentage (.308). In America East, Flatley is ninth in goals per game and 10th in points per game. She recorded a five-game goal-scoring streak spanning Aug. 31 through Sept. 16. Flatley, whose 2012 accolades included America East Rookie of the Week, recorded career highs in both goals (two) and points (four) at Holy Cross.
Giese started all 18 games as a member of UNH's defensive unit. She also contributed offensively with two assists for two points as a stick-stop on the Wildcats' offensive penalty corner unit. Among UNH rookies, Giese tied for the team lead in assists. She recorded her first career point at Brown and tallied her other point against Pacific.
Lehman played in all 18 games and was in the starting lineup six times, including each of the last five games. The forward recorded four goals for eight points, and half of those numbers came in conference play. She scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win against 13th-ranked Boston University to give the Wildcats at least a share of the regular-season title. Lehman has recorded at least one shot each of the last 11 games with a season-high of three shots against both Vermont and Boston U.
New Hampshire (11-7 overall, 5-0 America East) returns to action as host of the America East Championship for the third consecutive year. Top-seeded UNH faces Fairfield University in a Nov. 2 semifinal. Game time at Memorial Field is 2 p.m. Second-seeded University at Albany battles the University of Maine in the later semifinal.


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Parents are to be more involved in the learning processes of their children if plans of most schools are executed this term. Schools re-opened for the second term on Monday after the Christmas and New Year break across Nigeria, with grand ideas lined up for students.
Our reporter who went round Abuja, noticed that some schools resumed on Monday but they were mostly nursery and primary schools. Those spoken to indicated that they were resuming with new ideas for the children's learning activities, and to build on last term's programmes.
"For us in Doveland International School, Abuja, we are just going to develop on the activities that we have initially introduced so that we would be very good in whatever we are doing," the proprietress, Mrs. Tina Chukwu, said.
The school had been organizing a spelling bee programme for the pupils. The spelling programme which would be the third since it commenced would be remodeled so that the children would have a better spelling technique.
Parents will not be left behind in helping to enhance activities in the school as they would be involved in this year's reading activity with the theme, 'Readers are Leaders'. Parents would be invited to teach a topic they feel would make an impact on the children.
Improving reading culture seems to be a common theme running across schools in Abuja. School administrator of Premier Academy School said during their reading week, parents would supply the materials and also read to the students as a way of getting familiar with the students.
There would also be the science exhibition where the parents would assist the students in providing the materials. Also on the list of to-do activities is a workshop on cooperative learning which aims at encouraging students to get up in the classroom and teach their fellow students any topic they know well.
Also at Lela Blossom Nursery and Primary School, Abuja, something new is being introduced. According to the proprietress, Mrs. Abiola Oduwusi, a skill center to train the children on various skills is being set up. The center will be open to students in others schools to come and take part in skills acquisition exercises. She added that the skill center was to also take the children out of classroom activities and expose them to other learning processes.
On his part, a parent Tunde Adedeji appealed on teachers to strictly monitor the children's performances especially in the aspect of their morals. According to him, most of the children "who come from decent homes learn very dirty habits from the schools and bring them back home."
Similarly, academic activities resumed in Ebonyi on Monday as schools reopened for the second term of the 2012/2013 academic session. Teaching and learning promptly commenced at both public and private schools in the state. At Urban Model Secondary School, Abakaliki, Government Technical College, Abakaliki, Presco Secondary School and Holy Ghost Foundation Schools, Abakaliki, among others, teachers were busy instructing the students.
Messrs Innocent Agbo and Stephen Okeh, the principals of Urban Model Secondary School and Govt Technical School respectively, said it was a tradition in the Ebonyi school system for academic activities to resume on the re-opening day. They said their schools recorded 100 per cent attendance by teaching and non-teaching staff members.
But in Enugu, poor attendance marked Monday's opening of the second term of the 2012/2013 academic session. A visit to some of the schools in the state capital showed that a few students and teachers reported for classes, especially in public schools.
In some private schools like May Blossom Schools, Carmelite School, New Era, St Paul's School and Verod School, the students were prompt in resumption. The headmistress of May Blossom Schools, Mrs Patricia Mgbemena, said: "We will start our normal lessons today, so any parent keeping his child or ward in the assumption that classes will not commence should have a re-think."


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THE fate of genetically modified food in Britain and even Europe may ultimately depend on what happens to a few creepy crawlies, straggly weeds and embattled songbirds.
A unique £3.3-million trial funded mainly by the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) which began this spring, will pit biotechnology against conventional farming in a battle to see which is kindest to nature. If the former fails to establish its green credentials, Britain and much of Europe may consign genetically modified crops to the dustbin once and for all.
The trial will focus on the three new crops closest to the marketplace in Britain: all are genetically engineered to withstand "broad-spectrum" herbicides that kill almost any weeds.
No herbicides of this strength have been used in Britain before. Although they're broken down quickly in the soil, environmentalists, including the government's own wildlife adviser, English Nature, fear these powerful chemicals could ...
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