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i want to understand aggregate awareness with practical approach .
Case 1: i have a sales table "Sales_daily " loaded daily at database level . Now client requirement is to see the yearly sales , quarterly sales and monthly sales . How will i proceed then . I have a time dimension hierarchy as Year , Quarter,Month,Daily.
There's no aggregated yearly , monthly and quarterly sales table available at database level.
but the logic to calculate are provide as
monthly sales = sum of all sales within a particular month
quarterly sales =sum of all sales within a particular quarter
yearly sales =sum of all sales within a particular year.
How can i use the @aggregate_awareness function at designer level using the above aggregation logic given.
Case2 . If i have yearly , quarterly , monthly aggregated sales tables available a databse level , then how will i use @aggregate_awareness function in universe &How iam i going to link Sales_daily ,Sales_monthly, Sales_quarterly, Sales_yearly tables in universe.
If say i can use @aggregate_awareness function in both cases which is efficient way (Query performance wise )
the Aggregate Awareness feature allows you to choose one particular table within the ones which contain the data you need.
In your case 1, as you have one only table, you don't need Aggregate Awareness.
If in your table you have 3 columns for the time dimension (year, month, day) you can build an object on each of them.
When selecting those objects in the query panel along with the sales measure the SQL will contain the correct group by (year, month, day).
In case 2 you can define the sales measure and each time dimension with the Aggregate Aware function. In the function you will put all possible tables where the sales and time values be found (from highest aggregate to lowest -year to day-).
You then define the incompatibilities (e.g. the Day object is not compatible with the table aggregated by Year - meaning that in the Year table you won't find information at day level).
When creating the query in the query panel, the algorithm will find out based on the incompatibility list and on the Aggregate Awareness definition, which is the highest possible level of aggregation for the query.
Performance: in case 1 you don't need aggregate awareness so there is no comparison between the two scenarios.
In general Aggregate Awareness is useful if the database vendor suggests to have aggregate tables in the database to speed up queries. We heard some vendors saying that in their architecture they prefer to build indexes (aggregate indexes) instead of aggregate tables.
In this situation, the database will check the query, which is always requesting the lowest level, and see if any index exist where the aggregation calculation is already done. This is completely transparent to the SAP BusinessObjects universe.
There is a very good example on how to setup Aggregate Awareness in the Designer guide. In the XI3.1 release check the Designer guide, chapter 9, on the section 'Using Aggregate Tables'.
Hope that it helps
Hi PPaolo,
Thanks for the reply. Let me just summarize what you wrote and let me know if i got it correct.
1)To use @aggregate awareness , i must have single sales table in database having sales ,year, month ,quarter as mandatory columns and sales be aggregated at yearly, monthly etc
and if i only have sales table loaded daily at database level , i won't be able to use aggregate awareness. iam correct
2)in case 2nd where i have 4 tables at db level i.e. Sales_daily ,Sales_monthly, Sales_quarterly, Sales_yearly and all tables have sales column
then at universe level to use @aggregate awareness i will create 3 new objects with below definitions
agg_sales_yr = @Aggregate_Awareness(sum(Sales_yearly.sales),sum(Sales_quarterly.sales),sum(Sales_monthly.sales),sum(Sales_daily.sales))
agg_sales_qtr = @Aggregate_Awareness(sum(Sales_quarterly.sales),sum(Sales_monthly.sales),sum(Sales_daily.sales))
agg_sales_mth = @Aggregate_Awareness(sum(Sales_monthly.sales),sum(Sales_daily.sales))
and ofcourse i will consider the incompatibility between all objects and Sales_monthly, Sales_quarterly, Sales_yearly. Correct me if iam wrong .
not exactly. One of the benefits of the semantic layer is that you don't have to define one measure per aggregation level.
You just define the measure once (Sales), then based on the query you execute (e.g. Sales by year, sales by month, sales by day) the semantic layer will figure out how to calculate what you need. You don't have to define a specific Sales object by level (YR_Sales, MTH_Sales, DAY_Sales).
What I am saying is that:
+ if you have a single table in your database then you don't need to use @Aggregate_Awareness.
You define your measure on that single table : Sales=Sum(sales_column), then you define your dimensions with the data you have available (e.g. if you have a column with Year then your year object will be Year=Year_column, if you have a date column then Year=A_function_which_manipulates_dates_in_your_DB(date_column,'YYYY') , you'll do the same with Month and Day.
+ if you have multiple tables with various levels of aggregations in your database then you can use the @aggregat_awareness.
You define your measure and your dimensions once only using the @Aggregate_Awareness function.
e.g. Sales=@Aggregate_Awareness(agg_year_table.sales,agg_month_table.sales,no_agg_table.sales)
e.g. Day=no_agg_table.day
e.g. Month=@Aggregate_Awareness(agg_month_table.month,no_agg_table.month)
Then you define the incompatibility map (e.g. when you use the object DAY you cannot use the Year or Month aggregation table).
Now, in both cases (single or multiple tables), you have defined only a single SALES, YEAR, MONTH, DAY objects, you don't need to define SALES_YR, SALES_MTH, SALES_DAY.
When you run the query, depending on what you have in your query panel the Semantic Layer will either calculate the correct value (case 1) or find out the best table for the value(case 2) based on the dimensions you have chosen.
If you look at the sample universe EFASHION which gets installed with Universe Designer, you will see how Aggregate_awareness is set up and used. Try to run some queries with different time levels and see what the SQL looks like.
Hope that it helps
Thanks PPaolo for your help. i will try to analyze the sample universe.. Thank you once again..
eFashion is not the best universe to learn to use the aggregate aware feature, as the implementation found there is not typical. A better example is the Motors universe used for the Designer training course.
In that database, there is a sales table that contains invoices for cars sold. This is at the daily level.
There is also a summary table called QUARTER_FIGURES which is built off of the daily table, but summed up to the quarter / model / showroom level.
Finally, there is an additional summary table called ANNUAL_FIGURES which is built off of the daily table, summed up to the year / maker / showroom level.
In this structure, I have one object called "Total Sales" that looks like this:
, sum(QUARTER_FIGURES.SALES)
, sum(SALES.SALE_TOTAL))
That's not exactly correct, but you see the idea. If I can, I want to use the Annual Figures table because it has the fewest rows. If, however, I select the Quarter as part of my query results, I can't use the annual table because quarter doesn't exist. As a result, I have to switch to (navigate to) the quarter figures table instead.
The magic that drives all of this involves contexts as well as incompatible objects, defined by the Tools - Aggregate Navigation menu option in Designer. It's extremely powerful, but can be complex to set up. And as I said, eFashion is not really (in my opinion) a good example to learn from.
I Implemented aggregate Tables, to make use of aggregate tables in a database. These are tables that contain pre-calculated data. so that it will automatically generate SQL Ex: you do not need to write like GROUP BY Logic, with this aggregate tables it will create a1,a2,a3 by writing simple logics itself with appending @aggregate function. In another way, it appends SUM of function,


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Note: This is the Python version of the Ruby guide I just published.
In this brief tutorial I'll show you how to create a complete Python and Django setup for DB2 on Ubuntu. By following my step-by-step instructions, you'll be able to install the following components:
Technically Python is already installed on Ubuntu, so we don't have to install it. However, we need the
python-dev package in order to build the DB2 driver from source. We'll also need easy_install which is included in the
python-setuptools Ubuntu .deb:
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Now that we have easy_install available, we can easily install Django by running:
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At this time, version 1.3.0 should get installed as shown above.
We can now download and install DB2 Express-C 9.7.4. Download the .tar.gz file to a location that's convenient for you. Then proceed to unpack it:
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We'll install one required library and then proceed with the setup:
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Open a new shell and run:
$ sudo -s $ export IBM_DB_DIR=/home/db2inst1/sqllib $ export IBM_DB_LIB=/home/db2inst1/sqllib/lib $ . /home/db2inst1/sqllib/db2profile $ easy_install ibm_db ibm_db_django $ exit
To ensure that all is well with your setup, run the following command:
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settings.py so ENGINE is set to
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DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'ibm_db_django', 'NAME': 'db2test', 'USER': 'db2inst1', 'PASSWORD': 'secret', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '50000', } }
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Depending on your hardware specs, the infrequent operation of creating a database can take a bit of time (e.g., several minutes).
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Six Navy divers from the experimental dive unit at the Naval Support Activity Panama City, emerged from a decompression chamber Tuesday after a 15-day trial. They've been testing new equipment that will make it easier and less expensive to perform underwater recovery missions.
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They also are the first Navy divers to reach depths of 1,000 feet, since 1974.
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After record production in several crops in 2012, Georgia agriculture experts say the future looks bright for even more growth in the state's number one industry.Agriculture educators say research and advances in cultivation in the last decade have helped Georgia crop production grow to record levels, especially in peanut and cotton yields and quality.But Ag researchers say they see more advances ahead. University of Georgia Peanut Agronomist Dr. John Beasley said, "We've got to continue our vigilance in Georgia and at the University of Georgia to make sure we continue to increase the efficiency in production. So our growers maintain their profitability and those we can also feed the world."Feeding the world is what will drive growth in Georgia agriculture. Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black said by 2050 it will take more food to feed the fast growing world's population for that one year, than has ever been produced in history.A daunting goal, but an opportunity Georgia growers are preparing for. "The industry has stepped up on the production side. Research continues to step up. All the work we are doing here and other places around the country."Georgia growers are improving the agriculture infrastructure with more efficient irrigation, planting, and harvesting equipment, as well as shipping and food production. Those investments along with future research in genetics and disease control is expected to smooth out crop losses."And if we do I think we have the genetics and the management tools and with more growers investing in irrigation we can prevent those disaster years like 1980 and 1990," Beasley said.And these experts feel a diversified agriculture market could make the state's number one industry push the economic development for Georgia.Peanuts are already being marketed around the world to nation's suffering from hunger, because it requires no refrigeration and provides good nutrition.
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Sept. 22, 2003
BRUINS CLAIM SEVENTH-PLACE AT SO CAL TOURNAMENT: Sophomore center defender David Pietsch scored the game-winning goal with 3:49 remaining in the game while UCLA (3-3) shut out Loyola Marymount in the final period to claim seventh-place at the So Cal Tournament with a 5-4 win over the Lions at UC Irvine last weekend.
The Bruins opened the tournament with a commanding 13-6 victory over Cal Baptist in which 10 different Bruins scored. Brett Ormsby, Logan Powell, and Grant Zider each scored twice for UCLA while David Shortenhaus recorded his first collegiate goal. Later in the day the Bruins fell to Pepperdine, 9-6, despite a hat trick from Ormsby and 11 saves from goalkeeper Joe Axelrad.
In the 7:00 a.m. match on Sunday, UCLA dropped a 9-5 contest to eighth-ranked Long Beach State. 49er goalkeeper Thomas Onyshko posted 16 saves against the Bruins, while Ormsby once again led UCLA with two goals. Ormsby was the Bruins' leading scorer over the weekend with 11 goals over the four games.
UC SAN DIEGO: UCLA will travel to La Jolla on Friday evening to face-off with sixth-ranked UC San Diego (7-3) in a 6:00 p.m. contest. Last weekend, the Tritons took home fifth-place at the So Cal Tournament with a 11-10 win over Long Beach State. UC San Diego also claimed victories over Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara, with its only loss coming at the hands of Stanford. Jonathan Hopkins posted eight goals over the course of four matches for UCSD, including five in the fifth-place game.
UC IRVINE: The Bruins will open their home schedule this weekend, when they host seventh-ranked UC Irvine (5-5) in a 12:00 p.m. match-up at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center on Sunday. The Anteaters placed ninth at the So Cal Tournament, which they hosted last weekend, with a 9-7 win over UC Santa Barbara in the ninth-place game. Despite a tough opening day with one-goal losses to Long Beach State (8-7) and eventual champion USC (10-9), the Anteaters bounced back with victories over Cal Baptist and the Gauchos on Sunday. Phil Garcia led UCI with 11 goals in the tournament, while Dan Noon posted nine.
BRUINS IN THE POLL: The Bruins dropped one spot from fourth to fifth in last week's Collegiate Coaches Water Polo Poll. The poll is released every Wednesday during the season and can be found at www.collegiatewaterpolo.org.


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Stover, J F; Stocker, R (1998). Barbiturate coma may promote reversible bone marrow suppression in patients with severe isolated traumatic brain injury. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 54(7):529-534.
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OBJECTIVES: Barbiturate coma is employed in brain-injured patients whenever increases in intracranial pressure remain unresponsive to less aggressive therapeutic regimens. Barbiturate-mediated neuroprotection, however, is weakened by an increased infection rate related to barbiturate-induced immunosuppression. Co-administration of barbiturates with antibiotics known to induce bone marrow suppression could, in turn, potentiate barbiturate-mediated immunosuppression. Adverse drug reactions and interactions of thiopental with antibiotics in terms of leukopenia, infection rate, and bone marrow suppression were investigated. METHODS: White blood cells were measured daily, tracheobronchial secretion and urine were examined for bacterial growth twice a week or if an infection was suspected. RESULTS: A total of 52 patients with severe isolated head injury were consecutively investigated. Due to increased intracranial pressure (ICP), which did not respond to analgosedation, barbiturate coma was performed in 23 cases. The other 29 patients remained analgosedated. Leukocytes and neutrophils were reversibly and significantly decreased in all patients, mostly sustained under thiopental. The pulmonary infection rate due to gram-negative organisms was nearly doubled during barbiturate coma. Reversible agranulocytosis and bone marrow suppression attributed to antibiotics developed in six patients after thiopental administration. Mortality rate, however, was not increased by these adverse effects. CONCLUSIONS: Barbiturate coma may cause reversible leukopenia and an increased infection rate. Long-term administration of thiopental may also promote reversible antibiotic-induced bone marrow suppression. The mechanisms and site of interaction between thiopental and antibiotics cannot be assessed by the present study and remain to be clarified. However, during and after barbiturate coma, close monitoring of leukocytes and infections and careful selection of antibiotics is required.
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I really don't wanna lose the next two the way Philly is playing right now and how easy their schedule is compared to ours..
If we drop 6th, the anticlimax of this year will be hard to swallow after risking so much in the future with the Melo trade.
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The University of Arizona will host a pair of 3, 6, 11 and 14 seeds in the men's basketball NCAA Tournament First and Second Rounds, the NCAA announced Sunday. First round action begins at 10:45 a.m. (MST) on Thursday, March 17.
Gonzaga and Oklahoma are both No. 3 seeds and will face No. 14 seeds Winthrop and Niagara, respectively. No. 6 seeds Texas Tech and Utah will play No. 11 seeds UCLA and Texas-El Paso.
Gonzaga, Texas Tech, UCLA and Winthrop are in the Albuquerque region, and Oklahoma, Utah, Texas-El Paso and Niagara are in the Austin region.
The game schedule and times for the first and second rounds at McKale Center are listed below. Complete NCAA Tournament information can be found at NCAAsports.com.
NCAA First and Second Rounds
Tucson, Ariz. - McKale Center
(All times are MST)
Thursday, March 17
10:45 a.m. - No. 14 Niagara (20-9) vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (24-7)
1:15 p.m. (approximately) - No. 11 Texas-El Paso (27-7) vs. No. 6 Utah (27-5)
5:25 p.m. - No. 14 Winthrop (27-5) vs. No. 3 Gonzaga (25-4)
7:55 p.m. (approximately) - No. 11 UCLA (18-10) vs. No. 6 Texas Tech (20-10)
Saturday, March 19
Winthrop/Gonzaga Winner vs. UCLA/Texas Tech Winner (11:10 a.m. or 1:40 p.m.)
Niagara/Oklahoma Winner vs. Texas-El Paso/Utah Winner (11:10 a.m. or 1:40 p.m.)


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This wonderful recipe is a favorite of my family. It is so flavorful with the delicious apple butter mixture which is so easy to mix together.—Michelle Hatfield, Cincinnati, Ohio
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (1 pound)
- 1/3 cup apple butter
- 2 tablespoons salsa
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, optional
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 drops Worcestershire sauce
- 2 drops Liquid Smoke, optional
- Place chicken in a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Combine remaining ingredients; pour over chicken. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 25 minutes or until meat juices run clear. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Apple Butter Barbecued Chicken in The Best of Country Cooking Annual 1999
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"The sauce was delicious! I used homemade apple butter and a salsa verde. Took about 20 minutes total for the chicken to be completely done. I also made mashed potatoes with this and put some of the sauce that came off the chicken on top...so good! This is a keeper."


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Buck McKeon, "Economic Consequences of Defense Sequestration"
Economic Consequences of Defense Sequestration
Chairman Buck McKeon
Economic Consequences of Defense Sequestration
Chairman Buck McKeon
Marion C. Blakey
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Aerospace Industries Association
National Press Club
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:00 P.M.
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An economic impact analysis projects more than one million American jobs could be lost as a result of defense budget cuts if the deficit reduction select committee fails to reach agreement on alternative balanced budget solutions and total cuts to defense reach $1 trillion.
Dr. Stephen S. Fuller, Dwight Schar Faculty Chair, University Professor and Director, Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University and Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMSI) conducted the analysis on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association. "Our analysis reveals bleak outcomes for both the defense industry and the economy as…
Testimony to the House Armed Services Committee
Panel on Business Challenges Within the Defense Industry
Frederick M. Downey
Vice President National Security, Aerospace Industries Association
Monday, October 24, 2011
Registration for the world's largest student rocket competition is open now through November 30. The Team America Rocketry Challenge will accept up to 1,000 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school or non-profit youth organization.
Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, this year's rocket contest challenges teams of three to 10 students to design and build a rocket that will climb to 800 feet with a payload of two raw eggs and stay aloft for 43 to 47 seconds. The eggs must then return to earth unbroken. The 2012 contest…


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The researchers also stressed that patients shouldn't interpret these results as a way to self-medicate if they get a urinary tract infection, especially if they have chronic conditions or are elderly.
"It doesn't treat an infection. It's supposed to prevent the infection. So if someone already has a urinary tract infection, they need to go to the doctor and take medicine," Camesano says. "But if there's someone who routinely gets urinary tract infections or wants to stay healthy and prevent it, that's the person we would recommend drinking cranberry juice once or twice a day."
"It sounds like they've made a little more of a breakthrough to the exact mechanism," says Tiffany Sotelo, MD, a urologist at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and director of the hospital's Pelvic Floor Center.
But she says what's nice about this study is it shows the medical community understands how big of a problem urinary tract infections can be. Researchers estimate that there are eight million medical visits a year related to urinary tract infections that come with a price tag of more than $1.6 billion dollars to treat.
Women experience the infections more often then men, suffering from symptoms that include a burning feeling in their urinary tract and an urgent feeling that they need to relieve themselves.
"It's a really big problem," says Dr. Sotelo.
Dr. Sotelo says post-menopausal women in particular might want to consider adding a glass or two of cranberry juice to their daily routine since she says they are at a higher risk for urinary tract infections due to a lack of estrogen and changes to bacteria in their bodies.


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The Civil War, Without All The Sepia Tint
By CHARLES McGRATH
Published: December 21, 2003
ANTHONY MINGHELLA'S ''Cold Mountain,'' which opens Thursday, is on a lot of levels pretty faithful to Charles Frazier's. The novel's many passionate devotees won't be able to complain about liberties with the text. But they -- and fans of Civil War lit in general -- may be disconcerted all the same, because the movie doesn't feel much like the book, and the differences go beyond the usual discrepancies between screen and page. The movie isn't irreverent, exactly -- or in any way dismissive of the horrors of the Civil War -- but it injects healthy doses of production value into an era that we have a tendency to see only in sepia, as something that happened long ago, recorded in tintypes and antique-sounding prose.
Ken Burns is probably responsible for a lot of this sepiafication. His magisterial 1990 PBS documentary put the Civil War back on the national curriculum in a way that it probably hadn't been since the end of the 19th century, but it also turned the war into a kind of still-life diorama, slowly unrolling to mournful fiddle music and Shelby Foote's syrupy vowels. Something similar happens in a lot of recent Civil War fiction. The shoe-leather books, you could call them: not just ''Cold Mountain,'' about a wounded, shell-shocked Confederate soldier who deserts his hospital bed and walks 300 miles from Virginia to North Carolina in order to return to the woman he loves and who loves him, even though they've hardly spoken to each other, but also Jeffrey Lent's ''In the Fall,'' about a Yankee soldier who, in the company of an escaped slave, hikes all the way from Virginia back to his native Vermont, and Paulette Jiles's ''Enemy Women,'' about a young Missouri woman who is wrongfully imprisoned by the Yankees, escapes and walks (disguised as a man) all the way from St. Louis back to the Ozarks, where she too reunites with her true love, a Union major, who has meanwhile walked all the way from Mobile.
All these books (and ''Cold Mountain'' especially) are written in a slow and stately, biblically cadenced prose -- the literary equivalent of the slow Burnsian camera-pan. It's a voice that's vaguely 19th century-sounding but in a kind of hushed, earnest way that gives no hint, say, of Whitman's expansive excitability or of the terse, modern precision of U. S. Grant, possibly the greatest writer of the Civil War era. The reason, in part, is that these novels take as their premise the notion that people back then were fundamentally different from us -- different not only in the clothes they wore and the food they ate, but different in their souls and in their relation to the world. The characters in these books -- the good characters, that is -- are natural and uncorrupted, in tune with seasons and with the land, for which they bear an almost religious reverence. They're walking away as fast they can not just from war but from the city -- from an America that is rapidly transforming itself into the place we now live.
There were people then who really did think this way, but even by the late 19th century this kind of innocent relation to the world had become a kind of myth. Thoreau, for example, wanted to be just such a person -- and felt, decades before the Civil War, that he was already too late. In Mr. Frazier's 1997 novel, what was in Thoreau a sense of wistful tardiness has become full-blown nostalgia -- our nostalgia, for a world that never entirely existed -- and that surely helps account for the huge popularity of the book. The movie is not nearly as profound -- or profound-seeming -- but it does something equally valuable. Instead of carrying us back in time, it slyly smuggles the novel forward. It gives the book a not unwelcome shot of Technicolor and star quality.
''Cold Mountain'' is not just a great-looking movie -- it's a self-consciously great-looking movie. It was shot mostly in Romania, because the director didn't think that North Carolina (the actual setting) was photogenic enough. The war scenes are especially gorgeous and thrilling, full of billowing flags, flying bodies, spectacular shell bursts, dramatic smoky skyscapes. There are frames that could almost have been painted by Delacroix or Géricault. This kind of visual overload is a Minghella trademark, of course; in this movie, as in the equally beautiful ''English Patient,'' he sometimes is as interested in how things look as in what they mean. (And here the look occasionally verges on kitsch: the prewar scenes of the little hamlet of Cold Mountain bear a precious, overly luminous resemblance to the oeuvre of the great mall artist, Thomas Kinkade.) Charles Frazier's novel is sometimes called a modern-day ''epic,'' but it's written not in an epic style but an earnest, painstaking one. The movie, on the other hand, is larger than life, in the way that epics tend to be, and (except that there are virtually no black people in ''Cold Mountain'') it's a throwback, in a way, to the greatest Civil War epic of all, ''Gone With the Wind.''
The film actually spends much more time on the battlefield than the book does. Inman, the story's protagonist, can't get away from the war fast enough. But the movie lingers there, and, tellingly, it transposes the scene of Inman's battlefield trauma from Fredricksburg, Va., to the Crater, at Petersburg, a later and far more horrific engagement, in which the Federal troops first mined underneath the Confederate encampment and blew it up, and then found themselves trapped in the enormous chasm their blast had excavated. These war scenes evoke, all at once, the trenches of World War I, the tunnels of Vietnam and (in a mushroom cloud billowing up from the initial blast) Hiroshima and the cold war. They're a not so subtle reminder that the Civil War was the first truly modern conflict -- the first in which machine guns were fired and iron-clad naval vessels deployed, and the first to inflict large-scale collateral damage upon civilians.


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Chef DeCusine Briar Handly is the man most often behind the stove at Talisker on Main, one of Park City's finest restaurants (named "Best Park City Restaurant" in this year's Salt Lake magazine Dining Awards). Each year he designs excellent hot drinks to help guests transition in from the cold and on to dinner. Here's a few of his favorites, with local ingredients and twists.
T.O.M. Toddy
1.5 oz - High West Rendezvous Rye Whiskey
1 tsp. Blue Spruce Honey
½ Lemon - fresh squeezed
2 oz. Hot Water
Mix rye whiskey, blue spruce honey, lemon and hot water together. Grate fresh cinnamon on top
Red Barn Hot Cider
½ Cup Red Barn Cider
1.5 oz - High West Whiskey Soaked Tart Cherries
1 ea. Cinnamon Stick
Juniper Berry - toasted and ground to taste
Fresh Nutmeg grated to taste
Strain the whiskey from the cherries into a rocks glass. Warm the cider, cinnamon stick, juniper and nutmeg together. Pour over the whiskey and stir to combine
Red Barn Cider Wine
½ Cup Honey
1 btl Red Wine
1 Cup Cognac
4 Cup Apple Cider
1 Cup Port
5 ea. cinnamon sticks
2 ea. Star anise
6 ea cloves
In a large saucepan reduce the apple cider by ½. Add in the honey, red wine, port, cinnamon sticks, star anise and cloves. Pour 1 oz. cognac into a glass and top with the cider wine. Stir to blend.


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UH batted around in the bottom of the seventh and rallied for four runs on five hits, including a pair of doubles, off of three different Wildcat pitchers to snap a scoreless tie.
Shortstop Eli Christensen opened the frame with a double down the left field line off of starter Brad Mills and advanced to third on a sac bunt by Landon Hernandez off of reliever Mike Colla.
DH Vinnie Catricala put UH on the board in the next at bat with a double to plate Christensen and was followed by an infield single by Jorge Franco and a RBI base hit by Derek Dupree to make it 2-0 UH with one out and runners on first and second.
Freshman Jason Stoffel replaced Colla on the mound for the Cats and surrendered a two-run single up the middle before getting UA out of the inning.
Meanwhile, UH starter Mark Rodrigues (5-1) kept
Mills (4-2) was victimized by the lack of offense for the hard-luck loss. The senior left-hander gave up just one run on five hits over six innings, while finishing with seven Ks and two walks.


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What exactly happened to a little common sense? When was it exactly that people started being hoodwinked into believing that somehow, some relative out there somewhere, should be held responsible for another person's debts after they died? Didn't contracts used to commonly state that obligations died when the person signing them died?
With many banks and other creditors receiving easy money at zero percent interest and then turning around and charging exorbitant amounts of interest to all the rest of us, haven't they already made enough of a return to just let the deceased rest in peace? Holding their "estate" responsible has gotten to be completely ridiculous and the ever-increasing acceptance of it, complete lunacy.
If it was a contract, the person signing it was the only party responsible to pay it until it is either paid off or they are no longer among the living. If they die before it is paid off, too bad! That should be just one of the risks a creditor takes. If a creditor wants to be protected in case of death, then maybe the creditor should pay for insurance for that purpose.
As this ridiculous practice has become more and more accepted as commonplace, the IRS now has gone completely off the chain. In a recent story from Fox News' "The Kelly File", it was reported that relatives of deceased family members are now having their tax returns all of a sudden confiscated just to find out that it was to pay a debt owed by some relative that may have died decades ago, supposedly owing them money. The story goes on to discuss a statute of limitations that is apparently no longer in effect which stated that the IRS could only try to collect such a debt going back 10 years. Debating about whether Congress repealed that law or the man on the moon repealed it should not be the discussion. The sudden confiscation of somebody else's money to pay a debt they did not even personally owe sure sounds like it should be a crime to me. What proof is there, if any, that the debt was ever even legitimate in the first place? And what family member is somehow obligated to now pay someone else's debt? Are they taking money from every living relative that had a refund coming back until the debt is supposedly satisfied?
This is nuts! Accepting it, would even be crazier.
How about we start repealing any and all "laws" on the books that don't just let the deceased and their relatives rest in peace? If creditors or the government want assurance that someone won't die before a debt is paid off, they should pay for their own insurance to protect themselves.
There is no common sense left! One great example of this is the fact that we have long accepted being forced to pay large amounts of money for "full-coverage" car insurance to protect THE LENDER in case something happens to THEIR vehicle before we pay it off. Has it ever occurred to anyone else........Why are the lenders not paying the collision coverage part of insuring the vehicle since it is THEIR vehicle and if destroyed, THEY are the party that gets the CHECK? Career politicians have long taken campaign contributions to pass some of these outrageous bills into "law".
Isn't it about time that we stop being played for fools and start actually thinking about some of the stupidity we accept on a daily basis? I certainly hope a little common sense and a lot of outrage by the American people will finally begin to rise to the top.


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Bella Borgiotti
Sept. 10, 2013
BUIES CREEK, N.C. - The East Carolina volleyball team was led by a number of career-performances in the Pirates' 3-1 (25-21, 14-25, 28-30, 19-25) setback at Campbell Tuesday night. Senior Nicole Willis notched her third straight match with a double-double as ECU fell to 2-5 on the year and the Camels improved to 6-2.
Willis led the Pirates with 19 kills and a career-high 20 digs, besting her previous high of 18 set over the weekend against Loyola Chicago. The senior opposite hitter finished the match with a .222 hitting percentage to go along with three assists and two blocks. Freshman setter Bella Borgiotti collected her first-career double-double with a career-best 22 assists and 10 digs. Whitney Campbell notched a new career-best for herself with 22 digs and was just shy of a double-double as she posted nine kills, two block assists, two aces and one assist. Sophomore Torre Blake tallied a career-best 10 kills, two digs, a pair of block assists, and one ace, while senior libero Shelby Beasley led the Pirates with a match-high 25 digs in the setback.
East Carolina got off to a strong start as Willis broke a 1-1 tie with a kill and ECU never looked back as the Pirates did not trail for the remainder of the set. The Pirates went on a 4-0 run in the first frame forcing Campbell to call for a timeout with ECU leading 12-4. The break in action did not hinder the Pirates as East Carolina went on to hit .244 in the set while tallying 14 kills, 20 digs, 14 assists, four aces and four block assists en route to a 25-21 victory. ECU's Campbell led the Pirates with five kills, four digs, two service aces and a .625 hitting percentage in the frame.
The second set was close at the start as the game saw four ties and a lead change until Campbell took control. The Camels hit .333 in the frame and held the Pirates to a .121 attack percentage. The hosts went on to take game two by a final of 25-14. ECU was led by Blake who had three kills in the frame and Campbell's six digs.
ECU fought hard in the third set and eventually tied the game at 23-all on a kill by Willis. From there, the Pirates and Camels matched each other point-for-point in a back and forth affair that eventually saw Campbell break a 28-28 tie and win the set 30-28. Overall, the game saw six ties and a pair of lead changes. Willis led the ECU offense with nine kills in the frame while hitting .471. Willis, along with Beasley, paced the defense as the duo combined for 19 digs with Willis collecting 10 and Beasley contributing nine in the set.
In the fourth set, the two teams battled each other again, but Campbell used a 4-0 run to take a 23-18 advantage over ECU to jump ahead. The 4-0 run allowed the Camels to pull away and secure a 25-19 set win en route to a 3-1 match victory. The Pirates were limited to a -.078 hitting percentage in the final frame as they committed 13 attack errors.
The Camels had four players collect double-figure kills in Lindsey Coats (14), Jessica Groen (14), Lauren Bewick (11), and Alexis Hein (10). Hein finished the match with a double-double after adding 14 digs. Heather Wilson also posted a double-double as she tallied 52 assists and 12 digs to go along with four kills, three block assists and a trio of service aces. Mary Crema led the Camels with 25 digs, while Katelyn Layden added 20 in Campbell's victory.
The Pirates look to bounce back from the non-conference loss this weekend when they head to Elon, N.C., for the Phoenix Classic. ECU will go head-to-head with NC Central on Friday, September 13, at 4:30 p.m. to kick off the tournament before facing Gardner-Webb and host Elon on Saturday, September 14, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., respectively.


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Workers' Memorial Day is April 28 (editorial)
Workers' Memorial Day recognizes U.S. workers who die or are are injured on the job. Oregon OSHA administrator Michael Wood offers a remembrance.
This article originally appeared in the Salem Statesman Journal, April 23, 2008.
Michael Wood is a certified safety professional and the administrator of Oregon OSHA.


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T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant included in BOGO promotion starting September 8th
T-Mobile is well known for its Buy One Get One free (BOGO) promotions that it likes to run from time to time. And they are a good opportunity for, say, a family, to get two phones while only paying for the more expensive of them. However, up until now, you'd rarely see the highest-end smartphone offering in Tmo's range show up in a BOGO deal.
That all changes starting September 8th. And what an amazing coincidence, that that is the day Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy S, the Fascinate, goes on sale. Perhaps it isn't a coincidence, or maybe it is, but that is when a new TMo BOGO offer goes live, which includes their version of the Galaxy S, the Samsung Vibrant.
So yes, you can buy a Vibrant and get one free from September 8th to November 2nd, or get any other cheaper phone included in the offer for free. If there's a mail-in rebate involved ($50 in the case of the Vibrant), it looks like you'll have to mail that in before the phone actually becomes free. Of course, you have to have a service agreement for both phones you get, and you are required to activate or extend these agreements for 2 years, with a qualifying web or messaging feature.
Still, this is one sweet deal if you have more than one line on your T-Mobile account, so check out all the phones that are part of the offer (see the above leaked shot) and make your pick come September 8th.
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Do you feel more pressure as these players now are all ones you've recruited?
"I don't know if I feel more pressure. I think for the first time since our staff has been here that time is on our side; that we truly have had the opportunity to get both feet on the ground in a comprehensive way. Things that are invisible sometimes to the outside world, you know the infrastructure of what we do that we are more, I believe, built for the long term. Built for success and we've had the opportunity obviously to recruit and for the first time really recruit young people, get to the know them and allow them to get to know us. The more time you have in the recruiting world, you have time to make better decisions and hopefully it will be more productive moving forward. I like our group and we've gone through a lot in three years, some amazing things have happened if you consider that we have already been within one shot of a Final Four, have won the conference championship, and we've pulled up short and have fought hard and have learned some lessons on the way as you build and do things comprehensively and the right way, it takes time. As we enter our fourth year here it's exciting to know everyone in our program (is someone) that we've recruited and I think the chances of us being successful because of that and some other things are now in place."
What can you say about the addition of Mark Lyons?
"Mark Lyons - myself and really James Whitford and Emanuel Richardsonfrom our staff - we've known each other for almost seven years now. Mark committed to us from Xavier right in his junior year and from his junior year he stuck with us because of a technicality on his transcript. He wasn't eligible to play his freshman year at Xavier but he was also on scholarship and was able to practice and do every single thing that we did as a team other than participate in a game. If you followed his career after we left, he was on two other teams. That team that I described went to the Sweet 16. And then he followed up with being a big part of two other teams that also went to the Sweet 16. So when you think about a player who has been to three Sweet 16's and still has remaining eligibility, he's had one dynamic career. For him to make the decision after he graduated from Xavier to leave, I'm sure was on his end a very difficult part, but to reunite with us says a lot about our relationship. He believes in a lot of the things that we believe in."
"Adding him to our team is very unique because he is a talented player but the experience I described is really difficult to put into words. He gives us competitiveness, toughness, and he's been in the arena in a big game and to me he is somebody who knows to play both offense and defense. When you think about our recruiting class, everybody focuses on the four freshman, and rightfully so, but because of his eligibility, he really is a fifth member of the class in many ways. Adding him with those four changes a lot of things in a positive way for us."
From the time that you first met him, how was he grown?
"Really across the board, he is bigger and stronger physically. He is much more experienced a player. He has become a very good shooter. If you look at his statistics during his four years at Xavier he shot the ball from the three very well, made free throws in very big situations, and he has grown as a player like you would expect a player to grow in a four-year period of time when he is in a great program being very well coached like he was. Hopefully we can make his last year and his decision to come here a very good one not only for our team but also for him."
Among your four young post players, in your preseason work, can you tell which combinations are working best right now?
"No, but the one thing that I can tell is that I really believe that all four of our front court players, Angelo Chol, is the fourth one, can play with each other. So there is not a group - there is not two of them - who won't be able to be on the court together. Angelo Chol and Kaleb Tarczewski can be on the court together. Grant Jerrett and Brandon Ashleycan be on the court together. When you look at that, it's one of the things that is really exciting about them. I think in each way, they compliment each other."
Expectations will be as high as they've ever been since you've been here, how do you manage that?
"I think expectations are always high at Arizona and rightfully so because of our great tradition. Only I truly know where we were when I got here though. I'll answer this very similarly to how I answered the first one and that is that it's a process. Things take time and a year ago when I sat here coming off of an Elite Eight 30 wins, a Pac-10 regular season championship, those are really special things. If that happens one time in a decade at many places or for a particular group it's like "wow." I think because that happened so early here it was almost assumed that that is how it would be from this point on. We really had some things that we needed to work out. We needed to be better across the board in a lot of areas. But I believe with the talent level that we have on this year's team, some of the experience that we combine with it, we are positioned to be good and to do great things. What those are though, I don't know yet. If you would have told me that Kevin Parrom was going to get shot before the season started last season, I would have changed how I felt. Jordin Mayesbreaks his foot, there were a lot of things that happened during that season that you can't control. Hopefully we will be blessed with good health this year and consistency. If we are I have no doubt that we can be a good team."
How do you see Kevin Parrom fitting in after last season?
"Kevin, first of all, is 100 percent. I have a lot of regret that we did not redshirt him last year. I think that the reasons that we didn't redshirt him were all the right reasons and most importantly if we took the ability for him to be a part of the team a year ago to travel with us, to have that carrrot out there that he could play, I don't know if he would still be with us because of all the hardships he had to deal with. So keeping him with us really helped him but I watched us play last year many times this offseason and he wasn't anywhere near the player that he even was as a sophomore. Looking at him right now, he is strong physically. He is healthy. He is a senior that is probably as hungry as any in college basketball when you consider everything that he has gone through. I am looking for him to be a major contributor to our team. He can play both the two and the three. When he is at the two he gives us a bigger line-up. When he plays the three he will probably be in when Solomon is out of the games, which there are not a lot of teams that can sub a senior for senior at that position. Hopefully Kevin will give us that consistency but first I hope more than anything that he can be healthy from start to finish."
Can you talk about Solomon Hill and the conditioning he did to get in better shape?
"Well, Solomon has been here for four years. He has been really been a starter since day one minus a few isolated situations. If you follow Solomon's progress as a player, he has gotten better each and every year that he has been a part of our program. Last year, a first-team all-Pac-12 player, so for him to come back as a senior he knew that we would have a bigger front court that he wouldn't have to play the power forward position like he did last year and with that for him to continue to get better and develop, one of the things that we talked about was the get him in the best shape of his life, which he is right now. He is the lightest that he's been, in watching him he runs better, and I believe he has all the makings to have a great senior season."
Was there a moment when he realized he needed to get better conditioned to better develop?
"No, Solomon is a very self-motivated individual who is very hungry to make something of himself and he is somebody that I really believe in the future we can point to as doing things the right way and really being somebody that deserves all of the success that he gets on the court because of his work ethic."
Is this where you thought he'd be four years ago from a positional standpoint?
"Yes. You can say it has taken a long time. He really got there a year ago, just unfortunately for Solomon he didn't play on a team that was as talented physically as hopefully this year's team will be. A lot of the gains that he made you saw that he was first-team all-Pac-12 player, but I don't think he got the notoriety for his improvement that he otherwise would have gotten if he for example would have played on a team that was better."
Is there anything that has surprised you about this year's freshman class?
"The one thing that I will say about the freshmen is I know them a lot better because we recruited them for a lot longer period of time, and secondly, we went on a foreign trip to the Bahamas this summer and because of that we were together a lot more. The NCAA changed a number of rules this summer which allow us more access to our players, so add that to our equation."
"I don't know if I have been around a freshman group, forget how they're going to do on the court, that have handled themselves better on a daily basis than the four guys that we have right now. I don't know if we've had one problem, whether it is academically or off the court, and certainly in terms of whom they are on the court, although they've had their days that were better than others, they've been really consistent in how they've worked hard everyday. That more than anything gives me a great feeling about this year's team. We are counting on them to contribute. It makes it a lot easier when you watch them work hard everyday over a long period of time. As long as they continue with who they have been to this point, they are going to improve. They are going to be a great group. They'll be better players in January and February than they will be here in November. That is one of the exciting parts about this year's team. The ingredients of having good chemistry are having a team that works hard. We are off to a really good start in that area."
With some of the issues you had to deal with last year, are you refreshed, do you have a renewed energy this season?
"I always have energy to coach, but I think every coach really appreciates a team that takes care of themselves and handles their business both on and off the court. Our players aren't robots. They can make mistakes as soon as tonight and we know that. I can only judge them on what they've done so far and keep in mind we do have a longer period of time to judge them. I think they've been extremely responsible and part of what helps our freshmen as well is that we have some upperclassmen who are really hungry, that want to be in the winner's circle, someone like Solomon Hillwho has worked extremely hard himself this offseason. The blend of experience and know-how with talent and a great attitude is one of the reasons why I'm optimistic."
Do you attribute that to the quality of players you are recruiting?
"I think so. If you look at the four freshmen, the programs they're from, where they've won, who they played for, I think you can point to really solid situations. I also believe they came to Arizona for all the right reasons. No question everyone that we recruit one day hopes to be a part of the NBA, but I think the path to getting there is a completely different thing. Being willing to put in the work, understanding the value of wining championships, and winning big how that helps gets you to where you want to go. Those guys, the freshman I am talking about, are really in a good place. The other thing that this year's team has that I believe will carry us all the way to the end is that we have two players that aren't eligible to play - (transfer) T.J. McConnell and (redshirt) Matt Korcheck - but are able to practice with us everyday and in their own right are very good players. They're older and experienced. They add to that competitive environment and that depth that you want in college basketball because when you think about the players that are able to play and then you add those two guys to the equation, we always have eight to ten players that are good quality in size. T.J. McConnell for example, the fact that Jordin Mayes, Nick Johnson, and Gabe York get to go against him everyday, I mean he is an all-conference player as a sophomore and a great defensive player. That adds to our team's development. The same thing with Matt Korcheck. Matt is as hard working of a kid as I've been around. He's physically tough because he's older. Brandon, Grant, Kaleb and Angelo have benefitted a great deal by being able to practice against him and with him everyday. There are some more positives at what we are doing everyday, a process that is in place for us to be successful."
What are the speed bumps that a freshman, even a highly recruited guy, has to work through?
"Well he has to be able to handle the bumps in the road. You know criticism for the first time, being able to handle a game that they don't particularly play well. Those games are going to happen. When you look at the depth that we have, I don't look at any of those four frontcourt players as playing the entire game. We have competition and part of what we should feel in our frontline is the four players that are going to almost wear the other team down and sub for each other then we can use all four of those guys to play two positions."
Is Kevin Parrom going to be a leader for this team?
"He is one of the oldest players on our team. He is a senior. He's been through a lot, so I think Kevin leads by example with how badly he wants to win and how badly he wants to do well. He has backed that up by not going home one time since our season has ended. He has been in Tucson really from our last game a year ago up until today. What he has done here is work hard academically. He is in a great position to graduate this spring. He has worked really hard across the board to have this last year be one of meaning for him. All of our players can feed off of that and that is where you can see his leadership ability by the example that he has set and continues to set."
What do you hope to see from Nick Johnson?
"Angelo and Nick gained a lot of valuable experience last year. I think in both cases, as the year went on part of the value that they got was recognizing how hard it is to win and how hard it is to be successful. It is not easy. There are a lot of talented teams and talented players in college basketball. Both of them have worked, and I know I'm repeating this, but we have a team that has really invested a lot, but those two guys have worked very hard to go from where they were a year ago to be better. We had a team workout yesterday and I think it may have been Nick's best day since he has come to Arizona. He really put it all together. I look at him a lot like a Solomon where you look at what he did as a freshman and you are clearly able to answer that he was a better sophomore than he was as a freshman. I think the same thing will happen for Angelo."
What is the deepest position on this team?
"Well we have frontcourt depth. I've talked about the four guys. Three of them are freshman and Angelo is the sophomore. You can always slide Solomon in there for special situations or in the case of foul trouble or injury because of Solomon having played that all last year. But the most experienced positions on our team are our backcourt. You have Mark Lyons and Jordin Mayes, Nick Johnson, you know Nick is only a sophomore but he played a lot of minutes a year ago. Those three have incredible experience. Kevin who was out for a lot of last year is back. Think of those four and their experience level that they have. That is something that we are really counting on and you can add Gabe Yorkto the mix. I like to think we have good depth across the board. Hopefully, I will feel that way in a month. Hopefully, we get through this stretch healthy."
Do you envision a line-up where Brandon Ashley gets time at the three?
"What our plan is with Brandon is to just incrementally slide him over to that position everyday, forget the game for a minute where he is more comfortable. Playing the four and the three are much different than playing the four and the five or the two and the three. They have different responsibilities on both offensively and defensively. What we first try to do is get him comfortable as a frontcourt player where all the reps are in one area."
"As he has progressed physically - Brandon came in here and he was 22-percent body fat on June 3 and as of yesterday, he is 10 percent. To lose 12 percent in four or five months really shows you how hard he works. It is because of that I think he can do it. And he can do it maybe in a back-up role, but eventually that is where his future lies. I think the more experience that he gets there; there will come a day that he will play that position with two of the front court players that I named. It is important that we do it incrementally. If you throw too much his way, the last thing we want him to do is be totally confused about where to be and how to do it and take away from his aggressiveness. The first thing he needs to do is get comfortable and be the best he can be and be aggressive and then I think we will slowly move him to that."
What do you see Gabe York's role being this season?
"Gabe is working really hard. He is getting better. There are a lot of experienced guards that I've named that are on our team. If Gabe continues to work like he's working and fights, he is very talented. He is a natural scorer. He can shoot the ball. He, like all of our players, has gotten bigger and stronger which I think is part of what is going to help him be the best that he can be. He is what we call an everyday guy. Just roll your sleeves up and work as hard as you can everyday to learn and become better and eventually he will contribute. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't contribute this year as a freshman."
You put a lot of emphasis on the McDonald's Red-Blue Game (Oct. 21). What do you get out of it?
"Recruiting has evolved and changed and if you follow closely how the best programs in our country do it, and we consider ourselves one of them, certainly that is what we are vying to be, they have some version of a (spotlight event) on their campus. Kentucky as an example, they continue to do Midnight Madness and on that weekend you really combine three elements. First is your own team. It's great to be our guys out in McKale in front of 14,500 people, a super-charged environment. It only continues to get their feet wet and remind them of how important winning is and how much people care and support our program. Every time they are out there in front of our crowd that is to their advantage. (Secondly, is) The future with that type of atmosphere on that weekend that we have here in Tucson, we really target some of the best prospects in the country, future players who can help us do great things. To have them here during that weekend and experience that, that says it all. If you talk about Kaleb a year ago, Kaleb was the one who was uncommitted at this time. Having him at the Red-Blue Game helped us secure him, no question about it. No matter what we talked about on the telephone, or how much you think this atmosphere is special, until you're actually here you don't feel it. It helps the future. It's something that I believe continues to be as crucial today as it was the day I came here."
"For us to have the 1988 Final Four team here (that weekend) says it all. If you think about those three layers, that's what a true program has and that is what we want to represent. Not a good team, not a team that goes 30-8 and next year wins 23 games and pulls up short, but more of a program that is year-in, year-out excellent and we do this with a style that everyone can be proud of. I look at that `88 team and talk about character. What they do today, and they are my generation, is remarkable. To think about the NBA Championship rings, I'm going to say that between Jud (Buechler), Steve (Kerr), and Sean Elliot, that those guys have nine NBA Championship rings. That is one college team and nine NBA Championship rings. Same thing with their NBA careers. When you throw in Anthony Cook and Tom Tolbert, you forget Sean Rooks played in the NBA for 13 years. You don't even count Kenny Lofton who was a Major League Baseball all-star who played 17 years in the Major Leagues. And Harvey Mason what he is doing today in the music industry. There may not be in terms of one team that is more accomplished than that group right there and to be able to bring them back in front of our group where our own team can be around them and the future of Arizona recruiting and to see their reaction, to me it is a really important weekend. I know that was a really long answer, but that is why you hear a lot about it. I hope that when people think about Arizona basketball that they think about the Red-Blue weekend as a significant time."
Are you honoring Andre Iguodola at the event?
"Andre has entered the Ring of Honor. There is a long list of criteria to get in there. Because he won a gold medal on Team USA this past summer in addition to all of the other things that he will eventually accomplish that allows him to be in the ring of honor. We tried to bring him back here but unfortunately I think they play the Oklahoma City Thunder on the same Sunday as our Red-Blue Game so we are targeting a date in the future. We will in some way honor and induct him in there during the Red-Blue weekend and do it again when he is able to be here himself."
Now that Kaleb Tarczewski is getting used to his new size, what are you getting out of him?
"It's too early to tell. One thing that I caution everyone is that with Kaleb sometimes when a seven-footer shows up and can play and has a big reputation, expectations are almost unfairly put on him. He is a young player that has come a long to be where he is today. Three or four years ago his name was not on the scene. He worked hard to develop himself and put himself in the company that he deserved. He will have his ups and down, he will have his great moments. It will be apparent to everyone who watches him that he will have a bright future because he has really good hands. There is no doubt that one day he will be able to play in the NBA. That path getting there is not simple. He will have rough moments. The good thing for Kaleb is that he is on a true team that can help him on the days that he is not as productive."
Describe Mark Lyons:
"When we recruited Mark a long time ago, the word that came to me is competitiveness. He hates to lose. He is a great competitor. He can impact the game in a lot of ways. He can do it defensively. He can do it scoring; he averaged 16 points a game last year. And he can do it by getting other players involved. He is not a one-dimensional player by any stretch. That competitive fire that he has can really be contagious. It's one of the exciting things about this team that he brings. He brings that element to what we have. Mark can play with a point guard or he can be a point guard. We have other guys; Jordin Mayeshas worked very hard as well. It's very unfair to judge Jordin on a year ago because of his health. I'm excited to watch him as well."
How is Mark's leadership and where else have you seen leadership coming from?
"Solomon Hill is our natural leader because he is the most experienced; he is returning all-Pac-12 player. He has led by example for many years in a quiet way because of his work ethic. He has a lot at stake in his last year. One person can't do it alone. Mark Lyons can chip in. Nick Johnson is sometimes one of our most vocal players. And now Jordin Mayes has more experience. I've already talked about Kevin Parrom, another senior, who leads by example as well as anyone on our team. We have small group there but definitely Solomon is at the forefront."
Has Mark adapted to the new situation coming is as one of the oldest guys?
"I don't think he has tried to force himself on our team. He is a pretty smart kid. He knows having been on the number of teams that he has been on that it takes time to develop relationships and trust. We went on that (Bahamas) trip and are further along here in October than we would have been otherwise."
Where do you expect to get shots from after having lost some shooters off last year's team?
"I think going into it, Solomon shot almost 39 percent (.389) a year ago from three. He really caught fire in January and February. His shot looks really good and I think he can be consistent. Kevin Parrom as you know, I've said it many times, was our team's best shooter. He showed that in the Bahamas. Those two guys are really capable. Jordin Mayes is certainly capable. And Mark Lyons is amid to high 30s (.361) in the three. He is capable of throwing a high percentage from three. Nick was only a freshman last year so he has gotten better. I'll be surprised if shooting is one of our problems. In the frontcourt, Grant Jerrett could be one of our team's best shooters. He gives us a different look when he's in there whether he's at the four or five because he's a little bit like Derrick Williams."
How essential will shooting be?
"Very much so. I think they will get quality shots and for us I think we can be a team that shoots a lot of free throws. We've always done that. It's always been a characteristic of the teams that I have coached, especially the good ones. Looking at this year's team, we have the make up to be able to live at the foul line because we can do it a lot of different ways. Attacking the basket is going to be important, that we take very good perimeter shots because we have the ability to take shots inside. I would flip it and say that it is more important that we get good at making sure we are attacking at the basket and in the paint first. The good three-point shots will come."
Do you take a new approach with the official start of practice?
"No, we just want to keep being ahead of schedule and have one good practice after another and be as ready as we can when we play our first exhibition game. A year ago that defined where we were as group. Hopefully these next three weeks can put us in a good position to get off to a better start."
What about Jacob Hazzard made you want to add him to the roster?
"He is a great student, comes from a fantastic family, played a key role at Loyola High School last year on a very good team. Those are the type of players you want in that role because it's a difficult role. Everyone is a part of what we do and is important. Jacob and Max (Wiepking) and a few of the other walk-ons are crucial to our everyday success. He has done a great job up to this point."
When you look back to April 2009, what are the improvements that you look on that have made the team as solid as it is today?
"I can point to hundreds of things in my mind. I would say that we had some great fortune when I came to Arizona to get the group that Derrick Williams came to Arizona as a part of. Derrick Williams, I never saw him play, but it's hard to get the number two pick in the draft in July going into the first year. That helped twofold. There was Nic Wisereturning for his senior year to play for his fourth coach in four years. I'll only say that when you are the fourth coach in four years, our record was 16-15 and I'm telling you, we were very close to winning 10 games than winning 20. That led to my second season, which like I addressed before, every time you win 30 games and are a shot from the Final Four everybody can feel like we have arrived but that was probably preliminary. I knew that deep down. Moving to last year, one of the things that I hope to point to many times this year is if you just look at our defense my first year and then in our second year and our third year with the best defensive team that we've had was a year ago. If we can build on that and make that same statement with this year's team, with a lot of factors on our side, you can see where I'm going. What I hope is in place is not just a good team, but a program that is built to last beyond this year where we can regain that consistency and consecutive good seasons that everyone covets and it's not easy to do. But I do think we are very far along towards that happening from our first two or three months with I arrived here."
In April 2009, did you envision this is how the table would be set?
"I didn't envision the second year being as good as it was. I probably thought we would be more where we were in the second year in our third year. Derrick leaving and being the player he was probably had a lot to do with that. I think every coach points to improvement. We have a number of things that have improved. Our record right now is 0-0. These words don't mean anything, but based on how hard our team has been working, the things I know are fact is that we do have a good starting point and with good health and continued hard work, we can have a very good season."
Did the second year help you in recruiting?
"It certainly did. It was one of the reasons that these freshmen are here. They were able to watch the success that we had and the individual success that Derrick had in such a brief time. Hopefully that will work itself out with this year's team and beyond. That is part of what helps a program when you have those players that each and every year do great things."
On the challenges of the 2012-13 schedule:
"One of the things we want to do is play very competitive non-conference schedule. Nobody is more aware of the tradition at Arizona as I am. One of the things that is remarkable about our past is the schedules Arizona teams have played. One huge change that we have in college basketball scheduling is you can no longer count on who will be in your program two or three years out. If you start to go down that path and one of these guys, Derrick Williams for example, leaves unexpectedly, you schedule foolishly because you did not schedule your team to be successful. I guess the word I am after is balance. You want to play competitive non-conference games both away and at McKale and have marquee games here. Our Florida game is an example of that. One of the things you need to know is when you make those series, like the series with Florida, before Derrick every played one game, that was made prior to me coaching here. Although you cannot count on your team being in the program for a long period of time, you still have to schedule three and four years out. We are in exempt tournaments everywhere. The way we schedule, you have to have more balance and hopefully the conference you are in can supply you additional marquee games. We haven't had as many as I hope we have in the future. It's not that I don't want to play a competitive schedule as much as you have to adjust to the times."


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Obese Kookaburra Bird Is Too Fat to Fly
Zoo officials state a kookaburra bird ate too may sausages, now too fat to fly
Personal training is now a part of an Australian kookaburra bird's life. Why, one may ask. It is because the kookaburra bird has become too fat after she ate too many sausages.
According to reports, the bird's diet took a turn for the worst when residents who lived about a Sydney park began to feed the bird sausages at various barbecues. An adult kookaburra should weigh around 8 ounces, and unfortunately, this flabby fowl weighs in at a whopping 1.2 pounds. That's obese for a bird of the kookaburra's species.
In a time where some nations, named America, have a population that is surpassing a per capita incidence of overweight/obesity of 50%, it is fitting that even in nature, our lifestyle is leading to animals to also share in our weight epidemic.
As for this kookaburra, flight right now is not an option. Flying birds have bodies that are naturally 'light for flight', per standard biological sayings. While the bird's bones remain hollow and relatively low density, it is the adipose build-up from the unhealthy diet that is now weighing down the bird's inherent bauplan. The lifestyle of humans has negatively affected the quality of life for this bird.
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Dominion 4 : What is the DRM on GG?
Dominion 4 GamersGate Shop page mentions "Other DRM" but I want know what is this DRM, nobody know?
Other DRM simply means it's not tied to a client service such as Origin or Steam. Once you download and install it, it's there forever, you own it within the confines of the EULA, unlike games with Steamworks and Origin DRM, which you are simply "renting" and have no ownership of whatsoever. All it means is you can't activate it on any client service, but you can add it to your library in Steam by clicking add game, then add non steam product. You just won't get achievements for it, that's all.
Good explanation but it doesn't saying me if it's or not something like Desura, Uplay, a fixed number of installation, a connect check once or randomly or at each launch, and so on. So I'd like know the DRM. The problem is developer site isn't always clear about that because of various eshops with various special requirements.
Dominions 3 had an offline serial check. You needed to enter the the serial when you installed the game, but there were no limitations or requirements associated with it.
I don't know the specifics of Dominions 4 (don't have the game yet), but it would surprise me if the devs changed their stance. But I would recommend asking them directly (in case no one here can provide the answer).
It's a simple cd key activation. You can activate it even offline. When the game is activated on your PC the key is saved and you don't have to reactivate the game every time you reinstall it. There are also no limitations. You can install it on as manny PCs as you like and if you buy it on Desura you can gift it to an other person even if you activated and played the game before. I think they made this activation that the game wont be pirated. If they see a key on a warez site they know who is the owner or who shares the game. I think this is acceptable.
Thank you very much Silverhawk going get the game asap, it's not often for a game not on sale. :-) But also it's in part a homage to Dominion 3 I discovered through a nice sale.
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