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I can't beleive Oregon is going to the BCS, they only have won against okay teams not like Auburn, they have won against great teams like South Carolina. Also, the only great team they lost o was the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Change is coming to the national title game, though it has nothing to do with any of those BCS busters you heard about all season.
Southeastern Conference champion Auburn and Pac-10 champ Oregon each will be making their first trip to the BCS title game, a rarity for the biggest showdown of the bowl season.
The top-ranked Tigers and No. 2 Ducks will bring perfect records and potent offenses to Glendale, Ariz., for their Jan. 10 matchup.
"It will be a night of fireworks in Glendale," Fiesta Bowl president John Junker said.
All the Bowl Championship Series pairings were made official Sunday night, but the championship game announcement was just a formality after Auburn and Oregon completed their unbeaten runs through regular season Saturday.
Oregon players gathered with friends and family in a lounge at the athletic complex on campus to watch as the BCS lineup was revealed on television. There wasn't a peep in the room when Oregon (12-0) popped up on the screen at No. 2 in the final BCS standings behind first-place Auburn (13-0). It was typical Ducks: all business.
"There was no surprise to anybody that we were going to be one or two," defensive tackle Brandon Bair said. "I think you'd have had a great response if you'd seen us down there four or five."
Across the country, Auburn linebacker Craig Stevens had trouble putting his emotions into words. "It's just an amazing feeling," he said. "We've put in all that hard work (to) see our dreams unfold."
Those outsiders from TCU and Boise State were closer than ever before to playing for college football's biggest prize. But the third-ranked Horned Frogs, the nation's only other undefeated team, couldn't overcome playing in the lightly regarded Mountain West Conference and will have to settle for a trip to the Rose Bowl to play No. 4 Wisconsin, the Big Ten co-champion.
"I think we've done a lot, not just what TCU's done, but non-automatic qualifying schools," TCU quarterback Andy Dalton said. "We still have one more game, and we'll go out and prove how we play and hopefully people will see that."
As for Boise State, one loss was one too many, and the Broncos ended up out of the BCS and in the MAACO Bowl in Las Vegas, playing No. 20 Utah.
The other BCS matchups announced Sunday were: Arkansas and Ohio State, which also won a share of the Big Ten title, in the Sugar Bowl; Big 12 champion Oklahoma taking on Big East co-champ Connecticut in the Fiesta Bowl; and No. 5 Stanford playing ACC title-winner Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
While teams from the power conferences will play for the biggest prize of all, the Tigers and Ducks still represent a changing of the guard in their own way.
Since the BCS was born in 1998, its title game has almost always been stocked with college football's blue bloods and programs with championship pedigrees.
Auburn has one national title to its credit -- and it came in 1957. That's one more than Oregon has. In fact, the Ducks are just the second team in the 13-year history of the BCS to reach the championship game looking for the program's first national title. Virginia Tech was the first in 1999.
Also, this title game will be just the second, not including the inaugural BCS championship in 1998, with two teams that have never been there before. The other was in 2001, when Nebraska and Miami -- not exactly a couple of upstarts -- played for the crystal ball.
Another first: Never before have two teams that started the season ranked outside the AP top 10, played for the BCS title.
The Ducks began the year ranked 11th in the AP poll, with questions at quarterback after Heisman Trophy hopeful Jeremiah Masoli was kicked off the team.
The Tigers were even further back, second in their own state to Nick Saban's defending national champions at Alabama and No. 22 in the nation. Plus, they were breaking in a junior college transfer at quarterback.
Oregon never missed Masoli as coach Chip Kelly simply plugged Darron Thomas into his fast-paced spread offense and watched his team lead the nation in scoring.
The fashion plates of college football, thanks to the ever-changing uniforms provided by alum and Nike founder Phil Knight, Oregon reached No. 1 in the rankings for the first time this season and emphatically replaced USC as the Pac-10's team to beat with its second straight conference title.
As for Auburn, that JUCO transfer turned out to be the story of the year on and off the field.
Cam Newton has been peerless as a player, the nation's top-rated passer and its 15th-best runner.
"I think cam Newton can play for anybody, including the NFL," Kelly said. "He can throw it and he can run it. He's the top football player in the country."
By the time he gets to Arizona, Newton will most likely have the Heisman Trophy to prove it.
"There were several moments (this season) where we said this guy is going to be different from most," second-year Auburn coach Gene Chizik said.
It's just as likely unanswered questions about an NCAA investigation into Newton's recruitment will be following the Tigers to Glendale, too.
The NCAA determined Newton's father, Cecil, tried to peddle his son to Mississippi State for cash, but said there was no evidence Cam or Auburn knew about it.
So when the ruling came down last week, Cam Newton avoided punishment and the sports governing body let the QB play on. He denied any wrongdoing after the SEC championship game Saturday.
While the NCAA will keep on looking into the pay-to-play scheme, there's no reason to believe his status will change between now and the championship game.
With Newton on one side and Ducks tailback LaMichael James, another Heisman hopeful, on the other, this has the makings of one wild championship.
Who says defense wins?
The Ducks are averaging 537.5 yards per game and 49 points. James leads the nation in rushing in an offense that is simple yet breathtaking.
Kelly, who five years ago was offensive coordinator at New Hampshire, has taken high-speed football to a new level. In their season-ending, 37-20 victory against Oregon State on Saturday, none of the Ducks' six scoring drives lasted longer than 2 minutes, 43 seconds.
Newton and the Tigers like to play fast, too.
"We're different but I think we have some similar philosophies," Kelly said. "They obviously run their quarterback a whole heck of lot more than we do."
Auburn's spread averages 498 yards per game and the Tigers are averaging 43 points.
They were never better than Saturday at the Georgia Dome. Newton threw four touchdown passes and ran for two more scores in a 56-17 demolition of South Carolina to win the Southeastern Conference championship.
As has become customary, the SEC champion moves on to play for the national title. The Tigers will try to make it five straight BCS titles for the country's best conference.
The Ducks will try to become the first Pac-10 team other than USC to finish the season No. 1 in both the AP and coaches' polls.
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I can't beleive Oregon is going to the BCS, they only have won against okay teams not like Auburn, they have won against great teams like South Carolina. Also, the only great team they lost o was the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl.
Auburn is so totally going to win. Cam is not a cheater. the NCAA said Cam is ELIDGIBLE. run and tell that. no one has ANY proof of the pay-to-play phone call. Oregon has never won a championship and never will. Look on twitter and see the officials throw the red carpet out for the tigers. being a girl, you think i don't know anything about football. but ask me anything. i will answer it
I am a buckeye fan and Cam Newton has the same number, weight[not exactly but like off by 6 or 7 pounds and plus the same height and abilities as Terelle Pryor. But I agree with one thing though Newton has pocket presence which i cant believe i'm saying being a OSU fan pryor doesn't know when to run or not. Overall if i would grade him i'd give pryor an A-.here are my bowl selections
Fiesta:Oklahoma:34.Uconn:14: I'm sorry Uconn fans but this okalhoma team is too good to be beaten by the huskies
Orange:Stanford:24Virgina Tech:21: Stanford gets respect as winning the orange bowl. Also,people think that this will not be a close game but i predict Stanford wins by 3.
Sugar:Ohio State:30,Arkansas:17.I'm going with my buckeyes on this one.
Rose:Wisconsin:27,TCU:14. i think Wisconsin wins this one with defense
BCS National Championship:Oregon:35,Auburn:41: high scoring but I think Auburn finds a way to win this one.
ok, so i like the UW huskies,(go dawgs!)syracuse, (go orangemen!) and maryland. ( go... never mind.) so obvioulsly, i am rooting down the ducks. because of the huskies. And I like Cam Newton. He is a better all around better than any of the duck players. He can run better than that LaMichael James guy. He can pass better than the ducks QB, and he's so clutch. He led that EPIC comback VS bama, and he didn't look stressed at all. Even if i was a duck fan, (which is a scary thought to me,) I would be a little bummed out, because the ducks have a smaller chance of winning, compared to Auburn.


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Long Island animal trainer "Nature Nick" Jacinto visited Newtown's C.H. Booth Library Friday, July 18, showing kids a number of exotic animals.
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In my native motherland of Belgium, rare is the pint of beer that stands alone. Typically, when you walk into any bar or alehouse and order a glass, it is accompanied by a few cubes of cheese that have been perfectly selected to complement the beer.
Perhaps this idea originated with the historic abbeys, where monks brewed beer, baked bread and made cheese (and many, to this day, still do). These fermentation experiments started with the goals of self-sufficiency and preservation in mind, but another fortunate byproduct was the development of some incredible beer and cheese pairings.
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Illustrations of fictional 1970-80s video game boxes that are computer game adaptions of films/TV shows. There's a rather long history of lackluster video game tie-ins (1982's E.T for example) that were clearly rushed, sharing very little of the storyline, look and behaviour of their respective films. This inspired a series of late '70s and '80s computer game boxes with modern themes, keeping only the bare minimum information.
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Tupper Hall is in the Health Sciences Complex on the south west end of campus, in the Vet/Med complex. Tupper Hall houses mostly for students, staff, and faculty, as well as several departments, of both the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. The Center for Vectorborne Diseases also finds a lot of housing in this building.
The building has four floors with restricted access to almost all rooms inside the building. The first floor or basement is filled with instructional laboratories for the School of Medicine, research laboratories, faculty offices, and one department office.The main floor or 2nd floor has lecture halls, classrooms, research labs, faculty offices. The 3nd through 4th floors house a mixture of offices and more research and possibly instructional laboratories. The building has a ridiculous number of elevators scattered throughout it. A large part of the western part of the building, (including the basement, 2nd, and 3rd floor) houses research animals. You can find all sorts of critters ranging from fish, parrots, cats, dogs, rats, guinea pigs, chickens, roosters, lizards, snakes, frogs, and more. They are cared for round the clock, and there are techs hired through the Vet School, as well as veterinarians, to appropriately handle all animals. There is also a lot of protocols and committees to get to to work with any, as well as lots of ethics concerns and protocol requirements for safety and to remain humane. Research dogs and cats, as well as other animals, are often adopted out through humane (non-euthanizing) shelter programs after a period of rehabitatalition training and safety checks, if it is safe to do so.
The building is undergoing some changes as the School of Medicine finish its process of moving out.
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Flowers are placed by a police barricade Tuesday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston where on Monday two explosions killed three and injured more than 170.
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An intelligence bulletin issued to law enforcement and released late Tuesday included a picture of a mangled pressure cooker and a torn black bag the FBI said were part of a bomb.
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This past December, City Council and our economic- development partners heard from one of the country's leading experts about how to build a collective regional economic-development strategy, and Dr. Feser's work has already spurred significant action toward making El Paso the most competitive city in the Southwest.
While no "magic bullet" exists to make this region more prosperous and economically viable, Dr. Feser offered the following:
"It is essential that policies governing economic and physical development work in concert; good land use planning and urban design will yield amenities that many skilled workers increasingly demand, build quality infrastructure that companies need to be successful, and manage public-service costs. However, the connection between the two areas of intervention must be articulated clearly in the context of an overall regional economic-development strategy.
"Failure to do so is undermining El Paso's initiatives and progress in both areas."
Enter Plan El Paso. For almost two years now, the city's Planning and Economic Development Department, along with Dover Kohl & Partners, one of the country's leading planning firms, has worked to wholly rewrite the city's Comprehensive Plan.
Through one of the most expansive planning processes in a generation, Plan El Paso gathered the ideas and aspirations of thousands of El Pasoans.
And over the past six weeks as the plan closed in on adoption, we worked to include several more great recommendations from the El Paso Greater Chamber of Commerce, the El Paso Water Utilities staff, Fort Bliss staff, the Canutillo ISD, and many neighborhood associations.
Plan El Paso offers ideas for the revitalization of our urban core. Other policy recommendations include increasing our tax base through traditional neighborhood design, preservation of our open space while planning for future infrastructure needs, increasing our transportation options in an era of increased oil demand and price, improving recreational amenities, developing walkable schools, and continuing our successful relationship with Fort Bliss.
The link between our built-environment and our physical and mental health is also clearly stated in the plan.
Increasingly, El Paso's historic competitive advantages -- comparatively low-wage labor and land -- are less an asset as industries relocate outside the United States. Today, companies compete for quality human capital and the new race among cities is to provide the high quality of life which attracts and retains skilled labor.
In short, Plan El Paso aims to do just that: Set a foundation for economic prosperity that nurtures an atmosphere of innovation, increases quality of life that can attract -- and retain -- national and international talent and increases our region's prosperity.
However, this foundation will require a sustained commitment by all El Pasoans.
In 1925, the City of El Paso adopted the second comprehensive plan in the country. Between its founding in 1873 and the adoption of the 1925 plan, El Paso progressed from a frontier village to the most prominent city in the Southwest.
With the 1925 plan as a cornerstone document, El Paso would in time have the highest per capita income in the region, the tallest concrete buildings, showpiece public parks, and one of the nation's best mass-transit systems.
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The family received friends from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Whitfield Funeral Home, South Chapel, Baldwin, to remember the life of Betty.
Born April 5, 1933, in Carnesville, she was the daughter of the late Hobart and Flora Lee Elrod Slater. She also was preceded in death by the father of her children, Jones Wiley Byrd.
Ms. Byrd was a very dedicated homemaker and a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include her daughters, Tina J. Robertson of Demorest, and Tracy L. Byrd of Baldwin; sons, Joe G. Byrd of Cornelia, David M. Byrd and his fiancée Tina D. Dale, of Liberty, S.C., Kelly A. Byrd of Baldwin, and Clifford J. Tuck of Demorest; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sara and Floyd McEntyre of Mt. Airy, and Brenda and Raymond Hall of Greenville, S.C.; brother, Horace T. Slater of St. Petersburg, Fla.; grandchildren, Amanda Kay Poplin, Heather Leigh Robertson, Joseph Bradley Byrd, Anthony Stephen Byrd, David Michael Byrd II, Jeramy Lee Wiley and Josie Amber Grindle; and great-grandchildren, Preston Lee Keller, Crystal Marie Poplin, Isabelle Robertson and Kiera Wiley.
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The White House says world powers negotiating with Iran are pursuing an agreement that would offer some sanctions relief if Iran halts and possibly reverses parts of its nuclear program.
White House spokesman Jay Carney says the first step would deal with Iran's most advanced nuclear activities. The goals would be to increase transparency and create more time for further negotiations.
Carney says in exchange, the world powers would consider targeted and limited sanctions relief. He says the relief would be reversible, and sanctions could even be ratcheted up, if Iran breaks its word.
Idaho Senator Jim Risch thinks the deal is a bad idea. In a statement released Friday Risch said:
"I am deeply troubled that Secretary Kerry would rush to Geneva to enter into a deal with the Iranians, which by all accounts is temporary, incomplete, and a bad deal," said Risch. "The idea of a temporary deal is a broken record we have listened to before.
"Ten years ago, Rouhani, who is now president, used negotiations to buy time for Iran to develop its nuclear weapons program. Since then, the United States and its allies have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran that Iran desperately wants lifted.
"In the absence of a permanent deal, where they fully disclose and verifiably cease weapons related activities, any "deal" will fall disastrously short, give Iran what it desires, guarantee the West will have to live with a nuclear Iran, and abandon our closest ally - Israel. The Obama administration is about to make another colossal blunder in the Middle East."
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A cook in a Mexican orphanage named ?Nacho? (Jack Black, left, showing off his Underoos) teams up with his friend Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez) and moonlights as a masked Lucha Libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans in ?Nacho Libre.?
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There's a fine line between funny and stupid, and Jared Hess can't find it.
Hess got his break as writer-director of "Napoleon Dynamite," a low-budget comedy that won a cult audience with its quirky characters and offbeat plotting. Popularity aside, "Dynamite" was not a good film, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Hess' follow-up -- "Nacho Libre -- is even worse.
This time, Hess and his co-writer/wife, Jerusha, received help from "School of Rock" scribe Chris White and comedian Jack Black, but A-list talent wasn't enough to spin bad material to gold.
"Nacho Libre" suffers from the same problem as "Dynamite" in that both films have funny setups but too few gags to hold an entire movie. In "Libre," Black plays Ignacio, the cook at a small Mexican monastery. Since childhood, he has dreamed of donning a mask and cape and becoming a Mexican wrestler. Alas, the priests who raised him -- not to mention a super-hot nun (Ana de la Reguera) -- warn him that wrestling is for the vain and ungodly.
Vain and ungodly Ignacio (Nacho for short) is not. In fact, in his own words, he knows "a buttload" about the Bible; and he's convinced that the wrestling world has been waiting for a man of God to enter the ring.
So, Nacho begins his career by enlisting the help of a local thief named Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez). Nacho knows Esqueleto can wrestle because the tall, lean bandit once rolled him for a bag of chips intended for orphans at the monastery.
At first, Esqueleto is reluctant to join a tag-team wrestling squad, but when Nacho tells him there's money in the game, he joins up. This leads to a silly training sequence in which Black and Jimenez prance around with their shirts off and do their best to hurt one another. It's good training because they're pummeled once they enter the ring. Nevertheless, they get paid and Nacho uses his winnings to make better food for the orphans.
It's a happy scene, but it's also clear that Nacho will someday have to choose between the the monastery and wrestling. Or he will have to convince his comrades that wrestling is not of the devil.
Because Jack Black is a physically gifted performer and a generally funny guy, it is amusing to watch him flex his flabby body while throwing himself around the ring. It's also comical to watch him hit on a nun in his best come-hither, Antonio Banderas accent. But this type of humor has a shelf life, and Hess leaves his product on display way too long.
"Nacho Libre" is basically one long gag about the folly of professional wrestling, the flab of Jack Black and the unlikely partnership between Nacho and Esqueleto. That's not much to build a film on, so Hess doesn't deliver much of a film.
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Omron envisions the smile software being used in marketing, perhaps to evaluate consumers' reactions to a new product or to an advertising campaign. A smile checker could also help train customer-service staff to meet Japan's legendarily high standards, Seddon says.
"Clearly, it's an interesting thing," says Joseph Atick of L-1 Identity Solutions, based in Stamford, CT, which supplies identification technology, primarily for security applications. "If you can read people better, you can serve them better."
A smile in isolation is easy to detect, but the bigger challenge is to develop systems that can recognize the concerto of facial actions that make up complex expressions like confusion, fear, and disgust. "You can also superimpose any other emotion on top of a smile," says Rana el Kaliouby, a postdoctoral associate at MIT who is developing mind-reading machines. "You can have an angry smile, an interested smile–even a confused smile."
"We'd like to be able to distinguish those," says Jeffrey Cohn, director of the Affect Analysis Group, at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sophisticated facial-expression analysis could help mental-health professionals evaluate their patients and monitor their progress. Cohn is studying facial expressions in depressed patients and in people in physical pain.
El Kaliouby says that facial-expression analysis could help autistic people "who need help with real-time analysis of facial expressions and other social cues."
Facial-expression analysis could also have security applications, although Atick is skeptical that a machine can reliably pick out a terrorist on its own. "That smacks of black magic, voodoo," he says. "Tell me what my intent is standing in front of passport control. Maybe it's a long flight and I'm annoyed, but I don't intend to do harm."


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In 1994 I was appointed to the Steel Erection Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee (SENRAC) to help draft new safety standards for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Subpart R – Steel Erection Standard. During this rulemaking process I worked with representatives of the Iron Workers International to review 673 fatality reports provided by OSHA. These reports revealed the causation factors of many fatalities during the steel erection process that later resulted in new OSHA standards designed to protect our members. However, not included in these OSHA fatality reports and statistics are the untold stories of emotional and financial hardships incurred by family members and friends left behind.
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Production Total: 139
Focus Model: Infantry Tank Mk I Matilda (A11)
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Width: 7.48 ft (2.28 m)
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The ARC is our central location for every kind of indoor athletic activity. Enjoy strength training, high-energy aerobics, cardio workouts and more. Play a game of pickup basketball or meet a friend for some high-energy racquetball. Grab your running shoes and hit the indoor track, or slip on your climbing shoes to scramble up the indoor rock wall. (Don't have climbing shoes? No problem. You can rent them, and many other kinds of athletic gear, in the Outdoor Adventures equipment store.) On game days, join the Aggie Pack on the main floor of the ARC Pavilion to cheer on our Division I intercollegiate teams!
Learn new skills and perfect old ones at the Craft Center. The beauty of craftsmanship is celebrated here in a wide range of well-equipped laboratories and workshops. Choose from over 80 subjects taught by student and community member instructors. From bookbinding to welding, glass-blowing to woodworking, there's hardly any handcraft you can't explore here.
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Ready for something a little out of the ordinary? The Experimental College, a UC Davis tradition for over 20 years, offers student-led classes in everything from yoga to belly dancing, martial arts to music. You can also plant a garden in one of the EC's organic gardening plots. Look for the EC's schedule of classes at the beginning of each quarter!
Intramural (IM) Sports
UC Davis Campus Recreation IM sports and student club sports give all students, faculty, staff and alumni an opportunity to get active, have fun and expand their athletic horizons. IM Sports offers a broad range of activities (men's, women's and co-recreational) in traditional sports such as basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball and flag football, as well as non-traditional activities such as ultimate frisbee, inner tube water polo, floor hockey and dodge ball. IM Sports also presents tournaments and leagues for individuals and two-person teams in such activities as badminton, racquetball and tennis.
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Campus Recreation's Sport Clubs program promotes participation in a wide range of intercollegiate athletic competition. Each sport club is managed and run by the participants themselves. Sport club participants not only enjoy the rewards of athletic competition, but they also gain skills in collaboration, leadership, problem-solving and financial management.
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In my last issue, I reported that Microsoft's in-house Windows Update routine is now likely to download marketing gimmicks such as Windows Genuine Advantage to your PC. I advised all Windows users, other than novices, to turn off Automatic Updates.
Because promptly patching Windows is vitally important to your security, however, I recommended a trusted, third-party replacement: Shavlik Technologies' HFNetChkPro, which supports a much wider variety of programs than does Windows Update. The only downside is that the HFNetChkPro software, while priced reasonably at $25 USD per PC, requires a license for a minimum of 5 PCs.
After that newsletter appeared, Shavlik released a stunning improvement on this frustrating situation. The company's NetChk Protect — which offers antispyware scanning in addition to patch-management — is now completely free for 1 to 10 PCs for one year.
I wish the firm had made this free offer available before my last newsletter was published. But the new offer removes the last obstacle some readers had to replacing Windows Update with superior, independent, patch-management software.
NetChk Protect, when installed on a single PC, scans across a peer-to-peer network or a server domain to determine which machines need updates for Windows, Microsoft Office, Firefox, Adobe Reader, WinZip, RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash, and other programs. The application can then deploy (install) the updates you determine. There's no need to preinstall an "agent" program to those other machines or visit them one-by-one to run the installs.
An antispyware disk and memory scan can also be conducted by NetChk Protect upon demand. This scan shouldn't interfere with other antispyware programs' scans, if they aren't carried out at the same time. NetChk Protect also offers real-time spyware protection, calling it Active Protection. This possibly could conflict with the real-time features of Webroot Spy Sweeper and similar antispyware utilities. But Active Protection isn't turned on unless you specifically configure the program that way. Just don't do so and NetChkProtect shouldn't bump heads with your main antispyware app.
With all of NetChk Protect's free download goodness, there's one small fly in the ointment. The software was designed to be used by knowledgeable network administrators. It wasn't developed with a simple, 1-2-3 wizard-style interface that even novices can understand.
After testing NetChk Protect, however, I believe its power-tools character can be mastered easily by any Windows user, no matter how nontechnical. All that's required is a short, introductory tutorial with pictures. That's what I'll give you in my story today.
Installing NetChk Protect from the Internet
Shavlik Technologies released three free programs after Microsoft announced that it would discontinue its Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) version 1.2.1 soon after releasing version 2.0. The 1.2.1 product had originally been developed by Shavlik for Microsoft. It supports the update of apps such as Office 2000, Exchange 5.0 and 5.5, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, in addition to Windows 2000 and higher. Release 2.0, developed by Microsoft, supports only Office XP, Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000 and later.
Shavlik released its three free programs to give customers support for all the older software they still use. A huge side-benefit of this for individual Windows users is that a 10-PC version of NetChk Protect is one of the free downloads:
• NetChk Analyzer for Microsoft is a graphical program that scans drives for Microsoft applications only (without deploying any patches). It's free for an unlimited time.
• NetChk Analyzer is a command-line utility that scans drives for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications (without deploying any patches). It's free for one year for 1 to 25 PCs, then $4 per seat per year.
• NetChk Protect (the subject of my article today) is a graphical program that scans drives for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications and deploys needed patches. It's free for one year for 1 to 25 PCs, then $25/PC for the second year and about $6/PC for later years, with a minimum license of 5 PCs.
The first free year of NetChk Protect is all that home users of 1 or 2 PCs will ever need. The company will launch remote disk scanning and patch deployment on a special Web page in mid-October, Shavlik CTO Rick Greenwood told me in a telephone interview. This service, which will compete with Microsoft's own Windows Update site, will range in price from free to $39.95 per year. (Shavlik's executives haven't yet decided on the fee but say they want it to be affordable.)
To get the free download of NetChk Protect and start using it to find and install security patches for you, visit Shavlik's download page and click the Download Now button.
To get its free downloads, Shavlik asks that you enter e-mail, telephone, and postal contact information. You need to enter a valid e-mail address to receive the software license key Shavlik will send you, but I found that all the other fields can be filled with bogus info if you prefer not to provide your personal details.
Figure 1: The NetChk Protect setup routine shows with an X or a check mark whether your PC has four Microsoft support files that are needed.
After you download NetChk Protect to a folder on your PC, run its setup program. The welcome screen (Figure 1) shows you whether four required MS support files are present. These include .NET Framework 1.1 or higher, MDAC, MSJET, and MSXML. If any are not found, the setup routine offers to download and install them for you.
Important: If you use a personal firewall program such as ZoneAlarm (as you should), you must instruct it to allow all of the download and installation actions that NetChk Protect attempts. This includes installing the Microsoft support files, installing itself, and then installing your patches. If your firewall blocks NetChk Protect from connecting to the Internet or installing upgrades, you won't get any benefits.
Scanning one PC, a workgroup, or a domain
After NetChk Protect is successfully installed, including the download of Shavlik's latest patch signature files, use the Start menu to run the program.
The opening screen (Figure 2) is filled with options, including IP ranges and named domains to scan. Ignore these options for now. To scan the PC that NetChk Protect is installed on, click the large Scan My Computer button. To scan PCs in a peer-to-peer workgroup or a network domain, click the Scan My Domain button. (The PCs you wish to scan for needed patches must be turned on, of course.)
By default, NetChk Protect scans PCs only for needed patches. To also scan for possible spyware, you must turn on an advanced option. For your first time, just try a patch scan. This may take several minutes.
Figure 2: In NetChk Protect's complex opening screen, new users need to select only one of the two large buttons to start a patch scan.
After the scan is complete, NetChk Protect displays a statistics window (Figure 3).
Find the results of your scan
The results of a patch scan of a single PC or an entire set of PCs are shown in a somewhat bewildering display of charts and graphs.
Figure 3: After scanning is completed, click the 'View Scan Results' link (indicated here with a red arrow) to get to a list of scanned PCs and relevant patches.
For the moment, ignore everything else in the window and scroll down to a link entitled View Scan Results. Click this link to show a list of the PCs you scanned and any patches that were found to be installed or needed.
Deploy patches to one or many PCs
NetChk Protect displays the names of the PCs, peer-to-peer workgroups, or network domains you scanned. The right-most pane lists the patches the program found, patches that are missing, and other informational messages. Ignore these details for now (if you can control your curiosity) and simply deploy the needed patches.
Figure 4: Click the name of the computer, workgroup, or domain that was scanned to select it. (In this example, the computer name is FAITHFUL.) Right-click the selected name, click Deploy Patches To {name}, then click All Missing Patches.
Right-clicking the name of the computer or group you scanned opens a context menu. Click Deploy Patches To {name}, then click All Missing Patches.
In the dialog box that appears, click the Deploy button to install the needed patches for all products. (As before, the PCs you deploy patches to must be turned on.)
This process can easily take an hour if you selected several PCs and there are many patches to download and install. Shavlik consults the same authoritative files that are used by Microsoft, Firefox, Adobe, and the other supported vendors to determine which patches are available and which are needed by individual PCs. The patches are securely obtained directly from the vendors' own sites.
(Windows Genuine Advantage isn't classified as a security patch, an operating system service pack, or an application update. So it won't show up as a needed patch to be deployed by NetChk Protect, Shavlik's chief security architect Eric Schultze told me in a telephone interview.)
NetChk Protect completes its deployment task with no big flourish. It runs and then it's simply done. If any patches require a PC to reboot, however, a dialog box will appear that notifies anyone who's watching that a restart will soon begin. A countdown timer shows the time remaining, which can be extended in 1-minute increments by clicking a button. The reboot, however, cannot be extended for more than about 15 minutes, so make sure no work will be lost before starting the deployment process.
That's it. There are a jillion options and configuration settings you can tweak in NetChk Protect, but you'll need to read the online help to learn about those. The product is obviously designed for businesses ranging from small-scale to enterprise that wish to have fine-grained control over as much of the upgrade process as possible (for as many different products as is feasible). For more than 10 PCs, the commercial version of NetChk Protect can be purchased for $38 per machine for the first year for up to 100 PCs, with discounts for larger numbers.
Declare your independence from Windows Update
Discontinuing the use of Windows Update and Microsoft Update may be an uncomfortable decision. For those who are confident enough to take the step, products like NetChk Pro are stronger than Microsoft's own consumer offerings and support far more vendors' products.
The decision of Microsoft to allow its critical security update infrastructure to be used to download Windows Genuine Advantage (and possibly other marketingware in the future) makes it necessary for security-minded individuals to adopt third-party products.
Civilized countries don't allow doctors to sell prescription medicines, because physicians would be tempted to overbill patients for unneeded medications. Instead, patients receive a written prescription and go to a pharmacist to buy our pills, knowing that this step reduces any conflict of interest.
In a similar way, it's too much to expect Microsoft to have the power to download software automatically to hundreds of millions of Windows users — and then never use that power to install revenue-enhancing applications for itself.
I now advise all Windows users, except novices, to open the Automatic Updates control panel and select Notify me but don't automatically download or install updates.
When Windows notifies you that updates are available, read the free and paid sections of the Windows Secrets Newsletter to learn of any patches that have problems and shouldn't be installed. Then run NetChk Protect or other patch-management software. We publish our issues only two days after Patch Tuesday and (except in August and December) two weeks later to help you stay informed.
Upgrading to the paid version of the newsletter has no fixed cost. We accept a contribution of any amount that it's worth to you. We just want as many people as possible to have the information. How to upgrade
I'm slightly revising the Security Baseline today. The revision changes the recommended update-management software from Shavlik's HFNetChkPro ($125 for 5 PCs) to the free NetChk Protect. If and when a free or low-cost (and trustworthy) Web site can perform the same service — or test labs give their top ratings to some other competing product — I'll revise the Security Baseline to include the newcomer instead.
We've received more reader feedback on Windows Genuine Advantage and the shift to alternatives to Windows Update than any other topic in months. More than 300 meaningful comments poured in, and we want to thank everyone who gave us ideas and tips. This issue's paid section collects the best information that was sent in. The following readers will receive gift certificates for a book, CD, or DVD of their choice for sending us tips we printed: Michael Klein, Ken Schwartzreich, David Doucette, Donald Smith, Trevor Hardy, and Chris Farr.
To send us more information about update management, or to send us a tip on any other subject, visit the Winodwssecrets.com contact page. You'll receive a gift certificate for a book, CD, or DVD of your choice if you send us a comment that we print.
Brian Livingston is editor of the Windows Secrets Newsletter and the coauthor of Windows 2000 Secrets, Windows Me Secrets, and eight other books.


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Eudora Quilt Guild annual quilt show
July 9, 2009
The Eudora Quilt Guild will have its annual quilt show on from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Eudora Middle School, 2635 Church Street.
Admission is $3 for adults.
There will be vendors, a guild garage sale of quilt related items, demonstrations and a silent auction of small quilts with the proceeds going to the Eudora Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry.
At the close of the show Saturday, a drawing will take place to announce the winner of the guild's 2009 Opportunity Quilt. The Opportunity Quilt currently is displayed at Quilting Bits & Pieces, 736 Main Street.
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The Prairie School is a child-centered, college-preparatory day school whose mission is to educate our children; develop their character; nurture their individual talents, interests, and abilities; and affirm their dignity and self-worth. We foster academic excellence, leadership, creativity and environmental responsibility, emphasizing individual success while teaching the value of service to our local and global communities.
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The Prairie School is located in Racine, WI. It is a private school that serves 671 students in grades PK, K-12. The Prairie School is coed (school has male and female students) and is nonsectarian in orientation. The school belongs to the National Association of Independent Schools.
In 2013, The Prairie School had 9 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Wisconsin average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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MONT ALTO >> Penn State Mont Alto will host its first of three campus symposiums, "Is There Any Truth to Religion?" at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 in Wiestling Student Center.
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Bardi teaches philosophy and has special interests in Asian philosophy and the traditions and practices of mysticism in the major world religions. He is a Socratic teacher who endeavors to bring to life the eternal question of who, what, why, and where we are. His teaching is based on the insight that in catching a glimpse of how our own individual consciousness is structured, we simultaneously open the possibility of consciously evolving our own minds that will extend to our culture. He also writes a philosophical blog in which he applies philosophical insights to contemporary political concerns.
Dendle teaches English at Penn State Mont Alto including Old and Middle English language and literature; folklore and culture; 20th- and 21st-century representations of the Middle Ages; and the monstrous in film, folklore, and society. He studies religious, folkloric, and literary representations of the demonic, as a lens through which societal ideals and anxieties can be viewed. Although his primary work is on the early Middle Ages (Anglo-Saxon England), he also has published on zombie movies, cryptozoology, and other culturally important texts from the contemporary world.


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American in Davao
Latest posts on American in Davao
- Keith and Gilda Beairsto 07 March 2012 15:31:24
Hi Bruce, are you still in LasVegas? Gilda and I are coming in June from North Dakota. I would like to meet with you. Whats your cell phone number? Mine is 701-381-8775.
- pinay rocks 03 October 2010 11:52:56
hi bruce. im from france and almost 2yrs now living in mindanao cagayan de oro.. pls if you meet french people pls lete me know ,, i never meet french people since i reach here.... i hope you can help. thanks
- lazyBarrientos 28 January 2010 05:00:20
I hope Phil. is treating you well.=) I miss my homeland. I miss talking in tagalog too.
- DavaoBruce 08 June 2009 11:11:20
The only part of Singapore I have seen was the airport. Also I do not know much about other places in the Philippines either.
I moved to Davao because this is where my fiancee lived. It is also one of the best and safest city, especially for foreigners in this country.
Life is good and bad in many ways. Culture is so different than the USA and many western countries. Visit my site for many articles about the good and the bad.
- Shawn Churchgate 08 June 2009 07:42:31
Hi there! I've heard a lot about the Far East from my friends at work...and by that I mean it definitely goes beyond the adjectives- exotic, sultry and tropical :)...the food and the weather definitely appear to be! When one of my aquaintances who just came back to town, from his place at Singapore just the other day found out that I've planned a trip to Singapore too...reacted in the funniest manner. He barged home and said- Get ready for a laugh riot this year at Singapore. Dont be taken by surprise if you happen to spot a curious tag adorning a flowerpot by the roadside or an empty rack in a glittering store, with the words, This item is not on sale. But just about everything else is at the Great Singapore Sale written on it. The best one of the lot? The Merlion Park lion sporting the same tag to save itself from frenzied shoppers. lol :D
I couln't help but browse all the blogs circling in and around the Far-East...cos I plan to extend my stay and explore other destinations too...and here I came upon yours....How different are the places from each other anyway? They all look pretty in the and colourful in the pictures...I'm sure you're having a great life in Phillipines! Cheers! :D
- DavaoBruce 28 April 2009 16:11:53
I enjoyed meeting you too and look foward to seeing you again and you meeting Elena.
Please email me through American in Davao or directly so we can easily be in contact.
- mel 27 April 2009 09:36:41
Hey Davaobruce,
It was nice chatting with you and Jim. Enjoy your stay in pinas with your wife. I know pinas is not an immaculate place to live in but Im sure you see the brighter side of pinoy. You can judge by yourself just like in any other places there are nice and bad people, its just a matter of how we deal with them. Me too kinda forget that i came from here, I try to compare big cities in abroad to philippines (pinas) kind of sad but I realized, this is my home where i always wanted to be. Now I am back for good hopefully start a new business. I feel so happy and relaxed since I arrive last month. UK is great but its just too cold for me and its so fast there.
All the best.
- longrifle762 16 April 2009 00:57:54
hey Bruce,
I got a question for you and I hope you done mind. Im retiring soon from my Job here in the US and I want to move in the Philippines. can you give me an advice regarding taxes. will the US govt. tax my retirement? and what about the Philippines what kind of taxes am I gonna have to pay?
Mike Hansen


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Indeed he has, and how it seems -
The PS3 deinterlaces any signal coming out of it, just like a Blu-Ray Movie Player.
So, if you tell the PS3 "I have a 1080i tv", it will say "1080i, no go, we can only output a deinterlaced signal, send the lowest possible - 480p". If you tell it 720p, or 1080p (which are deinterlaced signals) it says "Ok, the tv supports the signal, were good to go"
Ideally, set the PS3 to output 1080p, most tv's wont accept it however, so to be safe, output 720p, as many many many TV's can support that (practically all flat panel tv's), and the majority of 1080i TV's can also do 720p, with the exception of the oddball TV, that downres's the 1080i signal to 540p.
Set it to 720p, should work fine for 90% of the people out there!
Hope that clears something up!


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Sort 1: Picture Sort for Long and Short a
(Early Within Word Pattern: Picture Sort for Short and Long Vowels)
Short a: crab, map, hat, bat, bag, grass, flag, man
Long a: skate, frame, shave, rain, snail, grapes, plate, chain, game, rake, snake
Oddball: foot
Sort #2: Picture Sort for Long and Short i
Short i (pig): fish, lid, lips, hill, twins, swim
Long i (kite): pie, drive, slide, hive, nine, smile, dive, fire, vine, five, prize, bride
Oddball: net
Sort 3: Picture Sort for Long and Short o
short o (sock): rock, mop, dot, lock, fox, top
long o (bone): smoke, toes, road, nose, robe, goat, ghost, coat, soap, hose, boat
oddball: web
Sort 4: Picture Sort for Long and Short u
u (cup): rug, thumb, tub, bug, truck, plug, sun, drum, gum, nut
u (tube): glue, suit, spoon, mule, moon, shoe, flute, fruit, roof
Oddball: skate
Sort 5: Picture Sort for Long and Short e
short e (bed): sled, vest, bell, dress, desk, nest, leg
long e (feet): peas, deer, cheese, seal, sheep, sweep, tree, jeep, wheel, queen, sleep
oddball: fork
Sort 6: Review of Long Vowels with Word Matches
Long a (cake): tape, cane, snake
Long e (feet): bee, tree
Long i (kite): bike, bride
Long o (bone): cone, rose
Long u (tube): cube, flute
Sort 7: Short a Versus Long a (CVCe)
Short a (cat): last, glass, fast, snap, sack, ask, grass, hand, mad, bat
Long a (cake): make, face, same, gate, name, page, rake, came, whale, made
Oddball: what
Additional Words: fact, sand, bath, math, swam, chat, class, tame, fake, wade, grape, flame, scale, fame, lane, whale, blame, blaze, skate
Sort 8: Short i verses Long i in CVCe
Short i (pig): swim, rich, stick, thin, flip, gift, clip, spill, kick, dish
Long i (kite): five, drive, mice, dice, hike, nice, while, knife, nine, prize
Oddball: give
Additional Words: slid, grin, skip, grip, fifth, skill, shine, glide, pride, spine, tribe, ripe, pine, price, file, drive, life, hive, smile, while, climb (oddball)
Sort #9: Short o versus long o (CVCe)
Short o (sock): rock, job, hot, spot, pot, chop, clock
Long o (bone): home, stove, hose, cone, hope, those, joke, nose, broke, woke, hole, rope
Oddball: come, some
Additional Words: flock, plot, flop, slot, plop, clog, lone, pole, mole, tone, vote, robe, role, choke, stole, once, dove
Sort 10: Short u versus long u in CVCe
Short u (cup): just, drum, bus, hunt, jump, shut, club, cut, such, plus
Long u (tube): use, huge, June, cube, rude, flute, mule, cute, tune, tube
Oddball: put
Sort 11: Short versus long review (CVC and CVCe)
CVC Short: which, wax, skin, crab, lots, gum, drip, crop
CVCe Long: these, mule, rule, note, safe, wife, cape, tide, vote, wipe, race
Oddball: done, have
Sort 12: Final /k/ sound spelled -ck, ke, or -k
-ck (kick): sick, lock, duck, pack, lick, sock, truck
-ke (take): bike, shake, spoke, duke, strike, smoke, like
-k (took): shook, cook, look, book
Sort 13: Short a and Long a (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC: black, rash, flash, camp
CVCe: space, frame, place, blame, tale, mane
CVVC: rain, brain, paint, train, tail, main, chain, faint
Oddball: said, want
Sort 14: Short o and Long o (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC: box, knock, stop,drop
CVCe: rode, stone, chose, slope, whole
CVVC: road, float, boat, goat, soap, foam, load, goal, toad, coat
Oddballs: love, one
Sort 15: Short u and Long u (CVCe and CVVC)
CVC: crust, bump, skunk, trust
CVCe: cube, dude, prune
CVVC: food, bloom, smooth, broom, mood, moon, spoon, tooth
CVVC: fruit, suit, juice
Oddballs: build, from
Additional Words: cluck, stuff, chunk, rust, fuss, dusk, blush, gust, crude, chute, muse, mute, fume, goof, loop, scoop, loom, booth, cruise, bruise
Sort 16: Short e and Long e (CVVC)
CVC: next, web, less, set
CVVCee: seem, keep, green, sleep, sweep, teeth, feet, week
CVVCea: eat, heat, team, speak, clean, weak, leaf, teach
Oddball: been
Sort 17: "The Devil Sort" Short e (CVC and CVVC) and Long e (CVVC)
Short e (CVC): when, sled
Short e (CVVC): dead, head, bread, breath, death, lead*
Long e (CVVC -ee): trees, street, queen, sweet
Long e (CVVC -ea): each, reach, seat, dream, steam, beach, east, lead*
Oddball: great
*The word lead is a homograh and can be pronounced either with a short or long e sound, so it may be sorted in either sound category.
Additional Words: swept, shelf, wealth, health, tread, beef, geese, breeze, peel, greet, steel, steal, sneak, beam, flea, peak, leak, leash, steak, break (oddballs)
Sort 18: Review for CVVC Pattern (au, oa, ee, ea)
ai: wait, trail, sail, rail
ea: thread, read, deaf, meant, dread
ee: need, sheep, wheel, three, sheets, cheek
ea: beast, leak, neat, pea, cream, read
oa: toast, coast, moan, throat
*Read is a homograph.
Sort 19: Short a and Long a (CVCe, CVVC-ai, and Open Syllable -ay)
CVC: glass, stand, past
CVCe: trade, brave, slave, shape, taste
CVC-ai: nail, grain, aid, raise, gain
CVVC-ay: day, stay, play, clay, tray, may, gray, pray, say
Oddball: they
Additional Words: grand, brass, task, tramp, graze, lame, rate, slate, stale, faith, stain, fail, praise, Spain, lay, jay, sway, ray, slay, sleigh, weigh, neigh
All of the ay words end in a long vowel sound. A syllable or one-syllable word that ends in a long vowel sound
is called an open syllable. One way of labeling an open-syllable pattern is to label CV or CVV pattern, since the
long-a sound acts as a vowel in these long -a words.
*When one-syllable words end with the long-a sound they will generally be spelled with ay. Sleigh,
weigh, and neigh are exceptions but then they are homophones of slay, way, and may.
Sort 20: Short o and Long o (CVCe, CVVC -oa, and Open Syllable -ow)
CVC: long, stock
CVCe: froze, globe, wrote, close
CVVC -oa: coal, coach, roast, oat, loaf, roam
CVV -ow: show, blow, slow, grow, flow, throw, row, snow, mow, know
Oddball: whose
Additional Words: dock, prompt, stomp, blond, sole, dome, pose, quote, rove, yoke, Rome, lope, zone, cloak, loaves, boast, coax, loan, own, bow, crow, glow, tow, flown, oddball-broad
*Know-homophone no(These words sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings.)
The k is silent. A word in a previous sort with a silent k is knock.
Another word in this sort with a silent beginning letter is wrote.
*When a syllable of one syllable word ends with a long vowel sound it's an open syllable.
You could label the open syllable pattern by CV or CVV. W acts like a vowel, not a consonant.
Other long-o open syllable words with CV pattern are no, go, so, ho, yoyo.
CVV pattern: toe, hoe, doe, foe, woe
Sort 21: Short u and Long u (Open Syllable -ew and -ue)
CVC: thumb, plump, brush, stuck, junk, trunk
CVC -ew: new, grew, chew, few, flew, knew, blew, dew, crew
CVV -ue: blue, flue, due, glue, true
Oddball: truth, do, sew
Additional Words: crumb, tusk, husk, slump, snuff, shrewd, strew, whew, screw, brew, hue, clue, sue, cue, cruel, fuel
*This sort is full of homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have a different meaning. The words also have a different spelling so we can tell them apart.
*The k is silent in knew. Knew is past tense for know.
*The final w in the ew pattern acts like a vowel so that dew, blew, flew, and so on end in a vowel sound, just like the long-o words that ended in ow did.
Sort 22: Short i and Long i (CVCe, CVVC -igh, and CV Open Syllable -y)
CVC: quick, quit
CVCe: white, twice, quite, fine, write
CVCC-igh: might, high, night, bright, fight, flight, sight, sigh, right
CV-y: why, cry, sky, fly, try, shy
Oddball: live
Additional Words: filth, risk, swift, twist, crime, prime, chime, lime, spice, lice, mite, rise, fright, slight, thigh, spry, dry, sly, rye, lye, dye
Sort 23: Short i and Long i (VCC) with Short O and Long O (VCC)
VCC short i (film): fist, wind
VCC long i (find): wild, child, kind, mind, blind, mind
VCC short o (lost): moth, soft, cost
VCC long o (most): told, cold, both, roll, scold, gold, post, ghost
Oddball: friend
Additional Words: mild, mint, hint, sift, tilt, hind, jolt, colt, bold, host, mold, volt, bolt, loss, moss, broth, comb
Sort 24: Review of Long-Vowel Patterns
Long-a: wave, jail, way
Long-e: bleed, steep, sneak, scene, feast
Long -i: grind, slide, dry, bind, light
Long -o: sold, grow, hold, tone, crow, soak
Long -u: clue, school, drew, pool
CVCC: sold, hold, grind, bind, light
CVVC: bleed, steep, sneak, school, jail, soak, pool, feast
CVCe: wave, tone, slide, scene
CV & CVV: glow, clue, dry, crow, drew, way
Sort 25: ar, are, air
ar: part, start, harm, sharp, dark, shark
are: care, pare, stare, square, bare, fare, hare
air: hair, fair, pair, chair, stair
oddball: pear, wear, bear, where, heart
Additional Words: hart, harp, barb, scar, dark, lark, arch, glare, ware, flare, rare, snare, spare, blare, flair, lair, there, their (oddballs)
Sort 26: er, ear, eer
er: her, perch, herd, fern, germ, clerk, term
ear: hear, fear, spear, clear, near, dear, year
eer: deer, steer, cheer, peer
ear=ur: heard, earth, learn
oddball: there, here
Additional Words: ear, beard, sear, rear, herb, perk, stern, jerk, serve, nerve, queer, sneer, leer, earn, yearn, swear, hearth
Sort 27: ir, ire, ier
ir: girl, first, dirt, third, bird, birth, shirt, fir, whirl, swirl, thirst, chirp, skirt, twirl
ire: fire, wire, tire, hire
ier: drier, pliers, flier, crier
oddball: fur, their
Additional Words: firm, stir, sir, whirr, sire, spire, mire, higher, liar, friar, frier