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NFL camps & free agency expected to start this week
Sound the alarms. It appears a REAL agreement between the NFL's owners and it's players has been reached.
That's the news that broke late last night, and everyone should celebrate this because it means the NFL season won't be harmed.
The action that will take place this week will be fast and furious, and the Miami Dolphins will need to be aggressive. I explain that in my Monday morning column you can read here by clicking this link.
However, coming to terms on an agreement is just step one of a three-step process to getting the snowball rolling down the hill.
What comes next is the NFLPA's lawyers and executive committee educating the league's 32 representatives about the deal, addressing their questions and concerns. Then the 32 reps must educate the workforce of nearly 2,880 (the 90 players who will be coming to training camp, which should begin this week).
The NFLPA then has to re-establish itself, and vote in favor of the deal. It appears players will do that when they enter their team's facility, but those formalities are still being worked out.
It takes 50 percent of the workforce, plus one vote to approve the new agreement, so cross your fingers everyone understands and is in favor of this 600 page document (but most players will get a cliff notes version, and follow their reps advice).
Dolphins player representative John Denney explained the process to me during my WQAM (560AM) weekend show and you can listen to the audio of it here. Denney will be busy today participating on the conference call for reps, and fielding calls from his teammates.
Here is what I'm being told is the order of operation for each team:
Signed players will go to their facility to re-establish the NFLPA and take their physicals. They'll be briefed on camp, meet with coaches, and playbooks will be distributed.
Teams will have a 72-hour window to re-sign their own free agents (Dolphins likely won't re-sign any of their own….maybe Ricky Williams, but that's a long shot).
Teams will begin talking to free agents from other teams, making offers (either legally, or illegally).
Teams will sign undrafted rookie free agents to fill out their camp rosters. The Dolphins will add between 8-13 of these acorns, and it's likely that three of four will make it to the real roster because that's the norm during the Tony Sparano era.
Teams will sign their own drafted rookies to contracts. They can't participate in practice without signing deals. Every rookie is already behind, so holding out will drastically decrease their chances of contributing early in the season.
Teams will make trades (Dolphins will likely make an offer to Denver for Kyle Orton), and teams will release players, purging their roster to get further under the cap of $120.3 million. The Dolphins have about six players in the hot zone.
The word that's circulating is Friday or Saturday will be the start of training camp AND the free agency signing period.
It's likely that a free agent will visit the highest bidder first, and if he passes a physical and likes his situation the deal will be finalized quickly.
Here's a look at some of the big name free agents who will set the pace.
We're basically cramming three months of activity into one week, but this is post-lockout life, and it should get the NFL's fan base really excited about having their sport returned to them.
By Saturday you should be invited to training camp and I'm pretty sure everyone will act like this nightmarish offseason never happened.


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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
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Full SubmissionIFOAM Submission to the UNCSD Rio+20 Zero Draft ? November 1st, 2011 IFOAM is the global umbrella organization of the international organic movement with over 750 member organizations in over 110 countries worldwide. IFOAM represents millions of certified and non-certified organic farmers and consumers around the world as well as the hopes of many more who want to see a transition toresilient,humane and equitable food and farming systems that nourish everyone as well as the planet. IFOAM believes that only farming that nourishes Nature and supports biological activities, efficient use of water, climate, seeds, breeds and naturally developed soils can guarantee food and nutrition for all; now and in the future. The Definition of Organic Agriculture Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved. Introduction Farmers represent one-third of the world?s population and one-half of its poor and unacceptably many of its hungry and starving and almost all are in developing countries and subject to unjust policies and climate change that significantly reduces their livelihood opportunities. The real structural reasons behind hunger, obesity, and diet related diseases and inequality must be acknowledged. Massive perverse subsidies for industrial agriculture in developed countries, dismantling of Research and extension services and land grabbing in developing countries have deprived millions of their livelihoods and sent many into hunger, exploitation and slums. In 2008 the United Nation?s IAASTD report (the most comprehensive study into the future needs of agriculture ever undertaken) shattered the paradigm that technological fixes were the solution to food security. It stressed the multi-functionality of agriculture and has lead to the increased focus on small holders by policy makers. Many of its recommendations, including an essential shift towards ecosystem-based farming, have yet to be implemented however, as they call for the business as usual approaches favored by the interests of a minority yet powerful group of stakeholders to be fundamentally addressed. Rio+20 comes at a critical time when despite significant increased awareness of the multiple negative impacts of industrial agriculture and the global commodity market, the expansion of industrial agriculture is actually accelerating. Given the wide range of issues from climate, to biodiversity, to trade, to food security, to poverty, desertification, deforestation and global ecosystem integrity, UNCSD 2012 offers a highly significant opportunity to change course by holistically addressing the core structural reasons behind poverty and our unsustainable path. We therefore urge the UNCSD Secretariat to be bold in preparing the Rio+20 Zero Draft and include solutions to addressing food and agriculture systems in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication as outlined in this document. IFOAM is ready to provide any support or clarification that might be required. Rio+20decisions and outcomes: 1. Rio+20 must comprehensively address the urgent transition to Sustainable and Equitable Food and Agriculture Systems. This mustbe reflected in a major section in the Outcome Document 2. Rio+20 must ensure all people and communities both today and in the future are nourished with healthy, diverse and culturally appropriate food that respects animal welfare and the integrity of natural ecosystems at both the local and global level. 3. Rio+20 must recognize that the scaling up of agro-ecology through the reorientation of policies that support small-scale farmers is today?s main and most urgent food and agricultural challenge, and that a transition to an ecologically based, resilient, fair and fully inclusive and humane agriculture is essential if the goals of sustainability and poverty eradication are to be simultaneously achieved. 4. Rio+20 must recognize agro-ecological based farmingor organic farming practiced by small-scale farmers as the most effective approach in addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation, food and water security, biodiversity loss, poverty eradication and sustainable development. Smallholder farmers with their diverse farming systems produce the most sustainable and nutritious and fresh food for local and regional communities throughout the world. Such investments in sustainable nutritious food security are the key to alleviating poverty throughout much of the developing world and for stimulating green growth and addressing diet related disease in the developed world. 5. Rio+20 must put smallholder farmers, pastoralists and indigenous and traditional farming systems at the center of sustainable food and agriculture policies at all levels. Rio+20 must ensure that they are appropriately strengthened, especially their rights, so that they can continue to not only be the backbone of food security but also the basis of healthy and diverse diets throughout the world. 6. Rio+20 must support food sovereignty as the overall framework for food and agricultural policies and encourage communities, peoples, states and international institutions to recognize and realize food sovereignty. Food sovereignty puts the right to sufficient, healthy and culturally appropriate food for all individuals, peoples and communities at the center of food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries policies, rather than the demands of markets and corporations that prioritize internationally tradable commodities. 7. Rio+20 must pave the way for an urgent transition to sustainable, humane and socially inclusive and fair food and agriculture systems that nourishes all people without compromising the natural capital of future generations. It must put the needs ofall the worlds? citizens and the planet above the interests of a few powerful stakeholders that are currently driving the agriculture agenda across many aspects of international governance (climate, food security, trade etc.). 8. Rio+20 must recognize the 2008 IAASTDreport and its multi-stakeholder process, supported by multiple countries and UN institutions, as the most comprehensive and legitimate study for guiding the ongoing re-orientation of agriculture to socially inclusive and ecological based systems. 9. Rio+20 must adopt the recommendations of the IAASTD Report and those of other UN reports, policy briefs and agreements(outlined below) that increasingly call for an urgent shift to ecological-based and people centered food and agriculture systems: a. The UN the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food?s report; ?Agro-ecology and the Right to Food? presented to the Sixteenth Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations General Assembly on the 8th March 2011. The report demonstrates that agro-ecology, if sufficiently supported, can double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, alleviating rural poverty and strongly contributing to broader economic development. b. The high quality and groundbreaking papers prepared by FAO for the FAO/OECD Expert Meeting on Greening the Economy with Agriculture (GEA) in Paris, France, 5 - 7 September 2011 bravely outline the structural reasons for many of the agriculture related problems that the world faces today and brings together and systematically evaluates a wide range of potential solutions for addressing the challenges ? many of which are already happening and can be scaled-up and further enhanced with the right support. c. The agreements relevant to agriculture made at UNCSD 16 and 17 d. The FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition report ?Price volatility and Food Security? of the UN?s Committee on World Food Security integrates a rights-based approach to food security and nutrition. e. UNCTAD?s Policy Brief on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security strongly outlines the economic reasons for shifting to ecosystem-based and people centered farming systems in LDCs. 10. Rio+20 must increase the proportion of overseas development assistance focused on agriculture and rural development to 20% and prioritize the needs of small-scale food producers, indigenous peoples, peasants and the rural poor. 11. Rio+20 mustmark the end of perverse policies that undermine sustainability and the livelihood and well being of agricultural based communities especially in LDCs. 12. Rio+20 must reshape the Research for Development (R4D) institutions so that they can address sustainability issues from the perspective of transitioning to ecosystem based and people-centered approaches. 13. Rio+20 mustrecognize the urgent need for the public sector to fund Research and development activities (as outlined in the IAASTD Report), since food security is a matter of national security and so falls within the responsibility of government. Public spending on Research on agriculture must increase and the bulk of Research should be refocused to agro-ecological solutions for the challenges ahead by promoting bio-diverse and resilient farming systems and enabling food sovereignty.There must be much higher investment in pro-smallholder science, technology, infrastructure, services and innovation. 14. Rio+20 must usher in an era of Rights based approaches in food and agriculture for small scale food producers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, peasants and the rural poor in which the Right to Food, the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, The Right to Justice, The Right to their land and resources and The Right to Protect and Utilize their knowledge and innovationsare acknowledged, respected and universally implemented and realized. 15. Rio+20 must ensure small scale food producers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, peasants and the rural poor are provided with enhanced access to information as basis for decision-making; access to justice; and free, prior and informed consent for both policy development and implementation actions on the ground including issues that pose a threat to local food security, livelihoods and tenurial rights such as land-grabbing. 16. Rio+20 must guarantee the rights of small scale food producers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, peasants and the rural poor to participate in decision making processes in all aspects of agriculture processes including production, distribution, pricing, marketing, standard setting, policy making and regulation of the agricultural commodities market, and empower them to exercise these rights. 17. Rio+20 must protect the rights of small-scale food producers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, peasants and local communities to utilize their knowledge, resources, practices and innovations (including traditional and indigenous) and ensure their unimpeded access to them. 18. Rio+20 must recognize the importance of knowledge and innovations(including traditional and indigenous) of small-scale food producers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, peasants and local communities for achieving sustainable development. This recognition must be part and parcel of the body of agricultural knowledge that includes Knowledge, Science and Technology. This is a very important for agriculture and sustainable development as farmer?s knowledge is usually not peer reviewed. 19. Rio+20 must ban ?Terminator? type agricultural technologies.There are moves by some governments to overturn the global moratorium on ?Terminator? technologies. Rio+20 must urgently establish a global ban. 20. Rio+20 must condemn the patenting of genetic information (including multi-genome patent claims) and encourage governments to block or rescind such claims. Governments must also develop a clear intergovernmental process for examining the impact of intellectual-property regimes on living materials and processes. 21. Rio+20 must support in situ conservation and breeding strategies of peasant, communities and other small-scale producers. The diversity of the peasant food web offers enormous potential to respond to climate change and enhance nutrition security ? yet it?s under threat. The peasant food web conservesapproximately 50,000 species of wild relatives, breeds and nurtures 7,000 food cropspecies and has contributed over 2 million food and feed varieties. Policies must strengthen their efforts to diversify the food webespecially as the industrial food chain concentrates on just 150 species with almost all Research focused on only 12 species. 22. Rio+20 must recognize the important role that States and donors have to play in the transition to socially inclusive and ecological based farming systems as agro-ecology is knowledge-intensive rather than external input / product / capital intensive and is therefore less attractive to private companies that develop and supply such products. As a consequence the transition will require public policies supporting agricultural Research and the wide dissemination of outcomes and outputs including through the development of participative extension services. 23. Rio+20 must commit States to transition to an ecological-based and socially fair and inclusive food and agriculture systems as outlined in this document.States can immediately start to implement actions locallysuch as; prioritizing the procurement of public goods in public spending rather than solely providing input subsidies; investing in knowledge by reinvesting in agricultural Research and extension services; investing in forms of social organization that encourage partnerships, including farmer field schools and farmers? movements innovation networks; investing in agricultural Research and extension systems; empowering women; and creating a macro-economic enabling environment, including connecting sustainable farms to fair markets. Specific Mechanisms& Actions for Implementing Outcomes &Decisions: 24. Rio+20 must give the FAO?s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) a mandate to develop a work plan for implementing: a. the decisions of UNCSD 2012, b. the findings of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), c. the recommendations on agro-ecology by the United Nations? Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in his report presented at the 16th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2011, d. the relevant parts of Chapter 14 of Agenda 21, and e. UNCSD 16/17, making sure that the views and concerns of small scale food providers are taken into account 25. Rio+20 must establish an 'International Multi-stakeholder Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems', based on the IAASTD process and its objectives, that informs the transition to a green, fair, ecologically sound and humane agriculture through the provision of regular updates on Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology options that address food and water security within the context of sustainable development and which compliments the role of the CFS of FAO. 26. Rio+20 must establish a new, broad, participatory and transparent UN environmental network. Within this network, Southern governments, backed by civil society, can coherently address the full range of climate, environmental and social issues currently covered by a variety of treaty bodies, funds and offices. 27. Rio+20 must support the adoption of a UN Declaration on Peasant Rights. Across the world, peasants and small farmers, agricultural workers and landless people are victims of violent oppressions, criminalization, discrimination, and expulsion and alienation from their lands and livelihoods. In order to address these unique patterns of violations, there is a need for specific provisions and mechanisms to fully protect the rights of peasants. An international instrument to respect, protect, fulfill, and uphold peasants' rights must therefore be created within the UN. 28. Rio+20 must establish a multi-stakeholder technology (bio, nano and geo-engineering) assessment and information mechanism at the global and regional levels that assesses the potential environmental, health and social economic impacts of new and emerging technologies based on the precautionary principle. Such a mechanism must be transparent and participatory and build the capacities of countries and communities in all aspects of technology assessment. 29. Implementation is urgent. States and donors as well as all other stakeholdersneed not wait for international agreements or mechanisms to be in place to start implementing the following: a. the decisions of UNCSD 2012, b. the findings of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), c. the recommendations on agro-ecology by the United Nations? Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in his report presented at the 16th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2011, d. the relevant parts of Chapter 14 of Agenda 21, and e. UNCSD 16/17, making sure that the views and concerns of small scale food providers are taken into account f. all points outlined in this document

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Imma horse, don't judge.
Tardigrades are my old (now second) favourite animal because holy **** these guys are cool
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i've been knowing about this shrimp creature. old news. ;]
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- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
- In a large skillet, saute mushrooms and onion in butter until tender; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the egg, milk, oats, salt and pepper. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. On a large piece of heavy-duty foil, pat beef mixture into a 12-in. x 8-in. rectangle; spoon mushroom mixture to within 1 in. of edges. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a short side and peeling foil away while rolling. Seal seam and ends. Discard foil.
- Prepare grill for indirect heat, using a drip pan. Form a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 14 in. square); cut three slits in foil. Place meat loaf on foil; place on the grill rack over drip pan.
- Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 35 minutes. Combine sauce ingredients; brush over loaf. Grill, covered, 15-20 minutes longer or until meat is no longer pink and a meat thermometer reads 160°. Let stand for 15 minutes before slicing. Yield: 8 servings.
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Reviews for Grilled Stuffed Meat Loaf
"I cook this in the oven at 375 on a small slotted broiler pan. I cover it for 30 minutes. Cook uncovered for 10 minutes, then cover with ketchup mix. Cook another 10 minutes. I season it with Greek seasoning and replace the oats with seasoned bread crumbs. Love this recipe! My family loves it too."
"Very good recipe although I used 1 lb Italian Sausage and 1 lb ground beef. A also added 2 T fresh oregano and 1 cup grated cheese to the onion/mushroom stuffing."
"OMG! This was the most tasteless waste of time! There is nothing in the meatloaf mix to lend any flavor. Ground beef, minimal salt for one and one half lbs. of ground beef, oatmeal and one egg. Where is the flavor? Families request to make it again? Why? We threw our leftovers in the garbage can."
"Great idea, but rolling it seemed too complicated to do with small kids, so I mixed all the ingredients up. We don't have a grill, so I cooked it in a 7x11 pan in the oven at 350 until it was 160 degrees. It tasted okay; our other meatloaf recipe is much better, but it's hard to beat Alton Brown..."


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Everywhere I touch a flat, it rusts... but you can see there's plenty of room to inlet an AK receiver down into the stock. The stock is a hair wider than the Hadar. You'd want them to leave out the rear set of slots, probably.
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Everywhere I touch a flat, it rusts... but you can see there's plenty of room to inlet an AK receiver down into the stock. The stock is a hair wider than the Hadar. You'd want them to leave out the rear set of slots, probably.
thanks for the pictures It looks like a good start. Id lke to se the grip a little more finished, Id want a push buttion saftey for a stock like that.
what was the price on that one??? I was looking at some of there non pistol grip stocks for a california legal build. some of there seconds would be good practice and the price is right.
With the extra charges for blue, left hand, and shipping, it was $207 to my door, vs. $135 for the basic price.
The Hadar stock, being custom made for an AK, has the pisol grip in the usual position, with a semicircular cutout for the Galil thumb safety. Some of the Molot Veprs had crossbolt safeties; they cut away a big chunk of the stock around the trigger guard for it. You could probably come up with something a lot cleaner.
Since I don't actually have a Galil receiver to use, nor any of the safety parts, I've been considering my options. Easiest, of course, would be to cut a slot and order the Galil bits. On the other hand, I could do something like my MAC-11, which has a slider inside the trigger guard...
I made a thinner spacer to keep from crushing the receiver in the vise, then milled the rails to width and roughed out the frobt for the trunnion.
Okay. I decided to move the two oldest projects to the top of the queue and make some progress. So I looked around the bench for the receiver... I've been looking for it for going on a week now. Apparently I've put it "in a safe place." That sometimes requires buying a replacement for whatever it was that got put away, because it may not show up for years.
I'm also missing two caulking guns. After six weeks I broke down and bought another, expecting the other two to show up, but they haven't...
Though the 6.5 Grendel is *very* attractive, I decided to build a wildcat. I've been cogitating on it for a year or two now. I have a couple of the $33 Green Mountain .311" barrels, and I'm going to take one and chamber it to what I've been calling ".311 Whisper." I need to come up with another name since SSK is tetchy about their trademark. Anyway, my variant is the same as the .300 Whisper, except instead of shortening the neck before opening it up to .308", I'm going to leave it at full length and open it up to .311". I don't expect any difference in performance; the reasons for the .311 are:
1) will use the same bullets I already cast for the 7.65 Mauser, 7.7 Arisaka, .303 British, and 7.62x54R
2) leaving the neck at full length will cover the all the grease grooves for most of my bullet molds.
A subsonic cartridge and a cast bullet just seem to go together...
I've acquired a bag of .223 brass, some O-1 drill rod to make a chambering and die reamers, and earlier today I bought some 7/8" 4140 round bar to make the loading dies from.
I guess I'll work on the barrel and dies until the receiver gets unhidden...
I'm not planning to use a suppressor. SSK *used to* have a snotload of information on their web site, which they've removed for some reason. According to the missing pages, a .220 or so grain bullet launched at 100fps or so kept most of its velocity at some ridiculous distance, plus accuracy was very good. The claim was that drag was much lower while subsonic, and accuracy wasn't affected by dropping through from supersonic to subsonic.
It's worth a shot, the way I'm figuring it.
LOL I know the feeling I have a reciver built for a 243 AK that has been MIA for close to 4 months. I put it some were safe.Quote:
I've been looking for it for going on a week now. Apparently I've put it "in a safe place."
how about calling it a .311 speak easy?????? I was going to use the name for a wild cat but you can have it for a bag of casst .311 bullets. LOL :)Quote:
I've been calling ".311 Whisper." I need to come up with another name since SSK is tetchy about their trademark
your going to need a pretty fast twist for a 220 grain bullet going slow.
Unfortunately, all the .311 barrels I've ever seen, from the AK-47 to the Arisaka, use the same 1:10 twist. Same with the Green Mountain .311 barrels. Of course I could have PacNor cut a custom barrel for $300 or so, but that's not going to happen.
If I can't find a bullet it likes a subsonic, I'll see what happens at supersonic. And if I'm not happy, heck, I'll try something else....
go to a 180 grain bullet.
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BRAC Discontinues Timing System!
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January 28, 2013
As of January 22, 2013, the Board of Directors has elected to discontinue the use of the BRAC – D&L Sound Chip Timing System in light of recent circumstances that impact the price, support, production and provision of equipment necessary to maintain the system. In late November, 2012, Orion, the French company who manufactures the system, hardware and software, sold the distribution rights to their product to a Belgian company, and released their North American representative from his contract.
Since its inception, our chip-timing efforts have been compromised by technical issues (including those with power and radio frequencies), faulty equipment, and compounded by errors in race registration. Many of these issues have been addressed and improved in the last two years. Our intention, in accordance with the direction provided by the Club Council at our December Annual Meeting, was to re-deploy the timing system in a more efficient manner. However, the change in ownership and distribution of the system, which includes a price increase of nearly 300% for replacement chips, represents an expense that would severely impact the cost of promotion and participation in our races, and compromise the long-term financial health of our organization.
BRAC will continue to work with local service providers and our promoters to ensure the use of appropriate technology (which may include high-speed cameras and race-day chips as offered by professional timing companies) to provide accurate race results as well as a safe and positive racing experience to our members. Racing policy for Cup contests further defines requirements for Gold, Silver and Bronze events to ensure these races meet out standards and expectations.
We appreciate your cooperation over the last two years in our efforts to improve the sport for our athletes, officials, and event directors. We would also like to thank Doug Ashbaugh, Clint Bickmore, Yvonne van Gent, Chris McGee, and our officials for their dedication and thorough efforts in deploying and maintaining this system for the time that it was in use.
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Cesan Overtime Goal Lifts No. 9 Field Hockey Past Rider, 2-1
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Despite holding a 39-6 shot advantage, the No. 9 Princeton field hockey team needed a Michelle Cesan overtime goal to earn a 2-1 victory over Rider Sunday afternoon to conclude the home half of the 2013 schedule.
After tallying a 10-0 shot advantage, including five on frame, an unsatisfied Princeton side went into halftime holding the upper hand tempo-wise in a scoreless bout.
The Tigers picked up the pace to open the second half, peppering Rider goalie Joelle Prettyman with 15 consecutive shots. Prettyman and her backline continued to deny Princeton until the 55th minute.
Following Rider's first two shots of the match, both stopped by Tiger goalkeeper Christina Maida, Princeton sent the ball right back into the Bronc circle and was awarded a penalty corner.
Freshman Cat Caro picked up Teresa Benvenuti's deflected shot off Prettyman's pads to send in the go-ahead goal and extend her scoring streak to five consecutive games.
With time winding down, Rider took possession of the ball in the Tiger circle and employed its first real offensive swing. The Broncs capitalized on their third consecutive penalty corner with 14 seconds left in regulation to end Princeton's chance of shutting out its weekend opponents.
On a day honoring the graduating senior class, it fittingly was a senior captain to send the Class of 2014 off the home turf on a winning note. In only their second overtime game of the year, the Tigers took possession and this time never relinquished it. At 75:23 Cesan inserted Princeton's 12th penalty corner, connecting with classmate Amanda Bird. Bird then dribbled the ball to the left side and passed it back to Cesan on the near post to tap in the game-winner.
Maida (4-1) concluded the day with two saves to Prettyman's 17, as Princeton held a 19-3 on goal shot advantage.
Princeton (12-4, 6-0 Ivy) closes out the regular season with a winner take all match for the outright Ivy League title at Penn on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Philadelphia. The Tigers have already clinched a share of their ninth consecutive conference crown, but must defeat the Quakers to earn the league's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.


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ZF-5796: Wrong date format, wrong interpreted by twitter
The current $_dateFormat (line 58 of Zend/Service/Twitter.php) value isn't correctly interprated by twitter. It often leads to empty responses when there has to be new tweeds.
I would therefore strongly suggest to use the same format as twitter uses itself in the responses:
Mon Feb 16 13:44:39 +0000 2009
$_dateFormat = 'D M d H:i:s O Y';
The problem with your format is it's not a valid HTTP-formatted date as the since header is being sent across in the header If-Modified-Since
I suggest changing it to: D, d M Y H:i:s T so it's a valid HTTP-formatted date.
This was checked into svn with r14124 and into the release branch with r14125


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ZF-11344: HtmlEntities filter can return empty string when string contains invalid characters for current character set
When a string provided to htmlentities() contains characters not understood by the current character set (or the character set passed to htmlentities()), the function returns an empty string.
When used as part of a form element or input filter, this could actually lead to an invalid value, as the validators may have correctly validated the value, but then filtering may result in an empty string. This can then lead to SQL issues (if the value is passed to a database, and the database expects a particular range of values).
Ideally, the value should be converted to the charset specified to the filter (or the default if none specified) if an empty string is detected following the htmlentities() call.
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I've started seeing some really neat cardinal and gold ISU signs that have people's last name below them. I've heard a metal/welding shop in the Story City area makes them... a google search led me to a place out of Texas...
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
Based on the info in your post, I'd say south.
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
I'd say north, he's trying to get from Texas to Story City. Hop on I35 in Austin and don't look back.
Check Etsy.. Not that I've ever been to that site...
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Check Etsy.. Not that I've ever been to that site...
Have you seen them on there? The place in Texas wants quite a bit...
Do you have a picture of one, either that you've seen or from the place in Texas, you can post on here?
Also, could be one of the guys in the parking lot before games that sells stuff. I've bought 2 or 3 things that way. Can't recall if it's been the same person though. I think one time the guy did mention being from Story City and that was something he fabricated out of metal.
Here is the link to the website photo...you can have your name added underneath it...
Portfolio « Brosch Metal Creations
He said they are $160 + shipping which to Iowa is about $50.
If we combine orders the shipping stays the same so if anyone else is thinking about getting one we should probably order them together to save shipping and 10% because of the multiple order discount.
So it would $169/per instead of $210 if we went in together.
2015 CF Avatar of the Year winner.
I'm going to order 2 of them...
Get in contact with the agriculture department at South Hamilton HS in Jewell. They can fix you up A LOT less than the prices quoted here. One of these signs sits in the FFA Display building at the Iowa State Fair till late Sunday night if you are planning to go there.
The only thing I have ever wanted was to be Pete Taylor......once.
https://www.facebook.com/Stolee.MetalArt I believe they are near Radcliffe Iowa nd they do an awesome job. Give them a call.
Thanks eddy...I tried emailing the ag teacher over there and see what we can come up with.
I was given a metal sign from one of my groomsmen as a gift for my wedding. He works with vinyls at a sign shop in Texas..The sign isn't intended to be displayed in your yard, but I thought about putting it in my garage..At the moment it sits in my incomplete man cave. Just another idea..
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We saw this company at the Ankeny farmers market earlier this summer. They had some really neat ISU stuff and said they do a lot of custom work. They're located in Winterset:
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A new peer-reviewed analysis finds that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife habitat restoration programs are extraordinary engines for the U.S. economy. The report, Restoration Returns: The Contribution of Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and Coastal Program Projects to Local U.S. Economies, finds that, in working directly with partners to implement vital on- the- ground habitat restoration, these... read more
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Just when we all thought we'd never see it again, the cross-browser bookmark syncing service Xmarks has received a life-saving injection.
The company has been acquired by LastPass, maker of a cross-browser password manager and form filler add-on. The deal was announced Thursday, and terms were not disclosed.
Xmarks will live on as a freemium service. The initial cross-browser syncing tool you're already familiar with will be free, but users will be encouraged to upgrade to a paid subscription to unlock more advanced features. It's the same model employed by LastPass for its own Premium version of its (otherwise free) password-syncing service.
Xmarks Premium will be offered for $1 per month ($12 per year) and it comes with some new features like apps for the iPhone and Android phones, and technical support. You will also be able to bundle the premium offerings from LastPass and Xmarks together for $20 per year.
There's already an iPhone app for Xmarks, and the company just recently released an Android app, too. Xmarks says anyone currently using the iPhone app can continue to use it without upgrading to the premium service, but they will have to buy in to the $12 per year plan to get future upgrades.
It looked like curtains for Xmarks in September, when the company announced it would shut down its service in early 2011.
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text: Jan 18, 2013 00:58 BRCC to start classes on Jan. 28 BRCC to start classes on Jan. 28 Capitol news bureau Jan. 17, 2013; 6:35 p.m. Comments Baton Rouge Community College will start its spring semester Jan. 28, six days after the originally scheduled start date. Heavy rains during the past two weeks caused widespread power outages on the school's Mid-City campus prompting the delay. BRCC spokesman Steve Mitchell said he believes the power will be restored to campus buildings sometime this weekend. Students are encouraged to use the school's online system to make payments or add and drop classes, he said. Administrators will post the full semester's academic calendar on the school's website once it is finalized, Mitchell said. All but one campus building lost power Monday after the rains damaged the campus' underground electrical distribution system, he said. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Not that it made any difference weather her eyes were open or not, the room was so full of dust that is was near impossible to see anything… but the fact that her eyes were now open at least proved to her that she wasn't dead, something which she found grimly comforting.
From somewhere within the thick, waxy cloud of dust, a small voice made a small sound that sounded…
'Oh,' said the voice. It sounded very familiar.
'Fyffe!?' she chocked. There was no response of the child from within the powdery environment, so she fought for control over her breathing, and pulled herself up, feeling her way along to where she remembered the window to be.
It came as a bit of a shock to find that there was no window.
It came as even more of a shock to find that it had been replaced by a hole in the wall.
It came as an even larger and more horrifying shock to find that there was in fact no wall at all.
'Oh, wow,' she said glumly.
Even as she stared, the layers of heavy dust pored out of the hole like an extremely dirty waterfall, and the room behind her began to clear. Almost fearful of what she would see,
Half the room was gone. If she had had a clear head at this point,
Then she realized what she had been staring at for the last three minutes, as standing in front of the rubble and gazing serenely at the disarray of bricks, was Fyffe.
'Fyffe!' said
'The moth's dead,' Fyffe said despondently.
'You what?'
Fyffe turned around slowly. 'The moth,' she said carefully, 'is dead.'
Fyffe turned and let out another small noise of surprise.
'Oh!' she said.
Fyffe straightened up and turned back to
'But… it's only a stick,' she said gently.
'He should have it with him,' Fyffe murmured to herself.
Fyffe turned away and walked towards the still locked door. The giant hole in the wall had ensured that all of the smoke had cleared, but unfortunately, the only thing that it led to was a large drop to the far away street below. Despite their survival of the explosion, they were still trapped in the room. Under
Fyffe pushed gently against the door, almost as if she was testing it. 'He will need it,' she said, 'he can do without I suppose,' she twirled the twig between her fingers and looked thoughtfully at the door. 'We probably need it more,' she said after a while.
'He didn't vanish,' said Fyffe. She twisted her head around and glanced at
Fyffe let her hand slowly slip off the woodwork.
'The bomb…'
'I feel bad for the moth,' said Fyffe, glancing back at the misshapen pile of rubble.
Fyffe turned around slowly and gave
'I know there is, Fyffe!'
Fyffe cocked her head to one side. 'He probably just used the spatio-temporal mass converter to firstly change the molecular structure of the components atoms, and then of his bodies own atomic configuration so that they could shift through impermeable matter,' she said.
'It doesn't explain the explosion,' said Fyffe, 'but if he were dead, it would feel different… there's no sorrow, no feeling of remorse of grief. I like to trust my impulses, which is why there must be a perfectly good explanation for everything… Maybe his distorted composition meant that the emission of the discharge passed through his permeable state, rather that rebounding off the usual impervious one.'
Without warning, Fyffe thrust the twig into the keyhole of the door and began to twist her arm sharply. She flashed
'What?' said
'What what?' said Fyffe, her attention focused on the twig.
Madison was about to open her mouth and say 'what' again, when something deep inside of her sent up a rapid volley of warning sparks and she took two sharp steps towards the girl. 'Don't, what ever you do, start that off again!' she said.
Fyffe shrugged but didn't turn around.
'Do you honestly think that you're going to open the door with– ?'
There was a sudden sharp click that filled the room with an irritatingly smug noise.
Then a silence followed.
Very slowly,
Very slowly, Fyffe pulled the stick from the key hole and gave the door a tentative push.
Very slowly, the door swung open, accompanied by a faint creaking noise, which sounded to
Fyffe leaned casually out of the door and glanced around at the deserted hallway beyond. It was hauntingly empty, which made perfect sense considering the building had just been savagely bombed. Within the long stretch of the dim and hollow corridor, Fyffe's small blond head shimmered as she twisted it left and right, then, coming to a final decision, she stepped out of the room and grinned.
'Fyffe…' said
The girl took no notice and bounced slightly on her feet as she considered what to do next.
'This way,' she said, before turning smartly to her right and disappearing from
There was a moment's pause as
But before
Within the room,
'What are you doing?'
Fyffe raised her arm and pointed to the left, 'going,' she explained.
Fyffe looked in the direction she was pointing and lowered her arm. 'Maybe,' she said, and tucked the twig behind her ear.
'Okay, well just don't move for now, got it?' said
Fyffe blinked. 'Did I?'
A wide smile spread across the girls face. 'That's right, I did,' she said triumphantly, 'and now we go and do whatever we have to do to make things good again.' It sounded so simple when she said it.
A small problem arose when, steeping into the hallway, she found it was completely devoid of anything that even remotely resembled a manically happy girl. In fact, it was completely devoid of anything at all.
'Fyffe?' she called cautiously.
There was no response, and
Within the empty city streets, a small cluster of blackened figures stalked along the winding roads. There was nothing tense or fearful about their movements, almost as if they didn't understand the meaning of the word, instead they moved with a calm grace and perfectly calculated prowess.
There was nothing that they feared within the broken and ruined city walls… they were the hunters that were poised to strike. Whatever they were searching for, it would be found. But, for all their unflinching presence, they were unaware that they were being watched.
From a safe distance behind their footsteps, Fyffe crouched behind a blackened crate and watched as their forms steadily moved away. Her blond hair was tucked behind her ears, her mouth twisted in a calculating expression, and her crackling blue eyes held something deep and calculating.
Over half a mile below her, the sewers of the city sulked and crept in their sluggish movements. They were the first thing that had been built when Tendra has been founded and as a result, they were the most well built thing of the city, meaning that on one ever went down there.
On a small ledge that was squashed into the curve of the sewer wall, the Doctor lay unconscious. His left arm was thrust outwards and dangled off the edge of the ledge, and his face was contorted into a strained expression. The fingers of his right hand rested lightly on his stomach and were clenched together as they gripped onto a strange oval shaped lump.


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ZF-5637: Wrong handling of UTF8 strings length.
Before sending a tweet or direct message, the library checks for the length of the message for length. It uses strlen to do that, which returns wrong length for UTF8 strings. The correct way to do this is using the mb_strlen function.
I couldn't find how I can comment on the issue too, so here's my reply to Thomas: If you mean to use iconv to convert to something not multibyte, do strlen and then run iconv again - that might work. Otherwise it won't, because Twitter expect the input in UTF8.
No, we have to use iconv as iconv is available within default PHP installations. But the mbstr* extension is not available per default.
I think you completly misunderstood...
The iconv extension has a own iconv_strlen function which does the same as the mb_strlen function. Why should we convert something, and then reconvert it. This is completly useless.
Please take a look at the PHP manual to see what PHP supports.
I will get a patch up here for approval by Zend before i post it to the trunk.
I was thinking you meant the iconv function... wasn't aware that it's part of an extension that also includes strlen. In that case, you're completely right of course.
Attached my proposed patch. I will have Ralph or someone from Zend take a look at it.
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Spearfish, S.D. – The Black Hills State University softball team signed Regina Thaler, their final recruit for the 2010-2011 season. Thaler is a 2010 graduate from West Central High School in Hartford, S.D. Thaler is the daughter of Dan and Barb Thaler.
"I'm excited to add Reggie (Thaler) to our team," said head coach Amy Gurney. "Reggie is the type of ball player who will always expect the most out of herself and her team. She is the type of leader we are looking for behind the plate."
Thaler, primarily a catcher, was named to the All-State team for four consecutive years and lettered in softball for five years. She received Team MVP honors for offense and defense in the USSSA World Series and was voted most inspirational.
The Yellow Jackets will participate in the Triple Crown College Classic in Ft. Collins, Colo. starting on September 25.
For more information on Black Hills State Athletics, visit www.BHSUAthletics.com.


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Despite Harrity Thriller, Men's Squash Falls In 5-4 Semifinal Marathon
The Princeton-Harvard rivalry couldn't have gotten any closer than it was in 2013, when the two teams split a pair of 5-4 matches. The latter went to third-seeded Harvard Saturday, as Gary Power's 3-2 win over Dylan Ward at No. 4 will send the Crimson to the Potter Cup championship match.
The victory capped a dramatic final shift of competition, when Princeton trailed 4-2 and faced the monumental deficit of topping undefeated Harvard junior Ali Farag simply to stay in the match. Princeton senior Todd Harrity, the 2011 CSA national champion, showed he was up for the challenge, though; in a showdown of the last two national champs, Harrity earned his first win over Farag with a 3-1 victory.
That match, followed by a 3-0 win by freshman Vivek Dinodia at the No. 7 position, evened the team match at 4-4 with one to play. Power, the former Harvard No. 1, found himself trailing Ward, who has twice scored the clinching point in regular season wins over the Crimson, by a 2-0 score. The Crimson veteran battled back for three tight wins to send the Crimson into Sunday's championship match against top-seeded Trinity, a 7-2 winner over Yale.
Princeton led 2-1 after the first shift, which opened with a 3-0 win from sophomore Tyler Osborne at the No. 3 spot. Harvard got a win at No. 9, but Princeton's Taylor Tutrone earned the biggest win of his career by grabbing the final two games at No. 6 for a 3-1 win over Tom Mullaney.
Unfortunately, it would be a while before Princeton got back on the board. The Crimson swept the middle shift, taking nine of the 10 individual games. A pair of marathons went Harvard's way, and both proved crucial; Samuel Kang dropped the second game at No. 2 by a 16-14 score, while David Hoffman lost the decisive fourth game at No. 8 by a 17-15 score.
Those losses left Princeton with no margin for error, but it nearly pulled off the same dramatic rally that it did when trailing Trinity 4-2 in the 2012 national championship match. While the Tigers went 3-for-3 that day, they managed only two Saturday and will now play Yale for third place Sunday afternoon.
While the team victory is a major one for Harvard, the individual victory for Harrity over Farag makes next weekend's individual championship all the more dramatic. Farag had yet to lose a collegiate match over the last two seasons, including two wins over Harrity. Over the last two weeks, Harrity has defeated both 2012 finalists, including a 3-0 win over Columbia's Ramit Tandon in the regular season finale.
Harvard 5, Princeton 4
1) Todd Harrity (P) d. Ali Farag 3-1
2) Brandon McLaughlin (H) d. Samuel Kang 3-0
3) Tyler Osborne (P) d. Nigel Koh 3-0
4) Gary Power (H) d. Dylan Ward 3-2
5) Tyler Olson (H) d. Steve Harrington 3-0
6) Taylor Tutrone (P) d. Tom Mullaney 3-1
7) Vivek Dinodia (P) d. Zeke Scherl 3-0
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Some great chocolates you seek out on your own and others are thrust upon you as gifts. That was the case with these adorable bonbons from Asher's Chocolates. I enjoy seeking out chocolates on my own since I know what my tastes are and how I feel like catering to them. Yet, it's always so nice to try something new thanks to the thoughtfulness from a special someone. Not only is the surprise nice, but I also don't admit to knowing everything out there in the great wide chocolate world. I do need to rely on other's experiences and recommendations from time to time.
Asher's is a chocolate company based in Philadelphia where they rose from humble beginnings back before the turn of the 20th century. Their story is similar to that of See's Candies, a family run business that prided itself in making excellent confections. Asher's is actually the oldest family owned candy making company in the Unites States and are being run by the fourth generation at the moment. It's great to see a family so interested in their sweet traditions.
I was given a sampler pack of their milk and dark bonbons:
Mint: The dark chocolate is nice and rich and thankfully not too sweet. The mint has a nice freshness without being overpowering, which is a lot of my problem with minty and chocolate combinations. The texture of the ganache is smooth, creamy and just heavenly.
Peanut Butter Cup: The peanut butter is creamier, richer, and sweeter than the crumbly, dry standard of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The milk chocolate is very smooth and sweet. Paired with the nutty, slightly salty peanut butter it makes one addictive little treat.
Coconut:Very sweet. The coconut is moist with a good dense, chewy texture. The full coconut flakes are still intact and I love chewing them. I consider this to be a more decadent version of a Mounds bar.
Peanut Butter Bonbon: Like the cup version but since the size ratios are different, it comes off as denser, sweeter, richer…Yum!
Blood Orange: Dark choc orange. orange jelly on the inside, can taste the fresh orange oil, flavors balanced well so neither overpower the other.
Marshmallow: Very, very mellow in flavor. The marshmallow is fresh and tastes lightly vanilla. The chocolate delivers most of the flavor and it's very creamy and sweet.
These were certainly a step above of the other chocolate confections of this type, and the best of this kind I've had in a long time. Freshness was a big contributor, but I also feel the quality flavors and chocolate played a big part too. I look forward to visiting their retail store someday to try what other delights Asher's has to offer.
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TOPEKA – After significant review and analysis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that grain sorghum ethanol qualifies as a renewable fuel under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) Program. Governor Sam Brownback said approving the sorghum pathway will help enable the United States to meet RFS requirements with domestically-produced ethanol and generate economic growth in Kansas.
"Kansas is the top sorghum-producing state in the nation. Not only is sorghum a high-quality feed source for livestock producers but it is a critical non-food feedstock for ethanol plants across our state, where 60 percent of ethanol is produced from grain sorghum," Governor Brownback said. "The RFS requires the United States to produce 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022, with an increasing requirement for renewable fuels from non-corn sources. This pathway will open the door for Kansas sorghum farmers and Kansas ethanol plants to help meet both the conventional biofuel and advanced biofuel mandates under the RFS."
The final rule for the sorghum pathway was signed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Nov. 30, 2012, and will take effect upon publication in the Federal Register. According to the final rule, EPA's analysis indicated that grain sorghum ethanol produced at dry-mill facilities that utilize natural gas for process energy meets the 20 percent greenhouse gas emission reduction threshold to qualify as a renewable fuel under RFS guidelines. Further, the final rule specifies that grain sorghum ethanol produced at dry-mill facilities that utilize specified forms of biogas for process energy and most electricity production meets the 50 percent greenhouse gas reduction threshold to qualify as an advanced biofuel under RFS guidelines.
Governor Brownback recently sent a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson urging approval of the sorghum pathway and had direct conversations with EPA officials expressing the importance of this pathway for Kansas. He has also invited Administrator Jackson and her staff to visit Kansas ethanol plants that use sorghum grown by Kansas farmers to produce ethanol.
Western Plains Energy in Oakley produces ethanol from sorghum and is ready to use waste from beef feedlots and swine operations along with other landfill waste to generate methane gas to power its ethanol plant. Conestoga Energy in Garden City is sequestering carbon dioxide in oil wells and also is using sorghum to produce ethanol. Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman said Administrator Jackson and her staff could benefit from seeing the willingness of Kansas ethanol producers to be innovative in their efforts to produce clean, renewable energy. He said it is important to note that Kansas sorghum farmers and Kansas ethanol producers are leading the way to transition ethanol to a non-food based biofuel.
"The ingenuity found in Kansas is second to none. These ethanol plants and likely many more have made significant financial investments necessary to produce ethanol from sorghum and meet advanced biofuel standards. Kansas sorghum farmers and ethanol producers are ready and willing to help meet RFS requirements but have been unable to without the sorghum pathway," Secretary Rodman said. "Approving the sorghum pathway is a critical step forward in our nation's quest to become energy independent. Not only will we be able to meet advanced biofuel requirements with domestically-produced ethanol instead of importing it from foreign nations but it will also encourage growth on Main Street."
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MOSCOW, Idaho - The University of Idaho men's golf team welcomes two players from Minnesota who will join the Vandals this fall after signing letters of agreement this week.
Making the trek west are Mark Giorgi, who, as the NCAA Division III Freshman of the Year in 2010 is transferring from Minnesota's St. John's University, and high schooler Dylan Baker, one of the state's top junior golfers who graduates from Eden Prairie High School this spring.
"Mark is a solid ball striker with great distance and accuracy," coach John Means said. "He has proven himself at every level he has played and has the confidence and work ethic to continue that success at the Division I level.
"He also is a great team leader and student. He is a welcome addition to the Vandal golf team."
In addition to his success at St. John's, Giorgi, a native of Red Wing, Minn., was a three-time all-state selection and played on the state's winning high school team his senior year. He also was the 2009 Minnesota Junior Player of the Year.
Baker has similar playing credentials and successes at the high school and junior golf level and, Means said, has the ability to have a tremendous impact on Vandal golf once he adjusts to the Division I level.
"Dylan is a great competitor and has a tremendous work ethic and desire to learn," Means said. "He is long off the tee but does lack experience. He'll make up for that lack of collegiate experience with his motivation, dedication and desire to improve."
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A 21-year-old man is facing a pair of felony charges after the Davidson County Sheriff's Office alleges he committed sex offenses with a 15-year-old child.
Justin Lynn Ray of 315 Avenue L has been charged with felony statutory rape/sex offense and felony indecent liberties with a child. He was given a $100,000 secured bond after being arrested Friday.
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(The image above is called a "Beeswarm Boxplot" , the code for producing this image is provided at the end of this post)
The above plot is implemented under different names in different softwares. This "Scatter Dot Beeswarm Box Violin – plot" (in the lack of an agreed upon term) is a one-dimensional scatter plot which is like "stripchart", but with closely-packed, non-overlapping points; the positions of the points are corresponding to the frequency in a similar way as the violin-plot. The plot can be superimposed with a boxplot to give a very rich description of the underlaying distribution.
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Possible Fraudulent Activity - Redwood Trust and Bountiful LLC
The Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities warns citizens to be cautious about a scheme now being publicized in Oregon which purports to promise that home mortgages or other debts will be paid off by a quasi-charitable organization operating under the name Redwood Trust. This entity reportedly is operated by a Kenneth G. Titus, Sr., who operates out of Schenectady, New York.
The Director has issued cease and desist orders against Redwood Trust, Bountiful LLC and the individuals believed to be associated with these business names.
The Schenectady, New York, entity called Redwood Trust has no connection to another company called Redwood Trust which is based in Mill Valley, California. The California company is a real estate investment trust registered on the New York Stock Exchange.
The New York Redwood Trust operation purports to be in the business of offering "humanitarian grants" to individuals. These grants are cash payments to individuals or their creditors for various purposes including home mortgage payments or home foreclosures, delinquent child support payments, credit card debt, or debts arising from medical expenses. Each of these grants is available to an individual for a fee ranging from $2,000 to $5,000, depending upon the use to which the "grant" is expected to apply. The operation is structured as a multi-level marketing scheme with promoters receiving a commission based on the amount of fees paid by applicants.
In Oregon, this scheme has been promoted by Rex A. Haragan of Sherwood, Oregon, and others, using the name Bountiful LLC. The New York Redwood Trust and Bountiful LLC are not registered in Oregon to sell securities, conduct mortgage-lending business, conduct debt consolidation business, or to engage in the business of credit repair. In addition to these entities conducting one or more of these activities unlawfully, the Director is concerned that citizens who apply for one of these grants will forego other legitimate avenues of debt reduction or debt consolidation.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
We've started daycare a few hours a day. Smurf enjoys it, but I am not as thrilled with their care as I was with my middle son. The baby room is a bit cold and all the kids are constantly crawling/toddling around with green boogers. Smurf is consequently suffering through a cold right now, with oodles of snot to make the Thanksgiving extra festive.
Smurf weighs a little over 20 lbs. He can roll from his back to his tummy like a champ and happily stays on the tummy for a while, playing with toys.
But then he gets really mad because he can't roll the other way, onto his back (at least not every time). He can also sit very well with support, and can even sit unsupported for a few seconds (then topples over on one side). As you can see, he has a bib perpetually attached to him since he drools and slobbers and spits incessantly.
As evidenced by orange stains on the bib, we have started feeding him solids. He eats dinner with us and is very excited about it. We've given him the "usual suspect" vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, green beans) and some baby cereal. It's interesting how the recommended wisdom changes, and with each recommendation the pediatricians swear that it's the only way to go. With my first two kids, they said fortified cereal at 4-6 months (primarily to learn how to swallow and for iron and zinc, which the breastmilk is low on), other baby food after 6 months. Now they recommend vegetables and meat at 4 months, because meat has more iron and zinc (duh!) and cereal much later, if at all. When I was a first-time mom, I was too terrified to even consider deviating from the prescribed wisdom. Now I simply give Smurf whatever I see fit, which happens to be jar baby food (bad busy mommy) as well as cereal.
The older brothers adore Smurf beyond expectations -- they are constantly trying to engage him and get him to smile. My oldest handles (holds, carries) the baby pretty well and even watches him for short periods of time. The middle boy is loving but occasionally a bit rough with the little guy, who valiantly endures it all until he can't, so their "playtime" typically ends with some crying of both parties.
Smurf is a people person and very cuddly. He gives wonderful, slobbery, open-mouth kisses that melt my heart. He's made everything better.
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- Alyssa said...
So cute! Happy 5 months, Smurf!
- November 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- Clarissa said...
What a beautiful child!
"When I was a first-time mom, I was too terrified to even consider deviating from the prescribed wisdom. Now I simply give Smurf whatever I see fit, which happens to be jar baby food (bad busy mommy) as well as cereal"
-My sister tried following all the prescribed feeding routines with her baby but that got so confusing and overwhelming that she decided to forget all about them. Now, she just feeds her daughter whatever makes sense to her at any moment, and the kid is super healthy and happy.
- November 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- GMP said...
Thanks, Alyssa and Clarissa!
- November 28, 2011 at 12:20 AM
- inBetween said...
what a totally cute one smurf is! so good to hear you are all doing well, save for the cold room full of booger-y babies... the mental image for that one is gonna stick with me for a while...
- November 28, 2011 at 1:11 AM
- DRo said...
He is very handsome!
- November 28, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
Smurf is so deliciously snugly and cute. Glad to hear older boys adore Smurf. My older boys are like that too. I thought it was routine till I met a kid whose older brother is rough on him. So I'm thankful for it now.
- November 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM
Adorbs! It's amazing how babies can be total droolbuckets at that age and you still want to snuggle then.
- November 29, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- Cherish said...
What a cutie! Definitely filled my need for a cute fix. :-D
- November 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- gc said...
He's very cute! Hopefully the veggie-eating habit continues into adulthood!
- November 29, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- GMP said...
Thanks for the comments, everyone!
- November 29, 2011 at 11:37 PM
- MeAndBaby said...
What a cutie!! And THANK YOU so much for the comment on my blog. Just knowing others have the same fears I do, and are farther down the allergy road with words of wisdom helps immensely.
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The Delaware Cooperative Extension will conduct a day-long Retail Farm Market School on May 29 for anyone who handles, processes, or merchandises fresh market produce, such as local farm market vendors.
The course runs from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and will be held at the Carvel Research and Education Center in Georgetown. Instructors will be Gordon Johnson from the University of Delaware and John Berry from Penn State. The tuition is $45.
Topics will include produce handling and merchandising, customer service, sanitation, and fresh cut produce. The course will be comprised of several delivery modes including professionally produced video segments, take-home text, post-harvest handling references, hands-on activities, and a "certification quiz."
Each participant will receive a full-day of retail farm marketing education and networking, a 40-page text that follows the school curriculum, a professional produce knife, a digital produce thermometer, sign blanks, and the opportunity to receive a Retail Produce Professional certificate.
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An annual program of the American Association of School Librarians sponsored by Follett Library Resources, the National School Library Program of the Year Award honors school library programs practicing their commitment to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information, as well as exemplifying implementation of AASL's learning standards and guidelines. The Award recognizes school library programs that are fully integrated into the school's curriculum and meet the needs of the changing school and library environment. Exemplary school library programs ensure that the students and staff are effective users of ideas and information and empower learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
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