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Now in her 11th season at the helm of the UMass Boston volleyball program, co-head coach Terry Condon has turned the Beacons into one of the most recognizable programs in Division III women's volleyball today.
During her 10 seasons in Boston, Condon has been on a mission to make UMass the premiere place to play collegiate volleyball. For her tireless efforts and work ethic UMass has seen unprecedented success, including six straight Little East Conference regular season and five tournament championships, as well as three NCAA Division III Regional crowns, which the Beacons brought home in 2010, 2012, and 2013.
As the new standard of volleyball in New England, Condon has pushed her athletes to new levels earning them multiple all-conference, region, and American honors. During the Condon era, a total of five players have been named AVCA All-Americans. Another eight have earned AVCA/NEWVA All-Region honors, including two Rookies of the Year. In the Little East Conference 15 players have been named to either the First or Second Team respectively, and since 2006, UMass has had six different players nab Rookie of the Year while four others have been named Players of the Year. Condon has also been named conference Coach of the Year twice, and has been selected as teh top coach in the region twice.
Since her arrival in 2005, Condon has set a new standard for the Beacons every single season. Condon led UMass to their highest national ranking ever on the AVCA Top-25 Coaches Poll 16th. The Beacons also remained in the top-25 for the entire 2011 season, which was also a first in the program's history.
The 2014 campaign was another solid year for the Beacons, despite falling just short in the conference tournament. Condon would reach two career milestones during the season, first surpassing the 200-win mark as the leader of the Beacons, before earning her 400th career victory as a college head coach.
In 2013, Condon led a team that consisted of nine freshmen back to the NCAA Division III National Championship tournament. After overcoming some early growing pains the Beacons rolled to their fifth straight conference title and third regional crown. Then freshman libero Elizabeth Glavan stepped to the forefront of Condon's young squad and earned AVCA All-Region honors and was named the NCAA Regional Tournament Most Valuable Player.
The 2012 season may have been the most impressive coaching job in Condon's tenure; as the Beacons integrated seven new members and played their entire schedule on the road, en route to their fourth consecutive Little East Championship. After playing one of the most challenging non-conference schedules in the country, the Beacons swept their way through the Little East Conference Tournament. They would then shock the volleyball world, when the knocked off higher seeded MIT, host Connecticut College and second-seeded Bowdoin College to win the NCAA New England Regional title.
Over the last seven seasons, the Beacons have finished with 20-wins or more, including a program best 30 which they achieved in 2009 and 2010. Since the 2008 season, UMass has posted a combined 177 victories. To date Condon currently owns a career coaching mark of 409-218.
Condon has an outstanding volleyball coaching and playing background and is a legendary figure within college and United States volleyball circles. The former UCLA standout is considered one of the greatest players to ever step on the floor for the Bruins, having been named to the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992 as well as being honored as one of the 25 greatest players in UCLA history. Her number 34 was retired by the Bruins, as well. She enjoyed a tremendous career with UCLA, helping it to an 89-12 record, which included a pair of national titles in 1974 and 1975 and a national runner-up placing in 1976.
Condon's amazing accomplishments were not limited to the collegiate level, however, as she made her mark on the world stage as well, playing for the United States Volleyball National team throughout the 1970s. She was named a seven-time First Team All-American, two-time Second Team All-American and was the Player of the Year in 1971. Condon enjoyed tremendous success with her teams, racking up three USA Open National Championships and was a five-time member of the USA Women's National team, including the 1970 World Championship team and the Pan American Games teams of 1971 and 1975. Her accomplishments were recognized by her selection to the USA Volleyball 75th Anniversary Women's All- Era Team (1949-77) and her honor as an All-Time Great Female Player by the United State Volleyball Association in 1983.
Condon's achievements transcended her playing career as she went on to a successful coaching career as well. Following two years as the Head Coach of California State University Bakersfield, she took over the reigns at Texas A&M University and in six years, led the Aggies to three NCAA tournament appearances and coached the squad to a 180-101 mark for a .641 winning percentage. The year prior to her arrival, Texas A&M, posted an 18-21 mark and two years later, Condon led the squad to a 40-16 record and a ninth place national finish in 1981. She still holds the Aggies' coaching standard for highest winning percentage in a single-season with her 33-4 (.892) mark for the 1984 campaign.
Following her coaching career, she returned to her alma mater as an Associate Athletic Director for UCLA from 1986-1994 and received three Achievement Awards. She remained in Athletic Administration when she became a Senior Associate Athletic Director at Northeastern University in Boston in 1994 and remained with the Huskies until 1998.
Condon's selection as UMass Boston Head Women's Volleyball Coach is in addition to a position that she already holds, as she was named the Senior Associate Athletic Director for the school in February of 2006. She is the Assistant Director of many area field hockey camps and also works for a tax preparation business.
Highly respected for her contributions to women's athletics, Condon was inducted into the New Agenda: Northeast Women's Hall of Fame last year to recognize her coaching and teaching accomplishments within the community and the college arena.
Condon graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology and currently resides in Rowley, MA.


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Cedar City, UT (Sports Network) - Joel Bolomboy recorded a double-double with
13 points and a game-high 17 rebounds off the bench as the Weber State
Wildcats logged an 81-74 win over the Southern Utah Thunderbirds in Big Sky
Conference action at the Centrum.
Bolomboy made all three of his field goal attempts and also blocked three
shots for the Wildcats (10-3, 5-0 Big Sky) as they won their sixth game in a
row. The top scorer for WSU was Davion Berry who tallied 19 points, followed
by Scott Bamforth and Kyle Tresnak with 17 and 11 points, respectively.
The Thunderbirds (5-9, 3-2) were paced by Jackson Stevenett who recorded a
game-high 29 points, hitting on all but one of his 12 chances at the free-
throw line, while Damon Heuir chipped in 16 points in the team's second
straight setback.
Both teams had trouble finding the basket in the first half, yet even though
WSU shot just 29.0 percent from the floor, the Wildcats found themselves ahead
at the break, 30-29.
In the second half the Wildcats turned it around by converting 54.5 percent
from the floor, adding a staggering 25-of-32 at the free-throw line, en route
to the seven-point win.
With the victory the Wildcats, who shot 36-of-49 at the charity stripe,
remained in a tie for first place in the conference standings with Montana
which defeated North Dakota tonight, 77-62.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA) -- One person was burned while trying to fight a fire at a mid-rise condominium building in Alexandria early Thursday morning. The person also suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to the hospital.
The fire broke out in the 1200 block of South Washington Street at approximately 12:06 a.m.
Firefighters saw fire showing from the back of the building. They were able to get the fire out in approximately 15 minutes.
Two people inside were able to get out on their own. The Red Cross is helping relocate them.
Fire officials say the fire was accidental and caused by curtains touching a halogen light bulb.
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Join Martin Körling, Head of Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, in the latest Follow the Expert film as he takes us on a tour around Mobile World Congress 2012. Körling reviews some of the standout innovations on show at the mobile industry's largest exhibition, many of which support Ericsson's vision of 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
Vendors and operators supported the theme of this year's event, redefining mobile, by demonstrating applications, devices and solutions that show the range of opportunities made possible by mobile broadband.
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Real Living with California Pastors
Recording artist and pastor, Deitrick Haddon has been cast to appear on the Oxygen series "Pastors of L.A." Confirmed May 13, the series is slated to follow the lives of pastors in California.
The show will give viewers a candid and revealing look at six boldly different and world renowned mega-pastors who are willing to share diverse aspects of their lives, from their work in the community and with their parishioners to the very large and sometimes provocative lives they lead away from the pulpit," Oxygen confirmed Monday.
Slated to air in Fall 2013, the series will also feature Bishop Noel Jones, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Pastor Wayne Chaney, Bishop Ron Gibson and Pastor Jay Haizlip.
Deitrick Haddon is best known for his contributions to music, including Gospel recordings with recording artists like Mary Mary and Ruben Studdard.
"Pastors of L.A." is being produced by L. Plummer Media in association with Relevé Entertainment, with Lemuel Plummer, Holly Carter and Chris Costine serving as executive producers. Plummer is also executive producer of "Vindicated" (BET) and producer of "The Sheards" (BET). Holly Carter is creator and executive producer of "106 & Gospel" and executive producer of "The Sheards."
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2011: Played in 15 games, including 10 as a starter...had 4 hits on the year...had a multi-hit game against Mississippi State.
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.
The SBIR program solicits proposals from the small business sector consistent with NSF's mission. The program is governed by Public Law 112-81 (SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011). A main purpose of the legislation is to stimulate technological innovation and increase private sector commercialization. The NSF SBIR program is therefore in a unique position to meet both the goals of NSF and the purpose of the SBIR legislation by transforming scientific discovery into both social and economic benefit, and by emphasizing private sector commercialization. Accordingly, NSF has formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR that conform to the high-technology investment sector's interests.
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Certain innovative technologies with high commercial potential may not appear to fit under any of the nine current solicitation topics or their associated subtopics. In this case, you may seek advice from the relevant Program Director (as detailed on the topic pages), or you may submit the proposal under the topic and subtopic that is the closest match. The SBIR/STTR Program Directors ensure that proposals are appropriately grouped into panels for review by experts in the field, and the review process is facilitated by a Program Director. The topics and subtopics guide the merit review process but are not used as a consideration in making award decisions.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) -- "The halls are empty, the stores are empty," Mary Beth Cox said as she described what Crystal City Shops looked like last week when the government shutdown began.
For 40 years, Cox, of Lorton, has owned Ship's Hatch, a gift store that caters to the military. Located in the Crystal City Shops underground, it was an advantage to be near the Pentagon and other federal workplaces. Not so much anymore.
"This is not a regional mall. There are no big names or deep pockets behind all these little stores down here. So it's a question of...hoping we'll be able to weather the storm," said Cox.
It's a perfect storm with three hits, starting with BRAC that moved thousands of military workers out of Crystal city, then sequestration's furloughs, and now the shutdown.
"Monday afternoon, there was no one here, said Lainie Demos who, for 28 years, has owned and operated Garden Fantasy, a clothing and accessory shop that sells American-made products at Crystal City Shops.
"It's very hard right now. Because we've had a BRAC move out that moved out 2,200 a year and a half ago. Then we went through sequestration and now the shutdown. It's a little scary right now," said Demos.
"Hopefully they'll realize the impact this is having on everybody in the country and bring these people back to work," said Cox.
Customers also come from the neighboring hotels in Crystal City.
One of the hottest selling items has been anything with the phrase, "Keep Calm and Carry On," which seem appropriate for today.
The saying "keep calm and carry on" originated in Briton during WWII when it was bombed by Germany in the Blitz.
The two shop owners remember the last government shutdown 17 years ago. Even though it lasted 21 days, they say this one is worse because of sequestration and BRAC, which moved thousands of employees out of Crystal City.


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BELLEVILLE, IL (KSDK) - Brandon Garcia of Florissant, MO was given the maximum sentence of fourteen years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Friday.
Garcia was found guilty of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol for the September 2011 death of Daunte Simmons.
Garcia receive a concurrent ten year sentence in prison on a second count of aggravated D.U.I. for causing great bodily harm and permanent disfigurement to Elvira Secic.
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Swapping A 10-Bolt For A 9-Inch While Retaining GM SuspensionWritten by on June 1, 2012 Ten To Nine
Ever since I first put my roadster pickup together some 12 years ago I've always been aware that the rearend was the weak link. I had the TH350 rebuilt, and the small-block was fresh, but the 10-bolt was straight out of a junker '82 Caprice, complete with the stock triangulated four-link. The axle bearings run directly on the driveshafts on these axles, and mine always leaked, even after the fitment of "axle-saver" bearings a few years ago. When I had the bed off to prep it for paint, I figured the time had come to swap the axle for a better version. I acquired a 1-inch narrower 10-bolt from a later model wagon and intended to swap my brackets over, but ultimately opted to install a Currie Enterprises 9-inch Ford-based rearend and fit my GM brackets to that, especially after I found that Currie manufactures adjustable tubular arms exactly for my application. A no-brainer, right?
While I was swapping the rearend, I also figured I'd replace the MGB coil springs I'd used. Always a little on the stiff side, I figured it was a truck and didn't worry about it, until I loaded the bed with several bags of concrete, and suddenly found the suspension worked and the truck rode way nicer! So, I needed softer springs. Rather than the existing separate shocks and springs, I opted for coilovers, and spoke with the folks at QA1 about my project.
I'd measured and knew the extended length of coilover I could fit, and weighed the rear of the truck to determine the spring rate. Though the QA1 catalog lists a chart to calculate the spring rate based on vehicle weight, and another for the corrected rate of coilover springs that are mounted at an angle, the company's tech guy I spoke to on the phone was extremely helpful and we had it worked out in a few minutes, and the coilovers were on their way! It worked out like this: The rear of the truck weighed just over 1,700 pounds, for which QA1 recommend 225-pound springs. As ours would mount at 20 degrees, the rate needed to be higher. Using the QA1 chart it worked out to 225 ÷ 0.88 = 255.68, so we selected 250-pound springs. The QA1 Proma Star coilovers we selected are single adjustable with 18 valving options. Though they're available with bearings, we opted for poly bushings top and bottom, as the truck is more a long distance driver than an autocross assailant, and the softer bushings offer a more comfortable ride!
Actually, the coilovers are mounted at less than 20 degrees, but until I had the new axle in place I wasn't sure of the exact angle, so I erred on the side of caution. While I originally planned to mount them vertically behind the axle in a similar location to the old coils, I was pretty sure I'd be able to use the original lower shock mounts in front of the axle. However, I wasn't sure on clearance between the spring or upper spring cup and the chassis. As it turned out, all was good, so I strengthened the lower shock mount to take a coilover, and modified commercially available brackets for the upper mounts.
I'd had Currie leave the shock mount section of the original brackets un-welded so I could remove them if they weren't used, so I just had to weld them to the housing to finish the installation. All in all, a relatively easy conversion with only minimal fab work to complete. The truck now rides way better, and I have adjustable compression/rebound, as well as adjustable pinion angle should I need it.
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Currie Enterprises carries a number of axle brackets in stock, but not for my application, so I asked them to retain the lower shock mount when they cut them off, which were integral to the lower suspension arm bracket.With new tubes cut to length, new Torino big-bearing ends, and a new centersection, there's not a Ford part on a new 9-inch from Currie. With the housing tack-welded together in this fixture, it's checked for the desired length.Currie keeps a number of old rearends in stock to check the location of brackets or to measure widths. Our rearend is in the rotating jig in the background, which ensures a decent weld around each end of both axle tubes, as well as allowing it to be positioned for ease of welding on any brackets.Once shot-blasted, our less than perfect GM brackets were offered up to the new housing. Held in place with a magnet, this neat little level is placed on a bolt to ensure the bushings in the four-link will be parallel with the housing.Again, a number of jigs like this one ensure the upper Johnny Joint brackets are mounted in the correct position, depending on application.With the housing and brackets fully welded, the assembly is placed in this fixture to be straightened. A dummy centersection is bolted in place, and a round bar passed through fixtures where the bearings would be. With pressure applied by a hydraulic ram, when a similar fixture on the bar fits in the bearing housings at the axle ends, it's straight.Seeing as we showed Editor Rob's third member being assembled recently, we'll skip the next few steps, but here are all the components that are required. I chose 2.80 gears, which is close to what had been in the 10-bolt. Not exactly quick off the line, the 22 mpg they returned more than compensated for this! For a more in-depth buildup of a Currie axle and third member, check out the tech section at www.rodandcustommagazine.com.Gear marking compound is applied to the ring gear to establish the contact pattern between it and the pinion gear during assembly. Ours required the pinion be removed and another shim added to achieve this pattern.
With the housing shot-blasted and hot-tanked, it's delivered to the assembly area along with the shafts.This magnet is placed inside the pumpkin while the housing is cleaned. Note how much shot from the blasting process is collected, even after hot tanking.This tool is used to install the Currie-designed Johnny Joints, after they're lubed and ready for assembly.With the seals installed in the housing ends, a bead of RTV sealer is applied to the housing, then a gasket and another bead of sealer before the third member is installed.Once the wheel studs are pressed into the axles the retainers are installed and the bearings pressed into place.Finally, the brake drum backing plates are hung on their studs and the axles are installed before everything is bolted in place.
Prior to removing the old rearend, we weighed the rear of the pickup (and added the weight of the bed) to determine the spring rates we'd need for coilover shocks. See the main text for how we calculated our required spring rate.We selected a pair of QA1 Proma Star coilovers, with an extended height of 14 inches and compressed height of 10 1/8 inches, as the best option for our application after measuring the available space under the pickup bed floor. These are single adjustable for simultaneous compression and rebound tuning, with 18 valving options. We also opted for the thrust bearing kit for ease of ride height adjustment and a pair of spanner wrenches.The thrust bearings are installed first, both washers coated with antiseize lubricant (not shown). They fit from above, as the adjuster knob doesn't allow fitment from below.When we discussed our project with the guys at QA1, we were warned our springs would require compressing slightly for installation, though most do not. With the springs compressed, the upper spring cap simply slid into place.It's probably not common knowledge that Currie Enterprises manufactures adjustable suspension arms for GM A-body applications. As our pickup used stock A-body pressed-steel arms, this was a direct bolt-in swap. Even the antiroll bar bolts through the lower arms! We simply set the new arms to the same length as the originals and bolted them in. These new arms are infinitely stronger than the flimsy stockers, and have greatly improved the ride.Though we'd asked Currie to leave the lower shock mounts in place on the lower suspension arm brackets, we also asked them not to weld that part of the bracket to the housing, as we weren't 100 percent sure we were going to use them or whether we'd mount the coilovers vertically outside the framerails.With the new axle in place, however, the neatest option was obviously going to be to use the stock lower brackets. They were designed for shock absorbers though, not coilovers, so the marked section was removed with a plasma cutter and the steel bung shown welded in place to offer more support for the lower coilover bolt.We also added a tab to the mount so the coilover wasn't mounted in single shear, after checking for clearance against the lower suspension arm. The bracket was welded to the housing now as well.While we're sure there's a scientific way to calculate how much a coilover will compress, we've always raised the chassis 1 inch from its ride height relationship with the axle, and installed the upper mounts with the coilover fully extended. This allows for compression under the weight of the car, and they are adjustable after all! The coilover was protected with a fire blanket during tack welding, and then removed for final welding.
Finish welded and with the truck back on its wheels, it sat at exactly the same height it had before we swapped the rearends—only now we have adjustable ride height and pinion angle as well as adjustable suspension quality, depending on use or even weight in the bed.With the exception of bolting the antiroll bar in place, and fabbing new brake hard lines, the install is complete. Currie supplied a pinion yoke that matched the length of the old GM one, meaning we could reuse the same driveshaft.


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Turmoil exposes risks in $9B pension fund
Maybe I'm an incurable optimist, but I see a silver lining in the recently stormy financial markets — the jolt might just wake up elected officials to the actual risks they are taking with public money in San Diego County's pension fund.
In 2010, the board responsible for the county's $9.4 billion fund gave its new investment adviser a green light to pursue a relatively new investment strategy known in the hedge fund industry as "risk parity."
Advocates say the strategy is the closest thing yet to an investing free lunch: Using leverage and sophisticated mathematics, you can make higher returns with lower risk than traditional portfolios.
If risk parity sounds too good to be true, that's because it is, according to a host of prominent critics.
"This is all bull," said Zvi Bodie, a Boston University economist and finance professor who is a frequent critic of the financial services industry. "It is scary, and it's very scary that anyone would believe it."
"Nonsense," is how Warren Buffett, the world's most successful investor, describes Modern Portfolio Theory, the intellectual basis for risk-parity strategy. "Asinine," is the term preferred by his business partner, Charlie Munger.
MPT holds that an investor can infer the risk of a security by calculating how far its price swings up and down in the markets over time. Risk parity involves loading up on supposedly low-risk investments to boost returns.
Buffett points out that price swings tell you nothing about a company's true risk — that it might go bankrupt and default on its bonds. Indeed, if you find a well-managed company and wait to buy its stock until after the price crashes, you've actually reduced the risk of losing money on that investment. Volatility is not the same as risk.
Indeed, market volatility has hammered risk-parity hedge funds recently, just as San Diego County has increased its bets on the strategy. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that such funds have lost up to 8 percent so far this year, and lag roughly 13 percent behind funds that replicate the traditional pension portfolio of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds.
What scares me most is the amount of leverage they use. Under Lee Partridge, the outside adviser who controls the fund's investments, San Diego County uses derivatives to generate $1.35 in market exposure for each $1 it really has.
There are other reasons to worry. When the pension fund hired Partridge in late 2009, the county was his only client. A bond trader by experience, this was his first time directing the investments of an entire pension fund.
And he was recommended by Hewitt Ennisknupp, the county's consulting firm that is supposed to provide independent advice on whether a manager is steering the fund off a cliff. Not surprisingly, the firm endorsed Partridge's venture into leveraged risk parity.
The pension board recently corrected that shortcoming by replacing Ennisknupp, but the new firm hasn't given its views on the county's investment policy.
According to the fund's 2012 annual report, Partridge has used the fund's 35 percent leverage level to bet heavily on bonds, mostly U.S. Treasuries.
Treasuries have delivered above-average returns for 30 years, but replicating that feat over the next decade is nearly a mathematical impossibility.
Sudden moves in bond values have rocked markets since May 22, when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke outlined the central bank's strategy to eventually halt its massive bond-market intervention and raise interest rates. A similar Fed surprise in 1994 led to brutal losses for bond traders caught with "long" positions.
To be clear, I can't tell you that the county pension fund has lost a pile of money this month. Partridge has refused to talk to me for months. Fund officials declined to comment last week, saying they will release their next quarterly report Aug. 15.


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Scottsdale, AZ (Sports Network) - Martin Prado went 2-for-4 with three RBI and
the Arizona Diamondbacks took down the Colorado Rockies, 8-6, in spring
training action.
Eric Hinske went 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored for the
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I am still overseas until the end of next year, I have 2 or 3 points for Wyoming's sheep/moose program and 1 point in Utah, Nevada and Arizona.
I am almost 40.
I have a rare blood disease and probably won't see 60. So far I am the 2nd oldest living person in my family history with the disease. No pity you bastards! I have lived more than anyone I know!
Seriously, what are the my odds on sheep/moose Wyoming and so on.
Is it worth $1000 a year to feed these 4 states? I am not 10 points in or I wouldn't even consider throwing it away, I got pissed at Wyoming when they changed it to $100, and as I am an Alaska resident, and not my Wyoming home I said "screw you guys I am going home".
Well in 2011 I started thinking, maybe I should get back in this. Did "some" research and bought points, and last year I bought points in AZ, Nevada and Utah.
Honestly, what would you do?
Would you quit sending out $1000 not to hunt, or would you keep buying points?
I can hunt 99% percent of what I want to hunt in my lifetime for under $10,000. I know it doesn't make sense financially I just need someone else to hug me and tell me I am doing the right thing.
I screwed up and quit playing the Wyoming sheep game in the beginning, and I regret it now. As I would be max points for both.


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And here is why:
As some of you might know, the concept of Scub Coral in E7 is largely based on a novel by the sci-fi writer Greg Bear, "Blood Music". We can confirm this from the fact that one of the characters in E7 is actually named after the guy. The novel dealt with the idea that the reality is a function of its observers, an idea which develops from the so-called anthropic principle, a real metaphysical concept that says observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. In other words, we percieve the Universe as it is because only in such Universe an observer such as us could exist.
In "Blood Music", an inventor creates self-concsious microorganisms that percieve the reality in a radically different way from ours. They multiply and occupy a large part of our planet, but the density of their consciousness doesn't allow them to exist in a purely physical realm, so along with some humans they assimilated along the way they escape into a different reality of pure consciousness, not bound to physical.
This setup should sound familiar to those who paid enough attention to the original Eureka Seven. That's exactly what the idea of Scub Coral and the Limitation of Life (kudan no genkai) was based upon. So what's the problem? Well it seems to me more and more that Kyoda didn't exactly understand what the writers have made up for the story. In AO, we learn that large chunks of Scub Coral physically escaped into AO's world (let's call it World 2) which is also physical and in fact is compeltely compatible with World 1. Unfortunately this is what we can conclude from visuals in episode 50 in E7 as well. I consider this to be a mistake on the part of the director because it doesn't tie together with the rest of the story that we learn from E7, especially when put under a looking glass of "Blood Music". Such solution merely delays the Limitation of Life and introduces an obvious plothole - if Scub could always escape into any point in space, time and alternative universes, well why didn't it do so earlier?
But Kyoda apparently remembered that they had some something about anthropic principle going on back in 2005 and so here we have Renton, explaining to us that anthropic principle is "reality changes according to how observer sees it" which seems to me like a bastardization of both the real-life concept and the ideas that are built into original E7 setting. Basically it's a tremendous plothole that allowed them to use the Quartz Gun as an impromptu deus ex machina to eliminate the conflict we followed throughout AO.
Here's how you could do a sequel. Have it set years after E7. The nations in E7 are uneasy because of everything that happened at the end of the original series and the loss of alot of land and what to do about the original worlds landmass. Have pro-scub and anti-scub factions. Have the characters question if their decisions were the right ones to make. Have shit happen and then Bones up the ending but atleast it might be more enjoyable than what we got.
That's not all though. Kyoda introduces another drama generator. Turns out human and human coralian children turn to rocks when exposed to high density of trapar and die! I suppose Kyoda as the author is allowed to introduce such concept, but it puts a big slash across the message of E7. When Eureka was told she could have human kids, it was kind of a big deal and seemed like it would be important to the whole "co-existence" deal. So this concept doesn't go against logic, but it goes against the narrative. And even then there are inconsistencies. There are places of low-trapar density in World 1. If we are to take Scub Coral's dimensional piligrimage as a fact, then half of it is gone and there should be even LESS trapar in World 1. Moreover, Ao used to hang around Scub Plants all the damn time and it didn't affect him at all. I think in Episode 24 Ao even remotely points that out in passing but the issue is quickly ignored. So what, was this introduced just so that Eureka and Renton could be fucked over some more? It's evident this didn't exist back in 2005, just look at the last DVD cover art.
Dewey was right! Scub is just one big problem and coexisting with it is a joke! Good job Gekkostate, you assholes broke everything!
This doesn't even touch on how the only other thing that was dealt with was Okinawa's independence thing like it's some important propaganda or something.
Here's how you could do a sequel. Have it set years after E7. The nations in E7 are uneasy because of everything that happened at the end of the original series and the loss of alot of land and what to do about the original worlds landmass. Have pro-scub and anti-scub factions. Have the characters question if their decisions were the right ones to make. Have shit happen and then Bones up the ending but atleast it might be more enjoyable than what we got.
Discuss how other sequels in your life ruined it.


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Unfortunately, the sexy Mrs. Claus update doesn't do much to further the cause.
How is Santa Claus still a thing? It's shocking that everyone ignores the fact that we've allowed — no, trained, our little girls to sit on an old fat dude's lap and whisper their wish lists in his ear. They learn if they behave themselves and don't act up, then this man will creep into their home late at night and give them all the material possessions they desire. They just need to smile pretty for the camera, or they'll get a lump of coal.
After we teach children about Santa, they then witness hundreds of simulacrums marching through the streets in jolly St. Nick costumes, lurching from bar to bar, beer in their beards and puke in their caps. 'Tis the season of SantaCon, where grown men desecrate what's left of some nice Jewish boy's birthday party.
Is Santa's first name Kris or Nick? Either way, he and his homeboy Rudolph run Christmas while Mrs. Claus has to sit home and, I don't know, warm milk on the stove or clean the soot out of a pile of red suits. She doesn't even have a first name.
Unfortunately, the sexy Mrs. Claus update doesn't do much to further the cause.
Every child wants to wake up Christmas morning to a stack of presents under the tree. Unfortunately, most little ladies find a pink bounty of girly goods. There are paper dolls, American Girl dolls, fabric dolls, Barbie dolls, talking dolls, and eating-pooping-diaper dolls. Of course, the girls love them — the annual Christmas ballet is all about a doll that cracked nuts. coal!
Blame Mariah Carey for the mindless 90's jingle that permeates your yuletide shopping spree. "All I Want for Christmas is You," is infectious as it is infuriating. This is a song that teaches women that it's not what's under the tree that counts — it's what's in his stocking that really matters. See also: "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Santa Baby."
And are you sure you saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, and it wasn't just a patriarchal mirage brought on by too much egg nog?
Mistletoe make-outs must have been invented by some conniving guy who wanted to take advantage of the lonely, single ladies who were led by Love, Actually to believe that in order to have a fulfilling, happy Christmas, they would have to find their one, true ugly-Christmas-sweater clad love.
Isn't a Christmas tree just a sparkling phallus that's covered in balls? And what's the deal with sucking on candy canes?


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Fernandez, Tank Prepare For U.S. Amateur
AMES, Iowa –Iowa State All-American golfer Scott Fernandez has literally been on the go since his record-setting sophomore season ended in May. Fresh off a third-place finish at the European Amateur this weekend, Fernandez will jump the pond to the United States to compete in the prestigious U.S. Amateur at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., Aug. 12-18.
Fernandez won't get the chance for a practice round before he tees off, but he will have the comfort of a familiar face alongside him when he begins the stroke play portion of the event. Iowa State head coach Andrew Tank will serve as Fernandez' caddy in the event and the duo will have the opportunity to work together before school starts on Aug. 26.
"This will be a unique opportunity for me this week," Tank said. "Most of the coaching I do is in the team environment, so you are spreading your time among multiple players. So to be able to focus on Scott individually and helping him out at such a prestigious event is something I am really looking forward to."
Tank has caddied in his share of tournaments, looping a couple of times for players in PGA Tour events. This will definitely rank up there as one of his greatest highlights.
The Country Club needs no introduction to golf enthusiasts. It's hosted three U.S. Opens, including the 1913 Open where a 20-year-old amateur named Francis Ouimet shocked the world by defeating established professionals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. The seminal moment in golf history is credited for popularizing the sport in the United States.
In recent history, The Country Club was also the host of the 1999 Ryder Cup where the U.S. team staged its dramatic come-from-behind victory on the final day.
All competitors will play 36 holes of stroke play on Aug. 12-13 and the top 64 players will advance on to the match play portion of the tournament, Aug. 14-18.
A native of Granada, Spain, Fernandez earned an exemption to the U.S. Amateur by ranking in the top-50 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. The junior currently ranks as the 28th-best amateur in the world.
After earning second-team All-America honors and All-Big 12 First-Team accolades in 2012-13, Fernandez competed in the Palmer Cup in June. The 2013 Iowa State Male Athlete of the Year is one of the most decorated ISU golfers in school history.
"He's been playing so well and he had a great opportunity to play in the Palmer Cup," Tank said. "He played great in the British Amateur and European Amateur. I look forward to helping him out at the U.S. Amateur."
Fernandez joins teammate Zach Steffen as Cyclones to play in USGA national events this summer. Steffen, a senior from Des Moines, qualified for the USGA Publinks.


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Lobbyist with a cause
Politics | God has brought Barrett Duke a long way in 40 years; the one-time junkie in the streets of New Orleans is now a top policy advocate in the corridors of power
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Barrett Duke's path to Washington insider began in a grocery store parking lot. It was 1976, America's bicentennial, and Duke was a drug addict living in party-friendly New Orleans.
God, church, politics, and culture-all destined to play key roles in Duke's future-were not foremost in his 22-year-old mind. He had barely graduated from high school four years earlier, and he was well on his way to becoming a victim of the Big Easy's culture of excess.
In a Winn-Dixie parking lot Duke ran into a friend, Dick Flores, who had vanished from the drug scene. Before Duke could invite him to the next drug score, Flores explained his absence this way: "I've found something that truly makes me happy and it never wears off."
"What is it," Duke asked. "God came into my life and gave me peace for the first time."
Duke, first saying he was happy that Flores had found something that worked for him, quickly added: "But that is not for me."
God had other plans. This casual encounter began a deep work of conviction in Duke's life. "I used to party with him all the time," Duke kept thinking. "I remembered what his life was like, and he now was a transformed individual." Several months later, Duke attended his first Bible study. Six months after he professed faith in Christ, Duke was leading two Bible studies of his own.
Today, despite commanding the attention of the nation's top lawmakers, Duke does not hold a public policy degree. He is not a lawyer. And he is likely one of the few people regularly walking the corridors of Congress with a master's degree in Old Testament theology. As the main Washington lobbyist for the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Duke is charged with being the policy voice in the nation's capital for the country's more than 16 million Southern Baptists.
Duke does not discount the labyrinth journey he took to get here.
In New Orleans he learned firsthand how a permissive culture could devastate someone missing a strong moral compass. And he says his biblical training, which also includes a doctorate in Religious and Theological Studies, helps him tackle present-day policy issues. "If you want to know what God thinks about humans living in society, you read the Old Testament and see how God dealt with the nation of Israel," Duke said. "Why would we expect Him to deal differently with us?"
Duke's visceral sense of secular culture's power was reinforced during his 12-year tenure as pastor of a new Baptist church in Denver that began in 1984. There Duke discovered a disconnection between how his congregation acted in church and how they lived during the rest of the week. "It was clear to me that the culture had invaded the church," Duke said.
He began shepherding his flock toward a more active role in local community issues such as abortion.
Then in 1997 Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, provided Duke with an opportunity to engage in the public policy debate on a bigger stage. A former professor at Criswell College in Dallas where Duke earned his undergraduate degree, Land remembered Duke as one of his top students in 13 years of teaching. Land thought Duke would be a good fit for the commission's director of conferences and seminars.
Duke moved his family from Denver to Nashville, where he began writing and speaking about issues from capital punishment to stem-cell research for a nationwide audience of Southern Baptists. Duke found that exploring these issues often took him to Washington and, in 2003, Duke relocated to the Capital Beltway full-time as the commission's vice president for public policy and research.
Operating out of an office just a couple of blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Duke meets directly with lawmakers and their staffs to promote a Christian worldview. While protecting life tops Duke's agenda, he addresses a wide variety of issues: he lobbies for both securing the borders and a path to legal status for illegal immigrants; he favors a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget limited to 20 percent of GDP; he has pressed for a federal Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution.
Last year he fought against both the healthcare overhaul and the repeal of the policy preventing gays from openly serving in the military. Duke is also pushing for greater federal funding for internet firewall-breaching technology so people around the world can have free access to information without government censorship. "There is hardly an area that doesn't need Christian moral witnesses," Duke said.
Duke is quick to say that he is not a political junkie. But Land, his boss, thinks that is a plus in a city where politicians are often idolized. "He is immune to the Beltway mentality," Land said. "Barrett Duke knows in his bone marrow that he is there to represent the Lord Jesus Christ and Southern Baptists, not himself. I never have to worry about him getting that confused."
Along the way, Duke has earned the real world equivalent of an advanced degree in public policy: The ideological divide in Washington means lawmakers have many different views on how to solve the world's problems. When Duke first arrived, he thought he could sit down with lawmakers and carry the day by the force of his convictions and arguments. After seven years he has learned that the real question many lawmakers ask is: How many votes do you represent?
"Movement here in D.C. is more a matter of pure political pressure than it is winning minds," Duke said.
That is why he devotes a bulk of his job to convincing the 16 million Southern Baptist voices he represents that they need to get louder. It is the same challenge he encountered as a Denver pastor. He credits the annual March For Life rally in Washington for pushing the House this year to pass several pro-life bills.
"If Bible-believing Christians would decide that what happens in Washington, D.C., matters," said Duke, "most of these issues would be resolved in a way that would bring honor to the Lord."


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Greensboro, NC - You won't find anything else like it in the Triad. It's an upscale movie theatre for the 21 and up crowd. And that's not all. Try reserved and luxury seating in a stadium environment plus a call button for food and bar service. The GrandLuxe Theatre on Vanstory Street in Greensboro offers all of that and more.
News 2's Tracey McCain showed the Good Morning Show crew around the new facility Monday morning.
The Four Seasons Grand - Station 18 at 2700 Vanstory Street converted six of its 18 theaters to the GrandLuxe Theatres, which is a dine-in movie concept.
The new upscale theatre offers a Gourmet menu by Chef Adolfo Garcia along with a full bar at your disposal.
The cost to see a movie at the GrandLuxe is $9 for a matinee and $11 for an evening show. You can find out more and make reservations online by visiting: www.grandluxetheatres.com.
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Warm, soft and comfortable: Cushions are cosy textiles for nearly every event. In the living room, in the bedroom or in the children's room – there is a suitable cushion for every taste.
The selection is enormous: pillow, bolster, sofa cushion, decoration cushion, and more. Thereby there is the right size for every purpose as well as the right shape and the suitable material for the filling and the cover. Find designer cushions for every purpose in here.
Cushions for living rooms
On the couch, sofa or lounge chair cushions don't only look good but must be comfortable. The cover of them should be robust in order to resist the demands of everyday use in the living room. Whether round or edged, coloured or simple – the user's personal taste decides. The filling of decoration cushions is thereby less important than the one of sofa cushions, this means that a more form-resistant cushion would be suitable there.
The expectations when we buy a cushion are completely different when it is about a bedroom pillow: The right size, a pleasant height and firmness count to hold our necks comfortably. If you prefer a downs cushion of a harder one with synthetic filling depends on your demands.
The cushion's cover of children's cushions should be as soft as possible as well as anti-allergens to be comfortable and pleasant to your kid's skin.
Natural materials such as cotton, silk or linen suit such covers. Ampther advantage: Cotton and linen are breathable, which is important for bed cushions. Removable covers are also very important for home and bedroom cushions. Whether with buttons or zip closures, the personal taste decides here again.
Outdoor cushions are recommendable in the garden: The cushion's cover of garden and outdoor pillows is often water repellent and have resistant surfaces as well as fillings that resist humidity.
For winter and summer seasons
Some cushions are thick, others weightless. There are different coatings for warm seasons and for fall and wintertime: soft cushion covers please our skin in summer, cosy home textiles surround us in winter. There are wonderful cushion covers for every season.
Covers for every taste
Different coatings don't only decide between weightless summer cushions and cosy winter cushions. Different materials for cushions also have important effects regarding their appearance.
The selection is big: woollen and knitted coatings ensure classic-comfortable atmospheres. Traditional, rustic knitted goods up to noble cushion wrappings by Elvang out of alpaca wool: there are numerous options. Other natural materials such as covers of cotton are pleasant to be touched, synthetic cushions are robust, easy to care and partly even fire retardant, felt cushions are robust, resistant and form-stable.
Big patterns selection
We love cushions in fresh colours in summer and spring time, while opaque colours and warm tones are demanded in winter and fall.
The cushion pattern also decides about the appearance of the cushion, as well as the textile used: should it be modern or classy, simple or extravagant: there are digital prints, graphic patterns, black-white combinations, colour mixings, writings and colour blocking as well as much more. Vitra cushions, Kvadrat cushions and other designer's cushions offer a big selection as well as several variants and motives for every taste.
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Head pillows and cosy cushions need another filling than sitting cushions, beanbags and poufs. That's the reason why different cushions have different fillings and inside cushions.
Floor cushions and beanbags need hard and strong filling in order to make it possible to sit comfortably on them. It is similar with seat and back cushions: They are often filled with foam or hard flakes in order to protect the body. Designer cushions are more and more filled with foam. The different couch cushions, sofa cushions and cuddly cushions naturally have another texture: feathers and downs warm us and make home a comfortable place to be. Cushions with loose flakes are easily shook up. Decoration cushions however, are important because they are easy to be cleaned and remain in their original form.
The creative cushions combinations are endless: discover all the possibilities and order the suitable items in the home design shop!


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So I've probably driven over 20 hours in the past week easily:
1. Drove down to school (8 hours)
2. Drove to a wedding (2 hours)
3. Drove back to school from wedding (2 hours)
4. Drove to 's house (3 hours)
5. Drove to 's house (5 hours)
6. Drove to 's house (4 hours)
7. Drove home for Christmas (3 hours)
Sooo... my simple math skills suck... Uh, let me see... 27 hours. Woooowwww.
But. Um. Yes. I already got what I wanted for Christmas while I was up visiting MiloNeuman, so I don't know how the 25th could possibly get any better. Maybe possibly potentially if someone gave me an XBox. Yeah. Regardless, I'm super duper stupid happy.
Obviously commissions have been on hold for the moment, but the second I get back to Ohio sometime next week (that'll be another 8 hours) I'll sit back down and get back to work.
Slowly but surely.
Merry Christmas, guys! I hope you have a holiday as great as mine has been so far, but... I don't know. I think that would be extremely tough for you. Mine has just been awesome.
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Thinking, demanding and delivering safety in all aspects of business is our No. 1 core value.
Consistently safe jobsites are the result of training, on-going focus and accountability. There's a mutual responsibility to keep ourselves and each other safe, and we stand behind our safety motto: "If it's not safe, I won't do it and I won't let others do it."
We adhere to the following Safety FIRST approach:
FOLLOW processes. Be disciplined to each process on every project.
INFORM employees. We do this through orientation, pre-task analysis and safety huddles. On one project where we logged more than 1.1 million work hours, we coordinated approximately 27,000 safety-related activities at the site.
REVIEW effectiveness. We track safety observations made by supervisors and construction personnel through our "Stop, Look & Listen" program. We also analyze and learn from injury trend reports.
SHARE lessons learned. Safety-related incidents are forwarded all the way up to the most senior-level executives in our organization.
TRAIN to be better and safer. Every Walbridge employee is required to complete 30 hours of training per year; 50 percent of that training is safety related.
We also require all employees and subcontractors to participate in the Management and Unions Serving Together (MUST) safety program, which mandates drug screening prior to setting foot on a job site or in the office.
We don't allow employees or anyone at our construction sites to talk on a mobile phone or text – unless they're standing in a designated safe zone.
Safety is addressed three times per day on site during safety huddles. Here, supervisors point out potential hazards and workers are encouraged to ask questions and raise safety related issues.
In 1999, Walbridge established a 100 percent compliance mandate for the use of fall protection for any work conducted at a height of six feet or higher. In 2000, Walbridge was the first construction company in Michigan to establish a certified crane operator requirement. The company is compliant with the federal OSHA 2010 crane standard.
Corporate Safety Goals:
- Zero Injuries
- Zero Incidents
- Zero Tolerance for Unsafe Behavior
- 12,425,791 (Oct. 16,2003 – Current)
- 2008 EMR .53 (Industry average EMR is 1.0)
A safety success story on one of our projects
Award-Winning Program
In 2010, we were the first Michigan company to receive the Michigan Voluntary Protection Program for Construction (MVPPC) Star Award from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA.) In September 2012, Walbridge received a Designated Geographical Area (DGA) STAR Award from MIOSHA that covers current and future company projects on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus.
Walbridge has also been recognized for its safety performance by the Associated General Contractors of America in the Willis Outstanding Safety Award competition – First Place, 2009; Second Place, 2012; the Association of Union Constructors (Thomas J. Reynolds Award for safety and health), and multiple quarterly safety awards from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Safety Remains Top-of-Mind for a Reason
At Walbridge, safety always remains an unfinished process. We are vigilant about identifying preventable hazards and coming up with solutions, and we never stop improving upon our procedures. We have more than 50 full-time professionals dedicated to preventing job site incidents and promoting safety awareness.


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LSC-Montgomery English Department
English classes range from developmental reading and writing, to college-level freshman classes including composition and rhetoric, technical and creative writing to sophomore literature. Several classes are offered via LSC-Online. Technology is an integral part of the classroom experience.
Value Statement
Our students come from diverse backgrounds, with multi-faceted needs, and hopes for an education. As teachers, we value lifelong and academic literacies, hoping to inspire students to seek knowledge for its own sake and solve problems for personal and practical applications. Because we are experienced guides, we urge students to take agency and control of their learning, but we also hope to become partners in this learning. We wish to help them understand themselves as students at various stages of their education and show them how to make choices for their education, whether on campus or through LSC-Online.
English faculty teach a variety of courses and serve on numerous committees dealing with a broad range of issues, including: curriculum, district and campus initiatives, Achieving the Dream, faculty development, assessment, International Education, Writing across the Curriculum, Swirl (our Zine), Writers in Performance, Sigma Kappa Delta (English honors society), sponsorship of student organizations, and much more.