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The Starkville High School boys golf team is very close to breaking out and making a nice little run.
"We have been in every match," SHS coach Sam Bryant said. "We just have to turn that corner and get the win. I think when we get the confidence, we are going to be pretty tough to stop. I think we can roll with it."
The Yellowjackets finished in second place with a 182 at the Mississippi State Golf Course on Monday a match against Kosciusko, East Webster and West Point.
Kosciusko took first place with a score of 160. Holden Singletary of the Whippets won medalist with a 2-over 38.
East Webster took third place with a 217 and West Point finished fourth with a 225. Colby Williamson led the Wolverines with a 49.
The Yellowjackets were led by seniors Ryan Lacy and Logan Maddox who both shot a 5-over 41. Bryant is glad they have been consistent all year.
"Those two guys are our strengths," Bryant said. "They are our two go-to guys. They are neck and neck match in and match out. Their scores I can always count on. They are always going to be around 40. They are a model of consistency. They have been quality guys. They have grown up with it and they are what you look for in a high school golfer."
Maddox's round started out well, but he struggled midway through and and caused him to finish in the 40s.
"It started out OK but it went down hill during the middle part," Maddox said. "A few bad shots. It just went down hill from there."
Bryant heard a lot of his players were struggling on the greens. That was really not the case for Maddox who thought the greens saved him.
"My putting was OK," Maddox said. "I did usually manage to save it on the green when I got on the green."
Bryant believes his team is capable of a lot lower score than what it showed on Monday. Most of his players had one bad hole that really escalated their scores.
"Really thought we should have shot better as a team," Bryant said. "We are having that hole or two where they blow up and that escalates their scores. If we can minimize those holes as a team, our score is going to drop drastically. Not totally disappointed with (a 180), but I think we are closer to a 160 maybe 165 as a team."
The competition the Jackets faced is something Bryant hopes lights a fire under his players for the rest of the year.
"Kosciusko is going to be a strong contender for a 3A state championship," Bryant said. "I think we are going to be a strong contender in 5A. We just have to hone those skills."
The Lady Yellowjackets came in second place with a 105. West Point took first place with a 103 and East Webster took third with a score of 119.
Freshman Kristen Lacy led the Lady Jackets with a 52. It was only her sixth time to play and it was her first to finish under 60.
She parred the par five seventh hole, the par three eighth hole and the par four ninth hole to end her match.
Lacy gave enough for SHS coach Angela Hobart to say "I'm really, really proud of her."
The Jackets will be back in action Thursday at the MSU Golf Course. Teams competing will be Ackerman, New Hope and Oxford.
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The cover of Gerard's menu suggests this classic French notion of romance wrapped in mischievous tease. Gerard's food isn't as elusive or confusing as the lady, although it's every bit as alluring.
The restaurant is housed in the Plantation Inn, a turn-of-the-century style structure with a broad front porch and Victorian gingerbread features located smack in the middle of Lahaina. Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra croon their respective interpretations of the glories of Paris while bow-tied waiters in starched white shirts (all tall, slim, and handsome) carry on the business of delivering award-winning cuisine as if it were a simple walk down the Champs Elysee. Or in this case, ripping the waves at Honolua Bay.
Gerard Reversade hails from the Gascony region of France and developed his craft painstakingly through years of apprenticeship with of some of the country's top chefs. For over 25 years now, he's lived in Maui and managed to bring a new approach to classic cooking to the island – he uses the best ingredients available from Maui farmers and producers, turning the raw material into fabulous dishes.
So wonderful are his culinary creations that he regularly earns a spot on Hawaii's top-ten restaurants lists and numerous awards for his artistry in the kitchen. To back up the claims, let's examine Gerard's tuna tartare, a dish common on fine dining menus everywhere these days. However, only Gerard's tastes like this, the perfect melding of Dijon, soy, and je n'est sais quoi. Likewise, the spinach salad with scallop is so perfectly balanced it could pass for a satisfying main course itself.
After tasting nearly everything on Gerard's menu during my tenure in Maui, I am hard pressed to identify favorites. For one thing, everything Gerard turns out is at least better than you've had it elsewhere. The yellow fin tuna and smoked salmon carpaccio is tres elegant and the caramelized pork loin with rhubarb compote is simply irresistible.
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Jalapeños & Wings
Nothing like spicy food to wake up an appetite made dormant by dengue.
One of the things I crave most after my bout with dengue is Mexican, specifically Tex-Mex (Texas-Mexican) food. These include the burritos and enchiladas and fajitas that Mexicali, Tia's Cantina, and Ristras do so well. When I'm strong enough to actually go out and eat in a restaurant, I'm taken to Ortigas Home Depot's Food Street. We're here ostensibly to eat at Buffalo's Wings N' Things, a restaurant that my brother-in-law has declared serves the best wings in Manila. He knows his wings and so does my Bin so off we go. Me, I don't really have a thing for them wings so I'm set on eating at Jalapeño Mexican Cantina which is just next door.
Buffalo wings are certainly no novelty; they're simply chicken wings with the wing tip included. It's the sauce that makes it but even it is made with relatively common supermarket ingredients such as vinegar, ketchup, paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, butter, and hot sauce. The key is in maintaining the precarious balance between sour, sweet and spicy, which is the hard part. At Buffalo's Wings N' Things, the sauces come in five levels of ascending heat, from Rookie to Nuclear; and depending on one's hunger level, the sauce drenches the half-pound (P129), pound (P249) or the Triple Sampler (P369), shown on the cover.
Frankly, I can't tell the difference between the spice levels since I have a rather high threshold for heat – I'm not known as the girl with the asbestos tongue and hands for nothing. As far as these wings go though, the violent orange color is spot on; the single meaty wing that I try is so piquant that my mouth waters. In this case, the chili N' cheese nachos (P125) and the NY Dirty Rice (P75) are wonderfully palliating, and do a fine job of shaking up my sickness-induced lack of appetite.
From Jalapeño, I order a beef burrito and chicken enchilada to share with my sister, an equally enthused Tex-Mex food lover – we grew up on the stuff, see. The burrito is quite small though it's got all the rice and beef. But it's small. Sharing food willingly doesn't run in my family so thank goodness for the enchilada. Looking like a rather interesting tortilla pie or Mexican lasagna, it's cheesy and moist; definitely low on the meat but there's something inherently satisfying about dousing the lot in salsa and chewing away.
When I'm feeling better, the Food Street at Ortigas Home Depot is a promising place for me to explore. I'm told that it's quite the party on the weekends, undoubtedly one reason why the establishments here are doing so well.
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These quotes that say, I am who I am will help you realize that you can only be one person and that is you, faults and all. So no matter what anyone else thinks about you, you have to be confident in yourself and not care what anyone else thinks because it's not their life.
Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I am who I am, your opinion is neither desired nor required.
~ Unknown
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss
It is far better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
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You can say anything about me, but I am who I am & that's something you could never be.
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If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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I am who I am and that's all I'll ever be.
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Man, know thyself.
~ Socrates
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Learn to … be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses such a collection, or both.
The collection and services are used by people who choose not to — or cannot afford to — purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research.
However, with the collection of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints, or other documents and works of art on various storage media such as microform (microfilm/microfiche), audio tapes, CDs, LPs, cassettes, videotapes, and DVDs. Libraries may also provide public facilities to access CD-ROMs, subscription databases, and the Internet.
Thus, modern libraries are increasingly being redefined as places to get unrestricted access to information in many formats and from many sources. In addition to providing materials, they also provide the services of specialists, librarians, who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs.
More recently, libraries are understood as extending beyond the physical walls of a building, by including material accessible by electronic means, and by providing the assistance of librarians in navigating and analyzing tremendous amounts of knowledge with a variety of digital tools.
The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use," and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science, mathematics and statistics, electronics and biology.
The earliest discovered private archives were kept at Ugarit; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur of about 1900 B.C. and those at Nineveh of about 700 B.C. as showing a library classification system.
Polycrates of Samos and Pisistratus who was tyrant of Athens, and Euclides who was himself also an Athenian and Nicorrates of Samos and even the kings of Pergamos, and Euripides the poet and Aristotle the philosopher, and Nelius his librarian; from whom they say our countryman Ptolemæus, surnamed Philadelphus, bought them all, and transported them, with all those which he had collected at Athens and at Rhodes to his own beautiful Alexandria.
All these libraries were Greek; the cultivated Hellenized diners in Deipnosophistae pass over the libraries of Rome in silence. By the time of Augustus there were public libraries near the forums of Rome: there were libraries in the Porticus Octaviae near the Theatre of Marcellus, in the temple of Apollo Palatinus, and in the Biblioteca Ulpiana in the Forum of Trajan. The state archives were kept in a structure on the slope between the Roman Forum and the Capitoline Hill.
Private libraries appeared during the late republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by non-reading owners who scarcely read their titles in the course of a lifetime, but displayed the scrolls in bookcases (armaria) of citrus wood inlaid with ivory that ran right to the ceiling: "by now, like bathrooms and hot water, a library is got up as standard equipment for a fine house (domus). Libraries were amenities suited to a villa, such as Cicero's at Tusculum, Maecenas's several villas, or Livy the Younger's, all described in surving letters. At the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, apparently the villa of Caesar's father-in-law, the Greek library has been partly preserved in volcanic ash; archaeologists speculate that a Latin library, kept separate from the Greek one, may await discovery at the site.
In the West, the first public libraries were established under the Roman Empire as each succeeding emperor strove to open one or many which outshone that of his predecessor. Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct access to the scrolls, which were kept on shelves built into the walls of a large room. Reading or copying was normally done in the room itself. The surviving records give only a few instances of lending features. As a rule Roman public libraries were bilingual: they had a Latin room and a Greek room. Most of the large Roman baths were also cultural centers, built from the start with a library, with the usual two room arrangement for Greek and Latin texts.
Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce. There were a few institutional or royal libraries like the Library of Alexandria which were open to an educated public, but on the whole collections were private. In those rare cases where it was possible for a scholar to consult library books there seems to have been no direct access to the stacks. In all recorded cases the books were kept in a relatively small room where the staff went to get them for the readers, who had to consult them in an adjoining hall or covered walkway.
In the sixth century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of Constantinople and Alexandria. Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the heel of Italy with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations. As its unofficial librarian, Cassiodorus not only collected as many manuscripts as he could, he also wrote treatises aimed at instructing his monks in the proper uses of reading and methods for copying texts accurately. In the end, however, the library at Vivarium was dispersed and lost within a century.
With education firmly in Christian hands, however, many of the works of classical antiquity were no longer considered useful. Old texts were washed off the valuable parchment and papyrus, which were reused, forming palimpsests. As scrolls gave way to the new book-form, the codex, which was universally used for Christian literature, old manuscript scrolls were cut apart and used to stiffen leather bindings.
By the 8th century first Iranians and then Arabs had imported the craft of papermaking from China, with a paper mill already at work in Baghdad in 794. By the 9th century completely public libraries started to appear in many Islamic cities. They were called "halls of Science" or dar al-'ilm. They were each endowed by Islamic sects with the purpose of representing their tenets as well as promoting the dissemination of secular knowledge. The 9th century Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil of Iraq, even ordered the construction of a 'zawiyat qurra literally an enclosure for readers which was `lavishly furnished and equipped.' In Shiraz Adhud al-Daula (d. 983) set up a library, described by the medieval historian, al-Muqaddasi, as`a complex of buildings surrounded by gardens with lakes and waterways. The buildings were topped with domes, and comprised an upper and a lower story with a total, according to the chief official, of 360 rooms.... In each department, catalogues were placed on a shelf... the rooms were furnished with carpets...'. The libraries often employed translators and copyists in large numbers, in order to render into Arabic the bulk of the available Persian, Greek, Roman and Sanskrit non-fiction and the classics of literature. This flowering of Islamic learning ceased centuries later when learning began declining in the Islamic world, after many of these libraries were destroyed by Mongol invasions. Others were victim of wars and religious strife in the Islamic world. However, a few examples of these medieval libraries, such as the libraries of Chinguetti in West Africa, remain intact and relatively unchanged even today. Another ancient library from this period which is still operational and expanding is the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi in the Iranian city of Mashhad, which has been operating for more than six centuries.''
A number of distinct features of the modern library were introduced in the Islamic world, where libraries not only served as a collection of manuscripts as was the case in ancient libraries, but also as a public library and lending library, a centre for the instruction and spread of sciences and ideas, a place for meetings and discussions, and sometimes as a lodging for scholars or boarding school for pupils. The concept of the library catalogue was also introduced in medieval Islamic libraries, where books were organized into specific genres and categories.
The contents of these Islamic libraries were copied by Christian monks in Muslim/Christian border areas, particularly Spain and Sicily. From there they eventually made their way into other parts of Christian Europe. These copies joined works that had been preserved directly by Christian monks from Greek and Roman originals, as well as copies Western Christian monks made of Byzantine works. The resulting conglomerate libraries are the basis of every modern library today.
The early libraries located in monastic cloisters and associated with scriptoria were collections of lecterns with books chained to them. Shelves built above and between back-to-back lecterns were the beginning of bookpresses. The chain was attached at the fore-edge of a book rather than to its spine. Book presses came to be arranged in carrels (perpendicular to the walls and therefore to the windows) in order to maximize lighting, with low bookcases in front of the windows. This stall system (fixed bookcases perpendicular to exterior walls pierced by closely spaced windows) was characteristic of English institutional libraries. In Continental libraries, bookcases were arranged parallel to and against the walls. This wall system was first introduced on a large scale in Spain's El Escorial.
A number of factors combined to create a "golden age of libraries" between 1600 and 1700: The quantity of books had gone up, as the cost had gone down, there was a renewal in the interest of classical literature and culture, nationalism was encouraging nations to build great libraries, universities were playing a more prominent role in education, and renaissance thinkers and writers were producing great works. Some of the more important libraries include the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Library of the British Museum, the Mazarine Library in Paris, and the National Central Library in Italy, the Prussian State Library, the German State Library, the M.E. Saltykov-Schedrin State Public Library of St. Petersburg, and many more.
1876 is a well known year in the history of librarianship. The American Library Association was formed, as well as The American Library Journal, Melvil Dewey published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, "Public libraries in the United States of America; their history, condition, and management." The American Library Association continues to play a major role in libraries to this day, and Dewey's classification system, although under heavy criticism of late, still remains as the prevailing method of classification used in the United States.
As the number of books in libraries increased, so did the need for compact storage and access with adequate lighting, giving birth to the stack system, which involved keeping a library's collection of books in a space separate from the reading room, an arrangement which arose in the 19th century. Book stacks quickly evolved into a fairly standard form in which the cast iron and steel frameworks supporting the bookshelves also supported the floors, which often were built of translucent blocks to permit the passage of light (but were not transparent, for reasons of modesty). With the introduction of electrical lighting, it had a huge impact on how the library operated. Also, the use of glass floors was largely discontinued, though floors were still often composed of metal grating to allow air to circulate in multi-story stacks. Ultimately, even more space was needed, and a method of moving shelves on tracks (compact shelving) was introduced to cut down on otherwise wasted aisle space.
Library 2.0, a term coined in 2005, is the library's response to the challenge of Google, and an attempt to meet the changing needs and wants of the users, using web 2.0 technology. Some of the aspects of Library 2.0 include, commenting, tagging, bookmarking, discussions, using social software, plug-ins, and widgets. Inspired by web 2.0, it is an attempt to make the library a more user driven institution.
Libraries can be divided into categories by several methods: by the entity (institution, municipality, or corporate body) that supports or perpetuates them
Many institutions make a distinction between circulating libraries (where materials are expected and intended to be loaned to patrons, institutions, or other libraries) and collecting libraries (where the materials are selected on a basis of their natures or subject matter). Many modern libraries are a mixture of both, as they contain a general collection for circulation, and a reference collection which is often more specialized, as well as restricted to the library premises.
Also, the governments of most major countries support national libraries. Three noteworthy examples are the U.S. Library of Congress, Canada's Library and Archives Canada, and the British Library. A typically broad sample of libraries in one state in the U.S. can be explored at Every Library In Illinois
Libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently. Some libraries have additional galleries beyond the public ones, where reference materials are stored. These reference stacks may be open to selected members of the public. Others require patrons to submit a "stack request," which is a request for an assistant to retrieve the material from the closed stacks.
Larger libraries are often broken down into departments staffed by both paraprofessionals and professional librarians.
Patrons may not know how to fully use the library's resources. This can be due to some individuals' unease in approaching a staff member. The greatest impact, though are the ways in which a library's content is displayed or accessed. An antiquated or clumsy search system, or a staff unwilling or untrained to engage its patrons will limit a library's usefulness. In United States public libraries, beginning in the 19th century these problems drove the emergence of the library instruction movement, which advocated library user education. One of the early leaders was John Cotton Dana. The basic form of library instruction is generally known as information literacy.
Libraries inform their users of what materials are available in their collections and how to access that information. Before the computer age, this was accomplished by the card catalog — a cabinet containing many drawers filled with index cards that identified books and other materials. In a large library, the card catalog often filled a large room. The emergence of the Internet, however, has led to the adoption of electronic catalog databases (often referred to as "webcats" or as OPACs, for "online public access catalog"), which allow users to search the library's holdings from any location with Internet access. This style of catalog maintenance is compatible with new types of libraries, such as digital libraries and distributed libraries, as well as older libraries that have been retrofitted. Electronic catalog databases are disfavored by some who believe that the old card catalog system was both easier to navigate and allowed retention of information, by writing directly on the cards, that is lost in the electronic systems. This argument is analogous to the debate over paper books and e-books. While they have been accused of precipitously throwing out valuable information in card catalogs, most modern libraries have nonetheless made the movement to electronic catalog databases. Large libraries may be scattered within multiple buildings across a town, each having multiple floors, with multiple rooms housing the resources across a series of shelves. Once a user has located a resource within the catalog, they must then utilise navigational guidance to retrieve the resource physically; a process that may be assisted through signage, maps, GPS systems or RFID tagging.
Finland has the highest number of registered book borrowers per capita in the world. Over half of Finland's population are registered borrowers. In the U.S., public library users have borrowed roughly 15 books per user per year from 1856 to 1978. From 1978 to 2004, book circulation per user declined approximately 50%. The growth of audiovisuals circulation, estimated at 25% of total circulation in 2004, accounts for about half of this decline.
See public library for funding issues for public libraries.
Some of the greatest libraries in the world are research libraries. The most famous ones include The Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library in New York City, the Russian National Library in St Petersburg, the British Library in London, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, National Library of Spain in Madrid, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C..
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Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Jokes About Buying Own Island With Mockingjay Money
Jennifer Lawrence is now shooting the second film in The Hunger Games series, Catching Fire.
While at the Toronto Film Festival, Jennifer told the Washington Post she initially wasn't fond of the idea of breaking the third book, Mockingjay, into two parts — "until I heard how much money I would be getting," she said, laughing.
JLaw knows they had to cut a lot of content out of the first film, so the silver lining to breaking the final book up — like Harry Potter and Twilight did before them — is that you get to tell the entire story. Plus, fans get to extend the experience a little longer.
"You want everything in there, but you don't have enough room, and you're trying to decide what's going to get cut and what isn't," Jennifer said. "So it was a relief on the last one to know that we don't really have to cut anything. We have enough time, we have enough room to really tell this story to the fullest, and we don't need to cut anything."
She added, "So that's my artistic answer. It's a very diplomatic answer. But what I'm really thinking is yacht, yacht. My own island."
Ha! A trip to "Katniss Island," anyone? We hear Jenn already got a huge raise from The Hunger Games to Catching Fire — and she deserves every penny!
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Baseball: WVU Preparing for Doubleheader
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University baseball team will host Akron on Tuesday, March 20, for a doubleheader at Hawley Field starting at 1 p.m. The first game will last seven innings, followed by a nine-inning series finale.
The Mountaineers are looking to get back into the win column after winning four in a row last week, before falling in Sunday's series finale with Manhattan. WVU currently has a 10-11 record, while Akron enters the game with a 5-12 mark.
Coach Greg Van Zant will send junior right-hander Dan Dierdorff (3-0) to the mound. Dierdorff will be making his sixth appearance and third-straight start. In his last two starts against Niagara and Eastern Michigan, Dierdorff has pitched 15.2 innings, allowing six runs and striking out 14. Both previous starts resulted in wins.
Freshman outfielder Bobby Boyd continues to lead the team, batting .321 (18-for-56) with 11 runs, while stealing 9-of-11 bases. Junior shortstop John Polonius has been hot as of late, hitting .313 (20-for-64) with nine runs, one double, one home run and seven RBIs.
Sophomore first baseman Ryan McBroom leads the team with 14 RBIs, a result of six doubles and one home run. Junior outfielder/second baseman Brady Wilson has also had a strong showing, driving in 10 runs on one double, one triple and two home runs.
Akron coach Rick Rembielak will send left-hander Matt Gebacz (0-1) to the mound in game one. Gebacz worked three innings in a start last Wednesday at Jacksonville, allowing three runs on four hits with two walks and one strikeout. On the season Gebacz has a 13.50 earned-run average in three appearances, having allowed 10 runs on 10 hits in six innings.
Akron is led at the plate by Tyler Begun, who is hitting .306 with five doubles, one triple, one home run and seven RBIs. The Zips are hitting .230 as a team with 31 extra-base hits and 16 stolen bases in 16 games.
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Bi-Direction Catheter Cleared for Reprocessing
Bi-Direction Catheter Cleared for Reprocessing
June 10, 2010
The single-use EZ Steer bi-directional catheters are now cleared for reprocessing through Ascent. The reprocessing of this device enables electrophysiology (EP) labs to save money and reduce waste, saving up to 50 percent of the cost of the original device while diverting single-use devices from landfills.
The EZ Steer catheter, manufactured by Biosense Webster, is indicated for catheter-based atrial and ventricular electrophysiological mapping procedures to treat arrhythmias. Easy to use and operate, the bi-directional design provides two curves in one catheter for economic and procedural versatility.
Ascent began offering reprocessing for the EZ Steer in June 2010.
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The long-awaited wedding of Tooro's Princess Ruth Komuntale and her American sweetheart Christopher Thomas took place on Saturday at St John's Cathedral Kabarole.
It was stuff fairytales are made of. Thomas arrived with his brother and best man Williams Thomas at 11am. The central government was represented by none other than the Vice President Edward Ssekandi, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, among others.
From Buganda Kingdom, the Kabaka, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi who was officiating at the closing of the Masaza football cup at Nakivubo, was represented by his Katikkiro J.B Walusimbi, Nnaabagereka Sylvia Nagginda and Princess Katrina Ssangalyambogo, who was also part of the bridal entourage.
Komuntale, who met Thomas in the USA where she attended the American University, turned up in an ordinary fleet of Mercedes Benzes, although there was nothing ordinary about her spectacular, lacy, heavily beaded and stones-encrusted wedding gown. The gown was made by a Ugandan living in the UK.
The sparkle in her beautiful eyes was accentuated by the stones in the snow white gown with a fairly long train. Her thick black mane was let down through a diamond and pearls tiara. She looked stunning. The fully-packed cathedral hardly had space in the aisles as her younger brother - also King of Tooro - Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru walked her to her waiting fiancé at the altar.
The thankfully short church ceremony was presided over by outgoing Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Grace Henry Luke Orombi, whose sermon later became the highlight of the church service. He was assisted by the Rwenzori diocese bishop, Reuben Kisembo. Most of the female guests chose to come draped in the Tooro traditional suuka while the men kept it simple with suits.
The groom wore an off-white suit, bow tie and shoes with a lilac, waistcoat and white shirt. The two played their parts to perfection before a crowd of hundreds that turned up at the church and a live television audience courtesy of UBC TV. They did not stumble over the wedding vows and the rings slid onto their fingers effortlessly.
We all waited with bated breath for the part where the main celebrant says, "you may kiss the bride." It didn't come until later at the Karuzika palace when Yours Truly boldly asked the royal couple to kiss during a brief photo session. Kate Middleton and Prince William did, Diana and Prince Charles did it; so, this fairytale wedding would not have been complete without it.
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The speeches were full of emotion. The queen mother Best Kemigisa thanked president Museveni and Col Muammar Gaddafi (RIP) for being there for the children after their father Omukama Patrick Olimi Kaboyo passed away.
"It's unfortunate that both of you are not here to witness this occasion," she said.
The Omukama Oyo Nyimba broke the silence on the issue of her sister marrying outside her tribe. He said Princess Ruth was attracted by the blood relationship to Thomas, whose ancestors hailed from Africa. He hailed his sister for helping Thomas return to his roots.
The couple later danced to Mariah Carey's We Belong Together before the king, queen mother and Buganda's Nnaabagereka joined the dance. There is no doubt the ever so jolly Thomas is a good dancer and if it were not for being before royalty, he clearly would have given us some off-the-hook dance moves. Those who could not access the palace followed events on Events Warehouse's giant screens set on the palace's hill overlooking Fort Portal town.


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Luanda — The vice president, Manuel Domingos Vicente, Friday discussed with the resident coordinator of the UN system, Maria Valle Ribeiro, issues of partnership for development challenges, particularly human in Angola.
The UN official was speaking at the end of an audience granted to him at Cidade Alta.
The representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that she was ensured the priorities of the Executive such as poverty reduction, strengthening the economy in order to benefit small and medium enterprises, improving conditions in rural areas and reduce disparities between locations.
In the social sector, they spoke of the enhancement of quality of service and monitoring of development programme in Angola, which contemplates, at the medium term, a sustainable set of answers to the issues of poverty.
She stressed that the human development index shows improvements compared to 10 and 15 years, with the increase in life expectancy to 51 years, and was a high rate of education, and reducing child mortality, although this area still deserves some attention.
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Depending on how you feel about remakes, the movie is either dreaded or anticipated this friday. Cinema Suicide got the rare opportunity to check in early and come back with the word, good or bad.
I've had it with remakes. I haven't bothered to watch many of them and those that I have seen have left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Remakes are glaring evidence of two things in Hollywood. The industry is out of ideas and the industry has a deep running contempt for the horror genre. One of their most successful genres is handled with such malice that the most they can toss us are some soggy, half eaten scraps from decades ago. I would have expected more from a guy like Rob Zombie who has gone on record again and again as one of us. The success of The Devil's Rejects allowed him to write his own checks. He could have done anything he wanted after that movie and when they turned over the keys to the kingdom and asked, "What's next?" Rob replied, "Halloween".
I can't blame the guy for loving the Carpenter original. It's a classic in every sense of the word, an indie success story like few movies. Made on a budget equivalent to the average craft services budget of an A list picture, Halloween was a runaway success bringing kids into theaters like nothing else. It took proven elements from Italian giallo pictures and combined it with Hitchcockian suspense and then layered on a soundtrack as memorable as Jaws. Halloween was a uniquely American horror movie. It also set the ground rules for the exploitation clusterfuck that was to follow in years to come. No matter what, if they're ripping it off (Friday the 13th) or spoofing it (Scream), the ripples the original made in 1978 are still being felt to this day. So what the fuck is the deal with a remake?
I'm sorry. I meant reimagining.
In Rob Zombie's world, Michael Meyers was dealt a bad hand in life. At the age of ten he was held tightly in the grip of your classic toxic household. His mother meant well and did the best she could but her shithead lowlife boyfriend is doing nothing but trash talking her kids and drinking all her booze. Her oldest daughter Judith is the town jizz jar and she, Michael's mother, makes ends meet by stripping. By this point, Laurie is no older than 12 months. Michael is also, for reasons unknown, obsessed with wearing masks. From the earliest news about this movie I suspected the worst and I was right for the most part. Rob Zombie has always sympathized with the villain. In House of 1000 Corpses, the victims were just bodies to be butchered, the real stars of the movie were the Firefly family. Only by this point, Zombie was still really rough around the edges in the storytelling department and the movie is a music video mish mash of ideas. A series of settings rather than plot points. By The Devil's Rejects he had improved significantly and most of the problems of House were solved, but there was still the lingering problem of his protagonists. By asking us to root for the bad guys, Rob was trying to fill a tall order. Rejects is full of these character moments that are supposed to grab our sympathy for Baby, Otis and Captain Spaulding. Despite all the mayhem, they're a family and blah blah blah. All I see is Otis cutting a man's face off and forcing his wife to wear it. All I see is Otis raping Priscilla Barnes. Tutti fuckin' fruity, my ass. William Forsythe, the intended villain, was a much more intense and cooler character. Now, in Halloween, Zombie is getting better, but rather than scattering some humanizing moments of Michael Meyers here and there, the entire first half of the movie is dedicated to drawing him as this tragic figure, a kid who had no other options.
Back to the movie. When Michael's mom has to go strip on Halloween night, his sister Judith is instructed to take him out trick or treating but she instead blows him off in order to screw some long haired dirt bag. Michael, heartbroken, hits the streets of Haddonfield on his own and returns to find the place as he left it. Mom's boyfriend passed out drunk and his sister getting plowed by a hippie. After some lonely reflection, he snaps, and gets to work murdering everyone in the house. The bloodshed that follows is both brutal and not entirely surprising. Also, keep an eye out for Zombie's clever White Zombie reference. On one hand, my earliest gripes about slashers when I was a kid was that they were never as bloody as people told me they would be. If my parents were to be believed, Friday the 13th was a nonstop festival of disembowelment. From the opening seconds to the credit crawl, it was nothing but camp counselors being gutted by a man in a hockey mask. The original Halloween, like other indie horrors of the time, was a relatively bloodless movie. It's not without a drop, but the graphic violence was never on the menu. People were stabbed, throats were cut, but you never saw gaping wounds and geysers of blood. Part of the original Halloween's charm was the ability to avoid the splashy violence and still scare the fuck out of people. Rob Zombie will have none of that. His movies are the cinematic equivalent of Gallagher performance. The audience can't help but get a little on them. Zombie's inability to create an actual atmosphere of tension is instead replaced by the red stuff. Whatever. I'm willing to let him slide a little because I'm a gore hound but I'm going to keep one foot in the land of the rational because he's remaking one of the untouchable holy cows of the horror genre. Despite completely missing the point, this is a messy, nasty horror movie. Take the viciousness of The Devil's Rejects and put it in the familiar William Shatner mask.
Michael spares his baby sister's life and upon discovering the horror of the evening's events Michael's mother loses it completely and Michael is hauled off to a locked insane asylum. His doctor is the iconic Sam Loomis. Michael has blocked out the violent events of Halloween night and spends his time making rudimentary masks to wear on the unit. Dr. Loomis does his best to get through to Michael and his mother visits weekly, but nothing works. Michael, unaware of why he's in the hospital, just wants to go home. After a couple of years, it begins to sink in that he'll never go home. What little humanity is left in him is washed away when Loomis and Ms. Meyers leave Michael in the company of a bitchy nurse who makes a disparaging comment about Michael and then feels his wrath by way of a fork to the carotid artery. Having lost everything, Michael's mom goes home and puts a bullet in her brain. Rob Zombie is on the verge of breaking through and doing something original, but for the moment he's stuck in the same rut that keeps Quentin Tarantino from being anything other than a one trick pony in my eyes. He's able to capture the elements of movies he liked as a kid and put them in his own movies and he loves to cast genre favorites. This movie is a who's who of everyone you could want in a horror tribute. Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, Ken Foree, Richard Lynch (who desperately needs to be in more movies), Clint Howard, Dee Wallace, Udo Kier and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm watching movies I've seen before. It's as if I'm having a conversation with another horror fan and he rattles off his favorite scenes and actors. Incessant name dropping and heavily accented plot regurgitation worked on me for a while when it was novel and new, but by this point, I'm really looking for something new and exciting.
15 years pass and Michael is an adult. Dr. Loomis, unable to get Michael to speak for all this time, gives up and splits. Halloween is approaching and inevitably, Michael manages to overpower the guards and break out. Somehow, he has become a beast. For a guy who sits in a little room all day making masks, he's huge. Later on, in one of the many cameo scenes, Michael murders Ken Foree on the can, steals his coveralls and then heads off to Haddonfield in time for Halloween where the movie shifts gears and plays out in familiar fashion. While Rob Zombie is making the kind of movie only he can make, and taking the legacy of one of the finest masked slashers of all time in a really strange, wrong direction, he gets things so right in the Loomis department. The late Donald Pleasance was Dr. Loomis. He owned that character like Anthony Hopkins owns Hannibal Lecter. There is no substitute, but if you had to find one, Malcolm McDowell is the guy you'd want to pick. He plays Loomis with the same heavy attitude, constantly reminding everyone that he told them so. Meyers is the devil and there is no stopping him! He's a killing machine! It was a brilliant move to cast McDowell and it wins recovery points in a big way.
Laurie is a nice girl. Her friends are sluts. While at school, Michael lurks in the yard and on the way home he follows them, just a little off camera. Since Michael is now an adult, the surprising performance from kid-actor Daeg Faerch who really turns it in and shocks with the early scenes of violence, is replaced by pro-wrestler turned actor Tyler Mane. Mane has all the right moves as Michael. It's not hard to be big and imposing, but in the same way that Kane Hodder gave Jason Voorhees a ton of nuance and menace, Tyler Mane sells Michael Meyers big time. By this point, Loomis is butting heads with the local sheriff, played by Brad Douriff, laying down the heavy Dr. Loomis dialog. Also, Laurie's friends are drinking and fucking and reaping their wicked rewards at the hands of Michael until the inevitable stalker/slasher confrontation in the end.
Since the original Halloween is such a sparse picture, with not much background on the Michael Meyers character, Rob Zombie set out to fill in some blanks. I can understand why. Meyers is a fan favorite and it's natural for people to want to know more. I was always happy with what John Carpenter gave us originally. I like the idea that there was no reason for Meyers. He was just wired wrong from the start. In the original, the Meyers family seems quite normal and his sister isn't a slut. Still, he snapped. Slashers killing teens who enjoy a little vice has always been a convention of the genre, established by Halloween, but the motivations for that have never been clear. In Rob Zombie's version of the movie, we gain that understanding.
I don't want to sound like I'm shitting all over this movie. I realize that my tone has been pretty negative, but the truth is that it's not a bad movie. When you're remaking and reshaping one of horror's finest characters and achievements, you have a lot riding against you. My biggest gripe is that The Devil's Rejects was pretty good and Rob Zombie could have done anything, but he chose to dive into that arena that makes true horror fans cringe, the remake. There's nothing wrong with this picture, though. While the original rode on suspense, that was 1978 and fans have come to expect a lot more in these trying times. As a director, Rob Zombie is coming along. You can see him getting better with each picture. He needs to work on his writing, but things are getting better. Even his wife, Sherri Moon, who plays Michael's mom, is becoming a better actress. Where she is nearly intolerable as Baby in Zombie's previous movies, here she plays it straight and as a desperate single mother doing the best she can, she's actually quite believable. I still don't feel bad for Michael Meyers because he spends a good deal of time killing people for no reason, but the circumstances that Rob Zombie has established are reasonable and well made.
Halloween as far as remakes go, falls into that same weird place that the Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead did. It was much better than it had any right to be. Rob Zombie may have no ability to create any kind of suspense or atmosphere, but as a wet, splattery horror movie director, he's turning out good movies. The Halloween remake shines in many places and is a genuinely entertaining movie but it lives under the black mark that it's a remake of one of horror's greatest movies.
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Hey everyone…Grover is here for just a bit….
I just wanted you all to know that I have again disappeared. Going through drug rehab is hard enough but now my mom has been in the hospital for about 2 weeks. I originally took her in because she fell and twisted her ankle. Her toes started to turn purple a few days later….well it ends up that her problem was blood clots and NOT a twisted ankle. She has gone through a couple of procedures…and although she is facing "multiple organ failure" (heart, liver, and kidneys), she is doing much better over the past couple of days and I hope to have her home within a couple of weeks. Needless to say, I have been spending a ton of time at the hospital.
I'm sorry for leaving this message here, but I figured that most everyone that knows me, knows this is my favorite place to hang out as I love to talk about what I'm listening to. Please….no "I'm sorries" for me. Just have a few positive thoughts go through your mind for me here and there. You all know me as a Christian and "MY GOD" will take all of your positive thoughts as prayers for my mom. I'm not about to start up with religion, but you all know how I feel about it so…...
Just ended playing (my wake up song) Sodom- City of God…... Now Playing—Kreator—Catholic Despot. You've got to love that song even if you weren't thrilled about the Kreator movement at the time. The lyrics say it all.
I love you all and miss all of my best friends (you know who you are)....but please, everyone….you are all my Kreator brothers and sisters and I care about you all. We may not be as big as the group that follows Metallica, but at least we know and like the music we want to like no matter what it is. I've learned one thing since I've been hanging here (thanks to Alysa) and that is that we are all different and it is 100% awesome that a band like Kreator can bring us together like our small army of sorts. I hope you all love the new album as I do….It has grown on me to be in a tie with my other favorite which is Hordes of Chaos. Bands aren't supposed to keep getting better (and I know that a lot of you think that REAL Kreator is the stuff from PTK and "Flag"), but in my eyes and ears, Kreator keeps improving and are leaving most metal bands far behind.
I love you all. Leave me a message. I'll be around here and there. Hope to hear from some of you soon….. HAIL KREATOR!!!
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American Idol 2012 Shocker: Which Guy Should Be the 25th Contestant?
American Idol Season 11, The Final Judgment Part 2 ended with a major cliffhanger: The judges will be saving one male contestant, making the top 24 officially the top 25. The judges have already selected 12 girls and 12 guys, but in a shocking twist, they will add one more guy to the mix, choosing between one of four eliminated contestants: David "Mr. Steal Your Girl" Leathers, Jr., gentle giant Jermaine Jones, beefcake Johnny Keyser, and Heejun Han's sworn enemy Richie Law.
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Archive for May, 2013
Day 5 ~ Someone I Love
Posted by Wendz Tempest in Avatar Blogger Month, Blogger Challenges on May 29, 2013
Day 4 ~ Favorite Color (s)
Posted by Wendz Tempest in 30 Day SL Photo Challenge, Avatar Blogger Month, Blogger Challenges, Fashion on May 28, 2013
Talk 101
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SL10B sims now open for exhibitors
Posted by Wendz Tempest in Mix and Match on May 26, 2013
Originally posted on Daniel Voyager's Blog:
The SL10B Community Celebration sims are now open (as of 12pm SLT today) for exhibitors to start building for the tenth birthday of Second Life which is just 21 days away. This year over 500 exhibitor applications were received by the SL community which is just incredible. It's going to be very exciting and interesting hopefully to see the builds for the theme of Looking Back – Looking Forward.
SL10B Community Celebration applications are still being processed and accept confirmation emails are being sent out. Keep checking the email inbox regularly. Once received the confirmation the building begins! :)
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A cameraman keeps watch near media cameras outside the home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who has been linked by news organizations to the production of the anti-Muslim video, "Innocence of Muslims", in Cerritos, California September 13, 2012. (REUTERS/Alex Gallardo)
AMMAN/WASHINGTON: A man who claims to be the producer of an anti-Islam movie that has sparked violent protests across the Arab world and in several Muslim-majority countries says he has no regrets about making the film.
"No, I do not regret it. I am saddened by the killing of the ambassador but I do not regret making it," Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55-year-old Egyptian Copt living in California, told American Arabic-language Radio Sawa.
He was referring to the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi by a mob reportedly angered by the film, "Innocence of Muslims."
"I am the one who leaked the 14 minutes and put it on the Internet – I am thinking about releasing the full film. Nobody manipulated my film," Nakoula said.
Asked whether he felt guilty that the violence was being directed against U.S. citizens, Nakoula said: "Yes, I feel guilty. America has nothing to do with this subject and is suffering the consequences of a film that has nothing to do with it."
After Egypt, Yemen and Libya, protests have spread across the Middle East and further afield, including Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Gaza Strip, Kuwait, Sudan and Tunisia.
"I had published a book in 1994 [on Islam] and it impressed certain parties who asked me if I could turn this book into a movie and this is what I did," Nakoula said. "I have a message for the whole world and not for Muslims. I hope that you watch the movie in full before you judge it."
He described himself as "an Arab thinker interested in Islamic affairs."
Mystery remains over exactly who is behind the film, amid claims of Jewish and Coptic Christian involvement.
The film's director was initially identified as Sam Bacile, who claimed to be an American-Israeli with Jewish financial backing. He reportedly went into hiding after the protests erupted in Egypt and Libya.
But doubts about his identity grew, culminating in U.S. media reports pointing to Nakoula, a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes, living outside Los Angeles.
The probation department in California's central district said Friday it was reviewing the case of Nakoula, who had previously been convicted on bank fraud charges and was banned from using computers or the Internet as part of his sentence.
Karen Redmond, a spokeswoman for the administrative office of the U.S. courts, confirmed that the review was under way. If the probation department determines Nakoula violated terms of his release, a judge could send him back to prison.
Steve Klein, a consultant on the movie, denied that Israeli authorities had been involved in the film, and said Bacile was mortified to hear of the U.S. ambassador's death.
Online reports cited in the New York Times blog suggested Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Copt, and his ally Terry Jones, the Florida pastor notorious for Koran-burning stunts, had cooperated in promoting the movie.
But later a report cited by U.S. media identified Nakoula as saying he managed the company that produced the film, and that he was a Coptic Christian.
Klein said he did not know the filmmaker's nationality.
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This one's being sold as part of H&H's Classics sale at the London Motorexpo this June. And we can't see it struggling to sell - when the Reventón was revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2007, all 20 examples were pre-sold before it was unveiled. And they cost €1 million (plus local taxes) a pop...
"The appearance, let alone sale, of a car as rare as the Lamborghini Reventón is sure to attract a large number of supercar enthusiasts and collectors to Motorexpo this summer," said Graeme Carver, Motorexpo CEO.
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Like the title states, this is my first home theater system that I have purchased. I have listened to several others, including a few Bose, other Sony and LG. I've done plenty of research and I know this system has had below average reviews, but I had a feeling 3 bad experiences doesn't make or brake a system. I am an avid movie watcher, gamer, and music enthusiast and so far I am blown away with the quality through Pandora, Netflix, and the Blu-Ray movies that this system produces. I have an Element Tv(Second Rate) and this Sony system looks and sounds perfect on this even. I'm not sure why everyone is having problems with this update, I updated it out of the box and no problems. The only thing that was a little annoying was the auto calibration system where the speakers yell at you lol but not a big deal. So this is definitely a great buy for the money.
I have had this for a couple of months so far, and right now I would say it was a good purchase. It was easy to set up, i like the menu, and the sound is terrific. Only negative I would say right now is that once i hooked up the system, i am getting an audio delay with my Verizon FIOS. Sometimes it corrects if i switch channels, but usually there is a delay. Very frustrating and I don't know how to fix it.
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2003-04: Assisted the Lightweight 4 to a second-place finish at the Head of the Des Moines . . . also rowed in the Women's Open 8 which finished eighth . . . a member of the Club 4 team that notched a eighth-place finish at the Head of the Charles . . . at the Wichita Frostbite Regatta, led the Open 4 to a top-finish, the Open 2B to a second-place mark and the Open 8 to a fourth-place finish . . . helped the Varsity 4 record wins over Iowa and SMU at the Longhorn Invitational, and record a sixth-place Grand Final finish at the William Knecht Cup.
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Following the privatisation of Brasilia, Campinas and Sao Paulo Guarulhos airport, Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff temporarily ceased airport privatisations, saying that the outcome of the first round of privatisations were "not optimal".
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New Accrington signing Kurtis Guthrie says signing for the club has rounded off "probably the best week and a half of my life".
The 18-year-old striker became Stanley's third signing of the summer after agreeing a one-year contract with the option to extend for a further year. He had previously been on trial at the Crown Ground, scoring twice in a friendly at Radcliffe last Wednesday and once more against Blackburn on Saturday.
"It's surreal to be here to be honest," he told the club's official website.
"Last week I was working and going through day-to-day life and I never thought this opportunity would come but the last week and a half has probably been the best week and a half of my life.
"The other night on my debut I scored two and then against Blackburn although we lost I scored against Paul Robinson who is an international keeper."
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Sept. 14, 2013
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Indiana University women's golf team has three players sitting among the top 40 after two rounds of the 54-hole Mary Fossum Invitational at Forest Akers Club in East Lansing, Mich.
The Hoosiers are currently 11th in the 15-team field with a score of 627 (318-309). The host Spartans are in the lead at 584, with Ohio State second (592), Notre Dame third (600), Oregon fourth (602) and Northwestern fifth (605).
"We struggled on the greens a bit but we hung in on that last 18," said head coach Clint Wallman. "I was definitely pleased to see Elizabeth come back strong, and Ana played well. But we need to be a lot cleaner on the greens. I am pleased with how we hung in and tried to grind out good scores, we just didn't execute as well as we wanted to."
The tournament concludes with 18 holes Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Junior Elizabeth Tong is the top Hoosier in a tie for 22nd with rounds of 78 and 74 (152). Tong finished with four birdies on the day, posting a four on the par-5 second hole and a three on the par-4 fifth hole in round one. In round two it was a two on the par-3 ninth hole and a four on the par-5 13th hole.
Freshman Ana Sanjuan is tied for 27th with a score of 153 (77-76). Sanjuan also finished with four birdies on the day, going under par on 12 and 13 in round one, and 10 and 13 in round two.
Competing as an individual, junior Kamryn Klawitter is tied for 35th with a 79 in round one and the second-lowest round of the day by a Hoosier of 75 in round two (154). Klawitter had birdies on two and seven in round one, but it was steady play that led her in round two by hitting par on 12 of the first 13 holes of the round. After a rough stretch of bogeys on 11, 12 and 14 she ended the day on a high note with a birdie on the par-4 15th hole.
Senior Sophie Hayashi is tied fir 63rd with a score of 161 (80-81). Hayashi had 10 holes of par in round one and matched that number in round two. Sophomore Marissa DeCola is tied for 73rd with rounds of 85 and 78 (163). DeCola had birdies on 12 and 14 in round two and ended the round with three straight pars.
Sophomore Maria Mancini rounds out the Hoosier lineup in a tie for 75th after rounds of 83 and 81 (164). Mancini had two birdies in the second round of the day, carding a three on the par-4 third hole and a three on the par-4 11the hole.
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If you're anything like us, you're still losing sleep over that steamy kiss between Maria Menounos and Derek Hough on the Dancing With the Stars Season 14, Week 3: Performance Show.
While it definitely rocked our world (and Derek and Maria's too, apparently), it looks like Maria has put the sexy moment behind her and gone back to work for the time being. The stunning DWTS contestant was seen back on the set of Extra in LA yesterday (April 5), rocking a red-hot dress and a funky necklace.
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