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Blossom Ridge project
goes to voters on Aug. 6
by STACY SOBOTKAThe fate of Blossom Ridge will be up to the voters of Oakland Township this summer.
Observer Special Writer
The Oakland Township Board of Trustees approved the ballot language for the proposed Blossom Ridge senior center for the Aug. 6 election at its meeting April 9.
The proposed project would be located at the northwest corner of Dutton and Adams, and would consist of a senior housing development of single-family units and a senior living center.
It would be solely senior resident living, and not a nursing or dementia care facility.
The board approved the ballot language after seeking multiple legal opinions from attorneys over a failure to complete a step in submitting the rezoning approval to Oakland County. In the end, the Oakland County Coordinating Zoning Committee voted in favor of the Blossom Ridge rezoning at a meeting on March 26.
Originally, the board wanted to get an additional opinion from Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, but rescinded the request.
"Then, upon subsequent consideration at least for myself, I do feel it's appropriate to at least ask if the attorney general, which we have to do through (Michigan State) Senator (Jim) Marleau, is willing and interested in looking at this," said Township Treasurer Jeanne Langlois. "We can still approve ballot language and we've been advised to do that, but we are hoping that the attorney general will decide to take a look at this, and that option is out there."
Oakland Township resident Frank Ferriolo said that both the Planning Commission and the previous Board of Trustees were split on Blossom Ridge but felt the referendum was needed.
"What this ballot is about is not against Blossom Ridge, it's saying let the people decide because it's so impactful that they need to make a decision one way or the other," he said. "There are reasons why this shouldn't be as big as it is."
The board also heard a presentation from Paint Creek Trail Manager Kristen Myers on the activities of the Paint Creek Trailway Commission for the coming year. She explained amendments to the uniform Trailway Ordinance. These include allowing motorized vehicles for handicapped trail users only.
"The width (of the vehicle) can't be more than 36 inches," she said. "One of our concerns was ATVs because as you know, with ATVs out there, it's a little dangerous out there for our trail users and we're worried about the surface, so we want to make sure we allow our mobility-disabled visitors to visit without any problems at all."
Other changes include new park hours from sunrise to sunset, proper trash disposal, updated rules for equestrians, new rules for groups wanting to host special events on the trail, a requirement for dogs to be leashed, and no reckless cycling.
"We're asking that people who use bicycles to ride in a safe manner," said Myers.
Afterwards, the board approved the introduction and first reading of an ordinance amending uniform trailway regulations at the Trailway Commission's request.
In other business, the Board of Trustees:
• Approved a resolution approving a multi-jurisdictional agreement for construction of the Perry Street Diversion project (for water lines) and give notice of the intent for issuance of county bonds for that construction.
• Approved a resolution approving the Clinton-Oakland Sewage Disposal System inter-municipal contract.
• Approved a recommendation to use Troy-based Revize Software Systems for re-designing the township's website.
• Approved a proposed use of West Nile abatement funds to submit to Oakland County for mosquito control within the township.
• Nominated Libby Dwyer as the Oakland Township nominee for the Paint Creek Center for the Arts Awards. Dwyer was nominated for her artwork at the Paint Creek Cider Mill.
• Approved a request for the Parks and Recreation Commission to hire a stewardship manager.


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ATHENS, Ga.--Sophomore guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 22 points and had six steals to help Georgia to its first SEC victory of the season, winning 67-58 over LSU Saturday night at Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia (7-10, 1-3 SEC) used an 11-4 run in the final five minutes of the game to secure its seventh victory of the season.
Junior forward Donte' Williams also contributed 14 points. Sophomore forward Nemanja Djurisic led the Bulldogs on the boards with eight rebounds.
"I'm just really proud of our team and their composure tonight," said head coach Mark Fox. "LSU has a talented, hard-nosed team, and they're a really good team, too. I'm just proud of my team, though. We haven't had a lot of confidence this season, but our team has had to overcome that, and I think we got a good start tonight."
The Bulldogs led for nearly the entire first half, and carried a four point halftime lead into the locker room.
In the second half, Georgia surged to an 41-33 lead after a successful three-point play from Donte' Williams. Shortly after the Tigers put together a run of their own to go up 47-45 off of an Anthony Hickey three-pointer.
After trading baskets on multiple possessions, and the game tied 54-54 with just under five minutes left in the game, Georgia went on an 11-4 run to put the game out of reach.
The game featured eight lead changes and seven ties.
The Tigers were led by Johnny O'Bryant who tallied his third double-double of the season with 16 points and 14 rebounds.
Georgia's defense forced 21 turnovers and held LSU to just six assists.
Georgia will entertain Florida in Athens on Wednesday at 8 p.m. The game will be televised on the SEC Network. For ticket information, log onto Georgiadogs.com.
Worth Noting...
For only the sixth time this season, Georgia used a starting line-up that it had used before.
Caldwell-Pope has led Georgia in scoring in 14 of Georgia's 17 games this season. He has yet to score fewer than 11 points.
Georgia forced LSU to have 21 turnovers while limiting the Tigers to just 6 assists. Entering the game, LSU had a +1.0 assist-to-turnover ratio.
The Series: Georgia improves to 26-21 in games played in Athens....LSU still leads the all-time series 61-42...Since 1992-93, Georgia has won 15 of the 26 meetings...Since 1995-96 season, the home team has won all but four times in 17 meetings (excludes three neutral site games)
Next Up: Georgia will host Florida at Stegeman Coliseum on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Florida leads the all-time series 106-99, but Georgia leads the series 62-36 when the game is played in Athens. Since 2008-09 season, Georgia is 3-1 in games in Athens, with its only loss coming in a double overtime thriller, 104-91....The Gators defeated Georgia earlier this season


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Oh girrrrrl, you've blown it now! Kim Kardashian, you must be really doing something wrong (or, you know, everything wrong) if the normally mild-mannered Jon Hamm is dissing you in public. "Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated," the Mad Men star griped to Elle UK. "Being a f—ing idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you're rewarded significantly." We don't think Kim is an idiot so much as she just doesn't care what people think about her, but maybe that's just us. Oh wait…it is just us.
Not that Hamm is the first star to call out Kim and the rest of the Kardashians for any number of perceived flaws. In November, Daniel Craig referred to the family as "f—ing idiots," while Jonah Hill ranted to The Huffington Post in December, "The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like Mad Men is disgusting. It's super disgusting to be a part of that culture." Actually, most of the celebs who have called out Kim and the gang typically tend to be on the chill side. And like Mad Men! Added Hamm, "Incuriousness has become cool…It's celebrated. It doesn't make sense to me." Want to see everyone else who doesn't think it makes sense either? Check out our anti-Kardashian gallery below! We'll give you a hint who's in it: it's everyone else.
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Rochester police say a man was injured in a fight early Tuesday morning. Police tell News10NBC they were called to the area of Glendale Park around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday.
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For Cedar Ridge, graduation is a Rubik's Cube
Student Government Association President Natalie Bentley likened graduation to a solved Rubik's Cube, it's an accomplishment when it's completed but it's the journey that matters.
Before a few hundred people, the graduates of Cedar Ridge High School gathered in the Dean Smith Center at UNC Chapel Hill to say farewell to high school and welcome the next step of their lives.
The more than 230 graduates began a slow applause in the corridor of the center that was complimented by the one that responded from inside before their processional. The crowd could not stand silent as the graduates took their seats.
Bentley began her speech without words, but with a Rubik's Cube that she solved at the podium.
"Life is in fact a lot like a Rubik's Cube," she said. "At first you struggle but it's the sheer number of ways that you can solve a Rubik's Cube that is amazing. It's the process that defines success.
"It is not the success or failure that's important, it's how you arrive there," said Bentley. "The exploration is what allows you to grow."
Henry Mandeville, senior class president, began his speech in the form of morning announcements before telling the tale of two students who matriculated together and punctuated their high school graduation with a trip to the top of a lighthouse.
"We're at the top of the lighthouse," Mandeville said to his peers. "Get rid of the stones weighing you down and pick a path. The view from the next lighthouse will be even better."
Salutatorian Linnea Nelson said that while high school graduation is the end of a segment of their lives, it is the start of another.
"We will all shed tears together," she said. "By the end of the evening, we will all be united in our sadness at the loss in the past and fear of an unknown future."
Nelson added that the freedom they now have will bring with it its own set of challenges.
"For the first time in our lives we're forced to ask ourselves, 'What do I want to do?'" she said. "We will be free from so much but held so tightly by the confines of life."
Class Valedictorian Zachary Marion kept his remarks short and charged his classmates to never lose their curiosity.
"It is paramount that we never lose that inquisitiveness so that the world never loses its magic," he said. "Never lose your sense of wonder in the world."


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Her attorney is just as guilty as she is. He will rot in hell right along with her.
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This is an engineering cookbook that covers the more elementary aspects of computing discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs). It attempts to integrate the continuous Fourier transform into the discussion but this is not very successful.
The book has a good bit of material on the pitfalls of sampling and calculation, and many numerical examples and lots of graphs. It includes two chapters on material I had not seen before: DFTs with a large prime number of samples.
The big weakness of the book is that it has no applications. For example, there is a lot of material on windowing and on finite-impulse response (FIR) filters but no mention of why these are useful.
A good book on this subject for mathematicians, that does a better job of combining the discrete and continuous (but is much more advanced) is Claude Gasquet & Patrick Witomski's Fourier Analysis and Applications (Springer, 1999). Good books for engineers are Oppenheim & Willsky & Hamid's Signals and Systems (Prentice-Hall, 2nd editiion 1996), and the more advanced book by Oppenheim & Schafer & Buck, Discrete-Time Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall, 2nd edition 1999); however, these are not cookbooks.
Allen Stenger is a math hobbyist, library propagandist, and retired computer programmer. He volunteers in his spare time at MathNerds.com, a math help site that fosters inquiry learning. His mathematical interests are number theory and classical analysis.
Fundamentals, Analysis, and Applications
Analytical and Graphical Representation of Function Contents
Time and Frequency Contents of a Function
The Frequency-Domain Plots as Graphical Tools
Identifying the Cosine and Sine Modes
Using Complex Exponential Modes
Using Cosine Modes with Phase or Time Shifts
Periodicity and Commensurate Frequencies
Review of Results and Techniques
Expressing Single Component Signals
General Form of a Sinusoid in Signal Application
Fourier Series: A Topic to Come
Sampling and Reconstruction of Functions—Part I
DFT and Band-Limited Periodic Signal
Frequencies Aliased by Sampling
Connection: Anti-Aliasing Filter
Alternate Notations and Formulas
Sampling Period and Alternate Forms of DFT
Sample Size and Alternate Forms of DFT
The Fourier Series
Formal Expansions
Time-Limited Functions
Even and Odd Functions
Half-Range Expansions
Fourier Series Using Complex Exponential Modes
Complex-Valued Functions
Fourier Series in Other Variables
Truncated Fourier Series and Least Squares
Orthogonal Projections and Fourier Series
Convergence of the Fourier Series
Accounting for Aliased Frequencies in DFT
DFT and Sampled Signals
Deriving the DFT and IDFT Formulas
Direct Conversion between Alternate Forms
DFT of Concatenated Sample Sequences
DFT Coefficients of a Commensurate Sum
Frequency Distortion by Leakage
The Effects of Zero Padding
Computing DFT Defining Formulas Per Se
Sampling and Reconstruction of Functions—Part II
Sampling Nonperiodic Band-Limited Functions
Deriving the Fourier Transform Pair
The Sine and Cosine Frequency Contents
Tabulating Two Sets of Fundamental Formulas
Connections with Time/Frequency Restrictions
Fourier Transform Properties
Alternate Form of the Fourier Transform
Computing the Fourier Transform
Computing the Fourier Coefficients
Sampling and Reconstruction of Functions—Part III
Impulse Functions and Their Properties
Generating the Fourier Transform Pairs
Convolution and Fourier Transform
Periodic Convolution and Fourier Series
Convolution with the Impulse Function
Impulse Train as a Generalized Function
Impulse Sampling of Continuous-Time Signals
Nyquist Sampling Rate Rediscovered
Sampling Theorem for Band-Limited Signal
Sampling of Band-Pass Signals
The Fourier Transform of a Sequence
Deriving the Fourier Transform of a Sequence
Properties of the Fourier Transform of a Sequence
Generating the Fourier Transform Pairs
Duality in Connection with the Fourier Series
The Fourier Transform of a Periodic Sequence
The DFT Interpretation
The Discrete Fourier Transform of a Windowed Sequence
A Rectangular Window of Infinite Width
A Rectangular Window of Appropriate Finite Width
Frequency Distortion by Improper Truncation
Windowing a General Nonperiodic Sequence
Frequency-Domain Properties of Windows
Applications of the Windowed DFT
Discrete Convolution and the DFT
Linear Discrete Convolution
Periodic Discrete Convolution
The Chirp Fourier Transform
Applications of the DFT in Digital Filtering and Filters
The Background
Application-Oriented Terminology
Revisit Gibbs Phenomenon from the Filtering Viewpoint
Experimenting with Digital Filtering and Filter Design
Fast Algorithms
Index Mapping and Mixed-Radix FFTs
Algebraic DFT versus FFT-Computed DFT
The Role of Index Mapping
The Recursive Equation Approach
Other Forms by Alternate Index Splitting
Kronecker Product Factorization and FFTs
Reformulating the Two-Factor Mixed-Radix FFT
From Two-Factor to Multifactor Mixed-Radix FFT
Other Forms by Alternate Index Splitting
Factorization Results by Alternate Expansion
Unordered FFT for Scrambled Input
Utilities of the Kronecker Product Factorization
The Family of Prime Factor FFT Algorithms
Connecting the Relevant Ideas
Deriving the Two-Factor PFA
Matrix Formulation of the Two-Factor PFA
Matrix Formulation of the Multifactor PFA
Number Theory and Index Mapping by Permutations
The In-Place and In-Order PFA
Efficient Implementation of the PFA
On Computing the DFT of Large Prime Length
Performance of FFT for Prime N
Fast Algorithm I: Approximating the FFT
Fast Algorithm II: Using Bluestein's FFT


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Thursday, February 7, 2013
17 National Awards, Four Regional
NBSC, a division of Synovus Bank, recently announced that Synovus received 17 national awards from Greenwich Associates for excellence in both Middle Market and Small Business banking. Among 750 banks evaluated nationwide, only 39 received national excellence awards for Middle Market banking, and only 42 for Small Business banking. Synovus received four regional awards as well.
"These awards are a testimony to the excellent service our team members provide customers day-in and day-out," said Synovus Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kessel D. Stelling. "We want to thank our customers for their continued trust and confidence in us, and we know we must continue every day to earn the right to be their bankers and financial advisors."
Chuck Garnett said, "NBSC is proud to be part of the Summerville community. We live here, we know our customers, and we strive to deliver products, services, and expertise that help our customers achieve their financial goals. We are always focused on improving our customers' experience every time they do business with us, and these awards demonstrate our bank's dedication to delivering exceptional customer service."
In the Middle Market banking segment of the Greenwich Excellence Awards, Synovus was a national winner in these categories: overall satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, and relationship manager performance. The Synovus Treasury Management team was recognized for overall satisfaction, customer service, and product capabilities. In addition to the six national awards, Synovus was honored with two Middle Market banking South Regional awards for overall client satisfaction and Treasury Management overall satisfaction.
In the Small Business banking category, Synovus received national awards for overall satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, relationship manager performance, credit policy, financial stability, branch satisfaction, and personal banking satisfaction. In Treasury Management, Synovus was awarded for overall satisfaction, accuracy of operations, customer service and product capabilities. In the South Regional segment, Synovus was recognized for overall client satisfaction as well as Treasury Management overall satisfaction.
In compiling these rankings, Greenwich Associates interviewed more than 14,000 middle-market firms with sales of $10-$500 million, and 17,500 small businesses with sales of $1-$10 million across the country.
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On a Sunday evening nearly two years ago, Daniel Snyder hit his nadir with the Washington Redskins. Trudging down the stairwell of one of his private planes in the hangar of the Dulles Jet Center, burgundy-and-gold striped necktie askew, he mouthed an expletive passengers behind him could clearly hear. In that moment, hours after the Redskins had lost to the lowly Lions — the worst team in pro football — in Detroit, Snyder resembled less of an NFL owner than an exasperated day trader.
"He was as stressed out and lost as I'd ever seen him," said an associate of Snyder, who recounted the scene." It was the bottom for all of us, but it was mostly the bottom for him."


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Remember earlier this week when the internet was all, "Robert Downey Jr. will be the new voice of Mister Peanut!" and we were like, "Does Mister Peanut have a voice? Is he even still alive? And if he is, isn't he a pretentious, classist New Yorker cartoon turned arrogant nut spokesperson? Who cares?" We all said exactly those sentences in order.
The wait* is over! Here is Robert Downey Jr.'s first commercial as Mister Peanut. It's no Satan's Alley, but it's actually pretty cool-looking:
* By "wait" I mean, hearing of the RDJ news and going "hrm, ok" then going about your daily life completely unaffected then this commercial coming out.


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Megan Driscoll Berdugo teaches geometry and calculus at Brooklyn International High School.
Mathnasium, which helps kids from pre-K to high school, is launching a new center on 72 nd Avenue.
Kids who once hated math are moving to the top of their classes through the instructional program.
The new mathematics museum in Flatiron is set to open on Saturday.
Middle schoolers at Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens competed for the chance to win an iPad mini.
Several juniors at Bronx HS for Medical Science pleaded for the courses but were told to wait, they said.
Elementary and middle schools students saw modest test score gains, but city still lags behind state.
Members of CB5 say the future home of the Museum of Mathematics needs to stay true to its past.
Public school students in New York City have made little to no progress in reading and math since 2009.
Middle schoolers squared off in math competition Saturday.
The "MoMath" is set to open in fall 2012 near Madison Square Park.
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Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Energy company founder Bill Koch went back in time, the billionaire built an entire town in the Old West. The Denver Post says Koch built 50 buildings, including a jail, train station and, of course, a saloon. It's for his private use and also a home for his collection of western memorabilia. His two brothers famously spend on political causes. Bill Koch also spends on campaigns, but rather than just trying to change the world, he built his own. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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- Encourage graduate students to acquire, advance, and communicate knowledge in an independent and critical manner for the benefit of society.
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The graduate of XU Graduate School is characterized by competence, conscience, commitment to change and Christ-centeredness.
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Goldenfiddle posted these pictures of Lindsay Lohan dressed as various movie icons featured in an upcoming issue of Premiere Magazine. You may also remember Lohan on the cover of Entertainment Weekly last year imitating the likes of Brigitte Bardot.
Are these subliminal messages orchestrated by team Lohan to make us forget about her unmemorable films thus far? It is odd that she's reached megawatt status with only Herbie Fully Loaded and a smattering of teen dramas to her name. Then again, she was brilliant in La Dolce Vita and I cried my eyes out when she said goodbye to Bogie and hopped a plane out of Casablanca.


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(December 31, 2001)
Bible Dentistry
By Kelly Tinning
I shared this thought with only one other group, and the vocal ones in the bunch openly scoffed when I admitted brushing before and after flossing my teeth. You see, I'm of the opinion that the fluoride (if you use it) can get at a tooth better if you remove the excess plaque first, using a wetted brush and floss. It occurs to me also that the same can be said of reading your Bible in the living room where your roommate is watching WWF wrestling on the television: though it may be a good witness to your roommate, there is reason to believe that removing some of the periphery, when possible, will render a better result to you as you read. And by the way, I never brush before bedtime since the fluoride seems to displace the protective mucous and give me a sore throat. But in the case of Bible reading, perhaps having the Lord on our hearts the last thing in the day would similarly displace the normally compelling worldly orientation which we find ourselves drawn away by when it comes to some quiet time after reading Scripture. But no matter where you read your Bible you are liable to be "loaded with benefits".
The end of December always brings to mind the proper choice of committing to another year of reading through the entire Bible. But imagine a world where no one read their Bible, or where only Bibles in the original language were published because of the doubt regarding translation. It's easy to see that we would be a sorry bunch without these privileges, with only a few, or no one knowing the desires and plan of our Creator.
In that regard, the chief deception that stumbles those following a daily reading schedule is the assumption that there are things more important than making regular room to become aware of the content that our Creator uses to reveal Himself to us. And at the other extreme, it's important when you are following a Bible reading schedule, not to become distracted by the urge to study small bits to the exclusion of just reading the whole. If something catches your eye, jot it down and move on, coming back later.
Additionally, if you get behind, don't throw away your past effort and habit of reading, over the notion that you won't ever catch up; the more important thing is to keep your heart open to the Lord's word and direction for your life, and walking away from a routine of that exposure tends to be a mistake for normal creatures of habit. Even for a slow reader who commits to 24 minutes a day it is easily done. That's 1/60th of a 24 hour day. That's really not much if you have to double or triple it for a few days to catch up ... if you are honest with yourself.
"Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word ..And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." (Isaiah 66: 1,2,24)
"For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." (1 Thessalonians 2:13)
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Boswellia and Cancer
A study appearing in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology (2000;46:97-103) looked at the effect boswellia had on cancer growth in female wistar rats. The rats were injected with C6 tumor cells in the right caudate nucleus (brain). The animals were divided into four groups, a control group and three groups receiving varying concentrations of boswellic acids. Boswellic acids are obtained from a tree, Boswellia serrata, which is native to India. The tree yields a gum resin (salai guggul) that has been used for centuries to reduce inflammation and the treatment of conditions like arthritis, irritable bowel, Crohn's disease and asthma. The boswellic acids are the active ingredient from Boswellia serrata.
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I hope this is allowed. If you are going to in DL or DCA in the park on 12/10 or 12/11, and you recognize me, please say HI!
I'm asking this for my own personal experiment of how many micechatters are around me during a day at the park, PLUS I'm bringing a few friends of mine who have never been and I think it would up the "magic" factor is random friendly strangers keep coming up to say hi to us! You can see what I look like on my avatar. I'll like be in a StarWars or Red Christmas Mickey shirt with Mickey Ear hat of some sort and a brown sweater/jacket. The one thing I will have on that will NO change day-to-day is my trusty backpack:
Seriously, come up and say Hi to me! I would love it, I think you'll love it, and the girls with me will love it. And if you want, we can take a picture together and post it up here! If I get enough, I'll do a whole separate TR with random meetings when I get back.
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Only UFC Loss To Condit Haunting For Jake Ellenberger
"It's something that keeps me up at night. The first fight, I took the fight on two weeks-notice. I'm going to be honest, that's the fight that really keeps me up at night. It makes me want to work harder and motivates me. To see where he's at, I know I can beat him."
While a guest on last night's "UFC Tonight" weekly news show, Jake Ellenberger expressed his thoughts on his only UFC loss.
The Nebraskan fighter made his UFC debut against Carlos Condit back in 2009 on just two weeks-notice and gave him all he could handle inside the 15-minute time frame but it was Condit who earned the victory via split-decision.
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I think Ellenberger would smash the running man.. Be a man and defend your title, Carlos!
he will smash on him again. this SHOULD be the next fight before the interim champ fights GreaSeP.
agreed. where does condit get off thinking its his decision weather or not he wants to defend his fake belt. you cant put the WW division on hold for a year because your scared of ellenburger putting you in the fetal position again. where you at carlos?
i great example of #GregJacksonism . once you get the belt you change into a different fighter/person and fans start to hate. eg bones jones, GSP, Condit
The road runner is scared he went from being ill fight anyone even if its for free to I'm going to wait for GSP.
after all the shit condit put up with leading up to his title fight w/ diaz i think he has the right to pick/choose who he wants to fight next.
if he doesn't wait for gsp who knows if he will ever get the chance again. he's trying to solidify his legacy as the best ww in the world.
imagine how different things would have been if BJ fought Condit and GSP fought Diaz like they were supposed to.
no fighter should pick and choose who they fight. Number one should fight number 2 thats how you build a legacy.
Condit needs to stop being a bitch. The hell is wrong with him? I don't care that he got thrown around. Diaz got thrown around just as much as him, Condit either needs to be stripped of the interim belt if he's not going to defend it, because we all know it's just a number one contender belt, and have him be the number one contender to fight GSP. He needs to nut the fuck up and fight Jake.
Condit would take Ellenberger apart in a 5 rounder. Kampmann would be a better 5 round fight. Ellenberger's only chance would be a first or second round KO. But with Carlos' great chin, that is extremely unlikely.
Yea like he didnt do the first time? Jake is 100x better and explodes like a mini Vitor. Condit wont by SD. How the fuck is that picking someone apart? Take Condicks cock out of your mouth you bandwagon whore. Bet you loved Edgar and now your licking Ben´s nuts yea?
How about a little less hate, dude? Holy smokes! Anyways, I never said he picked him apart. Clearly, he didn't. But, he gassed in the 3rd in that fight and in the Sanchez one. That's why I am saying in a 5 rounder, Condit would probably take him apart.
He got tired because he took the fight on two weeks notice. Jake destroyed a guy who beat Hendo, he is clearly a better fighter then before. I would pick Jake in the rematch
I don't know about that. I have heard Ellenberger say in interviews that he is constantly training. Plus, it looked similar in the Sanchez fight. Maybe you are right, but I don't think so. I think if Ellenberger doesn't finish Condit in the first two rounds, he goes on to lose one way or another. Kampmann is more well – rounded than Ellenberger IMO.
kinda pathetic, condit looses the fight to diaz, all champs agree, diaz had 12 and 5, condit landed more leg kicks but diaz had more punches, and condit thinks he can sit out for like a year and get a shot at gsp after losing the fight dissaponinting the fans, dnt get me wrong he had a gameplan ye, but still it failed and he promised a dog fight and it was more like a cat vs a dog fight with carlos bein a cat, and now he doesn't want to risk another fight? what a champ, gsp will smash him
Well, Diaz should have made it more decisive then. It was a close fight. He had a golden chance at fighting GSP and he didn't quite pull it off, IMO. But as long as he doesn't retire, I am sure we will get to see him fight both Condit again and GSP in the future. He just needs to learn from this and make sure he doesn't have stupid corner men next time. They were feeding him the wrong information.
I actually thought Condit one, he stepped back, yeah, but he caused the damage. Not looking to argue about it, just throwing my opinion out. Either way, I wanna see Condit fight like he fought Hardy, except not end it as fast. that was a fun fight.
Condit was better than Diaz in much more of the key areas. He out struck him overall by a landslide – 40 +. He landed more total power strikes by 11; 18 of them were power leg strikes, which were really adding up. Diaz fans don't ever talk about it, but the cumulative effect of those 18 leg strikes were evident in the first minute of the 5th, when Condit chopped his leg with that loud smack, yet again, causing his leg to buckle; he also had the higher power head strikes. Condit had the higher striking percentage, making him miss lots and on some big swings. He had the best combinations; he had 3 strike combinations compared to Diaz' 2 strike ones. He forced Diaz to fight his fight in the center of the octagon where he was the better striker and thwarted "his tactic" of keeping him pinned up against the fence. His ground game was equal to his, taking no damage and avoiding any real submission threat – even reversing him at the end. Finally, he had the single most dominant round – the 4th – in the fight, totally outclassing Diaz with amazing combinations and superior striking, which Diaz had absolutely no answer for, thus solidifying that it was he who had taken control of the fight. Just a brilliantly executed strategy!
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The sudden flash of yellow in the tree outside the Daly City BART station stopped me in my tracks.
I'd been hustling from the parking lot to catch my 8:30 train — who knows what going through my head: a meeting, a lunch, a conference call, another meeting. But all that was erased completely by what I soon ascertained was a Townsend's Warbler hopping from branch to branch in this skeletal bit of parking lot landscaping.
The bird gave me a few seconds to marvel at it, and then blasted off. A speck against the gray sky, and then gone.
Mine wasn't the only sighting of a Townsend's Warbler in the last few days. If you follow the communications of the birding community, the little birds are coming through San Francisco in a wave, humbling our morning commutes with their migration from Central America to British Columbia, where they'll make their nests.
For a birder in San Francisco, this is the time of year when our notoriously celebrated local color and diversity goes to a whole new level.
I'll be hearing the bright chirp of my favorite Ash-throated Flycatchers any day, and I'll need to keep an eye out for the annual visit of the brilliant orange Rufous Hummingbirds.
The Pacific Wren is already singing its song in the Presidio, and I know from the photos on Craig Newmark's Twitter feed that Golden Gate Park is starting to light up with winged migrants.
Spring migration also means it's time to wish the Golden-crowned Sparrow that has spent the winter outside my bedroom window a safe trip north to breeding grounds in British Columbia and Alaska.
The conservationist in me, when thinking about spring migration, will always tend toward thinking about the challenges these birds face on their long journeys. All too many of these challenges are man-made and avoidable.
Like so many of my colleagues, I'm worried about California's drought, which depending on who you believe, is either the worst in our lifetime, or the worst in 100 years, or the worst in 500 years.
I worry that the drought will transform our landscape, and break a migratory continuum that stretches all along the Pacific Flyway from South America to Alaska. And I fear that our well-intentioned response to the drought might make things even worse.
San Francisco, however, holds the distinction of not only being a great city to bird, but also being a great bird city. The Golden Gate Audubon Society sponsors an annual Lights Out campaign, encouraging building owners to turn out their lights to avoid confusing migrating birds, and the city in 2011 was the first on the West Coast to approve bird-safe building standards.
But when I see my first Hooded Oriole this spring, I won't be thinking about all that.
Instead I'll be thinking about this glorious creature all dressed up in yellow and black, the incredible journey it made to be right here, and how fortunate I am to be part of that by bearing witness to its arrival.
Brigid McCormack is executive director of Audubon California.
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The AU game was at 48k+
Than UA game was at 78k+
Yeldon is going to wear #4, Chris Black will be #5, Ryan Anderson #7, Deion Belue #13, Travell Dixon #9. They all took a picture together wearing their new jerseys, it made rounds on the Internet about a week ago.
Hey Dennis you need to check your sources, he was 6'1 as a sophmore. His current h/w is 6'3" 200lbs
Isn't this the same guy that was the Lions QB coach when they went 0-16?
One of the best blocking WR's that has worn the crimson and white in years. Hope he does well.
except that EG projects as a DE and AT is a true NG. Goldman has to much speed he will be an edge rusher(Dareus like) and AT is more of a Cody type
Meltdown in 3...2...1
This is being followed in part because of the rumors about Hart getting into a fight with another player and possibly being released from the team. all though these rumors have been knocked down by several players
He will likely use his redshirt and not a medical redshirt as this could be used at a later date if he would ever apply for a 6th year for medical hardship.
I believe it probably has to do with us playing them this weekend.... Obsession noted
Nov 5 will be the first ever CFB game with an "R" rating
They are not thugs but they will sure beat you up, take your lunch money and leave you on the field crying for your momma
If it is going to happen it will need to be this year, next year the D will be completely re-built, losing Harris, DH, Upshaw, Barron, Menzie, Phelon Jones, Chapman.... and probably Dre Kirk, Lester early to the draft. This year it is freaking loaded though....
If you read he said " and if he does, the latter might be heading toward a grayshirt." Key word being "latter" referring to Danny Woodson
and thats why you don't get 4.6mil a year to coach.....
Word is one of them is Robert Lester
he should wear the #2, reminds me of the Duece...
Coach Joe Pendry retired yesterday, Stoutland is the likely replacement.
Worked out well with Rashad Johnson
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Christopher Holland Jr.: Alleged Robber Shot Dead in Hazelwood
Categories: Follow That Story, Violent Crime
According to Wolf, Holland attempted to rob by gunpoint a man in his 50s while the intended victim was taking a walk through the neighborhood around Dunn and Cortena . Wolf says the shooting appears "justified" at this time, though county prosecutors will ultimately decide whether to press charges. The man did have a concealed-carry permit. Holland was shot twice, once in the side and once in the back.
The intended robbery victim -- whose name police are withholding pending any charges -- told police he carries the weapon to fend off canines.
"He's had some injuries that make it unable for him to run away from dogs," says Wolf. "Apparently, in this case the would be robber picked the worn person."
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Like most married couples with kids, Jared and I spend most evenings relaxing in front of the TV. This is great for catching up on our shows, but it can make for a pretty lame marriage. Since we can't afford to get a babysitter every weekend, I tried to come up with ideas for creating the feel of a date night at home. And then it hit me – we love to cook, we love Iron Chef, and we love a little friendly competition… a weekly Iron Chef battle was just the thing we needed to, uh, spice up our Saturday nights.
Here's what we do… earlier in the week we'll pick an ingredient, then toss around some course ideas. We prepare 3 courses, 1 each and then 1 joint course. Everything is made from scratch and we aren't allowed to use recipes (unless it's to make an ingredient that we've never made before, like pie crust.) Jared goes out during Saturday naptime to get all the ingredients, we start prepping during the day as needed, and we start the real cooking once Emma goes to bed. We don't limit ourselves to an hour because, well, that would be insane.
The first week we did Battle Blue Cheese, and it was AH-MAZING! I took a ton of photos, and then promptly accidentally deleted them when I formatted my CF card. So let's move on to Battle Bacon, shall we?
Our first course was our joint course… a romaine salad with shallot bacon balsamic dressing topped with blue cheese crumbles and bacon. It was really tasty, but the blue cheese overpowered the bacon flavor. I'd absolutely make this again, though.
The second course was all Jared, and the man out-did himself… bacon-wrapped shrimp and bacon wrapped scallops crusted with lemon pepper & sea salt, topped with Old Bay bacon crumbles. The shrimp were good, but the scallops were to-die-for. So juicy and tender, and perfectly complemented by the bacon.
The third course was mine, and if I do say so myself (and I do, because it's my blog), I crushed it. Maple bacon ice cream garnished with bacon brittle. Best. Ice. Cream. Ever. Okay, maybe not the best ever, but easily the best I've ever made. If you've ever been to Voodoo Donuts in Portland, you've probably had their maple bacon bar… well, this is the ice cream equivalent of that deliciousness.
Jared and I agreed that we tied on this battle… his scallops were just as delicious as my ice cream. We high fived each other and agreed that this was the best date night idea ever. Well, second to actually leaving the house. Cooking together is a blast and we get an amazing meal out of it. If you're looking for a way to jazz up your weekends with your significant other, I highly recommend trying your own Iron Chef battle.
Up next for us… Battle Lemon. Kinda unconventional, but lemons are in season so we're just going to roll with it.


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A primer on the Old Testament
Article Scripture and Theology
The editors interview Father Leslie Hoppe, O.F.M.
Adapted from an article that first appeared in the January 1991 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 56, No. 1, pages 26-31).
Franciscan Father Leslie Hoppe is a professor of Old Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago. He is the author of many outstanding books on the Old Testament and biblical archaeology, including The Holy City: Jerusalem in the Theology of the Old Testament (Glazier) and There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible (Abingdon).


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It's twenty-five years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and five years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE. Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit. Added to which, Rebus may be about to derail the career of his ex-colleague Siobhan Clarke, while himself being permanently derailed by mob boss and old adversary Big Ger Cafferty. But all Rebus wants to do is discover the truth about a series of seemingly unconnected disappearances stretching back to the millennium. The problem being, no one else wants to go there - and that includes Rebus's fellow officers. Not that any of that is going to stop Rebus. Not even when his own life and the careers of those around him are on the line.
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Ian Rankin is the internationally bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus and Detective Malcolm Fox novels, as well as a string of standalone thrillers. His books have been translated into 36 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian is the recipient of four CWA Dagger Awards and in 2004, won America's celebrated Edgar Award. He is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Hull and Edinburgh and received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.
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Genius... Rankin once again proves himself to be the consummate master of crime. -- David Robinson SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY Ian Rankin's fiction is as reliable as it is successful, so this installment will thrill his many fans. LITERARY REVIEW Rebus has returned... and it's a treat to welcome him back TIMES An impeccably crafted whodunnit -- John Dugdale SUNDAY TIMES Rebus is without doubt one of the funniest among the classical fictional detectives, and his 19th case features some fine one-liners... STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE is Rankin's most interesting book politically... Cheeringly, it seems clear from the final pages that there will be more Rebus books to chart the next stage in Scotland's story -- Mark Lawson GUARDIAN Rankin draws us into a thematically rich plot that evolves into a meditation on morality and how best to asses a man's worth... Rebus is one of the most popular fictional characters of our generation. -- Declan Burke IRISH TIMES Now we know retirement has not withered Rebus -- Jake Kerridge DAILY TELEGRAPH Rebus is back and the result is an outstanding whodunit, a book that should be read by anyone wanting to experience the very best of modern crime fiction. It is high praise indeed to suggest that this is the finest book Ian Rankin has ever written: but in our view it is. UNDISCOVEREDSCOTLAND.COM Rebus hasn't changed; he's as sharp, petty, curmudgeonly and likeable as ever. IRISH SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Vintage Rankin... [a] thoroughly absorbing, endlessly twisting tale. I was gripped from first page to last - and so will you be. READER'S DIGEST Vintage Rebus MORNING STAR Gritty and hard-hitting, it's the work of a writer at the very top of his game. SUNDAY MIRROR The prose is as ferocious as ever; the sense of place matchless; this is British crime-writing of the finest, lasting quality. -- Geoffry Wansell DAILY MAIL A seasonal treat for crime fiction fans. CHOICE Rankin's malcontent still makes for an irresistibly morose companion i Rankin's dialogue flows so naturally that it's easy to dismiss his subtler gifts; no one captures the bleak grandeur of Scotland, or the mindset of those charged with upholding its law, in quite the same way. -- Christopher Fowler FINANCIAL TIMES "For crime novel aficionados, this year's literary sensation is not 50 Shades of whatever or JK Rowling's non-magical foray into adult fiction. No, it is the return of one of the genre's finest characters; and what a welcome return it is. SUNDAY EXPRESS Rebus is back, in a novel long, meaty and persuasive enough to make up for the years of absence. -- Allan Massie SPECTATOR Ian Rankin's now iconic Rebus series provides a better biography of modern Edinburgh over the past 25 years than almost anything else. -- Alex Heminsley INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY


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MU roundup: Williamson throws 14 Ks as Herd wins
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Marshall pitcher Andi Williamson tied a career-high 14 strikeouts as the Thundering Herd softball team defeated Quinnipiac 6-1 in the first game of the Spartan Classic.
For Williamson (4-6), it marks her second consecutive win on the mound after getting the decision against Miami (Ohio) on Feb. 17.
After building a 3-0 lead, Marshall struck for three runs in the sixth inning with a leadoff homer from Jazmine Valle, and a two-run shot from pinch-hitter Savanah Webster.
Valle went 2-4 on the day and extended a four-game hitting streak. She started the scoring in the first inning with a double that brought home Ashley Gue.
Quinnipiac scored its lone run in the bottom of the seventh, before Williamson shut the Bobcats down with two consecutive strikeouts.
Marshall moves to 4-7 on the season and plays a doubleheader Sunday, facing UNC Greensboro and Drexel.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Unrelenting rain postponed Marshall's basketball game Saturday with North Carolina A&T at War Memorial Stadium.
The teams are scheduled for a Sunday doubleheader beginning at noon.
HOUSTON -- Marshall freshman Danica Ross swam the 100 Free preliminary race in 51.29 to set a new school record Saturday morning at the 2013 Swimming/Diving Championships at the University of Houston Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium.
Ross' time bested Milla Kuurto's mark of 51.41 in 2004. Ross led a Marshall contingent in the race, which included Lauren Hurd (25th, 53.30) and Katie Kramer (26th, 55.26). With her performance, Ross earned a spot in Saturday night's consolation final.
"The story of the morning was Danica Ross breaking the school record in the 100 Free," said Marshall head coach Bill Tramel. "Megan Clemens was fantastic and Alex Black dropped four seconds from her lifetime best in the 200 Breast."
Clemens posted a 17:09.21 time in the 1650 Free, which was the fourth-fastest time of the morning. Tiffany Aeling was 10th in 17:39.33.
Sarah Kay had a strong performance in the 200 Fly with a seventh-place finish in a time of 2:02.39 to gain a spot in the championship final. Arlie Rykosky was 17th (2:07.98), Sarah Coghlin was 19th (2:09.15) and Victoria Messner placed 20th (2:09.32).
Sarah Schimenti led the Herd in the 200 Breast, advancing to Saturday night's consolation final with a 16th-place finish in a time of 2:25.91. Kelsey Ferguson was 17th (2:26.34), followed by Madison Lawhorn (18th, 2:26.58) and Alexandria Black (21st, 2:31.47).
The Herd was also expected to compete in the 400 Free Relay Saturday night, the final event of the entire championship.
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Chaplains deployed during Iraq War held fast to their faith
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me."
— Psalms 23:4
Many a priest or pastor has spoken the words, but military chaplains Jeffrey Han and John Love have walked through such a valley or comforted a man or woman who has.
Han, a lieutenant commander, is an Episcopal chaplain for Naval Base Ventura County. Love, a 49-year-old reservist with the Air National Guard, is a major and pastor at St. Mark's University Roman Catholic Church in Isla Vista. Both were deployed during the Iraq War.
"I'm most proud of that tour of duty than of anything I've ever done," said Han, who soon will turn 48. "It took all the experience, faith and know-how I had."
Rather than peaceful houses of worship, the military chaplains' churches were blazing stretches of sand riddled with explosives and chaotic hospital hallways alive with rolling gurneys and moans of pain.
"Faith tends to grow or fall apart," Lt. William Stewart, a Navy chaplain stationed in Al-Anbar province during an especially violent period in Iraq, once said. "When it's over, often times you find yourself with stronger faith ... but some people go through too many traumatic events, and they eventually lose sight of faith."
Stewart made those remarks during a 2009 speech to troops stationed in Yokosuka, Japan, according to a Navy news release.
Love and Han said their experiences strengthened their faith.
"In some ways, my faith has matured," Han said. "Though you walk through the shadow of death, God is with you, but you still have to walk through the tough times. But he won't let you walk alone."
Han was embedded for seven months with a unit of U.S. and Iraqi troops in 2008. He previously had been deployed to Kuwait in 2003 at the start of the Iraq War.
Love's tour of duty was two years ago at a military hospital near Ramstein, Germany. Love was one of eight chaplains of different faiths who handled a steady stream of wounded troops arriving from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We would get calls, usually in the middle of the night, saying, 'We've got inbound flying in from Baghdad, two VSIs, 10 injured and 20 ambulatory,' " Love said. He knew 'VSI' meant "very seriously injured."
"A lot of guys would come in on life support," he said.
After the call a helicopter was on the way, Love would run to the tarmac, his pants legs whipping in the wind.
"It made me feel an incredible mix of emotions. The adrenaline's running," Love said.
He noticed similar attitudes among the bloodied troops. Many were angry they got injured and wanted to heal as quickly as possible so they could rejoin their buddies.
"There's a bravado to them," Love said, "the amount of fight they've got in them. Things like: 'Father, I shouldn't even be here right now. I only got hit, but the entire bomb didn't blow up,' or: 'I wish I could take the place of my battle buddy. He got killed.' "
Love would tell them they had been on a mission but that now they had a new mission: to get better.
"If I saw a guy missing body parts, often times they were so medicated, they were out," Love said. "But they could hear you."
Han's ministry required that he face the same perils as the men and women in his convoy, such as mortars and roadside bombs. Sleep was elusive, especially after some Iraqi soldiers in the unit were killed by a suicide bomber who drove a car full of explosives into the camp.
"You have a hard time sleeping. Frustration, anger, rage — it's all mixed up in there," Han said. "Sometimes you have to channel that in a positive way."
So he developed what he calls his sports ministry.
"I think one of the best things I did was I started a basketball league," Han said. "That was their way of blowing off steam. We had one ratty old basketball, but we could have been in a San Diego park."
Han said he is at peace with the theological questions that often vex the faithful. He believes good people must fight for what's right and that we must believe that those we call our enemies will someday be allies.
"If you asked someone after V-E or V-J Day that the Germans and Japanese are going to be our closest allies, they would have said, 'You've got to be joking,' " Han said.
Love found the most difficult part of being a chaplain came when families were flown in before life support was removed from a critically injured soldier.
"At a certain point, there are no words," Love said. "You simply stay with the family. Sometimes silence is best."
Despite the number of Last Rites he had to perform, Love said he is certain God called him to spend two months at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
"I realized this is what I had been preparing to do all my life," Love said.
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Some dog owners in Flemingsburg may have to get rid of their pets if new ordinance changes are passed.
Flemingsburg City Council members voted Monday to possibly ban pit bulls within city limits.
City officials said the proposed changes follow several complaints about pit bulls around Flemingsburg.
The ordinance reads, "It is hereby determined that pit bull dogs have inherently vicious and dangerous propensities, and are potentially hazardous and unreasonably dangerous to the health, safety and welfare of the citizens residents and inhabitants of the city."
City Clerk Joy Roark said there were two pit bull owners that attended Monday's meeting to ask council members to reconsider, but members still voted unanimously to pass the ordinance changes.
The second reading is expected at the council's next meeting on June 10. If passed, pit bull owners will have 30 days to get rid of their dogs. Anyone who doesn't follow the new ordinance could be fined $250 and would have their dog taken away.
Flemingsburg doesn't have an animal shelter. Animal Control Officer Randy Hunt said the city has a contract with the Lewis County animal shelter, so that is where the confiscated dogs would be taken.
Officials at the Lewis County shelter said taking in banned pit bulls wouldn't cause a big problem for them. They said pit bulls are still allowed in Lewis County, with certain restrictions, and they can usually find homes for the dogs.


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Rowdy in Paris : When Rowdy Talbot loses his silver belt buckle - the prize for winning the Crockett County bull riding championship - to two Frenchwomen he met in a bar, he hops on a plane to the City of Light to get it back, only to tangle with disaffected French revolutionaries, a turquoise-peddling CIA operative, a middle-aged courtesan, and a plot to destroy an American fast-food franchise. As Rowdy discovers in the chaos, there's a whole other world beyond the back of a bull.
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Scotland international Fletcher is close to making his comeback after five months out with a serious ankle injury.
Di Canio is happy with Fletcher's recovery, but will not gamble with the player's long-term fitness.
"If it depends on Steven, he can play now," said Di Canio. "He says 'I can score; I can score; every game I can score now'.
"I can understand him but we have to be sensible, we have to be intelligent. In my opinion it's better to take another week after a few months out. Too accelerate him too much now would be very, very stupid. I tell him it's for you, it's for us.
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It began as a vision for a world-class arts facility and cultural focal point for the city of Virginia Beach and the region. It is hard to believe six years and six amazing seasons have passed since the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors. More than 613,000 people have visited the Sandler Center since November 2007. Over 150 sell-outs are among the approximately 3,000 total events that have been held at the city's premiere venue, which has become a landmark for residents, visitors and arts lovers of all ages as well as a destination for the some of the most renowned performers in the world.
There is no better time than now for the gift of giving. For 2013, The Sandler Center once again presents The Giving Tree. All donations to the Giving Tree go directly to our ACCESS the ARTS program to provide matinee show tickets to students at Title 1 schools who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience the great works of music, dance and theatre offered at the Sandler Center.
Education and outreach are an integral part of the Sandler Center's mission. Over 4,800 students attended special matinee performances last year, many of them as part of the ACCESS the ARTS program. And more than 100 young participants have spent an exciting week at the Sandler Center's performing arts-themed summer and spring break camp.
You know what a gem we have in the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts. We are asking not only for your help, but also for your continued support of bringing the arts to our wonderful community. We invite you to consider making a contribution, which is fully tax deductible to the 2013 Giving Tree.
With $10 student tickets, a donation of $100 can give the gift of the arts to TEN children!
Through the Sandler Center Foundation's ACCESS the ARTS program, funding is provided for underserved students from local Title 1 schools to attend student matinee performances at the Sandler Center. For a donation of $10, you can give the gift of the arts to one child to experience a matinee performance at the Sandler Center. For $30, you can send a carload of children. For $60, you can send a vanload of children, and for $400, you can send an entire busload of children to see a show! Your pledge will go entirely to funding the tickets for these local children.
Driven by a passion to reach students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience the great works of music, dance and theatre the Sandler Center has to offer, the Sandler Center Foundation developed an innovative program entitled "ACCESS the ARTS" to reach the at-risk and underserved students in Title 1 schools throughout Hampton Roads. The funding provided by this program is used to assist Title 1 schools in our local region with the costs associated with arts education programming at the Sandler Center. In Virginia Beach alone, there are sixteen Title 1 schools that have at least 40% of their student population receiving reduced lunches and living in low-income conditions. In some schools, this number is as high as 80%.
Last year, the ACCESS the ARTS program provided funding for 3,850 elementary-aged students (grades K-5) to attend matinee education programs at the Sandler Center. We have expanded the program's reach and have invited underserved children from Title 1 public schools in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News and Portsmouth to apply for the ACCESS the ARTS program. We aim to bring in 5,000 underserved children through our performance hall doors in the 2013-2014 season. Greater funding will allow us to do just that. We would be honored to add you as a contributor to this special program.


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Blackboard Faculty Manual - Grade Book
Basics about the Bb grade book:
- Students are automatically entered into the Bb grade book once they register for the course.
- Items and grades can be manually entered into the grade book
- Your Bb grade book should match the grading information that you provided on the syllabus.
- Grades from tests and assignments created within Bb can be set to automatically be graded and posted within the Bb grade book
Adding an item to the grade book (for non-online tests)
- Go to: Control panel > Assessment > Grade book
- Click on "Add Item"
- Review table below for details for the Add/Modify Grade book Items.
|Item Name:
|Enter a title for the new Grade Book item: Your Grade Book should match the grading information that you provided on the syllabus.
|Select a category, such as Homework or Quiz, from the drop-down list
|Enter a description of the Grade book Item
|Select a date for the Grade book Item from the drop down list, or click the Calendar icon and choose a date
|Points Possible:
|Enter the maximum number of points possible for this item
|Display As:
|Select how the grade should be displayed from the drop-down list
|Make item visible to Students:
|Select Yes to enable Student to view the item
Select No and Students will be unable to view the item
Entering grades for an item in the grade book (not an automatically graded item):
- Go to: Control panel > Assessment > Grade Book
- Click on the column heading of the item for which you want to enter grades
- Choose "Item Grade List"
- Enter a grade in the box for corresponding student name
- Submit
Managing Items in the grade book
This feature allows you to modify or remove items from the grade book. You can also change the order in which the items appear in the grade book.
- Go to: Control panel > Assessment > Grade book
- Click on "Manage Items"
- Modify or remove items, as appropriate. (You cannot remove/delete an item from the grade book if it is employed somewhere in the course.)
Manually grading items in the grade book
- Go into the grade book via the Control Panel
- ! (exclamation point) in the grade book indicates that a student has submitted something that needs to be manually graded.
- Click on the ! to view the submission of a student
- Click on "view" on the next screen
- Grade the test/exam
Downloading grades into Excel
If you want to keep a copy of the Bb grade book in a separate Excel file:
- Go to: Control panel > Grade book
- Click on "download grades" (located in listing at the top of the page)
- Click "comma" (delimiter type on the next screen) and submit
- Click "Download" (on the next screen)
- Click "Save" and save to your computer or portable device
- Close once file has been saved
Open the file in Excel
Viewing grades (AND clearing a student attempt)
- Go to Control panel > assessment > grade book
- Click on the score for a particular test to view an individual student's work
- Click on "view" on the next screen
- Review the student's test
- Click "clear attempt" only if you want to give the student another attempt (if you have set up the test parameters allowing only one attempt at the test).
- Click on a student name to view information for that student
Modifying grades for an item (exam/quiz) that was automatically graded by Bb
- Go to Control panel > Assessment > Grade book
- Click on the grade for the student whose grade you want to modify
- Change the student's total grade by editing in the box or click on "view" to view the entire test and modify the points for a particular test question.
Note: If you give half points the half point must appear in the format 0.5, not .5.
- Submit
Watch 6-minute video about the gradebook at http://www.blackboard.com/viewlets/Bb_Assessments_swf.htm (automated demo begins about 30 seconds after first screen)