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Peterson Construction Co. Inc.*, Grand Forks, N.D., is being awarded a $7,166,480 firm-fixed-price contract for an addition to the Physical Fitness Center at Grand Forks Air Force Base. The addition will include a running track, tennis courts, indoor soccer field, swimming pool and child's play area. Work will be performed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 20 bids solicited on July 22, 1999, and three bids were received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, Neb., is the contracting activity (DACA45-99-C-0063).
The Defense Microelectronics Activity, McClellan Air Force Base, Calif., is awarding an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to each of six companies: Raytheon Technical Services Co., Long Beach, Calif. (DMEA90-99-D-0001; TRW Electronics & Technology Division, Redondo Beach, Calif. (DMEA90-99-D-0003); General Dynamics Information Systems Inc., Bloomington, Minn. (DMEA90-99-D-0004); The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash. (DMEA90-99-D-0005); Northrop Grumman Corp., Linthicum Heights, Md. (MDEA90-99-D-0006); and Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., Nashua, N.H. (MDEA90-99-D-0007). Each company will be awarded $50,000 as part of the combined $875,000,000 (estimated) cumulative total, for the Advanced Technology Support Program II (ATSP2). The ATSP2 is a uniform technical and management approach that leverages advanced microelectronics technologies to extend the life of weapon systems. Microelectronics support problems such as reliability, maintainability and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages are solved
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Matsuda Inc.*, Brooks, N.Y., is being awarded an $11,099,270 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of approximately 5,100 meters of rail, embankment, bridge construction, some demolition, lighting protection system, and rail signalization, South of Hopkinsville and between the government line to the West and CSX to the East. Work will be performed in Hopkinsville, Ky., and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2000. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 119 bids solicited on July 22, 1998, and nine bids were received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Ky., is the contracting activity (DACA27-99-C-0041).
Metro Machine Corp., Norfolk, Va.,* is being awarded a $34,601 cost-plus-award-fee contract for the phased and drydock phased maintenance availabilities for fast combat support ships in the AOE 1 and AOE 6 class. This contract contains options, which, if exercised, will bring the cumulative value of this contract to $150,386,373. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa., and is expected to be completed by November 2004. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through the Commerce Business Daily and two offers were received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00024-99-C-8508).
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FALMOUTH — The nonprofit group GreatSchools and Forbes.com rank Falmouth No. 1 their second annual list of "Best Cities to Live and Learn."
The town joins 66 other communities across the country that were ranked based on public school test score data, median home prices and population data.
Falmouth received a score of 100 for its public education system, the highest score possible, and tops the list of "The Best Schools for Your Real Estate Buck."
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Take it for what it's worth but Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen is shooting down rumors of the Penguins and Blue Jackets being involved in any trade talks about Jack Johnson.
"It's silly," Kekalainen told Aaron Portzline of the Columbus-Dispatch on rumors of a Jack Johnson trade to Pittsburgh. "I don't usually respond to this kind of stuff, but this is just silly. I went to watch a game. Ray Shero is a friend of mine," Kekalainen said.
Last night following the Blue Jackets having a heavy presence at Consol Energy Center, Rob Rossi of the Tribune-Review reported that the Penguins are looking at Johnson and that Simon Despres could be moved to land Johnson.
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Design Partner for the project, Ross Wimer, commented, "In the design of our own space, we were guided by the principles that inform our client work. A practical approach to sustainability drove the decisions we made." Principal of Interior Design, Jaime Velez, added, "Sustainability factored into every part of the design process, from specification of finishes to choice of lighting. For instance, we used a sophisticated dimming technology to maximize the quality and amount of daylight that enters the space—significantly reducing the amount of energy consumed on a daily basis."
SOM is a founding and active member of the U.S. Green Building Council and was an original contributor to the development of the LEED Green Building Rating System. "The strength of USGBC has always been in the collective strength of our leaders in the building industry," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. "Given the extraordinary importance of climate protection and the central role of architecture in that effort, SOM demonstrates their leadership through the LEED certification of their Chicago office."
With offices located inside the historic Daniel Burnham-designed Santa Fe building in Chicago, SOM decided to renovate the floors that it occupied rather than move to a new location. Within the landmark building, the design team created an adaptable, sustainable workplace that enhances the multidisciplinary collaboration central to the firm's design practice. The redesign was a proving ground for design strategies that SOM applies to projects worldwide. Specific benchmarks achieved include:
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Alertnet) – A group of Guyana's indigenous people have unveiled a digital map of their territories as part of a project aimed at protecting 1.4 million hectares (5,400 square miles) of the country's rainforest and preserving the community's culture and language.
The 10-year mapping project is part of a longstanding campaign to gain legal recognition of Wapichan rights to their traditional lands. But by protecting the pristine rainforest, the community also aims to play its part in environmental conservation and efforts to curb climate change.
"In a very quiet way, the way of life of the Wapichan people is about fighting climate change," said Kid James, a member of the tribe involved in the project.
"Recognition of our rights to control and manage our traditional territory would be one of the best ways of helping Guyana to tackle climate change and meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity," said Anglebert Johnny, a Wapichan toshao or leader.
The Wapichan are one of Guyana's nine indigenous peoples. Indigenous communities live mostly in the south of the country in Region Nine, which is home to 20 tribal communities.
Their traditional land includes ecosystems rich in rainforests, mountains, wetlands, savannah grasslands and tropical woodlands. Communities have made their living for generations from small-scale farming, hunting, fishing and gathering.
The area also has an abundance of wildlife, including endangered species such as giant river otters, jaguars and bush dogs.
The Wapichan are careful in their exploitation of natural resources, James said.
"We say when we should be fishing and when we should not be touching them," he said.
But indigenous leaders are fearful for the future of their community because of impending large-scale road and dam projects as well as plans for logging, mining and large-scale agro-business ventures.
In recent years there has been an upsurge in mining using water pumps and excavators that rapidly destroy large tracts of land, according to James.
Leaders fear that the Wapichan communities are vulnerable to the exploitation or seizure of land because they lack secure legal title over much of their traditional territory.
"We want to secure our traditional lands so that our customs and traditions could continue," said Toshao Patrick Gomes.
The new digital map was created by members of the tribe using GPS technology to plot the location of key livelihood, spiritual and cultural heritage sites that hold deep importance to the people and sustain their way of life.
More than 80 community consultations, workshops and public meetings were held between 2008 and 2011, building on community research which documented traditional knowledge and customary land use.
The events were held in both English and the Wapichan language. Gomes said people felt more comfortable speaking in their native language and provided more information as a result.
The consultations generated proposals for sustainable land use, supporting local livelihoods and protecting Wapichan territory against harmful development. These were fed into a territorial plan, entitled "Thinking together for those coming behind us."
The plan details customary laws for caring for the land and includes over 40 community agreements to secure community land rights, safeguard and sustainably use resources, and conserve cultural heritage and wildlife sites under community controlled reserves.
"Once ownership rights are secured there is potential for economic benefit as there are some development actions, such as ecotourism and non-timber extractive reserves, identified for different parts of the area," said Kid James.
Another tribal leader, Laurentino Herman, said his people were very supportive of the plan.
"With the project there could be better planning to earn an income. Everyone can feel responsible for the things around them," Herman said.
James added that communities have the option of making their lands part of Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) process, which could bring additional economic benefits.
"But at the moment there is no clear process for how communities can opt into that process," James said. There have been delays in responding to applications, a concern that has been raised by other Amerindian communities around the country, he said.
Anglebert Johnny said that the process had given Wapichan members a new awareness of their role and responsibilities as stewards of the land.
"We never knew that we were the managers of the mountains and their ecosystems," said Johnny. "We had our customary laws for centuries but now we have them written in a document."
The toshaos said the project still needs assistance from donors, government and conservationists to ensure that it is sustained over time.
"We call on the government and national and international allies to help us take this plan forward. Let us work together to have our land title extensions recognised in full and let us put our community agreements to work for the benefit of the Wapichan people, all the citizens of Guyana and the international community," Gomes said.
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Sacrilege! Well, its inevitable on occasion, but have fun getting acceleration to work with their drivers!
If you installed simply with the nvidia-installer you can have the great pleasure of its use again.
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Beijing. A row in a Hong Kong subway train between mainland Chinese and local passengers has snowballed into an ugly exchange involving a Peking University professor after he labelled Hong Kongers as "dogs."
It all began on Jan. 15, when a Hong Kong man riding the subway chided a mainland family for letting their child snack in the carriage — which is not allowed — according to mainland and Hong Kong media reports.
The subsequent quarrel was videotaped by onlookers and put on the Internet, drawing comments from both sides of the Hong Kong border — the most scathing of which came from Peking University professor Kong Qingdong.
Speaking on a talk show on Internet television site tv.V1.cn last week, the Chinese-language professor repeatedly used the terms "dogs trained by colonialists," "worshippers of the West" and "bastards" as he criticised Hong Kongers.
With an increasing number of Hong Kongers resenting mainland immigrants and visitors because of concerns that their living conditions and even birthrights will be threatened, Prof Kong's remarks could not have come at a worse time.
They quickly drew intense fire from the former British colony, with a Hong Kong netizen reflecting the thoughts of many when he asked: "How could a Peking University professor spew vulgarities so thoughtlessly?"
Many netizens and media organizations in mainland China also criticized him for being insensitive.
The mainland's China News Service quoted Associate Professor Denny Ho of Hong Kong Polytechnic University as slamming the 48-year-old for being "illogical" in suggesting that being law-abiding was equivalent to being "servile," while being lawless meant "having character."
In his comments, Prof Kong had tried to argue that Hong Kongers were not law-abiding by nature, but had been drilled to be by their colonial masters.
"So why should they feel superior to mainlanders since they have been trained to be the 'running dogs' of the British government?" he asked.
He insisted that mainland Chinese were "truer" to their own nature.
"If a society had to maintain its order through strict laws such as hefty fines for littering, as happened in Singapore, its 'law-abiding' look does not reflect the true nature of its people," he said. "Instead, it shows they are a servile bunch who can be whipped into line."
Over the weekend, the academic continued to put up a vigorous defence of his stance in China's ultra-leftist Web site, Utopia.
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PAM DZAMA | Land-use planning should reflect local preferences
Do residents residing in rural Kitsap County do so by desire or design? Research last year during the "Year of the Rural" update to the county's comprehensive land-use plan found that Kitsap County's rural areas were more developed than those in other Washington counties. In fact, the rural population far outnumbered that found in all of the county's cities combined.
Residents interviewed indicated they wanted to "preserve the experience found in relatively undeveloped areas where tranquility, wildlife and intimate communities can still be found." A draft amendment to the comprehensive plan done prior to the research stated, "Rural characteristics include the abundance of trees, access to recreation, views of water and mountains, and a quiet, unregimented atmosphere..."
If these descriptions accurately depict "rural areas," how would urban areas, where population growth is supposed to occur, be described? Most likely, that picture would include higher density, fewer trees, more roads, streets and concrete, increased availability of goods and services and more regimentation. Judging by where they currently live, Kitsap County residents prefer living in less-crowded neighborhoods. It's unfortunate that preference isn't supported by local and state land-use objectives.
Now comes word the county's designated "urban growth areas (UGAs)" might need to be "down-sized," meaning the density would be even greater. Last year the Washington State Appeals Court ruled Kitsap County's definition of "urban" was misapplying the edicts of the Growth Management Act (GMA). As part of the "urban" definition, the county included housing density of at least four houses per acre while less than one house on five acres was considered "rural." According to the court's ruling the density created a "bright line" which shouldn't be applied. It apparently didn't matter that those numbers were decided by the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board in 1995 and the county had been operating under that definition since then.
The court found that "rural zoning does not depend on density alone." Preservation of "rural character" must be considered. That's nice, but for whom or what is this nebulous "rural character" designation preserved? Where and when are the preferences of residents taken into consideration?
The county appealed the court's ruling to the Washington State Supreme Court, stating they were "well within the county's broad discretion for land-use planning." According to one of the county's motions "allowing four units per acre would increase the diversity of housing, which is something that local residents said they wanted." The county also indicated the four houses per acre wasn't a "bright line," but was based on local conditions. This month the Supreme Court declined to hear the lawsuit, tacitly endorsing the Appeals Court's decision.
This back-and-forth about "urban" versus "rural" is the result of the Growth Management Act enacted by the Legislature in 1991. I didn't say "passed" by the voters because the voters had soundly rejected Initiative 547, the overreaching initiative to control property usage. Ignoring the will of the people the Legislature enacted the restrictions in I-547 into GMA legislation anyway.
There are consequences to housing if the UGAs are "down-sized." The density will be greater, housing choices fewer and prices higher. It's a simple economic reality. If a product or service is restricted and demand for it is constant or increasing, the price will necessarily increase. This scenario is hardly what the beleaguered housing industry needs, nor is it what most residents of Kitsap County prefer if one takes into consideration where they currently live.
The planners-on-high must use the dense cities of Europe as their models. Cram as many people as possible into the boundaries and fill the countryside with forests and open space. Of course estates exist on acres of land outside the cities, much like the "rural" land-use requirement of one house on five to 20 acres in Kitsap County. Was the GMA really enacted to create a two-tier citizenry where one group lives in crowded conditions while the other is free to enjoy the "undeveloped areas where tranquility and wildlife" exist?
The GMA also spawned unelected and therefore unaccountable bureaucratic boards like the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board, responsible for deciding local land-use issues. A statement I quoted from a Seattle Weekly column by Knute Berger six years ago bears repeating:
"The density freaks — who promote urban design models that cater mostly to well-heeled gentrifiers — tout a vision that often leaves families out of the equation ... perhaps a city of singles and empty-nesters is a good thing ... it's also self-defeating for those who chase the image of modern, eco-savvy urbanity. Do we want a city populated by civic Shakers ... a religious sect that didn't believe in breeding?"
No one wants to replicate the sprawl in Southern California. But land-use planning should also reflect the desires of Kitsap County residents, not just the constraints imposed by unaccountable, bureaucratic boards.
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Both versions of the new 135mm-travel Tallboy LT use the same geometry and VPP suspension. According to Santa Cruz engineering director Joe Graney, the company toyed with several travel options on early prototypes, but 135mm "just felt right." Compared to the company's 26-inch bikes, the Tallboy LT has unique anti-squat characteristics that work with the increased inertia of larger wheels. Both test bikes we rode came with a 140mm travel Fox 34 and ISCG chainguide tabs. To accommodate the tabs, Santa Cruz offset the lower link. While it was messing around with the links, engineers also further recessed the grease fittings to protect them from trail debris. Like other VPP bikes, the new models use angular contact bearings. They also include dropper post cable guides under the top tube.
While many newer long-travel 29ers have benefited from improved geometry, Joe Graney says headtube height is still "the elephant in the room." So he made the Tallboy's as short as possible At just 3.9 inches tall on a size large frame, it's as much as an inch shorter than others in the category. The 69.5-degree head angle and 17.9-inch chainstays offer well-balanced handling. The bikes come in three sizes: M, L, and XL, but don't hold your breath for a small size. "We could make the bike, but it will ride like shit," says Graney. "It's time to recognize that not all bikes fit all people."
The Tallboy LTc is lighter for its wheel travel than any other 29er, says Santa Cruz. At just 5.3 pounds for a large frame with shock, it's hard to argue. That's 1.2 pounds lighter than the aluminum version and, remarkably, .3 pounds lighter than the 26-inch Santa Cruz Blur LTc. To shed weight, the company molded in more carbon pieces and removed some aluminum bits from the frame. To stiffen the rear triangle, the company added a bridge, playfully called MUT (for mega upright technology) that connects the two pivots in the rear triangle.


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Spurs fixture change
6th Nov 2012 - Latest News
Liverpool have confirmed the kick-off time for the Barclays Premier League trip to Tottenham Hotspur later this month has changed.
The clash at White Hart Lane will now get underway at 7.45pm GMT, rather than 8pm, on November 28.
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Changes could be coming to the way Illinois public schools teach physical education. A task force has worked up a 148-page report on "Enhanced PE."
Illinois State Board of Education spokeswoman Mary Fergus says kids who are fit physically will be fit mentally, too. That does not jibe, she says, with today's experience.
"We know that in a typical 30-minute gym class for elementary students," Fergus says, "they're only really engaged in about 11 minutes of physical activity."
The proposed standards, reflecting both neuroscience research and the priority that people will be physically active their whole lives, must go before the state board. The report calls for new strategies for P.E. programs to raise the emphasis on individual lifetime fitness and lessen the prominence of competitive sports.


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North Texas whips Marshall
HUNTINGTON — Even when the Marshall Thundering Herd made a shot Thursday night — which was a rare occurrence — North Texas took it out of the net and was off to the races.
Marshall didn't make many shots in a 30.8 percent shooting performance, and the Mean Green ran with the misses too.
And, North Texas also ran with turnovers in an 80-65 men's basketball victory over Marshall in Cam Henderson Center played for a turnout of 4,586 spectators.
"We talked about transition defense all week — makes, misses or turnovers," Marshall head coach Tom Herrion said. "It clearly did not register because they ran it right up our backs to start the game."
North Texas (10-7 season, 1-2 Conference USA) stunned Marshall with its speed early. The Mean Green, a first-season C-USA member, raced to an early 17-7 lead when Marshall misfired on 14 of its first 17 field goal attempts and pulled away by 18 before settling into a 39-27 halftime lead.
The Mean Green scored six points in lightning-fast fashion as a result of three consecutive Marshall turnovers in a 62-second stretch to go ahead, 27-9, at 9:05 of the first half.
Chris Jones of the Mean Green began the run by intercepting a Kareem Canty pass. Jordan Williams missed a layup and Colin Voss put the rebound in. Canty had another pass picked off by Williams who took it for a dunk. A Chris Thomas pass went to Jones and he converted with a three-point play.
"A painful, frustrating loss to say the least," Herrion said. "I was disappointed in our toughness. We didn't play tough enough to win. That bothers me more than anything."
When Marshall did get into its offense without throwing the basketball away, the Herd chucked up 3-point shots against the North Texas zone defense to the tune of a 3-for-15 performance in the opening period and 5-for-25 in the game.
Marshall's misses fueled the North Texas running game.
"On makes or misses we want to run," Mean Green head coach Tony Benford said.
The North Texas transition game resulted in a 50.0 percent shooting performance while the Herd struggled and hit just 30.8 percent.
Herrion said the Herd's shooting was "Awful, awful, awful."
North Texas was led by Jordan Williams with 20 points and 10 rebounds while Voss scored 16 and Alzee Wiliiams added 10 points. Jones, the point guard, pitched in nine points and had eight assists.
The Mean Green also received a boost from its bench players who outscored the Herd reserves, 23-8.
Marshall had Canty with 26 points and Taylor with 22 points and 14 rebounds, but other players combined for just 17 points.
"We had other scoring opportunities and didn't finish," Herrion said.
The Herd cut the deficit in half after trailing by 16 at 8:45 of the second half.
Thomas made a layup for his only field goal in 13 tries and sank a foul shot that got the Herd within 10 with 4:22 remaining. Canty made a pair of foul shots that cut the gap to 67-59 with 4:02 left.
It was still an eight-point difference when Canty drove for a layup with 2:44 remaining.
Herd forward TyQuane Goard committed a flagrant foul on Voss who made a foul shot with 2:19 to go. North Texas kept possession and a Williams layup made it 74-63 with 1:50 left in the game.
Marshall had a good foul shooting game at 20-for-29 (69.0 percent) and controlled the backboards most of the game before being outrebounded by one.
Taylor recorded his fifth double-double of the season and fouled out of a game for the sixth time.
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Love Interlude: Dean Martin
I need to chime in with a little interlude from your regular scheduled Earmilk programming. Have you noticed a lot of music nowadays really don't talk about Love anymore but talk more about lust? There are still love songs nowadays but definitely not the same amount as from the back in the day. I'm talking love songs like Sade or songs from the 50's and such like Dean Martin. I wanted to just remind everyone what a love song sounds like with a little Love Interlude. Check out the song below and remember love does exist if you look for it.


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Kim Kardashian has been ramping up her wedding preparations for the last couple of months, leading to a lot of speculation of a quick wedding. Well the rumors have been revealed to be trued with an August 20 wedding date announced.
It's been a bit of whirlwind affair between Kardashian and professional basketballer Kris Humphries, with the pair only dating for a couple of months before announcing their engagement. Now the wedding is on it's way and fast!
It almost looks like a shotgun wedding, but we haven't seen Kim Kardashian sporting a baby bump yet.
Kardashian has her bachelorette party also planned with a huge night being organised in Las Vegas in late July. The event apparently going to be held in nightclubs Tao and Lavo.
Kris Jenner is apparently the woman in charge of the wedding and reception and she has jumped into the massive party planning with two feet. Khloe says Kris Jenner is doing a great job: "I have no idea what's going on. But I've seen how much my mom has been doing, and I don't know how my mom does it! Kim should be kissing the ground that she walks on. It's amazing."
However Khloe Kardashian claims that Kris Humphries still hasn't spent much time with the Kardashian family – he might not be a good fit!
Kris Jenner definitely has her hands full with a guest list of 1000 people, a fleet of luxury cars and at this time, still no venue found for the event.


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Canucks fans have been given ample proof that Eddie Läck is a lovable goofball. The long-legged Swede even has his own signature dance move. He's basically just one dimension removed from being a cartoon character. Thus, it should come as no surprise that this is exactly what's on his new mask.
When it came time to design his new head protection, rather than asking Swedish artist Dave Gunnarson, one of hockey's elite mask-painters, to cover it in lightning and skulls and flames and stuff, he requested cartoon characters. Original cartoon characters.
Meet Wolfy, the water-skiiing wolf:
Well, isn't he a mischievous looking scamp?
Now, you may be wondering why exactly a wolf would be waterskiing. Are water skis the secret option B to the classic wolf, goat, cabbage riddle? Actually, it's just a novel way to fit the wolf into a maritime theme, as necessitated by the Chicago Wolves' parent club.
Lack may be in Chicago now, but when the lockout ends, there's a good chance that he finds himself travelling with the Vancouver Canucks as Cory Schneider's backup. Thus, the cartoon character towing Wolfy along is Orca, the delightful orca:
Orca is pulling Wolfy! They're friends! Of course, you can tell from Wolfy's mischievous smirk that he thinks Orca is a total rube and is taking advantage of the situation. But the kind look on Orca's facial region indicates to me that he is fully aware Wolfy feels that way, but is just happy to be hanging out and feels he can change Wolfy's attitude with the power of friendship.
Can you tell that I've had kid's cartoons playing on my TV recently?
Harrison has informed me that it drives him insane when cartoon characters have the same name as the animal they are. "Orca should have been called Orcy," he said, "and I am genuinely upset about this."
Lack received the mask 16 days ago, and even tweeted a photo of one side, but Gunnarson only got around to sharing photos and the story of the entire thing on Thursday, on his excellent Facebook page. Here he is, on how the mask came together:
Watch out for the water splash…here it's big time action. Wolfy jumps into the water and starts to waterski with his buddy Orca… That is what we call team work.
I'm very happy to present Eddie Läck's new Vancouver Canucks mask, with a strong Chicago Wolves connection…On this new mask we wanted to do something really funny… Eddie asked his fans on Twitter, how about a cartoony wolf in the design. Sounded awesome, I started drawing and out from my drawings jumped Wolfy, and he jumped out into the Canucks landscape, on his waterskis run by his buddy Orca. It all created a cool mix of Canucks and Chicago Wolves. And as always it's pumped with details to discover all over the mask.
Some of those details include the funky First Nations designs on the chin of the mask, a nice subtle touch.
I do find it silly that Lack has a nickname for his nickname. Due to his long, skinny legs, Lack has been nicknamed The Stork for some time. Apparently that was too creative for hockey, which is stuck in a rut of simply adding "ie" or "er" to the end of a player's name to create a nickname. So they've done the same for the Stork, turning it into "Storker" which appears on the bottom of Lack's mask. Ridiculous. (As has been pointed out a couple times, his mask says "Storken," which is Swedish for "Stork." I'm dumb.)
In Goal Magazine touched on Lack's new mask and included some practice tips for young goaltenders from the Stork that are worth a read.
S/t to Sean Leahy, the best Leahy we know.Tags: Eddie Lack
Nah, I prefer your original interpretation anyway. (While I'm at it, obnoxiously pedantic note on the updated post: the "en" ending on the word actually signifies a definite article, so "The" is explicitly part of the [translated] name. He's not just any stork!)
Eddie Lack is awesome. And I find it very sweet how he already has such a close relationship with Canucks fans, especially the kids, considering that he"s still technically a prospect playing on the other side of the continent. He's very engaging and friendly on twitter. Good kid.


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United Kingdom
The Orange Prize for Fiction, an award dedicated to women writers, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005. Although some had predicted at its inception that the prize would not achieve meritoriousness, the prize showed itself to be firmly established as one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards (alongside the Whitbread Book Awards and the Man Booker Prize), attracting massive press attention and generating book sales in the tens of thousands. It nonetheless continued to provoke controversy. Defending the need for a women-only award, judge Joanne Harris said, "Year after year the short list for the Booker is mostly old men." Kate Mosse, the cofounder and honorary director of the Orange Prize, noted that it helped promote writers who had previously been ignored: "This is about getting great books read more widely." Its detractors, however, agreed with critic John Walsh, who said, "There is nothing more condescending than the idea that there is women's fiction. It's extreme bigotry." (For selected international literary awards in 2005, see below.)
A sure sign of the award's efficacy was the fate of the 2004 winner, Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004), which—besides being voted Best of the Best, the overall winner from the 10 novels that had won the Orange Prize to date—captured the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Novel Award, beating the 2004 Man Booker winner, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty (2004). Levy's social comedy about Caribbean immigration to Britain also took the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Those who argued that women writers were still more likely than men to concern themselves with domestic and so-called women's issues might have felt their views confirmed by the Orange Prize's 2005 short list. Of the six short-listed books, five had female protagonists and most of the plots revolved around family relations. Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian explored the dynamics that emerge when two sisters join forces to prevent their father from marrying a glamorous Ukrainian divorcée. Meanwhile, Sheri Holman's The Mammoth Cheese (2004 [published in the U.S. in 2003]) touched on fertility medication, postpartum depression, and what happens when one woman's obsession with politics blinds her to the plight of her teenage daughter. A favourite with bookmakers was Old Filth (2004) by Jane Gardam, a Yorkshire-born writer and two-time winner of the Whitbread. Gardam's subject was the devastating emotional cost of separating young children from their parents. Her protagonist, an 80-year-old retired international lawyer, was once a "raj orphan"; he now seeks to come to terms with memories of a loveless childhood in a Welsh foster home. The winner was American novelist Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003), a novel about a career woman who gives birth to a son she is unable to love. Years later the boy commits a Columbine-style massacre, killing nine people in his high school. Jenni Murray, chair of the judging panel, said Kevin "is a book that acknowledges what many women worry about but never express—the fear of becoming a mother and the terror of what kind of child one might bring into the world."
On the whole, however, the literature of 2005 gave evidence of a country preoccupied as much with global concerns as with domestic ones, and books on terrorism and the war in Iraq were abundant. Ian McEwan's latest novel, Saturday, traced a day in the life of a London neurosurgeon. The day is Feb. 15, 2003, when more than a million people took to the streets to protest the incipient war in Iraq. Unlike much fiction provoked by post-Sept. 11, 2001, politics, however, Saturday did not take a clear position; the arguments for and against the war were distributed with ambiguity. The Guardian journalist James Meek's much-lauded novel The People's Act of Love delved into the twin ideologies of self-sacrifice and terror. Meek's tale, featuring castrates, cannibals, and torturers, was set in remote Siberia after the Russian Revolution of 1917, but it cast light on how destructive belief systems might operate in any context. One revolutionary, describing himself in the third person, says, "He's not a destroyer, he is destruction, leaving these good people who remain to build a better world on the ruins.… What looks like an act of evil to a single person is the people's act of love to its future self."
In the nonfiction realm, books attempting to understand terrorism continued to proliferate. An original approach was taken by leading critic Terry Eagleton. Billed as "a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective," Holy Terror traced the concept throughout the ages, citing writers from Euripides to D.H. Lawrence. John Gray, author of another study of terrorism, Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (2003), commended Eagleton's effort, saying, "Very few of the thousands of books on the subject have explored it in a larger context of ideas."
Current world affairs were also brought into focus by the Nobel Committee's decision to award the doyen of British theatre, Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize for Literature. (See Nobel Prizes.) In recent years Pinter had attracted attention for his vocal opposition to the bombing of Afghanistan and the war in Iraq. Early in 2005, having written more than 30 plays, he announced that he was giving up playwriting to concentrate on political writing, including poetry: "I'm using a lot of energy more specifically about political states of affairs, which I think are very worrying as things stand." Despite grumbles in some camps over the award's alleged political dimension, most commentators agreed that Pinter had had a seminal influence on British theatre during his nearly 50-year career. His distinctive style, it was widely remarked, had given rise to the well-used term Pinteresque to describe "a work of drama full of atmospheric silences peppered with half-stated insights." In describing Pinter's contribution, Nobel permanent secretary Horace Engdahl commented, "Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles."
In The Times (London) newspaper, Michael Gove drew meaningful comparisons between recent fiction and the literature of prewar Edwardian Britain. As he observed, three of the six Man Booker Prize finalists were inspired by authors or events of the first decades of the past century. Julian Barnes's Arthur & George, a semifictional life of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was set in fin de siècle Britain. It also was written in the formal style of the period, a fact that publisher Jonathan Cape underscored by binding it in embossed dark mustard cloth. On Beauty, Zadie Smith's latest foray into the dynamics of race relations, also looked backward, with Smith unabashedly borrowing elements of plot and style from E.M. Forster's 1910 masterpiece Howards End. Finally, Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way treated the end of Edwardian innocence: World War I. Gove attributed the parallels to similarities in the eras: "Iraq, like the Boer War, divides opinion and is proving a profound test of leadership. The rise of China, like the growth of Imperial Germany, has led to deep questioning of what difficult changes we need to make to prepare for a shift in the geopolitical balance. Just as new social forces within Edwardian England forced a recasting of politics, so questions of national cohesion and multiculturalism are creating new alliances and new strains in British public life."
The winner of the Man Booker Prize, however, was inspired neither by politics nor by Edwardian classics. Veteran Irish writer John Banville's novel The Sea told the story of a man who escapes the recent loss of his wife by revisiting an Irish coastal resort where he spent a holiday in his youth. There he unravels his memories of a life-shaping encounter with the Grace family. The Sunday Times called it a novel "concerned with rites of passage: coming-of-age and coming of old age; awakening and dying." The Sea narrowly beat the front-runner—Kazuo Ishiguro's more topical dystopia about cloning, Never Let Me Go. Man Booker Prize chairman John Sutherland had cast the deciding vote for The Sea. This was a reversal of fortunes for Banville, whose novel The Book of Evidence had lost the Booker Prize in 1989 to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. It also represented the second consecutive win for the publishers Picador. Nevertheless, The Sea provoked ambivalent reviews. Many critics complained that Banville's "jewelled sentences" and "fancy epithets" interfered with the book's narrative flow. "Banville's text is one that constantly demands admiration and analysis," wrote one reviewer, "There's lots of lovely language, but not much novel."
Banville's themes of loss, identity, and remembrance recurred in Sheila Hancock's memoir, The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw (2004), chronicling her turbulent 28-year marriage to the British actor and her grief following his death from cancer. Hancock was named Reader's Digest Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. In Rules for Old Men Waiting, Peter Pouncey, a retired classics professor, made his debut as a novelist with themes that also dealt with bereavement and memory. An old man waiting to die retreats to his decrepit summer house on Cape Cod to finish writing a story about World War I. As the novel progresses, he realizes that he is making "some kind of tally of his memories, as though completing the inventory might tell him what his life amounted to."
Other notable newcomers on the literary scene included Diana Evans, whose novel 26a, about a pair of identical twins growing up in an eccentric mixed-race family in northwestern London, won the Orange Award for New Writers. Susan Fletcher's Eve Green (2004) won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. It had sold fewer than 1,000 copies before its nomination.
The 2004 Whitbread Biography Award went to John Guy for My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (2004). Guy's study joined a crowded arena of books about the "unluckiest ruler in British history" but distinguished itself by portraying a less-romanticized queen, based on previously overlooked evidence. A shocked reviewer noted the disparity between Guy's modern Mary and earlier accounts: "Although she was only 42 years old, her legs were so swollen and her feet so inflamed by arthritis that she had to be helped into the execution chamber by two soldiers." History received a far more devastating update, however, in Mao: The Unknown Story. Jung Chang, the author of Wild Swans, and her historian husband, Jon Halliday, revealed Mao as "one of the greatest monsters of the 20th century alongside Hitler and Stalin," responsible for 70 million deaths. Based on a decade of interviews, the book promised to undermine the distortions of history perpetuated by the Communist Party of China. Nicholas Shakespeare in the Daily Telegraph predicted that "when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role."
On a lighter note, Geraldine McCaughrean's alternative version of the Noah story, Not the End of the World (2004), won the 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award, which made her the first writer to have won the award three times. McCaughrean's version named the wives of Noah's sons, added a daughter to the biblical cast, and filled out the story with graphic details. A reviewer in The Guardian commented, "McCaughrean embraces the sheer physical reality of what surviving the flood means: the pleading of the drowning people as Noah refuses to take them aboard, in the name of fulfilling God's design, the muck, the parasites, the lack of food."
A battle over intellectual property was launched when 15 eminent literary figures banded together to stem the flow of writers' archives to universities in the U.S. The group, which included Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and biographer Michael Holroyd, called for tax breaks and government funding to assist British universities in competing more effectively with their wealthier American counterparts. Salman Rushdie, Smith, and Ishiguro were among the British writers said to have been recently approached by American institutions for their papers. Motion stated, "This is about our cultural heritage as well as the obvious research opportunities."
Lest anyone doubt the value of culture in the modern world, popular intellectual John Carey produced What Good Are the Arts? The second half of the book puts "The Case for Literature" as an art form superior to any other because it is capable of criticism, reasoning, and moralizing. "Literature does not make you a better person, though it may help you to criticize what you are. But it enlarges your mind and it gives you thoughts, words and rhythms that will last you for life."
Deaths during the year include those of biographer Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter, novelist and editor Alice Thomas Ellis, playwright Christopher Fry, children's author Helen Cresswell, and Postmodern author John Fowles.


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On a show called Mob Wives, we rarely see the men (Junior excepted) in the lives of these women. But all of a sudden, they're all popping up and they're all causing drama and prove once and for all that you really can't live with them, and you can't live without 'em.
This week on "Drita gets a pre-paid call from: Lee…D'Avanzo," Drita is feeling good because she's still excited by the news that Lee is being moved to Brooklyn which is much closer than the facility he's in upstate. "Lee told me he's going to finish his remaining sentence in Brooklyn. Lee being closer to home is the best thing in the world right now because I don't wanna drive six f—ing hours to go see any-f—ing-body," she says, and I hear that, girl. Six hours on the I-87 will make you want to murder anybody, especially if you have to stop at that rest stop in Newburgh and use the bathroom. Those toilet seats are NEVER dry.
Drita also informs Lee of her new job as a getaway driver in French Montana's video, which cracks Lee up, that she's involved now (even for entertainment purposes) in the family bank-robbing business.
He's also fully supportive of her dating again (probably because he knows her dating techniques involve punching guys and challenging them to feats of physical strength), but his support surprises her. "I actually don't know if I like you being this nice," she tells him. Because it's easier to be divorced from an an a-hole than from a nice guy. This just complicates things! "All he's doing is reminding me why I loved him."
Karen is still contemplating meeting with Drita, even after her cousin Rena told her she should crack Drita's jaw instead, and she seeks Ramona's advice. Which is crazy, because we all know Ramona supports their reconciliation and just wants Karen and Drita to make things work. (J/K!)
This is actually what Ramona thinks of the idea:
She tells Karen it's not a good idea and that "You might as well put [Drita] out with the trash, 'cause she's trash."
Karen gets it, but she also says she's done with the negativity, as we all are, I think, and she is just wanting to move on. And if nothing else, she wants to do this for Renee and just get this over with. Ramona just warns "If she comes out her face, be the real you and that the motherf—ing b—h out."
I'm in the "Carla and Joe Should Get Back Together" camp, but for now, I'm just going to have to wait, because as Carla tells Big Ang, it's just not happening right now.
Joe's not around quite as much as he was a while back, plus Joe's history as a cheater is still in her mind, so there's no hope of reconciliation for now. But seriously, where's he been hanging out lately, that's the question. "Does he have a girlfriend?" Ang asks. "That always sidetracks them from their family."
Gooood question. Big Ang hopes he doesn't though, because
"I'm not a b—h, I'm not a devil, but when it comes to my kids, then you're f—ing with me," Carla says, vowing to find out whether or not Joe has a chippy on the side.
When they spend some quality time working out together, Carla tells him he's been scarce ("Like a gas shortage?" he asks. "There's a Joe shortage?") and wonders where he's been. "I have other people I see," he says. "Like a girl." "I knew it!" Carla says.
"Some little f—in' hussy."
Let's be clear though, Carla's not jealous, she's just annoyed that he has a serious (young) girlfriend when he's fresh out of prison. Like, when did he have the time to get so serious?? Joe's even introduced the kids to her. "She plays with them," Joe says, which leads Carla to my favorite line of the episode, when she retorts "She f—ing brings her Barbie doll collection over?" I love you, Carla. But she intones that this is the end of Joe and Carla because "Joe started his life, I need to start mine." Nooo!
Happy 23rd birthday to Big Ang's AJ! To celebrate, Big Ang buys him a new gold chain, and to reward herself for being so nice, she browses the jewelry herself because she loves "Diamonds, diamonds, diamonds."
Big Ang really wants her son to settle down and get engaged in the next two years, but that's just not AJ's style. Besides, when you have a mother who's cooking you a birthday feast of bresaola, pigs knuckles, gravy, sweet and sour sausage, and who knows what else, do you really even need to look for another woman?
Like Carla and Joe, Karen and her ex, Dave, are in limbo. The last time they spoke they had a big fight, but Karen wants their daughter to move to New York and she needs to discuss the situation with Dave, and possibly even see if he wants to move to New York too. Judging from their greeting, they don't seem in that much limbo though.
They miss each other. Emotionally and physically. "Dave's still got it!" Karen says. She gets giddy just talking about him to Ramona and explains that they're currently "Back in the saddle again."
Karina, their daughter, wants to know when they're getting back together, and though they don't quite know what the future holds, Karen says they're going to take baby steps to rebuild a relationships. This is a good baby step.
Drita meets with her friend Nicole to discuss the Karen situation, and here's the thing. Nicole, like Ramona and Rena over in Karen's circle, doesn't trust the opposition. She tells Drita that she doesn't believe Karen wants peace. But to hear Karen and Drita both tell it, they both want to coexist peacefully and move on since they both have a lot of successful business to tend to, they're mothers, etc. To borrow a phrase from Drita, everyone else is chirping away, but the two women at the center of it should probably not be listening to it all, because their friends are just feeding them drama.
However, Drita wants peace with Karen, but Ramona she could care less about. "My problem lies with Ramona and it's a massive problem," she says. "Karen must know how much I hate f—ing Lucifer. No one's going to be able to pry me off of her. I'm going to be chewing on her face. Like a leech."
Renee is still coping with the Junior situation and she realizes the best way to do it is to talk it all out to make sense of it. Her good friend Cherry Martinez's radio show, Lockdown Love, focuses on people with loved ones in prison, so Renee goes on the show to discuss things.
Renee explains that because Junior would come back to her each time he came out of prison, she thought she had found her prince. Unfortunately, he was the prince "of f—ing darkness."
As for how she feels about Junior now, she's come a looong way. She says she loved him more than anyone can ever know at one point, but right now, "I don't love him. Not a speck," she says. "Take your bid. Be a man. Leave your son with respect. He is no father and he is no man to me. I would spit on him."
Drita started the episode excited at the prospect that Lee would be coming to Brooklyn. She ends it with the news that those plans have changed. Not only is he not going to be super-close to Drita and the girls, he's moving to a facility even further away, he writes in a letter.
She's devastated, for her daughters' sake. "Nothing can ever go right for these kids," she says, knowing how much it will hurt Aleeya especially. "I finally had one great thing to tell her, and now I have to take that away from her."
No one, especially not a child, deserves to have their loved ones taken away from them, but in this lifestyle, that's just the cycle that they're used to by now.


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Duke women's basketball's mixed defense a formidable foe at Wake Forest
Duke hasn't lost to Wake Forest since 1996, and until recently, it didn't look like the Demon Deacons would pull off the upset this year.
Wake Forest (9-6, 2-1 in the ACC) had a five-game losing skid early in the season that included three losses to ranked opponents. After winning seven of their last eight games—including a road matchup against No. 18 Florida State Thursday—and earning an 8-0 record at home, the future is starting to look bright for the Demon Deacons. The No. 4 Blue Devils (14-0, 4-0) will try to hand Wake Forest its first home defeat Sunday afternoon.
"We had a rough patch early, but things are starting to pick up," Wake Forest senior guard Lakevia Boykin said. "We're playing very well at home."
The Demon Deacons, however, know that they have their work cut out for them against Duke.
"Duke is a phenomenal team, and it's important for us to do what Wake Forest basketball does," Demon Deacon head coach Jen Hoover said. "We've really talked to our players about doing their jobs for 40 minutes, and that's different for each individual on the team."
There is one job that the Demon Deacons share—playing team defense. Wake Forest's defense has been picking up lately, Boykin said. The Demon Deacons have been outscored by a margin of 2.1 points this season, but in their past four games, they have scored an average of 15 points more than their opponents.
"We've been focusing on taking what we've been putting in defensively for the last three months and tightening things up," Hoover said. "Our team defense isn't individually-based. We really trust in each other."
In addition to having a defensive unit that is on the rise, Wake Forest boasts a versatile roster and a strong transition game, Boykin noted.
The Blue Devils will counter with mixed defenses, which will potentially take the Demon Deacons out of their rhythm. Duke's mixing of defenses has worked successfully in the past, as exemplified by its ninth-ranked field-goal percentage defense. The Blue Devils have limited their opponents to a 32.4 field-goal percentage this season. After Duke's 90-53 rout of Boston College Sunday, Eagle head coach Erik Johnson called the Blue Devils "as solid a defensive team as you're going to see individually and collectively."
Duke's defense will be especially important against Boykin, who leads Wake Forest in scoring with 14.5 points per game and added 34 points against the Seminoles last night. Averaging double figures, junior Chelsea Douglas and sophomore Dearica Hamby scored 25 and 23 points, respectively, against Florida State.
The Blue Devils' scoring offense ranks sixth in the country. With their prolific offense and large defensive arsenal, they will pose the biggest threat that the Demon Deacons have faced at home. Duke is not resting on its laurels, though. The Blue Devils know that they need to play at full intensity for the duration of the game.
"[Florida State] was a terrific game for Wake obviously," Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. "So if we can't get excited for Wake there is something wrong with us."


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Baseball | Saturday, April 2, 2011
Bearcats Take Two Games from Pacific, 5-0 and 6-3
Simon Pitches a Complete Game, Allowing only Three Hits
FOREST GROVE, ORE. -- Willamette University received two strong pitching performances to sweep a Northwest Conference doubleheader at Pacific University on Saturday, April 2. Willamette won the first game 5-0 and took the second game, 6-3.
The wins allowed the Bearcats to improve to 11-12 overall, 6-8 in the NWC. Pacific ended the day at 14-10-1 overall, 8-6 in the NWC.
The teams will conclude the three-game series with a single game on Sunday, April 3. Game time at Chuck Bafaro Stadium in Forest Grove, Ore., is set for 1 p.m. (PDT).
In the first game, Willamette pitcher Brandon Simon (So., RHP, Los Angeles, CA/Pacific Hills HS) threw a complete-game three-hitter to get the shutout win. He struck out three batters and allowed one walk. T.C. Lee (Sr., LF, Lafayette, CA/Acalanes HS) went 3 for 5 with two doubles, a run and two RBIs for the Bearcats.
In the second game, WU starter Blake Paisley (Jr., RHP, Saratoga, CA/Saratoga HS) pitched seven innings and allowed just four hits and one run. He achieved three strikeouts and walked one batter. Lee was 2 for 5 in the second game with a double and one run scored. Tommy Kawamura (Fr., 2B, Renton, WA/Lindbergh HS) was 3 for 4 for Willamette with three RBIs.
Willamette struck early for a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener.
With two outs, Doug Bloom (Sr., SS, Salem, OR/South Salem HS) walked to keep the inning alive. Lee batted next and doubled down the left field line, advancing Bloom all the way to the plate. Max Stepan (Sr., C/DH, Pueblo, CO/Pueblo County HS) followed with a ground ball toward third, but the throw was wild and Lee went to third. Pacific starter Rob Dittrick got a strikeout to end the threat.
The Bearcats added three insurance runs in the fifth. Adam Reid (Jr., RF, San Jose, CA/Lynbrook HS) smacked a double to right field with one out and Bloom followed with a walk. Lee also doubled, allowing Reid to score. Stepan lined out to second base, but Tosh Semlacher (Fr., DH/3B, Gold River, CA/Jesuit HS) supplied a two-RBI single to center field.
Tim Schilf (Jr., 3B, Honolulu, HI/Iolani School) of Willamette doubled near the left field foul line in the top of the eighth. He reached third on a single by Kawamura and scored the game's final run when Tyson Giza (So., CF, Salem, OR/Sprague HS) grounded into a fielder's choice. After Schilf scored, Kawamura and Giza were both tagged out between the bases.
WU's five runs were more than enough for Simon, who continued his solid string of appearances. So far in 2011, he has started six games and has thrown 45 innings with a total of 28 strikeouts. He is 4-2 with a 1.20 earned run average.
Dittrick of Pacific suffered his second loss of the season, as he fell to 6-2. He allowed 11 hits and all five runs in eight innings on the mound. He had eight strikeouts. He had just two walks, but both were issued to Bloom, who scored later in the inning each time.
Lee and Reid each went 3 for 5 in the opener, while Kawamura was 2 for 4. Seven Bearcats achieved at least one hit during the game. Center fielder Kevin Schwartz was 2 for 3 for the Boxers.
The Bearcats broke open a scoreless second game with three runs in the fourth inning and three more in the sixth.
Lee hit a single and Stepan walked with one out in the fourth. Both runners advanced on a balk, and then Semlacher connected for a two-RBI single. Kawamura singled later in the inning to score Semlacher for a 3-0 lead.
Stepan tripled to right center to start the sixth inning. Semlacher brought in Stepan with a single to center. Brandon Chinn (Fr., 1B, Salem, OR/Sprague HS) reached base on an error and Schilf moved up the runners with a sacrifice bunt. Kawamura drove in Semlacher and Chinn with a single.
The Boxers scored their first run of the twinbill in the seventh inning of the second game when Mike Nagamura hit a single to left and Nate Rasmussen doubled to right center.
In the eighth, Pacific cut WU's advantage to 6-3 by plating two runs.
Logan Moen singled to open the stanza and eventually scored on a single by Jared Van Hoon. Kevin Schwartz also scored during the inning on a double down the the line by Rasmussen.
Ryan Smith (Jr., RHP, Milwaukie, OR/Rex Putnam HS/U. of Redlands) went to the mound for WU with two outs and two runners on base. He walked Chad Fahey, but used a ground out by Trux French to end the inning. Smith faced four batters in the bottom of the ninth to earn his second save.
Kawamura's three hits and three RBIs paced the Bearcats. Semlacher also recorded three RBIs while going 2 for 4 and scoring twice. Other WU players with two hits in the game were Giza, 2 for 5, and Lee, 2 for 5. For Pacific, Moen was 3 for 4 with a run scored and Rasmussen went 2 for 4 with a two RBIs.
Willamette University 5
Pacific University 0
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Sylvia Henary, age 86, of Carrollton passed away Thursday morning, Aug. 23, 2012, in Carroll Healthcare Center.
Born Oct. 21, 1925, in Oxford, WV, she was a daughter of the late Herman and Stella McKinney Hart.
She was a member of Carrollton Baptist Temple.
She is survived by seven children, Stella Young of Powhatan Point, Charles Richards, Jr. of Mechanicstown, John Richards of Carrollton, Doug Richards of Whitefield, ME, Teresa Jenkins of Mechanicstown, Ann Reier of Celina, and Steve Richards of Mechanicstown; 21 grandchildren; 36 great grandchildren; six great great grandchildren; five brothers and two sisters.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; a son, Gregory; a daughter, Pamela; a brother; and a sister.
Graveside services will be Saturday, Aug. 25 at 11 a.m. in Westview Cemetery in Carrollton with Pastor Dave Powell officiating.
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: August 19, 2013 : Updated: August 19, 2013 5:37pm
Photo By Express-News file photoElisa Chan is defended on her right to privacy and free speech. Other readers scold her seeming intolerance. One reader recalls a cele-brity who spoke her mind on homosexuality.
Invasion of privacy
Re: "Commentary: Chan's intolerant views toward gays heard on secret recording," Brian Chasnoff, Front Page, Friday:
Agree with her or not, Ms. Chan has the right to her opinion. Having her comments recorded and posted in the newspaper is not right. Is this the Star?
Wayne Brown, New Braunfels
Is it OK?
After reading this commentary on Elisa Chan's "secret" views of homosexuality, a question came to mind: Let's assume, just for argument's sake (and please note: I do not believe this!) that being gay is a choice, just as being a Democrat, a Republican or a vegetarian is a choice. Does that make it OK to discriminate against you?
Sue Snyder
Free speech
This appears to be a "hatchet job" against Ms. Chan because of her personal beliefs concerning homosexuality, which are not the same as others who promote this lifestyle.
As a woman, I totally agree with her views. It seems as if our free speech rights must be ignored or muted to accommodate the pro-homosexual propaganda and agenda. Are we totally oblivious to God's word concerning homosexuality?
As parents, we try to raise our children as our faith dictates. I am not a homophobic person, nor am I judging the voluntary lifestyle of others. I do believe we, as a people, need clear standards of what is acceptable behavior.
Matter of choice
Ms. Chan, you are probably right in saying that the City Council has more urgent matters with which to concern itself than amending its anti-discrimination ordinance.
But you're terribly misinformed if you think sexual orientation is a choice. Ignorance, intolerance, prejudice and bigotry are choices, Ms. Chan.
One's sexual orientation is a simple fact of nature and genes. Whether having an oversized ego or putting one's political self-interests ahead of good judgment is a choice or a result of genes is a matter that can be debated.
Voting, on the other hand, is definitely a choice and, hopefully, the voters of your district will make a new choice when they are next given the opportunity.
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Poor Elisa Chan! She may as well hang 'em up as far as ever getting re-elected to council or becoming mayor. Look back several decades.
Remember what happened to singer Anita Bryant? She was well thought of and an outstanding performer. Had many endorsements and commercial contracts, the largest with the Florida Citrus Commission. She made only one politically incorrect statement. It was her view that marriage should be only between a man and a woman. That was it!
She was practically ridden on a rail, out of town, minus all endorsements and contracts. Thankfully, she did miss getting tarred and feathered.


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When students don't attend school, it's money out of your pocket. The superintendent of the Rochester City School District, along with community volunteers, took to the streets Thursday morning to crack down on truancy.
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