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Eagles find closeness off the court helps them on the court
This is the time of year when college basketball coaches shorten their rotations, limiting playing time to starters and key reserves.
There simply is no room for experimentation during the postseason when teams emerging on the wrong side of scoreboards have to pack up their jerseys and sneakers until the next season.
But there was N.C. Central coach LeVelle Moton playing every single one of his guys Wednesday during the quarterfinals of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament at Norfolk Scope Arena.
It's spot-on to conclude that the reason NCCU will go after its 19th consecutive win tonight has nearly everything to do with those reserves slam dunking their egos.
NCCU is rolling because the Eagles like each other — they really like each other.
"It's just our bond," NCCU senior Jeremy Ingram said. "We always say that we're bothers, but we really mean it. It's not just a saying."
Ingram became the team's starting shooting guard last season after Ebuka Anyaorah broke his foot.
This season, Ingram was the MEAC's player of the year.
Anyaorah, a redshirt senior, spent a lot of time on the bench watching Ingram do his thing.
"It's tough. It's not something that you want to do," said Anyaorah, who transferred to NCCU after playing at a higher-profile Georgia program. "It's not something that's natural. Naturally, you want to whine. You want to have an attitude of resentfulness."
But Anyaorah has approached this season with an attitude of gratitude. The NCAA allowed him another year of eligibility due to his injury. Good thing, too, because his plan to play professional basketball overseas didn't appear promising.
"I had a foot in the real world already. I was already starting to think what would I do, and it didn't look so good," said Anyaorah, who at the beginning of the season vowed not to take his final college run for granted. "I'm going to make the most of it, because I'm not even supposed to have it."
When NCCU played Savannah State shortly before the MEAC Tournament, Moton inserted Anyaorah into the game with 3:53 left in the contest. Anyaorah hadn't played all night, and NCCU was clinging to a 44-43 lead. It was not garbage time.
"A lot of the bigs were getting in foul trouble, so I kind of had a sense that I was going to get called soon," Anyaorah said. "I had to be ready."
He was. Anyaorah made four free throws, two of them in overtime. NCCU won the nationally televised game 64-57.
"He came in and made a tremendous defensive effort, big rebound, and he knocked down all of his free throws," Moton said. "He's always been a good defender. He's got a lot of playing experience, and he's capable. He's more than capable."
NCCU senior Antonin Galaya is a capable player, too. Just ask Ingram.
"You can ask Jeremy, I foul him in practice all day," Galaya said. "I'm trying to be as physical as I can. I'm talking trash every day. I'm really trying to push those guys, because their games are Saturday (and) Monday. We've got Tuesday off. My game is from Wednesday to Friday. That's when I've got to make sure that I push those guys.
Seeing from the bench how they're producing, I think I'm doing my part."
The proof is in the win column. NCCU is 26-5 and would go to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history if the team wins the MEAC Tournament.
"We've just got to see the bigger picture," Anyaorah said.
It helps that the Eagles like each other, NCCU senior Alfonzo Houston said.
And it's not just basketball with these guys. They're always clowning around with each other,
NCCU redshirt senior Reggie Groves said. Or they're watching movies together, playing video games, he said.
"That bond. Trust is a big thing," Groves said. "When you trust someone, that goes a long way. And we trust each other, so that helps us out on the floor."
"This is the closest team I've ever been part of," Galaya said. "That really makes a big impact. I don't think people realize that, but what happens off the court really relates to what happens on the court."
Galaya said he can't be mad about his limited role during games when the guys playing in front of him are producing.
College basketball is a results-oriented business.
"You play the game of basketball to win," Galaya said. "Whether you play 30 minutes or play two minutes like myself, at the end of the day, you play to win. And right now, I'm in a position where I don't play much, but I win."


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A casual arrangement is perfect for family time. With the sofa now facing the TV (and in a more discreet spot than over the fireplace), the room feels instantly more casual and appropriate for a family's multitasking needs: a couple of people can curl up on the sofa and watch a movie, while someone else works at the desk or reads in the Louis chair. An Eames moulded plastic chair — a mid-century modern classic — gives the room some edge and provides extra seating.
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
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Menu Plan: Week of Feb. 17, 2013
By Tali Simon | February 17, 2013
One week to go! Are you in costume yet? Or, more like it, have your kids changed their costume requests at least five times yet?
At just nine weeks old, my son wears whatever I want him to wear — and while this is true every day, it works to my best advantage on Purim. At some point down the line I'm sure he'll voice his own little opinion, but until then, it's all my call. This has got to be one of the top reasons people have kids.
As we barrel towards Purim, I'll share my simple penne a la vodka (makes a great main dish for a dairy seudah!) and a peek at our themed mishloach manot.
- Red lentil feta burgers and veggies in buns
- Sweet potato oven fries
- Curried eggplant and chickpeas
- Quinoa
- Lettuce salad with mayo herb vinaigrette
- Bissli-topped tuna casserole
- Lettuce salad with mayo herb vinaigrette
- Zucchini-tomato saute
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Profit for consumer-related companies were strong, boosted by domestic spending, while mining-related firms took a hit.
Combined profit for the 42 of 45 companies in the LQ-45 index that reported their latest income statements dropped 1.1 percent to Rp 38.26 trillion ($4 billion) in the second quarter from the same period last year, according to Bloomberg data. Companies that make the LQ-45 are among the largest by value and have total market capitalization of Rp 2,413.9 trillion — amounting to 67 percent of all stocks that trade on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.
Banks were among the companies with the biggest profit increases, thanks to low borrowing costs that are spurring consumers to take out loans. Bank Danamon Indonesia's profit rose 55 percent, while Bank Central Asia 7.9 percent was the smallest. Six lenders had combined net income of Rp 14.2 billion, a 20 percent increase.
Among property developers, five of six real estate-related companies reported higher profit. Net income at Kawasan Industri Jababeka, an industrial estate developer, climbed more than fivefold increase in profit to Rp 153 billion.
Bucking the trend, Bakrieland Development, the property development unit of the Bakrie Group, saw its net income decline 86 percent to Rp 15.3 million.
Among cement companies, Semen Gresik and Indocement posted higher first-half earnings, up 9 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Demand for building materials is on the rise as Southeast Asia's largest economy improves its infrastructure.
Companies involved in mining and palm oil were among the biggest losers. Earnings dropped as the rupiah weakened, global demand for goods dropped and operating expenses climbed.
All three palm oil producers listed on the LQ-45 index saw their net income decline in the first half. Net income at Astra Agro declined 5.7 percent to Rp 580 million, London Sumatra's plunged 31 percent to Rp 340 million and BW Plantation's tumbled 39 percent to Rp 71.6 million.
Palm oil producers also faced a maximum 22.5 percent tax for crude palm oil (CPO) exports imposed last year as part of the government's attempt to boost the upstream sector.
In mining, Bakrie-affiliated Bumi Resources, Indonesia's largest coal miner, had a net loss of Rp 2 billion — adjusted from dollar terms — swinging from Rp 1.4 billion in net income in the same April-June period last year.
Aside from commodity price downswings and a weakening demand, Bumi also dealt with huge interest payment, boardroom quarrel and an concerns over its ability to pay its debt.
Net income at Vale Indonesia, the nation's biggest nickel producer, plunged 99 percent and earnings at state-controlled Aneka Tambang dropped 86 percent.
Two coal miners, Harum Energy and Indo Tambang Raya Mega, still managed to report an increase in net income. Harum saw its net income climb 32 percent, while Indo Tambang reported a 20 percent increase in profit.
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This is my neck.
No, I do not have a new bow tie. In actual fact, for the purpose of serious medical instruction, I have Pritt-sticked a piece of green felt to this part of my body. No smirking in the back, please.
Until last Friday, this neck had served me pretty well. Or so I thought until the results of some blood tests came in and confirmed that is has been seriously and secretly letting me down.
Apparently, there is a strain of underactive (Hypo)thyroidism running in the family. I have it. So, it seems, does just about everyone else; none of whom thought it worth mentioning, and of which I, as a consequence have been blissfully unaware up to this point. Awesome.
I don't actually have any pain in the neck at all, but thanks to this little gland's inability to pump hormones around my body, I do have them just about everywhere else. Thyroid – small, ugly, but important, apparently.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Ellie Shelburne for About.com, and today, we'll be talking about senior cat supplies.
Pet Supplies for Senior Cats
Senior cats are cats defined as over the age of ten. Cats have unique needs as they age. One common issue with older cats is that they stop being as good groomers as they were when they were younger. It is important to have a good brush or comb and brush them daily to take their hair out.
Another issue for older cats is their nails tend to get thick and brittle as they age. It's important to keep them clipped short so they don't get them caught or pulled out accidentally. While human nail clippers do work for cats, a good set of cat clippers is well worth the money. You can use them without fraying the nails, and they're much more efficient in terms of cutting nails.
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Older kitties also need a good, fresh supply of water at all times to keep their kidneys functioning and the rest of their organs healthy.
Geriatric cats also often have problems with arthritis and stiffness, especially in their hind legs. This can mean that they have difficulty using their litterbox. Often, the boxes that are designed for small dogs for use in the house are perfect for geriatric cats. They have a small little door that cats can walk in without having to jump up.
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Plugins Evolved
A while ago when I wrote the original article on Prestashop plugins I promised a follow-up to allow it to be used with smarty 3. Unfortunately work has kept me from a proper write-up so I'm only now getting around to publishing the next version. I had intended adding the ability to easily extend the functionality on a per-theme basis, but since the demand for some usable code right now has been so great I've decided to publish this in two parts.
I will try to ensure that Part 2 doesn't take as long to appear as this article has!
The new Plugin class
When I originally started work on this I had in mind that it may be useful for people to be able to override the plugin class using the same method Prestashop uses for its own core classes. While implementing it in a real-world Prestashop site however, I decided that this wasn't such a good idea and the Plugin class is now implemented as a simple additional class. In Part 2 I'll detail the mechanism I've decided to implement in preference to the override system to allow others to extend the functionality of this.
Note: If you implemented the original PluginCore class from the previous article, then you should delete the old Plugin.php class definition from the /classes drectory in your Prestashop installation.
The new version of Plugin.php should now be placed in the /overrides/classes folder on your server:
class Plugin { public static $initialized = false; protected static $smarty; protected static $cookie; protected static $link; protected static $cart; function init() { global $smarty, $cookie, $link, $cart; if (self::$initialized) return; self::$initialized = true; self::$cookie = $cookie; self::$cart = $cart; self::$smarty = $smarty; self::$link = $link; if (!Configuration::get('PS_FORCE_SMARTY_2')) { self::$smarty->registerPlugin('function', 'plugin', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartyplugin')); self::$smarty->registerPlugin('function', 'cmspage', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartycmspage')); self::$smarty->registerPlugin('function', 'psconfig', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartypsconfig')); } else { self::$smarty->register_function('plugin', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartyplugin')); self::$smarty->register_function('cmspage', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartycmspage')); self::$smarty->register_function('psconfig', array('Plugin', 'ecs_smartypsconfig')); } } public static function moduleoutput($module, $hook, $hookArgs = array()) { $output = ''; if (!isset($hookArgs['cookie']) OR !$hookArgs['cookie']) $hookArgs['cookie'] = self::$cookie; if (!isset($hookArgs['cart']) OR !$hookArgs['cart']) $hookArgs['cart'] = self::$cart; $hookArgs['altern'] = 1; $instance = Module::getInstanceByName($module); if (is_callable(array($instance, 'hook'.$hook))) $output = call_user_func(array($instance,'hook'.$hook), $hookArgs); echo $output; } public static function cmspage($id_cms = 1) { $output = ''; $cms = new CMS($id_cms, intval(self::$cookie->id_lang)); if (Validate::isLoadedObject($cms)) $output = $cms->content; return $output; } static function ecs_smartyplugin($params, &$smarty) { return Plugin::moduleoutput($params['module'], $params['hook'], isset($params['args']) ? $params['args'] : array()); } static function ecs_smartycmspage($params, &$smarty) { return Plugin::cmspage($params['id']); } static function ecs_smartypsconfig($params, &$smarty) { return Configuration::get($params['item']); } }
The main architectural difference apart from no longer declaring the class as a "Core" one is that all of the required code, including callbacks, is now contained within the class. This allows us to eliminate the global functions from within the FrontController class override. You will also notice that I have added another two basic elements to the class and now supports the following theme extensions by default:
- The original "plugin" code to insert module output from a specific hook.
{plugin module='homefeatured' hook='home'}
- A "cms" code which allows the output of a specific Prestashop CMS "page". This allows you to create "user-editable" areas in the theme that can be modified via the admin panel simply by changing the corresponding CMS document. By setting the documents to "disabled" they will also never show on the site other than where you need them to (if required).
{cmspage id='1'}
- A "psconfig" code to output the value of a Prestashop config variable. This is extremely handy when creating areas such as footers where you may wish to place information like the store address, telephone number etc. By using this mechanism the theme will always track the values set from the admin screens.
{psconfig item='PS_SHOP_PHONE'}
The FrontController override
Since we have moved the bulk of the code to the Plugin class now, we can simply use the following in /overrides/classes/FrontController.php:
class FrontController extends FrontControllerCore { protected static $plugin; function __construct() { parent::__construct(); self::$plugin = new Plugin(); } function init() { parent::init(); self::$plugin->init(); } }
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Once again, please regard these files as experimental. They are not guaranteed in any way and could cause your store to function incorrectly.
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By Andrew Nyquist The past six weeks have been an interesting ride full of crosscurrents and cautionary tales in the financial markets. Rewind to the week of September 1o. The markets were rocketing higher, yet the AAII bulls vs bears poll was showing a virtual tie: 36.46 vs 32.99. Although some probably saw the relatively low number of bulls as a bullish indicator, I saw it as confusing. First and foremost,


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Billie Dunn addressed her recent move to the Austin area at a vigil for her daughter Hailey Saturday night.
Dunn said she decided to move after she felt she became a target for speculation about her role in her daughter's disappearance.
"People say things about me and my family which is hard enough to deal with, and now they're picking on Hailey and David. Having my friends and family around, I'm actually able to focus a little bit more on what is going on inside of all the different centers with Hailey and my head's just more clear now," she said.
Children's Connections, Inc. (CCI) provides services needed to build healthy and happy families across the State of Texas. The agency has been serving Texas families since 1987 by working to improve the quality of care for children in home, child care and community settings.
ABILENE, Texas — Five defendants charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, with running a cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy in north Texas, have been arrested. One defendant, Semei Cuevas Rodriguez, Sr., is a fugitive. The announcement was made Thursday by U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.
In Texas the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline decreased a nickel since last week according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. The national average dropped seven cents.
The statewide average is $3.52 and the national average is $3.61. The Texas statewide average is nine cents below the national average.
A prayer vigil has been scheduled for to mark six months since 13-year-old Hailey Dunn vanished from her home in the small town of Colorado City.
The community will gather at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at Colorado City's Ruddick Park to pray for the girl's safe return.
A large vigil was held to mark the three month anniversary of Hailey's disappearance. Her father, Clint Dunn, appeared at that vigil. It's unclear if he'll make it to this event. Hailey's mother, Billie Dunn, has since moved to Travis County.
The Nolan County Grand Jury handed down eight indictments this week in the 32nd Judicial District Court. Five of those indictments were sealed. The following cases were true-billed:
• Joe Michael Noriega was indicted for continuous violence against the family, a third degree felony. His bond was set at $15,000.
• Loraine Danielle Brown was indicted for prohibited substance in a correctional facility, a third degree felony. Court documents state that Brown possessed marijuana in the Nolan County Jail. Her bond was set at $7,500.


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Twisties are a type of cheese curl, corn-based snack food product, available in Australia, New Zealand, Malta and many Asian countries such as New Caledonia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. It was launched in 1950 by the General Foods Corporation. The brand name is owned by The Smith's Snackfood Company. While originally an Australian-owned company, Smith's was acquired in August 1998 by Frito-Lay, the second largest producer of snack foods in Australia, which in turn is owned by American multi-national PepsiCo. In Malaysia, Twisties is a product of Mondelēz International, after having been a part of Danone and later, Kraft previously. In some countries, such as New Zealand, Malta and Italy, Twisties are marketed under different names.
In the early 1950s Melbourne businessman Isador Magid imported a Rotary Head Extruder from the USA. He formed the Twistie Company and experimented with corn in an attempt to create a new snack food. He was unsuccessful and agreed to sell the machine and the brand in 1955 to Monty Lea from Darrell Lea for £12,000. Monty and his brother Harris experimented with the machine further using rice and various flavourings. Twisties became popular in Australia. Some of its early success was attributed to promotional activity that included advertising the product on Graham Kennedy and Bert Newton's TV show In Melbourne Tonight. One of the earliest products advertised on that program. After an unsuccessful attempt to launch Twisties in the UK and competition for shelf space in Australia the Lea brothers agreed to sell the Twisties brand to the Smith's Snackfood Company.
Twisties are produced by feeding a mix of milled corn, rice, wheat and water into a machine known as a rotary head or random extruder. This machine cooks the mix at high temperature and pressure whilst forming the pieces. This process results in the characteristic Twisties shape with the knobbly surface and squiggly shape. After forming, the pieces are oven baked before being flavoured with a coating of seasoning and vegetable oil.
During the 1990s the texture of Twisties was altered, resulting in a smoother finish, and may have coincided with the acquisition of The Smith's Snackfood Company by Frito-Lay.
Twisties were originally available only in cheese flavour, but a chicken flavour and a "wicked cheddar zig-zag" flavour where later introduced and became a standard part of the product line. There have also been flavours in various countries as diverse as Toffee, Tomato and Salmon Teriyaki.
Twisties have been advertised for several years with the well-known slogan "Life's pretty straight without... Twisties." Typical television advertisements play on the slogan by showing people in mundane situations being transported to surreal and exciting environments when they eat Twisties.
Twisties are claimed to be the "number one extruded snack brand" by Smith's.[1]
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Twisties are also sold on the Italian market with the name Fonzies.[2] Fonzies are pale yellow in colour, because they do not use the bright orange food colouring that normal Twisties use. Fonzies are baked, not fried. Although sold in Italy, Fonzies are produced in Germany by LU Snack Foods GmbH. In the GCC countries, they are also sold with the name "Fonzies", produced by Kraft Malaysia.
In Australia, bacon flavour Twisties were produced briefly in the early 1970s, but were not a success and were withdrawn from the market after only a year. Twisties has recently released cheddar flavour Zig Zag twisties.
Twisties in New Zealand are different from the Australian variety. Called 'twisties', they were manufactured by Bluebird Foods Ltd and are only available in cheese flavour. They are less dense than the Australian variety, and their shape is more 'twisty'. In New Zealand the Australian Smith's variety are not widely available.
Twisties advertising has almost completely stopped in the last decade in comparison to its past promotions. Twisties' largest (and most expensive) campaign ever was between 1982-1983 with its "Twisties jumper" - Lillian Darrell, a famed actress of the stage and screen, played the role of an old woman knitting a Twisties jumper straight from a sheep. The promotion included free knitting patterns and free bags of Twisties. Other promotions were attempted afterwards, but they resulted in little success.
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The Cloud Management layer of the Software Defined Data Center is where the flexibility of the SDDC is translated into tangible benefits for the business constituents of the virtualized data center, the private clouds, the hybrid clouds and the public clouds. Without a robust Cloud Management layer, the IT Operations flexibility of the SDDC cannot translate into the relevant level of Business Agility for the business.
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With this set of announcements, VMware has proven its intentions of joining the ranks of the major cloud management software vendors. Virtualization and cloud computing represent disruptions that create an opportunity for a new multi-billion dollar management vendor at the table. VMware has announced a suite of management functionality that makes it a credible vendor at this table. Legacy vendors of management solutions like IBM, CA, BMC and HP are now served notice that their businesses and customer footprints are at risk. Game on.
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Cloud Management is a new problem that cannot be met with legacy solutions. Virtualization, Clouds, and Agile Development create a perfect storm of change that needs to be addressed with new approaches and solutions.
Private cloud management offerings are today very well suited to create and manage self-service scenarios for workloads that are either transient, or that require significant scaling of resources during the daily or weekly cycle of business activity. Private cloud management offerings are today not well suited to be the management solution through which all future workloads get provisioned an managed – but must become so, so as to participate in the further progress of virtualization. The best way for private cloud solutions to leverage the further progress of virtualization, is to help drive it- by helping to drive the concept of automated service assurance for business critical applications.
VMware has articulated and is starting to deliver on a compelling strategy of Automated Operations for its virtualization and cloud platforms. This will precipitate profound changes in the vendor ecosystem as third party vendors partner up and acquire in order to come up with the same depth of functionality that VMware is offering, but on a broader set of platforms (Quest buying VKernel is just the start of this process).
Mike DiPetrillo's post entitled VMware is Building Clouds sparked some interesting thoughts and discussion about what it means to have federated clouds and how do you define such federation? Is federated required to make 'cloud' ubiquitous or are we already there? But is the discussion really about federated clouds or simplistic data object movement between the VMs or about cloud management?


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Area of Focus: Strengthen Preparation for College and Careers
Abstract: The report presents findings from the fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers. The report details state progress in implementing the American Diploma Project policy agenda, which encourages aligning standards, graduation requirements, assessments, data systems, and accountability with the expectations of college faculty and employers.
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= Nearly half the states have high school standards in English and mathematics that are aligned with college- and career-ready expectations.
= Between 2005 and the present, there has been a surge of states that have raised their graduation requirements to the college- and career-ready level; presently 20 states and the District of Columbia require all students to complete a college- and career-ready curriculum to earn a high school diploma.
= Twelve states report that they have "P–20 longitudinal data systems" that match K–12 data with postsecondary data and track the progress of individual students from kindergarten through college graduation; Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia are in the process of developing or plan to develop P–20 longitudinal data systems.
= No state has yet put in place a comprehensive accountability system based on a broad array of college- and career-ready indicators; however, 11 states have begun reporting the percentage of students who earn a college- and career-ready diploma, and 18 states now report the percentage of students who require remediation upon entering college.
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WALLA WALLA — It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that Amy Hasson has left some huge shoes to fill on the Whitman College women's soccer team. Just take a look at last year's stat sheet.
Hasson, who graduated last spring, led the Missionaries in practically every offensive category while earning first-team all-Northwest Conference honors for the second time in her four-year career at Whitman.
Hasson topped the Missionaries in total points (35), goals scored (15), shots (93) and shots on goal (44).
She also led her team with four game-winning goals and was second on the team in assists with five.
But when you listen to Heather Cato, who begins her third season as the Missionaries' head coach, you get the feeling she's just as concerned with rebuilding her team on the defensive end of the field as she is worried about where this year's goals will come from.
"We lost seven seniors to graduation," Cato said. "And we lost three of our four starting defenders — Libby Watkins, Kate Potter and Claire Westcott.
"Last year, we graduated just two seniors from my first team," Cato added. "So losing seven strong seniors this year is a big hit. They were the unity of our team and it's a huge core of players to try and replace."
The other three seniors who are being missed this fall are Marisol Franzeca and Taylor Chock, a pair of mid-fielders, and Lauren Brougham, one of the Missionaries' top two goaltenders during last year's 8-10-2 campaign that also saw Whitman post a 6-8-2 mark in NWC play.
Cato's first Whitman team finished 6-11-2 and 4-10-2. So it appears that the former University of Arkansas soccer star has the program headed in the right direction.
"The first year, it was just getting to know the players and their styles of play," Cato recollected. "The second year was developing my coaching philosophy. This year we have had a year to figure it out, and I think we have made huge strides in our play."
A lot of it has to do with simple physical fitness, an area that seemed to be lacking when Cato took over the program. "This year is the first year that I feel like we have come into camp fit and ready to play as opposed to half the team fit and worrying about trying to get everyone else fit to play," the coach said.
It's also important, she said, that for the first time in three years everyone appears to be headed in the same direction.
"We're playing more as a unit now," Cato said. "It's 11 players, 23 actually, coming together rather than 11 individuals. Everyone is at least on the same chapter now and we are trying to put the pages together.
"We have 23 on our roster, and everyone — even the new players — is starting to understand what we're trying to accomplish. And that comes from the mentality of our upperclassmen — our seniors and juniors."
And it's not as if the Missionaries are short on either experience or talent.
Seniors Erin Flannery (Corvallis, Ore.) and Jaclyn Rudd (Seattle Prep) were second-team all-NWC selections as juniors. And juniors Hallie Swan (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and MacKenzie Hughes (Woodinville, Wash.) were honorable mention all-conference a year ago.
The other seniors on the roster are outside mid-fielder Julianne Masser (Boise, Idaho), center-fielders Marisa Poorboy (Coeur d'Alene High, Hayden, Idaho) and Misha Evertz (Highland Park High, St. Paul, Minn.), and goaltender Kelsey Houghton (Cleveland High, Portland).
Junior Emily Davis (Eagle River, Ark.) is in hot competition with Houghton for playing time in the net. Last year Davis split the goal keeping duties with Brougham and finished the season leading the team in saves with 51.
"It is one of the most competitive positions on the field, and Emily and Kelsey are pushing each other to be better," Cato said.
Other juniors competing for playing time are Pam London (Shorewood High, Shoreline, Wash.), Kelsey Roehner (Sehome High, Bellingham, Wash.), Sara Sonnenblick (Chadwood School, Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Taylor Thomas (Inglemoor High, Woodinville, Wash.).
Cato sees passion and competitiveness and improved knowledge as the strengths of this year's team.
"We are all on the same page going in," she said. "And as long as we continue to peak and not falter, we should do pretty well. Where I look for improvement is when we lose a game to be resilient and not allow ourselves to go into a losing streak."
Winning a Northwest Conference championship is the team's obvious No. 1 goal, Cato said. But above and beyond that, she wants her players and her team to compete regardless of the situation.
"If you have a bad first month and you play yourself out of it, you have to continue to compete and have pride in yourself and give everything you have and leave it all out on the field. If you do that, everything else will take care of itself."
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth (SAFY) of South Carolina envisions the day when every child is part of a loving family and is able to reach his or her greatest potential. Their treatment foster care program protects youth who are unable to stay with their primary family due to abuse, neglect and/or behavioral issues. In South Carolina today, there are more than 4,000 children in the foster care system. A severe lack of foster parents means many of these youths do not have access to a loving home.
For more than 30 years, SAFY has provided culturally diverse treatment programs and an array of collaborative services to meet the needs of children placed in out-of-home care. Their foster youths come from all walks of life, many experiencing trauma ranging from parental alcohol/drug abuse, family violence, and other forms of emotional and physical abuse. SAFY's foster parents play a vital role in offering safety, support, stability and a loving home when the biological family is unable to meet their needs. These foster parents are working couples, grandmothers, grandfathers, career-oriented professionals, married and/or single adults. Some have their own biological children and others have no children at all. They are of different ages, races, income levels, religions, genders and/or backgrounds, but all foster parents share one thing in common – a willingness to make a difference in the life of a child.
SAFY provides a competitive reimbursement rate determined by the individual needs of each youth placed in care. Specialized training and 24/7 support is provided by their professional staff, ensuring our caretakers have the skills needed to be effective foster parents.
When a child is removed from their family, they are changed forever. Each day, these youths deal with disappointments and hardships most cannot begin to imagine. Every positive experience they have provides an opportunity to feel valued and secure, and every act of kindness lets them know they deserve to be cared for.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a SAFY foster parent, call 803-791-7328 or visit at www.safy.org. You can also find information related to foster care at www.facebook.com/safyofsouthcarolina.
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Predator Threats
New Zealand had no warm-blooded mammal predators before they were introduced by humans. These introduced predators are now the main threat to our native wildlife – destroying eggs and killing chicks, adult birds and reptiles.
Animal pests are a major threat to New Zealand's special native species, ecosystems and conservation lands.
We all need to get involved to help save our native birds and reptiles from extinction!
The main predators and threats are:
- Dogs
- Cats
- Mustelids (stoats, weasels & ferrets)
- Possums
- Rodents (rats & mice)
- Hedgehogs
- Pigs, Deer & Goats
- Habitat Loss (eg. deforestation, the draining of wetlands)
- People.
If you own a dog or cat this is what you can do to help:
Dog owners:
- Ensure your dog cannot escape from the yard or kennel where it is housed
- Always keep your dog secured at night – dogs that roam are dangerous to native wildlife
- Keep your dog well fed and watered
- Only exercise your dog in designated dog-exercise areas
- When visiting areas of native forest with your dog, always keep it on a lead
- Never abandon unwanted dogs as this is unfair to the animal and our native wildlife.
Cat owners:
- Keep cats inside at night – cats that roam free are dangerous to native wildlife
- Keep your cat well fed and watered
- Have your cat neutered or spayed, so it cannot breed and produce unwanted kittens
- Where possible, ensure your cat has a bell on its collar – this will alert native wildlife to the cat's presence while hunting
- Never abandon unwanted cats as this is unfair to the animal and our native wildlife.
Mustelids, Possums, Rodents, Hedgehogs and Pigs
These are all opportunists and will eat anything. Unfortunately our native birds and reptiles have no defence against these introduced predators and the only way to control them is with intensive trapping, hunting and poisoning.
Habitat Loss:
In a period of approximately 750 years, native forests in New Zealand have been reduced from 85% of the land area (23 million hectares) to about 23% (6.2 million hectares).
Most of the lowland forests, wetlands, dunes and estuaries have been converted into pasture land and residential settlements – ecosystems have been reduced to isolated areas.
Before people settled in New Zealand about 5% of the land area was grassland. Today grass covers more than 38% of New Zealand's total land area:
- 52% of the North Island; and
- 29% of the South Island. [Source: Save the Kiwi]
To ensure the survival of our amazing native birds and reptiles:
- More of our native forest must be protected
- Intensive predator control must be undertaken.
We are directly responsible for the plight of our native birds and reptiles. Without continued support of our threatened native species, we may lose the fight to restore at least part of our natural heritage forever.
If you wish to support the Otorohanga Kiwi House & Native Bird Park in our efforts to save New Zealand's Native Birds & Reptiles click here.


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Ashbourne-made tugs make for smarter deliveries
Posted: January 23, 2014|
EQUIPMENT manufactured in Ashbourne has helped a major UK retailer improve its efficiency and lower its fuel costs.
Co-Operative Food has bought a batch of pedestrian electric tugs from Airfield Industrial Estate-based MasterMover which bosses say has helped them run a more efficient delivery schedule.
The Ashbourne firm's SmartMover tugs, which enable a single operator to move cages of products safely off lorries and into stores across the country,
The tugs are being delivered in to stores with difficult delivery points and staff are trained on how to use them and while software used by the retailer previously had to take into account any restrictions on handling when unloading delivery routes had to be planned based on the number of personnel in the vehicle, rather than location.
Now that a single operator can use a SmartMover to assist unloading, the software is able to recalculate routes based on proximity which means the company can cut the length and frequency of its journeys.
The Co-operative first spotted the tugs when the company acquired Somerfield in 2009, and bought into the concept after discoving many stores used the solution for moving roll cages.


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Hi Brett,
Nope - you'll be maxed out and short of target. Without getting into DIY workarounds, the TD30 offers 4 extra inputs over the 'stock' kit pads. To go beyond that, there are two methods:
- TMI - Trigger->to->MIDI Interface, the most common of which will be an old Roland TMC6. This will give you an additional 6 trigger processing inputs, it then connects to the module via MIDI to fire the sounds. The upside of this is that it's a pretty inexpensive unit = the downside is that it will require programming a) to set the trigger performance you want - although you'll have to do this with the main module anyway - and; b) to set the correct MIDI map for the sounds you want, kit by kit. None of this is rocket science, but it isn't plug-and-play either.
- Get a 2nd module. As simple as it sounds. upside is that it doubles your inputs and if you know how to work one, you know how to work two! Downside is, of course, the price... Most 'monster' ekits you see that replicate a large acoustic kit use double (or triple) modules.
Thanks for the help.
I was talking to someone the other day about this and he also suggested getting a 2nd module. How would you be able to merge the two sounds together? I guess a better way of putting it is if I wanted to use headphones while playing drums how would I be able to get them to both to merge? Is there a splitter of some sorts that I would be able to get?
As far as using a TMI would I be losing any the features that this kit has to offer? That is one of the things that I really love about this kit. I wouldn't want to lose the ability to sense the small nuances of drumming such as ghost notes, rim shots, accents, etc.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greg Bird led the offensive charge for the Charleston RiverDogs as he finished 4 for 5 with three home runs and a single, knocking in all seven runs for Charleston en route to a 7-5 South Atlantic League victory over Greensboro at NewBridge Bank Park on Friday night.
Bird began his onslaught early with a two-out solo blast to give Charleston (14-11, 53-40 overall) a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
In the top of the third, Bird sent a pitch over the left-field wall for his second homer of the night — a two-run shot that gave the RiverDogs a 3-1 advantage.
Bird struck again in the top of the fourth. Following a pair of singles by Jake Cave and Cito Culver, Bird smashed a monster home run to right-center to give Charleston a 6-1 cushion.
In his final at-bat, the designated hitter drove a single to left to score Cave for the seventh run of the game. Bird was then thrown out at second trying to stretch his single into a double.
Culver and Danny Oh also had big nights. Culver went 3 for 5 with two runs scored and a stolen base, while Oh finished 3 for 5 with two doubles, a single and a stolen base.
RiverDogs starter Evan Rutckyj (8-6) picked up his team-leading eighth victory of the season. He was relieved by John Brebbia to start the sixth, and Brebbia sat down the Grasshoppers in order in his three innings of relief with one strikeout. Derek Varnadore allowed two runs, only one earned, in the ninth inning but eventually closed the door to seal the win.
The RiverDogs will remain in North Carolina as they open up a four-game series in Hickory starting Saturday at 7 p.m. at L.P. Frans Stadium. Charleston will send RHP Vicente Campos (1-2, 3.66 ERA) to the mound as Hickory counters with LHP Frank Lopez (2-3, 5.58 ERA).
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A spokeswoman for Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner confirmed April 3 that the city has released Pizzuti Solutions LLC of Columbus from the Marina District development.
Teresa Graven, acting public information officer for the mayor, said a letter was sent to Pizzuti stating the city was taking a different direction with the Marina District project after the firm failed to meet a March 31 deadline of securing a retail anchor for the development. Graven said the city is preparing to put out proposal requests in the coming weeks to local developers. She said Pizzuti will be welcome to submit proposals.
Whether Pizzuti will remain the consulting firm for a new sports arena hasn't been determined, Graven said.
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