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BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team fell 3-0 to Gardner-Webb Friday evening in the twilight game on the opening day of the Under Armour Border Classic at Greene Harbison Field.
"We were missing two key players in the backfield," UTC Head Coach J.D. Kyzer said. "We played with a young lineup and it showed, but they played hard against a very tough team."
The Mocs were without senior backs Andria Aurand and Kelly Crew (Brisbane, Australia) who are out with injuries. Senior Taylor Mangrum (Franklin, Tenn.) played all 90 minutes in goal for Chattanooga and six saves on the night.
"Taylor did a very good job in goal," Kyzer said. "She has always played well."
Gardner-Webb scored twice in the first half beginning with Tori James who scored her first goal of the season with a header off a corner kick in the 22nd minute. Shelby Hooe, who assisted on the first goal, connected on the Bulldogs next two, giving GWU a 2-0 lead on a shot from the top of the box into the top right of the goal assisted by Brandi Arey at the 37:41 mark of the game.
Hooe scored Gardner-Webb's third goal of the game and her fifth of the year late in the second half on a free kick from Brooke Kelly who played a shot into the box that was picked up by Hooe and sent into the net on the left side.
"In the second half, we pushed forward a little harder," Kyzer said. "But late in the game they were able to score again. I'm proud of the way we played. We played with a lot of youth and it showed at times, but we played hard and we'll work a little harder on the next one."
Chattanooga was outshot 19-11 with a the Bulldogs holding a 9-4 advantage in shots on goal. Hooe had a game-high five shots connecting on two for goals and assisted on GWU's other goal. Justine Ibarra took four shots while four others had two shots each.
Chattanooga was led in shots by sophomore Hannah Wyatt's (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.) three with two on goal. Freshman Hailey Callis had two shots while sophomore Logan Higgins and freshman Monica Speth each had one shot on goal.
The Mocs return to action Sunday afternoon against South Carolina State at 1 p.m. to wrap up the Border Classic. Live stats will be available at the Mocs schedule page.
Scoring summary:
No. Time Team Goal scorer Assist
1. 21:03 GWU JAMES, Tori (1) HOOE, Shelby
2. 37:41 GWU HOOE, Shelby (4) AREY, Brandi
3. 63:07 GWU HOOE, Shelby (5) KELLY, Brooke


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My first appt. was yesterday. Bad news first (maybe not exactly bad news?): By my LMP I figured to be 8 wks, 1 day pregnant but the ultrasound showed 6 wks, 1 day. Also showed a small (1 cm x 1.5 cm) subchorionic hemmorhage. This kind of scared me.
Good news: I love the perinatologist. He has a practice with 5 NP's and they seem great, too. They had me do the ultrasound before my appt so I got to see the heartbeat; that was cool. Then I met with a NP first who started taking down my information and when I got to the 30 wk pe delivery and the aunts with spina bifida and lupus she stopped, excused herself, got the peri and the rest of the hour long session was spent with the both of them. My appt ended with 9 vials of blood being sent to the lab to do all of the post pre-eclampsia testing he likes to do, along with a request for a 24 hr. urine catch for current kidney function. Right now they have me on rest and no lifting, stretching, etc. because of the SCH for a week. My appts. will be every 2 wks until they deem it necessary to go every week. We'll talk more about any other precautions at my next appt. when they'll have my labs back.
Does anyone know if the subchorionic hemmorhage is a really bad sign to start with? It doesn't sound that good to me but they said that actually small ones like this are quite common - hopefully not just to a high risk dr. I'm taking the rest thing seriously and haven't had any cramping or spotting for a few days already. But I'm really anxious for the next to weeks to be over with to see what they have to say next time.
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MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood sat down last week with Mythic Entertainment's Jeff Hickman to talk a little bit more about WAR. In this second part of the interview, Jeff and Jon talk about communication in-game, scenarios and more.
Read the interview here.
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Joined: 8/01/03
Lots of good answers that people have been asking about. Pretty much everything makes sense. :)
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Joined: 9/26/08
Originally posted by Manchine
dont know when this was conducted but there is no answer to the area/chapter chat being too small to be adequate. i wonder if this simply wasnt an issue when he was interviewed or whether he just avoided it. maybe mmorpg failed at asking, please, stradden, can you pester him about this issue, i think we'd all love an answer on that subject.
overall a pretty darn good interview tho :) good to see and i hope more come along soon!
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Joined: 6/23/07
Originally posted by wartywarlock
dont know when this was conducted but there is no answer to the area/chapter chat being too small to be adequate. i wonder if this simply wasnt an issue when he was interviewed or whether he just avoided it. maybe mmorpg failed at asking, please, stradden, can you pester him about this issue, i think we'd all love an answer on that subject.
overall a pretty darn good interview tho :) good to see and i hope more come along soon!
Anyways, good interview. I was also hoping for a awnser about the regional chat thingy. To bad it isn't in ;)
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Joined: 7/03/04
PQ's are awesome. My only problem with them is when I started headstart there were tons of people doing them. But my server was decidedly more Destro than Order to the point that Order was getting smashed consistently. So I rerolled on a more even server, and now after having missed the initial wave of players I often find myself alone at the pq's. It's kind of a bummer because I do enjoy the pq's quite a bit.
Also in the last week the number of players I have seen has dropped dramatically. I'm not sure what this means, if anything. I'm playing at the same time as I was before....
Hopefully they will have free transfers if server pops get too low. I know this is probably early to be talking about this, but playing by yourself is kinda boring and you can't fully participate in all the game has to offer.
Also I wish he would have talked a bit on the gold spammer issue. A guy I reported yesterday morning around 7 am pacific time was spamming me when I came home from work around midnight, so someone either isn't doing his job or the system of reporting is not working as intended.
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Joined: 2/11/04
Renown Gear is freaking terrible. The stats on the gear sets are all messed up, and they tried to compensate by allowing Talisman slots. The bottom line is that if you want decent gear in this game, forget the renown gear trash. Instead plan on grinding PQ's, PVE questing, and the rare win you might get in an RVR keep raid.
PQ's are ghost towns because usually there are only 1-5 people playing them, and they can't defeat the champion or boss mobs in Stage II/III. Instead they grind the Kill 50, 125, 300, etc mobs for Stage I and then let the PQ reset. Making the PQ mobs in stage II/III champion levels was a mistake IMHO.
This guy is out of touch with his playerbase, and it shows in this interview. If people want grinds, there's no reason to leave WOW.
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Joined: 11/12/03
PQs are awesome. They're obviously the best when in a group but at least one of the three is ususally soloable so I don't know why people would complain about that. Plus you get influence so even if i'm doing a PQ by myself or even if I can't get to the final stage it's still fun and worth it.... people just like to complain but i think there is little wrong with it.
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Joined: 8/19/07
Im only pessimistic because everything sucks. -td
The renown gear isn't meant to be the strongest equipment in the game (as many of those players were supposing). It's there to make sure that players who advance solely through RvR and don't do quests have access to gear that is similar to what a PvE player would get.
This seems to be an incorrect statement. For tier 1 there are several pieces of equipment not attainable with renown rank. These pieces include a cloak, a helm, main armor, shoulders etc. There items are attainable for tier 1 from PvE.
So, for people like me, who want to level solely through RvR, wouldnt it be nice to have such gear made attainable from renown and RvR mobs/players?
That being said, at the top of each tier in the game there is an RvR armor set of those players that just haven't really been discovered yet. This armor is actually the most powerful stuff you can get for the tier.
This seems to be another incorrect statement. My main (a black orc named kruunk) had far superior equipment to this gear at level 11. You can do a character search on him now, he is level 13 with mostly level 11 gear. Kruunk, black orc, red eye mountain. This shows that PvE gear is far superior to renown gear.
Another problem with renown gear is how it is attained and the requirements to wear it. Mostly my characters are 1 level apart when comparing level to renown rank. Most renown gear requires several levels higher in level than renown gear to wear. Experience gain from world RvR is slow. This forces you to run scenarios to advance. In tier 2 this isnt so bad. In tier 1, having a bunch of no geared level 1-6s pretty much guarantees a loss. This is mainly because there is no real renown gear for tier 1 and the starting gear is nonexistent.
In closing, all i ask for is three things.
1. Equivalent gear for RvR players who do not want to quest or grind PQs.
If you force me to PvE to gain gear, your defeating my reason for playing the game.
2. Decent rate of advancement for RvR players in World RvR.
Now I am not asking for equivalence with PvE. I just want a decent ammount of XP gain.
3. A method of turning your experience gain off.
I would like to hit to cap for each tier, then sit there for a bit and enjoy the RvR before advancing beyond the tier.
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Joined: 10/28/06
Sure has been a lot of interviews with them...not that i think they are trying to spin things or whatever.
Maybe someday they will have some useful information, instead of the attitude they keep putting out. Really if they can't handle people saying things they don't like, they need to find a new line of work.
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Joined: 2/07/04
Attitude? I don't see an attitude.
I think the problem comes down to not having a central forum that they pay attention to. I know about Warhammer Alliance but do they watch this constantly? Are forums a good way to stay in touch with the community? Or is it a place for people to whine and complain?
Maybe a document with requests for fixes and/or ideas from the community at log-in. That way you get something from the whole community. Just some ideas.
I myself like to RvR and PVE. All the good armor I have found has come from PVE drops or from the Auction. PQ's are a challenge at part 2 and impossible at part 3 when alone. JMHO.
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Joined: 2/21/06
Well the funny thing is that at the moment almost the entire playerbase is camping inside warcamps like mindless zombies waiting for their next scenario to pop-up!
After chapter 6 all PQ's are deserted. Hardly anyone is doing them anymore.
RvR lakes are deserted. Hardly anyone botheres to do any largescale RvR, because there isn't any incentive.
Regular quests are hardly being done anymore. Especially from end Tier2 and up. Because the XP rewards of these quests are the exact same as the Rank1 and Rank10 quests. So questing becomes a boring, unfeasable grind.
So what you got at the moment isn't Warhammer Online, but Scenarios Online.
I would love to hear someone from Mythic about what they going to do about this? I hardly think they intended for people to perma camp warcamps and doing scenarios only! Day after day after day!
As that's what is basically going on right now. The XP and Renown you get through Scenarios is just insane, compared to the rest of the game.
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Joined: 8/04/06
I haven't seen any issues with population, aside from the basic spreading out of players.
As for people complaining about PQs, I think what many haven't come to realize just from trying out the different PQs in each chapter is that of the three, there is always one that is much easier than the other two during Phase 2/3 (you can complete these with 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 dpsing). Generally, that's the one everyone is doing because they realize it's easier and stick with it. Location is also a factor... the PQs right next to a town tend to be the most run, even if they're harder than others in the same chapter.
Also, if you are having trouble finding people, have you tried traveling between the different pairings to see which ones are popular?
I think WAR, more than any other game, tends to be a bit more divided. Not only are there three different areas to level/PQ in, you move on from one area to the next fairly quickly, so people get spread out. It definitely can be a problem if you don't keep up with the pack (or level beyond it), but there's nothing stopping you from grabbing friends to help with the PQs.
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Joined: 7/12/06
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Good interview. I wish he would have addressed the chat interface and memory leakage problems. Otherwise, it was a good interview.
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Joined: 5/28/04
"In general there are two ways that you earn renown. You earn it from killing enemy players or participating in kills, and you earn it from healing. The renown is gained, whether from killing people or healing people, is shared within your group (a certain split of it) so participating with your group earns you renown. It really is that straightforward."
So essentially in the T2 scenarios (I haven't played any T3 yet), there is absolutely no point in flag capturing or carrying the thing (except for the renown points gained for killing the dude in order to take the thing). Yet, these acts are the keys to winning those scenarios!
Well, at least his comment is consistent with my play experience (no matter how much I disagree with it). I had a half dozen Phoenix Gate scenarios Monday night where I was the only person successful in taking the Destro flag (unaccompanied) and was generally responsible for 250+ points per round. And I consistently placed in the bottom 3 for renown earned.
So I guess I'll let someone else be the team player... just so I can try to catch up with my guildmates who are already a couple of renown ranks higher. Does that seem wrong to anyone?
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Joined: 8/01/03
Originally posted by wartywarlock
dont know when this was conducted but there is no answer to the area/chapter chat being too small to be adequate. i wonder if this simply wasnt an issue when he was interviewed or whether he just avoided it. maybe mmorpg failed at asking, please, stradden, can you pester him about this issue, i think we'd all love an answer on that subject.
overall a pretty darn good interview tho :) good to see and i hope more come along soon!
Whats nice is our guild just uses Vent. So chat is no problems with us. :)
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Joined: 4/23/06
My guild has vent too, but what about PUGs in scenarios etc?
What the heck is he talking about with regard to potential problems that in-game voicechat would introduce?
In LOTRO, which I still play (prepaid life), the in-game voicechat is a GODSEND for PUGs, even if some folks in the group or raid can only listen-in with no mic.
In LOTRO PvP in the Ettenmoors, it was a MUST in the 24-player raids, and toggling it on was required of all participants. The raid leader could usually enforce no-chatty discipline without a problem. It was great.
I really dislike how WAR does not have this feature, and it really gimps your ability to be effective in a PUG!
I hope they introduce it in the game.
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Joined: 9/11/06
I see some important things from this enterview (english is not my first language, sorry in advance):
- First, they seem to follow what the community demands or point out as problems. Lets keep sending feedback.
- They are evaluating in-voice system. Which is a good thing. At least, they are considering it. I think it will help a lot to PUGs and such.
- They know they need to improve the chat system.
- They admit they are experimenting with something new: PQs. They point out something important thing too: while low tiers will have few players, it will have some. It will be their responsible (the players) to look around for others to complete PQs. And if there is no one else around, PQs werent though to be finished by soloers. Which makes sense to me. I know many wont agree. Anyway, in time, I think we will see that T1, T2 and T3 PQs are non important... nothing that they give you, prevails during more than a few ranks.
But even when this was the initial conecption for PQs and the way tehy understand it will work... they are looking into this and considering advanced PQs that do different things depending on how many people are there and that kind of stuff. This may be a very good solution... PQs adjusting themselves depending how many people participate in them... nice.
But they dont say things like "we will fix all tomorrow"... I think Mythic keep trying to not mislead us.
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Originally posted by Scalebane
attitude rofl?
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Originally posted by t0nyd
For your first section, I agree it would be nice, but it would enable it so that players don't have to go out and see the rest of the world. While I know they want the playerbase to be happy, I'm fairly certain a large number of designers want the players to see what they did.
On that second section, I believe the Armor Set he is referring to is one of those sets the Tome of Knowledge set unlocks. You get the piece of armor, it has a set (usually 1-2-3 pieces that go with it) and by collecting them all you get titles and other rewards.
This armor is actually the most powerful stuff you can get for the tier.
I'm interpreting here, but I think it was "these armor pieces are the most powerful you can get for that tier" those two just happen to be a set, so he uses the term Armor.
Ultimately i've found "best" gear happens to be dependent on what the player wants to do.
my armor is different from the other swordmasters in my guild, and we all seem to do just fine in RvR. Not once have I run up to an enemy player and gone: "oh, he has that gear, I can't kill him"
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Joined: 12/15/06
I'm not sure why they wouldn't introduce voice chat in WAR, but they should have. In DAoC, you usually could issue commands on the battlefield. In WAR, the combat is too frantic to type. If you're typing, you're not giving 100% to the fight, wich is needed most of the time to win. As for battlefield commands, I could care less about them. I usually am against voice chat, because I am a fast typer and an older gamer who believes chat is sufficient. However, WAR is slowly changing my opinion on the necessity of voice communication in modern day RvR. Battlefield commands are just another button to push that should be an ability instead.
As for PQ's, he is wrong. There isn't always a group somewhere in your Tier doing a PQ. There are usually stragglers grinding influence in various PQ's, but never enough to actually beat the Hero. I've been playing since release, in all 3 zones and on mutliple characters. He just isn't getting it with PQ's. PQ's really need to scale to the amount of people and levels in the area. For example, in DAoC there are instant dungeons that scale according to how many people are in the group and their levels. I understand that PQ's are new to the genre and when things are new, you make mistakes. Perhaps there is a reason for instances in other games; maybe I am starting to see their value. Of course, PQ's couldn't have the same loot available to a smaller group as to a larger group, because the reward would be greather than the risk.
As for RvR, he is underestimating what players find rewarding. A small chance of getting a nice piece of loot isn't rewarding for most people anymore. People want xp and reknown experience as well. The xp is dependant on fighting other players, as it should be, but players aren't really playing in those areas. In my experience on Phoenix Throne, Order side, when we do manage to get an Order warband together, Destruction soon joins the fray with more people and we end up not getting any xp anyways, just farmed. You need to kill an oponent in RvR to get reknown, which may or may not happen depending on numbers and the skill of the players involved. You get reknown for taking and defending an objective, but not enough to compete with scenarios. The key to bringing RvR to our servers is by 1) making the RvR lakes accessible from any Rally Master; and 2) Increase the reknown gain by taking objectives.
Lastly, we have the graphics debate. I appreciate the artistic value of the graphics and I like it. The technical value of the graphics is subpar for this day and age, but that's what the developer was aiming for and I am actually okay with this. What I am not okay with is the lag that I get in some scenarios that the subpar graphics is supposed to prevent. I believe it is lag that is making our Morale abilities not work, sending the message "Abiility Not Ready," even though it is lit up and actually ready.
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School board proposes new elementary school
The Lee County Board of Education decided Tuesday night to initiate talks with the county about building a new elementary school.
John Bonardi, chairman of the board's Facilities and Technology Committee, led the discussion about the school, which he said is needed because every elementary school in the county is at or above capacity.A new school for about 650-700 children would cost about $13.5 million, Bonardi said. He suggested the school be built on the old Jonesboro Elementary School campus, located off of Cox Maddox Road near Walmart. To use that location, he said, a dilapidated structure on the site would have to be knocked down, which he said would cost another $350,000.
Board members brought up both class size and safety concerns, with Bonardi saying there's no way to secure the mobile units given their nature. Mark Akinosho, who also serves on the facilities and technology committee, agreed.
"For the kids that are outside, you can't do anything," Akinosho said. "You just have to leave them in the hands of the Lord."
Board member Tamara Brogan also focused on the growing class sizes at the schools, saying the county appears to be growing steadily.
"You go to the elementary schools and visit, and they're packed in there," she said, later adding. "The longer we wait, the more crowded it's going to be."
Akinosho also brought up the prospect of turning the school into a second year-round elementary school, noting the interest that led to a community-wide controversy earlier this year when the district proposed making all elementary and middle schools year-round. The proposal, which elicited strong opinions from opponents and supporters alike, was ultimately tabled.
However, discussion of a new school might have been for naught. Any new school would have to receive financial support from the county — support that County Manager John Crumpton said last week will not happen since $14 million will be impossible to come by without raising taxes. But the direction the county wants to go in, he said, is actually toward lower tax rates. Nevertheless, the school board agreed to send a report and funding request to the county in hopes of sparking discussion.
In another funding matter — this one a matter that can be funded through school money — the board also made a last-minute amendment to the agenda to discuss a recommendation for the purchase of $1.68 million in electronic tablets to replace old laptops. The motion had originally been in the consent agenda, which is traditionally voted on without discussion. After discussion, the tablet purchase was approved unanimously.
Board member Cameron Sharpe said he requested the item be discussed since such a large sum of money was at stake. Board member Wendy Carlyle asked if there was any data to support the argument that tech programs, such as providing laptops or tablets to students, have a direct affect on academic growth.
Superintendent Jeff Moss replied that in the world of education, it's rare that a single program, technology, strategy or teacher can be proven as having made gains that would have been impossible without it. But, he said, there has been a strong correlation between Lee County Schools' implementation of various technological programs about four years ago and dramatically improved graduation rates and a falling achievement gap. He also noted that mobile devices like tablets are the way of the future, and this will have the added bonus of making students comfortable with such technology before they encounter it on the job.
"I guess I could go on and on," Moss said. "But our trends are going nowhere but up."
Sharpe said he was convinced, noting that he has voted in favor of technological advances three times while on the board and had no problem doing so a fourth time.
"I don't think I'm ready to give up on it yet," he said.
In other news, the board:
* Approved the first reading of policy changes regarding fundraisers and exemption of final exams.
* Approved the consent agenda.
* Recognized interns from the Sandhills Leadership Academy who have been serving in local schools.
* Saw a Zumba presentation from students at SanLee Middle School, as well as presentations from Broadway Elementary School's Recycling Club and Green Thumb Club.
* Honored the top three finishers in the recent district spelling bee.
* Heard public comments from Michael Daly, who requested the Tramway Elementary School enrollment lottery be re-done after one student was inadvertently left out (which the district has already declined to do), as well as from Laurie McCauley, who encouraged local schools to participate in "Light it up Blue," an autism awareness program.
*Heard a report from board Chairman Lynn Smith that he spoke with several legislators about various education issues and was pleased that members of both parties heard him sincerely.
* Recognized Deep River Elementary School for being the clean school of the month.
* Recognized SanLee Middle School counselors for having the classroom webpage of the month.
* Announced the construction of brick lattice walls at East Lee Middle School, West Lee Middle School and Bragg Street Academy in order to keep people from entering the campuses.
* Turned down a request by Sen. Ronald Rabin to get lists of honor roll students to send out congratulations. Moss explained the district currently does not give data like that to outside groups despite frequent requests, and board members unanimously agreed, with some saying it could look political and others saying it could set schools down a slippery slope.


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Honors Students Participate in Art ShowPosted Feb. 24, 2012
February 24, 2012 - Emmalyn Rucker, senior fine arts major, was awarded first place in the 6th annual Honors College/College of the Arts Student Art Show. Rucker's painting "The Garden" was chosen as the best piece of student work.
This collaboration between the Honors College and the College of the Arts is an opportunity for some of the most talented undergraduates in the College of the Arts to showcase their creative work. The Art Show occurs simultaneously with student art shows in the School of Art Gallery and the Downtown Gallery as a community-wide celebration of undergraduate student artists.
The Art Show was judged by Alexandra Nicholis of the Massillon Museum in Massillon, Ohio and Jeff Ingram of the Standing Rock Cultural Arts Center in Kent, Ohio. A total of seven Honors students submitted their work with twelve pieces submitted for consideration.
Rachel Stadtler, senior crafts major, was awarded second place for her sculpture called "Flounder."
A team of students was responsible for organizing the show including Rachel Stadtler (senior curator), Caitlin Binkhorst (junior curator), and Virginia Marie Dionisio (designer).
Prizes for the Art Show were donated by All Media Art. Sponsors of the Art Show included All Media Art, Anderson Turner, Alexandra Nicholis, Jeffrey Ingram, and the College of the Arts.
The Honors College/College of the Arts Art Show began when the Honors College moved to the Stopher-Johnson facility in 2006. Materials used to display student art were obtained through a Portz Grant awarded by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC).
Student work will remain on display in the Honors College reception area until March 16, 2012. The Honors College office is located on the ground floor of Stopher Hall. Visitors may view the student work between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.


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Omya receives OK for LNG facilityBy Bruce Edwards
STAFF WRITER | November 15,2012The Public Service Board has signed off on a liquefied natural gas storage facility for Omya Inc., a decision that will allow the company to switch from more expensive No. 2 fuel oil to run its Pittsford calcium carbonate plant.
In its order of Nov. 9, the PSB issued a certificate of public good for a 120,000-gallon liquefied natural gas storage facility, consisting of eight, 15,000 gallon vertical tanks.
The tanks will be built within a concrete impoundment area capable of containing all 120,000 gallons in case of a spill.
The PSB has regulatory authority over LNG storage projects under Section 248. It is the first facility of its kind in the state to be issued a certificate of public good.
Jim Stewart, Omya plant manager, said Wednesday that with the CPG in hand the next step is to complete the final design and submit that to the PSB for approval. Stewart estimated that the $8 million LNG facility would be built and online a year from now.
Omya grinds marble ore thats mixed with water to produce both a wet, or slurry, product and a dry product, both for a variety of industries.
Half of the plants production is dry product which requires the use of six dryers using No. 2 fuel oil. Omya also heats its buildings with three boilers using fuel oil.
Stewart said the Omya plant consumes an average of 900,000 liters of fuel oil a month (238,000 gallons).
According to the findings outlined in the PSBs order, liquefied natural gas has several advantages over fuel oil: it is half the price of fuel oil and has a relatively stable price and supply forecast.
There are also environmental benefits with liquefied natural gas reducing emissions, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
Omya expects two LNG deliveries a day in tanker trucks which have a maximum capacity of 13,000 gallons.
The company has identified LNG suppliers in Boston and Montreal.
The LNG storage facility could also reduce the cost for L F Carter, a Pittsford trucking company, to haul marble ore from Omyas Middlebury quarry.
Were in discussions with him to convert his fleet to LNG, Stewart said.
He said for Carter to fuel its trucks at the LNG facility requires PSB approval.
In addition to submitting its final design plans for review and approval, the CPG includes other conditions, including meeting provisions of the National Fire Protection Association.
Omyas project encountered no opposition. At a June 13 hearing at the Pittsford town offices, only one member of the public showed up and did not comment.
The state Public Service Department, the consumer advocate in utility cases, offered no objections to the project and entered into a stipulation with Omya in August.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga Mocs have had quite a 2012 on the golf course. UTC is also making waves off it with it 2013 recruiting class. A total of four signed National Letters of Intent to join the Mocs in the fall of 2013.
UTC signed locally, regionally and internationally with this class. Ewan Scott of St. Andrews, Scotland is a major highlight of the class along with Knoxville's Stuart Thomas. Local signees Andrew Weathers (McCallie) and Brooks Thomas (Ringgold) round out the early signing group.
"This is as excited as I have ever been about a recruiting class," Head Coach Mark Guhne stated. "You are always looking forward to working with the young men you bond with while recruiting, and this group has a chance to be very special."
Scott won the Scottish Hydro Boys' Order of Merit as the top junior golfer in his homeland. His 840 points easily out-distanced his nearest competition by 202 points. He posted wins at the Golf Data Lab Scottish Youths Open Stroke Play Championship, Fife Boys Stroke Play and the Faldo Junior Series Scottish Qualifier.
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Brooks Thomas rounds out the group. He won his sectional qualifying for the U.S. Junior Am in June shooting three-under par at Old Fort Golf Club (Murfreesboro, Tenn.). Thomas played in 13 events in the last calendar year with two wins, six top fives and eight top 10s.
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EEA212 - Visual Culture: Images, Meaning and Contexts
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This unit looks at the ways in which varying cultural and social conditions determine the production and consumption of visual culture, How do we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn?
It focuses on the concept that images and objects are continuously seen and instantaneously interpreted, forming new knowledge and new images of identity and environment. In this context, art is a form of social reproduction in which the creation of a work of art is only part of the product, it is the viewer who completes the work. What is produced forms a social relationship between the individual and the art form.
Through studio practice and seminars, students will develop understandings of the relationship between meaning and cultural context, identify aspects of the relationship between cultural production and social conditions, articulate concepts of contemporary theory in visual culture in their writing and locate aspects of their own practice within a defined cultural context.
Assignment 1: Seminar presentation (2500 words or equivalent, 50%).
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HAZARD — The mayors of two communities in Perry County, joined by representatives from the Relay For Life, signed a Paint the Town Purple proclamation on Tuesday in celebration of the Relay For Life.
Mayors Nan Gorman and Johnny Cummings met at Hazard City Hall Tuesday morning to proclaim the week of May 19,2013 through May 25, 2013 as "Paint the Town Purple Days" in Perry County.
Paint the Town Purple is an activity of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life meant to promote cancer awareness and fundraise to support cancer research and treatment. According to the proclamation, the American Cancer Society has funded more than $150 million in cancer research in the last year through money raised in communities across the nation.


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Dr. Richard R. Cirillo serves as Director of the Decision and Information Sciences Division, which has 160 staff with an equal number of subject matter experts on adjunct assignments. The Division's annual budget is approximately $55 million. Division capabilities include systems analysis; modeling, simulation, and visualization; decision and risk analysis; complex adaptive systems; and information sciences. Programmatic areas include national and homeland security, infrastructure assurance, energy and environmental systems, social dynamics, and policy analysis.
Dr. Cirillo's research work has focused on interdisciplinary development and application of advanced simulation tools. Work has involved both domestic and international components and covers energy demand projections, energy resource and technology analysis, supply/demand modeling, environmental impact assessment, critical infrastructure assurance, and emergency preparedness.
Research has been carried out for domestic organizations include U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, state and local government agencies, private sector companies.
Research for international organizations has involved the World Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, Agency for International Development, energy and environmental ministries of selected countries, and international energy and electricity companies.
Dr. Cirillo joined Argonne in 1972. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from New York University.
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Argonne's Cyber Security team developed a program that allows national laboratories' computer systems to "talk" to each other about cyber attacks. The program earned the group the Department of Energy's 2009 Cyber Security Innovation and Technology Achievement Award. The Cyber Security Team includes (pictured from left) Tami Martin, Chris Poetzel, Matt Kwiatkowski, Mike Skwarek, Conrad Zadlo, Gene Rackow and Scott Pinkerton. Read the full story!
More Argonne awards photos here.
The graphic illustrates the number of attacks from various countries that Argonne and other national labs receive at any one time and how the new program will allow the labs to be forewarned. If one lab is attacked, the information is relayed to other laboratories so they can put up safeguards.
From Argonne's award-winning cyber security program. Read the full story!
Nuclear engineer Yung Liu, with Argonne National Laboratory examines data on his laptop from the radio frequency identification device developed at the laboratory. The technology allows users not only track nuclear materials, but also remotely monitor environmental and physical conditions such as temperature and humidity.See press release for more information. Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory.
Nuclear engineer Yung Liu, with Argonne National Laboratory examines data on his laptop from the radio frequency identification device developed at the laboratory. The technology allows users not only track nuclear materials, but also remotely monitor environmental and physical conditions such as temperature and humidity.See press release for more information. Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory.
The report "National Power Grid Simulation Capability: Needs and Issues" examines shortcomings in the nation's current capabilities for simulating the national power grid. The report details findings of a December 2008 conference, hosted at the U.S. Depaertment of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate. Read the full story.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new economic models that will provide policymakers with more realistic pictures of different types of markets so they can better avert future economic catastrophe. Here, Argonne systems scientists Charles Macal (left) and Michael North showcase several of their agent-based models.
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Play begins on Tuesday with four girls' games. The Lady Hounds, the fourth seed from the west subregion, open the tournament against Evans, the top seed from the east, at 3:30 p.m.
Games this week will settle the other seeds for the eight-school tournament. The No. 2 team from the west plays the No. 3 team from the east at 5 p.m., the No. 2 team from the east plays the No. 3 team from the west at 6:30 p.m., and the No. 1 team in the west plays the No. 4 team in the east at 8 p.m.
Jones County was to play at Warner Robins on Tuesday, and if the Lady Demons won, they would finish in a three-way tie with Northside-Warner Robins and Houston County for first in the subregion, and a coin flip would determine the seeding for those three.
Seeding for the boys' bracket also could come down to a coin toss. The Greyhounds were to play at Warner Robins on Tuesday, and a victory by Jones County would leave it tied with Warner Robins and Northside-Warner Robins for first. A victory by Warner Robins, however, would make the Demons the first seed, Northside second and Jones County third.
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Now that the Beijing dust has settled, we are free and clear to show off our next batch of NBA figures. Two notes to pass along - Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant was moved from this series to 2009's NBA 16 to enable us to paint him in his new Oklahoma City Thunder jersey. In addition, new Thunder player Desmond Mason will still be released in NBA 15 in his (now-retro) Milwaukee Bucks jersey, though his production numbers will be significantly limited.
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Kent State University, June 19-28, 2007
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Organized by the Liquid Crystal Institute and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University
This Workshop is organized around three themes: fluid fibers of bent-core materials, liquid-crystal elastomers, and defects in ordered fluids. The objectives of the Workshop comprise both education and research. The goal of the educational component is to expose graduate students (from both the physical and the mathematical sciences) to several aspects of liquid crystals related to the three workshop themes. Some coverage will be given to physics background (including lab experiences), mathematical models and their analyses, and numerical methods. The main research objective is to foster a lively exchange between the participating physicists and the mathematicians on the concerned topics.
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Troubleshooting help for when you can get online but are experiencing slow download speeds.
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Will make my impression short: Played TSW a lot this weekend, played all 3 factions and tried to use a variety of the skills aviliable.
Game is okay, a 5/10, a middle of the road type - It will get subpar reviews, it will have a subpar population base and that's that. It was not (in my opinion) as fun or smooth as Guild Wars 2, no where near. It had a better setting (fantasy setting is getting old) but that is the only area it outshined GW2.
Story - I thought the story was fun, not incredible, but fun.
Setting - the game's selling point really, the setting is awesome.
Graphics - strange, they are decent to good but I thought the character models were blocky and odd, especially character movement (jumping). I'm not the first to complain of this.
Gameplay - 5/10, game isn't really groundbreaking, skill wheel is cool and the decks are cool but overall the gameplay is similar to everything else out there, run around spamming your skills until the mob is dead.
The one big missing aspect of all this though is PvP/End game content - Yes it's absolutly important, and none of it has been shown yet in game. Maybe, just maybe the PvP aspect is incredible (unlikely), that would dramatically change my overall impression of the game, unfortunatly PvP was not implemented for this beta (which I thought to be odd with the release date only 2 weeks away). I have a feeling that PvP will be plagued by balance issues among the different skill sets, also in a game where everyone can be anything I fear that cookie cutter builds will be the norm.
It will be very hard to differentiate yourself from other players IMO - When everyone is special, no one is.
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I will just quote your own words of wisdom.
Originally posted by crysent
To the OP: I don't think you are missing anything. GW2 (just like every other MMO) is not going to please everyone. If it's not your taste, it's not your taste.
For me it fills the PvP hole in my chest I've been feeling for so long. I like the quick pace and action of the PvP, it fits what I was looking for. However, it can't and won't be everything to everyone - GW2 devs seemed to have focused on the PvP aspect of the game more then the PvE aspect.
Some will love it, some will like it and some will not.
And on that that note..i wish you well and hope you enjoy your time in GW2.
Originally posted by Sameer1979
Yea, I feel this way about TSW I guess, althought I think the difference i feel between GW2 and TSW is that GW2 has this open world SvSvS aspect that is innovative and drawing a lot of hype from people, it's something that really hasn't been seen before.
The problem TSW has is that it doesn't have anything that has not been seen before on a scale like GW2. Again, I'm not sure how PvP will be though...maybe they have a trick up their sleeve?
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Originally posted by crysent
When game is not for someones taste then it is pointless to analyze things. TSW is a game which not everyone will like because it is not made for mass consumption. I don't think Funcom has the same aim and goal which Anet has set up for thmselves where they want to beat WOW in terms of sales and success.
TSW has already found its niche audience. It has three servers in beta for crying out loud. As far as being different TSW has plenty of it but at the same time i am glad it is nothing like GW2.
If every MMO would be like GW2 what would be the fun in that? two very different MMOS for two very different playerbase. No comparison at all.
Yeah i see a lot of this. People who are absolutely pumped about GW2 hate this game.
Personally im fine with that crowd disliking and shunning the game. Its the same crowed i played Aion at launch with, and Rift at launch, and SWTOR at launch...not only do they ALWAYS choose to overhype a medicore but i find myself with a jam packed block list and global chat closed...something i certainly didnt have to worry about while beta testing TSW.
Its a completely diffrent crowd and this game appeals to a completely diffrent gamers tastes, and i believe that was the goal in development.
While i played GW2 i saw the standard community i had grow to dislike, concerned only with most OP class and quickest rout to endgame, and easiest pvp win...on top of chat full of old meme jokes and LOL@Alienware topics, typically with people pretending that alienware is awesome and the people who will act shocked that people would make that comment...its a tired conversation that isnt even real...lol-troll i guess you could call it.
I wont comment on what i thought of that games core mechanics other than same old in a new package. Im sure it will be a good pvp game and im sure ill get around to playing it after launch some time (after the overhype crowd determins it a fail game and turns to haters of it and leaving of course)
While in TSW community was more question/help and i actually saw a few real discussions, my hope is that it will be more like anarchy onlines community, which actually drove away the lol-troll kids or made them feel dumb enough to where they acted normal.
I would probablyt be happier in game with a sub pop around 50k-150k rather than a pop around 1-2mil as it seems the larger they get the harder it is to find normal people, and the cruddier player interaction becomes.
Bottom line with gameplay between the two, for me it seems GW2 is focused on players competing for dominance over eachother, where TSW seems more like a game you play to enjoy the game and figure out stuff.
The only thing i feel that is missing from TSW is some form of guild vs guild seiging mechanics, thats the pvp i love most as far as long term enjoyment.
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Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
I'm gonna try the secret world out, but not at release, I have that bad feeling that it will be riddled with launch problems, hopefully for the fans of the game it will not but when its funcom i'm playing it safe, I will most likely wait for a free trial after launch to try the game. I'll form my own opinion of it then.
Originally posted by Metza
Yeah you cant go wrong picking this game up several months down the line, its only going to improve.
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Yeah it kinda left me cold.. I'm sure some people will love it, but the gameplay didn't suit me either. Prefer GW2 also.
Please tell me that you actually did play for more than an hour. You know, did multyple types of quests, got to the outer wheel, dungeons, crafting, anything.
Hold on:
First its a hyperbole to say I'm "absolutely pumped for GW2" I'm older and find it hard to get pumped for just about anything in life INCLUDING video games...lol
Second, instead of attacking me personally, or trying to insult me, why don't you respond with WHY you think the game is niche, what makes it so niche, WHAT aspects you find innovative.
All I ask is we discuss the game and not me. Trust me, I'm not anything exciting.
Originally posted by pandrax
I did not want to call my post a review, that's why I stuck to the impression part - It was my impression based on the weekends open beta. Maybe it's just semantics, but I would consider a review to be more in depth, an impression is exactly that, what I thought after the limited weekend I played.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
Originally posted by Crunchy221
I completely Agree, I think after a few months of post release updates this game will be fleshed out and be a real hidden gem. people are too easily turned off by the smallest of details, they expect perfection on release. If only these people were around back in the late 90's to have perspective.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
Originally posted by crysent
I never said it was a review, i'm just going by what you said. I will even quote it for you.
"Game is okay, a 5/10, a middle of the road type - It will get subpar reviews, it will have a subpar population base and that's that."
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Originally posted by pandrax
I assure you I was around in the late 90's, and have a fairly clear perspective on the online gaming evolution.
No one so far in this post has said they are writing the game off forever. MAYBE it will be incredible a few months down the road, if the reviews coming out say that, or if I hear it is of course I would pick it up, I will pick up any game if I hear it's really improved.
I don't understand: I post my impression based on the beta weekend and say I'm not overly impressed - > I get multiple replys in which people call me "totally pumped for GW2" and 'lacking perspective in the mmo genre to fully appreciate this incredible game'.
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Originally posted by Crunchy221
I think you are a bit deluded about TSW, the beta this weekend was like any beta weekend I have been in, chat was filled with the same crap as usual, the same trolls, the same fanboys, there was nothing different about what I saw in TSW general chat and GW2 general chat last weekend.
Originally posted by pandrax
Again, I feel there is some hyperbole here. Actually there is - Do I prefer GW2 based on each games betas? Yes. Do I feel a bias in the way people do about politics? Uhhhhh, no, I'm not that hardcore of a gamer. The way you guys are spinning this makes me think more of political type bias, that I'm some rabid, die hard GW2 fan who REFUSES to accept any other game out there.
Believe me, if I had though TSW was more fun then GW2 I would have jumped ships in a second. I played both betas, I enjoyed GW2 and found it more innovative for the reason I already listed. It's not that I have some incredible feeling about either game, or that I'm some rabid fan, I just found GW2 to be better at this point in time.
I never said I WOULD NEVER TRY TSW if it improved, and I never said GW2 was the best thing to happen to gaming since the invention of the computer.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
Originally posted by crysent
Trust me, I'm playing Guild Wars2 at launch, I don't plan on buying TSW at launch. I am not a fanboy of Funcom, and I'm not overly impressed with TSW(or GW2 for that matter). Words are easily misunderstood, when you say "and thats that" that shows you are pushing your opinion as fact. Thats all I am getting at. I agree with the majority of what you said, but I have issues when people feel the need to speak about facts and opinions and get the two mixed up. :)
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What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
Originally posted by Crunchy221
I'll have to disagree with this statement. Though I have not played TSW and not bashing it. GW2 is focused on many people working together to achieve a common goal, whether it is PvE (Chaining and taking down a Meta Event) or WvWvW, working with other group of players to take over a keep, a supply base, etc. Sure there's competition but I don't think it's the main focus.
Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
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This game has too much work. I noticed all the flaws in the models - like seeing through the waistr line of your characters. Tears through the backgrounds, etc. For a game that is being released on July 3rd, there are SO many flaws.
I think they are pushing out the game too fast.
I did like the premise but the the console-style fighting really turned me off.
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Originally posted by SlickShoes
Yeah, me too. I saw the typical trollish behavior. It was constantly going something lie this:
GW2 pwns this game!
GW2 is for WoW kiddies, noob! Go back to candyland!
Maybe you are just too stupid to understand this game.
Hey guys, can I get some help... what is the password for the computer please......
God, you GW2 fanboys are just predictable trash.
This game is SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Why don't you actually think about the quest like an adult would?
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.
Now I remember why I turned off general chat.
Etc, etc, etc.
SWTOR is the greatest mmo ever!


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