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IT'S 25 years since Glasgow played host to the Big Day - an amazing gig featuring some of Scotland's biggest music acts. Here stars including Eddi Reader and Ricky Ross look back on a legendary event.
THE Scottish band will take part in the festivities in front of hundreds of revellers.
BUT the singer insists the new song has nothing to do with football and that the timing is pure chance.
AFTER walking 10,000 miles across Europe in a bid to stop the silence surrounding child sex abuse, TV actor Matthew McVarish has already set himself a new goal which could change the lives of the most vulnerable children in our society.
MATERIAL from their more recent LPs A New house and The Hipsters featured prominently in a set built around standards like Loaded, Fergus Sings The Blues and Dignity.
RICKY, Lorraine, keyboard player Jim Prime and guitarist Gregor Philp paused their preparations to record one-off acoustic versions of two tracks from their latest album.
ALISTAIR Darling, who is leading the campaign to keep the UK together, said: "We are on the eve of the most momentous decision that Scotland will ever take.
YES supporter and Deacon Blue legend RICKY ROSS says he believes a Yes vote in Thursday's referendum can deliver a fairer, more peaceful and prosperous future for Scotland.
POP met politics as over two thousand pro-independence fans turned out for the gig featuring acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Amy Macdonald and Eddi Reader in Edinburgh's Usher Hall.
THE band, who release their seventh album A New House on 8 September, have provided Record readers with the chance to listen to stirring new track For John Muir.
BETTER Together estimate that independence could cost the average family an extra £3600 a year, while the SNP claimed free childcare would save parents £5000 a child per year.
ABOUT 230,000 Scots are set to miss out on having their say at the polls on September 18 as the voting registration period draws to a close.
AS the lead singer and songwriter of Deacon Blue, Ricky Ross has never been one for hiding political messages on his records.
THE husband and wife pair trawled their personal archive of old cinecam footage to use in the video for new single A New House.
THE Record can reveal that the much-loved Glasgow band, led by frontman Ricky Ross, have been lined up to perform in a spectacular grand finale at Glasgow's Hampden stadium.
HOUSEHOLD names who have lent their support to the Let's Stay Together film include Doctor Who and Torchwood star John Barrowman, EastEnders actor Ross Kemp, comedian Eddie Izzard and actor Tony Robinson.
THE unnamed Inverness man made his appearance on a politician-free Question Time show in the Highland capital, leaving the audience, panelists, and hosts stunned.
FUNDRAISING mum Marlene Johnston, who gives her life to helping people battle drug addiction, dedicated her top award to her son Robert who she lost to heroin.
ALISON IRVINE the writer of acclaimed book on Red Road flats has led the wave of artists hitting out at Commonwealth Games organisers for their decision to demolish the tower blocks for the opening ceremony.
THE vintage pop stars will release their new album A New House in September.
FREYA, who is set to star in four-part mini series New Worlds, has become the latest of many artists and entertainers supporting the Yes campaign ahead of September's referendum.
THE Proclaimers, Ricky Ross and X Factor star Nicholas McDonald sign up as celebrities pledge to do without their favourite food for Lent so they can help those in the most deprived countries in the world.
THE singer who is married to fellow band member Ricky Ross, apologised to fans on Facebook after missing the concert in Bristol.
SCOTS rockers are back on track with new festive single hitting the shops ahead of their Hogmanay gig at Stirling Castle.
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Hello. I just wondered if anybody knew what font apple used for the images on their website. Not the normal text but the images like this from the iBook page or this ipod mini writing?
My guess is arial with some AV spacing.
Myriad, it's an Adobe font.
Is there anywhere that I could get it for free, or is there anybody that has it and could send it to me. I think it comes with adobe creative studio, is this right aswell?
I swear I had it on here... I saw it the other day... but apparently, alas, I don't have it anymore. I think I had it on my Windows machine as well, after installing Photoshop or something.
Sorry, can't remember :( I think you're going to have to pay, all the best fonts are paid for.
Found that, pretty interesting.
I found the font when using photoshop, is there anyway to get it to work with my other programs.
That's where I've seen it! Have a look around in the Photoshop folder, and in application support. It has to be there somewhere.
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This is another tea that I picked up on vacation at Quintin's Tea Emporium in Virginia Beach. It smelled so lovely in the jar that I had to take it home with me. And I am always looking for new and interesting herbals for my cupboard.
I don't find this one to be artificially lemon as the other reviewer suggests. It isn't a bright citrusy lemon, but it's not cloying or sweet and it doesn't remind me of household cleaners at all. I think the mint does a good job of balancing out the lemon and both hid the fact that this is a red rooibos which is great since I almost passed on this one because I typically don't like red rooibos teas.
Definitely one I will be happy to enjoy, though not something I plan to keep stocked.
This blend of coconut, lavender and rooibos both intrigued and disgusted me. There is no flavouring added either, so it really just tastes exactly how you'd think: lavender and rooibos with a sweet coconut aftertaste. Interesting sounding but ultimately pretty bland, much like the men my friends try to set me up with.
I received this tea through a sampler package I'd bought a bit back. The sample came in a gold packet with only the logo for "The East Indies Tea Company", the name of the tea, the type of tea, and the address of the company. Therefore, I can only guess as to what is in it and tell you what I'm picking up. I could find no info online for the tea, and I didn't find a single tea retailer who offers it, at least not by the name on my sample package. I have e-mailed the company in hopes they can give me a little more information. Anyway, onto the good stuff:
Upon looking at this tea, I saw what appeared to be bits of marshmallow, some kind of snowflake sprinkles, and the same gold sugar balls one can find in David Tea's "Glitter & Gold". There also seemed to be some pieces of caramel in there, though this I am not 100% on. It smells almost like coco when dry, and I also detect a hint of marshmallow.
Upon brewing the tea I noticed it sparkles, just like "Glitter & Gold" does. Very pretty. It smells like hot coco w/ marshmallows to me. The tasting is also very similar to hot coco, only with less of the chocolate. The marshmallow comes through pretty nicely (this from someone who dislikes marshmallow), but doesn't make it too sweet. It also makes for a slightly creamy cup, which I found rather enjoyable. The sugar candy also adds a little sweetness, but it isn't like drinking a latte or anything. Just present and pleasant. I do seem to pick up a very faint caramel taste, though I can't be certain. It's nice, though, whatever it is. It's a smooth cup, with the black tea base just breaking through to give the cup a nice, subdued, black tea taste. As I've said in previous reviews, I'm not a fan of strong black teas, so this brew was well received. The tea base is present, but contains no astringency, nor is it overpowering. The tea tastes best once it has cooled a little bit. Overall, I really enjoyed this Holiday brew. Now, if only someone sold it….
I'll update if I find anything out about this tea.
EDIT: So, I looked online for a marshmallow black tea with gold balls and blue sprinkles and found a tea that seemed either the same or very similar to what I'd had. It's called "Eight Candles" and it's sold by Della Terra Teas. This may be the same tea, but I can't be certain. Maybe they changed the name?
I picked this up in a local tea shop over the weekend… the smell was wonderful… tea was ok. I tasted the strawberry but it was more like tasting Nesquik strawberry syrup we use to make our daughter strawberry milk. This has a slight chocolate flavor. Overall I would drink this again but will not replenish the tin once it is finished.
This tea reminded me of Celestial Seasonings Candy cane lane only this one has a black tea base. This was not that remarkable, I think the mint/candycane flavor could have been stronger. But the cuteness factor of this tea rocked! Little mini- candy canes in the tea!!! SO cute! I will drink this again but do not feel the need to go out and buy some to hoard until next Christmas.
The dry leaves smell like those cinnamon lollies, as does the resulting brew. This blend packs a pretty weak cinnamon lolly taste though, plus I could do without the sugared syrupyness coating the back of my tongue and making me want to throw up – both from the sensation and the heavily sweetened flavour. Way too sweet, where's the spice?
Well yes. The aroma of the dry leaves is indeed chocolate strawberry, with the liquid smelling of mostly chocolate. But not good chocolate. Nor is it the step down from good chocolate which is the cheap but edible and wildly available stuff. Its more like the weird stuff that you find in $2 discount stores that isn't really chocolate but some weird stale chocolate colored imitation. Imagine that with a faint hint of strawberry and you have experienced this tea.
You gotta admire tea blends with stupid names, because if I had a tea company all the blends would be named after inside jokes and dead celebrities I'm in love with.
Anyway, the aroma has that imitation lemon essence smell I've come to expect with lemon teas with hint of mint. This blend tastes exactly how it smells really, but I really don't find the lozenge-esque lemon and mint an agreeable combination in my mouth…
I knew this would be awful just from its name (and also due to not finding a decent earl grey during the entire World Tea Expo).
I really can't think of anything worse than sullying the greatness of bergamot with weird dried berries and flavouring but I was willing to give this a go. The aroma of the tea is strangely fake strawberry, like lollies, with a hint of citrus. And unsurprisingly the flavour is much the same, a poor strawberry black tea with a finish of light (cheap?) bergamot.
Wow, no decent Earl Grey in the entire Expo? How sad. You should try Mariage Freres Earl Grey Imperial if you haven't already. Strong on the bergamot, that.
I'm sporting a cold so I wanted a strong flavored tea today. This is one of those special teas that you find over the holidays but will enjoy year round. The cranberry and almond move this beyond a standard holiday spice blend. Don't compare this with the boxes of grocery store holiday teas. The East Indies Tea Company has raised holiday blends to a new level – one to treasure.
This tea was very simple. Black tea with pomegranate. I had a cup prepared for me in the tea store (Cattail Coffee & Tea, www.cattailcoffee.com ), so I am not sure of how it was prepared and that impacts my review. The tea was actually a little bit bitter. I'm not sure if this was a fault in preparation or if it is a naturally bitter black tea. When smelling the tea beforehand, I was afraid that the pomegranate flavor would be too strong and unnatural, but it was just right. Decent cuppa to pick up at the store as a once-off, but didn't want to buy any to take home.
This is a very strong tea. When pouring into the steeper, the water instantly changed to a dark brown, leading me to change my anticipated steeping time down from 5:00 to 4:30 because of the expected strong flavor. The first impression I got was that it was the most coffee-like tea I have come across. The smoky flavor as well as a good amount of body is what lead me to this conclusion. The description from the company notes orange peel and citrus flavoring, but I did not notice it. It may have been overpowered by the smoky flavor. This tea is a great change of pace, but stronger than I usually like my teas. It will definitely work its way into the rotation as "my strong tea"


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I thought so.
Why should I be ashamed. I am an American and I remember the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Its the same scumbags in power now. I am so glad that their people are rioting. I hope they burn it to the ground.
Happy Fourth of July to my fellow Americans!!!
Great Job in rounding all those criminals up.
I have no clue ast to why this story includes all these peoples birthdays. Who cares about that.
Good. Now we will find wanted people much faster.
The photo doesn't go with the caption. This guy is being decontaminated. You don't wash off the suit before you go in. Am I correct?
Trust the goverment???? Let me ask an indian.... Can't find one........Oh well
You are smart. They don't tell that in anything your read about black history. Its a fact that the European explorers were traded black slaves for other goods. The Explorers didn't go and kidnap them. They were traded by there own people.
How can you be sorry for something that happend long before you were born? You can agree it might not have been right but you had nothing to do with it so how can you appoligize for it?
Did you know that before they started using Aficans as slaves that poor white people were used as slaves. Thats a fact too. How come there isn't anyone apologizing for that??????
It's so one sided. I sure hope they sleep well tonight with a clear mind.
Protect the minoritys rights while trample on the rights of the rest of us.
I never have nor did my ansestors have anything to do with slaves ever. So how do I owe them anything?
How many more motcyclist must die before they pass a law that bans use of handheld cell phones or texting while driving.
Some lady almost ran me over yesterday and yes she was on a cell phone. She just came halfway into my lane. I kicked her door. Then she gave my the finger and went back into her lane. They got some nuts out there.
Wow is right. That is sad but atleast nobody freaked out.
That is not good news at all.
The family are in my prayers.
Too bad the clerk didn't have his own gun and shoot that no good POS dead. Now the guy is going to have to find another gun and I bet it will have bullets in it next time.
The clerk was lucky. If he is smart. He will quit that job already or arm himself. That guy is going to come back for revenge. All the cops are going to do is call somebody to remove your body.
Time to change out the people in the house. Make your notes now on who needs to voted out in the next election.
Exactly, Our children don't have seatbealts while on school buses. They don't have helmets either.
Were they wearing Helmets????
I bet they werent.
Great Job JPFD. I agree that is kinda weird that fires were that close by. Maybe its a sign of global warming and we have moved closer to the sun?????
Here comes Al Gore with the latest................
You are lying. I saw two JPSO in a store a few days ago. I asked how it was going. They both said great. I also thanked them for the job they were doing. They were very pleasent.
Waterboard them.... They will come up with a name in about 6 seconds.
northbound I concur with your comment.
It don't matter how old you are in this case. Once the crossing is closed....you can not go around them. The train can't stop. Those guys on the engine don't want to hurt or kill anyone with the train. Turn around an go another way if you can but dont try to beat the train.
Hope the guy survives this accident.
I got to agree with 2legs.......You be an Idiot.
I guess Ray should have been wearing a helmet.


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As the title says, I feel as if there is a newer generation of gamers, old and new of age, that just missed the point completely about MMO gaming. Not because it wasn't floating right in their faces, but because the point was made 10years ago with the original onset of MMOs, but then big companies got wind of the profits to be made and decided to come in guns blazing with fireworks, explosions, and boobs flailing everywhere in the glistening sunlight to get said market interested in their products.
What am I rambling on about?
Well, on a daily basis I see people talking about "Solo vs Group this or that", "PvP vs PvE this or that", "Instanced vs Open World this or that", and "Quests vs Questless Design this or that" etc etc.
It isn't about being one against the other. The "Older Generation" of MMOs that started the whole thing showed us a long time ago that it's about COMBINING everything into one package that spreads the amount of activities available to you so you're never bored of feel as if you've nothing left to accomplish. This also diversifies the population so that everyone has something they like. Crafters get their in-depth crafting system. Explorers get their fix for awesome dungeons almost no one goes to and barely understands how to traverse. Competitive players get their fix from highly engaging PvP that is linked in with PvE for armor, weapons, and supplies (aka: DAOC, Shadowbane, SWG, etc), and Carebears (not used in a derogatory sense) get their love from the PvE part of the game. This also leads to different mindsets trying out other types of gameplay they never thought they'd care about.
I used to be a hardcore Carebear back in my EQ days, but after playing DAOC i learned i love BOTH worlds, but only when done correctly where both feed off each other!
The mixtures of highly important PvP with a world comprised mostly of PvE in an otherwise Questless design with some side-quests available by choice all the while having some instancing and a lot of open world gameplay that had a relatively in-depth crafting system is what made DAOC such the juggernaut, relatively speaking for its time, that it was. Did you guys forget this or was it not part of your "Generation" of gaming that you missed out? I hear quite a bit that people "Missed out" so they never understood how awesome DAOC really was (since it is a flaming pile of poo now after all the things Mythic/EA did to it).
The same goes for EQ, SWG, and all those other "Epic" MMOs of the past 14years. Hell, I even miss when an MMO wasn't labeled strictly a "Sandbox" or "Themepark" and had a mix of the two (Again, talking about DAOC here) which gave you quite a lot more to do without getting bored.
I just think both the player-base AND the developers of today are far too tunnel-visioned to actually "get" what an MMO was originally meant to be, and it most certainly wasn't supposed to be 99% instanced with little social interaction and no real difficulty involved to "achieve" things (aka: SWTOR is a prime example of what's wrong with today's "MMO").
I'd also like to make the point that it is impossible for people to "outgrow" a specific genre or activity that they truly enjoy. What has happened is that the industry has changed too much from its original intent into something only about money now, and not so much about building living, breathing, socially driven worlds that actually matter beyond the first 3 months.
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No, you're missing the point. It doesn't matter what the MMO genre was originally intended to be, it only matters what it is now. [mod edit] It's entirely irrelevant to the modern day MMO which are driven by market forces and what the majority of people actually want to play now.
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Originally posted by BearKnight
I'd also like to make the point that it is impossible for people to "outgrow" a specific genre or activity that they truly enjoy. What has happened is that the industry has changed too much from its original intent into something only about money now, and not so much about building living, breathing, socially driven worlds that actually matter beyond the first 3 months.
May be impossible for you, certainly not for me. Or may be i don't enjoy it that much in the early days.
Don't sound as if the original intent is not about money .. it is always about finding an audience. If "living, breathing, socially driven world" is not as fun as instanced solo-able co-op RPGs for most of the audience, then it no longer will be a focus.
You cannot make money without providing fun to the audience in the entertainment business.
Originally posted by Cephus404
Pretty much this.
Original intent is irrelevant to me. I want my games fun, not needing to adhere to some ancient "intent".
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Originally posted by Cephus404
I think you're missing the point completely then, because an MMO is very specific in nature, and it has been bastardized by big company producers thinking they can get away with labeling their product an MMO without it actually being one.
Diablo 3 is one of these games, as is "World of Tanks" of which I play but I know it isn't an MMO.
Standards are set so that people can't just go "Oh hey, I want a cat to be a squirrel now, it's going to happen because I say so". That's the point, and MMOs recently have been failing left and right because they've strayed too far from the original intent of what an MMO is, and was. This is also why producers throwing money at new products can't seem to understand why they can't match WoW.
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I played EQ and DAoC for many years. Bought DAoC 3 days after it was released even.
I loved those games but I am glad the genre evolved some. I do not miss spawn camping hours and hours, waiting in line for rare mobs, exp. grinding for hours on end. Half the time spent socializing was due to there being nothing else better to do while you waited 8 hours for your turn at the rare.
Those type of games were great for the time, but it isnt that time now. Me and all my DAoC buddies couldnt put in the sheer amount of time and effort to play something like that today. Hell I need a more casual MMO to play just due to real life adult responsibilities. Gone are the days of having to spend 40 hours a week to barely keep up in an MMO.
I have many great memories from those games as I am sure many do. There are games like that still running if you want to play them. Simply put most people have neither the time nor desire to commit that much time & effort into a video game. Casual MMOs draw a bigger crowd, just the way it is.
I do miss the community of DAoC, the realm pride, defending the relics, knowing your enemies from other realms, being in a guild that actually felt like a family rather than the guys you raid with every M / W / F. For me that was the best time I have ever had in a game period. It was as much a time in my life as it was the game. Everyone I knew that played hardcore has gown up and have families, full time jobs, ect.
Only a small niche could or would actually put the time required by a game like EQ1 or DAoC on release. Why make a game for 100k when you could make one Millions play and enjoy? Not for love I can tell you that. At the end of the day game making is a business.
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Impartial observation: Do you think that since there are so many other online social media outlets that people can fill makes people not care about having that part missing from their online games? It was easy to feel like that was the "point" of MMOs back then, when there were so few online social outlets, especially for gamers, to live and share experiences.
Understandable: The genre has "lost it's way" so to speak but hopefully we will see a return of virtual worlds and player interaction again. EQ2NL and on
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"Ideas are worthless. The only currency that holds any weight is the ability and drive to execute."
A little long winded mate, but I generally agree with you. Especially this part I'm highlighting.
Luckily, i don't need you to like me to enjoy video games. -nariusseldon.
It's all about sheeps and wolves. The sheeps won't play a game that has wolves and wolves won't play a game without sheep. How does one build a game for both?
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Everything changes. Nothing stays the same. Even us as gamers change with the times. I look at todays games as how my parents viewed the music I listened to. As we grow older, we get more rigid and fixed in regards in things we will do. It is natural and we all do. I like non instanced open world type of game with some forced grouping. Until a generation of gamers comes along that favors that type, I know I have to sit and wait.
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Originally posted by BearKnight
yeah umm...no.
Ultima Online, Trammel and the ensuing outrage over "protecting" players ...I should say /thread here but I want to go on.
The Internet Flame wars of 1999/2000, the flame war that was so bad it carried over to nearly a dozen sites and created all these wonderful Nazi forums rules we have on every single forum today. What was it about? Well, it STARTED out with one member of the Black Knights shooting down some new forum member for mention getting ganked and then camped by a higher level player in Asherons Call and it turned into over 100 members of that same guild posting and basing everyone...everywhere.
Its where the term "Carebear" comes from...
As for "companies" stepping in for money.
Asherons Call, made by Turbine, produced and distributed by Microsoft.
EverQuest...partly funded and distributed by SONY.
Lastly, you missed the boat. First MMOs were not a decade ago...more like TWO. Ultima Online wasn't even close to being the first, it missed that by 6 years and a half dozen games.
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This has certainly influenced development of games. The earliest MMORPGs were very much social networks but without the range of social possibilities that something like Facebook has. It didn't matter "back then", because they were feature rich when they released. Now social networks like Facebook or even Reddit are very feature rich while MMORPGs are still the same social networks they've always been. Now MMORPGs are very poor social networks. I would be surprised if very many people considered them social networks at all.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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MMos are about what people will pay for. More people paid for what we have now than what we had then...so this is what they became. No matter what they become, there will always be people left behind saying " this isn't what mmos should be"
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sorry Bear but this is basic philosophic essentialism, ie., that things have an intended essence and that they are that thing no matter what.
that doesn't work. either in the real world or the mmo world apparently. its certainly not the best basis for science or rational discussion beyond a certain point.
perhaps it would simply be better to state: what we originally experienced in mmo's is gone and that's not a good thing.
i do think your comments about variety in one game are spot on. the more choice a player has, within reason, the more they have to do in a game, the more they will tend to stick around i believe.
the only real thing i miss from days of yore is the virtual world. i really thought that 15 years down the road our virtual worlds would be so highly evolved that they'd be amazing.
instead im staring at indie dev after indie dev on Steam make platform sidescrollers cuz its hip.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
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Originally posted by DamonVile
I'm not so sure this is entirely accurate information. Total number of MMO players is going down while the number of games has gone up. Also most of them have gone F2P within 12 months (if not earlier) of lauch day. If the current trend in MMO design really was what the majority of gamers wanted, most of them would still be P2P and have raising sub numbers. Even WoW, despite of its age, would have kept its sub base steadier and even gain some more compared to f.ex the early WotLK if this was true.
Oh, and i agree with OP.
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Joined: 10/02/11
Well ... I have to agree with the OP to some extent.
MMORPG may have changed meanings, but I feel the entire point of what it was meant to be was missed entirely.
It's like an archer aiming at a target with the intent of hitting the center, but instead turns entirely around and shoots a random person.
People here are correct though, times have changed, and not much can really be done about it.
It's to bad.
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Originally posted by deniter
That part in red....is bullshit.
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I miss so much gearing up in PVE for PvP !!!
Only one armor for both !!!
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In 1903 the Ford Model A had an engine that had an output of 8HP and could reach speeds of 28 mph (45 km/h). Have car manufacturers been missing the "point" all this time since then as well? Things change my friend. You don't have to like it, just acknowledge it.
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I spent the weekend with my friend Ali and I thought I would put some photos up :)
Me ridding her 16.1 hand thoroughbred gelding Vinnie :) He's such a good boy
Ali with Vinnie
Me jumping :) Please don't be mean about my position. It was my first time jumping this horse and he is very enthusiastic about jumping and my horses arnt. Also excuse my facial expression :/
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For the steak:
6 6 oz beef tenderloin slices, 2" to 3" thick
2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lime juice
2 garlic cloves, minced
Kosher or sea salt, or to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
Vegetable oil
For the poblano strips or rajas:
6 poblano chiles
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 cup white onion, thinly-sliced
Kosher or sea salt, or to taste
1 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
1 thick slice white cheese, panela, asadero or blanco
1 ripe avocado, halved, scopped and sliced
To cut and prepare the meat:
On a large cutting board, hold one piece of beef upright and, with a sharp knife, make a vertical cut into the meat about 1/4" deep.Continue slicing around the circumference of the piece, unrolling a thin layer of beef as you go, stopping to turn it when you need to, until you get a long strip 1/4" thick and about 2" wide. Continue with the rest of the pieces.
Season the meat on both sides with the lime juice, garlic, salt and pepper.
When the meat is ready, lightly coat a griddle or large 12" skillet over medium-high heat; once it is very hot, cook the meat for about 1 to 2 minutes on each side, depending on your desired done-ness level.
To prepare the poblano strips or rajas:
Place the poblano chiles on a tray under the broiler, directly on a grill or directly on an open flame. I prefer to broil them, it's faster and easier. Whatever method you choose, turn them every 2 to 3 minutes for a total of 6 to 9 minutes. They'll seem charred and blistered on the outside; the flesh must be cooked but not burnt -- like roasting marshmallows over a fire.
Once charred and hot, place them in a plastic bag, close it tightly and let them sweat for 10 to 20 minutes. Then, and preferably under a thin stream of cold water, remove the charred skin, make a slit down one side of the pepper and remove the cluster of seeds and veins. Cut the stem off and make slices that are about a 1/2" inch wide.
Heat the oil and butter in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the onion, cook for 6 to 8 minutes. Add the rajas (the poblano pepper strips) and cook for a few more minutes. Add the vinegar, cook another minute. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
To prepare the grilled cheese:
Heat a griddle, grill pan or nonstick or seasoned cast iron skillet over medium heat until hot. Place the cheese slice on the grill pan and cook until lightly browned. Cut the cheese into 6 slices.
To serve:
Prepare each plate with one piece of steak, some poblano pepper strips, two enchiladas and a slice of the grilled cheese. The meal is traditionally served with a side of tortillas, refried beans sprinkled with cheese, a slice of avocado and the salsa of your choice.
Hi Pati,
My Mom turned me onto your PBS program this past week. OMG, this looks so ME.!! As hubby is on a super low (800mg a day) sodium diet, dinning out at any of our favorite resturants is out of there. Tonight we are having Your Tampico-Style Steak Combo, minus the salt. (and no cookies) I'll have to let you know how it turns out, using salt substitute.
Thank you so much for the great recipes and awesome ideas.
Hola Carla, Yes! I'm interested to know how it turns out with the salt substitute. I'm glad I was able to give you some ideas.Pati Jinich replied to comment from Carla Jankowski | September 26, 2012 11:23 AM
Thanks for finally solving the mystery for me of how the Tampiquena steak I've been ordering in Mexican restaurants all these years is cut. I've sharpened my best knife and am on the look out for a good beef tenderloin sale. :-)
Happy your show is back for a new season on PBS here in Chicago.
Thought you would like this recipe for Tampiqueno.Cecilia Traina | October 15, 2012 9:46 PM
I had the Tampiquena steak in a nice Mexican restaurant in Houson Tx a few years back and have been unsuccessful in duplicating it. I can't wait to try your recipe and techniques. Thanks for sharing it!Pat Abruzzise | October 28, 2012 1:25 PM
Hola Pati,
Today I made tampiqueña and I loved it, and my husband loved it, but instead of fried beans we had frijoles charros, it was great!
I dont know if you have the recipe for tacos al pastor, the other day I tried to make them, but the taste was different, good, but different, and I really miss tacos al pastor and i want to make them, i hope you can give the recipe for that.
Thank you for sharing your great techniques and ideas!
Hola Mónica, You're tampiqueña with frijoles charros sounds delicious!! Thank you for trying the recipe. I don't have a recipe for tacos al pastor yet, but I will try to post something soon.Pati Jinich replied to comment from Mónica | December 3, 2012 11:34 AM
Hola Paty,
I think this is the recipe that I've been looking for!!! Can you tell me if Beef Tenderloin is the same as Filet Mignon? That is what a butcher told me but it turns out that is very expensive. I wonder if it goes by another name. I find pork tenderloin very easily but not beef.
Thanks for sharing!
I am definitely going to try this receipeSharon | December 9, 2012 1:00 AM
Hi Sherry, Filet Mignon is a cut off the beef tenderloin. Tenderloin is the most tender cut of beef, so it is usually more pricey. You can always try substituting a roast or round steak. Thank you for taking a moment to write me!!Pati Jinich replied to comment from Sherry Palencia | December 10, 2012 5:20 PM
Thank you, Sharon!Pati Jinich replied to comment from Sharon | December 11, 2012 6:23 PM
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Brett Elliott Price, age 53, of Johnson City, passed away unexpectedly Sunday, February 9, 2014. Brett and his twin brother Brian Marshall Price were born on September 7, 1960, in Nashville, Tennessee, and he remained a Tennessean of the Baptist faith his entire life. He was employed by Price Concrete. He was the son of Judy Elliott Hastings and the late Donald Lee Price.
Survivors in addition to his mother include two sons, Paul Raymond Price of Johnson City and Michael Elliott Price of Inverness, Florida; four grandchildren, Tyrique, Zion, Nadia and Travis; five brothers, Brian, William Lee Price, Bradley Keith Price, Donald Lee Price and Frank Watson Hawkins; a step-father, James Lee Hastings.
The family will receive friends from 1:00 – 2:00 PM Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Tetrick Funeral and Cremation Services, Johnson City, TN. Committal and graveside services will follow at Happy Valley Memorial Park, Elizabethton, TN. Reverend Greg Salyer will officiate. Mr. Price's brothers will serve as pallbearers. Online condolences may be shared through www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral and Cremation Services, 3001 Peoples Street, Johnson City, TN 37604 (423) 610-7171 is serving the family.


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Research: Children Of Judges May Influence Court Decisions
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SETH — Although ending in disappointment, the 2013 season was highly successful for the Sherman Tide softball team.
In fact, the Ladies achieved nearly all of their pre-season goals, with the exception of making the state Class A playoffs, according to Head Coach Jim Henderson.
Henderson, who has led the Tide softball program the past 20 years, watched as his girls went 24-8, only to lose by one run to Man in the semi-regional.
"I couldn't say that wasn't a big disappointment," said the veteran coach in looking back on the season last week. "But I am also extremely proud of the accomplishments of this team."
So proud, in fact, that even the loss to Man could not diminish the team's success, he said. "We did a good job and we represented our community well," said Henderson. "The girls worked hard, never gave up and pushed to the very end. They bring great pride to our community."
After opening the year with a loss to county rival Scott, the Tide reeled off six straight victories. Two losses followed, in South Carolina's Grand Strand Classic, before the Tide picked up a win in that tourney. After losing to Wyoming East in South Carolina, Sherman marched to ten straight wins and it was clear the Tide was one of the top teams in Class A.
A 3-2 loss to nemesis Man followed before the local gals defeated Class AA power Chapmanville. Losses to Buffalo and Scott came next before Sherman went on another win streak, picking up six straight victories. Then came the crushing loss to Man after the Tide floated past Valley (Fayette) in the sectional tournament.
Mackenzie Smith starred for the Tide and made the first team all-state. Tori May was second team all-state with Baylee Harless earning special honorable mention and Jordan Lewis, honorable mention. The four were also named to the All-Coalfield Coalfield Conference first team.
Demi Jarrell, Hali Jarrell and Kylie Wells were named to the All-Coalfield second team with Tori Hendricks and Paige Halstead earning honorable mention.
Henderson said he believed between six and eight of the team members would have been named to the all-state team if the squad had made the state tourney field in Vienna.
The 24-win season marked the most wins in a Sherman season ever. This was also the best-hitting Sherman team in history, closing the year with a .352 batting average. The Tide outscored their opponents by a combined 249 to 85.
Smith l ed the team offensively, with a .424 average. She belted 11 home runs as well. In doing so, Smith became the Tide's best home run hitter in history with a career 25 four-basers.
May posted a 10-1 record pitching. Paige Halstead had 24 hits; Taylor Hendricks hit at a .382 clip; Hall Jarrell hit .313; Nikki Santonio had ten hits and scored 11 runs. Hayley Buzzard connected on nine hits; Kylie Wells was 10-4 pitching for the Tide; and Whitney Laws was 4-3 on the mound.
Allison Gray scored 16 runs; Shannon Gray scored ten runs; Sarah Seagroves scored five; and Vanessa Howell and ErikaPritt each scored one.
"Our success was due to the 17 young ladies that made up our team," the coach said. "Each did what they had to do to to push their teammates to the next level."
Sherman won the prestigious Best of the Best tournament at Buffalo as well as winning the sectional title. During the six game win streak at the end of the season the Tide gals outscored their opponents by a combined 63-1. "That's as good as it gets," said Henderson.
Man went on to finish fourth in the state Class A tournament with Buffalo picking up the championship trophy.
""I feel we will make another run next year," said Henderson, with several key returnees. The senior Smith, who led this year team's team, has signed to play collegiate ball at Glenville State College. Henderson said the team will miss all eight seniors: Smith, May, Jarrell, Hendricks, Allison Gray, Shannon Gray, Howell and Pritt. "Each of these girls was great to work with," he said.
Henderson said he will enjoy a two-week summer workout experience with the team, which is permitted by West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (SSAC) rules.
All in all, Henderson said Tide fans should be looking forward to another successful year in 2014.
Sherman players MacKensie Smith was named first-team All-State, All-Conference and All-Conty; Tori May was named to second-team All-State and first-team All-Conference and All-County; Baylee Harless was given special honorable mention All-State and first-team All-Conference and All-County; Jordan Lewis selected All-State honorable mention and first-team All-Conference and All-County; Second team All-Conference and first-team All –County honors went to Demi Jarrell, Hali Jarrell and Kylie Wells; and All-Conference honorable mention and first-team All-County went to Taylor Hendricks and Paige Halstead.
MacKenzie Smith of Sherman High and Allyson Johnson of Scott High have both been selected for the North/South game next week.
Other high school girls' softball honors went to:
• All-State honorable mention and first-team All-County to Chelsea Calloway of Van High School.
• All-State, All-Conference and All-County first team to Allyson Johnson of Scott High School; Special honorable mention All-State and first-team All-Conference and All-County Ally Brown; All-State honorable mention and first-team All-County Sydney Dangott of Scott High School; First team All-Conference and All-County Jennifer Miller, Sara Browning and Katrina Conley, all of Scott High School.


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Thanks to the skin-deep custom Timescape/Mediascape UX used by Sony Ericsson in their 2010 flagship phone, the Xperia X10, the company had a tough time in updating the handset to the latest versions of Android.
Thankfully, the company realized its mistake and reduced its custom UX heavily in the 2011 range of Xperia handsets. This made Sony's work of updating their handset to the latest version of Android much more easier, and the company has been pumping out regular software updates, which add new features ever since. The whole Timescape UI has been reduced to some brilliant 3D widgets in the latest bunch of Xperia handsets.
Now, one developer over at XDA forums, has managed to port the Timescape UI for all Android handsets running CM7. I tried the mod on my CM7ified SGS2 and Galaxy Ace, and it worked like a charm. The installation steps of this mod are pretty simple as well. Simply download and transfer this file to your CM7 running Android handset, and reboot it into recovery. Now, first make sure that you mount the /system partition from under the Mounts & Storage option, and then simply install/flash the zip file you downloaded above.
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Lesbian couple asked to leave Bath KFC
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A lesbian couple have been thrown out of a city fast food restaurant after alleged heavy petting.
The pair were in Bath's KFC on Henry Street last Thursday when they were asked to leave by staff.
Stephen Pope, the father of one of the women, said on Twitter: "Dear @kfc the manager at your Bath, UK, store just kicked my daughter and her g/f out for being #gay. Is this one of your policies?"
A KFC spokesman said they were "very sorry for any offence caused".
He added: "While we acknowledge that staff may have been over-zealous in asking the couple to leave, we do not believe that the decision had anything to do with their sexuality.
"Staff acted in response to complaints from customers about inappropriate behaviour, however they have since apologised, in person, to the couple, and offered them vouchers as a form of apology, so we hope to welcome them into the store again soon."


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'It's simply a joy to hear Lydon in fine voice, getting stuck into thorny matters with his own unique, raw nerve gusto, backed by a cookin' band' MOJO Magazine
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential bands of all time PiL's music and vision earned them 5 UK Top 20 Singles and 5 UK Top 20 Albums. With a shifting line-up and unique sound John Lydon guided the band from their debut album 'First Issue' in 1978 through to 1992′s 'That What Is Not', before a 17 year hiatus. John then resurrected PiL in 2009 playing live worldwide. Now after 20 years yet another new and unique chapter has unfolded in the shape of new PiL material.
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Any student who has been in college for very long is all too familiar with the annual ritual. With a sense of dread tinged with resignation, students wait to discover just how much their tuition will rise this year. Unlike their experience with new computers, they entertain no expectation that rates for their education will decrease. The upward spiral in prices appears inexorable.
Yet is that the way it must be?
For a student in college between 1997 and 2001, average total costs will be nearly $46,000 for those attending public institutions. For those in private schools, the news is even bleaker. Such students face expenses approaching $97,000. Students graduating twenty years from now may well be staggered by costs of $157,000 and $327,000, respectively.
In the past four decades, the total yearly spending on higher education increased from $7 billion to $170 billion a year. Financial aid at both the state and federal levels reached $60 billion in 1998 with guaranteed student loans comprising nearly 60% of that aid, a six percent increase from 1997. Many people would contend that such a bump in financial aid is justified given the price hikes in tuition and other costs. Not only would they adamantly resist any attempt to lower that aid, they actively lobby for even more outlays of government monies.
Unfortunately, the first or most obvious answer to a problem is not necessarily the correct one.
The reality is that government subsidies not only lead to ever greater educational costs but threaten the very existence of private institutions of higher learner.
There are two fundamental dimensions to be considered in evaluating this dismal situation. The first factor is one of basic economic principles. The second is an issue of individual freedom.
As with other areas of life, the price we pay for any good or service is essentially determined by relative supply and demand. Other things being equal, the greater the supply of some product with a given demand, the lower the price the supplier will ask and obtain for that product. Conversely, when a given supply is coupled with a rising demand, prices will increase.
This is as it should be. Through this process, consumers indicate the importance they attach to a certain product or service by their willingness to purchase it at a given price. This free market method of distribution insures that economic goods will flow to those who most desire them. Costs are incurred by those with the most urgent needs or wants while others who are outbid turn elsewhere to satisfy their desires.
Under normal circumstances, when prices are high and supply relatively low, more providers will move into this area of production. By doing so, they hope to cash in on prices higher than they might obtain producing other types of goods or services. This increased supply then tends to bring down prices. Left to operate on its own, supply and demand will bring goods and prices into alignment or equilibrium until all the supply is purchased by those willing to pay the price (the goods will "clear the market").
What happens, though, if the price of some product is artificially lowered below it's "clearing price"?
If music CDs usually sell for, say, $15, there will be a given number of people willing to purchase them at that price. However, what if a third party decides to subsidize the cost of CDs and pays each music lover $5 to help defray the cost of purchasing his music? More people will now decide they can afford to purchase CDs. After all, these $15 CD only cost them $10. They will now buy CDs even though they value them less than those willing to pay the full $15 price.
Demand for CDs will increase. Delighted producers will make more of them. Sales increase.
It does not require much thought, though, before the producers realize that, hey, there was a good supply of people willing to buy these CDs at the unsubsidized price of $15. They are now buying more CDs at less cost than they would really be willing to pay.
So the producers start increasing their prices, say to $17 at first, then $19, then $20. After all, with the subsidy, it really only "costs" the consumer $15.
But now there are a larger number of people who have grown accustomed to buying cheaper CDs. With the increase in prices, some of these consumers will soon have to cut back on their purchases or stop them entirely. But they like listening to CDs and are unhappy with the prospect of lowering their lifestyle. They begin to complain and demand a larger subsidy to cover their increased costs. The producers will probably join the consumers in seeking higher subsidies. After all, the higher prices had begun to cut into their sales.
If the buyers succeed in getting the "music they deserve" at the price they want, the whole cycle will begin again.
So it is with government programs that mask the true costs of college for students. State and federal grants, guaranteed student loans, and direct subsidies to public colleges and universities lower the apparent price of obtaining a college education. This leads to a higher demand. Because of this higher demand, college administrators feel justified in increasing tuition and fees. And because they realize that many if not most students have these costs subsidized in one form or another, these administrators will worry less about raising tuition. They know the higher costs will not really impose all that much of a burden on the students. Plus, students will complain less than they might if they faced the full cost of their education. This will make it easier for the administration to "get away with" hiking their prices.
The cycle is born: raise tuitions; give out more aid; raise tuition again.
A side-effect of all this is that more, poorly qualified students who value higher education less than others willing to pay the full price will attend college. Since these students do not pay the complete costs of their education, they will have less incentive to work hard and will experience a greater drop-out rate. In addition, colleges must devote more resources to remedial programs to deal with these less prepared customers.
Another problem is that since these administrators do not have to show a profit in order to stay in business, they are less concerned with the satisfaction of their customers. (Remember the last time you had to wait in an interminable line at the post office or department of motor vehicles?) School officers also have incentives to increase their budgets needlessly. After all, increased "costs" translate (through a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy) into increased subsidies.
In the thirty years after its inception in 1965, the federally guaranteed student loan program subsidized the costs of 74 million students to the tune of $180 billion. By artificially lowering interest rates and insuring banks against defaults, this program has raised the costs of a college education for all students...whether those students received a guaranteed loan or not.
When combined with direct subsidies to public colleges, this loan program makes public institutions more attractive to students than they might otherwise be. Private colleges are finding it difficult to compete against another supplier whose product cost is lowered by an infusion of taxpayer-supplied money.
At the beginning of this century, eighty-percent of students enrolled in private schools. Now that same percentage of students enter public colleges. In the past thirty years, over 300 private institutions closed.
The effect is the same as if the government decided to subsidize one supplier of CDs and not another. Who would want to buy more expensive (unsubsidized) CDs? The second supplier would soon be out of business.
When government interferes in the supply of any economic good or service -- whether it be CDs, food, or education -- it distorts the behavior of consumers and producers alike. When the product is education, this process becomes outright dangerous. A vital society depends on a diversity of viewpoints and ideas. With government largesse comes government control.
But government has no business regulating ideas. That is the essence of the First Amendment to our Constitution. Our political leaders should not be picking winners or losers in the realm of education. Diversity of approach, of attitude, of emphasis should be left to the producers and consumers of education.
Even beyond this encroachment on liberty is the fact that no one has a right to anyone else's money. The taxes diverted towards education are taken not only from those who do attend college but from those who do not. No one should be forced to pay for something he does not use. Even less so should anyone have his wealth and the portion of his life which that wealth represents taken from him to pay for the teaching of ideas he does not support.
Liberty and intellectual independence (both personal and institutional), economic efficiency, and educational diversity and quality all argue that government subsidies and guaranteed student loans should be ended. Only in this way will the never-ending upward surge in costs be moderated. Even more importantly, only this course will ensure that the freedom and dignity of each individual will be respected.


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There's been only one major gripe about the new Nexus 4 from consumers so far, and that's the lack of LTE – other than that, it's an amazingly well-spec'd device, especially considering it's $300 unlocked. Last week, iFixit did their usual teardown of the new smartphone, and they found out that an LTE chip actually was included in the Nexus 4, it just wasn't functional for some reason.
Until now, it had been assumed that there were pieces and/or pin connections missing, and that they would prevent the LTE chip from being used. After all, why would LG include a fully functional LTE chip and then not make it usable? That question became even harder to answer today, as we've just seen video evidence of the Nexus 4's LTE being turned on (on a Canadian carrier) via a code entry in the service menu.
Through a simple activation code, the Nexus 4 can be made to access Band 4 LTE, and the video shows the device achieving pretty convincing LTE download speeds. For now, the only people who can get this to work are people on a Band 4 LTE carrier, which includes most of the Canadian carriers (Bell, Rogers and Telus), as well as parts of AT&T's network in the U.S. Some of AT&T is still on Band 17, but they have plans to switch everything over to Band 4 in the near future, so this is good news for Nexus 4-owning AT&T customers.
It's also possible that people will be able to get the LTE working on other carriers too, it will just require a different service code input. The one that's been discovered right now is specifically for activating Band 4, but other codes for other bands may exist. We'll leave it up to the hackers to figure this one out, and keep you posted on any further developments.


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There are many ways to encapsulate Paul Pierce's career with the Boston Celtics, but two words can easily express his forever connection to the franchise: 'True Celtic.'
Here are numbers behind his 15 fantastic seasons in green:
*24,021 – Pierce's 24,021 career points with the Celtics are the second-most in franchise history as well as the 10th-most for any player with one team in the NBA all-time.
*886 – He has 886 more career 3-pointers than the Celtic with the second-most in franchise history. There are some fun names on this list:
–3-Point Leaders in Celtics History–
1. Paul Pierce 1,823
2. Antoine Walker 937
3. Ray Allen 798
4. Larry Bird 649
5. Walter McCarty 417
6. Dana Barros 416
7. Danny Ainge 348
8. Eddie House 332
9. Dee Brown 325
10. Rick Fox 291
*6,434 – Pierce's 6,434 free throws made are the most by any Celtic ever and currently the 10th-highest total for a player in NBA history.
*1,583 – He and Larry Bird are the only players to accumulate at least 1,000 steals in green. The Truth's 1,583 steals are the most in Celtics history, followed by Bird's 1,556 and Rajon Rondo's 913.
*10 – Pierce is also in the top 10 in Celtics history in games played, minutes played, field goals, rebounds, assists, blocks, player efficiency rating and win shares.
*9 – The Captain recorded NINE regular-season triple-doubles for Boston, including a career-best three in 2012-13. The Celtics were a perfect 9-0 in those games.
*.635 – Boston had a .635 winning percentage (115-66 record) in Pierce's 181 career double-doubles, including the playoffs.
*14 – I remember seeing this nugget on CSNNE – this past season was Pierce's 14th consecutive season in which he averaged at least 18 points per game. He joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kobe Bryant as the only players who have accomplished that feat.
*56 – Pierce and Kevin Garnett led the Celtics to an NBA-best 56 playoff wins since 2008. The team also had a combined 370 regular-season and playoff team wins, tied for the second-most in the league.
*1 – Paul Pierce was the ONE constant on the Celtics roster since they drafted him in 1998. He brought Celtic Pride back to the city of Boston and will always be in the hearts of all Celtics fans.
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Women's Golf | Friday, March 7, 2008
Willamette Women's Golfers Hold Third Place at UPS Invitational
TACOMA, WASH. -- The Willamette University women's golf team finished the first day of the Puget Sound Invitational in third place at the Fircrest Country Club. Opening round action on Thursday, March 6 ended with the University of Puget Sound in first place with a score of 352. Linfield College was second at 379 and was followed by Willamette in third at 440 and Pacific Lutheran University in fourth at 442.
In the battle for medalist honors, Maresa Jenson of Puget Sound was leading with a score of 84 on the par 75 course. Willamette's Whitney Ueno (Jr., Hilo, HI/Hilo HS) was in second place with an 86. Sarah Bicker from UPS was third at 88.
Kristine Juhola of UPS had the highlight of the first round, as he shot a hole-in-one for the Loggers. Juhola fiinished the day in fourth place with an 89. Megan Starr of UPS and Brynn Hurdus of Linfield were tied for fifth place after both shot a 91.
Action will continue with the final round on Friday, March 7. Tee time is slated for 8 a.m. (PST).